captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to today on this friday morning. i m ann curry, good morning, everybody. and good morning, ann. i m natalie morales in for matt this morning. we ve step outside to be right near the gorge russ rockefeller christmas tree as the countdown is in fever pitch, two days to go before christmas, this is as quiet as you re going to see it. this is the eve of the eve. all eyes are on the roo and we had pretty big downpours in the northeast overnight. in fact there was actually a storm in parts of georgia. it was a very powerful storm and so the question this morning is, what does mother nature have in store for us today and the rest of the holiday weekend? we re going to get the forecast coming up straight ahead. and in these economic times i think we all need a holiday feel-good story and we ve got one for you, anonymous angels picking up the layaway tabs for families in need all across the country. we ll have much more on