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News 12 Photojournalist Gerald Nugent captured how Westchester's largest city celebrated its impact on the music genre.

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Well, winter right around the corner. And will we be seeing any bitter cold temperatures in the Hudson Valley? That is the question for Addison Kevin. I happen to have the answer one more day. Then we're gonna get a little bit better out there. But will we be staying that way for long? You know, that's a different story. But let's break it down for you over the course of the next few mornings where after we go past tomorrow morning, Thursday morning, where temperatures will be feeling the ops by Friday morning, it'll be feeling, feeling better, I should say. And Saturday, we're certainly not feeling that chill in the air as milder air is moving this way. In fact, Saturday is going to be the brighter of the two weekend days ahead. It's a 5050 split. Saturday is a gem Sunday, a little stormy but overnight and then towards your Thursday, we still keep that cold air around. You may see a flurry of two come on in including going around the sunset time frame. As Hanukkah begins, we'll be dealing with temperatures around 37 degrees, feeling around the low thirties and then moving on into the evening hours. Any little bit of flurry activity that was around earlier is gone. Now, the pick of the week it's Saturday, 55 degrees. Temperatures running 10 degrees plus above average, it'll be a nice, mild feeling in the air for southerly flow coming up this way. But we'll watch a system move in towards our region for Sunday continuously. Bringing up that southerly flow, push and more moisture up. This way, the winds will start to increase and we'll get batches of rain coming on in through Sunday afternoon through the evening hours, wrapping up by early Monday morning. So any of those holiday lights that are around your household, maybe some loose trees as well. They may be impacted by some of those gusty winds. Potentially. On the way for your Thursday morning, we're waking up in Newb with a temperature of fuel in around 21 degrees out towards White Plains of 24. There are a few passing snow showers trying to come on down this way, but they'll dry out, fizzle out as the air is moving on down from the northwest to a southeast. Skies are coming out nicely for Friday morning. We'll just see a mix of sun and clouds going out through the day on Friday before this system starts to inch closer towards the east coast. By Saturday. It's pushing into the Ohio River Valley down towards the Deep South. It's heading up towards our vicinity for your day on Sunday. But notice before noon it's just on our doorstep. So the first half of your Sunday looking pretty good. Second half, not so much. That's why we got the red box right there and we'll watch this system be leaving our area early Monday morning with some breezy winds to follow.

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Yonkers celebrates its impact on hip-hop on music genre's 50th anniversary

Today marks hip hop's 50th anniversary. We're showing you how artists in Westchester's largest city impacted both the genre and their community as well. News 12 photojournalist Gerald Nugent shares their story. Yeah. People used to think like they hear the word Yonkers and they think it's cows and farms. We wasn't getting respect. They all laughed and thought we was from the country that gave us some chip on our shoulders to make sure we made it because we wanted to make sure Yonkers was on the map. Yonkers was at one point most poverty riven city of any city in the whole state other than the South Bronx. But when Mary came out, that was like then when the locks came out, that was like then when X came out that was like this, our style is gritty, hard up front, but real Jay and she, they was witty with the words and styles came kicking down the door and, and it was over. We can I think our brotherhood, our loyalty, what separates us? You know what I mean? Like, you know what you get when you're dealing with the God bless our brother dmx. He embodied the whole thing of what an MC should and embody ferocity, energy, passion. Those words that he spoke have those words have power. First time I've seen them on TV, I just started crying. You know how some people get on and they copy another artist. X wasn't that X blueprint. You can't, you can't copy it. Mary was special because Mary was singing pain things that she was going through. People that merged from your city to kspdmx and Mary J Blige has, has risen to it. Puts the city uh in a spotlight y'all like it or not. We here those people helped to change the mindset of a whole culture. Hip hop like saved a lot of us. But we used to do stuff to keep us off the street, the home of hip hop school 12, a lot of stuff came out of here. Mary Blige was here. They took what gift that God had given them and they used it to elevate themselves and pick themselves out of a otherwise what might have been a very difficult situation for them coming up when someone comes up to me and goes that song you made or you know that verse you said help me out in my life is uh I i it's a humble and very touching moment. Young people need to see um that you can pick yourself up from um a disadvantaged background. Um And you can make something of yourself. It's one thing for the Children to watch rappers on television. It's another one to walk at the upper community center and be able to walk up to one and touch them that is also giving that kid confidence energy to know I can accomplish something because they get to now visualize success. I'm so happy that Yonkers is represented in, in hip hop because we've been doing it for a long time now. Yonkers is the third biggest city in New York. So that shows from back in the days of getting no recognition to being in a place where Lions Gate has popped up. I could have that edge of confidence. Like would they be here if it wasn't for, you know, marry ourselves and it is developed a level of hope and possibility within our next generation. We, one of the powerhouses of this music and we got underground rappers that's even bigger than some of the rappers that that's out. Do they know that the God is still living? We got some people, man, we coming and being part of 50 years of hip hop is really incredible and to be on this journey, to be part of it, to be part of the culture, how much influence hip hop has in the world is, is nothing less than a blessing.

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