bye-bye burgers, hello whole grain, president obama signing a bill today that would dramatically overhaul school menus the first time in 30 years. the healthy and hunger free kids act replaces things like hot dogs, chicken nugget and is burgers, with things like whole whaet pasta, steamed vegetable and is fresh fruit. the dairy will be low fat. it also provides funding to subsidize low income children. >> doctors are seeing things like type 2 diabetes in children, which used to be seen in only adults. >> the new school menus will be pricey. the cost, $4.5 billion. >>> three military veterans now suing uncle sam for discharging them based on the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. the three men are demanding to be reinstated and want the policy to repeal. the attorney says it puts pressure on the congress to repeal "don't ask, don't tell." the senate recently rejected the bill that would have replaced the policy. "don't ask, don't tell" does ban gays from openly serving in the military. >>> mismanaged money is an obstacle the republican chairman will have to overcome. michael steel announced he's running for a second two-year term. he's been criticized for saying afghanistan is a war of obama's choosing. it was also discovered nearly $2,000 to a gay bondage club were expensed to rnc. >>> shop online? the state of illinois says we may have to pay up. why we may have to pay back taxes for the past internet purchases. ♪ my heart stops when you look at me ♪. >> and the morning show pays a visit to an internet sensation. >> illinois shoppers are going to be asked to maybe soon pay online taxes on purchases. they will tax shoppers on past online purchases that go back as far back as june 2004. starting january 1 through october 15, state officials will let you pay the sales tax you owe without a penalty. last hour, we asked viewers, what do you think of the state of illinois taxing on past online purchases? here's a shock, 98% of you said, are you kidding? >> that's another one that will probably raise their eye. fees and baggage fees aren't going anywhere. why? because they're making the airline industry billions of dollars. unite and did continental, $922 million. american $884 million. southwest collected 22 1/2 million for additional luggage. >> an online security breach at walgreens. customers could be getting spammed. somebody hacked their e-mail list and started sending out messages to customers to enter personal data to outside websites they want to remind everybody that they did not send out any e-mails to get information. >>> deep freeze, we'll tell you how long the arctic blast will stick around. 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this is a storm that largely jumped chicago with its snow production capability, but took off today, once it took a great big gulp of that lake moisture. actually, the snow started at 9:00 yesterday and has been going ever since then pretty much nonstop in places like porter, stark counties, la port, barrian county, saint joe jt. those were the storms that backed into the chicago skyline for a time today. look at the chill, while folks are freezing up here, in the southern belt, it was record temperatures, in the 80s. it was warmer in orlando today -- or in caribu maine, in the 30s. so this mass of arctic air coming off the snow pack and running up the snow pack with much more upstream to go. we're not done with this yet. we're 7 degrees colder than 24 hours ago and cold will be the big story here. you'll see in a moment on our weather bug censors, temperatures already flirting with zero in the suburbs west of town but closer to 20 in the lake snow belt because of warmth coming off the lake. we look for subzero temperatures with the coldest inland locations tonight. already 17 1/2 inches of snow down. 6 down in parts of the indiana and michigan snow belt and late wednesday is our next snow coming in through thursday. look at the totals, a foot and-a-half in la port and michigan city, up to 16. we told you about these other totals, including about a half foot in south bend, and these snows still to come in these bands. when they run down the lake like this and set up these bands, that means they have 200 miles to pick up moisture. you can go on either side of them and not know what's going on. if you're under them, that's a white out and there's no sign it's breaking down right away because these winds are traveling down the lake. the isso bars here are -- they mark the path that winds follow just above the surface. winds tend to cover across isobars at a 30 degree angle along the surface. you can see why the snow is feeding into places like la port and porter counties, even swiepg sections of lake county and why we're up to 5:30 tomorrow, we'll still have lake snow going up into that area, including barrian county, saint joe county and stark county. tomorrow night, the winds die down and so do the lake snows. this is where our computer models indicate additional accumulations. just looking at our new inhouse one, there are some spots that could get 10 to 16 more inches of snow. it will be a narrow corridor but it's in that general region, and this thing is dwarfed in size by the larger storm producing it, which is making all these winds and rains and snows out east, including big ones in the appalachians, and there's our next weather system in the rockies. wind gusts 40s today in parts of indiana blowing the snow around. note the temperature in chesterton coming off the lake while west of the city is in single digits. another streak of snow could come wednesday or thursday in this area. that list system produced tens of thousands of heavy snow, including the snow that totalled almost 21 inches in parts of the twin cities area and collapsed the metrodome up there, and so of course in chicago, we had wind gusts up to 66 miles per hour in michigan city, 63 miles per hour at the crib and 47 at o'hare and mid way, and absolutely miserable day yesterday, and today was pretty cold too. well, tonight, it's clear, quite cold, and from chicago west, the indiana lake snows are continuing, same in michigan, low temperatures, 12 in the loop -2 in the suburbs, and northwest winds are starting to come down. they'll be noticeably less a factor tomorrow with generous sunshine, frigid temperatures, windy and a high of 18. down to 12 in the city. zero in the suburbs, scattered clouds tomorrow night and the lake snows will be finaling ending in indiana and michigan. new snow in the day and likely at night. we'll give you the reads on those numbers and get back to the forecast for you, and about 18 is the forecast by the time we get to actually 23 on wednesday, and 18 tomorrow. so we'll have the seven-day forecast later on. it's gorgeous. >> yeah.. >> greenland block. keep saying that. that's what has this whole hemisphere. warm in the arctic attitudes pushing cold air to the mid latitude and is won't let it move. keeping the storm track down here and it's pretty hectic. see you later guys. >> what's for breakfast? 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