in may, the minimum wage increased to $9.15 an hour. five cities opted out of johnson county's increase. a polk county task force wants to increase the minimum wage there to 10-75 an hour by january 20-19. it recommended a plan to the board of supervisors earlier this month. if approved, the county would start the increase at 8-75, next april. a pacific hurricane is getting weaker, but could still make landfall on hurricane madeline is a category 1 storm with sustained winds of about 90 miles per hour. forecasters say it could hit the island sometime in the next 36 hours. people on the island are boarding up their doors today in preparation for heavy rain. hawaii county's mayor says he's keeping a close eye on the storm to make sure the island is as prepared as possible when it hits. " we're making our decisions based on the national weather service, the best a decision. businesses have been cooperative. a lot of our community have gone and are being prepared. " well away from hawaii, another hurricane - hurricane lester - is churning at about 140 miles per hour. that's a category 4 storm. a much weaker storm could bring heavy rain to florida's gulf coast later this week. this is what tropical depression nine looks like still about 400 miles off the coast. it could potentially make landfall tomorrow night. meteorologist kaj o'mara has your first alert forecast, kaj... plan on a great day in all with lower humidity levels as well. our wind will generally blow out of the north as high pressure animation-yv office is keeping an eye out for hackers during this year's presidential election. the fbi contracted the office earlier this month warning of a hacking threat to voting systems across the country. director for secretary paul pate, says he hasn't found any evidence of tampering with voting records. he says cyber security teams have redundant systems and backups to prevent any sort of voter fraud. donald trump is making a surprise visit to mexico today. the republican presidential nominee tweeted he's meeting with mexico's president. this meeting comes the same day trump is scheduled to lay out his plan for illegal immigration. his vice presidential nominee, indiana governor mike pence, talked a "i'm very confident that my running mate will make it very clear to nieto about our priority, securing the boarder, building a wall, making it clear that we are going to have a new administration that deals with and confronts, not only immigration but the flood of drugs and the heartbreak of human trafficking that's coming across our borders. " after finishing in the final republican nomination, florida senator marco rubio is back on the ballot for his re-election bid. rubio won his state's primary yesterday. the first-term senator lost his home state to donald trump in this year's presidential primary. also in florida, debbie wasserman shultz won her congressiona l primary. the former democratic party chair was forced to resign a day before the democratic national convention in philadelphia. that's after leaked emails revealed dnc staff showed support for hillary back in iowa, about 100 people plan to peacefully protest the construction of the bakken oil pipeline, today. an anti-pipeline protest leader says people will gather in boone. governor terry branstad is calling on law enforcement to stop any further vandalism of the pipeline. he has asked the iowa state patrol to help county sheriffs with future protests. a trooper says he hopes it doesn't reach that point. ""we're starting to see protests, large groups of people so, we're just hoping that it doesn't escalate into that we have to be called in. but if we're called in we'll be there." " the man leading the anti-pipeline movement promises protesters will be non-violent. "".. none of us involved with this are supportive of violence, are supportive of arson, property damage. he knows that and the state patrol knows that as well." " fallon says the exact location of today's protest is secret for now. the princeton review put o schools -- and this year the university of iowa has dropped. iowa came in 6th place this year. the previous 2 years, the review ranked iowa 2nd. the list is based on answers given by students regarding questions about student life. over the past few years, the university launched programs and initiatives to decrease high-risk drinking on and around campus. coming in at number one - the university of wisconsin - madison. here's a look at the rest of the top 5. west virginia university comes illinois at urbana - champaign is third. lehigh university in pennsylvania is 4th... and bucknell university, also in pennsylvania, is 5th. researchers at florida sate university say they've found a way to fight zika. it's a drug that could get approval faster than normal. and for the first time ever, stem cell therapy is helping people with heart researchers at florida state could help fight zika. they say it's used to treat tapeworm, but can stop zika from replicating in the body. the drug has also been found to keep the virus from causing birth defects in newborns. one researcher says using a drug already on the market will help speed up "a lot of these drugs have already been tested for the toxicity they present in people, and so, sometimes it allows you to bypass phase 1 clinical trials, and you also have a lot more information about what side effects you might get giving these drugs to people. " florida state partnered with researchers at johns hopkins and the national institutes of health for the study. mosquitoes in ames are carrying the west nile department and iowa state researchers found the bugs in a city park. in response, ames will use mosquito fog in parks at nigh,t this week. so far this year, two have caught west nile in iowa. both are from sioux county. heart researchers are excited about a new study that shows patients' own stem cells can be supercharged to fix damage. in the university of utah study, there was a 37-percent reduction in the number of times heart failure patients went to the never happened before. martie salt reports. utah senator ralph okerlund did his work in the capitol despite two heart attacks and congestive heart failure. but he didn't feel well. "if i walked from my house out to the mailbox across the street, i'd have to stop a couple of times on the way." doctor amit patel put the senator in the ix cell d-c-m cell therapy study at the university of utah. "we basically took the certain cells that were still alive and put them in a healthy environment and basically had their own body start healing the heart." doctor patel took three tablespoons of bone marrow from patients, and put them in a bioreactor for twe grew up and all the old weaker cells that had the effects of aging, diabetes and all that died off." then he injected one- hundred to two- hundred-million healthy stem cells into patients' hearts after mapping out damaged areas. the supercharged cells triggered an immune function to help the heart heal itself. half the 114 patients in the study got the therapy. senator okerlund knew he was one after a few months. "i still am not out running races, i won't be running any marathons with the damage that has been done to my heart, but i feel well enough now that i can kind of do what i of the study and hopes it helps many other people. i'm martie salt, reporting. the patients who got the placebo in the study can now worked. doctors says a much larger study needs to be done to prove the cell therapy works before it's available to the general public. wet conditions haven't slowed crops, which are still ahead of schedule. eighty-three percent of the corn crop is in good or excellent condition. find out where beans rate as we close out august, next in the agribusiness report, i'm david geiger.. i'm here at the 2016 farm progress show, where i'll be getting content to you all week.. the show is here in boone.. iowa.. as it is every two years.. there are hundreds of displays from agricultural manufacturer s and dealers.. with field demonstrations.. and ag marketing seminars.. in a 75 acre area.. around 30 thousand people are expected to started off with some rain.. the show is ready to go.. at the show i found our regular market analyst dan hueber and asked him what the show does for his business. "the farm progress show is kind of the big kahuna of the outdoor summer festivals. i mean granted we do go to a lot of smaller progress shows or farm shows around the country and of course the winter circuit is probably the most active. but you know, absolutely, if you want to see anybody in the midwest and of course you name the company be it machine or seed or about it, everybody's here. so this is the place to be if you really want to run into run into producers." ---- the iowa crop progress report is out.. and wet conditions haven't stopped the crop from being ahead of schedule. ninety-four percent of the corn crop is at the dough stage or beyond.. about eight days ahead of the five-year average.. with 65 percent dented.. five days ahead of normal.. driving to the farm progress show you can see a lot of central iowa corn maturing... 83 percent of the crop is in soybeans setting pods reached 96 percent.. four days ahead of last year.. thirteen percent of beans are turning color.. three days ahead of last year.. soybean conditions are 82 percent good or excellent with some reports of sudden death syndrome and white mold. ---- and in my talk with dan hueber.. i also asked him to give me an overview of what's going on in the markets "you know, really kind of a depressing situation. you look over the last couple of weeks and you had a double whammy i guess in multiple production report came out, much higher yield estimates than anybody really anticipated for corn and or beans." "you know, really set the market back on its heels and then on top of that we ended up last week with the federal reserve. doing their conference back in jackson.jannet, president of thl reserve said odds look good we're going to see a hike in interest rate and what that did is immediately push the dollar higher. you know, not that that hurt our exports per say. we've actually been seeing some psychological ly higher dollar works against the commodity market so i think that really kind of depressed things further. and then take it that last step. harvest is here. you know, we've already got harvest going in the south. you know it's not going to be long it's going to be moving into the north. so psychologically a depressant on market as we move into this time of the year." "cattle, hogs struggling as well over the last couple of weeks and the cattle pushed back down toward contract lows. you know not late summer, not when you're going to see a great beef demand out there. but that said it's not as if we're pushing into record prices to the lower side. i think it's just more about trying to find a bottom in there. simpler in the hogs. hogs did start to show a little bit perk up last week. so we may have the seasonal lows out of the way there but still, we're going to need to see a little demand escape up to start to bring both of these markets back." ---- and that's all i have for the show today.. thanks for tuning in.. i hope to see you again tomorrow! ---- we'll post a video everyd kcrg.com. i'm david geiger with the agribusiness report. trt oc: standard a study shows iowa tourism generated more than $8 billion dollars last year. the figure comes from the u-s travel association. this is the second straight year that expenditures topped $8 billion dollars. the manager of iowa's tourism office says lower gas prices helped draw more people to the state. and once they got here, they entertainment. domestic travel spending in iowa also generated more than $1 billion dollars in federal, state, and local tax revenue last year. that's an increase from the year before. it's no secret, political candidates want your money to get elected. but so do scammers. when we get back, how to avoid being tricked before the general. campaign donations are what chance for scammers to get into your pocketbook. joining me is the triple b's barbara green. what's happening? a new skate park is getting closer to a new skate park is getting you how you can get involved in the discussion. updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert linn county board of supervisors is deciding on a new minimum wage. a man accused of impersonating an officer at county. and donald trump is making a last minute visit to mexico. what he hopes to accomplish in the country he says he wants to wall off. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrg-tv9 news at midday. after months of meetings and negotiations, the linn county boar deciding on a new minimum wage. the board formed a study group to look at the issue earlier this year. the group first met in march. in june, the group said it wanted to get thoughts on the issue before officially proposing it to the board of supervisors. after proposing a progressive increase to 10-25 an hour, the board held its first of three votes this morning in cedar rapids. kcrg-tv9's dave franzman sat in on that meeting did the board vote this morning? city leaders in dubuque what to know what you for a skate park. the spots were selected as top dubuque awarded a contract for the skate park to pillar design studios of chicago. the city has committed $600,000 but still needs another $200,000 to make it happen. tonight's public comment hearing will be at irving elementary school from 6:30 until 8:30. meteorologist justin gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin... plan on a great day in all areas. highs will drop into the upper 70s today with lower humidity levels as well. our wind will generally blow out of the north as high pressure builds in. much of the east coast will be in for soaking rain as a tropical system moves over florida and hugs the coastline. in response, our beautiful weather will continue through sunday. by sunday night into monday, our next chance of rain arrives. have a great day, and enjoy the welcome dry break!today: mostly and comfortable. wind: ne 5-10. low: 56 tomorrow: mostly sunny, spectacular. low humidity. wind: ne 5-10. high: 75 tom. night: clear and cool. wind: light ne low: 53 a man accused of trying to impersonate a sheriff's faces more charges. investigators say timothy draper worked as a maintenance man where a reserve black hawk county sheriff's deputy lived. police say he took the deputy's badge without permission while he was in the man's apartment. draper turned himself into cedar falls police this morning. hefaffth degree theft charge. police say draper impersonated an officer at saturday's back porch revival say he was drunk, wearing a badge and carrying a loaded gun. in addition to theft, draper faces charges for impersonating a public official and going armed with a dangerous weapon while intoxicated. a des moines homeless man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison for stabbing his former landlord to death. a jury found 76-year-old norman wadsworth guilty of 2nd degree murder yesterday. prosecutors said he stabbed his landlord, 48- year-old rebecc c 20-14. they say he stabbed her dozens of times after crook evicted him from his apartment. he will likely be sentenced to 50 years in prison. ten years. that's how long a federal judge says a dubuque man will be in prison after he fired a gun into jackson park, with children near. cowan godfrey pleaded guilty to felony possession of ammunition in march. a release from the justice department says the 31-year-old was found a gun in a nearby car and fired seven shots into the park. children and families were there at the time. at least one bullet hit playground equipment. no one was hurt. a waterloo man faces human trafficking charges. prosecutors say he convinced two teenaged girls from illinois to come to waterloo. 35 year old lawrence campbell is now in the black hawk county jail. his bond is set at 40 thousand dollars. he faces two counts of humantr police got a call monday about two teenagers shoplifting at a waterloo store. officers caught the girls, who are both 16. they told police that campbell paid for bus tickets for them to come and live at a north waterloo home with a promise of a better life. instead the girls say they had to engage in sex acts with others to earn money, and they had to steal clothing to resell. "he would have them go out and engage in shoplifting so apparently they could turn around and sell the clothes. and of the ads he was putting on the internet." chief trelka believes the two girls came to waterloo about a week ago. he says it's possible the case could go to the u-s attorney for federal prosecution. earlier this year, governor branstad signed a bill into law to fight human trafficking. it established an office in the department of efforts. the office will also research and recommend training for government agencies to help them respond better to human trafficking cases. the office has to submit a written report on its progress each year starting in november 20- 17. more than 2 million dollars is coming to iowa to keep veterans from losing their homes. the department of veterans affairs is giving the money. it's headed to three programs. one is located in central iowa, one helps veterans in both iowa and community action program, or hacap, based in hiawatha. hacap will receive the bulk of the money - more than $1.2 million dollars. funds can be used to help with expenses like rent, utility payments and more. this is video from hacap's food pantry. one iowa veteran vowed to honor past veterans until he dies. gerald leblanc is preserving hundreds of veterans markers, fading from headstones in des moines. there are about 160 of them throughout the glendale rain, snow and humidity, the markers are starting to disappear. leblanc says he won't let that happen. "7.53:07 - 8.03:21 each of these markers are a window to the past. and when you look in the windows you see the sacrifices these fellows had done." " with the help of congressman david young, plus several companies, there's now have enough money to restore thousands of major speech on immigration, trump is taking a bold step, traveling to mexico to meet with president pena nieto. the visit comes at the same time that he engaged in a twitter fight with mexico's former president . abc's lana zak reports. today, trump meets with mexican president enrique pena nieto...just hours before his landmark arizona. "my running mate will be very clear with president pena nieto about our priority of securing the border, building a wall," trump's vp pick and former mexican president vincente fox --taking different tones on cnn "it's a very opportunistic move and i hope u.s. public opinion, u.s. citizens can see this and finally, and finally see what is behind trump, this false prophet that is just cheating everybody. " trump critized fox on twitter-- who is railing against my visit to mexico today, also invited me when he apologized for using the "f bomb." and fox fired back vicente fox quesada ?@vicentefoxque @realdonaldtrump, i invited you to come and apologize to all mexicans. stop lying! mexico is not yours to play with, show some respect. clinton's campaign says they plan to visit, "at the appropriate time." meanwhile a new abc news/washington post poll out today finds that clinton's support has been eroading as her unfavorability numbers are rising--now at9 actically ewhum meeting between mexico's leader and donald trump will be private, but he will be taking questions from mexican and american press. both leaders have one thing in common--two of the highest unfavobility numbers...both trying to capitalize on this dynamic moment. lana zak, and the wife of a football star is getting paid the most to walk the catwalk. that's coming up in today's showbiz wrap. meteorologist justin gehrts first alert forecast. stay with tv9. plan on a great day in all areas. highs will drop into te humidity levels as well. our wind will generally blow out of the north as high pressure builds in. much of the east coast will be in for soaking rain as a tropical system moves over florida and hugs the coastline. in response, our beautiful weather will continue through sunday. by sunday night into monday, our next chance of rain arrives. have a great day, and enjoy the welcome dry break!today: mosnny and less humid. wind: ne 5-15. high: 79 tonight: clear and comfortable. wind: ne 5-10. low: 56 tomorrow: mostly sunny, spectacular. low humidity. wind: ne 5-10. high: 75 tom. night: clear and cool. wind: light ne low: 53 and a new rock group is doing abc's jason nathanson has today's showbiz wrap. a surprise from selena gomez - the singer has suddenly announced she's taking a year off. in a statement to people magazine she says she needs the break to deal with some effects from her battle with lupus. she says the disease can affect people in different ways, and she's dealing with anxiety, panic attacks, and depression. she says the best way to get over that is to get off the road, and focus on herself. who gets paid the most to strut their stuff on the catwalk? once again, it's giselle bundchen, according to forbes. the magazine is out with it and they say bundchen is number one, raking in 30.5 million bucks. she's topped the list since 2002! in 2nd it's her fellow brazilian adriana lima with 10.5 million. and in third it's kendall jenner our vet expert is next at mi doctor greg winterowd, call us now at 319-399-5998. veterinarian greg winterowd is coming up tomorrow, stay with your 24 hour midday. the linn county board of supervisors passed a minimum wage proposal 4 to 1 during this morning's meeting. if it passes two more times, it would progressively increase to 10 dollars and 25 cents an hour by january of 20-19. morning's weather, justin. plan on a great day in all ? >> announcer: brace yourself, because we're about to bring you an hour of recipes that will change your life. mario's in the kitchen with the fabulous katie holmes and they're putting a tasty new spin on chicken that you have got to taste to believe. then, daphne's baking up an easy, chocolatey creation that'll have you going nuts, hazelnuts that is. and clinton's sharing his mind-blowing tips for the most important room in your house. your life is about to change in a delicious way, right now, here on "the chew"! ? 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