local contractor and a 42 year old wife neighbors lighting candles outside of the home too upset to talk on camera the couple had lived in the home for years. police called to the home by somebody inside the house found the couple beaten to death inside their bedroom. cause of death blunt force injuries and assault for two days a cook county investigators coming and going from the home also speaking to neighbors. >> shock it is pretty quiet here do not have much going on at all. nice neighborhood lots of children. hopefully they have a good idea who it is but if they do not we are all on alert kind of unusual for this area. >> neighbors to tell us that the couple's teenage son lives here at the home with them. cook county investigators say no ongoing threat to the community and neighbors should feel there is no danger. >> mother of a 14 year-old boy found dead in berwyn hall facing felony neglect charges boy and a siblings living in squalor with hundreds of animals and insects live in berwyn with more >> disturbing story four days later in front of the housekeeping and i four of the children still in the hospital recovering from food like symptoms and the mother in jail on bond set at $100,000 >> one of the worst things that have ever witnessed batt but first responders with the decade's experience still taken aback by what we did here. all of lydia price facing our way of charges including a child endangerment police described personal house of horrors. >> the whole situation is awful >> unresponsive on the lawn 14 year-old mentally challenged son filthy and wearing just a t- shirt. pronounced dead at a nearby hospital police found inside the house a tough time describing. in sex species all matter of filth all kinds of animals. >> 109 cats and three dogs as well as in many other animals including rabbits guinea pigs monkees records birds hundreds of birds. the >> neighbors did not know much about the family also stunned by all of they saw coming out of the house. rescuers were actually attacked by cats while trying to teach up some of the animals. children we are told never went to school did not have plumbing or running water sleeping on the filthy floors. the bedrooms were used for the animals. >> into the end most animals sec needed to be put down including all 109 of the cats. residents cannot believe what happened a short but local officials the cleanup will be as quick as possible. >> police releasing security video from logan square mall hoping to find a shooting suspect some of the video from last friday before and after the shooting took place. victim's injuries and not serious authorities hoping these images jogging somebody's memory and what with the permission called police. logan square blaze three hours to get under control. extra large fire broke out at the pasieka bakery about 9:30 a.m. this morning no injuries flames finally put out about 1:00 this afternoon. no. milwaukee avenue business on the first floor and apartments upstairs. governor pat quinn and veto energy bill by com ed proposal changing the way in electric rates determined com ed calls this necessary to recover the costs of smart grid implementation gov. quinn would cut to the illinois commission of 40 making it a bad deal for consumers. com ed bradley's aide toreleased a statement saying they were disappointed. city pension board giving a top union leader and three brethren a second chance after breaking the law. " this filing false paperwork in order to double-dip money in city and union pensions you cannot have both. we have obtained internal documents showing union leaders trying to do that again. like so many electrical union in chicago hurting thousands out of work brought many of them here september 9th. rumors were flying union leader tim foley at the three others trying to cut a special deal for themselves. taking you back one year. pension board take a pass to foley and other top union leaders caught with their figures in the cookie jar. the double dipping taking the six- figure city pension board work with street sanitation keeping a second union pension violation of state law. more than that last week investigation found those union leaders filed false paperwork knowingly filing false paperwork last three felony. this man executive director of the pension board said he could not prove knowingly broke the law. he asked them to return the money in the second year did pension at promise never to do that again. case closed. so we thought. we obtained these minutes of a closed-door executive board meeting showing executive attorney who cut the deals to get them off of the legal hook try and and and run it proposing a new deal that allows them to double dip again. according to people at the meeting suggested taking $300,000 from the union rank- and-file deuce and switch it over to another human penchant for foley and the others. after we started asking questions foley withdrew his new penchant request would not return our calls. speaking by telephone not going on the record city pension board now setting up certification letters asking unions for more proof no longer double dipping to read more about the investigation tomorrow's newspaper that the republican presidential hopefuls debate at this meeting yet again this time the focus on tea party priorities also cook county program that aims to keep top businesses repeat offenders and dropping out of thermometers by the middle of next week. wgn news @ 9 now, when you want powerful wifi, you've got it. with a verizon mobile hotspot, you can connect up to 5 wifi devices to the internet with lightning-fast verizon 4g lte speed. a gaming device. ereader. mp3 player. connect any 5 for wifi on the go. get the 4g lte mobile hotspot now for only $49.99. verizon is the place with the largest selection of 4g lte devices. on america's fastest most advanced 4g network. 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>> trying to say that back in the 1930's federal government made all of the right decisions i disagree with you. it is time to get back to the constitution >> the question do you still believe that social security should be ended as a federal program as you did six months ago? >> i think we should have a conversation >> happen that right now governor >> they looked on like right there with the red ties. i think michelle bachmann try to get into that of little bit trying to sneak in not doing too good of the polls. >> sliding since basically winning the iowa straw poll at basically this was a tea party sponsored debate and michele bachmann and gov. rick perry artiste to keep party candidates. she did not do very good in the first half but came back strong second half. executive order requiring a vaccine for sexually transmitted it did not go over well with michelle bachmann. >> the drug company gave thousands of dollars in political donations to the governor and the this is flat out wrong. the question is this about life or millions of dollars potentially billions of dollars for a drug company? >> i raised about $30 million and if you say i can be bought for 5000 i am authentic. offended >> i am offended for the little girls and parents who did not have a choice. >> brought up a couple of points and she desperately needed those she has fallen to about seven right now and the public about 1% we have several more debates in several weeks coming up. >> planned to 1000 tea party years but also national audience trying to just play to the audience? or more focused on the general public? >> you go to the bright as a republican primary with the tea party is on conservative issues such as spending. plane to the audience but it is amazing in these debates 5 million people watching so there is a lot of interest republicans to try to figure out in a scattered field who debris of the like. there were pretty far to the right. even ron paul libertarian candidate long time tea party he got booed tonight talking about united states getting involved in the middle east was the reason that terrorist attacks. ron paul is not get booed by this kind of crowd. they are angry at what to pick a candidate but still a very wide open race. >> president obama putting pressure on congress next the bill pushed on legislators and the challenge he was giving it today and using you to to document one thing can save her life. there she is ! hey, i got a leak ! yoo hoo ! wait a minute, come back ! um, miss ? 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