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The cold weather is making it dangerous for anyone to be outside for long periods of time, and the homeless are among the most vulnerable.

Warming centers have been opened across Long Island through the weekend due to the frigid temperatures. Volunteers were out Friday trying to convince those in need to go to shelters and warming centers.

"Unfortunately we can't physically remove people to indoors," says Christopher Webster, of the Long Island Coalition for the Homeless. "We can only advise and insist and get them in touch with services in their area or as their needs are met."

In Nassau County, the warm bed program with emergency housing for the homeless has been activated. That hotline is <strong>1-866-WARMBED</strong>.

In Suffolk County, there is also a program for the homeless. The Suffolk emergency number for anyone who needs to be brought to a warm shelter is <strong>631-854-9100</strong>.

The cold weather is making it dangerous for anyone to be outside for long periods of time, and the homeless are among the most vulnerable.    Warming centers have been opened across Long Island through

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Then we'd like warmer weather. Now, Sam is gonna try and deliver that makes me happy because I'm a summer girl. This is like it's not around the corner. Sam. You know, we have a long way to go. Um Our weather's been nice though. What an interesting sky today. Some sun, some flurries and this is beautiful. Uh Jim Lenning our very own, Jim Lenning got this photo when he was out today in Bellport. So along the south shore, we had a beautiful sky, some of those scattered cumulus clouds in the distance that brought in some of those flurries. If you happen to see them today, it was a windy day. It was a cold day. We've got a cold Wednesday morning coming up for you at the bus stop. Temperatures will be in the twenties. It is going to feel more like 15 degrees. So just bundle up have the layers on the afternoon, not so bad, 40 degrees, the breeze will start to die down. So by tomorrow night, there's not much of a wind left. Uh one more cold day coming up, we have these lake effect snow showers to our north and west where it's been snowing all day long. That's why we had some flurries, but as the winds die down in the coming days, um, those snow showers will be winding down as well. Back at home here, mostly clear in the morning. You see the twenties, cold start to the day. It is breezy in the afternoon, but the wind is switching to the west southwest and that will start to bring in the warmer air. So by Thursday morning, we're in the thirties, not so bad, less wind. And in the afternoon, look at this, we get that little bit of a warm up. So that will be my pick of the week. Forties with lots of sun will feel great after this little cold spell that we're seeing, our weather starts to change on Friday. It does turn mild. We're in the fifties. This is Friday late afternoon into the evening. That's our next chance for rain. It'll be fast moving. By Saturday morning, the rain clears out dry, start to the weekend, but our weather is turning a little bit unsettled. So by Sunday night showers return, we have some showers Monday, Tuesday, mild weather and then it will get breezy and colder by the middle of next week with temps.

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Nassau, Suffolk activate warm bed programs