get a little closer to our area. severe thunderstorm watch up for the entire area until 8:00 p.m. let s talk about that watch. goes down to the carolinas. all the way up to pennsylvania and new york. this is a watch far and wide out up ahead of the weather front. 86 some heat today and, again, high humidity out ahead of this weather front. as we look at your good night forecast, chance of storms scattered storms up until about 5:00, 6:00 and then 6:00 and 8:00 and more numerous and they start to wane by 11:00 p.m. we ll cool down into the 70s but keep an eye in the sky and we ll see high wind and some hail and we ve got another stormy day coming up as we take a look at the holiday forecast. jim? all right, veronica, thank you. aaa projects that some 868,000 people from our region will travel this holiday weekend. for those beach bound, more than 363,000 are expected to travel across the big bay bridge. news 4 megan mcgrath explains right now for drivers trying to avoid th