Late. They are still out there. They are getting rid of the merge lane at national avenue. That is where it is closed. Once it is reopened you have the extra lane. Right now 14 minutes northbound from the hale up to the zoo. That is the only problem out there. It is not a big problem for much longer. Back to melinda the Hillary Clinton campaign is also heading to wisconsin today. Reporter both of the candidates are focussed on the badger state and getting you to polling places here. Donald trump, hes head lining a former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. Vice president nominee is headed to wisconsin and attending rallies in madison and appleton and chelsea is stopping by tomorrow. Wednesday night Bernie Sanders is taking over milwaukee at 5 30. Heard already in full swing and running through the rest of this week and election day a week from today. For now live in downtown milwaukee wisn 12 news this morning. Hillary, thank you. Wisn news and abc news has you covered on the election day, watch on air and online starting november 8. Melinda later today, letting local kids weigh in on the election. The Milwaukee CountyElection Commission is holding a mock election. Third through fifth graders at siefert elementary will be able to cast their votes. Theyll use the same election equipment that adult voters will use on election day. The students will mark their ballots to learn what its really like to vote. Ben a rule is now in effect that keeps your heat on all winter even if you fall behind on the bill. That doesnt mean you can ignore the bill. We have more on the heating torer to yum. More on the ban, for the people not paying the full amount doesnt apply the everybody. This is protecting the low income residents. If you are a low income resident you have to pay some of the current bill and part of a past due amount. To make a specific payment but encouraged to pay what they can. If you need help paying your bill, reach out to we energies now so to set up a payment plan or get assistance in paying your bill. Melinda right now, a Milwaukee Police officer is out of a job. He was fired yesterday. Tim, why has this mpd officer gotten so Much Negative attention . Tim dominique heagganbrown is the officer who shot and killed sylville smiths setting off days of unrest in sherman park. Now hes been fired for another reason. Heagganbrown has been charged with sexual assault. Prosecutors say he may have assaulted four people since 2015. The District Attorney hasnt decided yet if hell also face charges for smiths death. Smiths family says they welcome the news and theyre still hoping to get justice for their melinda a controversial proposal would cost every driver in Milwaukee County 60. Last night, the public weighed in on that idea and many people showed they arent happy about it. The county board held a Public Meeting last night to get input on the 2017 budget. County executive chris abele had proposed adding that 60 wheel tax. Some people are against the plan, others support it. We think its an investment in the quality of life for the entire community. While a wheel tax might seem like a good idea, please keep in mind that there are folks who have an option and there are other counties out there where they can go to. Melinda theres a new plan that would be a compromise. A finance committee has approved a plan to amend that wheel tax making it 30 instead of 60. Ben looking ahead now, some groups were affected by flooding in september can now get help applying for fema aid. This is some of the damage caused by flooding in western and nonprofits in that area will learn more about how to apply for federal aid. Teams of specialists will be on hand to answer questions. Ten wisconsin counties were cleared to apply for aid. Ben wisn 12 news time is 5 36. A hungry chase. Melinda police say a suspect made a pit stop in the middle of a highspeed chase. What he stopped for it left police scratching their heads. Ben plus, have you noticed facebook friends suddenly traveling to north dakota . Thousands of people have checked in in the same spot. The point that theyre trying to prove. Russ feingold voiceover as i travel to all 72 counties knocking on doors, talking to folks what i hear the most is how hard it is to get ahead. One big reason we have a political system ity, make College Affordable for families and fix a tax system that rewards companies for exporting our jobs. Im Russ Feingold and i approve this message because we need an economy temperatures this morning is the weather story. Visibility is good and saying whohoo the the warmth. The weekend is looking good at this point. Right now 64 at the airport. Southwest breezes are helping the temperatures to climb for today. Take a look at the first rain drops tomorrow coming up in a moment. Driver was a 12yearold boy who was drunk. Police say he was driving erratically swerving in and out of traffic. He refused to stop when an officer tried to pull him over. The boy crashed headon into another car and then hit a light pole. He has minor injuries. Police are still investigating. Also new this morning, a driver in phoenix takes off when police start chasing him. Melinda but he decided to take a break from the highspeed chase for a burger. A fastfood burger joint and headed for the drivethrough. He didnt end up ordering anything. Because she was being chased by the police. Police tracked the man down a home nearby where he was arrested. Officials say there was a warrant for his arrest and now hes facing several charges. Melinda a surprise for protesters gathered in north dakota. Ben they were interrupted by a herd of buffalo. You can see them running here. Many of the protesters are native american. Buffalo are considered sacred in the culture. Protesters cheered when they saw the protest is over an oil pipeline that would run through tribal lands. Melinda look at the little guy. They are cruising. Ben wisn 12 news time is 5 41. Passengers on a flight get a note passed out before takeoff. Melinda the instructions it had and why they all agreed to help out a father on board the halloween flight. Ben and an unexpected journey. The dog that ended up 1100 miles away from home and how social media is reuniting the lab with johnson Social Security is a legal ponzi scheme. Senior 1 ron johnson is attacking Social Security. Senior 2 he wants to let wall street risk it in the stock market. Johnson free money. Young people dont really necessarily understand finance. College student 1 ron johnson voted to raise the cost of Student LoansCollege Student 2 he just doesnt get it. Worker he says hes for jobs, but ron johnson supports trade deals that hurt wisconsin. Raising the cost of college. Jobs lost overseas. Senator ron johnson hes hurting wisconsin families. Russ feingold im Russ Feingold a november warm up and the temperatures are climbing er in the 50s and 60s statewide. The normal is high of 53 and 38, and by the end of the month 39, 26. We do get a little snow in november. No snow in the forecast. In fact, the big picture issing looking like, a few clouds this morning otherwise southwest breezes are pushing the temperatures nicely into the upper 60s to 70s. Leave the jacket at home. But we have cooler air and rain coming up. Now to matt up in news chopper 12. Yes, we are ready to launch. If you are headed out to the bypass, they have reopened the overnight closure and the merge is gone. So three lanes are available. For the first couple of mornings, pay attention, the 94 westbound ramp is off right hand side. So if you are leaving the house, they have just reopened this. 12 minutes northbound from the hale up to the zoo. That is the only delay right now. Well check back in news chopper 12 in just a bit. Matt, thank you. Ben a gas pipeline explodes in alabama leaving one person dead and five others hurt. Pipeline says a construction crew caused the blast. Tim, what do we know about this situation . Tim Colonial Pipeline says a contract crew hit the pipeline with a trackhoe and thats what caused the explosion. This happened yesterday afternoon outside of birmingham. The company shut down their gas lines in the area after that blast. Officials say the smoke could be seen for miles. The explosion sparked at least three wildfire but no homes were in danger. The local sheriff is asking people to stay away until they can determine that the area is safe. Back to you. Melinda right now, protests are still going on over an oil pipeline in north dakota, but tomorrow, there could be progress toward a resolution. The leaders of seven tribes who are leading the protest against the pipeline are considering one possibility is a meeting tomorrow in bismarck, north dakota. The tribes say the pipeline could threaten their drinking water. Melinda have you seen Standing Rock reservation take over your Facebook Timeline . Thousands of people are checking in at the location of those pipeline protests. People from across the country are saying theyre at the protests trying to confuse Law Enforcement. Protesters say authorities have been tracking them on social media. Local Law Enforcement says thats not true. Dealing with the aftermath of a serious earthquake. The 6. 6 quake hit near the city of visso on sunday. Thats the same area that was hit by a devastating earthquake in august. Now the city is like a ghost town. Its been seriously damaged, more than 15,000 people are forced out of their homes. Melinda nasa captured a phenomenon on camera, a partial solar eclipse. You can see the moon crossing in front of the sun. It took the moon about an hour to pass across the sun, this happened on sunday. At its peak, the moon covered up more than half of the sun. Very cool. Melinda new this morning, a dad gets creative and finds a way for his daughter to trickortreat in the sky. They were on board an airplane on halloween night. So dad passed out bags of candy along with a note asking the other passengers to play along as his daughter trickortreated. It was a big success, one of the passengers tweeted out these shes adorable. The little girl was dressed as a doughnut. That is brilliant. That is going to catch on. Melinda new this morning, starting today, you can get your hands on this. Sal, if you would please. Sally yes, the sugar cookies. Do yours ever look like that . No. Lindseys do. So i will learn. This is a must have. Ben the 2016 we energies cookie book is ready. We have another one here too. You can download it from the we energies website or pick one up at the dozens of Distribution Sites around the state. The first batch of the popular books filled with cookie recipes for the holidays will be handed out today at noon in franklin at the Milwaukee County sports complex. You can also pick up one of the free books this saturday at miller park. The wisconsin heritage edition. We reached out to note shl wisconsinites and we have a mix of a variety of people, a lot of familiar names, familiar faces from educators, to entertainers and business leaders. Now there are almost 40 recipes from wellknown wisconsinites, including bonnie blair, archbishop Jerome Listecki and the cookie book has been a wisconsin tradition since 1928. Melinda lemon squares. Sally buckeyes. How bad can that be . Cowboy cookies too. A lot of goodness in here. A lot of good baking and thinking snow and 20s. 71 degrees for today. Best of both worlds. A yes, the high today forecasting 71. It is depending on the sunshine. We have some clouds around early and it is going to part throughout the day and plenty of sunshine to come through. In fact, matt is up in the nice pictures for us. The sunrise 7 27. Back to the light for next week, remember, saturday night day light saving time ends and put the clocks back an hour before bed on saturday night. West bend back to 60s. 61 there. 60 beaver dam. 59 waukesha. 64 at the airport. Also at kenosha. For the most part, 50s and 60s over the cooler across the dakotas. Rainfall in the forecast for tomorrow. Not a big rain. Maybe a half inch or so, or a quarter inch. The yellow and orange it is where we stand a chance for moderate rain and up to an inch or so. Nice and dry throughout the day today and for tonight. Southwest breezes push the temperatures up to 71. The Early Morning commute mostly dry. The best chances of the rain late morning to mid afternoon. We see a mostly cloudy sky moving into thursday. So for today, becoming party sunny. 71. 51 tonight. 60 tomorrow. Upper 50s on thursday with mostly cloudy skies. Take a look at the weekend forecast. The south winds make a return. A nice stretch of weather is settlin. 5 52. Take a look here, this is Dramatic Police body cam. 87yearold woman being pulled from a burning car. Tim is here with more on an officer who rushed towards danger. Tim. Tim ben, the body camera was rolling when a santa fe Police Officer noticed that a parked car was on fire. 87yearold Deborah Spear was shes struggling to get out the car there. She says she didnt even notice the flames until an officer started yelling at her to get out. The officer carefully helped her out of the car and thankfully she was not seriously hurt. Police say the woman had been driving on a flat tire. It turns out the sparks from the rim hitting the ground caused the front of her car to start on fire. Spear says shes very thankful to the officer who saved her life. 5 53. A dog disappears in missouri and turns up wyoming. Her name mia. Shes a pure breed lab. She wonders off a lot, but not this far. A couple on their way to wyoming picked mia up along a rural highway. Once they arrived in wyoming, a shelter scoured social media, searching for mias family. I was concerned because i have dogs and id be freaked out home and started doing some research and found a page and we found her home. Ben mias family was thrilled to find out that their dog is safe. Shell make the trip back to missouri later this week. Do you like a lot of training. Running, jumping, and climbing trees. You climb trees, really . I climb trees. See the interview at 4 00, plus ellen is sitting down with actor jack. 5 54. Fall is in full swing but summer summer street. A living legend, how a man immortalizing the life and career of brett favre. Plus. . . Thats country star Miranda Lambert shes nominated for female vocalist of the year at the cmas hard to believe but the cmas are tomorrow. You can watch the show live at wisn 12 well be right back. Russ feingold voiceover as i travel to all 72 counties knocking on doors, talking to folks what i hear the most is how hard it is to get ahead. One big reason we have a political system working overtime for ceos. Lets protect Social Security, make College Affordable im Russ Feingold and i approve this message because we need an economy that works for everyone. Its not uncommon for autistic kids to flap their hands. And so when i saw that, that was completely disqualifying. Im a republican, but this election is so much bigger than party. My son max cant live in trump world. So im crossing party lines and voting for hillary. She can work with people to solve problems. I want to be able to tell my kids that i did the right thing when it really mattered. Welcome back. A new app is on the way to apple tv. Letting you go back and forth from your phone and tv. You are always able to pick up where you left off regardlof the app is released at the end of the year. Wells fargo agreed to pay 50 million new settlement, this time over charging the homeowners for appraisal fees. They are usually 30 or less thanked they were charging three times that amount. They insist that the bank didnt do anything wrong but they are workers in the San Francisco bay area to settle a lawsuit that the Franchise Owner chaeted them out of wages and overtime. They are compensated based on the number of hours they have worked and they have 14,000 franchises across the united states. Oil and gas is merging with baker hughes, and ge owning 62 of it. 5 59. The news continues right now. Good morning. Welcome to wisn 12 news this morning. Im ben wagner. Im melinda davenport. 6 00, tuesday, november 1st. We have breaking news. A man shot in the parking lot of a clinton president ial library. Why he may have known the suspects that attacked him. Plus, keeping your take to stop crime on your street. First, we are on weather and traffic watch. We are checking in with matt coming up. First, to sally who is tracking a big warm up. Yes, southwest winds are warming up the temperatures all night long. The sunshine is peering through the overcast and a little more sun this afternoon. The clouds are lingering. Tomorrow, clouds beat a retreat. Becoming party sunny and up to 70, 71 degrees. The lows 50 tonight. Tomorrow light rain showers, heavy near the illinois border and cooler near 60. You are going to love the looks of the weekend. Matt . Reporter we are looking down at