But theyll be ushered in. Good afternoon and welcome to the Aspen Institute. On behalf of the Strategy Group and the Rural Development Innovation Group, i want to thank you for joining us for this lunchtime dialogue series. Americas rural opportunity. I want to thank all the people in the room here, in washington, d. C. , with us, as well as the hundreds of the people Live Streaming and those of you watching on cspan3. So i am i wonder how many there are. Im janet topolsky. Im executive director of the Aspen Institute strategies group. What we do here at aspen usg is we do a lot of work out in the country equipping local leaders to build more prosperous regions. And to advance those living on the economic margins while they do that. Since 1985, aspen csg has focused most of its work in Rural America. And through our experience over those years, we have learned full well that Rural America is not flyover country. Rural america, rather, is livein, workin, start a business in, and raise a
Off this morning before leaving for work and school. Several inches of snow fell in parts of southeast wisconsin. The snow wrapped up overnight. Lets start your day with a check of the weather watch 12 forecast. Meteorologist Sally Severson is in the weather center. Sally, i had to buy a brush. Sally you had to get out and get one, poor andy. We are talking snow melt, in fact the snow melt conditions through tuesday before the temperatures begin wednesday as we move to layers and long underwear. Right now at the airport, 35 degrees. A little sprinkles showing up at mitchell international. We are looking at mostly cloudy skies for much of the day. Look at the highs upper 30s. Close to normal for this time of the year. The temperatures even with the clouds are melting. Andy . Melinda communities across southeast wisconsin are cleaning up from yesterdays snow. Some places like milwaukee didnt get quite enough snow to plow, but crews have been out spreading salt on side streets and main ro
Through the clouds this afternoon. We reach up to 3739 degrees. We melt a lot of the snow. Now the clouds are thickening up overnight and holding the lows in the 30s. Thank you, sal. 5 31. Communities across southeast wisconsin are cleaning up from the snow. Before you get in the car, get out the snow brush. Hillary is joining us live with more on the clean up. Good morning, hillary. Reporter good morning, yes, if were not parked inside of a garage last night, and parked out like these people, you better have a snow brush this morning. There is 23 inches. This is an idea of what you are going to find out here this morning. A little work this morning to clear this out. Allow a little extra time for that. Wear the snow boots this melting. It is messy this morning. 94 right here. Everybody is zipping along at normal highway speeds this morning. So again, just a little clearing off of the cars. Other than that, it is not icy or anything. So not too bad with that. A few people doing that th
The plows have been out yesterday and overnight. But if you look as you mentioned the cars that were parked outside, yes, they need clearing off. This is all right. You are going to drive over it. Like sal this afternoon. Again, most of the streets in the neighborhoods are clear. Just allow a little extra time. For now, live in Brookfield Wisn 12 news this morning. Thank you. 6 01. Utility crews are working to restore the power in southeast wisconsin. Tim is live in the news room energies outage map, we have 176 homes without power and businesses. You can see here this Blue Triangle on the map, that is racine county. The outages were up to 6,000 customers yesterday. We is saying that tree limbs and branches were touching the power lines because of the snow piling up and breakers to blow. Crews have been out and making repairs. There are 175 homes and businesses without power in our area. Back to you. Tim, thank you. Freeways are Good Condition this morning. Taking a live look from the
Of origin for the deadly fire. We feel very strongly we have the area of origin where the fire started firefighters spent the weekend sifting through ash and debris, in some places 10 feet deepwe have had to deliver a lot of bad news to people. Officials expecting the death toll will rise. This is whats left of the warehouse called the ghost ship, home to dozens of artists, living in labyrinth of cluttered Wood Furniture and a make shift permitted for residential living. The Fire Department said the building didnt have sprinkler systems or smoke alarms. The fire started in the back of the building. Nearly 100 people were listening to a dj play music. Residents said they only had moments to escape. I saw 15 foot flames and what appeared to be a fireball coming towards me the buildings owner tells nbc news he was unaware anyone was living inside. With the work stoppage investigation into what lead up to the tragedy continues. Steve luke, nbc news 30 percent of the building still has not