When rescue crews finally found her, they placed her on a back board. Fire fighters above ground used a tripod to pull her out through a nearby man hole. A rescue effort some city leaders say could have been avoided. Other people had to put themselves in harms way in order to be able to rescue someone from that space. City leaders from several departments will meet later this week to ways to keep people from trying to explore the mine shafts. In dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. That dangerous old mine shaft in dubuque is not alone. The Us Department of agriculture says iowa has about 27 hundred of these mine shafts across the state. About six months ago, some des moines homeowners discovered one under their house when a sinkhole opened in front of their home. Historians say it dates moines coal company. The usda said an air shaft in the old coal mine probably eroded over time and caused the collapse. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now with our first alert forecast. Joe, a lit
A light wind and clear sky will lead to a cool night in the 30s with patches of frost. Tomorrow will be another seasonably cool and sunshiney day with highs returning to the middle to upper 50s. The weekend looks great with partly to mostly sunny skies and highs in the 60s. Shower chances come back to our area by tuesday and last into thursday, and a few rumbles of thunder may be in the mix on wednesday as well. Tonight mostly clear with areas of frost. Wind nw 510. Low 33 alo 32 dbq 32 iow 35 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind w 510. High 55 alo 55 dbq 53 iow 57 Kinnick Stadium is getting a big upgrade soon. Approved renovations to the seating areas in the stadiums north end zone. Kcrg tv nines Josh Christensen joins us with the story. Josh, what can fans expect . The project will overhaul the north endzone stands, starting after this season. Here are some renderings for the project. The renovation will replace the existing general admission seating with upper and lower general admission sea
And sidelined. Giants placekicker josh brown facing more fallout over the documents showing he repeatedly abused his wife. The nfl now reevaluating his case. The Law Enforcement Office Taking them to task. Their mistake was trying to lay it off on the Sheriffs Office. Will brown ever play as a giant again . Everyone. Dan is off. It is great to have tom llamas beside me, so, tom, youve been on the campaign trail for the last year and a half and give you a day off there and ask you to come in studio. I jumped right off the Campaign Plane and ended right here. Glad to have you here. Happy to go here. The path to the white house is getting tougher and tougher for donald trump losing his grip on some traditionally red states and now trump who usually brags about big wins seeming to victory. He said what a waste of time if we dont pull this off. The northeast is reeling from a wave of strong storms. We want you to take a look at this. Drivers in worcester, massachusetts, trying to navigate f
Housing environment isnt always as easy to obtain as we first might imagine. The issue of Affordable Housing in cedar rapids is a perennial one, but this summer it came to a head with a controversy surrounding the Crestwood Ridge mixed Income Development proposed for some land along edgewood road. Here with me this morning to untangle some member of our city council. Thank you for joining us, scott. Scott my pleasure. Heather phoebe trepp who is the executive director of willis dady shelter. Phoebe thanks for having me. Heather welcome phoebe. And lynda waddington, a columnist for the gazette. Lynda good morning. Heather good morning, lynda. Thank you all so much for joining us. I thought we would begin very quickly with a little bit of an overview of how has shifted over the years. Many years ago when i was in school in chicago, i used to do a lot of volunteer work with what was at the time called the projects, cabrinigreen. That kind of concentrated, lowincome housing is a model that
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