Precipitation anywhere in eastern iowa so that is a good sign. Clouds coming in from the north but they are high, thin ones that will ring is cooler that will dump into the midwest and tomorrow i expect temperatures to be staying in the upper 50s, good 10 to 15 degrees cooler than what we saw today but it will be sunny and then the rain returns for tuesday and wednesday. Do not expected to be quite as nice tomorrow temperatures holding in the 50s but we have one more day of sunshine before the rain returns to forecast. It occasion to get hundreds of students to show up at school on a sunday. Today after nearly 5 decades with the Cedar Rapids CommunitySchool District former Washington High School principal at the sendoff so many wanted for his retirement. Connor morgan shows us the legacy he leaves behind. Reporter the detail of the retirement are well documented. s resignation come areas of a teacherstudent sex scandal. His final farewell is not about celebrating. Packed parking lots, long lines and crowded cafeterias. All for one man. When he to be here, it is showing sports with the greatest people that have ever lived in cedar rapids. Knowing he did not get device sendoff i wanted to make sure he did. This is the way he should go. Reporter the lead warrior Washington High School for three and dad always talked about him and how it great of a principal he was. I feel that my underclassman wellbuilt to see him. Reporter today was to sign the back, so i cant wear this again. You know . Its pristine. I have to frame the back so i cannot where this again. Reporter is impact undeniable. Every single and maybe even amazing and that was created by him. Spike is helped so many people in the community. Giving them lies the did not get at home. Spike meant so much to my life and he affected me and made me the person i am today. Reporter s legacy eternal. His legacy is eternal. He will have a special place in the washington community. Ive no doubt about it. Reporter despite the maglev students give the interim principal a lot of credit. Hes doing a great job of candidate is heading to cedar rapids to campaign. Campaign. Democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton will be in the Hawkeye State on friday at a rally. Not many specifics have been released about the event, but what we do know right now is the rally will be held in the North Carolina and criticized donald trump for saying the election process is rigged. He refused to say that he would respect the results of this election and thats a threat to democracy. And thats a stance donald trump sticks by. The republican president ial nominee went to a rally in florida today and didnt change his opinion on the election system. Its rigged, its broken, its corrupt, they want me to take that back. Let me you, its a rigged system. System. According to a recent cbs Battleground Tracker poll clinton leads trump by three percent in florida. Our mission at fox 28 news is to connect the president ial candidates to our viewers to better inform and empower you. We have reached out to the candidates to participate in extended interviewsnot only with our stationbut our sister stations across the coun. Country. We want to hear from you. Tell us what you want to know from the candidates. Please share your thoughts senator joni ernst spent time in cedar rapids today volunteering at a local soup su. Supper. She visited mission of hope helping organizers label soup for the guests. Ernst says her visit is a part of a project shes working on with South Carolina senator, tim scott. Theyre trying to find answers to two pressing issues. Were really trying to understand some of the housing issues that we have in some of our communities, some of the Food Insecurity needs we have and combatting whether its in the rural areas or the urban areas. Areas. Tomorrow morning, senator ernst will be joined at the Cedar Rapids Country Club by senator Chuck Grassley and West Virginia senator Shelley Moore capito. Theyre Cedar Rapids Country Club by leslie and in there expected to discuss bipartisan leadership in u. S. Senate. The 26 flood but a lot of people together that the thousands of people have come from all over the world in just the last 10 years to resettle in iowa. We met one group of women helping cedar rapids after the 2016 flood each one with a stitch and a story. Inside a small storefront on cedar rapids northwest side. Side. Skilled fingers toil away while foreign conversation. Fights the sounds of sewing. Machines. Some people when they see us here they dont kow why students . Are they visitors . Immaculee and the women working next to her escaped hardships most people in eastern iowa will never know. Know. We are refugees we fled our country because of war. The Group African women empowered gives them a helping hand. The bags and necklaces they normally make sell for 2030 dollars creating a source of income. We get annoyed in the home sitting on the couch like couch potato potatothe 2016 flood waters went down in cedar rapids after causing a little damage but leaving a lot of sandbags. Derek siddel is in mount mercys enactus club the idea poppped into mind when we were out there getting the sandbags for the flood. They figured if the water didnt get too high there would be plenty of bags left untouched. Helen armstrong is the director of african ministries at st. Marks African Women empowered. Empowered. Many of our fabrics are recycled. The beads we of american ministries at saint. Marks Methodist Church in late African Women empowered. Many of our fabrics are recycled. The beats we import from africa, many hundreds years old. Reporter the selling immaculee and her coworkers do attach handles to the sandbags they can carry around something else. That includes at least one now we have this memory that we can Carry Forward and on if we do this again, this is what one community can do. Reporter after all the bags of finish still be heading down to read ball where they will be putting on the, i love cr logos just ahead on the fox 28 news at nine, nine,gearing up for the spookiest day of the yearhow some kids spent their sunday getting a head start on hallowe. Halloween. Also, the latest on a tragic crash in california that killed 13 people. People. Eople. Right now people in the corridor are gearing up for hal. Halloween. One way the kids got to celebrate a little early was at the safe halloween for kids event at the ushers ferry historic village. Kids, parents, treating, costume contests, and many other activities. Ushers ferry did get minimal flood damage, but the park supervisor tells fox 28 that the flood actually gave them a chance to spruce up a few buildings on the property and theyre ready to show them off. Im just so greatful that all the people came back out. Its nice, we couldnt have asked for a nicer day, we appreciate the public support and coming back out to support this site, thats huge for us because thats what keeps us going is that people know value ushers ferry the fall fun isnt over at ushers ferry. The next event is the final harvest hayrack night this wednesday night. Any Outdoor Activities on wednesday might call for an umbrella. Chief meteorologist terry swails is here now with your still to come on the fox 28 news at nine, nine,the latest developments in the california crash that left 13 people dead and more than 30 others injured. Injured. Then, a billion dollar deal times 85. Arguments for and against at ts acquisition right now, investigators in california are trying to figure out what caused a right now investigators in california i tried to figure out what caused it to her bus killed 13 people and injured at least 31. Chris martinez has the latest on this developing story. Reporter a crane was needed to separate a two are us and a tractortrailer in palm springs california. The bus plowed into the back of the truck early sunday morning. In almost 35 years of not been to a crash when there have been 13 reporter a survivor told police most of the passengers was sleeping at the time of the crash. First responders used letters to reach the victims because the door was inaccessible. The trailer itself entered about 15 feet into the bus so you can see it was a substantial impact. Wear the bus was traveling significantly faster than the tractortrailer it struck from behind. Took the bus driver was killed, the truck driver was injured but expected to be okay. To los angeles from a casino near palm springs. The 1996 bus was inspected earlier this year. The bus has been expected by Highway Patrol inspectors in 2014, 2015 and is latest april 2016. No mechanical deficiencies where noted. Reporter federal records show the bus Company Involved owned one bus and one driver. Records also show the company had rating. Coming up and look inside an imaginary war zone. The final test soldiers must pass to become a green beret. Eenthe mailbox for the boss at the gsa is getting full. She got letters from both House Oversight and a group of lawmakers who say no agency should use or sell cars that all the recalls they can. Take sot clip 257 . 0010 at 1 21 26 runs 10 rep. Mark meadows its troubling to me that i have an Investigative Reporter thats able to find things our federal employees have not found. Take tracklets rewind and remind you what circa exclusively uncovered. We went auction hopping across the countrya and found the General Services administration selling cars to the publica with potentially dangerous open recalls and a generic warning there could be problems. Take sot clip 257 . 0010 at 1 12 01 rep. Mark meadowsdo we have an obligation . Yes. Should we know . Yes ultimately should we take the proactive stance to do that i think the answer is yes as well. Take trackcongressman mark meadows promised action. And boom here it is. The House Oversight committee sent a letter to the gsaa asking for answers about what our investigation discovered not only with the sale of recalled carsa but also the service tags we saw that show some of those cars were driven by federal workers with problems that hadnt been fixed. The committee wants to know what procedures the gsa uses to make sure that doesnt happen. Take sot clip 257 . 0010 at 1 15 15it is uniquely their responsibility done. Take trackthe clock is now ticking. In the letter the committee gives the gsa two weeks to hand over a list of gsa cars with recallsa maintenance recordsa the agencys recall and repair practicesa and more. Take joce greenscreenthe gsa says it has a Robust Program for dealing with recalls and when it comes to federal workers if a stop drive order is issued they take immediate action and pull the car from the fleet. But those orders arent common. As for selling those recalled cars to you the gsa says 98 fiscal 2016 didnt have recalls they could take action judge. Judge . Judge . Judge . Judge . Grassley . Here hes always here. Us special Operations Forces are acting as spotters for targeted airstrikes. Us special Operation Forces are acting aspires for targeted airstrikes. Special ops a more frequently the tip of the stair in military operations in there in greater demand than ever before. To show you what it takes to be the best of the best, National Correspondent scott takes you to an imaginary war zone to observe a real exercise in the making of a green beret. Reporter six times year the serene central piedmont of North Carolina becomes a battleground. Stretching across 19 counties and 10,000 mi. 2 the man who survived this final exercise will join the elite ranks of the army green berets. The drill is called rob end stage we were granted where the brink of becoming green beret soldiers. Reporter lieutenant eric wheeler is an instructor. Is but a green beret for 13 years and served six deployments in iraq. This is a additional land. Reporter we are in a guerrilla base camp in trainees whose faces we cannot show are helping the local spent a resistance to the united province of atlantic a which is overrun. Training and local militia to stand up to an unwanted occupier is the green berets primary mission, the printing goes from a fictional land to action in the real world with real names like syria, iraq and afghanistan. Is conventional of conventional warfare look like the shock and awe of our iraqi green berets do aspect they want to delete responders in afghanistan. Months before troops and tanks right the green berets were organizing entering the tribal leaders fighting like natives alongside the northern alliance. For their final test the team we observed captured their targeted in a nighttime raid. They passed robin stage in many of these new green berets will be deployed overseas within year. Of the 118 soldiers who started robin stage during our visit, 101 finished entering the green beret. Coming up the media mergers that proposes to create merger. The two sides of in macon media merger. At t and time warner are trying to play out how their 85 point really just 85. 4 billion merger will help customers per time warner not only owns the warner bros. Movie studio but hbo, and cnn. At t has a business, directv a popular internet service. Is the latest big media acquisition by major cable or phone company. Analyst, Public Interest groups and some politicians a combining the two giants would hurt consumers in the long run it could potentially raise antitrust issues. If anything does it is anything but a done deal. Regulars will have to sign off on any acquisition. Adjuster going on over the Dakota Access pipeline construction. Saturday over 80 protesters were arrested during a large Law Enforcement authorities in north dakota say a helicopter they were using to monitor protests was approached by a drone in a threatening manner. The Sheriffs Office said those inside the helicopter feared for their life spent the drone operator eventually landed the device after Law Enforcement used last than lethal ammunition to damage the drone. As the president ial candidates continue to deport customers in the final days up to the election some states have put a Ballot Initiatives on controversial issues. National correspondent christine took here are the candidates position on legalized marijuana and gun control. I understand and respect the tradition of gun ownership but also believe that there can be and must be reasonable regulations. With the toughest laws and tremendous gun violence. I am a very strong supporter of the second amendment. Reporter soon voters in several states will have their sandy issues. Four states have been measures prompting opposition ads from control will turn the veterans into criminals. Reporter a record 60 of americans now support marijuana legalization. Eight states will vote to join the 25 who have already legalized medical or recreational pot. It is a game changer in california not just in terms of drug policy was in california but drug policy in the United States america. Reporter at other game changer, whether voters of democratic other clinton or trump in a tight race will turn out. Back in to thousand for same Sex Marriage Ban initiatives in 11 states recredited with mobilizing christian conservatives which may have passions on both sides. Sot jan leighley, republicans who are not happy with the choices, perhaps good fights, high spending about Ballot Initiatives could really be staying home or getting out to vote. Vowhich could make all the difference in usually red states, where Hillary Clinton is polling close to or slightly ahead of donald trump. Im Kristine Frazao reportinga other big issues hitting the ballot this november include minimum wage hikes and health care measures. Our wonderful weather this weekend wont make it through the work week. Chief meteorologist terry swails is here now with your the vikings took their unbeaten record to philadelphia on sunday and they left with a loss n fl highlights and reaction is coming up and it wasnt all bad for the hawkeyes on saturday well talk iowa defense next on fox first there were expectations and then there were injuries none of that has stopped the vikings theyve been unfazed so far this season a first there were expectations and then there were injuries. None of that has stopped the vikings. They have been unfazed so for the season a perfect 50 coming off a bye today in philly is it up against the eagles. Firstquarter, the mistakes happen. Easy pick returned inside the 2 yard line so minnesota is in great shape but the turnaround and give it back. Big mistake here by bradford. His pass is picked off. It was that kind of day for the vikings. In the second half the eagles up i 8. The defense was again but the offense sputter pretty vikings lose 2110 just 282 total yards. For the first time this season the vikings face adversity. Embarrassing is the word. Im very disappointed in the performance that we gave today, turning the ball over offensively we did not want people. It out quicker weve got to do a better job of staying on guys think theres a lot of answers the chiefs havent played a home game since september 25th thats a long time for a team thats won eight straight at Arrowhead Stadium and the good times continued in kc on sunday. The chiefs up against the highflying saints. Down 7 nothing in the first the short passing game works to perfection alex smith gets it to spencer ware he gets some blocks and shak