He confessed to killing his daughter. This time i had gun and i stood in the doorway and i shot and killed kimberly. One investigator says he thought he was recording sterns hospital bed confession on his personal cell phone, but accidently did not save the recording. I hit the x like you would on a Computer Program to close it out. A message screen popped up to which i responded, ok forensic investigators tried to recover that recording, but say it simply did not save. Prosecutors say tomorrow, they plan to call april white to the witness stand. She was a waitress who they say stern was infatuated with. During Opening Statements prosecutors suggested stern wanted his daughter out of his life so he could make more time for april. Live in dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news a former Iowa State University right way when she told officials another student sexually assaulted her. Now, shes suing the university. The lawsuit says University Officials discouraged the 21year old from formally reporting the assault. It happened in 2014. She says the school took months to investigate and take action. She also says the university placed her and her abuser in the same housing thats why she dropped out. People are taking to the web to try to get an iowa judge removed from office after sparing this man from prison time. Kraigen grooms pleaded guilty to lascivious acts with a child, who was one, earlier this year in wapello county. Grooms is 19. Judge Randy Degeest gave grooms a 10year suspended sentence and five years of supervised release monday. He must also website called the petition site dot com is gaining signatures asking for degeests removal from office. Dozens of people in monticello still cant go back to their homes and businesses today because of a major gas leak. We just talked to Monticello Police chief britt smith right before this newscast he said crews are working on a bypass, but people will probably still have to stay out of their homes and businesses for another couple hours. It happened in the area along south main street, south maple street, o drive and east south street. People in 25 to 30 businesses and homes had to leave, and cant go back to their homes even for things like medications or other personal items. Emergency responders took people affected to the Monticello Community building. Remember, whenever you see news happening, you can let us know by calling our newsline nine. That number is 3193659999. Lets turn now to meteorologist joe winters. Joe, seasonably warm long will that sunshine stay with us . Activism that is sympathetic to from iowa steve king is calling Football PlayerColin KaepernicksNational Anthem protests. Refused to stand for the anthem in protest of racial biases and oppression against blacks and other minorities. King recently weighed in on kaepernicks protest saying the coach shouldnt let him play until he stops and asks for forgiveness. The iowa secretary of States Office wants more young people to vote in the upcoming president ial election. Today, secretary of state paul pate announced a new initiative to work with 38 of iowas colleges social media on campuses and bigger efforts for Voter Registration events. There are more than 300thousand College Students in iowa. In johnson county, officials have been working on getting young people to the polls for years. They plan to put early voting sites up all over campus starting next month. Were doing a lot of satellite sites out at a lot of campus, dorms, different buildings, law building. Tonight at six, hear from students on the university of iowa campus about why they think there will be a big turnout in this election. On monday, democratic Vice President ial nominee tim kaine is planning to reach out to young iowa voters. Hes planning a stop in central iowa with his wife that will focus on democrat Hillary Clintons plan to make college debtfree. The Clinton Campaign has not yet released a specific location. Today, both the clinton and trump campaigns of the two major president ial candidates. Clinton returned to the campaign trail after taking time this week to recover from pnuemonia. Yesterday, clinton released a detailed report to show her health is good. And today, trump appeared on the doctor oz show to talk about his health. I think that if theres one thing, id like to lose weight. Its difficult because of the way i live. But i would like to drop 1520 pounds. Trump for only releasing information from a recent visit instead of a comprehensiv e medical history. Were following breaking news. The Iowa Division of criminal investigation just released the names of two Cedar Rapids Police officers involved in a fatal officer involved shooting. The officers are Jeremiah White and ashleigh steil. Police hired both of them in june of 2008. Both are also on say officers white and steil responded to a domestic disturbance between a man and woman on monday night. It happened at valley high apartments on edgewood road northwest. Police say 25 year old Markell Bivins stabbed a woman multiple times. The officers shot bivins during the incident, who died from the injuries. The woman was taken to the hospital for her injuries. Cedar rapids has once again caught the eye of a company that wants to build the company is calling it a proposal for a quote boutique casino. We explain what that means, still ahead. Showers and storms move into the weather picture tonight continuing on friday. Some gusty winds and heavy rain can be expected with some of the storms, especially tonight. At friday night lights Football Games will not see much in the way of problems from the rain. The weekend is still looking up with dry weather and highs in the 70s. Tonight showers and storms become likely. Wind se 510. Low 64 tomorrow showers and a showers, mainly early. Wind sw 510. Low 60 saturday partly sunny. High 75 low 60 sunday mostly sunny. High 78 low 54 monday partly cloudy. High 80 low 58 tuesday slight chance of showers, mainly early. High 80 low 60 wednesday partly cloudy. High 81 low 60 thursday slight chance of storms. High 81 low 64 friday chance of storms. Hi thanks joe. Iowas Education Department initiatives in iowa schools. Find out how its designing its own report card source, kcrgtv nine. Pkg jen on cam for the first out than on groceries. Its a trend that todays busy families may not be too surprised by since eating at home takes organization and effort. We asked our panel of moms how they manage to keep family meals at home. Sot Bridget Barnes where are kids going to learn those table manners, where are they gonna learn bout how to make a meal . So i think its very important that we dont go out to eat every night and have kids eat at time. Sot Stephanie Sprenger not to mention the money skills; its expensive. And for us, we have a budget and we try to stick to a certain amount for groceries and we allot ourselves a certain amount for dining. And that way its a treat, ya know, the kids are excited about it, were excited about it. I dont want to take for granted that we just go out to eat every night a week and then its not fun or special anymore, youre overeating, youre overspending. Jen on cam how do you put food on the table . Do you prefer to dine out or eat at momseveryday , im jen lennon. Iowas department of education wants to know whether its making the grade when it comes to Nutrition Education for iowa students. It Just Announced its using a 498thousand dollar federal grant to study 20 schools over three years. The goal is to come up with better plans for Healthy Schools statewide. School employees are trained on nutrition. It will also look at how well schools are implementing federal wellness policies. The Iowa Department of transportation is trying to figure out what people want for the future of iowas roads. Iowans have just about two weeks left to fill out an Online Survey about their preferences on the dot website. Its all part of something called iowa in motion 2045, which involves gathering input from the public about keeping up public roads and expanding university of iowa is making it possible for Emergency Responders to be prepared for practically any situation. Today, responders in cedar rapids used the universitys mobile Emergency Simulation Lab to practice treating a burn victim. The lab is able to transform to present different scenarios. Though emts and firefighters save lives everyday, the simulator helps them train for rare but very serious tu situations that they dont see very often. Those really sick, critically ill or critically injured patients. You just dont come across them all that often. You can work for years and years and not come across a specific Patient Population that has a specific illness, and this forces them to make those Critical Thinking decisions the lab is also designed to introduce people to careers in emergency response. Cards for cedar rapids . A Development Group wants to build it. But it could face an uphill battle, like another casino proposal that came before it. We explain, coming up on your 24hour new source, kcrgtv nine. Its back. Another proposal proposal is different from one that came casinos is envisioning a 40million dollar casino to replace the skogman commercial reality building on first avenue southeast. The iowa racing and Gaming Commission turned down a plan for a cedar rapids casino on first avenue and first street several years ago. Kcrgtv nines Dave Franzman joins us now live from the proposed location of the new location. Dave, the builders are calling this a quote boutique casino. What does implies its going to be a lot smaller than a typical resort casino. There wont be any restaurants or a hotel. The idea is to make use of whats already downtown and share customers with existing businesses. The proposed plan calls for using the space now occupied by this commercial real estate building, the adjoii lot and an auto service store. But its not all for a casino. Parking would be on the ground floor, the casino itself on the second and office space for the third and fourth floors. The biggest question, though, is whether downsizing the casino plan would create less conflict with existing casinos. Were just hoping were responsive to what they gave us as feedback two years ago, were trying to right size it, were trying to locate it so they came to us because thats our niche and theyve known us and thats what i said, were good at operating smaller casinos one potential complication involves the original Casino Investors and this cityowned lot on the west side of the river that was set aside then for a much larger casino project. An agreement says that group has the exclusive right to work with the city for threemore years on any casino plan. Tonight at six, well talk with the mayor about how that existing agreement could impact cedar rapids, Dave Franzman kcrg tv9 news. Well be right back. Stay with tvnine. Hotel and Convention Center in downtown cedar rapids. And snow plow operators prepare for the winter by taking part in a unique competition in cedar rapids. Tonight at 6. Showers and storms move into the weather picture tonight continuing on friday. Some gusty winds and heavy rain can be expected with some of the storms, especially tonight. At this points it appears that friday night lights Football Games will not see much weekend is still looking up with dry weather and highs in the 70s. Tonight showers and tonight, breaking news. The scare here in new york city a short time ago involving police officers. The suspect with a meat cleaver. Police rush to the scene. Officers injured. Gunshots fired. And we are on the scene. Also breaking, the massive recall just in tonight. The smartphones now officially recalled because of fires. And the concern over those phones on planes and subways. Hillary clinton, back on the trail, and what she says tonight about her absence. And taking aim at donald trump, after that moment at a flint church, when the pastor stops him. Meanwhile, trump tonight, and the full interview with dr. Oz. What trump now reveals. Police investigating a possible serial killer, and tonight here, the 911 call. The woman inside the home. The suspect inside, too. And the stunning scene