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FDNY members, families and supporters climbed 110 flights of stairs to honor the 343 FDNY members who lost their lives on 9/11. 

The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation held its annual National 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb for Fallen Firefighters Saturday in Flushing. FDNY members, families and supporters climbed 110 flights of stairs to honor the members killed on 9/11. 

HONORING THE FALLEN

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With storm watch team, neurologist Alex Calamia. Alex. Do you do the Spotify? Unwrapped or you? Apple music replay? I do have a Spotify. I did not realize that we were already at this point in the year. It comes up so quick and I mean, that's why it feels so cold. I know. I know it's true. The weather is reminding us that. Yes, winter time is around the corner. We are chilly all the way through tomorrow morning and we are dry all day. Thursday. So Thursday actually looks pretty decent in the afternoon because temperatures rebound. But the rest of today is cold, cold, cold Friday. We're talking about rain. It's cloudy for the first half of the day and then kind of sprinkles, light showers for the evening time. It's nothing really too significant but it could get you a little wet at times and same for the weekend. It's generally a cloudy weekend. And if you have plans Saturday or Sunday evening, there will be a little bit of rain in the mix too. We're stuck in the thirties though, for the rest of today. There's no novelty snow flakes like we saw yesterday. It's too dry for that today. Temperatures are, you know, pretty similar, but the wind is not as bad today. So that helps. But it does feel like basically 30 degrees all afternoon and it feels like twenties for your Thursday morning. So this is what you're waking up to as far as wind chill goes. I'll show you the temperatures in a second, but the wind chill is what you want to pay attention to tomorrow. Still a bit of a breeze. In the afternoon, we have lots of sunshine. Highs are in the mid, upper forties, but it feels like lower forties. So that's kind of important to keep in mind you'll need the heavy jacket this evening. And tonight, actual temperatures are close to freezing this morning. It was 27 in Central Park and that was the coldest we've been since February 25th. So it's an improvement tomorrow, but not much. And then on Friday, it's going to be similar temperatures, but we've got some rain to talk about. You see, in the morning it's dry on Friday, but in the afternoon we tracking a few showers, lunchtime, very light shower chance. And then the evening commute the second half of the evening commute, especially dinner time or so, we'll see a few passing showers or maybe even a downpour, but it's pretty brief. Saturday morning should be dry. Saturday afternoon, enough cloud cover to bring in a stray shower chance, but we're keeping an eye over a 10 day for now. Sunday, that rain risk is a little bit higher in the afternoon and evening temperatures are back in the forties and fifties.

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A lot like the holiday season. Hope this cold weather helping with that. And there's some Christmas trees around the city that are being lit right now. Yeah, we got the tree lighting happening this evening. So here's a look at your forecast. You know, temperatures are going to be cold in the low to mid thirties. We're going to see a few passing clouds out there, but you definitely need to layer up. This is where temperatures are going tomorrow morning. You're definitely going to still need that nice hot cup of coffee or a nice hot cup of tea just to keep you warm temperatures near 32 degrees. Still feeling like the twenties. And then by the afternoon we'll be reaching the upper forties just shy of 50 degrees, but we're going to see the sunshine all day long and the winds won't be as harsh. So that's some good news for our Thursday. Friday does feature some wet weather. Temperatures will be climbing into the low fifties, but you need to pack the umbrella during the day and even into the evening hours, Saturday, we do catch a break during the daytime and then some more wet weather to follow by Saturday night into Sunday. So the weekend won't be a washout. But your best bet to go outside will be on Saturday maybe to bring out some holiday decorations or maybe pick out your tree. But tomorrow morning still very cold. A few passing clouds. Temperatures near 32 look where temperatures are going. Tomorrow afternoon, highs in the upper forties, near 50 degrees in the Bronx sunshine all day long and the winds won't be as harsh. So it is actually gonna feel good to be outside Friday does start off dry, cool cloudy, but temperatures will be in the upper forties. Low fifties, wet weather to follow by the afternoon, lingering into the evening commute. It is going to be wet but just some nuisance showers today, it's not going to be an impactful system. Saturday again catching a break, not seeing a lot of sunshine. Temperatures will be in the low to mid f. So Saturday is actually looking like a good day to be outside. Sunday does start off dry before more wet weather pushes through Sunday night into early next week and temperatures will be chilly once again by Hanukkah. All right, hope. Thanks.

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Annual stair climbing event in Queens honors those lost on 9/11

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The National Fallen Firefighters Association hosted a memorial stair climb to honor the firefighters that lost their lives on 9 11. And in the years since our own, Lindsay Tanny was at the event and she tells us more on what today looked like. 110 flights of stairs climbed by hundreds of members of the FDNY family symbolizing the route taken by the firefighters who lost their lives on 9 11 just for the chance that others can live. My dad was Lieutenant Joe Levy and I him on September 11th. I was 10 and it's important for me to continue to honor his legacy. This annual event benefits the Fdny Counseling Service Unit that helps support the families of our fallen heroes. It is an unbelievable support group that we have here. I'm so happy to be proud to be a part of it. I made it my career after 33 years, officials spoke to memorialize those lives, lost. People got a chance to honor a loved one by saying their name and survivors remember that day, but does bring up a lot of different emotions of that day and you know, leaving your family and my kids were little at the time. You know, and I told my wife, well, I, you know, I gotta go but they have the support system to keep them going even though, you know, you feel the pain of the loss. You also think about all your, you know, paying forward and what those members would have wanted us to do today. And so it feels like we're, you know, climbing with their strength at our back. You can't say never forget enough. This has to live on forever. So all the brave men and women will never be forgotten. And event goers tell me that events like these really show how strong the FDNY family is and that they will never forget. That's the latest from Flushing Queens. I'm Lindsay Tanny News 12.

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