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>> there is still a lot of work to be done and if you don't need to be on the road he shouldn't be on the road. >> more than 1 ft. of snow, millions without power and it isn't even halloween yet. the northeast is digging out from a record-setting storm. >> this snowstorm are really pummelled the northeast bringing
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travel to a halt, a train that left chicago on friday had it to boston was stranded overnight because of the snow. this is the amtrak train from chicago to boston that was stopped for more than 12 hours near palmer mass., of rockslide caused by this week and snow storm left the tracks impassable, nearly 50 people had to be bused to their destination. from stranded trains to stranded plans, the storm causing big problems for jet blew at bradley international airport in connecticut passengers on a flight to new work or stop on the tarmac for eight hours. >> bathrooms are locked, people are quite upset. issuing emergency declarations after the october storm left a foot in some parts creating hazardous driving conditions, the storm being blamed for at least eight deaths. am i hit the bridge over there i wasn't going any excessive speed and a registered
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its lighting prepared under the note way of this note trees are still bearing leaves snapped the downing power lines and leaving millions of people in the dark. >> we called up the national guard to help with individuals in private and public removal crews. >> as the clinton continues to storm is moving out leaving behind snow-covered pumpkins and memories of a white halloween weekend. and not like the white stuff, it's pretty but i don't like it. >> it will be a star called in for a lot of people in the northeast. it could be days before power is restored to ever wondered connecticut's governor saying today snowstorm caused the worst power outage and that states hisin that state's history. >> i'm continually going for
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some of the amazing snow totals from the northeast this storm readwe wrote weather records from all the way from ireland. bakersfield connecticut 18 in. plainfield massachusetts more than 30 in. of snow, jeffrey new hampshire 44 in. of snow and this is just the tip of the iceberg. it did affect maryland and parts of new york state. in orange county new york store totals up to 16 in. reported. what causes problems a large area of low pressure trekking north along the coast polling and very cold air from canada, coupled with atlantic moisture to produce what turned out to be one historic snow. there is one bit of irony i found out tonight that this was winter weather awareness week, in fact it ended on saturday. our
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whether not quite as interesting but we have our own issues. >> construction crews will begin working on the median along north shore drive to meagher morning, installing two new openings, the inside-of lakeshore drive will be closed between our message and kurta while three lanes remain open in both directions. the project is designed to provide turnaround access in both directions on the north and southbound lanes in an emergency situation like the near record blizzard have left vehicles stranded on a drive last february. the work is expected to be completed by late november appear >> funeral services are set for the indian team who was found stabbed to death in her own home investigators think kelly o'laughlin had walked in on a burglary when she was attacked. the release a sketch of a possible suspect visitations
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for the lion's touch upon school freshmen will be held this wednesday and thursday from 4- 9:00 p.m. in the evening at the james funeral home on 55th street in countryside funeral services will follow on thursday at st. john's of the catholic church and western springs. >> an suv crashed on the outbound kennedy expressway send five people including four children to the hospital in serious to critical condition it happened at about 915 your arm attached avenue when the suv was cut off by another vehicle and then rolled over several times. the other vehicle drove off without stopping. with all of the people and wrecked chevy blazer were wearing seat belts and remained inside. >> the car was smoking. a girl was screaming my mom, i guess my mom. .
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>> their right hand lane of the kennedy was closed for the investigation and traffic was backed up for hours. a man was found beaten to death and the south side grand crossing eberhard this morning police say the unidentified man was at a bus stop in the 7900 block of south grand avenue when he was attacked by four or five men piecing it is the men might of been trying to rob the victim. >> baby dolphin died this morning minutes beforeafter being born. a 29 godolphin gave birth to a male calf after about three hours of labor, right from the start the baby dolphin showed signs of weakness in the little movement. couldn't even make it up to the surface to make his first breath. >> been a great mother she tried very well to try to get that
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calf up to the surface to assisted and unfortunately it was not able to do so. our staff is grieving right now we have checked on our presentations today and they will be shut down monday as well and we will be monitoring the feed mill to make sure that everything is fine with her. she was fine throw her pregnancy and showed no signs of problems here, fire and a 19 story south rise high rise apartment building this morning the fire broke out in the kitchen in the 11th floor apartment 727 east 60 its history, no one was, the time but the fire department says that the flame was accidental. cautionary stairwells search was conducted by no one was reported injured. the fire was extinguished around 5:00 p.m. >> thousands of passengers stranded all over the globe next why there is hope in sight for qantas flyers. a deadly explosion at a kansas grain
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elevator has set off a frantic search for missing workers. one of illinois' most popular hiking destination celebrates 100 years of welcoming visitors.
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public out into the southern tip of the newly drawn second congressional district congressman jesse jackson jr. acknowledged the decision by the house ethics committee to reopen its investigation into allegations that supporters offered cash to gov blagojevich's campaign in exchange for a senate seat. and i believe in the american system of justice the profit is continuing and in the hands of believe i will be vindicated. of the remarks were prepared and kankakee county naacp came just two days after the ex governor's brother robert spoke to us from his home town and natural publicizing his offer to testify about jackson before the house panel, his rent every member of the committee and says because he wants to tell them of to the congressman allies who blagojevich's says offered him money for the senate seat when he was heading up his brother's campaign. >> i believe i have a story to
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tell that has been told primarily under oath and i think you'll find that relevant to the truth. >> he was charged alongside his brother on federal corruption charges, he was not convicted and says his only interest years one of justice. during the blagojevich's trial he testified that he never directed anyone to raise money for another politician and denies ever having met dx governor's brother. >> from the data started there was never anybody more innocent than me. eva >> from the day this started there was never anybody more innocent than me. >> fodder for his challenger next your primary former representative did the albertson. >> have jesses lack of crashed credibility. we have a problem with essex and distraction and i watch this entire district over
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also here is that people are fed up he has been there 15 years nobody has seen anything that he has done very a >> of its and had previously referred to albertson as classically challenged. we need results not rhetoric. one protester was taken to the hospital for minor injuries, police in portland oregon arrested more than two dozen people refuse to leave the park after warning that the park close to midnight, and police in austin tx arrested 38 people who set up a table with food and other items outside city hall. the city ruled two days ago that food must be put away overnight. among relief is in sight for thousands of stranded travelers now that an australian labour tribunal has ordered qantas airways to put an end to a labor
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dispute, qantas grounded its entire fleet on saturday forcing the cancellation of more than 440 domestic and international flights, affecting about 68,000 passengers worldwide. now that the tribunal has ordered qantas to end the confrontation with its union those plans will be returning to the skies. >> the important thing is that all action is now over and we have certainty. certainty for our employees 74 our customers and for our share leaders. early this morning we new ticket qantas and full cooperation. >> qantas and the unions now have 21 days to negotiate. >> an explosion in an elevator in kansas left three people dead saturday night it sent a fireball shooting high into the night sky and shipbuildings miles away, the explosion
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happened around 7:50 p.m. when a train is being loaded with corn, two men were flown to hospital in critical condition. three others are missing is for people on site escaped without injury. >> a dangerous moment as a famed chicago theater, while emergency crews were called to a concert on state street. >> celebrating 100 years of stars rock, the popular nature destination is honored by the governor.
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a six year-old girl was killed in the 16 year-old girl was injured when a car hit them while they were walking to a halloween party last night diamond robinson was pronounced dead after a 36 year-old driver hit her on lomas near 70th street. the teenager suffered a broken arm and witnesses say that the driver stopped and tried to assist the little girl after the crash he has been cited with two counts of not having insurance and failure to yield spirit of man was critically injured when he fell over a banister at the chicago theater on state street last night, the fire department said that the 26 truck and was apparently intoxicated when he fell about 15 ft. and hit his head on the marble floor. the band widespread and panic was plan at the theater last night. >> one of illinois' most beautiful tourist attractions is celebrating a special
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anniversary, this year marks the 100th anniversary of star of rocks gov. pat quinn joined it today as he held a news conference. the governor says starved rock is a very special place. >> it is a pocket of wilderness, we're not like the west that have vast areas of wilderness, we have pockets of wilderness in illinois and they are special places and that's why we encourage everyone in illinois to come to starved rock. it is 100 years young, it is going to be here for years to come. >> starved rock state park is welcoming an all-time high of nearly 2.2 million visitors this year. and as luck would have a well gov quinn was talking to the star of rock crowd the illinois conservation please had just rescued a bald eagle with a broken left wing. the injured
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berg was found in harris and illinois and will be rehabilitated at the illinois raptor center in decatur the eagle is less than two years old and has a wingspan of 5 ft.. eva >> senator mark kirk was in town today hosting his fourth annual model congress for high school students, more than 100 students from all over the chicago area have participated in the event at instill central high school students played roles of actual members of congress, they held a mock committee hearings, debates and caucus meetings. >> and so we have over 20 high schools represented this year to date and they are going under senate rules but the real senate staffers leading them in five separate committees and then our rock-and-roll session on the senate floor. >> and today's proceedings focused on a timely subject economic growth and legislation. you're live illinois lottery drawing is coming up next and
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jim ramsey will tell us if we will be dry for halloween. look ahead to the rest of your work week. this is rich king, coming up on instant replay the bears may be off the lots of nfl action to show you including the division rival in detroit at denver high lights ahead and we will focus on the preseason that forte has put together as he joins the elite in the nfl. from football to baseball, one-on-one chat with scio epstein as he. [ male announcer ] this is coach parker... whose non-stop day starts with back pain... and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day. or choose
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tomorrow we may even see some sunshine during the afternoon maybe some partly cloudy skies by morning but it was gloomy today. o'hare officially picked up 16 hundredths of 1 in. of rain by 7:00 p.m. this evening. it is continuing to rein in a few spots some of the south and southwestern suburbs continue to see something coming out of the clouds. this storm is the weak cold front coming out of the area and more with the book at temperatures that are four or five degrees cooler than the word today which is still powerful for october but notice as the main body of rain rooster we still see a few radar echoes developing especially down to the southwest in chicago so expect there may be a little additional rainfall tonight is our computer tends to suggest probably not a great deal but there are some fairly impressive totals the computer is putting out for some of the southwest suburbs. right now chicago auto
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hair it is 48 degrees. it's going to be cool again tonight if we can let the clouds out of the area. we have to do point temperature of 42 degrees. look for low 40's around the town, these are the temperatures throughout our region. just about everybody around chicago has a temperature of 40 or above. now the cold air. here is what is going to happen over the next 10 days. by midweek we are looking at another system coming through that will bring some rain wednesday night and thursday. and as we head into the weekend and beyond a lot of cool there is expected to spill over into chicago and as that arrives could trigger some@@ very impressive rain and perhaps@@ on thunderstorms this time next week or even early sunday of next week. winds coming of the
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south at about 5-15 mi. per hour it will continue to be breezy over the over nine hours tonight. first of all for this evening, skies cloudy and showers will bring. cold temperature 37-43 monday some cloud patches and not about halloween, a little chilly appeared 51 to about 55. monday night clear skies, cold temperatures. 36-44 degrees during the overnight hours and tuesday we will have some early sunshine and clouds probably late, winds will grow a bit notice what happens, when stay late and into thursday brain begins to develop and it looks like thursday could be a sloppy day around here. friday a little warmer into saturday i have thunderstorm's indicated, this is a very impressive system next weekend. at the moment the model said just chicago is right in the bull's-eye. could be quite
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it was a spook secular weekend at the planetarium and the kids love it spooky signs the galleries were haunted by mind blowing attractions featuring experiments dealing with science the adler is the first planetarium to be founded in america it was put together in 1930 it is a recognized leader in education with a focus on young people. the 20 single chicago international children's film festival wrapped up today more than 200 films were shown over 10 days in a locations around the city including the music box theater in like you. there were films from mexico, canada and other countries animated and live-action short films from around the world and workshops on acting and animation. chicagos festival is
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