News 12's Blaise Gomez read to a group of young students in the city of Newburgh today for their school’s Read Across America Day event.

Blaise patched in for a virtual visit to read to Mrs. Gonzalez's fifth grade class at Horizons-on-Hudson Elementary School before work this morning!

She read, "If I Built a School," by Chris Van Dusen.

After the book, kids shared their ideas about what their school would look like if they the chance to build one and asked Blaise questions about what it's like to be a journalist