joe gliniewicz died.d in mystery, what happened here has come to light. >> do you have any doubt whatsoever about the suicide determination? >> no. >> you're 100% certain? but the end of the death investigation isn't the end of the story. >> our investigation strongly indicates criminal activity on the part of at least two other individuals. >> months later, melodie egliniewicz is the only one arrested. and the close their investigation on the misused funds. >> joe was my best friend. >> the woman who wailed with grief the day her husband died learned her accounts were frozen when she went to gas up her car in november and her request was denied. >> in november after officials froze her bank accounts, they released a statement requesting they refrain from rushing to judgment. and adds this she looks forward to her day in court to prove her innocence. they have refused to comment to cnn. and what about the boxes and boxes of explorer post items that are missing in. >> if there are items that aren't there t

. >> there was some issues in joe gliniewicz's personnel files. there was a whole other joe gliniewicz that nobody knew. >> an investigation that reveals astonishing answers no one imagine imagined. what's your reaction to that? >> holy crap. >> tonight, "the secret life of g.i. joe." early morning on the first day of september, and the resort town of fox lake, illinois, police lieutenant joe gliniewicz is heading to work. he'll never get there. >> you stop down the street, i believe it's a local gas station, quickmart, that was an everyday stop for him to purchase cigarettes. >> cigarettes in hand, the 52-year-old officer drives toward the community center that houses his explorer post where he mentors teens who want to be cops. the program is run by fox lake police, and today the lieutenant must finish an equipment inventory for the administrator who controls department finances. >> he never went and did it. instead he drove past the explorer post and went to the plant. >> he could have seen something in here, maybe he thought he saw something.

joe gliniewicz died.stery, what happened here has come to light. >> do you have any doubt whatsoever about the suicide determination? >> no. >> you're 100% certain? but the end of the death investigation isn't the end of the story. >> our investigation strongly indicates criminal activity on the part of at least two other individuals. >> no arrests have been made but investigators are looking at joe gliniewicz's wife. >> the accounts of melanie gliniewicz have been frozen by the state department. >> the woman who wailed with grief the day her husband died learned her accounts were frozen when she went to gas up her car in november and her request was denied. in a press release, melanie respectfully requests that the law enforcement, pension board refrain from rushing to or misplacing judgment. melanie has faith the truth will come out in time and, if necessary, in court. the judge in the case has requested both sides not to comment further. another press release issued after the arrest of mrs. gliniewicz

gliniewicz. >> they couldn't get ahold of joe about ten minutes later i found out he had died. so that was crushing blow to me. >> the lieutenant's pal fox lake mayor meets another friend at the police station. together they tell gliniewicz's wife what happened. >> the way it went out of her mouth will stay with me forever. she collapsed on the floor. she started becoming physically ill. >> the horrifying news spreads quickly in this village of less than 11,000 and people here are stunned. >> joe was the cop's cop. this is the person that would never be gunned down. there was no way that this could have happened. >> couldn't happen because the lieutenant had more than 30 years with the police department and more than 25 with the army. he was fit and tough earning him the nickname g.i. joe. >> he always wore fatigues and combat boots and he had his military hat on. when he went in a restaurant, everybody walked up and said hi. he was probably the town's biggest celebrity. >> and a mentor to young people. >> that's what you have to do when you have people running at you. >> who he

there is a tragic new twist in the death investigation of joe gliniewicz. gliniewicz.you remember he's the former illinois police suicide to look like a homicide.that was back in september when he feared investigators would discover he was stealing from a charity. charity.now his widow, melody, is facing chargs for being a part of that scheme.she's accused of embezzling 10- to -100-thousand dollars from a youth training program.her attornies say she is a victim of her husband's criminal acts. melody gliniewicz is out of jail this morning. a follow up in ferguson, missouri.. missouri..where the police department has come to an agreement with the u-s justice department..apart of the sweeping deal are new policies, training and practices.these recommendati ons follow the 20-14 shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown.they're detailed in a 130 page decree that was just released and meant to correct unconstitiutional and discriminatory practices by the department. at the capitol.. capitol..democrats introduced legislation that would repeal a 2005 law granting

herself in after being indicted on six counts, including money laundering and fox lake officer joe gliniewicz, stole thousands from a youth program. investigators say his wife helped him do it. they allegedly spent that money on themselves including a trip to hawaii.officer gliniewicz staged his suicide to look like a homicide because he was scared the embezzlement would be discovered. 3 a run-in with student journalists during protests at the university of missour could cost an assistant professor her job.melissa click is suspended without pay ...during november protests over racism on the school's campus, click was caught on-camera ordering student journalists to leave and asking for "muscle" to remove one of them.she's charged with misdemeanor assault, and faces up to 15-days in jail and a 300-dollar fine.she has pleaded not guilty. 3 their leader is telling them to stop the protest.. but a handful of activists are still holding on at a federal wildlife refuge in oregon... activist robert finicum was killed in a shootout with the f-b-i tuesday.. and there are conflicting reports about how

there is a tragic new twist in the death investigation of joe gliniewicz. gliniewicz.the former illinois police officer staged his suicide after investigators discoverer he was stealing from a charity. charity.now his widow, melody, is facing chargs for being a part of that scheme.she's accused of embezzling10- to -100-thousand dollars from a youth training program.her attornies say she is a victim of her husband,s criminal acts. melody gliniewicz is now out of jail tonight. right now, michigan's governor is launching a series of steps to help the residents of flint. the city has been without *safe drinking water since last year.the governor is now forming a committee to monitor the city's recovery progress. environmental and civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit demanding the city and state replace all lead water pipes in flint - at no cost to residents.it could cost nearly 55-million dollars to repair ose pipes. now ten at ten continues with a look at tonight's other stories across the corridor. right now, the university of iowa will be paying more tha

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at least one officer responding to the fatal shooting of officer joe gliniewicz suggested right from the git-go that the veteran cop might have killed himself. the idea was rejected and his death sparked a massive man hunt. the investigation later revealed the officer had embezzled money from a youth program. authority sas he tried to hire a gang member to kill someone who exposed him. >> the city of chicago has paid $5.5 million to people who claim a former police detective tortured them. more than 100 men accused john bernlg of shocking, suffocating and beating them into false confessions. he has never been charged with torture but he served a prison sentence for lying in a civil trial. the payments come as the chicago department faces scrutiny over police shootings. >> a pair of ranchers the no discuss of an armed occupation on a wildlife refuge are behind bars. dwight and steven hammon reported to prison yesterday. the father and son ranchers have served short sentences after they were convicted of setting fire to federal grazing land. a judge ordered them to return to prison for

police say joe gliniewicz staged his own suicide to appear to line of duty. barbara: court records show 57-year-old robert geer is awaiting a mental health exam at his attorney's request. he used to live in north carolina. after being attacked by a raccoon. yesterday when his face. he is now recovering and taking antibiotics as his parents way to learn if the raccoon had rabies. the driver lost control of his rig in the storm. another driver saw what happened , scaled down the hill, serious injuries. john: great to see folks pitching in like that. let's turn to the weather. looking out for the possibility >> yes. anything else you want to know? just kidding. there's nothing exciting. a little bit of light rain moving through. we will talk about that in a moment. saturday and sunday look spectacular. in the next when he four hours -- 24 hours, we will see rain. tonight, 30's for overnight lows. tomorrow, more sunshine on the way. we climb into the 50's. a live look at radar where we will really see showers. in the sand hills, you can see shower activity contin

husband's scheme to embezzle money from the youth group he ran. 3 fox lake police lieutenant joe gliniewicz was found shot to deaththn september first.. after telling dispatchers he was chasing three suspects. suspects.authorities later determined he'd killed himself, and staged the scene to look like a murder.after his death.. investigators found evidence that he'd stolen about 10-thousand dollars in donations over several years.his wife claims she didn't know anything about the scam. 3 wendy's fast food chain is telling customers to keep a close eye on their credit and debit cards. looking into reports of "unusual activity" on cards that have been used at its locations.it's not clear how many customers might be affected.wendy's says they are working with cybersecurity experts and law enforcement to investigate. 3 3 some of the best pieces of art can take months and sometimes years to create...but three teams of writers and performers won't have anywhere near that long.. long..the greenville little theatre is hosting a contest for three teams to create an on-stage performance in just 24-ho

husband's scheme to embezzle money from the youth group he ran. 3 fox lake police lieutenant joe gliniewicz was found shot to death on september first.. after telling dispatchers he was chasing three suspects. suspects.authorities later determined he'd killed himself, and staged the scene to look like a murder.after his death.. investigators found evidence that he'd stolen about 10-thousand dollars in donations over several years.his wife claims she didn't know anything about the scam. 3 wendy's fast food chain is telling customers to keep a close eye on their credit and debit cards. looking into reports of "unusual activity" on cards that have been used at its locations.it's not clear how many customers might be affected.wendy's says they are working with cybersecurity experts and law enforcement to investigate. 3 3 some of the best pieces of art can take months and sometimes years to create...but three teams of writers and performers won't have anywhere near that long.. long..the greenville little theatre is hosting a contest for three teams to create an on-stage performance in just 24-ho

officials say her husband, fox lake police lieutenant joe gliniewicz, staged his suicide to appear he was gunned down in the line of duty. melodie is accused of helping him steal money from a youth program. officials say they used the funds for a trip to hawaii, and more than 400 restaurant bills. the hunt is still on for three escaped inmates in california... but investigators say five people have been arrested in connection with the prison break. the orange county sheriff says she definitely believes the inmates had outside help and that the investigation is the trio escaped friday and there's been no sign of them since. 1:53 "it's every sheriff's nightmare. you don't ever want to have an escape from any jail. they do happen and you certainly don't want maximum security prisoners who are a danger to the public to get out of your jail, so it's not good day." 2:08 a 200-thousand dollar reward is being offered for information leading to the escapees' arrests. all senators who showed up to work after the blizzard common.. prices for coffee beans are way but don't expect to save any mone

her husband joe gliniewicz allegedly stole 1-,000 dollars from the same group.months ago his death sparked a massive map hunt for a sus security. in reality he shot himself. >> wreaking havoc just one who raped through broward conti over turning cars and tearing roofs off cars. >> brought 100 mile per hour winds as it touched down. police say it is a miracle only one person was actually injured in all of this. maria molina has the weather forecast. >> good morning. a lot of rough weather across the state of florida forecasting more of that through out the day. i want to point out other features. we have low pressure bringing in light snowfall. a powerful storm system bringing in heavy rain and also higher elevation snowfall over parts of california and then here is florida. still active early this morning with rain continuing to roll through. we have a flood watch in effect because an additional 2-4 inches of rain is possible on top of what they already received yesterday. the ground is already saturated out there. you could be seeing more isolated severe weathe

in fox lake, illinois. >> he truly will be missed by all of us. >> reporter: but lieutenant joe gliniewicz'sactually a carefully orchestrated suicide. now his authorities say his wife is a criminal. >> any comment, melody? >> reporter: melody gliniewicz, seen here in handcuffs, is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the fox lake explorers program. a program she ran with her husband for teens aspiring to become police officers. >> the account where money was going for the explorer youth program in fox lake had been used to fund many personal purchases. >> reporter: investigators say the couple used money from the explorers to purchase things such as a trip to hawaii, restaurant charges. the pair stole from the charity for years, but it after lieutenant gliniewicz's shocking death in september. he staged his suicide to look like murder in an attempt to cover up the alleged embezzlement. the couple discusses the illegal transactions. he allegedly told his wife use the explorer account for the flight. $624.70. >> a lot of what these monies were spent on were very unusual. health clubs,

there is a tragic new twist in the death investigation of joe gliniewicz. gliniewicz.you remember he's the former illinois police suicide to look like a homicide.that was back in september when he feared investigators would discover he was stealing from a charity. charity.now his widow, melody, is facing chargs for being a part of that scheme.she's accused of embezzling 10- to -100-thousand dollars from a youth training program.her attornies say she is a victim of her husband's criminal acts. melody gliniewicz is out of jail this morning. a follow up in ferguson, missouri.. missouri..where the police department has come to an agreement with the u-s justice department..apart of the sweeping deal are new policies, training and practices.these recommendati ons follow the 20-14 shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown.they're detailed in a 130 page decree that was just released and meant to correct unconstitiutional and discriminatory practices by the department. at the capitol.. capitol..democrats introduced legislation that would repeal a 2005 law granting

at least one officer responding to the fatal shooting of officer joe gliniewicz suggesting the cop mightave killed himself. the idea was rejected and his death sparked a man hunt. the officer had embezzled money from a youth program. authorities say he tried to hire a gang member to kill someone that could expose him. >> are suing over cheating software in 600,000 vehicles sold in the u.s. the lawsuit exposes the german automaker to $18 billion in penalties for violating the clean air act. it alleges the company illegally installed software designed to make its klein engines pass standards while undergoing testing, the dummy software resulted in the release of harmful green house gases up to 40 times what is the allowed by law. >> let's check your ride to work. >> jessica boyington is in the traffic center. >> we're watching the vine street expressway because i saw a backup but it seemed to clear in the last few minutes. this is around 24th street. we're seeing this backup on the right-hand side approaching the schuylkill expressway. but otherwise moving along but we are seeing more volu

authorities say lieutenant joe gliniewicz killed himself and staged it too look as if he was killed induty. >>> a daring prison break in california. the orange county sheriff said five suspected gang members were taken into custody yesterday. they are believed to have some kind of a connection to the three inmates who broke out friday by cutting through steel pipes. those inmates, though, are still on the run. >>> coming up, with new drama emerging behind the debates in both parties, including trump's boycott and the back and forth between hillary clinton and bernie sanders, is any of this legal in their party's rule books? we'll look at the rules after this. >>> we have some developing news to report to you. senator bernie sanders will release his medical records today, possibly within the hour. msnbc's casey hunt is following the sanders campaign. she joins us now by phone. senator sanders' medical records certainly was a hot button issue for him just a few weeks ago when it was brought up, casey. >> hey, tamron. yes. we expect it within the hour. in regard to senator sanders who con

joe gliniewicz.ber, they say they discovered thousands of erased texts revealing disturbing information about the man everyone had considered a hero. >> reporter: the messages that interest investigators the most are the ones that suggest fox lake's hero law enforcement officer may have tried to arrange a hit on the new village administrator, a woman named anne marrin. >> when you read the text, saw he wanted to put a hit on the village administrator, what was your reaction to hat? >> holy crap. >> reporter: commander filenko is talking about a facebook message from early april 2015. in it gliniewicz writes to a woman, being forced to retire by new village administrator. work life has been a living hell the last two months. close to entertaining a meeting with a mutual acquaintance of ours with the word white in their nickname." investigators say white is code for a high ranking gang member. when they interview the woman gliniewicz was messaging, she says he wanted a gang member to make a hit on marr

lieutenant joe gliniewicz killed himself in september. investigators say he was embezzling from a youth program for several years. they used the money for meals and a trip to hawaii. the widow's attorney says she was victimized by her husband. >>> meteorologist bill evans with the accuweather forecast. >> here is a look from our camera here on the roof looking to the chrysler building this morning. chrysler brought to you by dodge. across the east river to toward the airport to flushing and laguardia airport. good visibility this morning. this is not such good visibility. this is our corner at 66th and columbus avenue on the upper streets are wet. you have this situation where it's colder in the suburbs and that is black ice. black ice looks like it's wet it's icy. we have the steam pipes under the roads. in a lot of spots it stays warm but in the five boroughs, staten island, queens, brooklyn, you will get situations and the bronx where you have icy roads. yesterday's high was 47 responsible for a lot of the melting. normal is 39. we wer

. >> reporter: this morning the widow of fox lake illinois police lieutenant joe gliniewicz free on bail. >> did you want to say anything to the people who supported you? >> reporter: melody gliniewicz is saying nothing after being indicted in suburban chicago wednesday accused of conspiring with her husband who officials believe embezzled thousands of dollars from his police department's youth program. police say in september, the officer nicknamed g.i. joe killed himself staging his suicide to look like a homicide. >> do you need a second unit. >> go ahead. >> reporter: even radioing for help fearing his alleged misuse of funding would be exposed. but prosecutors now say melody was in on the scheme alleging the pair misspent more than $10,000 belonging to the youth program which joe ran for approximately 0 years including financing a trip to hawaii and more than 400 restaurant bills. the couple even posting photos from some of those outings on >> money from this explorer account that was supposed to be used for explorer purposes was being used for personal reasons. >> reporter: in the

now we're learning melodie gliniewicz, who many remember as the grieving widow of lieutenant joe gliniewiczas now been indicted by a grand jury in chicago for stealing charitable funds and using them for her own personal benefit. authorities allege she schemed with her now deceased husband to steal from the youth group that they ran, the explorers, a group of teens they were training to become law enforcement officers. and she allegedly used that donated money to pay for a trip for herself to hawaii. payments to businesses such as starbucks, dunkin' donuts, fox lake theatre, and more than 400 restaurants. now, this was all discovered during the course of her husband's death investigation, where investigators noticed inconsistencies in the couple's bank records. they also discovered these deleted text messages between the couple, allegedly discussing using money for their own personal benefit. and a statement from her attorney saying melodie has suffered greatly the past few months and continues to move her family forward after the emotionally traumatizing events of september 1st, 2015. that

prosecutors say that melanie gliniewicz helped her husband steal money that was meant for charity. joe was found dead last year, his death triggering a week long manhunt for suspects. however, it was determined that he eventually took his own life in the end. >> this man is accused of being the driver behind the wheel in an accident that injured a police officer. there were warrants out for his arrest. he questioned he crashed the vehicle. police believe he and a woman passenger were doing drugs while driving. she, too, faces charges. just released documents gives us a new glimpse at the trial of the marathon bomber including what happened during his interrogation in the hospital. kelly has been sifting through those pages and she's live in south boston. what have you found? kelly: i had a lot of stuff to go through. it's argued -- they argue he lawyer. he wrote the lawyer 10 times, circling. one of the agents insisted, nonsensally, that mr. tsarnaev was not in custody. the defense argued the assurances that no one other than his brother was involved. there was no danger to anyone else

gliniewicz. the president is signing a presidential memorandum today to create a white house task force that will tackle curing cancer. vice president joe biden, who lost his son beau to cancer, will lead the panel. the president pledged in his final state of the union address to initiate a government-wide push to cure cancer, comparing it to the effort in the 1960's to send a man to the moon. the vice president has said he plans to seek out both private and public resources to fight cancer. the panel is expected to meet for the first time on monday. tonight, an upstate neighborhood will talk options as the smell from a nearby dump site gets stronger. people who live within miles of the odor continues to get worse. they're calling on community leaders and the landfill operators to do more to contain the smell. neighbors organized a meeting to discuss the possible options. >> they've raised their families here. they've lived here all their lives. the quality of life has changed. the values of their properties have gone down. >> we're looking at our legal options. we're looking at what dhec can do as far as rules violations are concerned

gliniewicz was hailed a hero. northern illinois, on edge, over the violent death of a man they referred to as g.i. joeousands of hours encouraging people to become ofs and soldiers. but his image started to crumble. the community should have known the truth much sooner. >> reporter: the file is 264 pages thick, full of accolades, and shocking information. >> let me put it to you this way, if i knew about the personnel file and i was a parent i wouldn't put my child in the explorer program under his tutelage. >> reporter: in may of 1988, fox lace police sergeant james bush stated he was called by a sheriff's deputy who found officer gliniewicz passed out in his truck on the side of the road, with the engine running full throttle, footen the gas. sergeant bush wrote he was summoned because the deputy couldn't wake gliniewicz, and this was not the first time something like this has happened. in 2003, a fox lake radio dispatcher claimed gliniewicz joked about putting bullets in my chest. three weeks later, she claimed he brought a gun into the dispatch room, i don't appreciate someone cocking a gun, makin