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victory lap, patrick cane and his team took to the field at wrigley at blackhawks pride filled the air during game three of the crosstown classic. the teams lined up for the national anthem. >> the crowd is unbelievable. best sports fans in all of 0 the world. >> reporter: a week long celebration, almost and both cubs and sox fans agree the hawks fever is containous. >> you have to root for the hawks. they did great this year. >> reporter: die hard hawks and cubs fan, paul full you arerton brought along his special souvenirs, hoping to get them allot graphed. judge they are sowf firs from -- autographed. >> reporter: today, the hawks made everyone feel like one big family. >> the hawks brings it all together, forget all of the differences. >> chicago, that's what it's about. >> all chicago. >> reporter: and there was just so much love here, tonight, i can definitely say that. the next three games of the crosstown classic will head to the cell in two weeks. no word on whether or not the hawks will make an appearance there, but there is a chance and i'm trying to figure out when these guys will get some sleep. they have been nonstop since wednesday. >> thanks, jay. >> a special benefit took place for one of two women attacked with a baseball bat in april. organizers from irish communities on the north and south side declared today, natasha mcshane day. the college student was hospitalized after the attack and is undergoing physical therapy. there were silent auctions, ravels in the irish american center. that's where they held the mass. proceed also go towards her family's expenses related to the attack. >> at least one person was injured in a multivehicle attack. a mini van and car also involved in that. traffic was completely blocked in one direction until the vehicles could be moved. >> an 1-year-old girl, said to graduate is caught in the middle of a gang fight. this scene was so chaotic that micaela harper's own friend didn't realize she had ran her over with her car. friends and family gather at her home. >> just an all around person. she was well-known. she had so many friends. >> reporter: 1-year-old micaela was at graduate party on the west side when a gang fight broke out. she was trying to get home and in the process, ended up on the ground where she was run over by a car driven by her 16-year- old friend. >> her friend ran her over and dragged her. >> reporter: 40 feet before realizing what happened. >> carmen harper is realizing this wasn't an accident. micaela did not trip and fall. >> i'm hearing someone hit her in the face with a poop bottle which knocked her out in front the the car. >> reporter: the chicago police say they have no evidence of that, but the scene was chaotic. they have interviewed the driver of the car and no charges have been filed. police believe it was an accident. >> she was a sweet girl. my daughter is 11 and looked up to her. >> reporter: the news that came very early this morning was very difficult for her to hear. >> she just broke down i held her. she didn't sleep for hours. >> micaela's mother is asking anyone who witnessed the accident last night to call the police. >> shots fired in the grayship neighborhood. 78th and carpenter street. three teens left the party, but within pulled a gun and fired several shots through the window. the family's homeover flowed are mourners. jones' aunt is asking for the public's help in finding her nephew ace killer. >> please turn yourself in. because this family is hurting. we want justice. so, maybe out on the street, maybe there is one less person that might get shot. >> reporter: community activists passed out flyers offering a reward. >> an executive order was signed to give employees in same sex domestic relationships the same rights at married employees. some of them include taking time off for the birth or adoption of a child. bereavement. bereavement pay -- >> hard working men and women devoted to their families should not have to choose between their family and keep their job. my action on this issue does nothing more than provide gay and lesbian employees with the same basic rights that other employees have long come to expect. >> the executive order makes the treasurer's office the first state agency to adopt such a policy. >> well, it's only a drill, but they tried as hard as they could to make it as real as possible. next, chicagoland emergency responders prepare for the worst. >> why hundreds of doctors were signing white coats in protest this weekend. >> trouble at one airline could put a snag in a bunch of vacation plans this week. >> more rain and thunderstorm hit the area, today. but, more storms are expected tomorrow and tuesday. i'll have details and the full forecast, just ahead. you want some fiber one honey clusters? 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[ male announcer ] fiber one. cardboard no. delicious yes. plane crash, chemical explosion and meth lab some of the mock major disasters taking place around chicago it week as part of a massive emergency drill. wgn's randi ballisomo takes us inside of the drill in oak lawn. >> reporter: this is what the after math of a commercial plane crash might look like. 300 emergency workers tested their abilities to respond to such disasters, today as as if such a crash were to occur in oak lawn. >> an opportunity to train in a realistic setting. >> so we'll be able to pro evidence is and work together in responding to a mass casually or mass fatality situation. >> reporter: debris scattered throughout the suburb and 50 local state, federal agencies joined forces. >> planning communications, logistics. everything that is necessary for something like this. >> reporter: they went so far to set up a make-shift morgue, directed by the office of cook county medical examiner. >> forensic dentists are putting together these partitions so each area is separated by a partition and then, each one of the design for each step of the process and we'll move them. >> reporter: illinois army and air national guard began to plan for this day a year ago and said such an exercise has never been done on this scale. >> as the military, we are here to support the civil authorities to provide the need to provide assistance is withdraw is most important to reduce -- to help life and limb and reduce injury and help the population. >> there will be other disaster scenarios throughout this area throughout the week. including the take down of a meth lab in bensonville. a a biological attack and a bomb exmotion exmotion on explosion on the cta. >> did doctors from across the nation are signing white lab coats and sending them to members of congress, urging that congress act now to stop a 21% medicare cut. payments to physicians who care for medicare patients will reflect the 21% cuts beginning june 15th. senator dick durbin and congressman gutierrez said government agencies and small charities are being charged excessive transaction fees when customers use credit cards. they are proposing an amendment to assure that fees are reasonable. >> we are standing up for the retail merchants and small businesses all across america. this is the first time they have had a fighting chance to stand up to credit card companies and demand to be treated fairly. >> reporter: they estimate a $48 billion in swipe fees were charged in 2008. >> day two of a pilots strike against spirit airlines and the company has been forced to cancel all of its flights through tuesday. the airline and its pilots have been negotiates for more than three years before pilots decided to strike yesterday. salaries are the main sticking point and no new talks have been scheduled. the airline is booking stranded passengers an other airlines. spirit is refunding fares and offering a $100 credit toward future flights. >> mother may tour sets off big problems in north carolina. next, what sparked this massive fire. >> and window shopping downtown, today could have netted you a few family pet. ♪ [ male announcer ] regular kool-aid. goes almost 3 times further than soda. kool-aid. delivering more smiles per gallon. there's a new 24-hour heartburn formula. it's called zegerid otc. it's been proven in a clinical study to provide acid control that's greater and faster than prevacid. for all day and all night relief. try zegerid otc. president obama returns to the gulf region this week. he will meet governor and review mans to contain the escaping oil and as pat sinclair reports, they will discuss a measure forcing bp to set aside billions of dollars for future claims. >> officials announced sensors were being installed to give the government a better gauge of how much oil is leaking. >> researchers now say up to 1.7 million-gallons are leaking per day. on monday and tuesday, president obama will return to the gulf region before addressing the nation tuesday evening. the president is also expected this week to push bp to create an escrow fund for damaged claims. he will use every legal device at his disposal to make sure the money is escrowed and there is an independent administrator so claims are not slow while people can get the relief they need. >> reporter: one governor said he doesn't care what the specifics are as long as those who deserve assistance get the help they need. >> our tourist season here is essentially from memorial day to labor day. so we'll need assistance. >> reporter: the white house believes president obama does have the legal authority to force bp and the ceo tony hayward to create such a fund. >> lightening struck a tank, starting as massive fire in north carolina. it happened early this morning at a gas company in greensboro. i-40 and i73, portions of it were closed for hours. firefighters had to use a special phone to put out the blaze and stay on the scene in case the fire started up again. officials say they prepared for an incident like that four year ago. >> the grant was applied for and we received it that allowed us to put in place several measures that would help to mitigate any fire that occurred out here. obviously, our hope was that we would never get to put those things into play. >> reporter: nobody injured in that fire. >> 19 people now confirmed dead from the flash flood that swept through an arkansas campground early friday. one person is still missing. searchers have been looking through piles of debris along the little missouri river. survivors have been standing at a church nearby. victims who have been identified are in arkansas, louisiana and texas. >> as many as 26 people were killed in baghdad after insurgents stormed iraq's central bank, to day. the violence began with bombs going off near the building in baghdad. gunmen then tried to rob the bank, which lead to a three- hour standoff with security forces. insurgents managed to get to the top floor and burned documents. a military spokesman said they apparently wanted to steal the deposits in the bank and then blow up the building. israel has announced an inquiry into last month's deadly rate on floatilla. the inquiry will include foreign observers have canada and ireland. israeli commandos killed nine. israel imposed a block aid on gaza which is controlled by hamas. deputy foreign minister of israel said the inquiry will prove that some of the people onboard were paid mercenariries. >> we found the money. they were associated with al- qaida and oerter roar organizations. they are graduates of afghanistan or iraq. >> reporter: the white house called the floatilla inquiry an important step forward. >> ntsb investigators are examining the wreckage of a small plane, trying to determine what caused it to crash into an arizona high school. the single-engine piper crashed in the small town of edgar, 200- miles east of phoenix. it had just taken off from a nearby airport, heading for the grand canyon, all four people aboard the plane were killed. the victims have not been identified and no one on the ground was injured. >> tonight's live lottery drawing up is next. >> after that, similar ramsey will join us with a forecast that brings more storms back to chicago. i'm dan roan, tonight on "instant replay." more on the blackhawks latest field trip. this one is a cross town classic at wrigley for the series finale. as for the game, a whole not of nothing. great pitching or lousy hitting -- it can only happen in chicago. >> a meltdown for the ands on the pga tour. the prep athlete of the month for may and we bring out the dagger one more time in a salute to the blackhawks welcome to progressive.com. you must be looking for motorcycle insurance. you're good. thanks. so is our bike insurance. all the coverage you need at a great price. hold on, cowboy. cool. i'm not done -- for less than a dollar a month, you also get 24/7 roadside assistance. right 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the best in kids. ♪ sunny d wetter than usual. is that accurate? >> o'hare officially picked up 2/100th of an inch of rain. most of the heavy rain was falling through central illinois. we are getting some rainshowers, maybe a clap of thunder in some areas as we speak. meanwhile, time lapse cameras show another gloomy display. this is the way it look the all day today in chicago. we had cloudy skies, but the rain managed to hold off until late in the afternoon. big thunderstorms rolling through the area, in fact, encountered a lake breeze. they tended to diminish a little, but the rain was fairly widespread. this is where the big storms are, southern illinois and southern indiana. notice up here, something in the chicago area. rain and apparently a little thunder action just off the lake front as you look into lake michigan. we expect this kind of nonsense most of the evening, off and on. meantime, further out to the west, the panhandle of texas and oklahoma, big thunderstorms developing out there. we watched them all afternoon, in fact, they were responsible for at least five tornadoes, there have been seven tornado reports all in all extends as far north as nebraska. meantime, high temperature, cloud cover and a lake breeze kept us very chilly, only 70 degrees, 7 or so. some mild air in can a. eventually, we'll get back toward more summery temperatures, but we have to break the lake breeze. there will be another one tomorrow keeping our temperature chillient dew point temperatures, very close to the air temperature and that's producing some fog problems. the wind isn't much of a factor. presently at five to 10-miles per hour, but look at visibility, starting to shrink, especially well away from lake michigan. a thin fog has already formed in this condition. here's the temperature forecast. notice the warm air to the south of us. we are in a relatively mild air regime, thanks to the lake. but plenty of hot air will pour into the chicago area by friday. at which time we have a chance for a 90. look for the showers and thunderstorms to plague the area. low temperatures, 61-66, tomorrow, mostly cloudy, thunderstorms likely with heavy downpours, high temperatures should come in around 70, mostly cloudy tomorrow night, storms possible, low temperature in the 60s with an east wind and then on monday -- or tuesday, we'll tip with mostly cloudy occasional storms and a high temperature, mid-to upper 70s across the area. so, look for a high tomorrow, about 70 and then as you see, we warm up to 79, but more showers and thunderstorms tipping tuesday and maybe into early -- continuing tuesday and maybe into wednesday and we'll get a break, drying out before the next storm comes in with hot air friday evening. the temperature could easily say 90 on friday. more storms possible by the weekend. kind after a messy month of june. a real mess toward iroquiis county. >> an annual tradition, all sorts of creative work for the neighborhood. there's something 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