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WITI FOX 6 News At 530 September 20, 2016

Three men wanted for attempted murder after setting a robbery victim on fire over the weekend. Officials say the victim was near 24th and fiebrantz on saturday evening when a man with an Assault Rifle approached him. The suspect then forced the victim to drive back to a home near 53rd and clark. When they arrived the victim was set on fire. Hes currently in the hospital with severe burns. Police say it could be a possible drug related robbery. A carthage Football Player player faces felony charges in sexual assault. Lawrence gaines is accused of sexually assaulting his teammate while the two of them were drunk. According to prosecutors the victim says gaines tried to touch him sexually after they returned from an offcampus party. Mount Pleasant Police are investigating an Early Morning hit and run accident. It happened near 1st and sheridan shortly before 5. Police initially heard reports of a gunshot victim but when they arrived they learned at least three people had been struck by a car. Them were taken to the hospital one with serious injuries. The vehicle involved has been found but police are still looking for the driver. A traffic tracker alert for you right now. A crash on southbound i41 at swan boulevard is causing backups up for than four miles. This is a live look. Its unclear exactly what happened but this causing some major delays. Again, thats southbound i41 at swan boulevard so you might want to youre headin out. Increasing clouds tonight as a storm system approaches from the west. Temperatures will fall through the 70s this evening. Temperatures will fall into the middle 60s overnight with skies becoming move in wednesday morning, with chances continuing through the day. Highs in the upper 70s. A frontal boundary will stall out over us through the end of the week, providing a focal point for offandon showers and thunderstorms. Tonight increasing clouds. Low 64 dewpoint 62 wind se 5 mph wednesday showers and thunderstorms. Wind sw 510 mph wisconsin lawmakers are poised to launch an investigation of the Veterans Home at king. Theyre responding to allegations of tainted Drinking Water and disease outbreaks at the home. Which is about two hours northwest of milwaukee. In waupaca county. Political reporter theo keith found out concerns started approve the audit tomorrow after a hearing. Weve learned that federal regulators have cited the king Veterans Home after staff decided not to perform cpr on a resident. The state, which runs the home, is appealing. It is the latest issue raising concern. From urine soaked carpeting, tainted Drinking Water, injuries and infections. As lawmakers are about to trigger an audit of the wisconsin Veterans Home at king. Senate democr know what took so long. Governor walkers administration has failed in its mission to provide the best care to our veterans 11 months ago today, a democratic senator writes that shes concerned about excessive mandatory overtime. And legionella bacteria found in a water heater at king. She requests an audit, but one never starts. Instead, a legislative committee send questions to the Wisconsin Department of veterans affairs. In one of his responses, the Department Secretary says the harmful. In another, he notes that the home has a five star rating. Last month, as new concerns surface in news reports, a republican senator requests an audit. This time, lawmakers say they are likely to launch one. One republican says auditors had simply been booked when the earlier request came in. Well we just didnt have space last year, and we did ask questions. Again, we didnt sit on the request. We took her request and asked the department to respond at that time Samantha Kerkman says shes glad that an audit will find out. If the allegations are true. He will give us an independent view of the home, that five star rating is, or that they need to work on these best practices kerkman says she expects the audit will start next week and will be done next summer. Democrats referred to it as a delay tactic and want a special session to approve extra funding for the home right now. That appears unlikely. We posted an extended clip from todays News Conference with the democrats in madison. Get the fox6 news app and search Veterans Home to watch that clip. So youre Giannis Antetokounmpo, and youve just become the bucks first 100 Million Dollar man. Youth and money can be a challenging combination. But the greek freak seems to have his priori illinois calling. Calling the makers. The doers. Those who prefer oneofakind, to common fare. 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Dont let ron johnson turn Social Security into a narrator senator johnson. Not for seniors. Reinstatement hector is the answer. Hes a great appointment. But not everyone is on board we have a situation where you want to keep your job and you became much more friendly than you were beforehand. Now one group is making the case to keep him i urge the county board to do the right thing, to stand with hector. Thats coming up new at 6. Of laughter Giannis Antetokounmpo has plenty to smile aboutwith plenty of bucksafter milwaukee gave the cornerstone of the franchise the biggest contract ever. A 4 year 100 Million Dollar contract extension. And every one of those dollars is guaranteed what does that mean to this 21 year old . I think this is just a security for me family. Just know that my family is going to be good, my little brother is going to be good but from where we started to where we are right now, its great so i dont think its going to change us a lot. Aaron rodgers is taking plenty of heat for his poor play in minnesota. But theres plenty of blame to go around. And some head scratchers. Mike mccathy admits that he should haveu also the coach only gave snaps to 3 receivers. Jordy nelson was in for 68 of 71 plays. And hes just getting his feet wet again ty montgomeryzero snaps on offense; he did find a way to make a difference on special teams with the blocked punt. A special teams coach in college said usually punts are blocked because someone on the punt team screwed something up. Either way im happy to be blocking punts, i dont care. You know i did a lot of watching and i dont really have a whole lot to say about the offense. I wasnt playing. Itll be the packers hosting the lions sunday at noon. The fox 6 blitz post game will follow live from lambeau field. Then watch the sports blitz at 10 35 for a total recap of the game. And here are your choices for the High School Blitz game of the week. Waukesha north at waukesha south. Greenfield at whitnall. Racine park at racine case. Go to fox6now. Com slash sports to vote. The voting ends thursday night at 10. Offer makes. With his cap. In San Francisco the other day . tough to see but sure enough. And he gives it to the fan. Thats the Service Company is expanding to the milwaukee metro area. Kitchfix specializes in healthy, readyto eat dishes. The company now offers meals for pickup at six locations around milwaukee. Breakfast, lunch and dinner options are all available ranging between 11 and 18dollars, depending on the size of the dish. Pickup locations right now are in milwaukee, glendale, wauwatosa, greendale, fox point and menomonee falls. Statewide home sales in in 11 years for the month of august. More than 83hundred sales puts the state nearly 4andahalf percent ahead of 2015s pace through the first eight months of the year. And the median price climbed to 170 thousand dollars. In our area southeastern wisconsin outpacing statewide growth with sales up 6percent for the year. For more information on this and other stories in the business journal, we have link to their site on ours, fox6now. Com. Moscow is denying that russian or syrian warplanes carried out an airstrike on a un aid convoy in syria. About 20 people were killed, when aid trucks and a red crescent warehouse were struck. Meanwhile world powers are insisting the syrian ceasefire is not dead despite increasing violence between government and rebel forces. An Oil Pipeline Leak thats causing gas shortages and higher prices in the south is expected to back in ser Colonial Pipeline Company Officials say the bypass repair is complete and testing is now being done on the line. They expect it take a few more days before the fuel supply chain is back to normal. The leak which spilled more than 6 thousand barrels of gasoline into a detention pond was discovered september 9th. Federal officials taking a big step today announcing guidelines for self driving vehicles. Its the governments first attempt to regulate the emerging technology country. Officials are hailing the technology for its potential to save lives by reducing crashes. A traffic tracker alert for you right now. Were still following the accident on southbound i41 at swan boulevard. You can see crews are making progress clearing the area but traffic is still down to just one lane. This happened a little more than 30 min ago. Backups reached more than four miles at one point. Its still unclear exa are picking up after the crash on southbound i41 at swan boulevard. Toss to weather storm system approaches from the west. Temperatures will fall through the 70s this evening. Temperatures will fall into the middle 60s overnight with skies becoming mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms will chances continuing through the day. Highs in the upper 70s. A frontal boundary will stall out over us through the end of the week, providing a focal point for offandon low 64 dewpoint 62 wind se 5 mph wednesday showers and thunderstorms. High 77 dewpoint 68 wind sw 510 mph thursday mostly cloudy with a chance for thunderstorms. Am low 67 high 77 dewpoint 66 wind e 510 mph friday mostly cloudy with a chance for thunderstorms. Am low 65 high 70 dewpoint 6 becoming partly sunny. Am low 57 high 67 dewpoint 59 wind e 510 mph sunday partly sunny with a chance for thunderstorms at night. Am low 55 high 70 dewpoint 57 wind se 510 mph monday partly sunny with a chance for thunderstorms in the morning. Am low 50 high 67 dewpoint 54 testifying today in front of the Senate Banking committee. The bank was fined earlier this month for secretly opening more than 2million unauthorized accounts in order to meet sales goals. More than 5thousand employees were fired because of it. In a prepared statement stumpf apologized and accepted responsibility but denied any wells fargo ceo john stumpf testifying today in front of the Senate Banking committee. The bank was fined earlier this month for secretly opening more than 2million unauthorized accounts in order to meet sales goals. More than 5thousand employees were fired because of it. In a prepared statement stumpf apologized and accepted responsibility but denied any orchestrated fraud by bank management. Our Retail Banking practice issues, its sales issues, are not a reflection of our hard helping our customers with their financial needs. Wells fargo employees say they were pressured to meet unrealistic sales goals and they opened the bogus accounts to keep their jobs. Regulators fined wells fargo 185 Million Dollars last week. The bank says it plans to eliminate the sales targets. Replacem note 7 will be available starting tomorrow. Regulators recalled the smartphone last week after reports of the phone catching fire while charging. The fires were traced to a battery problem believed to affect less than 1 percent of the twoandahalf million phones sold worldwide since august. Its over for brad pitt and angelina jolie. And jim carrey is being sued. The details are in tonights buzz. According to a source. Jolie filed legal documents yesterday citing irreconcilable differences. The two married in august 2014. And have been together since 2004 after starring together in mr. And mrs smith. Tmz reports that jolie is asking for physical custody of their six children and is asking the judge to give pitt visitation. Jim carrey is being sued for wrongful death of his exgirlfriend, cathriona whi gave white the prescription drugs she overdosed on last year. The lawsuit also alleges the actor improperly obtained prescriptions for ambien and oxycodone under an alias. Carrey calls the lawsuit heartless, saying that the suit was an attempt to profit from her death. Mariah carey announces her final show in sin city. Caesars palace released a statement yesterday. Saying carey is wrapping up her twoyear stint on the strip. Her final shows are scheduled to run from april 26th through may 12th. Sunday nights emmy awards. And Richard Dreyfuss wants to make one thing clear hes still alive people started posting on twitter sunday about the death of dreyfuss. They were apparently confusing dreyfuss with the father of Julia Louisdreyfus who passed away last friday. She made the announcement during a touching speech while accepting an award. Richard dreyfuss quickly taking to twitter saying hes not her father but adding he appreciated all the concerned our big story at six. Mount Pleasant Police thought they were responding to a call for gunshot victims. Instead, it became a case of hit and run. The vehicle involved has been found. But its driver. Is still on the run. Fox sixs Justin Williams is live in Mount Pleasant tonigh mount Pleasant Police say two people are injured one with a serious head wound, as investigators continue their efforts to determine who is responsible for this hitandrun crash. I heard the sirens, this morning, you know, i live in the area, and i thought, wow thats a lotta squads, going to that call. This call is believed to involve a shooting, on highway 32, near first street, or kr, just brian smith, of the mount Pleasant Police department,says, investigators on the scene soon learn that, instead of a shooting, its a hit andrun crash which leaves two people injured, one with a serious head wound. We believe they were walking down the median, southbound, steppedoff where theyre tryin to flag someone down, and thats when they were struck. The vehicle leaves the scene, and is discovered, later, monday morning, in a kenosha parking lot. Had heavy, windshield damage, as well as the two windows on the side of the were broken out, as well, as a result of the impact. And, as the search for the vehicles driver continues, this afternoon, im told investigators are having some difficulty in determining crash details, due to the pedestrians degree of intoxication. Certainly, you know, alcohol was a factor. I dont know what level of intoxication they were, but the officers at the scene said they had trouble getting forthright information

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