winds. including southern north carolina and that's that slight risk. we're just now starting to see those storms pop. a severe thunderstorm watch is now in effect, and here's our first little storm moving to the greeneville area. this one has the potential to maybe drop some hail there. doesn't look like a super cell. probable not looking at tornadoes today. this will be difficult travel weather as everyone is trying to get out of town for the big holiday weekend. of course, everyone wants to know what's the weather going to be like. let's start with the bad news. across the plains, rain and storms are likely. this is tomorrow's weather. saturday is a bit of a wash-out here in portions of oklahoma, portions of the panhandle there. northeast, a few scattered showers and storms tomorrow afternoon. not a great beach start to the weekend there. beautiful sunshine, though, across the southeast. that's more like it there in the carolinas. hot and dry weather in florida. now, it gets a little better day by day, so by sunday back to near 80 across much of the northeast. it starts to feel like summer for the unofficial start. sunshine builds in around new york city.