3 the incoming cold weather . Also means . A run on certain items at local Hardware Stores. Stores. Cbs 58s Jacob Kittilstad joins us live from waukesha with that story. Jacob . Its really cold right now. And with the forecast showing even colder temperatures later this week. People working at local Hardware Stores say many coldweather items are close to selling out. nat. Ding when the snow came. The obvious items went first. 3;36;23 there has been a big run on scrapers and snow brushes. In the shovel aisle. Lots of hooks hang empty. The klondike pusher. The promo poly 18incher. All of them are soldout. 3;27;12 its kind of a surprising year. We all wonder where they were last year or what happened to them. Dennis kummrow is a salesperson at tomchek ace hardware in waukesha. 3;35;02 this is a quick fix. He says he hasnt helped anyone with frozen pipes yet. But that could be coming soon. gfx Allstate Insurance reports the number of burst pipes jumps dramatically during the holidays speci
Nice to see the slice of eyes one below is the current temperature in elkhorn and watertown. We have gone below zero. Five in milwaukee. We wont hang at that number for the rest of the night. There is some breeze that brings the temperature to 14 degrees below zero in fond du it will get worse before it gets better. Windchills going to 25 below, when that happens and temperatures across the board go to zero and when snow moves in, coming up in weatherwatch 12. Joyce as the temperatures change and snow heads our way, stay with wisn 12 news and make sure to download the free wisn 12 news app. Its free for your smartphone or tablet. Breaking news, actor alan thicke has died. A publicist says thicke died from a heart attack. Thicke played the dad on growing pains in the 1980s and 1990s. He recently made an appearance on the netfix series . Fuller house. . He just tweeted about that actor alan thicke, dead of a heart attack at the age of 69. Our big story tonight president elect donald trum
Temperatures. Temperatures will dip into the Single Digits below zero. These temps combined with brisk west winds will bring dangerously cold wind chill values of 15 to 25 to the area tonight into thursday morning. A wind chill advisory is in effect for that time. Then we turn our attention to r where we are forecasting 6 to 9 inches of snow. This will impact travel so keep up with the latest forecasts as we pin the fox6 Storm Center App can keep you in the know with the bitter cold and upcoming snow. Its free for apple and android devices. Youll have instant access to the fox6 weather forecast. As the temps take a plunge, milwaukees mayor is reminding everyone about just how dangerous the cold can be. And fox sixs Angelica Sanchez joins us from a warming shelter in west allis with more. Angelica. Stephanie. Behind me is one of several warming rooms opening up tonight across the county. This is at feed his flock near 81st and lapham. The most vulnerable population right now are childre
Overwhelmed and impressed how everybody their prayers and perseverance, humanity this is the way the world should be. Anchor andrew is nonverbal but made it clear he was happy to be home. Anchor Law Enforcement from several agencies, firefighters, and volunteers all worked to find andrew. Anchor as Adrienne Pedersen explains, because the 10yearold has autism, crews used special tactics during the difficult search. Reporter this happy reunion captured by news chopper 12. But before mom and son could get to this special moment, Law Enforcement worked tirelessly to find andrew. The 10yearold has autism and is nonverbal. Lieutenant kevin rice with Waukesha Police tells us the sensitive crime detectives are specially trained to handle cases like andrews. They know kids with autism usually head for the water. Police immediately used a drone to see the bottom of the water. Children with autism get scared easily. So rescuers couldnt just run up to him. Instead, firefighters put calming lights
Brings rain for our area by Late Wednesday morning. We have a chance for rain and thunder wednesday afternoon. We we can expect a brief lull in the activity later wednesday before another low arrives thursday with another round of rain and thunderstorms. We calm down and cool down for the weekend with highs dipping into the 50s today partly sunny. High 70 dewpoint 57 wind se 515 mph anchor adlibs traffic red on traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no delays Police Searching for the driver of an suv who hit a motorcycle last night. The crash happened near mitchell and muskego just before 9 pm. Officials say the motorcycle driver was trying to go around cars stopped at a red light and then went into the intersection when he hit by a silver suv. The driver initially stopped. But then took off. Were told the motorcycle driver was not wearing a helmet and suffered very serious injuries. Police continue to investigate. A controversial plan is in the