Hermine is tracking up the east coast. This is a live look from Myrtle Beach South Carolina where the storm is bringing strong winds and rain this morning. Hermine made landfall a little more than 24 hours ago on floridas gulf coast. Panhandle crews got busy getting power restored to more than 250 thousand people. Hermine was a category 1 hurricane when it hit the state. The city of tallahassee says it has crews working to get power back on as quickly as possible. Were going around just trying to get as many people on as we possibly can, just start eliminating it down to smaller outages, everybody be patient, we are going at it as hard as we can. Morning. That makes it the first hurricane to hit the state of florida since wilma, in 2005. A National Statistic estimates 22 servicemen and women take their own lives, everyday. Way too much, say the parents of an iowa veteran who did the same. Brandon ketchum was 33 when he died on july eighth. He was a combat veteran who was struggling with ketchums mother and girlfriend say he asked his doctor at the iowa city va to admit him to the hospitals psychiatric ward, but they say the doctor refused. Ketchums suicide came hours later. Brandons parents will join the group 22 no more for a vigil in iowa city tonight. That vigil runs from 7 00 until 10 00 at the ped malls water feature, downtown. Thats right behind the sharaton hotel. Area veterans are encouraging people to stay focused while driving for the labor day weekend. Them. Amvets post 218 will be stationed at an i380 truck stop between iowa city and cedar rapids all weekend. They are selling coffee, cookies, and lemonade there, with the proceeds going to help other veterans. The fundraiser is also promoting highway safety. One of the main purposes of this was to get people off the road, get them rested up, and take a break, instead of driving through like 8 or 9 or 10 hours. This is their 9th year the group has held the event. Theyll be there until monday morning. The weather today is pretty darn near perfect, and if you arent headed to the hawk game maybe try newbo. In just about an hour, vendors will start one of the last Farmers Markets of the season, in downtown cedar rapids. About 200 local iowa vendors will offer up produce, baked goods, and gifts. After today, theres only finally game day for the hawkeyes. The 17th ranked hawks open their season against miami of ohio at 2 30 this afternoon. If youre not heading down to kinnick, you can watch the game on espnu. And in ames, its an instate matchup between the cyclones and the panthers. Iowa state and uni kick off at jack trice stadium at 7 00 tonight. If youre not traveling to ames, you can watch on cyclones tv. Nathans famous is known for record but it took on another hot dog related record yesterday in new york. Temperatures in the low 50s to start off, but will warm into the 60s and close to 70 by late morning. Weve got clear skies out there for the most part which clear skies will allow for us to warm through the day as well. If you catch yourself going to the downtown cedar rapids Farmers Market then grab the jacket and enjoy the weather while having fun. Expect high temperatures to warm near 80 today and due to a southeasterl y wind the dew points will also rise. Dont worry, it wont be oppressive by any means, just enough for you to notice the mugginess in the air. The evening wont be too bad either. Well be slightly warmer than what we were this morning, but still in the 50s. Today mostly sunny. Wind se 510. High 78 alo 78 dbq 76 iow 78 75 to 81 tonight mosy passing clouds. Wind se 510 low 59 alo 59 dbq 57 iow 59 56 to 62 tonight the cedar rapids kernels start a 3game series against the clinton lumberkings. You can find game one of the series live tonight on kcrg 9 point 2. First pitch is after little rest following a lengthy game in wisconsin, the kernels are playing again tonight. Friday, it took the kernels 16 innings to take down the wisconsin timber rattlers by a final score of 5 to 4. The game lasted more than 5 hours. The kernels have won 9 out of their last 11 games. Iowa city regina has dominated the gridiron for the past 6 years. Scott will have highlights from their matchup last night with the spartans from solon, coming up good matchup tonight on kcrg 9. 2. 6 time defending state champion regina hosted solon. Ryan schlader called it on 9. 2 and joins us live for manchester. Joel girdner joins me now and real test tonight against kennedy. Kennedy handed the warriors their only two losses of the season a year game. This years meeting was very different. 1st quarter. Con nor malcolm is a tough runner. Spinning through tackles and getting the ball down inside the cougar ten yard line. Two plays later. Bryan kunde finds cade saylor on the quick slant. Saylor holds on to give the warriors a 70 lead. Second quarter. Nick duehr trying to find someone downfield. St eps up and it ends up in the hads of braydon wright. The sophomore knew what to do with it from there. Retur ning untouched to gve wash the e would return the favor. The ball is tipped and picked off by jesse price. The cougars could not turn that into points though as wash blanked the cougars. 210 former hawkeye linebacker matt creek amana this year. The clippers at home against independence tonight. Mark carlson has the highlights. They were twirling fire in tiffin friday night. And the clippers got off to a hot start. Drake brazina did a lot of pounding on the ground for the clippers. He sets up their first scored when ashton carpenter drops a play action, then drops the pass to the back of th nothing clippers right away. I need more cowbell. Alright thats enough. Back to football and back to the ground for brezina who is about to come right into your living room. Breaking tackles along the way. That sets up a long touchdown scamper for matt brimeyer, untouched as he heads for the promise land. Extra point was missed, making it 13nothing clippers over independence. The clippers tried to make another drive at the end of the the drive would end when he flicks it a little too far into the endzone. Cyrus butters on the pick. It was the bright spot for independence in the first half. On a back and a hard hitting second week of football in tiffin. Mark carlson, kcrg tv nine sports. Thanks mark. They opened a brand new stadium tonight at alburnett. And it is a great looking stadium on the south side of town. With a nice all weather trck before and they shared the football field with the baseball field at their old stadium. The pirates hosted belle plaine both teams came in 10. And a little baby powder to christen the new stadium. But it was all belle plaine early on. They dump the pass off to jordan rynekee and he breaks a tackle and look the big guy rumble for the games first touchdown. And that woke up the crowd. Alburnett on the ensuing kick off with a nice return from cody martin making people miss. Moving the ball on offense in a hard hitting game. And the plaineman took a 14 nothing lead moments later joey schwenn straight up the middle and he slips tackle and belle plaine has big boys and he races into the endzone. And the cheerleaders had to a lot of this tonight wich would make me dizzy. And belle plaine took a 21nothing lead early in the Second Quarter on the Brodie Bohlen 4 yard td run and the plainseman raise their record to 20 with the win. We are just Getting Started we will have the lions came out hungry for a win on the home field. But it was all xavier early. Quarterback Bryce Schulte hooks up with Maliki Wilson and checkout the spin move by the former tv 9 athlete of the week for games first touchdown. And a huge crowd tonight from both teams. And the saints with a big play on special teams josh gerkee finds the great wall of china. Look at the blocking at he goes flying down sidelines still on his feet schulte on the quarterback keep to give xavier a 14nothing lead. But linn mar answered the wake up call Reese Philips hooks up with josh gassman right into your living room and that set up this austin chochrane field goal to cut the lead to 143. And then the linnmar running backs took over with the 12 punch neme saayee witth a big hole up the middle all the way inside the five yard line. And that set up the big back brennan mcgaffie for the touchdown and linn mar reeled off 20 straight poin prairie and jeff were looking to get in the win column tonight. And i love that super fan. Prairie lit the scoreboard first when zach ganske gets the edge and turns it up for the 10 yard touchdown run. And that had the home fans singing the fight song. Jeff came back and took a 76 lead on fourth and one they go for it and Keenan Stewart muscles his way across the goal line. And back and forth they caughs it up right to his teammate ganske. Franco harris style for the 22 yard score and a 127 lead. And the jeff players cant believe it. But the jhawks respond again. Dylan hart airs one out for jacob hdnerson who has the nice hesitation move to slip the the tackle and it was off the races for the 1412 halftime lead and jefferson beat prairie. We will have more highlights on the endzone when we order. Well experience the 60s and close to 70 by late morning. Weve got clear skies out there for the most part which allowed for us to get so cool, but these clear skies will allow for us to warm through the day as well. If you catch yourself going to the downtown cedar rapids Farmers Market then grab the jacket and enjoy the weather while having fun. Expect high temperatures to warm near 80 today and due to a southeasterl y wind the dew points will also rise. Dont worry, it wont be oppressive by to notice the mugginess in the air. The evening wont be too bad either. Well be slightly warmer than what we were this morning, but still in the 50s. Today mostly sunny. Wind se 510. High 78 alo 78 dbq 76 iow 78 75 to 81 tonight mostly clear, a few passing clouds. Wind se 510 low 59 alo 59 dbq 57 iow 59 56 to 62 topical storm hermine has family of raccoons in florida. Two baby raccoons lost their mom after the storm hit seffner, florida friday morning. The little f storm knocked down. A rescue group later took the baby raccoons in. Nathans famous says it made the longest line of hot dogs ever created on friday. Yorks Grand Central terminal. It took more than 19 hundred hot dogs to set the new record. After earning one percent in the 2012 president ial candidate is gaining ground this cycle. Libertarian gary johnson brings his 2016 campaign to iowa. Well show you where. Stay with us on your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Good morning from we asked u. S. Cellular customers to show us all the beautiful places they get coverage with our strong signal. You posted from the seashore. You shared from your hike. You showed us this sunset. You posted from the farm. And you adventured way out there. A lot of amazing places. . . U. S. Cellular put towers where the other guys dont. So join our network, and start sharing your moments this is the kcrgtv9 sunday morning news. Good morning and thanks for joining us. We begin with first alert storm t britley ritz. A definite cool start to your saturday morning is in order. Well experience temperatures in the low 50s to start off, but will warm into the 60s and close to 70 by late morning. Weve got clear skies o allowed for us to get so cool, but these highway 20 and interstate 380 is back open after a semi crash late last night. First responders were at the interchange until at least 1 00 this morning. Say a semi caught fire and may have exploded. We talked with the Black Hawk CountySheriffs Office earlier. Police havent disclosed any injuries or the cause of the incident. Stay with tv9 and kcrg dot com for any updates. A shooting injured two in johnson county, yesterday afternoon. Officers responded to 508 5th street in coralville around 3 45 after witnesses heard multiple gun shots. While police investigated the scene, two people showed up at a local hospital with guns wasnt random. The say the people shot were involved in an ongoing dispute of some kind. If you have any information on this case, youre asked to call coralville police. If you see something happening and you think we should know give us a call. Heres the number for newsline nine 3193659999. You can also send pictures and video to newsroom at kcrg dot com. A wisconsin couple is looking to reunite a dog with its owners after they say it floated down about a week ago, the family was camping at the big h campground, near cassville. They saw the dog struggling in fast moving mississippi waters. The family has no idea how long the beagle was in the water. They say the animal is deaf. A veterinarian couldnt couldnt figure out if flood waters damaged her hearing. The family says the pup is still very active. Theyve named her annie for now. The night that she came in it was our wedding anniversary so we thought that was cute to name her annie for anniversary and it kind of fit the whole orphan the owner we have Contact Information on our website at kcrg. Com an Environmental Group says iowa set a new state record this year, but not a good one. More beach advisories for toxic algae than ever before. The Iowa Environmental Council says the state has issued 37 beach advisories this year for bluegreen algae blooms. The advisories, last year. Its a growing problem. The dnr issued 185 beach warnings over the last decade. Bluegreen algae blooms are often fed by fertilizers, livestock waste and other pollution. Exposure can cause rashes and blisters. Recent political polls show a majority of americans have an unfavorable opinion of both major party candidates. Shot than years past. Libertarian and former new mexico governor gary johnson will be in des moines this afternoon. Hes scheduled to speak at a rally at grand View University at 2 00. National polls show johnson with about 10 percent support over the past several weeks. Johnson campaigned in milwaukee wisconsin, last night. The libertarian is calling for Smaller Government and trimming down the national debt. His website also states he wants to simplify the National Best option to unite the country. If either one of them get elected, does anybody think polarity in this country is going to get any better . No, its going to get worse than ever. Johnson said he was impressed with the size of his crowd considering his rally started right when the Green Bay Packers kicked off their final preseason game. A new poll shows iowans are torn be president 58percent have an unfavorable view of trump. 62percent have an unfavorable view of clinton. When asked who they would vote for in the Emerson College poll 44 chose trump. 39percent picked clinton. Thats within the polls margin of error meaning a statistical tie that same poll shows iowa senator Charles Grassley with a strong lead in his reelection bid. 51percent support the republican. 40percent like democrat patty of 3 point 4 percent. Gameday is finally here in iowa city. Today the hawkeyes officially kick off the 2016 season inside kinnick. Leading up to the game was the annual fryfest last night in coralville, where a statue now stands in honor of long time hawkeye football coach hayden fry. Fryfest organizers unveiled the bronze likeness yesterday. Coach fry even got a little emotional to see the statue today. He say the last year he attends the event. Artist steve maxon says this is the first time hes sculpted a living person. He had just one opportunity to meet with coach fry to learn as much as he could to create his piece of art. I think it turned out pretty good, im really pleased with it. I dont know who posed for it, but it sure is good looking. Its probably one of the Better Things weve done, one of the best things weve done the statue now sits near Kinnick Stadium on game day. After an 8 month wait, its finally game day for the hawkeyes. The 17th ranked hawks open their season against miami of ohio at 2 30 this afternoon. If youre not heading down to kinnick, you can watch the game on espnu. This morning, Tropical Storm hermine is tracking north along the east coast. Thats after leaving plenty of destruction near floridas gulf coast on stay with tv9. Its. Saturday morning is in order. Well experience temperatures in the low 50s to start off, but will warm into the 60s and close to 70 by late morning. Weve got clear skies out there for the most part which allowed for us to get so cool, but these clear skies will allow for us to warm through the day as well. If grab the jacket and enjoy the weather while having fun. Expect high temperatures to warm near 80 today and due to a southeasterl y wind the dew points will also rise. Dont worry, it wont be oppressive by any means, just enough for you to notice the mugginess in the air. The evening wont be too bad than what we were this morning, but still in the 50s. Today mostly sunny. Wind se 510. High 78 alo 78 dbq 76 iow 78 75 to 81 tonight mostly clear, a few passing clouds. Wind se 510 low 59 alo 59 dbq 57 iow 59 56 to 62 hermine is tracking up the east coast. This is a live look from North Carolina where the storm is bringing strong winds and rain this morning. Hermine made landfall a little more than 24 hours ago on floridas gulf coast. Once it moved off the Florida Panhandle crews got busy getting power restored to more than 250 thousand people. Says it has crews working to get power back on as quickly as possible. Were going around just trying to get as many people on as we possibly can, just start eliminating it down to smaller outages, everybody be patient, we are going at it as hard as we can. Hermine was a category one hurricane when it hit, yesterday morning. That makes it the first hurricane to hit the state of 2005. From there, hermine moved on to georgia as a Tropical Storm. It left plenty of debris along city streets in an area just north of the Florida State line. The storm uprooted one large tree and dropped it right on the roof of this twostory house. In hawaii, a hurricane watch has been dropped for the big island, but the threat remains for a coup