It feel even worse and making kids budle up as they wait for school to start. Perhaps none are impacted more by the cold than those kids hiking to school. And parents. Who drop them off. Pete zervakis talked with a little of both this morning as they arrived shivering for class. Shalissa james and her son charles are waiting for the doors to open at whitman middle school. Not outside. But in shalissas car. You dont want to take a chance she doesnt want charles standing around in the cold. I like to bring him right before school goes in so he wont be standing out here long according to the Wauwatosa School district. School doors are open earlier during very cold weather. To minimize student time outside. Each principal decides weather or not to move kids indoors for recess. Especially if the temperature or windchill hits 5 degrees. At least some schools are doing that today. Were bundled up. I have on a warm jacket right here snow pants, heavy boots in wearing a shirt and sweater and th
Now at 4 30 bundle up. Cold temperatures are expected to get even colder. Eventually that siberian air is going to settle in and bring more snow with it. Meteorologist jesse ritka joins us now with when youll need to fire up the snowblowers again. Blue skies are not helping warm us up this afternoon with a biting wind from the west that has been making it feel like the Single Digits and lower. As those skies turn dark overnight they will stay clear and that will drop at 2025mph the wind chills may get dangerous with feels like temps between 20 and 30 degrees so a wind chill advisory goes into effect at 9pm and continues until 10am a state republican wants to require all High School Students participating in Extracurricular Activities to be subject to random drug testing. Representative joel kleefischs proposal is one of several coming from a task force he convened looking at ways to combat heroin use. The proposal would also require random testing for students who park vehicles on scho
To get something. This is something where were asking for trouble. Do not leave your car running unattended. And the Greenfield Fire Department says dont warm up your car in a garage, even with the garage doors open. If your car is in the garage, even if your garage door is open, we ask that you pull your car out of the garage. Because even when the door is open you can build up co gasses in the garage and that could be deadly. Com for our live radar and interactive maps, and any other Weather Information you need. A small fire broke out on the roof of the Pfister Hotel in downtown milwaukee today. Someone across the street noticed the flames and called the fire department. The folks here at the pfister did a great job evacuating people from that area we had no injuries that im aware of and the situation was mitigated in a relatively started in some construction material. Firefighters kept the flames from spreading. More local news now. A arbage truck worker hit by a car in racine this
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85 degrees. The normal highs 79. Mostly sunny and humid. You will feel this morning and for today. Find a cool spot going up to 87. 88 to 90 for thursday and a good chance for rain and storms, epts later in the day on thursday and thursday night and hopefully the rain will linger on friday. The weekend is looking cooler. Here is tt. T utth ere. No problems in front of 13th street and i94 looking good. Right now no troubles with the travel times. No reason to rush out the door. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt,hank you. Well, it is election day in wisconsin and the polls open at 7 00 this morning. Now it is a partisan primary and that means you can only vote for candidates from one party. Attention, for the First District between paul ryan and paul neelan. We have live at one of the sites. Good morning, thema. Well, good morning, melinda, this is one of the many places thatre people are casting their ballot for the races and the high profile race has even caught th