and about 30 minutes from now the man who shot and killed trayvon martin will face a bunch of zsa.zsa on a charge of second-degree murder good afternoon i am steve sanders ... >>and i'm dina bair we welcome viewers who are watching us around the country on wgn america and on the web >>george zimmerman was slipped into the seminole county jail in sanford florida last night ... >>he is stressed he is tired he spent to alot with the way the case is being handled today >>the only silver lining in all of this is that my brother is

safe he most likely cannot be hurt or injured in the way he has spent on the run and being underground for some time special prosecutor angela corey announced the news at a press conference as the trayvon martin family watched from washington d.c. >>we have a long way to go and we have faith >>i believe they feel relieved and they now feel that with their child is get is getting recognized and that trayvon martin matters >>there are high emotions and animosity around the case for my client would want that bearing down on george zimmerman or his family we just want the case to be worked out fairly george zimmerman will appear

before the judge today to press pool cameras will be able to take those proceedings from behind a glass window jury deliberations are under way in the trial of an elgin man accused of killing a teenager on a bicycle in front of this house. the shooting happened at last fourth of july 18th year- old guillermo balingit data was shot and killed by donald ratan dugong who said he was protecting himself and his property retentive wrong testified yesterday that he shot his gun into the air to scare off the teenagers he later went outside and found mr. pineda lying in the street prosecutors say that the shooter first asked

questions later if convicted of involuntary manslaughter the shooter faces up to five years in prison and mother and her one-year-old daughter sleeping last night when bullets came to the house walls and struck them nancy loo has more the child is recovering from surgery after a bullet went through her head through her cheek and into her mother's help as they slept ... it was 1:00 in the morning when there was gunfire screaming and blood from a drive-by shooting ... i went into the room to check on the baby when i picked her up i saw blood dripping she was bleeding from her head >>it is believed that the gunfire came to the backside of

the home police will be canvassing the neighborhood and the investigation is just beginning the mother is a college student believed to be a good brothermother by neighbors and friends >>the baby's grandfather said that he held her until the paramedics arrived this shooting has brought on a new round of family heartbreak from gun violence >>four years ago we lost a daughter to gun violence this thing has come back to haunt us once again >>the family is still grieving the death of another daughter during a robbery they are hopeful now that the child is out of surgery and the condition of that baby is stable >>crime was down in chicago in

the first three months of this year but there was a big increase in homicides ... tonya francisco is live outside the chicago police headquarters with the breakdown the overall crime rate is down by 10% police superintendent garry mccarthy said that the big difference in the statistics is the gang violence ... there were 490 shootings since the beginning of the year the increase in violence has the mayor and the police superintendent looking for new and old strategies to fight this >>we are making interlocking strategies we look at where the gaps are and we address that anti gang legislation modeled after federal rico law is getting pushed in the

legislature by the mayor ... he also wants to enforce existing law related to liquor stores that have become magnets for shootings drug dealers and gang members we want to enforce the culture and our community that is respectful of the law intelligence sharing information group accountability violence reduction strategies and legislation will add alot to getting these numbers down the president of the fraternal order of police says that the violence has more to do with the shortage of police officers ...

a 72 seattleyear-old seattle man was found not guilty today in a 50 year-old illinois rape case it dekalb county judge acquitted jack mccullough of the rape of a 14 year-old girl from sycamore and the early 1960's when mccullough left illinois and late 1962 it prevented the statute of limitations from taking effect in the alleged rape the case is separate from the murder charges that he also faces he is awaiting trial for the 1957 killing of 7 year-old maria ridolph of sycamore there is no statute of limitation for murder as many as seven horses are believed to be dead after massive stable far in mchenry county the fire caused extensive damage to the black-tie stable and they rode the barn was holding 31 or some of which were out on the pastor when the flames began numerous witnesses rushed into the free as many

horses as possible until the smoke became too heavy officials said that some horses may have run off the property the cause of the fire remains under investigation however some witnesses said that a barbecue grill ignited the fire it lasted only 12 seconds but those who saw it work awestruck a colorful shooting star was spotted in the skies over the midwest at about 830 last night the national weather service received a number of calls about a media or streaking across the sky some of the people who spotted it say it was the brightest shooting star they have ever seen we will be right back

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several earthquakes have struck the western coast of north america. a 5.9 magnitude quake hit southwest of portland, oregon yesterday afternoon. just minutes later -- a smaller one hit off the coast of central california. and overnight, a pair of quakes rocked the gulf of california. they measured a magnitude of 6.9 and 6.2, and were centered about 350 miles southeast of tijuana. yesterday afternoon, thousands of people fled into the streets of mexico city, after a strong earthquake shook buildings there. there were no reports of injuries or damage, but that quake measured a magnitude of 7.0. and experts say those quakes are not connected to yesterday's massive earthquake that struck off the coast of indonesia. the 8.6 magnitude quake was felt in singapore thailand, bangladesh, malaysia and india. five people were killed and a child was critically injured by a falling tree. a tsunami warning ws issued for

the area; but no tsunamis were reported. north korea could carry-out a controversial rocket launch as early as today. the communist country said it would conduct the operation between today and monday. it claims it's sending a satellite into space. but, the u-s believes it's an attempt to test long-range missile technology, and would violate resolutions passed by the united nations security council. a cease-fire in syria is now in effect but the united nations secretary-general calls it " very fragile " the cease-fire began at 6:00 this morning ending 13 months of deadly and bloody fighting there are reports the syrian military has stopped its attacks against rebel forces while toughening searches and checkpoints connecticut is about to become the 17th state to ban the death penalty the governor will sign a bill that replaces capital

punishment with life in prison without parole the law will only apply to future cases there are 11 men on death row right now two of whom who murdered a mother and her two daughters in 2007. the indiana state fair commission is expected to release findings today... from two reports about the deadly stage collapse last summer. the stage gave way during a severe storm at the state fair grounds last august. seven people died and dozens were injured. it happened just moments before the band "sugarland" was supposed to take the stage. survivors and relatives of those killed filed a civil lawsuit against the band and others connected with the concert. the state hired two firms to probe the entire incident including equipment, venue procedures and personnel. jury selection begins today in the criminal trial of john edwards. the former democratic presidential candidate arrived at the federal courthouse in greensboro, north carolina this morning. he's charged with six felony counts, which include accepting

illegal campaign contributions. he also faces charges of conspiracy and making false statements. prosecutors say edwards knowingly used campaign contributions to hide an extramarital affair. he denies any wrongdoing. if convicted, edwards could get up to 30 years in prison. the day's top business stories are coming up next and ann.romney fires back at comments criticizing her for being a stay at home mom and the lunch break will be coming

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override features for brake and gas pedal compressions that go simultaneously that would prevent unintended acceleration as seen in the thai iota cases today's shoppers love gap once again they are purchasing brightly colored denims another best seller are items from the diane on first and byrd children collection there's the secondary market on ebay springing up for those ... the dow was closing on 13,000 points once again stocks are rallying in spite of

disappointing jobs numbers from earlier this morning there was an unexpected jump in jobless claims last week >>i have a quick question: there is so much job competition i want to ask you about the report lots of workers are not taking their vacations ... >>nearly half of american workers did not use up all their vacation days last year giving up half of their vacation time on average this is according to usa today quoting a survey from the radisson hotel chain it's because of the heavy workloads and many people just don't have enough money to travel ... we really need our vacations lots of parents that are

installing child safety seats are doing this wrong according to the insurance institute for highway safety agency says that vehicle seat designs are to blame for this only 21 of 89 popular vehicles have attachment hardware that makes it easier researchers used 36 volunteers to test for different car seats only 13 percent of their attempts and it was correct installation a consumer group wants hospitals to drop their affiliations with mcdonald's currently 20 health- care facilities including the cleveland clinic have that fast food chain in their sights and the chances are the cleveland clinic will not renew its contract with the mcdonald's concession when its lease expires corporate accountability international sent letters to these hospitals urging them to stop fostering a food environment that promotes warm and not health in recent years mcdonald's has made

efforts to promote healthier menu by introducing for slices yogurt and salad a spokesperson for mcdonald's said its proud of its menu president obamas top aides have called republican presidential front runner mitt romney the godfather of the obama healthcare law and they are using his history in a new obama campaign video former gov. mitt romney signed a massachusetts health care bill into law six years ago today features a consultant to work with mitt romney then and later with the president on national health care reform law the video also includes quotations from 2007 when mitt romney said that he believed the massachusetts plan could be a national model mitt romney now insists that he will work to repeal the federal healthcare law if he is elected the wife of mitt romney ann.romney one of his sons and joshed and his campaign advisers are all talking today and taking

to twitter to criticize, and said democratic strategist made about mitt romney is wife's lack of employment experience and her first tweet ever ann.romney said " i made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. believe me, it was hard work " she was responding to the democratic strategist hilary rosen who said that mrs. romney never had to deal with the kind of economic issues that a majority of women in this country now face hilary rosen said later that she meant that mrs. romney never had to care for children and earn a paycheck like most american women the senior adviser to president obama's david axelrod said that the comments by hilary rosen about ann.romney or " inappropriate and offensive " we will have more after the break

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two men have been arrested in connection with an international crime ring that targeted a-t-m s in chicago. raul negru and vasile dobos were arrested earlier this police say they were taken into custody after officials at the chase bank at addison and elston noticed suspicious activitiy. the a-t-m machines had been tampered with... to steal passwords and debit card information from customers. identified... and 50-thousand dollars was recovered from the suspects' vehicle. 93 year old quentin smith waited 60 years for his congressional gold medal. he received it when congress honored the tuskegee airman for their service in world war two several years back. the 32nd fighter group flew 15- hundred missions during world war two; and endured racism in

spite of their accomplishments. when the medal was stolen from smith's home in glen park, indiana last summer... he delayed reporting it to police because he was embarassed. now authorities say, they'll do everything they can to get it back. anyone with information about smith's medal is asked to call indiana police. metra still doesn't know how next month's nato summit will affect commuters. metra is waiting for plans from the secret service ... and they probably won't learn about them until the end of the month. there's speculation the rail lines that run *under* mccormick place would be shut down. that would include metra's electric district and south shore railroad trains. metra officials say they are looking at ways to accommodate riders if the lines are closed...but will not say what those plans are. mayor emanuel's speed camera plan gets the approval from a city council committee. the plan to put hundreds of speed cameras near city schools and parks received a mixed vote, even after a last minute concession was revealed during yesterday's hearing. emanuel agreed to reduce the fine from 50 dollars to 35 for people ticketed going six to ten miles an hour over the speed limit. the fine for going more than 11

miles over will be 100 dollars. several aldermen and some advocate groups question the real intention of the plan. they are using our children as a front to line their pockets gold plated pensions for the chicago police and multimillion-dollar pension plans they're using our children as an excuse ... a loving speed cameras are the most effective way to enforce safety the committee approved the plan by a vote of 7 to 3. it now goes for a vote before the city council next wednesday. we have an update on a story we told you about a few weeks ago... "brownie" a dog found wandering on the stevenson expressway. skcyam nine spotted the cocker spaniel... which was trapped on the median near cicero avenue. he's now staying at the chicago animal shelter. officials say "brownie" is 8- years old... house-broken and friendly. he also has a bad cold and an eye condition called "cherry

eye"... which is easily treatable. "brownie" is micro-chipped... but officials say the address listed is not current. if they can't find the owner soon... brownie will go up for adoption. i think he will be a great pet he is like a worn and pair of jeans he is very sweet if you want information on how to adopt 'brownie' or other dogs at the shelter you can go to our website... wgn tv dot com and click on weblinks.

we have a lovely day in chicago it is finally getting warmer ... >>yes it has been the driest

april since 194963 years but changes will be coming ... last night at about 8:20 p.m. on media or went across the sky seen in five different states it was a luminescent green up there for about 15-20 seconds and we got tremendous response ... a man from st. charles captured this it's very hard to do ... he has submitted a terrific photos to meet in the past and somehow he managed to get this shot in a time exposure you could see that streak across the sky those who saw this set was quite dramatic as the beautiful sky that we are doing today this afternoon's temperatures are headed for the '60s nice to be up there again ... there are gathering clouds

out to the west there is a big spring storm coming ... in parts of the texas panhandle there were a cahill stones and near stockton california and e.f.-one tornado struck very rare situation that's the kind of energy that will be jumping the rockies into the plains states bringing some severe weather eastward our way these are frost and freeze advisories' we saw some in the city last night out at midway airport and there are wind advisories in anticipation of the storms moving east overnight computer models can get a grainare kicking out some forecasts

for some big rainshowers ... this month hasn't been very little rain this month ... when you take all of the rain accumulating over the next several days we will be fairly well.t. currently we are at 57 degrees. there's lots of warming up on the way.

it is a beautiful day with slight wind out there. the water temperature is 52 degrees on like michigan lake michigan. the headline is the big pattern change clouding over tomorrow. it looks like a beautiful day for the ball game tomorrow at u.s. cellular field. we expect southeasterly wind to

blow game time tomorrow as the first pitch goes out just after 1:00 p.m. it will be 5363 degrees a great day for a ball game we have a serious severe weather outbreak in the plains states we will remain sunny this afternoon and those clouds will move van tomorrow in the afternoon most of the thunderstorms will probably begin tomorrow evening we will see clusters of storms throughout the weekend. they could be thunder when it driven

downpours sporadically over the next several days. we expect gusty wind over 30 mi. per hour late tomorrow into saturday. for the fermi lab tournedos seminars and at noon until 6 on saturday we will have a renowned storm chasers of the plains states that will be sending us the skype transmission'ss we will also have the director of the storm prediction center joining us ...

we should reach a high today of 61 degrees it will be cloudy and not as cool overnight increasing cloudiness tomorrow afternoon when the milder high temperature 64 degrees tomorrow afternoon saturday cloudy and much warmer with sporadic thunderstorms the high-temperature ought to be 73 degrees most of the rain will come toward the afternoon into the evening saturday into sunday ... i will be back with the 74 cast at the end of the broadcast >>the man at the center of a fatal shooting that is triggered widespread rage will face a judge any minute now george zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder for shooting trayvon martin he claims he opened fire in self- defense he is expected to plead

not guilty today he is going to be shown there before a judge he turned himself over to police in sanford florida last night he did so just hours after a special prosecutor announced the charges against him he was in hiding for 45 days fearing for his safety trayvon martin's mother said this morning that she believes the shooting was an

time for sports: derrick rose is expected to return against the miami heat tonight, and the blackhawks should get their captain back just in time for the playoffs. jonathan toews will likely return in phoenix tonight, after missing 22 games with a concussion. the hawks have played well without him... finishing the season 6 - 1 - 3. the coyotes are a tough first round opponent, and they've beat the hawks three of four times this season. game-one starts at nine tonight.

linebacker lance briggs will be with the bears through 2014. the team gave him a one- year contract extension worth seven- million dollars in new money. briggs says he wants to retire as a bears. fellow linebacker brian urlacher is entering the final year of his current deal. cubs looking for their first win of the series: they're up one on the brewers in the fifth... and alfonso soriano preserves the lead with a diving catch on carlos gomez. same score in the seventh, when ryan dempster gives up a two- run home run to george kottaras. dempster's e-r-a is 1.88, but the offense gives him no support. cubs lose 2-1, and will try to avoid a sweep this afternoon. sox wrapping up a rain- shortened series in cleveland: they're up a run in the sixth... alejandro de aza hits a two- run homer to center... that's his second of the year. a few batters later and a-j pierzynski adds on with a three- run black... it's the second time this season he and de aza homered in the same innings. sox beat the indians 10-6. they're off today, and face the

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֍@[7o7o7o in medical watch.. getting too little sleep at the wrong time of day may increase the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes. researchers conducted a study of the impact of shift work in a controlled environment.. including the amount of sleep bed times and meal times. with changes to normal sleep patterns.. some participants

developed early symptoms of diabetes within weeks. there was also a drop in metabolic rate that translated hash into weight gain. the researchers say it's clear that getting enough sleep is important for health.. and sleep should be *at night* for best effect. governor quinn announced today the state will contribute $10 million to help clean up the chicago river for decades environmentalists have tried to improve the river which was turned into a sewage canal within a century ago ... >>whiskey is for drinking and water is worth fighting for that's what they said today as the governor kicked off the cleanup of the chicago river ... $10 million from the jobs now program was given over to data disinfect the river that was added to the 21 million for the total engineering and design

costs the 11 million this from the metropolitan water reclamation district the governor and the mayors say they want this to be the next recreational frontier >>we have a great lake front in chicago and everyone wants to be near the lake front and we want to ensure that people can come near the river as well this will now be a place where people can stop and have some family fun ... they say the project is a win- win revitalizing this river will create jobs in the cleaning and the building and development of recreational and commercial facilities there will be bicycle and walking trails and lots of other things coming to this river area the entire project

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it's time for a lunchbreak... we have some terrific museum in chicago is hosting its is faye watson, owner of fanfares catering, incorporated. welcome. i like to place my food in these martini glasses to make it festive but we are getting inspired by the caribbean today ... all of the recipes are on your websites so i will give you a tour of what's here ...

we have a mix of caribbean spices that we are combining with this browned rice ... we have quite a mix of spicy and sweet ... the key to my catering is the presentation like the jerk

chicken in martini glasses.. >>you have catered for so many famous people you cater to the wedding for the president and the first lady and you have done it events for janet jackson whitney houston ... >>that's right all very exciting ... eating out of drinking glasses was not an easy sell but we did it at an event 20 years ago ...

this looks and smells so delicious just tell us what you did with the rice ... this chicken has aiming go chutney glazea mango chutney glaze... and the over ripe plantains -- carribean bannanas -- were done

with both butter and olive oil and i served a special macaroni and cheese dish we try to limit the amount of butter for health reasons. the party this weekend we are doing is a comfort food menu ... we are doing potatoes that taste like taco or macaroni and cheese or meat loaf ...

>>this all sounds wonderful. the the dusable museum night of 100 stars takes place this saturday evening at the museum -- 740 east 56th place in chicago. and for more information on today's recipe, or to watch the segment again -- log on to wgntv.com / midday it's time to get going. to put more

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the arraignment for george zimmerman is now set for may 29th that happened just a few moments ago he was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of trayvon martin that brings a penalty of life in prison george zimmerman is claiming self defense ... we have a change to stormier whether for the weekend ... we are at 54 degrees right now heading for the '60s. we will be

warming up over the weekend ... we will be in the low to middle sixties tomorrow and into the '70s for saturday and sunday he will feel humidity that will accompany the thunderstorms coming and occurring sporadically saturday and sunday ... for the white sox game tomorrow we have a temperature in the low 60s with sunni to overcast skies ... we will see some sprinkles laid the afternoon tomorrow evening those storm clusters will be developing ... a severe weather is coming from the plains states ... by

saturday into saturday night we will see stormy weather and in parts of oklahoma and nebraska we will see some tornado outbreaks here's a reminder we will be streaming live those storm seminars saturday afternoon at noon and 6:00 p.m. thank you for turning us today we hope you have a great afternoon we will be back here again at 5:00 p.m.