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concerned about, especially across the areas of the gulf coast up towards the southeast and the carolinas, the ohio river valley, interior northeast. we ve got this jet stream sort of banked up, all of this rainfall and then high pressure in the atlantic is funneling all this moisture from the tropics, and it s just pounding across portions of the florida panhandle. look at some of the rainfall over the last 48 hours, in some cases over a foot of rain just north of panama city and south of tallahassee. this is going to be ongoing, unfortunately, for the next day or two, and it could a damper on fourth of july activities. we also have a flash flood warning west of tallahassee. otherwise, the rest of the country fairly quiet. afternoon thunderstorms across the four corners which could cool things off a little bit. 83234 kansas city, 82 in chicago. new york, you will remain dry. that high pressure in the atlantic is going to keep most of the coast from the mid
nbc s carrie sanders has been monitoring the trial all day long and joins us now from sanford, florida. give us a sense, we ve been so focused what s going on inside the courtroom. give us a sense what s going on outside the courthouse with the crowds and the people who are gathered there. you know, actually the crowd s never really materialized here. it s 97 degrees outside. so that probably has a lot to do with it. we have the afternoon thunderstorms. and while they set up a little protest area or a demonstration area outside the courthouse anticipating that people may want to exercise their free speech, they actually don t have the ability to use speakers or hold umbrellas and so most of those who thought that they might come down here said they felt it was a little restricted. remember, when this first happened, most of those who were demonstrating protesters said it is that they wanted a fair
temperatures close to 120. some places as hot as 130. yeah, that is way too hot. we are going to show you that. ohio, this morning, you are waking up with heavy thunderstorms in the area. that same area that same storm that is pushing to the east. we are talking about heavy rain. we are dealing with the moist, gulf air this time of year. we get the winds from the south and the humid air. the cold front that produced the storms in ohio is pushing east. we ll talk about heavy rain as we go to the weekend. with that, we re talking about areas of slight risk and the threats of heavier thunderstorms. what everyone is talking about what a gorgeous weekend it was last weekend and this weekend, not so much. three to five inches of rain pushing through the mid-atlantic. it s not just us in the northeast down to the southeast. we are going to talk about rain. they are going to get the typical afternoon thunderstorms. of course, we were talking about the storms. we are talking as high as 120 and
week. it s called a bermuda high. we re looking at the warm air going from the southeast to the northeast. it s not just bringing in the warm air, it s also bringing in the humidity, all that moisture cruising up the northeast and for that reason we re talking about afternoon thunderstorms from the northeast down to the southeast. on the west coast it s drier but temperatures moving up to 120 to 125 degrees, the only benefit of getting up at 2:00 a.m.. it was still warm up when we got up. it s still hot. you know it will be a bad or hot day total. there say lot of news developing at this hour, let s get straight to michaela for the latest. good morning to everybody at home. we are still in suspense over some major supreme court cases including two on same-sex marriage and one on voting rights. the high court will convene to denounce more decisions. which of these six remaining