a man is in custody after setting *his wife on fire on the north side. we are *live with the details. president obama prepares to lay-out his strategy for defeating the "isis" terror group. and the bears open the season with a stunning loss to the buffalo bills in overtime. good morning. i'm dan ponce. and i'm lourdes duarte. thanks for joining us on the wgn morning news at *4 a-m. demetrius ivory has a check of our weather. good morning, demetrius. >> before reaching that we need to welcome you to our morning show. we're thrilled to have you. how did the alarm clock go? >> and not a way to get. >> the way up until at least six and a m. >> as long as you are up by the time larry and robin get here you are fine. >> anybody watching us now is

either up to late orbit can sleep. but to look at our day. i think a lot of people might have stayed up watching football. but sunshine today. high temperature is below--above average. we will top it off by two today. bit of a breeze coming from the south. we will see temperatures climb north of the '80s. 55 in waukegan. 56 in lansing. forget about the rain. we will see warmer air coming our way. so far this month is four degrees warmer than normal. 78 degrees by 5:00 p.m.. here is the 3 day forecast. high temperature climbs up to 80 degrees. a good chance for a slick showers and storms. wednesday we make 78. >> let's start with breaking

news cheered would just got word of a fire on the south side. at this point the fire is sound self vernon. we're told this is a courtyard apartment building. two people have jumped to escape the fire. no word on injuries. we do know there is a large response. the call came in a few minutes after 3:30 a.m.. we're working on that. again, that address is 11238 south of vernon. courtyard apartment building. moving on to some items in terms of traffic. a serious accident with a car slammed into a light pole south bound 83. everything is shut down from northwest highway over to gulf. we do have flashing lights. the good news in this is the volume is light. it looks like the travel times are in good shape we will have a full traffic hit in just a few minutes. a woman is fighting for

her life this morning, after shew was set on fire on the north side. police are holding her husband. tonya francisco is live at the scene with more. >> good morning. the police crime scene tape remains up from six hours after the incident if you can see, the wheelchair that was presumably used by the husband who was arrested in the incident also remains at the scene. here's what we know. behind the salvation army store in the 4300 block of north broadway next to the course restore at the intersection of broadway and montrose. according to the sun-times, the husband and wife in their sixties got into an argument over money and that's when the husband through rubbing alcohol on the woman to set her on fire with a lighter. a witness ran to the woman side putting her down and removing her clothing. eventually shoes

taken to hospital in critical condition. the sun times reports a woman has third degree burns from the top of her head to her waist and burns on the back and front side of her body. also reports during the search of the husband officers found a small bag of marijuana in his prosthetic leg. but husband is now in police custody and police say charges are pending. back to you. >>a car flips over during a car chase, in the city's south side. it happened a few hours ago...around midnight near 35th and cottage grove. police were chasing this car, when it rolled over in a park. four people were pinned inside. all of them were taken to the hospital. three are in critical condition. police have not said why they were chasing the car. president obama will spell out his plans to answer the threat from "isis," in a wednesday night address to the nation. the president insists he won't

send ground troops to syria or iraq. but he told "meet the press," he'll do what he can from the *air, to hunt down "isis" leaders and stop their movement. >> we are not looking at sending in hundreds of thousands of troops. we are going to be part of the international coalition carrying out air strikes in support on the ground by curtis troops. we are going to be putting together a plan for them so that they can retake the territory that had been taken over. >>the president says the air campaign will take months. he says nine other countries have agreed to join the fight against isis in iraq and syria. police in merrillville indiana are mourning the loss of one of their youngest officers. nickolaus schultz died yesterday at christ medical center in oak lawn. the 24-year-old officer had been shot in the head friday night while responding to a call. the man who shot him later committed suicide.

>> if i had caught 100 applicants had to put in applications i would want them to be just like him. he was proactive and when he came to working wanted to make a difference. >>schultz was the first officer to die in the line of duty since the department was founded in 19-71. taking a look at the *other top stories this morning. this mother is charged with the murder of her daughter. waukegan police say nicholette lawrence admitted she hit her eleven year old daughter, raasania coley last week. coley was found unresponsive and died on friday. an autopsy revealed her stomach tore from blunt force trauma. lawrence's other two children are with relatives. she is due back in court september 30-th. chicago police are searching for the attackers who beat and robbed a harvey police officer. it happened early yesterday morning along south lake shore drive near 59th street. the officer... identified as derick moore... was taken to northwestern memorial hospital in critical condition with injuries to his face and head.

a stiff 450 thousand dollars bond for a mount prospect woman accused of critical injuring a state trooper, , then trying to leave the scene of an accident. the officer was struck saturday as he stopped a vehicle on i- 294 near saint charles road. police say, when leslie thurow tried to pull away, she forced another car to roll over... and seven *more people were injured. everyone will recover. two people and two dogs had to be rescued on lake michigan after their boat caught fire. this was about a mile and a half from the 24 hundred block of north lake shore drive on sunday afternoon. the boat was heading back to diversey harbor, when a passenger spotted smoke. shortly after everyone was rescued. the boat went up in flames. no injuries were reported. the bears have dug themselves into a hole, just one game into the season. bears hosting the bills on the lakefront. the bears overcame a ten- point deficit, but in the fourth jay cutler throws a bad interception... buffalo scored 13 points off three bears turnover.

it's tied at 20 in overtime when fred jackson breaks to the left side and pushes chris conte out of the way for a 38- yard run. the bills win it with a short field goal. the bears had 427 yards of offense, but still lose the opener 23-20. full highlights coming up in sports. the kids and coaches from jackie robinson west are waking up in their own beds this morning.. after their big trip to disney world. j-r-w flew back to o'hare airport yesterday. their trip to florida was paid for by the rainbow push coalition and united airlines. the players came back with stories about all the great rides, but now it's time to get back to their normal routines. >> i want to go to sleep, play my game spirit go to school to mark. playing games. >> i was scared a first but not anymore.

>> they dared me to read certain rides. i got on one. i had to ride one of them. >> alike have the says curtis school ... my walmart ...the reverend jesse jackson welcomed the team back home. he says the team could look forward to more educational trips this fall. we're just trying to stretch this championship out. we don't have a lot of good news in the chicago sports these days. >> cure only on top once. nice weather coming today. we will see are temperatures climbing up to 80 degrees by the afternoon. satellite radar composite indicate we are dry. across the country we're finding a disturbance moving into northern and northwestern iowa. it will weaken before it makes its way here. our next chance of rain is coming tomorrow. the isolated showers and storms. tomorrow we

reach 82 chance of rain. wednesday, showers and breezy slight risk of severe thunderstorms high-temperature 78. temperatures fall on thursday. high of only 61 degrees on friday. >> fall is coming. >>coming up ... the bracelet of a fallen 9-eleven firefighter is found a decade after it was lost. we'll tell you how. and an update, after a young boy is attacked by a mountain lion. plus -- visitors at yosemite national park are evacuated after a wildfire spreads dramatically. we'll have the latest. and ahead after 4:30 -- a virus sending hundreds of kids to the hospital may be more widespread than just the midwest.

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falling on the city's south side. this is the apartment fire in a court building along one pulp and south of vernon. we are hearing several people were taken to hospital by ambulance. two people reportedly jumped from the building to get away from the fire. a pretty significant fire in terms of size. it is under control. no update on injuries. that's at 112 and south of vernon. a three

story courtyard apartment building caught fire just after 330 a m. judy wang is heading to the scene she will bring us the latest. >>chick-fil-a founder truett cathy has died. cathy died just after midnight... surrounded by loved ones. his business began near atlanta in 19-67. it grew to become one of the nation's largest restaurant chains. cathy always insisted on keeping his restaurants closed on sundays... in honor of his christian faith. he also wrote a number of best- selling books on business, finance and faith. he was 93. british leaders are offering concessions to the voters of scotland, as a new poll suggests growing support for scottish independence. the sunday times reports, the scottish support breaking away on their own, 51 percent to 49. scotland has been part of the u-k for more than 300 years. and to keep it that way, britain is now offering the scots greater authority over their country's spending and welfare rates if they *reject independence. election day is september 18-th. a 6-year-old boy is recovering

in the hospital after he was attacked by a mountain lion in northern california yesterday. the boy was hiking with his family near this cupertino winery when the mountain lion struck him from behind. investigators said the cat pounced on the child and tried to drag him away. his parents had to fight the lion off. authorities have closed all trails in the area while they search for the animal. the boy is hospitalized with moderate injuries. he's expected to survive. about 100 people had to be rescued from the wildfires in yosemite national park. the fire has spread to 700- acres, since it started on friday. hikers were airlifted from a rock formation called "half dome peak." helicopters also picked up visitors at nearby campgrounds and hiking trails. the park remains open except for trails near the evacuation site. as the 13th anniversary of the september 11th attacks comes this week -- there is comfort for the family of a new york firefighter who died that day. it's a metal bracelet, bearing the name of the fallen firefighter michael otten, who was killed when the twin towers fell. his son jason wore this bracelet -- but lost it nearly a

decade ago, when he was just 11 years old. about two weeks ago, a new york woman found it on the beach at a long island park. she tracked down otten's family and returned it. that's a nice story. >> good morning. sunshine coming our way. a nice start to the work week into it what it can because after monday or tuesday big temperatures are born to drop. summer is not officially over but it will feel like it starting on wednesday. wind at the south right now at 3 mi.. this is where we should be for this time of the day. not very high humidity. i hope you have the windows open. give the air conditioner a break. it's 56 at this hour in garlic. 53 in joliet. satellite's radar composite shows no rain in this area. on the flip side of the mississippi there will be some showers. that disturbance stays

over there we will wait for the next front to come through and it will move in, wednesday you'll see the showers through the afternoon than the low pressure system comes out tuesday and wednesday. behind that we have a pool of cool air. this is the type of error change you will feel. 80 degrees today to degrees warmer than normal. sonny. dry. tonight's slow down to 60 degrees. tuesday's high, 82. after wednesday will be lucky to see 70 for the next four-five days. let's check out the roads. >> a busy start out there this morning we of an accident of a car into a light pole with emergency crews on the scene. the south bound 83. at this point everything is shut down from northwest highway. on top of that, flashing lights still in place along roosevelt causing

some big delays leading up to that spot. even though volume is a fairly light. overall the numbers look good. we do have a second fire on patterson avenue very close to kill patrick being told fire crews are staging an addison and cicero. be prepared to be detoured from that. another traffic hit coming in just a few minutes. >> look at you guys your back. >> we're back together. >> are you guys going to be winning together? >> that was from throwbacks thursday. talking about what we're doing talking about an organization called young at heart putting older pets into new homes. senior pets from shelters they are usually the first pass to go when the shelters need to make room. this organization is buying homes--

finding homes. this one is right up your alley. then i know you love your dog. this is below, a 10 year-old male looking for a new home. a very sweet and funny mix. he's looking for a new home. and this cat as well. assignees mixed cat, female, 10 years old. all kinds of animals are good to tell you more about this organization what they to hiking get in touch with them. if you're looking for a pet, at this point these pets need to find a home. they're very well- trained already. baltimore. >>coming up ... how *spinach helps you lose weight. plus -- president obama is under fire for breaking a promise on immigration. why he did it, coming up in about 15 minutes. and -- a disappointing start to the season for the bears. we'll have reaction, next in sports.

the bears opener yesterday was disappointing. you never know what you have coming out of the preseason. in the first game that counts the bears were not

so good against the buffalo bills could not get it done. right down the field on the opening possession but then coupler written into trouble. second quarter than it was late turning back with the ball intercepted who takes the way back into the bears territory. a penalty as well. first and goal at the seven and the quarterback puts it out there wide-open easy touchdown 17-7. after the bears interception in the third quarter coupler got busy and finished off a drive to marshall. game tied at 17. going into overtime that's when the bears failed to score on their first possession. they shred the defense 40 yds to the one. abusing cris carpenter on the way down. this is a chip shot field goal spoiling the party. this shocked a lot of people.

23-20 for the bills in overtime. >> no one knows what we're doing. i know you guys think you know but you don't know. >> like we said, turnovers and penalties, those can kill you. >> we were stalled on the three turnovers we were moving the ball we have long field all day. we didn't get it done because we turned the ball. >> we lost the turnover margin and historical the it's been proven this the 80 percent chance depending on your plus. i really truly believe that was the game. >> it doesn't get any easier for the bears' next week in san francisco to take on the forty- niners. >> >> that is not a good looking start. >> green bay lost. so there's

that. >> you are the glass half full kind of guy. >> maybe not as much this year. let's check out the weather. six degrees right now. 71 at 10:00 a.m.. it's all sunshine this morning. our high will reach 80 degrees. a bit warmer than normal. i will tell you when the rain returns in a moment. let's go over to erin for some breaking news. >> we're just getting new information in on this fire along south vernon and 112. we're told three children were killed in this fire. two other adults were taken in critical condition to area hospitals. this is a long south of vernon and 112, 3 story court erred building with two adults who jumped from the building to escape the fire. there were taken in critical condition to the area hospitals we're learning three children were killed in that fire. they say

the fire has been struck but obviously emergency responders and crews are staging in the area. we have a second fire alarm patterson and killed patrick. not far away at addison and cicero they are blocked off. you'll have to be detoured are from there until they can get this fire under control. on top of that, on the road we are dealing with a full stretch of 83 close from northwest highway to golf ball because of a car into a light pole this morning. emergency responders are on the scene. they're not expecting this to open up until 5:00 a.m.. we do have the least this morning as well along the kennedy expressway. as to head toward the tri-state, these lands are being squeezed down about a mile and a half. even though volume is typically light we are seeing backups. looking at the numbers, traffic is moving pretty normally accept

the outbound is a bit sluggish. edens looking good earlier construction on the compound was picked up early and moved out of the way. so far so good both sides of the dike. stevenson looks good as to the tollways and expressway's. >> still more to come. >> details on a respiratory virus that has hit several states across the midwest sickening hundreds of kids. >> and a coach throws his support behind one of the illinois candidates for governor. >> and the jack the ripper murder mystery has stumped professionals for hundreds of years but

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setting *his wife on fire on the north side. we are *live with the details. president obama prepares to lay-out his strategy for defeating the "isis" terror group. good morning, i'm dan ponce. and i'm lourdes duarte. let's go to demetrius ivory for a check of the weather. hi, demetrius. >> can we repeat yesterday for the rest of the week? >> i would be out of a job but it would be sunny and knights if

i could control it. summer hangs on not over yet. we hate it when people say summer is unofficially over. it's not over until a few weeks. we do have a few clouds today. partly sunny. temperatures are pretty good. 56 ring now in lansing. 55 degrees in morris. the satellite shows no rain today tuesday will be different. we are up in the beginning of the week. tomorrow we make 82. wednesday we have a chance of showers and storms. a big cold front comes through high of only 65 on thursday. high of 61 on friday. that will be our coolest day. more on the forecast in a moment. >> getting new information in from an earlier fire at south of vernon and 112. fire has been

struck but we have heard three children were killed in this early morning fire. a three story courtyard apartment building. when it first came across the scanner we heard two people had jumped. the two adults were taken to hospitals but it has been confirmed three children did not make it out of the fire. at this point, the fire has been struck but crews are still working to get more information about the condition of those two adults who jumped. that's the first part. a second fire we're watching this morning. no word on injuries this is a paterson close to kilpatrick crews are staging through cicero and looks like there's a few blocks completely blocked off. watch for delays. a few other hot spots are on the roads we will have more in just a few minutes. >>a woman is in very critical condition at stroger hospital, after she was set on fire on the north side.

police are holding her husband. tonya francisco is live at the scene with more. >> the husband is reportedly disabled. here at the scene, a wheelchair remains behind the crime scene tape that police used to rope off the area where this happened. it happened around 9:00 last night behind the salvation army store in the fourth 300 block of north broadway. the husband and wife apparently got into an argument over money and the husband through rubbing alcohol on her and set her on fire with a later. the witness reportedly ran to help, putting her down and removing clothing. eventually shoes taken to hospital in critical condition. reports say the woman has a third degree burns from the top of her head to her waist and burns on her back and front of her body. also reporting during a search of the husband, police

found a small bag of marijuana in his prosthetic leg. the husband is in police custody and charged this morning. charges are pending. back to you. >>a car flips over during a car chase, in the city's south side. it happened a few hour ago...around midnight near 35th and cottage grove. police were chasing this car, when it rolled over in a park. four people were pinned inside. all of them were taken to the hospital. three are in critical condition. police have not said why they were chasing the car. president obama will spell out his plans to answer the threat from "isis," in a wednesday night address to the nation. the president insists he won't send ground troops to syria or iraq. but he says he'll do what he can from the *air, to hunt down "isis" leaders and stop their movement. nine other countries have signed on, to help in the fight against "isis." a rare virus is sending hundreds of children to the hospital. >> the respiratory virus causes

cold like symptoms but gets worse progressively. doctors say it's an extremely rare virus. the number of cases have escalated since school began. more than 1000 children have come down with it. similar incidents reported in illinois. 10 states have contacted the cdc for help investigating clusters of the virus. >> it causes respiratory illness and among that illnesses that are more serious that require hospitalization. especially if the trigger a serious asthma attacks. >> clusters have been seen in the past have been small maybe 25-30 patients. but we were seeing as many as that in one day. >> the good news is the virus is not usually fatal. test results are pending to see if it's a regional outbreak. >>taking a look at the *other

top stories this morning. this mother is charged with the murder of her daughter. waukegan police say nicholette lawrence admitted she hit her eleven year old daughter, raasania coley last week. coley was found unresponsive and died on friday. an autopsy revealed her stomach tore from blunt force trauma. lawrence's other two children are with relatives. she is due back in court september 30-th. jury selection begins today for the trial of a man charged with killing his teenaged ex- girlfriend. prosecutors say erick maya shot 15 year old briana valle, and her mother, in their driveway in romeoville, in february. valle died, but her mother survived. a tribune investigation found that the mother had been trying to keep her daughter away from maya. orland park firefighters are mourning the death of one of their own. firefighter wes peak was killed in a car crash yesterday morning on his way to work. it happened on i-57 and 190th street in matteson. peak lost control of his vehicle and struck a metal pole. the accident is under investigation. the bears got off to a bad start in the season- opener

against buffalo. the offense racked up 427 yards, but jay cutler threw two interceptions and the bills scored 13 points off three turnovers. the bears defense gave up nearly two- hundred rushing yards, and they lose in overtime, 23-20. vacation's over for members of congress. they return back to capitol hill today after their summer recess. their schedule will be packed... with issues ranging from immigration to avoiding another government shutdown. many congressional leaders only have a few weeks on the hill before hitting the campaign trail for their midterm elections in november. all 435 seats in the house and a third of the seats in the senate are up for grabs on november 4th. latino activists are enraged that president obama has decided to postpone any unilateral action to grant legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants. faced with widespread public *opposition to legalization, the president knows that any action now could cost more democratic senators their seats this fall. so he'll wait until after the election.

chicago congressman luis gutierrez and other activists say obama broke a promise to act without congressional approval to effectively grant permanent residency to as many as 5 million immigrants. governor quinn spent his sunday pushing for a statewide increase in the minimum wage, to at least ten dollars an hour. voters will weigh in on it, in november. at the blue frog bar and grills, we are born to work night and day on behalf of this great cause. it's a cause here in illinois and all across our country. in his state of the union speech the president says it raised the wage parity give america a raise. >> at the blue from bar and grill, quinn was joined by maryland governor martin o'malley, who recently signed legislation raising *his state's minimum wage to 10 dollars, 10 cents an hour. mike ditka is pitching politics in his latest commercial. he's supporting bruce rauner for governor.

>> you know what i like about you? you are tough. you attack the special interest right in the mouth. >>this commercial aired twice during yesterday's bears game. ditka is known as a longtime supporter of the republican party. a rauner spokesman says ditka was not paid for this appearance. a 3-year-old hawaiian boy... was given a life-changing gift. rayden ka-hae was born without fingers. he knew he was different. so he wanted an iron man hand. well, he got his wish. with the help of a 3-d printer, a company called e-nable... created him a new hand. normally. a prosthetic hand could cost about 40-thousand dollars. but this mechanical body-powered hand costs only about $50 dollars to build. better yet... the hand will be able to be refitted as he gets older. demetrius is back with another look at your forecast. >> today, temperatures are going to be warmer than normal. we

climb up to 80 degrees. it won't be hot outside. no rain. six degrees are the current temperatures. wind at 3 mi.. it is pleasant. two points are down. 51 degrees when the humidity drops. it can't feel homeless that there is which is the good news. in waukegan is 55. aurora reading at 53. satellite composite shows one more day of dry weather. yesterday was picture perfect. the closest line of showers is 600-700 mi. away in northwestern iowa. today we are mainly sunny. warm and dry. today's low temperature down to 60. partly cloudy tonight. wind picking up out of the south 5-10 mi.. tuesday, much of the day is dry. in the afternoon and evening we

get that chance of rain. wednesday, 7 percent chance of showers and storms. we cooled down to 78 degrees. >> still ahead, a royal announcement from buckingham palace. >> and uncovering just who was jack the ripper. and the owner of the atlanta hawks is selling his team after emails made public. >> and drew carey taking action after an ice bucket challenge video goes by role for all the wrong reasons.

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meals a day, without experiencing cravings. i don't know if i believe that. >> that was a long read. here are a few stories that are an author and amateur sleuth claims to have solved the notorious *jack the ripper* murder mystery. in his book, "naming jack the ripper," russel edwards reveals what he says is the true identity of the serial killer who killed 5-women in london, all that time ago. a polish immigrant who went to london in the early 18-80s, and was later committed to an insane asylum. edwards says d-n-a analysis gave him the answer. >> getting dna from the materials from the killer and to have it match is the main thing. >>edwards says a blood-stained shawl he bought in 20-07 after an auction, held the vital d-n- a evidence which led him to the killer.

comedian drew carey is offering a 10 thousand dollar reward for information on teens who pulled a terrible ice bucket challenge prank. last week a video surfaced online of an ohio teen with autism being doused in human waste and cigarette butts. carey took to social media after the mother of a 14-year- old boy with autism told police she found the video. he tweeted that the kids should be arrested and expelled. jenny mccarthy also tweeted that she would help double carey's efforts. less than a month after racially insensitive comments forced donald sterling to sell the l-a clippers, *another n-b-a owner is losing his team. bruce levenson will sell his controlling interest in the atlanta hawks. levenson has come under fire for an e-mail her sent to the club's co-owners in 2012. in it, he said the fan base at home games was 70 percent black, and whites were being scared away. levenson admits the remarks were inappropriate and insensitive. pittsburgh steelers antonio brown looked more like bruce lee during this punt return. brown looked like he was on his

way to score, since all he had was cleveland's punter in front of him.. but then brown jumps and kicks the punter right in the face. he got tackled right after that. and then he was called for unsportsmanlike conduct.. a 15 yard penalty. the steelers went on to win the game. >> i don't even know what to say. >> we could display that all morning. just getting word in from buckingham palace. the duchess of cambridge is expecting her second child! she said to be suffering from very acute morning sickness just like the first time. she's been treated by doctors. no word on a due date. prince george is 15 months old. >> very acute morning sickness. i have heard that before.

>> is that just speculation? >> can't we all feeling that this morning? >> she's doing just fine. how are you feeling? >> i am getting there. it is coming. getting there. >> we are off not long from now. let's take a look at our day. temperatures in the low 80s. a fairly nice day. the best we can do is bring a sunshine on this monday. yesterday was two degrees warmer than normal. 53 in kankakee. 53 in union. tonight, and tomorrow night, perfect night to open your windows. as to take a look at the satellites, here's the seven days forecast. wednesday and we make 78 degrees. >> of again, just got word that

judy wang is on scene at that fire at 112 let's go up to her now. >> good morning. we are at the corner of 113 and martin luther king drive. this is where the fire department is designating the staging area. we expect any time this morning to get a briefing on what has happened. still try to gather more information to get details on what happened. here's what we do know. this happened at 112 and vernon. a court your building pre building seemed to be affected. three children were killed and an adult killed we have also heard two people jumped from the building to escape the fire. we don't have any information at this point about the three children. we just know they were found in a front bedroom of one of the buildings. two other adults were seen jumping to escape this fire. this fire call came at

3:30 a.m.. it sounds like the firefighters were able to get the fire out about 30 minutes later. we are at 113 and can drive. we are a block and a half from where this building started. it's about a block over and to the east. this is the closest we have been able to get. i didn't walk down there a few minutes ago. there is still a lot of activity. many residents are outside. doesn't sound like all the details are put together yet. some people said they heard there were people killed but they had not learned more than i did. i spoke with a few people who live across the street who said the fire department did not to evacuate them but they left their building on their own. this broke out at about 3:30 a.m.. a courtyard building.

three buildings next to each other at 112 and vernon. three children dead, an adult killed and possibly two others in critical condition at the hospital. back to you. >>fifth sets take a look at our

day. high temperature today for up to 80 degrees. 82 for the highest moral. 20 percent chance of showers and storms. wednesday we make 78. a cold front comes through coughing or temperatures significantly. into thursday high temperature of 65. preconditions and friday we make 61. temperatures won't really rebound after that front moves through. high temperature and 67 on sunday. let's check on the roads. >> an update to the fatal fire early this morning on the city's south side at 112 and self vernon. here is a video from the scene and the latest coming in from firefighters. four people

killed in the fire three victims were children. the other adults taken in critical condition after jumping from the building has since taken to hospital. no update at this point on that individual's condition. the fire was struck just before 4:00. obviously the investigation is going to continue for some time. for victims one in critical condition. here's where the original fire was. a few other fires we are watching at patterson avenue crews along madison and cicero. more details on that and a quick peek at your travel times coming up. >> time for today's early bird special. who did it joan rivers had a famous a feud with? gillette know, johnny carson or david letterman? you can log onto our contest page now and win a $50 gift card to ace

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