News release from the Iowa Department of Transportation website:

Interstate 80 to open at 4 p.m. today

AMES, Iowa – The Iowa Department of Transportation plans to open Interstate 80 at 4 p.m. today. All lanes in both directions will be open to traffic traveling through Iowa.

The road had been closed due to flooding of the Cedar River.

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This is the latest in a series of diaries begun by SlyDi, tracking the crisis in the Midwest.  I'm going to begin by re-capping some of the updates overnight, list a few sites to go to for more info, then leave it as an open thread for updates.  Please rec this up so that it stays up for a while.  Anyone who is willing to post the next installment when this scrolls off, speak up.

John Deeth has a district-by-district breakdown and some additional commentary at:

http://jdeeth.blogspot.com/...

Briefly, Saturday, April 26, the Iowa Democratic Party holds district conventions at 5 sites around the state, one in each of the 5 congressional districts.  Some 2,500 Iowans are expected to take part in the next step in the state's delegate selection process, and the first selection of actual national delegates who will represent the state in Denver.

Normally, nobody but Iowa democrats would care about these district conventions, but with every national delegate gained or lost the subject of intense interest and speculation, this is a very different year.  Here's a summary of where the delegate count seems to be, going into the day.