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>> the affectionor rom my famil, from my friends and from my fans hit me at a much deeper level than i would ever had imagined before. >> now thescar winner is ready to start a new chapter in his >> now thescar winner is ready to start a new chapter in his life today, january 11, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal televion and welcome to today on thi tuesday morning, i'm meredith viera. >> and i'm matt lauer, and can i just say how nice it was to see miael douglas looking good an sounding good. we'll let you hear wha he has to say aittle later on. meanwhile a much, mh fferent subject. let's put up this picture of jared loughner,ou can attach your own words to it. 's drecreepy, it's center. . >> h had theame smirk when he nt before the judge on monda to face murder and asssination charges. none of loughner's famil was in the couroom. his mother apparently sat down in the streetn front of their home and cried. this morning w have learned that loughner's father is preparg to release his first public statement since the shooting. meanwhile presidt obama is ading to tucson for a special merial service tomorrow. >> and gabrielle gifford is showing further signs of imprement. she managed to give doctors a umbs-up sign on monday but doctors say she is not out of the woods yet. in a momente'll talk to one of the doctors giving the congresswoman round the clock care. nbc's lester holt is in tucson where he has been for the past several da,ester good morning. >> reporter: on mony as arizonans and the rest of the country try to kp their focus on the victims. suspect jared loughner had his first appearance in court where the judge labeled him a danger to society. also we learned theorning of the shooting he went o a opping spree buying 200 bullets. defiant, mocking, there's at to read in the first post arrt pho of jared lee ughner. in a u.s. courthouse in phoenix, loughner lookedtraighthead as the jud read the charges, murder, attempted murder a attempted assassination of a member of ngress. nehbors say his parents are in pain. >> he told me to tell you boys whboys when he gets to a point where he can give a statement he will. >> reporter: to the u.s. capitol where people linedp to show their support for congresswoman giffor. president obamaho led a moment of silence in honorf the tucson victims will travel here tomorrow for a memorial service. some of those wounded in the attackre nowut of the hospital likermy colonel bill badger, who was grazed in the head. >> everybody was hitting the ground, including me. an so i turd to my left and went to go down and i lowered my head aboutix incs and i felt this burning sensati in the backf my head and i went right on to the ground. >>ave bowman, a physician, and his wife nancy a nurse were shopping in e safeway at the time of thettack and along with other civilians, began treating and triaging viims. >> i heard people moaning and crying for help. and i was goi up the line, because that's really whayou saw, the guy just went up the line shooting and got tohe young girl's position and started cpr on here. >> when i got to judge boll, i startecpr on him. you can't save him, there's other people that are bleeding and need yr help. so i hado leave him. i just looke in his face and said i'm so, so sorry. so then i started movg up towards t little girl, but i could see that sheas getting good care so i directed my attention to her neighbor wh was right beside her. and i saw that she had a gunshot wound in her chest. so i just put my hand over that gunshot wound. but she was qte concerned about christina so she pulled out he phone, here with four gunshot wounds on her, she pulls out her phone and dials christina's pents number. she handed the phone to me and the message machine picked up and i told said that sheas in an accident an she was taken to unc. >> reporter: you couldn't y she's been shot. >> i couldn't s she's bee shot >> reporter: nancy told me that leaving the scene s wrestled with the question did she do enough. she made ing when h heardhat a sixth pers had died she knew it was chriina. >> all right, lester holt, thank you very much. for the latest on congresswoman gifford's condition, we turn now to the chief ofeurosurgery at the university of arizona dical center. goodorning to you, good to see you. >> good morning, matt. >> let me just start with a simple question, any change to the condition of congresswoman giffords overnight? >> no, there is no change. and as frustrating as that may sound, at's a good thing. >> you said somhing and d reid has also said this over the last couple of days, i believe i first heard you say itn sunday. at when it comes to swellin after a brain injury or a brain trauma lik congresswoman giffordsas undergone, the swelling tds to peak on or about day three, that would make today a very important dayn her condition. so in terms of swellg around e area of theunshot wound, what can you tell me? >> the c.a.t. scan doesn't sw any swelling thismorning, but i caution you and yr viewers that in man people the maximum swelling is around d three, but it can be longer tn that. >> and you're monitoring that with c.a.t. scans, can you tl at all by the way she responds to certain commands when she take her out of this medically induced coma >> just the fact that she's able to respond to those commands, impliethat there's not a lot of pressure in the brain >> we talk about the fact that she's unab to speak right now, be but as you just said she is responding to certain comman, she can raise her fings, she i believe gave a thumbs-upign and i w reading that she tried on a couple of occasions to grab at the bathing tube that's inserted in her throat and while that may sound upsettg to some people, that's something that you found to be very encoaging. can you explain why? >> ablutely. that impes a purposeful level of consciousness. if i were to iitate your pinch you, it's a natural response to reach up and slap my hand. d the fact that she's able to register tt discomfort and then react to it, again, it means the brain is working on a higher lel. >> we also want to mention that the two biggest queions on people's minds, e, can she survive and tha remains to be seen. but if she survives doct, and i know y've gen this a lot of thought, what is the most likely outcome in yr mind in terms of her long-term prognosis? >> without spulating, i think she has a full range ahead of he have seen people in this scenario make very little improvements and requi consnt care, and i have seen other people and you have them in your own trade in the media who have made remarkable recoveries, functionalrecovers and gone back to work. so i think the full range i still available to her. >> before we go and so much attention bng paid to congresswoman giffords, i want to mention that at your hospital there are sen other victims of this shooting tragedy. can you briefly jus tell me in terms of theireneral prognosis and progress, howre they doing? >> i'm told byy trauma colleagues that ty're doing ve well. an i thankful that my services weren even needed on them >> all righ doctor, as i mentioned, you've got an awful t on your plate and the ft that you're sharing information with us and making yourself available greatly appreciated, thank y very much. >> you're welcome. s we mentioned president obama will heado arizona to speak to a memorial service on wednesday to support and remember the victims of the shooting. nbc's white use correspondent savannah guthrie has details. savannah, good morning. >> reporter: good morng to you meredith. the president just accepted this invitation by the university of arizona at:00 eastern time last night and they just started working on this spee. the president has said he feels the need to speak to this sense of loss. he wants to share rememr brnss with the victim and try to be here to pull t community gether. that's the purpose ofim coming. there's no wordet on whether th president will address what a lot of people ar talking about which ocourse is the divisive politic climate we have seen. >> savannah, i know that that your alma mar, your house is about five minutes away from where the shoing occurred, yo your -- the sck has to be wearing f at this point? >> the sck is there and you justalk to people and they're prone to burst into tears. they can't belie it happened here. this is a big city, it's grown souch even in the te i have moved away. but in many ways, it's still a tight knit cmunity. they call it the old pueblo, a sleepy desert townnd people are so shocked and they don't want the rest of theountry and the world to see them in this way. in man ways i don't think it can ever rlly sink in. i asked somebody, do you thi tucson has lost its innocence, and they said i don't want to believe that, buin some ways, yes. >> savannah guthrie, thank you so much. now the politicalfallout tied this this tragedy, sarah palin is facing criticism for using -- andrea mitchell is in washgton with the latest on that. >> reporter: the momt of silee that president obama ordered was perhaps the only since as angry voices on the left and theight fought over what l to the tragedy in arizona. expt for a plea from outer space for less violence here on eah. as i look out the window and see a very beautiful planet that seems very invitin and peaceful. unfortunately, it is not. >> fro the space station, gabrielle gifford's brother-in-law, her husband's twin fellow astronaut scott kelly. >> these days we're constantly reminded of the unspeakable acts of violenc and damage we can inflicupon one another, not just with our actions, but also with our irresponsle words. >> reporter: back onearth, the loud voices only got louder. >> they're desperately usi every oppornity to try to convince you, that somehow or another rah palin is dangerous. >> reporter: on t and radio, fox news commentatorlenn beck shed to sarah palin's defense as she became the center of a national debate over her campaign map last year, targeting gabrielle gifford's district and 19 others with crosshairs. >> we know violence isn't the answ. when we take up our arms, we're talkin about our vote. >> reporter: there is no direct link to this suspect a far as investigators know. palin refused inrview requests but e-mailed beck to say -- >> our childn will not have ace, politico is just capitalizing o this to proceed in betraying anyone with terror and violence. >> reporter: one republica says e criticism could be a defining moment fo palin. >> you can hunker down and say it's not my fault a she's right, it's not hefault. or you can be bigger than at, you can go out and mt the chlenge and you can be the leader that america want to see. >> what started as squall tued into a storm. >> it really is depraved. sad tragedies where people die are seen first as moments of political oppounity for democrats. >> reporter: the internet also lit up with criticism of the tucson sriff for speaking out agait vitriolic speech. >> thatay be free speech, but it's not without consequences. >> reporter: in a dhabi, hillary inton on the senselessness it all. >> a wonderful, incredibly brave young woman congress member was just shot by an extremist in our country. thextremists and their voices, the crazy voices that sometimes get on the tv, tt's not who we are. >> reporter: and gabrielle giffords may have expressed it best the day bore she was shot when she eailed a republican frie a day after the election that said i would lik to talk about what we can do to promote census. weeed to tone our rhetoric down now the intense winter storm that's impacting air travel nationwide it's a dangerous mix of ice and snow that's pounded the south leading to at least nine weather related deaths now it's taking aim at the northeast. the weather channel's stephanie abrams is in atlanta this morng. >> reporter: the mayor's office says there are 11 plows to clear off these icy and snowy streets and i've got to tell you, the sidewalks aren't much better. apparently mother nature had some unfinished businessn these firstew days of janua and she's not finished yet. here wgo again. i spun sidays over to where i'm at right here. >> reporter: onmonday, a major winter storm dped as much as nine inches of snow aoss the south, including texas. in atlanta, there was onlone way down the road. slipping and sliding. >> his engine began smoking. >> reporter: and for this one driver, fire on ice. >> it started overheatingnd when you guysold me i was on fire. >> reporter: the sound of the snowstorm. may not be as familiar in ts part of the country, but the havoc of air travel sure is. >> we had to get water and i and all of that. and they didn't go about trying do much to help us. reporter: more than 2,000 flhts were cancelled on monday. the ros weren't exactly a better optn. >> where's thesalt? i need some ice skas because i could have got toork quicr. i'm just upset. >> reporter: and today in the northeast, a potential grouhog's day in the making. it's heading to the northeast so let' hopelearned something om that christmas day storm because this the storm is going to bring snow anhuge winds. >> here we go, a double barrel low pressure system, o in the midwescausing snow there, the other bringing snow ithe southeast and icy conditions, that midweern snow --e got it jt off the carolina coast, low pressure in the ohio river valleythat i'm combine entually and start to spread this sno into the northea early tomorrow mning and overnight. and then as we move during the early morng hours on wednesday on into wednesday afternoo the new englanarea is going to be in it. they're going to be looking at one to two feet of snow, we're talking about winds that will gust in some cases over 60-mile-per-hour. here the accumulation, chicago, you're goingo be talking about ybe nine to 12 more inches of snow, but cleveland may pick up six to nine inches,ut the northeast, ts is where we're really focusing on hartford, to 18 inches. four to seven inches in philelphia. new york city eight to2 ines, eastern parts of new york may pick up more an that, providence 12 to 18 ches, boston could be one foot to two feet of snow on into new england. add to that 60 purpose winds and we'll prably be seeing blizzard warnings up this afternoon on into tonight and tomorrow. >> we're going to get the rest of al's forecast in just a moment. natalie is over the neuews desk in for ann this mornin resers are combing austlia for nearly 60 pple who are missing in the rising floodwater floodwaters. former predent bill clinn arrives in haiti today ahead of thene-year anniversary of lasyear's devastatesearthquake. he will visit with vario reconstruction projectsnd meet with the country's prime minister. hillary clinton h made an unannounced visit toemen where she is discussing counter terrorm efforts. it'she first visit of u.s. cretary of state in three years. investigators are watching alcoa reporting earnings after the ll earning 21 cents a share, that wasetter than excted. but what's rlly important is what the ceo says about demand. he sees an increase of 12% or the next year that means that cntries are producing more cars and making more soda cans. we're also watchingas prices picking u two cents in the past week the national average now $3.09 a gallon. a big announcement from verizon here in new york day. the network is expted to add apple's iphone to is smart phone family. th will begin offering t device within weeks in direct competition to at & t. >> it was last second field go from the detroit tigers thatook down the oregon dks for 15-19 win that clinched th bcs national championship. itas auburn's first shot at the title since 1957. i know annurry is going to be very disappointed. she was at the game. she's heang back home on a river of tea. but they played great. what great seas. oregon and aubn as well. >> but she's got the best of duck feathers >> you've got ausy day. >> i > good morning. radar showing some light snow reaching t ground now in southe maryland, northern neck of virginia. there's another batch of light snow reaching the ground in shenandoah valle and in the panhandle of west virginia. this is going to taper off a bit in the next couple of hours and maybbe just cloudy to mid afteoon. later on and overnight it appears the bulk of the snow is going to fall. two to four inches. more north and >> and that's your latest weather. stil ahead our poignant conversation with michael douglas, his first television interview since undergoing cancer treatment. and he'll tell us how hiss battle has changed his life. but first this is hey, what are u drinkin'? 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(play-by-play announcer) it's up d it is... good! more than a snac outer loop and the beltway i congested. college park ward silver spring, they're on t brakes. e, back to you. stay with us this morning for 7:30 now on a tuesday morning, january 1 2011. that makes i 1/11/11. if you're a person who keeps track of th sort of thing. we have a small but enthusiastic crowd outside. many people are probably already battening down to hatches becae we're expecting that storm that peopl down south have been experiencing to hea up nort they're discussing sw in feet not inches. meanwhilenside studio 1a, i'm matt lauer, alongside meredith viera. much more on the tragic shooting in tucson, arizona and the accused gunman jared loughner. >> we're going to hear from his college classmates, college that loughner was eventually expelled from. also ahead on thi morning, we're goin to have an exclusive terview with michael douas as the oscar winning actor opens up for theirst time since undergoing treatme for throat cancer. 'll tell how you he'seeling now and whahis future holds. and lateon, we're going to meet a motr who has written book about raising successfu children in what she calls the chinese way. she tells themhat activities to take part in. some say she's going too far. the latest on accused gunma jare loughner and how far and how fast his life spiraled out of control. mike tbbi is i tucson. >> reporter: a lot of people ha been puzzled and some frightened by loughner's increasily erratic behavior. he never specifically threatened anyone wh violence. the newly released polic photo of jared lee loughner won't shock his former classmates and teachers at pima community college. in fact they're remembeng a lot about loughner they would like to forget like the weird laugh at the most inapprriate times. ex-cla mates of loughner say he shouted challenges not just confusing but frightening. >> during class i would write my themes on the board kind of like that and then i would look out the corner of my eye, it seemed like every instant, ju wonding what he was going to do next. >> repter: in fact college ficials say loughner's disruptive behavior eard him five visits from the cpus police and finally expulsion. there had been problems too offcampus, two arrests one for defacing a sign with graffiti, anothe for possession of drug paraphernalia. then rejection by tharmy when he tried to enlist, aga because of h alleged drug use. there were more wild internet postings, little of it making sense. d in his backyard, investigators found what looks like a crude altar, aeplica of a human skl and other ingredients reportedly used in ceremoniesf the oak cult. >> the question is w was aware of that and if they were aware of it what d they do about it? >> reporter: at pima communi college, campus president would not speak specifically about loughner, but what about a student who acted as he did, frightening but not specifically threatening violce. had the college done all it coulhave done? >> the answer to that would be yes. the llege cannot be jged jury in an incident in whi no threat has been made. >> reporter: so loughner was free. no criminal o official mental health record to keep him from buying his gun and his 200 roun of ammunition leaving expes on mental health issues like our own dr. nan snyderman to wonder again. >>e'll look back on this as yet one more te and one more awful case when so many people knew a powder keg was about to explode and no one intvened. reporter: the obvious question, what about loughner's parents, randy and amy loughner, they have been in seclusi since the shooting ramge. when a neighbor brought tm their mail, he cam out and said they are ill, they are devastated. they say they had in idea how deeply disturbed he had become. >> nbc analyst clint van zandt is a former fbi profiler. clint, good morng to you. >> good morning, meredith. >> as mike just point out, we're beginning to learn more about jared loughner, who this guy is, the erric bavior in colleg even his teacher said he didn't like to turn his back on thean because he wasfraid maybe he would have a gun. those postis online, disturbing videos, but en knowing all of this, clint, is there anything anybody cld have done to stop what hpened? >> well, i think your statement when y started meredith, you talked about his life, perhaps himind spiraling outf control, this somebody who really lived in his own worl students would say he would be in thelassroom and he would start laughing and there was nothinfunny. these were thoughts, these were processes that were going on in his own mind that obviously only he was awa of and it looks like his own -- the only good friend he had may have been hielf and the interaion that he had with himself. so as he spiraled, a he suffered all these losses, all these failures, and dwret maintained this focn the congresswoman since at least 2007, his fear of the government, thinking the government's engag in mind control, we may find out, just may find out that all of this negativity, all of his fears, wound up being focused on the congresswoman. >> he lived with his parentsnd yet they are quoted as saying they had no idea about the severity ohis mental condition, even though i gss the school had contacted him wh they initially suspendal him and said this son of yours needs a mental evaluatn before he can come back to school. they are devastated but how could they not know? how could they n see the sis? >> we have mass murders two or three times a year in the uted states. we g through this who did it, why did they do it, how c we stop it,ut in thi particula case when there is family, when the are associates, we know the y just didn't snap, we know that this was gradually built up and who knows our own children better than ourselv as parents. the issue is when t university police came, they delivered a letter, th said your son is basically kicked out ofunior llege, he cannot return without a mental health exam. d yet there's no evince that exam took place. i mean did the parents encourage him to get it? reale, he's 22 years old. he makes his own decisions, but he was also livinin their home. i think that's a challge that many parents face today is how do we influce our children when they're making their own decisions. >> isn that how the fbi found envelope in a safe, withhe words writte on it, i planned ahead, my assassination a giffords that certainly suggests that this was something that was plannednd not random >> what's more impornt to me, meredith, they were found i a safe. what would y and i keep in a safe? we kp what's most important. we may keep irreplaceable family pictures or jewelry or cash. in his case, he kept a 2007 letter from theongresswoman and he kept these notes about what he was planning. as well the fbi suggested there was another note perhaps with some negative formation concerning the congrswoman. so again, we have this foc that was taking place but he kept everything it appears relateto her locked in thi safe. so thawas what was most important. that's what heould go back to and refer to and then close the door on that safe and lo it again, and know that no one could get access. >> but clint, does that sugge that it's politically mivated or basicallyad nothing to do with politics? >> i see nothing that suggests potical motivation meredith. we know that he was a registered independent, we know that he failed to vote in e last election and i have sn nothing in his writings, i have heard people descbe him as liberal, as conservative, there's notng in his writings a the's nothing at so far we know of in evidence that sugsts that he was motivated by the media, talk show hosts, left, right, sarah palin, whoever it is, we have no information and again, we have two or three of these mass shootings every year. you and i, meredith,e are motivated for lot of things, but t blame any one entity, ulmate -- the shooter at virginia tech who committed those terrible acts, he was ultimately responsible. everybody d a piece of this they knew a little bit about him, but nobody assembled those pieces to show the picture of a mass murder now l's switch gears and get a check of the weather good morning. it's in the 20s here around our region. we do have radar picking up light snow that is beginning to reh the ground. st. chles, fredericksburg, charlottesville, panhandle of we virginia, northern shenando valley. all these counties under a nter weather adsory. northern virginia d the district a much of maryland will get two to four inches as this all ends late tonight. most of ts snow will fall tween 5:00 p.m. today and miens tonight. >> that's your latest weather. meredith al, thank you. next, an exclusive interview with michael uglas, his first since unrgoing cancer treatment. right after this. twizzlers. the twist you can't resist. 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i mean you wt through a lot of chemotherapy, a lot of radiation, your voice sound pretty strong. >> uh-huh. >> what are the other eects? >> the salivary ducts have been closed down as a resultf the radiation, probably for at least a year or two. so your mouth is very dry, particularly affects you at nit for sleeping. ere's still a fatigue factor which will progressively go away, but that'sbout it. >> weight, do you have an appetite? can you eat? >> i'm eating lik a pig. i lost about 32 pous and i put about 12 back. but i got another 20, 25 togo. >>he day before that fst diation treatment or that first chemo therapy treatment, does the mind reel? do you sit a think of all the hoor stories you have heard over the years. >> yeah, you do and you don't quite know what to expect with radiation five days a week for sen weeks and you fd out about 2/3 of the way in as the sores in your mouth really get rge and you can't swallow. >> how miserable was it? >> it was lousy, i wouldn't wish it omy worst enemy. >> i was struck by something you said, there was an interview you gave recently to the hollywood reporter, you said, quote, cancer has shown me what family is. it has shown me a love that i ver really knew existed. >> it's something that all cancer patnts and svivors have gone through and i don't know if it's a combinationf a physiological as well, but there's a new depth, you know, maybe it has to do with because it was lif threatenin so all of a sudden, the affectio from my family from my friends and from my fans hit me at a much deeper level than i would have ever have imagine before. >> you have got two young children with katherine, dylan and karen. dill is 10 and karen is 7 or 8. >> 8, yes. >> wn you broke the news, what do they know? what don't they mow? >> i tolthem right at the beginning. >> it's a very scary word for a child. >> it's a very sry word. but i took them down to a couple of radiation treatments so they came into the roo and they saw all the star wars goinground and th saw them put the mk on your face because they have to kind of bolt you down like hannibel lecteror something. so it made up for allhose days when dad was lying on theouch and coun't get up. we had a big celebration this last couple o days i found out the mor's gone. >> let me ask you about another side o this. you have made a lon career out of appearing in the public eye. and up on the big screen. you know the leading man, the sex symbol. there were -- don't shakyour head. modesty. misplaced modey. you hadhotographers following you around during this ordeal, talk to me about that, because there were some pictures that wereaken that someone who has known you looked bad. >> people kept sayg are you sure you're okay? and finally my father kirk, he came back to new yor for t days and came up to the apartment ery day. to see me. because i think that some of these photographs and, you know who knows if a of them are touched up to even add t macabre effect. >> you were gone. >> i was gone. >> i think he was even concerned. and, yeah it was not a lot of fun. it's still not. they're the every day. >> this is not a socl scandal, this is not a marital issue, this is life and death. >> the amount of paparazzi the have andhese video cameras, you just can't do anhing. d i resent the amount of imposition onur children too because it used to be at least that we tried toeep them out of tt and they don't at all. but tre is -- they were having -- there was sort of a macabreenjoyment, out of st of watching me go down, for a while, i felt,y the paparazzi. >> life today, any restrtions placed on you right now? can you eat anything you wa? can you work out? i heard a report that you we the gym. >> i'm working out, i can eat anythi i want. i'm getting m finrs ready for liberace. >> you allowed yourself t look that far down the road. >> absolutely. think thedds are the tumor's gone and wha i know about this particularype of cancer, that i've got it beat. >> it sounds cliche, but i don't know anybody who's been through cancer who hasn't sa that it's changed them. so i what way has it changed you the st? >>t's put a timeline on my life you know, we say -- i'm 66 now. you know, i'm fortunate, i've got a moth who's 88. she'll killme, she may be 87. my father's 94. so you got to feel goo about thosegenes, butt's definitely third act so you're a little more conscious of your timend how you choose to spend it >> and over the years, there's been a label attached to your name. yore most often introduced as oscar winner michael douglas and now there's a good chance there will be another lab attached your name. you may be kwn as oscar winne and cancer survivor, micha douglas. >> from yr lips to god's ears. >> andoming up we can perhaps wish him luckt the golde globes f globes. we're backight after this. t it'g that i want to do completely on my o -- i like to discuss my ideas with seone. that's what like about fidelity. they tked with me one on one, we could come up with a plan at's right for me, and they worked withe to help me stay on track -- or sometimes, help me get an even better one. woman: there you go, brian. than, guys. man: see ya. fidelity investments. turnere. acidic foods can cause softening of the enamel. once you lose enamel, it's ge for good. for those who want white teeth pronamel gentle whitening, helps protec against acid erosion but also helps bring back your teeth to their natural whiteness. that's why the's lubriderm® daily moisre. it contains the sme nutrients naturally found in healthy skin. skin absorbs it better and itasts for 24 hours. later gator. lubriderm. your moisture matched. how about a coastal soup angrilled shrimp salad combinatio or maybe skewers of wood-illed shrimp. seafood lunches starti at just $6.99 at red lobster. it was a mystery to me. i found out that conncted to our muscles are nerves that send messages hrough the body. my doctor diagnosed it as fiomyalgia, thought to be he result of overactive nerves that cause chronic, widespread in. lyrica is believed to cm these nerves. i learned lyrica can provide significant rief from fibromyalgia pain. and with le pain, i can do more of what matts to me. 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>> a bny is like a new yorker going to the shore. i was told earlier they should not mention on morning tv by you. and finay, this one actually sounds like itould be dangerous. what is wenus? >> it's nowhat you think it is. it's that part of your elbow that's crinkly. >> when you bend the elbow, it doesn't get all wrinkly. it only gets wrinkly wn you straighten it out do i need to ask what happens to gia and bella? >> it's pretty much like the show, but you're reading it. >> it's 289 pag of jerse shore? >> exactly. >> how long did itake you to write this? >> it took me like three months just because we had the ide going before i wen to the season th's airing now. and then i had to write i while i was doing the season. so it was pretty ha. but i got it done. >> you had a co-writer her name'salley frankle. snookiets slammed in public snooki dris for our sins. why do you think peopleudge you harshly. itfair? >> no, i don't thi it's fair. but that's all they see on the show is us partying and having a good time. i'm not le that all the me. that's summertime, that'she time we let loose, like vacation time. >> but you acknowledge that you contributed to tim imagine. >> i'm not like that all the time. like right now, no. >> the debut of sson three of this show was recently on mtv and it got the highest ratings for any show as part of any seriesn mtv. >> uh-huh. >> that's astonishing when you really think about it. at can people expect from this season? i mean remember, i tught it was hard to watch, when y got puncd. yeah, that sucked. >> by a guy. >> yeah. >> so is thereore violence in season three? >> i would s this is the least amount of fighting we have ever ne. like obviously not -- >> physical fighting or verbal fighting? >> ysical. we try and stay away from that, bu it's really rd. >> i know tt you actually later in the season get arreste for disorderly conduct. what do you hav to say about that first of all? >> well, obviously it's a lesso learned. you know, i don't regret it cause it's a lesson learned prettymuch. like i jt need to watch my drinking when it comes to partying during the day in the summer i'm definitely not going to do that anymore. >> do you have a drinking issue? >> no. i'm 23 years old. >> a lot of 23-year-olds have drinking issues. >> not for me. >> it's not aroblem for you, you can stop it when you wan to stop it >> i onlparty like that durg the summer. i'mot like that a year round. >> would you trade your dignity for a paycheck? >> i don't think she knows what she's talking about. obviously she doesn't know me. i only care about pele that know me like my famil and friends they kw the realme. people can judge me, they can have their opinions about me good or bad, but not everyone's going to like me. so -- >> so you're not worried about this idea that you go out and you get drunk duringhe summer and party lik that because it's good for the show, and not perhaps good for you as a young adult? >> i don't even look at it like that. i jus look at its me living life and having a good time and i don't feel like i'm doing anything wron >> you saw the jersey shore would give you 15 minutes of fame. you obvusly know it's given you more than 15 minutes. >> 15 mines was lake aear ago. >> whato you wt to make of this? what do you want to doith this? when you come back here in five year nicole, wha do you think we'll be talking abt? >>hopefully my brand. i have my soki slipper line, my jewelry line, my bo, "a sure thing"nd my clothing line. so hopefuy i can still be known as a brand. >> you're taking it to the next step? 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>> receny lulu rebelled and convinced her mothe to let her cut back on playing t violin, but despite all the conflicts, she cims she is satisfied with her upbringing. >>f i changedanything, then i wouldn be who i was so i wouldn't le that. >> reporter: "today" lulu spends more time perfectin her tennis game. sophia still plays pianout not as much. compromise that a once uncompromising chinese mother has embraced. >> i wis i hadn't bn soarsh with them at times, but if i had to do itll over again, i would basically do the same things with small adjustments. >> one mother's journeyn finding balance for raising smart kids. >> and amy chu is with us now, her book is called"battle hn of the tiger mother." this book is causing quite a controversy. so many comnts on blogs all over the place, all over the w including our own "today" show facebook page. just some of the things people are saying about you, she's a monster, the way she raised her ds isoutrageous, it's not the chinese or asian way. another person say kids need to be kids, at some point tig mom, they're not robots. this is sad, where is to the love, the acceptance, children shld be allowed to succe and fail as both arereat lessons. why do you think your philosophy is eliciting this kind of response and what do you say to that? >> well,t's so personal. meredith, first let me s i was raised myself by extremely strict but also extremely loving chinese immigrant parents. and to this day, i believe that they're ving high expectations for me coupled with love, of course that comes first. but cpled with love was the greate gift they could give me. so that's why i tried to raise my own two daughters the same way my paren raised mend the book is about many of the strengths i see in this kind of parenting. but it also about m mistak and making fun of myself and how i eventually had to pull ck. so the book isbsolutely not abou my trying to tell oer ople how to parent or saying that thehinese way is better. i thi there are many good ways be a good parent. the ok is really just about my on transformatioas a mother. >> yeah, i think what's ten some people aback is some of the language you have usewith your own daughters, you sai when lulu was7, you told he quote, stopeing la, self-indgence and empathetic. d when sopmore fia was practici piano you said i'moing to -- when pple hear that, that is belittling a child. what does that do to somebody's self-estm? >> let me just quickly say, i'm using the term chinese part very loosely, it's really a tough immigrant mentality. i no many chise people who don't parent this way and i know mr. korean nigerian parents who do. there are some momts that i'm not so pro of. again part of the boo is making fun of myself. but i think you ought t put thgs in context and my daughters are very close. and to beerfectly honest, i thk there are many aspects of western parenting that some asian pares find horrifying 8:26 is yourime now. i'm eun yang. the snow has not yet arrived, but already delays a cancellations are stacking up at our airports. almost all flights totlanta are once again cancel as well as many other cities thrghout the south. let's check in on tom kierein for more on what e we can expect today. >>t is in the viewi area ere we see this color on radar. we are getting a lite light snow, southern prince george's county, st. mary's, anne arundel andouthwest and northeast. it's sloy advancing toward the north. this is just a preamble to the storm. later today, cloudy. late afternoon and overnight is likely when we'll have the heaviest aumulations. near washington and northern rginia near the subbs of maryland. eun? >> thank youo much, tom. we're going to tak 50 headed westbound aft the anacostia river the acciden finally cleared. big delays. the zit exit onto ww parkway and 50 is jammedo get past the accident ene. stay with us throughout the morning fo continuing coverage of this winter [ male announcer ] are you wahing cable? here's what you should be watching: your cable bill. because you could be payg way too much. stop spending re for second best. upgrade to verizon fs and get tv, internet and pho fojust $99.99 a month for a year plushis special bonus: over 25 hbo and nemax channels free for 3 months including hbo go andax go. watch youravorite movies and shows ytime, anywhere. there's noerm contract required. you cacancel anytime with no early termination fee. get the best channel lineup, superior picture quality more hd, plus internet rated #1 in satisfaction, speed anreliability. why keep paying for cable? get fios for just $99.99 a moh -- pl hbo and cinemax, free for 3 months. call 1.87717.fios. call the verizon center for customerwith disabilities that's 1.877.717.3467. at 800-974-6006 tty/v. now you can get re for your money. fios. a networahead. 8:30 now on a tuesday morning, the 11th day of january, 2011. rockefeller pla with some hearty souls ghered for the calm before the storm. that storm i a potent one heading in our direction. i'm mattlauer, along with natalie moles and al roker. will be a golden night at the golden globes for the social network. and y can find love in a lot of places, but would you ever csider a mail order spouse. wel find out if it's becing more popular. also another editionf jill's steals and deals. so a lot of things from the techies to the jelry lovers. >> mt important right now is the forecast. >> if you tak a look at the map today, w have cloudy and cold now. we're in t cold arod the region. we have some scattered areas of light snow, north, northwest, east, south, and south of washington. this is l advancing to the north as a preamble tohe storm. afte this one wave goes by, we'll probably have a cloudy sky through mid morning and late afrnoon. later in the afternoon and overnile we'll have the bulk of the accumulating snow, two to four inches. more northeast and northwest. windy and cold tomorrow. and that's your latest weather. up next, why more american men are turning to mail ord brides. we're goingo talk to a couple ofhem about their experiences. but first this is "today" on nbc. ooo whatcha got there? 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>> i was so lonely in russia. >> reporter: a young marriage proving that when it comes to love, we all speak the same language. for "today," peter alexander, nbc news, phoenix. >> john and tanya adams a with us with mark and ashley davis. why is business boomingo much right now? why do you think this is weathering the finanal stor >> we have be doing thisor 16 years now. if you go to love.com we have close to 40,000 profiles of wellducated, sincere, beautiful men who really wanted to meet somne and right now it's importanthat men are lookinat what really is important and not just finances. >> w have two successtories right here on the couch. and i'm just goingo be blunt an you know this. rst you don't like the tm mail oer brides, do you? >> it's not right. >> why is it not right? >> it's stigma, it's been arnd for years, you c't just put woman in a box and bring her er and if you don't like her, sd her back. you can go to all kinds of sites and they all haventernational profiles on them. but with aforeign affair, we specialize in how t do this right. >> theoncept freaks some people out here. you know why, they see this as kind of a bnding of exotic travel and prostitution, that's what they think. y are they wrong? this is so exciting to bring this up. because i had to deal wh this when i first considered going overseas. i first became enamored with the people who engaged me with their ncerity. so when i looked at actually dointhis, my friends are like, you're crazy, theyust want to rip you off. and the criticism, had to just get past it because the truth of the matter is, i was fascinated and eaged with now wanting to find aomantic relationship with somody overseas. >> what is it from your side of this? i mean was that you could not finduitable partnerin your home countries? what was it about the lure of an american man? did this kind of set up talog situation bother you? >> it's beautiful to find somebody and let me ask you a question. if you're from new york and you'reooking for somebody fm california, and it'sbout six hours ight, that's okay, right? it's different ate, it's perfectly fine. if it's from new york, sixours to s petersberg, what differen it makes? >> john, let me a you, didou not have luck finding someone here ithe united states? 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about it? let hand this over to you rightnow. the funny thing about this movie, aaron is i'm not on facebook, i don't care that much out facebook, i might not have eveneen this movie but people told m it was a great film to see. and ultimately it' not about facebook per se. i'm not on facebook either. and when i signed u for this, i barely heard of facebo, i heard of it the way i heard of a carburetor t it's set against the backdrop of this very modern adventure. it's about iendship, loyalty, betrayal, power, cls. >> it's interesting because mark zuckburg at first said he wasn't goi to see the film. and then he did go, he took the whole staff with him and he said, you ow, you got the sandals ght, you got the t-shirts right, but the motivation, he claims th s he n did thi to get the girl or to get io the right club. i know you said facts are subjective, but how much of the movie wasrounded in fact >> all of the movie was grounded fact. i think mark haseen an incredibly good srt about it. he took his whole staff to see the movie, the week that it came out, he donated $100 million to the newark school dirict. i don't think anybody would want movie made about the things they d when they were 1years old. if a movie wld absolutely have to be made i would tell i only from m point of view and also including the point soft view of the people who wereuing me and who hated me. and? movie is told from everybody's point of view. >> i'm n sure who i believe. which is the whole point. >> it's not who'selling the truth, who's right, who'sgood, who's bad. >> that firstcene is what sucked me is that mark zuckerburg is in that clu and th dialogue is so crisp and so fast. the director had you do that scene 99 times, is that right? >> yeah, yeah, that's right,e allegged him for one more just to havan even number. and he refused >> i jt asked him that recently, and hsaid he has never used a first take i any of his films in the actual final product. but it was an exhilarang scene. aaron wrote this nine-page scene, which is for any part of a movie, especially the openin so it was an exhilarating experience to shoot it. >> you play eduardo who many people say is the soul of the movie. without you it would not have a soul. >> i disagree. but that's very ne of those people and i kind agree with them. no, no, no. think jesse and i have already kind of stad it, i think a lot of the me, an individl will have -- i think that's a testament to the way aon crafted the story. >> and you played the wklevoss twins, that was not an easy things to pull off. >> we had anmazing script to go off of to create these guys and we had a amazing directo and it was a lot more technical than i thought it would be. it was lasersndights and ear wigs. he and i worked together to create these two twins andhe's the unsung hero of the film. he sort of was there for everything but had his head replaced. >> he did get little part in theovie. >> he got a cameo. people go oh, yeah, i remember at guy. >> you do because tha scene, i remember that scene very clearly. yo guys were toldhey did not want impersonations of these real people. they wanted you to bring your own sensibities to it. did you meet mark either before or afterhe fact? >> have never met mark. i uld really like to. but aaron crafted this incredible script and this character that was so ful and richhey didn't feel like i was missing out on anything. >> you guys ever meet any of the real people? >> i methe twins. >> you did? >> rig after we finisheded shooting >> a you guys all going to the golden globes, i hope? >> oh, yeah. it's a great chance for . we bathed. and we put on nice clothes. >> good luck to you guys. all the best to you. agaithe social network is out on dvd and blu-rayoday. you can cah the 2011 golden globe awards live this sunday at 8:00 eastern, 5:00 pacific time. we're back with more of "tod" on nbc. is naturally satisfyg. so select harves light soups are 80 cories or less, 100% natural. 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she took me hind the classro door and said you are not going to play with us anymore. and i'll never forget that. >> reporter: out of the pain she found coidence and a determination excel. the pictures telthe story. not only fitting in, but standing out. her life seemed full of promise, but she was headed for trouble. >> silvia, whahappened? >> i did not make very good choices needless tosay. >> reporter: after two divorces, suffering depression and deair, silvia rurned to the rio grande valley in texas where she was born she rediscovered her fait was happily remarried, but then sh lost her job. >> ias devastated. and then i heard this little voice inside of mand i do believe the voicenside of me was go speaking to me and i just hea him say, you need to go back to school. finish what you started. >> reporter: it was a second chance. shenrolled in college, a two-year program in applied science in social work. i was not working. so had all the time. 24/7. and boy, i ge it my all. >> reporter: and she got more th a degree. it was like therapy for me. i was starting to uavel some things in my life, there were a lot of tears in that class that but i diget an a. >> reporr: a certified substance abuse counselor, silvia scializes in teens that make bad choices. >> and what type of firearms did you have? >> reporter: in hidalgo county, texas, just acros the border from mexico, in some ighborhoods drugs and violence e almost a way of life. >> reporter: some othe kids that i speak with were contemplating becomes gang members when they were 4 and 5 years old. thiss what they see their dad, their grandpa doing, their uncles, their cousins, there learning gang signs, they're abused ed at a very young age sell drugs. >> reporter:t doesn't take her long to establish a rapport. >> are you still hanging around kids who are smong? >> a little bit. >> a little bit? run away in the other direction before i know it they're looking at me and they're leaning forward and they a interested in whai have to say. >> reporter: and itounds like the story ofer own life. >> inse each and everyne of us, there is that potentl, that is that ability, there is that gift that needs tbe unwrapped and developed. >> reporter: whether you're 15 years old or 50. how do you define success? >> pouring yoursf into what you have a passion for doing and basically changing the world one individual aa time. >> rorter: for silvia, a reinvention that's fishing what she arted, pickling up where she left off at18. she cpleted a two-yearrogram two months early and had a job offer before she had a diploma. the reality check. if she hadn't been laid off fro a previousjob, she probably wouldn't hav had the time or motivation to go back to school. as always, i hop you'll join us at noon eastern for a le web ch at aarp.org/jane. >> she's a fascinating lady, a secondchance. > just ahead, more on the controversial way to raise successful children the so-callechinese way after your local ne. 8:55 is your te now. 32 degrees right now. a few flurries already in the area. the salt tcks were o early inlexandria this morning. crews said they were waiting until the snow started to fall bere treating the roads. let's check in with meteorologist m kierein to nd out what wean expect. you're saying scattered amounts of snow? >> essentially. this is a preamble to the storm. we're seeing light snow in shenandoah valley, across northern maryland near the pennsylvania border. near the bay, eastern shore, southeast and south o us as well. a w flurries. but most of the accumulating sn will occur around 5:00 p.m. today and 2:00 a.m. tomorrow rn. through the evening urs, two toour inches. more northeast. eun? >> thank you, tom. wh we come back, we'll check your tra [ male announcer ] are you watching cable? here's what you should be watching: yourable bill. becae you could be paying way too much. stop spending more for seco best. grade to verizon fios and get , internet and phone for just $99.99 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thumbs-up to doctors. we'r following this tragic story from arina for the past seral days. >>also ahead on a lighter note, joy bauer is back with our diet s.o.s. if you're onef those people who wanto get by withhe smallest amoun of exercise possible. she has some advice on how you can incorporate regular activity into yr daily routine. plus the bt food sources for vitamin d. from joy to electronics, to the perct lbd that'she little black dress. jill is hereith her popular steals and deals. one mother'sew book is raising a lot of eyebrows when it comes to parenting style. e calls it the chinese way. we're going to tell you why she is stiing a bit of controversy. a lot of people a already talking about this on the internet. > but first let's go over to the news desk, natalie morales is there with the headlines. good morning, evyone. the young man charged with shooting a congresswoman a 19 others satury in tucson has started his jouey through the lel system. nbc's lester holt is in tucson with the verlatest on the suspect and the victim good morning, lester. >> reporter: as arizonans try to concentrate thr thoughts on the ctims, jared loughner got his first day in court where a judge labeled hia danger to society. defiant, mocking, there's a lot to read in the first post arrest photo of jared lee loughner. in a u.s. courthouse in phoeni loughner looked straight ahead as he rd the charg he now faces, murder tempted murder and attempted assassination of a member of congress. his parents were not in court. a neighbor says they're in pain. >> they're hurting bad. it's a sad things. >> reporter: memorialsnd tributes abound, from outside the hospital the school 9-year-old christi taylor green attended to the u.s. capitol where peopleined up to show theireport for congresswoman giffor. president obama who led a momt of silence in honor of e tucson victims will travel here tomorrow for a memorial service. some of those wounded ithe atck are now out of the hospital, like army colonel bill badg, who was grazeded in the head. >> lowered my head about six inches and i felt a burning sensation in theack of my head and i went right on tohe grnd. >> reporter: david bowman a phician and his wife nancy, a nurse, were shoppin at the safeway at the timof the attack and along withther civilians, began treating and triaging victims. >> started movg up towards the lile girl, iould see that she was getting good care so i directed my attention ther neighbor who was right beside her. and i saw thathe had a gunshot wounin her chest. so i just put my hand over that gunshot wound. but she was quite concerned about christina. so she pulled out her phone, here with four gunshot wounds on her, she pulls out her phone and dials christina's pents number and hands the phone to me to leave a messag the message machine picked up and i told her parts that christina was in an aident and was taken tonc. >> reporter: the bowmans knew chriina wouldn't make . wh they got home they contued to watch the news t make sureo others had died. rescuers are combing australia for nearly 60 people who are missing in the ring floodwaters west of brisbane. treacherous weathe slamm the usually sunny southst monday grounding thousands of flights knocking out power and clong schools. more flightsre expted t delayed soror cancelled today. this car tried to rev itself out of the snow, only tn to catch fire, the driver w able to esca unharmed. wikileaks founder julian assange appeared in a british crt today. he's being extradited to sweden where he's wanted for questioning on sual allegations. joe biden is in afghanistan where he's reviewing efforts to secure -- he also met wit afghan president hamidkarzai. a judge has appved psychiatric testing for the washington state woman who admitted burning her own face with acid as pt of a hoax. bethany storro originally told police a stranger threw acid on her. and ahaeologists say they have uncovered the world's oldest known winery in southern armenia near ir. it dates bac 6,000 years and includes a wine press, grapevines and sds. it is n six minutes fast hour, let's get a check of the good morning. here we've had some sttered flurries around this morning. they're continuing to advance south and north. this is just the beginning of the storm and really n going to be providing much in the way of akum legislation this morning. the marity of this accumulation will likely occur ter sunset today untilbout 2:00 a.m. wednesy. that's when we could see two to four incs throughout the district, much of maland. higher points northet. and then windynd cold on wednesday, remaining cold into friday. time nowor joy's die s.o. this week we have got aice from everything on how long you shld be exercising every day the bestources of vitamin d. 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's my greatest sourc of confidence. >> do yothink that americans or western pents pay too much attention to self-esteem? >>t's not that. i think ironically, again i want to say love a understandi have to come first. the are -- th's what got me first whever culture, but i think onically, what iall the chinese approac may tually be better at promoting self-esteem and ultimately ppiness than the more coddling western approach. at least for se kids. you could tell your child, oh, you're great, yore perfect all you want. bueventually they're going to have to go out into the real world and whenhey don't do so well in school or make the sports team they want or can't get the job the want, i think that's when your self-esteem really starts to fall. >> i'm trying to remember se of the words you used with your daughters, they were pretty harsh words. that's hard for a child, in my estimation, it's very difficu for a child to absorb and not fe feel bad aboutthemselves. >> i see how people think that because you're viewing it fm outse. you don't know the contex everythi depends on there being a foundation of love and respect to start with. so those words can be hurtful in another context. t i will sayo be perfectly honest, i kno that a lot of asianarents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of westernarenting. what westerners allow tir kids to do, teenage pregnancies, drug use. >> we don't actually condone that. >> there's a lot of leniency, the sort of play dates or sleepovers in the name of exploration, i oe stumbled into a sleep over, y wouldn't want to know what they're doing. >> but it's allowing a kid tbe a kid and to have fun and to be who they wanto be not who you want them to be. you're so right. i -- insistinghat we go on bikeides and water slides and ke them to yankee games. but i think a lot of mor traditional parents are very shocked by how much time westerners allow tir kids to waste, hours on facebook and comper games and in som ways they poorly they prepare them for the future. it's aough world out ere. i want tosay, it's funny that we're calling these values of hard work and strivin for excellence and don't blame o othersdon't give up. it's funny that we're calling them chinese values bause i have always thought of them as americanvalues. i think is about reclaiming some aspects of traditional western parenting that may we have lost. >> your daughter lulu, she voted against this, you were forcing her to pla the violin for hours on end, she wanted to play tennis. it ended in acene when you guys were in russia and she broke a glas she was sending you a message about your parting. >> i think in every culture, you got to kno your ild, but you have to listen. i retreated at a certain point when -- i'm a ver different person at the beginning of the book than i am at tend of the book. it's a journey, it's a coming of age book as amom. thing was more important to me than i was notoing to lose m daughter so i pulled ck, not tirely. but i do thinkhat she made that right desion. i thinkhe actually has absorbed many of the vues i instilled in her. th work etc and self-discipline, she just doesn't want me involved and she wans toake her own choices. >> a lot of things to talkbout with this book. >> thank you so much. >> the boo again "battle hymn of the tiger moer." up xt, our nags road map right after this. t! 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>> we have more trucks on the side of the road. hewe very o the beltway. a few more join them waing to go. they'veleared it a little later. wee looking gd new york and southbound heading two and from the okay qaa kwan. join uearly tomorrowing at join uearly tomorrowing at 4:00 a.m. captions paidor by nbc-universal television hello, everybody. it's tuesday, booze-day, janua 11th, 2011. or if you look at it numerically, 1/11/11, which is just kind of -- >> it just happened athe beginning of the month. 1/01/11. we just had one of these! >> i know. only 13 days this century have beewritten with all the same digits. >> whato we haveto wait for? 11/11/11. >> yes. >> who cares. some people put enormous importance to numerology and the study of numbers. in many, many cultures. did you know that, hoda wom? >> no, i didn't. but we dot care about that. >> i was walking from e gym to 30 ro and something was missing. the cistmas tree. >> oh, mygosh! i hn't even noticed. >> isn' it weird? >> yay. >> so they took the christmas tree down. that sparks that question when is it time to get rid of your christmas decorations because a lot of people keep theirs up lo past when others think it is time to take them don. >> you may lo it all year long but your neighbor may hateour blinng christmas lights going when it is aistice day or something. >> look at that. >> that's one of those way down in our neighborod but i pass it a the time on the way to church. i started screaming at saa. i knew it was not nice on the way to church, screaming at sant and his reindeer on the roof. >> do think some of the big plastic santas. i don't mind thelights >> i don't mind whe lights all winter long. it is the color ones. >> from my apt you can se everody's balcony. in new york you t your tree inside but everyone decorates their windows a whatn. a lot of people still have lights up. in my old apartment i never, ever took my lightsdown. ever! they wrappedbout me. >>hen you were growng up, you nev put the tree away >> well, we liked our tree fully decorad. we moved it from one stoge room out to the- >> i know. let us know what you think. okay? now apparentl we have a frozen bikini today. i don't know why but it's got champagne in it,range juice and peach nectar. how is it? >> give it a shot. i gave it a shot. you've got three big interviews today, miss i hope you had your wheati today. susan sarandon, very accomplished, formidable wonderful woman. you' got reed alexander. >> he' that crazy12-year-old cook. okay? like off thereservation. >> we are limb. he is an absoluteoll but you have to eat your wheaties when he's coming here. theyou have -- >> have snooki. >> the big meeting going onn there. i said hello, is thesnookster in ther? i think i insulted her by sayi the snookster. i was trying to be nice. >> tat show is crazy with the number of people who wat it. like 8 million people. not that many people are watching many shows. >> including this one! >> i me it is astonishing how many people watch that show. >> i don't watch it because i told you, i have problems with e way human beings are portrayed. my daughter says, mom, snooki is the nice one. she's the only one that cares about anybody but herself. >> we're going to talk to her about meeting men and all that stuff. i was reminded- sometimes you find yourself attracted to different kin of people. >> yes, you do. >> okay, wait. this happened. i was still thinking about it yesterday. i was in the subway when i was going to work one day. this y kind of looked like rocky bance boy balboa. he goes, "hey, i like your shape." >> hoda! >> i thought i can't belie he jussaid that. i went out with him. >> tat is so sad. that's desperate. >> no. there's somethg about that ki of rough and tumble -- hoda woman! >> he goes so we're going out. i go, yeah. "i like yourshape." that's what he said. i neededomeone to say that. >> well, there's an interesting survey here that middle aged men appantly are loose. ty are looser. women in their 40s are much re liky to go all the way on a first day than women in their 20s. hich i found suprising. >> you thk that's true? >> i don't kno you tell me. you're in your 40s. >> she's n in her 40s. >> some have en admitted they've h sexual relations with more than 20 ptners. >> okay, that's gross. >> one of our producers said at's wrong with that? >> it was not me. thank you. >> we're not going to say who it was. >> that stuns me. >> let's just give her itials. >> who initials are jo ann la marca. no. imagine n remembering if you're woman all your lovers. they're not really lovers, are they? >> you're talng to the wrong broad. i'm afraid of susan arandon. >> why? >> because she's vy smar very accomplied. she's sitting there and has not cracked a smile ye >>she will. she will all right. musical chls. every thursday we have hoda with her play ist. but the is a reason apparently hoda gets the goosebumps and stuff. it is from a ng. scitists now say that your brin is actually reactinthe exact same way as it would to delicious food or a psycho active drug like cocaine. >> what? >> yes. >> i do thinkmusic is chemical. i can be kind ofn a funk and i'll put a song on and it completely changes -- >> really, hoda? hmm. really? ♪ dirty b ♪ the club can't even handle me right now ♪ ♪ dirty bit ♪ hottie ♪ she's a hottie >> that isd. >> ooh, i feel like that song. >> it's so good! ♪ you were born for leavi >> heo! i love that song! >> we are dancing in the stio. >> so now weknow we have -- wait. that what it looks like wh we do that segment? >> yes. that's why joel asked us, have you ever wated yourselves? you should watch it more often. >> stop it. get ready, becae there is a big snowstorm -- >> there's something very sad that happene along the way. >> what? >> walking here towork. somebody sawomething and here it is. >> what? >> 50 off? wait! wait a second. was that for real? >> yes. that's what happens. there is a shelf lifeor books unless it the bible or -- >> what el was on the table can you show me it again? who else's book is on there? >> nobody. it's just yours, hoda. is a special day. >> okay, that's mean. >> thank you, jim gaines. thank you. but wait, i came across omething, too. one of our producers - i don't remember who got this. somebody. was given a gift for christmas andpparently you have a footbl card. >> i know. >> you do? >> um-hmm. >> s anyway they sold these, ese were actually onale for all the wives of the famous giants players. it says kathie lee gifford, wife. how much was ts thing? >> idon't know. but all that money -- >> 99 cents. >> all the money goeso chari. >> look at you with your haon. very adorable. >> yes. there is a big snowstorm, you guys. to be prepared for. tomoow the snowstorm that hit the south i going to come our way. they're talking ots. thy've got plows on stand-by. yor bloomberg says he's ready. >> i think he better be. the very talent, very bu susan sarandon is with us. and en, snooki. >> snackky traveled over bridges and tunnels and madeit here. we'll be talking to r. 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>> it's been quitehe run. >> yes. >> we must intruce your friend. >> this is penny >> penny's made an appearance on many shows. >> we don't want to brag about her too much. >> why not? she lis showing off a little bit. let's talk -- e's bored at hom >> let's talk about a coule of things. when i think aboutou, i think about a lot of things. but goodwill ambassador is somehow in t top ier. tell us what y do. >> it depends. through the years, irefer do hands-ostuff rather than conferences and thin like that. so in the early days of aids in sub-saharan africa i s sent to tanzania and i'v been t india. this particular rebranding of me has to do with nutrition and agricultur and hunger throughout the world. so when t got milk campaign came along it seemed like a good mat because 9 out of 10 mericans are suering from nutritiongap, a nutrient gap. and thenhen you think of the world and how many -- i think it's a child dies every six seconds of some malnourishment related issu so it is somethin that can be addssed by learning really what to eat and taking o mor glass of milk. you get calcium, potassium. >> you think people are unaware? that camign's been around for a while. every time i see it i go, god, don't people knowhat's what you'reupposed to do? >> we're focusing now on obesity but people eat lot and not eat prorly or get nutrients they need. i think a lot of it education. i realize now my kids when i was trying to take them off sugar or st like flour or somhing, you would thin they wre crack addicts. you know, wha they went through to change their diet. but now they're a pretty much aware when they coose something, they d't eat great all the time, i'm ure, but they are aware of what they need to take into their bodies to stay healthy. so you have toake an effort. so educatn i think iseally imptant. this program helps a lot to make people think about what there doing. as moms really we're the ones that kind of dohe shopping, get it , make sureyour kids know what's going . >> how ny children do you have? >> thousands. >> was this t first one w's getting marri, right? your daughter? >> i have three but they have really intense persolities so they seem like more. she's getting married in the fall so a really gre guy. >> you like him. > oh, yeah. >> wouldn't that be the wrst if you didn't like the guy? >> well, then she gets married another time. you know. you make mistakes, she'll fix it. but this guy is grt. >> whatbout advice on marriage? a lot of people think u had a great long-term relationship but never tied the kn. do you give her advice? >> are you kidding? if she asks me, iive her advice. sometimes she asks me but really don't try to -- i mean if something was hpening where she was really in an abusive lationship or my oys, i try to make te boys understand. because there's still the dole staard so guys aren't -- that don't have th social pressure that the girls he depending on what's going on. so i mean we talk a lot. i sten. i'm a good listener. >> are they plitically acve as well d interested the way you are? >> no. they have their own -- i mean they're really good people and they've been inlved in different things tt they've been interested in. but i think it up to each person to find something th speaks to them and then to -- i mean th were very excited about obama. that washe firstime that two of my kids voted he was such aock star that he just pulled them in. but they worked for certain things and certain charities and stuff but i think they'verown up in a household where sometimes that was really difficult for them. >> you hurt your foot. was i your foot last year in haiti? >> yeah. i was in hai and i fell and i popped a joint so i had an operation eventually and -- that's trereally tricky when ou get your foot operated o i was on crutches for like two mont. >> can you play ping-pong when you're on crutches? >> wheelchair. people are really good in wheelchairs. ng-pong -- you shuld come and play. you'd have a goodtime. i just invited snoi to come. >> she gets 50rand and she'll be there. >> susan, very lovely. >> you guys are givi her 50 grand to be here? no, no, no. e you kidding? >> i was just inviting herto have a good me. you can drink, you can dance, you can play ping-pong. she doesn't have t make a public appearance. >> all ght. thanks susan. >> hay new year. >> thanks for bringing pen. >> bye, penny. up nex t little film with the big message. hey nancy, great party. oh, hey scott. - need any helpleaning up? - nah, i think i'm pretty much... 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"news 4" midday begins at 11:00. we'll see you then. >>we are back on this booze-day tuesday with more of "today" and a woman who in a very short time joine the distinion of joining madna, cher and beyonce as one of th very few celebrities known by one name. >> she's the int-sized reality star named snooki. shewas the biggest little star of mtv's "jersey who are." self-proclaimed princess of poughkeepsie. others proclaimed her a berserk wind-up toy. from her signature poof to her signature tan. even presidentbama was talking about her. >> the following individual shall be excluded from the indoor tanning taxithin this bill -- snooki a house minority leader john boehner. >> this new year's eve snooki starred in her own ball drop setting the stageor 2011. it could be her biggest ye yet starting wi last week's seson three premier of "the jersey shore." it became mts highest rated telecast ever. and now snooki's fist-pumping her way into theliterary world with her own novel. >> my cast mates are very surprised that i am an author because they didn't evenknow that i read boks. for ameri and everybody to see that i'm writing a book, i fee like it is big accomplishment for e. >> she crazy. the book is called "a sure thing." nicole snooki, give us a fist pump on the book debut. >> so excited. >> first, we have to talk about your bump. because i'm not seeing yur bump. it is on the book and it's not oyour head. what's happening here? >> i feel like everyone expecting me toear the poof so i like to switch it up and like be dierent. >> that's so yesterday, righ that's so last year. >> not to say i'll never wear it again. >> whatbout the name snooki? your given name is nt snooki. >> snooki's jersey shore. eventually jersey sore is going to end so hopefully everne will remember me asnicole now instead of snooki. >> i think that's going to take a while. if ever. but tis is the right road you're on. >> oh, yes. >> you're watching the piece and ll your anti and falling down and all that stuff, yourack up. y laugh at yourself. >> i know. i never take myselferiously so i don't think anybody else should. i mean i just like to have fun and i'm silly. >> but peop say you guys are bad role mods for kids. >> but we're not trying to be role models for kids. we're just try to be ourselves and fun. i get mad even whenpeople like under 18 watch our show because i'm likeou shouldn't be watching our show. >> you want to ha children some day. right? >> oh, hell ye >> i'll take that as an affirmative. and what would you teach her about, you know, guys -- because i teach my daughter and all her friends. four words. he's not worth it. one day somebody's going toome along w is worth it and prove me wrong. but how do you parents fel about seng you hook up with these different guys and all of that i would be so crazed if you were my daughter. >> well obviously my dad doesn't really take it that well. he doesn't want to see his little baby gi hooking up with uys on telephone. bu i think i'm old muff to make my own decisions. >> how old e you now? >> 23. >> ay. what doesyour mom say? >> my mom's very coervative. she's like not me atall. i don't know, she's proud of ere i am right now but obviously she has some talks with me from te to time. >> now your book is a novel. >> s. >> you wroteyour book with a co-writer. >> right. >> and for people who haven't read it yet because it is brand-new, why d't we read a little. >> we're going to give you a little. >> a ttle mood music. ho on. >> it'stoo loud to talk. >> gia wasn't making a deep conversional and full connection tonight was all out the three account ds, drinking, dancing and du are you from around here, she yelled? youe got a nice rack, screamed rocky in reply. wow. beautiful. >> snooki, that's etry, baby. that's poetry. tells about thesecharacters. are tey you? >> gia and isabella definitely is and j lo. the scenarios that happenn the book aren't real. like it could happen on t shore. >> pretty much everythingdoes. >> anything can happen on the shore. so yeah. >> but you're becoming a world brand. aren't you? what have you got now. the book, what? >> snooki slippers. >> the green ones you are wearing on the boardwalk? >> those were other slippers. thenooki slippers i we in miami. now i have like leather int and stuff like that. >> but you did spend a little time in the can, right? >> yeah. >> how was tht? >> four hours. >> how ny? >> four. >> what happened there? you were drinking and lling down? >> yeah. you know i h a little too many margaritas and -- how many does it take for a person as tiny as you are? >> not a lot actually. i an i'm really tiny so like i can have a drink, be like whoa! you know. a jail kind of sucked a little bit justbecause i'm tiny. i shouldn't be there. i'm toopretty for that. >> what? what did she say? >> is that wh they told you while you were in there? >> no, i was thinking that. >> only ugly people go to prison? lindsay lohanwent to prison. she's awefully pretty. >> never mind. >> that's snooki. >> i hear you and matt, i heard there was a little coect on your part wh matt lauer. >> oh,eah. he's actually really good looking. > did that surprise you? is he too pretty for prison? >> he's really hot in person. yeah. >> i'm sure ma will behappy. >> you kn what? you're alot of fun, snooki. but start -- can i giv you a little motherly advice? value yourself more. just give yourself away to just any jerk. okay? >> oh. gotcha >> everybody's favorites -- well, kathie lee's favorite kid ok. reed alexander is her but first these messages. 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[ laughter ] olive garden. when you're re, you're family. it is time for "today's style at and ys to revp your wardrobe and barely touch your wallet. >> "glamour's" contributing editor is here. >> i love that thisis on the cheap. >> every single project we'll show you isnder 20 bucks. take what you already have in yourloset and redresst up for the new year. >> let's startith winter cos. you can quickly make something -- >> absolutely. almost evy woman has a basic black coat you wear season afte season. it is a littleoring. swap out the buttons. we bought ese great pearl buttons for $2 each. eiht of them, $16 for the whole project. it is kind of dressy. can you change up with any kind button you want. we have a few to show. colors, metallics, anythg. >> this is smart, too. we all have a little basic black skirt. if you want to make it look a little different. >> add a little trim around the hem line. oesn't even have to be blk. go to yur local fabric or craft store and buy a little bit of this trim. feathers, beads sequins, anything. you don't en have to sew a single itch. we took this great little glue which works as well as needle and thread. you can wash it, dry it. it is $6. you'll just run a little bit of line of glue rightround the hem ofhe skirt. then press the trim on and then we've got- >> look at danielle! >> really cute. sort of dresses up what you've lo got in your closet. solutely. >> so a lot of us wear tights in the winter but ey start to lo the same after a while. >> exactly. i've got a drawer full of tights that say i should wearhese but i never too. espially with something that's lacey or textured, it is a little bit to cold to wear them in the midd of the country. double them up. take a pair of bright colored tights and putour lace tights top ofit. whatyou've got is this eat look that's sti going to keep you warm. >> w! that's smart. >> sexy, sassy ing. inead of totally overaccessorizing, go with a graydress, black dress. >> distressed jeans aretill all the rage. are these ever going out? >> they're not. cebrities are wearing them. we have a great photo of nice richie in a pair that i love. >> she looks good in anything. >> she knows how t put i gether from top to bottom. >> she does. if you want the ok of her jens, a lot of times you'll bay $100, $200 for these in a store which is cra. paying fo something that's basically destroyed. we're goi to take a pair of jea you already have in your closet. i'll show you on this pair here. make a coup of little snips. you're going to cut a fe little holes. >> careful where you put them. >> yes. before i made this pr i looked at a couple of pair online and de sure i was copying the holes the way they were. the way denimworks is it has white threads that run this way and blue thrds that run this way. start with the blue treads. put on some bad telephone, catch up on yo "housewives." >>or "jersey shore." >> exactly. >> so cute. >> lat, we're going to take last year's jewelry, turn i into something new. everyone has a bunch of bead old pearls, things like tat they ha in their jewelry box. wist them all up, clasp themn the back and you havethis great little statement necklace. >> thank you. coming up next, reed alexander's got our kitchen on fire. he's got fun food for kids after this. getting enough whole grain. but actually, it's easr than you think, because general mills big g line of cereals is america's umber one source of whole gra at breakfast. there's wholgrain in every box... ♪ ...from ex... to cheerios... to lucky charms. so you n get the whole grain you want with the taste you love. get started on thehole grain you're missing with your favorite big gereals. make sure to look for the white cck. with your favorite big gereals. your favorites, in pieces. u can do this... get the ball, girl. hmmm, you can't do that. but you can do thi bengay pain relief + massage th penetrating nubs plus the powerful pain relief bengay. love the ns! time for "today's kitcn. >> when reed alexander isn't playing neville on nickelodeon, hean be found in the kitchen cooking kid-friely healthy meals. then we're going to be tasting some of his great, great taste. we love you. we love you! you guys are awesome. >> the royal "we"? who are "we". >> we nd the rest of your "today"how team. before we get cooking, we're all friends. right? >>what's the problem? >> i'm 16, i'm 12. >> i didt say you were 12. >> i did. >> you see12. >> you're just a little short. that's all. >> 16 and proud! all right. >> because we're all such great friends we want to throw a great movie night. >> yes,e did! >> popcorn. we've got some great tricks. wel start out making turkey cone tacos. >> stop it! >> i'm goingo deliver. hoda, would you like totir these onions for me, please? >> no. >> you add spices, break it up. kathie l, would you mind opening up this vial for e? kitchen chemistrytoday. homemade mexican allurpose taco asoning. >> put the whol thing in ere? >>yeah. there's salt, pepper, aprika, chilipowder, all those insta flavor pops. this is so easy. let that saute for tenminutes. we've got some that's alady ade with no more brown in it. thn you just throw in these beans. i love to use different kids. black beans, red kidney beans -- if you're having friends over, yo kow what beans do. >> thank god you go a good movie to distract you. all right. then this is done. you just heat through. >> what? that's the whole story? >> it is so simple right? >> let's do it! >> we take this filling and use a half-cup each. take six of these little tortillas, individual 100% whole grain. all i' done is toasted them in the oven about five or six minutes. i'm just spooning them rig up into a cone shaped mold. top with anything you like. gua i love guac. u can pick this up or eat it with a spoon. becausthat's crispy from the oven, it is really nicely edible. sort of makes this a little vessel i want to showou my own healthy ncession stand. >> it tastes good. did you taste? >> no, becausee're being rushed. >> take a taste, please. i ne the verdict. all yur favorite topping i ho you guys love it. super simple reci. >> so cute! >> thank you. you know what i think aboutit? i'm thrilled. i'm -- >> great. >> i'm so glad. if it is movie nht you want something that's visually appealing just as gre tasting as the food. this next recipe, minichicken parm meatballs. >> stop it! >> we got our turkey, you put threen a mini skewer. iove to share thesrecipes with you guys. >> we got to run, re. say hi to erybody for us. hone god bless you. we'll be back to find out your bad habits and hoda's too. but first, more of "today" o nbc. 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