Help. Theyve posted a description of the suspect and we have a link their alert on facebook and our website wisn. Com. In shorewood, im kent wainscott, wisn 12 news. Kathy were getting our first look at the tiny baby that survived a road rage shooting. 2monthold ava schowalter was riding in her car seat in her parents car on i43 last night, when someone pulled alongside them and opened fire. Wisn 12 news nick borh is live near i43 and capitol. Nick, you have new information in the case. Nick the family pulled over here, the next exit after they were shot at on i43 and their 2monthold daughter was hit. Sunday evening around five when a dispute the Sheriffs Office is calling a road rage incident led to a passing car opening fire on them. Photos released by investigators show a hole in their car door and damage to avas car seat. She was treated at Childrens Hospital the bullet just missed her spine. A gofundme page has now been set up to help the schowalter family with medical bills investigators are still looking for the shooter. I did just get an update from avas mom. She let me know theyre all doing well but certainly a 24 hours theyll never forget. She said theyre not comfortable doing an interview at this time. Nick bohr, wisn 12 news. Joyce Milwaukee Police need your help tracking down a Sexual Assault suspect. This is a sketch Police Released just hours ago. The assault happened late last at the 19yearold victim, then sexually assaulted her. The suspect is on the loose tonight. People we spoke with in the neighborhood say, its unsettling. The first time i have ever heard anything like that happening in this area. I am totally shocked. Joyce here is the sketch of the suspect again. Police say he is a black man, 35 to 40yearsold with a muscular build and gold front teeth. Weve also shared the sketch on our facebook page. Anyone with information is urged to call police right away. Kathy new on wisn 12, a judge has named a special prosecutor in Steven Averys latest appeal. Avery, the subject of the Netflix Docuseries making a murderer, wants extensive new forensic testing on evidence that helped convict him. Avery contends Manitowoc County prosecutors framed him for the 2005 murder of teresa halbach. A judge today appointed former Milwaukee County assistant d. A. Norm gahn as special prosecutor. The current Manitowoc County scientists can do things now they couldnt do in 2007. Kathy one of averys original Defense Attorneys spoke at Marquette University law school today. As wisn 12 news Colleen Henry reports, dean strang is hopeful the new dna testing will do for avery what he couldnt. Colleen hot off a north american speaking tour, he packed the house at marquettes law school the wisconsin atto making a murderer. Please give him a warm welcome to Marquette University law school. Colleen dean strang and cocounsel jerry buting featured prominently in the netflix series. Nearly a decade later, strang says hes still not over averys conviction. Emotionally, it will never be done for me. I struggle with that, knowing that he came to me, put his chips on me and jerry, and we lost. Colleen strang is hopeful about the forensic testing averys new lawyer has requested. Scientists can do things now colleen strang says new science may be able to determine the age of blood that could determine if averys blood was planted at the crime scene. I personally have always suspected he was innocent. Colleen strang says he cant be certain avery is innocent but he is sure public sentiment ensured he didnt get a fair trial. I just dont think we delivered mr. Avery a fair trial, in part because of the overwhelming pretrial publicity that his case got. Colleen strang told the audience he has another tv project in the works a program on criminal justice issues. And strang says the filmmakers have already interviewed him for upcoming episodes of making a murderer. At muls, Colleen Henry, wisn 12 news. Kathy meanwhile, averys nephew brendan dassey, who is also serving a life sentence in the case, just had his conviction overturned. Last week, wisconsins attorney general announced they are appealing that decision. The case now goes to the 7th chicago. Joyce will it stay or will it go . Happening now glendales Common Council is weighing in on the future of the easterbrook dam. This meeting comes after a series of listening sessions and public hearings over the past several months. The Milwaukee County executive wants the dam removed, instead of repaired. He says removing it is cheaper, safer and better for the environment. Not everyone agrees. The vote tonight will indicate how glendale neighbors feel about the next steps, but ultimately, the decision is up to the county. C more time to cast your ballot early. Thats the goal of major changes to inperson absentee voting in milwaukee, announced today. The zeidler Municipal Building downtown will be open 3 times longer leading up to election day in november. The building will be open for a total of 295 hours. Thats up from 110 hours during the 2014 election. The message is, please make sure you get out and exercise your constitutional right to vote. Massive expansion of early vote opportunities. Joyce early voting at zeidler starts on september 26. The city is also opening up two new early voting locations. One at the midtown center and another at the forest home library. Both of these open on october 10. This comes after a federal judge recently ruled that early voting laws in wisconsin were too restrictive. Election officials expect about 60,000 voters will vote inperson absentee. Kathy new tonight at 10 00, an armed man arrested outside the brookfield mall. What police say he did with his gun and the charges hes facing. Then, first came selfdriving cars, now get ready for selfdriving carts. Walmarts plan for your shopping cart to roll itself down the aisle. Thats tonight at 10 00. Wear those pencils down to the nub. Use everything you can and have a fantastic school year. Giveaway. Thanks to generous donations from our viewers, we were able to raise 76,000 during our Class Act Phone Bank last month. Thats enough to fill 4400 backpacks with supplies which were handed out to students this afternoon. I have sharpies, i have pencils and pens, i have eraser markers, i have journal book i have most of everything that i need. Joyce a big thank you again to everyone who donated, who manned the phones, who volunteered, and to our partners, the salvation army. Big changes are coming to the summerfest grounds. Kathy the main stage getting a makeover and what itll look like when its finished. Joyce then, milwaukee mascots put to the test. The judges in their highstakes audition for a spot in the holiday favorite the nutcracker. Russ feingold so, what do you girls want to be when you grow up . Girl 1 i want to be an astronomer. Girl 2 i want be a doctor Russ Feingold you think girl 1 i want to be an astronomer. You should be paid the same boys . Yogirl 1 d definitely. D girl 2 yep Russ Feingold well, i raised my two girls right here, and they agreed wewith you ed and so do i. Unfortunately, in wisconsin, a lot of women make less than men doing the same job. Ill work for equal pay for women, and for paid leave so parents can care for a sick family member. Discrimination against any women is flat out wrong. What you think of that . Girls good call feingold im Russ Feingold they say a lot of things about rain. engine revs like how hard its gonna fall. engine revs the things it does to your parade. Weve got a saying about rain, too when it rains. It roars. The allwheeldrive charger. Domestic. Not domesticated. Leading the way with important local coverage. You are watching wisn 12 news at meteorologist mark baden, and big 12 sports director dan needles. Wisn 12 news at 6 00 continues. Kathy major changes are coming to the home of summerfest. Wisn 12 news tim elliott shows you the new look for the popular miller lite oasis stage. Tim festival season is now over. Crews are busy cleaning up and getting ready for the winter. But when you see this miller lite oasis stage next year, it will look completely different. We started talked about this over a year ago so weve been at this for some time. Summerfest ceo don smiley cant tim wait to see this space transformed into something brand new. At the end of the day, its all about the fans. Its all for the fans. Tim the area is being redesigned to give those fans a better view of the stage. Crews will create a new elevated viewing deck and install upgraded video screens. Open it up some. Right now, there is some will open it up and it will be a lot more comfortable for the fans. Tim another feature a new covered side stage called the miller lite brew house. And every bar area will be reworked for easier access. There will be some cream city brick there will be some iron we will try to build in some hop and grains. Its huge. Its going to make a huge difference for the Guest Experience at summerfest. Tim herb heneman with miller coors says the oasis hasnt had years. The new deal also extends millercoors sponsorship of the stage well into the next decade. With all the change happening in the Beer Industry these days, what we wanted to reinforce was our total commitment to the city of milwaukee. All of the renovations are expected to be completed by the 2017 festival season and he dont forget next year is summerfests 50th anniversary. Reporting from the summerfest grounds, tim elliott, wisn 12 last upgraded in 2006. The new design will also feature a new summerfest store where you can buy all the official merchandise. You can scroll through a slideshow of what the stage will look like when its finished. Find it on our website, wisn. Com, and the wisn 12 news mobile app. Joyce new on wisn 12, the Bmo Harris Bradley Center is hiring. A job fair will be held this week to find seasonal workers. Parttime, eventoriented positions are available in security, guest services, Ticket Services and event operations. The job fair is happening this thursday from 3 00 in the afternoon until 6 00 in the evening at the bradley center. You can find much more information on our website, wisn. Com, just click the on tv section. Comedian and ventriloquist jeff dunham is coming to milwaukee. Dunham and his cast of Harris Bradley center on thursday, december 29. Tickets go on sale next monday. Quicker and quicker and quicker. Beautiful. Kathy milwaukees mascots put to the test. Students from rogers Street Academy were tasked with judging an audition for a onetime walkon role during a performance of the nutcracker. For the fourth year in a row, Bmo Harris Bank is sponsoring the show. We love our involvement in the community. As you know, we support non profits across the wisconsin communities, and performing arts in milwaukee are a big part of what we do. Joyce the event marks the start of a threeday ticket sale for the popular holiday show. Any tickets for the nutcracker bought between today and wednesday are buy one, get one half off. Kathy season 23 of dancing with the stars premieres tonight on wisn 12. More than a dozen celebrities are competing this season, including olympian ryan lochte, rapper vanilla ice, and former Texas Governor rick perry. Our ben wagner talked to two of the other contestants via satellite, actors jake t. Austin and marilu henner. First question. Are you both excited . Yes. Oh, my gosh. Its almost impossible too sleep subconscious youre thinking about your steps and everything else. So its pretty crazy. Im nervous, im excited. I think im ready. After these first few days of rehearsals and getting used to the routines i think we got this. Kathy you can watch the season premiere of dancing with the stars tonight at 7 00. Thats followed by the finale of the 100,000 pyramid. Then wisn 12 news at 10 00. Today was a bit windy out there. Joyce lindsey says it is dangerous to be out on the water. Lindsey yeah. Its really an issue in ozaukee and sheboygan that is where we are seeing the high swim risk and the National Weather service is urging people to be cautious. They gusty wind, the topography, its causing dangerous swimming conditions. As we head into tomorrow the wind isnt going to stop. We could see this get extended you can see them crashing to shore along the. Along the pier. Be smart, guys. Noticing your rain chances, you need to bring the umbrella, so do it for tuesday and early wednesday. Night gets the thumbs down. Keep the umbrellas on standby. You can see a few storms sparking up, the cold front will be around the next few hours. Is why we have the on and off rain chances. Lets talk about the rain chances. 5 00 a. M. , just because you see reds and oranges, this shows you the intensity of the rainfall. This will move through pretty quickly. Then he goes to sheboygan, down through west bend, but we arent done yet. We get that first round in the morning, and you will need the windshield wipers on high. Activity. This is not severe weather, its just on and off scattered showers. Little pops of agreement, and then we are just about done with the leftover bits leading into wednesday morning and after that we are good to go. The storm threat is a three on a scale of one to 12. I do not anticipate severe the rest of the evening will be fine and then overnight we will see the showers and thunderstorms pick up. Kids getting ready tomorrow, keep in mind that you need the rain boots handy and by the end of the day have an umbrella. Sunny on friday, but most of the day should be dry before we get rain in the evening. Announced today he will play at wisconsin. Plus, this weeks operation Football Game of the week. And, what Mike Mccarthy was most proud of in the packers seasonopening win in jacksonville yesterday. Dan for the seventh time in Mike Mccarthys tenure, the packers won their Season Opener but yesterdays win in jacksonville was unlike any other opener during that time. The oppressive conditions in jacksonville were impossible to replicate during training camp. And yet, the packers hydration preps worked no player required ivs after the game, despite temps on the field being over 100 degrees. And despite being gassed at the end the packers still executed what Mike Mccarthy has preached since the Offseason Program began. Is go to the last place. The biggest play of the game, our number one emphasis. Dealing with the challenge of the heat, i love it i think it is something you need as a challenges that are not normal to you. Dan vikings coach mike zimmer doesnt plan to share his plan for quarterback for sundays game, at least until later in the week. Sam bradford sat out yesterdays win over the titans while shaun hill passed for 236 yards. When asked today about the rivalry with the packers, zimmer said this. I think its great for the fans, but we need to be done more often for it to be a rivalry. Of the week for this friday will be, waukesha west at waukesha north which received 57 of your votes. Now its time to start voting for next weeks featured game the choices are arrowhead at catholic memorial, greenfield at whitnall, or Whitefish Bay at germantown. Log on to wisn. Com to cast your vote. The winner will be announced next monday. The ninth ranked badgers have suffered a key injury in each of their wins. Linebacker chris orr out for the season after injuring his knee in the opener. Now cornerback and kick returner natrel jamerson is expected to leg injury suffered in the second half of saturdays win over akron. Theres a chance Corey Clement could return kickoffs with jamerson out. And Whitnall High School basketball star tyler herro has announced that he will play College Basketball at wisconsin, a major coup for badgers coach greg gard. Herro is a junior and rated as a top 50 recruit. He chose wisconsin over marquette, arizona, florida, and indiana. Best of shorts back. [laughter] joyce does he not have the perfect game . What a hero. Lindsey the shorts make him faster. [laughter] lindsey heres a look at your weatherwatch 12 we can forecast. Rain coming in overnight, so have the umbrella handy. Kathy our next news is at a breakdown on live tv. I woke up in the hospital. And i knew nothing. Revealing to e. T. Why she went into hiding. How scary was it for you . Then, what it really takes pull off a dancing with the stars premiere. I cant believe youre doing this. Backstage surprises, lastminute nerves. No cameras have been allowed to go this behind the scenes until now. Plus, were first on the set of John Travolta hitting the dance floor with his wife, kelly preston. We started that way. We met on screen. Right . Why is paula abdul working as