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KGAN CBS2 News Live At 5 September 27, 2016

Yovment. From the time check neighborhood right now. We want to show you ellis park where the boat harbor is. Some permanent houseboats out there. From here it look like some flooding going on but large picture of ellis park where people come to spend their summers on the river. It looks better than it did in 2008. A lot of crashed into the bridge previouy. Holding pretty well now. This is new though. This is that line right between the old area and the newer area. Thats where tornadoes is on the other side of the flood wall. You can see how much water theyre taking on. Fortunately the owners inside theyre staying inside. If they didnt they probably have water in the basement but it look like that the owner says he borrowed a pump and ooze long as they holds up hes doing well. He had 2 inches butt pumps working. Its dry now. We want to show you Czech Village. This is a lowlying area. So far it has taken on very little water and what water is coming sweeping through. So bare yers there. Its so great to see a dry Czech Village compared to eight year ago. I was down there when they were moving the businesses out. So its nice to see right now theyll be able to go become to dry land. Had is time czech again. Weve got want to see quaker oats in the background if we can. Quaker oats rebuilt the first level of their plant after the flood of 08. And then built their own flood wall. So so far things look pretty good from the time czech neighborhood though some water the pumps have been working and keeping the river. Shut down right now temporarily. Before we get to more of the Flood Coverage a Traffic Alert to tell you about. Right now northbound i380 traffic amusing very slow tonight. This is the camera at wilson avenue southwest. Viewers tell us that traffic is backed up from the airport right into downtown. So a reminder please stay out of the inside lane of i380 northbound those are reserved for emergency vehicles. Traffic is also slow moving were told on highway 30 just past kirk wood. We have the road warrior own hope to give a live report coming up in just a few minutes. Cbs 2 reporters have been following the cedar. The high waters have reached cedar rapids. Connor morgan is live near the seeing. Good evening. Im actually right behind city hall and as you can see the bare yers right here and were just east of the cedar river. If my photographer is k zoom in on the water level we are just as below that 22 foot mark. Its great news. I know thats well above flood stage but better than what we were predicting so its dropped drastically. Three and a half foot since the highest prediction. Now if ill direct you to underarchs. Youre look agent the first avenue bridge. Its risen about two feet since yesterday about this time. Thats pretty substantial antecrpd is urging everyone to stay away from the downtown area as its not safe at this point. Youll notice that by the court house theres a hose. Its just pumping water out. Thats trying to keep that area later on the court house is going away relatively unscathed and thats good news for all of us in the cbs 2 news viewing area. The flood of 2008 was a lot, lot worse, it sounds like were going to get away relatively unscathed. With that well send it back to the news desk. With the crest having been realized the question becomes how soon will the river start recede sng school is out for the rest of the week in cedar rapids. The School District made the call this afternoon. And that also goes for parochial students as well. We have a complete list of while the city appears to be while the city appears to be winning the flood battle on the surface, there is a hidden challenge right now that could have serious consequences. Cbs 2 News Reporter joins us from the newsroom with more on that angle. Joe . Yeah. High water on the river means a lot of pressure on underground infrastructure like storm and sanitary sewers as well as the basements. Electrical systems are taking on water impact their operations. The major concern in the pressure the major concern is the pressure being put on water and sewers. Right now, the ground is so saturated that water is literally dwushing out of drain covers and even cracks in the pavement. Its also threatening build frtion the bottom up. Its in the downtown area, and i assume in the residential areas there is water in basements. Now it could be as little as 6 inches but it could older foundations that are not as more permeable. Yeah. The city says that theyll start to breathe a little easier once the river drops to 18 feet and lower. And right now, theyre saying that theyre reminding people that water runs down him and every so even if you arent in the flood zone, you want to use water wisely and not cause any more stress on that system. Covering the people in cedar rapids Czech Village are breathing a sigh of relief even though it one of the low lf lying rivers. Its very little flood water. Making some Business Owners very happy. This woman has owned a beauty salon for 29 years. Today, she got back inside her shop to survey the damage and got a very pleasant surprise. So overall flood defenses seem to be holding up is plugging Manhole Covers in the new bohemia district. The city credits good planning between local and city engineers. Because we are still at major flood stage, city workers say they wont completely relax until the river is back to normal. Developing right now tragic news to report a 13 year old cedar rapids girl is dead tonight after she was shot in the head. Police have three people in custody right now ryan joins us live from the Wellington Heights neighborhood where the shooting happened. Jenee what do we know . Scott we know it happened here on the 800 block of 15th Street Southeast around 7 50 a m. Were told the 13 Year Old Girl was shot in the head while sitting in a car. Police havent released her identity. And were still trying to figure out exactly what led up to the shooting. Scott we do know Police Arrested three suspects one young man and two boys as they ran away. Police caught two of the suspects running on bever avenue and the third on washington avenue southeast avenue and the third on washington avenue southeast with the help of 10 minutes of receiving the call the shots. She says her granddaughters were friends were the girl killed. Hay toit see my grandkids cry. I do. I hate to see them cry over something thats hurtful. 12, 13, 14, 15 kids. It aint the grown folks killing. Its the kids killing. Now plits say theres no threat to the public. The suspects involved in custody. Again, the ieft of that 13Year Old Girl is not yet released until the family is notified and also the names of spotlights arent yet released. Of course we will continue to stay on top of this story for you and im sure this memorial right here will just continue to grow as the day goes on and people are able to come send their respects. Covering the corridor live in cedar rapids, cbs 2 news. Police tell cbs 2 news there have now re four hppedzs and 67 shots fired calls in cedar rapids this year. Now lets get the latest on meteorologist terry swails, ter . Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Id look her right in that fat ugly face of hers. Shes a slob. She ate like a pig. Is very hard to be a 10. Does she have a good body . No. Does she have a fat [expletive] . Absolutely. Do you treat women with respect . I cant say that either. So what do the trade deals supported by congressman rod blum really mean for iowa . Blums deals are just one of the ways the biggest corporations rig the system to make more money at the expense of iowa jobs. Seas . Congressman blum voted to give them tax breaks. These guys hope youre not paying attention. So maybe you should. The deals blum makes in washington are bad for iowa. House majority pac is responsible for the content of this message. House majority pac woman huh. Congressman blum is a tea party member. Weve shut down the government before. Woman blum voted to cut social security. Weve got to raise the retirement age. Woman blum would raise the retirement age to 70. A hardworking mom. Started a Small Business while raising three daughters. Shell fight for equal pay for equal work. Monica vernon gets it. Were at 21. 8 but the rivers going just kind of hang around and at least 4 hours. Drops here in the short term but eventually 2 a. M. Wednesday we should be back down to 20 feet and then after that we start to see so were down to 16 on in the weekend well be getting back down to that 12foot level which is much more manageable to say the least. As we take a look, at this image here, palo once again. This is lynn drive and this is the cemetery. And you can see it. Around lynn drive. And palo and that was earlier today. And you know with the river reaching its crest today around 22 feet thats only the second time in 165 years that the river has gone over 20 feet and that now makes it the second highest here in cedar rapids but much heres our current temperatures and weve got some only in the low 60s up in the north. Seen some clouds move in and temperatures pretty cool there. Clouds spinning back into central iowa. A fur showers in minnesota and wisconsin. One or two may make it up into noarn iowa. But things could get damp for a brief perfect as a few ofs showers back into the northeastern corner of the state. This all due to an upper air low thats going to spin around very slowly the next couple of days. Taz does so, it it will be coming in. An heat and humidity. All the way through the upcoming weekend. Some pleasant fall conditions expected once we get through this little cloudiness. And tomorrows temperatures are certainly looking falllike around many parts of midwest. These are some of the readings tomorrow afternoon. Only around 59 degrees in minneapolis. 61 in green bay and all that this will be pushed way down to the gulf of mexico where it stays right up. So tonights forecast does have skies becoming mostly cloudy. A brief shower is a possibility especially in the northeast and looks like temperatures will be pretty uniform tonight in the range of about 46 to 48 degrees. Then for tomorrow, somed clouds around early. Should become partly sunny and temperatures are locked to the low antibiotic mid60s. Town 25 miles it will heres your extended forecast. Were at 64 again tomorrow. Thursday we climb back up to 6 degrees. Should have some sunshine there. And then after that, were anticipating temperatures to stay pretty much in the 6 0z going into the upcoming weekend. But heres the thing. Next week temperatures do warm up and well get back up to 77 with a chance of a shower or thunderstorm sometime around tuesday. But here in the short term its time to break out the hot sweltering summer that we had for you to say back up to 70. Its a pleasant change. Its a big change. Absolutely. Thank you, terry. Still ahead live at 5 00 were going to take you live on our road warrior for a tour of 380. Dora miller is in road warrior where traffic is a lot of red lights out there. Stay with us. Live at 5 continues right here the road warrior is out tracking the latest conditions on the roads. Right now. Dora is doesnt look much like rush hour right now. No. Its bump tore bump ever im having flashbacks of atlanta a little bit but right now were just trying to keep it really slow and keep it steady. Theres a lot of red lights. Were going to i380 southbound right now and most of the people that are getting on the road are not doing what the police have asked them to do which is stay out of the left lane. I dont know if you can see very clearly but the left lane is just as backed up as the two other right lanes here. Theyre asking you to stay out. Wilson the two left lanes on hawaii i380 northbound have reopened much there was a crash earlier today but now those lanes are up and up and running again. I will mention the left lanes are for emergency vehicles only and its only important to say that and reiterate that over and over because emergency vehicles need to get through here and right now they would be stuck in traffic. They are not issuing tickets. I think the sheer overflow of people in a that lane that but they are giving warnings. H avenue north and southbound 380 ramp are now open so you can use those if you need to. Well continue to be out here on 380 keeping you guys update. And if you can, try not to get on 380. Its already congestioned. Back to you guys. Boy, is it. Still ahead a view with ter riff the flood im really good at war. I love war in a certain way. Including with nukes, yes including with nukes. I know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. Nuclear, just the power the devastation, is very important to me. I want to be unpredictable, unpredictable, unpredictable, unpredictable. Some perspective of how the flood waters have effected us. Shes been very, very technicians that can handle computers and move things around. She does deserve a pat on the back for. That this is the flooding thats occurred around el whris boulevard here. This is the harbor that you talked about earlier. This is just the normal map perspective there. But now were throwing on the flooding and you can see how much thats advanced off to the side of river and impacted the houseboats. Theyre all locked down this time it appears. Nothings moving. Didnt breakthrough. Thats certainly some good news there. But you get a pretty well pop it back one more time and there you can see that view and how much is under water there. It really helps to show you the perspective. Very good perspective. Just shows you too there are people still affected by the flood waters. Were not out of this by my neens but well rise above. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for joining us. Well see you t karma again . Just wanna see if my score changed. You wanna check yours . Scores dont change that much. I havent changed. Oh really . Id business casual. I love summer weddings oh no. Yeah, maybe it is time. Maybe i should check my credit score. Try credit karma. Its free. Oh woah. Thats different. 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