Workers. All personnel are directed to healther. The report active shooter. Just about an hour after that initial call s. W. A. T. Teams started arriving here at the main entrance to the facility and donning their gear. Law enforcement going floor by floor in the 20story building clearing out workers, some leaving the buildings with their hands up. It was just last thursday when the navy yard eight miles to the south was also locked down. Here at walter reed after clearing each floor looking for signs of a shot officers is then used bombsniffing dogs. There is no evidence or any indication of a firearm being discharged. Even though this was a false alarm, police say with the heightened terror alert, theyre taking no chances and will check out every threat. David kerley abc news bethesda maryland. Theres encouraging news on the boy that was struck by a plane that crashed on a beach in san diego on the fourth of july. Nicolas baer was treated for a gash to his head concussion and skull d
Along ellis boulavard people still enjoy riverfront property while some in cedar rapidswere a part of buyouts after the 2008 flood the cityturning their homes along the river into greenspacedriveways can be foundleading to nowhere. Some current homeownersworriedt elling us off camerathey dont intend to leave their homes several of them hanging pirate flags last week to symbolize being on barriers were not going to be probably approaching them for a better part of a decade. The mayor says although there will be future buyoutsin order for permanent flood protection they will be optional. Our hope is to negotiate a sale price with all of these properties that are going to be on the wet side but again its not a mandatory sale, the city is not instead he says they are example of what this permanent flood Protection System could the idea is during a flood downtown is operating as normal. But the city saysthey have about twothirds of the promised since 2008still hasnt come through. Congress h
A lot of headlines recently for its high crime rates. As of early september, the city had more than 500 total homicides in 2016, according to the chicago tribune. That outpaces bigger cities of la and new york. Combined, those two had about 100 fewer homicides through late august. The sgt. Can recall hearing Horror Stories from visitors to cedar rapids. A few months back, i met a family that was in town. Her children werent allowed to go play in the front yard for fear of what may happen to them, for theres little doubt that chitown crime is troubling. But is it really troubling cedar rapids, which, by car, is fewer than four hours away. Police chief wayne jerman recently weighed in on the question. Is there an influence, sure. And were aware of it. Its hard to pinpoint exactly how much of an influence, though. Arrest records may offer some insight. Data from crpd shows last year nearly 16 percent of those arrested were born in illinois, the same for the two previous years. The pd says
Accompany the front with gusts around 40 mph possible. This weekend, plan on cold temperatures to be in the area with highs only around 40 and lows in the lower 20s. The wind will make it feel colder. In terms of the next good rain chance, thats still on track to move in around tuesday wednesday of next week. Have a good weekend today windy with isolated showers and falling temperatures. Wind w 2040. High 62 tonight a few sprinkles flur ries are possible, staying windy. Wind nw 2040. Low 29 tomorrow mostly sunny, windy and much cooler. Wind nw 1530. High 40 tom. Night clear and cold. Wind nw 510. Low 20 thanks kaj. President elect donald trump is spending a lot of time in highpowered meetings as he prepares to take over the white house. The latest visitors to trump tower in new york are new contenders for toplevel positions. Heres abcs janai norman. From foes. To friends. President elect trump is making peace with former rival mitt romney. A republican who had some of the harshest crit
This is a 35 pound weigh my son was hit in the face with a 45 pound weight. Roberts son played football for linnmar and was one of the players that was allegedly abused by coach matt casebolt. He claims the coach was upset and used his position to hurt his son. Son. Instead of talking to him and doing it in a the right, appropriate, professional way, he hit it with both palms in the mouth, breaking his tooth. Tooth. The verbal abuse, the physical abuse has got to stop. One parent says the abuse goes outside of the locker room room some of these kids get it in the classroro from these coaches and theyre pushed from the team to go and bully them where they cant even have lunch in the lunchroom. Members of the Football Team adamantly deny any wrondoing. They say the coaches do nothing but coach them. Them. The coaches do not bully us, they do not abuse us. The word abuse, i think that is so blown out of proportion. Proportion. These things that have been coming out in the e wspaper lately