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good evening i'm robert jordan. live in the news room with tonight's top story.ly members identified the little girl as six year-old shall who died late this afternoon at mount sinai hospital please sage was shot in the abdomen when a group of people opened fire while she was sitting on her front porch. police say a car with several people in it drove up and started shooting at the home and the shots were meant for someone else but the child was hit instead they say that there has been an increase in gang activity in that area and the shooting may have been related to another crime scene it nearby. police are talking to two persons of interest but so far no charges have been filed in the course of covering this story a tense and sometimes hostile situation broke out between chicago police and a collection of journalists outside the hospital with a little girl was taken. two media members including dan ponce de ended up in handcuffs. the other media member was our photographer and the media were later asked to move from the hospital and they did move to a medium a

good evening and robert jordan. it's been a bloody weekend in chicago and in one case to teenage boys have been charged in the killing of the six are old a village girl yesterday a lea shally of the 3100 block of south springfield avenue some one and a pickup stopped in front of her house and opened fire. charged are a 16 year-old juvenile, she was one of 44 people shot and eight of them fatally. both suspects will appear in bond corp. tomorrow. this afternoon a mother and her one-year-old infant suffered grave wounds and a shooting in the east chatham neighborhood that happened at about 3:20 p.m. in the area of 79th in maryland, both were taken to area hospitals and are expected to recover chicago place every united a wandering through year- old boy with his parents he was wearing a white shirt and underwear and spider man sandals and was described as shaken, apparently on latched the front door of his parents' apartment and rode the elevator to the ground floor and walked outside. several family members were injur

the south side irish parade marking the return of the chicago tradition after two years off i am robert jordan. >> as a warm-up began the more somber and sober south side irish parade got under way with the tributes to fall and marine corporal carl his family and friends led the way down western ave. we're going to celebrate his life today. >> irish pride and family was back in focus after two years without a parade at all. it's all about community, family. >> in 2009 there was a reason the parade was stopped. >> there were a lot of people running around drunk and carrying on. >> organizers this year promise of family family event with zero tolerance for alcohol giving the city $40,000 ahead of time for cleanup. >> a nice day and everybody is in order and it really helps us because we kept the numbers on this year. >> these are all the people from the neighborhood and i'm glad they brought it back. it means a lot to the whole neighborhood, financially and economically, it's good for the people and the spirit of the neighborhood. this south side neighborhood welcomed back a family tradition. >>

inspire the russians to victory as the chinese proved to be the ones to catch with more here's robert jordan on. of course. farrell's not just a ski freestyle discipline but one of the most eye catching spectacles winter sports have to form with muscovites blueish to enjoy top class performances and world cup lead for the fourth consecutive time since two thousand and eight the cream of the world's cool back in the russian capital to settle old scores us early night no russians in the top twelve of the latest events we saw total domination of the freestylers from the east through the empire the chinese for adventure the super finals into their own internal affair with four new claiming a stage win and the world cup over a leader in the discipline suman fell retaining her yellow jersey with second place on the night in the meantime the men's event gave the hang crowd a local men. became the only russian to get through to the coin for. that person showing the song while the russian denise also about this impressive jump and they came second place on the day. the dear little baby. meanwhile twe

bair we welcome our viewers who are watching us around the country on wgn america and on the web robert jordan is at the university of chicago where mitt romney will be speaking >>he has saturated the airwaves with these commercials including this one rick santorum and an unfortunate choice of words >>if you want a conservative as the nominee of this party you must vote for mitt romney ... >>i'm mitt romney and i approve this message >>he began attacking the president on the military and economic policies of his administration >>this president is cutting the military and failing the economy it's not the right course for america >>both men are campaigning hard in illinois but so far it wgn television has not received spots from santorum >>why would illinois want to consider a republican who laid out the blueprints for obama health care and presided over a bad state economy and massachusetts >>when we you were governor of massachusetts that state was 47 the in job creation and there was the manufacturing job decline that was twice the national average we lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs while you

a march during a nato summit on not giving up even though the city has denied a protest permit robert jordan is live outside the hearings facility in river north that protesters had been in court all morning to seek a permit they want to be close to where the nato summit is taking place on may 20th they say they want to be seen and to be heard but the city of chicago said it could be dangerous so they do not want to grant any access for them to be close to the summit >>the city is not giving adequate permits for first amendment protected activity >>the city says it doesn't have sufficient law enforcement personnel to police these demonstrators adequately >>the city's argument about the staff shortage of personnel for security and police think the parades' and the marches it's all transparently bogus 5000 delegates from 50 statesnations are attending ... and the protesters believe they are setting themselves up for arrest >>our first amendment rights are getting impaired by this city >>there are people coming here from around the country and around the world to raise their voices against nato

robert jordan is live in the west humboldt park neighborhood with details >>gunshots used to ring andthis neighborhood with such regularity that hearing them became normal for residents here since the two major take downs in the seventh and 11th district people here say that now life here has become more normal. police say that they came and and they have been using a new tactic of making large-scale arrests of gang and drug members in targeted areas around the city once they cleanout these gangs, the big job then becomes regaining control of the area said that the gangster not retake the streets here again ... given the recent activity garry mccarthy said that they are deploying special manpower to concentrate on clearing the way hotspots of violent activity >>i am pleased about these take downs it is part of what we're doing in the 11th and seventh districts 25 percent of of shootings and homicides a cureoccur in these two districts >>it's like a ground war you have to take each spot one of the time and then reinforced with resources to prevent reactivity that's how we we help peopl

that not everyone who has been diagnosed with p t s d is dangerous or apt to go off the deep and robert jordanered and it comes over me and that was the core of the p t s d it's not just a mental malady that affects combat veterans it can hobble anyone who has been exposed to in enormous impact for a situation deeply imprinted in memory if you were a rape victim or a soldier coming home from war first you had a memory that 2 q over it's not normal memory it's about horrible things ... but also the memory system of the brain was injured he's a clinical psychiatrist at michigan state university saying that people suffering from p t s d are told to sometimes get over it and there misdiagnosed these people may have crushing pain from a spinal injury and its hidden one of my last patients ask me to teach the next generation that it hurts >>there is hope with proper treatment and new drugs and the sufferers can get better first the age-old natural remedy of time the modal case the average case gets better with time without any intervention therapy now that there's a name for this condition p t s d i

wgn's robert jordan reports on what police call "operation triple threat."are going to fight not just to reduce crime but to fight the fear of crime and the perception. the perception is that the breads are not safe and such changes a priority. to do that police release that undercover video of an open air drug operation. business so brisk that traffic jams at times block the intersection. police had to blur the faces of suspect but the blatant activity is still obvious. this drug gang operation was subsequently taken down by police and the e a agents. we are conducting gang audits in virtually every district of the city and we'll get those two officers on the street to met identify the members and factions and conflicts on the ground today. operation purple and threat targeted members of the west side gang recovering narcotics and firearms. mayor emanuel hopes that law-abiding citizens will now reclaim those streets. and once again we take that quarter. we take that area. the first line in protecting a neighborhood is a community. mccarthy announced a new s

." >> and the list of names, harry bird, robert bird, holland, johnston, jordan, long, sparkman, thermanhe powerhouses of capitol hill and they were all segregationist. >> it's interesting. he had to reach across the aisle as you mentioned to get it done. and he did so with the senate minority leader at the time. and there was a great conversation in the book where he says to dirkson, and you are worthy. if you support this bill you will get proper credit. when he signed the bill into law, he gave the pen first to him. >>> medicare was another issue that they had been pushing for since the new deal, how did he get that through? which everybody lives on now that is over the age of 65. >> one of the ways was by outflanking the american medical association. they have a meeting with him, and they know he is opposed, and they ask if he is willing to send doctors to vietnam to attend to the population. immediately lyndon calls a press conference knowing they will ask if the ama will support medicare. and they do. and they say these boys are sending doctors to vietnam, they're patriots, they're

. >> we're getting michael jordan's house. >> now, is robert griffin iii. coming for d.c.? i talked to him on monday, and we all know this. did you clean anything on whether he likes the shanahans. >> they are going to sigh the right thing. you don't know where you are agoing to end up. you can't hate on any of the coaches. you can't say anything bay digs functional organization that has been bad for like more than a decade. you're not going to say anything like that. >> he wasn't just pc with me. from what i gathered, he does enjoy the shanahan team. he mentioned kyle specifically by name. he said he grew up rooting for the denver broncos. makes us feel old. but he watched john elway win those super bowls. >> the d.c. area is the important part because what is not to like about d.c. in you are an athlete? there is a great town. you can watch off the wall all the time. >> every day. >> and down there in tarheel country, not pretty. >> love the great uniforms. >> i don't like them at all. >> heels whip up on our terps. i don't think this is an ncaa tournament team, do you? >

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jordan. it is saturday, march 24th, 2012. here's a look at stories we're following this morning. the u.s. soldier accused of killing afghans in a shooting rampage is formally charge. roberted murder and six counts of attempted murder. bales could face the death penalty. >>> in louisiana voters are heading to the polls for their republican primary. 20 delegates are up for grabs. mitt romney still holds a commanding lead of close to 300 more delegates. after today the next republican contests are april 3rd in d.c., maryland, and wisconsin. >> an attorney advising the man who shot and killed trayvon martin is speaking out today. craig sonner maintains that zimmerman shot martin in self-deference. he has advised zimmerman to stay in hiding and out of the public eye. >>> hundreds of d.c. community members are expected to gather for one of the largest rallies yet in our area in support of trayvon martin. news4's derek ward joins us from freedom plaza where the group will gather later today. good morning, derek. >> reporter: good morning. well, if you look behind me now, you'll see what's left of the occupy movement. it's a scaled down version but we mained here on freedom plaz