Brendan coverage on for complete coverage on the Brendan Dassey case, head to our website tmj4 dot com. A few clouds moved in overnight, and a se with a warm front kept the temps near 50. We get another november treat today with more to upper 60s. The record is 69 from 1953. We will be close. A southerly wind will increase to 25 mph throughout the day, and will remain windy overnight with lows in the mid 50s. Former us defense secretary and wisconsin congressman melvin laird has died. He served as defense secretary under president nixon eventually overseeing the drawdown of us forces in vietnam and ending the military draft. Laird represented wisconsins 7th Congressional District from 1953 to 1969. He was 94 years old. In the wake of the election several area schools claim theyre seeing an increase in of the Verona Area School District sent a letter home to parents. It says there has been quote increase in the number of culturally insensative, derogatory and discriminatory type comments toward some students of color. Middleton high school has also seen some similar incidents. The schools principal has asked teachers and staff to make themselves more visible to students. They are also working to engage the students more. Were going to have the antenna up, were going to be paying extra careful attention, we to reassure students that this is the place that they can come and be who they are and speak their truth and that, to the extent possible, were going to make that environment possible for them. Dr. Plank also stressed to the students that the outcome of the election needs to be respected. He wants students to be able to talk about it when possible and learn from it. A new state report card released today shows that five slapped with failing grades. 82percent of schools and 91percent of districts scored three or more stars, meaning they met or exceeded expectations. The five districts that failed to meet expectations, were racine, bayfield, cambriafriesland, cassville and menominee indian. Schools have to be in the lowest category for two consecutive years before they face any sanctions. Nearly one third of Milwaukee Public Schools move up a category on the latest state report meet, exceed or significantly exceed expectations. As a district mps is no longer in the fails to meet expectations category but in the meets category but in the meets few expectations. Students and staff at nw tc working to educate people about Human Trafficking and how they can help survivors. The organization eye heart world puts victim response bags together and gives them to survivors when theyre basic necessities like toiletries and clothes. The event also taught students and staff how to recognize potential victims. In Human Trafficking. We bring it to our students and faculty and staff so that they know what to look for, and if they see a student that may be struggling in their classes or who might be going through some personal problems, they can maybe look for the warning signs of someone who might be involved in Human Trafficking. The event was part of a focus this month at nwtc on month at nwtc on healthy reon the college is accepting donations for the victim response bags until november 30th. Wisconsin hunters are counting down to the start of gun deer season just two days left before the nineday Season Opener. And this year deer hunting license sales are actually down. The dnr sold more than 379thousand gun licenses as of tuesday. That compares to about 379thousand licenses sold a year ago. If you are going hunting. You should buy license by tomorrow. Doctors say its important to make sure your heart is Strong Enough for the hunt. They say hunting might be the most activity people are getting all year long you can do physically. When you see a deer, your heart rate can double in 30 seconds. Ive been there, i deer hunt, and i can tell you, thats probably the hardest thing you can do physically. Here are some tips if you plan to go deer hunting dont eat a heavy breakfast dont hunt alone and take a cellphone along so you can let family and friends know located and when you are scheduled to return. Youre hunt could help those in need. Wisconsins dnr is once against puting on its deer donation program. If you bag deer you can donate it to the dnr which will process it and give to to families in food. To find out how. Just head to the dnrs website. The Christmas Spirit is returning to city hall. The 103rd annual Christmas TreeLighting Ceremony will begin at 5 tonight. The trees design will be a celebration of our that represent each neighborhood. The actuall lighting of the tree happens at 5 29 tonight. Shortly after the holiday lights festival will kickoff at Pere Marquette park. In waukesha theyll be getting in the holiday spirit, too. The annual Tree Lighting is happening tomorrow at 530 in downtown waukesha. Therell be hot cocoa, music and Holiday Cheer plus santa si expected to make an appearance. Still ahead. Substance abuse the number of poeple the us surgeon will face drug or alcohol addiction in their lifetime. Then. Deadly explosion the damaged it caused in Central Illinois and what witnesses storm team 4 now breezy and warm today. Taking a live look outside at waukesha, Mitchell Airport and kenosha. Enjoy the weather now because it will start to feel more like winter soon. Meteorologist brian gotter joins us now with a look at your forecast. A few clouds moved in overnight, and a se breeze with a warm front kept the temps near 50. We get another november treat today with more sunshine, and highs in the mid to upper 60s. The record is 69 from 1953. We will be close. A southerly wind will increase and will remain windy overnight with lows in the mid 50s. This weekend is the deer Season Opener and we are tracking a storm for friday and saturday that will bring some rain and very gusty winds. Friday will have a few afternoon showers with highs in the mid 60s and a sw wind gusting to 40 mph. A chance for scattered showers is possible friday night with lows with the cold front. Saturday will have a few rain snow showers before noon, then clearing, very windy and much colder with nw winds gusting to 45 mph. If you are looking for accumulation snow, areas north of wausau could see 12 of snow by midday saturdayo accumulation in southern wisconsin. Sunday is sunny, breezy and cold with highs in the search is on for the the a car who narrowly escaped a serious train accident. The accident happened wednesday night in massachusetts. A car was trying to cross Railroad Tracks when it was hit by a passing train. The impact of the accident was so great it split the vehicle in half. No one was hurt. The driver and a passenger ran off from the crash. An explosion rocked a town in Central Illinois wednesday night and the damaged it caused was caught on camera. Surveillance video shows store windows blowing in unth shockwave from the blast. A second angle shows dust and debris flowing into the store. Witnesses say the explosion shook so much they thought something had crashed into their home. Figure out whats wrongjust a massive rumble and a big boom and just everything came crashing down at one time. Just a big like it sounded like a bomb just a big commotion and we all just stopped i just looked out the window that we all ran to the window to figure out whats wrongone person was killed Officials Say several buildings alabama officials want to know how an explosive device ended up outside of an elementary school. A bomb squad blew up the device yesterday while the school was on lockdown. The device was found on the hood of a cafeteria workers pickup truck. Officials say they dont believe students were in any danger because the explosive was too far away from the school building. Coming up. Whole milk versus reduced fat what new Research Shows about which milk children should be first the surprising number of booster seats that received the highest ratings when it comes to keeping kids safe the us Surgeon General is calling attention to the addiction epidemic in this country. The new report finds one in seven americans will face drug or alcohol addiction during their lifetime. But only 10percent of those now addicted receive treatment. The Surgeon General says besides allocating more money to prevention and treatment programs, our culture needs to treat addiction as a disease. To go against conventional wisdom about whole versus skim milk. Doctors have recommended kids over the age of two to drink one or two percent milk. But a new study actually says whole milk leads to leaner kids. Researchers found children drinking whole milk tended to have less body fat than those drinking reduced fat milk. Once we started looking into it more, we realized it actually makes a lot sense. Researchers suspect that children drinking reduced fat eating additional fatty foods. But some doctors arent so sure, saying its possible parents with heavier kids may be buying lowfat milk because their child is overweight. Theres big news about child booster seats and it comes as a surprise to Highway Safety experts as well as booster seat manufacturers. Chris clackum reports. Every parent who buckles a child into a booster seat will likely love hearing what the Insurance Institute for highway today about boosters. When we our ratings in 2008, only quarter got the top rating of and this year, 48 out of 53 got the top rating. Lets say that again. 48 out of 53 booster seats. Received the highest ratings. In the institutes latest series of tests. And, in reality, consumers were told to avoid only two. Unfortunately there were a couple that made our not that put the lap belt too high on the childs belly. Dorel. Who still has top picks on this latest list. Did not respond to our request for comment. nats researcher working researchers, though, are crowing about the boosters that work. This is really good news for parents. They can feel confident when theyre out shopping for a booster. The vast majority of boosters theyre looking at will provide good belt fit across a range of vehicles boosters are mainly meant for children 4 to 8 years clackum, nbc news. Coming up. Cost of thanksgiving how much less were paying this year on a turkey feast and security alert how your cellphone number could be a window into your private lives and the three things you can do to protect your information. We all know to guard our Social Security number but what about our cellphone number . Brian abel explains how those 10digits can be a window into our private lives. Think about how often you give out your phone number. In person or on the web. Maybe to facebookyouve developed a footprint and not only a footprint, but a foot trail by doing thatprivate investigator and tech expert ron rugen says your phone number gives companies all sorts of habits. People are doing this to themseles. I can take a phone number and put it into a serach engine tab of facebook and find smoebodys facebook accounti decided to test this with my work phone number. Sure enough. Boom. And if a company has your number on its database. They can do it too. They can go down and see what tv shows you like, what political candidates you may like, books. And unlike your Social Security , companies your cell private, so they can sell itwhether it be marketing folks or or political campaigns or what have you. Those are the people that could be you know mining for your information. So what can you do to protect this 10digit code to your private life . First the obvious dont hand out your cell number when you dont have toand 2nd use a land line or internet number through Companies Like google voiceor apps like sideline to and 3rd be on the look out for suspicious behavior on your accountsbrian is there potential for Identity Theft with cell phones . Oh absolutely. Always. Thanksgiving is one week from today and the cost of dinner is down to less than 5dollars a person. The American Farm bureaus annual survey finds the average cost of a feast for ten people is about 50 bucks. The bigticket item, a 16pound turkey, is 30 cents mix and milk also cost less this year, while rolls, fresh cranberries and Sweet Potatoes are more expensive. A reminder if you have any questions about cooking your turkey the Butterball Turkey talk line is open. You can call the talk line at 1800 butteball now through christmas eve. Butterball says the talkline has helped almost 50 Million People since its first season in 1981. Heres your chance to make sure area families have a meal in front of them this thanksgiving. Hunger task force plans to build 800 theyre in need of volunteers. You can join them at their warehouse in milwaukee tomorrow at 8 am. Afterwards, the bins will be picked up by local food pantry coordinators and distributed to 800 local families facing the greatest need this season. Live at 12 30 is up next vying for state title the local High School Football teams playing this week. Also. New information what the new Jersey Transit operator involved in a deadly breaking news now Brendan Dassey will remain in prison pending the outcome of an appeal. The us court of appeals in chicago just made that ruling. Pete zervakis is