Thanks to a warmer Lake Michigan. 12 snow lakeside and 24 snow inland. Highs in the mid 30s. Snow tapers off after about 7pm. Cloudy skies tomorrow. Here is a live look roads are quiet, but were starting to see some snow in the area, youll want to take a little extra time this morning. About 100 salt Truck Drivers are on standby this morning in milwaukee. For a look at conditions in downtown, lets check in now with wisn 12 news contributor van mcneil. Good morning van. 101 salt trucks in city of milwaukee. They will start salting the main streets at 8 30 and then side streets. You can track the snow from your phone or tablet. Just download the free wisn 12 news app. You can find the latest weather conditions, right down to your street. To beat the snow you may want to leave early if youre headed north for the packer game. Kick off at lambeau is at noon against the houston texas. And the injury list seems to ge tj lang and jc tretter are out. Damarious randall is questionable, not to mention Aaron Rodgers in addition to three linebackers clay matthews, blake martinez, and jake ryan. On the offensive side the packers have passed the ball 69 percent of the time since eddie lacy went on ir. Last weeks 28 rush attempts were actually the most since lacy went down, but still far short of the 5050 passrun split. Rodgers were just taking it 1 week at a time, so whatever we we dont really think about the sustainability of throwing it twice as much as we run it. Its just based on the personnel weve got up, their health, and then how we feel we can attack that team. Fans are encouraged to bring a new unwrapped toy to todays game. The packers are teaming up with the marines for their annual toys for tots drive. Marines will be stationed around Lambeau Field to collect donations before the game. In addition to those toys, you can also make a cash attending todays packer game, a very surprised father and son, all thanks to a construction crew working next door. In a story youll only see on wisn 12 news tim elliott shows us how a simple hello in hartland turned into something so much more. Nats constuction site living near a construction site nats site things can get nats scrape really noisy nats brick saw you dont make friends with the neighbors when youre building next to but rich nowakowski haha waves doesnt mind the noise one bit because he haha is just as loud oh god yeah haha wow for the past 2 monthsgary aide and his crew have been building the riverwalk apartments on lawn street in hartland denny, everything good . And everyday hey hey how you doing . Rich sits on his porch across the street beautiful greeting the crew and beautiful im telling you look at this this guy is just Something Different, Something Special hes just happy all the time. Always in a good mood rich was a mailman for 33 years but retired 12 years ago after suffering a stroke. Turned our lives upside down especially him because hes so social richs wife patricia says the stroke affected his speech he know what he wants to say but he cant get loves life loves people no matter what so this Holiday Season, gary and his crew wanted to do Something Special for rich. Oh come on. Come on wow wow the crew pitched in and got rich two tickets to this weekends packer game along with some spending money oh come on. Thats for your travel expenses. Oh come on come on haha in alla package worth close to 500 dollars. And to have this happen to him it kind of brought christmas right derr, packers rich will tell you himselfhes the teams biggest fan. Oh god, come on, come on ohhh hahaahhaah and for a man who struggles to find the wordstoday, he knew exactly what to say. Thank you very much youre welcome in hartland, Tim Elliott Wisn 12 news. As a thank you, rich construction crew, who they now call their friends. Wisn 12 news time is new this morning too many guns to count. Thats how many weapons the Green Bay PoliceDepartment Says they received in a Gun Buyback Program this weekend. Officers collected guns at a local sams club yesterday for the departments first ever Buyback Program anyone who dropped off a weapon got a 50 dollar gift card. The officers ran out of those gift cards with so many i brought my fathers 22 luger pistol that he purchased somewhere back in the 70s. He passed away a few years ago, and i have no use for the firearm. I have two kids at home, and i dont want them to find it because guns are dangerous, so one gun off the street and some money in my pocket. The Green Bay Police department received a two thousand dollar grant to run the officers are going on a shopping spree today for their annual shop with a cop event. Theyre pairing up with local kids to help them pick out gifts for their families. After shopping at kohls, the group will enjoy a bowling and pizza party at bayshore town center. Glendale pds been hosting this program for the past eight years. Looking ahead Milwaukee Police will swear in a new class of recruits tomorrow. The ceremony is at 10 oclock at the Police Academy on teutonia. 46 men and 12 women make up this class. The recruits will to through six months of training and streets by next summer. Wisn 12 news time is preventing skin cancer, one glass of wine at a time. How your favorite drink affects your risk for getting the disease. Plus a river of foam floods the streets in philadelphia. Why families lost power due to this giant mess. And heres Sally Severson in the weather center. Snow spreading in from west to east. Ill show you who may see up to four inches and the Winter Weather . . We asked people to write down the things they love to do most on these balloons. Travel with my daughter. Roller derby. . . Now give up half of em. Do i have to . This is a tough financial choice we could face when we retire. Of our annual income. We could keep doing all the things we love. Morning. Your taking a live look at the roads in waukesha county. Its wisn 12 news time is a health alert for parents of teens this morning. A new study says heavy drinking could alter the brain structure of teenagers. Research shows teens who binge drink tend to have brains with less gray matter. And selfcontrol. Test. Test. S of white wine each night could increase your risk for melanoma. Drinking beer, red wine, or liquor wasnt found to significantly affect risk. Researchers caution this only shows an association not a caue and a risk for cancer. This morning you are invited for a hot breakfast at fire station number two in west allis. Starting at 8 30 this morning there will be pancakes, sausage, orange juice and coffee. Tickets are seven dollars for adults and four dollars for kids under 12. Sales will help provide toys and holiday goodies for local children. And get your reservations in now to have breakfast with santa at the Milwaukee County zoo. The only dates left are december 17th and 18th. Tickets are 20 dollars for each six dollars. New this morning. Tinker the miniature horse is once again on a special Holiday Mission across southeast wisconsin nats of bell ringing every year tinker and his owners volunteer for the Salvation Armys Red Kettle Campaign. And in what has become a tradition tinker is also paying us a visit here at wisn 12 news isn 12 news contributor van mcneil just outside our studio the morning. Snow will spread in from west to east between now and 10am. Look for a steady snow to fall much of the day. Mixing with rain thanks to a warmer Lake Michigan. 12 snow lakeside and 24 snow inland. Highs in the mid 30s. Snow tapers off after about 7pm. Sparks fly when a plane lands without its landing gear. What the pilot did to avoid a disaster. And later trees for troops. How you can help deliver fresh evergreen trees to wisconsins military families. But first heres a look at last nights lottery numbers good luck . Wisn 12 news this waukesha county. Its wisn 12 news time is new this morning a small plane in texas lands safely without its landing gear. The pilot reported trouble with his planes landing gear yesterday afternoon while flying above tyler, texas. The pilot flew circles around the airport to burn off fuel, then managed to land the plane on itse underneath. He walked away without getting hurt. Faa inspectors will look over the plane in the coming days to figure out what went wrong with the landing gear. A giant mess on the streets of philadelphia. Officials say there was an explosion at an electrical substation on saturday. The stations Fire Suppression system then released the foam that ended up blanketing the street. Families were told to stay away from the foam. It can cause skin irritation. About 27hundred customers lost hurt. New this morning a trapeze artist in saint louis is celebrating her retirement at the age of ninety. Elizabeth herring, who goes by bunny, held her final show friday night. She originally joined a circus as a teenager, but she had to promise her parents that she wouldnt do aerial stunts. However, when she turned eighty she joined a circus again and started performing trapeze tricks. Wisn 12 news time is cleats for a cause. Next on wisn 12 ne footwear the packers will wear today, and how you can help the team give back to wisconsin charities. And heres a live look outside at the milwaukee dpw salt yard at 14th and walnut. 101 salt trucks will hit the streets at 8 30. We are tracking the snow this morning. Stay with us. Youre watching wisn 12 news. Take a twitter timeout and connect with the wisn 12 news team. Chat, tweet, and get i have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. Breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Breo wont replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. Breo opens up airways to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. Breo contains a type of medicine that increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in children and adolescents. Breo is not for people whose asthma is well controlled on a ontrol medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Once your asthma is well controlled, your doctor will decide if you can stop breo and prescribe a different asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Do not take breo more than prescribed. See your doctor if your asthma does not improve or gets worse. Ask your doctor if 24hour breo could be a missing piece for you. See if youre eligible for welcome to 12 news. Im andy choi. Its now on this sunday, december 4th. Were going to begin by checking in with meteorologist Sally Severson in the weather center. Good morning sally thank you sally. We continue our weather coverage with a check outdoors. Wisn 12 news contributor van mcneil is ra outside our studio good morning, van make roads slippery. This is video from overnight as crews in madison prepared to hit the streets. Getting the roads ready for snow. Milwaukees department of public works say brining streets with a salt and water mixture. This is a live look at the roads from our department of transportation cameras. Right now. You can track the snow and take the weather watch 12 forecast with you anywhere. Just download the wisn 12 news app. Its free for your smartphone or tablet. Happening today Funeral Services will be held for former cuban leader fidel castro. He died a week ago, at the age of ninety. Soccer players killed in a plane crash on monday. 20,000 people gathered in a tiny brazil stadium in the rain to remember the victims of the crash. Thousands more lining the roads as the calculates drove by. Six but the 77 onboard died. In pennsylvania is not going to happen. Gren Party Jill Stein dropping the bid for the recount because of the cost. The court ruling is saying voters must pay a Million Dollar bond. Sign plains to make a major announcement on monday outside of trump tower in new york. Today is day four of wisconsins recount. The deadline is eight days away in waukesha they are around the clock to count ballots. Today they will move onto the cities like waukesha and brookfield. Milwaukee county wrapped up the recount work for the weekend. And pickup monday morning. The recent announcement that priebus will be Donald Trumps chief of staff, that means two of the most powerful people are from wisconsin. The or is paul ryan. Mike gousha has an interview priebus will join me via satellite from trump tower in new york city. I will ask him about an announcement. And what propelled donald trump to a surprise victory. Plus, the wisconsin recount, voters lack faith in elections and will a recount help restore it. And how a wisconsin Healthcare Cooperative is dealing with the uncertainty surrounding obamacare. It is coming up at 9 00. Are expected to hole a new conference this morning to tell us more about a deadly fire at a rave in oakland. Golden dawna was set to headline there on friday night. A message posted on his facebook is saying joel is safe, but like many people he is heart broken and has several friends among the missing. Clean up after the deadly fire continues in oakland this morning. Authorities are saying many people still unaccounted for. This investigation. Reporter there thRecovery Efforts here in oakland, california, stretch into a second day, the warehouse behind us is the focus of an investigation by Law Enforcement officials and fire officials. We can confirm at this point to recovery of nine bodies from the fire. Law enforcement officials also tell us that two dozen more people are unaccounted for at this point. Dozens more have been located, that was a bit of good yesterday. Still that recovery effort continues. They brought in heavy machinery, and excavators and cranes to go through the warehouse here. They will do that very methodically. They dont want to pullout toout a familys loved one. They want to be careful. We also discovered the warehouse did not have the proper permits for the artist collective, an opportunity for people to live understand they did not have the permits necessary to have the party that occurred when the fire broke out friday night at 11 30. Thats the latest here in oakland. An update is expected later this morning. Andy max, thank you. The Oakland Raiders started with a campaign to help with aid after the fire. They will match funds up the 30,000. So far, 40,000 and that number continues to grow this looking ahead. The packers are looking to earn a w this afternoon against the texans after getting the first win in a month against the eagles. Coach mccarthy thinks this team is ready to win. We expect to win every week, regardless of what people think about us and say about it. It is hard to not have people like you. We are the Green Bay Packers are. We are the Green Bay Packers we take that with a lot of pride. And gold can pulloff another win today. The packers take on the texans at noon. You may notice your packers wearing colorful footwear today. Nfl players will be allowed to veer from the strict program for their charity of their choice. And they will have the opportunity to raise funds for their causes by auctioning off the cleats. A heartbreaking defeat last night. The wisconsin badger comes up short in the big championship. The team losing to penn state in a close game. And Stephen Watson has more from Lucas Oil Stadium. Reporter well, losing is never easy, but a fashion like it happened saturday night at Lucas Oil Stadium it stings more. Wisconsin was outscored 243 in the second half. A lot of the blame on the defense that carried them to this point in the season. We caught up with the players in a lot of guys down. It sucks when you play this good all season long and come up short in a big game like this, for the seniors guys who have been here before and felt the same feeling. You go out and try to prove to everybody we are good football team. We crumbled after the pressure tonight. It is abnormal. Very abnormal. I dont know what it was. I dont know why we wouldnt get our grove back. It was just didnt we understand, we worked too hard, man, to come up short. But i think for the group behind us let it be a lesson for us. They will be ready. Reporter the 38 points was a season high allowed by the defense. And the badger losses came to top 10 teams by seven points. They find themselves headed to the cotton bowl to face western michigan. We will find out. Stephen. Thank you. Now, meteorologist Sally Severson with the forecast. Sally well, first the snow today and deep cold is diving in late week. I will snow you who picks up a shovel first, with up to four inches of snow. Andy a local farm looking to brighten the hol my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis made a simple trip to the Grocery Store anything but simple. He explained that humira works inside my body to target and help block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to my symptoms. In clinical trials, most adults taking humira were clear or almost clear, and many saw 75 and even 90 clearance in just 4 months. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. Get tested for tb. Tell your doctor if youve been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if youve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flulike symptoms or sores. Dont start humira if you have an infection. Ask about humira, the 1 prescribed biologic by dermatologists. Clearer skin is possible. We asked a group of young people when they thought they should start saving for retirement. Ween when we should start saving and when we actually do is one of the reasons why too many of us arent prepared for retirement. Just start as early as you can. Its going to pay off in the future. If we all start saving a little more today, well all be better prepared tomorrow. Andy welcome back. Youre taking a live look outside at the milwaukee kpw yard at 14th and walnut. 101 salt trucks will hit the streets at 8 30. Course, all morning long. A reminder for those who park your cars in the city of milwaukee. Winter parking rules are officially in effect. That means keeping an eye on the calendar so you know what side of the street youre allowed to park on. And be aware of the four imp rule. And any snow emergency is declared. The tickets 20 to 60. Each community is different. It is best to check with your city to see what the rules are where you live. Decorations. The Christmas Tree. This Holiday Season thousands of Christmas Trees are being donated as part of a program to say thank you to our troops. Since 2005, trees for troops provided 157,000 free farm grown Christmas Trees to troops in the United States and overseas. This year a tree farm in nina is taking part. Anyone who perches a Christmas Tree can choose to donate it to a military family. They can write tree. They expect to send out 125 Christmas Trees there. In pennsylvania, a group of students helped with donations. Andy has more. Reporter these Christmas Trees are on their way to military families. Part of a volunteer effort thats teaching a great lesson to these students. [music plays] reporter singing Christmas Carols and carrying Christmas Trees is a great way to get into and it is even more meaningful when youre doing it for a good cause. This is part of the trees for troops program. A National Effort where Christmas Trees are donated to military families. I think it is best program that i could possibly be involved with. Youre helping the military. Doing something fun. And actually pulling all of the tree farmers together. Reporter almost 600 trees were donated by local tree businesses and farms in new hampsre vermont. And loaded on to trucks here by volunteers and fifth graders from the local elementary school. Im doing this because it is really great to have the veterans serve because they protect us so we have to, were going to have to repay them snow. To know that im making a troop happy or a troops family happy is really nice. Not only are these students doing a lot of heavy lifting, they take these trees from start to finish. For the program through a readathon, cold called businesses for donations, wrote out all of the tree tags and now will write out all of the thank you notes. I hope they realize it is important to give back to the community and our country in a nice way for the holidays. Making them proud, seeing the young kids out here participating in the program yearafteryear it is great. Andy reporting. Now, from heart working kids to a hardworking horse. Tinker the miniature source on a special Holiday Mission, ringing bells for the Salvation Army. He is live right now. We go to van mcneil outside of the studio. Good morning, to you. Van one of the, if not the most popular Salvation Army bell ringer, this miniature horse tinker, the Salvation Army home to four corporations, three stores, two food pantries, one adult rehab, and an Emergency Lodge as well. Major tim is with the salivation army. How much money does to bring into the city . Ally, every year we have goal. This year our goal is 4 million. And were, we have been working on it for some time. Tinkser a big part of that. Right now were running quite a bit behind. W and asking people to be as generous as they have in years past to help. Van so looking to donate in a monetary sense or donate time and ring the bell at the red kettle. The best way to volunteer to ring the bell for the quetzal on the screen or visit the website. Of course. Van that information is up at www. Wisn. Com. Look at tinker here. Already has a signup here. Taking the bell off. Thank you, Merry Christmas from tinker. And then our little helper. We will learn more about all of the great guys here and gals that are doing great things for the community and the Salvation Army. Van mcneil we are live, wisn 12 news this morning. Andy very lucky to have them working hard for us and ringing the bells. Thank you. Speaking of working hard. Who is working hard . Meteorologist Sally Severson is working hard today tracking the snow. It is sally getting a lot of help from facebook friends. Andy absolutely. Keep sending the pictures in. Sally yes. If you are getting snow. Looking around on our weather watch 12 network cameras. Now, not getting snow there just can see, our camera mounted on the hospital on 94. And get a look at the radar still some dry air in place over far eastern wisconsin. But getting reports of snow falling across dodge county. Mike in west bend is saying it is snowing there and Johnston Creek at the outlet mall. Well, slide north just a bit and the snow is in place across fond du lac and dodge county, but our temperatures in the low to mid30s. We could see at times rain mix in, especially closer to Lake Michigan. Still waiting for snow across waukesha and Milwaukee County. This will overcome the dry air and fill in with snow between now and 10 00 this morning. Now, i expect the snow to fall at a light to moderate pace for much of the day today. You can see all of southern wisconsin is focused on Winter Weather advisory. Now, light to moderate snow. One to two inch snowfall lakeside. Two to four inches inland. There is an outside chance of getting a couple of spots with more snow than that. But for the most part, one to two inches around the lake and two to four inches inland. Now, there will be a lot of melting on contact and the salt is very effective with the temperatures. It is down to three miles at juneau. And a mile and a half at madison. So throw the headlights on. Lower visibility and falling snow for today and certainly slower speeds we get used to the snow a little bit at a time. That airport, 33. And 25. The winds are calm. A light southeast wind. So well keep the watch the snow fill in for us between now and 10 00. Shaping up at 11 00. And this is 1 00 this afternoon. Now, and expect more of a mix along the lake. That trend will continue into the afternoon hours. Back closer to sunset, we are cooler once again, there is a chance to turn back to a wet snow. Most of this is 8 00 for tonight. So falls at a steady pace. And road crews will keep ahead of this quite well for today. And clouds should be tough to ak sun for monday. And then much colder air towards the end of the week. Today weather watch, Winter Weather advisory until 6 00. Low to middle 30s. Twototwo inches lakeside, two to four inland. And 34 for tonight. 30s on monday and tuesday. And a couple of minor shots at precipitation on tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. 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For a different kind of medicine, the average age of a homeless person is 9 years old. My dream is to help kids living on the streets with education. Charles whats up man . Whoa how can we help . Ah man wait, is that a basketball player . Yes wow my hearts about to jump out my chest man. Charles you ought to be proud man. Im just extremely grateful they were here giving them some encouragement thats something that these kids are going to remember for a lifetime. Andy welcome back to wisn 12 news this morning. Youre taking a look at the dpw salt yard, they are busy this morning. 100 trucks. We tip our hats to the drivers there making sure that our roads are looking at the roads throughout the morning. Time for our pet of the week. The Wisconsin Humane Society is here. Im joined by joe and little nugget. And can a. [ bells ringing ] horse and a dog in a tutu, it is looks like noahs ark out here. Usually i come in, the only annual person. The spotlight is on nugget, tell us about the beautiful and found on the streets of milwaukee and came into us and went into a foster home and now available. She healthy, neutered, vaccinated, microchipped and ready to go today at 11 00. You have an event to tell us about today. If you have driven past the Humane Society it grows more. They are representative of people, places and animals. We sell the lights for 25. Eve penny of the proceeds go to the Humane Society. And tonight were actually having a ceremony to clip on all of the lights even more. It is great, free for the whole family. Carolers. All sorts of stuff. A great way to enjoy the holiday. And with every light representing a little one that you love and passed on it shows you the power that these creatures have in our lives. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Animals. Animalthemed show today. And nugget, of course is in the spotlight. If youre interested in adopting nugget or any other pet go to wisconsins Humane Society. We have more information on our website, www. Wisn. Com. We could put nugget in a tutu and put him on the horse as well. We can try it. We can try it. Wisn 12 news time 7 56. Looking ahead. The packers are hoping to collect more than just a win today. Coming up the request the team has have fans headed to i have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine. I talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. Breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Breo wont replace a rescue inhaler to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. Breo contains a type of medicine that increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in children and adolescents. Breo is not for people whose asthma is well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Once your asthma is well controlled, your doctor will decide if you can stop breo and prescribe a different asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Do not take breo more than prescribed. See your doctor if your asthma does not improve or gets worse. Ask your doctor if 24hour breo a missing piece for you. See if youre eligible for andy right now on wisn 12 news this morning, the first snow you need to shovel is heading our way right now. A live look at doppler 12 radar showing snow into area and a live look at the salt yard in milwaukee where crews will be hitting the streets in about a half hour. We are timing out when the snow hits your neighbor. Our big story this sunday morning that snow and the potential for rainsnow mix that could make our roads slippery. Lets go to meteorologist Sally Severson tracking it all for us this morning. Good morning. Sally and the snow, andy is right on schedule. Sweeping in from west to east. Now, no snow yet in the downtown looking at fairly snow free conditions across much of waukesha and Milwaukee County. Not much snow across south into at least the eastern portions of routine and kenosha county. Slim north just a little bit. A moderate snow is underway. Getting reports of snow in beaver dam and horcon. And slip to the south a little bit and snow just over spreading fall in the city of delavan this hour. It snow is back into i is a potent system that is taking shape. And prompted Winter Weather advisory through wisconsin tonight. It is in dodge, jefferson and rock county. Starts for 9 00 for the shore counties. For the most part, a steady light to moderate snow. One to two inches on the lake. And mix at times lakeside and a steadier two to four inch accumulation inland. Visibility is lower in the falling snow. Speeds as well in the falling snow. We will get melting on contact and the salt will be effect. But slippery steps are possible. And the lower visibility. So andy get used to this a little bit at a time. Andy we will try. And a live look outside from the d. O. T. Cameras. The roads are clear for now, but it could get slippery once the snowfalls on the roads. 100 salt Truck Drivers are on stand right now in milwaukee. For a look at conditions van mcneil. Good morning. Van. Van good morning. Andy. Pretty quiet right now. When the snow falls later today dont forget you are responsible for clearing those sidewalks and those manhole covers. Like andy was saying over 100 salt trucks getting ready to head out here. We are being told they will start salting the main streets around 8 30. And depending on how much snowfalls crews could plow later day. If you have an elderly neighbor or something who is handicap. You can apply to the city of milwaukee public works to hardship snow removal, of course, that information on our website, www. Wisn. Com. Quiet now, just cold, van mcneil, wisn 12 news. Andy all right. Van, thank you. You can track the snow from your phone or tablet. Download the latest wisn 12 news app. To beat the snow, you may are heading north for the packer game. Kickoff at lambeau is at noon against the Houston Texans and the injury list is the longer ey week. Lang and treader are out. Randall is questionable and Aaron Rodgers in addition to three linebackers. On the offensive side the packers have passed the ball 69 of the time since lacy went on i. R. Last weeks 28 rush attempts but far short of the 50 50 pass run split. Were taking it one week at a time. Whatever we have to do to win thats the key. We dont really think about the sustainability of throwing it twice as many times as you run it it. Ask just based on personnel we have out that are healthy. And then how we feel like we attack that team. Andy fans are encouraged to bring a new unwrap toy to todays game. The packers are teaming up the marines for the toys for tots drive. They will be stationed to collect toys before the game and you can make a cash donation. Now, attending todays packer game a surprised father and son thanks to a construction crew working next door. Tim elliott tells us how a simple hello turned into something so much more. Reporter living near you dont make friends with the neighbors when you are building next to something they own. Reporter but rich doesnt mind the noise one bit because he is just as loud . [ laughter ] yes. Wow oh, god, yeah for the past two months do you need anything. Gary and his crew are building the riverwalk apartments on lawn street in heartland. Everything good . Reporter and every day rich sits on the port porch across the street, greeting the crew and complimenting them work. This guy was Something Different and special. He was happy all the time. Always in a good mood. Rich was a mailman for 33 years and retired 12 years ago after suffering a stroke. Turned outlives upside down. Especially him. Patricia is saying the stroke affected his speech. He knows what he wants to say, but cant get the words out. Reporter not his heart. Loves life and people. Reporter this Holiday Season wanted to do something very special for rich. Oh, come on come on the crew pitched in and got rich two tickets to this weekends packer game along with spending money. Come on. Thats for your travel expenses. O on come on in all a package work close to 500. To have this happen to him, it kind of broad him back into the joy of christmas. Right there. Packers. Reporter and rich will tell you himself, hes the teams biggest fan. Oh, god. Come on. Come on oh reporter and for a man who struggles to find the right words [ laughter ] he knew exactly what to say. Much youre welcome. Reporter in heartland, tim elliott, wisn 12 news. Andy come on now, thats a great story. As a thank you, rich helped his wife bake christmas cookies for the construction crew who they are calling their friends. Wisn 12 news time 8 07. New this morning too many guns to count. Thats how many weapons the Green Bay Police department they received in a Gun Buy Back Program this weekend. Officers collected guns at a local sams ever buy back program. Anyone who dropped off a weapon got a 50 gift card. The officers ran out of the gift cards with so many people stopping by. I brought my fathers 22 luger pistol that he purchased in the 70s. He passed away a few years ago. I have now use for the firearm. I have two kids at home. I dont want them to find if. Guns are dangerous. And money in my pocket. Andy the Green Bay Police department received a 2,000 grant to run the program. The Glendale Police officer are going on a shopping spree today for shop for a cop event. They are pairing up to pick out gifts. After khols they will enjoy bowling and pizza party. They have been hosting the program for eight years. Milwaukee police will swear in a neas recruits tomorrow. The ceremony is at 10 00 that Police Academy. 46 men and 12 women make up the class. The recruits will go through six months of training and hit the streets by next summer. Wisn 12 news 8 08. Preventing skin cancer one glass . . We asked people to write down the things they love to do most on these balloons. Travel with my daughter. Roller derby. . . Now give up half of em. Do i have to . This is a tough financial choice we could face when we retire. But, if we start saving even just 1 more of our annual income. Andy welcome back to wisn 12 news this morning. Youre taking a live look outside downtown milwaukee. And as the banner says, snow is on the way. You know in some parts of the viewing area snow is here. Sally is tracking where the snow is coming down. Wisn 12 news this morning 8 12. A health alert for parents of teens this morning. Heavy drinking can alter the brains structures of teens. Less gray matter that helps with emotion, memory and selfcontrol. Not sure if the drinking is a cause so effect of the reduced gray matter. But it does affect Brain Development and can lead to behavior problems over time. New this morning researchers at brown uni found that drinking a glass of white wine each night can increase your risk for melanoma. Researchers cautiois drinking white wine and a risk for cancer. This morning youre invited for a hot breakfast at fire station number two in west allis, at 8 30 this morning pancakes, sausage, orange juice and coffee. Seven dollars for adults. Four dollars for kids under 12. Sales wilhelm provide toys which holiday goods for local children. And Center Breakfast with santa at the magazine donty zoo. 18th. Twenty dollars for each child or adult. Kids 2 and under are six dollars. This morning tinker the miniature source on a special Holiday Mission across southeastern wisconsin. Got to love that sound. Every year tinker is his owners volunteer for the Salvation Armys Red Kettle Campaign and in a tradition, tinker is paying us a visit here at wisn 12 news. Lets go live to wisn 12 news van mcneil just outside of our studio. Good morning, van. Van good morning, andy. It is one of my favorite traditions here at wisn 12 news. Tinker the miniature horse carol. The keeper of tinker. Good morning, carol. Hello. Good morning. Now, we see toluca here, what kind of a breed of dog . A peppian. Shes become a part of our. [ bells ringing ] weather permitting. Van now tinker has been doing this for quite some time. When did we add the up here . 2013 she came into the picture and started ringing the bell with us. Reporter it is amazing how families and the community rally and came out and take pictures and donate to the Salvation Army. It is a wonderful thing. Who are so appreciative of people coming out. It is a fun for i, too. We get to see people and visit with folks and hear about their furry children. Van you have been out this Holiday Season. You continue to ring the bell for the Red Kettle Campaign and the Salvation Army. Next weekend at the Washington County fair park. There is a craft fair there. We will be there from 9 00 to 11 00. The week after that we will be at richfield from noon to 2 00. And the week after that well be, december 24th and were going to be at the pick n save south at richfield in west, again, noon to 2 00. Van dare i say santas lim hemmer right here little helper right here, carol. Definitely. Van more with tinker and the Salvation Army. Van mcneil, wisn 12 news. Andy thank you so much. It does its own advertising for crying out loud. Beautiful, look at that. Sally what a good baby. Andy you cannot say no to the horse. Sally no or the Salvation Army. Andy you want to keep giving. And snow, we want moderation. Sally were getting used to the winner. The first week of december brings us snow and colder air. In snow is bite size enough to be a nuance. It is not snowing yet in sparkling this morning. And head west. Now, no snow yet. I continue to keep an eye on that. And light snow at green bay. This is our live camera at lambeau, it is 31 degrees. And headed up 43 to the packer game for today, or 41 and 45. County road crews will of course do the best job they can with the snow, but remember the headlights, and allow a little bit of extra time and stopping distance, at green bayno three inch snowfall at green bay, but it will snow during the game through the afternoon. Allow that extra time traveling. A snowy sunday. Remember your head lights. Occasionally in the newer cars in the automatic system it does not get dark enough. You can see where the snow is falling. The visibility is lower. A mile at madison, better at the where the snow is not falling yet. Dry air over the far eastern part of the state and seeing the snow overcome that dry air. We are getting snow in dodge and fond du lac county. And Johnson Creek and in Walworth County and indel in delavan. The snow will fall at a steady light to moderate pace today. Now, thanks to the warmth of Lake Michigan we mixing closer to the late. Winter weather advisory for dodge, jefferson and rock county. And Winter Weather advisory at 9 00 this morning for the remainder of the shore counties in southern wisconsin. A one to two inch snowfall in the lake and two to four inches inland. Now, remember a lot of melting on contact and salt will be very effective. Are starting to moisten the air mass a bit. The wind southeast at three. And water temperatures 40s and 50s to keep the snow totals lower along the lake. The snow will fill in through the morning hours. The snow is steady. Light to moderate through the afternoon and into the actually evening hours. Again occasionally mixing along the lake. And the snow thanks to temperatures in the 30s will be of the wetter variety over there as well. Pretty much day and out of here by and left with a mostly cloudy skies overnight. Clouds fairly tough to shake tomorrow. We should see at least a few peaks of sunshine and tomorrow the temperatures into the 30s. A lot of this snow will melt for tonight and tomorrow and tuesday. Mid30s today. We are on weather watch. One to two inch snowfall lakeside. Two to four inches inland. Air begin to dive in wednesday. We have minor moisture chances this week, andy, maybe a light mix on tuesday. Stray flurry on wednesday and thursday. And but the story at the end of the week is the much colder air that dives in midweek and hanging out. Andy welcome to december. Thank you, sally. Up next, we will talk to our friends at the Milwaukee Department of public works with an update on exactly how the snow is coming down and andy welcome back to wisn 12 news this morning. Youre taking a live look outside. This is dane county. You can see the snow on the roads. We are covering a wide space in wisconsin to bring you coverage all over. A big shout out to the crews behind the crews making sure that everyone gets the information they need on this snowy sunday. The crews are on standby to keep milwaukee streets clear of the in coming snow. Live on the phone is sandy from the Milwaukee Department of public works. Thank you for joining us. This, seven minutes away from the crews hitting the roads. What are exactly they preparing for and doing today. Well, right now, were about ready to deploy 101 salt trucks. The salt trucks will be on city of milwaukee main streets and arterioles first. When we finish salting those streets we will move to the side streets. Talk about the pretreating of the roads. Obviously that is very important before for snoge yes. Saturday, yesterday, we were out brining the streets. That is a mixture of salt and water. If you look on the main streets in milwaukee you might see a white stripe in the middle of the road. We put down brine to pretreat the roads for today. That said, this is one of the first major storm as reminder for our drivers out there. How should they be behaving on out there. Thats my best advice. Slow down and give yourself extra time and distance. And around the salt trucks. Let our crews do their work. Great advice. And the crews we thank them and wish them the best of luck. Sandy thank you so Milwaukee Department of public works. Thank you. Thank you. Andy this morning a giant mess on the streets of philadelphia. Officials are saying explosion at a electrical substation on saturday. It released foam that blanketed the streets. Families were told to stay away from the foam that can cause skin ration. And 2700 customers lost power, but no one was hurt. Cleats for a cause. The average age of a homeless person is 9 years old. My dream is to help kids living on the streets with education. Charles whats up man . Whoa how can we help . Ah man wait, is that a basketball player . Yes wow my hearts about to jump out my chest man. Charles you ought to be proud man. Im just extremely grateful they were here giving them some encouragement thats something that these kids are going to remember for a lifetime. Did you see his big old feet . Look. Andy good morning. Welcome back to wisn 12 news. Im andy choi. It is almost 8 30 on this sunday, december 4th. We will begin check win meteorologist Sally Severson in the weather center. It hasn day for us. For the crews on the road. Right. Andy here we are. Sally the snow is spreading into much of southern wisconsin. Big game for today. Headed up to green bay, allow a little bit of extra time and certainly stopping distance. Temperatures are currently in the low 30s over much of eastern wisconsin including the green bay area. And green bay is included in the Winter Weather advisory for today. Anticipate and plan for light to game today. There is . Snow as the moves in. We have not seen snow to speak of since last april. We have had a couple of flurries. But this is the most snow this season. We slip south and waukesha county. Some dry air in the eastern part of the state. Thats reason the snow is holding back a bit in the far east. Winter weather advisories the entire southern portion of wisconsin. In fact a good section of the southern 2 3 of the state. Plan on one to two inches of snow lakeside for today. Two to four inches of snow inland. We will look at temperatures in the 30s. Right now, it is 33 degrees at the airport we will hold in the low 30s. And van getting snow at the station. Van no snow here at the station yet. Sally. We are talking and looking at the tree over here, still leaves definitely contributing frut our warm november. That will probably changed to. We head to the department of public works on the phone with us earlier, you will want to slow down once the snow starts falling in here. And parking is another big deal. Especially those on the east side. The wiper park winter parking restrictions continue. Each and every street and neighborhood is a little bit different. So you want to look at the street signs for sure. You dont want to get the car towed away. And you want to wa clearing your sidewalks and the man home covers otherwise you will face a fine. Andy all right. Van, we are resilient bunch, the tree is holding strong. Thank you. Now, the snow could make roads slippery. This is video from overnight. Crews in madison hit the streets and got the roads ready for snow. Now, milwaukees department of public works are saying that as traffic picks up this sunday morning we will track and see where that snow is falling on the roads and communities. When youre on the go this weekend, take the weather watch 12 forecast with you. Download the wisn 12 news app. It is tree for your smartphone and tablet. Happening today, Funeral Services will be held for former cuban leader, fidel castro. He died a of 90. After nine days of mourning. Thousands packing the city streets the welcome the leaders remains yesterday. He will be buried in the oldest cemeteries in cuba not far from where his revolution began. And ra . L is saying they will not name streets or build statutes. A recount in pennsylvania is not going to happen. Jill stein is dropping her bid recount because of the coast cost. A court ruling is saying a Million Dollar bond. Stein will make an announcement tomorrow outside of trump tower in new york. Wisconsins recount is eight days away. In waukesha they are working around the count ballots. Milwaukee county is wrapped up recount work for the weekend. It will pick up again on monday morning. Now, the recent announcements that priebus will be Donald Trumps chief of staff means two of the most powerful men in the country are from wisconsin. The other, of course, House Speaker paul ryan. And mike gousha has interview with rinse priebus today. I will be asking him about Donald TrumpsSupreme Court judge is under serious consideration for that. And what propelled donald trump to a surprise victory. I will be asking the chairman of the state elections committee. And how a wisconsin Healthcare Cooperative is dealing with the uncertainty surrounding obamacare. It is coming up this morning time here on upfront. Andy mike thank you. A deadly warehouse fire in oakland. Many people are still unaccounted for. We have more on the investigation. Reporter the Recovery Efforts here in oakland, california, stretch into a second day as the warehouse behind susit focus of investigation by Law Enforcement officials and fire officials. We confirm at this point the recovery of nine bodies from the fire. Law enforcement officials also tell us two dozen more people are unaccounted for at this point. Dozens more have been located. But still that recovery effort continues. They brought in heavy machinery, excavators and cranes to go through the warehouse here and they will do that very methodically. They dont want to pullout a familys loved one. They want to be very careful in the work going forward. We discovered through our reporting the warehouse behind us did not have the proper permits for the artist collective, people to lib and work in the space. And they did not have the permits necessary to have the party that occurred when the party broke out friday night around 11 30. Thats the latest here in oakland. An update is examined later this morning. Andy max, thank you. The Oakland Raiders started a campaign. They will match and donate relief funds up to 30,000. So far they have raised 40,000. And that number continues to Sally Severson. Sally and we are watching radar in the snow for your sunday morning. Spots up to maybe three even andy welcome back to wisn 12 news this morning. Youre taking a live look at the roads in madison and dane county. Shoutout to photo journalist willie who braved the roads from milwaukee to madison. This is what the roads may look like here in a little bit. Stay safe. And a reminder to those 82 park your cars in the city of milwaukee, winter parking rules are officially in effect. That means keeping an eye on the you know what side of the street they are allowed to park. And be aware of the four inch rule. The tickets from 20 to 66. And each community is different. It is best that check with yoursy to see what the rules are where you live. It is the hallmark of all holiday decorations. The Christmas Tree. This Holiday Season thousands of Christmas Trees are being donated as part of a program that says thank you to our troops. Since 20, provided 157,000 free farmgrown Christmas Trees to troops and military families in the u. S. And overseas. This year a tree farm in nina is taking part. Anyone who purchases a Christmas Trees can choose to donate it to a military family. Donors can write a special holiday message to be sent with the tree. They expect to send out 125 Christmas Trees. Wisn 12 news time 8 40. Communicating with santa before the holidays. I have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine. I talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. Breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, for sudden breathing problems. Breo opens up airways to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. Breo contains a type of medicine that increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in children and adolescents. Breo is not for people whose asthma is well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Once your asthma is well controlled, your doctor will decide if you can stop breo and prescribe a different asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Do not take breo more than prescribed. See your doctor if your asthma or gets worse. Ask your doctor if 24hour breo could be a missing piece for you. See if youre eligible for andy welcome back to wisn 12 news this morning. The milwaukee dpw salt yard at 14th and walnut. Home base for the busiest days on the road. 101 salt trucks hit the streets a few minutes ago. We thank you, them for their hard work. Some of the brave soldiers who serve our country are getting a special thank you, this Holiday Season. Debbies son is one of 123 National Guardsmen who deployed to guant . Namo bay. And the mom invited family and vends to bake 123 dozen christmas cookies to send to them. Everybody wanted to do something. It was not only for our son, it was for the other 122 soldiers that wont be home for christmas. Andy debbie had a lot of help. One relative drove eight hours just to pitch in. A direct line to santa claus this Holiday Season. Placed near oak would and kenmore in shorewood. Kids are invited the drop off letters until december 22nd. Every child will get a reply from santa before christmas. New this morning you have a chance to meet santa claus under the glass. A special holiday event after the Mitchell Park dome. This is from noon until families and meet santa, ms. Claus. Regular admission rates apply. Tinker the miniature horse is one again a special mission ringing bells for the halivation arm Salvation Army. He is live here outside of the studio. Van mcneil is live. Van good morning. The Salvation Army does great things for our community. Major tim is one of the spokes this year, tim. Year our goal is 4 Million Dollars. Van the Red Kettle Campaign has been going on for a few weeks now. And people can donate at the red kettle. If they cannot make it. They can go to samilwaukee. Org. There is options to give and what were doing in the community. Van and talk about tinker with what he bring these the salbrasion army. Unique. [ bells ringing ] experience. Children and adults loves tinker. He has been doing this for a number of years. Wonderful job. And tinkers mom, carol, how are you doing . Thank you. Van a local celebrity, and worldwide attention. Yes. He has. He is been on good morning americas website. And hes got a facebook page. Oh. Tinkers facebook friend. So you can be his facebook friend. If you didnt get a chance to see tinker at all, well hes going to be at the pet expo on saturday february 4th. You can see them there. Van www. Wisn. Com has more information. Here, tinkier will get that for you. All right. Come over. Tinker the local celebrity. He raises money for the Salvation Army. All right. Thank you, tinker. Van mcneil we are live. Andy that is a lot of love right there. Van my pal. Andy im looking up tinkers facebook, too. I got to follow this celebry. Sally you have to tren him on facebook. He will friend you back, i guess. Andy of course, friend of the snow. And speaking of facebook, a and pictures from the resor where it is snowing in sheboygan county. You check in on www. Wisn. Com. Just post them to weather updates or my meteorologist Sally Severson facebook page. And the snow here it is. Ok. Lower visibility in the snow where temperatures are in at 32 degrees. Winds right now are calm. Remind everyone remember your head lights. Sometimes they dont events like this. And lambeau, the temperatures have at 31 degrees. The winds are light and southeast. The parking lot is beginning to fill up. And snow showing up in lambeau as well. And green bay is covered with the Winter Weather advisory for today. And snow totals are wimpy for me. The temperatures in the low 30s. And snow during the game. But overall, were looking at maybe an inch or two in the green bay area. Thats pretty well true around here as well. Size snow event for us remember your headlights. Visibility will be lower in the steady to light snow. And slower speeds and stopping distance. Snow is spreading into southern wisconsin at this time. A steady snow across much of fond du lac and dodge county. Filling in as well. We had fairly dry air over the east. So a lot of the snow has been evaporating before it hits the surface of the earth. Were starting to see the atmosphere moisten at all levels that will allow the snow to continue to fall. It will fall over a fairly long period of time. A few hours of snow for today. Again minimal accumulations. For the most part, most of us one to two inches. Could be more well away from the lake. We will see a mix especially in the lakeside counties. That is thanks to the warm air of Lake Michigan. Or warm water of Lake Michigan. And going to kick in for the lakeside counties coming up at 9 00. Most of us a one to two inch snowfall. Away from the lake two to maybe four. Again this is just a bite sized system for us, not something that will create trouble for us. 33, and mostly cloudy skies at the airport. The winds right now today will be light and southeast. We will continue to watch the snow fill in for the morning. You can see the snow stays in place for us much of the te packer game for this afternoon. And through 3 30 and into the evening and dinner hour. 5 30 and 6 00. The back edge of the snow west of madison. It pups out of here, 7 00 it 8 00 tonight. And temperatures tomorrow in the 30s. Tough it shake the clouds out for tomorrow. But a few peaks of sun into the afternoon. And the rest of the week, after the snow today, the deep cold. Watch for today with the winner weather advisory. Most an inch or two of snow and a little bit more away from the lake. Mid30s today. 31 tonight. Upper 30s monday and tuesday. And tuesday slight chance for a little bit of a mix. A couple of flurries wednesday and thursday. But the weather story later wednesday and thursday will be the very cold air. Coming up on wisn 12 news. Andy welcome back to wisn 12 news this morning. Here is a live look at the roads in our photo journalist willie coming back to milwaukee and showing us live pictures for us. This is what our rows will be looking like as the snow moves into our area. And packers looking to earn another w this afternoon against the texans after getting their first win in a month last week against the eagles. The kickoff is at noon. And you might notice packers wearing colorful footwear today. Nfl players will be allowed to program this weekend in honor of their charity of choice. They will have a opportunity to raise funds for their causes auctioning off their cleats. A heart breaking defeet last night. The Wisconsin Badgers come up short in the big 10 championship. Loosing to penn state in a close game. And Stephen Watson has more from Lucas Oil Stadium in indy. Reporter losing is never easy, but what happened saturday night inside of Lucas Oil Stadium it stings more. An early lead slip away, outscored 243 in the second half. A lot of the blame going on the defense which has carried them to this point in the season. We caught up with the players in the locker room. A lot of guys done. It sucks when you play this good all season long and come up short in a big game like this. Especially for the seniors. Guys who have been here before and felt the same feeling. You go out here and try to prove to everyone that were a really crumbled under the pressure tonight. It is abnormal. Very abnormal i dont know what it was. I dont know why we couldnt get our grove back. Just didnt show up. We worked too hard, man, to come up short, but i think for the group behind us let it be a lesson for them. You know, they will be ready. Reporter the 38 points a season high allowed by the banner defense. And wisconsins all of their loses this season came to top 10 teams by just seven points. They find themselves potentially headed to the cotton bowl to face western michigan. Stephen watson, wisn 12 news. Andy and before our check of weather, a big shoutout to emmyaward winning stephen there. And thank you for that regional emme. Sally that is right. Congratulations to him. Today the snow. And it will be light and steady day today. The doppler 12 Winter Weather advisory covers all of us. Most of us a one to two snowfall. And away from the lake higher totals. Readings in the low to mid30s. And a mix along the lake from time to time thanks to the warm lake. But we will keep you uptodate on. Andy a lot of patients this sunday. Have a great day. The average age of a homeless person is 9 years old. My dream is to help kids living on the streets with education. Charles whats up man . Whoa how can we help . Ah man wait, is that a basketball player . Yes wow my hearts about to jump out my chest man. Charles you ought to be proud man. Im just extremely grateful they were here giving them some encouragement thats something that these kids are going to remember for a lifetime. To be white house chief of staff Reince Priebus. Only on upfront, priebus on Donald Trumps transition to the white house. And who might be the next Supreme Court justice. Then, counting the votes in wisconsin again. Do voters lack faith in elections and could the recount help restore it . Its my interview with Electio Commission chairman mark thomsen. Covering the issues important to wisconsin. This is upfront with mike gousha. Mike hello again, everyone, and welcome to upfront. We begin today with kenoshas own Reince Priebus the Republican NationalCommittee Chairman who helped engineer Donald Trumps victory, and now will be white house chief of staff. Reince priebus joins us on the satellite from trump tower in new