The forecast coming up in about ten minutes, northbound traffic on 218 in Johnson County is back to normal today. Last night it was blocked for several hours. The iowa state patrol says a pedestrian was hit by one vehicle and then a second and third. Here are some pictures from the its still under investigation. A marion man is now dead after being hit by a train in alburnett over the weekend. Weekend. The linn county sheriff says the 44yearold towing a flatbred trailer when he drove in front of a Freight Train sunday. Officials say the truck caught fire and the when he drove in front of a Freight Train sunday. Officials say the truck caught fire and the driver was truck. His name is not being released until his family has been notified. The cedar river is back in its banks. People in palo are still drying out. Palo was one of the hardest hit communities in linn county. Still summer out of homes. High waters flooded basements and garages which are a headache for residents returning home. And for many, pairing for the flood was an unsettling reminder of 2000 eightmack 2008 shipment nobody was prepared. It was sevenfoot above the road. We did not have prepare. Now we had more time to prepare. There was less water. For palo residence, sandbags can be picked up dropped off at the community center. The red cross is opening three Resource Centers to help flood victims in eastern iowa. Each will enter flood cleanup kits. Mental Health Professionals will also be available. A center will be open today, tomorrow and wednesday. For addresses and hours, you in cedar rapids, bridges are back open after floodwaters went down. Days ago, every bridge in cedar rapids except for two were shut down because of delays. This afternoon, the first, second, eighth and 12th avenue bridges are open. At last check, the citys websites of the 16th avenue bridge is still close to. Public transit is ready for writers today. Cedar rapids transit is running normal routes. All city bu of the streets because of the bridges being closed. The linn county courthouse is back open. Some water made its way into the basement of the building and had to be pumped out. The Auditors Office is back open at its usual location in the Public Service center. Businesses that used cargill and quaker oats. You can find all the addresses for drop off sites in newbo the Czech Village and Kingston Village on our website cbs and if residents still have sandbags, youll have to wait if you want them picked up from your home. Next monday, october tenth, city workers will start picking up sandbags from Properties Free of charge. Theyll continue pick sandbags from Properties Free of charge. They will continue pickup for two weeks. If you want them off of your property sooner, you can drop them off at the old bridge pool parking lot. And al for the building process during the hot summer. They say more automated bills were sent that were not double checked by alliant representatives. Alliant stresses that the bills are accurate but want to help customers pay bills by spreading the cost out over the there are just five weeks to go before election day, and donald trump is finding himself answering for 20yearold tax forms which show a net loss of almost one billion dollars. Hillary Clintons Campaign is calling the story a bombshell. The campaign from the white houe house script donald trump spoke out about Hillary Clintons email scandal in a morning speech on Cyber Security. He said the democratic nominee is unfit for the presidency. sot trump Hillary Clintons only experience in Cyber Security involves her criminal scheme to violate federal law, engineering a massive coverup and putting the entire nation in harms way. gfx but a breach in the security for trumps own tax returns continues to dominate the weekend, the New York Times published three pages from trumps 1995 state income tax forms. They show that he reported a loss in federal taxable income of 916 million dollars, a which may have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years. sot steve rosenthal, Tax Policy Center senior fellow 15 59 03 theres a real question as to whether those losses are economic through spectacular failures of mr. Trumps business; tax avoidance, perhaps lawful; or failures of Donald Trumps business. Perhaps lawful or something worse. Donald trumps taxes are likely to continue to be a distraction. He will be explaining and defending rather than pushing forward and advancing his cause. Hillary clinton is in the background state of ohio today to outline new economic proposals. During sunday mass at a black church, she said trump is not the answer to their prayers. They say that all of our problems will be solved simply by more law and as if the systemic racism plaguing our country does not exist. Clinton speaks at a Voter Registration rally this afternoon. Cbs news, the white house. Former president ial candidate Bernie Sanders canceled appearances in iowa over he was going to campaign for hillary clinton. He was originally scheduled to speak in iowa city, des moines and davenport today. It canceled those appearances. The current status of Hurricane Matthew as it makes its way to the united states. Coming up. Sunshine in the forecast today. Look at the temperatures as we start to warm a little bit this week. It is 71 today. Residents of the caribbean are facing an intense encounter category 4 storm could bring catastrophic damage before welcome back. Residents of the caribbean are facing an intense encounter with Hurricane Matthew. The category four storm could bring catastrophic damage before threatening the u. S. Some areas of jamaica are expecting more than three feet of rain. Officials have issued evacuation orders throughout the island. Jamaica will be within the 90 affected area of the storm. Toward cuba with hurricane conditions early tomorrow. The u. S. Has already evacuated about 700 family members from a u. S. Naval base in guantanamo bay. We will have to keep a close watch on that one. If it will be anywhere near us, far eastern florida. We will watch that. Nothing bad here today. Starting with sunshine. The clouds settling in. Mainly sunny for a good chunk of the viewing area. Temperatures are warmer today in the lower70s. We are finding some midweek rain chances. Here are the numbers today. This afternoon, 71. Upper 60s at 6 00 for the drive home. Some cloud cover out there now. 67 degrees in cedar rapids. Went out of the south and east at 12. Humidity, 70 . On the board, 68. Waterloo, 69. Min six to mid60s in dubuque. Sixtyseven in iowa city. Charles city, 70. The wind is calm out of the 4eightmack miles per hour. Around the state of iowa, 74 in des moines. Low 70s around the quad cities and burlington. Calling your attention to western part of the state. Mid to upper 70s. That is where we will be tomorrow. Satellite and radar featuring some clouds. Cedar rapids to the south. Plenty of sunshine. Waterloo on peer midwestern temperatures today, mid70s in minneapolis. Those 70s, cedar so the warmer weather is building. As we look at the satellite and radar, we have an area of low pressure west of the rockies. That will continue to move our way. As it slides across the plains the next couple of days, ellipsis warm front through the midwest. That is where we will keep the southern went and see a few clouds as it can as the humidity builds. Try tonight. Try tomorrow. Late tomorrow evening, we will a quiet day again. Some clouds building into the afternoon. Lets go to the overnight. Partly to mostly cloudy skies. Tuesday, a day with mixed sunshine. By tuesday at noon, we see showers in western iowa. They will become a bit more widespread tuesday afternoon. Evening time, there is the rain. More showers expected for the day wednesday. Especially in the mornin this. Low 70s, waterloo. Cedar rapids, iowa city, partly to mostly sunny. Mainly sunny. Warming temperatures. And out of the southeast at 5 10. Tonight, mid to upper 50s. If you lower60s. The clouds will build. Calm night. Southeast trees. The southeast breeze. Tomorrow, warmer. Southeast went at 515. Testing at 20 miles per hour. It will be breezy and mild. Seventyseven in iowa city tomorrow. And you will notice that we stay with the 70s, despite the rain ran chances thursday as well with cloudy skies. We keep some rain around friday morning. Notice what the temperatures do. They take a big dive into the still ahead on the cbs 2 news at noon, the event going on this weekend at a famous landmark in iowa with ties to hollywood cbs2 news connects with the corridor. Call us with your story tips at 1800222kganor email us at news at one of the biggest events of the year in iowa is coming up this weekend and its a great chance to see six structures known across the world. Matt hammill kicks off our october travels as he takes us welcome back. One of the biggest events of the year in iowa is coming up this weekend. A great chance to see six structures known across the world. We kick off the october travels as we go road tripping to monumental silver domed courthouse and largerthanlife american movie hero, the real stars in town continue to be the beautiful bridges of Madison County. I enjoy our tours because they are holding hands. Notices of a cow for sale or Church Social picture clint and meryl but its when robert and francesca came calling that everything changed. Bob 10 33 44 we were all interested in seeing clint and meryl much like the fld close up clint the love affair between eastwood close up streep and streep has sent three people walking between gate 11 04 38 bridge fans flocking here for twenty years. The roseman is what robert is searching for when he drives up to francescas farm. 11 05 29 francesca sign the nearby road sign has disappeared numberous times with adoring fans. Bob kaldenberg bridges of madison co guide 10 32 32 i have witnessed on this bridge. Weddings. And ive witnessed proposls. Ive witnessed people coming here and throwing their relatives ashes in the river. 10 32 51 . Its isolated and its in fact every week people come from all over the world nat 10 26 57 it totally lives up to expectations. Its beautiful on this day helen howden and leesa are here from Christchurch New Zealand. Helen howden Christchurch New Zealand 10 26 40 oooh id seen bridges of Madison County the movie and its just so gogeous and we dont have Covered Bridges in new zealand so yea it was just lie a dream to see this. Yeah hammill nat 12 10 01 they have a notebook here at the bridge. Laura writes road trippin with a girlfriend to des moines. Passed a sign and took a detour, my dream is to never be afraid of detours ever again. Chamber Video colorful trees . this ith to visit the Madison CountyCovered Bridge festival is october eighth and ninth. Heather riley executive dir madison co chamber 10 42 53 so the colors just explode around the community and its a great time to roll out the red carpet and welcome guests from all over the world to dissolve to their video of festival Madison County, iowa. light at end of bridge the fest is the light at the end of the tunnel to help preserve these treasures and dissolve into parade soldiers 7 59 on Chamber Video with an incredible collection of activities kids waving 8 27 from brass bands and classic cars 8 06 cars in a grand parade 5 52 on the courthouse steps. draft horses 7 26 but the Covered Bridge festival may be most proud women in period costumes 6 14 of its historic demonstators women in purple 6 19 who fill the streets to honor Madison County heritage lammas 5 59 no llama drama here spinning 5 59 but theyll show you how to spin a yarn 5 44 spinning pots throw some pots blacksmith and with an incredible collection of activities from brass bands and classic cards dash classic cars, to a grand parade and music on the courthouse steps. But the Covered Bridge festival they be most proud of its historic demonstrators. Quilt in museum is like the patch work of quilts that are part of the fabric of life here. 10 58 44 molly showing me quilt colorfully woven into the moments and memories of visitors tight shot quilt pattern who love the festivaltheme. Molly clause Covered Bridges fest cochair 10 57 01 quilted gems. Precious fabric of Madison County. 10 57 41 see her . I just think theres a story in every piece of fabric and so the theme fits. Including stories of hauted bridges 11 00 58 make darker where a posse caught an outlaw trying to escape but amid gun shots he disappeared. Bob serious. hog back reflection 12 08 20 . . a festival built around the mystery and history of these spans of time in leaping deer 12 07 14 a celebration of the land and bountiful nature and people dedicatedto preserving and sharing their past. All part of the magic of the bridges of Madison County heather 10 44 26 color, history and heritage, Covered Bridges and fun for two full jam packed days. dissolve to bridge shot 12 05 26 rainbow sun flare . . . . . you must come and experience madison coutys history, our Natural Beauty and our ties to hollywood. The madison the Madison CountyCovered Bridge festival runs this saturday and sunday in winterset iowa just south of des moines coming up on the cbs 2 news at noon, how you can use facebook to do some Online Shopping without leaving the website. The uk will start the formal process of leaving the European Union in welcome back. Starting the formal process of leaving the European Union in march. The british prime ministers announced the financial uncertainty. U he cap chose to leave the European Union back in june. Stomach if you had problems weekend, you are not alone. There was a major outage that lasted hours on saturday. Users from all over the world complained on twitter. One tracking website said there were 13,000 posts about the outage. It happened on the same day netflix or leased a bunch of new movies on the site like titanic and Ferris Buellers day off from twitter stock continues to rally today after news that alphabet, the Parent Company of google, is reportedly looking to buy the twitter has been struggling to grow and add new users. Facebook is for more than socializing. It is also for shopping. The company is relaunching marketplace, the first version of the service could only be used on a desktop. Facebook says it is now easier and faster to snap pictures, upload them as well. Facebook is launching a messaging app that should work better with slower internet it also takes up less space. It rolled out monday in kenya. Tunisia. Malaysia. Sri lanka and venezuela. The company says it will come to other countries in the coming months. Justin has a final look at your cbs 2 weather first forecast next. But first the 5 second rule has been debunked by researchers at rutgers university. The popular welcome back. The 52nd rule has been debunked by researchers at rutgers university. You know the popular belief that if food is only dropped on the floor for five seconds or less, you can still eat it . It is still sanitary. Researchers say dudes can be contaminated immediately. They tested dropping various foods on various surfaces and found that some foods can be instantly contaminated. Sticky and moist foods were the fastest to be contaminated because they were quicker to absorb exterior. Other factors such as surface cleanliness later role as well. Researchers say it is better to assume that food dropped is contaminated. Which i have always thought. And lately i have been thinking, it wont hurt me. Somebody spent money on that study. They spent years of research does my. To you . It depends where i am at. If it is the kitchen floor, i will pick it up. If it is an apartment dont want to get carpet fuzz on pizza. Or dog hair. No. Im heading home to drop some soup on the floor and pick it up, lets look outside. A lot of Sunshine North of us. Cedar rapids, seeing some cloud cover. No moisture expected. What we are going to see a few more clouds this evening into the overnight hours. We see it getting more thick. Back to sunshine tomorrow with temperatures a little warmer. Low 70s today. Mainly to partly sunny. Warming. Southeast went at 510. Today, 57. Tomorrow, 76. Eight showers tomorrow night. Often on rain wednesday. More clouds and showers right now, get the directv . Select package from centurylink with up to 12 megs of highSpeed Internet for about 50 bucks a month for one year. Directv has live sports. [ crowd cheers ] news. Drama. [ smooches ] [ sobbing ] hit movies. [ film reel clicking ] plus hbo, starz, showtime, and cinemax for the first three months at no extra cost. 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