There is a slight chance of a couple of showers going. You can see them across minnesota and iowa. The hour by hour forecast for today, no mistake there, look at the 70s. Low to mid 70s this afternoon and southwest breezes. Ben . Weatherwatch 12 coverage is continuing with Hurricane Matthew. Tim is standing by with a look bracing for the storm. First to Jeremy Nelson who is tracking the hurricane. A couple of things have changed, it made two landfalls, the first on haiti and the eastern part of cuba. Now it is emerged back over the open waters. They are warm waters and going to the bahamas. That is where matthew is tracking for the next couple of giving you an idea, especially if you are travelling to parts of florida or the bahamas. Stay up to date and check with the air carrier. Matthew is going to strengthen back to a category 4 hurricane. The categories are 15. This is a 3 right now and winds around 125 miles per hour. This is getting close to eastern coast of florida, again with the forecast, any where in the cone ea tracking. This would put the storm along the southeast coast about thursday night into the coming weekend. Back to you. Thank you, jeremy. The Team Coverage is continuing with tim in the news room. Tim . We are getting a look at some of the damage left behind in haiti. The storms 145mileperhour winds caused a lot of rain and flooding and landslides. Because of this. Thousands more people are in shelters as well. Cuba and the bahamas is bracing for the heavy winds and rain. Here in the United States the emergency evacuations are beginning in South Carolina. The east coast is stocking up on gas, food and water. President obama is headed to the fema researchers are tracking matthew using a drone called global hawk. This is a live feed of the track. It is over the gulf of mexico. This is the western part of florida. The storm could be making landfall in florida as early as tomorrow. Thank you, tim. Abc news has crews in haiti, bahamas and miami. Morning america at 7 00 on wisn 12. Developing this morning, a milwaukee man is getting out of prison after spending more than two decades behind bars for a crime he didnt commit. Thema is live downtown with a look ahead. Good morning, thema. Well, good morning, melinda, a judge signed the order to dismiss all of the charges against daryl dwayne holloway. New d. N. A. Evidence showed that he didnts commit the sexual assa in 1993. He had been sentenced to 120 yeeshs. The wisconsin Innocence Project looked at the case and new d. N. A. Tests proved holloway is innocent. The cofounders of the group tells wisn 12 news that holloway maintained his innocence from day one. It has been a long struggle vehiclesal about it right now, as one would expect, but very, very happy. To his credit, he never gave up. Daryl holloway has been behind bars for 24 years. Later today the 48yearold will get out of a prison in green bay. Thank you. A pedestrian is hit on the south side and the police are loin the wheel. The crash happened this morning. The police say a woman was hit while crossing the street and serious injuries and the vehicle drove awie. A missing man is safe this morning after driving away from his assisted living facility. A retired Police Officer found him yesterday. Belonging to an employee. Six hours later johnson spotted the s. U. V. Matching the description and followed him until the deputies arrived. It is important to Pay Attention to the alerts. We have to Pay Attention, this could be somebody in disstress of needing help. The man has cognitive later today a Police Department hundreds of miles away will be recruiting in milwaukee. The dallas Police Department is hoeding recruiting events across the country, including in wisconsin. The city is moving forward and looking for passionate and committed applicants. Officers and how they handled themselves. We want those types of ap ri cants. They are at a career fair tomorrow morning at uwm. There is an alert for the third ward, jefferson stleet will be shutdown today. It started at 6 00 this morning. The crews hope to reopen it by now to matt salemme up in news chopper 12. Good morning, matt. Good morning, guys, we are over the bypass, 894 northbound, oklahoma under the freeway. Delays starting before oklahoma. The rest of the system checking in quiet at this point. Thats a look at the morning matt, thank you. 6 07. Commitment 2016, the bust dust is settling following the Vice President ial debate. We are live in washington with post debate reaction. Good morning. Good morning, melinda, it was a very con ten moments after the Vice President ial debate, inn irn governor mike pence received a phone call from donald trump who live tweeted mike pence won big. I think he hit it out of the park. Tim kaine was praised by Hillary Clinton. He told the reporters, tim kaine played the attack dog for the everything from the Clinton Foundation to Donald Trumps taxes. And the tone of the trail. I again, i cannot believe that governor pence will defend the insummit driven campaign that donald trump has run. He said ours is an insult driven campaign . Did you all hear getting heated over the economy and immigration and National Security and mike pence is campaigning in virginia and headed up to pennsylvania are tim kaine is campaigning later on today. Live in washington, wisn 12 news this morning. Thank you. Governor scott walker helped mike pence get ready for the Vice President ial debate and hosted him last month. Walker played the role of tim sessions. Both the campaigns have the sights set on wisconsin in the weeks leading up to the election. Tim has a look at some of the events. Five weeks left until the election day. This morning donald trump junior is holding an a round table and coffee in brookfield. The also later today, former president ial candidate Bernie Sanders is campaigning for Hillary Clinton at rallies in madison and green bay. Chelsea clinton is returning to wisconsin next monday. This weekend donald trump is holding a rally here in wisconsin. The First District is saying they have invited donald trump havent confirmed hes attending that event. Thank you, tim. 6 10. Gold is returning to milwaukee. An olympian is stopping by wisn 12 news. How the catch them in person after the winning performances in rio. Super heros farewell. A request that the family has to we have up another degree as the skies are glowing with the Early Morning sunrise. Sunrise 6 54. At this time 6 14. We are on the way out of the 60s and into the 70s. Right now 65 at the airport. Southeast. We are watching the radar, light rain showers are approaching the west. Matt . We are looking down at 43, 94. Beecher is under the freeway. You can see looking good here. Light to moderate volume. No delays. In fact, just bun delay on the system, starting at oklahoma avenue and up to the construction zone. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. 6 15. A sixyearold killed during a shooting on a playground in South Carolina will be laid to rest. Tim is in the news room how hundreds are remembering jacob family says he loves super heroes. So later today everyone attending the funeral will be in costume to celebrate his life. A week ago, a gunman opened fire while jacob was on recess at school. He died over the weekend. The suspect is a 14yearold student that killed his own father at home murder and attempted charges as a juvenile. A visitation was held yesterday. The Police Officers here wearing the super hero shirts under the uniforms. A number of super heros are paying respects. 60s tv star adam west played batman. Ben, back to you. Thank you, tim. 6 16. Later today it is something new holding a News Conference this morning to announce what they are calling the most comprehensive project to the Fan Experience since the park opened. Miller park opened back in 2001. It wrapped up the 16th season. Looking ahead, help Domestic Violence victims by attending a packers game. Verizon presented a 50,000 check to a local Domestic Violence group at lambeau the team is asking the fans on october 20th to donate old cell phones and batteries and accessories. The bins outside of the gates and the phones will be redone and given to violence shelters. You have the chance to see u. S. Olympians here in milwaukee. The tour of the champions is coming to milwaukee next week. Tour, he was on the 2016 and the 2012 u. S. Olympic gymnastic teams, it is not just high flying activities during the show. We involve the crowd. This is more of a show, so we are having fun and showing the personalities and dancing. Another important to note, milwaukee nati is part of the tour and the gold medal winning womens team. Two coffee shops are transforming into lukes dinner from Gilmore Girls. They are two of two hundred Stores Nationally participating in lukes coffee day marking the day that Gilmore Girls originally aired. Of joe 7noon. So lots of people tuning in for that. Who cant get behind the free coffee. Absolutely. Today you can take it iced. The temperatures to the 70s. It is 65 at the airport at this hour. This morning well s sandwich in a few clouds and look at the sunshine once again mid to late afternoon. Rain chances are really quite slim overall for today. I anticipate a couple of the showers showing up to the west. Theyll invade with the clouds. But they are coming into a fairly dry air mass and even now they are limping through overall. There is the cool front bringing in they chilly air. Morning. 63 at glendale. 62 this morning. Everybody better than 60 this morning as we look a little rain coming in for us. By 9 00, we are still looking at partly cloudy, a couple of stray showers are possible for us, they are light and scattered, many are staying dry for the day. Dryer air coming in this afternoon and calming for the tonight and predawn tomorrow, this is 4 30 tomorrow morning a little rain, several dry hours tomorrow and reaching up to the 70s. This is noon tomorrow. A few showers in the afternoon. With the cool front later in the day, we stand a chance for the evening showers and storms. I think that the model is over doing this, especially because it is coming through later tomorrow night and we get in on a couple of downpours later in the day for tomorrow. Better chances of rain tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night. Breezy, cooler on friday. The showers linger early. The readings in the 50s for the highs. Thanks, sal. New information this morning on the search for cohost. Why a favorite fillin is not putting his all in. Hes barely 30 pounds now an workers he campaigned as a job creator but senator johnson helps companies ship jobs overseas. Good manufacturing jobs just disappeared. Ceos and giant corporations get richer st gets harder and harder to get ahead. We need an economy that works for people like me. For people like me. For people like me. People like me. Russ im Russ Feingold and i approve this message because wisconsins middle class hey, johnson creek, good morning, thank you for the great wednesday Morning School shoutout. Wisn 12 is stopping by classes across southeast wisconsin. If you are interested in a visit, go to wisn. Com and click on the school loco to schedule a visit. This morning a little dog is department in idaho. Looks like a normal pug. The owners say he saved the family from a fire. He bard at the equity cal outlet. They realized it was sparked. The owner put out the fire and now jackson has a firefighter badge for coming to the rescue. I love that. Looks like Anderson Cooper is sticking to cnn. E and also taken himself out of the running to cohost live with kelly ripa. He was a favorite to replace michael strayhan. The iphone has new competition. Google is unveiling the latest smart phone called the picksel. It has a built in assistant 4k video and free Unlimited Storage space for photos and videos. The 650 bucks for the five inch. That is nearly the same price at the 7 and 7 plus. It is available for presale. Very, very interesting. Coming in blue . Yes. I had a blue phone, you get tired of it. I have a pink phone and i will never get tired of that. 6 26. New technology how drones are used to create happy reyuan yuans for families. Cooky ingredients that lead to a huge emergency response. First, though, traffic watch 12, taking a live look at the roads and landscape in the area. We check in with matt after the right now on wisn 12 news this morning, a pedestrian is hurt after being hit by a vehicle overnight. The clues police are hoping will lead to whoever was behind the plus, the road to the white house passing through wisconsin. The campaign visits youre invited to today hours after the first and only Vice President ial debate. But first, weather watch 12. Heres a live look at doppler 12 radar as Hurricane Matthew moves through the caribbean. Were tracking the storm as it heads towards the u. S. Good morning and welcome to wisn 12 news this morning. Im ben wagner. And im melinda davenport. Its 6 30 on this wednesday, october 5th. Lets start with the local forecast. Meteorologist Sally Severson is in the weather center. Sal . I am morning and hes got the latest on Hurricane Matthew. Here at home, it is a pretty Early Morning sunrise and the giving way to mostly cloudy skies, 65 degrees at the airport. This is warmer right now than the typical high for this time of the year, which is 64. We are getting through the 60s and up to the 70s. A slight chance of isolated through 2 00. Most are staying dry and mild. We time out a heavy rain possibility for later in the day for tomorrow and tomorrow night. Ben . Now to Hurricane Matthew. This morning forecasters are expanding a hurricane warning area in florida. Thats as the monster storm continues to churn in the caribbean. Lets get right to meteorologist Jeremy Nelson who is tracking the storm. Ben with the storm over the open wait strengthening. We have a look at the radar network. The center crossed over the eastern tip of cuba and now over the warm waters and leading to strengthening. Where is it headed . Well, it is continuing north, northwest direction and could be getting close to the eastern side of florida sometime from thursday to thursday niek and first part of friday and curving really anyones guess once we get four, five days out, take a look at the cone, that is areas of uncertainty. Back to you. Thanks, jeremy. Hurricane matthew caused a lot of damage as it passed through haiti. Now four u. S. States are bracing for the storm. States of emergency have been declared in florida, georgia, and the carolinas. Some people are already being evacuated. Others are boarding up their homes and stocking up on and groceries. Abc news has crews in haiti, the bahamas, and florida right now. Look for their reports today on good morning america. Thats starting at 7 00 a. M on wisn 12. New from overnight, a woman is hurt at a hit and run in milwaukee and the police are looking for whoever was behind the wheel. Thema is live with the latest. Thema . Well, ben, Milwaukee Police hit is in Critical Condition and right now, the police are looking for the person that was driving the vehicle hit her and left the scene. Now, the police say that the hit and run happened before 2 00 this morning near greenfield. An adult woman was crossing the street and hit by a vehicle which drove away after she was hit. The woman was serious injured ands the hospital. The officers are looking at the surveillance cams in the area to find the person that was driving the vehicle. The police have not release add description of the vehicle but they are looking for it. While on the scene, the police say that the businesses, many have surveillance cams and they are working to locate the person driving the vehicle. If you know anything about the crash, contact the milwaukee thank you, thema. A store is broke into in glendale. The Police Responded to lady footlocker this morning. You can see here some damage to the windows at the store. Now wisn 12 news talked to a spokesperson on the phone, and they have refused to comment on the incident. Now the traffic watch 12, matt . We are over 94, in the brookfield area. It is heavy into the construction zone. Travel times. Similar on the bypass. Thats a look at the morning right now, a milwaukee man is getting ready to be released from prison after more than two decades behind bars. Tim, why is he being released today . New dna evidence proves that Daryl Holloway did not commit the crimes he was convicted of. Yesterday, a Milwaukee County judge signed an order dismissing all charges against holloway and vacating his 120year sentence. Holloway was convicted of two sexual assaults and for that, hes already served 24 years, but the Innocence Project took another look at the case and had new dna tests done. Those tests proved that holloway is innocent. Holloway will be released from a prison in green bay later today. Back to you. Tim, thank you. Coming up on wisn 12 news this morning, the three things experts say you should consider before heading to the dealership. Plus, gameday excitement gone wrong. Police are called to a baseball stadium to look for a certain fan. What that person is accused of doing thats being called inexcusable. Here is look from news chopper 12. It is a gorgeous sunrise. Sunrise 6 54. We get a live look, the river, not far from the third ward this morning, where the temperatures are showing up in the 60s. In fact, 65 degrees at this hour at mitchell international. Almost need the air conditioning for today. The high clouds are going to fill in for us and increasing clouds and sandwich in a slight chance of a couple of showers. 61 at the airport. Here is a look at the radar and the satellite. Light rain showers over the western portion of the state. A couple of those rolling in later in the morning and early afternoon. Many are staying dry. We start with the sunshine, see a stray shower or two and clearing later in the afternoon. 12. Sally, we have 40 knots of wind 900 feet above the ground and 70 degrees. It is going to warm up down below soon. Oklahoma here under the freeway. The delays are typical. We have the officers followed southbound. We are going to follow them. Delays from moreland into downtown. Commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. New this morning, dough that could have made millions of cookies wasted. Millions of cookies. A truck carrying 27 thousand pounds of cookie dough crashed and burst into flames. It caused a big mess along an indianapolis interstate and the cookies all got burned. The road reopened after the accident got cleared. The back of the truck. I wondered if it smelled like a bakery. Not burnt cookies. Also new this morning, thieves come after an atm in a gas station. They rammed into the stores front door trying to get it. The truck crashed into the doors three times. Then two men got out of the truck and took off with an atm. Police in albuquerque say they found the empty machine in a Drainage Ditch the next day. 6 41. A little girl is called a hero this morning. That is because of the mom having a seizure behind the wheel. Plus, a woman climbs a utility pole to get away from an 6 44. We have updates from overnight on Hurricane Matthew. It is a major hurricane. The next 36 hours, a hurricane warnings and hurricane watches in place that goes from about the west palm north to johnsonville. If you are travelling in that direction, heed the watches and warnings. The times are there and getting close to eastern florida. Those Tropical Force Winds extendin heavy rain. We are both looking forward to the next update. The track is taking it back over the atlantic in the extended time period. Yes, lots of uncertainty with it. At home, we have a beautiful skies this morning. Racine the temperatures are 64 degrees. Most of the locations this morning between 60 and 66. Now there is a little light rain to the west. The clouds are filling in here to the east. For today and time out the rain tomorrow. Now to matt up in news chopper 12. Sally, we have found where the officers were headed it is a truck that lost its load on the 27th street onramp westbound. They have front end loader to upright it. As they do, they have that ramp is shutdown. The sheriffs are here and blocking the to the freeways, travel times for you. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Thank you, matt. Right now, nearly 2,000 people have been forced out of their homes as a wildfires rage in colorado. Tim is in the news room with the latest. Tim . Ben, im checking out you can see there are three wildfires burning in the state right now. This is denver here. This is the fire. The beulah hill fire has done some serious damage. Its spread to more than 5,000 acres just since monday. Eight homes and six other buildings have been destroyed so far. Dry and windy conditions are making it tough to fight but the wind is expected to calm down today. Fire crews are investigating to find out how the fire started. Fire Officials Say some people may be able to return to their homes this afternoon if firefighters are able to make progress fighting the flames. Back to you. Tim, thank you. Right now, two kids are in the hospital after a driveby shooting in cleveland. Police say a nineyearold and threeyearold were inside a home when gunshots rang out. One of them is in Critical Condition this morning. The other is in Serious Police are still searching for the suspects, two men who were reportedly driving a jeep. New this morning, a little a come in arkansas climbs an electrical tower. The woman climbed over a bashed wire fence and up the tower as she was trying to get away with a man that threatened her with a gun. A threeyearold boy lost in the cornfield and helps to find him. The boy got lost in antigo this week. Hundreds of volunteers helped search for him and a local Drone Company helped out too. They used drones to look from the air and to help organize the volunteers. Now officials in Langlade County are looking at buying their own drones for future searches. The Drone Company is offering to help with that too. We would train their deputies on how to use drones. In the long run, i think that would be the smartest thing to do so they have them on hand by the way, the little boy who got lost is safe at home this morning. New this morning, a 10yearold michigan girl is being called a hero for her quick thinking when her mom started having a seizure. She was driving at the time. The girl was in the car along with her two younger brothers. She steered it to the side of the road and put it in park. Then she called 911. Easily had been a car accident or the car they were in could have gone off the road and that. So no, this is a wonderful outcome. Very proud of this young lady. Shes a very brave person. The girls mother was taken to the hospital. Doctors say shes going to be fine. A thief rides away with a stolen dog. The owner left ruby alone. Just a few minutes outside by herself. Surveillance cams capture the thief riding away on the bike with the dog under his arm. The dog is back to the owner this morning and probably getting plenty of treats. And belly rubs. We are glad hes back home. I am glad to see the 70s again. Yes, not bad. Yes, for october. 74 degrees today and tomorrow, easily into the low 70 up nicely. Just a slight chance of a shower or two. We have been here for most of the overnight. The airport 65. We have brown deer 62. 67 at this hour in beaver dam. Not bad for october. We have a quick run up in the temperatures and cooling down for the weekend. Early nice and dry in the east. This is really light shower activity overall. I think most of it actually dries up. There is the next weather maker, showing up tomorrow and ushers in a cooler air mass, better chances for wet tomorrow. Now this morning, you can see by 9 00 a couple of clouds are filling in for us. We stand a chance for a stray shower, light and scattered between through 2 00 this afternoon. Most will be staying dry. A pretty sunset. We begin to clear. Eyette overnight until the predawn hours and seeing a round of rain moving in early tomorrow morning. Then we have lots of dry hours. We pitch easily into the low to mid 70s tomorrow. With a little heat ahead of a sharp cold front showers and i think we do see a few downpours from time to time late in the day tomorrow and tomorrow night. 70s today and tomorrow. A couple of showers early on friday, moving off. Breezy and cooler for saturday and sunday with the highs in the 50s but october sun. Matt . Sally, truck lost part of the load on 27th on now the travel times if you are headed out, it is busy along 94 eastbound and northbound bypass. Travel times. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. Creepy clown sightings across the country. Tim, now theyve spread to southeastern wisconsin. Prank but this is taking it too far. A sheboygan woman says she saw a clown looking into her window. Not cool. Police are looking into that case and several more clown sightings in the area. And schools in the milwaukee area and west bend are on high alert. Thats after receiving online messages threatening to have people in clown masks show up at schools. So far police havent uncovered any real threats. And overnight, our newsroom heard about another possible clown sighting. I will one next to me too. Step this way. Ill continue to follow the latest developments. Back to you. Tim, thank you. Commitment 2016, the campaign trail leads through wisconsin today. Donald Trumps Campaign is fighting to take over Hillary Clinton in the battle state. Horn event on saturday. Now later today, Bernie Sanders is campaigning in madison and green bay. Last night was the Vice President ial debate and the conversation was full of interruptions. Senator, i think i isnt this a discussion . Let me interrupt. Each candidate was focused on defending their running mate. Tim kaine, Hillary Clintons vp pick, defended her using a private email server while she was secretary of state, and mike pence, whos running alongside donald trump, had to answer for some questionable comments trump has made and for his tax returns. Six times tonight i have said to governor pence i cant imagine how you can defend your running mates position on one went through a very difficult time, but he used the tax code just the way its supposed to be used, and he did it brilliantly. According to a poll by cnn orc, 48 percent of people say pence won the debate, compared to 42 percent who thought kaine won. Wisn 12 news time now is 6 55. If you are looking to buy a new car, it turns out when and where you buy affects how much you pay. Find a comfortable with, because of returning for maintenance and potential recalls or your next car. If you are looking for a good deal, it does matter when you buy a car. What is the tried and true best time to buy a car . Well, i think, think of it this way, the end of whatever we are in. Weekend, the end of the day or the end of the year, at that point you are not competeing with the other buyers. He also said before you go to dealership decide if you want to negotiate or haggle. What do you think . You have to haggle. It is a car. They expect you to. You have to. That is part of the fun. Yes, i enjoy that. A rowedy moment at a baseball game. Jus the catch a fan threw a bottle at him. That is not nice. The fan missed. The announcer called that inexcusable and the Police Showed up to look for the fan. A final check on the forecast coming up next. Plus, we are on weather watch and traffic watch. 27th onramp is blocked with a truck that lost its load. 94 eastbound up to 16 minutes. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Just isolated shower chance for today and 70s today and tomorrow. Wetter tomorrow. We are tracking hurricane have a good wednesday. See you tomorrow. Good morning, america. Two major stories breaking overnight. This is matthew. Pray for us trail of destruction. At least 11 killed as Hurricane Matthew tears through the caribbean sweeping away town, unleashing raging floods. The deadly storm taking aim destruction could be catastrophic. States of emergency up through north carolina. Millions of americans on alert preparing to evacuate. Gas going fast, stations sold out. Stores running out of supplies. Our team tracking the monster storm right now. And a fiery faceoff. Insults and interruptions at the Vice President ial debate. And you are Donald Trumps apprentice. Let me talk about senator, i think im still on