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Pharmacy District Leader Amy Lynn Safaty visited the be Well team to discuss. 

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I'll get things back to Dave Curran, uh, on storm watch, Dave. How high are we looking at in terms of winds on some could be 35 to 45 miles an hour. It's not a consistent, you know, four or five hours of 45 mile an hour winds. But in those four or five hours, every so often, those winds might hit 35 to 45 miles an hour, we're also gonna be looking at a lot of rain as well. Daytime, high temperatures today making it into the lower fifties, which is a little bit above that for this time of year. There's no wet weather out on the, uh, forecast just yet. That is all going to change. Once we get into the upcoming weekend, the cold air is already retreating back up into the northeast being replaced by warmer air from the Carolinas. Even most of the northeast is fairly quiet with just a few clouds around going up into the Adirondacks and the Catskills. You have a few clouds kind of marching across New Jersey as we speak, but that's really about it. Overall things begin to change going into the weekend. Now, not only are we going to look for a breezy day to set up with a southerly wind. Notice the line of severe weather potentially shaping up from Louisiana through Mississippi, going into Tennessee and then up towards Kentucky, all of that moisture is going to get scooped right up into New Jersey as we go through Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening. Now, the weather is going to deteriorate through the day on Sunday, the entire day isn't going to be a wash out. In fact, I think you still get the first part of Sunday afternoon before the weather really starts to drop off dramatically. By Sunday night. Early Monday flood watches have been posted not only for everybody in New Jersey but the surrounding tri state area, beautiful sunset out there right now, temperatures tonight are dropping down into the mid thirties. We will notice an increase in cloud coverage for your Saturday, Saturday night. We see even more clouds showing up by Sunday morning. It's still quiet. Ok. There could be a few sprinkles showing up just before lunch time and then the wheels on the forecast really start falling off here for Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening, pockets of moderate to heavier rain and winds frequently gusting to between 35 and 45 miles an hour. We'll take you right through early Monday. The weather improves. We'll be looking for a lot of sunshine next week, but our temperatures are well below average. I'll have more details on that New Jersey forecast coming right up.

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Brooklyn

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BXFORECAST

Well, we are on storm watch this evening as we make our way towards the weekend storm watch team HOA joining us right now here in studio and hope earlier this week, very chilly temperatures. We all have to deal with that. Now it's warming up, but we're going to have some rain that's going to come with it. Yeah, we're dealing with some rain and don't forget, we also saw some festive flakes that we saw some. But here's what you need to know for this weekend. It is going to be a 5050 weekend. Sunday will be a day that we need to watch. We're talking about showers and storms moving into our area starting Sunday morning and lasting into Monday morning commute. So the worst of the storm will start pushing into our area after 10 p.m. on Sunday and even lingering through the overnight. Some potential impacts flooding and wind damage, especially with winds that can gust up to 40 to 50 MPH. Even isolate gusts of 60 isn't out of the question. So let's time it out on your future cast again today. A beautiful day tomorrow. Do it again. It is gonna be a chilly start temperatures in the mid to upper forties and we will see the sunshine throughout the day and temperatures will be milder in the mid ff. So if you have anything to do, maybe holiday shopping tomorrow will be your best bet. Sunday does start off with some clouds and even some on and off showers throughout the morning. It looks the brunt of the system will start pushing into our area by Sunday evening. But Sunday afternoon, still dealing with that steady rain and look at those temperatures, upper fifties, low sixties. So can't even really go outside to enjoy the milder temperatures because we're dealing with this. Just the rain and the pockets of heavier downpours that can move through our area overnight and into Monday morning. So even though that the showers are coming to an end by morning, we're still going to be dealing with some of its impacts in terms of standing water, especially for those areas that have poor drainage. This is around 830 Monday morning. The showers are coming to an end, but look at those temperatures from sixties to forties in just a matter of hours and it is going to remain chilly throughout next week. Now, we're also seeing 2 to 3 inches of rainfall with the highest gusts pushing into our area by sun.

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Westchester

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HVFORECAST

Well, tonight, the Hudson Valley is bracing for rain as we head into the weekend. So what do people need to expect as we get those plans underway? Addison that Nikita, no matter where people go over the course of the weekend or even if they stay home, be prepared before the weekend is done to deal with this system coming in through the Hudson Valley area. So you may be having to deal with batches of rain and gusty winds coming on by maybe about 20 to 40 MPH if not higher than that. Talking about the second half of Sunday overnight and into early Monday, there may also be some flood concerns as well where most recently we did see from the National Weather service, a flood watch up effect all across the Hudson Valley. Maybe seeing on average about 1 to 2, maybe all close to three inches of rain coming on in as you move on in from Sunday into Monday right there where some of those high rainfall totals 3.3 is possible in Newburgh. But I think most locations will trend under 32 to 3 inches or so in that range, but bottom line is, it's still gonna be wet. It's gonna be windy out there. So it's breaking towards that forecast as we go on in past Saturday into Sunday. Saturday is the pick of the week. It's gonna be gorgeous. Get outside and enjoy perhaps strap down some of those holiday lights. Now, Sunday morning, 7 a.m. we have temperatures in white plains. Around 48 degrees gusts are slowly starting to pick up out of a south westerly direction. 10 to 15 MPH. Sky showers start moving in closer towards the lunchtime hours as the temperatures move up towards the mid FF we'll be seeing gusts maybe 10 to 15, close to 20 MPH over through the rest of the day. It's on and off batches of moderate, possibly even heavy rain coming on in as it's continue to get warmer. Upper fifties, close to 60 degrees. Gusts are increasing 10 to 20 plus MPH, but they'll continue to go upward as we move on through the evening hours as well. 61 degrees is possible in White Plains. If we hit that, that would tie a record high over across in Brewster may be seeing a brief downpour coming on in from a possible isolated embedded thunderstorm in this line right there, slowly coming up from the southwest heading up towards the northeast direction, going past 7 to 8 o'clock hour, close to midnight. Still very mild, very muggy out there. We got winds gusting still 20 to 30 plus MPH and the cold for itself is approaching overnight. Look at the temperatures they drop from around 60 to around 40 degrees. As we're watching that cold air starting to push on in the winds have switched direction from the southwest to a northerly direction and we're starting to draw in that drier, colder air. So I'm not too concerned with a changeover coming on in for everybody to a little wintry mix of snow. But it's possible, especially in the Catskills in the higher elevations past Sunday into Monday morning, we watch drier conditions move on in throughout much of next week. Overnight temperatures in the twenties and the thirties, patchy fog will be possible in a few spots. Let's briefly look at that visibility forecast going on in towards Saturday morning. A few locations will have that visibly starting to go down as more moisture is pushed up this way, temperatures on the rise as well heading in towards that storm's arrival, Sunday afternoon.

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Long Island

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LIFORECAST

To your weather. Now, we are in storm watch mode for the weekend, but the whole weekend won't be a washout here. No, I'm saying now it's a 5050 weekend. Saturday is the great day. I'm so excited for it. We're going to be in the fifties. So we've got this nice warm start for you guys and even Sunday will be warm. But on Sunday, that's when the stormy weather will get here, it's looking more likely now that we'll see scattered showers kind of on and off through the day. On Sunday, it won't be raining all day long. The best chance will be in Nassau County, but the heaviest steadiest rain, the strongest winds will come overnight. So after about 8 to 9 o'clock, heavy rain will move in, we could pick up 2 to 3 inches winds could be gusting close to 40 MPH. We just want to secure all your holiday decorations that are outside. It's good news that this is happening overnight. Hopefully, most of us will sleep through it and by Monday morning it will be clearing out. So tomorrow looks great fifties in the afternoon, we will have a period of some cloudiness, but then we get some sun at night. It's dry. Sunday morning is dry, but now you see more scattered showers about through the afternoon. The worst of it will get here late in the day. So this is 730 to 8 o'clock. Here comes that line of heavy rain. You see it, it's going to be raining pretty heavy for a while. This is midnight overnight, 3 a.m. to 4 a.m. we could have some flooding, but again, if it's overnight, it shouldn't be too bad. And by the morning, the front is out of here, it will be windy overnight as well. When the strongest winds here, you see nine o'clock, we're starting to see winds gusting 30 to 40 MPH, perhaps a little bit longer, um, stronger up on the north shore. Once that heavy rain goes by, strong winds are on the east end and then it's not as bad on Monday. So when the rain clears out, the weather will start to get better. So enjoy your Saturday, it's dry, it's warmer. We're in the fifties, 60 with showers, Sunday, heavy rain overnight next week looks nice. It's mostly sunny and seasonable with

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Hudson Valley

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Bronx

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Connecticut

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CTFORECAST

No. All right. We're taking a look at that forecast and it's a big, oh, no, for Sunday, some heavy downpours, gusty winds are coming our way. This could lead to some flooding. We also have to watch the coast for some tidal flooding too. Now, these storms pop up later in the day and then there's going to be a long line of them. A squall line coming through late at night. But before that happens, temperatures aren't that bad. It's a little bit warmer tonight. Thirties to about 40 degrees winds are coming up out of the south and same thing for tomorrow. I mean, look at these temperatures rise, highs climbing back into the fifties, but not as sunny as what we had today. It's not a good looking start to the weekend but much more comfortable. At least. Now in comes the wet weather Sunday night into Monday. Squall line comes through very late. Sunday exits right before we wake up on Monday morning. So temperatures really warm during this point and then they plummet this high temperature you see on Monday is about midnight. So by the afternoon on Monday, back down into the forties and that is a common theme heading into next week. We have sunshine returning just that temperatures will be a little bit chilly. So be sure to stay with us. We'll have much more on that forecast throughout tonight and into the weekend and also download our news to all that for the very latest. And that's a look at your local weather.

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be Well: What you need to know about flu

Well, although it still might feel like summer outside, it's also that time of year to start preparing for a flu season. And that means getting your flu shot. You know what? There are so many different misconceptions out there about the flu shot, some of which may actually cause you to avoid getting one. So we're here to break down the fact versus fiction when it comes to those shots. Pharmacy district leader Amy. So thanks so much for joining us. Thank you so much for having me. All right. So I'm excited because we're actually going to play a game, which is my really fun. So you're gonna say a statement about the flu and we're gonna decide, is it fact or is it fiction? OK, it's gonna be fun. All right. So you go ahead and start off with your first statement. Yeah, let's go ahead and get started. So the first one, you can get the flu from getting a flu vaccine. I'm gonna say fiction, fiction. It is fiction. So this is a really big common misconception when it comes to the flu vaccine. So a lot of people think I'm not gonna get the vaccine, it will cause the flu, but it's actually an inactivated vaccine. So it is impossible for it to actually cause the flu. But, but for people who feel sick and what is that? That's like your body's immune system reacts to it. Right. So the vaccine causes side effects. So sometimes people can mistake that for the flu, but it is common to feel a little bit under the weather. After your vaccine, your arm won't be sore. You might feel a little bit tired, but that goes away usually in just 2 to 3 days. Still better than getting the flu itself. Oh, yeah. Ok. Next one, better flu vaccines are necessary every year. Oh, I'm gonna say, I wanna say a fact, but I'm gonna say because I don't get it every year. So this is actually a fact. I was right by one. Thanks for keeping score. The flu vaccine is not a one and done type of shot. So the flu virus does change and there are different strains that are prominent every year. So each of the formulation is different. So it is important to make sure you have every year and that's what has to do with timing early to get the flu vaccine now. Fiction. Right. I did it before. Yes. Yes, absolutely. So it actually takes your body two weeks to develop the antibodies to the vaccine. So some people might think it's too early, but really we're right in the height of that flu season. So now is the time to go and get one. Ok. What's up next? It's hard to find a place to get a flu vaccine. Fiction. Yeah. All right. Yeah. So we have a CBS 9000 stores across the country that anybody can walk in and get a flu vaccine at any time. Um, so you have a lot of availability for our patients. So it's really easy to walk into your neighborhood pharmacy and get a vaccine from your pharmacist and most people can schedule it with their regular doctor as well. Right. Um Yeah, absolutely. But with CBS, we do offer a um online scheduling tool where you can actually schedule appointments for you and the whole family at the same time. So we all went together. Yeah. And a lot easier. Yeah. And we did. Ok. So next one is you can get both the flu and COVID vaccines at the same time. That is fact. So you guys are doing great. Uh Both vaccines are inactivated vaccines. So it's perfectly safe to get them at the same time. Ok. And then is this, is this our last question I believe since the next one is we don't need to get. Oh, ok. Oh, I gonna picture because we just did a story on there's a changing. Yeah. So this was kind of a trick question. It's neither fact nor fiction. Um As we know, the COVID virus is always changing. And evolving. So right now, we are trying to uh follow CDC guidance and kind of keep on top of what the new variants are going to be. So there is an updated booster for this year with a prominent variant for this season. Um But we'll see what the guidance of the CDC says tells us. Um hopefully it will be an annual vaccine like the flu in the future, but we just have to wait and see for that. All right, Amy, thank you so much for being here. This is fine. Thank you so much.

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