i'm the sheriff in racine county, wisconsin. i've been a law enforcement officer for nearly 20 years. i am a conservative republican and i'm sheer today to ask you to pass two common sense law that is will protect our sisters, our daughters, and our mothers by keeping guns out of the hands of domestic abusers. as the top law enforcement officer in racine county and with over two decades of law enforcement experience, i have seen firsthand the tragic events firsthand. i want to tell you about one such domestic violence incident. a tragedy that changed my career. back in 2004, terry was violently abused and left for dead by her ex-husband. after three years of a violently abusive marriage, teri had the courage to divorce her husband. she had taken out multiple restraining orders during this time frame. on that horrible day, very cold january day in 2014, he beat her with a baseball bat in the head and as she tried to fight back, he then threatened her with a .38 caliber handgun. you bound and gagged her, filled a garbage can full

racine crease cloud cover and higher humidity levels. the house and fought by the bank, but the mass of high and cloudiness will increase. temperatures will be about the same and they were today. and into the new we tuesday was the tropical cloudiness beating.-- leaving. u.n. security council numbers didn't seem stop some folks from being outside. heather farm park in walnut creek was full of people enjoying the outdoors. whether they were in the pool.or in the shade having a barbeque.everyone was trying to stay cool. the high there today was 93 degrees! and once everyone put on sunscreen.and sun glasses. it was a little easier to have a great time outside. a short-lived cease-fire between israel and hamas ended in violence today. the failure to reach a temporary halt in the fighting. shows the difficulties in securing a more permanent truce. hamas accepted israel's 24-hour truce yesterday to hold fire. however. rockets continued to rain down on southern israel and israeli strikes could be heard in gaza. an advisor to palestinian preside

he's competing against karl racine, lateefa williams and paul zikerberg. in first election is november. return the focus to the weather and another warm day but some changes are afoot. in the middle of the week, we will get a little bit of spring or maybe even fall. before then it is going to be storms.a risk of it is warm and muggy, 80 degrees at reagan national and the dew point 68. at least we have a nice reuse. -- nice breeze. overall tonight, low temperatures will fall into the middle 60's and 70's down 10. and a great view tonight of the superman. i will show some great pictures i have seen on social media coming up in a little bit. the weather headline tonight, the risk of thunderstorms increasing as a cold front approaches. it will come through on tuesday and finally ushering in the cooler and drier air i was mentioning. rushmore in the 70 forecast much more in the seven day forecast coming up. flooding inn caused chicago. drivers had to deal with high water on streets. cancelers were forced to the taste of chicago today. the first time in its 43 y

he joins me now on the phone from racine, wisconsin.h your new contract, you could buy some jenny's ice cream? >> you guys had me hungry just listening to the conversation. >> tell us about playing for detroit for another year. >> i am looking forward to it. this off-season i signed a contract with the pistons. the head coach and president of basketball operations -- it's a great opportunity. i had some time with him in miami. he was my first coach along with pat riley and i am looking forward to doing some great things. >> i am glad you mentioned miami. any reaction to lebron james going to the cavaliers? >> i think it's great. i think it's great for the game of basketball with the fan base we have. it's good to see him go home. he did what he had to do. he went to miami with the big three and they did some wonderful things. him going home is great for the city. it's great timing and hopefully in years to come he will bring a championship to cleveland. >> what about carmelo anthony and the new york knicks? >> that was special. i was re

my experience -- let me give you a little bit of history on racine county. my jailhouses about 876 prisoners. each year we book in 10,000 citizens on average. 10,000. of those 10,000, about 10% to 12% are domestic violence related arrests. every one of those arrests leave behind victims. typically women, typically children. every one of those calls we speak to those victims naturally. we get their statements. i was a detective for ten years. i have interviewed countless victims of domestic violence. never once have i heard a victim tell me that, where's the nearest gun shop, let me arm myself because i need to do this. they look towards the system. they look to law enforcement to do our job and to keep them safe. >> dr. malcolm, you're a professor of constitutional law, are you not? >> yes. >> let me ask you two questions of constitutional law. the first is, does making sure that people who are lawfully required to have background checks actually get a background check offend any constitutional principle that you can define? >> no. but i think what the quest

between sobriety and democracy then i don't think you necessarily make a hard fast link between talk racine alcoholism there is a lot of commonalities there to be sure but i do think and this is what i think is very encouraging for russia especially since two thousand and nine has been as you say these demographic indicators they are improving quite dramatically you know they're on a trajectory that is that is very encouraging life expectancy issues for mortality is getting better all poisonings last year were less than ten thousand of course you know that's that's down from around fifty thousand a year during the horrible days of the one nine hundred ninety seems that the luck of policies in this country have changed quite a bit since you started writing this book yeah and it has and this is something that is you know i've had to come to terms with and realize that you know things aren't as do. and gloom you know there was an article in vanity fair that i was quoted in a couple months ago that seemed to suggest that you know the reasons for intervention in august putin's intervention in cr

just a couple of hours from racine county, cheryl was killed. she was shot with her own gun. according to the news report she had been seeking a restraining order at the time of the killing. cases like cheryl's, a restraining order is not good enough. if you've never been married to an abuser, federal law will likely not stop him from buying and purchasing a gun. the second bill i'm asking you to pass today would be gun buyers who shop with unlicensed sellers. federal law prohibits them from buying guns but only requires them to pass a background check if they shop with a dealer. the hole in the law means that a wife beater can slip through the cracks and buying a gun by finding a seller who does not own a gun store. this is exactly what happened in our state. tyrona darr had been convicted of battery not once, but twice. he was legally prohibited from possessing a gun because of a restraining order. so, instead of shopping at a gun dealer, he found an ad for a 9 millimeter glock in a local newspaper, reached out to the seller. they agreed to meet at a hardware store. there's

>> detective racine was on the scene, detective murphy. >> did you say racy? >> racy, r-a-i-s-s-i. >> okay. and detective murphy. >> and detective murphy. and i believe both of them interviewed witnesses. >> okay. do you have a list of those who were interviewed? >> i do. >> all right. can you tell me who those folks were? >> i cannot. >> how many were interviewed? >> multiple. >> they didn't all give exactly the same story, did they? >> no, sir. >> in fact, you interviewed several witnesses who told you that mr. harris was absolutely hysterical at that scene. >> i didn't interview anybody at the scene. >> some of your detectives interviewed witnesses who told you or told them that mr. harris was absolutely hysterical. >> i would say that is true. >> there were witnesses who told some of your detectives that he was crying at the scene. >> i don't recall anybody saying he was crying. >> screaming. >> i would go with screaming. >> in shock. >> i don't recall those words being used. >> okay. dazed. >> i'll go with dazed. >> and did you record all those interviews

i am very, very dry racine temperatures in the '90s right now.ee in the team's nearby hill and valley like 26 percent relative humidity anything indeed under 3 percent is extremely dry >> : down again to the self you can see a lot higher. not quite as strike. very hot and very dry and then this location where the fire is burning also talk a little bit about the wind gusts. it'll look all that impressive these to observation stations and a prom with this area very rule as even mentioning there are awful lot of the opposite observation points to check out. we do have wind gusts in 10 maoris' to reporting stations this is a very a lot of rain a lot of canyons and hills in this area it is very hard to pinpoint exactly what the wind is doing in in that kind of terrain conceit erratic wind directions and speeds. some of that is going on right now when gus not too strong is at forcing iraq when us partly in teams and 20's >> : lives of this fire in napa county now 1,000 a. noontime today displays and others selling about your recent days planning of the

in racine oung woman her he became homeless in teens. her parents more or less abandoned her. sharon, wisconsin, a rural town in the middle of district i represent on the illinois border. in had some other problems her life with respect to addictions. charities did ic is sat down with her and put together a life plan and looked the needs she had and problems she had and aspirations she had. chosen profession she wants to get into in the medical field. basically helped her find a minimum wage shop but helped a rdinator fate her benefits lot of which were catholic charities. aside from government assistance g.e.d. and job training and now she's got a job getting to school and married and she's putting her life together and studying to go chosen profession she h had. and if it were not for that a person sitting down and understanding all of her a blems and helping her with plan she would have remained homeless in her words and now getting tting married, the profession she wants and she is a happy person who is life for fulfilling herself. >> is she at poverty level wages? >> she

we will hear from christopher schmaling peer share of schmaling was elected sheriff of racine wisconsin two dozen tendons have is the first-ever domestic violence specialist position in the state. he resides with his family in mt. pleasant. i understand it is his son 16 for day-to-day so we are particularly grateful for his participation in this hearing creates a pleasure to have you with the sheriff. i know your son must be very proud. next we will hear from justice mccaffery who was born in belfast northern ireland belfast northern ireland but belfast northern ireland that is called is philadelphia's home since the age of five. he has made a career of public service serving this country as a united states marine. his city as a police officer for 20 years and now an appellate judge. justice mccaffery's liaison for courts across pennsylvania as well as the special court judges of pennsylvania. he has been in the forefront of creating veterans courts across pennsylvania. finally introduced by senator durbin elvin daniel joins us reza salesman for blackhawk industrial. he is here to share