parade. rick: one of the best days of the year being at the parade, a beautiful event going on now and the weather is quite nice for the parade and this is a live shot, out at times square, look at that, some of the balloons, floating down through times square, is that "kung fu panda," pokemon, "spider-man," lined up along the road? absolutely a spectacular day. no wind in new york city, to blow those balloons around and it means they let the balloons fly, really high, and, makes for a much for spectacular shot. and, a great morning, i tell you what, a lot of people now are trying to get home and here's the temperature, crazy things are going on, 42° now in dallas, 73° in san antonio and 22 in kansas and 70° in memphis and when you have a temperature contrast like this, there is major weather going on and that is exactly what is happening. the cold air is behind the storm that brought a lot, a lot of rain and severe weather, during the day yesterday. across parts of the plains as well as significant snow in across areas of the north. we'll continue to deal with very