i'm erica hill. >> i'm harry smith here with dylan dreyer and frances rivera. good morning, everybody. >> welcome back. >> did you stay up? >> i didn't want the entire show but i watched the first 40 minutes or so. the first sketch suz so great, right? all these people from rock center that tracy morgan starred with, tina fey, alec baldwin. great. >> lots of funny stuff. we'll have all kinds of highlights for those of you who couldn't stay up. right to our top story. the chaos in ft. myers, florida, when gunfire rang out in the middle of a zombie convention. nbc's dara brown is here with more. >> good morning, harry. thousands of people were all drszed up as zombies out talking the streets for this big festival, but their fun turned to terror when someone opened fire, killing at least one person. >> reporter: people were celebrating zombie-con in downtown ft. myers just before midnight when shots rang out. [ gunfire ] the gunfire sending masses of people running for their lives. >> oh my go. >> reporter: witnesses reported hearing firecrackers going off before emergency personnel respondedtim laying on the ground. one person was fatally shot and died on the scene. four others were taken to lee memorial hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. zombie-con was expected to draw more than 20,000 people. in a statement, organizers said they were saddened by the news and the group takes the safety of its patrons very seriously. and at this point, police are still looking for the gunman and are urging anyone who may know anything to come forward. harry? >> dara, thank you very much. turning now to weather, where the extra blankets definitely coming in handy this morning. several states are seeing snow on the ground. as many as 50 million people are still under a free warning this morning. dylan has the latest on that. good morning. >> and i had no hot water this morning. the coalest morning we've had and i had to take a cold shower. but the snow in many areas was just a bit of a dusting, but it already has some winter lovers excited for what's to come. >> reporter: a bitter blast of winter across the northeast and parts of the midwest, from new york to michigan and pennsylvania, snow has arrived and it's only october. >> it was about 4 inches. it was gorgeous. >> reporter: vermont's stowe mountain resort isn't scheduled open until late next month but is already starting to look ready for business. >> the ski trails are covered in white. >> reporter: at mt. washington in new hampshire, temperatures plunged to 20 degrees, winds between 60 and 70 miles per hour. hikers are being reminded to stay alert. >> it's very dangerous conditions out there today. >> and it is still snowing in some areas this morning. we have that cold air crossing over the warmer waters of the great lakes that's producing lake-effect snow near erie, and we are seeing this cold stretching all the way down into northern georgia and mississippi and alabama, including most of tennessee, which is under a freeze watch right now, freeze warnings in this lighter shade of blue with temperatures at or below freezing in several areas. it's 32 in charleston, 31 in cincinnati, philadelphia's at 40 degrees. later on this afternoon, it's only going to warm into the 40s, so temperatures running about 5 to up to 20 degrees below average. rochester, new york, 42 degrees, that's it for a high. much longer. slide to the south, winds turn to the southwest, cleveland is back up to 68 by wednesday, 76 in louisville, even new york city should get into the corner the lower 70s by the time we get to wednesday. so it's just a taste of winter to show you what's to come, but it's not all in just yet. >> appetizer. >> that's right. >> makes it so much harder to get on the golf course, frost warnings. >> yes. makes it tough. >> wreaking havoc all over america. speculation is still running high this morning, believe it or not, about when vice president joe biden will decide if he's running for president or not. during an interview in -- excuse me, during an event in new york last night he didn't speak about his intentions, but it does come as he has a call with a major labor leader. nbc's kristin walker is at the white house and has more. i thought this was going to happen yesterday. are we going to find out today? >> reporter: well, a lot of folks are hoping so because it is the big question here. according to a source familiar with that call, the vice president left the union leader with the impression he's likely going to run, and today biden supporters say a decision is imminent. accepting a human rights award in manhattan -- >> this may be the greatest honor i have ever received in my public life. >> reporter: -- vice president joe biden made no mention of his future plans but did pay tribute to his late son, beau, who had encouraged him to run for president. >> as my son beau used to say, just keep moving forward. >> reporter: and while a few supporters cried, "run, joe, run!" biden stayed on message. this comes as the vice president gave the clearest sign yet he's leaning toward yes, calling the president of the powerful international association of firefighters. it would be a key endorsement if biden runs. biden spoke at one of the union's events earlier this year. >> hello, firefighters! >> reporter: according to a source familiar with the call, they spoke for about 20 minutes friday, discussing strategy, infrastructure, and fund-raising. this source says biden's message to the labor leader, he knows he can get the political pieces in place. now he just has to make a final gut decision. secretary hillary clinton has heavily courted unions, but the iaff is not planning to endorse here. still, clinton is capping one of her strongest weeks yet with a post-debate bump in the polls. saturday she tried to build on that momentum in alabama, promising to work for voting rights and slamming the republican front-runner. >> when the election comes around, donald trump and the coke brothers for all their money, they only get one vote each, just like everybody else. >> reporter: now, biden spent the day in delaware today. secretary clinton takes a break from the trail to prepare for a critical test on thursday, her testimony before the benghazi committee. the benghazi attack and her e-mails will be a may focus, biden watching all of it. >> kristen welker, thank you so much. >> chuck todd is moderator of "meet the press"." i like the way kristen put this, inching closer, because we've all been inching. >> yes. >> is it sprying to you he's leaning towards yes? >> it's not. friday who told me that the vice president was getting irritated with what he believes is basically stage craft pressure. look, in his mind, this was never going to be easy whether he made the decision to get in three weeks ago or makes the decision three weeks from now. he snapped, actually, at some aides who told the vice president, you need to make a decision, because if you're going to run, we've got a lot of torque wo work to do. that's when he said, i need more time. in the last 48 hours, the letter from his longtime close adviser who sent a letter to supporters saying there's still plenty of room and time, and then the leak there of what happened with the firefighters union. that was to me done on purpose to send a message, hey, he's not leaping no as everybody thinks he is, he's still very much leaning yes. >> we'll continue to watch it as i know you will too very closely. moving to the republican side, there's been a lot of talk since basically blamed 9/11 on former president george w. bush. jeb bush, of course, hitting back. then the captain, jeb's campaign, released this commercial pretty quickly yesterday. let's take a look before i ask you about it. >> trump says he felt, quote, i always felt i was in the military despite neve serving. >> there's nobody bigger or better at the military than i am. >> donald trump said senator john mccain is not a war hero. >> he's not a war hero. i like people who weren't captured, okay? >> this is sort of the strongest pushback we've seen yet. what does that say about where the campaign is for jeb bush? >> it's interesting. i think jeb bush, to me that ad doesn't get made that quickly, erica. that's been ready to go is my guess. you don't have it all just cobbled together in a 12-hour period just simply to respond to this attack from trump. i think the bush campaign is looking to pick a fight with trump. i think they were hoping to find a moment that trump would target him again. look, jeb is -- there's something missing. we all know there's something missing with hicham pain. the fund raising wasn't as good as he wanted it to be. he's not shocked and awed other people out of this race. 'needs sort of to step things up a bit. picking a fight with the front-runner right now isn't a bad idea. >> before we let you go, a couple of your guests this morning will be from the house benghazi committee. hillary clinton set to testify on thursday this week. is this sort of another make or braek moment for her campaign? >> well, i think the campaign believes this, that this is the single most important event of her campaign of 2015. basically, not until voters -- the most important event until voters start voting. more important than last week's debate. that's why she's off the trail for four days. nothing but i say debate prep, they're taking it as if it was debate prep. it's going to be a long day. that testimony thursday, think 8, 10, 12 hours. >> nice to see you this morning. thanks again. >> thanks, erica. and hi, harry. good to see you, buddy. >> we'll be watching that. >> it is niles to see you here. we agree. we should point out, too, for chuck this morning on "meet the press," one of his guests, an exclusive interview with senator ted cruz. the u.s. is stepping up -- let me try that again. the escalating tensions in the middle east. more of that and frances is here. >> that involves secretary of state john kerry who has just announced he will meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and palestinian leader mahmoud abbas this week as unrest in the region reaches a critical point. nbc's chief global correspondent bill neely is in jerusalem and joins us this morning. bill, good morning. >> reporter: yes, good morning, frances. john kerry will meet benjamin netanyahu in germany as israel reels after another day of attempted murders. all the attackers were shot. all were teenagers. they're so frequent now that people here are beginning to use the word "uprying." stabbed but alive, an israeli soldier survives an attack by a palestinian teenager. it was the fifth of the day. here an israeli civilian in white holds the gun he's just used to kill an 18-year-old police say attacked him with a knife. most of the attackers are from east jerusalem, and most are palestinian teenagers with israeli i.d. cards, free to move around with no criminal or terrorist record. for their families, the attackers, one was only 13, are heroes. israel disagrees. >> he's not innocent. he tried to kill, murder, knife to death an innocent israeli youngster. >> reporter: israel says they're terrorists. >> terrorists. 13 years and 15 years, terrorists. i don't -- i don't know what to say. they are children. >> reporter: new york city's mayor saw victims of the attacks and stands by israel. >> when you are going through pain, we feel pain too. when you're under attack, we feel under attack too. >> reporter: amid the daily stabbings, daily clashes, palestinians convince israel is eroding their rights. some marched for peace last night in jerusalem and called for calm. that seems a long aoff. yes, no sign of that as israel promises what it calls an iron fist, and some palestinian groups urge their teenagers to keep up what are almost appear to be suicide stagings. all the signs are that israel is spiraling into a conflict that, frances, no one seems able to stop. >> bill neely for us in jerusalem. thank you very much. now to beachgoers in hawaii who are being warned to be on alert after two swimmers were attacked by sharks in separate incidents yesterday. both occur on oahu with one happening just 100 yards from the beach. the 44-year-old victim wutz rescued by horrified onlookers. >> i didn't realize the severities of his injuries until we pulled him out of the water. >> both legs just above the ankle were just hanging on. >> hours later, another man was bit in the foot by a shark, the third attack in oahu just this month, bringing the total number of shark attacks across hawaii this year to seven. a texas community is reeling this morning over the sudden death of yet another high school football player. kevin matthews was airlifted from friday night's game after collapsing from a suspected seizure. late saturday a vigil was held at the football field after school officials announced he died at the hospital. no word yet on the official cause of death, but matthews is believed to be the sixth high school football player to die nation wild since early cement. there's apparently been a dramatic turnaround for lamar odom, found unconscious in a las vegas brothel last week. the "l.a. times" citing unnamed sources says odom is texting and speaking. and e-news reports he is moving around. odom's sister-in-law, reality tv star kim kardashian west has broken her silence on line, tweeting a photo with odom. her first post since the incident. the mets and the chicago cubs, another win for kansas city kansas city beating toronto 6-3 in game two. game three is set for monday, and the mets are back in action tonight. an then there's this. just when you think you've seen everything on the streets of new york city, maybe you haven't seen this. police caught up with a runaway kangaroo saturday. ladies and gentlemen, that is in staten island, new york, in a backyard there. the four-foot-tall kangaroo was apparently visiting neighbors in the area and somehow unlocked the gate in the backyard where it's staying. no charges were filed, but, you know, when you have a kangaroo and it wants to hop around outside the backyard, he does his thing. >> he was just visiting. >> visiting neighbors. >> avoid traffic, too. >> tell us there's a break for this cold weather out there. >> tutz. that's when we turn things arnold on the east coast. also, the rain in the southwest will eventually come to an end by the time we get into forecast. coming up next on today, tracy morgan's comeback. we have all the highlights from "snl" last night looks like some folks have had it with their airline credit card miles. sometimes those seats cost a ridiculous number of miles... or there's a fee to use them. i know. it's so frustrating. they'd be 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ooh nbc's ron mott. >> lame, tracy morgan! >> reporter: it was a heartwarming intro. tracy morgan hosting "saturday night live," a comeback performance after escaping death 16 months ago. >> thank you so much. nah, i'm just playing. getting right to the punch lines, his brain injury among them. >> people were wondering, can he speak? does he have 100% mental capacity? but the truth is i never did. i might actually be a few points higher now. music >> reporter: it was also a homecoming, returning to stage that made him a household name, familiar characters like brian fellows, out-of-control camel and all. >> i can't see, camel! where the heck are you, jackie chan? >> throwing in new ones for measure. >> this jukebox every night hoping someday someone want to share the magical rit wm me! not with these! but with these. >> it's me! >> reporter: morgan's hallmark is a deadpan delivery often punctuated with a dash of sapeny, and it was on full display last night, facing off against his ex-wife, morgan's old family was ready for a feud. >> commitment! >> oh, here we go. >> reporter: tracy morgan's long road back now paved with humor, driving fans to a happier place. >> we don't know if he's going to make it. >> boring! >> good god, tracy! >> i'm back and better than ever. >> reporter: funny is his kurp currency, still semied and welcomed by millions. >> and i love y'all. thanks for being here with me. >> reporter: for "today," ron mott, nbc news, new york. >> you just saw there it sunt only tracy morgan making a comeback last night. you saw some of his co-stars. and larry david back for the first time in decades. >> used to be a writer for the show. last night he appeared as senator bernie sanders. >> senator sanders, how are you? >> i'm good. i'm hungry, but i'm good. and now if you don't mind, i'm going to dial it right up to a 10. >> go right ahead. >> we're doomed! we need a revolution! millions of people on the streets! and we got to do something! and we got to do it now! ah. >> he had the hands down. he had that hands -- >> the whole thing. >> he really was bernie -- it was perfect. larry david, bernie sanders, might have been my favorite. good stuff. when he was a writer for "snl," there for a year, got one skit on the whole time. that's why he left apparently. >> he did okay. right. look at you, saving money on your medicare part d prescriptions. at walgreens, we call that "carpe med diem." that's almost latin for "seize the day to get more out of life and medicare part d." from one-dollar copays on select plans... ...to now reward points on all prescriptions, walgreens has you covered. so drop by and seize the savings! walgreens. at the corner of happy and healthy. still to come on a sunday edition of "today," want to make a cool million? who doesn't. all you need to do, get on youtube. how some online stars are making big bucks. plus, we are tacking along as one of nfl's biggest stars makes dreams come true for some deserving kids. hey, 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this morning. >> that was harbaugh. everybody was ready to sing "hail to the victors," right? hail to the victors, the conquering heroes to michigan, the leaders of the best and with ten seconds left, this guy -- >> look at that face. the faces in the crowd. >> so my wife went to the university of michigan. >> okay. she was there. >> she was in ann arbor yesterday. >> was she at the game? >> i haven't heard from her. i'm afraid she might have gotten -- i don't know what. anyway. >> it was a rough one. there. let's get you caught up on what's making headlines at half past the hour. the coldest air of the season, you may have noticed, sticking around for another day. some seeing temperatures in the snowfall. here's the good news, thanks to our meteorologist dylan dreyer we know we'll start seeing a warm-up tomorrow. >> that's a fact. >> she promises. >> well, tuesday. >> we have some sobering news to talk about a little bit here this morning. at least one person dead and several others injured after a gunman opened fire during a busy zombiecon festival in ft. myers. police are still looking for the shooter. in philippines a powerful typhoon destroying homes, knocking out power, officials worried the typhoon could actually bring dozens of inches of rain to some areas, so keep a close eye on that as well. first, as we get ready to head back to work tomorrow -- wait a minute. we're -- >> at work. >> yes, we are. >> as you get ready to think about going back to work, how would you like to make millions of dollars just by making little videos? some 20-somethings are doing it all thanks to youtube, of course. this is well-known. frances has more on that. >> after watching these guys you will agree we are in the wrong business right now. you may not realize it, but all those goofy videos your kids are obsessed are on youtube and they're actually they're millionaires and it is a multimillion-dollar industry. >> i told you it was the best game ever. >> this should be good. >> hootie pie. smosh. and the fine brothers. you may have never heard of them, but chances are your kids have. >> feel kind of bad. >> reporter: according to forbes they're the world's top-earning youtube stars. the next time you're tempted to scold the kild for posting video, stop. this could be their road to riches. but how much money are we really talking about here? >> a couple gs, maybe, a year? >> probably between $45,000 and maybe $60,000. >> hey, girl, what's up? >> get this. felix made $12 million last year for playing video games and making jokes. >> this is ridiculous! >> reporter: comedy duo ian and anthony may know them as smosh, $8.5 million. the fine brothers keep it simple. seeking out funny reactions to ordinary, sometimes outrageous things. >> this robot is -- i have no idea what it would do. >> reporter: now they're laughing all the way to the bank to the tune of $8.5 million. >> i have no idea. >> reporter: violinist lindsey sterling arguably the most conventionally talented of the bunch, $6 million. >> contour because it looks more natural. >> reporter: and makeup guru michelle $3 million. >> are you kidding? >> that's crazy. >> reporter: the average household income in the u.s. is $53,000. >> follow me on twitter -- >> reporter: so why so much? it all comes down to the eyeball eyeballs. their channels have 10 million, 20 million, 40 million subscribers. >> this is a generation fast-forwarding commercials, not watching regular tv. advertising agencies have to learn how to reach them and youtube is a great way to do that. >> reporter: don't be so quick to dismiss those goofy videos. they may just be the next hottest thing. >> what do you bros think? >> and here's thing, youtube is just the start for many of these stars. it's the springboard for a lot of them and they've gone on to develop their own product lines, book, or tours as well. my kids love the toy collector. you don't even see their faces. you see their hands. they unwrap toys and test and demonstrate and narrate and they're millionaires. >> crazy how kilds go to that now. they're not really on the computer but know enough to say we can just look it up online and look at the youtube video. >> youtube kids makes it crazier. they press the mike, say it, and that's it. >> how about some good news, pal? >> tuesday, wednesday looks much warmer. i'm breaking out one of my new storm coats. this will be seen in a snowstorm somewhere along the lines. but today it is a little bit chilly. in the southwest, though, it is continuing to be very rainy. we have the potential of some flashflooding as that low moves through the area. the north and east will decrease the threat of those thundershowers that produced the heavier rain. but today we're still looking at another couple inches of rain again. if it falls in a short period of time it could lead to flashflooding. elsewhere, the eastern half dealing with chilly temperatures but the plains warm up into tomorrow. we have a pretty incredible story this morning, exploring why alaska is sinking. earth it sits on called permafrost is thawing out, and that's causing homes to sink and releasing dangerous green house gases. the weather channel investigated. >> this is ruth's house. >> i'm ruth. >> reporter: and this is her late husband, peter. >> december will be 30 years since he passed on. >> reporter: the house peter built never had a chance. much of alaska sits on a foundation of ice. >> the floor will get wavy like this. >> reporter: when that ice warms it swallows buildings. >> you don't want your soup pouring over here when you're supposed to be eating up here, right? >> reporter: what is causing alaska to sink like this? to understand that, we need to take you underground. >> right now we're about 70 feet below the surface inside of permafrost. >> reporter: permafrost is frozen soil and other stuff too. >> probably a shoulder blade, probably of a buy son. rise, this permafrost thaws out. >> home is where your heart is. >> reporter: that's what turned ruth's life upside down. >> that thermal environment has been changing because her house is there, and when you have a permafrost there, which is really hard, it's solid ice. and when you thaw that out, it turns into mud. >> reporter: and just sinks down. >> subsides, yes. where you don't want it to go is into the atmosphere. >> reporter: that's exactly what's happening today. permafrost is really the world's freezer, locking ancient dead plants and animals underground where they cannot rot and give off green house gases like methane. eve an few degrees of warming here starts to unplug the freezer. >> and life in the north is being impacted really heavily by what's going on now on the planet. >> reporter: as this permafrost thaws, the ancient world is coming back to life. in fact, scientists found living bacteria 25,000 years old inside a microscopic version of "jurassic park." for today, dave malkoff underneath fairbanks, alaska. >> getting underknead and understanding how that works. >> amazing. >> you can see more of this for the alaska state of emergency special on the weather channel wednesday night at 8:00 p.m. up next here on "today," our sunday stories from the massive efforts to save african penguins to how bicycles are changing the lives of many school kids. and how one nfl superstar is making moves off the field for a bunch of deserving kids. after we are all inside for a while, it gets pretty stuffy. when dad opens up the window, what's the first thing he does? the tobin stance. but when we open up the windows, you can see the dust floating around. there's dog hair. pollen. more work. 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>> reporter: laughs on late night. supermodel. how do you stay focussed? number one because everything else stems off of that so it's easy to stay focused. that's why every time i do a commercial shoot or photo shoot or the magazine cover, the workout is done before it starts. >> reporter: watt says these are the moments that matter. >> show him how hard you've been working. >> reporter: a young amputee who wanted his hero to see that even with one leg he could stand. >> wow. that is -- to be able to come in here and see these kids having fun and smiling is pretty awesome. >> reporter: an october surprise from a megawatt star wa supersized heart. going to end someday, so i'm trying to enjoy it as much as i can right now because i don't want to be at the end of my career and look back and say i wish i would have done more. >> reporter: for "today," janet shamlian, nbc news, houston. >> talk about a great story. let's send it to frances who's in the orange wroom today's plaza fan of the day. guys? 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so stinking cute. >> i love them. >> you know, the truth is penguins are a bit of a mystery to most of us. i think we don't really understand some of the challenges that they face. >> no. >> as a species. >> that we don't, especially a lot of people don't understand there are actually penguins in africa, southern africa, never danced on the ice as much as we would like them to. penguin awareness today, zoos around the globe were hoping to change that by teaching visitors about the many different species including the african penguins we recently met in san francisco. >> reporter: it's feeding time at the california academy of sciences. >> try and feed this one to him. >> reporter: they're a little leery. they don't like the new girl. >> excellent. good job. >> reporter: twice a day, vicky and her team share this ritual with visitors. >> if you do see some matching colors, that is a mated or bonded pair in this exhibit right now. >> reporter: an encounter designed to stay with them. >> we want them to feel empowered to help in conservation efforts. i don't think a lot of people realize that penguins are in danger. a lot of people don't realize there's penguins in africa. >> reporter: in 1930, an estimated 1 million penguins roamed the coast of southern africa. today there are less than 25,000 pairs. the sharpest decline coming in just the last 30 years. the main threats, overfishing and climate change. >> the birds are having a hard time finding enough fish. the parents are not able to feed the chicks as much as they normally would. >> reporter: facing possible extinction, biologists like vicky are stepping in, helping to feed chicks in the wild. in 2014, they nurtured more than 500 chicks that likely would have starved. >> it's a stopgap measure. we're just trying to make sure that the population doesn't decrease any more than it already has. >> reporter: they're vo pro-tech tif of one another it seems. >> yeah. they bond. they'll bond for life. you have a good pair, they are very protective of each other. >> reporter: what would happen if the african penguin did become extinct? >> well, african penguins are actually kind of a middle species in the food chain, so everything affects everything else which ultimately affects us. >> reporter: a message vicky hopes these 18 penguins back in san francisco can help deliver. the california academy of sciences is partnered with a number of zoos and aquariums to help maintain a genetically diverse captive penguin population which ultimately means a healthier captive population, and while they of course can never be released into the wild they do help educate as we saw and help buy yolss learn more about the species and serve as a backup plan. >> don't you love to be able to do a story like that. >> it's cool. back there with the penguins. students in the classroom. lowe's presents "how to lay down the law." i thought i told you not to come around here anymore. now get a husqvarna backpack blower for only $249. i love yoplait greek 100 whips. the texture's quite nice. it's like...a little fluffy cloud in my mouth. fluffy, fluffy cloud. we take away your stuffy nose. you keep the peace. we calm your congestion and pain. you rally the team. we give you relief from your cough. you give them a case of the giggles. tylenol cold helps relieve even your worst cold & flu symptoms. so you can give them everything you've got. tylenol who's toughest on spending? fox news did the analysis and jeb bush had the best record. billions in pork, vetoed. eight budgets, balanced. and tax cuts every single year. right to rise usa who has the plan for jobs? jeb. tax cuts for the middle class. eliminates special loopholes. an explosion in growth and new jobs. jeb: cut taxes. grow america. right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. one of our favorite moments of the week, "sundays with harry," nearly 6 million kids in the united states have been diagnosed as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or adhd. >> that's a lot for kids. many parents worry about the medications often prescribed to help the children. help may be as close, though, a your garage. this is that kind of dreamy shot you'd find at the beginning of a steven spielberg movie. it reads a lot -- suburbia, exuberance, fun. and here's the early plot twist. taught by jennifer braithwaite in utah. >> good job. i'll ask them to run 20 minutes and everybody groans. but if i ask them to get on a bike, you bet, let's go, whoo-hoo, out the door. >> reporter: while obviously preferable to sit-ups and jumping jack, this bikes in gym class thing has a higher purpose, something specialized bicycle founder mike has been thinking about for years. >> this isn't about our brand. this is about making a better world for kids getting out on bikes and for us to stop overmedicating our children. >> reporter: what if, thought sinyard, a good hard ride could replace rit asce ritalin orred a adderall adderall? time on the bike, performance in the classroom. guess what? >> before and half the riding, but what's really more important is the behavior, is the behavior of the kids was so different. >> reporter: jennifer is a true believer. she has seen the difference. >> they will in their own words tell you, i'm a better person, i can sit still in class, i can focus, i'm more happy. i can tell you story after story after story where the kid became a leader. it saved their life because it gave them purpose to come here. >> reporter: richard davis is one of those adhd kids. his mother said bikes at school came along just in time. >> i was, like, well, you know, i've tried different things and why not give it a shot and see if this will help him as far as his confidence and his ability to learn more at school. and so -- and it's done night and day difference for him. >> reporter: night and day. >> yeah. >> reporter: really. >> yeah. >> reporter: yes, a real game-changer he says. >> i notice after i done getting riding bikes i would get in class and i'd be kind of tired and just would calm down. i'd pay attention better. i don't know. >> reporter: and for school administrator jesse sorenson, it's a no-brainer. >> there's something about the rhythm of the bike, the balance, the fresh air, it helps his focus, it helps clear the thoughts and why not provide that opportunity for kids? >> there was a great article in bicycling magazine a couple years ago called riding is my ritalin. it was about a high school kid who went to his parents an said let me get off the kids. i feel so much better when i ride. i don't know if it's all as simple as this, but certainly i think the idea of trying to figure out what alternatives are available, and especially if you can get these kids out there on bikes in the morning before school starts, at least in this school they're saying this is making a big difference. >> it's great. what a fantastic program. are they starting to do it in other schools? >> they've got it in a couple different places and they're trying to collect all the science they can to say is this really real? tinld cases are very positive. >> the kids love it and their parents to see the difference and -- >> would you rather ride bikes than do sit-ups and pull-ups? >> sign me up. >> tune in to "meet the press" this morning. senator ted cruz among chuck's guests. >> that does it for us on a sunday morning. thanks for being with us. thanks for being here this have a great day. if you think storm damage is the only cost of climate change, think again. from the rising price of food to higher insurance rates for homes and businesses, the economic damage will only get worse. but with american-made clean energy, we can save money on electricity and spur innovation to create new businesses and jobs. it all starts with 50% clean energy by 2030. so, what are we waiting for? 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