our top story:: a 12 year-old boy has confessed to setting a series of fires in plainfield the worst of them nearly killed a woman and her son good afternoon i am steve sanders. and i'm dina bair we welcome our viewers who are watching us around the country on wgn america and on the internet >>julian crews as the top story >>he is being held under observation and there's a sense of relief in plainfield knowing they have caught this 12 year- old foster child to according to detectives was caught in the act yesterday morning and confessed ... demo you have to remember we're dealing with a 12 year-old boy a juvenile, i would imagine that he does not understand the full scope of what he has done >>joliet police may have prevented another fire ... as they caught the youngster breaking into a car in the same neighborhood where other arson fires destroyed multiple cars causing severe damage to a town house on hazelwood drive in plainfield ... it unnerved the community fearing that they had a serial arsonist and that he would strike again ... it cost nearly a quarter of a million dollars in

other civil arsonist in plainfield terror by people work for folks living there police say 12 year-old boy confessed to starting a train of fires one that nearly killed a mother and her child in custody observation justice center for juvenile car and garage fires estimated $200,000 damage barely escaped with lives after fire spread and homes detectives caught the boy tried to break into a car and the general area that once the juvenile was taken into custody provided confession arson burglaries and damage to property >> police say the boy wanted to see how big the fires would get did express remorse over the near death coming up to develop its investigation into the fatal shooting spree of high school. chelan 911 tapes from the shooting has been released president obama although bailout taking a swipe at potential opponent and germany chancellor not likely to tipououou're like my patients you want to hear you've done a good job. that's why i recommend a rinse like crest pro-health multi-protection. it helps you get a better dental check-up. so be ready for your next dental check-up. tr

down at midway at plainfield o'hare has had 1.5 in. of snow. shifting to the lake is no plume hammering portions of a northwest indiana at this hour on the computer model forecast by 3:00 in the morning still pounding northwest indiana only 20 mi. across but it is coming down in the middle of that. patrolling conditions that bring out the best in people >> you are a good man >> on the expressways and tollways white knuckle driving conditions in spots blowing snow reducing visibility making travel hazardous to start the weekend but the crowds and the salt trucks in the ploughs and salt trucks out early motorist speeding like we have had it pretty easy. >> it is cold i do not like it but we have been very lucky this year i can deal with it. >> to be out in this stuff for any length of time you might have to be just a little bit crazy. >> it is pretty cold but i can handle it >> not a huge problem for a lady liberty from time to time a tough time standing up in this and tom skilling pointing out the high wind and totals expected to intensify from

you get that for being local or non local, and kind of lulling the plainfield, because if not, we will of a big discussion on whether it would have more b- ness, which is what we have said. we have gotten into a situation where we are not evaluating apples and apples here. so i think there should be a number for being local and a number for being a benefit, and that should apply equally, and we should consider that as a possibility as a theoretical underpinning for this, because salma -- somehow, it has been that the jon weight should be different. to me. commissioner: i think some of what we are talking about, even with the 8% for the advantage, the out-of-town companies still have a major advantage financially in general, because when they are operating outside of the city, they can put a much lower bid in than the people in the city, so i am kind of hesitant. frankly, i am kind of hesitant to give the out of town any benefit. commissioner dwight: i think suggesting that it would have a higher percentage for its status versus a local company getting a smaller boost for the status, if

the flames broke out around 3:00 in the morning in the home in south plainfield. a grand mom and four children did not make it out. theyinvestigators are still trying to determine what caused this deadly fire. >>> sentencing handed down for a michigan man who let his 9- year-old daughter drive because he was drunk. shawn weimer was arrested. surveillance video shows him bragging about his daughter's driving skills. he was sentenced to two years behind jail. >>> where were you six months ago today? the damage still left behind by the east coast earthquake. >>> and also ahead, wait until you see what happened behind this reporter's shocking view. >>> you may think that you're donating them to charity, but where do the books really go once you drop them in the blue bins? we'll have the answers coming up. it's time to get going. to have the energy to turn a "to do" list into a memory. to put more giddy-up in our get-along. to keep stepping up even in overtime. it's time to start gellin' with dr. scholl's... ... and mix a little more hop in our hip hop. thanks to the e

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the government is there to create a plainfield -- playing field for businesses to thrive in a way that is a and creates opportunity for different categories of energy. i believe the government has gotten in the way in a lot of resource development. clearly, with offshore in deep water drilling. -- and a deepwater drilling. i have been an advocate of opening up those. fought to open up the alaska wildlife refuge. her of if we're going to keep a current will flow coming in the years ahead, we have to have more will follow in the pipeline. -- will flow in the pipeline. the oil reserves are depleting. we are talking about a keystone pipeline, we may lose the alaska pipeline. there will be insufficient flows to keep the pipeline going. just to keep existing, we need resources in place, we need to look for other opportunities. i am not an oil man from texas going out to sell and more to the public. i will tell the truth on everything. tell the truth about what is. how it can be safely explored and grilled. how that can be critical -- how that is critical to us. the same thing -- the same thi

accidents include plainfield avenue and frank fort, north kerry and west mulberry and also there.ad. this traffic report is brought to you by bill's carpet hardwood and laminate, too. >> we have breaking news to pass along, wjz has just learned a man has died after a fire ripped through an apartment building overnight. four others are being treated for smoke inhalation. it appears to have started when someone left a pot of food cooking on a stove. the roads are back open this morning after an overturned tractor-trailer spills ink on i- 95. andrea fujii has more. >> reporter: don the driver who may have caused the whole mess was taken into police custody, the truck was carrying ink when it overturned. it leaked on to both roads and they were shut down as hazmat crews cleaned up the mess. the driver of the truck was not hurt but taken into custody on suspicion of drunk driving. why he driver crashed is still under investigation. all roads re-opened at 5:00 a.m. back to you. >> sentencing today for the man who authorized election night robo calls in 2010. paul shrick faces up to12 ye