FOX6 News at 9 | Sept. 4, 2026

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AI GeneratedThis news broadcast covers a wide range of local Wisconsin updates, including law enforcement disputes over data privacy, legal proceedings, and urban development. It also touches on regional weather forecasts for Labor Day weekend, international rescue efforts in Nepal, psychological insights on social support, and innovative search-and-rescue technology using cyborg insects.
With stories that matter to you, this is Fox 6 News at 9.
At our big story at 9, six Wisconsin law enforcement agencies announced today they are ending their contracts immediately with Flock Safety.
It seems like it's changing by the hour today. The company contracted the use of its license plate reader cameras, but the agencies say they only just learned Flock pulled a lot more data from those cameras than they thought.
So the Racine County Sheriff's Office went as far as to immediately take down their 10 cameras today.
Sheriff Christopher Schmeling says that his office thought Flock only stored data from those cameras for 30 days, but the company confirmed it keeps separate data going back five years.
In an attempt to sell traffic analytics to agencies and businesses, Lieutenant Mike Llewells says that crossed the line.
The public trust is so much more important than however many dollars might be on the line here.
I think Flock is in serious, has serious problems right now, but we have a duty to serve and protect the community.
Alpers is a tremendous tool to help us do that, but we are not going to put public trust at risk.
In Fond du Lac County, the Sheriff's Office and police in Fond du Lac, North Fond du Lac, Ripon and Waupon all announced they too are ending their contracts with Flock.
A joint letter released Friday said they learned law enforcement agencies in other states released information about active investigations here without their permission by responding to open records requests.
Waupon Mayor Ron Bishop says the city took on extra costs to deal with vandalism recently to the cameras.
He adds his police department had no cases of misuse and will miss having these cameras.
We had guardrails in place to keep that from happening.
If a police officer entered a license plate, they had to put in their name.
They had to have a case number.
There had to be an open case, and then they had to have a very detailed description of why they were looking up that license plate.
And it was audited every month by our lieutenant of detectives.
Like, Waupon's the kind of city other cities should have been looking is how to do this and how to do it the right way.
And it's too bad we got washed up with some of the, a few bad apples out there that did misuse the technology because it's a real shame.
It was helpful.
All the agencies have also pointed to what happened in Sheboygan as further proof that Flock misled them.
Sheboygan has since covered its 15 cameras with plastic bags.
An email from a sales rep to the city's public works department, this was back in March,
offered to sell the city five years of traffic volume and speed data that their cameras were already collecting.
In other words, Flock license readers do a lot more than read license plates.
Fox 6 investigator Brian Polson broke the story Wednesday that following the Sheboygan letter,
Kenosha police also canceling its Flock contract, but they aren't ditching cameras altogether.
The city signed a 10-year deal with Axon.
That's another vendor for their version of license plate reading cameras.
Chief Patrick Patton says this technology can still be a force for good, but he's got concerns with Flock.
But that doesn't mean we get to sacrifice everyone's privacy.
And how do we balance that?
Those don't need to be opposing.
We need to find where they can be met in the middle.
And that's what we're trying to do.
That's why we're making this tough decision to say we started with one route.
We have concerns.
Thank you for putting our trust in us.
We are moving in a different direction because we are listening to what people are expressing.
All of those agencies are going to their respective leadership to formally end the agreements with Flock.
Tonight, a Milwaukee County supervisor is hoping to do the same.
Justin Belinsky calling on the county sheriff's office to immediately disable its Flock cameras and end the contract.
Belinsky chairs the county's Committee on Judiciary, Law Enforcement and General Services.
In a statement tonight, Belinsky says residents should not have to wait for another disclosure before we act,
even if you have confidence in the sheriff's department's use of Flock.
The Milwaukee Police Department, who said three officers get in trouble for allegedly abusing the system,
says it's keeping its Flock contract at least for now.
But today, MPD unveiled a new public-facing dashboard.
They're calling this the Transparency Portal.
It shows the number of cameras in use, how many searches police have done in the last 30 days,
and how many license plates linked to stolen vehicles, crimes, or missing person cases over the same timeframe.
The website adds Milwaukee Police only retain its Flock capture data for seven days.
We'll keep you posted on any more updates as we get them.
Developing tonight, we are working to learn more about a fatal shooting.
It happened on Milwaukee's north side.
Police called to 12th and Keith around 7 o'clock.
The medical examiner confirms the office was called for one victim.
It's unclear what led up to the shooting and if anyone has been arrested.
Developing tonight, crews are cleaning up some sort of spill out on the freeway.
This is what it looked like earlier.
A look at I-4394 at Oklahoma.
You can see the two left and northbound lanes blocked off.
They put a cleaning material of some sort, some sort of, like, quick dry down to clean up the spill.
Okay.
That's a look at what might be in the truck, possibly tied to animals, like animal guts.
So they're in the process of cleaning that up.
Yuck.
Still waiting for official word on exactly what spilled.
The lanes have since reopened to traffic.
Let's talk about this morning.
Those strong storms moved through overnight and throughout the morning.
Take a look at Bayside.
You can see trees and limbs down everywhere.
Blocking roads, falling on homes, parts of Ellsworth Park now closed because of hazards.
The other big story with the storms, the localized flooding.
Yeah, there were supposed to be sprint car races at the Dodge County Fairground track tonight.
Instead, they should have, like, a mud race.
Mother Nature had other plans.
The entire track is understanding water right now.
There was supposed to be a tribute race tonight for Wisconsin racing legend Harry Neitzel.
Organizers say it has been postponed.
They'll try and get it done at a different time.
Take a look at these pictures from Manitowoc County.
The Autumn Ridge Golf Course.
Water hazard.
Yeah, an aquatic park.
The club posted on Facebook saying with five inches of rain and pounding on that course, they have to close for a bit.
Let's take a live look outside.
Things have calmed down for the start of the Labor Day holiday weekend.
But there could be more storm chances in our future.
Let's hope it's not anything like we've had the last couple of days.
Oh, my goodness.
Holly Baker, you know best.
Take it away.
All right, guys.
I got good news, though.
I will say this.
We could check maybe a slight chance for showers by early morning.
But overall, we're going to be dry heading into our Labor Day weekend.
I know it is a complete 180 from what we've experienced this entire week, especially over the past couple of mornings here.
So that's the good news.
We are overall going to be staying dry for tonight and heading into tomorrow morning.
We can't rule out a stray morning shower, but it'll be a quick little pop-up shower if we do have one.
But for right now, we are looking to be dry based off of our satellite and radar.
This is just a loop over the last three hours.
We were watching these particular sales here.
You notice they've started to fizzle out.
Same with these areas that are closer to southeast Wisconsin.
A few of those spotty showers, not really a lot, but just a few that are just to our south there.
We're staying pretty dry heading into the overnight hours.
So everything is looking good our way.
71 degrees is what our temperatures are, and areas to our south are still a little bit more on the hotter side.
We're looking at 90 in St. Louis, 89 in Des Moines, 86 in Chicago.
Closer to home here, we do see some 80s out there, or at least one area in the 80s.
We've got a wide range, though.
We've got upper 60s all the way to lower 80s.
69 in Sheboygan, 82 out towards the southwest, and that is in Janesville.
77 in Madison, and still cooler by the lake as we did have a lake breeze today.
Looking at our evening planner up until midnight, we do keep those clouds around with temperatures in the 70s.
We'll talk more about what you can expect over the weekend coming up.
Back to you guys at the desk.
Thanks, Holly. You can track the weather anywhere, anytime with the Fox 6 Storm Center app.
We have the best radar in town, and you get severe weather alerts based on your location.
Best of all, it's free.
One of the most controversial murder trials came to a close, at least for now, with a mistrial.
After weeks in court, Lindsay Clancy will not go free.
Instead, she returns to the psychiatric facility where she's being held.
Fox's Caroline Elliott has more.
The judge officially declares a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy's triple murder case after a last-minute appeal is denied.
The jury is deadlocked, and I'm going to declare a mistrial.
After seven days deliberating, the jury announced Friday they cannot reach a unanimous decision
on whether or not the Massachusetts mom is criminally responsible
for killing her three young kids three years ago in the family's basement.
I understood that you all gave everything you could and probably more than you thought you could.
On Thursday, the jury's foreperson told the judge they were in an 11-to-1 deadlock,
and one particular juror would not or could not follow the judge's instructions on reasonable doubt.
Judge Sullivan questioned each juror before sending them back one more time to discuss the case.
Clancy's lawyer asked for the juror to be dismissed,
but the prosecution objected and the judge let the juror stay.
They're holding out as a result that even though they have agreed and expressed doubt,
they are refusing to apply the laws you've given it.
Clancy admits to strangling her kids, but her defense argues she was not criminally responsible
because she was mentally ill, suffering from postpartum psychosis.
Cora, Dawson, and Callan, this was and has always been about getting justice for those three little babies.
And now prosecutors must decide whether to retry Clancy, drop the charges, or negotiate a plea deal.
The next update will be in late September.
In New York, Caroline Elliott, Fox News.
Well, months after the city tried to clamp down on late-night crowds by pushing food trucks out by 10 p.m.,
city leaders are now throwing in the towel on that legal fight.
Abril Preciado live on Water Street tonight with what leaders are saying about safety plans.
Hey, Abril.
That's right, you guys.
So Alderman Baumann tells us that they don't need at this time, they don't need to.
It doesn't make sense to be fighting for a blocked curfew because it just doesn't make sense.
He says what business owners on Water Street do need is to have more police presence in the area to be making arrests.
From a legislative standpoint, we've kind of run our course.
It's how Alderman Robert Baumann simply lays it out as the city prepares to formally reappeal its controversial 10 p.m. food truck curfew.
Back in April, the council passed a restriction at the request of police following a wave of shootings and violence on Water Street.
But food truck owners sued and the judge blocked the rule before it ever took effect.
Given those facts, it seemed prudent to basically repeal the 10 p.m. curfew and revert back to the 1 p.m., 1 a.m. curfew.
The litigation will essentially be ended.
While Alderman Baumann says interviews conducted during the lawsuit revealed the real issue isn't food trucks, it's an understaffed police presence.
If MP does not have the resources, then the future of Water Street is very much in question.
It's a sentiment folks say they have taken notice in the area.
I would say the violence, the young crowd, the parking, you have like a lot of police officers over here, streets is always locked off.
She says that's the reason why she avoids coming here.
The people have to be held accountable.
It's a public safety concern that has pushed the closure of popular businesses like Dukes on Water back in May.
And just recently, Silk on Water announced a temporary closure last Friday.
I appreciate the police force. I don't know if their immense presence is doing a whole lot of help, though, in this side of town.
For now, folks in the area welcome the curfew proposal.
I don't appreciate the city trying to push them out of their own spots.
I definitely appreciate that the city is going back on that and giving them their opportunity to make some money, serve some food to people in the city of Milwaukee.
And we did reach out to food truck owners and they tell us they are aware of what's happening but will not comment until the vote is taken.
And the proposal now moves to the Public Safety and Health Committee, which will take the issue in the next meeting on September 11th.
Reporting live in Milwaukee, Avril Preciado, Fox 6 News.
Thanks. The food truck operators had so much support from patrons and other businesses on Water, so this is good news. Thank you.
Well, the initial court appearance in Brown County for Packers running back Josh Jacobs, it's been moved up.
According to court records, it will now happen next Thursday, September 10th.
That's just a few days before the season opener on Sunday the 13th.
The original date was set for November 17th.
Jacobs faces misdemeanor charges of battery and criminal damage to property for a May 23rd incident at his Green Bay area home with his girlfriend.
Jacobs is on the commissioner's exempt list while he waits for a legal resolution to his case.
And that means he cannot practice with the team or play in any games.
A Sherwood judge ordered him to pay a fine for walking on the beach.
This college professor appealed.
I was just exercising what's my right and everybody's right.
Turns out he ended up winning why he hopes it will inspire others to put their feet in the sand.
And a trucker flying down a Wisconsin highway appears to not realize traffic is stopped up ahead.
What happened when he realized it and it was too late?
We're back in two minutes here on Fox Local.
The Milwaukee Election Commission releases new records related to the August primary incident.
Remember, a high ranking city official uploaded audit logs onto five of nine flash drives instead of the actual election results.
So the election commissioner, Paulina Gutierrez, says this was human error.
Adding the mistake did not affect the security and accuracy of the underlying election results.
Today, the city did release a bunch of data from the central count.
The results show in the time frame between the data being exported at just after 10 p.m. to the time officials went to the courthouse and then back to central count.
The number of ballots being counted did not change, meaning nothing was tampered with.
There is a plan to talk about this at a special meeting the state is having Wednesday at 7 a.m.
Decision reversed. A Milwaukee County judge tosses out a ticket issued to a man who is walking along Lake Michigan.
Police say he was trespassing. Ashley Sears explains why a judge says he wasn't.
I was just going for a walk.
Paul Florsheim never thought a stroll along Lake Michigan would end up in court.
I have walked on that beach, you know, thousands of times.
But for the last year, it's a legal battle he's been fighting.
I was angry, you know, not just with the property owner, but really with the village that they were doing this.
Police ticketed Florsheim for trespassing on private property when he was out for a walk with his dogs just north of Atwater Beach.
I was just exercising, you know, what's my right and everybody's right.
Florsheim fought the ticket, but a municipal court ordered him to pay the $313.
He decided to appeal, this time backed by the Midwest Environmental Advocates.
Paul was within his public trust rights to be walking along the shore of Lake Michigan below the ordinary high watermark.
His attorneys argued Florsheim was protected by the public trust doctrine and state constitution,
explaining the land below the high watermark isn't owned by anyone.
Thursday, a judge agreed.
They shouldn't issue tickets for taking a walk on the beach.
Florsheim hopes the ruling on his walk is a step in the right direction for other cases just like this.
The beach in general along Lake Michigan should be open to all of us.
He wanted this case to go to the state Supreme Court so it would create law.
And while that didn't happen, he wants this ruling to encourage people to pursue the issue either with legislation or at the state's highest court.
Reporting along Lake Michigan, Ashley Sears, Fox 6 News.
You know, when I looked at the calendar, I knew Labor Day was going to be as late as it is this year.
Yeah, it's weird.
I'm like, I don't know if it's going to be warm enough to go to the beach on Labor Day weekend.
It is.
Well, listen, your thoughts were very wrong.
It is definitely going to be enjoyable for you.
And honestly, I like the way the temperatures are looking for Labor Day weekend and specifically Labor Day.
70 by the lake, I think, is the sweet spot.
It is going to be perfect.
And if we got sunshine, it's going to feel probably a little bit hotter out there as well.
And elevated dew points.
Now, we look at our temperatures right now for Milwaukee.
We're right at 71 degrees.
And then our dew points are at 70.
And wind is nice and calm as well.
That is really a recipe for fog to develop as we do have an opportunity for some fog tonight.
Looking at those temperatures across southeast Wisconsin here, what you're seeing is some warmer temperatures out to our west.
Much cooler as we head towards or by the lake.
69 in Sheboygan, that's our coolest spot right now.
But overall, we are still rather warm for around this time of night.
And we will stay that way heading throughout the overnight hours.
Here is a look at the temperatures and how they'll be trending.
So, you see not a lot of changes here.
As we go overnight until past midnight, still going to be staying in the lower 70s.
And that's going to be the case as we head into tomorrow's forecast as well.
We will warm up some more, obviously.
But it's not going to be near as hot as what we've experienced this past week.
We look at our current dew points as well.
Dew points are still pretty elevated.
Very oppressive out there.
But we're going to be seeing a lot of fog developing because of those dew points.
The dew points are high right now.
And then those temperatures lowering, they're going to match right with each other.
And when they get to a point where they're in close range, that creates the fog that is going to develop tonight.
We look at our satellite and radar.
Maybe a little bit of some clouds just off to our north, a few to our south.
But overall, we're looking to be partly cloudy heading into the overnight hours tonight.
Here is a look at that Sky Vision Plus and what you can expect as we move ahead.
We go throughout the rest of tonight nice and dry.
That's great news for us.
And when we wake up tomorrow morning, we're not waking up to the sounds of thunder.
That has been the case over the past two mornings.
And that's resulted to me not getting a lot of sleep.
I don't know about you, but me, on the other hand, the thunder has woke me up.
And I am glad that I'll be able to sleep in a little longer tomorrow.
Looking as we go throughout the rest of the day for Saturday, those clouds start to kind of fizzle out a little bit more.
So we will get our fair share of sunshine tomorrow.
We might as well deem tomorrow a happy Holly forecast, guys.
I know it's been a while since we've actually said anything along the lines of a happy Holly forecast.
But tomorrow for sure will pan out to be one.
And even parts of Sunday as well.
Sunday is looking to be mostly sunny for us.
As we look at our six-day planner here, a lot going on, right?
But the weekend is looking dry.
Now, we could get maybe a stray shower, but that doesn't stop anything.
We'll be cooler by the lake, not for just Saturday, but really through Monday.
We'll be in the mid to upper 70s.
And in those high temperatures, we'll get closer to 80.
But we are looking to be dry for the next couple of days.
Our next rain chance doesn't look to return until late Tuesday.
Tuesday night, we're going to have a chance for some PM storms.
Wednesday, we've got a chance for storms.
And then we dry out again.
But on the days that we have the storms, we have temperatures to warm back up to the mid to upper 80s.
So we're definitely going to be watching temperatures.
The warmer temperatures do stick around for another week for us too.
So summer is not completely over yet.
I know a lot of people at this point, you're waiting for that cool down, right?
You're waiting for temperatures to cool down so you can bring out your fall flannels.
I'll tell you this.
Maybe by the end of this month or the later half of September, that is going to be the case.
But no promises made, as always.
We are going to continue to enjoy summer, especially as long as it wants to stick around.
Over to you, Kim.
I'm not mad at all.
Thank you, Holly.
An abandoned boat making some waves.
A boat sitting off the shore of Door County for years.
Now the state wants it gone.
Story coming up.
She played multiple sports through middle school, but her competitive focus narrowed in high school.
So she helped her team do something for the very first time.
And that's why this senior is this week's Fox 6 High School Hot Shot.
This is Sussex Hamilton, and I'm a catcher on the softball team.
I did T-ball when I was very little, around five, and then I started with junior chargers.
I'm the catcher.
Yeah, it's really interesting to see the different personalities of each pitcher.
Sometimes I'll get a really talkative pitcher who I kind of need to rein in to focus, warming up sometimes more.
And then other times I'll have a more focused, dialed-in pitcher.
A lot of the girls on the team I've played with at junior chargers,
it really didn't feel like we were playing softball really much.
It just felt like we were playing a wiffle ball game in our backyards, just hanging out.
My favorite memory is winning the state championship.
We made history.
I just did not believe that we did it, and I thought that I was dreaming.
And I had to wake up, but I didn't.
Yeah, the trophy's been having a lot of fun this summer.
We've brought it to some of the camps we've hosted,
and I believe our graduating seniors are bringing it to their grad parties to put on display
and just having some fun with it floating around.
So I recently committed to UW-Whitewater to continue my softball career.
I'm majoring in psychology and minoring in German.
I'm also in some clubs.
I'm in NHS.
I make cards for kids in the hospital.
What else?
I'm in German club, German National Honor Society.
And then I like to read and scrapbook.
The way that I do it is I go, like, every month,
basically print out my entire camera roll for that month,
and then I just fill up my scrapbook with different memories that I had,
and then I'll save them for later when I'm older, and then I can revisit the memories.
Hi, I'm Aubrey.
I am a senior at Sussex-Hamilton, and I'm on the state championship softball team.
I am this week's Box Six high school hotshot, Al-Petersen.
Aubrey plans to pursue a Ph.D. with a focus on sports psychology.
Well, tonight it is the Fox Six high school blitz.
The game of the week is Wilmot Union against Burlington.
Lily Zhao is there right now.
Brandon Cruz will be here in studio because of college football tonight.
You can watch the high school blitz on the Fox Six News at 10,
which will also be streaming on Fox Local.
That's a scary mascot from Burlington, the demons.
The Brewers will be taking on the Cubs next week again.
This time it's going to be in our turf at American Family Field, and guess what?
It's a Brew Crew Tuesday.
It's right here on Fox Six.
Game starts at 630.
Be sure to tune in to Fox Six News leading up to the game for all sorts of pregame fun.
We're told the Miz likely will pitch in that game.
Well, a historic building in Milwaukee is being reduced down to rubble.
Cruz had no choice but to demolish it after it partially collapsed earlier this week.
Well, tonight we're diving into the history of what it once was and what's going to happen next.
Plus, the dangers of not paying attention in construction zones.
The chain reaction crash caught on camera in Dane County.
You're watching Fox Six News with Ben Handelman and Tim Murphy.
Thanks for joining us on Fox Local tonight.
Demolition crews take down more of a century-old building that partially collapsed earlier this week.
Bill Miston joins us, has more on the Harborview neighborhood with a look back at the building's history
and what may have led to its downfall.
Piece by piece.
A building that was part of Milwaukee's brewing industry history turned warehouse
and its later life will be brought down by the end of the month.
Demolition began Thursday under a city-raise order.
After a portion of the south wall at 448 East Bruce collapsed Monday afternoon.
My first reaction is water must have got in and corroded something over time.
Ed Sipples, a structural engineer and assistant professor at MSOE.
The collapse providing some real-time examples of turn-of-the-century construction
and what can happen for his students.
Whether it was steel that was holding it up or the mortar inside the brick wall,
that getting damaged over time can weaken it and all of a sudden just a little windier day,
maybe a little different loading on the floor can cause some problems
and a sudden collapse like we had here.
Records show a building with the same footprint and general layout dating back to at least 1894
when it served as a malt house for the Krause and Merkle Malting Company
and later American Malting Company.
It appears to be seen in the background of these photos
taken by a Jones Island school teacher from around the turn of the century.
By 1926, the country in the throes of Prohibition,
it appears the Milwaukee Storage Company owned the property and built a warehouse to the east.
But by 1932, National Warehouse Corporation acquired the land through quick claim deed.
Records show the city had issues with property dating back to the 1930s
with crumbling buildings, namely an adjoining grain elevator and silos.
For years, records show the city tried to persuade National Warehouse Corporation
to demolish the old elevator and silos because they were compromised.
Records show those structures did come down sometime in 1942,
but the neighboring building still stood,
portions of it being used by other companies for storage over the years,
including the Fresno Wine Company in 1945 for storage and bottling.
What do you think happened? One way or the other, water was involved?
Yeah, water, whether it was on the foundation on the bottom
or one of the two or three floors started separating,
all of a sudden something was a little more deteriorated.
There happened to be a little windier day,
something else got added to the floor that hasn't been there in a while,
and that, maybe it was even both, everything at the same time,
and that's what makes this accident happen.
Bill Mistett, Fox 6 News.
It's a long history. As for the cause of the collapse,
that's something we may never get to the bottom of.
The demolition contractor plans on taking the building down,
moving from the south end of the building to where that collapse happened
and move north with an expected completion date of later this month.
The Kewaskam school bus driver accused of leaving a child on a hot bus
no longer works for the company.
On Wednesday, a four-year-old was left behind on the hot bus
after school for 45 minutes.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office says the child wasn't hurt,
but the driver could face possible child neglect charges.
Today, Johnson Bus Company told Fox 6
the driver is no longer working for them.
A new video tonight out of Dane County
showing a chain reaction crash on the Beltline,
a warning this could be disturbing for some to watch.
It happened Wednesday night in a construction zone on Highway 12 in Monona.
The semi doesn't slow down quick enough for stopped traffic.
It slams into one vehicle, which then slams into another.
At least one driver has serious injuries.
The dash camera shows the semi going 53 miles per hour when it hits.
Police say the 58-year-old semi driver from Iowa
will be cited for inattentive driving
and driving too fast for conditions in a work construction zone.
Tonight, Monona police are giving a pro tip.
Don't bring your grenades to hotels.
Sounds like a good tip.
Someone had called police saying a guest at the hotel
was concerned about whether a deactivated grenade
given to their teenage son was safe.
Okay, is that something you take to the front desk?
Is this safe?
Yes.
The bomb squad was called and they determined the grenade was inert,
meaning no explosive.
It was not dangerous.
It was used for training at one point.
But, you know, maybe leave that at home.
Yes.
Like, is there a good stuffy?
I know it's a teenager.
I know.
But just lots of questions.
Dad, I'm bringing the grenade.
Just in case.
Okay.
New at 9, a tugboat in Bailey's Harbor has sat abandoned
for nearly five years.
And now the state of Wisconsin is filing a lawsuit
against its owner for its removal.
Fox's Tony Langvelo explains why it's taken so long to get here.
Driving by or boating around Bailey's Harbor,
you'll probably notice this tugboat eerily lurking
nearly 600 feet from shore.
Known as the Donny S, it sits abandoned.
Now the state and DNR have filed a civil lawsuit
against the boat's owners, Jeremy Schultz and Sardar Marine.
According to the lawsuit, between November 2021 and May 2022,
the tug broke free from its mooring and drifted to its current location.
The Donny S tugboat has been stuck in the muck here
for roughly four years now.
Neighbors tell me it's not only an eyesore, but a safety hazard too.
Jim Middendorf and his wife live near the water
and can see the tugboat from their home's front window.
At first it seemed like a novelty, like this tug,
when we first didn't quite realize the bad condition that it was in.
And then when we realized that it was a big environmental risk,
that's when the alarm bells went off.
The suit says the DNR has raised environmental concerns,
including asbestos-covered piping, leftover fuel,
among other chemicals toxic to aquatic life.
The Middendorfs are concerned the deteriorating boat
is destroying the natural area,
but are happy steps for removal are being taken.
It's very pristine, and so the thought that we had something
that could affect that and ruin it very quickly was very disconcerting.
So we're all relieved again to see something's happening.
The DNR also repeatedly contacted Schultz to have him remove the boat,
but never did.
The state issued several citations totaling more than $20,000
for unlawful obstruction of navigable waters.
Now it's in the hands of the court to decide the tugboat's fate.
In Bailey's Harbor, Tony Langfellow, Fox 11 News.
They should call that kid who loves explosives down there in Dane County.
He'll take care of it, yes.
Show up with some things and, yeah, see ya.
Bye.
Football returns to Lambeau Field this weekend.
It's on the Packers.
We're talking about the Badgers, the showdown this weekend
against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
And we're tracking a lovely weekend for Labor Day on the way.
I'll highlight all of those details coming up.
The Packers season hasn't started yet,
but Lambeau Field is expected to be packed this weekend.
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish, they're taking on the Wisconsin Badgers
for game two of their Shamrock series.
Fox's Emily Metecic takes a look at the lead-up to the big game.
From the Broadway District to Titletown,
Green Bay and Lambeau Field are preparing for a college football weekend.
Sunday's game, just the latest in the Shamrock series.
A Notre Dame creation, allowing the Fighting Irish to play a home game
at a neutral site, in this case Lambeau Field against Wisconsin.
It's a weekend that was long in the making, of course, due to COVID,
but we're so excited.
It was able to get rescheduled for this weekend,
and excitement's been building for some time now.
We've been working a couple months with both schools, and now it's here.
Fans flocking into the pro shop to grab some gear.
Others visiting the Packers Hall of Fame that includes a special exhibit
of memorabilia from both college programs.
Really neat stuff if you're a fan of the history of college football.
In the Broadway District, tents are going up.
Wisconsin Athletics on Broadway and Titletown Brewing Company
hosting the Badger Bash North on Saturday.
Events kick off at one with a community service project
before a full slate of tailgate party activities,
including a parade and the Badger Band.
Plenty of fun, live music, a Badger program with the voice of the Badgers,
Matt LaPay, and plenty of other exciting fun.
Food trucks, come hungry, come thirsty.
Plenty to eat and drink here, and then, of course, fireworks at 815.
While the Badgers will be downtown,
the Fighting Irish will be taking over Titletown on Saturday.
After about 150 alumni volunteer at Paul's Pantry first.
It's really just a great opportunity for us to showcase something
that makes the Green Bay area special and unique,
and to give these guests to our community a chance to get their hands dirty
for the benefit of people who are in need.
Saturday's tailgate at Titletown will include the Notre Dame Band,
Cheer Team, and Leprechaun.
Under Armour taking the site over on Sunday
with jersey displays, games, and more.
We're really excited to see fans of both clubs here and turn up the energy.
Kickoff is 6.30 on Sunday.
In Green Bay, Emily Metecic, Fox 11 News.
Well, today marks 20 years since we lost a wildlife legend.
I cannot believe this.
The crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin, still inspiring the world today.
He died at the age of 44 after being stuck by a stingray barb
while filming in Australia.
Today, Australia Zoo encouraged everyone to continue Steve's mission
of wildlife conservation and loving the planet.
Today is also National Wildlife Day.
His son has done a really good job carrying his legacy.
Oh, yes, he has.
I just can't believe it was 20 years ago.
The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife is giving people a sneak peek
at some of the strange calls they get.
Yeah, some of them are hilarious.
Many are pretty head-scratching.
Some phone calls that we've received lately.
A person called asking if we could put a deer crossing sign in a certain spot
so that the deer would know it was safe to cross there.
Another caller said that the deer in her yard had ticks
and requested we come pick up the deer and give it a tick treatment.
A woman called excitedly asking about hunting season.
She had been proposed to, and he said that he would get married
on the day between quail season and pheasant season.
She was informed there is not a day between those seasons
because they overlap.
A concerned caller requested her help relocating a frog, Bigfoot,
cryptid creature that was eating their chickens.
She also stated that these animals do not understand English.
Oh, wow.
I like the one between the two seasons.
It's like, okay, you've got a bigger issue there.
Might need to talk to somebody before that becomes a thing.
Holly, it's a beautiful holiday weekend.
It is.
It's actually turning out way nicer than what I thought it would be for this weekend
considering the crazy week that we've had with weather.
Our weather has been pretty active, especially across southeast Wisconsin
and across the entire state.
We saw rain.
We saw heat.
We saw strong wind damage.
We saw flooding.
We saw it all.
But it's time now to see the sunshine, guys,
and that is exactly what we'll get over the weekend.
We will still have a little bit more of those clouds lingering around,
so don't be alarmed if it's not beautiful blue skies.
We'll get a mixture of sunshine and clouds.
We're right at 85 degrees here in Milwaukee right now.
Looks like some type of lightning or something that was just happening right here.
Let's see if it lights up again.
But we were at 85 degrees for a high temperature.
Our normal temperature is 77.
But back in at least maybe about four years ago, we were at 93,
so it's not unheard of to be in the 90s around this time of year.
I mean, we had a 90-degree day not even too long ago, maybe about two days ago.
Looking at conditions right now, no 90s.
We're at 71 here in Milwaukee.
Our dew points are at 70 with visibilities nice and clear for now.
That is going to change, though,
because we are going to have an opportunity for some fog to be in the forecast
late tonight, early tomorrow morning.
As we take a look at temperatures here,
majority of our viewing area is in the 70s,
but we've got a nice range of upper 60s all the way to upper 70s.
About a 10-degree difference there from Sheboygan to Janesville.
71 in Milwaukee and 73 just along the lake there in Racine and Kenosha.
A little bit warmer as we take our way out to the west there, so 77 in Madison.
We did have a late breeze today, so that did keep us on the cooler side of things,
especially by the lake.
But even in the 70s, that's really pleasant overall with a nice breeze.
Felt absolutely great today.
We look at those conditions heading throughout the overnight hours tonight,
and what you'll notice here is we're going to stay in the 70s
for our overnight hours.
We'll be in the lower 70s at that.
Looking at our conditions for our dew points, dew points are still elevated,
still very muggy out there and oppressive in a lot of spots.
Madison being in the worst right now at 75.
Watertown at 74, and then 73 in Juneau.
Actually, I meant to say Janesville is at its worst right now.
They're at 77, so they're a bit more elevated.
But all across the board, everybody is dealing with those dew points
to be very muggy and really soupy.
We look at our satellite and radar, though.
The best thing of it all is we're not tracking any more booms
with that thunder or any lightning or heavy rain.
We're actually nice and dry for our viewing area.
We do have a plume of clouds just to our north.
That will continue to settle towards the south,
so we will get in on the action of more of those clouds tonight.
But we are keeping conditions dry heading into our overnight hours.
As we look here at our Sky Vision Plus, what you'll notice is that we're going
to stay dry overnight tonight, really not going to be much to talk about
as far as rain for the weekend.
So you really can have all of your plans to go as planned for Labor Day weekend.
As we head into Saturday's forecast, maybe a straight morning shower,
but overall we're still looking to be pretty dry
throughout the entire day of Saturday's forecast.
A lot of those clouds that we'll see at the start of the day
will actually fizzle out by the afternoon, so that's even better news for us.
Heading into Sunday's forecast, Sunday we keep it nice and sunny overall.
We get a little bit of some stray clouds to kind of linger around,
but still going to be a happy, holly forecast for this weekend.
Heading into Monday, we are also going to be nice, partly cloudy sky conditions.
Our temperatures by the lake are going to be a little bit cooler in the 70s,
near 80 as we go towards those inland areas.
We get a bit warmer as we head towards the middle of next week
as we will be tracking more of that rain that comes back in the forecast,
and that's going to be for late Tuesday into Wednesday,
and Wednesday is going to be our best chance for storms.
We dry back out as we head towards Thursday,
so that rain isn't going to last really long.
You'll have plenty of time to enjoy yourself for the holiday weekend.
Back to you, Ben.
All right, thanks, Holly.
Rescuers in Nepal pulled two men from the rubble
after a landslide and deadly flooding devastated the region.
With hundreds believed to still be trapped beneath the devastation,
the rescue is offering hope others might still be found alive.
Stephanie Bennett reports from London.
A miracle moment.
Two men are alive after spending nine days trapped inside a tunnel
at a hydropower plant in Nepal.
Their families can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
We had already given up hope,
but inside me there was still a little bit of hope
that the Nepal Army would rescue him.
Search teams say they heard the men's voices and quickly got to work.
One of the survivors, identified as Sanjay Sa,
told rescuers he kept reciting mantras, prayer verses, while he was trapped
and claims a handful of people are still alive inside the tunnels.
Roughly 900 workers are missing from several hydropower projects in Nepal.
Roughly 500 are believed to be stuck underground.
But this rescue offers a rare glimmer of hope.
Every day and night we have been waiting,
and even today we didn't believe that he would come back.
When I saw his picture in the news, we were happy and all of us were crying.
At least 1,200 people were killed in the floods on August 26.
More than 5,000 are still missing.
Many homes lay buried under thick mud, while some were completely swept away.
Residents are forced to carry on as best they can,
crossing the river on makeshift zip lines.
And temporary learning centers allow children to continue their education.
We believe that children's learning cannot wait, no matter the situation.
Nepal's disaster agency says the flooding has caused
at least $2.5 billion in damage.
The U.S. has pledged $3.6 million in humanitarian aid.
In London, Stephanie Bennett, Fox News.
Caught on camera, startling moment at a railroad crossing in Poland.
Surveillance footage shows the moment a trailer was obliterated
by an oncoming train.
Oh my goodness.
It's going pretty fast too.
You see debris flying everywhere following the collision.
The local transit agency says this happened
because the big rig started crossing the tracks
and then the barriers trapped it in between miraculously.
No one was hurt.
Crazy video coming out of a police standoff in Oregon.
Drone footage of the suspect sitting on the porch
and firing a gun at the drone.
He fires off multiple shots.
Well, you see there he's on his knee firing at the drone.
Authorities say they responded to the home
after reports of a man shooting at workers
cutting down trees at a neighboring property.
Later footage shows him on a tractor trailer
flipping off SWAT vehicles, rushing at him.
Wow, that man was arrested and now faces a slew of charges.
A sheriff's office in Florida says it doesn't play around with DUIs.
One woman found that out crystal clear.
So what happened?
I guess I hit the front light of the car.
But I don't know what really happened.
You just hit the front of the car.
You just took the car completely off.
Do you have your driver's license?
Yes.
That's a passport.
Please don't take me to jail over this.
Ma'am.
Get over here.
Ma'am.
We're old friends.
We're old friends, but we still have a job to do.
Am I going to jail?
Yes.
Wow, she's lucky to be standing.
Police say the 24-year-old crashed into a mailbox
and then another car.
She then reportedly got into a fight with the person in that car.
She's now charged with driving under the influence and resisting arrest.
New at 9, lending a helping hand may not always come across as helpful to everyone.
While experts don't discourage being kind,
they're shedding light on how to make sure that the assistance that you offer
doesn't rub people the wrong way.
Marianne Rafferty explains.
Going out of your way to help someone can be harmful to them.
Researchers looked at the ways help can be unhelpful.
So anybody who has ever received help from somebody else, which is all of us,
knows that even though people might have good intentions,
not every act of help is successful.
Ian Hughes is an assistant professor of industrial organizational psychology
at Texas A&M University.
He says unhelpful help can leave people feeling unheard
or worse off than they were before.
So he breaks down three common ways things can get lost in translation.
The first, help that is unwanted.
So you might be at work completing a work task that is delegated to you,
and then all of a sudden somebody shows up and starts doing it for you
and you didn't ask them to.
Meanwhile, Hughes says quick pats on the back may not prove as validating
and may come off as unhelpful social support.
Maybe I've lost a family member or I've lost a pet or something to that nature,
and your response is, well, if you smile more, you'll feel better.
And the third type of unhelpful help is partial social support,
which is often seen in the workplace, Hughes says.
Managers and coworkers may help someone start a task
without providing a clear path on how to finish it.
They tell me to read the manual.
They helped, but it's not really helpful,
and it doesn't really get me any closer to solving my problem.
Hughes strongly recommends talking through an interaction
by asking people if they want help beforehand,
asking if you're being useful to them during a task,
and afterwards offering if you can provide any further assistance.
I'm Marianne Rafferty, Fox News.
I was like, did my mom request this package?
I'm always helping, and she's like, Kim, you've helped enough.
I've got it from here, right?
Yeah.
The no touching thing, too.
I was like, don't pat people on the back.
I know.
They don't want that.
Never a good thing.
We're back after this.
Finally tonight, it's safe to say most of us do not like cockroaches.
Yeah, but researchers in Australia say they could actually save lives.
They're turning giant burrowing roaches into bear bugs.
Tiny cyborg rescue teams, they equip them with microchips,
cameras, even remote controlled medical injectors.
This sounds smart.
Do this to cockroaches?
These roaches will be remotely steered through tight rubble
where humans can't reach, so they'll be able to find trapped survivors.
Is that heavy for them?
I don't know.
That guy looks like he's doing okay with it on there.
So they're hoping they can be on the front lines.
Imagine you need help and you're praying a roach finds you.
Just leave me.
Thanks for joining us.
Back in two minutes.
