Morning will break and well see plenty of sunshine this afternoon. Thanks to the wind shift from the north to south along with the wonderful sunshine, high temperatures will warm into the 60s. Perfect football weather id say the evening is pleasant as well. Temperatures will stay mild, dropping only into the low 40s as winds continue out of the south. A few passing clouds will be all. Sunday the sunshine returns and so do the warmer temperatures. Expect highs nearing 70 degrees. Areas south of i80 may actually top out in the low 70s. This warmth will stick with us through the middle of next week until our next system moves in on wednesday bring chances for rain and a few stors wind sw 515. High 66 alo 66 dbq 64 iow 67 63 to 69 tonight mostly clear. Wind s 510. Low 44 alo 44 dbq 44 iow 45 41 to 47 thanks britley. President ial nominees have just a little more than 2 weeks to persuade voters. With election day now 17 days away, the nominees are today Republican Donald Trump plans to lay out plans for his first 100 days in office at an event in gettysburg pennsylvania. Trumps policy adviser says the nominee will talk about his vision to quote restore our economy and give the Government Back to the people. This will be trumps 2nd straight day in the keystone state. He talked about stopping illegal immigration while campaigning in central pennsylvania yesterday. If im tough new mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for anyone who illegally re enters the country after previously being deported. They wont come back. Democrat Hillary Clinton makes several Campaign Stops in pennsylvania today. She was in ohio yesterday. Whoever wins the state of ohio has gone on to win the election for the past several decades. Have the physical strength to run the country. I have now spent for and a half hours on stage with donald, proving once again i have the stamina to be president. Recent polls show the state of ohio is a tossup between clinton and trump. Nationally, the latest cnn poll shows clinton with a 5 point lead. Iowa republican congressman rod democrat Monica Vernon have agreed to debate next week. Theyre both running for iowas First District which covers waterloo, cedar rapids and dubuque. Kcrgtv9 and the gazette will host the debate at coe college on wednesday, october 26th. You can watch it on kcrg 9point2, starting at 7 oclock. Political campaigns are paying attention to people who requested absentee ballots but lores college poll. The iowa secretary of States Office says almost 100,000 fewer people have requested an absentee ballot this year as compared to the 2012 president ial election. Experts say that information will likely cause Campaign Workers to try to get in touch with people who havent yet requested an absentee ballot. Especilly those voters who havent voted early to vote in the past. They know when you request one and theyll actually track whether you have returned it. So for them its a way of saying ok, weve got your vote, we know you a have to keep calling you, we dont have to keep coming to your door. when theyre looking at those numbers, no one can see who voters have voted for. But they can tell if the voter is registered at a republican, democrat or independent. Today you can drop off any unwanted Prescription Drugs at dozens of locations in eastern iowa. Its all part of the Drug Enforcement agencys 12th annual drug take back day. The Prescription Drug overdoses. In cedar rapids, drop off locations are set up at the Police Department and the linn county Sheriffs Office. In waterloo, the Police Department is hosting a drug drop off on the citys west side. You can take them to greenwood pharmacy near ridgeway and kimball avenues. And in dubuaue, the citys Drug Task Force is collecting at sams club. Well post a link to a full list of drop off locations on kcr theres some good news for drivers in cedar rapids this morning. Construction is now complete on 42nd street northeast near i380. The city had been doing pavement and utility work there since spring. It also added turn and bike lanes. This was one of the largest road projects for the city this year. The construction was part of the citys paving for progress project. After two weeks on the road, its a battle for the heartland trophy as 10th ranked wisconsin comes to town. Todays kickoff is set for 11 00 in iowa city. If you didnt get tickets, you can watch the game on espn. You can catch the uni panthers live on kcrg 9. 2 this afternoon. Theyre taking on Missouri State under the dome starting at 1 00 this afternoon. Unitypoint health is known for treating diseases and injuries. Well have more on how theyve also been decades, coming up in a live interview. Stay with tv9. Its. Partly cloudy skies early this 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 and get a whopping 7 gigs of data per line for only 49. This afternoon. Thanks to the wind shift from sunshine, high temperatures will warm into the 60s. Perfect football weather id say the evening is pleasant as well. Temperatures will stay mild, dropping only into the low 40s as winds continue out of the south. A few passing clouds will be all. Sunday the sunshine returns and so do the warmer temperatures. Expect highs nearing 70 degrees. Actually top out in the low 70s. This warmth will stick with us through the middle of next week until our next system moves in on wednesday bring chances for rain and a few storms. Today mostly sunny and warmer. Wind sw 515. High 66 alo 66 dbq 64 iow 67 63 to 69 tonight mostly clear. Wind s 510. Low 44 alo 44 dbq 44 iow 45 41 to 47 tomorrow mostly 68 dbq 66 iow 69 66 to 72 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind n 515 low 40 alo 38 dbq 40 iow 40 37 to 43 monday mostly sunny. High 61 low 40 tuesday chance of showers. High 61 low 44 wednesday showers and a few thunderstorm s likely. High 63 low 52 thursday becoming partly cloudy. High 59 low 47 friday partly cloudy. Chance of showers, mainly north. High 60 low 46 sunday partly cloudy. High 59 low 39 after losing their first two out the season on a 7 game winning streak. Scott will have highlights from the matchup with williamsburg coming regular season and we had a district title on the line tonight in williamsburg. The raiders hosted mount vernon live on kcrg 9. 2 morgan hawk called the game on 9. 2 and joins us live from williamsburg. Morgan this was for the title. Joel girdner joins me now and including at kingston where kennedy needed to beat atleast 11 points to get in. We were scoreless after one at kingston. Pick it up in the 2nd quarter. 4th and 4 for the cougars. Nick duehr finds carter krall who wins the race to the goal line to put the cougars up a touchdown. The prairie offense would respond. Levi usher turns the corner on the quarterback keeper picks up big yards before hes tackled on the cougar 5 yard line. Later in that sequence. 4th and meyer finds his way into the endzone to get the hawks on the board. This was a close game throughout. Thanks joel. Iowa city west in that same district needed a win over ottumwa to have a chance to make the playoffs. And west came out flying high thru the air with one of the most sought after Wide Receivers in the country Oliver Martin and he has some pretty good wheels and run by everyone for big yardage before he steps out of bounce and that set up basketball star devontea lane for the two yard touchdown run and poses for the camer. And devonte says hey i can do it all. Now on defense. Checkout this interception off the deflection and lane is gone for the pick six for his second straight td to make it 28nothing. And they werent done yet not by a long shot. Flitz with the play fake down with it for six more and iowa city rolls to the win. 8 man football. A trip to the playoffs was on the one line tonight in lone tree. The lions hosted midland who came out wingining it. Alex martin going deep for Dawson Paulson and he has him for the games first touchdown. But lone tree comes right back on the ground drike hotz from 25 yards out races into the endzone this game was back and forth austin smith from the wildcat straight ahead for the 10 yard td to put midland on top 1410 with the two point conversion. Back comes lone tree that guy hotz again with a td run from 20 yards out to put lone tree back on top and wins a shootout. We are just Getting Started we will have more highlights on the endzone when we comeback. With the stakes sky high the indians came out all jacked up for this one. And they looked good on the opening drive checkout the move by wide receiver alex whalen for big yardage. But that drive stalled and assumption answered thru the air jayce levi with the great play fake airs one out for a wide open ryan wohlers and he takes it down the one fumbles but it gets it back to set up the first touchdown of the game. And the knights took a 13 nothing lead moments later on the justus burke 31 yard touchdown run. Former hawkeye captain tonight and he says throw to the tight end. Good call allen. Trevor paulsen connects with a wide open grant meth down the middle and look at him running with the ball one handed to cut the lead to 136 in the Second Quarter and that had them ringing the bell. But assumption answered moments later on the levy td run to take a 206 lead. Marion still playing with a lot of heart checkout the hit by dawson kirk on the sidelines. But a few players later levy with the throw back to burke who does the rest and davenport this afternoon. Thanks to the wind shift from the north to south along with the wonderful sunshine, high temperatures will warm into the 60s. Perfect football weather id say the evening is pleasant as well. Temperatures will stay mild, drop continue out of the south. A few passing clouds will be all. Sunday the sunshine returns and so do the warmer temperatures. Expect highs nearing 70 degrees. Areas south of i80 may actually top out in the low 70s. This warmth will stick with us through the middle of next week until our next system moves in on wednesday bring chances for rain and a few storms. Today mostly sunny and warmer. Wind sw 515. High 66 alo 66 dbq 64 iow 67 63 to 69 tonight mostly clear. Wind s 510. Low 44 alo 44 dbq 44 iow 45 41 to 47 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind nw 1525 high 69 alo 68 dbq 66 iow 69 66 to 72 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind n 515 low 40 alo 38 dbq 40 iow 40 37 to 43 monday mostly sunny. High 61 low 40 tuesday chance of showers. High 61 low 44 wednesday showers and a few thunderstorm s likely. High 63 low 52 thursday becoming friday partly cloudy. High 60 low 46 saturday chance of showers, mainly north. High 60 dental health of lowincome disabled adults in our community. Director dr. Ritu bansal joins us to talk more about the center. What types of services do you provide at the center . You also provide prevention and outreach with the Community Tell us more about that. And how do children qualify for services . How can people obtain an appointment . The dhc provides comprehensive education and prevention. The late dr. Rhys b. Jones, dds, ms, was the driving force behind establishing the dhc in 1976. Following his unexpected death in 2012, the dental Health Center clinic space was rededicated in his name. The Center Provides dental services to infants, children and adolescents in need of Financial Assistance and to developmenta adults. Since its opening in 1976, it has served nearly 130,000 in our community. Your gift to the dhc can change the lives of those who have lived with pain for so long, they cant remember a time without it. The united way wants to know if you helped out the united way wants to know if you helped out during flood protection in eastern iowa last month. Federal dollars to help the state recover. Stay with us on tv9. Good morning from kcrgtv9. Is waking up with kcrgtv9 its heres what you need to know today. Governor Terry Branstad is asking for affected more than a dozen counties. Cedar Rapids Police say shooting paint ball guns at people and houses is dangerous. And not just for the victims. And two people are still on the loose after robbing a bank in a small Delaware County town. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is the kcrgtv9 sunday morning news. But first, meteorologis t britley ritz has your first partly cloudy skies early this morning will break and well see plenty of sunshine this afternoon. Thanks to the wind shift from the north to south along with the wonderful sunshine, high temperatures will warm into the 60s. Perfect football weather id say the evening is pleasant as well. Temperatures will stay mild, dropping only into the low 40s as winds continue out of the south. A few passing clouds will be all. Sunday the sunshine returns and so do the warmer temperatures. Expect highs nearing 70 degrees. 70s. This warmth will stick with us through the middle of next week until our next system moves in on wednesday bring chances for rain and a few storms. Today mostly sunny and warmer. Wind sw 515. High 66 alo 66 dbq 64 iow 67 63 to 69 tonight mostly clear. Wind s 510. Low 44 alo 44 dbq 44 iow 45 41 to 47 thanks britley. About a month after flooding hit several state is asking the federal government for help. Governor branstad has asked the president to declare a disaster declaration. The governor requested funding under femas public assistance program. That money would go toward repairing damaged roads, bridges and other public facilities in 19 counties. The flood. The united way is asking people to log any of the hours they put in to help with flood preparation. Volunteers are encouraged to go online, enter their name, email, how they volunteered, the hours they worked, and upload any pictures. United way says so many people came out to help, that they couldnt keep track of everyone. Linn county Emergency Management says this log would help get the money for flood prevention and repair costs. People will be honest about their hours theres really no value to anybody personally to call in hours they didnt work. And this is iowa. We trust people to be fair and honest on what they submit the united way says it wants to be better prepared to log peoples hours in future disasters. A link to where you can enter your hours is on our website, kcrg dot com. A des moines man will spend the a judge sentenced 48 yearold Barney Fraaken earlier this week. He pleaded guilty to a first degree murder charge on thursday and was immediately sentenced to life in prison. Investigators say he shot and killed his wife amy fraaken last year. He was also charged in the shooting death of his 16yearold daughter, amber. That charge was dropped in the plea deal. Fraakens sentence comes with no chance of parole. The former city clerk of the casey is going to prison for mail fraud and setting city hall on fire. A judge sentenced Dorothy Dillinger to five years in prison yesterday. She set this fire at city hall in august 2014. It happened the night before auditors were arriving to investigate missing money. She later admitted she had been taking the money and using it for personal expenses. A judge has not said how much restitution she will have to pay. Federal prosecutors want her to pay more than two the Delaware CountySheriffs Office says two men are on the run this morning after robbing a bank with a gun and a knife. The Sheriffs Office says the robbery happened around 8 45 this morning at the Citizens State Bank in hopkinton. None of the Bank Employees were injured in the robbery. Anyone with information should call the Sheriffs Office. Cedar Rapids Police say someone has been firing paintballs at vehicles and homes and even hit one person recently. According to s like the people behind paintballing are actually adults. And its been happening for months. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders reports. Earlier this year, Francis Douglas painted his home on e ave nw. But one morning in august, he woke up to find a fresh coat. I walked out. Happened to look up at the front of the house. We had florescent orange spots. His polka dotted property had been peppered with paintballs. At least three of his was parked outside. Dont they have Something Better to do . Or, someplace else to do it . Apparently not. Police say, in just the last two weeks, there have been at least four reports of vandals firing paintballs at property and people. Chief wayne jerman called the act a juvenile thing to do. Not only is it possible someone will get hurt, but paintballers could be shot themselves. Their guns look remarkably like the real thing. Dont these people think that they stand the risk of somebody trying to protect themselves . I just think its an incredibly stupid thing to do. Police think theyve caught the troublemaker s behind a few of the 26 yearold kenneth herring and 30yearold earnest murry, earlier this month. Police say the two spent the evening of october 6th driving around cedar rapids, shooting paintballs out of a van. One woman was hit in the eye. Herring was charged with criminal mischief. Murry, driving while barred. Luckily, it was water soluble. The good news for francis, and many of the other victims, that paint on his gone, but his frustration for the vandals remains. Police say theyll be watching for this kind of thing as vandalism usually ticks up through halloween. Some classrooms in cedar rapids are going to coffee shop than a classroom. Mckinley middle school is trying out flexible learning. Teachers are using it to change up the learning environment and keep up with the modern day student. The students are part of the process, telling their teachers what would help them learn better. They say it creates excitement around learning and improves the atmosphere. Were finding that kids level of stress at school lowers a lot when they are in spaces where they feel relaxed where theres lots of natural light, scent can even play a big role in helping them feel comfortable in come in within the next few months. An annual effort to feed the hungry during the holidays has started in Johnson County. Yesterday the Crisis Center of Johnson County kicked off project holiday. Each year the program collects money to buy meals for people in need around christmas time. Last yea thousand meals. The Crisis Center hopes to give out more than four thousand meals this holiday season. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton are in a tight race going into next months president ial election. Thats despite no major newspaper endorsements for the republican nominee. Well dig into how important those endorsements are, coming up. Partly cloudy skies early this morning will break and well see plenty of sunshine this afternoon. Thanks to the wind shift from the north to south along with the wonderful sunshine, high temperatue football weather id say the evening is pleasant as well. Temperatures will stay mild, dropping only into the low 40s as winds continue out of the south. A few passing clouds will be all. Sunday the sunshine returns and so do the warmer temperatures. Expect highs nearing 70 degrees. Areas south of i80 may actually top out in the low us through the middle of next week until our next system moves in on wednesday bring chances for rain and a few storms. Today mostly sunny and warmer. Wind sw 515. High 66 alo 66 dbq 64 iow 67 63 to 69 tonight mostly clear. Wind s 510. Low 44 alo 44 dbq 44 iow 45 41 to 47 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind nw 1525 high 69 alo 68 dbq 66 iow 69 66 to 72 tom. Night wind n 515 low 40 alo 38 dbq 40 iow 40 37 to 43 monday mostly sunny. High 61 low 40 tuesday chance of showers. High 61 low 44 wednesday showers and a few thunderstorm s likely. High 63 low 52 thursday becoming partly cloudy. High 59 low 47 friday partly cloudy. High 60 low 46 saturday 60 low 46 sunday partly cloudy. High 59 low 39 more than 150 newspaper editorial boards are endorsing Hillary Clinton. Just a handful favor donald trump. Despite that, polls have the nominees only a few points apart. Kcrgtv9s washington correspondent Ted Fioraliso looked into the importance of endorsements. In politics theres no such thing as a sure thing. Eli yokley 5009 not many people expected this race to be this close. This was between incumbent republican senator roy blunt and democratic challenger jason kander is heating up. The latest polls are telling blunt and kander are now neck and neck. Political expert eli yokley says the tides changed when kander released his now infamous ad. I dont know that anyone in washington would be talking about jason kander if it werent for that ad. It put him on the map nationally. Democratic Senate Campaign committee communication s director sadie weiner says republicans made a grave mistake underestimating kander. Sadie weiner for granted. Weiner says kanders campaign is on the offense against blunts family of lobbyists. The same attack was used against blunt in 2010 unsuccessfully. Sadie weiner whats really mattered in missouri has been roy blunts inability to defend his record of helping his lobbyist family memberskande r is seen as the outsider to blunts twenty plus years in washington though state. Alex miller we reached out to the National RepublicanSenatorial Committee to discuss blunts strategy. They did not grant us an interview but sent us a statement saying quote kander would be a blank check rubber stamp to clinton and other liberals in congresseli yokley hes just trying to make the case that jason kander is just another washington dc democrat. Kander has put some distance between himself and the top of the ticket but so has blunt. While hes endorsed trumphes distanced himself from the president ial nominee. The state president and blue for governor but its anyones guess what color the senate seat will be. Eli yokley i cant imagine many other senate races will be as tight as this one. Reporting in washington, alex miller ky3news all president ial nominees have just a little more than 2 weeks to persuade voters. With election day now 17 days away, the nominees are focusing their time on key swing states. Today Republican Donald Trump plans to lay out plans for his first 100 days in office at an event in gettysburg pennsylvania. Trumps policy adviser says the nominee will talk about his vision to quote restore our economy and give the Government Back to the people. Democrat Hillary Clinton makes today. She was in ohio yesterday. Whoever wins the state of ohio has gone on to win the election for the past several decades. Yesterday in cleveland, clinton attacked trumps claim that she doesnt have the physical strength to run the country. I have now spent for and a half hours on stage with donald, proving once again i have the stamina to be president. Recent polls show the state of ohio is a tossup nationally, the latest cnn poll shows clinton with a 5 point lead. Today a halloween themed musical comes to cedar rapids. A showing of little shop of horrors also has Something Special tonight for the deaf community. Well explain next in a live interview. A play tonight in cedar rapids musical with a little bit of horror thrown in just in time for halloween. Here with more on little shop of horrors is matt ford with the Rich Heritage of cedar rapids theatre company. Little shop of horrors Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at crush on fellow coworker audrey fulquard, and is berated by mr. Mushnik daily. One day as seymour is seeking a new mysterious plant, he finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls audrey ii. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper. Soon enough, seymour feeds audreys sadistic dentist later, mushnik for witnessing the death of audreys ex. Will audrey ii take over the world or will seymour and audrey defeat it . Proceeds benefit boys and girls clubs of cedar rapids asl interpreter at 7 30 show. Well take another look at your well take another look at your partly cloudy skies early this morning will break and darien why have the latest smartphone 7 gigs of data per line for only 49. 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