In the area are casting their 4 seconds tractor nats were starting off tonight with have a crew at the event and for joining us. Is going to get very chilly High Pressure tracks through the temperatures will be closer to normal as we head into friday lead to scattered showers and thunderstorms saturday afternoon and evening. Sunday will be and while the general election is still 27 days away some iowans already have their minds made up. Were hearing from some early voters heading to the booth in the midst of the final election push. Kwwls Macleod Hageman joins us live with more. Mac . The 2016 president ial race has been one of the most contentious campaigns americans have ever seen. Scandals aside several cast their ballots early. I just dont like the way its share who they want to lead the country. But according to county officials the number of people voting absentee is down more than four thousand people. We asked Black Hawk County auditor grant veeder why . That is the 64,000 ques
So we went from 85 degrees on monday to some frost. Hour by hour we start things out about 44 degrees. By noon were back to mostly sunny skies and tomorrows high also settle into the 50s and thats where were going to stay for the rest of the week. A nice warming trend for the weekend. October 19th is a day dedicated to stopping youth gun violence. Washington high school in cedar rapids where students and staff are using this one day as a start to something bigger. Reporter in any in the wrong hands guns can turn any situation from bad to deadly in a fraction of a second. But now students and staff here at Washington High School are working to stop tragedies before they happen. Today is the nationly appeal day of certain for young people and Gun High School student jackson died in an accidental shooting. He is not the first victim from the school. The message against violence is not new but students hearsay there are still those who choose not to hear it. Weve lost a lot of students who
Husiinger shows us with more on what one school is doing to get the message across. Reporter the next week students at Washington High School will have a conversation and choice, to sign this pledge to End Gun Violence and prevent a tragedy this school is all too familiar with. It takes a split second for a gun to change everything. One of my Close Friends played basketball here. He got shot because, like, of his friends, they were playing with a gun and they were not supposed to. Reporter accidental or intentional, the decision to involve guns escalates the violence. We have had a lot of gun violence with teens, like a lot of teens have guns and i dont feel like that is right. Its unsafe. Reporter now Washington High School is putting the topic in focus. Every student at Washington High School and every staff member are going to stop and pause and engage in very robust conversation and dialogue it. Particularly among young people. Reporter students are writing poems, essays and songs
We see crashes with passing, so lighting and marking will help drivers better visualize and assess the speed of farm equipment. Here in iowa researchers say increasing visibility would decrease crashes from 164 to 65 annually. Weve put a link to the study on our website, information. In iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. Nearly 500 jobs are going away in iowa city as a company reduces its work force. International Automotive Components has 600 hourly employees right now, but will reduce that to 160. Theyll also cut nearly 40 salaried positions, leaving them at 39. Iac says theyre forced to make the cuts because of the downturn in the dodge dart, but with that vehicle phased out. Lets check in now with meteorologist justin gehrts. Justin, itll be a little chillier overnight . A light wind and clear sky will lead to a cool night in the 30s with patches of frost. Tomorrow will be another seasonably cool and sunshiney day with highs returning to the middle to upper 50s. The weeken
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