FOX6 News at 9 | Nov. 13, 2026

With stories that matter to you, Fox 6 News at 9 starts right now with breaking news. And we continue to follow this breaking news here on Fox Local. Within the past hour and a half, the ground stop that's impacting flights all across the country. Hallelujah! It's finally been lifted. Thanks for joining us here on Fox Local. Let's take a live look at the map right now because... Here we go. The ground stop has been lifted. And if you're wondering, why am I not seeing a bunch of planes moving around? Oh, well, this could be an issue throughout the night as they got to get now crews in place. A lot of these flights, the pilots have timed out. So they're all getting canceled right now. This is from FlightAware. But the good news is they are allowed to take off again if there is a crew that is good to go. The reason for all of this. Communication issues affecting all 22 air route traffic control centers. This is a live picture from Mitchell International Airport. Look at that. Delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed. Man, this is what it looked like a little earlier today as people were sitting down. Let's get out to Abril Preciado joining us live. What's the vibe out there, Abril? Oh my gosh, what can I say? It's very quiet now. I mean, I'm going to just step out of the picture just to give you guys a look. We don't see any traveler out here waiting in line. Several of the airline employees have pretty much cleared out and left. Right now we are hearing an employee out here in the airport kind of. We're finally starting to vacuum in the area because, again, many folks left or they decided to find a place to spend the night or others are planning to just come back tomorrow morning, hoping to departure. Once again, it's been quite the last few hours, obviously a different look than what we for them, what we first saw when we first arrived here a couple of hours ago. But obviously many folks that we spoke to just before this live here were telling us off camera. that while they now feel a sense of relief following the national ground stop being lifted, now it's dealing with the aftermath and what comes next. Several folks that we also spoke with earlier were telling us that now they're trying to figure out if they could even make their way to their destination that they have planned. Because again, you know, several people had different events that they had planned out. But yes, I'll show you to the sound bite. You guys, we're heading to? To Denver. To Denver. Where were you guys heading? Did you guys have plans for an event? For two weeks in Denver by my son to go see my granddaughter play the violin tomorrow morning so I'm hoping I still can get there. Can I ask how you guys found out what was happening that obviously your plans got changed? My son texted me that it was on the news while I was en route here. Are you guys from the Milwaukee area? No, Hartford, Wisconsin. Oh my goodness, so you guys traveled. Yeah, so I'm stuck here because I'm by myself. Oh my God. I got dropped off. So I have to decide what I'm doing. Yes, so you think that, are you hoping to stay put here? Are you hoping to find some answers? I rebooked for tomorrow morning at 5. 30 flight, so I'm hoping, I'm not sure what I'm doing yet. If I'm staying here or getting a hotel or what I do. And by the looks of it, looks for this traveler is that they may be coming back in the morning hoping to make that flight and catching their grandson at that recital as well. So hopefully some good news for them and for several other travelers that I know are still trying to figure out the logistics of if they, you know, if they're able to make it out to their destination. But that's pretty much the sentiment that we're feeling right now. Obviously, once again, things have tremendously slowed down. I'm sure that's a different picture that we're seeing at bigger airports, at bigger cities. But right now, things are slowing down, and folks are just trying to figure out what comes next. But we'll obviously keep you guys updated with more information as we continue to kind of stick around here as well. Reporting live from Mitchell International Airport, Avril Preciado, Fox 6 News. Kind of a sad scene because people are hoping it would speed up, not be slowed down. Not be dead. The airlines are like, we're just going to take the rest of the night off. We're talking out. It's been a difficult day. All right, thanks. Well, this is what it looked like in Chicago. And Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. This is not what it looked like. I was like, wow, that would be great. No, this is still a Mitchell. This is the rental car counter. I bet there's nothing left. They're just going to say, yep, everybody took them. Everything. We don't even have it like a VW Beetle. I don't think that happens. Exactly. Maybe those new Beatles. Oh, man. Okay, now, this is what it looked like in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philly, and Atlanta this afternoon. No planes were taken. Clear skies. No one was taking off at some of the nation's busiest airports. 3.36 p.m. we experienced instability for our radar and our communications and our centers and our tracons across the country. So if you don't know this, at airports we have towers, the next rung out is a tracon, after that we have enroute centers. The tracons and the centers, we started to have inconsistency in the data from the radars and our communication with airplanes. And we have procedures for this. Our pilots are well-trained. Our air traffic controllers are well-trained. And at that point, we issued a ground stop. We had over 3,500 airplanes in the air. They all engaged. And last time I looked, we had less than 400 in the airspace as they were all coming in to safely land. And we navigated it with our well-known procedures that we have when these incidents happen. I'm going to talk about where we're at now. But before I do that, when we shut down the airspace, oftentimes there are critical movements that have to take place, whether it's medevac, there's cargo operations that are moving critical medicines that save people's lives. We didn't lose all telecom. We didn't lose all radar. But that instability, because of abundance of caution and making sure we keep the American flyer safe, we did the ground stop. But we were going to allow those life-saving movements to still occur, as well as with law enforcement as well. So what happened, right? I've heard a lot of the rumors like Mark Wayne has, but what we have is an incredibly old air traffic control system. I think every single one of your networks have covered the president and myself talking about this for the last two years. The president for the last year has been asking Congress to fully fund a full build of a brand new air traffic control system. So we have TDM telecom. So this is analog telecom. Our switches, our routers, actually got overloaded with data and they went down. And I shouldn't say they went down. They started to give us inconsistency in the data from those routers. And because of that, we shut the system down. Now, I have already replaced some of those switches with President Trump, and our new IP switches did not go down. It's the old hardware that went down. Yeah, look, this was the scene out in Waukesha County. That's just an airplane just sitting on the jet there. There were some lessons that were supposed to happen. We were speaking with Brett Lemoine this evening. And that stopped. They just decided not to go ahead and fly. Although there were some smaller planes that were allowed to fly, Brett explained, because they were flying at lower altitudes. And so they were allowed to fly. Because those were working down there. Actually, we spoke with the airport director out in Waukesha County. Here's what he had to say. I'd imagine that it's going to be based on what their departure time was. It was. So they'll put it all under their system and see what they can safely depart. Usually departures every few minutes is what we can handle here, and it's all based on how busy the airspace is going to be. So we'll make sure they have a system in place. They've learned a couple lessons in the last few years. Well, and it puts more of a strain, I imagine, on a smaller airport like yours, too, when you have a lot of planes that are already ready to go and, you know, only two runways. True, but our flight volume is a lot less than what Milwaukee Mitchell experienced. So I think our commercial service airports are going to have the biggest impact because there's so many people and so many flights just waiting at this point. And that will take a long time to load everybody up. An advantage of flying out of Waukesha. Generally, smaller airplanes, smaller passenger loads, they know who the passengers are, so they don't have to go through the regular screening process that commercial does. So I think for us, getting up and going is going to be a little faster than our commercial service friends. We got any movement out there? It looked like a whole bunch. We were noting that the international flights, those seem to, you know, be the first. Well, they did say the bigger flights are the ones that are going to get the priority to, you know, leave. And so certainly those international flights would qualify for that. There was a time today, I've never seen this before, probably since. 9-11, there were no flights flying over the state of Wisconsin for a long period of time. And that was what initially was so unsettling. It's because we, you know, when you say ground stop, a lot of people's minds go back to that day. And so the administration really got out in front and said, hey, no, this is not it. This is a communications issue. Everybody's safe. Everyone's safe. This is not a cyber attack. We're working on it. But they still didn't know the exact cause, it seemed like. They're still trying to figure that out, although they do say it's the old equipment from the 80s. They tried to bring something new with the old equipment, and the two didn't. Although he clarified later and said that wasn't the issue either. It was... We need more clarification. They're saying it's old copper wires and there was too much data. And we need money. And we need money to fix it. That was a big message at the press conference. Our coverage of the ground stop and the ripple effect that it's going to be felt all weekend long and maybe beyond. So we're going to continue that coverage on Fox Local and also on Fox6Now.com. It's being called the miracle. This has all happened on the same day. A miracle on the Mississippi. A huge tanker ship crashes into a riverboat cruise ship in New Orleans. Dozens of passengers ended up in the water, and miraculously, nobody has died. Fox's Caroline Elliott has more on the historic rescues. We have a riverboat taking on water steadily. A chaotic scene out of New Orleans Friday after a tanker lost control and collided with a river cruise ship that was carrying nearly 130 passengers on board. At this moment, the information that we have, we have zero people unaccounted for. Officials say the river cruise was docked at the time of the crash when it was T-boned by the massive ship. Passengers quickly began evacuating before it started to take on water. The boat has just tipped over. We have patients in the water. Local police, tugboat operators, and the Coast Guard all stepped in to get people to safety. Though about 30 people were taken to area hospitals as a precaution, none had major injuries and no one was killed. This is a miracle. It is a literal miracle on the Mississippi. You know, the Mississippi River is not some quiet pond. Right? I mean, there were challenges out there. The cruise ship run by American Cruise Lines is five stories tall and was finishing an eight-day cruise along the Mississippi River. The tanker was sailing under a flag for the Marshall Islands and had New Orleans as its final destination. The NTSB is sending a team to New Orleans to investigate. In New York, Caroline Elliott, Fox News. West Bend police released new details about a murder-suicide that happened last weekend. They say the investigation indicates 54-year-old David Slonikowski, a former Milwaukee police officer, shot and killed a woman and two children. One other child was also shot but survived. Slanikowski then shot and killed himself, according to police. Investigators add the victims were a mother and her children. Slanikowski also lived there and had been involved in a long-term relationship with the mother. Police say this investigation is still active. New at 9, Governor Tony Evers fires UW regent Timothy Nixon. It's effective immediately. The governor's office says this comes after receiving reports the regent allegedly had an altercation with staff providing support for an official UW meeting. Nixon was appointed to the board in 2024 by Governor Evers. The governor says he will not replace Nixon. He'll wait for the incoming governor-elect, David Crowley, to elect a replacement to serve out the rest of Nixon's term, which ends in 2031. Outgoing Governor Tony Evers issuing the state's first commutations in decades. Fourteen sentences, including ten people convicted of homicide. One of them will be immediately released. The others will either have their sentences or supervision shortened, or both, or will be eligible for parole earlier. In one case, Michael Maldonado was a teen when he was convicted in 1995 in a murder-for-hire case in Jefferson County. A school librarian was convicted in hiring students to kill her husband. Maldonado admitted he pulled the trigger, but later admitted they actually, that's not what happened. He testified to the Commutation Advisory Board this summer. I can't even imagine the emotional suffering and heartache and fear that was placed on that family because of this traumatic event. After three decades, I had an opportunity to speak with their family in person, and it was evident that their emotional turmoil continues through to this day. Maldonado was sentenced to life in prison and then was eligible for parole in 2044. But with today's news, he'll now serve four more years in prison and then have parole for the rest of his sentence. The full list of commutation includes 10 convicted of homicide, five convicted of robbery or burglary, and one convicted of drug dealing and one convicted of arson. Let's turn now to the weather. Let's take a live look outside. A definite fall feel to the air, but a warm-up eventually on the way. But I'm living in tonight. You know what tonight was? Huh? I turned up the butt warmer in the car. It's that kind of a night. It's that kind of a night. Oh, I did, too. Thank you. Thank you. When I was on my break, I'm like, seat warmers? And then I did the steering wheel warmer because my car has that. The car that I drive now finally has that, and that came in handy. If only we could get a way to shift the gears for that to be warm. Maybe that'd be a little too much, but, yeah, I was so cozy in my car today, didn't want to get out. Who want to get out in this 36 degrees of temperatures right now, even worse in Duluth, right at 25 degrees, 34 in Marquette and then 32 in Des Moines. Closer to home, we got some areas right at freezing as well. One area below freezing, and that is Burlington, right at 29 degrees. Oh, and Janesville at 30 degrees. Temperatures will continue to drop, perhaps below that freezing mark as we head towards the later nights or the overnight hours. Looking at our satellite and radar, we do keep conditions nice and dry across southeast Wisconsin. You do notice here that we have pretty much have that lake effect rain that stays over the lake. We're not going to be affected by that moving forward. Looking at our evening planner. And you notice here that we are going to be keeping skies nice and clear, even up till midnight. Temperatures will be really dropping to the lower 30s. Wind will also be pretty breezy. It's going to be lightening up, though, as we head overnight. So that's going to be good news for us. Now, as we head throughout the weekend and next week, the weekend does remain chilly. However, we are on the way with a warm-up, and that's going to be arriving really over the weekend. It gets warmer each day, 50s by the beginning of the week. We'll talk more about it on that sixth day coming up. Back to you at the desk. Don't super track the weather anywhere, anytime with the Fox 6 Storm Center app. The radar, it's one of the best around, and you get severe weather alerts based on where you are. The app is a free download. Jake Bowers has a new team. Reports of the NLCS MVP signing with the Boston Red Sox this afternoon. But understandable. According to the reports, Bowers has agreed to a four-year, $58 million deal with Boston after his career best season. He had career highs and home runs with 26 RBIs in 86, and he hit two 66. Well, along with getting the National League Championship Series MVP, he was nominated for the Silver Slugger Award as a first baseman and as a utility player. The Brewers had given him a qualifying offer of just over $23 million for next season, but the Sox gave him a long-term offer, which gives him much more security financially. The Brewers will get a compensatory pick at the end of the first round because Bauer's deal is worth more than $50 million. It's a lot of chowder. That's what they say in Boston. Thank you. The rival Minnesota Vikings come to Lambeau Field this weekend to take on the Packers, and Sunday is the Salute to Service game. The teams will honor current members of the military and veterans and show appreciation for their service. You'll see players wearing and using special Salute to Service equipment. Seven TAPS families will be honored on the field during pregame activities, and they will also help hold the American flag during the national anthem. And you can watch the Packers take the Vikings Sunday. Right on your TV on Fox 6. Kickoff is at noon, and we're going to wrap up our coverage with the Sports Blitz Sunday night at 10:30. A trip to Madison is on the line tonight for the high school football teams across the state. It's the semifinals in the state football playoffs. Lily's out. We'll have the game of the week, Catholic Memorial versus Pewaukee, and Brandon Cruz will be in studio with all the rest of the action. It's tonight on Fox 6 News at 10 on Fox Local. Well, we're still following that breaking news, but the good news is the ground stop has been lifted. And it's pretty quiet at Mitchell, and I don't know if this is good news or bad news. Pretty quiet. Most of those flights have been canceled for the evening. Folks are rebooking, but yeah, the ground stop, the nationwide ground stop is over, and things are slowly, slowly will get back to normal. Again, the ground stop has been lifted, so now the challenge is to get all those flights that were grounded, that were delayed, to get them back up in the air, to get things rebooked, people on their way, and so that's going to be a whole process this weekend, but... I'm seeing movement. But here on my app, there's a flight. It was supposed to fly from Milwaukee to Las Vegas, and it's been diverted to Austin. So you wonder if the airlines are now moving planes to different areas. Which makes sense, but, oh, that's the worst when you have to go out of your way. We've got to get these pilot, well. The crews. Yeah, that's probably the worry about the crews getting to Austin so they can be in position to fly planes tomorrow. But at least there's movement there. Wouldn't want that headache. All right. And we talked with a relative, a sister of our own, Haley Spittler, who was at O'Hare, who was on her way to Florida for a wedding, and she got caught in the ground stop. Let's listen. I was just in the customer service line, and then after waiting 20 minutes, I decided to leave. They're having customer service agents just go down the line and suggest that people call or use the app instead of waiting for the counter. Otherwise, most of the communication is just the gate agents suggesting that you stay near your gate for the latest info. I'm lucky I live within an hour from the airport, so I'm probably headed home here shortly. So just waiting it out there. But I did consider rebooking a flight tomorrow that was available. However, I don't know if they would if they would prioritize my original flight today or if they try to honor the flight times of the flight tomorrow. So that's. The dilemma and the customer service agent I spoke to wasn't willing or able to give advice on which way to go. Leaving people to figure it out. And the thing is that there was no overall announcement. People were being called by relatives and texted by relatives. You called your mom and it's like, hey mom. What are you talking about? I said, snuggle up because you're going to stay in Los Angeles for a while. She's still in LA. I see a plane on our Mitchell camera We're here in studio and there's one taking off. There's one. I can't see the coding if that's a domestic flight or if it's one of the bigger international... Oh, there you see it. We just missed one taking off, but that one's taxing. Ooh, let's see. I can probably tell you where it's going to go. FlightAware is a wonderful thing if you are... This one was supposed to go to Orlando? Uh-huh. Where's it going now? Nashville. Close, but no cigar. I wonder if there's people, though, who are supposed to go to Nashville that got on this plane instead, like they just switched the gears around. That you now have to have a... ...layover and switch planes and so on and so forth. Anyway, we'll keep you up to date. The air traffic outage did not stop flights to space. SpaceX's massive Starship rocket successfully blasted off from South Texas. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. I just want a guttural scream every time that happens, like, yeah! Really? This is just before 4 o'clock. Kicking off an ambitious 22-hour spaceflight mission, Flight 15 lifted off from Starbase. During the mission, Starship is slated to orbit the Earth 14 times and release 26 new Starlink satellites. A couple years ago, I was down in Florida and a couple Starlink satellites were launched and it's just, the sound is just so incredible. You got to see that? Yeah. Oh, I'm so jealous. Oh my gosh. SpaceX aborted its attempt to catch the booster, though, of the Starship. The booster splashed down in the Gulf. That's not what's supposed to happen. It's unclear why the catch was aborted. SpaceX was aiming to complete the first ever double catch with its Starship rocket. A planned ULA rocket launch from Cape Canaveral pushed back after a power issue on the ground. It's like its own ground stoppage. You're right. Officials say the power problems at the nitrogen plant knocked out pumps that keep gas flowing to the launch pad. The Vulcan rocket will carry 40 of Amazon's LEO internet satellites into space. Amazon has satellites. Everybody's got satellites these days. It marks the first of 38 planned missions. Crews will try again tomorrow afternoon. That's how they're going to deliver things from the future. Like, oh, I want something. It's just going to chuck it from outer space. I know. Just wait to catch it. Oh, yeah, here it comes. What is the return fee, the shipping cost? Like, I don't want it. Slingshot it back up there somehow. I mean, it'll happen in your lifetime. Yours. I feel like the cat had my tongue. Not mine. I feel like I'm trying to say something. You don't have faith that we're going to go to Mars or the moon. We're supposed to go to the moon, like, soon. Again, I know I look youthful, but I'm a little... She's 98 years old. A little older than you think. I would never want to go to space. Me either. I just don't. If I'm ready to... That sounds terrible. Let me not say that. I just don't want to go to space. Okay. You can stay with me. I want to get out of this cold. I'll stay in the cold, okay? I will stay in the cold. It could be negative 50 degrees. I'll stay here instead of going to space. How about that? That sounds terrible too, but I'd rather do it because I don't have to be outside. But you could also be indoors to kind of help keep warm because we're not going to get that cold, but we are going to get cooler again tonight. We got the 36 temperatures right now. We're going to keep dropping a little more. Feels more like 30 outdoors. Dew points are at 25, and wind is from the northwest at 8 miles per hour. Now, looking at those temperatures versus the wind chills, What you're seeing here is a lot of areas are filling. Like they are below freezing that doesn't mean we're below freezing. We got some areas right at freezing Maybe one area below freezing as Janesville, but the feels like temperatures are definitely below freezing. So Yeah, it is cold out there And if you haven't been outside if you just step your foot out there, you're gonna come right back on inside But if you do go outdoors, this is the time where you start layering up because you'll need it Our temperatures and how they've changed over the last 24 hours, still trending cooler tonight, maybe not that big of a difference from where we were last night, but we are a couple degrees cooler. Janesville in the lead at about seven degrees cooler right now. Now, as far as those temperatures and how they'll trend throughout the rest of tonight. You notice here that we'll get down below freezing tonight with our regular temperature. So you can only imagine how much lower those feels like temperatures are going to be. And even waking up tomorrow morning, we warm up. But we're not going to be warming up that much. We still will be in the 40s for high temperatures tomorrow. Now, you see here, and looking at our entire state, nice and dry, we have a high pressure that's starting to build in. So that is basically what's going to provide us with the dry weather over the weekend. Now, I know this is such a distraction here, this lake effect rain, but that's not going to really affect our area at this point. It's going to stay over the lake, but Chicago is going to continue to get in on the action of that rain. So keep that in mind if you are going to be traveling to Chicago. Now, as for us closer to home here on our Sky Vision Plus, here's what we can expect. Now, you see here, we are going to be dry going into the overnight hours. We could have a few clouds kind of come in as we head towards. Saturday's forecast but the wind speeds will definitely start to decrease a little bit more throughout the day on Saturday. So that is the best news for us. Heading into Sunday skies will eventually start to clear where we'll get mostly sunny sky conditions. A few of those clouds will linger around but mainly it's going to be that sunshine. Now as we look here at our six day planner beyond Saturday into next week you notice there we start to warm up a little bit more with our temperatures. We get to the 50s by next week and then on top of that we get to the 50s by next week. We're going to keep that sunshine around as well. We don't necessarily track rain again, where it's a slight chance, until Thursday. So lots of nice weather on the way, but it's still going to remain cool, especially at night. It could even be cold at times because we do have a couple of nights ahead of us over the weekend and the start of next week where those temperatures will be below that freezing mark. We won't be necessarily above freezing with our low temperatures until the middle of next week. So cold nights ahead of us. Although temperatures will be gradually warming each day. Over to you, Ben. I like that six day. I do. All right, thanks, Holly. The Fox 6 Coats for Kids Drive is underway. Join Fox 6 Landmark Credit Union for a special drive-thru collection event tomorrow morning. We're going to be at Landmark Credit Union headquarters. That's on Executive Drive in Brookfield from 7 till 9 in the morning. And we're there to accept your donations of new and gently loved coats. And as an added bonus, the first 100 cars to come through and donate at least two coats get a pair of vouchers for an upcoming Apples game. Oh, a day not to travel. Oh, man. I mean, there are people that are going to be stuck for days because of this. Have you called your mom? I texted her, and I didn't get any response, which means one of two things. She's busy? Or her phone is dead. Oh, the three options. Okay. The other option is she's so frustrated, she does not want to talk to anybody. She's out west and was trying to catch a flight and got caught up in the ground stop, which has now been lifted. I think she's ignoring me because she doesn't want to talk about it right now. Yeah, probably a lot of people don't want to talk about it. Do it. A sign of the season, the Wisconsin Capitol Christmas tree was harvested this morning in Oconto County. It comes from the Vander Velden family in Gillette. Let's see this puppy. Timber. Okay. The tree will eventually be on display inside the Capitol Rotunda. The harvest was done by members of the Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association. I can't even see the tree, and I know it's a good one. Yeah. Blue spruce, you think? Aren't the best trees blue spruce? Because they don't shed the needles as much as the other ones. The Milwaukee Area Salvation Army is kicking off its Red Kettle campaign with a donation. That almost looks like Santa. There's a goal this year, $3.3 million. Organizers say this year's number, it's ambitious, but they're confident we can do it, guys. We can pull through as a Milwaukee community. They say the six-week campaign helps fund programs all year long, such as youth and senior services, disaster relief, serving those who are incarcerated, and so much more. Whether it's our time or our talents or our treasures, it's a time of giving, and we're just kicking it off today with our Red Kettle campaign. Major Beverly's got so much energy. She does. She is. Year round. Year round. Organizers say they encourage people to volunteer as bell ringers or simply give whatever you can to help them reach that, again, very ambitious goal. Back to the airport. Can we check to see if FlightAware has anything? If there's like something about to take off? Yes. Any movement out there? Let me see. Hold on. I don't see anything right now. There's a plane that just landed from Detroit. Okay, welcome. Well, you made it. You made it. If you got on a plane tonight, you've won the plane lottery. You have, because not a lot of planes are going out, just a few. The bigger flights are... Going out tonight, I saw a lot of cancellations when I was checking the airlines. Be sure to, I'm sure you're already doing this, to find out what your options are. Some people may rebook, some people may want a refund. I'm not even seeing a lot of movement at O'Hare. Like the international flights are leaving, domestic, ugh. Four, about four hours or so, that ground stop affecting just thousands of travelers all across the country. Watching Fox 6 News with Ben Handelman and Tim Murphy. Hey, thanks for joining us on Fox Local. The ground stop has been lifted. The problem, they say, was old equipment that basically just failed. And they stopped all planes all across the country from taking off. But now some flights are moving again, but they say this could be days because they've got to move crews around now. They've got to get the infrastructure in place. 3,500 flights were in the air when this happened. Yeah, pretty crazy. Despite the ground stop being lifted, we're not seeing a whole lot of movement at Mitchell. So let's get back to Abril Preciado live at the airport to see if anything is coming in or getting out. Absolutely, you guys. I mean, we have been out here for the most part of this evening and obviously we have seen so much happening in the last couple of hours. I mean, just take a look right now. This whole bottom section of the checking of the check in and ticketing area is completely empty. Just a couple of minutes ago, we saw the last family that was out here waiting. They told me that they were hoping to make it out to their cruise finally left the airport. They're not they're no longer here. And even the The second floor upstairs, which is by the main entrance, that's empty as well. Obviously, many folks trying to figure out how they can make it to their location, just like this family that I'm about to toss over to that will show you guys what they were kind of going through when they found out that their flight had been paused. I'm traveling with my wife and my youngest daughter, so we were traveling from here to Baltimore for a lacrosse tournament she has for the weekend, so a Saturday and Sunday tournament. Absolutely. What airline were you guys going to be flying out from, and at what time was your flight supposed to take off? It was supposed to take off at 6, and we were flying southwest. Okay, gotcha. So how did you guys find out about the nationwide ground? On the way here, there was like, uh, they're like sports group chat sending like the CNN and like the, all the different things. So when we got here, we're like, Hey, let's ask. So we, we got in and then we went to the Southwest counter and they were like, Hey, we don't, we're not accepting any. You can't check any bags. And then we just have no information right now. Oh my goodness. What was your, what kind of like, you know, when you guys finally arrived here, um, and you guys saw, obviously we're seeing the notifications. What came through your mind? Was it kind of like. Um, like I kind of like read and like I know they said it wasn't like a cyber attack, which you're like, OK, so I'm just hoping like, hey, like hopefully some system went down and like they can quickly get back up and we have a chance of getting out at some point tonight. So that's kind of like my hope right now. And I know you told me that like half of your daughter's team is actually in Baltimore and the other half is still here. Yeah. So like half of them are there and then the head coach is actually here. So, like, they're doing, like, a head count of, like, who's driving. And I know some people are driving. We were debating. But it's, like, a 12- to 15-hour drive. So we're, like, let's hope here. And maybe we can get out early, worst case, tomorrow morning and get her in the game. Yeah. So obviously a lot of different alternatives that folks were trying to look for before deciding to leave for the night from the airport and just trying to figure out the next steps. One thing that I do want to know before I sign out is pretty much this screen that we've been keeping an eye out. Things that have been changing now, obviously we see a lot more flights that are canceled, some that are on time. Obviously some of those flights that stay on time are the ones that are... Going to be taking off next morning. So obviously we're seeing some movement on the board. But once again, several folks that we were speaking to just off cameras, just, you know, them telling us that many of them are just kind of like a little bummed out that their plans didn't go as they were hoping for tonight. But they're hoping that something good comes out of it tomorrow and they're hopefully able to get to their destination. But for now, I'll toss it back to you guys back in the studio. All right, Abril. Thanks. Checking FlightAware. They've got so many different ways to break it down. They've got a misery map showing like 1,200. flights or more delayed across the country. It's called the misery map. It's called the misery map. I know. Yep. Yeah. There is somebody on the tarmac right now. There's a plane. Or cancellations, I should say. But it's flying to O'Hare. Do you think there's anybody on it or everyone was just like, I'll either drive. Well, that's a connection flight, right? So. It'll be interesting because college football games also possibly affected because teams were flying and getting to their destination. So there could be some scheduling changes because of this. The good news is they fly chartered planes, so as long as their pilots aren't out of time, maybe they're all flying. Look, tonight, all the planes will be just flying to college towns. Those are the only ones that are going to get through. Oh, man. All right. Earlier, as this was developing, here was Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin. The flights that are currently in the air, we have a ground stoppage. We still got to get the flights out, right? And so we're going to be dealing with those case by case. Please. I think you said specific. It's a telecommunication outage. I'm not going to get ahead of FAA. That's their lane to talk about. We were wanting to assure all the American people this isn't a... A safety to the American people or another 9-11. I think that's what a lot of people are trying to make the comparison to. And that's not the case. We have not discussed. Any time frame for you guys, I'll just think about this as a whole. If I have a loved one at the airport, it's just to get everybody started back up in the ground and the flights going again. It's going to take some time. And so this isn't going to just be resolved and turned around within the hour. This is this is going to take take some time. But once again, everybody is safe. The flights are accounted for. And there's no, there should be no fear to the public at all in this one. Is this the second time you've been doing this while you were still investigating? Well, there's no fear to the public. I want to make sure we say this again. There's no reason for the public to be afraid or scared for your loved ones. This isn't another 9-11. I just can't repeat that enough. People are making that assumption because that's the last time we had a nationwide ground stoppage. This is a telecommunication outage. This is much different. I just followed up on Caleb. That was the DHS secretary, Mark Ryan Mullen. 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And if you haven't rolled up your sleeves yet, there's still time. Data suggests this year's influenza vaccine can recognize this variant, so the immune escape is only partial or rather incomplete. The CDC says Thanksgiving travel is expected to lead to an uptick in cases, so make sure you get your flu shot before you hit the road. In New York, Tanya J. Powers, Fox News. Well, it sure feels like fall. Don't worry, a warm-up is on the way. Hey, Holly. Hey, yes, the warm-up is on the way, and it's going to be here before we know it, especially next week. I'll give you more details coming up. And Fox 6 proudly salutes our nation's veterans and the organizations that serve them every day. We are making camo our cause in veterans' homelessness. You can join us by making a donation and by wearing camo. To donate and learn more, scan the QR code or visit go.fox.edu. Live picture from the airport, ground stoppage is over, a FedEx plane's about to land. We haven't even talked about that, the effects on other things like your packages. You're online shopping, Kim? Oh, I better check to see if my deliveries are still going to make it when they said they were. Maybe it's on this plane that's coming in. I think it's coming from Madison. Oh, I hope so. Like, I'm one of those people that tracks it from its left. Why hasn't it moved yet? It's going down the street. Like, I track it all the way. It's, like, stuck in Oak Creek for weeks. It's stuck in Oak Creek. It's like, geez, Louise. Oh, we've got a few more flights on FlightAware there. Starting to light up a little bit. Yeah, the green. Flights numbers indicated there. We saw earlier that the international flights were the first to take off, but we've had a flight arrive at Mitchell International Airport. We saw one that was supposed to go to Vegas that went to Nashville, went to Nashville. And to keep Holly happy, there's some rain on there too. The lake, it's still doing lake things. Yeah, rain. Rain, but it's staying over the lake. So that's good. We're quiet here in southeast Wisconsin. And honestly, we have been quiet. It's just been that chance that we've been watching for some of those lakeside communities. And guess what? I get even happier. As we head over the weekend, because we got a happy holiday forecast in full effect, that's what I'm wearing the yellow for, because this is going to induce more of the sunshine for you over the weekend and into next week. Now, as for today, we got to 43 degrees for a high temperature. That's a little bit below what our average is, which is 49 degrees. However, we're going to be warming above 49 as we head towards next week. Now we look at our conditions here. We're at 36 degrees here in Milwaukee. Our dew points are right at 30 and And no, excuse me, our feels like temperature is at 30. Our dew points are at 25, wind from the northwest at about 8 miles per hour. Now, looking at those temperatures versus the wind chills here, you're noticing that we're seeing wind chill values in the mid-20s. That's cold. You're going to need to have to have those layers when you go outdoors. Our regular temperatures in the 30s, we've got a few areas that are near that freezing mark and one area below freezing, which is Janesville. We all will continue to drop perhaps below freezing tonight. Looking at our temperatures and how they've changed over the last 24 hours, we've seen some changes, cooler changes at that. However, not that significant of a change. I mean, Burlington and Janesville is probably the biggest of a change we have across our area here, and they're about 7 degrees cooler. Looking at our temperatures and how they'll trend throughout tonight, what you're noticing is that we will... Stay in the 30s at least. We'll land to the lower 30s tonight. Some areas could even get to the upper 20s. And also, too, don't forget about those wind chill values as well. They will go down as much as those temperatures go down as long as we have wind. Present and right now we got a little bit of a breeze going on. Look in our satellite and radar here. We are nice and dry. So we got a lot of good things that are to come. The first thing is sunshine. We're going to be having more of that over the weekend and next week. That is thanks to a high pressure system that's kind of building into the area. So that's going to keep the state entirely dry. Now you do see there Marquette. Still got a little bit more of that lake effect snow for their area. And then just over the lake here, you got some lake effect rain. Now, as those wind speeds or wind directions start to shift from the northwest like that, that is going to push a lot more of this rain over into Michigan. So we won't necessarily get in on that unless the winds were to turn to the northeast. And that's not going to be the case. We're going to get southwesterly flow of wind heading towards the weekend and next week. And that's what's going to induce us to have more of that warm-up. Or that's going to pretty much get us to warming up. Looking at our Sky Vision Plus here, you'll notice that it's going to be staying pretty quiet. We have nothing that's going to be going on besides tracking sunshine and clouds in the area. So I hope you have a weekend full of plans. You're going to want to have some plans because the weather's going to be nice. It is going to be cold, though, so I must remind you that you do need to have those layers, especially over the weekend. It will be a little bit cooler, and those wind chills could be at a lower value as well. Otherwise, we warm up heading towards next week. Maybe not warm enough to have lunch outdoors, but at least it'll be warm enough where it's going to be bearable again. We do keep those cold nights ahead of us here, and we'll be in the mid-50s by Wednesday. The next time we track rain won't be at least until Thursday, and that's going to be a slight chance of rain at this point. But until then, just enjoy all the sunshine. We'll be right back. And we are happy to report the ground stop is over. We got an update that it was an issue with old technology, new technology, just not quite working together. And out of an abundance of caution, the FAA ordered a ground stop. Yeah, they say the radar wasn't getting accurate data. And obviously, if you're on a plane and you're flying around, you kind of like that to be accurate. So they decided out of abundance of caution to ground planes all over the United States. Not a cyber attack, they don't believe. Not anything like a rogue A.I. attack, just technology needing to be updated. And we heard a call for money, 50 billion dollars to update the system. This is our FlightAware. As we can see, there's a little bit of movement, a flight from Dane County Regional Airport. Just arrived at Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport. Ooh, we have a Chicago inbound right now. It's kind of interesting, the planes that aren't going very far, you know, that 10-minute flight to Chicago. The puddle jumpers. Those are the ones getting out tonight. Yes, and they're probably flying maybe a little bit lower than the big ones. All right, we got your headlines coming up in a couple of minutes here on...