Iow 29tomorrow mostly cloudy high 4046 winds e 510 alo 42 dbq 42 iow 45tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2531 winds n 510 alo 27 dbq 28 iow 30 thanks kaj. The Westdale Mall area started renovations new businesses have opened or plan to open in the area. The 90 Million Dollar project will recreate the 72 acre site into a brand new shopping experience. Kcrgtv nines brea love is live at westdale. Brea, how is the renovation going . Chris, nicole you mention the new businesses. Theyre popping up everyday. Open this morning, joining the long list of new and renovated spaces in this space. Almost five thousand dump trucks full of dirt, making space for a 40 thousand square foot retailer. Crews have added new lighting, utilities and roads to the area. All of that expansion should help bring the Community Back to this area, although weststle says left. 44 32 the community has been great theyre very loyal to this side of town. Theyve been great to go ahead and shop at jcpennys and yonkers during this entire renovation and thats only going to get strong with each new business that opens here. Many more shops will open soon. Westdale added 20,000 square feet of new construction, and 140 thousand square feet of renovations. Rowe says to expect a lot of changes during the new two years. The development says not that most of the infrastructure is done, its time to start going vertical. Live in cedar rapids, brea love, kcbgtv9 news. Many iowans are trying to solve an ongoing issue. The number of minority children in the foster to the number living in the state. In linn county, 51percent of the 196 kids in foster care last summer identified as something other than caucasian. In johnson county, its 73percent of the 48 kids in foster care. About 92percent of iowans are white. This Panel Discussion is part of the effort to create change. Iowa kids net hosted the event. It is an organization that supports foster families across the state. Leaders say there arara number of theories behind racial disparity. Some families i think who arent starting form an equitable place, in terms of education, opportunity, etc. , i think the addidional stress that those kinds of eonditions place on a familil the group says it also faces challenges placing the children withth families, because they try to keep the kids connected with their culture. Kids net says in iowa, there African American and latino families. Many organizatitis are ecruiting more foster parents from different racial backgrounds. Today, the Cedar Rapids School board will vote to formally approve the recent termination of a contract between the district and an equity consultant. Tonights vote follows allegations that edwin javius , of the company ed equity, misrepresente d his credentials to other districts in the past. The district hired javius in 2014 to help close the student achievement gap. The district will also hear from people tonight on the proposed calendar that would dismiss students early on fridays starting next year. That would replace an earlier strict suggestion to start classes late on m mdays. The district plans to use that extra time for professional development for teachers. The board of education in waterloo will also meet tonight. It will talk about a change to next years calendar as well. The district plans to give students select fridays off, to allow for professional development. Waterloo schools are also expected to approve a contract for Internet Services tonight. Officials recommend a new contract to get 1 gigabyte per second of internet bandwidth. Their current Internet Service gives them less at 300 megabytes per second. The schools would be switching from mediacom to upn for this new 3 year contract. The new annual cost would be almost 36 thousand dollars. Lhe old one was 48 thousand dollars annuallyly the risk of becoming a victim of Identity Theft is on the rise in eastern iowa. The Better Business bureau and Cedar Rapids Police say they take calls from victims every day. There are reports of scams from the irs scam, email scams, to scammers knocking on front doors. They will ask for personal information, such as Social Security numbers and bank accounts. Most scammers are known to threaten victims by saying they could be arrested or fined. Thats why crpd and the bbb are working to get the word out. Iowans overall are just really decent people, caring individuals, so in some ways were vulnerable as well if were not educated, and thats why its important to get those messages out there. Sees an increase in Identity Theft cases because of tax season. The bbb says the number one way to prevent all phone scams is to hang up as soon as you know it is a scam. An asbury woman is receiving special recognition for helping those who have served our country. Nicole james is the wife of jesse james a marine veteran who suffered physical and psychological injuries while overseas. Recently,y,he was named a 2016 doleearegiver fellow, which honors the men and women who aid war veterans. Kcrg tv9s Allison Kaleta has her story. Everyday tasks for the james family can be difficult. Everyday for him is hard, just to get up and do a regular, you know, get up and eat breakfast. Its hard because jesse suffers from post Traumatic Stress disorder after serving three tours as a marine overseas. Now that he is home, nicole works hard to keep everything together. I mean, shes just super, really, really, smart and patient and i couldnt get through it if i didnt have her patience to help Elizabeth Dole foundation. Theyve worked really hard to help caregivers who are the ones helping the veterans, day to day, and you know, its really hard as a caregiver, youre like the back bone for your vetera and for your family and when you get stretched too thin and you crumble then eveeything crumbles. With a veteran and four kids, this caregiver, without any training, hasnt crumbled. A lot of it is things ive learned, you know, over the years of living with it and seeing it, some things ive just learned accidentally because you just adapt to what is happening. In dubuque, Allison Kaleta, kcrg tv9 news. And adults has more money for its programs. And its all thanks to a bowling event over the we are planning on a very quiet week of weather across iowa. Well have than sun today with highs back in the low 40s in many areas. Tonigig into tomorrow, an area of low pressure will pass well to our south leaving us with a continuation of dry weather and highs into the 40s. A gradual cooling trend is likely through friday, but only down to the mid30s for highs. By the weekend, another sur of warmer air is possible, especially by saturday with highs well up into the 40s suggested at this time. Overall, aside from some breezyzy conditions quiet week ahead. Today mostly cloudy high 3945 winds light n alo 39 dbq 40 iow 44tonight mostly clou low 2430 winds e 510 alo 27 dbq 27 iow 29tomorrow mostly cloudy high 4046 winds e 510 alo 42 dbq 42 iow 45tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2531 winds n 510 alo 27 dbq 28 iow 30 big brothers big sisisrs has more money for its programs this morning thanks to bowl for kids sake is a National Event for the organization that pairs youth with mentors in old teamed up to raisismoney at the ccar Rapids Bowling Center yesterday. Event organizers say this is a great way to raise money. It is fun just to get out on a cold winter afternoon and um be together with friends and have a good time. So its a great event for our agency. Event for big brothers, big sisters. Last year, thevent raised more than 350thousand dollarss nationwide. The oscars are sunday here on kcrgtv9 and you can try your hand at picking the winners. Click on kcrgtv9 movie madness on kcrg. Com. Register and then make your picks for who will take home a statue sunday night. You can even compete against kcrgtv9 anchors. Then watch the oscars sunday night, starting at 7, on kcrgtv9. The number of farms in iowa is in todays agribusiness report, what the new numbers say about the amount of acres of farmland in the hawkeye state. But right now, heres a look at todays opening farm markets. Good david geiger. R. The number of farms in ioio is dropping. There are now 87 thousand five hundred farms. Compared to last year. Thats five hundred fewer. But the total land. Or acres of farmland are unchanged. According to the Usdas National Agricultural Statistics service. The sales class shows low sale farms are getting smaller. While middle scale farms are getting bigger. Sales class is how much a farm sells or gets in government payments. Farms making less than 10 thousand bucks lost a between a quarter million and half a Million Dollars gained a hundred thousand. That tier now averages five hundred 26 acres per farm. Nationally. About 18 thousand farms were lost in 2015. Now at two million. 70 thousand. Total acres lost is a million acres. And the average farm size is up about three at four hundred 41 acres a farm. The planned dowdupont merger will not have its World Headquarters in iowa. Howewer. After splitting into three companies. Iowa will be home to the Global Business center for the agriculture company. Based in johnston. The Iowa Economic Development authority met friday to discuss some of the financial incentives. That includes include a two Million Dollar forgivable loan. And a 14 Million Dollar tax credit for research activititi. The project will retain two hundred and 50 to five hundred jobs. Iowa was successful in all of our efforts, making the case to the company for why iowa should be the location for this global bususess place for y that will serve us well into the future. In all. The total project budget is around half a billion dollars. And would be a seven year long program. Last week ended pretty sideways in the grains market. Across the board theres penny losses. And theres some worries in pork. Spring pricing saw rallies. But now theres some quesesons if the consumer is up for those kinds of prices. Grains are trying to find some export demand. Soybean sales have slowed down a little. Theyre on pace to meet the usda forecast for the year. But chinas been a little more cagey with their buying quite a bit from south america right now and only doing fill in business with us. I think the bull story farmer selling has are having trouble replacing the beans as they crush them. That sets up a possibility of either a firmer basis for delivery against march futures. Weve been nibbling at that idea but we havent played it out completely. The big move down in cattle is low 130s. Were tryryg to establish some value here. Cattle are trying to be bullish in the context of a longer term the spring rally in the cash hogs, its pretty typical for us to rally into june or july because the numbers get tighter for the slaughter runs, but the summer priced in a theyre not sure if they can go higher yet until they see if the more for the pork. And thats all i have for show today. Thanks for tuning in. Ill see you tomorrow. Well post a agribusiness section of kcrg. Com. Youll find it under the news tab. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt 3. 23 oc webtease are trying to figure out who is stealing their have been disappearing just as pollination season is starting. Beekeepers ship their bees t t use them to pollinate crops. That adds about 15 billion dollars to the crop value in california. Doing the math, it pays for the thieves to steal beehives. You go pick up 100 colonies 170 dollars a pop youve go 17and half thousand dollars next month without doing anything the worst part is that they get stolen like right around the pollination season. Officials say beekeepers should mark their beehives and install tracking devices just in case. Some patients dont end up with that perfect smile even after spending thousands of dollars on braces. Fixing receding gums used to take several procedure promises time. Stay with tv9. It. Week of weather across iowa. Well have more clouds than sun today with highs back in the low 40s in many areas. Tonight into tomorrow, an area of low pressure will pass well to ourur south leaving us with a continuation of dry weather and highs into the 40s. A gradual cooling trend ic likely through friday, but only down to the mid30s for warmer air is possible, especially by saturday with highs well up into the 40s suggestedt this time. Overall, aside from some brerey conditions midweek, this should be a very quiet week ahead. Today mostly cloudy high 3945 winds light n alo 39 dbq 40 iow 44tonight mostly cloudy low 2430 winds e 510 alo 27 dbq 27 iow 29tomorrow mostly cloudy high 4046 winds e 510 alo 42 dbq 42 iow 45tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2531 for one out of 10 people who wore braces, the end result isnt a perfect smile. Thats because they develop receding gums. Treatment typically involves expensive and painful grafting, but theres a new treatment that has n nscalpel, no stitches, and very little recovery time. Martie salt has more about pinhole gum rejuvenation. Its surgery day for 18 earold chelsea cassady. Her mom and dad came along for moral support, but chelsea has done her research to fix a problem she says made her selfconscious to smile. I just oked in the mirror and i pulled up my lips and i completely receded. And i didnt even know that could happen. Her dentist blames her braces. Plaque built up around the made it hard to clean. And worse. Do move teeth and when you move teeth to a certain extent, you can actually cause the gums to shrink away from the roots. Chelsea said no to traditional gum grafting, where tissue is surgically removed from the roof of your mouth and is stitched above the teeth. Too much pain, too many treatments, and too long a recovery for her. She said yes to pinhole gum rejuvenation, pioneered by doctor john chao. We make a very tiny nhole above the gumumine where the tissue is soft. T. And then, with specialized instruments, we detach the gum tissue away from the bone. And once its loloe, we can drape it down over t te receded area. To promote faster healing, doctor chao put tiny strips of collagen in the holes. Chelsea was in she saw the result. Thank you, it looks really good. Im martie salt reporting. Trt 1. 29 oc std the pinhole procedure makes sense financially, as well. Patients pay between 500 and 18hundred dollars per tooth. And they only need one appointment. A gum grafting treatment costs about the same, but patients usually need more than one operation. New Research Shows drinking two cups of coffee a day could cut your chance to develop alcoholrelated cirrhosis of the livery 44 pepecent. Cirrhosis deteriorates he liver by blocking blood flow. Alcoholism is the second most common cause of cirrhosis in the us. Experts say coffee will never balance out all negative affects of alcohol. The city council in waverly may make a decision today on a historic bridge. They have several options that range from tearing it down and rebuilding to some alterations. Stay with your 24 hour news source, rgtv9. Its. From your 24 hour news shops movinin. Shops are popping up in the westdale shopping district in cedar pids, with a popular chaininpening today. Baby needs. What new parents say are the musthaves for a new baby, and what you can live without. And dentist shortage. Researchers at the university of iowa say it may be harder for iowans in rural areas to get dental care in the future. Youre looking live on our ty cam. A cooler start to yoururork first, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. We are planning on a very quiet week of weather across iowa. Well have more clouds than sun today with highs back in the low 40s in many areas. Tonight into tomorrow, an area of low pressure will pass well to our south leaving us with a continuation of dry weather and highs into the 40s. A gradual cooling trend is likely through friday, but only down to the mid30s for highs. By the weekend, another surge of warmer air is possible, especially by saturday with highs well up into the 40s suggested at this time. Overall, aside from some breezy conditions midweek, this should be a very quiet week ahead. Today mostly cloudy high 3945 winds light n alo 39 dbq 40 iow 44tonight mostly cloudy low 2430 winds e 510 alo 27 dbq 27 w 29tomorrow mostly cloudy gh 4046 nds e 510l dbq 42 w45tomorrow ght mostly cloyow 2531 winds n 510 alo 27 dbq w 30 anks aj. An early m mning fire caused 10 0 thousand dollars in damage at apartment iowa city. Fire crews responded to 11hundred arthur street around 2 30 this morning. They were able to extinguish flames out of a second story apartment within 15 minutes. No one was hurt. The Fire Department is investigating the cause o o the firere a ddorah High School Student is out on bond this morning after two k9 units found Illegal Drugs in the school. 18yearold john jenkins faces charges for ssession of marijuananand drug paraphernalia. The waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports police searched the school on friday. They found drugs in two lockers. Police said theyre also referrintwo juveniles to Juvenile Court services on charges. S. A des moines woman faces charges after her boyfriend says she set him on fire. 47 yearold amy thornton was arrested on attttpted murder and willful injury charges. Police responded to reports that a man had lit himself on fire saturday night. But when they arrived, they found the man with burns all throughout his body, yelling that his girlfriend had set him on fire. The kalamazoo, michigan county Attorney Says the shooter who others over the weekend wasnt on anyones radar. 45earold jason dalton is expected to o arraigned today on murder c crges. Dalton started shooting late saturday night at an apartment complex, car dealership and Cracker Barrel restaurant. Michan Governor Rick Snyder called the shootings senseless violence at its worst. Police do not know of any connection between dalton and the victims. Investigators say dalton was a driver for Ride Sharing Service uber. Less than a year and a half ago crews broke ground for r Million Dollar redevelopment around Westdale Mall. Now new shops are moving in, and theyve renovated more than 140 thousand square feet of,space. Kcrgtv 9s brea love is live in cedar rapids. Brea, you have updates on the developments progress . Yes, chris and nicole. Things are popping up on every end of this area. Noodles and company is opening today. Chipotle is opening soon. Wing stop, at t, and us bank were among the first to open in the area. The plenty of new infrastructur e work. Theres new lights, utilities, and roads. With 20 thousand square feet of new construction. And the expansion is just beginning. 0 44 07 weve also just recently just moved almost five thousand dump trucks full of dirt to get ready for a new pad site, and thats a 40 thousand square foot new demarket retailer and we expect to have an announcement on that very soon. Rowe says the community has been great utilizing yonkers and jcpennys during the renovation, and the area is only going to get stronger with each new business opening. She says to expect a lot of changes over the next year or two. Westdale says most of the infrastructur e is ready, and its time to start going vertical. Live in cedar rapids, brea love, kcrgtv9 news. Today, the Waverly City Council is expected to discuss options for fixing or replacing a many gave their opinions on what the city should do last week at city council meeting. Options range from doing nothing to the 100 year old bridge to tearing it down and replacing it. The city came up with 14 choices after the bridge on 3rd street closed for structural problems last year. Republican president ial candidates now have their eyes set on nevada for their caucuses tomorrow. And the Democratic Candidates are putting more effort into South Carolina. The republicans in nevada go out to caucus tomorrow to choose their favorite president ial candidate. And then democrats in South Carolina get the chance to go to the polls on saturday. After that, candidates will face 14 rereblican and 11 democratic primaries or caucuses on march first, super tuesday. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton have emerged as the winners from this weekends primary and caucuses. Donald trump easily won the South Carolina primary on saturday. Thats wins for 2 states, and second place for the iowa are close runnersup yet insist they are the best alternative to you know, if you look at donald, donald devotes all of money, to attacking me. I dont believe that heheas exhibited an ununrstanding of foreign policy, which is the most important job of the commanderinchief. And to say im just going to surround myself with really smart people, you know, thats not enough. Out of the race for the white house after the South Carolina primary. A political analyst here in iowa says bush campaigneded like someone whose heart just wasnt in it times. His brother ruined the brand to fall in line behind him. The republicans, n the way they ginned up the base all these years created a tiger and the question is who can ride that tiger and jeb bush could not. Goldford says the next few weeks will reveal if continue beyond super tuesday as the other contenders are splitti the nontrump vote. Sanders say the minority vote is even more important now forward. In the nevada caucuses on saturday, minority voters accounted for about a third of caucusgoers. And in South Carolina, theyre expected to make up a mmority of voting democrats. When they hear our message about the need for real, for an economy that represents all of us and not just the one percent, i think youre going to see us making progress there as well. If you look at the precincts, you look at where we dominated, theres a lot of evidence we did very very well with every group of voter. With clintons win on saturday, shes won two states, including iowa, with sanders winning in just new hampshire. Many soon to be parents are often inundated with information about what theyll need once the baby arrives. And when you look online for the items a baby needs, that information can be overwhelming this group of new moms in dubuque says there were plenty of items they thougugt their baby would need. Instead, they ended up just sitting packed away in a closet. They also say there are some products they simply couldnt go without. I could not live without our little activity gym when he was little. I would lay him down with that for hours and hours and hours. We really loved our activity saucer too. Tonight on the kcrg tv9s news at six, Dubuque Bureau chief Katie Wiedemann explores what experts say new parents really need for a new baby. And what they can leave on the store shelves. There could be a shortage of dentists in iowas future. University of iowa researchers believe it could be a problem especially in rural areas. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders looks at the study and has ththstory. The iowa Public Policy centers four part study shows something thats happening across the globe. Dentist s are nearing retirement. Nearly doubledfrom 23 percent to 42 percent between 97 and 2013. In essence, almost half of iowas dentists are near retirement age. Why does that matter . Were probably rural areas that heretofore did not exist, with the advancing age e dentists that are practicing in rural areas and then retiring. Add to that, fewer dentists are working in rural areas these days to begin with. The study suggested dentists practicing in Rural Communities dropped steadily 49 percent to 36 percent one third of iowas privatepractice dentists are concentrated in the states three biggest metros. I think that some have to do with services that are available in bigger cities. Were also seeing a trend from solo to group practice. You find more Group Practices located in urban areas. Researchers didnt offer any fixes to the potential problem. They said their data simply suggests preparation is needed. Officials plan to share findings with the iowa dental association. Understand the data and in turn develop strategies for the future. In iowa city, forrrrt saunders, kcrgtv9 news. About 75 percent of iowas dentists graduated from the of dentistry. That hasnt changed since 1997. The new Fine Arts Center at Anamosa High School is now open. The school held a ceremony on sunday to mark the opening of the Ellen Kennedy Fine Arts Center. Voters in the district narrowly approved a bond 3 years ago that provided money for the project. The district superintenden t says the center will provide opportunities to students for years to come. Its a great celebration, its a great thing for the kids, its a great thing for the community um and its impressive, very impressive for all theyve accomplished. That bond is also funding a heating and cooling system in the elementary and high schools, a new playground, and an expansion to the tness center. A popular Christmas Gift is under some major scrutiny this morning. This is after the gadgets have more than 50 fires and millions of dollars in damages. Week of weather across iowa. Well have more clouds than sun today with highs back in the low 40s in many areas. Tonight into tomorrow, an area of low pressure will pass well to our south leaving us with a continuation of dry weather and highs into the 40s. Likely the mid30s for surge of warmer air is possible, especially by saturday with highs well up into the 40s suggested at this time. Overall, aside from some breezy conditions midweek, this should be a very quiet week ahead. Today mostly cloudy high 3945 nds light n alo 39 dbq 40 iow 4tonight mostly cloudy low 2430 winds e 510 alo 27 dbq 27 iow 29tomorrow mostly cloudy high 4046 winds e 510 alo 42 dbq 42 iow 45tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2531 winds n 510 alo 27 dbq 28 iow 30 drivers should enjoy the lolo prices at the pump. With demand on the news source, kcrg tvnine. Its a sour note. Oil prices fell and investors worried about the health of the global economy. The dow jones slipped 21 points on friday after soaring nearly 800 points earlier in the week. The s and p saw no change and the nasdaq slow finish, their biggest weekly gains so far this year. Of gas has fallen five cents in the past two weeks. Its now at its lowest level in more than seven years at 177 a gallon. The latest price decline is 56 cents lower than a year ago, mainly a response to weak oil prices. Higher prices could be on the way with a higher demand for gasoline and rising oil prices. And the federal government is laying down the law on hoverboards. The selfbalancing scooters have caused as many as 52 fires worth over two Million Dollars in property damages. A letter from the Consumer Product Safety Commission said hoverboards that didnt meet the Safety Standards would be subject to detention and or seizure by cpsc staff. Its heres a live look at . . . On our city cam. We are planning on a very quiet weeof weather across iowa. Well have more clouds than sun today with highs back in the low 40s in many areas. Tonight into tomorrow, an area of low pressure will pass well to our south leaving us with a continuation of dry weather and highs into the 40s. A gradual cooling trend is likely through friday, but only down to the mid30s for warmer air is possible, especially by saturday with highs well up into the 40s suggested at this time. Overall, aside from some breezy conditions midweek, this should be a very quiet week ahead. Today mostly cloudy high 3945 winds light n alo 39 dbq iow 44tonight mostly cloudy low 2430 winds e 510 alo 27 dbq 27 iow 29tomorrow mostly cloudy high 4046 winds e 510 alo 42 dbq 42 iow 45tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2531 winds n 510 alo 27 dbq 28 iow 30 heres a look at todays top stories. Its opening day for noodles and company in the westdale Shopping Center in cedar rapids. Its part of the areas 90 Million Dollar renovation project. Crews say the expansion is just beginning. Trt oc Basketball Team has been holding los to indiana 17 days ago, the hawkeyes had 17point lead in thehend half, but lolo 7974. Today, iowa and indiana met up in iowa city for the annual pink game. The hawkeyes trailed 90 to start the game. Chase coley gets the inside track for the bucket to put iowa on the board. Later in the first quarr, the giveandgo to Christina Buttenham who lays it in. Iowa ties it up 1313. Then its tania davis kicking it out to ally disterhoft in the corner for three. The iowa city west grad had 19 points. Haweyes trailed 2019 after one quarter. But their offense picks up steam in the 2nd. Tania davis buries a triple to put iowa up by 14. Then its kali peschel hitting a three of her own. Hawkeyes up 3922. They outscored indiana 248 in the 2nd quarter as davis hits the floater before the halftime buzzer. Iowa hangs on to win 7673. The iowa Baseball Team has lost its first two games of the season to dallas were hoping to end the series with a win today. Hawkeyes have been outscored in their first two games, 124. Top seven, iowa down 1 0. Nick roscetti with a hard grounder. Only play is to firsrsand that allows xavier grad corbin woods to score. Game is tied 11. Bottom seven. Hawkeyes defense comes up big, Cole Mcdonald starts the 1 63 double play to get out of a jam and keep the game tied. But in the 8th, Dallas Baptist comes up with a 2run single and would win 41. Back to Womens College basketball, iowa city high grad Haley Lorenzen and the florida quarter, haley grabs one of her 10 rebounds and gets the putback. Next gator possession, she connects on the left hook shot to give the gators a 2819 lead. 4th quarter, hayley drives to the hoop. Count the basket and the foul. She had 8 points, but florida falls, 7463. Nascar is back with the daytona 500. Cedar rapids the race in row 12. Hes with a new team, front row motorsports and is now driving the 38 car. Here he is with 20 laps to go passing Jimmie Johnson on the outside. The finish was spectacular, denny hamlin tries to pass matt kenseth on the outside, then he goes back inside. Kenseth loses control. Its hamlin and martin truex junior neck andneck towards the finish. This was a photo finish, hamlin wins it by inches. Landon cassill finished 23rd. And tomorrow for on iowa live, we have jess settles and the kennedy wrestltng team. Be sure to join us at the first avenue draughtt house or watch live on kcrg 9. 2 at 6 30. Thanks josh. And now to first alert storm good monday morning to you. Youre looking live on our city cam. Its february 22nd and heres what you need to know today. Noodles and company is opening today in the westdale shopping and its just one of many shops and restaurants coming to the area. Iowans are trying to solve a problem in the foster care system. There is a disproportion ate number of minority children in the system to those living in the state. Republican 2016 president ial candidates are trying to reach voters in nevada before the caucuses tomorrow with just five candidates left in the race. Bus riders in illinois are lucky to be alive this morning after their megabus caught fire, then exploded on its way from chicago to minneapolis. And some researchers at the university of iowa say that iowans living in rural areas could soon see a dentist shortage. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara