Cedar rapids is on the decline. There is one trend that has Cedar Rapids Police shaking their heads. Connecting with the crime dora miller with the message people are trying to send, dora. Reporter you think your car is safe and free from harm, parked in your street and the drive way, the fastest way to become the victim is to give easy access to a criminal, awe though thefts happen because car keys were left in the car, not stolen something were dangerous was taken from it. We found out this year there had been 18 firearms stolen frocarses, 2 were ak47s. Between 2014 and 2015, there were more than 20 guns stolen, just this year were quickly approaching that figure, the police chief says it came down iowa nights too far. Again, a firearm is a lethal weapon, its by no means similar to a laptop computer or cell phone or other items that are frequently stolen from vehicles, its a deadly we weapon. Moral of the story police ask the public to lock their doors and dont leave valuables in the car. Its going to start getting cold out soon, so even t nice to already have the car warmed up, police say if youre not careful, someone else could be driving off in it. Covering the corridor in cedar rapids, Dora Miller Fox 28 news a vinton woman will spend nearly four years behind bars for her role in the accidental killing of a 14 yearold girl. Girl. Robyn merchant pleaded guilty to providing a firearm to a prohibited person. Authorities tell fox 28 news she gave a teen a rifle marijuana. In february 2015, a friend of that teen was handling the rifle when it went off. It struck 14yearold emma redlinger, who later died. A student getting off a Springville School bus buswas taken to the hospital after a car slammed into the back of the stopped bus. It happened around four this afternoon near stone road along highway 151. The Linn County Sheriffs Office tells fox 28 news the student was treated for minor injuries. The driver of the car was also taken to the hospital with lifethreatning took crews more than two hours to reopen the highway. Right now the weather remains tranquil across eastern iowa. Iowa. But you knew rain would return to the weatherfirst forecast eventually. Eventually. Chief meteorologist terry swails joins us now with right now linn and Johnson County are taking steps to raise the pay of the lowest wage workers in the area. Area. Now, governor branstad wants to address the issue on a state level. Today he told counties with different wage levels than the rest of the state. In january, the governor says hell work with both parties at the statehouse on the issue. Obviously we want to improve the income for people that are at minimum wage jobs and want to do it in a way thats not going to drive small busineses out of business or also destroy jobs. Jobs. Later, the governors twitter account clarified his does . Not . Support a minimum wage hike. Republicans at the statehouse have blocked proposed increases now for several years. Right now, researchers at the university of iowa are on the cutting edge of cancer research. Research. Fox 28 News Reporter joe huisinga gives us an inside look at the valuable work at aoneofakind lab searching for an invaluable cur. Cure. There is a valuable resource tucked away in a Biology Building at the university of billion of hybridomas frozen in this box. These hybrid cells are used to supply more than 70 thousand researchers around the world. Scientists at the university of iowa are using them to break new ground in cancer researchwe are uniquely positioned to do it tomorrow because we have the monoclonal antibodys collection that resource. More than 4 thousand different proteins paired with a one of a kind Computer Program are letting them watch tumors grow three dimensional dynamic model and then test all of our antibodies to see if we can find a new drug because the drugs for cancer stink. Dr. Stolls wife fell victim to brain cancer 6 years ago. It made me say take your last breath you have and you were last energy and do something about cancer they are using their vast collection of antibodies to fight itif everything goes according to hoyle will have single bullet a single drug which can stop does not cure cancer but it can make it easier to treat and the progress is goodwe already found two targets so its not gonna be hard and they work both on Breast Cancer and they work on melanomascovering the corridor in iowa city, joe huisinga, fox 28 news. There is also new technology here in the corridor aiding the fight against Breast Cancer. Cancer. Take a look at the new 2d, 3d system for breast biopsies. Mercy Medical Center in cedar ra to use it in iowa. The hospital Medical Center in cedar rapids is the first to use it in iowa it produces better images while providing more comfort during the procedure for patients. Cedar rapids leaders want to hear from you for months the city collected information and suggests about how to improve traffic flow before final planning can begin on major sound off on the project. On wednesday november 9th the days of this years election, there will be no formal presentation, a discussion with a wide range of option. The flood of 2016 happening so close behind the disastrous 2008 flood has not led to an increase in Flood Insurance coverage the number offal poll sills has fallen by 22 , still higher than the rate before the 2008 blame the coverage of rising premiums and a high number of buy outs after recent disasters. Most polls show Democrat Hillary Clinton with a clear path to victory on election day. Republican donald trump tries to make ground, turning attention to capitol hill. The republicans have a four seat majority, in the house it democrat nominee Hillary Clinton will rally supporters this friday. Detail haves not yet been released but likely be in support of monica vernon. The Council Woman locked in a battle against rod blum and more support coming from vernon in a statement president obama formally endorsed his partys nominee for the first district. Monica has the commonsense to work with everyone and the kinds of coalitions it will take in congress to get things done and move our country forward. Chuck grassley is seeking a second term. He is not taking this years race lightly. Political reporter and in focus, kevin berry is live with Straight Talk from the senator. Did leave an open seat and grassley is filling it. Patty jung she had the race pretty close, grassley is opening up a 20 point lead. I had the challenge since imbeat senator john culver, im going to win, but its been a tough pole it wherever they can help me. Me. Coming up on the cbs 2 news at ten the fight for republicans to keep the senate and the one senate race that might be an early indicator of how the nation will vote. Kevin barry fox be sure to join kevin for iowa in focus this week. Hes sitting down with one of the democrats fighting to give northeast iowa back to the democrats in the house of representatives. Catch iowa in focus every sunday morning at 9 30 right here on fox 28. Next on the fox 28 news at nine we take you to the tiny town of winterset, now home to a collection of memorbilla and history behind one of the most iconic actors of all time. See for yourself as we go road trippin to the home of the live, if youre looking for a Halloween Costume on a budget, have you ever thought about checking out a second hand shop . We get creative with costumes from goodwill. Thats tomorrow at 7am. All during the month of october were taking you on taking you on the best weekend getaways for the fall season. Matt hamel takes you road tripping to the one time biggest stars in hollywood in winterset iowa. Reporter this is the one and only john wayne museum, this is the only wayne museum in the world. It wasnt until he passed away, in 1979 that most fans even knew bigger than life screen legend john wayne was born right here iowa. On what would have been his 100th birthday, supporters finally agreed it was time to plan this beautiful museum. On dukes birthday last year, the dream of providing a place for admiring fans came true and they just keep coming. I think it is not hard to make the case he was the most popular movie star of all time, thats not to say the best actor, not to say but certainly back story of an american hero, the good guy in the white hat in a fight for what was right. Integrity and truth, and love of country, but also the movie star who cruised around california in an old Station Wagon raised to fit his 6 4 frame, treasuring his time not on horses, but with family on his boat the wild goose over in the theater, a remi incredible filmography, appearing in 80 movies before the stagecoach finally made him famous, ford apache and the searchers, horse, rio bravo, chism, true grit, as he won him his only oscar a few years later brian spent a day with real deal. People ask me, what was he like . Truthfly he was what we saw in the movies so you know him as well as i do. Visitors all over the world make that same connection on this day new zealand, denmark, at least two from ireland. A prime piece because john wayne wrote on that cart. Rumor 11 16 51 cart behind red rope iconiccart from their Academy Award winning the quiet man. picture of her at museum after visiting the museum she promised that after she passed it could have a permanent home here man or woman looking at cart 11 21 50 bald guy watching quiet man or 11 20 50 curly woman for so many fans of the film to enjoy. 11 10 13 shawl or 11 40 08 pan down shawl along with other items including the hand made shawl 11 37 29 . . . . . Maureen ohara in film she wore in the romantic comedy. 11 32 40 cover with shawl cart and movie very emotional for me. Because it is my hands down Favorite Movie period. Never mind john wayne. Charlie 11 54 54 with outside video house 12 00 58 well they like the and he actually walked on these floors for some the tiny home just behind the museum is even more john wayne cowboy hat chimes 12 02 42 right down to the wind chimes. livingroom 11 52 25 . . the four rooms represent the earliest days of youngest pic of him . . Marion Robert morrisons life. 11 52 03 . . and guide charlie rot ter berg says hes seen 11 52 18 or 11 53 05 . people burst into tears seeing doctor 11 53 22 the doctor who delivered that pic emailed a13 pound son very healthy baby boy horse 11 51 53 pictures of what may be his first time on boy, pictures of what maybe first time on a horse and the dog who gave him his famous moniker when they didnt want to tell the true his given name. Dogs name was duke, he loved that name so he went by duke morrison. From the beginnings of his live to larger of life, the truth to the legend who always a small town iowa kid, those who treasure the thought of walking in john waynes footsteps. When it comes together it is wonderful you cant let legends die. Of iowa tourism award for. It is all quiet in the west clear to partly cloudy, the temperatures dropped back to 44 degrees after a high of 59 this afternoon, winds are now out of the east at 8 miles per hour, signifying a developing storm system off to the west, thats far enough away it is not producing precipitation, the temperatures in eastern iowa are looking this way a lot of spots back in the low to mid 40s in the north iowa city again a little warm down that way 51 reported there over all go to the radar right now, absolutely no precipitation found in eastern iowa, none is expected the rest of tonight but tomorrow that all changes as that storm we talked about moves across the plains and starts to head towards south eastern iowa at this point it looks like the low will come right across the south central, south eastern parts of the state and it is going to be to the northwest of that where the heavier rains are likely to fall we could use a little bit of precipitation thats hard to believe after the month of septbe month in dubuque and cedar rapids, were a half an inch below where we should be on rainfall in iowa city the deficit there is 1 inch and in waterloo about an inchal,. 38 of an inch of rain, dry and pleasant, tomorrow is not going to be one of those days as this monster storm system sends moisture and rain towards us, look at this circulation off the Pacific Northwest coast moisture and spread the clouds in first and the rain arrives later tomorrow and tomorrow night. On our predicter at 7 00 we start things out and by midnight were starting to see a band of clouds develop here as we go through the nighttime hours the clouds start to thicken up so well get up to mostly cloudy skies tomorrow morning and later on in the afternoon the clouds continue to thicken finally towards the evening is when we see that first round of rain break up the storm taps into mst the model at least through tomorrow evening the heavier rains are up in our Northern Counties but eventually another band of precipitation sweeps across the south so everybody is going to get in on the rain but the best chance for heavier amounts will be up in our Northern Counties as we go through our forecast here tomorrow morning at 11 a. M. Well see rain develop in the north as we go through the Morning Hours. It will be late in the afternoon where the amounts start to pick up and finally as we get towards the end of the storm system here this is a so this ends thursday morning. You can see there is 2inch of rain, a real soaker expected up north amounts lighter in the south, even here a good rain is expected. So your forecast for tonight then keeps the temperatures in the mid30s north lower 40s in the south, the clouds will be on the increase with east winds for tomorrow clouds thicken up in the morning and by afternoon a few showers are will be likely late in the day temperatures in the low 50s up in the north here is the extended forecast. And the rain should be around at least through the Morning Hours on wednesday that will be a cool day with a high of 54. We get another quick warm up and by friday we could start the weekend with a 70 degree temperature and then another front due in some time over the weekend that will knock things down a little bit on sunday. Where well see ups and downs year so the longer we could keep that away the better. Maybe the kids wont have to wear jackets with their Halloween Costumes. Ive trick or treated in snow, thats not too fun. Next on fox 28 news at 9 00 a survivor of Domestic Violence wants to turn her pain into progress well update efforts to create tougher laws for abusers inside the home. We launch a new series battlegrounds across the country, more vote 2016 coverage on the fox 28 news at for years now, supporters of tougher Domestic Violence penalties have failed to advance legislation in iowa. Iowa. But one survivor isnt. For years tougher penalties have been in iowa. The statehouse reporter stephie lee has her story at the capitol. Reporter years passed, she shared her story of surviving Domestic Violence. He knocked me she hoped it would get legislatures to listen up. Definitely been a slow pace. I feel like we crawl to get progress made. Aiming to protect victims didnt pass last session, would have required mandatory sentences for repeat offenders, allison wants lawmakers to take up the herb shoe again. What allison is asking for is something Governor Terry branstad has supported before. Be pushing for the governors legislation which is the third strike harassment stalking bill dating violence being considered Domestic Violence is one of our big priorities. Allison says another priority is the lethality assessment protocol. Developed in maryland its an interactive questionnaire police can use with victims during Domestic Violence calls. And it can gauge if an offender is escalating towards homicide. Any high risk offenders would have to wear a gps monitoring device they would have to wear a gps monitoring. We know whats needed in order to protect us what would have helped us if we were in those situations for survivors. The Iowa Coalition against Domestic Violence says mandatory minimum penalties dont deter crime and would discourage victims from seeking help. A spokesperson says it will focus on supporting policies advancing the education of all iowans. The new statewide effort to push more young men and women towards higher learning. Cubs fans are on the biggest high of their lives as the team reaches the world series a preview of their final challenge in clevela its heartbreaking, but true. As a millionaire c. E. O. , rod blum laid off over 70 employees, in washington, blum supported special tax breaks for corporations shipping jobs overseas and millionaires like himself. Ill tell you what i think is missing in Washington Common sense. Its about investing in jobs and our economy. Its about investing right here at home. Th to get more iowans to attend. The goal of the Ready Iowa Alliance is to get 70percent the goal of the Ready Iowa Alliance is to get 70 training degrees in less than 10 years. Governor Terry Branstad and kim ronalds say this is critical to make sure iowans have better career opportunities. Beth says this will help iowans there all walks of life will have the opportunity to be involved in this exciting initiative. Dozens of iowans welcome the diversity of experience perspective and opinions. The alliance will meet for the first time later this week, they hope to release a Strategic Plan by next year. A handful of states are considered the battlegrounds for the Political Correspondent scott thuman kicks off tonights edition of beyond the podium. Reporter we are in philadelphia pennsylvania with a preview of our own version of a whistle stop tour back to the days president ial candidates used to crisscross the Country Campaign on a train. The city of brotherly love philadelphia will be our starting point for this east where Hillary Clinton and donald trump may as well be residents theyve been neck and neck for months. Take a look where well be taking you starting in the state of pennsylvania, hotly contested North Carolina and possibly in play a bit now, georgia and finally, florida. A state that may surpass them all in terms of spending and candidate visits with 29 electoral votes up for grabs and history of election mayhem. Along the way well tell what could make or break the candidacy in these final days the difference how votes are cast and how they compare now for four years ago there is a reason we and the candidates are spending so much time, they are target rich totaling 93 of the 270 electoral votes needed. We hope youll catch our reports with our beyond the podium coverage all week long from philadelphia, im scott thuman back to you. Polls show donald trump has one of the states you must win to change that is florida. Caught up with the republican nominee, in a fox 28 news exclusive. We caught up with donald trump at a famers round table in florida in an exclusive interview he tells me he is very confident about these next 15 days and he says that despite what the polls say he believes he is winning. Gop president ial nominee donald trump fighting in the polls says he believes he president. This weekend said youre behind but you seem very optimistic how do you see the path to victory these next few weeks . I think were winning a couple polls came out including the most accurate poll of the last three cycles the investors business daily. Ibd. And that just came out and were 2 points up nationally. That has been the poll thats been the most accurate for the winning actually, i really believe were winning. Trump says he needs florida with the Electoral College votes to win. Says they need to look to themselves. The ones that stuck with me are doing very well. The ones the decided not to stick with me are losing and not doing well. But if you look at the ones who stuck with me they are doing very well and i am proud of that. This weekend, trump unveiled a plan for his first 1hundred days if office. The Supreme Court he says is a big part of it the supre United States the next president will pick three or four new justices if Hillary Clinton hes on our country will be venezuela 13 00 10 donald trump is making a total of five Campaign Stops in three days in the sunshine state. In palm beach county, florida, im Kathleen Walter reporting our mission at fox 28 news is to connect the president ial candidates to our viewers to better inform and empower you. We have repeatedly reached out waiting for a response from democratic nominee hillary clin. Clinton. We want to hear from you. Tell us what you want to know from the candidates. Please share your thoughts. It was another nice day here in eastern iowa, not as warm as it was on sunday, temperatures were down by about 10 to 12 degrees in many locations our high here in cedar rapids ended up at 59 degrees now weve cooled back to 44 well go down a few more degrees, clouds move in here after midnight that will level off the temperatures and that will be it so looks like lows should be back in the mid to upper 30s in most locations here is the current temperatures, outside of iowa city, everyone pre monticello is the cool spot at 39 degrees it is 47 in waterloo, there is oline with the temperatures of 49 degrees as we go to the radar, it is high and dry in eastern iowa nothing around the cedar rapids area nothing at all for minnesota and iowa off to the east some showers are beginning to develop to the west of us and nebraska, thats the first sign of the rain that will be moving into our forecast. Im going to take you to the mostly clear for the time being the first clouds are now starting to thicken up here in central iowa, really start going here later on tonight and eventually well get overcast by the time we get to tomorrow morning and well use our predicter to show this how it works as we go through the evening hours well get to midnight and there comes that first wave of clouds still broken at times by 6 00 in the morning it is pretty overcast across eastern iowa thats the way it should stay Morning Hours, sun here and there. By the time we get to the afternoon you can see a band of rain that develops and increases moving off to the northeast at midnight most of the northern half of our viewing area is experiencing some rain does quiet down a little bit in the south thats only temporary as you can see as we get towards the Morning Hours another wave of rain develops as a cold front crosses the eastern part of the state. So the bottom line is once get into the showers later tomorrow it does look like theyll be in we the heavier rains go, thats going to be up in the north this is our rain fall forecast through 11 00 tomorrow morning there may be a few stray showers around in the north going to be later in the afternoon and tomorrow night when these rain numbers start to increase, watch what happens after 10 30 tomorrow night thats when the rain really blossoms around the area and sure looks like there is going a lot of spots from a half to as much as an inch and a half of rain, up north spots to 2 rain for late october. Wont cause any flooding problems but the bottom line is it is another substantial rain but at least it has been awhile since the precipitation has fallen and shouldnt cause any major problems. Temperatures in the range of the mid30s in the north to 40 degrees in the south clouds will be on the increase after midnight for tomorrow mostly cloudy day, showers are certainly likely but especially in the north and especially later on in the day temperatures holding in the low upper 50s down in our southern counties winds will be southeast here is your extended forecast and the rain starts to move out later in the day on wednesday i think most of it will be done in the morning and then after that well have clouds to deal with but by thursday those are gone by friday temperatures should go back up again maybe 70 by Late Afternoon the next front comes through on saturday and that will drop the temperatures on sunday back down to 56 degrees. The rain probably not really going to tomorrow night well see a Pretty Healthy rain as it moves on out. Great. Looking at temperatures, the hawkeyes i guess theyll be glad to have their biweek this week. They are off, they need to regroup a little bit. Theyve had their struggles this season but their best defensive player is still getting some national attention, thats coming up in the cubs are getting a boost in the world Series Details next the state volleyBall Tournament starts in just two weeks and thirdranked springville hopes to be. The state valley Ball Tournament starts in two weeks first they have to get through regionals the corridors they won the first set and in the second set the fun continued. Too tall riley minister there for the block and the springville point. A little oriole offense, tee it off in the junior, big, later it is yager this time from the same result a spike a point and a springville win 3 sets to 0. Not only was iowas loss to wisconsin a physical bruising battle on the gridiron it was their 8 game in 8 weeks. Iowa will use the biweek to regroup and recover this is a banged up team, especially on the offensive line and that tight end so when they return to the field, they should be happier and kirk hopes theyll be better too. We need to keep pushing forward and get fundamental things that will make a big difference if we could do a little bit better we have a bunch of guys capable of helping us, to push them forward this week as well. We have to execute a little bit better thats what well work hard on this next two week period. It was a good day for desmond king the iowa senior for the defensive back in football and a quarter finalist for the impact trophy, king has 26 tackles and interception return for a touch down. For uni it is the game of the year every year, north dakota state is a true dynasty and they are coming to cedar falls on saturday these two teams played twice last year the panthers played them close by won both times on their way to winning a fifth consecutive time these two teams met up in cedar falls was in 2014, uni pulled the upset, marks team needs to win the play off theyll be almost perfect to take down the bison. Top to bottom they are a Good Football Team thats why when you get that confidence you know they can do some things and they are in the game until the end. They believe they can win and play a team like this. On sunday uni qb was named conference player of the week on monday named the fcs national performer doug lit up Missouri State for 418 passing yards in 2 touch down passes. Its been the same story in iowa states last three football games, there were close, even leading at times against baylor, Oklahoma State and texas but all three contests they came up short so the drawing board for Matt Campbell and the cyclones they have five remaining four at home the scheduled breaks nicely if iowa state can finish drives and games they might be able to turn this season around. Capitalize on drives, no matter what the case is withstand long 7plus play drives and make sure to keep the defense off the field. Takes to be successful. Growth in how weve approached things and how our kids have played and we have to continue that in womens hoops news iowa senior ally disterhoft was named to the preseason allbig ten team on monday disterhoft averaged 17 points and fiveandahalf rebounds per game last year and she enters her final season 11th on the hawkeyes career scoring list the world series starts tomorrow night and in cubs news reports indicate that out since april will be on the world series roster to give the bats a little boost theres plenty of pressure in the fall classic but according to joe maddon the cubs arent feeling it. You can go in that room right now theyre very young really not impacted by a lot of the lore other than the fact that were impacted by our city and our fans and the people that attend our games and the conversations that we have absolutely an impactful moment but theyre thats a check of sports terry has a last check of your weather first forecast when the fox 28 news at nine returns. Returns. Voter turnout in the u. S. Is low. Really low. On average, less than 60 percent of eligible voters vote each election when it comes to voter turnout, the u. S. Is way behind other advanced democracies. So what do these other democracies do differently . Automatic voter citizens have to register themselves to votebut in other countries, the government takes care of thatfrance signs their citizens up to vote when they turn 18 sweden produces voter lists using tax registration rolls to produce voter liststhen theres compulsory voting. In many countries, voting is mandatory a but its not always enforced. Studies show requiring citizens to vote both boosts voter turnout and theres also weekend voting. After the 2014 midterms, the u. S. Census bureau found 28 percent of registered voters said they were too busy to cast their ballotsin the u. S. , we vote on a tuesday, but most democracies vote on weekends or have more than one day to voteanother solution . 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For cleveland the majority, lets put it that way. Anyway, tomorrow got a little rain in the forecast, more clouds than rain during the day but later in the afternoon it should start to fall out there i think tomorrow night it really picks up and some time early in the day on wednesday. 55 for your high. Okay, there we go thank you so much for watching fox 28 so, any thoughts on what youd like for dinner this weekend . You decide, honey. I love everything you cook. Oh, so all of a sudden im a woman because i cook and try to make a nice home for you . Okay, i heard it, too. Shut up. Jake ramming speed jake leave him alone. With his grades, he might as well get used to pushing shopping carts around. Yo to end up working in a supermarket . No, im saying hes probably going to end up homeless. Well, as i live and breathe, charlie harper. sotto voce oh, great. Archie. So hows the best jingle the business . Writer in looks like hes put on a few pounds. Archie, this is my brother, alan. 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