the chicago tribune reports house speaker paul ryan ordered the former speaker dennis hastert removed from outside the house chamber. hastert served as republican speaker from 1999 to 2007. he pleaded guilty last week to violating banks laws in a scheme to hide misconduct decades ago in a town where he was a high school wrestling coach. >>> usa today reports a station in afghanistan described as uses will cost 86 times what it should have. a pentagon review found the u.s. paid $43 million for it. a similar natural gas station in neighboring pakistan cost just $500,000. a los angeles "time requests reports the uber passenger assaulting a driver has lost his job. taco bell says they fired executive benjamin golden monday. he worked as a marking manager for the company based in orange county. dash-cam video shows a violent incident last friday t. driver says he was beaten after asking golden to get out of his car. >>> up next, stadium protests. two men repelled from the upper deck and unfurl a banner during the panthers-colts game and against the odds, the man who in here's a look at tod

and new video obtained from "the chicago tribune" now shows a different angle from that night. this appears to be the view from van dyke's car. you can see mcdonald was chased down moments before his death. let's bring in cnn national correspondent ryan young, live in chicago this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it looks like the crowds have changed a bit. first night we were out with protesters, we walked with them over four miles the first night. not many confrontations between them and police officers. last night that seemed to change. >> [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> reporter: a second night of unrest in two major cities, as hundreds of protesters returned to the streets. >> new york city police department. >> [ bleep ]. >> reporter: from chicago to new york, demonstrators marching in frustration, over the shocking death of 17-year-old laquan mcdonald. >> violation of new york state penal law. >> reporter: police arresting several protesters in new york city. their passion spilling into the macy's flagship department store, in the heart of manhattan voices ragi

. >> david kidwell is an investigative reporting for the chicago tribune. he has been following the troubled history of chicago's red light program. since 2003 the city's neerl cit0 red light cameras have brought in $500 million in fines, an amount the city desperately need. >> ending the red light camera program only creates more problems for government of the city of chicago in terms of making up very, very critical shortfall in the amount of money they have to run the city. >> and kidwell's investigation also exposed other issues at intersections in chicago with red light cameras. one of the biggest problems is that the yellow light intervals are too short. federal guidelines say yellow lights should last at least 3.2 seconds. the city of chicago's department of transportation says its yellow lights are set at 3 seconds but kidwell uncovered evidence that many of the red light camera intersections had so-called yellow light intervals of less than three seconds. that means millions more revenue for the city. >> there's probably between half million to a mi

. >>> the "chicago tribune" reports the university of chicago cancelled classes and is closing facilities today at its hyde park campus after a warning from the fbi. the university says fbi counterterrorism agents alerted the school to a threat of an on-campus shooting set for today at 10:00 a.m. in the campus quad. >>> the fresno bee in california reports a suspected burglar died while stuck in a chimney after the homeowner lit a fire in the fireplace. homeowner called police after hearing screams once the fire the 19-year-old died of smoke inhalation and burns. >>> "people" reports on o'connor is safe in dublin after reporting a suicide letter on facebook. "the post" claimed her family was cruel to her and mentioned her health and a child custody battle. >>> the "los angeles times" reports nba all-star kobe bryant says he is listening to his body and making this season his last. the 37-year-old lakers guard spent his entire career with the team since draft day trade in 1996 when he was just 17. >> i've had a burning desire to continue to play, i would. you know, i wouldn't be second-gue

. >> david kid well is an investigative reporter for the chicago tribune. he's been following the troubled history of chicago's red light camera program. since 2003, the city's nearly 400 red light cameras have brought in $500 million in traffic fines, money the city desperately needs. >> the city of chicago's bond rating is darn near junk rating right now. ending the red light camera program only creates more problems for the government in the city of chicago in terms of making up very, very critical shortfall in the amount of money they have to run the city. >> kid well's investigation also exposed other issues at intersections in chicago with red light cameras. one of the biggest problems is that the yellow light intervals are too short. federal guidelines say yellow lights should last at least 3.2 seconds. the city of chicago's department of transportation says its yellow lights are set at three seconds. kid well uncovered evidence that many of the red light camera intersections had so-called yellow light intervals of less than three seconds. that's what

chicago this year so far has seen 125 more shooting victims than last year, according to "the chicago tribune." a disturbing trend in big cities across the country. cleveland, baltimore, houston, dallas and washington, d.c., all seeing double-digit spikes in homicides fueled by a surge in violent gangs. today, chicago's top cop, vowing to wipe out the gangs responsible for tyshawn's death. >> we're going to go and destroy that gang and the rival gang too. >> reporter: and tom, investigators here at chicago asay a second suspect is in custody, and they're on the hunt for a third suspect. >>> and elsewhere in the windy city, outrage in the shopping district. protesters closing down, to protest the shooting of a man by a white officer. >>> meantime, black friday shoppers fighting over some of the deepest discounts of the season. rebecca jarvis has the numbers for us tonight. >> reporter: they came, they shopped, they conquered. >> i've got my fanny pack. my list. i'm so much more prepared than i was last year. >> reporter: black friday sales still going strong across the country tonight with man

. >>> the "chicago tribune" reports on an apparent attempt to hire a hit man by a illinois police officer who staged his own sued. gliniewicz tried to set up a meeting with a high ranking gang member. they say he feared that a woman was going to expose him as an em embezzler and he wanted her gone. >>> a sacramento bee reports today at the university of student went on a stabbing spree. police say the man was scared to getting kicked out of a study group. authorities say he planned to hand cuff students and spread petroleum jelly on the floor. he was shot dead on campus on thursday. they said he plan to ambush police to get their guns. >> we found a two-page handwritten and i'm going to call it a manifesto detailing his projected activities pertaining to the day's events. >> investigators have ruled out terrorism. >>> the colorado springs gazette reports several hundred people could be involved in a sexting sandal. investigators say students shared hundreds of nude photos at canon city high school south of denver. police opened a criminal investigation. underaged nude photos and even take

this, as newly released dash-cam videos - obtained by the chicago tribune - capture the moment before and after - 37 year old officer jason van dyke - shot mcdonald 16 times last october. this is officer van dyke's own vehicle dash cam - while out-of-focus you can see - mcdonald cutting across the front of his police car and passing a nearby burger king - moments later - about six seconds after getting out of his vehicle - officer van dyke begins to shoot the teen as he walked down the street, wielding a knife ... continuing to fire even after mcdonald fell to the ground. just minutes later - this dash cam from another police car shows mcdonald lying on the street .... the other officers at the scene never opening fire. van dyke's attorney says the officer was in fear for his life, and says the videos don't show a complete picture, saying mcdonald was ... "... harassing business owners, waving a knife for about 18 minutes on a busy street, him stabbing a squad car windshield that was manned with two police officers inside there, him stabbing a tire of a squad car." late wednesday, pre

one student told the chicago tribune the quad is normally busy on monday mornings and that student plans to stay away for a few days because of the seriousness of the situation. the university of chicago medical center will remain open with added security. the fbi is investigating. >>> the man accused of killing three people and injuring nine during a standoff at a colorado planned parenthood facility is due in court today. a law enforcement source says robert dear rambled about president obama, politics and aborti abortion, saying no more baby parts. the 57-year-old lives in a trailer 65 miles from the crime scene. before that, he lived in a shack in north carolina with no water, electricity or sewer system. reports say he once warned a neighbor to put a metal roof on his home so the government couldn't spy on him. we're also learning more about the victims. the latest to be identified is jennifer markovsky. her father wrote on facebook, i lost you in a senseless shooting. ke'arre stewart was a veteran. garrett swasey was a police officer and former trained ice skater who trained with n

we don't have time to do that it every metropolitan newspaper, "the washington post," "chicago tribunereporting every weekend the uptick in violent crime. in the city of new york, commissioner ray kelly when he was leaving his job said his next goal was to get control of the gangs. what happened after that is they ended stop and frisk in new york and gang violence has risen. what's going on is real. >> jason, what do you think about the politics of this? how will this play in the campaign? >> we've seen how it played in the democratic campaign. >> they are all signing up with black lives matter movement. >> i would like to think republicans will hold their ground and not buckle under and see this as black outreach in casting a lot with black lives matter crowd. i don't think soft on crime policies help the poor black communities. i think that -- the president right now is again pushing this agenda that suggests that this black pathology that we see as a result of a racist criminal justice system and not black behavior, which i think has it exactly backwards. >> thank you all. when we c

america, including chicago, had saw its deadly he is september in 13 years according to "the chicago tribune." >> i participated in a whole lot of funerals, and the caskets unfortunately are getting smaller and smaller. for 30 years i'm saying the same thing. we have poor schools and lack of jobs and housing and we have lack of options. after 30 yoerz when you say the same thing and nothing changes, why don't you wake up. people don't care. >> also fighting for the youth of chicago is lamar johnson. lamar overseeing the brave youth leaders program at the ark, a teen youth council dedicated to building peace. >> chicago has always been a violent city, right? so is there any change for this? is this always been a violent city? what can we do about it? >> we can't do anything. we ain't got no money. there's only so much we can do. we can raise awareness. >> okay. >> if i was an average kid living in chicago, what would my life be like? >> not only the stuff in the community but in their homes. a lot of them live in situations where they're forced to grow up fast. walking down the street, you wa

i said 'that's interesting, because i have an article here in the chicago tribune, in which you said two years ago that being a college football player is a full time job. did you say that?' and he said 'yes'. >> even if you guys vote no, now the precedent for other schools. >> yeah, that was a big part of the message. >> that's big as far as why we started this in the first place. >> have you heard from administration about not being able to go home on emergency leave to see your family? >> yeah, i don't believe in that tactic that they've used. they have said that if a union is brought in, all the benefits we get now are taken away and re-bargained for. so we might not get them back and we could actually lose benefits. >> there have been allegations by union supporters that northwestern engaged in unfair labor practices during the election campaign. that is simply not true. we point with great pride to the fact, that if you look at our football team, we have a 97 percent graduation rate, the best in the country. our gpa is over 3.0. >> it's also a school that is aggressively anti-u

one student told "the chicago tribune" the quad is normally very busy monday mornings and plans to stay away from the quad for a few days because of the seriousness of the situation. the university of chicago medical center will remain open with added security. the fbi is investigating. >>> the man accused of killing three people and injuring nine during a standoff at a colorado planned parenthood facility is due in court today. law enforcement source says robert dear rambled about president obama, politics and abortion saying "no more baby parts." the 57-year-old lives in a trailer 65 miles away from the crime scene and before that a shack in north carolina with no water, electricity or sewer system. he once warned a neighbor to put a metal roof on his home so the government couldn't spy on him. we are learning more about the victims, the latest, jennifer markovski, her father writing on facebook "i lost new a senseless stewart." police officer garrett swasey was a family man and former champion figure skater who once trained with nancy kerrigan. kerrigan tweeted "my prayers and love g

she is a 26 year veteran of the chicago tribune. she has an undergraduate degree in journalism and english. and a masters from yell. -- yale law school. please welcome miss christi parsons. [applause] >> thank you for that nice introduction. when we were talking to college students, i didn't expect you to show up on a friday morning. i didn't expect you to be dressed so professionally. we are going to have to up our game. >> it is not at 8:00. [laughter] >> we are looking at you and listening to you. we appreciate you giving us that honor. the washington center does such great work educating our future leaders. hopefully some of you are aspiring journalists and public servants and advocates. it is good to talk to this crowd directly on this friday morning. as the introducer said, i'm christy parson -- christi parsons. i don't just right for one outlet anymore. i work for lots of readers and for a wire service as well. the media landscape is changing. we will talk about that. my audience is broad and wide. we really are lucky to have

for 26 years i also worked for "the chicago tribune" and "tribune" newspapers. i don't write for one outlet anymore. i work for lots of readers and for wire services as well. the media atlanta escape is changing. we'll talk about that a little bit. that's my audience is broad and wide too. and we're really lucky to have this panel of white house correspondents to talk about the press and the presidency. the president could not be here today. so he's running the country or something, but -- so this will be from the perspective of the press but this is a really special group of people. these folks are members of the white house press corps and go to the white house every day and cover the presidency and among us we have something like 40 years of experience covering the white house. so we thought it will be helpful for you to hear from each person here, sort of their personal story, their professional story, how they got to where they are today. so i'd like to start with that and we'll go first to kathleen hennessey from the associated press who for many years was

for 26 years i worked for the "chicago tribune" and tribune newspapers. like most people in media, i don't write for one outlet anymore. i work for lots of readers and for a wire service as well. the media landscape is changing. we'll talk about that a little bit. my audience is broad and wide, too. we are really lucky to have this panel of white house correspondents to talk about the press and the presidency. he president could not be here today. [laughter] ms. parsons: he is running the country or something, but so this will be from the perspective of the press. this is a really special group of people. these folks are members of the whous press corps and go to the whous whose and cover the presidency, we have 40 years of experience covering the whose. we thought it would be helpful for you to hear from each person here, their personal story, their professional story so how they got to where they are today. i would like to start with that. i would like to start with kathleen hennessy from the "associated press" who for many years was my partner at the w

pray, love," "committed," your novel the named best book, o.magazine, the "washington post," chicago tribune, and the new yorker. how are you doing? are you still eating, praying, and loving? >> more eating. >> stephen: not so much the praying and the loving? >> i'm done with loving. no, i'm just kidding. >> stephen: as i said before, you eat too much you have to wait a while before you love. >> that's good. >> stephen: you don't want to love on a bloated. >> it's not good. i have an aunt who said, "i liked your book, but i kind of wished you'd stayed in italy the whole time and called it, "eat, eat, eat." s that's the sequel. i'll work on that. >> stephen: you have a new book called "big magic: creatie living beyond fear." what do you mean "creative living beyond fear?" what do fear and creativeness have to do with each other? >> everything. they are intricately connected. i think of them as conjoined twins. and you probably know this as a creative person that it's virtually impossible to step into a new creative endeavor without having to encounter fear. >> stephen: i don't know what you'r

the former managing editor for the chicago tribune. set this story up for us.ocal media blew this. they were producing bulletin board reporting. what went wrong in the initial days after the shooting? >> the essential point is the video and the collective failure of journalism to do the sort of tough, on the ground digging to pierce the official narrative in matters like this. we're too inclined to regurgitate the police blotter. even this morning my alma mater, one of the better regional papers in the country, has a story calling for independent investigation for failures. not one does it step back and say what was our role here? what was our failure in something that was really encapsulated when a reporter gets to the scene of a shooting, the witnesses are gone. there's the tendency to accept the official police narrative and no real tendency to accept possible alternatives. it's a tendency one sees. a couple of folks who were just a hitting more inquisitive than us. >> why did you decide to foia for these videos. you decided to do this after many other outle

police officer, shotyb+"pj killed a blk teenager last year, according to the reporting of the chicago tribunerdered police to release dash cam video more than a year after it happen. it appears to show the officer shooting the teen 16 times. it sparked massive protest. they shut down the main shopping district. >> brian. the officer was charged with first-degree murder. what are demonstrators demanding now? >> they are demanding that the police superintendant and the state prosecutor a nitta alvaez to resign. they are outragedgyn$q÷ it took months with murder when it shows him unjustly shooting a 17-year-old black male 17 times in 13 seconds last year. dozens marched and carried a cancer of the death and murder of a nine year old. jesse jackson calling for nonviolent test. >> we need comprehensive change in the criminal justice system. too much time with and the killings. nine police saw mcdonald murdered. they didn't try to stop the murder. >> and the activist allege a cover up and say that politicians delayed releasing amid fear mayor emmanuel would not get votes. they testified to the gran

now the "chicago tribune" reports these new videos raise questions about how the city's police department documented the killing of laquan mcdonald and demonstrators say they will continue including disrupting black friday shopping in the city's financial district. aaron? >> thank you. it's 5:02. developing story. police in prince william county found a body in the occoquan river in woodbridge. it was found around 9:00. they were called to the fairfax/prince william line. we're working to learn more. we're also working to learn more about a homicide. police say a man was killed in landover. h was shot to death. the shooting happened near 704, not far from fedex field. >>> 5:03. right now the search for a missing brother and sister in prince george's county. they're look for rosa and james thomas both in their 70s. were seen on monday afternoon in landover. they were last seen in a burgundy liberty jeep without tags. thomas is without her medication. if you have any information, we want to hear from you. >>> a house went up in flames. police from overhead call it. shomari stone shows us mo

. >> we went back and checked the chicago tribune the day after laquan mcdonald, the 17-year-old was y this police officer october of last year. the story says chicago police shot and killed 17-year-old boy in the southwest side after the teen refused to put down a knife authorities said. here is the question, without that dashcam video, would there have been a first-degree murder charge filed against police officer van dyke? >> there would have been another coverup, wolf, and i think the anger and angst you see has so much to do with how this case was handled by the chicago police department and the united states attorney, or rather the states attorney in chicago and i think the problems of the chicago police department are long standing. one fact that really stood out for me was that in less than one to 2% of citizens filed a complaint, was the officer ever disciplined? there is a systematic problem there in chicago and the protests ignited by the handling of this case, i think have been building up for many, many years in a great city of chicago. >> in that same chicago tribune art

before moving to "the new yorker" he was a beijing bureau chief for the "chicago tribune" where he contributed to a series that won the 2008 pulitzer prize for investigative reporting. he's received the prize for excellence in journalism on asia, the livingston award for young journalists and an award for profile writing. please welcome evan osnos. [applause] >> thank you very much to david for the very kind introduction. and thank you to all of you. you've heard this from other authors but have to take it is a special pleasure to be here with people who choose to the insight on a beautiful day to talk about books. you are a self-selected an we ae an endangered species, and i thank you for coming here together. i think the our i'm guessing a lot of people in this room are interested as i am in the subject of china and what it means are all of us. underside of the world. for me, if you want to know what it actually feels like to be a writer in china, it's useful to remember an observation by john king fairbank is one of the great american china scholars can start the program at harvard, and fai

this as newly released dash cam videos obtained by the chicago tribune captured the moment before and after 37-year-old jason van dyke shot mcdonald 16 times last october. this is officer van dyke's own vehicle dash cam. bile out of focus, you can see mcdonald cutting across the front of his police car and passing a nearby burger king. moments later, after six seconds after getting out of his vehicle, officer van dyke begins to shoot the teen as he walked down the street, wielding a knife. continuing to fire even after mcdonald fell to the ground. just minutes later, another dash cam shows mcdonald lying on the street. the other officers at the scene, never opening fire. van dyke's attorney says the officer was in fear for his life. but says the videos don't show a complete picture saying mcdonald was -- >> hafrsing business owner, waving a knife for about 18 minutes on a busy street. him stabbing a squad car windshield that was manned with two police officers inside there. >> reporter: late wednesday night, president obama react to get deadly shooting saying he was, quote, deeply dis

. >> joining me now is columnist of the chicago tribune. on the point the congressman was just making, the calls for the resignation of police superintendent in chicago, is that something you could see happening here? >> i could definitely see it happening, steve. >> it's probably time for the mayor to replace him, yes. >> let me ask you about that too. you've seen in other cities and other places across the country, we've had similar stories play out and seen how the leaders handled these things. how does the response to chicago compare to the other places in the last year or two? >> it's been tough. folks i've talked to thinks this is nothing more than a cover up and a distraction from the fact that an officer executed a young man. this isn't the first case. remind you we have community members dealing with the violence from within the community. then a long history of violence perpetrated by police officers. they spent $500 million settling claims against the city about police behavior. we know in preliminary the family settled with the c

>> it was tribune company which was based in chicago. charlie: from the "chicago tribune." >> yes. i think we just live in different planets. so, no. i was freaked out. i spent a month reading philip roth. charlie: what were you reading? >> i read, i set as a goal, i had to read all of philip roth's novels and i came close in the course of a month. charlie: why did you choose philip roth? a great american novelist >> a great american novelist who has written nothing about los angeles. charlie: exactly. >> i just wanted to go back to school. so i wanted to pick one writer and just read all the work. i'm an english major and i've always read a lot of fiction. i spent time with my son and my wife who writes fiction. and then one day arthur called. actually arthur called the day after i was fired. he asked if i would consider coming back. i told him i just needed some time. actually what i was secretly hoping was that the "l.a. times" would be sold and then i would go back but that didn't happen. charlie: you loved the idea of running a great newspaper. >> yes. charlie: so arthur calls