brezy but very warm as temperatures hit the 70s once again across most of eastern iowa. right now at a cool 48 degrees. radar you can see there's no rain anywhere despite the fact we're still looking at clouds in the east. but even there, those will be thinning out quickly so tomorrow we'll begin the day with mostly sunny conditions and with south winds blowing up to 25 or 30 temperatures will be in the mid-70s tomorrow afternoon and weekend forecast will be coming up in just a couple minutes. right now vandalism found at the home at the home of a black hawk county supervisor. kevin barry has been tracking the story all day. he has the latest now from the democrat -- and only openly gay person running for black hawk county supervisor.he says so far -- the race involving

based.this morning -- he found this outside his home.a handful of yard signs were spray-painted -- some with homophobic slurs that we can't fully show on tv. "its very hurtful to people you see all the lgbtq suicides around the country. allt he depression that happens. i talk to teens in our community who deal with these things on a daily things on a daily basis. >> reporter: he says in the past few weeks he's again getting attacked online by a facebook group they've been speaking out against his support. today though the leader of the group told the waterloo cedar false cure your he thinks swarts could have vandalized for the damage -- but that it seems like a move out of the

opponents are speaking out against the valdalism. "i was appaled. i was in complete shock that somebody would do that. it's insane. i can't believe how bad this election cycle has gotten with the messages everywherefirst reaction is who's stupid enough, and vicious enough and hateful enough to do it?." it?."the latest news now is that the waterloo police department has opened up hate crime investigation into this incident.kevin barry -- cbs 2 news. early voting is happening right now across the corridor. statewide - early voting for democrats is down from 20-12 but republicans are generating more ballot requests from the last presidential election. election.cbs 2 news reporter mellaney moore joins us live from one place residents are doing that to

the johnson county the johnson county auditor tells me he is expecting 23,000 completed ballots to be here by the end of today.he says they are trying to make this process as this process as quicks and as easy as possible and there are things you can do to help too. >> reporter: by the time it's november #, thousands of johnson county residents will have already shared their voice. >> it was easy. it's fairly busy. had to wait for someone to be available but not very long. and they explained the process really well and then voted and now its done. >> it took me 3 minutes to do it. >> reporter: that's what the johnson county auditor wants to hear. >> we're averaging probably now over 600 a day at the office and that doesn't include we have satellites open right now. >> reporter: he says if you're voting early where there maybe a lot of university students

few extra minutes. they're likely making address changes. if you're not registered you can print off the form and having everything ready to go. >> our big rush is people going to work, lunch hour and when everybody gets off work. if go at one of the off times you should not have to experience too much of a line. if i post a selfie on facebook or instagram that i voted, then hopefully it will encourage other people to vote too. weipert says staff here are more than happy to answer any questions.we also have resources on our website, cbs 2 iowa dot com.covering the corridor in iowa city, mellaney moore, cbs 2 news. just 12-days from election day - iowa remains a toss-up when it comes to the race for the white house.the latest quinippiac university of iowa voters has donald trump and iowa voters has donald trump and hillary clinton tied at

pole a month ago which showed trump with a 7 point lead here. because of the tight race vote tickets are spending a lot of time trying to win over undecided voters. republican vice presidential candidate mike pence made a stop in fort dodge today. >> it's putting a hardship on small businesses. >> that's exactly what we're going to do with obama care it stops burning up our wallet. both will be in cedar rapids on friday. donald trump will hold a rally at 7:00 p.m. and hillary clinton will speak friday afternoon at 1:15. to rsv p for either event head to cbs2 iowa.com. for more political headlines be sure to watch iowa info cuss with host kevin barry.

mornings right here at 10:30 tonight cbs2 news is hosting a your voice your future vote 2016 round table discussion. you can catch it on fox28 starting at 10:00. it will also be streamed on cbs2 iowa.com. hosted by national moderate operator mark hineman the panel includes republican party iowa chairman, iowa democratic party there appears opposition to linn county's minimum wage increase. increase.corridor business journal editor adam moore explains in tonight's c-b-j report. the ely city council has opted out of linn county's new minimum wage ordinance, and it now looks like some other towns are ready to follow suit. the board of supervisors in september passed an ordinance raising the county's minimum

ability to opt out of that increase, however, and robins has already approved one vote out of three needed to do so. the town of alburnett is also said to be considering a measure.cedar rapids, hiawatha and marion have not taken any action regarding the hikes, and are expected to move forward with raises starting expecting to still move forward with those when they kick in this january. adam one of the fastest growing companies in the country is adding more >> reporter: yeah that's right we got word that local firm tom las already car del and associates is expanding into ottumwa next year. the company plans to open 150 call center in ottumwa by next february. that will bring iowa employment numbers to 880 people excuse me to more than a thousand from 880 people. as you mention skol, tlc

growing companies in the country. it's one of the largest companies in the call center industry and currently has five call centers in the state. finally tonight we got word that the newest tenant in downtown tenant opened its doors this week a local insurance agency opened this week on the 7th floor of the building. they're joined in csr t international and we're told about 30 employees came over looking ahead a little bit. anchor tenant bankers trust is being to open in the center november 14th but the bank is going to occupy the top two floors of the building and also operate a brafrm on the ground level. for more in-depth coverage of these stories and more, be sure to check out monday's edition of the corridor business journal. new fatherhood and lifelong cubs fandom are colliding this week for one cedar rapids man.

downtown cedar rapids. rapids.and it couldn't be better timing for him, mitch... jordan caviness and his wife kiyla are here at st. luke's expecting their first child sometime tonight or early tomorrow morning...and after jordan becomes a dad...he's heading to wrigley... wrigley...his wife gave weekend. here's the deal he's been trying to get to a playoff game at some point and made adele with his wife if the baby is here is the cubs are still in the world series can i go? best wife ever she said yes. he got tickets for sunday where if things play out he becomes a father and the end of a 108- year drive. >> the priority is with the wife and baby and making sure

obviously if she wanted me to stay back i would stay back she understands the situation. >> reporter: and they're going to be having a little boy. they have a name picked out but they aren't telling anybody. i did ask, is it cubs related in any way, jordan wouldn't answer that so we just got to way for the little guy to show up. covering the corridor in cedar rapids cbs2 news. still to come at 6. the other worldly that to eastern iowa. >> reporter: the skies are clearing in eastern iowa that sets up for sunshine tomorrow and substantially warmer temperatures. we have an amazing weekend forecast all the numbers for

tomorrow on cbs 2 this morning - some technology in the kitchen - hasn't changed in decades - but now - that's all changing with more smart appliances hitting the market. with halloween just a few days away some scientists at the university of iowa are listening to some spooky sounds. with halloween just a few days away scientist spooky sounds. joe huisinga jones us with a listen. >> sound is a powerful thing. it can help us understand the world we live in. right now the researchers at the university of iowa are studying sounds that are certainly strange and even worldly. scientists are trying to capture more and figure out what it means. as they work on that we sat down with kids who have their

chorus. >> it sounds like ghosts and like monsters are coming. >> it would be like screams. >> screams? it would be like an alien or something. >> reporter: coming up on the fox28 news at 9 and 10 at 10 a special report resglefrners explain what they know, where the sounds are coming from and what it means for us. joe huisinga cbs2 news. from meteorologist terry swails jones us now. are you don't hear anything like that. >> reporter: notless the radar is broken (laughing). >> yeah bad day maybe but you know bottom line is our radar is nice and quiet in here and that's the way we like it. but great weekend of weather coming up you guys. you can see now the skies cleared out around here. that will set us up for sunshine foam and a lot warmer temperatures than what we had today.

degrees here in cedar rapids now back to 48 and winds are in out of the southeast at 5 miles per hour. as we go through the night those will turn southerly. and tomorrow south westerly winds. the temperatures refrequent where the clouds are still found from charles city to waterloo. just northeast of there is where the clouds are found and that's where read gsz are in the low 40s. no sun to so it's definitely clearing and that's going to make for much better day tomorrow. even though we have clouds over northeastern iowa and up through wisconsin and illinois, our radars are not detecting any precipitation and nice and quiet tonight just the way we like it. let's go to the satellite, you can see the last of the clouds trying to work their way out of eastern iowa. here in the scombern central

sunshine and temperatures, 10 to as much as 20 degrees warmer than what we saw today. here is the high pressure tonight. settle the right over eastern iowa as we go through the night it will continue to move off to the east and a warm front develops. there is a chance there could be patchy areas of fog. i don't think it's going to be overly dense. the main feature are southerly winds that will blow tomorrow and they will get a little gusty in the afternoon. winds from the southwest and dry air and all kinds of our temperatures will warm up quick and by tomorrow afternoon, we are up into the 70s around many parts of eastern iowa and it looks like the warmth will continue to saturday. there will be a front that comes through during the late afternoon or evening hours. it will keep things a little cooler up north still from cedar rapids and dubuque down to tama there southwest temperatures will be well into the 70s and friday night football tomorrow night. the first round of playoffs

69 degrees at kick off with gusty south westerly winds. lows will be hold somewhere around 43 to 47 degrees. maybe patchy fog. tomorrow should be mostly sunny conditions in the afternoon and while it may hold in the upper 60s in the northeast the rest of us will enjoy temperatures into the 70s and your extended forecast has us nice and warm on saturday and a little dip to sunday and halloween day, check this out t expected to go all the way up to 75 degrees. for the trick or treaters that evening, creepy clear conditions and eerily mild conditions. temper 66 degrees. coming up in sports, passionate practices, how iowa's freshman are learning on the fly as their season approaches that's next on cbs2.

. the u.s. military will accelerate it's plan to drive out isis from syria. this because of evidence the terror group and planning attacks against the west. >> external plot we don't know exactly where or when. we're going to try to head it off. >> reporter: american military planners say the fight will take mras even as the battle mosul in iraq is ongoing. the you know's public health agency says it trained 90 casualty management. part of the mosul offensive and training has special focus on responding to chemical attacks. the you know is worried they may use chemical weapons on those fleeing mosul. 200,000 will require some type of emergency health service. and a man was shot dead outside the u.s. embassy in en ya. he tried to attack a police officer station dz outside the

the incident.

sometimes, maybe it's worth listening to a politician. take congressman rod blum. on social security, blum doesn't just back the republican special interest agenda-- he's campaigning on it. for years, he's pressed to privatize social security, risking seniors' guaranteed benefits on the stock market. and blum supported benefit cuts by voting to raise social security's retirement age.

listen to rod blum: he's putting your security at risk. house majority pac is responsible for the content of this message. hard to belive that basketball season is now cbs2 sports with zach hanley. >> reporter: hard to believe the basketball season is right around the corner. just 15 days there's not a lot of time to get the young hawks game ready. six freshman have quite the learning curve ahead of them and get them ready they will be

fran has been pretty passionate in their practices thus far. >> obviously i've heard from upper class men he can get to guys but the main thing is taking away from what he's trying to say. it may come in a different tony but what he's realize what he's trying to say. >> everything we learn it's in whatever words they usually use. >> reporter: it's bye week for the iowa football team. don't forget to tune in breaking down iowa's game against wisconsin. the show starts at 6:30 on our sister station fox28. >> reporter: qualifying for a state meet is nothing new for cross country team. this year at denver it's a little different not because of what the team done on the course. course. >> all right you ready?

is more than a sport. >> this is my life right now and it's what keeps me going and gives me a purpose every day. >> she's an after school program that we go. she takes care of us and feeds us. >> reporter: more importantly she taught us to be thankful. >> be thankful for everything day as a blessing."and her runners have taken that to heart -- -- over the summer, sabelka suddenly lost team -- rallied around their coach raising 3 thousand dollars for team sabelka "once we all heard we knew we 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

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 going to go down in my book as being pretty special because they've just been amazing... just like their coach... we will be right back to take one last look at your weather

it's heartbreaking, but true. as a millionaire c.e.o., rod blum laid off over 70 employees, but he took millions in stock and bonuses. it gets worse. in washington, blum supported special tax breaks for corporations shipping jobs overseas and millionaires like himself. common sense. it's about investing in jobs and our economy. it's about investing right here at home.

we have a much better day planned for you tomorrow.

fog early in the day but after that, the temperatures are going to rise quickly. already up to 69 at none and go for a high of 76 with mostly sunny skies. hard to work. that's it is way to start the weekend right there. fantastic. thank you for watching cbs2

i'm really good at war. i love war in a certain way. ahh i don't know what i said, ahh i don't remember! i moved on her like a [expletive] and congressman rod blum said. send me back to congress, and you send donald trump to the white house. rod blum still supports trump today. and even attacked republicans who spoke out against trump. send me back to congress, and you send donald trump to the white house. rod blum and donald trump. wrong for iowa. judge. judge? judge? judge? judge? judge? grassley? here! he's always here.

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