Governor Kim Reynolds visited Cedar Rapids Thursday to speak with area experts and members of the Linn County Emergency Management team. This comes after the governor says 57 counties in Iowa have received the governor's disaster proclamation.

Republican leaders in the Iowa legislature say they will meet with Governor Kim Reynolds to chart the state’s response to the catastrophic flooding that’s hit western Iowa.

A rare set of preconditions has left some of the nation’s biggest river basins vulnerable to what could be widespread and historic flooding, NOAA warned in its spring flood outlook issued on Thursday.

The "bomb cyclone" dominated headlines last week, but the flooding it caused in the U.S. Great Plains did not initially.

Portions of Iowa have a 95 percent chance of major flooding this spring, according to a grim report from the National Weather Service.