Weather forecast from fox6 chief meteorologist rob haswell High Pressure moves ne across our area today and into canada. As it passes over wi, we enjoy partly sunny conditions and stay dry. Highs will be cooler today, hitting the upper 70s. Dewpoints will be in the upper 50s to near 60. However, a love moving our way tonight will push temps into the 80s again and take dewpoints into the upper 60s to near 70. Rain and storms are likely sunday morning but clear by sunday afternoon. Slight chances for storms linger early next week but well be mostly dry. Highs will stay in the low 80s until midweek when we drop into the 70s. Anchor adlibs traffic red on traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no green on traffic map no delays milwaukee once again in be in the National Spotlight today a wellknown civil rights leader will attend the funeral for Sylville Smith. He was shot and killed by police sparking violence in the sherman park neighborhood. Fox6s Deandra Corinthios joins us live from the Northwest Side with more. Were told representatives from al and reverend Jesse Jackson of the rainbow push coalition. Will deliver the eulogy. The visitation will begin this morning at 10 am the funeral begins at noon there are still many unanswered questions. When it comes to the investigation into the shooting. That took place august 13th near 44th and auer. Police say body camera footagewhich has not yet been released clearly shows Smith Holding a handgun and turning towards an officer when he was shot. Shooting. Violence. Looting. And arson. But the Group Milwaukee matters. Coordinating the funeral. Says todays service is not about the how and why. It is about supporting smiths family. Its easy to sit home and complain about what should and shouldnt have happened and try to play lawyer or play investigator and figure this one out. But right now the family needs support instead of a repass or reception after the funeral smiths family has opted for will be tomorrow from 10am 10 pm. On auer between 42nd and 43rd. There will be music, food and fellowship to celebrate smiths life and take back the park. Reporting live in milwaukee Deandra Corinthios fox6 news an autopsy is expected to take place later today after a young child is found dead. They say a 2yearold boy was found unresponsive after being put down for a nap. This is the third time in the last ten days the milwaukee Examiners Office has been called to investigate the death of child. We are learning new information after a home explodes near madsion. This morning one person is recovering in the hospital. Angelica joins us from the newsroom with details. The explosion happened yesterday evening in fitchburg which is just sound of madison. The citys fire chief says a man is in fifties was pulled from the debris in the front yard of the home. He is currently in critical condition. According to officials, the blast was so strong it sent debris for nearly a half of mile and about 20 homes were damaged from the explosion. There area buildings that will have to be evaluated of those 20. We have a number of buildings that have had windows broken so the structural who are displaced from the explosion. Right now crews are investigating what sparked the blast. Kim and jessob. Back to you. A milwaukee catholic sisterhood is mourning the loss of one of its nuns after she murdered in a home in mississippi. Sister margaret held and another catholic nun from kentucky were found stabbed inside their home after they didnt show up at a clinic where they practitioners in central mississippi. We are told held had worked in rural mississippi since 1975. The 68yearold was from the School Sisters of st. Francis, on milwaukees south side. The investigation into the double homicide is ongoing. We are watching and waiting to find out if Steven Averys attorney will file paper work to prove hes innocent. Kathleen zellner says the motion would retest dna evidence in the avery case and possibly present an alternate theory on who killed month, averys nephew Brendan Dasseys case was overturned after a judge determined the then 16 year olds confession should not stand. Zellner has until monday to file the motion. The preseason continues tonight for the packers. They are taking a road trip out west to play San Francisco tonight in california. Aaron rodgers expected to take a few snaps in the matchup. Com. This will be the first preseason matchup between the packers and 49ers since 2008. The green and gold are two and oh in the preseason. Beating the raiders and browns. Tonights game starts at 9. Police are investigating a string of burglaries at a milwuakee pharmacy chain. What Officials Say the theifs are stealing from the stores. 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More than 800,000 wisconsinites have Student Loans. But he wants to eliminate federal Student Loans and keep Interest Rates high. Johnson its just kinda free money. Narrator with senator johnson, opportunity for middle class kids would disappear. Ron johnsons not for students. You are watching the fox 6 wakeup news. Forecast from fox6 chief meteorologist rob haswell High Pressure moves ne across our area today and into canada. As it passes over wi, we enjoy partly sunny conditions and stay dry. Highs will be cooler today, hitting the upper 70s. Dewpoints will be in the upper 50s to near 60. However, a love moving our way tonight will push temps into the 80s again and take dewpoints into the uppr near 70. Rain and storms are likely saturday and may linger into sunday morning but clear by sunday afternoon. Slight chances for storms linger early next week but well be mostly dry. Highs will stay in the low 80s until midweek when we drop into the 70s. Dick adlibs traffic red on traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some an update on the zoo interchange project. Mark klipstein with the dot is here with info on whats going to impact your commute. Good morning. Zoo interchange the extended weekend closure of i94 east and ramp from i94 east to i was completed over the weekend. Thank you to folks in the area for their patience. Crews were able to dodge the rain fairly well and as a result opened the freeway ahead of schedule on saturday afternoon. Just a heads up that a few other of following is a link to a time lapse video to show during this discussion. Https friday 8 26 Center Street over i41 reopens by 5pm. Ribbon cutting at 3pm. Crews worked diligently to ensure that the bridge was open before School Starts on the 1st. I94 east overnight full closure at moorland for a traffic switch monday 8 29 i41 north overnight full closure at national for a traffic switch tuesday 8 30 i41 south overnight full freeway closure at national avenue for overhead sign work i94 west full closure at 92nd street for equipment mobilization. Work suspended on noon on friday through monday at 6am for the 9 6 there will be a lane closure i41 north at watertown plank road for a couple of weeks, folks should anticipate a change in traffic some south of the border flair. Carl joins us now from henry maier Festival Park for the meteorologist rob haswell High Pressure moves ne across our area today and into canada. As it passes over wi, we enjoy partly sunny conditions and stay dry. Highs will be cooler today, hitting the upper 70s. Dewpoints will be in however, a love moving our way tonight will push temps into the 80s again and take dewpoints into the upper 60s to near 70. Rain and storms are likely saturday and may linger into sunday morning but clear by sunday afternoon. Slight chances for storms linger highs will stay in the low 80s until midweek when we drop into the 70s. Today partly sunny. Cooler and less humid. High 78 dewpoint 60 wind ese 510 mph tonight mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and storms after midnight. Low 6 dewpoint 61 wind se 35 mph saturday rain and thunderstorms likely. Brief heavy downports are possible. High 78 dewpoint 65 wind sw 510 mph sunday early am showers then partly sunny. Am low 68 high 82 dewpoint 69 wind se 510 mph monday high 82 dewpoint 69 wind e 510 mph tuesday partly sunny. Slight chance of showers. Am low 67 high 84 dewpoint 68 wind se 510 mph wednesday partly sunny. Am low 67 high 78 dewpoint 63 wind sw 510 mphforecast rob haswell High Pressure moves ne across our area today and into canada. As it passes over wi, we enjoy partly sunny conditions and stay dry. Highs will be cooler today, hitting the upper 70s. Dewpoints will be in the upper 50s to near 60. However, a love moving our way tonight will push temps into the 80s again and take dewpoints into the upper 60s to near 70. Rain and storms are likely saturday and may linger into sunday morning but clear by sunday afternoon. Slight chances for storms linger early 80s until midweek when we drop into the 70s. Today partly sunny. Cooler and less humid. High 78 dewpoint 60 wind ese 510 mph tonight mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and storms after midnight. Low 66 dewpoint 61 wind se 35 mph saturday rain and thunderstorms likely. Brief heavy downports are possible. High 78 dewpoint 65 wind sw 510 mph sunday early am showers then partly sunny. Am low 68 high 82 dewpoint 69 wind se 510 mph monday partly sunny. Slight chance of showers. Am low 68 high 82 dewpoint 69 wind e 510 mph tuesday partly sunny. Slight chance of showers. Am low 67 high 84 dewpoint 68 wind se 510 mph wednesday partly sunny. Am low 67 high 78 dewpoint 63 wind sw 510 mph wind sw 510 mph time to find out whos turning six. A big happy birthday to evan in west allis. He likes baseball, course riding his bike. Journey is happy to be the big six today she likes reading, playing with makeup, and playing basketball. Theres six candles on brycens cake in west bend today. He likes baseball, transformers and playing with his brother. Heres a great birthday smile from emma in menomonee falls. She likes swimming, legos and playing with her dolls. Its time for greyson to celebrate in salem. He likes swimming, fishing and playing with his friends. Its time for tariyah in racine to wake up its your birthday she likes being outdoors, playing basketball and coloring. To find out how to wish your child a happy sixth birthday on fox six wake up rob is talking with our future forecaster derek alzate. Hes in 6th grade at starbuck watch. So they will come to wisconsin and milwaukee. We dont know it might be severe in milwaukee and racine but we dont know. So a tornado is right there and you guys seeing here the hail and thunderstorms coming to milwaukee and racine maybe. If it stick together or maybe it split it up going in the north heres a live look at. Youre watching fox 6 wakeup news milwaukees only local news from fourthirty to nine am. The stalking case here at least with a snake is something unique, its definitely the first time i can remember a snake being involved in a criminal case thats for sure. Now at 730. A stalking case that shocked even the police. A man accused of mailing a python to his exgrilfriend. But thats not the only threatening behavior hes accused. Thanks for staying with wakeup. Toss to wx forecast from fox6 chief meteorologist rob haswell High Pressure moves ne across our area today and into canada. As it passes over wi, we enjoy partly sunny conditions and stay dry. Highs will be cooler today, hitting the upper 70s. The upper 50s to near 60. However, a love moving our way tonight will push temps into the 80s again and take dewpoints into the upper 60s to near 70. Rain and storms are likely saturday and may linger into sunday morning but clear by sunday afternoon. Slight chances for storms linger early next week but well be mostly dry. Highs will stay in the low 80s until midweek when we drop into the 70s. Today partly sunny. Cooler and less humid. High 78 dewpoint 60 wind ese traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no delays in the National Spotlight today. The funeral for Sylville Smith will be held at Christian Faith fellowship church. Deandra corinthios is live at 86th and good hope. The case has attracted national attention. After the unrest that followed in the sherman park neighborhood. Were expecting a large crowd at the funeral this morning. Including jackson. Who will officiate the funeral Sylville Smiths death brought tensions in the sherman park neighborhood to a head. Angry crowds took to the streets. Clashing with police businesses were looted and torched. Sherman park was shut down and a curfew was put in place. Department of justice officials. Continue to investigate the circumstances that led up to. And that followed the shooting. Officers body camera footage. Which police say shows smith was armed with a gun when he was shot. Amidst all of this. Smiths family will try to heal today. As they bury their son. The Group Milwaukee matters. Is coordinating the funeral. They stepped in to support them during the unrest. I have volunteers that come in, you know, a psychologist came in and spoke with the family and i came in to speak with the family to prepare them as a bridge between the violence and knowing that there next steps that are going to take time, theyre going to have to be patient, but we can work through this. The visitation begins at 10. The funeral is at noon. Tomorrow the family will hold a peace in the park event on auer between 42nd and 43rd. Reporting live at 86th and good hope, Deandra Corinthios fox6 news. One of the men accused of breaking into a liquor store during the first night of the sherman park u 45yearold Durrell Jones was bound over for trial yesterday. Two of his accomplices were also in court Joseph Lindsey and devon love. Theyre all due back in court next month. A milwaukee area pharmacy chain. Burglarized 17 times in just the last month. The owner of hayat pharmacy says his locations were hit three times on wednesday night. And again yesterday morning. He says the same four suspects have been taking a powerful and addictive cough medication promethazine with codeine. Security cameras have captured the suspects in highdefinition pharmacies hz its the same face im like, god, these people have been in the pharmacy more often than i have recently hz they dont even have masks theyre not even worried about showing their face. a fed up employee wrestled one of the suspects to the ground, and kept him there until police arrived. Mpd arrested a 20year old man. And yesterday Greenfield Police arrested two more suspects. The pharmacy has been keeping the drug in a locked safe. Milwaukee Police Continue to look for additi a sheboygan man is facing charges for allegedly stalking his exgirlfriend. Investigators say it began with emails and phone calls. But then things got very wild. Angelica is here to explains. This is a very bizzare story out of sheboygan this morning. A man is accused of sending his ex an unwanted package. Prosecutors say police were already investigating eric burrows this month. He was suspected of being responsible for a series of ex girlfriend and her exhusband. Then last week, a suspicious package was dropped off at the womans apartment. Inside. A live ball python. Authorities say its an extremely disturbing pattern of behavior. Sometimes crimes, you make one bad decision and you steal something from a store, for example. In a case like this, you have someone who has calculated a move, has done it again, and then planned the next move. We also spoke with a woman w sanctuary. She says ball pythons are popular pets because they ball up when theyre scared instead of striking out. If convicted, burrows faces a maximum sentence of threeandahalf years in prison. Now the latest on us swimmer scandal in rio. Brazilian police are now charging olympic swimmer ryan lochte with falsely reporting a crime. This is Surveillance Video from the alleged incident. Lochte had originally said that he and three other swimmers were robbed at gunpoint at a gas over exaggerated the story. The 12time olympic medalist will be summoned to rio, according to officials. But he doesnt have to appear in court and can opt to send a lawyer instead. If convicted, the 32yearold could face between one to six months in jail. Or pay a fine. The fourtime olympian is also facing potential discipline from the us and International Olympic committees. Cleanup continues this morning after a series of tornadoes tore through indiana. The National Weather service says a shows that an ef3 tornado hit kokomo, indiana. And had an estimated peak wind of 152 miles per hour. The Weather Service says that twister traveled nearly 5 mi