their flood damaged grain. saying these flood waters have the potential to contaminate their harvest. a common site around this time. farmers out on their combines harvesting. robert hansen has 125 acres of beans. 60 acres were completely damaged by flood waters. and hansen says 37 acres of his corn had water up to the ears. f "i farmed for about 50 years and it's the first time i know of a crop being flooded right at into the crops and you'll lose some, but to have it happen just a week before the harvest is just unimaginable." hansen does have crop insurance. but he says he still will be

dunkerton co-op they tell me they are also being instructed not to we've got you covered, live in black hawk county, elizabeth amanieh...kwwl news. secretary of agriculture bill northey says as of today-19 percent of corn and 43 percent of beans have been harvested-but is behind the five-year average and to show you just how big of a deal wet crops are take a look at everything corn is in pop, gum, toothpaste, shampoo, makeup and even diapers eastern iowa continues to recover from last month's flooding -- and help is coming from the state. the iowa department of natural resources says iowa has seen nearly 10 more inches of rain than normal for the 2016 water year. just in september alone -- the statewide average was more than six inches. that makes it the wettest september in 30 years.. all that rain caused the cedar... shell rock and wapsie

the groundbreaking for a permanent flood control levee is today the sinclair levee in cedar rapids will provide protection for the newbo district up to a 40 year flood the 14 million dollar project includes a detention basin and a pump station everything is set to be completed by the end of 2017 with that in mind let's go to storm track seven chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg who is tracking some rain from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen information from tw 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: clouds increase tonight as a cold front approaches the area from the west. scattered showers are likely wednesday morning as the front moves through. the front also changes the wind direction to the northwest and keeps the temperatures from warming up. temperatures will be 20 degrees

50s, it is also windy with gusts four days after hurricane matthew and some states remain under water today. this drone video is from north carolina many businesses remain submerged in water and without electricity. rising flood water causing many to evacuate theis more problems and i want to send a message to the people in moore county who may be impacted by this woodlake dam. get out! get out now." 14 confirmed deaths in north carolina due to flooding federal disaster has been declared

accused of robbing a restaurant and store at gunpoint. this happened at la placita in downtown waterloo, sunday afternoon police say a man walked in with a gun- demanding money... he was able to take off with some cash. kwwl's lauren moss speaking with store employees today- she joins us live, lauren. and they are pretty shaken up the same family has owned this downtown staple for the last 10 years..and they say something like this take a close look at the suspect. you can only see his eyes.. the store's surveillance camera shows the man with his face covered, waving around a gun..with the young woman behind the cashier, looking very scared. i spoke with an employee today who says the young woman screamed..and got the attention she screamed and the owner came running out but instead in trying to argue or fight with

inside the store at the time. rosa says everyone there is just thankful, no one got hurt. the man got away with some cash- i know those images are hard to see, but if you have any information, please give police or cedar valley crime stoppers a call. a cash reward is avaliable. we've got you covered, lauren moss kwwl news. the waterloo city council is considering a new ordinance that businesses in the downtown area to have security cameras. the city council -- reworking a first reading of the ordinance from last week. if passed -- some businesses like restaurants, banks and hotels would have to buy cameras and if businesses already have them ...updates and inspections would be mandatory. onto decision 2016 coverage tonight

more than 66 million people watched sunday night. that's down 20- percent from the first matchup -- which set a record. many people watching sunday night football instead. others say they didn't watch the 20 million people were commenting, liking and sharing content during the debate. and republican presidential nominee donald trump tweeting about speaker of the house paul ryan today. calling him weak and ineffective... ryan stating that he will not defend trump or campaign with him then, trump tweeting again - saying that the shackles have been taken off...now he can fight for america and we're 28 days from the election -- and iowa is once again becoming a focal point for the campaigns.

speaking at a rally at the des moines area community college today he also met with local farm owners in colfax on the democratic side.... tomorrow -- former president bill clinton will be in eastern iowa. he'll be in waterloo as a part of hillary clinton's early vote bus tour it's scheduled to start at six-45 at the national cattle congress --doors opening an hour before that. the former president will also be in linn county on thursday afternoon. and remember to check out kwwl political analyst chris larimer's blog on our website kwwl dot com for fire crews responding to a fire at an area resturant during the lunch hour. it happened at the culver's in dubuque on asbury road...just before 12-30 kwwl's shirley descorbeth is live from the scene with more. shirley. firefighters put out the flames a while ago. but you can see...this shed here is burned.

many of them are also damaged. now when the fire broke out...the restaurant was packed with people. "i think everyone was scared, i'm really glad it was just the shed though, because it could've been a lot worse." and fire crews put out the fire quickly...before it reached the and we just found out not too long ago...it seems the cause may have been a cigarette... we've got you covered live in ...kwwl news. though the restaurant stayed open, the drive through window is still closed. coming up... "it just devasted us... all of us." we'll meet a couple that's been through not one, not two, but three floods! what they're doing to try and

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7 weather team. see the screen cold front approaches the area from the west. scattered showers are likely wednesday morning as the front moves through. the front also changes the wind direction to the northwest and keeps the temperatures from warming up. temperatures will be 20 degrees colder than tuesday. in addition to the highs in the 50s, it is also windy with gusts to 30 mph. wednesday evening the sky becomes clear and the wind diminishes. frost is likely by thursday morning in many locio temperatures will range from 30-34 degrees. thursday and friday are mostly sunny with highs in the 50s thursday and low 60s friday as the wind increases from the south. storm track 7 chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast

clouds increase tonight as a cold front approaches the area from the west. scattered showers are likely wednesday morning as the front moves through. the front also changes the wind direction to the northwest and keeps the temperatures from warming up. temperatures will be 20 degrees colder than tuesday. in addition to the highs in the 50s, it is also windy with gusts to 30 mph. wednesday evening the sky becomes clear and the wind diminishes. frost is likely by thursday morning y temperatures will range from 30-34 degrees. thursday and friday are mostly sunny with highs in the 50s thursday and low 60s friday as the wind increases from the south. storm track 7 chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast

stormtrack 7 weather team: clouds increase tonight as a cold front approaches the area from the west. scattered showers are likely wednesday morning as the front moves through. the front also changes the wind direction to the northwest and keeps the temperatures from warming up. temperatures will be 20 degrees colder than tuesday. in addition to the highs in the 50s, it is also windy with gusts to 30 mph. wednesday evening the sky becomes clear and the wind thursday morning in many locations in eastern iowa. temperatures will range from 30-34 degrees. thursday and friday are mostly sunny with highs in the 50s thursday and low 60s friday as the wind increases from the south. storm track 7 chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather

an eastern iowa couple is forced to close down their business for weeks... the selfless act they're doing to help others because of this a tiny trump in the making this fifth grader has some huge plans you'll want to stick around for eastern iowa --------- --------- --------- when my dad got the contract with donald trump, it was huge for our business. there was never any question about the quality of work... and the next thing you know, you weren't getting paid. when you're a small business, a big contract is everything, i mean, it's huge. but...if you don't get paid, it's devastating.

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y theirs. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. tonight a local business was forced to close down shop for two weeks because of flooding you can see just how bad the flooding was in cedar rapids now, the business owners are trying to raise money not for themselves, but for their employees kwwl's jalyn souchek has that story mississippi and lost everything in hurricane thompsen, orginally from cedar rapids decided to move back and get married. mother nature decided to strike again "2008 took his house in timeczech" and it wouldn't be the last time... she owns the village meat market and cafe in the czech village "it was away on vacation in nashville when lou heard the news of the upcoming flood employees and friends had already taken care of almost everything."

kidding me? that was the longest drive home ever." causing her to completely shut down operations "two weeks... two very long weeks" a number of vendors coming to help her but still a large loss of inventory of perishables -- almost enough for her to call it quits all together "i would be less than honest if i and go okay what's at stake? well, these guys. these raise money -- but not to make up for loss business but for the five employees who were out of work and the local vendors she uses "they have mortages and they have bills to pay and so that's very concerning. i have just an outstanding staff." the gofundme page has already raised more than 14-hundred dollars. you can find a link to that page

still to come on the k-w-w-l news at five... a tiny trump in the making? one fifth graders huge idea for his school... and.... could eating more meat mean a higher risk for diabetes? --------- ---------

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troubled galaxy note 7 today a number of fires linked to the phones' battery prompting a recall. but there are now reports of replacement phones overheating and exploding samsung says saying they're stopping production of the phones for everyones safety if you have either original or replacement note sevens turn them off and return them recalling the cookie dough it sold to blue bell creameries because it may be contaminated with listeria blue bell is recalling all products that were made with cookie dough supplied by aspen hills. this involves half-gallons and pints of blue bell chocolate chip cookie dough and blue bell cookie two step return the ice cream for a full refund

protein -- you could be at a higher risk for diabetes. researchers placed a group of women in either a group that ate the recommended daily amount of protein, or a group that ate large amounts of protein. all of the women lost weight, but the group that ate the recommended amount of protein improved their insulin sensitivity women who ate more protein did not show improvements a different kind of decision 2016 coverage tonight for you... a fifth grader has decided to ambitious promise help him get a seat on the student body government bench. shane declared that, if elected, he will make a wall to divide the schoolyard playground: one section for the fourth and fifth graders and the other for the third graders. this echoing trump's campaign of him wanting to build a wall. as for who is going to pay for such an investment, that's up to

shane says he actually has no plans to build that wall to leave third graders out because his brother is in third grade. coming up. here's a live look at the dubuque skycam. storm track seven meteoroligst mark schnackenberg has a final look at your weather next. we'll

at six... groundbreaking on a very popular eastern iowa highway begins today more at six kwwl's ally crutcher gets a lesson in science today take a look ally walks on guy stand up there. are you serious? people at home are like what are they doing screams are you dying? yes that man is lying down on top of a bed of nails no...it doesn't hurt he was here at noon from the grout museum to talk to us about the idea of pressure if your

because of weight being distributed storm track seven chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg has a final look at your forecast. thanks for watching the kwwl news at five. "nbc" nightly news" is next. we want remind you, we're "always on" with news and weather when you want it, on kwwl-dot-com. minutes on the kwwl news at six. --------- --------- vernon: i'm monica vernon, and i approve this message. congressman blum's smear campaign -- misleading and false. the truth -- monica vernon donated every pay raise to charity and helped build a homeless shelter for women and children, but multi-millionaire blum promised he'd take only half his salary. then in congress, blum broke his word and kept all the pay.

congressman blum's out for himself, not us. tonight it's war. donald trump declares the shackles are off, unleashing a furious tirade on the highest ranking republican, speaker paul ryan, and on senator john mccain. while his campaign trains its focus on hillary clinton, trump trains his fire on his own party. race against time for the rescuers desperately trying to reach families cut off, trapped by flood waters after hurricane matthew. tonight, new dramatic rescues and a jaw-dropping view from the air. crisis mode. a major announcement amid new fears about exploding smartphones, as the company now clashes with apple. and breaking health news tonight. an alert for millions of americans who take