High 83 alo 82 tonight increasing clouds. Rain arrives late. Wind se 510. Low 65 alo 65 thanks britley. This morning, Black Hawk County expected to crest there, this afternoon. The forecast calls for 100 point 5 feet. Heres what the Iowa Flood Center says a crest at that level would look like. Water from the cedar river and lakes in that area would flood the city as far north as lone tree road. It would also cover sturgis and river front parks along the river. Volunteers were out overnight trying to falls. That area is normally busy on a friday night, but was eerily quiet with so many people preparing for flooding. Kcrgtv9s Samantha Myers shows us some of the other sandbagging efforts in the city. Groups of volunteers are stationed all around cedar falls, theyre building walls out of sandbags and helping out in any way they can. The city sent out a call for help at five on friday for people to help with the sand faster than anticipated. Volunteer lynn hoth spent her day filling sand ba
Fill sandbags or pick some up in cedar rapids today. The ellis park pavilion shut down overnight but to help fill sandbags. The city is also looking for help to fill bags at the old kmart location at 16th avenue southwest and williams boulevard. Volunteers should bring 2 c1 3 from your 24 hour news source, this is the kcrgtv9 sunday morning news. Good morning and thanks for this morning, Black Hawk County is preparing for flooding as the cedar river is expected to crest there, this evening. The forecast calls for 100 point 5 feet. Heres what the iowa flood level would look like. Water from the cedar river and lakes in that area would flood the city as r north as lone tree road. It would also cover sturgis and river front parks along the river. Volunteers were out overnight trying to protect main street in cedar falls. That area is normally busy on a friday night, but was eerily quiet with so many people preparing for flooding. Cedar falls is asking for more volunteer help this morning
First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a quiet thursday with a clear start cold again, highs should make the upper teens to lower 20s. Tonight, another batch of light snow should move into the area. This one should be farther east than yesterdays snow and should affect more of eastern iowa as a result. While amounts will remain light and generally under 1, itll make for a slick morning commute on friday. The wind will pick up behind this system during the day on friday and may cause some patchy blowing snow yet again. Saturday is still on track to be cold and quiet with another snow chance coming our way for sunday. Today mostly sunny high 1824 winds light n alo 18 dbq 19 iow 22tonight snow likely late low 1420 winds sw 510 alo 14 dbq 14 iow 18tomorrow early am snow, clearing high 1824 winds nw 1530 alo 19 dbq 20 iow 23tomorrow night mostly clear low 33 the democratic president ial candidates will go head to head tonight in another debate. This come
Western avenue around 4 00. Thats just across the river from the downtown area a few blocks from us 218 on waterloos west side. Firefighters said they found heavy smoke coming from the home when they arrived. Everyone inside the house was able to safely escape. Crews were on the scene for several hours. The cause of this fire is still under inveveigation. One person died in an overnight fire in des moines. Police were originally called out to a home on the citys Northwest Side for a report of a disturbance. Police say a man inside the home was threatening officers s en they arrived at the home. When police couldnt get the man to come outside, officers saw a fire erupt in the home. After breaking into the home to rescue the man, police say that man resisted the officers attempt to save him. Police ultimately had to leave him behind and run out of the home because of the fire and smoke. Investigators say the fire was set intentionanay. Authorities have not released the victims name. New
Will go head to head tonight in another debate. This comes just two days after Bernie Sanders easily won the primary in new hampshire. The debate is at the university of wisconsin campus in milwaukee. Wisconsins primary is not until april 5th, but the next caucus for clinton and sanders is on the 20th in nevada. In the iowa caucuses, clinton won with just point 2 more than vermont senator. The debate is tonight at 8 pm iowa time, airing on cnn and pbs. Morning. An overheated circuit is to blame for a waterloo. It happened around 4 oclock Tuesday Morning at 264 western avenue. Firefighters say it started between the first and seconds floors. No one was the duplex is a total loss. Civil Rights Groups in iowa are reform the criminal justice system. Members of the naacp and other groups arin favor of a a ill that would ban racial profiling and confidential. They would also like to see lawmakers ban the box on job Work Opportunities for people with criminal histories. Ban the box refers to