And cared for properly that they are in danger. If you think you have seen these poppies or have information about how to return these puff piece, called police. New information tonight about a sexting scandal at Hales Franciscan High School on the south side. Police are investigating more than just sexually explicity pictures passed among students. Social Science TeacherSteven Jennings tells wgn he reported other complaints to dcfs. He says several female students claim they were harassed by the boys and that one girl says she was groped. She boarded that she was uncomfortable with what the young men were doing. What were they doing . From her perspective she felt uncomfortable sexual contact. They did not touch her in a positive way. That is my understanding. She felt violated. The head of the school says he doesnt think the sexting was criminal and he says the studens involved were punished a month ago when the photos surfaced. A northwest indiana student removed from school after creating a socalled hit list. Lake Station Police were notified by edison high officials at the end of last month. A pair of students apparently told School Leaders a 15yearold classmate was compiling the list. The suspect allegedly later admitted to creating it. Police report the teenagers guardian refuses to allow the suspect to speak with investigators. Kids on the hit list and their parents have been notified. A surprise pick today by the governor for his election running mate. Governor pat quinn selecting someone with strong ties to chicago and someone whos run for governor himself in the past. Wgns tom negovan joins us tonight with the story. Tom . We have been running around grabbing reaction to this choice. It is mixed so far. Paul vallas is the name and this might strike you as familiar. Residency. He wanted to run for goblin himself in 2002 against rod blagojevich. It tried again in 2005. He is now the picked by the governor for the no. 2 spot in 2014. I have known paul for many years and he has never been shy about product for education reform and opportunities for working people. The choice catching some people by surprise. Some expected diversity on the ticket as the current Lieutenant Governor runs for comptroller. The city treasurer said she played phone tag with the governor and then learned of his decision first from reporters. The state senator the pension reform point man also considered a leading contender and he is contending that he is happy where he is. Less happy is the chicago teachers union. In a statement they said that while he was ceo of Chicago Public schools, vallas pioneered the. Model. His policies continue to devastate our city. In his bridgeport Resignation Letter today he said he has been presented with an unexpected and extraordinary opportunity. I am a big advocate for diversity but not just for checking the box, this notion of checking the box to have neighbors ticket if it is not meaningful does not mean a whole lot to me. Backtoback presidency question. The Governors Office is looking at that and decided that it is not an issue. The constitution says that any person who is running for state office has to be and a resident for the previous three years and he has been a resident since 2008. Former congressman Jesse Jackson junior gets a prison visit from the wellknown pastor of a megachurch. Jackson is serving time at butner prison in north carolina, for stealing from his campaign fund. His lawyer released a statement saying he received his first wave of visitors. Senior pastor rick warren and his associate pastor from the Saddleback Church showed up. Warren says they prayed together. He says jackson was in good spirits but regrets the pain hes caused. A mchenry man is arrested after a womans skeletal remains were found in his home. William j ross was arrested in las vegas yesterday afternoon. Nobody had lived in the home for over a year, and a caretaker maintained the property. That caretaker called police when he found the remains of a longdeceased body in a garbage bag. An autopsy was performed, but so far, no cause of death has been identified. Police want you to take a look at this sketch. They say a man who looks like this, sexually assaulted a teenage girl in a parking lot in gary. He drove alongside a 14 yearold girl on monday morning, and asked her if she was lost and wanted a ride. She said, yes. He took her to the parking lot at 47th and pierce in gary, and forced her to perform a sex act. She eventually ran off, and the man sped away. The suspect was driving a silver vehicle. He is described as black, older, balding, heavy set, and has gray and black facial hair on his chin. New information, just within the past few minutes, from the philippines. Cnn is reporting there are at least onehundred bodies in the streets, a result of the super typhoon that roared through today. Homes are flattened. Power and communications are knocked out. And almost 800thousand have been displaced. The typhoon has weakened and moved on. But it is expected to pick up steam this weekend, and hit vietnam sunday morning. Evacuations have already begun in that country. In the midst of it all, a daring rescue. The typhoon tossed two huge barges around like toys, sending the crews overboard into chaotic waters. Rescuers were eventually able to reach the crewmembers, but they all remained in the water for almost an hour, fighting the current. Nearly everyone made it back to port safely but one crew member remains missing. Airports across the country paused today to honor the tsa agent killed in the shooting at lax. Agents halted the line and stopped checking ids and tickets to observe a moment of silence for gerardo hernandez. This happened at 11 20 chicago time, the moment gunman paul ciancia opened fire last week, killing hernandez and wounding 3 others, including a suburban chicago native. Setting the record straight. Charlie trotters wife speaking out today about his death. The celebrity chef suffered a seizure as a result of an aneurysm back in january, and a Police Report indicated that trotter had flown monday night, despite Doctors Orders saying he shouldnt get on a plane. Not true, according to rochelle trotter. In a statement, she says his doctors prescribed the proper medication to control seizures, his Blood Pressure and high cholesterol and he was seen by a number of medical experts who cleared him to travel. Trotter died tuesday. The autopsy was inconclusive. He was considered one of the worlds great chefs. A public memorial is set for monday morning at fourth presbyterian church. Still ahead. New rules that will make health care more accessible for people struggling with Mental Health issues. Plus, youve heard of mean girls. How about mean moms . You wouldnt believe what they posted about other peoples children on facebook. And a nice warmup this weekend, but it won when i got the call from adt, my heart starting racing. I honestly never thought that someone would try to enter into my home without my permission. When i arrived at the residence, to my surprise, the officers had already received a call from adt and had gotten there and apprehended the suspect. Knowing later that this intruder had a knife it just made me think of how lucky i was to have adt. [ male announcer ] when its your family, trust adt Fast Response monitoring to help protect against burglary, fire, and high levels of carbon monoxide. When seconds count, the experience of adt matters. Now get adt starting at just 99 with 24 7 protection just over 1 a day, plus a moneyback guarantee. 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The hope now is improved access to Mental Health treatment to the Affordable Care act and the Mental Health parity and addiction equity act together helping the desperately ill find the treatment they need. People living under bridges and on the street because they do not have Mental Health and Substance Abuse services. I am sure that jails have a population that is housed on taxpayer dollars that if they had services and Mental Health benefits they could be productive citizens. Health care providers are now obligated to provide treatment for Mental Health issues the same as physical ailments. This is a doctor from a medical facility and she says early access to Mental Health treatment can keep people out of jail. Many individuals coming in who were not in for mary level care common with elements like schizophrenia and bipolar with psychotic features. The difficulty of treatment for Mental Health issues, the sheriff tracks the number of mentally ill people in the jail system. We have to bring things together to come up with the pathway to deal with this. It is all their Community Focus at the front and to help people before they get into a crisis, and when they are in crisis have the proper facilities for them at that moment under the new federal guidelines Insurance Companies cannot classified Mental Illness as a pre existing condition, thereby denying coverage. Breaking a new spirit to people shot inside a fastfood restaurant on the southeast side. A jj fish restaurant. A 25 yearold woman was shot in the head and a 19 yearold man shot in the chest. No word on their conditions. Up next. The recent increase in cafeteria prices is not cool. When you vote for flo, well have discounts. Icecream discounts. Multicookie discounts. Pizza loyalty discounts [ kids chanting flo ] i also have some great ideas on car insurance. [ silence ] finding you discounts since back in the day. Call or click today. I like her. 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Tonight, a grand jury has indicted 11 bikers on charges related to that runin with an suv back in september one of them an undercover new york city cop. The video made national headlines. The suvs driver bumped a motorcycle on a highway, and bikers converged on the suv. He ran over another biker trying to get away. The motorcyclists caught up to the driver and beat him. Prosecutors say the undercover cop shattered the suvs back window. He was off duty at the time. Shocking numbers today involving the number of people who have signed up for insurance through the president s new health care law. Crains Chicago Business reporting tonight that here in illinois, a state of more than 12million people, only hundreds have signedup through the state exchange. The numbers in other parts of the country not any better. Jim acosta has the details. In another sign that obamacare continues to be in Critical ConditionSenate Republicans released letters from a top Insurance Companies indicating only five people signed up in washington d. C. In october. Those numbers do not show the whole picture or those interested interested i wanted to go in and fix it myself but i do not write code. The man in charge of fixing the site said it is still in big trouble. It remains a long way from where it needs to bay. As we put new fixes in the volume is increasing, exposing new Storage Capacity and Software Application issues. The president did not address is now historic apology to americans. I am sorry. We are going to do everything we can to deal with fox who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this. The white house met with House Democrats about potential fixes. No specific proposal at the table immediately. That means no comment on plans offered by bold purple Senate Democrats like this senator from louisiana. It would allow people to keep their plans even theyve if they do not meet obamacare requirements. That was jim costa reporting. If youve heard of mean girls. Maybe they come from mean moms. It was revealed a Facebook Group selling used baby clothes had a cruel secret spinoff group. This florida mom discovered it by accident and triggered a facebook investigation. Moms on the site pasted in pictures of other peoples kids and wrote things like you cannot fix ugly. A second mom writes, an ugly baby thread ive died and gone to heaven. Zero tolerance. You are bleeding babies. You are not even pulling your peers. You are bleeding babies. Bullying babies. When confronted online, most of the moms involved deactivated their accounts. But one of them fired back that she was laughing because its funny, this is facebook, not the salem witch hunt. In the medical watch. A doctor on a mission, trying to help people with Downs Syndrome later in life. Plus, she walked away from a successful career as a chef. Now shes serving up opportunity for at risk teens. Meet chicagos very own sue treischmann. And chicagos Christmas Tree has reached its final destination. In tonights medical watch. Theyre living longer healthier lives than ever before but their healthcare needs arent fully understood. Thats why one local doctor whos devoted his practice to adults with down syndrome wants to share his experience. Hi michelle, how are you . Good to see you. For 22 years, dr Brian Chicoine has treated patients with down syndrome. Its his lifes work and he loves every minute. I do. The folks with down syndrome, thats the highlight. He knows his patients well. Hows basketball . All 5,500 of them at advocates adult down Syndrome Center in park ridge. We have the advantage now of having seen over 5500 people. There isnt anyone else with that sample size in the united states. We want to take that information and share that. Not only would dr chicoine like to share his deep understanding of the patients so near and dear to his heart, hed like to create specific screening guidelines for what is now an aging population. Even as late as the 1980 the Life Expectancy was only in the 20s and 30s and now its shot all the way up to 60. So some of these screening issues in the past really were not important because we didnt worry about what to do for adults b c there werent any. Thats because 40 to 60 percent of babies born with down syndrome have congenital heart disease. Surgical advancements have made a Significant Impact boosting survival rates. Patients are living longer presenting new challenges their caregivers. There wasnt evidence based recommendations with regards to just the routine screenings. Everyone would typically have mammograms, colon cancer screening, etc. But some common diseases among the general population arent as common among adults with down syndrome. Colon and Breast Cancer rates are low. And even though there is a higher incidence of obesity among people with down syndrome, doctors see very little heart disease, high Blood Pressure and type 2 diabetes. Its almost nonexistent in people with down syndrome. There are some conditions that are more common, for example celiac disease is more common in people with down syndrome. Christine maxwell is among them. I had to change my diet because im a celiac. Shes mastered the art of preparing glutenfree meals. Still, the diagnosis took her by surprise. The 36yearold hadnt experienced typical symptoms, but a routine blood test revealed her allergy. Most cases arent as clear. The blood test for people with down syndrome is not as accurate as it is in people without down syndrome. If we are going to have screening, perhaps there is Something Different we need to do. Having the opportunity to pause and think and do it in a thoughtful way makes a big difference. If youd like to learn more about the adult down <