the man whose confession free to death row inmate is going free today. after them. we welcome our viewers were watching a sign on the countraround the country. >> cost of a conviction against a second man in a double murder linked to one of the most pivotal death penalty cases. confessed to killing two people on the south side in 1982. the 11th-hour confession in 1999 resulted in a release of the inmate. to have been convicted of the

killings and sentenced to death. porter's case led to widespread reform and the end of capital punishment in illinois. the state attorney decided to reexamine the case when simons lawyers argue that the case against him was weak despite the confession. flynn may be released from a down state prison this hour. it is unclear if anyone else will be prosecuted. >> parties are investigating after someone called in a bomb threat. chicago police said a male caller made the phone: 7:15 a.m.. there are no reports of any injuries. u.s. marshals are handling the investigation appeared home and security stepped up security at federal buildings across the country. they said there were no specific threats. >> year following a developing story out of kansas. to people are dead after a small plane crash. the plane lost an engine upon takeoff and crashed into a

nearby flight safety building. flu for miles around the city.it flew from miles around the city. authorities are trying to determine how many people were in the building during the time of the crash. >> after reportedly trading shots with chicago police officers. davis was hit several times and head back and legs. police making a traffic stop heard shots fired at 51st and would. when they arrive at the scene they spotted davis. >> family members waited at the hospital this morning his mother questioned w wa shot from behind if he was firing at police. >> stay tentative agreement on a new contract that could end a nearly monthlong strike. >> if approved schools will be back open again on monday. >> i was extremely pleased. as you know

our children have suffered immensely because of the strike. the pants as well. >> it was extremely good to miss. >> reacting to news that the teacher strike could very well be over. the board of education chairman wednesday tried to break the impasse after tensions boiled over tuesday. telling agitated and frustrate d parents to sit down and shut up. after chico brokered a marathon negotiation session a tentative agreement was reached late last night. a little bit before midnight. teachers' vote on the deal today. one special ed teacher says she is hopeful that it has the necessary ingredients like better wages. >> our insurance was very important to

us. with our wages being so much lower than other districts that was something that we were holding for. though we all son of maintain some respect from this administration which has been lacking for many years. >> assuming the deal passes students will be back in class monday morning. teachers will come back tomorrow to prepare for their arrival. the question is how much longer will the school year have to go because of all of those days that have been missed >> returned to chicago last monday and is now being monitored by health officials. he says he received a call on wednesday from the chicago department of public health. tunis is arrive to take his temperature. he sent out this photo.

>> the way the public information campaign has been structured as they are telling absolutely everybody regardless of where you are from do not touch anybody. not even accidentally bumped into anybody. i abided by those rules. it is absolutely necessary. >> under cdc protocols travelers or not symptomatic must be monitored for 21 days. the state once been nurse retreated ebola patients to stay home.the state wants and nurses to treat people the patience to stay home. the state of maine says she does not stay at home until november 10th the state will go to court to enforce the quarantine. she says the u.s. constitution and science are on her side. there is no justification for the state of maine to quarantine her. >> she does not have the symptoms. the medical community continues to tell us

that as one issue does not have the symptoms she is not a risk foin regard of being contagious >> want to respect your own. health officials point to the case of dr. spencer. he walked around manhattan for days before he developed symptoms. a water main broke near park street and west would drive. causing water to drop in the distribution building. if you live in the area you're advised to boil water for at least five minutes before using it for drinking. >> the candidates for illinois governor was set a new record for campaign spending by a long shot. >> the governor and republican challenger are on pace to spend more than $100 million. >> quinn has raised

more than 29 million. four years ago him and his challenger set a record by spending $50 million on a race. >> a man his confession to a double murder freed death row inmate and is now going free himself. joins us live in the loop with more on our top story. >> state attorney a need alvarez wrapping up a news conference here just moments ago. basically saying that in the interest of justice she had to vacate the sentence. as well as voluntary manslaughter. the case that dates back to the early '80s. it was back in fashion that led to the release of anthony porter who was convicted of the crimes. he was on death row which eventually led to basically the end of the death penalty here in the state of illinois. the state's attorney saying that the private

investigator as well as the innocence project a byproduct of the north western journalism school. >> even going as far as using an actor to portray an eyewitness >> to get him to confess. as i said the state attorney just wrapping up a press conference moments ago. >> the original confession made by simon and the coercive tactics that were employed by investigators have tainted this case from the onset and brought the credibility of many important factors. >> the end of the day and in the best interest of justice we can reach no other conclusion but that the investigation of this case has been so deeply corrosive and corrupted that we can no longer

maintain the legitimacy of the conviction. >> the gentleman may be released from the downstate facility. >> rear told why his attorney that he will likely be not be available to speak with us this afternoon. perhaps tomorrow they will be talking it over. as far as anyone else will be charged, the state's attorney was asked that question. she says right now they do not have any suspects. they do say a lot of i would mrs that they of gone back to speak to well reviewing this case a yearlong review, they say a number of the eyewitnesses to point to porter as the shooter in this case. he was released when the confession from simon was brought out. >> as far as any charges or investigation could begin against porter, jeopardy has been attached. right now there is nothing they can do.

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and lost a number of opportunities to find the missing woman before she became a victim of a suspected serial killer. >> a grim day for the family believed to be one of darren vaughn's 7 victims. her body for the first time here at the man will funeral home in gary. this was the first time they laid eyes on her since she disappeared in january. >> when she did not come home and is something had happened. that is one i immediately called the police. >> harsh words for the gary police department from the victim's mother claiming that detectives did little to track down the 20 year-old whose body was discovered earlier this month inside of an abandoned home. she called police repeatedly because

it was on like a daughter to disappear without: her family. they filed a missing person's report. relatives say the case got reassigned to another detective. according to the family did not know the missing persons case was assigned to him. >> the window of opportunity was lost early last year. >> i feel like they put her on the back burner and left the case there. >> think o'clock the sky along time ago. >> 82 year-old toddler by the name of trayvon clinton. >> much more to come later today. >> a young woman

dying of brain cancer says she feels good and now is not the time to end her life. doctors have given a 29 real the few months to live. decided to take her life under doctor assisted suicide. today is his birthday. she just released a new video saying she feels good and it does not seem like the right time. >> i still have joy. i still smile and laugh with my family and friends. it does not feel like the right time right now. it will come. i feel myself getting sicker. it is happening each week. >> the police department in pennsylvania is beefing up its own security as the search for a cop killer in the area enters its seventh week. >> accused of killing two state troopers. he is a

survivalist and investigators believe he is still hiding in that area. for their own safety police headquarters is putting it in a security fence. the offense was on the departments to do list but the case made it a top party. the family of five found dead in their home last month were poisoned. >> police reports eyecups of colored liquid were found next to each of the bodies. construction crews have built a burma an attempt to divert the mall and rock from one home in its path. the law but consumed a storage shed yesterday. about 15 homes and a warehouse threatened. no evacuation have been ordered. residents

are clearing out the long and says the river was is towards the ocean. >> the theories of a big bang and evolution are real. they do not compete with catholic doctrine. >> the scientific big bang theory on the origin of the universe still requires the concept. >> comments seemed to contradict the idea of intelligent design. >> later and sports cubs fans eagerly await confirmation of reports the team has hired a manager. >> the store is refusing to open on thanksgiving. >> me in the kitchen with the folks from the chicken shed.

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>> the off season has just begun. it looks like the chicago cubs already landed the biggest free agent in baseball. they are on the verge of finalizing a deal to make kill madd in the new manager. this is not announce anything yet. he opted out of his contract with the tampa bay rays last week. current chicago cubs' manager was hired last year and still has two years left on his deal. the chicago cubs gave him an official endorsement. for a >> the first time in five years the world series trophy gone back to san francisco. he singles to right field. the go-ahead run scores for the giants. it comes in on two days' rest and pitches five.

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>> that is really going to feel like halloween weather. what a change. what goes on today totally be lies what is going on tomorrow. that has circulated up to the pacific. part of that energy is mixing and with a storm that is going to develop tomorrow. it is going to give us some lakeshore flooding and high winds. the highest wage we have seen on the lake historically have been in the low 20s. they will be up in the range just off of the shoreline. it will be quite a scene later tomorrow. the waves will be building as the day goes on. >> they are starting to pass the peak right now. some it's a shot from north brooke. shows the

caller's still beautiful their parencolors are still beautiful. >> this gorgeous shot. look at the shock of the signs that last night. a beautiful sunset around here. captures the north branch of the chicago river. probably sums it all up. saying there are more colors on the ground then there are on the trees. still looking very nice. we are last to change the leaves because of our positioning on the lake. the mid-level clouds announced the approach of a weather system that is going to be windy cold halloween weather producer. the sunshine that is back for a day and predicted higher 55 which is an improvement on the 47 that we saw yesterday. you could see how there are modestly higher temperatures here in

the chicago area. we are about 3-5 degrees across the area. >> to keep it mostly as a liquid. we're going to start raining tomorrow. the evaporation of the raindrops can bring some flakes of snow in parts of the area. to guard him

on the chill with 31. here are the cloud starting to encroach on our air space. if we widen the view we will see this weather system that has marched in. these are the remnants right out here. and some tropical form. watch how the race across the country right here. here's the arctic front coming down behind it that starts a whole process of intensification. it is going to get quite windy. right now have 54 it kankakee. 50 at the lincoln park. forties' from harvard. sunshine coming through the clouds that are mixed in the area. this is a halloween

storm system. it will bring us the coldest halloween in 18 years. when dust will build up to 45 mi. per hour. they will build waives a 15-20 ft. over lake michigan >> bringing like the fact rainshowers into the area. look at the waves. >> not real high in the morning. 2 ft. high at 5:00 a.m.. 8 ft. at 11. >> up not far from 20 ft.. beyond that tomorrow evening. there are frost and freeze revisory south of us. in anticipation of the storm there storm warnings. >> the wind action is going to pile the water against the shoreline. they could submerge parts of the chicago area beaches. lakefronts nullifies result to

the north. >> keep in mind the lake is about 2 ft. higher than it was a year ago. we have some water to work with. here's what a setting up the cold air. >> the jetto jump dives down. the wind up a jet stream level similar wind blowing with gusto down at the surface. there's a lot of momentum rushing south word. that is when you get really heavy wind. purple areas are 40 mi. per hour wind gusts. look at the forecast. that was the morning. here saturday morning. the high comes over us. the wind got to die down. look at the wind and that is coming in from the west. i would not want to be up on a cable between marina city and that wind regime. in this one to be locking in from the south later in the day. tomorrow here of the wind gusts. the blow with

gusto all the way to lake superior right down to texas. it is going to be pretty windy. >> here's a closer look at the wind that will lock and by morning. these are estimated wind gust. they will be gusting to 40 mi. per hour and higher. 50 mi. per hour wind gust estimated. one of our model said there could b$60 >> those folks will be bending down the hatches too. here's our forecast for chicago. clouds gather as the halloween storm begins to affect the area. and yet no wind from that today. a high temperature of 55. tonight it will be clouding over and wind will increase late tonight bringing like the fact rainshowers and by morning.

>> 67 up in the city. tomorrow lakeshore flood advisory kicks in at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. runs to 4:00 p.m. saturday. cloudy and very windy. like the fact rainshowers. >> more aircraft. you do not want queens.wings. >> it will be pretty

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perfect site to any meal. a southern biscuit. chef and owner of lq chicken shack. >> in this sort of the drive up window on the side. our small fry chicken was so popular we decided to do a knockoff take out shack. >> it is smoked fried chicken. >> now we can bring it back to the office with us. >> will we are doing today is making the biscuits. >> and here we have

a floured baking powder baking soda and salt. all of the dry ingredients first. use if the together. when you are making this gets you do not want to work biscuits to much because it builds the gluten. we had the shortening and butter. like to get a little butter for a little bit of you have to get in there and get dirty. you're cutting the fat into the flour. the key to biscuits is you want to leave the fed in chunksfat in chunks. : it takes the moisture makes the biscuit flaky. you get your hands dirty. you see how it starts. the move it around. we will clean off a little bit. take the buttermilk. use

whole milk powder milk. >> when you put it in this is when you start to work it together. the biscuits slowly start to come together. >> this is the best way to do it. it is one to make a little bit of a mess but that is all right. as he makes you want to do it nice and gently. you wanted to just come together. it is ok to have the powder and mixture together. as the flower soaks up the buttermilk it starts to come together more and more. all of the flour mixed up in here. what you do is once you get it together and you could mix together all the way through, you can see. you do not want to work it

like a bread. that is when you start to build the gluten. >> you will take the cotter straight down and he will cut biscuits out. >> push it out with your fingers. >> a comes together. when you bake is at home you're going to want to bake the is in a pan with airtight together. where they ard together. >> the pan is now greece? >>just a dry pan. they will come out like the biscuits over there. i am going to crack this guy open. to see all the air pockets. it iooks delicious. >>we brought collard greens. a roasted potato salad. >>that looks

amazing. it is deli cious. you have to like rosemary and mustard. a little bit of mayo. grits with bacon. smoke fried chicken. our roasted corn salad. we use our ivory sauce. that is a meal. >>i love it. >>with the chicken you get honey. it is really delicious. >>lime aide and sweet tea. >>thank you. >>serving out of the bucktown space. find out more. >>we will have this wrecipe on our >>we will have this wrecipe on our

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time for the answer to today's trivia question. >> how many games did they win? >> 116. this set the record for the most wins in a season. however there were not able to win the world series that year. the loss to the chicago white sox. >> another look at our drizzly weather forecast. >>it has an h on the weather map. >> it is going to be quite a wind producer around there. there you see the wind during the day tomorrow. that is by 9:10 a.m. tomorrow morning. there is tomorrow evening. it is going to get quite windy. we have some like effect rain showers. some of these coming in tonight will not be totally lake of fact. look how these develop. could mix

with some wet snow in some areas away from the like. incredibly warm. with a mid 50 degree lake water temperature would not even consider the chance of snow fall. this would be raining in to some dry air. it tends to lead to a evaporative cooling. >> rear now we are a little warmer than we have been. it is 49 degrees. of a cooler air is pulling up to the north. that is what will come plunging southward. >> watch how fast this starts moving out of here. it is chilly on saturday. by sunday we're back to the upper 50s. >> and that of a cool off coming after that. nothing barbaric looking. >> loss of isobars on them. lots of us aboard as a means to pressure changes quickly over a small

area. nature response by blowing the wind at trying to put everything back in balance. a process that never quite does it. >> tomorrow a flood warning at 11:00 a.m.. runs to 4:00 a.m. saturday morning. there'll be huge waves a near record level waves. a record level high waves and the 20-22 ft. range. that is where they will be just off shore. crashing on the shore line me to have ways of 15-20 ft. in some areas. the sunshine breaks out in the afternoon. kind of cloudy and rainy next week. >> it is going to be windy. interesting to see the state of windy. interesting to see the state of the lake.

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