around 430 this afternoon 643 east 87 place what we got was a building that had exploded, upon our arrival we found a one story structure that totally collapsed. >> this neighborhood's 82 year- old mother lives directly across the street rushed home from work to check on her mom and the rest of her family. >> for her to be on inside the house into the house was shaking i didn't know where my mother was, >> i got down on the floor. it was crazy. >> neighbors say the hall is

state-owned, the last tenants moved out about 10 months ago beverly allen says today house explosion is when she entered family will be talking about for a while. >> it's terrifying because thinks like that don't normally have been over here. >> a live look on the scene here firefighters back on the scene checking on some hot spots here after our photographers notice some smoke coming from the roof to the cause of the explosion earlier today remain under investigation neighbors say they are thankful no one was injured. we're live on the southeast side tonight. a house fire in lake station indiana has taken the life of a mother and two children. when the bill some reports. >> unpainted and greece for her

knees, 26 rolled jennifer taylor who died last night when flames engulfed her home in lake station indiana. >> she was a wonderful mother and she loved her kids. she was a wonderful person you could ask for better. valerie stopped by the home of wayne street this morning to see if she could salvage any toys for jennifer son, a three year-old andrew and a one-year-old lynden whose first birthday party was just yesterday afternoon both boys are hospitalized today. >> i remember looking and and she and her just 2 ft. from the front door which i told her to call crawl, i said crawl. i kept saying crawl out the back or front door, crawl out. friends certainly did all they could. a man saw the flames and ran across the street without even

stopping to put on his shoes. >> we got the front door open and still leading was lange on the floor may be 5 ft. away and i was trying to get in there and he was holding the door open and the ceiling came down on us so we just couldn't get to her. >> jennifer was pronounced dead in her driveway, her sons were airlifted to chicago one witness say that one looked ok and one not all. >> when ever saw the flames they knew the outcome would be tragic. all's you saw was smoke and then the flames come up on the side of the house by the driveway and it just went up quick. it's a scene that will be difficult to erase from their memory when you know there's

somebody there that can help that you can do anything for it's worse than horrible. the cause of this fire remains under investigation. >> a lincoln park man who suffered burn injuries from a fire last night has died. the fire broke out on the third floor of the building and the 2700 block of north pine grove just before 11 last night officials say the 85 year-old man who was originally listed in critical condition had burns over his entire body. firefighters are still trying to find the cause of the fire but say may have started on a couch. a man and woman were shot early sunday in the city's west garfield park neighborhood at about 2:00 a.m. in the 500 block of north aver street when a group of men fired shots at the two, the 18 year-old woman was struck in the leg and taken in good condition to a hospital while the 41 year-old man was

shot and taken to another hospital, so far no one is in custody. a major water main breaks in east indiana has the city in a state of emergency the school district canceled outclasses tamara as a result it happened on columbus drive and adler street early this morning, the health department is distributing water to residents and local businesses. residents are encouraged to boil their water before using it, officials hope to have that break fixed sometime tomorrow. a chicago congregation gathered to show support for a priest on the mend after a brutal beating still to come the surprise special guest that was in the crowd. also i tens of thousands of people gathered in this place this evening and this could be the bat breaker for the bears' playoff, host dan roan will break it down. >> above normal temperatures and even amid date rain event is in chicagos future.

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own it. packers... vikings... red state. blue state. announcer: we come from different places. uptown. downtown. but when we live united, we create real, lasting change in the education, income, and health of our communities. both: live united. real change won't happen without you so give. advocate. volunteer. live united. sign up at liveunited. org. the first-time services were held at a chicago church after a priest was brutally beaten and robbed there this week marcella raymond reports that well parishioners attended mass the priest received a very special visitor mayor emanuel visited father where he was beaten on tuesday, pulled from his bed in the early hours by two men

looking for money. he's got his fighting spirit intact, that has not been affected. he was hit in the face in kick to the reds before leaving the men to say for they got away with $600, the presiding priest today told the conversation that their pastor is doing better that he is up and about the still a lot of pain. he is a great man that is the best i can say he is just a wonderful wonderful priest, the mayor and his daughter state for urban mass where much of the homily was about the father. he turned his spear into battling of violence justice and poverty but parishioners were afraid that he wouldn't be able to battle back from this vicious beating.

he's a great priest, can't find a better priest. >> mayor emanuel came on behalf of the city to support them. i want to express to the congregation as well as to the father that all of the city is with them and the parish. it's not just an incident with one person. >> father dan prayed all day during the attack and one of them had an odd request this might sound ridiculous but could you pray for me? >> we are a family and community and we are together here and it's important that we love one another so i pray for his recovery and even his attackers whoever did this to him. >> prayers today for father dan's quick recovery and for those who did this to him. >> he has been a prisoner of st. margaret's for 30 years and is a close friend of father dan. reporting from the south side near beverly marcella raymond it wgn news. >> thousands of people visited

the shrine of our lady of guadalupe and this place this evening, the our lady of guadalupe festival began at 4:00 p.m. and the celebration honor today when many catholics believe the virgin of guadalupe appeared to the peasants named one diego near mexico city in 1531 people cannot to lay flowers and candles at the base of the shrine this afternoon many people say they plan to stay for the overnight festivities including a fireworks display at midday. this celebration ends with the mast and service tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. looks like chicago youth football team could be heading to the national championships in new orleans if they can get a little help. the chicago chargers and chairs quad are celebrating a successful season and called a news conference today to make their hopes and dreams public, to make it to the new orleans gumbo classic starting next friday the

chargers have to come up with $350 for each of 100 participants that's $35,000 so they are appealing to chicagoans for help. they have worked extremely hard this year, they listen well to us and everything we asked of them and we just need a little help. >> they have tried other fund- raising tactics like candy sales but their travel fund is still falling short. maybe someone will come through. a huge success today's fund-raiser for the wings program against domestic violence, more than half a million dollars was raised for wings which stands for women in need growing stronger more than 200 children parents' and grandparents' turn out with corporate sponsorship, the fund-

raising goal past with a tally of $510,000. that's helping to serve abused women and children who are homeless in chicago. making headlines once again, up next why he was flown back to panama today. the medical set back that has hospitalized joe paterno indefinitely.

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longtime gingrich soft in his opinion that the candidate but stopped short of endorsing gingrich. i think you could be president obama and i certainly would support him gramm added that they share a common political desire and that is to end president obama as policy. former dictator men well is back in panama officials transported the 77 year-old to a high- security jail near the panama canal, he will serve out the remainder of his prison sentence and the country he was forced out of nearly 22 years ago he was sentenced six * totaling more than 67 years in prison for crimes committed during his regime including the murders of several opponents in the 1980's

russian president dmitry has ordered an investigation into fraud allegations into russia's parliamentary elections the move comes one day after thousands of russian protesters demanded that the polling be annulled and run protesters are also calling for an end to the role of prime minister vladimir putin. the protests show how much the russian face in their leader has fallen. in yemen and new unit was sworn into office as fighting continued in the southern part of the country 15 militants into government security personnel died, yemen was engulfed and this year's spring that swept the middle east at least three people are

confirmed dead from last night's 6.5 magnitude earthquake in mexico, the earthquake struck about 100 mi. south of mexico city and officials say the quake was felt in parts of nine states and one man was killed when the roof of a house collapsed on him and another was killed when rocks fell on his truck mexico city's mayor announced on twitter that no major damage has been reported. former penn state coach joe paterno was hospitalized this morning due to a fractured pelvis, a source close to the paternal family says that he injured himself when he slipped and fell saturday night he will not require surgery but doctors advised that the hospital upstate since he is undergoing chemotherapy last month paternal was fired from his criticism that he should have done more what he found out about sexual assault allegations against former assistant coach jerry

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we added all the way up to 45. those winds continue all will brisk out there this evening moving oil -- about 8-50 mi. per hour. generally will be a breezy night around here, a time lapse cameras not much to show but blue skies with those winds and temperatures in the mid-40s it produced wind chills in the

thirties across much of the area tonight our air temperature has gone to the 30's look at that 33 out of hair along chicago's lakefront is 43 degrees. temperatures will not drop a lot tonight a two. temperatures in the mid-20s so probably we will say a wind chill value tonight in the 20s at this hour. it's a good idea to put on an extra sweater look at this mild their a little cold front will shoot three irrebuttable not change the temperature's very much that's coming in on monday but then returned to milder and looks like it will stay mild until maybe the following week where there is a little area of cold air that is drifting south of canada and could affect us and about three days it is already

assembling down through parts of oklahoma and kansas and missouri that will grow a little and aerial coverage and as tuesday night and wednesday and according to some forecasted we could see as much as an inch or two of rain from that, a lot of rain being spread in parts of alabama and georgia and in fact some rand reports out of florida today as much as 5 in. of rain. our computer room art model showing that system coming together sharp slow year. slowly here. a look at the grade point numbers from the forecast model

low temperature 26-31 with a south wind monday mostly cloudy may get a peak of morning sunshine high-temperature again and the '40's probably mid-40s monday night mostly cloudy and then by tuesday it looks like a pretty nice day 45 to 50 showers possible by evening into the 74 cast that actually has some 50s anna. thankfully it will not come down is down or else we would have a real mess. the date of. at chicago's children's

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north side dress shop donated the dresses and volunteers from whitney young and walter high schools helps the girls with fittings and nails into makeup, and all 30 teams with chronic illnesses and disabilities that to enjoy being a girl cents to a generous group of staffers and volunteers. art lovers and holiday shoppers browsed one-of- a-kind case this weekend at the bus town holiday art show. the show was held to at the park field test for in town, the show presents art of all media from textiles to watercolors to oils and even some jewelry and ceramics 100 artists displayed. a holiday seemed romantic comedy leading the way in a pretty disappointing weekend in the theater.

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that's the news for this sunday nights. instant replay was dan roan is coming up next.

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