Solid from the zoo. Jump off at 84 and take greenfield or blue mound. A new crash reported at burleigh and 41 northbound. Now up to 36 minutes 94 westbound tout to moreland. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Sally has the wet forecast. Sally well the computers are showing the rain showers moving tracking from southwest to northeast. The rain for the most part is on the lighter side. Fond du lac, sheboygan, dryer at this hour with the heaviest of the raining clipping the far southern portion of the state. The rain is extending well back to iowa. All soerntd with a stationary front. The low pressure is keeping the rain alive. 58 rain at the airport. Especially to the north counties throughout the morning and rain and downpours holding mid 50s much of the day. Tim we are following the latest in iowa. Two officers are dead after a shooting there. This happened over night in December Moin. The officers were killed in a pair of ambush style attacks. One is from December Moin and one they were killed in the squad cars. A manhunt is underway. There is clearly danger if you are a police officer. They are sitting in the car and doing nothing wrong. There is danger out there. Someone is out there and shooting Police Officers. Tim shocking news this morning, police plan to hold two more press conferences and the not been identified. The police say that officers are working in pairs to track down the suspect who is wanted in these shootings. We are watching for new information throughout the morning and throughout the day. Tim, thank you. Overnight police chase shuts down part of i43. This happened around 11 30 p. M. And the Police Spotted a vehicle taken in an armed robber and they sped away. The car lost control and crashed into a ditch. The Police Arrested one man and two juvenile females at the scene and they were taken to the hospital. The i43 northbound lane closed for the investigation. It is reopened this morning. That pursuit coming hours after a chase threw 3 counties only on down a Bank Robbery Suspect. Thema ponton is live with new information about this case. Good morning. Reporter Milwaukee Police one of the agencies involved in investigating this case. This started with a bank robbery near 60th and forest home and ended in hartford. Matt and news chopper 12 were Officials Say they called off the pursuit a number of times for safety reasons. But they were constantly watching news chopper 12s live picture. We were able to follow the pursuit on wisn 12 tv and the dispatchers alerted the troopers to the actual location. A number of vehicles were hit, and no one was seriously hurt. Authorities were at the gas station overnight processing the evidence. Now, district attorneys in 3 counties are considering charges related to the bank robbery, the chase and the traffic violations. Wisn 12 news this morning. Thank you, thema. Now to a big story here, the race for the white house, the focus is on fiem days leading up to the election. Republican president ial nominee and tim kaine making stops in the badger state yesterday and today we are getting a better idea for the race for the president is shaping up in wisconsin. Hillary mintz is live downtown with a preview of the Marquette Law School poll. Good morning, hillary. Reporter good morning, ben, the the advantage. We are going to find out if trump is closing the gap. Now, one thing that is clear, both parties are hitting wisconsin hard and rallying the support. The latest market poll 3 weeks ago showed Hillary Clinton with a 7 point lead. 4437 . That happened to be right around the time that the trump tape came out and now the polls are election day. The final Marquette Law School poll is coming out at 12 15. A lot of eyes are watching to see what the results are. Hillary, thank you. Only wisn 12 news is teaming up with abc news news to bring you big story coverage on Election Night live coverage all night on p. M. Now back to the weather. The rain is falling. We have heard the rain on the roofs. The rain is continuing to fill in for us. The north counties are dry at this hour. We have had the rain in the the remapder of southern wisconsin. The rain is continuing to fill in and the temperatures have fallen back. We had 60s overnight. We have fallen back to the 50s. Between thunder and lightning. Here is a look at the radar, you are seeing where we are looking at the yellow and orange are the embedded thunderstorms. Dryer up to the north. Ben, melinda . Thank you, sal. It is almost that time to cut down the milwaukee Christmas Tree. The 38 foot blue spruce is jeremy is joining us live. This messy. Jeremy yes we are having the rain right now. The crews just showed up. We have the crane here. The other truck is stabilizing it. The bucket truck is going up. There is a lot of equipment and planning going into it. It is the 3 it is put on a flat bed and taken to city hall. It is a beauty. The colorado blue spruce planted about 23 years ago. We talked to the homeowner and he mentioned he planted the tree and proud to see it displayed. Coming up around 6 30, give or take a little bit, they are cutting the tree and well try it is not feeling like the Christmas Season around the corner with the rain and mild temperatures this morning, but we are keeping close eye on the cutting of the tree. It is a tradition here in milwaukee. Back to you. Reporter the tree harvesting can impact the traffic on water and wells streets. Water is going down to one lane. And westbound traffic on is closed. So just keep that in mind. Be patient, it is for the tree cutting. We have a trash, 94 westbound. West of the county line. We have heavy delays getting to that. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. Big changes on the campus. What is taking over empty land plot at Marquette University starting today. Plus the biggest night for country stars is just hours away, a look behind is scenes at the Country Music awards on wisn theres a new medicare plan in town. One where personal Customer Service is much more than just words. Were Network Health. And this is an actual member event where some of our 63,000 medicare members are getting to meet the friendly voices on the other end of the phone, in person. Were new to you, but weve been serving northeast wisconsin with a personal touch for more than 30 years. And, 9 out of 10 Network Health members are satisfied with their medicare plans. If youd like to join them, call now either in or out of network. Plans with zero dollar monthly plan options, Prescription Drug coverage. Silversneakers fitness benefit, and person to person Customer Service. Call now and get help choosing your plan. Network health. Were local, we care, were person to person. Russ as ive traveled to all 72 counties, ive heard from a lot of people. Including seniors, concerned that ron johnson is going to turn medicare into a voucher program. Pen russ. Russ ive heard from families in need of good paying jobs. Blue collar guy ron johnsons trade deals help other countries, not us. Russ the bottom line people want an economy that delivers for them. Man we just need a fair shake, and, russ, i think you need a bigger van. Russ im Russ Feingold good morning. 6 13. We have trouble on the freeways. 94 westbound for the reverse commuters, there is a crash just past 121st street. Expect delays. You can see they are starting in the zoo interchange. Head up to blue mound. Greenfield avenue is working as well. To moreland road. We continue to look at the rain in place, especially across far southern wisconsin. Low pressure is cruising across illinois and clipping more of the southern counties. Dryer up to the north. Rain extends back to iowa. Low pressure is ripplin right now 58 at the airport. Lighter winds. The winds are staying light for today. This morning maybe pour an extra cup of coffee and take the rain gear throughout the day and 5558 with periods of rain. We have new information about the breaking news story out of iowa, two Police Officers are dead after a shooting overnight other from urbandale. I was checking here on twitter, the schools cancelled the classes for the day in urbandale. A manhunt is underway for whomever is responsible. Investigation is underway after a uw student from saudi arabia is beaten to Death Outside of a pizza parlor. Tim is following the story for us. Tim . Timsz police are investigating this death as a hate crime, but a white man is a possible attacker here. 24yearold died after injuries on monday after beaten on the sidewalk over the weekend. He was a student at uw. Students at the Muslim Student association at uwm are speaking now, the family was notified of his death in saudi arabia earlier this week. Back to you in the studio. Tim, thank you. Students here in milwaukee is standing in solidarity with the protestor in north dakota and holding a rally about the pipeline issue. Over the past several weeks act vis are clashing with the police in lines construction because of instreweding of the land of the tribe and could be con contaminate mating the water supplies. Marquette universitys campus is going to look different, they are breaking ground on two Residence Halls between 1718th street south of wells. We know this area well. The 750 bed halls house the freshmen and the sophomores. It is hoping in the fall of 2018. Marquette then plans to tear down mccormick hall, the building on wisconsin avenue. We are now just hours away from the Country Musics biggest nights, the cmas tonight at 7 00 on wisn 12. Look at the names. Seating assignments are done and the show is being hosted by country super stars Carrie Underwood and brad praisely. No one more aware that this is the 50th and making sure that it is sort of paying tribute to the right people. It is an honor. Fun, we get to see everything before everyone else does. You are not going to want to miss this show. It is exciting. The cmas tonight at 7 00 right here on wisn 12. Perfect to dry out from. It is rainy and yucky outside. Im okay with the wet weather today. I am thinking about yesterday. 77 degrees last wednesday we had a good rain much of the day. We are not getting that much rain today but certainly periods of rain and showers are in the forecast. A rumble or two of thunder throughout the day today. But then we are going to settle in with several dry days and a good looking weekend forecast. But we are looking at the radar, northeast. The north counties are a little dryer. Most of the steady rain is limited to the far southern tiered counties as the low pressure is continuing to cruise to the south. Now the rain and thunder persists back to iowa. This machine is going for much of the morning and afternoon for us. What happens is this is beginning to break down and moving to the east. Temperatures have fallen back, 48 in sheboygan. 52 waukesha. 58 at the airport. Everybody for the most part is staying there on lighter northeast winds. Here we are looking at the rain. A heavy hand is moving off and away, another round coming in at 8 00 this morning. North counties are just a little dryer. The heaviest of the rains milwaukee, and to the south. Lunchtime showers. Spotty and lighter in the afternoon hours. This is 5 30. Tonight and tomorrow. Some clouds are lingering on thursday morning and scouring out the clouds and pulling for a good looking weekend. Rain gear for today. Temperatures Holding Steady 5558. 47 tonight. 57 tomorrow. Look at the sunshine friday, saturday, sunday and monday. With low to mid 60s. Matt, this is morning for extra winks. Well, westbound, shake a leg, a delay and crash. The county line, delays stretching from milwaukee to Waukesha County. With the 2 right lanes blocked, the delays back to 94. Head up to blue mound or green field. 29 minutes out to moreland road. The delays are spilling back to thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Thank you, matt. 6 20. A lot of crying and screaming on late light tv. We have the high lights from the epic candy prank next. Plus, a battle over ballots, i love that. Thanks for the wednesday morning shout out. We have not had a class sing before. This is a first. If you are interested in a logo. It is a holiday tradition, parents pretenting to eat aum of the kids candy. This is so funny. Last night jimmy kimmel aired the kids responses caught on camera. And we ate all of your candy. That is so funny. This is the sixth year of the late night look out. My goodness. That was a little violent. Hes passing out. He cant take it. These girls are not happy. Oh, so angry. Some will say okay, mom, dad, it is okay. I will share. No, not him. Hes dropping. These kids are dramatic. Another attack. This. First, you have to see it. Expletives earlier. 6 25. Two Police Officers are shot and killed in iowa. First, here is matt with the traffic. Wep trouble on i94 westbound, we have a crash at 121st street around the county line delays back to 84th street. We have the tral times coming up. Stay wit im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Id look her right in that fat ugly face of hers. Shes a slob. She ate like a pig. A person whos flat chested is very hard to be a 10. Does she have a good body . No. Does she have a fat [expletive] . I cant say that either. What greases the gears in washington . Money. And ron johnson fits right in. Six years ago, johnson took a shady 10 million corporate payout, went to washington, then voted to protect 21 billion in tax breaks for the Worlds Biggest Oil companies. 21 billion. Son. Thats washington. And he fits right in. End Citizens United is responsible for the content of this ad. we are on weatherwatch 12. This is a live look at the rain falling now. We are tracking how long you want to have the umbrella with you. Good morning and welcome to wisn 12 news this morning. Im ben wagner. Melinda and im melinda davenport. Its 6 30 on this wednesday, november 2nd. Tradition, the crews are getting ready to cut down the city Christmas Tree. We have a live report coming up. First, a check on the rainy forecast. Sal. The crews are working in the rain. That is where jeremy is live this morning. 58 degrees. Northwest winds. The rain is filling in across southern wisconsin and you are seeing it moving from southwest to the north and east. Pivoting into illinois and wisconsin and head our way. So we are keeping the wet look going for much of the area. However, the showers are lighter across the north counties. This is low pressure cruising to the south. We focus on the temperatures in the 50s. Rain and thunder this morning. Matt, any troubles on the roads . Yes, we have had a couple of wrinkles in the morning commute. 94 westbound, Waukesha County side near 121st street. It is taking a bit for the tow truck to get there. Westbound delays back to holly road and out. Take blue mound or greenfield the bypass as well. 28 minutes. If you are headed for the bypass 10 minutes. 1 thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, we have breaking news. We have a situation in iowa, two Police Officers are dead after a shooting. Police say the officers were shot and killed in an ambush a manhunt is now underway for whomever is responsible. No other details have been 2sz released about what led up to this shooting. Again, two des moines Police Officers were shot and killed overnight. The Police Responded to the scene to help and a Des Moines Police then shot and killed there. We are vigilant about safety but we have go out and do it. People expect us to come and answer the call and we are going to do that. Just a very difficult morning for the Police Officers there in iowa. Those officers were killed separately while sitting in the squad cars. They were clearly targeted. For now, back to you. Ben now to video youll see only on wisn 12 news. News chopper 12 was overhead when a Bank Robbery Suspect was arrested after a Dangerous Police say the man robbed a north shore bank in milwaukee then jumped into a white van and sped away. The chase passed through three counties yesterday. Thema is live downtown with new information. Good morning, thema. Well, good morning, ben, that suspect is behind bars this morning as police in 3 counties investigate this case, including right here in milwaukee. Now authorities were a scene well into the night. We have new video where the situation ended in a gas station in hartford. A Bank Robbery Suspect was arrested after a chase. The suspect weaved through the traffic and hitting a number of cars avoiding others. The man stopped at a gas station and bought a pack of cigarettes. News chopper 12 played a big we also were able to use your helicopter signal on live tv to eventually locate the subject and get him into custody. As he was moving around on the ground, you were following him from the air. We werent far behind and once he came to the stop here at the gas station and blend in to pedestrian traffic, we were able to take him into custody. Reporter near the Milwaukee County line. Officials say no one was seriously hurt during any of this. Now district attorneys in 3 counties are considering charges related to the robbery, the chase and the other traffic violations. Live outside of the Milwaukee Police headquarters wisn 12 news this morning. Thema, thank you. Matt is here