The water from flooding these apartments in largo. Man in green shirt it was still about 4 1 2 inches of water inside of the house. In sarasota. Voluntary evacuations are in effect with shelters open. And officers going door to door. Looking for anyone in need of rescue. Woman in neon poncho like up to here, officers were coming up to me and their gun belts were under water, they were up to here in water. Woman i looked out my back window and my backyard was flooded. And the water was 3 feet from the door. Forecasters say. Hermine could be a weak hurricane by the time it makes landfall. Florida now bracing for storm surge. Noaa interviewso that could be easily above my head . So this a really life threating situation . The main thing we would do this product for is encourage pple to get out if there Emergency Managers are telling them to do so. Elizabeth tag the storm may be hours away from making landfall. But the forecast is calling for up to 15 inches of rain in some areas. So officials e notking d fema has already deployed a pid abc news, nyanother storm off o storm madeline is still dropping heavy rain on the big island. It hit last night with wind speeds of about 50 Miles Per Hour. The big island and maui are still under Tropical Storm warnings. Meteorologist britley ritz has your first alert forecast, bi weve got an abundance of sunshine today with comfortable weather overall. Temperatures will top out in the middle 70s and dew points will sit in the 50s and 60s at times. Another day to get out to do some lawn work or just relax on the back porch. This evening will be fantastic as well. Clear skies will stick around and temperatures will drop back down into the low to middle 50s. With a light northeast breeze you could get away with opening up the windows once again. This calm and comfortable weather sticks around for the majority of your labor whks to the this will cause a blocking pattern for much of the midwest. It wont be until late on monday where we bring back the chance of a few storms. Today mostly sunny, spectacular. Low humidity. Win 510. Gh 75 alo 75 d 73 49 to 5 4 years in prison for accidentally shooting and killing his father. A judge sentenced 24 yearold dale white to 47 months in prison yesterday. He pleaded guilty to being a drug user in possession of a firearm earlier this month. Prosecutors say white and his father were handling a 22 caliber rifle in their living room when it accidentally fired in january. White will serve 3 years of supervised release after serving his sentence. A Fayette County man received a suspended chief. A judge sentenced 33 yearold Joshua Sargent to 5 years of probation yesterday. Prosecutors say sargent called and threatened the Fayette Police chief after being arrested on a burglary charge in march. A vigil tonight will remember the life of a dubuque woman killed one year ago today. A man sexually assaulted and killed 66year old nancy krapfl last september. Krapfl, a church secretary, was on an Early Morning walk when she was attacked. Cameras captured video of a dubuque man assaulting a woman before dragging her body away. That footage helped Police ArrestHelmon Betwell just hours after the attack and killing. He faces murder and sexual abuse charges. Betwell is now in a facility where he can get a psychiatric evaluation. A judge said he was not competent to stand trial. Friends and supporters will remember nancy krapfl tonight at jackson park. The a call on newsline nine. That number is 3193659999. You can also email pictures and video to newsroom at kcrg dot com. This morning former mexican president vicente fox called it a big mistake for the current president to meet with republican president ial nominee donald trump. Fox talked about their meeting this morning on cnn. He said president Enrique Pena Nieto is misrepresenting all 120 million mexicans. He also called trumps mexico pay for it a crazy idea. Trump says he met with president pena nieto for about an hour yesterday. During that meeting, trump said he has 5 goals for his relationship with mexico if hes elected president. That includes ending illegal immigration, dismantling drug cartels and improving nafta. After that meeting, trump traveled to phoenix to lay out a 10 point plan for immigration. He says hes confident a Trump Presidency will have a close relationship with mexico. Mexico will work with us. I their wonderful, wonderful president today, i really believe they want to solve this problem along with us and im sure they will. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton says donald trump doesnt have the right personality to have a Good Relationship with mexico. She commented on trumps meeting while speaking to veterans at the American Legion convention in cincinnati. You dont build a coalition by insulting our friends or do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships. Trump spoke at the same Convention Earlier this morning. Well show you what he had to say, coming up in our next half hour. Senator Chuck Grassley says he was just speculating monday when he said there might be a chance hell hold hearings for Supreme Court nominee merrick garland. President obama after the death of justice antonin scalia. Senator grassley has said his Judiciary Committee would not hold confirmation hearings on any Supreme Court nominee until the next president takes office. But monday in sioux city, grassley said if democrat Hillary Clinton wins the election, he might consider holding them during the lame duck session of congress. Thats the 11 weeks between election day and inauguration day. Yesterday in dubuque, grassley backed away from that, saying his original opinion has not changed. Everybody who heard me sa w speculate, maybe i shouldnt be speculating. So my position is, its going to be decided by whoever is elected president. Grassley also said on monday he would only consider Holding Hearings for garland if a majority of senators favored the hearings. Grassley and his fellow republicans hold the majority in the senate with 54 seats. He still shows up for work everyday. Best attendance in campaign touts his good attendance in washington. The ad focuses on his iowa roots and claims he has the best voting record in the senate. Well factcheck that ad, coming up in our next half hour. Researchers say theyve found a way to beat alzheimers. They claim it clears some toxic plaque from the brain. Meteorologist britley ritz updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. Weve got an abundance of sunshine today with comfortable weather overall. And dew points will sit in the 50s and 60s at times. Some lawn work or just relax on the back porch. This evening will be fantastic as well. Clear skies will stick around and temperatures will drop back down into the low to middle 50s. With a light northeast breeze you could get away with opening up the windows once again. This calm and comfortable weather day weekend. Thanks to the tropical system that will be moving along the east coast, this will cause a blocking pattern for much of the midwest. It wont be until late on monday where we bring back the chance of a few storms. Today mostly sunny, wind ne 510. High 75 alo 75 dbq 73 iow 77 72 to 78 tonight clear and cool. Wind light ne low 52 alo 53 dbq 51 iow 53 49 to 55 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind e 510. High 76 alo 76 dbq 75 iow 77 73 to 79 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind light se. Low 54 alo 54 dbq 52 iow 54 51 to 57 saturday mostly sunny. High seasonable. High 82 low 59 monday small chance of storms. High 85 low 65 tuesday chance of storms. High 85 low 69 wednesday chance of storms. High 84 low 68 thursday partly cloudy. High 83 low 65 friday chance of storms. High 78 low 59 thanks britley. Medical researchers say a new treating alzheimers disease. Patients with earlystage alzheimers were given the drug once a month for a year. Researchers say that drug cleared deposits of toxic plaques from the brain. Medical experts plaques are what trigger the onset of the disease. After the yearlong study, patients that received the highest dose of the drug had virtually no signs of those deposits. Researcher are now starting larger studies. Weve all heard the advice to eat more fish for our hearts, but in some cases, what we eat may be hazardous to our health. Its a type of fish toxin that most of us have probably never heard of, but this poison on the plate can make someone very sick. Martie salt has more. Last thanksgiving during a trip to the us and re the whole day lying down and i started getting this incredible burning and itching in my earlobes. Mary ann thought it was Food Poisoning or the flu, until her symptoms dragged on for months. Her doctors couldnt pinpoint a cause, until one made the connection between her sickness and the tropics. He mentioned since i had been down there and asked me if i ate fish, and i said yes, and he told me about this fish toxic poisoning called ciguatera. Toxicologist. The danger is you cant really taste it. If you cook it properly it doesnt destroy the poison. Experts say you should avoid eating large fish like eel, swordfish, red snapper, sea bass and barracuda. Treatment is an iv drip of a medication called mannitol. Within the first few seconds of those drops coming through it was a like a cool wash in my brain just moving down like this. Mary ann is back to normal and says while she plans to travel again this year, fish wont be on the menu. Im martie salt, its a weed native to the southwest us and now its moved into the corn belt. Its a weed native to the southwest us and now its moved into the corn belt. What farmers should be on the lookout for, next in our agribusiness report. Welcome to the agribusiness amaranth is a pigweed native to the southwest u. S. Over the last couple decades it has moved eastward. And in the last seven years its moved into the corn belt. Now. Its in iowa. Palmer amaranth. The black x means it was brought in by conventional farming operations. The red x means the weed came from native seed mixes. At the Farm Progress show, i spoke with isu weed specialist dr. Bob hartzler. He says Palmer Amaranth infestations are all isolated incidents in around 15 border counties. But farmers should be on the lookout. Palmer amaranth looks a lot like water hemp, which is found in a lot of iowa fields. However it is much more competitive. And resistant to chemicals. The one trait thats really reliable in differentiatin g Palmer Amaranth and on these inflorescence is they have sharp bracts along the flowers so it gives the seed head a very spiky appearance. And when its mature, when you grab them like this, those bracts will actually puncture your skin. Hartzler says Palmer Amaranth has been found as a contaminate in conservation planting seed mixes. And suggests farmers should be scouting those fields. He says because its still in the early stages. The density is low enough that the weed can be eradicated with effort. In a word of warning. He says,. The south did not manage to stop the production. In cotton they have far fewer herbicides available than we have in corn or soybeans and the farmers were completely reliant on glyphosate in round up ready cotton. And when they developed the glyphosate resistance Palmer Amaranth, they didnt respond quickly enough and they tried to rely on the glyphosate when it no longer controlled. Markets arent in a Great Condition today. Cattle saw a reversal off of yesterday. And good weather and crops are shooting bean markets down and thats all i have 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 agribusiness report. Trt oc standard a cedar rapids man is one of first to pass a new commercial drone pilot exam through the faa. First to pass a new commercial drone pilot exam through the faa. Starting monday, anyone over 16 could take the test. The old rules said anyone who wanted a license to fly a drone commercially needed a pilots license. Caleb howard says he studied about 30 hours for the exam. Howard says the test covered much of what a reading section charts and monitoring weather forecasts. Both he and the faa stress safety while flying. 58 34, that was the biggest part of the test is making sure you fly and be responsibility for yourself and not just yourself but the property around your crew members. Under the new rules, drones have to fly within 400 feet of the ground. The device also has to weigh between between point 55 and fifty five pounds. You also need a fry fest on friday is the unofficial start of the College Football season here in eastern iowa. Thats 24 hours from now. Also, the legendary Dwight Yoakam is set to play cedar rapids. Diana nollen from hoopla now will take us through the week ahead. As summer shifts into fall, a i worked years to get my medicare dont know where id be without it so when i heard about conartists committing medicare fraud. To get a free offer or gift two, always check your medicare statements for errors these crooks think were clueless, they dont have a clue its your medicare, protect it College Football. The gazettes diana nollen joins us to talk about hoopla now diana, always great to see you. After last months devastating recycling of their damaged property. Meteorologist britley ritz updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Last night led to one person hit in the leg but no arrests yet. Im Chuck Grassley and i approve this message. Senator Chuck Grassley says he hasnt missed a vote in decades. Well fact check his claim. And while speaking to veterans in ohio this , donald trump focused on protecting the border. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. Waterloo police are looking for whoever shot someone in waterloo overnight. We just spoke with police within the last hour. Waterloo police tell us gunfire hit one person in the leg in the 300 block of newell street. Police responded to the call around 9 last night. Another car took the person with the gunshot wound to the hospital. Police tell us the victim suffered nonlife threatening involved. Investigators have not made any arrests. Gunfire also hit a home on waterloos west side. Officers responded to a house at 903 west mullan avenue around 10 00 last night. Our crew on scene saw what appeared to be several bullet holes in the siding and a window. Police found shell casings at the scene. No injuries from the shooting but, at this time, also no arrests. Waterloo police are also looking for 2 people who robbed a liquor store last night, just east of downtown. This happened in between the 9 45. Police responded to a robbery of the new star liquor at 1309 lafayette street. Officials say the 2 people were Wearing Masks as they robbed the store. A woman accused of trying to flush her newborn down a toilet will go to trial in february. A judge has set the date for 23 year old Ashley Hautzenrader from davenport. Shes charged with attempted murder and child endangerment. In may, police say she delivered the baby in a restroom at university of iowa alive, wrapped in a pillow case in a trash can. Traffic is flowing again on highway 100 after a semi crash earlier this morning. Emergency crews were on the the highway near of marion around 9 00 this morning. Its not clear if anyone was injured. Were working to figure out what might have caused this. Meteorologist britley ritz has your first alert forecast, britley. Sunshine today with comfortable weather overall. Temperatures will top out in the middle 70s and dew points will sit in the 50s and 60s at times. Another day to get out to do some lawn work or just relax on the back porch. This evening will be fantastic as well. Clear skies will stick around and temperatures will drop back down into the low to middle 50s. With a light northeast breeze you could get away with opening up the windows once again. This calm and comfortable weather sticks around for the majority of your labor day weekend. Thanks to the tropical system that will be moving along the east coast, this will cause a blocking pattern for much of the the chance of a few storms. Today mostly sunny, spectacular. Low humidity. Wind ne 510. High 75 alo 75 dbq 73 iow 77 72 to 78 tonight clear and cool. Wind light ne low 52 alo 53 dbq 51 iow 53 49 to 55 a Tropical Storm could turn into a hurricane florida. Heres what Tropical Storm hermine looks like right now in the gulf of mexico. Its churning at about 60 Miles Per Hour, but forecasters say it could reach at least 74 Miles Per Hour. That would make it a category one hurricane. People along the gulf coast are already evacuating ahead of the storm. People in lowlying areas are hits either tonight or early tomorrow morning. A hurricane warning is in effect for a stretch of coastline south of tallahassee. While people in florida are preparing for heavy rain and flooding, people here in iowa are still cleaning up after last weeks storms. In winneshiek county, those people have to dispose of furniture, carpet, appliances and more from their homes and businesses. One recycling center is converted to help people get rid of all of their flood damaged items. Workers say theyve been working constantly they can. , 22 51 47 the soggy stuff like the furniture thats all beat up and soggy like look at that stuff that im gonna go in there with a skid loader here and wed like to go in their and compact it a little bit and break it up and then were gonna load it in these roll offs and landfill it the recycling center will stay open as long as people need it the center will also be open throughout the labor day weekend. Resort an