evanston police want to hear from those drivers. a scary moment for a cta employee and tonight police are searching for her attacker. the crime happened yesterday right after the cta worker started her shift at the blue line stop on chicago avenue. it was around 5am when a man forced her into a bathroom and began choking her. she screamed and tried to fight him off. the man took off when someone else came into the bathroom. commuters are being extra cautious. whenever i walk around this neighborhood at night i looked behind me. it's not paranoid. you have to be cautious. i'd just aren't taking the train yesterday. i probably will not take the train today. chicago police are looking at security video from the train station and from nearby stores in an effort to identify the attacker. an ex-marine says he was just trying to protect his family when he killed a burglar in the garage. wgn's dan ponce is in the newsroom with the story of a harrowing break-in on the south side. dan? it happened overnight in chicago's west pullman neighborh

school indill evanston, ill., has run a washington journalism program for more than 40 years.all the many things that journalism schools around the country teach their students to report about, national security has not been a front burner issue. >> that is why they launched the national security initiative in 2009. the reporting project is part of it. >> it is a way to find new and better, more innovative ways to understand the issues, training young journalists and working journalists on how to cover these complex issues in a challenging media environment. >> i hope that what is important about this project is to show issues of national security that might surprise people. >> each year there will be a different topic with a different title. the first one was global warming and the national security implications of climate change. >> 10 students interviewed 200 national security experts over three months, traveling to the arctic circle, bangladesh, peru, n.c., and texas. here are four of their stories. >> our story took a look at the cia's center for climate change and nation

the incident happened outside of a salon in evanston. surveillance video shows a man grabbing a young woman. action the salon owners cannot arrive at the salon until four hours later and said there were horrified by the assault. police post of the video in the hopes that somebody will recognize the suspect. >> up with a rash of route irobberies. the committee what takes place in like you. residents can me in front of the 7- eleven and halsted. police officers will join of them on a walk and a half dozen armed robbers took place in that area on july alone. in july alone. >> talk to police are looking for the vandals spray- painted a memorial to fallen officer. the goldstar family is more delicious taste of soldier field. police put out an alert after somebody attacked it with black spray paint. >> try to figure out why a baby dolphin died. the female calf was born last friday. the health started to rapidly deteriorate. staff tried to resuscitate. it is not uncommon for them to die. the zoo will perform tests to find out the cause of death

. >> the superintendent of evanston elementary school district abruptly announced his resignation two weeks before the start of classes. murphy had been superintendent for 13 years and two years left on his contract. he did not give a reason for his leaving. the president of the school boards as they were planning a new long-term strategy for the district and murphy didn't want to design a plan that he wouldn't be around to implement >> the governor must decide today whether to raise the speed limit on the rural interstate highways 7 mi. an hour. 34 other states now allow drivers to go 70 or faster. supporters of the higher limits say it would allow truckers to deliver their los faster. critics argue higher speeds would mean more highway deaths and injuries. whatever the decision, the current chicago limits would be 55 mi. an hour >> the governor signed new legislation to protect consumers to buy animals. the puppy lemon law is designed to put pressure on pet stores that get dogs from, emails >> we want to make sure that we don't have a emails that are taking advantage of people in ou

host: we have an undocumented residents from evanston. go ahead, hector.aller: thank you for taking my call. i came here with a visa and i overstated. my family is here. my kids are here. putve been struggling to them through university. has gone back to mexico. yes, i have worked in the industry and i have brought tourists here at one time. i was somehow bringing money into the states, and i am trying , weo something here and now andot have access to credit i want to do somehow hire people and help economies. i would like to ask representatives to support the immigration bill that allows us to integrate into not only the economy, because we are already here and already part of the united states, we want to come out and somehow come to a country in whatever way possible. host: how long have you been here? caller: 12 years already. host: why did you not go back? why did you overstay? caller: i found here in the states a better way to raise my family. parents came-- my here in 1956. i have very strong ties with family in california. my countries, mexico and

host: we have an undocumented residents from evanston. go ahead, hector. caller: thank you for taking my call. i came here with a visa and i overstated. my family is here. my kids are here. i have been struggling to put them through university. one of my sons has gone back to mexico. yes, i have worked in the industry and i have brought tourists here at one time. i was somehow bringing money into the states, and i am trying to do something here and now, we do not have access to credit and i want to do somehow hire people and help economies. i would like to ask representatives to support the immigration bill that allows us to integrate into not only the economy, because we are already here and already part of the united states, we want to come out and somehow come to a country in whatever way possible. and help economies. host: how long have you been here? caller: 12 years already. host: why did you not go back? why did you overstay? caller: i found here in the states a better way to raise my family. we came here -- my parents came here in 1956. i have very