for big cuts in medicaid spending when he delivers his annual budget message later this week tonya francisco's live at the illinois hospital association headquarters in naperville ... >>the association is sounding the alarm about these medicaid cuts saying they could lead to the loss of thousands of health care jobs and what it calls health deserts' >>we are concerned that this level of cuts could be thought about at the state level the president and ceo of the illinois hospital association expresses her concern about these cuts by the governor ... which could include payment rates from doctors pharmacies and hospitals and the cutting back on services ... she said the state health care system for the poor could collapse >>the deep cuts could also lead to the loss of as many as 19,000 health care jobs >>we are willing to work with the government we have always been saying that the needs to be a thoughtful and planned approach over number of years ... >>and that is what mary jane worth proposes a phased in plan over years rather than the governor's plan which would take effect july 1st >>lt. gov

>>tonya francisco's lead at the dirksen federal building with the top story >>felt cafe was not in court from day one fedell caffey has claimed that he has had nothing to do with the death of debra evans her 10 year-old daughter 7 year-old son and the fetus she was carrying the man and his girlfriend and the women's cousin was convicted of cutting the woman's baby from her womb and killing her two children ... >>the perpetrator claims that there were witnesses that were excluded and that people were buying drugs from witnesses >>if these allegations are true that one of the allied asians of the attorneys were buying drugs from witnesses is a very loaded delegation ... >>the best friend of the victim is not convinced of this strategy ... she will be in court sending a message to the perpetrator ... >>the unborn child cut from the womb of debra evans he survived his name is elisha he lives downstate with an older brother and his grandfather ... the family is convinced that fedell caffey will not be free ... >>police say that a 66 year-old president of an oak park senior care facilities sus

tonya francisco is live with the story in hyde park, his mother is living a nightmare that she said shecannot wake up from the ceviche as telling her story because she does not want other parents to endure what she did >>the boy has been a fighter his entire life his biggest challenge came at 2 years old when he suffered a stroke leaving him paralyzed and on a ventilator requiring 24-hour care this past saturday morning his mother noticed that something was not right with his breathing >>his breath was labored when i checked on him ... >>she called 911 and he was rushed to the hospital one hour later the downdoctors pronounced her son dead ... >>i honestly thought it was the medication had been down this road before ... something was different this time >>four hours later the funeral home arrived to pick up his body before they arrived she detected a very faint pulse ... she is calling it a miracle >>it was no miracle in my opinion there was negligence according to the mother >>the parents had to make a difficult decision ... >>he looked so peaceful ... >>the hospital issued a statement

tonya francisco has more from lincolnshire.learned this morning that one student has been arrested and the police are calling this an active investigation some more arrests could be on the way >>it's surprising that the school is finally catching on to the drug problem here because there every school and s'prised haven't done this sooner but i'm glad they have nonetheless ... >>a spokesperson for stevenson high school would not appear on camera but he said it all began with one student in late december and agreed to a much bigger investigation lincolnshire police were called and armed with search warrants for student cellphones ... they used student text messages to compile a list of students that may be connected to drug dealing here at the school >>people on that list may have been expelled or suspended >>we're learning that cellular phones are not safe ... but it's an intervention ... there are like 5000 students how could they possibly be sure of what's going on otherwise >>are you surprised that the school is cracking down

tonya francisco is live downtown at school board headquarters with more on this story. >>more than 80 speakers have signed up but before they were able to get to the microphone the school board supervisor explained it that the board has spent the last few months gathering information in order to make well-informed decisions, i wanted another we recognize that these decisions are important and critical the affect communities and neighborhoods we do understand that but ultimately we need to make our decision based on what we believe fix is in the best interest of the children in these schools and those who will be attending in the future >>dozens of protesters were out in front of the chicago board of education earlier today protesting one of the biggest decisions that will be made later today and that is to callclose to schools phase out five more and turn around 10 others ... there was an amended decision on the phasing out of crane tech chemical high-school favoring instead a turnaround of the curriculum there.. >>police continued to search for the man who sexually ass

it is being criticized for shooting to death an autistic boy tonya francisco is live in calumet city ... >>the boy suffered from asperger's syndrome and that was a condition that was known to the local police ... they also knew that he was a strong young man with a temper and a tendency to put up a fight given previous calls to the home before ... there received a call ... before police arrived at the home the father managed 2 down after restricting his computer time because the boy did not want to go school ... the boy hit in the basement and police tried to approach him he lunged at them with a knife ... >>police shot the boy and killed him ... >>this year and man consistently goes off of his medication and inflicts physical harm and his parents and anyone that is in his way ... given everything i've learned about the incident he dictated his situation he assault of the officers with a knife and pushed the incident to the level it was ... >>the two officers firing those shots were placed on paid administrative leave while the illinois state police investigator ... community protest

>>tonya francisco's live from city hall with the top story >>a bunch of student activists and parents said that the number and noble network charter school system is making an inappropriate profit off of its students >>dozens of students and parents held a rally and march from cps headquarters tisch's city allto city hall ... over the policy of charging students for breaking minor rolesules when a student's receives more than 12 detentions' they have to pay a steep three digit find and that resulted being held back from graduation in three years the noble network system collected about $300,000 in these confinesfines.. >>my student was in detention for some very small and fractions like her shoes being not tied or not focusing on the teacher in the class and not having an id in the pocket ... >>but apparent from the different school in the noble system feels that these fines are really reenforcing disciplines and her child >>my child actually has a chance to graduate gutted colleg and i don't think you get this and go to college a chance that she would not have in the mainstream publi

tonya francisco has engineers to activists about the shutdown of a coal-fired plant ... >>8 greenpeace ta activists once climbed smokestacks here and now activists get their wish the plant will be shutting down as well as others around the metropolitan area ... according to reports in the chicago sun- times mayor rahm emanuel put pressure on the company and reached agreement activists had been working on this for years >>we held our elected officials accountable and this will change things for the better >>news of this agreement the gets sooner than anyone expected we received a statement from midwest generation saying that no announcement has yet been made officially ... the tribune and the sun-times both reports that they had seen the agreement ... the activists are planning a celebration and press conference tomorrow there will celebrate on behalf of the community >>mitt romney has reason to celebrate today he claimed a double victory in yesterday's primaries in spite of a strong challenge from rick santorum greg black takes look at what this means for the republican race going forw