Kevin briggs has accumulated many stories from his time spent talking with people ready to jump from the golden gate bridge. Hes been the subject of documentaries, written a book now hes bringing his message to iowa as suicide rates climb across the country. Its so empowering when the individual comes back over that rail, they did it, it takes a lot of courage to come back over that rail and face everything that pushed you over that edge. Briggs says the key is communication people something many people do. In johnson county, the Crisis Center offers a crisis hot line that gets one thousand calls a month, and recently started a mobile Crisis Center where Mental Health professionals actually go and visit with people who are considering harming themselves. We were averaging 15 calls a month, and that has sky rocketed to 34 or 35 calls a month the last couple months. Briggs says everyday people can going to say to their friends or lovedones. And be ready with resource materials and a plan
Should be a substantial break with very little activity around the midday hours, with storms increasing in coverage again for the Late Afternoon and evening hours. These storms may impact some football games, and they are worth monitoring today and tonight. The weekend continues to look excellent with highs around 70 on saturday and mid70s on sunday. Iowa iowa state football continues to look great with clear sky and kickoff temperatures in the upper 60 weekend toda y showers and thunderstorms develop. Locally heavy rain posible. Wind s 510. High 78 tonight lingering showers and a few thunderstorms. Wind nw 5 10. Low 57 tomorrow mostly sunny and very comfortable. Breezy. Wind nw 1525. High 72 tom. Night mostly clear. Excellent for football wind nw 510. Low 50 an upcoming play. Its because some are upset that a hearing actor was casted to play the role of a deaf person. The play is called tribes. Its about billythe only deaf member of a Family Living in london. He meets a hearing woman