as well as the damaging winds and over the caribbean islands and also the lower half of the florida peninsula as well. you need to be prepared for stormy conditions into the next 24 hours, and we'll give you all the updates on the developments here. severe weather for the north plains. the dakotas will see tough storms, i think. from nebraska into eastern canada is where the heavy rain and possibly hail and damaging winds, with you from friday into saturday. a few scattered thunderstorms moving through the four corners area. stays hot to the south below that front, particularly kansas and missouri. you have some extreme heat warnings in place. 37 degrees for washington, d.c. you're looking at 38 on saturday, so only getting hotter. behind that it should be a lot better and cooler. now, europe. things are going to quiet down across the west and drying out. we have the thunderstorms right in the middle of the continent. stays hot in the east. that long front line is where we see pretty tough storms through poland and the baltic states particularly but things look better to the west. temperature

, but already it's been bringing quite a bit of rain to the caribbean islands as well as the florida peninsulad expect that to continue. and that rainy area will head northward. all of you in this area really need to watch out and keep updated with what your local reports are telling you. that's a look at your weather for now. and i'll leave you with your three-day outlook. ♪ ♪ >>> tinndged by etheir loved osa prefecture, ntl jan message tham ot "bel will kim rinformation. bu stedly idha the ntbu tesf aer sthkoa. eanon i aewonreeonct fureorrsp,ait s edd inhe

right now it's close to florida, inrighalong the southern tipri d the peninsula.t's moving at about west-northwest at 19 miles per hour. the winds are at 40 miles per hour. keep in mind a storm has to reach winds of 74 miles per hour to be considered a hurricane. as it moves over the peninsula of florida and heads towards louisiana, there's gulf waters out there that are warm, but it's not expected to become a hurricane and then it heads towards the louisiana coast by early sunday morning. expecting to get some seas at 7 to 9 feet. thoug not a lot of rain as it's moving rather fast, but the high seas will be a concern. back to you. >> thanks a lot, craig. >>> an iconic plane just left the east bay this morning on a rare flight to the midwest. nbc bay area's bob redell has been live this morning for us at the hayward executive airport. we just saw the dc-3 take off this morning. what's going on this morning? where is it headed? >> reporter: good morning, brent. there are only less than roughly 100 dc-3s still in existence that are still airworthy. when you air that

we will follow those in a series of meetings in mobile, alabama, peninsula, florida, california, mississippi, texas, and louisiana. those will be conducted between august 4 and september 15, with a goal to report back to secretary salazar with the results of those public forums no later than october 31. it's a lot of work, but it's a lot of important work and we look forward to doing it and i look forward to working but. thank you very much. >> thank you for your statement. let me begin by secretary salazar. will you commit today that the reorganization process will be transparent and this committee will be provided with all the critical details? >> yes. we will absolutely working with the committee, with members of congress relative to legislation on the reorganization as well as the keeping you up to date on the implementation of the new organization. >> now, the reorganization, i want to know, how will the reorganization help to prevent further future disasters? >> well, first, in terms of dealing with some of the ethical lapses which i agree have been abhorrent in the past and which this

peninsula very closely. that in combination will get of the wind up over 20 knots out of the southeast and that will panhandle area of florida. in an in particular, it will move to around the mississippi sound and as we have seen oil approaching the runway is that goes towards lake pontchartrain, we expected that there will be some movement of oil along the mississippi passes. as you know, yesterday we had tarbell's cited on the coast of florida. these were tested and found to be associated with the wellhead itself. the weathering of the oillwas not consistent with that that had made a trip but nearly 400 miles. >> a and we are not ruling out any circumstances. i am here to meet with british petroleum officials. -- we are not ruling out any circumstances. the first thing we will to is we will put into the configuration. we are producing through the joke lines and we intend to take the oil coming out of the kill oil. they are in the process of trying to look this up right now. they are partially part of cooking this up. this goes through a police system and a flexible line comes in to the riser. as you can imagine, you need s