In at this hour. The National Weather sfgs pitch add frost advisory for tonight and including much of southern wisconsin. We are looking at a widespread fos away from the lake tonight. Now lets join matt headed to news chopper 12. Things are quiet. We have overnight construction around the zoo interchange and adding the lingering delays this morning. We are moving well across rest of the system. The ramp closures were coming out of 41, northbound, southbound, as well as 94 westbound. That is reopened. Otherwise, no crashes on the system right now. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. Looking ahead to the future of a local landmark. A new task force will meet for the first time today to discuss the iconic Mitchell Park domes. Hillary mintz is live with a good morning, melinda. The show dome and tropical domes are open, the goal is to reopen all three, but they want to make that these domes remain a popular and safe milwaukee landmark long term, that is the poe ruckus of tonights very first Public Meeting for the Mitchell Park domes task force. It is made up of 11 members, some from the county board and Parks Department and other leaders. The dome shutdown because of the falling concrete. The county used 500,000 to install the mesh in the domes. The desert dome is opening next month. One part of the conversation about the future, come here tonight at 5 30 with the parks domes task force. Firefighters. A special memorial is happening later today in downtown milwaukee. There will be a ceremony remembering local firefighters who lost their lives. This is a look at last years ceremony. Mayor tom barrett, fire chief Mark Rohlfing and other leaders will speak at the ceremony. It starts at 11 00 a. M. At mfd headquarters. Looking ahead, a Film Screening in milwaukee tackling the relationship between police and the people they serve. State representative david bowen is hosting the Film Screening at shorewood high school. It starts at 5 30. Panel discussion on the movie and the role that police play in communities. Later today, Milwaukee County officials are raising awareness about Domestic Violence. A new resolution recognizes october as Domestic Violence awareness month. The county is launching a new initiative called keep us safe to encourage people to take action against Domestic Violence. Theyre also asking people to wear purple on october 20th to raise awareness. A family mourning after a tim, were told friends left her at the crash scene . We spoke to the womans mother who says the driver drove away without checking on her daughter. 23yearold savanna scott died this weekend in a crash near 51st and auer. She was a passenger in a car that police say ran a stop sign and crashed into an suv. Savanna was ejected from the car and her friends allegedly left her there. Police havent identified the people in the car but savannas mother says it was her god daughter and her boyfriend. What do you do when somebody tells you your child died that way at the hands of her own person she called a sister that she grew up . Police say they have arrested a man and a woman for the crash now to an update to a story we brought you as breaking news yesterday morning. The body of a milwaukee man has been found in a madison lake. Larnal friend disappeared last week while boating on lake monona. His body was found early yesterday morning. A preliminary autopsy indicates that he died of accidental drowning. A showdown in commitment 2016. Donald trump is taking on paul ryan and hinting that ryan may lose his job if trump wins the presidency. Yesterday calling ryan a weak leader. Then he went on the Oreilly Factor and talked about the wisconsin congressman and house speaker. If youre elected president , youre going to need mccain and youre going to need ryan. Theyll be there. Maybe ryan wont be there, maybe hell be in a different position. This comes after ryan announced hell stop campaigning for house and senate seats. Ryan made that decision after leaked tapes of trump making lewd comments about women. A tough senate race going on right here in wisconsin. Senator ron johnson and former senator Russ Feingold are facing off in a debate right here on wisn 12. You can watch it on tuesday at 8 30. Mike gousha will moderate the discussion. Wisn 12 news time is 5 36. Using social media against you. Twitter and facebook are launching a digital battle this morning. Why they say some people are making money off your privacy. Plus, a man dressed as the grim reaper taking to the streets. The warning he wants you to hear coming in 20 minutes confer 6 00 on this wednesday morning. We are plowing through the mid november week and reaching the mid 60s later in the day. 57 waukesha. We are get a few degrees more today. Bite sized significant chill bidding in for tonight. Front today and bringing in the wind and rain and a chill. We are warmer for the weekend. Thunder is possible over the weekend as well. Grab the rain gear for later. Ben . 5 40. New this morning, police chase down a suspect in texas right across a busy highway. The whole thing was caught on camera. Police say the man sped away from a kohls store after a theft there. Then he jumped out of his truck and started running across lanes of traffic. An officer tased him in the middle of the highway then. After this, as you can see they have arrested him after that. Also new this morning, an oil refinery in california catches on fire causing big problems. More than 100,000 people lost power yesterday near the oil refinery. The city sent out an Emergency Notification warning people to shut all doors and windows and these large flames are to blame, but theres still no word on what caused the flareup or whether anyone was hurt. It took hours to take down a bridge in arkansas. Crews tried to use explosives to knock it down and even tried to pull it down using a barge, but the bridge in little rock resisted for five hours. It finally fell and crowds watching the demolition cheered. Can you imagine, five hours. Broadway weekover the arkansas river. Now on twitter, broadway bridge strong is trending. It took a lot to bring it down. Its a decision many of you make every holiday season. The embarrassment thats leading to some changes this christmas. Plus, retail backlash. A store advertises different prices for men and women. Why the Business Owner is refusing to apologize. Then, a health scare this the new warning the company is issuing because of bacteria. Feingold im Russ Feingold and i approve this message. This is wisconsin. And this. And this. And this. Full of good people who work hard. Why let washington take our jobs and billion dollar tax loopholes for big corporations. Im going to close those loopholes and help Small Businesses in wisconsin grow and create jobs. For the folks who work hard. For the middle class raising a family. Our Early Morning temperatures ranging 52 to 63 at janesville and lake geneva. We pitch into the 60s before the cooler air is tumbling in. The showers from the south and west are coming in later this morning. We have a cool down and a frost advisory. Right now, as we get ready in news chopper 12, matt . Beware if you are travelling the bypass, they had overnight closures, the ramp was closed and it is down to one lane. So check out the delays. 26 minutes right now 894 minute ride. Try highway one hundred. Well let you know when the lane is reopened. That is a look at the morning commute. Thank you, matt. Right now officials in illinois are investigating what caused a house explosion. The explosion destroyed a townhome complex last night in a neighborhood near joliet. Wisn 12 news tim elliott is following the latest details, tim . Authorities evacuated several blocks around the home after the explosion rang out. Tribune that it sounded like a bomb and an earthquake. After the blast, crews worked to put out flames. Two gas Company Workers were hurt while responding, one is in critical condition. Officials say no one was inside the building when the explosion happened. Authorities are investigating now to find out what caused it. New this morning, one person crashed in connecticut. The plane came down on main street in east hartford. Officials say it was coming in for landing at a nearby airport when the plane hit power lines and poles. Two people were on board at the time. New this morning, an elevenyearold boy is being called a hero for saving his entire family during a fire. Firefighters in memphis say a smoke alarm woke the boy up. He woke up his mother and seven siblings and got them all out of the apartment. The home was nearly destroyed by the fire. This morning the red cross is helping that family. And a california woman was nearly homeless after someone stole her house. Its one of the tiny houses that are so popular right now. This one is still under construction but that didnt stop someone from hauling it away. Luckily, just a few hours later, the owner found it in a parking lot not too far away. Twitter and facebook are cracking down on a company that uses data to help law enforcement. Information from the company geofeedia to track activists during protests. Geofeedia turns public posts on twitter, facebook and instagram into data for law enforcement. But facebooks policy says companies arent allowed to sell user data. An Unusual Campaign in pittsburgh warning people about distracted walking. The grim reaper is walking the streets of the city raising awareness. Its an improv actor wearing the long black cape and carrying a scythe. Hes calling out people who arent watching where theyre going because their eyes are on their phones instead. Hey keep your phone down, youre going to meet me is what youre going to meet. Its part of a Safety Campaign called look alive. It turns out that ten percent of pedestrian accidents are caused instead of where theyre going. I get it. Totally. I think it is a great message. We see the videos all of the time where they are walking and tripping on something. Or crossing the street especially. Good costume too. Yes, interesting. You will want something warm for breakfast tomorrow morning. We are taking a look at the future temps. The frost advisories in p this morning no danger of frost. 60 brookfield and elm grove. 57 brown deer. 58 st. Frances and bay view. The temperatures are looking good regionally as well. We warm up to the mid 60s before the readings are going to tumble. We have a cool front to the north and west. The showers are going to develop for us, a few in the Southwest Corner of the state already. A couple of hours. Periods of rain, 8 00, 9 00, 10 00 until 4 00 in the afternoon. A cool front coming in in the afternoon. Big High Pressure is going to build in and bringing in the colder air. Frost advisories for tonight until tomorrow morning and all of southern wisconsin except for the shore counties, however, i would cover, if you want to extend the growing season for the tomatoes, there is still would bring it in or cover it good. Today noon, mid 60s along the lake. The temperatures are falling. By 3 00, upper 40s. Low 50s. We get to 5 00. Mere 50 degrees. The temperatures are going to continue to tumble over night. By tomorrow morning 30. We keep an eye on the showers as they move through today. We hold the reading s in the 60s. Air is filtering in for us. Lots of sunshine for tomorrow. It is cool. Today, mid 60s. Readings are falling throughout the day. It is a frosty start to tomorrow. We get warmer and wet for the weekend. Sal, thank you. Overnight security scare at a u. S. Marshalls office in colorado. Now bomb technicians are testing for possible explosives. Tim is live in the newsroom with new information. Melinda, this started when an officer found a backpack laying outside the Marshalls Office in nederland, colorado. Thats west of boulder. Bomb squads arrived at the scene and used two robots to search the bag. Officials say they think there were explosives inside. But they are still testing the material and havent released any other details. The officer who found the bag says, at first, he thought someone was just turning in a lost bag, but he said something well pass along updates as they come in to our newsroom. Stay tuned for that. Ben, back to you. New this morning, trading a toothbrush for a gun. Police in houston say a dentist shot a man in order to protect his coworkers. Police say a stranger walked in to the office yesterday, exposed himself, ran around, and eventually tried to rush the dentist. The dentist opened fire. The suspect survived and is now in custody. Health officials in Southern California are looking into an outbreak that has made at least 30 kids sick. The patients are being treated for bacterial infections after having a procedure at an anaheim clinic. Experts think the children were all infected by dirty water. New this morning, American Airlines is warning its employees who work at dallasfort Worth International airport. Thats after bacteria that causes legionnaires disease was the airline is installing filters and giving out bottled water to workers until they find a permanent solution. New this morning, a drugstore in new york city is facing backlash for their unusual pricing. He owner put up signs advertising different prices for men and women. According to the signs, women would pay less to draw attention to the markup on womens products. The owner says she never actually charged people more or less. Now shes getting feedback positive and negative. New this morning, a pennsylvania city that became famous for its Charlie Brown Christmas Tree is making some changes. The mayor of reading says his community will use an artificial tree this year instead of a real one. Back in 2014, the city was criticized because of how its tree looked. People around the world took to social media comparing the raggedy 45 foot norway spruce to the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. Redecorated it using a single red bulb. Before you know it, winter will be here and there are a few things you can do right now to prepare your home for the cold. First, on Daylight Saving time, dont forget to change the batteries in your smoke detectors. Next, clean the coils behind your refrigerator. Experts say that could save you money. By just cleaning the dust and e that get caught in there, get one of these, an appliance brush thats really small like this and youll go up underneath the refrigerator because thats usually where the coils are. Move that kick plate, clean it out. You should also clean out your gutters, outdoor hoses, repair roof leaks, and remove tree branches that could be weighted down with ice or snow your furniture isnt blocking home heating vents. Wisn 12 news time is 5 54. An allcall this morning for any singers in your family. Where they can go today for a chance at stardom. Not melinda or i. Plus, another roadblock in the search for a missing wisconsin teen. The hoax police announced overnight. And dozens of vehicles broken into in a local neighborhood. The one clue police want you to see as they search for whoever is responsible. But now, we are checking out the d. O. T. S here. Greenfield avenue, moving pretty smoothly there. We have one lane closed there. That is right, the cones are there. The area is moving smoothly but give yourself extra time. Matt is on top of it. If you are looking to save money for the holidays, book your flight home now. Airfare analysts crunched the numbers and the best time to buy your tickets is this week. Tickets are cheapest about 80 days ahead of your trip. However, you can wait a little longer for thanksgiving. I didnt know this. Good news too, the prices are down slightly compared to last year. Prescription drugs are getting priceyer and not just for the patients. The American Hospital association is saying that the drug prices went up 38 per patient in the past two years. They warn that many of the hospitals may not be able to ford to stock the drugs. The report cites the price hike Social Security checks mailed out next year have a Little Something extra, there is a pay hike up to. 5 . That is roughly 2 to 6 more per month. The average check is 1,300 a month. In wake of the clown hes keeping a low profile because of the current clown climate. Ronald mcdonald is the long time face of mcdonalds. Hell be back. 6 00. The news continues right now. Good morning, it is great to have news this morning. Im melinda davenport. It is 6 00, wednesday, october 12th. It is a chilling video and opening the questions into a wisconsin girls disappearance. Four weeks left until the voters head to the polls and people across the country are focussed on wisconsin today. We are on weather and traffic watch. We have big delays on 894 light
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