Good evening. And its great to start another week with you. And we begin tonight with melania trump. For the first time, we are hearing what she thought of that moment on the bus, her husband talking about what he can do to women because hes a star. We last saw melania and her husband leaving st. Patricks cathedral here in new york city after that private meeting with cardinal dolan. Tonight, she is defending her husband, and how she describes what she heard. Abcs tom llamas leads us off. Reporter tonight, melania trump, silent throughout most of the campaign, now speaking out to cnn about her husbands comments on that bus. When you first saw it, when you first heard it, what did you think . I said to my husband that, you know, the language is inappropriate. Its not acceptable. And i was surprised, because that is not the man that i know. Tape, the cameras were not on, it was only a mike, and i wonder if they even knew that the mike was on, because they were kind of a boy talk, and he
Counted some votes. Hand counting, could result in more votes because you were individually inspecting every ballot otherwise we count the votes via the scanners that we have he calls the rumors of a rigged election an insult. Long hopes he is right. I think we live in hopefully a pretty just society,where that doesnt happen,. Miller says poll watchers from both parties were weekend. Those people make sure there is no funny business going on at the ballots. There were none out in linn county today, but he expects to see them out in full force on election day live in cedar rapids, phil reed, kcrg tv9 news congressman steve king is weighing in on Donald Trumps claims that the election is rigged against him. I wouldnt say its completely unsubstantiated partially unsubstantiated, id agree with that. But, i would look back at the 2000 election and the say that, if al gore had not accepted the decision of the supreme court, we would have had discredited elections back then. The congressman s
When rescue crews finally found her, they placed her on a back board. Fire fighters above ground used a tripod to pull her out through a nearby man hole. A rescue effort some city leaders say could have been avoided. Other people had to put themselves in harms way in order to be able to rescue someone from that space. City leaders from several departments will meet later this week to ways to keep people from trying to explore the mine shafts. In dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. That dangerous old mine shaft in dubuque is not alone. The Us Department of agriculture says iowa has about 27 hundred of these mine shafts across the state. About six months ago, some des moines homeowners discovered one under their house when a sinkhole opened in front of their home. Historians say it dates moines coal company. The usda said an air shaft in the old coal mine probably eroded over time and caused the collapse. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now with our first alert forecast. Joe, a lit
Any pictures you may have taken. The united way says so many people came out to help, that they couldnt keep track of everybody at the beginning, it was all hands on deck, everyone was just out because of the urgency of sandbagging, so everyone put their efforts forward Michael Goldberg from linn county Emergency Management says you have to make sure you register your hours with the city you worked them in. He says they would go granted. For example, cedar rapids would get money to help pay for protecting the city from flood. Hesco barriers, the cost of the contractors, labor cost from employees can be used. The equipment that was used. All of that can be calculated as emergency protective to be better prepared to log peoples hours in future disasters. I asked them if they feel people will be honest on their applications. Ill have their answer at six. Live in cedar rapids phil reed, kcrg tv9 news governor branstad also announced today the creation of a Flood Recovery task force. Compri
Tv 9 news. Deputy warden greg ort told tv nine hes comfortable with the Staffing Levels because he has to be. Ort said ten new Correctional Officers are in training and plans call for hiring ten more officers in the near future. Two organizations are coming together to better provide Mental Health services to thousands of iowans. Abbehealth will now be an affiliate of Unitypoint Health cedar rapids, which includes saint lukes meet the mental and physical health needs of patients who have multiple chronic medical issues abbehealth is a non profit that serves more than 17 thousand people with a wide variety of Behavioral Health needs. It serves in nine counties across eastern iowa and has been forming more of these affiliate relationships. This affiliation becomes official january 1st. The Cedar Rapids Police chief calls one prank thats been popping up as take a look at this. Its just one of a nuer of vehicles that someone has peppered with paintballs. In the last couple weeks, homes hav