For free doctor visits, prescriptions, dental and eye care. The clinic counted on the community for volunteer physicians and donations to make it possible. If that federal Health Insurance program disappears, clinic leaders say theyll have to step up again. Were going to need more help, dave, if that happens. Were still going to take care of patients one by one who walk through out door and provide that Compassionate Care we always have if we have 1 in the waiting room or 200. Running new patients through the signup process to see if they qualified for Health Insurance became an automatic first step. Its still the first step until, or if, the law changes. The clinic, open mornings only, sends those with insurance elsewhere and mainly cares for those who cant qualify for help. One woman on medicaid, but a past freeclinic patient, doesnt want to go back to the way things were. Going without insurance, its daily patients these days, costs didnt drop as much as you might expect. The higher costs of medications and other expenses swallowed up some of those savings. Free clinic directors dont know whats going to happen with the change in administration. Right now, theyre telling those who qualify for Health Insurance up during this current Enrollment Period and then just wait to see what happens. Live in cedar rapids, dave franzman, kcrg tv nine news. One reason critics want to repeal the Affordable Care act is rising costs. Insurance costs under obamacare will jump about 22percent next year. For most, that will be offset by a rise in subsidies. The centers for medicaid found healthcare the Affordable Care act. However, it noted that growth is slower than the previous two decades. Today, president obama welcomed president elect donald trump to the white house. The two chatted for about an hour and a half in the oval office. President obama says they talked about the transition, as well as domestic and foreign policy. He said he wants to do everything to help trump succeed as president. I have been very encouraged by the i think interest in to work with my team around many of the issues that this great country faces later in the day, trump met with Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Party Leaders on capitol hill. Iowa congressman steve king says he expects trump to move forward in an interview with iowa public television, the congressman says construction of the wall will probably start sometime next year. Trump has made building a wall a big part of his immigration plan during campaigning. And he has repeatedly said he will make mexico pay for it. Congressman king says trump will now have to decide whether thats possible. 1 03 i dont know how thats going to go im going to let him worry about that component. Thats not a promise ive adhered to. I believe he has a mandate to build the wall. Trump has also said hed like to renegotiate the north American Free trade agreement to further benefit american workers. But congressman king says it will be hard for trump to do. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now with our first alert forecast. Joe, what another spectacular november day. A clear sky has been i the cards for the past several days and it looks to continue through the start of next week. After a lower 30s we jump to near 60 on sunday. Dry weather and above normal conditions continue through next week. Have a great night. Tonight mostly clear. Wind nw 515. Low 39 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind n 1020. High 54 back to you. First responders are on the scene of a injured multiple people in linn county. It happened within the hour at southbound highway 151 and springville road near springville. The Linn County Sheriffs Office is telling drivers to avoid the area. We are working to find out more information. The Iowa Supreme Court is siding with a lower close two Mental Health institutes in the state. The court said governor branstad acted within his authority when he vetoed funding for the centers in Mount Pleasant and clarinda last year. Democratic lawmakers and the president of the largest state Employee Union had sued branstad over the matter. They argued state law limited branstads ability to line item veto funding lawmakers had approved. Branstad said the facilities were not suited for modern Mental Health care. The state says its concerned about the increasing abuse of opioids and other drugs. Drug used to tranquilize elephants and its showing up in iowa. So the state is organizing more town Hall Meetings to help families deal with and prevent drug abuse. Mary patchs 20 year old niece died after overdosing on prescription pain killers that her doctor prescribed. I think these kids think theyre invincible, theyre not taking heroin, so think i can if a child is prescribed something, an opiod which is highly addictive, insure children are safe on the backside of using that medication authorities are also concerned that methamphatmine is on the rise, after the state saw a dip in usage back in 2008. Cedar rapids mayor ron corbett estimates more than halfmillion dollar impact of the cr gavel challenge. Mayor corbett announced th pizza this afternoon. Three people won prizes. And the grand prize winner, summer hagy, will get to be honorary mayor for a day. The challenge urged people to visit businesses that had to close during the flood in september. A few Small Business owners thanked mayor corbett and the city for helping them get back on their feet. I was so thankful for the efforts of the city and the mayor, everything that happened have the mayor put together a challenge to get people to come to Small Businesses was just i think a great idea and it helped us corbett says about 500 people participated in the challenge on social media. We are accepting nominations for our annual nine who care program. Once again, tv nine and our show you care sponsors will honor nine outstanding volunteers whove made a difference in their communities. To nominate someone, just go to kcrg dot com slash care. And well be right back. Stay with your 24 hour news sour flash flood victims in dubuque homes from flooding. The Us Department of housing and urban development is giving dubuque more than 30 Million Dollars for flood protection. Kcrgtv9s Katie Wiedemann is live in dubuque tonight. Katie, who is eligible for this money . This is a program thats open to more than just People Living in downtown dubuque. Eligible too. But its aimed to help people who cant afford flood protection. This is often the scene on streets in downtown dubuque during a heavy rainfall. The water has filled basements and damaged homes storm after storm. More than eight Million Dollars of the grant money will pay for things like, replacing basement windows, putting in a sump pump and fixing cracks in the foundation. And the city says they plan to spend between 15 and 18 thousand dollars on each marburger who says his basement floods every time it rains. I hope we do get grants ya know, or something to take out that. You start paying for that out of your pocket, it becomes too much ya know. In less than 17 years, the president has declared some part of dubuque as a disaster six different times. And thats all because of flash flooding. Hud designed the Healthy Homes program for theres a link with this story on kcrg dot com. Live in dubuque, Katie Wiedemann, kcrgtv9. Several High School Volleyball teams from eastern iowa are playing for spots in the state finals today. Cedar falls and Dubuque Wahlert were among those competing with a lot on the line. Stay with your 24 hour news for the past several days and it looks to continue through the start of next week. After a chilly start to saturday, with lows in the upper 20s and lower 30s we jump to near 60 on sunday. Dry weather and above normal conditions continue through next week. Have wind nw 515. Low 39 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind n 1020. High 54 tom. Night clear and colder. Wind light. Low 28 saturday sunny. High 52 low 28 sunday mostly sunny. High 59 low 35 monday mostly sunny. High 57 low 39 tuesday partly cloudy. High 59 low 41 wednesday mostly sunny. Partly cloudy. High 62 low 42 friday chance of showers. High 52 low 49 will have highlights from the state football semifinals. That plus semifinal action at the state volleyball tournament. Stay highlights from the semifinals. First up in class 5a, cedar falls facing ankeny. The tigers have just too many weapons on offense, the quick set to claire gerdes, thats headed for your living room. Cedar falls wins set 1, 25 11. Third set, match point for cedar falls. Grace burken with a big wind up. Tigers advance to the championship for the First Time Since 2006 winning 30. In class 4a, mvc battle between xavier and Dubuque Wahlert. 1st set, future ucla bruin 27 kills. 10 of them came in the first set. Eagles win 2520. Xavier tries to come back in the 2nd. Ellie mcdermott with the kill in the corner. But wahlert wins the 2nd set, 2521. Third set, match point. May delivers the ace as wahlert moves on to the championship winning 30. Class 3a, mount vernon looking to upset no. 1 union. Mustangs get off to a fast start, wynne vandersall starts the scoring, they led 40. Union tries to come back as for one of her 26 kills. Mount vernon isnt rattled as Kaitlyn Volesky comes up with the block. Mustangs won the first set 2520. But union fights back in the next three sets. Peyton parker collects one of her 25 kills. The knights advance. In the neighboring court, dikenew hartford facing kuemper catholic. First set, very tight match at the end. Wolverines set it up over the middle for amber rickert. Look out. Dikenew hartford wins the first set, 2522. Off to a quick start as Haleigh Durnin leaves a trail of smoke on that kill. Dikenew hartford punches its ticket to the championship winning 30. Class 2a, waterloo columbus facing unity christian. 1st set, sailors fighting back as kendra smith delivers a kill. Theyre down 1716. They eventually took the lead, smith on the serve and she gets the ace. Waterloo columbus is moving on with the 30 shutout. Josh christensen tv9 sports. With 8 man ball. Midland and don bosco got it started and midland playing without their 65 starting qb alex martins out with a broken collarbone. Martins thru for over 24 hundred yards and 28 tds so they really missed. And trouble right off the bat with the fumbled snap and Austin Svoboda gobbles it up and races into the endzone for the first score of the game. And that had them on their feet. Midland playing their star receiver connor harms at qb and he hits carter mohr in the flat and drive would stall and it was all don bosco. That guy svoboda again doing it on both sides of the ball with the nice cut back and he can do it all at 62 200 pounds showing off the wheels for the 16nothing lead and they were just getting warmed up Brandon Bagby hooks up with a wide open cale tenold for six more. And i love the face paint. Amazing run. Gets outside breaking. Tackles the nice stiff arm and he cuts it back and almost scores again he was tripped up but it set up six more. Wyatt sawvell straight up the middle for the touchdown and don bosco cruises to the 72nothing win. A lot of jumping jacks for the cheerleaders. The dons will face in the 8 man title game. Thanks scott. Now heres a look at todays most viewed web stories on kcrg dot com. Stay with your 24hour news source, kcrg tv nine. Tonight at ten. Hundreds of what is leading to this. And how one program is helping these vets get on and now to First Alert Storm Team meteorologis t joe winters for your final forecast. A clear sky has been i the cards for the past several days and it looks to continue through the start of next week. After a chilly start to saturday, with lows in the upper 20s and lower 30s we jump to near 60 on sunday. Dry weather and above normal conditions continue through next week. Have a great night. Tonight mostly clear. Wind nw 515. Low 39 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind n 1020. High 54 thanks joe. Thanks for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 6. We hope youll be with us again tonight at ten. Have a great evening. Sheldon coopers decent into madness, 2 25 a. M. And i feel the urge to urinate. My normal urination time is 7 10 a. 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