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WDJT CBS 58 News At 4pm August 22, 2016

Camera video from that incident. Until the investigation is complete. Thats the message today from state attorney general brad sch. Schimel. Cbs 58s Jacob Kittilstad joins us live with an update on the case, jacob. Attorney general brad schimels says the decision to hold back on releasing the body camera videos is simple. At his press Conference Held at the Wisconsin Center he imagined a worst Case Scenario where the Milwaukee County da determines charges . Against . The officer are appropriate . . But . . Complete a successful investigation because they let the investigation get compromised. One piece of information coming out of this morning investigators say not just one. But . Two . Police body cameras recorded what happened in that confrontation in sherman park august 13. Milwaukee Police Officers involved have not been show those videos although schimel say they have requested it. But also this means that the family of Sylville Smith has not been shown the video. The family has been working with because of the nature of the situation. 3 somewhere along the way there was a question asked by a member of the media, possibly several of them is the family happy with the investigation . and the word happy has nothing to do with their lifright now. Theres nothing satisfactory about the situation that theyre in. And no one would want to trade places with them. Them. The announcement comes after ca release the video feafor that the delay could lead to more unrest. Attorney general schimel says the ultimate decision on releasing the video will be up to the Milwaukee County district attorney. And it will be shown to the smith family before anyone else. Live in milwaukee. Jacob kittilstad. Cbs 58 news. 3 youll remember Sylville Smith was shot and killed near 44th and auer over a week ago. In the 48 hours following his streets. Burning at least eight businesses. Several Law Enforcement officers were injured and multiple people were arrested. 3 sherman park is Still Closing early at six every night. A curfew for teens 17 and under is also still being enforced. Milwaukee county Officials Say the curfew is in place until further notice. 3 well have continuing coverage on the investigation into the deadly officer involved shooting. And the unrest that followed both on air and online at cbs 58 dot com. We have new details on the streetcar coming to milwaukee. Construction on the project is slated to start as early as this fall downtown. Cbs 58s amanda devoe joins us live with the new information. Amanda. Crews will start working on the multiMillion Dollar project after the city selected a company out of omaha nebraska to be the official contractor. Kiewit infrastruure. Will overseall phases of the project. Which according to includes installation of the rail, the overhead contact system and streetcar stops. An official with the departme of public works says you wont see any tracks laid down, due to the unpredictable weather, however. He says they . May start working on the maitenance facility. Which will be near the train station downtown. For residents, for businesses, for employees of downtown. People visiting milwaukee, they can just hope on it coming from the train from chicago, they can just come nd meetings 3 the streetcars route through the third ward. Is slated to Start Service in fall of 2018. With the lakefront line extension launching service in 2019. Meterologist rebea schu joins us now to get you ready 3 3 a teen led police on a pursuit last night that strechted through several jurisdictions. Jurisdictions. It started at the intersection of 60th and brown deer road around 11 30 where officers noticed a stolen van. They tried to pull it over but the iver took off. He crashed into a car at 76th and good hope d just kept on going. The van eventually crashed again near 84th and carmen in milwaukee, when thdriversed a turn 17yeold waarrested and 3 a 64yearold woman was killed in a crash last night. It happened around six when a car ran a red light at 27th and wells. The oncoming car was tboned. Police say the woman who was killed passenger in one of the vehicles. More details today about a man who died in police custody. Custody. Shorewood Police Arrested a man last monday for a Domestic Violence incident. Just hours later. Police found him unresponsive in his cell. He was taken to the hospital where life saving efforts were not pronounced dead yesterday. The Milwaukee County invesigative team is looking into the death. The former west bend city administrator accused of sex is headed to ial. Girl for cort in waukesha couthis in rning. A trial date has been set for december 13th. The week before that there will be a jury status hearing. Justice resigned as city administrator back in april after explicit Text Messages were discovered a Hardware Store in Manitowoc County was destroyed by an Early Morning fire. That fireifighters say was really difficult to put out. Cbs 58s julie parise reports. 3 no one was hurt in this fire but it did require a lot of manpower to put of these flames. A fire chief tells us 100 firefighters from 10 different agencies were called out here just after 5am when the flames b o you can see the flames shooting up. Fire ief tells they are coming at this fire from the top down because the fire is shooting up through the walls. Were told bc a lot of the products inside the store are accelerants, it made this fire difficult to fight. Fight. It is making the situatuion ore difficultt. We have pubilc works on hand monitoriing to make sure there are n hazardous materials, we have nothing at this pont apartment next door to the Hardware Store but were told they made it out safely. Reporting in manitowac county im jp cbs 58 3 dozens of people are homeless after a deadly fire at a sheboygan apartment complex. The fire ripped through ember apartments early sunday morning. One person was killed. The building is destoryed and will not be rebuilt. Forty people are out of their homes. The red cross set up a temporary shelter at a nearby mileschool and is looking for donations to help the families. New fallout from controversy as Donald Trumps image makeover hits a roadblock. Im weijia jiang at the white house with the latest coming up. Up. 3 plus people are returning to their damaged homes in southern louisiana after devestating floods. The latest just ahead. In news around the nation. 3 plus meterologist rebecca campaign 2016 now. Hillary clintons email controversy continues to follow her on the campaign trail. Donald trump is also defending himself, the latest from the white house. The state department is going through nearly 15thousand emails that were recovered during the fbis investigation of Hillary Clintons private email server. Server. We still dont have a firm sense of how many of these 14,900 are new, that we havent seen before. The department expects to release the first batch of messages just before novembers president ial election. The latest cbs news Battleground Tracker shows ohio. The two are tied in iowa. Iowa. After a staff shake up, donald trump appeared more disciplined. He spent last week reading from teleprompters and sticking to the campaigns message. Message. I think hes shown maturity. I think that hes growing in his role. But on monday, trump attacked the hosts of msnbcs morning joe implying the couple is having an affair some day, when things calm down, ill tell the real story of joenbc and his very insecure longtime clowns republican pollster frank luntz says voters are turned off by trumps personal. Attacks. They hate it when he is laser like in his criticisms of specific people or specific things. They find him mean. They find him insulting. Trumps new Campaign Manager says he doesnt hurl personal insults. Until hes attacked first. Weijia jiang, cbs news, the white house. 3 across southern debris is piling up on the side of roads and outside homes. As families return to cleanup whats left after devestating floods. Floods. More than 60thousand homes have been damaged. The historic flooding has ced more than 106thousand people to register for fema assistance. A oneweek total the agency hasnt seen since superstorm sandy. Fema representatives say some places are still unreachable but they are active in all 20 we did have teams on the ground as the waters were rising and we have teams here all the way throug throug more than 36 Million Dollars in federal spending has been approved to help louisiana recover. President obama will visit the stormdamaged areas tomorrow. Authorities in turkey now believe the bomber who attacked a Wedding Party on sunday . Was a child . Possibly as young as 12. Cbs news correondent, Holly Williams reports from istanbul. Survived the attack and were taken to hospital, apparently in shock after their Wedding Party became the scene of a massacre. Gaziantep is just 40 miles from the Syrian Border and isis is the most likely culprit, according to turkeys president. So far the extremists havent claimed responsibility but if the suicide bomber was indeed a the innocent to carry out acts of heinous violence. In the iraqi city of kirkuk yesterday, cuty forces say they stopped this boy who was wearing a suicide vest and prented him from detonating himself. This boy turned himself in to police in baghdad in 2014 asking them to cut off his suicide vestbecause he didnt nt to blow himself up. Isis isnt the only Extremist Group to e what is unusual is the role of children in the groups propaganda video in which theyve repeatedly been shown apparently carrying out executions. Most of the videos are simply too disturbing for us to show you. Imagine the damage done to the children inv . Involved . Turkish Officials Say they are trying to identify the young suicide bomber. Remnants of the suicide vest found at the scene. Holly williams, cbs news, istanbul. 3 michigan residents are cleaning up today after a number of tornaodestouched down over the weekend. A tornado hit the small town of bango, michigaand also touched down in grand rapids. Yesterday the National Weather Service Found evidence of a brief ef0 tornado in northeast grand rapids. They also found ef1 tornado damage between bangor and jamestown, michigan. Volunteers are still debris and fallen trees and helping those with damaged homes. 3 heres a look at the traffic conditions now. 3 now that the rio olympics have wrapped up. Its time to look ahead to when the us have a chanec to play host. A wrap of the Olympic Games and the rio olympics are over after a colorful and musical closing ceremony. Ceremony. The haul of 121 medals is the most the us has ever won in an olympics that wasnt boycotted. Michael phelps and Katie Ledecky helped the us swim team grab 33 medals in the pool. The track and field team took home 32. D biles led the gymnastics squad with 12. But it wasnt all good for team usa. American swimmer ryan lochte is now apologizing for embellishing a story that he and his teammates were robbed at gunpoint in rio. Today he lost three major sponsors including speedo and could face punishment from the u. S. Olympic committee. 3 the next olympics are in 2020. Theyll be held in tokyo, japan but theres some added excitement about the following olympics in could be held here on american soil. Cbs news correspondent ben tracy explains with the olympic flame now extinguished in rio. T competition to get the 2024 games is really heating up. Los angeles mayor Eric Garcetti was in rio to convince olympic officials his city should play host. Why would hosting the olympics actually be good for los angeles given how much this costs . Well i think a lot of people are asking who would ever want these days . we know we could do a games that would be profitable. Just like they were in 1984 when we helped save the olympic movement. Los angeles was the only city that wanted the games in 1984 and it made money. La predicts its 2024 games would cost about 6 billion dollars and generate a 161 Million Dollar surplus from tv rights, sponsorships, and ticket sales. The la colesium would be updated and a temporary swimming venue already exists. The planned 2 point six billion dollar state of the art Los Angeles Rams football stadium would become a centerpiece of the games. Los angeles is up against paris, rome, and budapest. Paris is a favorite as 2024 would be 100 years since it last hosted the games. The entire olympic ideal is to have bigger, higher, faster, stronger profits professor Christopher Gaffney has studied the impact of the olympics on host cities. He says most games make millions for the International Committee but leave their hosts billions of dollars in debt with empty and rotting olympic venues. In the past decade the olympics have cost an average of 8. 9 billion dollars with an average cost overrun of 156 percent. But las mayor says bringing the games back to the heart of hollywood is not only a win for la but the entire country. It will be some time before we know wholl host the 2024 olympics the committee will ben tracy, cbs news, rio de janeiro. 3 coming up some new details emerge in the investigation into a deadly officer involved shooting that led to violence in milwaukee. 3 and some local Fire Departments are worried they wont have enough people to protect their communites. A live report on the shortage of volunteer firefighters ahead. 3 plus. The emergency repairs on the basilica of st. Josaphat are moving along. Well update you on the process. Coming up. 3 weve got much more news and weather state attorney general, brad schimel offered an update today on the investigation into a fatal officer involved shooting. That sparked unrest and violence in the sherman park neighborhood. Neighborhood. Schimel reiterated today that the department of justice . Will not . Release any body camera video until their investigation is complete. Schimel couldnt give many details. But did say they are working on collecting every piece of evidence available. Including, one piece of video they havent seen yet. Schimel says there is body camera video . From both . Officers who were conducting the traffic stop nine days ago, when sylivlle smith was shot and killed. Schmel called for clam from the community while the investigation continues. He says he doesnt want to do anything that might compromise their findings. I can tell you right now, viewing the body camera video questions. Your questions will be better answered when the videos are viewed in the context of all the information gathered in the investigation. More importantly, release of the videos would compromise the integrity of the investigation. Investigation. Both the Police Officers involed and the smith family . Have not . Seen the body camera video. Schimel promised complete. The family of Syville Smith will be the first to see it. 3 Milwaukee Police released this photo today showing a possible suspect from the unrest sparked by that officer involved shooting. Police say around two in the morning on sunday, august 14th six cars pulled up to the mjm liquor store on 23rd and fond du lac. Three or four people broke in, looted the store, then set it on fire using moltov cocktails. The atf and Milwaukee Police are asking the public to help them nt if you know anything call mpd at 9357360 or 1 888atffire. 3 we will have continuing coverage on the investigation into the fatal officer involved shooting. And the unrest that followed both on air and online at cbs 58 dot com. Meterologist Rebecca Schuld joins us now to get you ready 3 3 3 some local Fire Departments are finding themselves in a tough situation. Many of the smaller departments are volunteer run. And right now. Theres a shortage of vol. Volunteers. Cbs 58 and Telemundo Wisconsin reporter Christine Flores joins us live from the germantown fire depatnt wit more. Christine. The fire the Fire Department here in germantown says theyve been facing the issue for several years as the city continues to grow. This year alone theyve already responded to about 250 more calls than they did last year. Delain the budgets arent getting any bigger biggernats of fire truck door delain our call volume is increasing greatly those are some of the issues now deputy chief john delain says hes seen departments faced with during his 18 years of service which began as a volunteer. Delain you get to meet so you get to see how your community operates. A huge source of pride and just makes you feel good about your community. Like delain, fire chief gary weiss says another problem is awarness. People may not realize the demands of the job are more of a lifestyle. Lifestyle. Weiss some people cant deal with someone thats horribly injured or someone thats burned, or dealing with the emotional aspects of someone whose house just burned. Delain youre there to help people on the worst day of their life and if you can make that day just a little bit better, youve already accomplished so much already. On average, weiss put in the line of duty. That incl

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