it is around chicago, wisconsin area.you see this storm in developing the eastern half of united states. another image showing the storm system, it is moving across chicago area. you see the cloud cover and the snow on the ground all the way down towards dallas tx. >> minneapolis woman has been charged with animal cruelty after postal workers say she tried to mail a puppy in a box, with no air goals. workers became suspicious when the box fell off the counter. the animal was not hurt. the woman faces charges the dog was taken to in a mall control facility. >> following the latest that of egypt, of violent clashes in cairo right now was pro democracy corps protesters clashing with pro mubarak supporters. things have turned violent this morning. james fletcher's have been monitoring this this morning.

it's one of the reasons, also, the "chicago sun times" "chicago tribune" and "chicago cranes business" have supported my candida candidacy, straight forward -- their editorial page -- honest and straight forward with the voters and fundamental reforms. ron, such as health care, we paid $500 million. consolidating procurement across the board saves $40 million. doing garbage collection different saves money. we'll have to make reforms through city government. i have a specific line by line plan of how you to do that. >> thank you. ms. brown? >> number one, again, no few taxes. a balanced budget, absolutely. i cosponsored the balanced budget constitutional amendment. i think it's important. number three, in terms of the budget, it has to be fair and transparent. i believe we should put every dime online. put the budget online so the citizens of chicago can see where the money is going. that's a very important step. right now, our city government operates like the creme plkreml. in addition to that, making certain that we have the kind of budget transparency that respects and supports ev

in chicago. although we have a large black family, so i knew who i was in what i was, but i'd had never been to the south. we were driving to a relative's wedding and to see my grandfather down in washington, georgia. my parents decided that they would take me on this nice drive and go through the great smoky mountain national park. i had never seen mountains before coming from the flatlands of illinois so i was so excited. and when we got through kentucky and into tennessee, we needed a place to stay. we were trying to get a motel and there were vacancy signs everywhere. my dad would go in the office and he would come out saying, they say they have no vacancies. i was like, well, the sign. i was 11. i said the sign says vacancy. daddy said, we will find someplace else. we went down this entire highway and there were motels on both sides of it, know what would frances around. we slept in the car cramped up. i didn't understand why we had to go through that. and then daddy wanted to get coffee in

but he announced from atlanta they he was going north to chicago to five segregation in chicago bookl the reporters are trying to find out the mayor of this city of chicago was horrified ask my news director can i have this story? they said he is black and she is black. probably. [laughter] and i went to o'hare airport 18 for the planes coming from atlanta with the other reporters, tv crews going from place to place and never are writing anywhere. i found out from a ticket agent that he was taken off the back of the plane and into a car on the tarmac and away from us. [laughter] most of the reporters will say in a hotel when he frequented when he came to downtown chicago. if he is this guarded and is now want to anybody to know he will stay here close to the airport to. i started by myself from all of from the airport and i am not so silly i say is dr. king here as if he would be registered as dr. king lab that he would be mr. green. people would say no, about one of the hotels, some think that i got from body language but the way she said it i believe to. when she wasn't looking i s

chicago.a private town, chicago. i love it. >> host: your parents did what? >> guest: my mother was a seamstress. she did not finish ninth grade she took in selling for wealthy white women. > dad was a mail carrier. > > > >> host: one of the things you talk about in the book is early> experiences in realizing what >> race was about and less is imparted by your mother around race. >> guest: my mother was a model. a very beautiful. when she was 13 years old her white father was asked by a white man in town to give her to him. they said, if you don't give her to me i'm going to take care. of course in the early 1900's that is what happened. if you wanted a young black girl you got her. so he sent her to chicago to his half-brother. he put her on a trend the following morning and sat by the door to keep this man from getting his oldest daughter. she went to chicago. she had lived in a segregated south. when she had children she taught me about race. i teach, of course, and cultural diversity at em

>> guest: i grew up in chicago. my kind of town, chicago is.host: in your parents did what? >> guest: my mother was a seamstress. she didn't finish the ninth grade, and she took in sewing > for wealthy white women, and my> dad was a mail carrier. > > > >Ñ > were working class people. Ñ> >> host: one of the things you talk about in the book is early experiences in realizing race was about and listens imparted by your mother around race. >> guest: my mother was a malabo and very beautiful and when she was 13-years-old, her white father was asked by a white man in town to give her to him, and he said if you don't give her to me, i'm going to take her. and of course, in the early 1900's that's what happened. if he wanted a young black girl, you got hurt. so he sent her to chicago to his half-brother. he put on a train the following morning and sat by the door with a shotgun to keep this man from getting his oldest daughter. and she went to chicago and she had lived in the segregated south, and when she had children, she taught me about race. i teac

chicago, made the call late last night.ts and midway and are here to delay the flights or cancel them. at a chance to talk to them earlier, here's what he had to say. >> united, american canceled their flights to chicago. it will have a ripple effect throughout the country. there is no connection to chicago. >> how many flights are we talking about? >> 20 or so, i don't have an exact number, a lot of flights connected. >> here is why chicago whiskey, it is the grand central of the midwest a lot of flights go in and disperse. probably before it is over today we're talking about 4000 canceled and delayed flights in and out of chicago. not to mention south west which is a huge airline, they have canceled all of their flights into midway until this afternoon. thousands affected still trying to talk to passengers. and get their reaction. >> it is not going to give better anytime soon. louisa chris >> reporter: radar is set up, great lakes region rate up to michigan, illinois, ohio, up into the north east we have winter storm war

y el columnista de chicago.o cuatro dÍas de campaÑa, siguen habiendo de 10 a 15% del electorado que no ha decidido por quiÉn va a votar, creo que sÍ tiene fuertes posibilidades de ganar, pero aÚn no podemos decir que ella estÁ decidida esta contienda. >> las encuestas sugieren que va muy adelante. >> sÍ, chico esta obteniendo mayor apoyo de los afroamericanos, de los latinos tambiÉn, incluso de los votantes blancos, este cierre de campaÑa va a ser muy interesante. >> quÉ tan importante es el voto latino? vamos a hablar un poco de porcentaje. a la hora de votar no es tanto asÍ. >> 30% de la poblaciÓn de chicago es latina, pero 15% del electorado es latino, los latinos no salgan a votar en los nÚmeros que los otros grupos, es un porcentaje mÁs pequeÑo que los afroamericanos y los anglosajones, pero estamos viendo que los estÁn movilizando. no somos muchos dicen pero si vamos a tener nuestra voz. >> no estamos exagerando la importancia del voto hispano, sÓlo el 15% estÁn votando, podrÍan definir esta elecciÓn? >> s

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. >>> al regresar, vamos a chicago donde en 6 días hay elecciones para la alcaldía.exclusivo solo disponible con sprint id. además, hemos reunido ese contenido en paquetes que puedes disfrutar en español o inglés cuando tú quieras. descarga grátis y con un simple clic el paquete que mejor refleja quien eres. pruébalo en el optimus s. de lg. sólo de sprint. sólo en el now network. >>> cuando faltan 6 días para las elecciones para la alcaldía de chicago, los hispanos tendrán un papel muy importante, las encuestas indican que solo 1 de los candidatos tiene posibilidad de triunfar en primera vuelta, pero si no lo logra, habrá una segunda ronda, tenemos más información. >>> la ciudad de chicago está frente a una encrucijada histórica, porque en 22 años es la primera vez que tiene que enfrentar las elecciones de quién llevará a cabo las riendas de la ciudad. >>> los candidatos van a una primera elección el 22 de febrero y la segunda vuelta sería en abril, rahm emanuel llevaría la mayor cantidad de posibilidad de ganar. >>> chicago es un microcosmo de todo el país,. >>> tod

today is a rare snow day for chicago students. the school system is closed for the first time in over a decade. more than 400 snowplows are on chicago's streets, clearing roads for emergency workers. but just in case that's not enough, the city's fire department has 50 snowmobiles ready to go. >> it seems super important when it's like this because sometimes we can't get to people at all. if it's a narrow street. the rigs will never be able to get there. >> reporter: whiteout conditions in oklahoma and missouri, forced officials to close highways. this week, dallas will be teeming with tourists for sunday's super bowl. yesterday, a coating of ice shut down the airport and left interstates deserted. as the storm moves on, the next major concern is power outages. air travel will be at a standstill today. the storm has already forced more than 10,000 flight cancellations. and travelers should be prepared for more of the same. karen travers, abc news. >>> and chicago is at a virtual standstill today. and the storm is still on the move

last time i was in chicago, it was hot and humid. i was sleeveless! so manuel, try to stay warm and safe for that matter. manuel gallegus in chicago, thank you. >> reporter: thank you. >>> well, bay area travelers certainly feeling the effects of that colossal blizzard. dozens of flights at san francisco international airport had to be grounded. christin ayers shows us why the delays and cancellations may only get worse. >> reporter: for a few moments this morning, carmen was certain stormy weather would snarl his journey from calgary to california. >> they were turk people away right there at -- turning people away right there at customs. i turned white. they said all the united flights were cancelled but it was only the ones to the eastern seaboard like chicago. >> reporter: a crippling combination of ice and snow swept the midwest this morning and then hurtled east leaving planes parked indefinitely. the cancellations started in chicago. most major airlines canceled flights there. by this afternoon, they had spread to the northeast. >> most people

>> bueno chicago verdad que son de los míos!. >> (gritos). >> (aplausos). >> cómo está chicago?!.ía pecial para mí porque un día como hoy vine de ilegal a esta ciudad de chicago y hoy vengo a compartir con ustedes que todos mis sueños se han hecho realidad. >> gracias!. >> a ustedes! a mi sobrinos que me acompañan y bueno, comadres y compadres qué creen le deben quitar la licencia a ana bárbara sí o no?. >> sí!!!!. >> no!!!!!. >> esperen se relajen se porque eso y mucho más lo vamos a ver adelante. >> chicago mi segunda casa tengo que decirlo. >> gracias. >> yo les voy a contar porque carmen salinas vino más afilada que toda la tijera en conjunto aquí. >> porque en específico habló de gabriela spanic que terminó dándole por la cubeta, terminó defendiendo a marmaría celeste. >> y andan con confesiones mi primera visita a chicago, gracias por su cariño señores!. >> y como decía carolina hoy es díae primicias y aquí en la tijera van a ver las primeras imágenes, de penélope cruz después de haber dado a luz. >> les pregunto creen que bajó el peso que engordó con el embarazo sí o no?. >

chicago, 5 of 5:00 p.m. canceled.t as you can see when 3:00 p.m., 305 cancelled. there's a little bit of room, a lot of people trying to get closer to their location. they think it's taking get there may be taken on another fronlight. looks like both land is cancelled. >> it taking connect me to some of their rent maybe to dallas or somewhere they're trying to work it out. i am not appreciative they're trying to find out hopefully i get it. if not i have a flight to chicago. >> when you got to the airport and they said your flight was canceled what you think? yesterday when i called everything was on time when i got to the airport than they said there was canceled which is surprising to me. >> think as i used to get there you can get to jordan by tomorrow? >> >> that is my feeling. >> thank you, i know you have to go back to the ticket counter >>. thank you, so much. >> he needs to get there by 2:00 p.m. or else he is not leaving the united states. >> here are some graphics that we build just so you know how many flig

>> i started off -- i came back to chicago. i worked as a clerk for a few months, leased a seat, and i started trading gold's future. gold futures were actually the second largest volume product at the america tile exchange. part was due to the fact in those days people were utilizing what they called gold spreads. buying one contract and selling another as a vehicle to actually defer taxes. >> by defer, you mean not pay? >> yes. >> okay. >> they were able to use gold contracts to essentially take a tax liability from one year and move it into the next year, and some people did that year after year after year. the problem was eventually the government changed the regulations and people could no longer roll their taxes as they say, and some people had multimillion dollar tax bills that were immediately due. >> okay. >> and quite honestly, i think that was the end of the ability to roll taxes through gold spreads and the begins of the end of the gold contracts at the mer k. of businesses moving to new york. >> so now keep going f

it hit chicago last night creating quite a show. >> i have friends in chicago. it took him four hours to get home and it was usually a half hour. cars stuck in it. >> lawrence, you know what, look, you have an easy job today huh? >> oh, yes. not much going on. the friends in chicago will be coming out to visit very, very soon! >> they can't get out. all the flights are delayed. >> that's the problem. once that clears out it will be okay but they are still looking at some of that snow making its way through chicago. strong winds across that area, some of the waves lake michigan 15 to 20 feet. that's simply amazing! now a system sliding to the northeast, looks like a terrible mix. an ice storm making its way across the new york area today so it's going to be a terrible mess all across the northeast. behind that bitter cold temperatures well below zero in many spots throughout the day. all right. let's talk about our weather. you're talking about the freezing temperatures and the ice storms? out west great weather. how about this? 64 degrees san jose. 65 in oakland

he became a chicago cop. before he became a chicago cop, in 1968 just after he got married, he had read the memoir of kenneth silbey who was a spy for russia while he was with the british mi for nearly 20 years, and i was talking to a friend of his by the name of robert and he is now a dentist in the skokie illinois and he told me bob hanssen kept pressing this upon him and he took it and to get home and read it and then he said bob hanssen kept pressing you've got to give it back. i want the book back so he finally brought it back to the house and robert hanssen said well, what did you think of the book? he said well, i thought it was okay. and bob hanssen remembers to this day he said you know someday i would like that. so he was saying back then to his friends he wanted to be a spy, and after he got out of northwestern dental school he didn't like it, said he didn't like spit, that was his word. he went on and got an mba and accounting and worked about three months as a cpa and became a chicago cop just li

and chicago faces days of digging out.an enormous job to get these roads moving again. chris bury, abc news, along lake shore drive in chicago. >>> the giant storm also left many cities dangerously coated in ice. and that meant lights out in places like harrisburg, pennsylvania, where the power lines just couldn't handle the weight of the snow. hundreds of thousands were left without power at the height of the storm. and to make matters even worse, temperatures have now plunged to record lows. >>> and as you can imagine, it's been a very unusual week for hospitals from the great plains to new england because of all the rough weather out there. doctors at a philadelphia emergency room ordered twice as many x-rays as they normally do this week because of patients, you guessed it, who fell on all that ice. and in chicago, iowa city and burlington, vermont, hospitals, virtually no patients have shown up there because of unsafe road conditions. and on long island, new york, there's an increase in complaints about chest pains fr

these are pictures in from chicago. it's blizzard-like conditions, had over a foot of snowfall since yesterday making it one of the heaviest for a february day. here at sfo they are saying flights are going to be canceled, 20 flights going out and coming in. as the storm moves further east they expect later to be cancellations on the eastern seaboard which will affect flights between there and here. not many were stranded here overnight as a result of the cancellations from yesterday. you have people like debbie coming back again. she's that nice wlaed that mound of luggage waiting for her flight at southwest airlines counter this morning. she is trying to get to ohio. she was supposed to be in columbus yesterday but had a flight that connected through chicago. >> this is my fourth attempt. i'm actually moving so it's dramatic. >> when did you try to get out first? >> originally yesterday morning. i ended up rebooking almost three times. i was supposed to start a new job today. i got 300 pounds of luggage. hopefully i'l

four-foot drifts in chicago. drivers stranded in the heart of the city, on historic lake shore drive. >> no one knows anything. everything's frozen. nothing is moving. i mean, it's just, like, insane. >> snow so heavy, rooftops collapse. ice so thick, power lines snap. roads so slick, entire highways shut down. and breaking this morning, an ice storm warning from philadelphia to new york, bringing these big cities to a slippery halt. we're live with the latest on the storm and where it's headed, right now, on "gma." >>> live across the storm zone this is a special edition of "good morning america." >>> and good morning, everyone. and for much of the country, what a morning it is. by some estimates, this could be the worst snowstorm in almost half a century. and in the blizzard's bull's eye right now, chicago. no flights in or out of o'hare today. and across the country, more than 11,000 flights canceled since the storm started. >> and driving is treacherous all across the midwest. i-70 in missouri, completely shu

. >>> y cerronplantas, de cítricos, en texas, está chicago, la ciudad más golpeada, que está bajo un. >>> buenas noches, se reportan las tres primeras muertes de personas en chicago, son suburbios, dos paleaban la nieve, y otra decidió caminar hasta su casa, y felleció, las autoridades alertan sobre las temperaturas, y tenemos grados bajo cero, y vigilen por l salud de personas de la rcera edad. >>> es la tercera peor tormenta en chicago, paralizó la ciudad, los residentes piens que es peor que la del 99. >>> todavía se tomaba el express way, pero hoy estuvo bastante difícil. >>> es más grande esta, como que, hay que echarle ganas, para poder continuar. >>> la peligrosa combinación, obligó a que escuelas públicas suspendierán clases, y el 911 recibyer por lo menos 15 mil llamalos días,l llamadoso. >>> también una arteria, de chicago, tuvo cientos de carros abandonados, y sacaron sus palaes. >>> empezamos desde anoche, para sacar la camioneta, tengo que trabajar ahora. >>> a pesar de que la tormenta ya pasó el gobernador de illinois mandó a las patrullas a las carreteras. >>> 30 grado

in chicago, it closed major traffic arteries like lakeshore drive. in oklahoma, "the tulsa world newspaper" posted a notice on its website saying, due to extreme weather conditions today's paper was delivered but it's buried by several inches of snow. to dig out our news, here's chris bury in chicago. >> reporter: the great blizzard has begun. its 2,000-mile march of misery. the storm is one for the ages. so big, you can see it from space. a true monster, stretching from the southwest across the middle of the country and up in new england. blizzard warnings are up in nine states. what gives you the best sense of the scope of this? >> i think just the size of it. when you see it from space, satellite images show it's huge. just the tail of the clouds and that beautiful comma shape. when you see it from above, gorgeous. when you're below it, it's like this, a real problem. >> reporter: the storm hit first in texas and oklahoma. smashing the all-time record for snowfall in oklahoma city. it fell so fast, more than two inches an hour, plows couldn't keep

digging out cars in chicago. and checking buildings in the northeast, some crushed by so much snow. >>> and disaster zone. a cyclone slams australia overnight. now, assessing the damage. >>> good morning. there are new developments from cairo this morning. the army is taking up positions between anti and pro-government porss. >> demonstrators opposed to and in support of egyptian president hosni mubarak, remain in standoff on cairo's debris-riddled streets. >> this morning, the u.s. state department is urging americans to get to the airport to head out. we will get details from this day ten, from our reporter, emily schmidt. >> reporter: the beginning of a new day brought no end to the tension in egypt's liberation square. two hours of machine gunfire erupted before dawn with several people killed. this morning, protesters remain in the square, even after wednesday took a new, violent turn. after days of relatively peaceful protests, calling for president mubarak to step down, pro-mubarak protesters moved in, cha

asÍ se encuentran los candidatos a la alcaldÍa de chicago haciendo campaÑa de Último minuto antes de urnas el prÓximo martes. ♪ >> este es su noticiero univisiÓn fin de semana. ♪ >> hola, quÉ tal? gracias por acompaÑarnos. en sÓlo horas comenzarÁ el servicio fÚnebre por el agente asesinado. antes: lo que roba la atenciÓn de gobiernos y medios de prensa: la situaciÓn en libia. muertos, y situaciones confusas componen el panorama. ♪ (imÁgenes) >> luego de tÚnez, egipto, argelia, yemen, marruecos y barhein, el turno es de libia. despuÉs de varios dÍas de protestas, las cifras de muertos crecen en las urbes. >> no sÉ los nÚmeros exactos, pero los hospitales y morgues estÁn llenos de cadáveres. no hay miedo realmente, lo que queremos es libertad, agregaba. >> en el poder desde el 1969, enfrenta por estos dÍas las protestas mÁs cruentas en sus mÁs de cuatro dÉcadas en el poder. quien ha zurcado ideologÍas desde el islamismo hasta una nueva personalidad mÁs ligada a occidente se le enfrenta una generaciÓn mÁs joven. >> libia no es egipto. hay tribus, pero no hay partidos. la prensa ha tergi

of the chicago airports. but the northeast is next. and that could mean thousands of more cancellations and more stories from stranded passengers like these guys. >> stay and sleep if we can. >> just sitting here waiting for the next flight. >> reporter: these guys were from indonesia. they were stuck here overnight trying to make it to the dallas airport, which shut down yesterday. got to hope they will be able to get on some planes to get back into dallas today. back here at san francisco airport as we said, hundreds of flights cancelled more expected as that storm moves on to the north east. the bottom line is if you are flying out today you will want to check with your airline, particularly if you are going to the midwest or places like new york, newark, boston. those are the places that are expected to get hit next. >> yeah, sydnie has houseguests going up to state new york. >> rochester. >> my gosh. i'm thinking about them and i'm thinking, oh, they could be sitting in an airport for hours. it's going t

kevin tibbles in chicago. thanks. >>> when we come back, we'll go to australia with what they're dealing with tonight on top of the disaster they have been dealing with already. >>> back here in cairo, we go quickly now to australia. one of the great places on earth where they're having some of their worst times in memory. this time it's a hurricane, a 200-mile-an-hour category 5 katrina-style hurricane named yasi. they're known, of course, in that part of the world as cyclones, but by any other name this is a disaster on top of the flooding they have had this in the queensland district, as correspondent michelle tapper reports for us tonight. >> reporter: brian, well, it's been a frightening night here. we prepared for the biggest cyclone ever to hit the australian coast. it arrived around 10:00 last night and it was truly frightening, the sound of it. it sounded like a freight train coming through your room. there are several evacuation centers through town. most of them lost power from around 9:00 last nigh

if you are trying to get to the chicago area.ted, american and southwest the main carriers out of sfo serve the chicago area, they have canceled most of their flights for the second day this has happened. i'd say most of the flights because southwest apparently is going to try to get a flight out sometime this afternoon, though. don't know if that's going to happen because of the weather in the midwest. so, you expect maybe that this airport will be filled with stranded travelers. not necessarily the case. i think what's happened after yesterday, a lot of people turned on their brain, called in advance and stayed home at their house or in their hotel rooms, not showing up here. we did catch up with one traveler, she was supposed to be in columbus, ohio through chicago yesterday. she had to have her flight rerouted four times. she might have gotten out. the fourth time a charm through phoenix. there are a lot of cancellations because of the heavy snow in the chicago area. they had reports, i checked, 17 to 18 inches of snow at o'h

. >> meet the next mayor of chicago. >> thank you, chicago, for the stumbling a victory. all i can say -- you sure know how to make a guy feel at home. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> a couple of thoughts as we begin in today's discussion at. want, elections have consequences two, it is no longer your father's labor movement. republicans got majorities in statehouses across the midwest. union members are feeling the consequences of those elections. in wisconsin, gov. scott walker has come up with the plan that would strip collective bargaining rights for most public workers. here is a tea party member. >> i don't believe in unions. they will be the death of this country. i'm tired of paying their benefits. >> imagine what the country would be like without unions. corporate america what will this country. the middle class would be destroyed. >> richard trumka, president of the afl-cio. republicans in the wisconsin assembly approved gov. walker's bill and send it to the senate, but minority democrats the state to illinois it. charles kra

reporting live in chicago. back to you. >> all right thank you very much and obviously, what a contrast the rest of the country compare. pg & e has hired 300 people to work around the clock. they say the review will take six weeks. the utility told the state it is searching records from 20 field offices. it was reported to be seamless, but it had seams. and suspect wells. the blast killed eight people. up to 30% of the pipelines may lack proper documentation. >> parents in san jose stunned tonight. a child care worker charged with molesting five girls. investigators say that 25-year-old keith woodhouse molested after-school students at trace daycare school where he worked. all of the victims younger than ten. he has been working at the center since august. parents of the 60 kids in the program has been sent letters about his arrest. >> a school shooting has left the principle dead and the janitor behind bars. sam lacarta was shot this morning in his office. he died an hour later in a nearby hospital. at least o

chicago cancelled school because of it.he last time that happened was 12 years ago. >> out here in the bay area, no snow, no ice. but that storm will have an impact. air travelers are being warned they could face delays no matter where they're going. terry mcsweeney joins us live from san francisco international airport with more on that part of the story. terry? >> yeah. inside this airport a short time ago watching all the different flights being cancelled back to chicago and new york. the connecting flight, apparently a flight to madrid impacted by all this. joining me now is san francisco international airport spokesman mike mckaren. and, mike, what is the number one thing for trafficers to know today and going forward maybe tomorrow, too? >> if anything, flying to the midwest or the east coast the next 24 to 48 hours it's going to be very challenging and may be delayed or probably will be delayed. they need to stay in touch with their carrier and just be very flexible because the weather is very powerful through that r

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only twice before has chicago endured a bigger wallop. in 1967 23 inches of snow paralyzed the city. and then, in 1999 21 inches came down. but this blizzard will be remembered for its violent outbursts. how fierce were the winds here in chicago? >> incredible. that's what sets this storm apart from some of the others which preceded it in the pantheon of chicago storms. we had winds gusting to almost hurricane force. >> reporter: and while the bliss hard has ended, dozens of cars and trucks remain stuck on lake shore drive tonight. chicago's misery is not over just yet. >> we have set the table now for an arctic onslaught. tonight, much of chicagoland will be well below zero. really uncomfortable and dangerous. >> reporter: the chill to come, a bitter punctuation on what storm so powerful so reckless so unsparing, that its haunting images will linger in this city for many years to come. i'm chris bury for "nightline" in chicago. >> and the grimmest statistics are just in. it is feared that seven people in the chicago area were killed in t

. >> a ciudad de chicago tiene un nuevo gobierno electo, ganÓ en primera vuelta.on honores y reconocimientos al mÁs alto nivel fue llevado hasta su Última morada jaime zapata, asesinado en mÉxico. las protestas no cesan, la violenta represiÓn sigue y el presidente amenaza con lente del paÍs casa por casa. naciones unidas denunciÓ la violencia. miles de muertos y desaparecidos en nueva zelanda, se muestran edificios destruidos en las imÁgenes. continuamos con la serie: los presidenciales. el alcalde de la ciudad de mÉxico expresaba univisiÓn sus ambiciones. ¿serÁ posible acabar con los prostÍbulos de las vegas y nevada? >> buenas noches, bienvenidos a otra ediciÓn de Última hora. la ciudad de chicago eligiÓ un nuevo alcalde, quien fuera jefe de gabinete de la casa blanca y artÍfices de la campaÑa de obama. ganÓ en primera vuelta. >> no se explican cÓmo ni la nieve y el frÍo desanimaron a los votantes. ♪ >> gracias chicago, fue una clara victoria para el ex jefe de gabinete del presidente obama. tenÍa una ventaja de mÁs de 20 puntos pero ahora sobrepasÓ los 30. sost

oakland has two flight cancellations to chicago. best advice, call ahead for the very latest information. >> i had some houseguests that are flying to charlotte today on their way to rochester, new york. so keeping my fingers crossed they will make it. lawrence karnow is watching the storm from the weather center. lawrence, good morning. have you ever seen anything like this? >> good morning. no, this is some kind of storm, folks. we just don't see this happen very often. and what a mess it's been. this monster storm continues to plow way to the northeast. on the back side they are catching a break but look at this. this is where it's going to be real messy. this is where we're talking about the freezing rain all in the pink area. heading toward new england, it's going to be a mess. and those temperatures unbelievably cold!!! all across the country, midsection and toward the east coast. now, completely different pattern here out west as we are seeing high pressure in control. we have mostly clear skies out there right now and cold t

i'm chris bury for "nightline" in chicago. >> thanks, chris, i think. counting, 48, that's the number of days till spring. when we come back, the health care law takes a hit. that's the subject of tonight's "closing argument." first jimmy kimmel with what's coming up next. >> thanks, cynthia. on the show julianna margulies, matt bomer and i will wave my

maybe land in chicago. then there's that much closer to their final destination. >> we will keep checking in with you, thank you, . >> tens of thousands of people are flooding into the heart of cairo. filling the main square us a call for a million protesters was injured by the largest demonstration in the week year. egyptian and 30 shut down road, transportation, train service nationwide suspended. bus service between cities was halted. the u.s. state department expects to fly 1004 americans added egypt. headed to cyprus, greece, turkey. investors are watching the unrest in egypt, pushing oil prices up and a veteran of $92 and narrow. has the power struggle raise their risk of descriptions. following the week of violent protests. >> talking about the weather here, with him a few more days like that no one can complain. what you say? >> if you like yesterday it will keep getting better and better. temperatures getting out into the '70s. more on that in a few minutes. starting off with a little bit of dense

in a lot of the migration to chicago. did you find a thing? >> absolutely. one of the first to document. the first reference to the migration is in the chicago defender from 1916 in which it is referring to a small party of african americans who left saying that it is not worth staying anymore essentially. it was just a paragraph. and so that was the first documented indication that there was a migration of foot. they were instrumental in that they brought news from the north that give hope to people who were here in an untenable situation. it was almost contraband because it was not legal to have the chicago defender. very threatening to the caste system here in the south. workers, the bedrock of the economic system being lured away to the north. you should know also that there were tremendous efforts to keep black people from leaving the south and particularly in the early decade of the migration. trains would be stopped if there were black people on board. there were pulled off the train accused of vagrancy, having som

we'll show you what was unveiled in chicago's auto show. >>> how about did the grateful dead marathon rake in for the cash-strapped station? we'll show you. >>> we saw a little bit of a warm jum today. right now 51 degrees in san francisco, but we're not entirely dry. we have showers aroundun morgan hill and gilroy and more lurking offshore. we have changes sey n-dacarehefo wstn in e we seven-day forecast when we come right back. >>> pro-democracy demonstrations continued today across the middle east and north africa. in libya there are reports more than 100 have been killed in unrest this weekend alone. ron allen has the very latest. >> reporter: protests continue around the region today. the deadliest situation is in libya where there are reports of 100 to 120 people killed during street clashes in the second largest city it there. we spoke to an activist, a medical student on the ground today, who says there are 20,000 people in the streets preparing for another day of protests following funerals for those who died yesterday. it's impossible for western media to get into the countr

chicago is one of the cities hard hit. boston is another. let's begin in chicago. al is there once again this morning. good morning. >> good morning, matt and meredith. about five minutes ago, you could see the skyline perfectly. everything was fine. we got a snow squall coming in and we have obscured visibility. o'hare airport in the last hour has picked up two inches of snow. put that on top of the 17.1 that's already fallen, we are very close to the 20 inches woytd take to make this the third biggest snowfall in chicago history. as it stands now, it's already the fifth biggest as it continues. both airports are open. operationally but there are few flights coming in or going out. lake shore drive is closed because of drifting snow and abandoned cars. up to almost 6,000 flights today have been canceled nationwide. this storm hit chicago hard. closing schools for the first time in a dozen years. and it is not done yet. it is barrelling now into the northeast. this monster winter storm took aim at chicago tuesday night. the wind whipped snow blowing people around.

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also with kevin in chicago, our own al roker. al, it looks like the fun is just getting started there. >> reporter: absolutely, brian. they may dub this one the monster of the midway, brian, i tell you. we have 21 degrees, wind gusts of 39 to 40 miles an hour it it's like a tropical storm with snow, it's a big, big storm and it's just getting bigger, take a look on the radar now, we can show you it's a whopper of a storm. to the south, there's rain, there have been tornados reported. then you he that icy mix in pink. i and then the light blue, that's the snow. and you can see it's just getting wound up. as far as this track of the storm, it starts to push through late tonight, and a secondary storm is going to form off the east coast. that's going to bring more frozen precip and more snow to northern new york and new england as well. snowfall accumulations here in boston -- this could break the record set back in 1967. this may end up with 26 inches of snow. springfield, illinois more of the same. albany 12 to 18 inches. syracuse

the home of the chicago cubs. we will have a live report from chicago in just a few minutes. >>> the blizzard back east is forcing the cancellation of thousands of flights across the country. anyone heading to a bay area airport should call ahead. there were dozens of cancellations yesterday. more travel troubles are expected today. one travel agent told u.s. today hundreds of bay area super bowl fans heading to texas are stuck waiting for the weather to clear. >>> and you can check for the up to the minute flight information at ktvu.com just look for the travel tab on that front page. >>> new concerns about the safety of pg&e pipelines. ktvu kraig debro joins us now from south san francisco with the new results of some recent inspections. good morning, kraig. >> reporter: good morning, pam. they found two dozen leaks on that same pipeline that exploded. and the pipeline runs north from oyster point along 101 and down grand avenue in the direction of san bruno. the cause of the september ninth explosion that kille

y ganó 40 de los 50 distritos de chicago, con más de 70% de apoyo.frecía una versión del dream act. >>> todo el enfoque del dream act que la comunidad participó, siempre se vio a nivel federal, que es necesario pasar esto ahí. >>> hoy emanuel la educación y seguridad son temas prioritarios. >>> la educación tiene impacto en cuestión de la seguridad pública, queremos bajar los niveles de crímenes. >>> y en su gobierno no habrá distinción entre los que votaron por él y no. >>> y chicago no es la única que tiene estos problemas, pero será la primera en solucionarlo, los 600 millones de dólares de una comunidad tan diversa como esta son dos de sus prioridades. en chicago, blanca rosa univisión. ♪ >>> el presidente obama condenó la violencia en libia, ofreció su condolencias a los familiares de los muertos, y agregó que la secretaria de estado va a viajar a ginebra para sostener conversaciones sobre esto. >>> y los opositores al gobierno además de controlar el este del país ganan posiciones cerca del este del país. y militares que vijilazan una base antim

group in chicago. >> thanks, tom. >> tom: so what do you think of these energy prices lately. much more pressing the economic recovery. >> if they're sustained and they continue to move up, i think we're going to find that they do impact. at this point we see less than a two tenths of a percent on gdp for 2011, but this is an issue that has to be monitored pretty closely. >> tom: what about the impact of the ending of fiscal and monetary efforts? in other words, stimulus spending by the government coming to an end as we move into the latter half of the year and of course the federal reserve due to wind up its bond buying binge in june. is that going to impact the second half of the year in term of the economy and the market? >> i think if you -- cap it's going to indicate that it will keep the economy, be another head wind to the economy for certainly into the second half of this year. but not a monumental one. >> tom: without a monumental impact a come picks you brought along here including the technology and we used the exchange traded funds to ill trait x.l.k. here. what ma

vamos a chicago. viviana, buenas tardes. >>> qué tal? una feroz tormenta, a una relativa calma, combinación de hielo, nieve y viento, ocasionaron caos, en la ciudad, y suburbios. >>> la ciudad de los vientos está paralizada, cayeron pulgadas de nieve, y provocaron dolor de cabeza en residentes. >>> me tengo que ir trabajar ahora, y no nos llevan. >>> chicago, parecía un pueblo fantasma, todo cerrado, y uno que otro tranunte. >>> no estábamos preparado. >>> cientos deautos quedaron parados, y los dejaron abandonados, llovieron las criticas para los funcionarios, por no cerrar las autopistas. >>> dijo que los esfuerzos de llegar a estas personas se vieron perjudicados. >>> más de cien mil hogares sin electricidad, se extdió a oklahoma, wisconsin, indiana, y texas. >>> y y cuchabamos, las temperaturas bajarán, se registrará, menos 30 grados, y llamaron, que si no tienen que salir, permanezcan en casas. >>> por primera vez en doce años, las escuelas cerraron. >>> efectivamente bárbara, así se mantendrán hasta mañana, también las escuelas cat

i was talking with my friends in chicago.favorite thing i ever experienced in chicago was thunder snowstorms. you see the lightning and here the thunder, it's just amazing. when people in chicago say the weather is bad, you've got to believe them. that's the case tonight. mean while, this is our scene, with clear skies. the only problem has been the wind. because of the wind, i made an adjustment in our forecast. in the 40s and 50s still at this hour. that's because the winds are still blowing offshore, up to 12 to 15 miles an hour. 40degrees in liver moore, instead of near freezing. 43degrees in santa rosa. same story to the south and low to mid-40s across the central bay. tomorrow morning's commute, you may be able to see that set up, officially at 7:14. the stormtrack still to the snort of the bay area. our computer models are eluding to the fact that we will not see any kind of changing, at least until mid-february. that's perhaps two weeks away. ground hog day is tomorrow. that means absolutely nothing to us. we have not