Level stands. We turn to terry swailvs for that answer. We can check our gauge data out every 15 minutes or so. What well do is start upstream. Up in the vicinititon area, river has actually crested. Were expecting a crest to be in palo. This is thanks to the cbs 2 surrounded by water. Other homes are also impact in the palo area. Thats the water that was heading to the area. Were on track for a 23 foot crest at 7 a. M. Tomorrow morning. Major flooding is underway. Our records go all the way back to 1851. This is the secondhighest the river has been in 165 years of records. Look how quickly this has happened. Here you can see where we go over the mark. The crest will angle around nor day and a half. Another river thats rising quickly is up in an motorcycles sarks. We feet. Shouldnt cause too many problems in animosa. Theres no rain on the radar tonight. The weather pattern turns much dryer. This is our rainfall forecast. Can you see as we run this all most of the upper midwest has turned much drier. The overall weather pattern is starting to come from in from the northwest. We wont get the deep gulf moisture around here. The potential for the thunderstorms is just not there for the next couple of weeks. Its 50 in owi network, and the dew points have come down too. The dew points have been around 75 to 80. We have dried out the atmosphere. This is more typical of what you expect to see this time of year. Our forecast for tonight does there. Some scattered frost would with be a possibility. We expect it to be in the low 60s north, mid 60s central, and up every 60s south. Well have sunny skies, but the winds will be brisk out of the wr not rain drop to be found. See day rapids firefighters had to launch poets to rescue a woman. The fox 28 drone caught this afternoon. A woman was found in a tree above the flood water on South Edgewood road bridge. Because of a medical condition, pull her to safety and took her to a local hospital for evaluation. To make sure everyone stays away from the dangerous water the National Guard is now in place. Units moved into position around noon today. They are helping local Law Enforcement keep people out of the evacuation areas. State patrol was also called in to assist. Just like eight years ago, there is a lot of concern that looters could take advantage of the homes now sitting empty. But to remind you, a curfew is now in effect for evacuated areas from now until seven tomorrow moring. The curfew will continue every night until the flood threat is over. For people still living in the time check neighborhood, this is something they never this is something they never thought they would have to go through again. This give us an idea of the great spread of the flood water. You will recall after 2008, hundreds of homeowners took buyout, allowing the city to demolish many of the structures in the flood zone, but there are still many people who chose to stay, again worried about whats coming next. Dora m theyre hoping to hold the flood water back. Reporter theyre trying to stay back. You cant see them now, but a lot of people prepping for the Emotional Trauma theyll feel after this flood water rolls through. But there is hope and there is a way they can help out today. Were a remarkably resilient species. We need to be reminded remind them that theyre confident and capable or ask them to remind you because we can get through it. Reporter hes right, together we can get through it. A loft people are coming together help eemp during this time. The studio. We want toy remind you that the left inside lanes of interstate 38 o are now reserved for emergency vehicles. This is what it looks like right now, but i can garyn tee when you get up to go work it will be grid belong please dont give in to the temptation to travel on the left inside lane. We need to leave to leave it fo can get to the hospital. The city declared that today. This is 380 on the s curve as you pass the 1st avenue exit. Bohemia district has transformed into one of the most popular destinations in town. Business owners are hoping it stays that way. The hope is that will hold back the majority of the water rushing down the cedar. Kevin barry is live with more. Kevin . Reporter were exactly where the water is. Its just a few feet away from the very top of the bank. You know there a 15 foot drop how high it is. This is the first line of defense defense keeping it out of the new bohemia district. To the best of our knowledge, it will only come up another foot or two. We have found the first amount of most century that city workers have told us theyre watching. This is the only piece of theyre keeping an eye on. More of the barriers are down the line there, but certainly nothing thatly to those sand blocks cant handle. Through. This is the closest that any water that we know of has come to the new bo legal ya district. We did see a pipe that was a pump that was pumping water over wall. City crews say thats from the storm drain system and theres no damage so far that seen. So far, this is the only water and the only threat that weve seen in this part of cedar rapids so far tonight. Thank you, kevin. Many People Living in the flood zones are staying with team and friends. Homes. We talked to them about their decision to state just started stacking the sandbags. Reporter sandbag and silence. Nearly all of the People Living in this neighborhood are gone except for dana gray. This is my home. I feel like i need to stay and protect it. Its my fortress, i guess. instead, shes put up a very Important Message two thank everyone who helped her protect her moment. If theres anything to help save it and keep it from getting too flood, i want to do that. Reporter city officials issue issued a voluntary evacuation over the weekend. Reporter many people from this neighborhood have been coming up to these barriers, just trying to see where exactly the river is. Bridge. Reporter the viver expected to crest at 23 feet on tuesday morning. We expect it some damage to the basement and maybe the furnace. I anticipate that whatever will happen is going to happen. Reporter rhine john said he bother sandbagging his moment. Its my leaf belove that if you sandbag to keep the water out, you have all of the pressure pushing against the wall on the outside an theres nothing inside t walls cave in. Reporter homeowners say they hope theres little damage and theyll keep an eye on their homes too. For gray, its something she say they dont think it will be wad bad enough for them to have to evacuate. Church grassley was on the floor of the senate, telling law make verse have to fine a way to protect cities vulnerable to floods faster. We need to find a way to expedite these flue projects so it doesnt take 20 to 40 years to study and build, and it seems like forever to get it done. Central high iowans and cedar rapids residents in particular dont see whit federal government does not prioritize flood Risk Management and mitigation instead of spending emergency money to fight and recover and put them back in cedar rapids, it is impacting palo. The town is no advantage tore flooding, as you know. The tiny town was hit twice in collect additional details. And, as you can see from the cbs 2 fox 28 drone earlier today, its getting a lot of da. Data. Weatherfirst meteorologist jeff kennedy is in palo tonight, and he joins us now live with what happening along the cedar there, jeff . We have seen cars go bay bi, so to our knowledge, its stayed open all day. Reporter when i came in west. I did see cars coming in from palo. So as far as we know, blairs ferry road is still open. Thanks for that. Reporter and were at dave and julies house, my brother inlaw and sisters house. Theyve fed us chili, which we appreciate. They also have a nice drier. My photojournalist, zim, he decided to go for walk outside and accidentally fell in one of the fish ponds and was wet town his rear end. But hes dried out now. See there . Dry sock, dry shoes, theyre okay here. But your socks are still pretty wet, arent they . Yes. Reporter were happy to the basement appears to be wet sorry, appears to be dry. Heres dave. Its always good to have hope here monitoring the pumps. Reporter im hearing some water. Whats going on . Before i talk about the water, i need to say i look older on tv than i am in person. If we get in the habit of doing this, ill need a style partne the way you look. But dont forget the style partnerships. Reporter well get you some money from that from the cbs 2 folks. We have our sump pump here our sump pit that could not keep up in 2008 with 7 pumps in it. We are keeping up with just 2 pumps. The main pump is running at full and the sec one is about go in case. We are also happy that its a foot lower than the crest was. Outdoors, the water is probably about 3 feet higher. This is much better. You didnt even have to wear your shoes in here. I have been able to keep my socks on. I see you guys have a bit of a e memorial to the floods of 2008. Its not really a memorial. Its a stain at how high they got. Right now outside, the water is probably about there. Were happy that theyve kept if the water got to this level, the bag in theory would hold up. We tried to plug them, but the pressure was so high that there was no holding it back. Reporter and the room bind us, we usually have furniture in here, a tv, miscellaneous cabinet and stuff, and see weve cleared it out. Reporter we had volunteers spend a few days clearing this out, and soon, well put it all back and put in new sheet rock. Reporter it looks like the river will be at its crest or near its crest right now. So maybe, just maybe, well be in good shape. Were covering the corridor live in pa lockers, im jeff what a day theyve had with photojournalist scott zimdar. There are 2 shelters open right now in cedar rapids. Anybody living in lin county county board of supervoice sores for asking for a property tax extension, which the governor granted. You dont have to pay your taxes until october 31. We dont want to speak out of turn here, because we still have a threat out there, no doubt about it, but considering everything e that weve been seeing, no matter where we go around town, weve e been all might get through this. We got this shot from kevin barry showing where those barriers are. We might just get through this. Theres plenty of room to the barriers. Theyre not concerned about it get going over the barrier, theyre more concerned about it breaching and can you go my graphics system . I want to show people what the 23 foot crest looks like. This is what we were anticipating a 23 foot crest would look like. This is the amount of real estate that would have been have inbeen impacted. So far, that appears to be making all of the difference in the world. Lets go back to escan dorks. You can see at 21 and a half feet, which is where the river is right now, all of the area there in blue should be flooded. The ground reports were getting isnt indicating that yet, which indicates to me that the plan the city put in place is maybe another foot, foot and a half the the most. It appears to bemaine that there a possibility that this could be main mall event in cedar rapids. Look at how much money has been poured into flood mitigation etc. Those are some positive my hat on here. A breach would change the whole equation. Of course. And then everything is lost. You know, that 23 foot thing is a lot more realistic to me. I think we have reason to be hoeful yet. What do you have coming up, terry . Till ill tell you this much, we have a nice, dry forecast, and some brand new river stages that weve just gotten in. When we do the weather in a minute, well talk about that. There you will well, heres another shot from our drone. The cbs 2 drone. This was taken this afternoon as the river was rapidly rising in cedar rapids. These are some spectacular shots, some like youve never seen in cedar rapids. And our drone can go 40 miles an hour. So it can cover a lot of real estate. That you are looking at mays island and you can see people out there preparing for the crest and it has been approaching the cedar rapids area steadily an crest but we have gone over the 21foot mark. Lets talk about the river up around benton. Latest stage there is down a little bit more, 21. 47 feet. Weve passed the crest meaning it is moving onto the southeast approaching payload. We just had that live shot with jeff can be there. We showed some flooding. This is a house completely inundated by water but so far house itself. But that was earlier and the river has come up at least another foot. So there could be some issues there and all around, we are starting to some pictures like this. At least we were this afternoon when the sun was out. And our drone was passing through of some flooded areas, residential areas close to the river in payload. So pretty close to the crest and from there we moved downstream towards cedar rapids, the crest expected to be 23 feet at 7 00, tomorrow level now, 21. 48 is the river stage, right now in cedar rapids. Major flooding is underway and with this stage we have now reached the second highest crest ever here in cedar rapids. This is only the second time since 1851 that weve gone over the 20foot mark here in cedar rapids. So thats a big benchmark to say the least and that makes in our history. And it has happened fast in the past 24 hours. Just yesterday the river stage was down here at 10foot and now its just shot up and we are already at 21. 5 feet. Closing in on that level of 23 feet, so weve already gone over that 20foot mark. The river should stay above 20 feet now for 60 consecutive hours before it starts to fall after thursday morning sometime. So it will remain above that 20 foot mark for quite a while meaning major flooding is going to be an issue in the downtown area for at least t days. The flood forecast for our other river of concern, here in alamosa shows it now at 21. 0 feet. So its inching up and the forecast, that should not really impact the city too much but it is the second month the second largest crest. Now you can see on our radar, the rains have shifted off to the east of us, the overall weather pattern has really of consequence in the forecast all the way through the weekend. This is our rain forecast, just. 02 inches. You can see the clear skies that have taken residence in eastern iowa and with that High Pressure over the top of us it is starting to cool down the thames. 48 degrees in monticello, 49 in dubuque. The dew points which had this summer into the fall have been so often up around 70 to 80 degrees are now back in the 30s and 40s. So finally in the upper midwest. And that dry air means quite a bit of sunshine in the coming days and certainly very little in the way of rainfall. Forecast tonight has low temperatures in the low to mid 40s range across the area with clear skies winds out of the west at 10 to 15. Tomorrow looks to be a fine day but a cool one. Temperatures in the 60s, brisk winds out of the west and extended forecast is a beauty thats for sure. Temperatures expected to stay into the upcoming weekend. That is one of the driest forecasts ive put on the map since way back in june im guessing. I think so. Could not come at a better time. Thank you for that. I know you have no control but it is nice to see all those sunshine days. Better late than never. We are also talking about the Wapsipinicon River too. Lets go to jenee ryan in jones county tonight with more. Janay . Reporter yeah. Its going to crest as terry said wednesday around 1 00 a. M. And today since ive been here i got here with matt lying around 3 00 this afternoon. And it was about 19 feet, 19. 9 if i remember correctly. As terry said it is already at about 21. Take a look at it over here weve got some of the rushing downstream from elm street bridge. Today we talked to city officials and county officials. They are prepared to handle whats expected. As long as it goes as expected theyve got levees and flood pumps. They say they are ready and not worried at all. But when you get more downstream into the county roads, thats where the problem lies. There are road closures down there. There are homes that are getting the waters creeping closer and closer to. And we spoke with plenty of those homeowners today. An to say. I feel like we are blessed to be up on the top of the hill and not be further down the road. Weve got people that are going to be actually affected, possibly affected by it. Reporter this morning brians home, the water at led mine road was still in the river but by the time he got home from work this evening, it was up into his yard. He had just moved there about experienced this thing but of course other people along led mine road where its flooding theyve gone through this before. They went through it in 2008 and then of course a couple years later with the higher ties. Right now so far they have already evacuated people in Oxford Junction in jones county. And they have also sandbagged places so the county is keeping very close eye on all these levels. Covering the corridor in anamosa, jenee ryan, cbs 2 news. Expanded edition of fox 28 news at 9 00 and cbs 2 news at 10. We are simulcasting including an aerial tour. How we captured these incredible images and what we saw after a day of being above the water. Youre watching a special edition of cbs 2 news 10 at 10 00, coverage of the flood im Chuck Grassley, and i approve this message. In twentythree years, Chuck Grassley hasnt missed a single vote. In just six years, senator patty judge missed a hundred and eightytwo votes. 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