college basketball's player of the year will become a chicago bull. the change will be a flat fee of $5.60. it'll be imposed on each direction. >> as part of the 90th anniversary celebration of chicago is very on wgn radio. chilean cruise is live outside of the station. all-time greats of being on a twohonored here. >> here in pioneer court. the large crowd has gathered. ceremony under way to honor the greatest of the greats of chicago radio. >> for radio lovers it is a chance to see spike o'dell former wgn radio personality who has not been back in chicago in five years. also honoring those who are gone. present-day broadcaster is here still going strong along with kathy o'malley. the late jack recalls.brickhouse. >> he started in 1924. among other things was broadcasting baby ruths legendary cold shot. >> no other than ronald reagan said he is the father of sports broadcasting. fittingly enough to wgn radio celebrating with a live radio broadcast. crowds of fans are here at pioneer square to see their favorite radio personalities and honor the all- t

york arrested a convicted felon in connection with the stabbing death of a six-year-old cousin of chicago bulls player taj gibson. pj avitto was killed in the elevator of an apartment building in brooklyn on sunday. a seven-year-old girl was critically injured. the children were out buying ice cream. police used d-n-a evidence to link daniel saint hubert to the crime, and tracked him down last night using pings from his cell phone. he has yet to be charged. saint hubert was released from prison nine days before the children were killed. he's suspected in another fatal stabbing on friday. an 18 year old is dead and two other men were injured after a shooting in the austin neighborhood. it happened at about five last night in the 49-hundred block of *west west end avenue. police say a group of people got out of a car near an alley and started shooting, authorities say the victims are all documented gang members. the three were among at least seven people shot since noon yesterday. congressman bobby rush called leaders of his district together for an emergency meeting about chicago's violence prob

the chicago bulls have two picks in the first round.he's continuing his hot streak in baltimore. >> you reached that mark faster than any player in history. he gives up a grand slam to nelson cruz. >> he throws a wild pitch and the winning run scored. >> nelson released the relieverthey also released the reliever. >> his agent denied all of those trade rumors. has 45 rbi already surpasses his total from last season. the go-ahead run scored. >> the white sox lose the series 4-1. >> >> he has done it again. you do not see those manvery often. he threw a no-hitter against the padres. his only blemish was a walk. the second of his career. the third this season. >> probably doesn't matter what the weather was. those fans are going to be out there watching the world cup matter what. it is nice to live pack a day with up thunderstorms. >> some interesting stats. this is fairly rare to the fog with the frequency belly of head. >> speaking of fog check out the shoshot >> another day of school northeast wind. the cooling brought on by the late. t

it is only the fourth player in chicago bulls history to make this team. >> and scored the game-winner >> a lot of sunshine out there. let's hope it stays with out there. let's hope it stays with us forfow >> and i stay and i am inside. we all are. with the move the anchor desk outside. it is gorgeous. a beautiful day. a low humidity. this was on her sisters from. huge thunderstorm complex began. >> massive flooding in parts of nebraska and iowa. imagines seeing this coming at you. that is just what jim parsons did. also in nebraska. another mammoth storm that swept the area. >> on top of 190 ft. concrete tower. it is what he saw. a big thunderstorm off in the distance. if you're downtown off the lake is all the clubs before the clearing took place. finally a cumulonimbus a thunderhead towering over lennox. mia fed a lot of these gorgeous thunderheads. >> it is a gorgeous day here in chicago. no thunderstorms here. we're down to the south of oz. a couple high clouds. well, cleared as. how the clouds are banked up to the south and west of us. big storms roaming the plains states. and ch

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college basketball's player of the year will become a chicago bull. the bulls gave both of their first-round draft picks to the denver nuggets... and in return, they got the rights to the 11-th pick, small forward doug mc-dermontt from creighton. the three-time all-american says he's excited to play for the bulls. >> with my ability to shoot i think it will help from day one and a half to get better defensively if a defense minded coach. i'm working on that already. i know what it takes. i am a competitor. i'm looking forward to learning. >>mc-dermott adds shooting and scoring strength to the bulls' roster. he's the fifth highest scoring player in division-one history, with more than 31 hundred points in his college career. taking a look at the *other top stories this morning. the suspect in the disappearance and possible murder of a teacher in north carolina, has been captured in chicago. angelo smith junior was the boyfriend of bianca tanner, and the last person to see her after they argued june 7-th at their apartment in charlotte. tanner's 3-year-

you've got the chicago bulls. in houston, you have dwight howard, or chicago, both of those would be great situations. good chances to win. houston and chicago. the mafs, the cavs. everyone wants to talk about him going back to cleveland. i can't see it. how do you leave south beach and a villa that he lives on at the beach? probably not going back to cleveland. >> i can't imagine after the way he left -- >> i would take him back. although andy shoals just did diss cleveland right there. enjoy your twitter feed. >>> the subject of sports right now, you know what's drawing a whole lot more viewers. the world cup. it is the big deal, folks. the u.s. soccer team getting ready for the next big test. 49 hours from now against germany. the game is at noon eastern time on thursday. we'll have full pregame right here at this hour on thursday. >> so your sunday's tv ratings for portugal versus u.s. are any indication, the next match will be huge. the thrilling tie set a u.s. ratings record in tv, 25 million viewers. we want

a convicted felon charged with killing a six-year-old cousin of chicago bulls player taj gibson appearedjudge in new york. p-j avitto was stabbed to death in the elevator of an apartment building in brooklyn on sunday. a seven-year-old girl was critically injured. they were on their way to get ice cream. daniel saint hubert was charged in connection with the crime yesterday. he appeared in court late last night, where prosecutors asked that he remain in police custody due to the heinous nature of the crime. the hearing was adjourned until today. >> she had supporters pushing her to the white house. two fund raisers held downtown. heavy hitters out in force for a fundraiser for hillary clinton, hoping to entice her to run for president in 2016. one of chicago's very own is holding the big event in the city's river north area.... the campaign has not even been announced. >> i am overwhelmed. i knew her as first lady and as a colleague in the senate. i made a call to her when she was making up her mind to become secretary of state. i thought she did an exceptional job. she is the strongest

>>a six year old cousin of chicago bull taj gibson was stabbed to death inside an elevator.n an apartment building in new york sunday. a man attacked six year old prince avitto and a seven year old girl with a large kitchen knife. avitto died of his injuries. gibson wrote on instagram, "they killed my little superman...tears forever." the other victim is still in the hospital. no arrests have been made. police say the attacker may have also stabbed a teenager to death a few blocks away on friday. president obama arrived in poland overnight -- the first stop on a four-day european tour. the president touched down in warsaw and was greeted by the president of poland. the two leaders then met with u- s and polish airmen. president obama will be in poland tomorrow to visit "freedom day" which marks the country's first partially-free elections 25 years ago. during his trip, mister obama will also attend the g-7 summit in belgium and visit the beaches of normandy on friday to mark the 70th anniversary of the d-day invasion. there is a new controversy over the prisoner swap that fr

he can still resign with miami, but the chicago bulls, and cleveland, are also in play for possibly a place for labron james will play next year. that's sports in a minute. and i'm howard eskin. >>> how about this moment? phillies tony gywnn, jr., back on the field, just week after the death of his father hall of famer tony gywnn, senior. >> tony gywnn, jr.! (applause). >> oh, a lot of support down in the ballpark, the crowd gave him a standing ovation as he came up to bat. he says it is pretty tough to return, but with support from his fans and teammates, much appreciated in the lockerroom. he couldn't holds back his emotions. >> for my teammates, i probably got, i don't think there was a guy who i didn't get a text from. so, excuse me. it's been nice. >> oh, of course his died last monday after battle with cancer during his 20 year career he played with the san diego padres. >> that video from the 1984 world series. look at that one. that was l 88 worlds series. unfair play on the feel during you are gay's match against italy in the world cup, striker, orbiteer, lewis flores, accuse

when you think about it this is the closest thing in the enterprise that we have to the chicago bullsf the '90s. the executive team here with larry ellison, mark herd, i mean, talk about a team. they've got vertical integration unlike others. they are making the argument that they're not going to suffer like cisco and hp from this transition to the cloud. that they're going to maintain their margins as they move into sass. they're taking on sales forth straight on saying we're going beat them in software and service and infrastructure as a service taking on microsoft. >> they've been doing this for two years now. you know, first of all, we understand the cloud. we actually understood it before anyone else. we were trying to build net computers and the internet is basically the cloud. we get it. and we're going it. that was two years ago. my concern is you're two years into this and you haven't made more than 4% of your revenues. that, i think, is a big problem. they have to make a real radical shift. he says the thing ator er serv hardware, is it's software. if you get in and you're a

am me, but it does create lot of leverage in a new deal and could be with a new team and put chicago the bullsn the mix as well. >> there are times we need to forget the uniform a player wears in pro sports. especially when they are helping children. that's clearly the case with atlanta falcons quarterback matt ryan still supports the area where he played high school football at penn charter. yesterday he chaired a golf tournament called believe to chief for at risk children but also talked about the fans. >> trust me, i understand how it goes having grown up here. it's one of those things that you come back and they say, we watched you last job. what do you think of the eagles i really don't care. i got to play against them. >> the world cup there. we go. watch this mr. to you gallon again the usa. look at the doggie. the doggie cheers for portugal and they beat the usa -- actually they tied the usa. almost like a defeat. >> yeah, it was. >> maybe the doggie needs a bo bone. i don't know. >> at least he didn't take bite out of the screen. >> all right. that will do it for us at 6:00. see you

the chicago bulls and the houston rockets are contenders, and the l.a. clippers and lakers are in the hunt. >> wherever he goes next season, it's going to be a contending team. >> reporter: but, of course, the most intriguing question, will he dump miami and return to his first love? cleveland. odds are that's not going to happen. here's why snagging him is so important. since he came to the heat, the team brought in $1.4 billion and 24,000 jobs a year to the miami economy. >> whoa. that is huge. >> didn't need a study for that. >> no. >> figure that own out. thanks very much. >>> now to the player in the biting incident in the world cup watched by millions. overnight, the serious charges that soccer superstar is facing that could end his career. paula faris brings that story from beautiful rio this morning. good morning, paula. >> reporter: and good morning, robin. just to give you a sense of how many people were talking about him before the bite, he was mentioned a hundred thousands times on twitter, afterwards, 2 million. it quickly became the chomp s

"i'll support the chicago bulls."other said today would be your birthday, so happy birthday whoever you are. my personal favorite. somebody wrote, "we are super underrated." i'm sure she was talking about the school. but keep in mind you're not only the number one university in america younger than 50 years old, you also hold the guinness world record for biggest water pistol fight. you are excited about that. we are super underrated. this young lady could have just as well been talking about this generation. i think this generation of young people is super underrated. now, in your lives, you have seen dizzying change. from terror attacks, to economic turmoil, from twitter to tumblr. some of your families have known tough times during the course of the worst economic crisis since the great depression. you ar graduating into a healing job market. and some of you are carrying student loan debt you are concerned about. and yet your generation, the most educated, the most diverse, the most tolerant, the most politically a

"i'll support the chicago bulls." another set today would be your birthday, so happy birthday whoever you are. my puzzle favorite -- my pers onal favorite. somebody wrote, "we are super underrated." i'm sure she was talking about the school. but keep in mind you're not only the number one university in america younger than 50 years old, you also hold the guinness world record for the guest wat -- for biggest water pistol fight. you are excited about that. super underrated. this young lady could have just as well been talking about this generation. i think this generation of young people is super underrated. lives, you have seen dizzying change. fomr rom terror attacks, to ecoc turmoil, from twitter to tumblr. some of your families have known tough times during the course of the worst economic crisis since the great depression. you ra graduatingr into a healing job market. and some of you are carrying you areloan debt concerned about. and yet your generation, the most educated, the most diverse, the most tolerant, the

the knicks' carmelo anthony plans to meet with the bulls in chicago next week after the league's off-season market officially opens on tuesday. anthony will then meet with the rockets and mavs on wednesday. chris bosh joins lebron james and dwyane wade also this weekend and opting out of his contract. bosh's agent alerted the decision on sunday afternoon, a day after wade, perhaps the biggest indication that all three are going to stay down there in miami, take a little less money, maybe take a little more in the long term. they'll probably add a good fre agent, and maybe then they can try to compete with the spurs next week. we'll see. jason kidd's tenure as coach of the brooklyn nets, there must be something really ugly behind the scenes. it could end after one year. the milwaukee bucks have offered a second round pick for kidd. however, the nets say they want a first rounder. the bucks have a head coach during all of this mess. ugly. >>> let's get a check on your forecast. i already teased jen about this fourth of july thing. over the weekend, memphis got nailed six inches of rain yester

chicago. e-s-p-n reports that carmelo will meet with the bulls, rockets and mavericks once free agency starts next week. sources say there's no front- runner, and he may meet with more teams. the n-b-a draft starts tonight, and the bulls have two picks in the first round. jose abreu continuing his hot streak in baltimore. scoreless in the fourth... abreu drives one to left and wraps it around the foul pole for his 23-rd home run... he reached that mark faster than any player in history. sox up four- nothing with two outs in the eighth, but javy guerra gives up the grand slam to nelson cruz to tie it. still four- all in the 12-th with daniel webb on the mound... he throws a wild pitch and the winning run scores. sox lose 5-4, for their third walk- off loss in a week. in the world cup... argentina and switzerland won, while france and ecuador played to a scoreless draw. patrick sharp back out at the game. already surpassing rbi totals last season, the game is still tied in the six. it's hip to the outfield. the go-ahead run scores at first. jackson gives up four earned runs for his eighth loss.

there's a bulls over from omaha, kansas, and illinois, chicago has a slight risk of severe weather wichitant louis. that's an area that's been taking it's on the chin over the next couple of days. this system as a whole will be marching east over the next several days. even though it's quiet now and quiet tomorrow, once we get into the soup, the heat and humidity, with this system approaching from the west that's all you need with the showers and thunderstorms. the surface maps, slightly humid tomorrow, we get into the sticky stuff tuesday and wednesday, it turns hotter, as well. future tracker 65 nice quiet morning, tonight looks good, same thing for tomorrow. looking at a combination of sun and clouds, 88 degrees in reading this afternoon. downingtown, 85. allentown, 87 degrees, pilots 86. sun and clouds it will be a warmer day, but pleasant, 88 in philadelphia. glassboro, 87. millville, 84. shore looking nice, upper 70s, high uv index, dover 81. poconos mountains looks good you mean -- up there. 80 degrees, jersey shore, the ocean temperature is 71. you'll have a nice sea breeze kicking

knicks carmelo anthony will meet with the bulls in chicago last week after the off-season market officiallyesday and then he'll meet with the rockets and mavs on tuesday. >> go! >> take off! >> chris bosh joins lebron james and dwyane wade. bosh's agent alerted the team of his decision. james will stay with the heat. the big three will discuss the financial terms of their potential new contracts before they officially negotiate with the team on tuesday. >> i didn't realize. lebron james has never been the highest paid player on that team. >> on that team? i didn't know that. >> i read it. everything in the paper is true, right? >> that's correct. in the nba, that's surprising. >>> a strange story here. jason kidd's tenure might be the end after one season as head coach of the brooklyn nets. milwaukee bucks have offered a second round pick for kidd. the nets want a first rounder. he retires, gets a head coaching job and now going to leave brooklyn to go to milwaukee. >> they are trading the coach? >> a buddy of mine -- >> one of kidd's friends? >> yeah. >> want to go to milwaukee? your call.

chicago. anywhere along i-88 through northern indiana, northern illinois, this weather is pushing ahead like a bulldozer. the problem is the buller is going 60 to 70 miles an hour. that's wind you'll see through chicago and all the suburbs in the next probably two hours or so eventually blowing into lake michigan. that's the area you're talking about, the risk of big time severe weather. what will probably be arthur, the first tropical storm of the year, i know it looks like it's going to affect florida and it will along the beaches but what we're really expecting, major rip tides, rip currents here across the east part of the coast and a lot of people on these beaches. you have to be careful. guess what, on the morning of the fourth of july, that storm is forecat with all these computer models to be right over the outer banks where at least hundreds of thousands of people will be trying to enjoy the fourth of july. pay attention to this one. it's still very close. >> outer banks, beautiful place to be on the fourth of july except maybe this year. chad meyers, thank you so much. follow me on twitter @jake tapper and at the lead

chicago, st. louis, kansas city, springfield, tulsa, you will all be in the bull's eye today for the possibility of hail and isolated tornadoes, pretty much the same location for tomorrow. tomorrow we could see worse weather, so we are in this two-day stretch mainly in the same spot for some troublesome weather across the plains. that front will make its way through. high pressure will stay in control across the northeast so your father's day forecast looking not bad in the northeast, scattered showers down to the south, and we're going to see this thing time out as we go through the end of the day today into tomorrow. so severe storms today, high pressure in the east, scattered storms in the south, we'll see sunny and hot conditions in the west. of course it looks good on paper but we know the drought is dire out there. we have video of the fire northeast of bakersfield. we have 500 homes being evacuated and more than 800 acres burned. so definitely a bad situation in southern california. of course, we've been following it and we'll continue to do so. in the meantime, you fathers have a happy fath

bulls. he is told and the nea does feel like to play with him but he will not recruit him. you reportedly make his first up in chicago tomorrow. >> wrapping up a road trip. scoreless against toronto. that is third in the majors. still one nothing. it's a solo shot to left for his second home run of the season. the security white sox for a shuttle of the season. they beat the first-place blue jays. >> mexico trying to avoid another second round >> exit> >> gives mexico a yellow card. takes a penalty kick and wins it for the dutch. mexico loses 2-1 and gets knocked out of the second round for the sixth straight to tournament. >> it is close to recut a chance to win.costa rica a chance to win. >> they advance to play the netherlands in the play the netherlands in the round of eight. e. mereh x ta.at not a bad start to the week. unhandsome rough weather over night. maybe some tornado watches later today. heavy leather and island. we will fill you in on all of the details of this. a warm humid day. what a weekend it has been. >> captured this loan seller around joliet. shares this weekend thunderhead. this was the stormy

bull [bleeped], and i don't believe it for a second. he's a drop-dead atheist, absolutely. >> jon: no. how many years did he spend in reverend wright's church. he spent a long time in chicagoe never went. he joined because it was politically necessary. >> jon: he didn't go? >> absolutely no. >> jon: not to the picnics? >> no, nothing. he joined because he wanted to move ahead in that political world, and, of course, you had to be part of the church. jon don't they ?airks this country, if you want to be president, you can be gay, a woman, jewish, you can be an atheist -- you can't be an atheist. i find that so bizarre. >> so bizarre and so wrong because it is the single biggest minority in this country. >> jon: atheists? >> absolutely. >> jon: don't be nervous. you are part owner of the new york metropolitans. they are my favorite team. i am as old as they are. when you go to the meeting... >> minority owner. >> jon: you're not a minority. do they consider jews a minority over there? you're not a minority. so when you go over there... >> never in new york. >> jon: can i give you... i have a jar of tears that i have been saving. [laughter] >> could you mix with it dick chene

chicago's grant park. we have richard roth under the manhattan bridge overpass. and zain asher standing by in new jersey at the red bullo richard roth, my soccer fan, let me begin with you. everyone biting their nails. hoping -- we have now officially advanced in the world cup moving on to the knockout stage, which is huge, richard. take it away. >> reporter: the team advances anyway. what do you think of the win? we're advancing in the world cup next round. >> i'm too drunk, i'm too drunk. >> what do you think. >> reporter: all right. obviously overcome by emotion or liquor, whichever came first. the crowd really passionate, but as it came down to the final minutes, didn't matter, because portugal and ghana battling it out and portugal needed a ton of goals. the crowd really worn at the d end. it looked like the u.s. would be tying this game, but it didn't happen. that's the story under the manhattan bridge. lots of true passion. what did you think of the match? >> we played well. we didn't win, but we're going to go in the next round and we'll play well in the next round. >> reporter: the next match is tuesday. eithe