Shannon Brown of "Moonshine Martinis: A 60's and 70's Country Cabaret" stopped by as our Friday Forecaster! You can catch the show Monday, May 5 @ 9:30 pm and Friday, May 9 @ 9:00 pm at The Laurie Beechman Theater inside the West Bank café located at 407 W 42nd Street, just west of 9th Ave, New York City. For more log onto www.moonshinemartinis.com. For reservations call (212) 695-6909.

Melissa is a counselor at Camp Quality and Claire (an amazingly wonderful 7-year-old, who has leukemia that is in remission) is a camper. Camp Quality is a volunteer driven charity providing a week long summer overnight camp for children with cancer.

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Master Sergeant Anthony M. Pizza stopped by as our Friday Forecaster to talk about The New York Leatherneck Ball. It is the oldest and one of the largest fundraisers for the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation.

The 46th Annual New York Leatherneck Scholarship Ball is being held Friday, April 18, 2008 at The New York Hilton at 6:00 p.m. Reception 7:30 p.m. Dinner Black Tie or Dress Uniform. Tickets are $1,000 a person. For more information, log onto www.leatherneckball.org.

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She's from Manhattan. She's a knock out. Perfect, right? Well get this, she's also a paramedic with St. Vincent's Manhattan and will be undergoing training to be a member of the Pope's motorcade. If that don't make mom proud. The Archbishop Celestino Migloire, Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See, (the Pope's liaison to the UN and the coordinator of his visit), will be blessing the ambulances that will be in the Pope's motorcade Friday, April 4th at 5 PM.

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We continue the tradition of having our viewers come in and become on-air personalities by doing our Friday 8:30am weather hit, thus breaking down that 3rd wall. It may only seem like a moment, but it does fulfill at least 2-3 minutes of one's allotted 15 minutes of fame.

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The winner of the National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest will be here to do the weather. Fifteen-year old Benjamin Russell who took home the grand prize with a pair of two year-old sneakers that nearly caused the judges to pass out.

Today our Friday Forecaster is Tonya Samuels, a big fan of our show and someone who has dreamed of being a TV reporter her whole life. Judging by today's weather performance, Tonya would be a killer TV reporter, it's never too late!

Tom's a local artist and brought in a couple of his paintings, and boy, does he do some amazing stuff. You can see Tom's work prints, posters and T-shirts at The Times Square Information Center, 7th Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets, or you can fill out the form on his website.

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Nothing sets up a Friday quite like than the sight of about 30 elementary schoolers taking over the newsroom at 7am. These kids were really good, too, stealthy, they came in and before anyone knew, they were on the air telling the entire New York area what weather to expect this weekend. Linda had a great time, the kids had a great time, and who knows, it probably won't be long until some of those very children will be drawing salaries here.

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Emmy-award winner, Mallory Lewis, daughter of legendary lamb chop creator, Shari Lewis was our friday forecaster today. She will be appearing at the Cutting Room in New York City, on Friday night, February 29, for the evening of comedy. Get everything Mallory Lewis at her website lambchop.tv. The event will benefit the Fisher House Scholarship Fund. For more information, log on to www.fisherhouse.org

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Andrew Rabinowitz stopped by as our Friday Forecaster! For more information on his foundation R Baby Foundation, log onto http://www.rbabyfoundation.org/.

She's a viewer who loves the Morning News and also an actor & waitress. Funny, you don't see that much here.

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He's a viewer who says "I would love to be your weather person for the day because I've been an avid CW Morning News Watcher since the CW11 started the morning news. I've always had a passion for meteorology and I do things like check the record high and low for today's weather."

Robin is coming in with her Girl Scout troop. One of the girl scouts will do the weather...the rest (7 or so) will just be in the studio, off to the side for the segment.

Newark (NJ) Fire Department has created a 2008 Newark Firefighters Calendar. Newark Firefighter Raul Malave, Mr. January, was here flexing his muscles for us live. All proceeds from the sale of the calendar will benefit the Newark/Ironbound Boys and Girls Club to purchase computers and other much needed equipment for the countless inner city children and seniors who frequent the club.

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To purchase a calendar, or for more info email: flames5112000@yahoo.com, tipman18@msn.com, fire178man@yahoo.com or worknfire10@yahoo.com.

Or you can pick one up at the Clinton Avenue Firehouse located at 360 Clinton Ave.

The winners of My Wendy's High School Heisman Moment, Briggs Orsbon and Lauren Phipps, stopped by as our Friday Forecasters! For more info on My Wendy's High School Heisman Moments log onto http://www.takkle.com/wendysheismanmoment

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She’s the owner of Harriet's Alter Ego and, besides the weather, which has been a life-long dream of hers to do right here on CW1, she's here promoting Shop N' Mingle 2007 event. It takes place on Sunday, Dec. 2nd from 1pm to 7pm at National Black Theater located at 2031-33 Fifth Avenue between 125th and 126th … * Emerging Designers * Beauty Makeovers * Complimentary Cocktails & Desserts * FREE Goodies *

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