Sheriffs office says a car crossed the center line on 130th street and crashed with the semi around 8 30 last night. The cars driver died at the scene. Deputies are not releasing that persons name, pending notification of family. As were watching the flooding along the turkey river this hour, a focus is on clermont and elgin in fayette county. After more than a day of rising water, the turkey is cresting kcrgtv9s brea love has been reporting on the flooding all morning and joins us live from fayette county. Brea, what are you seeing out there right now . Chris, im standing at skip a way the resort its an rv camp ground thats been evacuated. Pretty much everything is gone except a couple campers theyre having issues moving. Weve been here since early the water began rising. Now according to Emergency Management the river has crested. Hopefully the water wont get to this area but residents spent a lot of time last night sandbagging just in case. This entire Community Came together to help each other we talked to the owners of this campground about how they prepared. Everybody in every community showed up and pitched in. It was congested, it was chaos. Everybody was in a great mood. You didnt hear any pessimism or pessimist they just got in and help. You turned around and everything was gone. Was completely wiped out. The owners say theyre just monticello called to see if they could help. A lot of people out here willing to do what they can. Live in clermont, brea love, kcrg your first alert forecast, justin. Clouds are moving in and will produce some showers in southern iowa. These are weakening, though, and wont amount to much. Highs will reach the upper 70s to around 80. Patchy fog may form late tonight with a partly cloudy sky and lows in the 50s. Tomorrow looks nice with highs in the 70s. A shower may develop late in the evening, but the better chances of rain and storms wait until tomorrow night and saturday. Storms end early sunday. Next week looks good to start with a far from 80. Today mostly cloudy with a few showers, mainly south. Wind nw 510. High 80 alo 77 dbq 78 iow 79 tonight partly cloudy. Patchy fog possible. Wind light nw charged a man that police shot last month in davenport. Investigators charged 19 yearold rodricco parks jr on wednesday. He faces 1 count of assault on a peace officer and criminal mischief. Officers arrived on rockingham road, west of downtown davenport on, july 18th for a report of gunfire. Police say parks rammed a squad car and then drove off after the officers shot into the vehicle. A bullet hit him and responders took parks to on administrative leave. The iowa dci is investigating. Animationfolo first a conviction that a judge threw out in a murder case and now a not guilty verdict for this waterloo man. Jurors acquitted 25 year old Perquondis Holmes for the death of. Daequan campbell 3 years ago. Campbell was 18. More than a year ago, a jury found holmes guilty, but a judge threw out that verdict. Thats because jurors in the first trial saw evidence they werent supposed to see. Prosecutors claimed ho waterloo parking lot in november 2013, killing campbell. Republican and democratic nominee for iowas First District are both campaigning in cedar rapids this midday. Firstterm congressman rod blum is meeting with and serving food to veterans at the Freedom Foundation on center point road ne over the lunch hour. Democratic challenger Monica Vernon is meeting with union workers. Shes scheduled to speak at the iron workers local noon. In the race for president , former secretary of state Hillary Clinton says republican Donald Trumps campaign is embracing extremism. And donald trump says Hillary Clinton is a bigot who only sees people of color as votes. Abcs maggie rulli reports. Elementary students in cedar rapids are reading brand new books today. And theyre not just new to the kids. The district bought more than 360,000 story books, teaching manuals, and other instructional donald trump is reaching out to minority voters meeting with African American leaders today trump the numbers are going up with the African American community rapidly and in a major shift, trump is pivoting on immigration. In an appearance on fox news, saying he would provide an opportunity for legalization for millions of immigrants who are in the us illegally sot trump on hannity do we tell these people to get out, number one, or do we work with them and let them stay in some cases . A position that may not sit well with a core group of out . I do dowd if you ask any trump voter, the only issue that links them together is his immigration stand. No other issue links them together but immigration. His new proposal strikingly similar to jeb bush but trump says its not amnesty. Rick sot what donald trump is talking about has been called amnesty by opponents of immigration reform. Trump is trying to change the narrative. For the first time, branding Hillary Clinton a racist. Watch the reaction from this supporter. Sot trump Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a sot clinton on ac360 he is taking a hate movement main stream. Planning her own counter attack today in renosaying trump embraces quote extremism and presents a divisive and dystopian view of america. Tag tk Elementary Students in cedar theyre not just new to the kids. The district bought more than 360,000 story books, teaching manuals, and other instructional material. Its because the Language Arts curriculum changed for grades k5 for the first time in about a decade. All of those new materials filled 4 semitrailers when they were delivered to the 21 schools. A 2nd grade teacher who helped pick the new material says students noticed the change right away. As the kids walked into my room for open house they noticed the books and the poster will all the new kids and district policy does not allow schools to give away old books to students. But the old books can go to nonprofit groups, which can then give them to kids. One administrator estimates about 80 percent of the old books will go to students that way. Football is back and that means so is friday night take on cedar rapids kennedy. Coverage starts at 7 on kcrg 9. 2 and kcrg. Com. A Healthcare Company is trying to answer after sharply raising the price of epipens. But some us lawmakers say more needs to be done to temper price hikes throughout the medical industry. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our first alert forecast. Stay with i worked years to get my medicare dont know where id be without it so when i heard about conartists committing medicare fraud. It made me so mad i wanted to give them the old onetwo one, never give your medicare number to get a free offer or gift its your medicare, protect it produce some showers in southern iowa. These are weakening, though, and wont amount to much. Highs will reach the upper 70s to around 80. Patchy fog may form late tonight with a partly cloudy sky and lows in the 50s. Tomorrow looks nice with highs in the 70s. A shower may develop late in the evening, but the better chances of rain and storms wait until tomorrow night and saturday. Storms end early sunday. Next week looks good to start witha far from 80. Today mostly cloudy with a few showers, mainly south. Wind nw 510. High 80 alo 77 dbq 78 iow 79 tonight partly cloudy. Patchy fog possible. Wind light nw low 56 alo 55 dbq 56 iow 59 tomorrow partly sunny and pleasant. Wind ne 510. High 76 alo 75 dbq 75 iow 76 tom. Night scattered thunderstorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 alo 61 dbq 62 iow 65 saturday showers and thunderstorms likely. High 77 low 64 sunday storms end early, partly cloudy. High 81 low 65 tuesday partly cloudy. High 81 low 62 wednesday partly cloudy. High 80 low 63 thursday chance of storms. High 82 low 62 friday chance of storms. High 81 low 63 clouds are moving in and will produce some showers in southern iowa. These are weakening, though, and wont amount to much. Highs will reach the upper 70s to around 80. Patchy fog may form late and lows in the 50s. Tomorrow looks nice with highs in the 70s. A shower may develop late in the evening, but the better chances of rain and storms wait until tomorrow night and saturday. Storms end early sunday. Next week looks good to start with a partly cloudy sky and highs not far from 80. Today mostly cloudy with a few showers, mainly south. Wind nw 510. High 80 alo 77 dbq 78 iow 79 tonight partly cloudy. Patchy fog possible. Wind light nw low 56 alo 55 dbq pleasant. Wind ne 510. High 76 alo 75 dbq 75 iow 76 tom. Night scattered thunderstorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 alo 61 dbq 62 iow 65 saturday showers and thunderstorms likely. High 77 low 64 sunday storms end early, partly sunny. High 80 low 66 monday partly cloudy. High 81 low 65 tuesday partly cloudy. High 81 low 62 wednesday partly cloudy. High 80 low 63 thursday chance of friday chance of storms. High 81 low 63 clouds are moving in and will produce some showers in southern iowa. These are weakening, the company that makes the epipen says its trying to cut outofpocket costs after a 2pack of epipens to about 400 dollars. The company says it plans to reduce patient cost with a savings card that would cover up to 300 dollars for the package. Democratic Sentor Amy Klobuchar of minnesota says her daughter uses an epipen. She says Congress Needs to act to stop what she says are unjustified price hikes. This company and others like it have really taken advantage of the fact that theyre able to push back in congress against any laws that allow for more competition or negotiations. Then they use that market power, jack up americans to pay it while theyre making money. Epipens are used to prevent potentially deadly allergic reactions. If you are overweight and want to decrease your risk of cardiovascula r disease and diabetes, the number one thing you can do to improve your health is lose weight. Now martie salt reports the new Research Shows you dont have to drop major pounds for benefits. Fiftyone year old Kelly Latreille feels stronger than ever. Im a big yoga fan, and i have found i can do poses i never thought i could. But three years ago, kelly was at her heaviest weight, 152 pounds. While it might not sound too high, it was too much for her five foot one inch frame. Kelly changed her diet by adding more fruit and vegetables and dropped twenty pounds over eight months, with the help of weight watchers. Then she got another pleasant surprise. My Blood Pressure got a little better. It wasnt out of control, but my doctor notice a drop in that. No surprise at all to doctor samuel klein and his colleagues at the center for human nutrition. Doctor klein randomly assigned forty volunteers without diabetes to maintain weight or lose five, 10 or 15 among the volunteers who lost just five percent, the function of cells that produce insulin improved, Blood Pressure improved and trigylcerides wereo proving their health, then perhaps theyll really try to lose that little bit of weight. I want to stay this size and is weight f eest my life. Im martie salt,erng. T1. 26 oce us commitenoreigninvt has approved thec what iowa senators say about the 43 billion agreement next in our agribusiness report. Welcome to the Agribusiness Committee on Foreign Investment has approved the chemchina takeover of syngenta. Syngenta has not disclosed whether it has made would be the largest foreign acquisition ever by a chinese company. However. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley and the chairman of the Senate JudiciaryCommittee Plans to have a hearing in late september on seed and Chemical Company mergers. He claims. Are threatening agriculture input competition. He announced the hearing after the treasury departments National Security review. And is worried a state owned enterprise will have a stake in us agriculture. Grassley points out justice and federal trade commission does a proper job. Partly if theres specific concerns about anti competitive things like we did in the beer merger last december. Try to get some commitments out of the companies. What theyre going to do. Grassley adds if the there would be only four Companies Left to control major Agricultural Seed and chemical products. He expects industry and agency witnesses to testify next month before his panel wright county. Has approved an agreement to allow prestage farms to build a 240 Million Dollar pork Processing Plant near eagle grove. The decision comes after six weeks of public heari Economic Development authority that it approved 11 and a half Million Dollars in incentives. The plant brings a 43 Million Dollar payroll to the county of 900 full time jobs. And intends to process 10 thousand hogs per shift. Groundbreaking on the project should start up in spring of next year. The approval comes two months after mason city officials stopped a plan for a plant to be built there. On the second day of the 2016 pro farmer midwest crop tour. Scouts went through indiana totals at a hundred and 73 bushels an acre for corn. And 11 hundred 78 pods of soybeans in a three by three foot square. Markets not all that thrill with what that group is finding. Basically they got into illinois and iowa and theyre getting of course better yield reports on twitter an so forth. So corns holding its own today, beans have been down a nickel or so but corn got a little help because we had an export sal thought they were going to do a little better today than they have been. We do have tighter market ready numbers of cattle here in august and september but the beef have been backing up into the system a little bit the cold storage report on monday night is a little bearish in terms of the total inventory and looks like the feed lots are losing the leverage battle here so the futures are showing some triple digit losses today. Similar situation. Down from last year, it was up in july from june and thats not normally the case in july. Usually were still drawing down supplies so thats a symptom of consumers not buying as much as they were cranking out and the markets trying to basically put it on sale at the hoof level. And see if the retailers will pass it onto the consumer. And thats all i have for the show today. Thanks for tuning in. I hope to see you again next time. Well post a video every day in the agriculture section of kcrg. Com. Im david geiger with the agribusiness with all of the anticipation of kinnick stadiums first conert for the field. Along with Blake Shelton, the younger brother of iowa quarterback cj beathard will be playing a 45minute set. In the stadium where cj usually plays pretty good 3 and a half hour sets on saturdays in the fall. Quite a lineup is coming for artists. And one new musician with a rather noteworthy name. The gazettes diana nollen who runs hoopla now looks at the weekend ahead for culture and the headlining event is set for saturday with the back porch revival at kinnick always great to see you diana. Common ground music, sports concerts Tucker Beathard by diana nollen, the gazette another beathard is about to rock kinnick stadium. The univeristy of iowas hallowed hawkeye football field is about to feel the full force of Tucker Beathard, younger brother of iowa quarterback c. J. Beathard. One plays music, the other plays football. Growing up in nashville, they did both before tucker veered toward music and c. J. Veered toward iowa city. Tucker beathard, 21, is playing in the middle of an groundbreaki ng back porch revival, the first concert to hit the field, and the first to sell beer inside the stadium. The hunter smith band kicks off the event from 3 to 3 30 p. M. And superstar Blake Shelton runs the final play from 9 30 to 11 p. M. In between are Morgan Frazier david ray from 3 45 to 4 30 p. M. ; beathard from 5 to 5 45 p. M. ; big rich from 6 15 to 7 15 p. M. ; and thomas rhett from 7 45 to 9 p. M. Music and sports proliferate on beathards family tree. His general manager whose teams competed in seven super bowls, winning four. Tuckers father, casey beathard, was a High School Football star whose trajectory shot higher in country music, writing songs recorded by kenny chesney, trace adkins, darius rucker, george strait, jake owen, billy currington, Billy Ray Cyrus and eric church. Tuckers youngest brother, clay, another High School Star quarterback, will play for the university of tennessee martin. Other family members have well. And beathard said his mom is both musical and athletic, as are his two younger sisters. Beathard played quarterback in high school, after several inches of rain led to largescale flooding, some people in northeast iowa are heading home. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert in fayette county, some communities are dealing with flooding. Well have more coming up in a live report. After an earthquake hit central italy killing hundreds, rescuers are still looking for survivors and backtoschool changes in iowa city are backing up traffic for some parents and other drivers. From your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. This week weve seen several inches of rain fall in parts of northeast iowa. Flooding forced people in parts of winneshiek and Fayette Counti