Declaration for 19 iowa counties. Many in eastern iowa. Today Terry Branstad signed a letter to president obama which is used to rebuild damaged infrastructure such as roads, bridges, and culverts. The request does not include individual assistance since the damage did not meet the fema criteria. As of today just 18 days t go until americans go to the polls to elect our next president. The two leading candidates had plenty to say about each other during a Charity Event in new york thursday night. Night. Mark albert has the latest from the White House HouseHillary Clinton and donald trump head their separate ways today campaigning in key battleground states ahead of the november 8th election. nats they were together thursday night for a charity they were together thursday night for a Charity Dinner that is supposed to include good natured riveting. This is the First Time Ever , ever that hillary is sitting down and speaking to Major Corporate leaders and not getting paid for it. Donald looks at the statue of liberty and sees in them for. Maybe a five he sees a four unless she change hillary is so corrupt, she got kicked off the watergate commission. Trump is facing another shakeup in his campaign staff. Jim murphy, his National Political director, has resigned, less than three weeks before election day. Sources tell cbs news the veteran republican operative made the decision after the release of the 2005 billy bush forcing himself on women. We should not tolerate this behavior from any man, let alone a man at once to be the president. Michelle obama slammed his treatment of women while campaigning for clinton in phoenix. Cbs news, the white house. Arizona has not voted democratic in a president ial election since 1996. But Arizona Republic issued a poll showing clinton with a fivepoint lead in that state. As we federal agencies are working to spend your tax dollars or lose them. The question of the day. We want to know. What should the Government Department do with the money it doesnt spend . To answer, just look for the question of the day button on our website, cbs2iowa. Com. Right now gunfire continues after isis fighters attacked several targets in and around the iraqi city. This happened overnight as iraq people were killed. Suspected suicide bombs and gunmen attacked at least one government compound and a power plant. Local media reports all isis fires have been killed except for two then maybe held up in a hotel. The nfl is under fire again today after new revelations of Domestic Abuse players. Last year, investigators charged giants kicker josh brown with Domestic Abuse. But the charges were eventually dropped. The nfl also investigated and says ended brown for one game after that. But now, journal entries are out in the open. In them, brown admits to verbally, emotionally and physically abusing his wife. The writings were part of a therapy program. He has been in counseling for a couple of years now. He has been diligent about he is making a goodfaith effort. Critics and sport analysts say the onegame suspension was not punishment enough and more should be done in the nfl. The giants announced yesterday that josh brown would not travel to london for this weekends game and released a statement saying the giants do Cancer Awareness month but its also Domestic ViolenceAwareness Month and one nonprofit is doing their part to raise awareness. Awareness. According to the one nonprofit is doing their according to the National Coalition against Domestic Violence, nearly 20 people fell victim of Domestic Abuse per minute in cedar rapids. Waypoint has helped more than 20,000 victims escape from abuse. All month long, they have hosted events around the corridor. They say many people have come to them seeking help. Reflect on does have i seen signs of this and wasnt sure. If you are not sure of the science, the nonprofit says isolation is a big red flag for abuse. We have posted a link to the hops that to the website on our website. University of iowa police are rolling out a new app to help students stay safe on campus. The app lets students pick a virtual guardian to make sure they get home safely every night. It is also a way for the police. The app comes with a panic button to file so that you can call 911 directly. You can download it right now if you want on any apple or android device. The iowa the iowa board of regions is moving forward with a plan to raise tuition on iowa universities. The tuition would go up 2 for each of the next two school years. The board voted on the proposal second reading in december. Dollar renovation of the north end zone. The refit will include more bathrooms concessions and a premium seating level with patio suites. Itll take workers about three years to complete all the upgrades. As we did this project, one of our key principals was to enhance the fan experience. And im excited that as people see this theyre gonna see that that absolutely has been accomp if you are a season Ticket Holder in the north end zone you will be displaced but youll get first pick for replacement seats for the 2018 season based on your priority points. Points. To see these renderings again and for information on how to reserve your seat in the new endzone head to our website, cbs 2 iowa dot com. For information on how to reserve the seats in the new end zone, you can go to our website, cbs2iowa. Com. Thousands of iowans are more than one to 65 million iowans were working in more than a year ago. The states Unemployment Rate remained at 4point2 percent the same as it was in august. Nationally, the Unemployment Rate went up to 5percent. Right now in cedar rapids geonetric workers are unveiling brand new websites for local nonprofit organizations. Its all part of the fifth annual operation overnight. The workers volunteered their time over sites for nonprofits based in linn county. This year six organizations are getting new websites from the charity this is a live look at the celebration. This is the sixth year the organizations are getting new websites from this Charity Event. It looks like it is great fun and everybody is superhappy. A new Corridor Program is aiming to cut down on congestion in the corridor. Corridor writers these is a rides. Com to find a carpool. Users can even find a walking buddies. People going in small groups with a designated driver who can take the vehicle home each night. People decide the schedule as a group. If you already have six other friends who want to utilize it, you all register. You also you want to create a pool. Interested in participating, you register. And then the vendor will create a Pool Community for you. The pool program is largely funded by the Iowa Department of transportation. People just have to pay a small monthly fare depending on the number of people and the distance traveled. Coming up on cbs2 news at noon, 17 million may be added to the cedar rapids economy. We will tell you the we started off at 30 degrees this morning here in cedar rapids. With sunshine this afternoon, we should see readings go into the middle 50s. Still a cool day. Fiftysix by 3 00 p. M. Falling into the 40s tonight. I will have the friday night football forecast as well as what to expect for the rest of its not uncommon for autistic kids to flap their hands. And so when i saw that, that was completely disqualifying. Im a republican, but this election is so much bigger than party. My son max cant live in trump world. So im crossing party lines and voting for hillary. I dont always agree with her, but shes reasonable. She can work with people to solve problems. I want to be able to tell my kids that i did the right thing when it really mattered. Right now friends of cedar lake say theyre one step closer to seeing their dreams come true. Th right now, friends of cedar lake say they are one step closer to seeing their dreams come true. In the hopes to develop boardwalks, boat docks, bike trails and other recreational opportunities for the lake to become a destination. Last night, the effort got a big boost when a consultant produced Research Showing cedar rapids cedar lake could bring a financial in a fit of 17 million to the corridor. One member says that is Key Information to attract donors. It is a fair question. What would be the return on investment . Now we have the data that supports what we are seeing out there happening every day and every weekend. These are people that will visit cedar rapids and spend some money. Cedar lake could eventually be part of a bike trail that runs all the way from iowa city to cedar falls. They say they are already several businesses that received more of a third of their profits from people that use th f and if anyone was going to use the bike trails today, they need a sweater on. I forgot my ice scraper. I did not know where i put it. I did not know where i put it from last year. We are going to need it for a while soon. Started chili this morning. Upper 20s, low 30s. A warmer trend this weekend. Activities, it will be nice. Take a look now. Still chilly. 49 degrees. Seeing some high clouds move in from the west. The wind is light. Northwest around five miles per hour. As we take a look at areawide, still chilly around eastern iowa. Charles city, decorah, 48. Iowa city, 50 degrees. Nothing to show on the doppler radar. As you can see, as we zoom out over eastern iowa, we are high and i will keep that in the forecast for the next several days. Seeing clouds work in from western to central iowa. To the west of i35. They will get into the area this afternoon and this evening. But no rain associated with these. So partly cloudy skies in the forecast tonight and tomorrow morning. Sunny and cool today. Temperatures into the mid50s. A warm and dry weekend. Sixtys tomorrow. Maybe even 70 on sunday as throughout the weekend. As far as rain chances go, we will be dry throughout the weekend. Dry through monday. The next rainmaker comes tuesday night. It looks like wednesday will be a wet and soggy cool afternoon. As far as temperatures go for the rest of the afternoon, in the middle 50s around 4 00. When the sun goes down, temperatures will start to decline into the 40s. Not as cold tonight. So here is a predictor. We have High Pressure with sunshine. This will slowly move southea tomorrow afternoon. Mild with a southerly flow. Mostly sunny conditions. Temperatures warm into the 60s. The cold front will start to push through around 7 00 sunday morning. That will sweep through sunday afternoon. A little cooler conditions by the time we get to monday. Here is the predictor. Around 9 00, partly cloudy skies. Those will clear out overnight. 8 00 tomorrow morning, mostly afternoon. Mostly sunny as we move into sunday. Around 8 00 sunday morning, clear skies. Mostly sunny. A fine weekend overall. Mostly sunny colon calm october day. Middle to upper 50s areawide. The friday football forecast will be a little chilly. You might want to grab a jacket around kickoff. 48 degrees and partly cloudy. Wind out of the south at 510. Tonight, partly cloudy. A chilly night. Not as cold as the upper 20s and still the upper 30s to around 40 degrees. For the hawkeye game tomorrow taking on the badgers, outstanding fall football weather. Kickoff, 62. Sunny skies and comfortable. Same for Missouri State tomorrow afternoon. Absolutely perfect. High temperature of 65 at kickoff. The extended forecast. Sixtynine and maybe 70 on sunday. Cooler monday as a cold front comes through. Average monday. And then the next rainmaker comes tuesday night and into wednesday. Temperatures will cool back into the upper 50s by the time we get into the middle part of the week. Then upper 50s to low 60s late next week and into the early weekend. If you are going to the iowa game, stop by the cbs2 station. Because we are all going to be there tailgating and giving out still ahead on the cbs2 news at noon, one of the historic new place is now open to tourists. Making a trip to the popes palace in italy. Some exciting news for catholics and touriststhe centuries old paypull palace outside rome is opening a new some exciting news for catholics and tourists. The centuries old outside of rome is opening a new park to the public for the First Time Ever. Now visitors can see Pope Franciss bedroom and other private spaces. We report from italy. The error is a little cooler appear in the mountains. Just take a look at this view. You can see why popes have been coming here to escape for centuries. But pope francis is the peoples pope. So opening his own private see falls right in line with that reputation. This was opened to tourists in 2014. But the public has never been allowed to see these rooms until today. Take a look in here. The most private of rooms. This is the popes bedroom. The bullet proof mercedes, instead using a kia for the pope mobile. So turning over his summer residence to nd so it is possible that this room, under a future pope, would be offlimits. This is the private chapel off the popes bedroom. The popes predecessors, just benedict and john paul ii, were regulars. But pope francis has never spent the night here. The pope has done away with formalities, no longer using the red custommade shoes. Turning in his mercedes bill and using a kia summer residents to tourists seems like the logical next step. And casey were going to google it i was looking it up. If you want to go on the tour, it costs 20 130, depending on the tour and what kind of guidance you need. The massive deal proposed that could change the face of im chuck grassley, and i approve this message. My dad raised thirteen children, was married for nearly seventy years and fought for our country in world war ii. But, he never got his medals and he tried for years. Dad knew his time was near. Out of options, he finally called senator grassleys office. They got dad his medals. Just before he passed. An 11th death in the us is now being blamed on a faulty takata air bag. The government says a 50 year old woman was killed in a car crash last month in california, and 11th death in the u. S. Is playing being blamed onto cut airbags. A woman was killed in a car crash last month in california while driving and im to thousand 100 civic. The faulty airbags can inflate with too much force sending shrapnel into the vehicle. The problem is behind the honda says multiple recalls were sent to the owner. But records indicate the car was never prepared. A transatlantic deal proposed today which would reportedly create the Worlds Largest tobacco company. British American Tobacco says it is making a proposal to acquire reynolds american. They already own 42 of reynolds but now they want to buy the remaining 58 for 47 billion. The current Industry Leader is home to iowa. The company which touted eating iowa made came under fire after whiskey lovers found out it was distilled in indiana. Just bottled in iowa. After that, templeton rye updated labeling. But it seems they wanted to do more for customers. The company is bringing the distillery operation to its bottling facility in templeton, iowa. Brandon marshall has a first, a look at the as soon as we saw this little guy we knew we had to share with you okay, as soon as we saw this little guy, we knew we had to share him with you. He is so cute. Welcoming the first ever baby lemur just in time for halloween. This little adorable guy who somewhat call creepy looking, was born in july. It just emerged from its nest for the first time. This lemur species has an unus the madagascar native says that if it points the finger at you, death is not far away. Maybe that is why he looks creepy. I think he is adorable. Those years. I spent many years as a Nuclear Missile launch officer. If the president gave the order we had to launch the missiles, that would be it. I prayed that call would never come. [ radio chatter ] self control may be all that keeps these missiles from firing. [ sirens blearing ] i would bomb the [ beep] out of them. I want to be unpredictable. I love war. The thought of donald trump with Nuclear Weapons scares me to death. . Wyatt youre officially married, license and all . Quinn no more questions or technicalities. And you were here for it. Wyatt i know. First one, so im sorry. Eric youre here now. Thank you. Son. Quinn thank you for agreeing to move in here for a while. Im so happy for the support. Eric now. Go to forrester. Quinn forrester