denver rod blagojevich. courtside in a matter of hours behind the scenes. wgn news @ 9 wgn news @ 9 35 year veteran of chicago fire department a hero many times over fire commissioner robert hoff leaving his post immediately. top story around the country tonight during the replacement shows and why he is leaving not clear tracking details for us >> we do know he is stepping down we do not know why. was it personal? more to this? hoping to find out more tomorrow. you have seen this gentlemen on television and many robert hoff times fire the face of chicago fire department no longer overseeing this after year and a half on the job. appointed by

mayor daley june 2010 robert hoff as you mentioned a third generation firefighter his father also of firefighter who died in the line of duty yester day marked 50 years since his death. robert hoff has been with department 35 years well liked by the rank-and-file today told me they were shocked to hear this afternoon of his departure. >> i did not expect this not today. preparing for the meeting tonight when i heard. it was a budget issue. nothing to do with g8 and nato summits because the type of person who likes to get his hands dirty and be in there something like this first time ever done i do not think he would leave on that note. >> personal decision all i can tell you the membership will miss him greatly. he was a rare

breed as a boss membership did not like they loved him >> after p find out why he is stepping down the next question who will be in charge of the fire department? who will be the new fire commissioner hearing a person has already been appointed of looking at jose santiago used to be the leader of the office of emergency management year for the city of chicago. that however has not been officially confirmed. should find out more tomorrow again why he is stepping down and who will replace them making it formal announcement sometime tomorrow. the latest downtown back to you >> business leaders opened upcoming g8 and nato summits will elevate chicago as a global commercial center. the same business leaders are worried about the logistical mess likely to create for world leaders.

city's answer to some but not all of the questions >> hundreds of business owners and managers want to know the basics should they stay open for business during g8 and nato summits this spring? commercial airlines normal schedules? public transportation? the answer to the questions was yes. chicago chief law enforcement official message stay calm. starting now top brass from secret service in chicago police and fbi and the office of emergency management fielded questions supple time stated there may be things to be concerned about there is nothing to fear. the overall message they want the city to remain open airports and the trains other types of transformatiotransportation will be operating and should not

be avoided. one-third of officers at the ready to react if trouble breaks out also says not a fan of using tear gas to break up protests. does not care to repeat scenes like this in pittsburgh 2009137 people arrested outside of g 20 summit in 1999 world trade organization gathered in seattle chaos erupted battle of seattle law enforcement leaders learned plenty and tonight business leaders worried not only about companies but the safety of their step walking away feeling better about what lies ahead. >> we are all probably overreacting. to some of this stuff. common sense approach. my business constituents will be helpful >> preparing for the unknown and the idea of a world less stable

than in years past. >> personally i feel good like knowing i have a security force on steroids and i think what these guys all playing well together in the same sandbox not having issues up who is in charge everybody working together i think that will be a good + >> tonight somonauk also gave local businesses office managers tips to use approaching g8 and nato summits. tips for businesses. what happens across the globe will be the topic in chicago when g8 and nato summits get here. occupy chicago protesters today this time over activists arrested trying to establish encampment of the movement supporters tried to get the cases dismissed also

blame city leaders for stepping up enforcement of minor ordinances harassing and arrested protesters. 99 percent efforts protesting what they consider economic injustice. rod blagojevich hadn't to the rockies to serve prison term. former governor getting his wish federal prison and colorado. he tells >> federal correctional institution located littleton colorado low security facility close to 1000 prisoners illinois governor reportedly soon be one. inside at rocky mountains to not be mistaken not known for the views may be low security but it is a real prison >> cushy country club facility is not >> denver attorney and a number

of client served time here says rod blagojevich might have requested the facility a judge might have agreed but the bureau of prisons sold decisions former governor had into a place dating back to world war two neither posh nor maundered far from it >> this is a real present barbwire or around a cinderblock building not a whole lot of you confined prison guards and you are doing relatively real hard prison time >> thinks it will make visitation easier >> maybe family looking to move appeared close to international big airport people can fly in and out more easily. that is the advantage >> strictly limited visits rod blagojevich more privileges from reading to recreation than prisoners at more secure facilities have but very little scrutiny from the outside

>> statement also highest security prison and security super max supple the sotheby's down from here no media attention how he prefers it no water in elective office. >> thank you. whitney houston death investigation focusing on the pills found in the hotel where she died saturday los angeles coroner subpoenaing doctors prescribing and a pharmacist. e! news reports houston had been taking anti- depressants and anti-anxiety medication. toxicology report due in two weeks. sony music apologizing for hiking price for whitney houston music. a mistake. full speed ahead faster amtrak train making a debut in

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wgn news @ 9 found buried under trash and debris at home learning more tonight about the life and horrible ending for elderly woman. more from southwest suburb >> 72 year old margareta scheibe died of natural causes according to the medical examiner circumstances surrounding the death by any standard most on natural. decomposing body found tuesday it buried under a foot of trash rubbish margareta scheibe she had been hoarding for years stacked to the rafters and spilling outside neighbors had seen signs of a problem but had no idea just how bad it was. >> i know all lot of people complaining that has happened we try to be claimed >> she basically went to church

very clean and neat i would have never thought about that to die and this affected >> margareta scheibe had not been seen in a while living with 46 year old son since her husband passed away the to keeping to separate part of the house >> the neighbors told me the other day have not seen cats in weeks >> four hours searching for margareta scheibe on saturday wading through the debris inside the home of finding no sign up for the stench unbearable police said the bed for first responders went inside wearing masks. the home is essentially treated like a hazardous material site. >> always sitting and talking with me seemed very personable even though the house looked like stop outside you would never suspect what was happening on the inside >> cook county medical examiner's office says that was

heart disease and no signs of trauma or foul play her son has been interviewed the file is closed there will be no criminal charges. police headquarters >> a man in prison for killing a mother and two children a chance in july to prove why thinks he was wrongfully convicted. fedell caffey life sentence for murdering debra evans had two children addison 1995 also cut her unborn baby from her womb the baby survived judge the evidentiary hearing before july 9th attorney said today fedell caffey client first trial was not fair >> we have a misleading since the allegations are true that they have covered up the fact that what attorney buying drugs from a witness considered a violation it would be inappropriate the jury should hear that question and the testimony. >> nobody from the debra evans family at the hearing and the

baby that survived 16 year-old elijah support given to the murders and anchor has subsided. still coming up iran bigger with nuclear ambitions united states reactions to iran president flaunting his country's advances and dubious distinction? chicago called the most corrupt city and the united states and all aboard amtrak passengers and chicago faster option to get to a certain destination. the funny thing about a garage is... that it always seems to be closed when you want it open. and open when you want it closed. until now. with the craftsfman assurelink garage door opener you never have to wonder. because you can open or close your door antime from anywhere. and with all these features, craftsman has your garage door covered. exclusively at sears. craftsman. trust. in your hands.

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hopping on board more on the future of the new method of travel in united states. >> you have to focus gazing out of the window the landscape is a blur. it is only a 90 minute section of track between porter indiana and kalamazoo michigan halfway point between detroit and chicago federal transportation officials say the pace of growth is about to accelerate. >> later this year construction will begin additional 110 mi. per hour segment kalamazoo- dearborn and illinois the first segment 110 mi. per hour operation later this summer construction continuing joliet- all 10 eleroy. >> continued federal funding of

three short years 80 percent of chicago-st. louis and chicago- detroit lions will be complete part of a system that will bring high-speed rail to 100 million people in nine states and 40 midwestern cities obama administration says estimated 50,000 personal jobs permanent jobs to the beach in a thrilling to local business people and representatives >> probably up 70% in the summer months because of the lake close by. >> when you hit the speed is of little bit bouncy. not exactly turbines but you do feel bouncing around. but plenty smooth to pull out the laptop with wifi and other comforts cruising on the fastest passenger train. >> president obama in milwaukee today outlining what he calls

blueprint for america built to last. >> manufacturing is coming back. companies are starting to bring jobs back. the economy is getting stronger. the recovery is speeding up. we are moving in the right direction. >> master lock company 84 a company he singled out and state of the union address an example of job increases and united states investments. announcing a major strides in nuclear program iran allowing them to enrich uranium faster. today iran president wgntv.com oversaw first domestically made fuel rod mahmoud ahmadinejad uranium is usually enriched to 3% new process produces uranium purified to 20 percent. country claims reactors solely for energy and medical research announcement raising suspicions try iran to make atomic weapons.

new study apparently proves this chicago is the most corrupt city and the country illinois it ranks third most corrupt state in the nation finding of a new report released today former chicago aldermen and a professor dick simpson leading the study he and team found 1600 public officials convicted of corruption since 1976 number one and the nation down not the worst crimes owns governor's mansion in springfield and city council chambers down the hall that is where most crimes have been convicted of federal corruption. 31 members of chicago city council have been found guilty or pled guilty to all kinds of crimes since 1973 also four men who served as governors also convicted of criminal actions. another victory for state senate candidate fighting to stay in the ballot in the 12th district appeals court agrees with

circuit court decision raul montes jr. stay in southwest suburban race. raul montes jr. wearing fbi wire when he says a rival offered him $3,000 and a job and the campaign to drop out the rival state senator steve landek got raul montes jr. take all of the ballot cook county judge and now appellate courts have ruled raul montes jr. back in the race primary election march 20th. chronic pain without medicine how handheld device provides high tech pain relief and a fire cracker exploding in his mouth electric cigarette sends a man to a hospital with severe burns and look behind the scenes at how the stadium united center goes from basketball court to hockey rink.

tonight's medical watch pain believe not in the form of a drug body responded differently to pain stimulus. for one woman it was like flipping a switch on a whole new life. the fall onto

the hard surface lead to a decade of hard time for stephanie richardson. acl and mcl pain to a knee replacements in the end still unbearable pain >> once you have done that many replacements and you have the nerve damage it hurts to walk always limping and accommodating in the lap your entire body engaged in the problem >> when things spent out of control doctor handed her dvd >> i started to cry >> people experiencing the same paint too much to bear staff and eight signed up to test the nervous system of this device >> it was just fascinated >> coming from this tool >> the device you carry in your pocket during the day and if you would need to change your actual

stimulation bubble this is what you could use to do that >> the other part is implanted >> and terrace like a catheter into a conference of the spot right on top of the spinal cord and when you turn it on changes the polarity of the current and translates to a loss of pan but it takes over the sensation of pain in different kind of sensation feeling like a buzzing, but sensation in the area normally with sharp shooting spasms of paint >> like a switch >> it knows when you lay down or what side of you body you are playing down or if you are standing up >> leaves her mind free to think of her future >> it is a before like to get off the couch >> if you think of the narrow stimulator can help in your life

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down in the gulf coast could pull cold air down the lake talking about that snow flurries over the weekend speaking of that parents of one of our former intern's ohio sent us these heart-shaped snowfall accumulations from yesterday. that is amazing. these just the way it worked out. a lot of love and the air. rainfall tonight in chicago. eight times the 40 degree days we had last year. they number 40 today. we got a peek at the sunshine tofor awhile. winter 40th day above 40 degrees. we had five last year. 10 days of one engine of snow

fall on the ground against 671 year ago. almost every statistic you look at reinforces the fact amazing winter you can see rainfall tracking across the central united states big thunderstorms on the gulf coast area intersected moisture. rainfall tonight not snowfall the reason is clear from the high temperature map 43 degrees in chicago the 40's reached into international falls have to go hundreds of miles north canadian border to get into arctic air. chilly up there look at the current temperatures in low of cool air coming into the country factor in the wind chill in the northern plains states dropping down to the single digits. look at the been killed by hudson bay. winter short is not here to 3 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago. south wind blowing. rainfall totals. 39

degrees at o'hare field warmer than normal high temperature this time of year. 100 percent humidity. the view of the clouds buffalo grove today. at rainfall and the louisiana. big thunderstorms across the deep south. here is the precipitation on the radar tonight. pretty good returns. rainfall coming down some areas around chicago. three- dimensional plot stacks of clouds rain falling the heaviest. a couple of hours and number of hours rainfall to go tonight. pressing in on the area part of an area extending down the gulf coast down in mississippi and parts of the vienna. big storms and water

spouts in the los angeles area high temperature only 56 degrees today. energy starting crossing into gulf of mexico spent a storm up that might impact us this weekend. talking about that in a second visibility is low tonight three-quarters of a mile. a chance for snowflake mixed with rainfall before against the mark. 11 out of 15 days this month warmer than average. averaging 05 degrees above normal at this point rainfall around midnight. three a m still widespread rainfall scattered but still in the area for morning rush-hour. clearing out by afternoon. sunshine breaking out by late morning. good deal of sunshine by the afternoon. and here you can see

first system of rainfall tonight. watch this crossing south of arizona tomorrow. jumping reformat in the gulf of mexico the explosion of precipitation turning northeast. forecast to the east watching this closely. wind circulation between this and that. air down the length of the lake and that will be cold air enough to set up late to affect snow flurries or showers saturday and saturday night early sunday into chicago area talking more about the system. for tonight that hazy rainfall may be mixed ice pellets or wet snowflakes far northwest sections below 32-36 tonight like variable wind tomorrow wintry cocktail sprinkles for the most part maybe ice pellets or flurry northwest before sunshine breaks out midday and afternoon scattered clouds colder 26

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conversion crew. as time went down another chicago bulls' victory united center conversion crew already in motion >> we have to get the chairs up housekeeping can start to claim once they are clean we can take everything up >> 45 man work force flippant united center for a black hawks practice and game the following day >> everybody has specific areas. 45 guys finely tuned machine of sorts >> the crew can turn this place from hoops-hockey power and 30 minutes we put them on the clock >> they shourd get enough practice especially with the condensed version of the nba season >> we just had seven games in eight days and it gets busy sometimes >> basketball-hockey and vice

versa from a bond jovi to oprah winfrey the only constant in this building is the ice on the bottom >> like if research you have the refrigeration alternate keeping it cool kind of like an ice- cream sandwich. you have the cold slabs and the ice and we covered this with a poly fiber product to stand right by the floor and you really do not notice >> you have to do begin to actually get to the ice up comes the basketball court all 232 pieces assembled in a jigsaw fashioned voted onto storage carts and down comes the baskets >> every couple of games you can see and that on there and the brand it gets very dirty we always claimed that >> this happen and other crew members assembling the penalty box putting up the boards reconfiguring the stands fewer seats for hockey and basketball. the next big short picking up

the installation panel's more than 600 of these. finally down to bare ice right on schedule but when the united center opened in 1993 it things took longer >> about 6.5 hours like anything you get used to a procedure and process whenever not in this down now we do this and about an hour and a half-hour 45 minutes >> anybody break anything >> here and there but easily fixed nothing broken on this night told us is clockwork and when the final panes of glass " and that is everything. chicago bulls game ended at around 930 by the time the crew had done its than it was 1109 mission accomplished and what hour and 39 minutes. close enough. ready

for practice in the morning. tomorrow night to do this all over again. zamboni driver on the west side for more than three decades has to do his thing and to deal with his biggest issue. >> leakage muy thais soak right in >> a story for another day these guys love it when the ice show and circus come to count two weeks with no change over though an incident with a camel he would not elaborate on starting saturday they had seven straight days chicago bulls and blackhawks and a van halen concert they will be jumping. making way for redevelopment and the mall seen in the blues brothers move the meeting of the wrecking ball.

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for two years to quit smoking suddenly exploded and his face and knocked out his teeth apart of his town and he had blood all over his face >> firefighters suspect the battery inside the cigarette caused the explosion small fire left behind burns pictures explosion like this never reported researchers say 2.5 million americans use electronic cigarettes last year alone. tom skilling seven day forecast a very scary >> absolutely. we do have a seven day forecast rainfall right now pretty well out there looking at the cameras pretty good returns as evidenced by the yellow and orange their a lot of reflectivity heavy rainfall coming down big storm moving up

through the eastern pacific boggles the jet stream north by itself into california pretty nasty weather tonight. look at the way the moisture friday morning friday evening saturday morning look at the march to explode you can see of the lake snow showers taking on the appearance feeding in here later saturday it-saturday night. heavy snow fall 1 ft. of snow a

lot of wind out east northern brand = us all for the weekend reflected that in the temperatures. 45 degrees on private after tomorrow 39 degrees sunshine in the morning on friday 30's over the weekend north wind and maybe snow flurries of snow showers updating that good night >> iconic mall in the classic movie blues brothers began the wrecking ball dilapidated mall

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dagger 71-66 victory 20th of the year. the hot seat cannot get hotter for bruce weber at illinois hosting perdue university second half the freshman rep had 20 points tonight. three-point game. later on all of the bonds directly to the rack. 60-56. but the boilers know where to go. on the baseline a couple of tough shot down their illinois has the ball down three need in a bomb to tie. terrible shot back of the gramm as close as they can't illinois loses 67-62 they are 16-10 losing seven of the last eight games. depaul university playing better. on the road defending national champions cleveland melvin university of lies and for the big finish.

halftime but now rolling in the second half shabazz napier looking for andre drummond. a lot of that tonight. 80-54. newly ranked irish shooting for seven and a row against rutgers university junior jack cooley of glen abarca south 22 points and 18 rebounds pulling away in the second half and sophomore alex dragavich from glen brook no. in my skim off the bench. on the professional side chicago bulls practiced without derrick rose and richard hamilton unlikely that will play against boston tomorrow night luol deng did have all-star coach virtue of victory over sacramento kings tom thibodeau and staff getting to coach eastern conference all stars. you can bet has not spent one second thinking about any of

that >> it is a long home stand all- star break coming up stay focused easy to get distracted thinking about other things when you have to go step by step that is how you get in trouble looking behind and the head >> it is how it works happy >> well deserved great the past two years. very deserving practice pretty hard? >> no. i do not think it will practice tomorrow >> public semifinal starring number one high school player in america second half parker showing off his range 19 points and six blocks. captured cam 61-51. lincoln park bogan

against curie fourth quarter jabreel jackson for curie finds devon foster up by 10 points bogan battles back down 50-47 last possession juwon henry for the time again and it rattles out. moving on to face simeon curie plant in chicago that is the news tonight good night.

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