well my pleasure amy my number one questions people ask me how did you meet so and so in your case years ago four five years ago i saw this photograph of you goal when we're running you can tell people look at us they don't point oh yeah he's homeless he's not he's educated you look and say oh look at the runners it was such a great find to be able to find  organization that uses the ethics the running which is discipline showing up and doing your best sticking with it all of those things using the ethics the running to really get yourself back in the swing of things so usually it is homeless  people who are looking to find jobs or somehow get their housing back and they are invited to be a part of this club where they can earn points and not only become runners but also learn how to do interviews help get affordable housing all kinds of things that literally get them back on their feet right i think you were telling me earlier that you once lived in philadelphia and you were actually one of the not the first reporter actually to see the birth of this movement absolutely you know you know and as well she started this organization basically out on her own run she ran past a shelter and there were some guys there and she said this looks like an opportunity for them to join me and she got them some shoes and just under the concept of hey let's meet at five thirty in the morning and just showing up a sometimes the start of great things and for runners who might be just showing up and it's our first five k our first ten k but for most people just showing up is the start of magical things in their life that when they begin commitments even through exercise of course transcends just the run itself right most people don't think of homeless people well actually she phrased it very specifically dosed people experiencing homelessness and running together right so he started his movement and i think currently not only in new york which started five or six years ago i think it's no more than a dozen cities across the united states so and started in philadelphia and it has grown and her new york city is just such a successful program expanding and all different directions and monday wednesday and friday at five thirty am the residents get together and they run with their different communities and you can also volunteer so you can show up to run with the residents as well many wonderful conversations are had friendships are born and also you train together for local races which is great that's right they train for friend and in fact in looking through the photos i saw one where you were dressed up look like and full farmer men is doing well don't worry i'm not quitting my day job but there is a good story behind that around new york city a lot of the buildings have charity star climbs of course we're all familiar with the empire state run up which are done half a dozen times or so but this particular time is called the n y c memorial stair climb and it's done in memory of course nine eleven and the first responders who sacrificed so much and so what happens is current first responders get into their gear and they climb the eighty some odd flights of world trade center three and they do it as part of a run ra memorial and so usually it's just the firefighters doing this but my local firehouse knew i was coming to do the story and so they thought it would be kind of fun to put me in the fire gear and at the same time someone was making a very generous donation of a thousand dollars are kind of worked out got them over there their home for a lot of fund raising goals and i think it's like me about one thousand twenty minutes to get the top of eighty six floors and i will tell you it's as hard as a marathon going on all those things that they do for us on a daily basis we all know about the big sacrifice but to never forget that is just to remember to appreciate them every day and they're in our neighborhoods and you know working hard  area and i was a baby born to them while they were married in college and so just as they graduated we went back to my dad's hometown which was in southern indiana a little tiny town called jeffersonville indiana it's right across the pool kentucky so since then i've lived in eight states and major cities and i always like to say you know new york's so big time but small towns are a different kind of tough and that's where i was raised think of like friday night lights kind of vibe and energy but no exactly my dad is mr freeze great question freezes my real ass name i was born with and spelled exactly the same way and of course the batman movie references my four younger sisters all have children they call me and they freeze i have a long started me running when i was about eight years old and he would take me out on saturday mornings and he was definitely the community road runner of the eighties showing up in different races when they were just getting started where people were coming together sort of these weekend warriors  few and it was the birth of all the road runner organizations as we know them now seventy's early eighty's and my dad was just so so enthusiastic about this that he brought us along his children for the fun runs and to spectate and mother's heritage is definitely from pioneer heritage coming across the plains she's from the utah area but also my dad's side they were sharecropper isn't southern colorado early on and so we are definitely the pioneer vein of the family country coach coach calbert just a very supportive and encouraging person very disciplined you know making sure that we showed up for practice we were there on time he also supported us on our personal achievements as well what we did in the classroom and  really appreciated that you know looking back on it i think to myself was such a strong influence at the time you know you just seem as your coach showing up every day but just that simple example that he kind of consistently brought to the table for me as a young person has broadcast journalism and that i was working in a newsroom and they said we need someone to do the weather freezes your last name you should do the weather and so it all began there stole your name my name yes that led me to the legacy of actually be on television doing the weather that's great you know if you were working at a police station you would be really has there's actually a study of this so when you have a particular name sometimes that name then influences your career path and it's actually a science called nominative determinism so if you think about it probably somewhere along your life you've crossed like dr bones who's a chiropractor or you know dr crown who and i went and got a master's a great university of pennsylvania so i have an environmental sciences degree and my specialty meteorology has to do with radars and being able to interpret radar data but also it has to do with water quality and storm water runoff so this is a big deal for us here in the borough beyond just a small amount of rain can cause the flooding problems and of course when we get all the rain runoff just a small amount of tenths of an inch of rain can cause water come but call to mind sewer overflows that race into the river and so they take the pollutants of the streets you know as raw sewage out into the waterways and this is the way that we have to to deal with you know limited water capacity but it also affects our water quality so that's what i did my masters research on and i love call broadcast broadcast certificate from the american meteorological society and it was the first woman to give the weather at night in chicago on television dangerously cold it takes just ten minutes and weather like this to get frostbite watching what got to tomorrow morning and when we get really next on fox chicago news so the first chief meteorologist suffer a fox affiliate there in chicago and it was a wonderful opportunity because you know the weather is absolutely crazy there just like it is here in new york oh and you're the weather person it's almost expected to be and it detainer because there's always a little joke going on before the weather tends to be exclusive ten day trend right now we have rain across the area live you script for that because the weather could change up to the moment on t v yeah that's the most surprising thing for people is to find out that it's not scripted and when we talk about the weather it's what we call ad libbing we have a certain amount of time usually around three minutes where we give the forecast but the thing that is very somewhere to what we do compared to everyone else on broadcast is we're telling a story our story is just one that we have to ad lib in really have to tell it within the time constraints so i think it's a relief sometimes for the the anchorman or anchor woman to turn the mike over from unscripted to now the ad lib and so that we're a little more personality might come through and when i start talking about the weather it's basically the things that i've learned on the data that i've collected so i know very well and i use the maps that you see on t v kind of us prompts or even as evidence to say see here is what's happening right here and i think that helps people not only because it elevates their confidence in the forecast they're seeing it for themselves but it also allows them to start to sort of navigate how that weather information is going to help them in their life is so much more now than it you know was years ago because the technology is so quick so i can actually help you not only for what you're going to wear but to freeze going to be over exactly but think about you know if you had your week planned any really you have to get something done outdoors and you know that freezes coming for the second half of the week then you can flop well well you know what is definitely true for boston how far can you really forecast boston for example we'll give you a good fifteen to fifteen day trend sort of a two week outlook and give you a general idea of course i can tell you that in the spring and last and pretty much anything go we had extremes there where it's been very very hot for the runners we had of course last year where we had the extreme rain totally affected the race and we've also had snow during the boston marathon you know so we can give you some trends but we are best seven days out we are very very good five days out and we are the most accurate three days out and the reason for that is because the closer we are to the initial time the better the commute a computer model to get the numbers just ri days if i didn't believe in it i guess seventy you know whether it's to do it all the time i don't know if you heard the story from one of the leading congresswoman just elected from cui since she made a forecast about the weather tomorrow is going to end in twelve years if we don't do something about what the climate so what is your take twelve years really had to the world well you know congress things is happening and there's a lot of science to support that but the interesting thing is that humans have been on the planet for relatively short amount of time time compared to the age of the earth and we know that through science and so the more peer reviewed science that we have gives us better predictions about what could happen in the future now it's true that you know what we do in our lives matters and it affects the environments we live in that's without question but the power of human activity to affect a planet's whether that's still in question in some cases so of course we know when the industrial revolution was happening all the pollution that caused how bad that would be for air quality or water quality some things just make common sense right but the concept of changing a light wall to avoid ice caps in a different place i think that the focus is really just using the best energy possible while being environmentally friendly thinking about the habits that we have and how that affects water earth and even air of course all of those things are very important so the end of the world in twelve years i'm not into that got a prediction business i think will be along for a very long time but i think the quality of our earth does depend on the habits we create and some of it is pretty dramatic and drastic but the evolution of the earth has happened way before we arrived and it will continue for a very long time so there's abduct taishan that we need to make there's certain responsibilities that we have you know but our ability to control what happens on the planet may not be as within grasp as we'd like to believe so i think that human activity is important but i don't necessarily think that we can control whether  either ten twenty fifty years from now how the sea level rise prediction will happen based on what's already occurring that summer weather forecast you know what's happening right now is very dependent on what's going to happen over the next couple of days same thing with large scale predictions what's happening right now we can't predict what's happening in the future however keep in mind weather is not a perfect science and neither is climate prediction so other factors can play a major role in either exaggerating those have so make plans and to make adjustments for our own living environments is extraordinarily important everything from better drainage in our neighborhoods will be doing that with all the parks that you know to drain that are but also just protecting our water quality turning off the faucet it's things like that switching from a very heavily meat based diet to more of a plant based diet can really help with water quality so lots of things to to research the right to terry i'm not but i've been i've been sort of pushing myself towards it warned more because the more i learn about the requirements to produce just a small amount of meat and you know how much water is required for that it kind of it makes sense and also with our nutrition as well i'm not i'm definitely not a proponent of avoid it for and temperatures were freezing and then by the time i finished the marathon four hours later it was fifty five degrees and bright sunshine the snow disappeared so a lot could happen in four hours that was a quite memorable race but now i'm a bit of a social runner so most all of the marathons that i can think of that i've participated in over the years are affiliated with friends that i've met up with or training partners that i've had over time or big experiences as the san diego rock n roll doing new york again i think it's the best one yes i love it it's absolutely so much find my role is sort of transition to a little bit of a recent though instead of for the new york races like new york city half or even a full marathon instead of being a registered runner i run as a broadcaster and so that requires a do not finish because i'm going to be getting on and off the course so i have run the marathon before where they hand me the equipment and i run with it on and i stay on the course the entire time but now that we do actually finished five times you know you've really more to know what the person you're a t v personality i think i describe it too because i guess most weather people are personalities and they have to tell it to go out and your case you could interview other runners because i something in common and so a lot of times when i do a feature on someone we become friends and i know them for a long time afterwards and that's one of the magic things i think about running is whatever way you meet someone that can kind of come into your life and you immediately got something common so it may seem quite glamorous to have the t v person enter viewing you but in reality you're just making another runner and don't be surprised when i cut you up to say hey i loved those rainy ride you don't belong to an actual you you just run with friends and so forth correct i run with back on my feet and i've run with the muscle in my lower research foundation and of course the challenge athletes foundation i've done many events with them over the years and those are just a few of the many organizations that i like to support and and be a part of and see what the high temperature is i think i don't need that i've got the weather right here the value of human forecasters always going to be there to interpret the data or to tell you because if i tell you it's going to be sixty degrees just like you saw on your phone that's not very that's not very good service but if i tell you that sixty degrees is going to feel very muggy and uncomfortable an exceptionally warm that makes a difference to you rather then it's going to feel like a very damp cool sixty degrees are going to want to make sure you have an extra coat your rain gear with you so sometimes the numbers don't always represent the weather and so i think that the future of forecasting really is yes better science but also better interpretation better ability to communicate the message of what the weather feels like i don't want everyone to know how good i am at science or all my expertise what i want them to know is that i'm telling them the right weather so if i'm correct and my message reflects what they feel that's the best reward because as long as i have the do you know the stuff behind the scenes to make sure i know what i'm talking about the message is the most important thing so i challenge people when they want to find their best weather data or their favorite forecaster to sort of listen to the message and see for reflects what they experience a smartphone t know stations across the board so does the sort of the parent company i work for mickey mouse basically the end of the day so definitely on my bucket list is to go and do the disney marathon and it's unique because they not only have the marathon they actually have a series of races it's called the