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Saturday marks the 20-year anniversary of the Long Island Rail Road massacre. In light of the anniversary, News 12 Long Island is catching up with some of the people the tragedy touched.

On Dec. 7, 1993, Colin Ferguson opened fire on a train full of Long Islanders coming home from work. Ferguson shot 25 people, killing six, including the husband of now-Rep. Carolyn McCarthy.

"I came to Congress ... to help usher in common-sense reforms to prevent senseless tragedy," says McCarthy. "Twenty years later, I know there is much more for our nation to accomplish."

James Gorycki was also among the six killed. His wife, Joyce, has since become a gun control activist as a tribute to her husband. She is currently the chairwoman of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence for Long Island, which is now a statewide group.

"Life goes on, but it's something that always stays with you," she says.

The tragic shooting is still fresh in the minds of the victims who survived the shooting, like Robert Giugliano.

"I think about it every day, there's not a day that goes by where I don't think about it," he says.

Gorycki and other family members of the victim will attend a wreath-laying ceremony Saturday at 9 a.m. in Mineola.

Ferguson is now serving a sentence of 315 years in an upstate prison.

Saturday marks the 20-year anniversary of the Long Island Rail Road massacre. In light of the anniversary, News 12 Long Island is catching up with some of the people the tragedy touched.    On Dec. 7,

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Let's turn our attention now to our weather as we remain on storm watch because we have a serious storm heading our way. We're over here in the weather center with meteorologist Crystal Ellis. So, Crystal, what do people need to know about the exact timing here for this? Uh, the worst of it's going to be tomorrow night into the evening, late evening into tomorrow. The overnight hours. That's when we're going to see the worst wind gusts and the most widespread heaviest rainfall. But that doesn't mean before then we won't be experience some turbulent weather. So looking at our storm watch, we do have a high wind watch and a flood watch. 2 to 4 inches of rain could see even more than that in localized areas. So that will lead to flooding. You definitely want to try to stay home if you can for tomorrow. The winds also between 25 and 4540 MPH sustained gusting to 55 even 60 MPH for tomorrow. So that actually could lead to dangerous wind, damaging winds and uh down trees down power lines. So you definitely want to be weather aware for tomorrow, as we look into tomorrow afternoon, the winds start to pick up a little bit and we'll have some scattered downpours throughout the area as we step into the afternoon. Those downpours again, wherever they set up, that's where we'll have the most rainfall falling and check out the winds gusting up to 3035 MPH throughout the area. And this is around 4 p.m. and that's not even the worst of it as we keep going on. The future cast, you can see the rain is just training on in. It's continuing to come down in heavy bouts in the, in the red, orange and yellow shades and the wind is not going anywhere as well. In fact, it's going to be increasing as we step into the later hours. So here we are 11 pm, wind gusts 47 MPH in Smithtown, 47 Rocky Point and the rain continues to fall. So it's going to be a pretty serious storm for tomorrow. And then in your overnight hours, this is where we're seeing the worst of the wind gusts 52 in Rocky Point. And again, depending on where these fans set up will be the worst of the flooding potential. Looking at your Monday morning, it's still hanging on the winds eventually will calm down. And so does the rain. However, we will have a if you wrap around showers for Monday morning and blustery conditions for the second half of your Monday. So we are on storm watch Sunday afternoon, Sunday night and into your Monday morning before things begin to calm down, it gets colder, the wind sticks around and it's feeling like much more typical December weather highs in the forties for the rest of the work week. But at least it's quiet.

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