Tonight when they opened the doors, were there many shoppers . No it wasnt too bad actually there were lines only at a few stores right when the mall opened at 6. The National Retail federation predicts 1. 6 million more people will hit the stores this year over the thanksgiving weekend compared to the same time last year. And many of the shoppers i spoke with at the lindale mall said it was their First Time Ever participating. Eager shoppers tonight despite some malls like mall of america opting to stay closed on thanksgiving. 19 15 14;00 our Corporate Office decided the best opportunity for lindale was to be open tonight to provide shoppers with another opportunity to get the best sales, deals and doorbusters. I think it lessens the craziness that we see on black friday so it just starts a little earlier on thanksgiving night. Some stores like francescas and some Jewelry Stores chose not to open, which surprised some shoppers. 19 21 04;25 we were going to go to we went to rue 21. One of the biggest lines was outside of victorias secret, people at the door only let in a few at a time. 19 17 49;18 i was a little bit shocked to see that they are only letting a few in at a time but i dont know black friday shopping very well. Some were pleasantly surprised it wasnt as crowded as they thought it would be. 19 21 20;15 i thought that there would be more people here, but like its not, but the deals are good. 19 13 53;21 this is a pretty standard crowd, this is similar to what we saw last year, lots of eager shoppers ready to spend some money. Tonight so theres still plenty of time to get out and shop. Or if you prefer to wait until black friday it opens back up at 6am. Beth . Thanks sam. Today iowa senator joni ernst spent her thanksgiving overseas, giving spent time in afghanistan and qatar with Us Service Members stationed at Bagram Air Force base. She met the 211th aviation battalion and the 185th combat support sustainment battalion of iowa. Ernst is a former Company Commander in the Iowa National guard and once worked with both battalions. The senators also traveled around afghanistan to get a closer look at the continued mission there. Today was dry and not toocold as far as thanksgiv is here to tell us what can shoppers or those working off some extra calories can expect tomorrow. As you prepare to possibly hit the roads this evening, the weather should remain quiet until later tonight. A very weak system will be moving through the upper midwest and will create a few flurries or light snow showers, mainly in our northern counties. Travel impacts should not be large, but a few slick spots cant be ruled out. Otherwise, mostly cloudy skies the weekend will be dry and a bit on the mild side until rain moves in late on sunday and into sunday night. Around 0. 50 to 1 will be possible. As the system stalls out to our north, small chances for rain and light snow will be with us for the first half of next week, as temperatures drop back to more typical late november numbers. Tonight chance of flurries or light snow, mainly north. Wind w 510. Low 32 alo 31 dbq 32 iow 33 29 to 35 back to you. Investigators are still trying to determine what sparked a smoky, stubborn fire at a recycling facility in central city. Calls for the fire came in just before 8 this morning at iowa gold distributing, off highway 13. Because of the Flammable Materials inside the Storage Facilities at the business there were several explosions. And heres a look at the fire from above. This is drone video brought to us by calcam ap. One firefighter did go to the hospital. Kcrgtv9s Dave Franzman reports on the air quality concerns with this fire. Pkg fman on cam fireballs and this thanksgiving day fire with the plume visible 10 miles away. Take ll pack fire crews say the business handled waste oil and other solvents. And the flames melted poly containers of flammable material that ignited and spread on the ground. One nearby Business Owner had semi trailers and even grain trucks parked near the two structures that caught fire. An employee who lived nearby saw the fire and moved equipment before it was lost. It was a pre was pretty hot by the time i got here most everything was out of the way i moved one more trailer when i got here. So yeah, it was a close call. Fire officials worried about what was in the thick black smoke and earlier warned People Living nearby to make sure they kept doors and windows closed as much as possible to avoid exposure. Air monitoring did not detect any problems. That warning has now been lifted. Fman ll tag one firefighter was taken to a cedar rapids hospital with what was described as a potentially lifethreatening officials did not give any particular details about that issue or any connection to the fire itself. In central city, Dave Franzman kcrg tv9 news. A change in command is coming to the Benton County sheriffs office. Sheriff Randy Forsyth confirmed to tv nine hes retiring. Hes worked with the office since 1973, starting off his careea year and will finish his term through the rest of the year. In the election earlier this month, Deputy Ronald tippett won the election to be the next sheriff in Benton County. With no one claiming a winning powerball ticket, its up to 403 million dollars. The drawing is saturday night. No one has won since september 17th. The odds are one in 292 point 2 million to win the jackpot. The record is 1 point billion dollars back in january. The fda approved a new device from the university of iowa thats changed how one man is experiencing this thanksgiving. What a hybrid cochlear implant means for people who have a particular type of hearing loss. And its senior day tomorrow for coach and dad, kirk ferentz. Its been all in the family with his sons on the team. And hes saying good bye to the youngest. First heres a look at the most on kcrg dotcom. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9 listening to your favorite song, table is something many people take for granted. For those with hearing loss, doing those things can be almost impossible. The university of iowa hospitals and clinics is trying to give kcrgtv9s brea love tells us why some say thats what theyre thankful for this year. The Great Outdoors has plenty of sounds. And when Michael Everts works outside of his home. Hes taking it all in. 20 49i can hear the leaves rustling, and the wind, and oh there was a bird. Everts couldnt always hear those sounds. Hes dealt with hearing loss since he was in the second grade. 3 26i thought i was special retested my hearing. Come to find out i had extensive hearing loss. He tried hearing aids, but still couldnt make out the words. 4 11when i first put hearing aids on i was like i can hear a lot of noise, but i could hear noise, but i didnt have clarification of speech. 5 23for me, for understanding, it got to the point where i was missing all the consonant sounds. I was missing the front end of the words and the back end of the words. I was only getting the middle part. It was just like a mum mum mum to an audiologist and found out he could be a candidate for brand new type of device. The university of iowa hospitals and clinics is a leading Research Institution for cochlear implants. Doctors here installed the first implant in 1979. Ever since, uihc has applied for grants and dedicated time to research on it. 13 50it involves people in the college of medicine, people in music, people in psychology, hearing. 15 01what we found out is that people that have hearing loss become socially isolated and they become extremely depressed because they cant communicate and people dont like to make small talk with them. The fda approved a hybrid implant only thr face High Frequency hearing loss. That gives you the consonants like ss and ts the implant helps a person regain those sounds, while eliminating a lot of the noise that comes along with it. The device is surgically implanted. Then the hearing aid portion of the implant connects by magnet. 18 58over a period of weeks to months, gradually the brain learns how to use this information. The words you use to remember what they sounded like, like baseball, mechanically when it starts. Its really an amazing technology. 6 50 they turned it on for me and i was amazed because i was hearing all these ss and ts. Actually on my way home, my mom went down with me, and coming home she was talking and i was understanding what she was saying. Everts says its nice to finally be able to sit down, relax, and hear what people are saying. And mu heard birds before. 8 11all the different insects, the world is come alive. 12 01im very thankful 12 39because the world has got some beautiful sounds, and i can now sit and enjoy those. In marshall county, brea love, kcrgtv nine news. They found the mom from california who Sherri Papini is safe, but theyre warning the public to be cautious and have a description of what people should be on the lookout for. As you prepare to possibly hit remain quiet until later tonight. A very weak system will be moving through the upper midwest and will create a few flurries or light snow showers, mainly in our impacts should not be large, but a few slick spots cant be ruled out. Otherwise, mostly cloudy skies will stick with us bit on the mild side until rain moves in late on sunday and into sunday night. Around 0. 50 to 1 will be possible. As the system stalls out to our north, small chances for rain and light snow will be with us for the first half of next week, as temperatures november numbers. Tonight chance of flurries or light snow, mainly north. Wind w 510. Low 32 alo 31 dbq 32 iow 33 29 to 35 tomorrow cloudy with flurries possible early, mainly north. Wind nw 515. High 41 alo 40 dbq 40 iow 42 38 to 44 tom. Night decreasing clouds. Wind w 510 low 29 alo 26 dbq 29 iow 29 26 to 32 saturday partly cloudy to mostly sunny. High 47 alo mainly afternoon. Windy. High 48 low 31 monday chance of showers early. Windy. High 49 low 42 tuesday mostly cloudy. High 42 low 34 wednesday chance of light snow showers, otherwise mostly cloudy high 38 low 30 thursday mostly cloudy. High 38 low 28 friday mostly cloudy. High 39 low 24 thanks chris. Is now underway in louisville, thanksgiving day event. While kids played football, someone shot six people nearby. We take a closer look at what happen, next on tv nine. An annual thanksgiving day deadly today during a kids sports festival. The juice bowl brings parents and kids together for a series of Football Games in one of the citys parks. Police are now trying to figure out who fired shots very close to the games. Two men died and four others are injured and in the hospital. Theyre expected to survive. Dwight mitchell, Louisville Metro Police when officers did arrive, they located two black wounded and were pronounced dead here at the scene. Police had to restrain a couple of grief stricken people at the scene. So far this year, Louisville Police are investigating more than 100 homicides. Authorities in california are now looking for the person or people who kidnapped a mother of two. 34 year old Sherri Papini disappeared three weeks ago while jogging near her home in redding. Then early this 150 miles away from her home. Authorities say her captor let her go on a rural road, she was in restraints. Papini was able to get a passing motorist to stop and help her. She reunited with her family at the hospital as she was treated for unspecified non life threatening injuries. The investigation is far from over it has only begun a new chapter a dark suv with two hispanic females armed with a handgun. They didnt release a motive, but said the public should remain cautious and that this investigation is far from over. 14 seniors will play their final game at Kinnick Stadium tomorrow versus nebraska. Itll be an emotional day for everyone, especially for head coach kirk ferentz. That story is next. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Day for 14 hawkeye football players. It is an emotional game for coach kirk ferentz and will be especially so this year. John campbell reports. With apologies to Fred Mc Murray and our younger viewers, we are calling this , my three sons. Kirk, with his boys brian, james and steve. Friday, senior day, kirk and centerfield and meet steve it is really powerful and bittersweet. I am sure it will be an emotional moment for me. It sure was for james in 2012. You try to hold it together then James Ferentz got the gene i got from my dad so he was in tears 80 yards away. The oldest boy, brian played his final home game in 2005. The day before he introduced his dad at the Johnson County i brian is a great speaker. That is one thing he does really well. Steve was there that day, but does not remember it. 6 years earlier steve was present and accounted for when he is dad was hired as the iowa coach. His memories . He got hired dec5. My birthday is dec 4 so i remember we had a little Birthday Celebration in our watching his brother brian play for the hawks. And then brother james wore the black and gold. Naturally, steve followed suit as a walk on. You came in as a tight end and they shifted you to center. Did you assume that was going to happen . I am sure they did. I had other thoughts. In my head i was a bnit more athletic and a bit faster than i actually am. Although his playing time has been limited Steve Ferentz says the experience has been extremely fulfilling. Was easily the best choice of my life. It is coming down to finishing things the right way. Giving it Everything Else i have left in me. It is fitting that it is thanksgiving. Really appreciative of the opportunities allthree of our sons have had to be in the program. Sot kirk . . . . And that brings us back to this, one of the most prized pictures in kirks office. The coach and his three, hawkeye sons. John campbell tv9 sports. Kirk ferentz is the only man in Division One Football to coach three sons at the same school. Basketball, iowa state men facing indiana state in the Advocare Invite in orlando, florida. A lot of back and forth in this game. Early first half, Deonte Burton with the steal, and lift off. Onehanded jam. Cyclones down 54. Early foul trouble for Merrill Holden meant more minutes for darrell bowie. Gets the basket and the half. Matt thomas grabs the rebound, he pushes up the floor, launches this one from ames. Chaching. Cyclones still down 1, but they led 4140 at halftime. 2nd half action, great ball movement. Naz mitroulong drills a three in the corner. He had 13. Iowa state up 6564. Final minutes. Monte morris takes on two defenders and gets the circuis layup. He had a teamhigh 20. Game is tied 69 all. A minute left. Burton finds thomas in the corner and hes thanf cyclones up one. Final seconds, isu up 2. Brenton scott for the win, but it goes in and out. Iowa state hangs on to win 7371. Cyclones will face miami tomorrow at 10 am. Iowa Womens Basketball playing in the cancun challenge. Facing ucla today. 3rd quarter, Megan Gustafson on the iso. Goes left, then goes right for the bucket. Hawkeyes down 4440. Later, they get inside to. Rough shooting night overall for iowa, 39 percent. Alexa kastanek buries a three, down 5651. But ucla starts to pull away and wins 7864. Iowa will face James Madison tomorrow night at 8. The Northern IowaVolleyball Team sweeps loyola 30 in the mvc quarterfinals. The panthers will face Wichita State in the semi finals tomorrow at 7 30. Thanks scott. One last look at the forecast, chris. As you prepare to possibly hit the roads this evening, the weather should remain quiet until later tonight. A very weak system will be moving through the upper midwest and will create a few flurries or light snow showers, mainly in our northern counties. Thanks chris. 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