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Pro scenic views and a taste of adventure. We've got a place to check out this weekend. Yeah, photojournalist, Mike Roberts and our producer, Noemi Mendoza takes us to Revolution Rail in Cape May for this week's road trip. Close to home. What's up guys? It's Noemi and we're here in sunny Kate May where we are about to peddle to a metal quite literally and show you a side to Kate May that you've never seen before. Let's get pedaling. This is the southern tip of New Jersey and it doesn't get any further south than this. We offer a full service tour. 90 minutes. You're going to see parts of Cape May that you're never ever going to see. Unless you take a tour with Revolution real through hundreds and hundreds of acres of wildlife. And we go out to the Cape May Canal. How's the ride looking? Is it looking like a tough ride? Is it an easy ride? Gonna be a nice easy ride today? It's quite warm. All right, my calves and I are ready. Let's do this coming here. I thought about it. Like, how did this idea even become like a thing of bikes on a railroad started by our owner and co founder, Rob Hart. And he saw a similar concept over in Asia. We started with just six of these bikes right now. We have over 200 in our inventory nationwide. We're in four different states. New York, New Jersey, Maine and Colorado. Anyone can jump on that bike and push the pedals down the track. That's the way the bikes are geared. So it's a lot of fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm getting my workout in right now. I already feel it. It's a beautiful spot. We have this lovely picnic area out on the water, out on the Cape May Canal. And we talked to all our guests about history. The history of the rail, there is a ton of war history here in Cape May. Is there? Ton of World War Two history here. I don't want to give away the whole plot here, but we're gonna try and teach you a few things and then we're gonna pedal back down. We have uh naturalists on staff and we're gonna take you into the Garrett Family Preserve where we're gonna try and teach you about the spectacle of migration. And what makes Cape May so special when it comes to wildlife. We got pretty little purple I flower. We bring about 25,000 guests per year through the preserve. Um And it kind of opens people's eyes to the fact that this is actually here in Cape May come to Cape May and do something different. It's an absolutely multi generational activity that anyone of any age can do and have fun doing it. We're going to teach you something. We're going to show you some nature and hopefully give you some Zen, give you a little harmony in your life. You get comfortable on this ride and you really start appreciating nature more honestly, it's a great, great experience.

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This local natural haven in Ossining covers over a thousand acres, providing a sanctuary for various species. (Photo: Brian Heyman)


Teatown Lake Reservation

Head back in time at Dinosaur State Park in Connecticut ... about 200 million years ... to when dinosaurs ruled the planet.

Dinosaur State Park

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Are some fun things to do around the city. This summer news 12 has you covered this week's road trip close to home is all about basketball in New York City, we're checking out a new photography exhibition at the Arsenal Gallery in Central Park. Heart of the city is an ode to pick up basketball in the city's parks and News. Twelve's Marissa Marcelino takes us there. No other place in the world that has basketball courts like New York, the metal back balls are special. You only find them here for photographer Kevin Clio. Basketball is much more than just a game. It's a beautiful sport played on sacred ground. He photographs all of the details. He observes as a player, you will know the texture. You will know you will, you will think, oh, I've played on a court like that. I've bounced my ball on a crack like that. From the smallest of played round court details to the essence of pick up basketball throughout the seasons. Clio has captured it all here. You can get up close and personal to 25 photos documenting New York City hoops from 2004 to 2 20 each location has a different meaning for the person that is looking the photo. So you have some Queens, Brooklyn Manhattan and you have a lot, a variety of courts and landscapes that have an impact on people. The exhibit is curated by common practice and is supported by the NBA Players Association and project backboard. It celebrates the impact of basketball in New York City parks and how it brings people together the overall energy of having, you know, 1500 basketball court and I don't know how many people are playing on a daily basis on these courts. I think it makes the city special. The exhibit will be featured at the Arsenal Gallery until September 5th and the museum is free to visitors and is open Monday through Friday from 9 to 5 p.m. It's located right inside Central Park at 64th Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, Marisa Marcelino News 12.

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Loughlin Vineyard has been in business for over three decades, started by local legend Barney Loughlin.

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Ok. Fun Box is here and New England's first location is inflating fun for everyone in this week's road trip. Close to home news, 12 photojournalist Laurie takes us to the world's biggest bounce house. This is not your average bounce house. This is Fun Box. This is the world's largest bounce house. We are thrilled to have Fun Box that Connecticut Post Mall. This is the biggest entertainment option that we've been able to offer our customers. It's a cool place to be. I think what makes this really different? Most Bounce Houses are inside. We love the fact that it's outdoors. Once you get into the park, you automatically put your shoes in our shoes and then you'll enter through the big mouth of the entertainment zone, which is a big tongue that you go inside and you'll go through all the different bound zones. We partnered with Connecticut Alliance of foster adoptive families and a dollar of every ticket that was sold during opening weekend, went to their organization, the Connecticut Alliance of Foster and adoptive families. We provide support, advocacy and training for the foster and adoptive families in Connecticut. While the attraction is really designed for 2 to 12 year olds. When we choose our foster organization, we like to choose one that focuses heavily on 12 to 17 year olds. Those are the kids that get lost and forgotten. So we want to make sure that the proceeds that we raise, go to help those kids and help their lives a little bit more. We serve all of Connecticut. So it's nice to have this in Milford and it helps promote what foster care and adoption and everything is. People are so positive and excited to enjoy in it. We think it's great. It helps get our families outside and do something. So we offer different sessions so that we can keep the people in the park to a minimum. You can bring your kids, you can let them jump, you can sit and check your emails, whatever you need to do, they're going to have a great time and it's all ages. There are so many different attractions. Everybody just kind of spreads out and finds new discoveries. We have Marshmallow mountain that you climb and slide down. We have these bopping buttons that you bounce off of. We have an obstacle course behind us. I mean, this is bigger than any football field you've ever seen. This is bigger than any experience you've ever seen. I just say it's an inflatable bouncy house that is huge, magical and pretty colorful. You can't miss it when you drive in is perfect for any type of family member, whether you have grandparents, kids, small toddlers, babies and we're hoping that they're going to come back every summer so that families can come enjoy fun box. But also head to the mall, catch a movie, check out the food court and all the options we have at Connecticut. It looks like so much fun. I mean, I know it's all about the kids, but I would totally do that. I know you would, I would be sitting in a little inflatable chair watching you going down the slide, throwing that big ball around. Looks like a lot of fun. Huge. Well, it's open on Tuesday through Sunday for more information. Head over to reservations and we have that link at news 12 dot com.

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Almost every Long Island has been to Jones Beach for a concert or two or three - but there's a lot that’s brand-new about Jones Beach Theater this season.

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We're all about scenic views in this week's Road Trip: Close to Home - with visits to Revolution Rail in Cape May, Teatown Lake Reservation in Ossining and Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill ... plus a whole lot more.

Put the pedal to the metal with Revolution Rail Co. - literally - in the southern tip of New Jersey to see parts of Cape May you might never otherwise see.

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In the morning here, I do believe. But as we go into the afternoon, we're talking about downpours strong wind and yet a heavy rainfall that could cause some flooding across the area. We do have a flood watch in effect for all of New Jersey from late on our Sunday afternoon until Monday here. So we take a look at our overnight temperatures, upper thirties in the northwest corner of the state. Otherwise we're in the forties here. We're above average for this time of the year. Now, here comes our Sunday future cast. I want to show you what happens in the morning, mostly dry. But as go into the afternoon, more and more of these greens and yellows and reds are coming on here and that means heavier rain, steadier rain makes its way in steadiest as we go overnight here where there will be some rumbles of thunder and the potential for damaging wind gusts. In addition to flooded roadways, we could see a shower too as it exits Monday morning after sunrise here. But I do believe by 9 a.m. we are dry here across the area and then we'll have a good amount of sunshine here. We'll take a look at our rain forecast, show you what you can expect. So through 4:30 p.m. upwards of an inch here and then we tack on another couple of inches as we get into your Monday morning and then we take a look at your 10 day forecast. You'll see once we get past Monday morning, good amount of clear sky and sunshine. It's a week.

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It is to come before the storm tonight because as we go into our Sunday afternoon, Sunday night and early Monday, the potential for damaging winds and flooding rain will be here. We do have that flood watch in effect for all the five boroughs. Really. This runs from New Jersey all the way up into parts of Connecticut and into Long Island as well. This is an effect from late Sunday until early Monday here. Now there will be some fog as we kick off our Sunday, visibility is getting down to below a half mile as we go into the day on Sunday as well. It's not gonna be until those winds kick up that, that fog will go away. We look at our future cast here so we're dry overnight, but we do have those areas of fog as we start off your Sunday here. It's going to be a cloudy foggy Sunday morning, but a dry one. So if you want to do things outdoors Sunday morning, you could. But as we go into the afternoon, here comes that rain and rain will be heavy at times. That's why we're seeing these oranges and this red on your future cast. As we go into Sunday afternoon and Sunday night, the potential for thunderstorms will be there and that could bring areas of roadway flooding could also bring some damaging wind gusts with this as well by two and the heaviest rain is gone, but there's still pockets of rain as we go into your Monday morning, commute and then after 9 a.m. or so we should be dry. Let's take a look at your wind forecast. Not much on Sunday morning, the winds kick up into the afternoon, that fog will go away as a result. But we are talking about a gusty Sunday afternoon, especially places that are right along the water here. We're talking about gusts 41 miles an hour in Sheepshead Bay, 43 miles an hour at JFK Airport at 545. On Sunday, wind gusts will be 35 to 50 miles an hour as we go into your Sunday afternoon and evening. And that doesn't even include what we could see from a thunderstorm which could be higher. Take a look at your 10 day forecast. After we get past our Monday morning, we are dry as we go into the rest of the week. Here, temperatures generally staying below average next storm would come sometime next Sunday or the following Monday.

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And we remain on storm watch because we are getting ready for things to change a lot heading into tomorrow. Meteorologist Crystal Ellis is here. So, Crystal, what do we need to know about the timing of what's heading our way? It's gonna be the afternoon is when things really start to ramp up and into the evening hours and especially the late overnight hours. So as we look at our planner overnight tonight, we're just dealing with some patchy fog throughout the area that's gonna to diminish the visibility just a bit as we look towards Sunday, we'll have scattered showers around in the morning, the rain and wind will pick up especially in the afternoon and especially by Sunday night, that's when we will have some heavy heavier rain, more steady and widespread and the stronger winds will be around as well. So definitely not the most pleasant end to your weekend. Let's take a look at it on the future cast. Here we are tomorrow morning, those winds between 515 MPH, not a big deal until we get into the late morning afternoon and again into the nighttime hours. So scattered showers around. Although there's some pockets of heavy downpours in the late morning hours and into the afternoon. So more scattered, more steady to widespread rain picks up in the afternoon. And then the heavy downpours really get widespread as we step into tomorrow night and the evening and check out these wind gusts around 11 pm, 31 MPH in New City, 26 New Yorktown Heights. So we're definitely going to be feeling the wind and the wet weather could lead to flooding. Maybe some power outages. Definitely, some tree limbs could be brought down with that wind. As we look at the backside of the storm. By Monday morning, we'll have wraparound showers and the winds will still be around. We could even see some wet snowflakes sneaking in as that northwest wind flow brings in colder air. So for the second half of your Monday, we'll clear things out. It's going to stay pretty blustery out there though. Again, Monday afternoon will be about 25 mile per hour wind gusts. Let's check out this 10 day forecast. We are in storm watch for tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow night and Monday morning before clearing things out for the rest of your work week will be feeling cold like December highs in the low forties but remaining dry.

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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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Connecticut

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Hey everyone. It's meteorologist Joe Martucci. Here we are in a storm watch as we go into our Sunday afternoon all the way through Monday morning, the worst of it is going to be 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. where I would advise to stay off the roads. We do have a windswept rain during that time and it's going to be enough to cause some issues. Here's a look at our rainfall totals. Highest totals are going to be the further east you are in Connecticut but anywhere really in Western Connecticut, 1.5 to 3 inches of rain. This will cause some areas of roadway flooding in your basement might flood as well. Wind gusts as we go into the evening, generally 35 to 50 miles an hour. If you see a thunderstorm, it could be higher than that. Looking at our 10 day forecast after Monday morning, pretty much dry for the rest of the week. Few flurries Wednesday, next storm, next Sunday.

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