wgn's dan ponce joins us with reaction to the decision. the vote came down this afternoon out of dallas, texas where the group's national council is meeting. about 60% of the 1400 delegates voted in favor to lift the ban. now thousands of scouts and scout leaders are threatening to quit. meanwhile gay rights activists are vowing to fight on until the ban on gay adults is lifted as well. the ban on openly gay boy scouts has been in place throughout the one-hundredth three-year history. now after heated debate the band will be less lifted jan. 01. people on both sides threatened to quit the boy scouts depending on the outcome and a gay-rights activist prevailed with a 60% of in their favor. if they do choose to go with allowing gay youth but not gay adults, i will be guarded leave happy, i guess. while it yes it is a step in the right direction, they still in a way our fault in one form of discrimination at the expense of another. leaders of the boy scouts in dallas tonight said that people have different opinions about the policy but all ag

it's our top story seen around the country tonight on wgn america. wgn's julie unruh is live where it happened off golf road, just east of 294 in unincorporated des plaines. . >> this apartment complex in des plaines is huge. many people live here and many children as well they use bicycles to get around because it is so vast. and when the weather is warm that is what the kids have been doing, getting help on bicycles and chilling weather. that is what happened at 430 in the afternoon. a 12 year old girl was on her bicycle and she came down this driveway had went through the open area in the fence and went down below next to a lake or and old pond. she was sitting there enjoying the sun when a would-be predator attacked. . >> he walks up from another direction, passes her bike, he is suspicious and he comes towards her. he grabs her and covers her mouth and drags her into a wooded area. she does what we encourage people to do. she bites and cakes and screams at bites him. . >> she bit himself hard on the hand she he was forced to let her go. she ran

wgn's nancy loo is live in wheeling with the story. nancy? a third suspect is charged with lying to the fbi. a detention hearing is scheduled this afternoon for a teenager who was planning to travel to the middle east to join a terrorist group. or arrested last month at o'hare airport. use about to board a flight to turkey. police are investigating the murder of a 23-year-old wheeling man who was found shot to death last night. wgn's nancy loo is live in wheeling with the story. nancy? police have not had to investigate a murder since 2010. i have already tracked down leads and witnesses to last night's murder of a 23 year-old man. many residents of this apartment complex suspect the case may be gang-related. >> relatives and friends did not want to talk about what happened last night. they say he was out to walk the dog. he was gunned down about 1:00. >> up to 50 people were outside last night in joining the mild weather. this morning investigators combed the area for evidence after interviewing at least a dozen witnesses. some said the gunm

wgn's judy wang is live in washington park with that story. they have been preparing for this for more than one year. revenue redline come down. october 19th this project is supposed to be complete. this is affecting 80,000 riders who are getting their first taste of life for a while. >> some you can see it in their faces. >> i was trying to consider all the different options. ryan them still in a state of confusion as to what to do. some said it was smooth sailing. >> not having to stop at 87. >> spending the next months building tracks in the event o . >> we're asking a lot of the computers and a lot of the workers. everybody is working together to do exactly what we need to do to bring the red line into the 21st century. >> one of our crew members aboard a bus to garfield. the total commute time was 32 minutes. >> officials say there will make adjustments as this yell things go. >> they say in some places there in such beds this academy travel about 50 mi. per hour. >> an average of 10-20 minutes of command. >> and 9 year old boy is serious

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wgn with stanley kurtz.essed, even many of the local and metropolitan newspapers were coming under fire. you had the "san francisco chronicle" which was put under the thumb of this administration because they had a reporter who wanted to tape one of the fund-raisers and did it and was chastised for it. there have been many local reporters who have been yelled at or screamed at or leaned or or pressured by this administration. so for everyone who has felt the boot of the obama administration and its goons on their necks, i think tomorrow is especially a good day to make yourselves heard. and there are tea party patriots across the country who will be marching to their irs offices locally at noon, taking time off most of them of course are gainfully employed or are small business employers themselves finally sick of it all. finally. >> what do you think will happen with the tea party? because they were so active and vocal in trying to stop the health care law and then engaged in a lot of candidacies, some of w