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Here's what we're looking at.

>> What's at stake as Tim Walz and JD Vance take the stage in tonight's vice presidential debate.

Mayor Johnson delays his budget address as the city works to close billion-dollar gap.

It's politics team on that and more.

>> All that hot but stacking making real, don't like.

>> In the city of big shoulders, the Windy City, the second W T Tw News explains how Chicago got its nicknames.

>> And now to some of today's top stories, Iran fires an estimated 200 missiles on Israel today as the region-wide conflict grows, Iran says the attack that focused on Israel's security and military targets was in response to the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon.

Us State Department officials say they are coordinating with Israel on a response and that Iran must face consequences.

The Israeli military says it was not aware of any casualties.

Meanwhile, reports say Israel strikes in Lebanon have killed hundreds and displaced thousands.

Chicago police are charging a 15 year-old boy with the death of a postal worker shot and killed on duty to summer.

Police say a months long investigation along with the U.S.

Marshal Service led to the arrest yesterday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

The U.S.

Postal Service says 48 year-old Octavia Redmond was on her roots in the West Pullman neighborhood in mid-July when a juvenile got out of a stolen SUV, approached her and shot multiple times at close range before fleeing in in a vehicle.

Local postal workers weighed in today on the arrest.

>> And then when I found out how old he was outside, wow, that was just just just unfortunate that asked us to head to lose my life and whatever to come out in college fund.

And the reason why the motive, you know, but you know, it would bring closure hopefully to the family as we try to heal and move forward without her.

>> postal workers are rallying today as part of a national day of action in 90 cities across the country are calling on the federal government to increase staffing and improve customer service.

A fiction writer and visual artist are the 2 Chicagoans in this year's crop of MacArthur Fellows also known as geniuses.

>> One reason that fiction is powerful is that it's able to imagine alternate realities in which our very selves are allowed to exist.

>> I'm interested in the ways that dress and very materials are used as tools and how those tools are essentially used by those deemed socially invisible to carve themselves into presidents.

>> But there was that first genius you heard from was author of The Post apocalyptic novel Severance and returning to the University of Chicago next year.

The MacArthur Foundation says her work, quote, provides readers with startling vantage points on the alienating aspects of contemporary life and the roles we play in perpetuating them.

The other local recipient is artist Ebony G Patterson.

The foundation says Patterson's work, quote, shines a light in places she will not allow us to look away from.

Congrats to the geniuses.

Up next, what to be on the lookout for from both vice presidential candidates during tonight's debate right after this.

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>> Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Ohio Senator JD Vance are taking the stage in New York City tonight.

Face off in the first and likely only vice presidential debate of the campaign season.

There's just over a month until Election Day.

So stakes are high in tonight's rules are similar to the last 2 debates.

No live audience and no written notes.

But Mike's will not be muted this time.

Joining us to talk more in-depth are who say Sanchez Molina, a communications and political consultant who previously served as deputy press secretary for Governor JB Pritzker and via zoom.

We have Michael Chad Hepner a coach to presidential candidates and author of the upcoming novel.

Don't which sounds like Prom something I should probably read.

Gentlemen, thanks to you both for joining me.

Jose.

Sanchez Molina.

Let's start with you.

Please.

Historically presidential running mates and debates really sway voters very But this election has been anything but normal is tonight can have a consequences in this way of the election's outcome.

Yeah.

First, thank you for having me CBS actually conducted a poll where they found anywhere between a quarter to a 3rd of the people that are going to be tuning in.

>> Are looking at this debate to help in the form who's going to vote for them.

I think what we're going to see from candidates is there going to talk their bosses?

They were bowled hired and brought on to be attack dogs.

And that's a I think what we're going to see today.

>> Michael Chen have no.

Let's talk a little bit about each candidates.

Debate style, starting with Tim Walz.

The governor is known as coach Walls and affable Midwest dad.

What are his strengths going in and where do you think he needs improvement?

>> What's interesting is you seen, of course, recently everyone saying that, you know, he's the inferior debater.

And then Judy van says as a much more accomplished debater, there's missing thread.

Their wishes him was.

He's actually a very commanding communicator when it comes to delivery.

So is what he says, but how he says it when he's unleashed on larger platforms and larger stages.

You watch him in an arena or a large uses tons of local varieties.

Enunciation is dynamic and this ice he looks around the entire room.

He's free and very expressive.

Now in the smaller situations, you can become much more constrained and in fact, even get sort of stock on Bulls, perhaps search for words a little bit more so essential for him is that he's able to keep that same level of ease and expressively.

Doesn't those larger situations?

think you'll be able to do that.

But we'll find out tonight.

>> Vance's also technically a Midwest dad, but he's known for his book Hillbilly Elegy because Ivy League education.

Of course, what would you say are his strengths and where does he need to improve?

>> Yeah, his strengths lie and that he's been able to double down on everything, not Trump has been able to say some of his weaknesses include sometimes even going beyond what Trump has said, you know, attacking immigrants saying that they hats and then one being called out double down on that.

I think lot has a great opportunity to attack him on some of that.

And at the same time, the governor has an extensive history legislative victories.

So to the point that was made earlier, making wonky policy, seen exciting.

That's a great opportunity you come in and talk that.

>> Vance has you mentioned the childless cat ladies rhetoric he's had to defend plenty of comments that wasn't included as well as of course, what he said about Haitian migrants in his home state, eating cats and dogs.

If that comes up, how should he respond?

>> He should own it.

Apologize, say that it was the wrong thing to do and then come back to the issues.

But what we've seen time and time again is I think on Twitter, he even said, well, sometimes you have to lie a little bit because no matter what immigrants are tracking our country.

And so that's the type of rhetoric that I think turns voters away from him.

But this is an opportunity to correct some of those mistakes.

>> Michael, same question to you.

If Vance should receive those questions about childless cat ladies what he has said about migrants in Ohio.

How should he respond?

>> Well, my answer might surprise you, which is that?

If I'm on his team, I don't actually care all that much.

What he says.

Here's why.

He says he's really inflammatory things a lot pretty incendiary things.

And yet if you look at how he actually delivers them in particular, how stoic and even static at times his face is interestingly, when Brown almost never moves missiles, all action by hillbilly Elegy error of the decade ago.

He's very immobile.

And what is and so conveying is that many of the statements seem quite combative runs and here on the page can actually seen more moderate, more even keel more even tempered when he's delivering them.

Now, I'm not saying it doesn't matter what you say.

It does for sure, probably more of a task for him tonight is make sure that he comes across as someone who is not quite as inflammatory and as incendiary as he may be portrayed in the media.

If people only looking at the content of what he says, meaning actual words.

Now, the flip side of that is actually if he gets the surreal, forceful fast with the speech stepping on every single we can like that a little bit.

Then he actually might shoot himself in the foot no matter what >> Michael Governor Walz, he's helped to create some of the narrative about his own opposition, calling them weird, reinforcing that the Democratic ticket is nice and normal and safe.

Has that been winning tactic or if he continues to pursue it?

Could it backfire?

>> Yeah, I think without a doubt it was a winning tactic.

If I'm going to get on the ticket.

I mean, in large, part of that seems to be what promoted him and propel him.

I do think of it.

He has been a more effective carrier of that message been others and if you listened and he has a remarkable ability to slice and dice language together and give you one example and his rallies, you often hear him say fully as this expression.

Now about as far you can go to to enough to profanity.

But then the softens it would usually using some kind of a compliment.

So it's actually a very skilled and walking this fine line of the reverend even provocative language making it feel, you welcome mean, quite inclusive.

And I think that how he was able to use that very word.

We are in a specific way that seemed to stick.

Could he overplay that?

Maybe it probably depends on how weird the staff it is.

A because as the night.

>> It sounds like it's going to be juicy debate the way the 2 of you are describing it because as we mentioned earlier, mites are not going to be muted.

Jose, how do you think that's going to play for either candidate?

Just because neither of them is known to be as interruptive as former President Trump can be.

>> If I was on was his camp.

One of the things that I would advise him on is to let some of the things that JD Vance a sometimes sit we've cut a time and time again come across as a little awkward.

I think the lack of crowd he's going to make that that silence is going to going to make that scene a little bit more awkward at the same time.

I Governor Walz has an opportunity really introduce himself to the American people.

We get out there.

And again, I think some of the legislative victories that he has been able to have because they're the same type of policy proposals that the Democrats are proposing at large at the federal level.

>> Michael were often looking for, you know, a headline, a big moments, especially, you know, as journalists, what are we going to be talking about tomorrow?

How can those moments be created without seeming rehearsed or practiced?

>> Money build back up and actually double down something that Jose just said, I could not agree more about letting some of those Vance lines land and married a little bit and sent there.

But for a different reason.

Here's why.

Jd Vance say what you want about him as a speaker, but he is hyper articulate it.

His linguistic precision is very, very high.

In other words, any time he opens his mouth, it appears as though he's in command of the words that are coming out of it, even if inflammatory or incendiary.

And then as he is very few arms and not very few non fluency very few stumbles.

He's good choosing words in choosing quickly.

Was probably not going to keep up in that same way.

So I would be trying.

This is really topping with speed of entrance or speed response or In fact, I would cut entirely the other way and a lot of what he has going for him is is.

>> Affable, relax, more sort medium tempo in kind of dynamic.

>> He surely knew that.

And in fact, the more JD Vance may try to push the pace to try to get every single point win every point and might actually boomerang and make also better.

Now to your question about manufacturing, these points, you know, whats interesting is people don't actually give team wants credit for being as good as he is and doing what theater professionals and actors calls same but different.

What that means is he can give a stump speech in which he saying essentially the exact same thing.

But it sounds a little bit different each time does it.

And that's the essential thing with attack lines as they have to sound as though they're coming out of a person's mouth for the first time.

So they have a few of her singers.

I think you might be able pull them off.

>> All right.

It'll be fun to see which ones play 15 seconds.

Jose.

How do you what do you think needs to happen tomorrow after tonight's debate?

>> I think they each need to take each camp needs to take what each candidate said about the other.

They're going to talk to presidential candidates.

So really, I think it's going to be reflective of the party, the platform and weather coming from one party has focused on doing right by the American people.

Another party has focused on doubling down on some of the racist and sexist things that they've All right, take what they said and run with We're going to have to leave it there for now.

Jose Sanchez Molina and Michael to have thank you both for joining us.

>> Thank Up next, what to know about the city budget or spotlight politics team on that and much more right after this.

>> Mayor Johnson delays, his budget address as he works to close a billion dollar gap.

Meanwhile, city lawyers recommend a settlement highlighting the high cost of high-speed police chases.

And with 5 weeks until the election, early voting gets underway here with all that and more is our spotlight politics team, Heather Sharon and Nick Bloomberg.

Hey gang.

Welcome back.

So we know a coalition of groups they've been sending out these campaign style flout flyers in various wards targeting older people for supporting or opposing a plan to phase out natural gas hookups in new construction.

Nick, what were you able to find out here?

>> That's right.

Grant is these are the kinds of mailers we might expect during a city election year.

But in fact, they are targeting Alders because they are concerned about this ordinance.

As you mention, new natural gas hookups.

There have been a lot of groups, including People's Gas, Union's trade organizations that have been pushing back against this measure.

They say it's decarbonization without a plan, but those mailers did not have any information about who sent them out.

We were able to learn that the operating engineers union, local one, 50 was at least one of the organizations that help to bankrupt these mailers.

A representative said drove the mail, bankrupt all the mailers.

And they said that they were part of a broad coalition of groups involved with them, although they didn't give any other specifics.

Now, another woman, Maria Hadden who has been sponsoring this ordinance, said this is the kind of mail or that if you're going to make these accusations, including claims that she says are false about what the ordinance would actually do, you should put your name on them.

But fortunately, we were able to determine at least some of who is behind these that have been just flooding.

Chicagoans mailboxes across the city this Thank you, Nick.

>> So moving on to the budget.

Mayor is postponing his budget address.

We know by 2 weeks grappling with billion-dollar deficit.

Heather, how significant is this delay?

Well, it's definitely unusual.

And I think it's a sign of the magnitude of the problem that the mayor is confronting.

It will also mean less rest for older And and it will give his budget address the day before Halloween and the first of 2 scheduled budget votes would be the day before Thanksgiving, which is a day.

Most older people.

And again, me like to be focused the holiday.

But that's the schedule, at least for right now.

There will be lots of questions about what exactly the mayor is going to ask the city Council to do.

And that is sort of up all of the oxygen in the room right making a batch of cranberry sauce to lot of questions about that also and maybe we could pick different dates, y'all.

So as Heather mentioned, you know, Council's got 2 weeks for budget hearings.

What kind of scrutiny as this budget going to face?

Well, I think it depends a lot upon what city officials are able to do with those extra couple of weeks.

It's not a ton of time.

>> But it seems like, you know, they could use this to try and scramble and come up with some options here.

The reception depends a lot upon.

What's in the mayor's proposal?

Is this going to be, you know, a request for a big hike in taxes and fees?

Is this going to be sort of a doomsday budget laying out all these possible draconian cuts?

>> Is there a middle way?

And, you know, the mayor went through a very contentious budgeting processes.

Heather well last year when there is this huge question about funding for migrants which ultimately the city didn't even need all of his.

It turned out.

So, you know, he's not necessarily going to have an easy road with this either way, given the current makeup of the council and his relationship with older people.

But the reception is going to depend upon, you know, a lot upon what he puts forward.

>> So moving on to something that's definitely not going to help solve this budget crisis.

City lawyers are asking all there is to approve a 1.7 5 million dollars settlement to a man injured by a driver being chased by police than we, of course, heard overnight about another police pursuit ending with a fatality in McKinley Park.

One person died.

2 others injured.

Heather, what are the rules on police pursuits and what costs to citizens citizens of Chicago?

So since 2019 and is caution, Congo, taxpayers more than 74 million dollars to resolve lawsuits sparked by police pursuits.

So this is a massive drain on the city's treasury.

>> That was in part why mayor former Mayor Lori Lightfoot change the rules regarding police police pursuits to require police to have the sort of investigating or trying to detain somebody suspected of a serious crime.

So it's no longer a misdemeanor or a traffic violation that could spark a pursuit.

However, this pursuit that they're looking to settle.

The lawsuit from was before those rules were changed.

And in fact, the city tried to sue the man who fled police to try to get him to pay the costs of the person who was injured.

He doesn't have any assets.

So the ship so the city is going to have to bear the entire cost moving on to schools because it's it's it's been a couple of weeks, hasn't it?

Pedro Martinez, school CEO, he was scheduled to appear before City Council later this week.

That hearing conflicted with Russia, China.

>> Nick Martinez, though, he's still in the midst of, you know, some very tense negotiations over the Chicago Teachers Union contract and their most recent request is kind of interesting when they have.

Well, they are looking.

They have put a proposal across the table today.

That looks to basically extend Martinez's termination terms his contract.

>> To all employees that are covered by the CTU contract.

Now the CEO has a six-month window basically after he is terminated.

If it is without cause, he continues to be paid for 6 months under the terms of the deal that he negotiated when he took over.

Ctu leaders say we want this for everybody who's covered by the contract.

Now it is vanishing.

Liam likely that they are going to get such a provision in their contract.

But this is another effort to kind of needle CPS and CPS leadership saying, you know, we want this guy out and hey, if he gets these, you know, relatively generous terms when he's dismissed, we think this is something that everyone under the sea to contract should be getting.

But again, I would not be holding my breath for that me 5 weeks to go until the election.

Nick, early voting already underway in some places.

That's right.

Basically everywhere in Illinois, other than the city of Chicago and Cook County City starts this week.

County starts next week.

What's interesting is that we heard on Friday from the state GOP that 180,000 Republicans have pledged to vote early.

That's a big about-face from the kind of added to the Republicans in Illinois and nationwide have historically had about early voting.

But clearly they see this is a disadvantage.

They've had to contend with in several previous elections.

And they want to say, you know, the basically they're saying at this is the law, then we're going to try and take advantage of it.

And, yeah, we definitely heard some of that rhetoric during the RNC during the Republican, Republican National Convention as well, which was surprising of the time.

They're going with it now that a spotlight will do it again next week has a club or thank you.

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Up next, how Chicago got its many nicknames.

The second city is second to That is if you ask readers of the magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, they go to Chicago as the best big city in the U.S. for the 8th year in a row.

So that got us thinking about our beloved cities.

Nicknames and where that came from.

Erica Gunderson takes on that question in the latest from our digital series W T Tw News explains.

>> When it comes to nicknames, Chicago sure has gotten stuck with some stinkers.

Maybe it's because the city's actual name comes from a smelly wild or maybe it's because other cities like to drag our city through the month.

In fact, one of Chicago's first nicknames was mud city accurate if not exactly flattering than their Chicago's best known nicknamed The Windy City?

>> Sounds about right to anyone's caught a face full of Frosty Lakeland in January.

But Chicago was only that India City in the U.S. >> A lot of folks think the Windy City moniker came from New York.

>> When brash upstart Chicago was competing to host the 18 93 world's Fair.

The New York Sun editorialized.

Our politicians as quote, full of hot but references to Chicago as the Windy City long predate that the Cincinnati Enquirer used it 18.

76 headline to report on a tornado that blew through Chicago, though.

Historians say there was likely a double meaning at play there fast forward to 1914 and beefed up Chicago and is prone Congo.

Carl Sandburg characterize the growing city as a young working man.

>> In his words, Stormie husky Wally, a line from that gave the nickname City of Big Shoulders.

Make sense of that hot but stacking into making will really feel that don't face.

>> Chicago's most contentious nickname might be the second city.

Some believe it was sparked by the Great Chicago fire of 18.

71 when the city had rebuild emerging as a stronger, more resilient second, Chicago.

But Chicago was America's second most populous city for nearly a century to lose.

More likely started there and annoyingly.

It was a New Yorkers poison pen that made it stick.

When writer aging, found himself a room Chicago for a few years in the late 1940's, we've got a collection of essays outlining all the ways he felt Chicago felt sort of his hometown.

The book was titled Chicago, the second city, but in classic Chicago fashion, we embraced an amen run us down and use it to lift us instead because >> if you from Chicago.

>> Classic.

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