Warm. Wind s 1020 high 87 alo 86 tonight partly cloudy. Isolated storms possible late in the night. Wind s 515 low 71 alo 70 a dubuque man faces charges for sexually Iowa City Police are investigating yet another Armed Robbery at a fastfood restaurant. Off after 5 yesterday morning to the mcdonalds on lower muscatine road. Witnesses told police a man wearing a black sweatshirt and navy blue ski mask walked in, pulled out a gun, and demanded money. No one was hurt. Anyone with information should call Iowa City Police, or the iowa city area Crime Stoppers at 319358tips. Iowa city police are still trying to find the person or people who robbed three restaurants and a bank over the course of about a month earlier this year. Police think pancheros and the First American bank during july and august are all related. Since those robberies, police told Business Owners to stay vigilant, and have employees leave through the front of their buildings. Police dont know whether yesterdays mcdonalds robbery is related to the previous four. A dubuque man faces charges for sexually assaulting a woman and trying to kill her before turning the gun on himself. Police say anthony foht went to a womans home and sexually assaulted her police say she was able to get away when he tried to shoot her and the gun misfired. Thats when foht shot himself. Doctors released him from the hospital yesterday, and Police Arrested him. He faces attempted murder, Second Degree sexual abuse and firstdegree burglary charges. A family is safe, but lost their home after an overnight fire in evansdale. It happened at 246 5th street around 1 30 yesterday morning. Firefighters say the house was started in the drier. Today, iowa is putting a renewed focus on preventing suicide in the state after a 22 percent increase in suicide related deaths. Governor Terry Branstad has designated this week Suicide Prevention week. Numbers from the department of Public Health show 414 people last year died of suicide. Thats up more than 20 percent from 2014, when the number was 392. If you go back ten years, the number was much lower. 331 deaths in 2005. Tension remains high along the construction path of the bakken oil pipeline. Dakota access plans to cary crude from north dakota, through south dakota and iowa, to illinois. Security guards and protestors clashed in north dakota as protests against the pipeline turned violent. We stand wooooo protests against the pipeline turned violent as security guards and protesters clashed over the weekend. Tribal American IndianBurial Ground and other cultural sites in southern north dakota. Pipeline Security Officers say protesters rushed workers, and hit Law Enforcement with fence posts. I wasnt expecting them to mace, it came out of now where. They let the dogs loose on a horse, and they maced a woman in the face, this close range, thats what started it all, say protesters. Authorities say four security guards and two guar pepper sprayed 30 people and dogs bit at least 6 others. No one was arrested. North korea fired three Ballistic Missiles overnight out toward the sea of japan, a move experts say is a show of force. The test comes about two weeks after the elusive communist country fired a submarine missile. During that launch, the missile entered japans air defense identification zone. Its the first time thats ever happened. This is video from a previous launch. The group of nations, or g 20 summit. While there, president S Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin met to discuss several topics. That includes trying to end the violence in syria. They agreed to keep up negotiations over a cease fire. Obama also spoke with turkeys president about a recent failed coup in that country. Obama by taking to the streets to resist the coup attempts, the turkish people once again affirmed their commitment to democracy and the strength and resiliance of turkey. Obama is also meeting with french and german leaders to discuss and review the status of the conflict in ukraine. Labor day weekend has been cut short for many along the east coast. Hermine did quite a bit of damage when it hit the south. This is a live picture from long island, new york. Officials are warning people not thats because strong currents are likely swirling. Abcs maggie rulli has the latest on the storms path. Hermine continues to batter the northeast. Sot woman you can feel it in the house when the waves hit, the pilings shake. Now a post tropical cyclone. The former hurricane is churning up dangerous waves and potentially life threatening rip currents. Sot governors along the eastern seaboard are taking emergency precautions. New york city beaches second day in a row and new jersey has declared a state of emergency in some coastal counties. Crews have been working through the weekend building up sand dunes to keep the storm surge at bay. Hermine slammed into florida friday as a category one hurricane with 80 mile per hour winds. O c close hermine remains a powerful storm thats expected to sit just off the coast of southern new england for days and officials are once again urging people use caution and stay out of the water even if the weather seems decent. As the threat of potentially deadly rip currents remains extremely high. Maggie its a breathing condition that results in restless nights for hundreds of thousands of people. But now, researchers are looking at a new way to treat sleep apnea. The treatment revisits the abcs of how we breathe to help people catch more zzzs. And at 100 years old, an illinois woman is still swinging. Her golf club, that i a special way to celebrate her centuryslong love of the game. Meteorologist chris havely updates our temperatures coming up in your first aler forecast. Stay with tv9. A fairly weak system is moving showers and storms north of highway 20. This activity should diminish by the afternoon, leaving all of eastern iowa under mostly sunny skies. Mugginess will be on the r very humid conditions. Moving into tonight, a few storms are possible for overnight and early tuesday morning. Better chances for rain arrive tuesday late afternoon. Heavy rain will be possible with any storms that do develop. Our active weather pattern continues into wednesday with more storms well get a small break on thursday from the rain, but it quickly moves back in for friday. This last system should clear us out for a very nice weekend ahead. Today skies turning mostly sunny. Breezy and warm. Wind s 1020 high 87 alo 86 tonight partly cloudy. Isolated storms possible late in the night. Wind s 515 low 71 alo 70 tomorrow a chance of late afternoon. Warm and muggy. Wind sw 1020. High 88 alo 85 tom. Night storms become likely. Heavy rain possible. Wind sw 515. Low 70 alo 68 wednesday storms likely. Heavy rain is possible. High 84 low 70 thursday partly cloudy. High 82 low 65 friday showers and storms likely. Heavy rain is possible. High 78 low 62 saturday mostly sunny. High 74 low 57 of showers. High 79 low 58 tuesday mostly cloudy, cooler. High 70 low 52 for many people who suffer from sleep apnea, the traditional treatment involves bulky but now, some researchers are looking at a new approach. Its a more invasive treatment, but it could help sleep apnea suffers breath. And sleep. Easier. Doctor Timothy Johnson explains. Sleep . While many of us enjoy it in restful, uninterrupted sessions every night, millions of americans suffer from sleep apnea interrupted breathing during sleep. Among these sufferers, some experience what is known as central sleep apnea in which the brain doesnt send the signal to the body telling it to condition may wake up every few minutes, gasping for air. And its not just interrupted sleep. Central sleep apnea can also mean headaches, high Blood Pressure . Even heart failure. The standard treatment . A Continuous Positive Airway pressure, or cpap, mask. But many people find this mask too uncomfortable to wear at night. Now an International Team of researchers is testing a new approach. A tiny pacemaker like device, implanted under the skin of the chest . It sends a signal to the muscles responsible for study, fifty one percent of patients saw their number of sleep apnea events per hour slashed in half after six months. So for those with this condition who cant stand wearing that mask its one less thing to lose sleep over. With this medical minute, im dr. Timothy bacterial soap may actually be doing more harm than good. In a written statement, the fda says quote, we have no Scientific Evidence that they are any better than plain soap. They also banned some antibacterial soaps and body washes with certain ingredients, saying theyre not proven to be safe for long term daily use. Its a big day for soybean growers in iowa, and across the country. Thats because chinese buyers have committed to buying nearly two billiondollars its her 10th birthday, but one iowa girl is dealing with something thats challenging for most adults. Hear how her story spread across the country, and why shes now reading thousands of cards from people who want her to know shes not alone. Welcome to the agribusiness supervisor board in wright county. Has approved a Development Agreement for a two hundred 40 Million Dollar prestage foods pork Processing Plant south of eagle grove. The board also approved a financing agreement for better roads and a waste Water Treatment facility for the new plant. Ron prestage the owner of prestage foods. Is pleased with the decision. And says it took a lot of work to get the agreement. We had spent an awful lot of time in wright county, meeting with business leaders, with supervisors, the economic deveop that had an interest in what our proposal entailed and felt very comfortable that we had an overwhelming level of support. To fix concerns of wastewater from the new facility. Prestage says iowa already has code that will be met. And the plant will pretreat the water that Treatment Plants in the state of iowa have a new standard that they must meet by 2020. The eagle grove plant is going to be upgraded and expanded to be in compliance with that requirement and its going to be paid for by prestage farms. The wasteWater Treatment upgrades will also be expanded in anticipation of the nearly 900 full time workers that the plant intends to hire. Groundbreaking for t and will take two years to finish. Chinese buyers have committed to buy millions of bushels of soybeans. The Us Soybean Export Council announced the plan for one point eight billion dollars worth of us soy products totaling a hundred and 46 million bushels of us soybeans. The council held a signing ceremony at the Global Trade Exchange in indiana. China is the top buyer of us beans. And more than a dozen chinese representativ cattle and hogs were stuck in the red and the grains saw a little recovery before the close of the markets. The key will be how do we get through this three day weekend. Ar we right back lower again next week off of harvest pressure and talk of big yields or not. Beans similar situation today, a little bit of Short Covering there, the four to five higher. Informa estimated the bean crop at 49. 5. A little bit bigger than where the usda is and not a market mover here either. Just out type of trade. Guys lightening up as we come closer to the weekend. Exports still remain the most supportive factor for beans as china continues to be a big buyer. Its still a bloodbath in cattle. I thought wed see a bounce coming into the three day weekend. You know guys lightening up a bit like they are in the grains. But there is no relief at all boxes fell out of bed here at midday. Choice down 364. Its just ugly, ugly, three day weekend. Hopefully slow this thing down. Still feels like hogs are flying from the sky. Too much supply, lower cutouts as well too. But just cant hang on with the cattle lower here today and just complete reiteration everyday big supplies. And thats all i have for the show today. Thanks for joining me. I hope to see you again next time. Well post a video every day in the agriculture section of kcrg. Com. Im david geiger wit this week, girls in 3rd through 8th grade will start running as part of a program that provides a safe space to connect with mentors and grow. Its part of a program called girls on the run of eastern iowa, which gets underway this week. Not only are girls training to run a 5k after the 10 week program, coaches are helping girls learn life skills. There are groups in linn county, cedar rapids, independence, iowa city and Johnson County schools. Young, and young at heart. An aledo, illinois woman says theres no better way to celebrate a century of life than on the golf course. Oak View Country Club might as well be tommy greers second home. This past saturday the club honored greer with her a golf outing in her honor. It was a ninehole scramble called the tommy greer first 100 years tournament. For greer, its the friends, family and memories that count, not the score. 46 30 03 pitching and putting. Im id probably be in the creek or id probably divot, make great big divots haha. Greere says her dad was one of oak views original stockholders. So she has been a member of the aledo country club for nearly her entire life. When people across the country heard one iowa girls story of strength and determination through cancer, they wanted to help. See how a caravan of jeeps made source kcrgtv nine. An iowa girl battling cancer is an iowa girl battling cancer is reading reading z22dyz zixz z22e0z zixz y22e0y yixy hundreds of people across the country today. At just 10 years old, Ava Hutchinson is ghting cancer for the second time. But a group of iowans wanted her to know shes not fighting alone. So they enlisted in help from thousands of friends kccis tommie clark explains how it all started with a birthday wish. Dozens of cards packed these jeeps sunday afternoon. All for one little girls birthday. I like getting them because i know people are praying for me and thinking about me every day. Ava hutchinson started her brain Cancer Battle when she was just 2 years old and beat it at the age of 4. This past july a routine scan showed her cancer is back. Were on an emotional rollercoaster its day by day we dont think about the future right now its more about what are we going to do today how can we make the most of each day. A day her famil make the most of her birthday. And all ava wants this year is some cards. They have funny pictures on the front and they say like kind and nice things inside of them. That simple wish went viral and now shes getting cards from around the country. Georgia, texas, alabama, florida. Cards are even coming from across the ocean as far as india and australia. To kick off her birthday a week early a group of jeep drivers came together to bring a convoy of cards to her front door. Can together and you come through for them. I was like really excited and i couldnt stop jumping up and down. Avas mom says its a big deal for their family. Her strength shes the one who is leading this family through this its not us were here for her and we take her lead. Reporting. Today, people across iowa are enjoying the end of summer with some time on the lake. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is out on the water too, but theyre looking to make sure everyone else is playing it safe. Cornell College Students in and thats because they dont have the day off school. In fact, their first day of School Started this labor day holiday. Meteorologist chris havely updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. This labor day, politicians are catching up with workers who have the day off. This is a live look at the Hawkeye Labor Council picnic in cedar rapids, where candidates for the us house and senate are meeting with voters. And both Hillary Clinton and donald trump are in ohio today, hoping to make inroads to capture the labor vote. After a tornado ripped through vinton, a church there wants to make sure people have a place to stay when disaster strikes. And soon they will. From your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. Its a great day to get outside for those of you off of work and school this labor day. Heres a look at our waverly city cam. Meteorologist chris havely is her with your first alert forecast, chris. Across North Central iowa this midday, causing a few showers and storms north of highway 20. This activity should diminish by the afternoon, leaving all of eastern iowa under mostly sunny skies. Mugginess will be on the rise through the day, and by this evening, were back to very humid conditions. Moving into tonight, a few storms are possible for overnight and early tuesday morning. Better chances for rain arrive tuesday late afternoon. Heavy rain will be possible with any storms that do develop. Our active weather pattern continues into wednesday with more storms likely. Again heavy rain is possible. Finally, well get a small break on thursday from the rain, but it quickly moves back in for friday. This last system should clear us out for a very nice weekend ahead. Today skies turning mostly tonight partly cloudy. Isolated storms possible late in the night. Wind s 515 low 71 alo 70 this labor day brings very dark memories for the parents of an iowa boy who disappeared more than 30 years ago. Johnny gosch he was 13 years old. He was delivering newspapers in the des moines area. His parents have been outspoken advocates for stopping