have a terrific wednesday. now on today in iowa: the votes are in, but voters could be ading back to the polls in twtw cities. the latest on the race for mayor in two cities. plus -- for the second time in about a week -- a person is avenue. and confidence trumps common sense. one fan's permanent reminder of what might have been. i'm jerry gallagher... let'ssheck on your eather now with storm track 7 meteorologist eileen loan. good morning. we have some areas of fog out there this morning and it is down to a mile or so in a few areas. it keeps bouncing back and forth between 1 and 3 miles in iowa

city, but the idot camera isn't showing too many problems, although it could icken beforee ssrise. it is sttl mild... temps are in the upper 40s to mid 50s in the area with southerly winds at 5 to 15 mph.. they will be pretty gusty today and we will have a mix of clouds and sun... the fofo will lift inno sun for mmch of the morning, similar to what happened in portions of the state yesterday. we will be mild and breezy today with highs at least in the mid to upper 60s.. we c/uld reach into the 70s if we have all sunshine today. our weather begiis to change tonight. i'll have more on that in a few minutes. least in the mid to upper 60s.. we could reach into the 70s iff we have all sunshine today. our weather begins to change tonight. i'll have more on that in a few minutes. new this morning:

being hit by a car on university avenue. it happened at about ne o'clock this s orning -- lees than a week after a woman died when she stepped in front of a car on university. you can see both locations right here on this map. thii is what polii are telling g us about what happened this morning. they say a man darted out into traffic east of the university -- midway drive intersection -- before he was hit. they believe he will survive. they say he has some broken bones. at this point, we don't know anything about the driver -- or why the man ran out into traffic. last week, about a block away, a woman died after steppivg in a car on university. cedar falls police say terry harp trieie to cross univvrsity just east of the cedar heights drive intersection when she was hit by a car. now to decision 2015: lots of votes, a late night... but still no decisioioin two big ces for mayor. both are headed for a runoff.

50-percentof the vote in wateloo to take over for buck clark, there will be anooher vote. here are the results: the top voter- getter is mayor pro-tem, quentin hart, followed by a former mayor, tim hurley. so hart and hurley, will be on the barlot again in a unoff electitin on december 1st. here's a look at how the other three candidates did. leah morrison with 24-percent of the vote. she came up just a bit short. hart says if he ultimately wis, he wants safer streets, and that includes building that trust between law enforcement and the community. as for tim hurley he says although he wanted to wrap up the election on tuesday -- he wasn't surprised with the results. if he wins the runoff election, he agrees with hart about stopping he violence. he suggests working with want to help. "i think today was an excellent showing that the community wants thankful and blessed for te outpouring and showing of support that we received today." "as i said in my heart i'd hope

was that there'd ppobably be a runoff. i've very pleased to be able to do that." cedar falls voters will also have to go back to the polls. no one got at least 50-percent of the vote for mayor in that city -- so there'' a runoff betteen the top two vovoe getters. jim brown and longtime mayor jon crews will go head to head in december. we spoke to both of them about the results. crews says brown ran a high financed campaign, but he's been in runoffs beforee so he's ready to tackle this one. "its obviously going out to the did not vote in cedar falls. brown tells us he's very pleased with how things went on tuesday --

"its a first time for me so i volutneers out, we'll give it the best shot we can" both have about 4 weeks to get ready. the runoff election is december first. now to other big decisions: in cedar rapids -- voters say no fifty-five percent voting against a property tax increase. "i'm not gonna spend too much people that don't share that same excitement. don't want to move toward what we think is said we'll continue to work hard, to do the right thing." now, the library may need to cut back on hours or close one day a week. voters overwhelmingly apppoved the grout museum levy in waterloo. the levy passed easily -- with nearly 59-percent voter

there were key votes acrosk the country as well. in kentucky, voters elect republican governor for just the second time in almost five decades. matt bevin is an army veteran and business owner who had never held an electedoffice until no. he promiseddto pass a right to work law, create a school voucher program and scale back the state's medicaid expansion. the plan to legalize recreational marijuana in ohio goes up in smoke. voters said no. reid binion has reaction. "this was, folks, the first step to legalization. we're not going away. (applause) we're not going away." "responsible ohio," doesn'tthave to go away.... ....but his organization's plan to legalize marijuana in the state does have to go back to the drawing board. this, after ohii voters tuesday rejected issue three" ... ...the first ballot measure in u-s history aimed at simultaneously legalizing both medical and

recreational marijuana. it would havewould have allowed commercial production, retail sale, and d ersonal ownership of marijuana plants in small amounts. but "issue three" had issues of its own.... ....ten of them, to be precise. ten - being the number of pre- determined farms that would have gotten exclusive commercii growing rights for a period of four years. advocacy groups, like the one headed up by curt steiner, slammed the plan as an attempt by its backers to profit by effectively writing themselves intoohe law. "issue 3 was designed and built primarily to garner massive and exclusive profits for a small group of self- selected wealthy investors." those investors included celebrities like singer nick lachey, former lead singer for the band 98 degrees. but while lachey and his co- investors will have to wait to year. i'm reid binion, rereorting. governor john kasich, who is one of the republicans running for

in a statement by saying, "ohioans said no to easy access o drugs and instead chose a path that helps strengthen families and communities." firefighters rescue a dog a burning home. it happened yesterdrdy in cedar falls on west fifth streett the aftter seeing the damage, i cried. we got into the 2008 a family cat is still missing, is safely hiding somewhere in the home. a community rallies to raise money for a businessowner -- who's in the hospital. three men are accused of beating young su kim inside his restaurant in prairie du chien october 21st. they're also accused of destroying parts of the storr, taking the cash rrgister and leaving kim there for more than 12 hours with no help. "he doesn't have any blood family in the area, so nobody whole life. i'm very proud of

the people in this community." kent stark says kim is now off a ventilator and is responsive but n't communicatt. today, authorities could end the mystery surrounding the death of an illinois officer. they plan to make an saying the officer took his own life. two months ago, a fox lake lieutenant called for help --- saying he was chasing three suspicious men. backup officers later found his body 50 yards from his squad car. he had been shot with his own weapon. it also started a manhunt for these suspects. no one was ever found. for many automakers -- t was an october to emember. the u-s is driving toward a record year for sales. sales of new cars and trucks

automakers last month. u-s sales for generaramotors up almost 16 percent. both ford and toyota reported gains of 13 percent. sales are up because of cheap financing, lower gas prices and a better economy. things could finay get back to normal today in kansas cityy it's been a wild few days there. thousands of fans turned out for a championship parade yesterday -- two days after their team won the world series over the mets. a die-hard new york mets fan gets a premature world series champion tattoo. we all know the mets lost. but, as jim murdoch tells us -- the josh davis may be the biggest mets n in all of decided to go all in on his love for the win the world series before the prediction he came here to first place tattoos where even the artists inside couldn't talal him out of his nowowfamous ink. it meant to him you know it's wanted to (laughs)" "as the tattoo was being finished they're already down a

so that hurt the ribs a little exexra." josh's best friend kevin decided to help take the sting out of the met's loss to kansas city, by taking a picture of the 22-year-old's tattoo and sharing it on social media, which to no surprise, quickly went viral. "he's been easy going it's softened the blow a little bit." josh says this $300 symbol of what could have been serves as a reminder not of defeat, not of stupidity, but of his dedication to his favorite team. "it was a quick decision but rereret it at all iihink it's awesome." and there's always next year, josh-after all how hard can it be to change

we still have a lot to get to this morning: including a new option for book lovers. you don't have to read between the lines... this is a big move baby. a deer masters the art oo phoobombing. some areas of fog have formed this morning and it will be dense in some areas. others, not so much. be careful out there this morning. tomorrow, w have to watch out for rain. i'll have that

"now your storm track 7 from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information.

here is addtional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: it will be breezy for the next couple of days as a system tracks through the midwest. this morning, we are starting the day with areas of fog... visibilities have been down to a mile in a few areas this morning although our stormtrack7 live weather network will show some fog, but others won't have much at all. temperatures remain mild this morning... in the upper 40s to mid 50s in our viewing area and into the upper 50s in southwest iowa. southerly winds are 5 to 15 mph and will be breezy today th gusts to 25 mph or higher at times. the only clouds in the area are the fog... they will cause some headaches this morning and will stick around long enough to keep our temps a few degrees cooler than with complete sunshine all day, but the main thing we are watching is the system to the west... this will

bring a chabge to our weather. showers will track into the e gion thursdayyand we could also have some thunderstorms. then we will have falling temps as the front tracks through on friday. rainfall amounts look like they will stay less than half an inch innmost areas, although, that will depend on how widespread the thunderstorms are. we have another great day today with breezy conditions and highs in the mid to upper 60s. cloods track in tonight with lows still around our normal highs, but with the clouds on thursday will come rain and a few thunderstorms. highs ll be in the 66s again, buttwe will then cool down for friday... highs will occur early and we will have steady or falling temps with breezy northwest winds. highs will be cool on saturday but we get back into the mid 50s

enjoy today'ssweather because we know what's coming eventually. just ask siberia. a month's worth of snow fell in just a day. people woke up to knee-hihih drifts that caused traffic chaos and damaged water pipes. about 20 crashes were caused by heavy snow. flights were also delayed because of the bad weather. the time now is... license and reggstration pleass. weather because we know what's coming eventually. just ask siberia. a month's worth of snow fell in just a day. people woke up to knee-high drifts that caused traffic chaos and damaged

water pipes. about 20 ccashes were cacaed by heavy snsnw. flights were also delayed because of the bad weather. the time now is... license and registration please. but wait, that's someone at the officer's window, not the other way around. and after another look -- that's some thing, not someone. plus -- parking is at a premium in some cities... but we've never heard of anything like this before. ait until you hear how much one parking space is being sold for. take a guess... there's a good chance... you'll be far short of the asking price. you're watching kwwl. we've got you covered in west union, masonville, central city and all of easternniowa

only place you could buy books from retailer amazon was on the internet. this week, that changed. "welcocoe, hi..." the online giant opened its first- ever retail store in seattle. it's called "amazon books." it looks a lot like bookstores in malls across the country.

it carries up to six-thousand titles-- they include best-sellers and amazon-dd-com stomer favorites. if you had 650- thousand dollars to spend in some cities, you could buy one of the nicest homes around. or you could buy one parking space in boston. this garage in the elite beacon hill neighborhood has a parking spot for sale.... 171- square feet for 650-thousand dollars. the apartment sold separately. last month a parking spot in the same garage sold for 390-thousand dollars --- so some real estate experts in boston sa the asking price is raisii a lot of eyebrows. apparently, covered parking is a hdesired commodity in boston... especially in beacon hill. alsin massachusetts -- a goat gets loose and hands a police department lots of "likes"s"on facebook. police received a call about a goat on the loose. but the goat actually found them -- in fact, it walked right

up to the window, propped itself up, and gave the window a big kiss. a picture on the department's s facebook page has received thousands of likes. a curious deer photo-bombs a newborn's photo shoot. the photographer set the fall scene with baby conner... when she says the deer walked out from the trees and surprised them. she says this is not the first time the deer hassmade an appearance-- she has even named it. she says maggie has been sneaking into her photos since the beginning of the summer. it's coming up on today in iowa -- we use our phones for so many things... now, we're being told... we can disaster

your cell phone could save you a lot of money if disaster strikes. the trick is to use your phone to

owned... for your insurance company. bob hansen explains. walt waggener may bee on the videoo but his home is insurance agent and he says now is the time to pull out your camera or cellphone and put everything you own on the screen. "i would do very room, iiwould go out in the garage, i would open up the drawers and those cabinets in the garage that you haven't look at for years." why go through all the trouble? cause if there is a fire and you have to remember every item in your home for your insurance aim, your memory just isn't cabinets and even furniture is sometimes forgotten if there's a big or small is to video tapp every inch of your house, describing what you have, where you got it and how much you paid. it could be dishes, antique furniture, a painting or a clockk remember, any images are better than no images at

pay off in the end. "people who do something like this typiilly are goinnto get between 25% and 30% more than those who don't. videos when you're done with them? well, send them to the cloud, burn them onto a thumb drive, whatever you do get wouldn't be too good if the house burns down and inside their hooe, but it's time to change. the pictures you take today, could save you thousands of dollars tomorrow. walt says he likes videos more than still pictures. but anything that can help you file a clai is better than nothing at all. spend extra time taking pictutus of high end items you may own like jewelry, cameras, computers, antiques and artwork. here's a look at storm track seven live doppler radar this

morning -- we're back with the forecast from meteorologist eileen loan next.

forecast. beautiful weather continues for another day, but we then have a big chchge. rain will track through thursday and temperatures will fall throughout friday with upper 40s for saturday. we return to slightly