Thunder lightning rain freezing rain sleet ice. We saw it all, today. It rains and temperature drops. Then we get more rain. Temperatures go down, and well have even more of a skating rink. For pedestrians. Near foster and sheridan, tonight. Each step a delicate dance to avoid a slip and fall. On sidewalks glazed over with ice. I like this weather. But its hard for walking. Slick conditions on the roads. A problem for drivers. Reports of crashes. As precipitation hit the pavement. Freezing on contact. Chicagos streets and sanitation department. And idot deploying hundreds of trucks to salt streets and expressways. Rough, slick dangerous. Make sure car starts up right. Another concern tree limbs and power lines falling under the weight of accumulating ice. Com ed dealing with an increase in outages. Mostly in the north suburbs. double check numbers at 8p chicagoans dealing with a bizarre january day. And, taking it all in caution altered stride. Its pretty dangerous, so be careful out t
dissipations just after 6:00 a.m. he sat quietly next to his new teddy bear as the hospital staff carefully put him into the ambulance for a short but historic 3 mi. ride. the five month old is being treated for a muscle deficiency and needs a ventilator to breathe. he is the first of about 130 patients to move from children s memorial hospital in lincoln park to a new state of the art facility the ann and robert h. lurie children s hospital. for the patients and staff the move was a success we have not encountered any surprises today staff members at both facilities had been planning for the move for the past four years. every move had been carefully coordinated and practice. two dozen ambulances were lined up outside children s memorial early this morning. a big stretch of the fullerton was closed for much of the day. staff members say from a symbolic standpoint today was quite special the intern s of transporting patients it was just business as usual this is somet
welcome to eight special repora special report. i am standing here at the new the ann and robert h. lurie children s hospital. now filled with patience after eight herculean effort. one under 28 tiny patients were all moved in one day and a massive undertaking that closed down lakeshore drive required intense technical coordination as well as physical work. this is a combination of not just a days of labor but years of planning the attitude of the job is pretty much all someawesome our first visit was 2010. they supply it the air to the entire building in case of major disaster this hospital will power through sustain power so we can actually operate the hospital for 7 + days we do electronic medical record keeping. we read x-rays and digitallydigitally we will know in an instant where the electricity problem happens these boilers do the dirty work when needed. we can actually lose natural gas and electricity and provide power to the hospital it runs all
next could go several different ways. will blagojevich take the stand? we heard from one of his attorneys earlier this morning . assuming that the government ends its case today which i fully expect they will, we will have to make some big decisions as to how we tackled the defense. no final plans have been made as of yet . he goes on to say that there is only a small chance that blagojevich will testify himself but a chance it will put up a case but not much more being revealed at this point. their next move is anybody s guess. terry sullivan give us his take . to you like this abbreviated version of the prosecutors case? . we use the word streamlined all the way through. the government has a more streamlined case and original. two and a half weeks compared to six or seven weeks as originally. i think they did a very fine job of presenting things that are much less confusing to a jury. they kept out things that were more controversial. it put the defense in a positi