Murdered inside a Elementary School in newtown, connecticut. Today we take a look at violence and gun control in the wake of the massacre. We begin in georgia, where for more than 30 years that town has required each and every household to own a loaded gun, and it claims it is helping to lower crime. Robert tell us more about this law. Reporter yeah, good afternoon, dell, from kennisaw, georgia, the only place in america that has a law on the books saying that each household has to own a loaded gun. There are some exceptions such ooze mental conditions or religious reasons. There are a few places around the country that have tried to enforce the same law, up in in massachusetts, utah, and a little town called nelson, georgia not far from here, they passed the same provision back in april of this year, but had a lawsuit put on them by the brady institute, so they changed the verbiage saying there is no requirement, and they skirted around the issue. Let me bring in a guest we have. Lieu
Today. Expected temperatures coming back into the 70s. Afternoon showers and thunderstorms will develop. 63 at the lakefront. 62 at midway. Down to bartlett its 57. Sixties in the union. Very warm numbers we think back to this time last week it was snowing. Satellite composite shows dry conditions but we do have some white sprinkles into portions of southern kane county. There will be the potential for showers and storms as the front arrives today. Typical high would be 60. We will hit 72 by 12 00. The chance for precipitation really spikes up into the afternoon. 71 degrees at 5 00 p. M. 60 percent chance of rain. 9 00 p. M. We have the chance of showers and thunderstorms. Boston pitcher is 56. More rain on wednesday. So far so good no major delays or hot spots but we do have word of a structure fire raged on roosevelt. We are hearing there are roadblocks in both directions. More on that plus a look at your travel times coming up. Police are looking for a driver after a fatal hit and r
We have some time. Today here are the weather headlines. A sun drenched private High Temperature is above average. A breeze off the lake. If you have been near the lake you know it is a cool breeze. When you get out there in may need a sweater or a sweatshirt. It does get much cooler when the wind blows off the lake water. Satellite and radar composite shows of dry conditions. High pressure for the next few days meaning no rain coming our way. This is day two. This stretch of dry weather brings us into sunday. 70 degrees by 5 00 p. M. Cooler along the lake. Here is the 3 day forecast. 80 degrees for the high today. Miles High Temperature is 83. 87 sunday with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Accident we are watching on the right and memorial. Looks like its in naperville blocking the lane. Usually they are cleared up quickly. Not expecting any huge delays. A lot of work on 90 this morning. An earlier accident caused some delays in the construction zone. It looks like that action ha
Hall said he was dead. He says he and his girlfriend or driving south on harlem when he saw a car speeding. Indycar cut to around 14th and harlem he saw the car swerved corp on the sidewalk and hit him and others riding the bike. Pretty much parked in a gas station ran over to check with the gut. Forest park paralytics and the Police Department arrived. Theyre trying to get him to respond. Pretty much dead on arrival. The driver was nowhere to be found. He said the driver should turn himself in. He committed murder. No one should be able to commit murder and get away with it. And none of the surveillance cameras recorded the crash. Police say if you have any. Reporting from less suburban forest park. A woman boulder is dead. The coast guard has suspended its search. This happened on the return trip. The 26 rule died. Another passenger was rescued and is in Critical Condition early today. A 11 yearold girl was killed when a tree limb fell. Telam toppled but thunderstorms felled as they
Terrific thursday coming our way. Patchy fog this morning could be an issue. We will have that fog spreading across the region. Mostly sunny this afternoon. Areas that solve the rain yesterday will have a high chance of seeing that. Clearing skies cooling temperatures. In number is 47 degrees for it now. 54 at ohare. 49 in waukegan. Visibility in some areas we do have that dense fog. We will see if that fog moves into cook county. Settlement shows we are dry. High pressure today and for the rest of the week today and tomorrow. Today we reach 73 by 5 00 p. M. The official high is 74. Saturday we get even warmer. We do have a lot of construction of their the big one is a long line 190 that is due to rapidly in the week impact in that stretch with theyre doing the government bling closures to last until 5 00. That will be there for another hour. The good news is were close to seeing this picked up. A search is underway in canada for a man wanted for shooting Police Officers in New Brunswi