Transcripts For WGN WGN Morning News 20140228 : comparemela.

Transcripts For WGN WGN Morning News 20140228

Temperatures to be really cool. We may have a record low. High temperature 14 degrees below average which is still improvement since we are finally coming out of the Single Digits today. Its eight degrees at the lakefront. We are five degrees at ohare. Currently 2 in joliet and 1 in dekalb. We do have Cool Temperatures as a travel away from the center. Wind chill is quite low. 13 in dekalb. Satellite rare composite choose its dry. Lake effect clouds and snow are on the flip side of lake michigan. But the chance of snow tonight is light snow. More snow saturday and then as the heavier snow comes it will be sunday. Two years to the mid20s. Tonight we go down to 17. Snow showers develop saturday the snow continues into sunday. Your main roads are still nice unclear but we do have street closures to tell you about. Overnight fire near 126 and 159. Heavy smoke coming out of that home. They still have closures on 126. Both leans down to one lane through that stretch. We are hearing that 59 is open. Watch for traffic tieups there in plainfield. But the rest of the road so far so good. One woman is dead and her daughter is critically injured after a shooting inside a home on chicagos southwest side. Nancy loo is live at stroger hospital with more. According to police, the deadly shooting was instigated by a fight between the 25 year old daughter and her boyfriend who is now a wanted man. The woman is in Critical Condition here where her mother was pronounced dead this morning. Police say the suspect was arguing with his girlfriend at her home on the 5400 block just after midnight when her mother tried to intervene. The man shot a 43 yearold mother and his girlfriend and a third woman in the home was apparently hit in the head before the suspect made his escape. The mother was shot twice and died of her injuries and the daughter is in Critical Condition with a gunshot to the torso. Police have been here at the hospital. Not clear whether the woman is able to speak with them. Police know exactly who they are looking for in this homicide. Its just a matter of finding them. Our long and extreme winter is making it difficult for the city of chicagos Water Department to keep up with frozen pipes. Crews have been working for weeks. Handling calls of no Water Service at homes, apartment buildings and businesses. This gas station at 66th and south state street has had no water for three weeks until crews arrived yesterday. The problem was that the water pipes, which are six feet underground, were frozen solid. At this time last year we had about 900 calls of no water. This year, we have had over 4500. The Water Department recommends you keep a trickle of water running from a faucet. That keeps the water moving in the pipes and prevents them from freezing. Just because its cold, it doesnt mean the coast guard isnt busy. Yesterday they showed how they train for rescues in the icy waters of lake michigan. Members of coast guard station Calumet Harbor do drills like this every day, so theyre ready for real emergencies. If someone falls in the water at this temperature, hypothermia could happen within minutes. 100people over the past two winters. The power is back on at the university of notre dame. The outage happened last night around 9 15. Right before the Womens Basketball teams post game press conference. Players and coaches were getting ready to talk about the fighting irishs win against north carolina. Power was restored at about 10 45 last night. Taking a look at the other top stories this morning. A student at Northwestern University is suing one of her professors. The woman claims philosophy professor peter ludlow got her drunk and made sexual advances, two years ago. The woman says the incident drove her to attempt suicide, and left her suffering from panic attacks whenever she saw ludlow on campus. The woman sued the university previously for failing to handle her complaint properly. The professor has denied any inappropriate behavior, and northwestern has also denied any wrongdoing. Police in gurnee are questioning a woman in connection with the vandalism of several churches and at least one mosque. Earlier this month, someone spraypainted obscene messages or drawings near the entrances. Authorities released images from surveillance video. An officer was in Traffic Court and saw someone who looked like the person in the video. No charges have been filed. Police in oak lawn are revealing new details in the murdersuicide of four people. Investigators say 36yearold john conta junior used his fathers shotgun to shoot his parents and his nephew, matthew meier, just hours after they celebrated the boys fifth birthday tuesday night. Police say conta junior then poured gasoline in the homes basement. And set the home on fire. A firefighter responding to the fire saw conta shoot and kill himself inside a car in the garage. Family friends say conta, a former math teacher, moved in with his parents last fall after working in russia as a potato farmer. Comed customers will be receiving smart meters sooner than expected. The smart meters will eliminate the need for meter readers. And comed will know immediately when and where there has been a power outage. Comed says the smart meters are expected to save customers 150million dollars. They began replacing the meters on the south side last week. Comed plans to switch all meters by 2018. Cook county sheriff tom dart is reacting angrily to a lawsuit that claims the county jail subjects inmates to a culture of lifethreatening violence. The lawsuit, by Northwestern Universitys Macarthur Justice center, claims maximumsecurity inmates are sometimes beaten by the guards, outside the view of security cameras. The stamslam people to the fr and stomp them often while they are handcuffed. I dont even know where to start with the spirit is so outrageous. Sheriff dart characterized the lawsuit as a fictitious novel. And he says he plans to complain to the Macarthur Center about what he considers baseless claims and a frivolous lawsuit. 88 inmates signed declarations claiming they were victims of abuse by the guards. The republican candidates governor had another debate, with their primary less than three weeks away. Bruce rauner was targeted frequently by his opponents. He has used his personal wealth for an adcampaign that put him ahead in polls. State senators bill brady and kirk dillard and treasurer Dan Rutherford accused rauner of pay to play politics and pointed out his lack of experience. But rauner referred to them as career politicians, not reformers. Heres what the candidates envision, if they become governor. More jobs at lower taxes better schools term limits on politicians. Thats where i will lead. Nobody has the bipartisan working ability that i have in the race for governor as well as just a proven track record of doing that. Bring the legislator together and use the strength to fit what in the interest of the people. As your governor, i will not sign any revenue into law without it being part of a complete package dealing with cuts, the idea of borrowing, consolidation of state agencies. All the candidates will debate again here, on wgn on wednesday at six pm. The primary is march 18th. Socalled revenge porn is closer to being illegal in illinois. No senators rejected a proposed ban yesterday. The bill would make it illegal to post nude, or sexually explicit, pictures of another person, without that persons permission. It would also make it illegal to charge a fee to get pictures removed from a website. Offenders could get up to three years in prison and a fine. Supporters say this targets cyber bullying, but the American Civil Liberties union says it attacks free speech. Chicagos City Council Zoning committee has endorsed a bill to let strip clubs serve alcohol to their customers. Alderman ed burke says, as long as the clubs dont create problems in their neighborhoods, they ought to be allowed to sell liquor and permit seminude dancing at the same time. But they still cant be located within two blocks of a school or house of worship. The full City Council Still needs to approve the measure. I love the were playing the same video over and over. Against your light on the role. We need to go on and get some more of that. But you want a full list for a commercial . Play that for the next 10 years. No problem. You better be the owner. Cold conditions today. Only 11 degrees right now in chicago. Nine at the hawthorne academy. Not as cold as elsewhere. Waukegan is 9. A huge difference across the region. I lake is 9. The wind is not as strong so we have current temperatures of nine in wadsworth. Windchill of 8. Sublets composite shows we are dry. We stayed dry with snow showers coming this evening. Not too much. 26 degrees is the high today. Down to 24. Coming up, police and wetlands issue an arrest warrant for daring sharp. The latest state to legally recognized out of state game marriages. At disney world decided to pull its support for local boy scout troop. This nine month old girl born deaf hear sound for the very first time all caught on camera. Former nfl player darn sharper turned himself in to face new rape charges. Sharper surrendered to Los Angeles Police last night. Prosecutors in new orleans charged him with two counts of rape yesterday. They say he and erik nunez committed rape in an apartment in september. Last week, sharper pleaded not guilty to similar charges in california. Those alleged attacks were in october and last month. His Attorney Says sharpers contact with those women was consensual. Sharper played for three teams during his 13 year career. A federal judge in kentucky ruled the state will recognize samesex marriages performed outside of the state. But kentuckys attorney general is asking for a 90day delay on that order. The attorney general says he needs to decide whether to appeal the judges ruling that the states samesex marriage ban is unconstitutional. Couples wanting to marry in kentucky still cannot get a license. Walt disney world is cutting off donations to orlandoarea boy scout troops over the National Organizations ban on gay leaders. Walt disney world has routinely donated to local troops where employees volunteer, but the company says the boy scouts ban on openly gay troop leaders is not in line with its company policy. The boy scouts of america voted last spring to allow openly gay youth scouts, but kept its ban on openly gay troop leaders. Youre about to see a nine monthold girl from texas hear her very first sounds. Kendall johnson was born deaf. But she has just been surgically outfitted with cochlear implants. Did you notice something . There is practically no level of hearing loss that we cant treat them for and keep them functioning well in the hearing world. A device worn over kendalls ear picks up the sounds and sends them to a tiny device implanted under her skin. Kendall still has to learn what all the strange new sounds mean. But shell have plenty of help. Her older brother received cochlear implants, four years ago. Good morning. Right now is to look at whether we expect to see temperatures which will quickly rise. Right now its five degrees. With that of the southeast and 6 mi. Dew point temperatures 10. More snow on the way. Cold conditions today. Still winter expect winter like conditions. Much colder than normal but we expect to warmup on the flip side of the seven days forecast. If you are near ohare is 5 degrees. To the northwest at union is 10. Big temperature ranges. Basically warm air coming in from the south and west. Temperatures will either be steady this morning or continue to warm up. Card wind chill is 13 in dekalb. 10 for union. 11 in aurora. Satellites radar composite shows dry conditions. Not much in the way of clouds. Higher clouds to the southwest. The next snow maker comes in the scene in bringing as a light snow. We are looking at the new data. I think people are talking about the snow coming for the weekend. Another wave of snow saturday afternoon and evening. If youre headed to the game at Soldier Field be prepared for that snow. Sunday heavier snow comes our way. The amount really depends on where you live. Across the north it wont be as much. Threefour. But further to the south your closer to the low pressure system you could see as much as eight for the weekend total. That snow will continue for our friends down the south. Increasing clouds today. Breezy. 26 degrees. Snow showers with little accumulation. Tomorrows High Temperature is 24. Sunday we expect snow and a high of 19. With avenue crash this morning and outbound eisenhower all lanes are blocked around wolfe road for a crash. Keep you posted on that one. Also update on the fire in plainfield from earlier on 126 and 159. Elaine was shut down on 126 in both directions. Getting worse in the plan fell five department that all lands have been opened in that stretch. Lets go out to marcus is live in rosemont. Hi marcus good morning and very excited. Not only is it the weekend but we of world of wheels here. There are hundreds and hundreds of classic cars here. I have this all to myself. I, ground and see anything i want. Its a car lovers dream. You do have it all to yourself. So if people havent been here before what will they see . 600 cars out here. Motorcycles, custom cars, a lot of restored muscle cars. They are coming and driving them and buying them. Allowed cars come within 100 mi. Of here. Theres lots of local owners. 90 of our cars are from here. A lot of local guides. We are so fortunate to have such great people. Theres a really nice people here. The people here really have a lot of passion. This is as good a show as we have anywhere in the country. Were going to talk about it for the next two hours including this car here. Also the judging process. I know there is stiff competition. Just who is here and how do they get their cars here . We will have this all for you. If you are a car lover you dont want to miss this. Brookfield zoo recently welcomed a new baby gorilla. She was born november 4th last year, and she still needs a name the names are down to a final list alima, amelia, emma, or nora. The voting ends monday go to Brookfield Zoo dotorg slash gorillaname to place your vote you know i love my animal stories. Coming up the 430 british sky agency was hacking into peoples web camps. And, a slow first 59 minutes for the blackhawks, but a furious rally in the final seconds, in new york. Sports is next. It seems like a long way between games for the blackhawks. The completed in 20 days so they resumed this season last night. They opened the home stretch of the season with an original six matchup against the new york rangers. Seven straight game in a row and its their first two since the loss in phoenix. Not much scoring. Its 10 rangers in the first. But they had an extra attacker and he gets his first goal as a blackhawk and its twoone. And then they threw a scare into the rangers. It can stop them and the rangers hang on to beat them 21. Now they come home to get ready for the anticipated stadium series game in Soldier Field. A lot of first ad, the camp. New game at the park new game for the new manager and a record crowd. Two scoreless innings innings. Struck out to get out of a jam. A good day for castro. 242 including this shot to the third scoring and they lead to0. Arizona comes back to win but it was a good start. I felt great. First day out. Lots of emotion. First game in this new stadium. Happy with how pitched. We got a double play in the second. Its what you want in spring training. Work on all your pitches and have all the different scenarios. I imagine that walk at the beginning went to that the motion. Fireworks were going off. Fans were going nuts. Its a new atmosphere. You have to get used to it. Youre to take in the sights. Try to take it the same time as working when you need to work on. They play the angels today. The white sox start their Practice League schedule against the dodgers in glendale. Stocks got a boost on thursday. The dow gained 74 points. The nasdaw rose 26. And the sandp closed up 9 points. You can now name a crater on mars. With 5 to give a nickname to a crater. The money raised goes to a fund which will use the money for Space Exploration research and education. The price goes up as the size of the crater increases. No profane or offensive names will be used. I would like to name a small town anyone. I would call it the kwame crater. I like the sound of that. Lets take a look at the day. You could name the pot holes around chicago that to be more fun. That would probably cost like 500. For the game forecast this weekend snow showers are likely. Breezy and cold. But hockey at Soldier Field. Who wants crazy weather . The 70 forecast will be coming in just a bit. And two crashed out there on the chinatown ramp. Heading in bound on the dan ryan there are three lanes blocked this point. A rollover crash. Possibly people trapped inside. Crews of just arriving now. A quick update on the eisenhower. They have just opened it was quickly moved off to the side. Still more to come including the arrest of a woman who tried to hire a hit man to kill her exhusband. A group sneaks cameras into the u. S. Supreme Court Recording video of oral arguments for the very first time. What paula dean feels like an openly gay Football Player we will stick explain that. And dean reviews the new movies incpolice are looking fon who shot his girlfriend and killed her mother. We will have a live update. The developments in the ukraine where protesters season airport overnight. The city of chicago announces a new milestone in a pothole filling. Good morning, im dan ponce. And im cortney hall in for erin. Lets go to Demetrius Ivory for a check of the weather. Its the weekend. Its cold and snow is coming. Some part of our viewership must want this. They may be happy. Somebody somewhere. You know those people. They say its not called the love this weather. You just want to hit them. Its a degrees right now. W

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