he was trying to break up a fight but instead he lost his life a family grieves the shooting death of a promising young basketball player in the cities for south side ... good afternoon i'm steve sanders >>and i'm dina bair we welcome our audience joining us around america on wgn america and on the web ... nancy loo has the top story michael haynes was set to leave for new york on tuesday but instead of preparing for his departure his family is preparing for his funeral many here are in mourning wondering

what could have been ... >>i was just hoping that if i did fall asleep and i would wake up and it would be a dream ... and it's not and it hurts ... >>today the family of michael haynes is in disbelief still stunned that their six-foot 7 in. gentle giant will not play basketball again or ever be around ... the high-school basketball star was set to leave tuesday for iona college in new york fulfilling his dream to play division 1 basketball he was shot and killed yesterday at around 5:00 trying to break up a fight near 116th ... a friend nearby ran to find him and his favorite hat lying on the sidewalk ... >>i saw that he was hit i said

he was gone ... >>his friends drove him to hospital where he was pronounced dead ... his former prom date was expecting him for dinner ... >>i couldn't believe he got shot he just called me ... this can't be true ... >>he was a basketball star in high school leading washington high school to the city championship in 2006-2007 he had playing time against derrick rose his friends say that he was this neighborhoods best shot at the pros ... >>he was a big man the way he played the at a nice jump shot ... the haynes family is devastated left to rely on faith ... >>got doesn't make any mistakes and maybe michael served his purpose here and maybe this will make people stop.

iona college issued a statement expressing deep sadness over the death ... chicago police are investigating the shooting and there are clear indications that michael haynes near his killer no arrests have been made ... it has been a bloody 12 hours in the city in addition to michael haynes five other peoples were shot including a gas station clerk who was well-liked by his neighbors in garfield park >>detectives spent hours here as the store clerk family looked on waiting for information he was 835 year-old palestinian from burbank who was shot in the head police arrived at the gas station and 4:00 this morning with a call about a robbery the gas station is at washington

boulevard across the street from garfield park is believed that he worked here for two years he leaves behind a wife and three daughters from ages 2 through 7 ... they lived in palestine he would travel back and forth ... is not known if there were customers in the store at the time he is scheduled to work 12 hour shift and schedule to get off at 6:00 in the morning ... one guy said it left a half-hour before the shooting he said a clerk and another young woman were in the store but he dismissed that other clerk early for ramadan ... >>he kept insisting i did want to go home but he insisted ... he said it could take care of himself >>i don't believe it i just don't believe it we were co- workers we were family ... >>he was here if your short

changed to let it go anything you needed he would say get it next time he was like a family we all know each other in my family i knew everyone and his family it's a tragedy >>there was no security guard on duty in spite of them up plot employing them ... there are security cameras we saw police carrying app the security equipment we don't know if that captured in the image of the suspect chicago police are looking for the driver of a car who had a woman on the city's west side wednesday night ... surveillance video shows a car hitting the pedestrian and driving off near lake in pulaski 52 year-old gail watkins is in critical condition with head wounds a broken leg and broken ribs police are looking for a gray or light

brown chevy and palo or malibu with damage to the car the license numbers 621800 ... jim the navy intelligence officer from crystal lake was killed in the shooting rampage in colorado will be honored today there will be awake of 27 year-old john lorimer between three and 9:00 in the davenport family funeral home in crystal lake the petty officer third class was shot as he protected his girlfriend during the massacre of 11 other people were also killed he was stationed at buckley airforce base in our colorado funeral services and the burial will be private the suspect in the colorado movie theater shootings doesn't know why he's in jail james holmes has been in custody for one week as he waits charges for last week's deadly shootings the new york daily news reports that holmes has been acting like he

has an issue in jail one worker says that he's been asking people why he's there there are also reports that ds one jill worker how batman movie ended holmes was also complaining of stomach aches that he is blaming on the gel food aid jury in mchenry county has begun deliberations in the sexual assault trial of john wayne gacy nephew raymond caspar in closing arguments this morning prosecutors accuse the mother and the end of the alleged victim tampering with their story he testified yesterday denying that he assaulted a 12 year-old girl last year earlier in the week the girl testified she might have dreamt of the attack in spite of physical evidence that she had been abused the girl and her brother were taken away from the mother into protective custody this morning by the department of children and family services mental health advocates present a pink slip the commissioner

chicago's department of public health claiming he has abandoned people who have depression or other illnesses the community mental health board of chicago called on dr. bechara choucair to resign from his job at an event at state and jackson this morning chicagos inspector general and a powerful aldermen are at odds over the city's employee disability program the city made $115 million in disability payments to injured workers last year inspector general joseph ferguson wants to look at payment records to ensure the employees are not abusing a disability benefits prices of wheat corn and soybeans continued to rise as drought plagues the midwest the government says 90 percent of topsoil and six midwest states is considered short or very short on moisture in illinois 99% of the topsoil has reached that level across the united

states more than 3063% of the area is in some state of drought the highest figure since 1999 the agriculture department says consumers can expect to see above normal food price inflation next year at least two people are dead and after some violent storms moved through the north wheat northeast the storm system had several states very quickly and possibly caused some tornadoes woman was killed in pennsylvania when she was crushed by a tree that landed on her car and in brooklyn was killed when lightning strike hit a church and caused scaffolding to land on him power outages are affecting about 200,000 customers in new york and in pennsylvania

the man accused of infecting hospital patients with hepatitis c has a history of drug abuse. he was arrested this month in connection with spreading the disease to 30 patients at a new hampshire hospital two years ago he was fired from an arizona hospital after only 11 days when he was found passed out from drug use he tested positive for cocaine and marijuana and was fired the following day he is accused of injecting himself with painkillers meant for the patience and leaving the syringes to be used again attorneys for one of the jerry sandusky victims say they have voice mails to back up their claims the voice mails were left

for the accuser known as victim no. 2 in the sandusky trial that victim did not testify at the trial but mike mcqueary testified that he saw jerry sandusky abuse victim no. 2 in 2001 the victims' attorneys say that sandusky try to control their client with messages like these: >>and going to the penn state game this saturday if you would like to come please call me let me know soon we get the message give me a call and tom ... talk to you later things i love you ... >> the victims' attorneys plan to file a civil suit against penn state sandusky was convicted of sexually abusing 10 voice-over a 15 year. all eyes are on london as the summer olympics get under way ... athletes have been arriving at heathrow airport for their moment in history >>this is my first olympic games

are very excited ... >>when we step up and we get behind a block we're doing what we have practiced to do >>the olympic torch is also ready to shine as the really went through downing street with the prime minister and at buckingham palace with a pass off at in front of the duke and duchess of cambridge ... it will arrive during the opening ceremony tonight to light the cauldron ... film director danny boyle is behind the ceremony with farm animals and music ... he is best known for directing some dog millionaire ... london is not known for good weather sir british airways flew in a patchy rain dancers from arizona

to ensure that could weather ... a british artist wants everyone to get into the spirit are ringing bells all over the country today ... >>this is my idea the brilliant sounds of the bells all over the place pieces of music ... some very cute baby stetigers in china ... they are very rare in the wild in china and there are less than 200 in captivity ... coming up just had the latest in the chick-fil-a controversy here in chicago and still to come ford announces a major recall of the new escape vehicle we will study with their warning doctors of ... and later in the lunch break ...

live from the new york stock exchange your bloomberg on the money report ... the u.s. economy is still growing but at a slower pace ... shoppers are cutting back as the job market softens ... the european debt crisis is looming and hurting u.s. consumer confidence ... ford is recalling over 400,000 suvs because the throttle is sticking leading to premature acceleration the models are between 2001-two dozen for there's one related death this is the third recall related to ford escapes in less than two weeks ... glaxo's smithkline as getting fewer u.s. patients as

pharmaceutical companies are changing the way they rollout the drugs ... they're trying to cut costs and make research more efficient so patent protections will be lost in the coming years ... apple is planning to make a purchase of a company that makes fingerprint technology you can imagine where they're going with this ... the i phone and i pad maker might add biometrics features for security on its devices ... this needs shareholder approval in the third quarter ... stocks are rising american economy is expanding ... and european leaders are taking steps to each that ease that region's deatdebt

crisis ... still to come the chick-fil-a controversy ... and a preview of lollapalooza ... and in the studio today live country music

a chicago alderman who is threatened to stop chick-fil-a from opening a new restaurant is clarifying his opposition ... we are live in logan square with that story alderman joe moreno found himself in the middle of the controversy even appearing on the national cable news show this morning appearing to accused that company of discriminating against gays in hiring and serving in those restaurants the alderman spoke about the growing controversy and unrelated events this

morning he faces criticism over his threats to invoke privilege to block the franchise from opening opening its first freestanding store and logan square unless the ceo changes his position on opposition to a marriage ... the ceo dan katy made the comments on radio show saying he was against same-sex marriage sparking a nationwide protest ... the alderman clarify heat has doesn't have the power to block a permit but it's more about wanting responsible businesses in the area good corporate citizen ... if there's a plan for legislation i need to support that's what i can do i want to be clear this is not about a restriction of their freedom of speech the point this in my

opinion as bigoted comments can turn into discriminatory policies that's what i'm interested and i have no interest nor should i in what a company believes are does not believe we welcome everyone but if those beliefs translate into discriminatory hiring policies or serving policies it's important and chick-fil-a has made statements that are encouraging so put that in your advertising and your policy manuals chick-fil-a has been working on this issue for the past several months city officials are confident confident there will get on the same page in be able to open the restaurant ... a downtown chick-fil-a is reporting increases in sales attributing this solely to this controversy music lovers heading to

lollapalooza next weekend will see changes the sun-times reports extra security measures will be in place this year to keep eight crashers a way last year between heavy rain and record crowds there was massive damage to grant park this year fences will be higher and people not allowed to walk her landscaped flower beds and estimated 300,000 people are expected at the festival still to come tom skilling

we are still in the drought but you say it's not as bad as it was because of the recent rainfall >>it's amazing we're looking at the rainfall totals ... a has

reigned the majority of time ... but the temperatures and rainfall accumulations are running above average and so the drought is still alive and well and the damage has already been done ... thunderstorm clusters are coming true and its spectacular we had some viewers send in some snapshots: we have seen a lot of these images lately ... you see another one here west of chicago ... and one from montgomery illinois ... this is from a professional photographer ... from one of the recent storms ...

and here is the viewer from minnesota who captured an amazing cloud ... this is an example of when rain brings down cooler air ... this is natures national natural air-conditioner the wind is strong ... and here is the view today there's haze in the area ... we see towering mid-level clouds ... after the showers we see in the three-dimensional radar coming through this morning ... it suggests there were heavy rain producers when they occurred but they don't stay

anywhere for any period of time there are upper air systems with pockets of colder air starting in northern minnesota coming its way south word as the afternoon goes on we will see more of it ... here is the leading edge of the cold front ... that brought us out of the hundred degree heat yesterday 100 degree heat was recorded in 11 different states the heat has not left us it's just moving to the south ... has we're telling steven dina not a lot of measurable rain and

the area but lots has been falling down ... here's the seventh day cumulative rainfall forecast ... we have lots of desperately dry areas downstate the farmers are in trouble ... persistent showers have laid out throughout the midwest ... we are above average with rainfall over 3 in. we have gage to this at both major airports ... this summer is still running below average ... here's the two week rain forecast this is on observation ... we are wetter than average

that's 120 percent of the normal rainfall but it's all concentrated overtime ... we're looking at the various places are recording this rainfall the northeast wind will be locking in this afternoon off of lake michigan but the lake water is warm and we will not see a big cool down it's warm in moderately humid we will be very warm and muggy next week ... this afternoon we have isolated thunderstorms in the forecast we are averaging our forecasts

... there are heat advisory's but in 11 states today including the st. louis area for the first time yesterday there were in the '90s and not in triple digits ... and out west we still have wildfire potential ... we will have an update later on next week's forecast ... but for now we're talking about a few gusty thunderstorms this afternoon not everyone will see those but there will be a downpour if you do ... north wind will be strengthening coming in off of lake michigan tonight the clouds will scatter the temperature will come down to 66 degrees. we

have a beautiful day tomorrow to mostly sunny warm comfortable humidity high 83 ... sunday mixed crowds isolated thunderstorms the high temperature 89 degrees ... we will flirt with 90 degrees next week the first half of the week will be more tolerable it will be much higher later in the week ... thank you tom skilling ... time for today's trivia: the olympic opening cermony kicks off tonight in london for the 2012 games ... in which year was the first opening ceremony held? a. 1896, athens, greece b. 1908, london c. 1924, paris. the answer is ahead in this hour of the wgn midday news.

time for sports: the white sox are now a half- game up in the central and visit texas tonight. the cubs celebrate "ron santo day" this afternoon when they take on the cardinals at wrigley.

they changed northwestern debuted new uniforms at big ten football media day downtown. but the focus was on the n-c-a-a sanctions against penn state that allow players to transfer schools without losing a year of eligiblity. some big ten coaches including northwestern's pat fitzgerald, say they won't recruit penn state players. however, new fighting illini coach tim beckman says players have already contacted him about potential tranfers to illinois, and members of his staff met with players earlier this week. the n-b-a regular season schedule is out... and the bulls open the season at home on halloween night against the sacramento kings. they play at home christmas night, hosting jeremy lin, omer asik and the houston rockets. the lakers visit on january 21st, and the bulls host the defending champion miami heat twice, starting in february... derrick rose could return from his knee injury by then. join mark suppelsa for a half hour special "pension games" at

9:30 monday night on wgn-tv. then at 10, here on cltv - mark will host a roundtable discussion on the state's pension problems - and how lawmakers might fix it. governor quinn and others will be here to answer your call-in questions. again - that's monday night - 9- 30 on wgn -- then 10 pm here on cltv. the governor will be here to answer your call-in questions ... time now for the official drawing of the illinois lottery ... good afternoon everyone ... here are the winning pick three numbers: 5 3 2

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boosting rainfall to our area ... we are right where we were yesterday temperature wise but there is cooling happening up north ... these temperatures are not going to go higher they will go down along the lakeshore ... 96 degrees in st. louis right now it is still hot to the self ...outh we have an improvement in the midday ... the shoreline water temperatures 82 degrees ... we have low pollen counts today and there are extended sunburn times ... the wind is picking up in some spots ... in west chicago is 74 degrees ... here is the 74

cast: 83 degrees tomorrow bitiful mostly sunny the northeast wind will put waves on lake michigan ... there is a day to day chance of storms for next week as we build heat and humidity back into the area thanks for joining us today. we hope you have a great afternoon. remember we are back at 5:00 this evening and again at 9:00. before we go we leave you with more music from randy houser.... he is on stage tonight at 9 at joe's on tweed street for more concert dates

you can go to his website randyhouser.com....