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Wednesday marked National Signing Day throughout the country when high school athletes announce their college intentions.

News 12’s Pat O’Keefe was at Fordham Prep as it sends nearly two dozen athletes to the next level.

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Into news. 12 New York for your weather too because we're gonna have a lot of updates coming up over the next couple of days as we are on storm watch, heading towards the weekend, rain is gonna be an issue. Let's check in with storm watch teams. Hoo sei right now to find out how much of an issue it's gonna be. Yeah, Kurt, you know, we're dealing with the rain and we're also dealing with the high wind. So here's the top stories through the weekend. So we're dealing with a nice warm up. That's something that you can enjoy. In the meantime, Friday and Saturday, Gusty storms are to follow on our Sunday and then falling temperatures by Monday. So let's get into the next couple of days high as tomorrow near 48 degrees, 55 on, on Saturday and then 61 on Sunday. But look where those temperatures crash mid to upper forties on our Monday and even cooler by the midweek. But again, we're talking about the rain. That's why we are on storm watch. Again. We're tracking some steady rainfall arriving Sunday afternoon and even taking us into Monday morning. So let's time it out on your future Cast Sunday, it is gonna start off dry. Then we see those temperatures climbing into the upper fifties. Low sixties, some light rain start then a random and, and then it starts to pick up in intensity by the evening hours. So this is around midnight. You're seeing temperatures still near 60 degrees and you're seeing the darker shades of green and yellow, good indicated for some soaking rain And even the high winds will start picking up in intensity through this time frame. But look how quickly those temperatures crash from the sixties to the mid forties by Monday morning. Even though that the rain is pushing out of here, we're still gonna be dealing with some standing water and some gusty winds. So your Monday morning commute will still be impacted Monday afternoon. It is drier temperatures in the mid to upper forties, even cooler by Monday evening. But again, back to those high winds, 40 to 50 MPH really going to be any concern as well as the rain. We're talking about 1 to 2.5 inches of rainfall. It's all good and I don't mean Rainbow.

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Fordham Prep athletes make commitments official on National Signing Day

Well, Wednesday marked national signing day throughout the country when high school athletes announced their college intentions. It's a big day for all of them and news 12 sports director Pat O'Keefe has more from one city school that is sending nearly two dozen athletes to the next level. A dream for so many high school athletes is to continue their careers in college. But for many it remains a dream because it's hard a special national signing day at Fordham prep as 19 seniors representing seven different sports make their commitments official from baseball to football, swimming to soccer. Seven of these student athletes are heading to division one schools including Dartmouth Georgetown, Iona and Ohio State, Henry Amar recent news 12 the Bronx scholar athlete will be swimming for the buckeyes. Five members of the baseball team will play at the next level and three from football led by shortstop Melfi Lopez who will play D one for Stetson university and wide receiver keegan duty who is going to prestigious M. I. T. Ever since I was young, baseball has been around for so much for so long. It's just always been a big part of my life, something I've always wanted to do. It feels great. You know, all that I've worked for since the summer. Um just a really long season of football um after my guys every day and it was definitely paid off the legend of Williamsburg's Jose Alvarado continues to grow. The new Orleans. Pelicans guard has gone from being undrafted to being a part of NBA All star weekend. The Brooklyn native out of christ the king high School and then Georgia Tech was selected to play in the Jordan's rising stars, consisting of rookies, second year players and players from the G league. Alvarado was one of 12th year players chosen. He is averaging 9.5 points and 1.2 steals per game among all rookies and second year players in the NBA. He ranks second in steals per game and 12th in assists. NBA All Star Weekend begins friday february 17th in Salt Lake City. I'm Pat O'keefe News 12.

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