Iowa unveiled new state flood maps today, eight flooding that hit cedar rapids and other parts of eastern iowa in 2008. Those floods devastated areas that people didnt people who experienced flooding then know if theyre still in the path of danger. The sixyear effort to create and update maps. Started in 2010. The Program Costs 15 Million Dollars. And the Us Department of housing and urban development funded most of it. Kcrg tv nines Dave Franzman joins us from along the cedar river in cedar rapids. Dave, just how extensive is the flood mapping that is finally wrapped up . Beth, the mapping doesnt just cover major the Iowa Flood Center studied every single stream that drains more than one square mile of territory and mapped out the flooding potential. The Iowa Flood Center may consider the mapping officially complete now. But the city of cedar rapids used the data this fall to fight off the second highest crest ever on the cedar rapids. The information compiled by the flood center predicted how far flood water would spread and helped the city know city marked the official completion of the statewide mapping and one leader says some information used before was so old it was almost useless. Using information thats 40 years old weve had a lot of rainfall events, a lot of floods that have happened since then and so the statistics have changed and so we have a better understanding of our flood risk extent, and depth, of flooding if a waterway is hit by rainfall that produces as little as a 10 yearlevel event up to a 500year event. Now all the mapping information is online yet. But it should be by the end of the year. Eventually, the new flood mapping information should be used by the government to determine who needs, and who doesnt need to buy flood insurance. And, of course, communities will rely on it to make decisions about flood plains. Live in the university of iowa now has 45 Million Dollars for research on brain and nervous system diseases. The money is from the roy j. Carver charitable trust. Researchers will use the money to find causes, system diseases. The money will allow the creation of a Neuroscience Center within the universitys Carver College of medicine. This is the largest gift to the for iowa, forever more campaign. One lawmaker hopes to give iowans better access to cannabis oil. In the next legislative session, republican representative clel baudler plans to propose a bill to allow production and distribution of medical cannabis in the state. State law allows people to possess cannabis oil for a separate law says its illegal to manufacture or distribute oil in iowa. And federal law prohibits its transportatio n across state lines. A judge will decide if former cedar rapids substitute School Teacher Mary Beth Haglin is guilty of sexually exploiting a student last school year. Haglin, who is 24, chose to have a bench trial instead of a jury trial. And the judge will base his decision strictly on information prosecutors that the charge against her for having sex with a 17 year old is an aggravated misdemeanor instead of a felony. The maximum penalty is two years in prison. The judge has promised to make a ruling in about a month. Dubuque police say a website that helps gather information on city crimes has become very successful. Even helping Police Arrest suspects within hours of posting a case. The website is id four pd. And been able to positively identify at least 80 percent of the suspects pictured on it. Police say in the two years since they launched the site, people have gotten into a habit of checking id four pd regularly. The Iowa Department of transportation has a new interim director. Today governor branstad named mark lowe for that temporary job. Lowe has led the Motor Vehicle division of the iowa dot since 2009. Left to take a job in the private sector. There is no timeline for naming a new dot director. In a tv nine update. The state fire marshall says we might never know the cause of a thanksgiving day fire in central city. Authorities say the fire started about eight thursday morning at the iowa gold distributing recycling business. Smoke and flames from the fire could be seen for 10 miles. The fire destroyed two of the businesss buildings and caused an air quality concern for Marshals Office says the fire started in a west building. But because of the destruction, investigators say they are unable to determine the cause. Cedar Rapids Police have identified the two people who died saturday when their vehicle crashed into a police suv on i380. They were Martell Watson and kaitlyn hall stougard. Watson, who was the driver, was 21, and hall stougard was 22. Both were from cedar rapids. Crash on i380 southbound near first avenue early saturday morning. Thats when watson lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the passenger side and rear of the police cruiser. He and his passenger died at the scene. Two officers in the care were also injured, but not seriously. The cedar rapids Christmas Tree will soon light up greene square. The steepleton family donated the tree. City workers cut, transported, set and strung the 30 foot tree and ice festival. One area of linn county could soon provide more opportunities for nature lovers. A multiMillion Dollar project is already in the works for squaw creek nature park. That story is next here on tv nine. New trails and outdoor county. Right now, that 485 acres is but the county purchased it in early november for more than seven Million Dollars. It plans to expand its public park and trails as well as create wetland. Kcrg tv nines phil reed joins us in the studio. Phil, when will this transformation start . The county entered a formal agreement to purchase the land three weeks ago. They will officially own it in the march but it will be at least a year before they start bringing some of their projects there. The county purchased the land from Sutherland Dows Family trust. Its located between they say county reserve money, bond issues, the local option sales tax, and selling back land they wont need will pay for it. Supervisors say protecting the land is their main priority. There wont be development along the creek. It wont be turned into homes, it wont be turned into businesses. It will remain in a wild woodland state. The city marion partnered with gallons of water per day they say that will help with their sewer cost that will take up about 10 acres of land there. Officials say none of the forty Million Dollar linn county water and land legacy bonds will be used to purchase the land thanks, phil. Its probably too cold to fish at this time of the year. But well take you back to summer in this weeks big ol fish. And hear from some of the hawkeye Womens Basketball players as they get ready for a busy week. Source, kcrgtv9. After a mild monday the mercury falls the next several days, bringing more weather reminiscent of december. The storm which bring some clouds throughout the state along with a lingering shower chance on wednesday. Highs fall into the 30s for the start of meteorlogic winter on thursday with dry conditions to start the weekend. Have a grea n clearing. Wind sw 515. Low 35 tomorrow partly cloudy. Wind sw 515. High 49 tom. Night mostly cloudy. Wind w 510. Low 31 wednesday slight chance of showers, mainly north. Breezy. High 40 low 31 thursday mostly cloudy. High 38 low 30 friday mostly cloudy. High 39 low 29 saturday partly cloudy. High 39 low 28 sunday chance of rain snow. High 41 low 26 tuesday mostly cloudy. High 39 low 28 Heritage Area Agency on aging will fill the plate. The annual telethon, now in its fifth year, raises money for meal programs for older adults in eastern iowa. We hope youll join us starting tomorrow morning at 430 and throughout the day on tv nine. Theres only a few more days to nominate someone for tv nines annual nine who through wednesday. Once again, tv nine and our show you care sponsors will honor nine outstanding volunteers whove made a difference in their communities. To nominate someone, just go to kcrg dot com slash care. Scott saville is out live at Union Station in cedar rapids for tonights on iowa live. Scott, whats coming up on tonights program . For on iowa live, we have former Hawkeye Chuck long, writers pat harty and scott dochterman, and the marion Girls Basketball minutes over on kcrg 9. 2 we have a great show planned tonight chuck will be back along his former iowa teammate bruce kittle. And we have a lot to talk about. What a way for the iowa seniors to go the last two games and came back to catch 2 touchdown passes in the 4010 iowa win over nebraska. This gave me the opportunity to call my number on several plays. I was just fortunate enough to take advantage of those opportunities. I got like 7 total receiving yards, thats not bad for the day. Scott how about your dad and going out there with your mom and your dad . George seeing my parents out there, its hard, its the last time youre going to walk out on that field, so im just glad they were out there waiting for me, and they helped me throughout the game. Scott what did your dad say . He whispered something to you. George ah, something i cant really say on camera. So, laughter. The Missouri Valley conference announced their allconference teams today senior defensive tackle Karter Schult who was named the defensive player of the year was named to the first team. Schult led all done football with 17 sacks. In addition to schult. Linebacker jared farley unis leading tackler with 80 am along with defensive backs Elijah Campbell and malcolm washington. And offensive lineman Trevor Hanson and robert rachie. Iowa state senior kicker cole netten was named the big 12 special teams player of the week. The ankeny iowa native capped off his career going 44 on field goals. Netten is Third National hitting 16 of 17 field goals. Its a huge week for the iowa Womens Basketball team. The hawkeyes begin a four game homestand by hosting notre dame on wednesday. The fighting irish enter carver team in the country. The hawkeyes hung with 9th ranked ucla for three quarters last thursday and that has the team confident they can also play with the irish. We played really well in those three quarters, so we know we can carry that energy with us and play against any team in the country. We were really playing very well against ucla and in the end couldnt drop down a couple threes. Otherwise, we played two good opponents and played pretty darn well. Im happy with where we are right now, know its an about it. Knowing that we can keep up with some of the top teams in the country, thats just giving us an extra boost of confidence heading into this game. Trt 30 oc . Heading into this game. And finally its monday time for another edition of johns big ole fish. Isaac smith of arlington starts things off with a 20 pound carp from the turkey. How about the tag team of laney and jd tritle of center point. Heres one for the memory books. Landon simon holds up a nice channel cat he caught in grandpas pond. Now its callie jo buck and fishing with grandpa jerry sorgenfry. Tyler pierce has a firm lip lock with his big catch from a bertrum pond. Brian sienknecht of traer hauled in the northern at the lake of the woods. The blue cats grow large in texas. Callyn kohler caught the 40 pounder while fishing with her brother in law jason clark. Young caden clark was on that same trip to louisville lake. Hes puppy tipped the scales at 25 pounds. Dewayne zousel was fishing the and pulling down the curtain is Ann Langenfeld of iowa city and her 30 inch lake trout she caught in lake superior. With all my fishing friends, this is John Campbell reporting. After a mild monday the mercury weather reminiscent of december. The storm which brought rain on sunday and monday is still close enough to bring some clouds throughout the state along with a lingering shower chance on wednesday. Highs fall into the 30s for the start of meteorlogic winter on thursday with dry conditions to start the weekend. Have a great night tonight gradual clearing. Wind sw 515. Low 35 tomorrow you want to hear an interesting thing about stairs . Not really. If the height of a single step is off by as little as two millimeters, most people will trip. I dont care. Two milli. That doesnt seem right. No, its true. I did a series of experiments when i was 12. 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