"new york times" white house correspondent, glenn thrush, "usa today's" heidi przybilla. tomorrow, valley jarrett, her first interview since leaving the white house. but first, here is bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? >> good morning. umbrella weather in d.c. and a lot of other areas, watching murky weather headed through north carolina, all of virginia and west virginia. if we get severe storms today, we're focusing on iowa, kansas city, chicago. these could be big hail producing storms, too. we'll show you those tomorrow. des moines to the quad cities most at risk. in total, 18 million people. the warm temperatures continue for the middle of april, 86 in st. louis, 82 in the atlanta. cooler in new york city, philadelphia and bostoning some of the air coming in off the ocean. got our temperature records in for march. now we're setting pretty impressive streaks here. now going in the last year, it was officially the warmest year