opportunity to toss any remaining sandbags. wanting a reason. iowa lawmakers want to know what prevented the army corps of engineers from giving money for flood protection. an unusual handout for the homeless. a simple card s in cedar rapids. good wednesday morning! it's 4:30 on october 12th. here's a live look at the city cam. first, meteorologis t kaj o'mara has your first alert forecast, kaj... plan on a much cooler day than yesterday. while some spots are starting

settle back into the 50-55 range for much of the day. while moisture is limited, there will still be a chance of light rain as well, though all areas will stay well below a quarter of an inch. tonight, plan on temperatures to go into the 30s, however, the wind will not calm down entirely, which will prevent a hard freeze. patchy frost is likely, with widespread frost possible over northern sections of the state. temperatures will be in the upper 50s thursday afternoon, with a big rebound in temperature likely for the weekend.today: light rain possible, mainly through early afternoon. slowly falling temperatures. wind: nw 10-20. high: 55 tonight: mostly clear. patchy frost possible late. wind: nw 5-10. low: 35 tomorrow: early patchy frost. sunny. nd: sw 5-10. high: 58 tom. night: clear. wind: se 5-10. low: 41 ck ty, chris. volunteers packed about 250,000 sandbags in cedar rapids during the flood last month. now, the city is reminding people that if they want their sandbags taken away, they need to be ready for pickup this morning -- as soon as

picking them up on the northwest side near ellis park and make their way south. and they'll only make one pass. people should put sandbags in the public curb, on the street on lightly-traveled streets, or on any portion of a driveway. the city says it will take about 3 weeks to pickup the sandbags at a cost of nearly half a million dollars. cedar rapids has taken a first step in building permanent flood protection. the city broke ground on the levee that will protect the newbo district from most flooding yesterday. that levee will stretch from south of the sinclair site

eliminate the need for many of the hesco barriers that helped protect the area from last month's flood. cedar rapids mayor ron corbett says this project is just the start. " it's a great starting point, it's the lowest area of town and when we finish this, we'll move over and protect czech village " the city says the levee will hold back water of a cedar river level of up to 20 feet -- the flooding last month reached 22 feet. it expects it to be completed by the end of next year. but the city is still short the full flood protection plan. the cedar rapids city council is looking at paying millions of dollars for flood protection on the city's west side. the council agreed to ask for bids for moving underground utilities that are near the river in czech village. the city believes the work could cost $4 million dollars, and it would prepare the area for a permanent flood berm. plans call for opening the bids in november. there's no timetable yet on when work would start on building the berm. iowa's two senators want to know why cedar rapids isn't

other cities when it comes to federal money for permanent flood protection. senators chuck grassley and joni ernst have sent a letter to the u.s. army corps of engineers, asking why the city ranks low on a funding list for flood projects. they say the formula the corps uses is flawed because it doesn't give enough consideration to public safety. the senators also argued the city spent about $6 million dollars for only temporary flood protection last month. and that could add up, funding for the cedar rapids flood protection plan, but the corps of engineers has never included that funding in its budget requests. there are a couple of events planned for the newbo district after last month's flood. one is this friday, from 5 to 9. the newbo celebration is at the city market with music, food and drinks. the second event is party on the nobo side, and it goes all day saturday. "nobo" refers to the part of newbo where floodwaters reached -- south of 16th avenue se. tornado's grub and pub organized the event as a way to raise money for the

the temporary levees. a partnership between cedar rapids police and adcraft printing are helping those battling homelessness find food and shelter. kcrg-tv9's samantha myers reports on how a simple card is providing assistance. cards like this one are helping homeless find food, shelter and other services in the cedar rapids area. adcraft printing volunteered to print the cards for free. cedar rapids police officers carry the cards around with them and in the area. adcraft says it initially printed 10,000 cards two months ago, but printed 10,000 more when they ran out. police officers say about half of the people they give the cards to are appreciative. ,' 07:03:37;22 it doesn't help the community so much, it helps the person that we give them to. so it gives them resources for medical care, food and shelter, homeless shelter information, some of those phone numbers that are critical. shower information, some of those things. the basic human needs. '. a director of one of the clinics listed on the cards

to homeless people makes more of an impact than just donating money, she also says the cards will help people find warm shelter as it gets colder. in cedar rapids samantha myer kcrg tv9 news. the iowa state patrol is looking for a man for a stabbing this year at the iowa state fair. the search is for 21-year- old craig hunt on an arrest warrant for attempted murder. the patrol believes he's in the des moines area to be armed and dangerous. the state patrol says hunt stabbed another man twice at the iowa state fairgrounds on august 21st. since then the victim has recovered. after interviewing witnesses, the patrol identified hunt as the suspect in the stabbing. authorities are also investigating him for several shootings in the area. a waterloo girl is going to be okay after an s-u-v hit her outside a school on the city's east side. waterloo police say it happened on idaho street across

p-m yesterday. first responders did take her to the hospital, her injuries are non-life threatening. after last month's flood pushed the date back, the walk to end alzheimer's is back on. more than 1,000 walkers will meet at the mcgrath amphitheater this weekend to raise money and let more people know about for alzheimer's research. that's where we find kcrg tv-nine's brea love. brea, this progressive disease hits a lot of people? chris, the disease is the 6th leading cause of mostly in seniors. with iowa's aging population, many people right here a experiencing the devastating side effects. some are doing anything they can to help. it's a special day for many.. walkers don their purple to help the more than five million facing alzheimer's disease. cousins teresa dusil and karen sweet know it well. they've both seen it in parents, uncles, and others close to them. "9:50it's just sad to see that people don't know you anymore." dusil says watching the

reason to raise awareness. "7:36it's such a common disease, but when people find out they have it. they want to hide it and if people want to hide it, there's not going to be any research and the awareness isn't there." sweet's father was facing alzheimer's in 20-11. which gave her the idea to start team deerborne. ever sinceher family meets in her father's honor and in support of caregivers like her mother. "12:18dad never got to the point where he couldn't remember any of us, but he had gone through it with his older brother don, our uncle." "12:37he died of other causes, but for that we're almost blessed because we didn't lose him completely in his memory." the walk is now a staple for their family left mcgrath ampitheater virtually underwater. that forced the alzheimer's assocaition of east central iowa to postpone, but never cancel. "19:16people have family reunions, and get their team together. there really was never going to be a time when we would just cancel it all together. we knew we would postpone it, we knew we wanted to have it. we would have this opportunity for people to come together." that's for families like team deerborn e, which will walk for the 6th time saturday. the walk kicks off right here

to sign the walk kicks off right here at 10 am on saturday. there's still time to sign up, you can find out how to do that on kcrg dot com. also coming up later this morning we will talk with the alzehimer's association more about what we need to know saturday morni brea love, kcrg-tv nine news. a baby left at a des moines clinic 2 years ago under the state's safe haven law is now living a full, healthy life in wyoming. britany and eric gormley adopted baby beckett in december 2014. he was dropped off at this clinic on east 14th street in des moines in october 2014 with a note. iowa's safe haven law allows parents of a baby up to 2

a medical facility without facing criminal prosecution. britany says she's grateful for safe haven laws and for the opportunity to adopt her children. "35:51 i couldn't love these guys any more if i had them the regular way. i just think theres a lot of babies out there, a lot of kids who need good homes. " the department of human services says beckett is one of 25 safe haven cases in iowa since the law went into effect in 2002. okay, cubs fans... your angst can subside... for a last night in san francisco, the cubs needed to reach 5 runs by the 9th inning again... and they got to 6. highlights from another thriller... are ahead. but right now, here's a look at

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yesterday. while some spots are starting off in the 60s, it won't last, and readings will settle back into the while moisture is limited, there will still be a chance of light rain as well, though all areas will stay well below a quarter of an inch. tonight, plan on temperatures to go into the 30s, however, the wind will not calm down entirely, which will prevent a hard freeze. patchy frost is likely, with widespread frost possible over northern

in the upper 50s thursday afternoon, with a big rebound in temperature likely for the weekend.today: light rain possible, mainly through early afternoon. slowly falling temperatures. wind: nw 10-20. high: 55 tonight: mostly clear. patchy frost possible late. wind: nw 5-10. low: 35 tomorrow: early patchy frost. high: 58 tom. night: clear. wind: se 5-10. low: 41 thanks kaj. plan on a much cooler day than yesterday. while some spots are starting off in the 60s, it won't last, and readings will settle back into the 50-55 range for much of the day. while moisture is limited, there will still be a chance of light rain as well, though all areas will stay well below a quarter of an inch. tonight, plan on temperatures to go into the 30s, however, the

prevent a hard freeze. patchy frost is likely, with widespread frost possible over northern sections of the state. temperatures will be in the upper 50s thursday afternoon, with a big rebound in temperature likely for the weekend.today: light rain possible, mainly through early afternoon. slowly falling temperatures. wind: nw 10-20. high: 55 tonight: mostly clear. patchy frost possible late. wind: nw 5-10. low: 35 tomorrow: early patchy frost. sunny. wind: sw 5-10. high: 58 tom. night: clear. wind: se 5-10. low: 41 thanks kaj.

sense of doom following them -- win" for chicago -- one win would get the cubs into the national league championship series. but a loss... would force game 5 in chicago... and all that angst... we scroll ahead to the top of the 9th. 5-2 giants... this isn't good for the cubs. but... two on for ben zobrist -- and, cubs fans, this is why my royals traded away their future to rent ben zobrist for three months last year when they won it all... zobrist comes through. a double to right. kris bryant scores. 5-3. the collar getting a little tight for san francisco. new pitcher. new

eyes to center. anthony rizzo scores. ben zobrist scores. tied at 5. then, an error by the giants shortstop new pitcher. new troubles. javier baez singles to center. jason heyward scores. 6-5 cubs. in the bottom of the 9th, aroldis chapman strikes out the side. cubs win... cubs win... they're off to the nlcs against either washington or los angeles. samsung is now sending users galaxy note sevens, which can overheat and catch fire. how users can pick up their explosion- proof boxes, in today's tech bytes. stay with

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weeks before election day. a-b-c's angelica spanos joins us with the latest. donald trump bringing the heat. sot donald trump / presidential nominee vote2016tuepkg6 :23 "i wouldnt want to be in a fox hall with a lot of these people. especially ryan, including ryan."' trump taking aim at house speaker paul ryan. he tweeted "the shackles have been taken off me and now i can fight for the american people the way i want to. this,,, after campaign for trump, after the release of that vulgar 2005 video came out. ryans office says he is focusing the next month on defeating democrats, sot trump trumprallypanamacityfl :53 "today we learned amazingly that the department of justice fed information to the clinton campaign about the email investigation so that the campaign could be prepared to cover up her crimes. what is going on?" trump on the trail in florida, reacting to the lastest leaked clinton campaign emails from wikileaks. clinton campaign chairman john podesta calling the leak an

sot john podesta/ clinton camp chairman "russian interference in this election nat florida rally hillary clinton on stage with al gore. in florida talking climate change sot- hillary clinton / presidential nominee:18 usflclinton "i'm running against a guy who denies science, denies climate change, says it's a hoax created by the chinese." and the importance of voting? wash 7 hillary clinton miami fl rally pool c16 101116 your vote really, really really counts. weather with meteorologist kaj o'mara.

off in the 60s, it won't last, and readings will settle back into the 50-55 range for much of the day. while moisture is limited, there will still be a chance of light rain as well, though all areas will stay well below a quarter of an inch. tonight, plan on temperatures to go into the 30s, however, the wind will not calm down entirely, which will prevent a hard freeze. patchy frost is likely, with widespread frost possible over northern

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from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrg-tv9 news early morning news. encouraging early voting. former president bill clinton is campaigning for hillary clinton today and tomorrow in iowa. the road to the future. the iowa d-o-t says someday it could test out driver- less cars on i-380 between cedar rapids and iowa city. canceled because of flooding, the walk to end alzheimers is back on. good wednesday morning! it's 5 o'clock on october 12th. here's a live look at the city cam. first, meteorologis t kaj o'mara has your first