Afternoon. Clouds should linger well into thursday with a return to much above normal temperatures by friday. In fact, many areas have a good shot at 70 degrees again by friday afternoon, with warmer than normal temperatures going well into next week as well. Today isolated showers developing late in the afternoon and evening. Wind se 1020. High 56 tonight showers and a few thunderstorm s likely. Windy. Wind se 1525. Low 50 tomorrow showers and a few thunderstorm s likely, mostly in the morning. Windy at mes. Wind var 1020. High 56 t. Ght most oy and cooler. Wind n Linn Mar School board Officials Say overcrowding has them contemplating space solutions. Now, district leaders have of restructurin g schools. Heres the districts idea. Preschool through fourth grade students would go to the existing Elementary Schools. Fifth through seventh graders would go to two middle schools, one of which the district would need to build. Eighth and ninth graders would go to a converted center which is currently excelsior middle school. And 10th through 12th graders would attend linnmar high school. Kcrg tv9s jordee kalk reports on whats next for the district. Jordee the Linn Mar School district says this is the most cost before the plan would be put into place, voters would have to pass a bond referendum. Take vo the districts next step is figuring out a way to introduce this plan to voters. The exact cost of the referendum isnt known yet. The district says it would have to find land and a pick an architect for the new school. The district believes constructing one new middle school will solve capacity issues, rather than constructing a new middle school and high school. The superintenden t says this plan also allows more kids of similar ages to learn together. 19 53, were going to look at that 5 through 7 as a culmination of the Elementary School experience and school jordee again theres no exact timeline for when voters could see this bond referendum on a ballot. In the newsroom, jordee kalk, kcrg tv9 news. A retired university of iowa administrator s lawsuit against the board of regents is continuing to court. A judge ruled the lawsuit could v private meetings the board of regents held with bruce harreld. They later hired harreld as the universitys president. The lawsuit argues the group violated the iowa open meetings act. The board of regents says it didnt violate the law, because a majority of the Board Members were not present. In a tv9 followup this morning. A man in eastern iowa who was set to go to trial for knowingly passing hiv to his partners has taken a plea deal. 35yearold adam musser of coralville pleaded not of an infectious disease. Police say he passed hiv to two women last year after telling them he was diseasefree. Musser was set to go to trial this week, but according to court records. He changed his plea to guilty and took a deal yesterday. We are working to get more details on the specifics in that deal. The driver of a car that crashed into the back of a Springville School bus is in the hospital this morning with life threatening injuries. The linn county sheriff happened shortly after 3 30 yesterday afternoon near highway 151 and stone road. First responders had to pull the driver out of her vehicle before taking her to the hospital. Authorities have not released her name. Six students were on the bus. One of them had minor injuries. California authorities are trying to identify two more People Killed in a major bus crash near palm springs. 13 of the passengers on board died when the bus semitruck over the weekend. The california Highway Patrol is investigating why the bus was going so fast. There was no appearance of braking. There was no skid marks from the bus at the time of the collision. The only skid marks were directly related to the big rig as it got pushed forward. Authorities say the driver of the bus is one of the 13 who died. 31 people were hurt. Des Moines Police say a 14yearold is in Critical Condition this morning after getting shot in the head. Of a shooting around six last night. Authorities say another person took the teen to the hospital, where police were first called. The investigation into the shooting is ongoing. A des moines rappers anti violence message now has song and music video. Song playing will keeps released his song greatness yesterday. The music video features keeps singing alongside Harding Middle School students. The song aims to inspire kids college is something to strive for. We want the kids to say hey look i am not going there i am not going to the streets i am going straight to my education i am showing the whole world how great i am keeps is donating 10 percent of his profits to College Funds for the kids in his greatness video through the i have a dream fund. You can download will keeps music videos on amazon or itunes. Sleeping in the same room with your newborn for decrease the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. Thats according to a new report from the American Academy of pediatrics. Infants between one and four months old are at the greatest risk for sids. Researchers believe when the baby is resting closer to their mother, they may be more comfortable. The report warns parents against sharing a bed with their children. Instead, newborns should sleep on a firm surface, alone. We also have bedding, we have pillows, we have duvet covers, we have sheets. Theres a lot of extra material on that bed that talking about breathing, suffocation, strangulation, entrapment. Keeping the Room Temperature between 68 and 72 degrees and increasing air flow can also reduce your childs risk of sids. A senior at Washington High School in washington, iowa is more than a helpful voice to her classmates. 17year old nayra lujano is an inspiration to students and her teachers as shes always looking for an op here is our kcrgtv9 student of the month, presented by hills bank and trust. Mas espacio . In spanish, nayra lujano helps her bandmates speak the universal language of music. Music playing when three Spanish Speaking students wanted to join the band at Washington High School. Music playing. Nayras mom, biligual outreach coordinator, made it happen. She talked to our band director and he said yeah, sure sign them up for second block and i decided to take that second block as well so i could be there and help them learn their instruments and translate. Music playing and if you think thats impressive this 17year old also has a good grasp on chinese and japanese. She can speak a Little French and picked up sign language to communicate lots of people didnt put in the effort to communicate with him. So i taught myself a little bit of sign language to learn that. Her determination is with her in the auditorium as a theatre stage manager, in meetings as a Student Voice for leadership washington, as she helps others embrace all cultures in a Multicultural Club and while building robots as part of the first tech challenge. On the first day of school, she passed out lifesavers to help her fellow students survive the first day. Walking down the hall with other students not the first vid feel uncomfortable coming to ask me and im more than willing to help, i mean, i love being there for others. So shes really our best friend, because if we have a kid whos struggling, shes the one who steps in and says hey i bet i can help you with that math concept. Nats of convo in the classrom english teacher robin flattery says nayras big picture thinking helps her learn and then teach others complex concepts. With a blend of skills in english, science, math and the arts, she says its difficult to predict nayras path. I really dont know what the future looks like for nayra because sheso and im excited to live in that world. Back in the bandroom nats im not quite sure where ill end up in the future but it will be something great im pretty sure. I dont think ill settle for anything less. Nats nayra lujano, our kcrgtv9 estudiante del mes. Nayras current interest is in Aerospace Engineering possibly as a major at iowa state. She says she wants to hold onto decides to do. If you know a student youd like to nominate, head to kcrg dot com slash student of the month. Well announce three finalists for november the first tuesday of the month. River rushing area officials are demanding a response from federal authorities, as they work to update the Coralville Lake plan. But right now, heres a look at todays opening farm markets. Good slight chance at a few rain showers developing later today. The overall timing of this low pressure system hasnt changed at all and should drop most of its rain during the night and into wednesday morning. A half inch to one inch of rainfall is possible with this system by the time it departs on wednesday afternoon. Clouds should linger well into thursday with a return to much above normal temperatures by friday. In fact, many areas have a good shot at afternoon, with warmer than normal temperatures going well into next week as well. Today isolated showers developing late in the afternoon and evening. Wind se 1020. High 56 tonight showers and a few thunderstorm low 50 tomorrow showers and a few thunderstorm s likely, mostly in the morning. Windy at times. Wind var 1020. High 56 tom. Night mostly cloudy and cooler. Wind nw 515. Nearly four weeks after the nearly four weeks after the cedar river crested in cedar rapids, you can still see piles of sandbags outside some downtown businesses. Now the city wants those the city already picked up sandbags from residential areas, but its not doing that for businesses. They will have to make their own arrangements getting rid of them. Businesses can drop off sandbags at four locations. In the newbo district, czech village, kingston village, or at the old sixth Street Alliant Energy power plant. The city says businesses that dont move the sandbags could face fines. Johnson county wants the army corps of engineers to explore changes to help prevent corps to review its policy for where it keeps water levels on Coralville Lake throughout the year. Since 1993, there has been significant flooding at both at the lake and along the iowa river. Officials in Johnson County say the corps needs to take a closer look at the outdated plan before another major flooding event happens. You cannot manage a reservoir with a 1990s plan, something needs to change, a lot has changed, including rainfall. Johnson county Officials Say the cost of a new plan has dropped significantly in recent years. They say theyd even help the corps pay for it. They wanted to know the interest of the locals in participating in some of the financial implications of that, so tonights meeting, were going to talk and see the interest of the local entities impacted by this. During that meeting, area leaders discussed sending a letter to the corps asking them to do a an american car maker is now in Consumer Reports top three. And thats thanks to its conservative take on technology. More on that in todays tech bytes. Day, polls show Hillary Clinton with a growing as abcs Angelica Spanos reports, trump is now suggesting those polls are wrong. On day two of a three day tour in the battleground state of florida, donald trump lashes out against the polls. Sot trump folks, were winning, were winning and last night, trumps team bypassing the Mainstream Media . With his Facebook Live show called trump tower live the hosts taking trumps message directly to the american people. But in new hampshire, clinton joined forces with warren. The pair bashed trump after he called clinton a nasty woman at the last debate. Sot sen warren get this, donald nasty women are tough. Nasty women are smart. And nasty women vote. And on november 8th, we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes to get you out of our lives forever. Clinton, accused trump of having no concrete plan to defeat isis. Sot clinton he is basically declaring defeat before the battle has even started, he is proving to the world what it means to have an underway in florida and texas. Two key states trump would need to win. Trump says dont wait until november 8th. Sot trump get your friends, your family, your coworkers out to vote so you can go vote today, you can go vote tomorrow but get out to vote tag and both candidates are campaigning in florida today with just two Angelica Spanos, abc News New York now for a quick check on your slight chance at a few rain showers developing later today. The overall timing of this low pressure system hasnt changed at all and should drop most of its rain during the night and into wednesday morning. A half inch to one inch of rainfall is possible with this system by the time it departs on wednesday afternoon. Clouds should linger well into thursday with a return to much above normal temperatures by friday. In fact, many areas have a good shot at 70 degrees again by friday afternoon, with warmer than normal temperatures going well into next week as well. Today isolated showers developing late in the afternoon and evening. Wind se 1020. High 56 tonight showers and a few thunderstorm s likely. Windy. Wind se 1525. Low 50 in todays techbytes, the most Reliable Rides on the road. Buick is the first domestic brand to make the top three in Consumer Reports reliability ratings following lexus and toyota. Honda slipped this year largely because of technology. Consumer reports called the civics touch screen radio infuriating. You can get a free flu shot using the uber app available in 17 areas. Choose the health optio the app between 11 00 and 3 00 and arrange for a location to have a registered nurse meet you. The offer is good for up to five people. What costumes will you be seeing this year . Criminal harley quinn tops the search list. Her boyfriend, the joker is second. 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Plan on a cloudy tuesday with a slight chance at a few rain showersdeveloping later today. The overall timing of this low pressure system hasnt changed at all and should drop most of its rain during the night and into wednesday morning. A half inch to one inch of