FOX6 News at 5 | Nov. 12, 2026

With stories that matter to you, this is Fox 6 News at 5. And now at 5, a former candidate for governor is suing the state's largest newspaper. The facts that Mandela Barnes says the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel got wrong. Plus, gunfire breaks out in our nation's capital this morning, just blocks away from the White House. What police say led up to the shooting. And a school superintendent is facing charges of possession of child pornography. The investigation the sheriff's office is now launching after details about the possible case against him were leaked. Well, we've got to start with our big story at 5. Mandela Barnes sues the state's largest newspaper. The former candidate for governor accuses the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel of defamation. Jason Calvey digging into the case with details. Hey there, Jason. Hey, Mary and Ben. Barnes claims the paper got facts wrong, and he says a newspaper reporter had a conflict that the paper did not reveal. But the paper stands by its reporting. I'm Mandela Barnes. It was a stunner. 12 days before the high-stakes Democratic primary for governor. On July 30th, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Mandela Barnes was dropping out of the race. The paper reported it came amid looking into, quote, allegations that Barnes was taking advantage of his role in the party to have sexual encounters with young adult women. The J.S. also reported the Wisconsin Democratic Party hired a law firm in 2025 to probe similar claims against Barnes. His lawsuit says, That's wrong. Barnes argues there was no formal complaint, no factual investigation, no outside probe. His suit says the paper's own reporting never accused him of sexual assault, never accused him of non-consensual conduct, never accused him of harassment, nor abusing his power. Barnes' lawsuit raised questions about an unnamed source used in the story. The suit says the campaign shared with the paper messages showing the relationship was consensual and continued for months. The newspaper defends itself. The paper quotes executive editor Greg Borowski, who said, quote, The Journal Sentinel stands by our reporting. The story went through our standard editing and legal review, and Mr. Barnes was given the opportunity to respond before publication. Mandela Barnes' lawsuit also claims the paper had a conflict of interest. He alleges he was in a sexual relationship with a reporter who helped develop the story. Barnes says it started in roughly 2018 and lasted several years intermittently. He says the reporter's name was not on the byline. But the paper's executive editor says the reporter was not involved in the reporting or writing of the published story. Barnes' lawsuit also sheds new light on why he says he dropped out of the governor's race. He says it was not because of the reporting, but was based on internal polling, finances, emergence of another candidate in absence of what he called a viable political path. Barnes is seeking damages with the dollar amount to be decided at trial. Jason, on that note, my memory serves me, he dropped out the same day that that reporting came out. So he's trying to, or he has said that if the reporting didn't happen, he would have dropped out anyway? That's what he's saying. He said he knew that this inquiry was going on, that the Journal Sentinel was looking into these claims, these allegations, but he said that was not part of his calculus when he decided to drop out. All right. We'll see how this unfolds. Jason, thank you for that. Let's go to our nation's capital now where one person is dead. Four others are hurt after a shooting at a gymnasium. Metropolitan police say the gunman killed one person in the gym and wounded four others in the vicinity this morning. The shooting suspect then barricaded himself inside an apartment, but police say he shot himself while negotiators were trying to talk him out of there. The interim police chief says the gunman apparently had a dispute with with the building's homeowners association. We're devastated. Someone was killed in our city this morning, a senseless act of gun violence. I am very grateful to MPD and Fire and EMS who responded immediately, quickly, and contained this situation. Witnesses say there were about 50 people inside the gym when that shooting started. The Union Grove superintendent facing charges of possession of child porn entered a not guilty plea and waived his preliminary hearing this morning. Our Racine Kenosha County reporter Ben Hanson says the case has launched another investigation to learn exactly what law enforcement officials gave him possible inside information. We have learned a lot about this case through search warrants and the criminal complaint when charges were filed, but there are still many unanswered questions. One of the biggest ones, who told Johnson about the investigation before investigators were assigned to the case? In the criminal complaint, it says Johnson admitted he talked with someone from the Racine County Sheriff's Office on October 22nd. This happened after school in his office, the day after the anonymous letter was sent out that triggered this entire investigation. When Johnson was asked why he didn't mention that interaction earlier to law enforcement, he said he forgot. Citing a pending investigation, both the Racine and Kenosha County Sheriff's Offices declined to identify this employee from the Racine County Sheriff's Office. Does Johnson have anything he would like to say directly to Union Grove families who have a lot of questions and are kind of also in the same boat as you of waiting to see how things play out? What he says is he is presumed innocent and he has entered a plea of not guilty. Another big question, was the child porn found on Johnson's phone of his past and or former students? In the criminal complaint, it says in the anonymous letter, the author said, quote, I saw his text messages from what I think are past students or current students that are inappropriate. There are some pictures as well. The Kenosha County Sheriff's Office didn't get back to me on that question. They're the office leading this investigation because the Racine County Sheriff's Office handed it off to them, citing a conflict of interest. Johnson posted his $250,000 bail and is now out of custody. He has a no-contact order with minors and cannot use any devices with internet capability. Outside of the Kenosha County Courthouse, Ben Hanson, Fox 6 News. All right, Ben, thank you. Well, if you're hitting the refresh and not getting any results, there is a reason. Yeah, if your email just didn't work at all, still isn't, you're not alone. Microsoft is reporting a global outage affecting Outlook email as well as its other services like Teams and Copilot, other. They've been down since around 1 o'clock. For Outlook users, that means they haven't been able to open an inbox or send or receive emails. Microsoft has acknowledged the problem, saying a number of servers are unresponsive. They're working to fix them. I know I just went to refresh our email here at work and couldn't do it. So it's kind of freeing, but it's a little FOMO. Like, I feel like I'm missing something. We're so glued. Well, we are in the news business. We get a lot of tips via email. I'm like, well. Nothing for me to check. I guess we'll just have to look out the window and report on it. I guess we will. Right. You look at the frigid temps, and do we pick up a book tonight? What do we do in its place? We're taking a break from the news, Holly. It's all just about the weather, because, you know, I don't know what's going on. I don't care what's going on. You know, all I could think about is if someone had an actual job interview or something that they had to go to. That's the only thing I can think about where it actually would suck. Look, other than that, Look, I am happy to not get a thousand emails today. Nothing to check. I know. Well, I'm sure it'll be changing soon, along with the weather, too. It is noticeably cooler today. I've had friends even texting me about how it's cold. They're like, Holly, did you say it was going to be this cold? Well, friends, if you're watching, yes, I did. Said it was going to be cold. We were actually cold today because of the wind chills were very low. We're at 40 degrees right now with temperatures 36 out towards Minneapolis, 32 in Duluth, and then just to our south, still seeing some areas that are in the 40s. Closer to home here. Starting to see more of those 30s, especially in our northern communities. 39 in Fond du Lac and Sheboygan. 37, which our coolest spot, is West Bend, and then just to the south some areas just near that 40-degree mark. Now the big thing is, will we see snow? That's what I keep hearing. Snow, snow, snow, snow, snow. Do you see snow? Nope, you see rain. We got a lot of that lake effect rain that we're kind of watching right now. However, we can't rule out an opportunity to see maybe a couple of snowflakes. That is different than getting snow that actually accumulates. So you're not going to expect the big snow right now. This isn't going to be our first chance. Maybe at the end of the month we could see our first snow. But for tonight, maybe just going to be seeing a couple of snowflakes. More of some lake effect rain and then some sprinkles of snowflakes kind of sprinkled in there. Otherwise, though, look, we're all dry across southeast Wisconsin. It's really just what's going on over the lake. We will stay pretty cloudy heading throughout 8 o'clock with temperatures dropping to the 30s. We'll get even further than that. We'll talk more about temperatures and the rain that's to come coming up next. Back to you at the desk. All right, Holly, we will see you soon. This morning, Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius gave her State of the District speech today. Yeah, one of the issues she addressed was the district's financial issues. We have made important progress in restoring the district's financial footing and strengthening the systems that should have been supporting our schools all along. But let me be clear, we are not where we need to be. Our financial challenges are real. We have had to make very difficult decisions to reduce nearly 300 central office non-classroom positions and take a hard look at how we spend public resources. We are focused on restoring financial controls, improving transparency, and ensuring that our budgets are accurate, responsible, and sustainable. We're addressing overspending and under budgeting head-on, She also talked about attendance, lead hazards in the building, safety procedures, test scores, along with managing and reducing class sizes. Milwaukee's Public Safety and Health Committee approves a new city proposal on food trucks. Current city laws say food truck operators, they must follow city regulations within their assigned food truck zone. But the new ordinance says accountability now extends far beyond food truck zones. A business can potentially lose the right to operate in a food truck zone, even if they commit a violation. Outside the zone, somewhere else in the city. Alderwoman Jocasta Zamarripa is the lead sponsor of the new ordinance, and she says it's a way to avoid a total shutdown of food trucks in a district. We didn't think about the off chance that perhaps a bad actor may... Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. City staff says complaints can be written to the city clerk Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. and provide evidence of an alleged Thank you, Mr. Chairman. violation and then the license committee will review the evidence and then can potentially revoke a food truck operator's access to those spots. A handful of food truck owners attended the meeting in support of the proposal. The ordinance still requires full common council approval. Well, the Brewers have a chance to win some more hardware tonight. Brewers' second baseman Bryce Turang is a finalist for National League MVP. Terang is both a Gold Glove winner and Silver Slugger finalist, highlighting a great year both on offense and defense. He's up against the Cubs' Pete Crowe, Armstrong. Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers. So there's definitely some competition there. The winner is going to be announced in just about 45 minutes at 6 o'clock tonight. This comes after you may have heard Jacob Misiorowski won the Cy Young Award last night and Pat Murphy won Manager of the Year. We're not bragging on our Brewers. We're just saying. I understand. Tim Medburn has more on this story coming up. In sports, it was so good to see the Miz win last night after seeing Murphy win. I mean, this would just be the icing, the trifecta, really. I know. It's probably going to go to PCA in Chicago. You think so? Yeah, he's had a terrific year, and everyone thinks he's going to win. But just to be named an MVP? Oh, huge. Who knows? I like they drip it out, like drip, drip, award every single night this week, right? Yeah, I kind of like it. We should start doing that with our Thanksgiving meal a little bit every single day because Thanksgiving is just two weeks away, and Hunger Task Force is making sure that families have one to share this holiday. Yeah, today they distributed more than 2,000 turkeys from its headquarters in West Milwaukee. Look at all those turkeys. Representatives from nearly 60 different local emergency food organizations. They were the ones picking up the turkeys. They will be the ones who then hand them out. They're going to distribute them to families facing the greatest need this holiday season so they can enjoy a wonderful turkey on Thanksgiving. This is a big initiative for our partners, for our volunteers, we're of course sending out these turkeys but also other staple foods and other food items and so there's a lot of food raising, a lot of fundraising that goes in to making this all happen and so we're just grateful for all the community support that comes together to make this happen. And you can still make it happen, because the Hunger Task Force is still accepting turkey donations through its Turkey Ticker Challenge. Turkeys are $15 each and will be matched bird for bird. So you buy a turkey, they'll get another turkey. Everyone gets a turkey. Well, the search for survivors continues after that terrible building collapse in Brooklyn. And how the city is responding and where the death toll currently stands. You're watching Fox 6 News with Ben Handelman and Mary Stoker Smith. In Brooklyn, New York, at least eight people are now dead, including two children, in a building collapse there. Eighteen others were injured, including four firefighters. Search and rescue teams, they continued to dig in the rubble tonight, checking to see if anyone else is still trapped. Officials say the three-story building came crashing down around 4 Wednesday afternoon. New York City's Department of Buildings say the collapse was caused by, quote, unsafe construction operations at the adjacent property. Until we've removed some of the bigger debris and are able to search beneath them, this will remain a rescue operation. These were our friends and our neighbors, parents and children, young families building their lives in our city. New York City's buildings commissioner says construction workers were doing excavation at a neighboring site at the time of the collapse. Well, the shakeup at NVIDIA continues with CEO Jensen Huang now stepping down. This comes after his affair with a suspected Chinese spy raised national security concerns and amid another alleged affair with an NVIDIA employee. The board of directors they met yesterday to discuss Huang's future at the company. And then this morning, they named Colette Kress as interim CEO and also named the company's first ever chairman. Huang helped found Nvidia and was CEO for more than 30 years. Well, you're definitely going to need to layer up, bundle up, and just get everything on if you're headed out tonight. That wind just feels really, really brutal. Yeah, it's the time of year we finally have a wind chill out there, Holly. You're right. We've had wind gusts today that have been really high, not just a 25 mile per hour wind gust. We've had wind gusts up to 30 to 40 miles per hour, which you'll see our peak wind gusts in just a second. We only got to 45 degrees. Our normal temperature was 50. See, it's dropped now. 49. It just gets lower and lower as we go throughout the days. We only got to 45. We're down to 40 degrees now. But our feels like temperatures you see here 31 dew points are very dry and low there at 27 wind on the other hand, very windy out there. 16 mile per hour wind coming from the northwest. Now looking at our temperatures and how and our temperatures and wind chills is not just Milwaukee dealing with the big difference with temperatures versus wind chills. It's everybody. Everybody is seeing at least a five to 10 degree difference in their wind chill value. So With that being said, you are going to need to be bundling up and it's not because of the regular temperatures, it's the wind chills. Here's why. We've had windy conditions all day. This is a look at those peak wind gusts over the last 24 hours. We're seeing in the lead there, 40 mile per hour wind gusts. That is very, very strong. And then as you see here across really the entire southeast Wisconsin, we've seen wind gusts above 25 miles per hour for everybody. That being said, again, you may want to bundle up even more if you're headed out tonight because we'll kind of have a similar trend heading into tomorrow's forecast. Looking at our temperatures and how they trend or temperatures and how they change, excuse me, over the last 24 hours, yesterday we were kind of seeing a little bit of a mix where some areas were Trending a little bit warmer because it took a while for us to get out of the 40s. I told you today, everybody's going to be trending cooler, and that is exactly what we're seeing here. Everybody's over 5 degrees cooler, so 10 degrees cooler in Juneau as well as Fond du Lac, 9 degrees cooler in several areas like Sheboygan and even as far out as Madison. Looking at our temperatures and how they'll trend as we go throughout tonight, we're going to get to the 30s rather quickly here. We already got 30s in our area for some areas, especially inland. But as for Milwaukee, we'll be falling to the 30s within the next hour and a half or so. And then we'll stay in the 30s, landing in the lower 30s tonight. Looking at our satellite and radar, nice and quiet across the state. But you do notice there, we're getting a little bit of some lake effect snow just to the north and near the Marquette area. You also see here, we got some lake effect rain. Now, I know you're wondering, are we going to get lake effect snow? Well, I'm here to tell you, we could see... Flurries or snowflakes, but it's not going to be something too noticeable to where you're going to be able to go out and dance in all of the snow. And most of that is going to stay right by the lake as well. So inland areas won't be affected at all. Now, if you're going to Chicago or areas just right here in this little the southern tier of Lake Michigan, you will be seeing a little more of that lake effect snow. As for us here in southeast Wisconsin, let's look at our Sky Vision Plus. So we go throughout tonight. What you'll notice is we're going to stay dry. Pay attention to the rain that's just staying over the lake. That's kind of what we're going to be dealing with heading into Friday. Maybe a flurry or two we could expect as we head into Friday morning. Otherwise, still looking to be pretty dry. That rain does stay by the lake if we are to see any. But other than that, though, dry going into the weekend, cooler temperatures as well. We'll stick around at least until next week. You see it here on our six-day planner. By the start of next week. We're looking to be back in the 50s and having some warmer nights above freezing, at least for Wednesday. Wednesday's looking to be mid-50s. So we've got sunshine to come after tomorrow, and then we have warmer temperatures for next week. Back to you, Mary. Oh, that looks good, that nice warm-up. Thank you, Holly. Join Fox 6 and Landmark Credit Union for a special drive-through Coats for Kids collection event on Saturday. We're going to be at Landmark Credit Union headquarters on Executive Drive in Brookfield from 7 to 9 in the morning to accept your donations of new and gently loved coats. As an added bonus, the first 100 cars to come through and donate at least two coats will receive a pair of ticket vouchers good for an upcoming Admirals hockey game. Extra incentive to get out there. Good deal. The American Cancer Society announces a big change to its testing guidelines for prostate cancer. The tests, they are now encouraging all middle-aged men to take every two years if you're at risk. Well, new prostate cancer guidelines call for more frequent screenings in men. The American Cancer Society announced the big updates today. Fox 6's Ashley Sears is in the newsroom, and Ash, this actually reverses. What was done in the past? Yeah, that's right, Ben. Previously, it was recommended that patients and doctors decide together what works best for them when it comes to screenings. These new guidelines were put out today by the American Cancer Society after some new studies were done. They recommend all men ages 50 to 69 with average risks start a blood test screening every two years. For African-American men and others with higher risk, Screenings would start at 45. The American Cancer Society says more updated studies show screenings can lower a person's chance of dying from prostate cancer with early detection. It is currently the number two cause of cancer deaths in men. A radiation oncologist at City of Hope Cancer Center in Chicago says this will likely lead to more diagnoses. One prostate cancer survivor we spoke with says this would be a game changer, would have been a game changer for him if these same guidelines were out when he was 45. The first step to curing cancer is just knowing that you have cancer. So the biggest fight that we have or the biggest tool that we have for this fight is early detection because we know that early detection saves lives. Knowing that I could have gotten this at 45, absolutely, absolutely. If I could have caught this early, yes, you know, but you want to avoid the radiation. You want to avoid the Thank you. infusions and surgeries. You want to avoid those things. And when we talk about these screenings, it's not the uncomfortable exam many have heard about. This is a PSA or prostate specific antigen screening. It's a simple blood test and it takes only about three minutes. Ben and Mary. Yeah, that does sound pretty simple. It really does. Not invasive. Yeah, should encourage more people to get tested. That's just the key. Ashley, thank you. Fascinating. Well, park rangers in Brookfield are now speaking out after the county The county trapped and killed two beavers. They may have removed the annoyance, but they didn't actually address the underlying cause. Brett Lemoine breaks down why one expert says this could be just the start of the county getting rid of beavers at Foxbrook Park. You're watching Fox 6 News with Ben Handelman and Mary Stoker-Smith. One of those interesting days, because even if you're not by the lake, I knew where the lake was. He was like, oh, there's all the clouds all forming right over Lake Michigan. Yeah, exactly. I stepped out today. That run was not going to happen. All of a sudden, it's the wind and the chill. It's like this perfect cocktail. I know. It's bone chilling, too, because when the wind's blowing, you're by the lake, and it just feels so. I don't know. It's like unbearable, but I think it's because we've been so spoiled with our weather here over the over this fall has been actually pretty warm. We've been above average. So I think now that we're finally getting those cooler temperatures, we're a bit sensitive to it. But, hey, it won't take long for us to get back in the swing of things with the cold weather, because, you know, what's to come, especially as we finish out the year here. We are going to have even cooler temperatures to come visit. We're at 40 degrees right now. 32 in Duluth, 34 in Marquette. 50 out in North Platte, and then we got more of those 40s just to our south. Now, we look here at our temperatures closer to home. We're starting to see more of those 30s. A lot of our areas will be in the 30s really over the next hour. We only got a few areas that are still right at that 40-degree mark, so they'll drop one more degree and they'll be in the 30s. We are keeping our eye on just the lake here, so the lake is inducing a little bit more of that lake effect rain for areas just south of Milwaukee near the Racine area or Racine County, I should say. That is really all we have to worry about. Maybe a snowflake or a flurry could be possible, but there's going to be a very slight chance for that. Otherwise, we'll be dry and cooling off some more. I'll talk about those temperatures and when all of this lake effect stuff will come to an end. Back to you at the desk. All right, Holly, we'll see you soon. Some park goers in Brookfield are questioning why two beavers had to be trapped and killed. Waukesha County reporter Brett Lemoine is live with the reason one expert says this is only the beginning. Yeah, that's right, Ben and Mary. The county says killing the beavers was necessary because their activity threatened not only the walking path, but also the shoreline here at Foxbrook Park. Amy Mueller says she didn't see any evidence of that when she visited the park. Miller says she's a master naturalist who specializes in beaver education and outreach. She says Foxbrook Park was one of the few public parks in our area where people could see beavers. Mueller says she got word that the county had planned to trap the beavers last week. She was sad to hear two were killed. In a statement, Waukesha County Director of Parks and Land Use Dale Shaver told Fox 6 relocation and water level controls just weren't possible. It was like, just the way they trapped them, I was really disappointed. You can paint the trees with a sand mixture that... The beavers leave alone so I think there were a lot of options that could have been in place that would have allowed the beavers to stay and even if it was determined that they must go I still think they could have overwintered here and been relocated to another property. Mueller believes that other beavers will just end up coming to the park, which she says will cause the county to just have to trap and kill more. Shaver reiterates that this was the only option. Reporting live in Brookfield, Brett Lemoine, Fox 6 News. All right, Brett, thanks. Well, Milwaukee police are using an outdated survey aimed at preventing domestic violence homicides. But as Fox 6 investigator Brian Poston explains, they're doing so on purpose. When police are sent on a domestic violence call, they are trained to ask 11 questions to measure the victim's risk of becoming a victim of homicide by their intimate partner. But our investigation finds police in Milwaukee County are using an old version of that survey. And experts say that could mean they are undervaluing one of the biggest red flags for homicide, strangulation. She was just an amazing big sister. Tamika Stewart got a restraining order against her husband, and two months later, prosecutors say he stabbed her 49 times. Nobody deserves to die like that. Gerard Stewart was already out on bail, accused of strangling her. Violence doesn't stop on its own. It needs an interruption. Carmen Petrie is executive director of Sojourner Family Peace Center, home to Milwaukee County's domestic violence high-risk team. The only job of that group is to prevent a homicide from happening. She can't say if the high-risk team worked Tamika's case, but of the more than 10,000 cases the team has reviewed since 2019, just six have ended in homicide, a track record. We think it's demonstration that this team is doing good work. The team's coordinator, Michelle Coppins, says how they choose which cases to review is still evolving. The science and data around what makes a case high-risk is probably the biggest development that I've experienced in my career. When police are called to a domestic violence, violence incident, they're now trained to ask the victim 11 specific questions like has he ever used a weapon? Has he threatened to kill you? Is he unemployed? Some of it is more likely to lead to lethality than other types. Developed by the University of Maryland 20 years ago, the Lethality Assessment Program, or LAP, measures a victim's risk of being killed. There are no questions about punching, slapping, shoving, or kicking, but there is one that asks, Has he ever tried to? to choke you. Why is that question so important? Strangulation is a significant factor in red flag for homicide. Each question in the LAP is weighted and scored. The higher the score, the higher the risk. But if strangulation is one of the top predictors of a domestic violence homicide, why does it only count as one point? So I don't know what they use in Milwaukee, but in the LAP today, strangulation is actually three points. Casey Gwynn ought to know. The lap, by the way, missed strangulation early on. He trains first responders across the country on strangulation prevention. They may be using an old version of the lap. Published in 2021 and validated in 2024, the so-called LAP 2.0 increased the value of strangulation as a homicide predictor. In the LAP today, strangulation is actually three points. It also made the strangulation question. One of three for which a yes answer automatically triggers a high danger assessment. So why is Milwaukee still using the old one? You might want to find out. In an email to the Fox 6 investigators, Coppins writes, quote, A collaborative decision was made in 2024 not to transition to LAP 2.0 because of the program's myriad of requirements. But that's not the only reason. How many cases can they review? There's so many strangulations. Last year alone, the Milwaukee County DA's office charged 347 people with strangulation and suffocation. The unfortunate reality and... Frankly, there are simply too many strangulation cases. Erin Schubert tracks data for the high-risk teen, and she says the number is even bigger than that, since 54% of all victims say they've been strangled at some point. If we were to look at every single case that we see, well over half of them have had strangulation in their relationship with their current partner. Coppins writes, if nearly every case is high-risk, then none of them are. Instead, they focus only on the most severe strangulation cases, those that leave a victim unconscious. So the degree of strangulation helps you determine just how high risk. That is correct. Really says something about how common and how prevalent this is. Yeah, unfortunately so. I get why we have to create standards, because resources in Milwaukee and in this country have been going down, down, down. Guinn acknowledges funding is a concern, but says that doesn't change what's at stake. What do you want to see change? I would say two things. One, a system that flags these women along with stricter punishment for strangulation. And a recognition that women who are strangled may be in grave danger. Both the strangulation and homicide cases for Gerard Stewart remain open nearly three years after his arrest. He is in custody and scheduled for trial in January. Meanwhile, the coordinator of the domestic violence high risk team says instead of moving to LAP 2.0, they're now exploring the possibility of a new LAP survey tailored to Milwaukee County. They're working with the Medical College of Wisconsin on that. In the newsroom, Brian Polson. Fox 6 investigators. Eye-opening stuff from Brian. Hey, if you are in need of domestic violence crisis services, call Sojourner's 24-hour hotline. The number is 414-933-2722. You can also send a text. That number is 414-877-8100. They are great resources right there, and all calls are confidential. Well, will the honor roll continue for the World Series champion Brewers tonight? And will Jordan Love's hot play continue Sunday against the Vikings? Tim Van Voren, he is in studio next. You're watching Fox 6 Sports with sports director Tim Van Voren. It is quite the divisional duel on Sunday. The 6-3 Packers hosting the 6-2 Vikings. Minnesota won a crazy matchup in Week 1 at U.S. Bank Stadium, but now has a new quarterback in Kirk Cousins. Green Bay's quarterback, Jordan Love, isn't sure if he'll recognize what he sees Sunday or not. It's never easy going against this defense. I think obviously week one, you don't know what they're going to bring because you're looking at film from last year, and then you play them week 10. You've got a bunch of film you've got to watch, a bunch of different looks. So it's always a challenge. I think every week is a new test for them, and there's so much different stuff you've got to prepare for, and who knows if they'll do that in the game. Lots of football for you right here on Fox 6 Sunday. Look at that. Three games. The meat of the sandwich is the Packers hosting the Vikings at the noon kickoff. And, of course, you can stay with us right on through the Fox 6 Sports Blitz at 10:30 Sunday night. The last of the major baseball awards will be handed out tonight. Bryce Terang of the Brewers, one of three finalists to be named National League Most Valuable Player. That's noteworthy no matter what, but especially when you consider that Terang was snubbed to even be on the All-Star team. This summer, now he's one of three finalists for the MVP. Perhaps Terang will continue the Brewers' landslide of postseason individual awards, although Pete Crowe Armstrong of the Cubs is the projected winner of the MVP trophy for the regular season. PCA with a glittering individual, stress individual, resume in his favor. A couple of fun college stories for you. Take a look at the Huey-Weiler brothers, two key contributors during a very successful season for UWM. They're making their own names while playing together and extending a legacy established by their father. A couple of very well-spoken young men. Interesting story. We'll go beyond the game tonight on Fox 6 News at 9. And how about congratulations to the Alverno College women's hoops team. On Wednesday, the Inferno won for the first time since November of 2024. Playing for the first time since February of 2025. You're saying, how? Alverno did not field a team last season. So it was an entirely new roster under new coach Joshua Steffen, his assistant Eric Brooks. They get past Knox College, 72-65, snapping a 23-game losing streak. So you know that was pretty well received on campus at Alverno. They have basketball back. Look at the crowd. Nice to see the Inferno taking one to the win column. Good stuff. We're taking it back to Mary and Ben in just a moment. Mary, you know what I think this newscast is missing? What? An 18-foot fiberglass fish with snow on it. This is a live look from Boulder Junction, Wisconsin. Wow. Up north. I was like, what is that thing? That's a fish covered in snow. It looks almost like a spaceship. Aliens have not landed. No, it's just snow. Which is a little foreign to us. That's Marty the muskie. Marty the muskie. A little chilly tonight. Oh, man. Lure him in. Lure him in. Northwoods being Northwoods. Snow already up in Boulder Junction, Holly. I know. They've been getting their fair share of that lake effect snow. Now, I'm going to say this, and I know people may not like it for those that don't like snow, but I'm actually... Ready for it to snow. And the only reason I say this is because it's cold. Right. If it's going to be cold, just let it snow. Just go for it. If it's going to be cold, just let it snow. If the shops have Christmas music playing already, we might as well have snow to match it. Exactly. Like, I mean, everything is. It's falling into place, except for the snow. And that's what I need to happen so I can actually feel purposeful as far as making my soups and doing all of the things that lead up to Christmas. I'm missing the snow. Now, do I want us to all be snowed in? No, not necessarily that, but definitely snow that will paint a beautiful picture for us. If you agree with me, then I'm going to shake your hand right now. If you don't, then listen, you're going to be getting your way because we don't have really any snow coming in our forecast. Looking at our almanac, we only got to 40. 45 degrees today and our normal temperature now is 49 so we're a little bit below that. We're still right at 40 degrees here in Milwaukee. Our feels like temperature is 31 and then our dew point is 29. Wind is from the northwest still having that northerly flow of the wind that's going to keep us on the cooler end and it is Very breezy out there right now, 16 miles per hour with our wind. Now looking at our temperatures and the wind chills, you notice that everybody is experiencing temperatures feeling a lot cooler than what the actual temperature is. So you see the wind chills in the lower 30s, then we got our regular temperatures in the upper 30s and near 40. So we've got it. Got kind of a big gap, so it does feel cold. You're going to definitely need to add those layers. I find myself bringing out all of my big coats because it just feels like it's time. We also know, too, with these winds. Coming from the northwest is not just Milwaukee with those strong winds. It's everybody across southeast Wisconsin, and that is resulting in us having those wind chills to even be present. We are at that point of the year where we start to have wind chills to be factored in. Now, will the winds stay strong tomorrow? Well, at least for the first start of the day, we could still have some gusty wind in between 20 and 25 miles per hour. It does start to kind of die down a little bit more as we head towards the evening on tomorrow. Breezy tonight and then for the really first half of the day tomorrow, looking at those temperatures and how they'll trend throughout tonight, you'll notice that temperatures are going to be in the 30s, not too. And really in the next hour or so, we'll be in the 30s here in Milwaukee and we'll stay in the 30s overnight, getting down to the lower 30s for our low temperatures. Looking at our satellite and radar, we are nice and dry across the entire state. But you take a look up towards the areas near Marquette, that is where all of that snow is and that is some lake effect snow. Now, we also got lake effect rain that you see just kind of really pushing from the north all the way southward for all of Lake Michigan. Really, we do get clipped off a little bit. So parts of Racine County could see a little bit of some lake effect rain. However, the question is, do we get snow? Will we look like the fish that was on the picture earlier? No, we're not going to get a coating of snow. Maybe a few flurries that you could see, but it's not going to be super visible. It'll be mixed in with a little bit of rain. Now, if you want to see snow, I'll tell you this. If you go down to the bend area here, so just in the southern tier of the lake, There is an opportunity for some lake effect snow really today and even into tomorrow in the weekend's forecast. So if you want the lake effect snow, I can tell you where to go. And that's going to be even southward than where we are right now. Looking ahead here on our Sky Vision Plus, you'll even notice that all of the rain stays over the lake. And we could get a few moments of the day where we could get. Maybe a flurry or two, as you see here. That's kind of indicating we could get a little bit of some flurries. Otherwise, though, we are going to stay dry. Those lakeside communities could get in on the action of just a little bit of rain. Otherwise, inland areas, you don't have to worry about it. Your weather is going to stay nice and sunny. Maybe a few clouds to visit into town as well. Looking beyond the weekend, you notice here we'll be in the 40s, warm to the 50s as we head towards next week. And those temperatures will stay in the mid-50s, excuse me, so we'll warm to the 50s. Next week, we'll have more of that sunshine to be on the way. Over to you, Mary. All right. Looking forward to some sun. Holly, thanks. The Milwaukee County Transit System is bringing some holiday cheer to the streets with a new holiday-themed bus. All right, let's look at it. The officials say it will be decked out with festive decorations. Oh, I thought we were going to have a video of it. They're, like, teasing us. They're, like, right, with tinsel and lights and all that. I'm told there will be eye-catching light displays. The bus will be unveiled November 19th. I should have read this farther down. Then it would have been on the video because it hasn't been unveiled yet. They're going to do it at Uptown 56 Park. You can also catch a glimpse of the bus during special appearances throughout the holiday season. This includes the City of Milwaukee tree lighting ceremony, the West Allis Christmas Parade, and cocoa with the Clauses, which is honestly my favorite event. We spoke with MCTS on Fox 6 Now today. It's going to be so relaxing. You're going to get on. It's magical, charming. Our employees have gone way out on this initiative. They really wanted to give back some joy to the community. We have people lined up, mechanics, route supervisors, bus operators. Who are going to be the elf community. So you'll be seeing quite a few familiar faces. And also some that you'd never get to see because they're always behind the scenes. But they will be out with our riders providing cheer throughout the holiday season. Chicago does this. We're going to lose our minds because they do it in Chicago. And I'm excited about that. That's awesome. Well, there's a new trend. Moms, they found a way to help their kids who are away at college. Yeah, rent-a-mom services. Starting to become real popular. The chore services will help with that next. Mom, my clothes are dirty. Right, I need food. Rent-a-mom concierge services are booming in college towns across the country. It's a real thing. Parents are hiring local women to care for their students, helping with cleaning, laundry, even delivering homemade soup on sick days. While critics argue the model coddles Gen Z and enables helicopter parenting, the founders, they're defending their work as a vital safety net. For students navigating heavy workloads, new environments, and mental health struggles.