Tuesday Morning Sprint

Tony Evers’ will give his first State of the State Address Tuesday night.

Snow will start falling Tuesday morning and continue throughout the day, creating tricky driving conditions for Tuesday night’s commute.

That leads off today's Morning Sprint.

It's 6, time for the morning sprint.

Josh spreiter is live at the capitol ahead of governor tony evers's first state of the state address.

But the top news of the day -- the ewather.

Haddie is breaking down when and where we'll see the most snow today.

Winter storm warning from 6 am this morning until 9am wednesday for juneau, adams, richland, crawford, and grant counties winter storm warning from 9 am this morning until noon wednesday for marquette, green lake, sauk, columbia, dodge, iowa, dane, jefferson, lafayette, green, rock and walworth counties today: mostly cloudy, breezy and not as cold with snow developing this morning, possibly mixed with freezing rain in dane county and areas to the south; one to three inches of snow accumulation is likely by evening.

High: 25 wind: se 10-20 mph tonight: mostly cloudy and breezy with occasional snow overnight; additional snow accumulations of two to five inches are likely.

Low: 18 wind: n/nw 10-20 mph as we prepare for another snow storm today... you might want to consider your loved ones and neighbors who might need help shoveling.

This weekend, two men in the milwaukee area both died from heart attacks after shoveling the snow outside their home.

First responders say sometimes elderly folks don't want to ask for help... so if you're healthy enough to shovel -- they're asking people to be good neighbors and do it for them.

0:33"we don't deny anyone because it's a cold weather day so our numbers increase dramatically "0:38 with the snow and the frigid cold..

The area's homeless shelters are at or over capacity.

The beacon day shelter had to squeeze as many people inside as possible.

The salvation army's emergency shelter was over capacity yesterday.

These organizations are always looking for help.

We have more information on that on channel 3000 dot com i'm josh spreiter live from the state capitol... where gov.

Tony evers is set to give his first state of the state address tonight.

He's already made health care an early focus of his administration.

That includes pushing to make sure people with pre-existing conditions are guaranteed health coverage if the affordable care act were to be struck down.

Evers also pushed for medicaid expansion, something that republican leaders in the state have said is a non-starter for them.

The former state superintendent has made education a big focus, too.

He's already announced his plans to increase funding for public schools by $1.4 billion.

The address is scheduled to begin at 7 tonight... then after that... assembly speaker robin vos will give the republican response.

Before that address... the state assembly is expected to take up a bill to make sure people with pre-existing conditions can still get health insurance... if the affordable- care-act is ever struck down.

The measure would require insurance companies to accept anyone who applies for coverage, regardless of their previous health history.

Right now... the bill doesn't include a ban on lifetime caps for insurance ... or require that they cover benefits like the cost of prescription drugs.

Those are both things covered by the current a-c-a.

A lab that makes rat poison should be back up and running today... after it was evacuated for a gas leak.

Madison police got the call just after 4 this morning... at bell laboratories... on the east side, near madison college.

Police say workers inside hit a gas pipe and caused that leak.

Firefighters and m-g-and-e crews were able to get the gas turned off... nobody was hurt.

President trump is on twitter already this morning -- takling about funding for the border wall... as 800-thousand federal workers prepare to miss another paycheck.

During the shutdown... on day 32 today.

The senate is planning to take up the president's proposal to re- open the government... with funding for the border wall in exchange for temporary protections for so-called dreamers.

Meanwhile... house democrats will vote on their own legislation to reopen the government...whi ch does not include any funding for the wall.

Protesters in madison will gather at the state capitol today... in support of a native american veteran who appeared to be mocked by a group of teenagers in d-c.

The president is tweeting in support of the students this morning... saying they will use the situation for good and bring people together.

Chaperones for those students say anotehr group started the controversy... by yelling "hateful things" at them.

Nathan phillips says he put himself between the two groups hoping to calm the situation.

Tonight at common council... alders are considering a somewhat controversial plan to upgrade the football stadium at edgewood high school , with lights and a more powerful sound system.

The school has proposed limiting the number of home games every season... and ending them earlier... but a number of neighbors living around edgewood argue that would still be too intrusive.

We're learning there's a new luxury space hotel in the works.

Start-up company "orion span" i building the 'aurora station'... boasting views of 16-sunrises- a-day and floating in zero-gravity.

The hotel can hold six guests -- at a 9-point-5 million dollar price tag each.

It's expected to make its debut in 2021... which is a year earlier than expected.

6:5 now... let's turn it over to josh timm with a look at your first-alert traffic.

The usual crowd beginning to show up on the westbound beltline with some brakelights around the monona drive exit.

Inbound john nolen getting busier inbound slowing down between olin ave and north shore drive moving into downtown.

And other main routes heading into the city are moving along at the usual speeds with no crashes or delays.

With your first a lert traffic, i'm josh timm winter storm warning from 6 am this morning until 9am wednesday for juneau, adams, richland, crawford, and grant counties winter storm warning from 9 am this morning until noon wednesday for marquette, green lake, sauk, columbia, dodge, iowa, dane, jefferson, lafayette, green, rock and walworth counties today: mostly cloudy, breezy and not as cold with snow developing this morning, possibly mixed with freezing rain in dane county and areas to the south; one to three inches of snow accumulation is likely by evening.

High: 25 wind: se 10-20 mph tonight: mostly cloudy and breezy with occasional snow overnight; additional snow accumulations of two to five inches are likely.

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