Now at ten. A house of hoarding. Officer says its just not safe to live in at this point until things get cleaned up inside the house. Downright dangerous conditions for the elderly woman that called this home. Tainted Drinking Water disease outbreaks. Wisconsin lawmakers are poised to launch an investigation of the Veterans Home at king. That is our big story tonight a milwaukee family says it knows the conditions at the wisconsin Veterans Home at king all too well. A public hearing in madison tomorrow king is located about two hours northwest of milwaukee in waupaca county. Concerns started surfacing in 2005. Lawmakers are about to trigger an audit of the facility after claims of injuries, infections and tainted Drinking Water. And weve learned federal regulators recently cited king after staff decided not to perform cpr on a resident. The daughter of a former resident says her father was and had conditions that went untreated. She sat down with our bret lemoine he joins us with a fo
A new report links 750thousand dollars in political contributions from the lead paint industry to the Political Group Wisconsin Club for growth. That group that helped the republicans during the recall elections both before and after those donationsrepublicans pushed through legislation that helped to protect lead paint manufacturers from lawsuits. Lawsuits. Victor harding 02;16;44 its unconscionable. Its dirty politics at its worst. And it taste bads, it looks bad, it smells bad and looks that its a pay for play situation now in wisconsin which weve never had. Victor harding is an attorney representing a milwaukee teen suing after she suffered lead poisoning at age 2. That suit, filed in 2006, is still working its way through the courts because of a law passed in 2013 that retroactively blocked lawsuits against lead paint makers. Harding says though the leaked documents improper. These documents wont help our case. These documents show the appearance of impropriety. Theres no direct c
Sherman park Multicultural Arts School on 51st and locust. Cbs 58s lindsey branwell is there live to explain. Lindsey . Kids walked up to sherman Multicultural Arts School for their first day. You can see the Red White Blue decorations behind me. There was a lot of excitement and energy. Just hours ago they walked right up to the school with a balloon arch, greeted by mayor barrett superintendent driver and bango the buck. But the recent events and thstudents. Dr driver says this will be discussed over the school year. And students will have a safe and supported environment. Dr. Darienne drivermps superintendentyou can already see around us healing is occuring here. It happens. Kids are playing on the playground, it you look at the tot lot things are already russled around because our kids are already playing here. This is a safe space this is a very special community. I do believe that our parents our forward in a very positive way. Mayor barrett also commented on the recent arrests i
Our . Top . Story this morning the Walworth County fair will reopen today. After a security scare forced organizers to shut it down . Early . Last night. Night. Thousands of people were cleared from the fairgrounds around 9 oclock. Oclock. Cbs 58s julie parise is live in the newsroom with that story. Julie . A captain with the Elkhorn Police Department Tells us a suspicious looking pipe was brought to the attention of fair security last night just a few hours before the end of the fair. It turns out it was just a pair of drum sticks. The Kenosha County Sheriffs Office bomb squad was called in to help with the investigation. The Walworth County Sheriffs Office and the Elkhorn Police worked the fair board to clear fair goers from the grounds. The all clear was given after 10 the board decided . Not . To reopen the fair for the remaining 45 minutes. One fair vendor tells us hes impressed with w well everything was handled by police. There was a lot of concern but in terms of panic or chao
Situation from 24 hours ago. Milwaukee police say they made those arrests last ghts after complaints from residents about a Disorderly Group gathering here. Police say they initialltold the group to leaveand most did those who stuck around were arrested. E of the people detatinedstate representive jonathan brostoff. He says he was just here to help deescalate the situionand once police learned who he was, they let him go. But he says this continued unst cant be sve d byarrests a issues of racial dparities need o be addressed. 00;05;53 i think the better way to address their concerns, instead of bringing in a huge ow of for and police wih their bans readat hand, is working on the preventative not the putive side of thspectr. Spectrum. At4th and auer, kristen. Live more than half of wisconsins registeredoters say theyve heard a t of about the rent unrt in milwaukee. 4 percent have heard nothing at all. Thats according to marquette unirsity Law School Poll, which was released today. Today