Other landscaping. The site will continue to offer yard Waste Collection and some appliance recycling. This first step, creating a scenic overlook and some landscaping, should start next spring and wrap up by the fall. Other projects including creating a trail system will come in future years. And people need to realize the old landfill can only light recreational use. That means hiking, biking and, of course, that scenic overlook. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now with our first break any records today . Mercy Medical Center in cedar includes open heart surgery. Yesterday, the state Health Facilities Council Approved the hospitals certificate of need application for the program. Mercy is interested in opening the center because it says it sees a growing need for cardiovascular surgery. The already started to recruit surgeons to join the heart team. Unity point saint lukes hospital, which is also in cedar rapids, already performs cardiovascular surgeries. The us senate has passed
Photocopied test booklets and later teachers used the answers in the test booklets to fill out the students answer sheets. Pottebaum waived his right to a hearing agreeing with the board on a settlement. Given a written reprimand and told to complete 15 hours ethics course. Standup ive reached out to principal pottebaum multiple times, but he refused to speak with us on camera. Instead sending us this statement which reads in part it was my interpretation that this was an appropriate accommodatn was not. Even though the resulted in the identified violation. The intention was to make sure these students could complete the required assessments without undue stress related to the mechanics of holding a pencil and filling in small ovals. Now based on the 2015 state report card of jesup elementary the school was labeled as a school in need of assistance in both the math proficiency and reading proficiency standardized test we reached out to the board of education for the original complaint
Lets go to storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg now for your forecast. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team hopefully youve enjoyed our warm stretch of weather, because temperatures are in for a big change. Overnight it will the middle 50s. A strong storm system will track isolated showers on friday, as well as falling tp tomorrow evening, but no accumulation expected. Saturday will be cold and windy with a mostly sunny sky. Temperatures remain seasonable into next week, with a chance for rain tuesday and wednesday. Thanksgiving looks to be mostly sunny with temperatures in the temperatures are in for a big change. Overnight it will be mostly cloudy, warm and windy with temperatures dropping northwest of our area, bringing us windy conditions and a few isolated showers on friday, as well as falling temperatures throughout the day.
Temperatures dont look too bad right now, but this is likely the warmest it will be the rest of the day. We may gain a degree or two with the help of southerly winds right now with not too many gusts, but that changes. By late morning the winds will be gust to 30 mph or higher and stronger this evening as the winds turn to the west. A wind advisory is posted for the almost half of our counties for gusts to 50 mph. We may have a few showers track through today, but it will be mainly windy and weve gotten the most out of the mild weather and our run is over. Later today its going to storm track sevens Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. You can tell us more about what its like outside right now. Its not to bad right now. But this is actually the warmest its expected to be today. The weather will likely keep droppinng throughout the day. So. Heres five things you cars ready for the colder temperatures. Make sure to check your tires. With a guage if you can. Check your battery. Get y
And ted cruz was in full force against trump in deporting every undocmented immigrant and atatacked trump wiih a solution in short were going to build a wall, triple border patrol, i is to move up and take on trump to push marco rubio out of the way. One man is in the hospitit after an atv accident this afternoon. The crash happened near central city around 3 oclock. When crews arrived they found 43yearold chad meyers collided with a tree branch. H. Meyers was air lifted to university of iowa hospitals. He was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash. Details remain under investigation. A man is recovering tonight after being shot in cedar rapids home. Authorities responded to a domestic disturbance in the northwst around 330 this when linn county deputies arrived a 44yearold man was found ith gunshot wounds. A suspect was taken into custody. Puties say the victim was taken tomercy hospital and later univeristy of iowa hospitaa for serious injuries. A bill to legalize fireworks in