im tim seaman jenna: and im jenna rehnstrom the sioux city community school district held a press conference today to talk about the arrest of the former north high school band director, lucas sursely (sirs-lee). tim: he faces a charge of sexual exploitation by a school employee. even more concerning . this is not the first time the high school has delt with something like this . lukas voss brings us more. thank you tim and jenna . indeed this is actually the third time i i just over two years that north high has had to deal with scandals sourrounding their educational staff. earlier this year . a soccer coach s found guilty of sexual exploitation by a school employee . he was sentenced earlier this month then in 2013 the former band director resigned after he had admitted to selling school owned instruments to recover from gambling debt, and now . this . nats: marching band vo: north high s 34-year old band director arrested and chargegewith sexual exploitation by a schoolol
bank is full about 17 inches 17 feet on the gate means that we could see water over fleur drive. reporter: with these kinds of predictions the best things to do are to take measures seriously. we shut off all of the electricity our locations, our other facilities, put up barricades so that people understand that they are coming into a potential flooded area . reporter: both water works park and gray s lake will be closed until the water recedes. live in des moines, emmy victor, kcci 8 news, iowa s news leader. steve: fleur drive is not the only road closed in des moines george flagg parkway is also shutdown from southwest 30th near easter lake, the area at southeast 30th court, is also closed due to high water. stacey: one of the first jolly holiday lights at water works park. kcci s mark tauscheck is live near water works with a look at make a wish. reporter: jolly holiday lights typically last six weeks. this week, it only made it three weeks before getting flooded out.
it is very common across much of iowa, temperatures in the 30 s early on. it little bit of fog. a generally dry day. there is one precipitation chance in the next eight days. for details on that, it is coming up. anchor: if you drive into town from the southside the flooding is going to impact your commute tomorrow morning. anchor a major roadway will be : close because of the rising raccoon river. kcci s todd magel is live along fleur drive tonight. todd: this is the road to the airport, it has been dead since 3:00 when the river started rising and the city shut it down. there is a new mandatory left-hand turn, one of the busiest roads in the city is it is something we have seen in the winter. there may be as much as 2.5 feet of water by tomorrow morning. it is projected to stay that way. todd: farther west, floodwaters from walnut creek shut it down for most of the day. forget parking in this church lot, the ducks have taken over. we don t usually see this in december b
there may be as much as 2.5 feet of water on top of fleur drive by tomorrow evening. and it s projected to stay that way until saturday to reopen maybe sunday. todd: farther west in clive , swanson boulevard is now open. flood waters from walnut creek day. closed. and forget parking in this church lot near 100th street. the ducks have taken over. december with that much rain that we ve had. todd: and even farther west adel is bracing for higher water. the raccoon river is rising so high, it is nearly touching the bridge on highway 169 just north of the square. we left my house around 9 house around 9:00 this morning. there was snow on the ground. there where a whole bunch of rivers that were overflowed there were a lot of roads that were covered with water. todd: but even with all the rain hardy iowans like hanna laabs know it could be worse. i guess count our blessings whether, weather, that it wasn t too cold for the rain to turn into ice so we re pretty lucky i t
ahead. good morning everyone and welcome back on this tuesday december 15. i m elizabeth klinge. eric: i m eric hanson. their most important thing today, no rain in the forecast, right metinka? metinka: the weather is so much better today. this morning we are expecting a little bit of patchy fog, especially across western iowa. it is quiet. no rain to drive through. 36 in des moines. sunrise coming in at 7:34 here it visibility just 7:34. visibility is not all that bad. it is good to stay kind of cool here it grabbed warmer coats. we will have a brisk wind coming in from the south east. we warm back up as we head toward the start of christmas week. eric: we ll get right to today s big stories. right now parts of the metro are still dealing with the heavy rain and flooding. it is now from mlk to bell avenue that is closed. that s a major link between downtown and the airport thousands of cars travel it every day so you will need to find a different route until the water goes d