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This year, 98% of its seniors are graduating in four years.

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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.

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Academy Charter High School in Hempstead holds Juneteenth commencement ceremony  

This morning, the Academy Charter school in Hampstead is marking their high school graduation on Juneteenth and this year 98% of its seniors are graduating in four years. That's incredible joining us. Now, our twin sisters, Ashley and Jocelyn Escobar, part of this year's graduating class, preparing to head off to Barnard College and major in biology and premed. Thanks so much for joining us early guys. Hi, good morning. All right. So today is Juneteenth and it's your graduation. What does that mean for you guys having it on this day? Um Well, for me, I find a lot of pride in being able to celebrate such an important thing on this day, especially because this day um marks an important time in history where obviously something suits and pivotal happen. So to me, I think it's important and honestly, I find so much pride and because of the progress we have made as a society on the same day where slavery ended. And now we can celebrate people in a school where it's mostly African Americans, people going into the world and testing their professional lives. So to me, I find a lot of pride and I celebrate this day and I think it's very important. Yeah, I'd also say that I find a lot of pride in this day. I mean, it marks the day like a remarkable turning point in our history. Um It really marks a day of opportunity where opportunity was starting to get a chance for African Americans. And I think it's important to take that into consideration because sometimes you may overlook their history. But I feel like it's important to like, remember those key events that make up our society today and as you begin the next chapter of your lives, I mean, heading to Ivy League School in the fall. Why is it so important uh to talk about this holiday to talk about Juneteenth? Well, I think it's important because um as I was saying before, you know, sometimes we look at a person but we don't understand the history behind that person. And I feel like it's always important to understand the history behind someone to really understand the resilience and the struggle that it took to get that person to that point. Yes. And I think it's important to educate ourselves, especially because I will not sit here and lie and say that I was always knowledgeable on this. But I think it's important to educate ourselves to the history of a person and truly see how far we have come as a society. Well, girls, you should be so proud of your class of you guys yourself. Good luck in college in the fall and have a great day today. A great celebration on Juneteenth. Thank you.

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