In the city minus 15 in milwaukee. Some of the other numbers in the 20s below zero. Now the first cut forecast for the day, the coffee is trying to warm you up with the numbers, again, these are the actual temperatures, windchills are way below zero. What is ahead . Weor watch starts tomorrow. Ben a lot of people are turning to alternative heat sources to keep warm this week, but experts say that can be very dangerous, including space heaters. Firefighters say you should keep them away from curtains, carpet and clothes and make sure you have one that automatically turns off if it tips over. Avoid using ovens to heat your home, that can lead to fires and Carbon Monoxide emergencies. If youre using a fireplace, firefighters say you should make and finally, even with a normal furnace its important to keep up with maintenance. Adrienne doctors say we should watch out for frostbite and hypothermia. Frostbite can happen in less than 30 minutes. Symptoms include a loss of feeling and a white
Could be impacting the travel plans across the area. Well let you know when the snow begins. 33 people in wisconsin died because of the cold last year. The windchills are back today. Hillary mintz is live inside of the Fire Department on the winter safety. Good morning, hillary. Reporter good morning, we are staying safe and Fire Department. The majority of the calls they are using this, the ambulance here for the medical calls, there are a number of Serious Health problems that can get in very, very quickly with the dangerously cold temperatures. Frostbite. Good morning, zack. What are the things that you do when it comes to the weather related Health Problems that you is get the person out of the cold as quickly as positive. We actually send extra people with the cold weather to expedite that process and then if the cold is one of the concerns there, we have a couple of things to do. Heating packs, we pack that orlando the core of the body and the warmth is the ivs are kept on the wa
17 minutes from downtown out to moreland road. Tim . Matt, right now, we have breaking news, emergency crews on the scene of a house fire in milwaukee. This fire is happening at o home on matter daniels way. New, we have new video from the scene here. You are seeing several emergency crews responding to this area to help fight this fire. Now but it is dangerously cold out there and there are sub zero windchills and thats no doubt making this job for the firefighters especially difficult today. No word on what sparked the fire or if anybody was hurt. Back to you, ben. Thank you, tim. Now to more on the dangerously cold temperatures. Morning. You want to be inside or limit your time outside. Try to cover up your skin, have the hat, gloves on. We have dangerous cold windchills. 26 below in waukesha. Most areas seeing the feels like temperature in the 12 to 24 below zero range. We look across the state and in the teens to 20s below zero. Look at below zero at this hour. The frigid feel is
A. M. Especially to the south and east and as that pushes through and the temperatures drop this could lead to black ice by early tomorrow morning. So the timing for the front and that round of snow will be between midnight and 4 00 a. M. Where mainly along i95 cares south and east and not so much north and west of philadelphia. The potential of flash freeze, when the snow melts, any untreated suffer as could turn icy late tonight and early tomorrow morning. Be prepared for that in the southern areas. Windchills during the day tomorrow. Its only going to be 5 and 10 above the entire day. Lehigh valley north and 5 below in extreme southern areas 10 to 15 degrees below zero. Well see the potential for snow to break out as the warm air come fz slowly turning of to ice and eventually changing over to rain. There is a messy mix over the weekend. Well talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. As the mercury plunges check back with 6abc. Comfor the very latest from the updated forecas
Are contracted to handle baggage or check in customers curb side. As wusa9s hilary lane explains, employees say they arent making enough money to make ends meet. Reporter this is the first time workers from both reagan and Dulles International airports have gone on strike on the same day. These are the workers, their baggage attendants and wheelchair attendants and they just want to make enough money to live comfortably they say. Terrible life. What do we want it . Reporter a terrible life. Thats how he describes it. Hes a baggage attendant here at Reagan National airport. He makes 8 an hour. But thats not enough to support his three children. What do we want . Reporter so he took on a second job at avis at the airport. He cleans the rental cars. But he sleeps in his own. In my car in the fire station in this airport. Reporter he works 16 hours a day. At the airport, handling baggage from 4 00 a. M. To 12 00 p. M. Until 1 00 a. M. He says he doesnt have time to go home during the week