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degrees above the average. the average is 57. we hit the '60s today. the might be even in the mid-70s by far. but it's 35 for now. 39 of bartlett. 43 at midway. 47 at the lakefront. satellite and radar composite shows we are dry. we do have some rain to the north and west it doesn't get here until tomorrow afternoon. big things on saturday. high temperature reaches about 66 degrees today. all sunshine for this friday. on the three did forecast, expected late asian hours on saturday. high temperatures 73. most of the day will be sunny and quite warm. sunday is a washout with a high of 64. the temperature drop comes more into next week but enjoy today and tomorrow. 73 degrees. >> we have a disabled truck causing a bit of a delay. the number of spots that we have seen this nicer weather. but as you head out this morning we are in good shape. a full run down with the commute coming up. >> five people were injured in a car crash on chicago's far south side, including two teenagers. it happened at 123rd and south state street at 7:30 last night. a volkswagen passat collided with a chrysler 200 -- sending the passat into a porch of a nearby home. the fire department says a man and two woman were taken to the hosptial in serious to critical condition. two teenage girls were taken to the hospital in serious condition. a 63-year-old man was hurt in a hit-and-run crash in logan square. it happened in a bank parking lot at lawrence and western, yesterday afternoon. police say someone driving a gray nissan rogue backed into the man, and then took off. the s-u-v had a broken rear license plate cover, and a dent in the driver's side door. another c-t-a train derailed on the blue line. a forest park bound train hit a tire that was on the tracks, as it was leaving the cicero station. officials say a set of wheels on one of the train cars slightly came off the tracks, just before eight last night. shuttles busses were brought in for two hours until workers got the train running again. the c-t-a says the tire came from a semi truck driving on the eisenhower expressway, but they don't know how it got on the tracks. at least ten people are dead after a charter bus filled with students collided with a semi- truck in northern california. andrew spencer reports. >> to large vehicles collided in or lend, calif., 100 mi. north of sacramento. >> a fedex truck was going southbound just north of the 30 to exit. for an unknown reason it went through the center divider and collided head on. >> the boss and the trucks caught on fire. the flames gutted the inside of both. firefighters helped some victims away from the scene. many of them clearly injured. most of them students on their way to visit a school to attend a spring preview day. >> we have 48 people on board. 44 students. three chaperons and one driver. >> the university president issued a statement reading that the university is deeply saddened by the tragic accident that occurred including the charter bus filled with students. our hearts go out to those who have been affected. we are here to support them and their families in any way possible. just the sight of the wreckage of the burned and twisted metal is a shock to many people who live here. >> eric king was in flames. >> it's only about three blocks from our house. it is sad. >> some dead, others injured. mostly students who were looking toward the future. >>early this morning, authorities said three adult chaperones, five students, and the drivers of the bus and fed- ex truck were all killed. the search for a missing malaysian jetliner may be nearing its end. the leader of the search effort says, the team has narrowed the search to roughly a 15-mile square in the indian ocean. and searchers are confident they know, within a few miles, where the missing plane's "black box" is. four electronic "pings" in the past week helped narrow the search. a fifth one, reported yesterday morning, now appears to be unrelated to the plane. the search leaders say, they have yet to retrieve any wreckage from the plane. west suburban lyons has laid off one-third of its police force. judy wang joins us *live from lyons with more. >> they tried for months to agree on a new contract. many in the suburb of 10,000 people had hoped it would not come to this. at midnight, about one-third of its police force was gone. overcoat seven officers received layoff notices. it was all due to budgetary constraints. the only police say it's 16 officers they say on some ships there's only one or two officers on duty. also the detective addition is eliminated. the past november they voted to cut $1 million for the police department budget. then it assured residents any further cuts would not jeopardize the safety. the officer layoffs were considered a worst-case scenario. the village and contract talks wanted to rest and cut the pay benefits describing them as a draconian measures. >> we decided to work with them to avoid layoffs. the entire time they didn't produce documents to support. the reason is financial. >> the police chief recently retired landfill as a manager. a former chief is running the police department. they declined requests for interviews. >>a middle school in homer glen is giving students a lesson on the dangers of mis-using technology today, as the will country sheriff investigates reports of a sexting incident. hadley middle school officials notified authorities on monday that a female student may have been sent a graphic photo. the school notified parents that several sixth graders might be involved, and possibly students at homer junior high. the sheriff's office has not said if it will pursue criminal charges. taking a look at the *other top stories this morning. a three-year-old was rushed to the hospital after falling from a second floor window on the northwest side. it happened yesterday afternoon at an apartment in the 47-hundred block of west addison. it's not known what the boy was doing when he broke through a screen. he is expected to be o-k. a man is charged with raping a four-year-old girl in calumet park - after her allegedly kicked in the door of the girl's home and assaulted her. prosecutors say demetrio campbell tried to lure the girl and her sister to his home across the street sunday but they ran to their home. he allgedly followed them and broke into the home. he ordered two adults in the home to leave and then raped the girl. police officers found campbell hiding in a closet, smoking a cigarette. chicago police are still trying to determine the motive behind the murder of local rapper mario hess. known as "big glo" and "blood money," hess was shot at least ten times wednesday on a street in west englewood. his manager says it could have been a robbery. police are also trying to determine whether a gang feud played a role in the shooting. a man was robbed around the corner from mayor rahm emanuel's ravenswood home. police say someone got out of a white van and asked the victim what he was doing in the area. when the victim responded that he was deaf, the suspect stole his backpack and sped off. the victim flagged down a member of the mayor's security detail for help. francis cardinal george was honored last night for his 15 years at the chicago archdiocese. an event at the union league club paid tribute to the cardinal, for his support of the "solidarity bridge" mission -- an outreach of healing and empowerment in latin america. cardinal george will be honored again this afternoon with a doctorate in theology at the catholic theological union academic and conference center. this week, the cardinal announced that his battle with cancer will force him to miss this month's ceremony in rome, canonizing pope john paul the second. stephen colbert has been tapped to replace david letterman when he retires as the host the "late show" on c-b-s. colbert plans to drop the satirical conservative character he's played for nine years on comedy central's "the colbert report". he says he looks forward to being himself, and hopes fans still find him funny. those who knew him from his days in chicago say, that won't be a problem. >> this guy is a talented actor and a talented writer. real artist. he has such a strong moral compass. >> we're very fortunate to have him. obviously he is a brilliant comedian but as you read and learn more about him he is also a very thoughtful guy. he exemplifies very well. >> colbert is the third northwestern grad to land a job on a popular late-night show. he takes over for letterman next year. are you a fan? >> a big fan. he's funny. it will be interesting to see him out of the character. i never really saw that. i'll be honest i stopped listening when you're talking. i was working on my forecast. but i did kind of pulled off. it away, if i lost people it wouldn't matter because look at these numbers. 66 degrees for the high temperature. it wasn't 70 i just change about five seconds ago. 73 is our high tomorrow the warmest day of the year so far. 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. much of saturday will be like that but some day we have rain all day. chance of rain in the morning and afternoon. monday, 50 percent chance of showers. tuesday rain and snow in the morning. temperatures will drop in a big way early next week. i have to work on the forecast for today and tonight. i will do that. >> coming up, an aspiring producer is accidentally shot by police in l-a. we'll have details. plus -- we're hearing from victims of the pensylvania school stabbing, as investigators try to figure out a motive. and -- how a group of chimpanzees managed to break- out of their exhibit, at a kansas city zoo. the los angeles county sheriff's department admits that it mistakenly shot and killed an aspiring t-v producer during a standoff earlier this week. 30-year-old john winkler was shot monday night as he fled from an apartment in west hollywood. police were called to the scene for reports of man holding people hostage with a knife. winkler and another man ran out of the apartment - and three deputies shot winkler, thinking he was the suspect. however, officers found the actual suspect inside the apartment attacking another man. he had just moved to los angeles three months ago. the officers were removed from patrol but are expected to return. >>police in murrysville, pennsylvania, are still piecing together the motive for a high school stabbing rampage that injured 21 people. 16 year-old alex hribal is charged as an adult in the stabbings at franklin regional senior high school. the assistant principal stopped the attack by tackling (ry-bull). while still healing, one of the victims is talking about forgiveness. >> if he had more friends or somebody to help him out or to show him something. maybe it could have been different. i just hope that one day i can forgive him and everyone else who got hurt can forgive him. he needs to forgive himself. >>hribal faces four counts of attempted murder and 21 counts of aggravated assault. police seized his home computer as evidence. the suspect in a deadly hit- and-run crash at a florida daycare center has turned himself in to police. authorities say robert corchado's vehicle rammed a car, forcing it to crash into the day care center in orlando. then corchado fled the scene. a four-year-old girl died, and a dozen other children were injured. police found corchado's s-u-v, abandoned, a short distance from the center. seven chimpanzees that escaped from their enclosure at the kansas city zoo were captured. the chimpanzees escaped from their habitat yesterday afternoon using a six-foot log. one of the chimps was seen scaling and walking on a wall. a zoo spokesperson says the chimpanzees were never in any public areas. any visitors who were on the property during the escape, were taken to safe areas. the chimps will not be on exhibit today while crews try to figure out how to keep them from escaping again. the owner of a b-m-w parked his car about six inches from a fire hydrant in boston. you can guess what happened next. a fire broke out... and to get a hose hooked up to the hydrant, firefighters had to move the car a couple of feet, then smash its windows and run the hose right through the car. besides facing a big repair bill, the owner of the b-m-w will get a hundred-dollar ticket for illegal parking. one online poster joked, "b-m-w equals break my window." >> that's why i stick with the pinto. you don't have the problem. why are you laughing? >> i am thinking of the fire department and pinto. i don't know if you know the history of that vehicle ... >> a little combustion. >> today we have warm temperatures coming. we expect a high in the mid-60s today. even warmer tomorrow. break out the short smile. we will be in the low 70's by the afternoon and evening. looking at 35 degrees in waukegan. 51 at the lakefront. 43 in aurora. 36 in lansing. in the city is typically warmer at night. but outside of the city we do have a slightly cooler temperatures. we of dry conditions, rain across eastern central indiana. more towards minnesota making its way towards western wisconsin. that will miss us. expect sun and clouds and more sunshine than anything for this friday. that high reaches 66. the next chance of rain is saturday afternoon. our high temperature will reach the low 70's. potential for showers and thunderstorms saturday evening and into sunday a few rounds of showers and thunderstorms are coming our way. monday we have the chance of rain and snow. today's high 66. tonight down to 50. while we are at 73. send a good chance of rain high of 64. >> a quick update on the jane addams. we have construction to tell you about. it's on the outbound from elmhurst to 63. left lane out until 6:00. at this point no big deals. some of tri-state at the 82nd toll plaza all with 95 you are squeezed down by a few lane's it should be picked up in about 45 minutes. taking advantage of the nice weather to get some of that resurfacing work done. >> coming up, the health and human services secretary is resigning. we'll tell you who will take her place. >> and round one highlights from the masters. that's next in sports. >> today we have some music. it's friday. we have a woman from one mecca launched a batik music website to help people outside of the 18-24 demographic connect with new music. it's a neat site. there's also an act for that. that's coming up. the blackthis is why you have more n three outfielders but it will hurt. garcia into his comfort zone now he is gone for the entire year. as they open a four game series last night at home against cleveland, a solid six on the south to go down 2-0. abreu makes it a two-one game. more that came from. tied at 3 in the fourth, ramirez to the gap in right-center. a tie breaker. a to run double as they take the lead and take it for good. still 5-3 in the fifth. abreu again. it's out to left. to in the game for for the season, he is a point to 11. they win. a relief fields, you knew they couldn't stay away. dumpster out in the bleachers for the game between the cubs and the pirates. cubs were trying to add on here. there's a single. did meet at the plate. no review. travis would left in the seventh. the bullpen coughed it all up. alvarez comes down to home plate. the pirates take the lead and win 5-4. the cubs have lost all three series they have played but no panic so far. at the masters, touching off the 77th edition. there were not a lot of fireworks on day one despite of the perfect conditions. but phil mickelson showed off one time. the 1004. in a closed. three under coming up the 18th. here's his approach. it's very good. this was close enough for a birdie and a 68. these are the standings. the blackhawks make a trade. and the bulls have re- signed mike james for the rest of the year. the fire reach a new deal. >>stocks took a drubbing yesterday, with tech shares hit hardest. the dow lost 267 points. the nasdaq dropped 129. it was the worst point drop for the nasdaq since august of 20-11. and the s-and-p fell 39. april is national volunteer month. karen murley has a knack for turning houses into homes. she dedicates some of her time to volunteering... making comfortable places for those in need. she and a crew of helpers take donated items and give life to empty public housing spaces. murley fixed up an apartment for 19-year-old javier now living on his own. basically to stay in the bedroom of the time in some places because this nothing to come out for. >> the former foster child is now living on his own. that's pretty cool. we like that story. >> good morning. this is what you want on a friday. for most people it will be nice and sunny. this began even warmer temperatures are coming. 66 is the high temperature today. tonight we're down to 50. 73 degrees on saturday. much of saturday will be pretty good. chance of showers and thunderstorms late in the day. probably after 5:00 p.m.. get that done early and you can be home to relax in time for the rain. we have a 70 percent chance of rain that day. >> overrun 355. construction to tell you about. it will be there for another 30 minutes. it starts at 75 0234. resurfacing work. taking out three lanes. volume is still light. not impacting too much. that could change. we could have some projects crating some hot spots this early friday morning. >> still more to come including another --including, another sexting scandal at a suburban middle school. and -- oscar pistorius is still on the stand in his murder trial. we'll have the latest. plus -- hillary clinton was attacked while giving a speech in vegas. it's caught on camera. and -- dean reviews the new movies out this weekend -- including "draft day". ruraa truck crashes into a bus l of high school students. >> citrus may have found a black box. >> the lions lost one-third of their police force at midnight. >> thank you for joining us. and i'm erin mcelroy. let's go to demetrius ivory for a check of the weather. >> it's looking good. warm and sunny. still sunny tomorrow. it hasn't been a warm and sunny for so long. i can't think of any songs to even use for that. mostly sunny skies today. temperatures will be about nine degrees above average. right now we have readings at about 37. i've been lake is at 36. satellite and radar composite shows we are dry today. we expect to see sunshine this afternoon. the next chance for rain is not until tomorrow. 65 degrees is the high temperature this afternoon. tonight we fall down to 50 for an overnight low. the 3 day forecast shows late day showers. it almost will feel like summer this afternoon. sunday it will rain all day high temperature 64 degrees. >> of inbound dan ryan in the middle lane we have a car. not sure if it's a stall or accident the you'll have to move around that. on top of that, word of a house fire at 78 and colfax. crews are on the scene. anticipate a block their cordon off because of that. working to get information on all that. construction of not causing huge delays just yet. more coming up. >> a charter bus loaded with students looking at colleges collided with a fed-ex semi on a northern california highway. both vehicles burst into flames. at least 10 people were killed. firefighters helped survivors get away from the wreckage. many of them were clearly injured. the highway patrol indicates the truck driver lost control. the students were going to attend a preview day at humboldt state university. the crash happened about 100 miles north of sacramento. >> going south bound on 5 just north of the 30 to exit. for an unknown reason it went to the center divider and collided head-on with the boss. >> the students were attending a preview day. the crash happened about 100 mi. north of sacramento. >>the search for a missing malaysian jetliner may be nearing its end. the leader of the search effort says, the team has narrowed the search to roughly a 15-mile square in the indian ocean. and searchers are confident they know, within a few miles, where the missing plane's "black box" is. four electronic "pings" in the past week helped narrow the search. a fifth one, reported yesterday morning, now appears to be unrelated to the plane. the search leaders say, they have yet to retrieve any wreckage from the plane. a powerful earthquake struck off the south pacific island of papua new guinea early this morning. the earthquake registered a magnitude of 7-point-3 and was centered on bougainville island. there are no reports of injuries or damage and there is no threat of a tsunami. the country is in the pacific's "ring of fire" and earthquakes are common in the region. police force lays off one-third of their staff. judy wang joins us with more. >> it took effect at midnight. 16 full-time officers and no longer a detective division. the village and the police union tried for months to reach a contract agreement with no deal. worst-case scenario came true. the village sent layoff notices a week ago citing budgetary constraints. the fraternal order of police says with the cuts only one or two officers are on duty during some shifts in the southwest suburbs. the village board voted this past november to cut $1 million from the police department budget. at the time the village manager said the final chapter has not yet been written. the layoffs also, about one week after village announces the retirement of the police chief. the village wanted drastic concessions to pay in their benefits which it simply could not accept. >> tried to work for a solution for the layoffs. the entire time they didn't produce documentations. so the reason they say is financial but we have yet to see that. >> i think everybody in the community would rather put the money into the police department in supporting the police officers and cut non- essential workers. >> the village manager, a former oak brook police chief is running the police department for now. declining to speak about the matter. back to you. >> a middle school in homer glen is giving students a lesson on the dangers of mis-using technology today, as the will country sheriff investigates reports of a sexting incident. hadley middle school officials notified authorities on monday that a female student may have been sent a graphic photo. the school notified parents that several sixth graders might be involved, and possibly students at homer junior high. the sheriff's office has not said if it will pursue criminal charges. chicago police are looking for the man who sexually assaulted a woman in an alley on the city's northwest side earlier this week. it happened at 9:30 tuesday night in an alley behind the 46-hundred block of west montana st in the kelvin park neighborhood.police say the man grabbed the 18-year-old woman from behind, covered her mouth and attacked her. he then ran from the area. five people were injured in a car crash on chicago's far south side, including two teenagers. it happened at 123rd and south state street at 7:30 last night.a volkswagen passat collided with a chrysler 200 -- sending the passat into a porch of a nearby home. the fire department says a man and two woman were taken to the hosptial in serious to critical condition. service is back to normal this morning, after another c-t-a train derailed on the blue line. a forest park bound train hit a tire from a truck that was on the tracks, as it was leaving the cicero station last night. officials say a set of wheels on one of the train cars slightly came off the tracks. "chief keef" will not be evicted from a mansion he rents in highland park. the teenage rapper, whose real name is keith cozart, owed 30- thousand dollars in overdue rent to his landlord. a judge gave him until april 20th to catch up, or risk being evicted. his lawyer says he is now paid in full. oscar pistorius is back on the witness stand this morning in south africa. the paralympian is facing a third day of cross-examination in his trial for murdering his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. he shot her through a bathroom door last year. he claims he thought he was shooting at a home invader. but the prosecutor is portraying pistorius as a selfish hothead who is reckless with guns. and he says pistorius is adapting the events of the fateful night, to reconstruct a story that makes him appear innocent. an intelligence report on the boston marathon bombings concludes, the government did a good job sharing information with other investigators. the review is not as flattering about intelligence that could have *prevented the bombing. the summary finds, the f-b-i should have done a more thorough check into the background of bomb suspect tamerlan tsarnaev . the report recommends that the f-b-i develop better procedures for notifying local authorities about terror threats. a high-ranking member of mexico's notorious sinaloa drug cartel is said to be cooperating with american investigators, as they prepare to prosecute the cartel's leader. police say, vicente zambada- niebla pled guilty in chicago last year to conspiring to distribute tons of cocaine and heroin. he faces life in prison... but if he helps put away cartel boss joaquin "el chapo" guzman, his sentence may be reduced. guzman was captured in february. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is stepping down after five years on the job. sebelius was a rising star in the obama administration, until the roll out of the affordable care act. she was heavily criticized when the healthcare-dot-gov website crashed last fall, and people had trouble signing up for insurance. the president has accepted sebelius' resignation. he is expected to nominate office of management and budget director sylvia burwell to the post. a woman is facing criminal charges after throwing a shoe at former secretary of state hillary clinton during a speech in las vegas. the woman's name has not been released and authorities aren't sure what she was protesting but she was quickly escorted from the room by the secret service. >> was that a vat? thank goodness she did not play softball like i did. >>clinton was speaking to a group about metal recycling - she commented she "didn't know solid waste recycling was that controversial". they're the state champs in robotics competition... and now couldn't the students going to the best world robotics competition? a group of students from niles north high school will be going to the "vex" world robotics competition in anaheim, cailfornia. the event takes place for three days beginning april-23rd. this is the first year the niles north engineering club entered the competition... and quickly became front runners and state winners. these students will face-off against more than 400 robotic teams from high schools from around the world. >> it's friday. we have wonderful weather coming this weekend. tomorrow evening we do have the chance of showers and thunderstorms and the party is over on sunday. showers and cooler temperatures will be coming. but it's 50 degrees right now. 36 degrees in aurora. kankakee at 38. typical low is 37. here we are you can see the temperatures jumping into the sixth '60s. this is the conservative no.. some areas could get close to 70 degrees. tonight we're back down to 50 degrees. tomorrow low to mid '70's again for the early temperatures. rain to the south and the north. but we are dry here today. tonight we go back down. tomorrow we make the 73. i expect showers and thunderstorms to roll in later in the day. be prepared. we will be wet by saturday night. sunday is a washout. still warm at 64 but the chance of showers and thunderstorms is there. we go from 64 to a chance of rain and snow. >> did he just say snow? 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no, this is just getting good. the name your price tool, still only from progressive. state lawmaker apologizing for comments made on the house floor wednesday. here's what the representative said. >> listen to me minorities. i am over here on this side. why you will also find that that that we do have a half. >> she faced a lot of backlash for implying minorities are not republicans. she tried to explain what she meant i apologized for the way they felt about that. from the bottom of my heart i said that's not me. it's the most dangerous weapon somebody can pull out. it wasn't my attention. people know who i am. i love people i try to love people. >> she says her colleagues have told her they do not have hard feelings. >> trending online this morning ... stephen colbert has been tapped to replace david letterman when he retires as the host the "late show" on c-b-s. colbert plans to drop the satirical conservative character he's played for nine years on comedy central's "the colbert report". colbert has ties to chicago ... graduating from northwestern, and having performed at second city. he takes over for letterman next year. a new york yankees pitcher had some extra movement on his pitches, last night against the red sox. michael pineda struck out seven batters in six innings. the red sox manager says he learned in the fourth inning that pineda had *pine tar on his pitching hand. that's the stuff batters use, to give them a better grip on their bats. using foreign substances on a ball is not allowed. but by the fifth inning, pineda's hands were wiped clean... so the manager let it slide. pineda insists, there was nothing but *dirt on his hands. >> why don't they just wear gloves? >> you are right here. >> how long why have to live in my father's world? >> disney has released the first trailer for the "boy meets world" spinoff -- called "girl meets world." it features the 12-year-old daughter of "cory and topanga" from the 90's hit, "boy meets world". "girl meets world" airs sometime this summer. related to friday. >> i'm here to. >> who's going to talk? >> should i do the weather? >> demetrius says let's show the video. what you have? >> a beautiful day in washington d.c.. look at that. the video looks like it is daytime. people are taking pictures the first day to take photographs outside. >> what lovely flowers of their. >> this could be about the cherry blossoms in full bloom. >> looking at the forecast ... >> demetrius: let everyone know that it's going to be warm this weekend you don't want to run out to home depot yet you have to wait. we told mother's day. mostly sunny today. our high temperature will be nine degrees above average. a fairly nice day. right now we are in the upper 30's we will warm up quickly. our high will be 66. the seven days forecast has as reaching 73 on saturday. 64 on sunday. i phone markets did a pretty good job. >> you should let him keep going. first time he has been this quiet in a while. let's look at traffic. stall on the eisenhower causing a delay. it's on the outbound north avenue. leslie taken out because of that. moving over to 75 and colfax, was still have a house fire. a three story structure fire. crews are along colfax and 79. it looks like this is an active situation causing delays in that area. the numbers are looking good otherwise more traffic in a bit. >> good morning. >> we made it easy by throwing up some beautiful video for you. >> that is true. >> the blue screen makes it harder. >> talking about music. when you get older you feel like you are out of touch with music. how do you get back in touch? there is a website and the woman who runs it is right here from winnetka. >> is he amazing? >> always loved to discover new music. >> this is the broken bones. example a band who knocked my socks off the second i heard them. >> her biggest joy comes from sharing. >> at thanksgiving and would go to my parents and let all their christmas albums. it was time to set the stage for the holidays. why i was driven to always want music in the house, i do not know. i'm just wired that way. >> that passion never faded. over the years and she got married and raised four boys she continues to make playlists for friends and family. >> they had been make them for their bar mitzvahs and their husband's 50th birthday party and dinner parties, one day i said i want to put all these playlists into a more public spot where others can down load of this new music i'm keeping up with. >> she decided to launch a website. it features different playlists for what ever moody's you may be in. all of them handpicked. visitors can sample songs and download tracks through i itunes at the click of a button. >> here's another favorite band of mine. >> it's the goal to bring upcoming musicians to an older generation. >> i really tried to pick music like what i grew up on. when i started this boutique website to introduce adults into the new music, i try to pick artists that feel like the old ones that we grew up with. something familiar. the music industry targets 18-24 year-old. this audience has been left in the dust. i think this audience is very important. >> she was clearly on to something. after being featured in the new york times a few years ago her website traffic took off. >> we still buy music. we are the demographic that buys the albums at starbucks. and we desperately want to be relevant. we don't want to be out in the dust. we want to be talking about music at the water cooler. >> every day she gets hundreds of e-mail's from publicist's asking for her to featured their musicians. she listens to music at her computer or going to conserves trying to find the next artist to feature. and sometimes, those musicians even end up here a free invite only concert she hosts in her home. >> my guests filled the tip jar and make a lot of money than they get on their way and they go to their next city. it's fun for the audience to be in the house. they all call me, because i am feeding them and trying to make them take a nap or they can do their laundry. >> recently she launched a radio station is streaming music app for your smart phone. that could take the playlists on the road. >> most of the new platforms the 20 million songs i want to do it differently. it gives you just enough. it's a really cool site if you're looking to get into music and check it out. we will have more about how works and talking about that app a little bit more because it precooled. you can stream all the songs right there for free on your phone. >>coming up... we have dean reviews of the new movies out this weekend -- including the sequel to "rio". kevin costner's newest sports movie puts him in the n-f-l -- as the new general manager of the cleveland browns on his first draft day. dean says, even for non- football fans, "draft day" is great when it sticks to the thrill of the deal... but goes "off-sides" with the "something for everything" play with too many sappy-sub-plots. it's a dean's list "c plus." if you liked the first "rio" movie... dean says, you'll like this new story with many of the same blue macaws and tropical birds -- heading into the rain forest for new adventures. he calls it an okay story... but the look is big and colorful, and loaded with great music along with a nice environmental lesson. the morning for this friday we have a warm temperatures. high in the mid-60s later this afternoon. to local high is 57. how about tomorrow? 73 degrees is our high. dry for much of the day. showers and thunderstorms will bring it to an end by saturday afternoon. the rain will move in and drop our temperatures. 39 degrees monday morning. and into the afternoon we barely reached 40 degrees. >> we have some traffic out there still dealing with a fire at 78 and colfax. a three story structure fire crews are in the area more on that in a bit. >> coming up, searchers may have found the black box. >> and a student in trouble for how she paid for her prom dress. >> and going old school. we will tell you how. thirty million americans living with rare diseases; that's almost one in ten of us. when my father was diagnosed with a rare disease, my family learned firsthand how overwhelming it can be to find information and the right treatment - if one even exists . there are nearly seven thousand rare diseases like the one that claimed my father's life. with the national organization for rare disorders, you're never alone . nord works to provide answers and support. alone we are rare, together we are strong . learn more at rarediseases.org. >> announcer: the following is a paid presentation for luminess air. now there's a new way to completely cover your flaws, minimize wrinkles, and make you look 10 years younger instantly. >> people asked if i got botox. >> people come up to me and say, "your skin is beautiful." >> i've had two people actually tell me it looks like i have porcelain skin. >> announcer: introducing the airbrush beauty breakthrough-- luminess air-- the most exciting new beauty product in years. it's the revolutionary, new way of applying makeup that gets results liquids and powders can only dream of. >> i love it, i love the way i look. i looked in the mirror and it was like, whoa... >> it's a miracle makeup. it's the only makeup i will use. >> announcer: today you'll see dozens of women use luminess air and transform their faces instantly.

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