Transcripts For WGN WGN Morning News 20140502 : comparemela.

Transcripts For WGN WGN Morning News 20140502

Hand is caught in my shop. Is she using her hands again . Its only 4 00 a. M. Highs in the mid50s. Cooler than normal. 48 it the lakefront. 46 in joliet. These numbers are warmer than normal but if you look back to yesterday its the warmest that weve gotten. Satellites composite shows cloud cover very little if any sunshine today. Low pressure system that brought us rain over the previous five six days has weakened and joined the way. Expect slightly breezy conditions with our wind out of the west between 515. Temperature of 55 degrees at 5 00 p. M. 62 by 9 00 p. M. Temperatures are stuck in that cloud cover taking away that son. 56 degrees today afternoon scattered showers are possible. Tamaras high is 65. Saturday we reach 56. About when and mecham in terms of overviews on construction, this intersection work will go through july. Not causing any big delays but as we get into the later hours, it will get hairy. Eastbound 58 at algonkin down to a single lane in both directions. On top of that downtown today the ramp from the eyck to the kennedy is blocked until 6 00. Vice versa on the eisenhower. Watch for that detour for both of those. A wrongway driver caused a crash on lake shore drive that critically injured four people. Nancy loo is live at lake shore and monroe with more. Behind me you can see emergency vehicles still on the closed part of which were dry. This is an investigation that could keep these north bound lanes closed for quite awhile. The severely damaged vehicles still on the scene make it clear how horrific this crash was between an suv and a taxi around 2 00 a. M. The taxi appear to be heading north in the northbound lane just before the current and exit for walker. The suv hit it head on and does not have a rear license plate. According to a source. Two passengers were in the cap one person went through the front windshield. Emergency responders had to cut through the wreckage to get to him. All four people are hospitalized including the wrong way driver, the cab driver and the two passengers. The Fire Department says all are in critical condition. The crash investigation getting under way here is not clear how long this closure made last. Back to you. A woman in her sixties or seventies was rescued from the Chicago River overnight, after she reportedly tried to commit suicide. It happened just after one this morning, near franklin and wacker drive. A man who was leaving work from the suntimes spotted the woman bobbing in the water, and called police. Rescue divers jumped in the river to save her, after she refused to catch the lifebuoy. Withdrew its out to her she made no attempt to get to it. Thank god they came here i dont think she had much left in her. The Fire Department came and they grabbed her. It was scary. I swam out to her and made contact and the firemen insisted to pull her back in. The woman was brought back to shore safely, and was taken to the hospital. A sixth person has been charged in connection with the murder of a 14yearold girl in the back of the yards neighborhood. Endia martin was shot to death by another 14yearold girl, after the two got into a fight over a boy. Floyd evans is charged with passing off the weapon used in the shooting. Police say robert james was the original owner of the gun, before he illegally sold it to evans. Evans later gave it donnell flora. Flora is charged with murder. For giving the gun to his 14yearold niece. A woman named Vandetta Redwood is also charged with not stopping the fight, and lying to police. A 19yearold man is in the hospital. After he was shot along a safe passage route in englewood. It happened yesterday afternoon in the seven thousand block of south sangamon. Thats along a safe passage route for wentworth elementary school, which is half of a mile from there. Police say the victim was walking, when two men turned around and started shooting. Police and cps officials are looking into whether any safe passage workers were nearby at the time of the shooting. A few hours later, a 15yearold girl and a 25yearold man were shot near 125th place and south michigan. The girl was standing on a porch of a home when two men walked up and opened fire. The man was shot in the chest. Both are in stable condition. Police have released a sketch of the suspect who sexually assaulted a sevenyearold boy in the bathroom of a restaurant. Police say a man fitting this description assaulted the boy when he went to the bathroom at the great buffet at western and cermak on saturday. Investigators say the restaurants surveillance cameras were not working. The suspect is decribed as having several tattoos on his arms including a knife, the spanish word que, and a small animal. Police say the man drove off in a small green vehicle. Two boys are facing child pornography charges after they got caught sexting. The boys attend barrington middle school. Both are with their families after they were arrested this week. Theyre accused of distributing sexually explicit photos and videos of fellow students. Several students received the materials, which involved multiple victims. Staff and parents are now turning this difficult situation into a teaching tool. Technology move so quickly and they dont always think the consequences through. Its an eye opener for all us and i think it will spark conversation that may not have taken place. Barrington police say they dont expect more students will be charged. The School District is planning events this month to help parents keep their children from sexting. We want to warn you this next video could be disturbing. It shows a Police Officer abusing his own police dog. This video from hammond was posted wednesday. You see this officer repeatedly hit the dog that hes handling. He then pulls the dog up by the leash and swings it around. All this happens in broad daylight, with traffic going by in the background. Police Officials Say the officer is on administrative leave pending an investigation. A former police chief of Country Club Hills is going to prison for stealing from a state grant. A federal judge sentenced regina evans to five years in prison. She pleaded guilty to 16 charges, including theft and laundering. She was accused of misusing a state grant for helping women and minorities in the chicago area. But instead, she spent 917 thousand dollars on remodeling her house and going to las vegas. Evans is now ordered to pay back the money. Her husband and brother await sentencing after they also pleaded guilty. Two schools here in illinois are among 55 colleges under investigation for their handling of sexual abuse complaints. The university of chicago and knox college are on a list released by the Us Department of education. Schools risk losing federal funds if they mishandle complaints of Sexual Violence or harassment. A uofc student told the tribune that she reported being attacked by a fellow student, but instead of investigating, a dean held a mediation session between them. Other schools under investigation include michigan. Indiana, and harvard. Federal investigators in springfield are now looking into governor quinns controversial antiviolence program. The 55milliondollar initiative was launched during quinns reelection campaign, four years ago. It was touted as a response to the violence in some of chicagos most dangerous neighborhoods. But its been criticized as a slush fund, and a political show. Quinns office responds, if there is an inquiry, we fully support it. We have zero tolerance for any mismanagement at any state agency. A preliminary report on the disappearance of the malaysian plane shows deep flaws. 90 minutes after the plane disappeared they were believing it was over vietnam when it had in fact turned over the indian ocean. They gave only projected flight pattern instead of real time. Four hours was wasted before the search began. His lawyer would not say whether chicago was fords final destination. Ford admits he has a drinking problem. And a newspaper says he was caught on camera over the weekend, smoking crack cocaine again. Ford has family ties here. His father founded deco labels and tags in suburban wood dale in 1962. And ford himself was its chief Financial Officer until 2010. Mistakes are made in every business and that includes the media. Sometimes details get mixed up or flat out wrong. Even if the subject of the story, me, works for the same company. This picture of me and our evening news anchor Lourdes Duarte was part of a tribune story about my new home. But the caption refered to lourdes as my wife, which last time i checked, isnt true. The picture was eventually replaced with this one. With my real wife and our real baby girl. He doesnt like to talk about his five wives. Its a little awkward. Or married for about 20 minutes before they took that picture. I bet there was lots of makeup on to cover that slap marc. I dont think it went over well with her boyfriend. No hard feelings we are moving on. It ended and it was all her fault right . Today 48 degrees Downers Grove reading of 47. St. Marys school currently reading in the mid 40s. Sweden is at 43. These numbers are where they should be for this time of the day if now warmer. But we will warm up too much. Yesterdays high was 49 and today we are a bit warmer high in the mid50s. Showers breaking off in the afternoon. Not an allday rain but that light rain will be around later today. Todays high 56 we stay dry. Sunday temperatures tumbledown to 56 showers developing in the day. A nice weekend but were back to the wet stuff. Coming up, dramatic new video of the entire st. Collapsing in baltimore. Plus Police Charge a minnesota teenager with planning to carry out a school massacre. Well have details. And Prince William and his newlysingle brother, harry, wg story out of south korea. Two subway trains collided in seoul. And at least 70 people are injured. It appears, one train had stopped near a station in eastern seoul when the second train rearended it. Well have more details as they become available. A 17yearold is jailed in minnesota, and facing charges of plotting a deadly massacre at school. Police in the town of waseka say john la due built six bombs, and had a cache of guns and ammunition at a storage facility. Someone spotted him entering the facility, acting suspiciously. Police were called, and they arrested la due, and recovered the weaponry. They say he admitted that he planned to kill his family. Start a fire to distract the police. Go to his local junior and senior high school. Kill a school official. Then kill as many others as he could, before he was killed. Instead, hell face charges. Screams that is amateur video showing the moment the ground gave way in baltimore md. On wednesday causing part of the city street to collapse. Cars went down to the road tracks. No injuries were reported. People were forced to leave entry trouble was suspended. Some restaurant customers were enjoying some barbecue. When they just happened to see two princes. Prince harry and Prince William were spotted at Charles Vergos rendezvous, a famous ribs restaurant in memphis last night. Theyre in town to serve as ushers in a friends wedding tomorrow. Word spread that they would be there, which caused a crowd to form outside. The princes may also check out graceland, but no public appearances are scheduled. Weve got it all. Barbque, princes, cars falling on train tracks. What you have for weather . And taking the whole show off the track. It goes good and then here comes the cold water. Right now weve wind of the west at 8 mi. Its nice and breezy it will stay breezy today expect showers popping up this afternoon. Were not done with that rain. Potential for showers today. 46 in waukegan. Donna lansing its 46. Temperatures are going to start off on the mild side. Typical temperatures would be in the low to mid40s. Later today we dont warmup much. 56 degrees from a high. Cloud cover very little if any sunshine as a low pressure system moves to the east. We have been unsettled area of air over ross we will be stock under this layer of cloud cover through much of the day. Showers will pop up today not a heavy rain and no thunderstorms in the forecast. Saturday is nice. We try out you can go out to get your lawn work done. Sunday we stay dry good chance of showers developing in the afternoon. Enjoy today 56 degrees today. 45 for the low. Saturday we make 65 breezy and dry. Sunday that rain comes back 56 degrees. Care is Lakeshore Drive where we had the accident from overnight wrong way driver. Things are still blocked northbound all due to the earlier crash now an ongoing investigation. Really sluggish traffic trying to get through. Right now if you spot a construction also causing delays. West bound at ohare the spot was early batcbacked up yesterday. As to get closer to 6 00 things will get back up there even though the construction is supposed to be wrapped up its seems like it has been lingering. Thats the situation there we have a few other spots including detours with ramps from the right to the candy more information coming up. Marcus is live at the arlington race track. Hi marcus you have never looked better darling. Take a look at this. Its 4 00 in the morning but not too early for these courses. Im told we couple later than right now im sure they are happy that we are here. But were happy because they keep telling us is the first day of summer. Its the first day of summer as far as im concerned. Even though we are in our jackets. For 3 00 p. M. The horses are just getting ready to go what usually happens at this time . They get fed and groomed and walked. We open for training for a few hours. The will get their work out then they will get a good night bath and get put away before the races. They get treated better than we do. We have a trainer coming through in a few minutes to will tell us about these horses. Some of these forces may be racing soon. Of these all racing horses . And not necessarily today but over the next few weeks they will be racing. Were here in the summer through september. These guys will get their chance to strut their stuff. This is the stuff you dont get to see when you come to arlington. We will show you everything in the barn have to get everything ready for racing and what you can expect at derby day this saturday. Well have racing pictures as well coming up later. Coming up. Why every baby loves peekaboo. And next in sports the blackhawks arent taking anything for granted as they prep for game one tonight. Good morning. What a game seven for the minnesota while it. 4 times came from behind to tie and then took a colorado in overtime. Less than 48 hours later they are in chicago for game 1. The blackhawks finally have some added to practice for which they did on thursday down one important skater. Jonathan toews was under the weather but they say he will be fine for game 1. The loss in the playoffs last season to season the blackhawks are 2 and 3 against them in the regular campaign. These two teams are not strangers. They are a good team. Different from what we saw last year they have improved a lot in their depth and their skills to their lineup. Their balance in their team is across the board for lines and three lines can all score. I think there is a lot of respect. Despite the regular season record they appear to have an edge. During the season but while the work 24th in leads. Talks were second. A huge differential. No chance the blackhawks will underestimate any opponent. They are tough. They are well coached and disciplined and recently i noticed their speed. They have guys that can fly all over the is. They play a fast game. They are a Different Team they have more honker. You tell they are an extremely dangerous hockey team and it seems like they never quit. They always come from behind and they find a way to come back. Minnesota has some goalie issues become on a short turnaround but make no mistake, nothing ever seems to come easy in the nhl playoffs. Game 1 is tonight. The cubs host the cardinals and the white sox play the indians in cleveland. Back to you. Stocks closed mixed thursday. The dow fell 21 points. The nasdaq gained 12. And the sandp was effectively flat. All babies like to play, but one games popularity can be explained with science. Researchers say Young Children like peekaboo so much, because it makes them feel like theyre invisible. They say they believe children think you cant see them since they cant see you. Theres also some nurturing uses for the game. Experts say it helps babies handle anxiety when their mother leaves the room. They also say younger players expect you to be there when their eyes are revealed. They tend to smile less if you switch with someone else. This is cool but if you do that with a child and you leave the room they are devastated. Dont try that with Young Children. Thats from personal experience. To the same thing with the dog. Lets move on. Kids never stop playing this key point play that game. 400 times. Here we go. 47 degrees is the current temperature peers 54. Chance of rain today good chance of showers later in the day. Looking at whats happening on the roads. All lanes have reopened lake shore drive northbound where we had a serious accident involving the wrong way driver. Travel times are picking up to 3 mi. Per hour still some gaper delay is off to the shoulder but its getting through at this point. Thats the latest on the drive. Outbound kennedy ohio offering closed until 5 00 a. M. Little bit of a slow pocket there. Also the ramps from the kennedy to the site are blocked this morning. Same from the eisenhower to the kennedy. Doing work on the ramp as well should be picked up by 6 00. Theres more to come in our next halfhour. A wrong way crash of lake shore drive. And amanda knox is convicted of murder again by an italian court. Well have her reaction. At the clippers owners controversy leads to the resignation of the naacp president. And dean reviews the new and dean reviews the new amazing spidermaoll, we say we want you to be okay enroll, we say take care people for Goodness Sake the crash on light short drive by a wrong way driver sense for people to hospital. A sixth person charged in the shooting death of a teenager. Helping our military servicemen and women. Good morning, im dan ponce. And im erin mcelroy. Lets go to Demetrius Ivory for a check of the weather. For the ring you whether. This is what spring is. I think people thought we would not have a normal spring after the winter but it is here. Its wet and its not changing.

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