Luckily there brain drain to this time but with every drop this morning there was worried. And fear that the drainage system would not keep up. Many residents lost sleep over it. I am so relieved. I even got up early this morning to see how bad it was. Was up at about 2 00 in the morning just making sure. That is because their basement is newly repaired from getting flooded out two weeks ago. But nearly half a foot of water ruined a computer and the flooring dow was back on august 22nd when a similar strong bursts storm caused this. A severe flash flooding which even track to them and many residents in their homes. This time there is lighter and slower precipitation so lot less homeowner pain from the rain. Was not olive one time the rain. Last time we got like 3 in. In one hour. That was a lot. Despite no flooding here today many residents still plan to attend a burbank Board Meeting tonight to sound off about persistent flash flooding problems around here. Many are always worried about the next time. Chicago firefighters and cta had to deal with the pounding rain responding to a minor Train Derailment on the westside right in the middle of the morning rush. Tonya francisco has more. Cta is calling this a miner Train Derailment but when you combine the weather with the morning rushhour it made for more people on the train which made for a harrowing commute for 400 people heading to work and school. There was a big loud noise and my candle went flying high wind up in the air. But i left passengers on the inbound blue line train wondering what is going on . Just felt like a pop. And then you saw the smoke and use of the sparks. The Fire Department says just after 7 00 this morning they got a report of a person under the train just east of the pulaski station. When firefighters arrived no one was found instead they discovered the train had derailed. It was a part of the train came off it derailed a 1 wheel on the second car. Fire department immediately shut down the power to the train and moved all 400 passengers to the back for cars disconnected those cars a move that portion of the train back to the station. No one was hurt but she gladly accepted a ride up the ramp from firefighters because of the previous knee injury that made it more difficult for her. When it happened it was like what . What is going on . Passengers had nothing but praise for the crew. Conductor did a good job about announcing to everyone what was going on. Our train driver was excellent. The cta and the police and fire everybody was good. It was an inconvenience that nobody was hurt. Trade for stopped for about two hours and shuttle buses were put in place to get people around the pulaski station. Trains are running once again that the Investigation Continues into exactly what caused the train to derail in the first place. The weather has forced ohare and midway to delay in cancel some flights. Right now ohare Officials Say they have only minor delays but they have canceled more than 280 flights. Midway reports minor delays as well they canceled two dozen flights. If you are expected to fly out today as always a recommendation is to check your flight status with the airline. We will continue to attract heavy rain and also check the latest radar conditions on our website wgn. Com aw weather. Also make sure you download are free whether application and traffic applications. And people charged in a machete attack on the brown line. A Security Camera captured the attack at 12 35 pm on monday. On the platform of the brown line stop in albany park. A group of suspects approached a 17 yearold boy and 26 yearold man. When the victims denied they were in a gang one of the suspects swan the machete cutting the 26 yearold on the head and neck. An approaching train the scare them off but they were caught nearby a short time later. For men and three juvenile star charged. This hour and bond corp. Accused and charged in the grouping of two women on the cta train. One of the victims told police she was touched inappropriately on a train. He is charged with three felonies including criminal sexual abuse. Chicago City Council Meeting today for the First Time Since july. One of their first orders of business is honoring the citys Little League heroes. Robert jordan is live at city hall with more. You can imagine after being on a brief hiatus in the summer there was a lot of business to take care of today and the City Council Meeting but all the sudden they decided to stop and have some fun and honor the citys newest winning team. [applause] when they made the final out and won the Little League world series the Jackie Robinson west players went from obscurity to national champions. Since then the celebration has not stopped and the boys are living a dream. They just returned from disney world where superstars go to on wind and have fun. But today they are at the center of attention at the Chicago City Council or the mayor are giving them top city honors. I congratulate you i am very proud of you. On behalf of myself and the 31st ward congratulations. Is not easy to play hooky from school with the superintendent and mayor looking non but when you have brought the city in Major National championship everyone kind of looks away. We appreciate everything that you all have done. God bless you. In other news they are trying to put the brakes on efforts by realestate developers to do away with a single room occupancy buildings. If somebody can get a permit to change them to condos or apartments overnight without any input from the community and what we would like is a little more time to work through those with community organizations. And he wants to raise the speed limit on one road in his ward where speed cameras have caused the issuance of 40,000 tickets. There are no accidents. No people around. No parks or schools so i figure we needed to change the speed limit and still only the most of those tickets. As you can imagine they tell me that this whole issue of speed cameras is very high on the list of grievances that they receive from their constituents. He tells me that 52 percent of the speed cameras on the southside and 48 on the north side. Community alert in chicagos west lawn neighborhood after a man exposed himself and try to lure a girl into a pickup truck. It happened yesterday afternoon. The man parked in an alley on west marquette and approached the back gate of the house. The girls grandmother saw the suspect removing his clothes and she yelled for neighbors to call 911. The man took off in a black fourdoor pickup. The mother of the Chicago PublicSchool Student suing cleaning her daughters teacher touched inappropriately last year. Allegedly took place at the scott joplin middle school. The lawsuit claims the teacher touched the girls breast and to several girls receive sexually explicit Text Messages from the cps employee. The teacher was not named in the lawsuit was fired in may. Cps officials have not commented on the lawsuit. Teachers at the top Suburban School district to authorize a strike for more money. The school board for hinsdale central and south highschool is offering the teachers a small perrys. Their average pay as 105,000 a year. The teachers say the offer is not enough and theyre prepared to walk just before homecoming weekend next month. Officials say they are prepared for the plan to keep the schools operating even if there is a strike. New roles as several chicago area hospitals to stop a respiratory it virus from spreading. Advocates Christ Hospital glycerine general and Loyola University medical centers are not allowing children under 18 to visit patients. Adults with cold like symptoms are not allowed either until further notice. Doctors are concerned about enterovirus which has put children in intensive care units in more than a dozen states across the u. S. So far there are no confirmed cases of those hospitals but they do suspect dozens of patients may have the virus. And i opening investigation from expired antiviral medications to unusable respirators. Why the u. S. May not be prepared for a Global Medical pandemic. Nfl commissioner responds to the criticism of the leagues handling of the re rice scandal after the violence elevator video surfaced on line. The president outlines his plan for isis militants as a colorado teenager is charged with supporting the terror with supporting the terror group. E. Mereh x ta. At other a five will be charged with murder of all have as children. He is being held in mississippi on child neglect charges after he led police to a remote site in alabama where the childrens bodies were found. They were reported missing last week. Please notice evidence of a crime when he was arrested on saturday of the drunk driving charge. He is awaiting extradition to South Carolina where he will be charged with murder. He was divorced and shared custody of the children with his exwife. The verdict in the Oscar Pistorius trial is expected tomorrow in south africa after six and half months of testimony. The olympian is charged with premeditated murder of his girlfriend. He admits shooting her but says he mistook her for an intruder. He faces up to 25 years in prison if hes found guilty. Breaking news in 1901 and from colorado please guilty to providing support to isis and alqaeda. She was arrested back in april at Denver Airport as she tried to travel to syria. Authorities searched her home and found videos of lectures by an american born Islamic Militant and videos by other jihadist. She is sentencedwill e sentenced in january. President obama will share tonight primetime tv address his strategy against isis militants. His mission will include more airstrikes against extremists in iraq and providing military training and assistance to moderate rebels in iraq and syria. The white house says these plans will help to create and destroy isis and have the support of congressional leaders. The president said yesterday he has the authority to carry out this strategy without their approval buddy wants to have a united front. Watch it wgn for the president s televised address tonight at 8 00 we will carry it live right here on wgn as well as our website wgn. Com. Secretary of state says the u. S. And the world will not stand by and let isis spread its evil. He made the comments during a visit to iraq. His first up and they tore across the middle east. His trip is designed to win over support of arab countries in the fight against isis. He said the u. S. And 40 other nations are working together to provide humanitarian and military and other assistance to the iraqis to help them fight the extremists. He met with direct new Prime Minister and called the approval of the new government a major milestone. Nations highest civilian award was bestowed today in honor of the american killed in the september 11th attacks. A ceremony at u. S. Capitol three congressional gold medals were presented honoring the Fallen Heroes of 911. It will go on display at the flight 93 National Memorial in pennsylvania. The museum in new york and the pentagon memorial in washington dc. Tomorrow marks the 13th anniversary of the 911 attacks. As Congress Gets back to work after to break one of the Top Priorities is the ongoing crisis involving children who crossed the u. S. Southern border without their parents and are waiting immigration hearings. Nearly 30,000 unaccompanied in the grandchildren were sent to live unsponsored homes during the first seven months of this year. Nearly 3000 were placed in homes in texas. Highest in the country. Texas republican senator is urging congress to use all means necessary to prevent president obama from granting what he considers amnesty to more immigrants or in the country illegally. Commissioner is defending his leagues reaction to the second video of rice hitting his then fiancee. Rice and his wife held a News Conference in may to make apologies. It came after Surveillance Video in february showed rice and dragging has been fiancee out of an Atlantic City hotel elevator. In charge of discipline in the star players suspended him for two games and fined him now a new video from inside the elevator shows rise and knocking her out with a powerful punch. He says he first saw the video on monday and acknowledged he fumbled the initial punishment. To know i second tape existed . We had not seen any videotape of what occurred in the elevator. We assumed it was video. We asked for video but we were never granted that opportunity. The question becomes did the nfl dropped the ball or was the nfl willfully ignorant about what was on this tape . Certainly did not know what was on the tape but we have been very open and honest and i have also from two weeks ago when i knowledge that we did not get this right. That is my responsibility and i am accountable for that. He also said he is not going to step down and that criticism is an everyday part of his job. Former stripper is suing Dallas Cowboys owner accusing him of sexually assaulting her five years ago. The lawsuit is seeking more than a Million Dollars it was filed monday in Dallas County alleging he attacked the women in may or june of 2009 and he and the cowboys and her not to reported to police. The lawyer for jones calls the allegations false. Nfl Players Union held off its vote on new drug policies. Representatives planned vote last night but had issues with the latest offer. Sticking points include testing for Human Growth Hormone and other players can be punished for dui arrest instead of convictions. There reportedly some agreements on raising the threshold from marijuana testing and removing and amphetamines from the leagues performance enhancing drug policies. Union reps could still hold a vote today or wait until next year. Just ahead of warning to parents about the alarming amount of salt children are consuming. While pay you may see the pan will icon continuously today is to load web pages of your computer. All for a good cause were in the you got the bargain kind . All for a good cause were in you would need like a bunch of those to clean this mess. [ kc ] youre probably right. Hi, cascade kitchen counselor. 1 pac of cascade complete cleans tough food better than 6 pacs of the bargain brand combined. Cascade. Beyond clean and shine. Every time. Lookin good, flo feelin good feelin real good [ engine revs ] boat protection people love. Now, thats progressive. Call or click today. Stocks cut earlier losses and trading higher today as the dow and s p were looking to break a 2 day losing streak. Threeway takeover battle is brewing to create a massive retail chain of dollar stores. Dollar general tried to buy the Family Dollar store chain twice but was turned down however Family Dollar recently except at a lower bid from dollar trade so Dollar General has launched a hostile takeover bid and is going directly to Family Dollar stores shareholders to get approval for a 9 billion deal. Family dollar has said the deal from Dollar General would have problems getting regulatory clearance because of antitrust issues. The flea joined an exclusive club and its value past the 200 billion mark. By tuesdays close shares fell slightly as it dipped just below the market again but it is a big deal for facebook. They hit the mark just two years since its initial Public Offering faster than googled microsoft and apple and also surpassed Major Companies like cocacola and even disney. Facebook stock is up more than 40 this year largely due to mobile ad sales. Top Web Companies joining a protest today called internet slow down day. Web sites like netflix are fighting for net to neutrality meeting Internet Provider should treat all web content equally. Fcc proposal would allow broadband providers to grant paying customers faster service. Today dozens of lead companies will place a loading pin will icon on their website to show the internet would move slowly if approved. Do not worry it will not be moving slowly it is just part of a demonstration. The bears are back in practice today but these two guys likely not going to join them. Popular medications researchers now say contribute researchers now say contribute to alzheimers disease. 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Finishes at the other end. This guy loses an 9678 the largest margin of defeat in the history of the wnba finals. They will return home for an Elimination Game no. 3 on friday. Team usa facing slovenia in the quarter finals. It and the first blows by everyone for a signature layups. He finished with 12 points off the bench. U. S. Up big in the fourth when rose crosses over. He improved with six for 10 shooting. Team usa wins 11976. They play lithuanians in the semifinals tomorrow. Up a run in the fifth. 3 for 4. 21 in the second. Bluejay is bases loaded. Everybody scores. They add five more in the eight. The cubs lose 92. The sox going for backto back wins against oakland. The sox down a run in the fourth. Ketches a grounder to third. The sox had five errors. Same score next inning. Sox lose 115. John danks has not to run in the last month and half. Still to come month and half. Still to come a1 im the rain came down. As heavy as it was here nothing like it was out in western illinois or missouri. Over 7 in. Over night and over 10 in. In parts of missouri and the last couple days. Shops like this and insight on the day like today. Just what kind of clouds are producing downpours like we saw. This was not in flight from florida to midway airport. This shot of our super harvest moon through a telescope. That is a great shot. This cries out danger stay away. Was takintaken arlington heights. Unusual is the shot that clearly depicts the rain and hail falling out of a thunderstorm. That is what we have here. He says he sees to angels dealing with a little double in this cloud formation. What do you see . I must confess i do not see what he is seeing. A beautiful shots even so. Finally this picture this morning he says i have a new lakefront property. Standing water from what came down overnight has traded flooding across the area. We still have clouds and spotty showers coming across the area. Were not totally done with iran this afternoon in the big story is a much colder air that comes in the next couple days. This was the wettest storm in three weeks in the chicago area. Late october temperatures in the coming days. Even some lake affect rainshowers tomorrow night and friday as the wind blows down the lake. Six days at for five days in a row coming our way. Here is a whole history of the rain system that came through here. That is a 24hour movie. Yesterday there were reports of up to 13,000 cloud to ground lightning strikes and just an hour between 5 00 and 6 00 last night. Heaviest in missouri and western illinois. We got heavy rain here but nothing like missouri that sought 10. 6 in. Of rain. In our area over 2 in. That is the view from the north side from Edgewater Beach looking down. A look at the standing water there. There are a little breaks in the clouds out west. They produce a peek at the sun this afternoon. Showers are quite scattered. They will die out tonight. We start getting lake affect grain going to michigan. These will shift the west into our area tomorrow night. Look how much rain we have had this year. This is a big story evolving. We have flood warnings with flood watches south. Flood watches out to the west and north. But these are winter storm warnings. This going to snow in the mountains of montana and wyoming even into the black hills in western south dakota. It is going to get school the next couple days. Temperatures are dropping by double digits to the north. A sign of things to come. Look at the wind at that will be blowing. They will shift to the northwest later today and blow tonight and tomorrow. Turning around to the northeast by tomorrow night and friday and that is when we start getting lake affect rain showers to come into the chicago area. You know when we start that process autumn is under way. Potential down fours are giving way to sporadic showers the rest of the day. Hightemperature 76. It will be breezy. Tonights turning partly cloudy windy and much cooler. Lower humidity as well. Tomorrow a mix of sun and clouds and much cooler. Friday clouds and a few light showers 62. A carbon copy of that on saturday. And little bit cooler in the wake of our big rain. We are going to get amore warm weather right . It is not over yet. Yoco you know. Theres a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. Try phillips fiber good gummies. Theyre delicious and an excellent source of fiber to help support regularity. Mmmm. These are good the tasty side of fiber. From phillips look crisis is now a dire emergency and liberia. Solid figures not available but thousands of new cases expected in the next three weeks. It beds have run out and that is contributing to a rise in infection. Overall death toll covering all countries jumped to 2901 day. There now about 4300 cases reported as of september 6th. Theres a for the american patients being treated in atlanta. 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We all have preconceived notions of various foods that should go together and those that do not and these look like they do not go together but i guarantee you i will be wrong. A guarantee you i will be wrong. A unique combination. E. Mereh x tt pairing local protest vote with at german food culture. You have a big fundraising event to you are working on the folks can come and help out others. Cooking up a cure. His father passed away from the disease and 92 so we set up this fundraiser and hes been doing it for about six are seven years now. Great Jeff Community in chicago. For those of you do not know it is one of these diseases that is so painful. A group of auto immune diseases that affect the connective tissues. Your skin hardens and impacts your arteries and blood vessels as well. It hits all tissues. And there is no cure so it is really important what you are doing. You have a wonderful recipe as well that will be at the event. We liked her a lot of local seasonal staff with a german food. We tried to break the mold with what people anticipate. We anticipate the pretzels and year. Maybe not the chocolate and paris. They grow on trees. They have a lot of trees and germany. We are approaching it differently. What we are doing is we have our house dressed cabbage. These are recipes that are on the web site so people can look them up. What did you put in the cabbage . Could do with bacon fat. A lot of the dishes have bacon. A little bit of sugar and vinegar. We marinated for a day and then cut it down. We have the pears and roasted with shallots and herbs. It rested in the oven. Since they love onions and the White Chocolate we do a little onion puree. We cut them down and put them in a blender with some White Chocolate. It adds richness and body. Its moves out the texture. Onions and chocolate i am a very curious. Just a little bit of aruba love and shallots to finish it off. That is a little sample of a dish we will be doing. There is 25 different stations of different food vendors you can go to. The cost of the admission gets you in and you can sample all the stuff and have some nice and drinks. So you are making appetizer portions for people. Are you doing more than one dish . Just the one for right now. There are 25 others. This is so unique. This is something i wanted to do for octoberfest. It starts on the 20th and we have lots of the bans on our website. Special dinners and things like that. Tried to get people to understand this is the way germans are eating. One time i was in ireland and i asked for corned beef and they said we do not need that anymore. We still have the pretzels and sauerkraut and things like that. I love it. You are expanding our palette to four different german foods. Thank you for coming in. Also have all the information for the fundraiser next thursday. It is the sixth annual cooking up a cure celebrity chef event to raising money and awareness for this rare disease. It is next thursday and greenhouse loft. If you want tickets you can go to their website. To learn more we will have the link for both of those as well as the recipe for this as well as the recipe for this meal at wgn. Com midday. You know. Theres a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. Try phillips fiber good gummies. Theyre delicious and an excellent source of fiber to help support regularity. Mmmm. These are good the tasty side of fiber. From phillips because we believe that doingo talk to fthings rightour Auto Insurance . Is more important than just doing them fast. And. Because we dont want you to miss out on things like accident forgiveness. Where we forgive an accident every three years without raising your rates. Talk to farmers and get the coverage you want, not just the coverage thats fast. 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We showed you some of these rain totals earlier across the metro area. I want to show you what is coming our way. This is out of south dakota. Showers and our own area. There may be some snow in this region before it is all over. There is the storm indicating a lot of wind. The showers or turn off tomorrow but clusters start flowing back into our side of the lake by late tomorrow night and friday and the last into saturday. Lake affect rain showers expected. We have at least six of the seven days in the 60s. Low 60s at that. A little taste of autumn on the way. Thanks. Thank you so much for joining us today. Joining us today. A great afternoon. We in the criminal Justice System the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups the police, who investigate crime and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories. Im not sure how much of this molding i can save. Well, my clients arent going to pay for fake molding. 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