. >> let's kick it off now and memorialize one of our greatest presidents, our own rick reichmuth is in washington this morning at the lincoln memorial. rick, what are you doing there? >> great really nice lead-in and you are absolutely right, what a great way this weekend to honor certainly our country and a lot of our wounded vets and our returning soldiers. here at the lincoln memorial on the steps. big event here, pushups for charity. the goal today is to get 50,000 pushups done. and that all in these 90 second time frames. go to pushups for charity.org, can you can get an idea what we are going to be doing. doing pushups all morning on the the steps of the lincoln memorial. >> take a look at the weather maps. show you what's going on. very heavy rain falling down across parts of the southeast overnight. big problem since really early june has been all of this moisture that's across the central plains into the northern plains. and more rain falling there today, very heavy rain this morning. across parts of western and central kansas and that's causing localized flooding there out

of the actors have had a long time bureau -- bromance. >> he is set to marry in september. >> rick reichmuth. what's your name? >> dillon. >> you are excited to be here, aren't you? >> um-huh. >> why? >> because i love fox news. >> wow. >> i swear to god i had no idea that was coming. nicely answered. >> i think these guys too. >> take a look at weather pictures. temperaturewise, it is pretty nice everywhere. a little bit humid down to the south 90 in phoenix, still this morning and it's cool across parts of the northeast. kind of the northern corners of the country are cool. few showers moving through the mid-atlantic today. some could be severe across parts of the carolinas. nothing that i'm too worried about. the bigger problem we have had all of the rain we have seen this week across areas of nebraska, iowa, into minnesota and more rain going on right now. we also are going to have more rain going on overnight again tonight. potential for continuing flooding across a lot of these areas. this is a future radar. you see what happens today. we clear out a little bit and throughout the after

. >>> let's get over to rick reichmuth now, how will our father's day shape up, rick?> happy father's day. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> not bad. there are trouble spots across the central part of the country, but both coasts are looking good. if you liked yesterday, it will be warmer today. temperaturewise, not that bad pretty much anywhere. there's a little bit of colder air across the rockies, but overall not bad. out across the east coast, we still have some rain showers across parts of florida later on in the afternoon that are going to fire there, but most of these are looking pretty spectacular. warmer that yesterday even and yesterday was a pretty great day. we'll be up another 5 to 8 degrees or so. this right here is our trouble spot. big storms yesterday across parts of nebraska into kansas and parts of iowa. you can see this line of storms continuing to pull up to the east into parts of missouri, oklahoma as well. and later today we'll see this fire again. not looking at a big severe outbreak today. yesterday was worse than today, but we'll city strong wind

rick reichmuth is here.rsary of the historic military crack down in china's tianamen square. china brutally crushing a pro-democracy protest. now china is repressing any mention of the event. we have a live report coming up next hour "happening now." >> jon, thank you. >> big show to fit in an hour. i may be outnumbered but my turn for the story. starting this month the nfl will require every player to attend human resources and retired player ambassadors will visit each time to kick-start the conversation about changing the locker room culture. this follows last year explosive story that dominated the headlines. the miami dolphins, jonathan martin, screen right, quitting the team after bullying by teammate richie cog neat-o. screen left is richie cog neat dough. the first openly gay player, michael sam drafted by the st. louis rams. so the sanctuary which always has been the locker room, will no longer be the sank airy. is this a good move, sandra? >> it is if you want to punish the guys an fine them if the

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rick reichmuth is in the emergency weather center. and remember the alamo!join us live to discuss his major donation to the alamo museum and tell us what led to his obsessive collecting of alamo memorabilia. he's a brit, after all. that's coming up, "happening now". >> all right, we'll be watching. thanks, jon. jon: thank you. >> well, i may be outnumbered, but it's my turn with story so, fellas, listen up. it could be time, some say, to pick up brooms, start cooking on the stove because while many women are excelling in their careers, they're narrowing this gender pay gap people talk about, the ladies are still supposedly doing most of the household chores. in fact, on average women do nearly 49% of the house work while men do much less. but, of course, those numbers don't work. [laughter] let's just say they do much more. they also spend an average of 51 more minutes a day on chores, so maybe it's time for guys to start doing laundry. i don't know, washing dishes -- >> i don't know. >> we've got to think about it, what do you think? do you want your man to

. >>> speaking of brave guys, rick reichmuth is braving the weather june 1st in manhattan. >> that'sd sign that whoever designed the hammock was brilliant. even if annals know, this is a great design. >> i'm going to relax here for a few hours. >> on my c-2 or whatever that is. that was awesome. all right, guys, i'm outside. it's spectacular. a really great day across parts of the northeast. in fact, it's been very cool. and that's about to change. we are going to warm up a lot this week. look at the weather map. we'll show you what's going on. in addition to being the beginning of meteorological summer, it's also the beginning of hurricane season today. there's some moisture down across the gulf and the south part of mexico. some of that moisture is possibly getting pulled into the central gulf to bring in some moisture by next weekend in and across areas of the southeast. so we'll potentially watch that. nothing that we're concerned about at this point, but do keep in mind the beginning of hurricane season. let's take a look at the northeast. here's what the day is going to look li

well, let's check in with rick reichmuth now. paducah, kentucky represented here. your first trip to new york. >> yes. >> for flag day? welcome to new york. have a good time. >> okay. >> good dad who brought you here. take a look at your weather maps as you are waking up this morning. the east coast is going to be great no matter clayton has said. days of rain. that is going to be gone. manhattan is looking -- mid-atlantic is looking great. this afternoon few showers across parts of florida and coastal areas of the southeast. overall, looking pretty good. troubles though across the central plains. rain this morning in west texas. that's good news. we need it. this afternoon and evening. that bulls eye of red there you might see a few large tornadoes. kansas through the missouri river valley. norfolk over twadz columbus and skylar threat for severe weather. worse of this 10 to 11 tonight. get ready overnight and have your know noaa whether radio set over to you. >> old glory, how much do we really know about our flag day? >> here t