new labels on food in your fridge. wgn news @ 9 school for education not to be murdered >> showed up to class a tonight one student is dead another clinic to life. good evening. top story abroad the country tonight the family of victim blaming lack of security alternative school for students who struggle in mainstream class is. at the christ medical center in oak lawn tonight. >> wants to get involved in the stabbing of fighting or his life across town of other family terrible loss. south side school failed 17 year-old chris wormely add to an allied waiting

to get to security when he was stabbed by a fellow student >> cents to school for education and not to be murdered >> wormely family cannot understand how chris wormely jr @ ami kids infinity chicago wound up dead and another student reportedly attacked ambulance at the school 103rd south side 7:30 a.m. this morning detectives searched for a weapon on top of the building roof school officials suggest tensions brewing between chris wormely attacker the third found himself caught in the middle wormely family refuses to believe the trouble brewing describe the 17 year old with adhd as a home body not a trouble maker >> chris wormely did not bother anybody plays basketball and video games >> chris wormely simply found out going to be a father and wanted to become a veterinarian

dream shattered today waiting the security line at school security family upset screening with a wand for each of the 25 kids who attend alternative schools with emotional or behavioral issues. >> at school should have done more than they did >> security for the kids >> anytime anything happens taking a look at everything that we do everything on the table at this point >> chicago police confirmed chris wormely offender intended target at this hour waiting to police it to file charges. 17 year old boy charged with triple murder tonight shooting spree high-school ohio chardon high school tj lane behind bars opened fire chardon high school cafeteria killing three of them.

stephenudents at chardon high school marching to class today talking about healing >> and they were both i was with them. i prayed with them. i wiped their tears and i know that god was with them. counseling sessions held all day today for students and faculty and parents regular classes resume tomorrow at the school graphic images of bodies piled on top of each other changes today targeting the medical examiner do term limits body removal process >> big changes coming to the office of cook county medical examiner after board of commissioners meeting it reduced the life appointment opposition to a five-year term

>> ordinance not directed at any specific person directed at the fact individuals people of cook county need to be accountable to not just county board president but the board as well >> dr. nancy jones starting in december 2010 examiner may be removed on claims of negligence measures have come about as a result of renovations relations in january over capacity more bodies piled up >> very strict standards of 40 days after medical examiner determination cause of death tell the public we will bury the body exhumed the body presented to you >> commissioner behind ordinance passed today requires medical examiner's how long bodies can

remain at the bork lived a nightmare went missing in december told of relatives he was not there turns out he was four weeks on accounted for >> and did with no comfort not sorry for your loss sorry for misinformation please make arrangements only thing we got get these >> chief administrative officer questioning by commissioners says the board has been cleaned up has not taken catholic cemeteries on offer catholic cemetery offering transportation of the bodies kelly says has not heard the offer directly >> donated 300 plots outer lining we still have to provide the burial shell and transportation medical

examiner's office we do not have transportation >> mixing up with catholic cemetery county officials meet with them next week hopes of working out a deal tops offered can be used reporting from outside cook county building >> speaking in chicago tonight he added states ambassador to nato says security concern to chicago should be excited host to g-8 nato summits town in may. you did club chicago tonight batt but changed that the court g-8 nato summits tonight as you mentioned experience out and bought it will be chicago prepares to take place on the world stage for none other than united states ambassador to nato speaking before the chicago

council on global affairs tonight union >> so nice to meet in chicago great city good opportunity for united states looking forward to bring colleagues here each and every day chicago at the time a crosstown baseball games to demonstrate a town that represents america and its truest form >> americas representative

persistent questions about securing g-8 nato summits while itself global security agency protesters expected to converge on the city host country and city wgn news @ 9 >> far downstate harrisburg pulling itself up from the rubble. tornado not going to be alone fall under governor pat quinn disaster relations opens the door for federal money comptroller sen judy baar topinka as office will prioritize payments to businesses committed to cleaning up recovery efforts death toll from tornado five of six people killed harrisburg lived on the same street no question town in ruins residents are not giving up. >> we will come back we will do

what we have to do. variate basilian to community >> staying alert because tom skilling says severe storms in the region tomorrow latest on storms heading our way could make for a messy friday night >> mayor rahm emmanuel getting friends from old friend announcing program hundreds of jobs in chicago and rod blagojevich pays off more debt in the days forced to present at president obama says to not blame him toward the rising price of gasoline.

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first wgn news @ 9 wgn news @ 92 old office mates former president and bill clinton and old senior advisor and out mayor rahm emmanuel back together plan to use private money to make older public buildings more efficient. details of the program >> chicago infrastructure trust using millions of dollars a private investments to make public buildings more energy- efficient mayor says city will save $20 million a year in energy costs creating hundreds

of new jobs. bold plan has the backing of the mayor's former boss. >> lifetime i would always be part of the mayor rahm emmanuel's cheering squad not what i wanted to come here. i wanted there to be maximum publicity for something that positive nobody is fighting here >> president bill clinton joined mayor rahm emmanuel chicago infrastructure trust private money to bankroll city infrastructure project goal is simple cut back on energy costs and create jobs >> discussion cannot afford to think about environmental energy costs put people back to work. that is the way to put people back to work. the cheapest thing to do less of that. >> and establishing the trust the president says chicago a model for other cities becoming

more energy efficient with old buildings >> all over the entire world except for united states infrastructure is built for modernizing public capital see chicago leading us to do something that has been done everywhere else and if you invest the money properly intelligently a good rate of return >> retrofit chicago reducing the city and will energy tapped by $20 million and create 2000 jobs. sitting down with mayor rahm emmanuel before tonight's news conference >> energy creating job-creating with a vehicle would not do with the other way >> city has identified more than 100 buildings retrofitted under the plan >> making million dollars worth of investments energy efficiency every year payback hundred 10,000 >> mayor rahm emmanuel says the building at the structure city

cannot afford to wait from support from washington or springfield >> the rest of the world doing this about time we do this falling farther behind as a country chicago unlike any other city more dependent moderate and the structure we have to be open to a different way of doing this. breakout model >> so far the biggest private investment expected infrastructure same group that has paid $1.8 billion to like chicago skyway investors considering the deal. has to be approved by the city council >> rod blagojevich owes $21,000 in penalties to the federal government in connection with court trial about a judge has ruled the money taken out of the $128,000 state pension fund. rod blagojevich $107,000 left for his family. not a full state

pension because of convictions still eligible for federal pension serving in congress about $15,000 a year start collecting that. senate makes a key vote in the fight over birth control details coming up and president obama thoughts on the rising price of gasoline and rising changes at the meat shop stories coming up. living with the

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reduce portion of that law they found objectionable including birth control allowing to opt out of virtually anything last night president obama announced companies with religious affiliations do not have to offer coverage for employees insurance companies will supply to workers. calling on doing away from subsidies to gasoline and oil companies the white house says finding ways to keep prices down. republican party is blaming gasoline prices on president's oil policies and lack of pipeline from canada. president obama told audience what he thought >> one thing i know about new hampshire political detector pretty keen. o detector is pretty sharp. you do know that we cannot just drill our way to lower gasoline prices. there are no quick fixes or silver bullets.

>> experts say the oil and gas companies get about $4 billion in tax breaks and subsidies >> conservative blogger air andrew breitbart died unexpectedly outside los angeles home last night known for posting controversial pictures of former congressman anthony weiner on twitter conservatives called him a patriot many criticize his message andrew breitbart had to appear as if racially biased against white farmer. >> united states pro-democracy activists including the son of united states transportation secretary ray lahood of the way home from egypt after lifting troubled that effectively imprisoned them working poor groups receiving illegal foreign funding release easing tensions for the moment between united states and egypt critical time and political world. more than

$300 per defendant makes the incident look to the united states more like a hostage deal than diplomatic victory. afghanistan to more american soldiers lost lives today in a shooting by an afghan soldier the latest in a series of united states troops debt to be total up to six incident prompted a recall of the nato personnel working in kabul concerns for future relationship between nato and afghanistan security partners. after the lottery changes at the grocery store meat lovers better informed about what is on their place at contrary to research only gets better with age. what is this? curious to what this says and the race cook county clerk close and controversial breaking this down after the break.

medical watch that a vaccine to improve chances of avoiding it flew fda approves new flu vaccine protecting against strains of the flu virus guarding against to a strange and 2 b trans. weakened strains of the virus. labels on certain food starting today in the past need only needed a nutrition label with killing or marinated added now requiring raw meat and poultry distributor is to document percentage of lean meat

and percentage of fat. easily can compare stakes chicken breasts and a truly no nutritional value. cost of the new label will be passed onto consumers should only amount to half a penny per pound. some things that get better with age new study finds sleep at the top of the list. despite the long- held belief more sleep problems adding years journal reports sleep quality improves over a lifetime. he was to sleep complaints from people in their 80s. sleep disturbances daytime sleepiness declined while moog went up back to you >> when we get older the s word gets better. tom skilling come up with details of rainfall and snowfall heading our way and >> ready to do some service today? >> the sound of sweetness walter payton honoring his father with

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wisconsin. up to 18 in. of snow fall great place for snowmobiling. seasonal total and chicago pretty close just 110 day time frame. 3 in. of snowfall o'hare field more snowfall last two systems combined. cloudy skies today march has not been terribly it's now we are around here. radar lighting up to the west storm is coming together as we move into meteorological spring three month period from march-may follows mildest winter passed 132 years pointing out march fastest warming month of the

year. high temperatures today trouble here today. 78 degrees oklahoma city. it is like summer down south. juicy air going through that air mass. slamming into cold air. setting up for a storm current temperatures 37 degrees and 58 degrees st. louis. national north american view current temperatures storm forming along the boundary between warm and cold air developing intensifying explosively moving through the midwest. quiet wind history humidity 73% wind to turning northeast tomorrow starting to howell storm by morning and by evening dangerous path producing cold air through dynamic left. could have heavy snowfall

starting rainfall midday in the city. snowfall shifting from the northwest to the southeast. wisconsin forecast upgraded winter storm watch to warnings chicago office issued a winter storm watch. to the north and west. advisory's next winter system to the west. severe weather a break up tomorrow. tornadoes touching down in the state only 39 have occurred like harrisburg tornado in february once more violent storm called e f 4 166-200 mi. per hour wind. only 2 percent have been that level or stronger. pretty amazing. under the nose of the

jet stream pointed out last week exactly coming in to these state maximum lift energy right there racing in northeast plugging and the moisture warm air things began to happen when that takes place. storm spinning up and developing. headline tonight rainfall changing too wet wind driven snow fall take time tomorrow. rainfall begins around lunchtime shifting taking place evening rush hour. winter storm watch late tomorrow. how the model place this. plays this. by 3:00 running from mccaffrey county proceeding east toward switching over during rush-hour 5:00 in the city model shows lifting

taking the back side of the storm out too fast. likely a good part of tomorrow night's snowfall. possibility of a northern counties with six or more inches of snowfall might get several in the city. storm shifting south overnight might have to upgrade that for the city. situation to watch several minutes latest numbers computer models snowfall. tomorrow night snow flurries and showers. saturday cloudiness weekend of clouds cold weather and flurries. and the northwest wind. maybe a more substantial snow showers doused in the area at times on sunday still a 70

degree temperature mid-week next week. isn't that amazing? stay tuned a good look at the latest map of numbers snowfall and everything. >> thank you. already heated debate on politics tonight. race for cook county clerk expected to be contentious. up next closer look at the candidates. >> group of tourists on want to closeup look at that. scary.

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cases a year with estimated 100 million documents all of this with $100 million annual budget under the oversight of dorothy brown for the last 12 years >> document managing system in place to have electronic documents eliminate missing files >> pointing to accomplishments such as interactive web site electronic smart forms with domestic violence orders of protection and other innovation but certified public accountant who holds mba has endured a fair share of criticism doing with awarding of new electronic filing contract out of state company that has given her a reported $21,000 >> i continue to ensure that my

campaign contributor wrought book with its style pay to play >> opponent says not at the cole wants to reform the office 20 years now alderman ricardo munoz has not been afraid to swim against the current at city hall now he wants to use his reputation as a political maverick to shake things up at the daily center >> entire public career reforming government progressive reform to government ready willing and able >> pointing to $17,000 in fines that the ricardo munoz had to pay election board in fines for failing to properly track campaign funds ricardo munoz said dorothy brown crossed the line taking cash birthday or christmas gifts from her employees. the bait and television appearances the to have clashed. ricardo munoz admits to making a mistake hire a professional record keeper to fix the problem as for dorothy brown no locker accepting cash

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wgn news @ 9 they say approached by a bear action not run group of tourists on nature walk in alaska a must have done their homework grizzly bear charged a group they remained cool to not make the sound they pause looking around walked away amazingly one tourist recorded during the tense moment the bear was about 8 ft. tall gigantic left them on harpe. amazing. tom skilling probably right in your backyard >> what within 100 yds they said

could not make eye contact should be interesting whether dead evening rush-hour deepening explosive called isobars increase quite a storm hoisted winter storm watches or northern county water the storm will produce all parts of three- quarters of an inch or more snow fall by one model account we can expect north and west suburbs heaviest snowfall follow the track of the storm northern michigan numbers coming out keep in mind for wind to developing rising faster and faster into the storm wind gusts late tomorrow light wind right now picking up dramatically tomorrow

night at midnight with the saturday when the cold weekend what is interesting cold air pump and saturday and sunday by wednesday 70 degree temperature cooler more warm air chasing arctic air to the north. tuesday next week, the brand map southerly wind from texas to the shores of lake superior to will bring it to springlike warmth middle of next week next couple of days to get through keep your ears on the forecast because my p up its overnight. starting with rainfall lunchtime changing to snowfall far north and western suburbs including mchenry and lake county

winnebago county snow falling tomorrow night and pulls making snow showers sunday interesting show tomorrow night. tracking this thing. once a year student at walter payton college prep leaving books behind them up walter payton and will sweetness day of service with a dance party dedication to serving the community kicking off a full day

of action >> community something i would be proud of not just about playing football about giving back these kids are learning what it is like to give back to their communities to help out i think you would be happy smiling down >> going out and helping so many charities and the community looking at the last unbelievable how many people helped and doing a lot of good today very proud of that. >> students dispatched a dozen locations across chicago area's giving out more than 20,000 lbs. tenuity people want month every month >> unloading food from the

grocery store that have donated food making sure it goes in the right place >> on loading things off of the truck down for storage village every year gives me a chance to help out time to do something >> meanwhile another group busy for 35 home of bottomless closet looking wonderful confidence to interview maybe not having the right thing to wear >> spent the day stocking shelves and cleaning windows mathematics teacher >> great way to get the school out there fund bought in activity for the kids service is

most fun with a friend trade experience >> sneaking a mask and here? >> back here something like that? >> promoting the sweetness that comes with serving the community >> winston churchill says we make a living by what we get make a life by what we give >> marcus leshock wgn news @ 9 coming up fighting a line i get a big effort from the big man try to upset michigan and white sox surprising 2012 need improvement from gordon beckham sports next.

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tonight what we would do fire instead of water. keep your eyes open. illinois big basketball game tonight. the end of the n.c.a.a. season and quite possibly the end of bruce weber if the allies and i can not handle michigan tonight. 17 victories for the season with a bag that big 10 record close games meyers leonard 18 points and nine rebounds to point them and illinois it could never get over the top of this game tonight. tim hardaway jr. the lead back up to five dish to jordantim hardaway jr. 25 points and nice dish to jordan morgan and illinois loses 72-61 to michigan. 17-13 maybe nit bound. also blackhawks had united center before trip to

ottawa which they made without jonathan toews capt. took will be back next week when a joel quenneville back and they're not clear healthy away all of his game ray emery in the goal tomorrow. bellmont tried to find out thinking to much i do not know not acceptable. by have to be better for us. fighting for a playoff spot. i have to find ways to make big saves situations >> comparing the standard of last year he was very good for us instrumental in getting in the playoffs expectations standards elevated to those levels >> chicago bears officially waived anthony adams and arizona talking of the need of

alex rios and adam dunn to return not the only ones >> for the white sox to rebound gordon beckham has to reverse the downward offensive spiral from 270 down to 230 with 11 strikeouts he knows it and everybody knows it >> was not my swing was not anything getting back to being a not a timid person and i was timid not how our role. i do not know. you will see >> i know where he is right now good place i think he will have a big year ready to take that step he did not get to learn a lot had to learn things most cut to learn on a bus not under the brightest lights, chicago cubs hope lefty reliever james

russell does what he did the last two-thirds of 2011 beginning as a starter found out he belongs in the bullpen >> starting does not go quite as planned but i think it helped me get comfortable with all my pitches and helped me just focus >> that part about going into the water? just kidding. there is your bad is it. terrific >> boys will play while today?

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