Coverage along the river for you. Lets go to kevin. Reporter we are just north of the district on the nature trail. You can see it goes underneath this rail bridge around 9th avenue. It goes down about 34 feet. It is all solid water. You can get a good look at how nasty the water is. This is why you should not go in floodwaters. Look at all of these branches and twigs that were brought from upstream. The water is low right now compared to what it is supposed to get to. Right now it is 14 feet. This is the first while that will stop first wall that will stop the water. As you can imagine, at about 45 feet clear this wall. We will almost certainly see water coming up over this embankment in the next few hours and then it will start heading towards newbo. We will take one last look at this. This is the first piece of real flooding we have seen on the bike trail. It gives you an idea of how high this is just a few feet below where the railway is. This could potentially be very dangerous in
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
Now heres video from now heres video from damage left after last nights storms in floyd county. Powerful winds knocked trees into roadways closing some of them down. Other large tree branches also fell onto powerlines. Powerlines. We want to thank the cbs 2 news viewers who shared their pictures of the storms. A number of people posted pictures of the tornadoes that touched down, including this picture taken by sean britt near greene in you can track storms anytime by downloading the cbs 2 weather app. Its free for apple and android devices. Still developing this morning a civilian shot last night during a second night of violent violentprotests in charlotte, North Carolina is still on life support right now. Now. Police say they were not responsible for this shooting. Most protesters left around 2 am eastern time. Governor pat mccrory declared a state of emergency in the city and is sending in the national guard. Police fired tear gas on hundreds of protesters other people. People. De
River. You can see how high the liver levels have gotten. You will remember this bridge back in 2008 collapsed. It was rebuilt after the floods, and there it stapds now. It serves kind of as a Reference Point as to how quickly the cedar river is rising. We will check in with Connor Morgan, Stephanie Johnson, ke vun barry. We will be setting up our cbs 2 fox 28 drone within the hour, as well, to bring you live aerial shots awe cross eastern iowa. With that, good morni. Tracking the raising waters minute by minute. Minute. Im Kelly Dambrosio. The cedar river has been on the rise all weekend long and today into tomorrow is when flodo waters will really start cbs 2 an been monitoring the river and thats where he is now live in cedar rapids kevin what do you see right now. Its coming up next well check 711 7 11 on this monday morning. This is definitely a clearer shot than when we checked in a moment ago. A beautiful sunrise there. You can see the waters moving quickly under the bridge. Cbs
Across the area right now. 50, as i mentioned here in cedar rapids. Also in oline, decora and charles city. 49 in tama, and the wipds about 6 to 13 Miles Per Hour right now out of the west. Theyll be gusting today. Satellite and radar showing that cold front that did move through late last night. The showers are well off into illinois. The back edge of the clouds you can see all the way down to iowa city so we are clearing out this afternoon, and we will get back to sunshine as our predictor has here plenty of sunshine in the forecast. Well keephe tomorrow. Could sneak a few scattered showers into our Northern Counties tomorrow, but they look to be light at best. Mostly sunny and cool today. It will be breezy with those west winds 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour. Low 60s up to the north. Will be at 67 here in cedar rapids. A little bit warmer down towards iowa city and washington and coming up, we will take a look at the latest river levels and crests in your full weather first forecast in jus