more on this but first let's go out to tonya life at the mannheim road exit. >> we got out of the car to show you that a car had slid off the off ramp at the mannheim exit heading south on the outbound eisenhower. if you can see the exit is closed. they are trying to clear this area right now but looked down at the at snow blowing across the road creating very treacherous driving conditions. the danger of slide offs are still great. there have already been several reported this morning. but it's really blowing hard. it is so heavy and so thick creating slushy conditions. even when the salt truck and the clouds go by, the road is covered once again. right now at this hour is not extremely bad because they are not see many cars on the road but if you do hit the roads, make sure you set aside a lot of time. you will need patience to get or you need to get or take public transportation. that's the latest from here. >> will check in again later. joining us *live on the phone is jae miller from the illinois department of transportation. my good morning. >> at any particular trouble spots ri

then we have the on an offering closures along mannheim oats bound balmoral. in balmoral to north mannheim they have a detour starting this will be in place until the middle of summer. we're talking about summer projects. it's almost here! >> still to come, we will hear the big winners in last night's primary election. >> to people died in a fiery helicopter crash in downtown seattle. >> and focusing on the prosthetic legs out of the blade runner in south africa. >> and whose heading to the music festival. names are one person is dead after a van carrying children crashed into a truck in the southwest suburbs. bruce rauner will face pat quinn in the illinois governor's race. we'll have election results in a *live report. and *two winners will split the 400-million dollar mega millions jackpot. good morning, i'm dan ponce. and i'm erin mcelroy. let's go to demetrius ivory for a check of the weather. hi, demetrius. >> it wasn't a winner. but remember i said i would be calmed. i might start firing people though. year-ago. rain continues today. our water bug locat

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