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News 12's Pat O'Keefe spoke with former NFL player and New York City native Chris Manhertz about his experience helping the youth learn valuable football skills. 

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And storm watch team. Meteorologist, Alex Calamia, Alex. If folks are going out and about today for any of those winter activities, it looks like the rain is going to stop at some point. Right. Yeah. You know, I mean, but it might not be until after the day ends in a sense because sun sets before 430 now and I don't really see us getting a big break from the rain until the evening time. This is what it looks like. Right now in midtown, it's a light rain. You might actually be able to head outside without even using the umbrella. I personally have a rain jacket because I think that's kind of your best bet. This evening, we still have some sprinkles, but we are dry for a work week. I mean, I don't want to talk about the work week on a Sunday morning, but if you're looking for something positive, I've got that for you in the 10 day. Here's 9 a.m. soaker, here's lunch time, still dealing with at least light showers. You see the green is a lighter shade here so it's not as widespread. It's not as heavy of a rain. But we still have some rain at four o'clock again. It's not absolutely pouring, but it's light mist, gloomy, kind of just, you know, not good weather, but it's not going to be anything really significant as far as rainfall totals. They're very limited. So we're maybe looking at half of an inch of rain when it's all said and done. Monday morning. Lots of sunshine. Beautiful start to the day and then the clouds push in Monday afternoon and we'll have cooler temperatures. By Tuesday. We're in the upper forties now. We're in the low fifties for highs today. Not a big jump in temperature. East breeze coming in. It feels really chilly tonight. Not bad. We're in the forties again. We do have sunshine by Monday morning. So a good feel as you're getting, the kids ready for school are heading out to work. We do hit mid ff on Monday and again, no rain after today for the whole work week. So that's something to be happy about, but it will get cold Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday too, by the way, will feel like it is in the thirties.

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Former NFL player returns to alma mater to teach football skills to next generation

Welcome back, a homecoming for NFL veteran Chris Man Herz, going back to his New York City roots hosting a football clinic for dozens of local players and news. 12 sports director Pat o'keefe has more. Chris Mantz once walked in these kids' shoes. He once played in this gym. Now his jersey hangs on the wall. I have a son. Now him seeing my jersey up there or my name on the It's a blessing. It's a full circle moment. And that brought Manz now a Denver Broncos tight end back to Cardinal spell high school to teach football skills to the next generation of players from his neighborhood. It's just about the kids and giving back and giving them an opportunity just to learn and have fun and show these kids that man who is about to begin his ninth NFL season grew up where they live. Now, it inspires me because I want to be great. I want to be great like him. I don't want to like, you know, I want to be successful. I want to have a successful career. I want to be a man says he relishes the opportunity to come back to his old school and work with these kids. And he also says that he wishes he had the chance to meet a professional athlete when he was their age. And among the many things he is looking to teach them during this clinic is to have fun. The sport that he gets to play every day. I think mindset is important, having a good deal of discipline while you're young and instilling that early is only going to help them for the future. As athletes, even the current Spellman athletes getting an up close. Look at what is possible. It's inspiring for people to know that this is where somebody like Chris man came from and that he still has family here and roots here where he can come back and do this and look at all the kids in the back. Him coming back means so much to all the potential student athletes here because it shows that the dream is possible, a dream that this basketball turned football star continues to live every day at Cardinal Spellman Pat o'keefe News.

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