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emotions run high for the families of victims of malaysian airlines flight 370 as investigators say the plane crashed in the indian ocean. all lives were lost. >> the announcement comes on the same day to the objects were spotted in a remote section of the southern indian ocean. the items have not been retrieved but they are believed to be debris from the missing planes. a navy ship is now in that region hoping to retrieve those items. new data concluded the plane went down. >> this is the remote location far from any possible landing sites. is there for with deep
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sadness and regret that i must inform mia that according to this new data flight 370 ended in the southern indian ocean. >> a spokesperson for malaysian airline says families were informed via text message. the investigation will continue to find the flight recorders. the missing on march 8th with 227 passengers. >> the crash of a train. ended up west near the top of an escalator. more than 30 people were injured. >> that could take
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up to 24 hours. the damage will have to be assessed and repairs will have to be made before trains use that station. for more on how they are doing we go live. the injured passengers started arriving an hour after the derailment. the emergency room staff says the patient should consider themselves very lucky. they treated a total of seven victims and were able to send them home within a few hours. the patients ranged in age from 38-72. that got thrown around a bit. the types of injuries doctors and nurses treated some of the victims also suffered whiplash. no broken bones. what doctors and nurses saw was
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similar to what they typically see in a car accident victims. some of the victims were scared and nervous. the emotional stress of what they have been through is starting to take a toll. >> we reassured them we've evaluated them. the clinical people put their minds at ease. >> paramedics took 12 of their victims to resurrection medical center. only two patients remain there. they're being monitored for a little while longer. they're going to be holding in his conference any moment now. to let us know what they know about it. we
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will bring it to you as soon as it begins. a retired chicago police sergeant shot during a home invasion as the. was 73 and served as a policeman for 38 years. was legally blind and suffered from diabetes. he died early today had advocate christ medical center. the family is urging anyone with information to call police. a wonderful father and husband. >> funeral service will be held later this hour for a chicago police officer killed by a hit-and-run driver. but on its way home from work march 14th when his car was hit by a van being chased by police. harris was with the force. >> woman who is charged with harrisons murder. 1
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>> chicago police are questioning someone in connection with a hit-and-run accident. reportedly tried to stop a suspect from driving drunk by reaching his arm inside the car. the suspect drove off in a black vehicle tracking him down the street. use later pronounced dead at a local hospital. >> the cta holding that news conference about the accident. let's listen. we also have a media specialist. >> will be out here later this afternoon. and fan need any more information or want to know when additional conferences will be hot
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>> >> we're at the preliminary stages of this investigation. we're in the process of getting video of the train coming and. also this train had a front end out work facing video. we are securing that video also. we will take possession of it. we will send it to washington d.c. for examination. the operator of the strain which was run 141 is currently at the hospital being examined. we've not interview her as of yet. what she is released we will make arrangements to interview her and find out what happened from our point of view. i'll
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take a few questions but i am limited in scope of market talk of applause point. i opened up the floor. i cannot tell you how long she has been on the job. our operations specialist will gather that information for work yesterday her training. we do not have that at this time. those toes she came on duty last night at a 40 p.m.. does the video tell you how fast the train was going? >> the and not examined the video yet so i cannot speak on anything about the figure.
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there are even recorders. we will down all that information i may signal specialist so i will examine that. have not looked at yet. and is too early to make any statements about the speed of the train. >> do you believe speed could have been a factor? >> we're going to collect factual data. at this point we do not have the factual information to report or give you a factual answer. i've
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investigated many accidents and many trains do different things. it is all about kinetic forces. i've not seen an accident like this personally. that does not mean it has not happened before. to my knowledge to have a system and they also have signaled commands. before i examined thoroughly it is too early to speak if there were working or not at this point. potential factors, the signal system wasn't operating properly? were the operators actions appropriate ? mechanical did the brakes work? those
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are the types of things we're going to look at. people tried to get a history and see if she is a medical issues. right now we really do not have any answers we can give your this point. >> national transportation safety board team that as of here consists of an investigator charged. our on scene collection takes about anywhere from 4-9 days and general. we will stay here as long as we're needed to stay. we're going to collect records, we're going to collect the reports that they've done.
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tax time to examine these. i'm going to look cuss signals. the train has not been pulled apart. the train is not going anywhere for the foreseeable future. it is not going anywhere today. our mechanic person will be here this afternoon. >> we're just securing it because before we allow people to examine the train they want to make sure they did not get injured in the process of doing their work. we
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want to document everything before we remove anything. we have to make it safe so no one gets hurt after the fact. the main event recorder on the train. there's a video recorder on the train. as far as data from the trend i'm not aware of it. use multiple inputs. if you have a video you can extrapolate speed based on the known points. you know the distances of those sort kits. you extrapolate this be based on the distances from when they get to play to point b to point c.
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you come up with a real close number for speed. >> i'm only going to take a few more questions. cash i do not know how big you have to build something to stop a train from running through it. >> whatever the speed is allowed up to this area is the speed they're allowed to go. i do not have that number at this point. >> the man many
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signal systems out there that can stop a train at any target or point you wanted to stop. it is about money. if there's train control that is being deployed throughout the nation. i do not want to get into that debate. the our systems that do stop trains. usually it is about money. the transit agencies do the best they can with what they have. >> they did not have a positive train control system. i'm going to let the president of the cta speak to you about in the service issues. do not ask him about the investigation. >> we're grateful to have the national safety board here. we run half a million train trips a year. when something like this
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happens we want to work close with our engineers to get to the very bottom of this as fast as we can. as far as service calls we're running shuttle buses. roughly every 5-6 minutes. you can see people arriving at the airport being directed to catch a shuttle buses. the rest of the blue line service is running roughly on schedule today throughout the rest of the system beyond all here. the continued to keep you up-to-date. that is the alternative service that we have in place for our customers. >> >> i wish i knew for sure. at some point
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they will release the train and we will be able to make that judgment. we have to do our documentation first. police 24 hours of a think. i'll know more once we examine it and have the proper people here looking at it. there will be additional press conferences. the investigator in charge will be holding those from this point forward. you coordinate that through terry williams. we will be able to give you a better answer probably by tomorrow morning. >> the shuttle buses will be the bridge. otherwise the blue line should operate normal from forest park all the way to rosemont.
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>> i cannot comment on anything related to the investigation. >> i do not want to say something that might not be accurate. as part of the investigation. >> obviously very early in this investigation. not willing to speculate at this point. talking about to keep things. one is looking at video which is attached to the front of that train. the other is interviewing the operator. it has been about 10 hours since it happened just before 3:00 a.m.. we still did
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not know the cause. it might be another 24 hours. once the initial investigation is complete they will have to get the train out of the terminal. >> the train will remain in place today. the investigation might take weeks. in the meantime they're using shuttle buses from rosemont to get people to o'hare. otherwise the blue line is on schedule. 32 people on that train taken to local hospitals. most of them if not all of them have been released from local hospitals. no serious injuries. the number of people missing is rising as the search continues in washington state for victims of it that the landslide. the major oil spill near houston close to six shipping near houston close to six shipping
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officials say 108 people are missing in the aftermath of a deadly landslide. about 55 mi. northeast of seattle. so far
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eight people have been found dead eight more injured and at least six homes were washed away. has piled up to 15 ft. in some places. the search for survivors is continuing today. >> it is going to involve aircraft is going to involve search and rescue people. >> we have our technical rescue teams that have electronic equipment that they can use to groprobe the ground >> the search was suspended last night after some workers had to be dragged it to safety. russia's >> is showing no signs of backing away from a takeover of crimea despite sanctions from the west. >> ordering troops out of crimea after they moved to seize military bases. impose sanctions that were supposed to deter russia from doing that. president obama meeting with leaders in amsterdam today saying the
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sanctions are still the best way to go >> to europe and america are united in support of the ukrainian government. united in imposing a cost on russia for action so far. >> as the trial enters its fourth week messages showed that his girlfriend feared him and his temper and thand the weeks before her death. >> i am scared of you sometimes and how you snapped at me. several accused him of jealousy and possessiveness. according to the police commander 90% of the messages were normal and loving. the trial continued between may 16th and a recess in mid april. >> 6 shipping
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channels used to deliver crude oil remained closed near houston. crews are working to clean up a spill of about 4,000 bar. of oil that leaked. the coast guard said the shipping lanes could be closed until saturday or beyond. last night more than 70 ships were waiting to enter or leave through the channels. the closure has not affected the nation's second largest refinery. it is 25 years ago to their the tanker slammed into a reef. more than 11 million gal. spilled killing thousands of fish and wildlife. it is the second-largest in u.s. history. the major company that apple might team up with to reinvent
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television. experts say now was the best time to sell your car >> a spicy brunch recipe.
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the mother of a man killed by the nephew is filing suit over her son's death. >> >> possible link to the daley family. what about the 162 page report. the time and the police bungled the case. ever since the 2004 fight occurred the
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mother has constantly sought information about this case especially what happened when police officials realized crucial information. >> he was the mayor's nephew. police responded immediately with a wholesale cover up. what happened here, what happened in the days and months and years following that the initial moment is not only to a legitimate investigation but was unorganized process of covering up and concealing the truth. >> it seems to me that they did everything in their power to make the case go away.
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>> the man who killed david pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and is serving 60 days in jail after admitting he threw the first punch. released a 162 page report that the not find enough evidence to convict police officers. >> not interested in filing suit and only wanted to learn the truth about her son's death. >> a cover up that started with the daily family and went through high government officials. also implicates former state's attorney. you put the guilt on
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yourself. it is hard for me to go to bed at night. now at least have really good people on my side fighting for that. if i get the answers it will make me more at peace. >> attorneys saying they plan to call key members of the mayor's family as well as city officials who testified under oath about what happens at night.happened that night >> u.s. stocks slumped. midday trading tracked down >> apple could be partnering with comcast. well street journal says the two companies are holding talks that could result in comcast delivering an apple branded television service. neither company
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would comment. the national automobile dealers association says used-car prices are about to see their first decline in five years. the annual depreciation rate will also jumped from 11% in 2009 to 16% this year. now if you decide to sell your car experts say you get the best bang for your buck by selling it yourself and not trading in. >> only have 10 games left to close a six. app. scoreless in the first. >> he beats crawford with a wrist shot. the black caucus out shot. still get shut out. wichita state
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and kentucky. he scored a game-high 31. the wildcats pull within 1. he gives kentucky a two-point lead. wichita state gets another chance at the buzzer. they suffer their first loss of the year. all other top seeds advanced. >> clemson lead by two points with two minutes left. he hit a three-pointer to give illinois the first lead of the game. they're back down one point. a long three-pointer. it is an air ball. illinois it loses.loses. >> tom skilling has
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that is certainly the case on the south side. >>jenna haze shares this shot. >>a beautiful spring day sunday,. >>what a beautiful
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shot that was. some of which we will be seeing. comes to us from eric kelly. turbulent looking clouds. will not be long until we are seeing these again. cannot figure out what season it is. this is supposed to be spring. t we have a shot of warmer air on thursday. beautiful day, these clouds announce an approaching weather system. a brief period of snow coming tonight. 32
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at ohare. all big reductions from s aturday's tem peratures. we are not going to warm up anytime soon. warmer temps out on the west coast. that one to arrive on thursday. >>could be if everything works just right, a nice warm opening day for the white sox. 29 at midway. it is nippy out there. water
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temperatures are creeping up. these are some of the warmer temperatures. time of the year where low 50s are normal. it is colder at lake geneva. we come to you at noon. here is the snow system. that is the storm that will ride across the states. first thignngs first, a weather system out to the west. here comes this area of snow. it will move
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through and give rise to a cloudy day tomorrow. maybe up to an inch in a spot or two. a little bit of winter. that is only 9.7 inches wayaway from the record. >>we see modest warming out to the west of us. let me go back to this. average first dates of our warmest
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temperature. some of march 26th is typically the first 70 degree temperature. if we get a 60 or 70 by later this weekend, that would be about on schedule. will not happen tomorow. row. >>this afternoon cold and a chance of snow. >>the wind blowing from the osuthsouth. low
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temperature down to 23. tomorrow mostly cloudy. high of 27 is way below normal. it warms a little bit to 37 on wednesday. >>i think this is an authentic spring weather map. >>we have your lottery drawing coming up next.
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dish. i have never heard of this. looks like a breakfast nacho in a way. >>pour it over the chips. we make them in our restaurant. it is a little bit like nachos. you can do whatever you feel like doing. essentially chipotle is the spicy factor. >>a couple different kinds. at home you can do whatever you feel like. this is a really simple dish. put
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brocta there is going to be some cold weather
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tomorrow. kind of a blustery weather system later in the week. later in the week ended does look like it is going to to warm up. high-pressure comes in tomorrow. you will see some clouds with it. once that passes look at the isobars. it will replace this north early jet stream flow coming in with cold air. the weekend will see the flow develop from the southwest. that is when we get down to into the serious business of warming up. it is still chilly on wednesday. temperatures drop south again to as low pressure passes
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across the southern midwest. >> >> it has been so cold so long. >> >> some light snow tonight. could be a period of rain or snow.
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>> cruising across the southern midwest. the southern midwest. >> a
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the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. these are their stories. the commissioner wants to know what you've got-- a mob hit or a serial killer. the truth is, we don't know. did the victim have ties to organized crime? maybe-- brecker was in the garment business. how about the shooter? cragen: it's possible. we're checking his associates. why did he confess to the woodruff murder and not the others? maybe he wasn't looking forward to being executed? you know, i came down here to get answers, and all i'm getting is conjecture and speculation. we've got both squads on the case. we're pooling our resources to form a task force. well, then get some results. the mayor's on the warpath. if pruitt's not our man, the next body's on you.

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