Economic downturn. Abuse claims affecting two Major College sports teams. Colorado state suspended football activities. Texas tech firing its Womens Basketball coach. What the universities are saying this morning. Crash investigation. Mangled wreckage littering the runway after an air india plane overshoots its landing. The plane splitting in two. Survivors telling their stories. Hold onto that kid and dramatic rescues. Strangers banding together to help a family trapped by rising floodwaters. Stay there. Come over slowly. How they got them to safety. One of the heros describing those harrowing moments this morning. Go mning, america. Were going to start with the latest on the pandemic. As the world nears 20 million coronavirus cases, deaths here in the u. S. Are increasing in 28 states and the puerto rico. Hospitalizations are up in 27 states, d. C. And puerto rico. With the race on to develop a vaccine, a gallop poll finds 65 of americans would get the vaccine if it were fda approved
We see crashes with passing, so lighting and marking will help drivers better visualize and assess the speed of farm equipment. Here in iowa researchers say increasing visibility would decrease crashes from 164 to 65 annually. Weve put a link to the study on our website, information. In iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. Nearly 500 jobs are going away in iowa city as a company reduces its work force. International Automotive Components has 600 hourly employees right now, but will reduce that to 160. Theyll also cut nearly 40 salaried positions, leaving them at 39. Iac says theyre forced to make the cuts because of the downturn in the dodge dart, but with that vehicle phased out. Lets check in now with meteorologist justin gehrts. Justin, itll be a little chillier overnight . A light wind and clear sky will lead to a cool night in the 30s with patches of frost. Tomorrow will be another seasonably cool and sunshiney day with highs returning to the middle to upper 50s. The weeken
Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a steady increase in clouds today and that will limit our high temperatures into the mid 70s as well. This morning, a few isolated showers may also be found in far southern iowa before the showers to our south fizzle out. This front will be a key to our weather later tonight though as storms should quickly become k look like many, if not all Football Games should go dry tonight, but rain should quickly push in right afterwards. This rain should amount to a quarter to a half inch with isolated amounts over one inch possible. Another round of scattered storms will be possible in the afternoon hours, with much of the activity likely waning or moving east by the evening. Sunday looks mainly dry with only isolated storms possible. Have a great weekend today mostly cloudy. Isolated showers possible far south. Wind e 510. High 76 tonight scattered thunderstorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 tomorrow showers and thunderstorms likely. Wind sw 515. Hi
And i believe that should be morel mill. And abby road, that is right now closed. Bugle and abby roads near elgin remain closed. Well continue to keep you up to date on that. E we are watching a little bit of rain too. Just some very light showers west of the area down to the south and waterloo and scattered showers back tiger woods manchester. Just very light rain a much better chance of rain exists this evening. Well talk about the showers moving in late the and overnight coming up here in about 10 minutes time. Kelly . Thank you, justin. The communities along the river are now feeling optimistic as the water levels are starting to recede. Stephanie johnson has been up there all day long keeping an eye on it for us. We will show you the cautious side of that optimism. Reporter kelly, there are many street closures and sandbags situated. Risen. It has basically taken over the Basketball Court as well as a playground over here. Right now businesses along south main street near here are
Has your first alert forecast, kaj. And that will limit our high temperatures into the mid 70s as well. This morning, a few isolated showers may also be found in far southern iowa before the showers to our south fizzle out. This front will be a key to our weather later tonight though as storms should quickly become likely. It continues to look like many, if not all Football Games should go dry tonight, but rain should quickly push in right afterwards. This rain should amount to a quarter to a half inch with isolated amounts over one inch possible. Another round of scattered storms will be possible in the afternoon hours, with much of the activity likely waning or moving east by the evening. Sunday looks mainly dry with only isolated showers possible far south. Wind e 510. High 76 tonight scattered thunderstorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 tomorrow showers and thunderstorms likely. Wind sw 515. High 77 tom. Night isolated showers and storms. Wind sw 510. Low 65 people in elkader are