westchester

“True Love” follows some remarkable people living with a rare genetic disorder.

“The Brady Bunch” star Christopher Knight joined the be Well team about his new documentary. “True Love” follows some remarkable people living with a rare genetic disorder.

NEW DOC

Long Island

LI | Weather

LIFORECAST

I'm meteorologist Rich Hoffman, hyperlocal weather forecast. We've had some chilly weather conditions. The last 24 hours we had some snow yesterday. So the cold weather still out there with a high of 39 degrees, kind of mostly sunny to a mixture of sun and clouds. And then tomorrow mostly sunny some afternoon clouds, a high of 48 degrees and we're looking at some fifties heading towards the weekend. So a little bit of that warmer weather coming our way after the deep chill the last 24 hours, you can see feels like temperatures have been in the twenties out there for this afternoon. So cold weather running errands leaving work bundle up. You have the cold numbers, the rest that say feels like temperatures in the twenties. The evening rush hour will be dry with a temperature around 34 degrees in corm 31 at 8 p.m. and down into the twenties when you wake up tomorrow morning. So we have one more morning of the cold weather, wind chills around 20 degrees and you can tomorrow afternoon in Riverhead at one o'clock, it's around 47 degrees sunshine, dry conditions, so some nice weather with that warm up coming away on Thursday before we start to see some wet weather for Friday, a few clouds around four this afternoon, that mixture of sun and clouds, it's breezy and it's cold and you can see now we're dry today. Tomorrow, we're looking at some nice weather. Thursday afternoon, temperatures will be in the mid forties. Some clouds come in Thursday night. And then by Friday morning, we're starting to see more clouds developing not as cold Friday morning. And then for your Friday afternoon, highs will be in the fifties tracking some wet weather. Now, Friday evening, some showers coming in and they're gone rather quickly. It's about a four hour window of some wet weather highs today are in the thirties. It's sun and clouds, it's cold twenties. Four tonight. Fifties. By the time we get towards Friday now, wet weather, more rain, Sunday into Monday.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/e8e0cc77-8af2-4333-8733-2e2541359365/e8e0cc77-8af2-4333-8733-2e2541359365.transcribe

Weather

New Jersey

NJ Weather Stories

Weather stories

NJ | Weather

NJFORECAST

That you're out on the roads. Yes. It's just a little like, you know, quick. Oh, there it is. And a quick chuckle. Right. Um, that's exactly what we're dealing with today. It's like a quick little cold plunge and tomorrow. Really? We're back to more seasonable types. So we have to contend with these colder temperatures just a little while longer. We do get to stop freezing later on today. So eight o'clock, you'll notice temperatures really taking a deep dive, but it doesn't last for too long. Tomorrow, we wake up with fields a little bit more manageable into the twenties. And by Friday and Saturday we're back into swing with the forties and fifties as ultimate high temperatures. Now, what's gonna influence? Of course, a warmth are the winds, the winds will also tack back down heading into the afternoon today and not be as gusty. Now, they will be coming back tomorrow Thursday, but notice a direction here out of the south and southwest that also adds into a little bit more of that warmth and milder feel. Overall, we are tracking some wet weather returning once again, kind of all day, really nuisance rain. We're not looking at significant rain totals for Friday, but of course, you're gonna have to keep your umbrella handy today. It's sunny and still frigid. I know many of us are noticing that layers is really the best way to go and protect ourselves from the cold, cold temperatures into the thirties. Right around five o'clock, the clouds will fall, then they will decrease clearing up for our night sky tonight. Then we'll notice some more clouds just passing on through for Friday. Now, Friday morning, we wake up into the thirties right around lunchtime. We'll notice overcast skies and northern portions getting the showers first. A little bit of a break right between two and four o'clock and then more widespread showers. Belmar to Jackson, expecting a little bit more moderate rainfall clears out nicely by nine o'clock. All in all. We're trending a bit more. We wet, heading into December 9th.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/6c70d91b-b8da-4c62-9ecc-543bf0cad79e/6c70d91b-b8da-4c62-9ecc-543bf0cad79e.transcribe

Brooklyn

BK | Weather

BKFORECAST

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.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/c5a1a01d-c756-4e2c-992f-4d398866362b/c5a1a01d-c756-4e2c-992f-4d398866362b.transcribe

Westchester

WC | Weather

HVFORECAST

So, hello everyone. I'm Meteorologist Addison Green. And it's time for your latest news. 12 plus plus hyperlocal forecast for the Hudson Valley. Unfortunately, we're still dealing with some colder than the average conditions out there. So you will need that thick layer on later on tonight. And throughout the overnight hours, whether it's a thick hoodie, a jacket dress, a hat, a scarf, which is something to keep the warmth on your body for you day on Thursday, we are getting a little bit better in terms of the temperatures of rising a little bit and then from Friday to Saturday, those temperatures are trending mild, but unfortunately, the rain chances are moving upward. So moving on in across the area, unlike how it was yesterday, we do not have snow showers coming on down, just some partly cloudy skies and a wind maybe about 5 to 15 MPH coming on down. Unfortunately, out of an area that's drawing in more cold Canadian air down this way, but we do see that shade of blue and purple fading away the further south and west you go where milder air is to be found and that's gonna be moving up towards the northeast as we go forward into Thursday, Friday and Saturday. So it's those morning temperatures that we really do feel like chill in the air. So tomorrow morning, 27 degrees feeling more like 20 we can see by Friday and Saturday morning, those temperatures are looking and feeling a little bit better across the region. So three year temperature forecast, we go Poughkeepsie later on this evening, it's 30 degrees feeling about 23 Yonkers, 31 feeling about 24. Then by Thursday morning, we can see those temperatures in towards the upper tw for those air temperatures feeling maybe in the low to mid twenties. But then by the afternoon hours, it is certainly much better all across the board. Rain chances will be moving upward heading in through your day on Friday, mainly Friday afternoon in towards the evening hours. The rain will wrap on up Friday night into very early Saturday morning. But then those system comes on in late Saturday night in for the day on Sunday. So we have one dray day on Saturday and a few rainy days we have to deal with along the way.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/3886a0f1-47b0-40e8-b438-f9b3177ee8ab/3886a0f1-47b0-40e8-b438-f9b3177ee8ab.transcribe

Hudson Valley

HV | Weather

Bronx

BX | Weather

BXFORECAST

Another check of the weather. Now with storm watch team, meteorologist, Alex Kalama. Now, Alex yesterday, people even saw some flurries earlier in the day. Are we expecting that or no, no, no flurries today? But officially Central Park did consider it a trace because you saw the flurries, even though it didn't stick, that counted as a trace of snow. But today it's just plain old cold tomorrow morning, pretty chilly too. But tomorrow afternoon, we actually rebound nicely. But then we have to watch plain old rain on Friday the afternoon and the evening you'll need the umbrella. Temperatures are back close to 50 at that point. So it's definitely not going to be anything other than rain. But hey, you know, it's something you'll want to keep in mind the weekend isn't perfect. It's cloudy, but we have a chance for some sprinkles in between those clouds as well. Overall temperatures are going to be milder for the weekend than where we've been. Let's talk today though because we're still on our Wednesday and temperatures are just about as cold as they were yesterday. But the wind is not as bad. We're expecting temperatures to slowly drop into the mid thirties for any late evening plans. It will feel like closer to freezing at that point. In fact, let's talk about the, feels like temperatures because tomorrow morning we're close to 30 on the thermometer, but it does feel like mid twenties. So again, you need the winter jacket, especially early in the day, but maybe just like a light jacket in the afternoon, it's not warm, but it feels like forties and temperatures will be a little bit closer to the 50 degree mark. So tonight, again, dropping near freezing but feels like twenties everywhere. Tomorrow, close to 50 a few spots might hit 50 but I'm expecting most of the afternoon to kind of just be around the mid forties. It's also very sunny too. Today, tomorrow, the air is dry. We really don't have any worries about rain until Friday, probably late afternoon or so. We're starting to see it push through the Bronx around noon time, Friday, just light light showers. The bulk of the rain doesn't come until the later half of the evening. Commute on Friday. This is 5 p.m. and then it's added here by Saturday morning. But you do see it is mainly cloudy on Saturday. So expect those clouds to be pretty widespread Saturday and Sunday. But the rain risk is low, maybe Saturday evening, maybe Sunday night. You see a few showers. Temperatures are not nearly as cold after we get through today though. You see we're back in the forties and fifties, which is about right for this time of the year. All right, Alex.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/0d235921-637e-4241-902b-0c346b010c46/0d235921-637e-4241-902b-0c346b010c46.transcribe

Connecticut

CT | Weather

weathernoon1129_2023-11-29-12-24-17

All right. Let's take a look outside through our community camera in Norwalk Storm Watch team. Meteorologist, Jonathan Cubit. He joins us. Now he's at Orchard Hills Elementary in Milford. Hey, Becky and the kids, they got another reminder for us. They tell us not to forget our. That's right. The coldest weather we've seen so far this season, we've gotten through the worst of it earlier on this morning. But as we progress getting into tonight, one more cold shot, now, temperatures do rebound as we head into your tomorrow as well as your Friday. Unfortunately, we have to wash for showers as we push forward into your Friday night. But after we get through today into your tomorrow again, better weather temperatures starting off in the thirties. We're not going to deal with that biting and chill for your tomorrow morning while you still want to bundle up. We do better heading into your afternoon that high pressures are gonna take over, remain in control. So we're gonna continue with this dry quiet weather. You're just gonna need to grab the coat. So I know it's feeling a little bit more like midwinter for today, but we're back to more seasonal numbers even heading into your Friday. Now, first half of your Friday looks good. We're staying dry. We're actually stepping out the door into some 40 degree weather kind of where we should be for this time of year. But as we head into your afternoon, right around that lunch period, clouds start to fill in and then we're watching for some showers. We'll catch a little bit of a break for that commute home around 45 o'clock for your Friday afternoon. Getting into your Friday evening before we see another round of your showers late Friday evening into your Friday night. So, yeah, maybe date night, maybe dinner night, maybe heading out to the movies. You're definitely gonna wanna grab the umbrella or something with the hood that what weather moves in that week front is gonna produce some showers into your late Friday night before we dry out. Nicely. Heading into the weekend. First half looks good for your Saturday. Still working with some 50 degree weather. I like Saturday a little more than Sunday because it looks like we could see a few more showers in the mix to wrap up the week and looks like an unsettled pattern heading into the first half of next week.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/7ebae9c3-25a8-43ec-ae12-cc588246d0a0/7ebae9c3-25a8-43ec-ae12-cc588246d0a0.transcribe

LIchrisknight925_2023-09-25-10-00-41

be Well: ‘The Brady Bunch’ star Christopher Knight tells us about the power of kindness

Know, our first guest as Peter Brady, that pork chops and apple sauce probably didn't do it justice. But yeah, he's that loving sibling of the Brady Bunch. I love how you're trying to be Audrey Bogart and Peter Brady. Right? He's now taking his talents behind the scenes, producing his new documentary, True Love, which follows some remarkable people living with a rare genetic disorder. Take a look. I like love. Love. Williams syndrome has changed our life. Honestly, we're grateful for her. If the whole world could be or see through their eyes, it would be such a glorious place to be. Love is the most powerful law longing. I want people to realize that love conquers all. If everyone had Williams syndrome in the world, there would be no need for armies or anything because everybody would love one another. I wish the world could see each other the way Callie sees everybody. It's not what's wrong with them. It's what's wrong with us. Well, I am obsessed with true love. I love where it's coming from. I love love. So we would definitely wanna talk more about that. But before we do, we have to talk about your legacy on television, one of the most popular television shows ever, do people still come up to you and call you Peter uh today, twice in succession, uh getting into an elevator in the elevator and then, uh right here, right here in downtown, uh uh you know, you're just so used to it at this point like you just have had some years to get. Yeah, I mean, I'm part of, I feel like I'm an extended part of everyone else's family. You know, as everyone else is sort of an honorary member of the Brady family and they grew up with you, they feel like you're part of the family. But do you ever get tired of being associated with it because it's like I've done other things with my life people. What were you? Nine years old? I was 10 when we did the 11 when we did the first season. But good point. I mean, I did, that was a time when I was a younger man that I thought I would get away from it. And then it, I had an epiphany. It was like, maybe, maybe I won't. And, and what's that gonna be like trying to like run from something that's a part of you. And then why am I running from it? Because all it really does is engender this kind of uh camaraderie, love brotherhood, whatever. Um And that ain't bad. And so instead of running from it, honor it and accept it, embrace it. Um, because it's bringing a smile to people's face and, and that's, uh, you know, all the more important today. And what about the renovation of the home? What was that like? Oh, wow, that's like a, you know, an unexpected 50 anniversary gift to us where we get to, you know, re animate a member of the family that really didn't exist, you know, so we got to actually create something real that was mostly just imagined, you know, there was a set but it was, you know, you open the front door, there wasn't AAA street, that was where you hung out with Alice. And now there is. And so, and what we've taken is the place that for years, Americans would drive by thinking of as the Brady Home, which to us was just a photograph of a house somewhere and turned it into the Brady home that we remember. And it was in the news recently, big news. It just sold for $3.2 million. How did that feel? And did you go visit it yet or talk to people who bought it? Not, not why I visited it, but not since it was sold. I just wanted to do at least one night airbnb. So we can go sit there, you know, they can't turn it. That's the problem. It should be like really a museum, but you can't make it a museum in the middle of a residence. Yeah. Now what is it like during the, the podcast with Barry? Well, that's been, that was uh uh an out growth of having done HGT V's program because we realize that we're not in sync with our audience. Our audience is they know the show, you know, inside and out and um thinking even to the point that we lived in that house. Um So we thought we, we should watch the show doing a podcast, reviewing the episodes. Could be a hoot watching two post 60 year olds trying to remember their childhood. It comes with the territory that we have faulty memories. Um, and, or have, uh, memories that, um, we're getting back in touch with that. We haven't reviewed stuff, uh, for so many years that we certainly haven't watched the show. And I, I think the last podcast we did. Barry said, I don't think I ever watched this show. So we're, we're seeing a new, a new show and the show is becoming new to us because our new, um, uh, views of it, you know. Well, one of the things I hope you make part of the Brady Brose show is that Barry is gonna be on dancing with the stars. So, how do you think he'll, do you think he'll get the mirror ball? You know, look at, there'll be no one who tries harder. This is, I mean, Barry is a song and dance guy, you know, he, he puts all of his energy and interest um in performing, you know, so he can move, you know. And, uh uh but II, I don't know how much of the show is re, is relative to your real ability to dance and how much it is a popularity contest. And he's sort of um not in the, the, the, you know, the center of all that social media storm, but maybe we're all going to fall in love with him again and maybe he'll end up in the middle of it. Now, let's give it a go. I do want to talk about, about true love and this, this journey, this documentary for everybody at home. Just explain really what you've learned in doing this. Well, true Love is the first production for Prodigy media production uh company that myself and a friend, Phil Viard and my partner put together in uh 2019 right before the pandemic. Uh And this was our initial production. It was a, a labor love from the heart. Uh Phil was aware of Callie True Love, the star of our film. And um this, this wonderful gregarious uh uh disarming charming young lady who literally changed um people as she sat with them. You know, she just has this, this warmth and this ability to connect that um was undeniable and wanting to at least pursue as our first project, something that was potentially feel good. Um And then realizing her name is true love and that's what she does to people around her. She sort of like it's a loving kind of embrace she gives you that we should pursue her and learn more about it. We knew that she had Williams syndrome, but that meant very little to us. Neither of us knew about Williams syndrome. Uh We thought that was us. Can you explain what it is for those that are familiar William syndrome is a genetic disorder. Uh There are a number of missing genes from chromosome seven. Um So, depending on how many of those genes are missing, there's different expressions of uh of those with Williams syndrome, but it can be misdiagnosed as some other, you know, uh you know, disorder and uh apparently has been, I mean, since we started the movie and that was only five years ago. Uh the incidence rate of Williams has gone from 10,000, uh uh 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 7500 because more people have developed Williams syndrome, you're born with that, they're aware of it and they're getting tested for it. And so we're only hoping that through the movie with more awareness that more people actually are tested properly for Williams syndrome. But one of the expectations of Williams syndrome that we would learn in the course of doing the movie and, and telling the story of true love as she met others with Williams was that almost all with Williams will have this, this love gene, the super, the superpower of creating um goodwill and uh friendship and, and bonding in their environment and they can't help but to, and that was important to see. So the movie ended up being the uplifting story, but with the message as well. And that is that our, if our lives aren't as um positive as we'd like them to be, um we can do something about it. Matter of fact, we are probably the reason that it isn't the positive life that we want it to be because we're focusing on the wrong things. Here are people that can't avoid but to feel uh comfortable with people that are different than themselves and, and love those lovely learning about this and talking to you. Thank you so much for your time and for, for really, you know, shining a light on this so that more people can know about it. It's how can we see it? Uh It's out in streaming right now. So your favorite uh VOD platform. So Apple Amazon Google, plus you can go to True Love the film dot com and see the entire list of uh video on demand platforms that you can watch it from Christopher Knight. Thank you so much for being here.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/277ea6ee-6108-46ec-9a35-f7e29ce5232e/277ea6ee-6108-46ec-9a35-f7e29ce5232e.transcribe