The holiday email you could soon be getting about a delivery. Well tell you the one letter to look out for. Good evening. Its great to have you with us on a friday night. Its a whiteknuckle drive home for millions. Icy highways and several feet of snow in many places. Winter storm alerts in 19 lake effect snow, being measured in feet. And i90, the scene of the massive pileup in the last 24 hours. In portland, oregon, the sidewalks covered with ice. Heres adrienne bankert. The great lakes getting pummeled with high winds, even lighting and thunder snow. Pretty bad visibility. Reporter cars sliding off the roads in jordan, new york. Ive never put one in the ditch yet. Reporter this truck flipping over on interstate 90. A pennsylvania. Crews racing to pick people out. And 20 injured, 3 seriously, in ohio. And shut down the highway for more than 15 hours. And in portland, ice turning this school bus skidding off the road near vancouver. No one was hurt. And high winds knocking out power fo
They are done for the night. But hundreds of people with public works will be on duty this weekend. And you should know salt is a bit different this season. Its prewet, meaning it has more of an oatmeal consistency. So what does that mean . According to Laura Daniels with dpw, this will make it much better for us drivers. The salt wont just hide under parked cars, but be spread out. Our employees, up to 350 of them, will be have safe and passable streets. Adrienne and of course we will be on top of it as well. There is Something Interesting to put it in perspective, tackling a storm like the one were expecting this weekend, not even our biggest, will cost about 1. 5 million. That is according to public works in milwaukee, im adrienne. Pedersen, wisn 12 news. Patrick a reminder, winter parking rules are in effect in the city of milwaukee. The amount of snow that falls will determine whether the 4 inch rule will take effect. So be sure to read the signs carefully. . Kathy if you arent re
A look at your forecast. Meteorologist Jeremy Nelson is in the Weather Center. Its cold and blustery. Jeremy a great word to use today, blustery, windy, cold. We are now in the low to mid 30s across the area. The first to snowflakes of the season arrived in the milwaukee area shortly after midnight and some of those gathered on the mall and lawns and colder services. Surfaces. Jason in Mukwonago Ted accumulation. The rooftop and miller park, some snow. The wind has swept that off to the side, and when we speak of the wind, its going to be pretty substantial today. A wind advisory until 6 00, it feels like only 23 degrees outside this morning. Also, a wintry looking seen in waukesha with upper 20s and plenty of wind. When a squeeze out of her 30s flying around is mainly early this morning. We look ahead to sundays forecast and thanks giving thanksgiving, coming up. Thema thank you, jeremy. Happening now, Milwaukee Police are investigating a shooting on the citys northwest side. This hap
A look at your forecast. Meteorologist Jeremy Nelson is in the Weather Center. Its cold and blustery. Jeremy a great word to use today, blustery, windy, cold. We are now in the low to mid 30s across the area. The first to snowflakes of the season arrived in the milwaukee area shortly after midnight and some of those gathered on the mall and lawns and colder services. Surfaces. Jason in Mukwonago Ted accumulation. The rooftop and miller park, some snow. The wind has swept that off to the side, and when we speak of the wind, its going to be pretty substantial today. A wind advisory until 6 00, it feels like only 23 degrees outside this morning. Also, a wintry looking seen in waukesha with upper 20s and plenty of wind. When a squeeze out of her 30s flying around is mainly early this morning. We look ahead to sundays forecast and thanks giving thanksgiving, coming up. Thema thank you, jeremy. Happening now, Milwaukee Police are investigating a shooting on the citys northwest side. This hap
That is just inching its way to the east. We have at least two or three more hours of cloud cover here in milwaukee. It is probably not until late morning and midday we start to brooklyn of sun. The clouds to benefit kept us warmer overnight. 36 degrees right now. Clouds hanging around and a pretty thick layer of clouds this morning. Midday partial sun. Once we get the sun up the temperatures will jump quickly on a southwest breeze. A little bit aboveaverage today with a high of 47. We will talk about sundays forecast and a rainmaker coming up. Andy thank you. Breaking news overnight. The former leader of cuba, fidel castro has died. We look back on his half century of leadership in the only communist government in the western hemisphere. Reporter this is the scene from miami, Little Havana, aa hours after the announcement of age of 90. He was born in cuba. As a child was eeducated at private Catholic Schools and studied law. Castro was an activist for the poor. But ruled cuba with an