family and friends today attend the funeral of volleyball star megan boken who was killed in saint louis. and there are new developments at this hour in the case. good afternoon. i am steve sanders. and i'm dina bair. our sister station ktvi in missouri is reporting: detectives are questioning an 18 year old man. he was arrested in another robbery case. but police are also asking him questions about megan boken's murder. back in illinois her family is saying goodbye. wgn's julian crews is live in wheaton with more.

loved ones and friends on aware of the developments in the investigation as they say goodbye to this young woman at st. michael's catholic church >>we love her and we miss her she was a great person someone i looked up to ... >>there is heartbreaking herein wheaton, people are consoling each other here at st. michael's catholic church ... the victim was shot saturday after noun it appears to have been a broad daylight armed robbery it took the life of the former st. louis university volleyball star she was sitting in her car talking on the phone with her mother the moment the gunman opened fire ... a reward is being offered $31,000 for information leading to the arrest not clear if it led to any tip where detectives

are interviewing a suspect in another robbery that's according to st. louis metro police our news affiliate in st. louis reports that the individual being held as 18 years old being questioned now with regard to this case ... police are calling him a person of interest in the saturday killing at leads you to believe that detectives have their suspicions about the individual ... meanwhile friends and relatives are grieving the loss of this young woman she was a standout volleyball star here in high school she was loved by many >>she was an amazing girl and in the sports department she helped some many people she was a great friend to all we will miss her a lot. st. louis police with a person of interest in custody 18 years old taken in on an unrelated

robbery case we will have all the latest developments here and wgn with an update on the wgn news at 5:00 p.m. this evening to protect her husband? the man who served as pastor to drew peterson's missing fourth wife... is on the stand. wgn's tonya francisco is live in joliet with details on neil schori's testimony. also today, self-proclaimed he provided marriage counseling to the couple ... one day he received a call from stacy peterson asking to meet independently of her husband he suspected she had something important to disclose >>he met her august 2007 at a bolingbrook starbucks she looked nervous she told them she woke up in the middle of the night founder has been wearing dark clothing in the middle of the

night his clothing was wet he was putting clothing of a woman into his washing machine ... it was believed that kathleen savio may have been drowned in her bathtub after being put in a choke hold by drew peterson ... the credibility of stacy peterson testimony and confessions to her pastor is being questioned by the defense as would be expected ... >>this story certainly has some problems ... the pastor told jurors that he

brought a witness to the coffee house said that there would be no sense of impropriety happening ... that when this sat nearby but unable to hear what was being discussed ... the defense attorney for the rev.for drew peterson asked the reverent if he brought that witness along because he felt stacy peterson might try to seduce him the pastor replied absolutely not ... the court is in recess for the lunch break also today a self-proclaimed victims advocate jeff ruby

was thrown-out from the courtroom. he was kicked-out for making direct eye contact with peterson... and mouthing an explitive. ruby also took out ads in the newspapers attacking the defense, the defendant, and the judge... and calling this trial 'shameless.' also at the courthouse in joliet... the christopher vaughn murder trial. on the stand today: more channahon and state police officers who responded to the murder scene. vaughn is accused of shooting to death his wife and three kids in the family vehicle in june 2007. but, he claims his *wife shot him and the children, then took her own life. during testimony yesterday a paramedic and a sheriff's deputy stated at the time of the crime, vaughn didn't say much about his family. but, he did perk up to complain about blood on his jacket and boots. a woman from kane county is missing... and she may have been last seen in chicago.

her name is tanner conroyd and she's 20 years-old. on sunday, she got into an argument with family members and stormed out of her house. her father thought she was heading to illinois state university in normal, where she planned to attend the fall semester. but, she never made it to campus. a security guard at millennium park says she spoke to him around 10:30 that night. she was also spotted at the park on monday. if you have any information call police. chicago public schools officials and teachers' union reps.. set to meet today but apparently not close to reaching a new contract deal. wgn's nancy loo has the latest as a possible strike looms. these two sides have had 15 negotiation sessions and know it's crunch time people are hoping for significant progress here today ahead of this union teachers are staging informational protests at dozens of schools throughout the city today at one elementary school

this morning i was told that these folks are very comfortable with the delegate vote last night to give karen lewis sole authority to authorize a strike at your discretion that leverage could weigh on the school board to just approved a $25 million contingency plan to deal with the strike both sides agree on a longer school day but they remain far apart on the contract with regard to pay raises and health care ... the first of school is september 4th further negotiations could thwart the district's first strike and a quarter of this century ... we have several days to get this negotiated income to an agreement talks are ongoing both sides are hopeful about a new agreement both sides are preparing for a

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political pressure to step todd akin today says voters are rallying behind him. the republican announced today his campaign raised 100-thousand dollars over the past two days. akin says... "over the past 48 hours, i have apologized been attacked by the party bosses, yet through it all, voters have rallied behind me." akin caused national controversy when he suggested that a woman's body has the ability to prevent pregnancy when she's been raped. his opponent for the missouri senate seat says she is sure the issue will come up during their debates. >>what i want to do is make sure this is a window into the mind of todd.aiken i want to make sure people take a close look

it's not just this issue the morning after this man was nominated said that women who were raped should not even be allowed to take the morning after pill ... akin is in tampa florida today... but insists he is not in town to attend the republican national convention which starts on monday. he says he'll honor party leaders wishes that he not attend. a republican lawmaker who's sparked plenty of controversy himself... says todd akin deserves better treatment. illinois congressman joe walsh says republicans are rushing to judgment, and they need to let akin decide his own course. meantime, two new polls show akin still holding a narrow lead mccaskill. ann romney is scheduled to speak at the g.o.p. convention monday night... but her speech may be rescheduled. the major networks are limiting coverage of the convention... and won't be airing coverage on monday night. romney campaign staffers are angry over the decision. they had hoped to use ann romney's speech to show voters a different side of her husband and presidential nominee mitt romney.

the networks have a similar plan to limit coverage during the democratic convention in september. tropical storm isaac is moving through the caribbean and continues to threaten the republican national convention. the storm is building strength and could become a hurricane by the time it reaches haiti. that could have devastating implications for that nation which is still recovering from a devastating 2010 earthquake. meanwhile.. rnc officials are making contingency plans with their convention set to start in tampa next monday. an internet outage and hurricane threat led to the cancellation of a pre-trial hearing for a group of september 11th terrorism suspects. a pentagon official announced all court events at the u.s. military base at guantanamo bay cuba were cancelled as tropical storm isaac continued to grow in the atlantic. the hearing was initially postponed following aa fatal train derailment near baltimore that cut off internet service to guantanamo. the start of the actual trial for the five men accused of staging the attack is likely still a year away. the first eyewitness account of

the navy seal raid that killed osama bin laden is coming to a book store on september 11th. the book entitled "no easy day: the firsthand account of the mission that killed osama bin laden" was written by a navy seal team six member using the pen name, mark owen. the author is no longer on active duty. u.s. special operations command has not reviewed or approved the book. they would like to see a copy though, to make sure no classified information is released. next: troubling news about the dollar after new jobless numbers are reported. and still to come this midday: just in time for football season the world's largest high-def t.v. debuts. and later in lunchbreak: a zesty taco made with a summer garden staple.

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a california slaughterhouse ... in the central valley ... lg electronics is introducing in the korean market its first h-p 3-d television larger with more function it's 84 in. it will rollout in north america sometime in the next months ... stocks are trading sharply lower amid concerns that the european debt crisis will not get resolved ... bp officials have now traced a bad batch of gasoline to 200 gas stations in northwest indiana and the chicagoland area. the company has received more than 7,000 complaints. two million gallons of gas from

bp's whiting, indiana refinery were recalled earlier this week. customers who have suffered engine damage because of the fuel can file a claim with bp to get reimbursed. in a cost cutting move- northwestern memorial hospital has laid off more than 200 employees. officials say they've cut 230 jobs in the last month. they're looking to reduce costs by 25-percent over the next five years. some workers have already found new jobs, or are being considered for vacant positions at northwestern. the lay-offs and cutbacks are being blamed on fewer patients and upcoming cuts to medicare and madicaid. shirt bus cancellations and "painful but necessary" changes are coming to the cta. 26 cta bus routes will be discontinued for four months in an effort to implement changes that will reduce crowding. the goal is to reduce time between buses and decrease crowding by ten to 15 percent during peak times. under the new plan, service will be added on 48 bus routes... and rail trips will be added during the week to some of the busiest train routes. all changes would go into effect on december 16th.

the city has declared war on rats.streets and sanitation workers are being taken off disability to join crews already assigned to putting out rat poison. this year, the number of citizen complains has increased 28-percent. the city's logan square neighborhood has seen the most cases, with city workers called in to put out rat poison. this year's mild winter did nothing to help control the rat population.. usually during cold weather, the rat population decreases because they can't find food. a young child falls off a motorcyle into traffic but thankfully avoids serious injury. and still to come it's been three months since she contracted a flesh-eating bacteria... we have a health update on graduate student aimee copeland.

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after exposure... and symptoms include fever, headache and body aches. 20-years ago today tammy zywicki's car broke down on an illinois highway... and she was never seen alive again. zywicki was on her way to college in iowa. her body was later found in missouri... she had been raped and stabbed. she was last seen talking to a trucker next to her broken down car on i-80, near utica, illinois. her killer has never been found... and the fbi says the case remains active. investigators believe someone knows what happened to zywicki... who would have been 41 years old. a parole board in new york issued it's ruling today against mark david chapman. he shot lennon outside his new york apartment in 1980... and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. the three member board called chapman's actions a heinous unprovoked and calculated crime. chapman can try again for parole in two years.

penn state's ousted president is out defending himself.. saying he had no idea former football coach jerry sandusky was sexually abusing kids. graham spanier sat down for an interveiw with the new yorker magazine. two former university administrators are accused of lying to a grand jury and failing to report the abuse. spanier has not been charged and says he feels for sandusky's victims. >>there are times when i am in a mood of substantial grief about what happened to those kids ... but i never ever heard anything about child sexual abuse ... a penn state review claims spanier took part in a coverup to spare the university bad publicity. spanier denies that claim. flames are raging in northern california as governor jerry brown declares a state of emergency in areas affected by the wildfires. a state of emergency has been declared in three california counties. the "ponderosa fire" seen here is just one of many burning through the western half of the u.s..

the massive blaze sends hazy clouds of smoke through the air impairing visibility. some areas are under mandatory evacuation orders. officials say at least 50 buildings have been scorched in the past week. no one thought much about a bundle of balloons in a tree, until they saw what it was attached to. someone taped the balloons to a little box turtle in southern california and set them flying. the balloons got stuck in a tree and left the turtle stranded. the wind eventually blew the balloons to the ground. fortunately, the turtle was not injured and was taken to the humane society. animal activists are outraged by the prank... investigators will continue to search for the person responsible. if caught, they could face animal cruelty charges. a warning: this next video could be disturbing to some viewers. a little girl in china narrowly escaped being crushed by a car. it happened last weekend... after she fell off a motorcycle while stopped at a traffic light. the driver of the motorcycle

swerved between several cars to get to the front. that's how the girl fell off. she may have hit her head on the tire of another car, but she managed to walk away with only a few scrapes and bruises. if you look carefully, you'll notice another child on the back of the motorcycle. three months after a nightmare encounter with flesh- eating bacteria, aimee copeland is back home. copeland is a graduate student from georgia. she contracted the bacteria from river water, after she cut herself on a homemade zip-line ride. her hands, leg and foot had to last night, she was released from the hospital. she's back at home, in a new wing that's equipped with an elevator, access ramps a sunroom, a fitness room and three outdoor areas.. where copeland can continue her recovery. still to come this midday: tom skilling has your full forecast.

the overnight cooler temperatures will be going away ... >>there's an interesting sidebar to this summer: the fact that the tornadoes are at record lows... after the drought and heat we have put up with that's a relief to some ... the clouds have gone and there

are now some sprinkles around the area ... there may be an isolated shower that comes up this afternoon but we don't expect any big activity ... the hurricanetornadoes are the fewest on record for the month of july in over 60 years ... in las vegas yesterday the high temperature there was 84 degrees the close they'd seen in three months ... and there are monsoon all rain showers moving through the southwestern states

... we have 90 degrees on the way this afternoon here in chicago. and we are looking at the outer bands of that tropical storm i sick as it approaches pr there will be rapid intensification as it goes through the caribbean over cuba and heading into the gulf coast ... we are taking a careful watch on parts of florida and the gulf states we are looking at a warming trend ... the longest string of

90 degree days we've seen in weeks are coming to chicago we are looking at what happens with this hot air dome swinging through the upper midwest ... we will need some much needed rain that will be arriving on sunday ... the warmth is beginning to take hold just to the west of illinois ... we've had some hot temperatures around the country this summer many states in triple digits for a really long time now the southwestern states are going down and we're getting warm once again ...

not since august 7th have we seen 90 degree temperatures here in chicago. we're looking at the mold and pollen counts and those sunburned times across the metropolitan chicago area ... and also the local temperatures happening now ... this will be the 41st day of 90 or higher temperatures the last time we put 490 degree

temperatures together was three weeks ago we will have one today tomorrow and saturday and we expect rain late in the weekend ... that rain system sunday could be the biggest year in five weeks some models are suggesting parts of this area could get an inch and a half of rainfall ... there are some flood watches in the green areas on the national map ... we will see ourselves in the '90s until saturday as i reported ... we

will have another update on tropical storm isaac ... the system is moving toward florida but the north gulf coast states might be the target ... you just never know what those warm gulf waters ... partly sunny and breezy hotter here today. we expect scattered clouds tonight with some wind. low temperature 68 degrees. tomorrow will be mostly sunny

and breezy hot in the afternoon with some more humidity 93 degrees tomorrow saturday mostly sunny windy hot and humid the high temperature 91 degrees ... there could be an isolated thunderstorm in the afternoon. sunday afternoon and monday we will see that rainfall... time now for today's trivia question: on this day in 1965 "the sound of music" was released starring julie andrews. in the film, the real maria von trapp appears in a cameo role. during which song is she visible on scereen? a. i have confidence b. so long, farewell c. do, re, mi the answer is ahead in this hour of the wgn midday news.

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time for sports: the white sox barely increased their division lead, but they managed to bounce back from a terrible weekend. sox going for a sweep of the first-place yankees at the cell. it's tied at one in the sixth... and alex rios hits his 20th home run of the year to make it 2-1. chris sale was dominant on the mound, with 13 strike-outs and only one walk over seven- and- two-thirds innings... it's his 15th win of the year. 2-1 the final, and the sox sweep the yankees at home for the first time in 21 years. they're still up two games on detroit. cubs trying to avoid another sweep in milwaukee. davis dejesus leading off the game with a home run and an early lead... it's his fourth homer in eight games. but the brewers up 2-1 in the sixth, when ryan braun hits his league- best 34th home run... travis wood only allowed three runs over seven innings, but takes the loss. cubs get swept 3-2... the cubs and sox are both off today.

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to germs and infection. some patients have shown improvement after taking certain types of cancer drugs. however, doctors say it's not a cure. teen drug use at school is on the rise. a new study by "the christian science monitor" asked teens about the availability and use of alcohol, cigarettes and illegal drugs at school. 86-percent of high schoolers say their peers drink, smoke, or do drugs on or near school grounds. 17% say they know someone who has used illegal drugs at school. and... half of those polled say they know someone who sells drugs at school. does age matter? a new study shows it does when fathering a child. genetic researchers in iceland say older fathers are more likely to conceive children with schizophrenia, autism and other diseases. they found as men age their sperm is more likely to undergo genetic mutations. the age of new fathers has been climbing in recent decades and the number of first-time dads over 40 is growing. researchers say younger men may want to consider putting their

sperm in cold storage for later use. the study is published in the journal, "nature." lunchbreak is next. a savory summer taco made with southwestern flavors. the owner of real urban barbecue is here with some summer recipes.

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thank you for having us today this has become one of the coolest things we do it the restaurant we make lots of different smoked meats and we make a big johnnycake with different types of ingredients that can include corn and different seasonings and chile peppers ... they typically call you the meat man ... and you do lots of grilled vegetables as well we take self rising flour and we take cornmeal the put it all into a bowl and make a batter with sugar and to asixtwo eggs water

and buttermilk and all-purpose vegetable oil ... we are going to whip this up. we make this all day long freshet the restaurant and its all-purpose better that you can make pancakes and muffins with as well the real secrets is that it works like a pancake when you put it on the griddle ... today we are making it sweet and savory with roasted corn that gets tossed into the batter ...

if you like some fire and there you can add jalapeno or you could put chives or cilantro any type of urban or spicehrb spice or minced vegetable.... >>people don't think a lot about grilling vegetables but what you have done looks delicious and healthy here demo we made an all purpose marinade ... we also have fresh rosemary and oregano and some time and sagehyme gage tossed with

garlic from this we make a simple marinade ... the great thing about this is that you can use this on all kinds of foods what works well is that we can go ahead and marinate the vegetables ... everything's fresh from the garden ... this can stay in the refrigerator for a long period of time this marinade ... put it in a class mason jar and the stuff can last for weeks

we also grill our caesar salad ... lee brush the romaine lettuce with olive oil and put it on the grill it's wonderful you have given us so many ideas and some really good base recipes ... thank you for coming here and sharing these little tips jeff shapiro, thanks so much for

joining us. retht

time now for the answer to today's trivia question. we asked: on this day in 1965 "the sound of music" was released starring julie andrews. in the film, the real maria von trapp appears in a cameo role. during which song is she visible on screen? a. i have confidence c. do, re, mi the answer: "i have confidence." during this song maria walks under an archway just as two austrian women in worn clothing walk behind her... the elder woman is the real maria von trapp. there's lots to talk about we are heating up. in chicago ... it's going to get warm and increasingly human we're getting into the '90s ... the low pressure system in the plains states will spend thunderstorms and make a move on us laden the weekend we will see

the rain fall ... we're also looking at tropical storm isaac ... that could bring us some heat later next week ... the center of that storm goes across haiti and the dominican republic hurricane's to not like interaction with land ... the storm will track west of florida heading toward the gulf of mexico ...