74 million people are under heat alerts. we re talking temperatures up to 25 degrees above average in some places. and right now, texas is bracing for what was just named the first tropical storm of the season, tropical storm alberto, heading toward the gulf coast. and fast. meantime, out west, those deadly wildfires rage on with firefighters battling that relentless heat, and we have team coverage this morning with nbc s sam brock in galveston, texas, nbc s maya egoland in coney island and we have your meteorologist standing by with your forecast. storm prep is already under way there. this is now tropical storm alberto. what is the latest, sam? reporter: sam, we re having a hard time with your mic. let s work on getting that. let s turn to maya who is here in new york, one of the places experiencing these extreme temperatures. how are people coping, maya? reporter: hey, ana, as you can see behind me, some people are coping by taking a dip in the water, but it is ext
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they can do some significant damage. here s the forecast updated path. along this path is where we ll deal with the heavy rain as we go right there you friday. do expect it to be a little rainy. especially mid-atlantic as we go through the first half of the saturday morning. here s the advisories. 13 million people are under flood watches. these are the warnings that we still have out from the heavy rain overnight. if we get new flooding, most likely northern louisiana and right along from memphis to greeneville. that area will get heavy rain this afternoon. there s the area i was talking about. this pink shading, that s up to five inches of rain today. that s a lot of rain. tonight in the memphis area, watch out. nashville, as we go throughout your friday, then as we head to saturday morning through the mountains of west virginia, we could even have heavy rain. the cold front combining with the storm, heavy rains, indianapolis to columbus, that will mostly be throughout your friday. t
light drizzle off the coastline. look at pinks, oranges and red. that s the storm moving you want to north. new york city tomorrow morning, it will be pouring. you don t want to be outside. it will be miserable, raw and rainy. that continues through the afternoon and evening hours. notice the snow is on the backside of the storl. that s where we will expect the highest totals over a foot of snow possible in some of the highest elevations. anywhere you see the pink shading here, get your shovels out, your snow blowers. you ll be having a tough time. it s going to be a wet, clumpy snow. in the big cities tomorrow, expect airport delays. that s the big story out of the storm system. looks like 1 to 3 inches of rain. street and highway flooding. you want to escape the madness? go down to areas like miami, los angeles tomorrow, temperatures in the 70s. don t want to be here. it is freezing cold right now in new york city. now from storm watch to royal watch, the duke and duchess of came r
expecting it to be producing travel headaches. there is a little bit of warm air behind it. you will be seeing above that winter weather over to rains across most of the northeast including places like new york city and philadelphia and mid atlantic. we have winter weather advisories in effect. a couple inches of snow are affected across new york, pennsylvania and even into northern portions of the state of virginia and freezing across north carolina. you are looking at temperatures at the surface around freezing. we will see the possibility for icing on the roadways this morning. it could be thickening up to bring down branchs as well. thi shot of the snow new york, pennsylvania the pink shading is where we have the freezing rain. it has been reported across places in washington, d.c. a big warm stwr warm-up into the 60s.