President elect donald trump chooses a right handman in the white house and hes from kenosha. Today, the president elect announced Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus would become his chief of staff. Political reporter theo keith working this breaking news all sunday for us the toughest jobs in politics. Priebus stood by president elect trump throughout the campaign. Now the former wisconsin gop chairman will have the the all Important Role of deciding who gets the president s ear. After donald trump won on tuesday, he wasted no time thanking gop chairman Reince Priebus. Reince is really a star. And he is the hardestworking guy. Trump has for years. Take Assembly Speaker robin vos. The two were both College Republicans at uw whitewater. Anybody that knows reince knows that hes incredibly intense. Whatever he puts his mind to, he literally works harder than anybody i know in fact, sometimes i worried that he was going to have a heart attack because he is so intense and such an incredibly hard worker. But this is exactly why hes been so successful i party for six years and the Wisconsin Party before that. He grew up in kenosha, went to Tremper High School and told fox6 in 2011 that his views were shaped by a failing economy. I think its a great place to grow up because i think you saw people working hard. I think you saw what happens when you stop making it easier for businesses to thrive in america, where you had almost 18 thousand people working at american motors and chrysler, and its all gone more wisconsinites may join priebus Tommy Thompson tells me he brought at least 15 people from wisconsin to dc when president george w. Bush named him health secretary. It puts wisconsin right in the center of play. It makes reince have the opportunity to influence a great deal of federal Public Policy priebus has something trump does not longstanding ties with republicans like House Speaker paul ryan. As chief strategist. Bannon led the altright website Breitbart News and was Trumps Campaign ceo. Trump says bannon and priebus will be equal partners. Ted. House Speaker Paul Ryan tweeting out his congratulations to Reince Priebus, saying hes proud and excited for him. And Governor Scott walker Governor Walker says congrats to our fellow cheesehead he even added a Little Cheese wedge emoji. Reince priebus got a special shoutout during president elect Donald Trumps victory speech in new york. Youll find the video on our website fox six now dot com or your fox six news mobile app. A motorcyclist is dead after a serious crash on wisconsin highway 33 in ozaukee county. According to the sheriffs office, all lanes of the road at county deputies shut down the highway to reconstruct the accident. The accident scene was cleared by about three pm. In brown deer an elderly driver crashes into the family table restaurant on brown deer road. Police say he hit the accelerator instead of his brakes. There were people inside at the time but luckily no one was hurt. The owner tells us this is the second time a driver has smashed into their building in the last three months. A cudahy homeowner and his tenants watch helplessly as their garage bursts for the family business. Fox 6s Brittany Shannon is live near college and pennsylvania. Outsid e whats left of the burnedout building. Everyone out here is thankful tonight. Thankful that no one was seriously injured and everyone has a place to call home this evening. Because after you see the flames, you wont believe things didnt turn out worse. Im in tears for the owners neighbors, bystanders, tenants, this garage burst into flames. 33 05 i thought that my whole house was going to burn out. That much fire was there 13 a fire that started with a bang. 34 00 we heard this boom loud bang and i thought it was a gunshot at first 34 05 but when tenants glenn keidl and his son walked outside their home. Instead, they saw flames. 34 51 i thought i could at least try to contain it until the Fire Department came. But it went up real fast there w a mattress then all the wood 35 01 the residents who live just steps away from the garage tell us the Fire Department arrived quickly. Emergency crews say the wind fanned the flames, creating extra smoke. 35 24 the wind was blowing this way really hard and i just saw this and was just praying to god, hoping this wasnt going to go up29 bc this is where my dad lives were told a tenant who lives on the property was using a grill as a fire pit and knocked over some gasoline causing this. But for these residents, they say theyre happy a little they have to worry about. 37 34 im pretty lucky it didnt spread to the house the person who was using the fire pit was taken to the hospital with some burns on his hands. You can see the garage is a total loss. The owner of this property tells me they had some equipment for another Business Property stored inside the garage. They couldnt tell me how much was lost, but they estimate it to be in the thousands. In cudahy, Brittany Shannon, fox 6 news. Mary thanks brittany. Stores are doing their best to uschristmas music can be heard on the radiothe only one not playing alongmother nature. Weather expert tom wachs joins us from the weather office. Mostly clear tonight with temperatures falling into the 40s this evening. Well drop to around 40 near the lake overnight, midtoupper 30s inland. Mild day with highs in the middle 50s. Most of the week looks quiet a mild with highs in the middle 50s to low 60s. A strong storm system is forecast to move in friday night with rain and wind. This storm is forecast to usher in the coldest air of the season by late in the weekend. Tonight mostly clear. Low 40 wind sw 515 mph monday partly to mostly cloudy. High 56 wind w 510 mph tuesday partly am low 42 high 56 wind w 510 mph check the radar anytime right center app, its available on android and apple. Pick a song any country song to describe todays packers loss in nashvillefriends in low places works. So does i fall to pieces. Mike mccarthy has got to be hoping ring of fire isnt on your list. And its not getting any easier as next week they go on the road again. Tom pipines is here with the blitz. Follow todays 4725 debacle. Mike mccarthys men certainly arent setting the world on fire their defense was disgraceful in the first half. So bad that the titans led 21 nothing before Aaron Rodgers had completed his 3rd pass the packers are 4 and 5for the First Time Since 2 thousand 8when they finished 6 and 10. Leadership must be questioned. After failing to move the ball with great field position, the touchdown on the titans first play from scrimmage. Murray ties a franchise record with at least 1 rushing td in 5 straight games. The titans found the end zone against at will against defenseless green bay 4 straight touchdowns. Marcus mariota to Anthony Fasano with no packers player in the same zip code 21 nothing. The packers trailed 3510 before Aaron Rodgers threw his 2nd and final td pass. He was intercepted twice. 13 yards to james starks who returned for the first tim 3516. Mason crosby missed the point after. Rodgers, under siege all daysacked 5 times. A 20 yard td run. He gets rocked in the end zone. That cost the titans a penalty. 3522. But marioto threw his 4th td pass. 41 22. That was that. 4725 final. Tim van vooren with the blitz. For the second straight week, the packers behind from the at tennessee. This on sunday, is a bad loss. We understand how poorly we performed today as a team. Were disappointed. We have Higher Standards than that. We have Higher Expectations of one another. So thats what well tap into and grab onto. You we have to come together. Everybody is gonna be coming down on us, and thats just how it happens. We just have to stick together. I mean, things didnt go the way we wanted them to, but our confidence never wavered. We came out, they got up a little bit on us, and they won the game. You guys dont believe me, but its always short term. Its always week by week. Thats the only way you manage this 16 game season. So, specially when you get into a situation like we are with three on the road or three or four at home, whatever it was. Its all week by week. If you start looking at anything past that, your mind is gonna start spinning, and youre gonna be in trouble. When asked specifically if jobs are on the line, Aaron Rodgers says after the game in nashville, thats the nature of the regular season for green bay. At nissan stadium, tim van vooren, fox6 sports. Tim brandon and yours truly will have a lot more to show and tell on the blitz tonight at 10 35. Including the tandem of ted thompson and mike mccarthy. The vikings lost their 4th straight game. Thats the packers only saving grace. But. Questions abound on 1265 lombardi ave. Ted, mary. The law is clear cutfelons arent supposed to have guns. And if theyre caught with themthe punishment is suppose to be severe. The fox six investigators dug deepvery deep and found case after case after case where felons with guns were not punished. Tonight, hes asks the Milwaukee CountyDistrict Attorney why not . A different type of thunder down under. A major earthquake in new zealand today why and its one thing to write a checkits another to give your time. The dinner some Milwaukee Bucks had with our veterans when we go beyond a fox 6 investigation finds felons caught with guns often spend little or no time in prison. And after seeing official says he plans to take action. Fox 6 investigator bryan polcyn shows you what this state lawmaker plans to do. And why he asked to see the data we spent eight months collecting. Milwaukee police rely heavily on Data Analysis to catch criminals. But if you want to know what happens to them after they get caught, well, the data trail quickly goes cold. Thats why our painstaking analysis of felons with firearms caught the attention of a milwaukee area lawmaker, who thinks our system every year, Milwaukee Police confiscate hundreds of guns from criminals who are not allowed to have them. Like 20yearold Demontae Robinson. At age 14, robinson was convicted of attempted armed robbery. A juvenile crime equivalent to a felony. Three years later, Milwaukee Police spotted him in a northside alley, carrying a 38caliber handgun. They found even more guns in a prosecutors charged him with possession of a firearm by a delinquent. But four months later, they dismissed the case. I looked at it and i was like, why was this case dismissed . milwauk ee da John Chisholm says police began to doubt theyd arrested the right man. But there was also this. One of the officers involved was injured on the job. The trial was delayed. And robinson had to be released. Seven days later, he was multiple times near 38th and hampton. But prosecutors dropped the gun possession charge. And then a judge threw out the shooting case, when the state wasnt ready for trial. He got out because the speedy trial demand could not be met. Robinson is now facing charges in yet another shooting. That never couldve happened if hed been in prison in the first place. once we make an arrest, Something Else has to happen. And all too often, it doesnt. over the course of eight months, the fox 6 investigators thousand, 6hundred felon in possession cases in Milwaukee County. More than a third of the time, charges were never filed. Hundreds of others were charged, then dismissed. But even when felons are convicted of having guns. We found 20 percent serve less than a year in jail. And 75 percent serve less than three. It doesnt reflect a lack of aggressiveness. In fact, if we didnt care about the cases we wouldnt caseloads are massive and gun cases can be complicated. But Milwaukee Police chief ed flynn is frustrated. in the past three years, weve arrested close to 200 people 2 or more times for being a felon in possession of firearms. people like joshua moore, convicted of possession of firearm by a felon in 2013. 2015. And again in 2016. Theres a revolving door in our cr allowing this to happen. When state assemblyman Joe Sanfelippo saw our investigation. He immediately asked to see the data wed collected. We have been searching for those very statistics and they just didnt exist. The owner of American United taxi is a toughoncrime republican. Who was already planning to introduce a series of crime bills in the next legislative session. Now, hes planning something more. After looking at your report and all the work that you put crime in our state and get these types of statistics from our Police Departments and our District Attorneys and our judges. We try to use data to make good decisions. Flynn says police are the only ones doing Data Analysis. The rest of the system is incapable of thinking strategically about crime and violence. Chisholm admits their recordkeeping system is not conducive to sophisticated data reporting. And Milwaukee County chief judge maxine white says they arent equipped i dont pretend to know how to make the judiciary work better. I dont. Im not a judge. But there must be some way . You know . And i just dont get the sense theres a lot of imagination. Last month, chief judge maxine white declined my request for an on camera interview, saying shed prefer to be part of a followup story. Since then, ive called twice asking to schedule that followup interview. She has yet to call back. Its easy just to point fingers. Its easy to say, oh, the judges arent sentencing tough enough, the find the facts, like you were able to dig out. Sanfelippo believes a lenient criminal Justice System may be driving up violent crime. But he admits its just a theory. Unless theres data to back it up. I want to make sure we have the facts and the Data Available so that when were putting new laws on the books, theyre going to be effective laws. Milwaukee countys chief deputy District Attorney, kent lovern, says cases like that of Demontae Robinson illustrate how important prosecutions. In both the gun possession case and his first shooting case, witness problems led to both cases being dismissed. Meanwhile, representative sanfelippo says he is intent on requesting a statewide audit of crime data. He also wants to create a state crime commission. He plans to float both ideas when the Legislature Reconvenes in january. You and the fox 6 Investigators Team did a lot of work to compile this data. Work . There is now. For the first time, we are publishing two files produced as a result of our Data Collection and analysis. The first includes information on more than 25hundred cases from 2011 through 2015. The second includes sentencing information for cases in 2016. You can view both files on the links page of our website fox six now dot com or your fox six news mobile app. Coming up on fox 6 news at nine. Served with a side of thank you a local restaurant opens its doors today to show their appreciation to Law Enforcement. And still ahead, a higher calling. The special mission for one choir in southeast wisconsin that has [ tower pinging ] [ whistling ] weve got a problem, friend. Half off any smartphone for anyone who switches . Whats the problem . The naughty list shouldnt get deals yeah, but anyone who switches gets half off of any smartphone. Even these . Yeah, any smartphone. Call the big guy [ bell dings ] santa . No, jingles. [ knuckles crack ] [ spits ] ooo. Ouch. [ neck cracks ] [ darien ] switch and get half off any smartphone. Mostly clear tonight with temperatures falling into the 40s this evening. Well drop to around 40 near the lake overnight, midtoupper 30s inland. We will see some clouds around on monday, but it will be a mild day with highs in the middle 50s. Most of with highs in the middle 50s to low 60s. A strong storm system is forecast to move in friday night with rain and wind. This storm is forecast to usher in the coldest air of the season by late in the weekend. Tonight mostly clear. Low 40 wind sw 515 mph wind w 510 mph tuesday partly sunny. Am low 42 high 56 wind w 510 mph is normally closed on sundays. But today, they were open for a good reason. Coming up, the welldeserving group that was served a free meal today a couple bucks players enjoyed food and fellowship with a few of our veterans the other night. Find out why that was so unforgettab lewhen we go beyond the game. Franklin, as the owner of a popular Mexican Restaurant shows his support for Law Enforcement. Our Julie Collins has the scoop on what theyre serving up. since early october gus mexican cantina has closed its doors on sundays except today, he opened the restaurant for some very special guests