Yes, Bruce A Coralville based group of volunteers is actually heading down next week. The group is called Community Health initiative haiti. The Nonprofit Organization has been going to haiti for years to setup week long free Medical Clinics. This trip was already planned, but the group of 28 volunteers is each planning to take an extra suitcase of supplies to help with recovery efforts. Where they hold their Medical Clinic was not hit as hard as some areas. But they have staff who live down there who were in the town of lagon. There was a lot of flooding in the downtown area, which is similar to newbo, and we dont what thats like in iowa, so it was pretty devastating for a lot of people there. If you want to help the group, weve posted more information on live in iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. Kcrgtv9s phil reed spoke to a local travel agency. He joins us from destinations unlimited. Phil, the hurricane is causing some inconvenience. Its causing headaches for people wanting to go on vacation, and those wanting to come home the travel agency says they have customers who are stuck at their vacation for airports to open back up they say they are working to reschedule flights for many of their clients but their best advice for travelers is to wait until the weather clears. Our job is to point out that youre going to a place thats been hit by a hurricane, and we dont know what the situation is in that city. So we need to let the dust settle so we can know if thats a good place for you to go or not. Tonight at 10 hear from fly back to cedar rapids because of the hurricane live in cedar rapids phil reed kcrg tv9 news even professional golfer zach johnson is heeding the warning from officials in georgia. He tweeted out this afternoon that he and his family evacuated from the area to avoid matthew. He asked people to pray that there are zero fatalities and minimal damage as it hits the us mainland. Lets go now to meteorologist joe Winters School which is hosting linn mar in High School Football. Joe, a jacket is probably a good idea this evening. A slow moving storm system pulls to the east ushering in a beautiful fall weekend and the cooler and drier remains with us through sunday. Highs will be in the 60s with lows dipping into the upper 30s and lower 40s. The wind stays just Strong Enough that we should not have any frost monday, with milder weather building through next week. Have a great night and a safe weekend tonight mostly clear and seasonably cool. Wind w 510. Low 40 tomorrow mostly sunny and pleasant. Wind sw 515. High 65 bruce and beth. Authorities have a man in custody for the death of a woman in crawford county, wisconsin. Sheriffs deputies found the body of a woman lying outside a home in bridgeport township shortly after midnight wednesday prairie du chien. They identified the woman as linda kline. She was 53. Her sister and boyfriend were also there. An autopsy determined her death was a homicide. Yesterday, law officers arrested klines boyfriend, Jimmy Mcdaniel in prairie du chien. Mcdaniel is 48. The Sheriffs Office says he was about to catch a flight, heading to georgia. Authorities have not released what charges he faces, but they say hes awaiting a bond hearing. An autopsy shows a uni student h university of iowa campus. The Johnson County Sheriffs Office released those results today. Rescuers pulled the body of nathan twedt out of the iowa river on september 10th. Surveillance video shows the 20 year old confused and highly intoxicated while walking through the Recreation Building on campus. The Sheriffs Office says a witness saw him walk into the water. They consider his death and gone, but fixing the flood damage is still going on in some communities. In the town of vinton, workers are getting close to finishing the flood cleanup. Kcrg tv nines Dave Franzman shows some of the effort involved. Members of this Americorps Team operate out of vinton. But they were nowhere near their home base when the water came leaving a mess behind. Sot nat instead, this eightperson team was doing another Service Project in chicago when the call came. Help clean up. We mucked out two homes, moved a lot of items from basements and we moved stuff out of first floors to the basements. Even when the flood waters go down, the flood is not necessarily over. There is still a big clean up mess. In vinton, the americorps group picked up 20thousand sandbags in just a week. This one group has done the mucky cleaning for about a dozen homes or businesses that had water damage. One really wasnt anyone else this week, and without their help, the job would have dragged on a lot longer. And those who benefited certainly appreciated the help. Their morale boosters are wonderful, they work hard and theyll do whatever you need them to do. The americorp workers will get some help beginning saturday when two churchaffiliated groups arrive to wrap up the vinton cleanup. That should happen by sunday. Dave franzman kcrg tv9 news. The university of iowas president says he wants to move away from relying on state and federal dollars to run the university. Hear what he wants to do instead, next on your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv nine. University of iowa president creative in finding new funding sources. Today during his first state of the university address, harreld said fundraising is the schools key to success. Specifically, harreld wants to find alternative sources for teaching and research funding. He also wants better incentives to keep top faculty members from leaving. Harreld said he wants Higher Education to move away from dependence on federal and state aid. A university plane is raising questions about how another highranking University Official got his job. Leath says he received personal flight lessons from former republican lawmaker and isu associate dean jim kurtenbach. That happened in the fall of 2014. The training helped leath obtain a private pilot certificate to fly the universitys singleengine plane by himself. In november of that year, the school scrapped a National Search and appointed kurtenbach as information officer. Boy scouts here in eastern iowa are celebrating. This is the 85th year of scouting for the hawkeye area council. To mark the occasion, the council is hosting a Council Camporee in central city this weekend. People who want to learn more about the boy scouts and what the cmp has to offer can take part in various activities. That includes mountain biking, archery, tomahawk throwing, campfires, and more. Events its a sign fall is here in eastern iowa. The circle of ash haunted attraction is opening tonight at the linn county fairgrounds. Organizers had to delay the grand opening one week after the Wapsipinicon River crested at the end of september. Circle of ash also closed down last year. Rent was so expensive, organizers decided to move the Haunted House from a warehouse near downtown cedar rapids to the linn county fairgrounds for this season. Teams across eastern iowa are getting ready for high scott will feature the undefeated Xavier High School Football Team as they get ready to face waverlyshell rock. A slow moving storm system pulls the cooler and drier remains with us through sunday. Highs will be in the 60s with lows dipping into the upper 30s and lower 40s. The wind stays just strong enoug concerns. A slight rain chance returns on monday, with milder weather building through next week. Have a great night and a safe weekend tonight mostly clear and seasonably cool. Wind w 510. Low 40 high 65 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind sw 510. Low 45 sunday mostly sunny. High 69 low 45 monday slight chance of showers. High 70 low 50 tuesday partly cloudy. High 73 low 53 wednesday partly cloudy. High 70 low 48 thursday partly cloudy. High 70 low 46 friday chance of storms. High 73 low 53 saur just three weeks remain in the regular season for High School Football. Scott saville has a preview of xaviers game tonight against waverly shell rock. The Northern Iowa Football Team in eastern iowa. Stay with tv9. Just three weeks left in the High School Football regular season. Cedar rapids xavier is undefeated, and is 40 in district play. But regular season for High School Football. Scott saville has a preview of xaviers game tonight against waverly shell rock. The Northern Iowa Football Team travels south dakota whos coached by a familiar face in eastern iowa. Stay with tv9. Just three weeks left in the rapids xavier is undefeated, and is 40 in district play. But right behind them are three teams tied for 2nd at 31, including waverlyshell rock who xavier faces tonight. Scott saville has more. Averaging over 40 points a game in district play. And Maliki Wilson has over 11 hundred yards rushing. Heres what xavier head coach Duane Schulte had to say before the game. Maliki has been special this year i know the offensive line has been good but hes been something else. Yeah maliki has done his job as we like to say around here and hes got a lot of help hes getting ready for the future and keep going what do you need to improve on . All the Little Things you know you watch film and everyplay on that any play could be anything just depends on each particular play. Would you like to be balanced as you get ready for the playoffs i think so i think thats a goal for many coaches that you wont be able to stay balanced all facets of the game offense defense and special teamshopefully we can do that. What about waverley what do you see when you look at waverley shell rock solid team well coached you can see those kids of had been well coached and they know what theyre doing so a solid Football Team. Tough to play on the you get a High School Kid to get on a bus going an hour and a half and play a Football Game if theres a magic book that tells you how to do that id buy it the author would be a millionaire so well see what happens. We will have highlights of this one for you tonight at 10 00. And Scott Westerberg you have a good one at cedar falls tonight. Definitely. Its a matchup between the the tigers and waterloo west. Those are the only unbeaten teams left in loss. Ill have highlights of that one as well tonight on friday night lights endzone. Josh, back to you. The iowa state Football Team nearly pulled off a big upset last week versus baylor before falling 4542. This week, the cyclones travel to oklahoma state. They havent won in stillwater since 2000. Ive been down there, but never played there. Its a cool stadium. Its oklahoma state, theyre another good team. They were competing ago. So we have to come down there prepared and ready to go. I think that we can compete with these teams, and we need to be able to believe that. I think that was our igniter to get things rolling. And then this next game is going to test where were at even further. Trt 28 oc where were at even further. The Northern Iowa Football Team hopes to go 20 in conference play with a trip to south dakota. The coyotes are 13, of 13 points. Theyre led by linnmar grad and former wartburg football head coach, bob nielsen. The quarterback and running back are 12 in rushing. And then when you go down the chart and you look at their defense, you look at what they have done because their whole staff went from western to south dakota. So, theres some similarities there, its just different personnel doing it. I knew coach nielsen when he used to come here when i was an assistant coach here. He used to come out here all hed come down to our practices. And ive always stayed in touch with him ever since then. Trt 27 oc ever since then. Former uni Panther David johnson ran all over the San Francisco 49ers last night. He had 157 yards on the ground and two touchdowns. Thru five games, he has 695 scrimmage yards. Thats the most in cardinals history. Day 1 of the boys state Golf Tournament is in the books. Individual results, willis gaer of des Moines Roosevelt has a two shot lead. A couple of local players not far behind. Team wash in the hunt. Well be right back. To the east ushering in a beautiful fall weekend and the cooler and drier remains with us through sunday. Highs will be in the 60s with lows dipping into the upper 30s and lower 40s. The wind stays just Strong Enough that we should not have any frost concerns. A slight rain chance returns on monday, with milder weather building through next week. Have a great night and a safe weekend tonight mostly clear and seasonably cool. Wind w 510. Low 40 65 so. Couldnt help but notice none of you rsvpd to my murder mystery dinner party. Oh, yeah. We were meaning to do that. No, you werent because it was a week ago and nobody came so, if you want to solve the mystery of who stabbed koothrappali in the back with the weapon of indifference, it was all of you. I dont think that qualifies as a mystery. We all knew what we were doing. Maybe we can do it next week. Whoa, whoa, were not that sorry. Dont worry, i can take a hint. No more murder mystery parties. Great. Thank you. Hallelujah. Because ive got something even better planned. Aw why . Come on. Just hear me out. Im going to make you guys a Scavenger Hunt like they have at m. I. T. Oh. I loved those. I did them every year there. We did them at princeton, too. Oh, thats cute. Like its a real college
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