Milwaukee has already surpassed its earlyvoting record set back in 2012. More than 38thousand inperson absentee votes have been cast. At least two thousand more than in 2012. Deandra corinthios is live downtown with what city officials are expecting for tuesdays election those numbers will go up. Mayor tom barrett expects the total to be saturday is the last day to early vote in the city. Mayor barrett credits expanded voting hours and more places to early vote. There are three locations this year. The zeidler building downtown, midtown center and the forest home library. Thats because earlier this year a federal judge struck down five milwaukeeans will vote early. On wednesday milwaukee surpassed its 2012 record with 38 thousand in person absentee ballots cast. In 2012. 36 thousand 500 in person absentee ballots were cast. We will probably come close to about 50 thousand voters is my guess that is just a guess right now but we are seeing a very very strong increase, we are estimating
Map some delays green on traffic map no delays new from overnight police are investigating after a man was shot walking into his home. It happened near 88th and capitol just before 11 last night. Thats when police say someone shot at him several times hitting him once. A friend took the victim to the hospital. Police are still searching for a suspect. Also new overnight. An Armed Robbery leads police on chase. Police say they saw a suspects after an Armed Robbery near 10th and Center Street around 745 last night. Officers tried to pull the suspect over, but they sped off. Police chased after them. The suspect then stopped and ran out of the car. Officers caught the suspect near 10th and cleveland and the person was taken into custody. Massive numbers of voters are headed to the polls early. To vote early. In tuesday;s election. Milwaukee beat its own earlyvoting record. Set back in 2012. Deandra corinthios is live downtown to break down the is said and done. It will be a 27 percent inc
Weather forecast from fox6 chief meteorologist rob haswell High Pressure settles over our area today and them moves slowly to our east creating a nice sw breeze bringing in warmer air. Highs today will get to near 60 again today and we continue to warm through the weekend with highs in the mid 60s both saturday and sunday. We stay mild on monday but slowly lose our p might see a few showers. We dry up again by early Tuesday Morning and we should have a traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no delays green on traffic map no delays an overnight shooting happening on milwaukee northside is under investigation. Right now police are looking for a suspect who shot a man walking into his night near 88th and capitol. Police say a suspect fired multiple gunshots at a 34yearold man. The victim was taken to the hospital by a friend. No word on his current condition. A suspect in custody this morning after leading police on a high speed chase. Officials sa
City officials estimate that number is likely to reach close to 50 thousand. That translates to roughly one in five voters citywide. As long as youre registered saturday is the last day to vote early. If youre not you have to get it done by friday night or wait until election day. And new this year there are three locations the zeidler building downtown, midtown center and the forest home library. Milwaukee mayor tom barrett says the higher totals. Are due to expanded voting hours and vote. Early voting runs today from 830 am to 7 pm. And tomorrow if youre already registered. From noon to five. We have information about all three locations. At fox6 now Campaign Stops happening in wisconsin before election day. Right now, Vice President joe biden is stumping for democratic president ial nominee Hillary Clinton in madison. And republican president ial nominee donald trump will be back in wisconsin this weekend. His staff confirms hell make a stop in west allis on sunday. Fox 6 has you co
80 of folks in puerto rico support the board can whats the problem of actually putting it to the people for a vote . The most recent poll i saw on the board suggests that perhaps its 4951, or 50 50 folks opposing. If thats the case in which the problem of actually putting it to the people on a vote . Like congress did in 1951 . That would render something illegitimate perhaps. As regards to your proportion of Economic Development, before we get to that conversation we need to make sure that energy costs go down in puerto rico. We need to make sure the board is credible. Its incredible the local government right now came up with a 9. 1 billion budget, okay, in the face of this crisis. In other words, that are suspending payments on the debt that they our still spending like crazy. Thats something that is unjustifiable. It really takes away credibility or whatever credibility was left from the puerto rican government. Thats something that has to be dealt with in a meaningful way moving f