Transcripts For WGN WGN Morning News 20140214 : comparemela.

Transcripts For WGN WGN Morning News 20140214

Want to get in the mood, just look at the weather. Its just the beginning. That is hot. Real hot. It looks like its all downhill. We of light snow showers possible. Best chance is south of 80. It is cold outside. Its 15 at midway. Valparaiso is at 17. The wind chill is 10 in aurora. Still zero in aware. The snow is coming in from the west. A chance of letters in Charlotte South of 80 is where it will be. Temperatures are cool. 32 yesterday. 19 at 5 00 today. We reached 21 for a high. Snuggle weather. Tomorrow High Temperatures are 21. Cuddle up. That was part of the best Weather Forecast you ever given. Top five. Mind traffic is going to be pretty poor. Not a lot going on. Everything is looking good. We do have crews busy digging up the road in rosemont where a gas leak happened. That was at technology boulevard. From foster to balmoral is closed. The gas is shut off. The only major hotel affected is the intercontinental. Most of the cartels are north. They didnt say when they hope to have it back on. A toddler was severely burned and is now in the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. Judy wang is live at comer Childrens Hospital with more. Paramedics brought the child here in Critical Condition. There are more questions than answers at this point. Chicago police are questioning the boys parents it hopes of filling in some of the blanks. Police responded to a call in the south Shore Community this was at 740 last night. Officers found the boy about 1 years old with what they described as life threatening birds. Burns to the forehead chest and back. He remains at the university of chicago Childrens Hospital. Investigators are trying to determine what caused the injuries. With the burned in the home or was this the result of a criminal act . The Fire Department says the burns were not the result of a fire. We also called the cfs to see if the agency had any contact with anyone at that address. Were still waiting for a response. Fire that broke out in a home in morgan park. It happened just after midnight in the 13hundred block of west 112th place. Authorities say three adults and two children now have to find some where else to live. No word on what caused the fire. More than half a Million People are without power this morning from louisiana to connecticut. The storm paralyzed the east coast and the south east. 16 deaths have been related to the brutal round of winter weather. Ice and snow. More than a dozen states were affected. About one third of all americans. In virginia is snowplow worker was killed by a dump truck. In new york a man driving a bobcat clearing snow back over a pregnant woman killing her. The baby was delivered by emergency section. Be patient with the utility company. When power goes out at this time of the year its harder to get everything fixed. Crews are working to restore power. Air travel has also been affected. 8000 Flights Canceled nationwide including 375 flights at ohare. State treasurer Dan Rutherford will not release the findings of an independent investigation into a former deputys Sexual Harassment allegations. It was supposed to come out today. But last night, sources in the treasurers campaign for governor confirm to wgn that it will not be released, because of a pending federal lawsuit. The former deputy claims rutherford made unwanted sexual advances, and pressured him to do political work on government time. Taking a look at the other top stories this morning. Police in romeoville are still trying to determine why a young man shot and wounded a woman and her daughter. The 33yearold mother and 15 yearold daughter were attacked while sitting in their car outside their home yesterday morning. The teen is in Critical Condition. Four people were arrested for questioning. Two have since been released. Charges are expected to be filed in an attempted robbery that left five people shot inside a club in gary. It happened Late Wednesday night at the safe and sound Senior Citizens social club. Police say a 23yearold man from chicago tried to rob several people in the club and shot four of them before one of those victims shot him. The suspect is in Police Custody but is being treated at the hospital. A teenager is charged with his friends murder, even though he didnt fire the fatal shot. Three people tried to rob an offduty sheriffs sergeant at gunpoint monday evening near 103rd and cottage grove. But the officer pulled his own gun, and shot and killed 16 yearold deonta mackey. Mackeys friend Devante Graham later turned himself in. Because his friends death was the result of a criminal act, graham is blamed for it. Hes being held on a Million Dollars bond. A man believed to be in his 60s. Has died in an Apartment Fire on the citys west side. The fire broke out just before six last night, in a building near lavergne and harrison. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. The man was found on the second floor of the threestory building. In a bedroom where the fire began. Investigators found a walker and cane in his unit. The cause is still under investigation. Working smoke detectors were in the building. Two lawsuits claim that negligence by officials at a church in South Barrington allowed a volunteer to molest two young boys in a special needs program. Police say 20yearold Robert Sobczak sexually abused two children at Willow Creek Community church. The latest lawsuit was filed yesterday on behalf of an eightyearold boy who sob check admitted to molesting early last year. He was sentenced to two years of probation and has registered as a child sex offender. Another lawsuit was filed in november on behalf of a second child whose allegations have not led to criminal charges. Jurors heard more audio, and even watched some video, in the murder conspiracy trial of former Chicago Police officer steven mandell. In the video, mandell and an associate tour a storefront on devon avenue where prosecutors say they planned to torture and kill a suburban businessman, then chop up his body. It was part of an alleged plot by mandell to seize control of the polekatz strip club business. On audio, mandell was heard complaining about renovations to the wouldbe torture chamber. Probably the best thing is to concentrate on pulled wool, to court to have all wall is to be the one with the sink. Use some strategic thinking. The men on the tapes also discussed torture methods. Testimony in the mandell trial resumes later this morning. Federal prosecutors say they will appeal the sentence of beanie babies billionaire ty warner. Last month, warner was given two years probation and community service, but no prison time for failing to pay federal income tax on millions of dollars that he hid in swiss bank accounts. Prosecutors asked for at least a year in prison, but the judge said keeping warner out of jail would allow him to continue his considerable charitable work. Team usa at three more medals. Taking a look at the medal count right now, norway leads the pack with 13. Now tied with the netherlands for 12th metals followed by russia. Despite having the most gold medals germany is first. A unique school in chicago is featured in time magazine. Sarah goode stem academy and three other schools are being praised for their programs. Goodes curriculum focuses on science and technology. Students here graduate with an Associates Degree after six years. Mayor emanuel says hes proud of the young innovators and the staff that help educate them. We have a warmup coming next week. There should we make 32. It probably felt pretty good. Today is cooler. We have snow. Lets look at the weather above locations. We will be close to the low 20s through the morning. Waukegan is at 18. It is much cooler at these locations. In harvard illinois we are at 8. Sunlit composite shows our next whether the maker, a line of snow coming through portions of iowa. It will skirt our region coming across the southern communities. Light snow will move through into the afternoon. 21 degrees is our high. Tonight low temperature is 6. 28 on sunday. A woman is in jail after performing a vampire facelift. And please make an arrest after an explosion at the home of a retired lawyer. And what one woman found a burrito that she found in a Convenience Store. A volcano erua has forced evacuations of more than 100thousand people. Mount kelud is on the heavily indonesias second biggest city. A cloud of ash and sand shot more than ten miles into the air across an area 300 miles wide. At least three airports have been closed. There are report that two people were killed from falling rocks. The volcanos last eruption was seven years ago. Three days after a couple in tennessee were killed by a mail bomb, police have charged their soninlaw. Richard parker was indicted for firstdegree murder in the deaths of retired attorney jon setzer and his wife marian. The package exploded monday when they opened it at their home in lebanon, tennessee. Jon setzer died instantly, his wife two days later. Richard parker is being held on a Million Dollars bond. He is convicted of arson in 1993 and served four years probation. No motive has been released. An amateur Plastic Surgeon may face felony charges, after one of her patients had a heart attack. Sandra gonzalez is a licensed massage therapist in long beach, california. She was not licensed to vampire facelifts, which their own blood. A woman went into cardiac arrest during a procedure, and died at the hospital a short only with operating without a license, and possessing a controlled substance. Health Officials Say a uc bereley student got the measles after a trip abroad and was not vaccinated. Officials say the student also rode bart the sanfrancisco Rapid Transit system before he realized it. Bart is saying passengers may have been exposed if they rode between february 4th to february 7th. People on campus have been notified and uc berkely is offering vaccines to students. Symptoms include a fever, cough and rash. A woman found something less than appetizing in a burrito she bought from a Convenience Store in midland, texas. The woman bought herself a fried burrito at the stripes Convenience Store for 86cents. But she got more than she bargained for after a few bites. She thought it was a piece of foil. But it turned out to be the finger of a latex glove. It was nauseating. I yelled. It could have been somebody with an allergy to latex who ate it or a child. So luckily nothing happened. Im glad it was me that got it. I wish you couldve seen her reaction. It was just frightful. The Convenience Store manager told the woman the burritos came from a vendor. Although the store believes it was an isolated incident, theyve removed all related product and have notified the vendor. Wide you have to ruin a perfectly good burrito like that . Lets talk about love. But some talk about. We are definitely bring it. Mostly cloudy. Snow showers for valentines day. High temperature is 21. Temperatures in some areas are warmer than normal. Some areas are cooler. Looking at ohare we have temperatures which could be moving through the teen spirit 14 at ohare. Generally clear skies. The clouds will increase. We do have snow coming in from the south. Wind of the west at 12 mi. We find 13 degrees in waukegan. Only 10 for bartlett as a travel to the west. Yesterday it was the opposite. South and east we had colder temperatures but north and west had warmer temperatures. This morning is a decrease in dekalb. 17 at the lakefront. Zero windchill in bartlett. Waukegan reading at five. Looking across the region, with another batch of snow, winter portions of iowa. The disturbance that will support our southern viewing area. A chance of snow for the whole area. But that chance is greater itself of 80. 21 degrees today. Tonight down to six. Tomorrow 21 degrees. Sunday women 28. Water temperatures next week. The plain that satanic themes song they are playing it the titc theme song. 1973 was about six years before i was born. We have an accident right now on the edens in bound side. This is at nile center road. A car in the ditch. Crews are off on the shoulder working to clear this. A gas main leak northbound road is closed to balmoral impacting the intercontinental hotel. That is the latest on the roads. Everything else looks good. Can you say whoopie more time . , do you and your wife make whoopie . Coming up. A look at the most romantic city in the u s. And next in sports cubs pitchers and catchers reported for the start of spring training in arizona. I think we need to give the weatherman a math test. No love on valentines day a lot of talk this weekend about dominics leaving the area. We are going to take you to a family run to chris restore celebrating 40 years in business. How do they do it . We star break for the bulls. They go in on a high note. They make it four wins in the last five games. They get a weekend off. Boozer back in action after a calf injury. They take the lead early after a turnover. Augustine to gibson. Bulls up by 10. A good game in his return, he hangs in there. Gets the rebound the windup on the floor. 15 points. They are able to respond in the third. Working with the left hand to get a 10 point lead. They will wrap it up against the baseline. The bulls when they are two games over five. First time since november 21st. Pitchers and catchers in their brand new training site. First workout later today. But the work ahead. The young Team Spring Training is important. We have not yet seen him without a smile on his face. He says his parents told him he was even a happy baby. But he warns his Young Players not to try to take advantage of his good nature. Many times ive had to speak to players. I always say, dont misconstrue my kindness with weakness. But i think you have strength in the way you deal with people on a daily basis. I think they understand. The cubs view their new training complex as a big organizational step forward. The understand there is a good way to go. They dont like it but they understand. This Time Next Year i want us to be healthier and closer to accomplishing our vision of being an annual contender. Whether its certain players having bounced back tears or new players emerging or players from outside the organization or bringing a real level of competitiveness and culture, who pleaded innocent tests in all those ways. We will see. Stocks closed up thursday. The dow gained 63 points. The nasdaq up 39. And the sandp closed up 1o points. This book has a list of the top five most romantic u. S. Cities. The rate at which people switch their relationship status from single to in a relationship. All paso, fort worth, san antonio mix the list. Number one city is colorados brings. What . It to you know why . Because its cold theres a lot of cuddling. At the marijuana . Its about cuddling. Trust me on this. I will believe you. I need your help on this one. Because if there is an empty thing i want to share with you. Heres the Weather Forecast. Happy valentines to you. Very sweet. Morning temperatures, were looking at a temperature of 16 degrees. 19 degrees and some late night hankypanky. Bringing home the hanky panky. Of 14 degrees is the temperature. That is the valentines day forecast. I hope you like of the noon show. Thats where you are going to end up. With a car in the ditch on the edens. The have cruz out there trying to get this out. This is heading in bound. Still watching a gasoline leak from foster over to balmoral. In mount prospect, no. That 83 squeezed down to a single lane from northwest highway 2 central. The basically have a fire out there and theyre worried about that being not safe. That is all cordon off. Support, including a report on the investigation of a child found severely burned. A judge makes a ruling on the ban of six samesex marriage in virginia. Major Teachers Union backing a republican can bid for the race for governor. Team reviews the weekends new movies including about last night. A toddler is found with severe burns on the south side. We are live with the latest on the police investigation. A fire breaks out overnight at a house on the citys far south side. And a deadly winter storm is now sweeping up the east coast causing Power Outages and flight cancellations. Good morning, im dan ponce. And im erin mcelroy. Lets go to Demetrius Ivory for a check of the weather. Hi, demetrius. His the king of love today. It all winter its been doom and gloom downright depression but not today. Were going to change it. The weather will be that great. Were burned to bring it in terms of the romance. High temperature in the low 20s. 32 yesterday. It was much warmer. It will be cooler into the afternoon. Light snow coming in from the west. Generally south of chicago and we have the chance of snow higher. Eastern iowa we find snow at this hour. 19 degrees is our temperature by 5 00. At 6 8 07 a. M. Warmup. 21 on saturday. Monday chance for ice. Tuesday upper 30s. A quick update on traffic. With an issue on the eden spirit and new stalled out car outbound kennedy at irving park taking out the far right lane. Its a slow go. We have a car in a ditch here. Yesterday we saw construction crews out there. They were doing some pothole repair work. We will see what that means. They were out in full force yesterday causing delays. We have a gas company, the crews are now digging up river road in rosemont which is where a gas main ruptured overnight. This happened at technology boulevard. It remains closed there. Gas is shut off. The only major hotel affected is intercontinental. Most of the big hotels are just north of balmoral

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