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"Scandal" star Bellamy Young opens up about her career and a serious family health crisis her family faced. 

"Scandal" star Bellamy Young stopped by "be Well" for a chat with Elizabeth and Shannon. She opened up about her career and a serious family health crisis. 

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And speaking of ice is expected to get colder out there. Meteorologist Michelle Powers joins us now and we are on storm watch. Michelle, what can you tell us? Well, we have a lot more rain before the morning comes and roads are going to be wet. It's going to be sloppy as we start the day. But temperatures are above freezing, we're going to watch them fall throughout the day and heading into Tuesday, any standing water that is left over that could become icy. So plan ahead. Now there could be some minor slowdowns on the roads and as for snow don't get your hopes up. There's a chance as you go up in elevation and throughout parts of the Poconos, that's where really most of this will fall. So the colder air rushes in temperatures are really going to drop as we head into Tuesday morning, we're near freezing. The next couple of mornings will be much colder daytime, highs in the forties and no rain in sight until next weekend.

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Welcome back to News 12 of the Bronx for local matters. I'm Phil Tate. We are on Storm March tonight. We have Storm March team, meteorologist Ho oa Hope. I mean, this second wave of wet weather is really kicking up, but tell us how is this going to really be impacting our morning commute? Yeah, you know, you know, the rain is going to continue into the morning commute. So this is just something that we have to deal with and just prepare for and we're not just dealing with the rain. We're also dealing with a strong two damaging winds, 40 to 50 MPH and that can cause some power outages across portions of our area. Crashing. Temperatures will be in the sixties at midnight, crashing to the forties by Monday morning. And then we have some travel troubles, especially for your morning commute, standing water and any wind damage can reduce visibility and also just cause some hazardous conditions on area roadways. So let's have it out on your future cast overnight. We're still dealing with the periods heavy rain and some strong gusts 3545 MPH and even through four or five o'clock in the morning, temperatures will be in the mid forties and we're dealing with that steady rainfall, maybe even a few isolated downpours to at least 7 a.m. Eight AM. The rain is lighter and then we're seeing some clearing skies by the afternoon, 1212 30. But temperatures will be in the mid forties. The winds will be persistent throughout the day. That is gonna feel like temperatures to be in the mid to upper 30. So that's a real shock in the system, especially coming off of a 60 degree day. So Monday night into your Tuesday morning, it is expected to feel like the twenties because of those winds. So back to our winds, the winds will be out of the northwest. So now it's bringing in that cooler pocket of air 5 a.m. 2325 MPH and we're seeing it in that ballpark for the majority of the day, even reaching near 30 at times and that is going to take us into your two morning. So this is what you need to prepare for for Tuesday morning. Again, temperatures will be in the twenties to start feeling like the mid to upper thirties during the afternoon. But on the plus side, at least it's dry. We're not dealing with any wet weather for the next several days. So that's something that we can finally look forward to. So the storm watch continues for the first half of your morning commute, drying out by the afternoon, temperatures will be in the mid forties feeling like the thirties even colder by Tuesday. Let's just get through this together.

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Is needed. The Arbor Corps of Engineers says it's about to start a $100 million project to widen two flood prone rivers, fix bridges and fix retaining walls. So Matt, a lot of these communities are concerned because of what happened during the last storm. What's going on with this? Yes. So we still have a couple more hours about three hours or so of some light to moderate rain, at least at this point. So the fact that we're not seeing major flooding issues right now, great news as we go throughout mid morning because the conditions will improve over the next few hours. Actually, some good ability right now out towards the Hudson River and towards the Mario Cuomo bridge. Let's take a look at what the weather is doing right now where you are. So as we go throughout this morning, you can see all of the green on live top the radar that is still the rain. There are a few snow pelts mixed in in Orange County and Ulster County for sure. Temperatures are in the upper thirties to near forties still they'll start to drop as we go throughout the next couple of hours over towards North White Plains, seeing some moderate rain mount pleasant Phillips Manor. More of the same looking in Western Orange County like I showed you a few minutes ago. It's deer park getting some wet snow mixing in, but it's not sticking with those temperatures in the upper thirties to near 40 where that snow can stick on colder surfaces. Is in Hardenburg over towards Denning those higher elevations of northwestern Ulster County. That's where you could see a little bit of a light snow accumulation before this completely wraps up. So you can see on the eastern, the warmer side of the storm, all that rain. But on the colder side of the storm, you can see some of that snow and the back edge of this is starting to push into eastern Pennsylvania. Temperatures 44 in Yonkers, the coldest, they are middle and upper thirties even in those areas. Getting some snow in northern Ulster County winds have subsided a bit for sure. The strongest winds still to our east over Connecticut parts of Long Island, but we're still getting some gusts to around 20 to 25 MPH. And even as the storm leaves, we will still have some gusty conditions behind it into the afternoon. So here is the storm watch featurecast from right now and through around 7730 this morning, the rain and any mixing going on is winding down and we'll break for sunshine after nine o'clock this morning, but it's going to be a cold feel outside all throughout the Hudson Valley afternoon, temperatures lower to middle forties but winds can still gust in the 20 to 30 mile per hour range into the afternoon. So it will feel like the thirties stress warmly into the afternoon. If you could hold off traveling a few hours, it'll be much, much better by mid morning. The rest of the week, pretty quiet weather conditions with highs in the low forties through Thursday, then a warm up Friday into the weekend before more rain moves in late on Sunday. All right now. Thank you.

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Checking our forecast now, Rich Hoffman is back with us last night was really bad. So people waking up right now wondering what's going on out there. Yeah, the Christmas lights went out from all the rain and the sockets there and some decorations down. I saw her driving in this morning a lot of wet roads and it's kind of that sneaky flooding where it's on the side of the roads, it's really dark out there and we're going to be watching that we still have some pockets of a steadier rain right now. And as we go throughout the rest of the morning, we're going to start to improve our weather and we have snow north and west of Long Island. So it is turning colder here for you around the rest of today. Let's take a look at your Doppler radar this morning. You can see the steadier rain more out towards the east end right now with the yellow. So anytime you see yellow in our Doppler radar, that's a steadier rain with some pockets of heavier rain, you can see some of that right now from Southampton over Shelter Island towards or point moving towards East Hampton and Springs. Again, there is that sneaky flooding with some of the sides of the roads being flooded and again, give yourself extra travel time here this morning. With that wet weather, you can see from riverhead to Mattituck, Southampton over to Mastic. We are watching the rainy conditions. The last advisory just expired. We did have a flood advisory until 445 this morning. Now there are no advice or warning The high wind warning, the flood watts, the wind advisory all have been dropped right now. We're just looking at steadier showers here in Roslyn or Brookville Hicksville, Levittown, East Massapequa over towards uh Hempstead to Elmont to uh areas of Kings Point. We're looking at the soggy conditions, still looking at some wind gusts right now, around 30 MPH, we had some wind gusts last night, 40 to 50 MPH. And you will notice over the next couple of hours as the cold air moves in, still some wind gusts close to 40 MPH. Now, temperatures are in the forties. They've been dropping all night long. We dropped 13 degrees last night once the cold front has passed. And you can see this morning at the bus stop in Seaford 44 degrees 47 later today. But with a gusty wind, it's got a chill to the air this afternoon, rainy conditions. The rain will start to taper off west to east over Long Island between eight and 11 o'clock this morning. This afternoon, sunshine. A gusty wind. Temperatures are in the forties. Tomorrow morning, temperatures are dropping into the upper twenties to around 30 Tuesday, mostly chilly. A high of 44. So the rain will start to taper off over the next couple of hours. Improving weather conditions. Sunshine this afternoon at 47 watch out for wet roads this morning and exceed Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday dry into Saturday. More wet weather coming in Sunday into Monday.

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And we're taking another look at the forecast. Morning, temperatures are going to be warm, but temps will fall throughout the day and there's still rain out there for that morning commute. So there could be a couple of issues on the roads plan accordingly. Travel could be a little disrupted by that rain. Now, there will be some snow falling mainly north, but that's going to be very brief and it doesn't look like we'll see much of an accumulation, but either way it's going to be damp out for the morning commute, the afternoon will be and colder. So make sure you have something waterproof for the morning, grab a rain jacket, don't wear the good shoes tomorrow, it's going to be very wet out, but later it up underneath because temperatures will be colder. S ra are still looking pretty messy across the area. And like I mentioned in terms of snow, there's not going to be very much but just parts of northern Litchfield County and as you go up in elevation, so this upcoming week as a whole is going to be a lot drier than what we're seeing right now. And those temperatures are in the forties.

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be Well: ‘Scandal’ star Bellamy Young opens up about her career, family health crisis

We all know our first guest from her breakout role as Mellie Grant on the hit show, the wonderful show scandal. She was not only the first lady but she became the president of that television series as well. But besides being an award winning actress and singer, she's now speaking about a life threatening disease that hits close to home. So we wanna welcome you, Bellamy Young. Thanks so much for being here with us. Thank you so much for having me here. Thank you for having this conversation. I really, I really appreciate it. That's so important. Yeah, I do wanna, I do wanna talk a little bit about um what, what you want people to know about. He uh well, first of all, we should talk about what he is. Our words are hepatic encephalopathy. They can be very intimidating as can the diagnosis but he is easier. And you know, when my family was suffering with this disease, it happened to my father. Uh no one knew lot and we didn't have a lot of resources. We didn't have any community. We didn't have much help from our doctor, but so much has changed and that's Why I'm here. Uh, 30 million people in America have liver disease. 5.5 million have a severe chronic form of liver disease. And those have a diagnosis of cirrhosis. Like my father did, up to 80% of those people might be affected with hepatic encephalopathy. So it's something that's so common, but I never ever hear anybody talking about and I just wanted to come a partner with sex and I'm grateful to you for helping me get the word out that. Now we know what it is and we know what the symptoms are. We know what to look for. We know how to talk to our doctors and people can have a much different experience than my family. And I, so can you talk to us about some of the symptoms that exist with he and maybe some of the things you saw in your father? Yes, of course. And I'll say, um we just had no way of knowing at the time he got a cirrhosis diagnosis, but we had no way of knowing that um something in his liver would affect his brain. It happens, the liver can no longer process the toxins. They build up in your bloodstream and they cause you to be cognitively uh to have cognitive changes, to have changes in your proprioception and your movement. Um, my dad's since we didn't know what we were looking for, it progressed very far. The toxins kept building. So the symptoms kept growing. Uh We didn't understand what the symptoms were until he couldn't find his way home from work one day and we got him to the doctor to say what's happening. But now the reason it's so good to talk to you now is because we know so much more and there's so many more resources. Uh I partnered with Salix and they have a beautiful website called Understanding he dot com and that people can learn they're all about. There's a symptom tracker. There are uh videos you can see people living with he, what it feels like what it, what they need, caregivers have. Uh You can see a checklist of how to take care of yourself as you take care of others interactive sheets about how to have conversations with your doctor just now. Nobody needs to feel confused or alone. And uh we were so um yeah, we were so at sea when my dad was going through this. But do you think there was like a stigma associated with it because you didn't want to share? Definitely. I think, I think it's so strange when we do attach stigma to a disease process, but particularly one, my father's cirrhosis diagnosis was from alcoholism. And so that sort of leads everybody to just shut the door a little tighter, you know, and just not talk about it and not get into it. But um information is power and the more we talk to each other again because now there are solutions. There is a path forward and no need for the stigma anymore. Oh, I was young. You still are young. It's getting ironic. Now is your dad still with us? He is going on. So I know it's one of those things that has touched you. Now, you can feel like you can empower other people so they're not losing their family as well. What is one of the things you hope people take away from your story? I hope that people feel like they have a community. I hope that they feel like there is knowledge out there to have. I hope that as especially if someone that they love has been diagnosed with severe chronic liver disease, they will inform themselves at understanding he dot com, which is wonderful free resource to know what to look for so that they can be an advocate so they can be a support and they know how to take care of themselves and to take care of the one that they love and what is it like to go out there and, and share this now? It must be hard to. Right. Yeah, I think, yeah, it still feels difficult like those were difficult times. I was also at my worst. So I didn't walk through it with the grace that I, you know, looking back would have wished to. And um, and I've spent a lot of time working through that, wanna save people that trouble too. You say, I don't wanna have anybody else go in therapy because they didn't walk through their father's passing. Well, but um, it's honestly an honor and a thrill because affect so many people, nobody's talking about it. And we have the opportunity to get the message out and now you feel like you're making a difference trying to Yeah, that's really not that. Well, we can't let you leave without talking about scandal. We gotta get into it because I was a fan. We were like, literally tweeting every time it came on, like my friends were on these chats and everything. So how did being this character Mellie change your life because it changed our lives? Yeah. No, that's a good question because Union Strong. Union Strong, I can't really talk about the show. Um, but how it changed my life. Um uh, it was, I am uh uh uh uh a bear a bear of self doubt like I am always second guessing myself and not the most. Um, um I just don't have the most confidence and so to pretend to be Mellie for like 17 hours a day, five days a week, like changed my atoms, you know, like my way or the highway, like all the time, put that wig on, be so uncomfortable and just be angry and like getting your like what you like 1000 yards there and getting what you want. That's fun that like act as if whole thing. Yes, that was, it was fun to see it from the other side. You say you don't have confidence but when you walked in just to say hi to us, you were just like, I mean, I like you were absolutely right away. I wanna hug you. I wanna be friends with you. I hug everybody. I just would leave the room and be like I did it all wrong. I did it all. You know, you have to get those tapes. I worked hard to get the the tapes. My head kinder, right? Isn't it? Isn't it terrible? Like the voice in our head is our biggest critic. We're our biggest ally. So we just have to do the work to get on that. But it's weird to me that I don't know if everybody's like this, but it's weird to me that innately many of us, our knee jerk is negative, right? Because I wanna cheer you on. Like my natural thing is when I'm like, yes, you've done this. Why don't I do that for myself? I empower you to do. So I will remind you now, do you still keep in touch with your castmates? He looks like you guys are all friends. Oh Yes, I was just Carrie wrote a book to read Carrie in the water. Um So I was just with her in Chicago doing that. We Shonda took a bunch of us to the US open. We, it's a family that's also, I don't feel terrible like mentioning it because it's, it's my, we're talking about my dearest friends. So yeah, we feel as much of each other as we can. It makes a big difference where you can work with people you like over here. I love, I love, but it is so great. And is it lovely being, you know, here in New York and going to Broadway and doing all the things? because that's your roots, right? That's my roots. It feels so good to be home. I'm grateful for L A. She gave me so much L A and I look at each other like we don't really understand each other, but we do respect each other and we try to be good to each other but to be in New York is to be home and yeah, I go see everything. You haven't seen African hair. Yes. My kids are going to see it with my wife. I'm so happy girl scouts troops. It is a great, great, great, great, great show. I saw that they were one of the leads on Instagram that you were there supporting this show and everything. So are there any hopes for you to get back on Broadway? I'll do it. I'm available. Hello? Yes. Put it out there. I like it. I like it. Yes, we know you will be amazing at that as well. So keep up the amazing work that you're doing. You guys too. Thank you for all you do. Thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it and my joy.

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