Opportunity for that property to be redeveloped and back on the tax rolls which would be a win for the community. That property the mayor is talking about is the site of the original proposed casino site at 1st avenue and 1st street southwest. Its still owned by the city and theres been no rush to entertain other Development Proposals while Still Holding out hope for a the mayor says the original Casino Investors still have an agreement with the city, running three more years, to only work on their casino plan. But he says if this new proposal appears to generate interest, its likely some deal could be worked out with the old and new investors. Live in cedar rapids, dave franzman, kcrgtv9. Open for business. Today, 11 story, 37million dollar tower in downtown cedar rapids. The building on first street isnt completely done, but crst headquarters is operating out of there already. Companies that will lease space will move in next month. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now with our first alert forecast. Joe, rain is coming our way tonight . Showers and storms move into the weather picture tonight continuing on friday. Some gu some of the storms, especially tonight. At this points it appears that friday night lights Football Games will not see much inhe 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 few storms likely. Wind s 515. High 76 just into the tv newsroom. A judge has issued an arrest warrant for a former substitute teacher at Washington High School in cedar rapids. Mary beth haglin has admitted to having a sexual relationship with a student she is awaiting trial on a charge for Sexual Exploitation by an empl warrant for violating a nocontact order. An episode of the tv program crime watch daily shows haglin met with the student at woodys show club in cedar rapids earlier this month. The iowa dci has released the names of the cedar rapids officers involved in a Fatal Shooting this week. The officers are Jeremiah White and ashleigh steil. They the officers responded to valley high apartments on edgewood road northwest on monday night. It was for a domestic disturbance between a man and a woman. The officers shot and killed markell bivins, who was 25. Police say bivins had stabbed a woman multiple times. Shes expected to live. Today, jurors heard from the Dubuque Police officers who say they took the confession from a man accused of killing his daughter. Trial for first degree murder. Police say he admitted to shooting and killing his daughter, kimberly stern, who was 27. It happened at their home in june of 2015. In court today, police said they found several bottles of prescription medication, including narcotic pain killers, inside sterns home officers worried he was having an overdose, so they decided to take him the er for an evaluation. A nurse testified that evaluation showed there was nothing medically wrong with his daughter. She said something that made him mad and he kind of hung on to that. A Police Investigator says he thought he was recording sterns hospital bed confession on his personal cell phone, but accidentally did not save the recording. Prosecutors have charged this man for shooting and killing a dog in waterloo last october. Charles brewer junior faces animal abuse, carrying weapons and police say he shot and killed a dog during an argument with a neighbor outside a house on west mullan avenue in waterloo. Investigators say the dog tried to defend its owner. Thats when they say brewer shot the dog several times, killing it. Police say people in homes and businesses near a gas leak in monticello should be able go back around 6 30 police say the gas leak happened this morning near forced police to evacuate 25 to 30 homes and businesses. Remember whenever you see news happening, call newsline nine at 319 3659999. You can also email news tips, pictures, and video to newsroom at kcrg dot com. People who were arrested while protesting the Bakken Oil Pipeline are promising to continue their fight. Today, 30 protestors appeared in court in boone county. They face charges for trying to block trucks from entering and leaving a this is video of the protest in boone, where they were arrested. They are part of Bakken Pipeline resistance coalition, which is fighting the use of Eminent Domain by dakota access, the company thats building the pipeline through the state. Its also concerned about the environment. The state of iowa is making a big push to get College Students to vote this november. And north dakota states Football Team has high praise for the hawkeyes heading into how long until people across the country head to the polls to vote in the election. And the secretary of States Office in iowa is making a push to get College Students to go out and vote come november 8th. Today, secretary of state paul pate announced a partnership with 38 colleges and universities in iowa. His goal of the drive is to encourage more than 300thousand College Students in iowa to vote this november. He plans to do that by increasing Voter Registration on campus, and vote. Kcrgtv9s mark carlson joins us live. Mark, Johnson County is also making an extra effort to get students to vote . Yes, a lot of effort is going into getting young people to get out and vote all across iowa. Especially here in Johnson County, with so many College Students among us. Nats of ballot prep away. But inside this Johnson County building workers are marking, stamping and preparing to test ballots ahead of the big day. There has to be certain ballots for certain types of testing. Getting this work done early helps clear the way so that in a few weeks county officials can get out and start setting up early voting sites all over the ui campus. Where voter turnout has become all too predictable. If 21 ordinance is on the ballot, president soso, local issues, city races or school board, absolutely not. In elementary school, jr. High, we used do the mock president ial elections. Buchold says shes exited to participate in the real deal. Ive never been able to vote in a president ial election before, so im really excited to be able to have my first say. Buchold says she still doesnt know where to vote. And thats partly why this new campaign from the secretary of state was rolled out. To connect with young people with things like this new website myiowavotedotcom. Where they can find a whole bunch popular this election has been, i think a lot of people are going to get out to vote, whether for the right reasons or wrong reasons, i think it will be really popular. For now only time and technology will tell how many people will show up. Id love to see 100, but if you get into the 30 to 50 percent range, thatd be incredible, id feel like were making steps in the right direction. Early voting starts september people file those absentee votes early. Because that makes for a much smoother election day. Live in iowa city, mark carlson, kcrgtv9. Snow plow operators were busy today in cedar rapids. They werent clearing any snow but going through an Obstacle Course o stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Showers and storms move into 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 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 few storms likely. Wind s 515. High 76 tom. Night chance of showers, mainly early. 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. High 73 low 54 thanks joe. Away. So cedar rapids held a snow plow roadeo competition today. Heres how it worked teams went through an Obstacle Course on a snow plow. Judges gave them scores they maneuvered the course. The competition is designed to prepare them for the winter season. 23 19 40 what theyre trying to do is simulate some of the conditions theyll have in the winters. It seems strange theyre doing it now with the sunshine but in only a few months now things will get colder well have trucks plowing the snow so were trying to get people in that mindset the roadeo competition was the conclusion of a twoday training the city hosted for snow plow operators across eastern iowa. That have fallen victim to the north dakota state Football Team. The last time the bison lost to an fbs school was back in 2009 to iowa state. Ndsu Chris Klieman whos entering his third season as the head coach. All week, we heard the iowa Football Team give high praise to the bison. Klieman also had similar praise for the hawkeyes. Make no mistake, i think this is the best, since ive been here the last five years, this is the most complete team that the bison will face. The physicality of what were going to face is what makes us a little leary to see how well were going to match up. A lot of teams come in here saying how can me matchup with ndsu physicality wise. Well, were going into a big ten game that isnt a big ten spread offense, that is under center. Were going to line up and were going to run right at you. Were going to knock you right off the football and can you hold up. The first two opponents that theyve played have not held up. How are we going to be able to hold up with our front seven. Trt 40 oc with our front seven. Its been a rough start to the season for the iowa state Football Team. The cyclones are 02 and start conference play this. They travel to fort worth to face tcu. The cyclones have lost three straight to the horned frogs and have been outscored 12141 during that losing streak. Despite an 02 start, iowa state isnt the only big 12 team with some tough losses. Okie state lost to Central Michigan last week. So, head coach Matt Campbell is trying stay positive. The positive is, for me and the excitement i have for our Football Team, is you look at the big 12 right now and i think its all across the board. This is our first conference Football Game. For we gotta be excited that were opening up conference play. Its a new adventure obviously. We know we havent got off to the start we wanted to. But now it counts counts. Its a conference Football Game and we get to go on the road. Trt 27 oc to go on the road. The linnmar Girls Swimming Team is happy to have one of their top swimmers back, kelsey drake. She took last year off to focus on the olympic trials where she qualified for the 100 butterfly. In her sophomore year, she was a 200 individual medley. Now in her senior year, shes all smiles. Its been awesome because the Team Atmosphere is so much different from club. And just being apart of this team, it means so much to me. Its great to be back in an atmosphere where theres a lot more cheering and everyones watching each other swim. So, its been a lot of fun. I knew ever since i was little that i wanted to swim my senior year. Its my last shot at swimming High School Different and unique. I know that i wanted to take one last shot. Trt 32 oc take one last shot. Tonight at 7 30, we have some High School Volleyball on kcrg 9. 2 with clear creekamana at vintonshellsburg. Well have highlights of that match coming up tonight at 10. Thanks josh. Well be back. Ago. Now, shes hopeful shell be able to walk soon, without any help. Hear her story, tonight at 10. And now to First Alert Storm Team meteorologis t joe winters for your final forecast. Showers and storms move into the weather picture tonight continuing on friday. Some gusty winds and heav be expected with some of the storms, especially tonight. At this points it appears that 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 few storms likely. Wind s 515. High 76 thanks joe. Thanks for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 6. We hope great evening. Is anyone else troubled by the spiderman theme song . Why would it trouble you . Its, like, your third favorite cartoon theme song. It is, right behind . Do dodo dodo, inspector gadget. . And . Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles . . Heroes in a halfshell . Others . Turtle power . However, the spiderman lyrics posit that spiderman, spiderman does whatever a spider can. Yeah, so . I can think of many things spiderman cant do that a spider can. One crawl in your ear and die. Two legally leave guatemala without a passport. Three have sex with a spider. Can we change the subject . Spiders give me the jeebiejeebies. Its heebiejeebies. I know, but that sounds antisemitic