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Now i want to get you tomorrow's news today. let's fast forward. tomorrow voters in chicago will be head together polls to vote for their next mayor. former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel is on the ballot, and if no candidate receives 50% of the vote, a runoff will be held in april. also tomorrow, attorney general eric holder speaks at a funeral of immigration and customs enforcement special agent jamie zapata who was killed in the line of duty in mexico last week. also, former bell, california officials, including the city manager, will be in court to face charges related to allega...

>> thank you. a judge using kids in trouble in a scheme to make himself rich. that is what this story boils down to. let me tell you about mark ciavarella. he was convicted friday of taking nearly $1 million in kickbacks for putting juveniles into detention centers his friends own. now, he says none of this is true. the families of the kids who endured this harsh justice say it's about time this judge and another one who pled guilty last year got what was coming to them. jason carroll has the details. >> reporter: well, brooke, as you know, cnn first reported on this two years ago when it wa...

We've already drawn down a significant portion of that 95,000. already hundreds of tons of equipment is already left iraq. so this is not like on august, august we go, boom. we've now gone down from 145,000 down to 50,000. it's well, well under way. and it's working. >> that was vice president biden speaking exclusively to andrea mitchell over the weekend in baghdad. the plan to pull u.s. combat forces out by september is moving ahead bespite the iraqis' stalemate over forming a government. >> christopher hill is u.s. ambassador to iraq and joins us live from baghdad. ambassador, i have to sta...

They have a real -- for example, what people don't realize is we're drawing down to 50,000 combat troops remaining. not -- that's not their primary mission but they're able to shoot straight. same guys and women that were here but we've already drawn down a significant portion of the 95,000. already hundreds of tons of equipment already left iraq. it is not like on august we go boom. we have now gone down from 145,000 down to 50,000. it's well, well under way. and it's working. and general odierno is absolutely confident. there's no confident about getting down to 50,000. >> and what will happ...

Reasonable suspicion that they're here illegally. it sparked a lot of controversy and to give us perspective on this now is nbc justice correspondent pete williams. pete, good to see you. what do we know about the lawsuit and focus on and the implications will be? >> reporter: the obama administration hopes it will have the same experience in challenging this law that the bush administration did challenging an immigration law in illinois in 2007. that's the year that the illinois legislature and the then governor rod blagojevich signed a law to block state employers there from participating in...