And im also tracking thderstor in eastern iowa. I will have the latest on matthew Hurrican Matthew. Also tonight no flood damage but a big Financial Financial to overcome in the corridor this area may be ideal for shoppers but not necessarily for drivers. We will tell you what we are doing about the traffic issue. Four legged cheerleader thats creating a lot of smiles. This is a dose of happiness. This is fox 28 news at 9. We will take you like to florida for an update on Hurrican Matthew in just a moment. First im in the weather with meteorologist Rebecca Kopelman in for terry. There is severe threatening parts of eastern iowa. We do have strong storms that will be possible as we head through the night tonight. They are starting to move in. Moving. Now what im keeping my eye on is further down to the south. There south of i80 we start t have this line o storms and move on in. We could have storms that pop little bit of a punch. They do have a lot of lightning and so where starting to see strengthening of possible hail. Othe these will move to the north and move to washington near and south of iowa city right now. As we do head through the night we will continue to have showers and thunderstorms move through. The severe risk is there. It is overall low and mainly south of highway 20. Main concern is going to be hail and the potential for strong winds here on predictor we will continue to have scattered showers and thunderstorms through 10 00 tonight and continue through the overnight hours. By midnight most of the activity is out to our east. We will start twoseat drying and clearing as the night goes on. The clouds will start to clear as the morning goes on tomorro its all going to lead to some nice cool weather as we start the weekend. This is a big storm system. Has been moving through the midwest. We had tornadoes in kansas and dry cool air will start settling and temperatures will be cooling down. We will have your full weather first forecast and more about how cool days temperatures will get. There is a path of destruction even before matthew more than 100 people are dead in cuba and haiti after separate land falls. Heavy flooding is cutting off several communities. The us military is now flying from honduras to affected areas of haiti. This morning Hurrican Matthew hit the bahamas. Thousands of vacationers spent the night in shelters. A weather station on the island reported wind gusts above 130 Miles Per Hour before the weather station itself was lost the florida coast coming up in a moment. Again this turn to meteorologist Rebecca Kopelman for a look at where the storm is right now. It is moving off the coast of the bahamas. Inmate another landfall in the grand bahama island and is starting to move closer to the state of florida and it is a powerful storm system. Itsthe state of florida with showers and thunderstorms that have been moving through the area an eye on the storm. It did lose a little bit of it structure when he made some landfall but it is a prominent storm. Its a category four hurricane and will continue to move up the east coast of the state of florida. Right now still a category four storm and here is the cone from the National Hurricane center. Once again discount means anywhere within it could be the center of the storm. We may not be seeing a landfall with this hurricane however, it will maintain strength which is category three and above and continue to move p the east coast of the state of florida. Right now it has winds of 130 miles an hour and gusts up to 165. Its moving slowly northwest at 30 miles an hour. It will take time as it approaches the state of florida. It is expected to get closest later on tonight around 2 am. Within the cone is the center of the storm may be. Landfall is possible however, impacts will be felt along the east coast and evacuations have been upanddown the Atlantic Coast of florida because this powerful storm with all those winds could pick up some of the waves of the ocean and move them on shore. We also have the winds that could do damage on top of that we have heavy rainfall. A lot of issues will be felt in florida once it gets passed florida it goes towards georgia and the carolinas. Then its has uncertainty. Matthew is a powerful hurricane that is headed towards florida and its conditions will deteriorate as the night goes on. Matthew critz closer to the florida coastline, the effects are being felt there as rebecca shoji. Storm chaser ben mcmillan at the i was storm chasing network is tracking the storm. Hes in cocoa beach florida and he joins us live from the phone. Tell us what the conditions are there. Good evening. We continue to track powerful Hurricane Matthew which is 75 miles to our southeast off of moving towards our area. We have seen some Power Outages but we are maintaining water and electricity in cocoa beach. We are on the Barrier Islands where the storm surge could be an issue. Much of the cocoa beach area could have a lot of tell us from what you have seen. Our most people heeding the way to evacuate . 90 of the folks have left the area. There are some people that have remained. People did not want to leave their personal property because they do not want to leave it when the potential damage has been done. Officials are not recommending if you are on the Barrier Islands and Daytona Beach you still have time to get out and they are telling to people to dve the highways must be packed. What are the biggest concerns of longterm impacts in the area that you are in . The biggest thing in the short term is Emergency Service in the area. Please has told Residents Services may not be available if you get into trouble. That is a tough thing to call 911 and have no one respond. We hope that everyone makes it through the night. This people that said may not get assistance in a may be cut off from services not only Emergency Services but the utilities like power and water for many days to come. Nature is terrifying. Ben mcmillan with the i went storm chasing network reporting live from floridas east coast. Stay safe out there. Much of eastern iowa dodged the bullet last week when temporary floo prevented the cedar river from spilling into most hams. Fox28 news joe huisinga shows us that days of preparation still left behind a costly impact. Reporter in the wake of flood 2016 many are facing a unique crisis. We did not sustain the damage that we could have had. There are a lot of things that paycheck. Preparing homes for the disaster that has missed many has a price. Refrigerators, stoves, water heaters. We have seen those things taken out of the home and now theyre putting them back in. There is an added expense. The cost of storage, hotels and less pay the people working in affected businesses have some facing a flood of bills. For someone who is living paycheck to paycheck that money that they have set going towards a car payment or the something that is tighter now. It will take time to get back in safe waters. We are beginning to recover and everything is getting back to normal. But its not quite there yet. It may take a month or two to get back to where we should be. And with the holidays around the corner many families may be fighting to find their normal. Theyre still in need out there. Covering the core door to find the right help for your needs call 211. They can guide you on the path to recovery. Along blairs ferry road. While many are thrilled over some new shopping options, the added amenities raise some new. Questions. Fox 28 News Reporter dora miller is live in cedar rapids tonight to explain, dora . This area will soon be open to a lot of new that also comes with a lot of traffic. City Officials Say theyve got it under control, but it might not be the solution drivers want to hear. Hear. Natsshoppers and foodies rejoice youll be looking at a few new places to spend your money. Right here on blairs ferry road. Road. Gander mountain is probably the biggest onto go out there. Burger king has been announced, elevate salon and spa, us cellular. The newly opened rocktop bar and grill has been drawing attention. But thats only Grocers Grocery store specialty Grocery Store coming Grocery Store coming in there. They are building another offer. Major retailers and chains are starting to see the traffic over there and how busy it is and theyre starting to get excited. But drivers not so much. Much. Believe it or not, the signing and the signals all that kind of works together. City Officials Say right now theyve worked to make sure together. City Officials Say they Work Together to make sure traffic is flowing the way it should. Theres a new traffic signal across the target. That road was not meant to be a racetrack. Instead the now urbanized wrote handles traffic at a slow speed. We need to make changes to help with the flow as much as we can. Keep in mind when everyone is trying to leave at the same time you do have those moments where things are congested. Dont worry. Longer until it all seems worth it. We are told that will know in a few weeks whats going to go in the market behind me. Until then traffic engineers for the city say Pay Attention to the roads and they will to if theres any changes that need to be made. Covering the corridor in cedar rapids. North liberty has final approval to start a bus service. City leaders are state transportation residents there for years. From 10 am to 2 pm every day weekday people can get on and ride between six different stops. It costs a dollar to get on. You can get on at any corner along the way or order a direct the got. That will be two dollars. There are discounts available if you are medicaid or medicare. Live to North Liberty because they were transit dependent. Expected to start early next week. Congress is calling for immediate action after learning about government vehicles, sold to the public, that did not get critical recall repairs. Its story fox 28 news first brought to you last night. Reporter joce sterman of our digital news partner circa has reaction from capitol hill. Hill. Exploding airbagsa engines that suddenly turn off while youre drivinga defects that could impact your steering and cause a crash. Those recalls we found in cars being auctioned to the public by the federal government. Meadows i think we have a higher standard that we should be held to when es c to ou government. This is congressman mark meadows chairman of the Government Operations subcommitee under house oversight. Hes vowing to looking into the stunning findings of a circa investigation that turned up hundreds of cars for sale by the General Services administrationa meadows certainly someone should be held accountable. Were not has been addressed. In addition to the auctioning of recalled cars meadows says hell be contacting the gsa with another focus. Meadows if theres a recall and theyve been in our fleet and we havent repaired them, then theres another issue about the health and safety of potential people who have been using the vehicle prior to us disposing it. The cars circa found up for auction had been leased out by the gsa and used by 23 different government armya navya marinesa home land securitya state departmenta even the executive office of the president. The gsa didnt respond to specific questions about the use of recalled cars by federal workers. When it comes to auctioning them off gsa did warn buyers there could be recalled cars in the bunch telling them to check with local dealers or another arm of the feds nhtsa to know for sure. Meadows well take immediate action on thisa a we have to be a lot disclosure as a federal agency and im hopeful that because of the work your team has done that well start to see some Real Progress with the gsa in the near future. Im joce sterman, for circa. Next on the fox 28 news at nine he cant hold a pom pom, but that doesnt stop this four Legged Friend from cheering on his team. Well introduce you to a team mascot named walter team. We will introduce you to a team mascot called winston. The radar tells the tale of a bumpy night in store for eastern iowa. Meteorologist Rebecca Kopelman will tell you when the rain will come in when fox 28 news tomorrow on fox 28 morning live Hurricane Matthew has already killed at least fifteen people on its way to florida. We will give you the latest updates on what could be the worst storm to hit the Southern State in a decade. You expect to see cheerleaders at a football game. You expect to see cheerleaders at a basketball game. Theres one fan in with liberty that would not miss a girls bible game for anything. Kelly dambrosio explains the Walter Winston isnt a traditional cheerleader. his cheer is an encouraging bark and hes traded pom poms for a waggily tailhis team is the b black team of North Central junior high volleyball. This happy pup is coach, tara armstrongs therapy dog, helping her through anxiety attacks. Attacks. Hes one of the reasons that helps me keep going. The French Bulldog is thought shed start bringing the French Bulldog is such a big help she thought she would start to bring him to practice so he could help relieve stress in the players. Ive seen people go to be stressed to reducing anxiety. It makes me more happy in the morning. Haley says walter helps when shes facing a test later in the day. Walter winston. Hes good accepting just as they are. Thats a task to do as humans. Thats the lesson that we can learn from walter. Hes got the players to believe in themselves. I always tell them to be like walter when it comes to the ball. To be more and trust your instincts. This donkey is captivated by volleyball and never takes his eyes off the court. Watch the ball. He gets so excited when he sees the girls play most of his barks are like come on you can do it. This little guy is so loved, he even has his own instagram account. Hes just a little dose of happinesstara hopes she can be an example to her players of perserverance, something the moment and never give up her players of perseverance. Its hard not to smile. Covering the corridor in with liberty. Holly fambrough zhou fox28 news. If you would like to follow Walter Winston on instagram we haves username on our website fox28iowa. Com. He is too cute. We need to have a weather terry likes cats. We can make one of his hat the weather cat. Your pretty busy tonight. They may not like the weather tonight. We have showers and thunderstorms moving to the state which some of them could be strong. I will let you know when they get out of here in your weather its going to be a stormy night here in eastern iowa mainly for the southern half of our area. It will be widely scattered to the north. We have a cold front that will be moving to the area and and thunderstorms closer to us. We have one store that was through in cedar rapids an hour ago. It was quick moving and all of these are. They are more scattered about near highway 20 this evening. More widespread activity in the south of i80. Thats where the strongest activity will be through the night tonight and this evening. Near washington you cant see, a lot of lightning downpours occuing e. This is continuing to move to the north and east as the evening goes on. I think the strongest of the storms will be concentrated south of i80 through the night tonight. We do see a severe risk by the ion center. It is a low risk. Its there because we could have storms that could develop some small pale and gusty winds its going to be a low risk. We will have showers and thunderstorms continuing move through until one or two about in the morning. The Service Activity pushes to the east of the river by the time we get to midnight and most of the activity is in the south which is good for the northern half of our area where we have had some heavy rain this year and it is saturated. Luckily not having a flooding concern but we could have local rain. It starts to move out by your morni will it will be left with clouds. On friday will have clear skies. The sky will be staying clear in cool air will be moving in. With an early spring storm sister system that is moving in right now. You can see here snow is falling in nebraska. It has lightened up of the we are not getting snow that we will be in cool air for the next 12 hours. Further to the south that storm was producing severe weather. This be cold front will continue to push to the south. High pressure moves in. Air follows behind it and it is going to be our first nice taste of beautiful fall temperatures have been falling and earlier we had temperatures that were 33 degree different from 24 hours ago. This time yesterday he was 17 degrees warmer in north platte and denver 20 degrees there warmer there. By morning you will start to see the clouds cleared up in temperatures fall into the 40s. Tomorrow skies will clear and we will see sunshine. Degrees for high temperatures. Its also going to be breezy. Karen, you need to get some sweaters out of the closet. Temperatures will be in the 60s and 70s for the weekend. We warm up for monday and tuesday. Its a great sevenday looking forecasts. Sunshine with coat and boots. I cant wait for that. High educatiocan head to the coast, as long as they come back when the fox 28 news as long as they come back. Thats when fox 28 news at 9 returns. Listen throughout the day for when my dad got the contract with donald trump, it was huge for our business. There was never any question about the quality of work. When youre a small business, a werent getting paid. I mean, its huge. But. If you dont get paid, its devastating. If he treats the American People like he treated my father, on the trump taj mahal, were. Were in trouble. The whole countrys in trole how tall are you . How do we measure greatness in america . The height of our skyscrapers . The size of our Bank Accounts . No. Its measured by what we do for our children. The values we pass on. Ive spent my life fighting for kids and families and it will be my mission to build a country where our children can rise as high as their dreams and hard work take them. That meansschools for every child in every zip code. Not debt. And an economy where every Young American can find a job that lets them start a family of their own. We face big challenges, but we can solve them the same way families do. Working together. Respecting one another. And never giving up. I want our success to be measured by theirs. A New Fellowship from stanford will pay for you to go to school only if you promise to come back tothe midwt a New Fellowship will pay you to go to school as long as you come back to the midwest after you get your masters degree. Steffi lee explains what kind of impact it can have on this growing region at mens des moiness back every clothing item on the racks and hangers arabout style. The business runs on a simple ep enter your sizes online or have an instore appointment. A stylist helps you shop or ships you a custom outfit. They get five days to train bk what they dont. They only pay for the items they keep. 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We will analyze the decision to send more us troops back to iraq youve worked hard. Retirements within reach, but congressman blum wants to raise the retirement age to 70. Blum weve got to raise the retirement age. Blum would make it harder, voting to cut Social Security and privatize medicare. Blum would even deny Social Security to seniors until theyre 70. Im Monica Vernon, and i approve this message, his day starts at four. Fourten, hes running three miles rain or shine. Six oclock, chucks at the office. When in iowa, hes still up early. Working the farm, meeting iowans in all ninetynine counties every year. No surprise then, my husband has been named the hardest working senator. Vernon im Monica Vernon, and i Smear Campaign angres misleading and false. The truth Monica Vernon donated every pay raise to charity and helped build a homeless shelter for women and children, but multimillionaire blum promised hed take only half his salary. Then in congress, blum broke his word and kept all the pay. Now he wants to cut Social Security and raise the retirement age. The pentagon says it will send more than 600 the pentagon says it will send more than 600 troops to iraq. The goal is to aid iraqi forces trying to get isis out of the country in the second largest city of mosul. The addition of american boots on the ground is something isis wanted to see. Fox28 National Correspondent jeff barnd talks to experts tonights safe and secure report. What a mac the pentagon says the 600 us troops will deploy in the next week to help eradicate isis focuses from the city of mosul. Some experts say this is a good sign iraqi troops retake the city of people. Its far too long for experts. The administration has shown a breathtaking lack of urgency and drag its feet on deploying the number of isis fighters in mosul ranges from 3 to 5000. There are more than 4600 soldiers in iraq advising and writing logistics to iraqi forces. Liberating that city from isis. 5 28mosul has several Oil Refineries nearby, financing the islamic state. The city has several highways and rail links to baghdad and syriaaisis uses to transport soldiers and totals and weapons. A Rocket Forces me to reclaim muzzles airport to protect the northern part of iraq. The most important reason for retaking the city according to experts is that mosul serves as a major footprint prices in his attempt to establish a for the caliphate and you destroy isis. They say this is the caliphate and we are divinely ordained to remain and expand. They are prepared to launch a without . Defeating . An enemy phillips 7 34 militarily, theyll be defeated. Then theyll go underground and theyll wait for a chance to come back. 7 38in washington, im arnd reporting. This is the second time this year, the u. S. Has sent more troops to iraq. It was a sticky situation today in central city. City. The eastern iowa honor the elementary, middle and high schools competed against each other to raise money to support the organizati. Whoever raised the most money won. However the losing schools principal was ducttaped to a wall today during lunch. To have fun with kids in school is important and you focus on academics but theres also the part where we get to make a difference and things that are bigger than us. So im more than hay to do Something Like this its fun. Its fun for the kids, its fun for the community and we raise money for a good cause. The eastern wa honor flight is a Nonprofit Organization that helps take trips to national war memorials. The schools raised 19hundred dollars. So, can i see you agai. Im free on black forest ham day. Bway . 3. 50 sub of the day to help you remember lifes important days. We got married in june. On tuna day. Every day a different 3. 50 sixinch sub every day of the week. Every sub contains no artificial flavors. 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Thisity mong out of southern iowa will continue to move to the south and east. First we have widely scattered activity near north of highway its going to be scattered in northern parts of the area. Think will see widespread showers and thunderstorms as we are seeing now. Were seeing strengthening here. We have st southern half of the state. We have strong understands moving through eastern washingtony the southern part of Johnson County and was amount mt. Nt the pic may be some hail. We could have some strong storms across the area. I do not think we will have many severe storms. We may have one or two. The overall chance is low. This is the area that we will see the widespread activity through the night. We could have storms with strong winds in small hail. Here are predictor doing a good the radar. We will continue to move through the area. The storms will be in by 1 00 and thats will move towards a mississippi. By the morning drive, we are we will be left with clouds but then we will be clearing out and we will be seeing sunshine as the day goes on on friday. We will have plenty of sunshine as we go into saturday. The dichter not showing much as we go to the start of the weekend. Beauanits because this is a strong storm system. I did say we had snow falling in pneaska. Is cold air behind the system. Its awkward to be cold enough that we will be seeing snow here. We do have thunderstorms and cooler air that will be following and its going to lead to a nice weekend. High pressure was behind the cold front and cool air takes west. It has started to and this is a map of itnge from 24 in northla this is a big ce and you are going to notice it by morning when you step outside we have the scattered showers and thunderstorms for on and than we will hclouds to ght temper will be falling the 40s and it will be cool out there. Oing to stay cool to the day tomorrow. We will see clearing skies and four decorah. 60 in cedar rapids and the nice weather continues into the weekend. 66 on a high for saturday. Check out friday night. 39 degrees a low ch hanley is c a lirain on mond and temperatures we warm up monday and tuesday. So i can make the forecast just for you. You may need a jacket. Coming up in sports words from the gophers. No love lost n minnesota and iowa plus now fox28 sports with zach hanley. Its out rivalry s for the game. The game is much more than that. The loser of this one is done in the race for the big ten title. The hawks have one three of the last four in the series. Go for qb is not a fan of that or the hawkeyes. I would not say i like them one bit. Theres a lot of hatred between the two states and two teams. I think everyone on e team understands that. Im excited for this one and we will bring the pig home for senior year. Former panther is having a big rain against the 49 49ers. The cardinals lead 2114 in the fourth. Will have the top off dog in the big 12 leading for morris is the only selection for the preseason. Last year he led the big 12 in assist in minutes and finished second in steals. A bunch of guys with iowa times playing in the nba preseason. First quarter it was that doug dermot showed. He finished with nine points minutes. It was a quiet night for. Twos and at the marion Volleyball Team won their third west title. Its nothing new for roxanne. For 13 years shes been successfully leading the indians on the court. All thanks to her i can mindset. One and go. On the Volleyball Court at marion ro positivity. Challenges you have to meet what can you be so afraid of. I want them leading the bench and feeling they have success or can have success instead of worrying about the negative outcome. It starts with a new card, marker in a saint. I can. Write down what it is you i think its that self talk. What can i do and tell yourself you can do it. Eventually you will. She wants us to pull one of the note cards to see every day. She wants one in our back to remind us. To her a great spike is nice but have you believe in itswhat its all about. We know that we can do it and reach our limits. If you sent set it you can. We get them f afew year of their lives. If i can get them to trust themselves thats what i want. She can but more importantly roxanne does. Riley gets up to get down. Springville showing why they not going down. The arrows were too much to handle. Maddie sets up and she sends one into your living room. Springville takes the west with a three set sweep. We had crosscountry at no noelridge park. This one was iowa city gabby. Linnmars ryan murphy flying he took first in 15 minutes and 16 seconds Dubuque Hempstead won the team title on the boys side. Thats a check of sports rebecca has a last check of your weather first forecast when the fox 28 news at nine returns. Medical center in cedar rapids is all decked out in pink. 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