In response to Hurricane Matthew lifting north out of the caribbean. This should allow for plentiful moisture to run up and down this front, and rain totals over 1 look likely on thursday alone. Due to recent dry weather, flooding should not be a problem. Get the jackets out for friday and saturday as temperatures dip primarily into the 50s today partly cloudy and mild. Wind se 1020 high 76 tonight chance of rain late. Wind se 1015 low 61 tomorrow showers possible early, then clearing. Wind sw 515. High 75 tom. Night chance of showers and storms late. Low 60 as kaj. Tonight, the Vice President ial candidates will debate. Last weeks first president ial debate drew a record crowd. The more understated vp candidates indiana governor mike pence. Kcrg tv9s Washington Bureau chief Jacqueline Policastro reporter. Jacqueline policastro fa rmville, va jpolicas tro 01 the Vice President ial candidates will have an hour and a half in the spotlight to convince voters that theyre on the winning ticket. This small campus is ready. Students in professor harbours class came up with the idea for Longwood University to host a debate. Sot dr. William harbour Long Wood University professor 16 i said yea lets get the debate here lets get a debate here. An expert in politics. Harbour says the vice presie national discourse. Sot dr. William harbour Long Wood University professor 26 maybe we will see for the first time in this very very long and Ugly Campaign a kind of discussion that people in a democracy need to hear about the issues. Tim kaine and mike pence will likely need to defend Hillary Clinton and donald trump and spend time explaining controversial positions and actions taken by their running mates. Sot dr. William harbour Long Wood University professor 46 we see two candidates on the top of the ticket that have the highest unfavorable have unexpectedly gone on to become the president because of death or resignation. So for voters this debate a true test of whether or not the vp candidates are ready to lead the nation. Sot dr. William harbour Long Wood University professor 1 05 i think the audience will take a measure of each person and see who is up to the job. Jacqueline policastro fa rmville, va jpolicas tro 1 11 this is the only time kaine and pence will face off. Then its back on the campaign trail with just a month until election day. Reporting at Longwood University, im Jacqueline Policastro. Former Arizona Democratic congresswom about trying to End Gun Violence today in cedar rapids. The 2016 we are the vocal majority tour will stop at green square this morning at 10 15. The group visited the statehouse yesterday. Giffords and her husband, mark kelly, are leading that effort. They are urging americans to vote for gun violence prevention and the candidates who make this a central issue. Now is the time to come togetherbe responsible. De mocrats or republican everyone. We must never stop fig giffords became a National Figure in 2011 after a man shot her in the head in a mass shooting in tucson, arizona in which six people died. Theres an ongoing discussion over a possible debate between the Us Senate Candidates here in iowa. Last week, incumbent republican Chuck Grassley said he would no longer take part in an Iowa Public Television debate with his opponent, Campaign Said it was because of how iptv wanted to structure the debate. Judge has since called the cancellation unacceptable. He is unwilling to debate in the largest city in the state. Hes unwilling to go to the soapbox at the iowa state fair and stand up in front of iowa. He has not had a public townhall meeting in this city during the last term, six years in office. He obviously is not talking to people here in the des moines market and, again, i think he owes you instead, plans to debate judge at Morningside College in sioux city. Thats scheduled for october 19th. A new survey of Business Leaders in iowa and 8 other midwestern states suggests a stagnant economy that could slow even more. The economic index for the region fell to 45. 5 in september c any score below 50 suggests economic decline. Thats according a monthly survey from Creighton University an economist with the university blames the decline on weaknesses in the ag and energy industries. Along with a struggling economy, getting that first job can be difficult for young adults who dont have any experience. Thats why the Obama Administration launched the first job recruiting and hiring compact. Its an effort to encourage cities and organizations to take a chance on a experience. Last night, the Dubuque City Council agreed to take part in that program. The city says it has already had several programs in place that helps connect young people with employment. They say taking part in the First Job Program connects them with best practices where they live. The opportunity to learn from other cities and what other cities are doing. What they are finding successful. The First Job Program does mandate any employers hire an inexperienced worker. Beverages from all over the world are all are on their way to the czech and Slovak Museum library this weekend. Kcrgtv nines brea love joins us there now, as they prepare for the 13th annual brewnost. So brea, what all will this fridays event feature . Chris, its basically a big beer tasting. But its not only beer its whose her to give us the details. What can people expect if they come out . This is also a fundraiser . Now this is a popular event here in eastern iowa. Why do you feel people like it so much . I know the museum had to close for the floods, will that change anything with the line up for this year . Anything else we need to know . Thanks. Brewnost is this friday the 7th at 6 30. For information on tickets and more visit kcrg dot com. Support the ncsml while around the world each paired with a dish from a local chef. We hope youll join us october 7, and say na zdrav to an evening of fun in support of the ncsml what brewnost International Beer tasting when friday, october 7, 2016, 6 30 pm10 00 pm where national Czech Slovak Museum library 1400 inspiration place sw cedar rapids, ia 52404 the silent auction is online open now until friday, october 7 at 9 00 pm, it can be accessed from your smartphone or computer. You dont have to attend brewnost to bid on silent auction items and win click on register for auction to create an account to bid on the 80 auction items. Proceeds from the silent auction go directly to the national Czech Slovak Museum and librarys exhibits, programs and education. Cedar rapids. May be snorkel weather. Those are just a couple of the oneliner tshirts raygun is selling to help with Flood Recovery efforts in cedar rapids. Since friday, theyve sold 130 floodthemed shirts. Raygun owner mike draper says employees will take half the profits from the sale of those shirts and use it to spend at being a local business we are all about supporting other local businesses. So, uh, its one of our values giving back to our community. The floodthemed shirts are selling so well, raygun plans to order more this week. This is my choice in between food and diapers or my electricity. Extra charges caught some Alliant Energy customers when they opened up their bills. Now, the companys new system has them playing into the 70s for all areas with a nice mix of sunshine and clouds. Our slow moving front is making progress eastward today and should bring a tonight into tomorrow morning. Once we get past about 9am wednesday, the rain chance should be out of here as High Pressure builds back in for the rest of the day. By tomorrow night and especially thursday, the front buckles back into the area in response to out of the caribbean. This should allow for plentiful moisture to run up and down this front, and rain totals over 1 look likely on thursday alone. Due to recent dry weather, flooding should not be a problem. Get the jackets out for friday and saturday as the 50s today partly cloudy and mild. Wind se 1020 high 76 tonight chance of rain late. Wind se 1015 low 61 tomorrow showers possible early, then clearing. Wind sw 515. High 75 tom. Night chance of showers and storms late. Low customers about their Alliant Energy electricity bills. Alliant is charging customers for energy they used during the summer months that they have not paid for. The company says its new billing system based estimates for those months on what a customer used in the summer of 2015. But the est weather caused people to use more electricity. Alliant says it couldnt notify customers about the higher prices because it is short staffed. Some people feel they should not have to pay the higher amount. Sot something needs to be done. I mean these are hundreds, if not thousands of people being affected by Alliant Energys mistake. How can they make the customers be so affected by this . Alliant says the charges are late fees, and itll help customers set up payment plans. Tonight you can see High School Volleyball on kcrg 9. 2 independence plays at marion. Our coverage starts at 7 30. You can also see it live on kcrg. Com. One Jasper County farmer is just 3 weeks into harvest, and already has 40 of his crops in. What he planted this year to get ahead of the rush is in todays agribusiness report. But right now, heres a look at todays opening farm markets. Welcome to the agribusiness report, im welcome to the agribusiness report, im david geiger. Im sure you saw it this weekend. Combines rolling out. Empty fields. Its harvest time. So i headed over to Jasper County. To chat with farmer brock hansen. Hes already three weeks and his crop is looking. Really good. Last year was probably one of the best crops weve had in a while. I think this year, the bean yield, everyones saying are very good. The corn yields are a little more sporadic. I think we may surpass the bean yields in the usda numbers. The corn it might be a little tough to reach that number. Hansen says this year he planted early hybrids to get early contracts. To stay ahead of the rush. With a good crop. Likely. Good chance for long lines at the elevators. Thats helped by a lack of farmer selling last year. But farmers like him. Are holding on to their crop again. Hes increased on farm storage like most us farmers. Thats because the basis. Or the difference between the futures markets and what the local elevators will pay farmers. Can be 10 to 20 percent below the price. The window when our next chance to sell within a profit, who knows when that will be. We may have to sit thats whats going to happen. I suspect that every bins going to get filled that hasnt been filled in a while and guys are going to sit on this crop. Hansen also told me about a growing trend on twitter this year. Of no yield tweets. Its a movement of farmers not sharing what yields theyre getting this harvest. Including hansen. The colfax sheep and goat auction on saturday saw a fair run of 460 head of sheep. Feeder lambs fetched the days high average pric per pound, while fed lambs averaged 1. 50 per pound. The 80 goats at the auction saw a high average price ranging from 85 to 205 per head well post a video every day in the agriculture section the agriculture section of kcrg. Com. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt 3. 28 oc standard when youre on the baseball field, a run and slide into home plate shows a solid effort. But in a race against the love of your life, its best not to get too ahead of yourself. That wipeout and more next in this weeks golden a nice mix of sunshine and clouds. Our slow moving front is making progress eastward todayan the area late tonight into tomorrow morning. Once we get past about 9am wednesday, the rain chance should be out of here as High Pressure builds back in for the rest of the day. By tomorrow night and especially thursday, the lifting north out of the caribbean. This should allow for plentiful moisture to run up and down this front, and rain totals over 1 look likely on thursday alone. Due to recent dry weather, flooding should not be a problem. Get the jackets out for primarily into the 50s today partly cloudy and mild. Wind se 1020 high 76 tonight chance of rain late. Wind se 1015 low 61 tomorrow showers possible early, then clearing. Wind sw 515. High 75 tom. Night chance of showers and storms late. Low 60 a Marriage Proposal on the dream come true. If you manage to hold onto the ring. The mess ups went from the fields to the stands in this weeks golden klutz award. Lets start off with the fan who went to propose to his wife at the game but lost the ring but after they had every they found it caught in her pant leg. And when you foul a ball off in atlanta you have to keep your head on swivel or it could back and hit you. Another look in coming skud. And mommas dont let you babies catchers you never know where you are going to get hit. And if you are going to intentionally walk someone make sure you dont do this worst fielding of the week. And they had a husband wife race in atlanta and the husband stated getting a little too cute and down goes frazier. And its never a good id had a few players tackle their own teamattes. Is it possible to sack your own quarterback. It could be worse you could hit teammate full speed on a punt return and wipe them out. And finally how bout the worse catch from this face. Another look. I bet she thinks twice before she tries to catch another one the National Czech and Slovak Museum in cedar rapid survived last weeks flooding. That means a popular fall event can go on as planned later this week. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Its morning news. It could be weeks before all of the flood barriers in cedar rapids are taken down. Some neighborhood s say leaving them for now isnt that much of a problem. Motorcycle crash earlier this year. And well fact check an ad that attacks congressiona l candidate Monica Vernon record. Good morning its 530 on. Here is a live look at. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first plan on a really nice thursday highs will be into the 70s for all areas with a nice mix of sunshine and clouds. Our slow moving front is making progress eastward today and should bring a rain chance to the area late tonight into tomorrow morning. Once we get past about 9am wednesday, the rain chance should be out of here as High Pressure builds back in for the rest of the day. By tomorrow night and especially thursday, the front buckles back into the area in response to Hurricane Matthew lifting north out of the caribbean. This should allow for plentiful moisture to run up and down this rain totals over 1 look likely on thursday alone. Due to recent dry weather, flooding should not be a problem. Get the jackets out for friday and saturday as temperatures dip primarily into the 50s today partly cloudy and mild. Wind se 1020 high 76 tonight chance of rain late. Wind se 1015 low 61 tomorrow showers possible early, then clearing. Wind sw 515. High 75 tom. Night chance of showers and storms late. Low 60 thanks kaj. Is gone but the temporary flood walls may be up a while a reminder of what could have been last week. City workers and private contractors began clearing bridges and key streets last week. Now, many workers are trying to reopen ellis boulevard nw. The city is driveways, railroad crossings, and business entrances. Some barriers on the little used parking lots may not come down for several weeks. One Neighborhood Association president says the removal plan seems to make sense. Sot theyll get the ones in the biggest traffic areas out of the way first the city might leave some of the earthen berms in place. The city says the berms can help keep flood waters out again, if needed, even though theyre not up the newbo city market in cedar rapids is asking for volunteers today. The market hopes to re open on october 13th, and this morning is looking for help to move back in. The market did not take on any water in last weeks flooding. But Business Owners have lots of work to do, moving equipment and products back in. Volunteers are welcome to show up at 9 this morning. The city of cedar rapids flood it will gather at the City ServicesCenter Building on 6th street sw from 10 to 11 am today, to talk about the citys flood response process. City leaders say there was minimal damage to the properties it inspected after the flood. The city didnt inspect a home unless the owner called or asked for a utility re connection. Staffers inspected about 60 homes. The flood caused minor damage to about 10 of them. The city inspected 33 commercial properties. The flood minimally impacted 13 of those. Most of the damage was to heating and cooling the city has also issued 57 permits as of sunday, primarily for utility reconnections. Red cross kits are available for anyone who needs to clean up after flooding in their homes. The kits include bleach, mops, tarps, and trash bags. In cedar falls, kits are at fire station 2 today and tomorrow. And in waverly, cleanup supplies are available at the civic Center Starting thursday through friday. Outside of cedar rapids but in linn county, people can find the kits at the last night, dozens of West Des MoinesPolice Officers gathered for a powerful promotion ceremony for late officer shawn miller. Dozens applauded as West Des Moines police chief shaun ladue presented Millers Family with his sergeant badge. Miller was scheduled to be promoted to sergeant weeks after he died in a motorcycle crash on august 3rd. The chief decided to still honor that promotion, and Millers Family says theyre touched by the outpouring of love and support. I was very honored to have it handed to me. He loved the co to me a Police OfficerWest Des Moines city leaders also presented Millers Family with a key to the city. Iowa prison Officials Say a man serving a life sentence for his role in a notorious cedar rapids murder in 1974 has died of colon cancer. Atwell conner, jr. , was 71 when he died sunday. He was an inmate at the anamosa state penitentiary. In armed robbery. They picked up 2 teenagers, Maureen Connolly and michael servey, whose car had run out of gas on 6th street sw in cedar rapids. 1 of conners friends later raped the girl and then shot and killed both teenagers in different locations. Although the floods closed the National Czech and Slovak Museum library, its open for business and preparing for a big celebration this friday. Kcrgtv nines brea love joins us there now, where brewnost is being held. Brea, this is also a fundrais . Here goes directly to the museums operating fund. Thats what keeps things moving around here. Standing with me now is. Whose her to give us the details. What can people expect if they come out . This is also a fundraiser . Now this is a popular event here in eastern iowa. Why do you feel people like it so much . I know the museum had to close for the floods, will that change anything with the line up for this year . Anything else we need to know . Tickets and more visit kcrg dot com. Support the ncsml while sampling a huge selection of beer, wine, and ciders from around the world each paired with a dish from a local chef. We hope youll join us october 7, and say na zdrav to an evening of fun in support of the ncsml what brewnost International Beer tasting when friday, october 7, 2016, 6 30 pm10 00 pm where national Czech Slovak Museum library 1400 inspiration places auction is online open now until friday, october 7 at 9 00 pm, it can be accessed from your smartphone or computer. You dont have to attend brewnost to bid on silent auction items and win click on register for auction to create an account to bid on the 80 auction items. Proceeds from the silent auction go directly to the national Czech Slovak Museum and librarys exhibits, movie preview attacks movie preview attacks democrat Monica Vernon for some of her actions while serving on the Cedar Rapids City Council and while running for lieutenant governor. Vernon is challenging incumbent this is a race with some national attention. The kcrg and gazette Fact Checker Team put this ad to the test. Iowans have been stunned to hear vernon voted to increase property taxes and utility fees. This first claim comes from Monica Vernons votes on city budgets. In 2008, vernon supported a budget that included a property tax hike the only one during her eight years on the council. In several of those years on city utility fees. Bewildered, that she wanted to raise the gas tax. This claim referrs to vernons bid for lieutenant governor. Her running mate, jack hatch, proposed a 10cent hike in the state fuel tax, spread over five years. Vernon voiced her support for hatchs proposal. And amazed that vernon raised her own salary four vernons votes for city budgets included pay raises for City Council Members. However, salaries for City Council Members are tied to the Consumer Price index, commonly called a cost of living increase. Vernon had no say in setting her pay raise but was required to approve it within the citys annual budget. On its own, this last claim would get a much lower grade. But taken with the rest of the claims, the ad, overall, gets a b. Two of the largest Outdoor Supply stores in the country are now playing on the same team. Bass pro shop invested billions of dollars plan on a really nice thursday front is making progress eastward today and should bring a rain chance to the area late tonight into tomorrow morning. Once we get past about 9am wednesday, the rain chance should be out of here as High Pressure builds back in for the rest of the day. By tomorrow night and especially thursday, in response to Hurricane Matthew lifting north out of the caribbean. This should allow for plentiful moisture to run up and down this front, and rain totals over 1 look likely on thursday alone. Due to recent dry weather, flooding should not be a problem. Get the jackets out for friday and saturday as temperatures dip primarily into the 50s today partly cloudy and mild. Wind se 1020 high 76 tonight chance of rain late. Wind se 1015 low 61 tomorrow showers possible early, then clearing. Wind sw 515. High 75 tom. Night chance of showers and storms late. Low thanks kaj. We now have our october kcrgtv9 student of we now have our october kcrgtv9 nayra lujano is a senior at washington high school. Nayra is a top student in the classroom with a near 4. 0 gpa while taking collegelevel math, engineering and emt courses. She is multilingual, speaking fluent english and spanish and she learned chinese last year. Outside the classroom, nayra lifeguards, plays the oboe and piano for the school band, is a mentor for lego league. Shes also thoughtful of others, passing out lifesavers to students and staff on the first day of school with a note the first should help you survive. Ally edwards is a junior at linn mar high school. Ally maintains a 3. 96 gpa while taking ap classes. Shes also on the Cheerleading Team and a member of the National Honor society. Outside of school, she is a Master Instructor for the bruce taekwondo academy. She also volunteers with the edge Youth Ministry and also holds down a parttime job. Connor woof is a senior at cedar rapids Jefferson High School. Connor is a major voice at Jefferson High School and part also a drum major and recently served as master of ceremonies for the Cedar Rapids School districts rally starting the school year. Connor also works as a Camp Counselor at the ymcas camp wapsie and for ymca childcare. He is also active in politics working for the clinton campaign. Voting runs through friday at kcrg. Com stud entofthemonth. A feature on the winner to run october 25th in the kcrg first morning news. Some Retail Stores across the United States are alea with 82 days go go until christmas, some stores are already trying to stock up. On employees. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrg tvnine. All fell on the week, but only by about a third of a percent. Two rivals in the outdoor Retail Industry are getting together. Bass pro shops is acquiring cabelas for 4 and a half billion dollars. Cabelas has 85 stores with about 20 thousand emploees. Bass pro shop has 20 thousand workers at 99 stores. The sale comes after cabelas was falling behind some smaller competitors and online retailers. Retailers are using better incentives to get more offering higher pay, extra discounts and more flexible schedules. Theyre also looking to lock in those workers earlier. Macys and target are holding nationwide recruitment fairs that will allow potential employees to apply through their smart phones. Its heres a live look at on our city cam. A nice mix of sunshine and clouds. Our slow moving front is making progress eastward today and should bring a rain chance to the area l tonight into tomorrow morning. Once we get past about 9am wednesday, the rain chance should be out of here as High Pressure builds back in for the rest of the day. By tomorrow night and especially thursday, the front buckles back into the area Hurricane Matthew lifting north out of the caribbean. This should allow for plentiful moisture to run up and down this front, and rain totals over 1 look likely on thursday alone. Due to recent dry weather, flooding should not be a problem. Get the jackets out for friday and saturday as temperatures dip primarily into the 50s today partly cloudy and mild. Wind se 1020 high 76 tonight chance of rain late. Wind se 1015 low 61 tomorrow showers possible early, then clearing. Showers and storms late. Low 60 thanks kaj. Heres a look at todays top stories. Cedar rapids is making progress removing barriers after last weeks flood. The city is focusing on removing blockades from roads and business entrances. It could still be a couple of weeks before barriers set up in lesstraveled areas come down. Tonight, Vice President ial candidates will debate for the first and only time of this election. Republican governor of indiana mike pence will face off against democratic virginia offense is starting to click on all cylinders. The cyclones are coming off a heartbreaking 4542 loss to 13th ranked baylor but they have really shown improvement the last couple of yards of total offense in the last two games. Coach campbell hopes they keep on improving this week at oklahoma state. You seen us going from young when a lot of people set of not having success early in the season and probably playing not very good football to be honest with you and all the sudden playing at a really high right now its been great growth within our program and you continue to see the improvement i came back here yesterday and didnt know what to expect i found a bunch of compete. 23 oc to come and compete one of the bright spots in the hawkeyes 3831 loss to northwestern was the play of senior wide receiver riley mccarron. The 59 dubuque native had a 54 yard kick off return and a 38 yard punt return to go with 8 catches for 78 and a touchdown. With matt out now he has to take a bigger role offensively but he improved in spring ball had a really good camp so with every phase hes taking positive steps and somehow we are going to great attitude and Everybody Needs to follow his lead because he is on the right track. Sot 23 oc on the right track and while we are talking Wide Receivers the uni wide outs are starting to make some big time plays. Daurice fountain had three touchdown grabs in the 4221 win over Southern Illinois and coach farley likes the improvement he sees from all of his receivers. I think you saw some of the several adjustments we made to improve our offense and by doing so aaron grant became a part of it and we already had Michael Meloy and bradly moore and elias nisson they were already in the grove and then of course daurice fountain stepped up his game i thought jaylin really went after he made a great catch and on the long ball that was the plan for over two weeks and we made progress in that i wouldnt say it was perfect but now we have something to work from. 30 oc something to work from and finally its that time of starting off with a live look at. Its tuesday october 4th. Heres what you need to know today. Flood barriers are starting to come down from busy streets and from storefronts throughout cedar rapids after last weeks flooding. After inspecting nearly 100 homes and businesses in cedar rapids, the city foun that high water. Hurricane matthew is closing in on haiti and cuba this morning with sustained wind speed of about 145 miles per hour. Vice president ial candidates mike pence and tim kaine will hold their only debate tonight. You can watch it live on tv9 at 8 00. Beers and wines from around the world are coming to the National Czech and Slovak Museum library in cedar rapids this friday for brewnost. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news