Transpacific partnership and we will launch a transatlantic trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union fair and free across the atlantic for millions of good paying american jobs. We also know the progressthat progress in our most impoverished sections of the worldin our many places people live on little more than 1 a day. So the United States will join with our allies to eradicate such extreme poverty in the next two decades by connecting more people to the Global Economy by empowering women, by giving our young and brightest minds of new opportunities to serve. Chicago tribune political reporter rick pearson joining us right now. He did his usual shaking of hands it was very interesting kind of a special moment he reached out to his elected successor he wants to write into the economy. The agenda that the president laid out this evening particularly among democrats very wide ranging you are talking about education reform, rebuilding infrastructure Home Mortgage refinancing, green energy but truly the heavy overtones were on the economy and job creation and helping the middle class. It is our generations duty to reignite the true engine of American Economic growth thriving middle class. It is our unfinished task to restore the basic bargain that built this country the idea that if you work hard and me your responsibilities you can get ahead in a matter where you come from, no matter what you look like or who you love. He talked a lot about the fact that i will make sure that these things get done. At the beginning he talked about bipartisanship but as we saw the speech go longer and he started setting specific initiatives he really did talk about the fact that these are things he believes his reelection will help drive obviously were talking about bipartisanship in a stalemate of washington but at one point he actually urged republicans to put the nations interest ahead of the parties interests. Lets agree. Right here right now to keep the people government open and pay our bills on time and always up told the full faith and credit of the United States of america. The American People have worked too hard for too long rebuilding from one crisis to see elected officials cause another. Therein lies the dichotomy the next sound bite that you have the candy that he tossed out there some of it rather surprising it looked like john boeners swallowed lemons behind him when we mentioned a few of these. Raising the minimum wage to 9 an hour is part of a basic effort to boost the middle class as well as the pathway to citizenship for immigrants which is seen as a revenue producer, a program to redo the vital parts of the nations infrastructure the preschool for all to help rise Young Children but the minimumwage hike was a bit of a surprise. Tonight lets declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth no one who works fulltime should have to live in poverty and raise the federal minimum wage to 9 an hour. We should be able to get that done. This single step would raise the incomes of millions of working families it could mean the difference between groceries and the food bank, rents or eviction scraping by or finally getting ahead. As he continues his speech will bring up pendleton whose parents are sitting with Michelle Obama the first lady. He is expected to actually cite them and say that they are an example of the victims of gun violence who deserve an up or down vote on the issues that he has proposed the ban on militarystyle semiautomatic weapons, ban on high capacity ammunition clips and universal background checks he says it is ok if you want to vote no but the residents of newtown connecticut and aurora colorado deserved a vote on this. Rick pearce and Chicago Tribune thanks for joiningrick pearson Chicago Tribune thanks for joining us. We will have the republican and tea partier responses in and what happens next with Chicago Tribunes Clarence Page. The deadly shootout a fire and a standoff leading to the discovery of what is believed to be the body of Christopher Dorner the suspected cop killer who ran to a cabin in the woods which burned for hours this afternoon at one point more than 100 officers surrounded that cavett and a single shot was heard before the house burned down before he died he killed a sheriffs deputy in a shootout he is accused of killing three other people including a fellow Police Officer, he acted on a grudge against police after being fired by the lapd it could take days to confirm that the body found is dorners but the Police Station told ktla that is him. It is him. Cmoncoming out a bond hearing today the story of success against all odds is not inspiring others to achieve. Lady gaga in chicago is a no go for now. The sun will return tomorrow and bring it significantly warmer temperatures. Significantly warmer temperatures. She [ female announcer ] with every twist and turn. I need a clean that keeps up. 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Days following a sexton scandal students are still talking about it 12 teenage boys suspended for possessing inappropriate photos, pictures of a female classmates who were new the worst turned over to the nude they say that Child Exploitation charges are not out of the question. The females digitally send photos of themselves to students at the school. The pictures show. Everything. 12 boys were suspended for three days or so. These are good students, nice kids kids that dont have a record that just made of very bad decision. The girl who sent a photo got nothing no penalty inside or outside of school and some if not all of the girls were minors. Im curious as to why not of the girls are in trouble but the guys are getting blamed for it all. Thats the debate inside Muenster High School today the answer according to the School District is that the boys were forwarding the photos and they had them on their phones on School Property the girls punishment, they have to live with the digital footprint that is nearly impossible to delete. Its a mistake. You dont want to see a mistake determine or ruin someones life. The Administration Made it very clear that it will show up on the student transcripts moving forward no charges have been filed by police cook county prosecutor saying the gunmen and the murder of 15 yearold pendleton told police he thought he was firing at rival gang members when she was struck by a bullet. He also told police that she was just there when he opened fire they say that he was the gunman ward. Six shots were fired with six others being wounded at a park when pendleton and other students left school for a day. His Attorney Says that his client is not a gang member. 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He was born into a world surrounded by Illegal Drugs by the time he was 16 he had been bounced around six different homes and attended 11 different schools by the time he was a junior in high school he lied about his age so he could work a graveyard shift at a liquor warehouse just have money in his pocket. I smoked some weed on a couple occasions but he said that was it instead he says he works to better himself going to Church Reading motivational and selfhelp books. The principal in there talking about affirmations and aspirations. Those are the things that help me get out that principle. He has written his own book is called drugs my curse, my savior. He said he wanted his story to be heard. It was a story that he had from everyone even his friends like me we went to high School Together and he even did my best friend but none of us, not even his closest friends had any clue what the home was like for him. Ironically after college and a brief stint as an army ranger he went to the work in the pharmaceutical industry becoming one of the youngest African AmericanRegional Sales managers in the country. Family friend marilyn former. Surprise, no, grateful yes. At any time he could make choices to go down other paths and he didnt. Legal drugs turned out to be his savior but the course of Illegal Drugs still lingered in 2002 after years of sobriety his father died of an overdose about one year later his older brother died of a cocaine induced heart attack and in 2008 his mother died from the toll that years of drug abuse took on her body. Longtime friend joel johnson who was the president of the Development Institute invited him to speak to his clients at a Substance Abuse rehab program. They need to know that they can be forgiven by their families they need to know that they also can continue down this path of recovery and the children are better off for it. 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This will send temperatures up into the low 40s the only place that may not see that is the heavily covered snow area up to the north. Mild again that day after tomorrow. There have been big rains down in the south today. Each of these icons is a weather station reporting measurable snow today. Impressive amounts of snow another one of these unusual systems that havepassed south of us. There are still flooded visor is to the south. These are wind advisories look what it did to highs today. Arctic air is gathering again up to the north but has been pushed even out of southern canada. Here is how that is going to move in our area we will say goodbye to the last of this weather system with snow in the central appalachians. A big canadian High Pressure builds they start coming down the lake. Also some like effect snow showers on friday and saturday. Look how strong they are and these will eventually bring arctic air in, lateseason arctic air and a whole series of weather systems lineup out to the west those are to weather systems that we can watch next week in fact lets show you how this plays out. Winslow just above the surface right along the have been blowing all day friday and to chicago and even into saturday morning. This one tracks up and it could bring us a mix of precipitation changes now early next week but look what happens to this next one early next week. That would be a big snowstorm if that works out. Details are hard to come by but it shows us that that is a system we are going to flag. 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