Transcripts For WTMJ Todays TMJ4 News Live At 1200PM 2016090

Transcripts For WTMJ Todays TMJ4 News Live At 1200PM 20160902

On the citys south side and ma fishers say business is booming when the bikers roll in. It doubles. Our business at least. Yesterday we were really busy and we anticipate having a busy weekend. Hotels are also benefiting from the biker business. Tomorrow, if youre in milwaukee, youll hear the roar of these harleys. The big event saturday is bbq blues. In milwaukee as ttmj4 be ready for busy roadways weekend Holiday Travel starts today. The wisconsin dot is reminding drivers to be patient. The heaviest travel times are expected today and monday. Your best bet to avoid any troubles is to stay attentive. Eyes off the road. The number one collision is rearending and the number one cause rearend collisions is not paying attention. All it takes is second to take your eyes its recommended to never use your phone while driving but distractions can be everything from eating or messing with the radio. Labor day weekend marks the end of the summer driving season. Heres a look at the prices according to gas buddy dot com. The average price right now in milwaukee is 223. Across the state the average price is 224. Thats less than what drivers were paying last year during labor day weeeknd. Which was 256 a gallon. To weather now another day in the 70s with sunny skies. Taking a live look outside. Your Holiday Weekend forecast. Yesterday was the first day of meteorological fall, and it felt like it with a chilly ne breeze to 25 mph keeping temps in the 60s and lower 70s. This morning was mostly clear and cool with lows near 60 along inland areas. Today is mostly sunny and pleasant with highs in the low to mid 70s, low humidity, and a light easterly breeze. Tonight is another clear and chilly night with lows in the 50s and a calm wind. Classes canceled today at messmer prep because of a fire. An alarm sounded in the school just before seven this morning. A fire was in the wall in the ceiling. It was extinguish but since officials had to shut down power the principal made the decision to cancel classes. No one was in the building at the time of the fire. A school bus caught fire this milwaukee. Were told everyone made it off the bus and no one was injured. No word yet on what caused the bus to catch fire or how much damage it caused. One person is seriously hurt after a major crash on northbound 794 at oklahoma avenue. Witnesses say they heard screaming and the truck flew off 794, landing on oklahoma avenue. The Milwaukee County Sheriffs Office says the crash happened just before midnight. The driver had to be cut out of the vehicle. Happening now. The funeral mass for si she and another nun were stabbed to death inside their mississippi home. This is a live picture from st. Joseph chapel on layton in milwaukee. Archbishop Jerome Listecki is leading the burial mass that began at 11. She will be buried at Mount Olivet Cemetary at 2 30 this afternoon even on the day of the funeral those who knew sister held are praying for the man police believed killed her. They believe sister held would feel the same way. If the suspect in custody is convicted, the death is for god to decide. I felt Great Sadness for him and his family and i cant imagine the pain theyre all feeling because the family lives there. They know what a contribution those two sisters were. The School Sisters of Saint Francis plans to honor sister margaret by continuing the Community Work she was doing in mississippi here in milwaukee. Two Madison Police officers investigated after an outside east towne mall in june are cleared of any wrongdoing. This cellphone video of the officers arresting an 18 yearold girl went viral. It shows one of the officers tazing the girl multiple times while trying to take her into custody. Dane county investigators found their actions were in line with the departments policy. As well as training by the state. The girls lawyer says the ruling shows the importance of independent reviews in cases like this. The converstaion continues in sherman park on how to keep killed by police. Several neighbors have complained about a makeshift memorial for sylville smith. The man shot and killed by police last month. Community members met last night behind closed doors. No word if a resolution was reached. The west Bend School District is assuring parents everything is safe after a teacher found a loaded pistol magazine in a field near mclane elementary. The Police Department says officers responded and did an extensive students were in danger. Police as students return to class today its important to talk to them about safety. Schools across rock county are encouraging their students to start using a new app to report crime. The app is called p3 tips and it lets students report crime anonymously. Can act quickly. They tap an app, they can enter in some information. A tip is sent to 22 Law Enforcement officers throughout rock county, so were ensured someone is receiving that tip and we can are encouraging students to install it on their cell phones. Milton is making sure the app is on every school issued laptop and ipad. This school year some green bay area teachers are taking on more classes than usual. Due to a nationwi teacher shortage. The bulk of the shortages are in math. Tech ed. Special education. And language classes. Several teachers throughtout the district are pulling double duty to help fill the need. School leaders say they arent filling any of the positions with people who . Arent qualified to teach these ec as teacher shortages have affected schools. Other Public Employees feel the pinch as well. Many blame wisconsins actten. Since the bill passed. Theres been shortages of correction officers at state prisons. Theres staff expected to work double shifts at kings veterans home. Some believe the lack of state employees is because of act10. While others dont buy it. Best we can. Were certainly not going to repeal act 10 tomorrow but i think we do need to continue to make the case that we gotta treat everybody with respect. And that involves our public baby boomers are retiring and theres going to be shortages in different areas so as a policy maker we gotta look at the evidence in each individual area and try to remedy it as best we can. Many republicans say act ten ultimately saved the state well over a billion dollars in the last five years. But most democrats say those savings came at a cost. Still ahead. Two kids hit by two vehicles after getting off the school bus. What one drove through the School Bus Stop sign. Then. Getting slammed by Tropical Storm hermine. The damage the storm caused in florida and the warnings that are now in Russ Feingold im Russ Feingold and i approve this message. Narrator listen to senator johnson on Student Loans ron johnson its just kinda free money, young people dont really, necessarily understand finance. Narrator what senator johnson doesnt understand is, more than 800,000 wisconsinites have Student Loans. But he wants to eliminate federal Student Loans and keep Interest Rates high. Kinda free money. Narrator with senator johnson, opportunity for middle class kids would disappear. Ron johnsons not for students. Not for wisconsin. Tropical storm hermine may be weaker but winds are increasing along the southeast coast as the former category one storm heads east. Flooding rains and tornado warnings are in effect from georgia through north carolina. Jay gray has hurricane hermine slammed into the Florida Panhandle overnight. Bringing with it powerful winds 80 Miles Per Hour, guest even stronger. popping yeah we are going to lose a power line herethe first storm to make landfall in florida in 11 years definitely leaving a mark. Just because it is clear, doesnt mean it is safe. Wow snapping trees, crushing cars and homes. Knocking out power to tens of thousandswater pounding the coastline and surging inland, leaving hi devastation. Crews in cedar key, florida assessing the damage this morning. Cinderblock walls and this dock couldnt withstand the thrashing. Hermine, has dropped to Tropical Storm status and is heading up the east coast. Parts of georgia and the carolinas under a state of emergency. We expect Tropical Storm force winds between 3040 Miles Per Hour sustained. Preparations underway in hopeof preventing excessive damage. There. Our goal is to overprepared and underwhelemed we want everyone to please be safe and officials warning beach goers that dangerous rip currents are expected throughout the Holiday Weekend. Surfers along the coast though taking advantage of the changing conditions. In savannah, jay gray, nbc news forecasters are warning this storm will be dangerous throughout the labor day weekend. Meteorologist brian gotter joins us now with a look yesterday was the first day of meteorological fall, and it felt like it with a chilly ne breeze to 25 mph keeping temps in the 60s and lower 70s. This cool with lows near 60 along the lake, but lower 50s in the inland areas. Today is mostly sunny and pleasant with highs in the low to mid 70s, low humidity, and a light easterly breeze. Tonight is another clear and chilly night with lows in the 50s and a calm wind. The comfortable air will continue on saturday with lots of sun, highs in the mid to upper 70s and lows in the 50s. Sunday is mostly sunny, warmer and more humid with highs near 80, and labor day is partly the lower 80s and a few isolated afternoon showers. As we say goodbye to summer, the great weather here in se wisconsin will be the same for northern wisconsin at the cottage during the long Holiday Weekend. Next will feel like summer with highs in the mid 80s, high humidity, and scattered cleanup today in gettysburg, pennsylvania after a vehicle crashes into a building hit a glass window at the corner of the building, causing the second floor to collapseit took emergency crews more than 90 minutes to get the driver out of the vehicle. Witnesses say a second person in the vehicle took off after the crash. Its video thats hard to watch. Two texas kids are hit by vehicles just as they get off the school bus. Two separate accidents just a day apart. Erin cargile has the jarring video. Keep your eyes on the crosswalk. This is a 12 yearold boy, seconds afte getting off the school bus monday at south first and st. Elmo. I kept shaking it was the most horrible thing to watchbecause this child is her there is nothing worse than that phone call where all you can hear are sirens and your child crying. This driver is not some evil person. He was doing what we all do. We all have days when we are in a hurry. Just 24 hours later in west austin another driver hits another student. This time you can see the stop sign bus driver was laying on the horn. Thats how i remember it. Michael masuo was in his car stopped behind the bus and saw it all. My heart was racing. It was just so intense. He got knock 10 feet towards my car. And he like rolled to the side of my driver side window. Michael called 911 then realized he went to middle school with the 17yearold laying in the road. And goes to high was behind the wheel. She was mortified. She thought she killed him. Umm, she came out of the car crying and freaking out but i tried to reassure her. He seemed ok at the time. The new driver told michael on scene she was confused about the law. And she didnt know that you had to stop for the bus stop coming the opposite way. A traumatizing lesson to learn. I hope it will be a during the first week of school, austin School District police say their stop arm cameras have caught between 900 and onethousand violators. During the entire school year last year, a total of 66hundred citations we issued. Coming up. The phone that could catch fire while youre charging it. Which phone company is temporarily stopping sales. And save the coral. Global warming is killing the underwater lifeform. The new way scientists are trying to sa for your moneyus employers slowed their hiring last month. According to the u. S. Labor department, employers added a modest 151thousand jobs in august. Thats about half as many as the two previous months. The Unemployment Rate remained at 4point9percent for the Third Straight month. Job gains slowed across most major industries. Walmart is cutting seven thousand positions in the near future. All of the cuts will be made in the accounting and invoice departments. The cuts are beinde introduces a more modernized system for store bookkeeping and inventory tracking. Company Officials Say those affected by the job cuts will have the option of working in other roles for walmart. Samsung is halting sales of its new galaxy note 7 smartphone, following reports some batteries exploded or caught fire while charging. The company says its found 35 cases of battery problems. Samsung says customers who have already purchased the note 7 will be able to swap it will take about two weeks to get replacements ready. If youve always admired steve jobs, now you can dress like the late apple cofounder and ceo. Jobs wardrobe is now up for auction at juliens, the auction house for celebrity items. You can bid on things such as a black turtleneck with a next logo next was a computer maker jobs founded in the 1980s. Also up for sale versace suits, ties, a black leather jacket, a bathrobe and electric razor set. Scientists say global is killing coral reefs. In an attempt to help the problem, researchers in florida have developed a new method to regrow the reefs. They raise tiny pieces of coral in labs. Then they place fragments onto dead coral skeletons, where theyll multiply and grow. In record time. Which we thought would take hundreds of years but now weve learned to grow corals in record time. Reefs can take centuries to grow naturally. But with this new method, an entire reef can be restored in one to three started adopting this new technique in reefs throughout the caribbean. Coming up. The big gig goes culinary. The foodie festival that hits the grounds this weekend. What you can eat and when you can go. And sportsmanlike conduct. How green bay is making lsu fans feel welcome ahead of the big a great weekend for barbecue lovers. The big gig barbeque takes place on sunday at the summerfest grounds. You can sample some ribs, brisket and other barbecue favorites from ten restaurants around the badger state. There will also be live music and beer tasting. Family friendly. Definitely bring the kids down. Were not doing rides and games and things of that nature. But theres plenty of bbq, theres cooking demostrations. Its and who doesnt like bbq. Advance tickets cost 10dollars but if you wait to buy at the gate. Itll cost you 15bucks. Lsu football fans were given the red carpet treatment as they arrived in green bay. Lsu opens its College Football season tomorrow against wisconsin at lambeau field. Fans given beads in ls u colors, and were serenaded with the team fight song by a local High School Band at green bays airport. The mayor says he hopes the fans will enjoy their stay. That would be awesome lsu educated group of people and for them to look at, you know, maybe coming back here to visit or, even better, sending a resume up here and applying to work or live here. That would be awesome kickoff for tomorrows game between the badgers and tigers is scheduled for 2 30. Packers extra nowbefore the team takes on the Jacksonville Jaguars in the Season Opener. Theres some business that needs to be take care of. The team must cut their 75man roster down to 53 by tomorrow team can name 10 players to the practice squad. The Season Opener is sunday, september 11th against the jaguars. Live at 12 30 is up next moving memorial. Where you can go to see the tribute to Vietnam Veterans this weekend. Also. Facebook mission. Why the space x rocket explosion is hurting more than just vo we went to hollywood to ask if americas favorites burgers, tacos and chili could taste just as great made with turkey. Thousands stepped into the jennieo tasting booth to find out. With just one bite, they knew. Thanks for joining us this afternoon. Im bridget shanahan. If youre just joining us heres a look at your top stories today. August was the deadliest month in 25 years in milwaukee the per capita murder rate here outpacing chicago. There were 24 homicides in milwaukee last month. The last time there were that many murders was in 1991 after authorities searched dahmers apartment. Classes canceled today at messmer prep because of a fire. An alarm sounded in the school just before seven this morning. A fire was in the wall in the ceiling. It was extinguish but since officials had to shut down power the principal made the decision to cancel classes. No one was in the building at the time of the fire. Be ready for busy roadways across wisconsin. Labor day weekend Holiday Travel starts today. The wisconsin dot is reminding drivers to be patient. The heaviest travel

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