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business later this winter but apparently speeded up plans after the flood evacuation. the council will vote on the deal on october 11th. demolition could take place next spring. fear of the unknown before the cedar river crested spurred worries of a massive flood with wide-spread damage. now, some school teachers in cedar rapids are helping their students process the kcrg t-v nine s phil reed joins us live from roosevelt middle school. phil, teachers are using a creative project to address a issues about the flood? teachers say some of the students don t understand what happened last week. so a language arts and math teacher are combining their classrooms for an in depth look at the flood of 2016. i the seventh graders are split flood. some are studying how floods happen, others covering how the city prepared for it, and there are also groups focusing on recovery and prevention methods they will then put together a different presentations like posters or youtube videos ....
or alcohol. many timm they had linns to opioid use, including heroin, which is a common substitute for people who opioids. kcrg t-v nine s iowa city bureau chief mark carlson joins us live from iowa city. mark, they re calling this a new drug epidemic? officials fight back like heroin seem to gain steam. the death of former hawkeye football star tyler sash shocked fans and former teammates. an autopsy revealed he died from mixing powerful pain medications - methadone and hydrocodone. both are forms of opiods - powerful and increasingly popular prescriptionnpainkillers. doctors nationwide wwite nearly 260 million prescriptions a year for them. obviously they don t want to see patients in pain. with s many of the painkillers streets annually experts say millions are going unused. they then become easy targets for people looking to get high. one of the big keys about all this drug control needs to be the diversion issue of prescription medications, to find a conveeie ....
first. 5849 its an education piece. it s a binine substance no body can get high off of it its like oh. this isn t the scary evil thing we thought it was. sally has met with nearly every presidential candidate in des moines and says shes gotten good feedback from most of them. but right now the real question is who in washington will vote to support her. reporting in washington, i m alex miller. right now, iowa is one of 17 states that have laws allowing limited use of a marijuana product for medical purposes. iowa s law says people can possess cannabis oil and use it for treatment of severe epilepsy. but those people cannot produce or transport the oil in our state. some democratic presidential candidates are chiming in on the medical marijuana debate. bernie sanders says he would take a similar approach to the bill that iowan sally gaer is remove the drug from the controlled substances act. would like the government to reclassify the drug to allow more federally spons ....
plan on another wet day, though the rain will not be as steady and may be more of a drizzle than anything today. our temperatures will slowly fall through the day with readings settling into the 45-49 range for the afternoon. gusty southwest wind is likely to 30mph at times. plan on a dry and windy thursday with highs into the 40s. we are still watching friday afternoon and especially friday night carefully foj snowfall potential in the area. the temperatures will be cool enough for snow to occur, but the bigger uncertainty remains how much moisture there is to work with. there may be several inches of snow on the ground by saturday morning in some communities, which will then only re- enforce the colder air for thee weekendnd stay tuned to kcrg-tv9 for updates on friday s system as we get closer and the overall confidence in snowfall amounts increases. the variety compassion fund childrrn & their families by providing comfort, care and fulfilling immediate needs a gas ....
first, meteorologis t kaj o mara has your firststalert forecast, kajj. plan on another wet day, though the rain will not be as steady and may be more of a drizzle than anything today. our temperatures will slowly fall through the day with readings settling into the 45-49 range for the afternoon. gusty southwest wind is likely to 30mph at times. plan on a dry and windy thursday with highs into the 40s. we are still watching friday afternoon and especially friday night carefully for snowfall potential in the area. the temperatures will be cool enough for snow to occur, but the bigger uncertainty remains how much moisture there is to work with. there y be several inches of snow on the ground by saturday morning in then only re- enforce the colder air for the weekend. stay tuned to kcrg-tv9 for updates on friday s system as we get closer and the overall confidence insnowfall amounts increases. the variety compassion fund nefits critically ill children & &their familii by pr ....