former classmates of amanda bach she left many friends behind when she graduated last school year the weekend news stunned those who knew the popularly known for kindness to others police arrested an 18 year-old said to be an acquaintance of hers over the weekend he lived 300 yds from where police found her body we know the young suspect s name but we cannot release it to you until he is formally charged we have a full staff of counselors we brought them in from the middle school we expect them to be here to work with students who are grieving and help us all get through this the victim s body science showed signs of trauma . there was nothing released on the investigation or a possible motive a former university of illinois football player has been jailed in champagne in lieu of $10 million bail and is charged with raping three women former illini runningback steve feagin is accused of sexually assaulting women between 1993-1995 authorities say that dna evidence links
play 92-yard drive that lasted nine minutes that culminates in a 1 yard rashard men dell haul touchdown. 95 of his 100 mendenhall touchen. 95 of his 101 touchdown. 95 of his 101 came in the 1st half. then the ball comes out, pittsburgh s william gay picks turn, returns the ball. picks it up, returns the ball. 2nd half sanchez rolls it deem for santonio holmes who hauls it in for the 40 deep for santonio holmes who hauls it in for the 40-yard score. steelers win 21-19 and will play in the super bowl for the third time in six years. mike tomlin s second trip to the big game. it s special because it s in the here and now and it s a unique group in there. we ve had a unique journey, so it s special, but they all are. who are we kidding? 32 teams that start this journey and there s two left and we re fortunate enough to be one of them. it s awesome. our goal for next year, i got news for you. it won t change and it will never change. we re going to chase that super bow
i can put a coat on, but i can t push a car awhen when it s sliding into it. how long can we expect the big chill to last? let s head over to john collins, our meteorologist. that s right, two very distinctive winters in a row. today is the coldest we ve experienced so far this winter, this month, however you want to put it. take a look at the numbers. 29 was the high at the airport. what made it so cold is the morning low this morning. 12 degrees at the airport and 19 degrees at the ann arbor. right now it s at the nash. a dry atmosphere. the barometer is high it s helping the cold air. winds at five miles an hour. down to 24 at the inner harbor. always one of the warmer spots, so to speak. the forecast calls for very cold temperatures by daybreak tomorrow and one of the coastal storms that we re keeping an eye on as well. the forecast, just ahead. thank you, john. the cold weather was a factor in the case of carbon mon knocks eyed poisoning. a 44-year-old man and
friend. a break in a case of a d.c. woman. police say she was murdered. and the state of the union. the two main topics the president will take on. and how republicans and democrats are reaching across the aisle for the speech. and an update on gabrielle giffords. wooshy remain in ico longer than planned? abc 7 news at 11:00 starts right now. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org in other bitterly cold night with the wind chill in the teens. we are not alone. it is part of an arctic blast causing dangerous chills the out of our country, including michigan, with the thermometer 36 degrees below zero. freezing temperatures are also being seen throughout the northeast with some of the colston rogers we have seen in years. our meteorologist is live in the weather center with more. cold weather for the next days or so. our temperatures will moderate in just a little bit. temperatures outside in our weather center shows that many clear skies. this area
we welcome our viewer who are watching us around the country on wgn america and on the web. wgn s robert jordan is live at county building where preckwinkle was just sworn in. that s right. the todd stroger era is over. the preckwinkle presidency has just begun. todd stroger best known for instituting the 1% sales tax which was his undoing. toni preckwinkle ran on a platform undoing that but in order to do so she will have to find additional sources of revenue or institute some distasteful service cuts. president of the board of commissioner of cook county. to the best of my ability. to the best of my ability. congratulation. thank you very much [cheers and applause] thank you so much. new prts of the cook county board toni preckwinkle takes office facing a huge budget deficit and a county board that was not solidly behind its former president todd stroger. but today preckwinkle begins her term with a more optimistic board promising to support her as she makes