650 billion dollar budget shortfall. mike: that s one of those things, if you build it they will come and buy bikes. alisyn: you know, new york tried this and some people think it s great and some people are angry. mike: and philly is doing the same thing, putting more bike lanes in. cabbies hate it. it drives them nuts. dave: yeah, kind of like bikers don t pay a lot of attention to cars. i like in new york when you re a bike and you acted like a car, seemed like the safest way i m going to drive like i m in a car. alisyn: in your lane. rick: now in the bike lanes i m afraid of cars cutting into the bike lanes. alisyn: i m afraid to cross the street because a bike can take you out. rick: that s true. mike: i afraid of everything. rick: hey, guys, across the central part of the country where the drought is going on. not a whole lot of rain to be had here, heavy rain across texas and towards the central gulf area where the majority of the rain is going to stay and
that true. i will tell that you lunesta which i take twice a week on the weekend nights makes me completely put horrible things out there on texts or twitter or facebook. if you see some random facebook or twitter update like 10:30 on a friday or saturday night. generally it s been induced by some other go right to sleep. lunesting. it s true. a ton going out there. a lot of changes are going to happen this week. going to feel like fall for some. first, obviously, tropical storm lee out there that s a big concern across the central gulf area. areas like new orleans. over towards gulfport mississippi and alabama. see very heavy rain falling and tornado concerns. this picture is going to look like this two days. flooding threats. inland flooding. not coastal surge flooding. places get too much rain. move forward and take a look at how much rain is going to fall.
those are the headlines. and now rick has a check of our weather and the serious situation facing the folks in north dakota. they have a rough couple of weeks with the river cresting and staying at high level mark for five days and shely slowly move down. a lot of weather the last couple of days hanging on into the northeast and, today, the moisture will be across new england from around new york city through the mid-atlantic states. and this could be isolated thunderstorm as the day heats off. in florida and across the coast of the mid-atlantic, rather, the central gulf area but the big story is across nebraska dealing with heavy flooding along the missouri river, and now you can see the rain, right across the i-80 area with gnash flash flood warnings in omaha. more severe weather across the mississippi river valley and some across the dakotas and the
and the simple truth is, this is the part of the country, this broad swathe of states from about alabama over to texas sort of down near the gulf, the central gulf area, that led the country in the increased amount of driving as the country tried to crawl out of the recession. more people doing business, more people traveling, more people buying, trying to make things happen. rural areas by and large have moved up in their travel as we ve tried to recover. the result is that last year, americans traveled 3 trillion miles, the highest number since 2007. that s 20 billion more miles than in 2009. and yet, all up and down these roads, wolf, i can tell you, many people may not want to talk a lot about what s happening in libya but they ll talk to you what s happening at their gas station. listen. gas prices are ridiculous. me and my wife really we have to figure out should we eat or should i go to work.