Friday, party sunny. We look at the highs near 40 degrees. We are close to around 40 for saturday and sunday as well. We time out the moisture for sunday coming up. Now to matt. If you are headed out the door, things are in good shape on the roadways. The pavement is dry for the morning ride. The volume is light. Travel times are where they should be for this time of the morning. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Thank you, matt. Now to our big story this morning, developments in wisconsins president ial election recount. Late last night, a judge ruled that the recount does not have to be done by hand. Melinda but an appeal on that decision could be filed later today. Tim is here with a look at where things stand this morning. Tim the judges ruling is a big blow to former green Party President ial candidate jill is paying for his recount process. She filed a request yesterday demanding that all counties recount ballots by hand rather than electronically. At a hearing last night, a judge decided to deny steins request. That means counties can decide for themselves whether they will recount by hand or electronically. Steins attorneys say they are considering an appeal. It would have to be filed today. Regardless of the appeal, the tomorrow. Later today, the Election Commission will hold a Conference Call with all county clerks. Ben, back to you. Each county will have one secure location to do the recounted. Hillary is live on the south side with a look ahead. Communities across Milwaukee County their ballots recounted at a warehouse here, we are near this is the Election Commissions warehouse here. This is the secure location. A Milwaukee Police officer is here and keeping an eye on things. Preparations are in full swing for the recount tomorrow. There was a Training Session last night for anyone interested in observing the recount. People are allowed to watch the process, take notes and record o. To be a change or anything but i still think its an opportunity. Im interested in how the whole election process works and how it doesnt work. Its about learning the process of what to look for, discrepancies wise, if there is a discrepancy on a ballot. Reporter if you see problems in the recount process, you are allowed to step in and Say Something to an election official. There are 2. 9 million ballots to and here in Milwaukee County 440,000. We expect to hear at any time this morning whether or not Milwaukee County will be recounting the ballots by hand or electronically. We are live in milwaukee wisn 12 news this morning. Hillary, thank you. So heres where things stand right now. Wisconsins statewide recount officially starts tomorrow. Election officials will hold a Conference Call with all county clerks later today. Last night, a judge ruled that counties can decide themselves whether to count by hand or electronically. Jill stein could file an appeal to that ruling sometime today. Stay with wisn 12 news for updates on this big story. Melinda looking ahead, today is your last chance to weigh in on next years school calendar. Mps is working on a plan that would have the School Year Start in midaugust and end in late may. Mps is also considering a districtwide uniform policy. This morning is the final community meeting. It starts at 8 00 a. M. At south Division High school. Experts will be at Marquette Law School discussing school vouchers. Scott jensen is an advocate for school choice. Julie underwood is a critic of school vouchers. Theyll talk about the pros and cons of vouchers and how they affect kids and communities. The talk will start just after noon. Theres a waiting list to be in the audience. Ben today, wisconsin celebrates snowplow driver appreciation day. Governor walker declared the day to highlight the important job. Hes calling on drivers to give snowplows plenty of room to work and to stay off the roads during severe winter wehe the dot recommends staying at least 200 feet behind plows and to be very careful when passing plows. This Holiday Season were visiting holiday lights displays across southeast wisconsin. Heres a display in menomonee falls. This home is decorated with santas sleigh and reindeer. And you can help us light up the holidays. If theres a display in your neighborhood you think should be on tv, send us an email with the address. 5 35. Forget peppermint and cherry candy canes. Melinda how about bacon and wasabi . Ben how about it . Melinda anyone . The new flavors being rolled out for your favorite holiday treat. Ben plus, mystery in a local neighborhood. A body is found inside a burning home. The one item missing from the crime scene that has police would you say no to a lot more money . [excited scream] you just won a Million Dollars no thanks. Nice balloons, though or no to more Vacation Days . Janet, im giving you an extra weeks vacation oh, ah. Nooo. What . No way. Who says no to more . Time warner cables all about giving you more. Like the most free hd channels and virtually unlimited movies so you can binge all day. Call now. And dont forget the free tv app. Get ultrafast internet with secure home wifi to connect all your devices. Saving on mobile data fees, helps big time. Switch to time warner cable. For 89. 99 a month youll get free hd channels, 30 meg internet and unlimited calling to half the world. We can call aunt rose as much as we want now. Switching is easy. Get our exclusive 1hour arrival window, a moneyback guarantee with no contract to sign. Plus get free installation, tv equiment and epix included. Really . Honest. No. Sally gray skies return as we look at the weatherwatch 12 Camera Network on this wednesday as we close out november. Yesterday 54 and the sunshine. Today satellite, snow remains across minnesota and pivoting a mix in here later this afternoon, more than anything, we are talking about a return of clouds today as the temperatures hold in the mid 40s. The Early Morning start, 32 bay view. 30 brown deer. 33 at greenfield. We call for 40s. We time out the rain snow mix later today coming up in a moment. Sal, thank you. Melinda new this morning, a bold thief in new york city walks away with solid gold. Gold flakes. Then he just walked away. Look at this. The gold is worth 1. 6 million. That truck was wide open. Police in new york city say the trucks guard stepped away for just a moment. Police say the bucket weighs more than 80 pounds, so heavy that it took the thief an hour to walk a distance that usually takes ten minutes. I wonder what they are going to be look. Hes walking pretty fast. Oh, hes walking away with the gold. Also new this morning, thieves target a gun store in florida. Melinda they rammed a truck through the glass windows to get inside. They stole at least 35 guns. Its not the first time a gun store has been targeted in that area. The atf has been investigating to see if those crimes are connected. A woman on board a United Airlines flight makes a quick exit. Ben while the plane was on the tarmac, she opened the emergency its about a 20foot drop from the planes wing to the ground. She climbed to the wing of the plane and jumped off. Then she ran away from the plane. This happened at the houston airport. Of course it did. Airport Police Quickly arrested the woman but so far, no charges have been filed. Wisn 12 news time now is 5 41. Back to normal at a busy work after striking for a day, what it means for travellers today. An animal dealing with severe Early Morning temperatures 28 degrees in west bend to 36 degrees in madison. We have fair skies early this morning. The clouds are going to fill out of the 30s and reaching up to the mid 40s. We are going to time out a mix in store for us later this afternoon and tonight. We also look at the weekend forecast. In the meantime, matt salemme is getting ready to launch news chopper 12. It is nice and clear. Things are in great shape on the roadways. No construction leftovers and no crashes on the travel times are looking good. I will jump in the chopper and check back coming up in just a bit. Back to you, tim. Matt, thank you. We are foming a breaking story, president elect donald trump is up and busy tweeting this just came out, i am holding a major News Conference in new york city fact that i will be leaving my dot dot dot. He finished the tweet, leaving my great business and totally focussed on running the country in order to make America Great again. While i am not mandated too. , this is a continuing thought. Hes planning on leaving the great business as he calls its later this month before he assumes the presidency. So ben, a morning as donald trump looks to take over the oval office. Thank you, tim. 5 46. Ben new this morning, an autopsy will be performed today on a body found in a burning home in wisconsin. The fire happened yesterday in the town of newark in rock county. Investigators arent sure how the person died or what sparked the fire. Police are now asking for the publics help finding the victims pickup truck which is missing. Across the country the workers had one goal, 15 an hour. There were protests here in the milwaukee area. Police in West Milwaukee say they arrested ten people for blocking miller park way during the demonstration. It was a nationwide effort called fight for 15. Protests went on in dozens of cities across the country from california to new york and in between. Most of the workers who went on strike for the day work at fast food restaurants, airports, and even some health care facilities. Wage say it would lead to millions of lost jobs. Melinda happening now, workers back on the job at chicagos Ohare Airport after a strike. Workers stood outside the airport yesterday waving signs and chanting. Hundreds of airport workers walked off the job. Baggage handlers, airplane cleaners and other employees are fighting for higher wages. Airport officials warned travelers that the strike could cause delays. Ben Chicago Police could be changing the way they patrol the streets. The Police Superintendent is revise the departments use of force guidelines. This comes after some highprofile Police Shootings in the city. In less than two weeks, there have been four Deadly Police responses. The new guidelines would put an emphasis on deescalation and Mental Health training. The policy also calls on officers to interfere if they see a coworker breaking the rules. If nobody else understands how difficult it is out there to make these decisions, i do. Ive been involved in shootings myself, so i know its difficult. Ben Officials Say there are always exceptions to guidelines and theyre asking officers to use common sense. Chicago pd will take Public Feedback until december 5th. A Police Department gets too many ddonations. They have been collecting stuffed animals. Think give the child an animal for comfort and now expanding the stuffed hugs program and are handing them out to kids that visit the station. Officers say it helps the kids deal with stressful situations. It is a great experience, and turn around something with a negative long lasting effect on the children and they can turn it around and think f us in a positive. Cleaning services were donated. New thi cows are safe. The cattle broke out of the transport trailer yesterday while the driver napped on the side of the road. The cows wondered off the streets of sacramento and trampelled the fences and air conditioning units. The california Highway Patrol was called in. The woman is pretty calm watching the cows in the backyard. The patrol herded the cows back she put the costume on polly as a joke but it actually helped. Polly went from a nervous wreck to a happy goat. The woman runs a farm in new jersey with more than two dozen specialneeds goats. That is super cute. Shes planning to expand her tu look at eating the costume. Snacking on the outfit. Shes so calm. I bet she was running around like a crazy goat and now just hanging out. A tshirt on one of them too. Candy canes. I have some here. Candy canes are a holiday tell me if you would try this. Message us. Go to the weather page too. We want to talk about it. One of the strange new flavors, wasabi. Yes t stuff you put on the sushi. That is where it belongs. Tiny bits of it is all i can handle. All right. Along with wasabi, theres sriracha, another spicy flavor. And pickle and bacon. No. You would try it. Sal . I might try it. It is the crunchy part and the pickle flavor. Yes. The thought of what it looks like. The candy canes, you you expect the mint. Wasabi burns your nose. I would give it a go. I will look for them. All of them . No. Bring them in. Well, early today Early Morning sunshine and becoming cloudy, there it is. You are seeing the clouds edging into the earn part of the state. I do anticipate we get a few peeks of sun friday and the low is weakening and drift to the north. Disturbances around the low and providing the snow in parts of minnesota. It is going to move our way as the low cruises to the north. We have a chance of a light mix or sprinkles and tonight good chance for a little light snow as well. 34. Skies are fair the airport. Per hour. For today, the model is keeping a fair amount of sunshine throughout the morning. Mostly cloudy by lunchtime. The highs in the mid 40s. The model is running a little on the cool side. You can see the model is painting the moisture as snow. I think it is a mix. The temperatures are in the 40s. Once we get past sunset, the temperatures crawl back and looking at a mix again, pos transition to a stray snow shower or two over night and early tomorrow before that little disturbance pivots off and away. No worries about accumulation. Just a little chilly rain an a mix. 44 today. 35 tonight. 44 tomorrow. Friday brings a little sunshine and saturday. Highs are near 40 degrees. A mix of snow on sunday and next week. Sal, thank you. California jail and one is back behind bars this morning. Tim is following the latest information. Tim both inmates escaped last week along with two other men who were recaptured almost immediately. Laron campbell was on the run until late last night. Another man, rogelio chavez, is still on the loose. The group escaped by cutting through the bars on a secondstory window and using a bedsheet rope to climb down. If both men are convicted, they could face life sentences for burglary, extortion, false imprisonment and more. Ben, back to you. Thank you, tim. 5 54. Forget batman and super man, they are looking for the citys real life super heroes. Nominate faces in the crowd, whether people donating time and talents or putting their lives on the line. Winners of the celebrating our super heroes contest will be party in january. Really whatever a hero means to you. We didnt want to come up with a lot of rules and regulations. We really want to keep this process as open as possible. Whats a hero to you might be different from whats a hero to me. So we want to hear from everyone. Ben you can nominate your hero on the Milwaukee Press clubs website. The deadline is this friday. 5 55. Remember is ice bucket challenge . You are part of the history, and the viral challenge is part bucks take down the champs, the player that clinched the win theres a new medicare plan in town. Hello, milwaukee. Were Network Health. And this is an actual member event where some of our 63,000 medicare members are getting to meet the friendly voices on the other end of the phone, in person. Were new to you, but weve been serving northeast wisconsin with a personal touch for more than 30 years. And, 9 out of 10 Network Health members are satisfied with their medicare plans. If youd like to join them, call now who accepts medicare, either in or out of network. Plans with zero dollar monthly plan options, Prescription Drug coverage. Silversneakers fitness benefit, and person to person customer service. Call now and get help choosing your plan. Network health. Were local, we care, final figures are in more cyber monday oocht shoppers spent 3. 4 billion according to a company and 12 pbt more than last year. Mo 34 increase on the tablets and smart phones. Another recall for the dehumidifiers. They were manufactured by gree. Sold under a number of name brands. They can overheat and catch on fire. Food manufacturer kellogg is advertising on breitbart. Com. That is run formerly by steve bannon. The far right news and site has come under fire on social media for what some consider racist and sexist. Mcdonalds is testing fresh never frozen beef for the quarter pounder burgers. They have conducted in tulsa, oklahoma and made when ordered. Changes to the menu. It is using butter instead of margarine. Cheese curds here . I heard about it here. 5 59. Welcome to wisn 12 news this morning. Im ben wagner. Im me linda davenport. Storms turn deadly in the south, a possible tornado toufrped down. We have a look at the morning commute. First to sally. Early this morning the teat upper 20s to the low 30s. Right now 34 degrees at mitchell international. The bus stop weather for this morning becoming mostly cloudy and out of to 30s and into the 40s. Now here is a look at the airport. The skies are fair and 34. The winds right now southwest. We look at the southwest breezes for much of the day today. As far as snow chances, as we roll into december, there is a