police have charged a man overnight in the death of a former boxer on the north side. one of the most remote locations on earth could hold a clue about missing malaysian airlines flight 3-70. and get ready for some delays on the blue line -- as work begins on a major overhaul. good morning. i'm erin mcelroy. dan joins me next hour. thanks for watching the wgn morning news at *4 a-m. demetrius ivory has a check of our weather. we made it through the first day of spring in use today is the keeper? >> today we are just feeling the love. i do want to say right now, ohio state lost. seven people in the studio have 40 said this to me. >> is that why you wore a pink

tie? you gave up on your colors? >> compassion. we should boycott the rest of the tournament. >> listen to you, you're not doing sports you are on the weather! >> partial sunshine today. high near 60. evening showers with precipitation are possible. today, we are speeding through the mid 30's. it's 36 degrees at the lakefront. 35 at midway. 30 in union. satellite's radar composite shows like sprinkles. not too much. we will move to sunshine. in nice day but the next system is coming. a cold front arrives tonight bringing us rain. it's probably the shortest warmup in the history of chicago. today we hit 60. the would drop all the way down to the twenties into the morning. enjoy today. >> does not a warm-up, that is a

tease. >> we have to keep them watching. boycott the sports everyone! >> we have that cta project already been caught in the blue line. it goes from 10:00 p.m. all the way through 4:00 a.m. monday morning. extra delays and a message through their wallets do the work. red line we have problems going from midnight right to the weekend until 2:00 a.m. monday. everything on the roads are looking good. another of a coming up. >>a 17-year-old boy was shot by chicago police officers. it happened at seven last night in an alley behind the 44- hundred block of south princeton avenue. the officers say they saw two men exchange something in the alley. when they approached them, one of the men ran into a vacant lot. police issued a statement saying the boy pointed a gun at officers, but didn't say whether he opened fire. the officers shot hit him in the leg.

he was arrested and taken to the hospital. police are investigating and searching for a weapon. chicago police are alerting people in the woodlawn and west woodlawn neighborhoods that a man tried to sexually assault two women. it happened in the morning on march 10-th. he approached a woman at a bus stop in the 15-hundred block of east 67-th street and offered to pay her for sex... she refused, and he left. 15 minutes later, he grabbed a woman at another bus stop at 67-th and king, pulled her into a building and exposed himself... but she pulled a knife and again he left. the man was driving an older model white cadillac. murder charges have been filed against a man for punching a father who was protecting his teenaged daughter. joseph firek is charged with murder and hate crimes. police say he got into a verbal fight with michael tingling after firek made some inappropriate gestures to his 15-year-old daughter. it happened wednesday afternoon as tingling and his daughter

were walking from her school in rogers park. tingling is a former boxer who had a pacemaker. police say firek shoved and punched tingling while making racial slurs. tingling walked away but collapsed a short time later and died. his death was ruled a homicide. >> i don't know what he was thinking. you take this man away from his daughter ... i have a daughter. every man this walkdal walks her to school. >>firek is due in bond court later today. this is home video of a fire in cicero. the fire broke out in the 35- hundred block of south 56th court. you can see the heavy flames. we originally heard that people were trapped, but that has not been confirmed. nobody was injured. we'll bring you more information as it becomes available. planes are in the air, and ships are on the way, to continue the search of the southern indian ocean for debris that may be part of a missing malaysian passenger jet. melisa raney is following the

search. >> australian officials say the first search plane arrived friday to the area of the indian ocean or officials are continuing their search for objects that could be related to the missing flight. >> we've been trying everything we've got at that area to try to learn more about what this debris might be. >> given the distance from where the object was spotted, the aircraft only had a few hours to look before returning. >> the most inaccessible spot you can imagine. >> of forties caution a could be something other than the plane wreckage. >> it could be a container that has fallen off the shipyard would just don't know. but we owe it to the families and friends and loved ones of the almost 240 people on that flight to do everything we can to try to resolve what is as yet an

extraordinary it rule. >> for which continues. >> i can sleep each night because all i think about is my son. up until now, what else can we do? this is about his life. there's nothing we can do to help. we can only wait for further updates. >>russia's parliament is expected to ratify president's putin treaty to take over crimea. the upper house of parliament is expected to approve that treaty just as the lower house did yesterday. that comes as the u-s and russia lay down sanctions on each other. the u-s is blacklisting 29 russian and crimean leaders, along with their main bank. russia returned the favor by banning nine federal lawmakers, including house speaker john boehner and senators durbin and mccain. a major overhaul of the o'hare branch of the c-t-a blue line starts tonight. and that means some tracks will be closed all weekend. erik runge is live at the blue line stop on california with more.

erik? >> it's the first of several closures over the next several weekends as the cta concert starts to improve the blue line. will start here at 10:00 tonight here at the california stop. that's between western and logan square. it will remain closed until monday at 4:00 a.m.. crews will start working on the track to make a smoother and faster ride for people. all part of the your new blue $492 million improvement project. the upgrade will be made over 10 weeks finishing in august. this is part of a larger cta $4 billion project that should eliminate blue line slow zones and also improve the stations along the way. and it will cut the time from o'hare to downtown by 10 minutes for those that use the blue line on the weekend. shuttle buses will give you around the closure. there are

also street closures happen overnight search crews can actually get up underneath the tracks and start working. there will be overnight. but intermittently through the weekend they will have closures. be mindful that if you're going to be around the logan square stop in logan square the california stop. >> taking a look at the *other top stories this morning. police have released this sketch of a man that may be responsible for three attacks in south suburban park forest in the last two days. on tuesday a teenage girl was robbed at knife point, then sexually assaulted. two other women were attacked yesterday morning within an hour of each other. an autopsy confirms that a two- year-old girl from lansing died as the result of child abuse. jahariah patterson was found dead wednesday afternoon at her home on wildwood avenue. the medical examiner's office says her body bore the marks of blunt force injuries. in other words, she was beaten to death. investigators have begun

interviewing members of her family. prosecutors say they have video evidence against a man accused of killing his girlfriend's daughter. james harris is charged with the murder of amierah roberson. her funeral is today. an autopsy found she died from blunt force trauma to the head and her body was lit on fire. prosecutors say video shows harris carrying a bag into a wooded area, where the girls remains were found. the house ethics committee confirms, it has opened an investigation into the conduct of congressman luis gutierrez. the congressman's former chief of staff, doug scofield, got a half million dollars in contracts to train the congressman's staff, and help draft new releases. if scofield did any *political work, it would violate congressional ethics rules. the contract was cancelled last year. bed bugs have been detected at the thompson center. they were discovered in offices used by the illinois department of financial and professional regulation over the weekend. a spokeswoman for the agency said the contaminated area has

been treated, and they are sterilizing paper files. the infected area is located in a part of the building that is restricted to state employees. the bugs were traced to a worker who brought them from home. the landmark blue and yellow water tower in andersonville is now gone - after workers spent most of the day yesterday removing it from the top of the swedish american museum on the far north side. the water tower was damaged during the winter when a heating element went out and the water inside froze. an inspector said the damaged tower was a safety hazard and it had to be removed immediately. crews will inspect it and see if it can be repaired and returned to the place where it sat since 1927. a mother in bolingbrook has landed in the guinness book of world records. amelia boomker has been named the world record-holder for the most breast milk donated. while that a lot. she broke the

record by donating more than 16 thousand fluid ounces of milk from 2008 through 2013. boomker says the record would be higher if the amount she donated for her oldest son back in 2005 was tallied... but couldn't get the medical records showing those donations. >> of >> in your notes demetrius? >> let's go directly to the forecast. 39 degrees is the temperature in pontiac. 37 right now in chicago. we won't reach any records today. our record was set back in 2012. satellite radar composite shows white sprinkles many south of chicago. cloud cover continues to linger. later today as we get into sunshine, those temperatures will jumped up in a big way. up to 60 degrees by the afternoon.

but tonight a cold front comes through bringing us the chance for rain. we expect to drop down to 40 on saturday. sunday only seven. >> you will believe what hawaii is letting its officers do legally with prostitutes. and a man arrested for shocking behavior and walmart. we will hear from his victims. and how to nature managed to climb all the way to the top of the world trade center. details coming up.

nine people were killed when a hotel in afghanistan was attacked. afghan police say four teenagers stormed the serena hotel in kabul and started shooting. nine civilians, including children, were killed. six people were wounded. afghan security forces killed the four attackers. they say the gunmen were all under 18. the founding pastor of the controversial westboro baptist church church has died. fred phelps was 84. his church, in topeka, kansas, is known for holding anti-gay protests at military funerals and other events. the first such protest, in 19- 98, took place at the funeral of matthew shepard, a man from wyoming who was tortured and killed because of his homosexuality. phelps' son said his father was kicked out of the church last year. a man in north carolina is arrested for allegedly sucking

the toes of a complete stranger in a wal-mart. >> what you have to say? >> kino i want to hear his answer that thepolice say on monday michael brown entered a wal-mart in lincolnton and approached a woman who was trying on shoes. she thought he worked there and then he told her he was a podiatry student. as brown was helping her, he took a picture of her foot and then lifted it and sucked her toes. >> he grabbed my foot and put it in his mouth. i said what's wrong with you? he said i am sorry. forgive me. please don't tell anybody. the woman did go tell her husband and they called police. brown is charged with misdemeanor assault. this isn't brown's first toe- sucking arrest. in 2001, he was convicted for breaking into a house and sucking a woman's toes. brown is also registered sex offender. a teenager from new jersey is

charged with trespassing after climbing to the top of the world trade center. 16-year-old justin cassquejo squeezed through a security fence then walked past a sleeping security around 4 a-m sunday night. once he got on top of the spire, he took pictures and posted them online. cassquejo was spotted by a construction worker while leaving the site and was arrested. he's being treated as an adult, and faces up to a year in jail if convicted. police officers in honolulu won't publicly admit that they have sex with prostitutes. but there's a state law that says they're *allowed to. and today, they'll urge state senators to *preserve that law. they argue that having sex with a hooker may convince her to share important information in a criminal investigation. and the police say there are departmental policies that prevent officers from *exploiting prostitutes. critics say the policy invites abuse. this is the second time i have to toss over to you like this. >> a serial toad soccer and a kid who climbs up the top of a building and then cops and

prostitutes and now it's time for weather. >> does this guy know how to party? wind of the southeast at 9 mi.. 20 degrees in waukegan. 34 in aurora. 35 in joliet. temperatures will be warmer than normal for the afternoon as we expect them to climb. light sprinkles overnight. not too much. the next whether maker here, the next cold front will be a fast mover getting through here in the evening. war front comes through temperatures drop up to the '60s. sixties in the afternoon but as the cold front arrives, a quick temperature drop of oil down in some areas to the twenties. will drop about 30 degrees to the course of the evening and into the overnight. today's high temperature will be 60. i'm putting that six there. it will be cooler along the lake. scattered showers and decreasing clouds tonight and

then we take a bad turn. 40 will be your temperature on saturday. sunday we don't even make freezing. a morning low of 19. and another chance for snow. spring's snow comes next week in your forecast. >> a quick update on construction. eastbound jane addams this is from barrington always to 53. two lanes are blocked until 5:00. it will be another 45 minutes before that picked up. heading eastbound at farnsworth they have a resurfacing project going on. one lane is closed until 5:00. coming up, starbucks is selling alcohol. and also, thomas killing shares his latest spot on what spring has in store for chicago. and in sports, one big 10 team goes down to the wire to of morning. the black hawks.

getting closer to the teams above them but they will have to go three weeks without patrick kane. injured wednesday night a sprained and cl is what we are hearing. at least three weeks which could mean the rest of the regular season. a fluke injury coming together he just is

skidding past but then he gets hit. the only downside in that win over the blues is that it was a pretty large downside. the hawks have the talent to overcome that this happens at a crucial time. >> a freak play. it can happen. unfortunate most of the year we been safe but we will see. he is a special player. we will have to work our way through it knowing what he brings our team. it's a huge loss for a spirit but we have been fortunate so far he will get tested at some point. >> landing in atlanta after a deal with the falcons, zero wooden is now a viking and the cubs trade wayne gretzky's son to the angels. it's an exchange of minor leaguers. another attendance record. 15,000 watched as the cubs played.

nate diving south and it's a play. helping out five and a third two runs allowed. mitterrand, jr. lake showing off in left field until junior snags it. took a home run away the cubs lose 3-0. the bulls and blackhawks are an action later tonight. that's morning sports. >>your n-c-double a bracket could already be busted after a few upsets. 12th-seed harvard upset 5th-seed cincinnati ... 61 to 57. another 12-th seed north dakota state upset 5th-seed oklahoma ... 80 to 75. and, sixth-seed ohio state was the only big ten team to *lose yesterday. can you feel demetrius is in tears? the only big team to lose yesterday. the buckeyes lost to 11th seed dayton 60 to 59. >> they were underrated apparently. demetrius below this

morning. u-s stocks rebounded thursday. investors jumped back in after digesting news the central bank could begin hiking interest rates just six months after its bond buying program ends. the dow gained 109 points. the nasdaq and s-and-p also finished up for the day. starbucks is going to start serving a alcohol at some locations. they will sell bottled wine and beer at some stores in a program called starbucks evening. the menu also awards small plates and desserts. it's an early happy hour deal so the call will only be sold after 4:00 p.m.. city can't ask for a venti wine? >> may be a venti shot of vodka. but all boycott the tournament. it was a bad matchup. >>

let it go. >> to win each 60. but a 30 percent chance of showers. this'll be the shortest warm-up ever. was start to cool down almost we are down to 47 by 9:00 p.m.. down to the 30's into the morning. temperatures don't rebound until late next week. he enjoyed that while at last. >> a few accidents to tell you about. 1 at belmont and st. louis. that intersection is blocked. eastbound on the jane addams between elmhurst and lee, if you wind are blocked for resurfacing. that will be in place for another 30 minutes. the last few days have been taking these projects out early. we will see what happens. we will have another update in a few minutes. >> coming up, why you should pack your patience on the l this began. details coming up. and the latest developments on

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on earth could hold a clue to the missing airline. police have charged a man overnight in the death of a former boxer and the north side. and get ready for delays on the blue line. work, a major overhaul, it's all coming out. good morning, i'm erin mcelroy. we made it to friday. dan joins me at the top of the hour. let's go to demetrius ivory for a check of the weather. >> he may not come out if i call him jammed again. >> where those words on the screen or did you just at that? >> your temperatures are coming up. it's 23 in island lake. al conklin is 25. wheeling at 28. warmer here since phillips look through school is 35. queen of angels school is 35. here is a

tip. send the kids off with a light jacket to the reach 60. but we cool down into the evening. 34 at o'hare. 34 in joliet. satellite radar composite shows a warm front through the region would have liked sprinkles but nothing to write home about. we will get into some sunshine. in this afternoon up to 60 degrees by 5:00 p.m.. 9:00 p.m. we're down to 47. 30 by 7:00 a.m.. the bottom really dropped out. i will guess what your favorite day is it's probably today. 60 degrees today. sunday we make 30. monday and tuesday a chance for snow. >> will want to talk about the blue line over the weekend. several services between western and logan square will start at 10:00 p.m.. this goes until monday morning at 4:00 a.m.. the redline shuttle service is

starting at midnight going until 2. in new crash fender bender still in place. it hasn't cleared yet here we will let you know once it does. planes and ships are continuing the grim search for debris in the indian ocean -- debris that may belong to a missing malaysian passenger jet. satellite images suggest, there's something about 80 feet long, floating in the water, 15 hundred miles west of australia. but because of the sheer distance from land, planes may search for only a few hours at a time before they must return to refuel. australian officials are preparing people for what may be a disappointing outcome. >> it could just be a container that has fallen off a ship. we just don't know. but we owe it to the families and friends and loved ones of the almost 240 people on that flight to do everything we can to try to resolve what is as yet an extraordinary brittle. >>searchers are encouraged that today's *weather is better than

yesterday's. but so far, they haven't found the debris. russia's parliament is expected to ratify president's putin treaty to take over crimea. the upper house of parliament is expected to approve that treaty just as the lower house did yesterday. that comes as the u-s and russia lay down sanctions on each other. the u-s is blacklisting 29 russian and crimean leaders, along with their main bank. >> it's not the preferred outcome. the sanctions would not only have a significant in pact on the russian economy but can be disruptive to the global economy. however, russia must know that further escalation will only isolate it further from the international community. >>russia is returning the favor with its share of sanctions. it's now banning nine federal lawmakers, including house speaker john boehner and senators dick durbin and john mccain. first lady michelle obama kicked off her week-long trip to china today with a visit to beijing's forbidden city and a stop at a school. mrs. obama is joined by her

daughters, sasha and malia, and her mother. china's first lady also accompanied the obamas today. michelle obama plans to meet with more students to discuss education. she says her visit is not political and she will not give any media interviews while she is in china. some c-t-a train stations will be shut down tonight as an overhaul of the blue line gets underway. erik runge is live on the northwest side with more. >> it's the first of several shut downs along the blue line that we will see over the next several weeks. crews will shut down the california stops here at 10:00 tonight and that is between western and logan square. it will remain closed until monday at 4:00 a.m.. crews will start working on the tracks to make a smoother and faster ride for passengers. this is all part of the your new blue, $492 million improvement project. the upgrades will be made over 10 weekends fishing in august and this is part of a larger project which is going to cost about $4

billion. that should eliminate blueline slow zones and cut the time from o'hare to downtown by 10 minutes. for those who use the blue line on the weekend, shuttle buses will get you around. cta crews will be shutting down from the roadways are around the california stop so they can get up under the track to make the improvements that are needed. most of the road closures will be overnight. they do say they will be intermittently shutting down some lanes of the king get crews in and out. but the california stop will be cut down at 10:00 tonight until 4:00 a.m. on monday. live from logan square. back to you. >>murder charges have been filed against a man for punching a father who was protecting his teenaged daughter. police say joseph firek made some inappropriate gestures to a 15-year-old girl near her rogers park school. the girl's father, michael tingling, tried to protect his daughter.

firek then allegedly shoved and punched tingling in the chest. tingling walked away but collapsed a short time later and died. his family says he wore a pacemaker and had heart problems. his death was ruled a homicide. chicago police are alerting people in the woodlawn and west woodlawn neighborhoods that a man tried to sexually assault two women. it happened in the morning on march 10-th. he approached a woman at a bus stop in the 15-hundred block of east 67-th street and offered to pay her for sex... she refused, and he left. 15 minutes later, a man grabbed a woman at another bus stop at 67-th and king, pulled her into a building and exposed himself... but she pulled a knife... and again he left. police are not saying it is the same man, but the descriptions are similar. in both instances, the man was driving a white car, possibly a cadillac. chicago police are trying to figure out who's responsible for vandalizing more than a dozen parking meters on the north side. authorities say someone used club or some other kind of hard

object to hit and shatter the meters... causing them to not work properly... or simply shut down. the damage occurred in seven neighborhoods over the past week. drew peterson may lose his police pension, over the murder of his wife kathleen savio. the bolingbrook pension board voted yesterday to hold a hearing this summer, to consider revoking peterson's 79-thousand dollar a year pension. it'll need to prove that his duties as a police officer had something to do with savio's death. a few days into the governor's race, ill. already flooded with campaign ads. >> do you want someone representing you in springfield? >> they put out an ad for spanish-speaking voters, the governor point out about how rich his opponent is. the democratic strategy is

plenty to class warfare. pointing toward "class warfare" in order to make rauner appear out of touch with average families. but the rauner side is focusing on the problems within state government. >> i am a strong democrat but i'm taking a leave of absence from my party because illinois is in desperate shape. >> one of the best ways to help the economy is to pay our hard- working workers a decent wage by raising the minimum wage to a least $10 per hour. >>house speaker michael madigan now wants to hit the rich with a new tax hike. he's proposing to tax incomes, over a million dollars, by three percent. the rauner campaign calls that the first step toward tax hikes on the middle class and small businesses. catholic schools in chicago say they're being discriminated against by the c-p-s. last month c-p-s announced it was changing the test that would be required for students to get into a selective high school. students at catholic schools will also have to take the new test. the superintendent of the city's catholic schools wrote a letter to c-p-s and mayor emanuel. the letter said catholic

students are at a disadvantage because of the short notice, the unfamiliar test, and having to take the test at a c-p-s site on a saturday. the school district says its looking at options to level the playing field. protesters greeted henry kissinger as he visited the chicago to help the holocaust museum honors survivors. he was the keynote speaker last night at the help museum awards dinner. the museum honored three men who demonstrated a fight against hatred and injustice including john kennedy jr. from madison. tom reckitt from the cubs and the founding executive director of the museum. the cherry blossom have started to sprout in washington. back in 1912 predestine were planted and every year the celebration honors that. also the friendship

between u.s. and japan. finally we have a nice story ... something to go into the weather with. >> i agree. but didn't put a reporter out there to say there were booming and we are seeing them. that would be funny. right now we have my mild temperatures. what from comes through early this morning it will really jump the mercury up to about 60. then a cold front, in one to punch to the left will be the cold front that arrives this evening it will cut the temperatures in half. we will drop down into the 20s. right now it's 36 degrees at the lakefront. 34 in bartlett. 34 in aurora and juliet. light sprinkles across the region. nothing to write about. that's a warm front lifting through the region. we will get into sunshine as this air makes its way into our neighborhood. here is the cold front. it doesn't get here until this evening. the

cold front will bring another chance of rain and really make those temperatures tumble into the evening. enjoy today. 60 is your high temperature. recess will be outside. but that night we go back down to 30. increasing scattered showers. a good chance of that into the overnight. tamara's high is 40. wear your winter coats as we reach 30 degrees on sunday. >> no more recess. still ahead ... the surprising singer who left judges speechless on "the voice" in italy. we'll show you the video that's blowing up the web. plus -- *kurt cobain is trending this morning. we'll tell you what police released 20-years after this death. and -- what can we expect weather-wise now that spring has sprung... we'll hear from tom skilling.

police in seattle have released two new photos from the scene where kurt cobain died, almost 20 years ago. the frontman for "nirvana" shot himself to death while high on drugs. there was speculation that police had reopened their investigation into his death. but it turned out, it was just an officer who wanted to refresh his memory of cobain's suicide, in anticipation of media interest over next month's anniversary. an arrest warrant has been issued for anita baker after she didn't to show up at a court hearing in detroit. she's being sued by a

contractor for 15 thousand dollars worth of work done her home. baker was surprised about the warrant, she tweeted yesterday -- "devil is busy." one man's trash is now another man's treasure.. after a scrap dealer discovers this egg he bought at a flea market is really a rare faberge egg worth an estimated 33-million dollars.the unidentified dealer says he bought the egg for 14- thousand dollars several years ago - thinking he could melt it down and make a profit. but he did a little research and discovered it was originally an easter gift from russian tsar alexander the third to his wife in 1887. a collector bought it for an undisclosed amount and will put it on display for the first time in 112 years. the judges were shocked at the talent this nun showed off on italy's version of "the voice." all four judges turned their

chairs and dropped their jaws when they saw that a 25 year old nun was singing "alicia keys" like that. her fellow sisters were seen off-stage jumping with excitement. the nun says she hopes the pope will call her now. who says nuns can't sing? there's a lot of down time in a convent. you have to do something. >> how would you know? >>tom skilling breaks down our "off the charts" winter... and share the latest thoughts on what *spring may bring us. >> the meteorologist in charge of the chicago office of the national weather service says december through february was the third coldest since 1871 and our officials note total of 79.1 in. at o'hare is double the average. >> we've had the equivalent of two normal winter snowfall seasons in chicago in just one winter. >> the midway airports notes total has topped 85 in. and it's

too early to say there may not be more snow. >> one of the most exciting developments is a computer model that mary's the ocean to the atmosphere. oceans have a lot to say about the seasonal weather we have. like this winter if the jet stream is north and western north america because of warm ocean temperatures has kept the flow pouring in from canada with cold air. the new combined ocean atmosphere model looks to april and says that pattern will continue. look how much of the country will be colder than normal. while the april forecast looks at the front end of the upcoming season, if we look three months ahead you can see the blue below normal area strengths. this indicates seasonal warming may decrease the number of below normal days as bring proceeds. >> one reason we're thinking that spring may stay cool is because of the near record ice coverage on the great lakes. my colleagues at the national weather service say what that could mean in the weeks ahead. >> here we have a delayed spring

every year given the presence of the bodies of water and the colder water that exists as the move into the leaders bring. >> many ask some since the winter is cold will the summer be cold, not necessarily. the same model shows near or above normal temperatures over a good part of the northwest. coolest weather in the upper midwest. >> there will be surprises. maybe this winter is an example where we thought we were going to have milder winter as it continued on but maybe we will have more wildly different winters. >> lay it on me. >> i thought he was still talking! this is something we will be watching in the months ahead. like i know what i'm talking about. >> this is it. but the record books this is not on the coldest winter but it is the worst one that we've had. them i knew that. >> it's not the most snowiest,

it's not the coldest, but we live through it. >> it feels like the worst. >> we have more snow coming next week. >> your popularity just really dropped. >> i need witness protection. whether boy? who was that? >> that must be you. >> i think i am the weather is bad ... >> today we are talking about spring. it is spring. let's get into the mood. high temperature today of 60 degrees. but then we have a cool down. 60 degrees around 5:00 p.m.. 9:00 p.m. we're back down. 7:00 a.m. we drop down to 30. this is what we mean by potentially more snow. there will be more on the flip side of the weekend. saturday's high is 40. monday and tuesday more snow comes. 80 in. already. that brings us third on the all- time list. we could come close to the second by the end of

tuesday. wednesday will make 39 degrees. >> i would like to see some grass on monday before it gets covered again. 80-94 grant we have a new accident left lane is blocked and the earlier crash at st. louis, was said we would keep an eye on that. it looks like just cleared. good to belmont and st. louis. the numbers of looking good as you head out. we will let you know as your commute it's closer to that 5:00 hour. also, dean reviews his movies including the new muppets movie.

music that's a little preview of "mo-town the musical." the mo-town sound and brand was launched by one of the most legendary figures in american popular music, berry gordy. he started "mo-town records" in detroit in 19-59 -- with groups like smokey robinson and the miracles... the temptations and the supremes. dean spoke to gordy about the new show.

we always say the truth is a hit if you make it entertaining. otherwise it's just a documentary. we wanted to really get the story out. >> "motown the musical" begins its run next month at the oriental theater. the muppets are back in "muppets most wanted." a notorious criminal who looks just like kermit the frog... is trying to steal the royal jewels. meanwhile, his evil sidekick, played by ricky gervais, tries to pin the heist on the muppets. dean says it's hilarious, and it left him smiling. "a" he gives it a dean's list "a". "divergent" is chicago in the future -- split-up into five factions based on your personality. the main character discovers a plot to kill all those who don't fit in, and she springs into action. dean says the landmarks are fun to see, but the movie is tedious and sometimes confusing. dean gives it a "c-minus". there you go. it's not easy

being green. >> actually have the words to them but song right here. let's take a look at the day. the weather is perfect. today you can get outside and have some fun. saturday evening go see the new muppet movie. 60 will be the high. it will be cooler on saturday. saturday we need 40. sunday a high of 30. monday wouldn't you know, we barely make freezing. next tuesday we have the chance for more snow. 80 in. so far this season. the record is 89 but we are just over second place we will come close to that. >> we will have a quick update on traffic. 80-94 earlier crash is gone. outbound dan ryan in new fender bender at 59 and another along the eastbound side of the jane addams. details on that coming up along with the latest developments in the

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