to work with the banks more to keep them ... many of us know this could happen to anyone you can lose your job or not get financially in a bind and all of a sudden you cannot pay your mortgage ... the $26 billion mortgage settlement between dozens of states including illinois and the top five banks, bank of america j.p. morgan chase citibank wells fargo and allied financial is expected to speed up the foreclosure process by providing spit stricter guidelines for the banks to follow when repossessing homes. millions of homeowners have had to make these tough decisions between bills and mortgage payments ... many have been able to stand their homes in spite of default ... this couple hopes they will lose their home of 47 years ... we now have the sound back here you go ... i guess we do not ... this ellis family is very distraught ... a representative of the chicago realtors association says that they're trying to work with nonprofits to help keep people in their homes nancy and james ellis worked all their lives to raise their children in this home they bought it 1965 and paid it off their two sons borrowed money against the home one lost his job the other is in financial difficulty and they are unable to pay affecting the parents. the bank was not willing to refinance the loan ... which could cap the meant the househave kept them in the home ... you see these families to have done the right thing for some many years and now they're strapped they felt they bailed out the banks with the government bailout and now they're not seeing anything in return. there's a big battle happening between the banks in the homeowners >>2 children were shot and wounded in separate incidents in chicago yesterday both are 7 years old judy wang is live and oak lawn with the story crime overall is down but the numbers of homicidal shootings are of in the city for the first three months of this year to children were shot after the mayor defended his strategy for fighting crime one child is here crest medical center >> >>if anyone knows somebody please call the authorities this young boy and an 18 year- old man were shot on the 6100 block of south maple with the shooter left heading toward western the 18 year-old was shot police suspected he was an intended target and that child was a bystander the 7 year-old girl was shot and a apartment complex on the southwest side during a basketball game two men argued pull that guns and miss their targets hitting a 7 year- old girl there were children on the playground when it happened >>something needs to be done out here so many kids are getting hurt the come out to play something needs to be done we need help. >>the 7 year-old girl was taken to metro self hospital the 7 year-old boy at christ hospital and another one year-old girl a victim of a drive-by shooting are recovering here at this hospital in serious condition police in romeoville looking for the burglars who invaded the home of a 99 year-old woman. anna budzinski has been living in this home for more than 50 years on wednesday three men posing as water department workers showed up at her front door when she would not let them and they forced their way inside the men take ana and her 62 year-old son to chairs for nearly 20 minutes men ransacked the home looking for valuables they said they want money and the one jewelry when i told them i did not have any they slapped me across the face they threaten to kill us the line the man got away with $50 and some cotton tulare please have a descriptions of the suspect's but they may have been driving a black ford f 150 pickup truck 18 horses are dead after wednesday night's massive barn fire and mchenry county the death toll is expected to rise as officials sift through the rubble at the black-tie stable to horses are still missing there were spotted by helicopters but rescuers have been unable to catch them the horses that were rescued were taken to various tables in the area to recover the cause of the fires still under investigation but fire crews suspect that a barbecue grill or open burnham have sparked those flames for now they're calling in an accident a jury has acquitted and elgin homeowner of manslaughter charges in the shooting death of a teenager 18 year-old guillermo pineda was killed last summer while he and some friends were outside the home of donald rattanavong police say that rattanavong stepped outside his house and fired three warning shots at the teenagers because he thought there were planning to break into his family's cars in the air was shot had been dyed rattanavong said it was an accident the jury did convicted of reckless discharge of a weapon he faces a one-three years in prison but the judge could sentence him to probation stacey peterson has been missing for four and a half years now better words will be used his testimony against her husband in court drew peterson is charged with murdering his third wife kathleen savio was found dead in her bathtub eight years ago before stacey peterson is fourth wife vanished she told him minister that petersen killed kathleen savio and made it look like an accident a state appeals court ruled that will county prosecutors may use that hearsay evidence in court the ruling means that the drew peterson trial canal began as early as this summer the brother for rod blagojevich will meet with congressional leaders as part of their investigation into congressman jesse jackson jr. and the case against rod blagojevich in the selling of the former senate seat of president obama the chicago white sox have their home opener today rich king is live at u.s. cellular field they were three and two on the road and now their home to open the season i'm excited about the effort of these players they are fighters. as a general manager that's what i'll look for their running out every ball working hard on the field and in the pre-game and in practice they have lots of attention to detail. i sent robin ventura a message after the texas game saying that even if we lost every game there i was liking the effort of those players ... this club is confident and professional just like robin ventura as example they have a commitment to the grind and when you have that ... u.n.you win.. they pay attention and the focus is on the fight every game. adam has shortened his stroke is a strong player he will be hitting his fair share of home runs. in texas he hit one into the third deck. a heck of a teammate and cheerleader for the other teammates. glad to have him. my girlfriend is in town i had to step up the wardrobe with a tie for the opener today it's a good day sunshine warm let's hope the rain hold off till after the game ... next in the noon hour north korea makes a very rare an embarrassing admission about its rocket launch but its leader is not giving up >>a democratic strategist with the white house makes an apology to ann.romney and others after setting off a twitter firestorm and the mayor of newark is 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>>do you want intimacy or do want politeness if you one politeness you won't get to the heart of the matter i was a clinical psychologist for a 35 years in washington d.c. and my clients taught me that that city is the best place to study lying in the entire world. i saw more lawyers as a therapist over those years. the primary cause of it anxiety disorders and depression and all that stuff is being trapped in your mind and lying is at the core of this. how can you teach people to do this? >>well we need to undo some of the teaching that our society dishes out ... we are told we are as good as our performance by teachers and the like but unfortunately this is not true. who we are is the person we are at this moment right now. instead of having your mind getting in the way and confusing newyou.. always wondering about how well you are doing ... your taking power away from yourself. explain your background and your connection to the occupy movement >>i have been an activist all my life because i care deeply about people. i wrote this book and have run workshops on honesty to help thousands of people over the years to be less hurt and have powerful intimate relationships instead of phony ones. the people in the occupy movement by those who have worked hard and have faced losing everything. their hundreds of ways that the 99 percent are getting screwed by corporate capitalism or as we know what the 1%. this newest book is self published by the way i've had plenty of big time publishers and i fired them i was tired getting $1 while they got six of every book we sold ... and now this second title ... trailer trash. >>this is a story about my transformation from a tough kid with an alcoholic parent and left him a 13 a had a rough life but at the same time i believe it's not how you start out it's about getting some distance from who you are. i was a hippie for a long time involved in many social movements and i was a psychotherapist for a long time and i did well at that because i learned a lot of my identity from what my culture has talked aught... so your brutally honest how did i do in this interview? 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1:00 this afternoon 78 degrees and little rock arkansas 71 degrees in oklahoma city ... but we have what it takes for some thunderstorm development throughout the central united states we have moderate values of grass and tree pollen today it has been a bad allergy season so far temperatures in the our immediate region are in the '60s we have gusty winds going at the moment ... 60 degrees at midway airport ... the wind is beginning to blow here in the windy city we have had thunderstorms flaring in the plains states. more storms will develop as the weekend continues. we've had an incredibly dry month of april thus far but we expect maybe two and a half inches of rain and the next several days sporadically. amounts will vary widely across the area it will be all about these clusters of thunderstorms and where they are. we will be watching the storms closely we hope you join us tomorrow ... we have the fermi lab seminar coming up ... we have lots to talk about. especially last year's 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