are live pictures coming to us where a shooting has taken place at one of the high-rises in downtown chicago. one person has been confirmed shot. we believe that, based on reports from police who say that the shooter is down, that the person who has been shot is the person who fired the shots inside this high-rise, taking care, taking a live look at the, at downtown chicago. again the victim was taken to northwestern hospital. when we get more information on precisely what is going on there we'll bring it to you on harping now. >>> meantime a woman convicted of hiring a hit man to kill her husband get as second chance at freedom. we'll tell you why. >> walked over where the lake is and always take as walk. a, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not

mentioned last week, the party hosted by the soccer federation drew 18,000 people to grant park in downtown chicago and now moved to soldier field here and they have cleared the field to watch the game from and accommodating ten thousand more people. as we have been hearing, a lot of people not expecting team usa to make it this far and the excitement is growing. >> the fact they did and blue all of the expectations surprised the world. it is awesome. >> makes you so happy to see the fans growing every day. >> del, soldier field has a little history here with the head coach of the u.s. soccer team. he played here 20 years ago almost to the day against belgium and leading them to the victory, the german team and hoping that the coach brings the u.s. team to victory this afternoon, del. >> last week he said he didn't have high hopes of the team advancing far in the tournament and what do the fan fans have to say about that? >> yes, chalk it up to a psychological strategy. maybe you are not going to make it here and pumping them up. it was a master strategy given how well the team has played. change y

. >> reporter: this is a hot summer in downtown chicago. >> right now i'm saying we don't have enough inventory. we need more cars. >> reporter: it's familiar at dealerships around the country. over the last five years, annual auto sales have surged from just over $10 million to more than $16 million and with it has come a surge in auto production. third shifts have been added to assembly lines and all new plants are being built. that is adding so much supply of new vehicles, analysts are worried the industry is driving toward a wreck. >> we think we're adds back about 120 to 130% of the capacity from the downturn. >> reporter: that means more vehicles headed for showrooms. for now, there is enough buyers looking to replace an older car or truck, but as the supply of vehicles grows, some wonder if auto makers and dealers will start pushing sales by offering more generous leases and long-term loans. >> we think we're going from consumer attitude of i need to replace my car to i really just want to replace my car or i can't afford to give up this great deal given by various financial in

. >> every time michael bay destroys another part of downtown chicago in another "transformer" movie,treet parking gets easier, so that's good. >> i love movie trailers, 2 1/2 minutes of explosions, all that stuff. michael bay makes movies feel like movie trailers. >> you remind me of hitchcock. in one way you surpass him. you're thinner. >> he seems to have great hair, and i hear he's above average in the height department. >> michael bay loves his dogs, and i'm pretty sure that's what megan fox was talking about when she compared him to hitler. >> hitler did love his dogs. sadly, michael has gone deaf from all the explosions and will never hear those kind words. but thank you for them any way. speaking of artists that have been understood, an artist sold this action called "my bed." and it's a bed littered with cigarette butts, clothes and garbage. do you know how much it sold for? $4.25 million. i kid you not. she created this work in the '90s and it became famous because it made people debate what is and is not art. this would fall into the not category. someone paid more than $4

. >> shots fired in a high rise office building in downtown chicago. police told us that a recently demoted employee arrived in work and shot the ceo. and the executive is in serious condition. the shooter took his own life. we'll have a live report coming to you from the scene in moments. >>> we are waiting for a vote in the house of representative dealing with the immigration crisis. 659 million to deal with tens of thousands of children that are pouring across the board. this is "happening now". i am jon scott. and i am uma pemmaraju. in for jennily. >> and we'll get to it with mike emmanuel. >> reporter: good afternoon, jon. we'll find out this hour if the house of representative can drum up the votes to pass the border funding bill. earlier, nancy pelosi said they should not count on her side to help. >> let's put it this way, the democrats are are not enabeling that bill to pass. that's the number they are interested in and they will have to do it on the on, even though the right wing groups are against it because it is not bad enough. >> the rep

it is cool across the region. 52 in joliet. 61 downtown chicago. 54 in kankakee. that's where the bears aren't a kickoff their camp today. we will be ready for football. the weather is looking good for football today clear and dry. we do have some showers and storms in the iowa could sneak a few those showers and storms as far east as the eye 39 corridor. but for the most part just a few spotty storms are possible this afternoon. police to sunny skies high of 80 degrees today. cloy the average but at least we get up to 80. tonight, a warm front front moves through. mostly cloudy chits of scattered thunderstorms. tonight we get down to the '60s. not much of a cool down. then we make 88 degrees tomorrow. maybe a few thunderstorms tomorrow morning and then partly sunny most of the day. a few more storms twi- night into sunday. the breezy sunday 71 in the morning. 84 in the afternoon. a pretty good way to have the weekend. we will be on it warmer note. what about the traffic? >> it's not too bad everything looks good. a bit of overnight construction also dealing with

palestinians and use them to smuggle weapons. 25 hundred pro- palestinian demonstrators marched through downtown chicago yesterday, to demand an end to israel's gaza campaign. they chanted... they carried signs and palestinian flags... they listened to speeches. several of them spread out on the sidewalk, to symbolize the civilians who have died in the fighting between palestinians and israelis. >> israel has been on the killing rampage for over a month and a demand that it and now. >> 6 of my relatives in the last week have been killed in their yard inside their house. >>israel says civilians are dying because hamas stores its weapons in private homes, schools, hospitals and houses of worship. and it says, once it disarms hamas, the entire region will be more peaceful and less dangerous. a pro-*israel rally is planned in the loop tomorrow. an off-duty chicago police officer was killed on his motorcycle when a car cut in front of him on the dan ryan expressway. officer tito rodriguez was southbound at 69th street when investigators say a car changed lanes abruptly trying to get to the 71st street exit.

soccer federation tells us four of these viewing events in the last few weeks drew thousands in downtown chicagoto watch the games. we're a little over an hour away from the united states annabel jump match. the doors were opened here moments ago and thousands barreled into this stadium. i imagine it doesn't feel much different than what's going on in brazil today. these fans are looking forward to this match and each time the u.s. advances, they get bigger and swell and get more interested in football. >> the united states hasn't always had that love affair with the sport, call the sport soccer. why is there such a big enthusiasm this time around, do you think? >> i think americans like the story, the story of an underdog particularly when it's their team. they like the idea of somebody not expected to get as far as they've gotten continue on. as they become fans of this game, they're cheering on their team, coming out in large numbers and really, this is an opportunity to see team u.s.a. go as far as they can and they don't think the team is going to stop anytime soon. >> live in chicago. we'r

downtown chicago is beautiful. tree-lined streets, clean, beautiful city. duress and it's the opposite. the reality is the chicago city proper is also responsible for the under development of neighborhoods. this takes sustained commitment to economic development, sustained commitment to revolutionary ways of thinking of the public education system. that's the investment that will address the problems. we can talk about policy issues. the reality is there are policies we can talk about. access to health care, common sense gun safety. we need community effort, too. there are lots of people in chicago doing great work. they don't always have the resource or platform to let people know what they are doing. >> is rahm emanuel focused enough on the issue? >> i have to say no. he's a talented politician. at the end of the day, i'm not sure he understands exactly how complex this problem is. it requires a lot of resources and i'm not sure about his strategy for trying to address it. this is not a policing situation. we are with talking about the fabric of the commun

commuters much the terror unfolding inside the cars at the trail -- as the train rolled into downtown chicagot's coming up next. ♪ >> the search is on for two armed men who stormed on to a chicago el train robbing several passenger in the middle of the afternoon. the men were caught on camera leaving the station. police say they robbed commuters of wallets, phones and jewelry. no one was hurt. >> a palestinian american teen who said he was beaten by israeli authorities is back home in florida. >> the 15 year old arrived late last night. a crowd of supporters were on hand to greet him. the teenager says the beating caught on video two week ago left him with stitches on his face. he was protesting the violent death of a 16 year old cousin. he says israeli authorities sentenced him to nine days of house arrest and last night he had this to say to the crowd. >>> i'm only 15 but i will never think about freedom in the same way as i did two months ago. i want to ask you all to please remember my cousin ham mid and the arthritic kids that died in gaza. and over the past several days. they have names

downtown. taste of chicago will go through the 14th. here's how it is impacting parking and driving restrictions. columbus shutdown to monroe. jackson blocked off from michigan to columbus. congress you can't get through between columbus and michigan. public transportation is your friend. keep in mind in naperville, they still have martin closed this morning from west doing some cleanup from the big festival this weekend. that will last until about 6:00. that's the latest hot spots on the roads. will have more travel times coming in just a few minutes. >> it was another night of gun violence in the city, as officials try to figure out how to stop it. nancy loo is live in englewood with more, nancy? >> good morning. the deadly violence did not end with the holiday weekend since yesterday, at least eight more shootings including the murder of a young woman now under investigation by the detectives here and area central. the 21 year-old woman was walking with a group of people at 69th at hamilton of around 7:00 last night when someone appr

we join you from downtown chicago. two violent weekends in a row. what is being done in chicago to address this? >> the city has been putting more cops on the street, but it really doesn't seem to be stemming the violence here. for a second weekend in a row, violence rattles chicago. the first shooting happened friday evening just before community activists demanded peace, marching through a neighborhood scarred by gunfire. >> no more killing. peace! peace! >> i come out every friday night to the community sees a presence here. we want peace here and we're care. we're hopeful, but still want to make things change and we do positive things for the young people here. >> the violence that we're facing now in america, particularly in chicago, this is our katrina. this is our katrina and how we handle it as a community as a city, state and country, how we handle this is going to be our legacy. >> powerful storms dropped more than three inches of rain on the city saturday evening, temporarily interrupting the bloodshed. there wasn't another shooting until

on the left you see video of flooded roads downtown chicago but on the right, video from burbank, a suburbty, one man had to be rescued when his car got stuck in high water. a church in the area lost its flood insurance after the last flood and hasn't even finished rebuilding from that incident. some residents are saying the city should be paying for damages since this area always floods. >>> well nationally they're dealing with some severe weather lightning strikes, flooding in some areas, it's been real tough week. >> yeah it has marty so those storms you saw in chicago have been moving farther eiten the ohio valley, upstate new york they are definitely getting their fair share of strong storms, in fact that chicago flooding shutdown taste of chicago yesterday for the first time in the festival history but good news is today they're going to actually open back up because they have generally mostly cloudy conditions right now but these are the storms that move to the east and it's impacting ohio valley, parts of new york up to the northeast and new england as well and some of those storms

watch for delays downtown at the chicago river walk project as well. and an adult were hurt when an s-u-v collided with a horse-drawn carriage on the near north side. patrick elwood is at northwestern memorial hospital with the latest. >> the driver of the car taken to hospital the four children in the car that collided with the carriage were hospitalized as well. the incident happened around 11:30 p.m. last night at the corner of grand. the driver of the car collided with the horse drawn carriage while the driver of the carriage was taken here, 25 year-old initially brought in in serious-critical condition. children were taken up the street to the children's hospital. bottom line is, all were treated and released. the horse? the course we are told was not hurt. you may recall back in february, alderman edward burke introduced a proposed ordinance that would ban horse-drawn carriages here in chicago similar to what happened out in new york city. it did receive the support of the mayor initially but not much action has been taken on the matter. from nor

one day we skipped school, a friend and i and went to downtown chicago to get fake i.d.'hose big highway crews come by, it's like this huge truck like the size of an ambulance or something and it pushes us off the median. we head home to rockford, illinois and my parents never knew, until now. sorry, mom! >> good story. >> i think i was 17 or 18. >> that's awesome. >> our viewers have been sending in pictures as well. sherwood sent us this picture. this 1973 gremlin. bought it new and here it is on my wedding day in 1977. >> just hitched. very nice. >> going for a ride. >> mom, i married the perfect guy. the bad news is he'súzñ?ñ?ñ?ñ?ña gremlin. >> you're not talking your mother, the car. >> totally different. >> coming up, your tax dollars are supposed to pay for schools, roads, police, but should they be used to pay for the influx of illegal immigrants as well? we report and you decide. ♪ ♪ vo: this is the summer. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. so get out there, and get the best price guaranteed. find it for less and we'll match it and give yo

chicago. there are many closures downtown. no bikes on the trains. you have closures in place downtown also dealing with construction on the kennedy this morning on the app onside around cumberland. this is a look at the kennedy and you can see everything is moving along just fine. >> coming up, details of a scam target and i pass users. plus -- this may be the *year of the tick*... dr tony will join us to talk about how your pets can avoid bites. and next in sports -- chicago's specialty comes in handy as two of our best are headed to baseball's all-star game. >> it was supposed to be the morning that we were all talking about the big decision in basketball if demetrius looks extra nervous it's because there was no announcement yesterday. or going to look to see everybody's reaction including 3000 followers on a certain twitter account. will have more coming up. we now have six all stars representing the city next week. sale and rizzo poach one final five voting they will be a target field next week. and especially event full day on thursday they em

downtown area this fall. they will honor the lives of chicago police officers killed in the line of duty.he chicago police memorial foundation as modeling the effort after the parade public art. each course will be decorated by local artist and named for a fallen officer. after the display they will be auctioned off to benefit the memorial fund. >> fund. >> >>e. mereh x ta.at homemade granola. the chef instructor at common thread. here to tell us about this weekend's kids a palooza. >> to concert event for kids. we have a lot of fun for the younger ones. thank you for having me. tom a little bit about the event. common threads is partnering with the james hotel for the fifth annual kid a palooza. >> it will be free. a year asking for a suggested $10 donation per family. the bands will be playing on the stage. well, and perform unplug cassettes. signing autographs and take pictures with the kids. after were to be withheld the demonstration and pass out snacks. it should be a lot of fun. they've been doing it for the past 10 years. educating the underserved communities about nutrition and h

downtown area this fall.. they'll honor the lives of chicago police officers killed in the line of duty.. the chicago police memorial foundation is modeling the effort after "the cows on parade" public art instillation. each horse will be decorated by a local artist... and named for a fallen officer. after the display, they'll be auctioned off to benefit the memorial fund. the denver area was captivated over the weekend by the discovery of a huge rabbit in someone's yard. take a look at this enormous bunny! chris royer found him under a truck friday morning. he says at first he thought it was dog.. but after pictures of the rabbit went viral on social media and a local t-v station, royer found it's owner. it turns out 14-pound "bishop" escaped from his yard after chewing a hole in a fence. his owner has offered to let royer adopt him.. and he's considering it. that is a huge bunny. >> you could make a lot of jackets that a bad guy ... >> come on! >> we're cooler there we were. 62 degrees right now from the north side. it's a cool and quiet morning. this is the weather story for us today.

chicago coalition >> son sang save children. more than 2000 people made their way through downtown streets ending outside of the israeli consulate. among them he says he lost six relatives after a bomb had his family's home. >> students also staged to draw attention to the civilian lives lost. >> the what the prime minister to halt the assault. for both sides doing cage and transparent peace negotiations. they say what is happening is a moron and ineffective. it is absolute power is then no legislators are government officials have criticized israel even symbolically. it is understandable. just as our government does nothing in black and brown communities right here in jakarta that does not care about palestinian being murdered by the dozens every day. >> they say their goal will be to deliver the message of peace. >> now to the war on violence in chicago. >> minute a leaders met with federal law enforcement leaders. this is a notion of growth was shot in the head. among four people killed and at least 38 injured. was struck in the head by a bullet that flew to the bedroom window. police say the shooting may have been caught on

chicago. according to our abc news affiliate there, one person is dead and another hurt after a shooting downtown on the 17th or of the bank of america building. stay inwere told to their offices and have since been given the all clear. police say the building is secure but the scene remains active. dignitaries from across africa plan to be in washington today for a summit that they carry with them fears about the growing ebola crisis back home. we take a closer look at the impact and what is being done to keep it from spreading. >> it is the worst ebola outbreak in history. reported in00 cases guinea, liberia, and sierra leone. more than 700 people killed. >> if we do not contain it, we will try to fight it in other places. >> serious debts are being taken to keep the virus from spreading. doctors checking passengers at airports before they can leave entries in affected countries. one emergency room in charlotte close yesterday until doctors had cleared a patient who recently returned from west africa. so far there have been no reports of the virus in the u.s. but doctors. could happen. >> i wou

downtown or near the hotel? what should die to save money? >> if you can get a car off airport property, you're going to save the most money. in chicagort. take the subway, take a cab. rent it downtown, bring it back to the airport. >> big companyies versus small companies? savings not trade-off in terms of quality? >> you get a limited selection at ace or smaller places, but very good cars, you get service and shuttles. the big thing is, you're not going to get points or the big glossy -- you're still going to get a good car and save a lot of money. sometimes 30 or $40 a day. >> insurance? does it depend upon the credit card i have? the homeowners policy i have? what should i be doing? should i spend 15, $20 a day on insurance or lost damage waivers? >> plan ahead. contact your insurance company. contact your credit card company before you travel. see what they offer. mostly they'll cover it. as long as you rent, pay and finish the service, the entire transaction on a credit card, the same card, the credit card company will pay you. your auto insurance or homeowners will also do it. check in advance. >> the leg work is important. 7,

in downtown overcast 58 degrees and temperatures inland continue to be hot, and the fog is not going anywhere. 50s and lower 60s, 59 fairfield and it has been a while since that happened. port chicagoest of 30ings and it holds higher clouds that continue to keep some areas hot and muggy. fog sun warm, it will be breezy at times and 60s and 70s to others, here is sal. >>> we have a problem in oakland southbound on the way to the airport, you should use an alternate route, let me show you the backup route as you head down to the exit. there was a truck that spilled gas and wood all over the place. the two right lanes are affected and people are worrying what is going on. you can use 580 and which by the way, as i was trying to say in my last tees, a little bit of traffic and we will check that out after we look at the bay bridge, traffic is showing a delay and there are no major problems there. >>> and i want to show you 880 southbound is going to be slow as i mentioned the san mateo bridge. and after 238 over here to 292, it is still decent going around the problem, i mentioned testimony looks goods to fremont after her us pan reported her missing and january mean you have a photo o

chicago is one of the more racially segregated cities. just how great of a disconnect is there between the people in these communities and the people downtown who are trying to stop the violence going on. >> there's a major disconnect. because the young people involved in the violent lifestyle, they are not connected to the older generation or the id manile age generation, so there's no respect there. and the people from the civic community, they are doing the best they can with the knowledge they have, but this' a disconnect. nobody wants to go and talk to the young guys the potential shooters out there, see, you have to establish a relationship with those shooters and they may come around and listen to you. so the disconnect, people think they can just throw money at the problem, without really addressing the root causes. i'd like to challenge everybody. if you are to put the violence prevention programs on desk duty for 30 days and i know you can't put the cops on desk duty, i guarantee you, though, if you put everybody on desk duty, you will not see an increase in violence. because the only way you will stop a killing you have to know w

chicago, quite frankly, is one of the more racially segregated cities. just how great of a disconnect is there between the people in these communities and the people downtowno are trying to stop the violence going on in these neighborhoods? >> there is a major disconnect because the young people involved in the violent lifestyle, there is no respect there, and the people from the city community, the mayor, the superintendent, they're do the best they can with the knowledge that they have, but there is a disconnect. nobody wants to go and really talk to the young guys, the potential shooters out there. see, you have to establish a relationship with those shooters, and they may come around and listen to you. the disconnect, people think they can just throw money at the problem without addressing the root causes. >> without the economic issues in the city, and more specifically in these neighborhoods where the violence seems to occur most frequently? >> nobody wants to talk about the economic issue. we have a 92% unemployment rate amongst african-american males between the ages 16 and 19. that's economic violence when you withhold resources from a particular

chicago tripped and fell face first on to the ground. that's when the bull gored him. >>> a lawyer for confessed nsa leak leaker snowden wants to stay in russia. >>> if you are heading to downtown san jose city, expect to pay more for parking. >> stephanie chuang has more from redwood city this has to do with construction, right? >> park hag been an issue with the growing downtown here and the county center nearby, you can see the sign there, construction parking only in a lot of places. there is construction along middlefield road and winslow street taking away about 250 spots. the parking rate will double from $50 cents to a dollar an hour. city leaders are helping this leads to more parking turnover, and make people park in the outer areas and leave the central area for visitors. in addition to changes in garr raj garages, we are talking about $900,000 a year additional for the city. here is a map of those affected areas. it includes parking in the lot next to the redwood city caltrain station. the caltrain station is another concern, that people will be using caltrain to go down to levi stadium when it's hope for events and bring in overflow. the hope is to discourage peopl

the 70's for many of you like cleveland and also chicago, parts of the plains and the desert southwest heating up even as far west and south as downtownu're expecting a temperature of 92 degrees. we expect showers and storms concentrated across the northern plains where we could see isolated severe weather. and farther west across parts of the rockies, the elevated fire danger continues. we have a number of fire danger watches and red flag warnings in effect. let's head over to brian. >> thank you very much. some sports theang you -- theang you -- that i think you should know about. mcgwire saying he doesn't want to speak to conseco against. conseco accused mcgwire of using performance enhancing drugs. it came out in the book juice which conseco says he regrets writing. he one time wore a shirt that said mark mcgwire please talk to me. conseco is not going to be able to break him on this. watch this at yankee stadium. >> the grass crew is having an awful time getting the turf on the infield. it's just a mess. they have not been able to get the tarp on because of the high winds. >> raining in the bronx. the infield flooded when the ski