About an hour and a half. Lawyers for Green Party Candidate jill stein, who requested the recount, are arguing that the entire statewide recount be done by hand. The state Elections Commission says that would costly, time consuming, and is unnecessary, and that stein has shown no evidence of any irregularities or tampering. The court now hearing phoned in testimony from witnesses for stein. The first witness inhouse was a Computer Science professor who testified that it is possible for wisconsins Voting Machines to be hacked. The only way to be sure they were secure is to recount by hand, but he also acknowledged hes seen no evidence of any irregularities with the vote. This hearing started around 4 30 which was also the time that the , Stein Campaign wired its payment of 3. 5 million to the Election Commission to get the recount off the ground and rolling. The process will begin on thursday. We dont know how that will play the deadline. She could end up paying more. The estimate now is 3. 9 million for the entire recount. Meanwhile, the judge in this hearing saying they are prepared to go along as long as they stay away, and into tomorrow. Joyce meanwhile, the cost of the recount is growing. The state Elections Commission gave us a revised cost this afternoon. Kathy wisconsin. That amount is now nearly 3. 9 million. 12 news terry sater is live where the Milwaukee County recount will take place beginning thursday morning. Milwaukee county is already preparing for the recount at this warehouse. Each county has to have a place where the ballots can be inspected and recounted. And all of those places have to be secure so no one can tamper with the votes. Our cost estimate was based on a machine recount. Costly, primarily because it would be more labor intensive. Milwaukee county clerk Joseph Czarnezki says the recount cost is more than a half a million dollars. He estimates hell pay 150,000 of that for sheriffs deputies to guard Milwaukee Countys ballots, nearly a third of the total cost of the recount. We have to have county sheriffs deputies escort those ballots to make sure no one tampers with those ballots while theyre in transit. Once we have those ballots at the recount site, the Sheriffs Department will be providing 24 houcu we have 240,417 ballots. And heres a look at the Containers Holding those ballots in waukesha county. Clerk Kathleen Novack says it will cost more than 278,000 for a machine recount. They have a very difficult job ahead. Right now i think we may be able to pull this off with two shifts a day. If we have to go to the hand count, im sure well be working it will cost about 1. 31 per ballot to get those ballots recounted. Milwaukee and larger cities will be scrambling to get it done by the deadline of december 12 at 8 00 p. M. Kathy thank you. Stay with wisn as this story continues to develop. You can also download the free wisn app to get breaking news alerts sent directly to you. Joyce an oconomowoc Trucking Company under investigatio tonight after workers told the government their boss forced them to kickback part of their paychecks. Wisn 12 news Colleen Henry obtained documents that show those workers were being paid with your tax dollars. Court records say this is where the shakedowns went down a parking lot at 48th and burnham in milwaukee. 12 news obtained a subpoena that says employees of the vizcaino Trucking Company were forced to pay kickbacks to the boss to employees complained to the state. According to the search warrant the Trucking Company is operated , out of this oconomowoc home. Nelvin at work. Nelvin vizcaino was not at home nor at the parking lot the company used. 12 news finally found the president of Vizcaino Trucking on his cell phone. What can you tell me about this search warrant that ive got that says youre shaking down your employees for kickbacks . What company are you with . Kickback scheme lowerwage employees had to kickback 10 an hour, mid range workers are 11. 50 an hour, and higher wage employees 14 an hour. The Wisconsin Department of transportation estimates the kickback total at 231,000 paid by 20 workers. Records show the dot recently barred Vizcaino Trucking from doing state business and the , company has repaid those 20 employees. No criminal charges have been filed, but the state and the fbi evidence of theft by fraud. In milwaukee, Colleen Henry, wisn 12 news. Joyce neither the dot nor investigators would comment on this ongoing investigation. Kathy all day long there have been protests around milwaukee and the country, fighting to increase the minimum wage. This is not about a politician, but a Peoples Movement for social, economic, and racial justice. Kathy in front of milwaukee city hall, it started about an hour ago, protests are mostly made up of fast food employees. However, some uber drivers took part in rallies in chicago. Hundred of airport employees also walked off the job. Joyce Police Release new information about a murder suicide in new berlin. An elderly couple was found shot in their home on hickory trail last wednesday. He was 76. She was 71. Today police say the shooting was related to Health Issues and was not a Domestic Violence case. Police say they do not plan on releasing any more information on who may have been the shooter nor the possible Health Issues that may have been a factor in this case. Milwaukee police have Surveillance Video of a man they say is breaking into Apartment Buildings and robbing homes. This is video inside an Apartment Building on pittsburgh and barclay around the fifth ward. Early sunday morning, police say this man pried the locked door open and removed a televisio similar burglaries in four different places this month. If you recognize this man, you are asked to call milwaukee police. Former packer Darren Sharper is sentenced for drugging and raping two women. A judge in los angeles today sentenced the former nfl star to 20 years in prison, capping a case in which the athlete was accused of attacking more than one dozen women in four states. Earlier this year a judge in new , orleans sentenced sharper to at the same time. Sharper was a fivetime probowler who won a super bowl when he played for the new orleans saints. Joyce wisconsins attorney general has released a new Public Service announcement about how quickly people can get addicted to heroin. What are they . Dont worry about it. There are no refills on this prescription. What is going on with you . You are shutting me out, i am done. Kathy attorney general Brad Schimmel says 70 of people who are addicted to prescription opioids got their first pills, not from a street dealer, but improperly from a Family Member or friend. Everyone is encouraged to only take prescriptions prescribed to them and to dispose of any examiner says year to date there have been 110 deaths related to heroin. Thats the same number as the total for all of last year. The medical examiner also says there are about 52 pending cases that could be declared drug overdoses once test results come in. Joyce with the deadline fast approaching, many of you may be shopping for Health Insurance during open enrollment. Now one of wisconsins largest hospitals is selling coverage. Childrens hospital is now selling the Childrens Community health plan. Its marketplace on healthcare. Gov. The plan is based on income and considered an extension of their former medicaid coverage for children, families or anyone , else who qualifies. The new marketplace product is available in six counties in southeast wisconsin. Healthcare Officials Say despite talk of future changes to the Affordable Care act, their goal, no matter what, is to make sure everyone has insurance. Theres a lot of unknowns and until we start to know those can do. What weve built, what weve developed is a product that , individuals and families can purchase. So whether the Affordable Care act is repealed or not, we expect that there will be a replacement. Joyce in order to have your healthcare coverage start on january 1, you must sign up by december 15. Kathy patrick is in the newsroom with a look at whats coming up tonight at 10 00. Patrick dehumidifiers catching dehumg fire. The problem so urgent, the company is issuing a second recall. Then, a new development for the bucks entertainment district. What were learning about plans to possibly build a brand new brewery downtown. Thats tonight on wisn 12 news at 10 00. Mark plus, winter slowly moving in. When we have multiple chances for snow, next in weatherwatch kathy we are following breaking milwaukees far northwest side. Joyce sheldon has this update. Sheldon i just spoke to a Police Officer who tells me the person who was shot just off campus has suffered nonlifethreatening injuries. According to people on the scene, it was in 19 europe driver, not a student at the school. The shooting happened off campus. Again, Police Officer telling me minutes ago before this live report that that person was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. We will keep an eye on the scene and have updates tonight at 10 00. Kathy thank you. By a car and left in a milwaukee dumpster to die. Joyce the dog, named chance, is now recovering at the wisconsin Humane Society. The man who found chance will eventually adopt him once he has fully recovered. Today the Humane Society told chances story as part of giving tuesday. They say its a reminder of the more than 24,000 animals who receive lifesaving care at their facility every year. Giving tuesday is a day to donate to charitable organizations. The wisconsin Humane Society doesnt receive any government funding or funding from any sort of National Umbrella group. So we really rely on contributions from local people in the cni animals like chance. Joyce last year, they raised 30,000 on giving tuesday. This year each donation is being , matched. Kathy incredible video tonight of a cookout gone wrong on milwaukees eastside. It nearly cost the homeowner his home. Only on wisn 12 news, reporter Mike Anderson spoke to the nearby restaurant workers who may have saved the day. Oh, my god. Up the grill in november, you want to do it, but not with results like this. An east side milwaukee resident nearly set his house and some others on fire last night on brady street. Everybody and casablanca wanted to help them. Mohammed nofal, the head chef at casablanca restaurant across the street was hanging christmas , decorations. He saw the fire from his upstairs window. He and some others grabbed fire extinguishers. Everybody was going crazy, the flames. Here, just to control it, get it under control. It seemed to be getting bigger instead of smaller. Julie smith the casablanca Business Manager says she saw the homeowner trying to put the fire out with a blanket or something but that wasnt , working. Hunt think they used eight fire extinguishers. It was not going out, so they finally got it out, and it is a thanks to the people of casablanca, the man has a home to come home to. Kathy the fire was out by the time the Fire Department arrived. They did make sure it was completely out and would not rekindle. Joyce it should start feeling and looking more like the holidays. Kathy mark, it ushers in the cooler air. Mark it does. Thinking about cooling things down and feeling more like the holidays, and that is what will happen in this forecast. It will not be all of a sudden. It is still warm, 47 degrees. A live look at Cathedral Square waiting for a little snow. We might have a little of that in our forecast. Not that far away from the first day of winter. Year, and 111 days to the start of spring. 54 today. Is it the last 50s of 2016 . It will be the last of the 50s for quite some time. It might warm up in december. Snow chances, yes, indeed, cooling down and feeling more like winter. If you are headed out this evening, dont worry. We are a ok, no issues, a couple of clouds, but temperatures cooling down as the evening goes on. We will be dropping into the 40s and 30s. 37 and waukesha. 47 in milwaukee. Cooler air, you can see that here moving into western wisconsin. They were locked into the clouds today, so they were not able to enjoy the sunshine like we had around here. December. It makes it feel that much better. Not a lot of sunshine in the next couple of days. A couple of snow showers might be mixing in with rain showers late wednesday, but especially wednesday night. That is round one of a chance for snow. Some flurries and drizzle hanging around, sprinkles on thursday, still locked in the clouds. Our snow chances over the next 10 tomorrow night and sunday night, may be enough to coat the ground. Next wednesday and thursday, a bigger storm on the horizon, something i will be watching closely. This would be the panhandle hook coming out of oklahoma and texas. The question is, where will it end up . Will it go to the south, or will it take this track, which would we would be dealing more with rain that in snow. It is too early to tell, but just want to put that on your radar to be prepared. 37 tonight, partly cloudy skies, clouds rolling in as the night goes on. Tomorrow, average high 39, but we will be above that, 46. 45 and a sprinkle or flurry on thursday. Partly sunny skies and 40 on friday. All these temperatures above average, but cooler than what we have seen. 42 saturday and sunday, a chance of light snow sunday night, a chance for light rain on monday, then mostly cloudy skies on tuesday, and we will watch closely for the storm in the middle of next week. Something to look forward to. Kathy thank you for that update. Joyce some badgers were honored brewers have a new first baseman. Hear from eric thames and how he feels about his new home up next in sports. . Stephanie the packers did something last night they havent done since midoctober, get a victory. Green bay snapped their fourgame losing streak on monday night football against the eagles. With the win, the packers are still in the hunt for the nfc north. At 56, theyre only one game back of the vikings, and two games back of the first place lions. Linebacker Clay Matthews was asked how he felt about the victory. A lot better than a loss. We have our work cut out for us. This was a good Team Undefeated at home when we came in here. Really matters. It is good to get that feeling again. Hopefully that is contagious and we keep it moving forward next week in houston. Stephanie a few of the badgers were honored today. Head coach paul chryst was named big ten football coach of the year. Plus, sojourn shelton and t. J. Watt were named first team allbig ten. Wisconsin is getting ready to face penn state saturday night for the conference championship in indy. Finally, earlier today at miller park, the brewers introduced their new first baseman, eric thames. There he is with the cool looking beard. The free agent agreed to a threeyear, 16 million deal. He will be replacing cris carter at first base. He was let go after he hit 41 homeruns last season. Thames spent the last three seasons playing in south korea, and played two seasons in the majors with toronto and seattle, and the 30 your also spent some i love this city, state. I played in la crosse in 2000 seven, so i have some experience out here, and the people are very nice and hospitable, so it was a great choice. Stephanie i love the beard. He will hopefully fit right in. Kathy how many days until baseball . Mark training days away. Its coming up. It was wonderful today. Before we Start Talking about the cooling, yes, it is inevitable. It is supposed to snow around here, and it will eventuallys. This evening, no snow, 40s, cooling down. Inland, temperatures in the 30s. Throughout the day, then tomorrow night, a couple of snowflakes and another chance on sunday night, then towards the middle of next week, we will be watching for the potential of a bigger storm. Katy perry, a secret engagement . E. T. Has the exclusive shots beaming with orlando. 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