it happened just after one this morning, near franklin and wacker drive. a man who was leaving work from the sun-times spotted the woman bobbing in the water, and called police. rescue divers jumped in the river to save her, after she refused to catch the life-buoy. >> withdrew its out to her she made no attempt to get to it. thank god they came here i don't think she had much left in her. the fire department came and they grabbed her. it was scary. >> i swam out to her and made contact and the firemen insisted to pull her back in. >>the woman was brought back to shore safely, and was taken to the hospital. a sixth person has been charged in connection with the murder of a 14-year-old girl in the back of the yards neighborhood. endia martin was shot to death by another 14-year-old girl, after the two got into a fight over a boy. floyd evans is charged with passing off the weapon used in the shooting. police say robert james was the original owner of the gun, before he illegally sold it to evans. evans later gave it donnell flora. flora is charged with murd

the works gt, a battery-operated weed wacker. we sell these to most of the home centers. >> we talk about battery-operated tools. that obviously has to be a selling point. what about the efficiency of these batteries? has it changed? >> it has. just like you are saying in the automobile industry, tesla coming up with cars that run on batteries, you're seeing the same thing in power equipment. especially gas powered equipment. it is messy. you do makes gas and oil. give to pull that charger that is always a pain. with our tools you pop in a battery and push a button. >> has the technology change? what kinds of batteries are you offering in recharging? it is not the same kind of power pack. iswhat we have been selling much more of a light-duty homeowner type of product. to au have a yard up quarter of an acre, this is perfect. you are seeing battery technology get bigger and bigger. not on the distant future you're going to see battery-operated products that are going to perform at the same runtime and power as gas. >> the ability

. >> when a possum hiding in their kitchen killed wacker, john was devastated. >> he told me the dayfter, he said the house has betrayed me. >> paul myer has a tree farm next to the bender's property. >> i remember ann very well, beautiful woman, hair up in a pony tail, white tank top, tanned, okay, i'm living next to lara croft, tomb raider. >> myers remembers his last get-together in 2009. six months before a bullet would end john's life. >> ann didn't look good. she looked pale, like she had lost weight. both of them seemed sad or depressed. >> the last six to eight weeks i was not eating or drinking or bathing or doing anything to take care of myself. >> john began talking suicide. ann says she had to repeatedly take part in what she calls dress rehearsals. >> we would gather all the pills in the house and put them on the table. and he would ask me what do i do with these? i had tried to commit suicide before myself. and so i would tell him this is what you do, but i could tell that doing these things would calm him down. and he would feel better. >> practicing suicide to calm hi

. >>> new at 5:00, when it comes to weed wackers goats are about as ecofriendly as it gets.ut they're not immune to supply and demand. >> reporter: it's time to head them up, and move them out. >> nice place to eat. this place is all out of food. >> reporter: food is the dry dead brush that causes firefighters the biggest concern. 450 goats can clear out about an acre of tinder dry brush a day. right now there aren't quite enough goats available to meet the demand. >> i can, i can keep another thousand working. twice as many as what i have. >> we're looking for our first job with calfire. they've indicated a few spots for us. >> reporter: they're even out of the state goat operators working in california but don't think about getting into the goat business just yet. it's a boom or bust business. april rains caused many to delay hiring goat operators and there are other challenges. >> it's a tough job. then you worry about them at night. you know. is the fence going to go down. are they going to get out in the morning. >> reporter: there's something about goats that causes pe