affected. students and staff evacuated there around 1 this afternoon. sand bagging is happening at both schools. police say both schools are located in a low area which is subject to flooding. three streets are still closed . that s 4thstreet , horicon street, and bridge street. dozens of volunteers, including students have been working for hours to get the flooding under control. the principal tells me she s not surprised that tom we ve got community people, we have church people, we have school people. we have friends of people who have just heard from everybody else. everybody s working hard. nobody looks real good right now, so it s fantastic but that s part of living in a small town. town. the principal of saint johns says she s not sure whether school will be in session tomorrow. she also says there live in mayville, ad cbs 58 meterologist rebecca schuld joins us now to get you ready for your evening.rebecca. 3 today: scattered storms look likely throughout the day,
wind: sw 5-15 mph tonight: rain and thunderstorms likely. low: 70 dewpoint: 72 wind: sw 5-10 mph causing some problems for area communities. the mayville fire department in dodge county posted on social media that to fill sandbags to control flooding in parts of that city. they also tweeted that saint johns school was evacuated as a precaution due to rising water. milwaukee police are investigating a string of armed robberies at area restaurants. the george webb near oakland and locust was robbed about 6 this morning . officials say a man and woman walked in pulled out a gun and took cash from the restaurant. police are working to figure out if that crime is related to two other armed robberies that happened this place at a denny s near 27th and howard and another denny s near brown deer road and servite drive. one person is dead after being hit by a train in pewaukee. it happened around midnight near oakton avenue and clark street. police are not releasing many details a
school. watch for more on this breaking st ory in our newscasts coming up at 4. now back to our top story.. the cleanup has begun in dodge county after torrential rains brought flash floods to mayville yesterday. the storm forced two schools to evacuate. now the community is looking to dry out. cbs 58 s kyle aevermann has more from mayville. 3 we are outside of st. john school just 24 hours ago the spot where i m standing was completely flooded. has been closed down for the day as teachers clean up. and clean up is what it s all about. look at that that 7 inches gerald engmann live directly behind parkview elementary, one of two schools that were evacuated because of heavy rain and rising water wednesday engmann you should ve seen this yesterday the water was all the way up to here. and his 50 years in this home, he like this one. it came down just like in buckets you know natsdown the street crews from the mayville public works department were out early this morning in
outside, it s hard to tell this time yesterday i would have been standing in water.we also got our first look inside the school today . and there s virtually no trace of the waters. so there were kids in here squegeeing last night to keep it from coming into the classro. classrooms. while water did get into the school before sandbags were placed around the perimeter. it was me yesterday, teachers and studentws were able squeege it all outside.students did not have class today, but teachers were here at st. johns cleaning up. while here at st. johns cleaning up. while the sandbags and cement blocks kept all the water from rushing into basement classrooms, the teachers had a lot classroom materials to put back. in anticipation of rising waters, books and papers were moved from multiple classrooms.but teachers we spoke with say students are ready to come of the students came and volunteered to help yesterday. a lot of sudents volunteered to come again today to clean up. i think