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News 12's Ahsinet Scott Brown profiles Robert Rising who has built a booming business by recycling trees and slabs and turning them into beautiful pieces of furniture.            

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All right. There are less than 21 days until Christmas and a week to the first day of winter. I don't like, I don't like talking about that. I just go, don't worry, Kevin, we're gonna go ahead and make sure that we're gonna have any cold air coming our way as we move on in towards those first few days of winter coming on up because you can see that temperature trend for the month of December shows us trending on the warmer than average side. In which case, the average high throughout the month is around 39 to 47 degrees. So we'll be seeing sixties and seventies. No, but we'll be trending a little bit around 47. Are you a little bit warmer? Yeah, it's certainly possible. Especially heading up in tours this weekend. I'll show you those numbers in just a moment first. These numbers right here as we're continuing the countdown for the holiday season. We do have winter officially arriving December 21st in the evening hours, 17 days from now. Christmas arrives, of course, December 25th, 21 days from now. So you still have time to go ahead and continue some holiday shopping and New Year's Eve, of course, getting ready to ring in 2024 27 days from now. Now looking out and about, it's a quiet night out there past the Cuomo Bridge. We are watching those skies getting clearer as time goes on, temperatures cooling down to the upper thirties and then we'll watch more cloud cover head our way going in through the middle of the day, but no showers are coming out of those clouds. In fact, we'll continue to enjoy a dry stretch of weather. We certainly do need to have that kind of raw wet day on Sunday. Well, look at this. Our next chance of rain is coming up this coming Sunday where we're gonna be watching a large system moving towards the northeast, but Saturday is gonna be beautiful. It's my pick of the week. Probably cloudy guys, 53 degrees for a high running nearly 10 degrees above the average high of 44. So for your future cast, we go tomorrow afternoon, we have temperatures in the thirties and forties feeling a little bit cooler. And then by Wednesday morning, we see those temperatures in the twenties and thirties having a touch of a chill in the air. So each and every morning going forward, it's gonna feel a little bit colder and colder. Getting in towards Friday to Saturday. Here comes that system heading our way. A southerly breeze will help to boost those temperatures on Friday and Saturday. Then here comes the rain, Sunday morning, just rain coming on down, breezy winds. Then the system is out of here by Sunday night. So we should go in towards our Monday coming out of next week with drier, yet cooler air coming on down. So guys overall a very nice stretch of 10 days with one dreary day in sight.

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Black History Month: The Black Lumberjack works to get minorities involved with the lumber industry

As news 12 celebrates black history month. We are highlighting robert rising known as the black lumberjack. He turned his side hustle into a booming business by recycling trees and slabs and turning them into beautiful pieces of furniture. The craftsmanship is truly remarkable. News twelve's Austin nut scott Brown sat down with the black lumberjack to discuss the start of the business and his plans to help get more minorities to join the lumber industry. Black lumberjack was actually born in Mount vernon new york. Its first started as as a side hustle Because I worked at four things during the day, I would always have a tree on the trailer, then I stopped at the lights and then start yelling yo black lumberjack and when I first heard that I was like whoa, that's pretty cool and I'm thinking well maybe this could be something, we build furniture and we do that from the surrounding areas. It came out as beans, we take, we de nailed it, we nailed it, we cleaned it, we put it through the process and then we delivered to the home and they're now using it as floors, we do restaurants, um we do private homes, this is Red oak, this is gonna be for a bar in Brooklyn, this is cherry maple, if you go from the forest to pulling that tree out of the forest to loading that tree onto a truck, that number is purchased and then sent to shops various places wherever to do whatever none of those people are black, so you have an entire industry that's absent of black people and this crane is when we turn something big, it sits in on the latest so we can turn it. My biggest challenge is getting more african american support. We're here in Yonkers in a predominantly African american neighborhood and I try to sometimes hire locals to try and teach, give them a trade and help them learn a skill. We offer internships where they can come in and work, we offer tours and we're working now on on mentorship in the city. It's expensive to train people, but that's what needs to happen for more people to get involved in it, so they have to see it, it has to be tangible. Um, it has to be talked about and opportunities have to be given.

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