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WGN WGN Morning News February 27, 2014

Were going to take all the Human Interest stories and drop them for sport over and over. Lets look in our day. Cold temperatures again. Its way too late in the year for this but we have temperatures which will struggle to even climb into the double digits. Right now its the teens. Sunshine comes our way. High temperature this afternoon and is 30 degrees below average. Here we go. Temperatures right now 12 at the lakefront. Nine for bartlett. In a decrease in union. You can see colder temperatures as a travel to the north and west. Wind chill showing the same trend at 13 and 9. The wind chill advisory remains in effect until man for all the counties there. Also the wind chill advisory until 9 00 a. M. It wind chills are close to 15. Dropping even lower than that. Light snow shower continues to exit the county. A very light coating over cook county. I expect to move to sunshine later today. 6 degrees by 5 00 p. M. Sunshine. Wind chill between 1025. Early tomorrow what degree is your temperature. Increasing clouds on friday. So showers develop friday. A better chance for snow as another system comes our way saturday. Lets do traffic. We will have sarah coming in later but right now much of the producer tells me we have no problems or delays on the roads another update at about 430. This man will be in bond court today for a robbery on the cta blue line. Eric carney is charged with felony robbery. Hes accused of taking a cell phone from a womans hands and running out of a train, at the western stop in logan square sunday morning. Police say they identified carney through surveillance photos. This brutal winter is not only making it harder to stay warm, its making it more expensive. Nancy loo is live at wacker and adams with more. Nancy . Care ready for more physical pain from the extreme cold and also for the financial pain from your next heating bill. Customers could be paying more long after it warms up. As we continue to watch temperatures drop this morning. As we heard, more single digit temperatures are in store for today. Wind chill advisory in effect through noon. Wind gusts making it feel 25 degrees below. That means furnaces will have to keep working harder to keep homes heated on the heels of the warning of natural gas bills going up next month. Peoples gas is morning of march bills that could be more than 50 higher for the average customer. On top of that, peoples and north shore gas are asking the state Commerce Commission to approve overall rate hikes to cover higher delivery costs which has a Watchdog Group on guard. Were constantly investing in in for a structure and it costs more to operate and maintain that system in the cold. We will go over every line and every member of this request. The gas company will have a fight on their hands to justify every penny. The peoples gas co. Says they have had to deliver more natural gas this year than in the past decade and the increased demand requires the buying of more supply amid a far more expensive market and that is on top of higher delivery costs because of the cold. Back to youa man was given a ticket for taking a walk. Onto the ice on lake michigan. The man walked onto the ice at monroe harbor yesterday afternoon. Police and fire crews ordered him to go back onto shore. He made it back safely and was given a citation for violating a city ordinance. Pothole damage claims are soaring in chicago. The snow and temperature changes have turned streets into a mine field for your tires and rims. 280 damage claims from potholes were introduced at this months city council meeting. Thats more than any other month in the past four years. The City Clerks Office processes damage claims up to twothousand dollars. Drivers need to send in a claim form, a police report, and a repair bill. There is yet another act of revolution in ukraine, just days after the countrys president was deposed. Within ukraine is an autonomous region called crimea. This morning, protesters seized a government building, and the crimean parliament, and raised a russian flag over it. The seizure was a protest against the political upheaval in the ukrainian capital of kiev. The temporary government in ukraine has announced a slate of nominees for a new unity government, aligned with the european union. And the United States warned russia against any military intervention to bring ukraine back into russias orbit. The governor of arizona has vetoed a controversial bill that would protect businesses who denied services to gay and lesbian customers based on the owners religious beliefs. Governor jan brewer spent yesterday meeting with supporters and opponents of the bill before rejecting the law. She says the bill was broadly worded and would have brought negative consequences to the state. To as a perverse i understand that longheld norms are being challenged as never before. But i sincerely believe that the senate bill proposed has the potential to create more problems than it purports to solve. Brewers decision was greeted by cheers from gay rights advocates who fought the bill, saying it was discrimination. Supporters argued the bill was a religious freedom issue. The measure would have automatically become law saturday, if brewer had not taken action. Marriage licenses are now available for same sex couples in central illinois. Days after a judge gave cook county the go ahead to issue licenses, the Champaign County clerk is following suit. Illinois new Marriage Equality law doesnt officially take effect until june. But Champaign County clerk gordy hulten says it doesnt make sense to delay granting a fundamental right. Three same sex couples were granted licenses yesterday. Loyola university is limiting wedding ceremonies at its chapel on the rogers park campus. In december, the school changed its policy to allow only catholicsanctioned weddings between a man and a woman at the chapel. All other ceremonies are forbidden campuswide. Some students and alumni members are angry the university wont allow samesex marriage ceremonies after passage of the Marriage Equality act last year. Investigators continue to look into an apparent murdersuicide that killed four people, including a fiveyearold boy in oak lawn. It started just after 5 am yesterday with a fire at a home in the 898hundred block of 51st avenue. A firefighter who lived nearby arrived to see a 36yearold man shoot and kill himself in a car in the garage. Firefighters then found a man in his 60s inside the home with a gunshot wound. Hours later, the body of a 68 yearold woman was found in the basement. She was also shot. The boys body was found last night. Is evil or someone with Mental Health problems . No trouble. Just regular people. Released. Neighbors say they are all related. Police say theyve never been called to the home before. We want to correct a story we reported yesterday regarding the murder trial of allan kustok who is charged with murdering his wife. The prosecution witness we told you about yesterday testified that she had only one meeting with kustok and did not have an affair with him. We regret the error. The daughterinlaw of allan kustok testified that she thought he and her motherin law had a happy marriage. Nicole kustok said she was shocked, four years ago, to hear that her motherinlaw, anita kustok, had been shot to death. Allan kustok is on trial for her murder. He claims she killed herself. Nicole kustok said she wouldnt describe the kustoks marriage as perfect. But merely happy. The president was not until his new initiative to provide jobs and is for minority men. It will work with young men to reach triple full potential. The initiative was mentioned in his state of the union last month. Weatherman in california had an encounter with a spider. Did you see that . There was a spider that fell. Take it easy. I hate spiders. Especially when youre all you can feel them crawling on your head. I didnt get it. I apologize. To i am totally gripped our grain now. Thats aaron perlman, freaking out during his weathercast in bakersfield. Eventually, the spider made it all the way to the floor, and perlman stomped on it. It looks like there may be a job opening for a there demetrius take that back to meteorologist boot camp. Police he got it in the end. You get in our spot like you go the way of the dinosaur. Its 17 degrees right now. But it feels like 0 with wind out of the west at 20 mi. Per hour. In valparaiso we are currently at 15. Our lady of mount carmel is 15. Windchill of zero. Island lake is reading of 4 degrees. Wind chill down to 9. Harvard is 5 degrees. This is going to be a cold day. Typical ties are 40 this afternoon we will be 30 degrees colder than that. The seven days forecast shows a warmup not coming our way. Todays High Temperature this afternoon is 9. Expect snow showers friday night into saturday and sunday and letting up on monday. Coming up. A bus driver is attacked by a passenger. And by a delta flight was forced to make an emergency landing. And of police found students doing inside and a glue near college campus. And what will happen if someone tries to tamper with a news are phone . It doesnt operate out ofone . Basements or back alleys. It grows more sophisticated every day. If it were a business, it would be a fortune 500 company. Fraud has evolved. American express intelligent security gives you tools to fight fraud and a Global Service network that never stops working. So you can be a member of a more secure world. This is what membership is. This is what membership does. 75 passengers and a crew of four safely evacuated a delta connection flight as the plane filled with smoke just as it arrived at the gate in oakland. The flight from los angeles was operated by skywest airlines. The emergency chutes were not deployed. Everyone got out through the cabin door into the jetway with flight attendants hurrying them along. According to the flight attendant, the back of the plane was filling up with more smoke and people could not breathe. So they try to get everyone quickly off. The source of the smoke has not been determined. Some viewers may find the next video disturbing. A Surveillance Video found a bus driver beating a passenger in the olympia, washington. The two men argued, and the driver ordered the other man to get off the bus. Thats when the passenger got agitated, then turned violent. A fellow passenger tried in vain to stop the attack. Eventually, the attacker got off the bus. Transit employees recognized him from this video. And Police Tracked him down and arrested him. Four students at the university of utah face expulsion after getting caught smoking pot on campus. In this igloo. A University Police officer found the igloo hidden in a wooded area on campus and then he found four men inside smoking marijuana. Police arent sure if the men built the igloo or happened to find it but they say it was about five feet tall and had walls of snow about ten inches thick and a cardboard door. Its since been destroyed. The students were charged with possession of marijuana. Boeing has a new gadget that would be perfect on the tv show mission impossible. Its called the black smartphone. Boeing filed plans to the fcc this month, but few details about are known. The phone is programmed to Self Destruct if someone tampers with it. So if someone tries to break it open, the phone deletes its data and software and becomes useless. The phone is being designed for government workers who handle sensitive information. A new vehicle exploded. There may be a lot of estranged husbands would like to use that. Sulfone just blew up. Sorry. 10 degrees is the current temperature right now. Later today we will be cooler. Temperatures are going the wrong way as the skies clear. Its crazy. When that of the northwest at 22. We saw a light snow over the region overnight. Not much to write home about. Maybe just a light coating. More sunshine than anything. Only 10 degrees at ohare. Down towards dekalb we are at 6 degrees. In aurora its nine degrees. Toward midway we are at 11. Juliet into will county its 10. These numbers are colder than normal. Typically our los are in the mid20s. High temperatures close to 40. Windchill 12 in waukegan. 11 in the aurora you have to bundle up. The wind chill advisory is in effect until noon today for many counties. In some counties of northwest indiana it expires at 9 00 a. M. We have set snow showers and eggs in the region early. Next chance of snow is friday evening into saturday. About 1 in. Coming. On saturday we will add another 13 and sunday we expect higher accumulations. Over the weekend there is a chance of snow each day. Todays High Temperature around nine degrees. Wind as low as 25. Temperatures will rise late. Saturday we made 23. Good chance of snow for the hockey game at soldier field. A quick look at the roads. So far no major accidents or delays reported. Marcus is live in mccook this morning. Hi marcus good morning. I found some women. And they were worried because it was all men but i did find some women. The chicago womens professional soccer team. People dont know the red stars, telling her buddy who you are. Introduce the team. We are the Chicago Red Stars and we are a womens professional soccer team. We are excited to be here. Youve been around for five years . Very good. And you have tryouts today re here. People can come out and what they have to do to come try out for the team . How good they have to be . We bring you through drills and a lot of playing and most people come out here and play soccer its just playing and doing the best you can. You are to put me through it today. Show me some of the drills. Hold the ball. And this is the first that. Are you going to put me through this . Absolutely. I did it work yesterday i might need to be carried out of here today. But were going to talk to the red stars this morning and see some of the training. Good job doing that juggling for about a minute and a half. Coming up, a new look for nutrition labels. And prince faces a lawsuit over what posted on if his book page. And the bulls defense on the golden state offense. 20 days ago he hn oakland. Last night all over him scoring just five points from the floor and the bulls win with ease. The top will be in the Second Quarter after the warriors turn over the bulls are on the fast break and butler ticket all the way. Back in action after missing a few games. Besides shuddering curry he had some offense. The scoop shot and the fall. Bulls are up by 11. Then boozer stepped up. Bulls are up by 20. He scores 15. It was left up to him to put the file in. He scores it is 21 and a cool them off the first time this year that scored 100 points in backtoback games. Blackhawks almost completely reunited. Only two players miss practice. Patrick kane and Patrick Sharp were back. All i have to do is shake off their jet lag and get ready for the rangers tonight. I think it will help more than anything plan some big games i think i improved as an individual after all the playoff games but when you play those big games on the stage, you tend to improve. The way we came out last year which showed maturity should we were prepared and the guys are professionals and their great airplane good hockey. Im sure itll be the same this time around. Stocks closed higher wednesday after a positive earnings report. The dow gained 18 points. And the sandp gained nearly half a point. Thier look. For the first time in two decades the fda proposed new rules for labeling products. Updating serving sizes and recommended daily guidelines for various nutrients are among some of the proposed changes. The new guidelines will be announced today by Michelle Obama and would go into effect two years after they are finalized. Sprint is being sued over nude photos of a couple posted on facebook. The los angeles couple is suing sprint and claims the pictures were taken from a phone that was exchanged for a newer model. The woman says sprint employees promised that all of her personal cell phone data would be deleted, but an employee at the refurbinshing factory found the photos and posted them on facebook. Sprint says it takes customer privacy very seriously and will investigate. Throw in the river. Suspicion dew. Lets take a look at how things are going to be for us today. 10 degrees is the current temperature. Temperatures really dont rebound much at all. It will be extremely cold. When chilled advisory until noon. But the snow will get out early. Sunshine. But to p. M. We are at 8 degrees we should be close to 40. No problems or delays on the roads. Sarah will be here for erin on traffic starting a 430. Theres more to come in our next halfhour. Including a fire that kills people. And the governor of arizona has vetoed a controversial bill. And thousands of confidential documents from the Clinton Presidency are about the release. And mayor gives advice to jimmy fallon0< h l o n t odp . D[lo olw n n n n ph p x phnppolu ml[tz n w n n    n ph h h hp p p n p a p i e t p ips lpl t p 5 oxnh nto ]tupholo n n n n n first demetrius says the cold weather is not going away anytime soon. More snow comes this weekend. New developments in ukraine overnight, as armed gunmen seize government buildings. And dan rather for speaks out on sexual of harassment allegations against him. Good morning, im dan ponce. We have a few schools open in late because of the cold. District 113 including Deerfield High School and Island Park High School are opening up late today. A complete list on our website. Your Morning Headlines and a minute butlets go to Demetrius Ivory for a check of the weather. But take a look. Cold temperatures do not warm up. We will be colder than this later this afternoon. Romeoville is at 12. Through its 12. Wheeling is operating at only 11. Colder numbers as we look to the west. Northbrook ill. Currently at six degrees. Carpentersville at five. Current wind chill of 11. Looking across the region, wind chill advisory remains in effect until noon. Windchill as low as minus 20. It does expire earlier for some of the countys. Cloud cover continues to move through the Eastern Communities as you can see this note is right up along the southern shore. We will be on the lookout for that. It brought us a light coating a few minutes

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