Cedar Rapids Police are cedar rapids cedar Rapids Police are starting to police are cedar cedar rapids cedar Rapids Police are starting to worry about an increase in crime that could lead to guns ending up in the wrong hands. Hands. This year there have been 18 firearms stolen from cars many left unlocked. Two of the weapons ak 47s. Police chief wayne jerman says between 2014 and 2015 and with the year not yet over we are quickly approaching that number now. It certainly goes against responsible gun ownership that we are trying to advocate for. Again, a firearm is a lethal weapon, its by no means similar to a laptop computer or cell phone or other items that are frequently stolen police ask you to always lock your doors and never leave valuables in the car. Also as cold temperatures approach even though its nice to already have the car warmed up police say if youre not careful someone else could be driving off in it. A vinton woman will spend nearly four years behind bars for forher role in the accidental killing of a 14yearold girl. Girl. Robyn merchant pleaded guilty to providing a firearm to a prohibited person. Authorities tell cbs 2 news she gave a teen a rifle knowing he was using marijuana. Marijuana. In february 2015, a friend of that teen was handling the rifle when it went off. It struck 14yearold emma redlinger, who later died. Three people have now been arrested for breaking into a home in the corridor assaulting someone and threatening to hurt a child. The Iowa City Press citizen reports that the three suspects broke into a home in North Liberty on the 100 block of sugar creek lane. Some property was damaged dumpster. Shaneice snipe victor curry and lorenzo seals are all now facing charges of felony burglary. All could face up to ten years in prison. Now a lawsuit over the hire of university of iowa president Bruce Harreld can move forward. Forward. As cbs 2 news first reported in june a retired administrator claims the process violated open meetings laws because four members met privately with harreld in july. Regents dispute that saying it does not fall under records rules because a majority of the board did not take part in the meetings. Its unclear when the case will go to trial. Right now researchers at the university of iowa are looking for a way to stop cancer. Cbs 2 News Reporter joe huisinga takes us inside a oneofakind lab where unique resources are leading to new discoveries. Discoveries. There is a valuable resource tucked away in a Biology Building at the university of iowa. Dr. Soll15;01;32;10 theres a quarter of 1 cells are used to supply more than 70 thousand researchers around the world. Scientists at the university of iowa are using them to break new ground in cancer researchdeb 1519;43;27 we are uniquely positioned to do it tomorrow because we have the monoclonal antibodys collection that resource. 10 more than 4 thousand different proteins paired with a one of a kind Computer Program are letting them watch tumors growdr. Soll three dimensional dynamic model and then test all of our antibodies to see if we can find a new drug because the drugs for cancer stink. 10dr. Stolls wife fell victim to brain cancer 6 years ago. Dr. Soll14;57;26;26 it made me say take your last breath you have and you were last energy and do something about cancer 7 they are using their vast collection of antibodies to fight itdr. Soll14;55;17;03 if everything goes according to hoyle will have single bullet a single drug which can it can make it easier to treat and the progress is gooddr. Soll14 44;29;15 we already found two targets so its not gonna be hard and they work both on Breast Cancer and they work on melanomas 8 you may have been affected by a cyber attack that brought down several bigname websites last week. A group called new world hackers brought major websites like twitter netflix and paypal to a standstill. Overwhelming the servers with junk data coming from tens of millions of internet connected devices. The good news we know what caused it. But the bad news the hackers sold their weapon. Experts say that means it could happen again and it could be worse next time. A week from tomorrow a Cyber SecurityPower Breakfast will be held at the cedar rapids marriott. Its designed to help local businesses arm themselves against those cyber you buy them today or tomorrow 55 dollars come thursday. For information on how to attend head to our website cbs 2 iowa dot com. Right now linn and Johnson County are taking steps to raise the pay of the lowest wage workers in the area. Area. Now governor branstad wants to address the issue on a state level. He told cbs 2 news hes not happy with the mix of cities and counties with different wage levels than the rest of the state. I hell start work with both parties at the statehouse on the issue. Obviously we want to improve the income for people that are at minimum wage jobs and want to do it in a way thats not going to drive small busineses out of business or also destroy jobs. Jobs. Later the governors twitter account clarified his wage hike. Republicans at the statehouse blocked proposed increases now for several years. In just two months now linn and Johnson County workers who do get paid minimum wage will get a raise. For Johnson County it will be the third of three planned be the third of three planned wage hikes. Employees will make 1010 an ho. Hour. For linn county employees it will be the first of three increases. The new minimum wage in january will will then increase each of the following two years at the start of the year. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton are both holding rallies today in the Battle Ground state of florida. Florida. Trump has been campaigning in the Sunshine State for the past three days where he continues to call polls that show him behind flawed. He says theyre meant to suppress his support on election day. A new National Poll from cnn shows trump trailing by five points among likely voters. Meanwhile friday but before that she campaigns with the first lady in North Carolina on thursday. As the president ial campaigns start to make their closing arguements to voters theyre also trying to help their parties take control of congress. In 2014 democrats lost their majority in the senate and one of the biggest tasks for the party is to try and take it back. Back. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley is on the other side of that fight after he Judiciary Committee when republicans took over. He says all this talk about democrats taking the white house and senate is premature. 24 republicans up, only 10 democrat seats up so weve been working real hard for a year but were going to maintain control of the United States senate maybe by a tighter margin. Margin. Coming up this week on iowa in focus we sit down with one of the democrats fighting hard in the other one more democrat from iowa in washington dc. Catch it sunday morning at 10 30 on cbs 2. There will be more early voting locations open this week to accomodate those who want to cast their ballot on november 8th. In Johnson County for the rest of the week votes can be cast at the imu from nine to three and also at the university of iowa hospitals and clinics from ten to four. Election day is two weeks from today. Right now theres a new effort underway to get more iowans to attend college or get additional training after earning a high school dip. Diploma. The goal of the Ready Iowa Alliance is to get 70 percent of all iowans advanced training or College Degrees in less than 10 years. Officials say this is critical to ensure iowans have better career opportunities. Iowa Workforce Development director Beth Townsend says this will help reduce achievement gaps among iowans from all walks of life will have the opportunity to be involved in this Exciting Initiative dozens of iowans apply to the alliance and we welcome the diversity, experiences and perspective and opinions the alliance will meet for the first time later this week. They hope to release a Strategic Plan by this time next year. The state of iowa received nearly twoMillion Dollars for apprenticeship programs. The money is coming from a Us Labor Department gran the grant will give 50 Million Dollars across the us to 36 states. Projects will expand apprenticeships with an emphasis on women minorities and other underrepresented groups. Its and right now in its de. Degrees. Still to come its gutcheck time for the uni panthers. The big matchup theyre preparing for this its now on this morning. On its now on this morning. On this its now its now its now on this morning. And if youre in its and if youre in morning. On this its now its now on this this its now its now on this morning. And if youre in its now its now on this morning. And if youre in its degrees. Degrees. Up next in sports up iowa cornerback desmond king is in contention for . Again. 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. Heres a look at some of the sorry about that. Other things going on around eastern iowa on this tuesday morning. An eastern iowa babysitter faces child endangerment and . Theft charges this morning. Police accuse 18yearold Breanna Henry of stealing walmart merchandise then . Abandoning the child she was babysitting to run away. The waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports henry was caught a few blocks away hiding in the weeds of a retention pond. Henry told police she thought the girl would be able to tell police where she lived. This weekend the Linn County Sheriffs Office wants you to help clean county streets of drugs. On saturday the county will host a drug take back. You can drop off prescription or non prescription the Sheriffs OfficePalo Community center and central city city hall. The goal to stop people from getting their hands on drugs not prescribed to them. Each year hundreds of pounds of drugs are collected. For the first time youll now be able to see inside the field of dreams home. Owners of the land are starting to hold tours of the house that overlooks the iconic baseball field. It will cost 20dollars children. Owners say about 100thousand people visit the site each year. The state volleyball the state volleyball tournament starts in just two weeks and thirdranked springville hopes to be there but first they have to get through regionals. The orioles hosted cedar valley christian in the regional quarters tonight. They won the first set and in the second set the fun continued too tall up front Rylee Menster is their for the block and the springville point. Later in the set a little oriole offense they tee it up for Alyssa Jaeger and the junior spikes it with authority os up big. Then of the net but the result is the same a spike a point. And a springville win, 3 sets to zero. For uni its the game of the year every year north dakota state is a true fcs dynasty and theyre coming to cedar falls on saturday. These two teams played twice last year the panthers played em close but the bison won both times on their way to winning a fifth Consecutive National championship the last time these two met up in cedar falls was in 2014 and uni pulled the upset in that one mark farleys team needs a win to keep pushing towards the be almost perfect to take down the bison. Top to bottom theyre a really Good Football Team when you get that confidence you can do some things theyre in the game until the end they believe they can win so its gonna be a battle until the last play anytime you play a team like thisits been the same story in iowa states last three Football Games they were close even leading at times against baylor, oklahoma state, and texas but in all three contests they came up short. So over the bye week it was back to the drawing board for Matt Campbell and the cyclones the schedule breaks nicely if iowa state can finish drives and games they might be able to turn this season around. Just be able to capitalize on drives if we get the ball on the plus side of the 50 weve got to score no matter what the case is and be able to withstand long drives and keep the defense off the field field weve talked about the process that it takes to be successful and those are things that we have to master before things can happen i think weve made really good growth in how weve approached things and how our kids played and we have to continue thatit was a good day for desmond king the iowa senior was named as one of 16 semifinalists for the thorpe award which goes to the best defensive back in College Football and a quarterfinalis t for the lott impact trophy so far this season king has 26 tackles and an interception returned for a touchdown. In womens hoops news iowa senior ally disterhoft was ten team on monday disterhoft averaged 17 points and fiveandahalf rebounds per game last year and she enters her final season 11th on the hawkeyes career sometimes, maybe its worth listening to a politician. Take congressman rod blum. On social security, blum doesnt just back the Republican Special interest agenda hes campaigning on it. For years, hes pressed to privatize social security, risking seniors guaranteed benefits on the stock market. And blum supported benefit cuts by voting to raise social securitys retirement age. So if you care about a secure retirement, listen to rod blum hes putting your security at risk. House majority pac is responsible this next video i could not this next video this next video this next video i could not turn away but before i show it to you know that no one was hurt. A driver had a lucky escape in switzerland last week when his car rolled away from where he was on the shoulder of the highway. Police shared the video on facebook and it pulled over to talk to a friend racing after the car once it started moving away. The video shows the car rolling across both lanes and hitting the central barrier before changing directions and eventually crashing into a signpost. The police say it was completely crazy that despite the amount of people who witnessed it no one reported it to police. Good morning again its now right now its degrees in coming up next the details on two companies that are facing penalties for trying to trick iowans on medicare. Medicare. Youre watching cbs 2 this morning covering the right now on cbs 2 this morning. The manhunt going on right now over several states across the country. The chances Domestic Violence penalties could get tougher legislative session. Plus its the night many baseball fans here in eastern iowa have been dreaming of for several decades. Welcome to cbs two this morning. Im jenee ryan. Lets get a check of our cbs 2 weather right now officials across the great plains across the right now right now officials across the officials right now right now officials across the great plains across the officials right now right now officials across the great plains are searching for this man 38yearold michael vance. Recently released from an Oklahoma Jail he is suspected of shooting and killing his aunt and uncle and injuring four others including Police Officers while on the run. Authorities put out a wanted flyer describing vance but it also contains a disturbing sentence. He has quote a condition was not specified but an oklahoma sheriffs Public Information officer says its a Communicable Disease that can be transmitted by blood. Vance is believed to be carrying an a k47 and driving a silver 2007 mitsubishi eclipse. New this morning two young boys are recovering in the hospital after their father jumped off a new jersey bridge with them in his arms. The father kids are expected to survive. Police say they couldve fallen anywhere from 20 to 50 feet into a wooded area. A student getting off a Springville School bus buswas taken to the hospital after a car slammed into the back of the stopped bus. It happened around four yesterday afternoon near stone road along highway 151. The Linn County Sheriffs Office tells cbs 2 news the student was treated for minor injuries. The driver of the car was also new details this morning on a deadly bus crash that killed more than a dozen people over the weekend in california. The tour bus was traveling around 65 Miles Per Hour when it slammed into a semi truck going just 5Miles Per Hour. The truck was driving through utility work at the time thats why Officials Say it was going so slow. Most passengers in the bu