Some cases violence. We have complete vote 2016 coverage beginning tonight. You are looking at oregon. We are taking a look at minneapolis. This is one of our sister say stick their stations. They have an aerial view of i 94. If you meant to go there were protesters all along the roadway down here and a massive show of police just in front of them on i 94 near the downtown area of minneapolis. In the last few minutes they have been moved off of i 94 and as theyve moved backwards this is the police behind them. They were pushing them off the interstate. Nothing has gotten violent but we have seen protests in oakland, washington dc, los angeles, baltimore, minneapolis and one happening in vancouver canada. This is what donald trump tweeted out within the last 45 minutes. He said he hadnt open successful election. Now protesters incited by the media protesting. We have not seen this kind of tweet in a few weeks. There is some talk that his staffers had taken his twitter account away. Seems like right now hes this is the kind of tweet that we would normally see when resident elect trump would be tweeting on his own and sending his own personal tweets without much staff input. We will keep tracking this is some of the protests going on around the country. Of the emotions are running high it does not change the fact that president elect trump will take the oath of office in 10 weeks. Kristine frazao takes into the reasons behind the anger as we and down to la and angry reaction by some to the outcome of tuesdays election. Some demonstrators set fire to a donald trump effigy. Others refusing to acknowledge the prospect of a president truck. It turns out he will be there president. Thanks to the u. S. Constitution. The president is chosen not by the people but by Electoral College. Even up alert clinton win the popular vote he won far more than 270 votes required by the Electoral College. The day after the election you had people calling to abolish the Electoral College. How like we with that happen . It is impossible. The problem is that would require a constitutional amendment which would require support by three quarters of the state. Speaking out. In his victory speech donald trump suck a different tone calling for unity. I pledge to every citizen of our land that i will be president for all americans. The question for many including constitutional law professor is what happens once donald trump gets into the white house. Its a risk to a political backlash responded with more power. Things may get dangerous and unpredictable. In a predictable future from a predictable candidate following an election no one will ever forget. President obama and donald trump try to ease nerves at that meeting before the the two were scheduled for about 10 minutes. Instead it lasted 90 minutes. Despite the intense and personal attacks between the two men in years both men projected to the world that there will be no conflict from one administration to the other. We want to do everything we can to help you succeed. If you succeed the country 60s. I look forward to dealing with the president s in the future including counsel. He explains some of the trump. The trumps have a 10yearold son who will be the first boy to grow up in the white house since jfk junior in the early 60s. That brings us to our question of the day. Do you like the Electoral College system or do you think we should switch to a National Popular vote for on the link to our question of the day, right on the home page. Weatherfirst chief meteorologist joins me now new this hour, alburnett city leaders have decided to opt out of plans to raise the minimum wage in linn county. They are now the third and largest Linn County Community to keep their lowest wage at 725 an hour. Earlier this year, linn county supervisors approved a plan to gradually raise the minimum wage at the beginning of each year. By 2019, the county minimum would be 1025 an hour. Hour. But moments ago, the Alburnett City Council voted to opt out. They join ely robins, which also decided to stay at the federal and state level. Iowas minimum wage has remained 725 an hour since 2008. Right now a judge is deciding 7. 25 an hour since 2008. Right now a judge is deciding whether to move mary beth haglins trial out of linn county. Shes the former teacher accused of sexually exploiting a student at Washington High School where she worked as a substitute. A hearing this mornings media coverage. The judge has until november 17 to rule. Tonight the Iowa Supreme Court has closed the door on efforts to reopen to Mental Health institute. Governor. Winds at shut the facilities down last year. Steffi lee has the response Mental Health beds and access to Mental Health treatment and this decision by the Iowa Supreme Court wi that negative impact. Ultimately we all pay higher cost when Mental Health treatment does not occur at the appropriate levelstate senator matt mccoy says hes devastated with the Iowa Supreme Courts decision on the closures of both clarinda and Mount Pleasant mental devastated with the Iowa Supreme Courts decision on the closures of both clarinda and Mount Pleasant health institutes. The Supreme Court upheld a Lower Court Rulings in favor of Terry Branstad thursday saying he acted within the law when vetoing funding for the two Mental Health hospitals and closing them. For him to unilaterally decide to close these facilities , we believe voted legislative intent. Argued that a code in state law requires i will to have for Mental Health institutes. Winds at overstepped his boundaries. The law firm branstad. The only way out is to improve the legislation statue. Branstad spokesperson is bonded to the ruling saying in part governor. Branstad is committed to putting patients first. He wants to improve care, increase access and modernizing the delivery of Mental Health inpatient beds open across the state. Whether it is legal or not closing our Mental Health institute costs all iowans. Cost employers, hospitals, the Governors Office tells fox 28 news the states Mental Health care redesign allows iowans to get more treatment in a Community Based setting. Next on the fox 28 news at nine an iowa senator is again demanding answers after the suicide of a wa allegedly turned away from a corridor va hospital. Ill have the latest on the governments investigation. Y24zwy y12fy tomorrow on fox 28 morning live, a very different kind of in iowa our plant expert shows us how. Thats tomorrow morning right here at 7 am. Months after a war veteran was turned away from the va hospital and i was city loved ones and lawmakers tonight are still waiting for an explanation. Karen fuller has new details tonight. Iowa senator joni ernst says shes been waiting more than 100 days for any information from an investigation at the iowa city va hospital and today she is demanding answers. Sergeant. Brandon ketchum went to see cal. Sadly 24 hours later he took his own life. Senator ernst else fox 28 news she has sent multiple letters ketchum was a veteran of the corrected some serious typos for another veteran and his fam. Family. Chester hendrickson earned some high honors while serving as a medic in vietnam. Among them, the silver star, bronze star and a combat medic badge. The only problem is the records misspelled his name among other errors. Hendrickson doesnt talk much about his service. He told fox 28 that, as a soldier in a warzone, he was simply doing his duty. Soldier in a w simply doing his duty. I did not think about it when i did it. It was something you trained to do. Theres an opportunity for dialogue about an important part of his life. Even though he was young as a medic in vietnam his service was significant whether people can see it or not. Wanted to correct the certificates to pass on to his children and grandchildren to reaching out to ernst for help. As a thank you to veterans many businesses are offering a show of support tomorrow for veterans day. Here in the corridor, there are deals at coffee shops, restaurants, rec centers and much more. More. For a complete list of deals for veterans in the corridor tomorrow, just go to our website, fox 28 iowa dot com. A crucial linn county service celebrated a milestone tonight. Tonight. Options of linn county is marking 50 years of community. The program serves area residents with disabilities. Those programs, including meals on wheels and animal rescue, emphasize volunteering and giving back to the community. Director jim fox tells fox 28 they are always looking for ways to expand their reach. Wed like for options to be thought of as services that are provided within the community at large, and that our program, our services are provided throughout the city of cedar rapids. Serves more than 140 adults through approximately 20 communitybased activities each day during the threat of a 2016 flood, many businesses had to shut down and pack up for a week to cut their losses. But mayor ron corbett was adamant about helping them get back on their feet. Feet. Tonight, fox 28 News Reporter dora miller revisited some of those businesses to see if the challenge worked. Dora . It wasnt just a onemonth push the benefits of challenge are still rolling in. To give you an idea more than six figures were spent at businesses that shut down due to the flood. And Business Owners say they have thousands of people to thank. Thank. Thank goodness we had all these boxes and things. Its been more than a month since the flood threat. Threat. This was completely empty. The clean up effort happens to be a daily reminder. Reminder. Were putting things back. For two years, the create exchange has been a village. We have 3,000 square feet of little bits and pieces. A booming business might be an understatement we moved out of a much, much smaller space to come down here to Czech Village and within a month, we expanded into the building next door. But unpredictable water almost threatened not only the trinkets in the store but the livelihood of the people who sell them. Until the mayor challenged residents to step up. Percent increase during that we week. For downtown businesses. Businesses. Six dollars please. Even a month later the cr gavel challenge is still benefitting owners who were prepared to lose everythin. Everything. We have not really noticed a falloff of business, i think people continue to support the downtown business. Business. I like the jalapeno bacon, but we probably sell the most of the c cheese. I think the Mayors Challenge was good for us for a long time to come. Come. We have a lot of new customers because the gavel challenge did send a lot of new people down here. Challenge are posted on our website. The mayor says the hashtag might be gone but it doesnt have to stop here. Covering the corridor in cedar rapids, Dora Miller Fox 28 news just ahead on the fox 28 news at nine a smoother ride through the heart of marion. How the city marked the completion of a Major Overhaul of one of its we are taking a love look at Second Avenue downtown cedar rapids on this thursday evening. We are checking in with our chief meteorologist terry swails looking for a good tomorrow. Tomorrow is veterans day here in eastern iowa. A day designed to honor our veterans. It was not always called veterans day. Did you know that . What was a colt . I got a tale to tell you. When this was established it was in 1938. It was based on a treaty that ended world will world war i. Thats how the holiday got started back in the day based on the end of world war one in 1918. I did some digging and got a picture that was taken in 1918 and this is in downtown iowa city. You can see the veterans in iowa city filling the streets as they paraded on that day in 1918. Eventually back in eisenhower day in 1954 they changed from Armistice Day to veterans day and thats where we stand. As the day goes tomorrow there celebrations going on around eastern iowa. A lot of them are around the noontime our. At that point in the date temperatures should be around was the mostly sunny skies and briefly and Cool Conditions thanks for a cold front that is working its way towards eastern iowa. In advance to that were not seeing any rain or clouds. This is a dry front. It does have a shift in the winds will bring in the cooler air. You will notice the absence of whether around them upper midwest. It goes from canada to come. This will last into the upcoming weekend. Really nice weather conditions but it will be cooler. For the community and the corridor i look for temperatures to be in the upper 30s to 40 degrees around 7 am. I dont look for temperatures to go up too much. We may get into the low 50s but overall only 10 or 12 degree rise in temperatures from the morning lows. Tonight we have fair skies and colder conditions. Turns briefly and much cooler thing that they tomorrow. Temperatures will be down 15 degrees from today. We hit 67 in cedar rapids. After that the weekend starts out cool on saturday but warms up on sunday. Thats the day we should see the High Temperature close to 60 degrees. Tonight we have our front in the northeastern corner of the state but it is continuing to move to the south east. Tomorrow will be High Pressure and brisk winds out of the north and cooler temperatures that we deal with. Eventually for the weekend the high most to the east hell get to southerly winds will start warming up the temperatures. Once again you can see how quiet it is across the country. We are having a tough time finding clouds from washington dc to the state of iowa and all the way into northern california. Not too often that you see a stretch of clear skies like that. We are not showing precipitation until next week. Tonight will have 36 239. We will have clear skies entering breezy in the morning. Overall clear skies and colder pendant conditions. In the north tomorrow temperatures a bit cooler and in the upper 40s you the minnesota border. Along highway 20 it will be 50. Southern counties we should have hour and your extended forecast shows a dry weather lasting to the next seven days and overall temperatures run well above normal. A lot of 60s expected monday through thursday of next week. We continue with meteorologists rebecca koppelman. We have one road that closed today and we have a bridge that is opening tomorrow. Some good news coming for your commute. We do have one closed road in north of boyson road. Its amended to is expected to remain close for the week. Down further south to the west of i380 highway 965 which has been under construction for a tomorrow just in time for the commute. You will be able to use the highway. There could be some delays and some lane closures over the next few weeks. It will be reopening and i do want to remind anyone going to the i will game on saturday that the. Street is experiencing some construction in downtown iowa close to the campus. The city of iowa is encouraging nineyou can pick how you want to travel. Travel. Hopping on the bandwagon when it comes to ride sharing. The new option that will help you get from point a to point b here in iowa and we continue to monitor protests across the country in the aftermath of this weeks president ial election. This is a live picture from dallas, texas. Well get the latest from the breaking news desk when the fox 28 news at nine re. The antiprotest thoroughgoing all across the country. We brought you to minneapolis where we saw those live pictures. This is from baltimore where our sister station wbff has put out this picture on twitter. They are reporting that two people have been detained after the baltimore protest. There has been no violence and no charges filed. They say people were still active in downtown baltimore. We were saying this has been this is in vancouver, canada. This is from dallas where theres an antitrump rally earlier. This is in los angeles were protesters were blocking some of the highways like we were seeing in similar minneapolis. So causing disruption on those highways. We did see some Hillary Clinton supporters. Most nobility of goldstar military family. Donald trump is tweeting. This is developing and we are keeping an eye on it. Towards the end the show will take a quick look at what Hillary Clinton was up to two saturday. The latest download the cbs 2 and fox28 news app it is free some news you been waiting for. If you drive in marion karen fuller is here to explain this end of a long road project i drive by myself. Drivers in marion can go around the entire roundabout. This is a diagram the city posted on its Facebook Page to help motorists understand how this large roundabout works. The City Construction signs opening the new road to six straight. Local businesses have been dealing with a lot of construction for six months. The chamber of commerce president says new parking lots and better streets will help drive business back through their doors. The city hard at that and figured out ways where we were creating extra space throughout the construction process and the business community. The city says by moving some of the traffic to six straight it will make the uptown district less congested. There is a new way you could travel anywhere in the state. Its called i want rideshare. Its operated by the i will public transportation. Travelers can go online and find out if anyone is trying to go from cedar rapids to iowa city,