>> and make a bus traveling from chicago to st. louis loses control and slammed head-on into a concrete overpass. one fatality and dozens of others are treated for injuries. the trip started here right outside union station state police investigating. >> those who were on board tell

a horrifying story, the impact that for some, several passengers have to be cut out of the wreck including the woman who died. i just came to and everybody's bodies were in the aisle and had blood on their faces. >> he called me from the bus in said we just got into a major accident and i could hear people

screaming and crying. the meg a bus was carrying 64 people and about half were hurt when a tire blew south of the state capitol on the chicago and st. louis kansas city route. still, mega bus passengers left chicago late today. 30 ambulances and five helicopters responded to that crash.

>> a 16 year-old was on the the bus headed to a concert with a friend, she told me there was something she kept that captor safe. >> we have this contest that if you give somebody money and when they get to their destination they give it to charity and my dad gave me $1 before i left and i had it with me and i think that's what kept me safe. >> she was not injured in the crash but was taken to nearby hospital as a precaution because she was going alone. >> an airport shut down for about two hours afterthis afternoon

there was no evacuation the passengers were diverted to terminals 1 and 34 security screenings flights continued on time. full speed ahead for the drew peterson murder trial the judge says no to a mistrial in testimony resumes. >> the testimony about drew peterson intimidating a witness with a bullet was thrown out the jury told to completely disregard that, not a bad start for prosecutors but they got a really big a blow later in the day. >> relief for prosecutors and kathleen's family when a mistrial was denied. even

defense attorneys acknowledged a ruling in their favor would have been highly unusual. the second witness was a

locksmith that drew peterson called to help them get into kathleen's house for a wellness check, he said the doorknob was locked but the deadbolt which needed a key was not. i will put it against any state attorney's office and the state of illinois. prosecutors won the first round today but they lost a big one at the end perry smith was supposed to take the stand this afternoon, he was kathleen divorce attorney. they were going to use them to establish financial motives for peterson to kill kathleen that he would get more out of the divorce more money if kathleen were not there to testify in april 6th 2004 court date, she died march 1st, 2004.

perry has much more damaging testimony, kathleen allegedly told him that drew said you will never make it to court, you will never get the kids or my pension. not clear yet when harry smith is going to take this stance. top aide for former cook county president charged today with accepting tens of thousands of dollars in kickbacks. his lawyer says he is not guilty and that's what the 42 year-old pleaded in court today after the feds dropped the hammer and indicted the former spokesman with fraud and corruption charges he is not the first one to fall from grace. first there was the deputy chief of staff who was charged with a similar crime in

2001 for taking almost $35,000 in kickbacks for a warawarding friends. today the former cook county board president didn't answer his door when we knocked, he and mauling go way back. a greater question is are the fed's investigating whether mullins was the only ones getting alleged kickbacks from the county deal. in this letter from a 26 mulleins himself requested all departments to cooperate with the inspector general and the board of commissioners. to ensure that

his time in office was both positive. now that he faces a federal indictment the question remains who is next. >> and mother and daughter killed when their apartment was intentionally set on fire, now two suspects are charged with the crime. also a drop in the murder rate in chicago. this new gang fighting strategy is working. we could see temperatures creep up into the upper 90s by the weekend.

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eptwo men charged in a fatal fire that killed the mother in the daughter. more on this story. >> early morning of wednesday last week the lakeshore apartment complex in gary went up in flames killing a mother and her 14 year-old daughter angela harris. investigators have suspected arson and during this afternoon's press conference maher terrence

williams confirmed it. two men from lake station are facing charges of murder and arson. mayor freeman wilson says he started the fire because of a dispute with her son involving a trade for half ounce of marijuana and an x box that turned out to be broken. this morning she had to bury her daughter and granddaughter and she wants to think the gary police department for the quick work in finding and are wresting

the suspect. we have been crying all day, all week worried, but after they told us they caught him bugs we could do is think the gary police department for a wonderful work. they each face more than 30 years behind bars. chicagos steel co. slapped with more than two dozen safety violations by osha. on complaints that construction at this plant was damaging nearby homes. osha said the company is demonstrating blatant disregard for its employees. fines could reach up to $350,000. correctional officer is facing charges after accused of punching an inmate the 40

year-old a 12 year veteran of the department is seen until surveillance video walking behind an inmate waiting to process them in jail when the inmates reportedly asked him to get a phone number for his belongings the officer followed him and punched him the victim received stitches for a cut inside his mouth. if convicted he could face two-five years in prison. chicago police superintendent gary mccarthy says they are making strides his take on new crime statistics. an outpouring of generosity for a world county horse farm featured last night on the wgn news. and why you may want to take it easy on the iced tea. this is the plan for back to school. introducing share everything only from verizon. a shareable pool of data to power up to 10 different devices. add multiple smartphones to your plan

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>> to 16 year-old boys were killed and another teen wounded in a shooting on the west side this afternoon the attack happened in the garfield park neighborhood it happened about 1:00 police say the area is known for an ongoing gang conflict, the identities of the victims have not been released and police are investigating. it police superintendent believes that the drop in gang violence is working because of his new strategy 49 people were killed last month compared with 55 in july of 2011, he says the numbers are encouraging but are far from reaching the department's goal. shootings have gone down 5% that's not a small thing. murder rates for

july was the third lowest since 1987, lawrence pfeiffer is suing suzuki in the north like because he said other salesmen into management subjected to racial taunts and a hostile work environment. pfeiffer says he was told he was let go because of low production but he says that's just not true. no salesman has made more money than me, it was just ridiculous for them to fire me for the lack of production. i was the top grossing salesman there. the company responded:

2 chicago area congressman have filed for action to pull the nation back to the so-called fiscal cliff the deadlocked congress faces a perfect storm by the end of the year thanks to a no deal on the debt ceiling of one trillion dollars in automatic spending cuts have kicked in plus the bush era tax cut fadeout, bob dole joins fellow lawmakers to urge a bipartisan solution. >> i think what's important as we look at what will be the most predictable crisis in our nation in a decade, we are here today to urge our colleagues and the leadership to move forward so we can address the crisis that will be facing our nation. >> lawmakers returned from their summer recess next month. last night we talked about a horse rescue group struggling to care for more than 30 abandoned

horses, the recently founded horse abandoned on the road 300 lbs. underweight, job conditions have caused haigh prices todry conditions caused kate prices to skyrocket. the organization is trying to raise another 6000 for a much-needed new trailer. if you want to help others information on our web sites. next, the painful medical connection that may be linked to iced tea.condition that may be linked to iced tea.

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>> we have a whole series of the award winning photographers the island in georgia is the setting. a cloud-ground lightning strike. note the lake level from linda who says how high the lake was and after the drought you will see you could actually walk across it because the water levels have gone down so low. this beautiful shot from a former intern a new orleans rain shaft here. this looks like you will expect charlton heston

to walk there. it's a shot at wrigley field but doesn't that look almost like divine inspiration. thank you for a nice day and lots of sunshine mother nature. we had temperatures that wind up to 90 degrees today. this is really something, had this occurred just one month ago this would be characterized as a million- dollar ring. some areas like quincy had more rain in a single day today than they have had in a whole year. you could almost see there is a little circulation with this. a compact weather system with all of the lightning and heavy rain that fell east of st. louis. you

concede there are also some storms out here to the west so these clusters are forming and growing and expanding in an area of high pressure there is a band of heavy rain this morning with 70 mi. per hour winds. these are some rain totals. totals. here is the view from our state capitol in springfield in the chicago area look at the temperatures. it's still 87 tonight at midway airport. a beautiful day here in

chicago. the sun comes out and munsters starts flooding in. we had a 93 at both of the airports today. waukegan hit 91 today. there has been an air pollution action de declared by illinois epa. we have had only five of those included nine in this year. just a half an inch of rain on the horizon the next seven days perdays low temperatures

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>> 25 year-old woman from india has been identified as the one faced fatality in the meg a bus crash. four people were airlifted to st. louis, others who were not injured were brought to the community center in litchfield were another bus caymancame in about 6:00 this evening and some of the people have been released from hospital with minor injuries. those folks were all home or on their way to their destinations after a harrowing day. apparently the

bus had a tire blow, lost control and crashed right into a concrete bridge on state 55. the illinois state trooper says he has never seen anything like in 14 years. >> was it overwhelmed with all of the people walking into the community center behind you there. >> the town was overwhelmed in a way but a lot of people who were injured were overwhelmed by the town and by those who came out to help, the community center was absolutely flooded with people who came just because they wanted to help, the boy scouts, there were red cross members here, there were little old ladies from up the street. the insured for the most part were outnumbered by the city here. so they were just showing

up to help out. >> believe it or not it's already back-to-school time. mayor ron emmanuel makes sure that students are prepared. >> i'm dean richards in grant park, what are the changes this year for lollapalooza. later in sports, plenty of big plays today, at bears' camp with the [♪...] >> i've been training all year for the big race in chicago, but i can only afford one trip. and i just found out my best friend is getting married in l.a. there's no way i'm missing that. then i heard about hotwire and i realized i could actually afford both trips. see, when really nice hotels have unsold rooms, they use hotwire to fill them. so i got my four-star hotels for half-price! >> men: ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e ♪ ♪ hotwire.com ♪

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>> lollapalooza has called the chicago home since 2005. tickets have been sold out for weeks. the eight stages include black sabbath, the black keys, jack white and the red hot chili peppers. chicago tribune music critic says it's a great

thing for chicago. >> from that standpoint it's a unique festival. >> one of the amenities of the festival has enjoyed was the sweet deal negotiated with the city when lollapalooza first came to town de dodge paying amusement and liquor taxes in exchange for a donation to the parkway foundation. the company that runs lollapalooza cut out text is a status, something that chicago parks district ceo and superintendent mark kellie

told me will lead to a big profit for local government. the city, the county and the state will get a little bit more money for this. not to mention increase tax revenue for hotels and restaurants and bars over the weekend on the controversial issue of gay crashing last year. this was the kind of fence that was used at the outer border for lollapalooza in the past, it will still be here but now with an extra added heavy-duty layer of security, >> wee reinforced the gates, i think they call them jailbreak fences. we are putting those up to help these kids help themselves by not trying to crash through and injure themselves to get into the festival. lollapalooza founder says that chicago is still his kind of town. i look at it like we are a family. i looked at as a business and we work with the city of chicago has become my second family, my second home.

we all collectively work together to show the entire world what a great festival and what a great three days you could have. you can see my full interview with perry and get all the info you need on lollapalooza on our website. >> there were 45 states that had 90 degree temperatures today many had hundreds. there are tomorrows temperatures, saturday looks like the real schemer. if russia goes through saturday night with some big storms. i

want to show you the storms that come in and first in scattered fashion, that is tomorrow afternoon. see that little wave. we can blow that up for you right here. by 9:00 in the evening at some clusters coming together that march across the area between 9-11 and pursue east of here and we go into beautiful less humid weather during the day on sunday but with the jet stream and that position in the storms that can bring down and we may get pretty good rain out of this. this is a tropical storm from this afternoon. you can see it off the coast of south america. this shows all the different model

tracks on that storm. forecasters have the ability to mix a group of models. the little ones indicate minimal intensity, that will be something to watch. here is our forecast locally. 94 tomorrow.

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>> it was not all defense today, color passed for an interception and later on the first-round draft picks he has been taking some heat lately. interception of the screen pass.

>> i have been working on getting better every day i think i am so far i just have to keep trying and learning. i just want to do what they're teaching me antonin on those things. there is a lot of pressure on you to be good right away but it takes time. he works hard, he has good athletic ability. on the offensive side he is splitting time with cruz harris. he is trying to put in the issues behind him.

>> the best thing i can do now is go out there and to reps. what i really need is to be able to go out there and play. in baseball the cubs in sox have the day off there in l.a. for a 9:00 game tomorrow night on wgn the angels tonight are in texas or welcoming ryan dempster to the american league. he didn't make it through the fifth inning nine hits, two home runs it's not tied up so they build him out he is off the hook. a huge day for the u.s. olympic team, it gabby douglass went to the golden gymnastics,

20 metals and phelps career now. men's basketball beat nigeria 156-73 an olympic record. and the cleveland browns are sold today for more than $1 billion it makes you wonder what the bears might be worth. and a relatively short hitting at the first round lead, he 6 he hit six. 63 and the first round. seven shots in the first-round lead tried to become the first guy in golf history to win that venue, eight times. from all of

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