Winds s 1020 alo 72 dbq 70 iow 72tomorrow night partly cloudy low 5157 winds sw 510 alo 57 dbq 55 iow 56 Monticello Police say an anonymous tip texting system helped them learn about a potential school threat. But they say it also revealed a downside to the procedure. The Monticello School district says Police Received a text message indicating a student might bring a gun to the high school yesterday. As a precaution, police were at the school, and students were not allowed in hallways during classes. Parents, if they wanted to, could take their kids out of school for the day. Early yesterday morning, Monticello Police chief britt smith got a message on his phone. It was a notification that someone had sent an anonymous tip about the gun threat to the jones county text to tell system. Once the tipster sends the text, officers can respond asking for more information. But the tipster can end all communication at any time, by simply typing stop. With this program granting that anonymity w
Today is election day, and across eastern iowa voters will choose City Council Members and make other local decisions. One choice for voters. Is if the Cedar Rapids Public Library see additional funds. The library wants voters to approve a levy of 27 cents for one thousand dollars of the assessed taxable valuation of a home. That would cost the owner of a cedar rapids home valued at 150 thousand dollars an extra 23 dollars a year. This levy would raise an estimated onepointsix Million Dollars each year for the library. Board members say if they dont get the funding, the library could close one day a week. Also on the ballot in cedar rapids are those vying for the atlarge and district candidates for city council. Voting officials in Johnson County will be extra watchful during todays city elections. They want to make sure poll watchers are following state law. Johnson county auditor Travis Weipert says hes heard some candidates in University Heights and iowa city will have poll watchers
Valley fire, the Lake County Sheriffs Office deployed cadaver dogs to search for four missing people in the Cobb Mountain and middleton area. The cost is estimated at 6. 4 million. President obama called Governor Brown to discuss federal aid. The fire is up to 70,000 acres burned. Most of the new acreage can be traced to fires. Hope Valley Elementary School remains closed but kelseyville schools will be reopened on monday. Lets turn to our reporters in the field. Melanie, tell us about the firefighter that lost his house while he was out fighting another fire. An amazing story. Reporter absolutely, dan. He was fighting the butte fire. This firefighter says as reports came in, he had a good feeling his house was not going to make it and you can see it did not. He told me the image that was most striking to him is that one over there. The outline of a trampoline in his backyard and his 10yearold son, dylan was not here at the time. Over his eight year career, dave wa wattkins as seen fir
Evening, thanks for joining us, im dan ashley. Im aum ra ama daetz. Take a look at what abc7 News Reporter Cornell Bernard shot today in san rafael as the rain moved towards lake county. Lets turn to spencer christian, spencer this, should help on the fire line. Its helped with the firefighting efforts and cleaned the air a little bit. Here is a live view showing light to moderate rainfall moving through the bay area, throughout the area of the valley fire, this is helpful rainfall. Firefighters 63 degrees and winds gusting to 20 miles per hour. The winds are accompanied by rainfall. It continues to be light to moderate from west to east. Lets look at rainfall totals so far in mount st. Helena. Notice how widely varied these amounts are. Lower lake, only 4 100ths of an inch. We expect the rain to end and winds to be rather strong throughout the overnight hours. They will shift north and northwestern direction and will weaken mid day, into the afternoon. Bad news is that temperatures ri
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