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In light of the growing tensions in Eastern Europe, the Ukrainian community in Yonkers gathered at St. Michael's Sunday for a special prayer service.

News 12's Erika Rydell spoke with families who have loved ones in Ukraine.

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Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano released a statement about the growing tensions: 

"Sundays are synonymous with a day of prayer, and today I am thinking of our friends in Ukraine. As tensions rise from the Russia-Ukraine crisis, the City of Yonkers stands firmly with our incredible Ukrainian community here in our city and across the world."

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Got to love the sound of that. How fun. All right, as we wake up this morning, we are looking ahead to the weekend. Good morning, Matt. Yeah. And we are tracking a potentially significant rain and wind threat, Lisa. So I just want to bring everyone the latest information on that as we see it this morning. And this is a featurecast starting off Sunday morning, which is, it'll be a dry start on Sunday. It's really rain showers breaking out during the afternoon with temperatures actually surging into the middle and upper fifties throughout the day. On Sunday will hit a high near 60 late in the day. Now, the worst of the rain and winds will be towards the evening. So after around eight or nine o'clock Sunday night, we have moderate to heavy rain developing. And then during the overnight hours, this will begin to push out of the lower Hudson Valley to where by around say 56 o'clock Monday morning, most of this is gone. Still a little bit windy on the backside of this storm though. And I do expect it to be all rain here across the Hudson Valley, but we could be looking at some gusts over 40 MPH. A lot of times the computer models, especially several days out with a storm like this, they overdo the wind gusts. So I don't think we'll see frequent 50 mile an hour gusts here, but definitely in the 3040 mile per hour range. And that's a problem for all the holiday decorations too. So, you got to think about that a few days out before we get to those stronger winds developing throughout the day. On Sunday. Back to our Thursday. Today, it's a cold ST to the day with temperatures feeling like mostly the twenties, but even at times like the upper teens, 16 is what it feels like in Newburgh right now. 22 in Poughkeepsie. And that's with just a light breeze at around 5 to 10 MPH Doppler radar right now is dry locally, but there are some snow showers off to the west of us and a few of these will survive as at least a few flurries as we go throughout the day. A similar day to yesterday. We, we're a lot of the days dry and mostly cloudy, but a few scattered flurries will be around. It could even be a light steady or snow shower, which can lead to a quick coating in a few spots. But that's a very isolated issue just like yesterday. So, overall smile worthy weather today, most of the day is ok. A few festive snow flurries around temperatures in the upper thirties tonight. Back down into the upper twenties to near 30 under partly cloudy skies. Here's the 10 day nicer tomorrow into the weekend. Saturday. Still the pick of the week before that rain and wind moves in Sunday into early Monday. The rest of next week dry with highs in the forties.

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Ukrainian community holds special prayer service amid rising tensions

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the Ukrainian community gathers in Yonkers new york and News twelve's Erica riddle, is there The heavenly 100 that those men and women that eight years ago in the space of a couple of days during the peaceful protests were shot by government forces. We see that was the beginning of occupation of Ukrainian territory. Since then, 14,000 people, innocent people or the army personnel was killed by the Russians. There's a reason why they call Ukraine the bloodlines, millions have died on that plot of land trying because it's the right between the east and west is very important for the Children to remember. And right now the younger people who born there, they're ready to go and fight up to the last men. It's a constant event. It's not like we just forgot about it eight years ago. It's every day. What is the linkage between I think it's Ukrainian character, it's the most simple way to describe. It's Ukrainian character showed how brave people need to stay even throughout these hard times and to support Ukraine. Ukraine is ready to pay further tall for their independence. Independence is very strong and it symbolizes a country I feel like that they should fight for that. I just wore in the eyes of the church, let's say in the eyes of God is when you're defending yourself and your home and your country and your lives from and unjust aggressors. They're putting blame on somebody else, which is not fair. But the West should remember this and don't wait any longer for this section now, the mayor of Yonkers says the city stands with its Ukrainian.

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