a developing story tonight a home innovation gives chase towait to read chase in northwest indiana. police are trying to piece together what happened. seen tonight around the country, live in indiana with the story. good evening to both of you this seen as clearing up right now, this situation began shortly after 5:00 this evening and started with a home invasion from there

it was turned into a police pursuit and beyond that we are told one person was left dead again this scene here at colorado it's just clearing moments ago here is what we know according to the county sheriff's department it was around 550 or so that the department contacted the other shares department they were dealing with a home in addition we are told suspects took off from the particular address and from there they took off by car on rte. 30 into lake county meanwhile police were on their tails, at rte. 30 in colorado a collision involving the suspect came down at some point shots were fired that as well. not by police because they hadn't arrived on the scene but allegedly by the suspect involved in this case one person was hit struck and had allegedly the victim of the home invasion who had actually been following the suspect by car behind them.

three of the four suspects were later captured by police, the fourth suspect we're told actually took his own life here at the sea will we understand at this point is the initial home invasion, some kind of pursue where the suspect took off behind them the victim of the home edition pursuing them. at some point shots were fired one of the victims were shot in the hand it doesn't sound like a very serious injury, traffic just opening up here behind me. there will be a lot more to learn tomorrow morning especially about the questionable home invasion in porter county. for now we are live. >> aborning tonight after a man impersonating a police officer sexually assaulted a woman in a

cornfield, live at the scene in kendall county with more. good evening some disturbing details involving this investigation the victim is a 33 year-old woman from sandwich illinois and tonight police are asking for the public's help in finding the suspect investigators from kendall county say the assault happened around 645 last night in the cornfields. a quarter mile west of little rock road the victim says she was followed by a blue ford crown victoria and the car flashed a red and blue emergency light on the front of the car and pulled her over a man walked up to her car wearing a uniform and he was dressed in some sort of uniform we're not sure if it is police security but it was some sort of official looking uniform people the mask over his face and for stir into the corn field where he began richter, he got back into the blue crown victoria and

took off heading east the victim was taken to a hospital in sandwich so far investigators only have a vague description of the suspect. it is a male approximately 30 years of age 5 ft. 8 180 lbs. described as a tan and white male or a light skinned hispanic male. anyone with information should contact kendall county investigations you could also make an anonymous call to crime stoppers both numbers are available on our web site. what's you do if you think a police impersonator is trying to pull you over, they say, 11 the dispatcher can verify if it's a real cop trying to stop you if not they will send one you could also continue driving to a public area. tonight a new

conclusion and the wisconsin shooting rampage the fbi is now saying the gunmen killed himself officers subdued wage michael page with a shot to the stomach he then took his own life with a bullet to the head, investigators say he acted alone in killing six people sunday more than 100 people have been interviewed nationwide and investigators are following up leads from around the world. after all this work we still have identified no one else responsible for the shooting other than him we also have not clearly defined a motive at this point. police found a gun as a felon she cannot possess a firearm but they do not believe that she is connected to the shooting an upcoming book about rod blagojevich makes an explosive claims about president

barack obama george ryan the former governor may be getting early out of prison after all what he is expected to do after he leaves. not too hot not too cold what it was doing inside a chocolate shop. after suffering through a summer of extreme heat we give you a real taste of autumn. how low the temperatures will go.

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heated arguments at the drew peterson trial today. testifying that savio told her that she kept a knife under her mattress to protect herself from drew. live in joliet after a stormy day in court. talk about an intense day and a big win for prosecutors who call today historic. another is hearsay statement is admitted a critical piece of evidence and to a very strong witnesses take the stand. retired state police sgt patrick collins was on the stand most of the day the key piece of his testimony introduced drew

peterson is fourth wife stacey to the jury. drew and insisted on sitting in on the interview he was close to stacy his arm around her shoulder and his hand on her leg complete control control of the situation and stacey at that moment in time later that afternoon the court room exploded before the second witness was called into another hearsay statement was introduced christian anderson lived with kathy savio for two months in the fall of 2003 she said that savio told her drew broke into her house dressed in a somewhat uniform held the knife to her throat and said i could kill you and make it look like an accident. that's not a coincidence. >> a member of the team was arguing with the judge about admitting the statement when the state's attorney james class stood up, his face red his voice

allowed into yelled at the judge, it's you, not the prior ruling that determines whether christian andersen should take the stand. in a pretrial hearing, judge steven white ruled it inadmissible. his passion, his will, his belief in justice and a lot and his willingness to fight for this for kathleen right now we felt that today but he admitted it and when christian anderson initially took the stand to testify she began crying when asked about the statements the jury left the court room in anderson went into the hall where she sobbed for her friend she could compose herself, came back in and told the jury about what kathie savio told her. she stated over and over the issue is a good friend. at least one

juror appeared disgusted by the comment. this is a murder case, a serious case. lopez insisted he was not beating up on the witness. this has been a crazy trial from the beginning not even a roller coaster but there is no downside is all high intensity every single day daetz 7 tomorrow possible witnesses including another friend of kathy savio's and the will county coroner's. former gov. george rhine closer to freedom

tonight or is he his lawyer tells us he will be released to a halfway house in january 6th months before his scheduled prison release date but another former inmate dead politician says that will barely be a step up from prison life. for me i did not like that at all. worse than life on the inside is almost impossible to believe. the fact of being locked in again the lock on the one door, your freedom is still not there, she would know the former cicero town president arrived at the salvation army halfway house in february of 2010 greeted by a throng of cameras it's the same place the former governor ryan is headed to on january 30th according to his lawyer after serving more than five of his six and a half years behind bars on that date to he should

be transferred to the work- release program might understanding is that would be in chicago and the salvation army where many other federal prisoners have spent their time many others including the former chairman congressman dan former alderman reynolds, all guests at the salvation army residential reentry center. as of his his lawyer says he has been a model prisoner in an ideal candidate. we are grateful for the chance to participate in a work-release program but continues to maintain that he was a not guilty of what the government said he was guilty of george ryan will still answer to that prison he will have a curfew work to earn his keep in

be subject to search any time, the routine by any standard, very strict. i felt more attractive than i did in prison but i think it was because i knew of this so close to full freedom that way that it was anything else the next governor will live in a dorm like room, he will have access to a shared kitchen, shared bathroom and shared living area. a woman hit and killed by a magoo bus is remembered for her volunteer work and a sense of humor. she was walking north on canal as the bus was turning left on to adams. the buses side mirror and doctor to the pavement. the time on the clock was closer to 0 as

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expected to make a second landfall. they have seen a lot worse. we have our own interested weather around here and we could see some water. look at this, we go back to last saturday he could remember the dramatic storm that swept in here. see it did some damage. al by the door to build area. the buildings were literally crushed by the winds with that system. it turns day to night around the chicago area. today not nearly that dramatic of a situation we have had some non lightning producing rains over around the area and some of the northwestern suburbs have gotten this way. a very complex weather pattern that represents a big pattern change around here. more

where that came from could see one of the bigger rains in the last year before this is all over. rains will pick up particularly tomorrow afternoon and night. upper 80s today at geneva and hebron. with a 75 going to night at george armstrong elementary school in north town. kind of a nice evening, still looking dry out there maybe we can do something about that. the big pattern change involves a retrogression of heat back into the west. these states are under red flag warnings. we will show you some

of the temperatures within a score of heat. there will be in alberta system up here. we will track along this thermal boundary from downstate illinois which will set up some wind and additional reagan it was 100 again today in st. louis look at this heat. death valley in california hit 126 today even salt lake city got in on the heat the warmest month ever in

u.s. history in july and our recorded history. tonight, relief. you see the cooler temperatures in progress here. these northeast winds will become more of a factor. humidity 55% the dew point is 58. still a high mold spore count. this hot dome will send the jed careening in from canada. that destabilizes the air. coolest weather in six weeks is coming in with this pattern changed by friday.

daytime highs will not get over the '70s. the rains are pretty resectrespectable. on our update we will show you some rainfall numbers and they are pretty impressive around the area and we could use every drop of that range. more of this rain

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mayor emanuel promotes more tech jobs for chicago, he visited three tech companies today he says he expects the company to hire up to 200 new employees in the upcoming years he says the technology company provides cutting edge solutions to 21st century problems and they're hiring defense to the best and brightest. we are in the weather center. we got ourselves some

rain on the way. we will be able to talk about that, it will come in waves. you can see the weather system consolidating over arrest tonight but it will really take off later tomorrow and tomorrow night. the low produces quite a gradient. look at the end has that that goes on over the lake, the model picks up that is midnight tomorrow night a big pluscluster of rain comes in. look at the ring numbers and you can see again reflected the lake enhancement of the rainfall it may be over

an inch and a half in some areas. gusts over 30 mi. per hour. that will be a full- fledged wind. isolated '80s tomorrow but '70s for the most part. only seven days on friday that will be the coolest in daytime high temperature today the good news was the mold count, the high was at least below advisory status at 50,000. just shy of 50,000 was the moscow today. the lake itself as we say ran about six and a half degrees warmer than average and there is the hurricane having spent some of its energy on the yucatan peninsula. it may pick

up more strength as it continues westward for mexico. but it's straddling the coast line. this will stay like a category one storm. 81 and falling tomorrow scattered showers and occasional thunderstorms and heavy rain at times. readings could be in the mid-upper 80s in chicago. it looks like you'll be a downturn after that warm-up next week.

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by mike, one-nothing kansas city. its to-nothing at the sox got the run of the night but the royals hang on to win it 2-1. the cubs 04 the road trip they are home tomorrow night to play the first place in cincinnati reds. if jay colors thoughts were entirely on the opener with denver it's understandable, the bears' quarterback became a dash for the first time today. she gave birth to a baby boy. no word on his status for tomorrow's game there has been word this week on the status of

it to marcus web offensive coordinator mike made it clear that it's a work in progress. webb hears them loud and clear. he definitely told me to grow up a little bit and just be the player that i should be it's the reason i keep working hard every day to achieve excellence. he is making progress 2. again, for what we've john everybody is about where we want to see the bears announced tonight a longtime defense august

brown signed a one-year contract with the team allowing him to retire tomorrow. maybe a day for northwestern three days into practice. this is one of them many weapons at the disposal of coulter who has done a little of everything the last few years including all lot of running. this year is a lot different. i'm able to make all of the passes on the field. i'm able to make decisions and help the team. and the united states has the lead in the metal town of the olympics, a big day in a women's track and field with the

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