Yes, Bruce A Coralville based group of volunteers is actually heading down next week. The group is called Community Health initiative haiti. The Nonprofit Organization has been going to haiti for years to setup week long free Medical Clinics. This trip was already planned, but the group of 28 volunteers is each planning to take an extra suitcase of supplies to help with recovery efforts. Where they hold their Medical Clinic was not hit as hard as some areas. But they have staff who live down there who were in the town of lagon. There was a lot of flooding in the downtown area, which is similar to newbo, and we dont what thats like in iowa, so it was pretty devastating for a lot of people there. If you want to help the group, weve posted more information on live in iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. Kcrgtv9s phil reed spoke to a local travel agency. He joins us from destinations unlimited. Phil, the hurricane is causing some inconvenience. Its causing headaches for people wanti
Welcome to cbs two this morning. Im dora miller alongside brandon traffic at i 80 at coral ridge its that time of the year again americas biggest shopping day black friday. Plenty of people here in the corridor are rushing to the malls includingour cbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie Johnson who is at Coralridge Mallstephanie, has the craziness started yet . Many corridor many corridor retailers are ready for the Holiday Shopping rush. This is a live look at lindale mall it opened at six last night. Managers tell us every store got lastminute shipments for black frid they should be ready for all of the early shoppers. The mall will reopen in about an hour. Several other stores are open right now. Jcpenney kohls and target are all open through black friday. Best buy will open at 8 this morning. Tanger Outlet Center in williamsburg will be open until 10 tonight. In iowa city the areas chamber of commerce is rewarding shoppers for taking their holiday lists to local stores. 12 businesses are pa
Lots of sunshine and highs rebounding back to around 70 degrees. The wind wont be quite as strong as the past few days, but still notable out of the north. Overall, the weather pattern remains dry, but more clouds are expected for tomorrow and saturday. Due to the clouds, these days will be held down into the 60s for highs. Next week, a warming trend continues to be on track into the 70s. As of now, rain chances continue to be focused on wednesday, though the development of an thursday depending on what it does off the se coast. Have a great day today sunny and mild. Wind n 1020. High 70 tonight partly cloudy. Wind n 510. Low 51 tomorrow increasing clouds. Wind ne 1015. High 69 tom. Night mostly cloudy. Wind ne 510. Low 54 though the cedar river in cedar rapids is receding, the city is still in a major flood stage. Kcrgtv9s meterologist justin geherts is at ellis and edgewood road this morning. Justin, how are things looking there . Some evacuees can return to their homes today. The ci
Get back and clean up and reopen. The director of the district says the city believes that could happen by saturday. Live in cedar rapids, dave franzman, kcrg tv nine news. Its not over yet, but were feeling good, were feeling very, very confident that this temporary system that weve built in less than two days will protect our city. The city says the temporary barriers a the worry is that water is putting too much pressure on the sewer system below ground. Crews have been working all night, fighting dangerous conditions to makes sure everything is functional. Law enforcement in cedar rapids are warning people to stay out of the evacuation zone. They say this will keep people safe and give them room to work. The city said it could announce Conference Tomorrow morning. Linn county sheriff Brian Gardner says his department on mays island in cedar rapids has escaped major flood damage. The city set up hesco barriers and sandbags to protect it against at least seven feet of water. Gardner
From cbs 2 and fox 28 news, this is special coverage of flood 2016. Good morning. It is 6 00. Were taking a look at live downtown cedar rapids right now, as we continue to watch the river. Im kelly with justin roberts. Hell be gefing us a live look at the conditions down there. This is the day we wait. This is the day we wait to watch to see what Mother Nature throws at us, and before we get downtown, lets see what shes throwing at us. Of course, we want to let you know real quick that all public sandbagging sites, we asked this question a little bit ago. All public sandbagging sites are officially closed. Now, a site is open if additional sandbags are needed. They are working the city at the public works building just off city, whereas the public sites are closed at this hour. 6 02 this morning. Brandon marshall, meteorologist Brandon Marshall standing by over in the Weather Center to kind of talk about the dry and cool weather we are looking at for the next few days. A strong cold fr