With some of the storms. After a break on thursday, more active weather returns friday, ahead of a cold front, ushering in beautiful fall weather for the upcoming weekend. Have a great night. Tonight storms become likely. Heavy rain is possible. Wind sw 515. Low 70 tomorrow occasional rain and thunderstorm s. Heavy rain is possible. Wind firefighters say the rileys restaurant near downtown cedar rapids will need a lot of work before its up and running again. A fire this afternoon extensively damaged the popular spot for breakfast and lunch. The restaurants at 836 first 3 30 this afternoon. It took them a little more than an hour to get the fire under control. The fire itself didnt injure anyone, but one firefighter went to the hospital with a heatrelated illness. Kcrg tv nines jordee kalk is live outside rileys tonight with the latest. A good majority of the roof here, at rileys, is gone. The exact amount of damage inside the restaurant is unknown at this point. The owner of rileys tel
Thunderstorms are threatening to drop heavy rain in parts of iowa that dont need it. It. Weatherfirst chief meteorologist terry swails is tracking tonights potential for an afternoon fire at a popular cedar rapids restaurant forced thousands of motorists to find an alternate route downtown. Downtown. Fox 28 news anchor kevin barry talked to the owner of rileys cafe and shows us the struggles firefighters faced on scene. Scene. Not many people saw flames from rileys three alarm fire. Fire. But nearly everyone has rileys about 15 years ago but theres been a restaurant in this now charred store front for three decades. Decades. Same spot same location its been a meeting spot where people come and have business meetings and have family gatherings here its quite a loss, such an iconic restaurantcedar rapids finest sent every truck they had with about 30 fighters cycling through chasing flames through rileys roof. Roof. Wayne winn owns mcduffys next door his manager called in the fire. Fire.
Going to stick around for us today kaj . Plan on another breezy and warm day. Storms will be knocking on the northwest door later today and into the night. Heavy rain is possible out of any storm given the amount of heat present. A few storms northwest of waterloo will carry the risk of a few strong wind gusts as well. Overall, the weather pattern will be very active for the next 36 hours with heavy rain the main risk going into wednesday. Rainfall totals over 2 still appears possible over the northern half of t and off to the east with our next cold front coming in here on friday. This front will also bring a rain chance with it. This weekend will be great, and the iowa iowa state game will have ideal weather conditions saturday night with a kickoff temperature in the upper 60s. Today a chance of storms in the afternoon. The highest chance is in the northwest. Warm and muggy. Wind sw 1020. High 89 tonight stoseme likely. Heavy rainsb. In peciay late in the afternoonrou will hold a sec
Some parts of northeast iowa saw rain again this morning and state leaders now are trying to get more money to help the areas hit hard by last months flooding. Flooding. Governor Terry Branstad has requested a federal disaster declaration for eight counties from president obama. Its not clear when the white house will announce the president s decisi. Congressional delegation has reached out to the president urging him to act quickly. State assistance is available to anyone trying to repair damage from the flood waters. A developing story overnight police in Charlotte North Carolina say at least 12 of their officers were injured during protests after another Deadly Police shooting of a black man. One of those officers was hit in the face with a rock. Protesters were shown breaking the windows of a Police Vehicle and destroying other demonstrators started throwing rocks at their van too. Early this morning protesters blocked a portion of interstate 85 before officers cleared the roadway
Totoill a budget shortfafa through a proposed property tax levy. Levy. Fox 28 News Reporter matt hammill joins us live right now in cedar rapids with more on tonights results, matt . Supporters of this tax levy gathered here at parlor city tonight hoping this turns into a victory celebration celebrationthis is where they held thehe watch party to see the Voting Results come in after the polls closed at eight. Theyve been on the streets for months handing out information and telling anybody who would listen why they think this levy is critical. When we stopped at the library this afternoon it was packed tax amounts to about 23 dollars a year for a family that owns a 150 thousand dollar home. Without it supporters say ours and services at this brand new library would have to be cut and they say thats a step backwards. We really we really havent heard any vovol opposition to the library tax levi but with a low voter turnout nothing is guarenteed. Well be here when the results come matt th