Residents to stay out of isis positions. Rachel harvey, aid worker telling civillians to stay inside . Lock their doors to tell off gas pipes. Aid workers say they are now bracing for an influx of up to a Million People fleeing the fighting. Alex marquardt, abc newsthe un and other aid agencies set up emergency camps to take those people in. This fighting could go on for quite some time. Abcs alex marguardt is also there. And talked to some of those residents. Many who have lived under the terror of isis. Without fear . Resident yes, you cannot guess when will they take you at night. For months. The us and iraq planned this military operation. Retaking mosul from isis. The terror groups biggest prize to date. Military Officials Saying so far. They are making good progress. Tag pentagon Officials Say right now. Theyre working on an iraqi time line and their goal is to wrap up this mission by the end of the year. Elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. The president of a group Law Enforcement
Right now on cbs 2 this morning. A corridor home catches on fire find right now on cbs 2 this morning a corridor home catches fire. Find out where flames erupted overnight. Ilan it speaks out and what Donald Trumps wife thinks about the remarks that may 10 years ago. Terry branstad is sticking with his Party Nominee for president. We are now taking a live look at 380 at 30 n. Not a whole lot going on. If you are heading out soon in the 6 00 our you should be able to get to work or School Without any hangups if thats the way you are going. Welcome to cbs 2 new this morning. Im jenne ryan. Lets start with and one. Lets take a look. Hopefully you enjoy the weather yesterday. We have made 80s yesterday. Today we start in the lower 60s. We have a little bit of cloud coverage out there but will turn around and get into the 70s. A live look at the s curves downtown. The camera shaking back and forth. 65 66 in iowa city. Monticello 64. 56 in waterloo and 57 in oelwein. It will best to 20 the w
Police in the corridor say they are seeing a huge spike in counterfeiting. Its 135more than last year. New tonight cbs 2 news anchor matt hammillwho spent the day looking into thishas what you need to know. It used to be if someone broke into your car or house they were most often looking for cash. Thats changed and now they dont even apparently that is changing. They dont even have to break in apparently now. Three out of every 10 cars were not locked. Cedar rapids we say near half of home burglaries clerks just walked in. We seen a doubling in counterfeit cases. Its all connected in addition to jewelry and electronic. These are now looking for checkbooks. They are taking the checks names and amounts and get cash. Its almost like a double whammy. Police warned not to put checks and outgoing mail. Those red flags tell thieves they can grab and copy them. We encourage our customers to use quality checks that are made with a special safety paper. Alayna says the paper and special ink mak
Cedar Rapids Police say half of targeted homes and cars arent even locked. In addition to that, police saieves arent just looking for cash and electronics anymore. The cases of counterfeit and forged checks have doubled in the last year. Investigators say some checks are washed or erased and then copied or forged for huge amounts. Banks encourage customers to use checks with high quality paper and even ink thats hard to erase. They say also helps to have a bank that knows you. Were always looking for anything that might be out of the norm for ou say theres a big gap in checking sequence for example or a large amount thats been written on an account that our customer typically wouldnt do. Thats a red flag for us and we want to investigate that and take extra precautions. Police are also warning its not a good idea to mail checks from an unlocked mailbox. They say the red flag telling the letter carrier theres mail to take, can also tip off thieves who steal and duplicate the checks. Pol
Historian and author Richard Norton smith is working on a new biography of gerald ford. We caught up with him at his homing in grand rapids home in grand rapids, michigan. A Baptist Missionary put down roots, and a year or two later on the east side a friend be frenchspeaking intend tour showed up who was eager to sell liquor to the indians to save their sols, and it their souls, and it set the pattern ps in some ways for the two faces of grand rapids, west side and east side. Both sides of the river banks more for most of the 19th and 20th century were covered over with factories, furniture factories, back when grand rapids was the furniture capital of the United States. Theyre gone now, but the city that has replaced them in many ways was seated by that building, the ford museum was seeded by that building, the ford museum, which was opened in 1981, located downtown at president fords insistence in the hope that it might, in fact, spark the beginnings of an urban renewal, a genuine u