Transcripts For WISN 12 News This Morning 430 20161019 : com

Transcripts For WISN 12 News This Morning 430 20161019

So back in a jacket this morning, but one more day of the 60s. 45 waukesha. 46 elk horn and fond du lac. 56 at the airport. Low 50s port, racine and kenosha. We look at a nice little warm up for today. Morning sunshine, increaing clouds and a fair amount of clouds in the afternoon but overall keeping us dry, in fact, dry through nd coffee mug, bright sunshine and temperatures classrooming up to 50s. By noon cloudy and low 60s. We fall back to the 50s for tomorrow and through sunday. Sal, thank you. When youre on the go, take the weather watch 12 forecast with you. Just download the wisn 12 news app. Its free for your smartphone or tablet. Ben we begin with commitment 2016 coverage. The university of Nevadalas Vegas is getting ready to host the debate. Trump and clinton are preparing for some tough questions and choosing their guests. Some of those guests are chosen to send a message to the other candidate. Clinton has invited republicans who are crossing the aisle to endorse her like mark cuban and billionaire meg whitman. Trump has invited president obamas halfbrother, malik and patricia smith, whose son died in the benghazi attack. You can watch the final debate right here on wisn 12. It starts at 8 00 p. M. Melinda whichever candidate youre pulling for, there are watch parties going on tonight. Hillary for wisconsin is hosting a Democratic Watch Party at three lions pub in shorewood. And the gop is holding two watch parties one at amelias restaurant on layton and at the north shore Victory Center in bayside. Melinda Donald Trumps daughter is heading to the badger state tomorrow to campaign. Ivanka trump will be in wauwatosa and eau claire. The tosa event starts at 12 30 ivankas visit comes just three days after trump held a rally in green bay. Ben last night, a debate brought together senator ron johnson and former senator Russ Feingold. Theyre fighting for a senate seat for the second time. Six years ago feingold lost the seat to johnson. Tim, this was the final debate before wisconsin voters decide. Tim they covered many issues everything from the president ial election to local issues, like wisconsins minimum wage and taxes. He wants to require more taxes out of your paycheck. I want to reduce the size of government and making sure wisconsin is keeping more of their hard earned money. We need to increase minimum wage. It is 7. 25 and if you have two or four family members, thats below the poverty level. Tim those are only a few of the topics that the debate touched on. Issues that affect you on our website wisn. Com and on our mobile app. Ben, back to you. Ben new this morning, the city of brookfield denies a Liquor License request for a new business moving into town. Total wine and more bills themselves as americas wine superstore. The First Wisconsin location will open on november 10th. They wanted a class b Liquor License which would allow them to host tastings and to serve customers in the store, but brookfields Common Council will license the same as any liquor store. One reason, the council only has one b license available and they want to save it for other future businesses. They dont want to give us a class b, but at the end of the day, we are very disappointed. It is incredibly important to us to attract the economic development, that is an area and i am pleased with the decision tonight. Ben the class a license means that total wine and more will only be able to serve two ounces of alcohol per customer per day. That limits number of tastings the business can offer. Melinda right now, streets in a milwaukee neighborhood are back open after an overnight murder. It happened near 76th and grantosa. Police say the shooting left a 26yearold woman dead and a 50yearold man seriously hurt. Officers were called to the area just before 10 00 last night. Investigators are trying to figureut to the shooting. The suspect is still on the run this morning. Melinda wisn 12 news time is 4 35. Still ahead, road rage caught on camera. Ben why this cell phone video is only raising more questions and the mystery that surrounds this bizarre outburst. Melinda and its a classic american food, but hot dogs are causing some major confusion. Why a chain restaurant is being forced to change the name of a there we are this morning skies are fair and the temperatures 40s away from the shores. For today, we get the 60s going again today. Seasonal and pleasant october weather. We see a few clouds from time to time. The big picture looks like, clouds edging in. The clouds are edging to us this afternoon. We look at a cool down in place coming up on to traffic watch 12 here. There is a rollover crash on 9d 4 northbound at the milwaukee Racine County line. Drive times are all in the green right now. Melinda new this morning, part of a road rage incident caught on camera. Ben now were seeing this cell phone video recorded by a the firefighter says this man, paul peterman, was driving erratically and tried to attack him. The firefighter then drove away. Later, peterman was found unconscious near his car. He later died. Officials have not yet announced a cause of death. Ben also new this morning, a police car in new york explodes. Melinda this is what it looked like after the explosion. This happened in newburgh, new york. Tank in the trunk of the car that exploded. One officer was hurt in that explosion. A violent crash on a florida highway leaves one driver in critical condition. This turnpike was closed down yesterday while crews cleared up the scene. Officials say the driver of a truck parked on the side of the road and got out. Thats when another driver clipped his truck tearing a hole in it and then hit the driver. Right now he is in the hospital. 4 40. A toxic mistake on an American Military base. Contaminated water dumped into a citys sewer system. The risks it could pose for thousands of people this morning. Plus, businesses across the country working to make your day a little bit brighter. Where you can go this morning to we are about quarter to 5 this wednesday morning, october 19th. We are on the way to a nice stretch of weather. This morning skies are fair. 50 at lacrosse. 56 at the airport. The temperatures are mid 40s in madison. Note the clouds are coming in from minnesota and iowa. Some of the clouds are filling in here and we look for it in the afternoon. Ben new from overnight, Turkish Forces stop a suspected suicide bomber. Melinda wisn 12 news tim elliott is here with the latest information. Tim . Tim turkish Officials Say the suspect was part of the islamic state. Early this morning, police raided his apartment. Officials say the suspect started firing at police who returned fire and killed him. This all happened in ankara, turkey. Turkish media reports that the man was planning a Suicide Attack in the city possibly during National Ceremonies happening in the next few weeks. Turkey has seen a rise in deadly suicide bombings in the past year many carried out by isis militants. Ben, back to you. Ben right now, iraqi forces are continuing to march toward mosul in northern iraq. The countrys second largest city has been occupied by isis for more than a year. Iraq and Kurdish Forces are working to force isis out. According to the pentagon, more embedded with iraqi forces. A Spokesman Says those americans are not on the front lines. Melinda new this morning, a colorado military base says it accidentally released contaminated water into Colorado Springs sewer system. Peterson air force base released 150,000 gallons of water that contained toxic chemicals. The full extent of the Health Hazards isnt yet known. But Officials Say the water contained pfcs which have been linked to prostate, kidney and other illnesses. Ben new this morning, more problems for flint, michigan. This time its not about the citys poisoned water. Now the citys schools are facing a lawsuit. The aclu of michigan filed the lawsuit against flint School Officials and the state. The aclu claims that students in flint dont receive Standard Development testing or eye and ear screenings. Those screenings are required by federal and state law. Ben right now, michigans upper a flooded river in marquette has put roads in the area underwater. Heres the view from above. The flooding is centered around the chocolay river. Drivers are being asked to avoid the area. Several highways are closed because of water covering the road. Melinda new this morning, flood victims in South Carolina are starting to return home and survey the damage. Fema has already approved emergency funding for people in 17 South Carolina counties. This family is applying for aid. Temple hemingway says the water came up to her homes roof. Everything inside was destroyed. But says shes counting her blessings. Knowing that i can say god, i thank you for sparing my life and sparing others lives. Some didnt get to see it. I can say we did. Thats enough for me. Melinda hemingways family is they did not have Flood Insurance so theyre hoping the federal funding will help them rebuild their lives. A very foggy morning in boston yesterday. Take a look at this. This video comes from our sister station wcvb. A tower camera caught the fog rolling in covering the citys skyline. Yikes. Ben we have been there sally very cool there yesterday. We are looking at a stretch of weather settling in that is phenomenal. Temperatures seasonal, mostly 50s and 60s. Not a drop of rain until maybe tuesday. Take advantage of the october avenue. We have a few clouds passing by from time to time. This morning we are talking about lots in the way of sunshine. You can see clouds filling in a little light rain marching out of nebraska as well. 50 lincoln. 53 des moines. 56 at the airport. Cooler inland this morning. Just 43 watertown. 46 janesville. Mid 40s west bend and waukesha. The skies are fair this morning. Increasing clouds in the afternoon. Light winds this for the most part a north wind for much of the morning and afternoon. Nice warm up, going up to 6567 degrees. By 9 30 this morning the high clouds are filling in and becoming partly cloudy through the afternoon. This is 5 00. We are nice and dry. No green on the radar. The clouds persist tonight and moving off quickly. Here is a look at the winds tomorrow. A few clouds along the lake and sunshine in place for us and the highs in the 50s. It is a good looking 7day planner. Today is a warm one 67. 56 tomorrow. 53 on friday. Mid 50s for saturday. Pushing 60 or better for sunday and monday. Sal, thank you. Looking forward to the nice now out the door, this is 41, 94 at ryan road. You can see there is a lot of activity going on right here and so if you are headed in this area, both northbound and southbound, give yourself extra time. Drive times are all in the green in the other areas. Ben right now, the zika virus continues to spread in florida. Wisn 12 news tim elliott is newsroom. Tim. Tim officials in miami say more mosquitoes have tested positive for zika virus. The mosquitoes were collected from a trap in miami beach earlier this month. A large part of miami beach is an active zika infection zone. Several people were infected just last week within one square mile. As of yesterday, more than 1,000 people in florida have reported zika infections. Most of them caught the virus outside of the u. S. But Officials Say 163 of those cases were contracted in the u. S. Ben, back to you. Ben new this morning, an 88yearold texas man spent time in the hospital after an alligator bit him. The Man Told Police he had been feeding that alligator and others in the area. Then the gator apparently decided that the man would make a good meal. Texas for exactly this reason. They are getting close with the camera there. That is a little too close. The man is recovering at home this morning. Melinda new this morning, changes at a popular restaurant chain that youve probably visited at the mall. Auntie annes is being forced to rename its pretzel dog at stores in malaysia. Islamic authorities told the company that the product is confusing some muslim customers who think it contains dog meat. To be clear, the pretzel dog does not contain dog meat. It appears that locations in the u. S. Will not be renaming the item. New this morning, a veteran is taking on a new mission with the help of a metal detector. Hes helping people find their lost wedding rings. Del witters is part of a Worldwide Network of metal detectors called the ring finders. He accepts missions across the Pacific Northwest from couples who are looking for lost wedding hes pulled them out of mulch beds, beaches, lakes even a rushing river. They have no hope of getting the ring back again. The ruby slippers that helped to make dorothy get her home are looking shabby. They are asking for your help. They started a Kick Starter Campaign raising money to restore the slippers, hashtag keep them ruby. Wisn 12 news time now is 4 53. New this morning, picking up flee flowers on the way to work. Pedal it forward. We stopped by a local business that is taking part. They are handing out flowers in racine. You get two flowers, one for yourself and one to give. The goal is brighten up the day of a stranger and loved one. It is when someone is ill, when you get flowers it lightens up a face. Or a lady getting flowers from her husband just because, that is the ultimate reason, just because. They are so joyous behind it and grateful. The flower giver away is starting at 7 00 a. M. In racine. Racine street, and alts near the washington avenue curve at 14th street. Write this down, guys. Exactly. Too much fun being had. That is leading to changes, how much longer to check out the china lights festival. An exciting milestone downtown milwaukee, im Russ Feingold and i approve this message. On healthcare, Russ Feingold will work with both parties to i want to do the hard work of improving the system so it works for middle class families. But in washington, senator ron johnson sides with big insurance. Voting to make medicare a voucher program, forcing seniors to pay more for prescription drugs, and letting Insurance Companies deny coverage to cancer patients. A hort walk after eating helps people with type two diabetes. The blood in another study, they found more exercise the lower the risk of type two diabetes. The study finds that exercise helps insulin work better on the cells and the muscles use the sugar more effectively. Drinking water maybe the key of keeping off the unwanted pounds. People that dont drink enough index. Scientists say they are a step closer for the test how effective antidepressants will be. The test is 80 accurate and getting some what effective treatment. The test is in the early stages. There is a new link between age, health and the hours you work. Later schedules are best for teens and young adults, consistency is key. This is probably the best part, it suggests a 3day workweek is best for anyone over 40. Melinda how about over 30 . Ben over 20 . Wisn 12 news time now is 4 59. Ben good morning. Im ben wagner. Melinda im melinda davenport. Two stolen cars crash overnight. Ben plus the final show down, the preview of what we can expect to donald trump and Hillary Clinton at tonights president ial debate. Melinda we are on traffic weather watch. Ben first, to Sally Severson with the wednesday forecast. Good morning, sal. Sally good morning, ben and melinda, the temperatures at 5 00 are showing 40s away from the lake, 50 or better right along the shores. The skies are fair and plenty of morning sunshine. But clouds are beginning to edge across minnesota and iowa, a cool front to north and west and coming through for us dry but a few clouds later

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