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About a half hour ago on the preparations and plans underway. They plan to continue sandbagging, protecting homes and businesses, and prepping for whatever comes this way this afternoon. We sp josh. Who wanted to make sure elkader residents knew what to do to stay safe. I would just like everybody to stay away from downtown as much as we can. I know everybody wants to see the water , but if so we can get our jobs done and protect the community. Again the flooding is crested at 22 and a half feet the water is rapidly moving out here ive seen completely submerged. Businesses sandbagged and closed. Remember to try and stay away from downtown if youre in elkader, and stay with tv9 for the latest. Live in elkader. Governor Terry Branstad is touring some of the floodaffected areas across northeast iowa today. He issued disaster proclamations for flooding howard and winneshiek counties. These counties can now use state money to help with flooding response and recovery efforts. The governor is scheduled to be in Fort Atkinson right now. Hes already stopped through flood damaged areas in spillville and freeport. Kcrgtv9s Dave Franzman is in northeast iowa with the governor this midday and will report on his tour tonight on the tv9 news at 5 and 6. In italy, aftershocks from this weeks deadly earthquake are making it difficu crews to get to some affected areas. A town of about 2,000 people 100 miles north of rome could be inaccessible if aftershocks do more damage to roads into town. The towns mayor says hes working with responders to find a different route after shutting down damaged bridges earlier this morning. Wednesdays 6. 2 magnitude earthquake killed at least 267 people throughout central italy, injuring hundreds of others. Neighbors and volunteers are still cleaning up today in northern earlier this week. A tornado hit one neighborhood in the city of kokomo for the 2nd time in only 3 years. One woman helped back in 2013 and was quick to start the cleanup again this time. I care. I care about my community, and i would hate to be in this situation. And anything i can do to help anyone even if its picking up limbs or debris, its gotta be done the National Weather service on thursday determined it was an ef3 tornado that hit kokomo. 165 miles per hour. Meteorologist britley ritz has your first alert forecast, britley. Clouds are stubborn today with chance of a stray shower mainly to the south of i80. It will be cool today with highs only in the 70s. You might be able to get away with opening the windows and enjoying some fresh air before the rain tonight and into the overnight hours. The warm front will lift and bring showers and storms. A few storms will likely bring heavy rain mainly to the Southern Tier of the viewing area. However, everyone has the chance of seeing a few showers and storms. These showers will linger through the Morning Hours tomorrow and clouds will continue to stick with us throughout the day. You also cant rule out a stray shower through the daytime hours. Once this warm front lifts hour temperatures will climb back into the 80s and the mugginess level will rise once more. Today mostly cloudy. Isolated showers possible far south. Wind e 510. High 76 alo 75 dbq 75 iow 77 73 to 7 scattered thunderstorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 alo 63 dbq 64 iow 66 61 to 67 nnedy hhcol in cedar after a car hit a student yesterday morning. This is the car that hit the girl yesterday morning around 730 before class. The impact broke the windshield. Responders took the girl to st. Lukes and then uihc with serious injuries. The driver isnt facing any charges for the crash, but police did issue a ticket for an expired license plate. Investigators believe the driver was going about 20 miles per hour, which is below he kennedy principal jason kline put out an e mail message to all kennedy families reminding everyone to use extreme caution on 42nd street and wenig road. He also urged all students to use the crosswalks instead of cutting across the streets. One woman says there were almost two crashes in the same spot yesterday morning. Lucy jackson says she was driving through the same spot when a different student walked in i was going slow enough and paying attention i stopped short so that i didnt hit her but it was so close it made me uncomfortable. Both police and drivers who use this road say students taking a short cut through traffic is a problem. A crash near parkersburg has killed an aplington man. We first told you abot this crash yesterday at midday. The Grundy County Sheriffs Office identified him as 29yearold daniel lacour. The Sheriffs Office says his car crossed the center headon at highway 14 and 130th street. Lacour died at the scene. The other driver had minor injuries. Solar energy will soon power more buildings in johnson county. Within the next month, workers will install solar panels on top of the health and Human Services building to power 10 of the building. Panels will also go up in a field near the county administration building. Those panels will provide about 25 of the power at the administration purchase agreement, the county wont have to pay for the panels. But they will pay the Energy Company to use their power. The county says it is excited to be a leading the way on clean energy use. Im very proud to be part of a county that wants to be green and sustainable, its confusing. We are all learning new things and its like speaking a new language, and so weve all had to become experts. County Officials Say they are working to county buildings as well. Friday night lights live is tonight. The west delaware hawks take on the independence mustangs. Our coverage starts at 7 30 on kcrg 9. 2 and kcrg. Com. And dont forget about after the game, zip over to friday night lights end zone after the 10 pm news on kcrgtv9. Tons of highlights plus our expert analysis and the occasional bad pun. Ill be wait. A common cancer often found in children is usually very difficult to treat. But a new therapy is helping beat the disease while avoiding longterm side effects. Meteorologist britley ritz updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. Clouds are stubborn today with chance of a stray shower mainly to the south 70s. You might be able to get away with opening the windows and enjoying some fresh air before the rain arrives later tonight. Our next system rolls in late tonight and into the overnight hours. The warm front will lift and bring showers and storms. A few storms will likely bring heavy rain mainly to the Southern Tier of the viewing area. However, everyone has the chance of seeing a few showers and storms. These showers will linger through the morning hous continue to stick with us throughout the day. You also cant rule out a stray shower through the daytime hours. Once this warm front lifts hour temperatures will climb back into the 80s and the mugginess level will rise once more. Today mostly cloudy. Isolated showers possible far south. Wind e 510. High 76 alo 75 dbq 75 iow 77 73 to 79 tonight scattered thunderstorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 alo 63 dbq 64 iow 66 61 to 67 tomorrow showers and 78 iow 79 74 to 80 tom. Night isolated showers and storms. Wind sw 510. Low 65 alo 63 dbq 64 iow 66 62 to 68 sunday chance of storms. Partly sunny. High 80 low 65 monday chance of storms. High 83 low 65 tuesday partly cloudy. High 83 low 64 wednesday partly cloudy. High 84 low 65 thursday chance of storms. High 84 low 65 friday chance of storms. High 84 low 66 saturday partly cloudy. That begin in the muscles, tendons, blood vessels and tissue near joints. The cancers can hit anyone, but are most common in children under 10. As martie salt reports, a new therapy is helping patients both beat the cancer and avoid any lifelong effects. Of her days over the past year inside a missouri hospital. Her stomach started blowing back up. It was hard. You knew there was something not right. Bridget was diagnosed with rhabdomyosar coma, the most common soft tissue cancer in kids. For bridget, it started near her liver. Its a challenge a challenge because this area moves as we breathe. Chemo took the toddlers hair, but also wiped out most of the tumor. For the remaining cancer cells, doctors used a cuttingedge radiation system called the mridian system by view ray. If she takes in a deep breath and the tumor goes outside of the radiation field, the machine stops until the tumor returns back into the target. Protecting the healthy cells. Anything that minimizes, side effects or an area of treatment that doesnt need treatment, is huge. Placed dose is working. Theres no sign of the tumor, so thats wonderful. The whistons hope to leave hospitals behind for good, with no lasting signs of bridgets battle with childhood cancer. This is martie lt, reporting. The u. S. Dai dtryg since last year, dairy prices have gone down about 35 . Why the usda is stepping up to help Dairy Farmers is next our agribusiness report. Welcome to the agribusiness switch to centurylink and get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month. Thats the speed you need to stream. Game. Connect on social media. Learn, shop and more with fast inhome wifi. So call 844565link. Get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month for one year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan. Speed may not be available in your area. Call today. There are about two hundred 10 thousand milk cows. However. The us dairy industry is struggling. Prices are down an average of 35 percent. So the usda announced this week it would help out farmers by buying 11 Million Pounds of cheese out of private inventories. The cheese will be donated to food banks secretary tom vilsack says he did the best he could with budget constraints. Theyve been able to establish that the amount of cheese that we currently have in stock is the highest level of surplus weve had in cheese in 30 years. So it stands to reason that were looking at prices that need a little help. And it stands to reason that we need to provide some help and assistance. Vilsack also announced the Margin Protection Program for dairy signup larry shover says will help out. About as much as the cheese purchase. Shover says iowa will probably produce five Million Pounds of milk this year. About five hundred and 80 thousand gallons. And the lower prices means iowa Dairy Farmers will lose about 250 million dollars. On his farm its worse than average. Prices are 48 percent less. In october of 2014. He got about two dollars 23 cents a gallon. By may of this year. It was a dollar 17 a gallon. So you can imagine what that does to the bottom lines in the profit scenario, trying to pay the bills on in 2015. There were 1330 dairy farms in iowa. This year theres 1268. Shover says they lose 50 to a hundred farms a year. A problem here is theres a shortage of processors to boost the prices. He says those prices need to go up in a hurry. If we dont raise this price we are losing dairy farms. Were losing them even if Younger Generation just isnt there to take over. Shover says the biggest thing to boost the iowa dairy industry would be. Just to buy more milk products and thats all i have for the show today. Thanks for tuning in. I hope to see you again next time and thats in. I hope to see you again next time. Well post a video every day in the agriculture section of kcrg. Com. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt oc make adjustments its also an adjustment for the university of dubuque with more than 100 veterans now on campus. Thats next on tv9. The university of dubuque is their combat boots for text books. More than 130 veterans are now enrolled through the gi kcrgtv9s Dubuque Bureau chief Katie Wiedemann looked at the challenges of going from base camp to campus. Hey whats going on . Christopher clarksmith cant get very far on the university of dubuque campus without casually running into a friend. Not much just working, how you been . But this causal campus lifestyle is a far cry from what hes used to. As soon as i got out of high school, i said im going military. Clarksmith spent the next three years in the airforce, then more than a decade in the Iowa National guard. Classroom nat today, hes an aviation age. The biggest difference is these kids, and i use the term kids are just starting off in life. Ive already been there, done that. Been there, done that during tours in saudi arbia and afghanistan. University of dubuque hosts a Veterans Resource Center to help students like clark smith. Its a great way to reintegrate into normal everyday life. Youre not going to believe this but the government is kind of complicated once in awhile and there are programs out there that fly under the radar. Student veterans also have access to oncampus Mental Health therapy. To adjust and so we have to provide them with support. And for this veteran whos dealt with his own fair share of ptsd, that help is paramount. Its a daily struggle but college has helped me because it gives me something to focus on. That focus is now on studying to become a flight deck officer, and making a few new friends along the way. In dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. Iowas largest county is taking more steps toward possibly changing the minimum wage. A new recommendati on from a Polk County Task force includes a different pay rate for teenagers. And while some in northeast iowa are preparing for more high water, volunteers are already helping out in other floodaffected areas. Temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. The turkey river could be i worked years to get my medicare dont know where id be without it so when i heard about conartists committing medicare fraud. It made me so mad i wanted to give them the old onetwo one, never give your medicare number to get a free offer or gift its your medicare, protect it see more ways to fight fraud at medicare. Gov fraud is that the water may not go as high as previously forecast in elkader. Tv9s brea love will have a live report in momen and more rain is on the way for easter iowa. Ill show you where that could show up coming up in your first alert forecast. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. This midday, the city of elkader is experiencing some of the highest river levels its ever seen. But its not turkey river crested at 22 and half feet about an hour ago. Two days ago, the upper iowa rose. Yesterday and today, the focus is on the turkey river. Kcrgtv9s brea love has been in elkader tracking this. Brea, what are you seeing out there right now . The National Weather service is saying 26 and a half will be the crest for the river here. Thats just under the mark from 2008. The city held a press confence that just ended preparations and plans underway. They plan to continue sandbagging, protecting homes and businesses, and prepping for whatever comes this way this afternoon. We spoke with the mayor josh. Who wanted to make sure elkader residents knew what to do to stay safe. Basement thinking that it would be best to have the water flow through the basement instead of busting out all the windows like it did in 2008. Gain the flooding is suppose to crest 22 and a half feet. The water is rapidly moving out here ive seen completely submerged. Businesses sandbagged and closed. Remember to try and stay away from downtown if youre in elkader, and stay with tv9 for the latest. Live in elkader. Right now, governor Terry Branstad is affected areas across northeast iowa. The governor is in Fort Atkinson right now. Hes already stopped through flood damaged areas in spillville and freeport. He issued disaster proclamations for flooding in allamakee, clayton, fayette, howard and winneshiek counties. These counties can now use state money to help with flooding response and recovery efforts. Kcrgtv9s Dave Franzman is in northeast his tour tonight on the tv9 news at 5 and 6. Bck to the turkey river in fayette county, Emergency Responders are preparing for the worst. If the water goes over the dike in elgin. In clermont, fast Running Water swept this porch away. Fayette county sheriff marty fisher told kcrg tv9 that red cross volunteers have opened a shelter at the Valley Community School District in between clermont and elgin. The sheriff says neighbors and High School Student stopping any overflow. The Cedar Rapids Salvation Army has set up in spillville to help flood victims. Salvation army staffers have been serving hot meals from the Citizens Savings Bank parking lot this week. Major paul logan told us some people just want someone to listen to them during this tough time. Some just want to talk and just share what their experience is, and what theyre going through. So thats always a good experience to have. Just to be able to encourage them. Just to let them know that theres somebody else that cares about them. The Salvation Army will be in bank in spillville through the weekend. Meteorologist britley ritz has your first alert forecast, britley. Clouds are stubborn today with chance of a stray shower mainly to the south of i80. It will be cool today with highs only in the 70s. You might be able to get away with opening the windows and enjoying some fresh air before the rain arrives later tonight. Our next system rolls in late tonight and into the will lift and bring showers and storms. A few storms will likely bring heavy rain mainly to the Southern Tier of the viewing area. However, everyone has the chance of seeing a few showers and storms. These showers will linger through the Terry Branstad<\/a> is touring some of the floodaffected areas across northeast iowa today. He issued disaster proclamations for flooding howard and winneshiek counties. These counties can now use state money to help with flooding response and recovery efforts. The governor is scheduled to be in Fort Atkinson<\/a> right now. Hes already stopped through flood damaged areas in spillville and freeport. Kcrgtv9s Dave Franzman<\/a> is in northeast iowa with the governor this midday and will report on his tour tonight on the tv9 news at 5 and 6. In italy, aftershocks from this weeks deadly earthquake are making it difficu crews to get to some affected areas. A town of about 2,000 people 100 miles north of rome could be inaccessible if aftershocks do more damage to roads into town. The towns mayor says hes working with responders to find a different route after shutting down damaged bridges earlier this morning. Wednesdays 6. 2 magnitude earthquake killed at least 267 people throughout central italy, injuring hundreds of others. Neighbors and volunteers are still cleaning up today in northern earlier this week. A tornado hit one neighborhood in the city of kokomo for the 2nd time in only 3 years. One woman helped back in 2013 and was quick to start the cleanup again this time. I care. I care about my community, and i would hate to be in this situation. And anything i can do to help anyone even if its picking up limbs or debris, its gotta be done the National Weather<\/a> service on thursday determined it was an ef3 tornado that hit kokomo. 165 miles per hour. Meteorologist britley ritz has your first alert forecast, britley. Clouds are stubborn today with chance of a stray shower mainly to the south of i80. It will be cool today with highs only in the 70s. You might be able to get away with opening the windows and enjoying some fresh air before the rain tonight and into the overnight hours. The warm front will lift and bring showers and storms. A few storms will likely bring heavy rain mainly to the Southern Tier<\/a> of the viewing area. However, everyone has the chance of seeing a few showers and storms. These showers will linger through the Morning Hours<\/a> tomorrow and clouds will continue to stick with us throughout the day. You also cant rule out a stray shower through the daytime hours. Once this warm front lifts hour temperatures will climb back into the 80s and the mugginess level will rise once more. Today mostly cloudy. Isolated showers possible far south. Wind e 510. High 76 alo 75 dbq 75 iow 77 73 to 7 scattered thunderstorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 alo 63 dbq 64 iow 66 61 to 67 nnedy hhcol in cedar after a car hit a student yesterday morning. This is the car that hit the girl yesterday morning around 730 before class. The impact broke the windshield. Responders took the girl to st. Lukes and then uihc with serious injuries. The driver isnt facing any charges for the crash, but police did issue a ticket for an expired license plate. Investigators believe the driver was going about 20 miles per hour, which is below he kennedy principal jason kline put out an e mail message to all kennedy families reminding everyone to use extreme caution on 42nd street and wenig road. He also urged all students to use the crosswalks instead of cutting across the streets. One woman says there were almost two crashes in the same spot yesterday morning. Lucy jackson says she was driving through the same spot when a different student walked in i was going slow enough and paying attention i stopped short so that i didnt hit her but it was so close it made me uncomfortable. Both police and drivers who use this road say students taking a short cut through traffic is a problem. A crash near parkersburg has killed an aplington man. We first told you abot this crash yesterday at midday. The Grundy County<\/a> Sheriffs Office<\/a> identified him as 29yearold daniel lacour. The Sheriffs Office<\/a> says his car crossed the center headon at highway 14 and 130th street. Lacour died at the scene. The other driver had minor injuries. Solar energy will soon power more buildings in johnson county. Within the next month, workers will install solar panels on top of the health and Human Services<\/a> building to power 10 of the building. Panels will also go up in a field near the county administration building. Those panels will provide about 25 of the power at the administration purchase agreement, the county wont have to pay for the panels. But they will pay the Energy Company<\/a> to use their power. The county says it is excited to be a leading the way on clean energy use. Im very proud to be part of a county that wants to be green and sustainable, its confusing. We are all learning new things and its like speaking a new language, and so weve all had to become experts. County Officials Say<\/a> they are working to county buildings as well. Friday night lights live is tonight. The west delaware hawks take on the independence mustangs. Our coverage starts at 7 30 on kcrg 9. 2 and kcrg. Com. And dont forget about after the game, zip over to friday night lights end zone after the 10 pm news on kcrgtv9. Tons of highlights plus our expert analysis and the occasional bad pun. Ill be wait. A common cancer often found in children is usually very difficult to treat. But a new therapy is helping beat the disease while avoiding longterm side effects. Meteorologist britley ritz updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. Clouds are stubborn today with chance of a stray shower mainly to the south 70s. You might be able to get away with opening the windows and enjoying some fresh air before the rain arrives later tonight. Our next system rolls in late tonight and into the overnight hours. The warm front will lift and bring showers and storms. A few storms will likely bring heavy rain mainly to the Southern Tier<\/a> of the viewing area. However, everyone has the chance of seeing a few showers and storms. These showers will linger through the morning hous continue to stick with us throughout the day. You also cant rule out a stray shower through the daytime hours. Once this warm front lifts hour temperatures will climb back into the 80s and the mugginess level will rise once more. Today mostly cloudy. Isolated showers possible far south. Wind e 510. High 76 alo 75 dbq 75 iow 77 73 to 79 tonight scattered thunderstorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 alo 63 dbq 64 iow 66 61 to 67 tomorrow showers and 78 iow 79 74 to 80 tom. Night isolated showers and storms. Wind sw 510. Low 65 alo 63 dbq 64 iow 66 62 to 68 sunday chance of storms. Partly sunny. High 80 low 65 monday chance of storms. High 83 low 65 tuesday partly cloudy. High 83 low 64 wednesday partly cloudy. High 84 low 65 thursday chance of storms. High 84 low 65 friday chance of storms. High 84 low 66 saturday partly cloudy. That begin in the muscles, tendons, blood vessels and tissue near joints. The cancers can hit anyone, but are most common in children under 10. As martie salt reports, a new therapy is helping patients both beat the cancer and avoid any lifelong effects. Of her days over the past year inside a missouri hospital. Her stomach started blowing back up. It was hard. You knew there was something not right. Bridget was diagnosed with rhabdomyosar coma, the most common soft tissue cancer in kids. For bridget, it started near her liver. Its a challenge a challenge because this area moves as we breathe. Chemo took the toddlers hair, but also wiped out most of the tumor. For the remaining cancer cells, doctors used a cuttingedge radiation system called the mridian system by view ray. If she takes in a deep breath and the tumor goes outside of the radiation field, the machine stops until the tumor returns back into the target. Protecting the healthy cells. Anything that minimizes, side effects or an area of treatment that doesnt need treatment, is huge. Placed dose is working. Theres no sign of the tumor, so thats wonderful. The whistons hope to leave hospitals behind for good, with no lasting signs of bridgets battle with childhood cancer. This is martie lt, reporting. The u. S. Dai dtryg since last year, dairy prices have gone down about 35 . Why the usda is stepping up to help Dairy Farmers<\/a> is next our agribusiness report. Welcome to the agribusiness switch to centurylink and get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month. Thats the speed you need to stream. Game. Connect on social media. Learn, shop and more with fast inhome wifi. So call 844565link. Get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month for one year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan. Speed may not be available in your area. Call today. There are about two hundred 10 thousand milk cows. However. The us dairy industry is struggling. Prices are down an average of 35 percent. So the usda announced this week it would help out farmers by buying 11 Million Pounds<\/a> of cheese out of private inventories. The cheese will be donated to food banks secretary tom vilsack says he did the best he could with budget constraints. Theyve been able to establish that the amount of cheese that we currently have in stock is the highest level of surplus weve had in cheese in 30 years. So it stands to reason that were looking at prices that need a little help. And it stands to reason that we need to provide some help and assistance. Vilsack also announced the Margin Protection Program<\/a> for dairy signup larry shover says will help out. About as much as the cheese purchase. Shover says iowa will probably produce five Million Pounds<\/a> of milk this year. About five hundred and 80 thousand gallons. And the lower prices means iowa Dairy Farmers<\/a> will lose about 250 million dollars. On his farm its worse than average. Prices are 48 percent less. In october of 2014. He got about two dollars 23 cents a gallon. By may of this year. It was a dollar 17 a gallon. So you can imagine what that does to the bottom lines in the profit scenario, trying to pay the bills on in 2015. There were 1330 dairy farms in iowa. This year theres 1268. Shover says they lose 50 to a hundred farms a year. A problem here is theres a shortage of processors to boost the prices. He says those prices need to go up in a hurry. If we dont raise this price we are losing dairy farms. Were losing them even if Younger Generation<\/a> just isnt there to take over. Shover says the biggest thing to boost the iowa dairy industry would be. Just to buy more milk products and thats all i have for the show today. Thanks for tuning in. I hope to see you again next time and thats in. I hope to see you again next time. Well post a video every day in the agriculture section of kcrg. Com. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt oc make adjustments its also an adjustment for the university of dubuque with more than 100 veterans now on campus. Thats next on tv9. The university of dubuque is their combat boots for text books. More than 130 veterans are now enrolled through the gi kcrgtv9s Dubuque Bureau<\/a> chief Katie Wiedemann<\/a> looked at the challenges of going from base camp to campus. Hey whats going on . Christopher clarksmith cant get very far on the university of dubuque campus without casually running into a friend. Not much just working, how you been . But this causal campus lifestyle is a far cry from what hes used to. As soon as i got out of high school, i said im going military. Clarksmith spent the next three years in the airforce, then more than a decade in the Iowa National<\/a> guard. Classroom nat today, hes an aviation age. The biggest difference is these kids, and i use the term kids are just starting off in life. Ive already been there, done that. Been there, done that during tours in saudi arbia and afghanistan. University of dubuque hosts a Veterans Resource Center<\/a> to help students like clark smith. Its a great way to reintegrate into normal everyday life. Youre not going to believe this but the government is kind of complicated once in awhile and there are programs out there that fly under the radar. Student veterans also have access to oncampus Mental Health<\/a> therapy. To adjust and so we have to provide them with support. And for this veteran whos dealt with his own fair share of ptsd, that help is paramount. Its a daily struggle but college has helped me because it gives me something to focus on. That focus is now on studying to become a flight deck officer, and making a few new friends along the way. In dubuque Katie Wiedemann<\/a> kcrg tv9 news. Iowas largest county is taking more steps toward possibly changing the minimum wage. A new recommendati on from a Polk County Task<\/a> force includes a different pay rate for teenagers. And while some in northeast iowa are preparing for more high water, volunteers are already helping out in other floodaffected areas. Temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. The turkey river could be i worked years to get my medicare dont know where id be without it so when i heard about conartists committing medicare fraud. It made me so mad i wanted to give them the old onetwo one, never give your medicare number to get a free offer or gift its your medicare, protect it see more ways to fight fraud at medicare. Gov fraud is that the water may not go as high as previously forecast in elkader. Tv9s brea love will have a live report in momen and more rain is on the way for easter iowa. Ill show you where that could show up coming up in your first alert forecast. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. This midday, the city of elkader is experiencing some of the highest river levels its ever seen. But its not turkey river crested at 22 and half feet about an hour ago. Two days ago, the upper iowa rose. Yesterday and today, the focus is on the turkey river. Kcrgtv9s brea love has been in elkader tracking this. Brea, what are you seeing out there right now . The National Weather<\/a> service is saying 26 and a half will be the crest for the river here. Thats just under the mark from 2008. The city held a press confence that just ended preparations and plans underway. They plan to continue sandbagging, protecting homes and businesses, and prepping for whatever comes this way this afternoon. We spoke with the mayor josh. Who wanted to make sure elkader residents knew what to do to stay safe. Basement thinking that it would be best to have the water flow through the basement instead of busting out all the windows like it did in 2008. Gain the flooding is suppose to crest 22 and a half feet. The water is rapidly moving out here ive seen completely submerged. Businesses sandbagged and closed. Remember to try and stay away from downtown if youre in elkader, and stay with tv9 for the latest. Live in elkader. Right now, governor Terry Branstad<\/a> is affected areas across northeast iowa. The governor is in Fort Atkinson<\/a> right now. Hes already stopped through flood damaged areas in spillville and freeport. He issued disaster proclamations for flooding in allamakee, clayton, fayette, howard and winneshiek counties. These counties can now use state money to help with flooding response and recovery efforts. Kcrgtv9s Dave Franzman<\/a> is in northeast his tour tonight on the tv9 news at 5 and 6. Bck to the turkey river in fayette county, Emergency Responders<\/a> are preparing for the worst. If the water goes over the dike in elgin. In clermont, fast Running Water<\/a> swept this porch away. Fayette county sheriff marty fisher told kcrg tv9 that red cross volunteers have opened a shelter at the Valley Community<\/a> School District<\/a> in between clermont and elgin. The sheriff says neighbors and High School Student<\/a> stopping any overflow. The Cedar Rapids Salvation Army<\/a> has set up in spillville to help flood victims. Salvation army staffers have been serving hot meals from the Citizens Savings Bank<\/a> parking lot this week. Major paul logan told us some people just want someone to listen to them during this tough time. Some just want to talk and just share what their experience is, and what theyre going through. So thats always a good experience to have. Just to be able to encourage them. Just to let them know that theres somebody else that cares about them. The Salvation Army<\/a> will be in bank in spillville through the weekend. Meteorologist britley ritz has your first alert forecast, britley. Clouds are stubborn today with chance of a stray shower mainly to the south of i80. It will be cool today with highs only in the 70s. You might be able to get away with opening the windows and enjoying some fresh air before the rain arrives later tonight. Our next system rolls in late tonight and into the will lift and bring showers and storms. A few storms will likely bring heavy rain mainly to the Southern Tier<\/a> of the viewing area. However, everyone has the chance of seeing a few showers and storms. These showers will linger through the Morning Hours<\/a> tomorrow and clouds will continue to stick with us throughout the day. You also cant rule out a stray shower through the daytime hours. Once this warm front lifts hour temperatures will climb back into the 80s and the mugginess level will rise once more. Today mostly cloudy. Isolated showers possible far south. Wind e 510. High 76 alo 75 dbq 75 iow 77 73 to 79 tonight scattered thunderstorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 alo 63 dbq 64 new at midday, Law Enforcement<\/a> in the quad cities are looking for a convicted murderer who didnt return from work release. The department of corrections placed 39 yearold john mohr on escape status this morning. Mohr was sentenced in 1997 for shaking his girlfriend to death. Mohr is described 6 foot 1 and 203 pounds. Anyone who knows where he is should contact Davenport Police<\/a> or the scott county Sheriffs Office<\/a> immediately. A waterloo man ran out onto his roof trying to escape police this morning. Police surrounded a two story house at 303 locust street until around 1. The man peacefully returned inside the house. Officials say he was wanted on several warrants. Other charges are pending. The city of coralville will will not be getting the dog back. The dog, roman, is an 18 month old beauceron. The decision to let him live came after the owner, tom henson, agreed to microchipping and neutering the dog. Then the dog will undergo training in north carolina. Polk county is getting closer to deciding on a change to its minimum wage. In its final recommendati on, a task force suggested the county raise the wage to 8dollars75 cents next year. 975 the following year and reach 10 dollars75cents an hour by 2019. The task force also recommends a youth wage for workers between 14 and 17 to make 85percent of the minimum wage. You know we can mount campaigns to fill food banks, and food pantries, we do all of this, with great patting on the back. Whats so hard to provide to provide living wage so people dont have to go to food expected to get a draft of the new ordinance in october. Iowa citys mayor wants to draw a clearer vision for the future of downtown development. Mayor Jim Throgmorton<\/a> recently sent a memo to City Council Members<\/a> urging them to consider changing guidelines on new downtown buildings. Thats after the Council Voted<\/a> to not provide Financial Support<\/a> for a 14story building at the site of the old van patton house, which burned down in a fire. Tha think the council is no longer in favor of large scale projects in the downtown area. We actually have a vision that is expressed in our comprehensive plan, its the downtown portion of the comprehensive plan, so one of the things i sought to do in that memo is just draw peoples attention to that plan, and say okay, now what . We need tools to achieve that vision. Throgmorton says he wants the council to reconsider zoning rules that currently allow anysize building in the downtown. People sampled the many city. The citys Downtown District<\/a> held the 10th annual taste of iowa city last night. It featured more than 40 restaurants. Organizers say it all started as a way to introduce new university of iowa students to the local restaurants. But its now a regionwide event. The return home for an olympian from eastern iowa. A journey for Kayla Banworth<\/a> from dubuque to nebraska. To rio. And back home. Plus, the rock is at the top of the list for acting that proves who really is the bigge meteorologist britley ritz updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert chance of a stray shower mainly to the south of i80. It will be cool today with highs only in the 70s. You might be able to get away with opening the windows and enjoying some fresh air b our next system rolls in late tonight and into the overnight hours. The warm front will lift and bring showers and storms. A few storms will likely bring heavy rain mainly to the Southern Tier<\/a> of the viewing area. However, everyone has the chance of seeing a few showers and storms. These showers will linger through the Morning Hours<\/a> tomorrow and clouds will continue to stick with us throughout the day. You also cant rule out a stray shower through temperatures will climb back into the 80s and the mugginess level will rise once more. Today mostly cloudy. Isolated showers possible far south. Wind e 510. High 76 alo 75 dbq 75 iow 77 73 to 79 tonight scattered thunderstorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 alo 63 dbq 64 iow 66 61 to 67 tomorrow showers and thunderstorms likely. Wind sw 515. High 77 alo 78 dbq 78 iow 79 74 to 80 tom. Night isolated showers and storms. Wind sw 510. Low 65 alo 63 dbq 64 iow 66 sunday chance of storms. Partly sunny. High 80 low 65 monday chance of storms. High 83 low 65 tuesday partly cloudy. High 83 low 64 wednesday partly cloudy. High 84 low 65 thursday cance of storms. High 84 low 65 friday chance of storms. High 84 low 66 saturday partly cloudy. High 84 low 63 wrestling titles. And now the prime title for any actor. Plus, olympic winners will bask in the glow at the upcoming mtv awards. Jason nathanson has todays showbiz wrap. Dwayne johnson has rocked to the top of forbes list of highest paid actors in hollywood. The Central Intelligence<\/a> star brought in according to forbes. The former wrestler beat out jackie chan, whos 2nd with 61 million and matt damon in 3rd with 55 million. The rest of the top five are tom cruise with 53 million and johnny depp with 48 million. All of the top 5 actors make more than forbes highest paid actress. Jennifer lawrence with 46 million. From the pool to the stage for michael phelps. The Gold Medalist<\/a> will present an award at sundays mtv video music awards. But the swimmer wont be the only olympian at Madison Square<\/a> garden . The final five gymnasts including simone biles, Gabby Douglas<\/a> and aly raisman will also hand out moonmen. Their seating cards are already in place. The feds are now looking into the hack of leslie jon posted online the saturday night live stars drivers license, passport, and naked pictures from her icloud account. The ghostbusters actress was also targeted on twitter last month with a barrage of racial slurs and obscene photos. The department of Homeland Security<\/a> has taken the lead on the investigation. And thats whats happening in hollywood. Im jason nathanson, now that the summer olympics are over, athletes are returning home to celebrate with their friends and family. Dubuque native Kayla Banwarth<\/a> celebrated in her hometown last night. She won a bronze medal with her womens Volleyball Team<\/a> in rio last week. Hundreds packed into the courtside restaurant to get autographs, take pictures and ask banwarth about her olympic journey. She says winning a medal in rio was an amazing im extremely proud to bring back a medal. The people here have been so amazing and so supportive, that for me to be able to bring some hardware for them; im super proud. It was an honor to represent dubuque. I took great pride in that. And i hope that theres Young Children<\/a> in dubuque and in iowa and the whole country that are inspired to greatness. Trt 21 oc inspired to greatness des moines wants to play a role in the mens ncaa city applied this month to host preliminary rounds of the tournament in 2019 through 2022. Except drake would host and not isu. The city hosted games in the first weekend of games this past season at wells fargo. Heres why it would matter if drake hosts that would allow iowa state the possibility to play there in the opening weekend. The city should find out in november if its been selected. Friday night lights live is tonight. The independence mustangs. Our coverage starts at 7 30 on kcrg 9. 2 and kcrg. Com. And dont forget about after the game, zip over to friday night lights end zone after the 10 pm news on kcrgtv9. Tons of highlights plus our expert analysis and the occasional bad pun. The cooldown has hit were probably not going to reach 90 degrees for the rest of the year. For getting outside in the garden. Options abound. If you have a 3193995998. Welcome back since its friday larry dawson joins us. Were reach . . Doing a little cleaning i see. Sparkle paper towels are great for wiping up fingerprints without wiping out your savings. Just right for cleaning up. Jelly. And look at this. Security camera lenses. Oh, why dont you tell the homeowners how great sparkle works . Just right clean. Just right price. Friday larry dawson joins us. Were reaching the end of summer and season. Larry, thanks for being here. Coming up tomorrow, stay with your 24 hour midday. The turkey river is cresting lower than expected in elkader this midday. The river topped out at 22 and a half feet around 10 30. The about 26 feet. Law enforcement in the quad cities are looking for a convicted murderer who didnt return from work release. The department of corrections placed 39 yearold john mohr on escape status this morning. Mohr was sentenced in 1997 for shaking his girlfriends 13monthold baby to death. Now, one last look at this mornings weather, justin. Clouds are stubborn today with chance of a stray shower mainly to the south of i80. It will be cool today with highs only in the 70s. You might be able to get away wih air before the rain arrives later tonight. Our next system rolls in late tonight and into the overnight hours. The warm front will lift and bring showers and storms. A few storms will likely bring heavy rain mainly to the Southern Tier<\/a> of the viewing area. However, everyone has the chance of seeing a few showers and storms. These showers will linger through the Morning Hours<\/a> tomorrow and clouds will continue to stick with us throughout the day. You also cant rule out a stray shower through the daytime hours. Once this warm front lifts hour temperatures will climb backto s level will rise once more. Day mostly cloudy. Isolated owers possible far south. Nd e 10. Hh76 a 75 dbq 75 iow 77 73 to 79 tonight attered thunderstormsveloping. . If youre tired of complicated recipes, have we got the show for you. Get ready for five ingredient gourmet meals. Clintons dishing out a slice of heaven with a dessert so easy to make its a piece cake. Then, were putting michael to the test to see what he can whip up using mystery ingredients from our audience. Plus, marios going on a cooking adventure with the amazing jurnee smollettbell. And shes brought one of her signature recipes. Its time to get gourmet, right now, on the chew. . [ cheers and applause ] hello and welcome to the chew. You know, summer is all about simple and delicious meals after a long, hot day. 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