. >> i said is orion there? found his balloon in my yard. >> i never saw a child so happy. >> orion says this won't be the last time he tries to send a note via balloon. he says he can't wait to see who gets his next letter. my poor kids, it's in the tree. it will be there for five years. >> do the feds shows up at orion's house now? >> the reality show? >> maybe so. >> a look at the roadways. looking over here at the 580/680 interchange. that's a major focus on the morning commute. an accident just reported there at the interchange, westbound 580. mostly off the roadway. no major injuries, but a distraction. speeds quickly dipping down below 50 miles per hour, about 45 approaching that interchange. slowing just around hacienda. coming out of the altamont pass, 15 minutes for that slower drive coming out of the altamont pass. get out of there if you are heading through livermore. right here, we don't get a break. that earlier speed limit we showed you on the speed sensors, that's dipped down over the last 20 min

the constellation orion in full view overhead. see the stars. >>> yeah, and the constellation was out of the ship, too.

also grandpa son was injured in his stomach investigators orion's to senior off the assassination and located an open window in the building right next to the attack and then the leader found a sniper's rifle left in the apartment where that where that window was opened and it's believed that the assassination attempt was conducted using that sniper's rifle both grandpa carson and his bodyguard were rushed to hospital and authorities announced that ground office on that died as a result of this attack but later be denied this information explaining that this way they wanted to prevent a second assassination attempt so at the moment brown and his bodyguard are at the all most of those hospitals recovering from undergoing surgery overnight and heavily guarded by offloading now one can suppose that a person like this has a lot of enemies but does the investigation at this point have any specific clue as to the reasons behind the specific motivation behind this latest attempt on his life. well first of all i saw a little seance son is thought to be a major major criminal order eight feet

one part is the orion which is program, most's of that will go on. it is the area's one -- aries one that is the issue. one primary mission was to support the international space station. the second was to -- to be part of the space exploration program 15 years from now. the third was to provide technology to build a heavy lifter version of the aries. it slipped five years. by the time it is developed, on the planet was being developed, the international space station is back in the ocean. if you add five years to the life of the international space station, by the time the aries gets developed, it will have two years to support the international space station and you will have a 15-year hiatus. it will be there the most expensive way in the world to put people on earth into orbit or after that, it will be useful again for the exploration program, but there is this long downtime. the program made sense when it started. it is not a bad program today. the issue is not can we do it, but should we do it? at least in the form it was laid out. >> you do no

constellation orion. it's certainly feeling chilly in the mountains. many locations in the 40s.rn maryland and west virginia. we're generally in the 50s. washington, mid-60s. low 60s near the bay. highs with lots of sun today. much of the region near 80 degrees. it will be cooler in the mountains. tonight a mostly clear evening. sun tomorrow morning but clouding up with highs in the low to mid-80s. thursday evening we might have a passing shower late in the evening or prawn. cloudy friday morning, in the 60s. sun back in the afternoon. low 80s. and looks like a nice weekend coming up. saturday should be mostly sunny. lows in the 50s. afternoon highsn the low 80s. a look at sunday and into next week with the extended outlook. that will be in ten minutes at 5:21. let's chec traffic now for this wednesday morning. how is it looking, jerry? >> tom, a possible fly in the ointment. florida avenue, word of a tractor trailer broken down in the roadway. looks like it's just past the camera there. it's reported to be in the right lane. heads-up for that as you travel toward northweson new

he was responsible for the hires of ray rayner, orion samuelson, leonard and many others including myself. who propelled wgn into unprecedented ratings in chicago. qal is credited with leading wgn radio to national prominence and developing wgn tv into the model for modern independent television. mr.qal died at a north suburban nursing home over the weekend. he is survived by his wife, children and many grandchildren. he was 91 years old. >>> a chicago mayoral candidate is calling for two river boat casinos here in chicago and even more casinos throughout the state. wgn's julian crews has details. >> reporter: good afternoon. rahm emanuel and congressman luis gutierrez are grabbing the lion share ever the headlines when it comes to chicago's mayor's race but give state senator ricky henden credit. the first candidate to come forward with a concrete proposal to deal with the city's deficit. >> i'm putting in and preparing legislation to create two river boat casinos for the city of chicago. >> reporter: state senator ricky henden says a river boat at or near migs field will generate huge a

>> erica, seven years ago the davis family of lake orion, michigan, had a dog named jake.terday jake finally was reunited with the davises after he was located hundreds of miles away in kentucky in an animal shelter. jake joins us now exclusively, along with brad davis and his daughters izabella and lola. good morning, everybody. >> good morning. how are you doing? >> good, we're good. seven years ago, jake is just a little puppy. had you him in the backyard, right? >> yes. the day after thanksgiving. my wife went out to have christmas pictures taken for the girls. came back 45 minutes later and he was gone. >> wow. look at jake now. you're barely reunited 24 hours. he looks plenty at home. so, you come home. jake is missing. and i'm sure everybody was crushed, the reaction everybody must have been devastated. >> yeah, yeah. it was pretty hard on izabella, she was 3 at the time and lola was only 1. she doesn't remember much about the day but bella remembers it plain as day. we put a good reward out for him and didn't see nothing, so -- >> so, you didn't -- you thought the

regarding our plans for orion, the president has informed me of worked that focuses efforts on a morefficient design to provide emergency escape from the space station and advanced spacecraft to be used in future missions. this approach also will preserve a number of critical jobs needed for our future deep space programs. we have put together a formulation team, including headquarters and center personnel to provide an approach that meets these requirements. this team will report to me within three weeks on how to meet these requirements. the doctor has talked to you about the work force initiatives, so i will not cover that, but i will say that the task force will explore future work force and economic development activities that can be undertaken for aerospace communities and others and we hold that meeting this morning. nasa expects to submit a budget request to congress in the near future. that will identify requirements for the zero ryan crew capsule as well as funding requirements. finally, regarding further research technology innovations, this represents a unique capability w

i also disagree with the administration of the cancellation of the orion project which would have affected us. i voted to cap discretionary spending over and over again. i put in a bill called the deficit reduction act of 2009 that most people in my party did not like. there are numerous examples. if we would have more time, i would give them. [applause] >> mr. buck. >> i attract independent voters the same way i attracted republican voters and the way i hope to attract democrat voters and that is by running a grass- roots campaign aide meeting with everyone in the coffee shops, truck stops, and all across the state. i will meet with them one-on-one and listen to their concerns. even if i do have a democratic tracker that will photograph me in a way that will be deceitful. how do i disagree with my party? i can tell you right now that i have said 500 or 600 times that republicans are every bit as much to blame for the mess we are in as democrats. [applause] while the republicans brought some responsibility to the clinton years, they acted irresponsibly in the bush years. we had deficit spe