a chicago police officer killed in the line of duty is being remembered. funeral service is taking place for michael flisk. mayor daley, plus superintendent and fellow officers are paying their respects. good afternoon. i'm steve sanders. >> i'm allison payne. we welcome our viewers who are watching us around the country on wgn america. wgn's nancy loo is live at the funeral with more. nancy. >> reporter: well, allison and steve, the funeral service just wrapped up. hundreds of people are

streaming out of the church right now and the service made clear that officer michael flisk was well loved and well respected and he will be missed. over 500 officers from chicago and well beyond are on hand at st. rita to honor michael flisk. the officer's widow and grown children, daughter and three sons openly wept throughout. also among the mourners, mayor daley and police superintendent jody weis. the flisk family includes a number of chicago police officers. and the emotional service included an address from the officer's daughter peg who was surrounded by her brothers. >> the death of my father, our hero is a tragedy. having to answer our front door the afternoon after a wonderful

thanksgiving together to find out that my father was murdered is a feeling i cannot put into words. >> the flisk children also cited their father's love for his wife nora and peg flisk fought tears as she noted that she will now never have her father to walk her down the aisle. again, the service just wrapped up. officer flisk will be layed to rest at holy -- in alsip. we are live on the southwest side, nancy loo, wgn news. a south suburban teenager accused of killing his girlfriend, her mother and her sister is in court right now for a bond hearing. 18-year-old denzel pittman of park forest is charged with three counts of first-degree murder. pittman stabbed 17-year-old jade hannah 43-year-old stacy cochran and 11-year-old joy cochran. all three victims were found dead with multiple stab wounds in their far south side

apartment monday night. police records show pittman was charged as a juvenile with domestic battery for allegedly beating jade earlier this year. and in june, forest park police shot pittman in the hip when he was threatening people with a gun. police in the south suburbs are looking for suspects in the murder of a uic graduate student. 21-year-old man was killed in his family's driveway in dolton monday night. he was coming home from school when two or three men walked up to him and shot him in the head. some neighbors heard the shot but none of them called police. his brother found him an hour later. the victim's family says he was quiet man dedicated to his studies. illinois senate is expected to vote on civil union today after the house approved the bill yesterday. legal recognition of civil unions would allow gay couples to inherit property when a partner dies and make medical decisions for one another in an emergency. the senate is expected to approve the bill and governor

quinn says he supports it. opponents argue it moves illinois closer to legalizing same-sex marriages. >> this is not full marriage clearly. as a gay man, i hope that one day we will get there. we aren't there yet. but this is a fair compromise for the time being. >> representative harris sponsored the bill in the house. he says law could take effect as early as july 1. it's a big day in the chicago mayoral race. at this hour they are slectsing the order the candidate will appear on the plat. last hour we talked about the candidate lottery with the spokesperson for the chicago board of election commissioners. >> those in line at 9:00 a.m. on december 15 and who filed, we were now going to have a drawing and will pick capsule out of an old ballot box from the 1920s and pick out each name and that will determine the ballot order that they will appear if they are on the ballot in february.

>> at least six of the 20 candidates are taking part in the forum at university of illinois of chicago. rahm emanuel, carol moseley braun and gary chico will not be at today's forum. >> today is todd stroger's last day as cook county board president. a newly released court document show that stroger's administration used nearly $80,000 in federal grant money to treat flood affected families to a party at the brookfield zoo. money was intended to restore flood damaged homes. according to the "chicago tribune," the funds were used for the picnic, prize raffle, dj and a face painter. flood victims received tips on removing mold, job training and health screenings. the event was called family resource day. stroger spokesperson declined to comment on the event. the inspector general is now investigating. it is the first day of december and right on cue it's snowing outside. it has been all morning. chances are you saw a few flurries. the snowfall was light but

enough to annoy commuters. it did cause a light dusting in some areas. but it is just a hint of what's to come this winter and maybe even the next few weeks. coming up, we will hear from tom skilling to see what's in store later this week. through spring, be scareful where you park. chicago's winter parking ban is now in full effect. tow trucks made their rounds across the city removing cars from restricted areas. overnight some 215 cars were ticketed, towed and impounded despite all of the media coverage and two press releases announcing the ban. just a reminder that this ban runs from 3:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. through april 1. drivers who miss or ignored the signs will be forced to pay several fees to get their cars back. drivers should keep an eye out for signs that read no parking when there is two or more inches of snow and that's all the time in the winter in chicago. coming up next on the midday news, ultimatum for the white house and democrats.

republicans vow to block any bill until two issues are settled. international arrest warrant is issued for the founder of the controversial site wikileaks. >> dispute of the personal effects of a fallen marine could come to an end soon. as a manager, my team counts on me to stay focused.

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all 42 senate republicans promising today to block legislative action on every issue until the disagreement over tax cuts is resolved. tax cut passed in 2001 and 2003 under former president bush are set to expire at end of the month. the gop says the cuts should rep main for all income levels. democrats say the cuts should expire for those in the top income bracket. founder of wikileaks is a wanted man. international police agency interpol has issued an arrest warrant. a swedish court found probable cause to suspect him of rape, sexual molestation and illegal use of force for an incident in august. his lawyers now say that they have offered to cooperate, but prosecutors are ignoring them. he has not been seen since his website's latest release of confidential documents. yesterday he defended his website on skype from an undisclosed location. he said secretary of state hillary clinton should resign

if his state department messages show clinton encouraged u.s. diplomats to spy at the u.n. the white house calls that ridiculous and absurd. three days of joint u.s. and south korean military exercises ended today. drills off the coast of the korean peninsula were largely aimed at testing communications systems and did not have live fire. north korea however upset over the exercises bombed a front line island killing four people. south korea plans to conduct more drills on its own next week and possibly more with the u.s. later this month. the north has threatened war if ships move into its territory. today is world aids awareness day which was established by the world's health organization in 1988. a large red ribbon was put on display at the white house in recognition of raising awareness. aids research continues on a worldwide scale and promotes urgency of getting tested. on a local level, chicago health officials started a new campaign encouraging people to

get educated, get tested and treated. in the u.s. alone, there are roughly 56,000 new cases of hiv every year. today is the 52nd anniversary of perhaps the most tragic day in chicago history. on december 1, 1958. a fire broke out at our laidy of angels on the near northwest side. the flames spread quickly through the building trapping children and teachers on the upper floors. 92 children and three nuns died on that di. tragedy at our lady of angels prompted the city 20 do an overhaul of fire codes and laws. an indiana businessman says he had a change of heart and he will return the belongings of a fallen marine to her family today. marine sergeant janet winters died eight years ago when her plane crashed in afghanistan. her family kept her funeral flag, her dog tags, medals and military records in a storage unit. when they missed payments on the unit, the locker was auctioned off to a man named

mark perko. perko initially told the family if they wanted the items back they had to pay for them. but late last night he agreed to hand them over for free. >> i had the stuff for six or search years. i always kept it in good shape. never let nothing happen to it. >> perko says he is into the villain. he makes his living by buying and selling contacts of abandoned lockers. coming up next, a look at a new "chicago tribune" photography book celebrating chicago throughout the seasons. >> lovely photographs. how parents are trying to help their kids. they may be harming them. the differences that can occur in children's medicine doses. >> and later in lunch break today, delicious. pastry chef from 16 at the trump hotel joins us with some great holiday dessert ideas.

i'm angie lau live at the cme group in chicago. wall street getting a dose of good news about jobs ahead of the holiday season which means more americans with money to spend. according to payroll processor adp, companies in the u.s. added 93,000 jobs this month. and that is more than what economists expected. a separate report from the labor department shows that workers are even more productive than previously estimated. the measure of employee output per hour rose at 2.3% annual rate compared to a 1.9% initially calculated. and move over amazon.com. google is about to enter the e- book market. google has confirmed that it has plans to open an online store for ebooks this year and then internationally in 2011. now person close to the matter

tells bloomberg news that google is working with book publishers to sell hundreds of thousands of ebooks. lastly, netflix cutting the holiday deal with film district today to screen first run movies for netflix subscribers. deal let netflix screen movies into traditional so-called pay tv window after they are released on dvds starting in 2011. by the way, film districts would created earlier this week by oscar winning producer graham king known for films like blooddom and the departed. on wall street right now, stocks soaring today as faster than estimated growth in private payrolls and improving chinese and european manufacturing bolsters optimism in the global economy. live at the cme group in chicago, angie lau, bloomberg news. thank you. americans spent a billion dollars on cyber monday. making it the busiest on-line shopping day ever. new data shows revenue rose 16%

from a year ago. but shoppers are still holding out for bargains and spending cautiously. revenue at bricken mortar stores was flat over the weekend following thanksgiving. even though traffic rose nearly 3%. if you live in chicago, you know our seasons help define who we are as well as define this city. now the "chicago tribune" photography staff has produced a beautiful new photo essay book called chicago in season. celebrating the people, places and events of the chicago area throughout the year and joining us with more on this lovely new coffee table book is torrie bruno, the "chicago tribune" associate managing editor of photo. hi. >> hi, steve. >> i don't know any city where the seasons are distinctly different than chicago. this book really seems to celebrate that like no other. >> yeah. i believe it's really part of what defines chicago and its people. >> tell me about the

inspiration for the book. >> well, photographers are usually very focused on specific stories. they are out on assignments and they see part of what they do is to be the eyes of the community and they are inspired by the seasons and by the weather and the light and these pictures often don't make print. we put them online sometimes. but we had this great collection we thought what better to share with readers. >> let's put a few of them up. do you have a monitor there? >> i don't. one is a great shot of a guy that has been blag sand castle on the beach of lake michigan and pouring watd for the a hole there. >> that's a great shot that was the day that the beach opened up this year and we see a father sort of playing in the sand with his child, i believe way in the background just the joy of the beach and the season i think that picture tells the story. >> who is the photographer?

>> i believe it's scott. if i remember correctly. that's all right, you a lot of great photographers and it's hard to remember them all. it's a fascinating shot of a city skyline here with -- it looks like the break wall of lake michigan extending off into the background. how was this shot? >> i believe we -- i believe -- that's brian cassella photo. he was up in the hancock tower and it was around sunset and the silhouette of the skilet was just cast on to the water and made a beautiful shot. >> it's a story behind every one of these. we will put another one up and hopefully you can remember. i know it's hard to do. two individuals sitting out on a pier that's going off into the lake. i don't know. where is this taken? >> this is in antioch, illinois, which is on lake marie. a place where i spent little time in my youth. sort of a summer vacation kind of photo. it's two friends just sitting out on the dock with that sun.

you can feel it on their back. think that's another one of those chicago season photos that really defines summer in the city. >> out there on the chain of lakes. >> yeah. >> we will put another one up now. this looks like -- this is a viaduct somewhere in chicago. >> that's on the north side. i know the one. that's just one of those moments where our photographer was sent out to shoot a story on some mayhem, two people were abducted in that area and when he saw this viaduct with the person passing through, it just made a beautiful image. those are the pictures that don't always make print but we had a great collection. >> these photographers have such vision. this might be my favorite here right here and i know this one. it's an aerial shot of a train snaking its way through a semi rule rural area. >> it's down in the south of

the city. we were out on a story to sort of capture a polluter, chronic polluter down in the industrial area and as we flew over again our photographers have this super vision that they just see images and they can't resist. they are inspired. so that's gorgeous fall image of the pond i believe and the train just snaking through the center of it. >> these photographers are amazing. they can be out covering crime or political corruption or anything and they see a great shot that has nothing to do with the story. >> absolutely. excellent book. where do you get a copy? >> get them in book stores all over the city and here at the tower as well. >> okay. thank you so much for bringing us an excellent book. should make a great christmas gift. "chicago tribune" photo book chicago in seasons is available. check out wgntv.com/midday to find out more. well, another recall involving a certain type of window covering.

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so be careful. these little snows are sometimes very deceptive because you are proceeding on the highway and don't realize you have a layer of ice there particularly on the overpasses. not a big deal. this is enough to fill the cracks and sidewalks and dust lawns. but i will tell you, we have a shovellable snow in sight here and it could be friday night and saturday. we will keep our eyes on that and word out of europe there is quite a wintry siege of weather going there. airports shut down and great britain and switzerland. deaths in poland because of sub zero temperatures. so winter is hitting hard and it's all related to this block up around greenland. it's forcing cold air down into our area. you saw the clouds there. we had the first measurable snow of the season at midway airport and o'hare thasm from frank and phil rider, cooperative observer for the weather service reports .3 of an inch in mundelein. and this is about when it happened last year.

happened about december 4 last year. yesterday's first flurries were 37 days later than the first flurries hit last winter. hereth the windchill as the cold air rushes in over the growing snow pack in north america. 34% of the country under snow right now. schaumburg feels like 8 there. nine at de kalb. hammond at 13. naperville at 10. air temperatures in the low 20s. it's 24 at o'hare. thils the first day since february. the temperature hasn't made 30 in chicago. 24 at midway airport. and schaumburg at 20 right now and the mchenry at 23. it's cold across the board. and we have good wind gusts adding to the chills. yao can see. here is a look at the wind gusts across the metro area. takes a lot of wind sometimes to bring the cold air in and then you get the low windchills around the area. view from northfield and our weather bug camera and the fox valley out toward geneva where flurries have been dusting the school buses there. here you see the clouds.

the flurries going through the area are in the back side of a big low up in canada whose backside winds are producing the little snow showers that actually are being picked up by radar. and that's a sign that they are substantial enough to put down a dusting in some areas. here you see the latest radar picture and more to come so we will keep flurrying into this evening and sometimes exciting but this shouldn't be a massive snowstorm just enough to ice things up a little bit on some of the less traveled roads and overpasses. here are visibilities a proxy for snow intensity. when you get down to three miles you have light snow but you have to get down to fractions of a mile to really have that snow coming down gang busters and we have only seen that briefly in a few locations that comes and goes quickly. there are the temperatures plotted on the map and here you can see the lobe of cold air spilling off the snow pack that starts in central and northern wisconsin is with and minnesota and up to the poles.

arctic regions. there you can see temperatures in parts of alaska 30, 40 below zero in the yukon. air getting wintry. sun doesn't even come up in the northern part of north america this time of year. we are eight degrees cooler than 24 hours ago and we have all kinds of wind coming through the area. there is another view of the wind gusts around here and arer here are the wind -- here are the wind gusts that result in single digits where they are sub zero. winds are west at 15. humidity 66% at this time. and at o'hare the windchills calculated at 11. here is europe. you got poland here and you got -- look at the temperatures in this area. here is great britain where they had more snow on ground than at any point since 1966. there is france and germ nee. a lot of traffic accidents in that area and airports shut down in the alps and other locations in europe. the cold air spilling in from the northern latitudes over a

good part of the continent. here is the next weather system we watch. this thing has weather advisories in the rockies. we have been talking about this since late last week. there are the winter storm watches and winter weather advisories out west. watch what happens on this jet stream. this wind max here. this thing will cross the mountains and come into our area and when you get on the nose of these strong winds that's where the lift is. so this thing comes off the pacific and rolls in and sets up a little low that will track southeastward and at least some the models are kicking out half an inch of water which will fluff up to four or five inches of snow if that's true. and that would be friday thiet and saturday. so we will keep our eyes on that and then there could be lake-effect snows going into the indiana snow belt in particular as the cold air keeps kind of pouring into the area and sitting over us into early next week. well, this afternoon the coldest temperatures in nine months first some 30 days since back in february was snow showers and flurries at times

from a wintry grey overcast and a high of 29. west winds at 12 to 24 and gusty about 25. clouds and flurries early and clouds will break late tonight, blustery, chilly, low 19. west, northwest winds 10 to 20. another little weather disturbance comes in tomorrow. so clouds over again and there could be some new flurries especially in the afternoon. high of 33 tomorrow. and on friday the calm before the bigger system, there will be sunshine and clouding over in the afternoon and the sticking snow can start friday night and continue into saturday. high of. 34 on friday and probably in the low 30s on saturday the first week in december, it's like you turn a button. you flick a switch. it always seems to be the time when the snow comes in and starts sticking. of course, that syncs up with putting the snow on the ground to the west of us. >> get the shovels ready. bottom line. >> absolutely. >> see you later. >> okay. >> here is our trivia question

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wraps up tonight. they won't give away the outcome but we are joined by the two finalists now. ann ward and chelsea hearsely. hello. and thank you for being here. i'm so excited to talk to both of you. now i know high fashion was the theme for this season. and you ladies met and worked with everyone from diane to zach posen. to-- a lot of pressure. we were talking real couture. what was the most stressful challenge or experience for each of you with these high, high fashion designers? >> either one. >> probably i think for me it was zach posen because i haven't done a lot of runway and it was a big snow. >> he was there hands on with you, too. >> what about you? i know you had a lot of

knowledge of the designers so maybe it wasn't as stressful for you. maybe more excited. >> well, it was stressful for me. i think the most stressful one was our shoot with patrick asm huge icon of mine. i'm getting to shoot with him was unbelievable but it was little stressful and nerve- racking. >> your knowledge of the industry was really, really impressive. the photographers and the designers and everything. and you stood out because you are so tall. you're 6'2". then there was the episode where you had to shoot a commercial on roller skates and ann, everyone felt so sorry for you watching you fall. you got up, you fall again. but let me ask you, ann, as a tall woman myself, being around that many other tall girls, did that help you feel more comfortable with your height? >> oh, definitely. i was around people that were

like almost my height. i could like look people in the eye half the time i was there. it was a really weird experience. it made me feel more comfortable. >> that's a wonderful feeling when you are that tall as a woman. i know that for tonight's final episode your parents show up in italy for the big fashion show. don't want you to give anything away. but either one of you fall or trip or how does it go? the fashion show? your performance. >> you have to watch it. >> okay, all right. you aren't going to reveal. you are wearing a design tonight. >> yes. >> and -- >> very exciting. it's a big deal. >> absolutely loved the dresses that we will see you in tonight? >> yes. they are gorgeous. >> they were pretty. >> best of luck. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> and congratulations on being the final two contenders in america's next top model. if you are in chicago you can

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chef at 16 trump international hotel and tower in chicago. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> everything looks beautiful. >> thank you very much. >> where are you going to start? >> we will start with a couple of my favorites that we do in the hotel. small bites because i think during the holidays it's nice to have smaller bites so enjoy more than the large pies. so what we will do today is do some small what i call log cab be tarts. it's a pecan pie. instead of caro syrup we use maple syrup. i have my tart shells done. fill the pecans and lightly toast these and that way you make sure to get the flavor all through the tart. because when you bake that's it won't toast the nuts. i will fill those. and i have my mix made. like i said i use maple syrup instead of the traditional caro syrup. little warm it up a little bit so then that way it goes into your tart shells easier and i also like to make this a day in advance.

both my filling and then i bake it. and then the tarts are always better the next day. i will just bake these in a low oven. and as you can see have i some already done. >> beautiful. >> as i said these are best the second day. so again, garnishing for me is very, very big part of what we do. always flavor but visual as well. so i have just a little pecan cream to accent the pecan flavor. pipe a little bit on top. and then garnish these with chocolate decor. playing off the seasons as well. these beautiful chocolate leaves with gold on them. >> gorgeous. >> just put them on top. it takes a traditional dessert that everyone is familiar with, pecan pie and takes it up to a different level. then we can go on to our next

item. >> so beautiful. >> thank you very much. so another one of my favorites being that i am a traditional mid westerner is whoopee pies. these are making a big comeback these days. so i like to do kind of seasonal favorites, play upth flavors. black forest whoopee pies. so i have just a basic chocolate gainch, just -- gansh, the bit sore it doesn't make it too sweet. if it's too sweet you can't enjoy it. if you have a little bit less sweetness, then you eat more. enjoy the rest of your meal. so i will pipe that on top and leave a hole in the center when i pipe it so i can put in a brandied cherry. and that's the kind of adds black forest flare to this. put that right in the center.

would you like to try one? >> no, no. keep doing your thing. >> i could eat the whole thing. i will try later. sandwich on top there and then what i like to do again for just a little added touch. is i have melted chocolate. >> how do you get this effect? >> exactly. what i have is coating chocolate so you don't have to temper it. traditional chocolate makes a process, very time consuming. in the store you can buy what they call coating chocolate for molded cand eas. a lot easier to use. just warm it up and we will dip it right in there and take a little bit of the excess off. and then these are little snowflake sprinkles in where did you get those? >> any store that sells sprinkles, target has them. joanne fabrics. any store that sells holiday garnish like that. then i will repeat with all of the other ones.

>> may sky you a question? if mr. trump were to come to town, i know you heard this before, what dessert does he like you to make? >> funny. mr.trump is actually a fan of haagen daz. >> just buy ice cream. >> he is a very simple man. very simple and he has simple tastes and pleasures. we accommodate him whatever way he like. >> well that's cool. these are absolutely beautiful. if i can get you quickly to tell us what's in this one? >> this is going to be the last one i will put together right now. >> okay. >> this one is actually -- >> do it quickly. >> no problem. --s it el-- pistachio on the bottom. pistachio cream and then on top of that a cherry compote and then a little crushed pistachio cookie on top. >> those are beautiful. >> thank you very much. >> and i can assure you they will be very much enjoyed around here. thank you so much. >> 16 at the trump hotel has

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getting ready for friday night and saturday's system. today's snow flurries are more -- they offer us a little intrigue and a little insight into what's to come. they won't amount to a lot. be careful driving. we had some accidents reported. there is the latest radar view of the snow showers crossling the -- crossing the area. they look exciting at times but will do little more than dust the area. we had up to .3 of an inch of snow reported in mundelein already and .10 is down in midway and cold air spills in this first day of december and opening day of meteorological winter. there are the windchills and feels like 11 in chicago. want to see where it's cold? 38 below right now on the border of the u-- yukon and alaska. there is our low pressure that keeps winds blowing and the temperatures cold. 29 forecast today. first day not to hit 30 since february. 33 and flurries tomorrow