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Thunder lightning rain freezing rain sleet ice. We saw it all, today. It rains and temperature drops. Then we get more rain. Temperatures go down, and well have even more of a skating rink. For pedestrians. Near foster and sheridan, tonight. Each step a delicate dance to avoid a slip and fall. On sidewalks glazed over with ice. I like this weather. But its hard for walking. Slick conditions on the roads. A problem for drivers. Reports of crashes. As precipitation hit the pavement. Freezing on contact. Chicagos streets and sanitation department. And idot deploying hundreds of trucks to salt str...

what is the word for people a phobia. >> if we don't have that exactly right i bet you are going to be hearing facebook or 2 is that i'll look it up. superstitious people on the 13th. >> yes. no matter how you lack at it today we are lucky. we have the actual not so lucky last nature and on the 13th we are lucky things are clearing up very nicely out there. see clearing skies for the weekend so our luck is with us. we have right now some scattered showers. you probably don't have in your neighborhood but you can see on he hd radar still some out there. but the very light variety to s...

on the cap placed on the well. nbc chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson in venice, louisiana, this morning. anne, we've been deluged with e-mails of the government, thad allen's team, basically making sure we don't over hype this. why? >> reporter: well, along with trying to contain the oil, they're trying to contain expectations because this test is far from done. the key here, chuck, all about building up pressure and so far they have been able to build pressure to 6,700 pounds per square inch, that's above the 6,000 psi threshold they set. anything below 6,000 w...