Students were released at 11. Students who ride the bus will remain at the school until the bus arrives. The slow moving storm system to our east continues to influence our weather like the clouds and 30 mph gusty winds we had yesterdaat least highs in the upper 60s were back to normal. Clouds increased overnight, with areas of drizzle, a wind, and temps in the 50s. Today is cloudy and windy with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s and scattered showers. The ne wind continues to gust to 25 mph throughout the day. The best chance for rain is after 5pm and through the evening its a 40 year tradition in milwaukee. And helps to address the needs of a population with a 43 percent Child Poverty rate. The food for families drive is now underway. Pete zervakis explains how it works. Bins like bins like this one will be set up around our area to fight hunger holidays theyre handed out to businesses. Schools. Anywhere that wants to help. The food one family donates is going to to another another l
Agents investigating smiths shooting by a Milwaukee Police officer once worked for mpd as well. Thats prompting state representative david bowen to ask the federal department of justice to conduct its own investigation. Individuals in our community are looking for transparency and accountability and they did not feel they got those things in those other individuals especially when theyre drawn out as long as possible, when there is not a true, independent thirdparty check and thats what the us doj can provide in this situation. Colleen the attorney general says once the video can be released the family of Sylville Smith will be first to see it at the wisconsin center. Colleen henry, wisn 12 news. Kathy meanwhile, Governor Walker says he wants to make sure the state thoroughly investigates the shooting before the body camera video is released. You are it doesnt impede their investigation. It takes time to talk to everyone there and make sure that if there is any issue you need to talk t
The investigation. He says it took longer than usual for doj agents to collect evidence at the scene because initially, it wasnt safe there. He also says reviewing the video is challenging because the first parts dont have sound. I believe its a 30second delay before the audio starts after the incident recording begins. Schmiel does not put a timeline on the investigation but says he;s hopeful a charging decision will come sooner than it did in the 2014 dontre hamilton case, we are very optimistic that this will move much faster. The das office declined to comment on todays announcement. Schimel confirms some of the state investigators on this case are retired from mpd. However, he does not see that as a conflict on interest, saying theres no direct relationship between the investigators and the officers involved. Since the august 13th shooting. The aclu has been calling on the state and Milwaukee Police to be more the attorney general for releasing new details in the investigation. In
25 mph throughout the day, and remains breezy overnight with rain showers likely roads are dryincident free light traffic speeds are at or above posted closure is happening in the zoo starting tomorrow morning and will remain closed until spring 2017 i41 south to i94 if youre going to be on the road at all this weekend. Put down that cell phone while in work zones. The dot says theyve alwasys recommended that. But starting saturday it becomes the law. Pete zervakis is live to explain. Starting tomorrow. If you encounter any type of construction like here behind us in the zoo interchange it will be illegal to drive through it on your cell phone. Texting and driving is already illegal here in wisconsin. This new law makes it illegal to drive through construction making a call. Unless youre a hands free system. Bluetooth. Or youre calling under construction are often narrowed. There are lane shifts. And there can be workers in the area. So the law is supposed to help keep drivers focused
Have a question for gov. Scott walker . Get ready in just a couple of hours you can ask the governor that question when he holds his first Facebook Live event. Ann sterling is live with more. The Facebook Live event starts at 8 15 this morning. Questions can be submitted Facebook Page i checked out his page this morning. There are already a range of questions and responses on his page. Some are about the spiraling cost of health care. A couple are about the state budget. Others are using the form to take shots at the governor. Facebook launched its live Video Streaming Service for public figures in august 2015 and then made it available to the general public in january. Other politicians who have used the social media platform to connect with the public include House Speaker paul ryan and the governor of llinois. Walkers first Facebook Live event starts at 8 15 this morning. New this morning. Milwaukee police are investigating a shooting on the citys north side. Investigators tell us o