we think the area is going to be a dramatic change, it will be a district unto itself within the community, it'll be a place wh en we get done with the stores and shops and other ammenities, that people will want to come back and return to." the club house for this 40 million dollar housing project is expected to be open sometime in may. with the first building hopefully coming to completion soon after in june. from that point forward, developers hope to finish at least one building a month. developers say since construction began, business in victorian square has been impacted from the workers alone. and they expect this boom too feel even more evident once there are nearly 500 people living in the sparks downtown district. "one of the goals of the city of sparks as well as us is to energize and populate downtown sparks, so things happen and that's what's really going on here." developers hope to have

beginning of next year. covering money watch live in sparks, ryan canaday channel two news. it's been two years and one month since the ascuaga family sold the nugget to global gaming and hospitality. and in the next few months -- the property will change hands again. the current owners say they had no intention of selling the nugget -- but marnell gaming made an offer that made sense to them. the group owns two resorts in laughlin -- where it has invested about 70-million dollars in the last decade. the company's chairman says he'll do the same here -- with plans to renovate 800 hotel rooms in the west tower -- as well as the convention area, casino and showroom. marnell "we don't anticipate a lot of quick moves. this is long term. anybody, i think, that knows us, we don't sell much. we're usually buying things or building things." about 13-hundred people work at the nugget, and marnell says the change of ownership won't affect

conditions will stay dry and quite warm through the president's day weekend, although the ridge of high pressure responsible for the aforementioned will be flat enough to allow variable amounts of cloudiness to pass over the great basin. friday's high temperatures will approach record levels and will stay in the 60s throughout the weekend. there is increasing indication that a storm will move through the region next wednesday and thursday bringing high snow levels initially, which will drop to near but likely

thanks mike. the reno fire department says pepper spray triggered the evacuation of a starbucks in south reno. hazmat teams responded to the store on damonte ranch after four people complained of having trouble breathing. firefighters are still investigating where the pepper spray originated from. the store will reopen later this evening. in crime beat... reno police arrested a suspect in connection with a robbery in stead earlier this week. after a brief standoff... police arrested 39-year-old wesley ford from a home in stead last night around midnight. he's charged with robbery with a deadly weapon, grand larceny and possession of stolen property. police say he entered the maverick gas station on stead

and showed a handgun before taking money from the clerk. officials now say he was the one involved in an incident tuesday... as police approached his home in stead, ford allegedly stole a vehicle and fled police, resulting in 3 schools being locked down. officers thought the suspect in that incident was 19-year-old rylin wolfe-who lived with ford- but they now believe wolfe was not involved and it was ford all along. this is a photo of wolfe from an unrelated arrest. and reno police are also investigating a burglary at the junior achievement offices on tuesday. police say the suspects used rocks to break into the facilty on west sixth street after cutting a chain link fence. the owner of junior achievement says the thieves stole multiple servers... printers and phones. and the losses totaled thousands of dollars. if you know anything that can help police call secret witness at 3-2-2 49-hundred or text your tip to 8-4-7 4-1-1. retail theft schemes are getting

the truckee meadows...and it goes far beyond shoplifting. john potter shows us the organized retail crime alliance that's been formed to combat theft in our stores. ken lightfoot has been fighting crime his whole career.first as a sparks police commander, now as the loss prevention manager at scolari's. he says there's been a change in retail crime. schemes are becoming more sophisticated...of ten going online. lightfoot: "they'll take the merchandise that they stole and sell it on ebay, or sell it to another person who will sell it on ebay." and according to sparks police, retail theft these days goes far beyond shoplifting. rodrigue: "shoplifting, in the current statistic that i read recently, is only about 58% of the loss to retail. a lot of it

exchanges at the store..." john: "there's id theft, and credit card theft. the recent sophistication in retail theft, means stores are seeing new trends from thieves. here at scolari's, they've seen people looking around the parking lot...for cash register receipts." lightfoot: "now once i have a receipt, i'll check on it and see what its worth what i think is a good amount of money. i'll then go shoplift it..." ...and then bring both that item and the receipt for a cash return the next day. the losses drive up costs for retailers, which then get passed along to you the consumer. rodrigue: "a lot of these groups are so sophisticated, that they'll actually send people out with shopping lists of what they need or what they want to be stolen." 8 years ago, sparks police started a program to share information among stores about what thieves are doing. surveillance photos are shared... rodrigue: "the photographs, as soon as they download the information, immediately gets distributed to the other locations and other retailers."

stores now numbers over 70. competitors working together, and all sharing the tricks of the trade.to outsmart today's crooks. covering crime watch, john potter, channel 2 news. you can also join the northern nevada organized retail crime alliance to share information and stop crime. the meetings are held every month at the sparks police department. the program also has its own website. you can hook up with that by clicking the blue button for the link, at k-t-v-n dot com still to come on channel 2 news at 6-30.... police officer training can be rigorous....and painful. we'll have part 2 of

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welcome back... training to become a police officer is rigorous, demanding and exhausting. it can also be painful! but northern nevada law enforcement academy recruits say it's worth all the blood, sweat and tears. and as kristen remington found out... there were lots of tears on training day in particular. ...recruit being pepper sprayed... "alpha, beta, gamma!" gasping for breath, the training exercise continues. while coughing and gagging, recruits must push through the pain of being pepper sprayed... and then

ana leyva watches the others - academy recruits say it's worth all the blood, sweat and tears. and as kristen remington found gasping for breath, the training ana leyva watches the others - ahead of her turn. "give them verbals. please don't move!" and then, it's time for ana to go, leyva!" "you can't stop your eyes from swelling up. you can't stop the pepper spray from getting into your lungs. so it's really difficult." "knees, knees!" although her senses were compromised, she was forced to fight off a threat... before, like the other recruits, cuffing a suspect. the rationale? staff trainers say police need to how to react after being exposed to pepper spray - if ever exposed on the streets. they can't give up. "scrub your hands. scrub your face. all the way around." "it was definitely hard and it was a challenge and you have to fight through it. that's the point of the training; to show you you can and we all did." ...shooting... david deal agrees. and he welcomed the pressure,

only make him stronger for real life scenarios on the streets. "that's when you're going to be handling guns - in stressful situations." and along with all the skills he's learned... "you, call 911. you, bring me an aed!" compressions. david's most grateful... for the camaraderie between these recruits. the cadet pride run rounded out the academy; running together through neighborhoods they'll soon protect. "it was a great experience. just running through our community and seeing everyone. we got a lot of cheers." and even more on graduation day. ...clapping... when 22 cadets earned their badges. from recruits - to now rookie officers - ready for their assignments and to make our community a safer place. covering the story, kristen remington, channel 2 news. mike will have a look at your forecast next....

city had a new mayor today. we'll introduce you to the temporary mayor of reno...after

the slopes can now use drones to record the action. what crews at squaw valley have to welcome back... reno had a new mayor today... though briefly. mayor schieve: "yay everett! give me a hug! you made it! you made it! you didn't have to campaign that much!"

schieve read an official proclamation naming everett mayor of reno for the day. the unique experience was thanks to his adopted parents, who recently attended the s-p- c-a's annual charity event "an affur to remember". charlie hadwin/spca of northern nevada: "they bid to raise money for the spca and in turn they had their dog become mayor of the day." after the proclaimation everett appeared for several photo opportunities before heading to the s-p-c-a to be retired and get a dog bed, bowl and large bag of dog food. conditions will stay dry and quite warm through the president's day weekend, although the ridge of high pressure responsible for the aforementioned will be flat enough to allow variable amounts of cloudiness to pass over the

temperatures will approach record levels and will stay in the 60s throughout the weekend. there is increasing indication that a storm will move through the region next wednesday and thursday bringing high snow levels initially, which will drop to near but likely just above the valley floor on conditions will stay dry and quite warm through the president's day weekend, although the ridge of high pressure responsible for the aforementioned will be flat enough to allow variable amounts of cloudiness to pass over the great basin.

approach record levels and will stay in the 60s throughout the weekend. there is increasing indication that a storm will move through the region next wednesday and thursday bringing high snow levels initially, which will drop to near but likely just above the valley floor on conditions will stay dry and quite warm through the president's day weekend, although the ridge of high pressure responsible for the aforementioned will be flat enough to allow variable amounts of cloudiness

friday's high temperatures will approach record levels and will stay in the 60s throughout the weekend. there is increasing indication that a storm will move through the region next wednesday and thursday bringing high snow levels initially, which will drop to near but likely

coming up in sports, the wolf pack men pulled off the season sweep of air force last night.... we'll hear from coach eric musselman on his team's

"now here's sports director garrett dearborn with channel 2 sports." head coach eric musselman says his wolf pack team is playing top knotch defense...and it showed in last night's win over air force.

in this one up 4, cameron oliver pokes the ball away, dives for it and gets it to lindsey drew....to elijah foster....and he's got the big dunk...foster a career high 11...the pack shot 52-percent and the pack defense held the falcons to a season low 52 points while they shot only 33- percent.. in a 72-52 win....and like i said, head coach eric musselman is pretty happy with that. so from a defensive standpoint i don't know if we can play any better defense then we have over an extended period of time. this team, defensively is really really good. its been our focal point all year.so you know we've been a great defensive team. we just have to take that into saturday night against fresno state. as marqueze said, next up the pack will look to take down fresno state at lawlor...tip set for 4 on saturday. the atlantis race and sports book says manager steve mikkelson made a little history today. for the 10th straight year he's

put up odds for the upcoming major league baseball season. and his favorite? the giants with 90 total wins on the season. being a big sports fan i fallow it year round. so i mean i'm constantly following the transactions and everything. but when we hit this the last 3 days. that's all i've been doing to get ready for it. i finished up last night about 10:30 at night and ready for today. so, it does take time but again it's a labor of love. the first games of the season are april 3rd....official opening day is april 4th. thanks garrett. next, mike will have a praised as one of america's best mayors who governed as a pragmatist.

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the world a president has to grapple with. sometimes you can't even imagine. that's the job. and she's the one who's proven she can get it done. ...securing a massive reduction in nuclear weapons... ...standing up against the abuse of women... ...protecting social security... ...expanding benefits for the national guard... ...and winning health care for 8 million children... the presidency is the toughest job in the world and she's the one who'll make a real difference for you.

next, mike will have a final look at your weather.

>> welcome to whiz kids week. we've got a bunch of amazingly smart young people with us today, all of them determined to win that $1 million. personally, i would love to see them do it, so let's play "who wants to be a millionaire." [dramatic music] hey, everybody. i'm chris harrison. welcome to the show. are you guys ready to play "millionaire" today? [cheers and applause] good, because we're in the middle of a great game with a great kid. our returning whiz kid is a 12-year-old inventor who has already built three robots that help him around the house. today he's on his own as he continues his journey to the $1 million. from canton, georgia, please welcome back chandler stevenson. [cheers and applause] chandler, welcome back. >> thank you.

>> good to see you too. >> welcome back. so what grade are you heading into? >> i'm already in seventh grade. school already started. >> seventh grade. and if you won $1 million today-- 'cause now you're heading up that money tree-- what would you do with it? >> um, i'd set aside some for college, but then i'd also love to start my own robot business, making robots that help people around the house, such as helping kids with homework, laundry, and cooking. >> robots to do your homework for you. >> no, just helping you with it. >> oh, like a tutor. >> okay, that's the story we'll stick with. 'cause your teacher's watching. >> [laughs] >> well, let me tell everybody how good you've done so far, and you have done terrific. right now you're at $7,000. you're 8 questions away from the $1 million. [cheers and applause] you have all 4 that's right, there's 4 lifelines. there's a special whiz kids "cut a question." if you run into something