Watch. Here at home, keeping an eye on the Early Morning sunshine and giving way to a cloudy sky. Thunderstorms are showing up across minnesota and iowa and it is drawing closer to us later this morning and i expect a slight chance of showers. The know is flying in montana. We have a weekend cool down. This morning, it is mild. The temperature 64 degrees. Skies right now a the sun will be disappearing and a chance for a shower or two mid to late morning and afternoon. Lots of dry hours. And ben, look at the highs 74 degrees. Now to hurricane matthew. This morning forecasters are expanding a hurricane warning area in florida. Thats as the monster storm continues to churn in the caribbean. Lets get right to meteorologist Jeremy Nelson who is tracking the storm. Over the weekend and started to lift to the north. Yesterday making the land fall on haiti and cuba and just beginning to emerge into the caribbean and starting to impact the bahamas. Maximum winds 125 miles per hour, it is a major category 3 hurricane around could be strengthening a bit along the thursday night and friday and friday night. The forecast path is not certain. It could have huge impacts on the southeast coast. We are on weatherwatch 12 and watching the hurricane and the impact to the united states. Thanks, jeremy. Hurricane matthew caused a lot of damage as it passed through haiti. Now four u. S. States are bracing states of emergency have been declared in florida, georgia, and the carolinas. Some people are already being evacuated. Others are boarding up their homes and stocking up on fuel and groceries. Abc news has crews in haiti, the bahamas, and florida right now. Look for their reports today on good morning america. Thats starting at 7 00 a. M on wisn 12. New from overnight, a pedestrian hit on milwaukees south side. Now police are looking for whoever was behind the wheel. The crash happened just before 2 00 this morning near drive. Police say a woman was hit while crossing the street. Investigators say the vehicle drove away. Officers could be seen looking at nearby surveillance cameras hoping to find clues that will lead them to the driver. The victim is in the hospital being treated for serious injuries. New from overnight, all lanes of northbound i43 are back open after a rollover crash. Upside down around 12 30 this morning. Glendale police and the Milwaukee CountySheriffs Office were both at the scene. Theres no word yet on whether anyone was hurt. Wisn 12 news time now is 4 34. Right now, a milwaukee man is getting ready to be released from prison after more than two decades behind bars. Tim, why is he being released today . New dna evidence proves that Daryl Holloway did not commit the crimes he was convicted of. Yesterday, a Milwaukee County judge signed an order dismissing all charges against holloway and vacating his 120year sentence. Holloway was convicted of two sexual assaults and for that, hes already served 24 years, but the Innocence Project took another look at the case and had new dna tests done. Those tests proved that holloway is innocent. Holloway will be released from a prison in green bay later today. Back to you. Tim, thank you. Turning to commitment 2016 coverage now. The campaign trail leads through wisconsin today. Fighting to overtake Hillary Clinton in the badger state. Donald trump junior will campaign for his father today at a roundtable event in brookfield. On saturday, trump himself will hold a rally in wisconsin. Were still waiting to hear more about that event, and later today, Bernie Sanders will campaign for Hillary Clinton in madison and green bay. Chelsea clinton will be in wisconsin monday. Last night the Vice President ial candidates faced off in their only debate. The 90minute conversation was full of interruptions. Senator, i think im on my time. Isnt this a discussion . Let me interrupt. Each candidate was focused on defending their running mate. Tim kaine, Hillary Clintons vp pick, defended her using a private email server while she was secretary of state, and mike pence, whos running alongside donald trump, had to answer for some questionable comments trump has made and for his tax six times tonight i have said to governor pence i cant imagine how you can defend your running mates position on one issue after the next. His tax returns showed he went through a very difficult time, but he used the tax code just the way its supposed to be used, and he did it brilliantly. According to a poll by cnn orc, 48 percent of people say pence won the debate, compared to 42 percent who thought kaine won. This morning, many schools are celebrating International Walk to school day. Wauwatosa schools are marking the occasion. Parents, teachers and Community Leaders will join students as they walk to school this morning. According to the district, the event raises awareness about making sure there are safe routes for kids who walk to school. Wisn 12 news time now is 4 36. Saving money while buying a car. Coming up on wisn 12 news this morning, the three things experts say you should consider before heading to the dealership. Gone wrong. Police are called to a baseball stadium to look for a certain fan. What that person is accused of doing thats being called inexcusable. Russ ive travelled over 50,000 miles all across wisconsin listening to people, hearing their stories. A lot of folks are Business Owners and entrepreneurs. They tell me how hard it is to grow a business in todays economy. So together, we came up with the badger innovation plan. Raining and fair trade. Because we need to export wisconsin products, not wisconsin jobs. It has been a run of the warm weather. We are coming 20 minutes before 5 00 on this wednesday morning. Skies are fair across the far eastern part of the state early today and the highs going up to 74 degrees. And it is 139 days how long we have had the temperatures 60 degrees or warmer. The record 140. We are going to reach that today and break it tom 70s still tomorrow. Early this morning sunshine in the east and increasing of the clouds. There are a few shower across minnesota and iowa. We get in on the action for mid to late morning and early afternoon and coming into a dry air mass. The showers are light and very scattered. 63 madison. We look at mild air in place. We get to noon hour and temperatures 70 or better. South breezes. We have a few scattered showers. New this morning, dough that could have made millions of cookies wasted. A truck carrying 27,000 pounds of cookie dough crashed and burst into flames. It caused a big mess along an indianapolis interstate and the cookies all got burned. This is surveillance video. The road reopened after the accident got cleared. The truck driver was not hurt. That dough is gone. Also new this morning, thieves come after an atm in a gas station. They rammed into the stores front door trying to get it. The truck crashed into the doors three times. Then two men got out of the truck and took off with an atm. Police in albuquerque say they Drainage Ditch the next day. Wisn 12 news time now is 4 42. A little girl call add hero this morning. That is after her mom has a seizure behind the wheel. Hi guys got the birthday girl a drum set. Drum set . Hes kidding [laughs] oh you guys must have Time Warner Cable. This is gonna be some party. Yeah, their free home wifi lets us connect all our devices at the same time. And theres no data cap, so. The kids must love that, huh . hey, theres the birthday girl lets get this Party Started get Time Warner Cable 50 meg internet. Thats more than 8 times faster than dsl and no data cap. Uploading honey, im goin viral call now. Get 15 megs for 39. 99 a month. Hi grandma miss you who is that . Are you gonna finish that . Ok. Switching is easy with Time Warner Cables exclusive onehour arrival window, so you dont have to wait around. Plus, theres no contract all with a moneyback guarantee. He overdid it. [snoring] [giggling] get 15 meg internet with call now. Ask about free installation, and access to nearly 500,000 wifi hotspots with select plans. Call today. We are 64 degrees on this wednesday morning at 4 45. Early morning sunshine. The skies are fair at the heir port and 64. Light southwest winds this morning. Today increasing clouds this morning. A slight chance for a stray shower midmorning and afternoon. Many will be dry overall. Look at the highs around 74 degrees. Tomorrow. Right now, nearly 2,000 people have been forced out of their homes as a wildfires rage in colorado. Tim is in the news room with the latest. Ben, im checking out googles interactive Colorado Wildfire map. You can see there are three wildfires burning in the state right now. Denver sits here. I want to talk about this one. The beulah hill fire has done some serious damage. Its spread to more than 5,000 acres just since monday. Buildings have been destroyed so far. Dry and windy conditions are making it tough to fight but the wind is expected to calm down today. Fire crews are investigating to find out how the fire started. Fire Officials Say some people may be able to return to their homes this afternoon if firefighters are able to make progress fighting the flames. Melinda, back to you. Tim, thank you. Right now, two kids are in the hospital after a driveby threeyearold were inside a home when gunshots rang out. One of them is in Critical Condition this morning. The other is in serious condition. Police are still searching for the suspects, two men who were reportedly driving a jeep. New this morning, a little girl in North Carolina is in the hospital after she was hit by a car walking to her bus stop. Shes 11 years old. The girl was walking with her grandmother who didnt see the car coming. Now the family has questions speeding and why the bus stop was recently moved across the street. New this morning, a woman in arkansas climbed a power tower to get away from an attacker. But she ended up badly hurt when the tower shocked her. The woman climbed over a barbed wire fence then up the power tower. She was trying to get away from a man who had threatened her with a gun. That suspect is still on the a threeyearold boy was lost in a cornfield and a drone helped to find him. They used drones to look from the air and to help organize the volunteers. Now officials are looking at buying their own drones for future searches. The Drone Company is helping with that too. We would train their deputies on using the drones. Smartest thing to do so they are on hand when they need them. The little boy that was lost is safe at home this morning. A tenyearold michigan girl is called a hero for the quick thing when her mom started have a seizure. She steered the car to the side of road and put it in park and called 911. A wonderful outcome. Very proud of this young lady and shes a brave person. The mother was taken to the hospital and she be fine. Thief rides off with a dog stolen from a front porch in california. Surveillance cameras captured the thief holding the dog. Ruby is back with the owner this morning. Very good news. So yes. I cant believe someone does that. All on camera too. I hope ruby had a growl. A snap too. Good grief. Showers around early today. I dont expect much in the way of rain. Isolated shower chances for us. We look at the radar network, we have fair skies early this morning and the clouds are filling in rapidly. The early risers a little star shine or sunrise. The low pressure is situated over the plains and we have the rain across minnesota and iowa. Look at the snow across minnesota. No snow for us. We are getting in on a cooler air mass in time for the weekend. The ea du lac. 59 waukesha. A couple of 64s milwaukee and racine. So a nice little warm up with the south winds. As far as the rain is considered it is a dry and stable air mass. This is 9 00 this morning, mostly cloudy and better chances for showers central and north in the state this morning. This is today at lunchtime. Im going to keep a slight going for this morning. Most of us staying dry. This is tomorrow morning, i will be here along with jeremy and keeping you up to date on the showers. A few dry hours and with the warm air in place and a little heating showers and thundershowers going. This model is over doing it a little bit, but well see a few downpours later the day 62 tonight. Rain off and on tomorrow, especially for tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night. 50s for the weekend but sunshine. Sal, thank you. Wisn 12 news time now is 4 51. Creepy clown sightings across the country, it is not halloween, but they have spread to southeast wisconsin. It is getting out of hand. It is. People are pulling the pranks and it is not funny for a woman she saw a clown looking into her window. Nope, nope. Im done with that. The police are looking into the clown sightings. Milwaukee and west wednesday. That is after receiving the messages online and threatening to have the people with clown masks to show up at the school. Overnight the news room heard about a possible clown sighting. We continue to follow the latest developments with i dont even like that picture, tim. Right now, qurans about the future of columbias civil war. The voters rejected a deal. Now the president is saying that the cease fire is remaining in effect until the end of the month. A former Police Officer in court in georgia and accused of the judge denied the bond and hall was behind bars until the case goes to trial. Hall called for help in september and saying that she was shot and a bullet proof vest saved her life. They say there was no shooting. The people that got hurt from the train crash in new jersey is suing the system. More than 100 people were hurt in the cr wisn 12 news time now is 4 53. If you are looking for a new car, turns out where and when you buy affects how much you are going to pay. Experts are saying find a dealership where you feel comfortable. The old antidote is true, if you are looking for a good it matters when you buy. Would you say is the best time to buy a car . Well, i think of it this way, the end of whatever we are in. The end is the thing to keep in mind when getting the best deal. The end of the month, the end of the day, end the Holiday Weekend or the end of a period. Decide if you want to negotiate or just loong always negotiate. I knew that would be coming from you. Always haggle. A rowdy moment at a baseball game as the outfielder is going for a catch, the fan throws a bottle at him. The fan missed and the player the Police Showed up in the section of the stands and looking for the person. A special request this morning for Green Bay Packers fans. What you are asked to bring to lambeau, this time it is not a food collection. Celebrating an old tv show in southeast wisconsin and where to go on the way to work today for Mental Health awareness week. One in five americans struggle with Mental Illness and the most common are depression and bipolar and anxiety. Pulling friends, extreme lows and highs and suicidal thoughts. If you are looking for a someone special, the real chemistry could be in your d. N. A. Aparentally genes can affect how you are attracted to someone. Couples with different genetic components are compatible. Johnson and johnson are awarding warning people that are using the pumps. It has a Cyber Security risk. The hijackers could take it over and increase the doses. Ben stiller is encouraging men to get tested for prostrate cancer. He was diagnosed the doctor conducted a prostrate psa blood test. The levels were still on the rise and leading to a cancer diagnosis. Stiller survived because of early detection. Wisn 12 news time now is 4 59. The news continues right now. Good morning, welcome to wisn 12 news this morning. 5 00, october 5th. Right now, bracing for landfall, thousands of americans are in the path of hurricane matthew. Plus, he spent half of his life in prison, and now a milwaukee man will be set tree later today. The new information that proves hes innocent. We are keeping your eyes on the roads. Looking outside right now at the d. O. T. Cams. Commute in a moment. First, we are starting with sally severson. Early today sunshine, but the clouds are returning this morning and a slight chance of a few showers. Bus stop weather, we are dry for the early part of the morning and even the peeks of sunshine before the clouds return. Slight chance of showers midmorning and late afternoon