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That could be vulnerable. Im Dianne Gallagher reporting. Members of a coralville based nonprofit clinic are planning to go to haiti next week to help with stormrecovery efforts. The Community Health initiative haiti has been making trips to the island nation since 2012 to offer free medical and dental care. Volunteers travel there five times a year and offer a week long clinic. The trip was already scheduled, but now theyre planning to bring extra supplies to help people impacted by the hurricane. The gr director says the area where they work didnt get hit as hard as expected. What we were hearing on the news that it was going to be rain and lots of wind, and fortunately for our area, we had more of a Tropical Storm and so we didnt have quite as much rain or wind. Weve posted more information, including how to help, on our website, kcrgdotcom. Hurricane matthew. Britley, what are the storm projections now . Lets go now to Meteorologist School ahead of their game tonight against linn mar. Joe, a jacket is probably a good idea this afternoon. A slow moving storm system pulls to the east ushering in a beautiful fall weekend and the cooler and drier remains with us through dipping into the upper 30s and lower 40s. The wind stays just Strong Enough that we should not have any frost concerns. A slight rain chance returns on monday, with milder weather building through next week. Have a great night and a safe weekend tonight mostly clear and seasonably cool. Wind w 510. Low 40 tomorrow mostly sunny and pleasant. Wind sw 515. High 65 bruce and beth. This evening, people in marion chief. The position opened up when chief Harry Daugherty retired earlier this year. The city is holding a public reception from 5 30 to 6 30 at the marion public library. Each of the four candidates has at least 20 years of policing experience. Lieutenant scott elam and captain doug slagle are currently on the Marion Police force. Joseph mchale is a commander in the kansas city, missouri, police of internal affairs with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department in north carolina. A National Law Enforcement group is offering help to police the Dakota Access Bakken Pipeline protests. Plans call for the controversial pipeline to stretch from north dakota to illinois, including through 18 counties here in iowa. The National Sheriffs Association Says sheriffs around the country are willing to send manpower, dakota. Thousands of people have joined the Standing Rock sioux tribe to raise concerns about destruction to cultural and historic sites. A new poll Shows Hillary clinton pulling ahead of donald trump among likely voters. The new quinnipiac poll out today shows clinton with 45 percent of likely voters behind her compared to trumps 40 percent. The margin of error is plus or minus three percent. For comparison, the same poll last week showed clinton with percent. Both candidates are looking ahead to the second president ial debate this weekend. Ahead of that debate, donald trump is in new york today to receive the endorsement of the National Border Patrol Council at trump tower. Today, he suggested that the election is rigged. He says Border Agents are being told to let immigrants into the country so they can vote in the election. Many people are coming in with criminal records, and we dont want that. Thats a big control says theres no evidence to support trumps claim. Hillary clinton is not campaigning right now. Shes concentratin g on debate prep. People in vinton have some americorps volunteers to thank for doing the dirty work in flood cleanup. The group picked up where people in vinton left off when they had to go back to school and work. A slow moving storm system pulls the cooler and drier remains with us through sunday. Highs will be in the 60s with lows dipping into the upper 30s and lower 40s. The wind stays just Strong Enough that we should not have any frost monday, with milder weather building through next week. Have a great night and a safe weekend tonight mostly clear and seasonably cool. Wind w 510. Low 40 tomorrow mostly sunny high 65 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind sw 510. Low 45 sunday mostly sunny. High 69 low 45 monday slight chance of showers. High 70 low 50 tuesday partly cloudy. High 73 low 53 wednesday partly cloudy. High 70 low 48 thursday partly cloudy. High 73 low 53 saturday partly cloudy and mild. High 75 low 55 an eastern iowa man thought hed be laughing all the way to the bank when he opened his mail and saturday partly cloudy and hed be laughing all the way to the bank when he opened his mail and thought hed won a huge prize. But after examining the offer closer, he realized there was something funny about the offer that was no laughing matter. And there are piles of sandbags what those homeowners need to do to make sure the city comes and picks them up. Next on your 24hour news common issue is an increased temptation to turn to unhealthy choices as coping mechanisms. In fact its the number one trigger that leads moms to smoke. The good news is awareness is the first step to quitting. Felicia sot definitely the first step and from there putting it into perspective, kind of looking at it from the sense of this is not not a threat against me, but instead, this is a challenge that im up for and that i can take on. And then from there i usually tell moms, find those things that bring you peace, things that bring you joy in your day, Little Things, it could be taking time out, closing your eyes, breathing and going to a happy place, or it could be watching a quick video clip that makes you laugh. Just finding those Little Things where you can find a moment of joy and peace that you can use to help put it in perspective. Di something good helps you take a step back and then youll kind of see things differently. Pa m tag for more ways to make moms life easier check out momseveryday. Com. A fairfax man thought he may have struck it rich after getting a letter from Publishers Clearing House. Turns out, it was an almost convincing scam. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders forrest, you spoke with the man who got this letter. What made this scam look so real . It was how authentic all the stuff looked. Though lonnie mcwas too smart for scammers, he at first thought hed won big. A few days ago, lonnie got this in the mail. Its a letter from what looked to be Publishers Clearing House, saying he had won 600thousand dollars. With it, a very realistic looking check for more than 12thousand bucks. Any out of pocket expenses. The catch, lonnie would have to contact the group and likely write a check of his own to cover taxes and processing fees to get the winnings. This was all suspicious to lonnie. He got the check checked out by a bank. Officials said it was bogus. They looked at it. Called state farm, which the check is made out from. They said run the numbers across the bottom. They did and said it dont calculate. Up periodically. People will send in a check to release the winnings, meanwhile the fake check bounces. Officials say this is not how Publishers Clearing House works. Youve heard this before but it bears repeating, be absolutely sure who youre dealing with when sending money. Theres more to this story, tonight at 10. In the newsroom, as flood waters started to rise in vinton last week, dozens of people helped their neighbors build flood barriers. But when it was time to cleanup, many people had to go back to work or school. So a dedicated group of volunteers jumped in. See their progress, still ahead on your 24hour news but finally, its almost done. Volunteer workers are helping with Flood Recovery at some homes in vinton. And they are very close to being done. The cedar river crested in vinton on monday last week at 21 point eight feet. Kcrgtv nines Dave Franzman joins us now. Dave, with the river back down a lot of people probably figure the emergency is over. But is it really . Bruce, organizers working on the cleanup a bit of a problem. When the water started rising, finding volunteers for sandbagging wasnt a problem. But now that theres still a need for clean up in the handful of damaged homes and businesses, many volunteers are back at work or at school. The flood clean up should wrap up this weekend in vinton. Thank s largely to a team of americorps workers based in vinton. This group was in chicago on another assignment when they got a call to hurry members have mucked out basements, toted approximately 20thousand sandbags and gotten the work so close to finished the arrival of a couple of outside groups saturday should wrap it all up. We would have a big job this weekend to take care of if americorps wasnt here. We do have mennonites and the methodist Disaster Team in this weekend to wrap everything up. The eight members of this americorps teams cleanout out about a dozen homes or week. That leaves only a couple of damaged homes remaining for the other volunteer groups arriving saturday. Now that the flood clean up in vinton is all but complete, the next step is repairing those homes that need more than just debris hauled away and mud removed from basements. The Benton County Disaster Services organizer has a list of just three homes needing repair work and now the search begins for volunteer needs the city to pick up sandbags will have to set them along the curbs outside their homes before monday morning. The sandbags can go in the public rightofway next to the street, next to the curb, or in a driveway. Collection starts at seven monday morning. Once crews go through an area of the city, they will not be making return trips. The city says it could take three weeks to collect all the sandbags. People can also just take their sandb pool through monday, or to ellis park through next friday. Now heres a look at whats coming up at 5 30 on abcs world news. Recapping todays top stories, evacuate. And university of iowa president Bruce Harreld says the school needs to get more creative with its fundraisers. Tonight at 6. Hurricane recovery efforts. The Community Health initiative haiti has been visiting the island nation since 2012, offering free medical and dental care. This next trip was already scheduled, but now itll take extra supplies to help hurricane victims. A new quinnipiac poll out today shows clinton with 45 percent of likely voters behind her compared to trumps 40 percent. The margin of error is plus or percent. For comparison, a quinnipiac poll from the end of september showed clinton with 44 percent and trump with 43 percent. Lets go back to joe whos live at prairie ahead of tonights game for a final look at the forecast. A slow moving storm system pulls to the east ushering in a beautiful fall weekend and the cooler and drier remains with us through sunday. Highs will be in the 60s with lows dipping into the upper 30s and lower 40s. The wind stays concerns. A slight rain chance returns on monday, with milder weather bu tonight, breaking news. Hurricane matthew slamming ashore. Right here in jacksonville. The monster storm battering florida right now. The dangerous winds, blinding rain, downed power lines. The storm sparking fires. This home completely destroyed. More than a Million People plunged into darkness. The hurricane blasting florida. A possible hit on georgia and South Carolina next. The life threatening storm surge. Waves smashing right into homes. So please evacuate even if its to a shelter. Tonight, we fly you right into the eye of the storm with the hurricane hunters. Inside the cockpit. Their new warning tonight for millions in florida, georgia, and the carolinas. And the other breaking story tonight. Explosive new audio discovered of donald trump. What he says about women. When youre a star, they let you do it. You will hear it for yourself