photo was welcome to all 145,000 naperville residents. are all asked to arrive at the municipal center by 2:00 next friday. then join my coanchor steve sanders and me as we serve as emcees for the annual daley plaza holiday tree lighting. chicago's own joan cusak will join mayor daley for the final tree lighting ceremony as mayor of chicago. takes place next wednesday november 24. beginning at 4:30 p.m. at the daley plaza. come on down. be with steve and myself live. >> we can hang with joan cusack. how about that? >> you have done this before. >> yeah, but i did it with the governor. i have never done it with the city of chicago. >> show me the ropes. >>> stay with us, tom skilling has the full weekend forecast next. with the capital one venture card we get double miles on every purchase. so we earned a holiday trip to the big apple twice as fast! dinner! [ garth ] we get double miles every time we use our card. and since double miles add up fast, we can bring the whole gang! it's hard to beat double miles! i want a maze, a sword, a... o

>>> naperville leaders invited all 145 residents of naperville to pose for the city's holiday picture. those who did gathered at the base of the city's millennium and made the word peace. there it is. >> we wanted to bring people from all nations just to gather together to lock arms and form the word peace for our holiday card. and that way we could tell the world that we in naperville, we love our residents and we get along together and we just want to make sure that everybody knows that we're praying for peace for the city, for the state, and for the government. >> initially organizers were hoping to get a bigger peace. but the 400 or so folks who were there managed to make the point very nicely. >> maybe it can be a annual tradition they spell a different word every year. >> that's good. >> we're taking credit for that idea. >>> still ahead: taking one for the team. president obama gets stitches after being hit in the mouth during a basketball game. >>> also kirk lays out his priorities in an exclusive interview with wgn. >>> and tom skilling's weekend forecast coming up next. [ fe

after giving so much to other children by raising money for their care, a naperville care gets a huge surprise. >>> back in the weather center, a mid-weekend warm-up? tom skilling promises we won't be disappointed. [ older brother ] hey, that's the last crescent. [ younger brother ] oh, do you want it? yeah. ok, we'll split it. [ female announcer ] made fresh, so light... ...buttery and flaky... this is half. that is not half. guys i have more. [ female announcer ] do you have enough crescents? to bring the family together on sunday mornings than with the warmth and aroma of freshly baked pillsbury cinnamon rolls. [ wink! ] [ wink! ] ♪ [ crunching ] [ male announcer ] the closer the wheels are to the front and back of the vehicle, the bigger and steeper the obstacle it can go over. [ crunching ] guess where we put the wheels on the jeep grand cherokee. ♪ visit jeep at youtube.com. key lime pie, pineapple upside down cake, raspberry cheesecake... ...yeah, every night its something different. oh yeah yeah...she always keeps them in the house. no no no, i've actually lost weight... i jus

that's exactly how many city residents were invited to appear on the cover of naperville, illinois', holiday greeting card. >> they wanted to have people from every different nationality, lock arms and have the word peace spelled out. >> reporter: it was all mayor, george pradel's idea. couldn't you have picked a warmer day than this? >> i wish we could have picked a warmer day. but it was really nice toward the first part of the week. >> down at that end. >> reporter: at first, it was controlled chaos. >> you can get in the "c," sir. >> reporter: the volunteers herding the bundled-up masses into vowels and consonants. >> we need a tightening up. >> get warm by standing close to each other. >> reporter: that wasn't quite working for alice wood and her mother, doris. >> it will be a day for both legacies. >> reporter: are you regretting it? >> a little bit. >> i can't feel my feet. >> okay. i think we're about ready to take our picture. >> reporter: if the top of the city's tower, a photographer captured the crowd of 500 below. including long-time naperville residents, linda and georg

o'hare, the biggest rain in 30 days around here and look at the wind gusts, that roared through napervillel, indiana, and our weather bug network from burlington, wisconsin to the school in chicago and henzdale, other reports from western springs, sugar grove, west chester, we had funnel clouds and tornadoes mainly in our northwest suburbs but winds and reports of funnels in a couple of other areas as well, and you can see the temperatures tonight on the way down with readings as low as 36. these are all far west and west suburban temperatures, just to show you how far we've come from today's high around 70 earlier and note the wind gusts propelling the cool air in. here are the storms as they moved into sock village today on our weather bug cameras. aurora had gusty storms going through and they turned the late afternoon skies to night as they came through the area and the storm that came through caladonnia is said to have snapped a half dozen of these high -- you know these towers that support the high power lines so there have been massive power outages. this is decatur, illinois, and l

heights isn't alone tonight in terms of laying off police officers who have also learned that the napervilley're facing some tough economic times right now facing a $5 million budget deficit. the city manager says it's possible they'll have to lay off even more officers and potentially some firefighters as well. mark and micah. >> all right, dab. reporting from prospect heights. thanks. >>> a new security measures on u.s. planes is has a ban on toner and ink car trijs. they discovered bombs shipped inside printers and packages from yemen. now all cartridges or shipments are now banned on all u.s. flights. it has now been expanded to somalia. >>> hundreds of thousands of eggs sold in illinois and seven other states being recalled due to salmonella threats again. bacteria discovered at the kal main foods in ohio. the company now recalling roughly 300,000 eggs. nobody has gotten sick yet. calmain food bought the eggs from ohio eggs and it was linked to salmonella outbreaks that made 1600 people sick. >>> well, have you ever fallen asleep or nodded off while driving? the triple a foundation for

dekalb made it up to 61 today. 47 naperville. here in the city we topped out at 54. from northfield of the clouds that broke about midday gives us a nice sunny spell. look at the rains in pensacola. it's capturing the moisture that might move north into our area. they had 6 inches there. hollywood and miami had over an inch of rain. and that's with this system down there trapping the moisture. here's the wave that went through here. this was a front. and it's one of these fronts that has the real cold air lingering about 12 hours behind it. while the showers that went through here are these, look what was happening up the lake. we're getting towering clouds, a sign of cool air moving over the warm lake waters and there's a steep vertical temperature drop. so this thing towers to 29,000 feet. that's a respectable shower. we've got some models suggesting in the parts of the indiana and southwest lower michigan lake effect belt, a half an inch of rain may come down and might mix with ice pellets. when you take the bursts of lake rain that come into that area and add the

a little warmer off the lake as you moved inland to orland park and naperville.re the dew points, giving you an idea of the temperatures overnight. gorgeous view in illinois. somebody wrote to us and asked what happened to the weather bug sandwich camera. nothing, it was right there. a beautiful day in sandwich in dekalb county. high pressure in our area, it draped solidly in our area. we'll keep this thing and deflect it to the south so there will be big rains along the gulf coast where there are some thunderstorm watches tonight but no rain from that system here and unexpected until the coldest air of the season turns the lake effect machine on later in the week. more on that in a moment. here's the temperatures, and the highs, showing warmer air coming up through the plain states. nowhere is there anything barbarically cold until you get way up north into the arctic, and that's where the chill that will tape later in the week is developing tonight. we'll tug a good bit of that down and bring it down to the lake, and even get a couple of ice pellets mixed in wi

look at these gusts in the city, at naperville, geneva and university park with the temperature downo 30 now. winds sustained at 20 gusting to 31 at o'hare. so we were in full-blown winter mode after having flirted with 50 degrees in parts of the area. late yesterday and last night. 32 at midway. 36 is the reading with the 17- mile-per-hour wind and 14-mile- per-hour gusting wind from the west, southwest at gary and there you see the temperatures in map form and wanted to show you the rainfall, too. we have the second biggest rains since late september in autumn that had not produced much rain. it was the sunniest autumn in 11 years around here according to -- in .8 of an inch in hebron. you folks in kenosha 73 -- .73 of an inch and sandwich had .7 of an inch of rain. windchills down in the teens through most of our western suburbs and not far above that in the city. that's the view from sandwich but going west of the storm to see what's happened in minnesota, here is upstate minnesota. walker, parts of that state have had upwards effect -- redwood falls of 10 inches of snow and. loo

we had gusts of 41 miles per hour at lowell, minooka, chicago heights and naperville up over 30 mileshour and it's in a remarkable 63-degrees with sustained winds at 16 gusting 30 at o'hare at this hour. midway at 61. at 62 at car-pointersville and there is a plot of the temperatures around the area. take a look at them because these are gone. sayonara to these after today. what's interesting is how little rain we had this autumn. these are monthly rain tallies and are getting rain out of this transition. look at the temperatures right now in montana. where readings at this moment are below zero and windchills are anywhere from 2 to 21 below zero. and you get an idea of the setup we got in the atmosphere with unseasonably warmth. we were in the warm slot. a cold front right here and you see the towering cumulus clouds. these are thunderstorms. they reach up to 38,000 feet tall and they are the basis for the tornado watch in effect. here are the storms that went through this morning. they moved into michigan. main cold front is back here and is barely cold arctic air is come into the p

decades experts at the butterball turkey talk line have been talki itaking 100,000 callr from their napervillells. let's face it, this is the most important meal of the year. generations getting together to have a great time. we love to call it generation tea for thanksgiving. >> you've been taking call for 26 years. what's the craziest question you have ever gotten? >> my most fun call was a lady who called from denver, colorado. she stored her turkey in a snow bank outside. in a snow bank. she was calling about thawing which is our number one question and it dawned on her it snowed and she had no idea where her turkey was? >> what did you recommend to her? >> the only thing i could say is maybe next time put a red flag out there. >> it sounds like you really can answer any and every question. there's no turkey question you cannot answer, correct? >> we don't think you can stump us. hopefully not. >> the most common one relates to thawing. for those asking ourselves that question, what's the proper thawing technique? >> you want to do it in a cold way either in your refrigerator or in cold wa