students and the majority of them back to class tomorrow and they are getting an extra incentive from cta. excited about kindergarten, ready for his first day at elementary school out with his parents on monday evening stocking up on school supplies. students and parents and accompanying that to and from school can ride for free tomorrow on the cta trains and buses from 5:30 a.m.-8:00 p.m. in an effort to get kids on class and parents involved. looking good and ready to learn a group of students heading back to school with a fresh pair cut thanks to cains barber college in washington park. leading up to beat new year focus on extending the school day. approval extra 90 minutes of class time a few schools breaking from the u get. one parent we spoke to said looking forward to blogger day at all cps school is a great idea all that because my son's school and dig at 1:45 p.m. sell my work hours are in conflict. i feel kind of good about going back to school to see all of my friends now and buy new teachers and do stuff for me to learn. 90 minutes longer school day going into effect immediately at scare north and magnet elementary schools. mayor wants a logger day at all cts schools by next school year needs to be worked out with the teachers union. free rides again cta to borrow for students and their parents for the first day of school summer vacation is over. labor rally today against a new international trade plan negotiated here this week. speaking with protesters. the crowd was stop massive but allowed. about 300 protestors gathered at columbus drawing attention to the international trade summit just two blocks away. public demands public to affect us in illinois and in chicago. united states and eight other pacific rim nations negotiating trade agreements like to the north american trade agreement from the 1990's. the little island we lost 35,000 jobs to nafta this is going to hit us hard at home. about exports and creating jobs and never worked out that way we have seen millions of manufacturing jobs moved from the united states first to mexico and from mexico to china and now to this deal potentially from china to vietnam. grant park the rally moved west to the hilton hotel delegates holding more than a week of negotiations on trade labor pharmaceutical drugs. would bring drug companies passes in developments treatment for diseases out of reach for many. impoverished country's people living on a dollar a day cannot afford $20,000 a year for medication but they can be made just for $87 if one of the patents did not get out of the way. they want to make what they call a fair deal or no deal at all. making money by affording cheap labor by exporting immigrant labor more use of prison labor and getting tax cuts. protests expected to continue tomorrow outside of the help the chicago trade negotiations beginning and lasting through next week. >> 841 it positioned labor day parade one of the dayevents in area festival of the three day event and money for charities. president obama on the campaign trail already this time in detroit with big labor. michigan state what have they but the support has thinned the jobs around the country growing scarce. continued a consistent theme that the economy getting better but more work to do. not satisfied to get back to where we were before the recession we need to fully restore the middle-class in america. and america cannot have a strong and growing economy without a strong and growing middle class and without a strong labor movement. the nation awaits the president jobs plan this week expect speech this thursday joint session of congress. up next labor celebrations tribute to naperville patriotic exchange club military appreciation day on rotary hill free to active military personnel and those who served the country of great flag salute and the country military servicemen. warm a patriotic welcome home for highly decorated marine from the southwest suburbs, sgt. keith krull smiling with his wife and baby girl surprise welcome home party in burbank. seven months in afghanistan. back from camp lejeune in north carolina. i was extremely surprised pulling into the starting line appreciate local law enforcement participants and everything is great and it blew my mind. especially when they come home the military. 10 days and then back to the base to await the next assignment. shoppers on this holiday hitting a the mag mile greeted with wind and chilly temperatures. chicago beaches made what last day they are open. national weather service rip current warning waves ranging from 12-18 ft. high. weather service says rep currents likely to last through wednesday morning. temperatures tom skilling standing by. >> already down to 50 degrees in the suburbs all the seven other labor days this chile and 118 years. reaching down to break the heatwave in the southern plains frost to the upper midwest next pentad with leftovers tropical storm lee impacting the but there later this week we will tell you how and a forecast in the coming weekend coming up. stay with us. >> also what led a man to drag a kid off of the streets and into a police station demanding they make an arrest. popular restaurant up in flames overnight and later republicans vie for the tea party boat in south carolina. 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[ male announcer ] somewhere, there's a perfectly good lasagna being sent to the back of a freezer. and it's all because someone said "tacos." old el paso. when you gotta have mexican. wgn news @ 9 republican presidential hopefuls on stage south carolina today most of them one of the frontrunners noticeably absent chicago tribune political reporter rick pearson called the freedom forum. five gop presidential hopefuls travel to south carolina today to explain their conservative credentials early primary state t party supporters hold strength. suppose to be launching pad for texas gov. rick perry already the early front-runner cancelled due to a wild fire swirling and all state allowing mitt romney a chance to defend health care plan for massachusetts against that of president obama in the nation. he dealt with by potter percent american people changing health care for all of you simply unconstitutional bad lot bad medicine. michele bachmann of minnesota, this was meant the most to lose from gov. rick perry entrance in the race took a shot at mitt romney said and unconstitutional as obama health care plan and cancer. >> i believe all of what medicare so bad into every part of american life never get rid of this again and this is the foundation for socialized medicine make no mistake. >> the forum also featured in newt gingrich ron paul herman caine touching on far-reaching social and its logical ideas ecological and a recent illinois court decision dropping religious providers of the state adoption program refused to place children in homes of same- sex couples brought up. federal government should not subsidize any situation discriminatory against any legitimate religion in this country. forum reflected the power of the chief organizer tea party favorite when he makes endorsement south carolina republicans expected to follow when they vote in february. >> tonight with like to hear from you will the tea party be an asset for republicans in 2012? text yes or no to 97999 or vote online wgntv.com results after the seven day forecast. texas gov. rick perry stepped republican roundtable to race back to his state to people are dead as 60 wildfires rage across texas the worst 30 mi. east of austin 5000 people ordered to evacuate tens of thousands of acres blazing flames fed by hot dry wind gov. rick perry flew over the scene today. surreal experience today. not all the flying by substantial have seen a number of big fires in my life. as big this one as it mean that looking as i have ever seen. tonight fire officials say the fire nowhere near being under control. tropical depressions lee hammering southern states in the gulf coast flooding but lee doing more damage than just dumping rain at tornado watches in fact alabama officials believe a tornado already touched down. moving east good news for southeastern states and not so much for the east coast still cleaning up after hurricane irene. national security 10 years after september 11th attacks how protecting the rails in chicago and how bad are things with the postal service? may have to shut down and why the flu shot this year may be easier to stomach. security is high this labor day weekend 10th anniversary 9-11 terrorist attacks takes us to the rail security union station >> anniversary approaches security tools detection dogs the ability to pick up the scent of explosives that passed through area up to 10 minutes prior and follow the scent to the source by sniffing the plan of air wafted off of passengers and today what they are carrying. dogs give them the power to detect a suicide bomber in the middle of the crowd. amtrak has to detection teams in union station along with conventional bombs debt and canine teams. security is tightened here and at other stations in united states because of the intelligence gathered in the raid to kill osama bin laden in may. already deployed at o'hare airport. haren a special report friday night called ground zero chicago remembers early look at the memorial opens this weekend in new york special also includes stories of chicagoans who survived the attack right here on wgn. an emergency funding postal service may literally have to shut down postal service $9 billion deficit new york times reports agency not enough money to pay bills and the five and half billion dollar payment due this month. cost cutting measures include eliminating saturday deliveries up to closing post offices and laying off up to 100,000 workers. coming out a week of seventies to temperatures ahead of the forecast is next and take a ride into the past flashback courtesy of millennium park. 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