Transcripts For WGN WGN News At Nine 20130110

Only have 45 days before we will have completed one full year since the last measurable snow so hopefully we will see at least 1 in. In that time but thats absolutely correct 320 days that breaks the record which has been hailed since 1940. The next measurable snow lets hope, sunday we will keep an eye on it. Chicago police are issuing what they call a business alert warning cabdrivers of a small group of armed women who are robin drivers, they are headed for the south side. A group of girls working together to rob cabdrivers Chicago Police are asking all cabdrivers throughout the city to be on the lookout there were two incidents to tell you about, both are in chicagos Second Police district, the wentworth district the young women picked up the calves downtown where they arrive to their destination when of the girls police say choked the driver with some type of court or rope while another young woman holds a knife to the drivers throat, they take the cash and run away, Chicago Police described the suspect as africanamerican females between the ages of 1620 white complexions, working in a group of six or seven again they are using knives or some type of rope or cord to choke the driver. New developments in the case of a poisoned a Lottery Winner Chicago Tribune saying the victims wife was questioned by police today. We have the very latest. The lawyer representing the victims wife says that she has nothing to hide this is the cook county medical examiner talking about the need to exhume the victims body. Cyanide can be inhaled or ingested. We could see which of those methods was more likely used. Making the case to exhume the victims body for Rose Hill Cemetery on the north side of chicago, shia along with prosecutors hopes to win a court order to exhume the body of the West Rogers Park man who was poisoned just weeks after winning a 1 million lottery jackpot, cyanide is used in Metal Industries into chemical laboratories. Its extremely lethal, a little bit goes a long way. I have had cases where less than 1 g has been used intentionally on a person to commit suicide if you remember in the early 80s, i can be fed into a tylenol capsule. We caught up with his wife at the West Rogers Park dry cleaning shop operated together with her late husband shy and softspoken she did not want to go on camera the 32 yearold who has not been named a suspect in her husbands murder and has not been charged with any wrongdoing says that she doesnt know who killed her husband she said he has no enemies as far she knew into was extremely generous for now leased the lottery winnings and his estate are tied up in Probate Court Court Records show that the poisoned mans brother accused his sisterinlaw of rushing to cash in the Lottery Ticket into raised concern that his child from a previous marriage was in getting our fair share. The state is being evenly divided by the Probate Court no word on how soon his body could be exhumed. A federal jury finds a convicted bank robber guilty of escaping and going on another crime spree in 2009. A highspeed chase ended when he cashed his getaway car prosecutors say he is a career criminal who is a legend in his own mind. He tells numerous people that he came into contact with people and he was telling bank tellers that he had a gun. He seemed to think in his own mind that he was this legendary criminal. His lawyer says that he will likely face life in prison combining his prior convictions for escape, robbery and gun possession. Parents of a wilmington middle schooler are suing the School District because they say their daughter was forced to urinate into a cup on a moving school bus in front of everyone, in january of last year their 10 yearold daughter was on the bus during a field trip she asked the bus to stop repeatedly so she could use the restroom but teachers on the bus would not let her. The suit also names the Central Illinois School Bus Company at the cooperative for special education. I think as parents when you leave your children off to school or you leave your children to participate in a field trip you are in trusting those teachers in the School District to protect their well being. Parents of the child are alleging Emotional Distress seeking over 150,000 in damages the School District said in a statement they are not doing anything wrong, that it is the bus company. He loved his family, he was an entrepreneur, he was a coach. Investigators hope this Surveillance Video will lead them to the person that killed this man. Also no call from the hall some of baseballs biggest past stars. Shut out of cooperstown today. A youth basketball coach and the father of five targeted, gunned down after turning his life around. The wifes emotional reaction to suddenly being a young widow. He had a family, he was in just a number at the medical examiners office. On monday morning she lost her partner and husband, harold miner was the father of their five children he was a basketball coach with a team that turns boys into strong leaders on and off the court. We have to step in his footsteps and be the best we can be. In a restaurant parking lot eugene white owns this place in t. Never had a problem in 18 years, a miner came in that night a longand he never had a problem in 18 years. A miner came in alone one night and take a look at the upper middle portion of your screen minor is parked in a ford pickup truck you can see the light from a gun going off two cars appear to be involved. 34 yearold darrell miner died of multiple gunshot wounds and no one in his family can figure out why. You took an individual that was loved. You took an individual that we depended on. He was our life. The life of the party, the entrepreneur who owned a Contracting Company the man who serviced children and made his family the priority, she has the difficult task of keeping her children positive in a time of tragedy. How do we tell him that it wasnt natural that they came for him . How did you tell your child that . One chicago radio host to makes his living talking about local issues like crime gets a firsthand look. He might be going out of his way to tell this story tonight. Debris defined the words bold and brave strolling in last friday night like they owned the place, the two women and the man you see there said there los said hello they took her purse all in about six and a half minutes. Its too comfortable, its too easy for them so you know whats going on a lot and they are good at it. Everything we saw there shows that its not their first time and its just brazen. Looking at the video you can easily see how the trio did it although if you are not watching you can miss the whole thing they ordered drinks, even leave a tip the kind and unsuspecting victim actually passes him there change he reaches into her purse fishers around for her id and credit card and is gone, the victim is the girlfriend of wgn radio host Mike Mcconnell theyre on a date night and their credit card is being used by somebody else before they even make it through dinner. You really think you are having a normal night the next thing you wake up and your license into atm and three credit cards are gone, these people are good, they work fast. No word on the whereabouts of the alleged thieves as of right now, Chicago Police have bigger fish to fry at the moment they just want others to know how easily this could happen to them. A day of large scale questions, next to Dozens Injured when a highspeed ferry slams. A massive crane came tumbling down. cwox . cno . Pw[p xr counn 7uvw lgoxonn vwplpan; non ÷÷nz÷oui n o nu7 dozens of people injured in new york when a ferry ride ended in a massive crash. Many of the passengers on board the c street ferry were doing what they usually do. Reading a book, or catching up on muchneeded sleep so no one ever expected or prepared to tense up their bodies, brace themselves in and hold on to something in the moments before the crash. Basically it was 600. I dont know how fast we were going. The estimate between 1116 mi. Per hour not full speed when it struck a pier near wall street at the height of wednesday mornings rush hour, there were 326 passengers on board some of them simply lost their footing and others say they went flying. I was actually sleeping and all of a sudden we just hit and people were catapulted for work. People get up to get off of the boat. When we hit the dog everybody went flying. Thats why we had so many injuries, people got thrown downstairs. The docking area suddenly became a triage center, a total of 86 people suffered various interests, 11 of them serious too critical and one of them needed two of them critical and one person needed facial surgery. Coast guard Officials Say the captain and crew past alcohol test, administered after the crash. Drug tests results will take at least several days, that has federal transportation officials taking a close look to determine if a mechanical failure allowed it to read into the dock. They posted a letter to customers on the web site. Area hospital officials report that several of the people who were brought in for various injuries bruises back and neck pain have since been discharged but anyone who has been in a car accident knows that often the paint doesnt surface until days later and it could be weeks before we learn what caused this crash. Its up to the investigatorsinvestigators in new york to determine why a crane toppled as it was lifting a load at a luxury condo worksite when it came down it cut through scaffolding and plywood the same company was involved in a similar accident years ago when it two workers were killed. Vicepresident biden convened at the Gun Control Task force today with the the first of three hearings in washington. I want to make it clear that we are not going to get caught up in the notion, unless you can do everything we are going to do nothing. It is critically important we act. A chicagoan to attend the victims of gun violence held a photo over her son who was killed trying to protect a friend while riding the bus from school talking about closing holes in the database of gun buyers gun advocate rightstoo many guns says the chicago top cop what he told us of 5 00 tonight about the trouble on the street. And Hillary Clinton speaks publicly for the First Time Since being hospitalized for a blood clot and joe walsh out of a job and announcing his plans for the future. Dubois making better insulin a New Discovery it may help in the treatment of both types 1 and type 2 diabetes australian researchers figured out how insulin bynes, for more than 20 years scientists have been trying to crack the code of insulin cells Service Connection seeing how they interact with cells biologists can design medications with better delivery properties which may mean eliminating the need for injections, the study is published in the journal of nature, sugary drinks may make you depressed soda especially diet soda has a list link with a higher risk of depression, those who drank four cans per day or 40 percent more likely to develop depression than those who drank nine per day. They suspect that a high sugar drink consumption may also leave people feeling down in addition to leading to obesity and diabetes. A new study from notre dame suggests that parents are ruining their children by letting them cry it out rather than going through traditional nurturing habits Emotional Development is hampered by cultural beliefs and statistics show that the outcomes are worsening for young people in america with an epidemic of anxiety and depression, showing affection and engaging in free play has been shown to influence the development of conscience, empathy and impulse control. We have been telling you we could hit 50 degrees this week but what about 60 . L nexium, the purple pill, helps provide many with day and night relief of heartburn symptoms caused by acid reflux disease. There is risk of bone fracture and low magnesium levels. Side effects may include headache abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Call your doctor right away if you have persistent diarrhea. Other serious stomach conditions may exist. Dont take nexium if you take clopidogrel. 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Louis is the source region for the air coming into chicago for the next couple of days, we will not feel it immediately it will be a combination of a light breeze and also we have cladding is developing temperature at the moment in chicago is fairly cool we have a northwest breeze which is producing a wind chill temperatures all across the area shake out that way. Wind chill values are stillnotice a few spots over in michigan still a bit gusty. Strong gusts are expected both tomorrow and friday and even into the week and we expect them to be fairly strong about look at the bottom up expected as we go into thursday and friday, more cold air is expected to come in here after next weekend it will drop our daytime high temperatures back to seasonal normals. I mentioned freezing rain on monday. A system of west could bring us a little snow and perhaps even eyes. Ice. Looking at our rain forecast here for the chicago area this is suggesting some rather impressive amounts more than 1 in. Of rain possible in some spots. Its going to follow some rain and probably freezing temperatures at the surface that could be an issue. For tonight, clear skies moderately cold, low temperature. 3732 2732 degrees. The bigger story are those temperatures, look at that. Absolutely amazing. Mild Winter Weather plenty of dream boats at the show now going on at the boat show at Mccormick Place it runs through sunday. Chicago Police Superintendent Gary Mccarthy on the offensive he tells us what is next for the department. Smart phones and tablets to help fight crime. People really love snapshot from progressive but dont just listen to me. Listen to these happy progressive customers. I plugged in snapshot, and 30 days later, i was saving big on car insurance. With snapshot, i knew what i could save before i switched to progressive. The better i drive the more i save. I wish our company had something this cool. Youre not filming this, are you . Aw camera shy. Snapshot from progressive. Testdrive snapshot before you switch. Visit progressive. Com today. Thngrede day one for the new illinois General Assembly democrats now hold a vetoproof majority in both chambers senators were sworn into the capital the new General Assembly faces challenges that we reported night after night including the nearly 100 billion pension debt publicly elusive House Speaker mike madigan who is often blamed for lack of leadership address the crisis today. I amit is an extremely difficult issue because in order to achieve improvements the fiscal condition of the. There will be a change in the promised benefits that they will receive in their pensions both tami and John Cullerton were elected to their leadership role. Joe walsh wants to run for a statewide office speaking before members of the chicago twoparty hes been supported by team member parties for years. He says that it is no secret he is interested in a popular seats. Our state is a house. We are broke we are working and people are running out of the state. He said he wants to talk to voters are round illinois as he ponders his statewide run for office. But this citys top cop says a 16 decrease even though the murder rates made headlines and he wants to keep the momentum going in 2013. He talked about Crime Fighting with us andhave 5 00 today. At the same time we are rested 7000 more gang members so we are getting more gonds and gang members which is our role as law enforcement. Mccarthy says things started to turn around midway through last year when they started programs that targeted individuals. You and your smart phone have been deputized by the cook county sheriff, a new mobile application called i watch its all about using in cryptic technology to make anonymous tips he says this is the perfect tool for anyone who wants to make report a crime. It is completely anonymous, they can text, they can call do whatever they can to get the case either ruling or solved. 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Any couple can now get married at the 106 yearold church samesex couples can legally marry in nine states at the District Of Columbia the so called marriage quality bill was reintroduced into the new Assembly Today Lance Armstrong a turning to oprah since the drug accusations recently crashed his career, he was kicked out of cycle in last year and all seven of his Tour De France titles it will also be streamed life. Hillary clinton on the mend and back to work at the state department the elco secretary of state speaking for the first time today since battling Health Issues she said she is glad to be back and helping with the transmission of her likely successor. I very much look forward to doing everything we candys last few weeks to resolve the and finished up wherever possiblecan and continue to work. President barack obama expected to nominate his current chief of staff jack lewis is the next treasury secretary the president praised him for helping help the economy streamlined the government and is described as a tough negotiator. He would replace timothy who wants to leave the administration. She made her decision over the holidays with her family and is also out of the white house president barack obama called her a tireless champion she is the first hispanic woman to serve in the president ial cabinet. Beyonce will perform the National Anthem Kelly Clarkson will sing my country to is of the end james taylor will perform america the beautiful. President obama was involved in the selection of the musicians. The pregnant duchess of cambridge spend time with family royal watchers are left to get what she got from prince william, apparently sources say he is buying a house. Were looking at some interesting weather coming up over the next two or three days. We have 50 we are back down to 35 degrees at the moment. Computer models show the moisture coming up we could see rain and perhaps even thunderstorms. On saturday, still cloudy but saturday evening you were looking at perhaps some rain changing over to snow. Apple may be developing an iphone that is more affordable there are rumors the phone could be available later this year and it will be smaller and less expensive. Monopoly is planning to dump one of their playing pieces but the good thing is you get to vote. You can vote for the token that you want to save the and also vote for a new one. The facebook coal runs until february 5th. Coming up doubles go for their first four game winning streak of the season but once again they have trouble slowing down. So if you have a flat tire dead battery need a tow or lock your keys in the car, geicos emergency roadside assistance is there 24 7. Oh dear, i got a flat tire. Hmmm. Uh. 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