and chicago talk about getting along. bridging the gap between law- enforcement and the community. our top story the attorney general talking about trust. will the discussion of how the it ministration to improve relations between police department and citizens. he is beholden similar forms and other cities across the country. the meetings are in response to recent high profile cases. a white house panel will look into creating a national database that tracks all civilian deaths

at the hands of police officers in the wake of the michael brown and eric gardner cases. a lot of people say voluntary police reported of civilian deaths does not go far enough. they want it to be made mandatory. would make it easier to track questionable patterns of the police behavior. a medical examiner has reaffirmed the initial ruling that the death of tamir rice is a homicide. he was playing with a to a gun in a park on november 22nd when cleveland police officer fired thinking the boy had a real gun. the family is already suing the cleveland police department. >> it with a 10 day suspension for blasting a popular rock song while escorting protesters. >> protestors marching against police violence this past week. critics

say that leonard scanner to it has been used by some big groups as an anthem of southern pride. >> alabamas was also the scene of police violence against civil-rights demonstrators in the 1960's. the officer in question said he was playing the song as a fan of the university of alabama football team. >> will county and will police officer accused of murder are close to reaching a settlement. a arrested in october 2010 for allegedly shooting and killing one person and wounding two others. charges dropped several days later. police later linked the shootings to 40 year-old. asking for more than $1 million in damages. the committee approved last night their lawyers recommendation for a settlement. the county board still needs to vote. the details have been released. >> the board president pushes to and a state law requiring most

teenagers to be prosecuted as adults is charged with murder and other crimes. >> what alternative is he offering. >> right now she does not want an alternative. she was this law basically taken off of the books. it was put on the books back in 1982. undersign all in favor of changing this low. in a packed board room speakers told stories about 15-16 year-old being treated as adults for certain serious crimes as you mentioned. like murder and armed robbery just to name a few. this was done regardless of the circumstances surrounding the crime. >> decided cases and statistics not to mention the fact that children's minds develop different times now buy a birthday. the automatic transfer law is just unfair. it is unfairly used to punish young men of color. and a

three-year juvenile initiative study from 2010-2012 period of the 257 automatic transfers to adult criminal court only one was white. once in the adult system their 34% more likely to commit another crime. subjected to mandatory minimum sentences. many will have felonies on the record for ever. >> deeply unfair practice. impact's use of color. automatic transfers the key driver of the increase in the juvenile temporary detention center population. right now there is legislation going to springfield. lawmakers should take it up this spring. >> police are looking for two men who was salted and elderly man on the blue line. those all caught on camera. >> this recording shows two men taking turns smacking and jabbing an elderly man. no police report was filed put

the video was uploaded to youtube. it has been watched 90,000 times. chicago is paying tribute to the girl shot to death in the south side park. >> another parked just renamed in her memory. live in the brownsville neighborhood with more. >> this is such a great honor and a great holiday gift. right now this is box foreign park. >> under a proposal. the park is in the 4300 block of south calumet ave. a block from the parents lived under the $1.2 million project. the expansion would include nearly 2 a. south of the 43rd street green light station. it would represent one piece of a larger plan to redevelop this area. the 15 year-old to a shot in january of 2013. she and classmates were at the park near president obama can

with a home. celebrating the end of final exams. she got caught in gang crossfire. she performed in the president's inauguration in washington d.c.. >> the show obama came back to chicago to attend her funeral calls the renaming of the park a fitting tribute. this is where she lived. to love to go to the park to read. she cannot wait for the day when she walks by and sees her daughter's name. >> is because of who she was that this opportunity is even possible. >> i wish i had heard to hold her. to see a piece of remembrance of her in the park is absolutely awesome. >> the chicago park district says the community could have a say as to what it would like to see at this park. >> she would like to see an area for

reading, an area for dogs. something for kids of all ages of this park. this way everybody can remember her daughter not for the way she left before the way she lived. >> plans of hansard for a memorial service. service will be held next wednesday morning. she reportedly stated in her final legal documents that she did not want a funeral or awake. setter friends and family members could hold a memorial service for her. >> she does suddenly this week after suffering a stroke. >> the governor- elect has made two more staff appointments. >> a partner at the law firm of bonds >> joseph cathy to be his d.c. director to work with the illinois delegation of federal legislation.

>> named the newest addition. the newly christened a lesson we cold sea otter. she is rescued in a beach in california. when he jogged heard her crying and notified the marine mammal center. more than 10,000 votes were drawn in an on- line contest. she'll make her aquarium debut in the spring. >> music to pet lovers here is. what the pope has to say about dogs and heaven. >> a computer glitch stops air traffic for hours at one of the busiest airports. i >> a super model comes forward its new accusations against bill cuss be. a1

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>> him major travel disruption this morning in some of the busiest airspace. the computer failure of the main air traffic control that oversees london's airspace. as a result the authorities had to restrict access for a brief time and caused serious problems for heathrow airport and at least four others nearby. travelers heading to and from these airports are still experiencing

delays. the system is now fixed and flights have reportedly resumed. >> an update to a story we brought yesterday. a man is facing charges of child endangerment and abduction. for adapting his four kids in california. chris arrest is playing out in a dramatic stand off on a freeway. police tracked down the 33 year-old. chasing him for about 10 minutes. speeds of up to 85 mi. per hour. leslie came to a stop in released two of his children. he later stepped out of his car holding one of the kids. he walked toward the edge of the overpass. officers were able to tackle him. all four children were safe and unharmed. >> he is a person of interest in her death. the powerful storm known as the pineapple express rage through california prompting flash flood warnings in mandatory evacuation near l.a.. at least two people dead. wind near 100 mi. per hour. causing stress

the flood. 150,000 homes and businesses in the bay area without power. surfers took advantage of the waves. as the storm moved south officials are warning dangerous rip current and 15 ft. waves are likely. >> fernandez back in court today for a pretrial hearing in one of two murder cases against the former nfl star. the new england patriots charge in the killing of lloyd and to thousand 13. the judge ruled prosecutors are barred from introducing a separate case in which fernandez is accused of killing two men after an encounter in a nightclub. >> pleaded not guilty in both cases. jury selection for the case is set to begin next month. >> another woman has come forward accusing bill cosby of sexual assault. beverly johnson says he assaulted her and the mid-80s. said he invited her to his home in new york city. she said

he drugged her coffee before trying to groper. she fought him off and later blacked out in a taxicab on the way home. >> all my members and grabbed me by one arm and him flailing for a taxi with the other. i remember looking around at people. people really recognizing that is bill cosby. >> the latest in a string of women have made allegations. some of them have said he sexually assaulted them. he is not responding to the accusations. and the past he has denied them. >> dna evidence from 400,000 rapes remains untested because there is no federal money to pay for that testing. local police departments rely on washington pay the expense of lab testing. women who say they were raped are relying on those test results to bring their attackers to justice. the house approved money this summer. the senate refused to consider it. >> if federal government shut

down barely avoided. the house passed a 1.1 trillion dollars spending bill hours before the mid flight deadline by only 13 votes. the measure funds more than 90 percent of the government through september. democrats are very unhappy with the measure. >> democratic controlled senate is still expected to approve the legislation. flocked to an annual 36 hours celebration in test plans. this year the newly installed archbishop droid worshipers in honoring our lady of guadalupe. >> celebration is not over yet. by the end of today about 120,000 catholics will have come to spend some time with the shrine. some purposely came the hard way. >> some arrived on their knees joining many others in prayer and reflection at the

only shrine outside of mexico. foremost it is an annual journey >> once you start walking up the stairs you feel like a weight is lifted off of you. it is very hard to explain the feeling. the feeling you feel a deep inside. >> it is far colder here than in mexico. >> the biggest crowd was here at midnight. thousands were on hand for the message delivered by chicago's new archbishop. >> the archbishop addressed pilgrims in spanish reflecting u.s. and american roots of this annual tradition. he addressed those facing hardships and stressed the pilgrims never walk alone. >> let me take this group together we go slowly with those who go slower. we

also search out those who have lost their way. >> many wall 10 mi. are more after praying. some believe the show of faith has led to miracles. she had a tumor and it went away. she is about to have surgery and actually out of nowhere and went away. >> made the call to express interest in being part of the celebration of. and continues all day with a final mass scheduled for 7:00 tonight. >> some dogs go to heaven. in his weekly address the pope said all animals could make into heaven. he made remarks in order to come for a young boy who was mourning the death of his young dog. one of the

bears' coach as apologizes to the team about his comments. >> after a film should lay on the mistreatment of animals. >> award winning dessert recipe. ishrf

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securities and every penny gas prices fall to about a billion dollars back into consumers' pockets. gas prices 62¢ per gallon higher this time last year. >> the black hawks look to make it eight in a row. against the beasts from the east.

the bears' defensive coordinator spent the day denying interest in the university of wisconsin job and offensive coordinator is apologizing for comments he made to the nfl network. in a tearful apology during a meeting. he admitted to sharing his frustrations with colors play management your reporter >> a portly shook his head during the apology. tell the players should not have spoken out side of the family circle. though he denied saying that

the franchise had buyers remorse with his contract. the situation was no better on the practice herfield. >> the sixth player from opening day starting roster to be placed on injured reserve. >> missed another practice with a quad strain. he is optimistic that he will play. >> made 32 saves in his sixth game of the year. >> he also had an assist. the same score next. he briefly stayed in the game it and did not return until the third. >> up his condition after the game. >> he seemed all right.

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i got so excited about the warm-up that i just for today. >> little flecks fluttering to the ground. we have a picture from their from less you christian send to send us a shot this morning that is exactly what happened this morning. a few other

areas got snow like this. the most of them a little pocket of cooler air this morning. check this up. this is nothing short of amazing. >> has been transformed into a holiday shrined on walnut road. tsa with his electric bill is? >> is that gorgeous or what? >> he says there is a half a mile of extension cords driving that. hats off to you. >> sent us the shot. after fog and heavy

frost coated many parts of the area. >> but this is a rain gauge. a heavy layer of frost. with warmer weather of the way 24 coast guard rescue personnel from the midwest have been participating in a ford a conferencfor day confere. this will become pretty critical. we'll have some ice melting. >> forgot about the normal amount of snow. only a third of them. that is pretty interesting. that little snowfall made me think about that as well as the flurries around the area. this will be

mild weekend. my old hawaiian origin air coming in. temperatures if we could mix down some of that once and make it up to 50 tomorrow we will have the forties anyway. rain expected to come into the area on monday. here's the warmer air that is moving across the country. margins for thousand miles away. it is moving across the country. it all caved in and give way to some colder air tuesday of next week. which may bring a little system along with some snowfall. a lot of folks wondering about a white christmas possibility. >> here is the heavy overcast. >> this cloud cover mask the fact that there is he warm air. low to mid-30s by ground level. the

trick this weekend will be to get enough wind to mix some of that down. is our visibility is >> the general warm nature of the air mass across the country pretty evident on this map. all we a 32 it is 48 and st. louis. 54 of their rapid city. 71 yesterday. subzero stuff is or you would expect it up in the arctic region. >> a closer look at the temperatures are not. we even have a 61 in parts of wyoming. >> keeping the warmer air aloft from xing down. we're only in the low '30's. maturities across parts of the area. a light wind blowing 40 mi. per hour from the west and midway. 12 mi. per hour at all here. there is a windchill effect on that. 34 at midway

on the lakefront. we're going to build on that over the weekend. the big story has been the storm had in california. the first in the series. these folks have been any record drought. they've had water use restrictions and so forth. the rain has come so heavily and with such a wind that we of mudslides going. this is going to help the reservoir. i will take more than one of these storms to do it. >> whiskey ton california is at 14.5 in. of rainfall. could some of the wind gusts under the mountains. hundred and 35 mi. per hour wind gust. >> frog devise a

result of the planes have gone down with a winter storm warnings out to the west. hear some careless. we'll show you some other ones later on. the storm has the jumps across the mullins will reform of the planes. >> this is what ought to get the warm air wind blowing up from the gulf. a mild flow of air. there is money which should be mild. the wind turns northerly. return colder on tuesday. we will watch the second system. you see it right here coming together. this is toward friday and next week. >> to families in just a railway that could give us some snowfall. all of our

models is developing an impressive looking system. we'll keep in mind that. until then all of low cloudiness around here. look at all of the cloud cover here. >> you love temperature inversions. it can be a devil bringing the sunshine wants to get those close to develop. here is the forecast for the weekend for this afternoon cloudy conditions. maybe a little bit of mixed sunshine. looking less and less likely. hopes of mostly sunny skies are probably over done for tonight. or for this afternoon. coyotes and fall tonight. tomorrow clouds of some possible brief breaks for sunshine. approaching 50 degrees. self-

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your mouth is going to be watering. a committed in the butter and chocolate chip. it is from a new book. >> chicago tribune reporter and columnist is joined by cookie contest prize winner. congratulations. one of your recipes in the book here. >> we are going to make those in just a moment. tell me a little bit about

this process a body compiled the recipe. not everybody made it. >> we've been doing the contest for 20 years. used to be snail mail and e- mail. people could go on line for the first time on facebook for their favor. we picked the top 25. have them cooked and the test kitchen. we had a tasting panel. >> these are from years past. you're going to find several thumbprints. things based on the mexican wedding cake. there is a lot of favorites in there that you will find along with >> this is the important part. people talk about their stories. for the recipe came from. their grandmother who brought it over. it is really touching.

it is about how chicagoans came together around food. >> your recipe came from your mother. >> tell us about that. it looks delicious. all we start with oats and flour for your base. >> make sure what ingredients. when you get the cream together you had your drive. >> company and a pen like this. fly in and out so it becomes a giant browning. put it into the oven for about 25 minutes. >> when it comes out take a holdback of semisweet chocolate chips. >> let it sit. it starts to melt. as soon as it gets melted spread it around with a spatula. >> just put those on

top of the cookie. >> for the drizzly makes peanut butter powdered sugar mill can claim. depends on how much cream have depending on the peanut butter sickness. drizzle it over the top like this. >> when you are finished, you cut it. >> when you're finished >>, it teases the indian know it is there. cut them when they are warm. they really hard to cut when they're not warm. >> this is what to look like. there really lovely. >> i like cooking bar cookies. it is a lot of work. >> the bar cookie

one and done. cut them up and placed them on to a plate. >> this is the 2014 winning recipe. >> there was a crescent that won first place. >> a variation on the piton things you like. >> those recipes are all mine. we will certainly have a link on our web site. you can purchase the book as a gift for the holidays. >> the book is available at barnes and noble. look for them there. >> the place out in naperville called andersons. >> that is all family recipes from around the chicago land area. a wonderful way for people to pass on traditions. >> i'm going to open this up. they're beautiful pictures of the families in here. >> the whole sort of thing.

>> thank you so much. >> if you want more ideas you can check out holiday cookies >> find it were ever books are sold and for the application go to chicago tribune.com/cookies. >> we will have all >> we will have all of this information on our web site. of this information

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happened. keep our fingers crossed. >> that the warmer air making its way across the country. it is not here yet. if an overcast which shrouding us from the sun shine. >> lot of cloud cover. we're still hoping we will get up to the '50s certainly by sunday and monday. we hope that tomorrow will be close to 52. there's the rainfall that comes in the y next week. the air mass as a whole is unseasonably mild. >> we are near record level warm over the weekend with this air mass coming in. the question will be how much of that do we bring down to the surface? >> one storm of the west coast. another one out betsy. a lot of moisture expected out west. the second

system may come through and bring us some snowfall by the time to get to thursday of next week. until then the girl for 50 tomorrow. 54 on sunday. rainfall arrives monday particularly in the afternoon. could mix with some wet snow fall on tuesday for the high will be 43 and falling. >> had to tell you. we have the poinsettias and the weather office. having looked terrible i left last night and there were very healthy looking. >> working trying to resuscitate them you would think the weather office could do a better job of keeping the poinsettias in shape. >> thank you for working on it.

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