A couple of sharing a story about how bad it could be. They are on the mend after a has the bag full of treatments as they tried everything to stop the horrible rash. Rash. Because we thought it was poison ivy to begin with. She and fiance Curtis Prescott were pulling weeds like these at an apartment complex the week before and an emergency room doctor agreed probably just poison ivy then two days later it exploded exploded it looked like a chemical burn on his body. I was just down here pulling its the painful story dermatologists have been hearing all summer red sores burning blisters and misery as they come in contact with wild parsnip. How much how much of you. 85 a good 85 of my body. He had two rashes was covered. The toxic plant can be found homes and apartments. Apartments. And so hes down in these weeds and walking around. And it looks just like a non hazzardous flower. And its just terrible the itching is unbelievable. With fall yard work underway they want all of us to be aware. You never know what youre gonna get into. It looks just like a pretty Yellow Flower so if your kids are out there picking dandelions theyre gonna bring it into the house and not know. Oh gosh i wouldnt want a child be aware as the Seasons Change and plants turn brown they wont look the same, but theyre still dangerous. Dermatologists say if you think you your kids or pets touched the plants soap and water with in 24 hours is the key. Matt hammill fox 28 news chief meteorologist terry swails joins us now with the weatherfirst forecast, more right now motorists are getting some halloween humor in the name of safety. The Iowa Department of transportation has some halloween fun for this message monday. Electronic signs across the state right now read for walkers. Thats in reference to the hit tv show the walking dead. Although most trick or treaters are now home for the night, there could be a few left out there so be sure to keep a close eye on area roadways. President obama and First Lady Michelle Obama got into the halloween spirit today too. Earlier tonight they took part in a white house trick or treating event. Besides handing out candy to kids, the first family also took part in a little dance party to one of the biggest hits of all time, Michael Jacksons thriller. Fox 28 news political reporter and host of iowa in focus kevin barry is at the breaking news desk right now with developing news on the campaign trail, kevin . Schedulegrassley reaxkasich breaking news with developing news on the campaign trail. Reporter we have been tracking it all day long, so schedule for the rest of the week and there are a lot of stops where voters can see canadas. Today, cedar rapids and president clinton will be in waterloo and then des moines before he meets up with president clinton and then patty judge will be in cedar rapids on thursday. This is a relatively incomplete list. One or two events can be added to this. But we are going to track some news. This is a letter that was sent to the fbi director, talking about they release on friday investigating clinton was some of her emails. If the fbis going to come out and say they are investigating, they have to release more information, otherwise its unfair to the American People and congress and he went as far to say its unfair to secretary clinton. Obviously most democrats are kind of idea. Also some breaking news today, Ohio Governor kasich has held true to his promise of not writing for donald trump, he has written and john mccain. His boat will not count because senator mccain is not one of the 18 candidates are allowed to be written in on the ohio ballot. Essentially his boat launch camp and he held true to his pr controversy affect your vote for president . Cast your vote on our website, fox 28 iowa dot com. Youll find a link to the question of the day right on the home page. It appears iowa taxpayers will now pay millions more for medicaid fox 28 news anchor Scott Sanborn joins me now with the explanation for all of this. Thats right kelly iowa taxpayers will put up an additional 33million dollars that will go to the three private companies now operating the states medicaid system. Leaders tell fox 28 higher than expected costs for prescription drugs. Still, operators of the system believe it will pay off for taxpayers, in the long run. Run. We believe that the one hundred ten million savings that was budgeted for will still exist because that is what the states actuaries have said as well as the department of human services. Services. The Health PolicyOversight Committee will meet again in december to address ongoing problems with the privatizaion of medicaid. Fox 28 news continues to follow the growing Opioid Epidemic here country. Thats why we want to continue the conversation searching for answers. Answers. On satuday, fox 28 news brings you a roundtable discussion about the Rising Health crisis. Dont miss your voice, your future the Opioid Epidemic this saturday night at 6. You can watch the one hour event on our website, fox 28 iowa dot com. New developments right now the president of the iowa jaycees met with mayor ron corbett today to discuss the need for Affordable Housing. Housing. This comes after the road and crestwood drive. Hundreds of neighbors expressed concerns including added traffic on edgewood road and water runoff. The development would have also set aside units for the homeless. Corbett says he welcomed the dialogue from Community Volunteers looking to make a difference. We had a conversation about Affordable Housing and services for people that are homeless or very low income so we had a very good conversation about the needs cedar rapids that. Mayor corbett says cedar rapids has done more to add Affordable Housing than other corridor communities since the floods of 08but this was not the right place for this project. Students at Benton Community schools are now celebrating the end of socktober. They collected 2016 pairs of socks for the homeless, trying to get socks from all 50 states. Today, dressed up in their halloween best, they gave the socks to local shelter, waypoint. Collected socks and gave them to the olivet neighborhood mission. Today may be halloween but right now, some are kicking off a different kind of collection for an upcoming holiday. Were talking about toys for tots. You can bring new unwrapped toys to one of many Collection Sites in linn county, including right here at broadcast park. Toys for tots hopes to help 22hundred local kids in need this year ages newborn through 14. Last year the organization collected and gave out 17thousand gifts is proud to again be a sponsor of the toys for Tots Campaign this year. Next on the fox 28 news at nine just how long until local Law Enforcement gets those body cameras. We talk to them to find out, we also talk to one department who has them and update on how theyve been tomorrow on fox 28 morning live, if youve got a pet at home, you know busy times like the holidays can stress them out. How you can help enrich your pets environment to help there are new questions right now about the use body cameras at iowa state university. You are looking at a live picture from the ames campus where the cameras were new questions about the police use of body cameras at iowa state university. Youre looking at a live picture at the games campus but the detroit register said campus leaders did not publicly disclose the agreement for body cameras because they have not set a timeline. That goes against the department the stresses an understanding of how cameras will work before they are activated. And just about everyone has fox 28 News Reporter dora miller investigates more on the publics push for body worn cameras here in the corridor. It started about two years ago. After Michael Brown was shot and killed by police in ferguson, missouri. The public has not let up on Police Officers who are not wearing cameras. We talked with local Law Enforcement to find out when well see an answer to the demand and if the payoff is really worth the cost. Cost. There was a lot of buzz until the chief decided to release that footage. Once that happened it pretty much put a stop to it all. In june 2015, Vinton Police released a video that showed a toddler who was hit with a stun gun on accident. Captain Eric Dickinson says if it werent for body camera footage in would have been hard to tell. Tell. The body cam does a good job of helping to show what the officers were actually dealing with, its still not the whole story but it does a much better job of showing how long the officers its not the whole story but it does a much better job showing how long the officers negotiated and what the suspect was. Reporter the suspect eventually took a plea deal for interfering with official acts resulting in serious injury. There were other cameras that do not have the benefit of body camera video. Some of the public is demanding the use of body camera videos. Reporter many are looking at outfitting deputies with cameras. The public wants to be more aware of what we do. Its off officer safety issue after action officer safety issue as well. Reporter we are compiling information and putting it together for what would work best here. Reporter the same story for Cedar Rapids Police. Chief german set is more important to have an efficient plans and to brush to get cameras on the street. We want. And part of that reason, its very deliberate with the whole process. The assumption that body cameras will fix all that is wrong is not true. The publics expectations needs to be tempered by the reality. Reporter officers have worn cameras for 4 years. They are helpful but they are body camera or security camera, to fully replicate reallife. Investigation, its not a replacement for a complete and full investigation. Though the cameras are small he says the public has to understand the weight of responsibility by those who are trusted to wear it. It. Its not as simple as just buying a camera and handing it to an officer and saying go hit the streets, theres a lot of other stuff that has to be taken into its important for the deputies to understand when those body cameras should be turned on and its also important for them to understand when they should be turned off. Off. They are a great tool, but they present a two dimensional representation of what is essentially a three dimensional event. Vinton police tell fox 28 news they are planning to revise their policy to better fit the needs of the community. Community. Now as for Cedar Rapids Police and the linn county sheriff, theyre still without body cameras. Cameras. Thats right, i spoke to both departments who plan happens it could take up to two months for them to arrive. Police chief wayne jerman says his department will slowly phase them in. And that could take years to complete. Complete. Thanks dora. Just ahead on the fox 28 news at nine a bad habit that might do some good. Why some travel experts believe an infuriating move by some motorists could our children, they look up to us. What we value, how we treat others. Who well entrust our country and their future to. Will it be the one respected around the world, or the one who frightens our allies and emboldens our enemies . The one with the deep understanding of the challenges we face, or the one who is unprepared for them . A steady hand . Or a loose cannon . Or a man whos spent his life helping himself . Our children are looking to us. What example will we set . What kind of country will we be . Hillary clinton, because were stronger together. A lot of viewers are now sharing their Halloween Costumes on our Facebook Page. Christine cook sent us this adorable picture of a . Little a lot of viewers are sharing their hallowing costumes on our Facebook Page. Christine sent us this adorable picture of a little mutant ninja turtle. And if you collection of disney characters. It looks like they were excited to get out and collect a lot of candy. At this age you dont have to just dress up. Danielle sent us a picture of these trolls with a snap chat feature. Thank you for sharing these pictures with us. Go to our Facebook Page to share your pictures. No tricks in the forecast, gary. You are right. Forecast. You wont know if you are in eastern iowa and it is almost november. It has been dry around here for several days. No precipitation showing up anywhere in eastern iowa. But beyond that there is some rain on the horizon first of all i wanted to show you what things would be like tomorrow morning. Look at these temperatures. Normally we should be down the mid30s and now on the mid 50s so we are they we should end up with highs and you can see one area that might make it and we are expecting to make it could get more sunshine it has to be warm was 75 or 76 and that would be pushing record highs for the day. And also, a big baseball game tomorrow night, the cubs in cleveland will be playing and beautiful weather conditions. The when settled the south and 5 to 10 miles an hour. In the meantime, here is a bump in the road weatherwise, is plenty of moisture and warm air. This should form that will not happen until sometime tomorrow night and on the predictor we are starting out at midnight tomorrow night and as he go to the wednesday forecast we will start to see a little bit of rain on wednesday morning and showers keeping up into iowa. Just south and east of the viewing area, thats for the heavy rain czar but scattered showers on wednesday and a few thunderstorms might be a possibility but the biggest emphasis for heavy rain will be down in the southern counties and their rainfall forecast shows a reaching half an inch in a few locations and this have been saying. Seems like its usually out of the south. But 24 more hours until the rain reaches its way to eastern iowa. Temperatures in the low to mid 50s 53 in waterloo and partly cloudy skies with low temperatures. A man a. And tomorrow, we will stay in the mid to upper 60s, thats well above 55 and a mixture of sun and clouds and we will start november out in fine fashion. 75 and 210 and 73 in cedar rapids and your extended forecast, rain is forecast for wednesday and 60 but as the system moves by, no cold air comes in behind it and all the way through the weekend highs are expected to stay in the 60s as we continue on with our Indian Summer weather. We have a few trouble spots to watch out for during tomorrows drive. We have some closures and starting today and the road is closed as well. And they are going to do some utility work and paving for a few weeks so that road is closed. Also we told you about this yesterday, along highway 30, they are taking down the 80th street bridge. There is a detour and and that starts tomorrow but it will be going on from 9 pm until 5 am and that will be every night starting till tomorrow starting tomorrow. 30th street south of cedar rapids, its closed for the next few weeks. There is not when the fox 28 news at nine re. Returns. Judge. Judge . Judge . Judge . Judge . Judge . Grassley . Here hes always here. Alabama explosion explosionlarge gas pipeline exploded this afternoon workers hurt being treated colonial we are here with breaking news taking a look at some news out of alabama today. There was a massive pipeline explosion. This is video from our sister station down in birmingham. Close up but this is run by the Colonial Pipeline company, 5 miles all the way from texas to new jersey. They were fine back until 2003. This cost them 34 mayan dollars for the epa did you can see how devastating this kind of thing as. We will shut this down and we also have a pulled up on our sister station twitter. This is were you the fire trucks are really busy and this cloud has been over alabama all afternoon. Recently though, september 2016, they spill 252 they spill 252,000 gallons of gasoline. It was a partial shutdown of a here. People were hurt and are in the hospital being treated for their injuries. They are just a mile away from that original spill. We will be tracking this on our sister station as well bringing you the latest information as a clean all of the set. Gas prices remain on the low side. Take a look at the state wide average at this time in each of the last five years. The low prices could soon end. Opec is working to agree on a Production Cut information on gas prices in your area, check out the gas gauge. For more information on gas prices in your area, check out the gas gauge fox28iowa. Com, you will find under the community tab. An update on state transportation at the university of iowa, scott joins us with new numbers on nitride. This right service has been opened up to men and women. 130 students use this service get students home safely is also taking steps to keep drivers a sacred well have cameras and microphones and body cameras and there is an app like uber the tells passengers were to get off. A lot of times you want to get home and you dont want to worry about getting home and having something happened to you. To learn more about this we have a information on to anyone hitting the road right now. Some transportation experts are encouraging drivers to do something that leads to road rage. We are talking about zipper merging. When a driver is driving in a lane about to end, to cut ahead and a line of cars. Its infuriating from our patient motors, it cuts congestion in half and reduces speed around construction and Iowa School District is testing new recommendations to install seatbelts on school buses. The statehouse reporter, Stephanie Lee takes a report a look at the report that could help bus drivers near you. Today marks the first day of the test. It is fully equipped with lap and shoulder seatbelts. Reporter students will have to wear seatbelts as part of a study by des moines public schools. The department of transportation list the Highway Administration requiring all school buses to have seatbelts. There is not a lot of data about how much safer they are. Reporter the School District will be looking at how students respond as they sit down and buckle up like they do in the car at home. The main focus is how they behave with the seatbelts. We never want to test the belt in an accident or anything like that. Reporter this is the first of 2 buses that the district will use for its study they hope to have usable feedback by the end of the school year. Have questions about seat use they hope this study can an. Answer. Were looking at how will the safety part of it be . Theres 9700 school buses in iowa running most of our accidents are fender benders a car hits us or rear ends us. Next on the fox 28 news at nine i really hope people will feel that were a force to be reckoned with withhear from the kennedy girls swim team, as they hope to turn a conference title into a state championship. Championship. Youre watching i served under president bush and obama. I fought the taliban. I was asked to form a Global Coalition to counter isil. When someone makes the comment that they know more about the Islamic State or isil than do the generals, it implies a complete ignorance of the reality. But i believe secretary clinton really understands the threat that the Islamic State poses to the United States and to the American People. And i believe she understands how to wield American Power to ultimately defeat this threat and to keep us safe. Im Hillary Clinton zach, a lot of volleyball tonight all over eastern iowa, but they all had the same goal. The goal all a lot of the volleyball tonight over eastern iowa. Things are heating up. The goal is to get to the stage volleyball tournament. When morris trying to do that against pleasant valley. Hammer time. Madison palmer with the backside to get the meyer and they would end the cougars season. And now pulling double duty tonight halloween and is the school mascot, the saints have a going on. Jefferson gets tricky and she drops at home and then later, lexi and elliott will come the block party. And they get the sweep 2012. The third rank and dance hosting oskaloosa they kept it rolling in the third. The spike and appoint for the this was the power of the teammate, caitlin smith. She has the touch and finds a soft spot for the Third Straight year. It has been a breakout year for the kennedy girls swim team. They won their first conference title since 2007 but on saturday at the state meet they are ready to make a bigger splash. It is not easy to be a kennedy cougar. I dont get up until i get into the pool. Thats my wakeup call. Reporter when they are in the pool, these cougars cannot be tamed. Our theme this year is cougars, untamed. A lot of schools have big cat names. I do not like kennedy to be pushed under the rug. Reporter they have a. They cedar falls will be the conference champion this year. The last 25 years, they had 123 of those. I did not think it would be that close. A point and a half is a whisker and a little bit more. Reporter in the same token, its the same Little Things that help the cougars claw their way to the top. If they would get a gold medal or not, it doesnt matter. Ultimately they have never done it before. Reporter win or lose, this team is ready to board. Ready to roar. They are in town on saturday congratulations to them. You have good news for the weather forecast. I am waiting for this weather to be taken away for us but its not going to happen im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Donald trump i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldnt lose any voters, okay . And you can tell them to go f themselves you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. You gotta see this guy. Ahh, i dont know what i said, ahh. I dont remember. Taking a look now at a live picture from northeast cedar rapids. No major travel problems out there tonight, but a reminder a live look at a picture from northeast cedar rapids. A reminder to watch out for any this will be a great night for baseball tomorrow night. When he Start Playing baseball games in november, he can start having trouble. But it will not be a bad one in cleveland tomorrow night. The first pitch, the temperatures should be around 67. There will be a few clouds building and other than that, 5 to 10 miles an hour and it will be on around 7 pm on fox 28 be concealed the action. And another excellent today planned and we should be saying at this time of year for the first day of november. We can get off to a mild note. And temperatures will be up into the 70s and this is a 14 by the time we get to mid november the average temperature gives to 48 cooler temperatures nothing high or below what is normal over the next 14 days in the next seven days look exceptional with the temperatures in the range around 65 to 70 degrees. A lot of good weather to come. As you break it down n tomorrow we will be up around 70 degrees pray High Temperature with a mixture of sun and clouds and thats above the normal high of 55. Wednesday is the next weather maker with a chance of showers, maybe even some isolated thunderstorms. Heavy rains are expected in the southern counties in that system. I and after that, temperatures cooldown a little bit but by the time we get to the weekend, daylight savings time comes to an end on saturday with a sunset around 5 15 pm 5 30 pm. It will be getting darker a lot earlier. Temperatures are next nice amount of the next several days. Rebecca with a few trouble spots. We have a ni starting today, they started working on southeast cedar rapids. Between mills road and haman street southeast, there will be some work with payment pavement and utilities. But this starts tomorrow from 9 pm until 5 am every day until november 24th. There will be a detour at 80th street along highway 30 and and that is why you are going to have to get off the highway, both east and westbound, and that will last until november. Kelly . The new weapon in a fight against peanut allergies. Keeping an eye on the explosion of alabama. You can see the explosive fire. There are 67 expected patients who were injured in the spire. There is a crew that was working on the pipeline just in september of 2016, just a month and a half ago and they were working on mile away with this explosion is in and if week jump to another picture on the twitter profile, you can see this picture and this is causing injury and the structure. He can see how big that cloud is coming up into the air as the sun was going down in alabama. The sun has set but that was there all day long. We are keeping an eye on this tonight and in the coming days as well. A consumer alert for you. Budget cream cookies. There is a milk allergen that is not listed in the batches involved on our website fox 28 iowa dot com. Right now scientists are working on a way to treat peanut allergies. Even a small trace of the nut can trigger a deadly reaction for some. Some. Now, theres a patch kids can wear to slowly build up their tolerance. It works by slowly releasing peanut proteins into the skin. Participants in the study who received proteins were able to eat more peanuts after one year. Experts say it was most effective in young children. Thousands of corridor kids now have a big pile of candy at hom. Home. Parents might be worried about letting them overdo it. From a medical standpoint, at least, you can rest easy. Easy. Experts tell fox 28 news although it . Is . Possible to suffer serious illness from eating too much candy, its very difficult. For adults, it possible to suffer serious say its always best to practice moderation. Next on the fox 28 news at nine chief meteorologist terry swails give you a last look at your weatherfirst forecast and how to prepare for the weather tomorrow. But first, check out this story from our Digital Partners at circa news. News. My name is nayeli lopez. Were canvassing today here in manassas, virginia. I have daca status so thats why im herei have some donald trump i love the old days; you know what they used to do with guys like that when they were in a place like this . Theyd be carried out on a stretcher, folks. And you can tell them to go f themselves i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldnt lose any voters, okay . Its like incredible. When mexico sends its people, coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. You gotta see this guy ahh, i dont know what i said, ahh. I dont remember. Hes going like, i dont remember . Our children and grandchildren will look back at this time. At the choices we are about to make. The goals we will strive for. The principles we will live by. And we need to make sure that they can be proud of us. Finally tonight, some of cedar rapids newest officers met some of the youngest citizens they will soon protect. The department put on this trick or treat event at sunner park earlier tonight. Besides goodies for the kids, they also got to get an up some of cedar rapids newest officers met some of the citizens they are protecting. They put on a event tonight at there were goodies for kids and they got an upclose look at all of the vehicles. We got to meet the families of meet the kids. Recruits will be hitting the streets next week. Congratulations. Tomorrow. Warm temperatures for this time of year. Most will be around 54 to 56 degrees. Temperatures continue to rise above new were up to 56 and sometime we will reach a highs of the low 70s. Thats a good way to start the month of november. Minutes. And we will be back here tomorrow. Thats a cool snake tattoo your. On thanks. Its anacoth, the demon who eats human souls. My friend jeffrey has a dog that eats its own poop. Ok. Whos that one . Thats the goddess of the damned she whose name cannot be spoken. Why . Is it hard to pronounce . What . We have a friend at school like that. Hes from india. We just call him rusty. 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