Had some equipment problems today. But the dot says the final touches, like adding some paint to the road, should be finished sometime tomorrow morning. Drivers i spoke with today say theyre anxious to get on this new roadway. 6 00, thats a memorial to a lot of families whole lot of inured people, prematurely injured people and dead people. Black hawk county sheriff Tony Thompson has lobbied for the Interchange Office responded to 73 Service Calls at this intersection. 2 55, almost always when we were called to that area we would put air med on standby just because of the speeds of the collisions that occurred up there 14 37 bryan driver probably once a week we would notice a First Responders over there someone had a fender bender or accident. Som e drivers say this interchange is long overdue. Eric driver 15 34, sometimes it would get a little sketchy just trying to stop and turn and just watch the and under construction for about 2 years. 14 30, bryan its been a slow process for it to finally be open 3 59, getting that cross traffic out of the way was the hard thing to do because we had to get the railroad and we had to build an overpass thats twice the length of other over passes in the area now, the dot plans to shut down three gravel roadways that connect to highway 218. Anna 16 33, im a little frustrated cause i know my street, which is bennington, will be closed very soon after so it will limit where we can get on and off. To reduce the number of crashes each year. And protect peoples lives. 6 21, with the pride of knowing weve probably s pain of knowing how many times i stood out in that intersection how many people died how many people were seriously injured cause we werent able to pull them out sooner sheriff thompson tells me most crashes on the intersection were because of heavy traffic and speed. He says this area can be congested because its part of the avenue of saints, which runs from st. Thanks, jordee. Meteorologist joe winters joins us in the newsroom. Joe, another chilly night . After our first widespread frost and freeze of the season the atmosphere has dried out. Clear skies and quiet conditions continue as High Pressure keeps control of the weather. A southerly turn in the wind allows some milder weather to buld state for the weekend. Highs on saturday and sunday return to the 70s. Have a great night and a safe weekend tonig ht clear. Wind se 510. Low 40 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind s 515. High 67 calling allegations that he groped and forcefully kissed women years ago. Absolutely false. And he says he can prove his accusers are lying. Abcs Kenneth Moton reports. The Trump Campaign reeling from new accusations of inappropriate conduct, including sexual assault. Sot trump these people are horrible people. Theyre horrible, horrible report their allegations to authorities at the time coming forward after hearing trumps boasts on the bus to billy bush in 2005, which trump claimed were just locker room talk. Dt i just start kissing them. Its like a magnet. Donald trump just kiss. I dont even wait. And when youre a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Billy bush whatever you want. Trump grab them by the , you can do anything. One woman told the New York Times about donald trump sitting next to her on a plane more than 30 years ago. Another the armrest between the seats disappeared leeds says she is supporting hillary clinton. Hillary clinton reacted from california. Sot hillary clinton. We already know who donald trump is. Clinton off fundraising, but she had some powerful help on the trail. Sot Michelle Obama this was a powerful individual speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behavior. Sot obama 7p columbus, oh every time he talks proves himself unfit and unqualified for this from his running mate. Sot mike pence he has categorically denied any of those allegations. Kenneth moton standup close trump says there is evidence to prove his accusers are lying. He did not give a timetable but says he plans to release that information at a later time. Kenneth moton, abc news washington. Democrat Monica Vernon and republican congressman rod blum have agreed to debate later district seat. Kcrgtv9 and the gazette will host the debate at coe college on october 26th. A cedar rapids man will spend 20 years in prison for smuggling guns. A judge sentenced adam herz in federal court today on exporting firearms and Money Laundering charges. Three other members of his family are awaiting sentencing for similar charges. Last year, federal agents arrested all four after raids at three locations in cedar rapids. The pizza daddy on first avenue, business. Prosecutors say the four family members hid guns and ammunition within shipments of clothing midamar collected to send to lebanese refugees. Midamar said it didnt know anything about the guns. The state Fire Marshals Office says investigators wont be able to find out why a house caught on fire in alburnett. The fire happened at 314 Howard Street last saturday afternoon. No one was hurt. But the fire as the roof and siding. The couple who lived at the home believes a tv remote started the fire, when it got wedged in between couch cushions. Whenever you see news, call newsline nine after alerting authorities. Heres the number 319 3659999. You can also email pictures and video to newsroom at kcrg dot com. Businesses that had to close during the recent flood in cedar rapids are slowly getting back on their feet. The mayors gavel challenge has been helping first heres a look at the most viewed stories today on kcrg dotcom. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. 12 01 06;23 the response has darien why have the latest smartphone if you cant use it wherever you go . Switch to u. S. Cellular for our best plan yet 7 gigs of data per line for only 49. To share more photos at your cabin or video chat at your secret fishing spot. All for just 49. The best part . We put towers in places the other guys dont. Because u. S. Cellular thinks you deserve a signal that works wherever you are. Switch to u. S. Cellular were really grateful for everyones outpour of support. A boost in business. Some shops in cedar rapids are seeing more people come through their doors thats after mayor ron corbett asked people to support businesses that had to close, as part of the mayors gavel challenge. Some of the shops that had to close are inside the newbo city market. It officially reopened today, with 22 of the 24 vendors up and running again. Kcrgtv9s Samantha Myers is live in the newbo district tonight. Samantha, you visited some of the businesses affected by the flooding . Many of the businesses are back open. And the businesso with say they lost a lot of revenue being closed. Cooks in the sauce bar and bistro kitchen are busy. Nats. Hoping to make up for some lost time after the shop was closed for nearly two weeks. 11 49 26;28 it puts a crimp on things especially being open for a little more than a year, were still kind of young as a restaurant but it hits you pretty hard, were still paying bills. The bills dont stop even though we were closed for ten days. He says the flood put his business back 1012thousand dollars. 11 49 50;20 you lose the business and then also theres some, theres a lot of food, were expecting the worst and we coolers, gave some food away to people the solution to that lost time . The cr gaval challenge. Its mayor ron corbetts challenge to people to get out and spend some money to support businesses affected by the flood. Some stopped by the newbo city market on thursday night. 12 08 39;09 started here at newbo and then ill try to get to other businesses if i can in the next few days. They say its creating a new vibrancy in newbo and Czech Village neighborhood s. 12 00 23;16 everyone is experiencing the neighborhood in a way they might not have if they mayor hadnt started the gavel challenge. 11 51 19;03 weve seen an increase in business for and dinner. Its helped, it hasnt completely erased the loss but it helps. Helping to encourage people to get out and try new things, and support Small Businesses in their city. The gavel challenge goes all throughout october and people are encouraged to visit at least 10 of the affected businesses. Live in cedar rapids, Samantha Myers, kcrg tv9. And there are two events planned newbo city market is hosting one tomorrow from 5 to 9. There will be music, food and drinks. The second event is party on the nobo side, and it goes all day saturday. Nobo refers to the part of newbo where floodwaters reached. Tornados grub and pub organized the event as a way and there are two events planned for the newbo district this weekend. The newbo city market is hosting one tomorrow from 5 to 9. There will be music, food and drinks. The second event is party on the nobo side, and it goes all day saturday. Nobo refers to the part of tornados grub and pub organized the event as a way to raise money for the businesses on the wet side of the temporary levees. For the cubs faithful, its been a long wait for a chance to see the team win the world series. One 93yearold bellevue man hopes this is finally the year the cubs break the curse. After our first widespread atmosphere has dried out. Clear skies and quiet conditions continue as High Pressure keeps control of the weather. A allows some milder weather to build back into the state for the weekend. Highs on saturday and sunday return to the 70s. Have a great night and a safe weekend tonight clear. Wind se 510. Low 40 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind s 515. High 67 of showers and storms late in the day. Windy. High 74 low 54 sunday partly cloudy. High 70 low 58 monday isolated am showers, otherwise partly sunny and mild. High 74 low 54 tuesday mostly cloudy. High 70 low 55 wednesday partly cloudy. High 66 low 49 thursday chance of s 45 friday chance of showers. High 55 low 43 after our first widespread frost and freeze of the season the atmosphere has dried out. Clear skies and quiet conditions continue as High Pressure keeps control of the weather. A allows some milder weather to build back into the state for the weekend. Highs on saturday and sunday return to the 70s. Have a great night and a safe weekend tonight clear. Wind se 510. Low 40 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind s 515. High 67 tom. Night mostly cloudy. Wind s 515. Low 54 saturday chance of showers and storms late in the day. Windy. High 74 low 54 sunday partly cloudy. High 70 low 58 monday isolated am showers, otherwise partly sunny cloudy. High 70 low 55 wednesday partly cloudy. High 66 low 49 thursday chance of showers. High 57 low 45 friday chance of showers. High 55 low 43 are holding out hope the team goes all the way this fall. Lester michels never misses a game. He has been rooting for the cubs since before their games were on tv. He has fond memories of legends, like ernie banks and fergie jenkins. Now a days, there are many young faces on the team. Michels believes this is the year the cubs will win the world series because of the strength of the entire team. Its really one solid team. Everybody is playingheir coming and its a lot of hustle. 09 michels has a lot of cubs memorabilia in his collection. One of the most unique ones . A cubs toaster that burns the teams logo into the bread. And theres a good chance michels will be watching, when the cubs will play game one of the National League championship series this saturday night. Coming up scott will feature and hell also have high school football, volleyball and Cross Country highlights. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Lets start off with another cedar rapids toyota. Linn mar senior ryan murphy is country season in style and so far he is doing that winning the mvc super meet last week at noelridge and ryan who is ranked second in the state has set some big goals this year. What did mean to win the super me with that kind of competition . It was fun for me too i mean i knew competitors schillinger that it would be hard. Whats your goals this year . I want to win state and footlocker. Your brother was a great runner your dad was a great runner how does that help you out. I guess youre right it motivates me my dad ran at texas tech and ames high and my brother runs at iowa and it motivates me to compete with them and beat their times. This is your dad d. C. And he thinks he can still beat you so we are going to have a race spinning bat bannon race the painted since you need good toes to run Cross Country. The ole spinning bat drill and ryans dad is very competitive and he was out for the win. And ryan who had just run in the mvc division meet was still a little winded and after the spin. Ryan went down. And i dont think he is getting back up. And his dad dc who wasnt about to stop downs the bannana and wins uncontested. Ryan was ok he just got a little dizzy but he recovered in nails and i think dad was having the time of his life. The spinning bat drill is probably not a good idea after running a 5k. Lets checkout the finish from todays boys race at the Mississippi Division meet linn mar went 12 with dalton gosh winning goldl just a head of murphy. Ali ali of iowa city west was third. Linn mar won the team title followed by west and wahlert. And the on the girls side athlete of the first in 18;23 followed by her teammate baily nock and maddie mann of linnmar was third. West won the team title followed by linnmar and wahlert. Lets head out to solon and the wamac conference meet. Top 15 are all conference. Ladies first as they head towards the woods. Its Adrianna Katcher of Center Point Urbana who comes out of the woods with a pretty comfortable lead. The freshman goes on to win in a time of 18 17, winning by 31 seconds. Mount vernonlisbon wins the title, solon 2nd and a battle between marion teammates myles bach and jeremy fopma. Here they are side by side halfway through the race. It stayed that way until bach shifts into another gear right at the end to win in 15 36. Fopma right behind him in 2nd. Mount vernonlisbon wins the title in this one as well. Wester n dubuque 2nd and marion 3rd to football and clear creek amana at assuption tonight in a key game in the playoff chase. And a good start for the clippers returns it all the way to the two yard line. And that set up the jared eckrich two yard touchdown run for the first score of the game. And how some clear creek amana defense checkout the one handed juggling interception by cory siders. But assumption scored 27 straight points thanks to a couple of touchdown passes from jayce levy and the knights beat the clippers. Wash hosted waterloo east on kcrg 9. 2. And they got off to a quick start drew dostal finds a seem tackle and drags a defender with him into the endzone for six and a 14 nothing lead. And the warriors took a 21 nothing lead moments when bryan kunde lays one up for nick bjornsen in the endzone for the touchdown. And washington scoring all kinds of ways tonight how bout with their defense. That guy dostal again with the interception and you know he can run with it and thats a pick six for drew to go along with his punt return and wash cruises to the win. High School Volleyball tonight tournament championship game tonight. First set, west delawares Ashley Goebel rises up for the block. Hawks lead 1713. Then later its Katelyn Mangold who gets help from the net on the ace. Hawks led 1913 at one point. But marion goes on a run, tanea westhoff with the ace and the indians tie it up 20 all. Marion finished the first set with 10 straight points as holly faley gets help from the net on set point. Marion wins 2520 and takes it in three thanks scott. One last look at the forecast, joe. After our first widespread frost and freeze of the season the atmosphere has dried out. Clear skies and quiet conditions continue as High Pressure keeps control of the weather. A southerly turn in the wind allows some milder weather to build back into the state for the weekend. Highs on saturday and sunday return to the 70s. Have a great night and a safe weekend tonight clear. Wind se 510. Low 40 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind s 515. High 67 thanks joe. Thanks for joining us for dickey from hollywood its jimmy kimmel live. Tonight, colin farrell, from the rocky horror picture show, lavern cox. This week in unnecessary censorship and hall of fame broadcaster vin scully. And now, heres jimmy kimmel. . [ cheers and applause ] . Jimmy thank you. Im jimmy. Im the host of the show. Thank you for watching. Thank you for coming. Im glad we have this time