great opportunity start i want to be a part of this >> police say they are ready and protesters getting here preparations in full swing tonight. good evening. top story around the country tonight. anti nato summit marchers into town. speaking with a busload of protesters >> bus #one are around 7:30 p.m. 45 people total look behind me outside a local church on the north side. they say they are the 99 percent to just be beginning tomorrow more filled with protesters in the same neighborhood how many will come to chicago is not known at but right now chicago police estimate expected protest to cop

out 15,000. after a 15 and a half hours first organized busload of protesters destination chicago. >> a very happy ending making our voice heard it >> suspected one hell of a time >> question how well they do that? we like to make jokes singsongs but we are peaceful after spreading a good message >> preparing for the behavior or worse mccormick place 1 a local hair salon boarded up now closed through the weekend first largest city scheduled for friday march some protesters getting an early start. others taking on the economy eductions and foreclosures they wanted them to stop.

>> the cook county sheriff tom dart issue one year moratorium >> superintendent first four separate and distinct anti naco saw that 12 people arrested at less than 300 people involved. garry mccarthy says off to a good start officers trained to more than any other for event of this magnitude admits working 12 hour shifts no time off officers pushed to the limit could be feeling stress >> absolutely not the ideal situation. sweet spot somewhere around 9-10 hours after that you did not get as much out @ >> address and out of town protesters a chicago top officers have advice >> screaming or yelling protective gear not commit criminal acts and we will have a great time >> 41 that single coordinated

effort coming to this north side church talking 17 at buses and all by this time tomorrow 850 people from new york pittsburg and the cities to the west plenty of places in between staying in churches people's apartments intense and all over chicago no doubt it will appear protest dissent has begun to you >> wgn in chicago tribune poll shows report of the nato summit chicago wentz and residents of neighboring town 59 percent supported chicago hosting the summit and 23 percent opposed expecting protest to be peaceful more than half said yes. 32 percent think the protest will not be peaceful even so chicagoans believe the protesters have a right to demonstrate 61 percent said they should be protesting batt mop representatives already here meeting today with high school

students south shore international school. meeting with visiting dignitaries from around the world something most students could only dream of having >> rare opportunity for fresh bread south shore of $94 million international school posted and delegates from six nato countries. students have been preparing for the nato youth summit for the past six weeks >> up until may 16th researching the country since then we knew that this was coming >> researched and made small presentations >> learned about culture and tradition how they evolved in nato that but students have opportunity to ask questions french delegates school could participate new pen pal program >> another student asked the

delegate from germany about the future of nato >> there are new challenges we have to face that my students learn all kinds of issues discussed the same concerns leaders address this weekend in chicago won in an billion franc >> hope will help build relationships among other students in nato countries. statehood wgn the coverage of the nato summit special report saturday morning. special editions of the morning news from 6-9 as well as the midday news also catch expanded special addition following chicago cubs

soccer game at wrap up of the news at 9:00 all day coverage. police looking for gunmen who shot a man in front of a place worked on the city a far southeast side live at the christ hospital with details. a lot of details some details 49 year old victim rushed to advocate christ after 530 today with at least three gunshot wounds shot in what police appear to be apparent robbery very active crime scene four hours after that 100 fixed-rate near the sky way of the calumet park on the south east side not a lot of information police telling me working to identify a suspect the victim identified only as an employee of the muffler shop at this location apparent robbery police say the

way it appeared. they are still putting in the details together we are told now the victim was shot at least once in the chest and remains in critical condition at the christ medical center life oaklawn wgn news. inside interrogation room will be on the ballot for what the convicted murderer told police when they brought him into question and the guardian angels victims of violence trying to stop a robbery tom skilling says warming pattern could dominate the next few weeks.

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wgn news @ 9 for the first time it video police questioning william balfour the man convicted in the murder of three of jennifer hudson family members out on video police confronting william balfour about inconsistencies. this is the interrogation video jurors saw before delivering guilty verdict for the 31 year- old william balfour accused of killing jennifer hudson mother brother and seven year old nephew. told detectives what she

did the day of the border trying to convince them he had nothing to do with the killings pointed fingers other issues inside the home. he said he sought the sister that morning and that was all white car and dumped near school blamed it on the power steering. look at this all round them up nearly hour-long of video police returned to confront him about the story.

they told him a girl friend admitted to police saw it with a 45 caliber handgun he denied the allegations told detectives they were making it up. holes in his story jury convicted william balfour all seven counts against them mandatory life in prison sentence. two men who stabbed members of guardian injuresangels happened cta red line

stop for the guardian angels were waiting for a train saw a man pistol whip a person and take iphone jumped into action try to stop the attack that they were stabbed >> won the guardian angels stabbed in the head. the other has 11 stitches i had 17 stitches one of the other guardian angels received four stitches in his lower lip cage the victim came out if we are not there could have turned into a shooting or a murder obviously the suspect would have it turned around and shot the individual >> guardian angels and it victims treated for minor injuries counselors spent the day it grade school suburban bolingbrook drowning yesterday in a pond fifth grader at pioneer elementary. helping a friend to cope with what happened took a dare jumped into

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family friend convicted of manslaughter had snapped watching crying infant daughter admit to multiple flags in my eyes >> baby victim of an undetected child abuse noticed the mark's question to kentucky day care facility even took her to the daughter dr. >> it was a red flag mark found on child can signify hit so forceful >> and the brain can be injured >> chicago emergency room pediatrician long time a child abuse researcher especially in young kids distinct difference between accidental and abuse not widely understood to many kids are dying >> more kids die of child abuse that car crashes or drowning

silent epidemic >> academic family now hoping to fight to do a documentary film of which brought them to chicago suburbs first time that meeting with little boy alive today because of a car early barely 11 months old three years ago donated heart replaced failing want parents and beyond the grateful >> for ever think apple for the family brief decision she made bittersweet death could have been prevented had someone unknown. going to all of that pain she never had a voice. dr. billy to countless other children could have a voice saved from trips to the emergency room or worse child abuse numbers cut in half if more people recognize the bruises of abuse of >> if this works nationally it

will start >> help to get the word doctors everywhere and nurses everywhere technique pay extra attention torso year and neck bruises and kids for years old and other >> and hebrew stop on a young child soft body parts or shin and elbow need to be taken seriously >> society and our nation should be up in arms about now working on a nursing degree to protect others from the same fate >> i think of all out cheerful she was all of the time >> and you can see part of the child abuse prevention documentary family is now a part of go to the website wgntv.com. coming up medical watch tonight put down at the cupcakes and

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tonight's medical watch predicting and preventing postpartum depression new blood test could be key discovered a

way to identify with it most at risk of suffering from depression after delivery looking for specific gene marking in the blood. armed with the knowledge doctors can intervene earlier. trying to intervene in a man to die can make them healthier not always successful because of their thought for food meant less likely to cut down on meat consumption and at fruits and vegetables to their diet resistance stems from strong association between meat and masculinity various experiments found in bed with and have the same belief classified meat eaters as more masculine and using a masculine terms to describe me to. not smart to add too much sugar to your diet now we learn to make us downright dumb eating sugar can eat away at brainpower what happened in the laboratory rats fed a diet

high it fructose corn syrup could not remember their way out of inmates. shirker disrupted at triggered neurons blocked all learning and memory commonly found in a sold-out conference applesauce other processed snacks average american consumes more than 40 lbs. each year back to you >> cool night tonight after that mercury starts to sort tom skilling next talking about a weekend that could be downright hot. living with the pain of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis... could mean living with joint damage.

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wgn news @ 9 hot hot weekend coming up? >> looks like we moved thunderstorms sunday afternoon or evening temperatures could be flirting with 90 degrees some parts of the area comes after interesting whether your pictures to share tonight captured it beautiful double rainbow indiana at capturing nighttime clout to ground lightning look at that shot photographs yesterday clouds always ominous looking on the underside of a thunderstorm anklelook at this beautiful shop.

hail and rain shaft producing the rainbow another beautiful rainbow shot. rain in the background as well. posted others on the website. weather can be beautiful we certainly have a wonderful photographers in the area. gorgeous today 78 percent of spring day above normal this was not one of them beautiful clear skies jet contrails today relatively moist air a lot of people asking vapor cloud behind the jet cannot operate pretty quickly. moist air as we did today its lenders for a while crisscrossing a contrails 21 degrees cooler than yesterday dropped to 65 degrees lakefront temperatures down to 26 degrees keep in mind that one year ago not all that bad by

comparison. cooler than 24 hours ago air mass is heating up showing you records to the west. warm don't ships over the weekend rain comes and early this week we establishes middle and end 63 degrees today rockford went down at midway in the low 60s today. see the affect of the lake always present. near 70 degrees evergreen park at fox lake. the air is dry. temperatures. high

temperatures today actually that was yesterday's 86 degrees. extending northward temperatures in the '80s and '90s breaking records and mild a city and rapid city. winds advisers wildfires out to the west in recent days filling the skies with smoke in arizona 50s with forties in certain areas tonight. calling off of the lake again tomorrow calling at the lakefront cooling off at night. height grass pollen and moderate values of all their pollen. to not have to worry about rain fall anytime soon high pressure

in the area buckle of the jet stream cool high pressure turning southwest don't of warm air in our area over the weekend. sunday enough humidity for thunderstorms until that sun shined with the wind off of the lake the next two days cooling lakefront less on friday that tomorrow. interesting depiction 10 day forecast. mass of warm air taking over on friday back to the '80s and sunday: hot spell right here regular heatwave indicated by this model later next week. pretty warm weather. high pressure with the

southeast tomorrow what that means lakefront stays in the '60s isobars pact. official thermometer at o'hare airport. tomorrow sunshine high level cloudiness. a lot of jet controversy appear. contrails. partly

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the stand and neither did his mistress defense rested its case early expected to go longer speculating john edwards would testify along with his mistress rielle hunter john edwards accused of you using nearly $1 billion of campaign money to cover up a fair says not guilty closing arguments will begin tomorrow. disabled athlete try to get a victory every time mary kate callahan trying to get a victory for herself and others mary kate callahan swing illinois high school association filed lawsuits on her behalf what association to allow disabled athletes to compete and all statewide swimming and track and field events capped athletes like mary kate callahan compete in regular season but not post-season championships >> something not put in place

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about the sunday 5:00 pacific time do not see this in chicago tokyo japan across nevada to new mexico between the sun and earth takes place on sunday to the west always california- texas. arizona and so forth. the fourth day over 100 degrees 20 degrees warmer tonight in montana staying cool near the lake errors show you wind direction and not terribly strong tomorrow blowing off of the lake picking up during the day on friday pumping or air just enough easterly component probably cooling along the lake strong winds to the west storm coming together pumping up the

warm air dome friday saturday and sunday when it will be howling of the plants doing that over the weekend cooled by morning into the low 40's and 50's in the city you can see a fact of lake cooling in lead and at the lake. what happens on friday bouncing into the 80's might even be made 80s parts of the area on saturday upper 80s no rainfall expected sunshine which will weaken tomorrow morning stays with us all day followed by claudius marching in across the plains late in the day friday and saturday could rein on chicago area warming up just beyond a seven day time frame serious 90 degree temperatures. temperatures.

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