easy this time. beth, grassley's margin of victory in past re-election campaigns ranged from a low of 30 percent to more than 40 percent. latest polls show the six- term republican senator with a much lower-double digit lead over democrat patty judge. grassley thinks republicans will keep control of the senate, but he also thinks it's going to be close. iowa senator chuck grassley hasn't needed elections. but he had it today. west virginia senator shelley moore capito helped out in this waterloo stop.... ....both capito and iowa senator joni ernst appeared with grassley earlier in cedar rapids. grassley says even if he's ahead, this isn't the year to ease up. " this is such an unpredictable year, i'm going to work up, i've got this schedule... even the monday before the tuesday election. " control of the u.s. senate would four if clinton defeats trump. grassley expects republicans to keep control. but one political scientist at coe college says polls might have agreed a few weeks ago, but now gives democrats a better shot at winning the senate. how much of that is due to the impact of trump's dropping poll numbers is debatable. "are not doing well for their own reasons. it doesn't help them that trump isn't doing well in their state but they're not doing well for their own reasons not because of the "people will be judged on the work they provide for their constituents and that's why i'm optimistic we'll hold the united states senate as well." earlier this year, democrats thought the refusal of republicans to hold hearings on president obama's nomination of merrick garland to the supreme court would be a key election issue. the political science professor we spoke with says it may have generated campaign contributions and a burst of big issue now in the general election. thanks, dave. both clinton and trump are stumping for every vote they can today. clinton spent her day in massachusetts with elizabeth warren. that's where warren led the attack against trump. but trump continued to bash the media and the polls. the latest a-b-c news tracking poll has him trailing clinton by supporters not to believe the numbers. " donald trump / presidential nominee - "numbers are looking phenomenal in florida. don't believe media." " donald trump / presidential nominee"so i actually think we're winning and what they is they show these phony polls." while also in florida, trump laid out his plans for cuba. he says he wants to negotiate a tougher agreement, one that might even put off those newly re-established diplomatic relations. we're just a week away from halloween, and tonight dubuque annual halloween parade. meteorologist joe winters is there live tonight. joe, what's the forecast for tonight? october weather can be a ride up and down and that is exactly what this week brings. it also brings our most significant rain to the state on tuesday and wednesday. an area of low pressure and frontal system traverses the state during the next 36 hours. as the warm front lifts north, rainfall develops. our best chance for accumulations of greater than 1" possible is northern iowa. high temperatures rise and fall through the 60s an for halloween. have a great night! tonight: increasing clouds. wind: e 5-10. low: 40 tomorrow: showers developing in the afternoon and evening. wind: se 10-20. high: 56 bruce and beth... stimony could begin too the tria homeless woman in cedar rapids just four days after he killed a homeless man. travis standlee, who's 44, faces a first degree murder charge. his trial is taking place in davenport mead in september 2015. they say he strangled the 41 year old homeless woman near the coe college campus in cedar rapids. prosecutors say standlee, who was also homeless, killed her the day after he was released from jail. police had arrested him for the death of raymond ursino, another homeless man who was 56. but authorities released standlee a few days later.... .... because there wasn't enough evidence to evidence this past june for a jury to find standlee guilty of murdering ursino. a cedar rapids man faces charges for allegedly having sex with a 14 year old girl in fayette county, and there may be even more victims. the fayette county sheriff's office says 25-year-old niall lewis had sex with the teenager several times over the summer. investigators say they met online, and he lured her to sexual abuse charge. the sheriff's office says there could be more charges if investigators find more victims. this morning, a northeast iowa man admitted to possessing explosives as well as a flame thrower. trevor satrom of oran pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of an unregistered destructive device in fayette county court. law officers found items to make pipe and pressure cooker bombs inside this apartment in february. that includes 30 pounds of gun powder, two pressure they also found several guns and rifles, smoke grenades and body armor. iowa state patrol is investigating a crash that killed one person. authorities responded to the 31 hundred block of locust road, north of decorah, around 4 a-m yesterday. the driver went off the road on a curve and rolled the car. authorities did not give the victim's name. a national search for a new president and c-e-o of the united way of east central iowa ended with the selection of someone already start of the new year. he's currently the united way's chief operating officer. more than 60 people from across the country applied for the job during a four month search. lois buntz will continue as president and c-e-o through the end of the year, and then will retire. france is working to evacuate thousands of migrants this week from a make-shift camp. riot police started to dismantle a refugee camp off of the english channel. french authorities conver and camp for 6 to 10 thousand migrants. the refugees titled the make-shift camp 'the jungle'. one man says he's happy to be going somewhere new. "it's not a good place at all. in the "jungle" the situation is very cold. there are many people facing a lot of problems. it is not good place at all." hundreds of buses took the refugees to reception centers where they could apply are among hundreds of buildings officials have been converting into migrant housing. thousands of sandbags are gone from most of cedar rapids, but some piles still sit in the downtown area. and now some of those businesses could face fines if they don't remove them. october weather can be a ride brings. it also brings state on tuesday and wednesday. an area of low pressure and frontal system traverses the state during the next 36 hours. as the warm front lifts north, rainfall develops. our best accumulations of greater than 1" possible is northern iowa. high temperatures rise and fall through the 60s and 50s this week, with a nice early outlook for halloween. have a great night! tonight: increasing clouds. wind: e 5-10. low: 40 tomorrow: showers evening. wind: se 10-20. high: 56 tom. night: showers and a few thunderstorm s likely. windy. wind: se 15-25. low: 49 wednesday: showers and a few thunderstorm s likely, mostly in the morning. windy at times. high: 56 low: 49 thursday: partly cloudy. high: 59 low: 42 friday: partly cloudy. high: 68 low: 48 saturday: mostly sunny. high: low: 39 monday: partly cloudy. high: 66 low: 45 tuesday: partly cloudy. high: 59 low: 35 thanks joe. it's a fight over federal money, and whether it should go to organizations that perform abortions. we look at what senator joni ernst has to say about efforts to stop planned parenthood funding. and find out what governor branstad has to say about a statewide minimum wage, next on t-v nine. falls asleep in their car seat. you get home and hate to take them out because you don't want to wake them up from that precious nap. well, unfortunately there are risks to letting your child sleep in their car seat, and other places not meant f pediatrician dr. laura forster explains those risks. sot dr. laura: the main risk are with upper airway obstruction, particularly in babies under 1 month of age - they just don't have a lot of head support so there's pretty big risk of upper airway obstruction, decreased oxygen saturations, that type of thing when they're sleeping in elevated surfaces like careseats and swings and strollers and that type of thing. vo: she says there have and fallen over. liz on cam: as we wrap this series, we also want to stress that some families do everything right and sometimes tragedy still happens. more research and more learning need to be done to prevent sids all together. until then, we know that these safe sleep practices have been shown to decrease the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. visit momseveryday .com for the full series on safe sleep. i'm liz hayes. a proposal by the department of health and from blocking federal dollars to abortion providers like planned parenthood. but that has more than 100 lawmakers fighting back, including iowa senator joni ernst. kcrg-tv9's kellie meyer reports from our washington d-c bureau. sot: rep. diane black, track: congresswoman diane black- fighting back against the obama administration . she says her state of tennessee would be affected by a human services. it would prevent states from blocking title x funding - federal dollars for family planning services. 90 members of the house and nearly 20 members of the senate signed this letter asking the hhs secretary reconsider the rule. iowa senator joni ernst is leading the fight in the senate. sot: ernst: "we just want to make sure that there is an honest and fair assessment that is done across the board when it comes to title x." kellie bridge: ernst and black argue there are plenty of other pr give women comprehensive health care. but one group says this proposal would actually help more women. sot: illyse hogue, president of naral pro-choice america, in: out: track: illyse hogue, president of naral pro-choice america, says groups like planned parenthood were discriminated against in some states from getting federal dollars. she says that had a huge effect on women's health. sot: illyse hogue, president of naral pro-choice america, in: out: track: hogue says the lawmakers health. but black and ernst say they're seeing a flood of people who don't want to see it move forward. reporting in washington i'm kellie meyer today governor branstad said it might be time to raise the state's minimum wage, but it would be better if it were a uniform increase across the state. "branstad - it needs to be a delicate balance though cuz obviously we want to improve the minimum wage jobs, but we want to do it in a way that's going to drive small businesses out of business or actually destroy jobs." branstad's comment came this morning during his weekly news conference in des moines. several counties in iowa have increased their minimum wage, including sure those increases are legal under iowa law. the city of cedar rapids always said businesses would have to clean up their own sandbags following the flood. the city never put out a timeline until now. find out about possible fines. businesses the city wants busn kcrg's phil reed joins us in the newbo district? phil, where can businesses drop off their sandbags? there are four spots across the city where you can take them. including this one here at newbo where there are piles of sandbags the city will come and get. the city says it has collected more than six thousand tons of sand for residential places. that left businesses with no choice but to hire help, or hope for volunteers to help. cedar rapids says there is about 10 businesses surrounded by sandbags. and it is not ruling out fining them if they don't remove them soon. "businesses, really this entire community was all in this together. i think there's been a real spirit of resiliency, a real spirit of let's come back strong. so if everyone can just do their part, let's put this behind us." the city wants businesses to get rid of their sandbags by the end of this week. it has not set a date for when it would start to fine them. tonight at 6 hear from a business owner who hasn't gotten rid of his sandbags, and if he feels the city should come do it instead. live in cedar rapids, phil reed, kcrg tv-9 news democrat monica vernon in iowa's first district. and hear why the u-s army corps of engineers making be taking a second look at tonight at 6. investigating this crash involving a springville school bus. the sheriff's office says a car crashed into the back of the bus while it was stopped on highway 151 near springville. six children were inside. hospital with minor injuries. no word on the condition of the driver. let's go back to joe now live in dubuque for a final look at tonight's forecast. october weather can be a ride up and down and that is exactly what this week brings. it also brings our most significant rain to the state on tuesday and wednesday. an area of low pressure and frontal system traverses the state during the next 36 hours. as the warm front lifts north, rainfall develops. our best chance for possible is northern iowa. high temperatures rise and fall through the 60s and 50s this week, with a nice early outlook for halloween. have a great night! tonight: increasing clouds. wind: e 5-10. low: 40 tomorrow: showers developing in the afternoon and evening. wind: se 10-20. high: 56 thank you, joe, and thank you for joining us for david muir. you're wat tonight, breaking news. the urgent hunt for a killer. two murders already. then, attacking two officers and several others. the suspect then posting this live on facebook. police now warning tonight, he is armed and dangerous. donald trump calling the polls phony tonight, telling supporters, we're winning. and now, the new poll just and what senator elizabeth warren said today about, quote, nasty women. the plane crash, no survivors. the jet plunging from the sky just after takeoff. the ball of fire. the u.s. launching air strikes. the iraq kips moving closer to mos mosul. and martha raddatz revealing the new horror playing out in that city. inside the deadly bus crash. at least 13 people dead. authorities late today and what they revealed.