stroger and tom cruise and katie holmes split. wgn news @ 9 severe storms moving through chicago area for second time today. heavy waves and lightning. top stories tonight. tom skilling in the weather center what is the latest? >> storms out of ottawa wind gusts up to 70 mi. per hour worked with radar tornado signatures. the second major cluster of storms how they look around sunset. all on the northern flank of the major heat wave with 23 states under advisories. heat watches to the

west. we watch for potential for severe weather in our area. good look at where these storms are. radar with lightning coming into the western suburbs. severe thunderstorm warning 53,000 ft.. just like earlier today such a dark look to the skies. these storms one of several clusters for the area. as we sit on the nose of hot weather to the south. back into chicago. storms approaching have produced these wind gusts 80 mi. per hour to the west. the model says these storms will go east region chicago between 10-11:00 tonight. strong wind to

producers. new storms developing to the south. later tonight. and to the heat follows storms developing over the weekend. very active pattern in the area after a morning produced 50 mi. per hour wind gusts in the geneva. hoffman estates- elgin and barrington also rainfall a positive aspect. will not bus to the drought but certain areas can see some rain fall as the storms come through the area. more on this coming up. extreme heat here to stay forcing some communities to cancel july 4th fireworks celebration. >> taking a look at the grass

and a st. charles. dry and hard white almot hyst hay like. 90 percent of illinois at least moderate drought surprising only to chicago area towns have decided or considering to cancel fourth of july fireworks. plainfield capsuled at west suburban st. charles consider it. lit the cigarette butt torched a path somebody's yard. fireworks on the path fox river close to downtown and the neighborhoods fire officials are worried about fire safety. >> tradition but did not want to fire down the have never seen

anything professionally that have caught grass on fire caused anybody in danger. illegal fireworks chicago police busted a guy with $20,000 worth of fireworks at his house including skyrockets and firecrackers police were say it ready to be sold. rainfall predicted not many amount more towns could cancel the fireworks. >> officials investigating runway lights at midway airport shut off during the night forced to close four hours overnight. airport officials say problem lightning bolt cut power to the light midway has multiple backup equipment officials say cannot sustain runway lights long

enough to ensure the safety of passengers and employees. >> we were the next airplane we pulled back to the gate at two hours later canceled all flights. we have been here all night. >> not known if the extreme heat had anything to do with the outage. one of the few take no prisoners law enforcers in the city says goodbye at private club in the the loop friends and colleagues gathered and patrick fitzgerald chicago out: united states attorney. last day on the job. >> taking on some of the highest of high-profile cases impressive conviction record. his next move. patrick carol leaves the federal building last time united states attorney he leaves in his way to a couple of

former governor's republican george ryan and a democrat rod blagojevich. sent away on corruption charges. conrad black at media conrad off to prison after sensational trial for defrosting shareholders chicago sun times and former police commander jon burge convicted of lying about torture by chicago d police byi kand dick cheney of staff convicted of perjury law on the list of big names. >> vrdolyak levine tony rezko guys like vrdolyak people thought were untouchable >> the 11 years' work yesterday downplayed the end of a productive career and passed on multiple interview requests today preferring to keep the spotlight on the system on the agencies and the people who fight crime and corruption. >> another day in the office

next week another week in the office people behind to me all agencies represented keep working at standing close by gary shapiro much respected number to patrick fitzgerald taking the helm of the united states attorney's office for not going away party tonight along with state attorney anita alvarez and many other heavy hitters urgency to clear cases in the days leading up to the top and departure like that of raghu nayak arrested last week political fundraiser with strong ties to both former governor rod blagojevich and karbers by jesse jackson. at yesterday's two friends of former county commissioner joseph moreno and former ald. ambrosio medrano indicted on corruption charges. those on the inside well aware of the workload at the pace at the man who inspired this down

but he was a great leader the way he conducted himself made people like myself want to work for the guy down the patrick collins considered a front- runner to replace former boss refused to talk about that no word on what patrick a sterile plants are asked again yesterday it would not talk and dig speculation can punch his own ticket. at coming up south suburban family in mourning tonight after a young boy sneaks into a swimming pool and grounds. and what did penn state no new emails are present that could put the spotlight on what officials did not do after burning about jerry sandusky criminal behavior with children and congress takes action to keep student loan rates from skyrocketing.

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inside taken a shot or did not know the children were there. did not surface christian reese the owner dove into the pool and pulled christian reese outside a grandmother called 911 pronounced dead at hospital families are stunned over the death. down the cannot even imagine my grandchildren were planned and a small pool at i ran into to get sent >> autopsy completed coroner's office still looking to run tests. and admits to shooting and killing his mother because she was nagging him 34 year-old earnest l mcgee made the confession to investigators videotaped statement earnest l mcgee got into argument burnside neighborhood this week shot her six times with a revolver as she sat in a reclining chair could not get in touch with their charged with first-degree murder held in jail without bail. presidents a

reminder to collect czech rain check from gonna buy back last week turned and program collected 5500 guns hundred 23rd period response to recent shootings collection was so successful some locations ran out of the but hundred dollar gift card had been out and returned first deputy alfonza wysinger says they encourage anyone who received a range check for turning in their gone to come back to the same location and get to $100 gift card tomorrow. chicago tax pairs on the hook for nearly $15 million in overtime pay for chicago cops working last month's nato summit. mayor rahm emmanuel looking to get the money from defense. lease'sthe fed. national security special event status. cook county criminal court building in named renamed retire judge with a unique story judge

george leighton served in court on the county state and federal level of 99 year-old retired drudge camp from humble beginnings the son of immigrant spent his time picking potatoes to help his family judge george leighton never graduated from grade school talked his way into howard university and graduated from harvard law school. 99 years old judge george leighton served as chicago branch pres. for naacp retired united states district court in 1987. amazing. still coming up assessing the damage president obama sees a community ravaged by wildfires that argument at a bond hearing for george zimmerman asking a judge to let him go and hundreds

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wgn news @ 9 president obama a visit and call upon us prince today destruction left by massive wildfires issued a disaster declaration for parts of colorado federal financial aid to put out the fire and assist homeowners trying to be built. before going to a local ymca told everybody affected the rest of the country will be there for them. >> natural disasters like this have americans come together. we

all recognize that race of god we have each other's backs. >> the fire by the numbers 17 a. at 350 homes destroyed another 20,000 homes threatened. so far only one death. favorable weather conditions helping crews fighting the fire officials say could be the middle of july before upper control. new emails released in the case jerry sandusky conscious decision by penn state officials to protect the man since convicted of rape and child victims already allegations of institutional cover-up university of jerry sandusky behavior e-mail exchanges between penn state officials released today adding to the mounting evidence of the cover up between penn state vice-president gary schultz athletic director tim curley retired coach joe paterno did not use e-mail not implicated so far tim curley gary schultz

pacoima and a sense of lying to grant a dirty jerry sandusky. no decision on bail today for the man who shot and killed trayvon martin george zimmerman opened fire on a trayvon martin during his shift as neighborhood volunteers watch commander in florida claimed acted in self- defense back in court today requesting bond after three out work. judge to not give a ruling at the not say when he would deliver a decision remain george zimmerman is in jail ponzi scheme hustler bernie madoff the number brother might be joining him behind bars peter madoff federer charges helped cover-up the biggest ponzi scheme in history facing 10 years in prison part of the plea deal 74 year old bernie madoff serving time in north carolina with the state more than a century away. both sides of the aisle in nation's capital new college loan legislation passed on the eve of holiday recess passed law designed to save your the 3

million jobs and protect college students from big increase in loan interest rates also revamps highway and transit programs measure goes to president obama for signature. late to longtime cook county board president john stroger and his son todd stroger old at elgin auction house. the story >> row after row of family memorabilia on tables auction house in lg and all on display up for the highest bidder this weekend smiling john stroger much from she john stroger days at the eliza miller high school to graduation todd stroger and a savior university at the president's award from president obama picture john stroger is with george h. w. bush and bill clinton signed a certificate from bill clinton could fetch a pretty penny >> difficult to put a price because which was is where the

value will be important to chicago and cook county but only because it is damp with the value >> plenty of chicago items included campaign memorabilia local news articles trophies and certificates of videotapes county board meetings in 1987 and dear john letter from county treasurer maria pappas sorry called you a scum bag. check the chip grant callbacks replicas and an old diary apparently from todd stroger is pressing his dad's stroke in 2006 and run for board president campaign working on my image and need to repeal a stronger can understand a quiet person. >> money go to the auction house and the two men who purchased the storage locker where the items were found in april. most were not have seen the light of day if not from the john stroger family. item sold as one lot to

anybody interested can do so until 8:00 tonight to be auctioned saturday and sunday the bidding starts 11:00 a.m.. still coming up one of these little girls begin next golfing great? aspiring to be to golf what venus and serena williams are to tennis. at the hollywood power couple calling it quits tom and katie going separate ways.

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the rainfall came through did damage >> they did. they took out power indiana had out washington d.c. today. look at these shops. cannot remember furey flurry of spectacular shots. this shot of the shelf cloud. and cloud to ground lightning stroke into maple park 62 mi. per hour wind and sugar grove. captured these

modest clouds. turbulence and the cloud mass this morning. you can see from this shot. near navy pier and last shot captured the shelf cloud. held together all day traveling in nearly 1,000 mi. tonight into washington d.c. with reports of damage. the storm into the area at shelf cloud. behind that the rainfall. cloud produced by rainfall mixing down cooler air humidity ahead of the storm. fair amount of turbulence. pattern ring of fire. blazing heat with no rainfall watch as we animate this cluster rolling out of iowa. across our area

this morning troubling southeastward into this form the next takes shape upstream. facilitated by the heat and humidity but the presence of strong upper wind formic traveling on the jet stream east. circular ring of fire pattern. they rotate around the storms severe weather brisk today and tonight. 25 states under advisories' for heat. these look like atomic bomb explosions the air rises up into the stratosphere gives this look to the cloud mass. 25 states under advisories'. thunderstorm watches. including a downstate illinois with temperatures st. louis broke another record. radar preview of what is happening tonight. watches and

warnings. out of iowa into chiagocago metro area. may get pretty good rain. one of the things reported big hail stones with this batch of storms. how close the rainfall is into the area now. how it looks and three dimensions. unique to thunderstorms why did book uniquely dark and ominous into an area. storms are marching eastward hoping to get a good. if we get enough of these two laid down rainfall is here on

this radar depiction. we could damage this drought not bad news we do need it ran fault notice and not a drop downstate terribly dry. horribly hot today in triple digits. heat index near 115 just like here yesterday. wind gust out of ottawa. power is out and places. cedar rapids. 72 mi. per hour wind all lot of energy fueled by the heat down south. storms here. couple of more development outflow areas down south. how much rainfall will come down? one depiction of how much rainfall will fall over the course of the weekend you get local impressive amounts of precipitation. additional

cluster is next week. until we tap the atmosphere wednesday and thursday. 2 in. of rainfall next week. high temperatures today 109 degrees. tomorrow back into the 90's at this hour 97 degrees. pretty hot. on a comfortable air mass. uncomfortable air mass. forecast for the area showers and storms moving into the area tonight.

30-40% coverage thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening. hit or miss. sunday partly sunny hot and humid with growing prospects another one of these groups of thunderstorms. if you love the the numbers you will love the bonds next week. back with that fourth fourth of july and seven day forecast coming up. >> 85 degrees is nice but 95 degrees is over the top. >> i suspect you did not like that. interested to see what you say during the seven day forecast. >> taking the golfing world by

storm two local girls with professional golfing skills and not even teenagers yet. block party has begun checking that out coming up.

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to keep two girls from the inner city have a talent for golf on

par with some professional players not even teenagers the so-called birdie sisters in the golf world by storm not easy especially challenges: head and meet erica jackson and myah jackson appear to be average siblings at the command and chatting. but the 12 and 14 year old girls chicago's south side are anything but average when it comes to the game of golf. catching up with the birdie sisters shore golf course. girls are beating up the fairways myah jackson to cap of 9 and erica jackson 6 g for 6 golf savy tiger woods 0 scratch golfer these girls on the fast track to golf and excellence. did this surprise you? at that age? >> yes because they are the first. the junior golf you

really do not see that many minority girls especially at such a young age and dominating. in their own class. >> they have competed in dozens of junior golf tournament at national and international. out of 50,000 junior ranking they fall and the high of 100. some might call them golf phenoms the birdie sisters on the greens almost as soon as they can walk at first thought the game that motivated them. >> i picked up the golf club when i was 4 years old. we traveled a long way for a 15 minute lesson. it was really fun because if i had to focus the entire 15 minutes i could drive the golf cart and that was my motivation. i loved to watch erica jackson try the the golf cart at all about the benefits that she got for doing good things with golf.

>> that was then and this is now. >> focus in on the shot and when the round is over i can think about tomorrow. to make the round better. >> on average compete five world international tournament each year not to mention the local competition had managed a average in school lot of what they learn on the golf course and to the classroom. you can do for hours for 18 holes at focusing for what tests same thing taking 60 question of mathematics tests helps me stay focused. >> school is very fun for me actually and a golf can be the sand a very fun also easy to balance. down by the girl's father eric jackson introduce them to the game and he never picked up a club.

>> we wanted to be golfers how to become golfers no idea. but as long as you have a plan to be great golfers. not good but great. >> the exception of a few african-american male golfers the pool and blacks professionally is small he figures a niche waiting for them at hopes one day erica jackson myah jackson are to golf what venus and serena williams are to tennis. >> of what like for them to be that successful. and of like them to be thought of as well- rounded as venus and serena williams a great complement to that when people compare them. so yes i would love for them to be on the page next to the william sisters but competing in the world of golf does not come cheap mother says open the year's expenses have taken a toll on the family bank account. equipment cloves average this

can cost the family of $40,000 each year. >> hoping it does pay off because money that could be put up for college education is going to help support dolph open golf all of these to take them to college >> birdie sisters able brother whose name john nothing to do with golf and baseball player but proud of his elder siblings. >> very proud. >> why? >> because they play a sport really challenging to win. and kind of like mine. but a little more difficult. >> you play baseball? >> yes. >> birdie sisters to of chicagos very own. birdie sisters competing almost every day this

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tom cruise and katie holmes calling it quits holmes divorcing cruise attorney says private matter nicknamed tom kat by the media married in 2006 happier days six year-old daughter suri. third marriage for tom cruise and first marriage for katie holmes. omg tom skilling >> out of my leader there like stepping out into star trek series with siri who would have thought that came so fast. one

thing in the '90s are back tomorrow and the area temperatures advancing back into the mid 90's lake breeze: the lakefront modestly to the mid '80s-90 degrees back in the '90s lake breeze: the immediate shoreline same thing on monday we carry this through much of next week look at the heat today across the country place in temperatures reaching its past 100 degrees over 25 states today. record high temperatures told will put them up since monday over 1000. united states record high temperatures of the 52 highest temperatures recorded in the month of june 51 of them at the last seven days.

southern suburbs as well pretty impressive looking storms as you can see storms from this morning and to washington d.c. area. sunday and monday cool readings at the lake at 97 degrees on tuesday. how to forecast. night is going through saturday maybe into sunday. longest consecutive stretch 53 years ago 11 days in 1959 it got close to that. the world's

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