We will find a sunshine later today as these clouds and showers move out. The full forecast coming up including whats ahead for the weekend in 10 minutes. One business that closed its doors to prepare for flood 2016 may not be reopening at all. Thats even though it was untouched by flood waters. The best westerns cooper mills hotel is talking about a possible buyout before the flooding. They have been in talks with the Property Owners for a year. The city had the Property Value assessed and made a Purchase Agreement for more than 5 million. Once they close for flooding they decided to move forward with the sale. We have a signed Purchase Agreement from the Property Owner that will be presented. It will be on the City Council Agenda for october 11. Its recommended for approval anticipate closing and having them transfer title to the city by the end of the month. That final approval is given by the city council the building will be torn down next spring. The citys Flood ControlCommittee Also heard updates on flood protection in the 16th avenue. Bridge. These renderings show the levy and floodwalls plan to protect walls areas that were excluded. The levy will have a 130 foot base and walls 13 feet high. Ground on the levy on october 11. City rapid leaders have a few different objections. Sand can be used in paint counts or oil leaks to absorb the liquid. You can reuse those paint cans with sand by making them into patio candles for cookouts or the material that came into contact with floodwater or debris. Do not put it in the garden carts because they cannot handle the weight. Empty sandbags cannot be recycled. If you do not want to deal with them caught the city begins a free Curbside Pickup for sandbags starting monday and runs for two weeks. Alliant Energy Customers were shocked when they opened up the utility bill. Some seeing higher figures than any they have seen before. The high cost do 28 new billing system. The system is designed to protect customers from inaccurate bills by putting a review in place when meter readings are different from the previous year. Caused some unforeseen problems. Justin foss we didnt have enough billing specialists in so we werent able to manually review all the bills. When we cant manually review the bills, the system just kicks out an estimated bill. Bill. According to foss the estimates dont reflect usage which is higher this year due to warmer weather. Alliant didnt anticipate such a and admit they were unable to update customers immediately. Vice president ial nominees democrat tim kaine and republican mike pence faced off in the only vp debate last night in virginia. Right off the bat both nominees accused each other of running negative campaigns. Campaigns. sot kaine donald trump in his campaign has called mexicans rapists and criminals. He has called women slobs, pigs, dogs, disgusting. sot pence this insultdriven campaign thats small potatoes compared to Hillary Clinton calling half supporters a basket of deplorab deplorables. A new cbs news poll shows the two candidates are largely unknown to voters. Last nights debate was a chance for voters to get a glimpse of the running mates but it was largely about the president ial nominees. Pence was asked about how donald trump used the tax code to avoid paying federal income taxes. gov. Mike pence, r Vice President ial candidate those tax returns that came out publicly this week show that he faced some pretty tough times 20 years ago. But like virtually every other business not too long ago, he used whats called net operating loss. We have a tax code, senator, that actually is designed to encourage entrepreneurship. sot kaine so its smart not to pay for our military, veterans, teachers, and i guess all of us who do i guess are stupid . Stupid . Donald trump and Hillary Clinton face off again this weekend in a townhall style president ial debate. You can watch that right here on cbs 2 on sunday it starts at 8. Funeral services for keith lamont scott. Scott. Have been postponed. He shot and killed in charlotte, north carolina, scotts service was going to be held today and tomorrow in South Carolina but the funferal home decided to push it back because of the hurricane threat. Scott was killed by a Police Officer last month after an altercation outside an apartment complex. After his death violent protests and riots broke out in charlotte. Investigators combing a heavily damaged new jersey train station were able to find a data recorder that should shed more light on the commuter train and injured more than 100 people. The recorder should have Vital Information about how fast the train was going and if the brakes worked. Federal investigators also say theyre looking at the train engineers cellphone which was found in a backpack in the trains cab. Paisely park the home and Recording Studio of prince will be open to the public this week. Week. Tours have now been scheduled to begin tomorrow but the site will be welcoming guests for a very limited time. The tours will only be held on three days the city council tabled a vote to rezone the a musuem. Now they can only hold tours on three scheduled days. Many fans already booked tickets to attend a tour some are now able to get a refund. A golf legend was remembered on tuesday as some of the biggest names in the golf world gathered to celebrate the life of arnold palmer. He died last month at the age of 87. His private funeral was last week but his family wanted a Public Service to be held after the ryder cup. Most of team usa showed up to the memorial along with the golfing legend Jack Nicklaus spoke at the service. Today i hurt just like you. You dont lose a friend of almost 60 years and not feel an enormous loss. As my wife often says, the memories are the cushions of life. Life. Palmer won sixtytwo titles on the pga tour and helped grow golf to worldwide recognition. Its degrees. After the break. The special way one tattoo artist is letting people remember a loved one who died. Good morning to you. 6 10 is the time. We are featuring rain this morning. Is that moves out the sunshine moves in. We will be mild with upper 70s. Only to find more rain tonight into the day tomorrow. 64 at night and 68 at 11. Lower 70s this afternoon will warm to 76 degrees this afternoon. We will do that with nice sunny skies. Heres Doppler Radar and we find rain and most of it moving out of linn county towards cder and jones county. Were scattered showers on clinton and allamakee and down to the south. All moving towards the east. 62 degrees when south and east at six. Our humidity is at 100 . Temperatures 16 waterloo. 63 in dubuque and monticello the same. In decorah 59. Statewide picture we see those 60s and 70s off to the west. Midshipman to upper 70s and if you lower 80s in the east. Miss western forecast we have 50s and 60s and 70s. Cold will find more coverage through thursday. Thursday features rain with clouds and showers on the move. You see the cold front so this morning we have the rain. It moves out why the afternoon and thats where we will find sunshine. Heading into the forecast tonight the clouds build back in. Overnight thunderstorm chances but nothing severe. We keep the clouds to the day on thursday. We will have on some of the heaviest rain will move in thursday evening into the overnight stay with us through friday morning. Heres your forcast today. 76 in waterloo. One indicator at 73. Morning rain clearing skies and we will say mild. South and west wind 5 to 10 miles. Tonight partly cloudy and late showers. East wins 428. Low to midshipman 50s in the north and upper 50s in the south. The day tomorrow featuring clouds. We will have thunder and rain. 75 waterloo, 76 cedar rapids. It will be a mild day with temperatures above 728 degrees above normal. Seven 72 should see the rain move out here by sunday will be upper 60s to lower 70s. Monday a small chance of showers with upper 60s. We will keep the upper 60s for tuesday. Your tenday temperature trend features midshipman to upper 60s for tuesday, wednesday and thursday. A tattoo artist in alaska is offering a unique way to help clients who have lost a loved one. Its a regular day in the office for tattoo artist miss judy. That often means leaving her mark. To help people deal with loss. miss judy tattoo artist its really nice to help them, thats for sure. Its very emotional. Its hard sometimes. Each client has their own way to remember a loved one. But only a few make a special request. Using that persons ashes as a requests. Using the persons ashes as a part of the tattoo. Are getting the ash and thats what makes people happy. Its what dana decided to do after her 15 neural daughter jordan and her best friend broke were held killed by a drunk driver. She came for my body. I created her. Now that shes passed and her physical self is no longer with me the ashes can signify her returning to my body. The tattoo shows three flowers. Daughter. Her ashes are in the black silhouette of the mother and daughter. It means our eternal love. Jordan is always with her spiritually but this was a way to keep her physically close. The placement of it so it could be symbolic or silly on my part but i liked it so i can hold it to my heart. And therapist for helping people grieve. Dana was no exception. We have to develop are coping strategies and this helps me to feel good how to keep her memory. Like her tattoo danas bond with judy is permanent. This is not unusual to me. I see people put ashes in jewelry and Different Things that people put that in two memorialize their loved one. That one was meaningful. Thats neat how they worked degrees. Degrees. Coming up next. The gun debate happening right now at the iowa statehouse. His day starts at four. Fourten, hes running three miles rain or shine. Six oclock, chucks at the office. When in iowa, hes still up early. Working the farm, meeting iowans in all ninetynine counties every year. Dawn to dusk. Chuck works. Welcome back its now wer it is wednesday. Heres a look of cedar rapids and its still dark as we wait for the sun to rise. 62 degrees and 63 in each dubuque and decorah. Corridor voters get chance to see former congresswoman Gabby Giffords tuesday the 14th they pressed bus tour. She and her husband started Political Action after gifford during 2011. She says making the changes that she wants to see will take courage from everyone. Ive seen great courage when my life was on the line. Now is the time to come together. Be responsible. Democrats, republicans, everyone. Local leaders mentioned how gun violence is a growing issue in cedar rapids but it can only is what to focus on it together. The National Debate over gun laws is taking place on the state level. Steffi lee examines the proposals lawmakers hope to address in january. Reporter for almost 30 years the people that come in my shot they are the salt of the earth. Jlm shooter supply has worked with loyal customers guiding them through every step when buying a gun. To him i was current gun laws should be left untouched. Between societies right to know whos caring a Deadly Weapon and not knowing that they are doing it but they are qualified and pass the test and background checks. Missouri lawmakers successfully overwrote the governors constitutional carry veto. Anyone who owns a gun can carry it without a permit. Will try to call push to constitutional carry. Must start with passing gun permit holders throughout the state, a lot of these things weve been trying to pass, weve met with some success in getting bills out of the house but have died in the senate. But state senator matt mccoy says to him supporting Second Amendment rights also means supporting safety. He wants to see iowa create a stronger Mental Health component for background process outlined that would actually require them to go through a whole certification with a medical provider and have a psychiatrist sign off on that. In des moines, steffi lee. Fox 28 news. Medical provider. In des moines steffi lee. The new carry and conceal lot in missouri takes effect in january. Windshield explains he says he plans on contacting missouri 63 dickies and cascades. Still coming up developing information how iowa state president uses the present universitys plane for personal trips. Mother nature says rain this morning followed by some this afternoon. Low to midshipman 70s in the north and upper midshipman 70s in the south. As the sun moves out the sun the average age of a homeless person is 9 years old. Charles whats up man . Whoa how can we help . Ah man wait, is that a basketball player . Yes wow my hearts about to jump out my chest man. Charles you ought to be proud man. Im just extremely grateful they were here giving them some encouragement thats something that these kids are going to remember for a lifetime. Did you see his big old feet . Look. Whether time we will have rain and some this afternoon. It 76 today. Plan on a few scattered showers as you take the little ones to school. Take that raingear because the showers wont be around till eight or 9 00 this morning. Here comes the sunshine by the late morning into the afternoon. Nice and sunny and comfortable. Not as windy as it what it was yesterday. We will see dry weather but clouds start to move and later this evening. Low to midshipman 70s in the 70s in the south. 80s in the far south. We do find mild weather today. Extended forecast has the upper 50s. Friends where in the midshipman 70s tomorrow. Clouds and then theres tomorrow night. 60 with a few raindrops on friday morning. 64 on saturday and sunday sunshine and lower 70s. Taking a look at the top stories this morning. A 26yearold mother pleaded guilty to two charges of child endangerment. This comes after her toddler son be sentenced in november. Jeremiahs father will be going to trial on october thirtyfirst on child endangerment charges as well. Marion city leaders will hold a public reception on friday to introduce four candidates trying to be the citys next police chief. Chief. The onehour reception is scheduled to get underway at 5 30 on friday at the marion public library. Library. Longtime police chief daugherty was a 40year veteran of the department. The Johnson CountyAffordable Housing coalition is re launching as an independent nonprofit organization. The coalition works to increase access to Affordable Housing for those with lowincome. According to the Federal Reserve over the last 36 years, rent has increased 35percent in Johnson County. The average income for renters has declined 13percent. Johnson county renters are paying more than 30percent of their annual income on rent. Over just got a little easier. Easier. Check out this amazing sunscreen spray machine its made out of an old spray tanning booth afer enduring constant sunburns. Kristen mcclellan developed a signature product called snappy screen which applies an even amount of sunscreen through a press of a button. Button. Users just stand in a booth and rotate as various forms of spf cover the skin. The device is even complimentary at certain idea of creating a sunscreen machine through her sister. Sunscreen machine through her sister. Whats good is that someone like me that burns easily and sometimes i cant reach different parts or forget different parts of your body that takes care of the whole process. That is fascinating. The problem is when you go in with close on you abandon all hope of getting it on your clothes. 62 degrees in strawberry point. Coming up after the break the horrifying trend that has right now on cbs 2 this morning. The National Trend right now on cbs 2 this morning the National Trend that if you print sirs brought to you. Tran03. The new way, cedar rapids schools are making sure kids get to class. The display of showing a serious problem on college campuses. Heres a look at i380 everything is running smooth. Thank you for joining us on this wednesday. Lets look at our weather with justin roberts. Time for the umbrellas. You can feel the scattered showers but the good news is they are shortlived. They should not last all day. Most of them are out of here 67 degrees at 10. 74 at two and a high of 76 this afternoon. Theres Doppler Radar and for the most part that rain continuing to slowly roll out of the forecast moving towards the east at 15 to 20 miles an hour. Around cedar rapids is to dry but you dont have to travel too far to find rain around monticello. Dyersville and that berg singled rain. We had to the south around iowa city with light rain. Oelwein. 62 in cedar rapids. 63 in monticello. 59 in charles city. Heres your day planner and as you see it 71 at noon and 76 this afternoon. Full forecast coming up in 10 minutes. Right now communities in eastern iowa have joined a growing list of towns and cities that have reported unusual sightings of people but police are taking it seriously. The sightings have been reported in every part of the country. University of iowa police took multiple reports this week. In cedar rapids someone reported clowns following them down the street. Police tracked down the students in this photo. They told police they thought it would be funny to jessop as clowns. Although a gag in most cases some sightings in other parts of the country have been linked to assaults. As that crazy sightings have continue a professional clown says its not funny. Performs at parties and parades. He is concerned most of those gigs could get canceled. At his shop the costume emporium he says hes wondering if customers dressing up for halloween will avoid the normal popular evil clown masks. Clowns are meant to be happy, funny and bring enjoyment to the opposite of what we are about. Sparkle the clown said he wanted people to dressing up they can take a prank too far and scare people. Many esper thought last nights debate was a toned down version of the fiery president ial president ial debate last week. The two candidat