charging kids for bad behavior! a network of high performing charter schools is under fire today. some parents say making students pay fines is not teaching them anything ... good afternoon i'm steve sanders. >>and i'm dina bair. we welcome our viewers who are watching us from the country on wgn america and on the web ... >>tonya francisco's live from city hall with the top story >>a bunch of student activists

and parents said that the number and noble network charter school system is making an inappropriate profit off of its students >>dozens of students and parents held a rally and march from cps headquarters tisch's city allto city hall ... over the policy of charging students for breaking minor rolesules when a student's receives more than 12 detentions' they have to pay a steep three digit find and that resulted being held back from graduation in three years the noble network system collected about $300,000 in these confinesfines..

>>my student was in detention for some very small and fractions like her shoes being not tied or not focusing on the teacher in the class and not having an id in the pocket ... >>but apparent from the different school in the noble system feels that these fines are really reenforcing disciplines and her child >>my child actually has a chance to graduate gutted colleg and i don't think you get this and go to college a chance that she would not have in the mainstream public school system

the los angeles county coroner's office says that it's too early to tell if drugs played a role in the death of singer whitney houston. despite numerous reports that prescription drugs were found in her hotel room saturday coroner's office said that they are waiting for toxicology reports which could take up to eight weeks the coroner said that the autopsy is complete but they have not determined the cause of death for the 48 year-old singer they have confirmed that whitney houston was found in a bathtub in her hotel room but they have not said that she ever drowned >>i don't know if the detectives discussed any of this with the family but we have not released any information of the kind >>sources say that whitney houston's family is planning to

fly her body back to her native new jersey where a funeral will be held in newark this friday or saturday whitney houston's 18 year-old daughter by the christina has been hospitalized twicby the christina brown has been hospitalized twice since saturday friends of the family say that she had anxiety like breakdowns and she is now on a suicide watch ... >>at last night's grammy awards artists who were visibly upset about the death of whitney houston paid tribute to her threw out the show >>l.l. cool j opened the show with a prayer dedicated to whitney houston sang " we are truly blessed to be touched by her beautiful music " jennifer hudson also gave a powerful

trib-u performance with one of her hittribute performance with the whitney houston hit recording of " i will always love you ... jennifer hudson delivered an emotional rendition saying whitney we will always love you windy used to make the song famous in the film " the bodyguard " there were reports that jeff rutzen broke down during rehearsals but she kept her composure during the actual show >>police are looking for suspects in the shooting outside of the markham nightclub last night amy rutledge spoke with police and brings us the latest >>according to markham police it began as a fist fight on the dance floor of this nightclub women and men were here for a college night event when a fist fight broke out some individuals

were thrown out and the fight spilled into the parking lot one of the men involved went to his car got a gun and fired at the group hitting two men won in the abdomen the other in the arm they're both in and oak lawn hospital have undergone surgery and are recovering ... >>there are lots of leads that we have to follow up ... we will go from there >>those are all the details we got from the police on the suspect at this point not much information and there's not a lot of information about the victims in this case they are either in their late teens or early 20s >>chicago police are hoping someone will recognize the man suspected of killing a woman during a robbery at a subway sandwich shop. this photo was

taken by a surveillance camera last thursday police said the man you see here shot and killed 57 year-old lynn ward the man came into the subway shop in the ukrainian village never had and when ward ran toward the back of that shot the suspect shot her. he took money from the cash register and got away land ward died the next morning if you have any information about this case you are asked to call harrison area detectives. >>the grandmother of a 7 year- old boy who was killed in a house fire over the weekend has now also died a 61 year-old barbara scott died yesterday she had been hospitalized with severe smoke inhalation firefighters found her unresponsive on the first floor of a home at 107th and southbury several hours after they put out the fire they found 7 year-old omar tucker in an

attic crawl space firefighters believe that he went up there to hide from the smoke and fire to dogs including one found near that boy in the attic also died in the fighter the cause of the blaze is still under investigation >>police are searching for three robbers of a magnificent mile jewelry store the burglary took place this morning at the l make a jewelry store in 909 north michigan avenue chicago police say that the offenders entered the store by smashing a glass door >>an attorney for to mobsters convicted in the family secrets trial are in court today trying to get a new one in 2007 a jury convicted several men including reputed mob boss james marcello and joseph lombardo there were found guilty of racketeering conspiracy that included 18 murders their attorneys argue that the men did not get a fair trial because the judge ordered the jury to remain anonymous

coming up next at noon the president lays out his election- year budget focused on job growth and tax hikes on the wealthy and a judge rules that a former penn state assistant football coach charged with sexually abusing boys will get to see his grandchildren

aims to cut four trillion dollars from the deficit over the next 10 years. he discussed the budget this morning with students at a community college in virginia. he said the spending blueprint increases taxes on the wealthy while proposing stimulus spending over $800 billion for job creation and infrastructure investment. >>i'm proposing conditional cuts that i would not normally make if there were not absolutely

necessary ... but they are the truth is we have to make tough choices in order to put this country back on a more sustainable fiscal path. >>the budget takes effect october 1st and protecprojects a deficit of more than 1.3 trillion dollars for the year republicans say they will not pass the budget they say that the new budget is just a rehash of failed proposals >>they are cleaning up in athens greece today after hours of violent riots tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets and burned dozens of buildings angry over the parliament approval of billions of dollars an austerity more than 100 police officers were injured and more than 45 buildings were damaged or luted early this morning the protesters are fed up with their financial suffering. lawmakers approved a package of deep cuts in spending wages and pensions

which was needed to secure $172 billion bailout from the european union which said that it would not bail out greece if greece did not make the cuts and reduce the minimum wage by 20% >>a judge rules in favor of requests by former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky while he awaits trial jerry sandusky today was granted permission to have visits with 11 of his 14 grandchildren at his home court approval for the other three because their mother objected jerry sandusky has been under house arrest since december when he was charged with sexually abusing several young boys at his use charity group he's pleaded not guilty to all 52 charges against him in another ruling the judge denied a prosecutor's request to pick a jury from outside the penn state area >>the second day of searching for evidence for the missing wife of a man who killed himself

and his two sons turns up no clues in hopes of uncovering clues that could have been left behind by josh powell. josh powell killed himself and his two sons and a house fire last week investigators say that he attacked his five and his 7 year-old boys with a hatchet before the fire some investigators say that his actions were in mission of killed in the death of his wife is oldest son had been talking about seeing his mother in the trunk of their car the night she disappeared >>every actor in the stricken fukushima daiichi nuclear plant in japan hit a record high temperature plant's operator said the temperatures inside of a nuclear reactor have been increasing since february 2nd over 91 degrees celsius today to other thermometers in the same location shown temperatures are only about 33 degrees the company says a faulty

thermometer could be behind higher readings the plan was declared to be in cold shutdown on december 16th osama bin-laden reportedly told his children not to continue his terrorist she had against the united states and the rest of the western world his brother- in-law tells britain's sunday times newspaper that osama bin- laden and kirch as children to go in europe and to america he wanted them to live in peace and get a good education osama bin- laden was killed last3q

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... there will be an audit of chinese factories ... at&t getting its customers angry ... they're complaining of slow internet speed on smart phones the associated press says that at&t cut data speeds to slower levels for frequent data use customers ... >>from now until the end of april there will be free check it tax return services ...

crain's chicago business reports that ni-cor will be saddling an accounting scandal but customer settle an accounting scandal but the utility's customers will not see any financial benefit immediately ... one soulful singer cleaned up last night at the 54th annual grammy awards >>adele!

>>she picked up six trophies sweeping the show she walked away with victories for album record and song of the year she also won the categories of best popular album popular solo performance and music video she chalked up her victories to one experience >>it's amazing how this album came from one of those rubbish relationships and it's gone on to the things that have been so life changing ... >>it has been a trying year for adele she underwent surgery for a vocal cord hemorrhage last fall which forced her to cancel her united states toward ... here's a look at some other grammy winners ... the foo fighters took home five grammy awards including best rock album for wasting light kanye west won

best rap album for my beautiful dark twisted fantasy and chris brown took, grammy for best r&b album fame lady antebellum won best country album and bonnie there was named best new artist dean will have more on the grammys throughout the morning ... >>robert jordan will have some news from washington when we come back [♪...] >> announcer: bank robbery certainly is a frightening crime. after all, bank robbers stole $43 million in one year. but identity thieves? try 37 billion! and guess how identity thieves are getting some of that money. by taking over our bank accounts. they may not even need your social security number anymore. all an identity thief may need

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richard vanecko punched david koschman who then fell and hit his head. the chicago sun-times reports that hours after that incident police abruptly dropped the case because the detectives in charge went on vacation. david koschman died 12 days later in the case was reassigned. in chicago police spokesman said that it's common practice to enter via the victim first. there were told that david koschman would be in a medically induced coma for at least five days. the family of david koschman once a special prosecutor assigned to that case in spite of president obama's change to the new contraceptive health care legislation cardinal francis george addressed chicago area catholics over the weekend calling that lot an assault on religious liberty ... the cardinal was one of many church leaders across the country who distributed letters to be read at the mass over the weekend the new law originally required religious based organizations

including hospitals and charities and troll to their employees. but president obama announced friday compromise. the law was changed to require the insurance policies for which those organizations pay to cover contraception. the policies getting mixed reaction from catholics ... >>in that letter cardinal george also asked the faithful to plead with their members of congress to strike down the president's policy he has not commented since the changes were announced last friday. >>the owner of a new strip club in suburban stone park has a message for a convent of nuns living next door. he says " we ask that you treat us as we have treated you by not trying to unduly disturbed us by imposing your religious beliefs on us or others " the convent house the elderly and sick nuns and young

women wishing to enter the roman catholic sisterhood. the sisters say that they're not trying to impose their religious beliefs they're just defending the christian principles of their community stone parks mayor insists that everything in building a strip club was down lawfully, ill. business transportation and labor leaders want republicans on capitol hill to now it's not too late to fix the transportation bill expected to come up for a vote in the house this week ... robert jordan has our report from washington ... >>both republicans and democrats from illinois believe the current transportation reauthorization bill as currently written is bad for illinois ...

>>the major changes were blocked ... and that was unfortunate i agree with my colleagues when they say that this bill falls short i hope we can make changes on the house floor to make this a more cohesive bill and a jobs bill that can move the whole country forward >>illinois mass transit under the current bill would take a big hit in the budget losing $650 million >>the mass transit system along our highways are the arteries of commerce for this region ... we need to continue to rebuild and repair the system and preserve our ability to do so >>certainly this bill was crafted today it's detrimental to metra ... >>legislators say that by working together now is not too late to fix the transportation

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we have a fresh round of snow coming our way tom skilling ... >>yes there were some late affect lake effect snowstorms on the other side of the great lakes ... but eight of 10 of our

weekends had a pretty mild temperatures for winter but this weekend was an exception here in chicago ... there is a broad region of over running snow coming from the plains states through iowa into illinois and there is a second this system the bigger of the two systems coming our way thursday ... the arctic air is lifting out of here retreating back up north ... here is too nice systemthe system happening tonight ... the second system should arrive thursday ... this will be a companyaccompanied by some of that

canadian arctic air ... that will generate a wintry cocktail of precipitation thursday but for tonight we will have about 1-3 in. of snow over about 12 hours beginning this evening we will get some light flurries this afternoon that will grow steady between seven and 9:00 or a bit earlier to the west of the city ... there are many states under winter weather advisories in anticipation of some snow storms coming from the western states ... for us we will not have heavy snow we will have some coverage on the ground

however it will be giving us some slippery conditions so do be careful ... we are looking at the system map ... we will see a lot of overcast skies tomorrow we will get some sun breaks and then the precipitation will return on thursday for that second it storm ... here is the model running

through the afternoon hours we have some chile flurriescool flurries ... by 7:00 p.m. we should see more coming down but we will not accumulate much may be up to 3 in. ... it will be mostly cloudy during the day tomorrow. here are the projected accumulations in the region: we have a broad area of southern

wind combining with that cold air from the north ... the arctic air is retreating back to canada we are three degrees warmer than we were 24 hours ago. you could see the wind chill factor is 40 below zero up and the upper hudson bay of canada for now we have clubs continuing to thicken with a chance of light snow ... southwest winds are between 12 and 18 ... the low

temperature will be 27 degrees this evening we have extensive clouds tomorrow ... temperatures will get up to 37 degrees ... it will be partly cloudy and mild wednesday ... normally you get about 10 in. of snow for every inch of water so the ratio is low for this evening ...

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time for sports ... derrick rose will see a back specialist today in an attempt to solve his back spasms. he has already missed seven games this season ... and he missed his second straight in boston yesterday. the chicago bulls were down 12 points in the fourth when they turned it over ... they rallied from a 14 point deficit ... carlos boozer

finished he had a team high 22 points. but still down three points with 30 seconds left c.j. watson forced a 22 ft. shot with plenty of still left on the clock and mrs. that the bulls lost 95-91 they finished the ninth game road trip 6-3 games and they are off today >>in college basketball northwestern matt per do ... they lost 87-77 they're now 5 and 7 in the big 10 >>... and illinois met no. 22 ranked michigan ... michigan beat them a 70-61 the illini have lost three in row and six of their last seven games >>the wife of former bears

defensive tackle tommie harris has died. ashley harris went to the hospital two days ago with either a stroke or a brain aneurysm and she died last night. she was only 29 years old and have two children he was very popular with his teammates when he was here and some of them reportedly rushed to the hospital to be with him this weekend that's looked sports we have your live illinois lottery drawing coming up ... here are the winning pick three numbers: 6 3 6

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city vehicle sticker design. the parents of the runner up now say they do not want their daughters artwork used. the design from caitlin henehan was picked after the previous winners entry was interpreted by some as having gang signs on edge. she changed her mind if the order family calls on wanted media and public scrutiny of her work. the city's graphics department wanna create the new sticker, people use the cta blue and red lines late at night should allow some extra time this week as construction work is expected to several different locations. the blue line trains in both directions will operate on the same tracks between damen and the clark and the lake station overnight and on the red line the trains will also

operate on the same tracks for early friday. during this work people must board and exit all trains on the 95th street southbound side of the platform at the roosevelt harrison jackson monroe and lake stations. mayor rahm emanuel is continuing to release information about where the city's money is going and to home the city is now posting all employee reimbursements on line within 3000 reimbursements made to employees last 13 months and have found that data-dot city of chicago .org the reimbursements include personal expenses on credit cards and travel costs at first the city wanted all departments to handle them the same way since taking office mayor emanuel has released more than 300 datasets including

salary information crime data lobbyist disclosures debarred vendors and information on amended buildings >>in the medical watch cancer drug shortage could put many children at risk ... the drug methotrexate is used to treat a form of leukemia that most often strikes children between the age of two and five years old oncologist can prevent cancer from spreading to other parts of the body by injecting large quantities reserve it free methotrexate directly into spinal fluid but one of the largest suppliers of that drug voluntarily suspended operations at its ohio plant in november because of significant manufacturing and quality concerns since then supplies have dwindled doctors and federal health officials now warn that many hospitals could run out in the next two weeks >>overeating poses a special risk for the elderly according to a new study which involved

more than 1200 dementia free people between the age of 70-89 years old participants were split into three groups based on their daily caloric intake those who consume more calories were more likely to develop mild cognitive impairment mile cognitive impairment is the condition between the normal forgetfulness caused by aging and early alzheimer's the study is in the american academy of neurology journal when it comes to children and sleep the more things change the more they stay the same researchers looked at sleep studies and exported rice going back more than a century found no matter how much sleep children are getting it's always assumed they need more the man of sleep recommended by experts of dropped over the years and researchers say it it's not surprising because three there is not any good science on which to base any recommendations the current ones are 11-12 hours of sleep for

preschoolers 10 for older children and teenagers >>millions of americans suffer from sleep disorders and one women in the quad cities area said that hearses technology based paramedic anti-gay works a schedule that's all over the place and when she goes to sleep day or night she's still working texting as she sleeps or talking on the phone and she is no memory of doing this ... a doctor who has treated people with sleep disorders for decades says that treating someone her texts while sleeping could be as simple as taking their phone away when they go to bed and then t

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autobiography was titled " i know why the caged bird sings " >>we have a snow event coming >>we have between 1 and 3 in. arriving around 7 tonight ... we have flurries coming down in some areas currently. that will continue off and on through the night and 2 tomorrow morninginto tomorrow

morning ... we have lots of clouds for tomorrow ... coming up on thursday we will have a second round ... is currently 32 degrees in chicago and the wind is picking up from the southern direction ... it's currently 33 degrees at o'hare and 34 degrees at midway.

we have some wind gusts that are beginning to develop ... the wind chill factor makes it feel like 29 degrees. system #one crosses this evening and then a second one will arrive thursday ... 37 degrees tomorrow 38 degrees the high temperature we have some snow thursday and then a fairly mild weekend ... >>fetch thank you tom skilling and thank you for joini