To hit florida since 2005. Abcs Lauren Lyster is live in new smyrna beach, florida, with the latest tonight. Matthew heading straight for florida the brutal wind and pounding rain growing as the hurricane charges towards the coast the National Weather service saying matthew will be devastating potentially unlike any hurricane in the modern area. Floridas governor calling it a monster. Sot gov rick scott unfortunately this is going to kill people. Already, it has. Matthew taking the lives of more than 100 people as it swept through haiti. The death toll there skyrocketing as the floodwaters recede. In the bahamas. The shore battered by damaging waves. The rain and wind and the vacations of 3thousand tourists unable to escape and with the hurricane then heading for florida residents thursday filling up those final Sandbags Stores are boarded up. Their shelves bare and a fight to get fuel sot moss this is ridiculous i went to costo the lines out to the highway. i saw two guys fighting at the gas station yesterday actually throwing punches one and a half Million People ordered to evacuate . Jamming the roads but not flying time lapsed radar showing the normally busy cancelled over the next two days Lauren Lyster on camera a major concern here now the storm surge along the coast of florida where i am its expected to be 6 to 10 feet more. Meanir sidents here floong a major fe lyster, abc anchor tag already thousands is likely to produce what he called devastating impacts. Now lets turn to meteorologist joe winters. Joe, whats the strength of this storm . Showers and thunderstorm s continue tonight with some heavier rains still possible. As the cold front sweeps through the state early friday, cooler and drier air moves in. Windy conditions are expected to develop to give friday a fall feel. A beautiful fall weekend is in store with highs in the 60s and lows in the 30s and 40s. Milder weather is just around the corner with more 70s ahead for next week. Tonight showers and storms likely. Wind s 1020. Low 52 tomorrow gradual clearing. Cooler and windy. Wind nw 1525. High 61 back to you. Cedar Rapids Police say your atm. Its called skimming a hightech type of credit and debit card theft that can be undetectable unless you know what t l growing, not just here but across the country. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders joins us in the studio. Forrest, you talked to someone who thinks they were a victim . Yeah, this doesnt just happen at atms. Skimming can happen at all different kinds of card readers. Though atms are the most prevalent, one cedar rapids man said his info was stolen at a local gas station. Tuesday, Eugene Pinney got a credit union. Bad news. Someone was using a copy of his debit card, way out of state. My card had been tried to be used at a walmart in new jersey for about a 192 dollars. An order at a jersey mcdonalds, too. The banks Fraud Department suspected skimming. Eugene thinks it happened with a card reader at a local gas station, which get gasoline at a local vendor, you expect to be able to trust the system. Heres how skimming works. Thieves put a device, like this, over a card reader. When a user puts in a card, the skimmer steals the info. It gets worse some thieves also use tiny cameras and fake key pads to nab pin numbers, too. The bad guys can then make a duplicate card and go shopping with the cash. Nat money skimming is happening all over. Finance experts at fico estimate, at atms specifically, incidents skyrocketed 546 percent from 2014 to 2015. This is a Financial Crime thats been reported throughout the entire country. Around here. Cedar Rapids Police are seeing a rise in skimming reports from local banks. Theyre urging people to be cautious when swiping their cards. Check to see if the card reader is loose, a different color, or if a card doesnt fit right. Cover the keypad as best you can when typing in a pin. Also, frequently check bank statements. Ultimately. If it doesnt look right, it doesnt feel right, go with that sixth sense. Dont use that atm. But police say a lot of times banks and creditors are great about detecting fraudulent charges. Eugene those sudden out of state purchases were flagged and stopped. Eugene didnt lose any money just some confidence in his card. Get this, a couple months ago someone tried to pull a reverse on police. Authorities said a man told them he had some fraudulent charges on his account. Police investigated. Turned out the man was the buyer. He was trying to get reimbursement for legitimate purchases. Sides of the scam. Beth . Thanks, forrest. Dubuque police say there were two cases of credit card skimmers in the area in early september. One happened at an American Trust atm on locust street in dubuque. The other was at a Fidelity Bank atm in east dubuque, illinois. Skimmer in both cases. A Dubuque County man is the eighth person to face charges in connection to a robbery and homicide in key west last year. The us marshals arrested Eric Campbell in calumet city, illinois near chicago earlier this week. He faces a firstdegree murder and firstdegree robbery charge. Officers had been looking for him in the death of collin brown. Investigators say he and others tried to rob brown at his mobile home on noonan street in key west, back running away from his home. He later died. He was 21 years old. Three others also face firstdegree murder and firstdegree robbery chargs for browns death. They are taylor shaw, Tacari Minifee and imere hall. Four more face lesser charges in this case. The president of Iowa State University says hell be more cautious after questions about his use of university airplanes. Steven leath says he misjudged how people promised to be more cautious next time. Leath has said he flew a university plane for both personal and official business. When returning from a trip last year, he damaged that aircraft in a crash landing. Now, the Student Government is calling on the iowa board of regents to investigate leaths use of two planes. Light the night pink. Thats what some people in cedar rapids did tonight to mark the National BreastCancer Awareness month. Mercy Medical Center and Alliant Energy hosted the annual Lighting Ceremony at the center will remain lit in pink throughout the month. Organizers say the event is to raise awareness about Breast Cancer, which affects a lot of people. 10 40 27;08 getting early detection, getting your mamograms done and to just help support our patients and all of our family and friends that have had Breast Cancer a 2 dollar donation for each person in attendance went to especially for you fund. That helps provide free mammograms and other breastcare services to people in special gift for her 18th birthday last week. It was one abby van metre says she wont soon forget. Kcrgtv9s Samantha Myers has the touching story thats gone viral. On her 18th birthday, abby van meters family gave her a gift that has captured the hearts of people across the county. So its after my birthday my parents said ok lets sit down we want you to sit down and focus, this is important. And thats when her parents handed her a chest. So as im sitting here and im looking at it they start to explain it to me that its this time capsule when i was 1 they asked all of our friends and loved ones to write these letters, they put them cards. And letters from loved ones. Nats abby reading her letter including one from her uncle who died in a car crash three years ago. Nats of her reading it in the video 14 32 27;06 rarely does anyone get to talk to a loved one whos lost again so the fact that i get one more conversation, one more last piece of advice is just, its priceless. 14 41 22;29 when she had opened that letter. I had forgotten that he had written her a letter and he didnt just write her a quick note, he wrote a threepage detailed letter in his the video her mother posted has received more than 11 million views on facebook. 14 43 12;23 i think every parent, even if your kids are a little older, if you have older family members this is something you should do. Her mother calling them letters from heaven. In marion, Samantha Myers kcrgtv9 news. Some military veterans are on a mission in the waterloo and cedar falls area. Theyre part of a group thats helping flood victims get back to normal. Stay with that brings veterans together is in eastern iowa to help people affected by the flooding. Team rubicon is helping homeowners in waterloo and cedar falls through next week. The organization is for military veterans, who respond to areas where there have been natural disasters. Veterans say work brings back memories of the camaraderie, while helping people who are in need. What were doing is helping residents get back into a regular life thats been disrupted by this flood. Were moving debris, drywall, flooring imagine. Team rubicon is also helping flooding victims in wisconsin and minnesota. Some students in the Central City School district got to stick their principal to the wall. It was part of a challenge to raise the money to fund an honor flight for veterans to washington, d. C. Elementary and middle and losing school was duct taped to the wall for the lunch hour by winning students. I was a little surprised there was a Conspiracy Theory against me but i think it was like. Every dollar went to the other side. The High School Principal stayed stuck to the wall for all the lunch periods. That was about an hour and a half total. Students raised more than 19hundred dollars to sent four veterans on flight next year. Turning back to joe. Can we expect to see more falllike weather in the coming days . Showers and thunderstorm s continue tonight with some heavier rains still possible. As the cold front sweeps through the state early friday, cooler and drier air moves in. Windy conditions are expected to develop to give friday a fall feel. A continue tonight with some heavier rains still possible. As the cold front sweeps through the state early friday, cooler and drier air moves in. Windy conditions are friday a fall feel. A beautiful fall weekend is in store with highs in the 60s and lows in the 30s and 40s. Milder weather is just around the corner with more 70s ahead for next week. Tonight showers and storms likely. Wind s 1020. Low 52 tomorrow gradual clearing. 61 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind nw 510. Low 41 saturday mostly sunny. High 65 low 41 sunday mostly sunny. High 69 low 43 monday slight chance of showers. High 70 low 50 tuesday partly cloudy. High 71 low 53 wednesday partly cloudy. High 72 low 51 thursday p 73 low 56 friday chance of storms. High 74 low 57 showers and thunderstorm s continue tonight with some heavier rains still possible. As the cold front sweeps through the state early friday, cooler and drier air moves in. Windy conditions are fall weekend is in store with highs in the 60s and lows in the 30s and 40s. Milder weather is just around the corner with more 70s ahead for next week. Tonight showers and storms likely. Wind s 1020. Low 52 tomorrow gradual clearing. Cooler and windy. Wind nw 1525. High 61 nw 510. Low 41 saturday mostly sunny. High 65 low 41 sunday mostly sunny. High 69 low 43 monday slight chance of showers. High 70 low 50 tuesday partly cloudy. High 71 low 53 wednesday partly cloudy. High 72 low 51 thursday partly cloudy. High showers and thunderstorm s continue tonight with some heavier rains still possible. As the cold front sweeps through the state money for a cause tonight. Kcrgtv9s allison wong takes us to the annual dubuque area baconfest. Allison wong theres about 15 different vendors serving up a wide variety of bacon flavored dishes, ranging from bacon flavored popcorn, to bacon nachos. Tonight, people tried a number of dishes, while enjoying the tasty creations. People then voted for their favorite dish at the end that included best main dish and best dessert. One bacon festgoer says she had a tough time choosing her favorite. Lara riniker there was a bacon meatball that was really good, and a bacon sea salt caramel brownie. Those are my top two so far. Organizers says that the best part of the event isnt the bacon, but that all the money raised goes to area residential care, which helps people with intellectual disabilities to work and live within the community. In dubuque, allison wong, kcrg tv9 news. Organizers say they hoped to raise 10 thousand dollars from ton cedar rapids toyota. Xavier junior Charlotte Richards is one of the hardest hitters i have seen in High School Volleyball and it shows up on that stat sheet. Richards has 22 kills against linn mar last week and has a whopping 291 kills on the season for the 235 saints. You hit the ball harder than anybody ive seen in a long time where does that come from just like it helps with the just can get up high and i use is my body and snap fully hard how much of it is arm swing how much technique a lot of it is with the body and the arm so if you have both you can get more power. Do you grunt when you spike no usually doesnt happen. You dont have to you hit it so hard you dont have grunt. She sees the court really well she hits with a variety of shots and has a lot of diversity and the game obviously overwhelms the block as well. How fast do you think you could you can hit the ball . Maybe 45 i bet its faster were going to challenge all right if i lose you get to hit point point blank with the volleyball right in the middle of the back ok if i win you have to skip around the gym and say i got beat by an old man ok sounds good. Charlotte went first and smacked one straight down that clocked at 51 miles per hour. Wich is too far off clocked in the 60s. But i was ready to unleash my big cannon and it was clocked at 39. Youve gotta be kidding me thier has to be something wrong with that gun. It was time for me to take a fast ball from charlotte right in the middle of the back. Oh i cant breathe. Somebody call the ambulance. Ive got wilson tattooed on my back. We had a big tonight. 2nd ranked west delaware hosted 11th ranked dyersville beckman. Everyone wearing pink tonight. 1st set, west delaware with the quick set to Claire Demmer who blasts a cannon. Hawks tie it up 66. Later in the set, beckman sends it across to Kylie Bildstein who comes down with the hammer. Trail blazers tie it up 11 all. Then her sister ellie gets in on the action with the block, and she tied 23 all, but west delaware gets 2 straight points, haley lyness with the set point just inside the line. West delaware wins 31 and wins the wamac west. Over on kcrg 9. 2 tonight Center Point Urbana hosted williamsburg and abagail wideeman with ace on set point to give the stormin pointers a 25 18 win. The raiders battled back in set two. Molly weegen with her fourth ace of the night for the 2322 lead. But cpu rallies wideeman with the here match point tagen fink shows off her hops to finish in style as Center Point Urbana sweeps pulls off the sweep. High school cross country, the mvc super meet at noelridge park. Ladies first, gabby skopec of iowa city west with the lead as she crosses the bridge. Shed win in a time of 18 07. 33, her teammate bailey nock is right behind her with a time of 18 12. 69. Cedar falls wins the team title, this was back and forth between Sam Schillinger of cedar falls and ryan murphy of linnmar. Its murphy who pulls away and wins in a time of 15 16. Hempstead won the boys title, prairie a close second you had a good kick. Ya that was the plan to go with 600 yards left. I felt good felt smooth. Sot 08 oc felt smooth thanks scott. One last look at the forecast, joe. Showers and thunderstorm s continue tonight with some heavier rains still possible. As the cold front sweeps through the state early friday, cooler and drier air moves in. Windy conditions are expected to develop to give friday a fall feel. A beautiful fall weekend is in store with highs in the 60s and lows in the 30s and 40s. Milder weather is just around the corner with more 70s ahead for next week. Tonight showers and storms likely. Wind s 1020. Low 52 tomorrow gradual clearing. Cooler and windy. Wind nw 1525. High 61 thanks joe. Thanks for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 10. 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