School is back in session in eastern iowa cbs 2 News ReporterStephanie Johnson is live right now in iowa city. City. Where students are getting ready to head back to class today. Stephanie good m. Morning. Good morning kelly yeah students in iowa city will need an umbrella or rain coat for their first day of school im right outside of southeast junior high where School Starts just before 9 oc. Different than Elementary Students who start class at 7fifty five. The School District is reminding parents about this swap in start times. They believe these start times better suit the different age groups. The district also made changes to discretionary buses, prioritizing areas where it is needed the most. Stephen murley, superintendent 22 41 48 we only had so much money that we could devote to discretionary busing, so given that, we couldnt bus every child that lives within two mil miles. Theyre planning for more traffic to start off the year. They hope drivers are paying attention so all kids make it safely to school. School. Covering the corridor in iowa city, Stephanie Johnson, cbs 2 news. Some cities in the iowa city School District including North Liberty libertyare doing what they can to make sure students get to school safely. Theyre planning for more traffic and the summer studying the safest routes for kids to get to schoo. School. If you would like to take a look at the suggested walking routes for kids, we have links on our website, cbs 2 iowa dot com. School is a Perfect Place for kids to spread germs and thats why iowa students are required by law to be vaccinated against at least 7 common illnesses. Illnesses. But the number of fully immunized students going to school has seen a downward trend across the state officials from linn county exemptions for health and religion are on the rise and thats creating concern. In iowa we do not have a philisophical exemption so you can not not get immunizations because you dont believe in it. We do you a slight increase in those religious exemptions so that is concerning because immunizations are not only to protect the health of the child receiving the immunization but its also to protect all those other people at that child comes into most schools in linn and Johnson County have immunization rates of 90 percent or higher. For a list of vaccination rates for every School Across iowa you can go to our website at cbs 2 iowa dot com. Another concern for parents as kids head back to school head lice. And now super lice has crawled into nearly every s. State. Health experts say the bugs have adapted over time and have become resistant to some of the treatment options. One of the big reasons parents have trouble getting rid of lice is thet havent u the medications correctly. If for some reason youve tried over the counter maybe tried a couple different kinds of them and still not working even if youre doing everything right then you can contact your Healthcare Provider there are prescriptions that can be given if the over the counters dont work. Work. Because lice crawl the most common ways to get and spread head lice is by putting heads together, and sharing hats or brushes. A cedar rapids man is dead fire. It broke out early Tuesday Morning around two o clock. Thats when firefighters were called to aavenue northwest in cedar rapids. Authorities tell cbs 2 news 22yearold naquave whitlock was trapped inside. Firefighters rushed in to pull him out, but he later died from his injuries. Investigators say a frying pan with grease left on the stove started the fire. This is the 11th building fire in cedar rapids this month. Right now several communities in central italy arpi the pieces after a devastating earthquake caused major damage and blackouts. Blackouts. At least 37 people have been killed in a sixpointtwo magnitude earthquake. The mayor of one of the hardest hit towns amatrice told reporters afterwards that the town is no more. Tremors even rattled rome which is about 100 miles away. Crews are still try to locate people who are missing. Cbs 2 news will continue to monitor this situation all morning long and bring you Turkish Military and us backed Coalition Forces have now launched an operation aimed at clearing the turkeysyrian border from isis militants. That operation was launched early this morning and focused on an isis held border town. Just hours ago turkish tanks crossed over into syria to continue their operation. The fight to succeed president obama right. Now is focused on several key battleground states. And new polls show a one more state up for grabs. Grabs. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton pulling almost even with republican nominee donald trump in missouri. The showme state has not picked a democrat in 20 years. Polls also show clinton . Holding her lead in other key states including florida and New Hampshire and is tied here in iowa. On the campaign trail donald trump paid tribute to Border Patrol agents and to families of those killed by illegal immi. Immigrants. The gop nominee brought several agents on austin, texas. He used them to highlight his call to build a wall on the southern border. Trump is expected to unveil his full immigration plan next week. And in recent days has suggested he may back off earlier calls to deport all 11 million Illegal Immigrants in the country. Trump is also increasing his attacks over the Clinton Foundation. He accuses the former secretary of state of an improper relationship between her job as the nations top diplomat, and her role with her familys foundation. Calling for a special prosecutor to investigate. He also wants the foundation to be shut down because it accepts contributions from foreign donors. Theyre taking in tens of millions of dollars. Its pay for play, its just all, you know, you pay and you play. And i think its a very, very bad thing for them. Them. The Clinton Foundation says, if Hillary Clinton is elected president , it will stop accepting foreign donations. Former president if his wife were to become commanderinchief. The iowa state fair failed to break its own attendance record this year. Year. Just over one Million People attended the 11day event in des moines. But thats down about 86thousand from last years record. Fair ceo gary slater says theres only one reason for the dip poor weather conditions. Slater says rain as well as high humidity kept some people home this year. The 9th annual taste of iowa city event scheduled for today has because of the weather. Weather. The outdoor event showcases a number of restuarants in downtown iowa city. This year more than 40 signed up to give residents and new students a taste of what iowa city has to offer. Now the event will be held tomorrow from 4 to 8. Its and right now in its de. Degrees. Coming up next how next coming up next how pharmacies in eastern iowa are responding to the sky rocketing prices of the epipen. Have. Main weather your planner shows whats ahead for the of fog in the area this morninga temperatures around the areaa taking a look at regional temperatures we see highs are mild all around iowa the regional satellite radar is keeping conditions quiet lets move ahead in time by taking a look at the midwest surface mapa moving into a closer view with our predictor forecast we see mainly quiet conditions todays forecast features clear skies cooler temperatures tonights forecast has us looking for mainly clear chilly conditions the next three days show more dry and cool weather our 7 day forecast does bring more cool weather its now on this morning. And if youre in its degrees. Degrees. Next in sports how the hawkeyes are prepping for the 2016 football season, with their homeopener just days away. Welcome back its now were taking a look at your . . . . . . . Your . . . . . . . Heres a look at some of eastern iowas top stories on this morning. Developing this morning are now losing tens of millions of dollars dollarsamerihealthcaritas is reporting that is has a 42 pointsixmillion dollar deficit on its iowa operations. Amerigroup lost 66point sevenmillion dollars. The groups along with United Healthcare took over iowas fourbillion dollar Medicaid Program on april first. Ipers is reporting a multi . Billion dollar shortfall on its investment return. The publicpension company which serves around 325 more than fivebillion dollars. State lawmakers approved several benefit changes in 20 10 in order to tighten up the system by raising the number of years worked. A spokeswoman for ipers told the Des Moines Register while the number looks like a major loss the Company Looks at decadeslong time periods for its funding performances. Theres no easing into the new and jefferson both teams are ranked both teams have state title aspirations and to start their seasons they get to face each other. Number14 jefferson visiting eighthranked kennedy. First set jeff gets right to it Maddie Slagle spikes it home jhawks got out to a big lead and rolled in the first set. But here comes kennedy kayla joyner too tall at the net she gets the block and the point. And then later joyner puts a little heat on it. Cougars open it up with a win 3 to 1 the final. Elsewhere in town prairie hosting thirdranked iowa city west. And the phawks jumped out to an early lead. Megan oldenburger starts the season the right way 4 nothing home team. But the women of troy unphased colby greene puts a stop to that one and the comeback is on. Set point now Claire Overton just inbounds that spike wins the trojans go on to win, 3 sets to one. Seven points is all that separated west branch and a trip to the state semifinals last season but to make it back and hopefully advance further theyll have to do it with sixteen new starters. Coach Butch Pedersen knows this season will be no picnic between their youth and a tough regular season schedule it . Looks . Like an uphill climb for west branch but for a program rich in pigskin tradition bears expect to win. Were very very young. We have seven freshsoph kids ont he varsity. Thats unheard of at west branch. Our schedules brutal. So we gotta grow up real fast. Fast. It slipped right through our finger tips. And i know its not just myself everyones looking to get back there. Everyones doing everything they can to be faster, stronger than we were last year so were gonna do everything we can to get there. On monday it was reported that chris doyle iowas strength and conditioning coach for 18 years will make 595thousand dollars this year more than any strength coach in the country his job is simple ready for game day. And game day is right around the corner were now just eleven days from kickoff on tuesday kirk ferentz said his staff isnt game planning yet theyre still tying up loose ends from fall camp and searching for what turns good teams into great teams. Im happy with what im seeing i saw the other day there was a scrimmage the other day i saw the intensity that we need to play with at a high level but we need to be consistent more consistent just with fundamentals and how to do it. The big thing is were not near consistent enough right now there will be two or three really good plays really sharp looking plays and then somebody will blow something so consistency from here on in is really a big emphasis. The kernels win again, 2 to 1, the final from the vet luis arraez had two more hits hes now hitting. 349 on the season. Cbs2 news connects with the corridor. Call us with your story tips at 1800222kganor email us at news at switch to u. S. Cellular and get 50 off smartphones. Its a deal you dont want to miss. Sir, hi. Did you just say, switch and you get 50 off a smartphone . Uh, yes. Sorry. Hi. Hello. I was watching tv and i saw you say 50 off smartphones. And well cover all switching costs. Oh wow also, you g. Uh, excuse me. Switch to u. S. Cellular and get 50 off smartphones. Plus, well cover all switching costs. Excuse me, can i just. Hmm . What . I just need it back. I dont have it. I dont know what youre talking about. A corn maze in illinois is now boasting to be the worlds larg largest you can find it at Richardson Farm in spring grove. It has five separate maze games. On 33 acres of corn. This year is a incorporating the 50th anniversary of star trek into the maze the human puzzle will feature famous images from the franchise. The maze opens september third and will run through october 30th. Good morning again its now right now its degrees in still ahead the construction project causing headaches on the first day back to school. School. Youre watching cbs 2 this morning covering the whatcha doin . Just checking my free credit score at credit karma. What the . . . Youre welcome. I just helped you dodge a bullet. But i was just checking my. Shhh. Dont you know that checking your credit score lowers it just be cool. Actually, checking your credit score with credit karma doesnt affect it at all. Are you sure . Positive. Oooh check out credit karma today. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Right now on cbs 2 this sorry about that. Morning. What parents need to know about Construction Projects this morning that could affect how you get your child to school. How pharmacies in the corridor are helping local families afford a life saving shot thats pricetag has sky rocketed in the past few years. The preparations in place for a country concert this weekend in Kinnick Stadium. Welcome to cbs two this morning. And im kelly ambros. Dambrosio. Isnt the only thing thats causing problems for some iowa city students getting ready to head back to the classroom toda. Today. Cbs 2 News ReporterStephanie Johnson is live in iowa city good morning. Stephanie. Good morning kelly are also concerned about the traffic. All of this Road Construction on first avenue is due to grade separation project. The citys goal is to improve roads while trains pass through. Closes off the road to three schools in the area. Southeast Junior High SchoolCity High School and tate high school. The city is understands the hassle the construction will cause and they are doing their best to make it easier on not only trying to get word out to the public, but also the School District, with southeast junior high being right there. Again, just trying to work with them to get the word out as best we can that this closures going to occur. We understand its gonna be a challenge, but at the end of the day, hopefully once we get that opened back up then theyll start to see that significant benefit. Benefit. First avenue should reopen in Early September until then you can head over to our website cbs 2 iowa dot com for a complete list of alternative routes covering the corridor in iowa city sj cbs 2 news. The cedar rapids School Districts newest magnate school is now in operation. Tuesday morning, students and School Leaders held a ribboncutting ceremony to mark the grand opening of kenwood leadership academy. Superintendent doctor brad buck and many others at the event. This school is the Second Magnet School in cedar rapids, joining the johnson steam academy. New this morning new data from act says Many High School grads may not be ready for college. College. The Testing Company says only 38percent of graduating seniors who took the exam hit the college prepared benchmark in prepared benchmark in three of four subjects that are tested. Thats down from 40percent last year. Just over 2 mill seniors took the test. A potentially lifesaving injection is grabbing a lot of headlines right now. Epipens are designed to save a person experiencing a lift threatening allergic reaction. Reaction. But take a look at the cost in recent years. Nearly four times higher than just four years ago. Cbs 2 news first told you about this problem last month. Senator Chuck Grassley says the soaring price of the lifesaving drug has a lot of iowa families worried they cant affort to protect their k. Families wrote to him about their struggle paying up to six hundred dollars for epipens. At clarks pharmacy in cedar rapids, theyre trying to ease the burden for their customers, with coupons. Coupons. Craig clark clark pharmacy 3 22 16 the current coupon will pay up to 100 dollars towards their copay so frequently we can get it to patients for zero copay. 3 22 37 . Its pretty sig significant. Clark says theres also a less expensive generic shot that patients may want to ask their doctor about. In the meantime, senator grassley has contacted the epipen manufacturer demanding an explanation for the soaring costs. Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli is making headlines again for defending mylan the company that makes the epipen. Epipen. Mylan is the good guy. They had one product, and they finally started making a little bit of money and everyone is going crazy over it,like i said, its 300 a pack. 300. My iphone is 700. 700. Shkreli was the head of Turing Pharmaceuticals and is securities fraud. He was heavily criticized for a 5thousand percent price hike of a drug for hiv patients. On tuesday mylans stock fell about five percent. President obama got an upclose look at the devastation in lousiana. Tens of thousands were forced from their homes after record breaking flooding. Flooding. The president toured some of the hardest hit areas of baton rouge tuesday. More than a dozen people died and more than 60thousand homes damaged. Fema is now coordinating more than 120 working to help victims begin the cleanup process. President obama promised more help is on the way. We are heartbroken by the loss of life. There are also people who are still desperately trying to track down friends and family. Were gonna keep helping them every way that we. Can. After touring damaged neighborhoods, the president met privately with the family of alton sterling, a black man baton rouge officers killed in a targeted attack just days later. The first concert at Kinnick Stadium is right around the cor corner the back porch revival will be held this saturday in iowa city. And it features big names in Country Music like blake shelton, big and rich and thomas rhett. Former hawkeye dallas clark came to the university with the idea to hold a concernt in the stadium. Despite excitement there have also been some bumps in the road including how to get the stage inside the venue. Gary before we ever got to that we had some noise issues that we had to overcome due to the Childrens Hospital being across the street. Street. There are still thousands of tickets for sale. The concert starts at three on saturday and heres another first theyll be serving beer throughout the stadium for the event. Blake shelton and several other Country Music stars will soon pay tribute to legendary singer glen campbell. Campbell, who is in the late stages of during the acm awards show. You can catch the twohour primetime special right here on cbs 2 on september 9th. Its and right now in its de. Degrees. Still to come the aftermath of the latest house fire in the corridor. Corridor. In your cbs 2 weather first forecast we have. An iowa mother wished her autistic son could have a safe space to play like other kids. Kids. Jamie perez shows us how she decided to build a gym with sensory equipment for children with special needs. Needs. From a zipline to a trampoline, hammock swings, and tunnels, this looks like a fun and free space to just be a kid. But this isnt your ordinary kids gym. This gym was build on the foundation and fun place to play and feel like they are just like everybody else. rachel brunsting owner its filling a need that was unmet before. Northwest iowa is highly deficient in equipment and areas and services for kids with special needs and so this is providing that for them. And not only are kids with special needs benefitting, but employees at the gym feel that everyone can get something out of this inclusive gym. Katelyn Jansen kids gym employee i love it. I love it. I think its going to be a great benefit to the community but also for all kids, not just those who sensory issues. But yeah, it will be an amazing opportunity. I cant wait to see what it brings,even the kids who come here are stoked about this new addition to the community. jaxon roorda gym guest i was amazed, really. Its a really cool place, and theres a lot of amazing stuff. Like, when i came here and saw the zipline, that is the first thing i did. I cant really explain it. Its just one word awesome. jaxons nanny came to the gym with him a place for everyone. daisha richardson jaxons nanny i was on the zipline, the trampoline. Im a big kid myself so whatever he does, im right behind him. She also says she takes jaxon to the parks around town, but there really is no other place quite like this. daisha richardson jaxons nanny this is totally different than like anywhere else we could possibly go because everything that he could want to do or he wants to do, he can do it here. Once more kids start coming in and are like, oh cool we are all the same and we can play like it will be really good. Its and youre watching cbs 2 this morning. And if youre in its degrees. Degrees. Still ahead find out if the iowa state fair could top their record breaking welcome back its now were taking a look at your . . . . . . . Your . . . . . . . Teen driving is topping the list of parents concerns for their children according to a new survey. Survey. In fact it even ranked higher than drugs and alcohol or school performance. That poll was commissioned by chevy, one of a number of automakers rolling out new safety features designed for teen drivers like speed and distance alerts for parents. Right now a cheese surplus several factors like higher milk production, more european exports and sluggish demand. Demand. And Dairy Farmers have seen revenues drop by 35 percent in the last two years. The usda is now stepping in to buy 20million dollars worth of excess cheese from private inventories. Now they plan on giving the cheese to food banks and pantries across the country. Dominos stock is at an all time high right now and analysts believe its all thanks to their marketing of mi. Millenials. The pizza millenials allowing orders through text and apple watches and even through tweeting emojis. Half of their sales are coming digitally. Pizza in general is having a great year. Stocks of both papa johns and yum brands who own pizza hut have been up recently. Money transfer service venmo says pizza is the most popular purchase among 20somethings actress Jennifer Lawrence is the highest paid actress in the world according to forbes. Forbes. The hunger games star taxes over the year. This is lawrences second year in a row at the top of the list. Second on the list. Actress melissa mccarthy,with 33million. The ghostbusters remake alone helped boost her earnings by 10 million dollars. Its right now its degrees in the changes to the school year as thousands of kids head back to the classroom today. Credit karma, why are you checking your credit score you dont want to drive old blue forever, do you . Turn it off. I did. Credit karma huh . Yea, its free. That was easy. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Im patty judge, and we know Chuck Grassley for iowa. As a farmer and a nurse, i learned iowa works best when we pull together. Used to be you could work with chuck. I did, plenty of times. But hes all politics and partisanship now. And hes turned his back on iowa. I approved this message because washington changed chuck, and its time we change our senator. Dozens of wildfires continue to burn out west this morning. And each year wildfires seem to get worse, despite the heroic efforts from firefighters. Carter evans spent time in a lab that the wrong approach. Approach. a cam card . 1 nats mark finney foreground flames these experiments have a lot in common with very large wildfires. narr in this specially designed burn chambera researchers are dissecting a wildfirea sara nat pop pine needles burst into flames narr a by measuring how fast pine needles burna evans and mcallister w fire ce it doesnt even require flames to ignite . Sm no, just hot air. narr 3 and how a fire can propel itself even without wind. ce mf ce a so those troughs, those dips, are actually where the fire is advancing. Mf yes, thats scientist at the u. S. Forest service fire lab in missoula montana. 00 39 47 there is an expression that everyone uses here in the u. S. , spreads like wildfire, yet we dont even know how wildfires spread. narr 5 the Forest Service spent lowerthird graphic start an unprecedented 1. 7 billion fighting fires that burned a record 10. 1 million acres last year. graphic end but finneys Research Shows putting out every firea is not working. ce are we making it worse . Mf we . Are . Making it worse. 00 51 46 unfortunately enter whats called the fire paradox, and that is the harder you try to suppress them, the worse they get when they do happen. narr under normal conditions fires thin out forests. But by constantly putting them out, more unburned brush is left for the next fire. nats flare gun narr 7 finney says firefighters should be intentionally setting . More . Socalled prescribed fires to burn off excess vegetation a or simply let some natural fires burn. grfx in in a statement to cbs news, the Forest Service says it a agrees prescribed fires are important tools. , but our capacity to complete this work is restricted by the budget, which is allocated by congress. gfx out a source usda the agency says there are also liability issues with state and local governments a with more developers pushing to build homes closer to fireprone areas. finney fire is inevitable. If we convince ourselves that its not, then we essentially have a repeat every year of the same situation. narr 8 for nowa scientists hope by setting these controlled fires understand how to manage them in the forest. Carter evans cbs news, missoula montana. If youre just getting up, good morning its now right now its degrees in next the latest details from italy where a deadly earthquake strikes in the middle of the night. Night. Youre watching cbs 2 this morning covering the right now on cbs 2 this morning. More students in eastern iowa are heading back to the first day of classes in the new school year. The breaking news overnight in europe about a devastating earthquake thats already leveled a small italian town. An update to a now deadly house fire in the corridor. Welcome to cbs two this morning. And im kelly dambrosio. Lets get a check of our cbs 2