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In a News 12 exclusive, King also reminisced with Kevin Maher about her most famous match 50 years ago this week.  

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The, uh, forecast and looking nice and we're warming up again. We are warming up. It's been cold. But I'm telling you if you dress warm, it's just kind of nice to get out here, taking some of that fresh air. Some of our local Long Island photographers have been getting great photos. Linda was at Fire Island Lighthouse and you can see the sky nice and clear there. But I'll tell you there is quite a good breeze by the water and it has been feeling cold, but now we're going to get a little bit of a break from the cold and the breeze. So overnight 25 degrees mostly clear that cold, but the wind isn't as bad. So it's not going to have that bite in the morning. 48 tomorrow afternoon. That's about 10 degrees warmer than what we've been seeing and it won't be as windy. It's going to be nice, sunny and seasonable. So, enjoy your day. We've had some big lake effect snow bands north and west of Long Island. Those are winding down because the wind is switching to the southwest. You see the weather is quiet across the northeast into the Ohio River Valley and around the Middle Atlantic State. So good news for us. It's clear tonight in the morning at 6 a.m. we are in the upper twenties to near 30 degrees less wind for the afternoon might be a little bit of a breeze from time to time out of the southwest. Only about 5 to 15 MPH. But at three o'clock, you make it to 45 in Montauk, 47 Glen Cove and 46 in Miller Place. So we do have that warmer feel at night, partly cloudy. And then our weather starts to change on Friday. It will be mild. We are in the fifties as early as 10 o'clock in the morning, but rain is coming in late in the day. So after four o'clock, we watch some showers. This will be a fast moving front. By about midnight, the rain moves out. Saturday is dry late Sunday. We have another batch of showers coming in and some of those showers could linger early next week. So we are back up into the fifties for the weekend. Saturday is the better day early next week. Some showers clearing late and turning a little bit cooler later in the week.

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Tennis pioneer, women’s rights icon Billie Jean King sits down with News 12

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Billie Jean King is a tennis pioneer and women's rights icon. Earlier this week, she brought her inspirational message to Ros and in a news 12 Long Island exclusive, she reminisced with our Kevin Maher about her most famous match. 50 years ago this week, Billie Jean King was the perfect person to chat with residents at the Atria Senior living community about staying active because at 79 years old, she has not slowed down. Well, first of all, my mother used to always tell me, Billy, keep moving or it's over. And this week the tennis icon and women's rights pioneer has been very busy celebrating the 50 th anniversary of her famous win over Bobby Riggs in what was known as the battle of the sexes. Did you feel it that it was a massive moment or when did that hit you? I knew it was a massive moment. When I decided to play the match. I knew we'd have probably the biggest audience I would ever play in front of 90,000 people watched worldwide because the match was about more than just tennis riggs. Spent months calling King and all women inferior and weak minded but Billy Jean beat him easily a landmark moment that made her an inspiration for women everywhere. They had self confidence for the first time and they had not had a good plan for their life. And after that match, they said it changed everything. They're going to go for it. They're going to get their education, they're going to become a lawyer. They going to do, they not dare to dream. They finally dared to dream and King believes her win didn't just change what women thought about themselves. It also changed how men thought about their women because that's what men have always said to me. You know, I, I have a daughter. I never thought about her the same way since that match. I want her to have equal opportunity with my son. I, I hadn't really thought about it though. King is now considered an equal rights icon for creating that change, but she says her work is not done. I've tried to think about how can we make the world go forward and help each other and be together in this whatever we do with our lives. And I want people at every age to be happy and fulfilled and it's hard. You got to work at it. Certainly not easy. And that's why Billy Jean is still going and her legacy is still growing. I love what I do and I think I'm going to keep doing it as long as I want to and can, because I think that's what keeps me young in Roslyn Kevin Marr. News. 12 Long Island.

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