Bruce, back to you. Candidates in iowas third Congressional District are also debating tonight. Incumbent republican david young will face democrat jim mowrer. That district is in southwest iowa, and includes des moines, red oak and council bluffs. The debate starts at eight oclock on iowa public television. This years election is featuring a pretty non people are coming up with interesting ways of showing their distaste for some of the candidates. One dubuque woman was so disgusted as she drove past a trump billboard every day, she raised funds to counter the billboard. Kcrg tv nines Katie Wiedemann joins us now. Katie, the sign company she used says this is something they have never seen before . Exactly, aaron vosmek from cr signs who owns them. Never before has an an individual person, who is not attached to a campaign, bought a political ad like this. Kate parks is a mom and teacher who says shes tired of driving past this trump billboard. Its been on display along highway 20 near h r block for more than a year. Parks says she does not care for trump, but she says what really bothers her is the lack of representation of the other side, here in such a public plac six hundred dollars. That allowed her to put her own ad on the same digital billboard that displays the trump sign. Her billboard doesnt mention, trump or even the clinton campaign. It has the word vote, and lists some words she says describe the values people should consider when casting their ballot. Those are the values that we really care about as americans, especially as iowans. I think they represent our community more so than some of the rhetoric weve been hearing from the trump parks says the Trump Campaign has every right to display a billboard whenever and wherever theyd like. But she says she feels there is now more balanced representatio n on this particular rotating billboard. We reached out to trumps Iowa Campaign leaders for comment about the billboard and about what parks has to say hear back from that campaign. Live in dubuque, Katie Wiedemann, kcrg tv nine news. Both president ial candidates will be in cedar rapids on friday. Democrat Hillary Clinton will be at newbo city market at 1 15 in the afternoon. She will campaign in des moines later that day. And Republican Donald Trump will bring his campaign to the mcgrath amphitheatre. That event begins at 7 oclock friday night. Its been a rainy day across much of eastern iowa today. This is a live look from our meteorologist Justin Gehrts joins us now. Justin, the showers are coming to an end . Clouds are tough to break up, but at least the drizzle ends. After a cool and drizzly day across eastern iowa the weather dries out tonight. The area of low pressure responsible for the wet weather heads east. It will take until thursday afternoon for the sky to become partly cloudy. With some sunshine and very breezy conditions on friday a warmup commences with highs still looks like a rea treat with 70s for halloween on monday. Have a great night tonight mostly cloudy and cooler. Wind nw 515. Low 42 tomorrow cloudy in the morning. Gradual clearing in the afternoon. Wind w 510 high 54 back to you. For people in linn county. Last months flood forced the county to extend the deadline by a month. People now have until monday, october 31st, to pay property taxes without penalty. The county offers several Payment Options for people, if necessary. Several agencies in linn county say the area needs more Affordable Housing. So organizations and developers are proposing, and even moving forward, with new projects. The group, four oaks, plan heights neighborhood in cedar rapids. Four oaks serves about 900 Affordable Housing units throughout the city. The units are a mix of Single Family homes, duplexes, and apartments. But while that number seems high, four oaks says the area needs dozens of additional units. 6 17, if youre a child and youre unstably housed you move every year thats incredibly difficult for a child and i think can provide the more stable adults will be just last night, the Cedar Rapids City Council rejected a proposal for a 45unit Affordable Housing complex along edgewood road. A cedar rapids woman is going to prison for almost three years for defrauding an elderly couple of more than 100 thousand dollars. A judge also ordered tea ware, who is 37, to pay 108 she made calls to a couple in illinois and told them that they had won a lottery or sweepstakes. Using another name, ware told the couple they could get a large sum of money, but only if they mailed money to ware to cover taxes and fees. This happened between september 2015 and last february. The university of iowa is suing a contractor for defective construction work the university hired knutson construction to restore and improve the old capitol after a fire in 2001 severely damaged parts of the building. In 2011 the University Says it discovered construction deficiencies that it contends knutson has refused to correct. It says water leaks through the roof, and the wood siding and trim have deteriorated. Knutson claims its cooperated with the university to investigate the defects and propose already hired portzen construction to do the work. It plans to finish by december. Some university of iowa engineering students got try something unique outside their classroom today. They tested small paper rockets. Stomp, crinkle the students worked in groups to design and test the rockets. They launched them by jumping on an empty bottle, the rocket into the air. The goal was to launch the rocket and hit a bucket on a balcony. The professor of the class says the project helps students solve problems. Anytime youre faced with an engineering problem solving challenge, you have to gather information, you have to try to apply applicable theory and youre trying to come up with a solution. None of the rockets made it to the bucket. The rafters of the building. A unique material is helping hold together a bridge in Buchanan County. Hear why this experiment has engineers all across the state showing interest. Stay with tv9. Experiment. And county engineers from around iowa may be watching to see how well few people outside of Buchanan County have heard of the catt bridge northeast of independence. The 40 foot wide bridge spans nash creek on a gravel road. The new construction was a good deal for the county because donations covered about a third of the cost of a 250thousand dollar replacement bridge. And kcrg tv nines Dave Franzman explains its the unusual Construction Materials that make it an experiment. Opening a replacement bridge on an isolated much attention sot nat much less rate a ribbon cutting. But the catt bridge will have lots of engineers and Bridge Builders checking it out in the coming years. Thats due to the way it was made. First, it used wooden beams instead of the more typical concrete. If you look at the beams there on the bridge those are 2 x 12 sections of wood that are pressure treated and glued together so pressure treating keeps them from decaying but the bridge abutments, the structure that holds up either end of the bridge, arent concrete or wood timbers either. County workers used a technique of mixing tough fabric with gravel called geosynthetically reinforced soil. Doing both together makes this fairly unique. Without the donation of materials, it might have cost Buchanan County as much to build this as a typical county bridge. But it could still save money by eliminating the need for bridge contractors. These bridges as brian showed you could do it with a county work force, smaller scale, less Skilled Labor so thats a big benefit the Bridge Office at iowa state will have both cameras trained on the bridge and sensors built in to monitor the stresses of daily traffic. If it holds up, it could convince other counties to give it a try. Dave franzman kcrg tv9 news. Buchanan county has a history of constructing unusual bridges. The county engineer has support bridge decks. Thats happened 27 times. The iowa Womens Basketball team has a young roster heading into the season. So the hawkeyes are trying build chemistry between the returning players and the fresh faces on the team. Stay with your 24 hour news clouds are tough to break up, but at least the drizzle ends. After a cool and drizzly day across eastern iowa the weather dries out tonight. The area of low pressure responsible for the wet weather heads east. It will take until thursday afternoon for the sky to become conditions on friday a warmup commences with highs reaching the middle 70s. It still looks like a rea treat with 70s for halloween on monday. Have a great night tonight mostly cloudy and cooler. Wind nw 515. Low 42 tomorrow cloudy in the morning. Gradual w 510 high 54 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind s 510. Low 46 friday partly cloudy. Breezy and milder. High 74 low 46 saturday partly cloudy. High 68 low 55 sunday partly cloudy high 61 low 46 monday partly cloudy. Low 47 tuesday partly cloudy. High 64 low 57 wednesday partly cloudy. High 62 low 45 thursday chance of come at a better time for the iowa football team. The hawkeyes are looking at several ways to get better, especially in the passing game. Last weekend against wisconsin, the hawkeyes only had 153 yards passing and their longest play was 21 yards. The injuries with George Kittle and the loss of matt vandeberg. Offensive coordinator greg davis says the challenge for c. J. Beathard is working on timing with the new receivers such as jay scheel, Jerminic Smith and noah fant. When you talk about throwing the ball and you look at c. J. , you have tevaun smith whos in the nfl, henry whos in the nfl, and then you lose matt vandeberg. He had great those guys for three or four years. Everything they did, c. J. Knew exactly what they were fixing to do. I think one thing we can do, and i think one thing were looking at this week because were looking at a bunch of things this week; how can we help those guys either through motion, through stacks, through some things that may help the Wide Receivers get off press better. Trt 42 oc get off press better team held its media day today. The hawkeyes have a ton of youth and are looking for redemption after playing in the wnit last season. Eight straight years the iowa Womens Basketball team made it to the ncaa tournament. But that streak ended last year after the hawkeyes went 1914 and ended up in the wnit instead. Eight in a row was great, but im greedy, i wanted nine. We were apart of a very elite group in the united states; only 10 schools had accomplished see it come to an end. Were a program of coaches that we expect it every single year. And this year, we want to be back again. At the end of the day, you use it as motivation internally, personally, but you cant remain hung up on it by any means. Its a completely new team, we have a new look and it would be unfair to our younger girls who werent part of last years team to, like i said, remain stuck on it. This team is young, but it has a lot of playing experience with four out starting five last year consisted of four freshman and sophomores. So, just having us back, four of the five of us back, well definitely have a lot of experience there. Yes, were young, but we played in some great big ten games. We started. We came off the bench. This is i think one of the deepest teams that we have, and one of the most balanced teams that weve had. Were going to go deeper, more players off the bench than ever before. Right now, that kind of creates some problems for players in the game . The hawkeyes also have five freshman who could see significant playing time, including linnmar grad amanda ollinger. At linnmar, we ran the basics of our main offense here at iowa. But, theres so much more to the offense that ive been learning about. So, i think its really helped me out a lot knowing the basics before because i feel like i have just a more sense of calmness about it. Thanks, josh. Now heres a look at todays most viewed web stories on kcrg dot com. Stay with your 24hour plans for a new apartment complex on blairs ferry road in cedar theyre asking the city to reject the project. And now to Justin Gerhts for your final forecast. Clouds are tough to break up, but at least the drizzle ends. After a cool and drizzly day across eastern iowa the weather dries out tonight. The area of low pressure responsible for the wet weather heads east. It will take until thursday afternoon for the sky to become partly cloudy. With some sunshine and very breezy conditions on friday a warmup commences with thanks for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 6. We hope youll be with us again and reverse the spin on the antiproton. And gamma becomes alpha. Multiplied by a matrix of negative i comma zero. And there we have it. Conclusive proof that i am absolutely worthless after 9 00. Creepy voice sheldon. Sheldon. Hmm. electrical crackling, popping all right, all right. I see whats going on