From the KCRG-TV9 Newsroom:
Two cyclists have now died while riding RAGBRAI this year. The Minnesota State Patrol says 54-year-old Kelly Paul of Texas died Monday when the route crossed into Minnesota. He collapsed on the route of a medical emergency. The Iowa State Patrol says a second cyclist died Tuesday in Estherville. This person has not been identified. We don’t know the causes of death for either cyclist.
The RAGBRAI ride enters day five today. Cyclists will take off from Iowa Falls and head for their next overnight stop in Cedar Falls. They’ll pass through towns including Aplington, Parkersburg and New Hartford.
We’re now learning that the most premature baby ever born that survived was born in eastern Iowa. Baby Nash arrived 133 days premature at University of Iowa Health Care. That’s 21 weeks; a full term is 40 weeks. He’s officially set the Guinness World Record. The record-breaking birth was just announced this week, after Nash was able to celebrate his first birthday on July 5.
A technology company says it will break ground on a new data center in southwest Cedar Rapids next Tuesday. Governor Kim Reynolds is expected to attend the ceremony at the site for QTS in the area of the Big Cedar Industrial Center. This is one of two data centers coming to the city. Construction is already underway for Google’s center near the airport. There are concerns about dozens of potentially illegal wells tied to the construction depleting nearby Fairfax’s drinking water. Construction for QTS would extend into Fairfax. The city says it started looking into the wells weeks ago. The city says those wells aren’t a big concern since they don’t reach the aquifer which supplies water for homes, businesses and firefighters.
Satellites on a mission led by the University of Iowa have blasted off into space. The satellites, called TRACERS, were supposed to be launched Tuesday but the mission had to be scrubbed because of airspace concerns. That’s the moment a Space-X rocket launched from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base. The satellites developed largely by the University of Iowa were on board. They’ll gather data on magnetic fields and how space weather impacts Earth.
