employment experts say it is, but many smokers are crying foul. those are your headlines. thank you, alisyn camerota. you re welcome. let s check in with rick reichmuth and find out what s going on in the weather. dave: where is it ricky? he s outside. kind after nice day, if you don t want fall to end and clearly or summer to send, i should say, clearly alisyn doesn t, it s nice here, across the eastern seaboard, showers on and off. the temps waking up. 70 s across the eastern seaboard and we have some really high temperatures we re going to talk about in a second. not the case across areas of minnesota, northern missouri right now as you re waking up, not that bad. take a look the at the forecast for today. this is how is shapes up, the eastern seaboard, kind of warm and muggy and feels a little like a nice summer day, tampa you re at 90 and we ll he see pretty significant rain the next couple of days across much of florida and coastal areas of carolinas, and the outer banks