35yearold man now faces charges after he took in two 16yearold girls so he could turn them into prostitutes. Police say they found two 16yearold girls as part of a shoplifting investigation, one of whom is missing from chicago. They arrested lawrence campbell, who now faces Human Trafficking charges and charges for using minors to commit crimes. Police say campbell contacted the girls in chicago and asked them to move to his waterloo home. Then, police say campbell arranged for them to have sex with people for money and to the web. State lawmakers today have a better idea on what working and whats not when it comes to iowas newly privatized medicaid system. However, the answer you get when you ask if its working depends on who you talk to. Republican lawmakers at a Health PolicyOversight Committee hearing yesterday said managed Care Organizations are meeting their benchmarks. They said the companies are working out payment issues, and the transition has saved the state millions of dollars. Different story. They argue the Companies Still arent paying clinics, hospitals and care providers on time. Though the law guarantees lawmakers some oversight of the 3 companies, 1 lawmaker says the state needs to be more involved. We would hope that we could come together and maybe make some kinds of corrections at least we are making good headway. But it takes some time. This is a very complex delivery system. Iowa has about 560,000 people happened in april. Iowas board of psychology is defending its decision not to adopt a rule that would more iowans impacted by massive flooding can today. Governor branstad has added 2 counties to his Flood Disaster proclamation. People in bremer and chickasaw counties can now apply for help cleaning up. The governor had already listed allamakee, winneshiek, clayton, fayette and howard counties. The deadline is october 14th to apply for help. As more counties across iowa consider minimum wage increases, linn county is planning on a vote on whether to raise the wage at a meeting tomorrow. Its the first of 3 votes. It year for 3 years starting january first. That would take the minimum wage from 7. 25 an hour now to 10. 25 by the year 2019. County supervisors are wondering if towns or cities would want to opt out of the wage increase. I know there has not been a lot of feedback yet but i want to get this on an agenda and have a discussion and also have some comment at our council meeting. I would link the minimum wage to the rate of inflation after 2020. That means if the cost of living goes up, so will the minimum wage. In southern iowa, county supervisors in Wapello County are taking steps to raise the wage. The board voted for the 2nd of 3 times yesterday night to raise the wage to 10. 10 an hour by 2019. Wapello countys poverty rate the the 3rd highest in iowa, and the countys percapita income is the second lowest. Last year Johnson County was its now at 9. 15, and the final step will take it to 10. 10 an hour next year. Renovations on the knutson building in downtown cedar rapids will likely start soon. City Council Members are holding a special meeting today to talk about the project, and hobart Historic Restorations role in it. Last month, the council picked a proposal from hobart to turn the building into apartments and office space. Council members liked the idea of immediately stabilizing the building. Initially, the council considered a plan to turn the building into a magnet school. But the Cedar Rapids School district says it will likely find another location. That same Development Group finished renovations in the neighboring mott building earlier this year. The hobart group used 3 Million Dollars in grants to turn the empty building into commercial offices and loft apartments. The building had sat empty since the 2008 flood. Sunlight will soon power homes in urbana. 100 homes when its up and running in midoctober. The 7acre site will have more than 3,500 panels. Its part of a partnership between 2 electric utility companies. They decided to switch to solar after customers asked for cleaner energy. We get calls every week on questions about solar energy, putting their own panels up, or Community Solar projects, or just solar energy in general. Its really popular right now. Energy Company Leaders say customers can expect similar if not the same price on their bills. While pokemon hunting continues to be popular, people in dyersville are on a different kind of social scavenger hunt. Its called dyersville rocks. People paint rocks and then hide them all over the city. Others then find those rocks, post a picture on facebook, then rehide those already gotten involved. The ones that are really really good are the desirable ones and people are like, oh i gotta get out and find that one. dyersville isnt alone in this hunt for rocks. Organizers tell us theres at least one event like this happening in every state in the us. After the company that makes epipens hiked the price, people around the country are trying to find less expensive alternatives. One woman describes her experience with a generic version, so epipen users and parents of kids who need t and its something typically left to youtube. Videos of cellphones exploding, with questions over whether its real or fake. But one iowa woman says it happened to her, in a very real way, when her cellphone unexpectedly caught on fire. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our tv9. Chance for isolated to scattered storms this afternoon. Heavy rain will be a possibility with any storm. A cold front will slice through eastern iowa mass, after it clears out any storm activity. This falllike stretch of weather is set to stick around through the rest of this week and into the weekend. Looking ahead to next week, however, mugginess and a stormier pattern will return to the areas. The depression in the gulf of mexico will continue to clog things up in the upper levels of the atmosphere this week. That is why we will have such a long stretch of great days up until next week. Today chance of storms. Partly high 82 alo 81 tonight storms early, then partly cloudy. Wind nw 510. Low 62 alo 60 tomorrow mostly sunny and less humid. Wind ne 515. High 79 alo 78 tom. Night clear and comfortable. Wind ne 510. Low 56 alo 55 thursday mostly sunny. High 75 low 56 friday mostly sunny. High 76 low 53 low 55 sunday chance of storms. High 82 low 63 monday chance of storms. High 82 low 65 tuesday chance of storms. High 81 low 67 wednesday chance of storms. High 79 low 65 thats planning to close early doe to the high heat and humidity. The iowa city School District is planning to dismiss two hours early today. You can catch up with closings cancellations. More and more people across the country are looking for alternatives to epipens after the company that makes them opted to hike the price. One woman explains her switch to a generic version. Cat bessing epinep hrine user when im using this, im trying not to die basically. Cat bessing doesnt go anywhere without her epinephrine cat bessing epinep hrine s one in my purse , i have one on my bedside, i have one in the kitchen. A Rare Health Condition gives her no choice cat bessing epinep hrine user i have an overclocked immune system that randomly triggers anaphylaxis. For 5 years the medicine in this tiny tube came to her rescue, dozens of this generic version of adrenaclick. Cat bessing epinep hrine user with an epipen you just pull one off it arms it and you put it in your thigh, you have to pull two off here. Its the only difference i can tell. Harpreet gill its the same medication the active ingredient is the same. Soon. Patients will have access to another generic on the market. With the skyrocketing price of epipen the makermylan received National Backlash last week. Today the Company Announced plans to launch its first generic to epipen. Harpreet gill that means theyre listening to patients that are using the product and paying for the product the generic promises to be identical to the branded product except youll notice a huge savings 50percent while medicare and insurance . Have covered the costs for bessings drugs. Man with the current products on the market. Sot in terms of price difference this is over 600 dollars for the brand name epipen and for the generic , a little over 400 dollars. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley he says he wants details on the availability of the generic version. He also wants to know how much payment help the company can offer patients. Grassley says he wrote to the fda for answers on the status of alternatives to epipens. A cedar rapids woman says shell never use an htc phone again after hers exploded. Patricia dampier says she tried to answer a call when her phone froze. Just a few seconds later, she noticed white smoke appear from the battery. Sh of her bed. It instantly started to burn the sheets and mattress. Patricia then yelled for help and her cousin rushed in. 41 50, the phone starting sparking so when she knocked the phone off the bed it was smoking and sparking on the floor patricia and her cousin were able to put it out. Firefighters say the battery of the htc phone exploded. Us agriculture exports have been going at record pace since 2009. Find out whether exports are expected to keep up this year, and what all a family of swans has been a symbol of peace at an iowa cemetery for years. But now, those swans are dying. Find out how people are repaying the favor to the swans by rallying to save them, next on your 24hour news source, kcrgtv nine. Welcome to the agribusiness farmer crop tour is all done and the final numbers are out. The corn crop is pegged at 14 point seven billion bushels. About five hundred million fewer than the us da august projection. Soybeans are estimated at four point zero nine billion bushels. About 30 million bushels more than the us da estimate. Illinois has the top projected corn yields at a hundred and 94 bushels an bean yields at 59 bushels an acre. Iowa was barely under those numbers. The pro farmer tour says the state will average a hundred and 93 bushels an acre in corn. With stalk quality concerns bringing down yields. In soybeans iowa is estimated to get 58 and a half bushels an acre. But sudden death syndrome and other diseases could keep yields from creeping higher. The Us Department of agriculture released a revised export forecast for the remainder of 2016 as well as a forecast for 2017. Both reports show us ag exports ar record setting pace that started in 2009. Total exports for the fiscal year 2017 are projected to be one hundred 33 billion dollars. Six billion more than the the previous forecast. And the sixth highest on record. Us ag surplus is projected to get up to 19 and a half billion dollars. 40 percent higher than 2016. China is expected to overtake canada as the top destination tumble after pro farmer tour results and a bad close before the weekend. The market is following through from the poor close that we had last week. Wheat market is leading us to the downside in contract lows again. For the second day in a row so this is the lowest weve been all year long. Its really just the wrong time of the year to be positive on the grain market going into harvest. We expect harvest to begin to pick up. Thats weighing on the market. The pro farmer tour is behind us. Really what they said is we have large yields o trade thought but still big yields, big ending stocks. The Cattle Market just continues to plummet to the downside. We made contract lows over there also. Real concern that our demand didnt pick up seasonally as we started School Buying program and labor day weekend. So were really trying to find a level where we can clear beef on the demand side as our supplies are starting to ramp up on the other side. The hog market with the bit better. Seasonally the markets going into labor day does find a little bit of strength. We did on friday but really the market rallies are anchored by big supplies ahead expected to have supplies four percent over a year ago during the fourth quarter. The door may be shut on a vote for the Transpacific Partnership this year. Republican Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says the agreement has serious flaws. And cannot be acted upon this year. He says while the agreement wont pass in its current form. As next year with changes when the new Administration Takes over. However. Both main Party President ial candidates are against the deal. President obama has pledged to push for the deal. And has sent a Draft Agreement to congress. And that wraps up the show today. Thanks for tuning in i hope to see you again tomorrow well post a video every day in the agriculture section of kcrg. Com. Im david geiger with the people grieving the loss of a loved one often find peace and comfort in unexpected places. For years, people grieving at an iowa cemetary turned to swans who home. Find out how those same people are now working to make home more hospitable to the swans, after the water fowl began dying off. Stay with tvninne. An allhandsondeck effort is swans. For more than 50 years, swans have been a comforting presence to those remembering loved ones at Rest Haven Cemetery in west des monies. But now, volunteers are coming forward to repay the favor to those swans. As reports why the swans are dying, and what people there are doing to help. These ladies who come to visit family in resthaven have come to love the family of swans here. 28;13 swans adding to the beauty is one of the reasons i chose resthaven. For 50 years, the white graceful birds have been known as jack and jill, 17;50 people come here to have peace, jack and jill have made it better when they come to visit loved ones they lost but today jill is alone without jack or her babies. 29;15 she seems a depressed. Pj mordenson rundall called animal control to take jack to the emergency vet clinic at iowa state. 15;15 he was in extremely bad shape16;01 he had a terrible time getting in water, couldnt paddle, foot not working. Rundall says 9 cygnets born in may have all died from malnourishme nt and parasites, claiming the water is dirty and theyre not given proper food. Joann smith 19;15 when people call to ask what to feed the swans, theyre told popcorn or bread. That could kill them th urging visitors to feed the swans waterfowl pellets and kale. They say new out of state owners, dignity memorial have neglected the beloved birds and a group of volunteers is devising a plan a waterloo man now faces charges after police say he robbed a store, and then claimed he was the victim. It happened last year. Find out how long he could spend in custody. Governor branstad has sharp words for hillary hear why he says its no good for iowa, coming up. Meteorologist chris havley updates our temperatures shooting into a dubuque an iowa nun mourns the death of two of her sisters murdered in mississippi. And Dakota Access tries to get a restraining order against iowa protesters, who are trying to prevent the Bakken Pipeline from happening. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. Though the suns peaking through the clouds on our could see some storms later today. So we go back to meteorologist chris havely. Chris, what can we expect . This afternoon will be muggy and warm once again. There is another chance for isolated to scattered storms this afternoon. Heavy rain will be a possibility with any storm. A cold front will slice through eastern iowa tonight, brining in a cooler and more comfortable canadian air mass, after it clears out any stretch of weather is set to stick around through the rest of this week and into the weekend. Looking ahead to next week, however, mugginess and a stormier pattern will return to the areas. The tropical depression in the gulf of mexico will continue to clog things up in the upper levels of the atmosphere this week. That is why we will have such a long stretch of great days up until next week. Today chance of storms. Partly sunny. Wind light. High 82 alo 81 down a 10year sentence to a dubuque man who fired shots into jackson park last year. Cowan godfrey pleaded guilty in march. Hes 31. A release from the Justice Department says godfrey and other gang members got into a fight with another group of people last year. During the fight, godfrey found a gun in a nearby car and fired 7 shots into the park. Children and families were also there at the time, and at least one bullet hit a waterloo man could spend up to 25 years in prison for robbing rays supermarket last year, and then claiming he was the victim. A Black Hawk County jury found 21yearold Charles Jones guilty of first degree robbery, going armed, and making a false report to law enforcement. Thats according to the waterloo cedar falls courier. The county attorney said jones went into the market with a handgun and demanded money back in november. Thats when the manager reached for a gun and jones shot at him. The manager then fired back, hitting jones. The prosecution someone tried to mug him. A Marshall County prosecutor has resigned following trespassing and theft charges. Online Court Records show Police ArrestedBen Stansberry yesterday. Marshalltown police say it happened a week ago and involved someone stanberry knows. Stansberry was also on the Marshalltown School board. Adventureland faces a 4,500 dollar fine for the death of a worker. The Iowa Occupational Safety and He