>> announcer: this is chicago's very own "wgn midday news." chicago police are still questioning a teenager about the murder of a fellow officer and another man. this as the financial reward for information that leads to an arrest is doubled. good afternoon, i'm steve sanders. >> i'm allison payne. we welcome our viewers watching

us around the country on wgn america and on the web. wgn's julian cruz is live in the news zone with information on our top story. >> reporter: the reward money has been upped to $20,000 as detectives continue to question a 19-year-old parolee. the chicago tribune says the person of interest they are talking to lives across the alley from the crime scene. but no word yet on any formal charges. it's been a challenging week for the chicago police department. purple bunt bunting is up at headquarters at 35th and michigan as fellow officers mourn their loss. >> please. >> reporter: shauna peters has suffered the most terrible of losses. she is pleading with the public grieving the loss of her husband stephen peters. the former chicago housing authority officer was gunned down in a south chicago alleyway friday along with police evidence technician

michael flisk. they were investigating a garage burglary on the 8100 block of south bi ralph nham. officers are trying to turn up information that will lead to charges. the 44-year-old stephen peters was widely admired. his wife says that he had a warm and fun-loving personality. >> no one had nothing bad to say about this man. he was a good person, he had a good heart. >> reporter: once again, no charges against the person of interest being questioned by police but the tribune says the 19-year-old was on parole for a 2007 armed robbery. in the newsroom, julian cruz, wgn news. >> julian, thank you for that report. the thrill of the chicago bears big win at soldier field has been tempered by the death of a fan. stewart haverty fell 20 feet and landed on a small rooftop on the west side of the stadium. he later died. witnesses told emergency workers they saw haverty run up

to a ledge and jump. but friends say he may have hopped over the railing to smoke a cigarette before he fell. they say haverty was a skilled climber who liked to scale buildings and trees. an autopsy is scheduled for today. police and the f.b.i. resumed their search today for three boys from michigan. the 5, 7, and 9-year-olds were reported missing friday, the day after their father tried to commit suicide. volunteers and authorities are searching farmland and wooded areas looking for the kids. their father says he gave the boys to a female friend before he tried to kill himself on thursday. they were with him as part of a court-ordered visitation. the boys' parents are estranged and going through a divorce. a fire that killed a 5-year- old boy and injured 5 other people on chicago's south side has left another young victim clinging to life a2-year-old girl has taken a turn for the worse and is in critical condition. the girl was one of three children hospitalised after fire ripped through a home near 69th and wabash friday night. 5-year-old christiand densmore

died from carbon monoxide poisoning. he had stayed by his injured grandmother's side even though she told everyone to get out of the house. authorities are still looking for the cause but they do not suspect foul play. investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the house to explode in the west pullman neighborhood last night. measure july claire is live in west pullman, meriam? well apparently we have lost her and will come back to her if we can. classes at chicago public schools do not end until mid- june but today is the last day for the ceo of chicago schools. ron huberman informed the mayor he would step down because he didn't want to work for the next mayor. he took the job in 2009. he leaves without fulfilling many of his goals including a $40 million antiviolence project. the president and ceo of the chicago community trust will take over. senator elect mark kirk

will resign his seat in congress before he is sworn in the senate later today. kirk will be sworn in after beating out alexi giannoulias for president obama's vacant senate seat. we're live in washington, d.c. with more. tom? >> reporter: yeah, good afternoon to you allison, it will happen under the dome behind my 4:30 chicago time this afternoon, history will be made and a five-time north shore congressman mark kirk will be sworn in as illinois' newest u.s. senator. i want to show you some video, images you won't see anywhere else because wgn tv was the only media outlet anywhere to join mr. kirk as he checked out his new senate offices for the first time this morning. looking around his workers were still doing their thing in there. he'll be sworn into complete the remainder of president obama's unexpired senate term taking over from roland burriss. that after a bitter campaign

and narrow victory over democrat alexi giannoulias. he talked to us very openly today about a ha moment here in washington when he realized that this was really happening. >> i will just say i have one personal moment since the election that capsulizes everything. i had early appointments and i was in the capital around 7:30 a.m. no one was there. i walked into the senate chamber, the capital police woman recognized me so she let me walk in. i was alone in the senate chamber, it was what i would describe as a mr. smith goes to washington moment because i saw the movie, i remembered jimmy stewart's role, i have not been in the senate chamber until then. i looked at roland burriss' desk because he told me bobby kennedy carved his name in the bottom of the drawer, sure enough, there it was. you get a sense of history. the compromise for 1850, the world war 1, world war ii, and

with all humility you take this office being one of the hundreds designed the future of america. >> mark disk joins the senate at the tail end of a lame duck session at a time when there's concern that partisan bickering will take over the business of, well, doing business here in washington, he is promising to work toward being a consensus builder but also urging fiscal restraint. mark kirk, as most of our viewers know, is a naval reservice visit. he'll be sworn in using the 1827 bible of david ferragut, the first neigh naval admiral in this nation known for the slow can "dam the important peed owes, full peed say head." tom negovan, wgn news. >> a lot of history unfolding. up next in the midday news, the white house works on damage control following the release

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residents who went through the night without gas service now say that their service has been restored, the blast occurring about 7:30 sunday night, reduced a 1 1/2 story house and all the furnishings inside to rubble. neighboring homes and several vehicles were also damaged. a 30-year-old resident of the home that blew apart is hospitalised in serious to critical condition and two teens who were in a home next door are hospitalised in fair to serious condition and neighbors are still wondering what caused the explosion. >> everybody here is just in a state of shock. houses are moving, things are, you know, it's just like a new orleans bomb, that's what it was just like. people just didn't know what to do. kids everywhere. >> and we saw all, everything goin' on, and i couldn't get to the house, i didn't know if it was my house that was grown up or what happened, you know. so i was just nervous to death.

>> reporter: well neighbors are anxious for answers and so are investigators. they have been here on the scene all morning digging through the rubble, asking questions, and trying to come up with some answers. we're told that the fire department is handling the investigation and as soon as they have something to report i'm sure it will be reported. and i am reporting live from the pullman community, muriel claire, wgn news. >> muriel, thank you for that report. the obama administration is asking agencies to review procedures for classified information. memos show that u.s. officials did not have really good impressions of leaders from germany, italy and other countries. one shows king abdullah of saudi arabia repeatedly urging the u.s. to destroy iran's nuclear program.

they say the memos are meant to cause mischief. a shooter turned his weapon nato troops during training exercises in eastern afghanistan hostage. he was also killed during the incident. it is unsure whether the man was actually a police officer or someone who had infiltrated the exercise. all 6 nato troops killed were american, afghan authorities and nato will continue to investigate the incident. south korea is not saying why it canceled an artillery exercise today on the island that was attacked by the north. north korea says a similar exercise last week led it to fire its own artillery rounds at the island killing four people. south korea's president addressed the incident promising a tougher retaliation if it happened again. south korean and american warships are conducting previously scheduled exercises now. they are investigating fire at a mosque in portland linked to a terrorist.

it broke out yesterday about 90 miles from portland in islamic center. they say it was deliberately set. mouhamed mouhamed, terror suspect, occasionally worshipped there. he is due in federal court today. police in portland have beefed up patrols around mosques to prevent possible retaliation. the un agency that oversees aviation is pushing new guidelines for cargo security to counter al queda's new mail bomb strategy. it focuses on supply chain security or checking out bound shipments before they reach the airport. but they stopped short of calling for 100% screening of packages, concerns about cargo security are growing as the number of packages moving around the world picks up during the holidays. currently the u.s. does not screen cargo planes in flights coming from abroad. are you looking for an airline that has comfortable planes and good food? zagat surveys asked people to

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president obama has announced a two-year pay freeze on government salaries for most federal employees. the president says it is the first of many difficult moves to help balance the deficit. the freeze will not affect the military but it will apply to civilian military workers including those at the department of defense. the salaries of political aids and appointees have already been frozen, it could save over $5 billion in two years. are you looking for seasonal work? three big companies are hiring right now. ups is adding 50,000 jobs and some of those jobs will become permanent. it's looking for drivers, package sorters and others. the dollar store is looking for managers an clerks. you don't have to be anointer net whiz to work at google. they are hiring account managers as well as engineers. companies will looking to debit cards as a way to

eliminate paper checks for people who don't have bank accounts. it's cheaper for a company than buying, processing anding out paychecks. a pay card allows them to avoid fees charges by check cashing companies. it can be used at atm's and wherever debit cards are accepted. it could be hit with debit card fees. cyber monday, many stores are offering online deals, deals like twitter and four square make it easy to find deals by directly send you scores. price check app and shop savvy allow you to scan bar codes in scores and compare prices. they have already kicked off a festival of deals in hundreds of local markets. i'm here at the scenery group in chicago. after a weekend of black friday deals holiday shopping

continues with shopping today. they suggest that cyber monday sales could hit a record 1 billion-dollar. and it could be even merrier for the holidays afterwards according to come score ink. online sales this holiday season are projected to hit a level we haven't seen since before the recession. okay. how's this for shopping. sarah lee buying brazil's cafe dough mass company to expand into the coffee industry there for $60 million u.s. dollars. the transaction is expected to close by the end of this month. meanwhile a coffee war is brewing between craft and starbucks, illinois' craft foods is saying it will challenge starbucks rediscover coffee distribution agreement now starbucks says craft didn't promote starbucks brand and wants to end the deal. craft says, if it wants to do that, starbucks has to compensate craft for the fair market value of the business. okay. lastly when it comes to the holidays you might find a smart phone under your tree this year. from your kids. research from i bc says older

americans are getting into smart phones and even texting because of kids and their grandkids and companies are trying to cash in by offering texting lessons and even selling phones with larger buttons for the older set. all right. on wall street we're seeing across the board stocks are down all morning today and into the afternoon as the bail-out sale could ease concerns that the debt crisis may continue to spread in europe. live at the cme group, i'm angie lau for wgn news. still ahead, a founding member of the rap group run dmc stopped by the studios for a special performance. and the illinois push to help undocumented students to apply for citizenship before congress. every midday log onto wgntv.com and that means you could also watch us on your iphone. [ male announcer ] millions of men 45 and older

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some politicians and college presidents are speaking out for immigrant rights. supporting a bill that would help young undocumented immigrants. wgn's robert jordan is live at the university of illinois at chicago where advocates of the so-called "dream act" are meeting. bob? >> reporter: that's right allison. you know, with congress going back into session this week after the thanksgiving holiday break they -- one of the first items on the agenda will be the dream act and, already, 8 university presidents in illinois have signed a statement in support of the dream act and there is bipartisan support as well. but senator mark kirk has gone on record as opposing the dream act. so at the uic this morning several politicians were lining up to urge him to support it as did some undocumented students who are urging kirk to support

the act. >> we ask senator kirk to support this and help people like us make our dream come true. >> reporter: in a crowded room filled with representatives of many immigrant groups speakers urged members of congress to pass the dream act to help millions of young people begin a journey towards citizenship. >> i hope that senator kirk along with others of his party will support the dream act. we have always had considerable support on the democratic side. we hope to gain the support of republicans as well. >> reporter: illinois senator dick durbin is one of the sponsors of the dream act which would allow immigrants who arrived in the united states under the age of 15 to get on a path towards citizenship after completing at least two years of college or military service. >> this just does not affect latinos, it affects asians, it affects europeans, it affects people from around the world, polish, as tony pregwig talked about, irish. everybody is affected by this.

let's pass the dream act that has bipartisan support. so mark kirk, make your first official act an act that will count? illinois' other senator, newly elected mark kirk, is on the record as opposing the dream act and those in attendance say they plan to urge the senator to change his mind? he said he wasn't for it, we feel that this is an important act that he needs to follow and support the dream act because it will benefit not just illinois but thousands of young people across the country. >> reporter: and former illinois governor jim edgar supports the dream act, as do other republicans as well. and so the supporters are saying there is bipartisan support so far but there are still lawmakers who need to be convinced that the dream act is the best legislation so far on the southwest side, robert jordan, wgn news. >> all right bob, thank you. chicago has grand plans for the former site of megs field

and those plans will be unveiled. the airport was permanently closed by mayor daley in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. now known as norm island it may be turned into a park and sank you the our rye for birds and fish. developers want to turn the old shell of megs terminal into an open air plan tear yum. chicago's winter parking ban begins this week. this wednesday, december 1st, no parking is allowed from december 1st to april 1st from 3:00 in the morning to 7:00 a.m. and when there is at least 2" of snow. violators will get their cars towed, pay a minimum $150 fee, then on top of that get a $50 parking ticket. on the first day last year over 200 people failed to follow the parking van. speaking of snow, tom skilling is just ahead to tell us if we'll see any snow this week.

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you're watching "wgn midday news." >> you got this? >> got a nice warm up in the works today? we do. and then the bottom drops out. you know this is the last couple days in november and we go up and down, it's a wild time of the year. we're not going to get what the folks out in the midwest are going to get, sticking snow that police around, but you know this is the winter that december begins and december starts the three-month meteorological winter period so this is a time of transition. that's for sure. but it's nice today. we have been watching these clouds come in and we we have have a few sprinkles out of these clouds. that will grow into rain and maybe a clap of thunder.

we're getting lightning returns from our data out in iowa and mississippi river. that's as a cold front marches this way. wind are howling and arctic air on the move again behind it. we've got some wintery were out in the midwest. it's windy and wind often accompanies these big weather changes. gusts over 30 at valparaiso, 230 at minooka and rochelle, at o'hare we've got a sustained wind of 14. just updated with gust to 24. it's 45 there, 46 at midway, and 39 at south elgin, normal high this time of year is 42. so we're pretty close to than and above it already. we have a couple of hours of warming yet to go. there is a plot of the temperatures across the metro area and the fact that we also have some wind chills that we can calculate shows up here at mchenry, lake geneva feels like 42 despite a 47 they are momter reading and 42 is the wind

chill at glenview. carpentersville is 36. here is a view from south village where the sunshine shown down on much of the area fades away under these thickening clouds t clouds are the result of this storm. see the kind of shape right there, always a signature on the satellite, satellite presentation of the storm tim. warm air up the eastside, arctic air down the backside, snow breaking out across the dakotas at this hour. here is a real good look at the thunderstorms as the warm moist air feeds northward and we include some thunder in these cells right our here by the mississippi river approaching the quad cities and quincy at this hour. and then you can see how we go to snow back in the white areas there. we'll animated this and put in the lightning data and there you can see the thunder. that thunder would be in here tonight. the little radar returns we're seeing in our area have been sprinkling down on okay brook for instance at this hour. we have flood watches in these green areas, all sorts of winter weather advisories from wind advisories to winter storm

warnings to winter weather advisories in the open areas. the counties that show up in white on this map. the red counties are the winter storm warning areas. that's minneapolis, that's duluth, so you get an idea of the area involved in the really wintery weather and our model shows that the heaviest snow accumulations, locally up to 8", will come down in parts of minnesota on the cold side of this storm. now here is what happens in our area. see the rains come through here, and these little yellow inserted areas are little inserts, are little embedded showers of a heavier nature, might even include a clap of thunder or a clash of lightning. that's along the line here between the cold air diving into the west off this vast reservoir of chilly air, look at the temperatures of 20 blow up in alaska's brooks range and northern uconn and extending into the plains states with cold air. could bring us our first official snow flurries of the season, we haven't had any yet at midway airport up to this point in time. we have some ice pellets that

were identified in the records as snow flurries but they weren't technically so it will be interesting to see if we get some flurries across the area tomorrow. looks like we may well. we're 1 degree warmer than 24 hours ago while sioux falls and grand island, nebraska, and huron, south dakota, are more than 20 degrees colder than 24 hours ago. and you can see how much of the nation is cooling off as the arctic winds blow out west and replace the southerly winds in our area. 36 here in chicago, 41 up the lake in green, even marquette, michigan, pretty global by late november standards, 28. as winds below south at 18, humidity is at 68%, the lake has cooled to 61 degrees. well here we are. when you see a big dip like this, that's cold air diving into the country contrasting with warm air, could setup some powerful thunderstorms along this jet stream but then, as we get on the cold side of the jet tomorrow, those temps are gonna dive and at the surface what's going to happen here is the

southerly winds of today that go southeastern monroe and northern east tonight will switch to the southwest and the north northwest tomorrow and wednesday and, between all those wind shift, we're going to see temperatures in the low 50s today evaporate to 40 early tomorrow and fall during the day and only get up to around 30 degrees by wednesday. later in the week there is a system that's coming this weekend that runs along the thermal boundary. will that be snow or rain and might that be our first sticking snow? a possibility in the parts of the midwest. we'll keep our eyes on that. we're getting snow models in 1 to 2 week ranges here. that's sticking snow. we're going to get brief showers today, high 52, 16 to 32, gusting to above 35 at times. tonight, rain increases, maybe an embedded thundershower in spots, about a third to as much as 8/10ths of an inch of rain expected out of this, a low tonight down to 40. then from 40 we tumble tomorrow, cloudy blustery much

colder, early sprinkles go to snow showers or flurries, a high of 40, wednesday, first day of september and meteorological winter, 30 with variable cloudy skies and maybe some flurries in the air. not a sure thing but it's a possibility. again, those would be the first official flurries, our lake snow belts have seen the snow, even sticking snow, but we haven't in the city yet. we're one of only two years in the last 82 that have not had sticking snow by now in the city. >> yeah, we're overdue. >> we are. >> thanks. >> happy monday. >> welcome back allison. >> thank you. >> all right. here is our trivia question today. kong, one of the earliest video games was released on this day in what year, was it a, 1970; b, 1972, or c, 1974? the answer still ahead. >> that was a challenging game. >> wow. pong. [ woman ] alright, so this tylenol 8 hour lasts 8 hours. but aleve can last 12 hours. and aleve was proven to work better on pain

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kind of a playoff atmosphere at soldier field yesterday. the bears proved the doubters wrong. jay cutler showed early on he was ready for the challenge when he finds earl bennett in the end zone. toward the end of the first he found johnny knox for anotherred the pass to go up 14- 3. the turning point in the game, when the defence forced michael vick to throw his first interception of the season. cutler took advantage of the turnover to find earl bennett once again for a td pass. the defense held their own the rest of the way. the bears win 20 -- 31-26. today greg olson spoke about the team's over all effort. >> to be an all round team, a super bowl caliber team you need to play well on both offense and defence. for a while around here it's been pretty well recognized the defense has been kind of the top dog and really carried this team for a lot of years. and offense, we have taken a lot of pride in saying eh beer going to be just as good as our

defense. we're going to split up as many points as possible and take the pressure off them, they don't have to win every game. packers down 7 to the falcons less than a minute to go. aaron rodgers finds you're denelson to tie it with 55 seconds left. but on the ensuing kickoff eric wiens returns it to the 36. tack on a face mask penalty and they get into the field goal range, matt bryant from 47 yards out. wins it 20-17 the final. the packers fall to 7-4 which puts the bears all alone in first in the n.f.c. north. the falcons are 9-2, a full game better than the barrels, and saints of the n.f.c. as it stands now the packers aren't even a playoff team. elsewhere in the division the vikings beat the redskins, that's the first win under interim coach leslie frazier. after their first winning circus trip since the jordan era the bulls will get another boost to their confidence. their biggest free agent acquisition carlos boozer was cleared to participate in full

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schrager is here with a recipe sure to please your guest, lee, thanks for coming in. you are the godfather, you cree it ated a monster didn't you. >> i created the monster, whether i'm the godfather or not i don't know. >> did you have any idea how big this would be when you start this had festival 10 years ago? >> not first year. i would have to say by the end of the first year we surely knew we were on to something big. i don't think we thought we would be where we are today 10 years later? it's become a major tourist attraction in miami. which is big on tourism. >> it was one of the things that the city of miami beach is proud of, so they are the seam age as us. >> you should be proud of the money you've raised. >> we have raised over $10 million for the southern florida university, not only have we educated kids and consumers but we raised money for the school which is why we do it. >> you have a great recipe here today. >> not my recipe. none of the recipes from the

book are mine, they are all from our personalities and chefs who have been with us over the last 10 years. this is one of my favorite recipes probably because it's one of the easiest in the book. the recipes are all geared towards the home cook. this is from martha stewart, this is martha stewart's recipe for a lobster roll. nothing says summer like a lobster roll to me. >> indeed. >> it's a very, very easy recipe. >> anybody can do this. >> i feel if i can do it anyone can do it. >> let's talk about the ingredients. >> it's simple. we have right here the meat from a pound of, a pound and a half of lobster meat which you would get from four 1 1/2-pound lobsters, we have a pound and a half of lobster meet and we cut them to an inch and a half slices of mobster meat. it could be maine lobster meat, florida lobster, lobster from almost anywhere. it's 2 tablespoons of fresh mayonaise, some lemon juice, some fresh herbs, cher bill, chives and tarragon right here

and hot dog rolls. we have -- >> i think i could do this. >> why don't you do it. >> where do we start. >> take, this is a pound and a half of lobster right here, add that may united nations into it. mix it up a little. this is, you know, this is home made mayonaise but you know surely not everyone is making their mayonaise. you can get hell man's and it's just as good. >> you can bet i'll be buying it over the counter. >> i wouldn't blame you. they have a great mayonaise. then pour in 1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice, going to mix mix it up a little. >> uh-huh. one at a time. you don't power all that in together at the same time. >> probably wouldn't make a difference but makes for good, let's add some kosher salt rights here, not all of that. that's perfect. >> kosher is salt. >> non-i dived. >> the salt and pepper goes together. >> say when. tell me when to stop. >> when, right now.

mix it up. gently toss it. you don't want to do it too hard, you don't want to beat the lobster to death. >> okay. >> that looks great. toss in the -- don't add in all of that. got some sherbil. >> i did put most of it in there. >> that's okay. >> and some fresh chives. toss that up again. and then we're gonna put them into really hot dog buns that we buttered and grilled on both sides so you're going to put it right in here. >> so how many servings? are we going to make four. >> this makes 6 servings, to when we're done a pound and a half will make 6 servings. >> oh, yeah. >> it's really so good, i have to say it's so simple, so easy, so fresh, and it really is a perfect summer treat. although surely you can eat it any time of the year. >> wonderful idea. >> now tell me a little bit more about the book. who were some of the contributors. >> right in front of us we have a recipe from bobby flay who

has been with the festival. this is the crunch eye fides burger. we have the argue we chocolate brownies. we have everybody from charlie trotter and art smith to the food network personalities like rachael ray and paula dean. >> this is mostly comfort food. >> i would have to say it's a lot of comfort food. geared towards the home cook. >> right. right. thank you for coming in. this is great. you've got me thinking about summer even though it's a cold day in chicago. >> it's a cold day here, you have a lot of cold days, but this is perfect for any time of the year. >> thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >> if you come out sobe. south sobefest cookbook.com. thank you so much. >> thank you so much, nice to be here. [ woman ] alright, so this tylenol 8 hour lasts 8 hours.

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all right. we'll start with the answer to our trivia question today. pong, one of therriest arcade games, was released on this day in what year; a, 1970; b, 1972;

or c, 1974. the answer is b, 1972. >> oh. >> tom, you didn't play pong. >> no, i have seen it before. i started with pacman. they come, it's like watching a movie. >> it is. >> the graphics are so great. >> you didn't have to have a computer. hook it up to a television. >> exactly. steve and allison, we've got a look at the new computer guides, the snow system looks interesting friday night and saturday, we'll keep an eye on that, but in the short-term see those showers in some of those are 31,000 feet tall, thunderstorms actually approaching the mississippi crossing no to west central illinois, eastbound, right there you see the real time lightning data and then we have light sprinkles traversing our area right now. here is what happens. through 5:30 this evening we start getting into the steadier rain, there it is at 8:00, the rain still in the area, you can see the little embedded heavier green and the yellow areas, those might be a thunder-

bearing shower that goes through. then toward morning a front rushes through and the cold air starts to come in. look at the snow showers in northwest illinois and the cold temperatures on the plains are bound for us tomorrow so it's going to get pretty chilly. big low pressure, we're on the front side of it now with gusty south winds, equally gusty north winds come in behind it, we could get over a half inch of rain out of this tonight before we go to the snow showers and flurries tomorrow. next 10 days, there is the cold pocket coming in tomorrow afternoon, and it lingers on wednesday and thursday as you can see. then we setup a bound tree and that little produce of warmer air through the plains sets up low pressure that comes eastward. the european center is modeled particularly aggressive as a snow producer on this. the cold air dumps in late in the weekend next week. so boy some real wintery weather to dovetail with the arrival of december, and meteorological winter this week. 52 today, 40 tomorrow, 30

wednesday, 35 to 38 thursday and friday when the sun is out, but snow and sleet in sections security and colder air sunday. >> thanks for joining us today. have a great afternoon. >> hope you have a great afternoon. we're back at 5:00 and 9:00. we leave you now with one of the great performances in rap music. with jakyl. you can see them at polling group at tailgaiters. <