but he says the union is committed to sitting down with the cta to resolve the issues >> there is somection but i think we're going to get through that >> he also had an update on friday's crash involving and on market chicago police squad car and a brown line train. he says the police officer did not suffer life-threatening injuries. >> governor quinn honored illinois veterans today by at signing four new bills. one makes easier for them to get jobs with the state department of natural resources. it leaves at the college degree requirement allowing the agency to hire more veterans as a conservation police >> our veterans are people who understand nature and the importance of being outside. i want to make sure that we can employ the veterans and give them a good job when they come home >> the governor signed a new bill that the illinois state fair of veterans day >> a dangerous and scary moment aboard an american destroyer near the persian gulf. next what left this massive dent in the side of the ship >> later why new york police opened fire in the middle of times square... break [ fee

shirt bus cancellations and "painful but necessary" changes are coming to the cta. 26 cta bus routesdiscontinued for four months in an effort to implement changes that will reduce crowding. the goal is to reduce time between buses and decrease crowding by ten to 15 percent during peak times. under the new plan, service will be added on 48 bus routes... and rail trips will be added during the week to some of the busiest train routes. all changes would go into effect on december 16th. the city has declared war on rats.streets and sanitation workers are being taken off disability to join crews already assigned to putting out rat poison. this year, the number of citizen complains has increased 28-percent. the city's logan square neighborhood has seen the most cases, with city workers called in to put out rat poison. this year's mild winter did nothing to help control the rat population.. usually during cold weather, the rat population decreases because they can't find food. a young child falls off a motorcyle into traffic but thankfully avoids serious injury. and still to come it's been

the cta announced that it will be spending an additional $15 million to eliminate slow zones on the line. that, on top of the already $86 million being spent rehabbing other stations. the plan is to replace more than a mile of deteriorated tracks that keep trains from running at normal speeds. the latest pictures of mars look strikingly similar to the california desert. the color photos reveal gravelly terrain with what appears to be mountains in the backgroud... similar to the landscape of the mojave desert. curiosity is headed to mount sharp... a mountain several miles from its current location. nasa scientitsts hope believe they'll find evidence of water there. next: the trial against neighborhood watchman george zimmerman... why his lawyers think his murder case should be dismissed without ever going before a judge. plus: why investigators returned to the new york basement where [ crack of bat ] ball. ball. [ crack of bat ] [ male announcer ] hanging out with cal has its benefits... so does taking one a day men's. go to stayinthegame.com to enter for a chance to meet me and watch the

cta leaders are cutting some low-ridership routes in order to add service to high-traffic areas. they're hoping by increasing service during peak times buses and trains will be less congested. a dozen bus routes are getting the ax while 48 routes should benefit from added buses. 17 rail trips will also be added during weekday peak travel times.. mostly on the blue red and brown lines. for a complete look at the changes.. head to w-g-n-t-v.com. coming up: the scope of b-p's bad gas problem.. 200 gas stations affected, and not just indiana. they're more than shoes what $315 will get you, courtesy of lebron james. and why you may be able to get the new lebron shows for a little bit less. max. this is the plan that revolves around you. introducing share everything. unlimited talk. unlimited text. and a single pool of sharable data that powers up to 10 devices. the first plan of it's kind. share everything. only from verizon. add a smartphone for just $40 monthly access. [ bell tolls ] so, why are we up here? because farmers offers a new-roof discount? [ thudding ] oh, boy. yep. and i

that's because cta leaders are revising the times students can use their reduced fare cards extending the schedule to reflect the longer school day. cps students pay five dollars for the pass and may now ride buses and trains using that card between 5:30 in the morning and 8:30 at night. >>still ahead: pressure is mounting for a republican senate candidate to step aside. >>what he said about rape and abortion that has members of his own party calling for him to quit. >>also, some republican members of congress have some explaining to do following reports of skinny dipping in a sacred body of water. >>plus, mayor rahm emanuel gets a key role at the democratic national convention. >>and the rain is gone for a while. tom skilling says we could see a return of the 80s in the chicago area. sweetie, you have to scrub it first. no you don't, honey. yes, you do! don't! i've washed a few cupcake tins in my day... oh so you're a tin expert now. is that... whoa nelly! hi kitchen counselor here. he's actually right... with cascade complete. see cascade complete pacs work like thousands of micro-s

from now on cps students will be able to write cta trains and buses for reduced rates between 5:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. ... police have released a description of the suspect wanted in the death of a 23- year-old volleyball star from wheaton. megan boken was in saint louis over the weekend when a gunman opened fire shooting her in the neck and chest. the suspect is described as a black male with a medium complexion... between five feet, eight inches and five feet ten inches with a thin build and short hair. he was wearing a charcoal grey shirt, khaki pants and white tennis shoes. police do not believe boken and are investigating the incident as an attempted robbery. police ask anyone with information to call crime stoppers. a man from will county confessed to killing his girlfriend over the weekend after the couple attended a wedding in door county, wisconsin. the 35-year-old man was arrested yesterday, after he notified police about the incident. the 21-year-old woman's body was found inside a hotel room, near sturgeon bay. formal chargers have not been filed. the suspect will appear in

cta president karen lewis says the union and school board or at an impasse on job security and links of school days and said that parents should be prepared for teachers to walk off the job one week from monday. we hope that people work out this with their children and think about the things that they do when children are not in school. the cbs board says the district has continued to put a plan in place of there's a strike but many students are wondering what will happen to them. >> if we miss any games it will really hurt us. if our priority is our kids than strikes should never be an option says jean- claude brizard. parents say it should not have to come down to a strike. if you have students in a building all day they need discipline. how long is this going to last for nobody knows it could go on indefinitely. you can't say it's just for one or two days. they hope a strike can be avoided if there is a compromise the teachers' union house of delegates will vote to cancel the strike and also vote to suspend the deadline passed september 10th negotiations continue tomorrow and wrap

discuss a program that is newly instituted where eligible students 500 of them will be receiving free ctae cards from five different high schools mainly the mayor was able to discuss the shootings which dominated his attention the mayor said that reason police efforts have been working, and crime is down in many parts of chicago that were previously hotspots the mayor says that targeted police practices are working and they have the numbers to back this up: >>you don't get this 9 percent reduction in crime by accident ... what happened in the sixth district is not reflective of the entire city but we have to do what we need to do in this district there's an example of what is now working in garfield park and the englewood.neighborhood we have a responsibility to keep the trend positive >>it's a big challenge with a big payoff ... a man on the west side not only robbed people; he also demanded that they remove their shorts. the robberies happened saturday morning in west garfield park. police say: david ray jumped out of an suv, and demanded that the victim remove his shorts. he then hit t

their run in the little league world series @ airplane right now, she worked as an office manager for a cta it, the santa rosa press democrat reports that her boss would not let her take time off to watch the games. she did it anyway. despite losing her job she still has reason to cheer on that team right now, the team is in the middle of a must win game, and they are winning big, juliet good rich is here with the crowds cheering on their home team. >> ok, here we are at the petaluma movie theater, can you believe it? i have never been to a movie theater where you have all these cheering fans. why are we here? we're here to watch the field of dreams' from petaluma as this team is certainly taking center stage, hitting a grand slam after grand slam. they are at a break right now but i want to introduce you to one very excited mother here. and some grandparents and all that. we're talking about this grand slam, he has also hit a home run, and all of these team members here are just cheering the fans on. this is a make or break game and let me introduce you to becky smith, quite a day for you,

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most powerful groups here in california, because they have one of the largest war chests, well, the ctae is a due process in place. that it simply does work. yes there are bad examples but they feel that overall, the teaching process, the process there in place with the teachers should not be interviewed with and campaign contributions, they are not going to talk that way. >> taxpayers paid $40,000 to get rid of the teacher is shocking. appreciate the report. >>> breaking news next. gary tuchman is there in port-au-prince with a live report. more than 400,000 people still living in tents. energy is being produced to power our lives. while energy development comes with some risk, north america's natural gas producers are committed to safely and responsibly providing generations of cleaner-burning energy for our country, drilling thousands of feet below fresh water sources within self-contained well systems. and, using state-of-the-art monitoring technologies, rigorous practices help ensure our operations are safe and clean for our communities and the environment. we're america's natural

who built something from the ground up, there were mistakes made, he was able to talk about it with a cta measure of humility. >> that was probably his best performance in the speech, given that the "rolling stone" piece that came out yesterday, that really told the story about bain and how they, oh, guess what, they didn't build that on their own either. there was a role for government to play in helping build it and one of the things i found most interesting in the story is that's where romney seemed to have perfected this strategy of i will make sure that our investors get money even if the company goes bankrupt. that was part of from a financial standpoint what they did when their company was tanking, when he was talking about the rocky periods. but you would never know that from that beautiful -- >> was that not -- james, what did you make of that, the way in which he addressed his business career? >> what he did at bain, when i was a youngster, living in detroit, they used to be called efficiency experts. they dropped that. now they have a much, much, much nicer title. but when the