And penn Elementary Schools. In particular, parents i spoke to are extremely concerned about their kids walking along penn street. 28 59, my husband and i moved back here about two and half years ago. Iowa native sarah madsen moved to North Liberty with one thing in mind. 28 55, its a fantastic place to raise kids. Sarah says people in her neighborhood are friendly, and enjoy living in a budding community. But she isnt fond of one particular growing pain. 30 05, there are some dangerous intersections one intersection she listed is penn and dubuque streets, which she drives every morning. 30 25, theres a lot of cars and theres a lot of blind spots in the morning. And just a block down is the intersection of penn and north stewart streets. Thats where a car hit a crossing guard during the last school year. The crossing guard later died. Nat this summer, the city took a few steps to improve safety in those areas. 37 56, mayor theres light up stop signs for crossing people. A fresh coat of paint has also been added to each city crosswalk. 38 09, with a Higher Quality high proxy paint thats a lot easier to see. For some in North Liberty, like madsen, this still isnt enough. 33 47, ideally it would be great if there was a traffic signal there or at least a rolling stop sign. This year, madsen plans to drive her son to penn elementary, then her daughter to a nearby daycare. 30 35, definitely wouldnt have my kids navigate that intersection on foot, or even a bicycle. But as her one day they might want to walk to school. 29 29, well we have a newly minted kindergartne r in our house. But she needs to see changes first. 32 55, well keep our fingers crossed. Now, a 2012 traffic analysis did recommend a street light be added to the penn and dubuque streets intersection. This afternoon, the mayor told me the city is also looking at adding turning lanes to high traffic intersections in town. Bruce and beth . Jordee, is there a different kids can take to avoid that particular intersection . Yes, the city would like kids to cross front street instead of penn street. And quite a few students in iowa city will see construction work going on when they start the new school year tomorrow. Its all part of a massive, 350million dollar plan to upgrade and build new schools in the district. Kcrgtv9s mark carlson talked with the district, which says it is about one in terms of the overall budget and scope i think its one of the largest projects ever in the state of iowa. Pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into a School District comes with some challenges. When School Starts wednesday, many students at weber and lucas Elementary Schools will be in temporary classrooms as their buildings undergo major renovations. Other schools will soon go through too. Every building is the district received some type of renovation or upgrade, theyll all be air conditioned, theyll have electrical upgrades, most of them will get new roofs, new windows, new doors. And there will soon be New Buildings too. A New Elementary School in iowa city and Liberty High School in North Liberty will be ready to open in the fall of 2017. At this point Officials Say theyre on pace to wrap up all the work by the early to mid 2020s. Parents say all the work is necessary with the district growing by up to 400 kids evr kids keep coming, so its making it much bigger, so they have to make more room or them. Daisy brazeltons son, lavell, starts third grade at lucas on wednesday. Brazelton says dealing with the construction is just part of growing up in a growing district. As for lavell, hes just ready to get to work. Im just excited to come, im just excited to go back to school. In iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tracking some storms at this hour. Joe, where are they right now . As a cold front approaches tonight storms develop. Heavy rain is possible overnight with the storms winding down during the morning hours. The front will still be in the vicinity of southern iowa later on wednesday bringing a chance for the Late Afternoon and evening. Two comfortable days of weather to end the work week proceed a chance for storms on saturday and sunday. Have a good night. Tonight storms likely. Heavy rain possible. Wind s 515. Low 67 tomorrow showers and storms likely, mainly in the morning. A few may redevelop in the south late. Wind w 515 high 80 a jury will now decide if this the jurors heard closing arguments in the trial of perquondis holmes, who is 25 years old. Prosecutors say holmes fired gunshots at a car that had pulled into an apartment buildings parking lot in november 2013. The shots killed daequan campbell, who was 18. This is the second time holmes is on trial for the death. A judge threw out his previous conviction because the trial included evidence that jurors werent supposed to see. Investigators say a deadly overnight fire on the Northwest Side of cedar rapids was accidental. The fire broke out at 611 a Avenue Northwest just before two oclock this morning. Firefighters believe it started in the kitchen when someone left a pot with grease unattended on whitlock from the burning house. He later died at a hospital he was 22. Alize watson, who was his girlfriend, also went to the hospital. She told us today she is in shock and grieving the loss of her boyfriend. But she is grateful for her neighbor, who rescued her. When you see news, call newsline, after alerting authorities. That number is 3193659999. You can also send tips, pictures and videos to newsroom at kcrg dot com. Coralville is moving forward with a plan to ban people from listing their homes on shortterm Housing Services like air bnb. Vo tonight, the City Council Approved the First Reading of an ordinance to prohibit people from renting out their homes for fewer than 31 days. Often owners use online sites such as air bnb to list their homes as short term rental properties. Maybe just a few days or weeks. The ordinance would not apply to owners who stay on site during a rental, bed and breakfast. The city is taking up the matter after receiving complaints about noise and parking violations. Votes on the second and third readings of the ordinance should take place next month. Organizers say this years night time Farmers Market in cedar rapids will run smoother. They say they know what to expect now after more than 30thousand people showed up last year. I know how resilient the people of louisiana are, again. And president obama promises help to flooding victims in southern louisiana. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9 almost 35thousand people downtown cedar rapids last year for market after dark. Lets just say it was a little crowded during that firstever nighttime Farmers Market. So the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance is making some changes for this up this saturday night. This year, the space for the Farmers Market will be more than twice the size of last years. That will help reduce overcrowding and accommodate 25 more vendors. The event starts at 6 30 and goes until eleven oclock. Kcrg tv nines Samantha Myers is live in downtown cedar rapids. Samantha, you spoke with some Businesses Owners about the changes today . Despite the overcrowding , many market was the best night of business they had all summer. I spoke with the owner of bricks bar and grill, who says the changes will help make things go a lot smoother. Bricks bar and grill recently took to facebook with a post titled lets talk cedar rapids. The post said quote the immense crowds were in most cases too much too handle last year. Bricks owner sam tracy says he hopes this year is different. Just no major inci its a cool thing for our city to be able to do and hoping that we can do things like this in the future the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance says it was not prepared for the number of people last year. We had planned for about 14,000 people which is an average day market and we had about 34,000 people show up so obviously we were a little overwhelmed so obviously we were a little overwhelmed, and it being the first time there were things that anticipate some changes may help reduce overcrowding on the streets and in the bars. This year if you have the right cup you can bring it into a bar, and if you purchase something at a bar in that cup you can take it outside there will also be more space, allowing for more vendors to set up shop. Theyre very excited about the opportunity but tracey says some things are unavoidable like loud noises, long lines and lots of people. If people can get in and get out and just hang out on the street i think it will be a lot bett i would say give it another chance, we learned from last year, we took a risk last year of doing it for the First Time Ever and we learned a ton over and we learned a ton there will also be booths set up at the market for purchasing those market after dark cups that you can carry around at the event. Live in cedar rapids, Samantha Myers, kcrg tv9. Youll now see a splash of purple in downtown murals and more unveiled a mural on the skywalk on 4th avenue. Tim adams is the artist and calls this piece free bird. The group says theme of this mural has a special meaning to cedar rapids. 19 43 04;01 free bird the song itself really represents staying strong after a tragedy and so we thought after the flood this is a great representation to where cedar rapids is at. The group plans to unveil another memorial in september. As a col f storms develop. Heavy rain is possible overnight with the storms winding down during the morning hours. The front will still be in the vicinity of southern iowa later on wednesday bringing a chance for thunderstorm redevelopment in to end the work week proceed a chance for storms on saturday and sunday. Have a good night. Tonight storms likely. Heavy rain possible. Wind s 515. Low 67 tomorrow showers and storms likely, mainly in the morning. A few may redevelop in the south late. Wind w 515 hi storms, mainly south. Wind nw 510. Low 63 thursday partly sunny. High 77 low 63 friday mostly sunny. High 76 low 54 saturday chance of storms. High 77 low 61 sunday chance of storms. High 80 low 61 monday partly cloudy. High 81 low 60 tuesday partly partly cloudy. High 79 low 62 as a cold front approaches tonight storms develop. Heavy rain is possible overnight with the storms winding down during the morning hours. The front will still be in the vicinity of bringing a chance for thunderstorm redevelopment in the Late Afternoon and evening. Two comfortable days of weather to end the work week proceed a chance for storms on saturday and sunday. Have a good night. Tonight storms likely. Heavy rain possible. Wind mainly in the morning. A few may redevelop in the south late. Wind w 515 high 80 tom. Night isolated storms, mainly south. Wind nw 510. Low 63 thursday partly sunny. High 77 low 63 friday mostly sunny. High 76 low 54 saturday chance of storms. High 77 low 61 employees at a Cedar Rapids Company are raising awareness and money to help fight cancer. Workers at west side transport they call it convoy for a cure. West side transport plans to donate part of the revenue from this trailer to a Cancer Organization in the area. Well be right back. Stay with us here on tv nine. Switch to u. S. Cellular and get 50 off smartphones. Its a deal you dont want to miss. Say, switch and you get 50 off a smartphone . Uh, yes. Sorry. Hi. Hello. I was watching tv and i saw you say 50 off smartphones. And well cover all switching costs. Oh wow also, you g. Uh, excuse me. Switch to u. S. Cellular and get 50 off smartphones. Plus, well cover all switching costs. Excuse me, can i just. Hmm . What . I just need it back. I dont have it. I dont know what youre talking about. Floodwaters in southern louisiana. He toured neighborhood s in the parish where baton rouge is located. Sometimes things happen that seem too much to bear but what i want the people of louisiana to know is that youre not alone on this. Even after the tv cameras leave. The whole country is going to in their homes and lives are rebuilt. The president met with people who have lost their homes and businesses during the flooding earlier this month. He assured flood victims the federal government has made their recovery a priority. He also met with elected officials and first responders. The flooding has killed 13 people and damaged about 60 thousand homes. Health experts in florida are scrambling to case of the zika virus. This one in the tampa area. They plan to do testing in one neighborhood where a mosquito recently infected a woman. Theyre already trying to contain an outbreak in two neighborhoods in miami. Republican president ial nominee donald trump is now admitting he could be softening his immigration plans. He said that tonight during a town hall on fox news. He was responding to a question about his recent meeting with the National Hispanic advisory hurt people with his immigration proposals, but hes going to follow the law. Trump has suggested he might back off a bit from his earlier vow to deport the eleven Million Immigrants living in the country illegally. Hes expected to unveil his full immigration plan next week. An earthquake struck central italy about an hour ago. The preliminary magnitude is 6 point 2, with people feeling the shocks in extensive damage in several cities in central italy, with people trapped under to kick off the Mississippi Valley conference volleyball schedule, including a great ranked iowa city west. This match was live on kcrg 9. 2. The first set between these two was fantastic. West up 2422 but Jenna Wagemester pulls prairie within one. But west doesnt let this one slip away as Claire Overton keeps it inside the baseline. 2523 west takes the opener. Late in the second set. Prairie just a point away from winning it and Karleigh Schilling seals the deal with the great dump off. 2519 hawks. Women of troy now up 2 sends everybody home with the kill as west beats prairie 31. Also in 5a, 8th ranked kennedy hosting number14 jeff. Opening set. Kaylee donner gets a little help from the net on this ace serve and the jhawks are cruising. Then its madi slagle with the big swing as jeff takes the opener 2520. Set two was a different story. Madison palmer sets to kayla joyner. Joyne r puts it down. Cougar s grab the early lead. Then kennedy wins the next three to beat jeff 31. What a year its been for kernels second baseman luis arraez. Today he was named to the Midwest League post season allstar team. The kernels and quad cities continuing their four game series. Cedar rapids strikes first as arraez picks up his 60th rbi of the season as he singles to left. Zander wiel scores. 10 kernels in the 1st. Quad cities threatening in the second but eduardo del rosario spins an runner at second. What a great pickoff move. And that would end up saving a run because the batter, hector roa, launches a homer to left. The solo shot ties the game at one. But thats the only run the kernels would allow. Nelson molina drives in the goahead run in the 7th as the kernels win it 21. School is back in session at the college level, so that means iowas first Football Game is fast approaching. The hawkeyes are just 11 days away from their Season Opener with miami themselves. Were just going to continue working us against us like we do in spring or early preseason just to get a better gauge on how guys compete against really good competition. Its the way we do it every year. We just do very little on our first opponent until we get into game week, but well introduce a few things, but not even the abcs, maybe the as on thursday or friday. Trt 24 oc . On thursday or friday. Tonight at 6, i introduced you to Bentley Fletcher and the state junior bassmasters championship which meant they earned a trip to tennessee for the national tournament. Here are tristin and bentley explaining what they love about fishing. I honestly didnt start bass fishing until last year in april. My uncle, todd young, he introduced me to it and ive loved it ever since. I think its tough sitting inside not doing much or sitting there playing video games. Ill play video games, but i dont like to waste my day playing video just the aspect of being outside. You usually learn more not catching fish than what you do catching fish. Trt 32 oc . You do catching fish. And how about those kids from johnston, iowa, in the Little League world series. After a rough extrainnings loss last night, they were down 10 in the 5th when kaiden dinh crushes one deep and gone to center. That monster blast ties the game at 1. Its now 22 in the bottom of the he delivers the walkoff single as iowa beats rhode island 3 2. Johnston will play again tomorrow at 2 on espn against tennessee. Thanks scott. One last look at the forecast, joe. As a cold front approaches tonight storms develop. Heavy rain is possible overnight with the storms winding down during the morning hours. The front will still be in the vicinity of southern iowa later on wednesday bringing a chance for thunderstorm redevelopment in the Late Afternoon and evening. Two comfortable days of weather to end the work week proceed a chance for storms on saturday and sunday. Have a good dicky from hollywood, its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight, curtis 50 cent jackson, from narcos, wagner moura, and music from kongos, with cleto and the cletones. And now, back in action, heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ] . Jimmy hi, everybody. Im jimmy, im the host of the show. Thank you for watching. Thanks for coming. Thank you for thank you