Despite the fact weve had all the clouds out there today and there is the back edge of the clouds now showing up from mason city to cedar rapids from there to the west plenty of sunshine and a lot warmer temperatures. Heres what im expecting as we get to tomorrow morning, 46 degrees at 6 00 a. M. Sunshine around during the sxaven looks like temperatures could be as warm as 76 degrees. Nearly 20 degrees above whats typical this time of year. New father hood and life long cubs fan dom or colliding for one cedar rapids man. We are live in cedar rapids with a story that is all about the timing. Reporter all about the timing; right. When the doctor tell us you and your wife that the baby could come any day now, usually puts the ka born to travel plans that includes even in the cubs are in the world series. For that fan not only will he now were counting the minutes and hours but hes also going to get the chance to see history. Its been a way of waiting at the saint lukes birthing center in downtown cedar rapids. Very exciting baby coming tonight or tomorrow. Reporter a baby boy whos mother was unable to talk this morning. Obviously the priority is making sure shes comfortable with it obviously if she wanted me to stay back i would be staying back she understands the situation. Reporter you see jordans a cubs fan. All my life hey if the cubs make it to the series and our baby comes are you okay with me coming . Reporter guess what . Theyve gone and now jordan is going. Sunday for fwa game 5 he could see the end of another wait. I was praying for a loss and then i was praying for a victory so hopefully they can clench it sunday when were there. Reporter he would be a witness for the championship for the cubs but the wait that really matters is already almost over. Win or lose because im coming home to a couple day old baby and my wife. Reporter they are still in their waiting we know its a boy they will b the name theyve chosen but they do have one. I asked is it cubs related and he wouldnt confirm or deny that. We got to wait for the little guy to get here and well find out and well keep you updated on his arrival. Until then were covering the corridor. Cbs news 5. As we close in on election day early voting is happening throughout the corridor. Live from one place voters are turning out. Reporter. Here in the Johnson County auditor tell us me he is expecting 23 thousand complete ballot to be here by the end of the day. Theyre trying to make this process as quick and as easy as possible and there are things you can do to help. I spoke with people who voted and they said it was a pretty quick process and thats what the auditor wants to hear. If youre voting early where there maybe a lot of University Students its not a bad idea to plan a few extra minutes. Theyre more likely to be registering or making address changes. If not registered you can print off the form and have everything ready to go. Our big rush and people going to work, lunch hour and should probably not have to experience too much of a line. Line. Weipert says staff here are more than happy to answer resources on our website, cbs 2 iowa dot com. Covering the corridor in iowa city, mellaney moore, cbs 2 news, live at five. Here is more helpful information. You can vote in person now until november 7th. If youve voted in iowa before you . Dont need to provide an id. If voting in iowa is . New to you you should bring one along. It doesnt have to be a drivers license. It can also be a copy of a current utility bill, Bank Statement or other government documents that show your name and address. Course you can vote on election day as well polls are open november eighth from seven in the morning to nine at night. That brings us to our question of the day. Have you chosen your candidate for president . Let us know by heading to our website at cbs 2 iowa dot com and click on the question of the day link. One man running for Public Office in Black Hawk County woke up to find hateful messages on his home. Home. Cbs 2 news political focus kevin barry barryspoke with the Black Hawk County supervisor candidate and joins us now live with his story, kevin . Chris schwartz is the only democrat and only openly gay person running to be on the Black Hawk County board of supervisors. He says throughout the race the discussion has been issue based until this. Morning. Chris woke up to this his lawn signs vandalized with some words we wont show on tv. Hisro a reference to leviticus 20 13 which says that gay people should be put to death. Chris and his boyfriend are taking that as a death threat. It says the man who lies with man should be put to death. It filled me with anger but it filled me with fear as well. I dont exactly feel safe in my community right now. Now. We reached out to all three of schwartzs republican condemning the vandalism at least one came up short of condemning the antigay messages as well. Its compeltely wrong and i hope those that did it are found and prosecuted. Its a shame that a few ignorant people can drive a wedge betweent he people and what we stand for. For. Schwartz tells us that in the past few weeks the group cedar valley for christ has been attacking him on facebook for supporting gay rights. The leader of that group told the waterloo cedar falls courior he thinks schwartz and his boyfriend did the vandalism to themselves. Schwartz denies that. On facebook the group if offering to pay for the damage to the home but they say this is a tactic right out of the leftist paybook. Kevin barry cbs 2 news live at for the latest political headlines be sure to watch iowa in focus with host kevin barry. Iowa in focus airs on sunday morning right here on cbs 2 at 10thirty. You can also catch it at sunday morning at ninethirty on fox 2. 28. One other note cbs 2 is hosting a roundtable discussion tonight called your voice your future vote 2016. You can catch it on fox 28 starting at ten oclock or you can stream it online at cbs 2 iowa dot com. Hosted by National Moderator mark hyman, the Panel Includes Republican Party of iowa chairman jeff kaufmann, Iowa Democratic party chair dr. Andy mcguire and university of iowa politicial science professor cary covington. Updatethe woman police say crashed into a springville bus earlier this week is now dea. Dead. The crash happened monday afternoon. Witnesses tell cbs 2 news the bus was stopped to let a student off. Thats when 26yearold Molly Zelinskas crashed into the back of the 26year old crashed into the back of the bus. She was taken to Saint Lukes Hospital but died the next day. One student was treated for minor injuries. No word yet on the cause of the crash. A visitation for the victim is being held saturday at noon in dubuque. The tech trend that started in the family room is now making its way to your fridge, your oven and even the counter tops its called the june oven and its one of those new appliances trying to help the at home cook. The oven uses sensors, scales and cameras to figure out what youre preparing its as easy as putting Something Like salmon in the ovp and then the to cook it. Were in essence teaching the oven to think like a chef. Reporter now the june oven skills for almost 1,500 its only available for preorder and its not just ovens a high tech sam sung refrigerator has a camera inside which means if when youre at the Grocery Store and cant remember what you need all you have to do is smart phone. We have you covered with great weekend weather in your weather first forecast. Reporter that is right you can already see the sun is emerging here in cedar rapids a little late to help us today but will come in handy tomorrow especially with southerly winds. You will see a big, big up swing in temperatures and a really nice weekend forecast. Tomorrow on cbs 2 this morning some technology in the kitchen hasnt changed in appliances hitting the market. With halloween just a few days away some scientists at the university of iowa with hal weep just a few days away some scientists are having fun on the job. Cbs2 News Reporter joe jones us. Reporter container sound is a powerful thing it can ee voc emotions and help us understand the world we live in. Right the university of iowa are studying sounds that are certainly strange. Scientists are trying to capture more and figure out what it all means as they work we sat down with corridor kids who have their own theory it sounds like ghosts and like monsters are coming. It would be like screams. Something. Reporter coming up tonight at 10, we have more on we have more on the special report with researchers explain what they know and where the sounds come from. Hus hus cbs2 news live at five. Thank you we look forward to that. Ill bet you know because its about science and planets. But dont give it away. Okay ill commit then tonight. Because its good weather. Reporter yes, weve had a reality great weekend of weekend whether at this least this fall and this weekend is another one. Temperatures heading right back to the 70s. As we go outside, heres a really important ingredient in the warmer weather were expecting tomorrow. Its the sunshine returning to our western and Central Counties but still a lot of clouds off the east of cedar rapids. So this clearing trend will work its way on through here and tomorrow sunshine and well see a lot warmer temperatures. Only at fifty in cedar rapids. Winds out of the southeast at 8 Miles Per Hour and dew point at 45 degrees. As we look at other temperatures you can clearly see where the cloud line is. Extends west from charles city to waterloo and cedar rapids and just north east of iowa city. Up in this region lots of clouds, plenty of Cool Temperatures only 45 right now in decorah and 46 in dubuque. Tama shot up to 58 degrees and thats just the beginnings of the warm up that will be pushing through in the next 24 hours. Radar has all the clouds in the eastern counties. No rain falling out there and nonis expected in the coming weekend. So a nice dry forecast and that actually lasts right into the early portions of next week and halloween day itself. So heres the satellite. And you can sure see that cloud line, very sharp from mason back here in central and western iowa where the sun was out, search tours actually were in the 60s to near 70 in the southwestern part of the state. So thats going to be what we get to sferns tomorrow. Meantime this High Pressure has been bringing cool air to eastern iowa but as it moves to the east, southeast in the next 4 hours well see a warm front come through during the late night hours and then tomorrow with that off to the northeast of us we will get into the sunshine during the afternoon hours and well have the stiff the temperatures soaring and heres what were anticipating for high temperatures tomorrow and readings are expected to be up in the 70s over most of eastern iowa just 70 around decorah and dubuque. 74 in cedar rapids and maybe as warm as 75 in take ma and washington. Even on saturday, now looks like most of the area will continue on with very mild temperatures but there will be a front come through late in the afternoon and that will snip off the warming in still in the 70s from about highway 30 onto the south during the day on saturday. So tomorrow night, weve got High School Football playoff games beginning. Really nice weather for this time of year. Clear skies and breezy conditions with southwest winds around 10 to 15. Tonight look for skies to clear from west to east. Low temperatures back in the low to mid 40s. Southeast winds 5 to 10. Tomorrow a few clouds. Look at these temperatures. Upper 60s in the far north to the mid 70s in our southern counties. Way above normal and youre extended forecast there, there does call for 76 on friday and down a little bit on sunday before we warm back up again. Halloween day this is looking great for trick or treaters. Temperatures during the day will be in the 70s and 66 at ear lee mild well take it. Still ahead live at five were going beyond the books. Why one corridor student is helping advise the president of the united states. And lets take you outside for a live look at i380. Traffic moving along just fine. More news ahead when live at 5 continues right here on cbs2. take pkg meet rob take pkg meet rob greenfield, an environmental acvitist who ate, shopped and lived just like the average american but wore all his trash for 30 days. 00 12 rob Greenfield Environmental activistthe average american creates four and a half pounds of trash per day which equal to 135 pounds rob only ended up creating 84 pounds of trash which is about a third less than the average american, it was still a significant amount of trash for him to wear everyday. Greenfield hopes his trash suit will raise awareness on how we create and waste trash on a daily basis. For circa a student at Kennedy High School has dre a student at Kennedy High School has dreams of a career in engineering and physics and now that dream is carry year ago her all the way to the white house. We join her to explain the big honor. Reporter the senior was invited to the white house to present to the white house science and technology policy. Students gave use stem for new specific frontiers. Jamie wants to make sure students who are not strong in math can still enjoy science. She found physics teachers normally started out with lectures and labs came after and she felt this was backwards in order to add intrigue labs should come first. To add to the excitement she also met president obama. I was incomplete awe honestly. Couldnt do anything but smile. Im like oh my gosh youre here right now and i got to shake his hand and this is like the coolest thing ever. Reporter join us on fox28 news at 9 to find out how she was personally inspired by those she met and the National Attention she got after her trip. Kelly dambrosio cbs2 news. Let take us outside. Beautiful almost sundown. Recesses and hell have another look at the weather first forecast when live at five comes back but first lets peek ahead to see whats new at 6. This is Bernie Sanders with a january deadline looming. One of americas fastest vernon im Monica Vernon, and i approve this message. Congressman blums Smear Campaign misleading and false. The truth Monica Vernon donated every pay raise to charity and cut taxes for us. But multimillionaire blum broke his word, keeping nearly 200,000 in taxpayerfunded paychecks. Blum wasted even more of your tax dollars on himself. Worse, he tried to cut medicare and raise the retirement age. Sometimes, maybe its worth listening to a politician. Take congressman rod blum. On social security, blum doesnt just back the Republican Special interest agenda hes campaigning on it. For years, hes pressed to privatize social security, risking seniors guaranteed benefits on the stock market. And blum supported benefit cuts by voting to raise social securitys retirement age. So if you care about a secure retirement, listen to rod blum hes putting your security at risk. House majority pac is responsible we want you to meet won before we go, we want you to meet wonder twin shes a penguin living at Orlando Seaworld and now sporting a new handmade wet suit. The suit is necessary because body temperature. One employee says the wet suit will help her keep warm in the water where of course penguins spend most of their time. The wet suit is intended to mimic the natural feather coat allowing her to live a more normal life. Shes advertising for seaworld and she may get commercial endorsement. Reporter living large thats pretty cool. Isnt it neat they can do things like that. Reporter its story and cute as all get out. Reporter you may feel like swimming with 75 degrees. Reporter if youre going to do it in october thats the way you want to do it. Im thinking 76 tomorrow afternoon with some sunshine should be a really beautiful day. Thank you for watching live at 5 hope you will be back Hillary Clinton this is not an ordinary time, and this is not an ordinary election. I want to send a message to every boy and girl and indeed to the entire world. That america already is great, but we are great because we are good. We are going to lift each other up. I want us to heal our country and bring it together. We have to start getting the economy to work for everyone. Just those at the top. Making the best Education System from preschool through college. Making it affordable, because thats, i think, the best way for us to get the future that our children and our grandchildren deserve. My vision of america is an america where everyone has a place. This is the america that i know and love. If we set those goals and we go together, im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Captioning sponsored by cbs pelley new ammunition for trump. Honestly, i think weve had enough of the clintons, in all fairness. Pelley also tonight, the first lady embraces clinton. She is absolutely ready to be commander in chief on day one, and, yes, she happens woman. Pelley an american who led an isis cell tells us how he was recruited online. He explained how islam was my calling. Pelley police in north dakota arrest protesters trying to stop an oil pipeline. And who let the dogs out . Rescued by the high school track
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