into this evening. this is at 6:00 p.m. the line of storms near lacrosse heading towards ames and through omaha. they weaken as they approach chicago and milwaukee overnight. tomorrow we do it all over again as the front lingers in the area. this is p.m. saturday. you'll be dodging the storms kansas city, st. louis, most of the storm should be just to your north. from peoria to springfield and chicago you'll have storms to dodge saturday. today's forecast very warm in the middle of the country. as we head towards the weekend, this is when we'll watch the midwest storms on saturday especially heading around areas like chicago and iowa. southeast will dodge some storms and finally heading into sunday, we continue to watch isolated storms notice ohio valley. notice we hid 95 in d.c. on sunday. things warm up on the east coast. it looks like a nice beach weekend for many areas of the eastern seaboard. >> monsoon storms on saturday in the southwest?