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>> we are here to ask for peace families need peace. motivated by the shooting of a florida team hundreds marched to raise awareness and the call for an end to street violence here in chicago. good evening and robert jordan. live in the newsroom with our top story. >> while the rallies continue across the country calling for an arrest in the trade on martin case, in chicago on this palm sunday members of the west side church took to the streets in the austin neighborhood in the one not only justice for trade on the peace for chicago.
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police elected officials and members of the west side church today gathering for another march their arms were linked, some wearing hoodies to show the link between the death of 17 year-old trade on marta in florida and the ongoing violence in young men's lives for a year in chicago we need not to be on borderline hypocrisy. for one criminal to be arrested. >> we need to make sure we know what's going on in our household, it starts at home, gang members come from houses. >> the group created a lot of noise as they walked through the streets and people stopped to listen from the front door to their home in the windows of their cars and means a lot to see them out there representing and walking. the event was personal and painful, six years ago today he lost his son the
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team shot and killed outside a movie theater. he says they are fighting for attention and resources, jobs and youth programs anything that could help stop the violence and the silence protecting those who commit the crimes until then they bowed to march on. we cannot rest until our children are free. in the churches pastor is asking state lawmakers to invest more money in mentoring programs as we head into the warmer months we often see more violence and other west side church held a rally for justice for trade on margin today together with the remembrances, of dr. martin luther king jr. in the event was hosted by the rev. paul james at the new
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tabernacle rev. 6 urged the community to mobilize for justice for trade on martin in the spirit of dr. king next wednesday will mark the 41st anniversary of dr. king's assassination police are investigating a fiery car crash that left at least one person dead emergency crews responding to the scene just before 3:00 a.m. when a driver off the road smashed into an above-ground gas line causing a car to explode into flames, the identity of the person killed has not been revealed and there is still no information about why the car left the road, the heat so intense in did so much damage that police are challenging investigations. it took several
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hours for a night for officials to shut off the gas at the severed pipelines firefighters stood by to make sure that the fire did not spread beyond the crash site and in another early morning crash one driver was killed and another place under our rest on the southwest side, four others were injured and iraq in the bryant park neighborhood and investigators say that the driver of a chevy malibu fair to yields while trying to turn left and then slammed into a nissan maxima the driver of the maxima identified was killed in the crash charges are pending against the driver of the malibu. chicago police are looking for a shooting suspect to was refused entry into a west side nightclub for people were heard outside and the 2700 block of west madison they were leaving as the gunman returned a 33 year-old woman was among those injured her family
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told the tribune reporter she was employed in tribune's packaging department three men were also wounded and all four are hospitalized in serious condition. immigrant activists marched 40 mi. this weekend to protest plans to build an immigration detention center south of chicago the march began friday and the chicago little village neighborhood and concluded today and far south suburban creek a private company corrections corp. of america plans to build the 780 this attention center it would house illegal immigrants from illinois wisconsin indiana and kentucky before they are deported. when somebody tells you a dissentient center is being built in your town and this belongs to the town residents, to close to the schools into close to the churches you start asking questions and you find out what the detention center was for it's for illegal immigrants to be kept here united states
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policy on illegal immigrants is terrible. last week the illinois senate improvement would prohibit private leones detention center from being built in the space, a legislation is still awaiting a house approval. palm sunday marks the start of holy week, chicagoans mark the day and also the coast guard had to step ben after rough waters interrupted a yacht trip all round the world and to know you could go treasure hunting in oakland? >> if you did not like the temperatures in chicago today you can blame lake michigan, i will have details in the fall forecast in just a few minutes.
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chicago once joined christians around the world today observing the start of holy week and attending palm sunday services. thousands of parishioners came from near and far to attend mass in celebrate palm sunday, the traditional start of holy week at the cathedral. we're here on vacation from kentucky and we do not ms. masse it doesn't matter if it's palm sunday or just on sunday regardless of where we
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are this is where we go and this is a very special sunday in a special church and a neat town so we are really happy to be here francis cardinal george lead on sunday mass train and leading the lethargy before delivering psalms. we were reminded that that is ash wednesday. it's like remembrancer for every palm sunday, holy week events are scheduled to drop the week including on monday a 4 mi. walk that will march through the streets of chicago remember in children who have been the victim of violent crime also the week runs out was good friday services including the recreations of the passion and the stations of the cross. last
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summer to wickets storms knocked down hundreds of trees forcing the park to close for safety reasons, the park stretches across six and a half miles of lake michigan's shore line hundreds of trees were removed and now hundreds of new trees will be planted illinois state beaches is the only state owned parked on lake michigan television stations owned by tribune co. including this one it currently not available to directv subscribers the blackout is the result of a contract dispute, the two companies do not reach an agreement over the compensation for airing a television station wgn and other tribune television stations remain available over the air and through subscription services like @ xfinity and dish network chicago is doing pretty well when it comes to ranking the greenest
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cities in america: organ is number one according to travel and leisure magazine rated 35 metropolitan areas based on everything from cleanliness to public parks brooklyn has 288 parks and a fourth of the city is shaded by trees chicago is ranked as the fifth greenest city in between portland in chicago are savannah georgia minneapolis st. paul and denver from green cities to a potential red state republicans bring their message to the swing state of wisconsin before tuesday's primary also a dangerous rescue in china and it was all caught on tape. an outbreak of gang violence and murders chicagos englewood neighborhood at the center of negative headlines nationwide recently, but it wasn't always such a violent area tune in to see ltv this
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their way across the state. how the candidates are trying to drum up support. just days from the next round of primaries a gop presidential candidates are campaigning their way through wisconsin, a winner-take-all state with 42 delegates met romney in supporter paul ryan predicted ronni will be the winner in this key midwestern contests. it feels better and better the support for my campaign is growing stronger and stronger this was an uphill battle for me, if you look three or four weeks ago now looks like we're going to win this thing on tuesday. rival candidate rick santorum says the race for the nomination isn't over yet we haven't even selected half the delegates said, governor romney is an even halfway to the magic number and we look at the calendar ahead and we feel very very good about where we are going and newt gingrich says
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there's only one november strategy of regardless of who wins the republican nomination. tuesday's primary lineup also includes washington d.c. and maryland but the big prize is wisconsin. a fund-raising appearance earlier this week here in chicago by president joe biden had the sunday morning talk shows he talked about how politics has changed in recent years taking a harsher tone. >> the republics are saying exactly what they think and they're not talking about compassionate conservatism or the need for health care in america but we have a different way. i think this is going to be an incredibly stark choice the american people are going to have. biden also called republican front runner mitt romney out of touch with the concerns of the middle class and he raised questions over romney's inconsistency on key
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issues and his seeming cold war mentality when it came to foreign policy. a remarkable rescue in china, a two year-old boy fell into a very deep well and it happened in this small village of minkes city, the opening through the well was so small and the air so thin at the bottom that rescuers brought in air to connect to the the well via a respiratory tank and after several attempts to lift the baby out of the well firefighters finally rescued him. our rescue operation is underway in the pacific where the u.s. coast guard has sent a helicopter to come to assist some injured yak crewmembers. the geraldton western australia is about 400 mi. off the coast of california, four crew members were hurt yesterday when a large wave swept away the yacht steering mounting in the wheel
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and some of its communications equipment, it was sailing to san francisco from china as part of and around the world race. your lives illinois lottery drawing is coming up next and after that jim ramsey is talking about re days this week. rainy days this week. >> we will have highlights of the talks along with a sports game report live from dan roan.
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temperatures in southern illinois. we will talk about that and what happened in just a moment, a time lapse cameras gloomy but it was dry out there today no rain showers in chicago that picture is probably going to change as early as tomorrow night and tuesday and maybe some thunderstorms will develop these numbers are correct. springfield's 88 degrees, peoria 85 degrees. o'hare airport was a lowly 57 degrees today. plenty of warm air down to our south we will get in on a little bit of that may be on tuesday when the winds finally subside just a bit we've got a lake breeze and that's propelled from cool air over lake michigan shore and with the cloudy skies temperatures just couldn't move
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up very fast it is 48 right now at o'hare airport and we expect temperatures will stay fairly steady during the overnight hours here are the winds once again coming off the chilly water of lake michigan as you can see here take a look at the warm air disappear on thursday this is opening day for the cubs by the way cold air once again trips down out of canada and we are looking for rain and thunderstorms on that date and more cold air coming in and about 10 days so we may miss the opportunity for more eighties here in chicago. a little rain falling in parts of wisconsin that will miss the chicago area. it is raining substantially down through places like kentucky and virginia and even some reports of pale and parts of west virginia and kentucky, our computer model shows the approaching rain will come in monday night and tuesday not a
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big grain for chicago but some areas in the far south suburbs could pick up as much as half an inch or so so we will watch that here is our forecast for tonight. skies will improve. tomorrows the morning sunshine and more clouds movement a high temperature of 56-63 cooler temperatures of course by the lake monday night cloudy skies. and some storms again.
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