and that's why they are putting out a call for volunteers. volunteering requires commitment and about 8 months of classroom training. a lot of people want to see money for what they do. everyone use to do it from the heart, but now a days some people want to see reimbursement for what they do. the town of sheboygan says it is not alone says it is not alone when it comes to a shortage of people willing to help out.a lot of communites in wisconsin are fighting the same battle. the classes to become a volunteer fire fighter start september 10. decision 2016 coverage now.the latest n-b-c news, survey monkey poll shows hillary clinton with a solid lead over 50-t0-42 among registered voters. the same poll shows clinton leading trump 87-to-9 among african american voters. trump appealed to blacks for the vote in his speech in west bend last week. he renewed the push in a speech last night in akron, ohio. "and i say it with such a deep felt feeling, what do you have to lose? i will straighten it out. i'll bring jobs back. we'll bring spirit back. we'

report, you know, 1.7 million volunteers, and if you calculate their volunteer hours, it could be translatedseveral hundred million u.s. dollars. that's--so, that's a lot the government was able to save. walter: that is a lot. let me ask you about young people and--and what they're eager to volunteer for in china today, do you think? liu: i think the youngng people, it depends on whwhich group of young people, whether you're referring to the young people like the high school, where i think they are just way too busy. the study load is way too high for them really to think about seriously volunteering. if you refer to the young people in the universities and colleges, you know, they--they want to be involved. they want to be involved in social services. they want to be involved in terms of going to the countryside. they particularly want to look at migrants in the cities where they don't have equal access to education, to healthcare. you know, they were involved in terms of setting up schools for them, setting up of legal aid centers for them, and many of them, of course, wanted to even go ou

the volunteers are on stand by to take your calls. melinda? melinda: ben, we are trying to get the phones to ring. this is what $15 gets you, a backpack, new, full of school remember this? all the things you need for kids to succeed. not the college ruled paper, the wide ruled stuff. all these things are going into the backpack to help a mps student in need. give what you can. if you can donate $5 great, 15 even better, a hundred dollars, anything you can give to help. the volunteers are ready. put down the bagel and call. help the kids. take a second and call us right now. that number 414-799-9476. one of the signs says it is a great investment, that is the truth. helping the kids succeed and it is going a long way. lots of mps students are in need. you can text too. stay in bed if you want to. call or text classact and give what you can. >> put down the food and donate. good advice. >> you can help out wisn 12 the and wklh by stuffing the bus. jeremy nelson is live this morning. good morning, jeremy. jeremy: good morning. we are located at a

here is a look at the volunteers. the number is on the screen right now. you can go online or s message. this is a chance to provide school supplies for the kids in need in the milwaukee area. >> get the phones ringing. now to the tuesday morning forecast. >> and matt is standing by in the news chopper 12. >> early the morning we talk about the sunshine. temperatures 64 at the airport. sun is up in 6 minutes. afternoon. low pressure and a cool front approaching but later tonight and for tomorrow and bringing the increasing of clouds and rain. today is almost perfect. for tomorrow, occasional rain and a few storms. especially the best chance of storms predawn tomorrow. a couple of showers early thursday. the clouds are stubborn and the temperatures into the upper we drop the readings for friday. now to matt up in news chopper 12. >> burleigh is under the freeway. looking good here. the pavement is dry. the volume is light and moving well. no troubles here. no crashes on the system. >> thank you, matt. lock down at carroll is over. the school officials have

we even have 150 volunteers who are volunteering virtually. they are not in the area, answering phone calls about >> thank you for joining us. our hearts go out to all of the people in louisiana dealing with the devastation. if you want to help, the red cross estimates the relief operations will exceed $30 million. can you donate by calling 1-800- red cross. they said they also need volunteers. >>> a great idea to get kid moving has hit a roadblock. toy out of happy meals. >> plus, is it really possible ?take me out to the ball game ?? >> not much time left. i need to see if they are playing this weekend. i know they are playing next weekend because i looked at the schedule because i'm trying to get there one more time with the kids because they love it. time before they're done. >> it is a great stadium. it is awesome . >> a pretty stadium. >> the downtown area is a lot of fun. >> a lot of things to explore. plenty of time. we're in the letting you go anywhere. >> and wool e. bull wants to meet you. >> i'm sure he does. he gives good hugs. >>

she is the coordinator for the volunteer services department. >> we have volunteers specially trained to go into the patient room. and sit with the patient while mom or dad or care giver needs a you can feel it. they obviously put as much into their employees as they do their patients. >> . the staf r special. >> . many of those families even patients. give back to st. jude. >> . it's a board made up of staff. and patient family. and for me i want to do that. because st. jude saved his life. >> . >> we also have a lot of great parents that give back. even though they lost their child. they still believe that st. jude was the best place for them to be. get so much more out of this experience. than they think they put in. >> it must be challenging. because of the type of work it is. there are sad stories. and tough days. so how do you get through that. how do you coach volunteers to deal with that. >> . that's a great question. most volunteers come in contact and of course get close to many patients and families. and it can be rough. if they get really sick. or we lose a patient. i thin

volunteers pitch in to spruce up our schools. that story is still ahead. and next: how the local red cross is responding bayou. when the oil billionaire koch brothers call senator johnson... [ cellphone ringing ] or how they spent millions to support johnson as he voted their way 90% of the time and supported special tax breaks for big oil polluters? whatever senator johnson and the koch brothers talk about, it probably isn't you. edf action is responsible more news now.a wildfire 60 miles east of los angeles continues to thousand homes are in danger of burning. 82-thousand people have been told to evacuate. california is in the fifth year of a drought. "the fuels are extremely dry and very explosive this time of year. and in my 40 years of fighting fire, i've never seen fire behavior so extreme as it was yesterday. rapid rates of spread, we've had spotting up to half a mile ahead of the fire." california is under a at last the flood waters in louisiana are beginning to recede.parts of louisiana got over two feet of rain in 48 hours...meteorolgist brian ni

and in wisconsin, that means volunteers stretched thin. >> dozens of volunteers are in sheboygan where a fire ripped through this apartment complex, killing one person and leaving many families homeless. >> coreen zell talked to one of those families affected, along with volunteers who say they need more people to step up and help. >> reporter: charles and carole, more than 20 of those people who lost everything in that apartment fire are staying here tonight, at farnsworth middle school. clothes. >> i don't even ever want to go by that building again. >> jackie is one of more than 40 residents who used to call embers apartments in sheboygan home. now, many have no place to go after the complex caught fire sunday morning, leaving one person dead. >> we were shipped here on this bus shocked, put into the loving hands of these volunteers. and it was amazing. >> 35 red cross volunteers are working around the c those who lost everything in the apartment fire. almost 50 local volunteers are in louisiana assisting with flooding victims. close to ten in california helping with wildfires. the

we have 25 volunteers from king soopers. what they are doing is sorting out all of these items that have already been donated by all of our viewers. now, you can't come out here and pick up these donations. how it works is that from here determined to 16 school districts. they will determine what classes get it. it's really exciting to know that over $60,000 of cool supplies here will be going to students in our community. so a great day. i just feel good. you want to feel better? let's look at that forecast because the temperatures for today are going to be warmer. highs are going to be in the mid 80s. our friends on the eastern plains, you are watching and talking about? it's foggy out here. a fog advisory to 9:00 this morning. the temperatures are cool. 50s and 40s on the map. closer to the foothills the temperatures are in the 30s. this afternoon the highs will be in the mid-to-low 80s. temperatures closer to the foothills will be in the 70s and 60s. so a bit of a change of pace in comparison to what we have seen the pas

and it was amazing. >> 35 red cross volunteers are working around the clock to help almost 50 local volunteers are in louisiana assisting with flooding victims. close to ten in california helping with wildfires. the red cross is in need of some help of their own. >> right now, it's a little bit more urgent, because we have so many things happening. >> reporter: they're asking for people to volunteer their time, donate blood, and give money. >> we're stretched. we've got a lot of people working. >> it's not going unnoticed. >> i can't imae lost my mind if it had not been for them. i don't know what i would have done if it hadn't been for the red cross. i really don't. >> reporter: tomorrow, the red cross is organizing a multi-agency relief center here to help those people take steps toward getting back on their feet. fire officials are investigating what caused that apartment fire. if you're interested in helping the red cross, you can find reporting live, coreen zell, today's tmj4. >> where would we be without the red cross and volunteers. >>> the aclu is putting pressure on the attorney gener

volunteer infantry came out as troops stationed in the west. depending on the year there were sometimes issues with various native tribes and sometimes they were more friendly, other times more hostile. but this particular area wasn't really settled. it was a pass through but still created tensions with some of the tribes. 1865 happened to be a particularly bad year for that. the previous winter in 1864 you had the massacre at sand creek. that was a colorado militia out of denver and attacked a village basically nonhostile. people. as a result of that, then that following summer, the summer of 1865, you had a lot of skirmishes and fights and problems with the native tribes as a direct result of this sand creek battle. massacre. one of the locations where problems occurred was here. we had the battle of platte bridge and the battle of red butte in 1865. the goal of the tribes here was to get rid of the bridge. the bridge was a visual symbol, a structure that could be attacked that represented all of the migration and all of these people moving w

short career as a volunteer defensive assistant at north carolina is over... just a day after his presence on the team became widely public, beckman resigned, saying he had become a distraction he's right about that. larry fedora said in a statement that he was trying to help his old oklahoma state colleague out, but agreed with the move, as did bubba cunningham, who originally the team. cunningham said they will learn from this. chancellor carol folt had the most pointed comments, saying in her statement that she only found out yesterday about beckman's presence and was surprised and disappointed. beckman was found to have abused his players in a variety of ways while at illinois. he denies it. some early high school football...souther n durham on the road at cardinal gibbons... the crusaders were ready and waiting... anton stoneking to ebuke engwadom 27-7 gibbons... 3q - southern goes deep... jalen montrell cooper... 34-21 at that point southern d had no answers tho... stoneking w/ another candy from babies toss to ale kuzy 55-34 gibbons... crusaders look li

so the volunteers will enjoy breakfast. they'll get a goody bag, water bottle, and go off to their sites. they can do half pro day projects, 930 direct to 12:30 or four-day project at 9:30 to 330. >> the full day is only six hours. i'm good at that. how do volunteers get connected? >> so it's v we have a website. you can go to uwsm.org/caring, sign up on our website. takes about two minutes to three minutes. you can sign up as an individual or get your friends, your family, coworkers together and sign up as a team. it will be a fun day. >> and the weather will be cooler too. >> yes. wow. cannot come soon enough. >> this is inspirational because the united way has such a big reach across the community. the projects you do. and it just seems like there is maybe something for everybody. if you want to give back. what will be some of the individual projects that happen on that day of caring? >> we got projects that people can engage with children, people can engage with seniors. again, projects at schools. we got all sorts of p

the volunteer event for the first day of school is planned for sherman elementary. you can find a link for that and other opportunities at tmj4.com. >> shannon: the friday football frenzy is back. >> reporter: hi. i have to tell you nothing says football and nothing says friday football frenzy like all of the elements leading up to the live shot. we have rain, looks like more rain could be coming leading up to the 7:00 kickoff. big rivalry game, and nothing gets bands ready like a tailgate. wauwatosa east hosting the mini tailgate behind me and they that's a meat raffle. i have an example of some of the mete meat that they're raffling off. that maple ham has land allen's name all over it. all of the action happening on the field behind me. the heightening sirens went off so we'll see if that affects the start of the game and weather permitting we should have high heights from nine games tonight, so one of those here at heart park. so we'll get to you those at >> shannon: stay dry. meat raffle? i've never heard of that. >> charles: i don't know if lance has any grill

feel free to reach out for more volunteer help. you have a huge volunteer army in waiting to help. ms. rojas: head-on, we are actually building our sort of internal infrastructure and we are almost completely grassroots powered. the reason we have not gone back to you is that i am the point person for that, and to give you a taste of something that we are working on is building an actual infrastructure within the campaign called the ground support team that we are going to be hopefully expanding. it is actually going to be able to support the local organizing that is going to take place in washington, as well as, i believe we have six other teams not only in california but in other states already. i will be reaching out to you hopefully right after this panel, if you stay around to talk about it. >> cool, thank you. inn the question is about -- philadelphia, another interesting timing, your local kickoff there is i will be july 28. there. a lot of activists will be. it seems like a fantastic ending event to go to. but in the facebook event, people asked about this and somebody comm

. >> and the good news is a lot of volunteers are heading that way to help those people who have lost everything in this. dozens of red cross shelters have now opened up across the state. >>> and as much of louisiana is under water, volunteers from right here in arizona have headed to that region to do what they can to help out. >> so far, 31 arizona red cross fox 10's courtney griffin has more on another volunteer that headed that way today. >> reporter: parts of louisiana covered in water. in lafayette, american red cross shelters scatter the area, providing flood victims a safe and clean place to stay, food, hydration, and emotional support. crystal abbott, a volunteer from arizona, is already there and spoke with us via telephone. >> we watched two people right here in the street from our headquarters, walking across in waist deep water to their house. it's hard, but we're here to give them a smile on their face, to help them, get them cleanup kits if they can get back into their houses, and an ear to listen to if they need to just talk. >> reporter: jean curry, a client casework

theare 160 volunteers ere at -furt) t. they are doing everything om painting, cleaning, roms to create a welcoming g ofstudents return to ss on ptember 1.a big emphas here is the out the blacktop a little more play friendly.and it's not just here at (see-furt) siefert.there are about 21- hundred volunteers at 22 different schools throughout milwaukee, hartford, wauwatosa and waukesha doing similar project.and staff from the milwaukee bucks are also helping out. bango was painting the backboard of a basketball hoop earlier this morning.this something volunteers say they lok forward to a ar round because theyknow it makes a fference for the kids. (22 seconds)pete macakanja/ge employee, school project leader support the community. we have lots of employees whohave students attending mps schools in wausha and so to physical get out and help the school, it'a great day here nothing like on the ne first day, seeing their bright eyes, their smes, their teaers, they are so giddy en they come in and see all the changes in their scho

all the firefighters here are volunteers. chief roger benzschawel / town of sheboygan volunteer fire dept. 46.22- 28when i started on the fire department we were doing 40 to 50 calls a year. now we are doing 100 calls a year and counting. more calls means the urgent need for more firefighters. 27.52-54. it's kind of a perfect storm right now and we need to do something. that's why firefighters in sheboygan are putting out a call for commitment and about 8 months of classroom training. tim ellis town of sheboygan volunteer fire department 8.48.45-54it is dedication and it goes beyond the classroom time. the calls in the middle of the night, during birthday parties, the most inconvenient times and we respond.8.47.23- 32 a lot of people want to see money for what they do. everyone use to do it from the heart, but now a days some people want to see reimbursement for what they do. stand up 9.06-13if you are interested in joining the town of sheboygan fire department and you're afraid of heights, firefighters here say don't let tha

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they get volunteers to work on the not for profit farm. >> it allows us to have 25 extra hands -- you know, 25 out and learn something about the farm. >> reporter: and those workers bring home fresh, healthy, local food to their families. those who volunteer five hours a week get an $800 value over the year in fresh produce. >> whether i weed it or i sowed the seeds, i think that is amazing. >> work withing your hands is incredible. >> reporter: they're still looking to volunteers. in bradenton, lauren rozyla, abc action news. >>owe most accurate weather team in florida, abc action weather. >> denis, i was going to go for a nice walk this evening on bayshore. it sounds like it's not happening. >> it will. it will only last 30, 45 minutes. >> we're all good. thanks, florida. >> exactly, right? exactly as quickly as they come in, they're gone. you look outside right now and there it is. >> what. >> the rain is coming down. if you look at titan doppler radar, there's only maybe 15% of our area, viewing area. remember we go from citrus county down to sarasota and east of highlands. we hav

something very special for the volunteers. they're willing to brave all of that. >> good poin for today. a chance for a shower or storm later today. but all in all it's starting off pretty nice. this is a live picture from cresten country club. waiting for the sun to cross the tree line but grounds crew already first thing this morning making sure those greens are in tip- top shape. your satellite radar composite showing we are rain free. we are cloud free as we do morning. mid-70s. already mid-70s in wilmington. you're also in the club. 77 in fayetteville. clinton and goldsboro around 7 4. as you're planning your day we should be in the upper 70s. it is going to feel like the triple digits but the actual high should be close to 94 degrees am small chance for maybe you're heading home from work. trying to fire up the grill. most of you on dry side. here's that comfort index. dewpoint temperature at 73 degrees. clearly putting us in the steamy category and that's why it's going to feel significantly hotter. heading into the aft

these volunteers are there when disaster strikes. how their work is helping others across the country... and the local call for support. now at 6:30-- not giving up on finding the suspects involved in the violence in sherman park. the picture police want you to see. what they claim the suspect did... and the reward being offered for information that leads to his arrest. then -- they're job is to be there for people when during a time of need.but now they're in need of your help.... what you can do to lend a hand. and taking a outside-- welcome to live at daybreak. it's i'm susan kim.and - i'm vince vitrano.we want to start with a check of your weather and traffic together with meteorologist brian gotter. yesterday was sunny and absolutely beautiful with humidity, a sunny sky, and a southerly breeze at 10-15 mph. it was the pick day of the week. this morning is mostly clear and pleasant once again with lows near 60 and a little more humid. today remains mostly sunny and nice, but it will be warmer and a little more highs near showers

we need volunteers and we also need donations. the red cross says they're sti sheboygan and they plan on sending more people to louisiana. live from the news room, krystle kacner fox 6 news ted thanks krystle the american red cross depends on your generous donations. if you're interested in donating, you'll find a link on our website -- fox six now dot com, or your fox six news mobile app. you'll also find information on becoming a red cross volunteer on the links page. it's time for your news and weather together. created ethics commission will be able to make political donations. the commission oversees lobbying, campaign finance and political ethics in the state. nothing in state law prevents ethics commission members from donating to the very politicians they are regulating. commissioners are partisan appointees... and all six have made donations in recent years. krist oil company filing a lawsuit to challenge wisconsin's minimum markup law on gasoline. the law-- passed during the great sellers from undercutting smaller ones.

and now red cross is sending some of their own volunteers out to whra. many of these flood waters have impacted thousands of homes. we spoke with a volunteer specialist with eastern north carolina chapter of red cross who caught a flight to baton rouge, an area that's been hit hard. some in need of rescue. this is the worst flooding the sandy in 2012. we're talking about 40,000 homes damaged and at least -- at last count nearly a dozen people dead. an uphill battle to recovery. >> with it being to people waists they're not able to drive. some of the hardest hit areas we're having trouble getting to. >> anyone can help that includes small adoptions. for more information head to our website. wncn.com. cbs north carolina. >>> o.k. i don't know if you saw this or not but right before our last commercial break we saw this beautiful view of the beach down in rio. oh, it's gorgeous. it's wintertime there. >> it's 82 right now. >> oh, wow. it's 90 here. go figure. >> but 82 ffer a winter temperature is not bad. we're at 90 just at noontime. you know it's an hour

volunteers have been coming together to help... and donate necessities. the outpouring of support has been so much that one shelter has stopped accepting donations. pellerin says: "it's been amazing on two fronts. amazing to see so many people adversely affected by this but equally amazing is just to see the outpouring of support and donations and volunteering from everybody coming together." hundreds of volunteers have been filling and loading sand bags in the hopes of holding back the floods. mos says: "everyone has a pretty good tendency to take care of their own around here." (on-cam tag) while several rivers have crested ... more flooding could be on the way as the water moves downstream throughout the state. in new york, kelly wright, fox news. people living in the area are not out of the woods yet-- they are expecting more storms over the red cross volunteers from las vegas are headed to louisiana today to assist in the recovery efforts. "i've been a few times before so i kind of know what to expect. i welcome to the chance to go and use my skills

>> reporter: my producer went in posing as a potential volunteer. ? happy home ? >> reporter: turns out this man has nearly 100 children in his care. >> the or day you were tell >> when our producer asked him about the abuse conviction, he blamed it on western attacks. >> could you explain what you mean by that? >> i was in jail also. >> for what? what were you in prison for? what were you in prison for? >> kidnap. >> kidnapping? >> yes. >> reporter: in addition to the conviction for severe child abuse, he was put on trial for kidnapping and fraud, charges >> how do you explain the fact that you have 100 kids in your house, but you have these charges and fines you're paying for child abuse? how do you explain that? >> actually, happy home is -- already we spent more than ten years here. and the case was just one and a half year past. so it might not be true. >> did you ever abuse kids? >> no. there is no proof. it's just propaganda. >> reporter: he says he's appealing the court decision. when the government does rescue kids they often hand them over to next genera

they need volunteers willing to be infected with the virus this winter. deanna durante has the story, new at 6:00. >> reporter: it's the answer we got time and time again. >> i don't think i would be willing to do that. that doesn't sound like something i would be interested in. >> reporter: it seems like people aren't willing to have zika injected into their body, even if it would help develop a vaccine for the virus. >> i don't want the virus. i don't want to take that risk. >> reporter: then we found donna price. >> if i could, i would. >> reporter: it's personal. she's pregnant. >> my doctor was just informing me about florida. >> reporter: 20 companies across the world are working to develop a vaccine, and human testing has begun in the u.s. locally, inovia pharmaceuticals is one of those companies. it's a dna vaccine they've developed. >> it has to be fully informed consent. they are told about all the potential side effects. >> reporter: the director of the montgomery county health department, researchers have little trouble in finding volunteers f

as a schoolteacher i was interested in volunteering. >> reporter: moira waterfall was 29 when she took a trekking vacation in nepal. she heard about an orphanage called happy home from fellow hikers. moira decided to teach english there. she made her own fund-raising website to help the orphanage raise money from outside donors. and the man who ran the orphanage, seen here in this video. then one day a shocking encounter changed everything. >> i was just going for a jog. i ran into one of the children that were in the orphanage and she was with a woman who was old enough to be her mother. aunty, they call you aunty. she said, he's a bad man, trying to explain to me what happened, really upset, in broken english. i didn't understand, i didn't know who this woman was with her. to my knowledge, the majority of these children were orphans. >> reporter: on happy home's website the girl was described as an abandoned street child. but she told moira this was her mother. >> she started explaining to me the man was stealing their stuff, that he was physically abusing them. >> reporter: word spr

you have a huge volunteer army and waiting. on, weddress that heads are building our sort of internal infrastructure and we are almost completely grassroots and the reason we have not gotten back to you is because at that point person for that and to give you guys a taste of something we are working on, is building actual infrastructure within the campaign of the ground support team that will be expanding and it is going to be able to support the local organizing that is to take place in washington as well as six other teams in california and other states already. i will be reaching out to you hopefully after this panel if you stay around to talk about it. >> cool. and the question was about, until delta, your local kickoff there is on july 20. and it seemsre like a fantastic ending event to go to but in the facebook events, the people asked about this and so many commented, this is a local event. would you all be willing to consider making that a more general event so there'll will be summoning people from across the country w

teams of volunteers are now going through homes, in places where the water has receded. people are going through water- logged clothing... carpeting... and personal belongs... seeing which items that had been underwater can be saved. many of those helping with the relief have come from long distances... saying they just want to lend a han t kate richardson/ volunteer "you know, the people who live here are overwhelmed because it's their stuff and we have to throw a lot of it out, which is very hard." president obama is set to visit the flood damaged areas on tuesday. it's time for your news and weather together. one person is dead and more than 40 people are displaced after an early morning apartment fire in sheboygan. emergency responders were called to embers apartments about 4-20 this morning.

services department they had volunteers that are trained to go into the patient's room and sit with >> they need to take a shower daily to lead the leave the bed side some are reluctant to do that in so they survey volunteer they have that extra special touch and say mommy could take a break please i'll be here i'll be your 30 minutes i'll be here for an hour go do get something to eat to go relax and i'll be here and their support is definitely appreciated by the patients and their families to genuinely care about each candidates you can see it you have an institution put as much into their the employees as they do their patients it makes the staff as well is really what makes this patient special and that many of the families even patients to give back to saint jude on the family advisory council with the staff and patients family and for me i wanted to do that because think jude saved his life back in any way that i can but we also have to write appearance that gives it back because even though they lost their child they feel the same jude was the best place for them to be. >> th

some volunteers say sometimes all people need is a friend to listen to what's going on. stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrg-tv9. it's ---. good morning from kcrg-tv9. it's friday, august 26th. starting with a live look at the turkey river in elkader. the river is expected to crest there at about 1 p-m -- a little short of the 2008 out my community, i'll help. " dozens of volunteers helped build a wall of sandbags in elkader in preparation for today's crest. governor branstad has issued a disaster proclamation for several counties in northeast iowa. today, he plans to visit cities with flooding. a 15-year-old girl has serious injuries after a car hit her in front of kennedy high school. police did not ask for charges against the driver for the crash. donald trump plans to attend an event for joni ernst event tomorrow in des moines. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrg-tv9 news morning news. first, meteorologis t kaj o'mara plan on a steady increase in clouds today and that will limit our high temperatures into the mid- 70s as wel

we appreciate everything that they're doing. >> not all the volunteers wanted an autograph or picture. some just wanted to wish the players a healthy and successful season. from richmond, jason pugh, news4 sports. >>> that was a serious hat. >>> a mild bike ride to the capital building. why he is calling it a ride for recognition. next on news4 "this week." >>> a special homecoming for a hometown hero. bethesda's golden girl katie ledecky landed to cheers fit for a champion. >> she came out with all her medals including four golds. now that she is back home, the 19-year-old is excited to do some normal stuff. >> eating a home-cooked meal and sleeping in my home bed. moving into college and i'm excited to go to college and swim. >> ledecky will attend stanford university. one thing the olympian said she needs to accomplish is getting her driver's license. >>> 1,500 miles, over 74 days and 100 degree heat. a vietnam veteran from texas rode a bicycle from his hometown outside of dallas to capitol hill. he calls it his right for recognition, an effort to get the names of his fallen ship m

reported in the united states as of august 17th. 3 the red cross here in wisconsin has volunteers and staff members to help with disasters across the country. country.they've been sent to help flood victims in louisiana and wildfire victims in california. but officials tell us -- if there's an emergency here in wisconsin --there won't be a shortage of volunteers. "well, you know, we're one red cross. so if we happen to have a couple volunteers that have deployed out to a neighboring state or anywhere in the country, we can quickly expand our reach within our volunteer from other areas and that's exactly what's happening." happening." 3 while we're told there's no shortage of red cross volunteers -- they say theye always looking for more help. in campaign 2016...over the last week.. donald trump has worked to appeal to minority voters.now wisconsin native and republican national committee chairman reince priebus is weighing in on trump's plan. plan."i'll tell you what... i'm excited about having a candidate that wants to be aggressive in going after black and hispanic and voters in thi

volunteers of america -- volunteers of america is the nonprofit that created this campaign many, many years ago. and it's not a funded program like the rest of our -- we run -- volunteers of america runs some of the city's homeless shelters, domestic-violence shelters. we have preschools for children with developmental delays. we have residences for people living with hiv/aids, people with mental illness. we're one of the largest providers of supportive housing for veterans in the city, the only shelter for women veterans and their children. so volunteers of america, you one thing that we happen to do. it's a community service campaign. so we have shelters for families, and we're always trying to normalize life for the children while they're living with us. so that means we celebrate their birthdays. when school is out, we have a whole recreation program. every day after school, the kids come to us -- recreation we call it, but we're there giving homework help. >> and all that is extra. all that's extra, so in order to provide that, none of that fu government or your tax dollars. that

they ended up having to pay drivers instead of these volunteers because the volunteers were not showingup. that kind of did not go over well with the ioc members and other people who had to work the games. so i know there is extra expense that went into paying for some of that. again, the people who stuck it out, the volunteers, they were all wonderful. i think once they got their outfits, and i don't think there was enough incentive programs. normally in salt like city there were huge incentive programs for volunteers. at the end, they got more prizes. i'm not sure. i'm trying to find out what exactly they gave the volunteers. so there is plenty of opportunities, but will rio win the gold after the games? and it's really up to the brazilians to be proactive now. and one, will the economy support all of these opportunities? will the people have the right knowledge to plan accordingly? so the tourism, they kept saying we are waiting. we are waiting. we are waiting. well, now is your time. they spent $3 million on campaigns during the games. i'm not sure if many of you saw , the brazil is

rr: my producer posed as a potential volunteer. ? happy home ? >> reporter: has nearly 100 children in his care. our producer a him about the abuseonvict he bd it westerntt >> could you exphat you mean by that? >> i was in jail also. >> for what? what were you in prison for? >> kidnap. >> kidnapping? >> reporter: in addition to the abuse, he was put onrialor dn and fraud, charges which were ultimat dismissed. >> how do y explain thet that you have 100 kid your house, y have these charges and fines you're paying for child abuse? how do you explain that >> actually, happy home is -- already we spent more than ten years here. and the case was just one and a y it might not be true. >> did you ever abuids? >> no. there is no proof. it's just propaganda. >> reporter: he says he's appealing the court decision. when the government does rescue kids they often hand them over to next generation nepal, who works to reunite them with their families. >> you guys are going home, how are you feeling? >> reporter: the siblings are ordeal. >> happy! >> happy? ? >>

volunteers, has just consumed. >> great. yes state senator running for congress. >> i am maria, a state representative for three terms. i am in the second term of my time in the senate with the missouri senate. endorse pleasure to bernie. i think i did that in may, a little bit later because i toted to have an opportunity really listen to the issues that impact the community that i represent, which is ferguson. ms. chappelle-nadal: i heard the message loud and clear, and decided to endorse bernie because we needed to go in a new direction and people who have been voiceless for so long champions who are not only in congress, but also in the white house. >> excellent. thank you. we have a democratic candidate for u.s. senate in utah. the first transgender candidate to win the democratic primary nomination. misty. i am running for u.s. senate in the state of utah. have runfirst time i for office, so a lot of people were surprised. i entered the race late. he was really wrong on a lot of foreign issues, a self-described democrat

volunteers swung hammers and drove nails today as they built the walls and panelsf a home... all in alliant energy's parking lot in cedar rapids. when it's all done, the home of course won't say on the alliant campus. instead it will go into a neighborhood in eastern iowa, where a family in need will move in. it was all part of something called a panel build with the cedar valley habitat for humanity and alliant energy. typically, habitat volunteers start building on the actual site of the future helped with the framing on alliant's campus. habitat says building homes this way cuts costs, and allows them to build even more homes. "17:31 we're also saving on costs because typically the walls come panelized to our builds, and by doing it here, we're cutting down on costs that we would pay to have a home panelized. and then, of course, bringing people together to participate in a fun event." once the panels are done, they'll go to the build site for th more volunteers will assemble them. today firefighters in cedar rapids are continuing a 32-year tradition of filling the boot. t

kohs says wikipedia's inmates include some volunteer editors with an ax to grind or serious conflicts of interest. kohs: sometimes editors will have very aggressive attitudes about what they want to appear in a wikipedia article . sharyl: they can stop opposing opinions? kohs: exactly, exactly. sharyl: even opposing facts? kohs: often times, yes . sharyl: when volunteer editors , leads to edit wars fought out on wikipedia's talk and discussion pages. >> there's drama on wikipedia just about every day. you just need to know where to go and look for it. sharyl: edit wars fill thousands of pages deep inside wikipedia with dialogue that ranges from civil to childish and hostile like this argument that kohs reads us. >> he has violated npa which means no personal attacks by telling someone they are inferior and to accept their station in life. he blocked. i am not blocked. you can pretend that you block me all you like, but someone who is right can never be blocked. it is impossible." sharyl: in wikipedia's world, the ruling authorities are the hundreds of volunteer editors who've reached

, we can quickly expand our reach within our volunteer baseand pull volunteers in from other ars and that's exactly what's happening." happeng." 3 while we're ld there's no shortage of red cross volunteers -- they're always looking for more help. in your health watch ...a -year-old south florida boy was ready to tell his parents good-bye after he contracted a brain-eating amoeba..but optimistic about his recovery recovery05-15 we are so thankful that god has given us the miracle through this medical team and this hospital for having our son back and having him full of lif. life. 3 sebastian deleon got the amoeba earlier this month while on vacation with his family.doctors call it a mircale..he's w one of only four people in the last 50 years to have survived this fe patients who are infected die from it. coming up ...busting a move ... for the milwaukee bucks. 3 these people were trying to land a spot on the milwaukee bucks grand dancers squad. details ahead! 3 3 .today...cloudy. periods of showers and thunderstorms in the morning...then chance of showers and thunderstorms in the aft

to showcase the city, but realize this, without volunteers, none of this would be happening. from pointing people to proper places, to making sure the headliners can he hea and tseina as a good many feel they're the unsung, and unpaid, stars of the rio olpic games. it is a dream to be fart of the toiks and volering helps me be part of the team. >> ip o helut t bigss conferences. and work is forrly mornings and >> this rocks we a sti gettirewarded in other ways. g tou k bewart of e experience an i think that thempicsre something unlike anythg else in the world. >> and officials recognize the efforts. >> the staff or the volunteers they are making everybody feel good. good. >> it is nice to know you are needed and appreciated. >> obergato, by the way, means thank you in portuguese. in rio wisn 12 news. >> thank you. >> russia's doping scandal continues. now, even more athletes are banned from participating in rio de janeiro. alof athletes have been banned. the paralympics are set to begin next month in rio. more than 100 russian athletes have been banned from the olympics bseau

then there is another part to the story read his volunteers were mostly devastated. they were crying. they were so upset. a lot of these people have put their lives on hold to work for him to get him on the ballot. all of a sudden he is pulling the plug like this. some of them were smart enough to see through that. he urged volunteers to go ahead and get him on the ballot because that would be their leverage. some of them thought, you know, i think he will probably come back. in fact, he came back and he did the kind of campaign he wanted to do all along. he wanted to do a short campaign. he always thought campaigns should be no longer than five months anyway. he came back and it was a spread to the finish. he had five weeks when he came back in october. he did his infomercials. he went on some talk shows. he finished the campaign like he started it. >> let me jump in there and take a call from mike from minneapolis. >> great program. i have been watching this. ross perot, he used these demonstrations -- these commercials on tv. i vividly remembered as a young person

fast forward to today in their part of the 7000 volunteers keeping the olympics going. manning the scoreboard during the handball competition. >> it's fun and exciting that i did not know handball but i am learning about it and seeing the brazilians go crazy when their teams play. >>reporter: o wonderful. sharing the experience saying the athletes and what they worked on to get here and making new friends i have made a lot of new friends so it's kind of a whole learning experience. >> the exploration for south america, they're going to go to argentina they are going to go to the falls they're going to make this a trip of a lifetime how cool is that. back to you in our phoenix studios. we will see you back here tomorrow. >> that is so cool. they are going to take over south america. here is a look at tonight's medal count for the us. we have a total of 32 medals. 11 gold, 11 silver, 10 bronze and we are currently leading the overall nation count china >> teammates of arizona wildcats matt hamill are speaking out about the kind of person he was. >> the wildcat football te

volunteers say soe to sympathize. kennedy high school's principal hopes students will use the designated crosswalks this morning. yesterday a car hit a student running across the street. good friday morning! it's 530 on august 26th. here is a live look at . first, meteorologis t kaj o'mara plan on a steady increase in clouds today and that will limit our high temperatures into the mid- 70s as well. this morning, a few isolated showers may also be found in far southern iowa before the showers to our south fizzle out. this front will be a key to our weather later tonight th become likely. it continues to look like many, if not all football games should go dry tonight, but rain should quickly push in right afterwards. this rain should amount to a quarter to a half inch with isolated amounts over one inch possible. another round of scattered storms will be possible in the afternoon hours, with much of the activity likely waning or moving east by the evening. sunday looks mainly dry with only isolated storms possible. have