to make a buyout offer for as much as $6 billion by tomorrow, according to minnesota's "star tribune" newspaper. that's optimistic news for investors. it sent the stock to its highest point in about a month to a little over $14 a share. >> tom: many small u.s. businesses are bracing themselves for a potential double whammy in the months ahead-- higher income taxes and new health insurance costs. at the beginning of 2014, companies with more than 50 full-time employees must provide health insurance or pay a penalty. while some details of the affordable care act are still being worked out, many small firms fear the changes could force them to cut employees or drive them out of business. diane eastabrook has more. >> reporter: the holidays mean big business for tasty catering. >> we're at metawa at 8:30. we're at schaumburg at 9:00. >> reporter: during this time of year, the catering company works around the clock, preparing food for office christmas parties in the chicago area. co-owner thomas walter brings in over 100 part-time employees to help out his 70 full timers during busy times like this

that i have and i wrote about this this particular subject this week for my column with the tribune newspapers across the u.s. and that is that the main cultural difference between a country like the united states and for example canada has less gun crime but guns are still legal is that there is there are a battery of tests that are executed whenever somebody applies to own use or store a firearm in canada any kind of firearm whether it be a long gun or or a handgun and that's what i would suggest that maybe needs to be implemented in the united states i don't really have a problem with much of a problem with people owning guns if they can prove that they've taken a licensing course they know how to handle it they their safety oriented with it they're educated about it and there's been a thorough background check including interviews of ex-partners partners in the last few years to find out if they've ever had any kind of treatment by doctors for depression for mental illness for behavioral issues because in canada the police actually execute a thorough background check that includes things l

it says it will now include eight newspapers and 23 tv stations among its profitable assets. tribune executives says the company is far stronger than it was when it began the bankruptcy process. >>> time now 5:53. the deadly tour bus crash in oregon experts say they saw this coming while yesterday's tragedy focuses new attention on the road that many say is just too dangerous. >>> plus putting people on the sideline to help children effected by a horrible tragedy. >>> 5:56. at least nine people are dead and dozens injured after a tour bus crashed on an icy highway in oregon. in an area known as dead man pass. the bus careened through a guardrail before plunging 100 feet down an embankment. the bus was traveling from las vegas to vancouver british columbia. the bus driver survived the crash but has not yet spoken to police due so his juries. >>> the connecticut medical examiners a is the gunman's remains were claimed several days ago by a anonymous person. 20 first graders and six educators were killed in that december 4th shooting. >> several sandy hook students and family members we

chicago tribune newspaper report gunmen shot 11 people around the city one night just last week. say right to bear arms for self-defense is just as important outside of the home as it is inside. live coverage, portland oregon now. we have chopper shots now on live coverage from the ground. some 60 shots said to have been fired. a gunman in camo possibly body armor. a mall on lockdown and live coverage happening now. let's listen. >> a lot of people just really shaken up by all of this. some of them didn't see what happened but they heard the gunshots obviously very loud. there were a lot of gunshots inside as well. we're going to keep talking to witnesses out here and trying to gather more information. we will send it back to you for now. >> all right, brian. can i only imagine. we saw the people being evacuated as they were coming out of malls just looks on their faces and even if you didn't see it yourself to know that this hand and how this came. >> what i can tell you is that there is a report from dispatchers that there is a believe that the gunman is dead now. we can't conf

this ends four years of chapter 11 protection among them the tribune controls a major daily newspapers and nearly two dozen tv stations including wgn. a minor gun charge may be taking a potential congressional candidate out of the running coming up with a man once believed to be the favorite to replace jesse jackson jr.... good news tonight on that president bush's recovery. tom skilling says we could see daytime temperatures fall below freezing for the first time this season the sports caster is coming up. the field of candidates wanted to take over jesse jackson jr. is shrinking a senator dropped out which makes for some legal trouble. we haven't heard a peep from donnie trotter today but a spokesperson says that he will hold a press conference tomorrow to announce his campaign for the second district seat is over. it's another plot twist with the main character dropping out of the race donnie trotter was arrested for trying to take a gun into animal onto a plane he said he forgot to take it out of his bag after working his side job as a security guard. he already had the influential

one of my local newspapers, the "chicago tribune," reports that at the end of march, murders in my city had spiked almost 60%. and as of june, homicides in chicago were up almost 20% over last year. 488 murders to date. ranging from 18 months to 19 years. these are americans also shot down like dogs in the street. as i recall being in the hospital room when my son was pronounced dead, there was a primal scream that came from his sister, his mother. it wasn't a scream of a black woman. it wasn't a scream of a white mother. it wasn't a scream of a latina mother mother or a scream of an asian mother. it was a scream, a primal scream of a mother. a scream that is rarely duplicated anywhere. it is a horrible scream and i can't get that scream out of my consciousness. so i applaud speaker pelosi, leader pelosi, soon to be speaker pelosi and i applaud the democrats who are standing here. we must stop future sandy hooks right now. we cannot allow the schools of america to become killing fields. we must act now. i applaud all of those who are involved. >> do you want to speak very briefly? >> we

the tribune company owns 23 television stations, eight daily newspapers, and other media assests including w-g-n, c-l-t- v, and w-g-n america. >>the final test drop has been on the famous new year's eve ball in times square. the ball is made up of nearly 27-hundred waterford crystal and 32-thousand 2-hundred-56 l-e-d lights. this year the ball weighs 12-thousand pounds almost six tons. the ball drop is actually an old maritme tradition that was adopted by new york city more than a century ago. just ahead the best times of the year to buy certain home necessities. and, still to come this midday we'll tell you which airline is considered to have the rudest employees. on track for its lowest decade of growth since the great depression. plan the economy for that. at the current pace the nation's population will grow just 7%. the influx of immigrants has been on the decline since the 2007-2009 recession. you just have to know what to buy and when. i'm going to break this down for you. january is the best time of year to pick up linden, if you need to upgrade your appliance, jim and is your best

tribune will have a profitable portfolio of assets, including eight major newspapers, 23 televisionsding channel 50 in d.c. the company has a new board including ross levinson who ran yahoo for a few months before marissa mire was hired. >>> thank you very much, hampton. good to see you. happy new year. >>> no doubt about it, it's perfectly fine to be excited. >> some fans may have taken excitement a little too far. >> are you serious? this guy decided last night was the best time to dispose of his christmas tree. he didn't take it out to the woods. he jumped on it as part of his redskins celebration. imagine what he would do if the burgundy and gold won the super bowl. >> stay clear. stay away from him. >> i would imagine he's got pieces of ornament stuck in his arms and stuff. >> or the sap from the tree. >> maybe only -- i don't know if it was fresh or not. still, what a way to celebrate. >> coming up at 6:00. hear from the red skin who ran into the record books during the team's victory. >>> plus, we're hours from going over the fiscal cliff. who is being called on to try to brid

tribune". she covered the story for her newspaper and broken much of this new information.what is it that led police first of all to the idea, general idea that these two guys might be responsible? >> you know, the sheriff's office has a list of nearly 600 suspects that they have compiled in the last 6 years. these guys were actually suspects for the first three months of the investigation and dismissed after polygraph and fingerprints allowed detectives to think that it wasn't them. jon: and capote in his book talks about them. talks about their time in florida but dismisses the possibility that they could have been responsible, right? >> yeah. capote has three pages mentioning the walker murders and does the same thing that detectives did earlier. he mentions that they have an alibi and fingerprints and polygraph lead them to the decisively negative. that they were the suspects. jon: tell us some of the coincidences, some of things that police are looking at that capote got wrong. >> you know, capote mentioned they were in miami at a hotel on christmas day and that's one

one of my local newspapers, the "chicago tribune," reports that at the end of the march murders in my city had spiked to almost 60%. and as of june, homicides in chicago were up almost 20% over last year. 488 murders to date. ranging from 18 months to 19 years, these are americans also shot down like dogs in the street. as i recall and exspeerns -- experience you can't escape the pain. being in a hospital room when my son was pronounced dead. that was bad enough, but there was a final scream that came from his sister, his mother. it wasn't a scream of a black woman, it wasn't a scream of a white mother, it wasn't a scream of a latino mother, it wasn't scream of an asian another, it was a primal scream of a mother. a scream that's rarely duplicated anywhere. it's a horrible scream, and i can't get that scream out of my consciousness. so i applaud speaker pelosi, leader pelosi, soon-to-be speaker pelosi, and i applaud the democrats who are standing here. we must stop future sandy hooks right now. we cannot allow the children of america to being killing fields. we must act now and i appl

the tribune company is set to emerge from bankruptcy four years after the media giant flieled chapter 11. there will be a portfolio including eight major newspapersl big banks are reportedly close to a $10 billion settlement to be held liable for pad foreclosure practices. the new york times goes to those who have lost the home. happy new year. >> and to you. the congress going down as the least productive congress in modern times. >> yes, indeed. >> on that note, happy new year to you. >> have you ever forgotten someone's name moments after meeting them? you say, hey, what's up, man? or he will lorks young lady. whether at the work place or a party we have tips and tricks to remember the names of new people you meet in 2013. >> i'm bob. >> forgetting someone's name at a holiday party. what's it like for you, ike? >> embarrassing. >> that's what chester santos is trying to cure. as a former national memory champion he teaches memory workshops. >> always shake the hand and immediately repeat the name. nice to meet you, bob. at the same time i try to ask myself if there is any association i can think of. >> in my case he imagined me, bob, bobbing f

i have suggested may be a shorter newspaper on the the model of the iht, the "international herald tribune," which is 20 pages and very crisp. on the model of "the economist" but a daily paper. then there is back to the book stuff -- magazine stuff, all the special sections. possibilities are it could be a separate magazine each day. it could be an online magazine know that you have to pay extra for. it could be a weekly magazine. but it might be something supportable. what else could happen? the "times" instead of selling to somebody -- it could become a national trust. the "christian science monitor" is sort of owned by a trust foundation. it has always been a pretty good newspaper. maybe the model of pbs could work. there are problems with that, because as you know pbs's really supported by a lot of companies and everyone wants to have their own point of view. if you yell out and not that it is a left newspaper, then you have the mclaughlin report and all these things. it is a problem. but we do not want to lose the "times" culture. what is the "times" trying to do? one thing they are t

tribune which says day one of legalized marijuana was pretty chill. there were no run on doritos, increased in car wrecks, no crazy displays of joy. >>> to florida, the sun sentinel newspaperida wildlife officials announcing the 2013 python challenge. it's a hunting contest that begins next month because the burmese python population is posing a big threat. officials found a 75 found fully intact deer in the stomach of one captured last year. a grand prize of $1,500 is being offered to the hunter who kills the most pythons. >>> just about three hours away from the november jobs report. next why stouperstorm sandy cou have an impact. copays as low ar through a preferred network pharmacy like walgreens -- where you'll find 8,000 convenient locations. best of all, this plan has the lowest part d premium in the united states -- only $15 a month. open enrollment ends december 7th. so call today or visit your local walgreens. ♪ you make me happy [ female announcer ] choose the same brand your mom trusted for you. children's tylenol, the #1 brand of pain and fever relief recommended by pediatricians and used by moms decade after decade. inspiration. great power. iconic design. ex