Fox6 news. Steph thank madeline there are faces behind the numbers. And families left devastated. Tonight, we spoke with one family whose loved one was killed at the beginning of august. Fox 6s ashley sears with their message. 25yearold Bennie Bennett was killed in a double homicide august 9th. His family says they feel pain not only for his death, but for all families experiencing what they are. Nearly one month because never would i have thought it would be my child. Dinese bennett and her family have been suffering. It really hits home when it happens to you. Her 25yearold son Bennie Bennett was killed in a double homicide in early august. It happened in a home at 36th and congress. Im hurting so bad inside. I dont rest, i dont sleep. Bennett was one of 24 people in killed in milwaukee during the july of 1991. I watch the news and i cry. This family says it shares the pain of others grieving. They are asking a city to look for solutions. It feels like milwaukee is going through a cr
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
Substances, simply make sure youve got a designated driver to get you home safely. Reporting live tonight in wauwatosa, Rachelle Baillon fox6 news. Brad thanks rach were heading into the Holiday Weekend with some fantastic weather. Tom is on the weather deck. Weather clear and quiet tonight with temperatures falling through the 60s this evening. Well drop into the 50s inland overnight, a High Pressure will continue to dominate our weather through the Holiday Weekend. This means more sun and mild temperatures. Highs in the 70s saturday and sunday. Humidity levels will start to increase sunday and monday. It will warm into the 80s on labor day. The heat really builds by tuesday and wednesday with highs near 90 along with chances for tstorms. Saturday mostly sunny. High 74 wind se 510 mph sunday mostly sunny. Am low 62 high 78 wind se 510 mph Labor Day Weekend stay ahead of the weather with the fox 6 storm center app. Its available on android and apple. Two men have now been charged in co
Holiday weekend make sure you do so responsibly. Or you may find yourself pulled over. 35 different Law Enforcement agencies are teaming up this weekend to keep impaired drivers off of the details. Near the busy roads theyll spend the weekend protecting, law enforcers line up for a friday evening roll call. Theyre kicking off the southeast wisconsin owi task forces Labor Day Weekend effort. Its the opening of College Football this weekend the badgers game is on saturday afternoon. Lots of home parties going on and we want to make sure that people either stay home or they drive home safely with some type of designated driver program. Thirty v the task force. And lt. Gary gabrish says theyre very effective since last october, not including regular patrols, the task force alone has made 230 operating while impaired arrests. I believe we have about eight percent of the owis that occur in our county just on our deployments. Theyll be keeping a close eye on drivers this weekend, while some c
And while we will continue to grow our business and hire accordingly, there will be impact to some positions over time. rich kirchen with the Milwaukee Business Journal says so far. Northwestern mutual has been fortunate and unique in that it hasnt had to deal with any big layoffs. Even in the current market. As he explains. Insurance companies rely on two sources of income. One is based on interest rates. And while the current low investment rates were seeing are go its a struggle in the industry. I think theyre the 9th largest employer in the rea. They have almost 6 thousand employees in downtown milwaukee and franklin. So its important, its significant but we dont know what the numbers are. Kirchen believes they will start by not filling open positions. Which may be the only way this new tower being built comes into play its expected to house 1000 this tower. And this potential layoff news are really two different issues. Live in milwaukee. Krystle kacner fox 6 news. Steph thanks kr