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News 12's Pat O'Keefe spoke with a group of Bronx kids who are bringing a previously unfamiliar sport into the spotlight for some New Yorkers. 

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Well, we are on storm watch this evening as we make our way towards the weekend storm watch team HOA joining us right now here in studio and hope earlier this week, very chilly temperatures. We all have to deal with that. Now it's warming up, but we're going to have some rain that's going to come with it. Yeah, we're dealing with some rain and don't forget, we also saw some festive flakes that we saw some. But here's what you need to know for this weekend. It is going to be a 5050 weekend. Sunday will be a day that we need to watch. We're talking about showers and storms moving into our area starting Sunday morning and lasting into Monday morning commute. So the worst of the storm will start pushing into our area after 10 p.m. on Sunday and even lingering through the overnight. Some potential impacts flooding and wind damage, especially with winds that can gust up to 40 to 50 MPH. Even isolate gusts of 60 isn't out of the question. So let's time it out on your future cast again today. A beautiful day tomorrow. Do it again. It is gonna be a chilly start temperatures in the mid to upper forties and we will see the sunshine throughout the day and temperatures will be milder in the mid ff. So if you have anything to do, maybe holiday shopping tomorrow will be your best bet. Sunday does start off with some clouds and even some on and off showers throughout the morning. It looks the brunt of the system will start pushing into our area by Sunday evening. But Sunday afternoon, still dealing with that steady rain and look at those temperatures, upper fifties, low sixties. So can't even really go outside to enjoy the milder temperatures because we're dealing with this. Just the rain and the pockets of heavier downpours that can move through our area overnight and into Monday morning. So even though that the showers are coming to an end by morning, we're still going to be dealing with some of its impacts in terms of standing water, especially for those areas that have poor drainage. This is around 830 Monday morning. The showers are coming to an end, but look at those temperatures from sixties to forties in just a matter of hours and it is going to remain chilly throughout next week. Now, we're also seeing 2 to 3 inches of rainfall with the highest gusts pushing into our area by sun.

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Lacrosse becomes second nature for some Bronx kids

Perfectly like that. A lot of fun and a great cause and so great to see so much excitement in the crowd too. Very nice to see. Well, a local lacrosse program is teaching the sport as well as important life lessons to dozens of young athletes and sports director, Pat o'keefe has the story. It's a sport that is not familiar to everyone. But for these dozens of kids from the South Bronx lacrosse has become second nature ever since the first day I fell in love with the sport. 12 year old Rabil Mohammed's passion is not uncommon among participants in the Bronx lacrosse program. It's different than any other sport in the Bronx and I feel like it can take me a lot of places and I can also use it as an outlet to progress in the future in Jalen Rodriguez's case. The program helped bring her to Cardinal Spellman High School where she will be a sophomore on the lacrosse team. It is thanks to the efforts of Dan Leventhal, a former college lacrosse player and former teacher who wanted to introduce a new sport to his students in the South Bronx. Lacrosse is an unheard of sport in the community, which is why we're here. We're trying to grow the sport and promote it as another opportunity for kids to be a part of something different, untraditional and it can provide a pathway for kids to college and beyond. In addition to teaching the sport, the program which is completely subsidized, puts a heavy emphasis on academic enrichment and classroom learning. The Bronx lacrosse program started five years ago teaching the sport to 30 kids. That number is now up to 240 with dozens of them playing in high school and several more playing in college and almost all of them would never have been introduced to the sport. If it wasn't for Bronx lacrosse, the game of lacrosse needs more diversity in it. And when you pull kids from different places, whether it could be upstate inner city, New York City, Syracuse, they all have their different way of talking, they all have their own personalities. What are your goals going forward in the sport of lacrosse? Just to keep on benefiting the program, you know, having new people join the sport. You know, just like me have new people fall in love with the sport at Cardinal Hayes high school. Pat o'keefe News. 12.

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