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Transcripts For KCRG KCRG TV9 News At 11 20161028

Creating a bounce for a particular candidate. Cedar rapids closed several streets this morning for Hillary Clintons appearance at new bo. That includes 12th avenue se between 2nd and 4th streets. And 11th avenue se between 3rd and 4th streets. For the donald trump event tonight, the city will block off first street sw between 4th and 6th avenues, right by Cedar Rapids Police headquarters. Congressiona l delegation is trying to keep his job for another 2 years. Congressman Dave Loebsack is seeking his sixth term in the us house. The Cook Political Report rates iowas Second District as solidly democrat, meaning its calling loebsack a strong favorite over republican challenger chris peters. Iowas Second District covers iowa city, davenport and bettendorf and much of rural southeast iowa. As kcrgtv9s jordee kalk reports, loebsack says his biggest concern right congressman Dave Loebsack has a personal reason to protect those who struggle. 56 00, i grew up in poverty myself in sioux city my mom was a single parent had an 11th grade education with mental illness. Loebsack says many people helped him get through school and the early stages in life. So he wants to do the same for others. 56 08, i didnt get in the middle class myself until i started teaching at Cornell College way back in 1982. Loebsack says more jobs need to be available across the countr g jobs here in iowa. 2 09, we have to continue to deepen the economic recovery. Folks have gotten back to work but sometimes the jobs arent as good as they were before the great recession. Loebsack says a heavier emphasis on education will also help the economy. He credits passing every Student Succeeds act, which is a revision of no child left behind 3 45 we have to make sure that bill gets implemented property so it does come back to the local folks, so teachers have flexibility in terms of evaluating people loebsack also says College Students should have more Financial Aid options. 4 32, we have to allow students to renogotaitate to that debt once their done with college too. In recent months loebsack has also placed priority for veteran affairs reform. He says the amount of veterans who struggle to 5 43, those folks were willing to make the absolute sacrifice so we can stay free the least we can do is treat them with the dignity and respect they deserve when they come back thats why i introduced a bill that would guarantee any veteran who goes to a va and asks for in patient psuychaitric bed would be granted a bed if thought was suicidal loebsack says he already has about 60 sponsors on the bill. He adds about half of those are republican. 6 30, in the lame duck, when we go back im going to go back and do what i can to get that passed. Loebsack says he will also push for betterbroadband infrastructe next session. 59 26, ya know if you were going to take your grandma to a nursing home you might bring an ipad with you so she can stay in touch with you but if that facility doesnt have sufficient possible to do loebsack says lehealthand telemedicine are th for medicine. He says placing an emphasis on broadband will protect older citizens. 58 47, broadband has been a focus of mine since i got in congress but now that im on the kalk. Tonight at 6, well feature loebsacks challenger, dr. Chris peters and his message for voters. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. Even with a veil of clouds overhead, we have a mild afternoon ahead thanks to a warm breeze of 15 to 25 mph will send us above the 70degree mark. Well stay mild tonight with lows falling only into the 50s. Tomorrow looks good with partial sunshine and highs close to 70. Well fall back to around 60 on sunday, but another push of warmth comes on halloween with highs in the middle 70s. After that, we drop back into the 60s with shower chances wednesday and thursday. Today partly 1525. High 74 alo 74 dbq 70 iow 75 tonight partly cloudy. Wind sw 515. Low 57 alo 57 dbq 56 iow 59 new at midday, were working to get more information on a crash this morning on i80. This happened around 8 00 this morning in the westbound lanes it appeared to involve a semi and another truck. Investigators wouldnt comment on any injuries at the scene. One man has died after a 1car crash in rural butler county. Responders came out last night around 7 to 190th street, near willow avenue. Thats east of clarksville. The iowa state patrol says 41yearold Jeffrey Dewitt died when the car went off the road and hit a box culvert. Two other men were hurt in the crash. A waterloo man overnight shooting that injured a woman. Police were on belleview road around 11 45 last night on the citys west side. Police tell us one woman has a nonlife threatening wound to the leg. Police arrested 61 yearold Michael Fristo for the shooting. He face one count of Domestic Assault with a weapon. In a tv9 followup. Police say a driver found on Surveillance Video may be the clue they need to find out who shot yore jieng remains in Critical Condition after someone shot him in the head. The shooting happened on the north side of des moines on monday night. Police say jieng was sitting in the car with his sister. Investigators say a prius was in the area and came close to crashing with an erratic driver. Were pretty confident that that witness in that prius might be able to give us some information about that driver of that car that was being operated erratically. We dont know just yet how that connects, but we would like to talk with that person in that prius, see if they can provide us with some information that might put us down the path to identifying who was driving that other car police went on to say they are dealing with a cowardly act and they will have to find those responsible. A Black Hawk County sheriffs deputy has resigned after accusations that he drunkenly assaulted someone while he had a weapon on him. Erick mcferran faces several charges, including carrying weapons and assault. Prosecutors say he attacked someone at a gas station in waterloo on october 14th. They say he didnt take out his handgun during the incident. Waterloo police are trying to strength their relationship with the public. Last month, the citys mayor told the department to build back waterloos trust amid Excessive Force allegations, a incidents. Thursday night, some gathered at a Waterloo Church to build better understanding. Officers were on hand to talk about better communication with Law Enforcement. Police and the public role played different scenarios, like a traffic stop, to learn from each other. Waterloo police chief dan trelka hopes the evening helps police reach a good place. It fits perfectly as to what were trying to accomplish. One of our greatest faults in Law Enforcement we need to do a better job of educating the public about why we do what we do. Education events. Trelka says hes got a couple other initiatives in the works. The Eastern Iowa Health center can now help more patients than ever before. Its all thanks to a 2 Million Dollar renovation. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your overhead, we have a mild afternoon ahead thanks to a warm breeze of 15 to 25 mph will send us above the 70degree mark. Well stay mild tonight with lows falling only into the 50s. Tomorrow looks good with partial sunshine and highs close to 70. Well fall back to around 60 on sunday, but another push of warmth comes on halloween with highs in the back into the 60s with shower chances wednesday and thursday. Today partly cloudy. Breezy and mild. Wind s 1525. High 74 alo 74 dbq 70 iow 75 tonight partly cloudy. Wind sw 515. Low 57 alo 57 dbq 56 iow 59 tomorrow partly cloudy. Wind variable 515. Tom. Night mostly cloudy with a few sprinkles or light rain possible. Wind n 1015. Low 48 alo 46 dbq 46 iow 50 sunday partly cloudy. High 61 low 48 monday partly cloudy. Breezy and mild. High 75 low 49 tuesday partly cloudy. High 65 low 55 wednesday chance of showrs thursday chance of showers. High 61 low 44 friday partly cloudy. High 60 low 45 saturday partly cloudy. High 57 low 39 the Eastern Iowa Health center in cedar rapids can now help more patients than ever before. An Opening Ceremony on thursday showed off the improvements at its location at 3rd avenue se in cedar rapids. The allows it to serve more than 40,000 people each year. The Health Center says the project was necessary because of more patients. 00 59 01;17in the renovation, we increased the amount of exam room space by 30 percent and we really made it ready for modern medicine and its very exciting to have the support of the community and the staff and our board that made it all possible. The renovation and expansion cost nearly 2 Million Dollars. Nearly half of that came from grants through the federal government. Smoking is still one of the leading states. A new study shows the number of americans dying and where its happening. Kim hutcherson reports. The number of us cancer deaths attributable to cigarette smoking is highest in the american south. Thats according to Research Published in the online journal jama internal medicine. Doctors with the American Cancer Society analyzed smoking Prevalence Data from all 50 states and the district of columbia. They found that smoking caused nearly 40percent of cancer deaths among men in arkansas, tennessee, louisiana, kentucky and west virginia. In fact, nine of cancer deaths are in the south. Along with six of the top ten states for smoking related cancer deaths in women. Researchers think this is due to a variety of factors including cheaper cigarettes and weaker Tobacco Control policies. The study found that smoking caused nearly 29percent of all cancer deaths among americans over the age of 35. Some 40 million adults in the us smoke cigarettes. Smoking remains the largest preventable cause of death from cancer and other diseases. For todays health minute, im kim hutcherson. Iowa beef producers only have about a month left to vote on if they should pay extra on their cattle. How much producers would have to put forward, in todays agribusiness report. About a month left to vote on if they should pay extra on their cattle. How much producers would have to put forward, in todays agribusiness report. Welcome to the agribusiness report, im david geiger. Theres about a month left for iowa beef producers to vote in a state beef checkoff referendum. It will decide on if farmers should pay 50 cents a head. Reinstating the state checkoff adding to the federal checkoff of one dollar a head. Producers who have owned or sold cattle in the last year have a right to vote. Though an absentee form in the Iowa Department of agriculture. Or they can vote on november 30th in their iowa cattlemens association. Ceo matt deppe says theyve been fielding a lot of calls about the checkoff. But the response has been positive. Deppe says one of the advantages is the state checkoff money is more flexible than the national checkoff. You can utilize these dollars for production Type Research and production on the producer side of the equation. But you can also utilize them in some of these strategies weve used for many decades now too. Deppe says low cattle prices could affect the vote. Hes had some producers tell him its a bad time to ask for checkoff money. But hes had others who think investing into the checkoff could help out the industry. Producers can find more information at the Iowa Department of agricultures website. Or at the cattlemens website. W wwdotiacattlemen dotorg well. It was green across the board just before the market close. Analyst don roose has more. Earlier this week. That a trade deal with canada and the European Union was more or less dead. Well. In a breakthrough. A small region of belgium opposing the free trade deal. Agreed to the michel tweeted. Belgian agreement on ceta. All parliaments are now able to approve by tomorrow. Friday. At midnight. Important step for eu and canada. All 28 eu members now support the comprehensiv e economic and trade agreement. Affecting five hundred. Thirty million people. And that wraps up time. Well post a video every day in the agriculture section of kcrg. Com. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt oc standard perhaps this isnt the kind of warmth that makes us scurry for chili. But those days are coming. Eventually. Well take a look at an ideal jonathan nelson. Im getting colder outside and one of my family favorites is chili. Were going to make a white chicken chili. One diced large onion. 3 tbps of melted butter to sautee that diced onion. Add about a tablespoon of chopped garlic, 3 cups of corn, 2 pounds of chopped whole chicken, 1 cup of green chilis, 2 cups of northern beans, 2 tbsp of cumin and 2 tbsp of lemon lastly, a quart and a half of prepared chicken stock. Let simmer for 30 minutes. Then stir in a 1 4 cup of corn starch. This fall, try and change up your chili routine and make white chicken chili. It was nearly 26,000 days ago when the chicago cubs last hosted a World Series Game at Wrigley Field. Tonight theyll host cleveland in game 3 of the 2016 world series. After getting shut out in game 1 on tuesday, the cubs scores early in game 2 on wednesday to capture a 51 win. Games 3, 4 and 5 are all at Wrigley Field for tonight, competition from cleveland. These are youngest cleveland fans. The babies born at Cleveland Clinic hospitals are sporting world series onesies. All newborns that arrive during the world series will be dressed in the outfits to help cheer on the citys home team. One new dad is hoping his son wont have to wait as long as he did for a win. Its awesome he was born in a year like this. He doesnt know the 50, 60 years of losing that the rest of us do. The indians havent won the world series since 1948. And the cubs havent won since 1908. Senator Chuck Grassley hopes voters will send him back to washington for a 7th term. A poll just released within the past 30 minutes shows the gap between grassley and democratic challenger patty ahead of november. Today both donald trump and Hillary Clinton come to cedar rapids. Law enforcement in north dakota made m protesters set fire to Construction Equipment at the Dakota Access pipeline. And Iowa State University is investigating what it says are racist posters put around campus. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. This midday, people are starting to gather at newbo city market for democratic president ial Republican Donald Trump stops right across the river. Doors opened at newbo just a few minutes ago. Shes scheduled to speak in about 2 hours. Again, Donald Trumps Campaign Stop is set for just a few hours after clintons will end. Hes scheduled to speak at the mcgrath amphitheatre starting at about 7 00 tonight. Todays stop is just one of several across the country for the republican nominee. Hes in New Hampshire right now. This is video from his Campaign Stop i yesterday. Polls show trump is in a tight race with clinton in ohio. He goes to maine later this afternoon before flying to cedar rapids for tonights event. Abcs Marci Gonzalez has the latest on the president ial election. Hillary clintons lead narrowing . The latest abc News Washington post tracking poll finding among likely voters 48 percent say theyll vote for clinton, while 44 percent say candidate feeling confident campaigning in ohio last night sot donald trump, toledo in just thinking to myself right now we should just cancel the election and just give it to trump right. Why are we even having it for . With just 11 days until the election a close call on the trail . Trumps running mate mike pences jet skidding off the runway in new york last night. The vicepresident ial candidate on gma this morning discussing that scare, as well as the financial disparity between the two campaigns . Clinton left with more than 62 Million Dollars trump, with just 16 million . Now reportedly telling to his campaign for 10 Million Dollars. Sot mike pence the strength of this campaign is not dollars and cents, its really the American People who i think are rallying behind Donald Trumps message clintons message getting a big boost from First Lady Michelle Obama . Sot Michelle Obama yeah, thats right. Hillary doesnt play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime. Yes, more than barack, more than bill so she is ready to be commanderinchief on day one and, yes, she happens to be a woman. As the democratic candidate continues on the trail today repor

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