murdered in chicago. overwhelmingly, those people killed were gang members. they were young, they were black and they were killed with a gun. want to talk with the top law enforcement official in the city of chicago right now, police superintendent garry mccarthy. welcome, superintendent. thank you for coming on on a saturday night to talk about this. >> thanks, don. my pleasure. it's really important that we do. >> you're relatively new to chicago, since last year. you have worked in other cities. you brought down murder rates in other cities. what is it about chicago that makes this awful figure possible, 500 murders in one year? >> well, there's a number of things. first of all, as is rightly identified, it's about the gang conflicts. and the second thing that really is overwhelming is the number of firearms in this city. as mr. pollack just said, last time i checked, that number was nine guns for every one that new york city took off the street. but the fact that -- we took nine for every one that new

murdered in chicago.ingly, those people killed were gang members. they were young, they were black and they were killed with a gun. want to talk with the top law enforcement official in the city of chicago right now, police superintendent garry mccarthy. welcome, superintendent. thank you for coming on on a saturday night to talk about this. >> thanks, don. my pleasure. it's really important that we do. >> you're relatively new to chicago, since last year. you have worked in other cities. you brought down murder rates in other cities. what is it about chicago that makes this awful figure possible, 500 murders in one year? >> well, there's a number of things. first of all, as is rightly identified, it's about the gang conflicts. and the second thing that really is overwhelming is the number of firearms in this city. as mr. pollack just said, last time i checked, that number was nine guns for every one that new york city took off the street. but the fact that -- we took nine for every one that new york city

chicago's union station was overrun by acrobats and elves today.at the great hall where metra held its holiday celebration, "it's a wonderful ride." for several hours this afternoon, families were treated to everything from face painting to visits with santa to circus performances. "the midnight circus" ... chicago's renowned troupe of acrobats, clowns, musicians and other performers, provided the entertainment. metra even served up treats on some of its trains. that is the news for this sunday night. instant replay coming up next... break -having her was amazing. -we made a miracle. and we got onesies. sometimes miracles get messy. so we use tide free. no perfumes or dyes for her delicate skin. brad. not it. not it. just kidding. that's our tide. what's yours?

chicago has tough laws, it tnt working. >> well, chicago in a bubble. target markets for gun flow. you have a combination of guns and drugs and we need a comprehensive plan. it's also poverty and lack of education. people think killing is the only way out. we need a comprehensive plan. not just gun violence alone is the issue here. >> reverend jackson, thank you very much. i thank you for being part of this debate. >> thank you, sir. >> we're back after a quick break. ughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. just use your citi card and register your purchase online. have a super sparkly day! ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. citi price rewind. start saving at citi.com/pricerewind. >>> in four hours we'll see a last-ditch effort to keep us from going over the fiscal cliff. the president and key congressional players will meet at the white house to pl

chicago's second oldest.e of only a handful of buildings that survived the chicago police put on their second annual *bears in blue* foundation charity event today. the foundation is a non-profit organization that's dedicated to providing safety and comfort to children in crisis situations. the *bears in blue* teamed up with the *chicago steam* professional basketball team and 19th district police -- at the cornerstone homeless shelter on north clifton this afternoon. collected donations were distributed to benefit homeless children during this holiday season. a fantasy favor once again takes top honors at the box office >> the hobbit: an unexpected journey earned nearly $33 million in its third weekend to hold onto the no. 1 spot. here are some of the other box office winners... break man, chanting, snapping fingers: oh, those boys are much too much! those boys are much too much! we got the spirit we're hot, we can't be stopped! we got the spirit! we're hot! we can't be stopped! we're gonna beat 'em and bust

chicago, illinois. this week alone, six people have been killed there, including a 15-year-old girl who was just standing in her backyard with her friends. those deaths bring the total number of murders there this year to 476. that just happens to be a number that is greater than the coalition troops serving in afghanistan during the very same period, so think of that. chicago is in a very real sense a war zone. >> patients keep coming and they come and they come, like machine gunfire. you can expect this to happen every single night. >> for the past several years, "360" has been covering the growing epidemic of gun violence on chicago's south side. >> good evening. from the south side of chicago, a tough neighborhood with strong people reeling from a killing spree that cannot be ignored. there are no easy answers but the problems are too important to ignore. we're in chicago tonight, a city in crisis. kids are dying, shot, beaten, murdered in these streets. the videotaped beating of derrion albert, an

go with her now to chicago. rising from the shores of lake michigan, the skyline of chicago sparkles and soar ls. but beyond the glittering facade of glass and steel, lies a city at the crossroads of america's underground sex trade. >> relax, okay sweetie? >> okay. >> don't be nervous or anything okay? >> tonight police find this young woman selling sex in a hotel room more than 600 miles away from her home in arkansas. local authorities say it's an all too common occurrence in the windy city. >> it doesn't happen here in our own backyard. in cook county chicago, it's a transportation hub. it's a convention hub. and it's right for this type of crime. illinois state attorney anita alvarez heads up the cook county human trafficking force. a joint effort to combat the booming underground sex trade in chicago and the surrounding suburbs. >> do your parents know where you are? >>. >> i think we're really not going to get anywhere or make a dent into the crime unless we as local prosecutors do more. >> in 2011 the ill

these are weather but temperatures chicago hillside 45 at o'hare as we say.you can see streaming off of the west coast and we're going to be busy the forecast is tracking these things one thing for sure is we have some rain on the way tonight not all that has reached the ground the locale of the in house model has rain around here by 3 in the morning continues into the morning rush-hour. we will see these little spells of precipitation a load swings up from the southwest. light rain at times tomorrow from a heavy overcast and a high of 46, winds will get turned off of the late tomorrow. for 37 to maun night. occasional light rain. saturday opens cloudy and maybe spring clay but it turns partly cloudy with a high of 45. still ahead how to donate to a charity you can believe in. unwrap your paradise. soft, sweet coconut covered in rich, creamy chocolate. almond joy and mounds. unwrap paradise. [ female announcer ] he could be your soul mate. but first you've got to get him to say hello. new crest 3d white arctic fresh toothpaste. use it with these 3d white prod

just a block from his home in east chicago. he, and others who came to mourn jaylen today say this section of track is dangerous. its been brought to the attention of the railroads... i do believe they should have something for the kids... for all the kids who play on this block. every five minutes.. trains all day, every day. jalen miller sees the problem here... with no pedestrian crossing gates, many people take a chance. jaylen and a few of his friends were coming from the library and they were trying to beat the train.. but he didnt beat the train.. he ended up getting hit by the train. he found jaylen lying next to the tracks. i checked his pulse.. he was dead. jaylen attended nearby harrison elementary school, he loved professional wrestling and playing with the other kids on his street. he was into sports and stuff.. he wasnt a bad kid. he was always at the library its just messed up. how could a train just hit him like that. its a question that may find an answer in the future, as his family comes to grips with this de

we have 42 at meryl school in chicago 41 as chicago heights. a lot of clouds in the air with the rains embedded in those clout. the month is open to 14.7 degrees above normal. this is the sixth warmest december opened on record since 1871. this has been an extraordinarily warm december. the temperatures will be above average through sunday and then turn colder next week. winds are blowing from the south. the jet stream blowing from west to east does not lend itself to getting any of the cold arctic air that bottled up up north, down here. lots of clouds today. some rain indicated by radar not all of it is reaching the surface. tamara there will be a little rain nearby. here is a part of the storm system. it sends the wrong main storesnow up to the north of us. here is where the snow will accumulate if you are willing to travel north wisconsin, central wisconsin, minnesota. 3.2 in. near pier south dakota. the twin cities may have 3 in.. here are the weather maps over the weekend. here is our forecast, extensive clout in this with a sliver of sun

i am a guy from chicago. and yes one of the group's founders is from chicago.n evanston, raised in winnetka. after the 2010 earthquake in haiti he traveled there with friends and fellow marine jake would to help what they started grew into a team rubicon a renegade relief agency that has drawn praise from michelle obama and president clinton. we paired military veterans with medical professionals and we conducted a medical triage in some of the hardest-hit areas. so it's about to do something that gives them a sense of purpose dedicating themselves to a cause larger than their own they join the military to be part of an organization, something bigger than themselves and when they take off their uniforms they're looking for something bigger to surf. you see it everywhere, in the rockaways. like in this home, they tell a gut-wrenching story as steve's got out their house.theives gut out their house. their car floated away and the water rose around penny. terrible. >> so upsetting and devastating that i don't have any words that's how terrible i think this all is.

some snow could come to chicago...testo impressive though.oo impressive though... >> chicago's korean business community made the 33rd ward a warmer place this winter -- by distributing some 500 brand new winter parkas today. the parkas -- in adult sizes only -- were handed out on a *first-come first-served* basis. the event took place at or lady of mercy church hall on north troy. gently used clothing is now being accepted in the city's approved green collection bins -- for future distribution. tuba players raise the their instruments high during their annual christmas concert today. hundreds of people packed the historic grand ballroom for the chicago tradition... merry tuba christmas... >> 400 players of all ages and skill levels sat side-by-side to place some of the season's most popular tunes. the concert is orchestrated in honor of music professor harvey phillips... >> bragging rights on the line in saint louis. the 10th ranked fighting illini renew their rivalry against 12th ranked missouri. and we'll check in w

but, here, in chicago, 465 deaths by gunfight. give people a sense. you have been marching, you have been religious, you've gone to jail. 465 death, including gunfire. 62 children. give us a sense of what goes on. >> when you have communities that suffer from high unemployment, no infrastructure, a shortage of afterschool programs, you create a perfect storm. and then you have communities that have more guns than computers. children live in fear. how do you study in school if you're afraid to go hoechl, you're afraid to come to school. people have been shot in their homes. children have been shot in this beds, porches and living rooms. our kids, the new landmarks of our neighborhoods are teddy bears and yellow police tape. this past june, not one high school graduation that i went to did not have part of the service memorial for classmates that were killed. >> congressman elect, let me ask you quickly. do you feel that the activism that we're seeing out of what has happened in newtown, that we can now have hope and let's not forget. it's happened befo

joining me now, chicago tribune columnist john katz. before we talk, i want you to listen to this interview i did in chicago a few years ago. what is the violence for? what is the whole reason for shooting? why do so many people get shot? >> traffic flow my way. >> do you kill somebody you get rid of them, that's more money for you? i don't mean you specifically. >> not me specifically, but some people. >> explain it to me, what do you mean by that? >> [ bleep ]. some people got it down. got to get on top. >> he was an admitted gang banger as he said, john. has anything changed in chicago since i did that interview in 2009? >> by the way, that was a fantastic interview and i think you get to the heart of the problem. there is a gang war in chicago on the west and south sides. the police are outmanned, undermanned and outgunned. and the criminals are killing each other to climb up, you know, the next wrung on the ladder. i don't know what this 500th homicide, the motivation was, the fellow -- the victim had been in and out of prison and

chicago police say the key to stopping violence is not more guns. in chicago officers take nine illegal guns off the street for every one gun confiscated by officers in new york. >> that is not gun control. that is the same if you have an illegal gun they're going to be consequences. coming up next. the latest as secretary of state hillary clinton reviews an official report of the september attack on a u.s. mission in benghazi. plus, hasbro makes a decision about unveiling a new "easy bake oven" for girls and boys. and they've been entertaining america every since they're first appearance on the lawrence welk show. the lennon sisters are here today! tre r anitngis ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. president obama and house speaker john boehner are rejecting each other's latest compromise proposals for avoiding the fiscal cliff. the president initially wanted to hike taxes on people with incomes of more than 250- thousand dollars. now

. >>> después de asesinar a un hombre , por primera vez en 4 años con , 500 casos de asesinato chicagoon record de homicidios , un avión en rusia se sale de la pista de aterrizaje con más de 18 millones de luces colombia se ilumina por las fiestas de fin de año comenzamos . >>> (♪ ♪) . >>> (♪ ♪) . >>> (♪ ♪) . >>> (♪ ♪) . >>> buenas noches bienvenidos a noticiero univisión fin de semana , hoy està en prision una mujer hispana , acusada de empujar a un hombre al tren por crimen de odio después de que el hombre murió atropellado , tenemoa el caso con gran repercucion . >>> erika melendez es escoltada y acusada por crimen de odio por la policía autoridades , informaron que empujo al pasajero por que pensaba que era musulman por haber derribado las torres gemelas les tenía un odio . >>> según sus amigos , la mujer hispana de 31 años , en park queens , un empleado comento que la veia visitar a su madre pero no la reconocen como residente , viendolo así , no ni idea , enfre4nta cargos por odio racial , de ser hayada culpable el ataque le jueves pàsado , la mujer espero que estuviera el tren c

chicago became random, the fact that he got to chicago? >> i would not call it random. for the election of harold washington as the first african-american mayor of chicago was very attractive to him. chicago was the place to be at that point as i right in the book. three people arrived in chicago, michael jordan came during that period, and barack obama came anonymously and arguably today. >> host: jerry gelman, a chicago community organizer, said obama was one of the most cautious people i have ever met in my life. he was not unwilling to take risks but was a strange combination of someone who would have to weigh everything to death and then take a dramatic risk at the end. >> guest: that sounds like president obama too. in some ways that characteristic can be looked at in his life and career. as a community organizer, the whole notion, the method for community organizing was to take action, our does not exist in a vacuum. youpower does not exist in a vacuum. you have to seize it. cameron was one of his bosses during that period, barack was a different story. he was lo

if you have the information you are asked to call chicago fbi. >> tomorrow, newtown connecticut faces more funerals, the community scarred by the school massacre that claimed 26 lives today most didn't return to school except for most who attended sandy hook elementary school. >> that community really eager to move forward in all of this but it's going to take months maybe even years to get anywhere close to that today funerals for 26 year-old as the debate for gun control keeps up. >> buses back on the streets of newtown connecticut students returned to class in attempts to return to something normal even as funerals are held for two of the victims six year-old jessica rekos loved horses. hundreds of kids try to cope with what happened. a lot of them to know what's going on. the entire country is mourning the lives lost and investigators try to piece together what happened without causing further damage to survivors. we cannot and will not damage to these children in any further ways everyone questioning what triggered the gunman but the answers are not clear yet 20 year-old adam lan

the gun violence continues in chicago. tonight, the reverend jesse jackson on the city's grim milestone of 500 homicides in one year. and it's nearly 2013, but attitudes on race remain two centuries behind. >> the way i look at it, it's freedom of speech. >> the reverend marcia dyson, and the president of the national urban league on the fresh bigotry of supposed post-racial america. >>> with three days left before the start of the new year, it's put up or shut up time for congressional leaders. president obama addressed reporters from the white house this evening. roughly an hour after meeting with leaders of the house and senate. >> i still want to get this done. it's the right thing to do for our families, for our businesses, and for our entire economy. but the hour for immediate action is here. it is now. >> senate leaders harry reid and mitch mcconnell were back at the capitol in no time. mcconnell gathered his members to inform them of the work that needs to be done. >> we had a good meeting down at the white house.

about chicago?share with us about chicago. [laughter] >> guest: you have no bias. [laughter] chicago is where it was all happening. it was the big city one of the most fascinating record sources was letters of migrants one of the journal's collected of people from the 1900's of people looking for places. the black newspaper played a role to encourage migration. people wrote looking for a place and one letter was looking for a place a black man could be treated like a man. it was not segregated like the south. you could go to school and vote and make a living wage. there is a social and religious life. when michelle obama is ancestors got there she says she is a south side grow but it looks nothing like it did. her great-grandmother phoebe arrived 1908 when the sell side was predominantly white >> host: there is a renaissance story and i want to read your description given important it is it is a mentioned, it once was described as the negro mecca. you describe the shot, go renaissance as it was the

i lived in chicago from 1984 until 1988. i used to take the train from chicago to springfield. my parents would pick me up. i did not have a car when i lived in springfield. when we talk about high-speed rail, we talk about maximum speed at some point on the track would be 110 miles per hour. the question i have is the average speed and time savings going different distances, for example, from chicago to springfield. we had a couple of stops in suburban chicago. i think joliet'. secretary hammond, -- i will ask you about this to. these investments can cost us a lot of money. when you talk about average speed and you start excluding communities that will have access to the train, if you go from chicago to st. louis, you are going to have a high-speed train. i get that. but in my view to be true high speed, you will have to exclude a bunch in the middle and have separate service for that. would it be worth the cost to get the average speed up, i mean to get the top speed up to a certain level? the ability average speed and the time it takes you to get from here to there does not

if no snow falls today, chicago will set a new record. there have been traces of snowfall in suburban areas, but not enough to be considered "measurable" snow. tom skilling will have more in his full forecast. next at noon. president obama hits the road to talk taxes to union workers. after holding a private meeting with the speaker of the house. investigators are looking into the cause of a plane crash that killed a popular mexican- american singer. and the d-j's behind a prank call to the hospital treating kate middleton are speaking out for the first time. tre r anitngis wait till your kids move back home after college. we were going through so much of the bargain detergent. and the clothes didn't look as good. but since we switched to tide we use much less. an amazing clean for all three of our full-grown dependent bundles of joy. that's my tide what's yours? president obama is scheduled to speak to a crowd at a suburban detroit auto plant this hour. white house officials are calling it "an event on the economy". it comes a week after

it has tripled the population of the city of chicago. the last inmates at the super max have been moved out the closure will save money demonstrators protest to the prison last april demonstrating against the isolation imposed on inmates there was a 15 year experiment on prisons which advocates believe the state still needs. the last five inmates were moved to the pontiac correctional center today. this ends four years of chapter 11 protection among them the tribune controls a major daily newspapers and nearly two dozen tv stations including wgn. a minor gun charge may be taking a potential congressional candidate out of the running coming up with a man once believed to be the favorite to replace jesse jackson jr.... good news tonight on that president bush's recovery. tom skilling says we could see daytime temperatures fall below freezing for the first time this season the sports caster is coming up. the field of candidates wanted to take over jesse jackson jr. is shrinking a senator dropped out which makes for some legal trouble. we ha

give us your best shot on telling us what is wrong with chicago's gun laws. >> chicago has a ban on than guns. it makes it impossible to have a gun. to have a permit in your home, you have to have range training, but you couldn't get to gun range training. and it's totally illegal for anybody in the city to carry a firearm loaded for self protection outside of your home. a case we just took to federal court and just the other day it was turned--hold on for a second. so nobody who is a legitimate law abiding person can defend themselves or have a gun. but you just gave a news report for how bad things are. that's what gun control does. you can't protect yourself. >> cenk: i love how you think that people inside chicago can't get guns. i love how you think it's a country in and of itself. it's an island in an ocean of guns. at every nearby state you can buy a gun with no waiting period no nothing. isn't it the easiest thing to get guns into chicago? >> calm down and take a valium. the fact of the matter you can't buy a handgun in another state that you're not a resident. and in illinois, i

what is going on in chicago? >> you know was fascinating when i read this because cb moten johnson, michelle obama's great-grandmother lived in height harkin that was the big deal because she lived not far from where the obama's live today. someone had recommended to me the chicago commission study of the race riots. when i was going through their and i discovered these bombings african-americans were moving into hyde park and there was this active concerted campaign to move them out. i realized, my goodness. >> it wasn't parlor conversation. it was vicious propaganda. >> it was remarkable. and i can't remember now exactly how many there were, but these bombings -- >> about 50 a. >> they began before and continued after and again i don't know -- >> was at a planned activity in hyde park? >> was a really striking time. it was the first that i knew about it. i didn't know about that and in talking to the obama's relatives i learned that phebe had talked about it, that she when the riots were sweeping the city she w

chicago police have been working hard to prevent it. the 500 happened last night. the shooting death on the west side. 40 year-old nathaniel jackson was pronounced dead just after midnight. three hours after he was shot in the head. his death pushed chicago homicide rate to 500. today that is the talk of the town. >> it is crazy. i think these people are going out of their mind. the need to do something about >> this is only the second time this decade that the homicide rate has hit 500. there were 512 in 2008. the number dropped in recent years. earlier this you're the police superintendent shook up the department to target high crime areas. some feel that is having an effect. >> mccarthy noted recently that overall crime is down by 12 percent. the milestone murder number of 500 as many wary about chicagos national reputation as well as their own safety. >> i do not feel safe at all. i was dodging bullets growing up. maybe next year police will try harder against. >> the mayor's office called the milestone tragic and unfortunate. a reminder of the damage caused by

and in '95, we moved them to chicago.a bold move, to say, we are going to take a company that had its roots and its identity in new york and it was going to move to a place, frankly, that was not a dance capital in any way shape or form. and they were going to really see if they could become an institution here. goldweber: the company when they got to chicago was a mess. i got there -- the day i arrived, they were in season. so i went to the theater and they didn't know the bows of what they were doing that night and people were running into each other onstage. you know, transitions are hard. so many dancers had left so there wasn't that unity of style. there were many, many dancers from all over, so we worked really hard to try and develop a unity of style to rebuild the classical technique of the company to a level where then the company could go off and do anything it wanted to just like what the company was at its greatest times. woman: so it was an issue of putting "billboards" to bed and focusing back into the heart

but look at chicago, wind coming up from the south.'ve got the milder air and this is all rainfall, at least right now, but very quickly it's going to change to snow. look at some of the snowfall totals we've seen over the last 24 hours. hastings, nebraska, 8 inches, a portion of interstate 80. was closed over the last 12 hours or so, that's about 150 miles, they were saying the interstate there was so tied up because of the snow, very dangerous and treacherous driving conditions, blizzard warnings from green bay all the way down to iowa impacting a huge swath of the central united states, ashleigh. it is going to be very treacherous. >> just miserable. so the headline here, check your flight before you head for the airport. karen maginnis, thank you. >> i dare say, chicago is going to be one of the biggest delays. already two-hour delays there. >> oh, rats. keep an eye out for us. thank you. >>> and the faa is reporting most airports at this point are operating normally, but then you heard karen maginnis say if you're planning to trav

but conservative chicago democrat, represenative joe lyons, says the presidents view wont change his vote against the marriage bill... telling wgn by phone 'when he was in the state senate, president obama voted present on any controversial bill that came up.' that sentiment is echoed by other conservatives in the state, including the chicago catholic archdiocese and the thomas more society. the president is entitled to his opinion. he is only one

you live in chicago, illinois, where there is a kid that looks like me, that gets shot in chicago, everyterally every day. it's bizarre to me that we rarely talk about those types of shootings, because, oh, it's connected to drugs, or, oh, it's connected to gangs. but it would seem to be a little more than that. >> well, and actually, in chicago, we cover those stories extensively. and what's been a pressure point with mayor rahm emanuel, who's a gun control advocate, but still has not been able to stop the violence in chicago. i found it quite interesting that when president obama yesterday in his talks recited the mass massacre, did include gun violence in chicago. people in the city have been wanting him to speak out about it, use his bully pulpit to see if he can help. this is actually one of the first time, one of the first times that he's actually lumped chicago in with the massacre, really making the point, gun violence is an issue, not just one particular horrific incident, even the ones involving individuals are very important too. >> lynn sweet, goldie taylor, thanks to both of

>> first of all, i came to chicago for a couple of reasons. i had a homer and teacher in high school who said to the whole class -- draw, you get a map and draw a circle run the city of new york 600 miles and go to school out of that. because your parents will never surprise you with a visit if they have to take an airplane. [laughter] but the bigger reason was that i wanted to go to school in an urban area, and a place where the politics were rich. this was four years after the democratic convention, the last of the big city machines were still alive and politics were really vital. i came to the university of chicago probably ill-equipped to take advantage of everything the institution had to offer. and a little frustrated because there was no is to politics. there were no outlets. i used to joke -- forgive me if the dean is here or anybody else -- that was 40 years ago. i said i could not find anybody who wanted to talk about anything that happened after the year 1800. [laughter] so i found other outlets for my interests and that i'll let wa

. >>> a daring prison escape in downtown chicago. two inmates escaped a high-rise prison with a rope made of bedsheets. >>> bullet proof backpacks cost up to $300. >> very entertaining. >> somewhere clark griswold is going, perfection." >> this is a ridge of high pressure. i just popped a button. >>> miss universe 2012 is -- usa! >>> and all that matters. >> some who have made that list yours truly, that ought to tell you something right there regarding the credence that we should give "time" magazine. >> on "cbs this morning." >> i was named man of the year by "waste of time" magazine. captioning funded by cbs >>> welcome to "cbs this morning." there are now 12 days to the fiscal cliff deadline and there is no deal between the white house and congressional republicans. >> in fact the speaker of the house is pushing for a vote on his own plan b today that has president obama fired up. major garrett is at the white house. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and norah. top white house official told us the lines of c

contentious issue in chicago. on friday, for more public charter schools were approved for the city. at the same time, closing neighborhood schools run by the district. there is also the possibility of a chartered network sharing space with an under enrolled school. >> we have to be open to considering other options. the quirks charter schools are privately run but they take public money. >> we all need to be working together. we all want to the same thing. we cannot keep kids trapped in the system. >> across town on the west side hundreds of others gathered to talk about reinforcing public schools and said of enhancing the charters. >> i hope they will begin to see a having one-third of the system run by charterers is really not a good model for public schools. if we go down that road, the public will lose favor. what is a viable and what is public institutions are about. >> on allowing public schools, they want to aggravate the responsibility in terms of educating children. they view it as another way to grab mo

chicago already cancelling 90 flights and this will be chicago's first snowstorm of the season. they have ever gone without snow. but we're not seeing snow yet in chicago. around 9:00, 7:00 to 9:00 tonight we'll see the rain change over to snow and the winds really kick in, so the worst is far yet to come. it will be later this afternoon and tonight for chicago. so a classic setup. the northern tier, there's the snow. severe weather on the southern side. you can see that's a tornado watch box in the southeast. mississippi, alabama all seeing the potential for tornados. southwest alabama has tornado warnings posted right now. already reports from this morning of damage in mobile. here's the northern tier of this thing. this is where the blizzard warnings are. omaha, des moines, right along this i-80 corridor, that's where we will have blizzard conditions. iowa virtually shut down with a foot of snow that will fall today. also green bay, you're expecting nearly a foot of snow coupled with strong, gusty winds. so it's a snow maker. but what's making this storm so powerful are the w

goes back more than a decade the firm is united maintenance company and its owner is a prominent chicago businessman richard simon long before he ran this cleaning company was a chicago police officer moonlighting as a chauffeur to the so-called king of the janitors ben stein a notorious rush street playboy and a friend to members of the mob jim wagner investigated and he says this about stalin. >> law enforcement had stories about him taking over parties in bars with his friends he ran a maintenance company that had contracts in numerous different companies in chicago. today one of simon's top executive his ex- con, in the '80s osco was convicted of running a donnie insurance firm as part of a scheme to defraud the labor union won by his father. today the company issued a statement saying it simon purchased the business in 2009 more than 16 years after foster was hired by the previous owner but they failed to mention that simon worked for in ran the business for over two decades. today the mayor defended his choice. we will have a vigorous enforcement to make sure everybody lives by and

chicago's outpatient clinics were filled to bursting. greenberg spoke of people too 6 to leave their homes but couldn't get a doctor to visit them or couldn't afford the two pennies for transportation to a clinic. she told the audience about a child's with double pneumonia who had died of an abscessed long after being turned out of a hospital because the relief agency would no longer pay for care. on behalf of the working people of chicago, florence greenberg made the following demand -- we are asking our government to take health from the list of luxury to be bought only with money and add it to the list containing inalienable rights of every citizen. we don't know whether franklin roosevelt ever heard about florence greenberg's unprecedented call for health care as a right. even though he had endorsed the conference, he chose to go on vacation. fdr was actually on a cruise. i guess we can't really blame him, pretty well deserved vacation the three years earlier, fdr had refused to include medical coverage as part of the social security

and i went back to chicago. i was not sure because you know after, you have conducted so many orchestras in all your life, especially in the last years. i had reduced my presence with some four or five orchestras. the orchestras are very dear to my heart. so to goack an ganize tra that i had not conducted for 30 years, i was very doubtful. i said why to go there, to find new musicians and then even if are you a nam us conductser and they are a famous orchestra, still, when this two entities meet, the first ten minutes the newsicians think okay, now we will judge him. he's very popular with vienna berlin but now it's our turn to say how good he is. and the conductor is thinking the same thing. so we are not maki muss eck. you are making a sort of >> are yaking assessments. >> and but anyway she convinced me. and i went to chicago. and when the conductor meets an organize tra, has to say something. you cannot say just good morning. beethoven fifthth. there is a sort of-- and i didn't know what to say. i thought ma