Latesummer, but crews have been prepping for this specific storm starting on wednesday. Just in the last two hours, the department of public works promised us they are prepared. We are going to stick with our operations. We have a rollover plan and we want we make sure these streets are safe and passable. Adrienne and one number i want to go ahead and give you you probably heard it before, but you need to write it down at the beginning of the snow season. It is 286city. If you live in the city of milwaukee, it is a good number to have handy. Live in milwaukee, im adrienne pedersen, wisn 12 news. Toya snowy roads could be behind three massive interstate pileups across the country. The multivehicle crashes were in michigan, ohio and pennsylvania yesterday. The interstate was closed for hours in all three states. Be sure to have the free wisn mobile app ready to go this weekend. Youll find snow updates along with information about churches or businesses forced to close due to the snow. Pa
Mak theres still areas of the lake taht are open water so we dont want to be out there. The Walworth County Sheriffs Office says theyll keep searching tonight as late as possible. Now to our big story, were in for some snow this weekend. We could see more than a half of foot when its all said and done. We have Team Coverage ahead of this wintery forecast. Fox 6s Myra Sanchick is live in milwaukee with what the city is doing to prepare. But we start with weather expert tom wachs. Hes been tracking the snow. He joins us from the weather winter storm watch for all of se wi from saturday night through sunday night increasing clouds tonight. It will be very cold with temperatures falling into the teens by sunrise. Mostly cloudy and quiet during the day saturday with highs in the low 20s. Snow moves in from the west on saturday evening. The snow will continue through the day sunday and taper off accumulation is forecast, lower amounts toward fon du lac county. Tonight increasing clouds. Cold
High 30 wind se 1020 mph the first major snowfall of season on the way. Milwaukee Officials Say they are. Fox6s Myra Sanchick has more on what the city is doing. Milwaukee Officials Say they are ready, prepared and will do whatever it takes to make the streets safe. As sure as the the snow falls each year, the day before that snowfall customers call. We sell a lot of salt, shovels, see more of it blifferts is one of many Hardware Stores now in the thick of it. People always procrastinate,put it off here we go the predictions are that soon the area will be in the thick of it. Wednesday brine was put on streets, an anti icing operation that is intended to stop this weekends snow from sticking. Its worked on the past on bridges, and now it is on major streets for the first time. Saturday we will be starting the operation by cali deploying 102 salt trucks to get into the districts, the residential streets and pre salt those areas plow blades are being mounted onto garbage trucks to get rea
Milwaukee police are searching for this missing woman. Sabrina allen suffers from Health Issues and was last seen wearing a Navy Blue Coat and black shoes with white stripes and pink lining. If you have information. Call police at the number on your wisconsins president ial recount effort hits the home stretch. A federal judge has just refused a request by two protrump groups to stop the effort. This morning. As county clerks around the state are finishing up with counting ballots. Pete zervakis reports from waukesha. The final votes are being tallied up in Waukesha County tabulator thats a high speed tabulator. Counting up the remaining president ial ballots at the Waukesha County courthouse. Tabulatoraccording to the county clerk. It can zip through 5thousand ballots an hour. Sorting and ballots into box compared to the 720 an hour that can be counted by a machine. A total of 970 the counting should be complete this afternoon. Then the board of canvassers has to review and certify th
Many republicans are also saying they cant follow that rhetoric. Here in waukesha. The county has recently upgraded to a new system. Its on a closed network. And has no connection to the internet. The machines also keeps multiple paper trails. Including the ballots. Kathleen novack the Waukesha County clerk says the massive voter fraud conspiracy is just that a conspiracy. And even if someone did want to rig and election. It would be impossible because the Voting System is very de centralized. Plus, the scrutiny on ballots is incredible. Take for example what happens after election day. The following week, a representative from both of the Major Political parties and myself sit down and we do whats referred to as a county canvas. We take this tape which is totally separate from anything thats connected to the internet, we take the poll books that individuals have signed, we match to make sure that there are no more votes here than voters that signed in House Speaker paul ryan and the R