Traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no delays next few days triple a projects this thanksgiving holiday will be the busiest since 2007. Deandra corinthios is checking on how things are going at Mitchell Airport. Shes live with the latest holiday of the year according to triple a so be prepared for lines. And delays. As long as you arrive early you should be okay. And if youre driving. Hitting the road early will help too triple a says of the one million wisconsinites expected to travel this thanksgiving weekend. About 90 percent will drive. If you want to avoid congestion experts say the increase is due to an improving economy. Consumer confidence. And low gas prices. Which are the cheapest since 2008. In some areas. A gallon of regular unleaded is below two dollars. If youre flying. Airfares have actually gone uptriple a projects a 21 percent increase this thanksgiving. But air travel is still expected to go up about onepointsix percent. And
Area of low pressure moves across our region. We remain mild with highs in the low 40s. We should dry out as the low exits overnight but we stay cloudy with lows in the upper 30s. For those traveling today and tonight, snow is likely for northern wisconsin and wet roads are a concern locally. Partly to mostly cloudy for our thanksgiving day with highs in the low 40s likely. We can expect more rain and possibly a few flakes early friday but then we start warming and could hit 50 by monday. Today overcast with rain showers likely. High nd se 515 mphtonight cloudyh anchor adlibs traffic red on traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no triplea is calling it the biggest thanksgiving rush in years more than 48 million are expected to travel. Including one million wisconsinites. So whether your driving. Or flying. Triple a projects an increase. Live at Mitchell Airport with more triplea says this week from wednesday to sunday will be the busiest thanks
10news reporter Sarah Hollenbeck is live in the newsroom. Sarah, businesses fought against these changes. Yes, they argued paying salary employees overtime could force them to make other changes like demoting managers or hiring fewer workers. But this isnt a final ruling it could be taken up again after the holidays. Retail stores fought against the overtime rules the hardest. They argued theyve been scrambling to shuffle around their employees. In time for the Holiday Shopping season. But the big question this morning is did the judge delay this rule because it was unlawful and could hurt businesses or was there Something Else to it . Its the fourth time in 21 months that a federal judge in texas has issued a one of president Barack Obamas executive orders. Judges in that state also president obamas push to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation, mandate bathroom access for transgender students, and require labor violation disclosures by federal contractors. Coming up at 6 t
For you throughout the morning. How does 359 million sound . It could go to the winner of the next powerball jackpot. Overtime on hold. A federal judge puts down a new rule to make sure you get paid when you work overtime. So americans working beyond the clock may not actually get paid for it. This is supposed to start a days from now from now. What is behind the sudden change . The federal judge was getting tons of nasty feedback. We have 21 states and all of these businesses saying, there is no way i can implement this right away. We are talking about the number of folks this would have impacted. 4 million americans would have been impacted by this new rule. Anybody that made 47,500 or less a year would have been impacted by this. I want to put this in perspective. If these people worked five extra hours a week which a lot of us have, that would have been this would affect so many people. What about businesses looking to plan ahead. Some businesses were getting around it. A couple mo
Republican party. She is not nikki haley. President of vote america now a Nonpartisan Organization that engages millennials and minorities, chris thanks so much for joining us. Lets start off the bat here with ben carson being tapped as possible hud secretary. I dont know about you lets remember what he said last week. Not only he said he wasnt interested. He said hes never served in government. He doesnt know how government work that is he would cripple the potential Incoming Administration which i thought was weird because he was running for president. What do you think of him being tapped as hud secretary or Surgeon General or health and Human Services it is a surprise to me. To your point, i thought he was certainly not be tapped as hud secretary. Its as surprising to me like it is you. Its something hell think about and consider over the thanking holiday. Nice guy. Had the opportunity to interview him few times. Real good guy. Quite shocking to see he would be asked to take that r