FOX6 WakeUp News at 8 | September 5, 2026

with stories that matter to you. This is Fox six wake up news. Now it ain't more agencies are fed up with the clock. The city is stepping away from the cameras and how Milwaukee officials are responding. It is the 23rd annual Kenosha classic cruising. Look at all these cars. You pick one and they got it here. We're gonna share all the details of the special events and the community coming together coming up. King Milwaukee. We are trying to take a live look outside. There's a few things blocking us. The biggest thing there is a fog in the sky. Stephanie Barkello. Okay, where's all this coming from? When I, when I was on my way into work, I was like, I can barely even the visibility is so low in Milwaukee, right? I mean, when is this over a couple more hours and I think it will get better. It's all thanks to our air temperatures, the same as our dew points, you know, temps have dropped, but dew points haven't. So with very little wind out there, there's nothing, nothing to push on all this moisture. Is this a good Labor Day weekend? Now this isn't gonna ruin, right? No, absolutely not. We have a fantastic weekend forecast ahead. In fact, you know, Milwaukee is one of the lone spots dealing with the fog. Not everybody has it. Kenosha's Lakeshore Carthage College looking beautiful. We still have cloud cover elsewhere, including here in Brown Deer and up north into Sheboygan. But as far as the lowest visibility goes, it really is across the city of Milwaukee and then far inland. We're going to start to see big improvements here in the next hour. Milwaukee again, still down to about a half a mile, but will likely start to see that improvement in the next hour or two. Otherwise, across the state, we have just a few more lingering clouds will see sunshine by later this afternoon and evening. Just want to point out there are a few sprinkles over the lake. So with some of this lingering cloud cover this morning, not out of the question to have a couple of sprinkles here there, but most of us will be dry. It's still going to be a humid day. We see relief from that tomorrow. So just know, even though air temperatures are going to be better today, it is still going to be human cloud cover through your lunch hour. Then we'll start to see some sunshine the second half of the day. Temperatures will range from seventies to low eighties. Bria. All right. Thank you so much. Staff were following some breaking news this morning. Uh, well, right now. Also, we want to tell you about this story here. So take a good look at your screen happening now. A green alert is asking for a missing veteran at risk. 49 year old Thomas Val Gordon was last seen leaving his Hell's Corners home around 10 30 this morning. We're told he sent a message resulting in serious concern for his safety. He's willing to be driving a red jeep Grand Cherokee. If you have any information, you're asked to call Hell's Corners police. A shooting on Milwaukee's north side leaves one dead. Milwaukee police say they were called to 12 and key for around 6 30 last night. They say a 37 year old sustained fatal gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police continue to investigate the cause of the shooting. M. P. D. Says they are looking for known suspect. If you know anything that may help M. P. D. Would like to hear from you. Our big story this morning. Six more law enforcement agencies in southeast Wisconsin dropping flock agencies in Racine and Fond du Lac counties joined the growing list of groups terminating their contracts with flock cameras. This comes as distress between these agencies and the flock system, with several police chiefs saying they didn't realize the extent of the data flock collects. The Racine County Sheriff Christopher Smiling says his office thought flock only stored data from the cameras for 30 days, but the company confirmed it keeps separate data going back five years. Was in it. Mike Wool 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. It 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're not gonna 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 yesterday said they were in law enforcement agencies and other states released information about active investigations here without their permission by responding toe open records request. They joined Sheboygan and Kenosha counties with which are both asking their common councils to cancel existing contracts. The Milwaukee Police Department, who's had three officers get in trouble for allegedly abusing the system, says it's keeping its flock contract at least for now. But yesterday, MPD unveiled a new public facing dashboard. This is called the transparency portal. You see it there. It shows the number of cameras in use, how many searches police have done in the last 30 days and how many license plates have been linked to stolen vehicles, crimes or missing persons cases over the same time frame. The website adds Milwaukee police only retain its flock data for seven days until a Milwaukee County supervisor is calling on the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office to immediately disable its flock cameras and in his contracts. In a statement yesterday, Justin Valensky 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 question remains, do we trust flock itself with this information and coming up on wake up Iran honoring first responders who lost their lives during the 9 11 attack. Sheboygan first responders will be joining us to talk about how you can contribute to a good cause. All right, we'll be right back. You're watching weather first with meteorologist Stephanie Barkello. Good morning everybody. 808 on your saturday morning, starting with somewhat cooler temperatures but still very muggy outside right now. Most of us are sitting around 70 degrees but that's also where our dew points are. So a handful of communities dealing with some fog Milwaukee specifically some dense fog. So watch out for that as you're out and about. Otherwise still some lingering cloud cover starting to see a few sprinkles north of us can't completely in the next hour or to rule out a couple of sprinkles here locally. But most of us will stay dry and just await the clearing clouds that we will eventually see later this afternoon. I do think through midday we'll still have that mostly cloudy sky then eventually become partly sunny. Now Milwaukee temperatures around 77 80 inland. It's just that humidity that's going to stick around lower dew points tomorrow. More sunshine, a beautiful holiday weekend in store. I'll have more details coming up. What is that? All right, Steph, we're having some fun in the studio because it's time for adopt a bet. Rachel Hahn from the Wisconsin Humane Society joins us live in the studio with a very special guest. We have a wink here. Hi wink. Say hello. You're gonna wink to the camera. Yeah, this is wink. So wink is two years old and only about £7 and it's absolutely adorable. Wants to meet everyone in studio this morning has been playing around this tennis ball. She is spayed. She's vaccinated. She's microchip. She'll be available for adoption at the Wisconsin Humane Society's Milwaukee campus when we open at 10 a.m. Today. For more information on wink, you can head over to W. I. Humane dot org slash adopt. Honestly, such a ball of energy. What kind of family might she do well with? Yeah, honestly, I think wink would do well with pretty much any family. As you said, ball of energy, really sweet, loving is just looking for a great lap to be able to sit on and someplace to be able to ramp around and get that energy out. We also want to talk about because you guys, honestly, I'm amazed how you constantly have something great going on. Let's talk about the virtual rehoming. Yeah, absolutely. So if you're not finding your match in our shelters, we do recommend that you try our virtual rehoming site. So the home to home website, it's a third party website. Um, and that allows people who might have animals in their homes currently who can no longer keep their animals to actually market those animals directly from their home. I know you have so many things to say this morning. What's great about that is that the animals can look for a new home from the comfort of their current home. Uh, and then, of course, as a squill and a bark, isn't that so cute? I know. And then, of course, the best part about rehoming to through that virtual rehoming website is that the owner knows really a lot more about their animal, right? So they can help really tell, you know, potential adapters about all of the great things about their animal routines, habits, things that would be helpful to know. And for us, what that does is it helps make sure that we can care for the thousands of animals that we care for every year who don't have an advocate to support them. So if you're not finding your match in shelter, head on over to the home to home website. It has over 130 animals right now who are waiting for home. So a great way to be able to find a new pats and one more time because wink is like you guys are not gonna leave me out of this. She wants to be heard. I love a girl that's just loud and proud for those who are just joining us. What campus is she available at? And, you know, give us her character. Yeah, absolutely. So this is wink. She's available at the Wisconsin Humane Society's Milwaukee campus. We open at 10 a.m. Today. She is sweet, adorable. She's got a great little voice on her, and she's ready to find a new home. Thank you so much for being the both of you to wait. Stephanie week wants to know what time she needs to go outside for her walk today. Anytime is fine for wink. Oh, she is just so cute. It's a little foggy outside right now. A lot of moisture out there, so you're going to be wiping some muddy paws as you bring your dogs back inside after their morning walk. But drier conditions in the forecast not only this afternoon, but the next couple of days. Now you can see the problem here. Air temperature 72.70. Not a lot of wind to push all that moisture around. So Milwaukee specifically, still dealing with some lower visibility and denser fog. We're down to about half a mile. It's relatively isolated, though just about all of southeast Wisconsin at full visibility, with the exception of Waukesha and even visibility out west towards Madison and Janesville beginning to improve. So Milwaukee, I do think we'll see that improvement here in the next hour or two. It's going to take some time for clouds to decrease. That may not happen until later this afternoon, but just know that better conditions are on the way. Watching a few light rain showers out over Lake Michigan, it is possible these skirts some of our northern Lakeshore communities in the next couple of hours while we still have some of that cloud cover. That's more so just some lingering moisture from the system that moved through yesterday and then notice out west how thick that cloud cover is with this complex of storms that was strong and severe earlier this morning. Now it's weekend, but that cloud cover extends now all the way into western Wisconsin. So it is possible again, even through the rest of the day that we hang on to, at the very least, a partly sunny sky. But bottom line, great holiday weekend ahead, especially Sunday and Labor Day itself. Let's check in with sky vision. So cloud cover through about your midday hours. Then those clouds will start to decrease. Wind will be off of the lake, so we'll see a range of seventies lakeside to around 80 as far as temperatures go in inland areas overnight. Tonight, most of us will clear things out. We're looking at mostly sunny and very calm conditions for your Sunday. Even temperature is going to be a little cooler for your Sunday and same with Labor Day. More of that partly sunny sky breeze still off of the lake. Most spots looking at upper seventies to low eighties. We still have a very summer like forecast, but it's going to be better than all of, you know, this past week with that high humidity and storm chances. Now, most of us have temperatures in the low seventies, but we will continue to climb into the upper seventies, maybe even low eighties throughout the remainder of your afternoon, with warmest spots inland overnight tonight, noticeably cooler. I think that's what we all want, right? Still the warm afternoon, but the cooler night, cooler morning temperatures will fall to low to mid sixties and then tomorrow everyone, even Lakeshore communities will be in the seventies with similar conditions than on Labor Day. Now, unfortunately, dew points are still gonna take some time to drop. We're going to stay pretty muggy today. You can see the downward trend later on this evening, but it's not really until tomorrow and even Monday that we see dew points in the comfortable range. They spike just a little bit Tuesday with our next storm system, then begin to fall again. Your full six day planner showing the fog this morning, then the afternoon sun temperatures in the seventies and eighties. Beautiful Sunday into Monday. Then we heat up Tuesday, Wednesday will have a storm system move through Tuesday night into Wednesday. But beyond that, we look to drop right back to pleasant numbers in the seventies. All right, thanks, Steph. I know 8 15. We're taking you back out to Kenosha for the classic cruising, which gets started in just under an hour. And some businesses are all ready, getting ready for the rush. Andrew Boosley joins us live from Kenosha and talking about you're talking with local business owners and a longtime supporters of this event, right, Andrew? Yeah, that's right, Bria. And I should mix that in with the weather here because I'm not gonna lie. I made a very bad fashion choice. We were walking over here, so I have to roll up my sleeves while we do this. I'm over here enjoying my day of advisors, pizza and now. Why are we outside of this place, especially in regards to cruising? What's the connection here? We actually, uh, fallen. We feed the volunteers every year. We give gift certificates to, uh, the people who go ahead and organize this so that the people who and they don't have to eat today, they can eat whenever they want to. But we try to give gift certificates out to everybody because it takes a lot of people in the community to get this show going on. Yeah, and I feel like that's the world long. I mean, this is what Kenosha is all about. You guys have been here for a while. Well, since been like to not have this year. Um, it's like this pop up right in front of your shop. Oh, now this cruise. No, I'm not really learning more about cars and everything like that. Your favorite part of this entire event. We have so many people that come from Illinois, but also keeps that don't usually come down. We're having a few Mike issues there, but nothing to worry about. We're gonna check in with Andrew Muzu again around 8 45 or so. He's out of Kenosha doing all the things, having all of the fun, and we'll be right back with a very special event that you need to know about this happening in Sheboygan County next weekend. See back to weekend. Wake up, guys. It is 8 20 on this fabulous Saturday morning. It's Labor Day weekend, folks. A very foggy start to the morning, as you can see out there. But Secretary Margello says eventually the fog is going to move out, and we're gonna have a great warm, maybe even hot, perhaps a Labor Day weekend. Well, almost 25 years ago, thousands lost their lives in the devastating attacks on September 11, 2001. That includes countless first responders who died in the line of duty. The Tunnel for Towers Foundation honors those who lost their lives that day in Tusha, Oregon. First responders are here to talk about how you can help their cause. Good morning. I want to thank you both. Sheriff, I want to talk to you. I want you and Lieutenant. I want you both to introduce yourselves to her audience here. I'm Sarah Lieutenant for the Thomas Sheboygan Fire Department. I'm Matt Spence, Sheboygan County Sheriff. And when we talk about 9 11 before we get into the event, I think that we've starting to. We reached that area where a lot of people growing up, they weren't around and they weren't born there. But take me back to when 9 11 happened. Where were you and what were you feeling and what was going through your mind at that time? I was just a child. I was only one years old at that time, so I don't I was not remembering what happened that day. But you're one of the people I was just talking about, right? Yeah. Yeah, I was in college, uh, sociology major. So it really kind of understand the impact that was gonna have on our nation and really globally. Um, you know, the attacks on on our home front. But even you being one years old at the time. Now you're a part of this cause, right? Right. You are rallying to support those that lost their lives and really just this moment in time that just devastated our country. So many still reflect on. Obviously, as we look ahead to 25 years, what's on your mind now as someone who you weren't aware when it was happening, but now you are right. The Tunnels Towers Foundation is so important because they raise money to help any first responder that is injured or killed in the line of duty, and they raise money to help pay for their homes and help things mitigate what they need help with after those tragic things happened to them. So I'm very passionate about this foundation and what they're doing for the first responders now. And they started because of something tragic, but they keep keep raising money to help going forward. And Sheriff, what's your why? Why? Why are you rallying behind this cause? So our first responders give a lot every day, a lot of personal sacrifice. Um, it's the right thing to do to to honor their memory, support the families that are affected by sometimes tragedies when the first responders do raise their hand and respond to that call for service. So, you know, the foundation does just that. It's it's positively impacted, you know, a number of Wisconsin first responders as well. Yeah. And when we I want to get into some of the details of the event, we have them on the screen right now. Is it? Is it too late to sign up? I know you guys were wanting people to sign up, wanting people to get involved, and we're actually gonna try to be there live next weekend, too. So you have something to look for to then we're gonna see you guys getting ready for the big event. But what's the sign up process right now and give us the official event details? Sure, it's not too late to sign up. You can even sign up the day of when you show up. It starts at nine a.m. Next Saturday at the town of Sheboygan Fire Department on County Road Y in Sheboygan. And it starts at nine. You do a five K walk and then after there's brats and burgers and different things going on after at the firehouse, too. Yeah. And Sheriff, when we talk about the sacrifice of first responders, could you even maybe put yourself in those shoes for just a moment? What is it like to run into a crisis? Something that you have done, I'm sure thousands of times in your career. Put us in that mindset of you already. Obviously, you have the people that were inside of the two towers, and then you have the thousands of first responders that were relentless and going and making sure that they were still protecting those that were there. Yeah. So, you know, fortunately, I haven't had the situation like the Twin Towers. But, you know, every situation is unique. And we're really, I guess I'm glad we have a supportive community. But that's why why we serve. We both serve. We, you know, go to the situation where nobody wants to to go and serve just to help our community out. Much like, you know, Stephen Tiller. Yeah. The reason that this foundation is here, you know, got off from shift that morning. Rose raises hand. He was going to go golfing and ran to the Twin Towers from where he was at almost three miles. Henceforth, the five K that we have. Yeah. Wow. That's just so incredible to learn that story for those who are watching at home. Each of you answer this. Why should they come out and be a part of this event? It's a very we do a huge opening ceremony, very moving. We have guest speakers coming to talk about their experiences with 9 11. And then it's a great, great cause to support. Can you share? So one of the great things about our nation is we don't forget, you know, take the time to remember the sacrifices, but then move forward and grow from there. And it's a good supportive community to to really get out. Remember our fallen, support the families and move forward. We will never forget. Thank you so much for both being here with us. And I'm hoping that someone's watching Tunnels of Towers five K run and walk. This is happening next Saturday from 9 to 11. Thank you both so much for being here with us. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right, we'll be right back with more. We can wake up on the other side of the brain with stories that matter to you. This is Fox six. Wake up news. Good morning, everybody. Weather first on your Saturday out here on the weather deck where it's cloudy, a little foggy and certainly muggy. But Brown deer has not been as foggy as Milwaukee. We are flying above some of that fog right now and low lying cloud cover from our Estabrook Tower cam. It's gonna improve here in the next couple of hours. And you can see most of southeast Wisconsin doing just fine at full visibility. Lowest is in Milwaukee and then walk a shot down to about three miles. It is still very muggy and unfortunately that is going to continue today. So dew points stay in the upper sixties. Tomorrow we feel relief with dew points only in the fifties and that will then linger into your Labor Day. So cloud cover going to stick around through about your midday, then a slow decrease in cloud cover eventually becoming partly sunny temperatures in the seventies, lakeside to around 80 in inland areas and the rest of your Labor Day weekend looking lovely. We have plenty more sunshine for Sunday and Labor Day itself on Monday. Temperatures tomorrow will be in the seventies Monday like today in the seventies, lakeside to low eighties across inland areas. So despite the fog in the cloud cover this morning, the weekend overall, it's looking fantastic. I'll have more on your full forecast coming up for you. All right, that's what we like to hear. Staff time now, 8 30 on the dot. After seven days of deliberating, the judge declares a mistrial in the Lindsey Clancy homicide trial. Jury announced yesterday they could not reach a unanimous decision on whether Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her three Children. The judge has set a hearing for September 29th where the defense is expected to ask for a not guilty verdict. Prosecutors could move to put Clancy on trial for a second time or potentially seek a plea deal. In the meantime, Clancy will return to the psychiatric facility where she's being held. Employers were hiring in August and the job market rebounded. There were a surprising 162,000 new jobs created last month, more than triple the expectations. The unemployment rate held a 4.1% restaurants, bars, construction companies and manufacturers all added jobs. The White House rolls out new arcade style games this week. The White House website is now home to an online free arcade featuring five free retro style games, promoting aspects of President Trump's agenda. Some games mimic others well known arcade game style games like Flappy Bill, similar to Flappy Bird. Some political communications professors say they believe the White House is trying to use the games to shift voter focus ahead of the midterms this fall. They added the administration may also be trying to distract from more major issues. So if you're outside of the Trump cinematic universe, this is a thing that you're going to look at and just feel annoyed by and then maybe feel annoyed that he's spending our tax dollars on this too. The games are now available to play for free on the White House's official website. Madison's mayor says she plans to fund body worn cameras for police in the 2027 city budget. The issue coming to the forefront following the July police shooting of Corey Ruiz on Thursday. Ruiz's family, their lawyer and state representative Sheila Stubbs spoke out against the city. They say the city opportunities to start a police body camera policy but still haven't. Stubbs claimed the city did not apply for a state grant program that became available in 2022 and said the Common Council voted down a proposal to fund cameras through a budget amendment in 2025. When given the opportunity time and time again, the city of Madison has failed to make the investments necessary to equip officers with critical technology. The mayor says calls to operate the system has been the key issue with starting the program. She has quote the lack of options provided by the state makes adding anything new to our operating budget, particularly staff, very difficult. The mayor also said Madison police plans to apply for the federal grant program to purchase the camera equipment. The Milwaukee Election Commission releases new records related to the august primary incident. A high ranking city election official uploaded audit logs onto five of the nine flash drives instead of the actual election results. City Election Commissioner Polina Gutierrez says it was human error. The city released data from the central count tabulators yesterday. The results show in the timeframe when the error took place, the number of ballots being counted did not change, meaning nothing was tampered with. There is a plan to discuss this at a special meeting. The state is having Wednesday morning at seven. Of course, we'll let you know what comes with that. After the break, a Labor Day treat that will have everyone going back for more. It looks so delicious. I'm looking at it right now. Kelly's catering will be in the studio to talk about how to make it. Is it a lot? I hope this car is a lot. Look at this. We get some really cool access. We're finally getting into a car. Look at this. Oh my gosh, this is vintage style right here. This is the 23rd annual Kenosha Classic Cruising. We're continuing the motion with this and we have some really special guests coming up talking all things about this event coming up. That is a good looking car. Live. Look outside right now. The car looks better than the weather. We can all agree on that, right? But sunshine is in the forecast for later today. We just gotta hold on a couple more hours. I'll have your full Labor Day weekend forecast next. You're watching weather first with meteorologist Stephanie Barkello. Good morning, everybody. Happy Saturday to you all. 8 37. Now is the time temperatures are in the seventies right now. 72 Waukesha 70 in Milwaukee. Very across southeast Wisconsin. Dew points, unfortunately, are still high. As you step outside, you are met with that high humidity just like we have had all week long. But we finally see a break from that tomorrow. So still one more day of that humidity and then feeling better Sunday into Monday. Once we get rid of the cloud cover, sunshine is in the forecast for later this afternoon. But you expect cloudy skies through at least your midday hours, and that fog should really settle here and start to move out in the next hour or two. Temperatures will climb to seventies, lakeside, low eighties in some of our inland areas. Thanks to that northeasterly breeze and beautiful, calm conditions still in the forecast for the remainder of your holiday weekend. I love those details in just a few minutes. See you then, Steph. I know 8 38. She played multiple sports through middle school, but when she reached high school, she helped her team do something for the very first time. That's why this senior is this week's Fox six high school hot shot. Aubrey Peterson. I go to Sussex Hamilton. And I'm a catcher on the softball team. I did like T ball when I was very little, around five. And then I started with junior charges on the catcher. Yeah, it's really interesting to see the different personalities of each pitcher. Sometimes I get a really talkative pitcher who, like, I kind of need to, like, rain into focus, warming up sometimes more. And then other times I'll have, like, 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 just playing like 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 has been having a lot of fun this summer. We've brought it to some of the camps we posted, and I believe, like, 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 in 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 Fox six high school hot shot Alpeter saying way to go. Aubrey plans to pursue a PhD with a focus on sports psychology. You can do it. Keep going. And the hot shots in the Brewers will be taken on the Cubs at American Family Filth this week, including another brew crew Tuesday right here on Fox six. The game is at 6 30, but be sure and tune into Fox six news leading up to the game for all sorts of pregame fun, and it gets pretty competitive. So you don't want to miss out on that. We're all morning long. We've been taking you out to Kodosha for the classic cruising, which officially gets underway in just a few minutes. Andrew Moosley joins us live now for downtown Kodosha with another business owner who is excited to see just how much this event helps business. Good morning, Andrew. Good morning, Brea. First, let me let me just make sure that all my microphones. Okay, we're good now, so hopefully you can hear us and we'll be able to share the excitement of this next segment here. Now we're joined by Russ of Southport T. He's rocking this black T shirts. I mean, that's hilarious. I think that's great. You're already off to a great start. Um, you are from the Kenosha area. You're from. You're from this area. Yeah, you've talked about before we get into the business. Just how much this event means to this community. Your memories as well. He sort of explain what that's been like, especially from from your point of view. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, longtime Kenosha resident. I always brought my kids down here, my wife and kids. We come and check it out every year. My dad was born in Kenosha. My grandpa worked at the A. M. C. Factory here in town for 30 years. I've got his retirement watch in the store. So, yeah, it's been a big part of our lives. And, uh, it's just fun this year. I just opened in April. So first year being on the other side of it. And, yeah, this is just always such a fun, great event. Yeah, I mean, that's a perfect segue. What is that? Like being able to now see it from a new point of point of view? You always used to come here as a participant. Now, as a business owner, the first year from this side, it's exciting. Yeah, it's it's it's just it's great because it brings so many people down to, you know, enjoy our beautiful downtown and see it. It gets bigger and better every year. And it's just it's so fun seeing it and what, you know, what, you know how much it adds to the local business community down here and Kenosha as a whole. Yeah. And even before this life that we're like, okay, it's pretty much 20 minutes until the whole thing starts. But you're seeing all of these people doesn't sort of give small businesses, especially in this area, some encouragement, like, okay, we might get some some people walking into our own shops here. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. It's a huge draw. And yeah, like you said, like it's not even open. This is just great. This is this is awesome. So, yeah, just two people to see what we've got down here and everything we have to offer. Like, this is awesome. Yeah, that's a that's a perfect thing that you mentioned because many people think about the different shops and everything like that. And we were just walking up and down this street as well, seeing all the cars, but also all the businesses here. As far as your business goes, what can people expect as soon as they walk through the doors? Yeah. So we're we're Kenosha's only loose leaf boutique store. So, yeah, we have loose leaf tea. We've got over one hundred and twenty varieties here. We've got sniffing jars. You can come in and get free smells and or sniff for free, I should say. Trademark. But yeah, no, it's we've got one hundred and twenty kinds of tea. We've got free samples of iced tea on the weekends in the summer. We're building a tea bar in the back. So in the future, we can do events and host parties and have like some to go service and stuff like that. So we've got teaware, teapots, matcha, all sorts of stuff, everything tea related. We're loaded with with puns and dad jokes. There we go. Give me one of those. I don't know why I'm still in this sweater. Listen, I'm sorry, Fox's weather experts. I should have listened a lot better. You also have a drum set over here. What's the story behind you? Oh, yeah. So this building used to be SJ Crystal's men's clothing boutique. And the owner, Lou and SJ Crystal's, Lou and his wife, Donna, they were here for over twenty years. Wow. And they always had the band out here for the car show. So the organizers approached me like, hey, can we keep the band going? Yeah, of course. It's part of it's part of the Kenosha tradition in the car show. So yeah, the band will be here and come on down. Yeah. History inside history right here and all around downtown Kenosha. Thank you so much, Russ. Thank you. And this black t shirt. I was obsessed with that shirt. Back to you, isn't that such a good part? That's a great part. I love it. I mean, it's really effective. Dad jokes. That belongs in the Hall of Fame of dad jokes. It really does. We've got green ones, too. Oh, yeah, there's green tees, too. He's giving it. He's giving Ted Perry around for his mind. Right. Exactly. I love that. Okay. It's our Labor Day weekend, Stephanie. Finally, you're bringing the sunshine. I love this pink on you. Oh, I mean, are we we're gonna be smiling all throughout the weekend with the weather. We are. I know it's not beautiful outside right now. We still have fog. We still have cloud cover, and it's still humid. But by this afternoon, all of that begins to change. We will see sunshine towards the afternoon. Tomorrow is when we feel relief from the humidity. So it is coming. Just have to be a little bit more patient. Now the fog has really improved, too. You can finally see the city of Milwaukee. Hey, that's some great news. Sunshine trying to peek through in Kenosha. Everybody else still pretty overcast. It'll still be a more hours before the clouds begin to decrease. But by the afternoon, partly sunny conditions in the forecast, visibility hasn't changed number wise. But as we just saw from that life camera in Milwaukee, it is improving as we speak. So we should be pretty much done with the fog here. Just waiting for the clouds to decrease through your midday hours. Now there is cloud cover out west to thicker cloud cover, I should say, thanks to a complex of showers and storms that stays west of us. That's why we'll still likely see a partly sunny sky going forward this afternoon. The stationary front of the stalled front that we have had sitting over our area all week long, as expected, has finally shifted towards the south, which is why we're looking at dry conditions today. And then the reason why we stay dry the next couple of days. We've got a high pressure north of us that's going to start to move in our direction. It's going to turn the wind off of the lake, so we'll actually be a little cooler. We'll feel that drop in dew points. So looking at fantastic conditions the next couple of days. Let's check in with Sky Vision plus right now. Look at tomorrow's weather today. Cloud cover through about your midday hours, then decreasing partly sunny conditions breeze off of the lake. Still humid, but dew points will begin to drop later today. Sunshine from start to finish on sunday. Still a light lake breeze dew points in the fifties and we do it all over again on Labor Day. In fact, our next rain chance holds off until Tuesday night. So even the bulk of Tuesday is looking good, but temperatures will begin to heat up Tuesday. Monday is still going to be pretty pleasant with highs in the seventies and eighties. Now, temperatures haven't moved much this morning. Still 70 in Milwaukee, 72 Waukesha, a little warmer towards Burlington. But from here we will likely see a mix of middle and upper seventies lakeside to around 80 in inland areas, maybe even up to 82 in some of those far western communities. Look at overnight tonight. This will be a really nice change. Inland temperatures are likely going to drop to low and middle sixties. So a pretty refreshing start to the day tomorrow as compared to what we've had the last couple of mornings and then everybody will see temperatures in the seventies on sunday monday, much like what we experienced today with that mix of seventies and low eighties. Now, dew points will still be high for this saturday, not as high as the last couple of days, but still upper sixties. Then we'll feel much more comfortable sunday into monday. We see dew points spiking briefly with a new storm system Tuesday, but then beyond that they drop again and temperatures will drop again as well. So your full six day planner showing temperatures in the seventies and low eighties for today, we will eventually see sunshine throughout the afternoon. Also looking good sunday on into monday. At this point, Tuesday night into Wednesday will be our next round of showers and thunderstorms and you can see the heat that accompanies that storm system. But beyond that, we fall right back to seventies. Okay, perfect weather for a perfect Labor Day weekend. We're celebrating Labor Day, but it wouldn't be right without a tasty spread. Kelly's catering is here joining us live in studio and you've got a gooey butter cake recipe that will keep people coming back for more and more for those who may be having, you know, a holiday festivity at their home. Yeah, so this is a ST louis cake. It's called a gooey butter cake. So it's a cake bottom, which is like a cake mix, two eggs, two sticks of butter. You put that on the bottom and then you take cream cheese and you mix that with powdered sugar and two eggs and you pour it on top. The bottom is kind of sticky. It's hard to cut out of a pan, so it's better if you put parchment paper on it and then you can take it out and cut it. We didn't do that on that one. That's why these look a little messy. Okay, so then you just put the cream cheese mixture on top of it. The bottom part is very sticky. So when you put it on, you either need like butter on your spoon or if you're using your fingers, whatever you're going to use because it sticks a lot. What makes it gooey? The cream cheese and the cake. It's not like a full cake mix. It's more, it's thicker, kind of like a brownie. Okay, so instead of following the cake mix on a box, you really just use two eggs and two sticks of butter and you mix it and pour it, spread it on the bottom. Then the cream cheese on the top, which small over and then you bake it. So I change it, you know, I've used different cake mixes. I use, you can start with the cake mix. So you start with whatever flavor cake mix you want. The original gooey butter is just a butter cake with this topping. To change it up because everyone should make their own, you can use lemon, you can use chocolate, you can use a confetti cake, you can use butter pecan. My favorite is using the butter pecan base and then I put a salted caramel apple pie mix, the pie filling and then this on top. So this is, I'll pick up two good pieces. This is the lemon and this is the play on a black forest. So it's the chocolate, the cherry pie filling and then the cream cheese on top, which you want to try. Lemon. I'll take the lemon. Can I ask how this all started? I was visiting my friend Stacy in St. Louis and I took her a caramel cake and she was like, can you give me your recipe? And I'm like, yeah. And she let me taste this. I'm like, can you give me that recipe? Yeah. So she sent me, she sent me this probably 20 years ago and I told her, I said, you know, I made this my own because I feel I can't recreate or no one can recreate someone else's recipe. This is fantastic. You know, you don't use the same. I might not use the same butter. My oven cooks differently. I might mix it differently. So you cannot duplicate someone else's recipe. So instead of trying to match theirs, make it your own. And so that's what I do. And you take this to festivals. She's at Juneteenth. She's at festivals all over Milwaukee County, all over really the area. You were in Strawberry Fest. Yep. Tomorrow we're at the Greenfield Farmer's Market and we're going to have some of these because I made a lot. So we're going to be at the Greenfield Farmer's Market tomorrow. It's on 51st and Layton and it's from 10 a.m. To 2 p.m. So we'll have the lemon, the black forest and we'll have the original. And I always try to gauge when I find the YouTube videos to teach me how to cook things in the kitchen. How would you rate? Is this easy? Oh, it's very easy because it starts with the cake mix. Sure. It's simple. It's very simple. The hardest part is the bottom because it's so sticky other than that. And I definitely suggest putting parchment paper down so you can pull it out and cut because it's a hard cut. It's not. It's very it's gooey. So as you can see from the pieces, they get a little messed up trying to get it out of a cake pan. So definitely do it on parchment paper. Pull the Okay. Kelly Catering. Thank you so much for being here. You're welcome. Thank you for having me. Of course. Just got a final look at your forecast on the other side of the break. That's right. This is so good. I know. He's just like us. Glad everyone's okay. Okay, the fog. Oh, this is a promising sign of getting better. Everybody happy Labor Day weekend. We'll see you tomorrow.