Minutes later i seen the smoke. Red cross says they are assisting two people who live on the upper floor. But everyone is ok. Reporting live on the south side Rebecca Klopf todays tmj4. Chopper four shot this video about an hour ago. You can see the kk river running high and fast in the kk river parkway. Look at this picture. Jolen dzibinski sent it to us. She says its on milwaukees south side, where her street, sidewalk and alley all flooded. We energies reports 640 customers are without power right now. Crews are busy working to restore service you can find interactive radar and Storm Team Forecast maps on our website, tmj four dot com. More local news now. Three people were shot in a house on the west side this afternoon. One of those shot is a 16 joins us live from the scene with more information. Police tell us the shooting happened in that house behind me on north 27th street in between lisbon and north avenues. We know that one man died here at the house. The other two an adult
Was the commandant of andersonville prison camp. Its one of the most notorious camps in the mihistory of moder warfare. It was in the southwest of georgia and well talk about hanging henry wirz. Wirz was hanged for his role in perpetuating according to the federal government mistreatment and murder at that camp and he was one of the first individuals in the modern era to be tried for war crimes and henry wirzs trial in the fall of 1865 set the precedent for more recent war crimes trials, most notably the nuremberg trials of nazi perpetrators after world war ii, the american the allied prosecutors who were preparing for those prosecutions in nuremberg actually studied the wirz trial and particularly his defense so that they could prepare for what they anticipated the nazi defense would be and called it the wirz defense which was basically, you know, i was only following orders. Thats the typical defense and they used henry wirzs trial to help prepare far in 1945. So this is a really imp
It feels a little like fall this morning and this weekend is the signal the long, hot summer is rolling to a close. Thousands are getting ready to hit the road for a long labor day weeken when the best time to leave town is. Ann. The 2 busy travel days for this long Labor Day Weekend are today and monday. The roads are expected to be busy starting at noon today until about 8 p. M. The same time periods on monday. The wisconsin state patrol will out in full force for enforcement the goal is to get drivers to buckle up, obey speed limits, and drive sober. The dot reports the Labor Day Holiday has been deadly on wisconsin roads with an average of 8 traffic fatalities during the last five years. If you are packing your bags and getting ready to fly this holiday weeknd. There is a storm that made landfall in florida overnight the first hurricane there in more than a decade. Across the Country Airlines are expecting more than 2 Million People to travel this weekend. Thats a 4 increase from l
Front. In place, rest. Ladies and gentlemen, if i could have you stand up please . Leading us in the pledge of allegiance will be asia elliott. Asia . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You can take your seats, please. I would like to introduce our civil war docent who will introduce our speaker. Thank you, paul. This has been an eventful week for us at the congressional cemetery. We had an event at fort mcnair tuesday at the exact moment the explosion occurred. We remembered then and will remember now the women killed that day. On wednesday, we had a visit from the deputy Prime Minister of the republic of ireland. He laid this it is not there anymore. [laughter] he laid a wreath that day to remember the women, many of whom were irish immigrants. Our speaker today will be the daughter of the man who wrote the book about this long forgotte
June 17, 1864, washington arsenal explosion that killed 21 women. Many of the victims were young, impoverished irish immigrants. The youngest to die was 12 years old. This ceremony takes place at the historic Congressional Cemetery next to a monument for the victims dedicated less than a year after the accident. The event runs about 30 minutes. Hello, everybody. My name is paul williams. I am the president of the association for the preservation of historic Congressional Cemetery. I want to welcome you to the cemetery. I am happy our weather has held off so far. I also want to welcome you to the sesquicentennial commemoration of the funeral for the 21 women killed in the june 17, 1864, explosion at the washington arsenal. First, the honor guard will post the colors. Gentlemen . Forward, march. Detail, halt. Detail, present arms. Detail, recover. Detail, right about face. Detail, post colors. Detail, right about face. Detail, left face. Forward. March. Left follows right. March. Company