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york jets after he sent them sexually suggeste messages, "today," tuesday, january 4, sexually suggeste messages, "today," tuesday, january 4, 2011. captions paid for bynbc-un >> and welcome to "today"n this tuesday morning, i'm mereth viera. >> meanwhile the uss "eerprise" is s to leave for afghanistan in a coupl of weeks. ptain owen honors may t be hon board. >> oers are coming to honor's defense. what does he thinkbout the controversy? we're going to ask his friendf 35 years ahead. and tragic discovery mor than a year aft the disappearance of a georgia mother, kristi cornwell's brother found his own sister's body nine miles from where she disappeared. heas on the phone with her when she was abducted. plus two women give bir fi days aparto a baby b and girl and the babies are fl genetic siblings in every way. we'll tell you how that happened. >> good mornin to all of you this morng. in the news this morning, of a the strange sights on the las vegas stp, snow flurries right be one of the stnger. snowflakes rarely land on the sphinx. roads are just beginning to be opened after stranding motorists. the president heads back to washington this morning as house republicans prepare to repeal his health care law. the pu to repeal the law will be theirst major action taken by republicans in the new congress. th president has approached another chicago political power house to take over as white house chief of staff. willm daily is a former coerce secretary. the chief of staff position has been open since rahm emanuel stepped wn to pursue his own run as major of chicago. seven insurance companies are now lining up wh lawsuits against toyota. democrat jerry brown is once again governor of california taking the helm of the state for the third time as arnold schwarzenegger finished up his time in offic on monday. conservationists have stalled shell oil from driing in alaska. a federal appeals board pulled the permitsending further analysis. iran has invited representatives from a major rld power to tour its nuclear sites this month but the u.s. has been lt off the guest list. hundreds of christm day church goers on long island may have been eosed to hepatitis a whi . after 30 years in prison for rape and robbery, dals prosecutorhave finally declared cornelius dupre jr. innocent citing new dna evidence. 41 other inmates have been exonerated on dna evidence. and it sound like a punishme straight out of the bible, but for one florida man, it's hding into a on's den for the next 30 days by choice. james hopes to raiseoney to support the wildlife refuge he runs by streaming the stunt on the internet. that may not always be pretty. it is now 7:05. let's go back to matt, meredith and al. >>i wonder ife has a saf spot to go to if it gets dicey. >> h a cold start on this tuesday morning. good morning. i'm tom kierein. right now, it's only inhe teens in the suburbsnd rural areas. 20s in washington and near the bay. high in the s with a few clouds coming through, andhen another shot of cold air in place wednesday and thursday. here is a possibility of a little lightnow or maybe dusting on friday. highs ithe low 30s. then over the weekend, remaining cold. chance o passing snowhower on saturday. sunday and . >> and that your latest weather. now the fallout ove these inapprriate videos starring a senior naval officer aboard the uss enterprise. >> reporter: navy officls tell nbc news that capin hors the very leastould be temporarily relieved of his command as early as today. pending a navy's investigation in those controversial ship board videos. >> a series of raunc skits produced aboardhenterprise four to five years ago when captain honors was second in coand. in fact honors took center stage, appearing in one edited shot as three different people. >> let's get to my favorite topic and something foreign to the gay kid over there. >> reporter: at several points, and others eaged in sex a-- simulated sex acts. >> the navy's called the videos clearly inpropriate and not acceptable in today's navy e. but honors supports are lighting up faceok. more than 1,000 industries re thanffedefending the caain. civilians need to take a back se on this one and butt now. captain honors did something silly, but believe m it was tame compared some marine humor. but there are also many detract fors. it disgts me that such a high rankinover would be partf such acvity. captain honors was always -- >> it's so hard to accurately target some of these places. iean one cave looks the same as another. >> reporter: and i 2002, as leader of an f-14 squadn flew nbc's tom brokaw on a combat mission over afghanistan. bu navy officials say the vios now raise serious questions about honors' judgment and leadership. navy officials say that it' highly unlikely that captain honors will be on the entprise when it deploys toward afghanistan in a couple of weeks and according to officials here at the pentagon, this catastrophe is aost certain to end his military career, matt. >> jim miklaszewski at the pentagon this morning. pete clark is aamily friend of captain owen honors and served in the ny for seven years. good morning to you. you go back to the se hometown, you followed his career in the navy. when you firsteard about these videos that he aired them for the 000 plus crewmemrs of the uss enterprise, wt was your reaction? >> aually i knew about the vios through some of the folks from the crew. and actually he was quite popular because of those videos. itas quite a morale boost for the crew on deployment. it's very stressful times and the morale of the crew is indicative of the safety of the crew. so obvioly when folks are happy, going about their jobs during their daily course of work, anything that can cheer them up and create a laugh or loosen the tension is always wanted and need. >> is there anythg that can create a laugh? i me when you look some of the conten there are racial slurs and simulated -- d these cross a line? >> what you're seeinghere is a montagef the videos over seven months. so wha they have missed is and what maye the only thing that we have sn is tha compilation video. what people are missing and that's a distortion and a misrepresentation of t truth because it w videos over seven months tt were together and it was like a story being told over the course of the seven months. >> but mr. clark, even the navy after viewing his tapes has labeled them carly inappropriate. which also raises another question, ifhe navy knew about ese tapes several years ago anby all indications theavy did know about these tapes then why was nothing sai until now? >> exactly. i was nothing said until no i think there' a political agenda here. i think maybefter don't ask, don't ll, we have a wte elephant ithe room, h may have madeome statements on those tapes that oed someone four years ago, but remember opie honors was the captain of the uss mall whitney, if his judgment was in question, t performance of that ship, the mt. whitney on this deployment was stellar. obviously we he seen captain honors prove himself in a situation where his judgment's been in queion and he's always prevailed. >> you've clearly got very strong feelings about this and about this man, so as you hr as jim miklaszewski reported just momen ago that it appears he'll be relieved of his command as the uss entprise takes off for afghanistan, is that a fair punishment? >> no, i don't think it' fair at all, first of all the navy came out defending the statement saying it was a morale boost. and then obviously a bird in th air whispered int someone's ear to change the way they presented and then they came out with a different statement on sunday. we have already lost 13 soldiers at ft. hood because political correctness. >> isn't it poible, mr. clark, that for all the supporte're hearing from people likeou for ptain honors and for some of the blogs we have seen and though we have seen se negative comments as well, that perhaps the people that were on ard the uss enterprise when that was shown that were deeply offended may be afraid to come forward? >>o, i don't think so. no, i don't. unless you have been on a ip, that ships like a family or a team and only the peopl on that ship know at's going onnd really understan those videos. let me tell you something, they have a channel on that tv on the ship, if the didn't like it, they could have turned it off just like anything else. >> i don't mean to put words in ur mouth, sit possibl that civilians cannot understand this th you have to have been aboa a ship like this to get this >> absolutely. 100% accurate. an thank you for sting that. that's the whole thing that's been missedhere. en there's a gag order on those 6,000 sailors,hey're going to be held accountable to what they say. soow we have over 2,300 people as of this morning supporting captain honors. i mean it's created a bper sticr campaign, it's azing. i have been around the navy my entire adult life. i live in annapolis, m friends are captains in the nee of ships. e enterprise is an outstanding ship with an outstaing crew and they're supporting their captain and it's a shame that vios from four years ago are going to affect a person like opie. this is absolutely ridiculous. >> clear it's a subject th's divided many people. mr.cla w to the economy, the new year started out with a bang o wall street, with the dow closing at its highest mark in over two years. so what does that mean for the year ahead? jim cramer is the host of cnbc's mad money. also hearing reports of improvements in construction and manufacturing, a we finally getting good news o of the economy that we have been waiting for s long. >> yes, things are getting better, hard to feel that wayf you don't have a job, but hiring is improng and i certainly think that all these indicators are that 2011 is going to better than 2010. >> it's only been one day. >> iredict the dow will be up 15this jeer. >> why doou make that prediction? >> when i see the kind of corporate profits that are being spun offwhen i see the globa picture bein so good, the money's going to flow from bonds intostocks. i thinkeople will say geez when thearketrops a percent on a givenday, that was definitely not the right indicator. but things a better, and when things are better, markets go higher. >> columnist in the n york tiles said yesteay if there' e piece of economic wisdom i hope people will grasp this year it's this, even though we may finally have stopped digging, we're still near the bottom of a very deep hole. any trh to that? >> i think it's a trajectory issue. we're not going down, we're climbing out. markets react to when we're climbi out. once we get to the top of the hill, it will be time to sell, i'll come in here and say all the good news is in th stock rket. he's too negate and that is not going t pay off for investors in 2011. >> predictions, unemployment, 9.8%, do you expect it to drop dramatically this year? >> this year a lot of compaes need more people, that's quiteifferent from a year ago and we have gigantic profits and lot of money needs to go into hiring to be able to compete wh their erseas competitors. >> and housing prices hold sales down 29%. prices are dropping. >> i'm not buying that at all. >> tt's the truth. >> year over year, we are unchanged. i don't knowhere these stories come from. i look at the fourifferent entitieshat put out information and all of them show that we have been just bumping along the bottom. if we get hiring back, hsing comes back, one goes first a then the oer follows. >> gas prices are predicting n some people, former president o shellays $5 by 2012. >> you can catch jim on mad money on cnbc 6:00 and 11:00. a man who served in both the reagan and bush administrations body was found on friday. >> reporter: this is where police sayohn wheeler was probably last seen at the amtrak station in wilmington, a wee ago they bieve he got off a train from washington, d.c., a regular commute, but somime after that, vestigators say he was murdered policen northern delaware now know the answer to one mystery, who's body was diovered at a lafill last friday morning. they hav identified the victim as a delaware resident, joh wheeler, former pentagon official and defense consultant and a driving force behind the vietnam memorial, visited by more than 4 million pple a year. investigators assume he made that train trip last week because they know he bought a tick. >> we do know that he traled daily from his home in newcastle to washington, d. where he was employed. know that he had purchased a ticket to travel fm washington, d.c.o wilmington. >> reporter: but then what? poce say his body was apparently placed into one of ten trash receptacl enter alonthis collection route in newark. they're checking locations of where the trash truck stopped before going to the landfill. neighbors y they have no idea who would want to kill such a prominent person. >> i really don't understandit, i just feel it's very, very unfortunate and there must be some reason for this. >> reporter: john wheeler was a graduate of harvard biness school and yale law, he served vietnam and became determined honor the service of veterans after rurning home to find a couny turned against the war and those in uniform. five years ago he said the nation shoulde more inclusive of honoring veterans. >> we need to expand o definition of who's wounded, not ju people wnded by a bullet, it's got to be people who suffer after the r. >> wheeler and his wife katherine were involved in a recent controversy over construcon of a house across the street from tre that they claimed would block their view of the river, the case played ouin court. his we now a widow owns a textile business and lists addressesn delaware and new york cy. so for investigators are saying nothg about a cause of death or a possible motive. re in delaware, police are asking f public help from anyone who knows anythingbout at john wheeler did or wre he went after he got off that train last tuesday, matt. >> pe williams in wilmington for us. pete as alys, thank you very much. still come, two more women come forward saying they received sexually sugstive text messages from bre favre and they're suing. but first thiis "today" on nbc. ring ring progresso i look great in my wedding dress th the help of your amazing light soup you ow they're the only ones endorsed by weight watchers. they taste so good. now we're adding even bigger pieces of white meat chicken. oh, so when's the big day? oh, we got married years ago. but the point is, i fit in i are you wearinit... right now? yes! well, good for you [ shopper ] excuse me. , so sorry. u look nice. oh, thank you. 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throughout ch of the region. later today up io the low and mid-40s. a few clouds comingthrough. pary cloudy and colder on wednesday. cloudy thursday, high near 40. could t light snow friday. ashley, how traffic? >> well, this morning we do ha delays. 0 headed southbound has certainly had it this morning. they stretch toward germantown. here we're looking acapital beltway. back up to speed aft the mormon temple. joe, back to you. >> thanks, ashley. coming upn "news 4 at 5:00," lunch with lindsay and the it is 7:30 now on a tuesday morning, the fourth of january, 2011. kind of a nice start to the day, althought's chilly out there on the pla. only 27 degreesut this morning. it should warm up substantially ter on. we want to thankhese nice people for stoppg by. inside the studio i'm matt lauer along with meredith viera and coming up potential break through in the fight against cancer and it's getting a lot of attention. >> we' talking about a blood test that can it spot a single cancer cell among billions of healthy on. coming up dr. nanc snyderman exain house it works. and do younow what a twibling is. they were born just ys apart but were cared by two different wome we're going to meet t women involved in this modern faly. two wen have come forward claiming they also received sexuly suggestive messages from brett favre when they worked for the new york jets. jeff rossen is hereith the very latest. >> reporter: those two women are massage therapists whoork part-time for the new rk jets, part of theirob they s was to massage brett favre, but now they'reaying that favre sexually harsed them and now they have the eviden to prove it. brett favre retire 234d shame th week force by -- just as this lawsuit was brewing. >> is time. i mean i know it'stime. and that's okay. i hold no regrets. >> reporter: two women who worked for the jets in 2008 when favre was t quarterback just filed is lawsuit. according to the mplaint, they say he propositioned them, writing in a text message to another co-worker saying you ani alone tonight. kind of lonely tonight i guess i have bad intentions. in the suit, they claim they were fired after reporting the harassment. >> ifhe allegations are true, this is a goo lawsuit and the law is very clear. you cannot raliate against a woman who complns about sexual harassment. reporter: according to the lawsuit the women reported favre lisa rippy, identified as a massage coordinator with the jets who called favre a pervert, going on to say i wish y would have cameorward a the time it happened. >> the defense willrobably make two claims, one that this was just couple ofnstances of brish behaor, it didn't rise to the level of sexual harassment and two thewere fired not for reporting sexual harassment, but bause they weren't doing their jobs. >> reporter: remember the nfl just fined brett favre50,000 in another scandal. with this former mim and playbo model jen stger. he got interested and left her suggestive voicemails. >> going bk to the hotel and just chill. send me a text because i'll be in the building for a couple o hours. >> reporter: the nfl rulede didn't viola the league's code of conduct, but finedim for failing to cooperate with the investigation. nothese new accusations from two new women. >> i believe the punisent against brett favre was adequate and they're using it to make an example of him so it didn't happen again. >> reporter: it's unclear how much money the women want but theyo mention the wd damages in the lawsuit. by the way we reached out to the nfl, no commen we called the new york ts, no comment and we call brett favre's agent last night and ver heard back fm him. meredith thank you, now to sad discovery in georgia, the remains of a missing mothe more than a year after kristi cornwell dippeared. we'll talk exclusively with kristi cornwell's boyfriend who was on the phone with her when she was ducted. >> reporr: kristi cornwell disappeared from a country road near these georgia mountains back in the summer of 2009. her remas were recently found just nine miles from wherehe vanish. it was actually her brother who made the discovery. but exactly who killed the single mher may never be answered. after almost a year and a half of agonizing searching and uncertaint kristi cornwe's family can finally cloudski lly apter. back in 2009, the 38-year-old ngle woman was walking on a country road, tking on her cell phone with her boyfriend, she mtioned a car approaching and then she scream >> i was somewhat paralyzed by it all. i hed her pleading, i have a son, please let me go, you don't have to do this. >> reporter: her ptially burned remains we found saturday by her brother. he struck out on his own after vestigators found new cell phone messages. >> those cell phone records revealhat on the nht that kristi cornwell disappeared that keringer had been in the union coun area and that his cell phone had pinged off a tower located in north union coun. >> invtigators say kenger was a suspect in other cases. but whatever information keringer may havead on cornwell's disaearance will go unheard, he killed himself last april, as atlanta police tried to arrest him. >> we have done a tremendous amount of work into his background, t we canno concsively say that he is the murder. >> reporter:he family spend thousands of dollars paying for extra searches. cornwell's mother even tooker message to youtube. >> i'mo worried about is she okay does she have enough food. >> reporter: for conwell's mom the in of not knowing may be gone, but now she must face a new reality, one without her daughter. >> we di't want it to end thi way, but that's the way it is and we can bring her me now. >> reporter: and cornwell leaves behind a teenaged son and despite thisatest development this case is still considered an open investition. >> tom trong for us on this story. i know the discovery of christy's body- my condolence >> and on behalf of the family and friends we thank everyone foro much hard, hard work. not only over this almost year and a half in the search for her. >> you musto back to that, it's been4 months now since you were on the pne with christy while he was bein abducted. you must have replayed that phone nversation in your mind 1,000 times. what standout? >> the fact that you can do anythingbout it. you're lpless. of coue, in reflection, you look back on it and think of all the things you might have done, could have done or -- and that n drive you - drive you craz but reality is we did all we could do and the family, i thought out the thousands of man hourshat just the family themselv have spent tryinto find her demonstrates a great love f her and the great love all us have sred her for and it gives you comfort becse you can see it ndemonstrat in their love for her. >> she was pleading to this person not to do this to her. she was a probationfficer for a while. she h had some self-defensive training, but i your mind did this just happe too quickly, e was just unable to react? >> iwas a haunting response that gave me an impression that she was facing a terror tha she was not prepared for. i suppose we think we are prepared for anything andn her case, certainly she was trained to be prepared. but wh faced with the reality of it, i think it overwhelmed her and there could have en a circstance, he could have drugged r, he could have done a lot of things. >> this cle is somebody who was a cold-blooded killer. and yet allowed, a he drove upshup saw h talking on the cell phone and allowedhat cell phone to be engad. it was dk ander long hair covered an earpiece. he may notave recognize it being there. he would have in timas it all unvald, i representearing all e things that was happening and her pleading with him to let her go talking about her son and a desire to -- you know, you can stop this. >>he idea that the suspect in thisase ort least one the poce believe is a suspect in this case committed suicide, i mean you may reallnever know? >> well, i came to the place of deciding ion't have to know. it's enough to know we he found her and it's enough fore to kno that she is now going t be laid to rest properland with the respect due her as opposed to the way s was sadly found. and that's enough. i'll lve judgmen to god and to his mighty hand and he'll take care of that. and whether ever know the difference one way or the other i can leave that to time and to rest finally knong that this has finally ce to not the ending we wanted, butt is finally over to this pot. we can fin a future again, w can find our lives again and we can now place her properly in memorial and in our memories and there s so many wonderful thgs about her that will certainly shineor the rt of us from now on, you know. >> i think your attitud is the most posite one you can take. mr. davis, thanks for yr time this morning. again, our condolences to you and your family. t's get a check of the weather from al. >> we do have to talk about a cold morning here. 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're going into the ns desk first. >> new news, there is new fallout this morni from the navy's videotape scandal. navy officialsell nbc news the commander of the aircraft carrier e uss "enterprise" will at the very least b temporarily rieved of his command. that officer, captain owen honors appeared in offensive videos shown abod the ship several years a lot when she was second in command. the military expert who served e last three republican presidents has investigators retracing the victim's steps. police say the body of 66-year-old johnheeler was found onriday in a delaware landfi landfill. wheeler was a driving fce behind the vtnam veteran's memorial in washington. there's new evidencend optimism that the u.s. enomy is improving. on mony, upticks in manufacturing and construion spending helpe the dow close at a two-year high. lab results are expecte next week on some of the thousands o ad birds that suddenly found on a small arkansas town on new year's eve. janet shanlian joins u from bebe, arkansas with more on this story. >> none of e experts have been able to say for certain exactly why this happened. but it isike something out of a real life horror film. thousands of dead birds falling from the sky on this neighborod on new year's eve. thousandof dead black birds on front lawns and so concentrated in the streets drivers struged to avoid them. >> we probably had 14 or5 just the front yard. >> reporter: as many as 5,000 carcasses spread within a one mile radius. the investigator who examined the rds said they died from blunt force trauma ithe air. was it lightning? gh altitude hail? or fire works? >> they were like they were hit by something. >> reporter: beyon the birds and adding to the mystery, a massive fish kill alsoere in arkansas just one day eaier. as many as 100,000 drum fish dead along a 120-mile stretch of the river. the experts call it coincidenc >> extremely unusua having two ents like this at praically the same time. we d't think there's any connection whatsoever. >> repter: and here's the late chapter. this morning w have new reports of yet anotherird kill, this one happened in louisiana about 500 of the sameype of birds, the black rds near a high school. >> and the plot thickens. okay, jan and finally this morning, president obama and his family headed back to washington overght after their hawaii va days. on theirast day they went to the tough, toured the honolulu zoo and stopped for shaved ice. >> meredith? >> just saying hello. hello, everybody. they're sew nice. >> let's get a checkf the from al. mostly cloudy and cold on this tuesay morning. good morning. i'm tom kierein. live view from the y watcher camer showing the cloud cover over washington. 29 at national airport. it's colder inhe suburbs and rur areas. latertoday we should climb to the low to mid-40s withlouds in and t and a bit of a clearingtomorrow night and a few clouding tomorrow afternoon after aunny start and colder. then friday, may a few flurries or perhaps a dusti of light ow. highs low 30s. it look like it's going to stay cold into the weeke >> and that's your latest weather. a boyho can't bring his life saving service dog to school. what his mother is doing to fight back rightfter this. [ male announcer ] sometimes u need tomorrow to finh what you started today. for t aches and sleeplessness in betweenthere's motrin pm. no other medice, not even advil pm, is more effective for pain and sleeplessness. trin pm. how about a coastal soup and grilled shrimp salad combination at red lobsr? or maybe skewers of tender, wd-grilled shrimp. or your choice of shrimp paired with wood-grilled chicken. all served with unlimited, freshly-baked cheddar bay biscuits. seafoolunches starting at just $6.99 that fit in your budget and your lunch hour. only at red lobster. we areack with one family's fight to get their son's service dogn scho. theyay his dogsk detect or prevent size yours. but the school is not allowing andrew's dog intohe building. norah o'donnell has their story. >> andrew's best friend is a dog alea. >>. >>eporter: but alea is no ordinary pet. this spard is trained to detectnd prevent seizures andrew has everyday. >> shes a god send and a lifesaver for him. >> arew as a severeorm of epilepsynd andrew's doctor recommended a service dog accompany hi everywhere he goes. alea carries a magnet in her collar. >> reporter: and mom what does that magnet go? it sends a shock to his bra to stop o prevent the seizu or lsen theseizure. >> reporter: the magnet in the dog's collar canwipe over a nerve stimulator implanted in andrew's chest andhen sends an impulse to andrew's brain. >> the thing that a dog with special healthare needs allows hem to be active and do other ings that other children he the opportunity to do. >> reporter: the fily hoped that the sool would allow andrew to takeis service dog with him. >> she helps him in situations that can't see. who am i to stand in that way and who is anybody else to stand in that way. >> reporter: but the school says the dog is not allowed. >> how am i goi to make sure that andrew and the other ks are safe all the time? >> reporter: school officials say theog needs a handler rtified from a nonprofi group assistanceogs inrnational. >> we want andrew to ben hool, we want andrew to be -- his teachers love him. we want him to be there and be there with a d if we can hav a situation where handling the dau is safe. >> butalea was trained and certifd by a different group called seizure alert dogs for life run b john saiden >> she's probly one of the most highly traed seizure response dogs in the rld. she's got over 1,800 hours of training. >> reporter: fairfax county says they have never had a trained service g for a child with epilepsy andrew's parents hope the school will find a way to help andrew with alea to go to school. >> andrew and nancy stevens are here along with alea this morning. good mning to both of you, nice to see you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning,andrew, it's great thave you here. talk to me about how long andrew has had this condition, how severe are the seizures when he gets them? >> when somebody has epilepsy, th's the thing you don'tnow what it' doing to somebody's ain. the seizures aren both sides of his brain, so there's no surgery that can help him or medication. the best you can do is try fferent medications, get a service dog to t to help ssen the seizures >> we were sittingere earlier, just aew minutes before we started do this, and andrew went into wt it seemed to m would be a minor seizure. >>nd you took the magnet off your wrist and you swiped it ov his chest and it stopped th seize chur. >> that is the function that alea is supposed to perform when andrew is at school. if you don't do that, or alea does not do that, how long would a seizure last? >> so far he's only d a seizure th lasts a minute. with lgs it can progress to dierent seizures longer seizures. >> and the reason that andre is wearing this on his heads that the risk is he could pass out, he could fall down and injure hielf. >> and when he's having a seizure, he's unconscious. so the wle time he seizg, heoesn't know. if somebody's not paying attenti attention, he could walknto a wall or fall down and the dog will not allow him to do that. he's going to direct him and keep him safe. >> the school is ccerned that a 12-yr-old, and a 12-yeaold we have to be quite honest operates at a level below his age is not caple of haning a dog likthis in a classroom setting and they're obviously afraid tt if this dogere to injure some other student or get aw and cause a problem, the school would be liable. how do you respond to at? >> a serce dog is trained very well. this dog's only going to do what andrew asks it to do. if andrew sits the dog, the dog is going to sit just like right now. if andrew gets up the dog is going to t up and move. a service dog will n bite anybody at all. >> the schl also says they have people ithe building teachers and administrators that can perform the same functions that alea would perform, perform the same function that you performed justefore we srted here swiping the magt across andrew's est. is that not gd enough? >> no, it's not. alea can detect some of the seizures that i can't detect and therefor give a forewarng to swipe the magnet. there's times that she's given me thearning just by sniing or by getting up and lickingis face. >> there are people w say that the dog is not trained to detect a seizu before it happene happe only aer it begins. that's not true. there's enty of people that have seizure dogs that theogs forewarn them in se way, shape orform. you just he to watch for that signal. >> is there a compromise th's reachable here? doou hope the schoolinds some way to accommodate alea in the class? >> i think they should. i think what they he done has really beenn unjustice to m son and now he's being homeschooled, with a teacher coming out. the teachers that he has are awesome teache. it's just that they're trying to doomething and go by standard that's not a federal law, it's a law byhe school. >> andrew, do you wt to go back to school and be in the classroom with the other stud t students? >> yes. >> and you want to take alea with you? >> yes. >> andrew, is good to see you. good luck to you. nancy, thank you for joing us, we appreciate it. and we're going to have much more ahead, including iblings, t . 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>> for me it was imptant to get to know melanie and michael and be sure these were the right people to help. you had never done this before? >> i had never done this before and i wanted to make sure tt we agreedn all the aspects of the circumstances that come into play in a situation like this. i wanted to make sure that we were a good fit for each over. >> you havewo chdren, how d your famils respond to this? >> i started tking with my children about this beforee started looking f a family. you don't want to get to that point and then go, , wait, just kidding, i'm not going to give you the support. >> you d't want to have a shgun wedding. this is the most importanttep you have taken in your life and you need to be absolutely confidenof the people you're doing it wi. >> your children are violet and karen are now four months o and they have a real relationship with thea and melissa and the egg donor? why is that important to you. >> every famil that does it does it different and some people don't do it like this. but we feellike family and we feel it will be very positive for our children to know tse people growing up and when we explain tohem how they came to be,e want to say aunt thea and aunt melsa carried you in their tummy and we don't want them to say who is that? >> and the fact that you all know each other now, would you do it again? >> definily. i think it would be a great opportunity asong as the right family came lo. the time was right and everything falls into place. >> thank you so much. we'll beight back after this. 8:26 is yr time. 30 degrees. a col start to your morning in the nation's capita tom will have your forecast right ter the news. good morning. i'm eun yang. metrois launching federal investigation after this video popped up on youtube. it shows a train operator talking to a passenger whil a train is in motion and this es against metro protocol. the passenger who shot the vid said itook sunday morning on the yellow line. metro says it has identifi the operor and will address the female announcer ] why settle f plain bread when you can have pillsbury grands! flaky layers biscuits? the warm, light delicate lers are like nothing else. add a layer ofxcitement to your next meal. ♪ and these are the ones u'll love on a friday. pillsby crcent pizza pockets. with just few ingredients, you have an easy to make dinner. they're escents for the other 364. try them tonight. good morning. mostly cloudy. cold. still in the 20s. clouds in and out. tomorrow as well as thursday, colder weather movin back. then on friday, perhaps a dustng of light sne or maybe fewlurries and maybe a passing snow shower on saturday. cold in the next week. ashy linder, how's traffi >> big problem the outer loop beyond university boulevard. it was a vehicle re. no longer engulfed. we have lanes ocked. it's going to be jachled beyond greenbt. once beyond it, you're back up to speed. drivers arelowing to take a look. back to you. >> coming up on nws 4 at 5 it's it is 30 now on a tuesday morning. it's also t fourth day of january, 2011. take a nice long look, take one last look at the rockefell center christmas tree, she's coming down on friday, she will be mille into lumber rht down on the plaza. that lumber will used for habitat for humaty. >> not far from where the tree was actuallyaken from, i that area, newberg, i ink. it's a house in newberg? >>alking about hitat for humanity, you can't rush this like that. i'm matt lau along with meredith viera and al rok and ann curry. ming up we'll talk about illnesses. t the kind you have, we're talking physical illnesses. >> do you know the difrence between a cold and the flu? and how concernedhould you be be whooping cough. >> we're going to he important information that you need to know abo all this. >> we're not going to laugh about that. and tonight a new seaso of the biggest loser kicksf.contesr olympic great wrestler, he gained a lot of weight. we're going to seehat's going on with him. 're also and we're going to talk about how toeep mom fit. also ts yes, the cold pattern continues for u too, and around our regi off to a cldy start. live view from our sky watcher camera. rig now it's just in the low 20s, upper teens in many locations. mid and upper 20s closer to washington and by t bay. later today climbing into the low to mid-40s th a few clouds in and out and tomorrow partly cloudy with afternoon highs a bit colder with highs only in the uer 30s. morng lows, low 20s. mid-30s on thursday. maybe a light dusng of snow on friday and satday. an don't forget, you can check your weather any i'm of the day o night, the weather channel on cable or weather.com online. coming up next,ow to otect yourselfnd your family against those harsh winter viruses. i'm drinkin' dunkin'. coffee. black, strght up. extra cream, three suga. french vanilla. iced coffee for me iced coffee with a turbo shot. i'm drkin' dunkin'. i'm drinkin' dunkin' i'm drinkin' dunkin'. i'm drinkin' dunkin'. americruns on dunkin' coffee. oh yes hi. can you put my grandma on the phone please? thanks. excuse me a sec. another peon calling for her grandmother. she thinks it's her soupuh? m told she's in the garden picking herbs. e is so cute. okay i'll hold. she's holding. wha? 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>> last year people talked about h1n1 and how severe it wasoing to be. we watched it workn a pandec way as it skipped throughout the world. it tned out to be mild. in this year flu shot, a ttle piece of that h1n1 is in there. we have sn some throughout the southern states and we really won't knowntil january, februa, march into april. bu right now, so far things are pretty mild. >> let's talk about whooping cough, we're startinto see whooping cough break out in places where we haven seen it. >> when we are inside we cough on each oer and those droplets are inhaled, that's how we spread these infections, but wee seeing pockets of unvaccined kids. california is on a roll to break a 55-year record for more whooping cough. this can kill babies this can kill infants. it's a totally preventable illness. there's a whping cough vaccine hasn't been linked to any autism, and whooping cough is a bad infection that you get -- >> is ts a cold? >> it's a different virus. but what happens, you start to get the stuffy nose, crummy little cough, so sometimes parents think it' no big deal. but then the cough gets worse and worse and kids reay get this whooping sound. sometimes they breathe and cough so much they end up vomits a when you see these chiren inhale, you can watch the muscles in between their ribs, they are really struggling for breath. >> the cures what? >> the cure is time. but some of these children need to b hospitalized. >> seasona affective disorder. it used to it's i don't like winter. but is a clinical disorder? >> this is sanl affective disorder otherwise known as s.a.d. and what happens is, o days t shorte your brain doesn't make the chemils that make you hay and it c be just like deprsion, you can get moody, yocan get dark, sullen. the treatment is as sple as sitting in front of a bank of lights. and sometimes the psychiatric way of learning how to dealith it. sometimes medications too. but it's for real. so if you feel you get really dark and sullen in the winter, this might be the real deal. >> a lot of doctors say get outside, eve if it's winter tside, get outside. >> get somlight. >> mold allergies. this one surpres me. why moreo in the winter. i always aociated mold with kindf hot, steamy weher. >> usually spring it' grasses and trees, and in the fall it's ragwee but when we close up our houses, all the dampness grows mold, it' not that black killer md that we talk about every once in a while. if you walk io a place and it just sort of smelling funky it's probably mold and if y find in the winter that you're sneezi, you have a headache, a chric sore throat, it may not be a cold at all, it may be an allergy and it may be time t check with an allergist. >> 8:40. when we come back, alison sweene on the mommy diet and the new season o "the bigge this morning o take it off today, the mommyiet. alison sweeney has wnessed some amazing transformatio and it's given her access to hollywood's best trainers and nutritionists. now she's put those personal experiences into h new book the mommy diet. a month by month plan for healthy body and min before, during and after pregnancy. alli, good mornin when you were egnant, you found a lot of books on how to take care of your by, but none about how to take care of you. >> exactly. and wh we experienced on "the biggest loser" is that pple who care so much about others and are busy taking care of others forget at they need to take care of their own heah and fitness. you can be a better mom, you can be the best mom you can be if u start with your own fitness and your own health. >> it's called the mom diet, but 's not just about exeise and dieting at all. >> no, no, there are fun fashion tips there,'s definity makeup and hair and romance advice because i think well rounded mom is one who can guide her children and her whole mily. i d't think it's just for new moms, if yr kid is 20, and you have that unwanted ight, you can get healthy and realize that you wan your daughter to take that time for herself. >> what have you learned about yourselfn writing this ok? >> that's a big question. the biggest thing i learned about mylf is that i need tt communy of experts around me and how much i have learned being a par of the biggest loser and just how much information there is out there, if you take advantage of that advice and those tips you can really make a whole life choice for yourlf. i had my trainer that actually jillian recoended to me whom i really rel on and my makeup artist who's known me since i was 16 years old at "stdays o or lives." my nutritionist who knows a lot about how to eat ght. i have serecipes. my father-in-law's omeal pancake recipes in there. i did ask for permission. i think that what we dl with in thi country, obesity is - the numbers are staggering and they grow every day and the cdc says a third of adult americans are obese and it's really scary to look at those numbers and take charge of our lives and not sit around and let fast foods be us. my diet is about living the rest of my life. i'm a working mom. i have two job and two kids. and i cook dinne for my kids. you can do it. it can be accomplhed if you take the time. >> talking about taking care of your weigh being a lifelong goal for everybody, and the seasonremier of the biggest loser isonight. the olympic wrestler, how did he endp in the shape he started on the show >> heelt like as an athletee had conol of his weight and he would let 20 pounds go and say i can handle that, 40 pounds, 60 pounds, oh, i could lose tha if i wanted to. and the next thingou know, 100-plus pounds later he realized he was i complete deni and his family bugged him to doomething about it ande needed that intercession from his family to realize he needed help. he couldn't do it alone and he found it at "t biggest lose jer er," what's amazing is to see the pride that comesack to him. when he started the bigge loser, he lost -- >> after a certain amount of weight, maybe theyeel there is no hope, no reon to lose. >> absolutel you give up. you ink there's nothing i can do. and that's why the biggest loser continues to be sucssful is beuse we prove tt it doesn't matter how far gone you are, you can come back fro that. we had one girl who was told by the biggest loser doctors that she was too unhealthy to be on the show. so sheost 100 pound by herself and then made it onhe sh. talk about the pri and the ability she has. it's an amazing cast tonight and i can't wait for people to meet them. >> congratulationsn the book. it's called the mommy diet. always pleasure to have you here. >> and the season pmier of the biggt loser couples airs toght at 8:00. and up next, warm and hearty soup for the cold winter months, but first this is "today" on c. orty years ago, he wasn't worried about retiment. he'd yet to hear omutual funds, iras, or annuties. back then, he had something more imrtant to do. he wasn't foced on his future bufortunately, somebody else w. at aa we provide retirement soltions for our military, veterans and their famlies. from investments... to life insurance. to health re options. learn more with r free usaa retirement guide. cal877-242-usaa. we're back at 8:49 this morning on "today" kitcn, back to sics. delicious winteroods to warm your body in ful michael romano is one o our favorite people. he's also t chef of rterhouse, new york. you chefs are great, you hav all these complicated recipes and you'reeally happy about the preparation and the gredients, let's throw that out for a second and talk just s soup. how important is itor a chef to make a reay good soup? >> it's the fst thing chefs are taught. >> the combination of ingredients, preparation, things like that. >> you lea your ingredients and learnow to dice and chop. >> also you have to learn to experiment. you can' just take a basic recipe, you have to take it and invate a little bit. >> you can change the ingredients and make youown soup out of it. >> this isalled roasted vegetable soup. >> we actually roasted the vegetables. i'm t carrots, here i have a vegetable broth. >> so you roasted these with a little bit of olive oil? >> olive oil in the oven. >> how long? >> 35, 40 mines in a hot oven. get at caramelization of the vegetables. and this is some sauce that i'm adding out of a can. vegetableroth really give you the flavor. and that i'm going to let the tomatoook with the vegetable broth. i'm going to add the vegetables. this is good to go. you can adjust the sal and pepper. and the roasted vegetables go right int this vegetable broth and in 35 minutes you've got a autiful soup. i alws like making soup in engh quantity so i can put some awain the freezer. >> to me sou gets better. the second or third time, it takes on even better flav. exactly. we're goi to let that cook for about a half an ho. >> rfect, and you have the other ingredients here. thisext one is traditional up, called pazzoli? >>t's got homeny is corn. if you dried it and ground it up it would be grits. this is a cross betwe a soup an a stew right he. i thout at the beginni of the year, let's go with some turkey, 's full flavor. but with everything else that goes in here, let me get the other ingredients in re. actually we're going to add our tuey back in. >> you just added that back? i roasted the turkey, i put in there some swreeet peppers. the cli powde is really not that hot. little garlic goes in. but you do put jalapenos in this, don't you? >> it's optional. we're going to also add, this is turkey pazzi with green chili's. you should taste them first. they're a littlespicy. but it's an optional ingredient. but the green chili's add fl flavor. they're really not that spicy, but they're roasted. >> let me tell you,eople can smell this. this smells fanttic. this has a powerful aroma. >> this is hearty for the winter. if you wanted to d this with water,ou can do this with water. >> how long wld you let that ok down on the stove. >> this is going to cook for an hour. in fact the homeny should go i in the last5 minutes. >> i want to see what thisll looks like. >> hearty soups a a meal in themselv. >> this is the roasted vegetable soup. >> this is the roasted vegetable. let me give you a little bit. as you can see, it's got plenty of ingredients inthere. vegetable brh, roasted vegetables. >> i hearhe door open. >> onehing that goes with, this parsley pesto. >> pass it down. am i a lucky girl. >> the crew h arrived. >> parsley, pesto and garlic. >> while they devour that, meredithnd i are going to try to turkey pazzoli. >> that pesto really gives it a -- >> no soup for you. >> pesto, here's the pesto, there you go. >> quickly, what's t last soup down here. >> this is curried crot soup. >> you want to try that? >> no, i'm fine. >> vy full flavored. these are just heartynd you know have satisfying. great soups. we're back after your local news. 8:55 is your time. degrees in the nation's capital. it's coldut there. tom wil have your forecast right after the news. gd morning. i'm eun yang. we're following breaking news ou of prince geor's county. police discovered a body at palmer in ft. washington. police are calling this a homicie. they have not yet released th details. detectives are trying to find out who killed heeler. it's not clear how long he'd bn missing. we' take a quick break and have at mid mornin still below freezing most locations. partly cloudy now. temperatures will climb intohe low and mid-40s later today with a few clouds i and out and tomorrow, thursday, bit colder. mig get a little duing of light snow and perhaps a few frries on friday or passing snowshowers on saturdy. h's traffic, ashley? >> rightow you're into t sunshine on 270. you hav those delays toward the truck scales and after that, no problems. aroundthe capital beltway, the vehic fire after university h been cleared. back t you. >> coming up on "news 4" at 5:00, it's lch with lindsay and one minute you feel fine. the next, you start feeling bioff. the moment you feel run down or achy, nip flu-like symptoms in the bu with oscillococcinum. get oscillo and feel like yourself again. oscillococcinum, nip it ithe bud. 're back now with more of "tay" on this tuesday morning, the fourth dayf january, 2011. ki of a nice day o here on the plaza where some nice people have ghered to wrap up the holiday season. we thank them fostopping by. out on the plaza, i'm matlauer along with natalie mores and al roker. coming up the tragic sto of krti cornwell, the single moth of georgia whoent missing 14 month ago. we're going to talk toer boyfriend, a guy who was actually on phone, on a cell phone with kristi wn she was abduct. it's some csure for the family but they're determined to find out whoilled her. on a completel different note. if your newyear's resution is to get healthy, eat right, kicking the sugar habit. joy bauer is here to answer our qutions about diet and nutrition. the gd news is you c indulge in the occasional cocktail or the occasional sweet treat. she' going to show youow you n do that and still lose weight. > lindsay loh finished her court mandated stint i rehab on monday. so where is she now,hen is she aded back to court? wh will she get her lifeack track? and oprah winfrey kicked off the new year with her own network. we're gng to get your celeity roundup comg up in a little b. i don't norlly look back. but folks,o to our website and get that recipe for the paoli. make thatsoup. you might want to put maybe three-quarters of the green chilies inthere. good morning once again, everybody. inhe news this morning, a former mility expert and aid to president reagan and both bush administratio has been found dead in a delaware landll. an army officer john p. wheeler iii was instrumental in buildin a vietnam veteran' memorial in the nation's capital and now authorities are invtigating his death as a murder. the ny tells nbc ns captain owen honor will be relieved of his command of the uss enterprise. >> opie honors was the captain of the uss "mt. whitney." if his pformance was in qution, his deployment was stellar. obviously we have seen captain honors prove himself in situation where is his judgment's been in question and he's always prevailed. captain honors made the videoseveral years ago when he s second in command at the uss nterprise." there isew evidence and optimism that the u.s. economy may be improving. the commerce department is expected to report an increase in factory orders and an uptick in manufacturing and consumer spending had the dowlosing at a two-year high. >> reporte kristi cornwell disappeared from a country road near hiseorgia mountains back in theummer of 2009. her remains were recently found just nine miles from whe she vanished. but the question of w exactly killed her may never be answer. after almost a year d a half ofgonizing searching and uncertainty, kristi cornwell's family can finally close one chapter of its painful stor >> kristi can now hava proper burial that she deserves. >> reporter: back in 2009, the 38-year-old singleom was walking on a country road, talking on her cell phone with her boyfriend. she mentioned a car approaching. then the boyfriend heard scre screams. >> she said i'veeen tied up. i was somewhat paraled by it all. i heard her then pleang, pleasei have a son, don't this for his sake, please let me go. you don't have to do this. >> reporter: her remains were found on saturday by her brother. new cell phone records were found of james caringer. >> those cell phone records revealedhat on the night that kristi cornwl disappeared, that carringer had been in the union county are and that his cell phone had pinged off a tower located u in north union county. >> reporter: whatever formation carringer may hav had on cornwell's disappearance willo unheard. he killedimself last april as atlanta police tried to arres him. >> we have done a tremendous amou of work into his background but we cannot conclusively say that he is the -- he is the murder. >> reporter: for cornwell's mom t pain of n knowingay be gone, but now she must face a new reality, one witho her daughter. >> we didn't want it to end this way, but that's the way it is and we can bring her home now. >> and cornwell lves behind a teaged son and despi the latest developments, ts case is still considered an on investigation. >> tha you so much this morning for that report. > a new study of iraq war veterans finds that those who have experienced post-traumatic stress disorder are more likely to suffer long-term problems such as depression and headaches than tho who suffer coussions without post-traumatic stress. and memillions fever is spreading nationwide. brisk sales have sent the jackpotoaring to $230 milon or $208 million if you want to ta a lump sum cash payout. that's onef the largest lottery payouts in ltery history. good morning. here we're still belowfreezing. just past 9:00 in the mornng and our temperatures arou the region are jst in the upper 20s to near 30 degrs throughout much of the area. though some of the rural areas still near 20 degrees. later this aftnoon we'll climb into the mid-40snd tomorrow d thursday should be even colder, and we'll have a possibility of a few flurries or maybe a light dusng of snow on friday. maybe aassing snow showe on saturda but remaining cold into the first part of next week. this morning we haveips on losing weight while indujing on everything from sweet treats to cocktas. "tay's" nutritionist joy bauer is the cator of a new dprks vd joy bauer's sldown. we have got jewels joining us on skype. what's your question? >> i want to know howou start out the new year all gung ho and ready to go,ow do you keep that motivation going? >> it's great question. and so many people fall off the wagon after the first f weeks. th is what i suggest,jewels. i want you to set up a 2011 weight loss scdule. and it's goi to help keep you motivate and on track. in other words if you started t the new year, lets say weighing 188 pounds you're going to mark down that on february 1, you're going to weigh 180 pound and on march 1 you're going to weigh 174 pounds. and ke those target goals throughout the whole year until you reach yr goal. make it official. crte some sort of a weight loss schedule either on the computer in a sprdsheet or in a prettyalendar book. when we have a ccrete goal that we're working towards, we get sort of competitive, even if we're just competing with ourselve if we know that we have to be at work at 9:00 in the moing. we're atork at 9:00 in the morning. if we have to drive a c pool at 00, we make suree get home to do it. take the two traits andake them work toour adntage. set up a weight loss schedule and csistently have these ongoing weight target goals that you're gng to hit. and you will pvail. take it seriously. what do you think? could it work? >> that's a great idea. we'll try that. >> okay good luck and happy new year. >> happy new year. >> thank you so much jels. let's go to the phone, eve is on the phone from tioch, illinois. what's your question forjoy? >> caller: i am completely addicted to sugar and when i'm dieting i tend t have an allr nothing attitude which inevitably leads meo bing. is cold turkey the right thin to do or is there a way toet a little b without blowing my diet. >>hat all or nothing mentality n cause havoc for your diet. for the first week of your weight loss plan,et rid of all e sugar and sugar sutitutes. even though the sugar substitutes have zero calories, theytill keep that sugweet taste on your mind. after the week, you can certainly introduce some portion controlled amounts. i say allow yourself a swe treat of 150 calories, it's really weren to portion control it. it could be 150 calories of cookies or a low calorie ice cream pop. anything that does it for you. but if the sweets tend to open the pandora's box, which means that if you start eatin them you wan more and more, figure out what your personal trgers are and avoid them at all sts. and you may want to save a safe sweet tweet freat for after din >> i cannot start on peanut m&ms. but everybody has these saf sweet treats that don't get them into trouble. you have it to look forwa to and it can keep u on the straight and narrow. good luck. >> finally a last estion via ype, we have got brianna in west windr, new jersey. what's your question? >> hi, my resolution is t lose weight, but i love to meet my frnds for dris after work to i really don't want toive up alcohol. so my question is, can i still get in shape and loses weight wiout giving up cocktails? >> you definitely don't have to give up cocails and i'm not just saying that because want everybody in the control room to like me better you just have to learn how to drink smarter. you don't want too for the sugary syrupy mixed drinks like the pina come --here are so many slimming low calorie cocktails that you can enjoy. for example, glass of white or red wine or a flute of champagne is oy about 120 lories. a beer, a light beer, 12-ounce bottle is about 100 calori, a regular beer is only 150 calori and if you're a hard liquor gal, brianna, you can have a shot of vodka with me zero calorie club soda with a splash of pomegranate juice o orange juice if that what you prefer for only 110 calories and make sure you alternate every caloried beverag with a low calorie beverage. youlways somewhere manager in your hand to feel soci at a party. >> a right, brianna, good luck. bottoms up. our director joe wanted to know how many calors are there in rubbing cohol? >> zero, joe. >> joy, thank so much. and still to come, reinventing your relationship, we're going to help you make a fresh start with the important folks i your life. and lindsay lohan leaves rehab. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] why usehe same hand towel over and ov instead of a clean, frh one every time? ♪ your hands are only as clean as the towel used to dry them. at's why there's kleenex®brand hand towels. a clean, fresh towel every time. at's why there's kleenex®brand hand towels. ♪ [op ] right now at h&r block, and you could geit fast., just bring in yourax information... and get a refund anticipatn check. you pay nothing t of pocket. h&r block. ver settle for less. soft! hard! 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>> they're expecting it could take u to eight days to get through the prosecution's arguments and thedefense's arguments. dr. murray is expected to say that michael jackson actually committed suide that he administered that fin lethal dose of propofol. they wld rather hear that dr. murray is blaming it onnother doctor for them to try to insinuate that michael jackson lled himself. >> and his family, friends, they're gog to be in court. >> it's like all tngs involving the jacksons. >> all right now moving on to oprah's new network, o launched on new year's day. and the reviews are in already, the ratings were reall very good, especially for, you know, for cable. >> it is cable and a lot of carriers don't have own on basic cable packages andthat's something that aered a lot of oprah fans. u have to upgrade your package to get it. there is some really compelling programming, the look a oprah's behind thecenes look at the final season of her show. >> what oer kinds of programs can you expect? gail king? >>ayle king have her own show. >> sarah ferguson has herwn show too which i really fascinating. that was one story tt evybody was so fascinated by when she fell so deepnto debt and was caught on camera ting toake a deal. so i think that's going to be a great sh too and all the talent youe used to seeing. >> it's all abo that uplifting. >> oprah said, listen, i want everythi to be about intentions. i want you to watch sething on is show and say okay, now am i going to go learn more about this thing,m i going to feel better about thi other aspect. it's really setting your intentions for you life. >> spiritual but als with good content is what i underand they want to do there. from pitive programming to "the jersey shore." i guess this thursday premier the new season. >> that's right. and,boy, i don't even know where to go wi this. just when you thought it couldn't get crazier, it got crazier. >> they got this new character dina. and this cast they wentrom lovable -- to pple you can't understand how the function in society, the language, the behavior, you get to s that incident tt we heard over the summer when snooki was dgged f the beach by the police. we g to see that in full. it's a lot to take in. >> it' a lot to take in and they just keep getting richer as ey do their show. >> still soing your laundry into multiple loads? 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>> much better. we had aehicle fireearlier er. everything moving smoothly and delays are easing up. over to springfield, things are easing u eun, back to you. >> coming up on "news 4 at 5:00" lunch with lindsay and excuse me, does this bring back any memories? pizza, pizza, go team go. >> nev heard of it. >> from the h tv series taxi. what you may not kw about her is that she has the rare ability to remember ch and every day of her life in perfe detail. it's called superior auto biographical memory. she's only one of six people known to have it. she's going to tell us about it thursday ontoday. probably some days you prefer to forget. it'samazing. >> i find that fascating. >> i suppose exactly right, there are things that -- for example every single moment of child birth, for example? i would prefer to fort. let's move on and talk about anher story that's coming up. we have been talking about brett favre and now two massage therapists are explaining that they lost their jobs after they complain that he sent them sexually explicit messages. and ao ahead, dave zinczenko is going to be ba. >> i tried to te you that before the break. he's got a plan to get your abs in shape without spendg your whole life in the gym. he's going to sre his power foods. i'm hoping he's goi to actually show us his s. >> are you now? >> you can ask. meahile the new year may be a good time to pause and reflect and reinvent some still below freezing around much of the area on this tuesday mning. good morng. i'm tom kiern. we have the sunshine back. later today we should be climb swoog the low to mid-40s and a few clouds coming. tomorrow as well as on thursday it should turn a bit colde friday, there a possibility of a dusting of light snow or maybe a few flurries. a look into the weekend. might have a passing snow shower on saturday but the big story is it's going to remain cold through the wkend and all the way into the first part of next week. >> brett favre's footballareer may be over, but his legal troubles continue. we'll tell youbout the new accusations against the arterback after these messages i feel like i have to wind myself up just to get out of bed. then, well, i have to ep winding myself up to deal with the sadne, the loss of interest, trouble concentratin the lack of energy. 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i really feel that i c do bett or i want my relationshi to look a little bit diffent and the beginning of a new year is theime to make those changes. >> what if you say my goal is to ve a better relationship with my spouse or my siblings, what should you do? >> you need to make a picture of what you want your relationship to look like, but without a picture, it' hard to move in the direction o who you want to beco, or what you want to look like as a couple. >> it doesn't mean that you want to change them or cnge you necessarily, but focus o the positive aspects. >> youan't focus on changing anybody else. if you fus on changing yourself, that enough to have moment in the relationship you don't want to make yourself a victim bause then you're completely powerles >> and you say to get your thoughts and goals on paper, write things dn and make a list of how you want things to go. >> if you put things down on paper, you're basically prio prioritizing your goal you're also breaking it down to parts because it'sery hard to know whenou say i wan to change my relationship, everybody wants to change their relationship to they're happier, but how are you going t do it an what are the steps you're goingo take to make tse small change >> if you want to reinvent your relationship with your spse, especially if you have been married to that person for a long time, things c get a litt ttle stale. >> it's also very easy to stack up all the negativ in our relationships. we have very high expectations. number one, be grateful. make a list of things your partner does give you, because you obviously chosehem for a reason. and if you start to remind yourself about all t wonderful things that alady exi i your relatiship, you're going to treat yr partner nicer and they're going toespond to that. and also think about couples you admire. use thats a goal for yourself. and you can even ask yourself, what would this couple do under these circumstance and use that real as a guide. >> find ways to reinvent yourself as a couple. >> it's all about creating new memories and if you create kprit exciting new memories together. th that excitement is going to seep into the relationship, maybe you take a vacation, maybe 's a new class, maybe you read a book togetr and you discuss it. but it's all about having those new momts where you're nturing into new territory. >>omething new again in the relaonship. let'say your relationship with a sibling, either you are grown apart or you have h a falling o out. what can you do to mend thin? >> you need to b proactive instead of reactive. sometimes we treat each other like which did as kids and those ole sibling rivalries can pop-up again. u want to get to know each her as friends. find time to get tknow them. don't treat tm like a family member tt you can just say anything to, you really can. if you want to have a good relaonship with a sibling, get to know them, spend time doing things you like together and also be appreciative forho they are. okay now what about a son or a dauger? if you have a little t of a turmoil in your relationship with them,specially teenagers as you know, what can you do to help get youelf back onolid grou? >> well the first thing iyou want to enjoy your child so do activities that can bring you together, maybe it's shopping, maybe it's going to a movie, maybe is a family dinner. >> spendinthe time. >> spending time, that's the key toll of these retionships, spendingime. you want to listen especially to an adolescent child that you have. find out their world perspective. ask for the advice. take part in actities that they enjoy. and also remember to give them some space. so th's a little bit dferent than your other relationships d they also need time alone because they're figuring out who they are as individuals. >> good luck to you in the new year. >> anks. >> we can all use that every now and again. >> right. coming up next, dav >> right. coming up next, dav zinczenko hps you take yr the moment you feel run down or achy nip flu-like symptoms in the bud, with oscillococcinum. get oscillo and feel like youelf again. oscillococcinum, nip it in the d. this morning fake take it off today, six secrets to make your smach go from flab to b. david zinczenko has t new books. a great way to start off the new year, is getting your abs in shape. >> you got toet rid of that kill belly fat. >>hen you talk about consumer reports says,ine out of t americans feel that their diet is already healthy. we're deluding ourselves. >> i don't know where they did the survey, inike a bob's big boy? 3 of americans are overweight orobese, part of th problem is that we are listening to a lot of the marketing gimmicks, things that e all natural or fat free and we think wre eang healthy and we're really not. >> now when it comes to abs, how important is exercise? and i got to think that's right after the bat one of the number one ings. >> exercise will dinitely help you turbocharge your weit loss and there's a whole plan in the abs diet, 15 minutes, three days a week, at home, a full circuit program going andou rev up your metabolm and it helps you to strip away fat all day long. but what you need to realize th what you put in your belly is mh more important than how you exercise. exercise, flat bellies are made inhe kitchen, not in the gym. >> so you've got six secrets here to a flat belly. number one is -- and this sounds alst counter intuitive,ating six meals a day? >> basically what youant to do is realize that ereme hunger leads to extreme eating. so you want to graze throughout the day, three meals, three snacks. graze like a goat. and just have a lot of the trient dense foods. because what that's going t do is push thjunk out of your body. this is just a mental trick, a handy act com anymoronym that ge nutrnt dense foods, a i almonds, b is beans, d is dairy. what you'reasically doing is tryi to make this a focusf your diet. it's not about restrictions, but you make the abs die power foods. that is gog to help you have the key nutrients that you need to look and feel and live better >> these are fanstic. you don't have a minute, you don't ve 90 seconds to put -- i am telling you, if you do this, people who skip breakfast are 450% likely t end up overweight orbese. so what you're doin with a smoothy is you' getting fiber, vitamins, protein, calcium, it is a great way t start the day. >> you also say watch what you drink? >> we're drinking 450 empty calories day. sos that are doing nothing for us. if you can cult o 300 of those calories day, you're going to lose 30 pounds in 2011. >> ao stop counting calories. >> forget calorie counting. eat the nutrition foods unt you start to feelull and then stop. but don't deprive yourself. >> and cheat on your diet once we. >> once a week have anything you want. >> once a week. david zizenko, thank you. >>ore coming up. ring ring. progsso. i look great in my dding dress with the help of your aming light soups. w we're adding even bigger pieces owhite meat chicken. oh, so when's the big day? oh, we got married yearsgo. but the point is, i fiin it! well good for you! [ malennouncer ] progresso. you gotttaste this soup. ¿qué sisamos tacos más your esta. chilly day out there. around freezing. actually 32 degreesn the city. we're going to heck the wather ortly. good morning. 9:56 the me. i'm barbara harrison nchlt the "news 4 today," investigars are trying to fi out who lled a military expert who served under threepresidents. it's not clear how lon he had been missing. > and metro islaunching an investigation after a deo of a train operator popped up on youtube. it shows the operator talkingto a passenger while the tain was moving. it goes against met trow protocol. they have idenfied the operator and will address the issue. >> lit's addreet's address the . it's freezing. >> each day temperaturesre going to be averaging below average. ght now it's between e 20s to 30 degrees. it will be getting above freezing and peek into theow 40s by mid afteoon. wednesday andhursday remaining cold. morning lows, 20s. afternoon highs, near 40. then there's apossibility, perhaps a dusting of lit snow, maybe few flurries on friday. over the weekend, anow shower saturday. now, steve hershorn, how's traffic? >> gting pretty good right now. springeld, traffic moving on the right-hand side of the roadwaynto the work zone that's back in the rig lane but it's really not csing a problem. roadwork is setting . no delay. barbara, back to you. >> okay. thank you, steve. coming up on "news 4" at 5:00, coming up on "news 4" at 5:00, it's lunch with lindsay and capn hello, everybody! it's booze-tuesday, tuesday, january 4th, 2011 alread still not used t that. iis going to take me a whil >> yes. i've said today happy new year probably four or five times. few times in the gym, in the hallway. >> right. when are you supposed to not say it? >> when are you de? >> when is theirst time you see someone in the new year it is appropriate to say "happy new yea" until it is groundhog's day and it is a little less appropriate. >> the security guards at nbc, they alwa say "happy new year." d i like that they keep reeating it. >> it's the one thing that doesn't have any controversy about it. >> happy new year. >> merry christmas. hat do you mean by that?" nothing! ju merry christmas. you can say happy new year to everybody, and everody says, you, too. >> how is yours going? >> mine is all doing wl. we're all trying t lose weigh now. everybody's got their new year's resolutions. we always tod -- it is a tradition in our family, onnew ar's day we always go to alabama jack. i mean this with great love -- biker guys that i adore down in -- anyway, best keylime pie the entire world. so i brought you -- i thought you we going to get the first bite, but jerry took it. so take aittle bite, hod were going to spread it around. then i also haveto say m dear friend emily is here with her daughter annie but she's also here with her ster scoob and their ughters. they're from my other place, michigan -- >> can we pause a minute about this key lime pie? this ss best -- we should te everyone. on friday we're doing an entire show on an elliptical machine. >> that's why we can have this. we're going to wo it off. >>it's called "lose it with kathie e and hoda." you watch usrom the gym. while we are doing our machines, doing every view on a bike or on an elliptical, our guests are oing to be -- hold on. but that's on friday. not today. her family makes hudsonville -- i li it when they say creamery instead of ice cream. >> does that mean it is not ice cream? >> it is mackinaw -- that's where they shot "mewhere in time." that amazing iand. >> i need another fork. here you go. it'sll about friday. >> it is a sexual frustration. >> what does that mean? >> that's why i'm not eating it. >> mm. oh, my god. amazing. really good. >> then for those of us w like being good, theres a new recipe -- this is a booze-list -- what's this? a booze-list booze-day cocail because i am trying to be good. jerry so sweetlygave me -- what is this? >> something to add in. >this is from bet er hos a"bett and rdens". it only has 71 calories. >> yours has120. >> 06you want a little of this? it goes od with ice cream and key lime e. >> i've already gained five pounds. > i know. >> that is good. that's really good. >> thank you, jerry. hay new year to you, jerry now we have a couple of things. mark your calears because this an important announcement we're making. keep going, babe. nice talking to you. so if you want to find out what are your good daysnd bad news of the new year we have-- >> every y's a good daywith you, hoda woman. >> what are you oing? >> now you are most likely to get fired in the month of january. okay? jt so you know in case it mes. >> happy new year. >> the saddest day is january 17th. >> let's plan aarty on january 17th -- who says? >>hey do. >> based on what? >> i'll tell you why it is the addest day. you reize you're in debt because you spent all yr money on christms. wait. you've already blownour new yea's resolution. and everything sink in that there is not a lot to look forward to. t's move on to the goodstuff. >> there's nothing to look ford to. >> february, you're most likely to get engaged, obably because it's vantine's day. don'took at me! you're givg awful lot of questio about this ring that's on your left finr. now you nt to explain -- we had a ton of people call in and say what's going on with hoda, why isshe wearing a ring? >> first of all i always we this ring. i never pay attenti to what finger it ison. my sister gave it to me. >> is there dirt onhis finger? >> it's macara. >> hello >> anyway, tt's what it is. it is the same ring, i wore it every day. >> who gave you that ring? >> my sister. >> we wanted to clear it up. >> do people rely care? >> ye. >> are you kidding? okay. what else is the. men cheat. and women. e time of year when men and women are most like to cheat is in the summertime. at's because they're wearing thongs. people-- >> it is a lot easier. >>the happiest day of the year, 2011, is june the 17th. okay? i don't know why. >> because that's what it says. >> what else? julyyou are most likely to give birth and if you are -- you're mt likely to get broken up with in december. but not on christmas day. >> you can make it to christmas day. >> christmas day is the least likely day for someone to break up with you because they fe bad because iis christmas and they won'to it with you. >> i don't believe any of at stuff but it is fun to talk about. we have mention and we wish her all the best -- getting a little weary of it. lindsayohan was released from betty ford clinic and we wish her great success with her sobriety and getting her lfe back together and i don'tnow what it's going to ake. some people take mch more than just a few mths in rehab. she is going to contiue some ort of counseling. >> her tweet right when she got o is today is the first day of the rest of my fe. the futu depends on what we do in the present, which is a quote from mahatma gani. >> one step at a y. one is basicay aa, onetep at time. then you need ahigher power to help you. >> i thk weary are weary of is she drinking, is she not. >> why do i even want to talk about ts today? it bothersme when people who are soblessed and have so much, opportunity, beauty, weth, talent, when they squander it and when ty don't take good care of it because it is gift. it is a gift. and you're supsed to -- is a blessing from god and you don't realize itntil you've lost it. it drives me crazy that somebody's not loving her enough to say "you are squandering this great gift god has given you!" i want her to go over to the eam center in los angeles and spend maybe aonth there with my friend drew hamm. ministering to the drugd eddrug and crac members and gang members. s people with real proems. i think every timeou get out of yrself and get into somebody else, your life is beter. >> yeah. i tnk a lot of people can't even afford to go to betty ford and ey wish they could. when you can do i and you have the means and you ve everything. >> no more excuses. >> let's win and let's quit our jobs. mega million is tonight. $330 million! >>f you won it, you would leave me, wouldn't you? >> you said you would leave me whether you w it or not. that's what youaid in the makeup room, if you remember. >> that's supposed to be between us, hoda. >> so it's states and d.c. it is in new york. there is big "today" show pool we'reetting in on. >> i'll put in 5 bucks. >> howie says it is going to get up to about $350 million. woldn't that be inredible? >> what would you do wi it? how would you spend it? we'd payour electric bill her oh, hat's howie our lighting directo we'll play and let you know if you win tomorrow. >> thes are laur's, our hair dresser. sohis is a great piece of videotape. we always like engageme surprises. a man who works here for many, many, many years, phil, his son who is a great singer planned to propose to his girlfriend and he had a plan to propose to his girlfriend at a concert at this jersey church. we it was the day of the blizzard so the whole ing gets wiped out. phil jr. is holding this ring, he doesn't know wh to do. he can't even look at his girlfriend who he is ging to propose to. and he has to go outnd buy her christmas present now because he can't give her that, the ring! >> so it comes time, they reschedule the whole deal and they're in the church and is going to prope to her as they sing "the 12 days of christmas." solet's watch. ♪ on the 12th day of christm mu true love gave to me -- ♪ one golden ring that i fantastic! >> oh, my gosh! >> she said yes! >> touchdown! he didn't even wait until february! >> no, he dn't. >> that is so sweet. >> by the way, he is the nicest, nicest -- i say kid -- >> his father is. >> t son is so great. >> it isot even january 17th and we're so happy. >> w're so thried. >> no, that's the worst day, january 17th. it s not even june. >> june 17th is the best day. that was nice. iike that. > okay. no more busine? >> i'm really depressed the hokies got killed. that was myollege team. i woke up iwas 0-12. we los >> iever said a worabout the giants because i kn that somebody else won which means their fans are happy. >> i don't even care about the nfl. coming up, if you feel like someone's -- >> coming up, the remedy to get you through january. we'll be back after these messages. 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(announcer) progresso. you gotta taste this soup. can you enjoy vegetables with sauce d still reach your weight loss goal you can with green giant frozen vegetables. over tnty delicious varieties have sty calories or less per serving and arnow weight watchers-endorse try green giant frozen vegebles with sauce. we're getting saucy. the must-have five fo trends for 2011. >> food and wine's dana cowen s it all. >> hap new year. thank you for bringing something that reallyooks fun. tell us with a we got here. >> we're talking about trends and we've been tryin to figure out what the next cupcake is going to be and it tus out the next cupcake is a savory cupcake. here we have chicken and waffle cupcake try that one. dig in. instead ofhe waffle it is a cupcake. instead of whipped cream it is buttercream. have you crispy fried chicken and maple sup on time. >> co on. >> absolutely. you've got to try it. >> i'm going in. >> she's going in. spaghet and meet balls. >> you are in loaf-aroma which is a ccake with meaoaf and angel hair pasta ontop. xt to it, no bu about it. this is the world's best burger with mashedotatoes on top. >> we have to try that. >> you g to dig in. just see, it is aull meal in a cupce. >> we're working out l day friy. >> you got do load up. i could. put my face in that. that is so good! >> then -- great? >> restaurts have been looking for ways to get people into the reaurant for morning, noon and night so they've got these great breakfasts. ty have upgraded the breakfst sandwich. from thepointe in los angeles is the world's greatest breakfastsandwich. it is spinach, mushroom, egg, cheese and you've got it grilled right the if you'd like to take a bite. >> just a little bite. becae we have to work. >> th is good slow food. nothingast about it. >> oh, my god. it's so good. that was so worth it. i don care how many calorie that was so worth it. wasn't it? >> ugh! en y don't eat bead anymore and you don't eat eese, then you bite into that? oh. >> so honey is anotr trend. >> what we've got her is hotels. their rooftops are often pting gardens there. and now they're also putting apr apiaries. you can g to the caramel valley ranch and take care of the bees and make your o honey. this is from caramel valley ranch. got to. got to. >> let's move on to these popsicle. >> in loangelescan you get a popsicle from l.a. pop-cycle from a bike. salted cucber and me. in new york, lolly's ice kiten. this is a drink on a stick. >> interesting! >> that's good. it's great, right? it is a wake-up to your moh -- >> i stillant the rest of the panini though. so far that wins. >> then we've got some beer some beerompanies are very possessive out their secrets andome really are into collaboration. we've got so dab be claborative beers here. if you taste this, you'll tae a little parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. d . >> did they name that the simon and garfunkle? >> i like that. >> this is from sam adams. this is bavarian. you find any apricots or mang >> nice. i likethat. >> is is more of a guinness looking thing. >>t looks like cherries because it is finished with polish cherries. >> why polish? >> i guess they've got good cherries in poland. >> i've heard that. >> we've got a tte tester. >> oh! careful, you're still working. you're still working. >> you taste those cherries? >> yeah. this i excellent. >> what about this one? the simon and garfunkle? >> nice. >> now try this one. this is the champagne one. >> he'son cera one. >> which one do you like best? >> jmmy -- the cameraman wants it! >> cheers >> that's why they like the happy hour of "today." whichne do you like best? >> i like this one. >> then tha's yours. it's yours. i'm feeling generous this new year. >> man with champagne taste. >> i'm going ck here. miss sara. >> a lot of people are talking abo the proposal. cindy wrote there wasn't a dry eye in the hou and it is only her and her dogs home. everyone else was writing about the neti pot really working. i'veused it as well. they're amazing. >> apparently dr. oz promotes it all the ime. >> let's -- jo is going to do it. >> joe, i can't wait! 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