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Learn all about the history of New Jersey's role when it comes to air and space accomplishments in this week's Road Trip: Close to Home. 

<b>News 12 New Jersey</b> photojournalist Mike Roberts takes viewers to the Aviation Hall of Fame in Teterboro to explore the Garden State's unique history.

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In this week's Road Trip: Close to Home, News 12's Mike Roberts visits the Aviation Hall of Fame in Teterboro.

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Right now on mornings on news, 12 new video showing the moment firefighters get launched into the air when a building's roof collapses in West New York and breaking this morning, take a look at these flames as a fire breaks out at a home in Woodbridge. We're live at the scene and we are continuing this morning to track the rain coming into New Jersey. We'll tell you what to expect for the weekend as well. Smoking. It's still allowed in Atlantic City casinos this morning. The divide that prevented a vote from banning it from even taking place. And Good morning. Thanks for joining us here on mornings on news 12 on a Friday, December 1st. I'm m mad and I'm Simon Choudry. So we've been talking about the rain. Will it affect our weekend plans? Let's check in with storm watch team. Meteorologist, Alex Calam. Not a bad start to December temperature wise though. Now it's true. It is cold out there this morning in the mid twenties for North Jersey, interior parts of the state only in the twenties, but we are all warming up very quickly. I want to take you to one of the cooler spots. Somerset County is sitting in the mid twenties right now. At Best Rocky Hill is 30. So you definitely need to jack it early but you don't get by mid morning, at least not the heavy jacket. You're sitting in the mid forties. The wind is very calm today but clouds are building and we have a chance for rain. It is after all the first day of December and on average temperatures are right around 49. So this is just about right for this time of the year. But by the end of the month, we go down to 41 for your average morning temperature on average by the end of the month, 28. And yeah, December typically is when we see our first snow of the season last year though. We didn't see our first inch of snow until February this weekend. We're just talking plain old rain and there could be plenty of it on Sunday. Saturday looks dry and cloudy and mild coming up. We'll show you what those numbers look like. Alex. Thank you breaking this morning. Emergency crews working a fire in Middlesex County news. Tell New Jersey's Tony.

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Aviation Hall of Fame in Teterboro displays New Jersey's unique history

We're learning all about the history that New Jersey's role had when it comes to air and space accomplishments. And this week's road trip close to home, photojournalist, Mike Roberts takes us to the Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum in Peterborough. We are very proud here at the Aviation Hall of Fame in our passion and our love of teaching young people and everything in our museum has a connection to engineering flight or space exploration in New Jersey. I was a logistics engineer, so I got to spend a good portion of my aerospace career working for the United States Air Force and I was so blessed to contributed so much to so many great military programs, the incredible birth of aviation and just how phenomenal and exciting it must have been for those men. This is my retirement job and who could ask for a cooler retirement job than this. New Jersey truly has the most unique history in the country right above me is the Gloria two. This rocket plane absolutely began American rocketry in the 19 thirties from the first aerial flight which is a balloon ride in 17 93 took off in Philadelphia and landed in Depford, New Jersey. We have many of the engines that flew on aircraft that were all built here in Bergen County, Catherine Anne Halbert. She was one of New Jersey's Wasps. The Watts played an incredibly important role in American military aviation as both test pilots and as ferry pilots. We also have a whole wall dedicated to space exploration. We're in our aviation hall of fame. We have over 190 inductees, Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart Buzz Aldrin are all here enshrined in this room. This is our wall of honor. This is really for current or former veterans and each branch of the service is represented. And if you can see there are well over 1000 signatures, human beings want to explore and aviation and space to quote, Captain Kirk are the final frontiers and that passion inside all of us when we ask the question and we look at the stars. What's out there? What's up there? Can I ever find out? Can I go? That's what it's all about. Didn't know that existed here in our state. That's fantastic to see more places. New Jersey has to offer. Be sure to tune into our road trip close to home show tonight at seven and 9 30.

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