First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a warm and windy day highs will range from 70 degrees over northeast iowa to around 76 from iowa city and points southwest. The wind will be strong today with gusts as high as 30 mph at times out of the southwest. This mild air should roll right into the weekend with highs into the upper 60s and lower 70s going into saturday. Saturday night, a weak cold front arrives from the northwest, and if it does produce a shower, itd be during the overnight hours. Sunday will be cooler into the upper 50s to lower 60s. We are still on track for a warm halloween as well with 70s and gusty wind returning. Have a great weekend toda y partly cloudy. Breezy and milder. Wind sw 152 gh 74 night partly cloudy. Win7 morrow partly cld wind 515. Go stly cloudy with fewrinkles pos both major Party President ial nominees will be making Campaign Stops in cedar rapids today. Hillary clinton will speak at the newbo city market courtyard t
Expansion and renovation. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara plan on a warm and windy day highs will range from 70 degrees over northeast iowa to around 76 from iowa city and points southwest. The wind will be strong today with gusts as high as 30 mph at times out of the both major Party President ial nominees will be making Campaign Stops in cedar rapids today. Hillary clinton will speak at the newbo city market courtyard this afternoon. And donald trump will be at the mcgrath amphitheatre onight. Said in an interview that these stops show both candidates believe the state could go either way. 04 02 its not unprecedented but its unusual for that happen we can recall it happened in dubuque where romney and obama were on the same day. In 2004, bush and kerry were both in davenport on the same day. The latest Quinnipiac University poll Shows Hillary clinton and donald trump are tied in the state a
Creating a bounce for a particular candidate. Cedar rapids closed several streets this morning for Hillary Clintons appearance at new bo. That includes 12th avenue se between 2nd and 4th streets. And 11th avenue se between 3rd and 4th streets. For the donald trump event tonight, the city will block off first street sw between 4th and 6th avenues, right by Cedar Rapids Police headquarters. Congressiona l delegation is trying to keep his job for another 2 years. Congressman Dave Loebsack is seeking his sixth term in the us house. The Cook Political Report rates iowas Second District as solidly democrat, meaning its calling loebsack a strong favorite over republican challenger chris peters. Iowas Second District covers iowa city, davenport and bettendorf and much of rural southeast iowa. As kcrgtv9s jordee kalk reports, loebsack says his biggest concern right congressman Dave Loebsack has a personal reason to protect those who struggle. 56 00, i grew up in poverty myself in sioux city my
And waterloo. Kaine addressed the shooting but also pushed early voting. And bill clinton made one last appeal to voters in waterloo. They did talk about the killings in des moines along with republican congressman rod blum who was also in the waterloo area. Wedont know everything well know overt eh next few days. It may speak to Mental Health it may speack to the over proliferation of guns. Every tragedy has to be every family has to be supporte supported. It isvery very tragic and hard to believe in america Something Like that could happen. There is never a justification forkilling someone who spends his or her life trying to protect you and we pray for their families. The biggest . National news of last week just lingered over this week. Fbi director friday that the fbi was looking at more Hillary Clinton emails. That got him a lot of criticism especially after it came out that when he released that information no one in the fbi had even reviewed any of the emails. Even iowas republ
Rapids from september through may and invite speakers to come and discuss issues that are important internationally and to the united nations. Leon tabak you told me you have an interesting personal background as well, right . Your origins in africa, is that correct . Chris dahle i was born in raised in south africa. I came here to go to college, but ive bee iowan. Leon tabak alrighty. Our second member of our panel is Lynda Waddington who is a columnist here with the gazette. Tell us a little bit more about your interests and role in the community here, lynda. Lynda w oh my gosh, i do quite a few Different Things within the community. I do a lot of public mentor some young writers. Im really enjoying living here in eastern iowa. Tonight i think were going to talk about the election and its aftermath, so i think im here tonight both as the woman, which ive kind of been a lot lately in this election cycle, and ive also covered politics here in iowa for over two decades, so a little bit