and now the radar for the u.s.: northeast dealing with showers and storms this afternoon and this morning areas of new england are seeing showers and a gray start the day but it will be better and tomorrow we will see sunshine across the most and that will be a nice break for people. across the southeast, areas of florida seeing showers and thunderstorms this afternoon, and typical for this time of the year and the heaviest rain is across the central plains and nebraska and areas that dealing with significant flooding and some of the spots seeing around 2" or 3" of rain across the missouri riff valley seeing record flooding and another 2" or 3" causing flash flooding, and, today, but -- brutally hot across texas and today, getting close to all time highs in amarillo. >>dave: nothing rick likes better than sitting on the we