it's time to savor. day one of the sentencing hearing for rod blagojevich is under way. the hex governor will soon find out what price you pay for using his office for private gain. good afternoon i am steve sanders. >>and i'm dina bair we welcome our viewers who are watching us around the country and wgn america and on the web. julian crews is live of the dirksen federal building with the latest >>his lawyers are pleading for leniency but federal prosecutors are asking for 15-20 years in prison it's certainly a tall order for the former governor's

defense team and for rod blagojevich himself was uncharacteristically quiet as he left his ravenswood manor home with wife patty this morning. his defense attorneys said that he received no tangible benefit from campaign requests not bribes >>prosecutors shot down that assertion ... it does not matter what you got or did not get its what you tried to do >>judge james zagel weighed in on the defense argument that it was the governor's staff that directed much of the legal activity and a sharply worded rebuke said that rod blagojevich promised his staff nothing in was only interested in his own personal gain ...

>>we have terry sullivan our political analyst with us >>you have to think that the judge has already set things that are devastating and the effort of the blagojevich camp to get a leanermore lenient sentence >>the guidelines call for 30 years to life. the judge has just found that he agrees with that although he did say that it's not appropriate in this case ... but what has what he has said so far on the record has not been helpful to the defense >>the defense team said that this was merely a fund-raising

exercise on behalf of the former gov. and his staff. and the judge is saying that it doesn't matter what you're asking foyou received but rather what you are asking for and how you went about it >>the probation department recommended 11 steps and the judge opted to 16 go with 16 steps so it was a pretty somber adjustment this is a today proceedings wife patti bloagojevich is also present in the courtroom this

has to be awfully difficult >> judge james zagel will decide ... we will provide live reports as soon as a decision is handed down so stay with wgn for complete coverage. >>between his son-in-law's sentencing and "n" word re- mapping fight alderman dick mell has a lot on his plate right now the process has descended into a finger-pointing and accusations of racism >>robert jordan has a live report >>alderman dick mell did not want to discuss his daughter or son and law by we discussed her chicago was a city of neighborhoods and isolated along racial and socio-economic lines

... the city has lost 200,000 citizens and the ward maps have had to have been redrawn and that's not an easy session for these legislators >>it's like putting a giant jigsaw puzzle together ... add to that power grabs and racial conflicts ... >>it's basically a fight for incumbency. >>alderman terry austin and richard mell have had angry outbursts during these negotiations their wards of but each otherabutt eachother

every 10 years the city goes through these ward adjustments as the city changes hispanic wards will increase black cords will decrease. >>having experienced this 10 years ago if you're a good aldermen below is whenyou will always win. >>i did speak to the aldermen who say that the thorny issues have bent over, so the redistricting should be a matter of days or weeks >>chicago police are looking for

the attackers who broke into a south side church rectory and brutally beat and 80 year-old priest muriel clair is live at st. margaret of scotland roman catholic church >>parishioners here asking why anyone would want to beat up a defenseless 80 year-old priest? >>i said what? this can be ... i was just broken hearted >>the attack on the priest took place shortly after midnight last night at the rectory of st. margaret of scott and church the priest awoke to find three men standing over his bed demanding money and when he didn't move fast enough they beat him in the robbed him. sheriff john dart is a parishioner here and was outraged

>>this is one of those that outrages everyone he was not just any 80 year-old senior he was also a priest to give to the community it chalks everyone appalls them and who are these cowards who do such a thing ... >>we interviewed sheriff tom dart inside of the rectory and we were able to visit with the priest for a few minutes he is badly bruised and swollen he suffered four or five broken ribs he seems to be in good spirits considering the situation doctors are indicating that if he does take the easy he should be ok. >>charges are expected against a

man that police say admitted to stabbing a woman to death at happened last night in the 7700 block of north sheridan road in the rogers park neighborhood 35 year-old rasheda tucker early stabbed multiple times police say the suspect called to people and confessed to the murder and then waited at the home until police arrived it's not clear what relationship the suspect out with miss tucker >>in nearly six hours standoff in the city's uptown neighborhood ends peacefully all those of three suspects surrender to the police trains bosses and streets were shut down last night as chicago police secure the area around 4600 north broadway. the situation began at about 4:00 p.m. after police arrested a man in a weapons related investigation police then tried to take three others into custody and then barricaded themselves in a nearby building when police tried to question them push the three ended their standoff around 10:00 p.m. no word on any possible charges

>>the fraternal order of police is demanding immediate action to make a west side police station a safer place to work on at least four occasions this year police and other people i've preached security at the harrison district station at harrison and kedzie last month a man actually carried a loaded machine gun into the station and announced that he was declaring martial law the fraternal order once a male security fence recordable surveillance cameras and a new alarm system at the station >>dozens of programs are killed when a suicide bomber strikes a shiite shrine in afghanistan >>an undercover police operation reps and gun fire aboard an amtrak train headed for illinois leaving one person dead >>and he is serving a suspension with the nfl now investigators want to know it if detroit lions endomicon soo

afghanistan today. one attack happening during a holy day celebration at a shiite shrine in cobble 54 people died and 150 were hurt when a suicide bomber set off an explosive bomb and bomb blast at a city in the north killed four people and injured 21 the attacks came one day after afghan president hamid karzai warned that the taliban could make a comeback as coalition forces pull out of that country the television said that it was not involved in the bombings. >>iraq's prime minister said the man who served as saddam hussein's top diplomat will be executed next year after u.s. forces pull out of iraq former iraqi foreign minister tariq aziz was captured by united

states forces in 2003 he later testified at the war crimes trial for saddam hussein to reach disease was sentenced to death by the iraqi high tribunal last year for his role in eliminating religious parties during saddam's regime aziz's lawyer said that if the execution is carried out it will lead to more conflict among iraqi factions >>a man and a police exchanged gunfire aboard a train heading to chicago leaving the man dead and an officer wounded and have been dead and amtrak station in dallas yesterday afternoon police said three officers in the skies were inspecting the train when the passenger pulled out a gun and shot at them one of the officers returned fire and killed him the officer were shot in hand another passenger were shot in the shoulder bolts are being treated at a hospital for non-life threatening injuries witnesses say that it appeared the shooting was over a disagreement over a seat. >>a radioactive material has

been found in baby formula made in japan official said that the finding highlights the radiation threat of food in japan was damaged by an earthquake and tsunami last spring the company that makes a baby formula confirms radioactive material was found in powdered milk but the levels were within safety limits and did not pose a health risk however the company is voluntarily recalling 400,000 cans of its baby formula >>vp is accusing halliburton of intentionally destroying evidence related to the 2010 explosion and oil spill in the gulf of mexico. the blast killed 11 workers injured 16 and triggered the biggest oil spill in u.s. history bp has filed a lawsuit against halliburton which did the cement job for the deepwater horizon oil rigged bp claims that halliburton destroyed evidence on some and testing and violated court

orders and not producing computer modeling results halliburton says that the suit has no merit the final federal report on this bill said that bp halliburton and trans ocean all share responsibility for that disaster >>a new discovery in space astronomers to measure the two largest black holes in the universe each hole is 10 billion times the mass of the sun and holds a more than 300 million light years away before these findings the largest black hole was only 6 billion sons >>even though his presidential bid is suspended herman cain is still aggressively raisi

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the markets we have stocks mixed with the doubt in the green the s&p and the nasdaq in the red ... standard and poor's says depending on what comes out of the results of the summit this week it may downgrade 15 european nations is that actually happens that would shake a lot of confidence out of the european bailout attempt ... the bank of america agreed to pay a $315 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit with its merrill lynch canadaunit over sales of mortgage- backed securities. next year united airlines will be able to

speed certain fliers through security at airports but you need a special invitation and you need to agree to background checks ... more than 120,000 flyers have used the pretext service since october-check service since october. people are spending more on holiday decorations this year analysts say that spending on christmas trees will had more than $3 billion this holiday season that's the highest then cents before the 2008 recession

the switch from big banks to credit unions was not as large as previously thought the credit union national association said that its survey on how many customers switched in october was off instead of 650,000 customers making the switch the agency now says that it was more like 214,000 the organization said that the mixup was likely due to confusing language in its previous survey >>herman cain may have suspended his campaign for president but that has not stopped him from still raising money he dropped out of the republican primary last week amid accusations of sexual harassment and marital infidelity but just one day before the announcement he had sent out an e-mail to supporters asking for donations to his campaign he has raised $9 million since october 1st he can convert them money into a political action committee and

use it to support other candidates and causes >>presidential candidate mitt romney apparently spent nearly one in 2000 and taxpayer dollars to help keep records secret orders is reporting that mitt romney spent the state funds to replace computers in his office at the end of his term as massachusetts governor his aides also bought the hard drives from their computers to keep for themselves his staff also had e- mail's and other electronic communications wiped out from servers it is unknown what was erased orders says that the moves were legal but unusual >>newt gingrich is widening his lead over the other gop presidential hopefuls gingrich in new york yesterday to meet with donald trump holds 33% of support in iowa according to the latest washington post-abc news poll that is well ahead of his closest rivals mitt romney and

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is tomorrow. u.s. service members who survived the assault are sharing what that day was like here is jim mendoza with that report >>when the japanese attacked pearl harbor this man was a marine based aboard the uss san francisco >>there were tremendous amounts of explosions and then smoke a little bit later on the fire on top of the water >>this man was a 19 year-old navy pharmacist's he comforted the dead and dying >>there was so much destruction in such a short period of time there's no glory there

>>the japanese sneak attack killed more than 2400 u.s. servicemen and women it came into ways the first at 753 in the morning. pat thompson was 10 years old living in navy housing near pearl harbor >>i was outside waiting at the planes coming over the field i waved at those japanese planes not knowing the belonged to the enemy >>there were witnesses who returned to the harbor to participate in discussions that were organized by the national parks service to commemorate >>my job was to collect bodies and we were not heroes >>our youngsters don't

understand what really happened ... >>the pearl harbor survivors association is a dying generation with few still alive they are worried that live eyewitness accounts of that infamous day will be forgotten >>tom skilli

residents in new mexico woke up to vice slicked roads and snow this morning it winter storm dumped a few inches of snow across that state yesterday freezing temperatures turned it that sloshed into sheets of ice

overnight that prompted weather advisories and warnings across a half-dozen states police to shut down parts of the interstate described driving conditions as a skating rink police are advising drivers to use extreme caution ... >>tom skilling has the full forecast >>there are lots of forecasts floating around about a barbaric winter ahead ... but the later we go in to december without snow the better our chance for not getting as much through out the season ... we are running 15 degrees warmer than december of one year ago that's a tremendous change in patterns. we have lake affect clouds. some of our snow

showers are product of what we just saw in the footage from the mexico.new mexico. lake michigan is still warm enough to give us moisture in the atmosphere. but the big story this week will be that chunk of arctic air coming down to us later in the week producing snow showers overnight thursday we're not expecting those to be incredibly eventful. those will move out of the area. 7.9 degrees above normal above

the typical time. in december by this time last year we had about 5 in. of snow counted. there are clouds on the map that's the arctic front but it is way off in the western distance look at this cool air plunging all the way south from canada down to the texas gulf coast the real cold there is still staying up in northern canada. 36 percent

of the united states however is covered with snow right now. we had 39% one year ago at this time that's a respectable amount ... we are four degrees cooler than we were yesterday at this time ... we're looking at the temperature in white horse in the yukon province we won't be feeling that until later in the week ... it has been fairly windy at some points this morning 30 mi. per hour wind gusts have been recorded. it's

nothing we cannot deal with. we are looking at the view from buffalo grove. tonight it will be fairly cloudy those clouds will break up tomorrow. here's what happens over the next 10 days we have a big reservoir of cold their expanding across canada and coming down to us later in the week that will rush out of here and by sunday we could be back to the 40's once again. we don't get that really

cold there until very late next week. not bad for december. there is high pressure in the area with very light flurries. we see a storm moving out over the appalachian mountains heading up the mid-atlantic states into new england ... here is the forecast in detail this afternoon mostly cloudy there may be flurries and sprinkles temperatures will get up to 40 degrees this afternoon mostly cloudy and cold night with a few flurries the low temperature 27

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restaurant in evanston is here with a novel coffeecake recipe for the holidays >>we're going to cut the fat in this recipe as well >>these are quintsnce they are in the apple family and you cannot eat them raw they're not very pleasant if you do so we're doing these in a simple syrup and simmer them until they have and are an inch color to themn orange color.. we are splitting the required

amount of butter by two-thirds and substituting with cottage cheese we are adding vanilla and lemon zest and we are going to add eggs we have 2 c. of all- purpose flour 2 egg there we are risking these ingredients together salt and baking soda and a quarter cup of sugar it's not a very sweet recipe. once

the wet and dry ingredients have been planted wheat planted them together next week then blend them togethemixed, then we blend them together.. we don't want to over mix the flour because that makes the cake last tenderess tender i like to spray my cake pan ...

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>>happy tuesday it is a big risk out there we have some snow flurries and some mixed rain and snow showers across certain parts of the area of the stormy weather is to the east of us it will get cold later in the week before a warm-up comes in on sunday we have 34 at o'hare 35 at midway ... it feels like it's in the mid-20s with the wind chill factor. that's across the metropolitan area it is a cold day out there. the most substantial snow will happen along the east coast. there are

frost and freeze warnings in western arizona and the santa ana wind is blowing in southern california they are under a red flag advisory ... the canadian air is coming and that keeps things cool later in the week we will get arctic air. by late in the week the wind will bring and warmer temperatures ... we're in the mid-20s at the end of the weakened back into the 40's by sunday