Its thursday, august 25th. Heres what you need to know today. A live look at an evacuated rv park in clermont. The turkey river is expected to crest there in just a few hours. You live close to a river and thats the worst flooding theyve seen in years as they start to clean up today. Rescue crews in italy are digging through rubble hoping to find more survivors. At least 247 people have died from a 6point2 earthquake. Eight years after flooding. And planning, the Northwest Recreation Center in cedar rapids is opening. This is the last project to use fema money from the 2008 flood. Students in waterloo have their first day of after voters rejected a multiMillion Dollar bond vote. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Overall, we have a pretty quiet day in front of us as High Pressure builds in from the northwest. This High Pressure system will control our weather today and much of tomorrow as we
Theres flooding. We strongly recommend if theres flooding to contact the local Sheriffs Office let them know where the flooding has occurred and ask our Sheriffs Office to see if there is a safe way to get to the destination. The heavy rains forced people in freeport in Winneshiek County to evacuate this morning. But tonight, authorities are lettg roads covered in water. Kcrgtv9s Samantha Myers talked with homeowners about whats next. in some areas like right here where im standing the water is still up to my knees. Several people here in this freeport neighborhood were out here just a few hours ago going into their houses trying to recover what belongings they could, and trying to clean up. Nats darcie hurst spent much of her evening shoveling water and dirt. Out several houses in the neighborhoods basements caved in. We didnt get much sleep last night checking to make sure our basement didnt cave in firefighters evacuated the neighborhood early wednesday morning and allowed people to
High pressure builds in from the northwest. This High Pressure system will control our weather today and much of tomorrow as well. Later on friday night, there is potential for a few showers and thunderstorms, becoming widespread after midnight and into saturday. Hopefully most of this can wait until after football is over. Several lines of storms are possible on saturday, but the overall risk of anything severe is very low at this time. Much of the rain should get out of here by sunday morning leading to a dry second half of the weekend. A tropical system should develop over or near florida next week, which may lead to our weh ttern stalling out r at lst 3 4 days. Stay tun tonight partly cloudy. Patchy g posble. Wind light nw low 56 tomorrow partly sunny and pleasant. An oted shower is poie ine evening high 76 tom. Night scattered understorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 anks kaj. Communitsn northeast iowa rain. Anywhere from 4 to more than 8 inches of rain overwhelmed rivers and cr
Sheriffs office says a car crossed the center line on 130th street and crashed with the semi around 8 30 last night. The cars driver died at the scene. Deputies are not releasing that persons name, pending notification of family. As were watching the flooding along the turkey river this hour, a focus is on clermont and elgin in fayette county. After more than a day of rising water, the turkey is cresting kcrgtv9s brea love has been reporting on the flooding all morning and joins us live from fayette county. Brea, what are you seeing out there right now . Chris, im standing at skip a way the resort its an rv camp ground thats been evacuated. Pretty much everything is gone except a couple campers theyre having issues moving. Weve been here since early the water began rising. Now according to Emergency Management the river has crested. Hopefully the water wont get to this area but residents spent a lot of time last night sandbagging just in case. This entire Community Came together to hel
And it is supposed to get above flood stage at 89 feet. A quick look at pictures and as you can see it some of the flood concern. Picture live in cedar rapids. 75, your full your weather first forecast coming up in about 10 minutes time with more rain. Kelly . A 15yearold girl and the hospital after being hit by a car news the girl was crossing 42nd street west just after 7 30 a. M. When she was hit. The girl was not in a crosswalk. She was taken to st. Lukes with serious injuries and later transferred to the university of iowa hospitals and clinics. Cbs two news spoke with the student who was there when the girl was hit. Traffic piled up and i went to pull around and i did not see roll up the windshield. I didnt see how fast the car was going or anything. Just kind of son the end of it when she fell off. Right now police tell cbs two news the person driving the car is not being charged. Heavy rainfall early tuesday left many homes and businesses and roads are flooded. Cbs two News Rep