he was the first mayor of the city of chicago -- may have been the first black mayor of the city of chicagout the first mayor of the city of chicago for me to date me and thousands of other latinos an opportunity. he opened the floodgates of opportunity for us. so when i got elected in 1986 -- first of all, so there is a who sued the city of chicago saying, look, those 50 seats should not be 28 white alderman and one latino, they should be more equal. we go to court and win. so i run. when asked mayor washington they say, what are you going to do about the city of chicago being sued? he said i'm going to say they were guilty, because we are. when i get elected to the city forcil, now there are 25 harold washington and 25 members of the vrdolyak group. the chicago city council, when there is a tie, guess who breaks the tie? the presiding officer who happens to be the mayor of the city of chicago. i know in the mayor presided over the city council meetings could never leave because if there was ever a vote on a procedural matter, yet a be there to break the tie. but the flood gate opened. mem

people and learned a lot of valuable lessons but one of the things i thought that was important was we expand the rights of the people of the city of chicago and we did any of those things. i know we did many of those things. in 92 i got reelected in 91 to city council but in 92 i ran for the chicago for congress. he supported me. his support concord the support of richard daley was critical almost essential and would say. >> host: you've realized he could make a difference for the latino community. >> guest: i wanted to make a difference for the latino community at a national level and i knew that if i was going to do that -- i'm elected and what is my first challenge? the american food trade agreement. who is in charge of negotiating a? bill daley the mayor's brother. who wants me to vote for him? richard daley. we are working together in a need to do so. i voted against it. i thought it was a wrong thing to do. some people would say hey he was very good to you and he supported you. i'm always going to do what i believe is correct especially mh or policy. >> host: in typical gutierrez fashion you say i'm not here just to be part of a clu

i am 30 years old, sitting down with the mayor of the city of chicago. he's mentoring me, teaching me. he gives me a job. the responsibilities i have. and my story is not unique. there were hundreds of other young men in women. he opened it up for women,, latinos and for black people to finally have positions of responsibility. ali asked of us was to do a good job and make sure everyone, regardless of the color of their skin or what neighborhood they live in chicago got a fair and square deal. >> he didn't control the city. he asks you to run to see if he could control the city council. you basically deliver. >> guest: i won. i wanted the city council thursday team members. 25 to 25 is a tie. guess who breaks the tie? american city of chicago because he's the presiding officer. i was the 25th vote. once i become the 25th vote, the commissioner on the board of education and the commission on economic development, all of those things open. and then he gets his appointees. by then he gets a budget that's his budget. we can help with housing and streets and c

i'm sitting down with the mayor of the city of chicago. 's mentoring me, teaching me, i'm learning. he gives mae job. the responsibilities that i have. and he -- my story is not unique. there were hundreds of other young men and women that were give their first job -- he opened it up for women, gays, for latinos, and for black people to finally have positions of responsibility and, you know, all he asked was to do a good job and make sure that everyone -- regardless of the color of their skin or what neighborhood they lived in this chicago got a fair and square deal. >> host: he won the office of mayor but didn't control the city council. and he asked you to run to see if he could control the city council. you basically delivered. >> guest: i won. i won. in the city council, there are 50 members. 25 to 25 is a tie. guess who breaks the tie? the mayor of the city of chicago. he's the presiding office. i was the 25th vote. once i become the 25th vote, the commissioner on the board of education and the park district and the commission economic

see if you can control the city council and you delivered. >> in the city council that 15 members, 25 to 25 as a tie. guess who breaks the thai? the mayor of the city of chicago. i was the 25th vote. once i become the 23rd vote, the commissioners on the board of education and the commission on the park district and economic development board all those things open up and you finally get the discipline tease and he sells general obligations how with streets and the voters and the bridges and begin the infrastructure in. >> i have to say one thing. i had a lot less power and influence at 50 than i did as a member in the inner circle working with the administrative assistant. the government yields a lot of power. now in washington the values unexpectedly and everything goes back to what i was before. it to say that i cried is an under state. what happened. even though i just got elected it was like what four? i ran for committee and a couple of months. i was struck -- lucky to see him before he died of a heart attack in that office and was told we were going to name our sun herald if it was a boy and [inaudible] he passed away knowing that but we thought we would

the ball. >> it is one of the most popular athletic events in the city of chicago. the chicago marathon.t takes place next sunday. 45,000 runners and 1.5 million spectators. one of the largest marathon in the world. served as executive race director of the bank of america chicago marathon since 1990. >> behalf i started when i was 16, that is not the case. >> this year that means a lot of responsibility for it. tell us about the changes for runners and spectators this year. for us the top of mind is the instance that took place in boston. it was difficult for us to process. as a hard time for our industry. the consensus was to move forward and get back to the tradition. some of the enhancements that will barack to the event. >> what are some of the enhancements? >> we are asking all of our participants to pick up their packets the registration themselves. this is a chance for us to talk to them directly. the second enhancement is we will have checkpoints. this has been in place in the past. security personnel that will check people when they come in. we're going to issue them a clear pla

gangs, in terms of the breakdown of the family. >> well, i say, first of all, this is the 22nd company moving their headquarters here. there is a lot of economic growth in the city of chicagos are down 20% about. your all crime is down 23%. shootings down 24%. that's great trends. on the other hand, i call every parent god forbid something happens to their child in any capacity and those are the hardest calls you make. i don't want to be -- i said we cannot be a tale of two cities. we have to be one city with one future where every neighborhood is as safe as the other one. the gun issue, we take more guns off the the street than either new york or l.a.. a lot of illegal guns can through here. we need to get everybody has their hands dirty in this process. we need a more effective u.s. attorney, more effective state's attorney, better laws on the books. i'm pushing for a three year minimum for any gun crimes committed because the one year minimum is not a deter ent. gang-banger said the law is a joke. i can't legislate parents, but if we had kids getting the type of moral education they need, one, two and three would be working a lot better. >> chicago over the last three y

the u.s. department of energy emanuel said that the program will encourage more and more people to have solar here in the city of chicago on a residential commercial level and he said it will be cheaper quicker and more efficient for people to put solar in or more cities around our nation are encouraging the use of renewable energy by making it easier and more affordable for local residents little by little programs like this are transforming our nation and helping us kick the habit of toxic fossil fuels this is great news for chicago now let's make it happen in cities and towns all across america. it's thursday let's get geeky glucose parents always tell our children that sugar makes their teeth rotten fall but according to new research sweets might need a way your intelligence two researchers at cherry university met is seen in berlin germany studied one hundred forty healthy adults ranging from fifty to eighty years old who had no history of diabetes the researchers scanned the brains of each of the study participants and connected the other test to explore the relationship between blood sugar levels and brain activi

the chopper went down. aircraft continued flying out of the airport as usual. the faa is investigating. for the first time ever, the city of chicago of those controversial red light cameras. 18-intersections around the city have been targeted. they're coming down, like here at wells and north avenue, because the city said the intersections had either no right-angle crashes or just one "t-bone" crash and a total crash-rate of less than 1%. the billionaire "beanie babies" creator choking with emotion as he pleads guilty to tax cheating. ty warner of oak brook admitting to tax evasion today at the dirksen federal buidling. the 69-year-old telling the judge, "i'm pleading guilty because i am guilty. he hid 100-million in beanie baby profits in a swiss bank account. his fortune is estimated at 2.6 billion dollars. he'll pay 53- million in penalties. warner faces up to five years in prison. sentencing is january 15. oprah might be selling her studios in the city. the former talkshow host has reportedly hired a real estate firm to look into selling some or all of harpo studios. located on the near west side, the studio was once home to h

i grew up in the city of chicago. i was born there. i may have lived north of the mason-dixon line, but i lived in a segregated city where blacks lived in one part, latinos lived in another part, and whites lived in another. there were not any signs that say not to go to the swimming pool, but we knew better. we knew not to go to those beaches. that is the experience i had. you know why you and are having this conversation today? went to clege. i was happy. i married my wife of 35 years. we had our first daughter. we bought our first home. refurbished. then in chicago in 1983 a black man had the audacity to run and actually win the democratic primary, harold washington. what brings me to where i am today? with my sixpack of beer and game of dominoes and going to baptisms, and all that is good, but when i saw the powerful chairman of the ways and means committee, a member of the democratic caucus and all the white democrats say, not if it is a black man. i am kind of happy it happened because we are having this conversation. that transfo

. >> just as the city of chicago is ready to start issuing fines, the mayor says the city plans to removeyou read by campus. i'm clear as a relates to the speed camera, we're going to do is starting to roll those out in our schools to work as a deterrent for people or speeding. >> has been out there talking with drivers about the city's plans. 38 red light cameras are now going to be moved at different locations around the city. apparently they are doing their job in the streets are much safer with fewer tickets being written. >> we need the red light cameras. >> read like cameras are recording leadfoot drivers as they try to squeeze through intersections at the last second. mistiming one can cost you $100. >> this corner generates a lot of revenue. we're told that the red light camera here on this corner flash is quite a lot. >> the city is making a lot of money here. city officials say red light cameras were installed as a means to make streets safer and cut down on drivers blowing through intersections. some drivers think otherwise. >> it is probably better for me, i think it is more o

the size and scope of the massive wildfire burning in yosemite national park is staggering. at its peak 5100 firefighters were fighting a blaze larger than the city of chicago at a cost of nearly $100 million. the fire that is destroying hundreds of square miles of wildlife habitat and sensitive eco-systems, california's third largest fire in history was sparked by a hunter's illegal campfire. for assistance, firefighters turn to the u.s. military for help. ca called into service is the mq-1 predator, an unmanned drone. after becoming a household name following tours in iraq and afghanistan, the predator is california fire's important eye in the sky. this remotely piloted aircraft starts the daily mission at an unassuming airfield east of los angeles. it's a completely unusual piece of technology. it looks like a strange alien bug. it's extremely arrerodynamic and sleek-looking, but also comes from almost a different planet. >> it's the mq-1 predator. it has a propeller versus a jet engine. the wingspan on this aircraft is approximately 55 feet long. it's bigger than your average general aviation plane. >> i see one camera here and one here. two cameras, on

there are examples around the country of cca integrating brand new energy. just a couple. the city of chicago recently aggregated, they signed a new contract led by the work we are doing here in california. they also integrated in state wind and they did a deal with their supplier to do a distributed solar supplier in chicago. there are 60 mega watts in marine brand new energy, cape cod and solar around 20 mega watts through the airport. we know that this works and i applaud you for looking at plan b and moving things forward, thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please? >> hi commissioners. i work with a group of local advocates working on this for a number of years. i main message is that lafco was created for the purpose of really making sure that clean power sf gets established and goes forward. there have been many times in the past where the sf puc is now -- not moving quickly or expeditiously enough and now lafco is moving quickly in terms of impact of getting work down for a build out study which lafco went and approved $100,000 contracts for part of that build out work an

chicago. the beautiful city of chicago that receives us and let us to cross the street. thank you chicago.everything." >> catherine: a crowd of supporters was waiting for him. this is actually the 3rd time mah-kul has finished a marathon. he says he wants to show people that you can't give up on doing things just because you're different.or slower. >> reporter: bears for a series of recent car break- ins but says no one believed him. now, theres proof! >> reporter:a family spotted not one but two bears rummaging through the family car. these are pictures of the bear break-ins. the family says a bear and her cub walked up to their car. opened its doors. and got into it. the bear was calm. the owner. not so much >> they are in the car! >> she opened the door and pulled everything about her calls when she did not find anything in that she heard paul on it to step up. >> reporter: how about that!the family says they didn't have any food in the car, when the bears got bored they moved on to, presumably, find their next stories... e pa staed up e ba of my hea and wrped oundo thfront. coul'that f

the bill so far. >> in chicago, mayor rahm emanuel lent his voice to the call. >> wherever they come, they always come here, to the most american of american cities, the city of icago, to give their children a chance at the american dream, to give their children an education, a vision. >> in rallies across the country, including who are in new york, we are joined live on set, you were at that rally earlier and there were a lot of people. >> more than 1,000 people flooded the square near the brooklyn bridge asking congress to pass an i am allegation reform that carves out citizenship for 11 million undocumented workers already here. many demonstrators came with their children, calling on president obama to stop deportations. >> families are getting destroyed, and families are -- the children are getting left alone in their homes. they don't know when their parents are coming back home, and once they find out, they don't have anywhere to go. >> they say the time for reform is now. after that rally, thousands of protestors, it was really amazing, marched across the brooklyn bridge in solidarity. >> what happens next to this group? >> they're headed to washington.

the rallies are directed at house republicans who have refused to consider the bill. chicago mayor will lend his voice to the cause. >> wherever they come, they always come here to the most american of american cities the city of chicago - to give their children a chance at the american dream, education and vision. >> to tell us about the rally in new york, we are joined. you were out there in brooklyn with them? >> absolutely, lively rally, more than 1,000 people flooded a square near the brooklyn bridge. they are asking congress to pass immigration reform that carves out a path to citizenship to 11 million undocumented workers already here. demonstrators came with their children and are calling on the president to stop the deportations. >> families are destroyed. families - the children are getting left alone in their homes. they don't know when their parents are coming home. once they find out they don't have anywhere to go. >> the time for reform is now. after that rally thousands of those protesters marched across the brooklyn bridge into manhattan. >> a big turn out. 150 demonstrations across the country. where are they going with this? >> it's just the beginning. they are expected to be in w

the owner and manager filed a lawsuit against the city of chicago for malicious prosecution. the city denied the claim, and the case was dismissed. >>> nearly two decades earlier fear grips another crowd. and frenzied soccer fans are crushed against a concrete retaining wall. may 29th, 1985. nearly 60,000 supporters fill belgium's stadium for the european cup final, pitting england's liverpool against the italian team. emotions are running high as two of the world's most successful soccer teams face off. liverpool fan rogan taylor is watching on television from his home in england. >> i have a young family, three daughters. crazy football fans, it comes with the territory. and we are awaiting this match. we have some bubbly in the fridge. we're expecting a great game. >> at the stadium, liverpool fan chris roland is just arriving, but before the game even starts, the festive mood of the day begins to unravel. >> there is no crowd control at all. there are no stewards. there are no police. there's a few turnstyle operators, but they're just waving you through. nothing. absolute

and yet the mayor of chicago decided in the late 1990s that he was going to transform the city of chicago. his plan was essentially to tear all the public housing projects don't come including the one in which martha lives. he also i do plan to build 40,000 new units but, unfortunately, that didn't happen. so martha along with 25,000 other neighbors and her children were if it did and that began a cycle of homelessness that stretched throughout much of the 2000. and when justice was born, she named her just because she said, it will be justice if i am never homeless again. i learned that martha became an activist at the chicago anti-eviction campaign not out of political belief, but out of sheer necessity. sheer survival. because she is one of the million economic refugees in this country. and so finally after leaving in a car and breaking up her family for years, she called up to chicago anti-defamation league and said what you got? you are talking a big game, talking about liberating land while i am homeless with my children and i need a place for us to live. so they said we've got a fo

you can see on the radar up into the city of chicago. l of these areas you will be dealing with the areas of heavy rain through out the afternoon hours and by tonight that storm system is slowly going to be pushing eastward. we have a threat for severe weather including tornadoes wind gusts and large hail from eastern texas to louisiana up into the great lakes parts of ohio could be seeing severe storms later on. it is during the evening hours where many children will be heading outdoors trick or treating. please stay safe through out the day otherwise temperatures that are very mild in the east of the systems 70s in the sterile line gnaws and also in georgia. >> nice for the trick or treaters on the east coast at least. >> on the east coast. >> thanks maria. >> a bombshell reportthe nsa of yahoo and google. this would keep video and video from millions of users. this as an italian newspaper says even the pope would budge. good morning, elizabeth. >> good morning patti ann. the global fallout from the document leak continues. p one report

high temperatures 55 over in minneapolis and 57 in the city of chicago. today heather and ainsley new york city at 68 degrees. >> it looks like it will be a beautiful day here. >> and enjoy it because again slight chance for a shower in the northeast tomorrow. >> come on. it stops right there. >> i am trying to prepare you. need an umbrella tomorrow. maybe. >> hillary clinton apparently already coming out swinging for her presidential campaign. she is drawing lines in the sand. the former secretary of state spoke at an event last night. she didn't specifically say she was running but she took the opportunity to poke jabs at vice president joe biden when she was asked about the bin laden raid she did make a point to talk about how she supported the raid and biden did not. he is also rumored considering ta run for the top office. >> a jury starts deliberating today over whether team owner marc cuban is guilty of insider trading. it accuses cuban of using inside information to dump millions of dollars worth of stock. cuban said he did nothing wrong and there

we're looking at a disinvestment in public schools all over the city of chicago and increase in charterschool closings and the announcement of more new schools coming in, without investing in the schools already in existence. for student success, one, our students, especially in african-american community, they need to see someone like them. we don't have -- right now we make up less than 40% of the population of cps. but our educators are less than 20% and that 20% were less go. most of those were high-ranking teachers so with the student-based budgeting we have where they pay per pupil versus allocating a certain amount of funds to come to the school, a lot of teachers featuteaching f years were laid off and a lot of them were african-american teachers and latino teachers, as well. so we're looking at a disinvestment, educators not looking like some of our students. and we need an elected school board. we need a school board that we can vote for, people that have our interests at heart and not the plan of the mayor. >> fairness. >> fairness. >> that's what it comes down to. >> and the

"the devil in the white city" -- the "white city" was the nickname for the world's fair of 1893, the world's columbian exposition in chicago. "white city" arose because the central array of buildings was this massive array of about half a dozen buildings all painted white, so stunning, in fact, that when people walked into the central basin of the fair, the area around the central basin, and saw these buildings, that they -- they -- there were persistent stories of people actually bursting into tears, just sort of -- they had never seen anything quite so beautiful. and the nickname very quickly arose, the white city. now, the fair itself was much larger. there were about 200 other buildings, but that central array is why it was called the white city. c-span: where'd you get the idea for this book? >> guest: oh, long story. i'll give you -- well, i'll give you the whole story. it actually started back in 1894, when i was a young man... (laughter) >> guest: yes, it started back in 1994, when i read caleb carr's "the alienist," which is a terrific novel about a fictional serial killer in old new york. and the thing that i lov

then worked in private practice before joining the city of chicago department of law in 2004 where she served as assistant corporation counsel for four years. primarily handing section 1983 cases. in 2008, ms. he will list joined schiff-harass deny. she seabed as ads jufnghts professor as loyola university chicago school of law teaching federal criminal practice and legal wright. a distinguished record of pro bono work, she's taught reading and legal skills to children living in juvenile detention. she has provided guidance to the warren park youth baseball league. she is actively involved with the kath lithuania board in chicago. she is an excellent nominee for federal judge, another person with a great family and children backing her up. i am happy that senator kirk and i can commend her as well to the senate for this nomination. i hope my colleagues will join me in voting to confirm these two nominees who have bipartisan support and will be outstanding federal judges. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. wyden: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from or omplet. mr. w

you know something, it was pretty good being in the rural mountains of puerto rico, far away from the big city of chicagoi think they did the right step and they helped me so much. you know, we're always a reflection of our parents as much as we say we're different. >> when we're fortunate to have parents. >> yes. >> who support us, who are there for us. i think you're exactly right. so many people are ignoring how important parents are. >> it is absolutely critical to us. my grandson luisito, he's so lucky because he has a mom, has he a dad. we live in a two-flat in chicago. they have the first floor apartment. i'm not going to let my two-year-old grandson live on the second floor and drive me crazy running back and forth. they live on the first floor. i hear them enough from there. my wife and i live on the second floor. he has four of us. has he two grandparents and a mom and a dad. you know something, it is such a struggle in today's society with little kids. yes, four of us. we surround him and nurture him and make sure he's going to grow up to be strong and smart. >> good. we wish him all of the ve

of overwhelming smog. students are being kept home from school and businesses there have been shuttered. that city is home to 11 million people that's like the population of new york city and chicago combined. all of this coming after the world's health organization declared air pollution to be a major cause of cancer. >>> firefighters in the australian state of new south wales has declared a state of emergency. they're facing some of the worst brushfire there in decades. thousands have been told to flee and 200 homes have been destroyed. we have more now from lithgow. >> virtually all you can see is smoke and down in the valley, fire. the concern is that if fire joins with another one, further towards sydney, and that the two combine to form what is described by some as a mega fire, one with 300 kilometer fire front. as temperatures pick up and the winds pick up and change direction it might bring the fire in the direction of sydne sydney's suburb. that would be the worst-case scenario but possible. already emergency powers are giving right to access people's home but demolish them if they get in the way of fighting the fire. we'll go out to the firefighting to see the work close

is pretty good far away from the big city of chicago but i think we've made the right step we are a reflectionough we think we're different. lou: youre fortunate to have parents that support and their although so many ignore how important ty are. >> it is absolutely critical. but we live in a flat in chicag the devigot lety grandson live on the second floor to drive me crazy so theyive on the first floor so we haveour of uso grandparents and a mom and da in that is equilent of today's society we surround him and nurture him that hwill gw up to be strong. lou: w wish you the best. we recommend the bk too highly of mine everywhe. to the web site for a link. when we sit down to talk to have producers yelling ate have producers yelling ate over time. customer erin swenson ordered shoes om us online but they didn't fit. stomer'not hay, i'm not happy. sales go down, i'm not happ merch comes cki'm not happy. use ups. they make returns easy. unhappy customer becomes happy customer. then, repeat customer. easy rurns, i'm happy. repeat customers, i'm happy. sales go up, i'm happy. i ordered another pair

the number one biologic medicine prescribed by rheumatologists. to chicago police officers who were shot and to chicago firefighters rescued elderly woman received their department's highest honors today. >> in a city the size of chicago. >> you make all this proud to wear this uniform. >> that the city haltoday chic's honored at city hall. >> he went right into the bedroom that was on fire. >> he rested all in a flaming building rescuing an unconscious woman. >> there's a fire we run away and you run into it. when there's gunfire you hide in you find out who did it.we hike andd it. >> appear chicago police officers were honored for their sacrifice. >> after being shot all of this is bill to the ground. their shot the officer spell to the ground and returned fire hitting the suspect. >> police are looking for witnesses to a fatal north sidestepping earlier this morning the victim's mother found him. the 24 year-old man was stabbed in the chest leg and stomach. he was too disoriented to describe his attacker to police when they arrived and he later died from his injuries at the hospital. police are canvassing the area to find anyone who might have seen or heard the attack. a woman who claims police promptly str

it is pretty good far away from the big city of chicago but i think we've made the right step we areof our parents although we think we're different. lou: you are fortunate to have parents that support and their although so many ignore how important they are. >> it is absolutely critical. but we live in a flat in chicago. the devil got let my grandson live on the second floor to drive me crazy so they live on the first floor so we have four of us to grandparents and a mom and dad in that is equivalent of today's society so we surround him and nurture him that he will grow up to be strong. lou: we wish you the best. we recommend the book too highly of mine everywhere. to the web site for a link. when we sit down to talk to have producers yelling at me over time. good night from new york. to take an early vion. buckle up. let's go do cop stf. [ siren chirps ] license and nture card, mam. was i going too fast? oh, you'd be going twice as fast if you had dble miles. [ male announcer ] get away fast with unlimited double miles from the capital one nture card. freeze! don't touch the face!

the internet. genre ports from chicago. >> the funny thing is happening in the i'lls of the chicago public library. we are literally coming a tale of the city. there is a canes sraoed between the front door of the home and the front door of the school. >> when it comes to the broadband there's a land of 20 across the economic divide lies the poor struggleleing to improve their position and their children. >> if you break the cycle of poverty you better make sure the job skill including the computer literacy. how are they applying far job. >> a lot of people who are computer literate take for grant like opening up your e-mail or putting together a resume. >> the city is also partnered with comcast which connected 14,000 low income families. with $150 computer and broadband internet for less than $10 a month. her family just crossed it. >>> we use it to help the kids with with their homework. >> it's a start and there are millions more families hoping to move up. . >> you see the man most wanted there and the man with the $5 million-dollar price tag on his head captured by american forces. . >>> i'm amanda purr row. >> i'm in the jordan valle

of only do we have the head the chamber of commerce, but the head of the afl-cio backing this bill. you cannot be from the state of illinois, you cannot represent the city of chicago, you cannot bring up immigration without two words -- luis gutierrez. he is going to be on the next panel. more than anyone i know, he has committed himself to comprehensive immigration reform. he has been a strong voice, sometimes getting under people's skin, but a strong voice to make sure this moves forward. please, let us not miss this opportunity. let us keep this dream alive, for the dreamers and everyone else. let us turn to those in the house who think, maybe we will wait until another congress and say no, because it has to be done. the longer we wait, the tougher it will be. let us have it done in the house as in the senate, in a bipartisan, solid way, affirming that we are a nation of immigrants, and proud of it. thank you. [applause] >> we have another panel that is going to follow us, numbers of the house of representatives, led by congressman gutierrez. we have one or two questions we want to ask our colleagues here. think we have all referenced elements of this, but what

another guy on the west side to come more than 100.who got more than 100. >> it is almost inevitable with a city the size of chicago and its transportation system as large as we have here. if you want to get more information go to our website. >> the bulletin was sent out last night. listing several precautionary steps that employees should take to make sure train cars do not move. it comes after an out of surface blue line train began moving monday morning. 33 people were hurt. security cameras lead to the rest for a kidnapping. he was charged with kidnapping and aggravated and unlawful restraint. he is being held on bond. >> the girl was returned near the scene about a half- hour later. she was not injured but police and the same if anything happened to her. this sketch of the suspect was released on wednesday. he was arrested later that night. >> lawyers say that he will plead not guilty to felony charges in court today. the former wide receiver is charged with manufacturing and delivering marijuana and resisting arrest. he was arrested on the south side in august. they say he struck one of the arresting officer

meet the woman at the irving park united methodist church food pantry trying to live in the city of chicago on a social security check that pays her $800 a month. i challenge any member of the senate or house, you try to get by on $800 billion a month -- on $800 a month, and she makes it because two food pantries and she has food stamps. i'll ask that my full statement be printed in the record but i want to conclude by saying what we're talking about in food stamps is really a matter of basic hunger, of children, veterans, elderly, and disabled who get this helping hand that makes a difference in their lives. we are in great -- a great and caring nation. i am so proud to represent a great state in that nation. but we are a caring people and caring people do not turn their backs on hungry kids or hungry elderly people. we better take care when it comes to this food stamp program that we don't take cuts that are going to make their lives more difficult. finally, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that all speakers on the democratic side prior to noon be limited to five minutes each. the p

basically across the center of the country where we do have a storm system that's moving eastward and this storm has showers and storms across parts of the great lakes, moving in. so the city of chicago because we do have colder air wrapping around the back end of it, rapid city is picking up snow early this morning. parts of the colorado rockies as well and also parts of wyoming. looking at more than a foot of snow in some of those higher elevations. otherwise temperature wise on the cool side across parts of north central, like in minneapolis, 54 degrees will be the high temperature today. otherwise northeast in the 70s. i want to show you san antonio, phoenix, and l.a., downtown l.a., all of those cities are going to be reaching the middle to upper 80s this afternoon. on the warm side down there. let's head back inside. >> all right. thanks a lot. last night football, philip rivers looks great. people of san diego, you have a reason to be hopeful against mighty colts. philip rivers, another 400-yard gain, three straight. good job. makes a diving catch, 22 yards away. chargers open up a 7-3 lead. key first down there to gates. then the field goal. they go on to win 19-9. what's goi

the same front that's bringing in some areas of rain across parts of the east. to the west of the storm, we're talking very chilly temperatures. 40s for you early this morning in minneapolis and the city of chicagoe 40s and steve, elisabeth and brian, tonight into tomorrow, denver could be picking up an inch of snow. but it will be the first snow that they'll be getting of the season. we'll see what's in store for them in the upcoming winter. >> thank you very much out on the streets of new york city where i see ted got plastic right there. >> to forget the camera -- protect the camera. >> keep it from getting wet. >> ted, can you throw the plastic over the camera? they're asking. there you go. >> very action opinionsive equipment. >> that's one day's growth on ted. he has facial hair like i've never seen. even the red sox say hey, give a shave. >> all right. straight ahead, remember this classic john stossel clip? >> excuse me. i have to take some of these. no, no. i'm the old person. i need this. no, i won't give it back. i need this. >> now john says the government is stealing from a whole new generation and he's going to prove that. >> he sure is. she advised presidents on the security of ou

the slide you're looking at shows a map of the united states and a small portion of canada. the 11 dots represent cities that the city surveyed for best practices. they include philadelphia, houston, new york, chicago and arlington, virginia. we heard from disability rights advocates in some of these cities and cities that have various policies in place to find out what has worked for them. looking at these best practices it bake clear that all successful programs took an approach that integrated three elements -- first, provide for blue zones; second, conduct sufficient enforcement for black placard use and blue zone use, and third, charge placard holders at the meter. we also discovered that cities had only implemented one or two of these were not as successful. houston established a very rigorous enforcement program giving out 12,000 plus citations a year, but it wasn't until they established some meter payment for placard holders that they really saw a decrease in misuse. >> [inaudible] curb painted blue with the mta symbol. that's the more mall designation of a blue zone. we're recommending increasing the number by almost 70 percent which would bring the total of blue zones up to about 4 perce

you cannot be from the state of illinois, you cannot represent the city of chicago, you cannot bring up the issue of immigration without the words, luis gutierrez. [applause] spanky will be on your next panel. more than anyone -- he will be on your next panel. more than anyone i know he has committed himself to comprehensive immigration reform. it's been a strong voice, sometimes getting under people's skin but a strong voice to make sure that this moves forward. my last thing to you is please, let us not miss this opportunity. let us keep that dream alive for the dreamers and for everyone else. let us turn to those in house who think maybe we'll wait for another congress and say no. it has to be done. and the sooner the better. the longer we wait the tougher it will be. let's have it done in the house as we did in the senate in a bipartisan, solid way, affirming that we are, in fact, a nation of immigrants, and proud of it. thank you. [applause] >> we have another panel that will follow us which are members of the house of representatives led by congressman gutierrez who i'll introdu

the riots and what they saw was gangs, drugs and chaos. >> what do you see now? look at chicago now and all of that. >> one thing about the cityul -- the lines have been blurred between whites, latinos and african-americans. the fact that the african-americans elected rahm emmanuel and barack obama, that was not the city i grew up in. >> would you make the same move today? would you take your son there? >> no, i wouldn't. the prime rate and the murder rate in puerto rico is higher, about twice the average of the united states. it is very different. when my parents did it, they took me back. i write in the book. i picked coffee beans and paid sugar cane cutters. you know to watch men and women hard at work, you know what it means? hey, luis. it's a myth and a lie. that puerto ricans are lazy. they work very, very hard. the other thing is there so many other things they thought i could be. the mayor of puerto rico and the governor was. in chicago, i have to say, it was my mom and dad watching that. waking up and getting to work. he did what a lot of others did. she spoke only spanish. my dad drove a cab. my dad walked away from

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