60 miles per hour, large hail will be a concern. if you live in parts of kansas, missouri, and sections of tennessee and kentucky stay alert as you head into this afternoon. as you head outdoors today keep something in mind. it s national hot dog day. naturally we have nathan s on the plaza and we ll be handing out free hot dogs. i m here with bruce, mike and also lady hot dog, the lady mascot over here and we re going to be handing out not just hot dogs. we re thinking outside the bun. what are other things we have? a nathan s corn dog, hot dog nuggets and different toppings we like to put on hot dog at nathan s. what is a hot dog nugget? a delicious hot dog wrapped in another delicious corn, what would you say? corn breading. very healthy. we want to remind everyone if they re not able to come to the plaza today, you can
parts of texas, oklahoma, kansas and even into missouri are expecting showers, thunderstorms. and some of these storms could produce isolated severe weather in terms of large hail, damaging winds. an isolated tornado thread, we don t think this will be near as bad as the severe weather we saw last week. tomorrow more severe weather expected from texas into sections of arkansas. high temperatures, hot in texas, 90 s. only in the 70 s in new york city. 61 degrees, very cool day in minneapolis. we want to head to the tropics because we have an area of low pressure, showers, thunderstorms off the yucatan peninsula. this system does have the possibility of becoming some sort of tropical cycle. as we head into the next couple of days very cold swatch on hand from the national hurricane center. speaking of the tropics, we want to take you over here where we do have some recipes. steve: welcome to our caribbean theme party on the plaza today. we ve got music and dancing and chuck ryan is here
the first flying car live on our plaza today. it has two seats, four wheels and wings that fold up so it can be driven like a car. we re testing it out here live just 20 minutes away. look out central park. we ll drive it down the avenue of the americas and take off. probably not. it is rush hour but it s cool. tell you how you can park that in your garage straight ahead. in the meantime, the final push for the republican party as there are three states holding primaries today. well, actually, two states and the district of columbia. steve brown is in front of a polling place in berlin, wisconsin with more on primary day! good morning to you, steven. hey there, steve. i try to say three contests. that s why i can cover all territories and all of that stuff. good morning, steve, gretchen, brian, three contests today as he pointed out. we ve got maryland, wisconsin and the district of columbia. interesting story in the wall street journal today, probably interpreted a bunch of diff
like christmas at 30 rock. the plaza tree rode on the plaza today, a 10-ton norway spruce was donated by a family in pennsylvania. the workers will spend the next couple of weeks decorating the tree. it will be in a prime time special here on nbc. which political story will be making headlines next 24 hours. jonathan cape hart joins us now. we are looking at a saturday night debate. i want to hear what they have to have about u becky becky becky stan stan. u kbbecky becky becky stan sn is i way i believe he put it. a foreign policy debate and it will be a test for rick perry. maybe he should bring the five by eight cards or three by five cards. it will be a test for rick
away and they will be marching here where they will be merging with the occupy wall street folks for an even larger rally. i m joined by tyler, one of the protesters, who s been here practically since the beginning. tyler, why don t you describe for me what the mood is today on what people are hoping will be a very big day for your group. there s a palpable excitement at the plaza today in the anticipation of the over 10,000 students, community and union members that are going to join us today in support of the occupy wall street movement. we re just very excited about the potential that this rally is going to show the rest of america that you can make a change if you go out and let your voice be heard. reporter: you know, all along a lot of people have been asking about demands or missions statement. there has been some clarification of a missions statement. can you just summarize that for me? we ve come up with a list of frustrations that we ve been feeling, whether or not the