Hidea Pendleton News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A possible chemical attack. Plus what is this world coming to anyway . Politician arrested a second teenager in the brutal killing of a world war ii veteran and they just broke the window now. A little boy home alone when burglars break in. Stay right there. He hides in the closet and calls 911 tonight why the boy is a Hometown Hero. Im jon scott in for shepard smith. Four u. S. Navy destroyers are close enough to syria to launch a missile strike at a moments notice. Thats the word from pentagon officials. Defense secretary chuck hagel says the u. S. Is looking at all options to respond to a s...

As her husband won the second term with her own approval rating skyrocketing, the first lady exuded a growing confidence in her role. >> i don't think anybody could be prepared for the white house unless you'd been there before. i watched her get increasingly comfortable both with her ability to be in that space, command it. most importantly how to use it. >> magazines like "vogue" lauded michelle as an icon of style. >> she wanted young african-american girls to look at the cover of "vogue" and see someone who looked like them. that she understood that it was more than just a fashion photo. >...

Pendleton, a young high school student at martin luther king high school on the south side, had been killed while swinging on swings at the park. it later came out that she and the band had performed at the inauguration right before that happened. >> michelle and her staff attended the memorial service in chicago. >> this was a little michelle. this was a young african-american teen girl from the south side doing great in school. big dreams. michelle was lucky enough to live out her dreams. hidea wasn't. >> the safe and stable south side of michelle's youth has largely been replaced by despair...

And spoke passionately about what he calls a broken system. >> i'm angry. i'm frustrated. and i'm frustrated and angry that we're here again talking about another senseless murder. pick out the names, idea pendleton, the list goes on and on this has got to stop. we can put 10,000 police officers on the street and what would happen? maybe we'll arrest mr. brown 90 times and nothing will happen. maybe we'll take another 10,000 guns off the street and another 10,000 will fill up that illegal market the next day. i'm incredibly proud of the men and women in this department who, in spite of what i'...

>> when first lady michelle obama returns home to chicago to raise money for at-risk kids, she reflects on the recent murder of a 15-year-old band majorette, shot in the back on her way home from school just weeks after performing at president obama's second inauguration. >> hidea pendleton was me, and i was her. but i got to grow up. see, at the end of the day, this is the point i want to make, that resources matter. today too many kids in the city are living just a few "l" stops from world class museums and universities, yet all of that might as well be in a different state, even in a differ...