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the nato summit comes to a close. leaders calling it a success tonight. top story or around the country tonight city in the world spotlight beginning what was accomplished >> closed on an upbeat note from president obama. >> i think chicago performed the magnificent elite >> the president relished his hometown's time to shine. >> i was just hearing from a few people who were not in nato members they had fun on the town last night soon it business took over nato prime mission in chicago deciding the future of
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afghanistan secretary general noting chicago summit largest ever for the organization. >> important sign of progress >> how important not agreement over the routes with pakistan >> by the afternoon of agreement on three key points to get nato troops out of afghanistan. also of ballistic missile defense system project causing tension with russia progress also made to be open at nato supply lines through pakistan into afghanistan. and cooperation agreement more nato resources to purchase equipment for member countries for all of the talk of benchmarks one of the barges to never answered. raising $4 billion necessary to pay for afghanistan's security forces after a nato beeps. not a goal of the sun that afghan president kim hamid karzai to chicago in part to secure the future
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funding his country will need to keep the peace. two day event in the works since september showcased chicago to world leaders and journalists as well. batt but negative stereotypes this is just another way to continue what better place >> let me begin by saying thank you. >> president obama expressed his feelings for what most call a success. >> we are leaving chicago nato alliance that is stronger and more capable and more ready for the future. >> leaders left chicago better sense for the mission abroad we do not know yet the local impact hosting will have on our city organizer estimating chicago will receive the equivalent hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising just in the stories written by international
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journalists visiting chicago. >> talking about the economic impact the mayor talking today about how the nato summit might affect the city of chicago said it ranks 10th nationally in tourism and nato recognition could give the city a shot in the arm >> fighting below the weight class. and if we move tonight. from number 10 that is 25,000 jobs at $1 billion worth of economic activity. >> more demonstration today looking at a live picture michigan avenue looking more like wabash avenue in downtown chicago on the move down through the city nato summit has wrapped won last surge live shot still out tonight protesters marching. protesters all day they are your
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new friends live with details >> we have been spending a lot of time actually here at congress plaza and michigan protesters gathered and rallied short time ago. several hundred of them moving off again live crew keeping pace wgn with them on the ground on michigan avenue passing millennium park bound for chicago river unpredictable group guarding out of traffic police trailing overhead in a helicopter a lot of police officers are rowdy protesters on bicycles more police and protesters keeping a loose grip on the situation peaceful for the most part moving through the city police keeping a watchful eye. as a nato officials
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wrapping up chicago nato summit anti nato protesters on the march again prompting the city bound for the campaign headquarters president obama. they gathered in small groups sometimes fewer than 20 people and the day grew until over 1000 demonstrators gathered corner of congress and clark headquarters immigration and customs enforcement protest in the united states immigration policy along with other issues to they've railed against capitalism passing the financial district the march controlled every step of the way. >> this has been so future i do not think anybody is not
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listening as much as the media outlets under reporting the world is watching >> back with live look camera on the ground police and lighting michigan avenue amazing sight as they square off with protesters live look protesters continuing to march through the streets they may be moving to montrose harbor for a gathering we are not sure they know how long of a march that might be keeping you posted moving through the streets of the city tonight live congress and michigan avenue >> many of the protesters started the day outside boeing chicago headquarters occupy chicago marched with officers on the west loop demonstrators targeted boeing makes military jets and received tax breaks moving to chicago part of the
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war machine and a bad corporate citizen. >> you can go to that building to stop the war of want to see the pictures corporate executives every ceo on your new stations talking terrorism >> boeing employees have the option of working from home today and move the protesters call a victory. company spokesperson tells us boeing proud of building airplanes. protecting america's freedom including the right to free speech. at some of the biggest cheers from a nato protesters came overnight about 20 people detained by police released from custody there you can see that greeted by a crowd of people outside police headquarters bellmont end western total of 45 people busted during a sunday demonstration violating city ordinances some released without charges. last foreign
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dignitaries left mccormick place hours ago lakeshore drive still empty crews hoping to open that road. metra strictions on food and drink and luggage still in place could be lifted in time for the morning rush-hour train metra to mostly empty today people staying home and avoid downtown. coming up how the city handled the nato summit former head of intergovernmental affairs examines chicago's performance. >> we will not be tolerant of criminal acts >> backing of the service and response to protesters. at coming up later looking back at the sights and sounds of the nato summit and a big drop off in temperatures tom skilling says returning to summer like temperatures this week. smiling tom skilling.
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back alive and the streets in chicago. walking with the protesters tonight >> we have been walking for roughly an hour and a half. we want to give you a live shot kind of focusing commenting what they will do next noticing a peaceful group direction seems to be unclear understood out of town at this point it is unclear right now peaceful group overall
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not causing any trouble taunting the police as we have seen in recent days on that level nothing like that people walking hand in hand. overall a pretty quiet night. back to you >> president obama singing the praises of chicago following the nato summit. batt but this is a city of big shoulders mayor rahm emmanuel his team of chicagoans group world class city knows how to put on a world-class event >> how well did the city perform? director of intergovernmental affairs joining us to give us his great tonight how the city did. we
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hear from the president and the mayor rahm emmanuel both saying the city did a remarkable job what is your great? >> difficult to quibble with the president or mayor rahm emmanuel looking at the scope of what happened and the plan that went into it give him an a grade. i think it led the way they planned it. it would be better telling people not as bad as you think it will be all lot of officers a lot of office is closed today in anticipation of problems better safe than sorry that is the only criticism you could make doing something like this in the future maybe not quite as many preventive steps. some of these steps are not all that necessary. >> they worked for about a year planning and security training what does it take something of this magnitude? >> it does take a long time to
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put something like this together. we can see police doing their job but behind the scenes months of preparations almost every city departments what department engaged streets and sanitation emergency centers the mayor's office all of these departments are engaged. had counterparts at the state's stake police other stadiums involved metra and vault months and months of coordination and planning to pull this off >> a lot of businesses closed and anticipation of trouble brewing do you think not the shot in the arm of people hoped for? >> i think in the short term downtown friday and today not a lot of traffic downtown if you are a taxicab driver things were slow restaurant things were slow
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but looking in the long term mayor rahm emmanuel going for a long term should be a huge shot in the arm for chicago economics tourism is a big industry third or fourth largest this will be a big shot for that industry >> people will come eventually >> free advertising exactly correct montana and michigan this is as free: united states and around the world for chicago. >> still coming up chicago top police officer getting high praise what he did to keep things under control in the face of violent protest and catholic church fight over obama administration controversial contraception policy to court and back live picture of michigan avenue that is actually wacker drive michigan avenue bridge and the police standing at the ready just in case something breaks off
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tonight child on a bicycle struck and killed by a car north suburban skokie live with the latest. >> police at the scene of the deadly crash investigating for
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more than four hours now. the victim believed to be eight year-old boy out riding his bicycle this afternoon. accident happened just before 4:30 p.m. black toyota camry heading southbound on st. louis avenue trying to turn onto main street police say hit another car lost control struck the boy and slammed into a third vehicle the boy was dead at the scene and to four hours the car bank of neighbors watched this unfold from behind the police tape police and officials of north regional major crime task force trying to piece together what happened investigation continues. >> it is unbelievable. >> should not have happened i did not know why or how it happened big shock when she had
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that car >> the driver witnesses say young woman visibly upset treated superficial cuts again and the boy believed to be 8 year old boy police have not released his name it. pending notification of his family. >> passing away nearly one month after heard and afghanistan wheaton sold her remembered as a man who fought until the end samuel watts died this past saturday remembered as an expert on the weapons range those who fought with him say a guy you wanted on your team. samuel watts to years old a former student at wheaton north high school. roman catholic church leaders question to be by the law or our country? local religious groups suing to stop president obama birth control
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mandate. challenging the rule requiring religious employees to cover birth control costs on monday for the religious institutions filing simultaneous lawsuits today. archdiocese of chicago has not filed against the mandate. popular may be good idea little ones as well next new benefit of folic acid to sleeping disorder can make cancer even more dangerous.
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apnea momentary breathing lapses can lead five times more likely dying from cancer than those with a good night's sleep. decrease in blood oxygen study found as the body tries to find more oxygen develops more blood vessels and they speed c cancer. teen-agers at risk for heart disease and heart attack as well for the first time experts classic markers for cardiac problems in young people who are overweight and obese. half of overweight teenagers already show signs of high blood pressure cholesterol all indicators are the elements and heart attacks children ages 12- 19 experts say happy about one finding obesity levels did not increase through 2008. what a cool day on the horizon tom skilling says we will be back
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look at these photos. captured a ring of fire. what it looked like less of the eclipse. rainbow in the area of thunderstorms roaming the area yesterday. partial blockage of the southern the disk of the sun. and the weather service and by the way it confirmed a micro burst west of garey powerful thunderstorm across at the time. we started cloudy today look at the clearing. gusty north- northeast wind knocked to the temperatures 26 degrees. back-
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to-back nineties over the weekend quite interesting earliest back-to-back 90s in 14 years old late one year out of 10. clouds are rolling today here is the sunshine earlier to the west satellite imagery tomorrow. we begin reversing this cool off expeditiously into the low 70's and 80's and low 90s by thursday called on friday and saturday surging back again later part of memorial day weekend. 26 degrees cooler than yesterday at 93 degrees. nate running six degrees above normal. what is interesting the month running warmer than last year. still 80 degrees down from 24 hours ago. by double
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digits even at this hour to the west the warmer air comes in boy to we get rid of the '90s and the area. midway airport from 93-65 yesterday and today. the board is coming back at this hour still '80s denver 92 degrees at this hour out of salt lake city. temperatures here in the fifties. north-northeast wind tomorrow humidity 48%. temperatures here and the way to gusts 30 mi. per hour wind
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gusts into the area tonight the wind has led up. these are temperatures near the lake and readings to the west. beautiful skies across the area as we showed you earlier on satellite. storms that departed the area last night town ran into the atmosphere southern ohio. big storms there others are brewing to the west beginning of storms. storms tower over 40,000 ft. in the atmosphere to the west not into our atmosphere at the time soon. cool air mass will one day
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of their warm and breezy in the next few days. jet stream develops a trough to the west. turning southerly humidity and temperatures surging again by sunday and monday mainly clear and cooler tonight. war memorial
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accused of brutality called abusive chicago top cop defending how officers handled nato protesters superintendent on the front lines not the only ones giving police a pat on the back. >> during a protest march police superintendent to jobs protecting constitutional rights of demonstrators to march and commanding officers to maintain
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the peace even if it means arrested the same demonstrators there to protect delicate balancing act visible this weekend protesters clashed with police during the nato summit. >> not going to be tolerant of criminal acts. >> taunted officers yelling and screaming and the officers did not engage >> when he was not inside a command vehicle a few blocks away instead of right there with his officers at times helping detaining protesters >> out their ground zero in new york city to bring it here and yes we bridgeton well from the beginning but he certainly showed the entire team mr. de >> deputy commissioner in new york city police department show
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white men and women in chicago he is not timid about working shoulder to shoulder with them during stressful times >> you think it is easy? to ask people to do what they did. it is not. asking people to put themselves in harm's way know when they will get insulted to stand there and take that difficult >> for chicago city has lived under the stain of the so-called police riots during 1968 national democratic convention use of the bel but hammer first restraint and overwhelming force may have changed the image of the city >> stigma of the 1968 democratic national convention will be gone from chicago police department. i cannot imagine being anyplace else and very glad not of our guys were injured >> speaking of protesters still
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be entering the route to downtown tonight. still out there with them keeping up and has an update from michigan and jackson. working with photographer >> trying to stay ahead of the youthful crowd i did want to address package about kerry mccarthy interesting not out there tonight you can bet keeping an eye on this one closing ceremony for all of this nato weekend stuff happening on the streets small crowd at relatively quiet crowd making presence known in the streets that being said having a lot of fun a beautiful night. disrupting traffic trying to confuse officers close down a street along the way up fairly peaceful crowd. i think superintendent garry mccarthy keeping an eye on the crowd i
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think will learn more about what he thinks of all of this as it ends here pretty soon motorcade coming soon as i speak it is worth mentioning i do feel like this may be the head back to you >> the superintendent very physical force of the nato summit not the only one looking at the biggest moments of the weekend and later in sports houston astros offensive showing chicago cubs' hitters out it is done t
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live picture right now traffic moving through a lot wacker and michigan not too long ago in the last half-hour string of officers blocking the area intersection protesters walking through that has now been cleared officers are out of their good indication things are moving along things are slowing down tonight after the nato summit at times it was intense scary even absurd it feels like the nato summit stopped as fast as it got here lasting images from the past week.
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that but i think chicago performed magnificent leap. >> spectacular pictures from this past weekend. it was only a couple of days and look at all of that. batt but this all happened in several days. quite a weekend for everybody including tom skilling watching the weather. >> i had the easy job. you guys have been busy. did a great job. shot of soldier field it really was. you are going to like the weather tomorrow gorgeous starting to warm up high- pressure dominating in the weather pattern straw in north east towards becoming a much wider tomorrow southern wind you can see big storms expected to blow up in the upper midwest a few of those might sweep this area late in the week as cooler
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temperatures coming down never gain in the foot hold the upper midwest '60s at the late '70s and that tomorrow temperatures in the '80s and close to 90. we have moved high-temperature 83 wednesday to 91 degrees thursday. turning cooler by the lake on saturday low 80s at the shoreline. going back to the 90's again on sunday and monday memorial day weekend storms more precisely in the weeks ahead. thank you tom skilling. coming up offense still struggling to produce runs chicago cubs could not get picked me up from one of the best starting every year we pick a new city to
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going to have a great baseball. chicago cubs are the only team playing. they went into houston tonight probably thinking somebody we could be to houston astros throwing not a very good picture this guy clean shaven last time they want a game and
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that was only matt garza for chicago cubs in the second jasen castro got him a three run home run if they cannot get it done chicago matt garza cubs in trouble in the third inning again right after manager came out to talk another three run home run gave seven tonight losing seventh came in their row about 28-0 in the eighth and many of the white sox took time off to pay respects to kevin hickey passed away last week seriously injured opening road trip to texas one of the good guys in baseball on likely and a successful major league career made it big leagues tryout camp on the south side that has never happened. stan van gundy is out, also fired gm otis smith
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power play to the orchestrated by orlando magic center dwight howard philadelphia 76ers coached by doug collins down did not bother in the andre iguodala first big finish 76ers' only led by three points at halftime crushed in the third behind brandon bass 27 points for the game rajon rondo real good with running mate avery bradley injured, rondo had 13 points and 14 assists. and the boston celtics one victory away from eastern conference finals. eastern conference finals and the national hockey league new jersey not so fast 2-0 lead in the third out of context.
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screaming match beat devils went 4-1 the series is even a 22-2. chicago bears picking up winslow? and finally back to the nba playoffs last night game san antonio spurs vs. los angeles clippers coming together and griffin out basically with hole in his face. not a file called there.
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