New this morning, were working to get more crash in cedar rapids. The iowa dot says the crash blocked all around 3 00 this morning. According our Traffic Cameras traffic is moving through at this time. Witnesses say it involved a semi and at least one other car. We spoke with Cedar Rapids Police only a half an hour ago about this crash, but they declined to comment on any injuries. We received several calls about this crash overnight, and we thank you for that. Whenever you see news, give us a call on newsline nine. That number is 3193659999. You can also email pictures and video to newsroom at kcrg dot com. Former leader of communist revolution in cuba. Fidel castro has died at the age of 90. Castro ruled cuba for almost a half century before his brother raul took over in 2008. This is video of current president raul castro. Last night he announced his older brother died at 10 29 p. M. He ended the announcement by shouting the revolutionary slogan towards victory, always fidel castro
The telethon throughout the telecast. Tonight were hearing from some of the loved ones of the fatal crash on saturday night. Martrell watson was driving. The crash killed watson who was 21 years old and caitlyn hall who was 22. And samantha you were able to speak to a couple of people that knew martrell watson. Although they arent blood related it was like losing her own son. And it does feel i lost a you know. One of those things. But it definitely bonded with him like he was one of my own. Hes been a big part of my life for eight, nine years. He later had a child with mariah. That was his life. She was very important to him. And he was very important her. Impacts them tremendously. I think its going to be very sad for her especially its a christmas thanksgiving holidays. This is going to be a sad memory every year around a holiday thats supposed to be happy and family oriented. Services. He promised her a princess carriage. Its 400 but its something we have to give her for. Family is
Cloudy sky is back and will hold on the rest of the week. In addition, we are still on track for a few snow showers, primarily this afternoon and evening. Accumulation will not be much of an issue, though areas north of i80 will be at risk for a quick quarter inch in any moderate bursts of snow that occur. The wind will be blowing as well, with gusts around 25mph likely. Plan on clouds to hold on tight through saturday with our next area of low pressure set to arrive on sunday. Accumulating snow is possible with that system over parts of the area. Have a good day today chance of light snow. Little or no accumulation. Wind w 1525. High 38 tonight scattered flurries. Wind w 1020. Low 32 tomorrow cloudy and cool. Wind w 1015 high 37 tom. Night cloudy and cool. Wind nw 510. Has issued a deadline for demonstrator s to leave a north Dakota Bakken Oil pipeline protest site. But protesters say theyre going to ignore the december 5th deadline. Yasmin amer has more. After nearly five months of p
Were most often looking for cash. Thats changed and now they dont even have to break in pkg nat locked doornat open doornat locked doornat open door in this parking lot we found about three out of every ten cars werent even locked. Cedar Rapids Police say in nearly half of all home burglaries crooks just walked in. Greg 5 22 35 weve seen almost a doubling of the counterfeit and forgery cases. Greg beulow its all connected in addition to jewelry and electronics thieves are now looking for check books. Greg beulow crpd spokesman 5 23 39 then taking those checks, forging them, writing names, writing amounts and having them able to steal cash so really its almost like a double whammy. Police also warn not to put checks in outgoing mail those red flags tell thieves they can grab and copy them. Elaina 5 42 09 we encourage our customers to use quality special safety paper. At fairfax state savings [no audio] used or copied. She says its also good protection to have a bank that knows you. Elai
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