>> thousands of chicago commuters cannot be sure how to get to work in a month that have there is a good chance that some roads in the real will be closed and no one seems to know for sure tonight. it is our top story seen around the country tonight yesterday it was permits and protest and now it's about how the city is getting to work. a strong indication that the tracks behind me might have to close during the summit in may which of course would affect tens of thousands of commuters and as you might expect most

commuters we spoke with today hope the tracks will stay open. each week day 172 metric trains pass under mccormick place carrying an average of 36,000 passengers six amtrak trains also passenger carrying more than 13,000. canadian national trains use the track as well. chicago businesses are reporting their could be plans to close the tracks during all or part of the convectionconvention on april 31st. for you to increase the cost and then take away service for customers, i don't think that is fair. other commuters agree including students.

>> with the gas prices the way they are they cannot take away the public transportation. >> there is no clear indication of closers will take place. if closures will take place. and a spokesperson per canadian national says: >> monday if i have to work it would be of real problem. it's really the only way to get downtown and i'm certainly not going to drive their during that time. >> i don't understand why they would do that. >> other customers say if the tracks have to close they would make do. >> if it's two or three days for security reasons i can do that but it wouldn't really affect

me because i will always find alternative routes. >> it's important note that these are potential plans nothing official has been announced yet secret service is expected to it the least a detailed security plan before the summit starts in 2-4 weeks. >> congressman bobby rush takes off his jacket to show off his study, a bold move on the congress floor to show support for a shooting victim treyvon martin . >> a very provocative act that has a lot of people talking and is raising eyebrows in washington today and frankly across the nation. he is anything but apologetic tonight. >> racial profiling has to stop mr. speaker. just because it wears a hoodie does not make

them a hoodlum. and that is how would began losing the jacket on the floor of the nearly empty house chamber revealingly a hoodie beneath, donning sunglasses and riling up the republican house speaker for breaking the rule. congressman bobby rush joining wgn news from capitol hill later in the day to talk about his actions with his hootie and shades still in place. >> i am sending a message to the young people first of all that i am encouraging them to continue protests and i am proud of them. >> the claudius of course has become a symbol of that protest part of the national outcry over the 17 year olds death they are in full effect of northwestern university tonight's young people praised

by congressman rush showing their solidarity with the family of treyvon martin just as he did on the house floor. the justice department investigation still in its early stages and views on this tragedy have quickly polarized along racial lines of fact the chicago congressman is well aware of and not afraid to play into. in fact he says he is more afraid of in action. >> i think that we can never be , cecil's much comfort that we remove ourselves from the discourse around race the discourse does not have to be antagonistic or hateful but there should be discourse about race because race is still prevalent in america and as a black man in america i bear witness that race racism is still alive and well in america.

congressman rush is someone whose personal life has been touched by gun violence, his son he was shot and killed in 1999. he wants to keep the racial dialogue going. >> chicago's jewish leaders are condemning hateful graffiti spray-painted on the north side synagogue, someone targeted it overnight at waive land and broadway and one sign said murdered jews cops covered it before children are arrived for school. it not only to face the building but also spread their message of hate on all of chicago. a $1,000 reward for any help in finding the shooter in northwest indiana home and wounding two preteen girls sending them to the hospital. >> 11 year-old selena and her 12

year-old cousin r. oreana were playing up wii in their living room tuesday night when a barrage of bullets came through the window, the terrified girls call to safety only to find that they had both been shot in the chest. >> she had blood coming out of her chest and ariana is in the floor crying that she cannot breeze. she underwent a six hour surgery at the children's hospital in turn family tells me that the next 48 hours are critical to her survival. >> they are worried about her pancreas and if it leaks than it will have to go back for another surgery. chicago police have called in the fbi to help with the investigation, they don't have a motive yet but shell casings found at the scene pointed the shooter standing on the sidewalk when he fired.

>> there is no doubt but that house, there were several rounds fired and they all made their way either into the window or up to the window. >> the individuals who perpetrated this cannot be too love family and community like we do here in east chicago. the family is begging for help finding them. anything that you have or know about the shooting, please come forward. i, children's hospital, marcella raymond. >> sentenced to nine years in prison for driving drunk on duty and crashing into a crowd of people he slammed his pickup truck last may into seven people dwight washington say that they smelled of alcohol at the scene and discovered an open bottle of liquor underneath the truck gas pedal into registered

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scratch. >> once you cut the guts out of it who knows who knows which were really desired by congress. >> the five conservative justices revealed they may be inclined to strike down not only that mandate but the whole health-care law also dubbed obama care. the judges are expected to make their ruling on this case in june. the jet blew pilot who has a meltdown yesterday was suspended. someone caught the scuffle on their cell phone camera. the co-pilot locked him out of the cockpit for his erratic behavior. it was a federal complaint filed today and charges him with interfering with a flight crew passengers to help the capt. down while the co-pilot made a

safe landing. he is the real hero here because he had the sense to recognize that something was going horribly wrong. >> the jet lucy ito said he knows osmond personally and that he showed no signs of problems before this incident. pope benedict said goodbye to cuba today. he met with fidel castro to get discussed the state of the world's. benedick push for political religious and economic reform but also called for an end to the u.s. trade embargo saying change in cuba would be difficult when restrictive economic measures unfairly burden its people. brad blagojevich, 14 years and today his chief of staff learned his place, you may double take and how much time he will get behind bars. chicago public school

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glimpse at the 2013 school budget and the pitcher is sobering. >> we cannot keep borrowing and lay that on future generations. administrators say with no financial relief in sight the crisis will necessitate painful trade-offs, there is just no escaping it. with difficult decisions to be hashed out by the district's financial team and principals in the months ahead the public hearings could get input from parents teachers in students and with debt service payments of half a billion dollars in 2013, cbs directors say something has to be done to restructure the system swelling pension expenses 200 million projected for 2013 with the bird in more than doubling to 500 million in 2014 and another 500 million in 2015. it actually starts to feel like monopoly money a billion dollars, it's hard to of magic

and a district that has less than 5 billion and revenue how it will find the resources to close a billion dollar gap. rod blagojevich of 14 years in prison and his chief of staff today got 10 days, just 10 days for helping him try to sell the senate seat. he was arrested on the same day as the governor, he quickly peltspleaded killed seed. and quickly pled guilty and apologize. we are very pleased and relieved, i don't imagine it's difficult for any of you to imagine how difficult it would be to be in a situation like john has for the last three and a half years he didn't know after court today whether he was going to go to the bureau of

prisons or walk out the door. >> he has been supporting his family by working as an electrician and now is trying to get his law license back. i are our heroes was the goal of today's military job fair, gov quinn was on hand and the 130 employers in attendance. it is one of 100 job fares aimed at hiring our heroes. the program has helped more than 80 vets and about 1 million soldiers and their families are looking for work and is expected to leave active duty in the next five years. the jackpot has rolled over to a record-breaking $500 million, the biggest jackpot ever in the u.s.. 47 people including two in the chicago

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posttraumatic stress disorder has long been misunderstood and here is the doctor that helped find the diagnosis. he says being p t s d comes with the rest of us know and how devastating it is for the victim. >> the flashback, the nightmare and the sense i don't want to remember this but it comes over me. that was the core of p t as deep. >> it's not just a little malady that can affect soldiers, it hobbles anyone who has been exposed to an enormous dramatic situation. >> if you are a woman who was

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>> the average case, the modal case and the thing you see the most gets better with time without even having treatment oxford says that now that we have a name for the condition it helps us treated better because sufferers now know that something real is bothering them. >> if out of the blue ice smell something that is in there but it's part of my memory, the way the man smell to was salted meat, you were not crazy it doesn't mean you are having a hallucination commodore having a trauma memory in which the brain makes it feel like it's not to but it was in the past. he cautions that we should not distort high-profile cases like the one of sergeant robert bayless was accused of going on a shooting spree in afghanistan and shooting innocent civilians he says that anyone can be diagnosed with ptsd. men women

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last night some big thunderstorms and a friend who is an incredible photographer took the shots near morris illinois. tonight the storms are brewing out in kansas right on the edge of our cool air and very warm air out in the plains states but here in chicago a gorgeous day and a couple of cumulus clouds tried to get going but didn't gain much traction. the cold air uc to the north of oz is ready to make its move for a couple days in the chicago area, a 68 here and

temperatures in the 20s up to the north. this will break the string of consecutive above normal days. this is the sixth month with above normal temperatures. but look how readings are diving tonight compared to 24 hours ago. this cold pocket is what is taking precedence here for the next 34 hours. so much so that frost and freeze advisories' have begin in michigan and wisconsin. we have divisors for wind out in the western states. we had our own when todaytonight its 51, the northeast winds are blowing and into friday midway is at 50. it'shere is

to see some of the temperatures around the area. 43 for us it's the cool weather coming, not a lot of wind but enough ted all wind chill to add a wind chill tomorrow. flickwe reached the 50 mark 22 days earlier than we did last year. all of the allergens were in the air today. here are the

storms blowing up tonight and they are bringing us some pretty substantial rain. ha this will one of sincerelychilly and breezy tamara

with a lot of sunshine.tomorrow with a lot of sunshine. the heaviest rains come through here tomorrow night, look at them right here and there is a close-up view. we will share the rain estimates of the model and also look at this big warmup, we could have committed 80 degree temperatures on sunday after this chill that we experience tomorrow and it could even stay in the '70s on monday. but it will get cool again in the middle and end of next week. northeast winds 6-17.

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lots of money, they probably won't even see each other. maybe next week we will kick up some storms? >> after what looks to be our ninth day of 80 degree temperatures so far this year on sunday my producer found we had to wait until june 3rd for that to happen 49 '80s to be on the books. for nine '80s to be on the books. it is going to be a chilly day after our 68 today forties' tomorrow night anti's on friday going to the low 60s.

highs on saturday it up until 3:45 p.m. and we get '80s on sunday. here's the weather system coming together and there is a morning rush-hour on friday. it looks like some pretty good rains could, with that in tears or rainfall forecast the corridor in blue is an area where half an inch of rain may come down. the beginning of a windy warm-up that will push us up to 82 if not 85 degrees. coming off tomorrows really chilly 42, 59 cooler at the lake with rain and

thunder given way to sprinkles and occasional fog on the late friday. not a pretty day. saturday at least some sunshine. sunday winds blow south and southwest and as you say warm and stormy on sunday next week. that could be an interesting set up. chicago fire department rules over three times in part of a crash involving four cars on 95th and stoney island tonight, fire department as to be headed to a fire with a lights, it collided with another car and flipped over and over before landing on another vehicle, seven people have been taken to nearby hospitals. >> coming up, the bulls looked more like the team up with the nba's best record tonight. the

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problem tonight. their seventh straight and narrow victory tonight against the hawks. that streak was not in jeopardy tonight. he rediscovered his stroke five of the beat the bulls open it up in the first quarter. this is a brilliant play he orchestrates everybody while on the dribble then drops it to tie the gibson and you know what he does, and kyle korver to the rim for ronni brewer as the ball spillway and everybody played well tonight john lucas gets its and all of a sudden they are aggressive again. 98-77. still no official word on the new basketball coach in illinois but a member of the board of trustees told the

tribune tonight the hiring of john gross is imminent so maybe by tomorrow it will be a done deal. mcdonald's all-american game featuring some homegrown talent she had 18 for the west and also on the floor thompson from whitney young on the finish here. they won the game 79-72. jeff some marcia will certainly included in both groups. he left no doubt with his performance out there six innings, three hits and no runs a walk and five strikeouts ostensibly brian tahir drives in a run for the

third day in a row. the sox play two games today half against the padres in this half against colorado seeing some different guise as a result tyler flour is checking in, the base hit to left and fukudome scores into then gordon beckham in the next inning hoping for a comeback. they are getting it lately, he knocks in another run but the sox lose twice 13-2 to san diego and 8-5 to the rockies. the tokyo dome hosting the a's and the mariners and the season opener early this morning. 11th inning mariners had the 2-1 lead the mariners are undefeated the 3-1 winners over

oakland in tokyo. the nfl will be reviewing all turnovers in addition to scoring in 2012 and gary henson is the new basketball coach at southern illinois. tucked away and the west loop, artistic gymnastics is billing a powerhouse team of a leaked boy athletes. building a powerhouse team of the elite boy athletes.

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