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WTMJ Todays TMJ4 News Live At 1230PM August 26, 2016

Governor scott walker is promising 4point5 million for job creation and to clean up blighted property in the sherman park neighborhood. Community leaders say frustration over unemployment and economic disparities underlie the violence and destruction of property that rocked sherman park for two nights following the aug. 13 killing of sylville smith. West Allis Police Department is recruiting new officers. The department is reaching out to people without prior Law Enforcement experience. The starting salary is roughly 50 thousand recruits do not need a college degree. Instead just sixty College Credits and graduate from the police academy. Last evening and this morning were beautiful with lows near 60 in milwaukee and mid 50s inland under a clear sky and a light breeze. Today is another perfect day with sunshine, low humidity and highs in the 70s. It is a top 10 weather day. Clouds increase tonight with scattered tshowers after a virginia tv station is remembering the lives of a reporter and photographer murdered during a live broadcast last year. Wd Year Anniversary of the deaths of Alison Parker and adam ward. Their former coworker. Shot and killed the two journalists then later turned the gun on himself. A memorial has also been set up outside the stations entrance. Another milwaukee family is planning to bury a toddler police say a 2yearold was found unresponsive thursday at 13th and finn. We are told the child was being put down for a nap by his mom. Officials say this is the . Third two yearold to die in the city within the last ten days. Wiscsi struggled more with economic recovery than larger cities since the big recession of 20082009 thats according to a new study. Municipal property taxes have increased pointeight percent between 2011 and 2014, as state aid decreased 12point8 percent. Milwaukee plans to begin offering early voting on october 10th along with extended evening and weekend hours. The executive director of the citys Election Commission made than announcement yesterday. Neil albrecht says the plan may be offer early voting for four weeks between october 10th and november 4th. A new test for diabetes could be in stores soon. Thanks to two South Carolina researchers looking for to help those suffering in third world countries. A bioengineering professor created a coated paper tab called life tab. The idea. Is a drop of blood will turn it colors. A mobile app takes a picture of the tab. And produces a reading of the color. Were hoping by min affordable. We will get people to better monitor. Theres also a version for your pet. Vettab uses your pets saliva. Accessible diagnostics hopes to have vet tab on shelves by 2017. And life tab by 2018. The fda now wants all donated blood in the us to be screened for the zika virus. Testing is already underway in puerto rico and areas in florida. Where there have been outbreaks of the mosquito the expanded screening will ensure that safe blood is available for anyone who need a transfusion. Some good news regarding the zika virus. Officials from the World Health Organization say that so far. There are no confirmed cases of the illness in spectators, athletes or anyone associated with the rio olympics. But because the virus has a one week incubation period it is possible a few cases may still occur. The Milwaukee Bucks will soon have a new state of the art practice and Training Facility and to a new Health Center in the downtown area. The froedtert and Medical College of wisconsin Sports Science center will be located at the corner of 6th street and juneau. It will serve as the hub for some athletic Performance Research and player care. As a coach it can only help. You keep the guys on the floor keep them healthy havve the best int he world help us win ball games as a coach your judged on winning and hopefully that will help us in addition to the new Training Facility, froedtert will develop 37 thousand square feet into a medical building with the emphasis on primary care, orthopedic care and sports medicine. No word on the total cost of the project or how many jobs this will bring to the downtown area. The Spacex Dragon spacecraft made its way back to earth today after staying at the International Space station for more than a month. The commercial resupply Mission Successfully brought three thsa hardware, and tools to the iss. The Spacex Dragon splashdowned near baja, california. Still ahead well get a look at the markets this afternoon. And festival season still in full swing. The four events happening this weekend, including one for Russ Feingold im Russ Feingold and i approve this message. Narrator listen to senator johnson on Student Loans ron johnson its just kinda free money, young people dont really, necessarily understand finance. Narrator what senator johnson doesnt understand is, more than 800,000 wisconsinites have Student Loans. But he wants to eliminate kinda free money. Narrator with senator johnson, opportunity for middle class kids would disappear. Ron johnsons not for students. Taking a look at the market the summer festival season is not over yet. Theres still plenty to do for the entire family, even for your four legged members. Kristin settle from visit milwaukee joins us you can find more information on the events happening this weekend at our website. Thats tmj4dotcom. Heres a live look outside at. Meteorologist brian gotter is back with the storm last evening and this morning were beautiful with lows near 60 in milwaukee and mid 50s inland under a clear sky and a light breeze. Today is another perfect day with sunshine, low humidity and highs in the 70s. It is a top 10 weather day. Clouds increase tonight with scattered tshowers after 2am and lows in the mid 60s. Saturday is cloudy and humid with highs near 80, but tshowers are likely on and off throughout the day. The rain tapers off late saturday evening, and overnight will be damp sunday will have more sunshine with just an isolated pop up shower with highs near 80. Next week is a quiet week with just a few showers on monday and tuesday, otherwise highs heres Melinda Myers with your garden moment a vinecovered arch is a beautiful and traditional way to welcome visitors to a garden. And flanking the front entrance with vines is a colorful way to lead visitors to your front door. And adding to the appeal the less common Betty Corning clematis or klematis as the klema tis experts prefer. Try incorporating vines into the garden at ground level. Here the climbing hydrangea rambles over the stone wall combining nicely with ferns, ginger and other shade tolerant plants. The stones rough surface is holdfasts to adhere to. And a dutchmans pipe is trained on wires to climb up and perfectly frame this small cottage. Mask an old stump. Simply cover with netting to allow the clematis tendrils to grab hold and move skyward. And mix it up a bit here a rose and clematis combine their bloom power to put on a colorful summer show. Im Melinda Myers, check out our website for this and other lets take a look at tonights prime time lineup. At 6 30 its a special edition of the now milwaukee. Focusing on packers pregame show with kickoff against the 49ers scheduled for ni oclock. A popular corn maze in georgia is paying tribute to police officers. The corn dawgs Adventure Park in loganville unveiled the design for its annual sevenacre corn maze. This years design features a police officer. Squad car. And the words back the blue. 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