totoill a budget shortfafa through a proposed property tax levy. levy. fox 28 news reporter matt hammill joins us live right now in cedar rapids with more on tonight's results, matt? supporters of this tax levy - gathered here at parlor city tonight - - hoping this turns into a victory - celebration celebrationthis is where they held thehe watch party - to see the voting results come in - after the polls closed at eight.they've been on the streets for months - - handing out information - and telling anybody who would listen - why they think this levy - is critical.when we stopped at the library this afternoon - it was packed tax - amounts to about 23 - dollars a year - for a family that owns a 150- thousand dollar home.with-out it - supporters say -ours and services - at this brand new library - would have to be cut - - and they say that's a step backwards. we really we really haven't heard any vovol ** opposition to the library tax levi - - but with a low voter turn-out - nothing is guarenteed.we'll be here - when the results come matt thanks.here's a look at some of the other races in cedar rapids tonight.in district four, incumbent councilman scott olson was kuzela. and in the at-large race, incumbents ann poe and susie three other contenders. contenders. turning now o some interesting races in marion tonight. tonight.mayor snooks bouska announced earlier this year he would not seek re-election.so three men were looking to take his place, including two there were also a pair of council races in marion. incumbent kim etzel faced a challenge in ward one. one. in ward three, current council member cody crawford did not seek re election. election. coming up in a few minutes, we'll take a look at some of the bigger races in johnson county tonight.we'll also continue to scroll results at the bottom of your screen. screen.and, as always, get a complete list on our bsite, fox 28 iowa dot com. safe to sasatoday's weather would have gotten terry elected to just about any office. office.so how long will our indian summer last? more than six months after a marion woman was murdered in broad daylight, the trial against the man accused of taking her life is now underway. attorneys delivered their opening statements today in the case against nicholas luerkens. luerkens.he's accused of stabbing lynnsey donald in the marion hy-vee parking lot back on ail 21st. 21st.fox 28 news reporter dora miller has beeeefollowing this case a a has more on the first day of testimony, dora? emotions were high in the courtroom as the jury -- and family members -- watched a 10- minute video of the stabbing. we also heard from employees who tried to help donald that day. day. you could hear every sniffle in the courtroom as everyone watched lynnsey donald lay lifeless in the marion parking lot.a video shown to the jury on tuesday afternoon n displayed the horrific crime committed by nicholas luerkens. luerkens. "he heads south and pulls behind a, looks like an - and here comes your victim." the loss prevention coordinator from another hyvee helped officers find video from the four cameras that covered the parking lot. lot. "he's coming in between the cars, you can see him ththe...he nfronts her there."even on the stand, it was hard to hide the emotion. officer nick martens was the first officer who responded to the scene ...he says he knew mediately donald wasasdead.a dashcam video shown to the jury explained the scene martens came in on. on. "she wasn't moving at all, i noticed that she appeared to have a cut to her neck, a very severe laceration, she wasn't breathing, she wasn't moving." he says a hyvee employee helped detain who they believed was the suspect. suspect. "he was screamg several times that he wanted to die, he was screaming no many times." times." "i noticed he had blood on his shirt and then i found out shortly later that luerkens is charged with first degree murder but has pleaded not guilty-- claiming he was insane or had diminished capacity at the time.if he's convicted he'll face a life sentence with no chance of parole.dora miller, fox 28 news. ininaterloo right now... now...investigators are piecing together what happened during an officer involved shooting. shooting.according to the waterloo cedafalls crier, it all started at about three this afternoon when police tried to pull over a aan near the intersection of fourth and wellington streets. streets.the van sped off and the chase ended when the driver pulled into a driveway on south hahaett road.police say the driver got out of the vehicle and ran into a garage where he was shot.the iooa d-c-i is now investigating the case. turning to tonight's'sote 2016 coverage.... coverage...democratic frontrunner hillary clinton made a stop in the corridor today todayand her focus was on health care.when clinton qas first lady, she unsuccessfsfl campmpgned for universasa health care.now, six years after the passage of the affordable care act, she says the focus should be on improving the law, not repealing it. "18 million americans now have access to healthcare that didn't before and we can't start this debate all over again." again." clinton says there are aspects of the law that need improvement.like reducing out-of-pocket prescription drug costs and allowing patients living with pre- existing conditions to still receive coverage. righnow, nenepoll numbers are getting a lot of attention on the presidential campaign trail.fox 28 news senior political reporter scott thuman has reaction. reaction. as donald trump was doling out autographs at his new book signing tuesdada he took time to also dish out insults."my jeb impression, no i don't wanna do that, i don't like showing a person sleeping at a podium"though bush is trying to ject some enthusiasm inin thth lagging campaign:"i promise i will turn washington dc upside down, not for a partisan victory but to fix the system"trump can feel confident about his 15 point lead over the former florida governor...but he's also now taking more swipes at ben carson and a new wall street journal nbc poll shows e reat, is real. it's now the 2nd national survey to have carson on top...this time, by 6 points. who by the way, had his own book signing today. while they're facing off from states ay, they'll be doing so in *person* again, in just 1 week at the next gop debate in wisconsin. forums republicans e hoping to change."what's the perfect question? there is no perfect question. but you need a format that provides you an opportunity to really put out your philosophy"hillary had only softballs it was like this, here hillary, hit this one out of the park."as for clinton, she could boast about the 'scoreboard' a bit--since new numbers show *her* up 2-to-1 over bernie sanders nationally..though that lead, a negligeable *3* points in new hampshir-which will be one of the first states to weigh in.in new hampshire that's a 7 point jump for clinton, allowing her to knock sanders out of first place, at least for the time being. a significant change seeing as how we're now just about 3 months, from that primary.on capitohill, scott thuman. ohio governor john kasich says a balanced budget is a top priority in his presidential campaign. campaign.he spoke to a crowd of about 50-pele at loras college in dubuque.kasich is tied for sixth among republicans in a recent n-b-c news poll.kasich also touched on the topic of medicaid and his record of cutting costs in ohio.he said he doesn't have all ththfacts, but is supportive of f governor branstad's privatization plans in iowa. branstad's medicaid plan also is under scrutiny at the catol. capitol.a legislative over-sight committee started his plan to privatize iowa's medicaid program.for months, critics have voiced concerns over the administration's projected savings and how the change will affect patients. governor branstad insists--the switch will streamline service e and save iowa money. "networks won't be as fully developed as they will be a week from now or two weeks from now and we understand that and kbow that and that's a true statement." statement."the hearing is expected to last through tomorrow. for more on state politics, the presidential race and the rest of your politil headlines, don't miss 'iowa in focus' with kevin barry, t ts sunday morning at 9:30, right here on fox 28. still to come on the fox 28 news at nine.. nine..digging in for recovery. the new option planned for corridor patients who need help getting back on their feet.that and more election results, when the fox 28 news on average, women need to work an extra two hours each day, join the fight fororqual pay. join the fight for sara and women everywhere. us tomorrow morning at seven for fox 28 morning live if you're looking for some n ideas for your gameday parties parties hyvee will be here with some gameday snacking tips and ideas!that's tomorrow on fox 28 morning live. join us right now, results continue to trickle in from tonight's municipal elections across the corridor. corridor.we want to take a look at a few of the key races we're following tonight... tonight...in iowa city... city...ncumbent rick dobyns faced a challenge for his council seat in ward a. turning to ward c, this was a wide open race between scott mcdonough and john thomas. thomomas. and finally, in the at-large race, two incumbents were hoping to hang o oo heir seats.. seats.. turning now to north liberty just one contested race tonight... tonight...two incumbents hoping to hold onto their seats in a council race that three. for more election night informatioio we'll continue to scscll results from across your screen. and as always, you can find a complete list of election night results on our website, fox 28 iowa dotom. those needing physical therapy a new option. option.windmill manor, in coralville, broke ground for its new bounce back therapy room on liberty drive. officials say when it's complete, the center will ature state-of-thehert equipment that will both enhance safety and efficiency for those using it. "the new expanded therapy room will be available to the counity, not only for the patients that we serve in house that retururback to home, but also those who are from outside the community ." ."the new center is expected to open in march. next, more results from tonight's city elections. eleltions.also, we'll ininoduce you to a group trying to improve voting conditions, half a world away. away.but first, an up-and-coming local business will be bought out.we'll tell you who is snatching up the tailgate clothihi company. turning now to some interesting races in rion tonight. tonight.mayor snoooo bouska announced earlier this year he would not seek re-election.so three men were looking to take his place, inclcling two current members of the city council council there were also a pair of council races in marion. incumbent kim etzel faced a in w wd three, cucuent council seek re election. election. coming up in a few minutes, we'll take a look at some of the bigger races in johnson county tonight.we'll also continue to scroll results at the bottom of your screen. screen.and, as always, get a complete list on our website, fox 28 iowa dot com. when you think of career fairs, reaching out to those always come to mind. mind.today more than 400-high school studenen turned out for the johnson county high school career fair.more than 25- businesses set up looking to hire them.tehers leading the utudents say often they think they're too young for the opportunities that exist. an iowa city store that made headlines after opening a year ago is now going through another transition. today, co-owner and former n-f-player nate kaeding tweeted tailgate clothing company has been sold to american eagle. the des moines register reports that the plan is to open as many as 200 new stores.the 11-million dollar deal gives american eagle a hand in e widely-popupur college apparel market. next, we'll look at the races in hiawatha tonight. tonight.we'll also show you the local effort to help in elections thousands of miles away from)iowa. iowa.and later, a fox 28 news exclusive on the growing push to make big changes to security and the nation's we continue to track the latest election numbers coming in.and here are the results right now in hiawatha. hiawatha.incumbent yor tom theis was challenged by william bennet junior. junior. alal tonight, three council seats were up for grabs with three incumbents hoping to hold onto them. them. for a a complete list of tonight's results, head to our website, fox 28 iowa dot com. while *local issues take center stage in today's city elections - some are preparing r elections in their h he country - of west africa. africa.wake up for your rights is a cedar rapids organization focused on election engagement in the country of benin. (beh- nin)fox 28 news reporter steffi lee explains how they this. "i feel heartbroken, when i watch the news and there's some other bad things happening in africa."former nigerian c cld soldier esaie toingar's knows what it was like to feel voiceless. voiceless."we as immigrants, we run away, come here and everyone has a g gd history o tell."wake up for your rights is his organization based out of cedar rapids.they train men and women to have conversations on the elections in benin - pushing transparency. "s"swe ttin them. after that, we ask them to go and share what they learned here with their basis."he says whe west example of democracy and wants that to spread to other countries in africa.so far - he's already partnered with officials inbenin to conduct grondwork for the presidential election next february. february."if gogornment want to do something, we talk together."toingar's already published books - explaining the election process, and also uncovering what might not be obvious. obvious. "young people are busy with war, and other crimes. but to tackle those things, (there is so much dead air...please cut) "we have to educate them."while iowans continue to meet and greet the presidentialcandidates flocking to the hawkeye state, that gives toingar a direction for africa. africa. 'we are able to make impact in elections in benin." covering the corridor in cr, steffi lee, fox 28 news. the group plans to implelent ways to make polling locations more convenient.if you'd like to get involved, their information is on our website at fox 28 iowa dot com. here at home, the votes are coming in... in...next on the fox 28 news at nine, we'll recap tonight's resultltin the fight to fund the cedar rapids public library programs and operations costs. costs.and later, the hawkeyes get some respect in the first college football playoff rankings.we'll show you where e iowawaits right now -- when a beautiful new downtown library is in need of millions of dollars.tonight, voters were asked to pick up that tab in cedar rapids. we want to re-cap the results of that vote---a proposal that would levy a tax on local property owners to make up for the dget shortfall. shortfall.without it--library leaders warned-- services and hours would have to be cut. cut.and here are tonight's results.... turning to races s w in black hawk county... county...waterloo is electing a new mayor tonight.five men and women were seeking to become the city's 40th mayor. and we will not find out who wins this race tonight.quentin hart received the most votes, but not enough to prevent a runoff vote against former waterloo mayor tim hurley.the winner, which will be determined in a december 1st runoff, succeeds mayor buck clark, who is stepping down after six years on the job. another mayoral race took place tonight in neighboring cedar falls.jon crews is seeking a 16th term as mayor, but he faced a challenge from two ponents.these are now final and mayor crews did *not* get the most votes. however, the black hawk county auditor tells fox 28 ns that this race will likely go to a runoff since no one received a jority.there were other races in black hawk county. we're scrolling those on the bottom of the screen and you terry thanks.they are tasked & with keeping us safe. but the transpsptation curity administration failed to do so in multiple undercover operations.that's led some to call for drastic changes to the agency correspondent kristine frazao report. r travelers it's become a familiar drill -shoes off. laptops out. and don't forget to leave large liquids at home. with all the precautions travelers s take, the t-s-a's massive deficiences are glaring, and central to calls by some to privatize the government agency"airlines and airports should be in charge of the security of air travel because they have their money on the line."the cato institute's jim harper has written about the inefficiencies of the t-s-a for years."if each airline and airport has a different security system, it's harder to plan any kind of attack. what we've got now is a homogenous one-size-fits all system that as we've seen doesn't work very well. ""the most recent audit of the tsa found failures acroro the ard - from human errors to tsa procedures to failures in technology. now, even some lawmakers are calling for a complete overhaul."congressman john mica wants the governrnnt oversee the t-s-a, but to focus on security only.he says screeners should be privatized. tsa needs to set the andards and the protocals and then conduct ththaudits but focus on intelligence and security - connecting the dotsbut t-s-a officials reminded congress that since their formation after the 9-11 attacks,there have been no terrorist attacks on airplanes,s,nd insist they continue to improve."we have trained our officers to understand and use equipment properly and we've corrected our procedures."officials with the seven billion dollar a year agency acknowledge there's room for improvement but contend they should be the ones to do it all.in washington, i'm kristine frazao reporting hawks makin' history -- coming up in spspts sportsiowawaade a splash in the first college football playoff poll -- but what it really means to the team teamplus -- the cyclones spinning with confidence after texas -- why they'll need a repeate performance to slow down okokhoma -- next on fox for the first time ever -- the hawks have cracked the collllege football playoff poll -- and they flew in high -- iowa sits 9th in the first poll of the season -- at the end of the year, the top 4 teams witl play for a national championship championshipif the season ended today it would be clemson, lsu, ohio state, and alabama -- but it's not the end of the season -- so the hawks aren't worried about it -- as mia o'brien expains -- 9 is just an number to them.. the hawkeyes are ranked in the top ten---- --"you would rather be ranked and mentioned than not be mentioned." and in the national converaraon cocoeration"that shows you're doing good stuff and you're being successful as a team." "definitely nice that people are starting to show us the respect that you know we feel like w% earned and you know we're gonna keep going out% there make people respect us." but as nice asasthe recognition has been, the hawkeyes aren't buying into the hype just yet. yet."as much as it is nice, you gotta take it with a grain of salt and understand there's a lot of games left o be played." played."all that hype it doesn't do anything for us."so the dvr wasn't set to tonight's first college football playoff ranngs .. .."i can almost guarantee the four teams selected in it tonight won't be the e ur teams in it in the end." "right now, in our eyes it's a one game season. we're just focused on indiana"as the hawkeyes tune out the noise... noise..."just don't watch espn!" espn!""we can't really control what they decide, we just control what we can control." and take it one game at a time time"our record speaks for itself, our mentality hasn't changed since the beginning. and that's the same approach this week."as they geget for indiana. in iowa city, mia o'brien, cbs 2 sports. all the talk this week in ames s been the iowa statat defense e and ightfully so -- the cylcones shut out texas -- that doesn't just doesn't happen -- and this saturday i- s-u will need another texas- defense oklahoma loves to run the ball to set up the pass -- meaning -- they run and run and run -- and then throw a play action pass that fools the defense -- so the key for the clones -- stop the run -to stop the play action pass. "playing like this --- is hard, so that's what i want to see our guys do. i want to see our guys play the run when they should play the run and play the pass when they should play the pass and play i urgently and plpl it fast." fast.""we just going to come out the same way we came out the texas game, stop what they love to do. they love to run and throw the football, but we have to stop the run to give us a chance in this game." speaking of defense -- the panther d -- has been stoute the last two weeks -- u-n-i held both south dakota and south dakota state under 100 yards rushing -- forced 3 turnovers --- and allowed a total of 14 points -- but the biggest thing is -----they're getting off the field -- their opponents have converted on 3rd down -- just 9 times in 2 games -- that's a win for the defense and a win for mark farley it's fun for them when they're all aying like that because they kind of feed off each other... and they get energy from each other... and when the defense makes some big play or gets that push in the middle or gets a sack... the d- b's will alws tend to play harder because they know they got pressure up front.. the d- secondary behind 'em... it doesn't matter how you win... it just matters of getting off the field... punching their tickets -- still to come on fox 2 28a trip to the cell center was on the line across the state -- would the cougars finally make it back to state wake up in your first home. wake up in a home with a new address. wake up in a home with no address. your dream home evolves, and protecting it takes committed pport. american family insurance. cedar rapids prairie hasn't been to the state tournament since 2008 -- a win tonight and the p-hawks are headed back --- but they have o get by dububuque hempstead -- who beat prairie at paririe paririethat only happened one other time all season first set -- prairie was flying early --- kate buzzwitz... smacks it through the mustang g would answer -- makayla doyle -- gets up to get down for the point -- mustangs took the first setand it was more of the same in the second -- elizabeth fleckenstein -- rises and fires -- hempstead wins in 4 and is headed to the cell. kennedy hosting ankeny -- cougars trying to get back to the cell for the first time since 2011already up a set -- they set up paige frank -- and she finishes the play -- frank with the kill -- kennedy with the pointand they were scoring at will -- later in the set -- anna fluent sets up macy anderson -- and she brings the heat -- and kennedy's headed to state with a 3 set sweep-- third meeting of the season between linn-mar and iowa ci we -- lions took the first 2 but this one means a holelelolo more -- first set -- and megan renner welcomes the women of troy to her block partythis play illustrates just how back and forth every point was -- emily halverson ends the volley at the netand thenen up ali tauchen -- she drops home the tip -- and the women of troz are headed to state with a sweep over the lions sunday the royals took the world series crown for the first time since 1985 -- today was the championship parade -- and lets just say jonny gomes was fired up to be a world seires champ "hey guess what.. cy young winner, not on our team .. beat em. ... rookie of the year... not on our team ... we beat them ... mvp of the hole league.. sorry guys... not on our team ... but w w beat that guy too... (crowd cheers)" that's a check of sports -- terry has a last check of your forecast when the fox 28 news at nine returns. @ thanks for dear future, sailed throughhat diaper stage, learned to walk, and i'm reading like a third-grader. but now it's time to go out into the world. and from what i hear, it's not all toys and games out there. will you look out for me, future?

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