And tonight, the new action. Good evening. On a very busy friday night. We begin with the real scare in one american community, a Chemical Spill and a dangerous cloud overhead. The fog drifting for miles. Dozens rushed to the kansas, the toxic gas just overhead. Schools evacuated today. Alex perez is on the scene. Reporter that massive plume spewing out of this kansas distilling plant just after 8 00 a. M. A cloud of toxic gas. It got really hard to breathe. Reporter Officials Say the spill triggered when two chemicals, sulfuric acid and sodium chloride, were mixed by all at once, it was like a fog had moved into this city. Reporter that thick fog obscuring the sun. The scope of the plume captured by a drone. Anxious residents watching the cloud roll right into their their backyards. Families told to shelter in place for two hours. We are in the process of evacuating 1,800 children. Reporter many students rushed out of local schools, away from the plant. We opened the doors and all you
Any pictures you may have taken. The united way says so many people came out to help, that they couldnt keep track of everybody at the beginning, it was all hands on deck, everyone was just out because of the urgency of sandbagging, so everyone put their efforts forward Michael Goldberg from linn county Emergency Management says you have to make sure you register your hours with the city you worked them in. He says they would go granted. For example, cedar rapids would get money to help pay for protecting the city from flood. Hesco barriers, the cost of the contractors, labor cost from employees can be used. The equipment that was used. All of that can be calculated as emergency protective to be better prepared to log peoples hours in future disasters. I asked them if they feel people will be honest on their applications. Ill have their answer at six. Live in cedar rapids phil reed, kcrg tv9 news governor branstad also announced today the creation of a Flood Recovery task force. Compri
Been peppered with paintballs. At least three of his neighbors along e ave were hit as well. Vehicles too, like this suv that was parked outside. Dont they have Something Better to do . Or, someplace else to do it . Apparently not. Police say, in just the last two weeks, there have been at least four reports of vandals firing paintballs at property and people. Chief wayne jerman called the act a juvenile thin will get hurt, but paintballers could be shot themselves. Their guns look remarkably like the real thing. Dont these people think that they stand the risk of somebody trying to protect themselves . I just think its an incredibly stupid thing to do. Police think theyve caught the troublemaker s behind a few of the incidents. Authorities arrested 26 yearold kenneth herring and 30yearold earnest murry, earlier this month. Police say the two spent the evening of october 6th paintballs out of a van. One woman was hit in the eye. Herring was charged with criminal mischief. Murry, drivin
Un. Still headlights on i 380 but traffic looking good so far. Welcome to cbs2 this morning. Im kevin barry. Justin roberts hows it looking. Clouds, mix of sun and clouds, through the day. Scattered shower and thunderstorms move back in this afternoon and evening. Our temperatures in the upper 60s. Thats kind of where stayed parked as of late and thats, of course, the dewpoint is in those upper 60s so the temp wont get any lower. We are seeing cloud cover. 6degrees in eastern iowa airport. Here at Broadcast Park we are at 69 degrees in the corner of collins and sea avenue. There is a little reduced visibility far eastern iowa around jones and b dubuque as well as the scott and 77 in oelwein. Six in waterloo. 70 iowa city. Winds south and easterly 510 through the day today. Local radar and satellite, a little light moisture north of tama up towards southern groundy county. Heres the state wide pictures. A lot of humidity today. One of the by products will be popup shower and Storm Chanc
Just want to take a minute to show you how severe this flooding was. If i would have been standing in this exact spot on friday, the water would have been up from Central Plumbing all the way back to their dock and that was all sandbags 7 feet high and tonight at 10, hear how the Flood Impacted Businesses along the turkey river. Live in elkader, jordee kalk, kcrg tv cedar rapids and how can we stop it . Parents, Law Enforcement and fed up residents are working on solving those questions right now in redmond park. This comes after numerous shootings in town, some involving minors. Last september this fourteen year old, robert humbles, shot and killed another teen. Humbles bullet hit fifteenyearold Aaron Richardson in the abdomen during a fight between two ri part of town. Humbles pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter among other charges. Kcrg tv nines phil reed was at todays rally for change. The annual stop the violence the man accused of sexually finally transferred to a facility w