call >> >> the area was completely leveled. >> hurricane sandy left the east coast behind but there are plenty of reminders she was there. it is our top story again seen around the country tonight the cleanup after sandy subways flooded with salt water 6 ft. under at least 33 people confirmed dead and the death toll expected to rise and millions of customers in the dark. sandy moved from hurricane to superstore living

up to the new name. >> this was a devastating storm maybe the worst that we have ever experienced. wind too strong water too high and an impact hundreds of miles wide, almost too much to comprehend. at least 80 homes in queens were destroyed in a chain reaction electrical fire and about 250 patients at the nyu medical center had to be evacuate, some down 15 flights of stairs, by daybreak hundreds of people in new jersey had to be rescued after a levee was breached. the storm shut down the new york stock exchange, international airports, subways and trains service major damage on each and every one of new jersey's realigns. the problems kept

multiplying, 2-3 ft. of snow and west virginia and howard county maryland and waves rising along lake michigan. my message to the federal government, no bureaucracy, no red tape, get resources where they're needed president obama will travel to new jersey wednesday to serve a storm damage. it's part of the american spirit. one of the most amazing stories from the storm was the rescue of a crew stranded 90 mi. out to sea during the storm one of the crew members were from the chicago area we talk with a relative and she joins us now from the low islands. therefore only 14 survivors there were only 14 survivors from the shipwreck. the crew is

fine, everybody is safe the feeling right now obviously not so great emotional trauma. 28 year-old drew was one of the 14 crew members sailing from new london connecticut to st. petersburg florida when the ship the hms bounty found itself in trouble the wooden ship built in 1960 took on water after a first pump failed, and then a second one. it was stopped off the coast of north carolina when the super storm was bearing down on them his son was in the water for five-six hours before the coast guard made a very dramatic rescue saving all but two crew members aboard. >> it was a calculated sale they planned the details of it, they knew what they had to accomplish how they were going to do it and they would have

been successful have they not had the mechanics functioned. they died in the shipwreck over the weekend and the captain is still missing tonight they called him a teacher and a good friend and that he will be greatly missed if he is in fact not found alive this is the ship famous to so many created in 1960 specifically for the movie mutiny on the bounty it's also been used in subsequent movies like pirates of the caribbean there has been a relief fund set up for this crew also to help with the captive and we're live in blue island. the remnants of sandy also hit hard on lake michigan northwest indiana residents being asked to stay away we are

there live tonight and right now we're finding good reasons for that. i could stay away, you have to wear your sunglasses to the beach the beach right now is blowing right into my face it's like working in a stand plastered out here the best way to show you is take a look at our truck we haven't been here all that long a lot of localized flood warnings in effect till tomorrow and also a warning about getting too close to mother nature in northwest india and that it is one very dark and stormy night extremely high gas off the lake bringing down trees and power lines further inland and no serious or long-term outages but certainly a serious warning from local officials putting in long hours to keep residents out of harm's way. we have had a 80-20 ft. waves and there are a lot of people better curious about going down to the

lakefront we have had a police patrol down there throughout the day. all day all along the lake the extreme weather has been drawing onlookers close but not too close to the water and up close view of nature's power in action. parents and grandparents bought children to the lake shore before police shot it down. >> it's beautiful to look at. >> the wind and the waves at remain pretty ferocious tonight local officials say they will likely reopen the lakefront thursday, folks still coming by to take a look but police are keeping a close eye, we will be

leaving it pretty soon. >> for more on the remnants of sandy and how it's affecting us here let's check in with tom skilling. they are strongest going into the indiana michigan shoreline

. last night there were 24 states under advisory's, tonight it's down to 14, this brings some incredible pictures from ourlater on in the broadcast. coming up drew peterson attorney drama why joe brodsky is not pulling himself off of that case. conflicting testimony in the civil case of a former chicago police officer who

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his conviction without his attorney. we are told why. >> he was not discharged, he stepped down on his own, i applaud him for that. drew peterson still attorney says it's a matter of doing what is best for the client as he tries to appeal the murder conviction of his third wife kathleen savio talking to reporters outside the courthouse rocky says when he told peterson he was dropping out the ball rolling it broke police sgt voiced concern. they know the facts in this case better than >> attorneys john paul carroll and michelle gonzales told the judge that peterson asked him to take over the appeal accusing brodsky of lying about his

courtroom experience welcome unclear legal errors during the trial it helped jurors lead them to a guilty verdict and the firestorm of criticism some of it by members of his own defense team because the distractions could become an accusation. there is going to be no more public finger-pointing it's not going to happen on this defense team. ironically i have to say no he said when asked if he mr. brodsky. conflicting testimony and the civil suit filed by the victim of a violin to bar room beating in 20 07 shue return to the stand today followed by witnesses of chicago police we are in the newsroom now with

today's developments the question for jurors is was there a police cover-up in the case today to high-level members of the chicago police department contradicted each other's testimony in court. first on the stand this afternoon was deputy superintendent debra kirby who was questioned about misdemeanor compliance per detectives had him sign kirby said we shouldn't have had her sign a misdemeanor complaint because we were going after felony charges she was talking about felony charges she said she wanted right away against off-duty chicago police officer anthony of ponte who was caught on surveillance video in february 2007 beating petit bartender care lena but kirby's testimony was contradicted by the very next person on the stand, sergeant joseph salic who confirmed that after watching

the videotape in 2007 he was in the room when kirby told the state's attorney's office: from what we see it appears to be a simple battery simple battery is a misdemeanor not a felony which calls into question where the department was going with this case before it broke in the news. he was on the stand earlier today she and her attorneys say what they want to show is that the c p d in 2007 conspired to cover up this incident. they are trying to project the image of this partyprotect the image of this party. anthony was convicted in 2009 fired from the source testimony

in this civil case for resumes tomorrow at 9:00. >> one week to go until election day we are profiling another hot congressional race. also in medical watch helpless in sports could actually make middle-aged people smarter. what roles

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political district? we have had people call the office and say jury was in on the ballot, what happened is really confusing is confusing because the district was redrawn by democrats to give democratic candidates like bill foster an edge drawing a zigzagging jagged edge district which would allow democratic voters to help defeat republican candidates. it stretches from chicago's western suburbs to two of illinois' largest cities, or write and joliet. foster finds himself in old and new territory there are new people to introduce yourself to and

there are old friends. congresswoman bickered voted to privatize social security and replace medicare guaranteed benefits with a voucher costing sr. $6,400 every year. after 30 years in politics bigger is not on our side. >> politician bill faster and his company he laid off employees or right before christmas he profited and families suffered, it's a pattern last year the millionaire paid no income tax. >> both candidates find a way to rationalize their caustic messages that they are sponsoring. >> there is a distinction between false attack ads and the ones that are real distinctions over policy, so for example

congresswoman bigger has voted for every single bush policy that drove us into debt and wrecked our economy, that's a distinction of policy. my point is really denigrating everything i have done for the district and the new district and the old district and i think that's a shame. voters will make their decisions no one week from today. mayor emanuel taking advantage of early voting today and urges others to do the same. he cast his ballot on the south side and he said that he voted for his former boss president obama appeared the mayor philbin doing satellite interviews for supporters in swing states. coming up another benefit for getting the flu shot not only protecting you from the flu but also part disease. and proof of just how powerful nature canby

we will show you what the high winds of sandy did to this tree.

the flu shot and its effect on the part in new study presented at the canadian cardiovascular college finds that influenza vaccine doesn't just keep people from getting the flu it ward off heart disease stroke and heart attack the research looked at patients dating back to the 1960's for those who got a flu shot they have a 50% reduction in major cardiac events including death we've all seen

the images of an athlete dropping dead on the race course for my heart attack those cases are rare and most often occurred because of prior heart conditions they set out to prove that cardiac deaths do not have been mainly during sporting events when they looked at the stats they found that the majority of the events were men between 18 and 40, 72 percent of deaths occurred at home this surprising bonus came in a study of canadian heart patients doctors followed them as they exercise with high-intensity interval training montreal scientists monitored people as they alternated between short periods of low and high intensity of road exercise twice a week within four months not only did our health improved brain oxygenation increased at such a level that cognitive function improved dramatically. >> lost in all of this storm talk tomorrow a chilly day

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the place to feel the winds there is no question about that, look at these shops these are some of the waves pounding up against our lake michigan shoreline today brad give us a couple of shots how would you like to be in front of that? look at that which engulfing the bowie went out in vermont we photographed a beautiful rainbow after the rains of sandy departed yesterday that was a blizzard up in west virginia in the mountains they are moving in on 3 ft. of snow and it's still coming down this is the full life cycle of staying the which started here monday in the

caribbean and moved up across cuba and off of bermuda it turns into a and then it turns towards the west end of the united states. circulation dominates much of the u.s. weather the storm is weakening. it's still 1,600 mi. across that takes awhile to slow down. one of the ways we gauge how fast the storm is weakening as if we look at a simple barometer

reading. tomorrow night it will weaken further the reason that is important here is the wind circulation 1,600 mi. across we are still in the wins by morning and tomorrow evening but you will see the red area start shrinking as we go through time. kell warnings on the lake there are lake shore front advisory's on the south and but while there were 24 states under weather advisory last night that shrunk tonight inclosing a advisories'

four wild fire possibilities down in florida that's how widespread this storm's circulation is. you'll see numbers coming down here as the circulation slowly winds down. we may get a flurry on this side of the lake. look at some of these numbers a hurricane does not do this, a hybrid storm that has cold air almost 30 in. is down at red house marilynmaryland. here is the model forecast it shows a couple sprinkles but by morning

these clouds will start breaking up and we obviously sees some sunshine late tomorrow and will that be a nice change? it will be a long time before we see a storm with the likes of sandy in the united states and thank heavens as we tally up the death toll and all of the damage to this storm brought to the country. northwest indiana showers will continue maybe ice pellets in the city. 25-38 windy and chile in the afternoon a high of 48 tomorrow. beautiful

on thursday, mostly sunny not quite as cool, 53 and back to the '50s on friday. getting a little tamer. thank goodness. still ahead we firsthand learn just how powerful sandy has been.

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she stepped away from the profession for 20 years that was called back to her old classroom at st. paul lutheran school in munster indiana but the time away didn't stop her passion, and her fifth grade students say that she is their favorite teacher. kim small is just out of college taught for five years and quit to go into the insurance business until years later she received a call

from st. paul's lutheran grade school and invited her to join the teaching staff i jumped at it because i knew what they stood for, what they expected of the staff there are 19 students in her fifth grade class, these 10 year olds really like her, they like the way she teaches them. >> she is patient. you are going to be able to figure out all of these wonderful fractions. if you keep it light and you keep it in gauging and you keep it structured at the same time you have to have all of those elements i think kids like to grab hold of that and tune in

more into the fact of this is fun. so it works. she entertains her students with her own childhood memories. >> when i was in to turn your garden we worked with m&m's in math too, so if i didn't follow instructions... can you guess what i might have done with mind? >> yes i did try to hide them. a lot of people come up to say and say my report card is good because i think it is miss mollen that did it occur she was teaching us in that strategy. hopefully we teach them to be lifelong learners. it builds from year to year. on behalf of university i'm happy to present you with this check for $1,000.

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offers. >> that's what happens it ranks 8-10 in. in some places then you have 70 mi. per hour wind gusts. justziziziziziutstststststststool. us and its circulation will dominate the area but instead of looking east at sandy let's look

west at what may be coming sandy is still not done with us so we will have a mix of sun and clouds tomorrow and a gusty northwest wind but there we are thursday morning and evening it's starting to separate a little bit the next blow comes in a sign that this system is diminishing look at a few reports of severe weather in the eastern u.s. there you see some reports of heavy winds in our area also the north carolina and eastern tennessee mountains those are the snowstorm and look how nice it was from the planes today 78 in oklahoma city but there is a cold air mass taking shape and tonight temperatures in single digits in british

columbia we sit at 44 degrees here in chicago due points, 22 that's coming down into committee 42% by morning the wind chills will make it feel like it is in the '20s and we won't improve much beyond the upper 20s tomorrow. here's a closer look at the winds by tomorrow afternoon. a little bit of a warm-up over the weekend and another shot of cool air coming down, the weather system expected to intervene with some rain saturday and sunday following tomorrow on november 1st on thursday. and clocks go back sunday morning at 2:00 a.m.. the bulls continue on the

eve of their season opener tonight. how are you mr. roan? he will be shouldering more minutes and more responsibility this season especially in the early going but that's how he likes it he told me he cannot wait until tomorrow night after a busy off season playing for the british in london. this summer coming up i will probably do it again. the rest of my life i will just know that i did it.

the athletes that i met and made friends with, it was just the atmosphere being in my hometown, friends that i grew up with my family being there it's just so much to it. how easy or difficult is it going to be for you guys to keep your head above water february and march? >> it's never easy. it's never been easy. the thing is it will never be easy i think we just have to keep on getting better. we have yet to find out how good we can be we know how to win games, we will win games. a lot

of times you think you are focused and working hard until you meet someone else who is extremely focused and you just realize that someone is working harder. we have covered everything going into the game. >> there are a lot of things that you get out of putting in all of that time do you ever sit back and reflect on where you

were five or six or seven years ago as a player and where you are today? i was going for some injuries and that's the time when i really felt... i never liked the feeling of letting people down i always felt like i was loved in chicago i always get that feeling into have, this city was all abuzz and all the sudden i had an injury and i never ever want to go back to that. but miss understanding and everything those were the tough times for me. he is anything but a soft, he is one of the toughest players in the nba and he will be in the lineup as always tomorrow night

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we want to congratulate barney of the cubs. for winning gold gloves tonight. and that is not the only goal that he picked up today. kevin and brett myers they did pick up gavin and they re-signed jake to a two year deal and paid a ton for him 29 million over the two seasons and that is not all he gets a player option for a third year and 15 million i think most sox fans are glad to have him back, nobody works harder and nobody wants to win more than this guy. jake did not want to leave here in t. is not going anywhere. i

wasn't interested in in less i had to be and we got something with of the white sox were comfortable and we were comfortable so i feel very blessed today i really do. >> i think this is a very good step in our starting rotation it's nice to be sitting here before halloween feeling like if you do nothing you are starting the rotation at least. >> the bulls get it going for real tomorrow night, the season opener tomorrow night against the sacramento kings, no derrick rose they will not have him for a while, everyone has injuries most are not as significant as roses. new robinson signed on to

bring some energy to this club and for the most part the pieces seem to be falling together and the fact that rose will be around at first it does not change one bit the bowls objective. >> is not changing our attitudes or approach to how we're going to play. defense, rebound, low turnover cover up your weaknesses, do your job stay disciplined whether he is here or not, that is always the same. we are up for the challenge, we got some new players that are working their butts off and we all are getting better every day. >> and we will have the season opener for you here, chicago only audience for this one. the

nba season is already under way. they turned their attention to the celtics. he probably made the right choice, he raced jeff green and at the other end of a big finish from who else, looking good in this season opener 120-1 07, notre dame rising in the national football conscious after saturday's impressive victory in oklahoma, of course it won't matter this week if the irish jumble against pitt if their goal is the national championship game even if they went out they may not get in and they will be working those calculators. coach brian kelly doesn't even own a calculator. >> i don't have the time to do it first of all and i have great people that can fill me in on all of those things and that is

their job to feed you guys all of that information. i got out of politics once, i am not getting back in it. it bugs the hell out of me yes, quite frankly. >> all coaches are the same are they? play ball. singleminded. >> that's all for tonight. hi, i'm amy for downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters, here with my favorite new intern, jimmy. mmm! fresh! and it's been in the closet for 12 weeks! unbelievable! unstopables! follow jimmy on youtube.