Meteorologist britley ritz has your first alert forecast. Britley, hows the weather the weather outside is just perfect. Again today, we will watch just a few clouds and plenty of sunshine take over eastern iowa. High temperatures will top out in the middle to upper 70s and well keep an easterly wind around to help keep the air dry. I hope you can at least step outside once today to enjoy this fresh air. This evening will once again be cool. Low temperatures will drop into the low 50s. However, this evening winds will shift to the southeast. This will start to draw in moister and warmer weather. Expect your saturday to be slightly warmer. High temperatures will warm near 80 degrees. Winds will continue out of the sou mph. From here on out the temperatures rise and so does the mugginess. By the beginning of the workweek you can expect middle 80s and humid conditions. Today mostly sunny. Wind e 510. High 77 alo 77 dbq 76 iow 78 74 to 80 tonight clear. Wind light se. Low 52 alo 53 dbq 52 iow 53 49 to 55 brea . An iowa couple vacationing south of the Florida Panhandle wont be getting much sun today. Annette and todd gohlmann of ames got to Clearwater Beach yesterday. These are pictures with hermine arriving just hours after they got there, the gohlmanns say they didnt waste any time indoors. The water is usually calm on the gulf and it almost looked like the atlantic side. It was just pounding waves. The gohlmanns are in florida celebrating todds 25 years of service as a Police Officer. Theyre expecting to have a couple days of sunshine after the storm passes. Former stanford all american swimmer brock turner is now out of a san jose jail. Turner served three months of sentence for raping an unconscious woman outside of a Fraternity House last year. Turner hurried down the stairs and quickly entered an awaiting suv without saying a word. His sentence ignited a massive controversy nationwide for being too lenient. Turner will likely return to his ohio hometown and live with his parents. He must register as a sex offender for life. In august, the us Unemployment Rate remained thats low compared to the 275thousand added in july. So far this year. The us. Economy has added more than a 1 million jobs. Labor day weekend is almost here and as more people hit the roads. Cities, counties, and state agencies are increasing their patrols. At the Cedar Rapids Police department, a grant will pay for more officers to hit the streets. According to the iowa governors Traffic Safety bureau, one third of deadly crashes in iowa involve drunk drivers gallon we all saw a few years ago, but higher gas prices are here in time for labor day weekend. Triplea reports the National Average rose for 14 days in a row, topping out at 2. 22 monday. In cedar rapids, drivers saw the price for a gallon of regular unleaded go down 2 cents in the last week to 2. 21 but drivers in waterloo and cedar falls saw prices the American Opinion of marijuana seems to be changing after states started legalizing it. Coffee cravings. New Research Shows how much coffee you drink may depend on the makeup of your dna. Meteorologist britley ritz updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. Z22jiz zixz y22jiy yixy temperatures will top out in the middle to upper 70s and well keep an easterly wind around to help keep the air dry. I hope you can at least step outside once today to enjoy this fresh air. This evening will once again be cool. Low temperatures will drop into the low 50s. However, this evening winds will shift to the southeast. This will start to draw in moister and warmer weather. Expect your saturday to be slightly warmer. High temperatures will warm near 80 of the southeast at roughly 5 to 10 mph. From here on out the temperatures rise and so does the mugginess. By the beginning of the workweek you can expect middle 80s and humid conditions. Today mostly sunny. Wind e 510. High 77 alo 77 dbq 76 iow 78 74 to 80 tonight clear. Wind light se. Low 52 alo 53 dbq 52 iow 53 49 to 55 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind se 510. High 79 alo 79 dbq 78 iow 80 76 to 82 56 to 62 sunday mostly sunny and seasonable. High 82 low 59 monday mostly sunny, warm and muggy. High 86 low 65 tuesday chance of storms. High 86 low 69 wednesday chance of storms. High 84 low 68 thursday partly cloudy. High 83 low 65 friday chance of storms. High 78 low 61 saturday partly cloudy. High 76 low 58 on this big Holiday Weekend, the eastern coast is bracing for hermine. The Tropical Storm making its way through the Southern Coast after making landfall in a burstf lana zak is in the storms path in charlestown, south carolina. Millions of americans bracing for impact today as Tropical Storm hermine roars inland nat here it comes . Rain sound early this morning, hermine made landfall as a hurricane in floridathe first in more than a decade nats nat. We got to move it oh it ripped through houses along the ground. And while some embraced the rivers in their roadways nats for others, it is a disasterentire towns under water. Hermine now continues its path of fury up the eastern coast as a Tropical Storm. Georgias governor declaring a state of emergency nats 45thousand georgians already without power. Here in the carolinas, they are readying for impact. Sot Mike SprayberryNorth CarolinaEmergency Management director we also have 96 other swift rider rescue teams and 27 boats if needed the risk of flooding and plans for millions from florida all the way to new jersey. Tag you can see the boats behind me are xxxx . And we will be watching those water markers, the storm surge and flooding the greatest threat here. Lana zak, abcn, charlestown, south carolina. For the first time ever, researchers say theyve found mosquitoes carrying the zika virus in the us. Researchers found 3 Mosquitoes Health officials in southern florida have fought zika for weeks, imposing Mosquito Control measures, and trapping in affected neighborhoods. We will be asking the federal and state govt for additional funds as we move on in this fight against zika. But that doesnt mean we are stopping any of our efforts waiting for those funds to happen. We have the funds necessary in order to combat zika. Zika causes mild symptoms in most pe defects for pregnant women. Americans perspectives on marijuana are changing, according to a new report. This week, nih researchers found that more people are admitting to using the drug, and fewer believe it is harmful. The report showed in 2002, half of americans thought marijuana was harmful. But only a third of americans felt that way in 2014. Researchers say the change in opinion could be due in part to marijuana states and washington dc. Even though opinions are changing, many Health Experts say the blunt truth is. All types of smoke inhalation can have long term side effects. Many of us have to have that cup or two of coffee to get going in the morning. And the reasoning behind that coffee craving might be in your d na. Mary moloney has more in todays health minute. Whether you need a pick meup at work or just happen to be a latte lover. New Research Suggests that your espresso habits may actually be published in the journal scientific reports. Found that people with a newly identified genetic trait called pdss2. Drank less coffee than those who didnt have the trait. The author of the study believes the new gene impacts Coffee Consumption by the speed the caffeine is being metabolized in the body. Researchers collected medical and genetic data from more than 1200people living in southern and in northeast italy. The study was also conducted to a group of roughly 17hundred people in netherlands and the studies that link food with genetics can help in understandin g the Science Behind peoples eating and drinking habits. And hopefully lead to solutions that can help change some of our bad choices. For todays health minute, im mary moloney. One day, iowans could see moving tractors without anybody in them. One booth at the Farm Progress show is testing out selfdriving tractors. Stay with tv nine. Geiger. Theres selfdriving cars being tested on the roads. And now. Theres self driving tractors being tested in the fields. At the Farm Progress show. I headed to the case ih booth where theyre surveying farmers by tractor that drives itself. It doesnt even have a cab. But from an Office Computer or tablet a farmer could run the vehicle. To do a pre programmed route or task. On the front is radar and camera technologies that will stop for animals or debris and then let the farmer make decisions. And its new Technology Like this that can let a farmer rethink their operation. Well when you take a look at driverless, youre taking this technology and youre scaling it either large or small. This allows them to look at efficiencies in their operations. So that means i can take this vehicle and be in the same grain in and could be doing a tillage operation for a grain cart, so it allows me to two for one meaning you used to have maybe two operators and now you can have that one operator supervise multiple other vehicles in that field. Bose says case ih is looking for input from producers on the idea. And says they can fill out a survey on case ih dot com. The Us Justice Department does not want deere and company to buy monsantos precision lawsuit to stop it. The Justice Department says the deal would violates antitrust laws. Deere announced it will fight the lawsuit. Calling the antitrust concerns misguided. Last year monsanto announced the sale of its Precision Planting unit to deere. In a deal estimated at a hundred and 90 Million Dollars. Cattle are struggling at the start of the month. While corn and wheat are seeing some nice gains. The corn market and the wheat market bouncing off of seasonal contract lows here so technical short covering. Kind of a pause if you will before. The start of harvest. So its rebalancing to start the month, to start the quarter on corn and wheat. Soybeans with a premium but soybeans are in relationship to the corn and wheat seeing some pressure. Remember, seasonally youre coming up to one of the more negative seasonal times of the year in september on all of the grains. Poor cash cattle trade that we had this week. Down three to four dollars a hundredweigh t on wheat on the cash cattle trade. Trading at 110 to 111. We do have the futures here today trying to push down near limit lower. Just trying to digest large supply and the slowing demand. The hog markets trying to stabilize with a big discounts that we have in the market. Weve already put a negative seasonal dialed into the market to a certain degree. Rallies feel like theyre probably anchored with the bigger supplies that we expect in the Fourth Quarter up the department of agriculture changed its forecast this week for 2016 for net cash farm income to 94 billion dollars. Up about three billion from february. While the usda increased the estimate. Net cash farm income is still about secretary vilsack says the change shows farmers abilities to plan ahead and make sharp business decisions. And thats all the time i have for the show today. Thanks for tuning in. Well post a video every day in the agriculture section of kcrg. Com. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt 3. 32 oc Standard Farm runoff and Water Quality have been big issues here in iowa. Thats why some state senators and several members of county boards of supervisors learned how to better protect iowas water and environment. The supervisors toured a facility at Eldon Stutsman incorporated in hills yesterday. During the tour practices relating to fertilizer, herbicide and manure applications. One state senator tells tv9 even though he has farming experience, hes learned some new things. It was just a very informative day, i farm my entire life and there are things today that i learned about the new technologies that are out there. Kinney says some of these technologies were expensive at first. But they are becoming an end soon. And now comes hours of canning some of those vegetables. Diamond jos executive chef will show us how to make refrigerator pickles. Stay with us, here on tv nine. Im diamond jo executive c anyone with type 2 diabetes knows how it feels to see your numbers go up, despite your best efforts. But what if you could turn things around . 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Next we need to put this on the stove, give it a quick mix but we wont want to heat this until all of the onion and cucumber mixture, while its still warm, plastic wrap and in the refrigerator for 24 hours. And then serve, be sure to try this around your house. Its sure to be a crowd pleaser. The solon spartans travel down regina tonight. Coverage begins at 7 30 on kcrg 9 point 2. The tv9 news at 10 for friday night lights endzone. Well have coverage from all of tonights High School Football matchups. Friends and family pay tribute to a woman killed in a brutal attack one year ago. They say the neighborhood where she lives hasnt been the same since. Hermine made landfall in florida this morning and has reached the carolinas this midday. Its bringing dangerous conditions to people in its path. Coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. Coast, packing recently released video shows a Waterloo Police officer pulling a black mans hair and hitting him in the head multiple times during a high speed chase arrest. And fans are celebrating all things hawkeye at fry fest on the eve of the season home opener. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. Tropical storm hermine made rain, winds and dangerous waves. The Us National Hurricane center says the storm will continue weakening while hermine stays over land. This is the first hurricane to hit florida in a decade. Tallahassee firefighters say high winds knocked trees onto several houses, injuring people inside. But those people are expected to be ok. Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum says most of his city is without electricity this midday. Thats causing floridas to prepare. Bottom line this is life threatening. Sot mos we bought cases of water. Im still a little worried about the tidal surge. From florida, the storm moved to georgia where there is currently a warning at tybee island for swimmers to stay out of the water until tomorrow morning. Georgia power estimates 45thousand people are those people in south georgia. Dozens of counties are under a state of emergency as the storm moves through. Heres a look at the path hermine took this morning. After pushing into georgia, it moved into the carolinas and up the east coast. Causing heavy rain in the carolinas. Hermine is moving northeast at nearly 14 miles per hour. Meteorologist britley ritz has your first alert forecast, bi the weather outside is just perfect. Again today, we will watch just a few clouds and plenty of sunshine take over eastern iowa. High temperatures will top out in the middle to upper 70s and well keep an easterly wind around to help keep the air dry. I hope you can at least step outside once today to enjoy this fresh air. This evening will once again be cool. Low temperatures will drop into the low 50s. However, this moister and warmer weather. Expect your saturday to be slightly warmer. High temperatures will warm near 80 degrees. Winds will continue out of the southeast at roughly 5 to 10 mph. From here on out the temperatures rise and so does the mugginess. By the beginning of the workweek you can expect middle 80s and humid conditions. Today mostly sunny. Wind e 510. High 77 alo 77 dbq 76 iow 78 74 to 80 tonight clear. Wind light se. Low 52 alo 53 dbq 52 iow 53 49 to 55 bre a little more than 24 hours away. And hawkeye fans are already getting excited. Theyre gathering in coralville for fry