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Flight attendants at American Airlines have voted to strike. They are fighting for a new contract with pay raises and more staffing on flights. Last week, the airline reached a deal with pilots that gives them a 21% raise and a 46% raise by 2020 seven. The strike vote is largely symbolic because there are many steps that would have to take place before an actual strike happened. But off duty flight attendants are holding informational picketing events at a dozen airports to put pressure on their employer.

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The rally was among 20 happening around the country, including at LaGuardia.

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Back in my day. All right, let's see where the forecast is headed. As we go into the weekend, we've got rain. We have wind and a lot of it. Now, the timing of it is going to be critical. Most of the storminess that we're anticipating for Sunday is going to happen very late Sunday night into early Monday morning, the weekend is salvageable. Saturday is great and warm. We just see a little bit more cloud coverage. The first part of Sunday, up until about maybe three, four o'clock in the afternoon should be dry. Then the showers start and become steadier and heavier when all is said and done. We're likely going to pick up between 1 to 2 inches of rain in our rain gauges and a lot of that is going to happen very quickly and then the winds are picking up also. So it's a wind driven rain and if we do approach wind gusts of 4045 maybe even 50 miles an hour and it lasts for a couple of hours occasionally hitting those gusts, not, it's not gonna be a 34 hour sustained 40 or 50 mile an hour. Wind gust, it's periodically happening, but that's the type of wind that could get the power to flicker from time to time. We're at 39 dropping down to about 32. The opportunity for rain is going to be Sunday night into Monday morning, Saturday is looking great. Sunday afternoon is ok. It's cloudy but you'll be able to feel it in the air that the rain is certainly going to be building. So for tonight, temperatures, twenties and thirties with just a few clouds around Friday is gorgeous with sunshine. Temperatures are back up into the upper forties. We look at the extended forecast and as I mentioned, Saturday is warm but clouds are building Sunday morning, early Sunday afternoon, cloudy dry that changes going into Sunday night into early Monday morning. Give yourself a lot of extra time in that Monday morning routine to potentially deal with some travel headaches, getting wherever you go, the rain and the wind are gone for next week, the sunshine is back out but the cold that returns with morning lows in the twenties and thirties, daytime highs in the lower forties.

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United flight attendants picket outside Newark Liberty ahead of Labor Day weekend

It is very loud. What's going on? Good afternoon, Lauren. That is right. These are dozens and dozens of very frustrated United Flight attendants, they want their voices heard. They're outside terminal c here at the airport in hopes of fixing the ongoing issues they've had and negotiate what they are calling a long overdue fair contract and it's not just taking place here. It's also happening at about 20 other airports including laguardia and many others around the country. Employees are hoping to get to the bottom of many unresolved issues to demand that United fix the operational issues that we've had plaguing us for over a year. Now we have flight attendants when delays and cancellations happen often don't know what their next flight is. They don't know what hotel to go to or they don't have a hotel so they don't get any rest and our calls go unanswered. The customer ends up suffering just as much as the flight attendant. So that's exactly why we're out here today. This protest comes one day after American Airlines flight attendants picket at laguardia emphasizing the importance of all flight attendants, ongoing fights for fair contracts. This protest will be happening through 1 p.m. today for now. We're live at Newark Airport, Kimberly Kravitz News 12 New Jersey.

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