New poll numbers are out now after the release late last week of a videotape showing republican president ial nominee donald trump talking about taking sexually aggressive actions towards wome. Women. The video was recorded 11years ago and led to a quick condemnation from most re. Republicans. New poll numbers now show Democrat Hillary Clinton taking a double digit lead over trump. Clintons biggest lead over the republican nominee in months. Donald trump hit the campaign trail last night warning his supporters to keep a close eye on the election. Election. We have to make sure were protected. That vote counts are 100 . But i hear there horror showswe have to make sure this election isnt stolen from us and taken away from us. That the system is rigged and that the election might be lost due to voter fraud. That comes despite several studies that have shown theres no evidence of widespread voter fraud across the us. The republican partys top elected official House Speaker paul ryan told fellow gop members that we would no longer defend trump. Trump. Speaker ryan also has canceled future appearances with his partys nominee for president but hes still endorsing him. Ryans spokesman said he plans to spend the next month before the election partys hold on congress. At least two republicans called Party Leaders cowards for abandoning trump. Iowa Governor Terry branstad says hes sticking with his partys nominee even after the recent video. Video. Governor branstad says a lot is at stake in this election. He feels donald trump is the best candidate when it comes to national security. The governor did call the 2005 video reprehensible and offensive but that he accepts trumps apology. My feeling is we have this guess what i would say is lets go back and look at how the clintons have been treated and are they being given the same scrutiny for what theyve done as were seeing for Donald Trump Trump branstad says he will continue to campaign with both trump and his runningmate mike pence. The gop Vice President ial nominee will be back in iowa today. Hes holding a Campaign Rally in newton at the Des Moines Area Community college caus 3. Yesterday pence was asked if the video released friday made him think twice about his position on the trump campaign. Gov. Mike pence r Vice President ial nominee its absolutely false to suggest that at any point and time we considered dropping off this ticket. Its the greatest honor of my life, to had been nominated by my party to be the next Vice President of amer america. On the campaign trail on monday pence told supporters he cant defend what trump said in the video but he did encourage trump to on the democratic side former president bill clinton is returning to iowa too. Clinton will be on a busy tour drumming up support for his wife. Hell make stops in waterloo and cedar rapids. If you would like to attend the events you need to rsvp on the clinton website. Website. Weve placed that information on cbs 2 iowa dot com. There are new leaked emails connected to Hillary Clinton this morning. Morning. Since friday wikileaks has been posting them online saying theyre from Clinton Campaign chairman john podesta. He was hacked but said they may have been altered or edited. New emails seem to show people close to Hillary Clinton were uneasy that her husbands business dealings might damage his reputation and affect her president ial bid. The latest now on the Flood Recovery in cedar rapids. Rapids. The city is now prepared to spend 420thousand dollars to clean up sandbags around town. More than 10 thousandtons of sand was used to protect the city from flood 2016. Many areas of cedar cedar river, leaving most of the sandbags dry. The city tells cbs 2 news crews will start picking up the bags on the northwest side. It will take crews roughly three weeks to collect all of the sandbags. Work will soon be getting underway on permanent flood protection in the newbo district. Crews will break ground on a new levee near the 16th avenue bridge today. These renderings show the levee and flood walls planned for the newbo area. The 14milliondollar levee will have a 130foot base and expected to be completed sometime next year. There are new details this morning in North Carolina where massive flooding is still happening along the eastern coast. Coast. There are 12 deaths blamed on Hurricane Matthew in North Carolina alone 26 deaths throughout the southeast and more than 1 thousand people are thought to be killed in haiti from the storm. In some parts of North Carolina people are being evacuated right now to get away from a rising river that North Carolina there are a lot of people hurting right now, in this region. Their church, right now, the entire floor is buckled and theyre trying to figure out what to do with their church. We have state roads that are no longer safe. Cover with vo were still rescuing people, as we speak, right down the street. Street. Right now more than a million homes and businesses in the south are without power. And if you would like to help victims out east you can do it right now on the American Red Cross website. Head to red crossdotorg and youll find the donate tab right on their homepage. Due to Hurricane Matthew florida residents will have an extra day to register to vote. A federal judge has extended todays Voter Registration deadline until five pm tomorrow. The judges order comes after the Florida Democratic party sued governor rick scott for not extending the deadline. Evacuations could have prevented some people from registering. Scott opposed the extending of the deadline, saying people had enough time. A new study shows that some high Blood Pressure greater chance for depression. Depression. The Research Says people taking beta blockers or calcium channel blockers doubled their risk of being hospitalized for depression or other mood disorders. Researchers say the study has many caveats but it helps build the case linking Mental Health to treating heart patients. The study was published in the journal hypertension. A Large International study ties heavy exertion while stressed or mad with heart attacks. Researchers looked at more than 12thousand patients an emotionally upset were more than twice as likely to feel heart attack symptoms within an hour. Previous studies look at anger and exertion as triggers for heart attacks but were often small studies or in a single country. While many kids had the day off from School Monday for columbus day local teachers spent the day as students themselves. And they learned from a celebrity in the academic world doctor john hattie. Hattie. Think of an athlete that is very famous worldwide, be a Soccer Player . Because thats more worldwide. And you said . pele. . Pele. Hes the pele of education. Education. Status aside hattie has studied teacher impact on students since the 1970s and is sharing his research with more than 300 educators from 35 iowa school districts. The goal is to give students the best tools to succeed something we dont always do now. Most of the debates we have in our community, in our politics, in our schools is about the matter much what matters . The expertise of the teachers and the principals in our schoo schools. Hattie says we are too focused on issues like class size and curriculum which Research Shows have minimal impact on improving education. In order to help our students he says we must empower our teachers. There now . Will be classes this morning in the nations thirdlargest school district. District. Late last night the Chicago Teachers Union and School Officials reached a tenative agreement avoiding a ready to walk off the job today over threats to reduce pay and benefits. This is video of some picking up signs yesterday in case they walked off the job. Last week the district announced layoffs for 250 teachers. Its and right now in its degrees. Degrees. After the break. The heroic flood rescue that couldnt have happened without the power of technology and social media might have saved a veteran in north caroli. Carolina. He was trapped in his flooded home following Hurricane Matthew. Matthew. Lauren melvin explains how a stranger was able to get the man help. Help. A worried brother and a man with a drone used the power of trapped in their house. Craig williams was worried about his brother, chris, and contacted wfmy news 2 early sunday morning. Chris williams is a navy veteran with a dog who cannot swim in Cumberland County. He was stuck in his house because of Hurricane Matthew flooding. We called Cumberland County 911 and they said they were working on getting someone to help, but could not get there due to the flooding. Little did craig know, a man posting drone pictures on social media could help. Searching through its now on this morning. Morning. And if youre in its degrees. Degrees. Coming up next. The big piece of the hawkeye its not uncommon for autistic kids to flap their hands. And so when i saw that, that was completely disqualifying. Im a republican, but this election is so much bigger than party. My son max cant live in trump world. And shes smart. She can work with people to solve problems. I want to be able to tell my kids that i did the right thing when it really mattered. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Heres a look at some of eastern iowas top stories on this morning. In the 144 years of recording weather trends in iowa this year will go down as the third wettest. The iowa dnr reported in its monthly water summary that the statewide average precipitation in the state was 45 inches. Excessive rain last month meant flooding and the record crest at the Shell Rock River and the second highest crest on the cedar river in cedar rapids. Authorities have now named the two People Killed in a weekend crash in linn county. On saturday night in central city Authorities Say a truck collided with a car at an intersection. The driver, 46 yearold ronald heiderscheit along with passenger, Craig Mcintosh whos from arizona. A 10yearold in the car survived the crash and had to be hospitalized. Right now the collision is being investigated. A man from chicago is behind bars in connection to a shots fired report in dubuque. Steven burrell is facing attempted muder charges after police found him hiding in the woods near where people said they heard gunfire. Officers also found two guns shell casings and a car that was damaged on october fourth. The iowa offensive line changes worked so well on saturday that kirk ferentz made them permanent when he released the depth chart for the purdue game cole croston will start at right tackle, boone myers left tackle, and ike botger left guardand thats not the only thing that started to click for the hawks their defense shut down the minnesota offense they allowed just 7 points forced 3 turnovers appears to be back they held the gophers to a season low 1 hundred 2 yards on the ground. Kind of a Building Block for us. Ive never belived you can be a Good Defensive Team if you cant do well against the run game and im not sure we were 100 percent today, but it seemed like we were a lot better at least when we gave up a 7, 10 yarder. It wasnt killing us. Us. We had great intensity, we didnt have too many mental mistakes and if we did we had all guys ralling to the ball so it made up for those mistakes and i feel like that showed out there today. For the second straight week iowa state just simply Football Game after blowing a 14 point lead against baylor, the cyclones added more heartbreak to their season by blowing a 17 point lead at oklahoma state. Both were in the 4th quarter and both shouldnt have happened the last two weeks isu has been outscored 34 to nothing in the final 15 minutes and thats left Matt Campbell and his clones feeling in a word ticked. Well im ticked. I think i made that known and i hope our kids our ticked too. I would be if i was a player. Just have to break and we are making improvements but we just have to finish the game and thats it. And not what we do on the field, its just whats in our heads. Up in cedar falls the panthers have been in every game theyve played they just havent been able to finish 3 of them the most recent saturdays trip to south dakota unis final two drives of the game resulted in a missed field goal and a turnover on downs they lost by 3 if everything went right late in those games theyd be 5 oh but mark farley, isnt interested in thinking that way. Ill let everybody judge that. I know we got beat by 3 points, 5 points, and 4 points. And we had posession of the football 2 or 3 times in the 4th quarter in those instances and thats after making all those stupid errors. And thats why i say its more about our play. And our thoughts, and our actions. Thats what we are heres a great way to celebrate fall look at these giant pumpkins pumpkins pumpkin growers gather in 43rd annual safeway World Championship pumpkin weigh off. The grand prize winner will take home thirty thousand dollars and of course bragging rights for being the best farmer in the world. The current world record holder is a swiss farmer, who won in a germany weighoff in 2014. His pumpkin weighed a whopping 2,232 pounds. But those who dont break the record still get to go home a still get to go home a winner. The farmer with the next biggest pumpkin in dollars for every pound his gourd weighs. Good morning again its now right now its degrees in after the break. The corridor bands from all over in the spot. Spotlight. Youre watching cbs 2 this morning 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. Right now on cbs 2 this morning. The controversial message from one cedar rapids principal about the 2016 president ial election. The developing story about the pipeline being built across iowa while opponents try to stop it however they can. The latest push in des moines to honor people burried in unmarked graves. Welcome to cbs two this morning. Im kevin barry. Barry. And im kelly dambrosio. Dambrosio. Lets get a check of our cbs 2 a High School Principal in cedar rapids is now encouraging his students to hold a higher standard despite the re comments that have surfaced from president ial candidate donald trump. Trump. But not all parents are on board with . How he reached his students. Students. Cbs 2 News ReporterStephanie Johnson joins us in studio stephanie. Stephanie. Kevin kennedy High School Principal jason kline used the morning announcement s to give this message. Message. We dont joke about assaulting women, we dont strategize about assauting women, rapists do these things not real men. Men. He also told students and women should demand respect in return. His opinion didnt sit well with some parentscbs 2 news spoke with they believed he was picking a side in the president ial race. But kline says he decided to speak out because it was the right thing to do. Kline 10 34 14 i never think that the solution is to Say Something and be done with it but if it inspires a larger dialogue and it inspires things in the school happening that prevents Sexual Assault from happening then i think thats a good thing. Thing. Release a statement saying they agree with the sentiment regarding respect for women. But klines political opinion is his own and does not represent the district. Stephanie johnson cbs 2 news. Thanks stephanie how do you feel about the principals message to his students weve received hundreds of comments on the story weve posted on our facebook page. Join the conversation right now just search for cbs 2iowa. The second president debate on viewership reaching 66and a half Million People. Thats about twenty percent fewer people that tuned into the first debate. Some blame the sunday night football matchup between the packers and the giants. Facebook crunched its numbers and says it was the most talkedabout debate ever for the site. It said some 20 Million People were commenting, liking and sharing content about the debate. Voters in iowas second Congressional District had a chance to hear the two candidates for that seat face off against each other. One of the biggest is about so far has been term limi. Limits. It wasnt deisgned to be a tenured instititon. It was desigend to protect our individual liberties. I think you make a good point about congressmen being there a long time to ga