many areas. over the northern half, isolated rain amounts of 4-5" are also possible. should this occur, flash flooding would be a concern, along with area rivers likely rising into the weekend. thursday continues to look dry with more storms possible on friday. this weekend will be a nice one with highs in the 70s and lows well down into the 50s. kickoff for iowa/iowa state will be in the upper 60s with temperatures falling to the upper 50s around the 4th quarter. thanks kaj. "love water, not oil! love officers have pulled back from dakota access pipeline protesters in north dakota. that's because they say it wasn't safe for police officers. this after a federal judge has temporarily stopped work on some, but not all, of a portion of the dakota access pipeline -- the pipeline set to go through iowa. the standing rock sioux tribe is pushing a pipeline company because they say construction could destroy sacred sites. the judge says he'll make decision by friday on the tribe's challenge of construction permits. authorities say a group of between 150 and 200 protesters gathered at the construction area tuesday morning to continue their protest. some carried hatchets and knives. officials say two protesters tied themselves to bulldozers. one woman says their fight is culturally significant. numbers...with strong prayers. our ancestors are with us, " no pipeline workers were at the site, and authorities did not arrest anyone. green party presidential candidate jill stein may face charges in north dakota. authorities say they plan to charge her for spray- painting construction equipment at a dakota access pipeline protest. the charges would be for trespassing and vandalism. a spokeswoman for stein says activists invited her to leave a message at th approve this message" on the blade of a bulldozer. a bill aimed at combating the zika virus did not pass out of the senate. the $1.1 billion dollar funding bill didn't get the 60 votes needed to end debate on the issue. senate democrats unanimously voted against the bill. democrats say the majority senate republicans doomed the bill, adding such provisions as blocking funding for planned parenthood and allowing the confederate battle flag to campaigning in florida, hillary clinton accused republicans of playing politics. "they can't help themselves from playing games, even when lives are on the line. i call on all republicans to put people before politics and finally vote in favor for a clean funding bill to fight zika right here in florida." " several congressiona l republicans have suggested they might lump zika funding in with other government measures, resolving the issue before the end of the month. " "no one should doubt the gravity of the threat or the long term health consequences of failing to get our work done." " this is the 3rd time the zika funding bill has failed in the senate. linn county supervisors asked for a rewrite before voting a second time on a minimum wage increase. that will now happen today. the supervisors were supposed to vote yesterday. but they delayed it to let the linn county attorney clean up some language in the wording of the not have been able to change the wording. the plan would increase the minimum wage over three years to 10- dollars 25-cents an hour. " i've heard from a lot of workers who think this is long overdue i've heard from businesses who wish the state would do it. i don't know if the state will take it up this year and if the state doesn't i think you'll see a lot more counties take it up. " if supervisors approve the minimum wage today, a third and final vote would take place next monday. nea family of a missing 11- year-old boy finally has answers. jacob wetterling's parents finally found out the heartbreaking truth that a man abused and killed the boy in 1989. reid binion reports. "for us jacob was alive, until we found, until we found him."jacob wetterling's mother - confronting a reality that she has dreaded for 27 years... ...the certain knowledge that jacob - 11 years old at the sorry, it is incredibly painful to know his last days, last hours, last minutes."53-year-old danny heinrich -- confessing that he kidnapped jacob... ...on a rural road in october 19-89, then sexually assaulted and murdered the boy. "danny heinrich is no longer a person of interest. he is the confessed murderer of jacob wetterling."heinrich -- agreeing to confess to the killing... ...and lead the authorities to jacob's remains as part of a plea deal. officials -- describing the grisly details of what was found. "bones consistent with a juvenile male. teeth that would eventually be matched records and a t-shirt that said 'wetterling.'"b ut the discovery came at a cost -- heinrich - now set to receive just a 20-year sentence for possession of child pornography... ...authorities - agreeing not to charge him in jacob's death... ...saying that the plea deal was the only way to bring closure in a heart- wrenching, decades-long case - something the family signed off on. "finally we knew. finally, the wetterling family could lay their son to rest."i'm reid this is national suicide prevention week. suicide is second leading cause of death in the united states for people ages 15 to 34. hawkeye community college in waterloo has chosen a very visual way to "let more people know" about suicides. hawkeye has lined up 1,100 shoes along the sidewalks of the central campus courtyard. that's one pair to represent every student life lost to suicide in a typical year. along with all the shoes. picture posters show photos of some of the students who took their own lives. for those students taking the time to look, it's a reminder people are willing and able to help. " it wouldn't surprise me at all, college is a really stressful time...just dealing with life trying to get homework done trying to have a social life trying, working to grow who you are working to have some money. " campus organizers say, if this unusual display encourages just to seek out help in time, then it's all worth it. if you live on the west side of dubuque, checking out a library book may get easier. the dubuque library board is looking at several options to better serve people in that area. one option would be to put in a book mobile at the old site of a book vending machine. four years ago the library set up that machine inside the hy-vee on the northwest arterial, but it often broke and wasn't reliable. another option includes a partnership with the dubuqu asbury. it would allow people living on the west side of the city to use the county library in asbury. "if it's something we could work out, it could be a win-win as far as tax-payers are concerned. to have the convenience and have the access even though they are two different library systems. " henricks says it would be up to the board of directors for both libraries to figure out the terms of that possible partnership. until then, they encourage everyone to make their way downtown to use the library governor terry branstad has announced recommendations to improve lessons in iowa history in schools. but he's not promising to support funding for the effort. the ideas come from the iowa history advisory council -- and those proposals including carving out professional development time for teachers and others to create course work on iowa history. governor branstad said he supports the idea but also that the state is facing challenges on money -- and there might not be enough money to make this happen. hancher auditorium will soon welcome thousands of people to its halls. with all new music and performances, you can soon get an inside look at what's to come occasional showers and storms storms that form will rainfall rates, and a quick 1-2" of rain is likely in many areas. over the northern half, isolated rain amounts of 4-5" are also possible. should this occur, flash flooding would be a concern, along with area rivers likely rising into the weekend. thursday continues to look dry nice one with highs in the 70s and lows well down into the 50s. kickoff for iowa/iowa state will be in the upper 60s with temperatures falling to the upper 50s around the 4th quarter. make a comeback this week 8 years in the making the university of iowa will let the public come in and see the new building before its new auditorium yesterday. it has replaced the old hancher auditorium that the flood of 2008 destroyed. this new building took nearly 3 years to build with a price tag of $176 million dollars. the auditorium will seat 1,800 people, and administrators hope everyone will find the building worth all of the attention. "we've been waiting on this, and we've been working on this, think about it.. being without a building for 8 years now, that's long enough to be a second grader, that's long enough to have a second grader and that's a long time. " a ribbon cutting will take place at 3 p-m on friday. that's when the public can come in for free to check out the new hancher auditorium. we will be broadcasting live from hancher all morning tomorrow. we'll look back at how hancher got its start, what it went through during the flood, and an intimate look at the new hancher. that's tomorrow on t-v nine starting at 4:30. iowa governor terry branstad panorama. how the nearly completed wetland project will reduce silting, next in our agribusiness report. but right now, here's a look at today's opening farm markets. good morning! it's ---. welcome to the agribusiness farmers across the state.. last week.. iowa governor terry branstad toured a wetland project at lake panorma.. that's nearly done.. the idea started about three years ago from the lake panorama association.. because they'd have to dredge the lake.. now with engineers following the iowa nutrient reduction strategy.. the nearly completed wetland project would reduce silting.. governor branstad says another goal is to reduce nutrient loss by 45 percent.. "well i think the biggest benefit is what it does to improve water quality. that's something that we all want to do. and this is a way to do it and learning from the experience we've had with other projects. the way they've designed this is to try and make it even more efficient to take more of the nitrogen out of the water before it gets to the lake or to the river." be sure to tune in on friday for an agribusiness report special on the work going on at lake panorama.. ---- a massive trade deal between canada and the european union is getting more opposition from austria.. officials there want to confront the e-u saying the comprehensive economic and trade agreement has many of the same problems as the potential deal with the u-s known as the trans-atlantic trade and investment partnership.. which last month a trade official in global trade deals on a shaky foundation.. with e-u member states concerned the deals could compromise their food safety which last month a trade official in germany says has "de facto failed". that puts future global trade deals on a shaky foundation.. with e-u member states concerned the deals could compromise their food safety standards. day in the agriculture section of kcrg.com. i'm david geiger with the agribusiness report. trt oc: standard from door locks you open with your phone to refrigerators that tell you when you need more eggs, smart home technology ranges from practical to "wow." and these gizmos aren't just for the rich and famous. the city that has the angie's list report. storms that form will be capable of torrential rainfall rates, and a quick 1-2" of rain is likely in many areas. over the northern half, isolated rain amounts of 4-5" are also possible. should this occur, flash flooding would be a concern, along with area rivers thursday continues to look dry with more storms possible on friday. this weekend will be a nice one with highs in the 70s and lows well down into the 50s. kickoff for iowa/iowa state will be in the upper 60s with temperatures falling to the upper 50s around the you probably have at least one list report identifies the nation's top home tech cities. some of the cities and what the most popular gadgets might surprise you. ""just like hiring any contractor, you want to be sure you do your homework on hiring your home automation installer. check their credentials, how long they've been in business. they may also be a member of the c-e-d-i-a, which is a professional association which requires special insurance and licensing. " ""it's gaining popularity with not only audio-video being music but with appliances and garage doors. essentially all of these companies are coming out with some type of automation or app control." " you don't have to be a technology genius or incredibly rich to live in a smart home. prices are really across the board. a recent angie's list survey of 5,000 consumers found that smart tvs are the most common product. installing a thermostat or security camera is fairly simple, but incorporating a variety of smart products into one system usually requires a pro. the angie's list survey also found that the top reason we buy smart home products is to impress our friends. according to the survey, baltimore has the most smart homes. austin, texas, came in second and san jose, california, third. you can see the entire top 10 list of smartest cities on angieslist.com . cedar rapids schos into a sex abuse scandal at a high school. the school board says some administrator s didn't follow the proper procedures to report the scandal. stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrg-tv9. it's ---. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, from your 24 hour news source, we know the where, but not the why. investigators pinpointed where a fire started in a popular downtown diner and they're now trying to learn more. flood recovery is hard enough, and now new information about flood insurance has some people in spillville upset. those in a nearby city can get more of it. racial disparity in dubuque traffic stops. a study a group will dig into the possibility in the coming months. good wednesday morning! it's 530 on september 7th. here first, meteorologis t kaj o'mara has your first alert forecast, kaj... occasional showers and storms will be scattered around the area today. any storms that form will be capable of torrential rainfall rates, and a quick 1-2" of rain is likely in many areas. over the northern half, isolated rain amounts of 4-5" are would be a concern, along with area rivers likely rising into the weekend. thursday continues to look dry with more storms possible on friday. this weekend will be a nice one with highs in the 70s and lows well down into the 50s. kickoff for iowa/iowa state will be in the upper 60s with temperatures falling to the upper 50s around the 4th quarter. thanks kaj. a fire investigator now says downtown cedar rapids started, but not what caused it. they say the fire that extensively damaged the popular cafe started in or near a ventilation fan in the ceiling over a dishwashing area. the cafe is at 836 first avenune. firefighters got the call about 3-30 yesterday afternoon. it took them a little more than one firefighter went to the hospital with a heat-related illness. crews had to remove most of riley's food and check to make sure the fire wasn't spreading. neither of the businesses beside riley's had any fire damage, but moose mcduffy's does have smoke damage. the restaurant was closed when the fire started. the diner was part of cedar rapids for nearly 40 years. it could be closed for awhile. "48:14, "there is a good section of the roof of rileys that's either been consumed by fire or they say the roof of riley's will have to be repaired, but the rest of the restaurant should be salvageable. some in spillville say they're upset after learning people in a nearby city can purchase more flood insurance than they can. yesterday, they met to learn about their options after flooding hit winneshiek county 2 weeks ago. homes in spillville can only purchase insurance up to can purchase up to a quarter of a million dollars. the mayor says the city is stuck at the $35,000 amount because fema's maps are outdated. the federal government hasn't updated them in spillville since 1976. " "when they issued them they ran into a situation where they i believe lack of funding and some other stuff came up with the levee, so they shelved the maps, and until those maps are approved, the city of spillville cannot get to the next phase of flood insurance. so our residents are locked in at $35,000, '. " fema is now working on approving until 2019. kcrg-tv9 has reached out to fema to find out why spillville's maps are outdated. cedar rapids schools say administrators didn't follow training guidelines during their investigation into a substitute teacher's relationship with a student. mary beth haglin admitted having a sexual relationship with a washington high school student. she's charged with sexual exploitation by a school employee. the district says then- principal dr. ralph pla appropriately this past february and april. plagman says he made the wrong call from trusting the wrong people. that allowed haglin to continue teaching. plagman, along with activities director mike johnson, resigned last month. iowa city school district students are heading back to class today. the heat forced the school district to let students out early yesterday for the second time this school year. classrooms like this one inside west high school can get principal says kids have been getting sick inside the hot and humid rooms. "we would always prefer to have them in class, you know for the full amount of time, but i have to recognize that there are sometimes where it's just really hard on the students and it's really hard on the teacher." 23 percent of the classrooms in the district don't have air conditioning. the district says it plans to install a-c in those classrooms by 20-23. last week, a motorcycle and a school bus crashed in clayton county, k cited the driver of the clayton ridge school bus for failure to yield while making a left turn. she's charlotte scherer from guttenberg. the crash happened last thursday on great river road between guttenberg and garnavillo. it killed the motorcycle rider, ronald kephart. he was 50 and from garnavillo. students were on the bus when it happened, but none of them were hurt. a university will analyze possible racial profiling from dubuque police don't show anything alarming, but they want to be transparent. the city council voted six to one last night to hire st. ambrose university to do the 30-thousand dollar study. dubuque's police chief says there seems to be a racial disparity just based on the numbers. but he says you have to look at other variables like the location of the stops. the st. ambrose group will collect its own data and use location as a variable. "the good thing about it is it gets the truth out there and it gets away from people's opinions. " traffic patterns and work to identify the race of each driver at certain points throughout the city. they will start collecting data in the next few months. an iowa man is in jail this morning for allegedly kidnapping and holding a woman against her will in a newton motel. police say 38 year old michael darrow held a woman at the econo lodge motel on monday, east of des moines in newton. when the victim tried to get away, investigators say darrow beat and choked her. eventually, the lobby of the motel. kimberley plumb was working the front desk and called 9-11 for the victim. she just came running inside the hotel. her lip was cut. she was bleeding. asked me to call 9-11. said that the trucker's got her. so i went and got my cell phone. i called 911. she went out the door. the victim ran across the street to a gas station where police officers met up with her. police tracked down darrow a few hours later. know each other. hollywood faces criticism with some hard evidence showing lack of diversity in major movies. a recent study shows women were among several groups underrepresented in last year's most popular movies. occasional showers and storms will be scattered around the area today. any rainfall rates, and a quick 1-2" of rain is likely in many areas. over the northern half, isolated rain amounts of 4-5" are also possible. should this occur, flash flooding would be a concern, along with area rivers likely rising into the w continues to look dry with more storms possible on friday. this weekend will be a nice one with highs in the 70s and lows well down into the 50s. kickoff for iowa/iowa state will be in the upper 60s with temperatures falling to the wheels serving people launches today. elder services, which operates the food program in johnson, washington, iowa and cedar, hpe the group says it needs the extra funding to help pay for the actual cost of meals. elder services' leaders will meet at the new location in iowa city later today to talk about the plan. - the paralympic torch is now lit... and the games kick off today. breno viola, a black belt judo fighter with down syndrome had the honor of lighting the torch last night before addressing the crowd. the events of the paralympic games will happen at 20 competition sites across four zones in rio de janeiro. organizers have admitted there are concerns over budget problems and slow a for-profit college with dozens of campus across the country is suddenly shutting down. the technical college faced tough scrutiny from federal and state investigators. stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrg tv-nine. it's --. energy companies led u-s stocks tuesday as investors hoped higher oil prices and bigger profits are on the way. a number of companies announced deals following the labor day holiday. a new study implies a lot needs to change in hollywood for women, minorities, and lgtb people. the university of southern california study looked at the top 100 films of 2015. it found that women had about 31% of all speaking characters--an unchanged number from 2007. there was not one asian character in any of the films. close to 3-quarters of all the speaking or named characters were white. using an electronic payment service just got easier. a new deal allows mastercard holders to use their card for paypal transfers. the same goes for another payment service called venmo. paypal reached a similar agreement with visa in july. before these deals, the service encouraged users to connect their accounts directly to their eye on the company's annual fall media event in san francisco today. officials will likely unveil a new iphone. according to insiders, the device may come without a headphone jack. the company could also show off a new version of the apple watch and software updates today. the for-profit college i-t-t educational services is closing more than 100 of its technical institute campuses immediately. there are two of those campuses in iowa, one in clive and one in cedar rapids. i-t-t says the government forced new students from using federal loans. investigators have been looking into the recruiting tactics, lending practices, and job placement figures. it's here's a live look at on our city cam. stay with kcrg-tv9. occasional showers and storms storms that form will be capable of torrential rainfall rates, and a quick 1-2" of rain is likely in amounts of 4-5" are also possible. should this occur, flash flooding would be a concern, along with area rivers likely rising into the weekend. thursday storms possible on friday. this weekend will be a nice one with highs in the 70s and lows well down into the 50s. kickoff falling to the upper 50s around the 4th quarter. thanks kaj. here's a look at today's top story... firefighters in cedar rapids say a fire at riley's caf downtown started near a ventilation vent above the dishwasher. they have not determined what started the fire. fire damaged the roof, but the rest of the restaurant is salvagable. trt oc good morning from kcrg-tv9. contract extension today thru the 2025 season. according to the university release ferentz will have a base salary of 4.5 million. kirk is in his 18th season at iowa tied with bob stoops for the longest current tenure at an fbs school. ferentz will be 70 at the end of the new contract extension. i am very appreciative and feel really fortunate to be here it says such a great place so many great people. the nice thing is we just focus on on what's in front of us right now have a great season this year is going take a lot of work with that so that's the best part about it do you see yourself one past that time? i am not good at putting caps on anything so it's a number but right now i feel great things are all well so we've got to make sure we keep keep weren't working hard and try to keep building this at iowa our mantra win graduate do it right i've not worked with her been about a coach who's who's as skilled and passionate about all three areas. sot :39 oc: " all three areas " it's cy-hawk week and that gets the attention of the players real fast.. scott westerberg has more from iowa city. if there's one group of iowa players who need no education about the cy- hawk rivalry, it's the guys who grew up watching it. "growing up in-state, always been a hawkeye. we know the passions that "going to high school in iowa i understand the importance of the series and how passionate everybody in the state is and how closely the game is watched." "growing up a hawkeye fan and seeing how it's always been close. it's a big game. it's a big game for them too." the hawkeye state, cyclones state thing going on." but what the in- state and out-of-state players can all agree on, is each game of this series is rarely decided until the but an average of about six points, so it's usually a hard-fought game." "if the series is any indication this will be a tight game and it will be a hard-fought game so we need to be ready." "it's that in-state rivalry. every year we get a tough game with them. it can go either way." "the trophy can be gone at any minute, so we kind of want to feed off that and keep this trophy here in this building." in iowa city, scott westerberg tv9 sports. the hawkeyes are rank poll. a great crowd at west for the battle for the spike tonight on kcrg 9.2. and city high with a good start alexa aldridge ingram killing them softly for the first point of the match. but west dominated at the net colby green with the block and the women of troy won the first set 25-9. but the little hawks battled back in set two.. checkout set point. some how west kept it in play but shannon stamp with the hammer to give n two straight sets checkout the nice back set to emily halverson who goes cross court.. and here's match point colby green smoke one down the line and iowa city west wins the spike with the 3-1 victory.. and finally lets get wet.. linn-mar hosted kennedy in the pool...200 free...it's kelsey drake, who's back at linn-mar after swimming in the olympic trials. drake pulls away from the field to win in 1:59.51.... --200 im...kennedy goes 1-2...kassidy lovig touches first followed by teammate jess williams... --to the diving board where jayden lovell nails her final dive to win with a score of 242.6.... --drake adds another individual title as she wins the 100 free... --but kennedy takes the dual as sarah gannon wins the 500 free..the cougars beat the lions 106 to 80 a live look at . it's wednesday, september 7th. here's what you need to know today. "17:46:03 this is an iconic loss for the whole community " riley's caf on first avenue in cedar rapids suffered damage from a fire that started near a ventilation vent. people living in spillville are upset because they insurance as others close by. outdated fema flood maps stop them from getting more coverage. a native american tribe in north dakota is protesting a pipeline as a judge temporarily halts construction on one stretch. the judge is set to make the final decision on friday. a man has admitted to the sexual abuse and murder of an 11 year old minnesota boy nearly 30 years ago. a plea deal means he won't serve any time in jail for the murder. dubuque city council has approved thousands of