Bags. Reporter joe huisinga is live to tell us what can be done with them. Reporter scott , there are only two free drop off sites left and only one day is left to use them. For businesses who cannot get here in time, there are Community Organizations working to find other solutions. There are reports that businesses would be fined for sandbags left behind. We reached out and the reports the city has no intention of finding any business for sandbags that of that remain. They organized the dropoff sites because they and the city understand that businesses and individuals are going through a hard time and they are more interested in solving problems than in handing out penalties. The Economic Alliance says that are encouraging them to take them to the free dropoff sites. It is business as usual and there is a push right now to get the very last of things cleaned up and get the entire community really looking great. Reporter one of the last dropoff sites is here at Kingston Village under
Bruce, back to you. Candidates in iowas third Congressional District are also debating tonight. Incumbent republican david young will face democrat jim mowrer. That district is in southwest iowa, and includes des moines, red oak and council bluffs. The debate starts at eight oclock on iowa public television. This years election is featuring a pretty non people are coming up with interesting ways of showing their distaste for some of the candidates. One dubuque woman was so disgusted as she drove past a trump billboard every day, she raised funds to counter the billboard. Kcrg tv nines Katie Wiedemann joins us now. Katie, the sign company she used says this is something they have never seen before . Exactly, aaron vosmek from cr signs who owns them. Never before has an an individual person, who is not attached to a campaign, bought a political ad like this. Kate parks is a mom and teacher who says shes tired of driving past this trump billboard. Its been on display along highway 20 near
For a comprehensiv e reform of the system. When we come back after the break, were going to go to conference on it and get the differences reconciled. There isnt a town in our district that would be treated fairly by that law. We got to change it. Another big issue of contention, the iran nuclear agreement. Blum attack ads have hammered vernon on her support. He called it dangerous. Vernon called it a measure thats making the world safer. There. Theres concrete in the core of that reactor. Theres been more communication. Its slowed down things. I thought the purpose of the agreement was to prevent iran from getting a nuclear bomb. After reading that agreement three times, theyre going to get a nuclear bomb. Another big difference, though blum admits he hasnt read it, he tentatively supported the transpacific partnership. Vernon is against it. Race, Republican Donald Trump campaigned in North Carolina tonight after opening his new hotel in dc. And Democrat Hillary Clinton spent the day
Breaks in the clouds later today, itll be too little too late for the october sunshine to push the temperatures around. Tomorrow, however, is a different story. A strong warm front is still on track to move in from the southwest tomorrow, increasing the wind substantially and allowing for widespread highs into the 70s. While records are safe at the moment, well continue to watch this going forward. The weekend continues to look decent with highs primarily in the 60s. By halloween, our next surge of warm air moves into the region with highs at least into the mid 70s for all areas. Itll be windy again as well today cloudy in the morning. Gradual clearing in the afternoon. Wind w 510 high 54 tonight mostly clear. Wind se 510. Low 46 tomorrow partly cloudy. Breezy and milder. Wind sw 1 low 55 thanks kaj. Dozens of people in northeast planned town home complex that would go up in their area. They say they want the city to block construction. The project would be at 4480 blairs ferry road th
Meteorologist kaj omara joins us live at green square in downtow cedar rapids. Plan on a cloudy thursday. While there will probably be some breaks in the clouds later today, itll be too little too late for the october sunshine to push the temperatures around. Tomorrow, however, is a different story. A strong warm front is still on track to move increasing the wind substantially and allowing for widespread highs into the 70s. While records are safe at the moment, well continue to watch this going forward. The weekend continues to look decent with highs primarily in the 60s. By halloween, our next surge of warm air moves into the region with highs at least into the mid 70s for all areas. Itll be windy again as well today cloudy in the morning. Gradual clearing in the afternoon. Wind w 510 high 54 tonight mostly clear. Wind se 510. Low 46 tomorrow partly cloudy. Breezy and milder. Wind sw 1525 high 74 tom. Night partly cloudy. Wind sw 515. Low 55 dozens of people in northeast cedar rapids