this is in some ways the 9/11 of turkey. remark that the president of the time, on you are, made, either with us or not. this is the psychology in which the turkish president is in, and the turkish society is in as well. lot that can be criticized about the turkish president, and people do it. and turkey is rediscovering that freedom of expression. i tried to follow the debates that are taking place in turkey right now. some of them for hours long each -- 4 hours long each. the kinds of people who were not allowed anywhere near the media turkey have now an opportunity to speak their mind and reflect on their experiences. and it is opening my eyes as an ofdemic and as an expert turkey and maybe broader political issues. one point that has not come up so far is that the turkish and quite a few -- sinan has made reference to the people he is following in the turkish media, people who share the very values to which the united states as a society and to which the european union is committed have huge concerns about the way the tu

and the kurds and the town is just right across the border so turkey could run things from there if the free syrian army was capable but regarding the potential cooperation our collaboration, i don't see that perce but as you probably know there was fighting between the syrian governments and the y pg that is a little bit off the map to face-off with them but that would be the only area. >> >> there was these allegations of those allegations and now the thing because we had some news with the crisis at actually now the tethers are like the rebel groups that they will disappear or will they use the same road for europe as well? >> >> this is not an amnesty question but it seems when the turkish army that they are the unified together force. would is the status of the turkish army at this point greg. >> t want to take those two questions? >> i will take your question . i don't know. but to answer your question and rover 40% and to either be arrested or removed that is a shocking amount of turnover for any military but with one key objective of the incurs

this is in some ways the 911 of turkey. they remember the remark that the president of the time made. you are either with us or not. this is the psychology in which the turkish president is in and the turkish society is in as well. there is a lot that can be criticized about the turkish president and people do it in turkey is rediscovering that freedom of expression. i try to follow the debates that are taking place in turkey right now some of them four hours long each evening. and the kinds of people that were not allowed anywhere near the media in turkey had now an opportunity to speak their mind in reflect on their experiences. and in opening my eyes as an academic in doesn't expert of turkey and maybe broader political issues. one point that has not come up so far is that the turkish society and quite a few references to the kind of people that he's following in the turkish media people who share the very values to which the united states as a society into which the european union is committed to has huge concerns about

if what happens, however, is the battlefield between turkey and the kurds simply spreads from turkey nd iraq to syria, the n the turkish intervention is going to be seen as a very serious negative for syria, for u.s. interests, for the fight against isis, and for ultimately for turkey itself. mr. misztal: it is important to point out that as far as current u.s. strategy is concerned, that strategy, which its goal is the raqqa, the isis capital in syria, the road to that capital is supposed to be open by the ypg, and the road goes to ypg-held territory. it is not role for syrian kurds to take raqqa. it is largely a sunni city. having occurred take that city would stoke sectarian tensions. our strategy is currently relying on taking that road, so any fallout between u.s. and the ypg between fighting between turkish and kurdish forces would seriously in danger what is the ultimate goal of u.s. mission. mr. makovsky: the turkish government and the turkish president has said -- and this syncs with what -- i am sorry, i did not catch your name -- >> [indiscernible] mr. makovsky: i do not sa

a live look at the swollen turkey river in clermont this morning. the water is covering an evacuated r-v park this morning. tv9's brea love is there as the river continues to ri " you live close to a river and that's the price you pay " some in northeast iowa say it's the worst flooding they've 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 6-point-2 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. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, first, meteorologis t kaj o'mara has your first alert forecast, kaj... overall, we have a pretty quiet day in front of us as 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 wai

starting with a live look at the turkey river in elkader. the river is expected to crest there at about 1 p-m -- a little short of the 2008 record crest. "and i was like anything to help out my community, i'll help. " dozens of volunteers helped build a wall of sandbags in elkader in preparation for today's crest. governor branstad has issued a disaster counties in northeast iowa. today, he plans to visit cities with flooding. a 15-year-old cedar rapids girl has serious injuries after a car hit her in front of kennedy high school. police did not ask for charges against the driver for the crash. republican presidential nominee donald trump plans to attend an event for joni ernst event tomorrow in des moines. democratic nominee hillary clinton is criticizing trump for trying to incite racism. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrg-tv9 news has your first alert forecast, kaj... and that will limit our high temperatures into the mid- 70s as well. this morning, a few isolated showers may also be found in far sou

the iowa river levels. currently 16.99 feet. turkey river. even when our newscasts are not going on, we continue to look at the news for you, continue to look at this so you can follow it alway long on our facebook page, on twitter and of course we'll be back here at noon to give you the very latest. >>> well with the start of the new school year, a new study finds each day more than 160,000 children miss school out of fear of being bullied. aaron nichols has ways students can stand up against bullying. >> this is a serious issue and we take >> willie is the chief investigator of the per county criminal district attorneys office. as par of the cyber forensic unit he examines cyber bullying cases. >> when we have cases like this with bullying, we can take that phone or we can take the phone or laptop or ipad and do an exam. >> he advices parents to always be involved. and know what is going on at school and on social media. thought process of byes will be byes, they are just children, they will grow out of it, they need to stop thinking and hav

kirisci who is now the director of the center of the united states and europe turkey project at the brookings institution and also distinguished academic, worked for many, many years in turkey and you can see a long list of his very important field and particularly also deal with european union, turkey relation refugees, et cetera. next to him is dr. jonathan schanzer, vice president of research for the foundation of the defense of democracies in washington, d.c. again, if you look at his brief resume you look that he had dmernz the u.s. government and the department of treasury and some of the things in town and public extensively in the field. now, i would like to mention that this particular event as many others that we organize, we have cosponsors in addition to international law institute and, of course, we do have the potomic institute for policy studies and the center, international center for terrorism studies. we are honored always to have general gray who is going to make some closing remarks and as you know, is the 29th commander of the marine corps and senior chairman of the potom

people in the united states have to help turkey face. fortunately, i think so far the united states, the administration's messaging has been inconsistent. three days after the coup, the united states positive nato turkey going out of nato. iner raising these concerns, an immediate point where they were not likely to be helpful, a month and a half later, biden went to turkey, this after showed support for turkey for the past month, this might have been the opportunity to start raising these concerns, and the vice president said nothing about any of our concerns about the that what we are going on, about attempts to prosecute leading kurdish political figures. -- the is going to be question to support turkish democratization, at a strange time, is a difficult one, but so far the approach has been muddled enough that i do not think it is helping. thank you.: let me turn it over to the audience questions. be sure to state your name and affiliation and make it a question. on the second row here. >> [indiscernible] would someone explain this ma

hitting some towns along the turkey river in northeast iowa -- yesterday in fayette county. now the high water moves downstream into clayton county. you just saw video from clermont where people voluntarily evacuated some homes, other buildings, and even r-vs. this morning, that floodwater is now heading toward elgin and further east...to elkader. people in elkader are preparing for the turkey river to potentially rise to its record 2008 this is what downtown elkader looked like back in june of 2008 when the turkey river crested at 27 point 77 feet -- a record there for the river. the high water lingered for days before finally pulling back -- revealing damage that took years of recovery. students and staff in the central community school district were dismissed early yesterday so the city could have more help filling sandbags. volunteers also helped businesses along south main some business owners say they expected parts of the downtown area to lose power last night. so volunteers tried to make sure people are just moved out of the area before that happened. "20:58:54 "it wa

and now some of the turkey river's water is on its way to elgin. the clayton county sheriff's office is closing several gravel roads in elgin due to flooding. parts of agate road... ...abbey rd... ...bugle rd... ...and chariot road are closed. these are all secondary gravel roads in northern clayton county along the turkey river. floodwaters are heading to elkader. kcrg t-v nine's sarah mccarthy was in that city earlier today and shows the flood preparations. piles and piles of sandbags is really the story here in downtown elkader. the entire community is working to fill these and get them set to protect the downtown area from the rising turkey river. now water here is expected to rise quickly through the night and we have the entire stack these to 27 feet, right now they are at 25 feet, but earlier today, they found out that the river is supposed to rise to a little here than that, so they are working to get more bags put together and really protect this downtown area. we're on south main street right now and several businesses have moved out. they

. >> the turkey river continues the rampage on north eastern iowa. >>> a car hits a student outside of school. >> she rolled off the windshield. >> this crash co prevented. >> the skyrockets cost of insulin. >> what some experts say will need to be done to get all medicine prices back under control. flooding is happening right now in the northern counties of the cbs 2 news viewing area. >>> historic and dangerous flooding in the northern this is elkader where the turkey river is at levels not seen since 2008. terry joining us now with more. >>> we wanted to give the viewers an update with the turkey river. the latest stage is up to 17 feet, it continues to rise, but is feet. by tomorrow morning the crest should occur around seven am at 27 felt. that will result in major flooding around the elkader area. the good news in all of this, there's no additional rain in the forecast tonight or day. tomorrow night we'll see the next chance for showers or storms. we should avoid the rain tomorrow, the high pressure -- yesterday's flash flooding is river flooding. it has forced evacuations. flood

the grand sanctions. this town started discussing whether turkey was moving away from the west. its access was shifting and stuff like that, and that debate quickly dissipated when turkey decided to host a nato radar in turkey and when we got to the arab spring, i'm skipping many events here obviously, but when we got to the arab spring turkey, again, emerged as a potential model for the middle east, and when we got to syria all that dissipated again, and since 2013 especially, because of some of the incidents and the december 17 operations at home, political turmoil at home also impacted this image of authoritarian perception, et cetera. but it's been ups and downs basically during obama administration. while obama administration was trying to pull out of the middle east like shadi was saying, we did not quite have a positive agenda of what was going to come afterwards, and ever since i think the regional powers are trying to figure out how to deal with each other in many ways, while the u.s. is not completely sort of pulling out as we see in the anti-isil fight. so i would say

the presidents turkey on another. why now is a suggestion that the end of this month which is the supreme gathering of the promotion list to basically fill in the biggest spots was rumored that over a thousand senior officers were going to be like a as part of the d gratification of turkey. so the ongoing struggle it seems that matters came to a head. and the greatest sympathizers. and possibly other elements within the state and military. was there a direct correlation. did all this come through from the complex in america down to turkey we don't know that. but that might be something that we have to concentrate on and see how that unfolds in the future. located in texas is can have on the whole radio factors the first is a washington in america was interested in. right now there is an immense amount of pressure is brought upon the obama administration. the other one is government. it's going there saying you have to hand over it to turkey. we want them now. the delegation seen here we are we want him and we want to p

the discussion today. and in fact earlier this month we focus specifically on turkey and the role of turkey and looking at this -- both historically and contemporary and as far as the future. i think the world really needs turkey, turkey and not existed probably to recreate it. but at any rate that's another issue and again in the interest of time i think one gentleman right there, you have a question of a shortcoming? identify yourself. >> [ indiscernible ]. a big advantage of the fact that we have a cadre of ph.d.s here specializing in the subject to perhaps point out two flaws in our academic -- [ inaudible ] in terrorism. a lot of our effort and resources invariably in the government and others goes to 90% or more islam and the history of the region. medieval history. we throw out the caliphate. we have an approach to the problem that is more akin to analyzing, i don't know, the kling ons in "star trek," but it sounds exotic when it gets people's attention. but we forget the bigger side -- it's our involvement in the region. i mean, no one ever talks about the implications of our involvement in the reg

the park sits on the northern edge of town, right near the turkey river. water also covered the railroad tracks yesterday and highway 24 going into fort atkinson. this morning, survivors of a tornado outbreak in the midwest are assessing the widespread damage several tornadoes touched down in indiana to go with the flooding seen here in eastern iowa. abc's kenneth moton has the latest. tornado emergency in indiana. sot katrina redmonstorm victim we headed for the basement and it was crazy, our roof got ripped up this morning, residents are getting a better look at the mass destruction just outside of indianapolis. at least 8 twisters were spotted. sot steve rogershowar d county sheriff off apartment buildings. homes in neighborhood s...obliterated. vehicles...tossed like toys. one of the strongest tornadoes struck the community of kokomo with 165 mile per hour winds. sot greg goodnightkok omo mayor a lot of power outages throughout the city, even in areas not directly affected by the tornadoes students took cover in school hallways. customers and workers in

the park sits on the northern edge of town, right near the turkey river. water also covered the railroad tracks and highway 24 going into fort atkinson. people forced out of their homes have several options. for a reduced rate of 75 dollars a night. and a shelter at the decorah public library will open at 8 tomorrow morning. and the flooding means decrah and south winneshiek schools are closed tomorrow. meteorologist joe winters joins us now, joe, last night's rain was mostly in extreme northeastern iowa. tonight it's in the south? as a cold front continues to move south the southern half of the state. some storms could be strong, containing heavy rain. the majority for the activity heads out of the state this evening, ushering in a quiet and comfortable end to the work week. after dry days on thursday and friday scattered thunderstorm s reenter the weather picture for saturday and sunday. have a good night! tonight: chance of storms, mainly south. wind: nw 5-10. low: 63 alo: 63 tomorrow: partly sunny. wind: tonight after a jury found him not guilty of firs

watching the rising turkey river this morning. the river is predicted to crest at around 27 feet today, just slightly below the high water mark from the 2008 flood. here is a look at that flooding from 8 years ago. so much attention from the flood of 2008 came along the cedar river and the iowa river. yet the turkey river swamped elkader, reaching a crest of 27.77 feet on june 10, 2008. the high water stuck around for days and recovery took a long time as most of elkader is within four or five blocks of the turkey river. kcrg tv9's brea love is in elkader this morning, watching the turkey river. brea, do you know about what time is the river will reach it's highest point? chris and nicole, the national weather service predicts it will crest 27 feet and about 15 feet above flood stage. today's predicted crest is slightly below the high water mark from the 2008 flood. students and staff in the central community school district were dismissed early yesterday so the city could have more help filling sandbags. businesses along south mai

isis-held areas along the border. but turkey says s it's also concerned abouout syrian kurdidh militias at the e border. these mililitias are backed by e united states. wewe'll look at the conflict wih professor and columnist vijay prashad, author of the new book, "the death of the nation and the future of the arab revolution." we will also speak with him about the u.s. presidential election. understand both trump and clinton are going to be very, very harmful for the rest of the planet. i mean, if this is supposed to be the superpower that governs and manages the world, and of the leader of the superpower is going to be as crazy as trump or with someone is dangerous on record a as hillary clinton, i m afraid people in the rest of the planet have very little to look forward to. amy: and celebrated british actress, thompson has just returned from a trip to the arctic aboard the greenpeace ship the arctic sunrise. >> i suppopose the inuit here ae the front line, but actually, we are here to defend thehem and ourselves. becaususe o

the industry is demanding action. welcome. turkey is mobilizing forces on the syrian border, ramping up its military campaign against militants and the so-called islamic state. after two days of shelling, and gray says it is working to launch an incursion into i.s. held territory. meanwhile, turkish towns are being evacuated as the conflict escalates. >> confusion at the turkish-syrian border. people told to stay off the street and keep in their homes. still, people free -- people flee with whatever they can carry. >> this is the reason -- craters left by mortar shells fired by -- fired from i is controlled territory. turkey says shells hit the border towns. the turkish military has responded with its own shelling against kurdish positions on the border. rebels are preparing a major offensive. the turkey foreign minister says they will provide whatever support is necessary to push i.s. out of the city. >> our fight against terrorist groups will continue both inside and outside the country. in syria and in iraq, against the kurds and

this viewer video shows the turkeys hanging out in front yards. west lake police say the posse is causing quite the rubg kus. people living here call police to complain. >> . they control traffic. >> address for the group. there's not much they can do. >> . we hear about them. people can't get down the road. this morning an officer was running radar and said the turkeys were more effective than he was in slowing traffic. >> . more like stropping traffic. like what's on the other side of the road. she says her house. >> . right back in here. among the trees. 17. young turkeys. >> that was last year. the turkeys like to come back for regular visits. and the group always leaves evidence they were here. >> . if you come across the turkeys. let them be. >> . people thought it was funny to chase the turkeys and had the tables turned. they learned their lesson. >> . just leave them alone. >> . still to come. police search for answers following a grizzly attack. tphreus say 19 fatally stabbed 59 year-old john stephens. and his wife. in their garage. scene.

vice president joe biden will come to the turkey president on thursday and talk about the war on isis. turkey officials made it clear the top of the agenda is not the war against isis when they are talking to a senior u.s. official. they want the united states to return to turkey and the turkey government who accuses being the mastermind behind the july 15th coup. they made it clear that isis is a second priority. they want the man handed over by the united states as quickly as possible. boris. >> ben, obviously, isis, a second priority in turkey, still a major player. turkey is the center of a lot of bloodshed recently. many say this is a shift in strategy by isis. is that how you read it? >> reporter: certainly keep in mind, look at the big picture, boris, you have isis on the run in iraq. they're holed up in mosul, the second largest city. in syria, they steadily losing ground. turkey apparently is getting syrian rebel force ready to go into the city on the border controlled by isis. clearly isis is being pushed into a corner and they are fighting back in the way that we have come

but the turkey-u.s. elations are important to us and we have to think about this and we have to be conscious about what we say and what we do in these difficult times. regarding the operations from the first moment until now on the highest level, prime minister issued several times that turkey will be participating in the coalition and open just after a couple days. it was closed because of the extraordinary times and the turks fly zone was closed for a couple of days. but now it is fully operational and operations started freshman from gaza and other places. so turkey is with nato and others and the coalition is somehow far-fetched ideas from my point of view and i can say that turkey has been a very important part of this for the last six years and it will be so and hopefully our friends stand with us against this coalition. thank you. >> gray, it is your turn. >> as usual, alexander asked me to wrap it up and we are finished. i want to thank our distinguished panel for, i think, a supburb outline on su

the turkey river is cresting right now in elkader... a little earlier and a bit lower than expected. clayton county emergency officials talked about this and the risk of flooding within the last hour. kcrg-tv9's brea love has been morning watching the rising river levels. brea, first some welcome news -- the turkey river will not hit the 26-feet projected earlier. the national weather service is saying 22 and a half was the crest for the river here.that's just under the mark from 2008. the city held a press confence about a half hour ago on the preparations and plans underway. they plan to continue sandbagging, protecting homes and businesses, and prepping for whatever comes this way this afternoon. we sp josh .. who wanted to make sure elkader residents knew what to do to stay safe. "i would just like everybody to stay away from downtown as much as we can. i know everybody wants to see the water , but if so we can get our jobs done and protect the community." again the flooding is crested at 22 and a half feet the water is rapidly movin

on the, an update political situation in turkey and u.s. relations with the country. it is hosted by the bipartisan policy center. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to today's discussion ,bout turkey after the coup ally, partner, or something else. , and i'm pleased to be joined by two of my esteemed colleagues and world-renowned turko logists, if i may call them that. obviously in the past couple of days, we have had significant developments turkey's southern border when it comes to syria as well. we will talk about that. before we launch into the discussion, i want to lay some groundwork the coast i think what we will talk about today did not really start on july 15 or is not so much a series of recent event as developments in a long line in illusion of u.s. and turkey relations that arbitrarily speaking i will date that to late may of 2013 when we saw protests break out in istanbul that were subsequently put down in a violent and oppressive manner, which sparked what some had seen, and we definitely had the bipartisan policy he center had written about, as an auth

the turkish threat. erdogan gave an ultimatum. either allow turkey citizens visa-free travel to the european union or you are theally start holding back refugees who want to enter the e.u. a new migrant crisis in the making. here's more from berlin. >> many german turks don't understand the uproar over this news. ankara threatens to terminate the refugee deal the turkish government is not threatening anyone. it's about turkish democracy. many here say turkey ought to be treat like other european countries. ankara's agreement allows for the return of migrants denied asylum in europe. it can be canceled if turkey's request for visa free e.u. travel is not fulfilled by october. visa-free travel can only be granted if turkey abides by the required european standards which it's not doing. it's under turkey. under no circumstances should europe allow itself to be blackmailed. this comes a day after german authorities denied turkish president erdogan an opportunity to speak via video lynn to come a 40,000 strong demonstration in cologne. the ambassador to a

the stability of turkey is being questioned. e white house condemned this attack, but they are sending vice president joe biden to ankara to pete with turkish officials, not only to show support foreturkey, their nato ally, but to stress the stability of turkey. a lot of european capitals and in washington, d.c., arthel, right now, are very concerned and skittish about what direction turkey might be going with the syrian civil war seemingly to flow over the borders there as things are getting more violent and more deadly there is a concern that turkey's stability sat real risk, arthel. >> indeed. copper powell, thank you. >>> judy miller, adjunct fellow at the manhattan institute for policy research and a fox news contributor. i'll get it right, judy. what conor was just saying a moment ago, the town is 37 miles from the syrian border. is there a possibility or probability do you think that the horrific syrian civil war can still over into turkey? >> well, i think it already has, eric. you know, this town which i visited at the v

just beyond the sign is the turkey river where the water is rushing by. residents who live along the river say they hope the waters don't reach that height. in elkader people are waiting... just beyond a large wall of owned grocery store. in 2008 it flooded, but this time around they've prepared for it. 20:59:42 "anything that needed refrigeration had to go because if the water gets bad they turn the power off" nats people building the wall" and built the wall up in hopes the water won't reach the town this time. people in elgin also spent their day building walls. 20:43:22 "neighbors helping beighbors community really comes together it's pretty amazing. 20:35:44 "people were preparing for flooding not this extreme but of course it has" this flooding is different than past floods in elgin. 29:38:54 "we didn't have any substantial rainfall here, here we are watching a flood in full sunshine" the communities all rallying together to prepare. 20:38:07 "i can tell you in elgin when the call goes out the calvary come out" 20:58:54 "it was just a wonderful deal

after floodwaters receded along the little turkey river that man's body was found. authorities have not released his identity. >>> cleanup has started in areas hit hard by the devastating flooding. yesterday the turkey river in ft. atkinson's will that be from heavy rains. red cross and salvation army volunteers were on site to help flood victims wednesday. they tell cbs2 news that even if you cannot physically help in the flood areas you can still give monetary donations. financial assistance is mobilized that money and mobilize those funds to get and utilize those in a bulk way. so we bring our cleanup kits and bring up food, would bring up water. we can do that and do it expeditiously. >> red cross officials we talked and also asked to keep kokomo - which is about 40 in to be se were hit hard by tornadoes. as many as eight twisters were reported near kokomo about 40 miles north minneapolis. this amazing video captures a moment of starbucks is not down by the storm. luckily no customers or employees we're heard inside the building. another of other structures were

the major stories driving headlines from the region this week. turkey has attempted to overcome international questions over its response to july's sales coup by building its relationship with russia. president erdogan met vladimir putin in saint petersburg on tuesday, the first meeting since turkey shot down a russian aircraft last year. opec announced it would meet next month. members of the cartel are continuing to look for ways to stabilize the market. our energy reporter looks ahead to what the talks may yield. going to be inre out syria for meeting of the international energy or an that is a gathering of countries from opec as well as non-opec member states. they might as well speak while is the opecre president said in his statement yesterday, the countries are always having informal discussions. ecuadorian solve the opec governor was meeting with the new secretary-general yesterday. and the venezuelans have said they have been in discussions as well with the secretary-general about doing something. this cop talks going on so it does make sense f

they are backing the syrian kurds and turkey. we don't know who is where. we know people are not pulling back with the speed we hoped. it is a big distraction in the fight to kick them out of iraq and syria. >> thank you, nick. it is a mess and complicated. >>> more than 6,000 migrants rescued off the coast of libya in the past few days. italian coast guard calls this the biggest operation in recent years. the rescue involved vessels from the groups including doctors without borders. most of the 6,000 migrants are said to be from somalia. >>> the white house hit its goal of 10,000 syrian refugees resettling and it will continue to accept new refugees through september. one group, international rescue committee is an applauding the achievement. it is urging the u.s. to ramp up the resettlement goal to 140,000 refugees next year. >>> mexico's federal police chief has been fired. this follows allegations police killed at least 22 suspected members of a drug cartel. the summary executions are believed to have taken place in the weste

here are the details. >> turkey has wanted him for years. now the u.s. e department says it has received a formal extraditeom ankara to this muslim cleric. >> we can confirm turkey has requested the extradition. you have seen turkish politicians talk about him or make allegations that he was connected. is that this request does not relate to his involvement or allegedly involvement in the coup. >> turkey is still reeling from last month's coup attempt. at least 240 people were killed. the turkish president says the plot was orchestrated by the cleric, who has lived in exile in pennsylvania since 1999. he denies any involvement. around 80,000 people accused of having links to him have been sacked or suspended from the police,, civil service, and judiciary. turkey has made his extradition one of the key issues in a relationship with the u.s., warning that a slow response could lead ankara to question its friendship with washington. joe biden is expected to show support for turkey, though privately he is likely to express concern at erdogan's crackdown on di

the turkey river crested at 22 and a half feet on friday -- lower than initially forecast. the sandbags stacked along the turkey helped protect the town. system showed room for improvement. now patients and providers are telling legislators in des moines where they see the most need. democrats -- including senate candidate patty judge and former governor of maryland martin o'malley gathered for the progress iowa corn feed in des moines. the american red cross says they are in desperate need of blood and platelets to refill their stock. they say summer is a difficult time to bring in regular donors. you can donate today at the cedar rapids marriott. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, this is kcrg-tv9 news morning news. first, meteorologis t kaj o'mara has your first alert forecast, kaj... overall, plan on a very muggy the 70s. actual air temperatures should warm to the low 80s in all locations. plan on a chance of scattered storms, primarily after 10am. unfortunately, these will be so poorly organized, it's tough to time out favored areas of dry or wet weather this afternoon and

the trees. and as i say we ended up with 17. young turkeys. >> that was last year. and the group always leaves evidence they were here. >> . if you come across the turkeys. let them be. >> . people thought it was funn chase the turkeys and had the tables turned. they learned their lesson. >> . just leave them alone. >> . still to come. police search for answers following a grizzly attack. tphreus say 19 fatally stabbed 59 year-old john stephens. and his wife. in their garage. when officers responded to the scene. they found him on top of the male victim. biting his face. multiple officers, dogs. the suspect. a motive is not clear. at this time. but. police are looking into drugs. as a possibility. >> . witness said shoppers and workers were in shock. when they looked down to see the aisle. pal let a gallon of water jugs had fallen from the top shell ef. hit the boy and his father. witnesses say the father pulled him from the debris. and a nurse who happened to be shopping at the time. attended to the child. side. he had two places where his arm was broken. and contus

something should be done for the future of u.s.-turkey relations, and i will think that kadir will help us in eliminating this aspect. thank you very much. >> and our third speaker shadi hamid will talk about the regional implications of this and possibly some comparisons with some other countries in the middle east in the region that experienced a coup or coup attempts. >> hello, everyone. thank you to seta d.c. for having me. on july 15th -- first of all, let me just say that twitter can be dangerous because on july 15th i was off twitter for a couple hours, and i got back on, and everyone on my twitter feed was talking about a coup attempt, and i'm like this -- this happens a lot. you get off twitter and then something really bald happens so i was trying to catch un, and i remember, you know, as it was sort of settling in what was going on in realtime, i felt -- i felt this sick feeling t.reminded me of how i felt on july 1st, july 2nd, july 3rd, 2013 when the egyptian coup was happening and as someone who has worked a lot on egypt, yo

yousef: what about the turkey story? we await the moody's decision, would you put money back into turkey? brazil? >> i would prefer turkey to brazil. brazil is still marred in this , theical scandal impeachment. i do not see anything moving in a positive direction beforeear end. turkey, it is a political risk story. we all know what happened with the coup, the aftermath. turkey has not been hit very hard so far. ratingsly a change of would affect, have an impact on capital inflows, which turkey relies on. overall, i do not see the turkey story going from bad to worse. i would say there will be a stabilization over coming months. if i were to choose between brazil and turkey, i would prefer turkey. is still a good call for us to get perspective. the other call i want you to make is a call on oil. how are you placed for oil? qatar national bank raised their forecast. bullish.ore i have been bullish and the real supplys when demand and will get closer, what is the marginal cost of extracting the marginal barrel of oil? mass

. >>> communities along the turkey river are feeling optimistic as water levels are starting to receive . water levels cressida 22 1/2 feet weather service predicted that the waters with crest at 27 feet . although flood levels "the officials the fire department, the city officials, the city council all the people making decisions were very very well prepared they knew exactly what they wanted to do." do."at a press conference today the mayor of elkader thanked community volunteers for their hard work. he also encouraged people to turn their attention to the city of garber where flood levels ?are evening. it's not just people having to avoid the floodwaters.an estimated 150-thousand rainbow and brook trout were evacuated this week.the fish are from the big spring hatchery which sits near the turkey river near elkader.the iowa natural resources department moved the fish out of concern that the turkey river would get past a protective levee. a nationwide problem is bigger problem than you may think. think.that was the message at a human today hosted by senator charles grassley in des moin

roberts says the turkey river will crest at 22 feet around 10-30 this morning. at 11-30 last night, the river was at 17 and a half feet. major flood stage is 20 feet. in elgin, the river was 4 feet over the flood stage. roberts says more than 150 volunteer firefighters from 7 all over the region helped sand bag. 11-30 in clermont. when we asked her about how many sandbags firefighters used, she said thousands. the city of clermont has already evacuated an r-v park in clermont in anticipation of the turkey river's continued rise. the mayor of spillville in winneshiek county says this flood is worse than 2008. mayor mike klimesh says the turkey river in spillville set a record high yesterday, beating the previous high water mark by a the middle of a lake. crews just installed a new floor last year. the community raised money for new flooring after the 2008 flood. there just wasn't enough time to put sandbags around the building. between four and six inches of rain fell over winneshiek and allamakee counties yesterday. water filled basements and got into the main le

decided to host the nato in turkey. d when we got to the arab skipping many events here obviously, when we got to the arab spring, turkey again emerged as a potential model for the middle east. and when we got to syria all of sinceissipated again and 2013 especially, because of some of the incidents and december of -- political turmoil impacted this image of authoritarian this.tion and etc. of it has been up and down during the obama administration. while the administration was trying to pull out in the arab spring, we did not have a positive agenda of what was going to come afterwards and ever since i think the regional powers are trying to figure out how to deal with each other in many ways while the u.s. is not publicly sort of pulling out as we see in the anti-isil fight. administrationt for turkey has been overly focused on the strategic issues more narrowly how turkey contributes or doesn't. this is against the background of sort of refusing to deal with the syria issue as a whole. turkey would like to have hezboll

and the turkey river crested in elkader yesterday morning. the national weather service expected it to crest at above 26 feet, but it only reached 22 and half feet. city officials say some flood levels were higher governor terry branstad toured some of the flood-damaged areas yesterday. he made a stop in spillville..where water covered the historic inwood ballroom. the governor said he's proud of the way the town is reacting to try and bounce back. " the spirit has been great. you can see people coming together neighbors and friends and the communities are really working to clean up and help neighbors " earlier this week, governor branstad issued disaster proclamations for winneshiek, howard, fayette, neighbors and friends and the communities are really working to clean up and help neighbors " earlier this week, governor branstad issued disaster proclamations for winneshiek, howard, fayette, allmakee and clayton counties. doing that opens up state funding to help with flood recovery. new this morning, an iowa city man is facing several charges

. >> dora miller is live in fort we're at the turkey river and the water is so high. it is now at the bottom of the bridge. on the other side of the bridge they used rocks to make sure the rail road tracks don't wash away. we were able to talk to the red cross and what to do if you're not a resident. the red cross takes monetary donations even if physically here. your money can help fick some of it. >> what we can do with financial assistance is mobilize that money and those funds to get and utilize those in a bulk way. water, and do it. >> they say what you can do is keep did victims in your thoughts and prayers. >>> the national weather service in lacrosse announced there's a place people can do. those in need of shelter, or food can go to stone ridge community church in decorah. at highway 9. >>> authorities in chick shaw county was not able to help a driver as he gas swept away. a driver called 911 saying floodwaters pushed the car away. after the waters receded the body was found. viewers for sharing your foytos with us -- photos with us. if you do approach a roa

the russian as 24 that turkey said was in the air space on november 24. and to slap a lot of sanctions on turkey. some very important trading partners with almost two-thirds of natural gas but there was accusations that erdogan was benefiting from the trade. but coupled with the letter that erdogan wrote that was never made public but the russians wanted to be contained with of apology and then there was deep regret to but i think the concern that had to a time when of deepening tension with the united states, turkey baby moving at of the western orbit and willis are coordinating with russia in syria? and flip and the of policy that has been so against that by coming to some sort of agreement and then moving toward the russian position might answers to both questions is no. but that is something that policy makers have to think about seriously without falling out when turkey said it would not go to shanghai coordination with fact economic group. so erdogan shows just enough seriousness through enemy russia that we should say with that predecessor empires.

this is a good thing for the u.s. and turkey woodruff: if it hadn't been for this move, it's possible the syrian kurds would have been in that territory sooner or later, is that not right? >> i think that's the issue. the united states is having to thread a very fine needle. it has to, one, prosecute the war against isis where the syrian kurds have become the most prominent ground force and the one capable of taking the most territory, while managing ties with a nato ally who is very wary of the syrian kurds moving up to its boarder. >> woodruff: for some of these people, some terms are hard to follow. i mentioned the y.p.g., this particular syrian-kurdish group, but let me ask you about the u.s.'s interest here. until now it seems the u.s. has been careful to respect the role of the kurds in that region, despite the tension with turkey's government. what's changed? >> i don't think anything has changed. what i think is going on is in this previous operation, the one for the city a few miles south, they had turkish buy-in for he

the flooding happened as the turkey river crested yesterday in clermont. kcrg t-v nine's samantha myers was at the camp today and joins us now. samantha, it's now an "all hands on deck" clean-up effort there? were even starting to bring their campers back. the waters have receded quite a bit since yesterday, but some areas of the camp ground remain flooded. the back part of the camp ground closest to the river saw the most damage. the turkey river crested in clermont around 3:15 yesterday afternoon. both campers and people who live at skip-a-way permanently say they feel lucky it didn't get any worse. "i'm glad it went back down because it made a great deal less work for us but yeah it's just one of those situations where the flood that n of the river this morning or this afternoon so we saved part of our deck, the other part is probably down river...camp sites are totally eroded, cement pads are cracked in half, the bank that used to be there is no longer there" campers say they will spend the next few days community so all of the neighbors will continue h

the turkey river in that area rose quickly all morning. and it's now about six feet above flood stage- which is considered major flooding- the highest category. all of that extra water is causing voluntary parks and other buildings. the city has been preparing for this since last night. people living in clermont along with 150 volunteer firefighters spent a lot of time filling sandbags. one husband and wife we talked to said they hope the preparations will help them to be able to save a lot of her belongings. sot "we cleaned out the bedrooms, moving everything upstairs. we had a lot of people coming and help us, so then the fire department called and said, hey, it's time, we're going to bring sandbags." "sandbags are there, i guess more we can do." people from other towns have been reaching out to clermont to see how they can help. and now some of the turkey river's water is on its way to elgin. the clayton county sheriff's office is closing several gravel roads in elgin due to flooding. parts of agate road... ...abbey rd... ...bugle rd...