Lets get a check of our cbs 2 today just 11 days before we pick our next president both Major Party Candidates visit cedar rapids it all starts this afternoon when Hillary Clinton holds a rally at newbo city market just after 1 00pm. 1 00pm. Then less than six hours later donald trump will appear just blocks away. He will hold a rally at the mcgrath amphitheatre at seven tonight. This is trumps first event in cedar rapids in nearly three months. Be sure to watch our evening newscasts for Team Coverage of both candidates visits. Cbs 2 news has new numbers right now showing just how tight the race is in iowa. University. It shows Republican Donald Trump and democrat Hillary Clinton in a dead heat in the hawkeye state. Thats a huge swing from the same poll a month ago that showed trump with a seven point advantage in iowa. Republican Vice President ial candidate mike pence is okay this morning but the plane carrying him last night still sits in the same spot it ended up after it skidded off the runwaty at new Yorks Laguardia airport. Authoritites say several the runway slowed the plane down enough and couldve saved lives. Pence told reporters hes fine, and no one on the plane suffered any injuries. That close call happened hours after pence held a Campaign Event in fort dodge. During that rally governor pence slammed Hillary Clinton on the actions she took on Foreign Policy when she was secretary of state. Pence also heavily criticized the recent news about premiums going up under were going to pull it off the market so it stops burning up our wallets. Thousands of iowans are already taking advantage of the states 40day early voting push. Push. Many of those voters in johnson county. County. Auditor Travis Weipert says you should plan on a bit of a wait if you want to vote in high traffic areas like near the university of iowa campus. Theres also an app if you need help figuring out where to cast your ballot. The available for android and iphone for details head to our website cbs 2 iowa dot com. This election the first Many High School seniors can vote in but their also busy planning thier futures and applying for colleges, one local student has something most applicants . Wont have. Cbs 2 news anchor, Kelly Dambrosio introduces us to one young lady whos still experience. Jamie milota is a senior at Kennedy High School and attends iowa big. Her goal of an engineering and physics career got the boost of a lifetime when her picture was tweeted out by the white house im like oh my gosh that is me on the pres. Twitter account but really. Thats just the blast off. Its the 321 thats more impressive jamie was invited to the white house to present to White House Office of science and techonology policy. Policy. Which is the top badge you can get there. Students gave ideas on how to use stem for new scientific frontiers as a part of the president s kids science advisory, advisory, i kinda wanna change the way physics is taught in high school classes. Jamie wants to make sure students who arent strong in math can still enjoy science. It was just more math heavy than it should be and i kinda want to change focus off of math to concepts toothis would mean teachers would do hands interested. right now most traditional physics classes are a lecture than a lab and thats backwards b c you dont read a book from the end to the begining. She presented to 10 other students and the Science Advisory Board including astronaut Twin Brothers mark and scott kelly. Kelly. walking to the white house i was more nervous than i was in it. I was kinda excited once i got to the white house. Then the unexpected happened. Happened. The and im like oh my gosh youre like here jamie thought he was out of town. I was in complete awe honestly i was frozen i didnt know i couldnt do anything but smile i was like oh my gosh youre here right now. And i got to shake his hand too and im like oh my gosh this is the coolest thing ever. The president even took the group to the oval office for a photo opp and thats the white house twitter account. Along with a video and an individual picture of ja jamie i def. Learned one person can actually make a diff. even at that age you can still impact a pretty big amount of people. Kelly dambrosio reporting. For more information on this trip and the iowa big Program Visit cbs 2 iowa dot com. In cedar rapidsstudents at Kennedy High School are drawing attention to homelessness. Cbs 2 News ReporterStephanie Johnson is live outside outsideKennedy High School right now good morning stepha. Stephanie. Hey jeneemore than eighty students spent the night outdoors to raise awareness. Students came here at 8 30 last night and will go home at 6 this morning. Morning. Here are few things you should know about homelessness according to the National Alliance to end hundred thousand people in the us experience homelessness some of factors that contribute to homelessness is povertylack of affordable housingjob loss lack of health caremental illness Substance AbuseDomestic Violence locations for homeless shelters will be posted on our websites will be new overnight Authorities Say 117 Dakota Access pipeline protesters have now been arrested. When operational the pipeline will send oil from that state through 18 iowa counties on its way to il. Illinois. Police moved in on in Morton County north dakota. Authorities say protesters threw molotov cocktails and lit two large fires by the main camp site. Some of those protesters bonded out others who face felony charges remain in jail this morning. A Black Hawk County sheriffs deputy resigned after his arrest earlier this month. Month. On the october 14th Erick Mcferran whos worked as a deputy sinced june of 2015 was taken into custody for choking a woman and yes way. This happened while he was offduty. But Court Records say he was carrying a pistol while he was drunk. A Security Guard in waterloo has now been arrested. The waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports 36yearold Jamodd Sallis agreed to work at a farm as an armed guard despite being a felon which prohibits him from carrying a gun. Hes also charged with impersonating a peace officer. Police also found gold and silver badges in his home weapons permit. New fatherhood and lifelong cubs fandom collide this week for one cedar rapids man. Man. Jordan caviness and his wife kiyla are at st. Lukes expecting their first child sometime in the next few days and after jordan becomes a father hes heading to wrigley field. His wife gave him permission to go to a cubs World Series Game once the baby comes so jordan has tickets to game five of the world series on sunday where chicago could potentially clinch the championship since nineteen oh eight obviously the priority is with the wife and the baby and making sure shes comfortable with it. Obviously, if she wanted me to be staying back, id be staying back but she understands the situation. Situation. Jordan and kiyla already picked a name for their son but arent sharing it with anyone yet and wouldnt reveal if its cubsrelated or not. You can watch game three tonight on our sister station fox 28. First pitch is thirty. Its and right now in its de. Degrees. Still ahead the hate Crime Investigation going on right now involving a local county supervisors race this election season. Season. In your cbs 2 weather first forecast we have. Have. Main weather your planner shows whats ahead for the 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 quie taking a look at the midwest surface mapa moving into a closer view with our predictor forecast we see mainly quiet conditions predictor forecast we see mainly quiet conditions todays fore sometimes, maybe its worth listening to a politician. Take congressman rod blum. 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 its now on this morning. And if youre in its degrees. The new hawkeyes youll be able to see this year in Carver Hawkeye arena. Taking a look at your . . . . . . . Your . . . . . . . Heres a look at some of the other things going on around eastern iowa on this morning. The university of iowa raised more than two million to support a number of ui programs. Heres a live look at the pentacrest this morning. This week the university took part in its first 24hour fundraiser called one day for iowa. A series of challenges on social media and with alumni and recent grads helped raise the funds. Also in iowa city coffee fans now have a new shop to check out in the penisula neighborhood on martin street. It just opened this week. Influenced by Ernest Hemingway and fscott fitzgerald. Two university of iowa grads opened the coffee shop. Its open from 6am to 2 pm every day. And right now theyre hiring. Big grove brewery in solon is gaining some national recognition. Executive chef benjamin smart was recently recognized by culinary magazine plate as one of the 30 chefs to watch in 2016. Smart is the iowa to make the list. Hard to belive that basketball season is right around the corner the iowa men tip off their season in just 15 days and that means theres not a lot of time left to get the young hawks game readyfran mccaffery knows that his 6 freshman have quite the learning curver ahead of them and to get them ready for passionate in their practices thus far. Ive obviously heard from upper classmen that he can get on guys and stuff like that, but the main thing is just taking away from what hes trying to say. It may come in a different tone, but you got to realize what he is trying to say in this big picture. Picture. Everything that we mess up on is a learning experience, so they tell us that, you know . With whatever words they choose to use. Qualifying for the state meet is nothing new for a Sandy Sabelka coached cross denver its a little different and not because of what her teams have done on the course. Sandy sabelka our ed thomas coach of the week. Cross country to Sandy Sabelka is more than a sport this is kind of my life right now and its what keeps me going and it kind of gives me a purpose. Purpose. Shes pretty much like an after School Program that we just go. She takes care of us, she feeds us. But. Be thankful for everything that you can do. Be thankful that you can get up out of bed every morning and be healthy and be positive and take every day as a blessing. And her runners have taken that to heart over the summer, sabelka suddenly lost her husband and thats when the team rallied around their coach raising 3 thousand dollars for team sabelka had to do something. We knew we had to let her know we were there for her. Her. In a time like that i hope that we reminded her that she also has a family in us and our team is right behind her all the way. And then as fate would have it back on the course both the boys and girls teams qualified for state it just made it that much more that we could come and do that well especially in her time of need after the summer she had. Had. This group is always being pretty special because theyve just been amazing. Just like their coach. High School Volleyball springville hosting belle plaine in their regional semifinal. And bp came out firing kenzie mantz gets up to get down the plainsmen were fired up after that but springville is ranked third in 1a for a reason the os set up Samantha Johnson and she hammers it home for the kill and then later its basketball teammates Mikayla Nachazel with menster Nate Sanderson likes the sound of that and springville would like this they advance to the regional finals with a sweep. Country in kosovo and iraq, and ive been a republican all my life. But im the father of three girls. I cant stand hearing donald trump call women pigs, dogs, and bimbos. And i sure dont want my daughters hearing it. I want my girls to grow up onald trumps america is not the country i fought for. So, im voting for Hillary Clinton. Hillary clinton good morning again its now right now its degrees in still to comethe racist posters found on the campus of iowa state and how they might be connected to an investigation in iowa city. City. Youre watching cbs 2 this morning covering the corridor. Hillary clinton this is not an ordinary time, and this is not an ordinary election. I want to send a message to every boy and girl and indeed to the entire world. That america already is great, we are going to lift each other up. I want us to heal our country and bring it together. We have to start getting the economy to work for everyone. Not just those at the top. Making the best Education System from preschool through college. Making it affordable, because thats, i think, the best way for us to get the future that our children and our grandchildren deserve. My vision of america is an america where everyone has a place. This is the america that i know and love. If we set those goals and we go together, theres nothing that america cant do. Im Hillary Clinton right now on cbs 2 this morning. The hate Crime Investigation going on right now involving an election for a local county supervisors which small cities will most likely . Not move forward with an upcoming minimum wage hike in the corridor. Why the leaders of a 41day stand off in oregon are still in custody even though they were found not guilty by a jury. Morning. Im jenee ryan. Ryan. Lets get a check of our cbs 2 at some point today the nations next president president will be in cedar rapids. The city of five seasons is set to play host to both major partys president ial nominees. Nominees. Hillary clinton gets things one oclock at newbo city mar. Market. Then donald trump will hold his own rally just blocks away at the mcgrath amphitheatre. Thats at 7 tonight. Its the first time either candidate will be back in cedar rapids in several months. Be sure to watch our evening newscasts for Team Coverage of both candidates visits. Still developing this morning a hate Crime Investigation going on right now in waterloo. The apparent target is a candidate vying for a spot on the only democrat and the only openly gay candidate. He woke up thursday morning and found his lawn signs vandalized. Most of the damage was just spray painted signs but there was one sign with a homophobic slur were choosing to blur that out and a bible verse painted on his door. That verse says that gay people should be put to death and chris and his boyfriend are considering that as a death threat. People love our record of community for a nubmer of years from Community Gardens to help establish cedar valley. Pridefest. Pridefest. Pridefest. Schwartz says in the past few weeks hes been getting attacked online by a Facebook Group called cedar valley patriots for christ. The leader of that group told the waterloo Cedar Falls Courier he thinks schwartz vandalized his own home. In a Facebook Post the groups says theyll help pay for the damage but that it looks like a hoax. Schwartzs against the valdalism. Its compeltely wrong and i hope those that did it are found and prosecuted. Its a shame that a few ignorant people can drive a wedge betweent he people and what we stand for. For. All the candidates are expected to be together on monday for a forum before the election on november 8th. County Republican Leaders are also speaking out against all of this. This. In a statement, the re county told cbs 2 news quote it is a crime and the Black Hawk County republicans condemn such actions and sincerely hope that the perpetrators are caught and pun punished. Freedom of speech should rule the day not some idiot with a can of spray paint. Lets get back to the issues and lets be civil. Officials at Iowa State University were forced to remove racist posters from about 20 different spots on campus in ames. Ames. The Student Newspaper the iowa state daily reports the signs had messages it is now only 60 percent white. Will you become a minority in your own country . The posters were removed within hours of being noticed. Similar posters were removed from the unive