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Until the man who lives here found her. >> i opened up the door to take maybe a warning sweep of the sidewalks, and find something like that is shocking. >> reporter: he found the young victim bloody and half naked on the sidewalk. the snow still stained by what happened here tuesday. a chilly reminder to how dangerous the streets can be. >> everybody is worried because in the morning you never see police walking around and stuff like that. >> now today youre seeing them all over. >> because som...

About how he was almost shot with blank rounds. details from the calls were published as exclusive stories in the news of the world. the rape and beating of a 15-year-old girl on the way to school has chicago officials reexamining the safe passage system. started in 2009. the program is men to protect students on the way to school and back. tuesdays incident which occurred 30 minutes before the start of safe passage, thats raised serious doubts. george howell has more on the story. >> reporter...

Insidious aspects of the racial regime in which we labor is that whiteness is the default, whiteness is invisible, whiteness does not exist as a thing, as something to be noticed. things just are white, people just are white, santa just is white. but heres the thing, until a few years ago, the president of the united states was white. he just was. that was a verifiable fact. but that changed. so, maybe santa could change, too? and speaking of changing santa, heres what santa should not be. this ...

Those messages. in fact, one of the most insidious aspects of the racial regime in which we labor is that whiteness is the default, whiteness is invisible, whiteness does not exist as a thing, as something to be noticed. things just are white, people just are white, santa just is white. but heres the thing, until a few years ago, the president of the united states was white. he just was. that was a verifiable fact. but that changed. so, maybe santa could change, too? and speaking of changing san...

Of drunken santas, could be seen brawling on the sidewalks near union square here in new york city. so, while were on the subject of whiteness as default, let me just hazard a guess that if the people streaming into the city every holiday season to get drunk and fight were overwhelmingly black, official new yorkers reaction would be a lot less ho, ho, ho. my mantra? family first. but with less energy, moodiness, and a low sex drive, i saw my doctor. a blood test showed it was low testosterone, n...

>> a book store is kind of the quintessential kind of store that has disappeared from main streets across america. how have you survived? >> i think its basically because i get here early in the morning and i work and stay here till late at night. thats how it works. >> everyone on main street is famous in their own way. i think thats whats neat about here that might be drowned out in a franchise in a big city that wasnt really yours. >> this secret we found to the towns most successful comes wh...

Around the new york city area, and then around the boston area they could see at least 8 inches. and so, it is going to continue to be a mess as we go through the next 24 to 38 hours. here in chicago, though, the crews have been out, they have been plowing the streets, the sidewalks, theyve been putting salt out so people are getting around pretty well, but im sure those overpasses and bridges can be quite dangerous at the moment with all of the snow weve gotten this morning, martin. >> yeah, bu...

Morning. the last few hours. thats where jennifer grey is. jennifer, how is it going? how are people handling things there? >> reporter: people are handling things really well. it has been coming down steadily since 5:00 or 6:00 this morning. it is just now starting to let up. youre just now able to see some downtown buildings where you couldnt all morning long. people have been out. but so have the snowplows, they have been clearing streets, salting sidewalks and streets, making things safer he...

Actually isnt a bad item. and our third awesomest thing on the internet comes not from the internet, but from an all physical printed newspaper which is being killed by the internet. we saw it because someone took a picture of it and put it on the internet. it is the farewell edition of "the onion," the final printed version, hitting newsstands today for the last time after 25 years of publication. an homage to print medias anihilism, you would never know its their last. onion print revenues up ...

And shameless pleas for followers on twitter, which actually isnt a bad item. and our third awesomest thing on the internet comes not from the internet, but from an all physical printed newspaper which is being killed by the internet. we saw it because someone took a picture of it and put it on the internet. it is the farewell edition of "the onion," the final printed version, hitting newsstands today for the last time after 25 years of publication. an homage to print medias anihilism, you would...