rahm emmanuel, former white house chief of staff, former congressman. >> rahm emmanuel campaigned on bringing crime down and moved quickly to bring on a new superintendent of police gary mccarthy. meanwhile, the city many were calling the murder capital of the country with its new high profile mayor had attracted the attention of the conservative media. >> the numbers do not favor rahm emmanuel. the number of homicides in chicago, the same time this year to last year, up 39%. >> it doesn't seem like mayor emmanuel has a grasp of the situation. >> rahm emmanuel who's supposed to be this star, obama's go-to guy, it's gotten worse under his leadership. >> a year and a half into his tenure, leading a city with a crime problem over 50 years in the making, rahm emmanuel was now responsible for chicago, and all the troubles that had come to nest. when the city counted the bodies in 2012, the number was staggering, over 500 homicides. the new year came and things got even worse. january 2013 ended with a high profile death of a 15-year-old honor student. >> family and friends are mourning th

i think mayor rahm emmanuel is taking a look at this. but at the same time i think he had concern about what big business is going to think about this move. he's walking a fine light, that's partially why he has this task force both to gather information but also to buy time and get a better feel of what's happening nationally as well as what the rest of the state is thinking. there is a referendum in november to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour. it's a non-minding referendum. there is no power behind it, but it will give a gauge of what the actual thinking is behind the state. do we want to hire minimum wage or not. >> rex, a columnist with the chicago tribune. thank you for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> ever since target suffered a massive data breach last christmas involving millions of credit cards, banks have been racing. sam's club announced they will feature chip technology. target has said it plans to switch over to the new technology by 2015. walmart, which owns sam's club is slated to roll out it's own payment chi

rahm emmanuel lived through the clinton years. if anyone knew what the right wing is capable of, it's rahm emmanuel and the clintons. i think he fundamentally did not prepare pop for what he was going to face. you will never break this favor. this has been going on since bill clinton went into office. all of the things that the right wing threw at him. i think president obama very naively thought -- it's the best spirit of hopefulness, but thought he could come in and work with these people. the right wing of this country wants to destroy everything that we think is great about this country. they are never going to end. the fever will never be broken and the best thing president obama could do to seal his legacy is to build out the intellectual infrastructure of the left. the standing infrastructure. the heritage foundation has a $77 million annual budget. the center for american progress, the stcenter left thi tank. they changed the face of the country. >> in terms of a long-term impact, you are thinking beyond presidential power

president obama and other high profile democrats across the country, whether it's corey booker, rahm emmanuel, the mayor in chicago, all these people are all considered critics, sometimes harsh critics of tea teachers' unions. it will be interesting to see what happens in the lex presidential election. hillary clinton when she ran in 2007-2008, she got both of those major teachers unions endorsements because she's less critical of teacher's unions. whether she makes more nice with the unions than president obama has. >> jerry brown has depicted a friend of the unions. california is an union friendly state traditionally as well. is this going to stand? does this have a shot on appeal? >> i--yes, i'm not an expert on california politics. i would be interested in the thoughts of the other two guests. jerry brown has been more sympathetic to the unions. this is a blow to the unions on friendly turf. >> who is backing your side? i know you were working on behalf of students plaintiffs. i doubt they had a cookie sail or a bake sail at one of their classrooms to pay their fees. who made sure whose c

mayor rahm emmanuel says the sign is tasteless.ful of building display companies name trump's is one of the biggest nearly half a football field wide and two stories tall. the real stat mogil says his sign is popular and will become iconic. >> chicago has other problems that they should be worried about. not a sign. it's a very high-quality, very beautiful sign that i think enhances the building greatly. >> the sign is architecturally not tasteful. distasteful i would say, and it scars very very beautiful building. >> the march is looking for options to get trump to take that sign down or simply change it. >>> on the cbs-3 health watch night, pain relief not with medication but with bee stings. three on your side health reporter stephanie stahl has more on an up usual treatment and how it could be expanding. >> we know about bees making honey and pollinating plants and there's something else. >> come on. sting me. go for it. >> this is bee sting therapy to help relieve pain. >> the big thing in my life was stay it way from those be

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rahm emmanuel calls it tasteless and exploring ways to have it strip from the sky line. >> i think then is architecturally not tasteful, or distasteful i would say and scars a very beautiful building. >> reporter: 20-foot letters had to be installed in pieces. these are part of the t in trump. trump got full approval to put his name on the skies scraper. >> i think that chicago has other problems that they should be worried about, not a sign. >> the trump towers. >> in the city known for architecture point out the the tower second tallest building in chicago and now its the new sign. adriana diaz for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> still ahead on "eyewitness news" a pair of sequel arrive in theater this week. >>> i'm angie owe dell, channing tatem and seth rogan are back in >>> summer season is in full swing, nancy odell takes us behind the scenes of two new move is in theaters. >> this weekend sequel verse sequel taking fly how to train your dragon and 22 jump street taking on college. >> what made you improvise. >> we don't know what we are doing. >> that is not the problem for these tw