About the recount. Plus Deadly Wildfires continue to burn across the smoky mountains. What investigators believe may have sparked the original fire. Good morning everyone and traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no delays a dane county judge decides wisconsin county clerks will not have to do a hand recount of the november president ial election instead. Clerks can choose to use ballot machines. Deandra corinthios is live from the zeidler building with the the judge encouraged the clerks to hand count the ballots saying it is the best way to determine tampered with. But said ultimately it is up to the clerks to decide how theyll proceed. Either by hand. Or by machine. The request for a hand recount came from Green Party Candidate jill stein. At last nights hearing in madison. Her attorneys. As well as a representative for former democratic president ial candidate hillary clinton. Called three witnesses to make their case the through line in their testimony was a hand recount is the only way to ensure Voting Machines were not tampered with. An Elections Security expert from mit testified that optical scanners used in Wisconsin Elections are vulnerable to hacks. But presented no evidence that votes were tampered with. He speculated malware could have been added to scanners without anyone knowing. A statistical expert told the court there were some anomalies with state voting votes with optical scanners. The fact that they want to do a recount using machines is their discretion, their decision. I may disagree. But i cant put myself in their position. Deandra live about 20 county clerks have said they would use Voting Machines to recount at least some ballots. Including the clerk in Milwaukee County. Who said otherwise. He isnt sure he would be able to complete the recount by the december 12th. Fox6 news. Were keeping a close eye on developments related to this president ial recount. Click the politics tab when you visit fox6 now dot com or the fox6 news app for the latest information. New this morning a pedestrian in serious condition after being hit by a happened just before six last night on Port Washington just north of highland road. The driver stopped. Called 911 and is cooperating with the investigation. The pedestrian was taken to the hospital by flight for life. The cause remains under investigation. It was the neighborly thing to do. Thats what workers at a brady Street Restaurant are saying after helping put out a fire on the porch of a nearby home. Employees at the casablanca restaurant were putting up Christmas Decorations when they noticed flames outside of their window. It turned out the porch of a neighbors home caught on the owner of casablanca, along with the chef and another employee ran to help. They used fire extinguishers from the restaurant to put out the flames. 16 25 without really thinking, just grabbed a bunch of fire extinguishers and everybody just ran outside. 09 44 the neighborhood for us, is like family. No one was injured. The Fire Department says the flames were out by the time they arrived. Happening now crews are bracing for the threat of more fires in gatlinburg, tennessee. As high through the area. Kims in the newsroom with the very latest developments in eastern tennessee. At least three people have died as a result of the wildfires. And more than 250 buildings have already been damaged or destroyed. The National Park service says the wildfire was likely caused by a human. And is under investigation. In the past two days. 14 thousand people have evacuated the resort towns of gatlinburg and pigeon forge. As flames surround businesses, cabins, hotels, and homes. Some had to abandon their pets, because they didnt have enough time to grab them. While flames because it was the only way out. Not everyone was happy with the response to the fire. I walked outside of my door and i looked to the right and the whole mountain was on fire. The police finally showed up, told us they wouldnt give us a ride because we have two small chihuahuas, so we had to walk down the middle of gatlinburg on the parkway. Thousands are now living at emergency shelters that have been set up. While about a dozen people are getting treatment at local new information on Severe Weather hitting the south overnight. The death toll has risen to five. An official in tennessee says two people have been killed and at least nine others injured. And in alabama three people are killed after a line of storms and possible tornadoes move across the northern part of the state. Officials say the three people were all in a mobile home in rosalie. Another person in the home was also critically injured. Several arrests made in milwaukee. As demonstrators fight for 15. Angelicas in studio with a look at three local gatherings. The protest in West Milwaukee ended in arrests. Last night. Protesters and Community Leaders gathered outside the mcdonalds on miller park way to demand a 15dollar minimum wage. Prices are going up every single day and its time for that to change. If youre working a decent job if youre working forty hours a week you shouldnt have to struggle. You shouldnt feed my kids at least ten people were arrested. Weve reached out to police for an official count. Its never too late to find your next halloween costume. Were taking a look at one moms costume thats now going viral. The holidays are back at miller valley. Were getting a sneak peak this morning at the milercoors holiday lits and carl is getting in the holiday spirit this morning, checking out black nativity. The cadillac xt5. What should we do . Tailored to you. Wait it out. Equipped with apple carplay compatibility. . . Now during seasons best, get this low mileage lease on this cadillac xt5 from around 429 per month, or purchase with 0 apr financing. The real inventor of the reuben sandwich may be debatable, but its great taste is not. At subway, bavarianstyle sauerkraut, swiss cheese and thousand island dressing on new freshlybaked rye bread. Dick adlibs traffic red on yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no delays the millercoors holiday lights display is back this weekend. Its the largest of its kind in the midwest and this morning we got a sneak peek. This years display will feature beer keg tree comprised of 150 barrels. Nearly 600,000 lights synchronized to holiday music will also light up the area. Were asking folks to come on down enjoy the tour , enjoy the lights, and theres free beer at the end for anyone 21 or older. So bring your id. We also do a toys for tots drive and a non perishable food drive for hunger task force. The holiday lites show takes place at 42nd and stat december, beginning friday, december 2nd through december 17th. Shows run every 20 minutes, beginning at 4 40 pm until 9 pm. Black nativity, which opens at the Marcus Center tomorrow night, is a modern retelling of the classic nativity story. Written by langston hughes, it features gospel songs and also stepping which carl is its been two months in the making. But our weather deck renovation is now complete check out this cool timelapse weve put together to show just the old one and started from scratch. Theres now a gazebo. Some new deck furniture. And even a fireplace weve posted the complete video on our website fox 6now dot com. Anchors adlib to wx forecast from fox6 chief meteorologist rob haswell a low and the trough that trails it will move over our area today. As a result, we start sunny but end cloudy with a chance for showers by this evening. Showers persist overnight, possibly mixing in accumulation is expected. After a few morning flurries or showers, we dry up but stay mostly cloudy on thursday. Well dip to the upper 30s friday and saturday but then warm into the low to possibly mid 40s by early next week. Today early sun then becoming cloudy. Chance of evening showers. High 44 wind sw 515 mph tonight showers, possibly mixing with snow. Low 36 wind wnw 510 mph thursday early am showers snow showers then mostly cloudy. High 42 wind wn friday mostly cloudy. Am low 32 high 38 wind wnw 510 mph saturday mostly cloudy. Am low 27 high 38 wind wnw 510 mph sunday mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and or snow. Am low 26 high 42 wind sw 515 mph monday partly cloudy. Am low 32 high 44 wind s 510 mphforecast from fox6 chief meteorologist rob will move over our area today. As a result, we start sunny but end cloudy with a chance for showers by this evening. Showers persist overnight, possibly mixing in with snow. No significant accumulation is expected. After a few morning flurries or showers, we dry up but stay mostly cloudy on thursday. Well dip to the upper 30s friday and saturday but then warm into the low to possibly mid 40s by early next week. Today early sun then becoming cloudy. Chance of evening o wind sw 515 mph tonight showers, possibly mixing with snow. Low 36 wind wnw 510 mph thursday early am showers snow showers then mostly cloudy. High 42 wind wnw 510 mph friday mostly cloudy. Am low 32 high 38 wind wnw 510 mph saturday mostly cloudy. Am low 27 high 38 wind wnw 510 mph sunday mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and or snow. Am low am low 32 families in one kansas city on edge. Motionactivated cameras in a park to try and capture the wild animal. They got the usual pictures of wolves, raccoons, skunks and what not. But the camera also caught pictures of a few pranksters, dressed up as everything from a gorilla, to a monster, to santa claus. Apparently, the kids figured out where the cameras were, and all with good humor, and even posted these pictures on facebook. Its been a month since halloween but now one moms costume is setting the internet on fire. Thanks to a buzz feed post one tweet is going viral. Back on november first, zoe baumann of Salt Lake City tweeted this photo of her mother dressed exactly like their dog teddy. After being picked up by buzz feed on sunday the post now nine thousand retweets and sixteen thousand likes. Still to come on wake up the list of this years hottest moves foreword in washington dc. President elect donald trump makes an announcements about his personal theres a new medicare plan in town called network health. And member events like this, are just one way we make medicare person to person. Weve been serving northeast wisconsin with a personal touch for more than 30 years and now were here for milwaukee. Call now that let you see any doctor who accepts medicare, either in or out of network. With doctor visits as low as five dollars and Prescription Drug coverage. Network health. Were person to person. [ 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 . [ bell dings ] santa . No, jingles. [ knuckles crack ] [ spits ] ooo. Ouch. [ neck cracks ] [ darien ] switch and get half off any smartphone. Instead it should be a reaffirmation of the democratic process. Now at 830 a recount of the ballots in the president ial election have to be done by hand. Good morning everyone and welcome back to wakeup. Time now x xx forecast from fox6 chief meteorologist rob haswell a low and the trough that trails it will move over our area today. As a result, we start sunny but end cloudy with a chance for showers by this evening. Showers persist overni mixing in with snow. No significant accumulation is expected. After a few morning flurries or showers, we dry up but stay mostly cloudy on thursday. Well dip to the upper 30s friday and saturday but then warm into the low to possibly mid 40s by early next week. Anchor adlibs traffic red on traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no up to each wisconsin county to decide the best way to recount election day ballots. That means some clerks will proceed with the recount by hand. Others. With the help of ballot machines. Deandra corinthios is live from the zeidler building with the latest about 20 county clerks who said they would use Voting Machines to recount at least some ballots will be the Milwaukee County clerk. Who said he wasnt sure he would be able to complete the recount by the december 12th deadline by hand. At last nights hearing in madison. The dane county judge agreed that the best way to determine if Voting Machines were tampered with. Is to do a handrecount. But she says she has to follow the law. And a mandatory handrecount that petitioners wanted. Will former green Party President ial candidate jill stein, as well as a representative for former democratic president ial candidate hillary clinton, called three witnesses to make their case for a handrecount of all votes. An expert testified the optical scanners used are vulnerable to hacks. And malware. But presented no evidence that votes were tampered with. The department of justice called only one witness a representative from the wisconsin election commission. Who testified all equipment used in novembers election had been field tested and inspected. Convincing evidence and that is my decision. Im going to allow the 19 counties to do the recall the way that they intended. Again, i think everyone would strongly encourage them to do the hand recount. Steins attorneys say. The ruling will not stop their efforts for recounts in michigan and pennsylvania. Live in expected to announce a slew of nominations this week. But first were learning new details about changes coming to the president elects business while hes in office. Angelica joins us from the newsroom with new information. President elect donald trump announcing he will be leaving his business to focus on his presidency. Dgx this morning, he tweeted that he will hold a major News Conference in new york city on december 15th to discuss him leaving his. Dgx 2 business so he can to focus on running the country in order to make america he is not mandated to dgx 3 do this, he feels it is important to not have a conflict of interest as president. Meanwhile president elect trump announced two nominations yesterday. And we could learn of two other major appointments today. Georgia representative tom price was picked to oversee the Nations Health care system. And come up with an obamacare replacement. Meanwhile elaine chao has been selected to lead the department of transportation. And expected to be made official today former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin treasury. Other reports suggest that the president elect will also announce billionaire investor wilbur ross to be commerce secretary. Kim and jessob. Back to you. The clock is ticking for protesters fighting against the Dakota Access pipeline. North dakotas governor. Now ordering them to clear out. For safety reasons. He says the temporary campsites theyve made havent been inspected. And could prove inadequate during the harsh winter conditions. First responders would no l responsible for providing Emergency Services to those who remained. The Us Army Corps of engineers has also given protesters a deadline of december 5th to leave. Demonstrators are vowing to stay. Now the latest on a deadly plane crash in colombia that killed a brazilian soccer team. Authorities are hoping that the recovered black boxes from monday nights plane crash near medellin will help them figure out why the chartered jetliner crashed. All but six of the 77 people aboard died. Colombian aviation authorities passengers, including six fox sports brazil colleagues. South americas Soccer Federation has canceled all scheduled matches in a show of solidarity. Still to come on wake up the must have gifts for your holiday list. And how about harley for the holidays. After the break details on the 12 days of badness sale going on right now. And carl is getting into the holiday spirit. Kramp live angelica plus Holiday Season . Cass an expert is in with some ways you can buy gifts without breaking the bank. Angelica and lots of people are swapping soda for sparkling water these days. But is it as healthy as we think . Cass our registered dietitian is here to break down these bubbly drinks next on real milwaukee. Opening tomorrow night at the Marcus Center, black nativity is a retelling of the classic carl is checking it out for us this morning, and has one more harley for the holidays the 12 days of badness is going on right now Kristin Wacker from Harley Davidson is here with details. Website fox six now dot com anchors adlib to wx forecast from fox6 chief meteorologist rob haswell a low and the trough that trails it will move over our area today. As a result, we start sunny but end cloudy with a chance for showers by this evening. Showers persist overnight, possibly mixing in with snow. No significant accumulation is expected. After a few morning flurries or showers, we dry up but stay mostly cloudy on thursday. Well dip to the upper 30 warm into the low to possibly mid 40s by early next week. Today early sun then becoming cloudy. Chance of evening showers. High 44 wind sw 515 mph tonight showers, possibly mixing with snow. Low 36 wind wnw 510 mph thursday early am showers snow showers then mostly cloudy. High 42 wind wnw 510 mph friday mostly cloudy. Am low 32 high 38 wind wnw 510 mph saturday high 38 wind wnw 510 mph sunday mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and or snow. Am low 26 high 42 wind sw 515 mph monday partly cloudy. Am low 32 high 44 wind s 510 mph forecast from fox6 chief meteorologist rob haswell a low and the trough that trails it will move over our area today. As a result, we start sunny but end cloudy with a chance for showers by this evening. Showers persist overnight, possibly mixing in with snow. Accumulation is expected. After a few morning flurries or showers, we dry up but stay mostly cloudy on thursday. Well dip to the upper 30s friday and saturday but then warm into the low to possibly mid 40s by early next week. Today early sun then becomi