A moment. First we are going to meteorologist Sally Severson. Early morning temperatures a few upper 40s but climbing up to 70 for today. 73 degrees at the airport. 75 in lake geneva. 69 for sheboygan. The weekend getting not mucher than this. Feeling more especially for labor day monday. A little rain in the forecast by tuesday and into wednesday. Now to matt salemme in news chopper 12. Matt . We are over 41, 45. Mayfair road under the freeway. Both directions are looking pretty good. If you are headed to 94 east freeways right now. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. Today family and friends say goodbye to the local nun killed in her home in mississippi. He was one of 8 and later joined the sisters of st. Frances. Held and another nun were found dead in their home last week. Police say they have arrest add suspect. This morning a held at st. Joseph at 9 30 followed by Funeral Services at 11 00. New from overnight, witnesses rush to help after a pickup truck crashes. Take a look at the scene here. This morning not far from i794 and oklahoma avenue t truck was badly damaged in the crash. Wisn 12 spoke with a witness on off, but the driver was too wedged into the vehicle to help them. Two people were pulled from the truck. We are trying to get more information about the injuries and what exactly caused the crash. Breaking news, hurricane hermine makes landfall along the gulf coast. It had been was hit with one. Yes, more than a decade since a hurricane making land fall in florida. Right now the system is downgraded to a Tropical Storm. This is for the area where the storm hit the shore. This is st. Marks. We are looking live from the abc station, this is in tampa. You can see the storm surge coming in there. Rain and winds are the biggest area. We have new video coming in from overnight, this is st. Marks as well. The crews are working to remove the downed trees from the roads. A lot of work ahead for the crew members. 8 Miles Per Hour winds taking down the trees and power lines. A couple suffered minor injuries. About 70,000 people are in the dark right now. Abc meteorologist ginger ze 40 miles away from the land fall. She tweeted out photos overnight. Ginger is live all morning long with a look at the damage along the florida coast. Watch for the reports on Good Morning America at 7 00. That is right after 12 news this morning. Ben . Tim, in the pacific, madeline is passing by the big island of hawaii. Lot of rain. Now the neighbors are preparing for hurricane lester. That is 600 miles away. It is a cat 3 storm. It is expected to weaken but remain a hurricane. The preseason for football ends with a loss for the green bay packers. Aaron rodgers was one of the starters that didnt play. Instead, joe calahan came in. He former badger caught one of those, 40 yard long pass. Look. There he goes. The chiefs sadly got the win at home. 177. The pack opens on sunday on the road. Nice catch there too. Meanwhile, green bay is going to host thousands of College Football fans. Thinking. The citys mayor handed out purple and gold beads to the fans at the airport. Those are colors of another team. The High School Band welcomed the visitors. Lsu faces wisconsin tomorrow at lambeau field. See the game only here on wisn 12. Kickoff is 2 30. On saturday at 6 30. We are live at lambeau with the post game. Tonight, the uw alums are hosting a rally. They have create add beer fus for the oe kags, and made with only wisconsin ingredients. A portion of the ticket sales fund. This weekend you can see willie wonka on the big screen. It is a tribute. You can see both movies sat and sunday nights at mayfair wall. 6 07. Boy, a holiday we are looking forward to the forecast. Yes, gorgeous. Some call it the last unofficial weekend of summer, but lots of beautiful weather in store for us. We have some of the nicest weather of the year. Now this morning temperatures at the airport fairly comfortable 65 degrees. Humidity 78 . The dew in the upper 50s. Lighter east winds and a light southeast wind eventually. To the low 70s this afternoon. A little less winy as well. The temperatures climbing up to 80 for tomorrow. Low 80s moving into sunday and monday. A little more humidity as well. Think about the beach, or pool weather. Now to matt flying up in news chopper we are over 894. 76th street across the freeway. It is looking good here. Both directions are moving smoothly here. Westbound side 5 minutes up to the zoo. Travel times. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. It is 6 08. Visit a replica of the vietnam memorial. It is in germantown. It is open to visitors 24 hours a day. It is there until monday. Also, browse a 140 artists during the third ward art festival. It is running along broadway street in downtown. 36 of the artists are right here from wisconsin. Showing things like jewelry, photographer. Health concerns for the babies exposed to zika virus. A test recommended for newborns. More scrutiny more Hillary Clinton and the familys foundation, the documents being handed over during her time as it is a gorgeous shot. We are getting ready for a Great Holiday weekend. Labor weekend. We hope you have some fun. We asked u. S. Cellular customers to show us all the beautiful places they get coverage with our strong signal. You posted from the seashore. You shared from your hike. You showed us this sunset. You posted from the farm. A lot of amazing places. . . U. S. Cellular put towers where the other guys dont. So join our network, and start sharing your moments we are continuing to follow hermine. It has since weakened to the Tropical Storm and georgia. A hundred thousand people were without power in georgia and florida. Crews are checking out possible tornado damage. Sal, you mentioned tornados in georgia as well. They have a watch and extending up to South Carolina border. The heavy rain is showing up across georgia and the area of rains and storms pulling up to the carolinas. Advisories and watches up the eastern coastline of the u. S. For the Holiday Weekend. So this is a peek at how things are going to shape up. We continue to watch hermine scrape along the coastline. Early today for us, beautiful september weather. We are low 70s for today and near 80 degrees for tomorrow. Right now. 43, 45. Right now a few more cars are headed north and south, no delays between the airport and downtown. The travel times are showing delay free across the system and everything is in the green and running as it should be at full freeway speeds. No crashes to slow you down. Colorful plants would be a breeding ground for the zika virus. We are learning more about the efforts to curb the virus. This is from Miamidade County and giving the residents a list of things to do. Homeowners can rinse the leaves using cooking oil, Like Olive Oil and coat the leaves and stop the eggs those different points here are coming after the virus is found miami beh. The c. D. C. Is sayingrnbo baby exposed to zika virus should have their hearing testeds well. A study of brazilian infants found that 40 of the babies now, this weekend miamidade union is using airplanes to spray on the plants to control the mosquito population. Here they have a list of the times and dates on doing that. Right now, florida has seen 35 locally acquired cases of the zika virus. Reporting live from the news room. Tim, thank you. 6 16. Now to commitment 2016 and the race for the white house, it is a major money clinton and donald trump is saying that people didnt understand part of the immigration speech. We are joined live from washington with the latest. Good morning. Good morning, melinda. 143 million that is how much money Hillary Clinton raiseed in the month of august, that is a campaign record. The state department is turning over to the ap Hillary Clintons planning schedules as her term meetings of the donors while the secretary. Donald trump is saying people didnt understand what he was trying to stay on wednesday. After getting rid of the criminals who have come to the country illegally and committed crimes, hell get rid of them first and then assess the situation before deporting anyone else. Live in washington, 12 news this morning. Thank you. Tomorrow donald trump is speaking with the africanamerican owned and operated Impact Network in detroit. On labor day sanders is hosting a come pain event in new hampshire. Gary johnson is stumping for votes many milwaukee. He planted the fact that hes a different choice than the two main party candidates. The goal is distancing himlf from clinton and trump. For getting moreeople back to work. Look to be an ent prenur and create jobs for others. Government can play a role in making that easier. Government can play a role when it comes to certainty. If the taxes are not going up, if rules and regulations are not getting worse, theyll actually be getting better, that an environment where businesses are confident and they hire people. Right now johnson is not polling high enough to be part of the prime time debate with clinton and trump. He needs 15 support across the polls. According to the Marquette Law School poll leased this week johnson has 11 . Time now 6 18. It is going to be a nice one. Potentially . Oh, summer is not gone. All though it was breezy and i had a little light jacket out while walking the dog. I was at jazz in the park and i had a sweater. I have 80s. Fifth hottest summer on record. Fourth hottest we have 80 over the weekend. This morning we have a big range in the temperatures chl ranging from mid 50s to the mid 60s. Mid 60s at the airport at this hour. Take a look at this. High pressure is situated over the great lakes and continues to influence the weather overall. Tropical storm hermine. It is providing a blocking mechanism, if you will. We are talking sunshine for today. Still an east bend to the wind. We keep the temperatures in the low 70s today. Here we are tonight at 6 00. A little fog tonight and tomorrow morning. Otherwise we are looking at lots in the way of sunshine for tomorrow. Winds are southerly for tomorrow. Th temperatures to get up to 80 for saturday and low 80s for sunday and labor day. Weekend is looking great. Wet comes back to the forecast. Tuesday and wednesday with periods of rain and storms. Ben, melinda. Thank you, sal. An unusual way to pass the time on a flight to mexico. Her seat. Wes and elizabeth from 99 scombr 1 the mix are here with the weekend picks. We are headed to racine, the labor of love Music Festival happening on monday, gates open at 11 30 and chris young will be performing. It is racine festival park. You are getting into country muic . I am. With all of the motorcycles in town a lot of rides, this is a ride for a really good morning tosa. Good morning everyone. We are bringing you a brand flu season of the School Shout Outs beginning next week. If you are interested in having us to stop by, head the wisn. Com and click on the school logo and well try to schedule a time to stop by and say hello. Friday, a friday before a long Holiday Weekend. I can smell it is so close. Wes and elizabeth are here with their picks for the weekend. Good morning, with all of the motorcycles coming to town, a great event that is happening. The big unit poker run. That is bill michaels. He does it every year. It is sunday. The registration is atth school. It is benefitting fisherhouse in wisconsin. What is that, it helps military families. A hundred percent benefits the fisherhouse. A hundred thousand riders coming to wisconsin. Check your blind spots. Have a safe and happy labor day 6 25. A mixup at the airport, it is not the luggage. It is a fiveyearold boy pictured here. His frantic mother speaks out. He was on the wrong flight. We continue to track the damage left behind from Tropical Storm hermine. It packed a punch across florida and now it moved to georgia. Stay with us, you are watching following breaking news this morning. Hurricane hermine makes landfall in florida. The conditions there and the damage that hermine has already done. And we could see a Major Development today in the making a murderer case. The decision that the state has to make about one mans future. Plus, were on weather watch this morning. The weekend outlook and when rain returns to the forecast. Good morning and welcome to wisn 12 news this morning. Im ben wagner. And im melinda davenport. Its 6 30 on this friday, september second. Lets start with the forecast. Meteorologist Sally Severson is that gorgeous live picture says it all this morning. We are on our way to sunshine. Temperatures yesterday very low 70s. Today much of the same. 73 degrees. Sunny and pleasant. Not so breezy today. Saturday and sunday the heat is coming back. Low 80s for sunday and labor day. The rain holds off until tuesday next week. Dry High Pressure influences the it is all quiet over the upper midwest. As we sail to the south and wa is happening with Tropical Storm hermine, the heavy rains are exiting florida and pushing up to into the carolinas as well. We are looking at tornado washes and flash flood warnings and watches and moving up to the coastal virginia. Weekend for the eastern u. S. Sally, believe it or not the first time in 11 years that florida is waking up to a hurricane. Lets look at that Tropical Storm right now. This is from our sister station in tampa, florida. The clouds and the storm surge coming in there on the beach. This is st. Marks, florida. A man is that water appears to be knee high. There are a hundred thousand people without power. Tens of thousands more in the dark throughout florida and georgia. We are getting new flooding reports as well. Police in st. Peterburg tweeted out this picture. Many streets in this area, this we are expecting a live report from savanna, georgia coming up. Well keep you updated on the storm all morning long. Matt . Tim, we are looking at 94 eastbound, elm grove over the top of the freeway. Things with a little brake tapping. Still into downtown. The system is looking pretty good. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Later today, laying a wisconsin nun to rest. Sister margaret held grew up in slinger not too far from milwaukee. She and another nun were murdered in mississippi last week. They had been working as Nurse Practitioners there for decades. Chapel in milwaukee. A possible development in the making a murderer case. We could find out later today if Brendan Dassey will be retried for his part in the murder or if hell walk free. Tim, what are we learning about this case . The attorney for Brendan Dassey is confident that the state will not decide to retry him. Kathleen zellner hinted that the state attorney general could make his decision later today. She tweeted out this message y the wisconsin ag has only one moral, just and righteous decision to make for Brendan Dassey, let him go, it is over. Dassey had confessed to helping his uncle steven avery kill teresa halbach. The trial was documented in the Netflix Series making a murderer. A judge overturned his conviction last month saying that the confession should not be admissible in court. The state has until november to decide if theyll retry dassey ben, over to you. Thank you, tim. A deadly month in milwaukee. The police chief says august saw more homicides than any month in the last quarter century. Milwaukee had 24 homicides in august, five of them in just one day, the day that the unrest in milwaukee began. Last month, milwaukees murder rate was higher than chicagos. For every 100,000 people, milwaukee had four murders. Chicago had just over three homicides. Weve got a lot of work Going Forward for the Police Department and the community, but i would urge many of those who are most vocal in their criticisms of the Police Department to lend some of their energy and their concern to the extraordinary rates of Violent Crime that are afflicting us. Chief ed flynn says part of the problem is the number of guns in milwaukee. A movement to make sherman park safer. Yesterday as the Common Council held a meeting demanding action. A Community Group and some black panthers were at the meeting. They want the city to move faster to take care of problems in sherman park and across the city. Were sick and tired in milwaukee of policies being made without the right people and faces in the room. We will force you to make a change. Disruptions, disturbances, recalls, economic boycotts. To listen the council has planned two public listening sessions, but the protesters said they didnt want to wait for the city so they took their complaints to the Common Council meeting. Wisn 12 news time now is 6 35. Hurricane hermine made landfall overnight in florida. But before the storm hit, some people took a break from prepping for the hurricane and had a little fun. And a family of bears decide to go dumpster diving but a you have to see this video. How he got the big bears to leave. But first, lets take a live look outside as we head to break. News chopper 12 flying high in the sky keeping an eye on the roads before you drop your kids off the school and head to work. One last time before the lopped weekend. Can i get an hurrah . Yes. 20 minutes before on this friday morning. There we go. We are on the way to gorgeous Holiday Weekend weather. A few clouds around for us this morning and thats true at the airport. You can see with the live picture, it is 65 at the airport. Lighter east winds. We have the ease breezes throughout the day and eventually coming up out of the south. This is a look at racine where 52 waukesha. 58 west allis. 51 at watertown. 58 for beaver dam. Sunshine then for today. We are talking about highs at 73. 80 saturday, sunday and labor day. Sunny and humid. Matt . Sally, we are over the bypass, cleveland is over the top of the freeway there. A little brake tapping oklahoma avenue. It is a lose rolling slow down going into the construction zone. Topping the brakes there as well. Keep in mind though that the Labor Day Weekend is a construction holiday. No crews working in the construction zones starting this afternoon. New this morning, while hurricane hermine was heading for florida, thousands of people were prepping for the storm. Others decided to have a little fun, take a look. This video was posted on twitter before the storm made landfall. These floridians made the most of the flooded streets by wakeboarding. Experienced people here too. They have done this before. The water is so gross. He hes surfing around a pizza box there. New on 12 news, two bear cubs go dumpster diving but they get interrupted. Look at them. The cubs were roaming the neighborhood with their mama bear. A brave dog chased them off. There he goes. Not my house. Get out here. Scat, scot. I love that. State wildlife Officials Say the last time they checked the bears had run up a tree. Theyll probably head back to the woods on their own. This guard dog is not letting them back. He knew what he was doing too. 6 42. Time is in the news room. Hurricane hermine makes landfall in florida causing some serious issues. The heavy rain, flooding and more pelting florida and where hermine is headed. Plus, an explosion at Cape Canaveral destroys a rocket. The fallout after the blast and the investigation into what caused it and why facebook is involved in the discussion. Those stories and much more when dan krebbiel im dan krehbiel a Vietnam Combat veteran. We dont need politicians playing games with attack ads. S after the terrorists oil money and arms supplies. He combines targeted military force with better human intelligence. And, hell work to get middle Eastern States to take on the terrorists in their own backyard. Russ feingold offers a tough, realistic plan to protect america. Russ vo im Russ Feingold and i thank you for joining us. Just about to see the brake travel times. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Back to you. Thank you, matt. Not much to worry about with the weather here. High pressure is in place and anchored over the great lakes and great weather for us. The sunshine is staying w passing clouds from time to time. Look at the temperatures ks back to the 80s. Especially for sunday and monday with the low 80s. Wet by tuesday. At the airport 65 degrees. Today though a little cooler. Calling for the temperatures into the 70s. Warmer in lake geneva. Tropical storm hermine is kicking up a fuss. Yes, it is causing lots of problems. Hermine is expected to push into georgia as it moves up the coast. We have video. Bob hazen is in georgia. You are getting a break right now . Yes, it is nicer right now. We dont have to have the hood up at this moment. Just a little rain. This is the city hall of savanna. The dome there and the dark clouds. We are watching the clouds move across the sky and the winds with the storm, it is moving along here. The good news the wind isnt as powerful as of yet here in savanna. We have had gusts. We havent seen the knocked down there are heavy wands of rain. Those come and go. They havent been enough to flood out of the roads. A few roads are shutdown but they are low lying and they have this thing happen a lot. As of right now, not a lot of issues on the roads. People are watching the radar and watching the storm and when it is coming through, and the winds and the heavy rain coming a little white from now. That is the situation in savanna, georgia right now. Reporting live in savanna, georgia, back to you. Thanks, bob. Well continue to follow hermines progress and keep you updated throughout the morning. Melinda . Tim, thank you. Happening now, the Hawaiian Islands are feeling the effects of Tropical Storm madeline and flooding in the wake of the Tropical Storm. People boarded up windows and put out sandbags. Now, the focus is on hurricane lester still heading toward the islands. President obama was visiting hawaii but managed to avoid the storms. He was at the midway atoll yesterday, a tiny island where a World War Two battle happened. Its now part of a marine sanctuary. The president quadrupled the size of that sanctuary last week. He took some time to reminisce about growing up iwa took in the sights. Wed see these turtles all the time but never beaching like that basking in the sun. Apparently because its been raining, they got a little chilly so they figured theyd do a little sunbathing. Obama talked about the importance of conservation. He hopes his trip to hawaii will help americans take climate new on wisn 12, a high school in california has a message for students drinking is not welcome at school dances. Ahead of their backtoschool dance every student has to blow into a breathalyzer. School Officials Say they want to make sure students stay safe. They started this last year and since then, they havent had any problems at school dances. It is day two, the routine is setting in for the back to school. We are sharing some of the back to school pictures. Good morning. This year. A snap any dresser. Here are addison and alexys. They at st. Pauls lutheran school. And heres cj. Shes from milwaukee. Well share more pictures in our online website. Shes got the pose down. It seemed like a week or two ago looking at the memorial day school, and now back to school. We are talking about the pumpkin spiced lattes. And yes 30s. High pressure is overhead, especially in norther wisconsin and you are seeing as we get a ook at the satellite and and rar, a few clouds over the dakota in fa, dry High Pressure is influencing our weather. Southeast United States or up to the eastern sea board for the weekend, call the airline. This is Tropical Storm hermine. The rains across parts of georgia and moving up to the carolinas and certainly a poor Holiday Weekend is shaping up. Temperatures for us, for the most part 50s and 60s. It is warm air in store for us. 80 or better for tomorrow. Waukesha this morning 52 degrees. We have 57 at kenosha. 66 at racine. A good amount of sunshine for today. Still an east component to the wind. The temperatures hold in the 70s for today. Not so breezy as well. This is over night for tonight. There is a chance of pea soup tomorrow morning. Patchy fog. Saturday lunchtime, dry weather across the bo in the forecast for sunday and labor day as well. Calling for sunshine, 73 today. 80 tomorrow. Low 80s for sunday and monday. Tuesday mid 80s, a chance of showers and storms later in the day. Warm and humid into next week. Matt . Sally, we are looking at 94 east bound and westbound. Looking good here. Slowness by the zoo interchange. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. Happening now, spacex and facebook are dealing with the fallout after a rocket exploded yesterday. Tim elliott is in the newsroom learning more about the situation. Tim . The spacex rocket was on a launch pad in Cape Canaveral when something went wrong a series of explosions started going off lasting around four minutes. The rocket was destroyed along with a satellite owned by facebook. Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg posted about the explosion saying he is deeply disappointed to lose the satellite. The explosion happened while the rocket was being fueled. Ben, back to you. Looking ahead now, nba star dwyane wade sits down with George Stephanopoulos after his cousins death got National Attention including from donald trump who sent out a tweet about violence in chicago. I was grateful that it started a conversation, but on the other hand, it just left a bad taste in my mouth because of what my family is dealing with and what our city of chicago is dealing with and it looks like its being used as a political gain. Interview on Good Morning America starting at 7 00 a. M. Right after wisn 12 news this morning. A mother is furious with jetblue after her fiveyearold son ended up on the wrong plane. It took him to boston instead of new york city. The mother found out when jet blue delivered the wrong child at jfk. It took three hours to reunite the mother and son. A passport mixup reportedly they boarded each others flights. She goes to see him, it is not her child. It is another child with her sons passport. For three hours she believes her son is kidnapped. And does that mean the other boy is missing too. It seems like it. Apologized. And offered the family twothousand dollars in flight vouchers. But the family said no thanks they will not fly jet blue again. A bizarre experience for passengers on a united flight. One of the passengers started doing headstands in her seat. Another passenger pulled out his phone and started recording. He says when the woman started her second headstand, the Flight Attendant asked her to stop. Even with all the activity, her seatmate slept through the flight. Probably would have seen this and said wa are you doing, what are you doing . As long as you are not kicked in the head. But a lot of Flight Attendants couldnt believe it until they saw the tape. I sat next to worse on flights. That is true. Motion sickness is worse. G. M. A. Has the headlines coming up. First to a look outside from news chopper 12. We have traffic watch. Stick with us, 12 news this switch to u. S. Cellular and get 50 off smartphones. Its a deal you dont want to miss. Sir, hi. Did you just say, switch and you get 50 off a smartphone . Uh, yes. Sorry. Hi. Hello. I was watching tv and i saw you say 50 off smartphones. And well cover all switching costs. Oh wow also, you g. Uh, excuse me. Switch to u. S. Cellular and get 50 off smartphones. Plus, well cover all switching costs. Excuse me, can i just. Hmm . Know what youre talking about. Tropical storm hermine good morning. Thank you for joining us. Just a downtown. I get the feeling that some folks are starting the holiday early. Back to you. You may be running the air conditioner for part of the Holiday Weekend. Today in the low 70s and sunshine. The sun is staying around. Temperatures get up to 80 or better over the weekend. Thank you, sal. Take 12 news everywhere you go. Coming up on g. M. A. , they are following the latest wi good morning, america. State of emergency. Hurricane hermine slams florida overnight. The first to hit the state in more than a decade. Ginger zee on the scene when it hits. The storm pounds the panhandle with winds topping 80 Miles Per Hour. Evacuations and rescues overnigh coast as the dangerous storm heads north. A weekend washout and travel nightmare for the holiday. Breaking right now, global recall. Samsung the worlds Biggest Smartphone maker sending a major alert after reports dozens of devices burst into flames. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick once again refuses to stand during the National Anthem overnight. This time as Service Members are honored in front of him on military night. Now outrage growing over his protests as more athletes join