original plan mayor rahm emmanuel to close libraries monday and friday morning to keep open six dayseek/five days a week but union representatives would not approve the plan. illinois politicians of both sides of the isle plant whistle on tens of millions of dollars spent on new cameras to improve public safety project shield post 9-11 plan to protect cook county residents. mismanagement and malfunctioning equipment may have doomed it from the start. >> program may have been >> millions of dollars wasted in cook county high tech police cameras did not work to deliver live time video to county emergency monitors of natural disasters and more all part of $45 million project shield paid for with federal tax dollars >> appears that at least $20 million wasted may be more >> senator mark kirk and counterpart mike quigley today called on the fbi to look for possible criminal wrongdoing cook county board president toni preckwinkle inherited project shield from predecessor todd stroger thinks seemed fishy she called for an audit missing funds and equipment and more >> in the manner in which

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mayor rahm emmanuel keynote speaker interfaith breakfast preceding monday dr.luther king day event others attending a senator dick durbin and governor pat quinn. remarks mayor rahm emmanuel pointed to the lack of hope for many chicago disadvantaged young people promising examples of hope in city magnet schools like north lawndale community where dr. martin luther king based his movement. >> magnets schools in north lawndale with a 90 percent of students school based lunch program and a 90 percent are minorities more than 90 percent students meet or exceed the state standards. >> mayor rahm emmanuel also pointed cultural diversity and the city today as something dr. martin luther king dreamed up diversity he said is the best chicago has to offer. still ahead potentially life- threatening illness could delay the trial of former presidential candidate john edwards and man suspected in disappearance of natalie holloway learns his fate after pleading guilty of murdering a woman. i fall in demand leads to a riot outside an apple store in china. iphone demand. living

. >> it used to be rahm emmanuel.d decrease a lot of the inflow into the white house. bill daley sat in that office a lot of times with his door closed. he was very much a -- >> who does the president call when he wants to bark orders to joe biden. i want you out there in scranton this weekend. i've got some problems there. who does he tell that to? >> i'm not sure if it's bill daley -- >> who tells sebelius what to do? who is the enforcer? >> i think it's when you say who communicates with the rest of the government i think it's pete rouse and jack lou. lou is going to have no role. i was told this by multiple people. he's not going to have any role on the campaign which is unique for a chief of staff. >> who hours a and fires in the white house in the name of the state who says you have to go, mr. cabinet secretary. who has that kind of power? i'm thinking of jim baker, his bosses. >> i would argue, and from my feeling of it is, basically david plouff and bill daley were sort of working hand in hand. whether one was

mayor rahm emmanuel justify cutting pay it down 10 days-5 not the number of days that is important tastesummertime fixture more than 20 years in recent years to weber festival scaled- back following a fatal shooting in 2008 and city budget problems shortly after taking off last may emmanuel said there was no longer fireworks associated with the festival. three and a half million people visited in 2008 and last year only 2.6 million showed up. >> not just the amount of days what you fill the days with and the quality to the families of city of chicago and i think the days one component those changes after 20 + years tinkering or around the edges bring in a fundamental change i have confidence people will continue to enjoy it. >> restaurant owners of welcoming the move might result in more upscale event of their separate lament the loss of revenue that a shortened taste of chicago might bring. a brand new treatment to defeat brain cancer a chicago hospital on monday first in the nation to offer. and the threat of fines did not do it so creating a new way to get dog owners to register a dog

landek chicago board of elections to properly same people who ruled whether mayor rahm emmanuel couldthe ballot. started just weeks ago when montes junior clamped sen. landek offered him a deal campaign job to drop out of the race if he beat used it would face a challenge that would get him kicked off the ballot. and if what sen montes junior is is true how about this political in trick? sen. landek did not know montes junior claims he was wearing fbi wire disguised as a teacher and montes junior says the fbi agents texting had a message if everything was ok? what was said we cannot verify it we only have montes junior burchett the fbi will not comment and neither will sen. landek. as it happened montes junior take off of the bout but ruled statement of candidacy was altered bringing us to today's hearing >> two witnesses say different things board of election commissioners reviewed the case this time montes junior 1 >> papers it declared a ballot in the name of montes junior shall be printed on the official ballot general primary election >> sen. landek attorney says he will appeal >

obama especially troubled about what is written concerning our relationship with mayor rahm emmanuelident's chief of staff says the book reinforces an image of her as an angry black woman. jodi kantor told terse misinterpretations >> somebody anxious about public life and anxious for her husband to achieve all that she wants him to a lot of democrats on the outside has lost the expectations for this presidency at wants to see them fulfilled. jodi kantor says valerie jett and former press secretary robert gibbs white house special who she broke had run in with mrs. obama among her sources for the book valerie jett and former press secretary robert gibbs. coming up could we get more snow and the coming days and look at the seven day forecast at a later sports blackhawks continue to get production from the young players try to pick up points against minnesota tonight. wgn news @ 9 tonight chicago first snowstorm of the year more snow down that all season 4-8 in. likely before it is over depending on where you live hundreds of flights canceled at one point midway was shut down midday tro

mayor rahm emmanuel says protesters care about the schools and that is what he cares about city hall to make clarification tonight. weekend could bring chilly air along with it at tom skilling says could be snow as well next to tell us when it is coming. wgn news @ 9 tom skilling is here a big anniversary tomorrow? >> watching television 44 years ago tonight forecast 50 percent chance rainfall snow high temperatures in the thirties and by 5:00 tomorrow morning started selling 27 hours lady the city was crippled biggest snowstorm we ever had posting original weather forecast united states weather bureau on our website wgntv.com evolution of the forecast. before satellite and computer models no warning storm was coming into the area. amazing storm 50,000 cars stuck on every expressway in the city. nothing like that to report tonight big storms looking at the squall line in the south doppler plot of rainfall hidden in the epicenter of the area and texas dallas tx there has been a drought more rainfall in the january on record. severe weather broke out today rainfall spreading southern m

officer officer clifton lewis >> it is like a family member taken from us >> a grieving family mayor rahm emmanuel and gov. quinn hundreds of officers faced with danger of the street every day. those who do officer clifton lewis while the 6 ft. 5 in. tactical officer as a beacon and not because of his stature but his heart >> a great guy they call 10 be gentle giant. >> he would always give helped he loved helping in the community >> december 29th off-duty working security west side could be get store officer clifton lewis had been dropped three weeks earlier he wanted to help masked gunmen storm to restore about night but was never had a chance. weber took down officer clifton lewis will be found. >> make no mistake we are going to get them 13,000 chicago police officers >> important to note nobody has been charged police superintendent spoke a short time ago he said detectives in the area continue to bring people and questioning led them go as need be. no charges tonight. he was badly injured high school football injury left quadriplegic paralyzed from the neck down today 12 years later rasul "r

because important thing to do and a bit of chicago >> david axelrod first moderated featured mayor rahm emmanuelproud able to get this done a lot of other kids lives in the process >> and several national media figures upcoming presidential election >> i feel like we are inspiration out at the moment backlash going on in the country could not believe in anything >> discussion spent analyzing the gop front-runner mitt romney decently strong i go back and forth favre or underdog at one. occupy chicago protesters interrupted as the mayor started to talk. kicked out after about 2 minutes >> said david axelrod as new position perfect fit for him after two years working in the white house best contribution i can make to help inspire young people to go into the public arena and president always available to him anything he wants but a plant official role one more assignment committed to that that he gets the elected >> also possibility obama presidential library established university of chicago david axelrod says working hard to make sure the president does have to make that decision for a long time a

protesters said they want mayor rahm emmanuel promising to replace civil liberties and end threats toonstrators g-8 and nato summits held downtown through the 21st of january from a 19th. may 19th-21st. worldwide summit will be taking place mccormick place. december drop looks like gas prices going back up congress not renewing the 30 year-old federal subsidy for ethanol could be more than 04 cents a gallon is starting as early as this week exact increase is not yet known oil prices at the mall stock is fluctuating congress dropped 54¢ a gallon tariff on ethanol imports made from sugar cane could keep prices stable >> chicago officials getting ready for snow the new app to help us get our round easy and we do not have to think of snow right now jim ramsey says it will feel more like fall. [ male announcer ] cookies with smooth caramel and chocolate. ♪ ♪ hmm twix. also available in peanut butter. living with the pain of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis... could mean living with joint damage. help stop the damage before it stops you with humira. for many adults with moderate to s

mayor rahm emmanuel says protecting the people rights and their city is paramount. >> ok for people tol passionate. also responsibility to modernize this so people can express first amendment rights law enforced as appropriate. >> new city ordinance keeping cab drivers well rested. new rules passed for taxicab drivers no blogger allowed to drive more than 12 hours a day. companies also required to install technology allowing the city to check out what they have been behind the wheel also approving a permanent $1 fuel surcharge when a new fare starts flagpole amount is now $3.25. chicago scaling back on food inspections. food sellers with good records will get to do their own inspections on a trial basis. city council okayed this fort minimarts corner stores and restaurants passing inspections previous year and no food safety issues for three years 32 inspectors more time to focus on places with a greater risk of food borne illness. remember today a lot of chicago arts and education. >> she made it more civil more artistic more compassionate more courageous more heroic. and more sensiti

the white house chief of staff, rahm emmanuel, now the mayor of chicago. wille's at the u.s.age at 8:15 eastern on c-span 3. and more live political coverage this morning from south carolina. when republican presidential candidates newt gingrich and ron paul participate in a forum in the southern republican leadership conference. that's at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> c-span's road to the white house coverage shows you the events leading up to the south carolina primary. >> the obama administration came down with the policy that said in her program, she cannot teach abstinence as a preferable way of avoiding out of wedlock births. and she can't talk about marriage. she can't talk about marriage as anything other than an alternative life style that's no better or no worse than any other life style. my question is, why? >> when the president adopts the stimulus package of hundreds of billions of dollars that nobody has read, and then discovers to his great surprise two years later as he himself put it that the shovel-ready jobs weren't shovel-ready and the stimulus fails b

daily took over for rahm emmanuel who left to become mayor of chicago. >>> fox 5 monitoring metro andosal that includes a call for rate increases will be presented on thursday. stacy cohan live this morning at the dupont circle metro station with more. >> good morning. >> good morning. i have a mixed bag of fare increase to report. many did i have report things and keep in mind, this is what the general manager wants to happen at this stage, it is just a budget proposal. they would like to raise bus fares and base rail fairs by about 10 cents and then raise the fat flares for folk who use paper cards. i'll get back to more on that in a moment. it is all a request for raise flat fares for people who pay cash on buses. the good news is it would appear under this proposal that there will not be a real thing change in peak fares and those dreaded peak of the peak fares, those would go away entirely. back to the flat rates for folks who use paper cards. under this proposal a, whether you travel one stop or five stops or 10 stops, you will pay a flat rate of $6 each way during rush hour or

rahm emanuel. >> the president told the former chief of staff his wife was displeased with the handling of the healthcare battle, emmanuel was indignant. >> rahm emanuel is a very difficult person and i am sure that michelle obama was probably deeply offended by rahm emanuel's style. >> cantor also writes, mrs. obama's reported comments to carla bruni that living in the white house was hell created problems for former press secretary robert gibbs, when he learned she was upset with his efforts at damage control, he cursed the first lady to staffers. >> well, i mean, that is shocking. first of all, it is really stupid. they don't understand that she is the wife. and that she has got the power. >> the book reveals the evolution of michelle obama from the harvard educated mom who felt that everyone is waiting for a black woman to make a mistake to a formidable first lady. >> i think that she is now getting her sea legs. it is about giving you a voice with decision makers. >> the book says mrs. obama has found her voice. >> it is about getting something done. >> and is all in with helping her husband get re-elected. >> karen

help me welcome the great new mayor from chicago, rahm emmanuel.>> sorry, a personal joke, okay? we just met together last week. if i was young, i would have shared it, but that's what you get with maturity. i'm glad to be here. thank you for that introduction, tony. last week, one of the things we discussed is community colleges. we have a lot of focus on the k- 12 reforms, and one thing i'm trying to do come and we are succeeding, is to extend it to it's full day of education and a full year of education because our kids in the city of chicago had the shortest school year and the shortest school day. they do not have short futures. they have big ambitions. the schools they are in should represent their ambitions. [applause] i know the length of the day and length of the year works for the adults, but no one can tell me how it works with the kids because they were never talked about. it does not make sense. we will have it all day, though ambition for our children's future. in chicago, we have launched a new reform to our community colleges. some