one man is dead after an overnight car jacking on the south side. after remembering those who died, students at u-c santa barbara will be back in class for the first time since last week's deadly rampage. he wanted to fight fires, but first he had to do battle with something else. we'll introduce you to the south suburban man who finally got his wish. good morning. i'm dan ponce. and i'm erin mcelroy. thanks for joining us on the wgn morning news at *4 a-m. >> were granted to the stories in the second but first a look at your wednesday morning forecast. >> more rain. yesterday was stormy. i don't know about you but my dog was a bit nervous. >> she should have known you are a meteorologist. >> let's take a look we expect

to see these showers continue. the good news is the cold front which brought the showers and storms yesterday continues to go to the south. it's a slow mover creeping through the region. it will hit the brakes south of chicago but we think it will press self later. the temperature range today. we have temperature ranges of a 11 degree differences. falk will be an issue today. or at a 2 mi. visibility. lansing to a half mile visibility. if it clear at the fog it will get better. showers across each of eastern and central cook county morgue could pop up later today as a front just slowly creep through. today we're up to 60 degrees. early tomorrow morning we are at 56. as we get into tomorrow we

reach 72. sunshine for thursday friday and next weekend. friday's high is 77. >> some work on the bridge that we are visiting right now northbound at 57. left lane block right there. when volume is light this early it's tolerable but passed the 6:00 hour it gets bad. we have some ramps that have been closed at 88. they are going to be finished with this by the week's end. we will see changes there is been pretty rough for a while. another week left on the project. numbers look good. we will break it down for you in just a few minutes. >> a man was fatally shot during an overnight car jacking on the south side. tonya francisco is *live at area central headquarters with more. >> good morning. police are

telling us that the detectives here are handling the investigation. there remain on the scene for several hours after the car jacking until early this morning but very few details are being released on what happened. what we do know is just before 10:30 a.m., the victim was driving his black ford expedition in the 2300 block of 80th street when two men approached, shot him in the chest and took off with the car. the chicago tribune says the friend apparently picked the victim up and carried him down the street and laid him down on the sidewalk where paramedics rushed him to the medical center where he was pronounced dead. the name of the victim has not been released. no description of the suspect has been released. if you have the information please call police. >>a man is dead after a driver

tries to take off from police during a traffic stop in elgin. police in elgin made the stop just after five last night. officers discovered the driver was wanted on a warrant from the u-s marshals office for evading arrest. that's when that driver of a white nissan took off. officers say he was speeding when he blew through a stop sign about four blocks later ... hitting a mini-van. that van flipped over several times, killing the driver. >> i heard a loud noise down the street at a high speed and then allowed crash. we just had one last week at the same intersection the car landed the same place give me the same sound. you can't tell the sound of a car crash. >> not chasing the white car when it crashed. the name of that man has not been identified. he was taken to the hospital. a female passenger in his car is also hospitalized in critical condition. some breaking news out of afghanistan ... two americans were wounded this morning when a u-s consulate vehicle was attacked. the u-s embassy in kabul says the vehicle was attacked while traveling through the western city of herat. the americans were *not

seriously injured and are being treated at a hospital. a teenager accused of killing a child while driving under the influence pled guilty to the lesser charge against her, while her trial on a more serious charge got underway. prosecutors say carly rousso was high from inhaling a computer dust cleaner, when she drove her car into a mother and her three children in highland park back in 2012. the accident killed a five- year-old girl. rousso pled guilty to reckless homicide yesterday. but, her lawyers are challenging the d-u-i charge against her. they say illinois law does not list the chemical in the cleaner as an intoxicating compound. rousso faces up to 14 years in minnesota has the same situation. it's not illegal there. arizona, the same situation. not illegal. oregon, same situation not illegal. >> she faces up to 14 years in prison, if she's convicted on the d-u-i charge. she will be sentenced on the reckless homicide charge at a

later date ... it carries a maximum five year sentence. the trial will continue tomorrow. taking a look at the *other top stories this morning. a volunteer at a northwest suburban church was sentenced to seven years in prison, after abusing two more developmentally disabled boys. robert sobczak received probation last year for molesting an 8-year-old with special needs at willow creek community church. he now says he molested another 8-year-old at the church and a 15-year-old at a birthday party. a driver lost control of his car, jumped a curb and hit nine people ... including seven children. it happened in gary just after four yesterday afternoon. police say the 62-year-old driver said he was making a right hand turn when he lost control. all nine pedestrians were taken to the hospital. the driver and his passenger were also hospitalized. no word yet on any charges. a police officer shot and wounded a man during an attempted hijacking of a megabus heading to chicago. police say the bus was in columbus, ohio, when arsenio rodriguez pointed a pellet gun at the driver and ordered him out. an officer shot and wounded rodriguez and another passenger. police say rodriguez has a history of mental illness and

is being charged with robbery. a 74-year-old man was shot and seriously wounded in the morgan park neighborhood. the bullet was meant for his grandson, an admitted gang member. 18-year-old khalil black told w-g-n, his grandfather andrew hollis was dropping him off at 112-th and throop after a job interview yesterday afternoon, when another car pulled up. >> i heard the police pulled up i looked up and they're already shooting. >> the first shot went right past my face. the other one shot my grandfather in the neck. >>as for the victim, andrew hollis is being treated at christ hospital, where he arrived in serious condition. adding to the drama... khalil black's uncle -- the man behind him in the yankees jersey -- is a chicago police officer. the chicago city council is expected to vote today on a new effort to control the sale of guns in the city. mayor emanuel wants to limit the places where gun shops may operate. at a police awards ceremony, the mayor said his plan would outlaw any gun store within 500 feet of a school or park.

and all gun buyers would have to be recorded on video, making their purchases. >> we are going to do it in a smart, tough and a forceful way to prevent illegal guns in our city. >>the supreme court has given the city until july 14-th to enact any new limits on gun sales. critics say, if the mayor's new plan is too restrictive, the courts could strike it down again. state representative derrick smith's bribery trial will start today, after a federal judge refused to delay the proceedings so he could vote on a tax bill in springfield. the judge denied a week-long continuance, saying smith's attorneys knew the legislative calendar in advance ... and, should not have agreed to start today if there was a conflict. smith was planning to vote for a tax hike extension, a vote speaker michael madigan needs to get the legislation passed. smith is accused of taking a 7- thousand dollar bribe to help a day care operator get a state grant. now that illinois lawmakers have agreed to let governor quinn's temporary income tax hikes expire, they're turning to budget tricks, to buy themselves

time until the fall elections. instead of risking any action that may be unpopular with the voters, democratic legislators are proposing new borrowing... putting off the payment of some state bills... lowering their estimates of state healthcare costs... and postponing a contribution to pay hikes for state employees. the state house passed a new budget that is balanced... at least on paper. the house hopes to adjourn its spring session saturday. it turns out that it is a "buyer's market" when it comes to islands. the largest privately owned island in the bahamas just went up for auction. "innocence island" was once listed for 55-million dollars, three years ago. this time the winning bid paid 17-million dollars. that person is getting 681 acres, a private airstrip with its own airport code, and a five-thousand square foot home, and so much more. the previous owner is terminally ill and says he's pleased with the sale. >> you know demetrius has been in the market for an island for a few weeks.

>> i guess i won. of course my island will be on the chicago river. we're talking about temperatures in the '60s right now. big white temperature ranges today. right now its 55 in michigan city indiana. these numbers are 10 degrees cooler than what we saw before. satellite composite shows some showers hugging the lake shore as we continue to watch this press to the east we will be on the lookout for fall. the chance of rain diminishes with each hour especially to the north. to the south the front will take its time. 71 degrees today. thursday we hit 72. we're dry through the weekend. chance of rain late sunday. >> coming up, a rush to sell the

team. why the clippers could have a new owner by the end of this week. >>plus -- the world record this 19-year-old is trying to break ... and why it will take him 40 days! and later -- he's fighting for his life ... battling cancer. but a south suburban man won't let it get in the way of achieving his dream career. we'll have his inspiring story ... coming up.

the university of california at santa barbara attempts to get back to normal after last friday's deadly rampage. one of the victim's fathers demanded change, during a memorial. andrew spencer has more. >> students may go back to their regular routine but that does not mean things are back to normal. flags at half staff _ the mood at the university campus. thoughts of tuesday night's memorial service and last friday's a rampage continued to weigh on the minds of many. six students were killed. >> reading off the names. the suspects roommates, mentioned in the manifesto and stabbed to death inside their home. >> reading names so resisters shot outside their house. >> reading more names.

>> a student apparently shot at random inside a deli. drawing the attention of lawmakers after he accused politicians of not doing enough to keep his son a safe. he said one congress member even called him to express condolences. >> i told the person i was not interested in a phone call from them to express their condolences and sadness. that was not acceptable. until that person went back to congress and actually did something. >> also talking to the crowd of roughly 20,000 people about the victims. readings statements from the other families before talking about his own son. >> fire swept through a hospital in south korea, killing at least 21 people, including a nurse. it happened in the southwestern province of south jeolla hyosarang hospital serves the elderly... and it holds about 300 patients. the fire broke out around midnight local time. intense smoke filled part of the

building... and most of the victims died of smoke inhalation. it appears that the los angeles clippers -- or at least a *share of the team -- will be sold. while owner donald sterling defiantly refuses to sell *his ownership stake, his estranged wife shelly is already preparing to sell *her share. she has met with several potential bidders. so far, there have been no official offers for the team. donald sterling has already been barred by the n-b-a from taking any active role in the day-to- day operations of the clippers. the cubs reveal a revised plan for renovations to wrigley field, saying they are ready to begin the massive construction project in july even without the approval of the roof top owners. the team displayed the updated expansion plans yesterday. the additions include a 30- thousand square foot underground clubhouse - which nearly triples their current space. it also includes four more outfield signs, a second video board, a new club in left field and two new light towers. the cubs president says the team is ready to move forward without the cooperation of the roof top owners, who have fought any changes that would obstruct their views.

>> they've made a quarter of a billion dollars. this is what we need to move this club for. that's how we look at it. if there was a solution, we probably would have found it already. >>the roof top owners have not commented about the new revisions. the cubs expect a lawsuit from them. city hall still needs to approve the revised plan. a 19-year-old college student from california will attempt to break a world record today. >> i always played foot flight simulator games i knows what to eat at the airport cafe and watch planes take off and land. >>matt guthmiller wants to become the youngest person to fly solo around the world. he was inspired by a 21-year-old pilot who set the record last spring. guthmiller will leave today. the trip is expected to take him about 40 days, or 160 hours of flying time. he plans to make about 20 stops on five continents, and update his status on social media along the way. we wish him the best.

>> it's a foggy morning. >> no flying through here this morning. we have fought across the region. no advisor is yet but we are close in some areas. 63 in bartlett. rain yesterday saturated of the surface. a bit of cooling overnight helped that fall developed. we of 1.7 mi. visibility in some areas. not so bad in to cook county right now. o'hare reading at 5 mi. the we expect that to go down the fall gets the crews morning. satellite's radar shows showers across eastern cook county. the heavy rain today, potential for more rain as a cold front moves through. it will move south by late this afternoon. i think that rain will taper off from north to south as we progress. up to 71 degrees today spotty showers possible. down to 53 tonight. marr, 72 friday is a

keeper. looking at sunshine there. extended period of sunshine taking us into the weekend. i will tell you when we are getting more rain coming up. >> we do have a situation in bound kennedy all lands temporarily down and division due to a truck that caught fire originally taking out to rent names but now the move this off the road to have to shut down everything coming in on the kennedy which is causing some big delays for people at division. we have a picture of this for the next few minutes along with an update on that situation. more traffic coming up. >>coming up ... he battled cancer, and now he has his dream job battling fires. plus -- why the first lady is going head-to-head against some republican lawmakers. and next in sports -- the blackhawks pulled it off last season, but the odds are against them as they try and come back from another three to one deficit. >> what would you do to boost your follower account on

twitter? when you consider buying fake followers? we will talk to an expert who tells us the dangers in doing that and if you guys to created a web site that allows you to check to see if somebody has a legitimate following. interesting story coming up.

good morning. a bleak picture for the blackhawks. down three games to one coming back to win only 8 percent is there statistics. they did that last year when they won but it's a different year different team. almost every category against the kings in power plays and penalty kills and chop shops on goals, all in favor of los angeles. the hope to reverse it tonight. they came back from l.a. on tuesday. >> i don't think we're trying to be cool about it. we don't want to be down three-one ever. we came back from last year and it was great. we are going to be a different team. we need to come out and lay it on the line.

>> we always talk about different things the mental aspect or the challenges the tweaks we need to make technically, line combinations. all these different things. when you're down 3-1 at home you have nothing to lose. we want to make sure we plan a game that we can play out and have fun in our building. that's what talk about. >> the rangers try to seal it tonight against montreal. wild game last night. montreal is ahead. there's a hat trick to try to stay alive. the rangers to lead three games to two. that's it for sports. have a great day. >>stocks raced to an all time high tuesday as investors cheered positive economic reports. the dow and s-and-p closed solidly higher, while nasdaq continued its may bounce ...

closing at its highest level since early april. first lady michelle obama is speaking out against republicans who are pushing legislation to weaken healthier school lunch standards. new requirements call for more vegetables, whole grains and fruits in the lunches ... as well as limits on fat, sugar and salt. but, a house sub-committee approved an agriculture spending bill last week that would exempt schools from those standards, if the school can show that it lost money on its food program throughout half of the year. >> parents have the right to expect their kids will get decent food in our schools. we all have the right to expect that our hard earned tax payer dollars won't be spent on junk food for our kids. >>critics say the current lunch schools, and kids are just throwing away the healthier foods. there's more to come in our next half-hour. including the latest on the deadly car jacking on the city's south side. plus an explosion rocks a plant in southwestern illinois ... an employee describes the scene. plus -- n-s-a leaker edward snowden is speaking out and

making some shocking allegations thought about quitting the academy but as instructors encourage him to push through. he started treatment on tuesday attended class on wednesday and all day saturday. >> they would say they knew i was doing the best i could. there were very helpful. whenever i struggled they would give me some help to finish it up. >> now he is cancer free. one more chemotherapy treatment that he moved to wednesday said he was well enough to walk across the stage at graduation. congratulations to him. >> this morning we continue to see light showers. fog could be an issue. 63 degrees is the current temperature. 65 degrees by 10:00 a.m.. 2:00 p.m. we are up to 70 degrees. not as warm as our 85 yesterday. up to 68 by 5:00 p.m.. 9:00 p.m. the chance

of rain is out. temperature down to 63. >> a quick update b and s f train derailment overnight causing some residual delays this morning. at what they're anticipating starting from aurora right into the city. be prepared for those delays will let you know if there is any recovery. all lanes down in bound on the kennedy due to a semi truck that caught fire. that is causing the delays. traffic is moving along that map but that is not indicative of what we are seeing. everything is blocked off at division. we have pictures of that truck fire we will get to you in the next few minutes. you can see that is fully in golf right there up into the cab. a big situation continuing to develop on that in bound kennedy. more traffic coming up. >> still more to come including the latest on the deadly car jacking on the south side. >> an explosion rocked a plant

on illinois. >> and edward snowden is speaking out and making shocking allegations about what his job was at the cia. >> and what's been is doing here in chicago

jacking on the south side. ending the war in afghanistan. president obama outlines his plan to remove u-s troops. plus why former president george w. bush made a secret trip to chicago. good morning, i'm dan ponce. and i'm erin mcelroy. let's go to demetrius ivory for a check of the weather. them what we had the storms yesterday and today temperatures will drop but after the rain you get that cool morning and we get falk. taking a loofog. here aree current temperatures. much cooler in these areas. northbrook reading at 56.

satellite's radar composite shows rained across portions of lake county. expressing to the east and eastern cook county still has some showers. some areas that are clearing out are the areas where we have the fault especially west of cook county there just over 1 mi. visibility. 68 degrees by 5:00 p.m.. by 9:00 p.m. we go down to 63. after today, we have an extended stretch of sunshine. 72 degrees tomorrow. friday we had 77. rain comes back sunday. the forecast will matter for monday because we go back to work. >> here's the kennedy. all lands shut down a truck caught fire at division. working to clear this up. initially it was a few lanes but when you look at these pictures, you can see how significant that fire was. the

entire tab was engulfed in flames. the entire under bed of the back of that truck also caught fire. they're really bad truck fire has everything shut down on the kennedy. we will let you know once this opens up but this point you have to get off before division or you will just be sitting there. and we have the train derailment that happened overnight on the bsnf line. still expecting delays to the morning between aurora and the city. watch out for that. we have our traffic app with all the latest on that available. with one click you can find out how this all impacts your morning commute. >>a man was fatally shot during an overnight car jacking on the south side. tonya francisco is *live at area central headquarters with more. >> this car jacking was unfortunately one of several yesterday 11 people injured in shootings. in this particular

case, the victim died. not identified yet but we do know he is a 21 year-old man. police say he was driving his black ford expedition around 1030 in the 2200 block of 80th street when two men approached him and shot him in the chest. the chicago tribune reports a friend picked up and carried him down the street and laid him down on the sidewalk paramedics took over and rushed into the medical center in oakland where he was pronounced dead. no description of the suspect in this carjacking has been given. no information has been released about the other shootings and the suspects in those cases. if you have any information about these shootings you're asked to call police. back to you. >>a man is dead after a driver tries to flee police during a traffic stop in elgin. elgin police made the stop just after five last night. officers discovered the driver was wanted on a warrant from the u-s marshals office for

evading arrest. that's when that driver of a white nissan took off. officers say he was speeding when he blew through a stop sign about four blocks later - hitting a mini-van. that van flipped over several times, killing the driver. >> i heard a loud noise like something was coming down the street really fast. then the loud crash. we just had one last week at the same intersection the car landed in the same place it was the same sound. you could tell the sound of a car crash. >>elgin police say officers were not chasing the white car when it crashed. the name of that driver has not been identified. he was taken to the hospital. a female passenger in his car is also hospitalized in critical condition. taking a look at the *other top stories this morning. a 74-year-old man was shot and seriously wounded in the morgan park neighborhood. andrew hollis' grandson, 18- year-old khalil black, an admitted gang member, told w-g- n, the shooters were aiming at *him. hollis was dropping black off at 112-th and throop after a job interview yesterday afternoon, when the shots came from another car.

a teenager accused of killing a child while driving under the appliance pled guilty but the trial on the dui charge got under way. police say she was high from inhaling a computer clean-air which drove a car into a mother and her three children back in 2012. a five year-old girl was killed. the trial continues tomorrow. >>an explosion injured some workers at a plant downstate. the explosion happened inside the olin brass plant in east olin. two people were injured. one had to be airlifted to a hospital's burn unit. the response was quick since the plant is equipped with its own team of firefighters and e- m-t's. >> and loud explosion blew off roof and then all the fire trucks started coming in. >> we have our own emergency notification system. a call comes into our center and the response. >>the plant, which produces copper, has workers in conditions that reach 23-hundred degrees. thousands of people attended a

over 32,000 soldiers currently in afghanistan. yesterday the president announced he wanted the number below 10,000 by the end of the year. those troops will remain for training afghan forces and counter-terrorism missions but not combat. these levels will drop again to 5000 at the end of next year and again by the end of 2016. >> the bottom line is, it's time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our poor foreign policy was focused on the wars and afghanistan and iraq. >> keeping troops in afghanistan after the end of the year is contingent upon their president signing a new deal. the current president has refused of the canada to want to replace some said they would approve it. >> george w. bush spent the holiday weekend in chicago -- getting a new knee. a spokesman for the former president said bush underwent a

successful partial knee replacement saturday... and he's already back home, recuperating in dallas. one media report says the surgery was performed at rush university medical center. rush's web site says it has one of the world's leading joint replacement programs. a new musical act is getting some attention. otters are reaching through a cage in order to rock out on the keyboard. this is part of the enrichment program at the smithsonian's national zoo in d-c. zoo officials say the activity is good for the otters' senses. they keep the keyboard outside the cage, so the otters don't tear it apart or put it in their pool. >> nothing worse than a synthesizer in the pool. >> you have to love otters. they always have fun. they're pretty cool. 63 degrees currently. wind at 7 mi.. today we're talking about more rain. yesterday we got to the showers on and off but they did arrive in a big way. big interest yesterday. a

different story today scattered spotty showers them dry out. 56 right now. 57 at the lakefront. in some areas to the west or the south clouds are perking up which helps the temperatures cooled down with the saturated hist surface we have fought. visibility is 2 mi. or less in these areas. we are currently looking at very low visibility. be on the lookout. you will have to be careful use your low beans and exercise caution. same deal here. visibility just over quarter of a mile here. that's the type of stuff that really slow down as people just creep along. right now, and showers are exiting the chicago area we will dry out momentarily. take your umbrella there is potential for more showers through the day. tonight we dry out across

the region. 71 degrees today. tonight down to 53. thursday, 72 dry but cool. then friday we climb up to 77. >> still ahead, we hear about why sting chicago for his new project. >> karen throughout a pitch and now one celebrity is getting heat for his horrendous pitch. there she was from a while ago. and paying for twitter followers? it's a new trend and markets will take a look to see how you can find out if followers are real or fake. pay attention. here are a few storie

trending online this morning ... google has unveiled its prototype for a self-driving car. the tiny two-seater has no steering wheel, gas pedal or brake. but it does come with a screen to show your route and a start and stop button. on-board sensors can detect objects in any direction more than two football fields away. the car can only go up to 25 miles an hour. it will be tested on roads in california during a two-year pilot program. rapper 50-cent got to throw out the first pitch at the mets game.. and we wouldn't show it unless

it was awful.. he threw it *way outside and nowhere near the plate. >> that made demetrius look like cy young. >> he did look happy with the outcome. he must have gotten some tips from our own demetrius.. he threw out the first pitch at weather day, at the sox game last month. >> it was an action that. >> it was just a bit outside. i think you both have to attempted again. >> with both celebrated like we threw some heat. >> i think if anyone missed the actual pitch ... >> we can show that again. >> where is the laugh track? >> a good job on that one. >> i've been throwing rocks through windows ever since just a practice.

>> there is the laugh track. it doesn't go away. >> it's just too good. >> 54 degrees in west chicago. aurora greeting at 63. highland park at 55. visibility is not high. that could be an issue for a lot of people especially as to get to valparaiso. a bit over a quarter of a mile which makes people really start to hit the brakes. down to aurora we have visibility of 2 mi.. some light composite shows we are dry. expect to be dry through the morning. the potential for showers are there. special to the south. 68 degrees is the temperature by 5:00 p.m.. 9:00 p.m. we're down to 63. here is the seven days forecast. friday we hit 77 carries saturday, 81 was sunshine. >> a quick update on the kennedy. all lanes were shut down. that is still the story in terms of the local lanes all

tutu a bad trip fire. we have pictures from some viewers out there we also have nancy down there. look at the entire undercarriage of this is completely engulfed. everything has been shut down to try to get this fire out and clear this off the road. we hear the express lanes are open at this hour. if using get through the in bound it's your best shot. or avoid the kennedy altogether. seeing delays all because of a train derailment just before midnight last night. 10-15 minutes behind schedule there. you can go online and we will have the latest also on the road conditions so you know what your commute is looking like. >>marcus is here ... hi marcus! >> we're talking about twitter today. get a new followers fast, 1000 followers for just 10 dollars! if you're on twitter,

you've no doubt seen these messages in your inbox. but who actually buys these followers, where do they come from, and how can you find out if somebody's following is legit? here's what we discovered. >> it seems like just yesterday we were all watching ashton kutcher become the first user with 1 million followers. but today, 1 million followers is nothing. it's estimated twitter has more than 800 million registered users as that number continues to grow, so does another problem. many of these accounts are not run by row people. >> so much of its is you start an account and make it look as real as possible can. >> social media editor of the chicago tribune. >> how much is this taking account of other people, hijacking and accounts for fishing links? all kinds of ways

to get your hand on an account. take it over and sell it later. they promised that his followers are real but they can't actually prove that there is somebody at the wheel of the account. >> why do these fake account lisaccounts exist? for profits. costing anywhere from five- $1,000 for them. >> is a fraud? >> it is. >> the creators of treateof a twitter audit dot com. you can scan the count to see how much is real or not real. >> it looks at a few things. it says have they treated it recently? what are they talking about, how often, how many people did they follow how many people follow them? things like have they changed their profile picture? a whole bunch of little

things that add up. just suggesting whether it's real or fake. a massive number of followers considered fake or inactive then they probably by their followers. you can charge to advertise on twitter and if you don't have any real followers then you're committing fraud because you tell them you of followers that are not real. but a lot of it is just a reputation thing. if you are just lying about having followers, it's not right. >> he says there's more stake than just embarrassment if you're caught buying phony followers. twitter has a very specific policy. >> you cannot buy or sell followers. it's a policy would have an extensive policy specifically for this. >> if you're caught purchasing if it following your twitter account can be suspended. >> they can tell caused a get

flags from other people if the count is inactive. that's what happens an account that has all these followers to send out things you don't know what they are. twitter can also figure it out if a large number of accounts start following you in a short period of time, it tells you right away that it's not a real actual interaction. >> here's what you can do. scan your followers: twitteraudit.com kleinberg's "so social" column: thursdays in chicago tribune will talk about that more in the next hour. >> a lot of our colleagues here in the media are guilty of this making up names. >> will spend some time going through the counts and i was disappointed in some people that we found on their. >> not here at wgn. look at nancy loo and tom skilling they have lots of followers. those are legitimate. but not some

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you can expect to see a lot of *sting in town this summer. the 16-time grammy award winner is trying his hand at theater and has chosen chicago to roll out his new project, a musical. although he wrote all songs for the show, he's performing none on stage... dean has more. jim carrey is the latest getting closer to the world premiere of the new musical coming to chicago it's called the last ship. this week he was in chicago and we talked to him. >> difficult for me to relinquish the spotlight. and hand the songs over to the actors and realize at some point in the process you have no function but to sit back and watch. it's good for me, i am singing every song as the actors

are trying to be discreet. we've hired some fantastic performer spirit i'm not much of an actor. so it's the best thing i can do to give it away. >> it will be in chicago running through july 13th at the bank of america theatre downtown. you can get more information at broadway in chicago dot com. >> jim carrey is the latest celebrity to take the stage for a college graduation. over the weekend, carrey was the commencement speaker for iowa's maharishi university of management. he got plenty of laughs but also offered some serious advice to the graduating seniors. >> i learned many great lessons from my father. not the least of which is that you can fail at what you don't want. c-will take a chance at doing what you love. >>carrey also received an honorary doctorate degree from the university. >> a quick update on the kennedy. all lands shut down in bound due to a semi truck on

fire. express lanes are open but other than that it will be a slow trip there as things are shut down for the last hour. >> your top stories are next.

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