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meanwhile, the memorial for choice taylor continues to grow, rights now, a couple dozen of hits class mates are gathered here, liting candles, paying their respects, tonight, a strong mets advantage from the boy's mother. >> i would like to says like to say to the person that did this, i know this was an accident, it wasn't malicious. >> it happened friday evening in des plaines, claiming the life of the 17-year-old student. the driver took off before police arrived. memorial for choice taylor continues to grow as friends and family pay their respecks. today, des plaines police say
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witnesses have come forward, giving a description of the vehicle that killed the boy. the front end of a tom daschle -- the driver stopped and ineffected the semi-for damage before driving off. police say it's possible the driver didn't realize he had hit someone. tonight, the boy's twin brother, chance taylor, has this plea. >> reporter: this afternoon. some neighborhood kids chipped in. we are raking up for the taylors here because they just lost their son and. they need support from the community and we are trying to help any way we can.
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>> the family said closure will be extremely difficult as long as the person responsible is still out there. i i wish the person who just step forward. it would look better if the person would just step forward willingly, as opposed to trying to hide out, trying to hide from what happened. >> reporter: anyone can information is asked to contact the des plaines police department. meanwhile, the family has made funeral arrangements. visitation will be friday evening and the funeral saturday morning. >> a suburban building that stood for 100 years, but it was destroyed overnight. the century old glennview park district building was used by
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the par district main nance staff. the flames were high enough to be seen blocks away. officials say there is no reason to suspect arson, but there will be a full investigation into the cause. >> it used to be the main -- unclear how much they are youthsing, but it is heavily used. >> and local leaders toured the charred remains offed are the building today and say it's too early to assess the damages. >> 100 firefighters to put out a fire in rogers park, one firefighter suffered minor injuries battling the blaze. firefighters say it started in the stairwell around 12:45 this afternoon. they are not sure what caused it, but you can see the black smoke coming from the building. flames were reportedly shooting
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25 feet into the air. people instead rushed to alert their neighbors about whats was happening. >> i heard people saying "get out, get out. you have to get out of the building." >> while the building is being fixed, human services department will help people that live there. >> smoke detectors were working when the fire ripped through three floors of this apartment building. agree-year-old, michael cruz was killed, -- a three-year- old, michael cruz, his father, a one-year sister and two firefighters were injured. it left 20 people homeless. the red cross is helping them
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out. >> spiritual leaders are asking people to reap out once again for the hatian people. randy bellisomo has that story. >> so many babies have been crushed. >> reporter: bishop larry trotter is asking people of faith across chicago to pray for their brothers and sisters in haiti. hurricane thomas has left the nation flooded and with the 85- mile per hour wind, it's closer to the capital where more than a million people repain in tent camps following the earthquake of january 12th. >> reporter: trotter launched a donation drive today in hits
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church asking hits members from the city's across the south side to remember those suffering so much in what is the first black led republican world. >> not only the black people, but to the whole world. >> reporter: two hatian missionaries spoke and said the people there need hope. >> reporter: bishop trotter is counting on nurses and doctors to be sent there at what happened following the earthquake. >> it's not about money. it's about caring. >> reporter: and for church members to bring in bottled water. batesic needs need to be met there and in a hurry.
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bishop trotter said people woe want to donate can bring bottled water all week long to the church here in south chicago. the goal is to collect 2,000 indicates 2sssssssssssss cases by next week. >> next, plans to overturn the president's pet project, once the now congress is sworn in. >> workers sickened by the after math of the september 11th terrorist attacks face an important deadline tomorrow. >> a rescued chilean miner get as 26-mile tour of new york city by foot. jim? bob, talking about a heat wave in november? it seems a little strange, but if tomorrow's temperatures reach the levels we expect, we
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term election gain, top republicans like minnesota's governor paul set their sights on president obama's health care reform program -- paul the governor isn't alone. >> republicans have maintained so-called reforms are being financed by money the country doesn't have and put the government in charge of vital health care decisions. still, they concede it's an up hill battle with the president holding veto power. >> it will be difficult with him in the white house, but if we can put a full repeal on his desk and replace it with common sense reforms we were advocated during the debate, we owe it to the american people to do that. >> reporter: leading house democrat jimcally borne is not at all fazed. accusing the republicans of nonstop spending on the issue. >> they had a lot of money.
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>> reporter: he also said the health care reforms will be with the nation for a long, long time. april williams, wgn news. >> secretary of state hillary clinton is meeting with australian officials to discuss a host of issues, include afghanistan, terrorism, regional security and china's rise to super power. earlier, secretary clinton joined julia gilbert in melbourne where she said the u.s. has no better friends than australians. australia is the final stop of clinton's 10 day tour of the asia pacific region. >> tomorrow, the deadline for people who say they were exposed to toxic dust from the september 11th terrorist attack to decide if they want to join a legal settlement. more than 10,000 firefighters, police officers and laborers are suing the city of new york and the companies that handled the cleanup of lower manhattan. many say they are suffering
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from illnesses caused by inhaling dust from the fallen world trade center towers. the leader of the legal team representing most of the plaintiffs is about 90% of those eligible have said yes to the settlement. >> >> at the iraqi church targeted last sunday by al-qaida affiliated gunman, iraqi people lifted -- two of the men detonated and after four hours, iraqi security forces went in to home. pope benedict xvi may have been a guest in spain. but that didn't keep him from attacking the laws there. the pope spoke at spain's
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iconic become asillica. he criticized spain's socialist government and he called for europe as a whole to rediscover christian teachings. hundreds of gays and lesbian staged a kiss in to protest the pope's appearance. >> he trained by running in near darkness, 2300 feet underground. today, he joined 42,000 other runners taking part in the new york city marathon. 33 chilean miners who survived 69 days trapped in a mine. despite that, he completed the marathon in five hours, 40 minutes and 51 seconds. congratulations. >> good for him. >> still to come, one country said it is no longer taking cargo from yemen after explosives were found on planes
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ridges. they were addressed to chicago area synagogues. an al-qaida group based in yemen has claimed responsibility for the bomb and threatened to send more packages containing explosives. >> hispanic community leaders are calling out an alderman, demanding that he help them fight against gang violence and fake id's made in their neighborhood. they want the city to install blue light cameras to help police and federal agents combat the issues as well as gang activity. community leaders say they have gathered more than 1,000 petitions signatures and tried to reach out to their alderman, munoz, but he never responded. we have an alderman that is putting many people at risk by ignoring the issue that needs attention. today, i call him munoz to spend the money to help the authorities to stop this illegal operation once and for
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all. >> we tried contacting alderman munoz for a comment and we were unable to reach him. >> bond was set at $5 million for march kid webber. a woman accused of killing her four-year-old daughter in blooming dale. she told prosecutors she stabbed her to keep her from becoming an internet sex object. she was found in the bathroom and divine mercy was written. consecutive month that violent crime has been down in chicago. chicago police superintendent credits the good work of 0 the police department, he also recognized the victims. >> with crime, there are victims and it is impossible to strip away the human element, the pain, tragedy and hopelessness for those woe are victims of crime. numbers show while working together, we can be safer
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tomorrow an than today and that's our goal. >> overall, crime dropped 3.7%. aggravated assaults had the largest drop with a 12.2% increase. the only reported increase was in the number of stolen vehicles. >> tonight's live illinois lottery drawing is coming up next. >> after that, jim ramsey said there is a good chance we'll see 70 degrees tomorrow. >> wow. >> 70? i'm dan roan, tonight on "instant replay," the bears sneak across the border to canada to take on the winless bills and sneak back over with a victory. no style points, but a win, just the same. >> brett favre takes another pierce beating, but gets even in the end. >> another dicey hit, another concussion. all of the football, the blackhawks shoot for a weekend sweep with the oilers in town and
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bee happy. bee healthy. s. terrific weekend and it continues. >> yes, i was looking at the numbers last year on the 7th of november. high temperature numbers, it was 71. so, it's not that unusual to get temperatures way up there. today, 62 degrees downtown. 60 at midway and the official chicago temperature today rose
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to 59. time lapse pictures, you will see part of the reason we had such a nice day, a lot of clear skies up there. plenty of sunshine poking through the high, thin sir russ deck up there aloft, but we are expecting temperatures to rise even more tomorrow, maybe another 10 or 12 degrees over what we saw, today, record high temperature for tomorrow is 73 degrees. that, believe it or not was the temperature registered in st. louis. further to the west to give you an idea how warmth air mass is. that's dodge city kansas with 80 degrees. nearby garden city kansas it a high of 82, set agnew record, but there is cold air to the north. we will get into that before another nine or 10 days, really cold air, that is, these are temperatures across the area, 9:00-ton. it's in the 40s. o'hare at about 41 degrees or so, look how dry the air, though, dew point temperatures presently in the upper 20s to low 30s across the area. not much wind to talk about.
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practically calm all over the area. still relatively mild outdoors. nice night in progress. temperature forecast shows the dome of warm air building to the east, enveloping the chicago area. we are looking for 70 tomorrow, we may get into the mid-to upper 60s the day after. take a look at the cold air. that's expected in at day 9 and 10 on this 10 day an information. that will be a cold outbreak in that verifies. it's raining in snowing in some of the western states. that's a system that could interfere with your weekend forecast. no snow expected, but we could get some showers. new england, eastern maine rain, western maine snow. they could pick up several inches. massachusetts getting wet with showers and passing thunderstorms. this is our computer model forecast showing a few clouds drifting over the skies above chicago, maybe partly cloudy skies at times, but a nice
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stretch. here's our forecast, first of all, for tonight, skies mostly clear, temperatures, 35-39 degrees. big news, monday, mostly sunny, winds grow a little stronger, highs between 66 and 71. south, southwest winds 10-15- miles per hour. tomorrow night, mild, 42-47- degree lows. again, the southerly wind continues and then on tuesday, another poise day, temperatures probably in the mid-to upper 60s, maybe an afternoon cloud or two. winds show a little late influence, 10-15-miles per hour. seven-day forecast, check this out, 70 tomorrow and that should be about the average temperature, i think. some areas could make it into the low 70s. south, suburbs and notice we show some rainshowers wednesday night into thursday, that shouldn't amount to much, but by the weekend, we could see a little more rain expected maybe beginning as early as friday evening, but continuing off and on into sunday, soggy and
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colder temperatures arriving by sunday. >> gorgeous tomorrow. >> all right, the hot holiday item already flying off the shelves. >> next, the new connect video game system is on your list, well, you may want to start to look for it right now. you want some fiber one honey clusters? yeah. you must really care about him. what? no, no. you gave him fiber. no she didn't. this tastes way too good to be fiber. they're delicious crunchy clusters with sweet honey and half a day's worth of fiber. you care about my fiber? not really. i care about your fiber too. i have for a while. ok, carl. why don't you care about her fiber? hey carl. [ male announcer ] fiber one. cardboard no. delicious yes.
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but my husband looks the way he did 20 years ago. well that's great. you haven't seen him... my other can is ringing. progresso. hey can you tell my wife to relax and enjoy the view? (announcer) progresso. you gotta taste this soup. should we order panda blossom, panda moon... how about chinese at home with wanchai ferry? you can make it in just 14 minutes. mmmh, orange chicken. great. i didn't feel like going out anyway. [ male announcer ] wanchai ferry. restaurant quality chinese in your grocer's freezer. little wranglers practicing for the annual macy's day parade. >> you will see two new balloons. crews handled -- practicing handling the inflatable versions of kung fu panda. >> it takes hundreds of handlers and a lot of practice to keep the huge balloons under control. they will float through manhattan on thanksgiving day.
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large balloons first appeared in 1927. who was it? felix the cat. >> you probably think i'm going to say something about hot air. >> i don't want to deflate your ego. >> there we go. >> that's the news for this sunday night, i'm robert jordan. >> i'm jackie bange. "instant replay" with dan roan is coming up next, have a good night. [ female announcer ] introducing pillsbury sweet moments bite-sized brownies
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