chicago police are trying to determine if the body of a young child found in riverdale is that of a missing chicago girl. we welcome our viewers watching us around the country. >> live in riverdale with our top story. just off the phone with police. still no idea on the remains found. they did confirm that chicago police are checking to see if this case might be related to missing one year-old girl from chicago. that chicagoaunt tells me that her brother was contacted by chicago police detectives and asked to identify the buddy. body. >> it is hard for me right now. wait patiently for news about her niece who has been missing since yesterday afternoon. also fears the remains found yesterday afternoon in an abandoned building may be that of her knees.neice. >> after that my sister called and said she left her while they were hot tea.out to eat >> i have two different conflicting stories. >> you should put a police detective paid a visit to the police department spent some time out on the scene of checking to see if this case might be related to the disappearance she is reported missing from

a wonderful father and husband. >> funeral service will be held later this hour for a chicago police officer killed by a hit-and-run driver. but on its way home from work march 14th when his car was hit by a van being chased by police. harris was with the force. >> woman who is charged with harrisons murder. 1 >> chicago police are questioning someone in connection with a hit-and-run accident. reportedly tried to stop a suspect from driving drunk by reaching his arm inside the car. the suspect drove off in a black vehicle tracking him down the street. use later pronounced dead at a local hospital. >> the cta holding that news conference about the accident. let's listen. we also have a media specialist. >> will be out here later this afternoon. and fan need any more information or want to know when additional conferences will be hot >> >> we're at the preliminary stages of this investigation. we're in the process of getting video of the train coming and. also this train had a front end out work facing video. we are securing that video also. we will take possession of it. we will send i

>> chicago police are looking for the gunmen who shot and killed a long time chicago businessman over the weekend. we welcome our viewers were watching us around the country. >> chicago police are still searching for the people who shot and killed herbert good. they are hoping that surveillance video will help them. he was 66 years old. he owned a framing company with a storefront on the gold coast. he was at his factory when he was gunned down. the victim of a possible robbery. that happened at 2:00 p.m.. it happened2:00 p.m.t happened at 2:00 p.m.. >> witnesses told police that they saw a light blue car speed away after several people ran out of the business. he was found on the ground by his work vehicle. after talking with his son-in-law he said he was a huge donor to the community and a huge member of this community. he was a motorcycle lover and animal lover. still making arrangements right now. difficult for them to talk with us on camera. they have so many things to do today as you can imagine. chicago police tell me that if that's events video getting it out to the public hel

and dean reviews the new movies this weekend an off-duty chicago police officer was killed in a policechase that ended near the dan ryan. we'll have details in a *live report. new information may expand the search for the malaysia airlines flight into the indian ocean. and what the city council wants from ride-sharing companies in chicago, today. good morning, i'm dan ponce. erin joins me next hour. let's go to tim mcgill in for demetrius, for a check of the weather. hi, tim. you are more popular today than the last few days. >> it was so worn out there this morning i was almost wedding coming into work. it's 39 degrees right now. we have temperatures in the mid '30's here at the park. we are all above freezing. we will see sunshine today. the skies are clear. if you clouds will come in this afternoon as a cold front approaches. but overall the war and to the week relatively speaking. mid-40s by noon. the 50 or 51 this afternoon becoming partly sunny and overnight will dip into the mid-20s. some may peek through. maybe a sprinkle and snow coming saturday night into sunday. it will card

car for more than eight hours. >> during the pursuit he struck multiple vehicles including a chicago police vehicle occupied by officers. he also struck a civilian vehicle including a child. all were taken to the hospital not life-threatening injuries. >> says ultimately police used a discretionary device to get him to get out of his vehicle. the say he had lacerations on his body and they were possibly self inflicted. witnesses report shots fired but only as police, all they would say is that it was under investigation. >> president obama continues to threaten russia with sanctions, after voters in crimea decided to break away from ukraine. crimea officials announced that about 97 percent of the vote supported joining russia. they say turnout was 83-percent, but non-russian speaking minorities boycotted the vote. the u-s and european nations say this was illegal and accuse accusing the russian military of seizing the area. but russia says it had the right to protect russian speakers from violent ukrainians. the white house says president obama urged russian president putin to seek a diplom

the chicago police department is no longer allowed to keep police misconduct secret cabal in baltimore. the court rules that are absolutely free to use your camera to record a police officer and he can't do anything about it the details of the rulings and how you can use them to your advantage. leaving the house. oh it's right in march fourteen at five pm here in washington companies to come to watching our team eric. the us threatens costs if the referendum in crimea goes ahead on sunday to decide if the region should become fodder for sure according to washington such a vote would be illegal brush on the other hand says let the people of time you decide their future. iranian officials atf has failed their props when their elected leader was overthrown through street protests art piece hollywood co reports from london on the talks between russian foreign minister lavrov and the usa could say john kerry. this takes our legs and walking around the gardens of the us ambassador's residence that have predicted the band name age and breakthroughs here in london the us the uk and russia. we

>>a 17-year-old boy was shot by chicago police officers. it happened at seven last night in an alley behind the 44- hundred block of south princeton avenue. the officers say they saw two men exchange something in the alley. when they approached them, one of the men ran into a vacant lot. police issued a statement saying the boy pointed a gun at officers, but didn't say whether he opened fire. the officers shot hit him in the leg. he was arrested and taken to the hospital. police are investigating and searching for a weapon. chicago police are alerting people in the woodlawn and west woodlawn neighborhoods that a man tried to sexually assault two women. it happened in the morning on march 10-th. he approached a woman at a bus stop in the 15-hundred block of east 67-th street and offered to pay her for sex... she refused, and he left. 15 minutes later, he grabbed a woman at another bus stop at 67-th and king, pulled her into a building and exposed himself... but she pulled a knife and again he left. the man was driving an older model white ca

breaking news on chicago's far south side -- where a retired chicago police officer is shot during a home invasion. the massive search for the missing malaysia airlines flight enters its fourth day and still no sign of the plane. and the c-t-a's blue line gets back to normal overnight after a water main break flooded a station on the near west side. good morning. i'm dan ponce. and i'm tonya francisco, in for erin. thanks for joining us on the wgn morning news at *4 a-m. tim mcgill is in for demetrius with a check of our weather. >> could morning. yesterday was a taste of spring. but we have some snow possible for tomorrow. temperatures are good right now. we are above freezing. 41 at o'hare. 44 along the lakefront. 36 and bartlett. winter storm warning for the area. we have been upgraded for the winter storm warning for cook county and the page county and down to will county. this is for later tonight into tomorrow. potential for 6 in. of snow even up in the city. right now we have clouds. maybe some sunshine but you can see in the rain developing to the north. by this afternoon we

chicago police mourning the loss of a 42 year-old department veteran. the horrific crash happened just before 1:00 a.m.. they followed a police pursuit that started at 119 where an officer attempted to pull over a white van that was reportedly stolen. the female driver took off. witnesses say the white van was traveling fast and erratically. the way she was traveling she was very unexperienced in very long. knowing that the speech he was going it was just crazy. she was marching on and off the expressway. after she was going to get back on to the expressway and go that way. >> the van slam into the officer's personal vehicle likely killing him instantly. the officer was reportedly in uniform and on his way home after working a late shift. the police chief tells us that the female driver and a man in the van were taken into custody at the scene. a small amount of marijuana was found. >> the officer terminated chase before the deadly crash. several hours after a procession of police vehicles of should the bodies from the scene to the morgue. he had been on

is live at the 4th district police headquarters with more. >> the police superintendent says the officer based here in the south chicago fourth district is a tactical officer. an exceptional officer he has received 245 awards from the department. he is out of the hospital. police believe one of the people taken into custody was the shooter. the officer and others went to a home near east 92 just before 9:00 p.m. executing a search warrant in a narcotics case. the suspect named in the warrant lives in the basement of the building. while inside the house someone fired in the officers direction the bullet ricocheted and hit the officer in the for head between his eyes. a fragment is lodged in his forehead. he was taken to the hospital and transferred to northwestern memorial. the superintendent says the officer who was 34 years old has been on the force for 11 years and was days. he was talking and in good spirits. investigators recovered a weapon at the scene. >> shots were fired within the residence by an offender. we are sure we have that person in custody we just have to sort through the people to make sure we got the

a chicago police officer shot and wounded a man in englewood. officers responded to a call about a man waving a gun around 61-st and sangamon last night. the man ran up to a balcony and put the gun to his head. officers tried to talk him down, but they say he made a threat instead. >> at the point the offender said you have to shoot me or i will shoot you. at that point the officer behind the suv fires two shots hits the offender in the side twice. >>the man was able to walk out of the building on his own. police say the man told them that he didn't need help getting into the ambulance because he had been shot before. francis cardinal george has been hospitalized with flu-like symptoms. nancy loo is live at loyola university medical center in maywood with the latest. >> good morning. he has been here since friday when he came in for a routine checkup. doctors determined he was dehydrated so he has been hospitalized since. in a statement the archdiocese says the cardinal is hooked to an ivy to replenish fluid and administer antibiotics. a spokesp

the chicago police shot a 17 year-old might have had a gun. it happened at 7:00 p.m. last night behind the 4400 block of south princeton after the. officers say they saw two men exchanged thing something. the boy pointed a gun at officers but did not say whether he opened fire. the officer shot him and the like. he was arrested and taken to hospital. police are searching for a weapon. >> a man tried to sexually assaulting women. it happened in the morning on march 10th. he approached a woman at a bus stop. offering to pay her for sex. she refused and he left. 15 minutes later a man grabbed a woman at another bus stop. she pulled out a knife and again he left. police are not saying if it is the same man. the description is similar. in both instances the man was driving a white car. >> please have released this sketch of the man responsible for three attacks in south suburban park forest. on tuesday teenage girls robbed at knife point and then sexually assaulted. two other women were attacked yesterday morning within one hour of each other. >> hundred chicago area man w

i'm thrilled to be joined now by chicago's police superintendent mccarthy. the newark, new jersey, police department. good to have you with us and also you're credited with almost 10% decrease in the murder there. and sitting directly to the right of superintendent mccarthy is evelyn diaz, who leads chicago's department of family and support services. superintendent mccarthy, i'd love to start with you. i seized upon what you said in the documentary, a wholistic approach to this problem. but i'm still not 100% clear on just exactly what that is. what is it? >> so, ashleigh, everybody wants to know what's one thing that we've done that's effecting the crime rate here in chicago. and it's not one thing, it's everything. we've put so many programs and policies in place internally in the department, but the first conversation that i had with mayor emanuel i had never met him before i interviewed for this job, and we had a shared vision as to what modern policing should look like. and it should look like enforcement taking the bad guys off the street, which is ou

a retired chicago police sergeant who was shot during a home invasion this month, has died. on march 10-th, two men went into elmer brown's home, at 115-th and avenue g, and told him to open his safe. brown was shot in the neck when he couldn't do it. brown was legally blind and suffering from diabetes. no arrests have been made. a chicago cop killed by a hit- and-run driver was laid to rest yesterday. david harris was on his way home from work, when his car was hit by a van during a south side police chase. harris was a highly decorated officer for ten-years. he was married with two young sons. shennel terrell .. is charged with harris' murder and marijuana possession. two students from grant high school in fox lake remain hospitalized this morning in florida, after their plane crashed, just outside clearwater. katie bronken and her friend kayana linbo were on their way to spring break in katie's father's single engine plane. jeffrey bronken reported fuel problems on his approach to saint pete-clearwater airport, moments before the plane went down. bronken died in the crash

that happened early this morning near 76¢ of chicago. policesaid the woman was driving north and southbound lanes when she forced an oncoming truck to swerve into a wall. truckdriver treated injuries not life-threatening. woman in stable condition will get a ticket. authorities will determine why she was going the wrong way. police have issued a community alert for the logan square neighborhood after a woman is sexually assaulted. nancy loo is live in logan square with the story. >> good morning. this attack happened at 1:30 a.m. on tuesday as the 19 year-old victim was walking in this area which is the intersection of our litigious and pulaski. police say a man followed the team before grabbing her and forcing her into a nearby gang way where she was raped. the suspect took off on a bicycle heading north. many businesses in this area all were likely close at the time of the attack. also a police camera on are the tisch near the intersection but police are not saying that if a captured any images of the rapist or any key information to the atta

a funeral service is set for 11:30 this morning for chicago police officer david harris. harris was killed on his way home from work on march 14th when his car was hit by a van being chased by police. the woman driving the van faces several felony charges including possession of pounds of marijuana. illegal immigrant elvira arellano is back in chicago. in 2006, she took refuge in a church with her son, to avoid being deported. she intends to do that again after she crossed the border again to promote immigration reform. she has an immigration hearing in september. construction begins today on upper lake shore drive's navy pier "fly-over" project. the three-phase elevated lakefront path is expected to stretch from south of the chicago river to jane addams park. the upper exit ramp to illinois street will be reduced to one lane. the lakefront trail, however, is expected to remain open for pedestrian and bicycle traffic. mayor emanuel will be part of a ribbon cutting event for the new mariano's grocery store in ukrainian village. this will be the 4-th marianos at a former do

but by mid month, the chicago police department has the city back on track to a safer summer than 2012. to stay on track, he's counting on all the help he can get from city youth programs that keep kids off the street. >> everywhere i go, people know about the violence that's been going on with chicago. our youth always ask, well, what are you doing to stop the violence? i always suggest programs, programs like what we do with common ground. >> common and magic johnson each have mentoring programs aimed at helping at-risk kids in chicago. >> we have graduating classes and we have students in college already. >> many pro sports stars have programs for kids, like dwyane wade. >> i think people deserve second chances. we only got one life to live and none of us know when that departure date is coming. so go out here and try to be special. >> nba legend isiah thomas grew up in chicago and now he's back aiming to kids on the court and out of trouble. >> 95% of our community, they're good kids and good people trying to do the right thing. there's a small 5% that we talk about, we read about

authorities are looking for two gunmen who shot and critically wounded a retired chicago police sergeant during a home invasion. 73-year-old elmer brown was in his southeast side house with his wife. two robbers came in through an unlocked door and demanded he take them to his safe. when the safe wouldn't open, they shot brown in the neck ... then ran. his wife was unharmed. brown is listed in critical but stable condition. a couple is asking for help finding two dogs that disappeared from their northwest side home after a burglary. when the couple returned to their home in the 31 hundred block of north sacramento avenue...they found the door open and the house ransacked yesterday morning. three computers and an i-pad were missing, along with two french bulldogs. the couple is unsure if the dogs were stolen or ran out after the burglary. one of the bulldogs is deaf and takes medicine every day for severe allergies. weather is our top story so let's go over to tim for the latest. >> heavy wet snow across the area the wind is picking up but it's so heavy we're not seeing a lot of blowing s

chicago police are investigating a funeral home on the west side after a hidden camera was found in a bathroom. employees discovered the camera on monday, at "smith and thomas funeral home" in the 57- hundred block of west madison. the receptionist tells w-g-n it's a unisex bathroom that's only used by employees. she also says the owner is conducting an internal investigation. the sun-time reports that the f-b-i, i-r-s and indiana state police raided the office of calumet township trustee mary elgin in gary. no word on what they were looking for, but the f-b-i told the newspaper that it was part of an ongoing investigation. elgin is in her third term in office. employees in the office at the time were allowed to leave, if they wanted. there are still no charges in connection with a shooting at the home of chief keef's manager. the rapper, whose real name is keith cozart, was questioned by northfield police about the incident on wednesday. his attorney said chief keef was a passenger in the car that dropped the shooting victim off at the hospital, but that the rapper did not witness th

chicago police say the the train derailed just before three a-m eastern.as it was pulling into the station at o'hare international airport. the front car ended up on top of an escalater out of the station. first responders say none of the injuries are believed to be life threatening. officials say the train was likely traveling too fast. but they are still trying it piece together what happened. a possible breakthrough in the search for malaysia flight 370. malaysian authorities say australia's prime minister told them two objects -- one round, one rectangular -- have been spotted by pilots in the south indian ocean. and they could have these objects in their possession within *hours . earlier. a chinese search stanford - becomes one of the cinderalla stories of march madness. the cardinal pulled their second upset of the ncaa tournament with a 60-57 win sunday over kansas. stanford made the jayhawks the second no. 2 seed to be knocked out of the tournament in the third round. and reached the sweet 16 for the first time since 2008. stanford beat no. 7 seed new mexico on friday and faces 11

chicago police are investigating the killing of a west side man. the theory to year-old was stabbed to death in his home. police found his body around 915 yesterday morning. detectives are investigating so far no one is in custody. an illegal immigrant who made headlines is back on u.s. soil. re-enter the country in san diego yesterday. she is being as to be allowed to stay. she is taken into custody along with two other protesters by border patrol officials. she was deported in 2007 back to mexico after spending a year living in a chicago church. >> the photographer and pilot died yesterday when the helicopter went down in flames just after takeoff. three vehicles on the ground also caught fire. a spokesman says the helicopter made an unusual noise before the crash. i could take months to piece together the evidence. the mayors of the crash as a reminder of the risks that the journalists take. another potential lead in the case of the missing british girl. >> investigators are searching for a man who sexually assaulting five young girls. three yea

. >>> standoff between chicago police and a murder suspect ended after almost nine hours.lov of our chicago station wbbm reports it began with a car chase on sunday that forced one of the city's most heavily traveled roads to be shut down. >> northbound, we have an officer down there, officer down. has been shot. proceed with caution. >> reporter: sunday afternoon chaos on the police scanner minutes after the car police were chasing crashed just off lakeshore drive. >> the guy is heavily armed, heavily armed. proceed can with caution. >> reporter: inside the car joseph andrew felton jr. wanted for allegedly killing his wife in georgia. bless there say they knew he was driving a car with illinois plates. around noon here in the suburbs, the police apparently tried to arrest him. he sped off and the chase began. one of his four sisters arrived on the scene and tried talking with him. >> he's not making sense. he can't talk in complete sentences. he's just yelling and screaming. >> reporter: officers also had a tough time talking with him. at one point you could hear officers

chicago police are looking for your help. >> child was waiting outside of the school in the 2100 block of west 24 boulevard. about >> 5 ft. 1 in. tall and weighs about 180 lbs.. portias several smalshe has several small moles on her face. >> a man accused of raping women he met on line. a jury already convicted charles oliver for assaulting one woman. the plea deal will drop the remaining cases and those women will not have to testify. investigators suspect he might have assault that as many as 25 women at his home. he could face over 90 years in prison. >> the only teenager charged as an adult in a highly publicized beating case has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery. sentence to time served as part of a plea agreement. charge of aggravated battery and robbery in an attack on a high-school student years ago. this beating when the fire on line. sen >> 364 days in jail. the other six teenagers pleaded guilty. they're sentenced to probation. >> more graphic crime scene photos. police took more than 900 pictures. >> he thought his girlfriend was an intruder. testimony could rule out th

police are searching for two men who shot a retired chicago police sergeant during a home invasion. what police are doing to try to find the suspect. the retired police sergeant is now at christ hospital in critical condition. his wife has rushed there to be with him. she spent hours speaking with detectives here at their home. >> it was just after midnight when two men burst into the home of the 73 roads. >> it is doubtful that he put up any resistance. he is blind and very ill. he has medical conditions. >> the victim's wife was also a home at the time. she was not injured. the suspect escaped out of a side door. it is not known if any valuables were taken from a home which is in one of the city's safest neighborhoods. the neighbor is also a retired police officer >> i'm completely shocked. we're all retired police officers here. >> the home was rebuilt in recent years after a fire destroyed most of about five years ago. there also indoor the sudden death of two grown children along with these former health issues. >> that is the latest from he said neighborhood. the east side neig

chicago police have classified this as a death investigation. they have yet to link this case to the disappearance of the 32 year-old. >> parents at three local high schools are being warned about a social media application that allows people to post for full messages without identifying themselves. every >> thing is anonymous and many comments are inflammatory and inappropriate. some schools are warning students telling them to stay away. no sign up no profile no password really required. >> started off being away for college kids to send out notices to people for events. the high school district has blocked its application for the network after her fall commentshurtful comments. >> a lot of stuff seems pretty harmless. if you're the type of person who is responsible enough to handle it i do not think it is that bad. >> parents received a letter yesterday to warn them about the application. some students say all the focus has led to increased use. >> i think the kind of aids the threat of it. like for as high school has blocked the application

. >> we are going to bring you the hero of the film, chicago police superintendant mccarthy.that youth violence decreased by 40% in 2013. in juone year how did you make that happen so quickly. >> hey, jim, thank you for the accolades. i just get the blame or the credit being in charge of the department. we did a complete retooling of the department. we tipped the balance to relying on beat officers which was a big change of pace. the most important thing that we did was created a comprehensive gang violence reduction strategy. we had one of the worst gang violence problem. we didn't have a comprehensive strategy. we developed that and it revolves around the strategy. so when one issue happens it doesn't kickoff a whole series of events. it focuses on the people, places and things that are causing gang violence in the city. the people being the gang members and a lot of attention has been drawn to our custom notification program which revolves around a formula created by vindividual where we canfied fi an individual who is likely to be involved as an offender. that strategy is

chicago police say the the train derailed just before three a-m eastern.as it was pulling into the station at the front car ended up on top of an escalater out of the station. first responders say none of the injuries are believed to be life threatening. officials say the train was likely traveling too fast. but they are still trying it happened. the >>darya:a possible breakthrough in the search for malaysia flight 370. malaysian authorities say australia's prime minister told them two objects -- one round, one rectangular -- have been spotted by pilots in the south indian ocean. and they could have these objects in their possession within *hours . earlier. a chinese search plane spotted two large white *suspicious objects. we're also learning new details about what might have happened in the cockpit. according to a source close to the investigation. military radar shows the jetliner descended to *12- thousand* feet after making a sharp left turn. a four alarm fire in vallejo created a huge plume of smoke and severely damaged a building yesterday afternoon. fire crews say the fire broke ou

the chicago police department is no longer allowed to keep police misconduct secret while in baltimore the court rules you are absolutely free to use your camera to record a police officer and they can't do anything about it the details of the rulings and how you can use them to your advantage later in the trial. oh hello it's friday march fourteenth five pm here in washington i'm going to check on you watching our team. the u.s. threatens costs if the referendum in crimea goes ahead on sunday to decide if the region should become part of russia according to washington such a vote would be illegal russia on the other hand says let the people of crimea decide their future crimean officials say kiev has failed their trust when their elected leader was overthrown through street protests artie's polly boyko reports from london on the talks between russian foreign minister lavrov and u.s. secretary of state john kerry. after six hours of walking around the gardens of the u.s. ambassador's residence there have predictably been no major breakthroughs here in london the u.s. the u.k. and russi

chicago police arrested this man, jason castro of milwaukee, after accusing him of assaulting a woman whose car he had just rear-ended on the northwest side. the woman was picking up her children from school near cicero and dickens on november 19-th when he car was hit. as she started taking pictures of the damage, and the other driver's license plate, police say castro punched her in the face, and broke her nose, a tooth and an eye socket bone. he's charged with felony aggravated battery. a teenager was injured after an accident at the snowboard park where he works in northwest suburban algonquin. the 17-year-old was snowboarding on a beginner's hill when he became entangled yesterday. it took emergency responders at least an hour to free him. he was taken to a hospital for treatment ... his condition has not been released. the accident is under investigation. ellen degeneres hosted the 86-th academy awards last night in los angeles. >> the oscar goes to ... 12 years a slave. "12 years a slave" was named best picture... lupita nyong'o won best supporting actress in the film. matthew

. >> chicago transit authority investigators along with the city fire department and police are looking at security video and also interviewing people and hopes of figuring out what caused this crash. the ntsb is headed to the scene. >> to a developing story this morning. eight people are dead, at least 18 missing after a massive mud slide in washington. crews are still digging through the one square mile mud slide. there are no signs of life. mud is up to 15 feet deep in places near the town of oso. rescuers are trying to reach people who got dragged into the mud. officials say the potential for more flooding slightly less likely now because water built up behind the mud slide has been trickling downstream. >> several ships have settled in for the night after the night on the indian ocean looking for debris possibly related to the missing malaysian planes. darkness fell before the ship could reach the debris but the events are now raising hopes that tomorrow possibly we could get answers. with the latest details on this search we go to nbc's bob redell in our studio. bob, especiallying

fighting for a safer chicago, police superintendent gary mccarthy, who rahm emanuel brought from new violence is bad but getting better. >> my biggest issue in chicago is dealing with gangs, guns and the press. it's not cultural change, acceptance as an outsider. none of those things. they all pale in comparisons to those challenges right there, and the media, they keep talking about the rising toll of gun violence in chicago while the numbers are going in the other direction. >> while the press continues to focus on chicago's violence, there's actually been a decline. in 2012, there were 161 murders in the first quarter. in 2013, there were 93. that's more than a 40% reduction. >> we're taking a more holistic approach to crime rediscussion here in chicago that i think has been done in most places in the country. >> what are you trying to achieve? >> i'm trying to save the world. can't you tell? >> that, too, but -- >> right now i'm trying to save chicago. so here's -- >> trying to save chicago? any particular part of chicago? >> all of it. >> all right. you can watch "chicagoland" r

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chicago police say that the train derailed just before 3:00 a.m. eastern time.ont car ended up on top of an escalator out of the station. first responder say that none of the injuries are believed to be life- threatening. officials said that the trend is likely traveling too fast but they're still trying to piece it all together. >> a possible breakthrough in the search for the malaysia flight 370. pilots from australia and china are reported to breeze sightings. malaysian officials say the australian prime minister told them that these objects or one around, one rectangular have been spotted. earlier, a chinese search plane spotted two large white suspicious objects. so far a high-tech u.s. search aircraft has been unable to locate them. we're also learning new details about what may have happened in the cockpit. according to a source close to the investigation military radar shows that the jetliner descended 12,000 ft. after making a sharp left turn. >> a 4 alarm fire in vallejo created a huge plunge of smoke as a fairly damaged the building yesterday afternoo

if they even knew half of what i think rough a day, there would be more police officers. >> chicago is a hub for heroin from the mexican drug cartels. the l train green line leads to the open air market down on the west side. we went undercover traveling with addicts who make this trip every day. they agreed to be filmed as they make their deal. >> hey, what up? >> jason phones his contact. he wants two bags of heroin. each one costs just $10. >> this is a very, very, very dangerous place. i mean very dangerous. >> he tells me to keep quiet saying he'll introduce me as mike. this is how quick and easy it is to buy heroin in chicago. >> that's my boy, mike, man. > hey, mike. . the addicts cook the powder syringes are filled. preparing a drug that is he is same price as a six-pack of beer and cheaper than igarettes. chasing a high that is ever harder to reach. greg and stacy live rough here on lower walker drive, home to chicago's destitute for nearly a century. stacy first took heroin when she was just 11. now the two of them live like husband and wife in this sub trainan netherworld, p

chicago. even the police officer there fell in for a second. 3,000 people ran into the lake today.anizers credit fallion with helping them set a fund-raising record of more than $1 million. those people are crazy. >> jillion doing it all. >> absolutely, all the time. >> the show is off to a great start, and now he's out there raising money. kind of the thing that henry wofford would do. >> made me think henry, yeah, it did. >> i'll do it once, only once, and then i'd have to call in sick for like a week straight. >> exactly. >> coming up, i've got a lot coming up for you. mountainview native paula creamer wins her first title since 2010 and does so in dramatic fashion, and the sharks down the devils while steph curry attempts to carry the ws in toronto. highlights after this. >>> welcome back to nbc bay area. no doubt about it. steph curry loves the big stage. the waros all-star at allied the third triple-double saturday night at madison square garden, so how would steph father in a matinee north of the border? let's go and find out. curry wearing gold shoes for oscar night. third

. >> chicago police are investigating a fatal accident at a thrift store. police say a store worker was sorting through donated clothing when he discovered something in a sock. he emptied it, a gun fell into his hand, firing, hitting a co-worker in the chest. the 54 year-old was pronounced dead an hour later. she worked at the thrift store for 25 years. >> alan grayson will not face charges after his estranged wife accused him of pushing her into the door of their house. a restraining order was granted. grayson's office released a statement saying: >> the former vice president of a catholic high school in seattle is suing the school and the city's arch diocese for firing him because he's gay. they fired the wrongful termination and discrimination suite. it may not matter whether the church discriminated against him. hundreds of students have protested demanding the re-instatement. the former teacher said the school decision is unfair. >> i was asked by the school to break wedding vows to keep my job. i was told to get a divorce or be fired. how can anyone a

police officer. all over french fry, people. >>> in cnn's newest original series "chicagoland" we get a chance to witness a city undergoing some pretty tough changes. fighting for safer chicagopolice superintendent gary mccarthy who maid rahm is brought from new york. >> my biggest issue in chicago is dealing with gangs, guns, and, it's not cultural change in the department. it's not acceptance of an outsider. none of those things really. they all pale in comparison to those challenges right there. and the media, they keep talking about the rising toll of gun violence in chicago while the numbers are going in the other direction. >> while the press continues to fro cuss on chicago's violence there's actually been a decline. in 2012 there were 161 murders in the first quarter. in 2013, there were 93. that's more than a 40% reduction. >> we're taking a more holistic approach to crime reduction here in chicago than i think has been done in most places in the country. >> what are you trying to achieve? >> i'm trying to save the world. can't you tell? yeah, well, rilkt nght now i'm g to save chicago. >> trying to save chicago. any particular part of chicago? >> all of it. >> all

the suspended president of the fraternal order of police in chicago has been removed from office. the lodge's board of directors voted 15 to 11 to oust michael shields. he was suspended three months ago after arguing publicly about contract negotiations. shields called his suspension a political stunt and accuses past and current union rivals of striking fraudulent backroom deals. governor quinn announced 45 million dollars in state aid to downstate communities hit hard by november's tornadoes. the federal government granted disaster relief for business and individual losses -- but not *municipal expenses from the storm. the federal government said that the state and local governments were perfectly capable of paying those costs. debating for the second night in a row, the republican candidates for illinois governor mixed the issues facing the state with personal attacks on each other's character and record. the hour long debate was sponsored by wgn and the tribune... and held in our studios. front runner bruce rauner and state senators kirk dillard and bill brady took turns askin

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. >>> it's not something often seen on chicago's famous lakeshore drive, a police chase and then a standoffash. inside, a man suspected of killing his wife in georgia. cops there located the car in the chicago suburbs using gps. the car came to a stop after ramming another vehicle, and then a nine-hour standoff began before the suspect was captured. >>> murder trial of double amputee runner oscar pistorius resumes this morning. he's accused of killing his girlfriend. he said it was an accident but as we hear from matt gutman, the prosecution's case against the so-called blade runner has been damaged. >> reporter: it was a shocking admission. over two days of bruising testimony, the lead investigator in oscar pistorius' murder trial seemed to hand pistorius' team an early victory, conceding his men may have contaminated the murder scene, like man-handling the gun oscar used to kill reeva steenkamp. that's not all. the police chief could not rule out that his men looted pistorius' home, taking at least one luxury watch. >> for any person because that is expensive watches. >> reporter: then pi

chicago. and according to the police the murder rate dropped from 18% from 2015, but it was not enough to saveendletohadea remember that she was killed after hanging out with her friend friends. and since then, her parents have started a foundation in her honor, and the project is to allow a place for kids. recently we sat down to ask what is the cause of chicago violence? >> you have a whole bunch of parents who don't pay attention to the kids. they will sit them in front of the video game, and playing the video game all day long, and shooting and killing people on the video game, and then they are not read iing a book, or reading something about their own history, and it is a lot of kids out here that know more about a video game or more about texting, and different things of that nature than marcus garvey. you know, frederick douglass. you know. technology has really taken a big swing. you know, on these kids. and they just have to have a different chain, and a different train of thought. >> reporter: how does that contribute to the violence? >> it dissociates them with the other kids. othe

police force. still at the same time, there's still violence. >> more deadly violence breaks out on chicago's streetsand at least 46 were hurt from friday afternoon to early this morning. >> black teens dressed in a gray shirt. >> with the warmer weather, shootings are escalating. even in broad daylight. >> kind of blew up in a couple different areas. >> what's going on? >> eight murders in the 18-day time frame, as opposed to three last year. >> it's times like these that the superintendent holds his district commanders accountable. >> i want a little bit of analysis on this. the way the system is designed, we gave you the cops, we want them on those beats doing police work. if that's not happening, that has got to be addressed. >> as far as overall, it's a matter of us -- >> look, i'm the type of person that if i had their beat, i would know who every one of these guys were and hunting them every single day. >> right. >> i want to make sure that these guys feel the heat. those numbers are just through the roof. >> right. >> you have to fix that right there, right now. [ male announcer ] this is the

the first is that in some ways the albuquerque police department is remarkably violence, militarized force, it has a long history of targeting young chicagoah chicano men, s something rotten in the albuquerque police department. that's not the only issue. it is not there's an idiosyncratic violence going on at the albuquerque pd, also in poverty and we're talking about a community in which the homeless are criminalized and the mentally ill are criminalized and when james boyd was killed by police on march 16th he was killed for doing the same thing everybody else does. he put his head down to go to bed and because he was homeless around the shelters were closed that was a criminal act and it brought him into confrontation with the police. a long standing pattern of cultural viebles at apd. >> -- violence at apd. >> you want the department of justice to take over the apd, is that something within its purview? >> well as we know from the department of justice and fbi they pretty much do whatever they want. and so it's sort of the better of two bad options. we do want the department of justice to come in because we really have to remove apd

chicago. and we had a stark reminder of that this weekend. the policeblgttive job but need to do better. >> the weekend body count puts a lot of heat on superintendent mccarthy. >> in regards to the shootings and murders that happened this weekend, are you certain you still enjoy the mayor's confidence to combat violence? >> i'm absolutely confident. we're enjoying about a 25% reduction in shootings. but unfortunately, and as sure as we're standing here, we're going to have tragedies. i don't know what to say about it anymore. >> still on call, dr. dennis learns about where jeremiah millsap was murdered. >> so he got shot on ucs campus? >> yeah. >> he's just off campus. that's where they live, i guess >> my name is erica. i'm sorry for your loss. i just want to say is what we do is write profiles of people murdered in the city so people can know who they are, so it's not just like another number, another shooting. so if you would be interested. i would just like to talk more about jeremiah. there is all my contact info and there is the website. >> okay,