University of iowa shows how improperly fitted hearing aids can affect Language Development in hard of hearing kids. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on some fog to start off your wednesday. While this fog may be locally dense, it doesnt appear itll last very long and should be out of the area by 9 or 10 am. Temperatures will take off once the fog burns away, leading to another day with highs around 70. This should be the end of the road for any 70s for a while as november reality moves in later this week in the form of a cold front. This front should generate some rain for us late thursday into thursday night. While a shower may linger through sunrise in our eastern counties on friday, this system will largely be gone and off to the east. Itll be much cooler too, with highs of only 5055. Enjoy your 3 newcomers and 1 incumbent are banding together after their wins for the Iowa City Council seats. They are calling themselves the core 4. For the city council at large seats, Jim Throgmorton and rockne cole pulled in the most votes. Throgmorton had the most at 33 percent and cole at 27. They beat out tim conroy and incumbent michelle payne. And in district a, Pauline Taylor sealed her spot with 55 percent of the votes. While in district C John Thomas narrowly beat Scott Mcdonough at 5248. The core four say they ran together as a slate focused on being inclusive and fair. They watched the results come in last night at the sanctuary in iowa city. They say they make the Iowa City Council a truly progressive group. Incoming member rockne cole says they wont waste any time getting right to work. We have to come together and thats one of the first things well do is ill Work Together with those critics, i think it also says we need positive progressive change, and i think we have an opportunity for dynamic Economic Growth and im really excited in store for iowa city. Cole says the core four will focus on Smart Development in the downtown area. In recent years there has been a lot of controversy surrounding demolition of Historic Properties to make way for Student Housing type buildings. Just 15 percent of registered voters turned out for yesterdays election. Marions new mayor is Nick Abouassaly hes a Current City Council member. Abouassaly beat out john nieland and joe spinks for the position. He took 46 percent of excited to take over the position. 10 44 40 i am so proud of my campaign and the positive campaign that we ran and we were able to wake up the silent majority in marion and get people excited about the future of marion. Dozens gathered at cibo fusion, a restaurant in marion, to celebrate abouassalys victory. The marion mayor is a fullvoting member of the city council. City leaders say the new mayor will be involved in a lot of upcoming project decisions about things like a third potential library project. Common sense decisions, be fiscally responsible but do what we need to, to work with the growth and to allow our community to grow in a positive way and continue to provide a great quality of life for our citizens. The marion mayor position is a fouryear term. Abouassaly says his council seat will be vacated and that the city appoint someone or hold an election to fill his seat. Hiawatha picked newcomer bill bennett, junior over its twoterm mayor and longtime city with 54 percent of the vote. He owns several businesses including a motorcycle dealership in hiawatha. This morning, two cities in Black Hawk County still dont know who their mayor will be. Three people were running for the mayor position in cedar falls. Jim brown got the most votes with 45 percent. Long time mayor jon crews got 35 percent. But, a candidate needs 50 percent of the vote to win. The Runoff Election will be next month. The mayors race in waterloo will also have a runoff. Again, none of the candidates got more than fifty percent of the vote. Five people were running for the position with buck clark not running for reelection. The city is planning the Runoff Election for december first. Were also showing other Election Results at the bottom of your tv, and you can find results of all the eastern iowa races on our website. Just go to kcrg dot com slash Election Results. The trial continues today for a man accused of fatally stabbing 29 year old Lynnsey Donald in the parking lot of the marion hyvee. Jurors watched graphic Surveillance Video from the incident in april. 32 year old Nicholas Luerkens is on trial for first degree murder. Prosecutors say luerkens stabbed and killed his former girlfriend after numerous failed attempts to reconcile with her over three months. His defense plans to claim luerkens was insane and intoxicated at the time of the assault. Linn county attorney Jerry Vander Sanden questioned people who were shopping and working at the marion hyvee the day of the attack. Many of them say there was lots of screaming and confusion in the moments after it happened. A woman who was shopping that day says she saw the attack happening and tried to stop it. 25 00 16 when my brain kicked in and i saw what was happening, i tried to push him to get him to stop. When that didnt even phase him, i got behind him and went to pull him off of her. Thats when he stopped and looked at me, and then i stopped and i ran back to my car. Another hyvee employee, Eric Breitbach took the stand. He handles Surveillance Video for hyvee. Breitbach pointed out luerkens in the video while the Surveillance Video of the attack played before the jury. An effort to delay privatizing medicaid in iowa has failed. Democratic lawmakers on the Health Policy oversight committee. Proposed asking the governor to hold off on implementing the plan for six months. But republicans opposed it, and the proposal did not move forward. The Deputy Director of the department of Human Services admits privatizing medicaid is a work in progress. Networks wont be as fully developed as they are a week from now or two weeks from now, and we understand that, and thats a true statement. Branstads plan to move medicaid to private management is scheduled to start january first. The department of Human Services say its trying to ensure a smooth transition to hearing aids are vital for kids with partial hearing loss to develop Language Skills. But the university of iowa has found many kids with hearing aids arent getting all they could out of them. Tv9s Forrest Saunders is live in the newsroom this morning. Forrest, many childrens hearing aids arent fitted optimally . The number surprised me. According to the uis five year study, more than a third of young kids. But theres some good news too. The study looked at 317 young kids with mild to severe hearing loss, and compared them to 117 kids with normal hearing. Here were the big takeaways. Getting kids optimally fit hearing aids equals a better rate of Language Development. Also, those kids who get those hearing aids and have Services Early can catch up to or significantly close the Language Development gap with peers. We can expect really great outcomes from these kids. So if your child is diagnosed with heating loss you can still expect them to be keeping up with their peers as long as theyre reviving that appropriate intervention. Officials say theyve been able to renew the grant to continue the study for years to come. The findings from this study were published last month and can be found online. Thanks a lot, forrest. Twitter users may have noticed a change to their feeds. And are you at a loss for words . Google may be able to help. Thats in todays tech bytes. Plan on some fog to start off your wednesday. While this fog may be locally should be out of the area by 9 or 10 am. Temperatures will take off once the fog burns away, leading to another day should be the end of the november reality moves in later this week in the form of a cold front. This front should generate some rain for us late thursday into thursday night. While a shower may linger through sunrise in our eastern counties on friday, this system will largely be gone and off to the east. Itll be much cooler too, with highs of only 5055. Enjoy your day thanks kaj. Now heres abcs reena ninan hey there, in todays techbytes twitter trading in its stars for hearts. You may have noticed the change, the heart is more universal. 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And Hillary Clinton is taking swipes at some gop frontrunners as a new poll shows how she would do against potential republican rivals. Abcs lana zak has the latest. Republican president ial hopeful thinks its time for republicans to coalesce around a few candidates. 7. Soundbite donald trump, republican president ial hopeful do i think its time to have some of the other republican candidates drop out . Yes. Theyre too many people. But with ben carsons popularity surging, trump is taking on his closet rival, saying carson lacks the experience and disposition to be president. Sot trump you look at ben, hes very weak on immigration, and he wants to get rid of medicare itd be a terrible thing to get rid of medicare. The attacks didnt seem to bother Carson Carson sot ive had a lot of experiences doing things that have never been done before particularly in the medical field. And with both trump and carson penning new books, the two men will begin battling it out on the best seller charts too. While in new hampshire, jeb bush is getting fired up were americans, damn it some bush supporters saying the candidate they wanted finally came out last night. And on the left, Hillary Clinton is asking voters to support her, even if they dont love her. Clinton there is no doubt in my mind that there is no such thing as a perfect candidate, because there is no such thing as a perfect person. 20 36 17 tag in a new headtohead poll, Hillary Clinton beats all of her potential republican rivals excepti one. Ben carson. The two president ial hopefuls evenly matched at 4747. A Law Enforcement official says they believe suicide was the cause of death for fox lake, Illinois Police lieutenant joe gliniewicz. The Lake County Sheriffs Office says it will give conclusive results of the investigation at a News Conference this morning. Lieutenant gliniewicz was pursuing three suspicious men when he was found shot dead, outside his vehicle. Authorities said he was killed with his own service weapon. The coroner has said he cant rule out a homicide, suicide or accident. Kansas city is still in celebration mode after its team won the world series for the first time in 30 years. More than double the population of the city turned up downtown to celebrate the royals taking the crown. Now heres a live look at our citycam. Kaj omara will be back right after the break with a look at your wednesday forecast. Meteorologist kaj omara joins us now with your first alert forecast. Plan on some fog to start off your wednesday. While this fog may be locally dense, it doesnt appear itll last very long and should be out of the area by 9 or 10 am. Temperatures will take off once the fog burns away, leading to another day with highs around 70. This should be the end of the road for any 70s for a while as november reality moves in later this week in the form of a cold front. This front should generate some rain for us late thursday into thursday night. While a shower may linger through sunrise in our eastern counties on friday, this system will largely be gone and off to the east. Itll be much cooler too, with highs of only 5055. Enjoy your day kansas city is still celebrating the royals world series win. The city turned into a sea of blue yesterday for the teams victory predicted around eight hundred thousand people lined the streets to get a glimpse of the players and championship trophy. Kansas city police said they only had three arrests during the celebration all minor offenses. One for one. A democratic and a republican president ial candidate spoke to iowa voters. Hillary clinton made promises about gun violence, while john kasich focused on hello on your wednesday morning. This is a live look at our citycam. Its november fourth and this is what you need to know. Voters in cedar rapids say no to a tax levy that would have given money to the public library. Now it has to make some changes, including closing one day a week. We have Election Results from other towns across eastern iowa. With major upsets and Runoff Elections in the mix. Gloves are coming off in the 2016 president ial race. Big names in the gop are taking jabs at one another, and democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is getting in the mix. The iowa dci is investigating an officer involved shooting in waterloo. The suspect led police on a chase and drove at officers, leading to gunfire. And a new study from the university of iowa shows how improperly fitted hearing aids can affect Language Development in hard of hearing kids. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news first, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on some fog to start off your wednesday. While this fog may be locally dense, it doesnt appear itll last very long and should be out of the area by 9 or 10 am. Temperatures will take off once the fog burns away, leading to another day with highs around 70. This should be the end of the road for any 70s for a while as november reality moves in later this week in the form of a cold front. This front should generate some rain for us late thursday into thursday night. While a shower may linger through sunrise in our eastern counties on friday, this system will largely be gone and off to the east. Itll be much cooler too, with highs of only 5055. Enjoy your cedar rapids voters rejected a tax levy to fund the public library. Now Library Officials say theyll have to start making cuts. Nearly 55 percent of voters said no to the special levy that would have raised an estimated one point six Million Dollars each year. It needed a simple majority to pass. The levy would have raised property taxes about 23 dollars a year for the owner of a home with an assessed value of 150 thousand dollars. Library Officials Say theyll look at cuts in several places to make up for the funding deficit. Thatll include fewer outreach programs and fewer staff members. Itll also mean closing the library at least one day a week. Right now its open seven days a week. For the dozens of people who worked to get the levy on the ballot, the Election Results are disappointing. 20 29 46 this is not a win for the people who have to use the library as a lifeline. Its a loss for them, im sad for them. Im also sad for the people of cedar rapids, because that makes this city stronger. Officials havent nailed down specifics for cuts. Theyll start analyzing Operational Data soon. In waterloo, the Grout Museum District will receive about 600thousand dollars each year. Thats about 23 dollars extra each year for a home with an assessed value of 150thousand dollars. The levy will provide funding for the Museum Districts five buildings, which include the Sullivan BrothersIowa Veterans museum and the grout museum of history and science. This is the second time the issue was on the ballot. It failed by about 600 votes in 2013. The two incumbents will serve another four years on cedar rapids city council. Ann poe received 27 percent and Susie Weinacht had 26 percent of the vote. They defeated wade wagner, Carletta Knox seymour and bridgett wood. The candidates participated in a forum last month where they discussed their plans for the economy, a new Recreation Center and ideas to improve the we talked to poe last night. She says shes ready to finish what the council started these last four years. Continuing with job growth and economic development, paving progress, continuing to make streets a priority. We need to get our funding for our Flood Control and protection system, and we want to make sure our neighborhoods are safe. We also reached out to wienacht, and she wanted wait to comment until the final results were posted. Looking at the district 4 City Council Seat results. Scott olson defeated lisa kuzela with 54 percent of the vote. Olson was the incumbent in this race. Two Dubuque City Council women have lost their seats to challengers who are both relatively new to the community. With 73 percent of the votes luis del toro beat out incumbent karla braig. That was for the dubuque ward 2 seat. And jake rios ousted City Council Member lynn sutton by double the percentage. Rios pulled in 68 percent of the vote for the ward 4 spot. Del toro says his victory over an incumbent means people in dubuque want new leadership to address safety in the city. Rios is thinking along the same lines. He says he wants the city to pay more attention to find a way to effectively reduce crime throughout the community. Just today my neighbor got robbed so its kind of like why are those cameras not in our neighborhood even though weve had a stabbing and robberies and what not and so its common sense things like that. Del toro also says reducing the citys debt is also a top priority. Were also showing other Election Results on the bottom of your tv screen. You can also find results of all the eastern iowa races on our website. Just go to kcrg dot com slash Election Results. Democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton promised she would fight for gun violence prevention. She held a town hall event at st Morrison Park in i know its a difficult battle we can be determined and make this a voting issue just like the other side does clinton also vowed to defend the Affordable Care act or obamacare. From coralville, another campaign stop. On the other side of the aisle, but same part of the state Ohio Governor john at Loras College in dubuque yesterday. The republican president ial candidate on Bank Regulations and wall street issues. Repeal some of those regulations. We put a lot of regulations in place now called dodd frank. And the problem with dodd frank is there are so many rules and regulations, you know what it is doing . Its killing the little bank. Its killing the bank in dubuque, so the bank in dubuque doesnt lend. It cant make money so they sell and the big banks get bigger. After leaving loras, kasich headed to alabama, for an event there. Hearing aids can give kids who are hard of hearing the chance to develop Language Skills at close to the same rate as their peers. A university of iowa study shows how vital properly fitted hearing aids are to young children. Kcrg tv9s Forrest Saunders joins us at the desk this morning. Forrest, this was a first of a kind study . Thats according to ui officials. Researchers said there are very few studies out there on infants and preschoolers with mild to severe hearing loss. This study zeroed in on them and how Hearing Support can help. When 10 year old Julianna Mascardo was younger, her parents discovered she had hearing loss. Her Language Development was falling behind her peers. We knew that something was wrong because she wasnt annunciating correctly and also she was a little bit loud. Those issues with Language Development were one of the focuses of a 5year ui study published last month. Scientists wanted to know just how beneficial hearing aids and services are for preschool children with mild to severe hearing loss. A lot of the Previous Research that had been done, looked at children who were deaf. Beth walker assisted in the study. She said some of the key takeaways, may sound obvious, but are important to note. For instance, getting kids properly fit hearing aids equals a better rate of Language Development. But heres something you might not know. 35 percent of the children were not what we call optimally fit. More than a third. Thats a concern for researchers, who say they also found optimally fit hearing aids and Early Intervention mean kids with hearing loss can catch up or significantly close gaps in Language Development when compared to peers. Check this out. This young girl is trying to recite the pledge of allegiance. Nat years later, the use of optimally fit hearing aid made all the difference. Nat the results have been similar for julianna. Her Language Skills are on par with her peers. In fact, if you didnt see her hearing aids, you might never notice she had hearing loss. We were looking back to the videos that my dad took when i was little and im like whoa, i was loud. The videos now, im like nice and peaceful the study looked at 317 kids with hearing loss and compared them to 100 kids with whats considered normal hearing. Their grant for the project and will continue analyzing kids for a few more years. So its really important kids are fitted the right way with hearing aids. A popular iowa City Clothing store is expanding. And its getting a big boost from a National Chain to make sure College Students have their game day gear. Up next. This mornings weather wise question. Meteorologist kaj omara is up right after the break. Its. First Alert Storm Team joins us now. Plan on some fog to start off your wednesday. While this fog may be locally dense, it doesnt appear itll last very long and should be out of the area by 9 or 10 am. Temperatures will take off once the fog burns away, leading to another day with highs around 70. This should be the end of the road for any 70s for a while as november reality moves in later this week in the form of a cold front. This front should generate some rain for us late thursday into thursday night. While a shower may linger through sunrise in our eastern counties on friday, this system will largely be gone and off to the east. Itll be much cooler too, with highs of only 5055. Enjoy your day thanks kaj. There may be some traffic through a part of marion today. Look out for a house on the move making way for a new street project. That and more still to come the Iowa Department of criminal investigation is looking into an incident this morning. The Department Says a Police Officer shot a man during a chase in waterloo. Police say they had an arrest warrant for 24yearold Brandon Seeley. Around three yesterday afternoon, officers saw him near young arena and tried to stop him. But they say seeley drove off starting the chase. Police say seeley then turned around and drove toward an officer who was outside his vehicle near fourth and wellington streets. That officer fired his gun, hitting seely, who drove away. Police later arrested him when he got out of car and ran into a garage in the 300 block of hackett road. They have not released his condition. A car hit a man on University Avenue in waterloo early this morning. Waterloo police say it happened in the 4 thousand block just after 1 oclock. Were working with police to find out the condition of the man hit. A judge has ordered a 25 year sentence for a man who is already serving life sentences for killing two gas station clerks in iowa. 21yearold Michael Swanson tried to kill a fellow inmate at the iowa medical and Classification Center in coralville last november. He pleaded guilty to an attempted murder charge. Swanson is serving the life sentences for shooting and killing two Convenience Store clerks in humboldt and kossouth counties in 2010. Workers in marion will be moving the first of two houses today to make room for a new mini roundabout. Workers lifted the houses yesterday to get ready for the move. The roundabout will go into the intersection of 29th avenue and 35th street. The city says this roundabout will help reduce Traffic Congestion in that busy intersection. With the move, there will be rolling road closures in the areas you see here on 35th street and 24th avenue. Work on the roundabouts will not start until next spring. American eagle outfitters is buying iowa clothing retailer, the Tailgate Clothing Company for eleven Million Dollars. Tailgate clothing is based in ankeny, but its flagshp store is in downtown iowa city. An iowa native and Fashion Designer started the business in 1997. Former hawkeye and nfl Football Player nate kaeding coowns the iowa city store. Were super excited here in downtown iowa city where we were the flagship of the brick and Mortar Retail store of iowa tailgate, so we were in on the ground level. American eagle really provides the runway expertise to help tailgate brand expand onto other college markets so we can always look back and say iowa city was the first one. So thats really exciting. American eagle plans to open two hundred tailgate stores nationwide. Its first focus will be with the big ten and southeast Conference College towns. Tonight is one of the biggest nights in Country Music the cmas. Country superstars brad paisley and Carrie Underwood will host the awards. Performers include kenny chesney, keith urban, Miranda Lambert and even justin timberlake. I will be live on khak right around 730 this morning talking about the favorites for the biggest awards. The show starts at seven tonight on tv9. Now heres our morning mugshot on your wednesday. The Chamber Singers of iowa city present singing the bard, music set to the words of william shakespeare. Its this coming sunday at three at the First Presbyterian church in iowa city. You can order tickets in advance or buy them at the door. For tickets or more information, visit ic chamber org. Kaj will be back right after the break with a final look at your heres what you need to know as door on your wednesday. The trial continues today for the man accused of stabbing his girlfriend in a marion hyvee parking lot last spring. 32 year old Nicholas Luerkens is on trial for first degree murder in the death of Lynnsey Donald. The prosecution called witnesses yesterday who tried to stop the attack. The iowa dci is investigating after a Police Officer shot a man during a chase in waterloo. Police say they tried to stop Brandon Seeley yesterday because they had a warrant for him. Seeley drove off. He drove toward an officer, who shot and hit seeley. Police arrested him no word on his condition. Voters in cedar rapids rejected a tax levy to fund the public library. Now the library says it will look at cuts in several places to make up for the funding deficit. Thatll include fewer outreach programs and fewer staff members. It will also mean closing the library at least one day a week. We have a full list of Election Results on our website at kcrg dot com. Now, one last look at this mornings weather, kaj. Plan on some fog to start off your wednesday. While this fog may be locally dense, it doesnt appear itll last very long and should be out of the area by 9 or 10 am. Temperatures will take off once the fog burns away, leading to another day with highs around 70. This should be the end of the road for any 70s for a while as november reality moves in later this week in the form of a cold front. This front should generate some rain for us late thursday into thursday night. While a shower may linger through sunrise in our eastern counties on friday, this system will largely be gone and off to the east. Itll be much cooler too, with highs of only 5055. Enjoy your Good Morning America is next. And well be back with a local