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into the game. it is a save situation. 21-25 including the one last night that he didn't get the job done. his e.r.a. is still .220. -- ken: all right, boys we need to get at least three. and a good man to start us off gordon beckham, who's 2-4. out of wanseboro, georgia. takes first pitch strike. steve: lorenzo cain stays in the game in center field after driving home a run with a sacrifice -- we'll call it a line drive. wasn't really a sacrifice fly. ken: 1-1 the count. a reminder, after the game stay tuned for the 9:00 news with robert jordan, jackie bange, jim with the weather and rich. all sports highlights. almost walked into it and the count 2-1. just tuning in, toronto beat cleveland 1-9. baltimore in 13 defeated detroit 8-6. tigers got three in the top of the ninth to tie that game at 4-4. and that's a souvenir right side to even the count at 2-2. if you're hitting the road, take our sox with you this season. subscribe to m.l.b..tv. visit whitesox.com. steve: broxton blew the save last night. almost lost the game. furcal at the plate. that was somewhat controversial. hudson getting thrown out by francoeur. i talked to orlando today and hex i never was tagged. ken: broken bat. soft bounder. so one out. here's alhand roll. he is 2-3. an r.b.i. double a triple. also a sacrifice bunt. takes ball one. now evens it at 1-1. steve: hurt his elbow and the dodgers pretty much let him go. ken: there's a chopper two-hopper. so it's up to youk. and most of the 24 98 on their feet. -- 24,998 on their feet. youk is 0-3. slowly hit. escobar. and this ballgame is over. so sox come back to tie it up at 3-3 and royals with one in the seventh, two in the eighth and they win it 6-3 and we'll be back. -- >> coming up, the latest on the suspect accused of shooting two young girls in a chicago neighborhood. another drowning in lake michigan. we'll have details. and cover your ears. jay is singing at wrigley. plus the latest on our hot weather forecast. the news is next. ken: check 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witnesses including one of the victims identified ver -- jermaine louis as the shooter. >> ceasefire's job is to save lives. be it the family life of the victims or family life of the perpetrators. we're a neutral organization trying to save lives out here on the streets of chicago. >> saturday, mildred shorter, mother of one of the victims, said her daughter was still in pain but recovering. she said she was pleased withs decision of no bail. >> justice has prevailed itself. i'm very happy. i'm glad it went the way it went. >> ceasefire declined to comment on if they thought mr. louis was involved in this shooting but said they have talked to witnesses and others in the neighborhood and his name is the only one that has been mentioned so far. he could be held in protective custody while in jail because of the nature of this case. >> two people are in serious condition after they were pulled from lake many. it happened at about 2:00 this afternoon at north avenue beach. an 1-year-old was swimming and overpowered by waves. his friends tried to help but they had difficulty and others pitched in to get the man to store -- shore. chicago paramedics aarrived but others were already administering c.p.r. and first aid to a 20-year-old who suffered a leg injury. >> the water was very choppy. there was barely anyone around until he yelled for help. >> the young man was taken to northwest memorial hospital in critical condition. the second man was listed in serious condition also at northwestern. a 16-year-old south side teen was rescued from lake michigan earlier this week and he has died. he's now among a growing number of drowning victims that have emergency room doctors concerned. >> 16-year-old romero roundtree would have been a junior this fall at wells community academy. he loved basketball, loved to joke and loved his mother. he lived with her in the 3900 block of south lake park. >> he was a pretty -- well, outgoing type of guy. fun and laughing. he was somebody special. >> romero died friday at mercy hospital and medical center after being pulled from lake michigan by chicago firefighters at 10:00 p.m. thursday. he'd gone out with friends but wasn't where he told his mother he would be. >> he said they were playing some kind of game with girls and there were several other guys that were there and like a truth or dare type of game. you know get in the water or something and one guy said i'll bet you won't jump. >> that's when romero made a fatal choice. >> my son was always that type, you tell him don't he'd have to prove a point. >> he hit a rock when he jumped in and suffered large gashes to his forehead. she's still numb. >> i've never known him to swim in the lake. >> romero is the 11th young person to drown since june 14th. those at highest risk are very small children and adolescents who overestimate their abilities in the water. romero's mom said she only saw her son swim a handful of times and that was more than a decade ago. he told his friends he knew how. >> i don't know that he did. >> the father of a 29-year-old obama campaign staffer who died yesterday said his son was dedicated and passionate about politics. alex okrent was at work at the downtown campaign offices when he collapsed and later died. he worked for the obama team since the president's 2004 run for the u.s. senate. a memorial will be held monday at the jewish reconstructionist congregations in evanston. an autopsy today was unconclusive. further testes are being done. >> a 9-year-old judge is being accused of using his work computer to access pornography. will county judge joseph polito allegedly used his courthouse computer to visit porn graphic websites. records show that someone using his account tried to view porn over 200 times during a six-month period starting in late 2010. a county commission will hold a hearing before deciding on any disciplinary action. the bidding process is underway from the assets seized from the former city controller of the town of dixon. ryota crus indwell is accused odd stealing more than $53 million since 1990 to support a l.a.ic lifestyle and her nationally renowned horse breeding operation. they're now accepting bids on a motor home that she purchased. bidding for the motor home began at $1 million. other assets for ceased for which bids will be taken including the 400 horses she had. proceeds for the sales will go toward restitution for the city of dixon. workers at a recycling plant in rockford make the awful discovery of a newborn baby. the latest in the investigation is up next. >> plus, president obama hits the campaign trail and braves a downpour. >> and scientists are keeping a close eye on a solar flare that is raining down on the either this weekend. jim? >> we had some thunderstorms today but not everybody got much rain, but everybody is going to get a lot of heat. we'll have details and the full forecast in just a few minutes. ♪ ♪ ♪ pop goes the world ♪ ♪ it goes 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several states considered to be pivotal in november. crowds waited in the pouring rain in the suburb of richmond to hear mr. obama speak. he continued to attack romney on the subject of his tenure at bane capital and the firm's involvement with companies that may have been encouraged to outsource. >> he invested in companies that have been called pioneers of outsourcing. i don't want to pioneer in outsourcing. i want some insourcing. i want to bring companies back. >> president obama won virginia four years ago with 53%. he now has only a slim lead over republican mitt romney in virginia as he tries to hold on to the state, one of several states considered to be pivotal in november. romney spent the day with his family but former .com presidential hopeful campaigned for his former republican primary foe, the first time he's done so >> we have a president who has become drunk with power and is using and wielding that power to be able to keep power and gain more. imagine a barack obama, 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and last through tomorrow. it won't create damage but it will create colorful northern lights that will be visible at the u.s.-canadian border. too bad we can't see it. >> if it penetrate this far it certainly may because we don't have the cloud cover this time. but as you say it may not get much farther than the u.s.-canada border. be very pretty to see. we've had some thunderstorms in the area. not a lot but some areas got quite a lot of rain. most of the rain came in the far southern sections. there was a shower or to -- two in some of the northern suburbs. but o'hare, for example, picked up only a trace of rainfall today. high in chicago today, up to 90 and that's a foretaste. look at all of this heat to our west. temperatures in the upper 90's evident. questions about whether we'd hit 00 this week, it's possible or we may be just close. we're down to 7 right now at this hour. temperatures in the 70's throughout the entire chicago area. it's still raining, though if parts of 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