washington downtown hotel. refusing to open a restaurant in trump s hotel. he claimed that the president s derogatory comments labeling mexican immigrants as rapists would make it impossible to attract hispanic. near record high temperatures in the northeast. meteorologist joins us now from the cnn weather center. good morning, boris and christine. going to be a mess into the afternoon hours. a lot of rainfall has come down out toward the central portion of the state, houston gets in line for heavy rainfall, generally two to three inches. some pockets could see greater than three inches over the next 36 or so hours. flood watches have been issued
from san antonio out toward austin. wouldn t be surprised if this expands on to houston during the afternoon hours. places like chicago, about 74 yesterday. 52, the best we can do for you. new york city in washington, even in boston, temps closing in on 80 degrees. look at these numbers. we re talking what could be climatologically the first week of summer in some of these spots. new york city, that would be a 5th of july temperature. 83 typically happens on the 24th of june, washington, d.c. still above average for places like new york, washington, so enjoy the next couple of days. pretty mild perspective in store. 82 today in new york. got to enjoy that. we ve been watching this all morning. in a few hours, secretary of state rex tillerson will be heading to moscow amid high tensions with the kremlin. details on his visit, next. hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool?
joining us now from the cnn weather center. approaching the houston metroplex at this point. series of active weather will scoot off approaching shreveport as well as these thunderstorms in place. that should extend 8:00 am eastern time across this region. by this afternoon, we ll get some of these storms that will push through houston as well. localized flash flooding not out of the question. out toward the northeast, temperatures really, for a pretty extensive area of the coastline there 25 degrees above normal. 85 in store for washington, d.c. when it cools off still the upper 70s wednesday, look at new york city, from 82 down to