the judge in the drew peterson murder trial will allow testimony... from a man who claims peterson offered him money to hire a hitman to kill kathleen savio. good afternoon. i am steve sanders. and i'm dina bair. at one point this morning the jury heard testimony from one minute before there were asked to leave the courtroom again ... wgn's tonya francisco is live in joliet with our top story: dr. mary kay's a narrow and forensic pathologist was on the witness stand testifying the prosecution asked her how she reached her conclusions that she was going to announce in front of the jury that day she said she used some of the analysis

from doctors not listed on the witness list reach conclusions about the death of kathleen savio ... the judge looked up case lot and said he would instruct the jury not to pay attention to any of those doctors' names that dr. case mentioned and the testimony resumed it was only for 20 minutes and the jury has taken a break for lunch ... this is par for the course with this case lots of breaks lots of jurors having to leave the court room ... before court today we asked the defense attorney joel brodsky to give us his assessment of how things are going: >>earlier i said they haven't laid a glove on us ... after what we heard today they got a few jabs in but they did not hit us hard ...

for the first time joel brodsky is not only allowing for the possibility that the prosecution's effective but he is complimenting them ... >>they have talent to prosecutors john connor and others veteran prosecutors very experienced great lawyers we are not discounting them in any way shape or form ... >>joel brodsky admits that some state witnesses had impact on the jury dr. larry bloom for one he performed a second autopsy on kathleen savio ruling homicide not accident he also believed those two friends of kathleen savio who testified that they impressed the jury that she was afraid of her ex-husband drew peterson but he said it's not enough to convince the jury to ruled against his clients >>i would be hard-pressed to see there was a homicide let

alone my client being involved in it ... after a late start this morning and one minute into the testimony the jurors are now taking a second break for lunch there will be a factor here presumably more testimony an interesting note in the courtroom today all of these jurors are dressed in green that began to dress in the same colors last week but because the media can and have contact we do not know the explanation as to why ... stay with us we will have more updates throughout the day ... it's 'day two' of testimony in the christopher vaughn murder trial, and his father-in-law and sister-in-law took the stand today. vaughn is accused of shooting his wife and three children in june 2007. their bodies were found in the

family vehicle... parked near i-55 on a narrow path near a cellphone tower. vaughn's father-in-law said he was troubled over how vaughn left for work one morning... stone-faced and didn't say a word to anyone. his sister-in-law said she talked to kimberly vaughn at least twice before her death and she seemed fine. since the beginning of the year... some illinois courts program which allows cameras in the courtroom. officials are meeting today to discuss bringing cameras to cook county courtrooms. wgn's robert jordan is in the newsroom with more on the story. since the illinois supreme court announced and

this morning i asked chief judge timothy evans how will he know if the cook county proposal he plans to present to the supreme court will be successful. then i believe if justice prevails through this proceeding where recording devices are present, if we have some huge case and it goes with our jurors not being seen on camera and witnesses wishing to be anonymous we would be able to respect that i believe that is what i would be looking for...

coverage of any juvenile, divorce, adoption, child custody or cases of a sexual nature. victim will always be protected. joining us now-- our legal analyst terry sullivan. good afternoon. >>we have seen cameras and the court room for two decades in other states why so long in illinois? >>i cannot answer that question. when you look back at the o.j. simpson case when we began to get to know one another ... you saw what was happening with judge ito ... i believe that stopped any progress there was at the time ... no others have gone back into the topic to

advance it more ... judge evans seems to be opening the door here in cook county there are places in illinois where there is a trial scheduled to be televised ... >>back to the peterson case we heard the attorney says that the prosecution may have leveled some serious blows today ... the was a witness who said that peterson are for $25,000 to hire a hit man and the testimony submitted that stacey saw clothing coming into the house ... the judge ruled that the fact that drew peterson tried to hire

according to this co-worker to kill kathleen savio ... later on true had told us what does that it wasn't an issue anymore it's something that is going against the defense and a big way ... told broderick is a bit more conciliatory to this situation >>we have to high-profile murder case is taking place in the adjacent court rooms drew peterson and christopher vaughn what strikes you is interesting about the latter case? >>it's absolutely causing havoc at the court room and shower the

deputies have good control but in the christopher vaughn case is another interesting wife found murdered situation it does not bode well for will county in terms of marriages ... but we have the prosecution coming forward in the opening statements all of this minute staff but important in relation to presumptions of giltsuilt and evidence of premeditation possibly ... you have a husband board with his suburban life planning a move to canada for whatever reason ... you have him waking the family up early in the morning to take them for a field trip the day he killed them supposedly and the fact that he was at a shooting range

in 94 and forensic experts will be available to try to show the prosecution of the wife could not have shot anyone a lot of blood evidence everyone was in their seat belts ... there's the fact that there will be unbelievable crime scene photographs of these children and that's a difficult than for this but judge and jury he has to decide what will be entered and is it too prejudicial to the defendant trying to face a fair trial that will be a very difficult case to preside over .... up later: reckless driving is being blamed after a driver plowed onto the lawn of a sauganash home, injuring at least seven people. but first: congressman todd akin today faces a 5 o'clock deadline -- whether or not he'll drop out of the race in missouri.

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attacks on a u.s. military base in afghanistan... damaging a top army general's plane. the attack happened at the bagram air field outside kabul last night. a rocket damaged general martin dempsey's plane, but he wasn't near the aircraft at the time. he's the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. two maintenance workers were slightly injured in the assault. dempsey left afghanistan this morning on a different plane. two people are dead after a train hauling coal derailed and fell from a bridge outside of baltimore last night. 21 of the csx train's 80 cars flipped over around midnight, crushing vehicles in a parking lot below. a 19-year old man and women were employees and its not clear why they were on the rail bridge. cranes will work today to remove train cars from the vehicles so they can be searched for other potential victims. the cause of the crash is still unknown. ... u.s. senate candidate tied a canodd aiken has a 5:00 deadline tonight to withdraw from the

race ... both mitt romney and president obama criticized his comments that were controversial about rape in a local news interview on sunday ... she blazed a trail for women in comedy... the legendary phyllis diller has died. diller rose to fame as a stand up comic in the 1960's. she didn't begin her career until she was 37 years old. up until that point, she focused on being a mother and a homemaker. most of her routines made fun of herself and her husband "fang." her hair and wild outfits were signatures. long time friend, joan rivers said she was the last from an era that insisted a woman had to look funny in order to be funny. diller had her own tv show made more than two dozen movies and entertained troops in vietnam. her family says she died peacefully in her sleep...she was 95. last november, phyllis diller

still to come this midday: the alarming study about over- tired and over-worked doctors in america and how it can affect and later in lunchbreak: two signature dishes

i'm deborah kastroun...time for the bloomberg "on the money" report, live from the n.y.s.e. expedia starwood and marriott are among the travel sites and hotels accused of conspiring to fix pricing for hotel room 434 is a lawyer for the plaintiffs say that there's the illusion that consumers can spend time researching oto rates online for deals ... and it's not the case ... one of the plaintiffs from

chicago six a court order to stop this alleged price-fixing ... boston market restaurants are doing away with salt shakers at tables they are making plans to cut sodium levels and side dishes and rotisserie chicken over the next several months ... since 2008 triple a says that rising consumer confidence has 85% people traveling more labor day and that will be no exception this year ... stocks are trading lower right now and dusters... it is still tense with the european debt situation later: new findings about whether or not dense breast tissue affects a cancer diagnosis. and, bp is recalling gasoline sold in northwest indiana... after customers experienced problems with their car after

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a batch of gasoline shipped out of indiana is causing problems for drivers. and now, that fuel is being recalled. wgn's julian crews is live at a bp station in east chicago with the story: >>that's a lot of money $650 it will cost you ... >>that was an unexpected repair and to add insult to injury he said he cannot get through to the bp customer service hotline ... we tried we got a busy signal it's a familiar story across northwest indiana ... service managers at ford dealerships there are severe hearing complaints from customers that are similar that they cannot get through to bp on

its web site bp is instructing customers to save repair and gasoline receipts but processing these claims could take time given you cannot get through ... mechanics at this ford dealership says that this bad gasoline could cost between 600 and a parts of 1200 and repairs to your attention ... >>these people have to go out of pocket it's tough for them to deal with ... >>is the volatility to this fuel it does not want to burn in a cold engine ... >>mechanics don't even know what this contaminant is in the bad batch of fuel that bp announced they say it came from a storage terminal in waiting indiana in a written statement bp said that it alerted fuel distributors across northwest indiana the company recalled regular

unleaded fuel shipped from the wedding terminal in went out earlier this month but the number of motorists suffering damage from this bad gasoline has not yet clear it is possible the company now yet knows the extent of the damage ... call to the corporate communications office have not been returned as of yet go to the wgn website if you want contact information for bp we will have more on the developing story coming up on the evening news at 5:00 p.m. a car accident this morning injured seven people... and sent two vehicles into the front lawn of a home on the northwest side. a minivan struck the front and devon. officials on the scene say the recklessly. charges will be filed. four people were taken to the hospital in fair-to-critical

condition. three more people were treated for minor injuries at the scene. nobody inside the home was hurt. a $10,000 reward is being offered for the murder of fave volleyball star from wheaton illinois 23 year-old megan boken was shot in her car saturday afternoon in st. louis she graduated from st. louis university was there for an alumni volleyball tournaments police believe that she was the victim of a robbery attempt and they're interviewing witnesses and checking surveillance cameras ... the mayor of evergreen park has

full recovery. mayor james sexton issued a statement: enouraging everyone to be "vigilant of this disease" and promised to be back in office "at the earliest time possible." sexton is 60 years old. he has been mayor of evergreen park since 2001 and has not missed a village board meeting until this month. west nile virus was blamed for the death of lombard mayor bill mueller. mueller died on saturday. he was also battling bone-marrow cancer. if at first you don't succeed.. try try again. did. but her latest attempt to swim from cuba to florida has come to an end. nyad had be pulled from the water after severe jellyfish stings and a lightning storm put her off course. this time arond.. she made it 67 miles. that's about two thirds of the way. nyad s [ kate ] most women may not be properly absorbing the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption.

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wonderful overnight temperatures you could sleep with the windows open ... >>11 of the last 12 days' average below normal temperatures it has been very

nice and we are returning to a more normal weather regime ... we could have a tropical system however it's flirting with parts of the southeastern united states and that will have a weather changing effect for us here in the midwest that tends to migrate northward and that can build a big dome of high pressure ... lee have some clouds developing on the southern end of lake michigan ... it can show how expensive this warm air is getting ... looking at the southern end of the lake there are towering cumulus clouds we could get an isolated showers from those but the rain is in the southeast ... florida has

had nearly 6 in. of rain yesterday ... back up here, this area near lake avila saw the heaviest rain storms we're looking at other accumulations ... there are some flood watches in parts of north florida and there's a fire alert in parts of nebraska kansas wyoming and red flag warnings out west fires are burning out there ... the smoke clouds are expansive out of northern california and washington state they can be seen from outer space ...

we are lovely and comfortable here in chicago into the low 70's 90's are on the way to the plains states that's a sign of things to come here ... we are getting warmer are temperatures have increased by about five degrees ... there is very little wind in this weather regime ... mold is high the grass and the ragweed are moderate ... this august is unusual it's the first month in 11 to be running below normal ... we may finish this

month above normal it is 72.2 ... decrease and we're taking a look of some of the area temperatures ... look at how we will be warming up in the longer-term forecast ... this big hot dome of air

will send a warmth and in our direction we will be in the '80s tomorrow ... probably the low 90s by thursday or friday ... the jets stream is moving to the north ... and another heat wave could cycle and next week from the west ... the humidity will be coming back into the picture ... '70s here 90s in the plains states tomorrow you're 100 degrees in parts of the western states ... we are watching this system: its the tropical atlantic it's a

depression now ... the hurricane's center reconciles all of these models and data and there's a hurricane possibly get a tory to in the caribbean heading toward jamaica cuba haiti dominican republic pr heading toward the gulf possibly we will come back to explain how that could influence what happens here in the midwest next week ... by temperature 81 degrees today ... clear and cool tonight 56 degrees and 66 in the city sunny and warmer wednesday humidity comfortable temperatures could

reach 86 degrees up to 91 degrees thursday if we achieve 91 degrees it will be the first 90 + temperature we have had in 16 days ... we have 40 on record right now for this year ... we may get five more perhaps a dozen swedish chelseawe shall see.... time now for today's trivia question: on this day in 1959 hawaii became america's 50th state. which letter is not included in the hawaiian alphabet? a. "k" b. "p" c. "s" the answer is ahead in this

time for sports: the white sox were desperate to end their losing streak last night, but they had to do it against the first-place yankees. gavin floyd was pulled in the third on "blackhawks night" at the cell...... the sox tied it at three in the fifth, and then a.j. pierzynski singles in another run as part of a five-run inning. but two innings later it's tied at six, when alexei ramirez hits a two-run home run off former hit four homers and go on to win 9-6. addison reed gets his 22nd save... the most ever by a sox rookie. they now lead the central by two games.

the cubs starting a three- game series in milwaukee..... they lead the brewers 2-1 in the fifth, when rookie josh vitters hits a solo shot, for the first home run of his career. but the cubs fall apart in the bottom of the inning... jonathan lucroy hits a three-run homer... his second of the game, and part of an eight-run inning for milwaukee. the cubs lose 9-5... game 2 is tonight. the bears returned to practice at halas hall, and brian urlacher watched from the sidelines. now two more players will be joining him... safeties chris conte and brandon hardin. conte injured his shoulder against the redskins, and the tribune reports that it popped out of the joint. he'll be out at least a week, while hardin is wearing a neck brace, and won't return for a minimum of two weeks. that's a look at sports. your live illinois lottery drawing is next.

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in medical watch... reassuring news to women with dense breast tissue. doctors have long known women with dense breasts are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer. but new research shows their risk of dying from the disease is not higher than other patients. researchers say it shows they have a lot to learn about dense breast tissue and its implications for screening diagnosis and treatment. difficult for radiologists to detect tumors in mammograms. the study was published in the "journal of the national cancer institute." with suicide rates for american soldiers at an all-time high... the army is hoping a new nasal spray can help. a professor at the university of indiana has been approved to research whether a nasal spray can safely deliver the anti- depressant, thyrotropin , directly to the brain. t-r-h is a naturally-occuring chemical that has trouble reaching the brain through pills or injection. military officials hope t-r-h can help curb suicidal thoughts. in july... there were 38 confirmed or suspected army suicides... and at least 120 so far this year.

nearly half the nation's doctors suffer a symptom of burnout physicians on the front line... including emergency medicine, general internal medicine, neurology and family medicine... report the highest rates. some sypmtoms of burnout doctors experience are emotional exhaustion and a low sense of accomplishment. lack of control over the number of patients seen and the amount of time spent with each adds to the stress. burnout can decrease the quality of care and lead to increased risk for errors. lunchbreak is next. the chef from "homestead" is here with signature recipes: two way potato stuffed with truffled goat cheese mashed potatoes and mozzarella roulade.

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today's in lunchbreak"....signature dishes from chicago's "homestead" restaurant: chef john wayne formica is here now.... i use all oolive oil and some salt.... ... i did train and work and terrific restaurants in italy as well as here in chicago and around the u.s. i have bent

around ... >>and you did serve and i iraqe in iraq so thanks for your service ... this is almost like making sushi ... i'd take the mozzarella olive oil and basil and greens and pickled tomatoes from my garden and i roll it..... the

mixture was a salad mix. and i use a marinade of my house pickling mix.... i like alot of flavor the acid offsets the fat withing the cheese... citrus also helps....

i have fresh australian black winter truffles... the potato m ix has some truffle oil and goat cheese... i serve this with my garden mix as well by the way

all of my greens and vegetables most of them are grown on a rooftop garden ... this is finished with some sea salt ... you will be able to make all of these with the recipes we provide on the web site ... john wayne formica, thanks so much for joining us. homestead is located at 1924 west chicago avenue second floor. to learn more, go to: homestead on the roof .com for a recipe, or to watch the segment again, log on to: wgntv.com/midday.

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time now for the answer to today's trivia question. we asked: on this day in 1959 hawaii became america's 50th state. which letter is not included in the hawaiian alphabet? a. "k" b. "p" c. "s" the answer: "s". the hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters: vowels: a, e, i, o, u and consonants: h, k, l, m, n, p, w. i would like you to look at what is happening in the tropical atlantic it is hurricane season ... we have this system moving into the leeward and windwards isklands and lesser antillies .... we have a tropical depression that may develop

into a category 2 hurricane ... that is moving across the caribbean ... it will make its way possibly to the gulf of mexico this is just one model ... we will see what happens next week appear in chicago... increased thunderstorms and showers sunday night ... but as this system moves into the eastern united states a big dome of hot air will develop so we could be in for more hot weather here in chicago as a direct result ... 72 degrees today 86 tomorrow and then into the '90s possibly thursday and or friday ... it

could be a hot week coming next week ... it's a decidedly warmer weather pattern than the one we have been in for the last two weeks 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, more music from nathan pacheco at tomorrow's white sox game... and, his pbs special airs this thursday -- check your local listing for time. he'll be on stage at the harris theater on november 13. to learn more go to: nathan pacheco .com