Clear low 4248 winds nw 510 alo 43 dbq 43 iow 49 thanks kai. Firefighters in eastern iowa say theres a high risk for fire today. This after dry conditions and strong winds helped fuel several fie fires yesteray. The fire in waaington countyy was the result of a weekend burn, which high winds rekindled yesterday morning. The fire burned a barn and a whole lot of field, near 180th street and spruce avenue. Fire Officials Say someone was burning trash on saturday nighthtand even ys later this type of situation could happen again. Its obvious, dont be burning, especially on a wdy day, but until we get some rain, i wouldnt recommend any burning at all. Fire officials are urginn you to keep a close eye on the area where the burn was conducted. No one was hurt during this fire. And a field fire in Fayette County burned 120 acres. No one hurt in this one either. It happened on 30th streee near the oelwein municipal airpprt yesterday afternoon. The fairbank fire chief believes sparks or hot metal on a stalk chopper started the fire. As our dry weather conditions continue, dbuque and delaware countes are the latest to issse burn bansssome burningg is allowed, like those who have a burning permit or use a gril. Yesterday was a very windy day, and this is what it looked l in dubuque. In a tv9 folowup this morning. A state rview says numerous lapses in security led to an Inmates Escape in fort madison this year. Authorities say Justin Kestner a convicted armed robber escaped on july 4th. Priso officials diovered him missing during a head count about seven hours s ater. Authorities took him into custody about 100 miles away from this prison, just east of the quad cities. The review found Correctional Officers didnt checkup on inmates when they were supposed to, or keep n accurate loo. They also didnt notice a makeshift ummy that kestner left his under his blankets on his bed. Kestner told investigators that he timed his release during the july 4th fireworks, hoping officers would be distracted. From hiscell he was able to get to a small arara where pipes ruu and then got onto the roof. He then climbed down the buildings downspout. One man is behind bars this morning after police found pieces of a meth lab inside his hom. Black hawk county sheriffs offi says 39arold Randall Wagner called officers to his home for help. Then, they got a search warrant and found parts of a methamphetam ine lab. Police have carged wagner with conspiracy to manufacture meth, along with other possession charges. A n charged wiwi killing a frienn while driving drunk last year may not go to trial. According to the waterloocedar falls courier 19yearold Anthony Fogle seems ready to accept a plea eal. Authoriies say fogg lost control of hhs truck and november. 20yearold Branden Samuel was killed. Assistant Fayette CountyAttorney Says fogle may enter a plea deal at the november 2nd hearing. A man will spendd15 years in prison for leading l lw enfooement on a hii speed chase that ended in a crash with school bus. A judge sentenced 46 year old James Surrett for attempting to elude and being a habitual offender. He will have to serve a mandatory three year before he is eliggle for parolee surrett led sheriffs deputies on a chase in february with speeds reaching more than 100 miles per hour. The chase ended in downtown cedar rapids, when he crashed into a schoolus and a pickup. The driver f the pickup who was egnant ann her child had minor injuries. Cedar rapids is working with the state on a plan to remove trees at a rest stop on 380. Thats where a state ag official found an infestation of the erald ash borer. Its about a halfmile north of the linncounty Johnson County line. The Emerald Ash Borer kills ash trees by feeding on their inr bark, disrupting the flow of water and nutrients. City leaders say they dont know how many trees crews will have to cct down. The iowa departmentntof Natural Resources says Emerald Ash Borers have infested trees in 28 other counties across the state. That includes allamakee, black hawk, bremer, cedar,dubuque and keokuk counties. Tree organizations and arboristt say if land owners havent already, they need to make a plan. Trees forever in marion is a nonprofit that works to help people with the Emerald Ash Borer. They recommend saving a tree with pesticide treatments. But the Organization Says there are reasons to take it out too. 11 53 44 if you have a tree that didnt properly leaf out or have a really young tree, like n ash tree thats under ten years probably, i would look at probably removing that tree or lookingto replace tat tree with another tree. If you choose to treat with pesticides, you need to reapply it about every two years. Oelwein may be putting up airport there. Cityand coty offials met yesterday to talk about zoning issues with this project. A wind energrgcompany approached Fayette County with interest in Building Three windmills within two miles of the oelwein municipal airport. The airport is west of the city and falls within county lines. Oelwein city officials ivited e countys board of supervisorr to provide information on how the windmills would affect the airport. Pleasant creek lake is now down 8 and a half feet as a restoration project continues. Crews re lowering the water by up to 15 feet to fix erosion ppoblems. As you can see, its uncovered tires, cinder blocks and garbage, but Officials Say its nothing unusual. Three and a half Million Dollars of state tax payer money is paying for the project. A developer plans to tear down a row of homes i dubuque and build a laundromat. The Dubuque City Council approved rezoning the 16hundred block ouniversity avenue. Change. They say parkinand trffic are alreay a problemmn that area. Theyre also wororied about future developement but the developer says he plans to use it for laundromat and nothing else. I will commit to it being a laundromat and it will be a beautiful laundromat for the community. Holy triity lutheraa church owns the rental homes on university avenue. Its in the process of selling them to the developer. Governor Terry Branstad and Lieutenant Governor kim reynolds hope new program will help small communities that are quickly expandig. Theheworkforce Housing Loan Program would provide Financial Assistance to help build more rntal housing. Right now it has 5 Million Dollars available through low cost repayable loans to cities and counties. The governr and lieuteant vernor say thh loans will have one percent interest rate, and the Housing Units will not be age restricted. A state senator from cedar rapids is skeptical about the governors estimated 51Million Dollars n cost savikgs involving iowas medicaiddhealth care ppogram. Thats according to the des moines register. Branstad wants to shift the program from State Government to private management. Right now 560thousand iowans are on medicaid. Senator robert hogg is the chrman of the Iowa Senate Government Oversight committee. Hes asking for information that documents the claims privatizing the program will save money without hurting services. During News Conference yesterday, branstad said the number is from the department of uman services estimate. A need for nurses. Hospitals in dubuque and cedar rapids are taking the search into their own hands with a pair of job fairs. Finley hospital in dubuque is hosting a job fair today. St. Lukes in cedar rapids is holding its own jobobfair tomorrow. Much of the nursing workfoce is nearing retirement age in the next decade. Unitypoint wants to get ahead of the demand and hire now. Hospital Officials Say the hope s the new nurses can learn from their exexrienced peers. S. Todays joo fair at Finley Hospital in dubuque is in the auditorium from 3 to 7. Tomorrows job fair is at saint lukes from 37 in the afternoon. It will bein the Nassif Heart Center on the third floor. Comii up in the nee half hour, tv9s Forrest Saunders will join us live with more on the need for nurses. Anticipation is building as Vice President joe biden makes moves toward a run for president. He subtly resonds to hillay clintons comments about repplicans. She would face the biggest challenge from him for the nomination. The Us Government wants to control drones within our borders. Theyre trying to keep rack of the technology thats growing in popularit but riit now, heressa look at todays overall, plan on another mild day. While the wind has backed off substantially, hold off on burning due to extremely dry conditions. A few showers may potentially flare up later today, however, amounts would be of an inch. Theres a better chance of getting missed by showers than hit by them. Plan on mainly dry conditions from wednesday into thursday with our next system set to bring us another rain chance later on friday. This system also appears pretty moisturestarrd at this point. Looking ahead to the weekend, it should be another spectacular one wwh into the 60s and lows dropping back to the 30s. Today isolated pm showers high 7177 winds sw 1020 alo 74 dbq 73 iow 74tonight isolated showers low 5258 winds s 510 alo 54 dbq 55 iow 56tomorrow partly cloudyhigh 7177 winds sw 515 alo 7 dbq 74 iow 76tomorrow night mostly clear low 4248 winds nw 510 alo 43 dbq 43 iow 49 it worrs overnight ere hoping the orce was on their sidid. Tickets forrthe nene star wars movie went on sale last night, as some bought hundreds at a time. Thats coming up on todays speculation continues to grow on whther or not Vice President oe biden will enter he 2016 race. And on theeepublican side, the latest polls still show donald trump and ben carson neck and neck at the top. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the details from washingfon. Race . . . That is still the biggest question. Looming over Vice President joe biden. Sot Josh Earnestwhite House press secretary this is an intensely personal decision for anybody to make the ting pressure that hes under, but hell make a decisn when hes repared to make it. Everyone bububiden is weighing on this decision. Especially supporters. Nats never quit video shot of draft biden. 2 videos out. Lots of questions. Nats Kristin Welker will you run . . . Iden laughs and stll no decision. But how about this . Subtle cebacks from biden potentially aimed attthe 2 democratic frontrunners. Hillary clinton and bernie sanders. Biden i dont consider republicans enemies. Theyre friends, a possible response to clintons debate answer when asked . Which enemy she is most proud of. Hilllry probably tte republicans. Clinton later calling her answer tonguein cheek. And. Was this one for the self described Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders . Biden im not one of thse guys you know, lets go after the rjch and the powerful and problem. Theyre not a problem. On the republican side. Trump vs bush . Trump suggesting president George W Bush was to blame for the 9 11 attacks. And bush steppig in to one again defend h brother. Sotbush cnn does anyone actually blame my brother foo the attacks on 9 11. If they do theyre totally marginalizing our society. A brand new poll out has donald trump and ben carson neck and neck at the top marco rubio next, but still several points behind. Tag polling on the demcratic side shows votes think clinton is a stronger leader than biden but the vp is more liliable. As the vp gets closer and closer to a decision. Abc news has learned hes held talks with potential supporters and democrats. In early primary states. Stephanie ramos abc news washington. The Us Government hopes a plan to require registration of drones helps prevent crashes in the skies. Secretary of transportatio n anthony foxx says anyone who buys a drone must register with the government. A newlyformed task force will now meet to iron out the details, including possible exemptions for toy drones. The announcement comes afqer federal authorities reported drone sigting have doubled nce last yearr somemehave flown too close to planes and airports. Whether we are talking about Driverless Cars or unmanned aircraft, were committed as an agency to recognizing the potentil of these innovations while we establish thth ground rules to ensure their safe integration into our National Transportation system. The faa says its developing technology that can identify droneoperators and force them to land. Fedeal authoritiessare investigatatg after a hacker released information from te personal account of the head of the cia. The alleged hacker who says hes a High School Student claimed to recently access director John Brennans email account. Hehesaid he did d t because he waa angry at the plight t f the palestinians. So far, the fbi says theres no evidence that he accessed classified information. This morning, paralympianscar pistorius is under house arrest. Outh african officials released him yesterday after serving only about a year for killing his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. A judge found him negligent in the 2013 valentines day shooting and sentenced him to a fiveyear term. Less wind out there today but still warmmr than normal. Now for a quick check on your weather with meteorologist kaj omara. Now, one last look at this mornings weather, kaj. Overall, plan on another mild day. While the wind has backed off substantially, hod off on burning due to extremely dry conditions. A few showers may potentially flare up later today, hover, amounts would e extremelyylight and probably ununer a tenth f an ch. Theres aabetter chance of getting missed by showers than hit by them. Plan on mainly dry conditions from wednesday into thursday with our next system set to bring us another rain chance later on friday. This system also appears pretty moisturestarved at this point. Looking ahead to the weekd, it should be another spectacularone with ghs into the 60s and lows dropping back to t 30s. Today isolated pm shhers high 77 nds w 1020 o 74 dbq 73 iow 74tonight isolated owers low 5258nd s 510 alo 54 dbq 55 iow tomorrow partly cloudygh 7177 winds sw 515 alo 72 dbq 74 iow 76torrow night mostly ear low 4248 winds nw 510 alo 43 dbq 43 iow 49 w heres reena nin andnis giowhtodays americas money. Trtc good morning. Topping americas money mounting legal woes for volkswagen. The company is facing hundreds of lawsuits, experts buy back recalled cars altogether. Gas prices are dropping again. The National Average 2. 26. 85 cents cheaper than last year. Drivers in new jersey are payinin the lowest at just under 2 bucks a gallon. Star wars fans wasted no time of getting tickets to the film due outn cember. 2 30 trailer debuted during monday night football. Demand unprecedented. This fan bought 175 tickets at an imax in nevada. Wow. Very Terry Bradshaw . What a surprise you know what else is a surprise . Shingles. And how it can hit you out of nowhere. I know. I had it. Cmon lets sit down and talk about it. And did you know that one inthree people will get shingles . all no. Thats why im reminding people if you had chickenpox then the shingles virus is already inside you. all oooh. Whos had chickenpox . Scoot over. And look that nasty rash can pop up anywhere and the pain can be even worse than it looks. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist. Source, this is kcrgtv9 news Early Morning news. A bus crash in Buchanan County sent 4 people to the hospit. 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