First. 5849 its an education piece. Its a binine substance no body can get high off of it its like oh. This isnt the scary evil thing we thought it was. Sally has met with nearly every president ial candidate in des moines and says shes gotten good feedback from most of them. But right now the real question is who in washington will vote to support her. Reporting in washington, im alex miller. Right now, iowa is one of 17 states that have laws allowing limited use of a marijuana product for medical purposes. Iowas law says people can possess cannabis oil and use it for treatment of severe epilepsy. But those people cannot produce or transport the oil in our state. Some democratic president ial candidates are chiming in on the medical marijuana debate. Bernie sanders says he would take a similar approach to the bill that iowan sally gaer is remove the drug from the controlled substances act. Would like the government to reclassify the drug to allow more federally sponsored research on its effects. And republican front runner donald trump would like Marijuana Legalization to be a state issue. He wants medical marijuana to be available to people that need it to help with an illness. Republican bobby jindal is dropping out of the president ial race. The louisiana governor says now is not his time. Jindal has failed to gather much support in recent polls. His departure leaves 14 republicans still in the race. Jindal wrote on his Campaign Facebook page today that he will now go back to work at the think tank he started a few years ago. A university of iowa Faculty Group thats been very vocal about its disagreement with the hiring of University PresidentBruce Harreld met with him late this afternoon. Approved a vote of no confidenccin the iowa regents for selecting harreld. Today, the senate voiced those same concerns when they sat down with the new president in a closed doored meeting. Harreld has said all along that if anyone has concerns about tt job he is doing, he wants them to come directly to him. Hes also said that even with all the criticism about his hiring, hes not going anywhere. We hope to have responses from some of the Faculty Senate tonight on tv nine news at ten. The universitys graduate Student Union is also holding a public Forum Tonight to discuss that groups concerns about Bruce Harrelds hiring. The discussion will also include some other hot button issues on campus, including racial tensions and sexual assaults. That public forum is at seven this evening in van allen hall. Meteorologist joe winters joins us from the kmry radio studios in cedar rapids. Thats where variety, the childrens charity, is holding a radiothon for its Compassion Fund. Joe, its been a pretty dreary dayy hopefully, we can brighten it up by raising some money. More showers tonight with lingering light rain and drizzle continuing into wednesday. Cooler and drier weather moves in for thursday as the winds pick up from the west. Friday starts dry but another storm will be heading into the region, this time with some cooler weather in place. At this time any accumulation s of snow would occur friday night into saturday morning. We will continue the forecast as we move through the week. Have a great night tonight showers likely low 4854 winds se 1020tomorrow sct. Showers drizz le high 4854 winds sw 1530 back to you. Some people who drive to and from Senior High School say the traffic patterns need to change. Kcrgtv9s Dubuque Bureau chief Katie Wiedemann joins us now. Katie, what changes could soon be coming to that area . To create a 380 parallel to clarke drive. Thats expected to be complet by the beginning of next school year. Right now, during dismissal time, there are 16 hundred students trying to leav at the same time. Officials say the current criss cross traffic pattern makes dismissal dangerous for students. During a planning meeting of the Senior High School core group, members discussed the safest and most effective way to improve traffic flow around the schooll as part of the schools total renovation project, the new main entrance will face west locust street rather than clarke drive. They say that new entrance and the new bus lane will change the after School Traffic dynamic. We have buses that are leaving the school to take kids home. We have Public Transportation several parents who are picking up their kids as well as student in the upper and lower parking lots. The district says speed on clarke drive and west locust streets seems to also be an issue. Conducted a speed survey of vehicles traveling on clarke drive and locust streets. The survey revealed the majority o odrivers werrgoing between 33 and 36 Miles Per Hour in 25 mile mile per hour zone. Live in dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. The Dubuque City Council has approved the rezoning of the area where the former Nativity Elementary School sits. The School Closed in 2005 after years of decreasing enrollment. Millervalentine group wou like to tear down part of the old school and build apartments for seniors. The City Council Approved the companys request to rezone the property from a Family Residential district to an Office Residential district, allowing the company to start work. Marion Police Officers will soon be wearing body cams on patrol. The city council has approved buying 50 body cameras for the police department. The cameras will cost 15 thousand dollars and will come from provision video systems. This is video of similar cameras that the asbury and Waterloo Police departments already use. If youve walked past Greene Square in cedar rapids lately, you may have noticed some big changes. Construction workers started transforming the space in june. And the parks and Recreation Department says work is on track for the construction fences to come down december 1st. Benches, lighting, the installition of a fountain and concrete work are finished. Sodding work and Tree Planting will be happen this year based on weather. There will be a Ribbon Cutting event in the spring where the city will open the time capsule that was uncovered during construction. Tv nine, varietythe childrens charity, and kmry radio are holding a telethon right now to raise money to help low income families dealing with health problems. You can help support these families by calling 319 3786400 or heading to our website, kcrg dot com. Well introduce you to a family who benefits a local fundraiser is helping parents of low income families while their children are in the hospital. Kcrgtv nine is partnering with kmry and variety, the childrens charity, for a radiothon to benefit the Compassion Fund. Social workers at st. Lukes hospital and Mercy Medical center can tap into the Compassion Fund to help lowincome families with expenses that insurance doesnt cover. These might be things like special equipment or childcare. If youd like to donate, just call 3193786400. The phone bank at the kmry studios is taking calls until 6 30 this evening. You can also donate online at any time by going to the special features section of kcrg forrest one couple who knows just how compassionate can be. You never know when youre going to need help. One marion family learned that when their son was born prematurely. Vo the ness son beau was born about six weeks early. He had to spend 32 days in the nicu. Bows mother had to leave her job to help out. Meanwhile, hospital bills drained the couples account and they desperately needed to move out of a bedroom theyd been staying in at a relatives house. Thats when the Compassion Fund stepped in and helped the couple move. Sot they enabled it so we could get him a crib, get him his own room, get him the clothes he needed. Simple things, like a bottle drying rack. Moving with him in the rapids to marion, then to see him. I mean, without the compassion happened. Con tinue vo beau is doing well. The family has settled into their new spot in marion. You can help more people, like the ness family, by giving to the Compassion Fund right now. Forrest heres how. Call 319 3786400 right now. Or go online, kcrg dot com and checkout our link. In cedar rapids, more showers tonight with lingering light rain and drizzle continuing into wednesday. Cooler and drier weather moves in for thursday as the winds pick up from the west. Friday starts dry but another storm will be heading this time with some cooler weather in place. At this time occur friday night into saturday morning. We will continue to watch this system and update the forecast as we move through the week. Have a great night tonight showers likely low 4854 showers drizz le high 4854 winds sw 1530tomorrow night areas of drizzle low 2935 winds w 1525thursday partly cloudy, windy high 45 low 32 friday snow saturday scattered 27 sunday mostly sunny high 38 low 18 monday partly cloudy high 45 hosted stephen f. Austin at 7 00 am. Scott westerberg has more from cedar falls. Pass out the doughnuts and chocolate milk, its breakfast and basketball at the mcleod center. And the panthers kept the 4,700 in attendance wide awake with plenty of action on the offensive end. Jeremy morgan to the rack for two. Then, wyatt lohaus penetrates and kicks to Matt Bohannon for three. Panthers up 5. More from bohannon as he finishes the layup in transition. Its an 80 run. Uni up 144 as the students continue to celebrate not being in class this morning. The lumberjacks needed a lesson in stopping the dribble drive. Aarias austin dumps it off to morgan. Jeremy finished with 14 points and 7 boards. Uni also got a big game from paul jesperson. He pulls the trigger from the corner. Pauly pumped in 15. Jesperson tied for the team lead in points with bohannon who buried 3 of unis 7 was the fourth panther in double figures with 14 as uni beats Stephen F Austin 7060. I thought in our first game we had some very uncharacteristic turnovers, our defense was awful, so for us to bounce back the way we did today and establish ourselves defensively and take care of the ball on offense, i think it was a very good step forward for us. Weve got some new guys and some young guys and some older guys in different roles, so to be able to start to build some confidence is a great thing. With the win the panthers improve to 11 on the young season, and theyll be back at home on saturday in what will be the biggest game in the history of this building as uni hosts number one north carolina. From the mcleod center, Scott Westerberg tv9 sports. The College Football playoff poll doesnt come out until 8 30 tonight. The 100 hawkeyes have a chance to clinch the big 10 Western Division title with a win over purdue this saturday at kinnick. It will mean a lot it is something you come to level it will mean a lot. It would be a great thing for us especially seniors to end in such a great way. If we win this one we clinch but we dont want to ease up after that because we clinch we want to finish the season strong. Sot 24 oc finish the season strong longtime cascade basketball coach al marshall has announced this will be his final year of coaching. This will be als 47th season and he is third alltime on the iowa coaching list with 716 wins. They had two signings at prairie today. Mckenzie soeken will run track and play volleyball at upper iowa. And one of the top runners in the state Tysen Van Draska will run for joey woody at iowa and concentrate on middle distance. He has taken Great High School kids from iowa and made them Great College athletes and i think he is gonna do the same with me. It is a great school it is close to home and i think the big 10 is going to push me to be my best. I think i will be really busy but i am excited it is such at honor not a lot of people can say they can do both sports they love so much. Sot ends at 21 oc love so much and finally its time to introduce you to three new finalist for the kcrg tv9 athlete of the week sponsored by cedar rapids toyota. All volleyball. Athlete number one is Carlee Ketchum of west delaware who had 7 kills, 31 assist, and 19 digs to lead her team to a 4a state title sweep of harlan. Athlete number two is Gillian Gergen of janesville who had 21 kills in a 31 1a state championship win over sidney. Athlete number three is libby ryan of mount vernon who 33 digs in an opening round win over cpu at state. There are two ways to vote. Online at kcrg. Com or you can text to vote. I will feature the winner thursday night at 10. Drizzle continuing into wednesday. Cooler and drier weather moves in for thursday as the winds pick up from the west. Friday starts dry but another storm will be heading into the region, this time with some cooler weather in place. At this time any accumulation s of snow would occur friday night into saturday morning. We will continue the forecast as we move through the week. Have a great night tonight showers likely low 4854 winds se 1020tomorrow sct. Showers drizz le high 4854 winds sw 1530 bruce and beth . Thanks for joining us for we hope youll be with us again tonight at ten. Have a great evening. Hey this holiday, u. S. Cellulars giving you 50 more data than verizon and at t for the same price. But i wanted a pony. [ gasps ] youre getting data. Ponysized data . No. U. S. Cellular sized data. Good, strong data you can actually use because it works in the middle of anywhere. 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