smarty pants. and i m s in iowa. mana from mervyheaven. you ve got a farmland surge. when you look at small iowa farmers, the average farmland per acre last year was $6,000. one of the best investments you could have made last year, buying farmland to farm. i mean, you ve got all of these people sitting at the diner and at the greain elevator saying should, i sell now? will it be better next year? farmland s doing great, home prices pretty stable, but the economy is an important issue in iowa. here s why. young people having a harder time finding a job and it s just this feeling of a lack of opportunity and a feeling that maybe america s best days might be behind it. that s something iowans don t like to even have to question. right? for the first time, its population was above 3 million.
2012. we were getting you up to speed on the bizarre fires. look at this man with the ponytail. he s been arrested. this is the worst string of fires in that city since the riots of 92. get this. there may be annism grags beef allegedly involved with this arrest. lots more to tell yu about that. that s coming up. he looked like he was kind of smirking in that video. a man accused of killing a park ranger is found dead fats down in a waterfall. apparently the exposure to all the cold there. the mountain is shut down as the rangers regroup and mourn the loss of one of their own. we don t worry so much that the sniper is out there. they ve shut down the search. they pretty much figure they ve got the guy. also, did you feel it this morning when you woke up or did you have to shovel it? it has been a serious cold day in the midwest. it s basically slamming us this weather. it s actually moving into the east as well. a couple feet of snow in some places in the great lak