A call at kloeckner metals. Thats just around the corner from last nights equipment fire. This one started around 6 15 in a maintenance shop and spread into the main part of the building. Some employees were inside at the time, but everyone got out safely. The cause is under r nvestigationn university of iowa police are searching for a man they say groped several women on campus. Police received three reports overnight from women near uihc and the main library. Theyre searching for a white male, about 5 feet, 10 inches tall. He was wearing red flannel, torn jeans, and flip flops. The university issued a hawk alert. If you see this person, ui police are asking you to contact them, and to not approach him. The Johnson CountySheriffs Office says this man was running a drug house in iooa city. Officers arrested 48 yearold scott hoff back in august. Authorities say he told officers he would get people high in his home. He also allegedly sold someone meth the day before his rrest. Hoff faces several charges, including keeping a drug house and possession of a controlled substance. In a tv9 followup this morning. Today, a man who shot a dduque Police Officer will appear in court for re sentencing. He could spend less time behind bars. 77yearold eddie chest pleaded guilty to first degree roobery and attmpted murder charges for the shooting during an Armed Robbery in 2009. As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to recommend that ccst serve two 25 year terms concuurently. Instead, a judge last year sentenced chest to serve those terms consecutively , resulting in a 50year sentence. Last month, the iowa court o o appeals overturned that sentence, saying prosecutors didnt push the judge to consider the lighter sentence. A judge sentenced a des moines woman to 40 years in prison for her 5 yearold daughters death from an overdose of morphine. 25 year old tionne bloodsaw agreed to a plea deal. Her daughter, jayda canada, died in october last year. Police also found marijuana, cocaine, and ecstasy in their home. Charges in the plea deal include child endangerment , neglect, and manufacturin g a controlled substance, along with two counts of nnglect of a dependent person. The man who shot and killed people at two kansas jewish sites will learn his fate today. 74yearold Frazier Glenn cross was convicted of capaptal murder and attempted murder in august. Cross admits he is a white supremacist. He said his goal in last aprilsshootings was to kill as many jewish people as hhcould. Today judge will decide if cross will received the death penalty. At least 8 people are dead, including two americans, after a shooting at a Police Training centeein jordan. Jordanian Officials Say an officer opened fire yesterday morning on foreign trainers. They say troops then shot and killed the gunmann an investigation into what happened is now underway. International investigators are taking a closer look at security measures at cairos international airport. This comes a little more than a week after a plane broke apart in midairrand crashed shortly after takeoff. Isis claimed responsibility for the jet going down, saying they smuggled a bomb on board. Investigators are trying to figure out how a bomb could have gotten through security. Despite the investigation, airport Officials Say theres no reason for travelers to be concerned. Its an International Civil aviation authority. And we are complying with all the standard and rrgulation of this authority. Which means its completely safe to fly from and to Sharm El Sheikh airport. Security guards and caterers are also being inspected. A new poll showrepublican voters have a high opinion of two leading president ial candidates. An abcwashington post poll released this morning shows ben carson and donald trump with the highest favorability rating among the candidates. Carson leads th 71 percent. Trump is a close second. Florida senator marco rubio was third highest, with8 percent. Former Florida Governor jeb bush follled osely behinddhim. And texas senator ted cruz was 5th with 53 percent. Bush also had the highest unfavavrable rate, at 37 percent. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 7 percent. Todays poll came out just hours before the gops 4th debate. Eight candidates will take center stage at the milwaukee theaare tonight. Its scheduled to start at 8 00 on the fox business network. One name not on the main stage tonight is new jersey governor chris christie. He did not meet the minimum poll numbers of 2 point 5 percent to qualify for the prime time debate. This morning, christie announced hes coming to ceddr falls this friday. Hell be at js homestyle cooking on 31st street at 8 00. Doors open at 7. This will be the governors first visit to Black Hawk County since july. Iowa has room to improve when it comes to premature birth rates. March of dimes gave the state a c rating, for its rate of 9. 3 percent in 2014. Thats lower than the National Average, but far f fom the groups goal of 8 point 1 percent. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders talked with doctors about whats needed to improve that rate. Mother Lindsey Kotowske knows all too well the fear of having a preterm birth. Her two year olddrake, and new born gage were both about six weeks early. Both are healthy, but the earlier the birth the greater the risk. Preterm babies can have underdevelop ed organs causing lung disease, infection problems, heart problems and many other sues. We were hoping that this one would go to full term and that my first son was just more of a fluke. Seeing as lindsey is an iowan, she has a little less than a 1 10 chance of having a premature birth, according to stats from the march of dimes. The group gave iowa a c for its preterm birth rate. That sounds about right to drdr roger allee director of mercys nicu. He said that puts the state in the middle of the pack. Vermont and the area around portland have a much better record on prematurity than we do. But, the problem is were not exactly sure why that is. Dr. Allen says the reearch that is out there suggests preterm birth rates can be cut byyealthy livinggexercise. Reduce stress. Avoid smoking or drinking. And have a good diet during and before pregnancy. Identifying how to put that all together in a package that works reliably for each mom, that has been the challenge. Dr. Allen says more research is needed. But the good news, linn county is scoring better than the state averagag getttng a b at 9 , nudgigig past black awk, woodbury and polk counties. Were ready to go home and start our family, with no more kids on the horizon, lindsey says shes done worrying about preterm births for a bit. Her focus now will center on beig a mother of two. Iowa ranks 19th in the country rates. The National Average is 9 point 6 percent. Some new technology could help people on kidney dialysis live better lives. Coming up, well introduce you to a man whos testing out a new artificial kidney. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts very soon. Well have a partly to mostly Sunny Afternoon with highs well into the 50s. Clouds thicken tonight, keeping our temperatures warmer n the 40s. While a few showers are possible tomorrow morning, most of the rain will wait until after noon. Thunderstorm s are likely in the latt afternoon and evening, which may be strong to severe mainly south of highway 30. How strong the storms get willlldepend a lot on if some sunshine can manage to break throroh; even an houu or two of filteree sunshine will increase the risk. Rain tapers off tomorrow night, but very strong and gusty winds kick in, bringing cooler weather to finish the workweek. Today partly to mostly sunny high 5359 winds se 515 alo 56 dbq 55 iow 56 tonight mostly cloudy low 4349 winds se 515 alo 46 dbq 45 iow 47 tomorrow showers stor ms high 5662 winds se 1020 alo 58 dbq 58 iow 60 tomorrow night alo 39 dbq 40 iow 41 thursday p cloudy, very windy high 50 low 40 friday m cloudy, still windy high 43 low 33 saturday mostly sunny high 56 low 26 sunday mostly sunny high 58 low 36 monday chance of showers high 53 low 38 tuesday chance of showers high 49 low 42 a Washington State man is could elp people oo dialysis have more freedom. Hes testing out a portable, wearable, artificial kidney. Molly shen has that story. Theres a serious hitch in chuck and sandee lees retirement years. Chuck is on a highly restrictive diet. And three times a week, he has dialysis for four hours. The biggest thing is being tethered to that machine. Once youre hooked up, youre stuck there until they unhook ya. Chucks diabetes resulted in endstage kidney failure. The couple now buills their lives around these appointments. We were so used to having our freedom we were both retired for 12 years we would just get up and go. But not so much anymore. But better than the aaernative, eh . . As part of a Clinical Trial at udub medicine, chuck experienced 24 hours of renewed freedom when he tested a wearable artificial kidney. The 10pound belt did the work of his kidneys, filtering blood. And while he stayed in the hospital under observation, the goal is toomake it small and light enough to for patients to go to work, run errands, and travel, all while on dialysis. Its very much a prototype device. The study that we did was really a proofof concept study that such a device could be developed in the future into something that patients around the country and around the worr could use. It would also allow patients to loosen up their diet. During his trial run, chuck indulged in forbidden foods. I had two orders of mac and cheese for dinner. I had cheetos all night long. And he felt better than he has in years. If i had the money and they werr available today, id buy one. It would be right there on the table. Molly shen, komo news. World leaders have finally put together the Transpacific Partnership. Coming up in todays agribusiness report, iowa ag officials believe its a win for their industry. Good morning this is the david geiger. Well its taken nearly 20 years to complete. But the Transpacific Partnership was brought to an agreement last month after 34 high level negotiations between the 12 countries involved. Last week, the full text was released to the public and theres plenty of bonuses to agriculture businesses. 18 thousand tariff lines will be eliminated or reduced. Including deals in machinery, autos, and appliances. And the Iowa Farm Bureau thinks agriculture in particular comes out a winner. In the case of pork, for iowa, which is a big elimination in japan over the next 11 years, thats huge, japan is our fourth largest and one of the largest economies in the world. We also have about a 59 percent reduction in machinery in tariff lines. Hill says unscientific trade barriers were also addressed in the agreement concerning gmo or genetically enhanceddommodities thht puts rules in place to deal with historical issues like shipments being stopped at port because of gmos. Late last week. Farmers coooerative company and west Central Cooperative announced a unanimous vote by its board of directors to go ahead with a merger vote. Iow law requires half of the membership to vote with two thihids in favor. If the membership approves the merger. The new cooperative will be represented by a new board of nine farmerowners. Member equity will roll into the new cooperative on a oneforoneebasis. The combined coop will be headquartered in ames iowa. And will be led by milan kucerak as the chief executive officer its not looking good in the livestock sector. And the grains are still in a sideways market. Well, i am short the corn market, in the december corn ive been recommending a short position from around the 3. 80 level. Were waiting for that usda crop report. The Commodity Markets are melting. They continue to go lower. I am short soybeans in the january contract from 8. 72, the stop is at 8. 94. However, again, its the u. S. Dollar, outside markets that are iiluencing it. I am short the cattle market. I think 128 is in the cards and if we break 128 i think we can trade all the way down to 115 here in dhe next couple weeks. You have to remember, these prices are still ridiculously high especially compared to everything else, which has fallen out of bed in the last year. Cattle prices have been in a bull market for three or four straight years and now its finally melting down. Sell. I am not recommending any bullish position in hogs. Theyre starting to react i do think its somewhat limited to the downside. If youre a producer, you might want to be a little patient at these levels but i am certainly not bullish any commodity. I cant stress that enough. We are headed lower across the board. The olfax sheep andndgoat auction on saturday saw 314 head of sheep. Feeder lambs fetched the days high average price of 1. 97 per pound, while fed lambs averaged 1. 44 per pound. The 76 goats at the auction saw a high average price ranging from 77. 50 to 202. 50 per head. And thats it for our show today. Thanks for joininn. Ill see you againn tomorrow. Well post a video every day in the agribusiness section of kcrg. Com. Youll find it under the news tab. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt 3. 24 oc today russia is playing defense after allegations of statesponsored cheating and corruption. A new report says doping may have helped track and field in the 2012 olympics. Russia is coming under fire, helping its olympic athletes get ahead of the competition in 2012. A new report from the World Antidoping Agency sasas the russian government sabotaged the london games. The scandal could cost the athletes their spots in next summers games in rio. Abcs Elizabeth Hur reports. Allegations of doping. Cheating and bribing. According to russian president vladimir putin. Are quote unfounded. Putin. Firing back at the scathing report that russian track and field athlees used drugg in the 2012 olympiis . Nearly sweeping all the races including the womens 800 meters. Bonnie ford this is one of the biggest scandals to Rock International sport in quite some time. Despite russian denials. The World Anti Doping Agency says its investigation revealed that the abuse was systemic. That the russian government. Even russian secret agents helped stage a coverup. Richard pound its worse than we though unlike other forms of corruptioio actually affecting the results on the field of play. The agency is now demanding that the russians be stripped of all their medals. Alysia montano im hoping were going to see the e edals that are owed to me. Which could mean american athletes like Alysia Montano could earn a bronze medal. Am sometimes you wonder why are you crying . And its just such a natural Human Emotion to feel a loss. In addition. The agency is also calling for russia to be banned from international games. Including next years rio olympics. And thats not all. Sources say a criminal investigation has also been launched and fifa says it is now closely monitoring the situation as russia is set to host t te 2018 soccer world cup. Liz tag the International Olympics committee has the final say. For now. They gave russia until friday to respond. Stressing they have a zero tolerance policy. Eh, abc news, ny. Were just hours away from the 4th gop president ial debate. Well preview what to expect from the republican n ndidates. Ststy with us. Today university of iowa steps to avoid a dangerous virus, in the form of free vaccinations. And High School Students in eastern iowa youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. This midday, university of iowa students are taking steps to avoid getting sick. After a recent uptick in cases of mumps, the u of i is giving out free third doses of the mmr vaccine. The vaccine helps fight against measles, mumps, and rubella. Here have been more than oe hundred cases reported on campus since summer. Uniniersity Officials Sayay they expect three to four thousand students to get the shot. The Iowa Department of public healtx is assisting with providing the vaccine. Vaccines are available in the Iowa Memorial Union lounge until 7 00 tonight. Tomorrow, it will be available in the imu ballroom from 10 00 am until 7 00 pm. Next monday, its available in burge hall from 11 until 2, and from 4 until 9 in mayflower hall. Finally, its available in Hillcrest Hall from 4 00 tuesday afternoon until 9 00 that night. The Waterloo City Council has denied an exemption to the citys ban on burning yard waste. Control Container Systems asked the Council Last Night to make an exception, so it can burn a large brush pile next month. The pile is about 30 feet in diameter. Waterloo has banned burning brush, leaves, and other yard waste for 13 years. The council stayed inline with tradition and denied the request. Today, Drinking Water in waterloo is safe to consume, after a spike in nitrate levels. Water works warned families to not let babies drink the water late last week. The maxxmum safe level ofof nitrates for one water source is 10 milligrams per liter. On friday, it was 10point7. Water works immediately shut off the well. Sometimes adverse weaaer heavy rain can aaect it, sometimes it brings it up if theres enough sometimes it will dilute it and bring it down. Its really hard because its such a complex system to have a distinct cause and affect. Clark says they plan tooexpand the number of Water Testing techniques moving forward. It was a chilly start to the day in eastern iowa, but it could warm up. First, meteorologis alert forecast, justin. Enjoy todays weather, because itll be changing very soon. Well have a partly to mostly Sunny Afternoon with highs well into the 50s. Clouds thicken tonight, keeping our temperatures warmer in the 40s. While a a ew shooers are possible tomoorow morning, most of the rain will wait until after noon. Thunderstorm s are likely in the Late Afternoon and evening, which may be strong to severe mainly south of highway 30. How strong the storms get will depend a lot on if some sunshine can manage to break through; even an hour or two of filtered sunshine will increase the risk. Rain tapers off tomorrow night, but very strong and gusty tonight, 8 president ial candidates will take the stagagin milwaukee for the 4thh gop debate. The latest National Polls show ben carson and donald trump in a dead heat for the top spot. Abcs megan hughes has a preview of tonights event. Tonight marks the first debate since the cnbc showdown that left all of the candidates complaining. What do the candidates expect tonight . Heres donald trump on good morning america. Sot trump on gma i have no idea whats goinn to happen but it will be interesting. An abc news washing ton post poll out this morning shows the donald and carson even in terms of popularity with republican voters. Though carson trumps trump when the question is put to all americans. Trump recently hasnt missed an opportunity to attack his rival sot trump on gma you hit somebody in the face with a lockand thats supposed to make you credible . Carson could be a target tonight. A weeks worth of stories have questioned the truthfulness of storiesesin his autobiographyfrom his violent youth to a scholarship offer from west point. Sot carson saturday youre asking me about something that occurred 50 years agoand you expect me to have the details on that . Marco ruruio may also face questions about his pastnamely his use of a Republican Party credit card when he was a Florida State legislator. Jeb bush attacked rubio in the last debate. Today rubios campaign releasing an ad as a preemptive strike featuring clips of b praising rubio through the years. Nats from ad im a huge marco fan reporter tag the eight candidates will take the stage for the main event at 9 eastern. The moderators are vowing that tonights debate will focus primarily on voters pocketbooks. Megan hughes, abc news, washington. People in cedar falls got an early start to this years veterans day services. The waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports several people gathered for the dedication of a new freedom r rck near Veterans Park yesterday. One part of the rock features waterloo native and wounded veteran taylor morris. Morris lost part of all four limbs in an ied explosion. Other images depict the five Sullivan Brothers, who died during world war two. The brothers are the name sake for the five Sullivan BrothersConvention Center in waterloo. Unity point is openenng a new Family Medicine facility on the west side of cedar rapids. Outpatient physical and occupational therapy, and lab services. The new clinic will open along highway 151 next to menards, in the spring of 2017. With this facility, unity point clinic Family Medicine and urgent care westside will split. Urgent care westside will Still Available atat its Current Location on edgewood road. Clinic Family Medicine will work at the new clinic. Officials will break ground in spring next year. Today, the hyvee store on edgewood road in cedar rapids will host an open house for its new telehealth clinic. Starting next monday, the clinic will have a doctor available through video conferencncng to help people with their medical issues. Mercy care center will be the first in the area to offer the onsite Telehealth Services to the general public. Anyone making trips to des moines could soon have a new place to stay downtown. The city is set to Start Construction on a new 101 Million Dollar hotel. Last night, the city cococil unanimously approved an agreement between polk county and the iowa events cester. Plans call for the 330 room hotel to be built on the southwest sse of the iowa evenns center. Deelition to make way for the project could begin as soon as next month. An iowa city man has died, after he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed. 26 year old ian liang crashed friday night on rohret road. It happened near highway 1 southwest of liang was not wearing a helmet and died at the hospital. A passenger did wear a helmet and is expected to survive. A wisconsin man is seriously hurt after crashing into a deer in Fayette County. The Fayette CountySheriffs Office says they found vehicle turned ovee in the ditch in the 16thousand block of lincoln road. Thats about one mile north of fayette. The Sheriffs Department says 18 year old zachary sedo of freedom, wisconsin swerved to miss a deer in the road, around 1130 sunday night. He went to a west union hospital, and from there, an air ambulance took him to another hospital. Two eastern iowawaschools hopee to win big prizes by encouraging safe driving. Two eyes on the road, two hands on the wheel, think about your actions, cut out distractions Beckman High School in school are both part of the State Farm Insurance contest called celebrate my drive. Theyre in the running for 100thhusand dollars and a free concert from the band echosmith. Anamosa and beckman both submitted videos showing how students drive safely. Theyre now in the second round the contest. Theyre looking for people to vote for them by taking the pledge to be safe drivers. We have a link to the contest site under the news links section of kcrg dot com. Cascade High School Won this same contest last year. They beat out more than 3 thousand other schools to win the small school division. The school got a private concert from the band perry and 100thousand dollars. The money went towards new lockers, Window Blinds and classroom furnishings. A sure sign that the warm weather is over, golf courses in cedar rapids are getting ready to close down for the season. Gardner will be the first to shut down for the season. Youll have to tee off tomorrow if you want to play their before next spring. Twin pines will close next sunday at dusk. And ellis will close down the following sunday. Jones golf course has not set any specific time to shut down for the winter. Big sporting events at the university o o iowa mean bigig money for Johnson County. But this weekend, its a perfect storm as two major events descend on Kinnick Stadium. And an awardwinning country star is topping the charts after his big night at the cmas. Thats coming up in our showbiz wrap. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. Enjoy todays weather, because itll be changing ry soon. Well have a partly to mostly Sunny Afternoon with highs well into the 50s. Clouds thicken tonight, keeping our temperatures warmer in the 40s. While a few showers are possible tomorrow morning, most of the rain will wait until after noon. Thunderstorm s are likely in the Late Afternoon and evening, which may be strong to severe mainly south of highway 30. How strong the storms get will depend a lot on if some sunshine can manage to break through; even an hour or two of filtered sunshine will increase the risk. Rain tapers off tomorrow night, but t ry strong and gusty winds kick in, bringing cooler weather to finish the workweek. Today partly to mostly sunny high 5359 wwds se 515 alo 56 dbq 55 iow 56 tonight mostly cloudy low 4349 winds se 515 alo 46 dbq 45 iow 47 tomorrow showers stor ms high 5662 winds se 1020 alo 58 dbq 58 iow 60 tomorrow night showers, windy low 3743 winds sw 1530 alo 39 dbq 44 iow 41 windy high 50 low 40 friday m cloudy, still windy high 43 low 33 saturday mostly sunny high 56 low 26 sunday mostly sunny high 58 low 36 monday chance of showerr high 53 llw 38 tuesday chance of showers high 49 low 42 Johnson County could experience its biggest one weekend. Hawkeye fans could be pumping more than 20 Million Dollars into the local economy, when the hawkeye wrestling and Football Teams host events at Kinnick Stadium. The wrestling team will hosttop ranked Oklahoma State at 11 for the grapple on the gridiron. Then at ssven, the 9and0 hawkeye Football Team will host minnesota. More than 100thousand people are expected to pass through the gates at Kinnick Stadium room in Johnson County is booked, and Officials Say rooms are going fast in surrounding counties as well. The Football Game is sold available for the wrestling match. Today, the higg school state volleybybl tournament starts in cedar rapids. That means there will be a lot more people in the downtown area. So, the city is temporarily converting 4th avenue southeast, just east of 3rd street, into a two way. All of the games will be at the us cellular center. Today the class 5a quarterfinals will start at noon. And the quarterfinals for 4a will begin at 4 this afternoon. A country star is gaining more fans after his performance at the cmas. And youll have to wait to see al pacino back on broadway. Heree abcs jason thanson with toddys showbiz wrap. Can thank the cma success. He tops the billboard 200 album chart this week with his disc traveller, which came out in may but because he week, and performed with justin timberlake, hes the hottest guy in music. Before it opened, people were talking oscar for the steve jobs movie now its basically been pulled from theaters. It theaters a few weeks ago last weekend it was just on 421 screens. Now official reason for the massive downgrade, though some suspect it has to do with really Poor Box Office numbers. And itt going to be little while longer before al pacino hits the boards for his return to broadway. The actors new david mamet play china doll is being pushed back two weeks. It open a week from thursday, but the tweaks. And thats whats happening in hollywood, im angeles. Here. Make sure those Portion Sizes dont get out of hand. Were on the verge of the putonthepounds time of year. Here to talk about ways we can be a little more careful aboot our holidaa eaeang is hyvee dietitian, judy fitzgibbons. Weight gain makes blood sugars go up and high blood sugar, not matter the time of year, does inside damage all over the body. 1. Keep food out of sight at home and work. If you must have food on the kitchen counter, make it a bowl of fruit. A recent study of american kitchens found people who kept cereal and pop on the counter weighed about 20 pounds more than people who just had fruit in view. Agree to eliminate candy dishes on desks at work. 2. Eat only one handful or less of anything you decide to eat and choose three to four hannuls for any meal. Take time to enjoy the flavors. Americas trend of eating everlarger portions is a major contributor to our expanding waistlines. Tod ays recipes, sausage and quinoa stuffed acorn squash and baked pears in papillote, show two ways to prepare flavorful foods so that they come to the table preportioned in moderate amounts. Both help us limit our portion size, but also can be prrpared ahead of time, cutting down on mealtime cleanup. Coming up tomorrow, our vet will be here to answer any questions you might have about your Dubuque County officials are investigating two separate fires. The first happened at kloeckner metals around 6 15 last night. Another destroyed several pieces of farming equipment nearby, valued at about 750 thousand dollars. Now, one last look at this mornings weather, justin. Enjoy todays weather, because itll be changing very soon. Well have a partly to mostly Sunny Afternoon with highs well into the 50s. Clouds thicken tonight, keeping our temperatures warmer in the 40s. While a few showers are possible tomorrow morning, most of the rain willlwait until aater noon. Thunderstorm s are likely in the Late Afternoon and evening, which may be strong to severe mainly south of highway 30. How strong the storms get will depend a lot on if some sunshine can manage to break through; even an hour or two of filtered sunshine will increase the risk. Rain tapers off tomorrow bringing cooler weather to finish the announcer want to start your thanksgiving right . Then you need the perfect bite. Were giving you affordable apps that you can make in a snap. Clintons kicking things off with an easy, cheesy, crowdpleasy dip. And the incredible Bridget Moynahan is in the kitchen with michael. And theyre whipping up a recipe so good its criminal. Plus, meet a girl whos changing lives one meal at a time. Now we have 83 vegetable gardens in over 31 states across the united states. Its just grown so big. Its incredible