Showers and storms most of the day. Best chance for a break is around noon. Most pick up less than 0. 50. Highs in the middle to upper 70s. Wind s 5 10 mph. Tonight lingering rain showers and isolated storms. Stays mild with lows in the lower 60s. Wind sw 510 mph. Weekend a few showers possible early saturday before sunshine returns saturday afternoon. High temps around 80 saturday cooling slightly to the middle 70s on sunday with sunshine returning. Police are searching for a suspect involved in a hit and r. Run. Police say a car hit a man and took off. Around 1 30 this morning near atkinson and capitol. A 45yearold man whod reportedly been drinking. Was walking in the street when he was hit by a car. Were told that car did not stop. The man was responsive when officers got to the scene. He was taken to a local hospital and is expected to be ok. Police are now looking for the maroon or red fourdoor vehicle responsible. Family of a Milwaukee County . Jail inmate . Cant understand how h
Western areas you will see the rain much sooner. Here is a zoomed in look. Heavy downpours moved through madison. They are visiting beaver dam within 1525 minutes. Longer though nor Johnson Creek and watertown. 69 degrees right now. The humidity took a jump overnight. The dew points are in the 60 a few showers and storms this morning. A mainly dry amp before the next round is coming in. First though matt is headed to news chopper 12. Matt . There is time to drive on the dry pavement. It is dry around the metro area at this point. No worries out there right now. The overnight construction is picked up. Travel times are looking great. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. A Milwaukee School will be open today. Thats after a Police Officers gun accidentally fired inside hitting a student. Tim has more on this developing story. Tim. This morning, a 13yearold girl is recovering from a graze wound. The investigation is continuing to happen. This happened yesterda
The biggest impact will be fog. Tonight foggy overnight. Low 64 dewpoint 64 newly formed water task force. Meets for the first time today to discuss the safety of the citys tap water. But more specifically neighborhoods and homes with a higher risk of lead exposure. Fox6 meeting and joins us now. The chair of this Water Quality task force is firm on the position, tap water in milwaukee is safe even for higher risk homes. As long as residents are taking a few extra measures. Still, the city aims to be proactive, with lead water issues. Theres just no safe lead level exposure for children. For more than three hours, members of milwaukees water among the citys most vulnerable. I think if we are going to have an honest discussion i think we should have an honest discussion about the additives and the repercussions of that and how much has to go in because frankly its all connected. Task force chair and Alderman James bohl says. This and future meetings have several goals, including outreac
Lets take a live look outside this morning. Welcome to live at daybreak on todays tmj4. Im vince vitrano. And im susan kim. Lets get a check of your weather and traffic together. Storm team 4 meteorologist Brian Niznansky happening this morning. The first meeting of milwaukees new Water Quality task force. It was put together because of concern regarding the lead pipes used to pump water into old homes. Pete zervakis joins us live from happening today. This mornings first meeting of the Water Quality task force is set for 9 am at city hall. The group was put together to study how to make sure milwaukees Drinking Water stays safe. According to the city. The water itself is clean and ok to drink. But in some older homes those built pre1951. Lead pipes are being used to transport water from city water properties. And then from Property Line to the water meter. That lead can dissolve and seep into the water. The city notified about 70 thousand such homeowners of the risk earlier this year.
, faith, and vibrancy she had. Nearly two years ago the , little girl was sitting on her grandfathers lap when gunfire broke through the home, hitting and killing her. Police say the shooters meant to fire at another house. Milwaukee police chief edward flynn tells us laylahs story is too familiar. Having a permanent reminder is a way to keep focused on the fact that for too many children, their young lives are punctuated by be part of any normal childhood. Students placed peace pinwheels in the garden a , reminder of a precious little girl. She always had a smile on her face and would run up and give you a great, big hug. Investigators tell us carl barrett and arlis gordon fired the shots that killed laylah. Paul farr is charged with being the getaway driver. Each have hearings coming up in earlier this month, the community built a garden to remember nineyearold zalayia jenkins. Someone shot and killed the girl near 15th and meinecke back in may. Police are still searching for the sho