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With temperatures in the 50s later today. It has been windy but the wind will drop off later today. It will be extremely windy but there will be a breeze. There is a bit of rain showing up on the radar but its not necessarily reaching the ground here in our area. Today, 56 degrees. It has not been that warm in all of 2014. You have to go all the way back to november 17th to find a day warmer than this. Tonight we begin to cool off. We will have the chance of snow coming tomorrow night. Not a huge storm. Another warmup comes after that. Today will be a good one. Lets check on traffic. Things are going so well and then you throw that snow back in. It never ends. We have a few things happening early. Crash are the western working to clear. We have continuing row work on 290 the eisenhower heading inbound, one lane blocks for work at the morgan street bridge. Its all scheduled to be picked up at the top of the hour. We start with some breaking newsfirefighters are battling a big fire at 2917 west irving park road. We are hearing it is an auto body shop. The address listed online is car outlet. Well bring you more information as it becomes available. A Chicago Police officer was shot in the head while serving a search warrant on the citys far south side. Judy wang is live at the 4th District Police headquarters with more. The Police Superintendent says the officer based here in the South Chicago Fourth District is a tactical officer. An exceptional officer he has received 245 awards from the department. He is out of the hospital. Police believe one of the people taken into custody was the shooter. The officer and others went to a home near east 92 just before 9 00 p. M. Executing a search warrant in a narcotics case. The suspect named in the warrant lives in the basement of the building. While inside the house someone fired in the officers direction the bullet ricocheted and hit the officer in the for head between his eyes. A fragment is lodged in his forehead. He was taken to the hospital and transferred to northwestern memorial. The superintendent says the officer who was 34 years old has been on the force for 11 years and was days. He was talking and in good spirits. Investigators recovered a weapon at the scene. Shots were fired within the residence by an offender. We are sure we have that person in custody we just have to sort through the people to make sure we got the right one. The officer comes from a family of Police Officers. He is out of a hospital but the superintendent says he will need to have some plastic surgery. Two Police Officers in northwest suburban Sleepy Hollow are on paid leave after shooting and killing a man. It happened after the officers were called to a domestic disturbance at a home near maple lane and hemlock drive just before noon yesterday. Officers say a man was on the driveway with a knife. Police say they tried to subdue him, but he tried to cut the officers and was shot after he refused to stop. Illinois state police are investigating the shooting. The mans name has not been released. There is still no sign of that missing Malyasia Airlines flight. The family of an american who was on the flight still has hope that hes alive. Andrew spencer reports. Without answers the family has turned to prayer. Were, and strong and we are hanging in there. Would is among three americans, one of 239 people on board a plane that disappeared over the weekend. This is pretty fresh. We are processing this and we have just had a bit of time to be together as a family. The flight left for beijing early saturday morning. Search teams from eight countries including the u. S. Have been scouring the gulf of thailand. We have not found anything that appears to be an object from the aircraft. This is not the first time a modern jet has disappeared. It took nearly two years to find a majority of an air France Flight which crashed from Rio De Janeiro to paris in 2009. Adding to the mystery of the missing airline flight, interpol says at least two of the passengers had used passports stolen from an italian and an austrian to board the plane. Those tickets were later to be found purchased together. Theories of terrorism have been fuelled by its too early to draw conclusions. The stolen passports may have been used for illegal immigration. As relatives of the missing week for network the familys hope for a miracle. Im crossing my fingers that maybe there is a happy ending to this. Mexican Authorities Say theyve killed a prominent drug lord. And his death comes as a surprise to some. Thats because Nazario Moreno was reportedly killed in a Police Shootout four years ago. But his body was never retrieved. When federal troops tried to arrest him yesterday, he started shooting. And he was killed by their return fire. This time, Authorities Say they have morenos body. A gunman opened fire at a party in the austin neighborhood wounding six people, including a High School Basketball star. Authorities say a group of people at the house party got into an argument shortly after three sunday morning. One of them left the party and returned with a gun. 19yearold, orr High School Basketball player, Tyquone Greer was shot in the leg. Greer made an espn list of the Top Ten High School recruits in illinois and helped lead his team to 233 record. Lots of colleges are looking at him. Hopefully he will be ok and he can go on his career. I dont know why he was out so late. I think a better question is who shot him . Whoever shot him will have to answer. Greer has been released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. The victims range in age from late teens to early 20s. They are all expected to survive. Nobody is in police custody. Taking a look at the other top stories this morning. A federal jury has awarded 450 thousand dollars to one of the men convicted of the 1993 browns chicken massacre in palatine. James degorski filed a civil lawsuit against a Cook County Jail guard who degorski says beat him a few hours after arriving to the jail. Laws may prevent digorski from ever getting the money. An autopsy determined a man found dead on the ctas green line tracks was accidentally hit and killed by a train. Service was shut down around the pulaski station for about two hours saturday morning after a conductor spotted the body on the northbound tracks. The medical Examiners Office reported 31yearold Charles Watkins died of multiple injuries from being struck by a train. A cta spokesperson said they will provide any available Surveillance Video to police. Cardinal Francis George says he felt a little lightheaded and unsteady on his feet, but otherwise ok after the first treatment in a new round of chemotherapy. The 77yearold leader of chicagos catholic archdiocese admitted during the weekend that his cancer will probably eventually be the cause of his death. Chicago starts issuing automatic speeding tickets today, for drivers near union, schaefer and rosenblum parks. These areas are considered until now, speed cameras generated only warning letters. The tickets can run as much as 100 dollars. Also starting today, warning letters start going out, for speeders the icci academy, parsons park and sherman park. If youre still riding the ct a with a chicago card, your life is about to change. The cta is expected to announce by the end of the month that its switching to a ventraonly payment system. At first, the Transit Agency will stop letting chicago card users add money to their cards. Then theyll have to transfer any cash balances on those cards to new ventra cards. The cta is expected to lay out a timetable for the full conversion to ventra. Drivers parking on chicago streets will soon be able to pay parking meters using their smartphones. The Mayors Office says a new parking meter payment app will be tested under a Pilot Program downtown this spring and then rolled out throughout the city at a later date. Drivers will enter their meter number and the amount of time they want to pay for. Then it will register with the meter. Printed receipts that are normally left on the dashboard will not be needed with this new app. Hundreds of people in grand Rapids Michigan participated a 5k run. Wearing their underwear on the outside. The funderwear run was part of gildas laughfest, in commemoration of saturday night live comic and cancer victim, gilda radner. The event helped raise funds for those battling cancer. Radner was a michigan native. She was married to actor gene wilder when she died at the age of 42. Much too young. That look like a good time. Of youll be wanting to shed some layers as we are headed for the warmest day of 2014. We do have some rain on the radar. Just a few sprinkles. It will last too long. It will be out of here in a few hours and then we will warm up. Temperatures are already balmy breeze now considering the time of the morning. 44 at the lakefront. 42 at midway. We will let you know how warm we are going to get. We have to warmups in the next week coming. We will talk about that in a bit including some snow coming in the forecast. An update to the breaking news from the top of the hour. These are live pictures of a fire being battled on west during park road. It is an auto body shop. Its listed as a car outlet. No injuries had been reported. More details coming up. Coming up, a party leads to dozens of arrests near a college campus. An earthquake hits the west coast. And the archbishop wants to look into the appeals of gay civil unions. A car crash not bad enough, its what happened afterwards that sent the driver to the hospital. The search is on in t ohio for a gunman who killed three people in a bar, including an off duty police officer. Witnesses say a fight sparked the shooting early sunday at the last call nightclub in fremont, southwest of toledo. A 26yearold officer from the nearby village of elmore was killed, along with a bartender and another customer. A fourth victim was airlifted to a hospital. A presaint Patricks Day Party in massachusetts got a little out of hand. The blarney blowout is an annual fixture near the university of massachusetts in amherst. But violence broke out early saturday morning, and continued yesterday morning, until police moved in with pepper spray, and arrested 52 people. Nearly a dozen of them were jailed. No serious injuries were reported. But a lot of people were hit by flying bottles and bricks. The Northern California coast rumbled and rolled last night, as a major earthquake hit the area. It registered 6point9. And it was centered 50 miles off the coast near eureka. And it could be felt across a wide area. Several smaller aftershocks have already been reported. But there were no tsunami warnings issued. Were awaiting word on damage and injuries. New Yorks Cardinal Timothy Dolan took to the airwaves sunday to clarify the popes stance on samesex marriages. Its not like he came out and approved them. But he did it in the sensitivity that has won the heart of the world saying rather than quickly condemn them lets see if. Lets ask the question. Dolan appeared on nbcs meet the press. The archbishop of new york denied pope francis supports civil unions. Marriage is between a man and a woman but he said the church should look at different cases. Dolan said the pope simply wants to look into reasons why more and more states are approving civil unions and gay marriage. Two drivers in california were stung by more than 600 bees after their cars crashed into a tree. Two cars collided in a minor accident sunday afternoon. At least one of the cars hit a tree dislodging a large bee hive, releasing thousands of bees. Authorities say the women were attacked as they were exchanging insurance information. The 51yearold woman, ran to the back of a home nearby and jumped into a swimming pool. She waited there until paramedics arrived. The 17yearold fell driver to the ground and was soon covered in bees. She looked like she had been stung in the face. Her arms and legs, everything exposed was stung. When i first came out she was just sitting there crying and screaming and panicking and didnt know what to do. I just reacted and grabbed the hose and sprayed her off. Both victims taken to the hospital for treatment. Their conditions were not coming up. But a check on the weather. Right now we have the day after daylight savings beginning. The sun will come up until about 7 15 a. M. Before that really kicks in today, a bit of rain is not showing up on the radar. A few sprinkles have been reported across Northern Indiana and southwest michigan. It will dry up soon and the rest of the day will be dry. Temperatures are the story. Weve done some melting overnight. No rain. 42 at ohare. 39 this morning in union. A bit of wind. It will be windy but not too bad. We will see the chance of some sprinkles quickly moving off to the east. Sunshine will return and that will boost temperatures up into the 50 degree mark today. The warmest day of 2014. By 10 a m. We will be at 49. Fifties this afternoon back to 45 degrees by 9 00 p. M. The seventh day out look has a two warmups. A warmup today, another leader in the week. Between that we do have rain and possibly some snow. We will talk more about that later in the morning. Lets enjoy the good weather first. As for the roadways, we are in good shape. No major delays or hot spots. Here is the dan ryan in bound, nice and light as to approach the stevenson. Thats the case across the board. A reminder that we are watching a fire this morning at 2917 west irving park road near irving park and california. Expect added delays through that stretch. We do have our crew heading to that scene we will keep you posted when we get there. Coming up, a blood test could predict risk of getting alzheimers. And next in sports the bulls put the collar on labron james at the united center. Highlights, next. The bulls and the miami heat always a many more. Certainly in the neighborhood of the 1980s. Out slugging miami lining of a split of four games in the regular season. James makes life miserable for the bulls at times. The steel but he has the lead by 12 early in the fourth. The bulls stormed back. Butler strips him and triggers a fast play and it will be gibson wrapping up the other and with a jam. Really getting into the game in the fourth quarter. The game goes to overtime. No one has a nice pass and the bulls win in overtime and win the game 9588. This is what you play for. I love it. Im having a great time. Having a blast out of there being in miami, i dont care if its a regular season, its always special. We played with a lot of hate today. Thats a big one. The big rival. All the great players that they have, coming into chicago, you want to send a message around. Patrick kane back home in buffalo. Patrick scores the first goal goes in for the wrist shot to make it 10. Its one one. Tying to bring it home. Its a 21 lead. The star on defense for the rest of the game. Sending the message. They pick up and beat buffalo 21. Thats it for sports. Have a great day. Stocks ended friday mixed as the enthusiasm following a betterthanexpected jobs report wore off. The dow closed up 30. The nadaq fell 15. And the sandp remained relatively flat. Researchers have found a simple blood test that may predict who is likely to suffer from alzheimers disease. Doctors studied the blood of healthy elderly people, looking for fatty molecules called lipids. Those with lower levels of lipids were more likely to develop alzheimers. The test was accurate 90 percent of the time. More testing is needed. A small town in the Colorado Rockies is about to become the home of the countrys first marijuana club. In the town of nederland , just up the mountain from boulder, club ned will offer pot smokers a place to hang out, instead of smoking weed in public. Itll be a lot like a bar except with marijuana instead of alcohol. Like other private clubs, the new pot club will prohibit the smoking of regular cigarettes. And itll have a code of conduct that discourages members from driving after smoking pot. Who thinks the population of colorado is going to grow in the next few years . I couldnt imagine this being an influence. We can imagine the 55 degrees were getting today. And four months since we have been this warm. A bit of rain is on our radar but it wont last long. Just a few sprinkles. Most of what you see on the radar is not reaching the ground. Were headed for 56 today. Well talk more about that as well as a full forecast coming up. Checking on the traffic, a few things on the kennedy, flooding around the tunnel so expect added delay with all that melting snow. Thats the left lane. Walk watch for things to be slow through there. Which is lost our map but we are still working on getting coverage of the fire this morning near irving park and california. Word that crews are staged at irving. Expect added delays through that stretched as you head out to hit the roads this morning. Still more to come including more on the big fire that we just mentioned how firefighters are continuing to battle that. Were looking at live pictures we will have an update on the other story, the Chicago Police officer who was shot in the head. And the father of the sandy hook shooter breaks his silence. What he reveals. Latest development from the crisis in the ukraine. Protesters mark their territory. Dramatic video in florida shows a plane flying right into a sky diver. Details a chicago s shot in the head while serving a warrant. Well have the latest. The latest on the International Search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that mysteriously disappeared. And your electric bills are about to go up. Why mayor emanuel says its not that bad. Good morning, im dan ponce. And im Chicago Police<\/a> officer was shot in the head while serving a search warrant on the citys far south side. Judy wang is live at the 4th District Police<\/a> headquarters with more. The Police Superintendent<\/a> says the officer based here in the South Chicago<\/a> Fourth District<\/a> is a tactical officer. An exceptional officer he has received 245 awards from the department. He is out of the hospital. Police believe one of the people taken into custody was the shooter. The officer and others went to a home near east 92 just before 9 00 p. M. Executing a search warrant in a narcotics case. The suspect named in the warrant lives in the basement of the building. While inside the house someone fired in the officers direction the bullet ricocheted and hit the officer in the for head between his eyes. A fragment is lodged in his forehead. He was taken to the hospital and transferred to northwestern memorial. The superintendent says the officer who was 34 years old has been on the force for 11 years and was days. He was talking and in good spirits. Investigators recovered a weapon at the scene. Shots were fired within the residence by an offender. We are sure we have that person in custody we just have to sort through the people to make sure we got the right one. The officer comes from a family of Police Officers<\/a>. He is out of a hospital but the superintendent says he will need to have some plastic surgery. Two Police Officers<\/a> in northwest suburban Sleepy Hollow<\/a> are on paid leave after shooting and killing a man. It happened after the officers were called to a domestic disturbance at a home near maple lane and hemlock drive just before noon yesterday. Officers say a man was on the driveway with a knife. Police say they tried to subdue him, but he tried to cut the officers and was shot after he refused to stop. Illinois state police are investigating the shooting. The mans name has not been released. There is still no sign of that missing Malyasia Airlines<\/a> flight. The family of an american who was on the flight still has hope that hes alive. Andrew spencer reports. Without answers the family has turned to prayer. Were, and strong and we are hanging in there. Would is among three americans, one of 239 people on board a plane that disappeared over the weekend. This is pretty fresh. We are processing this and we have just had a bit of time to be together as a family. The flight left for beijing early saturday morning. Search teams from eight countries including the u. S. Have been scouring the gulf of thailand. We have not found anything that appears to be an object from the aircraft. This is not the first time a modern jet has disappeared. It took nearly two years to find a majority of an air France Flight<\/a> which crashed from Rio De Janeiro<\/a> to paris in 2009. Adding to the mystery of the missing airline flight, interpol says at least two of the passengers had used passports stolen from an italian and an austrian to board the plane. Those tickets were later to be found purchased together. Theories of terrorism have been fuelled by its too early to draw conclusions. The stolen passports may have been used for illegal immigration. As relatives of the missing week for network the familys hope for a miracle. Im crossing my fingers that maybe there is a happy ending to this. Mexican Authorities Say<\/a> theyve killed a prominent drug lord. And his death comes as a surprise to some. Thats because Nazario Moreno<\/a> was reportedly killed in a Police Shootout<\/a> four years ago. But his body was never retrieved. When federal troops tried to arrest him yesterday, he started shooting. And he was killed by their return fire. This time, Authorities Say<\/a> they have morenos body. A gunman opened fire at a party in the austin neighborhood wounding six people, including a High School Basketball<\/a> star. Authorities say a group of people at the house party got into an argument shortly after three sunday morning. One of them left the party and returned with a gun. 19yearold, orr High School Basketball<\/a> player, Tyquone Greer<\/a> was shot in the leg. Greer made an espn list of the Top Ten High School<\/a> recruits in illinois and helped lead his team to 233 record. Lots of colleges are looking at him. Hopefully he will be ok and he can go on his career. I dont know why he was out so late. I think a better question is who shot him . Whoever shot him will have to answer. Greer has been released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. The victims range in age from late teens to early 20s. They are all expected to survive. Nobody is in police custody. Taking a look at the other top stories this morning. A federal jury has awarded 450 thousand dollars to one of the men convicted of the 1993 browns chicken massacre in palatine. James degorski filed a civil lawsuit against a Cook County Jail<\/a> guard who degorski says beat him a few hours after arriving to the jail. Laws may prevent digorski from ever getting the money. An autopsy determined a man found dead on the ctas green line tracks was accidentally hit and killed by a train. Service was shut down around the pulaski station for about two hours saturday morning after a conductor spotted the body on the northbound tracks. The medical Examiners Office<\/a> reported 31yearold Charles Watkins<\/a> died of multiple injuries from being struck by a train. A cta spokesperson said they will provide any available Surveillance Video<\/a> to police. Cardinal Francis George<\/a> says he felt a little lightheaded and unsteady on his feet, but otherwise ok after the first treatment in a new round of chemotherapy. The 77yearold leader of chicagos catholic archdiocese admitted during the weekend that his cancer will probably eventually be the cause of his death. Chicago starts issuing automatic speeding tickets today, for drivers near union, schaefer and rosenblum parks. These areas are considered until now, speed cameras generated only warning letters. The tickets can run as much as 100 dollars. Also starting today, warning letters start going out, for speeders the icci academy, parsons park and sherman park. If youre still riding the ct a with a chicago card, your life is about to change. The cta is expected to announce by the end of the month that its switching to a ventraonly payment system. At first, the Transit Agency<\/a> will stop letting chicago card users add money to their cards. Then theyll have to transfer any cash balances on those cards to new ventra cards. The cta is expected to lay out a timetable for the full conversion to ventra. Drivers parking on chicago streets will soon be able to pay parking meters using their smartphones. The Mayors Office<\/a> says a new parking meter payment app will be tested under a Pilot Program<\/a> downtown this spring and then rolled out throughout the city at a later date. Drivers will enter their meter number and the amount of time they want to pay for. Then it will register with the meter. Printed receipts that are normally left on the dashboard will not be needed with this new app. Hundreds of people in grand Rapids Michigan<\/a> participated a 5k run. Wearing their underwear on the outside. The funderwear run was part of gildas laughfest, in commemoration of saturday night live comic and cancer victim, gilda radner. The event helped raise funds for those battling cancer. Radner was a michigan native. She was married to actor gene wilder when she died at the age of 42. Much too young. That look like a good time. Of youll be wanting to shed some layers as we are headed for the warmest day of 2014. We do have some rain on the radar. Just a few sprinkles. It will last too long. It will be out of here in a few hours and then we will warm up. Temperatures are already balmy breeze now considering the time of the morning. 44 at the lakefront. 42 at midway. We will let you know how warm we are going to get. We have to warmups in the next week coming. We will talk about that in a bit including some snow coming in the forecast. An update to the breaking news from the top of the hour. These are live pictures of a fire being battled on west during park road. It is an auto body shop. Its listed as a car outlet. No injuries had been reported. More details coming up. Coming up, a party leads to dozens of arrests near a college campus. An earthquake hits the west coast. And the archbishop wants to look into the appeals of gay civil unions. A car crash not bad enough, its what happened afterwards that sent the driver to the hospital. The search is on in t ohio for a gunman who killed three people in a bar, including an off duty police officer. Witnesses say a fight sparked the shooting early sunday at the last call nightclub in fremont, southwest of toledo. A 26yearold officer from the nearby village of elmore was killed, along with a bartender and another customer. A fourth victim was airlifted to a hospital. A presaint Patricks Day Party<\/a> in massachusetts got a little out of hand. The blarney blowout is an annual fixture near the university of massachusetts in amherst. But violence broke out early saturday morning, and continued yesterday morning, until police moved in with pepper spray, and arrested 52 people. Nearly a dozen of them were jailed. No serious injuries were reported. But a lot of people were hit by flying bottles and bricks. The Northern California<\/a> coast rumbled and rolled last night, as a major earthquake hit the area. It registered 6point9. And it was centered 50 miles off the coast near eureka. And it could be felt across a wide area. Several smaller aftershocks have already been reported. But there were no tsunami warnings issued. Were awaiting word on damage and injuries. New Yorks Cardinal Timothy Dolan<\/a> took to the airwaves sunday to clarify the popes stance on samesex marriages. Its not like he came out and approved them. But he did it in the sensitivity that has won the heart of the world saying rather than quickly condemn them lets see if. Lets ask the question. Dolan appeared on nbcs meet the press. The archbishop of new york denied pope francis supports civil unions. Marriage is between a man and a woman but he said the church should look at different cases. Dolan said the pope simply wants to look into reasons why more and more states are approving civil unions and gay marriage. Two drivers in california were stung by more than 600 bees after their cars crashed into a tree. Two cars collided in a minor accident sunday afternoon. At least one of the cars hit a tree dislodging a large bee hive, releasing thousands of bees. Authorities say the women were attacked as they were exchanging insurance information. The 51yearold woman, ran to the back of a home nearby and jumped into a swimming pool. She waited there until paramedics arrived. The 17yearold fell driver to the ground and was soon covered in bees. She looked like she had been stung in the face. Her arms and legs, everything exposed was stung. When i first came out she was just sitting there crying and screaming and panicking and didnt know what to do. I just reacted and grabbed the hose and sprayed her off. Both victims taken to the hospital for treatment. Their conditions were not coming up. But a check on the weather. Right now we have the day after daylight savings beginning. The sun will come up until about 7 15 a. M. Before that really kicks in today, a bit of rain is not showing up on the radar. A few sprinkles have been reported across Northern Indiana<\/a> and southwest michigan. It will dry up soon and the rest of the day will be dry. Temperatures are the story. Weve done some melting overnight. No rain. 42 at ohare. 39 this morning in union. A bit of wind. It will be windy but not too bad. We will see the chance of some sprinkles quickly moving off to the east. Sunshine will return and that will boost temperatures up into the 50 degree mark today. The warmest day of 2014. By 10 a m. We will be at 49. Fifties this afternoon back to 45 degrees by 9 00 p. M. The seventh day out look has a two warmups. A warmup today, another leader in the week. Between that we do have rain and possibly some snow. We will talk more about that later in the morning. Lets enjoy the good weather first. As for the roadways, we are in good shape. No major delays or hot spots. Here is the dan ryan in bound, nice and light as to approach the stevenson. Thats the case across the board. A reminder that we are watching a fire this morning at 2917 west irving park road near irving park and california. Expect added delays through that stretch. We do have our crew heading to that scene we will keep you posted when we get there. Coming up, a blood test could predict risk of getting alzheimers. And next in sports the bulls put the collar on labron james at the united center. Highlights, next. The bulls and the miami heat always a many more. Certainly in the neighborhood of the 1980s. Out slugging miami lining of a split of four games in the regular season. James makes life miserable for the bulls at times. The steel but he has the lead by 12 early in the fourth. The bulls stormed back. Butler strips him and triggers a fast play and it will be gibson wrapping up the other and with a jam. Really getting into the game in the fourth quarter. The game goes to overtime. No one has a nice pass and the bulls win in overtime and win the game 9588. This is what you play for. I love it. Im having a great time. Having a blast out of there being in miami, i dont care if its a regular season, its always special. We played with a lot of hate today. Thats a big one. The big rival. All the great players that they have, coming into chicago, you want to send a message around. Patrick kane back home in buffalo. Patrick scores the first goal goes in for the wrist shot to make it 10. Its one one. Tying to bring it home. Its a 21 lead. The star on defense for the rest of the game. Sending the message. They pick up and beat buffalo 21. Thats it for sports. Have a great day. Stocks ended friday mixed as the enthusiasm following a betterthanexpected jobs report wore off. The dow closed up 30. The nadaq fell 15. And the sandp remained relatively flat. Researchers have found a simple blood test that may predict who is likely to suffer from alzheimers disease. Doctors studied the blood of healthy elderly people, looking for fatty molecules called lipids. Those with lower levels of lipids were more likely to develop alzheimers. The test was accurate 90 percent of the time. More testing is needed. A small town in the Colorado Rockies<\/a> is about to become the home of the countrys first marijuana club. In the town of nederland , just up the mountain from boulder, club ned will offer pot smokers a place to hang out, instead of smoking weed in public. Itll be a lot like a bar except with marijuana instead of alcohol. Like other private clubs, the new pot club will prohibit the smoking of regular cigarettes. And itll have a code of conduct that discourages members from driving after smoking pot. Who thinks the population of colorado is going to grow in the next few years . I couldnt imagine this being an influence. We can imagine the 55 degrees were getting today. And four months since we have been this warm. A bit of rain is on our radar but it wont last long. Just a few sprinkles. Most of what you see on the radar is not reaching the ground. Were headed for 56 today. Well talk more about that as well as a full forecast coming up. Checking on the traffic, a few things on the kennedy, flooding around the tunnel so expect added delay with all that melting snow. Thats the left lane. Walk watch for things to be slow through there. Which is lost our map but we are still working on getting coverage of the fire this morning near irving park and california. Word that crews are staged at irving. Expect added delays through that stretched as you head out to hit the roads this morning. Still more to come including more on the big fire that we just mentioned how firefighters are continuing to battle that. Were looking at live pictures we will have an update on the other story, the Chicago Police<\/a> officer who was shot in the head. And the father of the sandy hook shooter breaks his silence. What he reveals. Latest development from the crisis in the ukraine. Protesters mark their territory. Dramatic video in florida shows a plane flying right into a sky diver. Details a chicago s shot in the head while serving a warrant. Well have the latest. The latest on the International Search<\/a> for a Malaysia Airlines<\/a> jet that mysteriously disappeared. And your electric bills are about to go up. Why mayor emanuel says its not that bad. Good morning, im dan ponce. And im Tonya Francisco<\/a> in for erin. Lets go to Mike Hamernik<\/a> in for demetrius, for a check of the weather. Its been a long time since weve had a day this nice. A week ago we were below 0 or around zero. Today youre waking up to readings of forties. 43 downtown. 38 in the operation. To 39 degrees this morning in kankakee. There are a few sprinkles showing up. Perhaps a brief shower in Northern Indiana<\/a> as well as southwest michigan. Not a big deal. What is falling out of the sky will move out over the next few hours. What a day we have. We are headed for the warmest day of the year with high is expected around 5556. A good deal of sunshine. Clouds and we will cool off tonight. There is snow in the forecast for some parts of the area. Another warmup leader in the week. Perhaps some of that warm air will last for the st. Patricks day parade on saturday. Lets check on traffic. Warming temperatures impacting things on the roads. A lot of the ice and snow is starting to melt. We have some spots where there is standing water. In bound kennedy we have standing water blocking the left lane. Thats one of the spots we have heard about so far. Watch for that to impact your travel as you head out. Irving park and california will continue to watch a fire on irving just west of california. This will impact the number in the irving park cta bus. We will keep you posted on that through the morning. We start with some breaking news firefighters are battling a big fire at 2917 west irving park road. We are hearing it is an auto body shop. The address listed online is car outlet. The fire started at about three this morning. No injuries have been reported. Well bring you more information as it becomes available. A Chicago Police<\/a> officer was shot in the head while serving a search warrant on the citys far south side. Judy wang is at the 4th district with more. The Police Superintendent<\/a> says the officer based here in the Fourth District<\/a> is an exceptional officer. He has received 245 awards from the department. He is out of gospel. Police believe one of the six people taken into custody was the shooter. The officer and others went to the home just before 9 00 executing a search warrant in a narcotics case, the suspect name in the war to live in the basement of the building. While inside the house, someone fired in the officers direction. The bullet ricocheted and hit the officer in the for head between his eyes. A bullet fragment is lodged in his forehead. He was taken to hospital and transferred to northwestern memorial. The superintendent says the officer has been on the force for 11 years was dazed but was talking and in good spirits. The steers recovered a weapon at the scene. There was a shot fired. We are sure we have the person in custody. We just have to sort through the people that were there to make sure we have the correct one charged. The officer comes from a family of policemen. He is out of the hospital. He will have to go through plastic surgery. Two days after Malaysia Airlines<\/a> flight 370 vanished over the south china sea, there is still no sign of any wreckage. News that two of the 239 passengers used stolen passports to board the plane have fueled speculation that terrorism is involved. But officials warn it may just be a case of illegal immigration. With no evidence of a crash, the family of philip wood, one of three americans on the flight, still have hope. We are processing this and we have just had a bit of time to be together as a family. Eight countries, including the us, have sent ships, planes and helicopters to search the waters north of kuala lumpur. The streets of crimea are erupting with demonstrations, both for and against russias effort to seize control of the region and its black sea ports. The marches come, as crimeans prepare to vote sunday on whether to remain part of ukraine or rejoin the russian federation. Ukraines Prime Minister<\/a> will meet with president obama wednesday in washington. Obama is demanding that russia act swiftly to deescalate the tensions it has caused by sending troops into crimea. The Ukrainian Border<\/a> Guard Service<\/a> released new aerial video that, it says, shows russian soldiers fortifying an area near the border between crimea and mainland ukraine. Ukrainian Officials Say<\/a> someone fired upon the plane that took these pictures. There has been no independent confirmation of that claim, or of the validity of the pictures themselves. Taking a look at the other top stories this morning. A gunman opened fire during a house party in the austin neighborhood wounding six people, including a High School Basketball<\/a> star. Authorities say the gunman returned to the party with a gun following an argument early sunday morning 19yearold, orr High School Basketball<\/a> player, Tyquone Greer<\/a> was shot in the leg. The victims range in age from late teens to early 20s. They are all expected to survive. An autopsy determined a man found dead on the ctas green line tracks was accidentally hit and killed by a train. The medical Examiners Office<\/a> reported 31yearold Charles Watkins<\/a> died of multiple injuries from being struck by a train. Service was shut down around the pulaski station for about two hours saturday morning after a conductor spotted the body on the northbound tracks. Chicago starts issuing automatic speeding tickets today, for drivers near union, schaefer and rosenblum parks. These areas are considered childrens safety zones. Until now, speed cameras generated only warning letters. The tickets can run as much as 100 dollars. Also today, warning letters start going out, for speeders near the icci academy, parsons park and sherman park. Chicagos department of transportation will form pothole strike teams concentrating on smoothing out the citys onethousand miles of arterial streets. Six additional crews were assigned to pothole duty march first, raising the total to 30 on weekdays and double the normal weekend staff. If you pay an electric bill in chicago, your monthly bills are about to jump by 14 percent. Last year, mayor emanuel promised that a typical homeowner or business would save more than ten dollars a month in electricity costs, when the city switched from comed to another supplier. The actual savings will be much smaller less than three dollars a month. The Mayors Office<\/a> blames the price hike on new federal regulations on coalburning power plants. The father of the Sandy Hook School<\/a> she her speech out publicly since the tragedy. Peter lanza says in hindsight his son would have killed him if he had the opportunity. He was interviewed by the new yorker magazine carried 20 yearold adam lanza shot and killed his mother before killing 26 students. He then shot and killed himself. The father says he had not seen his son for two years before the shooting and no one saw violent tendencies in his personality. Runner Oscar Pistorius<\/a> is back in session in pretoria, south africa. Pistorius is charged with murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp<\/a> last year. He says he mistook her for a home invader. Defense attorneys are cross examining the First Security<\/a> guard to arrive at the athletes home. Pieter baba testitied friday that pistorius called neighborhood security and said everything is fine. But baba said he arrived to find pistorius carrying his girlfriends body down the stairs. Peru has agreed to extradite joran van der sloot to the United States<\/a> when he finishes serving a 28year murder sentence. Thats according to a report by the peruvian news agency. Van der sloot is a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of alabama teen natalee holloway. She went missing on a trip to aruba. Us officials want to try him on charges he extorted money from holloways mother by offering her bogus information. Van der sloot was convicted of murdering a woman in his lima hotel room in 2012. Low levels of radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear<\/a> disaster could reach ocean waters along the us west coast next month. Scientisits predict that the radiation will be at extremely low levels that wont harm humans or the environment. But theyre are calling for more monitoring. Right now federal agencies dont test Pacific Coast<\/a> seawater for radiation. This comes three years after the devastating japan tsunami that resulted in a nuclear accident. A photographer taking souvenir pictures for skydivers catches a frightening collision between a small plane and a parachute. The 87 year old pilot was practicing take offs and landings near lakeland, florida when his small cessna became wrapped up in the lines of the skydivers parachute. Both the plane and the skydiver hurtled to the ground, but amazingly, neither was seriously hurt. The faa and the polk county he was in the air going 60 mi. An hour. It flipped him around and it stuck the nose of the plane into the ground. The faa and the polk county sheriffs are investigating the accident. Thats amazing. Good morning to you. What a day we have coming up. Spring fever is running rampant its not too bad out there. Temperatures have been above freezing. 43 downtown. 42 at ohare. 40 degrees in Michigan City<\/a>. The meltdown will continue. Some rain is showing up. Most of what you see is not reaching the ground but a few sprinkles have been reported. I dont think this will last we should be dry but you may want some boots because of the melting happening. A lot of puddles overnight. Its quiet. The warmest day of 2014. A storm will develop out to the west tomorrow bringing rain and perhaps some snow into wednesday it does not look like a major storm. Maybe an inch of accumulation. Heavier totals just to the south. Today, just melting snow. Partly sunny, 56 degrees for the high. Were looking at to warmups over the next few days. Another will come friday into saturday. The only chance is tuesday night into early wednesday. Overall not too bad. The best forecast of the year. Still ahead, sarah pailin closes out a conference by reading from dr. Seuss. Accompanied reveals a teaser drone. They trotted out over the weekend. And trending after the bulls put the collar on james at the uc. Here are a few stories that e trending online this morning. The bulls joakim noah was very fired up after the bulls beat the heat in overtime, 95 to 88. 50 dotnoahs dad was at the game and watched his son score 20 points, grab 12 rebounds, and block five shots. Teammate taj gibson says noah was talking trash to the heat the whole game. Dj augustin led the bulls with 22, and jimmy butler made some key defensive plays on lebron james down the stretch. Thousands ran in the la marathon, but many collapsed while crossing the finish line at santa monica. Temperatures were in in the low 80s on sunday. Ten medical stations along the marathon route treated more than a thousand runners for injuries and heat exhaustion. Twenty eight of them were taken to the hospital for treatment. Dot tied the knot with tech entrepreneur jared pobre they were married in a secret ceremony in mexico on the beach. He is pretty cute. This comes less than a year after keibler split up with george clooney. That read their work together. I forgot. Keibler and pobre have been friends for more than five years, but didnt start dating until this past fall. This is the first marriage for both of them. I hear some snoring and noises coming out of there. No surprise, the north Korean Leader<\/a> was reelected with a unanimous vote. The North Koreans<\/a> headed to the polls sunday for the first time in five years and the first election under un. He was the only one on the ballot. No surprise. Boaters had to vote yes and no four representatives in the assembly. Un took over after his fathers death in 2011. Sarah palin raised the roof at the conservative Political Action<\/a> conference near washington when she channeled dr. Seuss taking shots at the president. I do not like this uncle sam i do not like this health care scam. I do not like this by in the man, i do not like oyez weekend. Senator rand paul won the annual cpac straw poll. Its the second year in a row he won. But historically, the straw poll is not accurate in predicting who the republican president ial nominee will be. Nsa leaker Edward Snowden<\/a> today will take part in a Video Conference<\/a> on security and surveillance tactics, and the leaks have exposed them. Two days ago, the founder of wikileaks, julian assange, hinted that his organization may soon release more stolen documents. In the wake of the explosive disclosure of americas domestic spying program, assange criticized the Obama Administration<\/a> for failing to act upon that disclosure, or take it seriously. Take a look at the newest weapon in the war on crime. Laurie segall reports, a new taser drone will allow police to track and even disable a suspect by remote control. Tell me what will happen. We are about to do a live demonstration. This is our on the demand personal drawn. Will its done the guy behind us . Thats what will happen. 80,000 v. Youll be stunned by a drone. I think its going to be pretty cool. At the forefront of some emerging technology. Its about to happen. Here it goes. Youre down for a few minutes but you are good . Im feeling great. A little discomfort but it wasnt bad. I fell down. I didnt have too much choice in the matter there. Everything just locked up. The reality is, theres a lot of work being done in this area that maybe is not being managed properly. We wanted to do this as an awareness as well as something that shows how they can be done responsibly at the same time. Small unmanned vehicles have a lot of potential. Not just a system to stun, its a system to deliver an early ems package or to find a lost child using camera division. Theres a ton of things that can be used for any Public Safety<\/a> space and in a personal space. Did you think that was cool . It wasnt as dramatic as a thought. I think he was acting a bit for the cameras. Mike is here for demetrius. Talk about drama. Today will be an amazing day considering the winter we have had. Temperature already at 42. Yesterday wasnt too bad. Our high was 42. We make that already today were headed for a high of 56 degrees. Temperatures ranging from 44 in Michigan City<\/a> to about 37 degrees in aurora. Sprinkles showing up are not a big deal. They should be moving out in the next hour. Partial sunshine, it will get warmer. 56 degrees for our high. The biggest traffic jam today maybe along the lakefront. Everybody will be out. It will be so nice. Didnt you mention some snow . Its a few hours away. About 36 hours. Enjoy the 50s well without it. A few things happen on the roads. Everything is shut down here as crews fight a fire. This is impacting the 80 cta bus. Expect delays. Also in schaumburg, flashing lights at golf i will let hearing they are working once again. Its going quickly through there. Finally, construction taking off today on a near joliet near the disciplines river. Lane closures through march 20th for bridge inspection spirit they are saying this will be during off peak hours. It will cause backups through the area in joliet. Coming up, Charlie Sheen<\/a> is causing trouble on the set of his new tv show. There are rumors of a it Justin Bieber<\/a> and selena gomez a ts on paying offall those stude finally right . Im kinda living paycheck to paycheck right now. Well, have you tried saving . [phone rings] bill collectors. Theyre the worst. Am i right . [laughs] announcer when it comes to financial stability, dont get left behind. Get tools and tips for saving at feedthepig. Org. Charlie sheen is apparently causing problems on the set of anger management. The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> says the actor hasnt been showing up for work delaying production. At one point the studio even had to use standins for some of sheens parts. Sheens publicist denied this, however, telling the newspaper the delays were caused by another cast member who was sick. And that sheen looks forward to returning to work today. Kesha is out of rehab and is making some changes. The singer removed the famed dollar sign from her name and changed her twitter handle from kesha suxx to kesha rose. Kesha was in a Rehab Program<\/a> for an eating disorder. She tweeted happy to be back Feeling Healthy<\/a> working on tons of new music. People reports she was in the area or a concert. The first since her stay in rehab. That Justin Bieber<\/a> is headed to canada for a Court Hearing<\/a> today. Those young kids. Today we have been waiting a long time for this years spring has finally arrived for at least a day. Today. We do have rain and snow later today and later tomorrow i mean on tuesday night. More of that coming up in the forecast first lets check traffic. We do have a problem for drivers on the northwest side. We have video of a buyer were watching. Crews are on the scene at irving park road just west of california and irving park road is shut down between california and kennedy. You can see live pictures here this morning. A lot of crews are on the scene. This is impacting the 80 us as well. We will keep you posted through the morning. Your morning and wind are your morning and wind are next. Can use some improvement. Trying to make all the pieces fit together . Wondering if you have the right tools . If your family Improvement Project<\/a> isnt going the way youd like, call the Boys Town National<\/a> hotline at 18004483000 tdd 18004481433 or visit parenting. Org. For problems big or small, the Boys Town National<\/a> hotline can give you the tools you need to bring your family together. Man all in together now we can make it better now, cmon announcer moving a little and eating better every day can help make you and your child healthier. Search we can to find out more. Hi, im lisa varga. 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