Here forecast. We are starting off pretty mild this morning. Temps are in the mid to upper 50s with southeast winds at 5 to 15 mph keeping most fog at bay. The winds will be fairly strong today. Generally 1020 mph and will gust to 30 mph at more throughout the day. And then a chance of storms tracks in late. We will be breezy and mild today with highs in the 70s and gusts to 30 mph at times. Storms track in for the next colder. Ill have the details in a few minutes. The waters down but the cleanup is not done. More help out there for people recovering from the flood. Today. Some new resources are available in cedar falls. Storm track sevens amanda be falls. You can tell us more. Today. Some different kinds of help are available to flood victims. People can head to the cedar falls fire station number two on lone tree road starting at 11 this morning. There theyll be able to talk with people from iowa legal aid. Northeast iowa food bank. And operation threshold. That means everything from food to legal were for some people. As of yesterday. The state counted around 25 properties in Black Hawk County have major damage from the floods. They also counted around 32 properties in Black Hawk County with minor damage. The red cross and the Salvation Army will also be available at the fire station in cedar falls weve got you covered live in the state estimates the total damage in Black Hawk County to be around 270 thousand dollars. Downtown cedar rapids starting to get back to normal. A lot of the bridges and ramps shut down last week because of the flooding forcing many businesses to shut down. The majority of those businesses back up and running. The linn county courthouse reopening as well, but not before their Computer System crashed. Last week. Frustrated today you know last week they understood, but you know everybodys told them things she says theyre already behind from being closed for a week. A kwwl follow up. A guilty plea from a mother after her toddler shoots himself in the face. Raven harris pleaded guilty to child endangerm wounds inside their home in dubuque january. The boy was rushed to the hospital and did survive. Harris and the boys father willie horsley, sr have also been sentenced to probation. On other charges. Police believe the man who shot and killed an iowa woman then took his own life. Keokuk police say Russell Tallman killed carissa rivers. She was found unresponsive in an alley overnight sunday and died at the hospital. A search warrant was later shooting himself in the head. An autopsy is scheduled for today. An honor he earned but never received. West des moines officer shawn miller was going to be promoted to sergeant this summer but was killed in a crash. Several fellow officers and family members went to this promotion ceremony. His family was also given the key to the city by the mayor. This posthumous award is public recognition in which we will forever honor him by engraving his name in the police hall of fame so that is his sacrifice and dedication to humanityd justice will be remembered for generations to come a picture of miller now hangs on the departments wall of recognition. Were learning more about a crash with a piece of Farm Equipment including who was involved. Police say dawn conway was taken to the hospital with minor injuries after she failed to yield, causing this crash in dyersville. These types of accidents become much more common this type of if you get distracted when equipment right there and you cant stop fast enough. Something else to watch out for deer. The Dubuque CountySheriffs Office says equipment in the fields often pushes deer out of those fields and toward the roads. A semi trailer carrying hundreds of hogs rolls. It happened on highway 187 in fayette county. Deputies say the semi was ca the semi driver was not hurt. A weekend festival leaves a High School Stadium covered in trash. When students and staff in massachusetts got to school yesterday they found the field covered with trash, alcohol, bottles, and other debris. Even a beer truck was left parked in front of the school. The school says the city will go after the festival organizer and their Insurance Coverage to pay for the mess. A historic africanamerican the 19thcentury building once served as a school for black students in virginia. People have been working to restore the school to help students learn about its history. Crooks slam into a pot shop and steal whatever they can find. Surveillance video from the shop in Washington State shows the car drive straight into the front of the store. Then they run inside grabbing everything they can. The store manager says this is the sixth time the shop has been broken into in thas weve been hearing stories for several weeks now about people dressing up as clowns trying to lure children across the country. Now, a school is forced to shut down because of similar social media threats. The threats made by people with twitter handles involving the word clown or pictures of clowns. Maryland police say the threats are not credible but some parents are upset. I take it very seriously, lot is people focus their energy in sense. The school is expected to reopen today. The threats are being made nationwide but many have been fake. People in iowa are now calling Police Telling them theyve seen clowns. Overnight university of iowa Police Posted on social media theyve received reports of clown sightings the past two nights but have not heard reports of the clown as these reports of clown sightings continue to grow, a lot of people are getting concerned. Some clowns in the kansas city area fear this issue is affecting them and their line of work. Its scary because the reason although Kansas City Police have not taken reports of scary clowns they say people should Pay Attention to a persons actions. Someone stole a yacht. And then crashed it. Investigators are searching for the driver who left it after hitting a dock. Several other boats that were docked nearby were damaged too. Witnesses say they saw the driver jump into the water to get away. Anyone. No one on the dock was injured. Tonight is the one and only between the Vice President ial candidates. Mike pence and tim kaine debate for an hour and a half in virginia. Tracie potts has more on that, i cant wait. Tonight Hillary Clintons record on Foreign Affairs alone could take up the whole 90 minutes. Democrat tim kaine is off the campaign trail. Presumably getting ready for his one and only debate. At times, both have disagreed with their runningmates. Tonight. Pence may find i knew how to use the tax code to rebuild my company when others didnt have a clue. Tax return has him explaining why he took such a big loss nearly a billion dollars in one year qualifying for nearly two decades of zero taxes. What kind of genius loses a billion dollars in the first place . Trump hasnt confirmed or denied whether avoided payig any Good Business man should never pay taxes. Zero taxes means zero for our vets, zero for our military, zero for pell grants to send young people to college, zero for health, zero for education. Clintons in pennsylvania today. With bill clinton. Michelle obama. Bernie sanders and Elizabeth Warren all out campaigning for her. Trumps in arizona today, and hes expected to get the ohio Police Unions endorsement. Traice potts, nbc news, you can watch the vp debate tonight at eight right here on ordered to stop raising money. The move coming from new yorks attorney general who says the charity raised more than 25thousand dollars without filing proper paperwork, breaking a state law. Since 200 dollars for his charity. Iowa congressman david young is working with veterans to fix the va crisis line. He introduced the no Veterans Crisis hotline should go unanswered act in june. It passed the house unanimously last month. Its now up to the senate to take up the bill. We hear they are paying internally the wheels are starting to move but we want to make sure within law that its look into its use of contractors to see if theyre meeting the standards of the department. A much anticipated grand opening this weekendfor the waverly area veterans post. Tributes honoring veterans. After the floods of 2008 ripped through townmany veterans were left with no place to turn. This sparked the post to create a place to unite all veterans in the area. Inside a mural with all five branches of the armed forces. I think this will be a model other towns are beginning to look at it. More than 8 hundred families and organizations have donated saturday. A real dog being honored as a hero. This idaho dog has an honorary firefighter badge. Today hes being honored with his citys Hometown Hero award. Firefighters say an electrical fire could have easily burned down his familys home. Pug noticed sparks coming from an electrical outlet just in time. I kinda listened and i noticed sparks coming from the outlet, and jaxson was literally barking at the outlet, notifying me something was wrong. Jaxsons owner used a fire extinguisher to knock down the fire. Its coming up on today in iowa. Money stolen from Bank Accounts here in iowa. What policeel to look out for when withdrawing money. Plus. Summer pests are dropping in numbers now theyre considered endangered. We have some clouds this morning, but storms are tracking to our west. Ill let you know if they will affect us. Coming up. Youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. Look at this steak, just sitting there, taunting you. Whats worse . Its not alone. It comes with this, this, or this too. Are you gonna do something about it . If not . Good luck sleeping tonight. You cant fake steak. Longhorn steakhouse. , baby back ribs, or parmesan crusted chicken. Only at longhorn steakhouse. Youve worked hard. Retirements within reach, but congressman blum wants to raise the retirement age to 70. Blum weve got to raise the retirement age. Blum would make it harder, voting to cut Social Security and privatize medicare. Blum would even deny Social Security to seniors until theyre 70. Im monica vernon, because seniors have earned Social Security and medicare. Complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information weather team it will be breezy and mild today with storms tracking through tonight through thursday. Right now, though, stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras are showing running in the mid to upper 50s in our viewing area with 60s to the west ahead of a cold front. We will have southeasterly winds staying breezy today. Mainly 1020 mph in our viewing area, gusting to 30 mph at times. The system to our west will slowly continue to churn through the region with storms tracking into our area tonight with a few tomorrow. More storms track in for tomorrow night through thursday. And the system will continue to plague us into friday. Rainfall amounts will depend on the speed and frequency of the storms as they track through the region. But we could see some areas getting a quarter inch or more. Today will be breezy and mild with highs in the 70s and gusts to 30 mph from the southeast. Storms track in tonight with lows in the upper 50s to low 60s. A few showers storms may linger into wednesday with most of us dry 70s again with southwesterly winds. More storms wednesday night through thursday and then breezy, showers and falling temps on friday. We will stay cool for friday night heroes football and even into the weekend. Overnight lows could dip into the upper 30s for the weekend. This will depend on cloudy cover and wind speeds. Stay cool for friday night heroesal lows could dip into the upper fruits and veggies but now theyre endangered. For the first time ever, the us has placed seven bee species on the endangered list. All species are native to hawaii. Listing the bees allows authorities to provide recovery programs and get money for protection. Bees are crucial to the nations food industry. But their numbers have gone down sharply in the past few years. Its coming up on today is starting to get not so fast. Plus. It could be the next best thing. To owning mans best friend stay with kwwl, weve got you covered. Numbers. Police issuing warnings on atm skimmers. Its being rapids. Police say the devices steal your information then use it to take money from your account. It seems that they came and later and then took it back. And in the mean time we had about 60 people who were affected by fradualent atm withdrawels from their accounts. Experts say if a card reader looks worn, wiggles or feels sticky. Walk away. They also say monitor account to police. Atm fees hit a new record high climbing upwards for the past ten years. The average total cost of using an outofnetwork a tm now at more than four dollars. Some good news the same study also found Overdraft Fees are down. And free checking accounts have increased for the First Time Since 2009. Fast food is getting slower. A new survey finds the average drivethru time is now about 226 longer than last year, heres the good news accuracy continues to improve. The survey found orders are accurate an average of 90 percent of the time compared to about 88 percent of the time last year. The harry potter movies are coming imax and Warner Brothers announcing all eight potter films will be shown at imax theaters for one week starting october 13th. Its all in preparation for the premiere of the film version of fantastic beasts and where to find them. There are imax theaters ind avenport and des moines. Your next dog might be. A robot. Hasbro has just released its latest creation a lifelike robotic dog. It barks, and turns its head in the direction of a person talking. This follows the companys robotic cat model. Some studies suggest nearly real pets can provide companionship like true to life storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan has your storm track 7 forecast next. This is today in iowa on kwwl. I think my strongest asset, in the face, ill tell you. I would bomb the [bleep] out of em. 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 [bleep] themselves. Get him out of here get him out of here get the hell out of here priorities usa action is responsible its also National Taco day tacos are eaten by millions every day in either hard or soft shellswith a variety of fillings. Check your favorite restaurant. Many are offering taco specials to celebrate. Got you covered. This is today in iowa. Now on today in iowa the mess left behind. The state is painting a clear picture of how much flood damage plus its their turn to go head to head. The Vice President ial debate is tonight. And whats with the water . One creek has people lining up to take pictures because theyve never seen anything like it. Good morning, im ally crutcher. Im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. We are starting off pretty mild this morning. Temps are in the mid to upper 50s with southeast gust to 30 mph at times. We have some clouds out there this morning and will see more throughout the day. And then a chance of storms tracks in late. We will be breezy and mild today with highs in the 70s and gusts to 30 the details in a few minutes. Decision 2016 coverage tonights the big night for the vp picks. Their first and only debate. Republican Vice President ial nominee mike pence will go toe to toe with democratic nominee tim kaine. Theyll talk about the usual things what you would expect. But expect them to spend a lot of time defending their running mates. Pence told supporters he hopes they get to talk about their own records. Hes the governor of indiana and served in congress for a decade. Kaine is a us senator and former governor of virginia. You can watch the debate tonight at eight right here on kwwl. Pence might have to answer and trumps use of tax laws. Over the weekend a new report suggested trump might have avoided paying income taxes for years after posting losses of about onebillion dollars in 1995. Trump hasnt released his tax returns but did say this fiduciary responsibility to pay no more tax than is legally little tax as legally possible. The nearly one billiondollar loss couldve been the result of deep troubles in a number of trumps businesses in the late eighties and early nineties. Donald trump campaigns in arizona today. Governor branstad says theres no evidence trump did anything illegal and says the bigger issue is about the tax code itself. Audacious to admit that. Yes, hes gotten rich off of the system, but he says the system is flawed and ought to be changed. He says trump is the only candidate saying it needs to be changed. Trumps opponent spent the day campaigning in ohio. Issue. You know, hes always talked about how he cant release his before 2009 is not under audit. So donald, release everything up until 2009. Show the American People your taxes. Clinton will campaign in obama will hit the campaign trail for clinton. The first lady will hold a rally in charlotte. You expect opponents to disagree on the issues, but the disagreements run deeper in the Us Senate Race in iowa. They cannot even agree on where and when to debate. Iowa Public Television cancelled its Us Senate Debate in a few weeks because senator Chuck Grassley didnt accept their invitation. A grassley spokesperson says, they couldnt agree on a format. I dont know why he would do this, i feel this is a slap in interested in having a debate about the debate instead of the issues. There is a debate between grassley and judge set for october 19th in sioux city. You can watch that debate right here on kwwl. Our flood 2016 coverage continues this morning with a deeper look at the damage. Black hawk county. One was destroyed. Storm track sevens Amanda Gilbert joins us live in cedar falls to tell us how flood victims can get help. Although many towns in eastern iowa did an amazing job at coming together to prepare for the 2016 floods. It is important to remember that some people did take on water. Video captured in cedar falls days after the flood shows how hard some s around 2 hundred 70 thousand dollars worth of flood damage in Black Hawk County. If you still need help. People can head to the fire station on lone tree road in cedar falls today starting at 11 this morning. There will be workers there helping out with everything from legal advice to food to cleanup kits. Theyll be there until 8 tonight kwwl news. Thursday and friday help will be available at the waverly civic center. In Bremer County the flooding destroyed one building, and eleven have major damage. At least a dozen properties in Benton County have major damage. The red cross continues to help giving out cleaning in a while but like after 2008 wed never thought that it would get up in the house again and this time was were more prepared than last time but it the red cross is giving her family a grant which will be used to pay for a new water pump new walls and floors. Three and a half Million Dollars. Thats how much damage the flooding caused in butler county. Thats the estimate from the state right now. In greene the cleanup continues. They had a lot of to normal. I think everybody got back into the swing of things very quickly from 08 i think. Some water reached businesses along main street but as you just a heartbreaking story this morning a Police Officers daughter has died after being left in a patrol car. The threeyear old girl was left there for four hours. Two officers in mississippi are now on leave because of it. They were both off duty when it investigators say one officer was visiting with the other one but again the girl was apparently left alone for four hours. They also say the car was running and the air conditioning was on when investigators found the child, who later died at a hospital. So we dont know what happened but expect to hear more about this as the week moves along. Today, thousands of people are expected at a Memorial Service for legendary golfer arnold palmer. Vince gill is expected to sing and Jack Nicklaus is expected to speak. Heres a new twist to whats becoming a more common crime. A package thief pretending to be a mom. Surveillance video shows the thief pushing a baby stroller as she cases the neighborhood in san francisco. She then grabs a package, and puts it in the stroller. We are tired of stuff happening on out block we talk to neighbors theyve had cars broken into another neighbor had stuff stolen. Up their own surveillance cameras. They hope someone catches her before she fills her stroller with someone elses stuff. Cameras are a key to catching crooks. Thats something the Waterloo City Council is taking a hard look at requiriing businesses to have them. The city Council Voted on a newlook ordinance last night. Its not a done deal. Itll have to be voted on again. If its approved some businesses like restaurants, banks and hotels would have to buy tool that Waterloo Police department needs. The current ordinance is from 1993. Police chief dan trelka says its outdated. People living in one state want to know why the water in their creek turned white. It looks like milk. The missouri dnr is now investigating. People are worried chemicals were illegally dumped into the water. How it happened, to let the public know whats going on . The dnr is now collecting samples to figure out whats going on. Theres a pitch to save new yorks famous carnegie deli. Recently the owners said they will shut down at the end of the announced a five Million Dollar offer to buy the deli. Its time for a change. We must were shutting down, they would roll over in their graves. No word yet if the current owners will accept the offer. Many springsteen fans would probably do just about anything to meet him even if that means skipping school or work. For one boy. Thats exactly what he did. Boss even helped him out with getting out of class. Foul tip youre still alive. Nats phillies are my first, nationals are my second. But now the springsteen what was it like to meet him . I gave him a hug and said happy birthday boss and he said lets take a picture. So fun its something you just i thought maybe if we could get him to sign the note, it for you, ben while describing the experience of meeting the boss. Ben is a boy of giving him a hug. Why was that your favorite part . I dont know. Just because it was cool . A dayoff well spent. To be so kind to our son i would just like to say thank you. It was wonderful. Nats thank you boss were just Getting Started here made for rush hour traffic. In fact its stopping traffic because people dont know what to make of it. And this set of wheels has people asking the owner. Penny for your thoughts. To our west. Ill let you know if they will affect us. Coming im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Id look her right in that fat ugly face of hers. Shes a slob. She ate like a pig. A person whos flat chested is very hard to be a 10. Does she have a good body . Do you treat women with respect . Youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with jerry gallagher, ally crutcher and meteorologist eileen loan. This is today in iowa. Now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team it will be breezy and mild today with storms tracking through tonight through thursday. Right now, though, stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras are showing fairly calm conditions. Temperatures are running in the mid to upper 50s in our viewing area with 60s to the west ahead of a cold front. We will have southeasterly winds staying breezy today. I viewing area, gusting to 30 mph at times. The system to our west will slowly continue to churn through the region with storms tracking into our area tonight with a few tomorrow. More storms track in for tomorrow night through thursday. And the system will continue to plague us into friday. Rainfall amounts will depend on the speed and frequency of the storms as they track could see some areas getting a quarter inch or more. Today will be breezy and mild with highs in the 70s and gusts to 30 mph from the southeast. Storms track in tonight with lows in the upper 50s to low 60s. A few showers storms may linger into wednesday with most of us dry most of the day. Highs in the 70s again with southwesterly winds. More storms wednesday night through thursday and then breezy, showers and falling temps on friday. We will stay cool for friday night heroes football and even into the weekend. Overnight lows could dip into the upper 30s for the weekend. This will depend on speeds. The time is the time is still to come a drivethru for dog. Or maybe we should call it a waddle thru. Plus try to make sense out of this. One penny after another this mans chevy blazer. Youre watching kwwl. Weve got you covered in fayette, maynard, shellsburg and all of eastern iowa. Youve worked hard. Retirements within reach, blum weve got to raise the retirement age. Blum would make it harder, voting to cut Social Security and privatize medicare. Blum would even deny Social Security to seniors until theyre 70. Im monica vernon, and i approve this message, because seniors have earned Social Security and medicare. Weve got to protect it. Its sorry. Many iowa customers were caught off guard with bills that were higher than they thought. In a statement, Alliant Energy says quote we let many of you down. Heres the problem. Alliant says customers used more energy this summer compared to last summer. But didnt have enough people to review those bills. So many customers were sent estimated bills instead. But now, theyre getting larger bills coming as a big suprise. Alliant says the bill is accurate but is waiving late payment fees for those customers whove been affected. The company also says its recruiting more employees to beef up its staff. This is not the kind of thing you expect to see rolling down the highway. Someone pulled over on the side of the road spotted this a big wheel. In philadelphia. Whatever that is it doesnt have any handlebars. Traffic had to slow down because of it. Police say theyre now looking into it. Ever wonder what you should do with all that spare change you find in your car . One man from North Carolina has an idea. He covered his chevy blazer with nothing but copper. More than 51 thousand pennies. The hood is so heavy that i have to prop it open. Watch it when i let it go. Now sometimes and i just get them put them back on there. Larry says it made a lot of sense to dogs in one town now have a restaurant to call their own. This is a drive through in pennsylvania just for them. Owners can pick from various meats, vegetables and fruits for their pets. I just wanted a place that needs. Its all fresh pet so its all fresh meats and fruits and expand. Its youre watching today in iowa on check of your storm track seven when my dad got the contract with donald trump, it was huge for our business. There was never any question about the quality of work. And the next thing you know, you werent getting paid. Everything, i mean, its huge. But. If you dont get paid, its devastating. If he treats the American People like he treated my father, on the trump taj mahal, were. Were in trouble. The whole countrys in trouble. The Vice President ial nominees face off for the one and only time this election season a preview ahead. Plus. Help is available today for eastern iowans affected by flooding. A live report coming up. Plus money stolen from n to look out for when withdrawing heres a live look at our good morning its 6 am today is. Good morning, im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with