Kids should sleep in their parents bedroom up until they are one year old to protect against sudden infant death syndrome. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Slight chance at a few rain showers developing later today. The overall timing of this low pressure system hasnt changed at all and should drop most of its rain during the night and into wednesday morning. A half inch to one inch of rainfall is possible with this system by the time it departs on wednesday afternoon. Clouds should linger well into thursday with a return to much above normal temperatures by friday. In fact, many areas afternoon, with warmer than normal temperatures going well into next week as well. Today isolated showers developing late in the afternoon and evening. Wind se 1020. High 56 tonight showers and a few thunderstorm s likely. Windy. Wind se 1525. Low 50 tomorrow showers and a few thunderstorm s likely, mostly in the morning. Windy at times. Wind var 1020. High 56 tom. Night mostly cloudy and cooler. Wind nw 515. Low 42 republican rod blum is running for a second term democrat Monica Vernon in iowas first congressiona l district. Kcrgtv9s Katie Wiedemann talked with blum about his bid for re election. Congressman rod blum will be the first person to tell you where he came from. I am a Small Business man whos operated in the private sector for my entire career. I ran for one reason and one reason only. I love the United States of america. Blum often returns to dubuque from washington d. C. To job shadow people working here in iowa. Citizens are doing, in the private sector. While in d. C. He says his focus remains on the issues. Things like Social Security reform, Debt Reduction and national security. He says he strongly opposed the iran nuclear agreement. I read that agreement word for word, had we had a chance to vote for it in the house, it would have been a heck no. As for the race to the white house. I follow the president ial and while blum has pledged his support for donald trump, he says he would never tell anyone who to vote for in this president ial election. Everyone is this country, everyone in eastern iowa understands donald trump is crude. He talks crude sometimes. Everybody shakes their head and agrees with that. Also everyone agrees that Hillary Clinton is a corrupt liar. Blum cosponsored an amendment to the Us Constitution to limit us representatives to 3 terms. Career politicians, i am tired of them. I am for term limits. The whole business of politics, is despicable. Yet decided how many more times he will run for elected office. In dubuque, Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. Blum and challenger Monica Vernon will meet for their first and only debate tomorrow night in cedar rapids. Kcrgtv9 and the gazette will host at coe college, starting at 7. You can watch it on kcrg nine point two. Today, we iowa senator Chuck Grassley and his message. That will air on the kcrg tv9 news at 6. In this years race, grassley says hes expecting the outcome to be much closer than what hes seen in the past. While speaking to groups in waterloo and cedar rapids yesterday, grassley says he doesnt put a lot of stock in poll numbers. He did recall some early polls this year showing him with under 50 percent support. More recent polls put him in a 16 or 17 point lead over challenger patty judge. Right up to the very last minute this year. He names this as his toughest race since his first campaign. I;ve had the most serious challenge since i beat sen. John culver in 1980. Ive won reelection by big margins im not going to win a big margin this time but it will be a tough pull grassley and the other senators campaigning with him agreed republicans will keep control of the senate. Thats despite the dropping president ial nominee donald trump. American and iraqi forces are using heavy artillery against isis in mosul as forces inch closer to the city. The general in charge of Ground Forces for the us says it can be tough to read how isis fights. Theyre trying to defend forward then theyre collapsing back to mosul and so the question is how hard will they fight in mosul on top of those challenges, isis fighters these neon flames and toxic gas in the air. Hundreds of People Living in that area had to get medical attention for trouble leaving. Isis took over the city two years ago, and us iraqi forces launched an effort to take back the city last week. Pakistani Officials Say an attack on a Police Academy in a southwestern city has killed 59 people. Authorities say people with guns attacked the Training Center and detonated explosive people are hurt, most of them Police Trainees and paramilitary troops. Officials also say the attackers seemed to be in contact with handlers in afghanistan. A vinton woman is going to prison in connection to an accidental shooting that killed a 14 Year Old Girl last year. A judge sentenced robyn merchant. To nearly four years in prison. She gave a semi automatic rifle to her son, dillon winterroth, who was that rifle, it went off, and fired a bullet at 14 year old Emma Redlinger of vinton. She later died at the hospital. The shooting happened in february 2015 at 1207 west Fourth Street in vinton. Authorities say it was William Hines junior who was holding the rifle when it went off. He was 17 at the time. Prosecutors charged him with Involuntary Manslaughter and interference with official acts. His trial begins next month. A judges order to ban guns controversy. Chief judge kurt wilke issued the order two weeks ago for iowas second judicial district. That includes bremer, butler, and floyd counties. The order covers courtrooms, clerks offices, judicial Administrative Offices and other areas. Such as hallways, lobbies, and conference rooms. A board member of the Iowa Firearms Coalition says he understands security concerns. But he believes the order over reaches when people cant carry weapons in the cedar river took center stage this year with flooding that caused millions of dollars of damage. But officials in Johnson County are concerned about possible future flooding of the iowa river and want to make some changes. Later today. The overall timing of this low pressure system hasnt changed at all and should drop most of its rain during the night and into wednesday half inch to one inch of rainfall is possible with this system by the time it departs on wednesday afternoon. Clouds should linger well into thursday with a return to much above normal temperatures by friday. In fact, many areas have a good shot at 70 degrees again by friday afternoon, with warmer than normal temperatures going well into next week as well. Today isolated showers developing late in the afternoon and evening. Wind se 1020. High 56 tonight showers and a few low 50 tomorrow showers and a few thunderstorm s likely, mostly in the morning. Windy at times. Wind var 1020. High 56 tom. Night mostly cloudy and cooler. Wind nw 515. Morning america. Look, jared foegles exwife is suing subway accusing executives of ignoring multiple allegations against their former pitch man in order to protect company profits. Hi, im jared the subway guy. Subway received at least three complaints about foegle years before he pleaded guilty for sexual related charges last november just four years after his first commercial. Approaching a minor at a subwa complaint in 2011 she says subway sought to portray him as a family man. Better eating habits to young people everywhere. 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The city already picked up sandbags from residential areas, but its not doing that for businesses. They will have to make their them. Businesses can drop off sandbags at four locations. In the newbo district, czech village, kingston village, or at the old sixth Street Alliant Energy power plant. The city says businesses that dont move the sandbags could face fines. Johnson county wants the army corps of engineers to explore changes to help prevent flooding on the iowa river. The county wants the corps to review its policy for where it keeps water levels on Coralville Lake throughout the year. Since 1993, there has been significant flooding at bot iowa river. Officials in Johnson County say the corps needs to take a closer look at the outdated plan before another major flooding event happens. You cannot manage a reservoir with a 1990s plan, something needs to change, a lot has changed, including rainfall. Johnson county Officials Say the cost of a new plan has dropped significantly in recent years. They say theyd even help the corps pay for it. They wanted to know the financial implications of that, so tonights meeting, were going to talk and see the interest of the local entities impacted by this. During that meeting, area leaders discussed sending a letter to the corps asking them to do a new study as soon as possible. Its here is a live look at. Stay with kcrgtv9. Plan on a cloudy tuesday with a slight chance later today. The overall timing of this low pressure system hasnt changed at all and should drop most of its rain during the night and into wednesday morning. A half inch to one inch of rainfall is possible with this system by the time it departs on wednesday afternoon. Clouds should linger well into thursday with a return to much above normal temperatures by friday. In fact, many areas afternoon, with warmer than normal temperatures going well into next week as well. Today isolated showers developing late in the afternoon and evening. Wind se 1020. High 56 tonight showers and a few thunderstorm s likely. Windy. Wind se 1525. Low 50 tomorrow showers and a few thunderstorm s likely, mostly in the morning. Windy at times. Wind var 1020. High 56 tom. Night mostly cloudy and cooler. Wind nw 515. Low 42 Donald Trumps recent claims of voter fraud around the country has Election Officials on the defense. Here in iowa, officials explain the many steps theyve put into place to make sure voter fraud doesnt happen. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Its live look at. Its october 25th. Heres what you need to know today. More students means a demand for more space. The Linn Mar School district has decided save money and rearrange for him. But youre kind of for him. What the heck . President obama criticizes republicans for their stance on donald trump. And trump knocked the president for campaigning too much. Trumps claims of a rigged election sparked worries about voter fraud across the country. Iowa Election Officials explain the steps theyve taken to ensure honest voting. Senator grassley says republicans will still control he says his own race is one of the toughest hes faced so far. A new medical report recommends kids should sleep in their parents bedroom up until they are one year old to protect against sudden infant death syndrome. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first plan on a cloudy tuesday with a slight chance at a few rain showers developing later today. Pressure system hasnt changed at all and should drop most of its rain during the night and into wednesday morning. A half inch to one inch of rainfall is possible with this system by the time it departs on wednesday afternoon. Clouds should linger well into thursday with a return to much above normal temperatures by friday. In fact, many areas have a good shot at 70 degrees again by friday afternoon, with warmer than normal temperatures going well into next week as well. Today isolated showers developing late in the afternoon and evening. Wind se 1020. High 56 tonight showers and a few thunderstorm s likely. Windy. Wind se 1525. Low 50 tomorrow showers and a few thunderstorm s likely, mostly in the morning. Windy at times. Wind var 1020. High 56 tom. Night mostly cloudy and cooler. Wind nw 515. Low 42 with two weeks until election day, polls show Hillary Clinton with a growing lead over donald trump as abcs Angelica Spanos report, trump is now suggesting those polls are wrong. On day two of a three day tour in the battleground state of florida, donald trump lashes out winning and last night, trumps team bypassing the Mainstream Media . With his Facebook Live show called trump tower live the hosts taking trumps message directly to the american people. But in new hampshire, clinton joined forces with massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. The pair bashed trump after he called clinton a nasty woman at the last debate. Sot sen warren get this, donald nasty women ar smart. And nasty women vote. And on november 8th, we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes to get you out of our lives forever. Clinton, accused trump of having no concrete plan to defeat isis. Sot clinton he is basically declaring defeat before the battle has even started, he what it means to have an unqualified commander inchief. With early voting underway in florida and texas. Two key states trump would need to win. Trump says dont wait until november 8th. Sot trump get your friends, your family, your coworkers out to vote so you can go vote today, you can go vote tomorrow but get out to vote campaigning in florida today with just two weeks to go until election day. Angelica spanos, abc News New York a recent Washington Post poll now shows the majority of both republicans and democrats believe voter fraud occurs. And iowa election Officials Say they are working to make sure it doesnt. Republican candidate donald trump claims the election is rigged, and is focusing attention on the wai republicans, 75 percent of independents and 52 percent of democrats believe voter fraud is occurring. Many believe Illegal Immigrants are voting. Others believe people vote using the names of dead people. But the secretary of States Office says steps are taken to make sure that doesnt happen in iowa. Every month the secretary of state receives a list of people who have passed away not only in state of iowa, but those registered in iowa and other states and those persons are immediately. Cancelled. In addition count obitutaries. So we dont have dead people voting in iowa. Election officials also work with the post office to check changes of address and disqualify Illegal Immigrants. The secretary of States Office says those who commit voter fraud will be caught and prosecuted. Black hawk county is running tests on its voting machines. Democrats, republicans and independents tests every race. It includes the possibilities of potential undervotes, overvotes and writeins. The technicians then compare the results with totals from hundreds of premarked ballots. The county says it wants to make sure the election is fair. People come up with all sorts of ideas of what might happen. But, the fact is is that we use paper ballots that we keep after the election so if theres any question they the county will keep those ballots for 22 months after a general election. High School Students in elkader are preparing this morning to host a debate. Its happening tonight and will feature candidates running for seats in the iowa house. Those candidates are democrat pat ritter and republican Michael Bergan in House District 55, and democrat patti ruff against republican kristi hager in district 56. That debate begins at 7 at Central Community high school in elkader. California authorities are People Killed in a major bus crash near palm springs. 13 of the passengers on board died when the bus crashed into the back of semitruck over the weekend. The california Highway Patrol is investigating why the bus was going so fast. There was no appearance of braking. There was no skid marks from the bus at the time of the collision. The only skid marks were directly related to the big rig as it got pushed forward. Authorities say the driver of the bus is one of the 13 Des Moines Police say a 14yearold is in Critical Condition this morning after getting shot in the head. Police say they received repo