[♪♪♪] >> GOOD EVENING AND AND WELCOME TO "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" I'M PARIS SCHUTZ.

WE WILL BE JOINED BY OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" GUESTS IN JUST A MOMENT.

FIRST TOP STORIES... ONE UNITED STATES CAPITOL POLICE OFFICER IS DEAD AFTER AN ALTERCATION WITH AN ATTACKER WHO RAMMED HIS CAR INTO A CAPITOL BARRIER.

THE FALLEN OFFICER IS IDENTIFIED AS WILLIAM EVANS AN 18-YEAR MEMBER WITH THE POLICE FORCE AND THE ATTACKER DIED AND ANOTHER OFFICER IS INJURED.

THE ALLEGED ATTACKER EXITED THE CAR WITH A KNIFE AFTER HITTING THE BARRIER OUTSIDE OF THE CAPITOL.

THE CAPITOL WAS ON LOCKDOWN AND OFFICIALS SAY THERE IS NO SPECIFIC THREAT AT THIS POINT.

>> SUSPECT DID START LUNGEING TOWARD U.S. CAPITOL POLICE OFFICERS.

AT WHICH TIME U.S. CAPITOL POLICE OFFICERS FIRED UPON THE SUSPECT.

>> AS WE MENTIONED THE U.S. CAPITOL WAS ON LOCKDOWN THIS AFTERNOON.

AND AT THIS POINT IT IS OPENED BACK UP.

>> POLICE OVERSIGHT AGENCY SAYS IT WILL RELEASE VIDEO OF THE FATAL POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING OF A LITTLE VILLAGE RESIDENT.

THE C.O.P.A.

SAYS C.O.P.A.

HAS DETERMINED CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF STATE LAW INTENDED TO PROTECT THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF JUVENILE RECORDS DO NOT PROHIBIT THE RELEASE OF MATERIAL RELATES TO THE INVESTIGATION OF A CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER'S FATAL SHOOTING OF ADAM TOLEDO AFTER SUPERINTENDENT DAVID BROWN AND MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT CALLED FOR THAT VIDEO'S RELEASE AND ONE DAY AFTER BROWN REVEALED THAT THE INCIDENT EARLY MONDAY MORNING INVOLVED A 13-YEAR-OLD.

MORE ON THIS IN A BIT.

>> UPDATED AIR TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS FROM THE U.S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION.

THE CDC GUIDELINES STATE THAT ANYONE FULLY VACCINATED FOR COVID-19 CAN TRAVEL WITHIN THE UNITED STATES WITHOUT PROVIDING A NEGATIVE COVID TEST.

AND THEY DO NOT NEED TO SELF QUARANTINE UPON THEIR RETURN FROM TRAVEL.

THE CDC SAID IT DISCOURAGES NONESSENTIAL AIR TRAVEL AND CONSIDERS FULLY VACCINATED TO MEAN TWO WEEKS AFTER RECEIVING THE SECOND COVID SHOT OR TWO WEEKS AFTER THE SOLE JOHNSON & JOHNSON SHOT.

AND OFFICIALS REPORT 3200 NEW CASES OF COVID-19 AND 24 ADDITIONAL DEATHS.

THAT MAKES FOR A TOTAL OF MORE THAN 1.25 MILLION CASES AND 21,349 DEATHS.

THE POSITIVITY RATE IS AT 3.5%.

>> GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER SIGNED A BILL RESTORING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RIGHTS FOR THE CHICAGO TEACHERS' UNION DESPITE MAYOR LIGHTFOOT'S OBJECTIONS.

THE LAW ALLOWS THE C.T.U.

TO EXPAND WHAT IT CAN BARGAIN OVER INCLUDING CLASS SIZE, LAYOFFS AND THE DURATION OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.

WE WILL HAVE MUCH MORE ON THIS IN JUST A BIT AS WELL.

>> SAD NEWS FOR LOYOLA FANS.

HEAD COACH PORTER MOSER IS MOVING ON.

MOSER IS REPORTEDLY SET TO BECOME THE NEXT HEAD COACH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA ON A REPORTED SIX-YEAR DEAL.

MOSER LEAVES LOYOLA AFTER LEADING THE PROGRAM TO MULTIPLE NCAA APPEARANCES.

SISTER JEAN COULD NOT WORK HER MAGIC TO KEEP MOSER AROUND.

>> TO OUR PANEL, JOINING US ARE A.D. QUIG OF CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS.

CHERYL CORLEY OF NPR, PATRICK SMITH OF WBEZ AND OUR OWN HEATHER CHERONE.

LET'S GET RIGHT INTO IT.

CHERYL CORLEY WE MENTIONED THE DEADLY ATTACK AT THE U.S. CAPITOL ONE POLICE OFFICER DEAD.

THE ALLEGED SUSPECT IS ALSO DEAD.

DO WE KNOW ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT THE SUSPECT AND A POTENTIAL MOTIVE?

>> NOT THAT I KNOW OF AT THIS TIME.

AND IT'S REALLY DEVASTATING THAT WE'RE SEEING THIS HAPPEN IN JANUARY 6 AND NOW THIS AGAIN.

WE'RE GOING TO SEE, I THINK, A LOT MORE ADDITIONAL PROTECTION AROUND ALL OF THE INSTITUTIONS IN DC.

WE SEE THESE KINDS OF REALLY TRAGEDIES HAPPENING.

>> AND THIS CAME AS LAWMAKERS WERE DEBATING SOME OF THE BARRIERS AROUND THE CAPITOL.

CLEARLY STILL SAFETY ISSUES THERE AS YOU SEE THE NATIONAL GUARD WAS CALLED.

LET'S MOVE CLOSER TO HOME WITH THIS SHOOTING THAT FATAL POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING OF A 13-YEAR-OLD BOY.

PATRICK SMITH, TODAY, THE CIVILIAN OFFICE OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY SAYS IT WILL RELEASE ANY AND ALL BODY-CAM VIDEO RELATED TO THE SHOOTING.

WHEN DO YOU THINK THAT WILL COME?

>> WELL, IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE AT LEAST A WEEK IF NOT MORE.

I SPOKE WITH THE SPOKESPERSON SAID TODAY AND THEY SAID THEY ARE COLLECTING VIDEO EVIDENCE AND THERE IS A BODY-CAMERA VIDEO FROM THE OFFICER THAT SHOWS THE SHOOTING.

BUT THEY ARE COLLECTING PRIVATE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO OTHER VIDEO LIKE THAT.

THEN THEY WILL HAVE A MEETING WITH THE FAMILY TO SHOW THE VIDEOS TO THEM AND ONLY THEN WILL IT BE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC.

WE ARE LOOKING AT A WEEK OR A COUPLE WEEKS.

AN ATTORNEY FOR THE BOY'S FAMILY SAID THE VIEWING WILL BE NEXT WEEK AND THE SPOKESPERSON SAID HE DOESN'T KNOW IF IT WILL BE IN THE NEXT WEEK OR AFTER THAT.

>> THERE IS CONFUSION ABOUT THIS CASE, HEATHER CHERONE WE LEARNED OF THE POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING AND YESTERDAY SUPERINTENDENT DAVID BROWN COMES OUT WITH THE STATEMENT REVEALING IT WAS INVOLVING A 13-YEAR-OLD BOY.

WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IS THIS.

>> WE KNOW THAT POLICE ARRIVED ON THE SCENE WHERE THE BOY WAS SHOT BECAUSE THEY WERE ALERTED BY A SHOTSPOTTER SYSTEM.

BIG MIKE CONES IN NEIGHBORHOODS THAT SUFFER FROM GUN VIOLENCE THAT ALERT THE POLICE THAT SHOTS HAVE BEEN FIRED AND THEY SHOULD GET THERE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENED.

WHEN THE OFFICERS RESPONDED, THEY FOUND THE BOY AND THEY FOUND ANOTHER MAN WHO WAS NOT INJURED IN THE POLICE SHOOTING BUT HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.

IT'S NOT CLEAR, THOUGH, WHAT PROMPTED THE CONFRONTATION.

IT IS NOT CLEAR THE THE BOY WAS ARMED.

WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING MORE ABOUT THAT WHY THERE IS SUCH AN OUTCRY TO GET THAT BODY-CAM VIDEO TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED.

AND THIS OF COURSE IS COMPLICATED BY THE FACT THAT THE VICTIM IN THIS CASE WAS SO INCREDIBLY YOUNG AND WE LEARNED TODAY HE IS A LITTLE VILLAGE RESIDENT AND THAT HE WAS WENT TO THE LOCAL SCHOOL.

AND AT ONE POINT WANTED TO BECOME A POLICE OFFICER HIMSELF, WHICH I THINK REDEFINES THE WORD IRONIC.

>> AND DAVID BROWN SAYING THIS IS A POLICE SUPERINTENDENT'S WORST NIGHTMARE IS A POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING INVOLVING A MINOR AS TWO REPORTS RELATED TO THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT ARE RELEASED.

FIRST A.D. QUIG, THE INDEPENDENT MONITOR THAT IS OVERSEEING THE CONSENT DECREE PROCESS SAYS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS DOING A LITTLE BIT BETTER IN TERMS OF ITS COMPLIANCE BUT HAS A WAYS TO GO.

THE CITY IS SPINNING IT AS A POSITIVE REPORT.

IS THAT A FAIR REPRESENTATION?

>> IT'S POSITIVE IN A SENSE BUT IT'S BETTER THAN THE LAST REPORT AND NEGATIVE IN THE SENSE THAT C.P.D.

IS NOT IMPROVING ON THE THINGS IT NEEDS TO IMPROVE ON UNONE IS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND WE ARE SEEING THIS WITH THE OUTRAGE IN THE CASE IN LITTLE VILLAGE.

AND THE OTHER STUFF IS RECORD KEEPING WHICH WE HEARD ABOUT IN THE LAST REPORT.

C.P.D.

IS NOT TURNING IN HOMEWORK ON TIME SOMETIMES THEY ARE TURNING OVER REAMES AND REAMES OF DOCUMENTS AND IT GIVES THE MONITOR LITTLE TIME TO GO OVER IT.

THE MAYOR EMPHASIZES THIS IS A MARATHON BUT AS SOMEONE WHO RAN ON POLICE REFORM SEEING RESULTS LIKE THIS IS NOT LIVING UP TO THE PLEDGE.

>> A THIRD OF DEADLINES THAT THE C.P.D.

HAS TO MEET TO BE IN COMPLIANCE ARE BEING MET.

PATRICK SMITH ARE THERE SIGNS THAT C.P.D.

IS GOING TO IMPROVE ITS PERFORMANCE?

AND WHAT IS THE FALLOUT?

>> THAT IS A REALLY GOOD QUESTION.

THERE ARE SIGNS THAT THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER.

IT DEPENDS HOW YOU ARE READING THIS REPORT.

AD IS RIGHT THERE IS A TON OF MISSED DEADLINES AND BROKEN PROMISES OUTLINED IN THE REPORT.

IT IS THE BEST REPORT SO FAR.

THE CONSENT DECREE HAS BEEN IN PLACE FOR TWO YEARS.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT A REPORT SOUNDED HOPEFUL SORT OF ABOUT THE PROGRESS THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS MADE.

I HEARD THE LINE FROM OFFICIALS THAT IT IS A MARATHON AND NOT A SPRINT LINE.

THE CITY WILL BE PUSHING THAT.

AS FAR AS WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WILL BE IT'S HARD THERE'S BEEN SO MUCH TURNOVER AT C.P.D.

INCLUDING THE OFFICE OF CONSTITUTIONAL POLICING.

THE DEBRA WEST RETIRED AND SHE SAID THAT WAS HER CHOICE.

HARD TO KNOW.

YOU WONDER IF THE TURNOVER IS BECAUSE OF THAT.

I'M NOT SURE IF THE NEW LEADERSHIP IS WORKING OR NOT.

I READ A LITTLE BIT OF SIGN OF HOPE IN THE LATEST REPORT.

>> PATRICK NOT TOO MUCH HOPE IN THE CITY'S HOMICIDE NUMBERS.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE FIRST QUARTER RELEASE, IT'S WORSE THAN LAST YEAR BY A LOT.

AND LAST YEAR WAS FAR WORSE THAN THE YEAR BEFORE THAT.

HOW COME HERE WOOT HEARING MORE SIREN BELLS ABOUT THIS?

>> THAT IS ANOTHER GREAT QUESTION.

PART OF IS THERE'S SO MUCH ELSE GOING ON.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE POLICE SHOOTING AND COVID-19 IS HANGOVER EVERYTHING.

I THINK PEOPLE ARE A LITTLE BIT DISTRACTED AND THE MEDIA ARE A LITTLE BIT DISTRACTED.

BECAUSE YOU ARE RIGHT.

THE NUMBERS ARE WORSE THAN THEY WERE AT THIS POINT LAST YEAR AND LAST YEAR WE LOOKED AT AS THIS HORRIFIC ABERRATION.

I SPOKE WITH EXPERTS WHO SAID OH, THIS IS PROBABLY AN ABERRATION TONIGHT WILL GET BETTER.

THE EARLY RETURNS ARE NOT GOOD AS WE GET INTO THE WARMER MONTHS, WE HOPE IT DOESN'T HAPPEN BUT THINGS WILL GET WORSE YOU WILL SEE MORE AND MORE ATTENTION.

>> A LOT OF CONCERN ABOUT THAT.

ALSO, HEATHER CHERONE, THE INSPECTOR GENERAL PUTS OUT A REPORT OF C.P.D.

'S USE OF A GANG DATABASE.

WHAT DID THAT REPORT FIND?

>> TWO YEARS AGO INSPECTOR GENERAL JOE FERGUSON FOUND THAT 18 DATABASES WERE RIDDLED WITH ERRORS AND DISPROPORTIONATELY TARGETING BLACK AND LATINO CHICAGOANS.

THIS FOLLOW-UP AUDIT FOUND THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT CONTINUES TO USE THAT DATA REGARDLESS OF THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE ADMITTED THAT IT IS COMPLETELY WORTHLESS IN SOME CASES WITH PEOPLE OLDER THAN 100 AND YOUNGER THAN FIVE TIMES LISTED ON THE DATABASE.

AND THAT THIS POLICE DEPARTMENT HASN'T REALLY DONE ANYTHING TO CREATE A NEW SYSTEM.

AND THIS IS ANOTHER SITUATION THAT IS POWERLESS FOR MAYOR LIGHTFOOT SHE CAMPAIGNED ON CHANGING THIS DATABASE AND MAKING IT SO IT WAS NOT LIKE A PRESIDENT LIKE DONALD TRUMP COULD USE TO DEPORT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS.

THIS IS A REALLY BIG ISSUE THAT THE MAYOR HAS NOT YET BEEN ASKED ABOUT IN PUBLIC.

BUT THAT SHE WILL HAVE TO BE CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR BECAUSE THIS IS ANOTHER ISSUE THAT HAS TO BE ADDRESSED.

>> AND THE POLICE SUPERINTENDENT DAVID BROWN SAYING THAT IN SEPTEMBER THEY WILL HAVE A REVISED GANG DATABASE SYSTEM.

LET'S MOVE ON TO THE TRIAL OF DEREK CHAUVIN ACCUSED OF MURDER IN THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD.

A LOT OF DRAMATIC WITNESS TESTIMONY IN THE TRIAL THIS WEEK.

TODAY LIEUTENANT RICHARD ZIMMERMAN WAS ON THE STAND TESTIFYING THAT CHAUVIN'S ACTION WERE QUOTE TOTALLY UNNECESSARY.

>> PULLING HIM DOWN TO THE GROUND, FACEDOWN, AND PUTTING YOUR KNEE ON A NECK FOR THAT AMOUNT OF -- THAT AMOUNT OF TIME, IS JUST UNCALLED FOR.

I SAW NO REASON WHY THE OFFICERS FELT THEY WERE IN DANGER IF THAT IS WHAT THEY FELT.

AND THAT'S WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO FEEL TO USE THAT KIND OF FORCE.

>> CHERYL YOU HAVE BEEN COVERING THIS IN MINNEAPOLIS FOR NPR AND TESTIMONY FROM GEORGE FLOYD'S GIRLFRIEND FROM BYSTANDER FROM EMERGENCY PERSONNEL NOT ABLE TO EVEN GET ACCESS TO TRY AND RESUSCITATE GEORGE FLOYD WHAT STOOD OUT TO YOU THIS WEEK?

>> WELL, THIS HAS BEEN SUCH AN EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER OF A TRIAL WITH SO MANY PEOPLE TESTIFYING.

I THINK THAT WHAT REALLY STOOD OUT IN ADDITION TO THE PERSONAL TESTIMONY IS THE AMOUNT OF VIDEOTAPE THAT IS ACTUALLY BEEN USED DURING THIS TRIAL.

IT'S BEEN A MOUNTAIN OF IT.

AND WE ALL KNOW ABOUT THE VIDEOTAPE OF GEORGE FLOYD BEING UNDER THE KNEE OF DEREK CHAUVIN BUT WE'VE SEEN VIDEOTAPE OF GEORGE FLOYD INSIDE A GROCERY STORE BEING LIKE AN ORDINARY CUSTOMER.

WE'VE SEEN EXTENSIVE AMOUNTS OF BODY-CAM POLICE BODY-CAM WHERE YOU GET THIS REALLY IMPACTFUL, HARROWING VIEW OF HIM BEING STRUGGLING, THEM STRUGGLING TO GET HIM INTO A CAR AND THEN HIM ENDING UP ON THE GROUND AND SEEING THAT OVER AND OVER AND KIND THE WORST GROUND-HOG DAY VIDEO THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE.

AND SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT STAND OUT.

AND I THINK THE ALSO THE ATTEMPT THAT THE PROSECUTION HAS TRIED TO REALLY KIND OF HUMANIZE GEORGE FLOYD AND THAT WAS THE TESTIMONY OF GEORGE FLOYD'S GIRLFRIEND TALKING ABOUT HOW HE WAS A PLAYFUL MAN, FRIENDLY MAN, LOVED PLAYING SPORTS, DOING EXERCISES, PLAYING SPORTS WITH KIDS THAT SORT OF THING.

BUT ALSO TALKING ABOUT THE DRUG ADDICTION THAT SHE SHARED WITH HIM IN AN EFFORT TO GET OUT IN FRONT OF WHAT THEY EXPECT THE DEFENSE TO DO SINCE IN THEIR OPENING STATEMENTS THEY TALKED ABOUT HOW PERHAPS IT WAS THE DRUG USE AND THE HEALTH ISSUES THAT GEORGE FLOYD MAY HAVE BEEN PLAGUED WITH THAT WERE THE CAUSE OF THE DEATH AND NOT THE KNEE FROM CHAUVIN.

>> THEY TALKED ABOUT THEY STARTED OPIOIDS FOR PAIN AND BECAME ADDICTED AND SOME OF THE PROSECUTION QUESTIONING WAS ALONG THE LINES TRYING TO MAKE THE CASE HE HAD DRUGS IN HIS SYSTEM.

ARE YOU IN MINNEAPOLIS, WHAT IS THE TENOR OF THE TOWN RIGHT NOW AFTER ALL IT'S GONE THROUGH?

>> WELL, I THINK -- A LOT OF IT IS COVID.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE STILL INSIDE.

BUT I THINK THAT IT IS A LITTLE TENSE.

PEOPLE ARE WAITING TO SEE WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THIS CASE.

THERE IS A VERDICT TO COME AND SO I THINK PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO WAIT-AND-SEE WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THAT.

>> AND OFFICIALS IN CHICAGO TRYING TO WAIT-AND-SEE, TOO.

DEPENDING WHAT THE VERDICT IS IT COULD SPARK A REACTION IN CHICAGO.

PATRICK SMITH ARE OFFICIALS WORRIED ABOUT UNREST SHOULD THE VERDICT NOT APPEAR TO DELIVER JUSTICE HERE?

>> WELL, I HEARD FROM C.P.D.

AND OEMC SAID THEY ARE FOLLOWING THE TRIAL AND MONITORING IT AND LOOKING FOR THE OUTCOME THAT THEY ARE PREPARED TO DEPLOY OFFICERS AND RESOURCES AND DOWNTOWN.

I DID SPEND TIME THIS WEEK TALKING WITH ACTIVISTS IN CHICAGO WHO SAID THEY ARE WATCHING THE CASE IN MINNEAPOLIS.

AND FEEL AN OBLIGATION TO EVEN THOUGH IT'S DIFFICULT TO WATCH AND FOLLOW SOMETIMES AND THAT THEY ARE PLANNING AND ACCEPT -- EXPECT ACTIONS AND DEMONSTRATIONS WHEN AN OUTCOME IS REACHED.

>> AND IT REMINDS ME OF THE JASON VAN DYKE CASE AND THE SITUATION WHERE THE CHARGE WAS A LESSER CHARGE THAN WHAT IS INITIALLY BROUGHT IT WAS SECOND DEGREE MURDER WHICH WAS A MEASURE OF JUSTICE AND HERE IN THE DEREK CHAUVIN CASE YOU HAVE THREE CHARGES, TWO MURDER CHARGES AND A MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE MULTIPLE BITES AT THE APPLE FOR PROSECUTORS TO GET A CONVICTION.

CHERYL CORLEY WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR NEXT WEEK?

>> WELL, WE ARE LOOKING FOR MORE PROBABLY EXPERT TESTIMONY.

THE HEAD OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS IS ON THE WITNESS LIST.

AND HE MAY BE COMING WHICH IS EXTRAORDINARY.

WE HAVE SEEN A COUPLE OF POLICE OFFICERS NOW TESTIFYING AGAINST NOW FORMER POLICE OFFICER.

BUT YOU DON'T SEE THAT OFTEN.

YOU KNOW, WE'RE EXPECTING THAT TO HAPPEN NEXT WEEK.

>> LET'S MOVE ON TO THE COVID-19 SITUATION.

CASES ARE SURGING AGAIN UP 45% ON AVERAGE THIS WEEK.

HERE IS A CLIP FROM THE MAYOR EARLIER THIS WEEK ON THAT INCREASE.

>> THAT'S A QUANTUM LEAP FROM WHERE WE WERE EVEN THREE WEEKS AGO AND THAT IS CONCERNING AND OBVIOUSLY DICTATING WE HAVE TO PROCEED WITH CAUTION AS WE OPEN UP.

WE ARE NOT GOING TO SEE ANYTHING MORE SIGNIFICANT IN THE REOPENING FRONT UNTIL WE SEE THOSE NUMBERS STABILIZE AND START TO COME DOWN.

>> A.D. QUIG QUANTUM LEAP AND MOST IS COMING FROM NORTHWEST SIDE ZIP CODES, 18-39-YEAR-OLDS, RESTAURANTS INCREASED CAPACITY IN THE LAST MONTH UNDER THE RULES.

ARE THESE THINGS ALL INTERCONNECTED?

>> I THINK SO.

I THINK HEATHER REACHED THAT CONCLUSION WITH THE STORY SHE WROTE ABOUT HERE WE ARE REOPENING AND A MONTH LATER WE SEE A SCARY SURGE OF THE NUMBER OF COVID CASES GETTING CLOSER TO THE SCARY THRESHOLDS, 5% POSITIVITY AND MORE THAN 400 CASES A DAY.

BUT THE MAYOR SAID THE INDUSTRIES ARE ON LIFE SUPPORT AND WE NEED TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO SUPPORT THEM EVEN IF THAT MEANS OPENING CAREFULLY.

SHE SAID THE CITY CAN DO TARGETED MEASURES BUT WE SAW THIS WEEK OPENING DAY FOR THE CUBS.

8,000 PEOPLE FLOODING INTO THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE SEEING THE HIGHEST PERCENT POSITIVITY RATES.

TRYING TO BALANCE THIS IS DIFFICULT BUT IT'S GOING TO KEEP US FROM THAT NEXT BRIDGE PHASE THAT THE GOVERNOR HAS BEEN PUSHING BECAUSE WE ARE SEEING HOSPITALIZATIONS GOING UP AND THE NUMBERS ARE TRENDING UP AND THERE IS NO SIGN OF THEM PLATEAUING.

>> HEATHER CHERONE WOULD YOU ANTICIPATE THE MAYOR ANNOUNCING A ROLLBACK IN THAT 50% INDOOR DINING THRESHOLD OR CROWDS AT SOX PARK AND QUESTIONING WRIGLEY FIELD?

>> I LEFT MY CRYSTAL BALL IN THE OTHER ROOM.

>> GO AND GET IT, WE'LL GIVE YOU TIME!

[LAUGHTER] >> I THINK AD IS RIGHT.

THE MAYOR HAS BEEN SAYING I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS I WANT TO LET BUSINESSES STAY OPEN.

BUT WE ARE APPROACHING THAT 5% POSITIVITY RATE WHICH MEANS THE VIRUS IS SPREADING UNCONTROLLABLY IN CHICAGO AND THAT IMPERILS NOT ONLY PEOPLE'S BUSINESSES BUT THE SCHOOLS.

THERE ARE CERTAIN METRICS THAT THE CITY AGREED -- IF THE COVID METRICS MEET THEY WILL SHUTDOWN SCHOOLS FOR A PERIOD OF TIME.

AND THAT WOULD BE SERIOUS.

I WOULD TEND TO THINK THAT THE MAYOR WOULD BE MORE WILLING TO TAKE OTHER ACTIONS BEFORE HAVING TO CLOSE SCHOOLS SINCE SHE FOUGHT FOR SO MANY MONTHS TO GET THEM OPEN GOING AT IT WITH THE CHICAGO TEACHERS' UNION.

BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS AS I WROTE, WE HAVE SEEN TIME AND AGAIN THAT PISSES REOPENED AND COVID -- BUSINESSES REOPENED AND COVID CASES SURGED IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF GROUND-HOG DAY WHERE IF YOU OPEN BUSINESSES PEOPLE WILL THINK IT IS SAFE EVEN IF IT ACTUALLY ISN'T AND EVEN IF THEY ARE TRYING TO FOLLOW THE RULES THEY CAN STILL GET COVID.

>> ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE.

A.D. QUIG THERE'S BEEN MORE NEWS INVOLVING LORETTO HOSPITAL.

YOU REPORTED ABOUT A STATE LAWMAKER CAMILLE LILLY HAVING HER OWN VIP LIST OF VACCINATION.

WHO WAS ON THIS LIST?

>> SO THERE WAS NOT NECESSARILY CLOUDED FOLKS SHE WAS NOT HANDING THESE OUT TO COOK COUNTY JUDGES OR ERIC TRUMP.

BUT WE DID THE LIST OF 85 PEOPLE THAT WE WERE TOLD CAMILLE SAID VACCINATE THESE PEOPLE AND WE HEARD THE PEOPLE WOULD BRING OTHERS.

AND THE HOSPITAL SAID IN RESPONSE SHE IS THE CHIEF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS OFFICER AND HER JOB TO REACH OUT THE COMMUNITY AND TRY TO CONNECT PEOPLE WITH SHOTS.

BUT WE CAN'T IGNORE SHE IS A LAWMAKER AND IT'S POLITICALBY BENEFICIAL FOR HER TO BE CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH THE SHOTS.

AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW SHE CONNECTED WITH THESE PEOPLE TO GET THEM SHOTS.

WE ARE EXPECTING AN INTERNAL AUDIT FROM LORETTO NEXT WEEK.

THE MAYOR CALLED FOR AN INDEPENDENT AUDIT FROM SOMEONE ELSE AND IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THE HOSPITAL IS GOING TO DO THAT.

AND WE HAVE THE DRIP, DRIP, DRIP OF LORETTO STORIES AND PERHAPS OTHER HOSPITALS OR VACCINATORS.

THE PROBLEM IS THE ONLY REASON WE ARE FINDING OUT IS BECAUSE OF TIPS.

THE OTHER VACCINATION SCANDAL WAS INNOVATIVE EXPRESS CARE GIVING DOSES ALLOCATED FOR C.P.S.

EMPLOYEES TO OTHER FOLKS.

I WILL BE INTERESTED TO SEE IF THE CITY MAYBE STARTS DOING ITS OWN SPOT AUDITS OR DOING MORE QUALITY CONTROL TO INSURE THAT VACCINES ARE GOING TO THE PEOPLE AND THE PLACES THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO.

>> AND THE CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH IS WORKING WITH LORETTO ON THIS REVIEW.

BUT THE MAYOR HAS CALLED FOR AN INDEPENDENT REVIEW HERE.

WE'LL SEE WHAT COMES OUT NEXT WEEK AND THIS WEEK, THE NEWS THAT C.E.O.

GEORGE MILLER WAS SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY FOR A COUPLE WEEKS.

WE HAVE A FEW MINUTES LET'S GET TO POLITICAL NEWS.

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ANNOUNCES HIS $2.3 TRILLION INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN AND GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER SIGNS THE BILL RESTORING THE C.T.U.

TO BARGAIN OVER A WIDE RANGE OF ISSUES.

A FORMER LAWMAKER IS CHARGED WITH FEDERAL TAX EVASION AND ED BURKE'S TRIAL IS MOVING SLOW.

WE ELUDED TO THIS A BILL SIGNED BY GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER THAT EXPANDS WHAT THE CHICAGO TEACHERS' UNION CAN BARGAIN OVER THIS IS SOMETHING THAT MAYOR LIGHTFOOT DID NOT WANT.

WHY DID PRITZKER SIGNED IT?

>> HE SIGNED IT BECAUSE HE CAMPAIGNED ON THIS ISSUE AND THIS IS ONE OF THE TOP PRIORITIES OF THE CHICAGO TEACHERS' UNION DATING BACK TO 1995 WHEN THEY WERE LIMITED WHAT THEY COULD BARGAIN FOR AFTER A SERIES OF REPEATED STRIKES.

WHEN THE STATE LEGISLATURE GAVE THE MAYOR OF CHICAGO CONTROL OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

THIS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE FOR A LONGTIME.

THIS WAS FINALLY AT THE POINT WHERE THEY HAD A SUPER MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATS IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR AND THEY WERE ABLE TO GET IT DONE.

I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY EXPECTED THEY WOULD HAVE TO DO SO OVER THE OBJECTIONS OF A SELF PROCLAIMED PROGRESSIVE MAYOR BUT THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED.

BECAUSE THE DEBATE REACHED THE APEX IN THE MIDST OF THE MAYOR TRYING TO REOPEN THE SCHOOLS TO IN-PERSON LEARNING AS THE HEIGHT OF THE COVID PANDEMIC.

AND SHE ASKED THEM NOT TO DO THAT.

THE SENATE PASSED THE BILL ANYWAY AND NOW 60 DAYS LATER IT IS LAW.

AND IT'S REALLY THE CAP STONE TO THE CAREER OF KAREN LEWIS, THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE CHICAGO TEACHERS' UNION WHO DIED IN FEBRUARY SHE WORKED ON THIS.

THIS WAS HER NUMBER ONE GOAL FOR MANY, MANY YEARS AND IT WILL RESHAPE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TEACHERS' UNION AND THE MAYOR WHICH WAS LOW TO BEGIN WITH.

AND NOW THE TEACHERS' UNION HAS A GREAT DEAL MORE LEVERAGE IN TERMS OF WHAT THEY ARE ALLOWED LEGALLY TO STRIKE FOR.

>> CHERYL CORLEY, PRESIDENT BIDEN OUTLINES THE INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN THIS WEEK.

ALREADY SOME PARTISAN PUSHBACK.

DO YOU BELIEVE THERE WILL BE ANY BIPARTISAN FINAL BILL HERE?

>> WELL, YOU KNOW IT IS GOING TO BE TOUGH.

I THINK SO.

YOU KNOW HE HAS THE VOTES IN ONE HOUSE, OF COURSE, BUT THE SENATE IS RIGHT THERE.

AND I'M RELUCTANTLY OPTIMISTIC OR -- >> THERE MIGHT BE MONEY -- >> IT WILL BE A DIFFICULT ROAD.

EVEN THOUGH INFRASTRUCTURE EVERYBODY KNOWS WE NEED IT.

BUT WE'LL SEE.

>> TENDS TO BE A BIPARTISAN ISSUE BUT NOTHING IS BIPARTISAN ANYMORE IN WASHINGTON.

WE'RE OUT OF TIME.

OUR THANKS TO A.D. QUIG, CHERYL CORLEY, PATRICK SMITH AND HEATHER CHERONE.

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