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Bushwick High School has reopened its pool for the first time in years and is offering students classes to learn how to swim and become a lifeguard. 

Students say swimming pools in the area are limited, so the new one at the school has become a safe haven for those looking to learn or master swimming as a sport. 

The school's first swim meet was held on Tuesday. 

Physical education teachers say the pool has paved the path for more students to become lifeguards. 

Students say swimming pools in the area are limited, so the new one at the school has become a safe haven for those looking to learn or master swimming as a sport.

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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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Bushwick High School offers swimming and lifeguard lessons at new pool

Welcome back here on news told Brooklyn one high school swimming pool has reopened after years of being closed and now more and more students have decided to jump right in and take the plunge. Students learning how to both competitively swim and even take lifeguard classes there. And news tells mary Lynn buckley, she joins us now from Bushwick High schools last swim meet of the season with more bet you didn't think you were gonna be standing by a pool in january mary Lynn Amanda. I used to do this when I was in high school, so this is just going down a trip of memory lane. But I did catch up with some of the Bushwick tigers, the swimmers here today. They say that they really did bring their a game today and right now we want to show you this pool that they're able to swim in and practice in this reopened for the first time in just years. So this is the first swim season that this team actually was able to compete competitively. And many of the swimmers that we caught up with, they say it's their first time actually swimming on a team. Many of them, they didn't grow up around the swimming pool, they didn't even know how to swim. So not only did they take advantage of swim gym here at the high school, but they decided to take it one step further get in the pool and learn how to swim competitively, but Swimming pools in this area were told by parents and staff are limited. So having this one open really did change the lives of so many students here. They've mastered the sport or some of them just learning to swim. But also lifeguard classes are taught here. We spoke with the coach that says he really has seen these students go from 0 to 100 and truly bring their a game. There were there were not swimmers and that's the beauty of it, that when they came in, they some of them were afraid of the water, some of them couldn't swim in deep water and you know, hard work and dedication. They, and some of those Bushwick tigers still enjoying their time in the pool there, just cooling down as this swim meet is wrapping up. But on top of swim gym being offered in this pool, competitive swimming, there's also lifeguard classes that are now being taught here. It's just paving the path to have even more students here became become lifeguards this summer. So just a great opportunity overall. And the students here tell me they really do enjoy having this pool reopened

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