Its thursday, august 25th. Heres what you need to know today. A live look at an evacuated rv park in clermont. The turkey river is expected to crest there in just a few hours. You live close to a river and thats the worst flooding theyve seen in years as they start to clean up today. Rescue crews in italy are digging through rubble hoping to find more survivors. At least 247 people have died from a 6point2 earthquake. Eight years after flooding. And planning, the Northwest Recreation Center in cedar rapids is opening. This is the last project to use fema money from the 2008 flood. Students in waterloo have their first day of after voters rejected a multiMillion Dollar bond vote. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Overall, we have a pretty quiet day in front of us as High Pressure builds in from the northwest. This High Pressure system will control our weather today and much of tomorrow as we
Driver is not being charged in connection with the accident. The victim was taken to saint lukes and is now recovering at the university of iowa hospitals and clinics. Traffic was kind of piled up and i went to pull around and then, i didnt really see that much i just saw her kind of roll off the windshield. I didnt really see how fast the car was going or anything but i just saw kind of like the end of it when she fell off. Off. Coming up at 6 we talk hard lessons learned. Covering the corridor joe huisinga cbs 2 news live at five a cedar rapids mother is facing charges after crashing into a semi with her baby in the car. Car. According to Police Reports it happened earlier this month on the eighty 380 interchange. They say tenille sulzberger hit the truck causing her car to flip multiple times. Her oneyear old was in a car seat but sulzberger admitted to taking more than her prescribed dose of medication, as well as medication that wasnt hers. Shes charged with child endangerment and
What experts say needs to happen to halt rising drug prices. Only on fox28 news putting dinner back on the dinner table. A time to be themselves. Reporter steps family can make to make sure dis straksz dont get in the way. Does this mascot need to lighten up . This is fox28 news at 9. Yesterdays is tonights river flooding. It has forced ee vauksz. Fayette county Emergency Management tells fox2 news within the hour the turkey river there is expected to crest 3 feet an above the level seen in 2008. And all of that water is headed downstream to he will kay for. Weather first chief meteorologist terry swails joins us now on what to expect in the hours ahead. Situation very closely because the river continues to steadily rise. We are anticipating as far as a crest is kwernd, right now the are current stage is 16. 68 feet but tz expected to rise another 10foot between now and tomorrow morning when the crest is expected at close to 27foot. The all time record in he will indicator is around 27
And i believe that should be morel mill. And abby road, that is right now closed. Bugle and abby roads near elgin remain closed. Well continue to keep you up to date on that. E we are watching a little bit of rain too. Just some very light showers west of the area down to the south and waterloo and scattered showers back tiger woods manchester. Just very light rain a much better chance of rain exists this evening. Well talk about the showers moving in late the and overnight coming up here in about 10 minutes time. Kelly . Thank you, justin. The communities along the river are now feeling optimistic as the water levels are starting to recede. Stephanie johnson has been up there all day long keeping an eye on it for us. We will show you the cautious side of that optimism. Reporter kelly, there are many street closures and sandbags situated. Risen. It has basically taken over the Basketball Court as well as a playground over here. Right now businesses along south main street near here are
Well. Later on friday night, there is potential for a few showers and thunderstorms, becoming widespread after midnight and into saturday. Hopefully most of this can wait until after football is over. Several lines of storms are possible on saturday, but the overall risk of anything severe is very low at this time. Much of the rain should get out of here by sunday morning leading to a dry second half of the weekend. A tropical system should develop over or near floraext week, whhmay l our weather pattern stalling tr3 4 days. Sy tuned today rtly su wind nw 510. High 78 night partly cloudy. Patchy g possible. Wind ght nw low 5 olated shower is possible in the ening. Windne 510. Gh 76 tom. Nh attered understorms developing. Wind 5l clermont and elgin this morning with a forecasted crest still hours away. We talked with lisa roberts, the fayette river in clermont will crest 6 feet over the flood stage. Roberts says the turkey river will crest at 22 feet around 1030 this morning. At 1130 la