>> a war has been going on in southern illinois for a long time, wage by the folks out of chicago. i think that a lot of the folks in this room have seen what has happened. i realize the impact that their policies are having. it is the youth center, the rehabilitation center, providing very important functions in our society, with important, well paying, quality jobs for hundreds of the people in southern illinois. i have been fighting these folks for a while now. i wish the bill would have had the foresight and i had and instead of donating money to pat quinn and rod blagoevich, i wish he would have worked against them. the prison shutting down is catastrophic. in terms of federal ideas, that is something that needs to be

they brought together four southern illinois. they did not say anything nasty about each other. they made sure there were represented illinois. i am in this race to make sure i am representing the coal miners, the manufacturing facilities, a draft petition companies, the doctors, nurses, and teachers that cannot get work. those that have to move out of the area because they cannot find jobs. things are not getting better, bill. things are getting worse. we need leaders who will admit it and fix it. [applause] >> i am sorry, paul, my apologies. -- paula, my apologies. >> mitt romney, a lot of people made fun of him. when they asked him about the middle-class, he said anyone making $250,000 a year. and to the rest of us to make $20,000, $30,000 a year, it would seem ridiculous, but if you realize how rich the top 1% are, that doesn't seem so weird. for instance, the average hedge fund manager, the top-10 hedge fund managers in 2010, made $72,000 an hour. $72,000 an hour. minimum wage is $8.25 an hour. you can see that $50,000 is not in the middle. obviously, we are not going to bri

the storm system itself, a slow mover with a reach all the way west into southern illinois. a couple of frontal boundaries wrapping around that area of low pressure. as we go forward this is a slow weather pattern that will keep the risk for showers. we're not warm sector side. temperatures will rise tomorrow, still cloudy, still chance for showers. drier air as we get into late thursday but in the meantime there will be a hit or miss showers even through early thursday. then another front marching in slowly will bring the significantly cooler air by the second half of the week. saturday looks cooler but looks like temperatures will stay up through the end of the workweek. tonight 67. rain tapers off temporarily. we bring in that patchy dense fog. tomorrow 85. it will be damp, warmer and scattered storms. showers will taper off tomorrow night. here's the outlook a stray shower thursday. friday looks nice with sunshine and good looking weather. as we look at the outlet, you can see the trend for sunday and monday, qietd a bit -- quite a bit cooler. much of sunday we may be in

the cold front is swinging through indiana, southern illinois and trying to push through the state of michigan. eventually that will head all the way to the east coast by later on tonight and tomorrow morning. as far as rain, use the umbrella in detroit. rain will start shortly and through toledo. sag gi that you, mid land, all of those areas not expecting a lot of rain. still very cold morning. wind chills are in the 20s from sioux falls, minneapolis. in the northern plains it feels like a winter day. the great lakes, the cold air is what will swing through. chicago, 34 wind chill. the forecast for today, dry in so many areas of the country, but we are going to see the cold air in place. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. well, i mentioned the rain in michigan. besides that, it's a very dry day around the country. should be beautiful throughout much of georgia. atlanta is looking nearly perfect. very nice in texas where dallas is 75 and partly cloudy. so change in temperatures but not a lot of wet weather in the days ahead.

yourself, the one piece of news you need to know if you live in arkansas, mississippi, missouri, southern illinois, tennessee, these are areas that have a chance of seeing severe thunderstorms today. almost like a spring-like set up once again. you probably femt it in the air yesterday. it's very warm. we'll add some humidity. and when the strong cold front comes through, we'll spark the severe weather late today and there is a chance of some tornadoes with this. so if you're in the little rock area to memphis especially done to jackson, mississippi, that's the favorite area if we're going to get any tornadoes late today. make sure you know that your plans just in case to keep yourself and your family safe. that would be late this afternoon into this evening. that storm is now brewing in the northern plains. it's a pretty large storm system. anyone in the plains will tell you how windy it was yesterday. it's continuing to be very windy during the day today. and now with it, we have the rain through areas of minnesota and through the dakotas. it's not a lot as far as cold air behind it, no snow or

in southern illinois it will be very windy. will not be quite as extreme after tomorrow on friday. each of these is associated with a cloud to ground lightning. look out west. 1.5 inches of rain is the average amongst all the models. windy and warmer. a high of 70 today. tonight showers and storms. tomorrow cooler a brief period where we look at the sun. showers re -develop late afternoon. small hail could accompany some of these showers. time for today's trivia. when young children first learn to count, what set of numbers are they learning? a. rational numbers b. transcendental numbers c. natural numbers the answer still to come this midday! >>time for sports. the bulls won't have derrick rose for awhile, but his back- ups appear to be an upgrade. nate robinson started for kirk hinrich last night, who sat with a sore thumb. rose was on hand for the fourth pre- season game against the bucks. the bulls trailed with time winding down in the first, when robinson splits the defense for a three- pointer at the buzzer. still up in t

we are also talking about the possibility of severe weather from some of these storms across southern illinoiso parts of mississippi and also northern louisiana. large hail damaging wind gusts and isolated tornadoes will be possible. if you live out here you have got to stay alert through out the day today. it does include the city of memphis also jackson and mississippi. we are going to see a lot of wind with the storm system wind gusts up to 65 miles per hour possible. wind advisories in dakotas into oklahoma. many of the people will be experiencing the strong winds through out the day today into at least early thursday. keep that in mind it will be very windy out there across the plains as the storm continues to push eastward it should be impacting the east coast as we head into the answerend of the workweek on friday. northeast to southeast you will be dealing with that storm coming up shortly to wrap the workweek. ahead of that system warm in texas 92 will be the high temperature today. in san antonio well above average 86 in dallas for a high. north east cool day highs in the 50s and 60s

i finished high school in southern illinois. it is where my father was on the faculty. then i went off to college, went to harvard, majored in economics, and came down to new york. i worked briefly for the founder and chairman of ecs. i have been at "fortune" virtually my entire career. i have been doing short reports that are carried on. the cbs radio stations, they are wonderful. these are small reports. everything on news radio is short. but i do a couple of those every day. >> allan sloan? >> i am the polar offer it -- opposite. i grew up in brooklyn, new york. i went to brooklyn college. it was free. my father worked primarily for a nonprofit organization. my mom worked before they were married. after my father -- she did business out of her home, our home, when the kids were there. that is what i learned how to count. i helped her. it was heavy clerical stuff. i got to the point where i did everything in my head because it was faster. there were no calculated. that has been a great help to be journalistically. i do numbers in my head. it is my secret weapon. >> ho

years as the chief political reporter for the des moines register in why and he now works for southern illinoisity. steven craig is political science professor at the university of florida. larry sabato runs the university of politics a it the university of virginia. thank you for being here. first, start with you, david, in iowa. the real clear politics average of the latest polls has president obama up 2 points. it looks like it's closing there. what is the situation on the ground? >> closer than two points. obama is narrowly ahead and romney is closing. republicans are doing better job on absentee ballots than before. democrats always dade good job on that. that is why romney is closing. this race feels like 2000, 2004. gore won by four votes per press cinct. president bush in 2004 won by ten votes per precinct. this is ground game. tv is music now. not having impact. it's who will get out the last few people to go vote. >> bret:stei steven, in florida, the real clear average of latest polls have romney up three points over president obama. it seems in recent days the state has been trending

ray lindsay, he's from southern illinois university, emeritus professor.e did a study of how many jobs bain capital has taken out, outsourced. more than 15,000. people who made products like mr. coffee, sunbeam. products we know used to be made in america now under the mitt romney model those jobs have been outsourced to china. >> your thoughts, george? >> well, it's a terrible thing. you know, we have asked governor romney, and president obama, to come to freeport. we are home of the lincoln/douglas debate site. what a better place to debate than in freeport? >> lincoln and douglas. the lincoln/douglas debate, 1858, went for seven hours. would you be satisfied were seven minutes with mitt romney? >> we'd be satisfied with one minute. mitt romney, governor romney, is the architect of outsourcing. he created the model. so isn't he the person that can create the model to turn the tide and bring jobs back to our company, our country? we just want to know what his plan is step by step by step that he says on the presidential campaign trail that he has. >> you

. >> the director of debates at southern illinois university wrote an op-ed for cnn and said both haveknesses and this will be one of the most important presidential debates we've seen in history. here's how he outlines it. when you talk about romney's strength he says he's smooth, knowledge able, excellent first lines and tends to pivot. he says president obama, his strengths, he can be detached, he has an ability to focus and crystallize that's very strong on his reasoning. donna, do you see either one of these as being accurate here? do you think that there's some sort of opportunity, if you will for the president to attack on romney's strengths or is he pretty formidable? >> look, i think president obama is preparing very well for this debate based on what i've seen in the newspapers, but, you know, this is like the opening night on broadway where you're both playing to the audience and the room as well as to the public out at large and if you get a good review as i hope president obama will receive, then that will continue to help him, you know, lead in the polls and get people ou

straight to todd graham from southern illinois university. to tell us what the weaknesses are that we should be looking for that might be tripping up these candidates tonight. todd, welcome to you. we're going to play a couple of clips and talk through the clips and tell me what we should be looking for. let's begin as it will be the president who will be first up tonight. we'll see the president first. critics say, you know, he sometimes haa slow stuttering approach with long witted answers. let's roll this. >> when george bush came na office, we had surpluses. and now we have a half a trillion dollar deficit annually. when george bush came into office, our debt, national debt was around $5 trillion. it is now over $10 trillion. we have almost doubled it. and so while it is true that nobody is completely innocent here -- >> all right, debate coach, what did the president do right or wrong there? >> well, that's it again. it is that slow stuttering approach where he has pauses and gaps. his speech has more gaps than a zapruder film. it doesn'

. >> moon made it all the way to the southern tip of illinois before he was captured.ost 400 miles. >> the police didn't know who i was to start with. when i gave them an alias and wrote me a ticket for driving the vehicle with the wrong plates and alluding an officer. if i had $200 i could have bonded out. but i had my -- they found out who i was eventually. aside from getting caught, i don't regret it one bit. i'd do it again tomorrow if i could. i'm 35 years old now. hopefully if everything goes the way i hope it goes, i'll get my case overturned, i'll write a book and make a movie and become a millionaire. >>> coming up -- >> i'm in here for causing trouble, i cut myself and stuff like that. >> an inmate struggles with self-mutilation. >> i was on razors but they put me on razor restriction. i find stuff in here like staples and plastic. two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help those affected and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open, and many areas are reporting thei

a slight risk remains for parts of ohio, all of indiana, southern michigan and far eastern illinois.t cold front pushes to the east, and by tomorrow, the mid-atlantic from philadelphia down to myrtle beach needs to be on high alert, that 60-mile-per-hour winds and hail especially in the afternoon and evening. >> all right, ginger zee pulling double duty this sunday. thank you. >>> in colorado today, thousands attended a vigil for little jessica ridgeway, the 10-year-old girl who went missing and was later found dead much the fbi has created a profile of the suspect. they believe he's male and might have recently missed work or suddenly left town. he may have changed his appearance and, in fact, left his car behind. that's the sketch they have out tonight. >>> we turn to that deadly outbreak of meningitis, the result of sheer roid shots to the spine for patients who thought they were seeking relief from back page. tonight more cases have been reported bringing the total now to more than 200. and this evening we're learning more about the company at the center of the outbreak. here ton

illinois. maybe st. louis and southern portions of michigan today. but also anywhere in the northern rockies, some stormy weather. as far as the east coast and the southern half of the country goes, what a beautiful day today. even as we go into tomorrow, not a lot changes. it will be a little damp out there in a few spots, especially the northern half of the country hit and miss, but texas at 80, kansas city at 83 tomorrow. a very warm start to this week. won't stay that way, though. end of the week looks colder. >> thanks, bill. >>> time now for entertainment news. "paranormal activity 4" pulled in a lower than expected $30.2 million this weekend. never saw any of those. >> i saw the first one. it was spooky. >> i think it's on its way out. filming for "the hang yofr 3" caused head aches for drivers after shutting down a highway. and adele and her new boyfriend reportedly have a new bundle of joy after she gave birth to a baby boy. >>> this weekend, "snl" poked fun at last week's heated presidential debate. take a look. >> mr. president, if you don

illinois. later tonight and tomorrow southern michigan and areas in upstate new york. as far as the forecast goes for today, it looks to be very mild this afternoon after that chilly start in the morning where you could use the jacket. areas like new york city, we should see temperatures around 70 degrees. veronica, not many problems out there for the day. enjoy. >>> we can't complain. thanks for that, bill. >>> controlling your phone or ipad with a blink of an eye? details about the new ipad mini and gas prices drop. your business prices are straight ahead. >>> plus, cuban leader fidel castro is seen for the first time in months. he criticizes the rumor mongers. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. so you say men are superior drivers? yeah. then how'd i get this... [ voice of dennis ] ...safe driving bonus check? every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check. ok. [ voice of dennis ] silence. are you in good hands? and these come together, one thing you can depend on is that these will come together. delicious and wholesome. some combinations were just

southerners to nationalize slavery. even though on the stump lincoln struck out against this specter, even suggesting that the supreme court intended to make illinois the slave state, no important southern politician ever advocated such a course. it also appears indisputable that he assumes such a stance because he knew so little about the south. yes, at 19 and 22, he had taken brief trips down the ohio and mississippi rivers to new orleans. additionally, of course as you know he was born in kentucky, and his wife in from a slave owning family in that state, as did his best friend. at that part of the border south was all that he knew. after his two youthful journeys to new orleans, he never traveled in the south beyond kentucky. aside from a few kentuckians, he really did not know any southerners. certainly not any southern politicians. he had in a late 1840s served one term in the united states house of representatives, where he surely met southerners and, in fact, became friendly with a few. but that was almost a decade and a half before the crisis following his election in 1860. in the interval had kept up with none of those men. fundamentally,

or spain and think it's way over the ocean, it doesn't hit us, this is our own southern part of europe in chicago, in illinoisthey never say no to unions our guest is right. they say they can make 8.5 or 8% on their investments. they don't make their contributions. they're so underfunded. i don't know what they can do but basically cut a lot of benefits. i'll tell you what, whether it's michigan or illinois, democrats have never said no. they've never asked for anything. this is going to be quite a sight to behold. >> quite a sight to behold. sounds like a scary end game at this stage. lawrence, rick, thank you for weighing in. it's a very worrying situation. >> it is. income taxes hit the rich. property tax increases hit everyone that owns property. it's going to get worse before it gets better in chicago. >>> all right. a french bank is selling a greek bank for one euro that it bought for $2.2 billion euros in 2006. >> it is the bank that would stand to lose the most. obviously it wants to reduce its exposure to greece at this stage. that bank we're talking about here to be sold for one euro is their greek

could still see more severe weather in indiana and western parts of ohio and southern michigan and eastern portions of illinois including the city of chicago with damaging wind gusts being the main concerns. isolated tornadoes can't be ruled out. strong winds, strong wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour in portions of midwest down the through ports of tennessee and western portions of mississippi. the storm will head eastbound. that is where it is eded tomorrow right here to new york city. >> gregg: it was gusty this morning. i almost got blown in mcdonald's. >> i would have had a big mac. [ laughter ] >> heather: u.s. troops are taking part in a special program that is now aimed at mentoring afghan special police. with that recent surge with recent green on blue attacks. they are working with their counter narts afghanistan. colonel oliver north is streaming live. hello there colonel. what are folks saying about working with the afghans as a result? >> the classic definition of a hero that puts themselves at risk for the benefit of others. we're with a lot of those kinds of people in the third battalion 8 marine

illinois. this is our weather maker. tomorrow the main system will drift to the north in new england. we'll catch the southern edge, the trailing front, likely to bring some showers in here by tomorrow night. here's what's left of rafael. after making a close call, you can see it being downgraded. winds still 75. this is out of tropical waters, no chance for strengthening. the storm will shear apart. 45, less chilly. tomorrow a nice day. two-degree darn tee 70, wetter -- better chance for showers tomorrow night. they could linger into your early friday morning. we'll put the shower for early friday morning. tomorrow starts out dry. tomorrow night we could see rain. cooler and drier saturday for komen race day. gorgeous day, sunshine, but it will be a cool start down in the upper 40s, so maybe put an extra layer on when you're headed out to walk. we'll put it back in real quick. again, next week you're going to like this. next week temperatures into the mid-70s for the rest of the outlook here. don't forget to check out the iphone app. again, on your iphone and or droid. check them out, wmar in the search bar.

perhaps southern whites could not imagine a pro slave or against the yen. and actively supportive session but it springfield illinois he and his friend urged lincoln and with the republican triumph. there are no such men. with no firsthand knowledge of the south and no real friends to share acquaintances, lincoln unsurprisingly did not knowledge the distinction between those advocates and others said their politicians and had no relish just like jefferson davis and alexander stephens who becomes the confederate vice president. lincoln put them altogether. he does not seem to understand being pressed by the southern regulators. but it powerfully position them with a compromise. also his partisanship. his actions made clear he approached the crisis not as the united states leader of the republican party. but the security of his leadership and anxious of party unity. many republicans and then not republicans alike to make a public statement addressing the issues of their rights and their determination of. time again. responding of the cascade of request i could say nothing that is in print. the petition could only harm

work with wal-mart but what that protest that we saw in illinois comes right on the heels of a similar warehouse protest that we saw here in southern california where workers walked off the job and went on strike for an entire week marching from riverside all the way to los angeles demanding these fair rights and really these demonstrators straightens go back several weeks here in southern california where workers and other unions have shown solidarity with these warehouse worker unions trying to let wal-mart know that they're tired of working under these conditions which they consider to be just inhumane now if you want to say we reached out to wal-mart we also reached out to some of these subcontractors and right now that the reaction that we've gotten mostly over the phone is no comment i know ramon you were able to speak to some of these workers what are they telling you that's right was i mentioned a strike here in southern california most a warehouse workers did recently and yet some of them when they say that they returned to work their concerns over safety were not they were not met and we're hearing some of the same proble

illinois and oklahoma. the shutdown will last at least three days. at the news comes as activists in texas are nearly a month into a blockade against the construction of keystones southern leg. both obama and mitt romney appeared together in new york thursday night for the annual al smith memorial charity dinner. a group of protesters, including physicians and medical students, rallied to call for single payer health care insurance program. >> we're here because but president obama and governor romney -- what they want to do is a threat to medicare. with romney it is much more of a threat because he wants to do a program that will really destroy medicare as we know it. but president obama also wants to raise the age of eligibility for medicare, and we think that is not right. >> as a medical student, i am afraid of practicing in the current system. it is going to prevent me from practicing care in the way i want to, which is to help people with their needs and not be concerned about the endless paperwork of a multi-payer system. >> boston police are being accused of routinely spying on local peace groups at their meetings and protests. the american civil liberties union

illinois and missouri, getting in indiana right now. you see those clouds in the southernrength. it's going to go over warmer waters in the caribbean. 40-mile-per-hour winds right now. not really strong but it should gain some strength in the next couple days. in jamaica, tropical storm watch for you. same with haiti. all the way being a category 1 storm over the next couple days. then it merges into the bahamas and probably falls apart a little bit. going off toward the west of here. that should essentially push it away from the u.s. mainland, but then bermuda late next week, we like to watch it as a tropical storm. look at the rain already near the florida strait. a couple pop-up showers are possible there as well. through illinois and indiana, now edging toward ohio. st. louis, you're kind of dry right now. you're dry in st. louis, one patch to the east and one to the west. it's all going to fill in later today. more showers coming in. indianapolis, you guys are dry, also, but look how close it is to you. rain and thunderstorms in the morning, and a good shot of rain mo

illinois down into louisiana. we look for maybe isolated tornadoes. east coast looks fantastic. plenty of sunshine. heat continues in the southwest into southernund the region, we are still cold. in fact, much of virginia and maryland and west virginia were still in the 30s. near the bay, waters and the potomac, it's near 50. later today, we will have temperatures climbing into the 60s in much of the region. overnight tonight, cloudy, 40s. not as cold as this morning. 70 tomorrow afternoon. showers after sunset. a nice weekend to follow. a >> are we on tv? oh, well you didn't -- nobody warned me. i was saying hi, everybody. i guess we're on tv. do the tease. okay. coming up next, we'll have a rare and revealing look at ethel kennedy, the mother of 11 children, and her daughter rory profiles her in a new documentary. we'll catch up with them next. [ male announcer ] oh, take one sign. i will obey your orders, reach into your unguarded basket and take just one, caramel-filled milky way. i will then go to the end of the block turn around and take just one again. get into the caramel, chocolate and nougat. a great clean doesn't have to take longer

southern half of the city of peoria and also a portion including most of pekin. except when i introduce the candidates which i will do now. first, the challenger a democrat from east moline illinoishe incumbent is the republican from kalona illinois, bobby schilling. [applause] the format for tonight's debate requires 75 seconds for opening statements. then they will have 75 seconds to answer the initial question and up to 30 seconds for the rebuttal. in closing statements will also be 75 seconds in length. we have people from the illinois league of women voters who are here this evening to time the candidates. my name is leyna willson i'm the moderator for tonight and asking the questions of the two candidates will be alex, a news reporter at wcpo in peoria. also asking questions is herb trix and we have solicited questions through the internet from the public and asking those questions will be camille o'donnell who is a journalism student at brusquely university. we thank all of them for being here this evening. thank you. we asked the candidates to support the statement with details where appropriate and by an earlier flight of the claim, we determined that bobby schilling wil