Transcripts For WGN WGN Morning News 20140206 : comparemela.

Transcripts For WGN WGN Morning News 20140206

Aurora. 3 for dekalb. The lefthand portion of your screen shows temperatures are cooler. But to the east we are warmer. With heavy cloud cover over night as the clout break up temperatures will fall quickly. Across the board temperatures will be below zero. Wind of the west at 515. Wind chill of 20 in dekalb. 16 in morris. Satellites radar composites shows we are dry. Light flurries across the area. Thats coming in early were not expecting accumulation. Nine degrees is our high. Tonight were down to 5. Windchill between 10 and 20. It will be sunny with a high of 14. Saturdays snow is likely. High of 20. Traffic is looking good. No big issues on the roads. Everything is moving along well. No big Construction Projects. At this planned and no big problems another update coming up. Two Hickory Hills Police Officers were injured after their squad car was hit by a car driving without its headlights on. It happened at one this morning on 93rd avenue at 78th court. The driver of the car was arrested. The officers were taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. A 24yearold man was shot to death in ford heights. Police found chris walker shot in the 15 hundred block of embassy lane early yesterday. He had suffered multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at about 3 15 am. Police are investigating. One teenager is dead, and three others hurt after a masked gunman opened fire outside of a mcdonalds in rogers park. Police say there was an argument outside the mcdonalds between two groups of teenagers just before the shooting yesterday afternoon. Then, a gunman walked up to a group of teenagers and began shooting in the parking lot near clark and pratt. Survellience cameras from two nearby businesses should provide a clear view of the crime. A 17 year old boy was shot in the head and died on the scene. I just came up and saw the lights. Two teens were taken to the hospital in serious condition, and another walked into the hospital for treatment. No suspects are in custody. Chicago police are looking for the man who attacked and sexually assaulted a 95year old woman on the citys far south side. Police say tuesday night, the woman answered her doorbell for someone she thought she recognized. The man forced his way inside her home on the 11hundred block of west 110th place. He then beat the woman and sexually assaulted her. She was taken to the hospital with bruises and cuts. No arrests have been made. A nurse was killed in a hospital parking lot, when a snowplow backed into her. Diane shogren was a registered nurse at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in barrington. She was walking through the hospital parking lot early yesterday morning, when she was hit by a truck that was plowing. She was pronounced dead soon after. Officials say the driver works for the hospital and that the trucks lights and backup alarm were working. Were focused on caring for the family who is a grieving. We are here to provide compassionate care. Officials say it was snowing heavily when the accident happened. An autopsy on shogren will be performed later this morning. No citations have been issued. Youll notice a major difference on the roads this morning, compared to yesterday. The highways are mostly clear of all the snow that fell during the morning rush wednesday. Main streets are looking good as well. But those side streets are still covered, since theyre the last you can expect plows to be clearing them today. Well see if Metra Service improves a day after the storm. Snow and ice caused switch problems and delayed trains during the evening rush. Trains on the Union Pacific north line were 90 minutes behind schedule. There were also issues with vehicles getting stuck on track crossings. Riders are advised to give themselves extra time and to check metras website for service updates. All those snow days means an extended school year for Chicago Public schools. Cps cancelled school because of the snow and cold weather four times this year. Those days are being made up on march 28th and on three days that were added to the end of the school year. The last day of school is now june 13th. American travelers to russia are being warned of a new terrorist threat, as the Winter Olympics get underway. As athletes from all over the world converged for the 2014 olympic games, a new concern of the security comes in a bulletin from the u. S. Department of common security. A warning about this threat where explosives can be taken into this containers and cosmetics. They could be used to smuggle explosives materials into the area or on flights into russia. Its luck to down pretty well. There is there ring around the olympic spirit but getting there and the surrounding areas, there is real cause for concern. An official says the alert is specific to the start of the olympics. The source also says intelligence is picking up increased chatter about regional transportation outside the area. Some say security alert leaves a lot of openended questions. What is an airline to do or a passenger to do with regards to toothpaste . Are we going to put in place restrictions on any kind of tubes or cosmetics going towards russia . A senior official says the president has been made aware of the latest chatter. Secretary of state john kerry says people want to go to the olympics should still go. We feel everything that has been done to keep people safe has been done. He says the venues will be as safe as any large public event can be. A woman with a history of Mental Illness is sentenced to life in prison for killing a Chicago Police officer. It was an emotional day in court as the tearful widow of officer Richard Francis told the judge she cant forgive the killer, robin johnson, for tearing apart her family. Johnson shot officer francis with his own gun in 2008 after a scuffle on a cta bus near belmont and western. Johnson cried in court and apologized to the judge, admitting that she doesnt remember what she did. But she said she deserved to be in prison. Bond is denied for the man charged with shooting a High School Basketball coach from chicago. 21yearold Deandre Thompson is charged with attempted first degree murder. Prosecutors say thompson shot Shawn Harrington in the back, while harrington sat in his car with his teenaged daughter. Court records show harrington reached over to shield his daughter. And is now paralyzed. His daughter was not hurt. No word on a possible motive for the shooting. Harrington is an assistant Boys Basketball coach at Marshall Metro high school. More than 36thousand people in illinois have applied for a concealed carry permit in the first month of registration. More than 87hundred of those applicants live in cook county. Cook county sheriff tom dart objected to 240 of them because of criminal histories. Dart has criticized the application process and promised to be more strict. The denied applicants have either arrests or convictions for Domestic Violence or gun crimes. The city of chicago will take on almost two billion dollars of new debt. The new borrowing cleared the city council with practically no discussion. The vote was 43to4. It allows the city to issue up to 900million dollars in new bonds. And it lets the city double its shortterm line of credit to onebillion dollars. The handful of opponents complained that mayor emanuel didnt give them enough details. The city is required to do that. They need to show me what we are going for. Show me how its going to be spread out over the next decade. Not the type of transparency that we have heard about from this administration for years. Mayor emanuel says the money will help build infrastructure. More than half of it helping to modernize midway airport. The days of paper fare cards at the cta may be over, very soon. The cta had to delay its transition to total reliance on ventra cards because of widespread problems with ventras rollout. But those problems are being fixed. And the cta says the transition may resume by the end of the month. By then, 4 out of 5 cta riders will already have ventra cards. When the transition is complete, all the old fare vending machines and the old chicago cards will disappear. Drinkers of designer coffee are always looking for something new and different. A chain of british coffee shops is giving it to them. Its called camelatte. Coffee with camels milk. Taylor street baristas says, the milk has a smooth taste. Half the fat of cows milk. And three times the vitamin c. For now, camelatte is being sold to raise funds for the charity farm africa. You could not pay me to drink that. Camels are too ugly. Lets take a look at our day. You can see some delays and the closings at the bottom of the screen. A wind chill advisory is in effect until 10 00 a. M. Wind chill as low as 20 in those areas. Right now in pontiac is one degree. Gary indiana comes in at 9. Downers grove current temperature of 5. Looking to the west, these are areas that cleared out last night and thats why we have the colder temperatures. Rochelle is 23. 11 in ohare. That number will go down as the as temperatures fall. Another deep cooled down and more snow coming back in the forecast. Coming up. A monster python was found in the everglades. Well show you. And why one drugstore chain will stop selling Tobacco Products. Plus prosecutors try again to put a wealthy teenager behind bars for a deadly drunk driving crash. And a million homes are waking up in the dark after a the teenager in texas who was convicted of killing four people in a drunk driving accident will serve no time in prison. Instead hes been sentenced to ten years of probation. Attorneys for 16yearold ethan couch argued that he suffered from affluenza and his behavior was a result of his wealthy upbringing. Prosecutors asked the judge to sentence couch to 20 years in prison. But the judge ordered his parents to send couch to a livein rehab center for an indefinite amount of time. Couch had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit at the time of the fatal crash. A woman in texas who was convicted in 1998 for torturing and murdering a developmentally disabled man, was executed. 59yearold Suzanne Basso is the second person executed in texas this year. According to state criminal justice officials, she made no last statement. Basso is the 14th woman to be executed in the us since the Supreme Court allowed Capital Punishment to resume in 1976. Cvs will stop selling cigarettes and other Tobacco Products by october of this year. Its a decision that the company says will cost it about twobillion dollars in sales a year. The companys overall sales were 123billion in 2012. Cvs says, selling cigarettes and providing health care doesnt make sense. In a sitting or health care is being administered those two dont go together. The American Lung association is applauding cvs part for putting health before profits. Analysts say the decision by cvs turns up pressure on its larger rivalwalgreens to do the same. Engineers found a large threat to the ecosystem in the florida everglades. This burmese python was found during an inspection of levees on tuesday. Its 18 feet and two inches long. Thats six inches short of the state record, which was broken last year. Researchers had the snake killed, so it could be studied. Theyre concerned about the pythons eating the everglades native species and their food sources. This weeks snowstorm was quite a nuisance in the chicago area. Now its on to the northeast. Pennsylvania is getting the worst of it. More than half a million homes are without power. Half of all outbound flights are canceled in new york, boston and newark. The governors of new york, new jersey and pennsylvania have declared states of emergency. And some state employees in connecticut and massachusetts are being told to stay home because the roads are too treacherous. You dont want them to step burritos. Theyre taking your weather. Ice storms are always an issue in that area. Move to the west. Its just snow and cold out here. Wind and the west at 12 mi. Its cold outside. It will feel that way. Windchill advisory expires today at 10 00 a. M. Another one coming to our night. Right now we see the temperatures, as a cleared out earlier last night temperatures dropped more than other areas. Rochelle is reading at 7. Still reading at 6 at midway. 540 hair. The skies clear from west to east. Temperatures will drop quickly. Wind sustained at 510 mi. When chilled 21 for cal. 16 in the morris. Its more windy at ohare. That number goes down in a big way. We go down below 16 below zero soon. It will be here all day. I think we try out pretty quickly. The back end of the clouds making its way through. In between systems today and tonight and tomorrow. Cold temperatures come through. Next weather maker is a clipper system. This system will get here by the afternoon and it will bring accumulating snow. Thus its no every saturday or is it just me . We have some snow accumulating. Up to nine degrees for the high today. Tonight we go down to 5. We have snow coming on saturday. A quick update on bridge work. At this point things are slowing down from broadway to vermont. This will be in place through the middle of april. It will be there for awhile. Pershing is shut down for road work. The numbers are looking good. Its the aftermath of the storm. Everything has been shoveled. No horrific Road Conditions at this point. Travel times are looking good. The full rundown in a few minutes. Coming up. The latest on cocacolas move into the world of coffee. Plus where in the chicago area people camped out overnight in the cold for free chicken sandwiches. And next in sports the blackhawks try and pick up a big two points against conference leading anaheim. Hey marcus we have a very big day today. Women cant have all the fun with their leggines. What can men get involved . These are meggings. Leggings for men. We good morning. Cory crawford was terrific early. A few timely goals and a solid effort on the road trip now closing in on the docks in the nhl. Cory crawford stops 15 in the first period. A lot of those were good including this one and crawford is there to make the play. No score in the first minute of the second. , finishing what started patiently getting a 10 lead. It stays that way until late in the third. And the captain delivers here. And he wraps it up 20. First shot out of the year. Theyre just one point behind the docks. Wednesday was National Football signing day. Northwestern not at the top of the heap with their incoming class, but picking off a few potential stars of the group, rich king has the story. Career rushing record rated no. 4 running back in the u. S. He has been a dynamic player. We are reaching out to the Coaching Staff we will stop running him as much. Only ran him 12 times. Quarterback matching the Record Number from the football field of hes a for hear hon. Student and a member of the math honor society. He is off the charts. From a terrific family. A family of faith. You walk into a home visit and you are blown away. I hope my son grows up to be like that. I could say that about this whole class. Right now i would say about 110112 guys in the locker room. We have to knuckleheads but thats not bad. Rated 38 nationally by espn. Dont forget the news at 9 00 tonight followed by the bulls and golden state right here on wgn. David beckham is getting his own soccer team the soccer star confirmed that he will establish a Major League Soccer franchise in miami. As part of his deal when he join the la galaxy, beckham was given the option to create a new Major League Soccer team for 25 million. He is now in talks to create a privatelyfunded stadium for the team. Beckham retired from soccer last year. Stocks down yesterday, as investors wait for fridays jobs report. The dow dropped 5 points. The nasdaq down nearly 20. And the sandp lost 3 points. Cocacola has announced its partnership with Green Mountain coffee roasters. The companies will collaborate over the next ten years to produce cocacola products in singleserving plastic pods better known as kcups Green Mountain is making its keurig cold athome beverage system to be released late this year. The system will dispense cold bevs like carbonated drinks, enhanced waters, juices, sports drinks and teas. You can get everything on your coffee machine. This is from elmhurst. People are campingout all night in temperatures below zero. To be one of the first inside chick filas newest location in elmhurst. Thats because the first hundred people in line get free chicken sandwiches for a year. That makes sense now. Its tradition for the chain to offer a food giveaway when a new store opens. The contest happens today in elmhurst at sixam. You have to be 18years or older to qualify. How often do we used yodeling behind a story . As an unappreciated court. Them and maybe if we did stories about free chicken sandwiches. Some of us do it for fun. Dont knock it. Markets is probably out there already for the new i phone. Looking at the forecast. Todays High Temperature is only 9 degrees after a morning low below zero. Another one goes into effect tonight. 5 tonight. 14 on friday. Typically we should be above freezing each day. 33 is the typical high. Snow comes saturday and maybe light snow on sunday. A few pictures outside. There is firstrate. Better than what weve seen in the last few days. Even though thats a bit foggy. You can see snow off the ground. Travel times have improved the entire stretch. The dan ryan ramp now cleared. This will stretch was a treacherous yesterday. Improved conditions today. We will see what happens as the temperatures continue to drop. We are in good shape as you head out of this morning. It looked better yesterday. Still more to come including the suspects in a deadly shooting a mcdonalds. And dropping out of an Olympic Event thats too dangerous. And a man who said he lost a year at sea suppers health problems. 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