And when we can expect warmer temperatures coming up and the four weather first forecast in just a bit. The city of cedar rapids recently had their final press conference for the 2016 blood. Connor morgan joins us live to explain the citys focus going forward. Reporter the city of cedar rapids is officially in cleanup mode. As far as sandbags are concerned, residents have three options. They can keep them which is encouraged for future tickets at them outside on the curb and wait for the city to pick them up or they can drop them off at one of these sites. Noelridge park open this morning at 7 am for dropoff and ellis park will open starting tomorrow at 7 am. What about those who cant take your sandbags to either site . The city will collect those for free starting october 10. Weeks. City officials recommend using your driveway if possible, giving of street between the curb and sandbags to allow storm runoff. As far as the press conference was concerned, everyone is echoing the same se
Showers storms. A shower or two may linger into early thursday morning. Cooler weather behind the front thursday and friday with highs falling back into the 60s. Storm track 7 chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather charges in the death of her own daughter. 31yearold kristi buss is charged with child endangerment resulting in death. Her fouryearold daughter gracie was found unresponsive in their waterloo home last year. The autopsy shows she died of severe head trauma. Kwwls Elizabeth Amanieh is live in the newsroom with more. Elizabeth amandaafter more than a year of searching for answerspolice believe theyre now a step closer in justice for gracie. Alledgedly failed to stop physical abuse that lead to her daughters death. The criminal complaint claims kristis fiance chad little had been living with with kristi and her two children gracie and her brother. The boy allegedly told police little would physica
A check of our forecast. Rachael. There wont be too much sunshine to start october. It will be a mainly cloudy weekend a chance of a stray sprinkle or some drizzle for your saturday. Any rain today wont amount to much. Well dry out tonight as low pressure starts to track east out of the great lakes. Highs today will be slightly below average in the low to mid 60s. There will be some partial bring the chance for fog into the morning hours. Sunday will be the bettay cloudy, there will be some clearing later in the day. It will also be warmer and expected the next chance of rain storms tracks in late tuesday into and tracks through. Continuing coverage this morning two people are facing charges in the death of a four 32yearold chad little now charged with first degree murder and child endangerment in the death of gracie buss his fiance 31 yearold kristi buss is charged with child endangerment resulting in death. Her daughter gracie died a few days after she was found unconscious in their
Reason of insanity. The judge ruled the defense did not meet the burden of proof for jurors to consider that verdict. Make sure to stay tuned for our second half hour. Tv9s Dave Franzman will update us live from the linn county courthouse, on the latest developments in luerkens trial. New this midday. Two American Contractors operating overseas are dead, after a jordanian policeman opened fire at a Police Training center. This is according to jordans government owned newspaper, al rai. They say the shooting happened near the countrys capital of amman. A third person from south africa was also injured in the shooting. A jordanian Government Spokesperson says an investigation is underway. We now have new information in the investigation into the downed russian passenger jet. Officials now believe a bomb caused it to crash, and someone with inside access put it on the plane. Abcs molly hunter is in egypt with more. Rep. Adam schiff california tom haueter former abc news sharm elsheikh, eg
Noontime and partly sunny. A look at traffic now with danella. Well start with the rails. Metro, vre running on time, marc train 401 dealing with an electrical problem there. Expect your delays between 10 and 15 minutes. The delay is 14 minutes. Over to the roadway if youre just joining us, im still tracking an accident in southeast d. C. Along branch avenue. Br branch is shut down between camden street and erie street. We do have tony tull en route. Aaron and eun, back over tu. To angie goff now at the live desk. Republican senator ted cruz has spent more than 14 hours in a talkathon. He is against the efforts to remove part of an emergency spending bill that would defund the socalled obama care. It would avoid a Government Shutdown as well. Not able to delay proceedings with a formal filibuster. Cruz began speaking out against obamaS Health Care reforms. They are meant to grab attention and to delay sending the measure back to the house. Hes gotten creative answering a series of ridd