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For 97.9 WGBW News, I'm Lisa Hale. As of early Monday morning, over 60,000 customers throughout Northeast Wisconsin were without power following the winter storm that dumped ice and freezing rain on much of the area.
Some roads continue to be slippery. 511wi.gov reports that most of the roads in the area are either partially or completely covered. Drive with care and check your route before your morning commute.
Hundreds of voters attended a town hall meeting at the K.I. Convention Center in Green Bay last night hosted by billionaire Elon Musk and his political action committee.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Call had filed a lawsuit Friday against Musk to stop his efforts to give $1 million to two voters at the event. However, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals denied that injunction.
Call called Musk's offer a quote blatant attempt to violate the state law. Meanwhile, the event went off without a hitch in Green Bay with Musk taking the stage in a cheesehead and then throwing his support behind Brad Schimmel in the Supreme Court race that will be decided tomorrow.
The event was only open to people who had signed an online petition against what Musk calls activist judges. Protesters from across Northeast Wisconsin also gathered outside the K.I. Convention Center to express their opposition to Brad Schimmel claiming that Musk is trying to buy the election.
Two men were arrested and charged with multiple drug offenses as there was sheriff county officials continued to investigate the recently discovered remains of 33-year-old Tiffany Schneider in the town of Leon. The investigation led to a search warrant that resulted in the arrest of 57-year-old Jerry Wendler and 48-year-old Wade McLeese. Neither man is being charged in Schneider's disappearance or death.
The NFL draft coming to the Green Bay area in just a few weeks will disrupt mail delivery for about 1200 residents and businesses in Ashwabanan. A U.S. Postal Service official said many mailboxes will be blocked for on-street parking during the draft and mail carriers will not be able to access them.
Residents in and around the Lambo Field area may want to ask the Postal Service to put their mail on hold and pick it up at the Post Office. Visit usps.com for information.
Diabetes Alert Day takes place in the month of March. So this is a very good time to get tested if you have risk factors. Here's Melissa K.
More than 135 million people in the U.S. have diabetes or prediabetes. One in five adults don't even know they have the condition.
The complications from diabetes can range from numbness and tingling and potentially losing limbs. We also see kidney damage, damage to your eyes.
That's Alicia Natsky, a family nurse practitioner at Aspirus Health. She said it's important to understand the difference between diabetes and prediabetes.
Think of prediabetes as a warning sign for your health. If you know you're at risk, you can make changes to stop the condition from developing.
With the implementation of those lifestyle changes, you can reverse the consequences and not develop type two diabetes.
These lifestyle changes include increasing daily activity and focusing on healthy meal choices, including lean meats and vegetables. Talk to your health care provider for guidance or to get tested.
Funding for programs that support childcare and Wisconsin are set to expire this year. And Wisconsin's governor, Tony Evers, is proposing keeping those programs funded long term.
Evers is touring childcare facilities across the state, hearing directly from people who run childcare centers about the impact of state funding on their operations.
Current state funding for the childcare counts program is set to expire in June. Evers said that one in five childcare centers across the state could close without childcare.
Some legislators don't understand how important early childhood is and I've seen numbers that I think are probably low that if we don't do something with this budget, about 20% of these places will close.
Evers says that early childhood education and childcare are critical for development and included over $500 million in his state budget proposal to make childcare counts permanent, as well as other ways to support childcare workers in Wisconsin.
You can learn more about what's in Governor Evers' budget proposal on the Department of Administration website.
While Wisconsin scientists said research cuts from the Trump administration are harming his team's work to find a cure for Alzheimer's. Researchers testified at the nation's Capitol Wednesday, Savannah tome Olsen takes us there.
The Trump administration is working to dismantle the National Institutes of Health, which provides more biomedical research money than any other organization in the world. Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin led the forum.
Without the NIH, there would be no cancer immunotherapy, no anti overdose medications, no cutting edge treatments.
The Trump administration capped some research reimbursement at 15%. UW-Madison had previous agreements for the federal government to cover 53%.
According to Baldwin, funding is now frozen for 14 Alzheimer's research centers across the country, and Doge plans to cut 3,400 to 5,000 jobs at the NIH.
Dr. Sterling Johnson leads Alzheimer's research at UW-Madison.
Over 6.9 million Americans live with Alzheimer's today, a number that will double by 2050 without effective solutions.
He says they're already feeling the impact of these cuts.
They're delays in peer review and funding processes for some projects and centers.
They're proposed cuts that threaten major ongoing studies, including treatment trials, risking the loss of millions of dollars already invested, and setting our patients back.
If these cuts go into effect, studies will be delayed and slowed. We will lose ground on hard one progress. Every setback costs lives and quality of life.
Wisconsin received almost $600 million in research funding from the NIH last year.
For Civic Media News, I'm Savannah Tomay Olsen.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer Protection is reminding farmers to check the run-off risk advisory forecast before they spread manure on their fields.
According to a press release, the online tool includes a map showing run-off risk forecasts for the following three days during the summer months.
The forecasts are updated by the National Weather Service four times a day.
The Department of Natural Resources also offers services for farmers to help identify possible alternatives to high-risk manure spreading.
I'm Lisa Hale, 97.9 WGBW News. For news any time, log on to www.fm.
The Brewers are back. Hi, I'm Mike Clemens with Sports, Baseball.
The Brewers home opener going on today at American Family Field against the Kansas City Royals, the last year.
The Brewers never lost more than three games in a row all season.
Today, they're coming into the game at 0-3. After being swept over the weekend in New York, the Yankees winning yesterday 12-3.
NBA, the Bucks losing at home last night to the Hawks, 145-124.
Yannis says he needs to do a better job on defense.
I gotta be, you know, I have more energy to see better. I gotta protect my basket first, you know.
If I don't pick up my men, I gotta pick up that guy.
So that's the mentality as a team that we have to have to be better, transition defense team.
We're gonna watch film tomorrow. We're gonna walk through it. We're gonna play through it. And we're gonna be better.
Bucks head coach, Doc Rivers.
I'd love this team and I'm gonna keep saying that. I don't love how we're playing right now.
And we have to get it back. We have to get guys to see what we see and we will.
That's Doc Rivers with Sports I'm Mike Clements.
On your entertainment beat, I'm Peach Waba.
Corey Feldman has had a rough ride since childhood stardom.
The Goonies actor recently appeared on Billy Corgan's The Magnificent Others podcast
and claimed he was supposed to have Leonardo DiCaprio's role in what's eating Gilbert Grape.
Many dep told the producers he was a junkie. Feldman has admitted to having a heroin problem
after he was sexually abused as a child, but said at the time of the Gilbert Grape incident, he was completely sober.
Ouch.
If you can't get enough of the Paul Brothers, Jake and Logan, you might want to re-examine some things in your life.
But if you're committed to these two trust fund darlings, definitely check out their new show on Max called Paul American.
Actually kind of a catchy title. The New York Post is calling it a series that pulls back the curtain on the lives of the brothers Paul.
But we'll still manage to show you only what they want you to see.
Paul American is now available to stream on Max.
It's always fun when a showbiz relic is discovered, especially when it involves the Beatles.
The New York Post reports that Vancouver record store owner Rob Firth found himself in possession of a real-to-real demo recording of The Fab Four.
At first he thought it was just a bootleg copy, but as it turns out, it was an original audition,
15 song recording The Beatles Made, which still sounds as crisp as it did back in 1962.
He says he has no plans to sell his buried treasure, making it even more unique is that Ringo wasn't even in the band yet.
And their drummer was still Pete Best.
Here's one of Pete's picks. The show Adolescence on Netflix is the hottest show on pretty much every streaming platform.
The show about a 13-year-old UK schoolboy who was accused of murdering a fellow student is well-written, incredibly well-acted,
and has a great style where each episode is basically a one-camera shot.
Sounds tedious, but it is paying off and so far I recommend it.
Bill Murray had some interesting things to say last Tuesday on The Howard Stern Show.
The actor said he regretted turning down a role offered to him by Clint Eastwood.
Later in the interview, Murray said he was surprised he didn't win the Academy Award for Lost in Translation in 2004,
because he had won all the other awards that year and expected to win the Oscar.
Murray won the Golden Globe, the BAFTA, and the Independent Spirit Award,
but it was Sean Penn who took home Best Actor for Mystic River at the 76th annual Oscars.
I'm a Sean Penn fan, but thought Murray should have won too.
Murray was brilliant in the role in which he portrayed an aging movie actor,
Lost in Translation was also nominated for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Screenplay,
so Fia Coppola, who directed the film, did take home the Oscar for Best Screenplay.
If you haven't seen Lost in Translation, check it out.
For more showbiz fun, tune in to Nightlight with me, Peach Wabo.
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We get a little bit of a break today before our next system brings more rain and snow late tomorrow.
Tomorrow, tomorrow night through much of the day Wednesday.
Today's sunshine upper 30s this afternoon.
Tonight it'll be clear with a low of 22 tomorrow.
A little sun in the morning with increasing clouds and a high of 38.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable, Temperature Now 30!
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