owned grocery store. in 2008 it flooded, but this time around they've prepared for it. 20:59:42 "anything that needed refrigeration had to go because if the water gets bad they turn the power off" nats people building the wall" and built the wall up in hopes the water won't reach the town this time. people in elgin also spent their day building walls. 20:43:22 "neighbors helping beighbors community really comes together it's pretty amazing. 20:35:44 "people were preparing for flooding not this extreme but of course it has" this flooding is different than past floods in elgin. 29:38:54 "we didn't have any substantial rainfall here, here we are watching a flood in full sunshine" the communities all rallying together to prepare. 20:38:07 "i can tell you in elgin when the call goes out the calvary come out" 20:58:54 "it was just a wonderful deal to have so many people just showing up asking if they could help" but for now the people in elgin and elkador will wait. outro residents who live here expect the turkey river to crest sometime tomorrow kcrg-tv9 news. meteorologist joe winters is tracking the river levels in northeast iowa. joe, what's the latest? showers across southern iowa come to an end, bringing much needed dry air to the state. a cold front continues to slide to the east and with it a comfortable end to the work week. be on the lookout for some patchy fog to start our friday. saturday, however, sees a return to more showers and storms. the best chance will be late fri we dry things our once again and the holds into early next week. have a great night. tonight: partly cloudy. patchy fog possible. wind: light nw low: 56 tomorrow: partly sunny and pleasant. wind: ne 5-10. high: 76 the chickasaw county sheriff flooding was named albert gott. he was 77 and lived near sumner. this area quickly flooded during the heavy rains early yesterday morning. gott managed to call authorities when the flash flooding washed his vehicle off county road v-56, or union county. but later deputies found his body north of lawler, less than half a mile from his car. we're also hearing about water rescues across eastern iowa, including in lansing, which is in allamakee county. carl and veronica niekamp , from cedar rapids, were at red barn resort and campground to celebrate their anniversary. the celebration quickly changed yesterday morning, when heavy rain turned clear creek into a powerful force that took their cabin with it. everything was pitch black." "the electricity went off.""and we were so alone in there because there's no way to get a hold of anybody." firefighters rescued the couple with a boat and a lot of rope. "we were able to get this boat over to them and get them to dry land or drier land anyway." "makes you realize how powerful mother nature is. thanks everyone's okay." the lansing fire chief says well placed trees kept cabin all the way down stream. the cedar rapids salvation army has set up in spillville in winneshiek county to help flood victims. army staff are working from the parking lot of the citizens savings bank have been serving hot meals to people who are working to get back into their homes. major paul logan told us some people just want someone to listen to them during their tough time. "some just want to talk and just share what their experience is, and what they're going through. just to let them know that there's somebody else that cares about them."" the salvation army members will be in the parking lot of the bank in spillville through the weekend. today, governor branstad issued a disaster proclamation after flash flooding in five northeast iowa counties. they are allamakee, clayton, fayette, howard and winneshiek counties. these counties can now use state money to help with flooding response and recovery efforts. governor branstad and lieutenant governor kim reynolds will tour flood damage in winneshiek county tomorrow. 9:15. they will then head to inwood ballroom in spillville around 10:15. and will go to fort atkinson around 11 o'clock. we'll have complete coverage of the governor's visit to northeast iowa, as well as flood recovery efforts, on-air and online tomorrow. in other news tonight, police say someone with a gun is robbing delivery drivers in coralville. police have responded to four armed robberies at apartment complexes in the last two weeks. 20th and 22nd avenues and ninth and 10th streets. police believe the robber is a black man, between 18 and 21 years old. they say he wears all black and sometimes has a bandana over his face. we have an update on a story we reported last week. coralville will not put down a dog that bit a woman. but the owner won't get the dog back. the dog, roman, is an 18 month old beauceron . the d owner, tom henson, agreed to micro-chipping and neutering the dog. then it'll go through training in north carolina. some of you may have noticed an unusual political sign on first avenue in cedar rapids. ' a billboard near sixth street reads, "moving to canada? i'll sell your house!" the sign is an ad for realtor cory barnard . it features caricatures of presidential candidates donald trump and hillary clinton. barnard says the goal is to get light of a heated election season. barnard says he's already received dozens of phone calls. " and i think that's why everybody who's called so far just gets a kick out of how funny it is with the current election " the billboard will be up through election day. the food pantry in coralville will now be able to help more people in need. that's because it has more space in its new home... the old post office. and a dubuque native receives quite the homecoming after compein olympics. stay with us. the coralville food pantry is post office. today, the pantry held its grand opening at the new location. workers say they needed a bigger space to keep up with the growing demand for food. so the pantry has moved into the old post office at 420 tenth avenue. it's just a few blocks away from the old location at 203 first street. it took months to renovate the old post kcrg t-v nine's jordee kalk went to tonight's grand opening. jordee, how does it look? bruce and beth, it looks great. with a couple fresh coats of paint and some major renovations, the facility looks brand new. i spoke with john boller who's the executive director of the food pantry. he says the pantry looks better than he ever anticipated, and he credits the coralville community for pitching in. 52:34, "access to food is a human right and sadly there's too many in our food."john boller is passionate about his work. 52:50, "the best way to address that issue is to work together." he says this is exactly what's happening here, in coralville. 47:31, "initially when we took over the lease of this building we thought it would be pretty minimal of what we need to do to get in here." it's a complete remodel. 50:27, "this is a fun new chapter." donors helped cover all renovation costs. nat? and much of the construction was done by student volunteers. thomas were a lot of long days, but i had fun doing it." boller: 49:54, "i'd say about twice as much space as we had last time." more room allows the pantry to simulate a grocery store experience for its clients. 48:10 "people go through pick the items that work best for them and their family members then our volunteers help bag groceries and send them on their way" boller claims the new space will draw more people to the pantry. 48:29, "i think a big part of that is visibility, it's on a city. and the number of visitors, this week alone, confirm his belief. 48:51, "we had about 160 visits on tuesday and usually our tuesday average is about 100." boller says the pantry helps about 850 families a year. the only requirement to visit the pantry is to be a coralville resident. bruce and beth, the pantry is always looking for volunteers and donations. anyone who is interested should call the pantry or just stop by. many different types of food found in iowa city. the city's downtown district held the 10th annual taste of iowa city, which featured more than 40 restaurants. organizers say it all started as a way to introduce new university of iowa students to the local restaurants. but it's now a community- wide event. turning back to weather, joe, what's the weather looking like for the weekend? end, bringing much needed dry air to the state. a cold front continues to slide to the east and with it a comfortable end to the work patchy fog to start our friday. saturday, however, sees a return to more showers and storms. the best chance will be late friday night through saturday. early sunday we dry things our once again and the holds into early next week. have a great night. tonight: partly cloudy. patchy fog possible. wind: and pleasant. wind: ne 5-10. high: 76 tom. night: scattered thunderstorms developing. wind: e 5-10. low: 64 saturday: showers and thunderstorms likely. high: 77 low: 64 sunday: storms end early, partly sunny. high: 80 low: 66 monday: partly cloudy. high: 81 low: 65 tuesday: partly cloudy. high: 81 low: 62 wednesday: partly cloudy. chance of storms. high: 82 low: 62 friday: chance of storms. high: 81 low: 63 showers across southern iowa come to an end, bringing much needed dry air to the state. a cold front continues to slide to the east and with it a comfortable end to the work week. be on the lookout for some patchy fog to start best chance will be late friday night through saturday. early sunday we dry things our once again and the holds into early next week. have a great night. tonight: partly cloudy. patchy fog possible. wind: light nw low: 56 tomorrow: partly sunny and pleasant. wind: ne 5-10. high: 76 tom. night: scattered thunderstorms develoi saturday: showers and thunderstorms likely. high: 77 low: 64 sunday: storms end early, partly sunny. high: 80 low: 66 monday: partly cloudy. high: 81 low: 65 tuesday: partly cloudy. high: 81 low: 62 wednesday: partly cloudy. high: 80 low: 63 thursday: chance of storms. high: 82 low: 62 friday: chance of storms. showers across southern iowa come to an end, bringing much needed dry air to the state. a cold front continues to slide to the east and with it a comfortable end to the work week. be on the lookout for some patchy fog to start our friday. saturday, however, sees a return to more showers and storms. the best chance will be late friday night through saturday. early the holds into and democrat hillary clinton are steppi first debate next month. the presidential nominees are now trading jabs over the issue of racism. a-b-c's lauren lyster reports. still a month to go before their first debate -- but hillary clinton and donald trump are already getting up close -- and personal. sot clinton reno thurs " ... he is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the republican party." sot trump wednesday night: "hillary clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as vo future." their roughest rhetoric yet -- as clinton leads in most polls -- and trump tries to re-focus his campaign -- now walking back his core position of deporting all illegal immigrants. sot trump : "you have somebody who's been in the country for 20 years. has done a great job, has a job trump promising details soon. sot trump: "i'll be making a out an exact plan." clinton thursday branding trump a dangerous extremist. sot clinton reno thurs: "a man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories ...." and driving home the point with this campaign ad: nats up clinton kkk ad: "the reason a lot of klan members like donald trump is because a lot of what he believes, we believe in." donald trump continued to court support from black & hispanic leaders thursday. and he told cnn he stands by calling clinton a "bigot." sot trump ex cn: extremely, extremely bad for african-americans, i think she has been extremely bad for hispanics." lauren lyster, abc news, los angeles. at least 250 people are now dead after a 6- point-2 magnitude earthquake shook central italy two days ago. but searchers are underneath rubble in some of the hardest hit towns. earlier, they pulled a 10- year-old girl named julia from underneath debris. and also rescued a little boy and girl. up next tonight, scott features our new t-v nine athlete of the week. and the kennedy cougars kicked off the season tonight in a wild one. stay with your 24 hour news muscatine. scott westerberg has the highlights. a big early test for kennedy and muscatine came to play as alphonso soko fights his way across the goal line. 15-0 muskies. kennedy rallies as nick duehr hits peyton mccarty over the middle for the 76 yard board in the second quarter. more from duehr, this time he hits carter krall in the end zone. game tied at 15. how about another touchdown pass from duehr. he finds mccarty again. cougars grab a 22-15 lead. then alex stone drills a 26 yard field goal as kennedy scores 25 unanswered points in the second quarter. but with less than a minute to go in the third, kennedy up 25-22, soko fields the punt at his own 16...finds a hole up the middle. soko gets soko with a 76 yard punt return for the go- ahead touchdown as muscatine beats kennedy 29-25. from cedar rapids, scott westerberg tv9 sports. we are in week two of our athlete of the week segment sponsored by cedar rapids toyota. tonight we feature our baseball winner. prairie senior short stop cal clark had a dream season for the hawks.. clark led prairie with a 448 batting average including some big hits the hawks beat iowa city west 12-3 for their first state baseball championship in school history. is really fun just to win the substate finally make it to state and then once we went on the run at state i just kind of an added bonus everything it was really cool to bring a state championship to the school are you scouting other pitchers do you know if they throw before you go up there i know a lot of the big-name guys like vanscoy austin miller those guys i know they're probably going to try to work me a little what i go up their thinking your strengthenin g the fastball i would say so but if they throw me off speed i can usually make a good adjustment and get a good swing on it. 448 batting average you hit all the great pitchers we are going to see if you can hit me. i have a brand new aow vehicle made out of chrome the loser has to polish it. i tried to scare cal warming up and i came with the ephas pitch and try byte.. and then i came with the heat on the fast ball but i could feel something pop in my shoulder.. so westerberg who was a high school pitcher came on in releif and he got cal to pop and he almost chased it down.. but he is not as quick as he used to be.. and then westerberg hung a curve ball and cal ripped one to left center and it was over.. time to polish our brand new chrome athlete of the week checkout his finally quaffed hair. we are now taking nominations for our fall sports at kcrg.com and we will start those features next thursday. olympic bronze medalist kayla banwarth is back in her hometown of dubuque. tonight, hundreds of people packed the courtside restaurant. she signed autographs, took pictures, did a q & a and the mayor officially declared august 25th, winning a medal in the olympics was an amazing experience. "i'm extremely proud to bring back a medal. the people here have been so amazing and so supportive, that for me to be able to bring some hardware for them; i'm super proud. it was an honor to represent dubuque. i took great pride in that. and i hope that there's young children in dubuque and in iowa and the whole country that are inspired to greatness." trt : 21 oc: "inspired to greatness" the kernels had their brooms bandits. and they got off to a fast start.. travis blankenhorn with the two rbi triple into the gap in left center for the 2-nothing first inning lead.. and that was plenty for kernels starter locklon wells who went 6 innings giving up just 1 hit in the kernels win. and finally former solon and hawkeye standout marshall kane drilled a 45 yard field goal for the dolphins tonight against the falcons in a dolphins win. thanks scott. one last look at the forecast, showers across southern iowa come to an end, bringing much needed dry air to the state. a cold front continues to slide to the east and with it a comfortable end to the work week. be on the lookout for some patchy fog to start our friday. saturday, however, sees a return to more showers and storms. the best chance will be late friday night through saturday. early sunday we dry things our once again and the holds into early next week. have a great night. tonight: partly cloudy. patchy fog possible. wind: light nw low: 56 tomorrow: partly >> dicky: from hollywood it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight, natalie portman, usher raymond iv kerry washington this week in unnecessary censorship and music from and now here's jimmy kimmel! >> thanks for watching. thanks for supporting me in my time of need. i'll tell you something.

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