pleasure. thank you. a quick check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> a crazy weekend. we will see some areas of the country that are going to be digging out of an epic snowstorm while other locations will be seeing some of the warmest temperatures they ever had this late in the year. a big divide across the country with record heat likely in many areas. dozens of cities are going to be setting record highs next week in the areas of east a and so hot and so dry, we are calling it a flash drought. because some areas haven't seen rain in like three or four weeks. this is what we are expecting today, for the record. yesterday, by the way, macon georgia, 102. montgomery, alabama, 100 degrees. atlanta, a record high of 85. richmond had a record high. raleigh was also a record high. these are the record highs that we will set today. atlanta should be close or tied. birmingham should break. nashville should break. areas of kentucky, tallahassee, should break your record high. you get the idea. and then we are going to go from this weather map to this one. this is the northern rockies.