Degrees above the average. The average is 57. We hit the 60s today. The might be even in the mid70s by far. But its 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 doesnt 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 chicagos 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 63yearold man was hurt in a hitandrun 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 suv had a broken rear license plate cover, and a dent in the drivers side door. Another cta 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 cta says the tire came from a semi Truck Driving on the eisenhower expressway, but they dont 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. Its 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 15mile square in the indian ocean. And searchers are confident they know, within a few miles, where the missing planes 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 onethird 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 onethird of its police force was gone. Overcoat seven officers received layoff notices. It was all due to budgetary constraints. The only police say its 16 officers they say on some ships theres 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 worstcase 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 didnt 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 misusing 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 Sheriffs Office has not said if it will pursue criminal charges. Taking a look at the other top stories this morning. A threeyearold 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 47hundred block of west addison. Its not known what the boy was doing when he broke through a screen. He is expected to be ok. A man is charged with raping a fouryearold girl in calumet park after her allegedly kicked in the door of the girls 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 Emanuels 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 mayors 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 months 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 cbs. Colbert plans to drop the satirical conservative character hes played for nine years on comedy centrals 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 wont be a problem. This guy is a talented actor and a talented writer. Real artist. He has such a strong moral compass. Were 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 latenight show. He takes over for letterman next year. Are you a fan . A big fan. Hes funny. It will be interesting to see him out of the character. I never really saw that. Ill be honest i stopped listening when youre talking. I was working on my forecast. But i did kind of pulled off. It away, if i lost people it wouldnt matter because look at these numbers. 66 degrees for the High Temperature. It wasnt 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 la. Well have details. Plus were 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 CountySheriffs Department admits that it mistakenly shot and killed an aspiring tv producer during a standoff earlier this week. 30yearold 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 yearold alex hribal is charged as an adult in the stabbings at franklin regional senior high school. The assistant principal stopped the attack by tackling rybull . 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 andrun crash at a florida Daycare Center has turned himself in to police. Authorities say robert corchados vehicle rammed a car, forcing it to crash into the Day Care Center in orlando. Then corchado fled the scene. A fouryearold girl died, and a dozen other children were injured. Police found corchados suv, 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 sixfoot 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 bmw 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 bmw will get a hundreddollar ticket for illegal parking. One online poster joked, bmw equals break my window. Thats why i stick with the pinto. You dont have the problem. Why are you laughing . I am thinking of the Fire Department and pinto. I dont know if you know the history of that vehicle. A little combustion. Today we have warm temperatures coming. We expect a high in the mid60s today. Even warmer tomorrow. Break out the short smile. We will be in the low 70s 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 70s. 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. Todays 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. Its on the outbound from elmhurst to 63. Left lane out until 6 00. At this point no big deals. Some of tristate at the 82nd toll plaza all with 95 you are squeezed down by a few lanes 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. Well tell you who will take her place. And round one highlights from the masters. Thats next in sports. Today we have some music. Its friday. We have a woman from one mecca launched a batik music website to help people outside of the 1824 demographic connect with new music. Its a neat site. Theres also an act for that. Thats 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 20. Abreu makes it a twoone game. More that came from. Tied at 3 in the fourth, ramirez to the gap in rightcenter. A tie breaker. A to run double as they take the lead and take it for good. Still 53 in the fifth. Abreu again. Its 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 couldnt stay away. Dumpster out in the bleachers for the game between the cubs and the pirates. Cubs were trying to add on here. Theres 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 54. 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. Heres his approach. Its 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 2011. And the sandp 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 19yearold 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. Thats 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 were 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. Well have the latest. Plus Hillary Clinton was attacked while giving a speech in vegas. Its 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 onethird of their police force at midnight. Thank you for joining us.