good evening, everyone, i'm robert jordan. >> and i'm jackie bang. jade miller is in the newsroom with the story. >> reporter: the first year, one of her parents has been able to muster up the courage to walk through the intersection where the four- year-old was killed. a walk that draws hundreds each year to this lincoln park neighborhood, but triggers countless memory, good ones and bad. >> as of today, it has been four years, four months and four days since my sweet little girl was taken from us. >> >> reporter: maya would have been eight today, but her life was cut short by a hit-and-run driver. >> it is hard for me to wrap my mind around how slowly and quickly time has passed. >> reporter: today, hundreds took to the intersection where maya was run over after leaving the zoo with her mother and brother. >> the intersection will always carry memories for us of how maya was killed, we want you to remember as you walk how our little granddaughter lived. loud and silly, loving and well loved. >> reporter: today's walk helped to raise money for a par

. >> and i'm robert jordan. the young people who are staging a sit-in outside republican headquarters continue to do so. coming up, i will tell you what they hope to achieve. >>> and not only good at preventing a seasonal virus, but new research says flu shots may also ward off heart attacks. >>> nine nato troops have been killed in helicopter crash in afghanistan. >> the taliban says it shot down the chopper but nato says there is no reports of hostile fire in the area. the helicopter when down in the southern afghanistan. nationalities of the victims have not been released but senior military official says a large number of american service men are among the dead. this year is the deadliest for international forces since the war began in 2001. >>> one of the two women shot monday at fort bliss texas has died and the fbi says the gunman was a retired army sergeant. the fbi identified the gunman as 63-year-old steven crop of el paso. he opened fire in a convenience store on the base shooting two women who worked

good evening, everyone, i'm robert jordan. >> and i'm jackie bange. wgnaerin maenades joins us with more. >> reporter: today, we saw a lot of customers. scoping out the deals in advance. >> home depot is matching it with another 15% off. >> the rebound program translating into big business. susan mckenzie said the last rebate program nearly doubled their daily sales in hours. >> i expected it to be big. i did not expect it to be that big. >> reporter: the federal program encouraging people to go green is widely subsaysful. >> this is going to help save energy for our state and our country and reduce emissions and help our environment. it's also going to create jobs. >> reporter: the state has $3 million in rebates to dole out. when the money is gone, the deal is over. this last spring, the funds were gone in four hours. >> friday morning at 8:00 am is when it -- >> reporter: rosy and her husband say this time, they are shopping in advance. >> we come in there often, now that he said 30% off. we'll be in there. >> reporter: friday's rebate program star

i'm robert jordan. >> dan has tonight's top story. >> this cell phone video shows chaotic scene afterp.m. according to police news affairs, a man with a gun was on the train and when the officer approached the suspect, he began fighting with them and they said he pointed a gun at the officers but a witness we spoke with said it didn't happen that way and the suspect was armed but that he had dropped his gun and surrendered before the police open fired. the witness did not want to be identified. >> the young man was on the train, no doubt he had the gun. when the police got there, he threw the gun, and when he came to the door way trying to get away, the female officer fired shot. >> the suspect is 19-year-old george lash. he was pronounced dead at the hospital at 2:30. the witness that took the video after the shooting saw everything from start to finish and was clear the suspect was surrendering. >> he was in a mode of giving up and like he's done, he's not running. >> police superintendent defended the officer's decision o open fire. >> unfortunately it led to a life being lost, but

wgn's robert jordan is live in evanston with the top story today. >> reporter: thank you. this all began with an explosion at about 3:56 this morning in evanston. the police descended on the park here near the nichols school. they were unable to pinpoint the location of that explosion. but a person who was in the area was out walking his dog. he says he is not usually up that early in the morning. but the dog woke him and that's with a caused him to get up and take him out at that time. >> my dog woke me up. maybe a little before 4:00 this morning. loud boom. shook the windows and everything. >> reporter: the explosion jarred the sleeping neighborhood around 4:00 in the morning. almost an hour later dale wyatt was walking his dog buddha in the park near nichols school. then the dog began to pull at his leash. >> and i thought he was chasing a rabbit because he was determined and we got about 15 feet away and i could smell but like something. and i got closer and honestly i thought it was a mannequin. i didn't think it was real. i thought someone was playing a sick prank. g

. >> wgn's robert jordan has a story from south suburban markham. >> this area near 160 and dixie highway in markham has been a huge dump and junk yard for as long as anyone around here can remember. then last easter a huge fire broke out burning the tires and the trucks and trailers that were in here sending thick black smoke up into the area causing state officials to finally take notice. >> which occurred as a result of some environmental mishaps over a number of years in our community. >> yairl photos show just how large the markham dump was. covering several acres in the far south suburbs. people living in the area all of their lives remember seeing this location which was then an unincorporated cook county used as an unauthorized dump. >> sites such as this one can pose multipd of physical, chemical biological and safety hazards that can potentially contaminate ground water and can cause injuries to neighborhood children and as we have seen at this site can cause massive fires releasing toxic chemicals into the air. >> now, officials are launching a statewide open dumping prevention

wgn's robert jordan is live in st.rls now with the story. >>> you know, officials in dupage county are effective in fighting gangs using something called the illinois strategic terrorism omni bus prevention act to sue gang members saying they terrorize communities with repeat acts of violence. now officials here in kane county want to do the same thing using the same law so they already begun knocking on the doors of gang members serving them with papers saying they are being sued. they have identified these guys and are telling them to show up in court. they say they have already collected a wall full of photos over bad guys. >> gang crime and gangs are scourge on every community. they have a negative impact on every neighborhood. >> authorities in kane county specifically elgin, illinois, are using the courts to fight street gangs. the state's attorney has begun serving 166 identified street gang members of the latin kings warning them that they can no longer associate with each other. and hopefully it is thought kee

and robert jordan is live where the jacksons were supposed to take part in a rally for jobs. >> reporter: right now i'm on the southeast side right near the lake. hind me is that large 30-acre plot which is where the u.s. steel plant used to stand. they are talking about making it a mutual use facility bringing in the jobs. and the union brought their truck through, because, they had union members here staging a rally talking about backing candidates who will put people to work. >> up with of those to speak was jesse jackson, jr. and he is being mentioned as a potential candidate to run for mayor of chicago to replace richard daley. but he was a no show leaving his wife to deal with the reporter's questions concern hog in the family is planning on running for mayor. the congressman or she? >> i have considered it, i'm less inclimbed to to it. i believe whoever does it has to understand the nature of the city's finances and has to have a reach that's tkphroeubl enough to help companies emerge into the markets. and one with that qualification to steer in the future. my husband has that abs

robert jordan, wgn news. >>> on the prowl near a downtown play ground. a wiley coyote found and residents are worried about their safety. >>> genetically altered salmon, should it be sold to consumers. >>> tom skilling tells us we@ ó as a mom i believe books brighten a child's future. so join the sunnyd book spree. when your child's class collects 20 labels... they get 20 free books! go to sunnyd.com and help us make classrooms sunnier. dr. scholl's back pain relief orthotics with shockguard technology give you immediate relief that lasts all day long. dr. scholl's. visit our facebook page to save $3. >> you're watching chicago's very own wgn news at 9:00. >>> a coyote casually walking around a play ground downtown. he's not shot. he shot these shots from the river north area. concerned moms watching over their kids called animal care and control. coyotes in the city aren't new but they used to be skiddish around people. neighbors are worried about small children as well as their pets. >> it's a coyote, and we were scared. >> somebody had walked around

. >> good afternoon, i'm robert jordan in for steve sanders. >> i'm allison payne. we welcome our views -- viewers who are waving us around the country on wgn america. muriel clair is live with our top story. >> 60-year-old ofelia garcia and 37-year-old maria garcia in this case both whom are in custody walked into the courtroom this morning calmly looking out at the crowd of spectators to connect with family and friends who may be among them. and garcia immediately connected with someone and began smiling and waiving and blowing kisses before she finally took her seat at the defense table. garcia and her co-defendant, 37- year-old maria garcia overra are charged with planning an acid attack on espiranza medina and hiring three teenagers to carry it out. it happened in july of 2008. victim espiranza medina, a social worker was on her way to work at 6:00 a.m. when the three teenagers confronted her and threw battery acid in her face. craig enderson, the assistant states attorney said during closing arguments he asked how did three teenagers in cicero end up in logan

wgn's robert jordan is here with more. >> right. you know, so many people are planning to run for mayor of chicago that their names could fill a small town phone book. some of them don't stand a chance and will fall by the wayside. but others like injury -- gary chico, chairman of the city colleges of chicago could go all the way. >> i'm running for mayor. i'm running for mayor. >> instead of an elaborate kick off party to make his mayoral intentions known, gary chico, a quiet political insider has decided to join the herd of mayoral hopefuls wanting to replace mayor richard daley. chico is putting together all of the elements to run an effective campaign. >> we put together already our campaign apparatus. we are busily collecting petitions. i might add there is a very excited response to our campaign. we are raising money at a very, very healthy rate. >> chico says he has spent years in city hall working with mayor daley which gives him a head start on the other candidates. he says he knows where to trim the fat and retain the lean

many people you write about, hamilton jordan, jody powell, ted kennedy, ronald reagan, jerry ford, anwar sadat, itzhak rabin, roberty: does that give you pause? >> the book was dedicated to jody powell, like my own son, who helped me be and become president so it was a great deal of emotion that i dedicated this book to them, but, yes, times change and people go on, and i think -- one thing i would like to remind the readers of this book, although it's very controversial and critical comments in there by me and them, the book was written 30 years ago, and times have changed, and i changed my opinion about a lot of people. >> larry: read it with that. >> it's an absolutely frank, honest, undisturbed, unmodified, i didn't change a single sentence meaning in the book about what it means to be president and to point out 30 or 40 things in the book, really, that i had to address that were very serious to me that obama is having to address today. >> larry: frank sinatra told me the sad thing about aging is your friends are gone. >> that's exactly right, yeah. that's true. >> larry: is it the same with you? >> it's sad, o