Impressive. Just be prepared for some sunshine. Partly, disguised early on. Mostly clear tonight. Slightly cooler we will be a few degrees cooler than we were yesterday. We had almost four tenths of an inch of rain at ohare. Much more in other areas. That started september in a very rainy fashion. It is 71 the the lakefront. 67 and juliet. Union greeting at 65. Satellite composite shows cloud cover breaking away from the northwest to the south east. Were going to watch the storm in northcentral iowa but it doesnt seem like it will keep itself together. It could be just a brief shower. By 9 00 p. M. We make 75 degrees. Decreasing clouds means increasing sunshine. 84 degrees on wednesday pyrrhic more sunshine wednesday. A big warmup. 90 on thursday. Remembers the day is the first day of school theres the first day free rides on the buses and trains from 530830 tonight. One person was killed when a house exploded in streator last night. Witnesses say the explosion shook homes more than a block away. The front of the house that exploded is now in pieces. Several neighbors heard the blast from inside their homes. And heard a big bang. Felt the house rubble and shake thought it was just like in i set my wife the was a lightning. That was a tree or something. Pecans shock and a sugar bad eye dog ran around in a circle. I went to the front door and there were huge flames. The victim has not been identified. A neighbor says the man who lived there got out, but his mother didnt make it. Two other homes also caught fire. The cause of the explosion is under investigation. Chicago Public Schools students head back to school today. Just a reminder School Starts tuesday september 2nd. Education will give you the power to make a change in your community. Cps officials, Community Leaders and local celebrities have spent weeks reminding students and their parents about the importance of coming to class on the first day. The black star project also has its annual million father march to encourage men to walk their kids to school. Organizers say when fathers are involved, children do better academically. Chicago needs to get behind having fathers up at school on the first day. It will pay the biggest dividend the city has ever seen. Not just the first day. We encouraged them to be more involved in their Childrens School year. The cta is also offering free rides to students today, and reduced fares all year. Chicago police have issued a Community Alert after an attempted kidnapping on the north side. It happened just after four yesterday afternoon, in the 58 hundred block of north kostner. Police say a man in a white work van pulled up to a group of kids who were on their bikes. He told the kids to get into the van, but they refused and rode off. Police did not offer a detailed description of the man, but did say he had a long dark beard. And that the van had a colorful logo on the side. American warplanes carried out another operation against an affiliate of alqaeda. But this time, it was in somalia. And the target was the terrorist group alshabaab. Militants from the group staged a car bombing and firefight against a Somali Intelligence headquarters over the weekend. 12 people died, including 7 militants. While the African Union backs the somali government, al shabaab is trying to discredit it. The pentagon has yet to report on the success or failure of its airstrikes. England is taking extraordinary steps to combat what it now considers an imminent threat by isis terrorists. Prime minister David Cameron wants to give British Police the power to seize the passport of any british citizen suspected of planning to travel for the purpose of joining isis. As many as 500 brits have joined the fight in iraq and syria. Cameron wants legislation to prevent them from returning to england. Passports are not an automatic right. People who declare their allegiance elsewhere should not be able to return to pose a threat to our national security. British airlines will now have to report any passengers on britains no fly list. Or be forbidden from landing in england. Taking a look at the other top stories this morning. This man is due in bond court today for a shooting at a forest preserve in oak forest. Luis gonzalez is charged with aggravated battery with a firearm and two other felonies. The shooting happened after a soccer match at Bachelor Grove woods sunday. Police say gonzalez shot a man and tried to escape in another persons car. Oak Forest Police stopped the car and arrested him. The victim suffered a graze wound. Police didnt give a possible motive. The Bank Robbery Suspect known as the no boundaries bandit has been caught. Rodrigo medeillin was arrested in cicero sunday. He is suspected of robbing 12 banks between august and may five in chicago and seven in nearby suburbs. Two surviving children from a family killed in a murder suicide in elmhurst say their parents had an unwavering committment to their family. Frank stack is believed to have killed his wife, joan, and two developmentally disabled adult children, before killing himself over the weekend. The surviving daughters say the stacks led very difficult lives that were increasingly difficult over the last several years. Illinois is accepting medical marijuana applications, starting today. Applicants whose last names begin with the letter a through l have until october 31st. The remaining patients can apply from november first, until the end of the year. Illinois is expected to be one of the most expensive places in the country to buy medical marijuana, because of how restrictive the law is. Big news for illinois congresswoman Tammy Duckworth she and her husband are expecting a baby girl in december. Duckworkth says theyve been trying to have a baby for some time. She is 46 and says she got pregnant with the help of in vitro fertilization. She says, in spite of potential problems with the pregnancy, she and her husband are very excited about their new addition. I am an older mom so i in a high risk pregnancy with heart issues from my service in iraq. But we are just thrilled. Duckworth still plans to run for a second term in office this fall. Local politicians spent labor day looking for votes, with the election just two months away. Governor quinn and his republican opponent bruce rauner shook plenty of hands on some parade routes. Quinn wore a tshirt to promote raising the state minimum wage. Quinn wants to raise it from eight dollars and 25cents an hour, to ten dollars an hour. Trying to raise the minimum wage for thousands of people in illinois who work hard every day. Nobody should have to work 40 hours a week and live in poverty. He doesnt have a plan. I do. Or or to get tort reform tax reform workers comp reforms. Pat quinn has failed on jobs. Governor quinn says hes living on the current minimum wage this week. He says thats about 79 dollars after paying for essentials. But rauner says thats just a promotion, not a plan. President obama spent labor day in milwaukee calling for a higher minimum wage. I want an economy where your hard work pays off with higher wages and higher income and fair pay for women. And work for parents. And Affordable Health insurance and decent retirement benefits. And not asking for the moon. I just want a good deal for american workers. The president is trying to give democrats a boost ahead of the november election in which every member of the house, one third of the senate. And 36 governors will be elected. Summer vacation ended on a high note, for the National Champion little leaguers from Jackie Robinson west. The team was honored at wrigley field, in the players final victory lap before returning to school. Their coach threw out the first pitch. Then the team took the field and the microphone for the seventhinning stretch. Sin in take me out to the ball game. This is beautiful. And its you thats doing it. Just a few days earlier, the allstars were honored by the white sox at u. S. Cellular field. Did you see the little guy in front hogging the microphone. He had a good voice. Theres always one. There will be singing when they go back to school today. Parents, vacation begins in just a few hours. Lets take a look of the weather. Some sunshine there today right now were starting off with some cloud cover. A weaker service is moving out of style. Were going to watch that because we have a slight chance of a shower popping up of the most part its going to be sunshine today. Here are the current temperatures right now. You can see the rain exiting our region. Rain along the ohio river valley but not so much here. Were a small disturbance across Northern Iowa we are watching but the short range models have this petering out before it makes its way here. Today, 82. Sunshine on wednesday. Thursday, 30 percent chance of rain. Fraud we make 82. Cooler for the weekend. Coming up, another young child dies after being left in a hot car. And severe storms that swept the midwest. And fire files battle a fire in montana and a surprising discovery. We will show you. And a woman learns a painful lesson to never forget about texting while driving. What doctors had to remove from her body. Thats coming up. Violence broke out just hours before new yorks west indian day parade kicked off. The annual parade features loud music, colorful costumes and lots of fun. It draws a crowd of about a million people. But its often preceded by violence. This year was no different. A 26yearold parolee opened fire on a crowd killing one man and injuring two. The man was taken into custody and faces charges including murder and assault. A two Year Old Girl is dead after she was left in a hot van. That happened outside the girls home, in roanoke, virginia, yesterday. A fireems crew found her in a car seat in the van parked in the driveway. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators say it appears the child was left in the van accidentally by one of her parents. Local prosecutors are considering criminal charges. Neighbors held a vigil near the home last night. An amish boy was struck and killed by lightning in pennsylvania. The boy and Three Friends were swimming in a creek in fulton township, when they saw a storm coming. As they walked across a nearby field, a bolt of lightning hit one of them and knocked him unconscious. Paramedics revived him briefly. But he died at the hospital a short time later. A second boy was injured by the lightning strike. In northern michigan, a tornado damaged several homes and knocked down power lines. It happened in otsego county. Winds in the twister were measure at more than a hundred miles an hour. Falling trees trapped three people in their home. But they were pulled out safely. Mandatory evacuations are underway in missouri valley, iowa, where rising water from the boyer river causes a levee to burst. The flood water poured into local streets and homes. The river levels are already starting to recede. And there are no reports of anyone being injured. Crews battling a wildfire in montana made a surprising discovery. They were digging a line around the fire at Bitterroot National forest, when they heard a noise under a burning log. It was two Mountain Lion cubs that were hiding from the flames. Firefighters couldnt get to them right away, so they had a helicopter drop water on the log. Their fur was singed, but the threeweekold cubs are otherwise ok. They are now being cared for by wildlife officials. Their mother was not found. Maybe she got out of there fast. She said time to get back to school but its a happy music because we want the kids to start off the year right. Thats what we want. Or not thinking about all the quiet time were going to get today. 69 degrees right now. Wind out of the west at 6 mi. 2. 64. You could send the kids off with the umbrella but they probably wont need it. Dry conditions across the area. When a weak disturbance to the west. Its 66 in waukegan. 65 in union. Satellite composite shows dry conditions. We have a weak disturbance just moving out of iowa. The computer model shows it petering out quickly in iowa now making its way here. Sunshine today. Nice weather for today the first day of school and the first day of parent vacation. Tomorrow expect more sunshine to come. Next chance of rain is thursday. Today, 82 degrees. Clouds are on the breakup. Tonight down to 64. Tamaras high 84 dry wednesday. Thursday chance of rain up to 90 degrees. Those parents are feeling it. A few things out there looks like a light volume on the road to go to have a car fire on the tristate. Right at north avenue heading south bound right lane blocked. Emergency crews are on the scene to cleared up. We will let you know once its cleared up. Coming up after 4 30. Well show you some amazing video moving on social media, of a Daring Rescue of the bucket bear. Not to be confused with our own bears. Were only six days away from kickoff at soldier field. Rich king breaksdown the first day of practice, next in sports. Hey marcus taking a look at whats trending online including buffalo scandal of the female celebrities his pictures were posted on line. We will have tips on how you can prevent hacking with her own devices. All of that coming up. Ever since we launched snapshot, my life has been positively craycray. Whats snapshot, you ask . Only a revolutionary tool that can save you bigtime. Just plug it in, and the better you drive, the more cash youll stash. Switching to progressive can already save ye 500. Snapshot could save ye even more. Meat maiden bringeth to me thine spiciest wings of buffalo. Good morning. In light workout for the bears live today the practice without jordan lynch. They lose a longtime player of the weekend and yesterday kane gets a call from a spot that is important. Its his third go round as the bear. Little action the practice try to shake off a concussion. Hes ok. He may try again monday. Jordan mills looks good after not playing all in a preseason game with a lingering soreness. He says he should be ready in the offensive line. I dont think its much of a concern. Together for 16 games last year. I broke my foot and its like riding a bike. Once you get it you do it and you never forget her ride a bike. We have to come together. Its going to be a process to get to know each other and how we work with the talent is there. The talent level is in a place right now we have the chance to what every week and get better and improved and thats what were going to try to do. Preview of the bears season on the miller lite football report. We will be in the studio joined by tim jennings. Join us friday night for a look at the chicago bears. In baseball, Jackie Robinson west honored at wrigley field. Things were going in the first with a double. A pair of doubles. Onezero. Three rounds come in its 30. A solo shot. Its threeone. The cubs got a big insurance run off the back of a plan of their and its four two. And that was the final the brewers have now lost six in a row. They are one game behind the cardinals. Thats sports. Have a great day. Markets were closed yesterday for labor day. Stocks ended the week up friday. The dow rose 18 points. Nasdaq added 22. The sandp gained 6. Move over starbucks. Peets coffee and tea is opening 16 new shops in the chicago area. Many in former caribou coffee locations. Company Officials Say they arent worried about the competition from the national chains. The californiabased Company Opened two peets in the area in the late 90s. One in chicago and one in evanston. Both are said to be doing extremely well. The teenage mutant Ninja Turtles gave up Crime Fighting to help a little boy fight cancer. Fiveyearold sam biggs, of downstate alton, was diagnosed with stagefour liver cancer in march. Hes a huge fan of the Ninja Turtles. So family and friends staged a turtle themed benefit. His heroes turned out for the event and everyone chipped in for his medical bills. Members of the crowd word ninja turtle themed gear, hoping to break a guiness book record for the most Ninja Turtles in one place. Its the first day of school. Of all we are talking about. And trying to tailor this for the kids. But mostly for the parents because that silence is going to be there pretty soon. Weve been waiting for a while. Lets check out. It just looks sad when you push them out the door. And then you can dance. Remember this dance videos from the first day every single day of school when my boys go off. Today we reach 80 degrees but to p. M. Our official high will be 82 this afternoon. All sunshine today. Expect more on wednesday we will have a 90 degree and our forecast i will tell you when. Lets take a look at the car fire on 294 heading south bound at north avenue just cleared off to the side. And a reminder to kids heading out this morning, cta is giving free bus and train rides from 5 30 a. M. 8 30 p. M. All for the first day of school. Lets look at traffic more later, know. Oftheres more to come in our next halfhour. And the sister of kenneth bae, an american detained in north korea, is speaking out after his unexpected media interview. Plus what happened after some people werent told that a protest over the Ferguson Police shooting, was cancelled. And the colorado woman is speaking out after an unbelievable accident that one person was killed when a house exploded. Well have reaction from the scene. The u. S. Launches air strikes against a terror group in somalia. And chicago Public Schools children had back today. Leaders are hoping to get the word out. Good morning. The store right over to the weather with demetrius. The kids are watching. And so are the parents. The kids want a snow day or something today. But its going to be nice weather today. Sunshine today. Early morning fog may be an Early Morning sprinkle. By 9 00 a. M. We have sunshine. It will be very nice this morning. 63 degrees right now. Satellite composite is generally dry. We have a bit moving through portions of northcentral iowa but not really into this area. Is going to miss us. By 9 00 p. M. Were down to 75. No snow day today. Thursday we make 90 degrees. Friday,