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everything pops with pringles stix. [ crunch ] [indiscernible] >> passionate teachers, parents and immunity leaders do their best to plead for their neighborhood schools. it saves a few, but not many. .> it is our top story let's go to dan who is live outside headquarters tonight. andonths of rallies protests did not make much of the difference in terms of the actual outcome of today's

historic vote. all but four schools on the list will be closing. tensions running very high at today's hearing. tensions have been boiling over to the point where some parents had to be escorted out by security. childrenink about the who be killed because of the stupid [indiscernible] despite impassioned pleas, the chicago board of education voted to close the vast majority of schools on its list. 49 elementary schools and one high school program will close. after a last-minute recommendation by the district, the board voted to spare three a woman to schools. .- three elementary schools before taking a vote, the board resident says he and other board members carefully weighed their decision. >> we have been out to each and every one of these impacted communities. we have walked past the abandoned buildings and vacant

lots. we walked through the underutilized schools with classrooms doubling as storage faucets and entire floors -- as storage closets and entire floors devoid of students. >> i made a commitment to work to build trust. it does not happen overnight. to create transparencies and to gain respect for the system and for our community. ragedside, the protests on. several aldermen voiced their opposition to some or all of the school closings in their respecter board. >> they are disappointed because they feel like they have been punished for sins being helped. >> the pending proposals to close these schools is is an inequitable burden. >> we will lose more money

because most parents or some parents will not allow their kids to go to the new schools. then you will lose more popular show. mayor emanuel read a statement saying in part we know this is difficult, but we believe the most important thing we can do is a city is provide the next generation with a brighter future. more hard work lies ahead. i'm confident, together with teachers and principals, engaged darren sent committee support, our children will succeed. -- engaged parents and community support, our children will succeed. >> the chicago teachers union president karen lewis spoke to the board this afternoon and then to reporters immediately after the a stork out. -- the historic vote. >> i have to believe on some level that these evil think they are doing the right thing or that they care about children. i cannot believe that they do not care about children. i just think they are so misguided.

tomorrow, she will host a series of workshops designed to recruit and train people to register new voters. on the cpsi, they released -- the cps side, they released a statement. they included ipads for all --dents grades eight through k-8. i guess our work paid off. question she had five kids at garvey elementary on the far south side. she and other parents went to every meeting related to closing the school. today is a good day for them. >> we wanted our kids to stay

here. i'm so glad. that is great news. that is the best news i have heard all day. >> there is the same euphoria in old town where hearing officers opposed closing the schools, question the safety of the children who would have to walk through rival gang territory. >> the teachers are nice. the principle is nice. the children are nice. i love it. i'm sorry they are closing the school. >> but now a different story. this school of 300 students is moving down the street. the name will change. mildred willis has had generations of kids and grandkids go here. parents and educators fought to keep the school open citing transportation issues. >> a lot of kids can walk year. , goingo the other side through that neighborhood. >> many have resolved themselves

to the move. >> nothing we can do. they will make up their mind and do it. just realize there was not much of a fight you could put up? >> right. there is not much we can do. marino said closing lafayette would mean that there would be no public schools left in east humble arc. .- east humboldt park he feels there wasn't much he could have done. >> [indiscernible] >> political or not, the fight to keep this school and 48 open appears to be over. >> date white, teachers, parents and activate -- statewide, teachers, parents and activists are still fighting. >> if you are blind, let me

tell you. this is racist. they aren't closing schools anywhere than in black and brown neighborhoods. ring full,lied inge speakers demanding -- were they rallied in springfield, speakers demanding for social justice and education and threatened to put lawmakers out of work i voting them out next time around. >> 13 years as a chicago bear, brian earl acker retires. >> an era ends. up with the broke bears in contract talks, he got no offers from other teams. so he calls it quits after a stellar 13-year hall of fame career. he is an eight-time pro boller. .e was affected by injuries he admitted that the bears do

not want to sign him. mad at theime, i was way things happened. but i have had time to think about this. it's time for me to figure out [indiscernible] it's hard to believe that it went down the way it should have went down. what's one more year? 13, 14, it's no big difference. point, it has been my brothers and a couple others who have tried to talk me out of it and think i can still play. and maybe i can. but i do want to. i'm done. i do want to play anymore. we will have more coming up on brian in sports. dead now identified in the missing now accounted for, the arduous work of

cleanup is underway in moore, oklahoma after the disastrous tornado. it has been two days. the nightmare is far from over. a counselor rode out the storm with students in briarwood elementary school. the had my 10-year-olds in storage closet and my seven- year-old was with another teacher and their son in the bathroom. there was a father in their. he had clung to the toilet and told the boys to cling on to him. and he -- he is the one who kept our children alive. cut a 17-met tornado mild path -- that mammoth tornado cut a 17-mile path.

a violent terror attack in london and the accused attacker is seen talking on camera just moments later. >> and a case pitting and edinson grandmother against federal -- against donald trump. >> and hints at a tell-all book. >> turning to pilates to help recover from serious injuries. >> and the rain isn't done with us yet. alright, bring the model in on the set!

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the jury got the case at the end of the afternoon and a liberated for about 90 minutes before calling it a day. deliberated for about 90 minutes before calling it a day. in closing arguments, her lawyer had a lot more to say will stop accused -- to say, accusing flamboyant donald trump of lying on stage. >> i think on up in front of the jury and acted like a clown and the most unprofessional performances i have ever seen. when you do something like that is because your case is falling apart. >> professing his love for chicago after testifying last week, trump is accused of a real estate bait and switch.

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of the cloud here. funny-5 bearing down on monday. 5eise added up so that -- an f- bearing down on monday. 17 miles, tearing up everything in its path. >> stunning. >> the sound is stunning, scary. >> some people say it sounds like a freight train. the researcher says it's more like a waterfall. at this thing sounded like it was grinding with everything running around of sto. that thing spun up to full intensity within 10 minutes from when it hit the ground. this week will not be sorry to say goodbye to.

the storm that produced that is moving out of here. spotty showers today. look at these beautiful rainbows. this is from jim fister ski from indiana. a rainbow after a sudden shower. this is another beautiful shot of a rainbow. glowowering cumulus clouds orange, reddish, a beautiful shot here. this is looking into the clouds over chicago from wisconsin. and there is fog coming in from the lake tonight. here we see it moving inland as we start switching the wind around to the northeast. and lightning is a big feature of recent weather. in this spectacular shot of the lightning last night. these are all last night lightning shots over the city of chicago.

so we have had our own meteorological excitement. it is hard of that mammoth system that produced the tornado in oklahoma city and that area there. here you can see the skies. if you got under one of these showers, you had some big rain tallies no doubt in your area. missed them, they were nearby. we are about to end the longest warm street, nine consecutive days above normal coming to an end. we have not put that many normal days to get her since january. we were in the 70s today. tomorrow, nearly 20 degrees full- as we develop the length michigan wins the come up with maximum exposure to the cold water before they get here. the cool air replacing the orange warm air on our map. you also see the growing mass of warm our -- warm air out to the

west. next week is the last week of meteorological spring. a week from saturday, we begin june, meteorological summer. we will put up a string of 90- degree days that could commence as early as monday or tuesday and right into saturday at lease of the week after. that will feel pretty good after the cooler we have company -- we have coming. see the warmth appear to the north? this is a really peculiar pattern. this bubble of warm air means one jet stream goes over the top of that and divorces itself from this cool air mass. you have this of the jetstream down here. but with this warm air to the north, nothing pushes this along. so everything is moving very slowly will stop it is called a blocking pattern in meteorology. it means that the cooler will be here for a couple of days. we are eight degrees cooler than 24 hours ago.

temperatures are already jobbing as they will across our area. down by 16-18 degrees by kenosha. that is the cool air that will bring us down tomorrow. temperatures made drop from the readings to which we awaken and end up cool to begin with. west wind and then soon to turn north to northeast. grass and tree pollen in the moderate range. here is our storm. you can see the clouds appear in the north end. that is the rain that will settle in your free time later tonight and tomorrow. we have the scattered showers go through and the area is pretty quiet. as you go north, you have the cumulus down here and some pretty good showers in northwest indiana. then the statue to the north. it will settle south and it is forming right where the cooler comes in to this humid air mass and produces showers. there will be some big rain tallies in wisconsin tonight.

not so big here. we might get a 10th of an inch of rain as we transition to the cooler weather. you can see the southward settling rain that we will wake up to tomorrow morning. this is midnight, not much rain in the area. .ut the rain can self like that we will get a 4-6 our rainy -- period. rainy there might even be a patchy light frost. 60s and it to the will be there over the weekend when more showers come back in. the real warmth starts locking in next week. steadier rain comes in toward morning, turning blustery and cooler by then. a low temperature down to 51 degrees. warmer in the southern suburbs as the day begins. rain to midday and ending in the

afternoon and then the clouds break allowing some sun before nightfall. high tomorrow 54 degrees, falling to the upper-40s near 50 degrees near lake michigan. the wind may ease in the finland to allow a little patch of light frost. but we -- the wind may ease inland to allow a little patch of life all -- of light frost. mostly sunny and cool on friday and nearly 10 degrees below normal at 62 degrees. there it is again, our longest warm streak in four and a half months coming to an end. the next week, we get back in the 90s. >> really? .> a could be wednesday, thursday, friday is a pretty good at. if not, pretty darn close. i had to give you something to look forward to.

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>> if the weather gets warmer, so do the ticks arriving. every year, about this time, veterinarians are reporting more these tiny bugs that lead to line disease in humans -- to lyme disease in humans. >> a few of us really know very much about lyme disease, but it has real consequences. -- this month is designated lyme disease awareness month. the bright lime green shirts are meant to bring it tension to a disease few know much about. lyme disease is a tick-borne disease recognized in the mid- 70s.

it is not clear how many people have it, but awareness is building. this year, veterinarians have already started seeing the signs. >> more cases and earlier. >> annals carrying the ticks that can then latch onto humans. they can bite and leave them with a debilitating disease that can affect your nervous system, joints, muscles of stop .> laster, we -- muscles >> last year, we had four cases and a child with a wood tick. >> kymberly learned about it when she got it herself. she battled it for 11 years. doctors couldn't figure it out. >> then they could actually see the symptoms of my face hanging. i couldn't walk. i was down to 89 pounds. they knew there was something more to it. >> tests for lyme disease came back negative until about four years ago. >> the testing is very inaccurate. you can have a negative test and still have the disease.

the pathogen isn't always in the bloodstream. so when they are drawing the blood sample, the pathogen may not be resin at that moment because it likes to hide out -- may not be a resident at that moment it likes to hide out in your muscles, your tissues, your bones. -- erika is a battling the disease after years of being misdiagnosed. on the night we tried to talk with her via skype, she was hospitalized with her husband doing the top for her. >> she has been an out of -- doing the talk for her. >> she has been in and out of hospitals. [indiscernible] could never pinpoint it. >> she is going through treatment now. but most insurance companies do not cover the long-term care and the bills are adding up. that is the issue these downtown

demonstrators are trying to tackle. better cdc guidelines for a disease that seems to be growing by the day. >> we are trying to advocate for prevention, education, and legislation. we want to change all that and make sure that nobody else has to suffer like i have or other people that are suffering that i know of now. disease is considered one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the u.s.. here in illinois, the number of cases is growing every year. in 2010, there were 130 five official new cases. in 2011, it jumped up to 194. the numbers for 2012 are not in yet, but you can expect the trend to continue up. there are a number of websites to help in fundraising efforts for erica and to get more information on lyme disease. >> thank you. the kids come in pairs at one north suburban elementary school.

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>> the students here have surpassed a world record. the most twins in a single grade. there are $.23 -- there are 23 sets of twins. the advancement of fertility treatment contributed to the number here. >> it is not so hard for the teacher to figure out everybody. >> and only one set of identical's. >> what an interesting story that is. you know how the reins around the area -- we have a statistical basis for all this. wettesteen the second meteorological string on record around here. 142 years. spring in 32 years.

wonder we have had trouble with our rivers and so forth around the metro area. tonight, there are new showers spreading into the area. they are coming in from the north and others are popping in right over us. this is after a day that saw some areas get heavy rain. the green and yellow core doors on this map saw the biggest rain and some of the heavier totals. northfield had over an inch and a half. highland park nearly that amount. here are today totals from our weather part network. -- from our weather bug network. why the reinsu will shut down after tomorrow morning. we will wake up to rein in many parts of the area. the northerly flow brings chilly air into the region as a

big canadian high reaches all the way from northern hudson bay right down into where area and comes in here. it will bring a couple of cool days, including a bit apache light frost far west -- a bit of patchy light frost far west. atcould be in the upper 40s the lakeshore. on fridayl sunny day and increasing clouds and a few scattered showers, maybe a thunderstorm on sunday. not an all-day rain though. memorial day, 76 degrees and 80s on tuesday and wednesday next week. we might even get into the 90s i the middle to the and end of next week. some real summerlike weather as we and spring -- as we finished spring. >> what went into his decision to quit?