Following last months unres,t with an annoucement this morning about a major boost towards creating stronger families and neighborhoods. Im proud today to say that the city of milwaukees office of violence prevention has been awarded a five year federal grant. To the Substance Abuse and Mental Health service administration. Administration. Its called the resiliency in communities after stress and trauma grant and mayor barrett says its one of the largest grants ever awarded to milwaukees health the purpose of the program is to assist highrisk youth and families and promote resilience and equity in communities through violence prevention, Community Youth engagement programs, and Behavioral Health services. Local Officials Say its a step towards a great solution. Its not as if 5Million Dollars changes this, but its the ability to pull together people to have a common vision about how to approach it and then bring the right partners to the table to address it. Well have much more on today
On average, more than 35,000 children and adolescents received bunk bed related injuries each year with falls being the most common. I just hope the best for my little nephew and safe kids recommends not using any type of bed to either place your child on for parents or caregivers, if you plant to do something else, it can easily lead to them falling reporting live at childrens hospital, rikki mitchell, t todays tmj4. 13 counties under a state of emergency because of flooding. A man was killed in Vernon County after a mud slide swept his home onto a highway. More than a dozen schools were closed or delayed because of the flooding. There is no flood threat in our area right now. But chief meteorologist john malan is tracking some chorus. Rainfallal totals in the last 38 hours. 8 inches in oxford. All these towns are in the central and western and southwest part of the state. Chippewa falls over 7 inches, reads town over 7 inches and nealsville 6. 77. Over five inches of rain in many of
Jeremy is going to talk about the flooding west in the state and to the north. As we get a live look at the radar, light rain showers are showing up western fond du lac and dodge county for today. The heavy stuff is to the north and to the west. This is pretty much where most of this rain is going to stay throughout the day today. It is focussed along the boundary. We get in on showers from time to time. Visibility three to seven milesment it is humid out there. The time line is quieter this morning. Still, drizzle and mist and spotty showers and going up to the upper 70s. Right now 65 at the airport. Breezy today. And we have a look at the weekend forecast coming up. Pavement is a little wet. The traffic is moving well so far. The drive times are now all in the green. Also, if you want check out the rain, take the forecast any where. Breaking news this morning in charlotte, North Carolina where a state of emergency has been declared. It comes after a second night of violent protests.
Flood watch. We have storm max radar up, thunderstorms across Fond Du Lac County into sheboygan county, a large line of thunderstorms extending back towards the wisconsin dells. And as we stop the radar, and then put it back in motion for you, youll see that everything keeps redevelopling over the same spot, namely Northern Counties, off and on rainshowers early in the evening hours. Look at the rain developing out to the the west, and as we pull back for you big area of rain across the northern part of the state, more developing across southwest wisconsin, all this will sink to the south a little bit, but basically go into the Northern Counties. One commuter model has the bulk of the heavier rain to our north and into the morning hours, by about 10 00 in the morning, a bunch of showers pass through, the heaviest rain in the northern part of our viewing area. Scattered showers and 65 . At sheboygan county, be careful, Flash Flood Watches continue until 7 00 tomorrow. More details on th
As office told him a 20 second clip showed the moment in which his son is seen being order put his hands upnly anderson says his inebriated son kept reaching down. 135419 even though his fire arm was there i think he was going for his telephone 135423 anderson believes showing the video at this point will only spark more unrest in milwaukee. The executive director of aclu here in milwaukee believes no time should be wasted in releasing video after key witness accots ultimately these videos from Police Officer involved shootings killings are going to be released. So its better to release them earlier rather then later 124630 anderson sr tells me he wishes there was more video other than the 20 second clip from the police body camera. I called the District Attorney office. But they did not return my call veronica a 30yearold woman is arrested, accused of leaving a loaded gun near a child. Her arrest comes after a 9 year old boy was accidentaly shot by his younger brother yesterday near 2