>> tonight friends and family are obviously in morning. a driver without a license in the passenger without a seatbelt into the story ends very sadly. his family was too upset to talk tonight but high school students we spoke to tonight said everyone knew devon meadows everyone liked him and everyone will miss him tomorrow at school his classmates are planning to dress in white in his honor. 13

year-old devon meadows. throughout the day students gathered at the scene of the accident that claimed his life some with tears. aurora police say it could have been some type of prank or a joy ride at 145 in the morning another student took his father's chevy malibu with his three friends inside speeding down stone bridge road. and derrick who was wearing no seatbelt was ejected from the back seat. it's devastating when

you come home thinking that your son is up there asleep. the released a statement saying he was a charismatic talentedtalented member of the football and track program and he will be deeply missed by all of those who knew him. there's a growing memorial near the crash scene. i respected him a lot he was outstanding. >> the three boys in the car all 15 years old suffered only minor injuries they were wearing their seat belts. at this point there is no indication that drugs or alcohol were involved. human skeletal remains were found in

the waters of the calumet river in south suburban riverdale this afternoon. police there assisted by the chicago and illinois state police at the scene near 138th and indiana ave. the finding took on more interest because of two missing persons cases of interest involving girls. police would not comment any more. tonight haunting testimony about the deadly wisconsins by shooting audiotape from a court hearing one week ago he began by talking about years of abuse. the gaunt from behind it accidently went off and went to inches from both of our heads. he said he would kill

me before he gave me... >> to other women were killed four others were wounded before he killed himself. at the hearing he acted as his own attorney. >> i have been involved with xena for most of my adult life i never had any intentions on hurting this ms. haughton. family and friends of the missing woman gathered at a hearing they were white t-shirts as a show of unity for regina ex-boyfriend 42

year-old clark charged with first-degree murder in her disappearance police say they found significant evidence in the house that they shared and it strongly indicates foul play she was last seen several saturdays ago. he said he recalled attacking a friend at another bar but doesn't remember much of the attack from that evening because he said he was very intoxicated the bartender is suing him into the city claiming that he and fellow cops try to cover up and down play the assault his attorney said that being in court is difficult. it's difficult for him to see her and i think it's difficult for him to see the video and although the video is constantly shown as anthony as

an animal that committed this act he is a human being i think he made a huge mistake obviously he is no longer a police officer and was fired after being convicted of aggravated battery he also testified today that he can't remember the calls he made to friends or other officers the trial is expected to last two- three weeks cameras in the court room we have never seen it in illinois before broadcasting a trial live. they are making that possible last january. prosecutors alleging that the 21 year-old the demetrias jones was killed after a fist fight turned deadly. that's what the

defendant did that afternoon aldi telling the hot august day last year when sanders lost his life his mother a sixth witness broken down. they told me he was dead. >> they paint him as a young scared man. we told police what they wanted to hear it wasn't the truth but it was what a scared kid says tried to get out of the interrogation room and wait for the police will hear more from them once the prosecution rests attorneys are both hoping that televising the case helps change public perceptions of the trial. they

don't get a chance to see how witnesses really are on the witness stand. we are also not seeing the jury, their identities are being kept secret until this trial is over and congressman jesse jackson jr. drove himself back to the bale clinic but for how long? also, could foreclosed homes in some neighborhoods be forgotten on purpose, new allegations about how one bank handles its foreclosed properties. and a string of warmer days on the horizon.

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urging the public to be patient in his recovery the south side democrat has been off the job since june he has legal woes as well and is under federal investigation for alleged misuse of campaign funds yet he remains on the november ballot and is expected to with the reelection. >> allocation, at home or in a nursing facility we have more on the changes being called the game changer. the obama administration gave the green light to extend medicare coverage even if it will cost the government more it used to cover physical and occupational therapy and things of that sort only if improvements to the patient's condition could be proven but it will not take care services that help maintain a person's current condition or help prevent further deterioration of regardless of

whether their condition is expected to improve. alzheimer's, parkinson's, lou gehrig's disease it is so destructive to the mind it's hard to believe there could be a second blow to the patient living with it or to the loved one watching them suffer the second blow often comes when the bills will win insurance only covered so much medicare hardly making a dent until today the obama administration settled a case in vermont allowed for extended medicare coverage for therapy or skilled nursing improvements or the lack of improvements are no longer the reason to deny further coverage. with their cut off families are faced with choices including often more expensive care such as nursing home care or figuring out how to do this on their own because they cannot afford those services. she sees alzheimer's patients as the direct beneficiary of the new medicare change she knows that costs can bankrupt a family. the trade-off

is neglecting the patience and the well-being of those that care for them. caring for someone with alzheimer's is extremely stressful most people are cared for by family members at home not in nursing facilities and the stress of that care causes deterioration to the caregiver themselves. >> the alzheimer's association joined a lawsuit that settled today one that will affect thousands if not tens of thousands of people getting rid of decades-old practice and updating it to cover those most in need of services at times when people are living longer medicare will spend $100 billion on alzheimer's patients alone by the year 2050 medicare will spend exactly 627 billion an increase of exactly 27 percent.

patients will not feed anyit could take one year or more for this extended coverage to actually kick in. the national fair housing alliance telling how housing and urban development has proof of market properties and mine minority neighborhoods. the group names a total of 13 cities. 47 percent of the properties have fewer than five consistenciesdeficiencies. the bank of america claims it's not true saying it strongly denies the allegations. wal-mart to facing a proposed class-action lawsuit

in chicago the company and to staffing agencies are accused of requiring temporary workers to come early, stay late ian to skip lunch. wal-mart has denied comments until it reviews the suits and wal-mart has threatened to walk off the job when it will hurt the company most the day after thanksgiving. a town hall forum tonight on the city's west side to discuss members of the

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president obama and mr. romney throwing their campaigns into power drive now that the election is two weeks away and the race is really close. the state is a crucial piece to the road to the white house and has 18 electoral votes. president romney attacked the president over the economy in front of 10,000 people today. >> if you said you love american cars during debate, you are a car guy but you wrote an article titled led detroit go bankrupt. you definitely have a case aof romnesia. mr. romney and his vice-presidential candidates stopped in henderson of that today they offered six a look tore all votes. romney claimed

that the president's attacks on him are not an agenda for the country. we are going to help small business grow inside of this country i understand small business i didn't read or study about it, i lived in small business and that will help solve this. the president will also be in chicago on thursday by the way to cast his election ballot. one of the president's high-profile supporters in town today. bill clinton is the keynote speaker at the mortgage banker convention in the expo. he did a really good job. he did a good job explaining that you

build the defense budget from the ground up i'm just really proud of him, i thought he was great. >> and we're hoping that you make wgn tv your home for election coverage you can follow all of our stories online. also federal investigators are coming down on a popular energy drink following the death of five people. and it's rarely a good thing when cops walk into a football locker room but you would be surprised the two college players they will never forget.

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a time when i could hear a lot of my right ear. even as a child this 59 year-old struggled to hear. i was able to function so it just became a way of life for me. for years she got by then and iraq on the left side brought it to the doctor she thought it was the perfect time to address her lifelong hearing problem. but a thorough microscopic exam revealed that she had tiny benign tumors that were overloading the bombsbones in both of her ears and affecting her ability to hear properly. that is the tip of the iceberg a tiny black dots on the surface it expands the deep behind the ear drum is a process that starts here in the station to.

if it is not functioning well exchanging the gases of the middle ear and when it locks it creates a vacuum and the eardrum gets sucked in, it forms an inward growing stocking into the middle ear and it starts to eat away at bone and it just grows and develops a like a small system or tumor. it blocks the pathway for sounds to travel through she needed surgery to clean out and reconstruct for middle ear the doctor at the ear institute of chicago offered an incision behind the ear and another inside the canal gave him access to the blockage and then replaced any destroyed bone with tiny prosthetics that bridged the gap began to allow for sound to travel freely and the results? >> it's pretty impressive if we are successful with a good connection they will hear in the first three weeks after surgery the hearing games are dramatic. the treatment made a

dramatic difference for joe. during the reign, all of the little things i was missing hearing the rain, i was astonished what is that i thought. it was so amplified to me it was a good sensation. >> we are not going to see much of that tomorrow. tom skilling says it don't get used to it, much cooler temperatures right after this warm front. with over

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beautiful fall color scene. thank you to all of our photographers. we expected temperatures to be heading up towards 80 degrees tomorrow if that is a rare level. the next

couple of days particularly late thursday and thursday night. we could see about seven tenths of an inch of rain although the stratus across the area will be quite substantial. october by the way it is now in surplus territory for rainfall even though fall started back on september 1st meteorological fall is still in a deficit the winds are light as well the bottom line is we may get more fog we have 93 percent humidity

going at chicago's o'hare. if you drop the temperature right now to 62 it would go to 100 percent and so it is that we are looking across the weather but network at places already with 100 percent humidity. and you can see the dust today point down from what they were yesterday. but many areas are at or above 70. at dekalb it's over 60 degrees and one more shot of our beautiful skyline. hist look at this picture here the heavy clouds have been off to the north and west of us and there are breaks the models suggest a

shower or thunderstorm may die to the area and it may do so tomorrow as well you will see a pretty strong southerly wind blowing so the combination of sunshine and southerly winds means we have a good shot at 80 tomorrow st. louis misted by one degree on the other hand cold air is dumping in the country which has single digit highs up in its court in alaska today. this note is accumulating on the mountain tops out west the '70s even at these hours are no. it is still 75 at this hour in st. louis so you can see why we are pretty confident it is going to be a warm day tomorrow. we will see big maybe severe storms

flare with a pretty good band of accumulating snow and a sprawling high, as all attention turns to this thing off of the east coast. tonight mostly cloudy and mild 20 degrees above normal with a low above the normal high for this day 60 scattered showers and thunderstorms may occur over about 30 percent of the area tomorrow and partly sunny windy and warmer day. mid september level temperatures with just a

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they named the two scholarship players saying they said official papers they needed their signatures on and it turned out to be fulbright scholarships. thank you for all of your hard work we are very glad you got a scholarship. >> the team. daniel and robert o'connor with the players involved. it's they will take the scholarships that was kind of mean to do that to them also good news is the weather which includes a summer like near 80 degree temperature during the day tomorrow watch how the air masses move here in the next 10

days. that is the warm air and in comes the cold air it dominates the weekend a weekend that could see 40 degree high temperatures. that is tomorrow's weather map noticed a lack of showers and thunderstorms. this is an air mass that is going to produce some snow west of us to the lower elevations look at the wind gusts during the day thursday and up boards of 40 mi. per hour at times from the south so we will have 77 here tomorrow probably 80. this jet stream does concern us a bit because it parallels the front that is coming and there is a

wider view of how much rain will come down across the midwest. that will be the fifth rain this month. here is that mammoth system down the caribbean this thing has moved northward as you can see but this shows the wins this thing has hurricane warnings up in cuba and this thing is to explode into a mammoth storm with huge winds and waves we have a model forecast of anywhere from 42-46 ft. waves off the coast with that system. 80 here tomorrow 79

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trick or treat cannot get here soon enough we are almost finished with the almost. the bulls tweed oaks city tonight somebody tell me to robinson is still the preseason he is excitable so one is everyone else in the season. the bulls are up 6 after the first quarter take all of this with a grain of salt but jimmy butler did play and the bulls were up 11 at halftime they

finished off this little package with boozer 24 points 12 rebounds and 12 assists. the bulls with 94-89. you have to wait a lot of different ways so we have to play physical and win and not allow that to take away from what we are trying to get accomplished out there. they are tough coach perkins i know how good he is defensively i thought it was very great for them. patrick kane becomes the fifth black hawk to take his game overseas while waiting for the nhl lockout to end. tyler sagan is already playing if this labor mess goes on very much longer you will probably see a bunch of

guys every year hoping to the game ready if the nhl ever figures out. there were quite surprised that everything worked. they put the pile driver on him last night at soldier field. this was the second play he drove him shoulder first into the turf jay said today that he fell on the football which is how he bruised his ribs but he expects to practice this week the bears' star to go 6 and one of the season. tonight callers favorite target brandon marshall are hanging with the kansas at the charity bowling tournament he has been telling anybody who would listen today that the head on a caller was a dirty play even though he wasn't flat to nor was he fined by the league today. absolutely it was dirty i have never seen a wrestling

moved on on a football field. >> he could have broken his neck. it could have been a really sad night. he can be a great player if he wants to one thing that i've learned is we want to succeed with character hopefully they get that message. adam dunst 41 homer season and the american league comeback player of the year award. the world series starts tomorrow in san francisco the giants and the tigers. he was fired today after the marlins' manager after a season of disaster. he alienated the cuban community when he said he admired fidel castro. 69 lance sustain huge

disappointment and the end of a line in miami for ozzie they still owe him seven and a half million dollars. the bruno was an assistant on the women's olympic gold medal team which was an educational experience for him. most of his best guys are back for another season. i think that is where your learning comes from. there are a lot of reasons when you look at the returners. speaking of returning to paul's athletic

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