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one of the big events is fri fest in kwaurlville. this is a big event. you get all kinds of people wearing black and gold. the temperatures should be sensational. -- ens. -- all day long lots of sunshine and low humidity levels and the big game on saturday. and that looks to be pretty darn good. sunny skie around 77 degrees. beautiful weather for the college football season which kicks off this weekend. tonight temperatures around the area are nice and pleasant. most of our readings back in the 70s. we expect a cool night ahead. some lows in the 40s for the first time this season. >> a water law school loo police officer disciplined intern li
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the heels of a string of city settlements with residents nearing $3 million. >> the suspect 's lawyer sent the body came video to the fbi and cbs 2 news. waterloo mri arrested him after a high-speed chase. he had no prior record and charged with four felonious and -- felonies. take a look at the arresting officer' video. adam yanking on his dread locks. yelling at him and in a moment you will see him pushing him into the squad car. officials say keller nearly ran over officer when it mire and
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fired for that behavior. we reached out to attorney bryan williams. >> immediately referred that out for review from an independent body to avoid any conflict of interest. >> reporter: the attorney general office decided not to pursue any charges. waterloo police chief die punished officer wittmeyer after an internal investigation -- but that discipline is confidential under state law. keller stands trial later this month. on the campaign trail right now - donald trump is spending discipline is confidential under state law. >> donald trump is spending time in the battleground state of ohio. >> the nominee spoke to veterans
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clarifying his position on immigration. trump says he still intends to pilled a wall along the next can board bored and that they will pay for it. he says he told trump mexico will not pay for the wall. democratic nominee is taking the day off the campaign trail and will go with joe bind. do you think people in illegally should be deported? let us website. cbs2iowa.com and clicking on the question of the day link. our mission is to connect the presidential candidates to our viewers to better inform and empower you. we've reached out to the candidates to take part in extended introduce. we want to -- to hear from you. tell us what you want know from the candidates. share your thoughts with us. city leaders in cedar rapids
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handle future emergencies such as flood, droughts and nitrate issues. community members met today. in a twist the us army core of engineers created a muld multi hazard tournament. the best ideas will be looked at by the city. >> it helps them to frame if the nuch move thes this here are the possible outcomes and strategies to adapt to that so that we don't carry kwient the consequence. >> a few of these session vns taken place in canada and the u.s.. the course said today's was by far the most technologically advance using state of the art predicting computer models. an iowa city based tech
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reach. details in tonight's cbj report. this is exciting news for people who flif rural areas. >> absolutely. we've got news this week that iowa city start up tell farm has been acquired by cardinal health. you might have seen previously on cbs2 news created in the corridor. creating a web based platform allowing pharmacists to connect remotely. that's help for those who explain it their own pharmacy. they debuted in victor and spread to 12 different state. afternoon early investor told us this week it hinged on an eight figure investment.
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>> yeah. brewheia. they hopened today after a short move down the block. they were in the legion arts building and now down the street at the national which a two story century old building. so they've reopened an owner is also busy. he kay ai quired a czech village building. he said he plans to keep the mentioned there's a possibility he may convert a portion of the building into an area. that's developing. and finally tonight we've got word of one more opening in the corridor. evereve a women's boutique opening in the river court of
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for busy moms. that's exciting. the latest opening for the irl but not the last. we've heard that both a salon and spa and a taco shop are set to open by the start of next year. >> really great news and i love your hawk eye bow tie. >> go hawks. >> thanks. for more in-depth coverage check out the corridor business iowa are among the happiest of the country. the fifth happiest. they're also the only college students in iowa to make the list. right now the school of more than 25,000 students ranks on 13 prince -- princen review lists mp tonight it's all about the iowa hawk eyes here at broadcast
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ohio.our sports crew is teaming up with hawkeye writers marc morhouse and mike hlas from the gazette to preview all the action.that airs tonight at 6-thirty on our sister station fox 28. still ahead on cbs 2 we're learning quaker oats had their hands in the iconic "willy wonka and the chocolate factory."how they played a
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tomorrow on cbs 2 this morning. animals of all kinds can be legislators are spending the day in johnson county learning about agriculture. cbs 2 news reporter joe > some iowa lawmakers are spending the meat lockers and grocery store, agriculture has an environmental and economic impa. impact. state legislators play a big roll in regulating iowa's agricultural industry so they need to understand it. i think it's important especially for people who aren't familiar with agriculture and we have a lot of urban legislators that don't exactly know what's going on on the farm 8several legislators and candidates are gathering in hills to learn how farmers are finding the
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fields and the over use of nutrients. 21;49;10;03 the way that people are farming now finding the balance of productive fields and the other use of nutrients. >> they're using less chemicals than they were ten years ago when this technology was not able. >> known as precision agriculture use information from soil and crop yields to only use chemicals needed based on gps. >> we aren't over applying. so not only is i environment it's better for the farmer. >> this same technology can be utilized by farmers with livestock to safely use their waist for the benefit of crops while keeping it out of the water. >> everybody everyone wants to know how we treat the land and the water that flows through it. it's easy to point a finger and blame if you don't understand the prasz and what we're actually doing out here to make things better. >> they hope more informed legislators can make more
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agriculture day that senator kenny has organized. turns out the university of iowa isn't the only corridor connection to gene wilder. the -- gave the i grab a chance to play. quaker oates paid for the 1971 movie. the film is based on the book charlie and the chocolate fact they changed the title to promote the willy wonka candy. >> there's a charlie in the movie but willy wonka the star obviously. >> classic. i bet you like the candy. >> i'm just fired up for the weekend. holiday weekend. >> hawk eye weekend. >> college football if you're an iowa fan like i am you're really
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the weather looks good and we'll give you the details here. >> we'll take you outside. it's a quiet evening. the temperature is 71 here in cedar rapids. our skies are now sunny and that dew point is back koun there at 57 degrees. that's really fine looking parameters. we'll keep those around until tomorrow. as we take a look at the satellite. it was enough cool air aloft for fair weather cumulus clouds. now those are dissipating and we'll see stars the rest of the night. and another day of sunshine tomorrow. >> you can see in madison it was only 27 degrees. we peaked at 76. a few 80s around western iowa. over all very nice weather conditions throughout the upper midwest and our current temperatures are looking this way and a lot of us are in the range of 07 to 72 degrees and
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thient get back in the 40s for the first time this season. cool conditions expected by early tomorrow morning. >> now we're going to fly you down to the southeast and this is her mean. this storm has really intensified rapidly. you can see the eye now. it's heading north toward the florida panhandle and crossing that area later tonight. all our models indicate it will eventually move back off the center has a good beat on where this is going and this will produce a lot of rain and inclement weather the other eastern united states. it's going to block up the weather pattern and our jet stream will come from the northwest and i will -- will stay that way until this system moves to the east. what you see is what you're going to get weather wise. we'll have ourselves a fantastic weekend of weather around here. fit for a holiday.
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takes us through labor day. tins -- since that storm is to the east it's slowed everything up and the rain will remain well to the west of us until tuesday of next week. >> tomorrow another outstanding day of weather expected. full sunshine around. temperatures back in the mid 70s. a picture-perfect way to start the holiday weekend. temperatures for lows back in the mid and upper 40s across our northern and central counties. mostly clear skies and light winds. tomorrow after our cool start. a delight. ful afternoon. temperatures around 74 to 78. east winds 5 to 10. saturday 78 degrees. 81 on sunday. southerly winds start to come back. and labor day temperatures take off. up to 87 but at least it will be dry and next week it gets back
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storms. >> coming up in sports. cj practicing more than throwing. why they want him to work on sliding. next.
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honest -- the most important player on the field for the
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down is c.j. beathard -- so >> the most important player on the field is vj bather. keep him healthy. last year he was #14u7b% .5 games. to get that number up they're taking extra steps for safety like having him slide for scrambling. they want him to slide feet first every time. >> i was a head first slide ner baseball. that's first. kind of getting a feel to slide feet first is different. >> using better judgment about we'll give up a yard for you not taking a hit. hopefully he'll do that and he assures me he's practiced sliding. he was a good baseball player maybe they worked this weekend on it. he has some of the ugliest
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will be a familiar face. former hawk dan mccarney the honorary captain. spent 36 years coaching football. >> this season garrett heart third leading the football team. the trojans exefrply fie what their head hard work. >> coach brings it at west high. >> all one speed. go, go, go. >> be sharp, fly around have fun. >> with the knowledge of football and wisdom for liar. -- life. >> the only guarantee is if you don't work hard and don't sell out you will fail. >> which is why his message is simple. work hard. >> you want to get anywhere you
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the end result but at the same time you'll be in a better place. >> what he says through life or about life is going to help me through life after football. with the hard work principle saying someone is coming for your spot and you need to work harder. >> when the lock -- clock hits zero that's when the game begins. >> you know there will be rough things that happened in our lives we have to find way to past the obstacles. >> it all comes back to hard work. >> friday nights are great. a fraction of what we do. the most joy i see is when a young man or player through our program gets that he wants through hard work. that's best. >> get down. >> the thing is on the diamond matt called up by the blue jays thursday night and expected to
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pitched and strikeouts. >> iowa state released their and close out the year on the road, at west virginia. we will be right back to take one last
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year this weekend. some new events include a live graffiti >> the arts fest kicks off this weekend. "to enjoy the art and see lots of different artist and enjoy the music and open their eyes." eyes."the event is free. everything starts saturday at five. thanks for watching your cbs 2 news at six. "entertainment tonight" is up next.heads up to all those big brother fans out there - you can catch tonight's episode overnight at
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