Flood happened instead. That meant most of her term focused on recovering from disaster. 41 32we worked one on one with so many homeowners, Small Business people, the government didnt even have programs for as many Small Business people as were hit in this community, so we helped create that. After getting the people back on their feet, she started on the public buildings. 42 10the Beautiful Library we center, which is used all the time, and really newbo, the newbo city market, the amphitheater, those were all things i worked on. With septembers flood, vernon says she plans to fight in congress to get federal help to pay for permanent flood protection in cedar rapids and other towns that need it. Congress all over the country who have these kinds of issues, so i think its a good time for working together with others to get some really good things done. Working together is exatly why vernon says shes perfect for congress. Vernon, who switched from a republican to a democrat in 2009, say
Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a nice monday well see plenty of sunshine today with highs well into the 50s. This is about average for this time of the year. Our next area of low pressure is not far off, ad should arrive late on tuesday into wednesday morning. Widespread rain is likely during this time period with a half inch to one inch possible for everyone. Temperatures will offer up quite a spread on wednesday with 60 degrees possible over southeast iowa, while northeast iowa barely gets to 50. In the wake of this system, our weather is fairly dry, but does offer up the typi temperatures that is common in iowa for late october. Today sunny. Wind ne 510. High 58 tonight increasing clouds. Wind e 510. Low 40 tomorrow showers developing in the afternoon and evening. Wind se 1020. High 56 tom. Night showers and a few thunderstorm democrat Monica Vernon is counting on her work as a City Council Member to unseat an incumbent for iowas first congressiona l district. As a part
Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a decent halloween highs will generally be into the middle to upper 60s, with a few lower 70s also possible farther south. The extent of clouds will be critical to exactly how warm things get today, but we should see our most pleasant temperatures in the early evening hours. This coincides well with trick or treating across the area and both kids and parents need not worry about coats over the costumes this year. Tomorrow looks warmer with widespread 70s likely. By wednesday, our next system rolls in from the west and should generate some showers and storms over the area. Thursday and friday will be dry and quiet with highs remaining above seasonal erage. Today mostly cloudy. Breezy and ld. Wind sse 1525 high showers late in the night. Nd ne 510. Low 59anks kaj. Is morning, police are waiting y results to release more information about a double homicide near des moines. It happened saturday in perry. Police took one person into custody for qu
Front moves into the area. This front doesnt have the same amount of moisture as our past few systems, and amounts are expected to stay at or below a half inch. Temperatures tomorrow will struggle to get to 70 over the north half, with lower 70s farther south. Dry sky returns for wednesday and thursday with our next chance of rain arriving again around friday. Enjoy your monday today mostly sunny and breezy. Wind s 10 high 80 toy cloudy. Showers move in late in the night. Wind s 515 low 63 tomorrow mostly cloudy with scattered showers and a few storms. Wind w 510. High 73 tom. Night chance of showers, mainly early. Wind n 510. Low 54 thanks kaj. The Waterloo City Council will consider adding traffic security cameras, with the success of a similar system in dubuque. Tonight, the council is discussing how they can fund the project. They say they are modeling their plan on dubuques security cameras. It monitors traffic and nearly 100 security cameras last year, with many of them around th
8thousand people gathered at the ground zero site, today. Thomas henry mcguiness, Michael Gregory miginty. There, for four hours, they listend as people read the names of the nearly 3thousand who died in new york, virginia and pennsylvania. Ceremonies were also held at the pentagon and the flight 93 National Memorial in shanksville. Cornell college is bringing back an annual dozens gathered near the College Chapel to honor those who lost their lives on 911. Kcrg tv9s jordee kalk explains why the peace pole is a staple of the college campus. Faith leaders,nat devoted followers from several religions. Nat and those nonreligious, all gathered at the College Chapel sunday afternoon. With a message of peace. Noah student 19 03, i just thought if there is anything i can do to help just at least one person get peace in their lives should be worth an hour of my life. Some shared how 911 changed their lives. 22 29, that includes College Chaplain catherine quehlengel challenged the group to thin