We have a great group of members who are here and i know everybodys got a lot of different commitments this morning. We are also eager to hear from our witnesses and talk about a critical issue facing our country. Its really a crisis in our communities and its getting worse, not better and the crisis is this Opioid Epidemic. The country is being gripped by it. My state is in many states are. Its in every corner of my state. Earlier this month in ohio, there was a near fatal but now overdose following a routine traffic stop. He p he noticed there was white powder spread around the car. He did the right thing. He put on his mask and gloves, arrested some individuals,s, went back to the Police Station and noticed it on his shirt there was some powder so he reached up like this and brush the powder off his shirt. This guy is 6foot three, 225 pounds. A big man. He fell to the floorimmedi unconscious in overdose. They administered narcan immediately but it wasnt enough. Wapi they had to rush
Around 70 degrees that is look like a sure bet and into monday but out side of tonight a small chance of an isolated shower. Thank yew the sun is coming up you and the sun is coming up. You can see recognize beside those barriers the sun. We will keep you uptodate and still on the air with the press conference at 10 00 a. M. This morning on fox 28. We are back after this whatcha doin . Just checking my free credit score at credit karma. What the . . . Youre welcome. I just helped you dodge a bullet. But i was just checking my. Shhh. Dont you know that checking your credit score credit karma doesnt affect it at all. Are you sure . Positive. So i guess i can just check my credit score then . Oooh check out credit karma today. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. We will keep checking back with Brandon Marshall as we are keeping you updated on the latest with the the floods on 2016. There is a lot of stuff happening with traffic this morning and we want to go to our the different road
On the southwest side where j and c street meet, childrens park and skate park is taking just behind the czech and Slovak Museum which experienced devastating after the flood of 2008 the city of cedar rapids did a lot of work to protect its water and sewer facilities cbs 2 News Reporter joe husinga spoke with them about some of those measures. What were are talking about here is the Waste Water Treatment Plant that handels the cities sanitary sewer systes systemsthis morning cedar rapids utilities director setev hershner said they have the highest walls they like to put it. They are protected from surface flow water up to 34 feet. To keep things running right now they are acually usung very powerful pumps to pull that water in for treatment. This was all part of 20 Million Dollars worth of work to make sure the sewers keep flowing. Sot script as soon as the river went above flood stage at aproximately 2 30 sunday afternoon weve been on that comes into the Facility Needs to be pumped ov
This is something we will check all morning long, traffic along interstate 380 is expected traffic. Welcome back again back for more full coverage of flood 2016. Im Justin Roberts with Kelly Dambrosio dambrosio and im Kelly Dambrosio. There are a number of closures because of the flood that weve been scolling on the bottom of the screen. Screen. And we want to remind parents that . All . Cedar rapids schools will be closed today . And tomorrow as well. Well. Classes will not resume until at least thursday. Should that change, leaders tell us they will begin notifying parents no later than wednesday afterno. Afternoon. As for all the other closings out there right now, we have a complete list on our website, cbs2iowa dot com. During the citys News Conference on monday, city leaders were asked about mail delivery in affected areas. We contacted the Postal Service delivering to all areas they can reach, including in the evacuation zone. If you dont get your mail, you can pick it up at the
First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Today will be an active weather day with light fog, drizzle, showers, and even some thunderstorm s all i ithe game plan. We are still on track for widespread 0. 50 to 0. 75 amounts, however, any storms that materialize could boost this in isolated areas. As for temperatures. Plan on 40s for waterloo and 50s for dubuque, cedar rapids, and iowa city. This system may genete a brief period of mixed precipitation this evening, but it seems the ground will be too warm wet for any impact. We eve and christmas day. Saturday. Today showers storms high 5056 winds s 515 alo 45 dbq 53 cloudy low 2632 winds nw 100 alo 28 dbq 29 iow 33tomororw mostly cloudy high 3642 winds w 515 alo 34 dbq 37 iow 39tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2531 winds nw 510 alo 27 dbq 28 iow 30 thanks kaj. One man is in custody this incident of gun fire. Waterloo Police Responded to a report of gunfire. At randolph street and west 7th street last night at 10