they came to chicago. [applause] >> the three of us have achieved something our parents never imagined in their lifetimes. and while our three families traveled different mapaths, the came to the city where dreams are made. over the next four years, we have schools to fix. over the next four years, we have streets to make safe. over the next four years, we have a government to transform and businesses and jobs to attract. but above all, let's never forget the dream, the dream that has made generation after generation of chicagoans come here and stay here. i am confident in chicago's future. because i have seen it in the eyes of our school children and heard it in their voices. i saw it in the whitney young kids who took first place in our state's academic decathlon in the third place in the division 1 national championship. [applause] >> i've seen it in the eyes of the five high school students from kenwood academy who won the gates millennium scholarship. and the high school team that won back to back sta

>> i think this was the claudius april in chicago's history. >> one of chicago's finest great chefs isant critic tries out a bistro. >> with speculations about the royal honeymoon buckingham palace makes a surprise announcement. >> and the mayor wrapping up the nfl draft. meet the new monsters a new chicago restaurant is pushing to new levels. >> an upscale bistro run by someone who has run up some pretty fancy restaurants so wide a bistro? >> i realize that it was not a lot of bistro of course you have a bistro that is not too far away but i wanted to do more like a bistro that you have in france now, a modern one. it is the reason why i call itn callomic. bistronomic. very good food but not the typical bistro that to find anywhere. >> the menu offers small medium and larger per plates generally offered at smaller prices. this wonderful fish soup which begins with a tower of diced vegetables and muscles. pastas are midsize about $10 and the best of my to be this octel ravioli in wine sauce topped with slices of parmesan cheese, large plates include lamb over couscous. and this composi

he is leaving office after 22 years as mayor of chicago. one week from tomorrow the city's new mayor rum emmanuel will be sworn in. the final and house takes place monday afternoon from 1-4:00 p.m.. >> mothers it was marked with sorrow and reflection for some. >> the story of a mother's love and its power as she took an incredible nightmare, a shattered family and brought it all back together. the stories coming up. >> our 70 forecast is suggesting that he weis punctuated by thunderstorms, i will have details of the full forecastle had. look, we've all dealt with the itching of athlete's foot. i can't just wash it away. killing it takes clinical strength. i only use lotrimin ultra. its powerful formula can even cure severe cases of athlete's foot. nothing cures better. lotrimin ultra. the killer cure. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] for the things you can't wash, freshen it with febreze. febreze eliminates odors and leaves a light fresh scent. it's a breath of fresh air. families all over the world are remembering moms. >> when chicago-area family c

they came to chicago. [applause] that three of us have achieved something our parents never imagined in their lifetimes. and while our three families traveled different paths, how they came to the same united city for a simple reason -- because this is the city where dreams are made. over the next four years, we have schools to fix. over the next four years, we have streets to make safe. over the next four years, we have a government to transform and businesses and jobs to attract. but above all, let's never forget the dream. the dream that has made generation after generation of chicagoans come here and stay here. i am confident in chicago's future because i have seen it in the eyes of our schoolchildren and heard it in their voices. i saw it in the whitney young kids who took first place in our state's academic decathlon and third place in the division 1 national championship. that just won back to back championships and showed us what they're made of throughout the season. and the graduates from the urb

chicagos future. our problems are large, but so is our capacity to solve them. only if all those who professed love for this city of big shoulders are willing to bear the responsibility for keeping it strong. so today i asked each of you, those who live here and those who work here, business and labor, let us share the necessary sacrifices barely and justly. if everyone will give a little, no one will have to give too much. together, we will keep faith with future generations and the visionaries of our past to build on the shores of lake michigan a city where dreams are made. thank you, god bless you, and god bless the city of chicago. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> in a few moments, house budget chairman paul ryan on the economy, the budget, and the national debt. later a discussion on the role of cia interrogations' in the mission that killed osama bin laden. after that, retired general james jones speaks at the national press club on middle east policy. later, rahm emanuel

peter's square were shown all over the world including here in chicago where people got up early to watch the services on big screens downtown. the celebrations and vatican city went on for hours. >> dino was there and she joins us now live tonight from rome with our top story. >> it w w an amazing event you can see saint peter's dome behind me there. it is not new to religious celebrations filled with circumstance but this day was it different, pope john paul the second walked the earth and touched so many lives physically and spiritually. they were amazed that a man they knew is now one step closer to becoming a seat. saint. the threat of rain did not keep some from staying on the streets all night. as the sun rose over rome the square quickly filled. hearing the holy father tell them john paul walks with jesus. celebrating with the cardinal wearing the mitre john paul or in his final years. the new image of blessed john paul. a photo taken in 1995. sister marie was cured of parkinson's after talking to john paul. typically in landis service today rainout in polish and english peppered

tavis: let's go back to chicago and then come back to nashville. you were born in chicago. if i'm to believe what i read and you tell me whether or not what i read is correct, you were born to a middle class family that wasn't the most radical and yet you end up being one of the leaders of this movement. take me back to chicago and tell me about the family that you were raised in. i'm trying to make the connection, the juxtaposition how you got into the movement. >> well, i spiled when you say -- because we really -- smiled when you say, because we were really not political in terms of civil rights at all. i remember when i got in the sit-ins. my grandmother wrote me a letter and said diane, you have goten she didn't know i was the chairman. [laughter] they were very conscious of you know, citizenship and politics in terms of being americans but not in terms of civil rights. when i got to nashville, my sense of dignity was attacked. i came from a very loving, caring family. when i complide with segregation and used the back door or something, i felt like i was agreeing. tha

chicago also center city chicago also fights against the general move toward car-based living. chicago is a very decentralized city in terms of its employment. and that's also an issue with the city. now, that being said i don't think you want to judge the city by population numbers and there are a lot of people moving into chicago as well as the fact that there are, you know, some areas that are losing population. you also have in many areas depopulation because of larger families being replaced by smaller families. that was particularly -- that was most evident in the 1970s where you had a huge population loss because of that but that continues to be true in many large cities today. that, you know, and often increasingly wealthy population means that you have more people occupying the same space which actually means the population numbers can go down. i have a lot of admiration that the mayor has done and i think it's a very successful metropolitan area and i think it's difficult to say the straight numbers are the only or the primary gauge of success. i mean, you also want t

they came to chicago. [applause] the three of us have achieved something our parents never imagined in their lifetime. while our three families travel different paths, the came to this city for a simple reason. this is a city where dreams are made. over the next four years, we of schools the picks -- we have schools to fix. we have streets to make safe. we have a government to transform and businesses and jobs to attract. but above all, let's never forget the dream. the dream that has made generation after generation come here and stay here. i am confident in chicagos future because i have seen it in the eyes of our school children and herded in their voices. i have seen it in the way -- our kids to third place in the national championship. i've seen that in the eyes of high-school students who won the prestigious scholarships, the highest for any school in chicago. as and the basketball team that just won the in the graduates from the you are been prep academy which, for the second yore in a row is sendin

welcome to chicago the most watched city in the u.s. from all school blue light cameras to cameras with state of the art technical capabilities watchful lenses through the streets in what has been dubbed operation virtual shield thousands of public and privately owned security cameras have been put in place and linked together creating a capsule of surveillance over the entire city more extensive than anywhere else in the united states the number is estimated at up to ten thousand the networks cost around sixty million dollars officials say it's worth the price of privacy concerns are at a peak for twelve hundred security cameras located throughout the city are said to be powerful enough to be able to zoom into the text of a book or even inside. message this is the of age a thirty seven page report from a renowned civil rights group the e.c.l. you calls the network pervasive and regulated things i care most have shown up on the internet you know the cameras have been pointed being used in a particular way you know to google women or to

. >> i love my church, all of the community and the people of chicago. i have gotten so much love and i'm very grateful for the love. the old folks in walgreen's that come up to me and say we are pate praying for you. >> he said the parish's putting up a wall of remembrance tomorrow to honor the mothers of children killed by chicago gun violence. >> a small plane crash in florida takes the life of a suburban man 23 year-old scott of minooka was killed when the ultralight plane he was flying crashed. a witness saw the plane go down and called police. it is being investigated. >> just one week left in office for chicago mayor richard daley, chicagoans paid tribute to him. >> gov. pat quinn says he will take an active role when civil unions become legal in illinois. >> only a trace of rain came down in chicago today, a looking at the weekend we are in store for a lot more rain. with just nine more days in office mayor daley is honored once again, 20 years of service and attributes today came from members of the military. >> and his honor ceremony retiring m

>> similar to what is just been said is we look to the chicago police department of chicago fire department in those agencies to respond when there is a issue or matter can. it comes to our customers and their actual employees we have campaigns as the one that has been mentioned to see something and say something for our customers but our employees on hand our customer assistance and maintenance as you mentioned a variety of different job descriptions throughout the authority received a basic training on how it is to basically remain vigilant. we put notices out to our employees systemwide, all 10,000 of them basically notifying them that they have to remain alert and ensure we are assisting our customers. so the campaign process is what we used to really notify everyone throughout the system but we also do individualized training depending on the individuals on the job description. >> and to the point where if a ticket agent sees a suspicious looking package, is he or she trained in procedures? >> absolutely. again we have what is called callback control center operation center. everything

rahm emmanuel and named kerry mccarthy as chicago's new police superintendent . >> chosen over two chicagoerans and some question if you'll be seen as an outsider and muriel clair has more ben up a good afternoon. the guessing game is over and now it is official. new work new jersey. mccarthy will be heading to chicago when mayor elect rahm emmanuel takes over in a few weeks. the pick was introduced with high praise for his accomplishments . >> his work proves that reducing crime and working close to the communities are not conflicting goals. both are essential to good policing. . >> that does not exist anywhere else. . >> an outsider is replacing jody weis who was never accepted by police department rank-and-file and some of that may roll over to mccarthy but mccarthy is a second-generation cop with 30 years of experience and he walked a beat and killed several command stoats and ignore new york police debarment not worrying about the alleged moral in the chicago police department mccarthy says he's 6 happy and excited and he will hit the ground running them on a standard for policing in

in chicago's history. i know rich daly pretty well. we started together in politics. he was a state senator and i was a staff attorney to the illinois state senate back in the 1980's. in that period of time -- i guess the 1970's, now that i think about it. in that period of time, he was a young father with a young fami family, brand-new to public li life. he, of course, had his storied last name of "daly," and he and i were in charge of the senate judiciary committee. let me clarify that. he was in charge. i worked for him. i got to know him, sitting next to him for many, many hours of hearings, watching his reaction to ideas, measuring the man. he and his wife maggie were going through a tough time at that point. they had a little baby who was sick and eventually passed away. it was a draining experience for the whole family and those of us who were close to him felt the sense of loss that he and his family experienced. richard michael urbanskrichard y was the oldest child. his father ran chicago from 195

going for a four game sweep against the white sox in chicago.at's been a good road trip so far. the u.s. military honored in all sports tonight. a pregame ceremony in chicago. bryan roberts fly ball to left field. juan pierre robbing roberts and the o's of a couple of runs. guthrie pitching for the o's. konerko with two home runs. he would later homer after precata. the o's win. the o's road trip continues in kc tomorrow. >>> defense on display in washington, d.c. both in patriotism. former oriole harrison, he will make a great grab too. nba play offs, joe kimnoa and the chicago bulls upset at home in game one of their series with the atlanta hawks. josh smith will spot up for a jumper over noah. atlanta rolls over chicago. takes game one rather easily 103-95. college news, a new home for coach paul hewitt. hewitt was at georgia tech for 11 seasons. >>> you probably heard of a cook off or bake off. >> but what about a paint off. artists from the >>> participating in the annual art battle. they had three hours to complete a painting then the crow

it's a great honor to be the mayor of the city of chicago. different ways personally and publicly to make me a better mayor. >> you mr. mayor word transformational leader for the city. >> more for those on our website that median tv. , and chicago tribune. com coming up after droppin being whgame 1. >> and all too familiar outcome for the stocks. sports next ♪ ♪ ♪ that's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh ♪ ♪ i like it, uh-huh, uh-huh ♪ ♪ that's the way uh-huh, uh-huh ♪ ♪ i like it ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing mio -- a revolutionary liquid water enhancer. add a little. add a lot. ♪ ♪ for a drink that's just the way you like it. ♪ i like it, uh-huh, uh-huh ♪ ♪ that's the way uh-huh, uh-huh ♪ [ male announcer ] make it yours. make it mio. ♪ ♪ look, we've all dealt with the itching of athlete's foot. i can't just wash it away. killing it takes clinical strength. i only use lotrimin ultra. its powerful formula can even cure severe cases of athlete's foot. nothing cures better. lotrimin ultra. the killer cure. k k k know prilosec otc can stop frequent he

all across the chicago area coming in at 12:00 noon. headline is for warm weather to continue when sell takeoff late tomorrow afternoon and that will cool things down a little bit. every one of the great lakes is higher and you get a seasonal increase this time of year down to evaporation mills the summer comes in. there cannot be explained by way of evaporation changes we have a lot of it though. but michigan is up 8 in. in the last month as much as 14 in. behind the year- ago numbers. 63 a year ago and a normal high 66 today will get into the middle upper 60s and a fair amount of rain in the next few weeks. it will enact a pattern across the area. temperatures will run through our model and you can see by morning you'll be in the '50s with arise during the afternoon hours into the upper 50s winds coming off of the lake and cooling the sell-off. tomorrow night temperatures go to the low 50s and mother's day with sixties again beaucoup by the lake particularly on waukegan in kenosha work comes in over a larger stretch of water and will

the guild of the chicago history museum. the women's board. the university of chicago women.en's board. all i said children's memorial. maybe that's it. >> over the years peggy has donated a considerable amount of money to charity. she and her husband bob were very fortunate. she has philanthropy in her blood. she started volunteering at age 16. it was peggy's mother who taught her to give back. both mother and daughters served as president of the board child care society. an agency near and dear to her heart. she has been there 72 years. >> when we stop doing this? >> yet to keep interested in something. it's so sad for people just retire and give up being interested in everything. really spoils the life. last year child care society honored one of the most loyal and dedicated supporters with his garden in her name. this issue lives and breathes plant's flowers and children should not afraid speaker mind. she looked at the plant's that had been projected for it and said this would do. these implants for old ladies. we need extremely colorful plants for children. the children

the network camera allows the cta, chicago police department, chicago office of emergency management communication to gain a clearer picture of an emergency situation and respond accordingly. we also plan on richer for ncta fleet with security cameras. these are new cars on the order that will come equipped with cameras but we feel it's critical to have the entire fleet retrofitted. all of the buses in the fleet over 1700 of them have been a quid with cameras since 2003. in the recent years the transportation security administration has provided additional resources in the form of visible intermodal and fiber teams as commonly known. richard licht on the airports and on the transit. they provide a random unannounced clearly visible supplemental security presence. ncta also received calls from the explosive detection team. the canines are funded through the dhs and part of the chicago police department transportation section. they are paired with canellos to protect the process it used to respond to reports of unintended suspicious items. they are trained to find in protest explosive

wet on i- 0, 90 and 49 through chicago. on i-55 from chicago to st. louis. and on 44 from joplin to oklahoma city. soaks i-5 from seattle to sacramento. and i-80 into san francisco. snow and icy spots on i-84 and 90 in the morn northern rockies. today,re flying today, a couple weather-related airport delays. those will be in chicago and minneapolis. >>> now so what's turning into a new national crisis. it seems unimaginable that a hospital would run out of drugs. but it's happening more and more often. sometimes the consequences are deadly. abc's ron claiborne has more. >> reporter: the shortage of pharmaceuticals are so bad, it's becoming a national crisis. >> i think it's a crisis when hospitals have to sort through this medications they can supply to patients. >> reporter: this year is on pace to be even worse. 89 new drugs in short supply in just the first 3 months. abc news' medical correspondent, dr. richard besser, first reported on this crisis last december. >> emergency medicine drugs. >> reporter: the ever-expanding list of scarce medicines includi

familiares de veteranos agosto soldados del ejÉrcito estadounidense se conglomeran en la ciudad de chicagor tributo a los caÍdos. ♪ >> este es su noticiero univisiÓn fin de semana. ♪ >> >> quÉ tal? muy buenas noches. bienvenidos. comenzamos en honduras. el depuesto presidente de ese paÍs, manuel zelaya, pasa su primera noche en su patria tras un prolongado exilio forzado. el izquierdista manuel zelaya no volviÓ de forma discreta sino en medio de una frase: la lucha continÚa. fue recibido en el aeropuerto tras casi dos aÑos por miles que se reunieron para darle la bienvenida. desde allÍ, la crÓnica de su controvertido retorno. >> casi dos aÑos despuÉs de haber sido expulsado del poder, el expresidente manuel zelaya regresÓ al paÍs. en medio de la alegrÍa y esperanza de sus seguidores y un ambiente de reconciliaciÓn que promete poner fin a una de las peoores crisis polÍticas del paÍs. >> miles de zelayistas se congresaron frente al aeropuerto para para darle la bienvenida al exgobernante que fue destituido cuando promovÍa una consulta popular para reformar la constituciÓn. sus simpatizantes

in the syrup made local here in chicago. work for people who don't usually cope. . >> only make one of these and then just come back home after brunch. . >> a great idea and you guys are our local so just grab a cup cake when they're there. famous for their cupcakes. for more affirmation about the recipe or to watch the segment again go on to wgntv.com/midday. look, we've all dealt with the itching of athlete's foot. i can't just wash it away. killing it takes clinical strength. i only use lotrimin ultra. its powerful formula can even cure severe cases of athlete's foot. nothing cures better. lotrimin ultra. the killer cure. answer to our trivia question. where the three major types of things meteroorites? ironstone in the stony iron. . >>, it then i forgot to mention tomorrow is the weather day at unicellular field we will meet and greet fults and show you we have some amazing turn of footage of the terrible storms last week in the south in the video of the japanese tsunami will also show you. in the '40's right now across

chicago was on alert as always but some greater security measures are in place. >> there has been no specific threat reported against chicago or illinois, that is the word from the state to director of emergency management but there is concern that osama bin laden followers could seek revenge and that president barack obama home town could be targets. some state and local agencies are repairing for a the possibilities. paying attention closely to synagogues and mosques. cta resend security bulletin to employees to make short trainedtrains and buses are safe as people remain extra vigilance. t. at chicago's airport did psa said you will see security measures like additional random screenings and canine teams and some measures you may not see like the detection officers. travelers we talked to are alert to but not worried. -security at tonight's bulls game had bomb sniffing dogs. >>security at the lake use in a gun has been punched up with security round the clock since october. >> we're constantly struggling to insure that every person who enters into this building is secure and at th

you're both that the chicago -- show we did at the chicago theater. remember that night? something happened that night. the she has never come back on the show again and will not talk to me. has she said anything to you about it? she never said one word to us. people assume since we were from chicago we all want out together but the truth is if you have access to all oprah you respected and do not assume or ask favors. if you are my grandchild i could call a producer to give you of a ticket on her birthday but that is about it. that doesn't surprise me. but what about michael jordan? he also will not come on my show. i have no idea. did oprah's say something to him? [laughter] we've looked at each other. gene was close to michael but we did not have a clue. right. that is what i expected. thank you for your time. great show tonight. >> when people ask letterman why he had to interview cheers, the usual answer was sysco and ebert after jean's death david has me as i guess one more time to promote my first great book and then never again. he did not get mad at me or anythin

houston and chicago.s three more years of instructional time in a classroom than the child in chicago. >> reporter: because of the length of the school day. i mean, this is so basic. >> it is basic. we've gotten a bill passed in the senate. the house will act soon. and i'm confident we are going to give the kids in chicago what they've been cheated of for the last 0 years, a full day's worth of educational opportunity. >> reporter: and our focus here is not just education but the gap, the incredible gap between the jobs that are even available and the education that kids have. they don't have the skills for even those jobs that are available. >> that's true. one of the things we're also going to do, it's obvious we need to also start raising expectations. so one of the things i'm going to start doing is in the sixth grade, you will begin to write what colleges you want to go to. you have to pick four. then we'll help you. and then seventh grade, you'll update it. eighth grade, you'll update. and in eighth

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is preparing for global warming and this is really pretty amazing the climate change planet chicago they banned plant he white oak trees which by the way of the state tree because white oak trees won't be able to survive in an in a climate that's more like baton rouge and chicago and the prediction is within twenty to thirty if it maybe fifty years at the most chicago will have a climate of baton rouge so they've done that they're starting to plant trees instead in addition to that they're repaving the roads with water permeable material why they have us here a nice five percent more moisture in it than it had just fifty years ago they have your rains they are stripping pavement from soon to be hot spots because pavement absorbs heat replace it instead with grass and vegetation new plants or vegetation to replace all this pavement just who'll things down chicago is building new sewage systems for increased flooding what a surprise it's increased bloody as a result of this thing and they're installing for the first time ever they're installing air conditioning and school building it'

chicago illinois. these days our surveillance state isn't only growing because of the government but also thanks to the tech giants out there the rule the internet they make those smartphones that we're also addicted to and one of the most recent disclosures came weeks ago when researchers reported that i phones and droids traktor every location and story material so in what seemed like a step in the right direction a congressional hearing was held by fishel he titled protecting mobile privacy your smartphones tablets cell phones and your privacy i think that the hearing itself seemed to turn for the worse when jason weinstein from the d.o.j. called for new laws that would require mobile providers to collect and store information about their customers have been less privacy out of hearing about privacy this really does not look like a good sign so your discuss this with me is julian sanchez a research fellow at the cato institute thanks so much for being here tonight. starters i don't know if that is t

i was born in chicago. my father had emigrateford iran to go to school in chicago, where he met my mother while he was attending the university of chicago. that's where i was born. after my parents had divorced, i spent most of my youth in the state of rhode island, southern rhode island, and then after i graduated high school, i went to undergraduate college in st. louis, missouri and then came out here for grad school, which fell in love with san francisco bay area. all of my plans changed and this became my home. i worked as an environmental analyst for a number of think tanks and then applied that trade in law enforcement, where i went to the san francisco police academy many, many years ago, graduated as a academy class, president of the class. trained in environmental forensics, both here locally, state and federally by the usepa in the training center in georgia and i worked for the district attorney's office in san francisco for nine years before becoming elected supervisor. >> and you spent most of

chicago thunderstorms, 68. dallas, sunny, 92. los angeles, sunny and 73. >>> time now for a check of the national forecast. the latest satellite picture shows cloudy skies in the northwest. the southwest remains mainly clear. gray skies extend from the great plains into the mississippi and tennessee valleys. much of the east coast has clear skies. later today severe thunderstorms will develop in the mississippi and tennessee valleys, including possible tornadoes. the northeast will have a mild sunny afternoon, a few isolated thunderstorms are likely in the mid-atlantic states. scattered showers will move back into the northwest, while the rest of the west coast remains dry. >>> in sports, miami is just one win away from advancing to the nba finals. scoring in overtime the heat's lebron james finished with the game high 35 points and the miami defense shut down chicago's derrick rose. the 101-93 victory gives the heat a 3-1 series lead. game five is thursday night in chicago. >>> now to baseball, st. louis pulled out an extra inni

well, that was reporter alex perez with our nbc station in chicago. oprah's very last show, which is set to be taped next week, will air may 25th. >>> coming up, the benefits of coffee. another reason you may not want to hold back on that second, third, even sixth cup of the day. >> oh, thank goodness! and we're looking over here, highway 24 off of the walnut creek interchange. i do have one incident to tell c yoouabouuactplay e couple for the area, so come back for this rainy, wet, windy commute. fo >>> it's 4:54. a little shake on the san mateo bridge on our cameras there. we're going to check in with mike but obviously wind and rain is a factor. >>> folks in concord could their very own downtown ice rink for the holidays. the city council is looking at a proposal to build a synthetic ice surface. a group sponsoring the measure say it's cheaper than the real stuff. it has a slick but room temperature material which has a little more resistance than ice. it costs $45,000 to build the structure, most of it coming from a local business group. >>> well,

chicago illinois. the next for about a for the international space station has started a two. a pretty admission exam at star city near moscow three men a russian american end job and he's astronaut will be put in simulated crisis situations on a scale of the i says part of instructors will grade them according to their performance and if all goes well certify them for their mission after about to head to the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan for a final preparations for the six month stint in orbit they'll get there on a newly upgraded all digital soyuz spacecraft scheduled for the take off on june eighth. me trees are next with the business news stay with us here on r.t. . thanks man just two weeks ago there was talk of a commodity super spike pressure builds and precious metals thought commodities will rule posting various gains but two weeks is a long time and now there's talk of the bubbles bursting and the end of the boom cycle only small had some sacks of bank tells us what he thinks is happening. what we having right now is a bit of a real reality check from investors

chicago thunderstorms there, 85 degrees. dallas, thunderstorms as well, 88 and l.a., sunny, 71. >>> time now for a check of the national forecast. the latest satellite picture shows clouds and thunderstorms in the central plains. it's clear and warm in the southwest. later today, temperatures continue to rise across much of the nation. in the southeast, highs will reach the mid-90s and look for some severe storms in the central plains from texas to nebraska. >>> in sports, the bulls have taken the lead in their nba playoff series with atlanta. chicago's derrick rose was hot, scoring 33 points as the bulls beat the hawks 95-83. chicago now leads the series three games to two, and could wrap it up tomorrow night. >>> in baseball, two extra inning walk-off wins in the american league. with the score tied in the 13th inning, baltimore's matt wieters hit a bloop single to center field. that brought home the winning run for a 7-6 orioles victory over visiting seattle. >>> and in the bottom of the tenth in toronto, the blue jay's d

also stormy from houston to nashville, chicago, cleveland and pittsburgh. meanwhile, some snow in the cascades and the lake tahoe area. rain from seattle to san francisco. >> and looking at 65 degrees in sacramento. 71 in salt lake and 94 in phoenix. 65 in the twin cities, 71 in detroit and 72 in kansas city. upper 80s from dallas to miami. 91 in atlanta and 82 degrees here in new york. >>> coming up the skyrocketing cost of coffee, rising faster than gasoline. >> not good news on this shift. >>> then, will u.s. taxpayers be left with the bill for dominique strauss-kahn's six-figure severance? >>> capping her 25-year run. what we know about the finale show as oprah says good-bye. ic >>> the federal government is getting back more of its bailout money. the giant insurer, aig, yesterday sold its first new stock offering since the government stepped in to prevent its collapse two and a half years ago. the treasury department made a small profit on the sale but still owns more than three-fourths of the company. >>> asian markets are lower because of sagging exp

: i lived in chicago for years. i didn't notice any racism in old town or the gold coast. that was very nice up there. i didn't see any black people. (laughter) this album, lasers this was being held on to by atlantic records. >> correct. >> stephen: and 250 of your fans marched on atlantic records and demanded that it be released. >> yes. >> stephen: and then they did so. >> yes. >> stephen: is that because with today's music business if 250 people buy t it's the number one album? (laughter) (applause) >> well, actually, 200,000 kids can bought the first week and that made it the number one album. >> stephen: damn! congratulations. well, buddy, are you ready, are you ready for the colbert bump. >> let's do it. >> stephen: okay, 200,000, let's double that, 400,000. shall we. >> let's do it. >> stephen: when we return we'll have a performance by lupe fiasco and skyler grey. thank you so much. kmeers (cheers and applause) >> stephen: and now performing the song "words i never said" competeuring skyler grey from the al

a man rushes the cockpit of a flight from san francisco to chicago. it's a number of flight security checks that happened over the weekend. he was arrested and no one hurt. good news there. teachers are getting ready to march at the state capital today. they are there to tell lawmakers to stop the cuts. they say they have sacrificed enough already and it's time for different solutions. >>> pipeline testing is getting under way. pg&e is trying to stop gas explosion from happening. time is 5:13. a chilly start to your monday. christina says it's going to warm up. is that right? >> that is right. it's chilly. 5:13 in the morning. thanks for waking up with us. we have precipitation on the map this morning. this is over lake tahoe. we have the uplift, snow showers coming down. yeah, you can still go snow boarding and skiing. mammoth is slated to be open until the fourth of july. high pressure is a ways away. it's going to move in as we head through each and every day through thursday. warming up a little bit until then. 52 in concord. 53 in hayward. turnin

in chicago, the heat's lebron james led a fourth quarter comeback.made a jump shot to put them ahead. he finished with 28 points. james capped an 83-80 win by blocking a last-second shot by the bulls' derek rose right there. that would actually tie the game and gave miami the eastern conference championship. 4-1 over chicago. after the game, former heat star alonzo mourning handed over the prize. miami hosted dallas mavericks in game one of the finals on tuesday. >>> in baseball a dramatic walk-off win for baltimore. score tied in the bottom of the 12th inning, the orioles, a slow bouncer up the middle that scored the winning run. baltimore beat kansas city 6-5. in the national league, philadelphia pitcher cliff lee smashed a long drive to center field that bounced over the wall for a ground rule double that scored two runs. lee also struck out eight cincinnati reds. phillies win 10-4. when we come back on this friday, another look at this morning's top stories, and the amazing story of a woman who's never flown a plane but wound up flying solo with