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>> everybody wants to see the kids back in school and just moments ago they said they want school and kids tomorrow. the emphasis that we put on was fair, we started at 715 we will get back up there and continue to talk we will reconvene when this evening is over. but in the meantime it is our hope and anticipation that our teachers would go back to the classroom while we continue conversation but a lot more work to get done. an hour and a half of negotiation that is what the school board is thing happened
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to tonight between 715 and 845 the union on the other hand has been stating they have been all this for hours today. they cannot even agree on how long they have been together today. today a look at the proposed contract that without a first look at today one that has been in the hands of c t u since last night. 19 pages long at last check the teachers' union said only six items in the school board's latest approval have been approved by both sides. we are very concerned about the news we had today about closing hundreds of schools we have a real problem with it and we are seriously dedicated to making sure that the proposals we have on the table actually address that in the document teacher evaluations are laid out by the
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school board in one instance the system labels teachers using scores unsatisfactory, developing, proficient or excellent today mayor emanuel pleaded to get kids back to class while talks continued. everybody let's get the kids back in school it's not like anybody is going to use any of the impetus to getting this done. this as striking teachers visited baseball fields. one well-known good to negotiator offered to help the rev. jesse jackson has brought hostages out of captivity out of cuba syria among other places in t calls for round-the-clock sessions here in chicago. it is driven by
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fear and not by hope by suspicion and mistrust, not by courage and trust. >> no word at this hour on whether either side is interested in involving the rev. jackson in the process he has hoped to hear from either one or both of the party sometime sunday. if there is no resolution tonight day 4 of the strike begins tomorrow. cpsc sean clark brizard has written karen lewis a letter asking her to stop a union members from picketing in front of the city's first locations those are the
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alternative school sites brizard says families are having a tough enough time with the teachers' strike as it is and contingency center only making the situation more difficult. he did meet earlier today with the school's principal. he was at the roundtable discussion and has more. cbs principal >> the chicago teachers union doesn't like it at all the right of principles to hire and fire teachers they choose. not giving principals control over their destiny and over their hiring i think would be a major step backwards for chicago it's
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something honestly i cannot see being successful. as a former principal he says he understands the concerns of those gathered here these principles side with the city and if they are to be held accountable for the success of the school they say they should be the ones making the decisions about who works there. >> the way we work together, the strength of each other even the types of endorsements and above endorsements the kind of experience with those endorsements, we are the right fit and the right mix. >> principles argue any need for employment is not reason enough to hire someone to educate their kids. it's important to make sure that when you say why do want to come work at clemente it's not because i want a job they say i want to work here because i want to serve the skids and the community. mayor emanuel has spent much of this
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week arguing that hiring decisions should not be made by union bosses or even buy cts headquarters. he says they know better. we are looking at variables that impact a school, that cannot be measured by someone outside the school having a voice. if you take away the principles autonomy you were really take away the voice of not only principles but you are taking the voice of teachers, community members and everyone else involved in that process. brizard also used his appearance about his resignation he said it came as a surprise to him and is not true. he said the sepias started the rumor as a distraction. >> yes young girls ran away but
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they are best friends and they are too young to take care of themselves their parents are hoping you could help find them. >> this 12 year-old has been missing for about 36 hours now last seen at harlan thai school at 96 and michigan she was supposed to attend a children's first program at the school because of the teachers' strike her mother is frantic thinking about her on the streets. she is believed to be with a 11 year- old fiona williams and a 14 year-old britney her two best friends who have been missing since tuesday when their school called to report their absence doris baker is brittany's mother and fiona's grandmother.
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and i don't know where they are, anything can happen there is too much going on for them to be out here, they are little girls. both mother said they could talk to their children right now but tell them they just want them home, they will not be punished, they're just very scared for them right now. they think they could be on the west side so if you see these girls or if you know where they might be chicago police want you to give them a call, here is their number: you could also call 911. a new ad taking the side of the chicago school board now airing in the city. from the gekko the union seemed intent on striking... >> the ad promotes a longer school day touted by mayor emmanuel and giving power to principals to hire the best
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teachers at the end the advertised claims the deal is within reach and bugs to see t u has to do is grab it. the c t u only has to grab it. new charges against a highland park teenager involved in the deadly crash on the sidewalk and withwill the new iphone 5 deliver on all of the hype. accordingnotaxe
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frustrated city officials. who feel handcuffed. i think that would love to see this and to see as quickly as possible as everybody would. obviously it's a problem and is a public safety concern to. young people are on supervised into not in school. all the men were careful how they work in their criticism. you have mixed emotions. people want to make sure they have good teachers in their schools but the all the men were careful to keep their remarks for thisfocus on the welfare of the children. we have to get back into the classroom i think this eps is
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willing to sit down. they have to be reasonable. >> there is not much the alderman can do legally to get involved in a collective bargaining process at this time outside city hall, robert jordan. also on the picket lines teachers in north suburban lake forest school district 115 went on strike today for the first time in the district's history each side failed to reach an agreement last night teachers want a 5.6 percent pay increase, the board has offered 2.6% based on cost of living. we cannot go three times in the first year we cannot go twice 99 percent of our teachers have a master's degree or higher consequently this puts us higher
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in the pay scale. after four weeks the prosecution rests in the christopher vaughn murder trial he is charged with killing his wife and three children roadside in there as to be five years ago near shanghai kimberly was distraught over her husband's affair when she shot him outside the suv before shooting the children in the car into taking her own life according to the husband. the woman who authorities say struck and killed a five year-old girl labor day in highland park now faces upgraded charges of one count of reckless homicide and four counts of aggravated dui 18 year-old curly russo and computer dust cleaner and immediately before driving into a sidewalk and killing a woman walking with her family, she
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appeared at the lee county court this morning her bail was set at a half a million dollars the child's family held a funeral for the girl yesterday. they claim to negligence into the infliction of emotional distress. she is due back in court on november 9th. the west nile virus is killing or making people sick across the u.s. at an alarming rate this year. cook county has seen its first death at the number of cases also increased by 30 percent. based on the current trend this year may become the most severe on record. viral meningitis can cause flow like symptoms. from viruses to bacteria that it is a disease from a brand of cheese being sold in illinois that can make people very ill. an aggressive response from the united states tonight u.s.
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muslim video produced in the u.s. has gone by recently some of the protests in other cities had the middle east but that attack in libya was unique. this was not a demonstration gone bad this was a clear target a planned event they had both direct fire and indirect fire and military-style movement and have come after our diplomatic station. president barack obama and hillary clinton visited today at the state department the president said he was stepping up security at embassies worldwide. and he condemned the attack and pledged to hunt down the perpetrators but challenger mitt romney accused him of weak leadership. >> we will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act and make no mistake justice will be done. >> american leadership is still
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sorely needed. >> the flag at the white house and the u.s. capitol lowered to half staff today. lawmakers on both sides of the isla condemned the attack offering condolences to the families of the victims. coming up fish oil fans find out that it may not be so fabulous after all just fishy. everything apple promised, a tax hike today and a look at the upgrade. lollapalooza cleanup by the numbers.
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question there is no question bacteria can be harmful and now scientists say god bacteria may be making you fat certain scott microbe's actually increase the absorption of dietary fat meaning people with them to extract more calories from the same food as people who do not have the same bacteria levels previous studies have shown the importance of bacteria from breaking down complex carbohydrates this is the first time scientists have documented the effects of bad bacteria on fat another reason that growing kids need deep sleep it's critical for the onset of puberty the journal of clinical endocrinology reports that sleep loss during teenagers can impact future fertility boys reach puberty between 8-13 and girls mature between 9-14 it is actually triggered by brain chemicals and those are altered by lack of sleep the study found continuous sleep loss bugs the activation of the reproductive system in boys and girls. get ready for the 30
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a beautiful fall color change underway look at this from colorado is that beautiful or what? there is no falling from those clouds at higher elevations so that is something a sign of good times i guess. we have some cool weather coming. this is a funnel cloud this is viewed from the indiana dunes. a vote like a funnel their one of many over the weekend in the chicago area. this has certainly been the summer of the funnel cloud and we had small ice crystals clouds moving across the sky just enough to make them
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interesting today. that system is out in the western part of the midwest tonight they're going to really drop our temperatures this is a cold front these thunderstorms tower over 57,000 ft. they are laying down some pretty good rains out there and that rain is going to move in our direction probably to increase in the second half of tomorrow we will tell those temperatures down to the '50s and really cool off the cool air is coming in like a wall big temperature drops. mason city i was down 22 degrees. some areas were down by 40 degrees after near 100 degree temperatures occurred yesterday. we will tap
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some of that next week but first we have this one local school air coming in and that could bring as the coolest temperatures in chicago in almost four months tomorrow night with some of the suburbs go down to the 40's it looks like, a little warmer by the water. that is what is bearing down on chicago we will have a 30 degree temperature drop and as we pointed out earlier that will take us to almost november temperatures that we are expecting tomorrow afternoon if we get down to the '50s in small parts of the area. look at the frost and freeze advisories' up to the north and the higher elevations in the rockies in and out to the plains states. quite
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a contrast with the 90's that occurred in kankakee. it is pretty warm and it stays warm tonight at 78 degrees. highland is at 73. and pretty warm across the metro area. what a change will be coming into the area. do 0.55 humidity is 52 percent now. our headline is this big weather change which will bring with this summer rains tomorrow. the good news is it looks like it will warm up nicely for the weekend we could be in the '70s during the day and the models have cut the amount of rain we may get out of this weather
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system but it's still fairly substantial you can see how this is going to unfold. once it passes we clear out tomorrow night and that's why the bottom drops out on the temperature and we will get into the thirties across the metro area. you can see exactly how this rain is going to lay out. no problems tonight and even at midnight the skies are fairly clear. by morning there will be a son cloud and showers in the region the rains begin to fill in around lunchtime tomorrow then we get ourselves into showers and thunderstorms after that as you can see when it starts raining into this dry air you will get evaporative cooling. that is going to be quite a change about 30 degrees lower
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than our 80s today. clouts lower turning much cooler especially in the afternoon tomorrow. 68 and falling back to the '50s in some areas later in the day much cooler 50 at o'hare and 40's in land. mostly sunny and beautiful weather on friday and that will carry over into the weekend to. that opens the prospects for a nice weekend. >> summer's gone. there is still some warm weather left. don't give up. this is the mice have item for all of sea-tac heads out there. apple unveils the new iphone. and change is coming to
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>> harvard university's basketball team may lose to keep players because of a cheating scandal the boston herald wrote hoarding that the captains are expected to withdraw from the university after being implicated in an academic fraud scandal, cocaptain since several other students are accused of sharing answers on the take home final exam, the answers were all too similar according to professors by withdrawn they can maintain their final year of eligibility. the university of chicago moves up on the list of the nation's top colleges from fifth-fourth the only other
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illinois school in the top five is northwestern both schools also made the top 25 as best value for offering a quality education and to need based 8 over one month after the lollapalooza music festival the restoration of grant park is finally complete the price tag double what was initially estimated costing $350,000 a fixed the landscape by seating areas and replacing some of the shrubs promoters of the festival initially thought it would cost much more to repair the park. only so many days of shopping until christmas. this season you will not have to fight the crowds there putting the hot toys on layaway it lets
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shoppers reserve any of 50 items on a yet to be announced last bugs that is required is a 20 percent down deposit there is no charge for this service. this script only lasts about a half a page. i can find out more and bring it to you tomorrow. next thing we will hear these christmas carols on the radio. we are going to cool down tomorrow to the '60s and readings after that may drop down to the '50s in parts of the area as rain kicks up in the afternoon, a look at tomorrow night and how widespread the '40's are across the area. we're down at the fifties at waukegan
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by sunset tomorrow night '60s in the southern suburbs. tomorrow night we see low forties out in some of the suburbs. look how nicely temperatures come back on friday. we are back in the '70s on saturday. there are the scattered rains as we look towards morning. the sun is only 70 percent as strong now. we lost 2.6 hours of daylight. you can see it in this 10 day forecast showing the cool air coming down over the next few days it warms up a little bit friday and saturday as some really cool air comes in. the
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seven day forecast is a cooler looking 1 then we have shown you in past days. back to the '70s and a beautiful weekend ahead with friday saturday and sunday as lots of sun that is some pretty lovely autumn weather even though it is not officially autumn yet. what are the chances of this happening in ohio the same stranger came to the aid of a man and his son during to completely different emergencies years apart. this past saturday christopher came upon a man holding a fishing boat that had a flat tire and was creeping along the side of the road and as he returned he
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brought the motorists a fix a flat to sell the motorist could get to the gas station. a truck struck his car almost had to the motorist and his son later the motorist told the nurse practitioner how he was helped by a stranger eight years ago who was also a nurse practitioner. i injured my hand from a very large fish hook they movedremoved it from my hand and i was able to go on with my day. he says you never know what the day will bring the truck driver who had his car was drunk and charged in taken to the hospital. you never know when your going to run into a good samaritan. coming up the white sox tried to scratch off enough offense nascar's best are in
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with detroit all year you don't want to give up a bunch of extra base runners and that's what the sox did tonight against the tigers they have paid a big price in the go ahead against this series, the brilliant first four innings giving the sox exactly what they needed to try dominating he got all of it and the socks grab a one-nothing lead. a ground ball in the base hit from austin jackson into detroit goes in front 2-1 that is probably your ball game right there fielder has done nothing in this ballpark all season he made a 6-1 game there. the cubs anthony rizzo ok after the game
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against the astros alfonso terrific season continues a solo homer, 49 homers gives him 96 for the year the cubs about to win their second series in a row. next year's baseball schedules are out today for the sox a home opener against the royals and a fun series at home against the miami marlins the cubs open on the road in pittsburg. the cross town classic is now four games over four days may 27th and 28th the 29th and 30th at wrigley notre dame is the latest team to flee the big conference for everything else they are headed to the acc they play five football games a season in that conference and keep many of their traditional rivalry games.
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they probably will not start until 2014 brian or lacquer is probable and greg jennings is doubtful for the green bay is tomorrow night. they are trying not to lose another home game especially against the bears. the bears are expecting rogers in prime time tomorrow. one thing that jumped out is control some of the step up lines. i think that's an important force will let some get away from us we have to work on letting them set up. we had a little bit extra time to make plays guys pulling up for teri this afternoon. the first event in
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nascar's race for the championship. they have never been more wide open. this launches race to the championship. some of them are tracks that i don't even remember that well. but we have had a lot of success i think you have to treat each race as its own and in my opinion we will concentrate on our program and know that we cannot afford a d and f. hosting toronto tonight already leading 1-nothing and looking for one more.
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connecticut's basketball coach jim calhoun is reportedly retiring after 26 seasons in three national championships in december is in trouble with the n.c.a.a. we will see how that pans out. that is the news for this wednesday night we are happy you shared your time with us. we will be here in case the teachers' strike makes movement tonight we will see you ♪ introducing free layaway at kmart. it's a great time to get shopping. >> with hotwire's low prices i can afford to visit chicago
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