a teenager faces more than two dozen charges, in a series of stabbings at a high school in pennsylvania. an eye surgeon in chicago is accused of videotaping women in office bathrooms. details in a *live report. and amazing video of a large brush fire burning in a state park in zion. we'll have the latest. good morning. i'm dan ponce. thanks for joining us on the wgn morning news at *4 a-m. demetrius ivory has a check of our weather. to lead this repeat yesterday's weather? >> how about we do that. but there is some rain coming. take your umbrella. today we are expecting our height of the sure to occur before noon. lower 60s. six degrees warmer than normal yesterday. mostly cloudy. our

wind will be coming out of the southwest early which will allow us to get warmed up. 52 degrees at the lakefront. 51 at midway. a nice warm temperature for the early morning. it is completely dry right now. this line is coming through minnesota. it's a cold front that will bring us the chance of showers even the potential thunderstorm. you can see on the computer model that the rain comes in and around lunchtime. then the showers become likely are around 3:00 p.m.. tonight we dry out and we wait for the next system to arrive on saturday. warm temperatures in the upcoming seven day. tomorrow we make 65

degrees. mostly sunny friday. it's a keeper. saturday we have showers and thunderstorms developing in the day. the higher reaches 70. >> with some construction on the kennedy everything is shut down between ohio to montrose is should be picked up later this morning. bishop ford along stoney island exit the toward over to 111. that's the new construction project that kicked off a few days ago. no accidents report, otherwise everything is looking good. >> it rocker from chicago was shot and killed. he was known as blood money, the second cousin of a rapper chief keef. he had just signed a recording deal. one of his songs has been viewed more than 2 million t and youtube. last night he was found on a sidewalk shot to death. another man was shot in serious

condition. no one has been arrested. four people are in critical condition after a high school student in pennsylvania went on a rampage with two kitchen knives. andrew spencer reports. >> police say the 16 year-old stabbed 20 fellow students and a security officer in the crowded hallway of the high school. >> he just ran down the hall with the knife and my best friend stepped in front of me and got stabbed in the back. i held his hand and he wouldn't let go the whole way to the hospital. he didn't let go. >> an assistant principal at the school help stop the rampage. >> he took the kid down behind him with both jumped on him and immobilized him. >> not before nearly two dozen people had been stabbed. the community held vigils for the victims. >> we ask and pray.

>> offering what support they could amid the tragedy. >> it is heartbreaking. it really is. >> we've been listening to the news for six or eight hours and it's the same bad news the numbers kept right rising. >> he faces four counts of attempted homicide, 21 counts of aggravated assault and the charge of having a weapon on school grounds. >> the search for the missing malaysian passenger jet is now focused on an area smaller than the state of west virginia. but it's been two days since a navy ship picked up the last underwater signals that could be from the plane's "black box." a u.s. navy ping locator is still trolling through the indian ocean, listening for any faint signal from the plane's locator beacon. if the pinger locator finds something, a small bluefin submarine can then conduct a slower, more thorough search. the faculty at u-i-c has voted to strike again. they plan to start picketing april 23rd, unless an agreement can be reached with the administration before then. two more bargaining sessions

are scheduled for next week. both sides are at odds over pay and promotion opportunities for full-time faculty who are non-tenured. the faculty went on strike for two days in february. no end date has been set, if they strike again. faculty members have not had a contract since unionizing in 2012. a chicago eye doctor is charged with secretly video taping female patients. tonya francisco is live outside one of two offices where prosecutors say cameras were hidden. his career hangs in the balance this morning. he is free after posting 10% of his $75,000 bail. the prosecutors say the prominent eye surgeons secretly videotaped the least four female employees in the bathroom at his office one at the illinois masonic hospital and the other at the chicago eye institute in irving park between march 25th

and april 2nd. a female employee here was the first to find the camera velcro inside of the toilet tank after using the bathroom and discovering a hole in the tank on april 2nd. police were called and found the marker disc also had images of another woman from the office and two other women in the locker room of the masonic office. we try to speak to someone who was an employee but the ran from our camera. a former patient who did not want to be identified says she was always somewhat ... they said he was creepy and made her feel uncomfortable. >> he made it to where he thought i was beautiful he said i was attractive. he gave me a hug when i left the office. just little things that weren't normal doctor patient things.

>> illinois masonic hospital issued a statement saying he no longer works there but no information about his status here at the eye institute. with the charges that he faces, he could be convicted and spend three years behind bars. >> two people have been arrested in another secret videotaping investigation... this one at a gym near kenosha. a man from waukegan and a woman from pleasant prairie, wisconsin, are facing charges after two cameras were found in the women's locker room at the rec-plex gym in pleasant prairie. waukegan police also recovered evidence at the man's home. police say the cameras may have been in place from january until they were discovered monday. it's unknown how video from the cameras was used and whether any was distributed. taking a look at the *other top stories this morning. a large brush fire is burning in the far northern suburbs. the fire started around six last night at illinois beach state park in zion.

crews from dozens of police and fire departments had it under control by ten, but they are still on the scene ... which is about 18 blocks long and two blocks wide. no structures are in danger, and no injuries have been reported. some trains have been delayed. a house was destroyed by a fire that started when a propane gas grill tank exploded. this happened in northwest suburban crystal lake, near the fox river, yesterday. no one was home. firefighters kept the flames from spreading to other homes. a piece of the propane tank was found in a neighbor's yard. chicago police issued a community alert after a man tried to solicit sex from a 14- year-old boy. it happened in the 49-hundred block of west fullerton, around nine monday night. police say the boy was walking, when a man came up to him and asked for sexual relations. the boy was able to run away. a church employee in cicero is jailed on more than two million dollars bond, after being charged with sexually abusing at least six boys. police say juan ferreras lured boys as young as nine years old to his apartment, then abused them.

ferreras worked at sonido de alabanza church on west 25-th street. he is the son of the pastor. the office of congressional ethics is investigating congressman bobby rush. right now we don't know what the congressman is being investigated for. in december, the tribune reported that his wife earned more than 300-thousand dollars as his campaign consultant over the last five years. some campaign money also went to the church rush started. rush's attorney says they'll cooperate with the investigation, but the situation being reviewed doesn't warrant any ethics sanctions. the chicago public school system has found another 70 million dollars to pump into local school budgets in the coming year. a one-time accounting change, and some cost reductions, will free up the extra money. the civic federation warns, the accounting adjustment-- essentially borrowing from next year's property tax revenues -- is risky. schools had to cut their budgets early this year because of falling enrollment and general funding shortages. the chicago firefighters union leadership has reached a tentative agreement with the

city on a new contract. the deal reportedly includes an 11-percent raise over five years, some of it would be retroactive to 2012. a full union vote will likely happen in several weeks. the union's president said the deal is fair to both sides. mayor emanuel's office called it a "responsible approach". a hotel in the gold coast hopes you'll be willing to pay for its tribute to "national grilled cheese month." the ritz carlton is serving up this, "zillion dollar grilled cheese." now it doesn't cost a zillion dollars, but it does have a 100- dollar price tag. it's sourdough bread with ham, 40 year old cheddar, and it's sprinkled with 24 karat gold flakes. it also comes with a side of mac and cheese topped with lobster meat. the hotel recommends you split this with someone, and probably the bill too. gold flakes? what is wrong with people? >> all that helps the digestion except for the cheese. >> the 40 old cheese will not help. >> that will get it moving for the dead. today are temperatures are armed the warm-up. our high yesterday was only 62. we will

go up a little bit. we have the chance of showers today even a chance of thunderstorms in the south of cook county. there is the potential for a thunderstorm. 65 degrees on friday. friday we have sunshine. saturday we are dry for much of the day. showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. high temperature reaching 70. sunday we have the chance of rain. it's going to be a washout. >> coming up ... police are looking for the man who drove into a day care center -- and killed a child. and -- what caused a helicopter crash on top of a hospital. plus -- the family who was rescued by a navy ship finally makes it home. we'll have the latest. and -- why a statue of the virgin mary at a northwest indiana church is drawing huge crowds.

thirty million americans living with rare diseases; that's almost one in ten of us. when my father was diagnosed with a rare disease, my family learned firsthand how overwhelming it can be to find information and the right treatment - if one even exists . there are nearly seven thousand rare diseases like the one that claimed my father's life. with the national organization for rare disorders, you're never alone . nord works to provide answers and support. alone we are rare, together we are strong . learn more at rarediseases.org. a man in an s-u-v forced a car

off the road, and the car ended up crashing into a day care center. one of the children inside was killed. the man in the s-u-v then drove away. it happened yesterday in orlando, florida. a dozen others were injured -- some of them critically. police have since found the s- u-v. but they're still looking for the driver. he's identified as robert corchado... and it's believed, he's trying to flee the orlando area. a pilot was injured when the helicopter he was flying crashed on the roof of a hospital. it happened at university of new mexico hospital in albuquerque. a witness says the chopper

lifted off then started to wobble before crashingear the helipad. three people were aboard when it went down -- none of them patients. two members of the crew escaped unharmed. the top floor of the hospital was evacuated as a precaution. a family is back home after it was rescued at sea. eric and charlotte kaufman planned to take their three and one year old daughters on a yearlong trip around the world. they were one-thousand miles away from mexico when the one year old got very sick. the coast guard, national guard, and navy rescued them after their boat lost the ability to steer. the agencies say they don't plan to charge them for the rescue. when they returned to land, the daughter was treated for vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. some say it's a miracle, but others aren't so sure. a statue of the virgin mary is drawing large crowds to a church in northwest indiana. believers say there is a tear stain down the face of the statue at saint mary's church in griffith. a group of children who were leaving bible study on monday noticed it first. once word began to spread, visitors started showing up to see it for themselves.

>> it looks real. >> i believe since it is lent that the tear is because of what jesus had done for us. >> the parish pastor himself is not convinced. he says there must be a weather-related explanation for the stain. but, he is grateful it's bringing people closer to god. i noticed demetrius had a stain because he had french fries for lunch. you've been deprived for a while. >> this is a hard one. i'm hurting. 54 degrees right now. wind at 21. we are expected showers to come through rain is likely this afternoon take your umbrella. it won't be heavy across some southern cook county but we will have potential for some heavy rain in some areas. right now we are in the upper 40's and low 50s. a typical low for the morning is

in the upper thirties. right now grain is moving through portions of northern wisconsin and into minnesota. the cold front will come through today. expect to see the showers move in or around lunchtime. afternoon we have the best chance for the rain. it's likely in the afternoon. dry out tonight cooling down to 40 degrees. tomorrow we warm-up high temperature of 65. in the 3 day forecast we still have one temperatures. clouds are on the increase early. showers by midday. tonight we go down to 40. partly cloudy. tomorrow's high temperature is 65 degrees. saturday, was still have 70 degrees for saturday. it's close. right now though it looks like we do have showers. >> just hug out your weather problems. this is a construction report. no really big delays no

accident but here's what's happening on the kennedy. the express lanes are closed until 5:00. about 45 minutes more until they open that up. not a big deal the volume is so light. but on the ohio cramp on the outbound there is some bridge maintenance overnight it will be through november. they're trying to pick that up during the day but will try to get that work done city may have to deal with that in these early morning hours of and that looks good. >> coming up, popular cars no longer being sold because of a fire risk. >> looking at the fattest and fittest and see where america falls. >> a first for the blackhawks as the try to save the fight for home ice in the playoffs. >> talking about a new conference for educators. it's all about bringing creativity to the classroom. we'll introduce you to an organization that will be at the conference that is all about introducing chance to

children and the strategy that goes beyond that and helps to make important like decisions as they move forward. it's a cool organization. we will tell you organization. we will tell you you have time to shop for car insurance today? yeah. i heard about progressive's "name your price" tool? i guess you can tell them how much you want to pay and it gives you a range of options to choose from. huh? i'm looking at it right now. oh, yeah? yeah. what's the... guest room situation? the "name your price" tool, making the world a little more progressive.

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steal the game from canada last night and gained the playoff position. they trailed by two points the battle for home ice. going for their fourth in a row in a final regular-season down 1-0 when they get a wrist shot. nine minutes left and the trail again two-one. under one minute left but then in front again at the net. 47 seconds to go bury it the game goes into overtime. sharp has a shot that trickles through and win 3-2 first overtime win of the season. they have a four game winning streak. >> once that first shot went in things opened up a bit. they were a good team they played a good game. we got our legs under us and we went from there. >> i'm just trying to make the most thinking about it would be

nice to be in the playoff trying to just make the most of it. in the minneapolis last night the bulls go for their sixth in a row down by five second-half they take over. nailing a three- pointer the forge ahead. another big game for noah. it triple double 15 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists. the finish off with augustine 43 points. the bulls win the final is 102-87. that's it for sports. >> a big comeback for the market the doubt jumped 180 points the nasdaq gained 70 s&p rises. volkswagen suspend sales of some of its popular cars because of the fire danger. a leaking ring in the automatic transmission case to cause the

transition to catch fire. one has reported a fire, no crashes blamed by the recall has been ordered by the newest of so the cars until it can be replaced. if your car is affected you will be notified by mail. repairs will be free. >> command in ukraine wants to restore a viral videos. he scales cranes, trains, the other contracts. part of the video contains a warning to not recreate the death defying acts. >> we could put you in front of the green screen and you could pretend you are doing that. i would buy that out that though. >> if you are going to crash into a 50 story death at least be wearing something cool. >> look at the wind. i have seen enough.

>> but move on to weather. we didn't get the end of the story. >> we didn't get to the end of the video. >> showers coming through. rain in portions of northern and western great lakes. it will be here through lunchtime here expect to see light showers. south of chicago there is the potential for a thunderstorm. today's high reaches the low 60s. >> construction on the stand brian. kennedy and along the ohio ramp and the dan ryan out bound from washington-290. a good time to get this construction out of the way because volume is so light. no spots that would slow down even with all these orange cones. more details on all this in just a few minutes. >> coming up, a rapper is shot and killed overnight. >> and the blade runner is examined on the stand.

>> and president obama pays tribute to those killed in the fort hood shooting. >> and jennifer hansen is in town where cameras caught her interfaces' more than two dozen

churches in a series of stabbings at a high school in pennsylvania. >> an eye surgeon is accused of it hitting women in an office bathroom. and cook county board president has a few ideas on how to fix her own pension crisis. good morning, i'm dan ponce. >> and i'm erin mcelroy. let's go to demetrius ivory for a check of the weather. hi, demetrius. still looks good. >> warm temperatures this warning. 54 degrees right now. usually we are in the '30's. but when you get out of here it will be ringing and cooler. >> that a downer. >> let's take a look. satellite and radar composite show some april showers. we have dry conditions across the area now but the rain to the north will be here around lunchtime today. rain is likely we expect to see the showers coming through sticking around into the afternoon and tapering off of in the evening. it's on the warm

side which is the good news. high temperature today of 63 degrees down to 40 degrees tonight. tarweed 65. saturday we hit 70 degrees. showers and thunderstorms come through. 70 on saturday to rain and snow again by monday afternoon and evening. tuesday we reach 43. >> we have a standing snowbelt. someone is going to be washing somebody's car. it's going to be pretty bad. in the express lanes on the kennedy, still have some work from ohio to montrose. should not be a big deal because everything is pretty light in terms of construction. but on the bishop ford at stoney island project kick off this week closing the exit ramp you'll need to use 111 as an alternate that will be around until october. no big delays so far but we are watching these projects to see how they will

play out. >>a rapper from chicago was shot and killed last night. 30-year-old mario hess was known as "blood money." he was the second cousin of rapper "chief keef." like his cousin, hess had just recently signed a recording deal with interscope records. one of his songs -- "thought he was" --- has been viewed two million times on you tube. at around 9:30 last night, hess was found on a sidewalk near 56-th and hess, shot to death. another man was shot, and he is in serious condition. no one has been arrested in the shooting. injured in a stabbing rampage at a high school near pittsburgh. 16-year-old alex hribal was arraigned as an adult in the stabbing spree which injured a total of 20 students and a security officer. witnesses say the boy ran down a hall with two kitchen knives slashing everyone he could reach. >> my best friend stepped in front of me and was stabbed in the back. i held his hand and he

would not let go of the whole way to the hospital he did not let go. >>hribal faces four counts of attempted murder and 21 counts of aggravated assault. police don't know what set off the rampage. they are investigating a phone call between the suspect and another student the night before. >> an eye surgeon is charged with secretly videotaping print patients. >> tonya is outside one of the offices where they say cameras were hidden. >> good morning. the doctor has been charged with four felony counts of unauthorized video taping. he is free on bond after posting to percent of his bail. a prosecutor says between march 21st and april to the prominent eye doctor secretly videotaped at least four female employees at an office bathroom and a locker room at his two offices. one in lake view the other at

the eye institute in urban park. police say last week a female employee at the eye institute had just finished using the bathroom when she found the camera velcro inside the toilet tank. police were called and found a micro disk also had images of another woman from the office and two others in the locker room of the illinois masonic office. when we tried to speak to someone who was an employee, they ran from our camera. a former patient who did not want to be identified says she flipped out when she heard the news. >> there was a creep factor. he made it to 30 he said i was attractive. i went to him because he was a good doctor and he is so well respected. >> prosecutors say they have video tape of the doctor putting the camera in a locker room at the masonic hospital. they released a statement yesterday

saying the doctor is no longer works there. his status here is not yet clear. if he is convicted of the four felony counts of unauthorized the taping, he could pay face three years in jail. >>the cross examination of oscar pistorius continues at his murder trial. pistorius has been on the witness stand for four days now. the prosecution is trying to prove that he intentionally shot and killed his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. but he says it was an accident. today, the prosecutor tried to portray pistorius as self- centered and questioned the feelings between him and the victim. >> the phrase i love you appears twice. what is that? both times she wrote that to her mother. never to you. and you never to her. >> that's correct. i never got

the opportunity to tell her i loved her. >>pistorius testified he never shouted, screamed, or picked on his girlfriend. that came after the prosecution showed a text where she said she was afraid of him sometimes. taking a look at the *other top stories this morning. it's been two days since a navy ship picked up the last underwater signals that could be from a missing malaysian jet. a u.s. navy ping locator is still trolling through the indian ocean, listening for any faint signal from the plane's black box. if the pinger locator finds something, a small bluefin submarine can then conduct a slower, more thorough search. a large brush fire is burning in the far northern suburbs. the fire started around six last night at illinois beach state park in zion. crews from dozens of police and fire departments had it under control by ten, but they are about 18 blocks long and two blocks wide. no structures are in danger, and no injuries have been reported. some trains have been delayed. the faculty at u-i-c has voted to strike again. they plan to start picketing

april 23rd, unless an agreement can be reached before then. both sides are at odds over pay and promotion opportunities for full-time faculty who are non-tenured. the faculty went on strike for two days in february. thousands pay their respects to the fort hood shooting suspects. the president and mrs. obama with their. a gunman had opened fire at the army base in texas last week before turning the gun on himself. one of the victims was from illinois. the president vowed to do more to protect military members from being harmed at home. >> as a military wing must continue to do all in our power to secure our facilities and spare others of this pain. we must honor these men by doing more to care for our fellow americans living with mental illness. >> a 40 say the gunmen was taking medication for depression and anxiety and was being screened for posttraumatic

stress disorder. >>a bill to help chicago erase its public pension debt, is now on governor quinn's desk. and quinn has two months to decide whether to sign it. tuesday, state lawmakers signed off on a bill to require city employees to make bigger contributions to their pension funds. they left a citywide property tax hike up to the city council. mayor emanuel is urging the governor to sign the bill. >> we are going to provide our workers and residents the certainty so they have a retirement they can rely on. want to contribute to done in response away that balances out and meets everything. >> it's complicated. looking at everything from top to bottom. >> the chicago teachers union is urging the governor to *veto the pension bill. cook county also faces a pension crunch. the chicago tribune reports, county board president toni preckwinkle is promoting a plan to raise the retirement age... require county employees to pay more into their pensions... and reduce annual cost-of-living raises in pension benefits.

she also wants to pump another 140 million dollars a year in the pensions... but she doesn't know where she'll get the money. she may have to consider a tax hike. the mayor's office says the bike sharing program has surpassed the 2 million mi. mark. the bikes have taken on 900,000 trips 15,000 people signed up for annual passes. >> chicago's obesity rate is 25- percent. that puts us just below the national average of 27-percent. america's three fattest cities are memphis, san antonio and richmond virginia. the top three fittest are denver, san diego, san jose california. boulder, outside denver, has the distinction of being the only u-s city with less than 15 percent obesity. the statistics were compiled by the gallup organization. there's no need to read a woman's mind or body language if she's wearing this. this dress is called intimacy "two point oh." its made with either white cloth or black fake leather. there are also some strategically placed strips.

inside the strips are sensors that detect changes in the woman's body temperature and heart rate. when those go up, the strips turn clear. that means the dress gets more and more transparent, when the woman is turned on. the dress is in a concept stage right now. but the designer says it will move forward, with a men's version coming in the future. >> let's just get this straight. so if a woman is wearing a dress like that, she's not cooking macaroni and cheese. >> i want to see a picture of both of you wearing that. nomad will buy that. that's a good way to get slapped in the face. >> it is a wonderful thing. 54 degrees right now. 52 in waukegan. down in lansing its 48. 47 in bartlett and or read at 47. juliet at 50. sublet

composite shows dry conditions at this hour. rain to the north. it's a cold front coming through later today. it doesn't drop are temperatures much during the day. it will bring rain to the region by midday. today, 63 degrees. showers by midday. you will need your umbrella later today. partly cloudy skies tonight. down to 40 degrees overnight but we are dry. tamara's high is 65. picture- perfect for friday. saturday high temperature of 70 chance of showers may be some thunder by the afternoon and evening. >> still had the u.s. says the russians withheld information that could have prevented the boston marathon bombing. >> a division 1 basketball player feels he is gay. >> and details on a marathon featuring more than 500 episodes of a tv show. >> and the rolling stone cover featuring julia louis-dreyfus it

failed. today, there are nearly thirty million americans living with rare diseases; that's almost one in ten of us. when my father was diagnosed with a rare disease, my family learned firsthand how overwhelming it can be to find information and the right treatment - if one even exists . there are nearly seven thousand rare diseases like the one that claimed my father's life. with the national organization for rare disorders, you're never alone . nord works to provide answers and support. alone we are rare, together we are strong . learn more at rarediseases.org. a new federal report concludes,

the boston marathon bombing might have been prevented, if russia had shared information about one of the suspects with the united states. the new york times cites an inspector general's review.

it says, russia knew, from tapping tamerlan tsarnaev's phone in 2011, that he had become a follower of radical islam. but that knowledge wasn't shared with american officials until *after the boston bombings, two years later. another athlete is revealing that he's gay. u-mass guard derrick gordon is now the first openly-gay men's college basketball player. gordon says coming out is the best feeling ever, after hiding the truth for the past four years. he says his team has been supportive, and he's looking forward to next season. nirvana will have a guest singer when it gets inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame if you missed the simpsons, you'll have a chance to catch it... all of it... every episode. f-x-x, the sister station of f- x will air a 12-day marathon of bart, homer and the gang. it'll start august 21st and run through labor day. there are 552 episodes of the series, which has been running for 25 seasons.

>> nice job ... actress julia louis-dreyfus better hope her latest tattoo is a temporary one. the "veep" star is on the cover of next month's rolling stone magazine wearing nothing but the u-s constitution printed on her back, signed by john hancock. the problem is, hancock signed the declaration of independence ... not the constitution. the actress also said she was drunk during the shoot. she looks pretty good. >> wrongs have two best excuse. a group of high school students in nebraska had a prom they'll never forget. 22 of them posed for pictures on a bridge behind andy white's house in the town of pierce. they didn't test the bridge's weight limit ahead of time. when the pictures were posted online the group was the talk of the town and social media. except for some soaked gowns and tuxes, everybody escaped pretty much un-scathed. >> a good memory.

>> an excellent memory. >> today we expect to see some showers come through. it will come through and around lunchtime. calls are on the increase. showers are likely chance of rain. partly cloudy tonight low temperature falling into the 40's. we go from mid sixties to low '40's in just a few hours. right now morris is at 49. it is breezy wind at 17. wind gusts up to 30 in the mundelein. 32 an island lake. satellite are composite shows we are dry. our sunrise comes up at 619. i don't think we have much sunshine today because the rain will be through. today's high temperature is 63. you'll need your umbrella. los in the low '40's. friday we make 65. saturday at 70 with rain developing in the afternoon.

>> looking at michigan avenue, easy start this thursday. everything looks good. try it road conditions. no cars out there. good morning. >> what's the travel time? >> i don't think he is worried about that. it is fun driving a around this early. the one time you will really hit a decongestant. we do have construction that's coming up in a few minutes. >> best traffic ever right there. the d.c. the tumbleweed blowing across? there is a cool conference launching this year all about giving teachers creativity in the classroom. organizations will be here in chicago. one of them is the renaissance and chess foundation. all about teaching children chess and hoping it helps them with light decisions.

i went to take on some third and fourth graders here's what happened. >> a game with roots all the way back to the sixth century. chess. 64 squares, two players battling to take out the other king. for the millions to play regularly, chess is about more than just the board. it's about thinking multiple steps ahead and getting into the mind of the person across from you. >> you have to remember that you have to check made the king but how do you do it when you start in the back row? you have to think step by step. >> the president of the renaissance team at chess foundation, a nonprofit was created to give young people introduction to the game. >> after-school programs and with our instructors and volunteers we also have trained teachers. >> this is one of the volunteer teachers here at the bilingual

and international center were third and fourth graders are learning chess. >> numerous studies have shown the benefits of chess for schoolchildren form reading scores and self-esteem and critical thinking skills. increased memorization. >> here you go. guys are going to play me. are you ready? i am white. i go first. here we go. that is unfortunate. i see a lot of black pieces all the sudden. just give up. give up. you have no hope. >> is there anywhere for the king to go? >> you can't have a check made

without that. >> is it a tie? >> a kid have a lot of decisions to make. just like the world today there is infinite amount of information that requires strong critical thinking skills you step through that to make the right decision. chess is a great metaphor for that. >> thanks for playing. good job. >> i really wanted to win. i was disappointed in myself. there's the number for the chess foundation. they are always looking for volunteers teachers or anyone who could help out and also for the nation's. the conference on thinking creativity and education is going on. you can find more information at the happy teachers happy students website. >> coming up, talking to jennifer hansen in chicago. >> and by an actress is suing a pharmacy chain. that's coming up. glee's naya rivera and dett

rapper big sean won't be walking down the aisle anytime soon... after he called off their wedding. the reason *why seems to be

unclear. depending on who you believe... he allegedly cheated on her, and then confessed to her about it. but other reports say she was too controlling and jealous of women he worked with. the couple got engaged last october, just six months after their relationship went public. katherine heigl has filed a six-million-dollar civil lawsuit against new york-based pharmacy chain "duane reade." she claims the company used her name and paparazzi photos of her leaving one of their pharmacies for advertising. heigl will donate all proceeds from the lawsuit to an animal welfare foundation named for her brother who was killed in a car accident as a teenager. jennifer hudson closed out chicago's travel show, capping off the five day convention for travel buyers, suppliers and journalists. last night's party was held at the museum of science and industry. house music legend frankie knuckles was originally slated

to perform, but he died unexpectedly last week. the morning. we continue to see dry conditions. nice warm weather today. take your umbrella you will need it today expecting showers and potentially a thunderstorm south of cook county. nice warm temperatures for the next few days. 65 on friday. saturday we are up to 70. temperatures take a tumble and by monday afternoon we have a chance for rain and snow. i said it. back to. >> it doesn't mean we're listening. looking at was down pershing, it will be closed for some resurfacing from june. until that is wrapped you could see is slow spot. also there ready to pick up the slow spot on the dan ryan. still taking the right lane out. >> coming up, k wrapper

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