Traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no delays flash flooding causing chaos across the milwaukee area we have Team Coverage this morning. Our Julie Collins is tracking the clean up shes live near one of the hardest hit areas near 38th and lincoln. But we start first with angelica in the newsroom with how the flooding is closed. Angelica is in the newsroom with details. Todays classes at saint johns have been canceled while crews continue to clean up the mess. First responders and volunteers spent hours yesterday filling and piling sandbags outside saint johns, trying to protect it from the waters. The principal says within an hour the water had started running down the side of the school. Student were evacuated from the school, as well as from parkview primary. I was actually monitoring it all day because when i picked her up from school we seen that we heard on the news that the other roads were flooded in town so we were just keeping an eye
Start to dry things out once again this Flash Flood Warning continues tonight for central and southern Waukesha County and southern Milwaukee County. Its a waukesha to milwaukee. You can see the heaviest rain is over us now its going to be over us for the next few hours and then will work out by 9 00 p. M. Of another minutes. The rain really coming downn aut driving through standing water is very dangerous and its best to find another route. A similar scene in whitefish bay. This is the intersection of henry clay and santa monica. You can see the waters rising over the streets and onto the sidewalks. And this is near henry clay and bay. Heavy rain has led to flooding in dodge county today. It was enough to force schools to evacuate in mayville. Thats where we find our Rachelle Baillon tonight. She joins us live. Good evening. The rainfall prompted rising waters that rushed toward two area schools. Both canceled class and sent students home while volunteers and First Responders tried to
Gone, but the flooding from heavy rains leaving behind some damage. Where our reporter found this tree split in half this morning. Plus a shooting in milwaukee has turned into a double homicide investigation. What we know about the victims. Good morning and welcome back to wakeup. Time now x xx from fox6 meteorologist rob haswell we are still cloudy with a few showers this morning as the cold front slowly makes its exit. The front will be more of a dry front than a cold front as temperatures wont dip much but dewpoints will fall nicely. High pressure moves in from the west to give us sun by this afternoon but that wont last as another low arrives later friday into saturday with more rain and thunderstorms. We should dry up behind that next low but saturday afternoon and we can enjoy some cool, falltype air by sunday afternoon with highs slipping to the low 70s. We stay in the seasonal range for early next week but slip to the anchor adlibs traffic red on traffic map major delays yellow
Yesterday. We went to yankees stadium. Before we went, i saw something on my television. You were hosting your show out at the intrepid. Right. What happened . Did somebody moon you in the crowd . You looked horrified. I wore this orange dress, sitting there interviewing congressman Charlie Rangel. I look down. I f im being stung by a Yellow Jacket in the middle of this interview. In all my years ive never been stung by anything. On the air, just live, just wow. Tears started rolling down my eyes as Charlie Rangel is talking about budget. I put an ice pack on. Of course i had to toughen up. Here i am on the intrepid. Country you need to be intrepid at this moment. I got in ointment. Painful. I saw that Yellow Jacket. Hes in my office right now. Hes on this box of cereal. Hes not a bee . I always fear about sneezing on the air. They tell you to look at the light. If you feel a sneeze coming on, look at the light and apparently its supposed to ive never sneezed on ive only cursed once on
Thats in eastern dodge county. And so is rachelle baillion who joins us live with more on the efforts to keep those schools dry. Good evening. One of those schools is the building you see here behind me. First responders and volunteers spent several hours filling and piling sand bags in an effort to protect it from the oncoming water. Heavy rainfall prompts a rising water level not seen in mayville for weve had 57 inches in you know in such a short amount of time the rivers and the creeks that we have upstream just cant handle that amount of water. as the water spilled over and flooded parts of town on wednesday, students were evacuated from two schools. we kept watching the water and as it kept coming it was getting further and further and faster and faster and then it broke the curb over here on horicon street. the principal at st. Johns says running down the side of the school. Students were sent home around 9 30. Classrooms also emptied at the nearby Parkview School around 1 pm, wh