the charging duo of bobo the monkey and red the dog were promoting the alabama state fair, and they're also there to perform. >>> and now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. road trip to alabama. i'm going to that state fair. >> i thought the racing pigs was always the highlight. now we've upped the ante. >> exactly. we're just going to play it over and over and over again, because i have a feeling that, you know, people like it. >> yeah, a lot of people go to the fair just to see that. let's chat about what happened yesterday in the west with our weather, because it was hot. interior valley california, record high sacramento. on the coast it was a little cooler, in the 80s, but almost everywhere in interior california was in the 100s. it was 105 in phoenix yesterday, but there was areas in oregon that were even hotter than that. officially, the high yesterday was 105 in medford. vegas was 107. this pink ribbon, that's 100-degree heat, and that extended all the way up here into all interior areas of c