In the area are casting their 4 seconds tractor nats were starting off tonight with have a crew at the event and for joining us. Is going to get very chilly High Pressure tracks through the temperatures will be closer to normal as we head into friday lead to scattered showers and thunderstorms saturday afternoon and evening. Sunday will be and while the general election is still 27 days away some iowans already have their minds made up. Were hearing from some early voters heading to the booth in the midst of the final election push. Kwwls Macleod Hageman joins us live with more. Mac . The 2016 president ial race has been one of the most contentious campaigns americans have ever seen. Scandals aside several cast their ballots early. I just dont like the way its share who they want to lead the country. But according to county officials the number of people voting absentee is down more than four thousand people. We asked Black Hawk County auditor grant veeder why . That is the 64,000 question. Its something weve been discussing here internally, looking at absentee turnout on a encourage people to register appropriate documentation here at the Black Hawk County courthouse no later than october 29th. But, if youre mind is made up, the answer is clear. Do it early. Dont wait. A flat tire on the way to the courthouse on election day may cancel you out. You can vote if youve made up your mind, but if you havent, you should wait in terms of who you wish to support. To agree casting ballots early is the way to go. To avoid the crowds at schools. I like to do it early. If i get called out of town on election day, then i miss out. Election officials tell me both parties havent pushed to promote elections. Also another reason why theres a lower turnout of early voters people are expressing theyre unhappy with all candidates and arent voting this year. Weve got you covered Macleod Hageman kwwl news. You can learn how to register early on our website at kwwl dot com. The campaign trail is rolling through eastern iowa once again tonight with president bill clinton making a stop to promote at the National Cattle congress in waterloo where clinton will be taking the stage soon. Former president bill clinton is just about 45 minutes away from taking the stage here at the Cattle Congress. You can see the line to get into the Cattle Congress behind me here many people braving the cold this afternoon. Some of the main points of the Hillary ClintonCampaign Including fair taxes, early education, and foreign policy. For some diehard clinton supporters they waited for more than an hour in the cold to insure their spot clintons indiscretions bring drudge up in recent weeks. In the past, i think those things that are being brought up now have been looked at; have been vetted. The things trump is bringing are new; are dangerous and something i dont want to whether or not bill clinton addresses those issues well we will have to wait and see. We will have full coverage of clintons time here coming up at 10. Weve got you covered lii kwwl news. Donald trumps running mate mike pence was also in iowa yesterday he spoke to a crowd at the dmacc campus in newton. In continuing coverage two Police Officers are cleared of any wrong doing in a deadly shooting. This coming from the linn county attorney who says the shooting of Markell Bivins on ashleigh steil is the daughter of an investigator in the linn county attorneys office, so the county attorney requested the Iowa AttorneyGenerals Office to review the case. Both steil and officer jeremiah whites actions were officially justified. Investigators say bivins was attacking his girlfriend with a knife when the officers shot him. A staff member at an area school is diagnosed with mumps. Worker at bryant elementary in dubuque is now the sixth person to come down with the virus in the district since the beginning of september. An email from the Dubuque CommunitySchool District informed parents of the diagnosis this morning. Symptoms of mumps include fever, headache and swollen salivary glands under the jaw. Were following up on our coverage with the floods of 2016 tonight with last month in cedar rapids. The second highest crest for the river there prompted lots of flood protection work especially with the use of sandbags. Volunteers turned out with their shovels around the city as the river gradually crept up last month. The bags helped to protect homes and businesses throughout cedar rapids. Tonight kwwls Jalyn Souchek getting a look at where all of sandbags filled preparing for the flood of 2016 while some bags have found new uses many waiting to be hauled away Quality Construction services is charged with the the job nats starting first by pulling sandbags off the curbs into the streets we want them to be able to scoop and load off of the concrete rather than destroying peoples yards so were being as careful as we can. Loaded into dump trucks nats and taken to a local quarry where the sand will be reused crews reminding people to make sure bags are moved to workers have already come across a number of homes who had yet to move sandbags to the curb or that had vehicles in the way. Were not going to work around will backtrack for only small amounts of bags weve got you covered in cedar rapids Jalyn Souchek kwwl news missed a drop off location at drivers may soon be seeing speed cameras in another eastern iowa community. The Elk Run Heights city council giving final approval to an ordinance that would allow for the installation of the cameras if the city chooses to do so. But some in the city are voicing their concerns. Many of you are familiar with the speed cameras in large metropolitan cities like des moines and cedar rapids. But this timeits coming to an area that is a lot smaller and some people in town are saying the city is jumping the gun. Welcome to the city of Elk Run Heights. Convenient. And like other large cities in iowathis one is thinking speed cameras. Tim if it makes the city safer, would be against it. The proposed speed cameras are for two areasin town. One along lafayette road near cha and another on gilbertville road near the intersection of marie avenue. The speed in these two areas25 miles per hour. Some in the city say drivers are flying through. Standup and while the city may feel that these speed cameras are necessary in making their town safer. Some people in the community disagree saying their town doesnt need these speed cameras. I agree that theres an issue, but lets take a few baby steps to try to mitigate this issue five Year Contract with redflexwho would install and maintain the cameras and equipment at no upfront cost to the city. Lets try a couple of things here before we jump into the be all end all most drastic measure we can take. Contractredflex would initially charge the city 18. 25 per paid ticket until the companys 240,000 investment is paid off. Afterward, all remaining revenue will belong to the city. Weve got you covered, live in the newsroom, elizabeth amanieh. Kwwl news. The city says their lawyers are in the process of looking at the contract. And if the lawyers dont agree with this contractthey will coming up on kwwl temperatures are dropping to frosty levels overnight how some in the area are bracing for the chill. Ha storm track 7 live doppler radar. Meteorologist kyle kiel will have your full forecast, coming up. Now your storm track 7 information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team a how tall are you . How do we measure greatness in america . The height of our skyscrapers . Its measured by what we do for our children. The values we pass on. Ive spent my life fighting for kids and families and it will be my mission to build a country where our children can rise as high as their dreams and hard work take them. That means good schools for every child in every zip code. College that leads to opportunities. Not debt. And an economy where every Young American can find a job we face big challenges, but we can solve them the same way families do. Working together. Respecting one another. And never giving up. I want our success to be measured by theirs. Temperatures dip into the lower 30s, so all of us will be below, tomorrow. Temperatures tomorrow but not as chilly as tonight. Still, patchy frost is possible. A push of warmer air and and evening. Sunday will be dry, but more chances for rain temperatures dip into the lower 30s, so all of us will be below, area, so our wind will be light but we will have plenty of temperatures will be closer to normal as we head into friday with plenty of sunshine. We get a push of warmer air and afternoon and evening. Sunday stormtrack 7 weather team a widespread frost is likely across eastern iowa tonight, as High Pressure tracks through the area, so our wind will be light have plenty of sunshine. Clear skies tomorrow night will temperatures will be closer to normal as we head into friday lead to scattered showers and thunderstorms saturday afternoon and evening. Sunday will be dry, but more chances likely across eastern iowa tonight, as temperatures dip into the lower 30s, so all of us will be below, light tomorrow. Temperatures tomorrow will be below average, with highs in the 50s but we patchy frost is possible. Temperatures will bs will lead to scattered showers and thunderstorms saturday afternoon and evening. Sunday will be dry, but more chances for rain sunday night into monday. As you heard from kyle its getting chilly tonight. Screen for your complete weather stormtrack 7 weather team a 30s, so all of us will be below, or near the freezing mark 32 . Sunshine. Clear skies tomorrow night will lead to temperatures in the 30s, temperatures will be closer to normal as we head into friday lead to scattered showers and will be dry, but more chances across eastern iowa tonight, as temperatures dip into the lower 30s, so all of us will be below, or near the freezing mark 32 . Tomorrow will be below average, with highs in the 50s but we lead to temperatures in the 30s, temperatures will be closer to a push of warmer air and moisture on saturday, which will lead to scattered showers and thunderstorms saturday afternoon and evening. Sunday will be dry, but more chances for rain sunday night into monday. As you heard from kyle its and. Heresiv information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team a 30s, so all of us will be below, light tomorrow. Temperatures tomorrow will be below average, with highs in the 50s lead to temperatures in the 30s, temperatures will be closer to moisture on saturday, which will lead to scattered showers and for rain sunday night into across eastern iowa tonight, as temperatures dip into the lower 30s, so all of us will be below, have plenty of sunshine. Clear skies tomorrow night will still, patchy frost is possible. A push of warmer air and moisture on saturday, which will lead to scattered showers and thunderstorms saturday afternoon and evening. Sunday as you heard from kyle its getting monday. As you heard from kyle its getting chilly tonight. Many of us could wake up to some frost tomorrow and some in the area working hard today t ready for that overnight drop in temperature. Storm track 7s lauren moss meeting up with some of them today. She has more tonight they were working very hard in the cold. Crews over at heartland farm spent the day covering pumpkins, which means when the ground freezes they do too. Making them very soft and squishy. No one likes that. So crews we got big plastic tarps to spread over them so the heat of the pumpkins and the heat of the earth. We will get through a cold night no worries weve been through this before. But it was still pretty cold out today. People were bundled up in their winter gear almost today, as the wind and rain made it feel even colder. Of course saying this is iowa though. Mother nature changing her mind. Im sure many people are looking forward to the 70s being back weve got you covered, Lauren Moss Kwwl news. That freeze warning goes into effect from one until nine tomorrow morning. Coming up. We will take another look back at the chicago cubs dramatic come from behind win. And optimism for the cylcones on the hard wood. Liberty, west union, key west all of eastern iowa. Now, kwwl sports. High in ames for the Second Season with head coach steve prohm and the iowa state basketball team. The cyclones are coming off a solid season which ended in the sweet sixteen of the ncaa tournament. The cyclones were optimistic at this niang, jameel mckay, and abdel nader iowa state still comes in to the season as a Preseason Top 25 team and an experienced team as well the cyclones added a pair of grad transfers in the off season and now have six seniors with the year monte morris they look at me to lead. Every with guys. Thats how it should hes finding me and the ball is right in my shot pocket. I love playing with monte and the rest of our teammates he just makes everyone around him better. Thats what makes him such a good point guard. The cyclones open up the season as the 15th ranked team in the coaches poll has chicago cubs fans on cloud nine today and the cubbies one step closer to erasing 108 years of heartbreak. Chicago rallied from a 52 ninth inning deficit to beat the San Francisco giants 65 win to javier baez drove in the winning run and Aroldis Chapman closed the show advance to their second straight nlcs. Manager joe maddon says his team nver quits. We dont quit. I mean thats know everybody says it, but you actually have to live it. I have to tell you, ive seen it so many times from this group and thats a big part of our philosophy. I like to keep things simple and thats simple. I dont want to get complicated, we just play 27 outs. The cubs will meet the winner of the Washington Nationals los angeles fourten, hes running three miles rain or shine. Six oclock, chucks at the office. When in iowa, hes still up early. Working the farm, meeting iowans in all ninetynine counties every year. No surprise then, my husband has been named the hardest working senator. Vernon im Monica Vernon, and i approve this message. Congressman blums Smear Campaign misleading and false. The truth Monica Vernon donated every pay raise to charity and helped build a homeless shelter for women and children, but multimillionaire blum promised hed take only half his salary. And raise the retirement age. Congressman blums out for himself, not us. Putting a face on the electoral collegewe talk to an area man who will be casting one of iowas six republican electoral votes. Lets go to storm track seven meteorologist kyle kiel for a thank you for joining us for the kwwl news at six. Well see you back here at ten its troubling. Congressman blum actually cosponsored a bill that could make it legal for a woman to be fired just for being pregnant. And blum tried to defund planned parenthood, even though women depend on it for critical care, like cancer screenings. 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