NBC 5 Chicago: News & Weather

I love the app, but there are drawbacks. The weather portion is the part I love the best, especially the live radar, which is great when storms are rolling through the area. The news portion is the part I hate the most, because it will send alerts often, even if they are turned off, although it’s not as bad as it used to be, it still happens once a week, but that’s not enough to make me remove the app though. I also like that I can watch live newscasts as well, especially with the weather and like how something weather related shown on TV at various times appears in the app within a few minutes.

I like to be informed daily of the local, national, and international news. The news stories are interesting and informative. However, I do wish there would be more positive happy stories told leaving the public the network serves ending the news at the end of the day on a positive note. The magic of the holidays during that special time of year should be felt in the news throughout the year. I have spoken to several Family members and friends who rarely watch the news anymore, because of daily violence, negative politics, taking the place of real life heartwarming stories. So when we tuck our children in bed every night after reading a feel good story, we say “Pleasant dreams.” Shouldn’t the adults have the same happy positive dreams at the close of their day every night when they sleep? I would like to believe that could be true. Pleasant stories! Pleasant dreams to all and good night.

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I’m trying to like the weather part but it has some real issues. For example when I look at the 5 day forecast at the same time I’m watching the 5 day forecast on the tv broadcast they are not the same! Brant keeps saying you see exactly the same on the app - NOT. The real-time radar seems to lack behind live tv by about 10-15 minutes when watching both at the same time. Right now the DAILY forecast (June 6) says a high of 84 but the HOURLY forecast never gets beyond 77. Very inconsistent. Which is correct? So I’m not sure what’s going on here. It seems that the radar and forecast feeds are different for the live tv and this app. In fact when you zoom way out on the radar you can find different radar sites across the country. That leads me to believe it is some sort of national data feed and not Chicago specific. Certainly not what the nbc 5 weather team is saying.

I’m originally from New Orleans and I grew up watching WDSU and NBC affiliate. When I moved to Illinois 33 years ago I began watching WMAQ it gives me just what I'm looking for. If I have any issues it would be that they repeat themselves a little to much for me. I enjoy the live radar especially when storm’s are coming through my area. I just want to say that I will continue watching channel 5 news y’all are the best in town, keep up the great work guys.

Great app for my local news and from my favorite news channel. Have been watching NBC News since I was a young adult. I receive notifications for any breaking news. The app could be easier to navigate, i.e., I was recently trying to find a listing of cities’ curfews due to the George Floyd protests. According to channel 5 news, I could find the listing of cities and their curfews on the NBC Chicago on line. The app did not have a link to those cities. I even tried using the search option, but never found it. I will still use the app. I hope it improves, though.