North woods. Think about leaving today to avoid driving in the snow to the north. At the airport 29. Winds are light and north. Today mostly cloudy and highs that reach up to the low 40s. Matt . The eastbound lanes reconfigured overnight and the zipper merge is you have to go south on 894 here. Go up to 84th if you want to go east bound. Things are moving smoothly in the area. If you are leaving soon, it is just ten minutes eastbound into downtown. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. Bars this morning and charged in the crash that killed six students on his bus. Tim . Investigators say that the bus driver was likely driving too fast and lost control, rolled and crashed. This was a mile away from the school and left the road and crashed into the trees and flipped over on the side. 23 students were september to the hospital. They range from kindergarten through 5th grade. The walker is facing a long list of charges this morning, including reckless driving and reckless endangerment. No other cars were involved in this. The schools are open today and grief counsellors are hand for the students that need them. Tim, thank you. Later today, the suspect in a hit and run crash that kill add fiveyearold milwaukee girl will be in court. And driveing with a suspended license and behind the wheel and crashed into the little girl walking to church. Hell find if the case is headed to trial, if convicted he could spend 30 years in prison. A family of a milwaukee man is raising questions about investigation into his death. Jay anderson was killed in june in madison park. The car was just releas parents. It is showing a poorly handled investigation and the family is saying that the dash cam video is proving he did nothing to threat tennessee officer. 6 03. Keeping your Drinking Water safe. That is on the agenda at city hall today in milwaukee. Hillary mintz is live downtown with a look ahead. Good morning, hillary. Reporter this morning the city leaders are expected to talk about a big problem that is milwaukee, maybe even your home, yes, the lead water lines. They could be under your house right now, in fact, lead laterals lead to tens of thousands of home in Milwaukee County and the city is working on a plan to make sure everyone has clean water. The water mains in milwaukee dont have load in them, but 70,000 homes have lead service lines. The city is considering replacing the pipes and that takes years and a half billion dollars to do it. In the meantime, residents are urged to install water filters. Now the item on the Common Council meeting is calling for a substitute ordinance mandating to replacing the lines and special assessments for the lead lines on the private properties. Hillary, thank you. Travelling for thanksgiving this week. Amtrak is saying this is their busiest week of the year. Thema is live with a look ahead. Good morning, thema. Reporter good morning, this train is getting ready to leave at 6 15. These travellers are catching a ride this week on the trains and amtrak is making changes that could affect your train ride. Now thom trains and seats on several routes here across the midwest, northeast and the west coast, including this line, that runs between milwaukee and chicago. Now another Important Note for you, amtrak is requiring reservations for the customers running on the round trips between today and sunday. However, if you are a monthly or a ten ride ticketholder you donned need a reservation. This new temporary reservation system will allow for a smoother ride this Holiday Season for everyone travelling for thanksgiving. Live in milwaukee wisn 12 news this morning. Thema, thank you. The Molina Healthcare is giving away grocery bags filled with food. They are handed out on a first come first serve basis in milwaukee. That kicks off at 10 00 this morning. Up with the hunger task forfor the food for Families Phone Bank. Ben is hanging out with the volunteers that are standing by to take your call. Good morning, i want to show you this here. We just got a huge donation 250 here this morning. So we have big donations rolling in. The lines have been open for six minutes. Call. They are waiting to take your calls. How are you feeling . Good . Great. Even a little bit can help out here again for the food for Families Phone Bank. We have some of the bins open here and some of the other things that we are collecting here, rise, anything that you can donate will help out the families in need here in southeast wisconsin. We are hernt morning. Thank you, ben. Sal, it is a perfect day to bundle up, call the food for Families Phone Bank and stay in bed. Yes, coffee extra hot when you get up. We get a live look at concordia university. The sky is just beginning to dance with a little Early Morning sun light and that is also true at racine and 24 and finally as we look at Cathedral Square this morning as well. Now, the holiday week, well, shaping up to be a wet wednesday. A couple of flurries and a mix friday morning. The Early Morning temperatures 20s and climbing up to 40s. Now to matt salemme up in news chopper 12. Right now we have a gorgeous looking sky and looking over the 9d merge went bye bye overnight. Right now the cars are travelling on a new traffic pattern. The one thing you have to keep in mind, highway one hundred gives you access to 894 southbound. Use 84th street to go eastbound. No delays. We are rolling. Melinda matt, thank you. Olympic gold medallist is back to milwaukee today. Shes meeting with the fans in glendale. She won gold in the summer games in rio. It is the first gold ever for team usa in that event. Shes signing the autographs at 5 30 tonight. Dont forget, oh, it is a rough couple packers are taking on the Philadelphia Eagles monday night football here on wisn 12. We start at 6 30 followed by the game at 7 30 monday night. Forget what happened on sunday. And the sundays before that. Onward. Onward wisconsin. 6 09. Powerful tremor hits japan. Earthquake from five years ago may be to blame. First, the lines are open for the food for family phone bank. Hey, guys, they are taking your calls. This is your chance to help out wisn 12 and the Hunger Task Force feed local families. Give what you can. Call now. Look at the illustrations. Welcome back to wisn 12 news this morning. Time now 6 13. I am in the food for Families Phone Bank. We have a facelift here too. More importantly, donate what you can. That number is 4147999476. Take your call. If you are in bed, brushing your teeth, washing your face, getting the sleep out of your eye, call in to give to families in need that need this thanksgiving and they are hungry and they need your help. Give what you can. We have the phones ringing now. Look at the folks, they are here and ready. They have the turkeys and so again, we are ready for your calls. Some on, lets talk. Why is this so important. You are here every year and dedicated to the cause. It is helping lots of local families. We are looking for turkeys aptdz donations. If you can call in and help out a local family in need we are appreciative. Give what you can. Ben . Thank you. Now to the morning commute and a check on the roads with matt, high above in news chopper 12. Good morning, matt. Good morning, ben and everyone, it is a beautiful sunrise underway. We are looking pretty good. We are over the bypass, looking good between the mitchell interchange and the hale interchange. Zipper merge is gone. Driving there. Right now, no delays on the system. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. New information about the 7. 4 earthquake that hit japans region yesterday. All sue nammy warnings are lifted and the fishing operations have restarted. They saw five foot waves of the quake. They have announced the the earthquake was an after shock of area in 2011 and killed more than ten thousand people. Happening now, iraqi forces are working to retake another neighborhood in mosul. Here with tim now and learning more about the challenges that the troops are facing. Yes t offensive started this morning but the Islamic State fighters are targeting with rockets and mortars. The troops are cautiously advancing into a densely populated neighborhood, mosul is the second largest city and the last major stit held by isis in that country. The operation to retake mosul started a month ago as a joint operation between the iraqi and kurtedish fighters there and the u. S. Is providing air strikes and other support. Most of the gains in the city so far are on the east side. Back to you. Thank you. President elect donald trump cancelled a meeting set for he announced that in the last hour with twitter, saying that the terms have been changed and saying there is a possibility that hell reschedule and be at the trump tower today. The paper says that the president elect was expected to speak on and off the record to discuss coverage. The times is not commenting about the cancellation of the meeting. The president elect outlined the plan for the first hundred days in office and trade deal and take on action on immigration. The release follows meetings on monday from the former governor rick perry to scott brown and Network Anchors and executives. Today ellen is being honored at the white house and receiving the medal of freedom. You can watch ellen here at 4 00. Lauren graham is giving the reboot. Sting is performing a song prosecute the upcoming album. It is ellens 12 days of giveaways. She gave away a thousand dollar travel voucher yesterday. You have a chance to win all of the prizes, go to wisn. Com and skol to bottom and be sure to register and watch at 4 00 today to see what well, right now t lines are open for wisn 12s food for Families Phone Bank. Volunteers are standing by to take the calls. This is your chance to help the Hunger Task Force to buy the food ahead of the Holiday Season. The volunteers are waiting to take your calls. Call in and give what you can. Already. And if you have already called in, we thank you very much. This is such an Important Mission this time of the year and putting the food on the tables. Thank you if you have called in. Here in the north, we are looking at snow across northern wisconsin. That is where the heads up is. In the south, we are warm enough for the rain as we get a live look at the weatherwatch 12 camera network. This morning the are showing up, we have a slight chance for a few sprinkles across southeast wisconsin, especially mid to late morning. Now, western counties would stand a chance of the moisture. Here is a look at what is happening in the north woods t snow is spreading across minnesota and northern wisconsin. This is throughout the day tomorrow. This is tomorrow night at 5 00. One to three, two to three woods. That is where the Winter Weather advisories are kicking in tonight. Here in the south we are talking rain. Here is the moisture. It is snow this morning by the time it is getting here it is warm enough to be a sprinkle. A little wet in the western counties this morning, main area of rain holding off until tonight. 6 00 you are seeing the wet across southern and northwest illinois. This is spreading into your area. Light rain showers overnight and for tomorrow during the day before we settle in with dryer weather for wednesday night and for thanksgiving day. Rain holds off until later tonight. 43 today. 35 tonight. 45 tomorrow and rain. Dry on thanksgiving day. A light mix early friday. A disturbance is coming in late that could bring in light rain or a mix. People are looking forward to a little snow. Just a little. Just a taste for the holiday. Bite sized snow. Thank you, sal. 6 21. Turning milwaukee landmark into a winter wonderland. What it took to transform the streets of old milwaukee. The bucks giving back to and beyond for the fans. The lines are now open for the food for Families Phone Bank. The volunteers are standing by. They are taking your calls right now. The number is up on the screen. This is your chance to help out Hunger Task Force to feed the local families. Lets put those volunteers to work. Yes, get those phones good morning, class. Thank you for the shout out. If you are interested in a visit, head to wisn. Com and click on the logo and while there, submit nominations for the top teacher award. New this morning, a twist on a local favorite. The streets of old milwaukee are transformed for the decorated how it looked in the victorian era. The popular granny exhibit, of course granny is there. The head of the Design Department is saying that the decorations are historically accurate. The christmas cards that are sitting on the tables and the deorations and the materials through the streets, that learning, that educational component will be a lot of fun. It is not Just Christmas that is celebrated, there are also menoras. The lines are open for the food for families phone ban. Take a look, the volunteers are standing by to take your calls. We have the number here 4147999476. This is your chance to help out wisn 12 and the Hunger Task Force feed the local families in the area. This is a great chance to give back. Stick with us, a live look again ben a tragic situation in tennessee. At least five students killed when a school bus crashes. Now the driver is facing charges. Why police say hes at fault. Melinda have you packed up the car yet . Families across the country are getting ready to hit the road for thanksgiving. Your bags. The lines are open for the food far for families food bank. 4147999476. The volunteers are standing by to take your calls. We have more coming up. Good morning. It is great to have you with us. Good morning and welcome to wisn 12 news this morning. Im ben wagner. Melinda and im melinda its 6 30 on this tuesday, november 22nd. Lets start with the forecast. Meteorologist Sally Severson is in the weather center. The clouds are filling in and a little light snow in the Southwest Corner of the state. There is a whisper chance of a stray sprinkle in the western counties related to the light snow moving through. The low pressure is strengthening in the southern plains, it is a wet one for us Winter Weather advisories in northern wisconsin 9 00 tonight until 9 00 wednesday night. So we look at a mix to wet snow to the north. Here in the south, we are looking at rain and even that is holding off until tonight. Look at the Early Morning sunrise. We become cloudy today and reach up to the low 40s. Matt . We are over the marquette interchange. No problems in downtown. The tral times are in the green. The closure overnight had the zipper merge removed, so sunny slope no longer down to two lanes. That is a look at the morning commute. Back to you. Matt, thank you. El melinda new this morning, the driver in a Fatal School Bus crash is now under arrest and facing charges. At least five children were killed in the crash yesterday in chattanooga, tennessee. Wisn 12 news tim elliott has the details. Tim. We are learning that 35 students were on the bus in chattanooga on their way home yesterday. The driver was going to fast and facing charges. Officials say the bus rolled and crashed into a tree. The bus here with the roof smashed in. Six children were killed. Around 20 were taken to hospitals. Police say the 24yearold driver was going too fast. Hes facing five charges of vehicular homicide and could face more charges. Now police are working to get the buss black box so they can learn more about what happened. Tim, thank you. Millions of americans are traveling this week for thanksgiving and that has safety officials on alert. Thema is live for us at the reporter good morning, been, a lot of extra traffic throughout the week and taking trains and buses and flying from places across the country. And you are being reminded to allow extra time to get through the security. Now, amtrak here is asking passengers to be on the look out and report any unattended bags or anything else that is suspicious. There is a similar message if you are headed to the airport. Air travellersav layer of security, the tsa lines. Arrive up to two hours before a flight. The tsa Precheck Program is a way to help the process go faster. Here live, the people are coming and going on the way this morning, authorities have not announced specific threats to thanksgiving travellers, but the department of Homeland Security says that the Holiday Season could be a target so they shall asking everyone as you are travelling this week keep your and if you see something, say something. Live in milwaukee wisn 12 news this morning. Triplea projects that 48 million americans will travel more than 50 miles from home this week. The vast majority of people will drive, but there will still be a spike in other Transportation Options like airplanes, trains, buses, and even cruises. Wisn 12 news time now is 6 34. Melinda later today, a spanish train maker will be recognized for bringing jobs back to milwaukee. Hillary in milwaukee with a look ahead. Good morning, hillary. Reporter good morning, melinda. Tom barrett is a big supporter of talgo and returning to build the train cars and a local group is celebrating today. The return is because of a new contract that they have landed with the city of los angeles and repairing and refurbishing the cars for los angeles. Between milwaukee and madison, that didnt happen because the governor didnt support the line saying it was too expensive to maintain. Now they are back and the new contract is expected to create 30 new jobs. Milwaukee alder mon will be recognized and appreciated for the work hes doing for the return. There is a ceremony at the afternoon. Hillary, thank you. Later today, a Franklin Police officer receiving a big honor for rescuing a bus driver. The driver had a medical emergency which led to the crash. News chopper 12 was over the scene in april. Officer mullikan had to break into the bus to save the driver. Hell be honored with a lifesaving medal today. More officers and civilians will be honored too. The ceremony starts at 6 30 at rewarding students in sherman park. Last night more than 100 students at townsend elementary scored free tickets to the bucks game because of their perfect attendance. The kids got tickets for themselves and their family and free bucks gear. Families say its good to have something positive after this summers unrest in sherman park. Its been so much problems in that sherman park area and for them to give back to the Bucks Community is a really good thing uplifting the children and gives with our children. The surg res trand group and Phoenix Investors sponsored the event. It is time for the annual food for Families Phone Bank wisn 12 is partnering with the Hunger Task Force to help local families in need. Hey, ben, they are lovely and welcoming these bright smiling faces. 4147999476. Here is the deal, our friends are going to match your turkey, so you call in, and give what you can, and every turkey you give, they are matching one for you. Not a bad deal. How about that this morning. Call when you can, 4147999476. Getting out of bed, i know, it is hard, you are watching wisn 12 news this morning, there is the phone ringing. Give what you can. 4147999476 to help out the families in need for the food for Families Phone Bank. Melinda, thank you. Traffic watch 12. Matt . Ben, looking down at the area where the merge was happening previously along 94 eastbound. You are seeing that is picked configuration. You are to the right instead of merging to the left. As you can see, no delays at this point. We are rolling at 10 minutes. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. Heavy downpours in californi ben rescue crews had a busy day rescuing people trapped on an island. Firefighters say four people who are homeless live on an island in the la river. The clerk was working at a florida gas station and the suspect came in and hit the clerk in the back. The clerk fought back using his fists. He managed to get the pipe away from the wouldbe thief. That suspect ran off. Police are searching for him this morning. The clerk is doing just fine. And security zones in the ocean. The high profile visitor it is designed to protect. Plus, a megastar is in the hospital this morning, why kanye west cancelled his tour. First, the lines are open for the food bank. 4147999476. Take a look at the volunteers. They are up, dancing, smiling, this is for the hunger task need. Call the number right now. Welcome back. We are here in the phone bank for the food for Families Phone Bank. 4147999476. You can see we have the volunteers. Everybody is helping out with the phone calls. No reason not to call and help out the families in wisconsin. Nick, you have a pretty great deal here. For the past six years and we are watching the 15 donation and every turkey purchase basically we are going to match that gift. It is just a great opportunity to help the people out and we love being part of the phone bank and its just a great opportunity. And you have been taking some of the phone calls here. We have tom turkey taking your spot right now. Yes, hes on the phone more than donation . Yes, a hundred dollar donation and 150 donations, no donation is too small. The minimum over the phone is 10. But you can donate on the website, no minimum. Yes, 15 for a turkey again and they are matching the turkeys that you donate too. Thank you for being with us. 9 00 this morning. 4147999476. Back to you. So exciting to give when you can. It feels good to help out others. Something else, get a look at the live pictures, this is mounted in mequon and 24 and the winds are calm. 24 racine. It is really a fairly cool but glendale 23 degrees. We get a look, we are starting to get skim ice on the area lakes. For today, mostly cloudy skies, wet on wednesday. A few flurries early on friday. Now to matt up in news chopper 12. Sal, we have a gorgeous view up here as well. Things are looking great up here in the sky. Roads as well. You can see things are looking good. They are rolling through pretty good. The road work reopened around 5 00. No longer merging, but stay to the right. Right now, absolutely no delays on the freeway system. All the travel times are in the green. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Thank you, matt. Math of the earthquake. We are live in the news room with the latest information. Tim. Officials say this massive quake was an aftershock of a 2011 earthquake that hit the same area. The quake caused damage and triggered a tsunami warning. Officials have lifted that tsunami warning this morning. Weve learned that at least 14 people were hurt in the aftermath of the earthquake. You can see the camera shaking there. There are some reports of damage Officials Say those have all been extinguished. Tim, thank you. More protests in north dakota and they are demanding that the sheriff resign. This comes after a tense night between Law Enforcement and protesters. Sunday night officers reportedly used Water Cannons and tear gas to stop protesters from crossing a bridge. Say the protesters were throwing objects at the officers. They were met by brutal force, with Water Cannons, tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets in unbelievable amounts. It was horrific, a horrific scene. Melinda 16 people were arrested yesterday during the protest to demand the sheriffs resignation. Ben new this morning, more protests in portland, oregon over president elect donald trump. Around 100 students gathered at the students walked through the streets and even blocked roads. School officials in portland sent a letter home to parents warning that there could be more student protests this week. President elect donald trump is spending time in miami. There is special security being set up. The coast guard is saying that the zones will protect others in the area. The nominee for the National Security advisor was in milwaukee last night. Hundreds of people attended and standing room only to here general flynn talk about the National Security challenges, isis and russia and north korea. The leaders need to focus on the long term. Strategy, our grand strategy, as we go forward in the rest of this century. Ben some students who attended the speech say they wanted to hear flynn discuss Cyber Security along with international and domestic issues. Ben new this morning, a texas woman wants sherifde was tazed. The woman uses a wheelchair because of a lower back injury. She was using a cell phone to record her friends arrest when she got into an argument with police. One deputy grabbed her phone and threw it into her car. Minutes later another deputy tazed her. I feel like they actually abused the law and used to abuse a disabled person that cant even fight back. Ben she wants the deputies to face charges too. The Sheriffs Office says the deputies are being investigated and may face consequences once the investigation is finished. Wisn 12 news time now is the wisn 12 food for Families Phone Bank. The volunteers are standing by to take your calls. The number is 4147999476. This is a chance to help, look at tom turkey in the back and dancing. This is a your chance to help the Hunger Task Force to help out families in need. Give what you can and help out the volunteers fill up th lines and fill a table for a family in need. You are seeing the volunteers smiling and taking donations down. Thats what they are there. They are up early. Look, he needs a call. Someone needs to call him now. Pick up the phone. And rex nord is matching every turkey donated. 15 buys a turkey. Snow for the state. Most of this is coming in later tonight and tomorrow. Kind of a wet nuisance type of snow in the north woods. Sunrise 6 53. 29 degrees at mitchell international. We look at the city early on this tuesday morning. Bottom line for the next couple of days, tricky travel tonight and tomorrow for the north woods. Think about leaving today if you can to avoid driving to thesn rain for the southern half of the state. You can see as a snow is lining up, heavy snow across portions of minnesota. Not a lot of snow here, 13, 23 inches of snow starting with a rain snow mix. We have wiepter weather advisories kicking in tonight at 9 00 for northern wisconsin. Here in the east, dry air mass in place for us early this morning and keeping an eye on the snow, a lot of of this is we have a really dry air mass in place for us. A spripgel in the western counties well in advance of the low bringing in the rain tonight. For today, becoming cloudy. Rain across iowa and minnesota. Showers over night. Periods of light rain overnight and for much of the day on wednesday. Wednesday at 5 00. Now the rain and the snow is turning off and looking at a quieter thanksgiving day. 35 tonight. Rain overnight and during the day on wednesday. Mid 40s. Dry on thanksgiving day. Could be wet or a mix going wednesday night or thursday and friday morning as well. Matt . Sally, we are looking at 94 east bound, westbound and looking good across the system. Westbound just a tap on the brakes. Eastbound looking good. Even through the Construction Zone because the merge was all is lifted. The travel times in fantastic shape. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. Right now, rapper kanye west is in an los angeles hospital. He ranted in a concert and cancelled the shows. Kanye west is getting hold at a hospital. He cancelled 21 concerts. Live nation is sawing customers will be refunded. The Police Officers were called to a house, nothing criminal happened there. West though is reportedly suffering from exhaustion and stress. Night, her first since being tied up and robbed in paris last month. She did not end up making that appearance. Back to you. Tim, thank you. An exciting morning here. Yes, it is, the lines are open for the food for Families Phone Bank. Volunteers are standing by to take your calls. Rex nord is matching the turkey donations this morning. 4147999476. This is your chance to help wisn 12 and the Hunger Task Force good morning. Thank you for joining us. We are looking down at the zoo interchange project. 94 eastbound, the zipper merge is gone, it is a thing of three lanes are open entering the Construction Zone and it is moving smoothly. No trouble for you. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. No zipper merge and smiles all around. Becoming cloudy this morning. This afternoon mostly cloudy and dry up to the low 40s. The western counties. Better chances for wet tonight and for tomorrow. All right. Here we go. It is time, you guys. Lets do it. Lines are open. Food for Families Phone Bank. The volunteers are standing by. 4147999476. This is your chance to help the Hunger Task Force to buy the food for families in need. Give what you can. That is gh volunteers to work. We are out there until 9 00 too. Good morning, america. School bus tragedy. The bus just flipped over. Its occupied with children. This bus filled with 35 Elementary School students in a horrific accident running off the road and slamming into trees. At least five killed and two dozen hospitalized. Arrested. This is an absolute nightmare for this community. Investigators are on the scene, as we hear from the families this morning. Donald trump makes his first direct appeal to americans since the election. I want the next generation of production and innovation to happen right here on our great homeland, america. This morning well have what he promised, what he didnt say about isis as he meets with former rivals even democrats about joining his cabinet