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>> papers with the the court today seeking an injunction to bring the strike the teachers' strike to a conclusion. >> among the reasons for legal action the school board said that teachers strike issues are not based on money therefore they have no basis for a strike in the september 7th letter from karen lewis she addresses that issue days before the strike began and suggest any mention for stripings for reasons outside of money are expressly disavowed. who's to blame for that? the union points the finger at the mayor saying there spur of the moment decision...
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it's on necessary but what's really on necessary is that we are at this point right now this whole thing could have been settled months and months ago if we had not had to confront blind arrogance and disrespect tension between opposing parties rose with each day that the strike drought on i think she was being optimistic and hopeful. at this point to their earliest decisions could be back in class
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on monday again everything is hinging on tuesday's vote tuesday at 3:00 on the near south side. >> was that injunction and insults the teachers? some of them say it was in what about the parents even without taking sides they find themselves in the middle of this controversy. >> frustration and that he lee elementary this morning 60 percent of students are asian and many of their parents did not understand that the strike was still on it definitely can be confusing the situation is ever-changing my staff was ready to come back. >> today teachers still picketed outside while children colored inside. i was really
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hoping it would be over by today it's distressful striking teachers took their fight to city hall rallying outside the mayor the mayor's injunction request this morning seemed angered teachers even more. i think it's a disastrous move by the mayor and its undemocratic and it does not belong in the american democracy to try to suppress a strike. they want to be seen as partners in moving a public education for word and step by step >> virginia clark has been a sepias nurse for 12 years and she cannot remember the last time she got a raise in and says that the mayor is out of touch.
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>> and the standoff continues. >> parents speaking out this afternoon the power parents rally aimed at getting a face leaders ready in the community demanding that children get back in the classroom with their teachers. reps from more than a dozen community organization announced what they are calling encouragement lines they will visit the mayor's office cpsc and c t u headquarters where cta delegates will vote and a sepias high school is looking for something to do during the strike all seven campuses will be open for visits between 10 and the morning and one in the afternoon. students can get a campus tore and information on dual enrollment programs. even
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more educators considering a strike. union reps say contracts have reached an impasse including issues like freezing teacher pay for two years free retirement pay incentives teachers say they already agreed to pay higher health premiums and copays. the school board is staffing the schools with administrators and substitutes the teachers went on strike last wednesday school board and union reps continue to do their talks at the bargaining table. an 18 year-old from hillside is accused of planning to park a car bomb in front of a downtown bar the defense attorney disagrees saying his client isn't influenced by the government. i was told today that his son is innocent of baby
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in his words and the best of his four children today his 18 year- old son came into federal court to answer the terrorism charges if you read the complaint i think the government helped the whole way. defense attorney tom durkin stood next to the father of the accused 18 year-old at federal court the teenager born in chicago and raised in suburban hillside is accused of attempting to set off a phony car bomb outside a downtown chicago bar on friday night the phony bomb into detonation device given to him by undercover fbi agents posing as terrorists. this doesn't smell like a terrorism plot it seems like there's something wrong with this. the fbi said they contacted him in october last year when he was 17 after he
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posted on a radical islamic website that's when undercover agents began their work that he says led the impression that teendurkin says led the teenager down an impressionable path. i find it rather astounding that the government would play that card that a government agent posing as a terrorist would claim he was advocating this kind of violence when he knew full well that this young man locally told him that that type of rhetoric was improper and not consistent with islam. the teenager with his bushy black hair orange face and jumpsuit did not talk in court today only nodding at times to his attorney. after getting a postponement on today's hearing
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called of this terrorism case unlike any he has ever worked on before with someone so young and in his words immature. it sounds like he was on the internet talking nonsense does that mean that he has radically islamic beliefs? i don't know. at the request of tom durkin the judge moved the preliminary detention hearing which was supposed to be today to thursday afternoon he will remain in custody at least until then. that's also when we expect to hear more about the government's case. still ahead an outrageous crime somebody breaks into the mountains police stable and injured several horses. this is not a night for
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hurd after a break into the police stable in the south shore community a fire extinguisher was priced at one horse burning its face. >> nearly 30 chicago police forces were turned loose inside the stable leaving them agitated and very frightened and is suffering injuries and police want to know who would do this and why. chicago police officers returning to the unit stable late last night found complete chaos there was a break-in at the building on the grounds of the south shore cultural center
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rolls of toilet paper had been tossed out the window but the worst of it was inside 27 out of 31 police forces were turned loose from their stahl a very dangerous situation for the horses fire extinguishers have been pulled from the walls perhaps thrown at police or shot named after an officer who died in the line of duty. >> he took the brunt of the spray. >> that i was swollen almost shut but he is doing much better now. after consulting with the event he had me flush the eyes. the trainer spent the day coming rattled nerves what police try to figure out who is
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responsible. it appears that they tried to maliciously harm our horses for what reason, i don't know. it was terrible, it really is awful, what is the world coming to? somebody knows something about it. police say this happen sometime between 945 and 1115 last night no word on how many people could have been involved or whether they were caught on any surveillance cameras but the good news is that o.j. are is expected to return to their street duty tomorrow. a texting scandal under investigation in winnetka, students in winnetka high schools and inappropriate for us
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to other children. anybody caught sexting can face child pornography charges. teachers sent a letter home to parents. unfortunately i think this happens a lot and i think it probably goes on in a lot of places but teachers are good at staying on top of things. here's what the letter said recently made aware of allegations of other students had transmitted text messages or e-mail's containing inappropriate pictures to other students began an investigation and after extensive initial interviews differ the matter to the police department. they assert the sin of a closed-door fund-raiser which mitt romney makes a controversial statement about some voters, what he said when the cameras were not ruling.
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on the other hand over 100 people arrested and a clogged manhattan's financial district. they were repeatedly pushed back by police. more protests around the middle east. they are the latest call for demonstrations against the u.s. they took to the streets into have had americans there on the edge. i am not going to speak because it is classified you could imagine that wherever we think it's necessary we take appropriate security measures and we will
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continue to do that. also taking place today in afghanistan nearly 300 people took to the streets in koppel. 1500 police reportedly injured they're blaming all of the attacks on police on the anti islamic film made in the u.s.. sentencing is expected to take place after a hearing to determine if he is a sexually violent predator. a french court deciding tuesday whether to order an injunction of the topless photos of prince william's wife kate middleton they are trying to avoid headlines to other magazines also printed photos of kate without her permission. this
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video taken with a hidden camera given to the magazine mother jones and posted online nearly half of all americans will vote for president barack obama because they rely on government support. they believe that they are entitled to health care to food to housing. >> it was once thought of as an alternative to sex, but new information and it suggests that it sexting kurt justines to engage in risky behavior.
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have some rain numbers on that but this is all part of a big cool down that is coming into this area it came in with some interesting clods. is that an interesting cloud formation or what? we capture this range shaft. we saw the rain clouds coming in the storms into the rain shaft coming in. if we could look on top of these ominous looking clouds that's what we have seen all those steve took this picture last week and there is no on the mountaintops in colorado and this seems to be building up with time as schooling has gone on. look at the beautiful fall colors. we're looking up of the lake here and these are the first showers coming in with a
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shelf cloud pretty evident. here is what it looked like on our radar in the three-dimensional mode right here. a big cluster of storms that continues pressing southeastward. the lightning is pretty well faded away. we are near the back edge of this what will follow will be some light rains and these could put down some pretty good amounts in parts of the indiana. only it will not be snow it will be rain. see how the first line comes through with lightning right there, it fades. we're near the end of this rain. here is where the doppler applauded rainfall and here is how much rain has come down according to preliminary reports. there was
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brief warm-up wednesday but a new cold front comes in later in the week. by the way to show how unusual a frosty even in the far western side would be tomorrow night october 13th is the average first day at o'hare. look at the temperatures. remember thermometer level temperatures are up around six degrees. showers perhaps like a fed drains will start turning on in indiana later tonight and it may crush this illinois line.
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tomorrow mixed clouds and a son, nearly 20 degrees cooler. we could see a sprinkel buildup in the afternoon. fairly substantial rain showers will come in. 32 far northwest suburbs about 41 at o'hare and 47 at the lakefront. we're going into a cool pattern for the rest of september. it will be thanksgiving pretty soon. >>
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astronauts buzz aldrin ace special visit and spoke with students about his historic walk on the moon with neil armstrong in july of 1959. he said it was a very powerful day when he found out that armstrong had passed. there is no doubt in my mind and many others that he was in deep the best pilot that nasa had and he was given the great task of making the first landing on the moon and he will always be remembered for that. and i salute neil armstrong. the alderman says that he and armstrong were planning on getting together in 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of landing on the moon. if you
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are thinking about free ordering apple care don't even think about it, they have sold out. most pre orders will be delivered friday but others will not ship until october. a brand new panda at the national zoo in washington you were looking at the mother she gave birth to a 4 oz cub late on sunday the mother and cub will be monitored in seclusion for a couple of weeks and they will make their first public appearance in a couple months. it's tall, has three wheels and is taking over bike trails all over america. what is triking? we use this board to compare car insurance rates side by side so you get the same coverage, often for less.
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down? people always stop the and say what is that thing i have never seen it and i always encourage them to try it out because i cannot explain it to them until they know what it feels like to ride one. it has three wheels and you propelled by leaning it is a full body but low or no impact workout and just about anyone can ride one. the trike company burst onto the scene in 2002 when time magazine named it one of the year's best inventions. it doesn't take paddles or in care system, also have to do is practice, move your body back and forth in to go. as you get back up to speed you can feel where you want to lean you wanted to leave the same way as the steering column. this is the co-founder of the chicago area trekkers group. we
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wanted to get a lot of people in chicago involved so i started a group so all of the trikers go for rides in and teach each other and have fun. they have continued to of all the company distributes all kinds of trikes 40 countries. it takes a little while to get used to but you can get a trike with an electric motor, they go up to 18 mi. per hour and they start at $1,200. starter units began at around $250 and easily sold up for storage. they call it the cadillac of trikes. i've lost 20 lbs. already and i have been practicing every day. it's great exercise. there's something
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this day one year ago. on the left side of the screen you can see the parade of storms. it heads into the west end of the continent. you will have unseasonable warmth from british columbia. this is the kind of pattern that seems to be showing up more and more. it leaves the temperature extremes from one area to another. a look at the
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play, this is a major step forward that they took this afternoon in the makeup game against the tigers. the tigers jumped on them early today a three-nothing lead. a.j. and diane both scored the game tied at 3 but here is the ball game right here. alex rios steamrolled omar at second to a wild heave, two runs men and the sox have their first lead at 5-4. on a day when the homers were not happening. it's the retired the last 15 tigers in order. he is 80 and it 0 after another winning relief.
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>> if you play the right way of benchley that's tough catches up to so real plays a game hard and that's a big factor for me. i've only been to the playoffs three times but it's tough to the entire way through you cannot expect anybody to give you anything. the bears were back at practice today with an injury list ranging from matteson ankle to demarcu webb's cut hell.el. lovey smith took issue with that report not that he clarified. he is under scrutiny for what happened on the way to the sidelines at green bay thursday night, or yell that webb and
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shoved him not good on national tv some players including dj more did not appreciated, here is him at practice today. >> to make it seem like it's my fault or what not to make it seem like the reason i'm having a bad game is because of what you are doing. he has always been that way, he aidedis what he is. >> many others are looking for ice time in the states including a bunch of former blackhawks working out at johnny's this morning. teammates and former
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teammates wearing their practice here this morning trying to stay in shape and hoping they can get the contract done soon. at the same time it is kind of frustrating it's understandable of course both sides have a serious responsibility. it's we have done more than enough. >> i don't think anyone on their side or our side or least publicly will say they don't know what they're doing. the cubs also announced the move of the cubs convention in the downtown hilton to the sheraton.
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an adventuresome afternoon for the tank out there. austin jackson hit one out there and not so good. but it was the tigers' messing up the bad double play turn that turned the tide today. that's the news for this monday night. 4g lte has the fastest speeds. so let's talk about coverage. based on this chart, who would you choose ? wow. you guys take a minute. verizon, hands down. i'm going to show you guys another chart. pretty obvious. i don't think color matters. pretty obvious. what's pretty obvious about it ? that verizon has the coverage. verizon. verizon. we're going to go to another chart. it doesn't really matter how you present it. it doesn't matter how you present it. verizon. more 4g lte coverage than all other
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