Under the weather on friday. Petard. Is it wooden nickels thursday last night . It was nichols appears. Of to look at our day. Showers and thunderstorms to the day. Early on we are dry. It is 76 degrees in union. 76 in morris. Satellite and radar composite she is generally dry conditions. But later today we have potential for showers and storms. A cold front is coming through it should have been here close to 7 00 a. M. But probably not getting here until lunchtime. The chance of rain will pop up. Dan will leave the bar open for you. Todays official high is 81. Cooler on saturday in the 70s. With construction hotspots the road to where construction began yesterday it will be picked up by 6 00 tonight. Still going to be slow for people approaching their between 41 and the Illinois State line. At 555 we had some ramp work that goes through december at the intersection of 30 impacting north and south bound ramps. A driver was killed when he crashed into a pickup truck on i57 a few hours a
Investigation. Police have strong affirmation and within minutes of the shooting last night exactly who they were looking for rushing to a nearby home on liberty street. The officers along with sheriffs deputies responded to the address and tuck them into custody without incident. Their ages 19 and 26. Instead began just after 830 last i did this kfc restaurant on East New York street with an individual sitting outside in a getaway car. The two Armed Robbers walked into the store one of them holding a rifle. They ordered three employees to the front of the store and demanded money. For some reason they started shooting. They then fled the store to a waiting vehicle was parked in a lot. They fled the scene. The wouldbe robbers fled without getting any cash. No doubt police are looking for the getaway driver. At last report two kfc workers and shot in the torso remained in critical condition. A third employee was shot in the leg with nonlife threatening injuries. If either of those worke
that during the course of the evening in the wind advisory in the yellow area. storm advisories across the lake lakeshore flood warnings. look at some of the peak winter gusts. mongrel wisconsin a 65 mi. per hour when the dust. it is a windy and it will stay that way 40 mi. per hour gusts. chicago area. what the wind will be doing overnight gusty up to 50 m.p.h. across the lake. big storm purple areas with over 40 mi. per hour wind gusts continuing in the morning by no means will be weighed begun building two-story waves across the lake rushing into parts of michigan and indiana. lake affect rainfall before this is all over much more to talk about a warm up later in the weekend. live at michigan avenue with the gusts have picked up. picking up for sure the windy weather all day long we have been waiting in a great anticipation to see what form in the city still seems relatively quiet a beautiful evening 40-50 mi. per hour wind have not seen that other parts of downtown o
what this is all about is your right to freedomf speech. what made america great is an independent, vigorous press. if a jerk burns a flag, america is not threatened. political speech is the heart of the first amendment. they re expressing their religious beliefs. now is the time to make justice a reality for all of god s children. captioning provided by the first amendment center, funded by the freedom forum. welcome to speaking freely, a weekly conversation about free expression and america. i m ken paulson. we re joined today by a singer with a great heart and a great voice: judy collins. [applause] (collins) thanks, ken. nice to see you. good to see you. thank you. i say a great heart, because you are probably as well-known for your commitment to social causes as your singing career. and you ve been pretty successful at both. how many times have you been arrested? [light laughter] i ve actually been arrested three times, and two of them were for my civil rights. i was p
i say a great heart, because you are probably as well-known for your commitment to social causes as your singing career. and you ve been pretty successful at both. how many times have you been arrested? [light laughter] i ve actually been arrested three times, and two of them were for my civil rights. i was protesting the war in vietnam. i was arrested on the steps of the capitol, and i went to jail for that. and there was another incident there in a protest against the war in vietnam. i was also arrested on an airplane for using a cell phone, but we won t talk about that. that was a terrible shock. i considered it, in a sense, a freedom of expression issue, but i don t think that they did. but i have had incidents where i ve protested, where i ve been involved with large protests ever since i was a kid. my father was in the radio business, and i m not sure how he got away with saying a lot of the things that he said. he was very much not in favor of the blacklisting that w