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>> her dramatic story of survival as her parents join us here on saturday, june 12, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a saturday morning. >> just a short while ago we received word that a french fishing boat actually picked up abby sunderland and she's on her way to australia. >> there's some question as to how she would make the transfer from a smaller boat to a bigger ship. we'll have more details on that. we're also following that situation at a campground in arkansas. at least 15 people are known to have died when a flood hit the campground on friday morning. because the registrations of those in the area have washed away, it's hard to know how many are still missing. >> there was no way to determine the precise number. we'll have a live update in just a few minutes and talk to an official involved in this morning's search and rescue. then as the oil spill in the gulf of mexico spreads, we'll take you to a place where they have studying the impact on a variety of animals. plus another story we're watching closely this morning, a charge of first-degree murder in peru against joran van der sloot who's accused of killing a young woman there and we'll also tell you what van der sloot had to say about natalee holloway, the american teenager who disappeared on the island of aruba five years ago. but first, john yang is in langley, arkansas, john, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lester, searchers back at it again today searching along a 20-mile rugged and remote stretch of the caddo and little missouri rivers. officials expect the water levels to start dropping today, and as a result they expect to find more bodies. tucked between two rivers, the campground is a popular weekend destination. overnight floods swept through with alarming speed. the albert pike recreation area was packed with about 300 people, mostly families on vacation from texas and louisiana. chad banks barely made it out with his family. >> it took my truck and picked it up. >> reporter: within hours the swollen river, once waist deep rose to 23 feet. the surging water tossed around rvs and uprooted trees. the national weather service issued a flash flood warning at around 2:00 a.m. but the rain was coming down so hard, evacuation wasn't an option. >> there wasn't time for that, these are flash flood events and if you have been involved with a flash flood event, there's not time. >> reporter: roads and bridges were impassable by car, those who reached high ground for the lucky ones. >> the crisp family has been coming here for 25 years, this time they lost their dog and almost saw their son drown downstream. >> i have a 16-year-old that was floating down the river saying mama and daddy help me. and we couldn't do nothing, we had to watch him float down and thank goodness he lodged on to a tree. >> he was screaming in the river, help me, we just couldn't reach him. >> there's 40 people still missing along the caddo river. >> they've got horses, they've got foot patrols, they've got helicopters. they're doing everything they know how to do and there's everybody working. >> reporter: this area is a popular destination not only for people from arkansas but also from nearby louisiana and texas. officials don't know how many people are missing because the registry for the campground that night got washed away. >> john yang this morning, that campground located in the ouachita national forest. we turn to c.j. norwall. thank you for joining us, good morning to you. >> thanks, lester. we know you were left with a lot of debris strewn over quite a wide area, you've got some overturned vehicles and license plates. how are you going about the business of reconciling how many people you're looking for and who you're looking for. >> it's turned out to be a real daunting task. we have a number of law enforcement officials from different agencies that are helping us with this. as you mentioned, the license plates are one way, vehicles left in the wake of the flood, folks are being tracked that way through department of motor vehicle records. another way is that people who survived and know that there was a family in the camp site next to them and they haven't checked in. people who know that they had family camping in the area but have had no contact with them. it's difficult piecing together what we're looking at and the people we still have missing. >> what was it like to see for yourself the amount of devastation caused simply by a lot of water? >> you know, i can't really explain it. it was just a sick feeling that i had. it was like images that you see on television from an f-4 tornado. vehicles pinned against trees, there was a large gravel truck, a semi truck that was just wrapped around a tree, like it was a child's toy. families come here and they make memories and i think this time they have just been left with nightmares. >> give me a sense of the topography, the geography there, if people had received the warning, would there have been a way to get out once the water started coming up? >> you know what, lester, i'm just not sure. you know, i think we need to talk to probably some of the survivors about that and just learn what the situation was they were faced with. you know, i think it was just a culmination of a lot of things that happened in that one particular area that resulted in those people not being able to get out. >> yeah. c.j. norvall, best of luck as you folks work to reconcile the list and try to find folks. thank you. >> thanks, lester. now to the disaster in the gulf of mexico and on this day 54 of the crisis, there was a growing debate on how much oil still is gushing into the water and on monday president obama will make his fourth trip to the gulf region since the disaster began. >> reporter: the estimates of how much oil is flowing into the gulf is as murky as the crude covered water. the government says 20,000 to 40,000 barrels a day spilled into the gulf. but it's a fluid number. the first estimate, 1,000 barrels a day, then 5,000, then 12,000 to 19,000. by one calculation, it's an exxon valdez-sized spill in the gulf every five the days. people use shovels and rakes to pick up the oil the tide brings in. in order to have an appropriate response, experts say you have to have an accurate measure of how many oil is coming out of that well. it helps determine how many people are needed, how many skimmers are needed and how much boom needs to be deployed. but this most recent estimate does not reflect what's going on "today." >> the current situation is a big unknown. there may have been a small change, there may have been a substantial change. >> bp is moving in more ships to increase itself capacity to collect the oil. it's now collecting almost 16,000 barrels a day. >> we'll be up around 38,000 barrels a day capacity. that will ultimately be replaced by the new containment system. >> reporter: allen says that the new containment system -- there is no system that can undo the damage already done. for "today" anne thompson, venice, louisiana. >> joe is just back from a visit to the gulf. obviously florida has been a big part of your life. a former congressman from florida, from pensacola, florida. >> the people down there are hurting and it was so interesting going around talking to them. we're used to hurricanes down there. and unless you grow up in that area, it's like a monster out there, a menace and you turn on tv and they say it's coming and it's going to be here in a couple of days and it's a menace that can completely wipe out your home, it can wipe out your neighborhood and that's happened to a lot of us who have lived there. this is different. there's a menace out there right now and it's just this slow motion nightmare and it's coming towards the beaches, they say they're the whitest beaches in the world. oil and white sand don't mix, bad environmentally, but also economically could be a real disaster. >> and there are reports out there that say the oil could reach the shores as early as this weekend. are state and city officials prepared for that? what have they been doing? >> they have been talking a lot to the federal government, but there's some frustrations. very interesting, we have been talking in manhattan and in washington about how obama's been responding. when you talk to the governors, when you talk to the mayors, they all say the same thing, mainly off the record, that barack obama, valerie jarrett, the people inside the white house have been doing a great job talking to them nonstop, trying to do everything they can do. but they're having real frustrations with the agencies, the individual agencies, very slow. >> you mentioned, the beaches are open for business right now, but with this impending disaster potentially headed that way, you would know firsthand having been a congressman from that area, what the impact will be, probably they're already feeling it because people are canceling their vacations saying i don't want to go down there with the oil. >> you would go between memorial day and labor day, and so there are people that i knew from representing down there that had family businesses near the beach, on the beach, or even accountants that would get business from the beach. and they wait until memorial day to make all their money for the year. they're not going to make that money this year. unless the federal government makes a way to make bp accountable for every business who are losing the money they're losing, there's a lot of people that are going to go out of business, family businesses that have been in business for generations. >> there's new numbers about how much oil is spilling into the gulf, it was estimated to be 40 million barr million -- 40,000 barrels a day. >> we're in uncharted territory, you talk to the governors, you talk to the people on the ground, you talk to the local officials. who knows, maybe bp was lying, that's certainly something they're going to be investigating down the road. but i won't say everybody was caught sleeping, i think everybody was wide awake, they were just experiencing something that they had never experienced before. i'll let the investigators figure that out down the road, but certainly the estimates early on were wildly inaccurate. i will tell you that the "new york times" three weeks ago had predicted that it might get up to 50,000 barrels a day, and government and bp said no, it won't get there. it's much worse and it keeps getting worse every day. >> joe scarborough, thanks for shining the light on your hometown. we appreciate it. >> whitest beaches in the world. whitest in the world. >> in the world. >> there we go, i got it out of you. >> what color are those beaches? >> very white. wildlife activists say birds migrating south for the winter could be threatened by the massive oil spill. >> reporter: the number of oiled birds that have been recovered alive now tops 500. but those are only the ones that have been spotted. we joined up with the national wildlife federation to see how this oil is endangering the future. we first make our way to the protected bird sanctuary of queen bess island. the national wildlife federation is studying the oil's impact on the future. she says this will affect future generations of birds. >> that egg is a gonner. >> woods says the oil with span generations. >> pelicans go out to get food for their chicks and instandly they're coated. if they can make it back to their nests, they have transported that oil to their chicks. >> reporter: there's more danger, beneath the surface. >> look at this, that red kind of decomposed oil. >> reporter: wildlife experts say underwater oil plumes will cause even more harm, contaminating the tiniest of creatures and the animals that prey on them. >> it's at the bottom of the food chain so it's going to work its way up. not only is it potential contamination, is that it lel b eliminates part of the food chain. >> reporter: out here on the water, there's little protection from what's to come. and in the past week, there's been a lot of progress made in cleaning up the oil from those barrier islands. now it's a waiting game to see how much more oil comes this way. and now for a check of the morning's other top stories and for that we turn to norah o'donnell at the news desk. we begin with breaking news, the stranded 16-year-old california girl who tried to sail solo around the world has been rescued. abby sunderland had been feared lost at sea when her boat's mast broke during severe weather. the team's father confirmed moments ago to nbc news that maritime authorities told him that the girl was rescued by a french fishing crew. >> we're just ecstatic that she's alive and well and has survived the ordeal that she has encountered with the situation out there in the southern ocean. >> and coming up in our next hour, we're going to talk to abby's parents live. and the family of that missing boy in oregon is speaking out for the first time. the parents of kyron horman. and north federal transportation officials will be out this morning investigating the crash of a small plane that slammed into an arizona high school. the plane exploded on impact. two people on board were killed. fortunately no one was inside the school at the time. the fbi has now opened an investigation into the security breach of apple's ipad, the e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 ipad users were exposed including the contact information of new york good morning. i am meteorologist, kim martucci. it turned steamy around the mid-atlantic. we are working on some 70s and 60s across the area. they are going to heat up. the afternoon goal is 89 inside the beltway. you folks to the south, fredericksburg, will be between 90 and 92. i'll be here the rt of the morning with you. now back to new york city. >> that's a look at your weekend forecast. 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military? >> there's a lot of debate, but that's part of the beauty of that you are system. >> reporter: these white fellows have a new appreciation of the challenges and the possibilities of public life. >> and still to come on "today," gary coleman, for the first time since his death, gary's parents speak out about the life and legacy of their son. and the case against joran van der sloot and what he says now about natalee holloway. but first, these messages. 7:26. a look over washington, d.c. we'll have your forecast in a few minutes. first, welcome back to "news4 today." i am aaron gilchrest. in the news this morning the search continues for the man that killed a maryland state trooper. the police are looking for the person seen in the surveillance video, the man in the blue shirt. they believe he was disorderly and would not pay his bill. he was escorted out of the restaurant by trooper brown. shortly after trooper brown was shot and killed in the restaurant parking lot. prepared to see more d.c. police over the weekend. this is the second this year, and all available officers will be on duty in order to curb crime. and then the orange line, tracks are being closed between the east fallsture sxch west falls church stations. the red line, trains are single tracking for bridge repair. weather is coming up next. stay with us. navigating today's real estate market is complicated. you've seen the signs. that's why having the right real estate agent is more important than ever. at remax.com, you can find experts in short sales or bank-owned properties or commercial real estate, agents who can help speed up the process, no matter how intricate. and that's good news, whether you're trying to sell or hoping to buy. because the only sign you really want to see is "sold." nobody sells more real estate than re/max. visit remax.com today. meteorologist, kim martucci, is in to look at the forecast. >> we are getting ready for showers and storms later today. out there now we can handle the air, not too bad yet at 72 degrees. humidity on the way up. let's talk about what will be happening here. we have some temps in the 70s and 60s. we will climb up into, oh, i would say around 89 or 90 today. i am watching the cluster of storms off to the west. we will zoom in on west virginia. and then that's where you are going to notice a few thunderstorms pop up at the radar here. and it will probably be inside the beltway between 3:00 and 6:00 after reaching a high of 89, aaron. see you in a little while. >> thank you. another local update in 30 minutes or so. now back to the "today" show. and we're back on this saturday morning, the 12th day of june, it's 2010, we have a great crowd out on the plaza, waving to their friends and family back home. but first back inside studio 1-a i'm amy robach and this is lester holt. joran van der sloot has been charged with first-degree. >> they described van der sloot as having voracity and great cruelty. plus it's been seven days since kyron horman did not return from school. and there is still no sign of the missing 7-year-old boy. we will get a live report on that search in just a few minutes. then abby sunderland sherks's the 16-year-old who was on a mission to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone. she ran into big trouble while sailing the harsh waters of the indian ocean. and she deployed two emergency beacons. coming up, we'll talk to her family live and find out how she's doing and when she's going to return home. >> can you imagine the waiting time to say, okay, we know where she is, but you got to get help to her and that was not an easy thing to do. >> seas are rough there, she had no mast, so we'll find out how this is all going to turn out. first on friday, gary coleman's ex-wife filed court papers to assume control of the late actor's estate. the petition says that even though coleman and shannon price were divorced, she is still his common law wife. and for the first time since his death, coleman's parents have opened up about their son's life. as the world mourned gaur coleman, two different images of the star emerged, the famous successful child actor of the successful "diff'rent strokes" and the infamous troubled adult whose personal challenges played out on talk shows. now ex-wife shannon price wants control of coleman's estate, citing a secret will and claiming they were still married under common law. amid accusations that she took photos of herself with coleman on his death bed and sold them to the tabloids and after what many thought was an unemotional 911 call. >> i just can't be here with the blood, i'm sorry, i can't do it. i just can't. i have my dog. >> gary coleman was estranged from his parents. they spoke with meredith vieira about his son, taking pains not to talk about his death. >> willie and sue coleman say they're still in the dark about their son's last days. >> we got a report from coroners, that there was no foul play. so that did make us feel a lot better. >> the colemans once managed their son's assets, but that ended in a lawsuit. >> he felt that they had mishandled his finances and they had taken money from him and he took them to court over it. >> the colemans never reconciled with their troubled son, they blame ore others for their fami problems. >> we would never have taken money from him, we weren't raised that way. >> the couple also denied reports that they made coleman work when he was sick and that they were inadequate parents. >> all this is none sense, all this is untrue. >> a grieving couple still coming to terms with the death of their famous son. >> he was a kind, gentle human being. time f we already have 70s in winchester, down in quantico. good morning, i am kim martucci. we have warm temperatures, and we are looking to keep an eye on the sky to the west especially in west virginia where thunderstorms are developing. they will be probably inside the beltway after 3:00, and maybe closer to 5:00 for you folks to the west. i would say we could see them sometime between 1:00 and 3:00. temperatures up to 89 degrees. now back to new york city. amy and lester, that's a look at your weekend forecast. >> i had a little fun with amy, but i flipped my tie to show solidari solidarity. >> i put it on backwards because it was dark and it was early and i was really tired. but it switched it back around, can you tell the difference? >> normally a guy is supposed to say oh, i see the difference. i don't see the difference. >> i think the dress on the other side may be scooped a little lower. all right, still ahead, it's a birthday celebration fit for a queen, queen elizabeth celebrates her 84th birthday in royal style. but up next, joran van der sloot now charged with murder, what's next for him? does he really know what happened to natalee holloway? we have got all that coming up. keep winding myself up to deal with the sadness, the loss of interest, the trouble concentrating, the lack 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police believe she may have already been dead inside. in his confession, van der sloot allegedly claims that when he returned with the coffee, he found stephany reading his e-mails, talking about his involvement in natalee holloway's disappearance. he says she hit him and he reacted with too much force. police say he hit her, with the intention to rob her. >> he wrapped his hands around her neck and started choking her and shaking her. >> reporter: investigators say that van der sloot slammed her to the floor and broke her neck. he says he cleaned up, took her cash and credit cards and took off. now nowhere to run, van der sloot is held in castro astro, one of peru's notorious prisons, maximum security. described by locals as hell. so do police really believe this story about stephany flores finding something on his computer and him becoming upset. not necessarily, they have already pointed to robbery as a potential motive for the murder. and he said there were details that he couldn't remember, that there were gaps in that part of the story. right now he's being held in a cell by himself and could face a sentence of 35 years in prison. >> joining us with more, nbc news legal analyst susan filing. they're not necessarily buying his confession, but did he gain himself anything by coming forward and at least admitting to the murder? >> no, i don't think he did. i think he's placed himself in jeopardy. i think there's now corroborating evidence that peruvian authorities are pointing to as they have now charged him with this brutal murder and i think the confession certainly hurts him. >> the sentence can be anywhere from 30 to 35 years if he's convicted. that sounds like it would be lighter than if he were convicted of the same crime in the united states. >> certainly a murder and a robbery would be felony murder in the united states which would be in some states capital murder in which he would be eligible for the death penalty, far more serious than 15 to 35 years in peru. >> he's told authorities that he could point them in the direction of natalee holloway's body. do peruvian officials have any way to bargain with him? >> he may still think that he's got some chips here to bargain with. but he doesn't. peru may want to help aruba and they could if they want to, but i don't think that joran is going to get anything in exchange for it. >> they've got a water tight case, at least based on those videos of these murders in peru. they don't need anything. >> they don't need anything else. certainly the world wants to know what happened to natalee holloway. but they don't have to do it in exchange for anything for joran van der sloot. >> and what does aruba get out of this? 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that abigail is in safe hands at this time. >> we'll hear from her family who just got the good news, today, saturday, june 12, 2010. good morning, everyone, welcome back to "today." i'm lester holt. >> and i'm amy robach. and it is good news, 16-year-old abby sunderland on her way home on a fishing boat. >> she had problems even before this, but when she lost her mast, some big trouble, and heaher parents got the word this morning. we're also following that situation in arkansas. the search gets underway in western arkansas this morning for dozens of people missing after that deadly flash flood at an isolated campground early friday morning. we know now that at least 16 people were killed and emergency management officials are still trying to determine exactly how many people are unaccounted for. >> and to give you an idea of how this happened t camp is in an isolated valley along two rivers. the water rose as quickly as eight feet every hour and it gave people almost no time to escape. we're going to get the latest from arkansas in just a minute. plus it is every parent's worst nightmare, it happened in portland, oregon where 7-year-old kyron horman has been missing for a week now. we'll hear his family's emotional pleas for his safe return. and a very special delivery, a baby boy is brought into the world by his own father, but wait until you hear how and where the delivery took place. we're going to talk live with the family, the happy and safe family coming up. let's get to more on that deadly flooding in arkansas. nbc's john yang is in arkansas with the very latest. john, good morning. >> reporter: searches will be back at it this morning from the air, on the ground and on the water. they're focusing on a 20-mile stretch on the caddo and little missouri rivers. officials expect the water levels to start receding today, but that also mean that is're going to find more bodies. overnight floods swept through with alarming speed. >> we were in a tree from 15 minutes to 1:00 until 6:30 before we got on dry ground. >> the camp ground was tacked with about 300 people, mostly families from texas and louisiana. while campers slept, six to eight inches of rain fell and within an hour, the swollen rivers once waist deep rose to 23 feet. the surging waters tossed around rvs and uprooted trees. the national weather service issued a flash flood warning just before 2:00 a.m., but by then, park officials say the rain was coming down so hard, evacuation wasn't an option. >> there wasn't time for that. these are flash flood events and if you have been involved with a flash flood event there,'s not time. >> reporter: roads and bridges were impassable by car. those who reached high ground were the lucky ones. >> there was no way to get out, i lost everything i had. but we're alive, thank god. >> the crisp family has been coming here for 25 years, this time they lost their dog and almost saw their son drown downstream. >> i have a 16-year-old who was floating down the river saying mama and daddy help me. >> reporter: tonight she's haunted by what she heard. >> i ain't got nothing to compare to those little babies that were screaming in the river, help me, help me, we just couldn't reach them. >> reporter: rescue efforts are underway for the over 40 people still missing along the caddo and little missouri rivers. >> they've got horses, they've got helicopters, they've got foot patrols, they've got all terrain vehicles. they're doing everything they know how to do and everybody's working. >> reporter: this is a popular destination for not only people in arkansas but also in texas and louisiana. officials don't know exactly how many people were in the park or in the campground thursday night because the camp registry got washed a way. >> authorities estimate that nearly 300 people were in the area. one of the place where is survivors have been gathering is the pilgrim rest baptist church. pastor, good morning to you, thanks for being with us. >> good to be here. >> i know you have heard some horrible stories from those who have gathered in your church sanctuary, share some of them with us if you k. >> there's one horrendous story after another. we have one example here of two families come up from louisiana on vacation and best friends and it was the two couples, they had their two boys and a little 7-year-old girl and now the two husbands both have drowned. all four of the sons have drowned and the 7 or 8-year-old little girl is missing. and tragic and it's just one story after another. a mother and father trying to evacuate out of their camper and have their kids in their hands and go around the edge of the camper, when they hit by the water, it swept their children away. and, you know, there's just people who lost multiple family members. >> it's hard to believe, your church as we mentioned is about 12 miles from this campground, but clearly you experienced the rain thursday night as well. have you seen anything like that in the time you have lived there? >> i can't hear him. >> you're breaking up. >> i'm asking the rain thursday night. >> i think what you said, we're about 12 miles from the disaster area? we have never seen nothing like this torrential rain in our lifetime. and 1972, there was something similar, but this exceeds anything we have experienced. >> and pastor, the people who are taking shelter in your church right now who have lost loved ones, is that where they'll remain while this search is underway? are they being kept apprised of the search and rescue operation? well, we apparently lost communication, but we do appreciate him being with us this morning, his church about 12 miles from the scene of all this and that's where many of the survivors are gathered this morning. now to the gulf of mexico for an update on the oil disaster. nbc's tom costello is in venice, louisiana. tom, good morning. >> reporter: amy, good morning. day 54 of this stadisaster and still don't know how much oil is coming from the bottom of the ocean. we know that 20,000 to 40,000 barrels a day was coming out of that pipe before they cut the riser a week ago. since they cut the riser, we don't know how much is coming out. it could be considerably more than that. we do know that bp says it's capturing right now about 16,000 barrels a day and they're bringing in a new vessel next week that will help to burn off some of what they're siphoning off. then they're also bringing in two new ships which in total will help them collect about 50,000 barrels. the question is what do you do with all this oil they're collecting? some of it will be burned off and some of it they hope to retain and use and sell in the market. british prime minister david cameron will be on the phone with president obama. there's great concern in the uk that this anti-bp sentiment in the united states is turning into an anti-british sentiment. and a lot of people have seen their portfolios drop in value. in addition to that the british chairman of bp i should say as well as the ceo of bp will be at the white house in the coming week to talk about this disaster, the ceo tony hayward will be on capitol hill next week and president obama returning here to the gulf coast next week as well. so at the moment on day 54, a lot of questions still outstanding here. >> and, tom, i know that the economic impact of this spill is being felt locally but also nationally as well. we are starting to see a rise in seafood prices, particularly shrimp, correct. >> shrimp and oysters. shrimp prices up about 30% or so. about 90% of the shrimp we eat in the grocery store comes from foreign providers, but the shrimp that is produced domestically, 90% comes from the gulf. so a lot of the shrimp that is perhaps not even coming from the gulf, that is coming from the east coast, it may not be affect bid the oil spill. prices are still up, it's all about supply and demand. we want to head over to the news desk, norah o'donnell is standing by. we begin with a 1-year-old baby who was held hostage for three days by a relative. 26-year-old anthony alvarez. s.w.a.t. teams used an explosive charge to gain entry into the apartment. the baby is okay, but alvarez was shot and killed. bruce beresford-redman appeared in california court on friday, the former "survivor" producer is suspected in his wife's murder. the sisters of monica beresford-redman both shouted a the producer, seeing him for the first time in court at an estate hearing for his wife. all flights for spirit airlines have been canceled today stranding thousands of passengers. the pilots went on strike early this morning after contract negotiations broke down with the carrier. the pilots are demanding higher wages and better benefits. world cup fever is in full swing in south africa and the hot ticket today t big game today between the u.s. and england. nbc's ian williams is live with more. >> reporter: yes, good morning, nora. we're counting the hours down to that game which will be held in this stadium behind me in front of 42,000 fans. many of those americans, thousands of whom have traveled to south africa. this is an enormous game. on paper, england looked the better side. they are one of the favorites for this competition. they are a gutsy and determined family. they don't appear at all intimidated by england. many of them play in europe, play in the uk and they have got the measure on the english side. they told us they're just determined to get on the field. i should point out that they have been here for a couple of days. an elephant blocked their coach on their way to their training field. but they soon got there. demarcus breezy said he saw baboons out of his window. but none of this is dampening the enthusiasm. >> baboons and elephants. nbc's ian williams, thank you so much. and that's the news, back to lester, amy and bill. the last time the u.s. and england were in the matchup was 60 years ago and you know who won? those gutsy and determined americans. i love how we should be okay here for the next several hours in and around the region. it won't be until late this afternoon until we see storms. i am kim martucci. 73, and it's getting sticky outside with south winds at 9 miles per hour. there are showers and storms coming in across west virginia approaching pittsburgh. the steamy weather will be around 90 here. i'll have the rest of the forecast coming up in a bi >> that's your weekend forecast. coming up next, where is kyron horman. the search for a missing 7-year-old boy as his parents speak out for the very first time. and discovered something amazing -- scotts attracted twice as many colorful birds as ordinary blends. our exclusive formula attracted twice the cardinals, twice the goldfinches, twice the indigo buntings. songbird selections from scotts. ♪ and now to a heart breaking story we have been following from portland, oregon. the search for a missing 7-year-old boy who disappeared while he was at school. janet shanlian joins us with the latest. >> reporter: family members of this little boy ki ron wyron hoe putting a very public face on this. they were speaking directly to ki ron as well as the searcher who is have been living and breathing this case 24 hours a day. more than a week after 7-year-old kyron horman disappeared, his family emergeded to plead for his return. >> kyron, we miss you, we love you and we need you home right now. we're doing everything we can to work with law enforcement in the search and the rescue crews to make sure that you can get back to us as soon as possible. >> reporter: racked with emotion, it was their first public appearance since the second grader went missing from his elementary school during a science fair that was open to visitors. kyron's father thanked searchers urging them not to give up hope. >> it's really thick over here, i'm going to go down by the creek. is there a place to get down? >> reporter: more than 200 searchers are now forging their way through the dense forests and fields near the school. it is a painstakingly slow process. so it really is piece by piece? >> yes, very time consuming. >> teams are expanding the search grid within a half-mile radius of the school. >> what is it like, these conditions? >> it's not comfortable obviously because it's raining and the brush has been wet for several days and it's all wet and miserable. but, you know, we're here for the 7-year-old boy, we're trying to find him and of course it's well worth it. >> reporter: this photo of kyron was taken by his stepmom at the science fair just a short time before he went missing. detectives show examples of the clothing kyron was last seen wearing and his family spoke directly to the little boy they love. >> you mean everything to us, and until you come home, this family is not complete. please, kyron keep up the hope. we believe in you and we know you will be back with us soon. >> reporter: searchers are going to finally catch a break today, it's been raining here in portland almost every day since kyron went missing, the forecast for the weekend is dry. amy, back to you. >> and for more, we turn to former fbi profiler clintd van zandt, good morning to you. >> until yesterday we had not seen or heard from kyron's family. why was it so important that they finally break their silence? >> i think the public, the media, everybody wanted to see the parents, one of them up front. i have been following the blogs and people are really cruel. there's been a lot of people suggesting since the parents weren't out front, since they didn't fit the stereotypical grieving parent that they obviously had something to do with the little boy's disappearance, somewhere drawing the comparison between this situation and the 1994 suzanne smith who drove her car into a lake with her two little boys in it. i think the reality is none of us understand the grieving process and there is no textbook that says how you are supposed to grieve or where you do it. all that a siside, i think the parents still have something to add, they have information that they're providing to law enforcement and as we enter the second week t chances of the little boy just wandering out the backdoor of the school and falling down within a quarter of mile seem to diminish and the chances of him being taken by someone seems to increase. >> and yet it's been more than a week since this was first reported and police have still not classified this as a kidnapping. any idea as to why? >> they just don't know. i mean it's almost as if he was taken by martians, like somebody reached out from space and grabbed him. you and i know the definition of a mystery is something we just don't have enough information to understand. i think that's the case right now. the stepmother says i left him in the hall, he was 50 yards, half the distance of a football field away from his classroom door. and yet the teacher says he never got to that classroom. where did he go in that 50 yards? who could have taken him? and that seems to be the challenge, the frustration and the fear of law enforcement and all the searchers. >> and given those circumstances, how unusual is it that police have no real leads when he was in the middle of a school? >> this is the most frustrating and i think challenging case i have heard of. and you and i cover these cases all the time. we know about 125 children disappear every year under challenged circumstances. but the two safest places we think our children can be is in our own home and once we get them inside of a school, well that illusion has been challenged or shattered at least in this case and there are many people in portland, especially in this general area that are keeping their kids out of school, they're so fearful that there could be a predator and as far as law enforcement is concerned, it appears they just don't know. >> all right, clint van zandt, we appreciate your time this morning. and 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>> she's doing extremely well, she was up, her spirits were up. i think she's relieved to be aboard the rescue vesz al this time. she was very happy to be rescued. the conversation was short and brief via the satellite telephone, she managed to talk to my wife, zack and a couple of team players, that were team members that were here with us at the house and we were very, very relieved. there were a few tense hours, and having the rescue vessel alongside is one thing, but they handled it very well, they deployed a small rig out to her boat. >> what was it like to hear your daughter's voice after i'm sure there was some very tense days waiting to hear word? >> it's kind of indescribable, it's hard to describe, but obviously it was just incredible to hear her and to hear that she was still in good spirits and i asked her if she had been injured and she had been knocked about a bit, but i don't think there was anything serious. so just so fortunate and she sounds good. so it was wonderful. >> and lawrence, i know, everyone is excited to hear that abigail is safe and on a workable ship right now. but there has been some backlash from people who have been asking should a teenaged girl have been sailing around the world on her own, is it safe for any 16-year-old to do? how do you respond to those critics? >> there's always people out there that will take cheap shots at you when you're in the public eye like this. but isabella was in -- should we say, and she's one of the world's renowned female sailors and at the time i guess she was about 30, 35, something like that, should we say that no 35-year-old sailor should go out into the ocean? i think abigail has proved herself a very competent sailor well before this incident happened and she had to meet a very strict criteria for me to allow her to go out on to the ocean. this is something that is part of my life, i teach people how to sail, it's something that abigail was raised with. this was not a flip papant decin to allow her to go out on the ocean. this is something that i wouldn't allow many 16-year-olds to do, it's got to be a way of life for the people that were out there. jessica watson successfully finished her campaign. and zack sunderland my son, successfully finished his campaign. this was an unfortunate end to her trip, but she was more than competent of being out on the ocean. and if you ever hear from abigail again, she'll very passionate about sailing and she will return to the ocean soon i'm sure. >> and you'll be able to see her in a week or a little less than a week i understand? >> from where the vessel actually is, that she's been rescued upon, it's going to be at least ten days before they get to the reunion or perth. it's going to be -- i'm just happy that she's in safe hands right now. >> i'm sure that's what everyone was hoping for, and we'll be following to make sure that that is indeed a happy reunion in about ten days. coming up next, it is the delivery this proud papa will never forget. but first, these messages. 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>> she's having a baby right this second. >> have you ever had a baby before? >> i have, but i have never done it alone. i need help. >> okay, as the baby head's delivers, support the baby's head and shoulders and hold the hips and legs firmly. >> push, babe, come on. >> we're happy to hear everyone's doing well this morning. good morning, it's good to see you all. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> and andrea, i take it no more drama, that was the most drama since all this happened? >> yes, it has been. >> we're really happy for you. brian tell me about this, i understand that andrea was due on friday, tuesday you both had a feeling that would be the day, but you went on to work anyway? >> the contractions at 6:00 in the morning were ten minutes apart and light and i talked to her again at 8:30 and they were still ten minutes apart and moderate, nothing intense. we both figured we had several hours before the actual delivery. and i had a couple of small service calls to do in auburn hills about 25 minutes from home. i thought i would knock those out and head on home for the day and then head to the hospital when it was time. >> we know you're a plumber, you were handling a couple of these jobs yor s you get the call fro mother to come back and i understand you broke some speed records on the way home? >> i drove a work van like a sports car. >> when you got there, obviously there was no time, the ambulance had been called but there was no time. you sprung into action, called 911. tell me how it went from there. >> well, when i had gotten home and andrea told me that the baby was coming, i tried to lay her down on some clean technical fo foul -- towels and make her comfortable. and i wanted to know where are we with this, and as soon as i took a look at andrea, i saw the top of daniel's head and when i saw that, i knew i was probably going to be delivering my own son so i called the hands free from my cell phone and called 911. >> and the whole thing played out interestingly enough in a bathroom, you're a plumber, were you more comfortable as it turned out? >> did you feel like you were in good hands as he was getting instructions from the 911 operator? >> yes, i did. >> he did a terrific job, brian, andrea and baby daniel, it was good chatting with you all and we wish you lots of happiness. we're back but first this is "today" on nbc. christina aguilera may have taken a few years off to get married and have her son, but now she's back and better than ever. good morning, christina. >> hi. >> it's been over ten years since your debut album. it's hard to believe. what a girl wants, jeanne in a bottle. those are all the great songs that we all remember. how has your music changed over the years? >> i think i just try to incorporate what i'm being inspired by at the moment, always growing and absorbing from experience after experience and incorporating the honesty of that in my music. i like to explore different avenues with each and every album that i release, so with the stripped record, it's about stripping anything away from my first album they didn't feel was 100% me or genuine, kind of being pushed by the label and then i wanted to make an album that was based completely off of my inspiration of music, of jazz, soul, blues, and now after having my son, we're now on a more futuristic tip, after you have a child, you think of the future, and i wanted to incorporate that into the new sound of this music. >> all i need is a song off of your album. it's a beautiful ode to your son. you give me love, you're all i need, slowly i'm wrapping you closely, you're in my arms and you're inside me. >> i hope he can see me as being a strong woman and for going after what i believe in and going for expressing who i am and what i stand for. and i hope to encourage him to be an individual himself. >> and a very impressive part of your resume, you're not just a mom, a singer and a wife, you're also an ambassador. the world food program, you're an ambassador of hunger, you just got back from a trip to haiti. tell me about it. >> on these trips i go and i help feed the children, i see what they're lacking, what they're needing and what they're doing and how they can better themselves for giving them the proper tools they need to do it for themselves, making their food and just, you know, it's a matter of me going and trying to spread the word about the cause and helping this devastating issue. >> we should also mention you have a new movie coming out this thanksgiving called burr lesing, you got to work opposite cher? >> it was an incredible growing and learning experience, a new experience for me and i had an amazing time doing that movie. and i hope to do more film in the future. >> all right, we will look forward to that as well as your new album, christina aguilera, i know you're going to be performing for us next, so good luck with that as well. with spf 100, in an active naturals® formula that provides 3 times better sunburn protection than ordinary sunscreens. 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