Holiday weekend make sure you do so responsibly. Or you may find yourself pulled over. 35 different Law Enforcement agencies are teaming up this weekend to keep impaired drivers off of the details. Near the busy roads theyll spend the weekend protecting, law enforcers line up for a friday evening roll call. Theyre kicking off the southeast wisconsin owi task forces Labor Day Weekend effort. Its the opening of College Football this weekend the badgers game is on saturday afternoon. Lots of home parties going on and we want to make sure that people either stay home or they drive home safely with some type of designated driver program. Thirty v the task force. And lt. Gary gabrish says theyre very effective since last october, not including regular patrols, the task force alone has made 230 operating while impaired arrests. I believe we have about eight percent of the owis that occur in our county just on our deployments. Theyll be keeping a close eye on drivers this weekend, while some c
Breaking news coming to us from north carolina. And we just got new video into our newsroom of the protests there that started last night and just ended within the last hour this morning. This is i85 a major highway ut those semis people were reportedly breaking in the trailers setting whatever they found inside on fire. Right now crews are working to clear debris off the roadway before opening this up to traffic. This all started after a black man, keith scott, was shot and killed by a black police officer. Police say he had a gun but others are saying he was holding a book. Charlottes mayor active on says the community deserves answers and a full investigation will ensue. So far we know at least 20 people were hurt pretty much all of them Police Relief this morning for a transgender student who sued the Kenosha School district. After a judge ruled in his favor in a dispute over which bathroom to use. Pete zervakis is live at Tremper High School in kenosha as we look ahead to today. A
A gun stealing a wallet and other items before taking off. 41. 34 they say come in groups and things like that, but it doesnt help. When they have a gun what are you gonna do. Officers say one of the culprits is just 13 years old. They caught him with a gun just hours later near humboldt and commerce. Less than mile away from the armed robbery. Its unclear how the teen got the weapon but the chief says nearly 2thousand guns have been taken off milwaukee streets so far this year. 38. 49 in terms of gun seizures milwaukee is a week we told you about a string of overnight armed robberies in the brady street area. Police say the suspect approached unsuspecting victims with a knife or gun, robbed them, then ran away. Kunert says hopelessness and fear is not how he wants to live his life. Life. 42. 37 its getting to be more and more and more, something has to happen. 3 Milwaukee Police are still looking for the other suspect investigating if they are responsible for other armed robberies in
Brad thansk rach clear and quiet tonight with temperatures falling through the 60s this evening. Well drop into the 50s inland overnight, around 60 lakeside. High pressure will continue to dominate our weather through the holiday weekend. This means more sun and mild temperatures. Highs in the 70s sunday. Humidity levels will start to increase sunday and monday. It will warm into the 80s on labor day. The heat really builds by tuesday and wednesday with highs near 90 along with chances for tstorms. Tonight clear skies. Low 60 wind e 5 mph saturday mostly sunny. High 74 wind se 510 mph sunday mostly sunny. Am low 62 high 78 am low 65 high 83 wind s 510 mph you can stay ahead of the weather anywhere just storm center app. Its free for apple and android devices. It has been a violent summer in milwaukee. Police chief ed flynn laying out the numbers yesterday. Milwaukees murder rate surpassed chicago which also had a violent month of august. 4 homicides per 100thousand people in our city c
You are watching fox 6 news at 10. 10p open area law enforcers are ready to keep an eye on those who make the poor c weekend. Fox6s Rachelle Baillon joins us live in wauwatosa with more. Good evening. Thirty five different Law Enforcement agencies are teaming up this weekend to keep impaired drivers off of the road. Near the busy roads theyll spend the weekend protecting, law enforcers line up for a friday evening roll call. Its the opening of College Football this weekend the badgers game is on saturday afternoon. Lots sure that people either stay home or they drive home safely with some type of designated driver program. Theyre kicking off the southeast wisconsin owi task forces Labor Day Weekend effort. And while days like new years, memorial day and Saint Patricks day normally top the list for intoxicated driving, lt. Gary gabrish of the Wauwatosa Police Department Says labor day still cracks into the top group. I would say labor day is probably in the top five. Thirty five Agencie