Final playoff spot over the bears. Lets go live to halas hall where wgns rich king is. Hey rich. He is a out of there is a good coach. Confirmed about an hour ago after stories broke this morning. After nine years as coach of the bears. Missing the playoffs five out of the last six years did him in. A nine year career here in chicago. It began pretty well. He was coach of the year his second year. He is always in charge of the defense. The defense did well over the years. He had no offense. The offense struggled this year. It was hoped to be better. It did not work out that way. It eventually cost him his job. Not enough points, not enough victories. Changes and always a bad thing. Sometimes it can be good. Nobody wants to really change our attend about changing. Now it is upon us. That is what it is. But he got to keep moving forward and whoever we get as our next coach. Theres a lot of opportunity out there for him. We want him to be here but it is not the scenario. He is a great coa
Winter storm warning continues until 10 00 a. M. Winter weather advisories until 7 00 p. M. Winter storm warnings until 4 00 in some areas. Temperatures are freezing the will drop to about 20 this afternoon. Wind chill in the teens and 20s but visibility is reduced as the snow is falling heavy south of the city. Snowfall coming down pretty good right now especially from the city to the south along 80 thats where we will see the have the bands setting up. We will soon in to enhance and you can see the darker shade of blue just south of city down. The Downers Grove area and then a band of heavy precipitation all the way to morris. This will continue through the next hour. Kicking off rapidly. But the snow is falling at one2 in. Per hour weve had reports of lightning and thunder with the snow. Its a big mess. How much damage will be today . Lets find out the traffic. We are seen drifting snow, very heavy snow and in many cases icy Road Conditions. Use caution this morning. Reports that he
Weather coming. We expect our High Temperature to be a bit cooler than normal. Typically we should be in the low 70s. But not today will be in the upper 60s but those are the warmer temperatures coming our way. By memorial day will be near 90 degrees in some areas. Pretty hot for your barbecue on that day. Today, sunshine back in the 60s upper 60s for most of the weekend. Near the lake is mid to upper 60s. We could be as warm as the mid 70s. A wide range across the region. Temperatures are cool and the north east keeping the school as a travel closer to the lake. 62 at the lakefront. 46 in joliet. 53 degrees in morris. Heres the satellite and radar showing we are dry through the morning and the afternoon. The highpressure means next chance of rain is not until the tail end of sunday into memorial day. As you can see, all that rain is having the ohio river valley and portions of missouri. We are expecting temperatures to rise over the next few days. Just south of 70 degrees tomorrow we
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50th street when she was approached by a fourdoor vehicle with tinted rear windows. The teenagers of four five young men in the car. One of them jumped up trying to pull the girl into the vehicle. Chicago police asking people to take safety precautions. That happened on heavily traveled to interviewing witnesses and neighbors of two young boys. Help the family with funeral expenses. Strong storms moving across our area this midday elsewhere in nebraska was hit by tornadoes for the second day in a row. As many as three tornadoes ripped through the county. All of this just a day after a massive and violent twin tornadoes hit northeastern nebraska obliterating practically everything in their path. Major flooding has left parts of iowa under water. Heavy rainfall across parts of minnesota and south dakota caused substantial flooding rivers and lakes. Damaging homes cars and businesses. A bad financial gamble by the city of chicago could cost taxpayers 200 million. Another further drop coul