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tom skilling working hard weather center with severe weather?g running a corrupt parts of the area rainfall saddling slowly southward impressive cloud towers upwards of 51,000 ft. tonight look at the lightning the model takes you up to 1:00 a.m. still rainfall. 3:00 a.m. at rainfall begins to settle out of fear sprinkled earlier in the day clouds might break in the afternoon northeast wind keeps it fairly overcast severe weather blew trying those areas of hail reports a lot of those around chicago area wind shifting to the northeast tomorrow cooling down waiting for the second system thunderstorms embedded on sunday could pump temperatures up to 70 this might be interesting estimate from the weather service one model red falter next friday. any the lake. not everybody getting all of the rand paul. high-pressure up north provides drive northeast low. during the day on sunday more on that tomorrow on programs lakeside county is started at 10:00 in the morning holding in the fifties into saturday morning bob the lakefront. low seventies inland on s

tom skilling in the weather center how long he these will hang around the answer through the end of theomas jefferson and junior high school out in aurora 49 degrees old seminary school 54 degrees mchenry and the weather bug camera geneva indiana. big storms downstate. rainfall that hit us earlier in the day continues southern suburbs look at the storms over the plains states. thunderstorm clusters from time to time. look at how we said rainfall right there. pretty good rainfall on the way. three times the normal rate of rainfall next week if the forecast of parent pause. cooler by the lake. looks like 75 degrees on saturday. see everybody arlington heights walgreen's part of severe weather week. helping set these up talking about the severe weather week >> working hard a lot of state to local emergency management agencies and your wireless cell phone provider coming soon to cellphone there you special tax to alerts that will come out to alert us any time there is a tornado warning. hoping to get us extra leg up no contract to sign no apt to download nothing to sign up for. >> as tom sk

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tom skilling is next with details. my goodness tom skilling, it was a scary night out there >>it came in waves. the northern suburbs missed a lot of this but look at those hailstones ... these pictures come to us from other viewers ... some of these were golf ball sized hailstones. look at this shot ... with the lightning coming through the towering thunderhead and this is looking southward from gurnee toward chicago ... these are great shots we have posted all of them on the web site for everyone to see ... what a difference with the wind blowing northeast now ... we are 30 degrees cooler or so than we were yesterday ... but we were 20 degrees above normal then ... we are making a dent in that drought with all of this rain it's 21 degrees cooler than yesterday milwaukee is down 32 degrees ... tomorrow the wind turns ... the suburbs will get in on the 70 degree temperatures ... but there is another storm coming later sunday into monday. we have fifties' along the lakefront ... the north end of the city was hit hard wit

checking out tom skilling seven day forecast. >> we have to have a nice weekend on the way.is it has been dry in the upper midwest lake michigan to inches below one year ago and upper midwest fire elevated fire risk areas lower michigan and the area with purple in the middle region gusty wind red flag breeze of them tomorrow with readings in the mid '70s north lake shore area made to-upper 80s and lead at the same thing well into the 80s on sunday very little lake: the southwest. on saturday and monday i am sorry cooler weather. as far as cloud cover goes forecast tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow evening mostly sunny day. rain and cool air comes said the lower humidity friday or monday and tuesday and the warmth begins to build could be a thunderstorms from time to time on thursday and friday looking pretty warm and humid and memorial day weekend watch what happens here up to monday hop pattern if it works out with the jet stream is shifting north prospects of any rainfall north also way to the west and north as you can see right now could get pretty warm not all the tomorrow

so we have made it through the bad stuff tom skilling ... >> it looks terrific a decidedly dry patterne a bit cooler tomorrow with showers this afternoon ... but that's an exception to the pattern, not. coming up... we are taking a look at the graphics and we see that some of these patterns will result in scattered showers this afternoon 30 percent of the area will experience this with thunder and lightning. there is a pool of cool air that has circulated with this ... that's what we will be seeing this afternoon there is a buckle and the jet stream that will bring the pocket of cooler air along with it. we will be under some strong wind. that will move away and the ridge of high pressure will rise bringing sunbreaks and warmer temperatures we will be back into the '70s by the time we reach the weekend it has spent 67 years since we opened at the month of may with rain like this. we will not be getting much to the remainder of the month ... it may rain some but certainly not the accumulations we have seen after this weekend. we are taking a look at these wind gusts in the region ... wi

epmemorial day temperatures tom skilling >> maybe the board as the memorial day in six years.ded last half century to hit 90 degrees. these storm clouds of virginia beach and the last few days big storms in the east today miami florida more on that in a moment. could not have been more perfect here in chicago. tacking on four additional decrease in the temperature, gorgeous day boaters out there on the lake today and why not? like easterly wind turning southerly and the next few days. big storms to the north producing heavy weather. curl in the clouds this is the weather assistant diving into the rocky mountains the next few days this went out at us turning the wind southerly over memorial day weekend cooling us off. i did in the day saturday if not sunday warming up in the last half century back to 1962 above 90 degrees. pretty amazing when you think about it. increasing temperatures across the center of the country tonight. coming our way up above 80 degrees tomorrow before the wind turns and all of the bank later on friday to " soft. 91 degrees at rapid city today. look at

wgn news @ 9 top story in a second first tom skilling nasty weather >> weather watch is down for most of chicago to the south pretty good chance storms will head incredibly hot memorial day around here 95 degrees broke a record second day in a row warmest memorial day on record midway 94 degrees and that the lakefront. big change to cooler weather and to keep relief on the way. record temperatures south bend and flint michigan fifth temperatures dropping to the west we are in pretty good shape cooling-off still warm in the city. going to remain that way for awhile. these storms across western illinois still forming as you can see to be self 40,000 ft.. couple of heavy storm south and west risk of rainfall. the front will pass without a lot of rainfall not all good news we do need more rain fall. later in the week with a cool off coming sharing with you later the break in the heat wave on the way. >> record heat today memorial day 95 degrees huge crowds along the lakefront with more >> >> but things have cooled off out here earlier today it was sticky steamy stifling kind of heat. a lo

tom skilling in the weather center great news but the next seven days. >> tomorrow could be the thirdperatures on the second and third. turning cooler after that here is a simulated satellite animation driven by the model creates what looks like satellite image. you can see by 5:00 tomorrow sunshine gathering to the west in here by saturday morning mostly cloudy saturday peaks of sunshine and mother's day cloud settled itself as the day goes on. longer talking rainfall icons show you reports of heavy weather icons most northern reports with raindrops have it ran a look at the tornado reports down through texas and across into florida waterspouts near marathon florida. active weather high pressure pushing the warm air up to the lakefront front passes showers come through saturday wind off of the lake after that. showers gathering to the west. near 80 degrees to the end of the forecast next week and 78 degrees tomorrow at 67 degrees saturday. cooler each day near the lake 71 degrees monday with a light lake breeze a localized near the shoreline. and the lake breezes right at the beaches

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skills. there is a disconnect there. >> tom: dan, that brings up a interesting point. unemployment rate for early 20s is 13%. it'secompetitive. companies want communication skills. are schools preparing graduates? >> a hundred percent of employers surveyed said yes. in a sense they're not. 29% of employers are looking for aunt wren pure ship skills now and a lot of schools don't have those programs. more and more employers are looking for people very accountable for their own careers and are the drivers and not relying on companies to train them and make them progress in a company. >> tom: you exemplify that entrepreneur ship. thank you, dan for joining us. our guest. >> tom: weakness in european stock markets washed ashore in the u.s. today as investors ignored increasing confidence among american small businesses. the s&p 500 was in the red the entire session, falling to its lowest level of the day before noon eastern. the index pared back the earlier losses to finish down 0.4%. volume picked up on the selling today. 900 million shares moved on the big board, almost 2

as you progress in a corporation soft skills are important for leadership rolls. >> tom: one of the soft skills you identified was communication. i found it interesting communication is a top skill required but when you ask them the harde skillo fd communication was number one. why do you think the disconnect exists? >> well, i think it can be hard, easy to find it. it depends on relationships built with the companies and cod colleges. a lot of communication skills, you don't learn them in school and present until you go to certain business ills. there is a disconnect there. >> tom: dan, that brings up a interesting point. unemployment rate for early 20s is 13%. it'secompetitive. companies want communication skills. are schools preparing graduates? >> a hundred percent of employers surveyed said yes. in a sense they're not. 29% of employers are looking for aunt wren pure ship skills now and a lot of schools don't have those programs. more and more employers are looking for people very accountable for their own careers and are the drivers and not relying on companies to train themnd make

a good work ethic and a good attitude we're able to find them jobs if they can get the skills that they need. >> tom: diane eastabrook joins us from chicago. diane, do employers look down on job candidates who've been out of the workforce for several months? >> i think a lot of employers realize that this has been a recession unlike any that we've seen in our lifetime, at least. and a lot of people have been out of work for a very long time. and so, if someone has been unemployed for a while, they've taken the time to go back and get retrained and they have good skills, these employers are willing to hire them. >> tom: diane, illinois unemployment rate we mentioned around 9%, the national rate closer to 8%. but still, about 40% of those folks have been unemployed for six months or more, long-term unemployed. is retraining possible? >> there are people out there who have been out of work four and five years, and some of those people have very low skills. they went from job to job, and those people may have some difficulty getting back into the workforce. and also keep in mind there are some psycholog

but at the end of the day i'm using a lot of the same skills as when i was wearing a u.s. army uniform. >> tom: still ahead: from teaching to healthcare, when it comes to hiring, some industries are finding that veterans bring the right stuff to the job. >> susie: 100,000 troops are coming home from iraq and afghanistan this year. sure, some will stay in the military, but many will be searching for civilian jobs. now, transitioning to corporate america hasn't been easy for many veterans. sylvia hall takes us to a recruiting firm helping veterans tackle the challenge. >> reporter: in any military unit anywhere in the world, you'll find a range of jobs as diverse as the people who hold them. from engineers to supply chain managers, to chefs, nurses and lawyers, america's troops can do a lot. ravaire prince spent 12 years as an electrician in the navy. he's been deployed across the globe, from japan to iraq. now it's time to bring those skills home to a civilian job. it's a bigger task than you might think. that's where orion international, a military recruiting firm, comes in. >> i know there's