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Right now on mornings on news, 12 new video showing the moment firefighters get launched into the air when a building's roof collapses in West New York and breaking this morning, take a look at these flames as a fire breaks out at a home in Woodbridge. We're live at the scene and we are continuing this morning to track the rain coming into New Jersey. We'll tell you what to expect for the weekend as well. Smoking. It's still allowed in Atlantic City casinos this morning. The divide that prevented a vote from banning it from even taking place. And Good morning. Thanks for joining us here on mornings on news 12 on a Friday, December 1st. I'm m mad and I'm Simon Choudry. So we've been talking about the rain. Will it affect our weekend plans? Let's check in with storm watch team. Meteorologist, Alex Calam. Not a bad start to December temperature wise though. Now it's true. It is cold out there this morning in the mid twenties for North Jersey, interior parts of the state only in the twenties, but we are all warming up very quickly. I want to take you to one of the cooler spots. Somerset County is sitting in the mid twenties right now. At Best Rocky Hill is 30. So you definitely need to jack it early but you don't get by mid morning, at least not the heavy jacket. You're sitting in the mid forties. The wind is very calm today but clouds are building and we have a chance for rain. It is after all the first day of December and on average temperatures are right around 49. So this is just about right for this time of the year. But by the end of the month, we go down to 41 for your average morning temperature on average by the end of the month, 28. And yeah, December typically is when we see our first snow of the season last year though. We didn't see our first inch of snow until February this weekend. We're just talking plain old rain and there could be plenty of it on Sunday. Saturday looks dry and cloudy and mild coming up. We'll show you what those numbers look like. Alex. Thank you breaking this morning. Emergency crews working a fire in Middlesex County news. Tell New Jersey's Tony.

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Brooklyn

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What's going on inside there, who need to know? All right, but what's going on in the weather department? We have rain. I mean, there, office parties tonight, right? So you will want the umbrellas heading out and about for evening plans. Best chance is going to be during the evening commute between three and eight. You can see pretty much how a lot of us start to see the rain after three or four. Best chance is going to be around six or seven. So you'll have to tap those windshield wipers a little bit, but it quickly ramps off by eight or nine o'clock. We're more or less dry and the rest of the evening looks fine. It just got to have the umbrellas for the early part of the evening, but it's not the only time we're going to see rain this weekend. A little bit of a break expected tomorrow and honestly go outside. Enjoy 60 degrees because we might not see 60 degrees any more in 2023. That's right because of course, things are going to be cooling on down. Enjoy tomorrow because it'll start to rain again on Sunday. It'll also be quite a bit cooler, only lower fifties. So let's take a look at that future cast for Sunday starts off dry. So heading over to let's say church in the morning, you're fine. But by about 11 a.m. we will see a couple of showers moving on in. So by brunch time, you will want to move those brunch and lunch plans inside, it'll become a little bit of a heavier rain into the afternoon. Notice some of the oranges right there over park slope as well as Gowanus down towards Bath Beach. We are going to see quite a bit of rain for the afternoon hours. It's a quick hit though by seven or eight to on Sunday evening, we're pretty much clearing out of the rain and then into Monday morning, maybe a lingering shower is expected. So let's take a look at that 10 day forecast. What you're going to see is again a little bit of a temperature roller coaster up to 60 tomorrow. Then we have that yellow highlight. That means rain is looking likely and it could be a little bit more significant. A little bit left over Monday. Then it gets a lot colder. Take a look by middle of next week. We're looking at middle twenties.

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Westchester

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Rain drops today. Meteorologist Matt Hammer filling us in on that forecast. Yeah, just a couple of light showers really around after one o'clock this afternoon through about six or seven this evening. So that's where we start off with on the futurecast. Really nice morning this morning, chilly temperatures will get up into the upper forties to near 50 though into the afternoon under mostly cloudy skies by late morning and early afternoon today. So the spotty light areas of green arrive after one o'clock this afternoon, steadier rain will be missing us to the north and west. But you will have the need the at times during the afternoon and early evening with just these occasional light spotty showers. The best chance for Westchester and Rockland to see these showers is actually after four o'clock and through about six o'clock or so this evening, then after seven this evening, completely dry, mostly cloudy. There just can be a little bit of some fog development overnight into early tomorrow. I do expect to see some breaks of sunshine tomorrow, but clouds certainly should win out throughout the day. Highs will jump well into the fifties briefly into the early afternoon. And I just want to extend this out into Sunday because there are some changes for Sunday, not necessarily looking at flooding or anything like that just yet. But after a dry, early morning on Sunday, we will likely have a round of steadier rain moving in for the afternoon and for the evening hours on Sunday, drying out in time for the morning commute on Monday. So we just want to keep an eye on that for you as we go throughout the weekend today. Kind of an eye roll day. It starts off great, but it ends up being a little bit unsettled with a few of those spotty afternoon and early evening rain showers before just drier, mostly cloudy conditions kind of remain for the overnight with some patchy fog. So just pay attention to visibility overnight, you might have to slow down a little bit into very early tomorrow morning for some areas of scattered fog highs tomorrow. Well into the fifties, a stray Sprinkle possible in the afternoon and evening. But most of the day, dry clouds and little hints of sunshine. Tomorrow is easily the better half of the weekend before that chance at steadier afternoon, evening rain on Sunday, most of next week looks dry at this point, but turning colder by Tuesday with highs in the lower forties, it looks like we'll stay in the forties from Tuesday and through next weekend just could be some more wet weather by next Friday.

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Long Island

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I'm meteorologist Rich Hoffman, your hyper local weather forecast heading throughout the rest of our Friday. We do have the rain showers moving in west to east through riverhead. You can see the rain showers through this evening. After daytime, highs in the fifties going out this evening. After sunset, temperatures are going to be in the forties. We'll have the on and off rain showers into the morning hours of your Saturday. So here's our storm system, rain showers overspreading Long Island as of now west to east of Long Island, Nassau County seeing some of those showers. So evening plans, they will be impacted by a little bit of wet weather going through this evening. You see around eight o'clock, everyone's raining and the threat of rain kind of tapers off into tomorrow morning. So the rest of the day it's cloudy with the showers developing west to east. It may be raining in your neighborhood right now. Already, 42 tonight, scattered showers. Sun goes down at around 425. Here's nine o'clock, looking at the wet weather from the east end to the west side of Long Island. Temperatures are in the forties. We get a little bit of a lull with some drizzle and some fog on Saturday. And then the second wave of rain comes in towards overnight hours of Saturday. Then watch what happens on Sunday. We'll start to see the wet weather moving in and some steady rain for Sunday afternoon. Here's what we have today. Highs are in the fifties, showers developing over Long Island forties tonight with scattered showers and again, mild weather over the weekend.

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Hudson Valley

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Just Alan knows if we got some rain headed our way for this first day of December. Yeah, not a lot, but enough that it's going to cause a little bit of an inconvenience there for the evening commute. Take a look at the exact timing here, hour by hour. You're going to notice that the odds go up after three o'clock. So for that evening commute, 456, you're going to see some of these showers could be that little bit of a steadier burst here 6 to 7 p.m. and then it tails off by nine o'clock. We're pretty much done with the rain. That's good. But then for the weekend, maybe not the best looking weekend, but salvaging Saturday, Saturday, how about 60? I'm pushing up the high because I have a feeling we're going to get a couple of peaks of sunshine and that's going to allow the temperatures to soar enjoy tomorrow outside while you can because the rain returns on Sunday, it will also be cooler. It'll be a little bit on the dreary side. So let's take a look at that Sunday future cast because Saturday, I don't have much to show you because it's going to be dry. It's going to be a mix of sun and clouds for Sunday. However sure it starts off dry at about 7 a.m. But we're going to notice showers moving in from the south and west by the afternoon. Here we go by 11 a.m. Brunch plans move them inside because there will already be showers. This looks to be a little bit steadier of a rain compared to today's rain. Notice already some of the yellows on the feature cast around two o'clock. Then later on into the afternoon, even some orange, around 4 to 5 o'clock, there's a pocket of moderate to maybe heavy rain. That's possible that's going to move quickly through. So by the evening hours things start tapering off and Monday morning, we might have a lingering shower or two. But aside from that, we're pretty much smooth sailing, aside from today's showers and Sunday showers, I have that yellow highlight just so that, you know, that Sunday looks to be a little bit messy, messy Sunday, but Saturday is beautiful. Ok. I guess we got to take what we can get, salvage a little bit of the, it's better than the teens.

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Connecticut

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Our community camera in Norwalk today, a little bit overcast there but it seems as though the temperatures are decent storm. March team, meteorologist Jonathan Cuban is standing by with a look at the weekend. Hey there. Hey, what's going on? Mark? Now, listen, those temperatures are gonna continue to hang around the fifties sitting nice and mild heading into the weekend. Saturday is gonna be the better of the two Saturday better than Sunday because we're staying dry Sunday, we have some rain to watch for after we work through the rain through this afternoon. Here's look at your five o'clock hour, looking at your future chaotic and a little bit of some light shower activity starts to move in. So the commute along I 95 as well as the mirror could be a little bit tricky. And again, we're seeing those showers stick around till about 678 o'clock. And then we'll start to see things move out, dry out and better conditions as we head into the late night. Now, we could see a little bit of some patchy fog on the wake up for your Saturday morning. But again, we're dry, temperatures are gonna be pretty decent into the afternoon as well with numbers in the mid ff, but we're gonna work with more cloud and sun for the first half of the weekend. And then it really only gonna continue to grow gloomier and gray as you look ahead into your Sunday. So clouds all day, Sunday, Saturday night looks good clouds all day, Sunday. And we're gonna see that first round of some wet weather just a little bit after the midnight hour. And then you'll catch a little bit of a break for the early parts of your morning. 89, 10 o'clock, early parts of your afternoon there, we have that steady, that heavier rain moving in. So maybe driving back home, got a flight to catch back here across the tri-state. Could be a little bit of a delay. A little bit of a doozy that steady to heavy rain really continues. Heading into your Sunday evening and Sunday night, things clear out as we head into your Monday and as far as rainfall totals again, 1/10 to maybe a quarter of an inch for this first round for Friday. And then we're looking at a little bit more about an inch to add on to that after Sunday's event. Again. We're looking pretty good for the first half of next week, temperature wise. Then we're back to some chillier weather to round out the end of next week.

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be Well: Is your kid’s backpack causing pain and discomfort?

On top of every child's back to school shopping list is buying a cool and trendy book bag. But parents should be aware that heavy or poorly fitted book backpacks might be damaging to your child's neck and back. A board certified clinical specialist and orthopedic physical therapy and co founder of Physical Solutions. Ed Ferrell is here to help us all out. So, first of all, Ed, I gotta ask you how damaging can it be if a book bag is too heavy or worn? The not the right one. Thanks Shannon. Yeah. So basically it's a situation where it can be damaging but doesn't have to be. So a lot of times in my practice, parents will come in, kids will be complaining of neck pain, back pain, headaches, even like numbness and in their arms and extremities. There's a lot of factors that come into why things happen. What happens? And does it have to be a permanent problem or is this something that can be solved with relatively easy benign measures? Ok. We have some models here that are joining us to help us out with these book bags. Today, we have Mikey Tim and Kingston we wanna talk about their book bags and how they're wearing them. But first I wanna talk about the signs that your kids' book bag might be too heavy. Sure. Absolutely. So, a lot of times with the kids, if they have the book bag is heavy, what will happen is they'll slouch forward, they'll put the bag over their shoulders, lean forward and hunch over a little bit. So if you could lean forward, pal, like if they're carrying a really heavy bag or put stress on them, so lean forward to correct that, um, other things, if it's really heavy, when they're trying to pick it up off the ground, they'll have to bend and twist and turn. Um, you know, to really lift the weight more eas the worst problem is probably if they have numbness or tingling down the extremities where they start putting pressure on the spinal cord. Um, and then we have to worry a little bit more about it causing more damage. Ok. Well, let's look at Mikey's book bag here and let's look inside Sponge Bob and see what's inside. Does it matter where you put things in your book bag? Because I know he has his chromebook that's usually typically heavy right here in the front. Yeah, absolutely. So, the idea with anything, just like if you're carrying a heavy weight, you wanna bring that weight close to you. So, in a book bag, if you have the chrome book or a laptop, put it in the sleeve that's closest to the spine to their back. So that now you actually put the way closer to the body so you can hold it better and then put lighter objects further away. So now you're distributing it more evenly. Now, what about where it's sitting on his back? Because I see a lot of kids wearing their book bags this low. Is that good or bad? Right. So this is a perfect example of what not to do, right? So it's sitting low, it's below his buttocks, it's way below his shoulders, putting a lot of stress on him. He's a big strong guy. So he's holding it up. But at the end of the day, if he gets tired, he's gonna start leaning. So ideally, this book pack is more at the level of the shoulders and just in the small of his back. So it sits a little more flush to his spine. So the big muscles in his back are supporting him much, much better. Got you. So let's look at Tim's book bag because it looks like Tim has his in the right place. Thanks, Mike is his at the right position. Yeah. So his looks kind of ideal, you know, his position just at the shoulder level, maybe a tiny bit higher would be even perfect. Not too low on his low back. So it's not always the best solution with the messenger bags and one strap sometimes holds a little closer to the body. So there's an advantage there. But as you said, it basically put stress on one shoulder. So if it is too heavy, it can stress the, the, you know, as and cause some problems. That way you mentioned the book back being close to the body. So is it better to have it nice and tight whether it snug on you or a little bit looser so you can have like some breathing room back there. Right? Tight enough that snug so you keep it secure and doesn't bounce around but not so tight that it's confining. All right, great tips and good luck in school guys. Appreciate you doc. Thank you.

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