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Consumer reporter Janice Lieberman has the tips you need to know before buying a backpack.

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Saying, wow. Can you believe it's been around 20 years? It's crazy. It's crazy. I remember when that movie came out. That's nuts. But hey, get in the spirit, right. Christmas is coming. Hanukkah is this week. Isn't that exciting too? So definitely a lot to celebrate in the next coming weeks and days. We have a couple of festive flurries to just kind of compliment that right? I call them rogue flurries kind of coming from wind up clouds. No accumulation expected here in New Jersey, but we are warming up toward the weekend into the fifties. We go Friday and Saturday, but come Sunday, we're, we'll be in the sixties, believe it not. But that comes with stormy weather, Sunday, stormy conditions. Although it's very early in the forecast stages, I want to be transparent with you and let you know that we're watching for some gusty conditions along with downpours and maybe a squall line with thunderstorms on Sunday afternoon and evening. The timing is uncertain. The specific location of these impacts are uncertain and it's something that we're going to work out with the next couple of days. But I think it's important to let you know now that something is coming so that you can plan for it rather than wait until we know every little detail 100%. So, let's talk about today's forecast. A couple of windswept flurries coming through, maybe a rogue Sprinkle or two down toward Monmouth Ocean, Middlesex counties today. That's this afternoon because the temperature is going to be warming up into the forties tonight. It clears out briefly 30 degrees by tomorrow morning, it's cold, but then the clouds come back tomorrow and we'll see some rogue flurries and sprinkles all along the Delaware River up and down the western half of the New Jersey. So just be aware of that for Thursday, temperatures will be in the low forties by the afternoon high, but that's just that moment about three in the afternoon and it then finally clears out into Friday. Friday is a beautiful day, 5051 degrees, uh, the northeast corner of Bergen County, Passaic counties as well as Hudson and Essex County. Definitely looking at temperatures near 45 to 46 degrees. Morristown. Same deal there. Not too bad as the mild weather settles in. We hold on to that mild weather into Saturday too. You can see it's fair thin clouds, high pressure, sunny and mild, but we're going to be watching for this front come Sunday, strong wind and thunderstorms with that front. It's definitely going to knock down temperatures for early next week but could be pretty nasty. On Sunday night.

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Quite the operation they've got over there. Julio. Great. Look at what the post service service has to deal with. You know, what's the saying? Right? Neither rain nor sleet nor snow. That package are going to get it where it needs to go. We don't have any of that in the forecast, but for the mail carriers tomorrow and everybody else to bundle up, I guess. Yeah, the temperatures will be in the mid to upper 30 to start tomorrow and we are seeing some rain and maybe even some festive flakes in the near future. So that's something that we need prepare for as we get through the next couple of days. But 37 degrees mostly cloudy sky that puffer jacket will do you some good and some extra layers and you can grab the tins or the Uggs, some things, they just keep your feet warm because tomorrow's highs really struggle to get to the low forties. This is where we're going by tomorrow afternoon. 4 p.m. feeling like near 32 degrees across the boughs and it gets even colder, waking up on your morning. This is going to be the core of the cold we feel like temperatures will be in the mid twenties. So that's what you need to dress for Thursday morning. And even through the majority of the afternoon, we feel like temperatures will still be in the thirties. It looks like Friday. We have one more cold start to the day and then temperatures really begin to turn around. And we're seeing the fifties back by Friday and even into Saturday, which is going to be the pick of the week. Here's why temperatures will be in the mid fifties. It's gonna feel and look nice to be outside. And we're finally seeing a return of that sunshine that we haven't really been experiencing. So we're also turning the page to Sunday, which is our next day that we're tracking some wet weather. So here's what we know so far, still several days out, we're still fine tuning the timing of the system, but expect some widespread rain wind, some thunderstorms and this can start moving into our area Sunday evening into Monday.

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Santa is very busy these days. We know the clock is ticking until his big day of Christmas. Matt. Yes. And the clock is ticking too for my shopping to start as we get into say, maybe December 20th or so, maybe that will be a good time to start doing it. I want to focus on some serious things though, first and foremost, here today, chilly, a few flurries. But let's head to the map right now and talk about what we might be looking at for later in the day on Sunday. Now, the timing with this will change over the next couple of days, but we're still watching the chance for some moderate to heavy rain for at least a couple of hours and temperatures surging up to near 60 degrees later Sunday evening and Sunday night, potentially ending very early on Monday and there will be some wind with that as well. Again, that's late Sunday, potentially into early on Monday. So something to keep in the back of our minds for right now as we plan ahead, future cast as we go throughout the rest of today, a couple of flurries around through about five o'clock, we've had some flurries around, even a few rain sprinkles at times, go back to around freezing or below this evening and overnight and we actually get a little bit of some partial clearing for a few hours during the overnight that will allow temperatures to drop into the twenties. More clouds move in mid-morning tomorrow and by mid to late morning and through the early part of the afternoon tomorrow, we will have another chance for a few scattered light snow showers and flurries again. Nothing that's amounting to anything on the ground though. So dress warmly. The rest of today, it's chilly outside right now. Temperatures around 40 at best scattered flurries through the afternoon and ending early this evening. Then some partial clearing overnight tonight, a cold night, a night to maybe even add the extra layer into early on Thursday. So tomorrow we do this all over again where we have a couple of scattered flurries midday, mostly cloudy, chilly near 40 upper forties, Friday pick of the week. Still Saturday with a mix of sun and clouds. Sunday will start off fine, but it's turning more windy temperatures near 60 late in the day with rain Sunday night next week shaping up to be mostly dry with highs in the forties.

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Long Island

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Three pints should do the job. And maybe next year there'll be a Christmas miracle. Christmas tree industry is pretty well known for feast and famine in terms of supply and demand. So I think things will get better. If you don't feel like cutting your own, you can always buy a pre cut tree. Prices are up, but balsams will run you less than a fur at a big box store. And of course, you can always buy an artificial one and use it year after year happy holidays. Everyone. I'm Janice Lieberman and that's the real deal. I saw a video on Instagram the other day, Sebastian Maniscalco asking what are they charging for Christmas trees by you? It's everywhere, it's going up and you know, depending on what type of tree you want. If you want the larger tree, those Frasier 1st 10 ft and higher. Yeah, those are the difficult ones to get this year. But uh you know, hey, whatever you do, no matter what the tree decorate it with the family. Have fun doing it. Enjoy the holiday season. Mostly cloudy skies today. There will be the threat of a passing rain or snow shower this afternoon and that's more of a nuisance. Most of our day will be dry and it will be cold temperature around 41 degrees for that hyper local high. And here's the other issue that northerly wind. Yeah, that's gonna make, it feels like temperatures, well, generally in the twenties and thirties. So that's what you need to dress for going throughout the day. Plus with all the clouds around and a little bit of moisture, it has a chill to the air, some snow showers and flurry north and west. And every now and then this afternoon, there may be one or two quick little rain, snow showers or flurry or Sprinkle moving on over Long Island. Take a look at this at around +343 45 there's a cold air temperatures around 38 to 39 degrees and there's that little stray flurry, snow shower, Sprinkle rain shower coming our way. Much more of a nuisance. A festive flake or two coming on through and that threat is with us through about 8 p.m. Then overnight skies clear tomorrow morning, lows are in the twenties to around 30. It's cold Thursday morning and then during the day on Thursday can't rule out once again, a quick little snow shower or a rain shower into Thursday afternoon for the start of Hanukkah. As we go towards sundown on Thursday, it's going to be cold. Temperatures are going to be in the thirties and towards sunset, a slight chance of a quick rain or snow shower and then we're dry overnight, Thursday into Friday. And by Friday afternoon we finally warm up. Now over the weekend, this is going to impact some of your plans and also will impact some of those holiday decorations because there's a threat of heavy rain, Sunday, late afternoon, Sunday evening and early Monday morning. And as the cold front approaches Long Island strong winds, there's a potential of winds, 40 to 50 MPH coming our way late Sunday afternoon through Sunday evening. So we'll have to watch this very closely and the impacts on Long Island highs today and in the low forties, lots of clouds, it's cold chance of that passing rain or snow shower, twenties for tonight. And we do have a warm up after the cold starts of Hanukkah fifties. Friday, Saturday, stormy weather near 60 on Sunday. Oh.

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And we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but it sounds like this weekend, at least Saturday would be a great day to do that. Yeah, definitely better than Sunday. Sunday. We got a lot of rain on Tampa. I'm liking Saturday out and, and take care of those errands. If you want to pick up that tree, it's gonna do. We're gonna be looking at numbers a lot better than what we're dealing with for today. 41 is the forecast at high. You get a lot of today. We're not gonna get out of the thirties very much feeling like winter, which is 15 more days away. We bring it in December 21st this year we work our way into the mid part of this month. And yeah, I know we're, we're, we're, we're gonna start to cruise these next couple of weeks, wrapping up 2023. It's just gonna go lightning speed as you push forward through the rest of this morning. Again, we're working with some cloud cover, chance for a few flakes late morning and then as we head into this afternoon, uh, still won't rule out a chance for flakes. If we're really watching back out across the lower Hudson Valley, some of them could seep into our neck of the woods, but still, we're not worried about any accumulation or anything like that. Just putting it out there. Keep that in mind as you are out about heading into tonight, we're gonna really look at the clear skies and we're gonna see colder numbers into your tomorrow. It, same set up to what we had last week. Right Wednesday night into your Thursday, we dealt with the coldest here. Thursday is gonna be the coldest day on tap. Numbers not making it out of the thirties, chance for a few more flakes. But again, nothing to worry about too, too much as we head into your Friday. Friday morning is gonna be a chilly start, but we bounce back as we head into your Friday afternoon again. Feel like numbers for Thursday tomorrow morning. We'll be in the teens for areas up north. We're talking twenties for areas south of 84. And then as we head into your tomorrow afternoon, we really aren't gonna feel anything better out of the twenties. So we definitely want to bundle up another shot of some cold air will work with us for your tomorrow. Make sure you got your winter gear prepared Saturday. Again, it's gonna be the pick of the week as we work our way into the first half of the week and we're staying dry. Maybe some sunshine. One thing's for sure, moderate temperatures well into the fifties. So it isn't gonna feel old, too bad. First half of your Sunday looks good. Then we're watching a storm really bringing in some heavy rain which will impact your Sunday afternoon into your Sunday evening. Where for right now, that's when we're looking forward to be its worst along with some strong gusty damaging winds, potentially Sunday night into your Monday as well. Other than that, we're still gonna hold on to mild weather into the first part of your week before we start to trend cooler heading into the tail end of next Becky John.

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Live Life Better: Everything you need to know before buying a backpack

It's that time of the year to start back to school. Shopping and backpacks are always on the top of the list. You know, kids might want the pricey and trendy one. But parents like me, we are on the lookout for something more adorable and affordable. So consumer reporter, Janice Lieberman is here with what we need to know before buying a backpack because I wanna keep my cost low. All right, it's about compromise, let's just say because, you know, they're gonna be whining and they wanna make statement and there is a lot of pressure so they want to really look fabulous the first day of school. You wanna go cheap earth five bucks. That sound good to you. Right. Head to five below that one's, uh, you know, a hello kitty. But they have lots of different characters and, you know, that's, they're smaller, they're not as well made as some of the more expensive ones. But for a younger kid it doesn't have heavy books and, you know, has a few items there. It would be awesome for them and it's recognizable. It's not like goodbye Kitty or something like that. It's a character. We know exactly our price. We wouldn't do that. Ok. You want to go a little pricier. This is my son's favorite spray ground. They make really kooky different designs. I like the big mouth there. It's cool. Yeah, it's cool. It comes in different colors, but that's gonna run you 100 bucks. Well, it feels, it feels like leather. It's a lot more durable and heavy leather, but you can wash it down. So, if you know, they spill kinds of gross things all over it and they, and they will wipe that baby down. But you could also head to Target and do very well. These are adorable. They're from Target, you know, in the $20 range. These are these in this section here, which are all bright colors, which I like. Kids are into bright colors right now and these can match with a lot of different outfits that's good for them. All right. But you want to go a little higher again. This is a brand that's just becoming pretty popular now. It's called Steak and they'll personalize it for you. So you can get initials put on. Um, some of the money will go back to helping needy families and other great causes. So we love that. My advice to you. If you could get them to hold off and use last year's, wait a few weeks because the stores will slash prices, they need to get rid of them because no one's interested Yeah, but then you don't have a cool new book bag on the first day. I'm trying to help you out with the budget. I'm definitely gonna try that. I'm like, hey, you know, I'll get you two book bags for the price of one if we wait two weeks. But honestly, I mean, if you don't have the money and you want to stretch the budget, you know, take last year's wash it out, you can actually, you know, put some baking powder inside to make it smell better and uh, click on all that old garbage that they had from last year and reuse it. There's really nothing wrong with it, especially if they had one that was well made and like, you know, one of these or one of these and it's gonna hold up, that's a great investment and I know the books can fit in a lot of these bigger ones. What about laptops? Can they fit in all of these book bags? That is an awesome point because if you buy one, bring it home, put everything that you need. Some of them don't hold the laptops or a side water bottle or a lunch box. So pack everything in. If it doesn't work, take it back to the store, don't let them pull off the tags though. And I, that's a good point and I noticed a pretty much all of these have the water bottles slot because that's pretty big right now. With kids are using the water bottles and taking those to school. Right. They are. But you know what? It's got to come home and be clean because have you ever found the mold because they haven't done that? Yeah. No. Ok. So they have to be diligent about cleaning up their book bags, cleaning up their water bottles and not leaving their backpacks at school. So you don't have to go back and drive and get their homework for the worst thing that all that money for a book bag. Where is it? I know. I don't know. I don't know. So, no, you, you can do well listen to your kids but you have the upper hand. I know sometimes, but as always, thank you so much Janice Lieberman for joining us. And next week she's gonna be back here on be well to show us the best water bottles we talked about them that fit in these book bags. She's gonna show us which ones we can get that are gonna be trendy as well as lunch boxes that hopefully will save everyone's budget. Ok.

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