Meeting tonight. Jordee, this was a lengthy discussion . Yes. For more than 3 Hours Council heard both positives and negatives about this plan. Those for the proposal say theres not enough Affordable Housing in cedar rapids. Those against the proposal say they arent against the low Income Housing units, they just dont want the development in their neighborhood. 27 51, just against the location of this, or any apartments that would go here deanna schriner has lived n edgewood and crestwood roads for about 45 years. She says throughout the years, this neighborhood has become too congested. 28 31, the traffic the safety the drainage, the storm water runoff. Thats why shes against the proposal for Affordable Housing units. If passed, the complex would have gone up just across the street from her home. 28 44, there really isnt anything close around here this is in the middle of a residential neighborhood night to express concern for this project. Nat 59 40, absolutely every homeowner or renter would be or should be concerned with what is being built and who is moving into their neighborhood. The citys Planning Department supported the plan with changes. The city said Road Construction is underway on edgewood road, so the new road will ease traffic concerns and theres also work being done to drainage facilities. Nat 51 12, this is something that is so needed in our groups in our city that are not being attended to. For as many people spoke out about this project, there was just as many in favor. Including Cedar Rapids Community schools superintendent brad buck. 28 27, we know that students that find themselves in an unstable housing situation are more likely to have difficulties in school, to that end im here to advocate for students and opportunities to have stable and affordable end of the meeting, council did not reach the amount of votes needed to pass this First Reading. Phoebe trepp 30 55 the fact we cant get that approved in any part of town is really dishearteningadvocacy groups for the project, including the Willis Dady Homeless Services say they arent going to give up hope yet. They say the need for Affordable Housing is just too great. 31 02, something thats been seen as a beneficial project is to have people in different parts of the community not just in sout city council was one vote shy of passing the First Reading for the rezoning tonight. It needed a super majority vote to move to the next stage. Bruce and beth . Thanks, jordee. Johnson county is searching for a new location for an emergency homeless shelter this winter. For the past two years, members of Shelter House have opened a lowbarrier shelter during the people who are intoxicated and cant get into Shelter House. But past locations are no longer available. Officials say 175 different people stayed at the shelter last winter, and they feel finding the location is the difference between life and death. The winter in iowa gets cold, and we feel like we have done a Real Good Service the last two years, people have not died on the streets due to exposure. Anyone who has a location in the iowa city area shoul house directly. Turning now to meteorologist joe winters. Some rains been coming down in parts of eastern iowa. Rain becomes more widespread tonight as an area of low pressure tracks across iowa. The low moves from the plains across the state and by Late Wednesday moves into illinois. Rain continues through wednesday morning before ending. Over one inch of rainfall is possible across the northern third of the state with thunder as the system moves through. This is our best chance for rain into early next week as starting thursday we again get back to our dry, but up and down temperature trend we have seen this october. Have a great night tonight showers and a few thunderstorm s likely. Windy. Wind se 1530. Low 50 tomorrow showers and a few thunderstorm s likely, mostly in the morning. Windy at times. Wind var 1020. High 56 Independence Police are looking for this boy tonight. He is james beebe and is 13 years old. Someone last saw him in independence yesterday. He wearing a hawkeye sweatshirt, black pants and gray shoes. Anyone with information about where he might be should call police. Both president ial candidates before election day. Polls there show Democrat Hillary Clinton holding a slight lead, but Republican Donald Trump is trying to close the gap. Abcs maggie rulli reports. Both candidates are in florida today rallying voters in the must win state. Just 14 days 2 weekstodays Abc News National tracking poll has Clinton Holding on to her double digit lead over donald trump . A and solid lead . Is now also focusing on getting wins down ballot unlike his opponent Patrick Murphy is not afraid to stand up to donald trumpmeanwhi le trump is continuing to say that the polls are rigged the corrupt media there is nothing more corrupt that those peopleand so is all of washington job killing obamacare is just one more example of news that average premiums under the Affordable Care act will increase by 25 percent in popular plans next year . During a stop at his golf course in florida . Trump said obamacre is hurting employees trump i mean you look at what they are going through with their health care is horrible because of obamacare so we will repeal it and replace it. But afterwards, the general manager of trumps golf course said that 99 of full time employees were ensured by the company mean Trump Obamacare is a disaster it has to be repealed and q so do you provide Health Insurance to all these employees . 09 55 36 trump i do. Q so none of the them are on obamacare . Trump some of them but most of them no. O c close trump jumps from his golf course, to one of his hotels. Tomorrow hes off the campaign trail and will be attending a Ribbon Cutting ceremony at his hotel in dc. Clinton will be in florida. Magie rulli abc News Washington governor branstad says the outcome of iowas legislative races next month could help the state today he was in marion and davenport campaigning for republican candidates, both at the national and state levels. Branstad hopes the g op will keep its majority in the iowa house and take control of the senate where democrats hold a narrow margin. Today, he said that would allow lawmakers to follow a republican agenda. Sot 23 06 i think it would make a real difference. Last year we worked all year for water quality. We got it into three committee in the house. It passed with 65 votes, and the majority leader wouldnt even debate it. By having a Senate Majority wed be able to get to issues simplify and make us more competitive branstad also said education and Economic Development will be priorities in next years legislative session. A coalition of groups wants state lawmakers to pass a bill to automaticall y restore Voting Rights to people convicted of nonviolent felonies. The American Civil Liberties union of iowa says the bill would restore those rights when would not require a person to pay any additional fees. Right now, felons must apply to the governor for a restoration of Voting Rights. A hispanic woman is claiming her coworkers in coralville used Donald Trumps comments and images to harass her. In a lawsuit, Alexandra Avila said her coworkers at Sedgwick Claims Management services called her an illegal immigrant even though shes a us citizen. She also said they changed her computers trump. And signed her up for his campaign. The lawsuit also alleges her coworkers sent her racist memes, like these. Trump has reportedly called for the deportation of undocumented mexican immigrants, he also says he wants to build a wall on the us mexico border. North liberty is sticking with status quo when it comes to the minimum wage there. Its not opting out of the countywide wage thats set to go up next year. Boutique casino in cedar rapids have an offer for investors of the original plan. And checking in on the world series. The Cleveland Indians are out in front of the chicago cubs threenothing in the eighth inning of game one. Minimum wage workers in north tonight, the city Council Discussed an ordinance to keep the minimum wage where it right now. But ultimately decided to take so that means the Johnson County county approved wage of 1010 per hour will take effect in the city in january. Currently, the county wide wage is 915. Last year, the county bumped it up to 820. The statewide minimum wage is 725. Kcrgtv9s Samantha Myers is live in the newsroom tonight. Samantha, so why is North Liberty letting the increase take effect . There were many people who giving personal stories about how opting out of the wage increase would have a negative impact on themselves and their families. But some City Council Members said they were concerned about Small Businesses with fewer than five employees that may struggle to stay afloat with a wage increase. And they said they wanted to make sure they did enough homework and research before coming to tonights decision. 13 48 34;17 the thing we wanted to do again was do our own homework, have the surveys done, have a better footing to make the decisions one way or the that are being bombarded with medical bills because they just had a baby and have people that cannot bring food to the table because they are not making enough money and an increase i think will help tremendously those individuals. Some other Council Members said they werent happy with the way the county went about passing the ordinance last year. Again, North Liberty did not take action on the minimum wage, so it will go up to 1010 per hour next year. Myers, kcrg tv9. Turning back to weather. Joe, rain is the story tonight . Rain becomes more widespread tonight as an area of low pressure tracks across iowa. The low moves from the plains across the state and by Late Wednesday moves into illinois. Rain continues through wednesday morning before ending. Over one inch of rainfall is possible across the northern third of the cloud also could hear some rumbles of thunder as the system moves through. This is our best chance for rain into early next week as across iowa. The low moves from the plains across the state and by Late Wednesday moves into illinois. Rain continues through wednesday morning before ending. Over one inch of rainfall is possible less amounts farther south. We cloud also could hear some rumbles of thunder as the system moves through. This is our best chance for rain into early next week as starting thursday we again get back to our dry, but up and down temperature trend we have seen this october. Have a great night tonight showers and a few thunderstorm s likely. Windy. Wind se 1530. Low 50 tomorrow showers and a few thunderstorm s likely, mostlyi tom. Night mostly cloudy and cooler. Wind nw 515. Low 42 thursday partly cloudy. High 59 low 42 friday partly cloudy. Breezy and milder. High 72 low 46 saturday partly cloudy. High 66 low 50 sunday partly cloudy. High 61 low 39 monday partly cloudy. Breezy and milder. High 70 low 45 tuesday partly cloudy. High 62 low 44 wednesday partly cloudy. 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 and get a whopping 7 gigs of data per line some of their money back, if they support a new plan. Developer Steve Emerson is leading that new plan, and today he announced a one and a half Million Dollar reimbursement fund. Emerson and Wild Rose Entertainment want to build a boutique casino in this downtown area across the street from the doubletree hotel. The Cedar Rapids Development city two years ago. But the state rejected that bid. So now, the developers of the boutique casino are offering to reimburse the investors in that first group to help get them to support their plan. 13 26 23;16 wild rose felt it set a very bad tone to come in to a community and to not to something to extend goodwill and compensation to the initial investors. Under the plan, the original investors would each receive a reimbursee initial casno project, up to a maximum of 50thousand dollars. But this is all contingent upon their support for the new casino plan. Of course, the developers would also still have to get a state license to build the boutique casino. Tomorrow, people can go see what some of iowas entrepreneurs and inventors are working on. Its at the innovation expo in cedar rapids. It goes all day at the doubletree by Hilton Convention complex. There will followed by a showcase at night. One of the innovators who will be at the showcase is a cedar rapids man who has made a device that helps preserve wine. Tom lutz created repour, which is a disposable wine stopper. The device absorbs oxygen from inside the bottle. Lutz says thats what keeps wine fresh. Coming up next in sports. Uni senior guard Jeremy Morgan lands a big pre season honor today. And scott will have highlights from the in class 4a at marion. The indians hosted grinnell. And marion got off to a quick start andrea landutt with the left handed fast ball. And that had the fans on their feet. Great student section at marion. And then the big 6 footer Isabella Sade went to work with some big time kills on both sides of the court. And she can do it all how bout the ace from sade and marion won the first set 257 and they cruise to the 30 sweep. In class 5a linnmar hosted Davenport Nort lions doing a nice job of keeping it a live and then Ellie Anderson just finds the open spot on the court to win the first set 2514. And then they started pouding the ball anna gorsich with big time kill. And the lions can beat you in a lot of different ways ellie von lehmden killing them softy and linn mar sweeps north 30. Scott westerberg continues our team coverage. Kennedy hosting marshalltown and this one was all cougars. The set to emma set. Then its madi palmer to kayla joyner who taps one by the blockers to keep kennedy in front by two. Later its gabby meyer with the jump serve that comes up aces. Boote adds another kill as kennedy sweeps marshalltown. A little farther west on 42nd street where xavier was hosting fort madison. Saints in control early as Jessica Callahan sets to former tv9 athlete of the week Charlotte Richards for the kill. Xavier up 2. How about some defense from t jefferson there for the block. Point xavier. Then Ellie Mcdermott heats up as she keeps that kill inside the end line. Later, mcdermott with the hammer as xavier sweeps fort madison. In cedar rapids, Scott Westerberg tv9 sports. News from the nfl today. Former city high standout aj derby has been traded from the patriots to the broncos for a 2017 draft pick. The uni basketballt team is state. And the pride and joy of iowa city west Jeremy Morgan was named the mvc preseason player of the year. Morgan the best defensive player in the league will have also have to carry a heavier load on offense. Its a big challenge when you know you probably got to guard one of the better players on defense and then expected to score a little bit more but the defense of side im not im not very worried about because we would play help side defense and i know i got a lot of faith and trust in going on competing every day is what im looking forward to. Sot 21 oc im looking forward to the uni women were picked to finish second behind drake this year and former Benton Community star Madison Weekley is on the preseason allconference team. The state Cross Country meet in this saturday in fort dodges and marion runners jeremy fopma and myles bach have a chance to go 1,2 in the class 3a race. It is a goal they set as freshman and hope to get it done saturday. That is huge that is what we what we wanted and thats what were trying to do that is the goal. We want to both win the race we the other to do well but i can i can guarantee you he doesnt want to lose and i dont want to lose. We hate losing especially to each other it gets intense. It gets into the races and we dont want to give each other an inch. I think we are both going to be happy on saturday i know that. Sot 25 oc i know that thanks scott. Joe. Rain becomes more widespread tonight as an area of low pressure tracks across iowa. The low moves from the plains across the state and by Late Wednesday moves into illinois. Rain continues through wednesday morning before ending. Over one inch of rainfall is possible across the northern third of the state with less amounts farther south. We cloud also could hear some rumbles of thunder as the system moves through. This is our best chance for rain into early next week as starting thursday we again get back to dicky from hollywood its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight, chef gordon ramsay, from inferno felicity jones, and music from jimmy eat world. And now, from this point on heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ] . Jimmy hi, im jimmy, im the host of the show. 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