Released last week one protester here today said she was disgusted when she read it and in an unprecedented move the Common Council allowed her to make a presentation during this mornings meeting. I think its important for the community to see we are not going to hide from the traditional problems the city of milwaukee has had. We want to demonstrate what open and transparent government looks like dangerous precedent here that we are going to disrupt our Council Meeting son any given occassion by people demanding that they be heard. Specifally the woman who spoke said she was upset over the recommendation to add more officers and deputies. She also said they need to make Community Meetings more accessible to the public so were told the Common Council does plan to hold two Community Meetings before anything in the plan is finalized and those meetings are in the process of being scheduled. We also want to mention this mornings disruption caused the Common Council to cancel a presentation scheduled to honor two Milwaukee Police officers who saved a boy from drowning while off duty. Reporting live from city hall rm todays some mps red carpet treatment for their first day of school. Students at Sherman Multicultural Arts School were greeted by music, balloons, a red carpet and mayor tom barrett. School leaders say the theme this year is all about turnaround and improving student achievement. This school is blocks away from the unrest in sherman park. Mayor barrett says it was important to show the pomp and circumstance. The neighbors are excited for the positive vibe. They said were happy to see this is more indicative of this neighborhood. This is what sherman park is all about. Mps superintendent, dr darienne driver, says its important for kids to know they have a safe place to go like school. More than 75 thousand mps students started back to school this morning. Now that school is back in session drivers need to be more alert; watch out for more children walking and School Busses on the roads. Ann sterling is live with more on changes coming to School Busses thea this law is new wisconsin but every other state in the nation already has it. The new law requires amber lights on most school buses. A familiar rumble and roll is back. Now that school is back in session, drivers get ready youre going to see new lights on school buses. Flashing amber lights. Basically, treat it like a red light getting ready to stop. Red light they are stopped so you must stop behind the vehicle. The flashing amber lights tell drivers the bus is preparing to stop. Cars are allowed to pass buses while those lights are on but only if it is safe to do so. Once the red lights start flashing. Drivers must stop. Its very important if you see the red lights and the stop arms on the side of the bus its time to stop. Not all buses will have the new 8 light system but if t bus was made after january of 2005 its required to have the flashing amber lights. Really the only difference is now its an amber light saying you have to slow down before it was red indicating they have to stop right away. If you pass a bus when the light turns red the fine is steep. More than 300 dollars and you a state trooper or Police Officer doesnt have to number and turn you in. Classes also kicked off today at schools in racine. New this year. The Racine Unified School district working with the Police Department to implement a communityoriented policing model in its schools. The two entities will train officers to better relate to students. So they can help not only with law enforcmenent issues. But also mental health. And truancy problems. Understanding how to deescslate and build relationships with students so theyre seen as part of the support group that helps all of our students be successful the district will also be upgrading security equipment like cameras throughout this school year. That funding was approved as part of a referendum passed in 2014. A warm welcome for students at siefert elementary. Judge derek mosely was there this morning talking to kids about his job and wishing them well on the first day. Mosely had a kidney transplant and is not well bench, but he says when it comes to siefert he has to be there. Its a lot easier for us to raise strong kids than it is to repair broken men. So if we can do whatever we can to get men out here, to get women out here to support these kids because who can say that kids get enough hugs and enough encouragement. Mosely invited other prominent people in the community to come and greet kids including firefighters and Police Officers. Mosely says the best way to show the kids they can be anything is having them see examples. Temperatures feeling more like fall for the first day of school. Meteorologist brian gotter in the Weather Center with the forecast. After so many warm and very humid days, yesterday was beautiful with low humidity, a brisk ne breeze and highs only in the mid 70s, with a lot of sunshine. This morning was mostly cloudy and cool with lows near 60 along the lake and 50s inlandreat sleeping weather. After the cool morning, this afternoon is with highs struggling to reach 70 thanks to a brisk ne breeze to 20 mph. Some areas will stay in the 60s today, and there is a chance for a few sprinkles near the lake. Tonight is clear and cool with lows in the 50s. Decision 2016 nowtonight, libertarian president ial nominee gary johnson will make his First Campaign stop in wisconsin. The former new mexico governor is slated to speak at serb hall in milwaukee. Doors open at 6. Its free and open to the public. Hillary clintons president ial campaign will hit pause on september 11th in honor of the 15th anniversary of the terror attacks. Clinton and runningmate tim kaine will stop operations and will not asked each main president ial candidate to suspend all Campaign Activity to honor the day. Gary johnson also said he would not campaign on september 11th. Donald trump is back in the us today after a quick trip to mexico before laying out his immigration plan. In the arizona speech, trumps plan immediately deporting 2 million criminal immigrants verifying that workers are legal and cracking down on those who over stay visas. The focus trump says should be on americans, not immigrant famies a wisconsin legislator says he plans to introduce a bill outlawing a new synthetic drug. Representative Joel Kleefisch said he wants to ban the sale and possession of a synthetic opiod more potent than morphine. The drug has been linked to at least 50 deaths nationwide. The next legislative session begins in january. A National Survey of pediatricians shows the percentage of doctors un willing to treat patients who dont vaccinate their kids for nonmedical reasons has doctors disagree whether its an appropriate practice. In 2006, 6 percent of pediatricians around the us refused to treat patients for continued vaccine refusal. A study published this week in the journal pediatrics showed the number had nearly doubled to 11point7 percent. Children are required to be vaccinated to attend school. However, wisconsin does allow exemptions for medical reasons, religious and personal beliefs. Packers extra now tonight marks the final preseason ga on the kansas city chiefs. Coach Mike Mccarthy will then be faced with deciding which player make up the team. That could be potentially stressed in the game. As we just mention tonight is the final preseason game for here on todays tmj4. Your official packers station. Still ahead. One hurricane is ramping up, and the other one is being downgraded. Which state is already seeing problems from these major storms. Then. 911 memorial controversy. Why some say this strong storms and heavy rain from hurricane madeline pounded hawaiis coast line wednesday. These pictures are from hilo on the bi while the storm moved south of the island, Severe Weather pummeled the eastern shoreline. There was also coastal flooding. The big waves however, did draw out people who wanted to look at nature at her highest fury. Along the florida panhandle, residents are awaiting the arrival of Tropical Storm herminewhich is expected to make landfall as early as tonight. Dianne gallagher reports from floridas gulf coast as people in the region hunker down and hope the storm passes quickly. Were going to have storm tornado, and this is going to go across the state. Parts of florida are already feeling the effects of hermine. Walked in my garage and theres a river in my garage. Ive been watching the water, watching it rise, so if it gets to a certain point, then i will leave. The Tropical Storm could become a hurricane by the time it officially makes landfall along floridas gulf coast, sometime tonight were going to have storm surge, were going to have rain, we have the risk of tornado, and th state. Its going to start some and its going to hit northern part of the state. To see a lot of rain, especially on southeast storm. Tropical storm hermine strengthens into a will be the landfall in florida in decade. But good news. It this storms pretty fast once it hits land, its going to go pretty fast through the state so i think were going to have a really nice weekend. And while the people of florida have been through Tropical Storms and hurricanes before, they know how to get ready for this, this is still an emergency situation. We are talking water from every direction here, six foot storm surge, up to 20 inches of rain predicted and then of course, there is the wind. More than 70 Miles Per Hour in some areas could be what they are dealing with. So the next 36 hours here, that is what is really key for everyone. In apalachicola, on the gulf coast, im Dianne Gallagher reporting. Brian gotter joins us now with a look at your forecast. After so many warm and very humid days, yesterday was beautiful brisk ne breeze and highs only in the mid 70s, with a lot of sunshine. This morning was mostly cloudy and cool with lows near 60 along the lake and 50s inlandreat sleeping weather. After the cool partly cloudy, breezy and cool with highs struggling to reach 70 thanks to a brisk ne breeze to 20 mph. Some areas will stay in the 60s today, and there is a chance for a few sprinkles near the lake. Tonight is clear and cool with lows in the 50s. Friday is mostly sunny and pleasant with highs in the low to mid 70s, and the comfortable continue on saturday with highs in the mid to upper 70s and lows in the 50s. Sunday is mostly sunny, warmer and more humid with highs near 80, and labor day is partly cloudy and humid with highs in the lower 80s and a few isolated afternoon showers. As we say goodbye to summer, this great weather is the same for northern wisconsin during the a nineeleven Memorial Monument is causing controversy in a small town in southern new york state. A group is taking issue with the writing on the monument. It calls the perpetrators of the nineeleven attacks, islamic terrorists. The Islamic Organization of the southern muslims living in the area. The town supervisor doesnt see it that way. I dont live in a politicallycorrect world. I live in a historical fact world and cross terrorism, whether its american, homegrown, christianity, islamic, you call it what it is. And, we dont whitewash things, especially here. And, we just think that weve done the accurate citing of what happened. The Islamic Group has asked that the monument just read, terrorists or even alqaeda two children and an employee injured after a hitandrun driver, plowed into an colorado daycare. Police say the driver was trying to elude police when he ran into a parked car, loss control and slammed into the front of the daycare. Fortunantly all three injured suffered only minor injuries. The driver was arrested, and is believed to have been under the influence of drugs. Some automakers are being applauded by Safety Experts for making it easier to install child restraints into released today by the Insurance Institute for highway safety, three vehicles achieved the highest rating of goodplus the audi q7, the lexus rx and the toyota prius. This year, the institute conducted tests on 170 vehicle models. Most earned a good or acceptable rating. Coming up. Which major retailer thinks you should start holiday shopping. Right now. And how theyre encouraging you to get started. And like Pumpkin Spice a latte. How you can on starbucks fall signature vo we went to hollywood to ask if americas favorites burgers, tacos and chili with just one bite, they knew. Now its your turn to make the switch. Russ feingold im Russ Feingold and i approve this message. Narrator listen to senator johnson on Student Loans ron johnson its just kinda free money, young people dont really, necessarily understand finance. Narrator what senator johnson doesnt understand is, more than 800,000 wisconsinites have Student Loans. S and keep Interest Rates high. Johnson its just kinda free money. Narrator with senator johnson, opportunity for middle class kids would disappear. Ron johnsons not for students. For your money this afternoon fans of starbucks Pumpkin Spice latte can get their hands on the popular beverage. Beginning today. But you have to use your psl fan code to get one. Starbucks will officially begin to sell the latte to everyone in its stores on tuesday. With the introduction of a new fall beverage. The chile mocha. Pumpkin spice has been a fall favorite since being introduced in 2003. From fall to winter walmart is kicking off Layaway Program tomorrow. The retail giant is hoping to get a head start on the yearend shopping season. Customers can put items as low as ten dollars on layaway with a 50 dollar minimum basket and will have until december 12th to pay off their account. Also today, walmart released its annual top toys list for the holidays. Select bags of macadamia nuts are being recalled nationwide due to possible salmonella contamination. Snyderslance is recalling diamond of california macadamia nuts and and sometimes deadly infections in young children, the elderly and others with weakened immune systems. No illnesses have been reported. Bimbo bakeries is issuing a recall for entenmanns little bite snacks. The recall comes after consumers complained of finding plastic bits in the dessert treats. At least one injury is reported. The recall affects little bites fudge brownies chocolate chip muffins and variety packs. Bimbo bakeries says it traced the problem to a manufacturing failure at a bakery in illinois. Coming up. A special honor for a local world war 2 veteran. Whats being done to remember one of wisconsins bravest women. And just hanging around. Been wondering where vince has been all week . Hes not up here yet well tell you why hell be hanging from the side of miller park. At at t, we believe in access. The opportunity for everyone to explore a Digital World full of possibilities. Connecting with family, friends and the things that matter most. And because nothing keeps us more connected than the internet, weve created access from at t. If a member of your household is a snap participant, you may qualify for Home Internet at a discounted rate of 10 a month. No commitment, deposit, or installation fee. Northwestern mutual is goin gold this month in recognition of Childhood Cancer awareness month. Nml has done this in the past to show support for different causes. Through the month of september, both the downtown and franklin campuses will be lit up in gold every night. Tomorrow, vince will once again rappel down miller park to raise money for Special Olympics wisconsin. This is video from when he did it last year. Vinces goal is to raise fivethousanddollars for Special Olympics. Hes about ha like to help out and donate weve posted a link on tmj4 dot com. A wisconsin nurse killed in World War Two will have her legacy last for ages. 2nd lieutenant Ellen Ainsworth was a member of the Army Nurse Corp and died after getting hit by shrapnel. Now a post office in northwestern wisconsin has been named after her so her memory and heroic actions live on. Were her parents, brother, and sister alive today, they such a tribute to ellen in their hometown. In her short life of nearly 25 years, her bravery and selflessness has not been forgotten. Ainsworths other honors include the silver star, purple heart and red cross bronze medals. Live at 12 30 is up next deadliest month in 20 years. The city of chicago now has more murders than new york and los angeles. What Police Officers say needs to change. Also. Space x explosion. What happened florida that had crew members watching as the unmanned rocket burst into thanks for joining us this afternoon. Im bridget shanahan. If youre justni heres a look at your top stories today. Tonight, libertarian president ial nominee gary johnson will make his First Campaign stop in wisconsin. The former new mexico governor is slated to speak at serb hall in milwaukee. Doors open at 6. Donald trump is campaigning in wilmington, ohio today. And Hillary Clinton is Holding Events in ohio as well. The first day of school and youre going to seeing something new on School Busses amber lights. If you see the amber lights flashing, it means the bus is about to stop. Once the bus has stopped th
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