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>> as fall arrives, chicago starts to cool off. kids have settled safely into school and crime's taken a nosedive. that gives the mayor just enough time for a late-night date with david letterman. >> mayor rahm emanual. >> i want to hear about chicago now. it is oh, don't go to chicago. the violence is unbelievable. tell us why people say that. >> first of all, they are watching cbs and you late at night. no, it is on the way down. >> the number one thing the mayor doesn't want to talk about on national tv. >> good to see you, mr. mayor. >> is it frustrating when you get to the national stage and you are on the david letterman show and one of the first questions is what about all of the violence in chicago? >> chicago has a great reputation as a great city.

we are an architectural, culinary and theater capital and people will see the progress we are making of taking a problem and starting to solve it. i want to see it faster. i know that is not a surprise to some of you. i want to see it yesterday. i want to see it more. i don't want to make the phone calls to the individual grandmothers and mothers that i have to make anymore. i don't want to do that. >> the mayor relies on his top cop to get results and one of garry mccarthy's big crusades is his call for mandatory jail time for possession of illegal guns. his cops on the street confiscate a lot of them. >> there's about 80,000 plus guns that we have recovered and destroy them on a regular basis. but look at the matrix of some of these weapons. that's an uzi-style machinegun. this drum loads probably up to 30 rounds. that's a shotgun. look at the size of that barrel. i think there's holes in the laws that facilitate the flow of

the firearms to the street. on top of it, while we recover more guns than any police department in the country, very few people go to jail for gun possession. it just doesn't make sense. once my office is face down, a firearm like this in somebody's hands on the street that person has to go to jail. if we don't get something done about this we will stay on the hamster wheel. >> it's no surprise mccarthy is not a big hit with gun control opponents. >> the nra does not like me, and i'm okay with that. >> in the fight for tougher gun laws, he also faces unlikely opposition from african-american political leaders who believe mandatory minimum sentences inequitably target minorities. >> people are getting crazy sentences where you have to send somebody away for a long period of time. >> guys locked up in cook county jail aren't part of america's gun debate but they know a thing or two why so many people pack pistols in chicago.

>> they pulled 4,000 guns off the street in this year alone. there are 4,000 more already. quicker they confiscate them, the quicker they come back. >> you can't go outside unless you have a gun. these are the laws in our area. >> someone come up with a gun on you and now you need a gun to protect yourself. you are going to do whatever to get that gun. >> people out in the streets, they ain't got no training shooting guns. >> if he is that way i shoot that way. hopefully i hit them. >> why fight and get dirty when you can shoot and stay clean. >> i just came from doing time for a pistol. i still keep mine wherever i go. i would rather sit up in here than sit up in a casket. >> the guns, the main guy with the guns. >> everybody in the city of chicago as a gun. the whole city is strapped. >> i don't want you to hold back. i haven't let you down yet, have i? you are more effective on the street than here. i do this for a living. >> frank domma is a federal

investigator at the jail and expert on chicago gangs. >> when you talk about gang intelligence, right here. this room is gang intelligence. there's more information than you can imagine. i can solve every murder in this jail. i can do it easily because everybody talks. >> there's a guy in division two. >> i need it done today, not tomorrow, you hear? >> the steady streams of guns flowing into chicago remains a major part of domma's investigation. >> the weapons you were getting, how easy were they? >> like crazy. mostly like .380, .32, 40s. >> this guy hopes cooperating with domma would make his time in jail easier. >> what were the guns going for? >> not that much. a crateful, a couple thousand. >> how easy to get the bullets. >> people like in a the neighborhood, you can buy all types of bullets.

>> if i was the mayor of chicago, how can i stop it? >> i don't know. i don't know. >> despite the ongoing gang conflicts, liz wants her students to enjoy a fun, wholesome homecoming week. >> i'm the principal. today is pajama day. where's your pajamas? i don't want to know. you shop at victoria's secret. i don't want to know that. no pajamas today. i hear you. >> thank you for wearing your pajamas. i know. we need to have a redo or something. everyone is being lame. come on, you all, let's go, let's go, let's go. catherine, come on back. who else was it? be quiet. be quiet. >> pajama day is a bummer like everyone got up on the wrong side of the bed.

>> go stand over there, don't move. >> i'm not sure what is happening but this isn't going to work. why are the kids not dressed up. >> they don't like pajama day. >> i don't think that is true. >> kids came out last year. >> we had a lot -- it was the highest attendance day of the year, pajama day. i'm pushing what happened this year? we don't have hardly any kids dressed down in pajamas. it is not like i bought your pajamas and yours last year. i was on the phone last year when i was at target. it i can't always -- it can't be me. >> i can get my pajamas. i want to. it is only 10:15. >> it is not just about pajama day. we don't have a school in terms of culture. if we did i would see more kids in their pajamas. you may think it is trivial but that's the truth. >> there are people all over the city trying to give kids a shot

at something better, whether it's pajama day at fenger or boxing day. if it wasn't for sally hazelgrove these boys may be on the streets dodging bullets instead of in the ring dodging punches. >> the last three years, somebody has tried to kill me. i try to get to the gym to avoid bull crap. >> sally started this boxing program in a church addict to give engelwood's hard-core kids a fighting shot at changing their lives and saving their neighborhood. >> calm down! >> i have been working in engelwood for about 13 years with at-risk youth. i decided to survey them on the corn canner and i said what would get you out of the block and boxing is one of the things they said they would like access to. i got trained myself and i started to grab them off the blocks and after schools and said give me your dangerous bullies. the ones that you think are going to kill somebody. >> don't get mad.

you get mad, you lose your power. i constantly emphasize to the boys, you guys are going to change engelwood and save it. >> sally left behind the conflicts of the north side and moved to engelwood to pursue her calling. >> the mission came to me about 13 years. i'd seen engelwood on the news a lot. i started volunteering. i remember when the minister took me over to the church where they had the juvenile program. there were all of these boys down there looking very tough. he said, no, you don't want to bother with them. they are a waste of time. forget about them. i said that's exactly where i want to start. >> sally's compassion comes from having lived through some dark days of her own. >> i made so many poor choices. i stole things. i ran with a bad crowd. i carried a gun at one point. i have a dainty velvet purse and go to a bar or club with my big gun. did somebody say something to you? are you sure?

okay. you know i'll get them if they do. i'm not going to let nobody -- now you throw some punches, baby. there you go. >> at engelwood a lot of boys don't have anywhere else to turn. kids like ivory was back at the gym the day after his mother died. he and his brother are on their own now and soon they could be homeless. >> anything we can do for the funeral tomorrow? >> i should be good. >> i know a lot is happening, how will your grades be. >> my grades are good. >> they are still good. that's good. shows how much strength you have that you are getting good grades going through all of this crazy stuff because a lot of people can't. >> i left my report card at the hospital. >> with your mom? >> yeah. >> you know i love you, right? ♪ ♪

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even chicago's older set knows how to party. this group at senior fest is a reminder that at chicago many grandparents are also their grandkids' guardians. >> our seniors, the most important people in our lives. i know that because i call my parents every day. if i don't call them, they call to remind me to call them as soon as they hang up. welcome to being the son of a jewish mother. every day i'm a father to 15, 16 and 14-year-old, i know i'm getting old, man. but every day i'm reminded of how good a job my parents did. because everything i know about how to be a parent i got from them and they did a tremendous job. not with me but with my two brothers. every one of you is a grandparent. the measure of this city, the measure of who we are will be whether we take care of the next generation that build the future or only worry about our past.

we have to make this city as great as it was for us, we have to make it even better for them. >> at this park in little village, a latino neighborhood on the west side, that's what rob and his wife amy are trying to do. >> hey! how are you? >> six years ago we started a program called project play. the idea is as a community if we come out and bring out balls and hula hoops. the idea to get the neighborhood out here. >> for a lot of mexican immigrants it is the principal point of entry to the midwest. little village has a serious gang problem and strong ties to mexican drug cartels that supply heroin and fuel violence. when rob and amy moved here they got a warm welcome but not the kind you think. >> they found out we were calling the police on them. in retaliation while we were sleeping inside they lit our house on fire. the guys out there would be screaming, yelling, shooting, throwing bricks and bottles at cars.

i have seen all kinds of crazy things from this window. >> they refuse to move out. >> one of the things that came out of it is where do we go from here? do we leave an say this didn't work out the way we thought it would? we thought the answer is we need to have more things for kids in the neighborhood. when kids have something else to do, they choose something else to do. most kids don't grow up dreaming of being a gang banger. >> they doubled down their commitment and starts a program called beyond the ball. >> it's funny. everybody always wants to move into a nice neighborhood, but it's harder to get people to make their neighborhood nice. >> over at fenger some kids want to graduate and get out of the neighborhood as fast as they can. >> he's talking about historical events that happened to african-americans and how they changed and became better.

>> i wouldn't recommend anyone to live in roseland because it's kind of violent. like my friend, he just got shot in the head and i actually lost my boyfriend last year. he passed away due to gun violence. he attended fenger. everybody knew that was my boyfriend. miss dozier attended his funeral and knows how much that affected me. i don't want to talk about this no more. >> maggie has her sights set on college next year but she is anxious. until she leaves rosalyn anything could happen. >> they don't think nowadays. they just shoot. they see one person they don't like and shoot. >> liz depends on the police to help fenger stay safe so she goes to meet rosalyn's new commander. >> i just wanted to meet them.

the police department is a critical partner for our school some of the things we have been facing is dismissal time, 4:00 to 4:30 there is a group that come up and sometimes there can be problems. >> every monday, garry starts the workweek with show and tell to keep attention on the trouble with illegal guns but first the supe has advice for the police spokesman adam collins, a father to be. >> by the way, when is kim due? >> a week from today. >> oh, once the kids come along. >> yeah. >> life changes. >> oh, yeah. >> why do you think i can be so calm in crisis? i have had training and practice. >> you guys ready? let's go. >> good afternoon, everyone. as we all know, chicago has had an issue with violence going back generations.

we seized more than 4,350 guns so far this year in the first 32 weeks of 2013. that's an average of about 136 guns per week. our offices recover more illegal guns than any police department in the country. we tell you that all the time. gun laws in new york state they have a three-year mandatory minimum for illegal possession of a firearm. it's not the same level felony as untaxed cigarettes like it is in the state of illinois. the system here is not structured to support the efforts that we're doing here. our men and women are putting themselves in harm's way to get those guns off of the street. what's different here is the fact that the law does not support preventing those guns from getting into criminal's hands and significant jail time, which will teach people not to carry guns and make them unavailable to commit other crimes. if we as government have an opportunity to do something about it, shame on us for not doing it.

thank you. >> after that press conference, an editor actually said something to the effect of well, look, the guy got arrested with a gun. he didn't shoot anybody. i was -- i was awestruck. i said, well, not yet. >> there's been a mass shooting in chicago's back of the yards neighborhood. it happened 10:15. the fire department confirming 11 people have been shot. one a 3-year-old child. >> unbelievable. >> four victims have been transported to area hospitals. e. and we can keep focusing on the bad... dwell on the bad, talk about the bad... or, or...we can focus in on the good. i want to give it up for good. give it up for what is good. what can be good.

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13 people, including a 3-year-old boy, were shot on thursday night. >> police say a gunman opened fire around 10:00. >> chicago police are still working to arrest those responsible. >> a mass shooting put chicago's violence problem back in the spotlight. police superintendent mccarthy faces the media. investigators believe gang bangers armed with military assault weapons shot up cornell square park in the back of the yards neighborhood. >> illegal guns. illegal guns. illegal guns drive violence. military-type weapons, like the one we believed to have been used in this shooting belong on a battlefield, not on a street or in a corner or in a park in the back of the yards. it's a miracle, in this

instance, there have been no fatalities. >> is this a setback to the efforts you've had and the announcements you've made that violence is down in chicago and 13 people shot and 24 shot overall in the past 24 hours. is this a setback? >> every time somebody is shot in the city it is a setback for us. the fact is, there is a structural problem with our laws that facilitates the flow of illegal guns to our streets. >> the fbi last week called this city the murder capital. how do you get rid of that image in the rest of the country? >> we keep knocking down the murder rate like we are now. this is not the time to talk about statistics. so i'm not going to do that. >> this story will be on every network newscast, would you tell america at this point that your violence-reduction strategy is working and chicago is a safer city than it was in 2012? >> see, you are putting me in a

position where you are going to make me talk about statistics which is not the point of being here. for me to stand here and tell you we have 500 less gunshot victims in this city than last year, for me to stand here and tell you we have 230 less shootings than in 2011 is absolutely irrelevant and i'm sorry. you are making me do it, but the fact is that's what's happening. >> they hope to catch the shoot effort before their live at -- their rivals speak street justice. >> mayor emanual met with some of the victims and their families. >> he cut meetings short and came home to visit victims in the hospital. >> a 33-year-old woman shot in the shoulder, a 31-year-old man shot in the buttocks, and the list seemed to go on and on. >> when they had a mass shooting, colorado stood up. when they had a mass shooting, connecticut stood up.

in d.c. when they had a mass shooting, they stood up and now a mass shooting has come to our city, our great city and it is important that we, as chicago citizens, stand up. >> when we come together, when we work as a community, that is who chicago is. this is the real face of chicago. last night is a reality of chicago. this is the real face of chicago. the parks of the city of chicago belong to the families of the city of chicago. the streets of the city of chicago belong to the families of chicago. >> the mayor and pastor corey brooks call on witnesses to speak up and help police catch the shooters. >> that is wrong. >> every single day it seems like we are faced with violence on every hand. we ask you protect our children, our families.

we cannot do everything on our own. but give us the strength to do what we can do. amen. >> amen. >> disrespectful, rude, inconsiderate people that goes around shooting up cars, people's homes, cars, kids in there. it's crazy. it got to stop. >> sally hazelgrove's boxing gym in engelwood isn't far from the scene of the mass shooting. >> did they mean to shoot 13 people or gunning for one person? >> when they put down handguns and be get big guns they are trying to kill mass amount of people. >> what do you think retaliation will be? >> it is a must. it's a matter of when. and on what scale. >> she's worried about her boys' safety and the future of her gym.

>> i just feel like way to stay safe is to be inside right now. just the reality. >> the situation with chicago is so delicate because you have a group of kids that don't trust nobody. they don't trust nobody. killing around us 24/7 is enough to drive a man insane. but i have been desensitized. >> you guys have another moment to be heroes to these kids and to the parents. since you are not scared. >> i'm scared a lot. i have a 2-year-old daughter i need to take care of. so i fear losing my life every day. >> over at fenger, liz worries that recent gang conflicts could threaten her students. >> you are not going to make it. you have to make it to the hall. let's go. >> i want to make sure we are all clear on how we will proceed the next couple of days. >> there's so much going on in the community, so much shootings out there and the gang stuff is getting fire.

what schools are doing to keep it under affect, it is coming in. it's there. >> i believe there's more we can do to control this. i don't buy -- i don't buy it. i don't buy we have to -- we are going to do what we do in the building and the kids will do what they do. there's stuff we can do. what are we doing to make the kids feel so close to us they are "a," telling us what is going on and "b," they are keeping the stuff down in the building? i don't buy we are doing everything. like, there's nothing else we can do. everybody's working hard but we're not working smart. reality is the ball is being dropped over and over and over again. until we get the ball back in our court, the school will not be right. >> liz is counting on her team to keep the school in order while she's away at a conference. >> everybody has to have a come to jesus talk with themselves tonight and have serious prayer and reflection and realize it's messed up. you guys have to get it together. work together as a team. i won't be here.

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police are searching for the shooter or shooters in an incident that grabbed national headlines and police say they are questioning people but have no one in custody. >> i believe there's a hidden hand trying to convince many of our young people that life is cheap. and that their life is cheap, but we most expose this lie. >> father pfleger is a catholic priest who has been speaking out against violence like the mass shooting in the back of the yards. >> we must let young people to know their value is valuable, their potential is great, their the very best of god's children. let's let our children know we've got their back! >> in 36 years here, i've never seen more poverty, more hopelessness and more people in desperate situations than i have right now.

>> what do we want? >> peace! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> this is a human problem. this is a genocide and people don't give a damn. go to springfield or washington, won't touch the gun they shoot, because who's dying? black and brown kids. >> two days after the mass shooting the father invites the mayor and few nba stars to a peace basketball tournament at his parish. bulls all star joakim noah and derrick rose are in the house to show their support. >> a lot of gang and gun violence. we are here to help and show love. >> this court is a safe place where rival gang members can play together. >> this is the first time in the history of black and brown america where black and brown men have been killing each other at this rate. there was a time in this country where black and brown men came

together and fought police brutality or fought a racist society that wanted to attack them. these are teenagers we are talking about. we label them as gang members. we should all be concerned enough to care about these young teenagers that are in this predicament. >> the predicament is clear at the jail where black and latino men make up 86% of the population. cook county board president takes a tour. >> what happens is an incredible amount of injustice in our criminal justice system. first-time offenders that get astronomical bonds and families struggle to come up with 500 bucks to get them out. this impacts community of color. i say that jail is the center of racism and poverty in the

country. >> he is all about solving crimes. >> where do you get it from? >> a bunch of ways. sometimes from arabs. back in the day we used to get -- >> what kind of guns? >> handguns sks, machine guns, all kind of guns. it ain't just people on the streets bringing the guns in. it's people in higher positions bringing the guns in. >> any way you can make a phone call and get us a gun? >> he said under the garbage can and there's a wooden gate right there. >> that's the gun there. >> oh, man, no. i don't want that. >> sheriff's department! >> domma's boss, the sheriff, has a team that investigates the trafficking of illegal guns like the automatic weapons used in the recent shooting. >> there is a myth that the guns were flooding chicago from the far south.

that's not true. the majority come from within illinois. stemming the flow of guns has to be done and that's what we have been focused on. the other part is convicting the people that are doing this. >> gun law loopholes allow straw purchasers to buy guns in the suburbs and follow them in to chicago with little risk of consequences. >> you could buy as many guns as you want and walk out the door and there's no accountability. we recover the gun and they say thank you, it was lost two years ago but i didn't have to report that. in the meantime it could have been used in a murder. >> the guns flood neighborhoods like engelwood, putting kids at risk. >> you know i'm paranoid about people, right. you have no idea how paranoid i am. y'all go somewhere. you big people go somewhere. i'm getting irritated seeing you standing around and doing nothing.

>> no one has been arrested in connection with the back of the yards shooting. sally keeps security tight to protect her kids. excuse me, this is my place. you didn't hear me. go! this is my club. you brought somebody over 18 in to my club. that's it. it's for children any way. so bye. i worked with young men over 18. but i realized it was too much of a risk to be honest. there were too many times when they had too much gang activity. i was worried about them being a target. >> why would he tell them and have them come here? you know what, it's just a mess. what if somebody shoots at them and i'm with my little boys and one of my little boys gets shot? [ girl ] there are man-eating sharks in every ocean...

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♪ the manhunt for the back of the yards shooters continues the mayor makes an appearance at the chicago football classic, an annual showdown between black college power houses. when the mayor's first term kicked off, he had strong support from the black community. sense then, he's lost ground with african-americans and he's

trying to regain it. >> respect to you. ♪ >> these days, there aren't a lot of ball games played at cornell square park, the scene of the backyards mass shooting. >> i was sitting down and talking and got up and ran when i heard the shots and didn't realize i was shot. bodies laid out on the ground. everything was majority right here. >> neighbors here still worry about their safety. curtis harris got shot in the thigh and his fiance's grandson was the 3-year-old who took an assault rifle bullet to the face and survived. >> he was the strongest one out of everybody. he didn't cry. he didn't scream like he was shot or anything. he was trying to run around and play. this is a place where we come to have peace of mind and try to enjoy ourselves. never thought an incident like

this would happen. >> in little village, rob and amy revived a park that was nothing more than a gang war battleground. >> you are in third grade, right? you can sign up for the basketball league if you talk to coach mike. >> word of their good work has spread far beyond their neighborhood. >> you have been there since we started this. thank you so much. >> we're excited. >> in new york city, their program be on the ball gets honored at the up to us leadership awards. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> sports is the most effective tool in influencing lives of young people. so we have to get behind the effort that coaches and mentors are available to our youth, especially in inner city environments. >> having heard about rob and amy's success back of the yards neighbors reached out to them

for advice. >> i knew the amazing work they had done in little village to bring people back and restore confidence in public space when things happen. >> after something like that happens it's like a circus, the media, the politicians, just anybody and everybody. they want the inside scoop. eventually this story is going to die down and something else will pick up and for community residents, we're afraid that people aren't going to use the park. >> back at fenger, principal dozier's staff works to keep things under control while she's away so homecoming can go off without a hitch. ♪ fenger's pep rally gets off to a spirited start. >> where are my staff that can dance? come on down. >> until some former students return to school and start trouble.

>> everything good down there? johnson, come here. something going on, jackson. something going on. i need you to call more police. please, call now. we're on 112th. we are on 112th. >> with liz out of town, all of this has her staff rattled. >> is there nothing that we can do about that? he don't go here anymore. >> dozier has been talking to them and they promised not to come but they shoed them away. so. >> what do you think. >> the problem is there's something fundamentally wrong with punishing the entire school for an action of a few kids. >> 97% of the building is fine. >> at some point we have to have a normal high school, like any other high school in the city is having a homecoming dance. every high school in the city is having a homecoming dance. why can't we have a homecoming dance? it's ridiculous. it's ridiculous.

>> breaking news, charges filed late tonight in connection with last week's shooting that left 13 people wounded including a 3-year-old boy. two suspects are scheduled to appear in court tomorrow morning. >> last night, charges were filed against two offenders. overnight, two additional offenders were charged, including the man who fired a military-grade weapon. bryon champ, one of the offenders, charged last night was convicted of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon in july of 2012 and sentenced to boot camp. if bryon champ is not on the street, as he shouldn't have been, this incident likely does not occur. the motivation for this incident was an unreported shooting where this individual, mr. champ,

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i offered you $5,000 not to go to engelwood, but that wasn't true. >> it was true. >> it was not. >> it was too true. >> it's really not a question of money. if i had a million dollars, you would do the same thing you are doing. your purpose is noble. do i ever relax that you are in engelwood, no, i don't. it's dangerous as hell. there's a helplessness that you feel as a parent. there's nothing you can do about that. >> i get scared sometimes. be crazy not to be. but all i ever think is, it's

not okay for my kids, how can it be okay for any kids? >> absolutely. >> you know? >> at fenger, homecoming is on. the staff decided that despite the recent flare-ups their students deserve to have their dance. the kids are excited, especially maggie a senior with her heart set on being crowned homecoming queen. >> i can't get to get my crown for today because, you know, i'm homecoming queen. >> and liz is back. >> homecoming court. >> who is it, gordon? [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you again. really appreciate it. thanks. >> the commander was here. i reached out to him and a

couple of people downtown about making sure we have some additional support for our dismissal of the dance. i called the big dogs, the bat phone. we need help. let's start making our way home. let's start making our way home. be safe. have a good night. watch your mouth. let's go. >> when the dance lets out, there are no officers in sight as the kids walk home. >> stop throwing stuff! >> down the street, some students get in the kind of scuffle that's especially scary in rosalyn. >> call the police. there is a possible fight in progress. i'm not sure why they are not out here. >> liz marches in to the fray. >> come on, let's go. we're not doing this. let's go. whoever needs to start moving, start moving. everybody needs to go. start walking.

i got this. did you all get that? i got this. >> city hall makes the most of the recent capture of the mass shooting suspects and uses it to continue to push for common sense gun lawing -- laws. the mayor and superintendent mccarthy are joined by the mother of a student's murder that made national news. >> i got a call from her friend that she had been shot. it has been nine months for everyone else but for me it is like yesterday. learning of my daughter's murderer who had been in jail for another gun crime was devastating. it is like rubbing salt in an open wound. my community carrying an illegal gun is no big deal. but it needs to be a big deal. now people ask me why i keep speaking out on the issues when

it's clearly painful. yeah, it's painful, but i know if i don't speak i will sit around and cry and crying doesn't do anything. >> the man charged with her murder was released from jail just months after being arrested for illegal gun possession. >> i want to thank you on behalf of everybody in the city of chicago for taking your personal pain and trying to make it into a public good and make us better. i know how painful it is. >> emmanuel mccarthy continued to push for stronger gun legislation, despite a law that made it illegal to conceal pistols even in chicago. >> the weak link in the system is our gun laws. it's life or death. the laws we have on the books do not actually act as the deterrent they are intended to do. so we say if you have a gun and use it illegally, you get the same kind of minimum for shoplifting.

really? that's what we want to communicate? that's what we want to say to the people in the city of chicago that a gun crime equals shoplifting? we all know the impact on a family, on a sibling, on a block, on a neighborhood, on a community is far more severe. and yet, our laws do not equal it. next on the season finale of "chicagoland" -- >> don't tell me how it was done 40 years ask is there a better way to do it. >> guy spraying a handgun. you have to get out of the way. we don't want any retribution. >> it is providing kids with resources. ultimately, we just need more. >> everybody is putting gangs signs up. >> no one is over 25. >> it is my job to worry about what could happen.

>> a ticking time bomb of public employee pensions. >> i think anybody can be beat. this is a cnn special report. i'm don lemon. we begin with breaking news. just released tonight, analysis from the fourth mission of the bluefin-21 is in but yielded nothing. so how could that be good news? >> the visuals that we managed to get from the bluefin 21 were very clear. not in finding what we were looking for, but what the seabed looks like, and that gives us a bit of relief as to the next f