River. You can see how high the liver levels have gotten. You will remember this bridge back in 2008 collapsed. It was rebuilt after the floods, and there it stapds now. It serves kind of as a Reference Point as to how quickly the cedar river is rising. We will check in with Connor Morgan, Stephanie Johnson, ke vun barry. We will be setting up our cbs 2 fox 28 drone within the hour, as well, to bring you live aerial shots awe cross eastern iowa. With that, good morni. Tracking the raising waters minute by minute. Minute. Im Kelly Dambrosio. The cedar river has been on the rise all weekend long and today into tomorrow is when flodo waters will really start cbs 2 an been monitoring the river and thats where he is now live in cedar rapids kevin what do you see right now. Its coming up next well check 711 7 11 on this monday morning. This is definitely a clearer shot than when we checked in a moment ago. A beautiful sunrise there. You can see the waters moving quickly under the bridge. Cbs 2 reporter Connor Morgan live in cedar rapids. Connor, rejoining us along the cedar river where you guys are this morning. Yeah, exactly right, justin and kell just west of it. If we walk two more feet, we would be in it, and as you can tell, it is just moving along at a rapid pace. As justin referenced earlier, theres the bridge that in 2008, famously collapsed. As you kind of pan right, youll see quaker oats. They obviously shut down manufacturing and work last night at about 7 p. M. So were kind of at a standstill right now. Unfortunately, this water is kind of pounding into the city. This is a nice fact that you all would like to know. I spoke to a supervisor yesterday who says that this city is actually prepared in the downtown area to handle at least up to rather 29 feet of water. So were projected to crest 6 feet under that, which is great news for the downtown area. So hopefully it wont be as devastating as that 08 flood. Doesnt sound like its going to be. Still, we are bracing for impact. As you can tell, this boat dock looks to be almost submerged, taking on heavy a water. Thats going to continue as the day progresses. As youll come over here, youll see this bern that the city built. Its dirt and a lot of rocks. They built this up. It appears to be about 10 feet high. Thats to protect the area from the water from the cedar river coming over. Unfortunately, again, as i mentioned, we are going to have a lot of water coming in. Its expected to crest, as justin and brandon have referenced, tomorrow at some point. We are kind of bracing for impact. With that, im going to send it for the latest updates, again, Connor Morgan. Thank you. We want a point of clarification, if we can. That bridge by quaker, memories have been mixed up here. That is the bridge where the houseboats just kind of got stranded under there. Its the bridge further down river that is the bridge that did collapse. So, again, the bridge by quaker oats, that stayed standing. All the houseboats that made it out of the ellis boat harbor were kind of tied and saw some of those boats go under by penford. Thats the one that collapsed. Thats on me. Apologize for getting the memories mixed up. Lets go further upstream. The cedar river in vinton is where the river is cresting this morning, and over 21 teet, feet, celebration park. The water is expected to stay above the flood zone until at least thursday. Their homes or have already left their homes in palo. Residents are being asked to lock their doors and leave their keys at city hall. Keys at city hall. City leaders are asking people to conserve water as well. Alliant energy started shutting off power to about 40 homes along the river in palo. City Officials Say people from all over are chipping in to help out. Biggest thing is just seeing the neighborhoods come together. Not even neighborhood s, but other neighborhoods working together, getting people, family and friends state, country to come over and help us. Weve talked to people from indiana. Weve had people here from tennessee. Its nice to see. See. The National Guard will be monitoring road closures in the city. We also want to remind residents in palo due to a water main break all city. We want to remind residents in palo because of the water main break, please do not use the water until further notice. Moving to cedar falls, the river crested saturday 98. 8 feet, nearly 2 feet lower than the highest crest in projection, flooding in 08. Now, that water is receding and Flood Recovery efforts are underway. Downtown still closed to traffic at this hour. Back in cedar rapids, people at one of the most Historic Buildings in america are also taking precautions to avoid the same damage they saw eight years ago. The mother mosque of america lost all of their archived material in the 2008 floods. This time, they moved everything from the basement to the top floor. The of this mosque says eight years ago, they didnt take the this time they are worried. They are handling it a lot differently. This time, we take it serious. Happen. We did not expect the volume of water would be as high as it was last time. Time. The crest is not projected to be as high as it was in 08. But the imam says now better safe than sorry. He also says he appreciates the gratitude from this sorry. He also says he appreciates the far. And real quick, just getting a text from my much better half. She went from our house in the Northwest Side to via 380. Took extra time. As long as people are taking extra time, said traffic wasnt that bad this morning. So seems like everybody is kind of heeding that warning and k50e7ing an eye on whats moving on i380 north and southbound. 7 17 this morning, and right now, we are looking at the lower 50s as we start the day in cedar rapids. Coming up, Brandon Marshall has a full wth barry as we continue our coverage live on cbs 2 and fox the cedar river has been welcome back. It is 7 20 on this monday morning. Today into tomorrow is when were just waiting to see those flood waters really start to rise. Thats right. Kevin barry has been out monitoring the river all weekend long where we find him again this morning. Kevin,he its now on this morning. Right at Veridian Credit Union thats why were offering auto loans as low as 1. 74 apr. You get a low rate, plus up to 200 cash back, but this offer ends soon, from cbs 2 and fox 28 news, this is special Flood Coverage of 2016. Okay. It is 7 31 right now. We are taking a live shot. This is 1st avenue off of 380. You can see the waters are moving quite quickly there right now, and justin, we are taking a look at some of our temperatures we continue our Team Coverage this morning bringing you the latest information on flood 2016. Cbs reporter Stephanie Johnson toss to break its m 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. State fair board member judge missed seventysix percent of their meetings. Iowa Economic DevelopmentCommission Member judge, missed sixtynine of seventytwo meetings. The register called patty judge a . Habitual no show. . Grassley works. Welcome back, Justin Roberts with Kelly Dambrosio, well be on the air all good morning. It is 735 7 35. Im kelly with justin. Happening with the flood of 2016. Lets move over to the weather first forecast center. Meteorologist Brandon Marshall has the details of what to expect the next few days. Thats right. It is off to a cool start across eastern iowa today as High Pressure is settling in behind a cold front that moved through late last night into the overnight hours. Right now, 50 in cedar rapids. You can see on our sky cam moving around pretty good. Winds are west around 12 Miles Per Hour. That drier air has begun to work its way in. Temperatures are 40s from decorah, charles city, even iowa city checking in at a cool 49 degrees as of this hour. Winds 9 to 12 Miles Per Hour out of the west. We could see gusts as high as 30 to 35 Miles Per Hour out of the west and the dew points, though it was gusty winds, are bringing in that trier air. Look at the dew points in charles city and decrorah. Low to mid 40s area wide. Much different than the 60s that and radar, all the clouds moving well off into illinois. Your hour by hour forecast today will be in the upper 50s to low 60s by the time we get into the early afternoon hours with sunshine and cool temps. Our predictor has the sunshine in the forecast today. Well keep the clear skies through tonight. It will be a chilly night and then some clouds will begin to work their way into the afternoon hours to our far northern counties. Could put down a scattered shower or two. They look isolated at best so no heavy rain as anticipated add auchlt of course, those well be watching closely as we get into tomorrow. Mostly sunny, cool and breezy today with that west wind. 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour with gusts over 30. Temperatures will range from the low to mid 60s, maybe upper 60s once south of i80. Back to check those river levels, the forecasted crest, what you can expect for the next few days with those river levels and what to expect for temperatures and the dry weather coming up in your first full weather first forecast. Thank you, brandon. We continue with our team hes been downtown all morning long watching the flood waters for us. We are back on the cedar Valley Nature trail. Just a quick look at just how the flood water has come up. Were calling it 18. 5 feet now. Well, this bridge here is extremely low. Its a rail bridge along 9th avenue that goes across. You can tell the water is just at the very bottom of it. It wont take long eventually hit that bridge. But just a point of reference. If you watch the fox 28 news at 9 00 last night, we did our live shots from the very edge of that kind of brickway there that holds back some of the greenway, and when we were standing at the very edge there at the point that looks like its only 2 feet tall, when i reached my hand up as high as it would go, i could only reach the very bottom of the railing where it goes into the brick. So thats how deep it is at that you can understand how deep it goes underneath that bridge for bikers and walkers to be able to dip down far enough so that they go under the bridge then come up on the other side. Thats incredibly deep over in that part. Actually, im going to step out because in the time that i was standing there, i started to get my boots wet. This water is still coming up this way. You have a really good example of just how nasty some of this stuff is with dirt and some weeds and old sticks. Thats why you never step into the you can understand how unpredictable this is. Theres greenway like this all the way down up until the very front of the bridge. It is completely and totally matted down and covered by the power of that water. So just a really good example along the cedar Valley Nature trail of just how powerful this flood event is. We still have multiple feet more to go. You can imagine how much higher this is going to come, and it wont be long until the spot that were standing in would be shoulder high of just complete and total water over the next few days. Well send it back to you guys in the studio. Actually, lets which the about this for a little bit, too. Its unreal how some of this foliage is being covered already. Yeah. And things is, kevin, of course, weve been talking about in the studio how unreal it is to be dealing with this in the fall. You are out there wearing a jacket and everything. Luckily we had the okay weather, the warm weather for people to sandbag, but now we have to kind of sit back and wai what Mother Nature has in store for these next few days when this river finally crests. Well, and thats a reason to appreciate the buildup to this and how efficient that was. Part of it was just having a few days. Back in 2008, people didnt have the time to react, but imagine you had to be sandbagging outside right now. Its been probably 50 to 60 degrees, and since were just coming out of summer, feels like its 30 or 40 degrees outside because we are so used to the these conditions. My fingers are getting numb. Its a good thing im not carrying anything or i dont have to use them very much. So, yeah, this is not ideal conditions, and so its a really good reason to appreciate all the work thats been able to be done by all the volunteers and all the people coming forward, whether its Union MembersRailroad People giving up their time or giving up a few days out of work to fill all those sandbags and help folks get ready for all of this because conditions are not ideal right now as the water is coming up to start to try to f its a good thing they did it over the past few days. Thank you, kevin. I wanted to ask you, too, weve talked about the heavy police presence. We know the National Guard is coming in a little bit later this amp. Afternoon. How is that looking as youve been driving Walking Around the area downtown . Right. So weve been Walking Around downtown so we havent had too much of a problem with driving around and things like that so we havent got nn anybodys way, but there are police everywhere. Blocks. Theyre certainly guarding all of the brinls, and then there are some cars that are roaming around making sure no one is where they shouldnt be because this is an evacuated area. So except for the news crews that they allow to come down here to do these kind of reports, to pass along this kind of information to the viewer, really nobody else should be should be around down here. So whenever they find somebody, they go over, talk to them, they eventually dont have a good reason to be around, and the police tell them to kind of be on their way. For the most part, we havent seen anybody who isnt who doesnfi we saw one person walking their dog, and that was extremely out of the ordinary. Other than that, its completely desolate. Theres nobody around, and anyone who lives in the Residential Properties here who was asked to evacuate by 8 00 last night, wasnt a mandatory evacuation, but they were asked, and it was recommended that they find other accommodations for the next few dais days. So it is completely and totally empty. Businesses are cleaned out. Nobody is living in the homes. Cars are moved away. People understand that when the they are putting themselves in a position to make smur they dont lose too much property if any at all. Thank you, kevin. Well check back in with you in just the next few moments. If you are in need of help, you can call 211. If anyone is looking to volunteer, the united way is asked to sign up online at the united way of east central iowas web site, but i do want to remind you, as kevin was talking about people sandbagging this morning, the kmart on williams and 16th avenue southwest was asking for thats not for personal use for people to come and get supplies, but now, they are trying to prepare the city in different ways. So this would be in order to prepare the city. Just on the phone with kara kelly from the American Red Cross. We have the possibility that she its now on this morning. Right welcome back. Its 746 time teem right now. We are taking a look at i380 at 4th street southeast. Everything looks like its moving just fine. Remember theres going to be a little extra traffic because this is the roads that people are going to be using to get to many different places this morning. Right now, there are voluntary evacuations in place for those living along the cedar river in cedar rapids. They are not mandatory, but city leaders are urging residents to heed those warnings. They say its not only for your safety but the First Responders who are tasked to rescue anyone stuck in flood waters. Erlockers told cbs 2 news efforts. One family in town told cbs 2 news about a hundred volunteers, some including people theyve never met, came by to help sandbag around their home. Every half hour, they said more trucks would show up unexpectedly with sandbags. They even brought food and water. It really makes you look at especially around you, and the wonderful poem that are always, always there to help you, no matter what. They said they were very thankful that everyone who stopped by to save their home. Officers are Walking Around the evacuation zone now making sure nobody is wandering around who doesnt belong there. If you live in the area and youre coming in and out of the evacuation zone, make sure to have your id with a proof of address to show to them. Local First Responders are the river. Crews say there are police and firefighters ready with boats and special equipment. Since all the bridges are closed on i380 excuse me, since all the bridges are closed, i380 will be the only way for the First Responders to get to the emergency calls, and some 380 exits are closed for emergency and construction crews only. So if you are driving along 380, they are asking people to be patient and make sure to allow extra travel time this morning. We have a mission to not only respond to the flood event but to help our citizenry that arent directly impacted in the flood evacuation zone, as well. He says there was a designated emergency car lane on i380 during the flood back in 2008. Right now, there isnt one, but city Officials Say they will make plans if its needed. Cedar rapids motorists will have a tougher time getting to work this morning because of the many roads that are shut d