that mannesmann critical condition good afternoon i am steve sanders >>and i'm dina bair we welcome our viewers who are watching us around the country on wgn america and on the web ... ... chicago police is still looking for suspects in the sexual assault and severe beating of a young woman in the logan square

neighborhood police said in an 18 year-old woman from highland park was in the neighborhood for a concert at the congress theater on north milwaukee avenue but she was not allowed in the show because she did not have id the woman was later seen walking away from a nearby restaurant with three people and then found naked and unconscious in the 2100 block of north rockwell the woman is in critical condition at illinois masonic hospital police questioned the three teenage boys in that attack but released them without charges last night for chicago has its first homicide of the new year ... and 19 year-old man from west rogers park were shot and killed in the backseat of an s u b this morning around 230 a man with a gun approached a black ford explorer near lawrence and kedzie and shot the back seat passenger in had the victim managed to drive himself to a nearby hospital but he died a short time later nobody has been arrested yet >>and now we go to our top story about that jogger attacked by

pitbulls this morning >>1 women said that the attack lasted nearly a half hour >>this is where the scene of the vicious pit bull attack have been a pair of running shoes and an ankle wait are all that remains at the scene it happened around 6:00 this morning here at rainbow beach park let's listen in to the rest of the story >>someone was yelling at those dogs to heal ... that dog one after that man like a bear and forest >>that man was bidden over his entire body including his legs is arms his face he was taken in

critical condition to start your hospital the two dogs were shot and killed by police and taken away by animal control that man is in critical condition now at stroger hospital ... >>south suburban police are investigating the death of a newborn baby whose body was found inside a trash bin judy wang is live and country club hills with latest on that investigation >>good afternoon that newborn morris found in a garbage dumpster at this condo complex residents said they did not learn until this morning while the paramedics and the police were here last night the 13 year-old mother told police that she did not realize that she was pregnant the baby boy was found before 73 last night at hampton court complex he was wrapped in

bloody jeans he was full pound term weighing 4 lbs. the cook county medical examiner plans to conduct an autopsy later today >>it's really sad ... for the baby to die like that ... >>you hear about stuff but you just never know it could happen here >>until they learn baby's cause of death that the police are continuing their investigation they will determine at that point whether or not to pursue charges >>a new law goes into effect in

illinois and order to tackle the growing problem of online bullying if a student makes an on-line tried using facebook twitter or a b log he or she faces a suspension or can be expelled from school the loss stems from an on-line post made by students in oswego against a teacher in 2005 with a student claimed that he was so angry that he killed authorities at the school say they were not sure what they could do since the threat was made after school hours off property to now by law school administrators can take action >>did we forget how to drive in snow we icy roads or did the city for get her to deal with it? i see road conditions caused a number of accidents and lane closures this morning julian crews reports on the city's response to this morning's snow. >>the accidents on lake shore drive are reminder that old man winter is upon us >>you need to drive slowly need

to watch the conditions >>conditions change rapidly off of lake michigan in the wee hours this morning near randolph and the drive we had multi car accidents and for a brief time southbound traffic on lake shore drive had to be shut down ... the department of trees and sanitation work through the night to stay on top of the problems but the flurry of snow caught everyone including the urologists by surprise the city had to react quickly at 4:00 in the morning received warnings and it took us 45 minutes to get those trucks deployed. >>conditions are vastly improved now but temperatures are expected to plunge again

tonight bridges exit ramps and overpayasses are being addressed so they don't freeze over ... it was a quickly developing snow early this morning and once again the concern will be tonight that the roads to not freeze over >>you will pay more at some of the city's parking meters beginning today ... hourly rates will increase by about 25-50¢ this year and in the loopy will pay $5.75 an hour between 8 the morning and nine at night to pay $3 $50 an hou50¢ an hour ... other

areas of the city will seek hourly rates jump to $1.75 to rate changes will begin in the look and gradually move to the rest of the city by the end of january while the new rates go into effect today you are not required to pay the new rates until later reflected on those mailbox's changing those signs could take up to one month and don't forget if you are using the tollway for the first time in 2012 the tolls went up 87% yesterday so 40¢ toll is now 75¢ with an eye pass to a $50 the extra money will pay for new toll road construction projects over the next 15 years >>the city of chicago filter record number of potholes in 2011 bruise the city patched more than 600,000 bottles and streets and alleyways last year that's up by more than 31,000 in 2010 off city transportation

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that i ran also plans to test fire short range and surface-to- surface missiles ... benefits and manhunt continues for a gunman who killed a ranger at mount rainier national park in washington state margaret anderson was shot to death during a roadblock in the park yesterday morning authorities say that she was trying to stop 24 year-old benjamin barnes who had sped past a snow tire check point he is an iraq war veteran who is said to have survivalist skills rangers evacuator that park to search for him he is also a suspect in the shooting of four people at a new year's house party south of seattle ... and army soldiers accused of trying to board an airplane with a military grade explosive. trey scott atwater was arrested at midland international airport in texas on saturday tsa agents spotted the explosive inside the soldiers carry-on luggage during an x-ray screening and a security checkpoint evacuation and brief closure of a portion

of the terminal the material found was identified as an explosive but there was no detonator >>a string of arson attacks in new york city appear to be targeting muslims for a tax to place last night in the jamaican neighborhood of queens hear jfk airport and islamic center that houses a well known moscow was one of those targets no injuries were reported some of the buildings caught fire authorities say most of the explosives were molotov cocktails made with bottles police say that the suspects through those bottles from a moving car no one is in custody >>in l.a. as firefighters battled the latest suspected arson fires investigators are questioning a man who was taken into custody early today with an 50 suspicious fires in a broken down in hollywood and other areas including a dozen more today most of began in parked cars and some cases the flames had spread to carports and apartments over the weekend police released surveillance

video of a man considered a person of interest in the investigation but it's not clear if the person being questioned is the same man seen in the video >>for the second new year's eve in a row hundreds of blackbirds plummeted from the sky and died in a small arkansas town authorities in beebe arkansas say that the birds were deliberately targeted. last year by 4000 black birds were found dead in the same area on new year's day is believed fireworks caused those birds to become disoriented and fly into stationary objects if an emergency ban on us fireworks was put into place but fish and game officials say there's evidence that fireworks were set off in the middle of a wrist. >>pope benedict the 16th will visit cuba in march and plans to perform to open air masses the pope will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the statue of the virgin of charity found by three fisherman floating in the bay in eastern cuba is not known of the pontiff will meet with fidel castro but

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undecided voters before tomorrows iowa caucuses. >>faugh as jim acosta reports the gloves are coming off >>making his way to and i was sports bar newt gingrich made a last attempt to woo voters by starting a brawl with mitt romney ... abandoning his pledge to stay positive he went on the attack pointing out that mitt

romney is a massachusetts health-care plan when he was governor allows for abortions ... he claims that mitt romney is trying to buy the election with all the negative advertising from his super pak >>i think we're running a very clean campaign >>it's an experiment that is playing right into rummies handsmitt romney sans >>this is a bad experience debates and about experience >>the results from the last two days of the polling are fascinating rick santorum is

statistically tied for the lead with mitt romney and that explains why mitt romney is going after him as a creature of washington >>rick santorum chooses to take on ron paul in stead >>the foreign-policy of president obama will be no different from that of ron paul >>ron paul response to that with his crowds being bigger than that of santorum >>and don't count out michele bachman or rick perry ... as for newt gingrich he is headed straight for new hampshire to rip into mitt romney after the caucasus ...

our own tom negovan is in iowa covering those caucasus starting today 5:00 p.m. he will be bringing us reports with chicago tribune political reporter pearson over the next two days >>as he prepares to go to prison former gov. rod blagojevich posted a new year's message on facebook: he says it " these are dark and extremely challenging times for our family we draw strength from the love that we have for each other " despite the adversity we face we look to the new year with hope we are filing an appeal and we trust in that we will endure and we will persevere ... rod blagojevich faces 14 years for trying to sell the u.s. senate seat of president barak obama >>the annual rose bowl parade welcomes each new year with a bang and a football game this year occupy wall street

protesters will be marching on the ongoing parade in southern california caring a large copy of the constitution and the human octopus protesters will march in opposition of wealth inequality and social injustice in america that don't have official float of about 300 of them were given permission to walk the entire route at the end of the parade for the event is being seen by an estimated 50 million television viewers and the 700,000 people that line that route ... >>ahead in the medical watch more supply issues for drugs used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. >>and the bears limpet into the off-season after a disappointing year plus the latest on the brian urlacher injury >>and we have music this midday from the indie pop/rock group do nora their new cd " boyfriends,

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calorie counting ... and live strong has daily guidelines for quitting smoking gradually over time these are on twitter i phone and and tried operating systems ... this can require a support system >>you have to be a role model and show people how to be healthy >>social media also helps the connections cheer you on >>power-ball lottery ticket prices will soon be going up >>the cost of a power-ball ticket will double from the $1 to up to $2 now on january 15th the minimum jackpot will also double from 20-$40 million but your odds of winning will improve because the numbers of players can choose from will decrease from 39-35 racing your

odds to one in 175 million. this music video was made by a couple wanted bank of america to close on alone after waiting several months for their $200,000 loan to close and there were being charged $50 a day by the home seller while the loan was delayed ... bank of america responded after the video was posted by closing on the lawn and agreeing to pay those extra delay fees >>after all the holiday shopping americans turn their attention to charities in december one-third of all online charitable giving happens in december and usually the last two days before the new year.

that is so that the donors can get a tax deduction for that year donations in 2011 were running slightly ahead of last year before the weekend but they still lag behind pre recession levels americans get more than two and $90 billion in 2010 that's well below 310 billion given in 2007 just before the recession began >>now that the holiday celebrations are over chicago is preparing for its annual recycling of christmas trees. chicago residents can drop off live trees a 23 different locations across the city the screen friendly option keeps the trees out of the landfills and uses them as ground cover for city landscaping projects last year the city recycled 14,000 trees that resecting stations will be open january 7th right up to the 20th >>a chicago culinary legend will close his signature restaurant this summer charlie trotter said that he will close his popular eatery on army tisch near

halsted in lincoln park at the end of august for its 25th anniversary of the 10th time james beard award winning chef said he wants to travel and go back to school to study philosophy he said once he completes his master's he will

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i guess everyone including the city should have listened to you last night everyone seemed so ill-prepared >>it was an interesting little storm ... excuse me my jacket is a little bit tight this morning ... but will talk about that some other time we had some cloudiness and some light snow flurries developed into half-

inch and that was the snowfall i created the problems on the other side of lake michigan we have lake effect snow a much more substantial event a big problem up towards traverse city michigan vacancy 10 in. and they have blizzard conditions there the other side of the story are the cold temperatures 23 degrees at 0 hair at this hour temperatures in fact this afternoon will be dropping maybe 215 or 16 degrees by the dinner hour >>wind is powering its way across chicago speeds running from 20-25 mi. per hour producing wind chill numbers that are just amazing mostly in 5-10 degree range that will continue during the overnight hours. we're looking at the plot of the wind those darker colors on the map suggest stronger wind speeds by tuesday we expect that to relax just a bit so there's

not much else to worry about for the latter part of the week with the wind conditions but we may get other issues ... if you like the cold perry may be disappointed by the forecast we have a warm up this week the visibility is no problem in chicago right now but the other side of lake michigan has restricted visibility from all of the white out blizzard conditions ... you can see that lake affected snow barrelling its way across lake michigan across to southwestern michigan and north western indiana ... nothing for the chicago area according to this forecast model just a passing flurry toward the end of the day we will get some relief and even some breaks in these clouds >>you can see that several more inches will be possible on the other side of lake michigan

there's a travelers' advisory staying that way through the evening in michigan portions of northwestern michigan are under blizzard watch ... >>for the afternoon here in chicago will have mostly cloudy skies with passing for is in strong gusty wind temperatures will drop ... tonight will be mostly cloudy with let it snow in northwest indiana temperatures will be between seven and 12 degrees tuesday will not be as cold 25-30 degrees tomorrow temperatures will warm up to 31 or 36 degrees for the remainder of this week we may even make it into the 40's by friday we will talk more about that in the 7 day forecast later in the broadcast >>thank you jim

>>time now for today's trivia which of these is not from the mollusk class of animals? the answer is still ahead ...

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sprained his mcl off and is undergoing an mri at this hour the bears won 17-13 to break a five game losing streak >>we don't want to tear this team down and start over this is a good football team and we will when a lot of games in the future >>the bears finished the season 8-8 after starting 7-3 >>aaron rodgers set out the packers finale against the detroit lions the packers were down with a minute left when backup matt flynn finds jermichael finley for the game winner flynn threw for 480 yds and five touchdowns both team records for the packers won a 45-41 to finish 15-1. >>here are the first-round playoff matchups in the nfc borland's cents oppose the detroit lions saturday at 7:00 p.m. atlanta visits the new york giants sunday at noon the defending super bowl

championship packers along with 49ers have been bias in the afc the broncos are and despite losing to kyle orton and the chiefs yesterday they host pittsburgh saturday afternoon at 330 cincinnati visit houston saturday also at 3:30 p.m. the patriots and the ravens have byes f. rip hamilton miss the bulls' home opener with a groin strain in the first derrick rose to carlos boozer who goes inside for the dunk he scored 17 and had 11 rebounds bulls led by 46 at one point at the end of the third homer classic gets the steel say that and c.j. watson fines ronnie brewer for a big duncan wilson left in the fourth with a sprained elbow he will have an mri today the bulls won by 40 points when 04-64 ... the divers were allowed to wear swimsuits only you won't find wetsuits in this brave group

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maximize their profits >>the fda and the cdc say that there is no need to recall enfamil newborn formula several chains pulled enfamil from their shelves after a 10 day old infant died in missouri on december 18th health officials say they found no bacteria in any of the sealed cans that they tested they did find a potentially deadly bacteria in an open bottle of nursery water and prepared infant formula off but they say it's likely the contamination happened after the formal was opened. ... young adults are living exercise behind when they go off to college. according to a study of more than 600 canadian youth physical activity decreased 24% from adolescence to early adulthood. if those declines were the steepest among young men entering universe year college experts say it's critical. because those in active use tend to remain inactive over their lifetime the study is published in the american journal of preventative

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is not from the mollusk class of animals ... >>we have more call their coming in tonight and then it will be better tomorrow warming to the upper 20s ... by next friday up to 47 degrees we will have a little bit of a front come through saturday or sunday will look a bit colder but we will be lots of sunshine this week the increase those clouds saturday and sunday with the approaching cold air accumulations since this morning if you are traveling eastward keep in mind

that the roads will be slippery in northwestern indiana and southwestern lower michigan heavy snow and blizzard conditions in the travers city michigan area ... >>it was quite gray this morning ... >>if you are going out today bundle up ... >>thank you for joining us today. we hope you have a great afternoon. remember we are back here at 5 and again at 9. we will leave you with more music from the indie pop rock groups donora...