 its microphone will be muted except when it's his turn to speak there will also be no studio audience to chime in with hoots hollers and jeers there will be two commercials but they cannot meet with their teams during those breaks the debate begins at nine east coast time tonight weather watch now in the midwest we are seeing more rain over the next couple of days including in iowa where they certainly do not need it a lot of rivers have crested and are starting to go down but