los festejos del 4 de julio, con accidentes y violencia, mejora la seguridad en chicago respecto al aÑo >> pasado, en Últimas 24 horas tiroteos y decenas de heridos, crece el descontento por presencia de cÁmara de videos en semÁforos. los presidentes de venezuela y nicaragua ofrecen asilo a edward snowd snowden, comenzamos. >>> este es su "noticiero univisiÓn" edicion nocturna, con ilia calderÓn y enrique acevedo. >>> muy buenas noches. un dÍa de celebraciÓn, se convirtiÓ en un dÍa trÁgico para docenas de personas involucradas en accidentes, y hechos de violencia en el festejo del dÍa de la independencia. en el Área de los angeles, 36 lesionados al colapsar una estructura que sostenÍa fuegos artificiales, el recuento de los daÑos. >>> las explosiones de alegrÍa de los que disfrutaron de los juegos pirotÉcnicos, se transformaron en algunos casos en juegos peligrosos. en california. miles de personas tenÍan puestos sus ojos en el cielo, esperaban ver el despliegue de color de los fuegos artificiales, e inesperadamente, las explosiones se dirigieron directamente a los asis

you should be in chicago. since the night trayvon martin was killed, over 700 black teenagers have been killed on the streets of chicago alone. why is the 700 teens killing in chicago less important than the one killed in florida? i'll tell you why. when we talk about 700 blacks killed in chicago, we're notice going to polarize blacks against whites. i mean all the people on facebook who tweeted, how angry they were that the young black man was killed and didn't get justice do, you think they're going to head to chicago? of course not. they don't care about the death of young black kids. they tweet about trayvon martin the same way they tweet about super bowl and the freakin' oscars and they go on with their lives. one black teenager killed in florida is a tragedy. 700 black children killed in chicago is a freakin' epidemic. he's passionate and he's live with us. good morning. >> thanks for having me. >> are you concerned oughtal that one -- >> nighttime say o i'm not saying one is less important. we're making

it's known as chicago lawn, a tranquil name for a very unsettled place. this is usama cannon. >> there are people who are here who have sleepless nights because their hearts are torn apart by what's happening to the human family. there are people here. >> what's happening to the human family, and more particularly families living in desperate situations, is an obsession of rami nashashibi, a palestinian by birth. it's why he started the inner-city muslim action network, also known as iman, 15 years ago. >> i always kind of had an active bone in me, an activist bone in me, and so i was moved by the framework of islam as a powerful framework for social justice. i was moved by that. >> iman is all about social justice, about providing basic quality-of-life services that make a community a community. it's a big job even for a guy with a doctorate in sociology from the university of chicago. rami has traveled extensively and didn't become a devout muslim until he moved back home to chicago's south side. this has always been a rough neighborhood. in the '60s, i

this is not a book about chicago. this is a book about how i grew up in the business and what it's like inside the business, how we decide which reporters to cover, how we handle the trouble we have with the politicians who don't like what we are saying. spent and what it was like to be a cubs batboy. [laughter] spent that was interesting, too. >> how about some questions from you seemingly very smart and -- people? there's a microphone right there. it comes somebody. >> i was winning if you could comment on the whole olympics thing and how not getting it seemed to be the beginning of the in for mayor daley and all that went into the and whether you thought it was a good idea in the first place? >> i don't think, on the one he believes that the loss of the olympics was kind of the beginning of the and of daley. he put his heart into debt, and he should have, we should have, won the olympic. it was a great deal of politics involved in that decision. i don't think that the olympics in do you really have much to do with

could -- chicago. there is nothing like the dedication of a child of an immigrant to their studies and their this. -- purpose. they know they are here, they are lucky and this had better not get screwed up. or your i give you this young woman from yemen. she came in fourth grade. she is now at northwestern. in her home, this is a unique opportunity -- you cannot do this anywhere else. do not mess this up. that is the rejuvenation of the american dream -- people consciously left somewhere in to come someplace because they can do what they do only in america. there is nothing like the child of an immigrant trying to make something of their parents dream. x-unit have to cycle out and -- >> you have to cycle out come back. >> 126 nationalities -- that is a gold mine. i would not trade it for anything. >> you are the best political strategist in washington, d.c., that i know, and everybody is scared of you -- he did win funniest poll of the year in the improvisation thing, and that is coming up again. john

>> well, definitely chicago. i devoted a whole chapter to that, and it was from a comment i overherald from people actually working -- overheard from people actually working in a bookstore in the lansing, and they said we're all going to end up in chicago. [laughter] so it's kind of a rite of passage. you go to high school, you go to college, you spend a year or two on a low-wage job and then move to chicago, which was what i did. i followed all my friends to chicago in the mid 1990s. they just were suddenly picking up and moving during that recession. and, i mean, chicago finish there are a couple reasons. back in the '80s when i, during the period where i was reading about when stanley was losing his job, people really did think it was going to go the same way as detroit and gary and buffalo and just become a casualty. and a couple reasons were, one, it had a more diversified economy. i mean, the steel mills were only in one small part of chicago, but chicago had publishing, it had advertising, and most importa

it's here in chicago. two years before trayvon martin here in chicago, we had a young homeless man who was accused of stealing a piece of -- a small container of toothpaste, and they said he ran out of the store. he was chased by a security guard down the street. four or five people held him down, and the security guard strangled him to death. when i wrote in protest to the cook county state's attorney, she said that she was not going to press -- bow down to political charges and charge this assailant with murder. so he's walking the street. anthony kaiser preceded trayvon martin. so it's all over america. >> has there been no improvement, congressman? in the years -- you have fought this battle for a very long time, and i think some things people feel like the fact that there is an african-american president says an awful lot about this country and prejudice. >> candy, at certain levels it does. at certain levels it does. young people -- and i wore that hoodie on the congress floor, i wore that to connect

we have a lot of beautiful buildings in chicago? i want to be with the american flag. >> your life in chicago when you first got here was very difficult. you had a lot of difficult jobs that didn't pay you very much. >> five jobs. but i have a different mind set. i thought i was giving right to life. it was up to me. for the first time, so i lived in, to answer your question, wicker park and then logan squire, irving park and i'm familiar with train because i had a job as delivery person downtown. walk everywhere and knocked on every chinese restaurant, the door in downtown chicago where my legs can carry me. downtown south, outside of chinatown like wallace and 26th. then on who have stead and bridgeport. so my happiest place was 411 south houston. i had this little storage room. first time in my life i had personal space. the bad thing was, the ceiling was, the wall was not closed and the neighbor was a retarded man. if he had diarrhea in the middle of the night the stink would come through the room. i had no window. i was happy.

. >> en otro accidente de fuegos artificiales en chicago sufren quemaduras, a una persona se la amputo la pierna un cohete lanzado no se levanto del suelo y cayó en las jóvenes dicen que vieron luz brillante . >> la violenciua en chicago baja de manera considerable un periodpo más sangriento pero el 4 de julio dejó 8 muertos y decena de heridos, tenemos más con vivian . >> desde que inicio el 4 de julio la sangre tiñe chicago con saldo de 8 muertos y 30 heridos en tiroteos en la ciudad , en medio del fuego caen víctimas inocentes, critico esta jaiden de 5 años que recibió impacto de bala en estomago y pierna en parque ql al sur de chicago . >> no pueden pagar niños inocentes por que se dispara tiro eso no puede pasar . >> es que las balaveras son noticia obligada sobre todo en fin de semana, para este padre esta claro el problema . >> la ciudad de chicago tiene problemas de gangnas no de armas . >> policía dice que homicidios y el crimen bajo a niveles, de 1960 pero no hay que celebrar, para este activista con programas para jóvenes chicago puede ser la ciudad más segura d

your life in chicago when you got here was very difficult. you had a lot of difficult jobs that didn't pay you very much. >> five jobs, but i have a different mind set thought i was given the right to life. it was up to me, fortunate first time, and so i -- to answer the question, wicker park, logan scare, irvin park, and unfamiliar with the train because i had a job as a delivery person in downtown, walk everywhere, the chinese restaurant, the door in downtown chicago where my legs carry me, and downtown south, outside of china town, like, 26, and then on bridgeport, and so i -- my happiest of place was 4311 south hulsted. i had a storage room. for the first time in my life, i had my personal space. the best thing was that the -- the feeling was the wall would not close, and there was a retarded map, and if had had diarrhea, it came in the room. [laughter] i was happy. >> when you complained, he said, that's why it's cheap, it's a storage space. >> yes. my health broke down. i passed out and asended to the hospital, and doctor told me that d

how is chicago working this situation out? one thing that we're taking a lot of time and effort, we've got 30 days before the national march on washington, the date that it took place, august 28th. the 50th anniversary. we've got one month. today is the 27th? so we've got one month. today's the 26th? okay, two days. all right. [laughter] why if you and i can agree on this, why don't we work over the next 30 days e-mailing, texting and sending facebooks, communicating out and ask for aal day of non-- a national day of nonviolence in our communities on august the 28th? [applause] now, i'm, i'm not saying that that's going to solve the problem, but just going through that will make a difference in some communities. if you organize your church around just that simple idea, one day, just that simple idea organize your block, organize your school, organize the community, one day, a national day of nonviolence, and let's declare it, and let's just headache that happen. no killing -- make that happen. no killing on that day. call a ce

if i'm not mistaken this is taste of chicago week in chicago. cool place. >> i think we've got to go now. >> it looks amazing. >> take the show on the road. >> there you go. >> personal tour guide. >> we'll discuss that and be right back. first this is "today" on nbc. ♪ >>> so in case you're keeping count, there's not only a royal baby rush going on, there's also the jenna baby rush. you've got six weeks? >> yes, six weeks. >> we have a shower this week. >> a baby shower, yeah. we showered before that. >> a baby shower for you and your partner. mainly ladies, although our hair stylist and lester representing for the men. >> this was on the rooftop of the peninsula hotel down the street. what a gorgeous spot that was. >> it was beautiful. the food was fantastic. >> there's matt, natalie and savannah. meredith was there. >> we had a fun time. a really good time. >> a lovely time. >> lester, i'm sure you're not too familiar with baby showers. was it okay? >> it was okay. somebody told me we were supposed to play games. there were no games. i was

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what about what you just saw from craig's report in chicago? rod, you first. >> well, i think this should be looked at from a federal perspective in terms of hate crimes. i'm not sure, though, if it's enough to get that, but i will say this much, geraldo. if the president is watching right now and members of congress including our republicans and democrats, if they really want to have an effect on what we just saw, create jobs for people. i mean, look. i was out there in the streets just today with a group of young african-american men, and all i continued to hear was we need jobs. create jobs for people. let's balance our criminal justice system, give people the education they need to make the money they need to make, and you will see a difference in the crime rate in all communities, not just in the african-american communities. >> geraldo: ted, how about it? your final thought. >> craig, you did a wonderful story. the story, if in some kind of way, geraldo, you can get this story to the president of the united states, i think you should. cra

in chicago. they did it in berlin, rome, paris, they wanted to come to america, they did it in chicago. i happen to think chicago's the most american of american cities. we did it at von tuben high school. that's where my mother went to school. all jewish. i know, we got -- [inaudible] your high school, hi mother's high school which may explain a lot about our relationship. [laughter] but second is i introduced a young woman who is from yemen to introduce gorbachev. she is, came to america and came to chicago, fourth grade. graduating from high school, she's now at northwestern. full-paid scholarship. the student body is 126 different nationalities. that that's a reflection of what's going on, and she's fourth grade she came to america. she would never, she no more would finish fourth grade in yemen than the idea she was on her way -- because she was number one in her class, so she did the interview with you gorbachev. how can that be against our interests? she has now decided she's an american.

the fans of chicago have treated me very great. it's awesome to represent my city. >> the home-run derby taking place tonight in new york and yoenis cespedes got off to a hot start pounding out 17 home runs in the first-round. he is in a role in the finals. moments ago he has just won the home-run derby in a final round playoff with bryce harper. when chicago reporters last had contact with derrick rose in miami it was pretty much a given he would play the season opener this fall today during an event in spain he told reporters he is 100 percent physically and emotionally and confirmed he will be ready when the season begins. henry melton was franchised attacked by the chicago bears. he had six sacks and 24 hurries last season and made the pro bowl for the first time. the lighthouse for the blind a charity golf course event. the lighthouses over 100 years old. mike ditka will have his number retired by the bears this season. >> i think the offense will be much better. i do not think it will be a big falloff from the defense. this s

in chicago. and as the mercury outside rises to 98, action inside heats up for cook county investigators. >> lexus, how you doing? >> the unit now prepares to move in on a young woman advertising herself as an out of town special. >> wondering if you were available for a date this morning? >> uc veteran dan plays the decoy and secures a date. >> okay. no problem. i'm going to head that way. i'm probably like 15, 20 minutes from there. okay? >> the out of town target? a self-proclaimed sicilian latina hottie, alexis sweets, whose backpage ad promises men pleasure and delight for the night for $160 an hour. working as backup, officer bob follows decoy dan to an undisclosed location. >> then north to algonquin. >> all right, i'm just going to follow you. >> detective bob explains this in-call operation is a more complicated game of cat and mouse. the seller of sex is completely in charge. >> they tell you the general vicinity where they want you to go. you get to that spot or that intersection, then

in chicago alone.. there was plenty of reaction. at saint sabina church... father michael pfleger and parishioners held up signs with martin's name. "yesterday we saw the justice system .. fail miserably again several hundred protestors gathered at daley plaza also shared their frustrations over the verdict. they continued with a march throughout the loop... some wearing hoodies.. similar to martin. and at rainbow push headquarters.. a gathering as well.. with the reverand jackson heading to orlando to meet with martin's parents. there is a trayvon in every town... >> stay tuned for continuing coverage on the zimmerman trial verdict >> and eight year-old girl is brutally beaten and strangled... paternal grandmother is now charged with murder. a judge denied bond today for 51 year-old. the little girl was found dead friday in the apartment where she lived. she lived with her grandmother and her father who is bedridden. prosecutors say the girl had bruises and burns all over her body. relatives on her mother's side say they have been battling in court to regai

detroit just represents what's going to happen and many cities are in chicago is at risk baltimore many other cities that have these kinds of pension problems and when we're examining the. one thing we ought to keep in mind is that government employees make more than taxpayers that's why they go into the government they work less they make more they also have pensions that were unheard of in the private sector. so what they want to you know what they want to do as long as these cities can keep going if they want to. take it out of the hide of the taxpayers who again are funding these vast pensions and vast salaries for the government employees and keep sticking it to them get all their money so that these people can continue to live in the style to which they've become accustomed so it seems to me at the very least before cities reach if they're worried about going bankrupt what they ought to do before they reach this kind of a situation is cut the government salaries cut the pensions and you know live in reality why should any government employee why should the median government employ

>> chicago police have arrested this woman for soliciting prostitution. it's her third such arrest in as many months. >> just take me to jail. [ bleep ]. okay. well. i'm going to do whatever i've got to do. i don't care! right! i don't care! >> we will learn much more about her case in a moment, for stories like hers are all too common in the underground sex trade. >> public safety is our main concern, and this is not something that we want as a society. domestic sex trafficking is a crisis that occurs right here in our very own community. >> cook county state's attorney anita alvarez leads the county's human trafficking task force. a joint effort between local police and prosecutors to crack down on slavery rings in chicagoland. >> what we've seen here in cook county, the trend that we're starting to see really are the gangs. the gang structure. gang members are not just selling drugs any longer. they're selling children. and the gangs are getting involved in this because they have discovered that this is lucrative. >> alvarez's task force is one of the

>> you know, here in chicago, we have to start, and not just chicago, but inner cities across america, whether it's new york, philadelphia, los angeles. inner cities across america, one of the things that we're going to have to realize is that we can no longer sweep under the table that, under the carpet, excuse me, that we're experiencing a lot of black-on-black crime. a lot of our young black men are committing these crimes against our community, and i think we have to take more of a stand and we have to be just as passionate as it relates to these type of individuals as we are for trayvon martin situations. i see a lot of us being very passionate, very outspoken, and we should, about trayvon martin, but we also should be very passionate, very outspoken, outraged and having outcries about what we see in the inner cities every single day. >> why is that? trayvon has made national headlines for months, yet the violence in chicago rarely breaks through the national spotlight. why do you think that is? >> i think oftentimes there are a lot of people who may deem that black-on-black crim

the president went to chicago. and the president and the first lady went to chicago. they're coming now, telling him to do things he did months ago, a year ago. the pendleton family and other victims of violence were his guests at the state of the union. and while they're blah blah blah blah now, maybe they need to look at the facts, goldie. >> you know, they might do better to watch a network other than their own if they want to see this entire story. the president was also here in atlanta, speaking to, you know, thousands of african-americans at morehouse graduation earlier this spring. and in that he spoke directly to our collective responsibility to fight against many of these pathologies in our own communities. and so the president has been front and center. not only in chicago, but in d.c. and in atlanta and other cities across this nation where we do have some very real issues that we confront daily. but i simply take offense to those folks who really practiced the policies of containment, who as long as it is away from them, it is not their issue. but turn aro

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you can no more imagine that happening to a chicago bear in chicago than my doing a triathlon as soon as i leave the studio tonight. >> michael: the two of us. >> part of it has to do with incredible concentrations of poverty and hopelessness. and it's not a matter of the folks in the police department not being diligent enough. the number of guns confiscated every year. last year it was 7,000 guns confiscated. and by any ratio apples to apples comparison, let's say with new york, that is a far far greater per capita. five times per capita of guns being taken off the street, and still you have more people being killed. >> michael: what do you make of the conceal carry. will that make it more prevalent, and now what does pat quinn, the governor of illinois do. he has fought it. >> illinois, the 50th state. they're under a mandate of a federal appeals court in chicago to get this done by this week. they really had no choice. quinn, i think partly out of sort of idealism, part out of pre-campaign election year, politics decided to do with they call a mandatory detail which means he can s

there is almost a novotny chicago. chicago is more dangerous than afghanistan for americans. >> especially black americans. >> bill: right. because that's who is being killed. >> because those who decide what is important in the news don't think that african-americans and african-american life generally are important. >> bill: how can that be possible when they are so liberal deciders -- >> -- because the same people look at the same set of disparities health care and other educational disparity and say we are in a post racial era because obama got elected president. that's a false notion. >> bill: i don't believe the "new york times" and other entities nbc news are thinking that way. here is what i think. >> that's the coverage. >> bill: they are flat out afraid of the issue. they are afraid of reporting that blacks are killing blacks in chicago. >> that's patronizing and condescending. >> it is but they are afraid of it? >> whenever the reason, the fact is that it is having tremendously negative effect on the discuss

detroit sounds warning for chicago. let's ask our next guest whether chicago might be next. i loved the article and that's why i wanted you on. you made the case why chicago is not detroit yet, but you certainly sounded the warning alarm. how come? >> well, i mean, i think, you know, if you look -- it goes back to what hemingway used to say about bankruptcy. how did it happen? well, gradually and then all at once, and i think one of the things that you can take from what happened in detroit was it wasn't as if no one saw this company. they have been functionally on a balance sheet at a loss for years now, and so at some point unless things pick up treng tremendously and in a no way that anyone has a right to believe it will happen you have a bankruptcy situation. i think if you look at what's happening in chicago, and it's not unique to chicago, you know, you'll see similar columns about this written in a lot of cities, one in the "new york times" this weekend, by bill keller. you look at some of the unfunded -- underfunded pensions, to the just in the city with say the cool

and right now, ground zero, you could say, is chicago. >> now we go to chicago, and the outrage being expressed there today over mayor rahm emanuel's plan to close dozens of that city's public schools. >> one 9-year-old student at a rally had no problem giving mayor rahm emanuel a piece of his mind. >> rahm emanuel thinks that we all are -- he thinks he can just come into our schools and [ inaudible ] we don't care about these kids, but they need safety! rahm emanuel is not caring about our schools. he's not caring about our safety. he only cares about his -- he only cares what he needs. he does not care about nobody else but himself. >> joining me now are chicago public school student sean johnson and his mom. america, i want to introduce you to a family that is well invested in the fight to save schools in chicago and do things right for all students across the city. sean, good to have you with us. it's been great to get to know you over the last few days here in new orleans. i admire your tenacity and your fight, your spirit, all of it. but this young man is a very impressive 9-yea

chicago, thunderstorms, 87. dallas, mostly sunny, 96. los angeles, cloud, 87 degrees. >>> it is time now for a check of the national forecast. another day of misery for the sun-scorched eastern half of the u.s. heat advisories are once again in effect from minnesota east to maine, but the heat wave finally breaks by the weekend. expect showers and potentially severe thunderstorms from iowa to michigan, and some isolated showers in the southeast and southwest. >>> in sports, the second round of the british open is under way in scotland. zach johnson shot a 5 under par 66 to take the lead in the first round. mark o'meara and rafael cabrera-bellow are one shot behind him. woods said the course is so dry and tough he was pleased to shoot anything below par. >>> penn state university has reached tentative settlements worth about $60 million with men who have claimed to have been sexually abused by jerry sandusky. it is unclear how many accusers have come forward with claims involving the former assistant football coach. a penn state trustee s

the mayor of chicago, what is he doing? i think he's picking and choosing neighborhoods where it's unnecessary. for more, i'm joined by chicago public school activist shoniece reynolds and her son. great to have you both with us once again. how are the teachers reacting to this? this news comes as a real slam. >> it's devastating. a couple of teachers, a lot of teachers that i know that i'm close with, got phone calls only yesterday. some of them even get phone calls to their mom, not even the respect to call them. we're very devastated. we have lost 2,100 educators and paraprofessionals with the school-based budgeting. as well as the 850 that we lost from the 50 school closings. we are standing up and fighting back. we are taking action. and right now, we're just keeping in prayer with each other and keeping each other lifted. >> shoniece, are these mostly socially economically challenged neighborhoods? explain them. >> they are low income african-american communities and latino communities where the schools were closed. b

just in chicago. that's part of our history, but when you think about remittance, trade, opportunities, you think about travel, tourism, at every level we have three polish tv stations, four radio, one paper. there are streets in the city of chicago that have english and poland together. also with spanish and english. that's a huge economic opportunity if we are looking for market and for a city which is still the headquarters of what i call the flat roof manufacturing kind of 50, 75, 100 that doesn't have an export strategy because these are family-owned businesses, the historical immigrant roots is a huge economic opportunity not just for what the city does, but for what it can export. that's one way we are going to grow. you can go on, but those -- >> let me ask you -- >> i need the federal government to change a process. short of that through the new american office, the library, driver's license, dream act we have done what we can do short of the federal government finally doing the final bit. >>

number one in the chicago area, 1,000 vacant homes or abandoned lots. unemployment, about 40% force adults 50,% for youth. they've closed public transportation. they've closed public housing, closed private housing, guns in, drugs in, and jobs out. that is an emergency. we need a real comprehensive urban reconstruction now. we need targeted jobs right now. >> neil: don't you need an environment that makes it a good environment to have jobs? to either lower taxes or invite businesses in so they take the risk and feel it's worth their while, but if the environment is dicey or they feel they have an oppressive situation, and city rap on illinois the tacks are high, and a lot of the guys say the hell with it. >> well, unemployment is less than 6%, one side 40%. there's a disparity there. in that area of 3,500 americans die a year from lack of -- they're closing hospitals and closing schools and driving profit, poverty, -- poverty, and in this area of desperation, people are painfully desperate. >> i can understand that but the rap against the programs we sp

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back in chicago tonight, john, what was the financial news out of the city of chicago today? >> reporter: well, moody's gave a big hit to the city's credit rating, knocking it down three pegs. moody's mentioned not only a $36 billion unfunded pension obligation that the city has, but interestingly, they also mentioned the gun violence that's been plaguing this city. chicago, from the beginning of the year through may, has paid $40 million in police overtime. brian? >> john yang on the news from chicago today and of course, the very bad news out of detroit. john, thanks. >>> in texas today, governor rick perry signed into law some of the nation's toughest restrictions on abortion. the new law bans abortions after 20 weeks and requires clinics to make big upgrades. already, planned parenthood says it will close three of its clinics in texas. the law takes effect in about 90 days. and in the meantime, opponents say they will challenge it in court. >>> a great deal of frustration heard today about the civil war in syria, as u.s. military leaders told congress and washington the a

also, i want to stay on the mailing list at chicago pizza explosion. how fast can you turn it around? who, me? oh, right. i'll fly back in the morning. i never get put in a jury. i wear my princess leia costume, and they dismiss me immediately. well, that sounds good for both of us. thank you very much, sir. ha. that last part didn't work both ways. you said sir. i think it worked fine.

but so far 204 people have been murdered year-to-date in chicago. we are going to be talking about that with juan williams and jamie green. we will talk about why there has been such conspicuous absence in the city of chicago on one of its most important issues coming up next. lou: edward snowden is still stranded but he holds what he thinks is an insurance policy. k.t. mcfarland joins us next. lou: we want to quickly bring you up-to-date on two very important stories. tens of millions of americans are under under the grip of the dangers he waved that stretches from maine to the ohio valley. forecasters now warning that belief in this heat is in the mid-to high '90s across that stretch and likely won't come until the weekend, making matters somewhat worse. across much of the northeast expected to be only in the low '80s compounding the heat for the following day, of course. on capitol hill the senate has met behind closed doors and the meeting as a last-ditch effort stripy meeting on filibusters. harry reid has threatened to invoke a procedural move

so -- bill: take that example of chicago. >> yeah. bill: if chicago is watching how this judge decides in bankruptcy, how could that affect the people of chicago or any other town that is in a similar scenario now? >> well, for example, rahm emanuel, as you know is the mayor of chicago now, has been telling the unions now for the last couple of years, look, we've got to renegotiate these pensions. we've got to do something to make sure we don't look at a detroit scenario. another big city is oakland that is in a lot of financial trouble. one of the ways to kind of divert the bankruptcy option is deal with the problem of pensions now. the tragedy of detroit they have known for 15 or 20 years that this day was going to arrive. the unions wouldn't renegotiate the contracts and guess what? the only option if you're not going to renegotiate the contracts and you can't pay your bills is the bankruptcy option which is what a lot of companies and households use if they can't pay the bills. bill: you have an arbiter that decides the fate and f

but i've got to hand it to the chicago sun times, a paper renown for usually being available from the trib is sold out. they have managed to cut costs without laying a bunch of people off from every department. everybody from one department. >> the chicago sun times is laying off its entire staff of photographers. >> they ave laid off as many as 30 people in their photographic team there. >> stephen: yes, the entire photography department was laid off or, assthe sun times reported it, photo not available. but the paper will continue to have greaa photojournalism because reporters are now required to learn i-phone photography basics. but only the basics like pressing the button. if the sun times is still around in a week, the reporters can move on to the advanced stuff like using the flash and asking flood victims to say cheese. of course there are those who think firing photo journalists in favor of i-phones is a bad idea. for example, fired photojournalist and pulitzer prize winner john h. white who claims it's not possible to have reporters replace photographers. >> you can't take s