epa shows a dangerous contamination in the water supply. and a bus driver saves girl who fell from third story window. wgn news @ 9 wgn news @ 9 here today and gone tonight extreme heat returning to chicago short-lived visit good evening. top story around the country parts of the area hit 100 degrees for the fifth time. definitely cooling off you can feel this already the city said another scorcher today matter of life and death for many 100 mark today in the and it appears people did that whenever they could safety. many of them try

to stay cool any way possible including at the beautiful buckingham fountain. day chicago flirted with 100 degrees buckingham fountain in nearby millenium park near the water the place to be. last night to kingston not look good for residents in this uptown high rise. today without water electricity and air conditioning until a generator delivered to front door. taking these guys somewhere with air-conditioning >> 5:00 p.m. more serious concern firefighter southwest side three alarm fire spread to two others nobody heard inside additional ambulances called for

the firefighters department quickly rotated firefighters to read these on the frontlines after that 75 it was hot after that >> you start to sweat the minute after you get off of the fire truck important once we start battling the fire to get them out to >> health officials asked to check on neighbors stay hydrated did not stop early morning exercises try to get ahead of the key to before the scorcher >> running half marathon this weekend have to get used to this just relax slow down and walk calls for a well-being checks are down same time last year hard to believe the numbers for heat illnesses and heat related death is holding we are told prepared nest by the city

but also by the public. >> changes to the weather as we speak tom skilling live in the weather center with more >> this front to barreling down the lake three hours ago western milwaukee. running out of steam as far south as waukegan continues to press to the south thunderstorms development scattered fashion tonight better chance whether the show 99 degrees missed the record midway hit 100 degrees. weather bug

high temperatures george armstrong elementary school. cooler air on the way cities broke records today included in detroit to flint michigan indianapolis madison wisconsin all over 100 degrees. 24-hour temperature changes. look at the

keep bouncing back over the weekend. >> fighting crime personal vehicles of that lost parking lot wgn authorities do not have surveillance video to help in the search for those responsible >> started early monday morning personal vehicles of 3 police employees heavily keyed the east and west lot overnight this morning and another 15. marked with lk stands for latin kings also put pitch forks. brazen attacks and not caught on tape cameras around the police station not working nothing found on surrounding city streets sergeant for manfernando

garcia frustrated >> we cannot even police the all the parking lot every member is upset very upsetting the nerve the disrespect to the police >> just last week mayor rahm emmanuel announced the district around the district that the area focusing on drugs and gangs in the area local business owner says police to a good job with limited resources just two weeks ago he was robbed at gunpoint inside his store suspects caught and no injuries. not all of these stories around this neighborhood end this way. bellmont innocent people getting shot and to the police not to be much about this >> chicago crime commission says police have been an impact gangs are feeling the pressure expected retaliation like this will likely continue with continued pressure from police. sergeant garcia says it will

take more than the boys in blue >> it starts with the parents everybody has to be involved not just the police everybody mother's father stepfathers have to step up their game. the teachers. the schools. curches. everybody has to be involved enough is enough >> if not the state's attorney's office about the charges against seven people accused of a kickback scheme one charge was once the campaign manager for robert well known state senator. >> at least two of the people charged today we found had ties with former state senator ricky hendon investigated last year by federal grand jury for grand this man tried to elude reporters dean and nichols record show former campaign treasurer for state senator ricky hendon who abruptly quit the state senate in 2011 after a

federal grand jury issued subpoenas for records on dozens of state grants. some of which he sponsored. today former associate nichols etch with bribery conspiracy of such a plan kickbacks tied to phony grand scheme of budget he and six other defendants for a phone in federal court today thought there were going to get $25,000 grants from the united states department of health and human services in return for paying $5,000 in kickbacks to the suspicious officials. nichols could have made $1,250 on each grant he allegedly facilitated the affidavit says nichols boasted about having 40 grantees and making $100,000. another defendant el yet kozel; records show him as a contact for state senator ricky hendon he was a legislator kozel they got a supervisor at the jail mary's

meant to take part in this as well today sheriff's department issued a statement. case of bad decisions made in the personal lives up to correctional officers. efforts to reach the former state senator were not successful. >> the two correctional officers suspended of allegedly kozell said he would take children would attend his program for a tour of the cook county jail where he would talk about drugs. as for ricky hendon not named in the indictment were charged with a crime. very interesting how this is happening. read between the lines but we will see. >> follow up to the story about three men taking legal action after sperm samples were stored

at northwestern hospital equipment failure destroy the samples statement acknowledging of function in the cryogenic storage tank ruined specimens are others still viable for in vitro procedures but investigated to determine how this happened. chief medical officer dr. also said institution follows all safety regulations examining additional storage safeguards. coming up what to do about contaminated water and sauk village great residents demanding action town officials meeting tonight to decide the next move and the woman accused of stalking chicago cubs president theo epstein years ago resurfaces in chicago and cta basco rushed to hundred million dollar makeover. wgn news @ 9

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hours after illinois attorney general had a talk downtown public meeting sauk village to talk with residents about dangerous contamination in the town water supply. southern

suburb with the meeting still going on >> not a friendly crowd several hundred residents inside frustrated asking the question is the water safe to drink? the mayor does not say either way. stay with epa this week warning levels of vinyl chloride in the treated drinking water are dangerous. feeling the heat from residents and state officials tonight to make your list tau worse and the sauk village board give answers to the ground water contamination growing right under their feet. >> contamination has been in the bill which for years and years >> within the last two weeks by illinois environmental protection agency showed levels of vinyl chloride dangerous on acceptable levels. even exposure to low levels of the chemical over long periods of time can cause impaired immune system

damage the nervous system libbers and kidneys as well as increased risk for liver cancer. >> it is scary lived here all of these years drink the water now i drink bottled water but i did four years down the latest turn ongoing battle over the water heater in the spring of president said yes to bring in lake michigan water solution the mayor wants but which may not take too long and to be too expensive to satisfy the state because of current contamination levels. >> you can go to court and ask the judge to issue an order that says it village needs to provide bottled water to residents and come up with the plant immediately that addresses the on safe drinking water in the sauk village >> meeting with the illinois attorney general's office maintains he needs to wait for direction on where to go from here. batt but today did not reach concrete answer whether or not have to set the bells down

>> waited one more day is not acceptable to them. batt but not talking money or politics talking about the health and safety of the entire town even though the mayor has not said what was discussed today with attorney general office and state epa did get off the telephone telling me they gave the village until thursday to come up with short and long-term solutions to the ground water problem including tissue been bottled water to of 11,000 residents in the south suburb by the end of the week. they are prepared to go to court. >> soldier from crown point in the end of one of two killed during an attack and afghanistan 21 year-old specialist sergio eduardo perez died in guest today rocket-propelled grenade small arms fire in the camp are

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the humidity will stay up tomorrow temperatures coming down down as much as 15-20 degrees around the lake got a kick out of this picture. reminding us where we have been before the goal of the program to put things in perspective. waukegan airport temperature 10 degrees below. quite a line of thunderstorms into parts of lake michigan front southport not at the chicago but pamela anderson captured coming in tonight silver lake michigan distant thunder storms with northern lights on top of a couple of nights ago. nature on and that

picture look at this picture. never in 21 years seen river so low fox river. should the water at the foreground we can all identify but that in the middle of quite a drought clouts a bubbled up very scattered areas south produced good downpours downstate illinois and to the north. notice area of heat advisory shrinking noticeable here the big cities out east not tomorrow northeasterly wind blowing tomorrow not much with the humidity takes 100 degree heat indices to the south. farther south not that far away movement of on the north edge.

thunderstorms in the process situation by friday heat research is big time sunday and monday and tuesday. everywhere you can see blue temperatures are lower than 24 hours ago. winds blowing from the northeast at 50 mi. per hour still on the the warm air manage to 99 degrees missed the record but midway did hit 100 degrees 5 on the books and four other years in 84 years of weather records. pretty amazing. if we get seven times the number of official

station 1988 sure seems like this summer is determined to set some records and that department. here is the way the front came and wisconsin pretty good rainfall. hoping to thunderstorms develop look at the rain falls come down and parts of northern wisconsin. big picture in nation's capital at 100 degrees today. '80s went well north. northeast wind was not cool as horribly but taken

the edge off the heat records all of the cities today. here is the front thunderstorms blow up scattered fashion along the front 47 days since we had half an inch of rainfall. high temperatures across the area we need rainfall in light of this heat. at the moment still in the '90s here comes the cooler air from the north west southwest wind blowing 80 mi. per hour scattered thunderstorms in the future. perhaps 30-40% tonight or tomorrow could produce scattered thunderstorms at that point. desperate enough taking whatever we can get increasing

clouds tonight scattered thunderstorms wind to the north- northeast by morning. low temperatures 72 degrees. tomorrow mixed sun and clouds still muggy low of two points all day gulf of mexico humid today. several clusters of thunderstorms. back to the mid 90's by sunday. upper 90s on monday. i could take a vacation day on monday or tuesday next week. now thank you tom

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wgn news @ 9 autistic girl falls from the third floor window in new york city schrade into a man's arms. saw the 7 year old girl crawl under the window air-conditioner dancing ran over there in case she felt sure enough she did. >> i ran over there hoping she would not fall still standing there positioned myself hopefully to capture >> suffered a slight tear in his shoulder and the girl is fine. so when the needles found in sandwiches on some delta airline flights and needles found on the food in the food for flight from amsterdam to the united states senate which is supplied caterer called gate gourmet one passenger said the needle in his sandwich was about 1 in. long no

injuries reported delta and the fbi investigating. organization's leaders reached decision after two years considered different views and opinions decided to ban gay membership best of the boy scouts organization says the banning policy allows the group to remain focused on its mission police and alabama charge man the 17 counts of attempted murder tuscaloosa shooting spree. surveillance video gun in hand after midnight university of alabama opening fire police think targeting somebody at the bar 17 people wounded at least four of the get the notes listed in critical condition held on $2 million bond after turning himself and. star power today on capitol hill fighting modern-day slavery cameras clicked as and

will smith testify jada pinkett smith before the senate foreign relations committee on human trafficking and slavery earlier this year jada pinkett smith did organization and don't sell bodies. helping to end the human trafficking and organization provides refuge and support for survivors. >> today estimated 27 million slaves worldwide more than any point in history. we call these men and women children the victims of human trafficking. represent every nationality ethnicity age group and can be found everywhere included in the united states. down the illinois sen. dick durbin among the lawmakers praising the smith family for taking up the costs. alerted to horrors of human trafficking shot when documentary kony 2012. tears and cut south suburban hospital next and special delivery dozens

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sometime secure roads get away before we have a chance to thank them that is out with was woman said to us like on the road paths cross again and a surprise twist finally says thank you got a hug. >> cannot wait to make >> to meet her nurse at christ medical center saved his life eight months ago armed with flowers give her a big big hug today back in november down what i did not feel good at home coming to the hospital must have gotten deceit pulled into the white castle parking lot wanted to see if anything i could do realized no pulls cardiac arrest started to win a cp are down by paramedics got their ticket to

the hospital she went off to work turns out to a nurse at christ out of sheer coincidence walked into his hospital room a few days later did not remember each other until he started telling her the story at the time did not reveal saved his life co-worker decided to speak up wrote to hospital administrators here we are her actions 1 dr. sacred call to gerald being here today. would not have survived to make it into the hospital the reason became a nurse

>> temperatures above the

normal tomorrow still some ideas in the south and southwest suburbs but turning cooler near the lake and 80's over most of the area unless southwest on thursday sunny skies returned by friday buckled in the jet stream hot air further west flow by friday brings canadian air extended out to seven days hot air down up to friday and saturday this develops back again and early indications blazing round of heat. she thunderstorm clusters we think some areas will but when the lightning is storms down in

indiana. forecast at midnight scattered showers populate the area from time to time tonight. underplays the brain for some extent. updating you on the forecast tomorrow. 90 and went and 80s at the beaches tomorrow with northeast wind. united

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talking stocks and the sox tonight. came to >> big series out in boston roughed up the white sox with a late inning rally last night tonight not so much phil humber back to the amount kevin youkilis three hits last night in his return to fenway park pretty good tonight tied at 2 and the second alejandro de aza down for a double white sox take the lead at 3-2. in the fourth inning kevin youkilis with two on and two out kevin youkilis there it goes over the green monster three more and octant for kevin youkilis. 6-2 and the same score in the fifth ending white sox flashing some leather dayan viciedo laughed steals and out and saves a run. addison reed another save the sox went 7-5 in detroit loses white sox up 3.5. at wrigley field tonight to be turned off ozzie guillen

his team not been playing very well until tonight in the fourth inning heading to the bleachers miami takes 3-0 lead and in the fifth the newly acquired carlos lee the bases loaded why did the chicago cubs not trade for him. eighth inning 9-5 miami is up. ozzie guillen was the star of the pregame show back in chicago in uniform first time since he left the white sox for miami marlins. talking success of former team struggles of the new 1 >> i said early in the season with the best of buddies happy knows what they're supposed to do.

>> ozzie guillen brands other familiar faces mark buehrle pitches thursday and carlos zambrano who has not coming up this week saying hello to his teammates met the media carlos zambrano said he wishes his exit happened under different circumstances. >> when i got between aviston and clark i cannot believe it. moving on the only thing i want to do is in chicago is when and i really apologize to chicago cub fans to the people here that treat me good. they deserve an apology >> very nice we invite you to be with us from cooperstown beginning tomorrow night continuing through sunday celebrating ron santo entry into

the hall of fame coverage sunday evening inside the gallery at the hall of fame for celebrating ron santo 930 central wgn america. in the nba in new york next not expected to match houston astros offer for jeremy lin what affect that has on the rockets pursuit of omer asik grant held to date clippers and lakers are testing dwight howard waters let me know when he actually shows up somewhere and cowboys receiver dez bryant erupted for allegedly assaulting his mother. at 141st brbritish open begins a dicey all week could have huge of fact out there could be the week tiger woods >> couple of years stretched their not a lot of fun with four majors there just because

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