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KCRG KCRG TV9 News At 11 November 7, 2016

Now shining blue lights in honor of the fallen officers. Project blue light iowa handed out about 3,000 light bulbs yesterday. The blue light symbolizes support for Law Enforcement. The bulbs were free and the organization handed them out at the Des Moines Police department. Organizers hope people keep using the blue lights, even after the officers funerals. Its always important to support your Law Enforcement officers but right now theres been negativity toward Police Officers. Theres been so much Violence Toward Police Officers people support them and we do and we want people to show that. The Organization Also accepts monetary donations, which are in turn used to buy more blue bulbs. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. Clouds will steadily march in from the south this afternoon, but itll still be a mild day with highs in tonight, but it doesnt have much moisture to work with, so any showers that do manage to develop will be light and isolated. Sunshine quickly returns tomorrow with pleasant highs in the upper 50s. Well keep the sunshine going the rest of the week with highs staying near or a bit above normal in the 5565 degree range. Our weather looks like itll stay pretty quiet right into next weekend. Today increasing clouds. Wind s 510. High tonight mostly cloudy with isolated showers. Wind w 510. Low 48 alo 45 dbq 48 iow 49 in only 20 hours, polls officially open across iowa for the 2016 general election. The republican and democratic nominees are making one last manic dash for support in key swing states. Thats 29 electoral votes. Now he goes to North Carolina for an event this afternoon. Democrat Hillary Clinton takes her campaign to pennsylvania, North Carolina and michigan today. Those three states are good for 51 electoral votes tomorrow. Abcs Elizabeth Hur reports on the candidates final day. Its a true battleground blitz. In these critical final hours. With Hillary Clinton leading donald trump by just 4 points in the new abc News Washington post poll. Sot Hillary Clinton clinton is staying on message. Not talking about that blockbuster announcement from the fbi. That has trump. Back on the attack. Sot donald trump president ial nomineeright now, she is being protected by a rigged system. Its a totally rigged system. Ive been saying it for a long time. Trump outraged. The fbis additional review of clintons emails ended with no criminal charges. In a letter to congress sunday. Fbi director james comey writing. Based on our review we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in july . Sources telling abc news. The new batch of emails contained many duplicates donald trump president ial nomineehillar y clinton is guilty. She knows it. The fbi knows it. The people know it. Trump is now wrapping up a grueling campaign. Hitting 10 states in the final 3 days before the election. While clinton is heading to the finish line with help from star supporters and president obama. Campaigning for clinton. As it gets down to the wire. Sot president obama. Elizabeth hur oncam close . Tbd. Eh, abc news, capitol hill. The final iowa poll on the Trump Holding a 7 point lead over Hillary Clinton among likely voters in iowa, 46 to 39 . The poll comes from 800 likely iowa voters. Digging into the registers poll 1 3 of those who responded had already voted. Yet among those who have not voted, the poll found trump with a 21point lead. 1 senator Chuck Grassley and congressman rod blum will Campaign Together restaurant in marion in just about 20 minutes. Then, theyll be at newtons caf in waterloo at 2 30. Senator joni ernst will join them. Stay with tv9 on election night. Follow us on social media for updates all day and share your voting experience with the hashtag ia votes. When the polls close at nine join us on facebook live. And dont miss a special edition of key races across the state. In South Carolina, police have found another body on the property of an accused serial killer. Now investigators say todd kohlepp may have committed murders in other states, dating back more than a decade. Abcs janai norman reports. Investigators in South Carolina could be dealing with a serial killer. While investigating the suspect accused of holding a woman captive, Officials Say Todd Kohlhepp dropped a bombshell confession about a 13yearold cold case. Allegedly admitting he gunned down four people in 2003. Sot judge sir, just understanding the family is here, anything you wish to say at this time . Kohlhepp not at this time, sir. Kohlhepp is charged with kidnapping kala brown who disappeared in august along with her boyfriend Charles David carver. Search teams are still scouring his nearly 100 acre property where brown was chained up by the neck and ankle, locked in a shipping container. And where he was shot multiple times. Sot i guess calm . Hes remorseful. The seemingly successful realtor returning to his property over the weekend in an orange jumpsuit reportedly showing investigators two more graves on his property. In one, another body. Sot sheriff chuck wright spartenburg, sc theres supposed to be one more down here, but were gonna keep searching until were positive thats it. Janai norman oncam close kohlhepp is now facing charges for the 2003 quadruple murder. Investigators are check owned for evidence, and any unsolved cases for possible connections to kohlhepp. Jn abc news, new york. Also in South Carolina, a judge postponed jury selection this morning for the man charged in the shooting deaths of 9 people at an prodominantl y black church. The judge dismissed the court today to hear a lastminute motion from dylann roofs attorney. Police Methodist Episcopal Church because of race. The Us Justice Department says it will seek the Death Penalty in the case. Roofs lawyers have said he will plead guilty to 33 counts of hate crimes, obstruction of religion, and firearms charges if prosecutors agree to not seek the Death Penalty. The letters oem get thrown around a lot in vinton at ideal industries. Thats because ideal is an original equipment manufacturer. The company designs and then creates plenty of parts. For this weeks mad took a trip to the vinton facility for ideal industries ideal has production plants in oelwein, fayette and quasqueton as well. Youll find complex metal parts that help farmers in the field but also drivers who simply want a clean car. Its all stainless steel, very tedious welding and its all very fab at our place. Next time you pull into the car wash, look up. Youll see the parts, the coin boxes. Ahead at 11 45, well take the industries, where the conveyance, tile trailers and car wash parts roll out for clients throughout the midwest. In dubuque, a family of 6 will soon move into a home they helped build. Laparis owens and michele steffy applied to habitat for humanity last january. In order to get the home, the couple had to help build it and prove they could make mortgage payments. Yesterday, the family got their first look inside the finished house. Owens says this has extra blood, sweat and tears into the project. 23 16, painting the walls, dry walls, everything, but it was a great experience and i met a lot of cool people the couple will officially close on the home on november 15th. Law enforcement across the country is seeing a sharp increase in heroin overdoses. One city saw six overdoses in just eight hours and officials there say this is just meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming mild day with highs in th 60s. A weak cold front passes through tonight, but it doesnt have so any showers that do manage to develop will be light and isolated. Sunshine quickly returns tomorrow with pleasant highs in the upper 50s. Well keep the sunshine going the rest of the week with highs staying near or a bit above range. Our weather looks like itll stay pretty quiet right into next weekend. Today increasing clouds. Wind s 510. High 64 alo 63 dbq 64 iow 64 tonight mostly cloudy with isolated showers. Wind w 510. Low 48 alo 45 dbq 48 iow 49 wind n 1020. High 58 alo 56 dbq 56 iow 59 tom. Night mostly clear and cooler. Wind nw 510. Low 36 alo 34 dbq 35 iow 37 wednesday sunny. High 58 low 36 thursday sunny. High 64 low 39 friday mostly sunny. High 56 low 41 saturday mostly sunny. High 53 low 31 sunday partly cloudy. High 60 low 39 monday chance of showers. High 57 low 44 tuesday chance of showers. Across the country dealing with an increase in police there say they havent seen anything like the surge that happened late last week. Six overdoses reported in eight hours. Bob jones has the story. White powder suspected heroin bagged up as evidence. Along with digital scales and drug instruments. Crime tape hangs where one man overdosed near a park basketball court. And Police Reports detail where three other men and two women all odd in different parts of the city between 3 and 11 p. M. Thursday. Its a problem everywhere. This is an epidemic like i dont think the country has ever seen before. Woost er chief matt fisher told me cops used naloxone on all the victims to reverse the overdoses. Still two remain on lifesupport. Like weve seen in bigger cities, the chief suspects a batch of heroin laced with fentanyl or carfentanil made it to his it was, was something stronger than your runofthe mill heroin. In one of the cases a suspect Demetrius Frizzell is locked up accused of providing the heroin. Wooster is a town of 26 ousand people, not too small be people addicted is going up and is the number of people dying in wayne county. This year thus far, theres 22 confirmed and theres probably ght to ten more. Dr. Gina patterson and Melinda Kauffman work at one eighty and say its not only the increase in heroin deaths that alarming. Th oneere seeing are the younger kids that are coming in, betweee ike in woosteroverdoses serves l for addicts to have hope a get help before s. E are helping lots of people andeeing lots ofople succeed, b losing people as well. Trt oc farmers are keeping a close eye on the election. In todays agribusiness report the farm bill. Welcome to the agribusiness on tuesday is not expected to impact the chances on an early farm bill. No matter which party has the house, senate, or white house in push is still going strong. With low commodity prices. And huge crop surpluses. The American Farm bureau says support is coming from both sides of the aisle. Director dale moore says its a good bet the ag committees from the house and senate are going to start up discussions early next year. The farm bill expires in 2018. But planning is already under way on the farm bureau side. And the lawmaker side. We would expect, in fact weve been hearing this you know, pretty much since mid summer if not senate side talking about or thinking about the farm bill, were getting ready for the farm bill. The 2016 election cycle hasnt caused too many problems for the Senate Ag Committee. Only four of the 20 members are up for reelection. One of which is iowas senator Chuck Grassley. But even if all four win re election. There could be a shake up in leadership. If the democrats regain control of the senate the chairman of also the Majority Party ensures it has a majority on every committee. Meaning two republicans in the Senate Ag Committee would swap out for two democrats. Only some slight moves up to end the week in grains. Analyst dan hueber has the week recap. We were probably up to a point we needed a bit of a correction, and we broke down monday, tuesday, now we really kind of gone stagnant since, boy, i tell you what. I think something thats had a major bearing on this are whats ahead of us here next week, and of course i dont just mean the the u. S. Election. I think everyones a bit on pins and needles here at this point in time, weve seen a lot of money come off the table, not only in the equity market, but in commodity markets, with one exception. Its moved over to places like gold and tea bonds and tea notes, which are considered to be safe havens you know, cattle, granted, not down, we started out with a little bit of strength have pretty well maintained that. Weve held above the area a week ago, boy, we just seem to be lacking that little extra incentive to push on through here at this point in heavy. Certainly hogs, did extend into higher highs on this rebound this week too, you know, not a lot of different picture than the Cattle Market there, we rallied up nicely into monday, tuesday and then just seemed to kind of fall flat. With the prospect of low cattle prices. And more beef supplies. The federation of state Beef Councils says it will invest stimulate oversea demand. The federation is investing nine hundred 40 thousand dollars from its reserves to promote american beef in other countries. A big chunk of that is headed to japan. About two hundred 60 thousand dollars. With a goal of moving six point nine Million Pounds of us beef. On top of that. The federation is also spending three hundred thousand dollars on an app that targets millennials living in cities. Its called ibotta. Which shares beef information with consumers and helps them with cash rebates on beef the time i have for the show today. Thanks for tuning in. I hope to see you again next time. Well post a video every day in the agriculture section of kcrg. Com. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt 3. 27 oc standard this year, president ial nominees are encouraging everyone to get out and vote. Others are trying to shame people in to voting this year, through their mailboxes. Thats next on tv9. Some in linn county have been previous elections. Its not coming from the candidates, but from organizations trying to increase voter turnout. We talked with one person who isnt happy about the socalled voter shaming. And he thinks they should find out why a person did not vote before shaming them. Kcrgtv9s phil reed reports. My wife was involved in a serious head on crash in south dakota one week before the election. Samuel dillon spent the week of instead voting. The couple was not happy when they received a letter from members of the progressive turnout project, shaming them for missing the vote the letter showed their public voting records for the past four cycles and asked them how family and friends would feel if they knew they were infrequent voters. I felt very upset that the other three times we had voted, but they showed and depicted that one time. If we had not voted two or three times, that i would are legal. I felt very upset that the other three times we had voted, but they showed and depicted that one time. If we had not voted two or three times, that i would understand dillon isnt pushing for a new law, but he would like some sympathy. They should be cautious about how they go about approaching those people. There may be things going on in the the progressive turnout project is a democratic pac. A spokesperson for them told tv9 that theres no way to tell why people did not vote. The Organization Says its goal is not to make people feel bad, but studies have shown that sending those letters out will motivate people to vote. A relatively new treatment for aches and pains is gaining popularity across the country. It uses frigid temperatures to cure eve well dig into cryotherapy. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your one final mad dash in swing states, now less than 24 hours before polls open across the country. And a funeral today is honoring a Des Moines Police sergeant killed last week. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. The final abc news tracking poll is out, now less than across the country. It shows a slim lead for democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The poll puts clinton ahead of republican nominee donald trump 47 to 43 . It also found voters have an unpopular opinion of both nominees. 60 have a negative view of trump while 56 have a negative view of clinton. Mrs. Clinton is campaigning this in pittsburgh. Real clear politics shows the former secretary of state with a 2 or 3 point lead over donald trump in that state. Shes also campaigning in michigan and North Carolina later today to round out her campaign schedule. Donald trump just wrapped up an event in florida. Several polls including one from Quinnipiac University from this past weekend shows trump and clinton are tied in the important swing state. This afternoon, trump goes to North Carolina, pennsylvania, New Hampshire and michi fellow officers are remembering Des Moines Police Sergeant Anthony beminio. He died in an ambushstyle attack while sitting in his squad car last week. This is a live look at his funeral at Lutheran Church of hope in west des moines. Police officers have been streaming into the church for about the last half an hour to walk past the casket and pay their respects. Sergeant beminio graduated f

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