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Several people who knew both donald and luerkens described a deteriorating relationship and a defendant who didnt like to hear its over as an answer. But the defense argued overuse of antidepressant medication may have made luerkens more prone to violence. Thats coming up tonight at six. Live in the newsroom, Dave Franzman kcrg tv9 news. A second pedestrian has been hit while crossing the same busy road in waterloo in less than a week. The most recent incident happened just after one am when police say a man was walking across University Avenue in the 4thousand block. Waterloo police say the man went to a local hospital, but when his conditioned worsened they had to transport him by helicopter to iowa city. Police dont plan on charging the driver, but the investigation is ongoing. This comes just six days after terry harp died when she was crossing University Avenue and a vehicle hit her. Harp was 59 years old and was crossing just four blocks from this where this mornings pedestrian crash happened. The driver will likely not face charges. Yesterdays voting did not decide some city races here in eastern iowa. University heights in Johnson County will hold a recount for one city council seat. Six people were running for five Council Positions the top four people are winners. But Carla Aldrich and Stepheny Gahn tied for the fifth seat, each getting 14 per cent. The Johnson County absentee ballot board will meet tomorrow to decide how to proceed with a recount. In decorah, people overwhelming approved a municipally owned Cable Communications or television system. There were two questions on the ballot. On the first question, 93 per cent of voters said they wanted the system that includes service for cable, video, voice, phone, and data. And on the second question, 92 voted approved setting up a five person board of trustees to run the system. The goal is to create a copy of cedar falls utilities and bring high Speed Internet to decorah. You can see all of our results at kcrg dot com. Voters in vinton also approved forming a Telecom Utility which will explore additional internet and cable tv options. There were two ballot issues, of which they approved them at 88 and 83 percent respectively. Our warmer weather continues for another day, but joe, when will this streak come to an end . After a quiet night with lows in the 50s, clouds build through the morning. We wont have any fog worries, but we will be on the lookout for rain. Showers and isolated thunderstorms develop in the afternoon and continue into the night. Friday looks dry but cooler as highs fall into the lower 50s. A more typical november weekend is ahead with highs in the 50s and lows near or below freezing. Tonight partly cloudy low 5258 winds sw 1015tomorrow pm showers likely high 6268 winds s 1020 bruce and beth. 40 iowa soldiers will soon deploy to afghanistan. Theyre members of the Army Reserves 649th Regional Support group in cedar rapids. This is video of the units last deployment in july 2009. Several other units will head overseas with them. The soldiers will be responsible for managing facilities, as well as providing logistical and administrative support. The 649th will hold a farewell ceremony at the Armed Forces Reserve center in cedar rapids at nine am on sunday, november 15th. An Illinois Police officer whose death caused a elaborately planned suicide. And Authorities Say a two month investigation found he was stealing money from a Youth Police Program for years. Leuitenent Charles Gliniewicz worked with the Fox Lake Police department. On september first he radioed that he was chasing three suspects. Responding officers found him dead shot to death. But an autopsy revealed he committed suicide and investigators say he planned it for at least 6 months. Filenko the embarrassment comes to me personallythis is the first time i felt ashamed by the acts of another officer. Investigators say Text Messages helped reveal he was stealing money from a program that helps teenagers interested in becoming officers. They say the money was used for airline tickets, Adult Websites and personal gym memberships. A student at the university of california, merced stabbed five people this morning. It started inside a classroom outside, before police shot and killed the suspect. Authorities say the suspect was a male student. Two people went by helicopter to hospitals, and three others received treatment at the scene. Mercedes benz is recalling more than 126 thousand cars and su vs because air bags might suddenly deflate even without a crash. The recall covers these makes and models from 2008, 2009 and 2010. Mercedes says the air bag control unit can corrode and malfunction. Owners will get notifications by the end of the year if their vehicles need fixing. Honda is recalling 145 thousand motorcycles. The company says the rear brakes can drag and cause a fire or crash. The recall includes these makes and models from various years. Honda has received eight reports of small fires due to the problem. Some of these bikes were also part of a recall in 2011 and 2014 for the same problem. Drivers who get a parking ticket in cedar rapids will have to pay more. Park cedar rapids takes effect january 1st. Not paying the meter will cost 10 dollars. Going over the time limit is a 15 dollar fee. The current fee for both is 7 dollars, 50 cents. Late fees will go up from five to 10 bucks. Monthly parking rates at various ramps and lots are also going up anywhere between three to 35 dollars. In april, the city of cedar rapids will host the National Collegiate roller hockey championships. 50 to 60 teams will play 140 games at the cedar rapids ice arena. This is video of the arena on a free skate day. Its expected to bring in 925thousand dollars in local spending. Teams play april 6th through the 10th. Many people take out loans to pay for college. To use crowdsourcin g to get those funds. Well talk to one student who says he was desperate to finish getting his degree, and turned to the website go fund me. After a quiet night with lows in the 50s, clouds build through the morning. We wont have any fog worries, but we will be on the lookout for rain. Showers and isolated thunderstorms develop in the afternoon and continue into the night. Friday looks dry but cooler as highs fall into the lower 50s. A more typical november weekend is ahead with highs in the 50s and lows near or below freezing. Tonight partly cloudy low 5258 winds sw 1015tomorrow pm showers likely winds s 1020tomorrow night showers likely low 4046 winds nw 1015friday turning partly cloudy high 53 low 43 saturday partly cloudy high 50 low 36 sunday mostly sunny high 55 low 30 monday partly cloudy high 57 low 33 tuesday partly cloudy high 59 low 40 wednesday chance of showers high 59 low 43 some dubuque veterans who live in a retirement home got a chance to get ready for veterans day. Coming up tonight at 6, well look at how its all thanks to a group of people working to honor those heros. Hillary Clintons Campaign has put out a new advertisement on tv. Our factchecker breaks it down to see if this ad sits on the side of fact or fiction. And youll hear from a dubuque man whos made a legal statement on marijuana. Stay with your 24 hour news the kcrg tv nine and gazettehas a new campaign ad to dissect. This one comes from the Hillary Clinton campaign on one of her key platforms. Equal pay for women. On average, women need to work an extra 2 hours each day to earn the same paycheck as their male coworkers the Clinton Campaign ad is based off a department of labor statistic showing women earn 78cents for every dollar a man makes, among all fulltime workers. The campaign used simple math to calculate how many extra hours a woman would have to work to make up that pay gap. But the statistic needs some clarification. First, it is based on everyone working 35 hours or more. The bureau of labor statistics reports men work an average of 2 point7 hours per week more than account for some of that gap. The size of the pay gap also varies greatly by profession. While men outearn women in the vast majority of professions the Census Bureau tracks, the gaps are smaller in some professions and women even outearn men in certain fields. Perhaps the biggest factor in the pay gap is career choice and a lack of women in higher paying fields. A Georgetown University economist looked at the 10 majors with the highest income after graduation and the 10 with the lowest. He found women made up a higher percentage of students majoring in the least lucrative fields, like drama. While men dominated the most lucrative majors, like engineering. The department of labor stat does not account for that. So it is not a fair measure of whether a man and woman performing the same job with the same experience are systematically paid differently. But the ad is meant to show the existence of a wage gap not the causes behind it. Countless Government Data backs up that claim. Thats why this ad gets an a. Yesterday voters in ohio rejected a proposal to legalize Recreational Marijuana use in that state. But today, a dubuque mans effort to legalize Recreational Marijuana here in iowa caught some attention. During the lunch hour, anthony crier stood on the corner of eighth and main streets in dubuque holding a sign in favor of legalizing marijuana. Crier says some passersby criticized his beliefs, while several others honked in support and flashed him a thumbs up. Ive had a lot of people come up and agree with me. Older people and young people. Last year, some iowa lawmakers tried to loosen iowas law that legalized medical cannabis. But the bill did not pass. Something that i came up with one night, half out of desperation, half out of hey, maybe this could work. We look at the growing trend of crowdsourcin g, and how one Coe College Student is using it to try to pay for his final semester of college. And some senators push to make college more affordable. Well explain how they want to do it through textbooks, still ahead than a thousand dollars to enroll in his last semester of college. So hes turned to crowd funding to help him reach his goal. Kcrg tv nines brea love tells why crowd funding might be a determining factor in his education. Currently, a Coe College Student pays more than 47 thousand dollars for one years tuition. The private College Offers Financial Aid and scholarships, but this year, spanish major erie french has to pay for college on his own. I talked to my mom about it. I told her mom, were going to have to come up with some money for the first time. She to abandon you now. French attended high school in southern california. He says he didnt consider coe, until he was offered a diversity leadership scholarship for four years. When french needed a fifth year, his scholarship ran out. Just trying to find a way do what i have to do to make sure i finished what i started five years ago. At the start of this semester, french enrolled in a work study program, and found another job working for cedar rapids day school. He says during the job search he fell behind on tuition payments. French says he wont be able to sign up for his final semester, if he cant pay off tuition by november 17th. So he decided to start a gofundme page. Within five days hes already half way toward his goal of 17 hundred dollars. I was on the verge of tears, it was really exciting for me. I dont know if i could really quantify how grateful i am. Coe college said in a statement that it does offer tuition discounts for students and Financial Counselors for guidance, but cannot comment on a specific students situation. French says very important, because he wants to set an example. In cedar rapids, brea love, kcrgtv nine news. A group of us senators wants to give grants to schools to help make College Textbooks free for students. Schools charge hundreds of dollars for a single book in some cases, and students can spend a thousand dollars a semester to get books required for classes. At the university of maryland, the College Provost recognized the expense and saw some students just werent buying the books. So this year the provost available online. And now senators want to give funds so schools create free, online high quality textbooks for courses. This is what the 21st century is going to look like instead of buying a 150 dollar book they could use this free online book senators looking into this include al franken from minnesota and dick durbin from illinois. Raise money for a fellow tattoo shop owner who has cancer. And some dubuque assisted living veterans received a special gift ahead of veterans day. Recapping todays top stories, a witness read from a murder suspects journal in court today. The entry from 32 year old Nicholas Luerkens complained about the unfairness of life and said his exgirlfriend was going to die. Lynnsey donald was stabbed to death in the marion hyvee parking lot in april. A man is at the university of iowa hospitals and clinics after he was hit by a car. Waterloo plice say it happened while he was walking across University Avenue in the 4 thousand block around 1 this morning. Police dont plan on charging the driver. Lets go back to joe now for a final look at tonights forecast. After a quiet night with lows in the 50s, clouds build through the morning. We wont have any fog worries, but we will be on the lookout for rain. Showers and isolated thunderstorms develop in the afternoon and continue into the night. Friday looks dry but cooler as highs fall into the lower 50s. A more typical november weekend is ahead with highs in the 50s and lows near or below freezing. Tonight partly cloudy low 5258 winds sw 1015tomorrow pm showers likely high 6268 winds s 1020 thank you, joe, and thank you for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 5