Clinton with a small advantage over republican nominee donald trump. But the battleground states, including iowa will determine this race. Race. And although clinton currently leads in most battleground states, trump is now well ahead here in iowa. He has pulled ahead with a five point advantage in the hawkeye state. So does the undercard debate tonight have an impact on any of those numbers . Cbs 2 news political reporter and host of iowa in focus kevin barry joins us now in the newsroom with the instant reaction to off, kevin . Tonight mike pence and tim kaine are touching on everything from russia to Donald Trumps taxes to how trustworthy Hillary Clinton really is. Is. While donald trump came into the president ial race with plenty of reality tv fame and Hillary Clinton spent a lot of time talking about controversies with her email and benghzi both vp and mostly respected histories as covernors and in congress from their home states. In the hours before the debate they said they wanted to get to talk a little bit about their personal political histories but their main job tonight is to defend the top of the ticket. Six times tonight, ive said to governor pence i cant imagine how you defend your runningmates position on one issue or the next and all six times hes refused to defend his runningmate. Dont put words in my to defend him, most of what youre saying is completely false and im happy to defend t. That. Later on the two vp picks did get into their religious beliefs. Theyre both very religious the difference is that tim kaine says he puts aside his doesnt use them to govern. That means that hes publicly prochoice when he personally says hes against abortion. Mike pence has been accused of trying to instill those religious beliefs on his right now, cedar rapids and iowa city have joined a growing list of communities reporting unusual sightings of clowns. The sightinigs have been reported in just about every part of the country. Univeristy of iowa police took multiple reports this week. And in cedar rapids, someone multiple reports this week. In cedar rapids someone said they saw clowns following them. Cutting in to his bottom line. Matt . Beep beep you never know what youll find on the ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhg but inside balloons etc and the costume emporium heres some of the scary clowns. Killer clowns from outerspace. Jacob sparkles cowger whos spent thirty years making people smile says the creepy clownsstalking the streets arent funny anymore. Anymore. People are starting to get terrified, theyre not surewhos wearing the costumes, whats going on what their intentions are. I dont know what this is, but i want to wear this vampires storm troopers and beer girls hes concerned halloween customers will avoid the it . . Costume and all the normally popular evil clown masks. And professional clowns fear their birthday bookings and clown car parades could d. Disappear. I mean its got people concerned that theyre gonna start getting shows cancelled. Squeeek squeeeeeek sparkles says for him, its all about the entertainment for him its all about the entertainment. This latest threat of violence or spreading the clown phobia that for some is very real. Clowns are meant to be happy , funny and bring enjoyment to people. What these people are doing is the opposite of what we are about. He says he thinks the incident here along edgewood road started out as a prank that he wants those who are dressing up to no, take it too far. Covering the corridor in cedar rapids matt hammill cbs 2 news 10 at 10. We continue with a look at other stories across the corridor. In cedar rapids the best western Coopers Mill Hotel may not be reopening even though it was untouched by the flood. City real estate manager says they have been negotiations with the Property Owner for a buyout since 2015. The city had the property million. If approved the building could come down next spring. The citys Flood Control System Committee heard updates on flood protection near the 16th avenue. Bridge. These renderers show the levy and floodwalls tents protect areas that were excluded from the temporary protections. The levy will have a 130 foot base and walls 13 feet high. Hold a public reception on friday to introduce for candidates vying to be the next police cheif. The one hour reception is scheduled to go at 530 at the marriott public library. Harry daugherty announced his retirement in april. He was a 40 year veteran of the department. The Johnson County coalition is relaunching as an independent nonprofit organization. The coalition works to increase for lowincome people. Over the last 36 years rent has increased 35 in Johnson County. The average income for renters have declined 13 . Johnson county renters are paying more than 30 of their annual income on rent. The Cedar Rapids Community School District is taking a new approach to make sure kids get to school. Mellaney moore learned about the strategies spreading from one School Across the district. The principle of Elementary School of 365 children wanted to improve its attendance numbers. Our attendance was rather low. Gotten a hold of everybody on that list to make sure they were here at schoolthe Cedar Rapids Community School District says a student who misses 18 days. Or 10 percent. Of the school year is considered chronically absent. Paul hayes, director of learning supports. 1 55 20 on any given day, 95, 96 percent of our students are in school. But if we look at the chronic school day at any given time throughout the year, those numbers were high. A Pilot Program at wright elementary last year cut the number of chronically absent students in half. 1 57 43 it helps us to know who we need to target. Who we need to provide information to, messaging to, interventions with. Who we need to reach out to to say how can we support you and help you remove these to your attendance. Hayes says the district wants to be supportive so families will reach out if they need help making sure their child is in school. Brian krob, wright elementary principal17 18 09 what can we do as a partner to assure that kids get here each and every day so we can, again, give them as much information as we possibly can educational wise so that theyre not behind and theyre not falling back. Krob says while students can make up homework, it really spent in the classroom. That is cbs 2 news ten at ten the corridors top stories and tomorrows weather first forecast in the first ten minut. Minutes. Still to come. Come. I sweated this whole summer and my bills were still 5 145the impact hefty power i sweated this whole summer and my bills were still 145. Some showers are moving in overnight and some linger into the morning hours. By afternoon the clouds will clear and back and temperatures will be in the middle 70s. Then we have a weekend cool college is how to manage their. Money. The latest scam that says itll help you out of debt but just ends up creating more. Tomorrow on i have family and friends along the gold coast of florida who are sending us messages and well wishes during our flight and now im having to send them back dow hurricane. Hurricane matthew spinning in the caribbean. They just put out so mornings for parts of miami and southern florida. Hurricane warnings are in for parts of Fort Lauderdale back into West Palm Beach into the rest of this week and into the weekend. It just made landfall in cuba as a category four. Its moving 8 miles an hour and moving slow. Impact the eastern parts of florida by the time we get into the weekend. We will have to watch that closely over the next few days. Here in eastern iowa temperatures were about 10 degrees above average. It was our warmest day in the past 10 days. We are at 69. Area ride areawide the core in the upper 60s. Iowa city at 69. Heres temperatures this afternoon. Dubuque and the quad cities were in the middle to upper 70s. Heres our cold front that stretches the western iowa with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Those will continue to push these. Theres like rain in charles city into the cora and oelwein. This is what our predictor says as it moves through the and some thunder. By the time we get to 7 00 the push off east into illinois and wisconsin. By cannon m we are back into sunshine with temperatures in the middle 70s. Showers late tonight into tomorrow morning. Will dry out tomorrow afternoon and more rain expected thursday into friday and that is a big weekend cool down. Temperatures will be much cooler than it being. Heres the front as it continues to push east into the overnight hours into the morning. Then we tried out tomorrow afternoon and then this front will turn into a warm front and lift to the north. Additional showers are expected. We will get a break on thursday afternoon and the low pressure will push to the northeast iowa into wisconsin thursday we may have three quarters of an inch to an inch down to the south. It depends with a stronger storms set up an where that boundary sets up that will determine who gets the heavy rains. Not anticipating any flooding. Temperatures will be in the low to midshipman 60s areawide tonight. Tomorrow morning looking at early showers and mostly sunny by afternoon. Temperatures in the midshipman to upper 70s. Showers moving thursday into friday. 75 for thursday and the cold front comes through on friday. Looking at temperatures in the upper 50s to 60. Nighttime lows in the upper 30s to low 40s. Then back up to average for the weekend. Close to 70 on tuesday. The alarming medicaid bills and wife putting healthcare who need it most at risk. For your weather first forecast on one of 45 i think my strongest asset, maybe by far, is my temperament. Id like to punch him in the face, ill tell you. I would bomb the [bleep] out of em. I could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldnt lose any voters, okay . And you can tell them e get him out of here get the hell out of here priorities usa action is responsible baby boomers are expected baby boomers are expected to need more inhome care as they age. Federal investigators are raising an alarm of what they call persistent fraud and abuse and nonmedical medicaid funding estimates of questionable billing since 2012 total more than 600 million. The report shows the system lacks consistent standards for personal care workers. The Inspector General is calling for better qualifications and background checks for workers. We found instances of abuse where individuals were supposed to be getting oneonone care with personal care attendants and the attendant did not stop by for weeks on end. Cases where attendance went on cruises in the caribbean and the befi theres a need for workers will grow by 25 by 2024. Many a light Energy Customers were shocked when they opened up the utility bill. Some saw figures higher than they have paid before. Connor morgan has the explanation and the impact. I thought i was alone. Phase electric bill went from 90 92 145. Surge of customers facing an increase. Im seeing all these people that their bill were 90 and now going way up. Alliant energy implemented a new system where employees review a manual system. Justin faulk explains we do not have enough billing specialists in so we could not manually review all the bills. When we cant manually review the bills an estimated bill. These estimates do not reflect usage which is higher due to warmer weather. A light did not anticipate such a temperature difference and admit they were not able to fix it immediately. We are trying to do that never again. The Companies Creating a payment plan for customers. This whole payment plan, no. All the customers know they did not use that much electricity. I sweated this whole summer. My bills were still 145 and normally they would be 70. She is on a fixed income due to a disability other customers have it worse. Can you imagine a family trying to make ends meet. I dont know how a family of four can live. Broke saw her bill jumped from by giving me this bill thats my sense diapers. Thats my food on my table. Her family cannot afford to pay the bill. With her children and no electricity is not an option. I would love it to be done. Ive got no problem finding an attorney. Eventually they will turn off mike electricity even if i pay the amount that i received on my first bill. I still have a past due talents. Connor morgan cbs two news 10 at 10. Alliant issued an apology to customers and says the company is doing everything in the power to ensure this never happens again. Coming up in sports is time for basketball. How the new look and new face panthers will build on last season success. Thats next on cbs 2. Facebook kgan cbs 2. . Living well . Rise above joint discomfort with move free ultras triple action joint support for improved mobility and flexibility, and 20 better comfort from one tiny, mighty pill. . Living well . Rise above joint discomfort with move free ultras triple action joint support for improved mobility and flexibility, and 20 better comfort from one tiny, mighty pill. Quite and now cbs 2 sports with zach hanley. We are playing never play as well as you want. Playing more to whate thats the fun in football. As of right now the hawks are not having fun because lately they are not playing well. All that can change with a win on the road on saturday against minnesota. To get last week best that case at of their mouth they hit the practice field on monday to prepare for the gophers. Because you have to rely on one another and we do not have a crowd to fall on. I think its a good time for us to go there and come with a road win. We know we are all we have. The guys listen to meetings and we have to have each others back and block out the outside noise and stick to what weve been doing. Its hard to believe but basketball season is around the corner. The panthers are coming back to back Missouri Valley tournament titles and b to the big dance. The theme this year at you and i is used. 11 of the 16 players on coach jakes roster under the program. That doesnt mean the new panthers have not learned that in cedar falls its about the heart of the number. We are a bunch of new guys and that are different. Maybe not as much game experience, practice experience and being together. Last year we had ups and downs. During that down we marion hosting independence in a wamac west winner take all first set stangs on the attack Holly Cooksley sets up kaitlin kneedert and she hammers it home for the pointbut it was home cooking for the indians tonight Caitlyn Smith with the quick set and isabel sade slams it home marion wins their 3 straight wamac west crown with a 3 set sweep over independence in the mvc linnmar taking on prairie on pink nightfirst set megan renner serving and megan renner with perfect placement for the ace but prairie would get the last laugh because Megan Oldenburger was playing possessed thats a 100 mile an hour spike and the phawks get the win in 4 sets 3 to 1. To the links boys districts at Pheasant Ridge in cedar falls top three teams qualify for a trip to state nile happel doing his best to try and get jefferson there on 11 he drops his approach by rolling in a birdie puttbut like most meets washingtons fank lindwall had it going on he shot a 71 and was the individual medalist the warriors won the team title theyre heading to state cedar falls and dubuque senior also qualified thats a check of sports. Brandon is back with a final im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Shes a slob. She ate like a pig. A person whos flat chested is very hard to be a 10. Does she have a good body . No. Does she have a fat [expletive] . Absolutely. Do you treat women with respect . Nike is raffling off 89 nikes raffling off 89 pairs of its back to the future sneakers. The special edition nike max are replicas of the self lacing sneakers worn by marty mcfly in the iconic movie. Tickets for the online. Lottery are 10 and can be the lottery closes next proceeds will be donated to the michael j. Fox foundation. The nonprofit is working to find a cure for parkinsons disease. Thanks for watching your cbs 2 im Chuck Grassley, and i approve this message. In twentythree years, Chuck Grassley hasnt missed a single vote. In just six years, senator patty judge missed a hundred and eightytwo votes. Missed seventysix percent of their meetings. Iowa Economic Development Commission Member judge, missed sixtynine of seventytwo meetings. The register called patty judge a . Habitual no show. . Grassley works. Captioning sponsored by cbs stephen john leguizamo, whats going on thanks for being here, man. Thanks for being here for my live Vice President ial debate show. Its going to be so much fun. Im honored to be here. Stephen its my honor to have you. I was thinking a crazy thought, its a viptial debate, right. So what if i was it could be fun what if i was your vice host. 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