travel wise keep in mind, heavier rain moving north chicago but do you see sthoef activity that will get going as the it gets towards western tennessee and mississippi. here across the northwest coastline dealing with showers. bulk of energy in the gulf will be pushing in towards british columbia. we'll see showers aside from that i want to mention through southwestern portions of new mexico for the complex fire smoke moving off to the south and west and lighter showers across the northwest and mild temperatures at least to starte conditions. at least a few areas with the heat getting into the extreme range. we'll talk about some of those numbers coming up. >>> todd, thanks so much. coming up as well -- euro fears make for a downer day on wall street, facebook fall-out hits the founder. the ultimate souvenir for that hunger games fanatic in your life. business headlines are straight ahead. plus, teased about her weight in the past. she is laughing all the way to the bank. fighting the battle of the bulge for big bucks. >>> dramatic finish to game one of the stanley cup final, celtics

and one of the things both secretaries viewed when they were in north chicago was an example where we have been able to use existing systems. and it's not the long-term solution, but it's one that is working now, and begin to exchange data much better. so we're learning from that and integrating that into this electronic health record. so it is a priority. we are appointeding the staffing, but we also want to make sure that there is no chance for errors because this is people and their information, and we cannot afford to have any errors. >> mr. gingrich, do you want to comment? >> i agree. this is a priority of this department. the secretary has made it his number one priority. he what pushed it as harder, and we do see glimmers, like the gui being there. it sounds like it's not much, but with a single sign on being able to look at a screen and get data from vista or alta and be able to do a medical evaluation. it's clear, it's clean, and it's doable. we're looking at how do we do that other places. i also think the integration of the hospital pharmacy has to be done as we talked abo

joining us now from the north side with reaction or legislative action >> pretty significant hike now goes from 98¢ tax to $1.98 per pack of cigarettes. for example local 7-eleven of chicagonorth side pay almost $11 per pack of cigarettes $10.84 per pack. 31- 27 vote governor pat quinn expected to sign that here is why helps the state come up with the revenue to stabilize the medicaid program also expected to keep 77,000 children from picking up the habit and to encourage another 59,000 adults to quit. opponents say it will drive illinois smokers across state lines to purchase the product where the tax is cheaper for example missouri border the tax $1.81 less per pack. speaking with representatives from american lung association still a victory cigarette tax it proven to get people to quit. >> cigarette tax break the effective much higher than illinois greatly reducing the number of people reducing the number of people smoking. could encourage them to smoke less >> probably not much of a difference. probably will not matter people will still smoke. >> this is not fair. you can ask the convenience store asked them half of their business is cigarettes. >> here is the govern

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expected in denver, 24 in los angeles, very hot, 33 in houston, the warmth is extending to the north affecting chicago your high on thursday is expected to be 32 degrees. all right let's go to europe, untable weather is remaining across the eastern half of the mediterranean countries as well as the black sea region. but to the north dry and warm due to this high pressure system. expected highs are looking like this, 27 degrees in london, 20 degrees in stockholm. down towards the south 22 and 25 degrees in athens. all right. i will leave you now with your extended forecast. >>> our lead story this hour. >>> european union leaders are discussing the economic turmoil. the leaders of the 27 eu nations want greece to stay in the eurozone. they are urging politicians there to follow through with sterity measures in exchange for an eu bailout. greeks will vote in parliamentary the elections again next month. party members couldn't agree on an austerity package in may and failed to form a coalition government. voters in other countries too have grown frustrated with the spending and job cuts. some eu leaders

this is trying to get north toward chicago. more showers with it. that's going to be moving east. we're going to watch this guy coming through illinois because it looks like it could be bringing us a chance for some showers and storms as we head into the late night, early morning hours tomorrow. then during the day on thursday. here's our future cast. watch, we may see a pop-up shower here or there but for the most part, a dry, sunny, warm afternoon. tonight we're going to be seeing the clouds roll in. maybe some showers by tomorrow morning. first batch of showers here. partly sunny. then another chance of showers and storms scattered about as we go through the afternoon. here we are at 2:00. then later in the afternoon near us. so, yeah, keep that umbrella handy for you on thursday. by friday, though, -- excuse me, that was wednesday. by thursday, we may get a few more clouds and temperatures holding in the 70s. but we should warm back up to the 80s, well into the 80s on friday. 80 today. some areas might be a touch warmer than that. tonight only the low 60s. scattered showers an

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thousands to the waterfront >> but it was not all fun this sunday the heat combined with a fire on chicago's north side said more than a dozen to a hospital >> >> good evening, i'm robert jordan >> and i'm jackie bange >> the national weather service said over 200 locations had high temperatures this afternoon... 99 degrees... one of 14 locations with temperatures that warms... 46 locations had 98 degrees... we have lost some of that heat at the moment... >> gaynor hall out in the heat ... >> for the second year and a rope trouble here during memorial day weekend... happening just in the last hour. witnesses tell us a large fight broke out on the beach. several cars full of police officers arrived quickly. they tried to get a crowd of young people to disburse.leave. >> of a sudden we started to see a lot of people, and a huge crowd. two people started writing and then the crowd just got bigger >> we have not heard from police whether any of rest have been madearrests have been made >> hottest day of the year >> it cannot be thiyou can not beat this >> i love it... for the rest of the summer >> eve

they wanted to build clean tech windmills north of chicago and you weren't allowed to build the power lines connecting the windmills to chicago so no windmills could be built. the high speed rail in california call could not be built because have you all sorts of local zoning rules that prevent it and i think it is really important for us to understand that there is sort of no regulation and light regulation and there is moderate and heavy and insane and self destructive and we're somewhere between insane and self destructive in many of these things on the spectrum and we don't need to ask all the pure libertarian questions about what about should we have privatize the nuclear weapons program and should we privatize what about private roads and you can sort of -- we don't need to deal with those problems. go back to the 50s. >> no. >> i would say -- i don't know that i have much to add but i would say that the world bids certainly he is less rig late than some more regulated and it is not unregulated. there is plenty of regulation and i think an increasing problem. >> there is somethi

there are scattered showers passing to the north of chicago no threat here though.er this evening ... tomorrow gorgeous sunny day sunny and warm saturday ... the clouds will be at the doorstep sunday morning by afternoon they will produce some severe weather to the west of us that may begin saturday evening ... we are looking at the lake breeze ... by saturday we will be well into the 80s some spots could flirt with 90 degree temperatures. the low temperatures sunday morning ... it will be a hear midday on sunday humid day sunday.. there is enough of a breeze to keep the lake shore beaches cool the first burst of warm air in the 10 day forecast is saturday evening followed by sunday afternoon thunderstorms ... monday looks dry tuesday looks beautiful and and the heat will be back by thursday and friday next week ... expect more rain after that. 84 tomorrow 88 saturday 86 sunday cooler at the lake. thank you for joining us today.

some stormy skies here from parts of illinois, just north of chicago. really nice there.nd high clouds in chattanooga. they were so great when i was down there doing hang gliding. and the news director sent that picture in. a nice little city. >> i love tennessee. >> like rosetta stone up in here. with all of the french going on. thank you, ladies. >>> now, to one of the strangest political showdowns in memory. it's happening in north-central texas this weekend. the incumbent, roy brooks. and he is facing a challenger, her name, roy brooks. we're calling this, and i apologize in advance for this, the battle roy-ale. and linsey davis has the details. >> reporter: in the pantheon of famous roys. there's roy orbison. roy rogers. roy jones jr. and soon to join them, roy brooks. or is it this roy brooks? even though voters in tarrant county texas won't head to the polls until later in the month, we already know the name of the winner in this race. roy brooks is sure to win because roy brooks is running against roy brooks. in this battle, the challenger, roy laverne brooks. >>

of water hospital name has not been released keep your eyes peeled a lot in the north branch of chicagoamily thinks fell off their boat yesterday radiance name is tank like fast as the board gladiator leash is normally hooked to the boat but apparently not this time. owners say good swimmer probably made it to shore. >> searched most of the night could not believe he is in deep water is in deep water i know that he made it to shore. lost somewhere all over the place with us part of our family. we will not sleep until we find him >> family offering $500 reward for help in finding him bond pomeranian weighing about 10 lbs. call police or the owner mark lewis number on your screen. some better than expected news for memorial day weekend if you were heading out this weekend price drop coming up and new evidence facebook does not just want to be on your telephone it wants to actually be to our telephone new book claims prince william having cold feet before marriage. on my journey across america i found new ways to tell people about saving money. this is bobby. say hello bobby. hello bobby.

the heat is extending all the way up towards the north. 27 in chicago. and 30 degrees in toronto. the eastern seaboard is also looking a hot day. 30 degrees in d.c. and 31 in atlanta. >>> now let's go to east asia. a seasonal rain band is stretching from southern china through the southern tip of the korean peninsula into western japan. precipitation are quite right in the eastern section, but southern cna will continue to deal with thunderstorms, gusty winds and hail in some locations. up to 100 millimeters of rain is still in the cards over the next 24 hours. lots of floods and landslides have been reports. so any additional rain is not good news. and then we have a strong low over northern vietnam producing torrential rain. out towards the east we can see this pink showing up. this is sanvu. it has been upgraded to a severe tropical storm. continues to work its way toward thogasawa island. it could produce stormy conditions on the island starting tomorrow. so we'll keep you updated on the situation. and it looks like it will move towards the northeast so no major -- no direct i

new tonight police awarding of robberies chicago north side surveillance video caught a crook salon on webster and lincoln park. five businesses hit this small cash taken from the register and leaves described male white 25-30 years old. sometimes wearing black sunglasses or a white woman long blond hair. sounded like a bomb how the owner of a calumet city house described an accident late yesterday semi truck plowed into her home driver of the truck loaded with florida oranges was killed 11 year-old daughter survived truck across center line hitting the car on their way home from bible study mother calls survival a miracle. >> amazing to see the car and note the two kids are in their ad did not get hurt at all. >> 37 year old joseph foster pronounced dead at the scene his daughter and two passengers all suffered only cuts and bruises. still ahead chicago cubs owner reaching out to chicagoans controversial had by his father's super pack and a great residents wrigleyville have their say. neil [ bell dings ] when it comes to home insurance, surprises can be a little scary. and a little co

not a whole lot of cold air to the north and west of us. chicago in the upper fit -- upper 50's. high clouds in the region right now it is part of a larger system that will move through the area tomorrow night. by monday, the core of the system overhead. that means much-needed rain for the mid--- mid-to atlantic. 5 inches below average since january 1 of this year. this is what our futurecast looks like. the showers all off through the day tomorrow. highs around 80 degrees or so. the noticeable difference will be increased humidity levels. look how the screen fills up with green. a few rumbles of thunder. not expecting anything to severe. the atmosphere remains relatively stable. some good news with the rain on the way. partly cloudy and mild conditions overnight. 55-63 degrees. tomorrow, mostly cloudy by late afternoon. look for a few showers to pop up. temperatures upper 70's to lower 80's. much cooler for the day on monday. that is due to cloud cover. temperatures will fall into the -- actually, we will be in the 70's. a nice warming trend as we move towards next weekend. a we

cooler air coming down from the north behind that front. chicago down to 19 degrees to the south about ten degrees warmer -- hotter than that. 34 degrees in houston. low 30s in oklahoma city. d.c., atlanta and miami. with a hot day in new york city, too, at 27. into europe we go. things are going to change here. it's been dry and very warm across much of western and central europe for the last week or so. we are going to see a change. a low pressure system bringing storms across the british aisles and also a front which is going to be sagging right down. and along with jet stream moving down towards the south is going to allow cooler and unsettled weather to dominate the continent. staying hot and dry, however in the southwest, although even here you'll see pop-up thunderstorms during the heat of the day. here are your temperatures then. 24 in moscow. we've also got 24 in london. but east to west, you'll see the temperatures drop by 5 to 10 degrees into the next couple of days. here's your extended forecast. >>> and that's all for now on this editi

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r north america editor is in chicago. >> 11 years of war and nearly 3000 allied troops have died, at least 12,000 afghan civilians have been killed. it does cost more than 350 billion pounds. now the message is, it is almost over. along the long road home. >> we have set a goal for afghan forces to take the lead for aff -- combat operations across the country in 2013, next year. and move toward a supporting role. this will be another step toward afghans taking over their security by 2014 when the isaf mission will end. >> the id will be difficult. many think the key to afghans peaceful security lies in pakistan, but once again, there are problems in that quarter. president obama shook the hands of a host of world leaders. he initially had to make do with hillary clinton. pakistan is a vital ally, nato's main supply lines to the troops in afghanistan run through the country. but they closed the routes when 24 pakistani troops were killed an american attack on the border. everything has to be flown in a huge cost or sent in from the north, nearly 3,000 miles overland. they also want to

will provide a link to our viewers from the web site wgn tv.com the event will be at 330 north state street in chicagoareer you are a free agent now ... >> i had 12 good years ... i didn't get a call back last year but i'm still keep in abouteping up coming up next we have sports and the tom skilling weather forecast please stay with us it's time to get going. to get your feet moving to the beat. it's time to start gellin' with dr. scholl's and feel the energy from your feet up. thanks to the energizing support and cushioning of dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles, you'll want to get up and go. time for sports: the white sox are back at 500 after a successful crosstown classic, while the cubs are considering some line- up changes. fergie jenkins on hand for the finale at wrigley field. the cubs did not take advantage of the wind blowing out... jake peavy strikes out seven in six- and-a-third shutout innings. no score until the fourth when gordon beckham hits his fourth homer. next batter is adam dunn who hits his 14th of the season. sox still up in next inning... tyler flowers hits his second home run,

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see off to the north and west, lots of thunderstorms here currently well off to the north and west out towards chicagotching down towards st. louis. it is possible we could see some severe weather out here later today. we have a warm front and then a cold front. the warm front will start to move in later tonight. up ahead of it, what is happening is an area of high pressure parked north and east of philadelphia just off the shore. the winds are out of east. we are getting the maritime layer coming in off the ocean. that will keep things relatively cool around here today. we don't have any rain in the immediate washington area. kind of a mostly cloudy afternoon with high temperatures about 70. i mentioned the warm front and cold front. the warm front will start so slide in with a few showers particularly west and the cold front will get in here tomorrow. we've got rain back in the forecast for our day on tuesday. but up until then, just kind of mostly cloudy skies with high temperatures about 70 degrees. i don't think you need an umbrella for today but tomorrow you will. that is a quick look at the for

president is busy hosting a summit on the future of warfare abroad and stacy churkin r t chicago illinois. the north and canada country witnessed a surge in its own unrest this week as protests over college fees gain momentum despite the emergency law to curb the rallies and thousands of arrests over the last three months huge numbers turned out again saturday night in quebec artie's guided schicchi on reports from the latest demonstration. it's hard to gauge exactly how many people there are on the streets of montreal but those are thousands of people closer to people banging on their parts and ten expressing anger over what they see as her crony and measures undertaken by the government to suppress people's rights to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression the government of a good because adopted a new law just last week which makes it feel legal to assemble without authorities permission and require the precise roadmap of any more chore demonstration planned . the use they came up with the race this response to that requirement and as you can see that is the map of montreal such offensive r

through the afternoon we will see additional strong storms late today and tonight, chicago, kansas city, and just north of st. louis. tomorrow we could see very strong thunderstorms in areas like new york city down to d.c. that is for friday afternoon. >>> if you're watching us on wbre tv, examine the honey bee through the lens of an electron microscope at beeyond, at everhart museum. that is the early today event. >>> to infinity and beeyond. >> here is an early look at headlines in entertainment. would you let a friend cut your hair? >> no. >> what if you were a big movie star. >> no, no. >> cameron diaz always has but told jay leno when she had the latest short cut due to a misunderstanding, she burst into tears. she later comforted her friend, assuring her she wouldn't kill her. >>> on line comedy this featuring ashton kutcher portraying a bollywood producer looking for love through a fictitious dating site have been pulled after viewers called the racist. >>> egged on by the kiss cam, david beckham, who turned 37 yesterday, gave victoria a little smooch. >>> on the eve of the agingers opening, sca

focus off the north and west towards chicago and st.nt that will get in here later this afternoon, and likely will kick off a round of showers and thunderstorms here during the late afternoon, early evening hours before we get quieter and cooler weather for the weekend. be ready for it. before that, temperatures will be warm. mid-80s. humid as well. humidity for your friday. we'll take a look at the weekend forecast in just a minute. >> a friend of mine floated a joke, he say may the 4th be with you. isn't that clever? >> yeah. >> what? >> may the 4th be with you. today is may 4th. >> that's clever. let's go to julie. >> it worked on the kids. may the 4th be with you. >> you know what, it's that comedian thing. it's hard to make him laugh. >> and i guess the joke has to be a little funnier. >> it's okay. [ laughter ] on the roads this morning we've had our hands full. we've had problems here. ramp from the outer loop of the beltway to exit to kenilworth avenue, the ramp has been opened. but we have extensive backups traveling in that di

busy hosting the summit and the future of warfare abroad and stakes in churkin are to chicago illinois. to the north in canada a new emergency law aiming to curb student protests against jewish and fee has backfired thousands in montreal filled the streets every day this week in defiance of the measure despite a police crackdown authorities now say they're planning to return to the negotiating table on monday. she can was at the latest demonstration. it's hard to gauge exactly how many people there are on the streets of montreal but those are thousands of people closer watch people banging on their pots and pans expressing anger over what they see as her crony and measures undertaken by the government to suppress people's right to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression the government of a good because adopted a new law just last week which makes it illegal to assemble without authorities permission and requires the precise roadmap of any more chore demonstration planned . the use of they came up with the risk this response to that requirement and as you can see that is the map of montreal suc

they are being released here at the north area headquarters of chicago police department. they're being greeted by fellow protesters who spent the night here outside in solidarity for their colleagues inside. and as they come out, they're talking to us about their experiences. >> aside from the officer who arrested me who treated me with absolute disregard and did not treat me with any sort of dignity or respect, all the other officers were kind and warm and friendly. >> reporter: almost all those arrests came at the end of a march, about 2,000 people marched from grant park in downtown chicago to the mccormick place, the convention center where the nato summit is being held. at the end of the event, there was a rally at that end point. afterward, most of the 2,000 marchers left peacefully. a hard-core group of about a couple hundred stayed on. the police tried to clear it. some trying to press their way toward mccormick place. with the clashes of police, baton-swinging and stic stick-swinging. the officers responded only when they were assaulted. four officers were injure

wednesday the war to build and to the west temperatures 90 degrees north dakota on thursday still in the @@'70s just waiting to get into chicagomorrow night and wednesday quickly retreat to the north. southern wind by thursday morning at the back porch step later in the day. thursday evening colors represent wind red band from texas and north. polls gulf moisture in north mid-upper 62 points and to buy and this time sunday looking at their getting some of thunderstorms to develop pretty happy with producers later sunday into monday. depiction of cool off public wednesday. on wednesday. mid '80s forecast this weekend. forecast of rainfall you can start to see that forecast next week conservative numbers. 85 degrees tomorrow storms coming in much of the day partly sunny cooler and mostly sunny with parties went on wednesday. back to 77 degrees. saturday could see 87 degrees. what do you think of that? pretty nice? >> >> first debug from pennsylvania man in california close call videos went a viral how dangerous is to talk and text. text and what is what i meant a town in new jersey taking things one step further elimination of t

chicago area and eight months. had it felt that way. couple waves of rainfall north drive look at the rainfall coming down almost looks like a wall cloud. wind blowing off shore next wave of rainfall something comes into the area. lightning flashing and goes by i believe another one after it. loaded with moisture look at the dark skies north side of the city appears to be at the epicenter of tonight's big storm others elsewhere in the state watching wgn america and into eastern iowa 86 degrees high temperature today at st. louis humid air came up on schedule. a lot with the humidity still 72 degrees tonight in chicago closer look at the warm temperatures. this area will stay warm back to work cool front in tomorrow to cool things off dramatically read things have come down up north of of the lake cooling to their south wind 10 degrees at 63 percent humidity with a dew point at 66 degrees and gulf coast level of two points. one cluster of storms blew up this afternoon and this was the state of affairs before the storm came on the jet stream right here in that area. sa

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we have a cool air over chicago tonight... the warm air northgger thunderstorms...a mist out there today at times. take a look at this warm air making its way...we could hit 70's tomorrow... at the moment, in the 50's. temperatures tonight will hold in that area. windspeeds between 5 and 15 mph ...that warm air will be here tomorrow... by tuesday more cold air out of canada... no long period of warm temps. these storms went across wisconsin today. big thunderstorms in texas. hail reports. no tornados. orange areas suggest severe thunderstorms... tomorrow night... big thunderstorms. monday messy shower. tonight clouds mostly clear skies. sunday overcast, periods of rain some thunder. sunday night... rain and occasional thunderstorms. monday cloudy, messy looking day. tuesday on... not great or terrible either... >> he does then the town doctor for one it illinois community since 1955. you will not believe what he charges for a visit. >> sure you didn't just take the elevator but what is the fun in that? >> the bulls may have lost more than just a

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report on another outbreak of mass protests engulfing the north american continent thousands of activists vented their anger at nato summit in chicago saying they want their taxes spent at home not costly rules. and in germany rising petrol prices put the breaks on the public spectacle make optimism and force motorists to gear up for the worst those details in just a few. it's time for britain to come up with a plan b. this new i.m.f. report says if the country is to survive the turbulence building in the euro zone the annual summary on the state of the u.k.'s finances also warns that unless britain eases off on austerity it could make the impact of future shocks even worse meanwhile in spain everything from elementary schools to universities have all shut down as teachers and students strike together protesting against severe cuts they say could deprive thousands of the chance of a higher education james at medway of the new economics foundation think tank says austerity is only deepening the crisis. if you drive weak economy europe is collection of weak economies if you drive a weak economy into greater and greater austerity you d