After intense pressure from the public and lawmakers, the drug Company Mylan has now caved on the cost of the epipen. Epipen. The life saving shot will now also come in a generic brand. Brand. The cost of emergency shot during an allergic reaction has ballooned in recent years its right now more than 6 hundred dollars. The announcement means a generic version would cost about half as much as the current price. While the Company Works on that, some First Responders say theyve managed to find an even cheaper solution. All our emts to draw their own medications. The cost savings has bled over to our patients, and also to our depar department. Other companies are also looking for new technologies to compete against the epipen shot in the open market. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley is among the lawmakers pushing for the chang. Change. In a statement, senator grassley said quote this sounds like good news but the details are important to know. Grassley says he will continue to work with the food and Drug Administration to find other alternatives. Or refusing to vaccinate their kids. The American Academy of pediatrics says the number of parents refusing vaccines jumped 12percent between 2013 and this year. Year. Pediatricians say that some parents think vaccines are unnecessary. Unnecessary. Cbs 2 news first reported last week that most schools in linn and johnson counties have immunization rates of 90percent. But 19 corridor schools fall short of that number. Soon need to be more morecareful where they light up. A policy that is currently in effect in North Liberty and coralville could soon be added in iowa city. City. Right now ecigarettes are treated the same as regular cigarettes for where they can be used in all three communities. Both North Liberty and coralville also have a rule that smokers need to be at least 25 feet away from a public entrance. County Health Officials are talking with iowa city to add that to the citys ordinance. Doug beardsley, Johnson CountyPublic Health director11 34 00 there are some things in e volatile organic compounds, formaldehyde, heavy metals and the nicotine that can be harmful to health. Health. Beardsley says the department is hoping to make significant progress on this in the next few weeks and months. Some Tobacco Stores in eastern iowa will soon see a major overhaul. Tobacco outlet plus stores are changing into kwik trip express convenience stores. The company says theyre making the change because of shifts in trends. They say not but sales of fresh and prepared foods are soaring. The company will also move all Tobacco Products behind the counter and update their product line to follow a more market feel. Right now linn county authorities are investigating a shooting in palo. The Sheriffs Office tells cbs 2 news deputies were called to palo auto salvage just before five monday afternoon. They say 59yearold david mcvay admitted to shooting 45 yearold melvin roberts. Mcvay told deputies roberts was trespa roberts in the leg during an ar. Argument. No charges have been filed. Roberts was taken the hospital before being taken into custody for an outstanding warrant. Newly released medical records show the gunman in the Baton Rouge Police killings killingsdid . Not suffer post traumaticstress disorder. Last month gavin long killed three officers outside of a convenience store. He previously posted a video calling for violence against officers in response to Police Treatment of african americans. Did diagnose long with an adjustment disorder with depressed mood which means he took stressful events harder than expected. The documents also revealed long never saw combat while he served as a marine in iraq. Nfl quarterback Colin Kapernick is still firing up debate over his controversial decision not to stand during the National Anthem before a 49ers game. Game. The qb criticized Police Officers for what he said is getting paid leave for killing paid leave for killing people. He said he for the star spangled banner while minorities are being mistreated. Now the county police in San Francisco are responding inviting him out to Police Training to get a first hand look at how officers are trained. We would rather have mr. Kaepernick come out and observe what we do and we could learn from him and he could learn from us. Dialogue is a good thing. Are you going to be a person that actually goes out and does something about or are you going to be do nothing about it . It . Kapernick hasnt responded to the department. Wed like to hear your opinion to join the conversation head to our facebook page. A false alarm at lax sunday night happened just minutes minutesafter Police Arrested a man dressed in a zorro costume who had a plastic sword. Sword. Just about five minutes later an apparent loud noise set off a fear that an active gunman was in the airport. Police have not linked the two incidents. A total of five terminals were shut down for about two hours. A similar at new yorks jfk airport two sundays ago. New faa rules are now opening the skies for commericial drone pilots. Pilots. Under old regulations you needed an actual pilots license to fly drones for commercial use like photography, surveying, and field mapping. Pilots now must complete an online course and an faa issued test. The rules dictate where, when, and how pilots can fly their drones. 21;35;17;12 the industry is quite some time now and now that they finally have this set in stone theres just so many possibilities to used drones for commercial use usethe new rules do not impact recreational drone flyers Governor Terry branstad issued an executive order on Higher Education on monday. Monday. He wants 70percent of the states workforce to pursue a college degree. The governor also spoke about meeting republican nominee for President Donald Trump over the weekend. He attacked trumps opponent saying democratic nominee hillary discriminate against corn based ethanol. That would be devastating to the iowa economy with 43 ethanol, cornbased ethanol, plants in our state. Thats why trumps support for not only renewable fuel standard but cornbased ethanol is critically important to jobs in iowa and to the health of the farm economy. The governor added two more iowa counties on a disaster proclamation from flooding week. Governor branstad issued the proclamation yesterday for bremer and chickasaw counties. Both counties were recently hit by strong storms and flash flooding. The proclamation opens up money for clean up efforts. Five other counties in the region already on the list for storms that hit the same day. Right now forecasters are expecting a tropical depression to power powerup to a Tropical Storm today. Warnings have been posted for a good portion of north carolinas outer banks. The storm is still more than 100 mile second depression is closing in of the gulf of mexico near florida. Its still more than 200 miles west of key west but is expected to curve back northeast. Thats causing officials in the tampa area to make preparations. Another gulf city is remembering a devastating storm that killed more than 18 hundred people. 11 years ago this week Hurricane Katrina hit new orleans. The category three storm displaced more than a Million People in the gulf region some are now picking major flooding hit the southern part of the state earlier this month. On monday, city officials held a Prayer Service and laid wreaths at the Hurricane Katrina memorial in honor of the victims. Just as we recount stories of trials and tribulations suffered by our parents and grandparents as they lived their lives in america, our children and grandchildren will proudly tell stories of how we defied the odds, did the impossible, and rose like a phoenix from the ashes. Ashes. Fema has the single most catastrophic Natural Disaster in us history costing an estimated 108 billion dollars. Its and right now in its degrees. Degrees. After the break. The research trying to figure out if its possible to send humans to mars. Mars. In your cbs 2 weather first forecast we have. Introducing longhorns Great American steak dinner for 12. 99. Perfectly seasoned sirloin with your choice of side. Plus an appetizer or a dessert. Only at longhorn steakhouse. Next hoursa now a live look outside courtesy of our weatherfirst skycama a bit of fog in the area this morninga temperatures around the areaa taking a look at regional temperatures we see highs are mild all around iowa the regional satellite radar is keeping conditions quiet lets move ahead in time by taking a look at the midwest surface mapa moving into a closer view with our predictor forecast we see mainly quiet conditions todays forecast features clear skies cooler temperatures tonights conditions the next three days show more dry and cool weather our 7 day forecast does bring more cool weather hope will help reveal details on a future mission to mars. Mars. They studied six People Living like astronauts in a dome on top of a volcano in haw. Hawaii. Errol barnett explains how it studied the effects of a long journey on the human mind. Welcome back to earth track 1 nats crew leaving dome an excited crowd gathered sunday in hawaii to welcome this sixperson crew back to earth, after they spent a year on mars. nats living track 2 or, more simulated living a year on mars. nats track 3 vo dome aerials theyve actually been spending all their time in a solarpowered dome on the side of a volcano in hawaii part of the nasafunded program hi seas. sot kim binsted, hi seas Principal Investigator its really exciting to welcome the crew back to earth track 4 entering dome last august, the group, including an architect, astrobiologist and aerospace engineer, came from across the globe to live in the nearly 1,500 squarefoot dome. track 5 months, they had limited food and water and used a computer with atleast a twenty minute delay to communicate with the outside world. sot im super excited because its the first time we get to be outside without wearing a spacesuit, and everything is different nat track 6 crew in dome its the fourth, and longest, time hiseas has performed this type of mission. Ctm Maris Skype hnc305 framerate 29. 97 a mission to mars is going to be a complex system of systems. track 7 kim binsted is Principle Investigator of the project Ctm Maris Skype hnc305 some of those systems are going to be technological and some of them are going to be human. and its just as bad if the human part of the system fails. As if a rocket blows up. track 8 nats presser, raising hands based on this experiment, the crew is optimistic about travel to mars. They say they would make the trip themselves if they could. sot cyprien verseux, hi seas crewmember i can give you my personal impression, which is that a mission to mars, in the close future, is its now on this morning. Morning. And if youre in its degrees. Degrees. Coming up next. The new expectations for iowa states new football coach before his first game. Game. A doin . Just checking my free credit score at credit karma. What the . . . Youre welcome. I just helped you dodge a bullet. But i was just checking my. Shhh. Dont you know that checking your credit score lowers it just be cool. Actually, checking your credit score with credit karma doesnt affect it at all. Are you sure . Positive. So i guess i can just check my credit score then . Oooh check out credit karma today. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Im patty judge, and we know Chuck Grassley stopped the senate from working, but he also stopped working for iowa. As a farmer and a nurse, i learned iowa works best when we pull together. Used to be you could work with chuck. I did, plenty of times. But hes all politics and partisanship now. And hes turned his back on iowa. I approved this message because washington changed chuck, and its time we change our senator. Welcome back its now were taking a look at your . . . . . . . Your . . . . . . . Heres a look at some of eastern iowas top stories on this morning. A new president for the university of Northern Iowa should be named by the e Cedar Falls Courier reports the Search Committee held its first meeting last night. The 21member board laid out a timeline for the search with a president elect to be announced on december sixth. Today in iowa city pancheros is welcoming back students with a cheap lunch. From two to four at the downtown iowa city location customers can buy a burrito for one dollar. University of iowa students are now in their second week of classes. Controversy surrounding an oil branstad to take unusual measures. The governor says he would authorize the iowa state patrol to protect construction of the bakken oil pipeline. Earlier this month, cbs 2 news told you about one Million Dollars in damage done to one pipeline site in jasper county. Opponents promise to continue to engage in civil disobedience to stop the pipelines construction. Right now nearly a quarter of the work in iowa is already done. We can offically countdown the days until College Football kicks off on one hand at iowa state its the start of a new chapter saturday is Matt Campbells first game with the cyclones and as mia obrien explains theyre ready to turn the page. Theres a renewed confidnece in ames amesi think everyones attitude has really improved and everyones refreshed refreshedits a completely new era. Its an exciting time for cyclone football after eight months of the cutlure takes jack trice for the first time saturday night nightyou really have the ability to create a culture where thats habit rather than circumstance. You just dont luck into winning winningnow culture is a nice word and all but the cyclones have lost nineteen games over the last two seasons so theres Something Else theyre looking to change, too toowe wanna win just as bad as the fans do. Were gonna do everything we possibly can to make the fans happy and get ws obviously were judging ourselves on wins and losses too, thats the most important thing. But if we reach our potential and play the best we can, thats a win toobecause the process takes time and even the cyclones dont fully know what saturday will bring bringknowing what we have, knowing where were at, i dont know if we have any idea. Weve certainly seen some really good things now can we sustain it. Were gonna find out come saturday a little bit more about what we havee. But that only tells a little bit of the story. But this new chapter of cyclone football. In ames, mia obrien, cbs 2 sportsunlike in ames its not a new era in cedar falls mark farleys about to kick off on his 16th season as unis head coach and the expectations havent changed just win. On saturday the panthers will look to avenge last seasons loss at jack trice with an offense thats experienced and a defense that is not but what better place to kick off a season then under the lights . Coach farley cant think one there maybe is more of a spotlight on this game for more of the people surrounding the state and its always fun to play your first game a night game at jack trice is awesome those are the things to look forward to its not just the opponent but thats a great atmosphere a great stadium and a nice setting thats just a cool way to kick off the season. Donw on the farm the kernels clinched a spot in the midwest leauge 8th straight win and a a black bear was caught redhanded trying to steal a bird feeder in new hampshire. Hampshire. The homeowner, the homeowner, jason alexander, shot this video. Wildlife video. Wildlife Officials Say the lack of rain in the area has led to a poor berry cropso for food. Good morning again its now right now its degrees in after the break. The latest Public Feedback about the minimum wage in linn county. County. Youre watching cbs 2 this morning covering the whatcha doin . Just checking my free credit score at credit karma. What the . . . Youre welcome. I just helped you dodge a bullet. But i was just checking my. Shhh. Dont you know that checking your credit score lowers it just be cool. Actually, checking your credit score with credit karma doesnt affect it at all. Are you sure . Positive. So i guess i can just check my credit score then . Oooh check out credit karma today. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Right now on cbs 2 this morning. The next step in linn countys discussion about increasing the minimum wage. The Corridor Group fighting back against harsh political rhetoric against immigrants. The Corridor Program taking a new approach to caring for iowas veterans. Welcome to cbs two this barry. And im kelly dambrosio. Dambrosio. Lets get a check of our cbs 2 right now, the linn county board of supervisors is weighing the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage above the federal level. Level. On monday members of the group living wage linn county presented the board with letters from dozens of low wage workers. They talked about their struggles with making ends meet on the current minimum wage. Wage. Supervisor ben rogers is now pushing a plan that would raise linn countys minimum wage one dollar an hour each of the next three years eventually hitting 1025 an hour. Our hope is that they m