in three minutes -- the deliciousness that brings a smile to any monday. campbell's -- it's amazing what soup can do. a national study says that traffic cameras operated by private,e companies may put profits ahead of safety ... >>good afternoon i'm steve sanders ... it >>and don dina bair we welcome our viewers who are watching a ceramic country on wgn america and on the web muriel clair is live in the south loop with today's top

story >>lawmakers in springfield are considering a bill that will expand automatic traffic enforcement in the chicago area ... there's a report that finds that across the country municipalities contract with private companies to provide cameras and citations to traffic violators. >>one of the protections is to have the city actually run the system ... and another is to ensure no ticket quotas are in existence ... one example is that of the one in walnut california where fines are slapped on municipalities that abuse this. >>the good news is that here in

illinois and the city of chicago we have done a good job of building and public protection but with the legislature considering the expansion of the scope of current law here in illinois we want to make sure that we don't fall into a dangerous pattern set >>the study reports that it will be a matter for a watchdog system. chicago is not an egregious violator but there are other places in the country that shows some bad examples of and control private system >>police in skokie requesting a man in connection with the stabbing deaths of an 18 year- old woman and her toddler. police say that a man called 911 yesterday afternoon. he claimed

he had killed his daughter and his granddaughter. they arrived at the home in the 4600 block of main street and found a woman and a two year-old girl with life-threatening step wounds. both were taken to the hospital where they died from their injuries no charges have been filed ... >>police have not confirm the relationship between the victims and the man they're questioning but they will say that the incident is domestic in nature. >>a young boy accidentally shoots his baby brother and now their father is facing charges for that incident. 26 year-old levar jones is accused of reckless conduct having an invalid firearm owners id card and endangering the health and life of a child. the shooting happened last night at his home at 63rd and left plan in chicago is angle with neighborhood police say that his seven year- old son found a gun under a bed and shot his seven month-old brother and a left leg as he

slapped the baby's hospitalized in stable condition >>several local officials are calling on police to change the way they treat possession cases involving small amounts of marijuana nancy loo has our report >>chicago in suburban police forces are being urged to issue tickets for possession rather than arrest suspects. anything less than 10 g for arrests appear to be clogging the system and distracting police efforts from handling more serious crime. 90 percent of the roughly 23,000 arrests for possession are dismissed. >>we're not talking about

dealing growing or intent to distribute we're talking about simple possession of those 23,000 arrests cost the county is close to $80 million each year. >>we're not talking about decriminalization although there are calls for that, we're just calling about common-sense decisions >>a city council ordinance may be introduced next week for ticketing minor position in lieu of arrests. the county tickets would carry fines of $200 and it would land on your record. >>one day after deliberations began jurors are starting over today the trial of springfield

powerbroker williamcellini. a male juror was removed from the trial this morning. judge james zagel said there was a conflict of interest but gave no further details. an alternate juror took his place and the judge instructed the panel to restart deliberations williamcellini is accused of trying to extort $1.5 million from hollywood producer for the campaign fund of then governor rod blagojevich. >>and rod blagojevich can no longer practice law in illinois the illinois supreme court took away his law license effective immediately until further notice. that decision had been expected. the former governor will have a hard time getting his $65,000 a year state pension as well when he turns 55 next month the general assembly retirement system board has decided that if rod blagojevich applies for his pension his application would be frozen until the board can meet to decide what to do about it. >>your co-med electric bills

will go up next year and in each of the next 10 thanks to the illinois general assembly lawmakers voted to override governor quinn the toe of a bill granting addison annual rate increases to cover that cost of upgrading the state's power grid so the smart card bill becomes law state senators are also still crafting a new casino gambling bill to match governor quinn scaled-back version of the bill they passed back in may is also facing stiff opposition >>unlike the original casino bill the governor's alternative would prohibit slot machines at racetracks and at chicago airports >>and illinois house committee has endorsed pension reform bill that would effectively bar labor leaders from collecting both the union pension and a government pension. a wgn chicago tribune investigation revealed that several top union bosses exploit a loophole in the existing law

that allowed them to base their public pensions other union pay. lawmakers are considering another pension reform that would let state employees and to choose from among three retirement saving options >>in restaurant across the street from u.s. cellular field was paid for with public funding of that return on that investment. a wgn chicago tribune investigation found that the illinois sports facilities authority pay $3.2 million to build a book party at the park and another 3.7 million on water and sewer upgrades the authority agreed with the white sox owner jerry reinsdorf that the agency would not share any profits made at the restaurant there's been no comment from jerry reinsdorf or authority chairman emil jones. former gov. jim thompson who chaired the agency when the deal was made use the restaurant as another type of concession

the white sox receive all concession revenue inside the cell to see more from the wgn to be an investigation watched our story at wgntv.com >>coming up next the occupied protesters around the country switch their focus and survivors in turkey plea for more shelter as cold weather complicates efforts to help those affected by the earthquake

stocks are up today after european union leaders have agreed to expand europe's bailout funded take major losses on crete bonds. it's the latest step in an ongoing effort to curb the european debt crisis. the agreement came early today in brussels after marathon talks aimed at finding a solution to the debt crisis in greece bailout fund. under that

new plan, a greek bondholders voluntarily agree to write down the value of crete bonds by 50 percent. >>the death toll from a massive earthquake in turkey continues to rise ... and bad weather is making it even more difficult for workers to continue their rescue efforts. authorities say 534 people and now died from sunday's 7.2 magnitude quake in a mix of rain and snow is been falling in the region making it difficult for thousands of people left homeless. meanwhile a moderate 5.4 aftershock hit the area today it was about 90 mi. from the epicenter no one was seriously injured. >>and bangkok is bracing for its highest water levels to get as flooding rivers continue to threaten thailand's prime minister says all areas of bangkok will be flooded by today with some parts of that city seeing up to 3 ft. of water the united states is providing

relief supplies to those stranded in the city and helicopters are serving the extent to flooding tide officials say that damage from those floods could top $6 billion the flooding has killed more than 373 people and has affected 10 million. >>nearly six weeks after the occupy wall street protests began in new york demonstrations have spread around the world including chicago. in new york last night protesters left their encampment in zucotti park to march on city hall. organizers say that it is show solidarity with their counterparts in oakland california where police made several arrests this week and iraq war veteran was seriously hurt yesterday in oakland when he was allegedly struck in the head by a police projectile occupy oakland protesters also returned to the streets last night after the clash with police on tuesday investigators are looking into the incident that left at war veteran injured initialed for that marine is planned tonight

protesters around the world of typically rally against what they describe as corporate greed and arrogance and power they're also calling for better health care. >>and the company partly responsible for the worst oil spill in u.s. history will be allowed to drill in the gulf of mexico once again bp has received its first permit to resume drilling and will do so off the coast of borland's >>japan's fukushima daiichi nuclear plant disaster is now affecting the japanese home market. the japanese government says the japanese art dealers are selling radioactive cars to unsuspecting customers. officials said that the vehicles appear to be structurally sound but were owned by people living close to the fukushima plant one dealer said he bought a vehicle from an auction and intended to transported across the country the government officials say that that vehicle tested positive for 20 times more than the allowed levels of radiation >>a new study had asked people

world peace or an i pad which would you choose? as it turns out more people want the tablet computers for the holidays the consumer electronics association said that's a flip from last year when tablets were no. 3 on people's wish lists behind peace and happiness >>and the people spoken find it which entry receive the most votes to be named chicago's christmas tree plus shovel for the i neighbor or else risk a fine the proposal to ticket chicago residents for on shovelling sidewalks and later in the lunch break we have a lazy man tiramisu from david

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stocks are in rally mode big- time the dow gained more than 300 points at this hour clearing the 12,000 mark something we have not seen since july that's thanks to the bailout plan in europe totaling 1.4 trillion dollars it was agreed upon last night and it includes cutting the greek debt in half and prop up european banks critics call this a band-aid a temporary solution and everyone is waiting on the details of the plan >>today gasoline futures jumped 4% because it looks as though gasoline demand could happen if there is another economic slowdown ...

markets are also getting a boost from third quarter economic growth numbers initial estimates say that the gdp grew due to gains in consumer spending and business investment and there was a slight drop in the number of people filing for unemployment benefits that signals a small improvement in the job market and finally it looks as though airlines cannot keep up with those fuel costs in spite of ticket price hikes. united continental is the latest to claim that the jet fuel costs are cutting into profit ... it pays more in gas that it does to payroll >>chicago-based groupon is laying off 10% of its sales staff the daily deals company will replace 10 percent of its

staff as it pushes to and straw deals from merchants and ensure that it can keep growing chief executive andrew mason told potential ipo investors in boston today that the action is designed to improve the quality of the deals being offered groupon currently has a sales force of over 4800 people at one under 43 million subscribers as of september 30th but only 30 million of those what groupon deals in the third quarter >>there is a new call to require licensing for bicycle riders during city budget hearings yesterday 33rd ward alderman richard mell suggested that cyclists be licensed he said some writers run red lights right the wrong way and even threaten pedestrian safety on the sidewalks upon and say that the best deterrent to reckless cycling chicago is working on new bike sharing programs and installing 100 mi. a dedicated bicycle lanes to become the

friendliest bicycle city in the country. >>if you do not shovel away the snow on your sidewalk this winter you may get a ticket alderman tom tunney is proposing that crackdown he said the streets and sanitation workers have blackberry's which can easily record violations and trace the property owners he also said that people would get at least one morning before they receive a ticket >>the results are and chicago has picked up this year is a daley plaza christmas tree is the 55 ft. koro spruce that resides in the spangler family front yard in western springs @wthe spangler street lost in the final round of voting last year but beat out finalists from northlake and glenview this year by 700 votes the spurs will be put up at daley plaza friday november 4th and the spangler family will take part in the tree lighting ceremony that is

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he is using his skills and his popularity to inspire his students at the multi-cultural academy of scholarship in chicago. wgn's muriel clair introduces us to our teacher of the month >>when michael lowe strolls the hallways students gathered around him exchanging high fives

and they like this teacher >>i never set goals until i met mr. lowe. i see him as a secondary father figure >>he has spent a big part of the changes that we have gone through academically and how we compete as a school >>he teaches literature and japanese and the latino students jumped at the chance to learn the japanese language >>and that it's ever bed to learn a new language and it's something that you can be proud of saying that you learned this in high school >>michael lowe has lots of energy and his students feed on that.

>>he is funny he says funny things to a vest and memorizing vocabulary >>for me to get truly interested in something it's hard not to be excited about it and i am very interested in what i teach >>he said his on wavering goal is to go for the well moment he believes the children don't have any idea of how exciting the world is and how much there is to know and how little they know about the world. i shoot for that well moment >>i am happy to present this check in the amount of $1,000 to you and on behalf of wgn congratulations on being our

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had an october that has averaged 3.2 degrees above normal ... i guess it's a bit of a shock to the system to have a sudden late autumn temperatures. now we have some clout cover and that will determine how much frost we see ... but we do get some sun breaks we have november level temperatures coming off of this war monthm month.. there are 40 states expecting sub 40 degree temperatures over nine te

now there is also a snowstorm happening in the rockies ... but let's look at chicago over the next 10@c days ... on saturday this chill will linger into the weekend and then there will be a minor warmup on monday put the cool air will spill and after tuesday we will be in the 50s today ... the los tonight will be in the '30's

tomorrow readings will go back into the fifties. we see of jet stream getting produced to the south of us. temperatures are one degree lower than they were yesterday at this time. northeast wind is blowing at 5 mi. per hour the water temperature on lake michigan is 54 degrees. we have some daytime heating with the cool air aloft and that maypop eighth shower later this afternoon

the next two days sees the jet stream winds to the south of giving us some chilly conditions. we may also get a shower it later tomorrow night and possibly another on sunday afternoon. believe it or not it is snowing in the texas panhandle that the remnant of the denver rockies snowstorm that led about 18 in. of snow high in the rockies. typically we see a little bit of snow around october 30th but it

did happen late last year in the middle of november. we see scattered showers that return to work themselves in here from the northwest. we've had a few northern suburb accumulations of brain very minor 49 degrees right now at o'hare. 47 degrees at midway airport. low clouds are giving way to

sunbreaks. random light showers will form later this afternoon and move out this evening. we have another shower system tomorrow night but a nice open to the weekend sunny on saturday and possibly afternoon showers on sunday but it will not be terrible. we're looking at a high temperature today of 52 degrees. scattered clouds and chile 31 degrees overnight

35 degrees at o'hare overnight. tomorrow the high temperature will be 56 degrees we may get a shower overnight it will be cold and breezy and mostly sunny and cool 52 degrees on saturday many areas will be in the 30's overnight this weekend. it's time now for today's trivia question: in 1897, when the novel dracula was written transylvania was part of which country?

chris harris. the chicago tribune reports that it happened this morning, and that harris did not ask to be released. he was benched after a poor performance against the lions on monday night football and he requested a trade. when a trade did not materialize by the deadline off chris harris said that he would finish the season with the bears. he tells espn 1000 that lovie smith informed him that team wanted to go younker at the safety position ... >>it was just a gut feeling as a football coach ... i like the options we have right now >>the new cubs president theo epstein is assembling his new front office staff. the cubs

announced that the san diego padres' general manager jed hoyer will become executive vice president and general manager. jed hoyer served as epstein's assistant general manager in boston before leaving for san diego two years ago. his assistant general manager jason mcleod will be the cubs a senior vice president of scouting and player development. the chicago cubs will hold a press conference next week but cannot comment until the world series has concluded >>there were allowed to make the announcement yesterday because game 6 of the world series was postponed major league baseball made the decision five hours before the first pitch because rain was in the forecast all night the rangers will have a chance to win their first world series tonight in st. louis game 7 of necessary will be tomorrow. nba players and owners and labor talks early this morning and will pick up again this

afternoon. they met for more than 15 hours in new york the unions say they worked out a few issues and enough progress was made to return today that did not discuss the distribution of revenue but both sides expressed hope the full 82 games scheduled could still be played ... >>and now we have our live illinois lottery drawing >>the pick three winning numbers: 3 8 5 the winning pick four numbers: 0 6 5 6

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likely to be near sighted near sighted people see objects in the distance as larry and out of focus researchers who analyzed data from eight studies involving more than 10,000 children report that each additional hour children spent outdoors decreases the chance of developing nearsightedness by 2 percent just why is not known the rise in nearsightedness coincides with today's kids being less likely to engage in the kind of art during games that feature to past generations have played such as jumping rope or touch football finally a super food just got better scientists have never created better inform our broccoli engineered by british food scientists it contains too to three times the amount of a nutrient known to help ward or heart disease eating this broccoli reduces cholesterol in the bloodstream and researchers say that it may taste a little sweeter than regular broccoli you can already find the super

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cooking channel. and next week his new cookbook made in italy will be out. it has gorgeous photography and fantastic recipes and it is actually out this week i stand corrected ... >>i have an easy recipe today for tiramisu in my book i call it the lazy man's version... mascarpone with a little sugar and wjipped cream folded in..

i am adding kitcat candy bars. now we put these in martini glasses. you just spoon this into the glass is so simple and this is a good one if you have leftover halloween candy of this kind of... you just have to be careful not

to munch on any of the ingredients while preparing this desert. now we will do something really fun i have some beautiful press secoosecco ... what's nice about this beverages it's a little bit like champagne but let much less expensive so you don't have to feel too guilty diluting this. i am adding citrus and pomegranate juice. you can also add peach

juice and have a version of a bellini. the italians love their little nibbles especially with such a beverage these are fried sage leaves ... there really smell beautiful in the kitchen when you prepare them. you'd dip it believes in a gouache and flourin eggwash and flour and you can serve this with anchovy paste

delicious with the sparkling wine. all the photographs in the book are taken around italy like cicely and am all for coastsicily and the amalfi coast. >>this is just terrific david ... >>these can all be made criticallye quickly..

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" dracula " was written a transylvania was part of which country? the answer is hungry transylvania did not become part of romania until after the first world war. we have a couple of shower is dancing across our neighbor ... clouds will increase later tomorrow and we may get another shower tomorrow afternoon but we have sunbreaks today we will have sunshine by saturday

morning it will be cool in the low 50s. some of these cool air masses are taking aim at the united states so we'll keep an eye on that. we are experiencing a november level temperatures currently we are 48 degrees here in chicago. that storm hurricane rina has diminished to a tropical storm hitting me yucatan peninsula

does not make a move on florida but there will be wind blowing their over the weekend that will be strong. the wind across the midwest is not terribly strong. and we see some snowfall happening in the rockies and in the texas panhandle. here's the seven day forecast 56 degrees tamara with increasing clouds shower clears late tomorrow night saturday preclearance cool possible showers sunday afternoon warmer air will be here on monday clearing out tuesday ... they do for joining us today we hope you have a great afternoon