pave the way for chicago bulls to bring back to chicago kirk hinrich back to chicago after trading kyle korver to the atlanta hawks. johnnie's ice house impressed with the men might be a man of the future including tayvo tarovinen just 70 years old head and back overseas said stan bowman is pleased with everything he saw. round two of john deere classic troy matteson is leading but it to steve stricker finding chapin very much in the picture later on a better shot at 2 audra 22 yd to the seventh and watch what happens across the green setting up a birdie. 67-10 under par all of the pace. chicago fire hoping to rebound after two-month loss fire taking on the vancouver has not scored a goal in the last two games. looking for firepower taking the field saturday night. and pretty big nfl news drew brees agrees to five year-$100 million contract new orleans saints $60 million nfl record guaranteed. every year we pick a new city to explore. but thanks to hotwire, this year we got to take an extra trip. because they get us ridiculously low prices on really nice hotels and car rentals. so we hi

what is different this year's taste of chicago festival. wgn news @ 9 new steel plant to blame damage to homes tiny south side neighborhood? special report top story. new jobs versus homes that were there first. finkl steel started in the city more than 100 years ago lincoln park neighborhood grew up around the factory. left no room for expansion moving up leading to the north side over three times the size. you hear at earthquake. and you wake up. you can hear and feel this windows shake. small tremors are constant. >> the city sold land under mayor daley 93rd at stony island to 24 finkl steel $1 revitalization plan to keep jobs >> just getting started just getting to know the neighbors and we are working very hard. construction phase challenges that we recognize stuff we are working on daily >> since construction began neighbors blamed water pipes bursting >> bricks falling windows breaking apart cracks in the concrete >> started with a small crack. literally falling apart >> strange librations mayor rahm emmanuel at city aldermen talking

chicagos unrelenting summer tom skilling in the weather center. officially the hottest july on record 142 years of weather records back to 187112 states under heat advisories' to the west wish we had some of that rainfall. tomorrow is day to 31 of 90 degrees. running almost nine degrees above normal temperatures month of july look at the expense 97 degrees today and 98 degrees at midway airport. relief up to the north will get your middle of the week back later in the weekend. still at 90 degrees thank goodness moderate to do points allowing temperatures to drop off tonight this area orange include chicago and surrounding areas keep indices over 100 pushing south on wednesday and by thursday break but not far away downstate continues to bake. forecast temperatures tomorrow the thermometer readings hundreds from the planes into chicago if we hit 100 degrees we will tie it 70 year old record in chicago area if we get above we will break that. the on wednesday and thursday the wind turns northeast question if we get rainfall in the transition worst d

governor pat quinn opening of new railcar production facility west of chicago co. of japan and testing a $50 million in the plant which will be united states headquarters facility employ 250 people metra purchasing 160 new rail cars from the plant next few years provided to the governor's illinois jobs now capital program. cook county board president toni preckwinkle announcing new business advisory council cook county headed by the aerial investment ceo john rogers and retired northern trust ceo william osborn 21 member council economic advisers turn three recent studies struggling regional economy into reforms counterpart to chicago world business chicago program to your rahm emanuel revamped to try to recruit new companies to the area still ahead tonight the parents of trayvon martin spontoon statement and george zimmerman no regrets killing their son and medical watch benefits of a good night's rest and wgn welcome mat for those guys right there zach galifianakis and will ferrell stop by the morning news today. >> with hotwire's low prices i can afford to visit

what's going on in chicago? isn't this a bigger problem than i'm led to believe by the way you describe it and the way the mayor describes it? >> i'm telling you, it's a surge. it happens in chicago right now. it happened in l.a. a few years ago. >> l.a. -- >> john, did you -- the bad years in washington, d.c. you had far more killings than. that we're one-fifth the size of chicago. it as a matter of fact, >>> predictions, pat. >> john, i think that before the november election we're going to have maybe not a war with iran, but i believe some kind of collision and some kind of confrontation. i don't think the israelis are going to attack but there's a lot of forces moving into the gulf. the sanctions i think are hurting very badly, and i believe if you did have this collision, or do have this collision, i think it will by and large benefit barack obama. >> eleanor. >> the obama campaign is really drawing blood on romney with the attacks on bane and romney's shifting stories of when he left bane, the company whic

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will you go to that in chicago? >> we have a chicago version of that and we're going to stay with what we have here in chicago. but you have to be very aggressive in making sure that the gang bangers know that the police force and the community run those streets, they don't. >> pelley: when seven-year-old heaven sutton was killed last month, caught in the cross fire, the mayor had a message for the gangs. after heaven sutton was killed you said "it's not about crime, it's about values." >> yes. >> pelley: what do you mean? >> we've got two gang bangers, one standing next to a kid. get away from that kid. take yourself to the alley, don't touch the children in the city of chicago, don't get near them. and it is about values. as i said then, scott, who raised you? and i don't buy this case where people say they don't have values. they do have values. they have the wrong values. don't come near the kids. don't touch them. >> pelley: what promise can you make to the people in the city who do worry about their safety and

live and west chicago problems with power restoration 57% west chicago neighborhoods of mostly dark local businesses traffic lights businesses spotty take a look over this shoulder unusual circumstance appears the power inside nobody is running the show. perhaps people abandoning their business dealings with the circumstances at their homes many of them open power sooner than the mayor predicts he thinks another three-four days before electricity is not including the air conditioning. picture says it all tree branches on the parkway's workers attempting to clean up the debris. west chicago outage has paralyzed the city and the culprit wind to the northwest suburbs 12:30 p.m. sunday huge trees smashed homes to disabled power lines local park left like a war zone leading people without a house. at a hotel his wife eight months pregnant home labeled condemned >> trees were falling down windows smashed and everything. my wife started to cry. not at the type of the work for the timid. >> home is not the only one. residents all over chicago cleaning up waiting for insurance companies to stop by

is the political capital of chicago and particularly the south side of chicago with the four u.s. senators tha have persisted or lease since reconstruction, you know, and most of them are from the south side of chicago. senator barack obama, and then the gentleman who was put in to replace him, all african-american. it's really a part of the paradigm of the city itself in so many ways. chicago has long been one of the most racially segregated cities in america, and so it's a paradox that segregation has led to this very compact, to mostly large black communities on the west side of chicago and particularly on the south side of chicago that have continuously delivered large numbers of black supposed for democratic party candidates and so that is one of the paradoxes of why it has this political strength. the other is that the role that blacks have played within the democratic party machine, and they rebelled from the machine particularly starting in the 1970s but many like washington who went on to become mayor started out in the political machine in daly was elected in the 1950's.

into illinois it rifle association targeting chicago urging members of chicago to scratch the city off of list of summer destinations claiming it too dangerous a warning comes after chicago expenses of unprecedented upswing in a violent crime. yahoo encouraging users to change passwords and formation of 450,000 people yahoo domain and not the only target g male hot melt and aol information also hacked. common hacked1234566 and the word pass word used by 2500 people not a threat but a warrant to supplement about the servers apologized for the incident lawsuit against westmont dealership missy elliot for backing out of the deal missy elliot entered a contract with lamborghini chicago last year to sell 2012 model bentley trade in and months later the market price for lamborghini went up lawsuit says the dealer refused to deliver the car demanded more money lamborghini chicago website features that car have to call for a price. tom skilling taking a look at the seven day forecast kind of pot. >> there are 9 tease each of the next seven days in the forecast warm but don't of air across the

the south side of chicago. of the, what, four u.s. senators that have existed, at least since reconstruction, or of the u.s. senators we have had, most of them have come from the south side of chicago. brown, senator barack obama, and then the gentleman who was put in to replace him. all african-americans. and it's really part of the paradox of the city itself in so many ways. chicago has long been one of the most racially segregated cities in america, and so it's a paradox that segregation has led to this very compact, two mostly large black communities on the west side of chicago, and particularly on the south side of chicago, that has continue continueously delivered large numbers of black votes for democratic party candidates. and so that's one of sort of the paradox of why. the other is that the role that blacks have played within the democratic party machine. they rebel from the machine, particularly starting in 1970. but many, like harold washington, who went on to become mayor, started out in the daly m

andrew was an agent in chicago at the time. he says an illegal gun may stay on the streets for decades. >> we recovered a gun purchased in the '70s. they can bounce around and be used in multiple crimes. >> guns are trafficked into illinois from 25 states because there are no gun stores in chicago. how much money do they stand to make? >> close to 100% profit on the guns they sell. in this case, gates made a few hundred dollars profit on the gun that fired the fatal shot. in the game of gun trafficking, the price of a policeman's life. the drug trafficker in this case was caught and is serving a ten-year sentence. >>> our next guest deals with this violence on a daily basis. he's a trauma surgeon in chicago. he's always a police officer. steve, good morning. >> good morning, how are you? >> i'm well, thank you. you have been working at the hospital for 13 years and you say that this is some of the worst violence you have actually ever seen. why is that? >> i think it's multifactorial. certainly, between the drug trade that is g

next stop chicago. you mentioned in the book it was almost destiny our first black president would come from this city, from this state. tell us about why that is and the role chicago politics played not only in the elevation of president obama, but in terms of helping to fair out this distinction and complex between up dependent and koa -- independent and coalition politics. displg right. as i say in the title of that chapter, chicago's the political capitol of black america, and particularly the southside of chicago. of the, what, four u.s. senators that existed, at least since reconstruction, the, you know, or of the u.s. senators we had, most come from the south dakota -- southside of chicago, obama, and then the gentleman who was put in to replace him, all african-americans, and it's really a part of the paradox of the city itself and in so many ways. chicago has long been one the most racially segregated cities in america, and so it's a paradox that segregation has led to this very compact of two

per hour wind off of the chicago shoreline. 60 mi. per hour wind area took the roof off of areas their lake breeze parallels the shoreline couple of miles inland east wind hits a west wind storm cells develop along the shoreline. these blue areas wind shear plot from the radar. she swith damage localized cook county and the northwest indiana hit by the wind out of the thunderstorms. big hot air don't dominate the united states weather storm spinning around formed in the midwest by itself gulf of mexico returning moisture north. the storms rotate. satellite view of the storms developing to the west. tomorrow we will toast again. 20 states under excessive heat advisory is. high temperature of 103 degrees. second day we broke a century old record tomorrow record 99 degrees set back in 1988 we will break that. 102 degrees on the fourth. we expect 103 degrees tomorrow. no drought relief half an inch downtown but only a little area rainfall high temperatures today 17 states record high temperatures some of the brokerage reported around the

how close to the chicago area? it does fall a little bit short but it is possible we could see heat index temperatures say around 100 to 105 degrees. here's our forecast. for tonight steamy, a few early clouds. i think most of them have gone now. so mostly cloudy skies, warm and humid, low at the time -- temperature by dawn of 68 to 74. for tomorrow partly cloudy. scattered storms. look at those temperatures. 92 to 96 degrees. and tomorrow night, a few clouds early again and mostly cloudy skies. 69 to 75-degree lows. then we warm into the mid to upper 90's on monday. there is a chance of thunderstorms once again. widely scattered or ice latted thunderstorms appear to be the best probability. the storms probably will be more widespread across our area tomorrow. in a window of say between noon and 3:00 or 4:00. and hopefully areas that haven't had any rain will get some this time. >> it has been scattered. spotty. yes, -- it's been heaviest south of i-80. we have the possibility of skier storm tomorrow so we'll watch

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last month he was caught in the chicago. police here say was a good old-fashioned police work and a little help from google that put a fugitive behind bars >> we're going to find him and we're going to put him to justice >> the double murder suspect was arrested in chicago. the global search of his name told the cops and they made a big bust... >> we have a great computer system here in jakarta and... probably the best in the country. >> he refused to cooperate... he killed two people in new york in july of 2010... >> the surveillance of videovideo shows peak... shows police behind the vehicle... he was drinking a beer and within reach of a handgun >> chicago police commander said while some may call the rest block... cause a good police workarrest good luck... he calls it good police work... >> police believe he came to chicago for a party. but they're not sure how much and he had been here. he will be back in new-york soon to face murder charges >> chicago police shot and killed a man who days they pointed a gun at officer

>>i love chicago i am happy to be here ... when this show was offered to me there weren't that many reality competition shows on the air but i thought i could use my degree in psychology with this and you get to speak to the contestants and their families in their natural environments and we are having a blast we spend time with people and you see who these people are before they get on stage it is a devoted on byvoted by the locals in the city where we are holding the competition sometimes it's all about timing or the decision that you make that fork in the road ... some people give up because they think their time has passed and it's too late but lots of people have local followings that we want to give them a shot to be before a broader audience ... >>it's interesting to see how quickly someone can become a national sensation ... i remember when i was a disc jockey you would come through the city trying to get people to hear you ... >>it is so different now but it's great because people who never would have the mechanism to

moving on the only thing i want to do is in chicago is when and i really apologize to chicago cub fans to the people here that treat me good. they deserve an apology >> very nice we invite you to be with us from cooperstown beginning tomorrow night continuing through sunday celebrating ron santo entry into the hall of fame coverage sunday evening inside the gallery at the hall of fame for celebrating ron santo 930 central wgn america. in the nba in new york next not expected to match houston astros offer for jeremy lin what affect that has on the rockets pursuit of omer asik grant held to date clippers and lakers are testing dwight howard waters let me know when he actually shows up somewhere and cowboys receiver dez bryant erupted for allegedly assaulting his mother. at 141st brbritish open begins a dicey all week could have huge of fact out there could be the week tiger woods >> couple of years stretched their not a lot of fun with four majors there just because injured figured if i was healthy i could prepare properly for major championships and get myself there >> with hotwire's lo

according to the chicago sun times, the nation of islam army has flooded the streets of chicago in order to, quote, form a human wall of protection against any sudden outbreak of gunfire. so what am i missing here? why would the mayor want help from this man, when it comes to anything? this is a man who has made more racist and anti-semetic comments i can think of. but listen to what the mayor said in a press conference yesterday. >> i think people of faith have a role to play in community leaders have a role to play, helping protect our communities, our neighborhoods and our citizens. you cannot get there on just one piece of an anti-crime stretch. the police have a troll play, pastors have a role to play, principals have a role to play and most importantly, parents have a role to play. the nation of islam has decided to help protect our community. and that's an important ingredient, like all the other aspects of protecting a neighborhood. >> sean: what exactly is your job, mr. mayor? joining me with the reaction, eric rush and the executive director of the american values institute, al

epsurge of crime in chicago. police target vacant buildings more on this strategy >> kids cannot come outside >> she knows living and her englewood neighborhood crime and violence everywhere has made her a virtual prisoner at her home was not that her son play and the park up the street because of trouble >> to not really want my son outside too much happening shootings innocent people drug dealers every corner >> right across the street from a popular ogden park on marquette road. would not take too much for street gangs to come into this building and to set up business. mayor rahm emmanuel announced increased efforts to take down abandoned buildings sometimes havens for cain's. >> these and vacant buildings where it gained bankers are handing out and drug dealers. operating from the buildings down by a vacant building serious public safety risk. create the environment that allows criminal activity to take place. >> city has identified 200 a vacant apartment buildings to be demolished or boarded up five wards ac

even chicago could be near 103 degrees. pretty rare for chicago to get all that hot. it is not like it has been cool in dallas or san antonio through the southeast. you are a little more accustomed to temperatures in the mid to upper 90s. relief in sight. the cooler air is beginning to arrive in canada, southern portions of canada, through the northern u.s. we will experience this cold, cooler air. minneapolis, 100 today to tomorrow right around 90 degrees. that's a little bit of relief for you. as far as st. louis to chicago, it doesn't look like we are going to see that happening. it looks like you are going to stay very hot. anyone on the west coast, a little bit of a warmup for you. a good change. 81 tomorrow in seattle. >>> as far as when does the big relief come? it looks like by monday, we will be done talking about it and experiencing it. st. louis, ten days in a row above 100. sunday into monday, things will cool off. lynn, i know you are heading to chicago to taste a little bit of 105. >> i love it. >> but by the time the weekend ends, even chicago will get

chicago public school officials and the chicago teachers union are expected to reject the non- binding recommendations of an independent arbitrator.. as his report is released to both sides today. wgn's tonya francisco reports: >>jean-claude brizard said that he hoped the report would help the two sides find middle ground in negotiating but what came back was clearly a disappointment ... the arbitrator's called for the teachers to get a very big race little more than 35% during the next four years mainly because of a longer school days ... officials say that will push the district deeper in debt the cps faces $665 million in deficit the raises in the first year alone would cost the district into a $30 million forcing 4000 teacher layoffs ... >>thank you for the report ... the cps in the cpu will have to do the tough work to come to agreement ... that 35 percent increase is not tethered to reality ... >>board members should have realized that teachers should of been fairly compensated for more hours of work ... the teachers were also criticized for not acknowledging how well they were c

mayor ron emanuel announcing the beginning of chicago lives healthy. it's designed to reduce the city's health-care costs with employees dealing with things like diabetes blood pressure cholesterol obesity and smoking. less than 10 percent of the city's work force drives up to 75 percent of the health-care costs. wonder kids is all about having fun and learning. sports activities and taught children which muscles that were using. back in first place the white sox send their ace to the mound against one of the american league's best coming up. the cubs to make history not any good boy though. you know what i love about this country? trick question. i love everything about this country! including prilosec otc. you know one pill each morning treats your frequent heartburn so you can enjoy all this great land of ours has to offer like demolition derbies. and drive thru weddings. so if you're one of those people who gets heartburn and then treats day after day, block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place. [ male announcer ] o

>> i don't see chicago making a law. i hear rahm image making a statement about what he wants as mayor of the city of chicago to be. i have to say as a former resident of the city of chicago, i understand what the mayor is doing and why although i may not agree with t. when you have a 39% -- >> bill: waited, wait. do you agree with not turning in aliens, all right, unless they have a criminal rap sheet? do you agree with that? >> i believe that city in the place of chicago, a state like illinois. all of the 50 states in america need to cooperate with the federal government like monica said, i will agree with one thing -- i disagree with the mayor. >> bill: instead of saying i disagree with rahm image you launch into this thing that nobody understands. >> oh, come on. >> bill: she makes an interesting point. image is not passing a law. he is just saying i'm ordering my cops, just as president obama did, because president obama really disobeyed the law, too did he not? he disobeyed the law. >> what image is did. >> is what

in chicago? >> the only thing i can think of -- we have a big ford auto plant on the south side of chicago. we have improved the real and road access to this plant. a major investment. they added a third chip. so the infrastructure mattered. it is the best exporting plants of all ford plants in the country. they added a third shift. they also make their -- will be ordering cars anyway for the police department. we gave a two. it vantage if it is made locally -- we give a 2 point advantage if it is made locally. we had a local preference to that plant. but i want also to go back. when you tally it up, it is close to $200 million to improve the efficiency of the plant. it is the best exporter in the fourth factor -- ford family of factories. to organize a trip to announce it, i have to come in a 10 minute window during lunch because they did not want me to interrupt. that is how precise the are. >> how did you get council members unanimously passed their budget? >> the chicago way. [laughter] they

the judge ordered former chicago release ald. ambrosio medrano from custody last week correctional center discharges 16 years after served more than two years in prison pay offs and the operation silver shovel scandal prosecutor said largest charging latest charges separate bribery schemes time working former cook county commissioner joe moreno also charged in the alleged plot kickbacks from companies seeking to supply bandages to stroger hospital. >> does not feel good i think this situation is different. nothing more that i can say just like to apologize to my family and those people who put faith in me when released the first time. for this predicament. >> ald. ambrosio medrano posted bond mother in law posted her house as security. reward offer to help chicago police catch hit and run driver who killed a five-year old girl witnesses said monet robinson running across the street to play with her friend speeding car hit her happened last 1500 block of millard avenue ald. michael chandler is getting the word out about $1,000 rew

there's the old town of west chicago. there is the place where this hospital longer exists, but chicagos hospital where he was born. then i looked and i saw tears roosevelt road over there. that's the whole west side. that's where my dad grew up on the eastern european immigrants, the son of a man who has supposedly fought in the first world war who started a soda pop factory that went out of business, and then was a trucker for a soda pop company. i could see where that was as well. and then as i started looking, starting the approaching, i could see other aspects of my father's life out the window of this airplane. i could see where he lived when he was a doctor, when he started being a doctor on the west side of chicago, this place called the university of illinois hospital, where he studied, where he practiced, and incidentally with the chicago cubs first baseball stadium was. i could see that out the window as well and i could see east rogers park which is where he lived with my mom, and then i could see west rogers

bill ayers can bring peace to chicago. who else is on this list of people that the mayor will go to bring safety to the streets? >> well, you know, i can't help but wonder if he would have welcomed the you can klutz clan in if they want to -- thecu klutz clan in -- the ku klutz klan -- >> that doesn't make sense -- >> validating him is validates hotdog world view. shabazz of the new black panther party who wants to kill white people, but who was under farrakhan's tutelage. this is the world view you are endorsing when you endorse him. the reason that you have this kind of social and economic squalor in the black community is directly traceable to the kind of liberal policies that emanuel -- >> that is so wrong. it's traceable to a policy of discrimination. we understand how we got here. >> i do not understand why -- [overlapping dialogue] >> black-on-black violence. is there any reason that you have to interrupt me. >> sean: all right. eric, we are short on time. we have to run here. you don't have any problem, whatsoever,

the chick-fil-a controversy keeps expanding in chicago with the chicago republican party sounding off. the latest in that debate. >> i have just spoken to another alden and whose says frankly, not so fast. he is done talking to chicago media about the chain and its founders stated position against gay marriage but first ward chicago alderman joe marino is talking to a boston radio where he voices his anti chick-fil-a stand. if they do not come up with a better plan which they don't have as of today and if they do not in my opinion operate as a responsible business which means to not discriminate against anybody you are right but i'm still confident today we will work towards a good compromise. the owner is asking for a sit-down with the mayor to sort things out and explained that this is a good business, a great fit with any lifestyle. >> if you come in with me and sit in with my husband and my team and really experience the rest on a local level and see what we're doing in the community. it turns out all the talk may be for naught. the chair of the council's owning committee says whe

and one of it's first teams was the "chicago white stockings". we had a nice run of beautiful weather and we really need some rain >>there may be some hope this weekend ... not everyone will see those showers ... 88 degrees today 91 degrees tomorrow the you mitty will be here on fridayhumid conditions will be here friday ...

chicago police and firefighters rescued 62-people, including some children. their kayaks capsized when strong winds swept over the north branch of the river. police say some of the children were screaming for help. all of the people rescued were wearing life jackets. two kayak tour companies --"waveriders kayak tours" and "kayak chicago" -- were issued citations for allowing people on the water, despite weather advisories. a 16 year old boy is in critical condition this morning after falling two or three stories in the vacant ravenswood medical center building. the boy and two other teens climbed a fire escape and entered the building at 1931 west wilson in the early morning hours. the boy was taken to advocate illinois masonic medical center with severe internal injuries. a pro-gun group will use money it received from chicago's firearm buyback program... to help fund a gun-oriented youth summer camp. the group, "guns save life" is based in downstate illinois. they run an n.r.a. kid's camp in bloomington. last month, they turned in more than 60 guns to the b

a joint effort begins today - between chicago police and ceasefire. their goal: to prevent violence among gangs. and already, "ceasefire" brings forward one suspect in a shooting. good afternoon i'm steve sanders. and i'm dina bair. we welcome our viewers who are watching us around the country on wgn america and on the web. wgn's julian crews is live on the south side with details. we are seeing a new wrinkle in police tactics in a pair of chicago districts and this is a measure of how desperate the police superintendent and the mayor are to reduce the violence with out of the box thinking and a historic new campcollaboration between police and cease-fire a mediator for gangs ... >>this is a collaboration. >>bob jackson said it works ... an 18 year-old double shooting suspect turned himself in ... but his family says it's a case of mistaken identity. the young man they say has an alibi whatever the outcome of the cease-fire roseland group says its a good outcome ... >>in a historic pilot program chicago police and the cease- fire groups will be collab

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new york city is three times as large, so what is going on in chicago? and what is being done to stop the violence? cnn's roland martin has been calling for action from the beginning. roland, welcome "outfront." you were an early voice in drawing attention to this epidemic. police say it's gang violence. but gangs exist across america's cities. what's making things explode in chicago? >> it's interesting the police are saying it's gangs. i talked to a pastor who recently convened a meeting of about 20 well-known gang leaders. what they said is that even they are trying to figure out what's going on, that part of the problem is that the gangs in chicago have become so fractured that you have pretty much folks just doing whatever they want. i know it might sound crazy. it used to be -- organized crime was called organized for a reason. but you pretty much had these lone wolfs where folks are doing pretty much whenever they want. and even the gang members are saying, man, we really can't put a handle on what the in the world is causing the outbreak of viole

here in downtown chicago ... and let's take a look at some of the wind gusts around the metropolitan area: 80 mi. per hour gusts went through crown point ... and naperville had 70 mi. per hour gusts ... 65 mi. per hour wind gusts out near woodstock. it warm front followed by a cold front is in the forecast tomorrow ... the rain full forecast is twice normal over the next seven days ... the rain will not fall evenly some areas will be hit differently. we have thunderstorm watch conditions and their advisers in 15 states for heat to the west ... thunderstorms may blow up tomorrow morning. we have pretty healthy rainfall accumulation totals in store. the next batch of rainfall will be rotating late tonight and here is the jet stream that supports the pattern ... later in the week we see eight different pattern we will get a bit cooler along with some showers later in the week. today and tonight severe weather zones are close by ... we are in the action ... we're still on the edge through thursday the cooler air shou

chicago and philadelphia notable exceptions. this funeral director who once ran chicago's jails says many young people don't expect a full life. >> in their minds they're planning their funerals. planning to see how many will come, what type of eulogy will it be? who will speak on their behalf? that's in their mindset now rather than their future. >> reporter: chicago police have called in backup. the city just received a $3 million federal grant to hire veterans as officers and next month will launch a partnership with an organization that mediates conflicts on the streets in hopes of winning back some of the peace. >> spread the message to save a life. >> reporter: cease-fire illinois literally gets in the middle of the disputes. >> come on, and walk with me, man. >> reporter: like the one that erupted while we called so-called violence interrupters. >> we have 130 staff on the streets right now in chicago. the cease-fire's role is to stop a guy from crossing the line so nobody goes to the penitentiary or cemetery. when a guy

chicago has bid on ron santo quite naturally. two other guys been to the hall at cooperstown on sunday. and he had a chance to talk to one of them today. >> ron santo goes to the hall this weekend alongside broadcaster tim mccarver and the great shortstop barry larkin. most of the best players in his position, larkin hit it with effortless styles and he did it for 19 seasons in cincinnati. >> i did try to be consistent in my playing time. i tried to be consistent in my approach to the game. the results were fairly consistent. i got that from buddy bell, pete rose. i got it from tony perez. i got it