>>24-hours criss-crossing the country. president obama stops in five different states today. including illinois, where he'll make history. good afternoon. i'm dina bair. and i'm tonya francisco in for steve sanders. we welcome our viewers who are watching us around the country on wgn america and on the web. the president will travel from the airport to hear and then back. the president will not

have to wait in line like a saw forming before the doors opened. the first lady of voted already. the schedule shows you the casting his ballot. he is doing sell among old neighbors. the president would have campaigned today. mr. romney spent yesterday traveling to colorado. governor romney will be an ohio both today and tomorrow. both are looking for the undecided. the president needs to rally.

his enthusiasm is nowhere near that of four years ago. >> i hope everyone else is ready to fly the him. >> this is too important. the momentum is high. the momentum is up. i'm excited. the president will travel to a campaign even this evening in cleveland before returning very late tonight to the white house. >>mitt romney campaigns in cincinnatti, ohio today. this crucial battleground

state. offering 18 electoral votes. romney addressed a crowd at a business that supplies armor parts, and assemblies for military platforms. a time magazine poll shows the race is very close in the state. it shows president obama with 49 percent support and romney with 44 percent. the poll has a three point sampling error. >>president obama may have been upstaged at a campaign stop in florida. this pictures shows him posing with a group of school children on tuesday. but take a closer look behind the president. in the top row one boy decides to make his move on a female classmate. the kiss was quickly named "photo of the day" by the

president's twitter feed. illinois state representative derrick smith has avoided the media since his indictment on federal corruption charges. but now there's word midday that smith may be ready to speak publically. the 10th district race has drawn national attention polls show smith with a sizeable lead. despite the fact he was expelled from the illlinois house. julian crews is in the district with the latest. is the first televised a murder trial in illinois. >> it is beginning to wind down in terms of testimony. a total of 18 witnesses have taken the stand. with your old is on trial

this week facing murder and attempted murder trialcharges. prosecution is painting jones as a cold blooded killer. we're expecting to see a videotape testimony from the defendant in this case.

>> hurricanes' handy is pondering jamaica. sandy is hitting jamaica. u.s. airways is in hot water. ar

>>hurricane sandy slammed into cuba early today. bringing winds up to 105 miles an hour. the category two storm came ashore with waves up to 29 feet. bringing up to 12 inches of rain. knocking out power and taking down trees. the hurricane hit jamaica with 80-mile-an-hour winds yesterday. damaging homes across the

island. reports say 70 percent of the country was without power and more than a thousand people had to go to shelters. so far, two deaths are blamed on hurricane sandy. one in jamaica and one in haiti. hurricane warnings have been posted in the bahamas and a tropical storm warning is in effect along the east coast of florida. the hurricane is not expected to enter the gulf of mexico, where the u-s has extensive oil and gas installations. a teenager in colorado goes to court, an hour from now, to face charges of kidnapping and killing a ten-year-old girl. jessica ridgeway vanished on her way to school in suburban denver on october 5-th. her body was found last week in a park five miles from her home.

police arrested 17-year-old austin sigg at his home, and charged him with jessica's abduction and murder. sigg's classmates says he gave no indication that anything was wrong. the cold, harsh way he looked at them. the unease they just couldn't shake off when he did. so, when austin reed sigg was arrested tuesday night, accused of strangling 10-year-old jessica ridgeway, dismembering her and placing her body parts under the two-story home where he lived, many of the girls in that denver suburb weren't shocked. he will undergo a physical and mental assessment. the result will determine which prison he will go to to serve his sentence. the sentence to 30-60 years. he is appealing his conviction. the faa says they discovered a leaking fuel pump and the right engine. u.s. airways flew the jet more than 900 times. they're proposing a fine of $354,000. >>the statue of liberty will

reopen this weekend after undergoing a year of renovations. the changes will make the monument in new york more accessible to visitors with disabilities. an elevator now goes all the way to the observation deck. allowing wheelchair access for the first time. officials say the new design will allow some 26-thousand more people to visit the site each year. sunday is also lady liberty's 126th birthday. she was a gift from france. >>just ahead. and, still to come this midday.

that is a decrease of 23,000 from the previous week. the

moving average of jobless claims was up slightly. experts say the numbers indicate employers are seeing enough demand to maintain existing staffing levels. despite a slowing global economy. >> more questions about the economic recovery. this week for and colgate-palmolive joining a growing number of companies saying they're going to fire thousands of workers. united continental says their third quarter profit missed analysts' estimates. the carrier

is still trying to improve operation as a combined united and continental after 20 percent of flights arrived late with in the last three months. angering a lot of customers. gas prices are in the midst of a record a long string of declines. tripoli forecast that the gas prices will continue to drop through election day. they're considering spicing of their menu with some breakfast items. to public considering adding a drive to amend to some restaurants. they face growing competition. life here at the new york stock exchange. live at the

new york stock exchange. >>the home foreclosure rate is on the decline in many metro areas but not chicago. realty trak reports the chicago area had one of the biggest jumps in home foreclosures. the rate is up 34-percent over the same time last year. new york had the biggest jump. as lenders rushed to catch up on their backlogs. tampa, philadelphia and seattle also saw increases. the realty website zillow just listed information on about one-point-five million homes that are in foreclosure but are not yet for sale. the company is trying to position itself as the go-to website for homebuyers. zillow is already facing criticism over privacy concerns. officials say the information on the site is all part of public record and their goal is to help buyers get a better picture of the real estate market in their area. the most popular passwords are

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an update to a story about wayne gacy. the total last year and a woman had one of the victims exhumed to see if it was in deep her son who was reported missing 36 years ago in 1976.

she always had her doubts even though the body was found next to the body of michael's friend at this appeared that very same day. he was 14 when he is reported missing in 1976. orthodontist maintained that his dental records were a match to the body. because of her doubts dna testing was done. they tested the dna of the jawbone. the dna did not match michael's mother. >> i think she is known for years that this is not her son. for over 30 years she has been visiting the grave asking if that was hidden. she always felt like it was not him. >> with michael being an

unidentified victim there's the question of are there other bodies buried somewhere else? >> they say their investigation has shown that casey had accomplices. they could perhaps provide answers. they're so many unanswered questions. so many

years have gone by. this is a of course it is such a difficult time trying to piece it all together. the new dna needs to be tested he had >> avoided the media since his indictment. polls show smith with a sizable lead. despite the fact he was expelled from the illinois house. >> the naacp has tried to put canada forms together. other

committee groups have reached out to him. he has tried everything to get in touch. he has received endorsements from democratic heavyweights by gov. pat quinn and illinois secretary of state. >> to says he will not miss the

opportunity to finally question his opponent's face to face. >> even if you did go back to springfield, how will you be able to turn any type of tax dollars of second to the diskettetrict? >> is hoping that there is time to set up a debate. chicago police superintendant garry mccarthy is announcing a new gunshot detection technology program today. mccarthy used a similar program when he was the police chief in newark. acoustic sensors placed in high crime areas were able to detect the source of gunfire. the technology allowed officers to zero in on a location of gun

violence... to quickly dispatch police and paramedics. more details on how the program will work in chicago will be released later today. a chicago alderman has come up with an idea to handle the police manpower shortage without straining the city budget. brendan reilly suggests north michigan avenue businesses hire off-duty cops for extra patrols. reilly says it would help the department concentrate on lowering crime in other parts of the city. police superintendent garry mccarthy says he's interested in the idea. mccarthy says he's also frustrated by the number of "non-emergency" calls his officers are forced to respond to when they could be fighting crime in the streets. still to come this midday. tom skilling has your full forecast!

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it is beautiful. it is gorgeous after a cool month. we actually have been running a little below normal. clouds are gathering and there is a front approaching. all thing comes to a crashing end. we go from as early september level air to mid november level air. here's where

the radar shows our rain. there are some embedded thunderstorms. it will modestly accumulate in the western midwest. we may still get very close to the record high of 79 degrees. look at some of this note that this weather system produced. here's a camera via in the wake of that

snow. look at the temperature is right now. and a 73 uptown. east chicago at 75. we're delivering his warmth with strong winds. 69 have a kennerat mchenry. >> here's where it is going to snow over the next 24 hours. look at the temperature drop.

kansas city and 32 degrees. that is like a full season of change. look at the team's up in montana. we have low 50s tomorrow. these are wind chills. look at some of the single digit windchill. water temperature at

59. we may pick up a quarter inch of rain. here's how the afternoon lays out. more substantial but scattered storms. not a huge amount of rain out of this weather system.

the other big story is out on the east coast. here are the '40's. these are daytime thermometer readings. we have kill warnings on our great lakes. you can kind of see the center of the storm right there. the storm is tropical right now. that means there's no temperature change across. it will produce the strong wind. as it marches northward it loses

its tropical characteristics and turns into this the he missed of a low pressure. low pressure. that is the one the movie was made of. therethis model puts waves in excess of 40 ft. we have a full moon going. tides are higher than normal. temperatures may tie the record of 79 before thunderstorms come through. hallsunday monday and

tuesday mostly cloudy. october 31st has historically been the first date for flurries. coming up next week. time for today's trivia. on this day in 1881, pablo picasso was born.

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time for sport. only four players have hit three home runs in a world series game. babe ruth did it twice reggie jackson, albert pujols and now giants third baseman pablor sandoval. game one in san francisco last night. scoreless in the first when sandoval hits a solo shot off tigers' ace justin verlander. two innings later, sandoval hits a two- run homer in his

second at-bat against verlander. then in the fifth, he does it again with a solo home run off al alberquerque. sandoval went four- for- four with three home runs and four r- b-i. the giants win game one, 8-3. game two is tonight. jay cutler says his bruised ribs are feeling fine, and he's still not angry with the lions. for the vicious hit last week. the two players actually have something in common now. a "forbes" poll of fans ranks suh and cutler one and two among the n-f-l's least liked players, while brian urlacher ranks eighth on the most liked list. the bears are back a halas hall preparing for the one- and- five carolina panthers this weekend. a game jay cutler says they can't overlook. bulls guard kirkar ú=

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against pertussis or whooping cough. during each pregnancy. giving expectant mothers a booster shot increases the chances that antibodies will be passed along to their babies.. offering infants increased protection until they're old enough be immunized. the c-d-c says more than 32 thousand cases of whooping cough have been reported so far this year. including 16 deaths. the use of herb and dietary supplements is growing in the u- s and many patients with chronic disease or cancer take them simultaneously with prescribed medication. but a new review of research finds that certain supplements can produce potentially dangerous drug interference. especially among people taking medication for cardiovascular or nervous system issues. the researchers say the biggest problems were caused by interactions between prescribed drugs and supplements that had ingredients such as st. john's wort, calcium, iron, ginkgo, and magnesium. as we get closer to halloween. the f-d-a is out with a warning about one candy you may want to avoid. the f-d-a says eating too much black licorice can lead to abnormal heart rhythms and other problems. black licorice contains a sweetener called glycyrrhizin that can trigger a dangerous drop in potassium levels. when potassium runs low, heart rhythms fluctuate and blood pressure can rise. causing swelling, stupor, and even heart failure. the warning only applies to real black licorice not artificially flavored licorice made with anise oil. >>lunchbreak is next.

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in today's lunchbreak a test run menu before the holidays! southern cooking expert john mclemore is here with tips from his new cookbook dadgum! that's good.

it means it is really good. for bricks from the head is the most important meal of the year. four weeks from now is the most important meal of the year. we're going to take some recipes that are traditional and show you how to make them dadgum good. we're doing everything and an electrical turkey for an electric smoker. >> i'm going to show you how easy it is. this is one of the rest amazerecipes. everybody loves

the recipes. about 12-16 ounces of garlic and herbs. the general rule of thumb is one ouz per p ound. you could fry up to a 20 lb. turkey inside of your home. take the seasoning and shake it all over the top. inside the cavity. this is what people love about the butterball turkey fryer. this is a recipe about 4

minutes per pound. in 48 minutes. most importantly it is safe. we closed withclose the lid. you said you wanted to work and eat. >> it is moist and tender. people love the skin. we decry the turkey. let's talk about some side dishes. this is in the cookbook. these are sweet potatoes that we smoked. we added butter and brown sugar. that actually can be a side door adish or dessert. to make the

bacon in drizzle it with some french dressing and smoking. ke it. this is our maccaroni that we already have ready. we add 1 c. of man inyonnaise 1 c. of sour cream. 4 ounces of cheese. to have to have 4 c. of sharp cheddar cheese. we're going to put a little cajun spice. just a little bit. some onion powder.

we are going to transfer this into our container. get the kids involved. we're going to take that recipe and add it to the smoker. >>qvc and amazon. major retailers around the country have them. >>john mclemore, thanks so much for joining us. you can learn more about his new cook book at dadgumthatsgood.com.

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time now for the answer to today's trivia question. we asked:on this day in 1881 pablo picasso was born. while his name is one of the most recognized in art, it was not his birth name, what was his birth name? a. pablo martinez b. pablo ruiz c. pablo leon the answer: he was born pablo ruiz, but chose to be called by his mother's maiden name picasso because of its appeal as a 'rare' name. it had some reports of a 49 mi. an hour when the dust. ind gust. fipple of very cold there covering canada. there is tuesday. look how this thing closes off. this is all in association with the mammoth storm off on the east coast. it

is the basis for our forecast with some showers and possible snow flurries tuesday. here's a closer satellite view. lots of sunshine. clouds off of the lake sunday. maybe rain showers tuesday next week. it is the time o