Yesterday. While some spots are starting off in the 60s, it wont last, and readings will settle back into the 5055 range for much of the day. While moisture is limited, there will still be a chance of light rain as well, though all areas will stay well below a quarter of an inch. Tonight, plan on temperatures to go into the 30s, however, the wind will not calm down entirely, which will prevent a hard freeze. Patchy frost is likely, with widespread frost possible over northern sections of the state. Temperatures will be in the upper 50s thursday afternoon, with a big weekend. Today light rain possible, mainly through early afternoon. Slowly falling temperatures. Wind nw 1020. High 55 tonight mostly clear. Patchy frost possible late. Wind nw 510. Low 35 tomorrow early patchy frost. Sunny. Wind sw 510. High 58 tom. Night clear. Wind se 510. Low 41 will be in iowa today for early voting rallies. Today hell be in indianola at the Kent Campus Center black box theatre. Doors open at 11 30. From there, hell head to waterloo to the Cattle Congress ag building with doors opening at 5 45. On thursday, hell be in linn county and davenport, but times and locations for those events arent set yet. The former president and husband of president ial nominee Hillary Clinton was in florida yeste people to register to vote in this years election. The federal court in tallahassee gave us an extra day of early registration. Take advantage of it. Weve got to get people registered to vote. Mr. Clinton also spoke on his wifes vision for an economy that works for everyone. Republican vp nominee mike pence is going after hillary spoke with supporters at the Des Moines Area Community college in newton. He touched on the hacked Clinton Emails that wikileaks recently posted. It shows a clinton spokesman in communication with the justice department, while she was under investigation for her private email server. Pence also talked about clintons deleted emails. 33 30 Hillary Clinton used High Technology to erase the 18 thousand emails. That doesnt sound like politics, that sounds like obstruction and the American People are sick and tired of it. Pence also spoke at the gop reagan din bettendorf. Iowa congressman steve king is making it clear hes sticking with donald trump despite the republican nominees comments about women. I dont say either that apology absolves everything, but he has apologized, and hes shown the first signs of humility that donald trump has shown throughout his entire campaign. If were going to move a conservative republican platform agenda, the best way to do that is with a president trump. So, im sticking with him, and i think thats the best place for conservatives to be. Trump apologized for his lewd aggressive comments on a 2005 recording, something he simply described as locker room talk. Dozens of republican politicians have pulled back their endorsements of trump. But steve king says hes not withdrawing his support. Students across iowa will take part in their own straw polls for the president ial election. Iowa secretary of state paul pate says november first. Pate says the goal is to give students hands on experience with the political system. So far around 200 schools have registered to participate. Well know the results that same day. The straw poll is part of the free elections 101 curriculum that the secretary of States Office developed. The minimum wage in polk county will be going up more than 3 dollars over the next 3 years. The county supervisors voted in favor of raising the 2019. That will go up in 3 increments starting in april. Polk county becomes the 4th county to have a higher minimum wage than the rest of the state which is at 7. 25 an hour. The others are johnson, linn and wapello. A state audit says a former jail administrator in cedar county didnt properly deposit money the county collected from fees, and that cost the county more than 35,000 dollars. Daron wilkinson worked as a jail administrator from 2013 until he resigned late last year. The audit found he didnt properly deposit money o work release fees during that time span. But the audit doesnt say what happened to the money. Wilkinson doesnt face any charges. First responders flew a wadena man to the hospital after a motorcycle crash early yesterday morning. The Fayette CountySheriffs Office says larry seurer has life threatening injuries from the crash that happened on cedar and fillmore roads a few miles south of elgin. The Sheriffs Office says seurer lost control of the motorcycle and went into a ditch. A driverless network could be the future of transportation between iowa city dot has plans for a Pilot Project to move both people and goods. They will have to put High Definition maps into the automated vehicles. Those maps will constantly update road conditions. The driverless vehicles would be driving alongside people. Dot Officials Say they chose to test out the technology on 380 because of the high volume of freight traffic. They say most traffic crashes are human errors, and they see this as a solution. Safety is a really big issue over 95 perceno computers can make better decisions when responding to dangerous situations then human drivers the Pilot Project will cost more than 2 Million Dollars. People in hiawatha are meeting tonight to talk about a study over i 380. The study is evaluating Safety Improvement alternatives for i380 for the 4mile stretch between collins road and county home road. Is from 5 to 6 30 tonight at the hiawatha city hall. The des moines airport will soon get a 500 million to expansion the airports terminal. The plan to build east of the existing terminal was approved yesterday. The airports board says the current terminal, built in 1948, isnt large enough to handle increased use. The proposal includes 14 gates and a new parking garage. Officials say federal money and airport fees will pay for much of the construction, but that state needed. Linnmar High School Students and their parents have a new incentive to keep money in their lunch accounts. For High School Students, if their lunch account balance is at zero, they dont get lunch. The district says it reminds students of their balance discreetly at the check out line. Students pay for lunch through their student id, this is connected to an account that parents can deposit money into. This system also protects students privacy if they qualify for free lunches. Parents are also sent an reaches zero, or goes negative, then the student goes without lunch. 29 43, and they would continue to receive notifications until the funds were added. So in this case, for a family of two students, they would receive a minimum or 4 maybe 5 emails before there was a negative reflection on the account linnmars lunch policy is similar to that of the Cedar Rapids Community school district. The annual walk to end alzheimers race in cedar rapids to be postponed, the race is back on for this weekend. Kcrgtv nines brea love joins us from the mcgrath ampitheater downtown. Brea, it was a large effort to get the race back on track . Chris, countless hours were spent making sure everything would be the same, just three weeks later. Mcgrath was practically ago. There was a massive clean up effort, as well as that massive planning effort. But things are ready to go. The 2 mile walk benefits the more 5 million currently facing the disease. Organizers say all of the work is worth it to make sure this event went on for the families and people affected by the disease. 19 41 we have a few people who were planning to share their stories at the walk, and those individuals will be able to come again on this date. So i think its really important to stay motivated for them too so that they feel that we have rallied behind them in their journey. The walk kicks off right here at 10 am on saturday. Theres still time to sign that on kcrg dot com. Also coming up later this morning we will talk with the alzehimers association more about what we need to know saturday morning. Live in downtown cedar rapids, brea love, kcrgtv nine news. After about 30 years of planning city officials promise all the waiting and planning plan on a much cooler day than yesterday. While some spots are starting into the 5055 range for much of the day. While moisture is limited, there will still be a chance of light rain as well, though all areas will stay well below a quarter of an inch. Tonight, plan on temperatures to go into the 30s, however, the wind will not calm down entirely, which will prevent a hard freeze. Patchy frost is likely, with widespread frost possible over northern the state. Temperatures will be in the upper 50s thursday afternoon, with a big rebound in temperature likely for the weekend. Today light rain possible, mainly through early afternoon. Slowly falling temperatures. Wind nw 1020. High 55 tonight mostly clear. Patchy frost possible late. Wind nw 510. Low 35 high 58 tom. Night clear. Wind se 510. Low 41 thanks kaj. Plan on a much cooler day than yesterday. While some spots are starting off in the 60s, it wont last, and readings will settle back into the 5055 range for much of the day. While moisture is limited, there will still be a chance of light rain as well, thoh well below a quarter of an inch. Tonight, plan on temperatures to go into the 30s, however, the wind will not calm down entirely, which will prevent a hard freeze. Patchy frost is likely, with widespread frost possible over northern sections of the state. Temperatures will be in the upper 50s thursday afternoon, with a big rebound in temperature likely for the weekend. Today light rain possible, mainly through early afternoon. Slowly falling temperatures. Wind nw 1020. High 55 tonight mostly clear. Patchy frost possible late. Wind nw 510. Low 35 tomorrow early patchy frost. Sunny. Wind sw 510. High 58 tom. Night clear. Wind multiMillion Dollar construction project in dubuque. City Council Hopes the 189 Million Dollar southwest arterial project will fix traffic issues on highway 20. It will be a 6 mile, 4 lane freeway considered a part of highway 52. Officials expect the new bypass to relieve truck traffic on the 2 highways that run through the center of the city. Right now drivers use highways 20 and 52 or kelly lane and cedar cross road to get across town. They city says theres an roads each year. Drivers will only be able to get on and off the arterial via interchanges. There wont be any stop lights or intersections. All of this promising to save drivers time. The National Ffa Organization says it has a Record Number of students this year. The future farmers of america now boasts an enrollment of over 650,000. More on that in todays agribusiness report. But right now, heres a look at todays opening farm markets. Farm bill mandated a plan to create a new office of an undersecretary for trade and Foreign Agricultural affairs. The department of agriculture is now trying to finish up a study before the Obama Administration leaves office. Senate agriculture chairman pat roberts asked about the status of it to secretary tom vilsack. Saying the report is now nearly two years late. And could be key to passing trade deals like the transpacific partnership. Vilsack says the farm bill needed two studies. And they have been working on making sure there is no overlapping or competing jurisdictions in the usda. Which is key to creating a new undersecretary post. This is a very, very, very complicated issue that youve setting up an under secretary of trade. It really does require a look at all equities within the usda and outside the usda relative to trade and there are a multitude of equities. Abc network. Along with employees diane sawyer and jim avila are asking a judge to dismiss a one point two billion dollar defamation lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by Beef Products Incorporated after the networks textured beef products. Which they nicknamed pink slime. Bpi filed in 2012. Saying the reports led to three plants being closed down. And around seven hundred people laid off. Abc claims the work was done in the publics unaware of the beef product. The case is currently set to go to trial in june. The National Ffa Organization now has a record high student membership. The future farmers of america. Announced membership almost near six hundred and 50 thousand. Up three precent from hundred 29 thousand. This year. The national ffa announced graduating High School Seniors automatically get alumni membership. So naturally. The Organization Also saw a large increase from 62 thousand to two hundred 25 thousand alumni members. And thats all the time i have for the show today. Thanks for tuning in. I hope to see you again tomorrow. Well post a video every day in the agriculture section of kcrg. Com. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt oc of americans take part in ecofriendly activities every day. From densepacked cellulose insulation, have more ways you can build green in this weeks angies list. Off in the 60s, it wont last, and readings will settle back into the 5055 range for much of the day. While moisture is limited, there will still be a chance of light rain as well, though all areas will stay well below a quarter of an inch. Tonight, plan on temperatures to go into the 30s, however, the wind will not calm prevent a hard freeze. Patchy frost is likely, with widespread frost possible over northern sections of the state. Temperatures will be in the upper 50s thursday afternoon, with a big rebound in temperature likely for the weekend. Today light rain possible, mainly through early afternoon. Slowly falling temperatures. High 55 tonight mostly clear. Patchy frost possible late. Wind nw 510. Low 35 tomorrow early patchy frost. Sunny. Wind sw 510. High 58 tom. Night clear. Wind se 510. Low 41 going green is becoming a lifestyle for many carry that over when building or renovating your home . In todays angies list report, we meet a couple who took going green to heart and are now living their dream. Friendly home is going to cost you more up front, but you need a longterm perspective because its going to save you money on your Monthly Energy bills throughout your time in the home. A more efficient boiler, better quality windows and more insulation in the walls and roof definitely has a payback. You can model that in Energy Modeling software and weve seen it in the fuel bills of our customers. You can converted your home using environment design specifications. Also known leed Program Recognizes sustainable building practices. Experts say building green requires a longterm perspective. The u. S. Green Building Council expects the residential Green Construction market to top 100Million Dollars by 2018. Angie says building green can be done on a budget with good planning that takes advantage of natural energy. If you cant afford a full house conversion, try doing improvements in stages. Angie recommends finding a bui ecofriendly position should be happy to work within your timeframe and budget. For more tips and tricks, check out angies list. Com. Permanent flood protection work is now underway for one part of cedar rapids. This new levee will take away the need to use hesco barriers like the ones used last month. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Its. Following a delay, cedar rapids promises to start picking up thousands of leftover sandbags this morning. They must be in place today despite taking weeks to pick them up. Hoping to help the homeless. Police officers are handing out information about services for those who need it. Delayed but not cancelled. The walk to end alzheimers is good wednesday morning its 530 on october 12th. Here is a live look at. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecat yesterday. While some spots are starting off in the 60s, it wont last, and readings will settle back into the 5055 range for much of the day. While moisture is limited, there will still be a chance of light rain as well, though all areas will stay well below a quarter of an inch. Tonight, plan on temperatures to go into the 30s, however, the wind will not calm down entirely, which will prevent a hard freeze. Patchy frost is likely, with widespread frost the state. Temperatures will be in the upper 50s thursday afternoon, with a big rebound in temperature likely for the weekend. Today light rain possible, mainly through early afternoon. Slowly falling temperatures. Wind nw 1020. High 55 tonight mostly clear. Patchy frost possible late. Wind nw 510. Low 35 tomorrow early patchyf back to u, chris. Volunteers packed about 250,000 sandbags in last month. Now, the city is reminding people that if they want their sandbags taken away, they need to be ready for pickup this morning as soon as possible. The city says workers will start and make their way south. And theyll only make one pass. People should put sandbags in the public rightofway along the front curb, on the street on lightlytraveled streets, or on any portion of a driveway. The city says it will take about 3 weeks to pickup the sandbags at a cost of nearly half a Million Dollars. Cedar rapids has taken a first step in building permanent flood protection. The city broke ground on the levee that will protect the newbo district from most flooding yesterday. That levee will stretch from south of the sinclair site to the African American museum of iowa. It will eliminate the need for many of the hesco barriers that helped protect the area from last months flood. Cedar rapids mayor ron corbett say