Are colder than normal. So far its 18 degrees. We continue on this and we will end up in the top10 coldest figure is all time. Mostly cloudy today. The record low coming into tonight. Whats wrong with that . Your graphics are purple also. 13 degrees right now in waukegan. 19 of the lakefront. 15 in aurora. Morris is at 18. Its way too cold for this time of the year. Later tonight and wind chill advisory goes into effect. We will have a cold wind chills that advisory does not expire until noon tomorrow. Looking at the satellite, generally dry conditions. Not much snow but we will see cold temperatures tonight we go 4. Double the record we dont want to break. Told the greece is our high tomorrow. It will feel like 1025. Thursdays high is only 10. Traffic is looking pretty good. Temperatures always come into play in terms of your drive but so far theyre not affected. Most overnight roadwork has been cancelled. With a bit on the outbound eisenhower between morgan taking up the two left lan
House and senate met with president barack obama at the white house this afternoon where they heard that if two sides do not agree on a bill the president will urge the Democratic Senate to put forth a measure anyway. American people will not have any patients for a politically selfinflicted wound to the economy. The economy is growing but sustaining that trend is gong to require a elected officials to do their jobs. Mitch mcconnell and his democratic counterpart harry reid are supposed to keep talking tomorrow there could be a breakthrough by the end of this weekend but the president has repeatedly demanded for the extension of tax cuts below 250,000. Illinois comptroller judy thinks that the impact on illinois could be as high as 1 billion if lawmakers dont strike a deal before the deadline. Social security and income tax increases would lower the states revenue by up to 5 billion. This is all coming down the pipe because we have yahoos in congress who cant sit down and to do the job
Blow around a bit. It wind advisor is in effect until 3 00 p. M. You will hear the wind before you walk outside. Outside youll find the strong wind. Clouds on the breakup. Three degrees below average. Yesterday we win at 49 degrees. Our warmest day in two months. But not the same today. 35 at the lakefront. Wind chill of 17 in bartlett. 13 in dekalb. The wind is stiff at 32 mi. Per hour. Holding steady at 29 mi. Per hour in aurora. It will certainly take your hat for a ride if you are not holding onto it. We continue to see snow showers through midmorning. Little or no accumulation. But we go from 50 degrees back down to snow. Average high today is 37. We will be a run the low 30s with the wind decreasing during the day. Todays official high will be about 34. Tomorrow 32. Snow showers on sunday. Were feeling those gusts on the roads particularly coming in carried on the Digital Science overhead there werent people the best could make 50 mi. Watch the that when you come in. And also tal
And storms today. High near 50. Gusts of 3035. Today they could be even stronger. High wind warning is going into affect. 35 of the lakefront. 37 at ohare. 37 for union. We want to be above freezing because there is a lot of water coming our way. Right now we are reporting a few areas of rain and some leading being picked up. The rain is just at the western doorstep of cook county. It will be here shortly. Expect by 5 00 this area will be getting rain. Zooming into the Northern Counties you can see portions of the page and kane county has rain continuing. For the to the south with scattered showers. The system is a very organized system. It will bring a cold front our way today which will pick up the wind. Dress for rain early today. Strong wind this afternoon. 49 degrees or temperature by 5 00. Thunderstorm will be possible especially early in the day. The weekold down tonight. That should end as the rain and snow mixed. Credit we hit 36. Saturday, 34. All the weather definitely going
To combat frontloading, the Republican Party offered bonus delegates to states. They said it killed a contest later on in april or may or early june, we will give you more delegates. That was supposed to be an incentive to the state to hold the lid contest, have more delegates and make the contest worth more to the candidates. We see the 2000 republican nomination was frontloaded. It was three weeks earlier than in 1996 calendar began and is also very frontloaded compared to democratic calendar. The Democratic Party was more successful in 2000 at Holding States back in thing you cannot hold a contest in february and the Republican Party was. And so by and large, these reforms are seen as a failure. So that brings us to the Republican Partys second major attempt at reform with accretion of the temporary delegate Selection Committee that was formed in 2008 in order to make reforms for 2012. The creation of this committee is significant not only because its one of the rare instances the R