We still have a few showers tracking through the area early this morning, but they will dry up. It is keeping temperatures in the 60s, though, with southerly winds at 5 to 15 mph. They will turn to the southwest. We will dry out and should see 70s. We stay mild tomorrow with more storms in the forecast. Ill have that for you in a we still have a few showers tracking through the area early this morning, but they will dry up. It is keeping temperatures decision 2016 coverage. Today both Vice President ial nominees head to pennsylvania. This comes after all eyes were on them at last nights debate. As tracie potts shows us the kaine natsot, i dont have much of a voice left. trumps tax returns but why wont he release his tax returns . Were answering the question about the business thing. Mike pence. On Hillary Clintons emails. Senator, if your son or my son handled classified information the way that Hillary Clinton did, theyd be court marshalled. That is absolutely false and you know it. Absolutely true. Each, accusing the other side of insults the top who demeans every group that he talks about. Thats small potatoes supporters a basket of deplorables. Pence repeatedly denied trumps comments more nations should get nuclear weapons. Try to defend that. He never said that, senator. They talked about the economy. Russia. Immigration, Police Shootings and abortion what i cant understand is with Hillary Clinton and now senator kaine at her side, is to support a practice like partialbirth abortion. To see the Vice President ial nominees on the same stage. Overnight. The fact checking. Both nominees took a hit kaine for oversimplifying trumps views on nuclear weapons. Pence for understating how much the Clinton Foundation gives to charity, and for repeatedly denying things trump actually said. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. Be in iowa today. Shes speaking at eleven this morning at the university of dubuque. The Clinton Foundation may not have filed everything it should have with the new York State Charities bureau what appears to be missing are this news comes after the Trump Foundation was ordered to stop of Hurricane Matthew moves off the coast of cuba. Now forecasters are expanding the hurricane warning in florida. In haiti matthew causing severe flooding. The storm has already killed at least 11 people. Here in the us people from florida up through the carolinas are preparing for matthew. Theyre loading up their cars with gas, buying food and boarding up windows. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has issued evacuations, which will impact about a million people. Close this afternoon because of Severe Weather related to Hurricane Matthew. That means the harbor is closed to cruise and cargo ships and looking at the forecast were not even going to mess around. We decided to buy plywood and just start battering down the hatches. This is the First Time Since 2004 that Port Canaveral has shut down operations because of Severe Weather. President obama heads to fema headquarters for updates on florida today, but the strength of Hurricane Matthew the most powerful atlantic storm since 2007 made the president a kwwl followup a man now faces charges following a crash which sent three people to the hospital. It happened last month in dubuque. Police say a semi hit an suv sending the suv into a pole. The driver of the suv david in the hospital. Shots are fired in dubuque. It happened on west eighth street near the intersection of hill street yesterday afternoon. A car got hit by a bullet. Police arrested Steven Burrell of chicago on an outstanding warrant out of illinois. He now also faces a charge of reckless use of a firearm. Were getting our first look at the moment a man accused of stealing a shuttle bus from an airport. Police say the bus pulled up to the airport in san diego and the driver went to hand a pice of equipment to the drivers seat and took off. He faces seven felony charges and could spend more than 10 years in prison if convicted. Investigators finally able to enter a section of a train that crashed last week. They found the data recorders they hope will tell them what caused the crash. One woman died and several got hurt when the trail slammed into a train station in new jersey. Investigators also found the engineers cell phone. Phone has any information that devices we look to see if those were in place or being used at the time of the accident. Investigators have not said how fast the train was going. Surveillance video shows someone using a truck to break down the front of a convenience store. Police in new mexico say the men spent two minutes breaking down and take off with an atm which was not bolted down. It was one oclock in the morning. Theres still people actually on montgomery drive and police found the empty atm the next day in a ditch. Time now is xxx. Making life sweeter. People across eastern iowa being touched by random acts of kindness in honor of 21year old tyler swyter who took his life one year ago. Family and friends heart broken but using the pain as loved to make life sweeter for everyone else feel special about themselves. West high graduate. Students at Kirkwood Community college wanting to start a conversation about suicide and Mental Health. They have a Large Display of 11 hundred flags on campus representing the number of i think i just see people who grouping them together kind of helps people realize everybody students wanting others to know Mental Health is ok to talk about. Time now is xxx. Helping inmates get back on track. A man walks out of prison cosmetology license in hand. In the past illinois inmates have been barred from applying for a professional work license until they now. Offenders can start the licensing process up to six my goal is to eventually go back and get my barbers instructors license. I do want to teach. Supporters of the program hope to reduce the prison population and cut down on repeat offenders. New this morning a group of eastern iowa students is being ways to encourage healthy living. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waverly. Where you caught up with one student. Waverlys Olivia Eckerman has an exciting day ahead of her. Shes heading to the white house. While there. Shell be representing her state. Her school. And a club. And being active. Its what the fuel up to play 60 club at Waverly Shellrock middle this week. A unique opportunity for the club. Good job olivia. Yay olivia. Member Olivia Eckerman is heading to d. C. Where shell be represne iowa. Being an iowa i really understand agricultre. And shell be representing her club. While is really strong and if you set. Will make and eat a healthy meal at the White White House garden with michelle obama. This meal is part of better lifestyle and to eating healthier. Showing how one meal can have a huge impact. Congratulations olivia the fuel up to play 60 club is all olivia won a contest at the fuel up to play 60 natonal summit last year. Thats why she was selected for this unique opportunity. Weve got you covered live in waverly. Amanda gilbert. Kwwl news. On the trip. Its coming up on today in iowa as parts of the country brace for a hurricane others are already dealing with snow. And a permanent mark to remember someone by. Tattoos made of a persons ashes. Youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with jerry gallagher, ally crutcher and meteorologist eileen loan. Marv, go make us a plate. 30. 1. Well literally die of hunger b freaky fast 1 forecast on kwwl. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for yo complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras may catch some showers this morning, but should have plenty of sunshine for the afternoon. It wont last long, though, as storms return later tonight and continue through tomorrow with a few showers lingering into friday. The main thing we are watching is Hurricane Matthew. Tracking over cuba now and heading north to the bahamas tomorrow. And, believe it or not, the system affecting us right now, will have a big impact on where Hurricane Matthew goes in a few days. Right now we have a line of showers dying out as it tracks through the region. We will see more tracking in tonight and tomorrow with a few rounds possible. Then that system tracks to the east and will help push matthew out to sea. But it may circle right back to florida. Our rainfall amounts could be anywhere from not much to almost 2 depending on how many storms track through the region. We get rid of the sunshine for the afternoon and highs in the 70s. Storms track back in tonight with lows in the 50s and we stay mild thursday with highs in the 70s as we see a few rounds of showers and storms tracking through. A few showers may linger into friday before that front finally tracks away from us. We cool into the upper 50s to around 60 for friday and saturday with lows around 40. We warm back to the upper 60s by columbus day with a few showers possible. But we are going to be watching Hurricane Matthew very closely to see which wind and rain. System tracks to the east and will help push matthew out to sea. But it may circle right back to florida. Our rainfall amounts could be anywhere from not much to almost 2 depending on how many storms track through the region. We get rid of the rain today with sunshine for the afternoon and highs in the 70s. Storms track back in tonight with lows in the 50s and we stay mild thursday with highs in the 70s as we see a few rounds of showers and storms tracking through. A few showers may linger into friday before that front finally tracks away from us. We cool into the upper 50s to around 60 for friday and saturday with lows around 40. We warm back to the upper 60s by columbus day with a few showers possible. But we are going to be watching people in parts of the country hoping for a smoother drive to work today. This is a look at colorado where a sudden snowstrom caused some pretty rough driving conditions during the morning commute yesterday in montana dogs seem to be enjoying the snow there. A meteorologist for an nbc the first winter storm warning of the season issued there. Its still to come childrens finger paints being recalled what you need to plus some prince fans will be getting the chance to visit the late artists home and Recording Studio. Heres a quick look at some of our bigger stories this morning. Today the battle over the Dakota Access pipeline heads to a federal Appeals Court. The standing sioux tribe hoping to keep construction from moving forward. The pipeline would run through multiple states including iowa. The only debate between the Vice President ial nominees found democrat tim kaine repeatedly pence to vouch for donald trump. Pence defended trumps tax history. The second debate between donald trump and Hillary Clinton is scheduled for sunday. And hurricane watches are being upgraded to warnings in parts of florida. The carolinas also rpeparing for Hurricane Matthew. A live look at miami Hurricane Matthew has already caused at least eleven deaths in the caribbean. A consumer alert this morning craft and finger paints being recalled. Because they may contain harmful bacteria. Sargent art tempera and finger paints in different colors and sizes. If you have them stop using them and contact sargent art at hobby lobby, walmart and other stores. Threepointeight million dollars. Thats what best buy is agreeing to pay for selling recalled products. The agreement is with the us Consumer Product safety commission. It settles charges that best buy sold and distributed sixteen recalled products from 2010 to Small Businesses are suing Credit Card Companies for forcing them to use chip credit card readers. Businesses say the machines are expensive and dont fully protect them from fraud. They also accuse Credit Card Companies of penalizing them if they dont upgrade. Mastercard says the company has a strong case supporting the chip readers and expects to win in court. A sevenyear sales growth streak is coming to an end for carmakers. Rock bottom with gm and chrysler filing for bankruptcy and the economy also taking a hit. Since then. Car sales have risen every year. Now its likely that 2016 sales may be flat or fall short of last years record of 17point5 million cars. You may be able to start trusting reviews on amazon a bit more. The website is banning incentivized reviews. Thats when you get free stuff for reviewing a product. The singers s home and Recording Studio received a temporary permit to operate as a museum. Paisley park managers had already begun selling tickets without permission from the city. The city says the managers arent prepared to handle the safety and traffic concerns that come with running a museum. Tours at paisley park will be given to guests who bought tickets between now and october 15. No new tickets will be sold. Al roker got a sneak peak inside you can catch his story, including interviews with princes family, on iowa. Leaving her mark. To help people deal with loss. A tattoo artist in alaska is creating tattoos. Using the ashes of loved ones. For one mother it was the perfect way to remember her driver. Jordyns ashes are in the black silhouette of the mother and daughter. And since its shaped like a heart it just to me means our eternal love. Spiritually. But this was a way to keep her physically close. Its coming up even when hes celebrating his own 100th birthday this veteran doesnt trust anyone else with darien why have the latest smartphone if you cant use it wherever you go . Switch to u. S. Cellular for our best plan yet 7 gigs of data per line for only 49. To share more photos at your cabin or video chat at your secret fishing spot. All for just 49. We put towers in places the other guys dont. Because u. S. Cellular thinks you deserve a signal that works wherever you are. Switch to u. S. Cellular and get a whopping 7 gigs of data per line eileen loan is back with another check of your storm track seven forecast. Storms track in tonight and dry but could see a few showers on columbus day. A baker and chef by trade at one hundred years old its still what he loves to do. Victor nelson has seen it all. The World War Two veteran has a bread before the first super bowl to celebrate his own 100th birthday he put himself in charge of the cake. How has he stayed so young . Food you guys eat. He says theres still things hed like to try maybe even skydiving. Youre watching kwwl. Weve new clients . We could read the room. On the phone, youre just a voice. Yeah, im good. For fast rewards, lets book on choice. This trip could really help us grow. . Should i stay or should i go . . When its time to go for business, book on choicehotels. Com and get a free night when you stay with us two times. Moves toward the us. Lets. Dont put words in my mouth. The Vice President ial nominees talking over one another battling back and forth in their only debate. And a contractor learns a lesson in forgiveness when he rips off the roof of the wrong church good morning, im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven we still have a few showers tracking temperatures in the 60s, though, with southerly winds at 5 to 15 mph. They will turn to the southwest. We will dry out and should see mild tomorrow with more storms in the forecast. Ill have that for you in a few through the area early this morning, but they will dry up. Ill have that for you in a few minutes. A big story this morning people on the east cst deadly storm to come their way. Hurricane matthew currently in the caribbean the country of haiti hit hard by the 145 mile per hour winds and heavy rain. The storm has already killed at least eleven People Living on caribbean islands. Kwwls Shirley Descorbeth speaking with her uncle who lives in haiti. He says rivers are overflowing, roofs are blown off homes, and people evacuate but not everyone did. Well people dont usually like to leave their houses, they want move, at that time usually its too late for them to move, thats why we have so many casualties. People in florida and the carolinas are bracing for the storm to head their way. Reid binion takes a look at preparations. If you think youre going to take evacuation orders seriously as Hurricane Matthew approaches the us. Right now we expect to see impacts all the way along floridas east coast, from the keys all the way through jacksonville. Roadways already clogged in South Carolina. Governor nikki haley also issuing a warning amid coastal you might actually get stuck. Because you didnt meet the evacuation time. Mandatory evacuation orders were also issued for parts of North Carolina. And all three states plus georgia have declared states of on its rampage through the caribbean. With forecasters predicting that matthew will brush up against the east coast of the United States this week. Residents in those areas are preparing. And stocking up on everything from groceries and water. To fuel and cash. Im hearing a lot of screeching of tires, and im just waiting my turn because i know its a Swift Water Rescue Team is matthew for the past two days, the team has been preparing and packing the gear needed for the mission. Boats like the kind used by the navy seals, are used for water save. With wide area flooding the then you might get trapped because your vehicle wont drive even three or four inches houses that didnt leave early the North Carolina team expects to be sent somewhere in their home state or to South Carolina please come forward. Thats a familys request as they mark one year since their loved ones murder this is video from the Police Investigation last october after police say 21year old Jimmy Richardson was shot and killed avenue in dubuque. A year later, his family and friends gather to remember him. At this point no ones been charged in the case. I know a lot of people have to anything. Police say they have arrested one suspect on unrelated warrants, and have another suspect. They call it a very active investigation. Now people around the country are dressing up as clowns. Heres a look at one here found in waterloo. Waterloo police say theyve received six separate reports of clown sightings across town in the lateovernight hours including one at a mcdonalds. Two more reports in cedar falls one on the uni campus. A student posting on social media after finding a mask. I saw the mask on the ground, and it freaked me out. And im just like okay somebody is just pulling a prank and they left it there. For police the concern is after these clowns. In other parts of the country people now committing crimes while dressed as clowns. This is video from a convienience store robbery in ohio. One of the suspects wearing a clown mask. Police say they took all the money from the cash register. Nationally with all the clown masks and everything it kind of got everybodys fears ramped up. Just due to what has been back home in iowa cedar falls accusations, interruptions. Very common during tuesdays Vice President ial debate. At one point the moderator said the people at home couldnt understand what tim kaine or mike pence was saying because they were interrupting each other so much. Kaine pressured pence to defend his running mate donald trump. Pence went after Hillary Clintons record. Heres one of thec russia has been stronger on the world stage than this administration, thats stating painful facts. Thats not an endorsement of vladimir putin. Thats an indictment of the weak and feckless leadership of Hillary Clinton and barack obama. This is a very challenging part of the world and we ought to have the commanderinchief who is prepared and done it rather than somebody who goes around praising vladimir virginia and pennsylvania. Kaine is in pennsylvania. Senator Bernie Sanders is campaigning for clinton in des moines today. Chelsea clinton is in dubuque. The nations highest court will hear a case involving a tech giant. Apple is taking its longrunning patent dispute with samsung to the supreme court. The company is asking the court to uphold a jurys award for damages against the korean company. Four years ago a jury trial six different apple patents and awarded apple one billion dollars. An Appeals Court cut that in half. A pipeline nearly completed but the battle over construction coninues in court. Today a us Appeals Court will hear arguments on the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The court is being asked to keep a temporary construction stop in effect. Thats so the Standing Rock sioux tribe can appeal a Different Court ruling,. Dollar pipeline would run through four states including iowa. Two years after the 2014 vaa scandal problems continue. You may remember the Phoenix Va Medical Center was a the center of the National Conversations around the va. In a new report just released this week the va Inspector General found 215 patients died with appointments still pending in the medical Centers Database last year. The report concluded the de accused of wasteful spending. An Inspector General report says the Madison Hospital wasted more than 400 thousand dollars on thinks like buying two robots to travel hospital hallways to deliver equipment. The robots ended up blocking hallways and doorways, making them ineffective. I felt there was sufficient planning going into this that we it a 15month trial and then we used a va tool thats there to excess this out, to a facility the report also redflagged the leasing of equipment to remove parts of a pacemaker from more than three dozen heart patients. But that equipment was never used. Today, a sixyear old boy will be laid to rest after being shot on a playground. The boy was shot in the leg and the bullet hit a main artery. His going to the funeral to dress up as superheroes because her this morning well learn more about threats against police officers. Authorities say a man allegedly made threats on social media in late september about bombing the funeral of a detroit officer. Its not the first threat targeting police there. Detroits police chief and michigans attorney general will speak this morning. Police are now releasing the full dash cam and body camera video showing the moments leading up officers can be heard telling keith scott to drop the gun a number of times. His family says they dont think police say a gun was found and say Lab Tests Show scotts dna and fingerprints were on it. A tenyearold girl leaps into action, saving her family. Michigan police say the girl was ridin and her two younger brothers, when her mother blacked out. The 10yearold took control of the car, steering it to the side called 911. At first she was talking and the woman was taken to the hospital. Doctors expect her to be fine. Legend arnold palmer. Family, friends and some of golfs greatest players came together in pennsylvania to pay their respects to palmer. He died last week. He was an every day man. Everyones hero. Arnold managed to remove the i from icon. And instead let the world share in his greatness. Jack nicklaus also called palmer the king of golf forever. Its always better to forgive forget. Just ask one church and a thankful roofing company. A contractor hired to replace a church roof in indiana took the roof off another church a block away by mistake. Workers realized they were on the wrong roof when a Delivery Driver with a load of new shingles saw the address of his delivery did not match where the workers were. The pastor says its a good lesson in the power of forgiveness. The bible says, your sins will honest mistake and hell finish the job. Its coming up on today in iowa a look at how businesses are recovering from recent flooding. And an eastern iowa middle white house details coming up the forecast from storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is up next. Youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with living on the streets with education. Charles whats up man . Whoa how can we help . Ah man wait, is that a basketball player . Yes wow my hearts about to jump out my chest man. Charles you ought to be proud man. Im just extremely grateful they were here giving them some encouragement thats something that these kids are going to remember for a lifetime. Did you see his big old feet . Look. Whoa. 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, and i approve this message, because seniors have earned Social Security and medicare. Forecast on kwwl. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras may catch some showers this morning, but should have l of sunshine for the afternoon. It wont last long, though, as storms return later tonight and continue through tomorrow with a few showers lingering into friday. The main thing we are watching is Hurricane Matthew. Tracking over cuba now and heading north to the bahamas and then the east coast of the u. S. Aiming for florida tomorrow. And, believe it or not, the system affecting us right now, will have a big of showers dying out as it tracks through the region. We will see more tracking in tonight and tomorrow with a few rounds possible. Then that system tracks to the east and will help push matthew out to sea. But it may circle right back to florida. Our rainfall amounts could be anywhere from not much to almost 2 depending on how many storms track through the region. We get rid of the rain today with highs in the 70s. Storms track back in tonight with lows in the 50s and we stay mild thursday with highs in the 70s as we see a few rounds of showers and storms tracking through. A few showers may linger into friday before that front finally tracks away from us. We cool into the upper 50s to around 60 for friday and saturday with lows around 40. We warm back to the upper 60s by columbus day with a few showers be watching Hurricane Matthew very closely to see which track it takes. Any of which will cause major problems with wind and rain. In cedar rapids bo macs took on water, its still going through renovations and isnt open yet. Eventually this space will be a bar and resturant with live music. The owner glad they werent further along when the flood yeah it could have been worse farther along and or it could have been operational and then we would have had to shut and have to you know have people not be able to work which would have been difficult for a lot more people than just myself. Pub had an open sign on it that pub took on water last week. Raygun had to close during the flooding. Now the store is selling a variety of floodthemed t shirts. Money from the sales goes back to the people and businesses most affected by the flooding in recent weeks. Workers tell us the shirts have been very popular theyre also being sold online. Today the red cross will continue to offer help to people station on lone tree road. The center will be open from the city have been through flooding before. They say that its not as bad but its a shame. Its a sad thing to see. As a reminder, kwwl and the American Red Cross are partnering together to help your friends and neighbors here in eastern iowa. Text the word redcross all one word to 90999. That money will be addedo its still to come find out why an iowa middle schooler is having a meal at the white house and even helping make it. And when you see news or if you have pictures or video to share. You can do that by going to our page stay up to date on breaking news today the battle over the Dakota Access pipeline heads to a federal Appeals Court. The standing sioux tribe hoping to keep construction from moving forward. The pipeline would run through multiple states including iowa. The only debate between the Vice President ial nominees found democrat tim kaine repeatedly challenging republican mike pence to vouch for donald trump. Pence defended trumps tax history. The second debate between donald trump and Hillary Clinton is scheduled for sunday. Florida. A live look at miami now the carolinas also rpeparing for Hurricane Matthew. Hurricane matthew has already caused at least eleven deaths in the caribbean. New this morning very few people get to eat at the white house. Even fewer help prepare the meal. But thats what one waverly middle schooler is doing this week. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waverly. You can tell us more about this stundets unique opportunity. Today. Waverly shell rock middle schooler Olivia Eckerman leaves for the white house. Shes going to prepare and eat a meal with the first lady and kids from all over the world. The food in the meal will be directly from the white house garden. This event is part of the first ladys lets move initiative. Which ecourage kids to eat healthy and and like we need some big leader to help prod everyone to eating healthier. Congratulations olivia. Thank you. At the meal. Olivia will be representing her state. Her school. And the fuel up to play 60 club. Its a club that can be found not only at waverly shell rock midldle school. But all over the country. The club has similar goals to Michelle Obamas lets move initiative. Weve got you covered live in waverly. Amanda gilbert. Kwwl news. Unique opporutnity after she won a contest at the fuel up to play 60 national summit. Its were wrapping up today in iowa with the forecast from storm track seven meteorologist eileen 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 . No. Does she have a fat [expletive] . Absolutely. Do you treat women with respect . Drake the singer popped by Drake University overnight. He posted a picture of himself on campus on Instagram Drake students have been trying to get him to perform there. Instead he performed at Wells Fargo Arena in des moines at one point wearing this Drake University jersey. Gave him this Drake Letterman jacket. Eileen is back with another check of your storm track seven forecast. Not as windy today but still mild with afternoon sunshine. Storms track in tonight and continue in a few rounds through into the weekend. The weekend is dry but could see a few showers good morning. Breaking news. Hurricane matthew inching closer to the u. S. Mainland. Emergency declarations in four states, evacuations under way. The storm now bearing down on the bahamas after wreaking havoc in cuba and haiti. Sparks fly. No, no, no, dont put words in my mouth. Mike pence and Tim Kaine Duke it out in the one and only Vice President ial debate, going head to head over the president ial contenders. You cant have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about. Theres a reason why people question the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton, and thats because theyre paying attention. Did either of them emerge victorious . Did they have an impact on voters