Department says a pan of grease left on the kitchen stove is what started the fire. In the last four days, fire crews have responded to six building fires in cedar rapidsbringing the total to eleven this month. Its the last day of summer for kids in the Iowa City Community school district. District. Cbs 2 News Reporter Mellaney Moore mooreis live with a few last minute reminders. As kids in this district go back to School Parents need to be mindful of how their kids are getting to school and when. When. This North Liberty mom is enjoying the last day of summer with her three kids. Her oldest starts first grade wednesday at garner elementary cheryl wroblewski, North Liberty mother11 47 51 itll be an adjustment for us tomorrow getting ready for school. The family needs to get ready earlier than last year. Elementary students start at 7 55 and get out at 2 55junior and senior high students will be in school from 8 50 to 4 00. 22 40 34 kids in junior high and high school do better if they start the school day a little bit later. They come in a little more rested and refreshed, ready to go. The district also made changes to discretionary buses, prioritizing areas where it is needed the most. Stephen murley, superintendent22 41 48 we only had so much money that we could devote to discretionary busing, so given that, we couldnt bus every child that lives within two miles. Some cities in the district spent the summer studying the safest routes for kids to get to school and doing what they could to help. Amy nielsen, North Liberty mayor11 40 47 w that our crossing guards have whistles and stop signs that light up to draw attention to the fact that there are kids crossing there. We repainted draw attention to the fact that there are kids crossing the street. Traffic and pedestrians. Wroblewski will walk with her children and hopes all kids are safe on their way to school. Cheryl wroblewski, North Liberty mother11 48 43 theres going to be a lot more traffic coming through our neighborhood tomorrow. Look at the suggested walking routes for kids, we have links on our website, cbs 2 iowa dot com. Covering the corridor in North Liberty, Mellaney Moore, cbs 2 news the Cedar Rapids School districts newest magnate school is now in operation. This morning, students and School Leaders held a ribboncutting ceremony to mark the grand opening of kenwood leadership academy. Mayor ron corbett joined superintendent doctor brad buck and many others at the event. This school is th Second Magnet School in cedar rapids, joining the johnson steam academy. Student . Health is a concern this time of year. Year. Cbs 2 News Reporter joe huisinga is live to shows us uswhy corridor Health Officials want to see declining vacinations rates turn around. Linn and Johnson County have immunization rates lower than the state average and other counties the same size, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health department of Public Health, they are seeing a rise in immunization exemptions. They were together for eight hours a day theyre playing together theyre in very close contact with each other so theres a high chance of viruses bacteria and i was going around that can cause illness and disease. All students are requiered to be vaccinated before going to school . Unless they have a health or religious exemption. Exemption. We do you see a slight increase in those religious exemptions so that is have a health or religious it is concerning. Cedar valley christian in cedar rapids is on the lower side. The number of students is just under 70 that are vaccinated. Get the vaccinations. That protects everybody. He believes the numbers may not be accurate. Based on information from parents. You have to have the at that time, families opted for the religious exemption even in even though they were immunized it was easier than getting the forms. Now they are working with parents to get more uptodate information. But the trend is countywide. It becomes a concern anytime we see a dropping. Right now we do see that we are starting to see exemptions for religion reasons. We dont want to see that trendline continue to go on that route. For a list of vaccination for all schools come you can go to our website, cbs2iowa. Com. Cedar rapids, cbs2 news. Superlight has crawled into almost all 50 states. This new report has people wondering, if your kids get it, what do you do . We spoke with Health Experts this doctor with a higher Iowa Department of health says super lice means some of them are resistant to some medications and treatment options. The Iowa Department of Public Health says if your child has this, you should head straight to the pharmacy. One woman says she has seen people become immune to medications before. That is why they go for over thecounter medicine. The pharmacist what is working best. One problem is they have not used the medications correctly. If, for some reason, you tried overthecounter maybe you tried a couple different kinds and it is still not working you are doing everything right then you can talk to the healthcare provider. There are prescriptions that can be given if overthe counter does not work. Cbs2 news first told you about the rising cost of epipen. In july, were Digging Deeper into the problem. What you can do to keep money in your pocket. That is coming up tonight on cbs2 news at 10 00. Developing tonight, some reporting a 42pointsix Million Dollar deficit in its iowa operations. Amerigroup lost 66pointsevenMillion Dollars. Those groups, along with United Healthcare took over iowas fourbillion dollar Medicaid Program on april first. Some of the losses are being attributed to startup costs. Ipers meanwhile, is reporting a multi . Billion dollar shortfall on its investment return. The publicpension fund serves about 325thousand iowans. It lost more than five billion dollars. State lawmakers approved several benefit changes in 2010 in order to tighten up the system. An ipers spokeswoman told the Des Moines Register while the number looks like a major loss the Company Looks for its funding performances. Its now less than 80days before the general election and linn county authorities are reminding residents to watch where they place political signs. Signs. Signs boosting Political Support of a certain candidate can . Not be placed in the county rightofway. That means on most streets countywide signs must be more than 50 to60 feet away from the center of the road. On a gravel road the rules change to just over 30feet. Its all an effort to keep signs create visual obstacles for drivers they will be removed by street crews. Signs if science create visual obstacles to drivers, they will be removed by street cruise. Signs can be picked up from the secondary roads top and marion during business hours. Our mission at cbs2 news is to connect president ial candidates to our viewers. To better inform and empower you. You can take part in extended interviews but only with our we want to hear from you. Tell us what you want to know from these candidates. You can share your thoughts with email or facebook. We want you to have a voice in this historic race for the white house. And the weather is being blamed for a drop in attendance at the iowa state fair. According to fire officials, 1,031,278 people went to the fair. A drop of about 86,000 from last years recordbreaking attendance. Some others were extra hot and humid. Some say the weather is the only reason the attendance dropped. Next on cbs2 news at 6 00, how one eastern iowa company is tracking. Thunderstorms developed out in northcentral iowa. Those going into the Northern Counties shortly. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. How do we make the economy work for everyone . Hillary clintons plan starts here. By making big corporations ed charge them an exit tax. Then shed use that money to make the largest investment in creating good paying jobs since world war ii. Millions of jobs. You can read the plan here. Switch to centurylink and get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month. Thats the speed you need to stream. Game. Connect on social media. Learn, shop and more with fast inhome wifi. So call 844565link. Get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month for one year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan. Speed may not be available in your area. Call today. Join us tomorrow on cbs 2 this morning each year wildfires seems to get worse across the western part of the. Country. Find out the new research being done right now to make sure firefighters are taking the right approach. Thats right now cancer is claiming one life each minute. Now one right now, cancer is claiming one life each minute. One local company is taking action against this deadly disease. Westside transfer raised more than 30,000 to purchase this new trailer decked out in decals. It is an effort to increase awareness and raise money in and part of its monthly revenue goes to local cancer charities. I dont expect this truck to run across the country and suddenly now there is a cure. But it is those incremental steps. And this will make a great contribution. They will make annual donations for the life of the trailer. The company says the average trailer stays operational for 1015 years. And our chief meteorologist is with us now. Active pattern going on on the that is so true. After a nice little break, some humidity back in the air. A friend coming in. Showers and thunderstorms are arriving in eastern iowa. And they will be a part of the forecast through tomorrow. Currently, it is dry in cedar rapids. We have 76 degrees for a temperature. A wind out of the southeast. That is at 13 miles per hour. The dew point, has made it up to 70. As you would expect, the humidity is high at 82 . Thunderstorms that have produced a bit of Severe Weather in northwestern and northcentral iowa. Right now, there are currently no warnings in effect. But you can see, orange and red and a lot of lightning. Getting closer to that now. As you get around mason city, you can see the thunderstorms are passing through there from boston to northwest of iowa falls. Tracking east, northeast. It is appearing they will go across another northern hours. There is the potential for gusty wind. But i think heavy rain will be the primary threat. This round of showers and storms will only bring that. A few light showers to the south scattered around eastern iowa. Not too much but sprinkles. Further southwest, new thunderstorms are taking place. Those will be moving north tonight along a warm front. Additional showers are expected to develop. The best way to outline this is to go for our model. This is 7 00. Stronger storms to the northwest of charles city. Putting this into motion, you can see that line is active. Moving across the Northern County between 7 00 and 10 00 tonight. Here is the next batch of storms forming out of missouri and coming into the southern counties. Finally, after midnight tonight, you can see showers and storms are scattered around much of eastern iowa. And there is moisture with the system. So some of these will likely produce heavy rain. Here we are at morning. We push out to 4 00 a. M. Still going on at many locations. Finally at 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning, they should start to diminish. Were going to get a break. Then the cold front comes back through tomorrow afternoon and evening. Showers and storms will be a possibility at that time. So a chance for rain not only tonight but tomorrow evening. Temperatures looking this way. Most of us back into the 70s. Body skies. Cloudy around eastern iowa. So the moisture is certainly in place. You can see out to the west of us tonight, a pretty good trough developing. This is cold air dumping into the western united states. Ahead of that, you have the warm oyster coming from the gulf of mexico. These two will set over iowa for about 24 hours. A fine position to see showers and thunderstorms. That is why we have those in the forecast for tomorrows temperatures should be back in the low 80s. Maybe a few spots in the mid 80s in the south. But the dew point expecting to get back up into the mid70s around eastern iowa. So it will be a muggy day tomorrow. A threat of thunderstorms especially early. And again late in the afternoon. Once again tonight affecting the Northern Counties. And some energy from the south that will reignite other thunderstorms around the area as we go through the nighttime hours. The forecast overall tonight has low temperatures that will be pretty much in the mid to upper 60s around eastern iowa. Scattered showers and storms will develop. The north, northwest. For tomorrow, a warm sticky day. Quite a contrast and temperatures. A front stretched out through here. Upper 70s northwest. Mid80s southeast. Scattered showers and storms expected to be later on in the afternoon. Tomorrow night, those should come to a end. Thursday and friday looks dry. Back into the mid70s. Unfortunately for the weekend, another chance for showers and thunderstorms. Temperatures right around the seasonable levels, upper 70s to lower80s. Season gets closer. Coaches are searching for more. Ready for the opener. That is next on cbs2 sports. American soldier was killed and another hurt after their patrol was struck by a roadside bomb. It happened today in afghanistan. Six comes a day after us officials said they sent 100 troops to the city to fight the taliban. The name of the soldiers have not been released. . . Take vo . . the iraqi army is gaining ground on isis near mosul. It, along with coalition forces, are set to recapture a . Key . Town about 35 miles south of the city. Its one of the last isis strongholds in iraq. Isis fighters it is one of the last strongholds in iraq. Isis fht crude oil to create fake black smoke that is reducing visibility for Coalition Warplanes supporting the iraq military. In nigeria, the military says it is in an airstrike. The u. S. As they cannot confirm that yet. But the secretary of state john vernon a lot of childish bickering stopping you from getting things done. Sounds like washington, while starting a small business. Im monica vernon. Weve got to help hardworking families with affordable childcare, expanded family sick leave, and equal pay for equal work. Im monica vernon, and i approve this message because its time to get something done on monday it was reported that chris doyle iowas strength and on monday, it was reported that cleaning conditioning coach for 18 years will make 595,000 this year. More than any strength coach in the country. His job is simple. But important. Getting get ready for game day. Game day is right around the corner. Eleven days to kickoff. On tuesday, they said the staff is planning. Tying up loose ends and searching for what turns good teams into great teams. Seeing. I saw the intensity. Playing at a highlevel. We need to be consistent. Just fundamentally and knowing what to do and how to do it. We are not consistent enough right now. We have had some really sharp looking plays. Just need consistency from here on out. The offseason treasure chatter has been around improving the passing game. All indications is that it will be better. But wont get away from the breadandbutter, which is the ground game. Smith no david johnson. But he is pretty good. The last five games of last season, averaged over 144 rushing yards. Looking for more of the same in 2016. Im using my athletic ability to get out there. He has to become his own man and running back. He has the desire to do that. That is the key to it. When you have the desire to do it, all the other things fall into place. Hoping everything falls into place. The other member the national performer of the year list. The quarterback is coming off a big year on the ground and the air. Twentynine touchdowns almost a thousand total yards last season. Seven points is all that separated the state semi finals last season. To make it back in the hopefuls to advance further, they will have to do it with 16 new starters. The coach knows the season will it looks like an uphill climb. The program, rich in tradition says no excuses not to win. Very young. We have seven freshmen on the varsity that is unheard of at west branch. We have to grow up real fast. I know it is not just myself. Everybody is doing everything they can to be stronger, faster then we were last year. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. How do we make the economy work for everyone . By making big corporations and those at the top finally pay their fair share in taxes. And those companies that move overseas . Shed charge them an exit tax. Then shed use that money to make the largest investment in creating good paying jobs since world war ii. Millions of jobs. Thunderstorms moving into our far northern and northwestern counties. Heavy rain, the primary threat. These will be around later tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures back in the low to mid80s for highs. Thunderstorms possible tomorrow. So tune in. Have a good night. Breaking news shannon dohertys Breast Cancer fight, well tell you why the 90210 star is celebrating. Is she trying to have children . Maybe that is our destiny. 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