 Welcome back. You're with America in the Morning. Showers and thunderstorms in store for many areas of the country. Here's AccuWeather.com meteorologist Carl Erickson with the forecast. Well, the umbrella will certainly come in handy today across a large swath of the eastern and southern part of the nation. As moisture continues to increase northward, showers and thunderstorms will break out across the mid-Atlantic and southeast today. In fact, some of the storms near the nation's capital, south through parts of Virginia and North Carolina, can be strong this afternoon.