Theres flooding. We strongly recommend if theres flooding to contact the local Sheriffs Office let them know where the flooding has occurred and ask our Sheriffs Office to see if there is a safe way to get to the destination. The heavy rains forced people in freeport in Winneshiek County to evacuate this morning. But tonight, authorities are lettg roads covered in water. Kcrgtv9s Samantha Myers talked with homeowners about whats next. in some areas like right here where im standing the water is still up to my knees. Several people here in this freeport neighborhood were out here just a few hours ago going into their houses trying to recover what belongings they could, and trying to clean up. Nats darcie hurst spent much of her evening shoveling water and dirt. Out several houses in the neighborhoods basements caved in. We didnt get much sleep last night checking to make sure our basement didnt cave in firefighters evacuated the neighborhood early wednesday morning and allowed people to
High pressure builds in from the northwest. This High Pressure system will control our weather today and much of tomorrow as well. Later on friday night, there is potential for a few showers and thunderstorms, becoming widespread after midnight and into saturday. Hopefully most of this can wait until after football is over. Several lines of storms are possible on saturday, but the overall risk of anything severe is very low at this time. Much of the rain should get out of here by sunday morning leading to a dry second half of the weekend. A tropical system should develop over or near florida next week, which may lead to our weh ttern stalling out r at lst 3 4 days. Stay tun tonight partly cloudy. Patchy g posble. Wind light nw low 56 tomorrow partly sunny and pleasant. An oted shower is poie ine evening high 76 tom. Night scattered understorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 anks kaj. Communitsn northeast iowa rain. Anywhere from 4 to more than 8 inches of rain overwhelmed rivers and cr
After a warm night of around 70, well be pushing 90 tomorrow afternoon. Then the forecast has a chance for some thunderstorms. You can see while were at 90, its o only 77 in minneapolis. As that push sots toast southeast, theres a chance tomorrow night that a strong storm or two could gop develop in our northern counties. By saturday, that moves to the re of eastern now new into the newsroom tonight, conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly died today, schlafly helped defeat the equal rights amendment and founded the profamily eagle forum in the early 70s she was still the president. She spent 70years focusing on protecting views on the traditional family and wrote several books fighting to roles. Schlafly died in her saint louis home surrounded by family. Schlafly was 92. A minnesota family has . Some closure tonight a minnesota family has some closure tonight after their sons body was found 27 years after he went missing. 11yearold jacob weterling was riding his bike a brother and a friend
A minnesota mother whose 11 year old son went missing 27 years ago says her family is now grieving. Grieving. Patty wetterling released a statement monday saying shes not ready to speak to the media yet after police found her sons remains. Remains. A masked gunman abducted Jacob Wetterling in 1989. His remains were positively ident weekend in minnesota. Minnesota. Police have a person of interest in custody right now on child pornography charges. Fbi officers interviewed dan heinrich at the time of the abduction but were never able to charge him. Him. On saturday heinrich led officials to jacobs remains. The developments are a direct result of months long plea deal negotiations between henrichs lawyers and federal prosecutors. They say such a deal is unpredecented and would only happen with the support of the wetterling agreement are still unclear. Nearly three decades after Jacob Wetterlings disappearance the case has played a major role in shaping. Laws. Cbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie