In a tone noticeably different from his months on the campaign trail, president elect donald trump now begins the long Journey Towards assuming the highest office in the land. The future 45th president of the United States is keeping a low profile right now, before he meets with his predecessor at the white house tomorrow. But early this morning, while many slept, he claimed victory in front of some of his biggest supporters. Trump took the stage in the Early Morning hours today. With markets around the world plunging on the news that he had defeated democrat Hillary Clinton, his words appeared to ease fears before the sun came up. Its been what they call a historic event but to be really historic you have to do a good job, and i promise you i wont let you down. Ill do a great job. We have Team Coverage tonight on the next steps towards the peaceful transfer of power. But dora miller is looking into the calls for unity from both sides of the race. Dora miller is looking into the calls for unity to both sides of race. Tonight this was a safe place for people to talk about their dis appointments about the president ial election but more than that, organizers say they wanted to take action tonight and they wanted to learn how to accept our new president. More than just and singing, there was hurt looking back on 2016 president ial race. There is nothing nothing that i saw even during the republican primaries that indicated that trump had a chance of wing. Reporter people from different backgrounds met here, it sunk in. Ive had a really rough day today. Generation. Reporter moving forward, a challenge that some didnt think theyd have to face, but now, say theyre ready to accept. 39 04 21 we have to keep speaking up and speaking the truth and fight for what we believe is the noble values this country was established based on. 42 15 12 start act to love yourself and love other people especially people who are different than you. No longer just a Campaign Slogan love trumps hate is now a promise to repair. 30 38 29 we are about unity and diversity and loving and we are about unity and diversity and loving and accepting that is what we are about. That is america. Reporter now different groups say they plan to meet in tonights event brings us to our question of the day. Do you think our nation will unite you think our nation will unite and move forward off the after the election. Cast your vote at fox28 iowa. Com. You will find a link right there on the home payable. Vet 2016 Team Coverage continues with Bernie Sanders with last nights results that are still 24 hours later being counted. Reporter thats right the overall winner is already known. At this moment there are still a number of states that yet to declare a victor. This is where the electoral map stands right now. March begins between donald trump and Hillary Clinton remain raise your thin. If they were to swing in trumps column the mrez elect could win with more than 00 ee electoral votes. Take a look at the popular for just the second time in the last 125 years, a candidate won the white house without winning the popular vote. Right now, clinton has that lead by nearly 200 thousand votes but that is little consolation for the democratic nominee who fell short of winning last nights contest. She publicly conceded the race to trump and became emotional when speaking to yog america. Never doubt you are valuable and powerful and every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams. Reporter despite her defeat she said i still believe in america and i always will. Coming up in 22 minutes we will look at what a Trump Administration could look like and also what he wants to accomplish in the first days in office and will show you how resistance from his own party to capital hill. We will take a look at state elections in a moment. Terry swails is here with a forecast we can be happy with. Reporter warm temperatures will return to the area after a little bit of a downturn today. The forecast looks good here the next 24 hours. Theres the radar showing a clean slate once again all around eastern iowa. Heres the satellite. We dont show a cloud. Thats how quiet it is in the on the morning commute the sun will be out and temperatures will be cool right around 35 to 37 degrees. Winds southwest at 5 to 15 and after that, sunshine and south westerly winds will really send the temperatures warming quickly and by 3 00 in the afternoon we should be up to 67 degrees and that is roughly 18 to 20 degrees above the seasonal norm. Another very nice day coming up tomorrow. We continue today vote at the statehouse. Reporter take a look at the numbers a whoping 3 of all registered vote yoerz or more than one and a half Million People cast their ballots this year and actually thats the same level seen in 2008. All the votes turned iowa solid red for the first time in nearly 20 years. Come january, republicans will the senate. Lieutenant kim reynolds says this will bring new opportunity to debate legislation. Whether Water Quality for Tax Deduction or investing in children the debate is healthy so im excited about the opportunity to continue the dialogue to have the discussion about issues that will help iowans. One vacancy in the quad cities that will be filled by a democratic senator joe sang. The city of North Liberty will once again search for a new mayor. Amy neil son holds the post but last night she won a seat in the iowa house. Once she begins the job in january she must resign her city leaders will have 40days to appoint a new mayor. 18 56 09 if they appoint, the citizens of North Liberty they decide not to petition and go along with the councils appointment, then that person will be up for election come november. As for the outgoing mayor, nielsen tells fox 28 news she hopes the council finds some . New voices in the community to try and build a more Diverse Group of leaders. Iowas Libertarian Party is now claiming a victory in this years election. President ial candidate Gary Johnsons them whats known as full president ial dairy johnsons performance is enough to earn him full status. He earned 4 of the vote here in iowa. Any candidate that erns more than 2 earns the full status for their party. Lib terence candidates in iowa can file paperwork with the state before summer primaries. The party hopes that will increase exposure of their candidates. New tonight a group of eastern iowa gathered to show support for president elect. Skeven live. All across the nation were looking from protest from people who dont like donald trump or Hillary Clinton supporters. This one were seeing on top of a transit bus in chicago. Froerdz the west coast all the way to the east coast. Right here in cedar rapids the Iowa Conservative Union institution lietzed their open extra sell vertebra to her feeling thchlt would have happened regardless. The total is set by republicans taking the u. S. House and iowa rather the u. S. Senate and the iowa senate. He says for people who enjoy carrying and buying guns, a trump win is helpful. Good news we have a booth this weekend for the gun show out there. And i suspect a lot of those dealers may have purchased ex a hillary win. My understanding there should be a lot of sales with the trump win, it just makes sense. Reporter theres the gun show out at hawkeye down similar to one back in the caucus season. Martin oh mal lee protested out in front and held a rally there before a similar gun show just about a year ago. 9. This is an overnight kind of thing. Were all the sudden robots will be taking the recognize of iowa. I sight that can turn a few heads along i380. Plans to put trucks to the busy stretch of interstate without anyone behind the wheel in a fox28 special report. Ill let you know where you can see trouble spots on the roads for morning commute and one area that is going to be seeing an end to their construction project in your tomorrow on fox 28 morning live, our favorite fourlegged guests join us in the studio tomorrow how you can keep your pets happy through the hectic holidays. Thats tomorrow morning right here at 7 am. Now has residents opinions on the future of mount vernon house to discuss the issue. Issue. Residents interested in they held a third open house to discuss the issue. Residents interested in a make over got to speak to the engineers who will come up with the final designs. Planners are pouring overall the ideas brought to the table and they hope to have a plan for city leaders to address in the coming months. An update now on a School Bus Crash in northeast iowa. The suspect in the case admitted he was responsible for colliding with the school sending dozens of kids to the hospital. It happened just northeast of man chester last year. 42year old of arlington rammed into the bus. Passengers told fox28 news the bus rolled twice before coming to a stop. Now he has pleaded guilty to owi second offense and two counts of serious injury by vehicle. His sentencing is set for january 18th. Car krashz claimed 320 lives last year here in iowa. Technology to reduce the number of fatalities behind the while. Connor morgan explains how the future of driver may take the driver out from behind the wheel blightly in a special report. This years death count has already surpassed the 2015 total. And we still have almost 2 2 months left to go. The alarming rise signifies a not all are fullspeed ahead. If you travel down i380 regularly between cedar rapids and iowa city youre used to seeing traffic youre used to seeing crashes and youre used to seeing drivers. Its unfamiliar to us to see a vehicle, whether it be a large semitruck or even a small personal vehicle, driving and not seeing somebody behind the driver wheel. Unfamiliar . Yes. Unheard of . No. The iowa dot is teaming up with mapping firm here and the university miles of i380 into a test zone for automated vehicles. Dan mcgehee is the director of the National Advanced driving simulator at the university of iowa and says the projects primary purpose is to improve driver safety. 95 percent of car crashes have some sort of human error involved. Thats a really high number relative to crash causation. And so these technologies are going to help reduce that. A reduction of up to 80 percent according to the these technologies will that. Reporter a reduction of up 80 meaning 250 lives snaifd 2015 alone. Freight is the focus for this transformation but some the Trucking Industry arent convinced this plan will improve safety. Right now 75 of the fault. is that going to reduce the accidents . Because were looking at autonomous trucks right now, not necessarily the fourwheeled vehicles on the interstate. Another concern for Truck Drivers is the idea of being vehicles, i mean thats obviously what theyre aiming for is to make the actual truck driver obsolete. Currently there is a truck Driver Shortage and some companies are stalling as a result. Some in the industry are looking to technology as the solution. If were able to continue to move forward with the driverless technology, that will enable those companies to continue to grow and fill some of these positions that there arent individuals available to fill. The National Advanced driving simulator has been studying automation for more than two decades and pumping the brakes on Technology Replacing humans at least right away. Dm its very much a gradual process. This is not an overnight kind of thing where all of a sudden least right away. This is a gradual process. The first generation is going to be where we sit behind the wheel and turnover control to the vehicle. Reporter Industry Experts say truly drivers cars are possible but a long way out. Project will give us a better timeline of when. Covering the corridor Connor Morgan fox28 news. We want to know what you think about this technology to weigh in and join in on the conversation on the Facebook Page kfxa fox28. Just ahead. Were not democrats first, were not republicans first. We are americans first. Reporter how president obama is preparing to greet his success your and a closer look at what the first weeks of a Trump Administration might look like. Behind me you can see on the satellite there is no clouds anywhere around the upper midwest. Im confident we will see lots of sunshine tomorrow and with winds from the southwest our temperatures will take a nice jump here. I think you will like the i think you will like the we want to show you a live picture we want to show you a live picture from chicago where protests continue right now after the election of donald trump earlier this morning. Similar mass demonstrations are taking place right now in pennsylvania, california and a number of other states. Were going to continue to monitor these will bring you updates throughout the broadcast. Swale swalz jones us now a quiet night here in the core for. Reporter all quiet on the midwestern weather front tonight. You read the book too . laughing . Ive been reading it for 6 weeks. Its been awfully quiet. I dont see big changes coming up in the next several days but i do think temperatures will be warmer tomorrow. Heres the radar and not showing any precipitation upper midwest or the central United States. A quiet weather pattern currently locked in place. Heres our satellite with the High Pressure rimging right through the middle of country it shut down moisture and no clouds to be found. With clear skies tonight it will be a cool night ahead. Tomorrow mornings commute here in the corridor temperatures will be in the range of about 35 to 3 degrees. Right around 7 00 a. M. Winds will be light out of the southwest at 5 to 10 to begin the day. Star reschool night ahead of us tonight. Tomorrow the winds will pick up a little in the afternoon hours. Up to 25 miles per hour. That will bring unseasonably mild air back to the midwest. After that a little cool down expected on friday and into early saturday. Overall, pretty steady as she goes as far as the weather is concerned. Above normal temperatures and absolutely nothing in terms of precipitation. Pattern. The last time we had rain in cedar rapids was back on november 2nd. The next chance i can see is not until november 18th. If that works out, well go 15 consecutive days without any rain. But no weather probs there. Weve had 7. 68 inches above the normal for the here so far. Plenty wet but see a nice stretch of dry weather continuing for the next 7 days. On the protect your tonight, High Pressure we talked about. You can see the absence of upper midwest. And as that High Pressure gradually drifts off to the southeast we see the front develop to the northwest of us tomorrow evening. We have a nice southwest wind blowing in tomorrow and that will send the temperatures up quickly after a cool night and by afternoon we will be back in the middle 60s. It might be 15 to 18 degrees above the seasonal norms. This is the precipitation of next week and nothing around eastern iowa and i dont think its going to be until sometime thursday or friday of next week before we get our next chance. Get used on the clear skies. They will be in the forecast for several days to come n. The north tonight, low temperatures should be back around 34 to 36 degrees, maybe a patchy frost in spots. Winds southwest from 5 to 10. Southern counties mid30s about 36 in tomorrow in the north, sunshine, brisk winds in the afternoon. 65 in post individually, about 6 in waterloo, man chest year looking at 65degree high. In southern counties iowa city coming in tomorrow at 68 degrees. Series rapids 6 and might be pushing 70 around washington before the day is son. Done. Lots of sun shined around. Temperatures cool off a little bit on friday and saturday. Thats only temporary. Towards the end of the weekend by tuesday and wednesday of next week, temperatures will be back in the 60s as that next storm system develops to the west of us that could bring us the first rain in about 15 days weather first coverage continues with Rebecca Kopelman looking ahead to the commute tomorrow. Reporter we have spots where we have lane reductions and closures. And then we have good news during the evening commute tomorrow. Cedar rapids downto avenue at 7th street southwest near Mercy Hospital lanes will be reduced down to one for eastbound traffic downtown. That has started today and work there is expected to take about a week. So if you typically take th avenue downtown you could expect delays there and then heading further north along rob bins road actually going to be closed starting tomorrow for a week. And that is going to be north of boy son road along rob bins and work is expected to take about a week. One of the roundabouts in marion will be reopened. Thats at 7th avenue and 7th street in marion. And it will be reopening after a Ribbon Cutting ceremony at 4 00 p. M. Tomorrow. So if you typically take that route and you get a little biz yeararound there you will have to deal with that in the morning by the evening commute it will be opened and definitely lighten up some of the traffic there in mario next on the fox28 news at 9. A closer look at president elect trumps top goals when he takes office. The Campaign Promise fellow republicans say will never happen. Here is a live look from pennsylvania protesters demonstrating. More coverage when fox28 news at 9 returns. Listen throughout the day for weather first forecast on uncertainty welcome back for the last few days we have been tracking how the markets are performing toward the very end of the president ial election. This is the graph we this is the friday before sunday where