metra is waiting for plans from the secret service ... them until the end of the month. there's speculation the rail lines that run *under* mccormick place would be shut down. that would include metra's electric district and south shore railroad trains. metra officials say they are looking at ways to accommodate riders if the lines are closed...but will not say what those plans are. mayor emanuel's speed camera plan gets the approval from a city council committee. the plan to put hundreds of speed cameras near city schools and parks received a mixed vote, even after a last minute concession was revealed during yesterday's hearing. emanuel agreed to reduce the fine from 50 dollars to 35 for people ticketed going six to ten miles an hour over the speed limit. the fine for going more than 11 miles over will be 100 dollars. several aldermen and some advocate groups question the real intention of the plan. they are using our children as a front to line their pockets gold plated pensions for the chicago police and multimillion-dollar pension pl

need jobs standing around looking at others to do with work in their community >> englewood flyover metra something in the works for a long time federal and local leaders backing congressman bobby rush to a point >> do not want to shut it down but joining him in putting pressure on those involved to move towards more diversity employment >> very important program we want to make sure people in the neighborhood have a fighting chance to participate >> metra response. mean mom? mother accused of encouraging it daughter to beat up another girl and recorded on cellphone. more than 100 mi. per hour in the suburb 45 mi. per hour just to get to a girl he liked. >> tom skilling in the weather center windy cold storm tomorrow rainfall and a big warm up biggest in five weeks 80 degree temperatures next week. could make said it drought relief with all of this coming up on the weather segment stay with us. wgn news @ 9 [ bell dings ] agents, when it comes to insurance, people feel lost. that's a dead end. don't know which way to turn. this way. turn around. [ woman ] that's why we present people with

as it stands, metra police cannot arrest anyone accused of indecent exposure without a warrant. the proposed legislation would allow metro police to make arrests as long as they have probable cause. >> work crews in washington, d.c. are fixing up the district's roads. the campaign kicked off this week. they will be fixing potholes. if you see a pot hole that needs fixing, you can call, tweet, or e-mail your request. you can also use the new 311 app. coming up, the third and final winner of the huge mega millions jackpot. >> round at one now gone. the cold front -- but get ready. here's my rubarb marmalade my cheddar cheese marmalade, my kidney bean marmalade... oh, kidney bean again. that's funny. ♪ you're the best mom ever. thank you, sweetie. oh... ♪ >> on news dance, a new edition of time magazine with this year's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. >> also on that list, -- she spoke about her nonprofit that provides health services to u.s. military personnel and their families. >> congratulations. it is a huge honor. >> is a humbling to be on that list of t

buy clean power when you turn on the lighter here charging up the phone but thing you can do is to metra and taking action as a consumer every time we could go to the grocery store director dollars toward organic food companies or toward companies that are working to restore the plan at a consumer as a homeowner and assistant you can do plenty of things. >>> to worry about birthday and tomorrow is back to normal. >>> were all and busy lives in a pink and with the sierra club for two years and working on environmental issues for 20 and i found most people care about clean air really what clean water and care about how the forests and parks and wilderness areas and so on, and people will stay involved. >>> i want to thank you and tell you for more information visit sierra club web site. leaving out the jazz vocalist performing friday may 4th at 8:00 p.m. with tickets and current thanks for watching. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

. >>> quite a surprise in paris, the drivers miss took the stairs in a metra station for an underground parking garage. no one was hurt, the car was undamaged. >>> now here is an early look at one of the top health lines. >>> a dangerous new trend among teenagers, drinking hand sanitizer to get drunk. it sent some teens to the emergency room with alcohol poisoning. in some cases teens disstilled the hand sanitizer products using salt to sprait the alcohol to make a drink more potent than vodka or at the quill la. for more information on this and other stories check out the health pain at msnbc.com. >>> now here is an early look how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 13,001 after adding 74 points yesterday. the s & p up 5 points. nasdaq down eight. taking a look at overseas trading, in tokyo the nikkei gained 92 points. but in hong kong the hang seng down 30. >>> healthy earnings pushed the dow higher, the most valuable company today is rebounding. after the closing bell apple reportedly sold 35 million iphones in the first quarter of the year, almost twice as many as la

the generally if you're running around with a large cost to metra to train with it but it's all about being creative and self expression. >>> year 101 it's hard to imagine but is there anything in particular that the folks that run the race went to see happen in the next 100 years? >>> will elect to see the race participants look at how they can give back to the committee as part of the event. it's a social race and that's important also embracing technology. for the runners they're going to look at the back of their bid then there's coats and animal take them to racecourse maps of the other shoe in them they're finishing time after they finished the race. and yet this is allowing participants to opt in and have their finished video the second year that were doing it posted to the facebook page to share it with their friends. >>> the race takes place on sunday may 20th and for more information visit their web sites. with a in our the look and another sent his coach addition the beach blanket babylon for tickets and and formation go to their web sites. thanks for watching. ♪ ♪

. >> i like the saw metra cal faces to begin with. i like crook cede or big nose or big ears. >> keep talking. >> i am a bad judge. but when i drink my judgment goes out the window. >> tabooed -- good to know. >> pure vodka. >> i would like to hear what they thought of benjamin franklin's face. >> bill, you needed to get drunk to sleep with yourself. can you blame yourself for wanting to be drunk when you sleep with yourself? and do you owe yourself an apology for having to get yourself drunk in order to sleep with yourself? >>- q. i my beer -- >> my beer goggles make it look less horrific. and sometimes my nightmares turn into sex dreams depending on the bad guy. i will say -- i don't understand the question of does meeting a person with beer goggles affect your marriage? are they implying you got this person drunk and kept them drunk down the aisle and then five crazy days later they sober up and realize what they have gotten into. >> i think it happened in the old days. >> they 1982. and again i go back to the reason for these stud

people who ride metra trains...ave to worry about the "nato" summit disrupting their commutes. the secret service says the trains will run on their normal schedules. this includes the ones that pass underneath mc-cormick place. there was speculation service might be suspended because of security concerns. instead, there will probably be occasional *delays* on the electric line, the south shore and amtrak. some new jobs are coming to illinois. governor quinn announced a paris-based building materials company "la-farge" is moving its north american headquarters to illinois from virginia. the company plans to build a new headquarters near o-hare. "la-farge" is agreeing to invest about ten-million dollars for the move, and plans to create at least 90 jobs in the first two years here. illinois provided an incentive package worth more than six- million dollars to lure the company. we *finally* know who was holding that lucky mega millions ticket that hit the jackpot last month. the retired couple from red bud illinois has

struck by what his family believes was a suicide and in january another student walked in front of a metra train and has since been rolled suicide by the county officials within days of the second death here suicide prevention advocates began to call the school offering education tips this high school has formed a task force with parents teacher's and community leaders we have social workers we can talk to hear >>we apologize for some difficulties with the audio that was randi belisomo from lake forest a convicted murderer who finished parole for months ago has been charged with killing three people and a south side home police said curtis a. davis jr. forced open the door of an apartment and west with lawn on tuesday and shot three people inside he spent 18 years in prison for murder and a public housing building in the bronzeville neighborhood he is now being held without bail he claims to be possessed by satan and that's the story from a man now charged with stabbing is a four year-old mother to death and her northwest side home 54 year-old joseph nerone lived with his mother in the hom

metra fares are going up. parking rates going up a quarter.ill pay more if you use -- the peak of the peak surcharge has been eliminated. it takes effect july 1. >>> the defense attorneys in john edwards tried to make his aide out to be a scam artist. he testified money from wealthy friends was to be used for the cover up of edwards mistress pregnancy. the first big check came more than a month before young was aware of the child. >> get ready, rg 3, tonight you will be the new quarterback here in washington. the nfl draft takes place tonight at 8:00. washington will take robert griffin iii, meet the woman who was his teacher in texas. >> looking forld ing forward t. >> s&p rallied to 1400 this afternoon. hopes for further stimulus from the fed overshadowed worries about the job market. the dow is 114 points up. nasdaq up 21. >>> she's the soccer mom who gained national attention after police say she ran a multi-million dollar prostitution ring in manhattan. >> today, anna gristina's husband and children are asking the public to help raise mon

measure that would require mattress makers and sellers to either pick them up or contribute $25 per metra sold to a special mattress recycling fund. they contend the old mattresses are dangerous and provide a breeding ground for rodents. but a mattress industry is opposed to the measure saying that it would raise the cost of buying a mattress. and the met life has agreed to pay half a billion dollars to settle allegations by 20 states that even though they should have known some policyholders had died, they failed to pay out the policies and was the beneficiary at was submitted a claim. californians are expected to get $40 million in total for an estimated 30,000 unpaid policies. averaging $1,200 each. and if you were 43 or younger, you may never receive a full social security benefits. that is according to a new government report that finds social security and medicare in serious trouble. in 12 years trusties say that medicare will only be able to pay about 87% of expected cost and by 2020 for social security will only have the funds to cover three-quarters of full benefits. trusties urg

of -- he is an adjunct professor at metra state in minnesota and he has authored several publications on bridging cultural and civilization of gaps. >> thank you for inviting us here. thank you all for being with us a little bit over a year now. millions of people had to go to the streets of cairo and the rest of egypt to stand against corruption, dictatorship, and oppression. i remember those who sacrificed their lives. and for those that came to meet today, i would like us to stand in commemoration of those who sacrificed their lives in a peaceful revolution. >> thank you. the egyptian revolution, as egypt itself was unique in the way that it presented itself, and the way that it acted against oppression, a dictatorship, and corruption, and in a way that it is fulfilling its promises on the road map towards democracy, freedom, and the rule of law. the revolution was not against an individual, this was against a system. and that is the most common word that americans would feel proud of. i saw babies at the age of 3, 4, 5 saying this. boys and girls stood up and declared that they we