Soaking rain as a tropical system moves over florida and hugs the coastline. In response, our beautiful weather will continue through sunday. By sunday night into monday, our next chance of rain arrives. Have a great day, and enjoy the welcome dry break today mostly sunny and less humid. Wind ne 515. High 79 tonight clear and comfortable. Wind ne 510. Low 56 tomorrow mostly sunny, spectacular. Low humidity. Wind ne 510. High 75 tom. Night clear and cool. Wind light ne low 53 thanks kaj. Countys minimum wage today. Its the first of 3 votes that would boost the minimum wage, eventually becoming 10. 25 an hour in 2019 during this morning meeting, the supervisiors are set to ask the county attorney to officially start drafting an ordinance. Their second and third readings of the ordinance are september 6th and 12th. Supervisors rejected some calls for a lower minimum wage for workers ages 1417. One of iow wapello county, may also raise its minimum wage. The proposal would increase the wage
Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a great day in all areas. Highs will drop into the upper 70s today with lower humidity levels as well. Our wind will people believe the city is wasting their time and money. The city is holding an inforanal meeting tonight to explain why the city needs updates. The city council wants to fix crumbling sidewalks and put them into neighborhoods where they dont exist. Homeowners will have to cover the cost. Council members say the ordinance has been around for years, they just havent enforced it. Iowa code lets cities assess sidewalks to property owners. Some say the the city council is going about the project the wrong way, but the city 22 20 54;13 the other side of town down there, i can sit in front of my home for hours at night and never see a car go by let alone a person walking the streets 22 08 36;00 we have a Grant Program available that anyone that qualifies for lowincome we have grant money set aside, we also can assess it against their
Firefighters say a man tried rescuing his neighbor after an Early Morning Apartment Fire in waterloo. Authorities tell tv9 this happened at 1720 jefferson street. Thats just west of the cedar river, near downtown. We learned of the fire just after 5. Fire investigators say they found the smoke and flames in an upstairs apartment. Officials say the neighbor below heard a noise upstairs. Thats when he broke through an upstairs window, cutting his hand to try and unlock the door. Later, fire crews went to the complex and found a second man in the upstairs apartment. Officials say both neighbors went to the hospital, but theres no details yet on their conditions. Fire crews say the upstairs unit has significant smoke and fire damage. Remember, whenever you see news happening, give us a call on our newsline nine. That number is 3193659999. You can also send in at kcrg dot com. The parents of a 2yearold dubuque boy who was shot in the face last month have pleaded not guilty. 25yearold raven
High 5359 winds w 515 bruce and beth. Weve received a number of calls and emails about traffic issues and even more semi rollovers due to the wind. Remember, whenever you see news happening, call newsline nine at 319 3659999. You can n so send pictures and videos to newsroom at kcrg dot com. The flu virus is spreading throughout iowa. The centersrsor Disease Control lists iowa as one of 12 states that have widespread flu activity. In midjanuary, iowas flu activity was classified as rrional, color. But if we page forward a week, iowa jumped to widespread flu activity, indicated by the brown color. And if we page forward to the most recent wewe data is available, you can see more states are also seeing widespread flu activity. Kcrgtv nines Iowa City Bureau chief mark cason joins us live. Mark, this is ususlly the time year when we start t thinking that the flu season is almost over. A little bit of later season this year. And experts say we are still not at thth peak. But there is some g
Adrian training for this moment for months. Now theyre joining us live with news you dont want to miss. Its right here on gma. Come on. Ah you did too when you saw baby adrian. Oh, we cant wait to check in with ginger and sweet little adrian. And big day for adrian. Today is his twomonth birthday. Two months. Happy birthday. Were going to check in with the family a little later. Other big headlines. The race for the white house now reaching the vatican. Donald trump and the pope in a war of words. Our terry moran was on the plane with the pope and well get to all that in a moment. An electrifying moment. Well begin with that terrifying chopper crash in hawaii. It went down with five tourists on board. A 15yearold passenger is in Critical Condition this morning. Well talk with two men who jumped into action on the scene after this report from our kayna good morning, kayna. Reporter yeah, george, good morning to you. That tour helicopter, i want to show you where it crashed, right behind