And storms today. High near 50. Gusts of 3035. Today they could be even stronger. High wind warning is going into affect. 35 of the lakefront. 37 at ohare. 37 for union. We want to be above freezing because there is a lot of water coming our way. Right now we are reporting a few areas of rain and some leading being picked up. The rain is just at the western doorstep of cook county. It will be here shortly. Expect by 5 00 this area will be getting rain. Zooming into the Northern Counties you can see portions of the page and kane county has rain continuing. For the to the south with scattered showers. The system is a very organized system. It will bring a cold front our way today which will pick up the wind. Dress for rain early today. Strong wind this afternoon. 49 degrees or temperature by 5 00. Thunderstorm will be possible especially early in the day. The weekold down tonight. That should end as the rain and snow mixed. Credit we hit 36. Saturday, 34. All the weather definitely going to affect your commit. Freezing rain and sleet will be an issue. They were throwing salt down early last night. They will continue to do that in the Early Morning hours. And as that continues to melt off, we could be dealing with standing water. The high standing water causing issues for drivers out there. You want to take it easy today. They are saying they could see to lease on metra this morning because of the weather. On top of that we have construction lingering out there. Its on the dan ryan and taking a two local teen spirit should be picked up by 530. Jane addams ruled toll plaza two right lanes out. Two men are injured after an Apartment Building went up in flames on the far south side early this morning. It happened at about 2 am in the 82 hundred block of south ingleside. One man is in serious condition after jumping from the burning building. The other is being treated for burns to his stomach and foot. Hes is in stable condition the cause of the fire is unknown. Police officers rescued a person from a fire this morning. Deputy fire she said the victim was found near the back of the building on Central Avenue. The victim was taken to hospital in stable condition. Firefighters were able to quickly doused the faint flames that caused the fire. This causes under investigation. A dangerous brew of snow, rain, ice and wind is headed our way and will create the potential for massive flooding. Patrick elwood is live in the albany park neighborhood with more. Good morning. Here along the north branch of the Chicago River it is the relative, before the storm coming our way. Its looking pretty good. No flooding to report yet but with all of this note and as we just heard all the rain coming our way, that could change quickly. One more time lets talk about. At the National Weather service has issued a flood watch it started about 3 00 a. M. It will last until noon. Crews from the Water Department were out yesterday clearing the catch basins of what remains of the 70 in. Of snow with a gun. That along with any debris. Catch basins is where all the building snow and rain need to go. Authorities at deep tunnel say they can handle it. They just have to get it. City and suburban officials asked to do your part and if a catch basin on your street is blocked do what you can to clear it away. The mayor says it has been a heck of a winter for us. Mother nature, enough already more cruz out, when it warms up you will have flooding with this much snow. That is just a force of nature. If mother is nature is listening, after this winter, enough already. You are trying our patience. You win. Stop it already. No more. We surrender. City crews have sand bags at the ready. For people who live along the north branch like this area and other areas that are prone to flooding, you are revised to get anything off of your basement floor anything you can within reason. For now the situation looks ok. It will probably change through the morning. We will keep track of the developments. Back to you mayor emanuel made light of chicagos potential flood problems by telling reporters, he told his water commissioner to go see the new movie about noah and the great flood. I called and recommend his see the movie noah and come back with a plan. And other nature is listening, enough already. You are trying our patients. If you win. Stop it already. The movie about noah and the ark, starring russell crowe, doesnt come out until late next month. When the threat of flooding could be even worse than it is now. Warmer temperatures is causing ice to fall off buildings, and that caused at least one power outage. The outage happened at 38 hundred north lake shore drive last night. Ice fell from a building there and damaged a power cable. The outage affected three high rises, but power is now restored. Some breaking news. Its been a deadly morning in ukraine. A truce was announced, but the bbc reports at least five people have been killed in renewed clashes. Cnn reports there was gunfire in Independence Square, in kiev. Theres no word on who fired the shots, but at least three demonstrators were carried away on stretchers. This came hours after ukraines president announced a truce with opposition leaders. The agreement happened after 28 people were killed tuesday night. Today has been declared a day of mourning. Hundreds were injured. The demonstrators want their parliament to have more power because their president sides more with russia than the european union. Ukrainians in the chicago area are reacting with prayers and protests. The American Ukrainian Youth Association held this candlelight prayer vigil at a church in palatine. Demonstrators gathered outside the consulate general of ukraine in chicago. They left a display to call attention to the bloodshed in their homeland. They want ukraines president to resign and for the us and europe to intervene. Congressman bobby rush was there and says he will propose sanctions against ukraine next week. Homeland security is warning airlines to be on the lookout for possible shoe bombs. Intelligence collected by the us and other countries indicates terror groups have been working on new shoebomb designs. That in turn has prompted the department of Homeland Security to issue the warning. Especially on flights from overseas bound for the us. Officials say there has been no specific or credible threat, but they want to error on the side of caution. Taking a look at the other top stories this morning. Another local politician is going to prison. A judge sentenced former cook county commissioner joseph after he pleaded guilty to bribery and extortion. During the sentencing hearing, moreno said he had served honorably for most of his career except for some bad choices. Moreno is expected to report to prison on april 21st. Former Chicago Police officer testify today, in his murder conspiracy trial. Hes charged with plotting to kidnap a suburban businessman, torture him into giving up his real estate holdings, and then kill him. Yesterday, the jury heard a description of the fbis aerial surveillance of mandell in the days before the kidnapping was to take place. The alleged plot was ultimately foiled. Former congressman mel reynolds pled not guilty to pornography charges in zimbabwe. He appeared in a courtroom yesterday, to deny that he possessed, or produced, pornographic videos or photos. Hell face a bond hearing later today. Police in zimbabwes capital say they seized dozens of videos and thousands of nude pictures from Reynolds Hotel room monday. Several has School Students were injured when gas ignited during the cooking class at the north side has school theyre making hot chocolate is in a single burner stove. Sprinklers automatically kick on to put out the fire. The most severely injured student was taken to hospital in serious condition with burns to his face and arms. An investigation is underway. To u. S. Bobsled teams win the silver and bronze for the first time. The u. S. Have 23 medals, seven are gold. Russian has 22. Canada runs out the top five with eight teen one Winning Ticket was sold in last nights 425 Million Dollar powerball drawing. It was purchased at a chevron gas station in milpitas california, north of san jose. Last minute sales pushed the jackpot from 400 to 425 million. If the lucky winner doesnt have any partners, he or she would get more than 242 million bucks in a lump sum payment. This is the second big powerball win in the area in just a couple months. In december, a san jose man won 324 Million Dollars. We know it wasnt demetrius. Got about california. Its nice there. It is warm there. We are warming up here but we continue to seek rain. We have seen about four tenths of an inch in dekalb. Sycamore is that onethird. Its 33 degrees right now. We are looking at showers even thunderstorms moving through. Morris has a thunderstorm at this point. In waukegan we have mixed precipitation. We may get some freezing rain as temperatures are cooler there. We have fender cells moving through. Here is the radar composite. Big strong storm bringing rain and thunder today. Strong wind and cooling temperature into the evening. 50 degrees is the High Temperature. To the americans are found dead on a ship. Of the judge stepped in the feud between Martin Luther king jr. Some children. And a pizza hut worker was fired for a disgusting act and it was caught on camera. And we will more than 100 souths have arrived in north korea for reunions with their relatives. The reunions, which come after north korea called for better relations between the two sides. The families have been separated since the korean war in the 1950s. The relatives have not seen each other for decades. Reunions end next tuesday. Two americans were found dead aboard a container ship in the indian ocean. The maersk alabama was moored at Port Victoria in the Seychelles Islands tuesday when the bodies were discovered. The two victims were former navy seals, and they worked for a security contractor. The maersk alabama is the same ship that was attacked by somali pirates off the coast of africa in 2009. That incident inspired the movie captain phillips. The three remaining children of Martin Luther king junior are in a legal dispute over some of his possessions. Kings two sons and his daughter are fighting over their fathers bible and nobel peace prize. The sons, who control the estate, want to sell them, but their sister doesnt. Yesterday a judge ordered bernice king to turn over both items so they can be put in a safe deposit box. The items will remain there until the dispute is settled. Lawyers for both sides said that idea is fair. A pizza hut employee has been fired and the restaurant shut down after he relieved himself in the kitchen sink. The incident happened at the pizza hut in kermit, a town in West Virginia on the border with kentucky. A video of the man urinating was posted on you tube. In a statement, pizza hut said it does not tolerate violations of its operation standards. Prosecutors say since no food was involved, the man cannot be charged with assault. I guess we didnt show the video. Thats probably the best. I see that pizza hut still gets us hungry at this time of the day. But lets talk about the flood watch already in effect. This is through noon. We are on bill look out for flooding. A high possibility. We will get about 1 in. Or more of a train coming through. Add that to the water that is already in the snow and ice pack and thats where we have the potential for flooding. Right now its 37 degrees. Dew point temperature at 28. 34 right now in waukegan. Some areas close to freezing. There is the potential for some very icy conditions. The rain and snow mixed. This is right on the line here were you could have that mixed precipitation. The radar changes things over this indicates the temperatures are close to freezing. Potential for that down there. Thunder to the south. Morris was reporting a thunderstorm a moment ago. The rain continues to move through the region. Heavy showers throughout the day. And finally begins to clear out as we get into the latter portion of tonight. 50 degrees is our high today. Down to 25 tonight. 36 tomorrow. With construction lingering outside. This is out here for about another hour. In bound did ryan from 31. Two left lanes blocked. Impacted only the local leads. Should be picked up by 5 00 a. M. Kennedy on cumberland to left lanes blocked as well. 45 minutes before thats picked up. Jane addams river road toll plaza to right lanes are blocked. The story that we are anticipating is a freezing rain and sleet on the roads. That changes over to some high standing water because of the temperature change. Watch for that. They have been throwing salted down anticipating the slick driving conditions. Hopefully that can counteract the dicey driving but we will keep tabs on that through the morning. Coming up, walmart weighs in on the minimum wage debate. And is the team ready to exceed expectations . Its next in sports. We are going to introduce you to a cub scout being called a local hero for saving his brother from choking. We will tell you how we did it and the message he has for everyone out there watching. The full complement of 2014 gets the field around midday after pump you up speech from the manager and the owner. He also met the media will most of that conversation was about Wrigley Field negotiations, nothing new there tactic that it did raise an eyebrow or two when he said the cubs can be contenders. Every few years it happens. That team the conflict around. 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Carlos boozer added a team high 20 points and the bulls win their fourth in a row, 94 92. Theyre just a half game out of third place. Stocks closed down wednesday the dow dropped nearly 90 points. The nasdaq dipped 34. And the sandp fell 12 points. Walmart says it supports the increase in federal minimum wage. This could be good news for employees of one retail giant. This announcement comes a week after president obama signed an executive order to raise the wage for federal contract workers. Walmart is the largest private employer in the united states. The gap says it will raise the hourly pay for its us employees. Starting in june, the Apparel Store will pay employees 9 dollars an hour. And by june of 2015, that will increase to tendollars an hour. The increased pay will benefit about 65thousand employees. A grizzly bear is on the road to recovery. Bears recovered from a facility in georgia where they were held in pits. Veterinarians at carters the university prepared both of the bears a close. After covered it will go to a sanctuary near denver. When will this rain and . Its rating across most of our area today. When the going to hit us here . About 30 minutes ago. Here you are. This answers the question. Where did that come from . As you look across the northern and western communities, the potential for freezing rain and even some snow and sleet mixing in as the temperatures are cooler. We do have under reported down into Kankakee County and toward more spirit a bit of everything. Heres what we expect. Heavy rain. Even a thunderstorm. 45 degrees is the current temperature at 2 00 p. M. Wind will pick up and the temperatures will tumble. High wind warning in effect tonight. Wind gusts in some areas over 50 mi. Per hour. Thats tonight after getting about 1 in. Of rain. A bit of everything today. Rain and thunder. Starting with construction. Take a look at this picture. The ramp is what we are worried about with the weather changing. That tends to rise over the quickest. During extra salt in in anticipation of the changing weather. Here is the state line. This is the rain that were talking about. The slick Road Conditions right there. The continues to move in our direction. Watch for that slick road condition. The big issue for drivers is the standing water and then the risk of flooding. We will have another update in just a few minutes. Theres more to come in our next halfhour. Including a live report on flooding threat all over the chicago area. And a tenyearold girl is kidnapped about a block from her home and then killed. The latest, ahead. Plus republican candidate for Governor Bruce Rauner makes another big donation to his campaign. And someone is waking up 425 Million Dollars richer after winning the powerball jackpot. Details, coming up. A flood watch is in effect as a powerhouse winter storm moves into the area. We are live with the latest. Good morning, im dan ponce. Violence in ukraine is escalating. As highschool Basketball Team suspended for breaking the rules. Thanks for joining us. Lets go to Demetrius Ivory for a check of the weather. He has a bucketful of weather. The bucket will fill up shortly. Lots of water coming our way. We are talking at least an inch of water coming our way today in the next few hours. Thunderstorms this morning. Temperatures are on that line where you could have rain freezing rain. The on the lookout for slick conditions. After that, thunder and lightning are an issue. And then for the evening, the wind picks up in a big way. High wind warning in effect. Right now in aurora is 34. We have a flood watch in effect for basically the entire viewing area. We have high wind warning as well. I