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WTMJ Todays TMJ4 News Live At Daybreak August 15, 2016

Vehicle. Also Milwaukee Police officer was injured when a rock smashed through his windshield. Small crowd was out here all day loot the day yesterday. I was out here with that crowd yesterday. They were pretty quiet and calm but at about 11 p. M. Things went south. Protestors started throwing rocks and different objects at police all throughout the night. One car was set on fire just down the road from right where im located. We do not have any numbers on at rest just yet. We are expecting to get that total from mpd later this morning. The National Guard put on alert by the governor. That was yrd he put them on alert. We do know they are in the area but what needs to happen ismpd or the Milwaukee Sheriffs Department needs to call in and ask for their assistance which they have not yet at this point. Reporting live at sherman park ann sterling, todays tmj 4. We are sitting on top of a breaking news situation blocks away from that bp gas station that was destroyed in saturdays protest. Firefighters busy on screen of a blaze at a home near 41st and burleigh where pete is right now. Looks like things are much hours ago. It does seem like firefighters are starting to break it wn. Up on the roof of the home that was on fire you can see the remnants of where firefighters sawed into that home to try to put this blaze out but again, vince as you mentioned itoes appear right now everything here under control. We have seep firefighters starting to break down in the last 20 minutes or. So they arrived just after 4 30 this morning. They we saw t a gas staying at sherman and burleigh while we were there with lights and sirens on after someone pulled up and told them that a home near 41st and burleigh was on fire. 41st street where we are, still remains blocked off. Part of the intersection blocked off although it looks like burleigh going through the 41st street intersection is now back open. Right now we just want to reit tate there is no indication that this fire is related to any of this weekend. We are waiting, hoping to hear more from the Fire Department about you know what the cause of this fire was, if anyone was hurt but no one has given any indication that this blaze was at unrelated to the aunrest in last night. All right. Thank you very much. Police is standing by the officer who shot smith i know what i saw on the video. I know what i see certainly appears to me that the dat the time he made that decision it was a credible and legally protected decision. Chief reporting the incident between the officers who is also black and smith happened in less than 30 seconds from start to finish. Milwaukee mayor is calling for the body camera foot evening to be released to the public as soon as possible. Members of wisconsinsing inial guard remain on alert and was talking about that in her report this morning. They have not officially been scott walker activated the guard just in case they are needed. Governor said they will be used only as a last resort. He has called in extra state troopers as well. Staying on top of the situation from twitter. A lot of new information coming out in the overnight hours. This is a live look at the Milwaukee Police twitter feed. We are checking in with them. Most recent tweet telling us officers are out restoring order at sherman and burleigh. Ground zero for all of us. Thats what we just heard live and particular a lack this. A damage done to a Milwaukee Police squad car. Police saying the windshield was smashed by a rock. The officer inside taken to the hospital no. Word on his or her can right now and take a close look at this tweet too. Another one from Milwaukee Police showing more damage done to yet a different squad car. You can see chief ed flynn in some of the pictures surveying the taj there. Police saying those demonstrators were throwing bricks, rocks and glass bottles at their cars. Vince . Thank you. And traffic together now. Meteorologists watching the forecast for this monday where today is going to be the nicest day of the week. Indeed. Look how beautiful this is right now. The sky has just a few clouds. The sun has now risen and it is creating beautiful colors for you early monday morning. Port washington waking up to 65 degrees. Humidity out there at 93 . Had a little bit of patchy fog as well. Upper 50s in some spots this morning. It i onive those nights you open up the windows. You can feel it last the dryer air filtering in. 58 green lake. 62 in waukesha. Here is your day planner for today. 71 by 8 a. M. 80 by noon. Just a few clouds out there and this afternoon starting to cool down just a bit with a light southeasterly breeze. Your pick day of the week. The traffic is building out on the roadways. But there are no incidents as you head out the door. However there could be an issue especially if you use 94 eastbound going north on i 41. That ramp into the zoo interchange is now closed and 2017. So my suggestion when it comes to alternate routes you have a couple good options. Highway 164 coming on 94 east, go north and take the drive all the way to i 41 north bound. Same thing here, mooreland north road, north to blue mound and to the east and use blue mound no get onto i 41 and your last alternate is to get very close. Highway 100, take that northbound to watertown plank, gets you right on i 41 so you have numerous opt to get through because again, i 41 coming from 94 eastbound that, ramp is shut down starting today and will not reopen until spring of 2017. More local news now, one of 39 men arrested in the 2014 shooting death of Laila Peterson will be back in court today. Prosecutors say carl barrett junior was targeting a rival when he shot up the wrong house, killing that 5 year old little girl. A vigil scheduled for tonight in Sheboygan Falls to remember two year old dexter. His mother is in custody charged with killing him earlier in this month. She is being pecketdled back in court on wednesday for a preliminary hearing. Vigil will be at 8 00 tonight at river park in Sheboygan Falls. It is 6 0. Up next on live at day break on todays tmj 4. We will go down to rio. Live there as jay gray takes a look at team usas growing medal countnd sleet w . . The ford freedom sales event is on our biggest event of the year justot betr . . Announcing zero for seventytwo across the entire lineup of ford cars, trucks and suvs. Plus, tagged vehicles now get a thousand smart bonus. Thats freedom from interest. Icas best selling brand. . . Now get 0 financing for 72 months across the entire ford lineup, plus specially tagged vehicles get a thousand smart bon. Feingold im Russ Feingold and i approve this message. Johnson ive always said ill be the calmest guy narrator if he loses, senator Johnson Falls back on the ten Million Dollar bonus he paid himself as ceo. A big corporate payout for him. Johnson ive always said. I win either way. Narrator if he wins, he gets another six years to support tax loopholes and bad trade deals that ship jobs overseas. All to benefit corporations and multimillionaires like him. Johnson i win either way. Team usa continues to lead the world in gold and overall medals at the summer games in rio. The americans adding to that count in track and fie a as competition resumes later this morning. Jay gray is live once again with us from olimb wea park with details on everything ahead. Hi, jay. Hey, good morning, vince. Good morning susan. Plenty for team usa to well wave the flag about in the first week at the olympics here. Really fast start. This seems to be transitioning now to week two in rio. When you talk about speed though one guy who knows it better than anyone and last night he proved it again. Stand here. With his familiar side and striking bravado, streaked to a record third consecutive gold in the 100 meter dash. 8 ahead of american justin. At the end of the day may the best man win and today he has been the best man. And there it is. Best gymnast in the world vaulting to another gold. The First American to ever win the discipl sim grams to win 3 golds in a single olympic game. The gold medal swing tined for team usa in tennis where the americans finished 1, 2 in mixed doubles. Later today track and field continues with several u. S. Athletes in the mix for medals and mens volley ball takes on brazil. On the beach in copacabana. Yeah that match sure to be a rudd owe one with the host country playing in the sand at the scenes look at the gear and today we are lucky to have the team usa cycling speed suit here. You can see can see a skin tight suit as you would expect it to be. Technological marvel that is tested in wind tunnels. It forms the riders body to the cycle. The seams moved around to be aerodynamic and dimples in the suit that act lick a golf ball. Wind comes over the top and pushes, hems to accelerate it. It seems tock working working. Kristin medal. Womens team pursuit with the silver and when i opened the encloses threat morning it was the flag shirt or the swim sument i made the right i made the right you deaf rione a favor, that is what you are saying . Maude a wiles choice. We appreciate it. Thanks, jay. 6 12. Up next on live at day break on todays tmj 4. Stuck in the air, the trouble at a monument in washington that has that traction closed today. Singer turned down. Quarter after 6 here on todays another live look from the sherman park neighborhood where we see more violence, more destruction of property overnight. And an injury to at least one police officer. We are on top of this breaking news as the sunrises on a new day here in milwaukee. 6 15. We want to give you a better idea of exactly where all of this unrest is happening. The sherman park neighborhood is on milwaukees Northwest Side. It is bordered by sherman boulevard, fond he lack avenue, Center Street, and then north trend on twitter right now the hash tag milwaukee unrest but another movement, one pushing to end the violence in sherman park. This hash tag pray for milwaukee this. Tweet says an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. Pray for milwaukee. Another tweet saying simply chen i wake up, please let this be over. Worth mentioning that some on social media very frustrate bid violence in their community. Many condemning the actions of others saying sherman park is filled with good people and this is not who t others sharing pictures and video of the damage and destruction out there. Thank you very much. Milwaukee has been in the National Spotlight now for two days because of the unrest in sherman park. Want to take you back to the scene where ann has been watching things since the Early Morning hours. Ann quiet right now. Certainly very active overnight. Yes. Very active overnight. It is quiet. This bp really has been the ground spot. It has been ground zero as bridge et has been saying all of the large crowds. Yesterday a small crowd here. They are vocal but peaceful at the same time. That all went in a different direction, went south if you will at about 11 oclock last night. Thats when the crowd started clashing with Police Officers w anyone that got in their way. Sne started throwing objects at police. Last night we know one person was shot. An 1 year old. He was transferred to the hospital in an Armored Police vehicle. Also Milwaukee Police office he was injured when a rock smashed through his windshield. Arrests that were made last night. We are expected to get that later this morning. The National Guard is still on alert. They are on standby at this point. If Milwaukee Police department or the Milwaukee Sheriffs Department asks for assistance or help, the thats when the National Guard will come in. They have to be asked for help though. They are on standby at this point until they are asked for assistance. Reporting living at sherman park, ann sterling, todays tmj 4. Thank you. 6 167 lets go beyond wisconsin two terminals were actually evacuated and flights grounded after reports of shots fired last night. Police were not able to confirm that any shots were actually fire though and no one was hurt. One official says cheering and clapping from people watching the olympics may have led to the mistake. Staying in the new york area a funeral will be held for two immans who were gunned down in broad daylight in the queens over the weekend. Shot and killed on saturday. Shooting was captured on suspect and trying to figure out the motive behind that shooting. The president has declared a major disaster for People Living in louisiana who are still dealing with severe flooding this morning. At least 4 people have been killed and more than 20,000 others rescued after a flood waters swept across that state. This is video from a coast guard helicopter coming to the aid of people who are trapped in their homes in baton rouge. Wow. Gra dra mat ik rescues there. Monday morning. Storm team 4 moolgs brian gotter is here. After mondays downpours where some picked up over an inch of rain. Muchneeded rain this. Morning we are bake waking up to a few clouds in southeastern wisconsin. Looks like i can very nigh that. Out to pewaukee we do and show you a few clouds out there. Mixing in with that sunshine. Sun rose about 20 minutes ago. Temperatures comfortable 26 degrees. A little dampness and patchy fog. In some inland areas. A light northwesterly wi. It is your pick day of the week. Nice day to start the week off but also means that this is what is nice to get. Not that we had a bad week whatsoever. Temperatures above normal. Once generally in the low to mid0s. Normal now is about 78 degrees. Plenty of humidity once again and with that, we will actually see a few different times throughout the week of scattered thundershowers. We need more rain and looks like some of it is in the forecast. We have cooled to 67 in milwaukee. It is 63 in west dallas and greendale. She buyingn county we go. A cup 508s we go. 59 in greenville. 60 elkhart lake and 61 from Howards Grove towards cedar grove along 43. With that southeasterly wind this afternoon will keep temperatures in the mid70s around sheboygan county. Inland a little bit, temperatures will be in the lower 80s. So if you were out and about last evening you noticed that the air was relatively dry. High of 88. It was warm but at least the breeze was out there. Had drier air. That humidity starts to in. Back up for tomorrow, wednesday, thursday, and steamy on friday. Will be a humid week once again. Give it a 9. The known reason not a 10, just a few clouds. Temperature right around 80 degrees and just a little bit of humidity. All in all a very very nice tament future forecast showing you that light easterly breeze which will help keep the lake front cooler. Just a few clouds. Better chance of rain overnight tonight near the lake front and end this and then for tomorrow a slight chance of a spotty shower in the morning. Showers moving in here tomorrow night during the overnight hours into early on wednesday morning. So for the next 36 hours or so we could pick up another quarter to almost half inch of muchneeded rain and then tomorrow, more humid, and temperatures in the low to mid80s inland and upper 70s right long the lake front. So for today, just a few clouds. High of 80 and noon and dropping into the upper 70s with that southeast rineld wind and then scattered rainshowers overnight tonight. A little bit more humid and low of 67 8day forecast gradual warming trend like we had for the past couple weeks. 5 on wednesday. Some scattered thunderstorms possible. 84 and sunny on thursday. Another good chance of rain friday and saturday but getting cooler for the weekend. Thank you. 6 21 here on todays tmj 4. The Washington Monument is closed to visitors again today after two back to back elevator mishaps in less than 12 hours. 3 employees got stuck for 40 minutes object saturday. Trapped on sunday morning. All visitors made it out without any problems during both incidents. Officials blame the problem on a trip to breaker in the elevator. Adele has turned down an offer to be part of superbowl 51 in houston. She announced at a concert over the weekend that she was offered a time slot during the halftime show but declined to accept it. Adele says the halftime show isnt about music but instead about dancing performances. Her announcement grew boos f i will boo that. Snrf course right . Doesnt the artist having to make it what he or she wants . You can have dancer while you sipping. You can hire some people. 6 22. Up next on live at day break on todays tmj 4, your olympics update. Time now for your olympics update. Plenty of action to watch including u. S. Gymnastics. Going for even more gold in the balance beam and then the u. S. Mens Beach Volleyball team take on brazil in the quarter finals. U. S. Womens Field Hockey Team in the quarter finals as well. They play germany. Today. Including the steeple chase, womens hammer throw, womens 200 meter prelims beings mens 800 meter finals, and the mens pole vault final. Todays tmj 4 is your olympic station. Make sure you join us for the olympics zone. Thats our 6 30 tonight. We have exclusive olympics coverage in that half hour just ahead of the primetime coverage from nbc you. Can head to the website for any up to the minute Olympic Event res. Dominate the field when it comes to olympic medals with 69 altogether. 26 of them gold. China is in second with 45 medals. Great britain in third with 38. Russia has 30 medals putting them in 4th. And then za pan is in 5th place now with 26 medals. Kind of had a big weekend there. Big jump in the medal. 6 26. Up next on live at day break on todays tmj 4, attention. Why one of the men connect told unrest continues for a second night in milwaukee. Protest, quickly turned violent once again in the sherman park neighborhood. And good morning everybody. This is breaking news now. From todays tmj 4. And good morning everybody. It is 6 30 a. M. Im susan kim and we have new information this morning on the continuing violence in sherman park. Im vince. Our crews have been out all night, witnessed more violence, vandaly. And confrontationings this police. Been a tough morning in the neighborhood. We are followi

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