FOX6 WakeUp News at 8 | Nov. 12, 2026

This is Milwaukee's most trusted morning news show. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Wake Up here on this Thursday. Could be an interesting night tonight if we see our first snowflakes. Yeah, it'll be in the air. It won't really stick, so it's not like you're going to wake up and have to shovel the driveway or anything. But we'll be keeping an eye on that big old lake that we live next to. Here's the Civil War Museum cam showing some pretty choppy waves out there. The time lapse, of course, showing those same waves in motion. And if you roll through the sunrise, usually we get these beautiful colors. Had a few little peaks of sun early, but not too much. Look out in the distance. You can see some of those lake effect showers out over the lake so far. We also have a little bit of blue sky. We'll definitely take that. Right now it's 36 and it's been fairly breezy. It's getting pretty windy as we roll through the day today. That's creating wind chills that are in the 20s this morning. Wake up, Kewaskum, the wind chill is 24 degrees at the moment. Now we're going to keep temperatures pretty low, low to mid 40s throughout the day today. And again, with the wind feeling colder, we'll keep an eye out for some lake effect precipitation. We really haven't seen much yet, but there's a chance later today, tonight, and even tomorrow morning. In the meantime, it's the 12th of November, and it's happy hour day. I feel like that's almost every day here in Milwaukee, but it is officially National Happy Hour Day today. So enjoy responsibly when you're off work. All right, taking a quick check on your morning commute right now. We certainly see things light up. I want to take a look at some of the issues that we're facing. There's a crash on 41894 South, just beyond the ramp from Beloit Road. The right shoulder is blocked there, so we're dealing with that. And another crash that just popped up moments ago, Wisconsin 175 North at the ramp from I-94 East. The left lane is blocked due to a crash. That's kind of causing that delay that you're seeing there in the red. Taking a look at drive times late into downtown 10 minutes around Deer to downtown 16. But the real issue is starting to grow more into downtown and vice versa, knocking on 20 minutes. We are tracking breaking news out of our nation's capital this morning. D.C. police just issuing out this post on X saying that they are on the scene of an active shooting situation. On the northwest side of D.C., they're telling people to please avoid the area because of this active shooter. So far, we can confirm that at least four people have been hurt, although we do not know the extent of their injuries. This is going on right now in the Logan Circle neighborhood. That's about a mile north of the White House. The investigation is going on in a busy area. Homes, a church, a gym, supermarket are all in this area that right now is just swarmed with law enforcement. We'll pass along any updates as we get them, but for now, that is Our breaking story that we are tracking for you out of D.C. Okay, time now is 8.03 and back home in Milwaukee. Our big story this morning is a new snapshot of the state of our schools. From test scores and reading levels to aging buildings, Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent is set to lay out the challenges that the district is facing as well as progress that it's making to address them. Our Stephanie Cork is live outside of Discovery World, or she's inside Discovery World now, I should say, where that speech is set to get underway here in about a half an hour. Steph, I can see that it's almost a packed room there behind you already. Yeah, absolutely. People have been flooding in for the past 30 minutes or so. The room here full of elected officials, MPS leaders as well as community leaders. You see Chief Jeffrey Norman is here. So lots of community partners here at the Discovery World Pilot House. This is a beautiful location, I will say. I'll have photojournalist Nick Pan around too so you can just see kind of what's happening here. They have media set up here in the back. 30 minutes from now, as I believe it's 8 o'clock, yeah, so 30 minutes from now we're expecting to hear the state of our schools address again a number of things that we could hear, topics including progress, right? We know there's a number of issues, too. Oh, and they're playing a video with the mayor right now testing things out, but I know you guys may have some questions for me, too, about specifics of what could be addressed, too, so I'm happy to take those whenever. It's, Steph, I can see there's a lot of stakeholders there in the room. Anyone who you recognize, I guess, like who's invited to this meeting here? Yeah. Or to this address, I should say. I, uh... Yeah, no, we... There's a number of people. I mean, board members from MPS. Again, we just saw Chief Jeffrey Norman walk in, Milwaukee Police Chief. I'm just kind of doing like a circle right now, spinning around and looking here. Yeah, lots of MPS leaders, also elected officials, lots of board members, community leaders. There's police here. There's, yeah, lots of people, community partners here kind of gathering to be a part of this, as we know, too. Obviously, largest school district. The district and the state impacts so much of Milwaukee, and now I see the superintendent actually just giving a hug right behind our photojournalist there, so I don't know if he could pan, but yeah. The superintendent did just walk in here. All right, Stephanie, thanks. And understandably so, that room is filled. There's a lot to go over, aging infrastructure, dwindling enrollment, so many things. So we'll check back in just a bit with Steph. Yeah, and all of those issues that you just mentioned, Erica, could lead to closures at MPS. Yeah, the combination right now of declining enrollment, the rising cost of those aging buildings, as we mentioned, could lead to school closures at MPS. So the district has one more community meeting before it makes a formal plan for the school board to consider its schedule. Scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday at North Division High School. And there is an opportunity for public comment. And a quick look now at some of your other top local headlines this morning. Sentencing is scheduled this morning for a Milwaukee man convicted of killing two teens on Christmas Day. This was back in 2024. Investigators say Jeremiah Taylor pulled up to an SUV at 37th and Scott and shot into another car, killing Exil Rivera. and Naya Vasquez. Taylor was on the run for more than six months before police finally arrested him last year following a chase. While the fight over Act 10 is heading to the state's highest court, on Wednesday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to hear a lawsuit challenging the collective bargaining law, which restricts negotiating abilities of most union workers in public sector jobs. Act 10 was passed in 2011 and signed by Republican Governor Scott Walker. It led to a mass protest at the Capitol. Democrats now hold a trifecta of power in the state government, in the governor's office, and the Assembly and the Senate. The Supreme Court is also controlled by a 5-2 liberal majority. And new this morning, food trucks are back on the agenda at Milwaukee City Hall. Alders are taking up a new proposal related to when they can revoke a truck's license. It comes just a few months after a legal battle over how late these trucks can stay open and operate downtown. Our Andrew Amuzu is joining us now live in our newsroom to explain the latest measure on the menu. Andrew, good morning to you. Good morning and all this is happening at the Milwaukee's Public Safety and Health Committee meeting that starts at nine o'clock. Right now, city law says that operators can't face losing their assigned parking space. for certain city code violators. These are violations, as I say. This obviously applies to most food truck owners. Each assigned parking space does come with a variety of rules they must follow, ranging from food regulations to even public safety, but a new proposal would allow that to happen even if a violation happened elsewhere. Long story short, if you are found violating any city law, even if you are not operating in your parking space, it could be literally anywhere in the city, You are up for review and you could risk losing your entire parking space, I guess, privileges in general. So definitely something that's going to be discussed at today's Public Safety and Health Committee meeting. And we're looking to hear from both sides on this topic as well. Yeah, I also want to hear about curfew hours. I know for a while we've been talking about that with some discussion throughout the year. How do you think that's going to turn out? Well, the curfew hours, this might be sort of a there is an angle to it as far as, OK, what do these violations look like and how are we sort of measuring that with the curfew hours? Does it have anything to do with the public safety? We do know that curfew. That was definitely a hot topic early on this year, this past spring. And food truck owners, they did sue the city and they a judge did rule that you can't necessarily put curfew hours on food trucks. And overall, and so it was determined that you can't do that. City council members decided, OK, we're not going to vote against it. Curfew hours are no longer something that we're going to consider. Now it's on to these new regulations and new violations wherever they are. Hopefully this addresses the problem. All right, Andrew Muzoo, thank you so, so much. Alright, well, the winter chill has arrived in southeast Wisconsin, and you can keep local kids warm this season. Join Fox 6 and the Landmark Credit Union for a special drive-thru Coats for Kids collection. The event is happening Saturday. We'll be at the Landmark Credit Union headquarters. It's on Executive Drive in Brookfield from 7 a.m. until 9 in the morning to accept your donations of new and gently loved coats. And as an added bonus or an added incentive here, the first 100 cars to donate at least two coats are going to receive a pair of ticket vouchers, good for an upcoming Admirals hockey game. We know those are always such a good time. All right, the time now, 8:10, and still ahead on Wake Up, an urgent search after a building collapse in New York City. We are live at the scene with new information on the rescue and recovery effort and the investigation into what may have caused this street, this three-story building to come crashing down in the first place. And the defense secretary and his entourage scolded during a Veterans Day visit. Our friends at TMZ will walk us through what happened. And first, though, it's an event bringing together the Milwaukee area's top bakers. Brian Cramp is live at the Taste of Home Test Kitchen to tell us about the upcoming holiday cookie exchange. This certainly sounds interesting. Fox 6 Wake Up News, Milwaukee's most trusted morning news show. Well, most of us are thinking about, you know, holiday baking. The Taste of Home Kitchen has been working on Christmas cookies since spring. Bryant-Crimp is getting a look at their latest creation, and an almond croissant cookie made from Milwaukee's Big Cookie Exchange. That sounds delicious. Oh, and Derica, don't worry. We're going to bring some back so we can try them during Real Milwaukee. At least that's what you told me. Yes. Sarah, okay. Great. I need the tips, all right? You know, the holidays can be a very stressful time, too. Totally. And we want to get everything crammed into, like, that one short week or even day for some people. Yeah. How do we prepare it when it comes to cookies? Well, you gotta plan it out. So you wanna shop early, we know that, right? You wanna make your cookie dough, and I think it's really great, people know this, a lot of people know it, to put your cookie dough in the fridge overnight. Let it sit so it just can hydrate that flour and just let it chill in the fridge overnight. And then you can make your cookies, and after they're cooled, you can freeze them, and you're ready to go. I mean, it really makes a lot of sense to freeze the cookies. They'll stay for one or two months, but if you're taking them to a cookie swap, Just freeze them for like a week or so before you go. Well, thank you for that, too, because I didn't know the idea of freezing the dough ahead of time. Or chilling the dough. Sorry, chilling the dough, not freezing it. Yeah, duh, Brian, because then we go, it's a rock. But you've been here for 23 years, so you have all the tricks of the trade. Is this one of the best cookies that you guys have ever baked? Because it looks like it. Oh, my gosh. This is the best. We are in extreme cookie baking mode over here, and we recently tested this recipe and photoed it. It's amazing. And if you love almonds like I do, you're going to love this. It's the almond croissant cookie. And this we developed for Plura butter. And it's amazing. And so what we have here is, well, there's almond everywhere in this cookie. We've got almond in the filling and the glaze, almonds on top. And basically, we have the finished cookies here. But we're going to do a little extra. Okay. I think I've used that word too much already today. I like that word. All right, so what we're going to do is we've got the topping, we've got the glaze and the almonds. Yep. And we're just going to add a little extra. Yeah. And you can do that as well. And then I'm going to add extra almonds. What do you say? Oh, geez. Yeah, go for it. Back forth, back forth. You just, yeah, yeah. You just, like, it just came out firing. Yeah. So when you're doing this. Back and forth. Then you're throwing the almonds on right away because you want to make sure that they stick. You want them to stick. And then I'm going in with a little bit of coarse sugar to give it a little glisten. I like that the drizzle doesn't need to be perfect. No, no, no, no. Absolutely. And nobody needs to judge me that my drizzle is falling off the cookie. Absolutely. No judgment here. And we are in, like I said, full cookie mode. We are... We're in cookie season even in the spring when there is snow on the tulips. We are making cookies, and that gives us all the time to get recipes out for people in time for the holiday baking. All right, so I'll be the taste tester here at Taste of Home there. Look at that nice and soft cookie. I know that you guys will be reaping the benefit. Me bringing, oh my gosh. So good. I can't talk. Just take it away, guys. Taste of home. This is available online. All you got to do is just Google what? They're bringing cookies. Almond croissant cookie at tasteofhome.com. So good. They know how to do it right. You know, I will say, Grim's not a bad with the drizzler. Yeah. Those look really good. And talk about a recipe you could follow. I love their books, too. They're really good. I love that. And we love almond, too. I know. The Drizzler. Sounds like a really bad comic book villain. I know. I'm drizzling you. Yeah. I don't know why I went there, but the cookies look amazing. They sure do. Drizzled or not, I'll try them all. Like I said before, if you're willing to try the recipes in the cookie book and they fail, bring them in. I'll taste test them, let you know how you're doing, give you an update. Thank you, Volunteer's Tribute. Hey, Volunteer's Tribute, yeah, exactly. All right, let's take a live look a little farther to our north. This is Lake Superior up at our Marquette Cam, looking out at those incredible waves there. The wind is pretty strong here at home, even stronger a little farther north, and they've had quite a bit of lake effect snow coming in off Lake Superior. By comparison, our Lake Michigan is busy but not nearly as choppy. It's a little cloudy as we check out our Sheboygan Cam, but then we've got beautiful blue sky and just a few clouds in Newburgh. Comparatively, we're doing quite well. Now, it's a little chilly. It's 36, the wind is north at 13, so it feels more like 28 out there. That wind has really picked up in the last few hours. This is the last 12 hours. You can see the last couple of frames there showing those wind speeds ramping up to 15 to 25, pushing 30 miles an hour. And that's going to be the case for the next few hours here, making things feel chillier all day. Right now, we have wind chills as low as 22 out of Juneau. Now, there's also the impact of the wind across the water, creating the precipitation. You've got some pretty good rain showers out over Lake Michigan, snow up to the Marquette area there, where they do have that winter weather advisory. But so far, it's kind of leaving us alone. Now, that may change as the wind shifts a little in the next 24 hours, but eventually the whole thing winds down and we actually start warming up again this weekend. So let's go look ahead with Sky Vision Plus. Now, short term, we've got that pretty steady north wind. Occasionally along the lake shore some sprinkles today better chance tonight and tomorrow morning and maybe even a little bit of snow mixing in nothing that'll stick. It'll just kind of see it flying in the air and think oh is that a snowflake but that'll be about it and then it settles down by Friday afternoon. At most I think we pick up trace amounts to a few one hundredths of an inch maybe a tenth of an inch if we really get fired up in the southeast corner there. Now cold air is part of the recipe to get that lake effect going and that's what we have today. Mid 40s at best. We'll drop back down into the 20s, maybe some upper rather upper 20s into the low 30s overnight tonight. Either way, we're below average 49 and 35 are the climate normals. In fact, today marks the first day on the November climate tables where we dip down into the 40s for the high. Now it's not a long lived situation. We come right out of this cold air. A little bit Saturday, a little bit more Sunday, and notably for the first half of next week and possibly beyond, a stretch of 50s coming next week that pushes us all the way through possibly into next weekend, and then we start... Looking ahead to Thanksgiving, our 8 to 14 day trend takes us right out to the big day. We are only two weeks away from Thanksgiving and continues to show above average conditions through that stretch. So our Fox 6 Day Planner, starting off with a bit of a chill today, literally in the case of the wind chill, 46 the high. 44 tomorrow and 46 on Saturday, then up to 48 Sunday and into the 50s by Monday and Tuesday. Our homes hold the story of our lives. And renewal by Anderson Windows? They're built to be there with you through every chapter. They treasure the small moments, the ups and downs life gives us. They're there through it all. Start your next chapter with Windows That Last. 6 Wake Up News, Milwaukee's most trusted morning news show. It is 824 on your Thursday, and you know what that means. It is time now for your Hollywood headlines this morning. We are joined live by Alexa Clone from TMZ. We've got a lot to get to this week, Alexa, but first we've got to start with what is going on with the former Jets coach Rex Ryan running over pedestrians' feet in downtown Nashville. What the heck? Yeah, so this may or may not have been a little accident on Rex Ryan's part, but yeah, I guess he was driving his pickup truck out in Nashville, and as two pedestrians were crossing, he allegedly ran over their feet. ...and then kept driving. The pedestrians ended up running after him, actually caught up with him on a red light, confronted him about the situation, got pretty heated, and he ended up just continuing driving off. So these two people did end up going to police, told them about the situation, and then it sparked a warrant for his arrest. So he was taken into custody for this, just for disobeying traffic laws and then, you know, not stopping to help them. Pretty crazy and ironic. I guess he's got quite the history with feet, so just kind of an ironic situation for him. If you know, you know, Alexa, that is for sure. I understand, too, he's facing six charges now for this. And also, I think it's important to note that the pedestrians who are crossing the street had the walking signal, so they were not in the wrong here in terms of where where they were crossing. For sure, yeah, that's definitely not going to help his case. Yeah, I think you're spot on about that. Okay, so now we've got to talk about an incident that happened yesterday involving Pete Hegseth, and it happened at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I guess before we get to that, let's listen in to this video so we can hear exactly what we're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't care. All right, Alexa, so fill us in on some of the context here of this video. Yeah, I mean, as you can tell, it seems like a pretty intense situation. I mean, if you know, if you've ever been to the Arlington Cemetery, you know that the guard who guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is there 24-7. It's a very, you know, solemn, quiet place. You know, you're not really supposed to speak up or talk. And I guess that Pete Hegseth and his entourage, We've been laughing a little bit, ironically it was kind of on Veterans Day so a little bit more of a sensitive day to the topic as well and we actually spoke to a Pentagon spokesperson who did say you know the Guard did correctly and you know respectfully reprimand the group but yeah I mean definitely don't want to laugh or speak up there or else you're going to get yelled at. Yeah. I mean, that's honestly their job. That's why they're there is to kind of maintain decorum and protect that sacred space and that sacred ceremony. I don't know. I mean, I've been to this several times. It's just, it's so moving. It's so wonderful. I don't know that I would even feel comfortable taking a picture though, in that kind of an environment. I don't know that that would even be appropriate. Yeah. Same. I know. I went once like a really long a long time ago on a school trip and I remember being I'm terrified to even move or disrespect in any way. So we'll see if he ever returns. But yeah. All right. Alexa clone from TMZ. Thank you so much. And don't forget that you can watch TMZ live at two o'clock this afternoon. Then you can catch it at six 30. That's right after Fox six news at six. We'll be right back. Fox Six Wake Up News Milwaukee's most trusted morning news show. Well good morning and happy Thursday, a windy Thursday at that. Yeah, it's a little breezy, but the sun has broken through a little bit more than we expected. We hardly get any complaints when that happens, but we'll definitely take it as we check out our live cam. You do see some cloud cover, obviously. And as you look farther out over the lake, you see the clouds get a little darker and more menacing. And that's where the lake effect precipitation has been holding out. We're mostly cloudy in 36, but that north breeze at 13 does make it feel more like the 20s. There's all of the lake effect showers way out over Lake Michigan for now. We'll see if it shifts a little tonight and tomorrow. We're well in behind the cold front, so ample amounts of cold air available. Most of our air temperatures are in the 30s, low 30s, like West Bend at 34, and then with the wind it feels like the 20s. So dress for that this morning. Should be in the low to mid 40s a little later on this afternoon, and it is a bit of a breezy morning ride, so both hands on the wheel, please. All right. Good advice there, Rob. Thank you so much. Taking a very quick check now at your roads. There are a couple of crashes that I wanted to tell you about. They don't seem to be causing too many issues, though. First one's at forty one eight ninety four south, about a half mile beyond the ramp to the Lloyd Road. The right shoulder is blocked. There will crews respond to that one. Then headed north on forty three at the ramp to Fond du Lac Avenue. The right lane there is blocked due to a crash. And I think that could cause some delays. We're also seeing slowdowns on ninety four kind of per usual. For this time in the morning now 43 is really not bad at 94 east a little slow 17 minutes to go from Moreland to downtown. Breaking news out of D.C. this morning as police are responding to an active shooter. Alice Butler joins us in the live center with the latest. Haley, what do you know? That's right. This is certainly a developing situation. There is still a lot to learn. But what we do know is that five people have been shot in a pretty trendy neighborhood in D.C. that's in walking distance to the White House. I want to take us out live right now to the scene where you will see a massive police response. This is actually the wrong scene, but we will work to try and get to D.C. here in just a moment. We know police are responding right now to a barricade situation where the suspected shooter is believed to be. That is brand new information in from our sister station in D.C. And again, what we know is five people were shot earlier this morning in Logan Circle. That's that pretty trendy neighborhood just one mile north of the White House. At this point, again, we're told the suspect is not in custody. It does sound like he's in a barricaded situation, though, that police are actively responding to. Right now, police are urging people to avoid the area of the 1500 block of 15th Street. There are a lot of businesses there. There's a church in that neighborhood. There are also schools. So we've been told those schools near the scene are currently on lockdown. As far as the massive police response, on your screen right here, look at all of those flashing lights. This is local police in D.C. We also know the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have sent agents to this scene to help. And the FBI said its Washington field office was also helping local police with the investigation. At this point, we don't know the status of any of those victims that have been shot. And again, the active shooter is currently still at large. We just know right now, again, according to our sister station, police are responding to that barricade situation where they believe the suspected shooter to be. Certainly an active situation right now. We will stay on top of this here at Fox 6 and continue to bring you any updates on Wake Up. All right, Haley Spittler, thank you so much. Onto New York City right now. The search for survivors continues this morning as emergency crews sift through the rubble from a building collapse in Brooklyn. We know multiple people are dead and more than a dozen others are hurt and many others are still missing. Right now, investigators are trying to figure out what caused the three-story building to come down. Let's get right out to Fox's Pete Kudacki, who is in Brooklyn with the very latest. And Pete, we just heard from New York City leaders and even the mayor who says the death toll has now gone up. Yeah, that's right. Good morning, Derrick. Right now, we know that Mayor Zoran Mamdani has announced that eight people have died. At least 17 others are injured as well. However, we do not know what caused this building collapse, but Mayor Mamdani is crediting the FDNY, saying that they sprung into action, getting here within a minute of the first 911 call. And he says that if they didn't get here and launch that search and rescue operation, things could have been much worse. Exactly what the FDNY trains for here. Firefighters and EMS personnel worked tirelessly to secure the scene and rescue those who were trapped. For hours, firefighters searched through the rubble in the dark. 17 people were injured, including seven children. Five of those injuries are said to be life-threatening, and eight others died. The building had a store on its street level and apartments upstairs, and a city official says the building that collapsed is right next to an active construction site. The type of work they were conducting was excavation work on that job site. And so that was what they were working on today. According to the Department of Buildings, the construction site next to the collapsed building has a history of violations, including a stop work order from March and a follow up inspection in April found work had resumed despite that order. The city lifted the stop work order in May after the violations were corrected. However, the Department of Buildings is now shutting down work at that site once again, though it remains unclear whether the construction work had anything to do with the collapse. Main concern is a secondary collapse. We've taken measures to keep an eye on that and try to ensure that there is no further collapse. And we will be here for several days until this entire site is searched for all potential victims. The Department of Buildings is working with law enforcement here to try and figure out what caused this collapse. They're launching a comprehensive review on both the building that came down and that construction site next door to figure out what led to this happening. Derica? Just a heartbreaking situation and emotional hearing from those loved ones there, Pete. We're going to check back in with you at 11 o'clock. Thank you so much for that update. Closer to home now in Milwaukee and happening right now. Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Casellius is about to deliver her state of the school's address. You're taking a live look here from Discovery World. Casellius is expected to cover the challenges that the district is facing, things like state funding, declining enrollment, aging buildings, as well as the progress that's being made to address those issues. Our Stephanie Quirk is live there inside, so you can watch for her updates later on this morning. We will have the latest on this address that is expected to get underway here any minute. Well, a new chapter this morning in the ongoing saga of how to regulate reckless behavior around late night food trucks in downtown Milwaukee. Andrea Muzio is joining us in the newsroom with a new proposal focusing on food truck licenses. Andrew, what are we expecting? Yeah, well, long story short, the licensed food truck owners, if you are one with an assigned parking spot in Milwaukee, must follow city rules while operating. That includes food safety and overall public That's that. But under this new proposal, food trucks must follow city rules wherever they go, whether operating in their parking spot or not. Essentially, it would make it easier for the city to suspend or revoke their parking space, even if a violation happened somewhere else and had nothing to do, frankly, with operating that food truck. It is going to be under discussion today, and it is that meeting. The Public Safety and Health Committee meeting will start at 9 a.m., guys. All right. Obviously, we wonder, you know, how are these violations being recorded. What's happening with the parking spaces? I'm sure these food truck owners have a lot of questions. Oh, most definitely. There's definitely going to be a lot of questions at hand and something that we're sort of looking into as well. Should a violation committed by a food truck owner anywhere in the city really impact their decision to be violated or that them losing their privileges as well? Another thing is sort of measuring between a minor violation and a major violation. How does that sort of really determine what is going to happen? And can a minor one impact their overall parking space? Now I do wanna reiterate that just because there is a complaint, especially in regards to a photograph being taken or even a video, just because that is submitted to the licensing committee does not mean they will automatically get those, that permission to have a parking space revoked. It'll still go through due process. All right, Andrew, thanks. Once again, if approved, we'll go to the full Common Council. We'll see you in just a bit. 8.40 right now and an early Christmas present at the gas pump. Prices continue their slide ahead of the holidays. The lead analyst at GasBuddy.com shared this update overnight on social media. Saying yesterday's six cent decrease in the national average is the third largest in the site's history. The national average this morning is 387. Statewide, we're sitting at 378. And in Milwaukee, 392. Milwaukee County, that is. I mean, get me back down to the twos, please. That would be nice. Well, maybe some folks are headed up to Green Bay this weekend. There's a big home game on Sunday as the Packers are taking on the Minnesota Vikings. That's right. All right, the team. All right, we'll just go to Tim. Well, it was an aberration, really, when you think about it. Game one this season, regular season, Packers at Minnesota got ahead and scored three points in the second half. The Vikings scored four touchdowns on four straight drives late in that game. Meltdown. That's what Matt LaFleur referred to it as with his performance offensively and defensively as the coach. What's not a surprise though is this NFC. Every team with at least six wins going into Sunday's matchup between the Vikes and Packers here at Lambeau. I don't really worry about other teams. It's just how can we help our team improve on a daily basis. But it's not surprising to me. I knew this all the teams in this division are really strong and I knew it was going to be a challenge. The NFC North clearly the best division in the entire NFL this season. In Green Bay, Tim Van Voren, Fox 6 Sports. All right, TVV, thank you. Well, the pack is back on Fox 6 on Sunday. Kickoff for the Vikings game is set for noon, so be sure to catch the Fox 6 Sports Blitz at 10.30 Sunday night for all the highlights and reactions. Less than two weeks to go until the start of gun deer season. The Milwaukee Admirals are dressing for deer camp. The team will debut these blaze orange and camo jerseys on Saturday. They'll be auctioned off after the game for charity. I like those. I do. They're pretty cool. They are. Time to get you set up for Fox 6 Wake Up Now at 9 o'clock. The beef lady is in the house, and she is serving up a brand new soup recipe, perfect for this colder weather. We've been talking about that, right? Also, a new look at the life of an 80s action star. Gino is here with a sneak peek of a new documentary. Interesting. All right. And a new warning about a hike in hotel prices ahead of the holidays. Find out what is driving this massive jump in room rates. But before all that, calling all holiday cookie kings and queens, Brian Cramp will explain how you can take your favorite recipe from a family cookbook to a national publication. Good morning. Good morning. Taking a live look over downtown Milwaukee. Man, do you see those flags on top of City Hall? It's blustery out there today. I don't know. I think I got to cave. Bringing out the sleeping bag with sleeves jacket because it's chilly out there. We're in the 30s. Weekend lows are down to the 20s. Well, have you ever wondered how a family cookie recipe ends up in a national magazine or maybe on one of those fancy food websites? Well, Brian Cramp is going behind the scenes, a taste of home to see how recipes are tested, styled and photographed right here in Milwaukee. This is like a studio test kitchen operation. All in one, you said it, Nicola, too, and the magazine that's on the stands right now is this one with 108 options for you, and Sarah, back, I mean, you know, this right here, if you want to make a new cookie this year, this is the magazine to go to. Absolutely. There are so many amazing options, and it's not just for Christmas, too. I like that you're encompassing all of the holidays during this time of the season. Absolutely. There's a cookie for every time, season, everything you can think of. So, we're here in the Fast Track Kitchen. Okay. We're gonna go in the studio in just a minute, but here we've got the Gelt. Peanut butter blossom cookie that we're going to talk about today and you know one of the things I wanted to say is how does a cookie get from the pan to the page, yeah, and so you know we get our recipes from our home cooks you know that our community of home cooks our editors they they select the recipes that you know they know readers will love everything from favorite recipes to trending recipes which this one is it's new, it's trending, it's coming to be photographed today and it's like your traditional peanut butter blossom cookie Thank you. We've got a chocolate kiss, we've got a chocolate gelt, it's a chocolate coin that's traditionally associated with Hanukkah. So it's pretty great. I like it. It stays level too, so it doesn't pop up and pop off sometimes, which happens with that Hershey's kiss. All right, so we see this now, but you're going to take that. In the back, what happens as we go back here, what happens back here? All right, so we're going to meet Ellen, and she's shooting the cookie today. And she's shooting this today. It's probably going to be on our website in a matter of days. Ooh, that fast. Yeah, this is called Fast Track Studio. Hi, Ellen. Hello. So you can come on over. Yeah, back there. So let's go back here, too. At some point, I'm going to have to probably grab one and just make sure that it's okay for everybody. Totally. Understandable. It is pretty fast. I understand why you call it the Fast Track Studio. From the cookie in hand, or being done, being baked, it's on the tray. Next thing you know, it's on the table, and we're photographing it, just like that. I guess when you're looking at that, too, at that, Sarah, you can tell. You've been in the industry for a long time. These are all great-looking photographs. They are, indeed. How do you pick and choose which one then goes to print? Well, actually, we do a series of photographs. Ellen's going to take, what, today you're taking three photographs of the Hero Cookies? Yeah, three or four, depending on the angle that we want. Yeah, okay. So let's stick with you, Sarah, here, and then just go to the computer here. So as you're taking those photographs, it goes from there to print, online, both? Yeah, so it goes to our website, tasteofhome.com, in just a matter of days. So people can find this recipe, just keep your eye out on the website, it's Gelt Peanut Butter Blossom. Oh, just like that, too. Yeah. So do you have yours? Oh, you know what, those are for photographing only, I got my hand slapped earlier on. Oh, geez. One of the things that's gotta be one of the most difficult One of the things for you guys to be here and to be around the food is to not want to sample. Oh, geez. So, like, how do you work that out? Like, how do you stay, I guess, away from the food? We're sampling all the time. Oh, you are? Okay, good. We'll have to take you to our food bar. That's where we put all the food. You put you in a what? It's called the food bar. Okay. It's a magical place, and it's where we put all the food after we're done shooting it or testing it. And we walk by there all the time, and we're eating, eating, eating from the food bar. But, you know, because we're moving around, you know, we burn off those calories. Yeah, you guys are moving around. This place is like a maze over here. By the way, Taste of Home has been part of the area since 1993, started in Greendale off of there on Loomis and Roy Rogers, I know he's passed now, but that guy has done so much not only for the city of Greendale, but also for the brand, too. Obviously, you have many other magazines under the umbrella right now, but Taste of Home, guys, been around for quite some time, and that annual magazine is out, and the cookie The big cookie exchange is happening December 9th at the Gage in West Allis. Thank you, guys. Looks great. Can't wait to bite into these things. I love all the effort that goes into it, not just the recipes, but like you think you're taking some phone pictures, like your lunch or dinner. Look at the camera set up right there. It's a studio and you've got to give them props because they were doing it before the rest of us were, you know, the camera eats first. All right, Krim, thanks. But I love that the recipes are so doable. Also, we were talking yesterday about just being able to get the right science involved when it comes to making these. Thank you. Well, there's a very big difference, I've learned, between baking soda and baking powder. Oh, for sure. You can't mix that up in baking. They're extremely different. Yeah, but a lot of folks... Ask me how I know. That's right. There's a cake that didn't quite make it to cake status. Yeah, I get you. I get you. All right, well, you can practice all your cookies. We will eat the rejects. We're good. We're not too picky. And as you do, you can think about how much worse it could be. It was 2019 that these pictures were taken. Very snowy 2011. Rather, November 11th, 2019, and then a very cold November 12th, 2019. We got the snow, about three inches worth, and then it was followed by some incredible cold that year. We had a record cold maximum, so the high for the day. The coldest one recorded on that date, 19 degrees. That's the warmest it got all day on November 12th, 2019. Had a record low that day as well, as you might suspect. Dropped down to 9 degrees. So today is a little chilly, but nothing like that. We have a few more clouds that have rolled back in over Newburgh. This was beautiful blue sky a second ago. There's some sun out at North Lake. Then it's cloudy as you check in with Carthage College. And we're going to have variable conditions like that throughout the day. Right now it's 36. A little breezy. North wind at 13. So it feels more like the 20s pretty much right across the board this morning. And that wind will continue to bring that colder air. It's also going to continue to provide lake effect precipitation. Most of it in our neck of the woods is staying out over Lake Michigan. It's pretty good snow coming down up in the UP, Marquette and many other surrounding counties under our winter weather advisory up there. And for us, it's all. It comes down to which direction this wind is blowing. If it stays north, even northwest, it'll be out over the lake, it'll be Michigan's problem. But if it turns even a little bit more to the north-northeast, some of that might just brush our lakeshore communities, and we could get even a little snowflake mixed in tonight or tomorrow morning. But then we settle down, and we warm up. Let's go look ahead with Sky Vision Plus. So short term, we've got that strong north wind. Most of the precip is out over the lake tonight. Tomorrow morning, I think, is our better chance of seeing some of that along the lakeshore communities and maybe a brief period where it gets a little mixy before it settles down and clears out through the midday into Friday afternoon. At most, trace amounts to maybe a few one hundredths, maybe a tenth of an inch. But I think that's probably stretching the situation. Numbers today, yes, cold, not like 2019 cold, though we'll get up into the mid 40s will drop back down into the upper 20s and low 30s overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. So below average, but not by a ton, just two or three degrees off for the high four or five degrees off for the low. Now this little cold snap here is just a couple of days. Then we start warming back up. Get close to seasonal Saturday. Seasonal or above Sunday, Monday, and we keep warming through next week. We'll have a long stretch of well above average temperatures next week, right on into next weekend, and perhaps even on into Thanksgiving. At this point, we're looking at above average conditions pushing on through our 8 to 14 day trend there that takes us right out to the 25th of November. So our Fox 6 Day Planner, starting off here. At around 46 degrees, with the wind feeling colder, 44 tomorrow, then back to 46 on Saturday, but lots of sunshine by Saturday, sunny and 48 on Sunday, and then into the 50s, which is pretty mild for this time of year. That's for Monday and for Tuesday. We're back to Wake Up right after this.