And from work. A new website unveiled thursday could help ease that strain. 10 21 24;21 transportation can be an impediment to employment so we hope to address that issue, in a small way we hope to start addressing congestion on i380 as it exists today its called iowa rideshare, you create a profile and then enter in the details of your commute. The website can match you with other commuters who live and work in the same areas as you. It co within cities. Sharon prater takes the bus in cedar rapids to work every day and says she might try it. 10 50 10;05 sharing rides would mean less cars on the road because a lot of people are moving here from different places so that makes it more congested. One of the options the new Program Offers is vanpool. This gives groups lets say, for example, an employer their own special vehicle. 10 24 02;10 if you already have say 6 other friends who want to utilize it, you all register and say you want to interested in participating you register and then vride the vanpool vendor will create a community for you the program is geared toward millennials but anyone interested can join. Samantha joins us live now near i380. Samantha, the dot says its also considering another option that might help reduce traffic . Yes, the dot says its exploring bus route running between cedar rapids and iowa city by 2018. A proposal calls for bus rides every 30 minutes during peak traffic hours. Likely from 5 to 9 in the morning and 3 to 7 at night. But right now, those plans are just preliminary. Bruce and beth . Thanks, samantha. Lets check in with more like fall outside. 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 weekend looks great with partly to mostly sunny skies and highs in the 60s. Shower chances come back to our area by tuesday and last into thursday, and a few rumbles of thunder may be in the mix on wednesday as well. Tonight mostly clear with areas of frost. Wind nw 510. Low 33 alo 32 dbq 32 iow 35 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind w Waterloo Police are it happened around 7 45 at Yesway Convenience store on franklin and nevada streets. Police say two men showed a handgun during the robbery. They later ran away. No one was hurt. Communities in eastern and central iowa had about 22 Million Dollars in damage from the flooding the Iowa Department of Homeland Security and emergency management. A Spokesman Says governor branstad will likely ask for a president ial disaster declaration to get money to help offset the cost of damage. The most damage to public infrastructur e came in linn county at 12point7 Million Dollars. In black hawk county, damage was about 3point4 Million Dollars. And in nearby butler county, it was about 1point6 million. Also, there were nearly 500 homes and businesses damaged in the flooding. Most of them were in black hawk, parts plans to layoff hundreds of workers in iowa city by the end of the year. International Automotive Components says it will reduce the number of hourly employees from 600 to 160. And it will cut salaried employees from about 75. To about 40. The company says the reductions are necessary because Fiat Chrysler is phasing out a model that it makes parts for. And it hasnt found anything to replace that plant. The president of Iowa State University is now under a closer microscope tonight, as the iowa board of regents investigates his use of school planes. We as the board of regents take the use of the University Resources very seriously and in more than a few instances, the decision to use the plane appears to be questionable at best. Today, the board called for an leath has taken on the schools two airplanes. The review comes after questions about whether leath misused University Resources. Leath owns a home in north carolina, and has flown to and from the state a number of times. He damaged a university plane in a crash landing when returning from a trip last year. And the state regents gave their blessings to a 90 Million Dollar renovation to the north endzone at Kinnick Stadium. Scott saville will have details of the project, and reaction from Athletic Director turning to politics tonight, and both president ial candidates appeared at a fundraiser dinner in new york. Republican donald trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton poked fun at themselves and each other just one night after their last heated debate. Abcs Karen Travers reports. The al Smith Memorial dinner is a Charity Event at which politicians are charitable to one another. So just one day after trading insults in their final debate Hillary Clinton and donald trump put on their smiley faces. Trump drew boos for some of his remarks at clintons expense. Sot trump here she is tonight in public pretending not to hate catholics. Sot Clinton Donald looks at the statue of liberty and sees a four. Maybe a five if she loses the torch and clinton and trump did shake hands after refusing to do so at their last two debates. It was a sharp contrast to their caustic exchanges wednesday night. Trump such a nasty woman. Clinton i think hes unfit. And he proves it every time he talks. Trump no, you are the one thats unfit. As for trumps controversial refusal to say he would accept the result of the president ial vote sot trump i will look at it at the time. Im not looking at anything now. Speaking at a rally in ohio, he followed up in classic trump Hillary Clinton called trumps position horrifying. Sot clinton . He is denigrating, he is talking down our democracy. And i for one am appalled. Less than three weeks to go until election day. Karen travers, abc news, washington. Some High School Students in elkader are doing more than most teenagers ahead of next months elections. Theyre getting ready to host a debate involving candidates running for two seats in the iowa house. The debate will be this tuesday night. The candidates are democrat pat ritter and republican Michael Bergan in House District 55. And democrat patti ruff against republican kristi hager in district 56. Students have spent a lot of time researching the issues that matter most to theyve come up with all of the questions. The teacher overseeing the project says the students are being proactive, even though some are not even old enough to vote. We really pushed it forward with the kids. Where they get ownership is where they get to talk about the issues they want to talk about. That debate begins at seven oclock tuesday night at Central Community high school in elkader. A new app makes it easier for university of iowa students to alert police in case of danger. Things like set a timer when walking between places. And the city of dubuque honors a woman who left a Lasting Legacy on the city. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Its another added layer of darien why have the latest smartphone if you cant use it wherever you go . Switch to u. S. Cellular for our best plan yet 7 gigs of data per line for only 49. To share more photos at your cabin or video chat at your secret fishing spot. All for just 49. The best part . We put towers in places the other guys dont. Because u. S. Cellular thinks you deserve a signal that works wherever you are. Switch to u. S. Cellular the university of iowa says a new Smartphone App could help keep students safe the next time theyre headed out. Today, the university of iowa launched hawk watch. That Smartphone App comes as the university deals w Sexual Misconduct this school year. University Public Safety says the latest report was a Sexual Assault that happened around two oclock saturday morning. Police say someone approached the victim outside a Residence Hall on the east side. That person took the victim to a nearby corner of the building, where the Sexual Assault happened. The victim yelled and the assailant ran away. Kcrg tv nines Forrest Saunders explains how this new app called hawk watch could help in when its dark or youre walking someplace a little sketchy, sometimes you want a guardian with you. Amanda kupka has been there even though she knows jiu jitsu. Yeah, ive messaged my friend. Im like, im going to this place. If i dont text you in 20 minutes, call someone. now, theres an app that can basically do just that contact someone if you dont make it to a destination. The university of iowa calls it hawk watch. Heres how it works. Lets say we were going to someplace like shaffer hall. You type in your destination. Use a timer to estimate how long itll taket or law enforcement, which the app calls guardians. You make it there, you turn off the timer. But. If the timer runs out on my app, then the app will contact my guardian like the ui police. Your guardian will get all the info you typed in, including your phones location. Authorities say if theyre alerted, theyll treat it like a 911 call. Theyre going to take the call and do what they normally would under any circumstance. It doesnt change their procedures at all. Floyd johnson is one of the people behind hawk watch. He says its based off a program already out there called rave guardian. Hawk watch has a bunch of safety features besides the police. Theres a panic button that calls 911 directly. Johnson says the app is a jump forward in safety tech for the school. Youre going from having bluecap phones, that are only in certain locations on campus, to actually having the same type of technology at your disposal, in your own pocket. Meaning kupka has another way to protect herself the next time she heads out. In iowa city, Forrest Saunders, kcrgtv9. Has an apple or android phone. You can get it right now by downloading rave guardian. University of iowa students should use their iowa email to get access to hawk watch. Lets check back in with justin. These are wood ducks who are leftovers. They are swimming in a pond that was created by these wood ducks will be long gone, heading south. 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 returning to the middle to upper 50s. The weekend looks great with partly to mostly sunny skies and highs in the 60s. Shower chances come back to our area by tuesday and rumbles of thunder may be in the mix on wednesday as well. Tonight mostly clear with areas of frost. Wind nw 510. Low 33 alo 32 dbq 32 iow 35 510. High 55 alo 55 dbq 53 iow 57 tom. Night partly cloudy. Wind s 510. Low 40 alo 40 dbq 38 iow 41 saturday partly cloudy in the morning with more sunday mostly sunny. High 69 low 44 monday partly cloudy. High 65 low 42 tuesday chance of showers. High 66 low 47 wednesday chance of showers and a few storms. High 65 low 54 thursday slight chance of showers early. High cloudy. High 59 low 46 many people in dubuque are activist ruby sutton. Today, the city renamed the Multicultural Family center in her memory. Dubuques chapter of the ndoubleacp requested the city dedicate the building in honor of sutton after she died last year. Kcrgtv9s allison wong takes us to todays dedication event. Today is a great day people remembering what ruby sutton stood for. She was known as a champion for human rights. She helped start dubuques chapter of the ndoubleacp and the citys human rights commission. Working to educate the community about diversity. Karla braig, rubys friend we were instrumental in getting dr. C. T. Vivian to come to dubuque and do diversity training with city people and people with the Dubuque Community schools, which was very significant at the time. She just tirelessly helped anybody who came her way. Didnt turn anybody away. Would help anyone that needed help, and if she couldnt help them, she would find someone who could help them. She says thursdays dedication of the Multicultural Family center carries a special meaning for her and her family. It means a lot, because she wont be forgotten, her work wont be forgotten, so its a lot. And people hope her work will inspire future generations. Ruby was so much is if her name is on this building, the children that come in here will get to know who she was. Allison wong and each person who spoke tonight said the same thing that ruby would have never expected any of this, but that she would have been very appreciative. In dubuque, allison wong, kcrg tv9 news. Coming up next tonight, scott features our new tv nine athlete of the week. And runners were trying to punch their ticket to the state Cross Country meet tonight. Stay with your 24 hour news cedar rapids toyota. Andrea adam is a student at regina but dives for city high. And the the little hawks are happy to have her on the team. Despite only diving for 2 years adam who is a former gymnast is ranked in the top five in the state on the diving board. Now you are a gymnast how is that helped you out on the diving board . It helps with the way that i can my move my body and it has an extra 1 m of a difference and then you got it you can always win in the water too so thats always helpful. What do you the way you feel in the air i love the competitions i love meeting diviers its just super fun. Whats your best dive . I think my front twister is my best dive. I explain what a front twister is. So you go off the board facing forward that you do a full twist and then you square down and dive in the water well that sounds hard its fun feels like you are flying. I know youre very graceful you would kill me in a diving competition we are going switch things up and see who can make the biggest splash if win your coach has to do a belly flop if i lose i have to with some big time technique and still provided a pretty big splash. But i was ready with good ole fashion cannon ball. Clear the pool title wave. Look the waves are still rumbling and andeas teammates said i clearly won south was time for coach hugo to do a belly flop. This has gotta hurt. Stung kind of like our practice. Followed by laughter. A trip to fort dodge was on the line today for local high school Cross Country teams. Lets go to noelridge park. Top 15 individual and top 3 teams go to state. Class 1a girls, belonged to camryn reeg of bellevue who had a tremendous lead. She finished in 19 13, winning by almost 50 seconds. Pekin won the team title, marquette 2nd and north linn 3rd between pekin teammates Ryan Millikin and malcohm myers. Its millikin with the lead as they cross the bridge and he wins in 16 19. Myers is 2nd. Pekin won the team title, cal wheatland 2nd and bellevue 3rd. Class 4a girls. About five runners were packed together as they cross the bridge. And it was a photo finish. Mary arch of city high holds off ella popenhagen. City high is 1st, linnmar 2nd and muscatine 3rd another tight grouping as the runners crossed the bridge. But its last weeks tv9 athlete of the week ryan murphy winning in 15 57. Wash won the title, city high 2nd and linnmar 3rd 3a district meet in solon. Ladies first. The assumption duo of joy ripslinger and Julia Schumacher set the pace right from the start. Those two finished 12. Teamwise, mount vernonlisbon was first, solon finished second and assumption was third. To the boys race where marion held the top two spots from the jeremy fopma had a big lead on the rest of the pack. Fopma wins the race in 15 46. Bach was second. Marion finished second to mount vernonlisbon. Clear creekamana was third. And finally the north end zone at Kinnick Stadium is getting a makeover after this season. The state regents approved the 90 Million Dollar plan which will replace the upper and lower seating, plus itll also add two general admission concourses and a premium club level. The project will be completed just before our fans have been historically, theyre the best. And so, as we did this project, one of our key principles was to enhance the fan experience. And im excited that as people see this theyre going to see that that absolutely has been accomplished. Thanks scott. One last look at the forecast, justin. A light wind and clearsk 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 weekend looks great with partly to mostly sunny skies and highs in the 60s. Shower chances come back to our area by tuesday and last into thursday, and a few rumbles of thunder may be in the mix on wednesday as well. Tonight mostly clear with areas of frost. Wind nw 510. Low 33 alo 32 dbq 32 iow 35 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind w 510. High 55 alo 55 dbq 53 iow 57 tom. Night partly cloudy. Wind s 510. Low 40 alo 40 dbq 38 iow 41 saturday partly cloudy in the morning with more sunshine in the afternoon. High 65 alo 40 sunday mostly sunny. High 69 low 44 monday partly cloudy. High 65 low 42 tuesday chance of showers. High 66 low 47 Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight, Benedict Cumberbatch isla fisher this week in unnecessary censorship and music from flatbush zombies. And now, heres jimmy kimmel . [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you. Thank you. Very nice of you. Hi, everybody. Thank you. Im jimmy. Im the host of the show. Thank you for watching. Thanks to all of you for coming. Wow, thats very nice. Im glad youre with us. You know, we have a good one tonight