a father is gunned down a family party and police are searching for the suspect. this says the mayor and police superintendent announced new strategies to crack down on violence. good afternoon everyone i am steve sanders. >> and i am dina bair we begin with the shooting of the father. >> this 33 year-old veteran was celebrating memorial day when he was shot and killed. he was one of 10 shooting victims that died over the weekend due to gun violence. he served eight years in the united states coastguard

and was having a picnic with his family members and gunshots rang out. he and another man were shot the father was pronounced dead at hospital and worked full-time as a security officer and just purchased a home with his fiancee. family members and residents say the mayor has to make this a top issue. >> she is only 1 years old and does not have a father what am i going to tell her. i will be fine but what am i going to tell my baby how do i explain that bad things happen to good people. >> what is the plan for the people? we don't care what he

does for the out-of-towners or the immigrants what is he going to do for the residents that are here every day we are occupied all the time we are prisoners in our own house. we have it so many veterans in this family and we cannot even celebrate a day to honor them without someone leading reallybleeding really? we're live on the south side. >> on the heels of that violent weekend in chicago the mayor will unveil a new strategy is today to reduce crime in some of the city's toughest neighborhoods. we're live at the washington park field house with that story. >> both said the mayor and

police superintendent are upset and anchored over the violence that gripped the city over the holiday weekend and that is what they are aggressively pushing its new strategy to curb gun violence and a key component is to go after gangs in their area. they said there are more than 600 factions of gangs and chicagoin chicago. since friday 10 people were killed and 43 injured in shooting incidents across the city the new initiative includes a bigger reliance on technology to track and activity including threats on its social media web sites. there is also an effort to focus on businesses such as liquor stores that proved to be magnets for trouble.

>> we need to get ourselves in a proactive footing on both sides and what i mean about that miwok let me tell you about the liquor stores in the city areas it is like a cancer. >> we have the same amount of shooting said that we did last year at this is not a new problem but a new solution we are trying to apply to it. >> cpd is creating its own ballistic unit and so far over 30 businesses are on a police watch list due to criminal activity inside or nearby. >> 1 chicago teenager is dead after an overnight shooting. this 14 year-old was eating with

his older sister at this pizza and liquor stores when a gunman standing on the sidewalk fired multiple gunshots into the store. the 14 year-old boy was shot in the face and taken to a local hospital where he later died. police say suspects are in custody in connection to the shooting but have given no further details. >> police are saying very little about an investigation into the death of a west suburban police officer. this theme of police officer was found dead yesterday in her home. an autopsy is now being performed today she was a 10 year veteran of the brain police department and her death is now under investigation by the major crimes task force. >> the full illinois house is now considering a bill to reform public employee pensions and illinois which could mean higher taxes for suburban homeowners.

democrats want to shift the burden of funding teacher pensions from the state to local school districts based in chicago property taxpayers already pay for retirement benefits and public schools. republicans say that is because chicago gets a bigger share of the state education funds compared with the suburban schools which are funded exclusively by local property taxes. >> as senator mark kirk continues to recover from a stroke his ex-wife is not filing a complaint against him. he and his wife have been divorced for three years and she still joined his senate campaign a year later and was paid for her work. she now claims his then girlfriend was paid more than three times as much the as she was. the

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and this has been your on the money report. >> old saint is that friends are forever but as most of us know that is not always true. here with some advice on getting over the loss of a french trade is the tribune's jennifer weigel. >> we choose our friends not our family and sometimes we are closer to our friends and then we are family memberswith family members. a lot of people grieve over the loss of a close friend and there are ways to deal with that. >> yes it there are it is so we

see good to remember the good times. we have to get past the debater ness bitterness even if the french a ended badly try to remember the good times i read the piece you had in the tribune and one suggestion was therapy. >> yes it. >> it is that not too extreme well al lot of people are very

close to their friends closer than they are to family members so it can be very hard if that friendship ends. thank you for your wisdom. to read more head over to chicago tribune.com/tribune. >> coming up next we are talking with the chicago tribune reporter rick pearson about the big issues facing illinois

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the governor and illinois lawmakers have a couple days ahead of them. >> that is because they must find a way to reform both medicaid and the state pension system along with other issues before the start of the summer. >> chicago tribune reporter rick pearson is in springfield and joins us live by the telephone. >> there were three votes in opposition by suburban republicans that say shifting

the cost from the state to local school districts could result in at the increase of local property taxes or cuts in school services. >> could this halt the process of the pension reform. >> that is a valid question the house republican leader says he opposes it the package and plans to offer an amendment to strip that language out of the overhaulsllall package. >> homeowners are going to be furious about this. >> that is right and the decision comes to them to stop any progress trying to reform the nation's worst funded pension system over that issue but again when you talk about any type of taxes the homeowners

said take the property tax as the worst tax you could get. that means that the school districts are then left to cut services or of their things to lower the budget. >> lawmakers are talking about a ban on self phonescell phones and a ban so people are not allowed to use their video or other camera devices while driving or within 500 feet of an emergency vehicle with their lights on.

what about the medicaid funding did they talk about that. >> medicaid funding is part of the overall budget package and as we said this $1.6 billion to health care services with out the cigarette tax component which would state fall further cuts until that passes we will finally have some idea of how medicaid will fare in the and along with the state budget. >> thank you so much for joining us rick. >> tom skilling has your forecast ok! who gets occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defend

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we broke if your recordsa few records in the past few days but we are now cooling down today. yesterday we had a temperature of 94 degrees in chicago and now the temperatures are in the 80s today and by thursday temperatures will drop down to the '60s. take a look at this beautiful picture this picture shows some white mane lightning take a look at these parent

clouds of thunderstorms. we had some rain on the way and be needed to drop of itevery drop of it. we have some heavy rain and flood revisory is for the southern united states. we have a 32 degree temperature up from 93 degrees to 63 degrees

this is a very unusual spring we broke a 35 year record. we had the war mystic memorial dayrmest memorial day ever. many other states had record- breaking heat yesterday. we will have temperatures

reaching 80 degrees but without the humidity. we are down about 13 degrees from yesterday. i can tell you the lake temperature is about 67 degrees and we had a 19 minute sun burn time. we have strong winds today strong enough for a red flag warning which means we could have a chance of wildfires with all of the dry weather and wind

out there... and we have beautiful and a sunny skies today. we have some relief on the way with rain scheduled for thursday. take a look at the first weather system pulling out. this next system is something

you would see in early spring and will be here by thursday afternoon and night. it will bring the much neede raied rain. the winds will pick up on thursday morning and then by the afternoon we will have winds over 40 miles per hour with

plenty of rain... we will have temperatures reaching 85 degrees today with plenty of sunshine and breezy conditonsions. tomorrow will be partly sunny with low humidity and temps reaching the low 80's. it is dry today. >> yes very dry we need the rain. this heat takes the

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yesterday we had meats and today we are going to grill some vegetables. we have at some plates we want to show you and we have 6 different flavored butters and they go great with these butters and veggies. so you think if we cook asparagus to paint them with some olive oil

yes i do but i will explain that next. >> i have a quick question when cooking corn on the grill should we use tinfoil or use the husk? well we are going to use both but i will show you what may be better. in this method we use the husk and the tinfoil and keep them on the grill for about

20 minutes. we are going to prepare this zucchini so o you can have some variety. it does not matter what way you cut them but just make sure that they are the same thickness so they cook at the same time. we are cooking with medium heat

for the vegetables. this way you do not burn them and these veggies have a lot of moisture inside and that adds to the flavor and juices. these butters are great for the veggies they have so many flavors that go great with

them. we will show you how to cook some asparagus. if you crack the asparagus you can see the most tender part so then you do not waste anything and you do not loose the veggie by cutting it too much. >> thank you for stopping by twisted butter will be demoing some products

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trivia question. the cape of good hope juts from what country? the answer is south africa. >> it is going to get cooler over the next couple of days, and we have some unusual jet streams moving in that will bring some rain by thursday. temperatures will reach the low 80s today and then tomorrow temperatures will be in the mid

'60s may be near 70 degrees. the winds will begin to pick up on thursday along with some heavy rain. we may see over 1 in. of rain by thursday. this storm reminds me of an early spring storm but either way we need this rain that will come on thursday afternoon. tomorrow afternoon will be gorgeous with temperatures

reaching the low 80's and plenty of sunshine with low humidity. thanks tom. >> thank you for joining us today have a great afternoon. we leave you with more music from william beckett his new ep walk the line is out now! [music] [music] [music] [singing]