Ernie the fcc has clout and theres some support in congress, but it could be a while before we actually see anything, any legislation of any sort. Reporter getting a bill passed into law seems to take forever. Yes, were not at that phase yet. Ernie well keep an eye on it. Something to think about. Thank you. Other stories to report in the news for you tonight. Local Law Enforcement is criticizing apples decision to fight a court order demanding the company unlock the iphone used by the suspect in the San Bernardino terror attack. Apple says creating Encryption Software would make its iphones vulnerable to hackers. Investigators say the information on the phone is crucial to the case and national security. Today iphones are the first Consumer Product that i know of in our history that are designed to be and are beyond the reach of judicially authorized warrants. Ernie commissioner bratton taking aim at apple. He says the nypds inability to access an iphone, despite having investigation into the recent shootings of two nypd officers in the bronx. Pope francis is weighing in on the zika outbreak, suggesting its okay for women to use Birth Control if theyve been exposed to the virus. The zika virus has been linked to severe brain defects in babies born to infected mothers. And president obama will make month. The white house says the president will visit the island nation march 21st and 22nd and will meet once with president raul castro. It is the first time a sitting u. S. President visits the country in seven decades. Thats whats happening in the news. Lets talk weather. The weather is nicer and getting nicer. Nick it is. After a cold night and after a bit of cloud cover coming tomorrow, but the weekend is going to be that milder point. Ernie high temperatures . Nick 50s this weekend. Nick well ernie not quite. Were thinking about it. March can bring some surprises. Weve had bigger snowstorms in march. We can all dream. I do it all the time. 36 and 27 today. A little below average. Tomorrow. I think it will be even colder in the morning here in the city. Well probably stop around 36 tomorrow afternoon. High. 29 for the low. And the records are 68 and 0. Youll see a beautiful sunrise tomorrow, but then the clouds come in, first the mid to high clouds and that will increase through the afternoon. Its down to 33 now. Generally a clear sky. The wind still out of the north 10 to 15 miles ahour. Were heading into a cold night with dry air, humidity only at 20 percent. Pressure is strong and rising. 30. 46. Middle 30s most of the area today. Montauk, 36. Same at bridgeport. 34 poughkeepsie. 27 in monticello. Back to freezing at sussex. Mid 30s at the jersey shore. Its 20s north and west like 30 in the hudson valley. 21 sullivan county. Back to freezing at belmar and right around that or below it as you move out towards long island. Were down about three to six, seven degrees from 24 hours ago. Heres the wind out of the north. 10, 15 miles an hour. It was gustier earlier. It will back off a bit tonight and tomorrow well see a northeast wind early that will become southerly by the time we get into the afternoon. It shouldnt be that big of a factor. Fox 5 sky guardian, well, with no clouds to speak of, its clear for tonight and should be a quiet night. You can see the satellite photo showing its clear. One lonely cloud that popped up over queens. Thats about it. These clouds are ahead of the milder air thats trying to move back into the picture for the weekend. You take a look at our bigger picture. High pressure is the weather maker now. Were on the colder side of that with a northerly wind. It will slide offshore and then the wind will change. It will become south and southwesterly as we go into tomorrow and into the weekend. Ahead of this milder air, you generated as the warm air goes up and over the cold air. Its causing a couple of rain and snow showers. Well see a few of those late tomorrow night into saturday morning. That should be it. Clear out the door. 23 in the city. Teens in the suburbs. 32 at lunchtime as the clouds increase. It will take pretty much the whole day to get to the high of 36. And a couple of rain and snow showers tomorrow as youll see on the futurecast. Those disappear. Here comes saturday and milder air into the 50s we go with a southwest wind. This front isnt going to do much. Well slightly cool down on sunday. Were looking at low 50s on sunday. Tonight, clear. Its down to 23 in town. As low as 10 in the colder valleys. 36 tomorrow in the afternoon. A rain or snow shower tomorrow night. No big deal. Lots of sun saturday. Breezy in the afternoon. 55. Lower 50s sunday. A shower sunday night, monday morning and sun, 45. Tuesday the clouds return. 43. Wednesday we watch for a could be snow and or rain or both. Just for one day. A snow shower may start thursday and then it improves after that. Ernie thanks, nick. Well be back right after the break with more on our black History Month celebration and well go to Medgar Evers College to show you the amazing opportunities theyre giving young africanamerican students. The College President will join me live next here on fox 5. Ernie welcome back to our feature story. We continue our week long celebration of black History Month with a focus on education. Its an area historically filled with roadblocks and young africanamerican students are often missing out on opportunities. But as Stacey Delikat shows us at Medgar Evers College in brooklyn, the openings are seemingly endless. Check it out. Reporter at Medgar Evers College, 6700 students are working hard to get their degrees. The school, established in 1970, is part of the City University of new york, but has a very unique identity. Medgar evers is next to the field. Thats where Jackie Robinson 1947. Reporter Richard Greene has taught history here for 24 hours. Whatever your major is, theres some history, some black history in this moment. Reporter the school is named for civil rights activist medgar evers who organized Voter Registration efforts and fought to end the segregation of schools. He was assassinated in 1963. Our mission is to make sure that his ideals and ideas go on and thats what we do every day. Reporter we sat down with students who told us evers legacy has influenced their education. My main reason why im here is because of the significance. Mr. Medgar evers. He gave us a chance to vote, and that was very important to me. We have people of all backgrounds, various races and cultures as well. When we come together, its one family. I think that precisely is what there are opportunities here. Once you tap into it, it can take you places. Reporter the College Offers associate and baccalaureate degrees and provides students support beyond academics through programs like the center for law and justice and the empowerment center. We try to teach our men here to understand that they have purpose. Reporter while the colleges mission is to honor the history of civil rights, its also about creating the leaders of the future. Students may not have gotten a College Education elsewhere. We give them that opportunity to be able to obtain a College Education through the programming and through the academics. Theres a medgar evers quote that you can kill the man, but not the idea. And that itself translates into creating the new students. Measures of the colleges success. Each year enrollment goes up and so does the graduation rate. This year, 1,500 students are expected to complete their degrees this spring. In brooklyn, im Stacey Delikat. Ernie, back to you. Ernie all right. Thank you very much. Joining us right now is dr. Rudy crew, the president of Medgar Evers College. So good to have you here. Thank you. Ernie were doing quite an interesting celebration all this week. Were focusing on education. You must be proud. I mean, the college has such an outstanding reputation. You have to be proud of the faculty, the staff and the student body. Well, you know, you said it right. This is a place that has a legacy of pride and against many obstacles and things that people basically in many cases really didnt know whether or not were even possible. Yet theres a way that this college has upheld itself. It has strengthened itself over time. We have an incredibly strong and vibrant faculty. The same would be true for our student body. Nature and the character of all of central brooklyn in terms of education. Ernie it really does. One of the missions of your college is to create leaders of the future. Tell us specifically how do africanamerican students feel about those opportunities that are ahead for them . You know, i think i would characterize their feeling about their future as not just optimistic, but extraordinary ly ily gifted, that these opportunities are things that they have been seeing and wanting and pining for for some period of time. They have worked hard to get in the sort of glide path of seeing those opportunities come their way. Theyve overcome tremendous amounts of obstacles in route. So the question really becomes how do they then assume the natural position in the 21st owner of a company, as a member of a community, and they are doing that with tremendous, tremendous, tremendous joy. Ernie so many different roles. I know you work very hard to bring students and parents together. You have so many programs. I often ask about the productivity of the university. Educational systems in general. Here you are a College President , an education luminary. What can colleges do and what can we do as we celebrate black History Month to really bring that to the forefront . I mean one of the things that i think is going to be incredibly important is that people, particularly young africanamericans who are in the pipeline of coming to college, that they see the Value Proposition of going to college, that they see themselves as being able to do the work, that they are literate, that they have math skills and science skills, that they have opportunities to acquire these skills as we go through elementary, middle and high school and that theres a really begin to develop and hone their sensibilities as young men and women about career choices that theyll make. I think cuny is doing an extraordinary job with a host of programs aimed primarily at being able to do this for all students. In my college, particularly for africanamerican students, what were basically saying is we do not want anybody left behind or failing or without the prospect of ernie and youre doing a great job. Congratulations for all you do, dr. Rudy crew, Medgar Evers College. Come back and join us. We love the updates. Thank you. A reminder to join us tomorrow. Onemore day in our black History Month celebration. Well look at sports and be joined live in the studio by a former jet and giant who is now a doctor. A good interview coming up tomorrow. First ive got my question about putting yourself out there. Watch. Would you sing karaoke in front of strangers or do you have to know the people if youre going to sing like that . Are you comfortable or on the shy side . Well find out what people said. Thats coming up. Morning ted scott ready to hit some balls . Ooh hey buddy, what s up . This is what it can be like to have shingles. Oh, man. A painful, blistering rash. If you had chickenpox, the shingles virus is already inside you. 1 in 3 people will get shingles in their lifetime. After almost 3 weeks, i just really wanted to give it a shot. M not feeling it today. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist today about a vaccine that can ernie all right. Russ is joining us right now. Pitchers and catchers, thats the catch word. Thats great. Spring training. Russ weve been talking about it now. Officially today was the first reporting day for the mets for while were freezing our, for lack of a better term, butts off here, Duke Castiglione is down in port st. Lucie enjoying himself in the fun in the sun and hes going to tell us what everybody had to say today on the First Official report day for pitchers and catchers. Duke . Reporter russ, ernie, today mets pitchers and catchers took their physicals. It wasnt a mandatory workout, but a lot of guys working out. The firstfficial workout is tomorrow. But the one guy that is impressing everybody this spring is syndegaard. Terry collins talked about his 6 foot 6 right hand er er. He said something very interesting. He said hes never seen a guy mature so much in one year. I talked to him about the great young pitching staff. Like the braves in the 90s with the guys that competed on and off the field, i asked if they have anything like that with the mets. We always have a competitive nature. Were always thinking were a team and we have one goal and were always pushing each other to get better and watching each others bullpens and before the game. Thats something thats pretty cool. Its camaraderie within ourselves. Reporter does it help that youre all power pitchers . Yeah. We all have the same game. Were all kind of different in certain aspects. Reporter so they all are power pitchers. Remember, theyre going to add zack wheeler to the mix late june, early july. This pitching staff, when you look at it, just so good and getting better. Pitchers and catchers work out tomorrow for the first time. And we will be this. Thats the story. Were live from port st. Lucie, back to you. Russ thanks very much. Well talk to you tomorrow. Ernie lets talk about the nba trading deadline. Russ its no longer today. Its over. For all the talk about the knicks and carmelo anthony, would he be going someplace, he is still a knick and will be on the Court Tomorrow to face the nets. Ernie kind of expected that, didnt you . Russ ernie, everybody sends out feelers. You could send out a feeler for steven curry or lebron james. Youre seeing what interest is out there. As far as the nets, they made some noise today because they hired their new general manager, sean marks. Ernie any good . Russ he was an assistant gm for a great organization, the san years. Choices. He doesnt need to be a good gm. He needs to be a good magician because hes got to go through a bag of tricks to make that team better. Ernie thanks, russ. A great moment today on long Kathleen Rice presented a long overdue p. O. W. Medal to a world war ii veteran who was shot down over germany. He spent 13 months as a prisoner of war being being liberated in 1945. I am no hero. I did my job the best i could and i was one of the lucky ones to come back home. The real heros were the thousands of young soldiers that were sent overseas and never came back. I was lucky to come back. Ernie he has served as a b24 tail gunner in the war and we applaud your service and those beautiful words. All right. Singing karaoke can be fun, but would you do it in front of strangers . Thanks for watching the news at 6 00. Now you can connect with me on facebook. Go to facebook. Com Ernie Anastos. Check it out and you can also answer my daily positive questions. Go to facebook. Com Ernie Anastos. Ernie are you ready for this . Would you sing karaoke in front of strangers . Oh, i will not do it at all. Ernie you will not. Ever. No. Ernie not in front of strangers. No. Ernie with friends . Only if im really drunk. Ernie would you ever sing karaoke in front of strangers . Absolutely. Ernie no reservations . Why . Im just an open person. Thats it. Ernie have you ever done that . Have you ever sung in front of a crowd . I have. Ernie and you felt comfortable . Ernie can you sing something for me now . I was just listening to rod stewart. Forever young. I like the challenge. I like to see if i can pull off a tune. Ernie so strangers would be good for you . You dont want to have to necessarily feel its people that i like to have some friends around. Only in the shower. Ernie only in the shower. Only in the shower. Ernie no karaoke. No karaoke. Yes, im in love. Ernie youve done the karaoke thing. We have a winner, folks. You have no reservations singing in front of a karaoke crowd . Strangers and all . No. Ernie good for you. Youve got a great voice. Stay happy. Thanks a lot. Bye i want to hear what you think. Join me on facebook. Thanks for being here tonight. For all of us, im Ernie Anastos our whole staff, big john, give us a wave, thank you for being part of the show. Have a wonderful night and well see you tomorrow. Karaoke guys . You like to sing . 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