In a tone noticeably different from his months on the campaign trail, president elect donald trump now begins the long Journey Towards assuming the highest office in the land. The future 45th president of the United States is keeping a low profile right now, before he meets with his predecessor at the white house tomorrow. But early this morning, while many slept, he claimed victory in front of some of his biggest supporters. Trump took the stage in the Early Morning hours today. With markets around the world plunging on the news that he had defeated democrat Hillary Clinton, his words appeared to ease fears before the sun came up. Its been what they call a historic event but to be really historic you have to do a good job, and i promise you i wont let you down. Ill do a great job. We have Team Coverage tonight on the next steps towards the peaceful transfer of power. But dora miller is looking into the calls for unity from both sides of the race. Dora miller is looking into the calls for unity to both sides of race. Tonight this was a safe place for people to talk about their dis appointments about the president ial election but more than that, organizers say they wanted to take action tonight and they wanted to learn how to accept our new president. More than just and singing, there was hurt looking back on 2016 president ial race. There is nothing nothing that i saw even during the republican primaries that indicated that trump had a chance of wing. Reporter people from different backgrounds met here, it sunk in. Ive had a really rough day today. Generation. Reporter moving forward, a challenge that some didnt think theyd have to face, but now, say theyre ready to accept. 39 04 21 we have to keep speaking up and speaking the truth and fight for what we believe is the noble values this country was established based on. 42 15 12 start act to love yourself and love other people especially people who are different than you. No longer just a Campaign Slogan love trumps hate is now a promise to repair. 30 38 29 we are about unity and diversity and loving and we are about unity and diversity and loving and accepting that is what we are about. That is america. Reporter now different groups say they plan to meet in tonights event brings us to our question of the day. Do you think our nation will unite you think our nation will unite and move forward off the after the election. Cast your vote at fox28 iowa. Com. You will find a link right there on the home payable. Vet 2016 Team Coverage continues with Bernie Sanders with last nights results that are still 24 hours later being counted. Reporter thats right the overall winner is already known. At this moment there are still a number of states that yet to declare a victor. This is where the electoral map stands right now. March begins between donald trump and Hillary Clinton remain raise your thin. If they were to swing in trumps column the mrez elect could win with more than 00 ee electoral votes. Take a look at the popular for just the second time in the last 125 years, a candidate won the white house without winning the popular vote. Right now, clinton has that lead by nearly 200 thousand votes but that is little consolation for the democratic nominee who fell short of winning last nights contest. She publicly conceded the race to trump and became emotional when speaking to yog america. Never doubt you are valuable and powerful and every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams. Reporter despite her defeat she said i still believe in america and i always will. Coming up in 22 minutes we will look at what a Trump Administration could look like and also what he wants to accomplish in the first days in office and will show you how resistance from his own party to capital hill. We will take a look at state elections in a moment. Terry swails is here with a forecast we can be happy with. Reporter warm temperatures will return to the area after a little bit of a downturn today. The forecast looks good here the next 24 hours. Theres the radar showing a clean slate once again all around eastern iowa. Heres the satellite. We dont show a cloud. Thats how quiet it is in the on the morning commute the sun will be out and temperatures will be cool right around 35 to 37 degrees. Winds southwest at 5 to 15 and after that, sunshine and south westerly winds will really send the temperatures warming quickly and by 3 00 in the afternoon we should be up to 67 degrees and that is roughly 18 to 20 degrees above the seasonal norm. Another very nice day coming up tomorrow. We continue today vote at the statehouse. Reporter take a look at the numbers a whoping 3 of all registered vote yoerz or more than one and a half Million People cast their ballots this year and actually thats the same level seen in 2008. All the votes turned iowa solid red for the first time in nearly 20 years. Come january, republicans will the senate. Lieutenant kim reynolds says this will bring new opportunity to debate legislation. Whether Water Quality for Tax Deduction or investing in children the debate is healthy so im excited about the opportunity to continue the dialogue to have the discussion about issues that will help iowans. One vacancy in the quad cities that will be filled by a democratic senator joe sang. The city of North Liberty will once again search for a new mayor. Amy neil son holds the post but last night she won a seat in the iowa house. Once she begins the job in january she must resign her city leaders will have 40days to appoint a new mayor. 18 56 09 if they appoint, the citizens of North Liberty they decide not to petition and go along with the councils appointment, then that person will be up for election come november. As for the outgoing mayor, nielsen tells fox 28 news she hopes the council finds some . New voices in the community to try and build a more Diverse Group of leaders. Iowas Libertarian Party is now claiming a victory in this years election. President ial candidate Gary Johnsons them whats known as full president ial dairy johnsons performance is enough to earn him full status. He earned 4 of the vote here in iowa. Any candidate that erns more than 2 earns the full status for their party. Lib terence candidates in iowa can file paperwork with the state before summer primaries. The party hopes that will increase exposure of their candidates. New tonight a group of eastern iowa gathered to show support for president elect. Skeven live. All across the nation were looking from protest from people who dont like donald trump or Hillary Clinton supporters. This one were seeing on top of a transit bus in chicago. Froerdz the west coast all the way to the east coast. Right here in cedar rapids the Iowa Conservative Union institution lietzed their open extra sell vertebra to her feeling thchlt would have happened regardless. The total is set by republicans taking the u. S. House and iowa rather the u. S. Senate and the iowa senate. He says for people who enjoy carrying and buying guns, a trump win is helpful. Good news we have a booth this weekend for the gun show out there. And i suspect a lot of those dealers may have purchased ex a hillary win. My understanding there should be a lot of sales with the trump win, it just makes sense. Reporter theres the gun show out at hawkeye down similar to one back in the caucus season. Martin oh mal lee protested out in front and held a rally there before a similar gun show just about a year ago. 9. This is an overnight kind of thing. Were all the sudden robots will be taking the recognize of iowa. I sight that can turn a few heads along i380. Plans to put trucks to the busy stretch of interstate without anyone behind the wheel in a fox28 special report. Ill let you know where you can see trouble spots on the roads for morning commute and one area that is going to be seeing an end to their construction project in your tomorrow on fox 28 morning live, our favorite fourlegged guests join us in the studio tomorrow how you can keep your pets happy through the hectic holidays. Thats tomorrow morning right here at 7 am. Now has residents opinions on the future of mount vernon house to discuss the issue. Issue. Residents interested in they held a third open house to discuss the issue. Residents interested in a make over got to speak to the engineers who will come up with the final designs. Planners are pouring overall the ideas brought to the table and they hope to have a plan for city leaders to address in the coming months. An update now on a School Bus Crash in northeast iowa. The suspect in the case admitted he was responsible for colliding with the school sending dozens of kids to the hospital. It happened just northeast of man chester last year. 42year old of arlington rammed into the bus. Passengers told fox28 news the bus rolled twice before coming to a stop. Now he has pleaded guilty to owi second offense and two counts of serious injury by vehicle. His sentencing is set for january 18th. Car krashz claimed 320 lives last year here in iowa. Technology to reduce the number of fatalities behind the while. Connor morgan explains how the future of driver may take the driver out from behind the wheel blightly in a special report. This years death count has already surpassed the 2015 total. And we still have almost 2 2 months left to go. The alarming rise signifies a not all are fullspeed ahead. If you travel down i380 regularly between cedar rapids and iowa city youre used to seeing traffic youre used to seeing crashes and youre used to seeing drivers. Its unfamiliar to us to see a vehicle, whether it be a large semitruck or even a small personal vehicle, driving and not seeing somebody behind the driver wheel. Unfamiliar . Yes. Unheard of . No. The iowa dot is teaming up with mapping firm here and the university miles of i380 into a test zone for automated vehicles. Dan mcgehee is the director of the National Advanced driving simulator at the university of iowa and says the projects primary purpose is to improve driver safety. 95 percent of car crashes have some sort of human error involved. Thats a really high number relative to crash causation. And so these technologies are going to help reduce that. A reduction of up to 80 percent according to the these technologies will that. Reporter a reduction of up 80 meaning 250 lives snaifd 2015 alone. Freight is the focus for this transformation but some the Trucking Industry arent convinced this plan will improve safety. Right now 75 of the fault. is that going to reduce the accidents . Because were looking at autonomous trucks right now, not necessarily the fourwheeled vehicles on the interstate. Another concern for Truck Drivers is the idea of being vehicles, i mean thats obviously what theyre aiming for is to make the actual truck driver obsolete. Currently there is a truck Driver Shortage and some companies are stalling as a result. Some in the industry are looking to technology as the solution. If were able to continue to move forward with the driverless technology, that will enable those companies to continue to grow and fill some of these positions that there arent individuals available to fill. The National Advanced driving simulator has been studying automation for more than two decades and pumping the brakes on Technology Replacing humans at least right away. Dm its very much a gradual process. This is not an overnight kind of thing where all of a sudden least right away. This is a gradual process. The first generation is going to be where we sit behind the wheel and turnover control to the vehicle. Reporter Industry Experts say truly drivers cars are possible but a long way out. Project will give us a better timeline of when. Covering the corridor Connor Morgan fox28 news. We want to know what you think about this technology to weigh in and join in on the conversation on the Facebook Page kfxa fox28. Just ahead. Were not democrats first, were not republicans first. We are americans first. Reporter how president obama is preparing to greet his success your and a closer look at what the first weeks of a Trump Administration might look like. Behind me you can see on the satellite there is no clouds anywhere around the upper midwest. Im confident we will see lots of sunshine tomorrow and with winds from the southwest our temperatures will take a nice jump here. I think you will like the i think you will like the we want to show you a live picture we want to show you a live picture from chicago where protests continue right now after the election of donald trump earlier this morning. Similar mass demonstrations are taking place right now in pennsylvania, california and a number of other states. Were going to continue to monitor these will bring you updates throughout the broadcast. Swale swalz jones us now a quiet night here in the core for. Reporter all quiet on the midwestern weather front tonight. You read the book too . laughing . Ive been reading it for 6 weeks. Its been awfully quiet. I dont see big changes coming up in the next several days but i do think temperatures will be warmer tomorrow. Heres the radar and not showing any precipitation upper midwest or the central United States. A quiet weather pattern currently locked in place. Heres our satellite with the High Pressure rimging right through the middle of country it shut down moisture and no clouds to be found. With clear skies tonight it will be a cool night ahead. Tomorrow mornings commute here in the corridor temperatures will be in the range of about 35 to 3 degrees. Right around 7 00 a. M. Winds will be light out of the southwest at 5 to 10 to begin the day. Star reschool night ahead of us tonight. Tomorrow the winds will pick up a little in the afternoon hours. Up to 25 miles per hour. That will bring unseasonably mild air back to the midwest. After that a little cool down expected on friday and into early saturday. Overall, pretty steady as she goes as far as the weather is concerned. Above normal temperatures and absolutely nothing in terms of precipitation. Pattern. The last time we had rain in cedar rapids was back on november 2nd. The next chance i can see is not until november 18th. If that works out, well go 15 consecutive days without any rain. But no weather probs there. Weve had 7. 68 inches above the normal for the here so far. Plenty wet but see a nice stretch of dry weather continuing for the next 7 days. On the protect your tonight, High Pressure we talked about. You can see the absence of upper midwest. And as that High Pressure gradually drifts off to the southeast we see the front develop to the northwest of us tomorrow evening. We have a nice southwest wind blowing in tomorrow and that will send the temperatures up quickly after a cool night and by afternoon we will be back in the middle 60s. It might be 15 to 18 degrees above the seasonal norms. This is the precipitation of next week and nothing around eastern iowa and i dont think its going to be until sometime thursday or friday of next week before we get our next chance. Get used on the clear skies. They will be in the forecast for several days to come n. The north tonight, low temperatures should be back around 34 to 36 degrees, maybe a patchy frost in spots. Winds southwest from 5 to 10. Southern counties mid30s about 36 in tomorrow in the north, sunshine, brisk winds in the afternoon. 65 in post individually, about 6 in waterloo, man chest year looking at 65degree high. In southern counties iowa city coming in tomorrow at 68 degrees. Series rapids 6 and might be pushing 70 around washington before the day is son. Done. Lots of sun shined around. Temperatures cool off a little bit on friday and saturday. Thats only temporary. Towards the end of the weekend by tuesday and wednesday of next week, temperatures will be back in the 60s as that next storm system develops to the west of us that could bring us the first rain in about 15 days weather first coverage continues with Rebecca Kopelman looking ahead to the commute tomorrow. Reporter we have spots where we have lane reductions and closures. And then we have good news during the evening commute tomorrow. Cedar rapids downto avenue at 7th street southwest near Mercy Hospital lanes will be reduced down to one for eastbound traffic downtown. That has started today and work there is expected to take about a week. So if you typically take th avenue downtown you could expect delays there and then heading further north along rob bins road actually going to be closed starting tomorrow for a week. And that is going to be north of boy son road along rob bins and work is expected to take about a week. One of the roundabouts in marion will be reopened. Thats at 7th avenue and 7th street in marion. And it will be reopening after a Ribbon Cutting ceremony at 4 00 p. M. Tomorrow. So if you typically take that route and you get a little biz yeararound there you will have to deal with that in the morning by the evening commute it will be opened and definitely lighten up some of the traffic there in mario next on the fox28 news at 9. A closer look at president elect trumps top goals when he takes office. The Campaign Promise fellow republicans say will never happen. Here is a live look from pennsylvania protesters demonstrating. More coverage when fox28 news at 9 returns. Listen throughout the day for weather first forecast on uncertainty welcome back for the last few days we have been tracking how the markets are performing toward the very end of the president ial election. This is the graph we this is the friday before sunday where Hillary Clinton got the clean bill of health from fbi director comey. You see how the markets spiked. This is the monday before the election. This is monday, november 7th just the day before the market spiked because they assumed because the fbi director said the emails werent a problem Hillary Clinton was in the clear and that would lead to a obviously fast forward 48 hours. She lost the white house and donald trump will be the 45th president of the United States and so what we were learning last night with our pan yell we had one financial analyst on and he was saying that some of the markets were going haywire overnight. We were curious on what the markets did today. This is where the markets opened today on november 9th. At first they were a little crazy. Took a drive but then what happened they start to rise and for the rest the day they lot of the we were curious about why for everything we found it turnsz out uncertainty is bad. Thats what we knew and the conventional wisdom was that Hillary Clinton like her policies or not would be more easy to predict and so therefore the traders and the markets would like a clinton president evens. But what also is good for those markets is a clean sweep by republicans. Not only do they took the white house and took the senate and Trump Administration could make those markets go crazy in the future depending on what decisions are made and where policy goes and what the stance of the world is. For right now the markets are betting that a trump president evens isnt going to be quite as bad as they thought before the election. Back to you. With the election behind us the conversations now turning to who might be part of Donald Trumps cabinet. Several reports indicate republicans loyal to his campaign spots. Current gop chair ryan previce is the frontrunner. Secretary of state sources indicate some of the top names former newt gingrich. Koshger and former you know am bass sore bowl ton. For attorney general ru dee jewelon knee. As for the current commander in chief president obama addressed the nation from the rows garden with president elect trump tomorrow. The peaceful transition of power is one of the hall marks of our democrats and over the next few months we are going to show that to the world. Reporter the president pointed out the respect and understanding he shared with his pre did he say sore when he took office 8 years ago. President elect trump will be formerly sworn in on january 20th. Today iowa senator joan knee ernst says shes taking request from iowans took looking for tickets to the in august rags. For more information you can go to the website fox28 iowa. Com. Vote 2016 Team Coverage kovrs with karen fuller and shes been looking into to what trump hopes to accomplish in the first days of president evens. It is common to here about the goals for the first 100 days. Himself several weeks ago. Among them restricting public as nafta. And reversing . Every executive action taken by president obama. But at the top of his list, is a call for term limits on capitol hill. Thats something that today, fellow republican senator Mitch Mcconnell said would never happen. I would say we have term limits now. Theyre called would never happen. We have term limits now and theyre dauld the senate. Reporter the majority leader says its his priority to a peep obama care. Thats something republicans could accomplish with control of both congress and now the white house. The last republican president responded today to news of the victory. Despite trumps bitter battle with his brother former florida the 43rd president said he is praying for the success of the country and success of our new president. Next on the news at 9 hear what else the voice the hawkeyes says iowa needs to do to overcome the biggest test to saturday as they host the michigan wolverines. The butterburger is made of just three cuts of fresh midwest beef. Nothing more, nothing less. So we got the sirloin, the chuck and the plate. No fillers; thats it. All prized cuts, all wellmarbled for richness and flavor. This is where those three wonderful cuts of beef come together. You can just tell that blend is working in there. And we sear them, and that seals in the juices of the burger. It doesnt get any better than that. And thats the culvers butterburger. Hawkeyes are really in the middle of a tough stretch the hawkeyes are really in the middle of a tough stretch during this this years big 10 season. Reporter thats for sure and weve basically run out of add jekt activities to describe the offense. None of them good and now the hawks are gearing up for not just good and not just very ferentz knows iowas young receivers arent getting the job done. So at this point, for iowa to hang with michigan they just have to do something anything to keep pace in time of possesion. To keep pace in time of possession. To me, its not in the iowa offense saturday night to just get first douns and be even with michigan in time of possession. You wonder why the defense gives especially in the second half. Theyre on the field too much. Until they can punch holes in opposing second aerz. Reporter. After missing out on a state tournament for the first time in six seasons the Union Knights are in the top seat in class a. Their fans feeling pretty confident and get close in the sird set. No one can hand. Union a more comfortable 3 point lead. The rooky busch well thats fresh. Theyre headed to the semis with a sweep. Other side of the 3a bracket allie aalderks sit down score 2016. Closing in on the win Haleigh Durnin gets up to get down dnh would never look back are headed backt to the semis a 31 win. They dont call eastern iowa a hotbed for 3a volleyball for nothin mount vernon also in the field. First set wynne vandersall says stay on your side 125 nothing. 125 stangz. Later, light lays one into the Bermuda Triangle if you may. But it will be mount vernon and mustangs hang on. The cougars of sumner fred rikz berg are no strangers. Having made the strip trip to sc the cr the last 5 years. The cougars swept Columbus Catholic in two meetings this year and early on it shows. Cougars takes an early lead but catholic would answer. It didnt stop there. Throw the hands up in the air thats an ace. Major upset. Sail yorz 3, cougars 1. Elsewhere in 2a. Grundy center swept by western christian. The wolf pack is on to its 16th straight semifinal appearance. How do you like them apples . Last year was a down year for jans individually. They lost 14 games and still won their second state title in 3 years. Quarters today ieg their 20th straight win only up by 1 though third set. Hazard has been around the block though, defense makes this a 2 point ballgame. Later 2312 cats, no need for video replay. Vans individually heading back to the semi finals with the sweep. Hudson making first ever state tournament appearance. Lauren murray licking good hudson takes game three it would come down to the wire but hudson wins its first ever state game 31. The os were swept in the state tourney opener last year. Not the case tonight first set shes still, shes still madi with the year not the case tonight. Shes still weighing man makes it 1119. Springville the seas. The picture picture placement. Springville moving on with a 3 0 win and i moep you are set for the semi finals tonight. I love how pasht you are about this. I was debating if i could incorporate for lyrics to j. Lo. I have never seen anyone so thufk about volleyball that was very impressive and didnt see the hands and things signs. It was wild. Im italian so its to be expected. Im tired just watching, nice job. Thank you it was a long day. Reporter all right. laughing weve got a hum dinger coming up tomorrow around here. Temperatures way above normal. Sunshine too. Details on that and upcoming zz z z1212fzfz 4zzy y12fy were taking a live look at downtown cedar rapids right now. Some beautiful weather outside. And were checking in with our weather first forecast with chief meteorol reporter this is the weather challenge for you tonight. Can you find a cloud on the satellite image reand you can look anywhere in the had midwest. Absolutely nothing out there tonight. Extremely quiet weather conditions. Clear skies expected all night long and right on through the day tomorrow. Morning commute no weather issues. Temperatures a little cool not really too far from where they should this time of year. Most of the temperatures in the range of 35 to 37 degrees at wins at 5 to 15. Our day will get off to an excellent start and even better through the afternoon hours. Beyond the 7day and were going out 14 days here and this will end up on november 23rd and here ublg see the trend line. We start out with normal temper youre of 50 on the 10. By the 23rd were down to 42 degrees. Essentially we start out nice and mild here but about the time we get to the 17th or 18th. I think were going to u a bit of a change around here. Were talking about this the past couple of days and starting to see signs of much seasonable and colder temperatures moving into the midwest. By the 20th the high maybe around 40 degrees and after that several days of 40s expected as we go through the 23 and 24th of the mochlt cooling trend definitely in the worked but not going to happen for about 7 or 8 dadz. Extended forecast short term. Rngs 67 for a high temperatures. Another front comes through and the temperatures will be knocked back. After that a little warm up for sunday. Well hold close to that on monday and tuesday and wednesday temperatures back up into the 60s. Im thinking by thursday of next week, we could be pushing 0 around eastern iowa as a strong system moves into the midwest and that one is the one that could bring the changes to kl Colder Weather by the time we get to november 20th. Continues with Rebecca Kopelman with traffic to keep our eye on next on the fox 28 news at nine more fallout from last nights president ial election. Why some iowans fear president across the country tonight following yesterdays election. This is a live picture of demonstrators outside trump tower in new york. An update on tonights unrest from the breaking news desk, when the trump protests welcome back. All night long weve been tracking some of the protests coming out as a reaction to the Trump Presidency and his winning. This is a live picture from philadelphia where you can see people down in the street blocking an intersection there. Over on this side, from david, a cbs affiliate in philly as well. You can see people outside a church lining the entire roadway. We go this is happening though all across the country which is why were taking attention to it. In chicago some protest yorz taking over the top of the city bus and keeping the buses from driving around and being part of the public transportation. This is also a video we see here. The signs that say not my president , kind of like back off. And a lot of people starting to take over interstates. A lot of what weve been seeing from other protests across the country where theyre looking to disrupt traffic pat terns and kind of make people kind of feel uncomfortable in that way and stop their ability to flow through cities obviously tonight. Well track this as the week goes on and as more time passes also at trump tower that is incredibly active right now. We saw people going through with cell phones there taking video of people going up to trump tower. The interesting thing is that just last night thats where they had the Victory Party. Just outside they had the big sanitation trucks filled to the very top in the back with sand to act as bomb barriers. Right now the bomb barriers are still in people. This is a picture of the tower right now and youre on the ground so you see peoples heads. In the very back you see the top of some of those trucks. Thats what those people are talking about. Those are big trucks normally used to hall dirt all around new york city. Right now being used essentially to help keep people away from the trump tower originally just supposed to be for the Victory Party last night. Back to you. As you can see from the protests tonight, the election of donald trump has caused a lot of emotional response and early earlier this year with spoke to this young man. He is part of a Program Trump vowed to end. He admits after living in the u. S. For 15 years, he fears for the future. It is a fear growing within me especially my renewal process will take after donald trump has reporter the program currently protects 700 thousand undocumented immigrants from deportation. Next on the news at 9 terry swails give us you a final look at the weather first a final look at weather, terry. Reporter well its short and sweet. I can tell you that much. Tomorrow morning our skies will be sunny. Temperatures cool in the mid 30s around the corridor for the commute. Southwest winds at 5 to 10. Those will pick up later in the afternoon and so will the temperatures. By the time its all said and done we have a good chance of reaching 67 for a high temperature. Thats amazing. It is. 10 at 10. And well see you back here tomorrow. Morning, charlie. Charlie. Good, i dont have to give him mouthtomouth. Morning. Morning. He sleeping . P. Uncle charlie, im gonna have a bowl of maple loops. You want one . You sure hes okay