Forecast from fox6 chief meteorologist rob haswell a low and the trough that trails it will move over our area today. As a result, we start sunny but end cloudy with a chance for showers by this evening. Showers persist overnight, possibly mixing in withn accumulation is expected. After a few morning flurries or showers, we dry up but stay mostly cloudy on thursday. Well dip to the upper 30s friday and saturday but then warm into the low to possibly mid 40s by early next week. Anchor adlibs traffic red on traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no were following breaking news this morning. President elect donald trump announcing he will be leaving his business to focus on his presidency. Jessob dgx this morning, he tweeted he will hold a major News Conference in new york city with his children on december 15 to discuss the fact that he will be leaving his. Dgx 2 business to fully focus on running the country in order to make America Great again d
About the recount. Plus Deadly Wildfires continue to burn across the smoky mountains. What investigators believe may have sparked the original fire. Good morning everyone and traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no delays a dane county judge decides wisconsin county clerks will not have to do a hand recount of the november president ial election instead. Clerks can choose to use ballot machines. Deandra corinthios is live from the zeidler building with the the judge encouraged the clerks to hand count the ballots saying it is the best way to determine tampered with. But said ultimately it is up to the clerks to decide how theyll proceed. Either by hand. Or by machine. The request for a hand recount came from Green Party Candidate jill stein. At last nights hearing in madison. Her attorneys. As well as a representative for former democratic president ial candidate hillary clinton. Called three witnesses to make their case the through line in th
I picked a good day there is a lot going on right now. Tons a Brass Quartet from the milwaukee symphony over there and extreme wrestler Tommy Dreamer is here somewhere. I hope he didnt bring his bat. He has a spiked bat i think he is known for. Thats what i heard. I bet he brought it. And a huge motorcycle over there in the studio were chatting with the former miss america. Thats right. And were going to start off right away with Laura Kaeppeler fleiss. After being and miss wisconsin she went on to win miss america. Shes doing something exciting. Good to have you back. Thank you so much for having me. How does it feel to be home . Its good it feels like the holidays. Cold weather, Christmas Lights make sense in the cold. Cold weather because you are not living in wisconsin now. Where do you live now . Why are you living there . Because we love it. Its small and simple and whole. We want to give that childhood to our son. Have you a little one i was going to say. Look how cute is he. Th
About the jail deaths to us. Back in octoberwe were the first tv station to report that four deaths happened inside the Milwaukee County jail this year. Emails show. A day . After our report aired. The sheriff called chief medical examiner Brian Petersonthreatening to get his license revoked. For example. In an email sent to county executive chris abele on october 29th. Peterson says he sustained some 20 minutes of against my licensure for. Ultimately no good reason. He says the sheriff took issue with information released on the death of Terrill Thomas. And also. This tweet from oct 28th. Advising the public of an overnight death in the jail. Peterson also said in the email the sheriff was furious that any information had been released on a nondisclosure case. Peterson then cited an email sent to me as proof of no wrongdoing. Saying the mes office sent nothing inflammatory and all in accord responded to petersons concerns over losing his license. Sending an email that reads in part. W