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the soldier. dan nevins joins us this morning. staff sergeant, what was it like to have the president call you out with all those incredible people around you at the white house. >> brian, it was a little surreal actually. i knew it was going to happen and at the same time, i didn't know what that was going to be like. it was really an honor for me for the chief to, you know, mention me by name and talk a little bit about how we met and my story. abby: tell us about the first time you met. you guys played golf together. how did that go? >> it was actually really great, abby. we were at a fundraising golf tournament at one of his properties and he was stationed at a par three and hitting shots with everybody, saying hi and taking pictures. there was a lot of pressure going up to the t box. i hit this beautiful t shot landed two feet from the pin. super excited, proud of myself. when it was his turn he hit this shot and it landed on the green but like really

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celebrating a birthday today. somebody -- it's not on the couch. it's actually dana! happy birthday to you! >> thank you so much. this is the one that i stopped celebrating after this one. >> and you kicked it off by kicking off the soldier ride as it hit in annapolis, i should say. >> that's right. president bush, remember, he went with bret baier and steven hayes two weeks ago on a mountain bike ride. i was told that the guide that they hired quit after the first day because they said president bush was some kind of crazy animal on a mountain bike? i was able to take greetings from president bush to the soldier ride on the man you just saw is dan nevins, executive vice president for events and a double amputee and was hurt in 2004 in iraq and he recently climbed mount kilimajaro so there's nothing the rest of us can't do. >> happy birthday. happy 29th birthday, dana. >> thank you so much. >> have a great day today. >> ok, bye-bye. >> meanwhile, i guess rick has been scrambled again for a bad reason. >> yeah, you're right, brian. it's a fox extreme weather

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saw them? and president obama simply said, it was him. >> just on pakistan which is going to be a big focus of our show, three hour show today said "we think there had to be some sort of support network for bin laden inside of pakistan but we don't know who or what the support network was. we don't know whether there might have been some people inside of government, people outside of government. that's something we have to investigate more importantly. that's something the pakistani government has to investigate. no doubt about it, the strongest words to date from a government official let alone the president about our relations with our so-called ally, pakistan. >> and i thought it was -- i didn't think it was that strong of a statement because i don't think the u.s. government can make any stronger of a statement. it's obvious that we need pakistan in some capacity and they're firing back already. the prime minister of pakistan says hey, look, we have arrested 100 members of al-qaida for you including khali shaikh mohammed and by the way, is there going to be some sort of revenge right now? because apparently the local media in pakistan has named the c.i.a.'s station chief in islamabad pakistan so now is that -- they outted him. is that the kind of stuff that we're going to see? i almost said a worst word. is that what we're going to see now from pakistan, that they're going to out our secret agents because they're a little teed off because they didn't know what was going on? >> it sounds like the c.i.a. is fighting back. they've released a statement this morning that said that name they gave out, wrong guy. nonetheless, the prime minister of pakistan who will be talking later on today is going to say that we will defend our sovereign airspace and if they launch another attack on, you know, a raid on par with what they did the other day, the united states, we will defend ourselves. it's interesting, there's a story as well out this morning from abc quoting a senior official in the pakistan civilian government and they say "elements of pakistan's intelligence community probably rogue or retirees were involved in aiding, abetting and sheltering the leader of al-qaida." so that guy essentially said, yeah, the isi was in on it. >> well, tom ddonaldon came on yesterday. he was indicating, it seems to me, that we might have information in what they claim is almost like a small college library worth of intel scooped up from bin laden's lair. they could possibly link higher government officials with bin laden as if to say would you like me to out you into exactly what we have? or do you want to play ball? so at the same time, we got an ambassador there. special envoy there trying to work behind the scenes because we've got this other problem. they probably have top 10 to 20 terrorists, taliban warlords, inside their country and we need access to them. and there's no indication from the president yesterday that we wouldn't try the exact same thing if there were others available. >> stay put in pakistan. that's kind of what i got this morning from reading up on all this because the prime minister has said we're going to defend ourselves and we're going to shoot at americans who next time try to come down and do a similar type of mission. it's a game changer as far as we got away with this secret mission in pakistan. if you're a terrorist, go to pakistan right now. he's going to protect you. >> the prime minister is getting pressure to step down and they'll have a sacrificial lamb as early as today, their so-called spy chief. this is the public. you have the government who is embarrassed and some with legitimate side and some in the dark. you have to portray yourself to the pakistani people as outraged and a way to claim some type of pride and say we're going to bolster up our air defense. we are outraged about this because to the pakistani people, their intelligence bureau has been outted and the pakistani people, their military has been -- >> it's about time they look at this. but if you're a government, you have to change that perception. my feeling is the masters of double dealing might be doing some legitimate bargaining behind the scenes while coming public and trying to save face with their people. >> one thing the united states would like to do is talk to usama bin laden's widows who were there. >> great. >> absolutely, they would know whether or not, you know, the local sheriff came in every tuesday or something like that. they'd know a lot. but it's interesting, the government of pakistan says we will not allow the united states to interview the wives until we get the ok from the governments from their home countries. one of the wives is from yemen so they'll have to get the ok from yemen. good luck on that. >> they thought if they gave up an evil scientist who was exporting their nuclear technology to the u.s., he might do this thing called talking and that would be the problem. and the wives might do this thing called talking which could be the problem. >> sure, i doubt it's as simple as yemen saying you could speak to her and they're going to allow that. last time i checked, the yemen leader was supposed to be friendly to the united states. that person would probably say yes but they would come up with another excuse. let's talk about the national security advisor. he made the rounds on the sunday shows yesterday and he was asked a very poignant question from our own chris wallace about the comparison between shooting bin laden in the head as far as that type of aggression and violence vs. water boarding. if you can do one, why can't you do the other? >> why can't you do enhanced interrogation of khali shaikh mohammed who was just as bad an operator as usama bin laden? >> because, our judgment is that it's not consistent with our values, not consistent and not necessary in terms of getting the kinds of intelligence that we need. >> but shooting bin laden in the head is consistent with our values? >> we are at war with usama bin laden. >> we are at war with khali shaikh mohammed. >> it was a military operation, right? it was absolutely appropriate. >> and so -- >> great question, by way. >> absolutely. and great follow-up as well. you have this administration unlike the previous one has said that water boarding will not be allowed and in fact, the attorney general of the united states is going after the people who did administer some of these waterboardings to these c.i.a. captives, there were only three of them in all including khali shaikh mohammed. but when you look at what the president said last week, he thanked the men and women of the intelligence community behind the scenes and around the world in getting us to this point. so effectively he was thanking them for getting the information via waterboarding. meantime, you've got eric holder looking into their, perhaps, abuses. >> noteworthy that tom donaldon yesterday easily could say my guy deserves every credit. in every interview he gave, he said this is an investigation that's gone over two administrations, three administrations. so he went out of his way to not disseminate between the bush tactics and obama tactics and bring them both together. i think it's laud i believe and notable. he may be laying the groundwork for changing the tactics and broadening above the army manual that he has now. >> that's because the administration is going to have to answer to that. maybe he's the first person who is actually going to craft an answer to that. they'll continue to be asked this question, you would think. they'll have to decide which way they'll go on it. vice president dick cheney did an extensive interview with chris wallace as well and he talked about setting a terrible precedent with regard to prosecuting the c.i.a. >> i'm saying it is an outrage that we would go after the people who deserve the credit for keeping us safe for 7 1/2 years and that these men all devoted, capable officials should have to look over their shoulder and worry that if they follow the orders of this president to carry out this interrogation program, that at some point down the road when there's a change in policy, that they can expect to be prosecuted. >> leon panetta admitted, i think, on tuesday night on nbc that these enhanced interrogation techniques did lead to information that did lead to the killing of usama bin laden so for them to then say, ok, it was ok then but it's illegal now, drop the investigation. that's just crazy. >> 9 minute after the hour. what else is happening? >> couple other headlines overnight. two terrifying security breaches on the rails happening within hours here in new york city. according to "the new york post," a man claimed to have left a bomb in the train tunnel between the world trade center and new jersey. he was arrested for criminal trespassing. hours earlier, four young men were arrested for carrying fireworks and a camera into a subway tunnel. they told cops they were part of an urban explorers group. a continental plane going from houston to chicago forced to land in st. louis after an unruly passenger tried to open the emergency exit. the only problem was they were up in the air during the flight. passengers terrified. >> the flight was going along and suddenly, there was this horrible scream. like she was being attacked. >> police questioned the 34-year-old man from illinois. they let him go. earlier, pilots diverted another flight after a suspicious note was found in the bathroom. that delta plane was headed from detroit to san diego. a security sweep turned up no threat. jury selection in the murder trial of casy anthony begins in florida this morning. anthony is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter in 2008. there is still no confirmation of where the trial will take place. that's because there's been so much media attention on this case, the judge wants to keep the location a secret. if convicted, anthony does face the death penalty. simon cowell and paula abdul "reunited and it feels so good" they arrived for the first day of x factor filming in los angeles. >> she was my first choice. i always said i was going to have her on the show. but, you know, like everybody else she had to kind of audition. i'm really excited. i think we made the right decision. >> i'm thrilled, you know, always kept me in his thoughts. good, bad or indifferent. >> also joining them at the judges table, british singer cheryl cole and record executive l.a. reed. it airs next fall. >> he's back in states. we'll find out how that guys. islamic extremists furious with the united states for killing usama bin laden. are americans underestimating their response? 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[ jennifer ] go on, join for free. weight watchers new pointsplus. because it works. >> ok. listen to this. now you see her. now you don't. in a hasidic paper in new york, they ran this white house situation room photo from the bin laden raid. there's one problem, it removed hillary clinton. the jerusalem post said the paper didn't want to show women in authority positions. >> no. what else could it be? they didn't like her outfit? >> what does it do with hasidic -- hasidic jews don't want women -- >> according to my calculations. >> where's wolf blitzer? isn't he in the situation room every day? >> i don't see him in that shot! >> i think you got it right. he plays like he's in the situation room. those people actually are in the situation room. let's talk about what else is on your mind and that is some people are saying who gets the $25 million now that bin laden has been captured. who dropped the dime that allowed us to get in there and kill him. the answer is nobody. that leaves $25 to $50 million sitting in escrow. >> are you sure it's nobody? >> it looks like it's nobody. >> actually you couldi argue it's one of those dudes that is waterboarded. i don't know what the parameters are for collecting, if you gave any information, what does the fine print say? >> i think the fine print says that there is in this particular instance, there's no particular tipster who gave the infinite -- the exact information that led to the demise of usama bin laden. and so now, it looks like anthony wiener, a congressman from here in the new york city area along with jerry nadler, also a congressman from the new york city area, they are unveiling legislation that says take that -- it started out as $25 million and eventually amped up to $50 million bounty money, take that and give it over to 9/11 family groups. >> no responder left behind is the slogan he used and that's true. and a lot of them are suffering now and i think they should give away some of the money. you cannot give away that money and ignore the military. how many are wounded out there and how many are trying to make their ways back and earn a living now that they're forced to retire or choose to retire? i think that you have to be able to factor in the military. >> that's a great point. then it would get dicey as to where do you draw the line? but i like the idea on its face. what do you think? you can e-mail us or twitter us and let us know your thoughts. maybe we'll read them later on in the show. >> in the meantime, a fox news extreme weather alert. near record-breaking floods in the state of tennessee are about to get worse. look at this video. swallowing up houses and forcing hundreds of evacuations in memphis. the mississippi river at a record high. rick reichmuth joins us live from downtown memphis, tennessee. rick, tell us what the very latest is because it's not good. >> yeah. it's not. it's hard to believe this is downtown. we're talking about roads behind me here. we're talking also about thousands of people who have been moved out of their homes now because their homes are flooded and probably will not be able to return to them because they're destroyed. but take a look at why this is. you think we're standing just in front of the mississippi river here. but we're not. we're standing in front of a road. those are stoplights up there that run along riverside drive and this is where famous biel street of memphis meets riverside drive and on the other side of that, there's a park that goes on for 100 yards or so before you get to the river. now you've got the river right up here into the city and it's caused so many concerns for so many people and caused evacuations. also, making traffic a nightmare, a lot of people coming to see this. they want to see this historic flood here and you said it, steve, getting to around 48 feet and expected to peak tonight at the highest crest and this is about what you'll see at the top of these little kind of plastic diversion things and you see the light on top of it here. this is a bridge, not a bridge over a river but a bridge over a road that's turned into a bridge over a river. major problems going on here in memphis. water continues to move downstream, memphis the big concern. i want to bring in real quickly brent perkins, public information officer for shelby county fire department. shelby county is where memphis is and you're handling all the big operations. this is a big operation. how do you coordinate an effort like this to protect this county? >> we've been at this for a little more two weeks now and in the emergency operations center which is being run by our local office of preparedness. we've been hard at it for all this time getting all facets of law enforcement, fire, ems, health department, salvation army. we've formed a wonderful gis mapping partnership with the university of memphis that has allowed us to draw the models, the water models and get a good, accurate picture. >> and it's given you an idea of exactly what it's going to look like. you guys have these very cool things here in memphis that you purchased recently called a hydra trek. we went out yesterday with these guys on some of these boats, boat cars, door to door and we saw some places that we couldn't see. what have you guys done? been able to do with search and rescue with these vehicles? >> it gives us an ability to access people who have been beyond the flood borders itself in ways that we weren't able to do even a year ago. we can access all sorts of terrain and get right up to the front door of a patient or somebody who needs to be moved, evacuated, rescued and do that in a way that not only is much safer for the firefighters but for the patient that we're taking care of as well. >> flooding is such a scary thing because it hits in spots you don't know where you can get in and out of it and people don't judge it right, it's a big problem. you'll have one other big problem on your hand and this is a river that's not going to go down very quickly but when it goes down, what do you do with what's left behind from this river? >> that remains to be seen. we've got recovery specialists actually on board right now looking at the scene because this is not over when the water goes down, the cleanup will then begin. the mitigation of getting people back to a normal life and a normal way of living is a big, big task and we expect it to go on for weeks. >> let me tell you guys, this isn't necessarily clean river, this has got contaminants from all over the central part of the country from farms and fields and debris that's been washed into this so it's not a clean and easy process at that point. thanks so much for joining us and best of luck to you. back to you in the studio. >> touch base with you again throughout the show. thank you so much. now to other headlines for your monday. the situation is tense in egypt after clashes between muslim and christians happened there. a muslim mob burnt churches killing at least 12 people. the army is out in force today and the interim government has held emergency talks to try to prevent the violence from escalating. >> take your time. a mother's day miracle for a canadian family. 56-year-old rita reunited with her children after being stranded in her minivan for seven weeks along the idaho-nevada border. her husband albert has not been seen since he left to get help. >> we're celebrating but we're also, of course, praying for another miracle and praying that, you know, it will have the outcome we desire but also accept any whatever it is. we want to find him. >> rita survives on only a tablespoon of trail mix every day. fish oil pills and melted snow. she also read her bible every day. gretch? >> amazing story. two previously stranded pilot whales swimming strong in the florida straits. they were released over the weekend from the lower florida keys. five other surviving whales are being cared for in a temporary sea pen. officials hope to eventually move them to the marine mammals conservancy in key largo. >> a cat gets the ride of its life stuck inside the engine of a moving car for 25 miles. it wasn't until the driver got out of the car she heard the purring and then she popped the hood and found the cat inside. a nearby vet helped rescue. watch this. >> when you took the wheel off, we could see his head. he was sticking his head out through the wheel well and we were able to slide him out by putting a lot of lubricant on him. >> the cat is now recovering from minor burns. the cat's nickname is axel. >> eight lives left. >> should call him lucky. >> prices hit $4 her gallon in some parts of the country now but as of this morning, the average cost of gallon has fa fallen down to $3.96 per gallon. will it fall even further before the summer driving season begins? >> stuart varney who works weekends at a nearby gas station joins us live. good morning to you. you predicted last week that we had reached the top and were starting to head down and you were right on that. >> on this show on thursday of last week, i said the gas price spike is levelling off. wouldn't actually touch $4 national average. ok, i got that right. there's no need to assume we're now about to see a plunging gas prices, that is not going to happen. we've levelled off just before $4 a gallon. $3.96 this morning. down $0.03 from the high but the price of oil this morning is back up to $100. >> why? >> well, the dollar is down and so oil is off. it's the same old, same old. so you're not going to see a big plunge in gas prices. we are frankly still paying an arm and a leg. you can celebrate the end of the gas price spike but don't assume it's going straight down. >> i assumed that demand was down in the united states. we've been using less gas because of the prices. maybe that had something to do with the price going down. >> it did. we are using a lot less gas. about 140, 150 million gallons a month less and that's going up so yeah, demand is down. >> supply is up. >> supply is up. prices of oil was back to $100 or just below. that adds up to an equation which says gas price, the spike levels off. >> let's play politics as it relates to your topic. today, democrats will put together a piece of legislation that says stop the oil subsidies, the big oil and they even named the oil companies. even if we stopped all these subsidies or tax breaks, what's that going to do to the price of oil? >> $4 billion a year for tax breaks for oil companies. some of those subsidies goes towards drilling for more oil in the united states. it's going to do absolutely nothing for the price of gasoline. >> this is theater. >> it won't bring in that much more money for the treasury. $4 billion a year is a drop in bucket. >> that cost will wind up getting passed along to us at the pump, right? >> ultimately it will, yeah. >> tune into varney & company this morning. what's going to be happening there? >> who would have thought we'll have the prime minister of can da's chief financial guy and he said you should be more like us. who would have thought, right? canada dictating economic policy to america. it's happening. >> better markets than us these days and congratulations for your fourth daughter graduating college. >> thank you very much. >> big deal over the weekend. >> thank you. >> straight ahead on this monday program, google knows what you read, who you e-mail, and what you're watching on you tube. a live report on a groundbreaking investigation about what google knows. have they gone wild? 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[ all ] ♪ hey, hey, hey ♪ good-bye >> of more quick headlines for you on this monday morning. police in detroit looking for the so-called mad hatters. at least six middle-aged women wearing hats now accused of making off with $500,000 by pickpocketing strangers. there's some of them. and a few bad apples spoiled the launch of apple's ipad 2 in beijing, china. a brawl broke out after several people tried to cut the line. the fight ended with four people hurt and the store's window shattered. brian? gretch? >> all right, steve. by the way, google has been the number one global brand for the last four years in a row. could the company be violating our privacy without us even knowing it, gretch? >> we've been talking about this for sometime and now fox news senior correspondent eric shawn has more on the new book exploring that very question. good morning to you. >> good morning, gretchen. good morning, brian. you know google's unofficial motto is "don't be evil" but there's a new book out that questions that pledge. the book is called "search and destroy, why you can't trust google inc." the author charges the internet giant is unethical, untrust worthy and guilty of copyright infringement but he says the number one issue is privacy. you know, he points out that the company, he says, keeps copies of everything that its users do through its many services. he says google can keep track of what you like, where you go, who your friends and family are, even what you look like and sound like. and in short, he says by using google, they know everything about you. >> they know what you want, what you think, what you believe, what you read, what you watch, what you intend to do. google knows you better than you know yourself. >> cleveland warns this is all really dangerous. google, well, they dismiss his concerns. a spokesman reacted by telling fox news "is it possible to be quoted shrugging my shoulders. everybody knows that cleveland stopped being an analyst years ago and is paid by microsoft and at&t, he says to criticize google full time." though cleveland refused to tell us who his clients are, others say some of the issues that he raises in the book do have merits. most notably dealing with privacy and antitrust concerns. >> i don't think there's ever been a u.s. corporation that's had so much control. it would be like a company producing automobiles or providing oil and building the highways. that company would basically control everything that happened in terms of transportation in the united states. we're in a similar situation today with the internet and google. >> others say google is just doing good business and appropriately uses the internet. the company, though, does have a list of privacy principles. you can see them on the web site. they promise that they do handle all the information responsibly. guys? >> sounds a little vague, doesn't it? responsibly. i'm not sure what that means. it will be interesting to see. apparently, he'll testify before congress coming up soon. we'll see how that goes. thanks so much. >> a little later in the break, i'll find out how many times that eric shawn googles his own name and i'll give all that information next hour. >> you can do it, you know, videos, the whole thing. >> he wants us to look at the pictures, he thinks. >> i'm getting that idea. 11 minutes before the top of the hour. >> turns out the president's team wasn't completely sold on his decision to raid bin laden's compound. the surprising admission from the president himself and reaction from dana perino top of the hour. >> and did you know that dick van dyke wasn't the first pick to host the dick van dyke show? he sits down on the curvy couch to explain. we hope. ever wish vegetables didn't taste so vegetably? well, v8 v-fusion juice gives you a full serving of vegetables, plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. v8. what's your number? >> a spoonful of sugar with julie andrews and watch mary tyler moore to turn the world on with her smile and here with us now, dick van dyke who has put those retirement rumors to rest with a brand new memoir. it's called "my lucky life in and out of show business." good morning to you. >> i wanted to call it everybody else has got a book. but the publisher wouldn't go for that. >> you're starting this book business at 85. >> right. well, you have to -- your memoirs. there's a lot of people, 30-year-olds around writing memoirs. why? it hasn't happened yet. >> we are such fans of you and in particularly -- in particular of the dick van dyke show. for instance, every week, we can never figure out whether or not you're going to trip to the ottoman, where did that come from? >> i did it for fun and it was carl's idea that we use it in the opening. ? >> carl? >> carl reiner. >> name dropper you. >> everybody knows carl. people were gambling about whether or not i would go over the sofa. became a big thing. >> you talk about whether the show went on the air, the suits, they loved the show. we're not so sure about this guy. >> about me? >> no, carl. carl shot the original pilot. he had written it for himself and they loved the show but they didn't like his performance. >> oh, man! >> if you ever see it, he's a little too nervous and that was the break of my life. they were looking for another one. >> also, and this is kind of interesting. you had a problem with the censors once involving mary tyler moore's capri pants. >> we had twin beds and couldn't say the word pregnant and the network decided those capri pants tucked under a little too much. we had to let them out. >> really? >> yeah. and every man in the country was angry. >> great thing about the book, it takes you inside that story and that show and you did so many other shows but it also is very personal and it talks about how you struggled with alcohol. >> i did. i had a run-in -- what happened was i had worked at the nightclubs through my 20's and i was a teetotaler, i never drank. i'd always been a little bit shy, kind of backward and i felt if i had a martini, i became quite relaxed. my inhibitions went away and then it became two and three and i found myself drinking too much in the evenings. i didn't drink or at work or in public. but i couldn't stop it. and it really scared me. and i had to go get help. >> and you talk a hot about that in the book. there are so many stories, i don't know where to -- time is limited, obviously. asking whether or not you and i are related. >> yes. i can see there's a family resemblance. >> what are talking about? >> i have an uncle that looks like him. >> of a very large nose. >> me, too. see? iesh auto you're right. without the beard, you'd see it more. >> i'm going to grow one starting tomorrow. >> you don't have any dutch ancestors, do you? >> no, i'm a fifth scotch. >> a fifth? >> a fifth. >> and i'm irish. >> dick van dyke, when i was a little boy, i only wrote to one tv star to ask for an autograph and it was you and you sent it toe back in the 60's. >> you were a little boy back then, huh? >> i was. >> thank you so much. >> thank you very much. the book is called "dick van dyke, my lucky life in and out of show business." >> i can't kick that high anymore? >> yeah. who can? >> i can hear the hamstring rip. that's dick van dyke and steve doocy together finally. my dreams have been answered. straight ahead, you've probably seen the ads. get botox on your lunch break for just $100. sounds too good to be true? no, dr. oz is here with exactly what you need to know. >> then move over, kevin bacon! footloose is getting a remake. and the first images from the remake are leaking out. who are we going to see? 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"fox & friends" hour two for this monday starts right now. >> fox news alert for you right now. because another unruly passenger just subdued by flight attendants and handcuffs on board an american airlines jet this time from chicago to san francisco. police say the passenger who had a passport from yemen was banging on the cockpit door and shouting. none of the 162 people on board were hurt and the suspect now behind bars. this, the third plane scare now in 24 hours. continental plane going from houston to chicago forced to land in st. louis last night after another unruly passenger tried to open the emergency exit during the flight. and earlier, pilots diverted another flight after a suspicious note was found in the bathroom by a flight attendant, the delta plane was headed from detroit to san diego. a security sweep, though, turned up no threat there. >> with us right now as she is every monday, dana perino, former white house press secretary and fox news contributor. welcome back. >> good morning. >> first thing's first. the president gave very exceptional interview about the longest 40 minutes of his life during "60 minutes." what are your thoughts about how it came off? >> i thought it was a great way for him to end the week. he gave a compelling interview to one of the most watched news programs. and i really think this was putting an end at the period of a sentence for america. you know, this was america's moment. not any one individual's moment. so many pieces of intelligence and so many people brought us to this moment where to the point that president obama could have that longest 40 minutes of his life. >> sure. here's a quotation from the program last night referring to the fact that his national security team was divided before he made the final decision. he said "so the fact that there were some who voiced doubts about this approach was invaluable because it meant that the plan was sharper. it meant that we had thought through all of our options. it meant that when i finally did make the decision, i was making it based on the very best information." dana? >> i absolutely agree with that. that's not unusual based on my experience as white house press secretary that within your national security team or your economic team, you would have diversity of thought. you trust the people that you bring in. you ask them for their best advice. and even if they disagree, you listen to it all and then your job as president of the united states is to make a final decision. and he decided to go for the kill and thank goodness, you know, we were able to celebrate this moment as americans though i think that the story that you opened with reminds us that the treasure trove of information that we got from the compound is critical and right now, we have to have eyes and ears open at all times. we can't go back to a september 10th mentality. >> the only disappointing thing for me on this interview, maybe steve kroft asked these questions and they were edited out, they didn't move the story forward as far as what we can do on the war on terror moving forward. was that deliberate so the president wouldn't be in a jam to have to talk about the fact that he's gotten rid of president bush's enhanced interrogation techniques that many people credit with killing usama bin laden? >> you know, possibly, though i have to say having watched "60 minutes" this past year, president obama is almost a permanent fixture on the program. >> co-host. >> maybe he'll do another interview and be able to talk about that. it was actually the sunday show hosts and i would say including chris wallace who pressed the national security advisor on that very point. what are we going to be willing to do? and it's interesting to watch the left tie themselves up in knots and to rationalize that killing somebody is ok because we're in a war with them but enhanced interrogation techniques which were legal were not allowed because they're not consistent with our values. it doesn't make sense to us but i'm sure they rationalized it internally. >> here's the quotation that you were talking about just then. here's tom donaldon yesterday on the chris wallace show. >> and why can't you do enhanced interrogation of khali shaikh mohammed? who was just as bad an operator as usama bin laden? >> because, well, our judgment is that it's not consistent with our values, not consistent and not necessary in terms of getting the kind of intelligence that we need. >> but shooting bin laden in the head is consistent with our values? >> we are at war with usama bin laden. >> we're at war with khali shaikh mohammed. >> it was a military operation, right? it was absolutely appropriate. >> so it was good follow-up question. i think it caught him by surprise but his answer, it just puts it out there. the american people don't want the nuances of enhanced interrogation. they want the answers. they want to know that these guys when under arrest will give information we need moving forward. the army manual is what we're stuck with right now. >> remember, though, brian, the congress did actually pass a law in late 2008 putting into statute the enhanced interrogation committee. it was president obama who signed an executive order said he personally wouldn't use them. i have to wonder, though, if they were in a situation where they knew that somebody that they had into custody knew of an imminent attack, if he wouldn't change his mind after what he went through in the past week. >> that's interesting because i don't think the question is going to go away. and hopefully somebody will have that follow-up interview with the president to ask those questions moving forward so that the american people know where he stands on that. in the meantime, other people are saying that, in fact, those types of policies do work. listen to this. >> i do think this is a vindication of the bush administration's policies because without the policies on interrogation and on wiretapping, both of which are put into place many years ago under president bush, we would never have gotten the intelligence necessary to find usama bin laden in his compound. >> and dana, well, john was part of your administration and leon panetta told brian williams that the enhanced interrogation techniques did lead to, you know, khali shaikh mohammed spilling the beans. >> right, so it's a mosaic of information and it all comes together and it takes very astute intelligence community officials looking at all of that intel, piecing it together and pulling those threads and making sure that they follow them through. my bottom line is i trust general hayden and attorney general mucasi. they say enhanced techniques save lives and we forget the most dangerous position in the world to hold over the last 10 years has been usama bin laden's number two. ok? we had that intelligence. we were able to get them. we finally got to him and that is so symbolic but we were able to prevent many attacks because of this intelligence and i remember president bush telling me, it didn't matter how unpopular he got, as long as the next president had what we needed to protect the country. >> very interesting. and those two people you just mentioned are guests on our show later on today. so we will pick their brains on their thoughts. by the way, i think somebody is celebrating a birthday today. somebody -- it's not on the couch. it's actually dana! happy birthday to you! >> thank you so much. this is the one that i stopped celebrating after this one. >> and you kicked it off by kicking off the soldier ride as it hit in annapolis, i should say. >> that's right. president bush, remember, he went with bret baier and steven hayes two weeks ago on a mountain bike ride. i was told that the guide that they hired quit after the first day because they said president bush was some kind of crazy animal on a mountain bike? i was able to take greetings from president bush to the soldier ride on the man you just saw is dan nevins, executive vice president for events and a double amputee and was hurt in 2004 in iraq and he recently climbed mount kilimajaro so there's nothing the rest of us can't do. >> happy birthday. happy 29th birthday, dana. >> thank you so much. >> have a great day today. >> ok, bye-bye. >> meanwhile, i guess rick has been scrambled again for a bad reason. >> yeah, you're right, brian. it's a fox extreme weather alert. mighty mississippi wreaking havoc on tennessee as the river approaches near historic levels. our own chief meteorologist rick reichmuth has been on the story all weekend and he joins us from downtown memphis that today looks like venice. >> well said, steve. yeah, right here, this a road. this is riverside road and biel street. you can see the street signs there. now it's a river. it's turned into a river. nobody who is from memphis has ever seen anything like this because the last time it got to record -- or levels like this, it was 1937. and obviously, a lot of changes to the mississippi river since that point. a lot of levees built and berms and such. take a look out there. that there is mud island, typically an island that people go out and there are all the flagpoles that look like they're on one specific island, they're not. that's part of a big broad island that continues for 100 yards past that. farther over here, you see the big buoys put out here and that's from keeping the barges in getting closer. right underneath that, it's parked so they have a big problem here. increasing today right at around record levels but this river, all of this water keeps moving south. it's a very slow moving disaster. heads towards vicksburg and matches eventually towards new orleans and some of those areas are going to blow their past records by 4 to 5 feet higher than they've seen and that puts a lot of pressure on those levees and there's big concern. take a look at some of the pictures. you have to get on boats to see the flooding. all the road are blocked off and communities are isolated but some of the pictures are absolutely devastating for families who live in some of these homes. you see the tops of the roovz and that's it and anybody who left anything in that home is going to lose everything they had and a lot of people did because people didn't believe that the water was going to be this high because they've never seen it and they can't get their mind around it. here it is and now they have a big problem on their hands. this water doesn't go down quickly. it's not like a flash flood that goes up and goes down. it's going to stay like this at right around record level for three or four days and take probably until june before it gets below flood stage. a very long time of water sitting around. guys? >> just absolutely heartbreaking. all right. rick reichmuth live in memphis. thank you very much. >> that's rough! >> all right. coming up straight ahead, the united states may have cut the head off al-qaida. but will it lead to another threat closer to home? our next guest says we could be seeing more home grown terrorists like the virginia born man who plotted to blow up metro stations. >> you've probably seen the ad, get botox for $100? don't believe everything you see on tv. dr. oz is here with everything you need to know. the do's and don'ts. ah! fiber one honey clusters cereal! that's really good! it tastes good, so there can't be fiber in it! it's actually got about half a day's worth of fiber. 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>> usama bin laden, dead. but the war on terror, far from over. >> the killing of bin laden reminds us of how horrible 9/11 was and how horrible it can be again if we ever, ever let our guard down. we have to assume that al-qaida either from overseas or here, you know, working through radicalized people in our own country wants to carry out an attack. >> our next guest says this means the united states may see a rise in lone wolf terror attacks instead of the group plots. former assistant special agent in charge of the new f.b.i. joint terrorist task force and now senior vice president of the sufan group, don barelli here. the lone wolf, how do you stop it? >> it's a very difficult threat to stop because these guys will sit largely without sharing their plan and sharing their information with others. they virtually fly under the radar of law enforcement so it becomes a very difficult proposition to stop them but we have seen some success in thwarting these plots with the assistance of the community. for example, if you look at some recent plots like the saudi student in texas that was caught because of an alert employee at a chemical factory where he was going to try to buy these -- the components for a bomb, so this is the type of assistant we need this public-private partnership. >> right, what you just saw is five or six head shots. the people that wanted to be the times square bomber and subway bomber, we weren't able to. we know that muhammad did in 2003 with the sniper stuff and the texas student. we have all this happening and we have corporal hasan at fort hood. he had a few meetings. he didn't need any help. what does it mean to you that bin laden seemed to be running short on finance? and if bin laden is running short on finances and now he's out, does that mean maybe some of these plots could be -- could be starved out? >> well, the new paradigm especially with home grown terrorism is that you don't necessarily need a lot of financial assistance or a lot of training. the thought is that these guys will go on the internet. they'll get some inspiration. they'll become radicalized and then they're told, do what you can do. if you can make a bomb with components you can acquire locally, great. if you go out and get a gun or hit on soft targets, for example, shopping malls or mass gatherings like the portland christmas tree plot. so they don't -- you don't need necessarily a lot of resources to be successful. >> right. that's true. i guess the only thing you can do or the f.b.i. can do is get inside the mosques. you know, find out where these groups are meeting and try to stay a step ahead without being so-called -- being, you know, aware of people's civil liberties. >> exactly and the f.b.i. is always cognizant to not cross that line with civil liberties but we do rely on the public, family members or community members to give us that information because when somebody is becoming radicalized, you want to try to intervene early many times when the f.b.i. gets involved, they've already crossed that line. >> gotcha. >> they're committed to doing something violent. if we can intercede early and stop them before it can start. >> don barelli, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. coming up straight ahead now, did you see this? 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but just because you're shelling out money doesn't mean the procedure is always safe. dr. oz is here to expose the dangers of botox he discovered using hidden cameras. >> you were telling me during the break what you did. you're sneaky. >> we set up a little poster, billboard on fifth avenue in new york city and it advertised free botox or cheap botox, free consultation. folks wandered in there unassumingly and had them look at the consent form where nothing was involved. we had them fill out a medical questionnaire, took them into a room. didn't have any licensing and didn't do anything that made it really appear, nobody was even inquisitive after we set these cameras up that they were going to be surprised with my intrusion. all set up and about to get the botox into my forehead, i barge in and this young woman as an example was in a hurry and wanted to get the botox done. she had a lot of things planned for the day. when she was caught, it was embarrassing for her only because she realized what a foolish thing she had just done and we did the sting operation. look, we're offering botox at $99. that's impossible. the average botox in america is $400. no one will do it at a loss. >> when people hear that, they think especially in a down economy, $400 is a lot of money to try to get rid of a few wrinkles so when they see $99 that sounds pretty good. what can happen? what are the danger? >> first of all, i want to acknowledge i get it. i know it's an economically challenging time. i appreciate why it's so alluring. botox has become a big business. it does work. it's very effective and reversible when done correctly and those are the key words. when done correctly. when done in the wrong parts of the body, we had a guest in the show that had gone to a so-called medical spa in florida, he and his wife both had botox, it's industrial grade botox. it's the most powerful toxin known to mankind. a billionth of an ounce can kill kil you. my eyelash, one of my tiny eyelashes could wipe out the entire new york city area of botox. >> when somebody is looking to do it the right way, it should cost at least $400 and only go to a physician. >> i deally a physician. somebody doing a lot more of it. i don't care if they're professional but how professional they are when they're doing it. you want to make sure they're doing it in the right place. you don't want to do it in a place that does their nails on fifth avenue. somewhere that's professional about this. we're going to cover more on tomorrow's show. >> i was going to ask, what are we going to see more of dr. oz being a sneak? >> tomorrow. >> tune in for more on his entire undercover sting. thank you so much. >> dr. oz has gone undercover. waterboarding may have led to our biggest victory in the wr on terrorists. should the president reconsider his decision to ban torture on suspected terrorists? we've got michael hayden here, four star general and former director of the c.i.a. that will be great. >> great guest. it wasn't planned. this mother's day, something happened to this mom that we've never heard before. details ahead. 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what was in that note? >> that's how you give somebody a tip to get a really good table. >> i'm not going to get any good tables. now you know how do it. >> i was thinking back to seventh grade when you used to pass notes. >> we used to wrap them like a football and punt them to each other. the white house is defending its position that it's ok to shoot usama bin laden but not ok to waterboard terror suspects. would we have been able to find usama bin laden without the enhanced tactics. retired general michael hayden says those tactics were key to tracking down bin laden's courier and he joins us live from our bureau in d.c. good morning to you. >> good morning ooc. >> you're one six primary sources, people who would know. you say these enhanced interrogation techniques were key, right? >> they were. they allowed us to gain information, to gain intelligence that would not have been available to us in any other way. i mean, that's just a simple fact. opinions can differ as to whether or not they're comfortable with some of the techniques we used. that's a fair debate. you don't get to say that the techniques didn't get to work. you don't get to say that the program wasn't available. >> is it a bad idea for this administration to take the helpful tool off the table? >> two or three things i'd mention, brian. number one, it's not a helpful thing to accuse people who did these kinds of things under clear policy guidance in the past that they were doing something wrong or illegal. that's the first point. the second point, before we even get into discussing how we treat people once they're detained, we ought to start thinking about detaining people. we have not detaining anyone outside of the battlefields in iraq and afghanistan for several years now. we've made it so politically dangerous and legally difficult to detain terrorists that we go for the other option. we kill them. so let's get them in detention first before we then have a national debate about how we treat them once we have them. >> and general, it brings up the man who did the valley bombing and captured miles from where we eventually found usama bin laden. there are reports that we didn't ask for him because the army manual didn't get anything done. what's the bigge here's a bigger thing, pakistan, when did they know it? >> we feel like there had to be some kind of support in the works inside of pakistan but we don't know what that support network was. we don't know whether there might have been some people inside of government, people outside of government and that's something we have to investigate and more importantly the pakistani government will have to investigate. >> we understand there's going to be a key resignation today in the pakistani government and doing their own investigation and if i put you back in that c.i.a. spot today, what kind of conversation do you have with the pakistani government or your isi contemporary? >> well, i think this is a -- this is a point, brian, where the burden of proof is on them. i mean, the president was both correct and cautious in his comments last night. he doesn't want to get too far in front of the facts. it's inconceivable there was want a network and we have to find out who was involved in that network and again, this is -- this is the time for the pakistanis to prove their good faith with regard to who knew what, when, what did they do? giving us access to the people, the adults that were captured at the compound. giving us access to the material at the compound that we were unable to take away ourselves just because of the volume. these are things that shouldn't be hard and if the pakistanis slow roll us on this, unfortunately, we have to draw some very pessimistic lessons. >> especially within that treasure trove of information, there's names of officials or other officials that were aiding and abetting usama bin laden. >> gretchen, that's one of the key items. very often when someone is in someone else's custody and we're talking about pakistan so we'll use that as an example. we fear sometimes that we are denied access because that individual will give us information that the custodial nation doesn't want us to have and the longer the pakistani slow roll us on the individuals, the adults again, captured at the compound, the more they reenforce that kind of decision. it's not good for pakistan for letting this to it take a long time. >> the wives are going to say something like i saw that general watch in and i saw the isi agent walk in they soonigne guestbook. here's the guestbook. we're looking at some of those dvd's and we know exactly where he is. we have a tough decision. does the president go over again? we've already been threatened, the pakistanis will deny us -- will not allow us to violate their airspace. >> you're right. you describe it perfectly. it is a tough decision just like the one last weekend was in my mind, as difficult as the decision was, as president obama had to be to make it, i can't imagine any other american president choosing any other course of action. if we get number two in our sights, i think the same calculus would apply, brian. >> one of the tough parts of this particular decision that the president did make is he could have made it pretty easy by bombing that place. rather than sending in the seal teams. and we might have gotten bin laden but we wouldn't have had any proof. we wouldn't have had at computers and all that stuff. >> yeah, two or three things would have entered into the calculation. number one, you don't have proof of death in this case. secondly, you don't get sensitive exploitation and brian, think back. when was the last time that we got a large trove of information by capturing a terrorist and overrunning the site in which he was located. so that's the second thing you lose and then finally, at the end of the day, when you now know who all was in that compound and we appeared to have a pretty good handle on the women and children who were there. you were signing their death warrants, too. if you put sufficient fire power in there. so there were genuine collateral damage concerns as well. >> yeah, you would kill a dozen children at least. thanks so much, general, for joining us this morning. >> my pleasure and thank you. >> meanwhile, 23 minutes before the top of the hour. it's gone from bad to worse in memphis, tennessee, as floodwaters are reaching near historic levels. rick reichmuth, our chief meteorologist has been on the story all weekend and joins us live from downtown memphis where it is a mess. >> yeah, it is. and people keep walking by and saying wow, we've never seen anything like this and we can't imagine it would be like this. we're standing on the bridge right now. you think a bridge over water? no, normally a bridge over a road and it's right there. biel street, this is where biel street and riverside drive meet. normally this would be streets and traffic going to work in the morning. and instead, it's completely blocked off. you can see the stoplights are turned off. they're right there hanging over what's now a river and it's the mississippi river. typically at this point, it's about a half mile wide and guys, it's 3 miles wide right now. that's how much water is in here. good news, you can see the barge out there still running some traffic and that's great news for commerce. thi they've closed it down at the latter part of last week. they weren't able to get barges there. they think they can get them safely through there. there's still traffic but that's good news. so many problems, people's homes obviously gone in so many cases all up and down the river. another thing i've found interesting is people saying there's been a huge increase in dear and car accidents because all the animals have been pushed out of their habitat and they're going out and getting on the roads and people have been hitting them and there's all kind of other critters coming up including everyone saying thooe never seen so many snakes. a lot of water moccasins, precious time when young snakes are being born and they're coming out of the water. some things you don't think that people are having to deal with here in the city. >> hadn't thought about that. rick reichmuth live on the banks of the mississippi. way past its banks. thank you, sir. >> tell you what else is happening in the world. jury selection is now in the -- we're now under way in the murder trial of casy anthony. it begins in florida and begins this morning finally. she is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter in 2008. there's no confirmation of where the trial will take place. that's because there's been so much attention. the judge wants to keep the location a secret. it convicteded, anthony faces the death penalty. >> tension is building in egypt after violent clashes between muslims and christians. muslim mobs set churches on fire killing at least a dozen people. the egyptian government has been stepping up security and has also held an emergency meeting to try to prevent the violence from escalating. >> a surprise mother's day weekend for this scottsdale, arizona woman. she gave birth to 7 pound baby gavin yesterday. i like that name. now, her newborn, 3-year-old son and husband, also share the same birthday. >> i think it's just crazy. crazy and amazing and like i told hurt other day, i go this is the second time she's giving me a kid for my birthday. >> the dad joked that they'll enjoy may 7th more because it means extra presents and cake. >> isn't that your birthday, brian? 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[ pigeons ] heyyy! hooo!!! >> quick headlines for you this morning. incredible new video. you can see the commuter train that crashed in new jersey overshot the platform. 34 people suffered mostly minor injuries but some were taken away on stretchers. police say a mechanical failure may have caused the wreck. also in massachusetts, a woman is lucky to be alive after the second floor porch she was standing on collapsed suddenly. the woman escaped with just some bumps and bruises. police believe the 12 to 15-year-old porch was not maintained properly. do you think? gretch? brian? over to you. >> thanks very much. i carly, one of the most watched kids comedies, of course and just got the green light for a fifth season. teen sensation miranda cosgrove leads the cast that includes fan favorite reed alexander has neville. >> just to show how sorry he is -- >> he's handing out free smoothies. >> that he paid for with his own money. >> and free creamed corn that he made himself. >> smoothy for you? >> sure. >> wonderful. here is a vat of creamed corn. >> we will show you the whole episode in the after the show show. as it turns out, he really does cook. how do we know that? we'll talk to him in the break. he's here to share out the favorite recipes. great job. >> good seeing you guys. good morning. >> you've been here so early. you've been putting together all your healthy food. how did you get on the kick to not only want to cook at such a young age but to do it healthy. >> a year and a half ago, i was not eating healthy. i had so much fun. i turned to great resources. i got in the kitchen. kitchen chemistry with the science lab that we popped up for this morning. we're going to have so much fun sharing some healthy recipes that actually helped me to lose 15 pounds. >> let's get to it. >> let's do it. >> what do we have here? >> chicken nuggets, kid classic, made healthy, cutting out the frying and oil. i'm going to start out by making a coating. if you'd like to stir this up for me. >> what is? >> crushed corn flake cereal, we have some whole wheat bread crumbs. a little bit of sea salt to season. some black pepper which is great. some of those seasonings going. it's going to get better with that garlic powder. >> do the play by play and the color. >> thank you. thank you. i love it! and then some fresh parsley here that i've minced and you guys are awesome. thank for teaming up with me. >> i haven't done anything. >> can brian do the dipping part? >> please do! i was going to sprinkle on some dry herbs. brian, you're ready to go. remember that kitchen chemistry i teased up with. are you ready? >> we really do. some white meat chicken, sometimes a little dry. you're all armored up, into the egg whites here. right into the coating. you're doing a great job. how easy is that? >> you did it! you got it! it worked! >> after you saute it for a minute or two to do the crisp coating. >> make it crispy. >> put it in the oven. >> totally. two step process that cuts outly oil like you said. this way you have the crunch and juicy tenderness that you don't usually get from white meat. >> look at the great sauces here. i believe this is honey mustard. >> this is a duo of two ingredients. couldn't be simpler and you're seeing a ranch with fresh ingredients. >> what kind of chicken is this? >> this is a white meat chicken. >> no sneks? >> no, nothing like that. no feathers either. >> i tried the salsa earlier. tell us what you do to put it together. >> black bean corn salsa that's really fun, really cool and a quick, simple fix to get that appetite going so this has fresh ingredients like corn, black beans which fill you up, some delicious bell peppers that are really sweet, lime juice, cilantro, couldn't be simpler with those whole grain or multigrain chips. >> listen on satellite radio because you are cool. >> thank you so much. >> congratulations on your career and everything and you're on at my house every single day. >> thank you, big compliment! >> see you soon. coming up next, bin laden is dead. we know that. but the work is far from finished. assistant secretary of defense under president reagan is here to name our next terror target. >> and on this day in 1961, the number one song was "runaway" by dale shannon. reed doesn't know that. he wasn't born yet. you can turn ordinary chicken into luscious, delicious, and scrumptious. with recipes from campbellskitchen.com, and campbell's cream of chicken soup. campbell's.® it's amazing what soup can do.™ not a mammal in this household is willing to lay claim to its origin. but now is not the time for blame. now is the time for action. ♪call 1-800-steem. and my dog bailey and i love to hang out in the kitchen. you love the aroma of beef tenderloin, don't you? you inspired a very special dog food. [ female announcer ] chef michael's canine creations. chef inspired. dog desired. >> pakistan's prime minister will publicly warn the united states over the usama bin laden raid but our next guest says this is a time for more raids, not less. in fact, he believes our next target should be the taliban's omar. former assistant secretary of defense, retired marine officer and author of "the wrong war" the book bing west joins us this morning. he just returned from afghanistan where he followed a marine platoon into helman province. great to have you. why should we go now after omar? >> i think when you have the offensive steve, you should put it. and the fact is that pakistan is a sanctuary and you can't win a war if you allow the enemy to have a sanctuary. and the people who are killing our troops in afghanistan, their leadership, the taliban is in a city inside pakistan. so we've gotten usama, let's go after the other taliban leader there. a man by the name of mullah omar. >> the outset being the prime minister of pakistan is going to say later today in a public speech because people are saying that he should be out because obviously the government, many feel, pakistan knew that bin laden was there in the country somewhere. he's going to say if the united states tries another raid like the one they did the other day, we're going to shoot at them. >> yeah, well, he can say anything he wants. the fact is that the pakistani officials at the top have betrayed us. i mean, that's just a fact. and we've tried to bribe them by giving them between $1 and $3 billion a year for the last 10 years and they've played a double game. so the president of pakistan can say anything he wants but he'd be better advised to say i'm going to push mullah omar and the taliban out of my country because if i don't, the americans aren't just going to play defense. >> i'm with you. if we know where this guy is, we should go get him because the mullah omar he did harbor bin laden before 9/11, there's a picture of him there and he's directly responsible, bing for the death of 2400 american service men and women. >> steve, that's what really gets me angry. when i'm out with these platoons and they're working as hard as they possibly can for the sake of the afghan people and our own security. and we have a treacherous ally in pakistan and they are sheltering the elite among the taliban who are attacking us next door? i say uh-uh, no more of that. we've established, we went after usama bin laden because we couldn't trust the pakistanis. mullah omar is killing as many americans. it's time to get him, too. >> right. and it sounds like you would prefer a commando raid or seal raid over dropping a bomb by a drone or a b-2? >> there are -- there are huge reasons for going one way or the other. it's a risk/reward. i wouldn't like to prejudge one or the other. but the fact is one way or the other, we have to put much more pressure on the pacs and on the taliban because we have no rights to keep our troops on the defense dying when we know where some of the -- some of the highest ranking people in the taliban are. and as i said, they're in a city there. >> it's good to know. good perspective. thank you very much for joining us today from the beautiful state of rhode island. thank you, sir. >> thank you, steve. >> all right. next up on the rundown, who should get the $50 million bounty on usama bin laden's head? democrats in congress have an idea. will you agree? details ahead. then this mom as tough as they come, so how did the tiger mom spend mother's day? she's here in the next hour. ♪ hello sunshine, sweet as you can be ♪ [ female announcer ] wake up to sweetness with honey nut cheerios cereal. kissed with real honey. and the 100% natural whole grain oats can help lower your cholesterol. you are so sweet to me. bee happy. bee healthy. with being fed on.ies, we are fed up we demand k9 advantix ii. it not only kills fleas and ticks, it repels most ticks before they can attach and snack on us. frontline plus kills but doesn't repel. any tick that isn't repelled or killed may attach and make a meal of us. so let's put our paws down in protest. no fetching, no friendship till we all get k9 advantix ii. join us at poochprotest.com. 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[ jennifer ] go on, join for free. weight watchers new pointsplus. because it works. >> gretchen: good morning, everyone. hope all the moms had a great mother's day and now it's monday, may 9. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your time. the president describing the pictures of a dead osama bin laden. >> what was yours reaction when you saw them? >> it was him. more from his interview and the potential for a new threat now from pakistan. >> steve: ho should get the multi million dollar bounty placed on osama bin laden's head by the u.s. government in the democrats in congress have an idea and it does not include the people who went in for the kill. it does not include those navy seals. >> brian: the weather down south about to get even more extreme. the mississippi river is swelling faster than expected, breaking news within the past few minutes to share. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> gretchen: we kick off monday with a fox news alert. there has been another unruly passenger subdued by flight attendants on a plane and handcuffed on an american flight. he had a passport from yemen, banging on the cockpit door and shouting. none of the 162 people on board were apparently hurt. the suspect is behind bars. then you have this one, the third plane scare, the last one in the last 24 hours, but there was this. the continental plane from houston to chicago was forced to land in st. louis after another unruly passenger tried to open the emergency exit during the flight. and earlier, pilots diverted another flight after a suspicious note was found in the bathroom, that was a delta plane and it was headed from detroit to san diego. a security sweep turned up no threat. >> steve: all right. meanwhile, let's talk about president obama, you saw him last night on "60 minutes" and he did do some describing of -- you know that picture we saw where everybody in the situation room is looking at something? he did talk a little bit about how they were able in the situation room, that's the picture right there -- to watch certain things in real time. the way he described it, he almost made it sound like they were looking at the output of a drone because he was talking about how they were watching from outside the compound. here is the commander in chief talking about what it was like in that room for 40 minutes. >> it was the longest 40 minutes of my life with the possible exception of when sasha got meningitis when she was three months old and i was waiting fort doctor to tell me she was all right. it was a very tense situation. >> brian: it must be real tense. he said for large chunks of time, wet sitting there waiting. with the helmet cam maybe not working, or you said, steve, you're theory it might have been a drone. there was a long time where they had audio and some where they had both. but he also brought up something else. after he gave the order, he one down south, he visited the flood ravaged region, then to the space shuttle. washington correspondent dinner where he said some jokes and that night actually, he was looking at what would be the take down of bin laden. the next night would be the take down. >> gretchen: he didn't even tell his family members, according to the interview, or some of his closest advisors because, look, this was the most serious business probably that his presidency has faced so far and he didn't want anyone to leak the information. here is the other interesting thing that came out. he said it was about a 55-45 gamble. those are not great odds and he said that not everyone was in his close quarter of people that they were all in agreement. listen to this. >> so the fact that there were some who voiced doubts about this approach was invaluable because it meant the plan was sharper. it meant we had thought through all of our options. it meant that when i finally did make the decision, i was making it based on the very best information. it wasn't as if any of the folks who were voicing doubts were voicing something that i wasn't already running through in my own head. >> brian: he doesn't tell his own wife or members of his higher level -- >> steve: he said he didn't tell his family. >> brian: right. which i would assume to be his wife. but here is the other thing, he didn't tell pakistan. that's the biggest story today. the biggest story, didn't tell them. the aftermath inside pakistan makes that military look incompetent, their isi look untrustworthy or we don't know what amongst their own people, their relationship with us, how the people feel about us. but the president of the united states to express doubts about pakistan, like you and i have doubts about pakistan, listen, i think this is significant. >> we think that there had to be some sort of support in that work for bin laden inside of pakistan. but we don't know who or what that support network was. we don't know whether there might have been some people inside of government, people outside of government, and that's something that we have to investigate and more importantly, the pakinstani government has to investigate. >> steve: okay. so that was what the president said there in the white house on wednesday. it was taped for the sunday telecast. it's interesting, in the last 24 hours now, abc is reporting that they have spoken to a senior member of the pakistan civilian government and they say that, quote, elements of pakistan intelligence probably rogue or retired, were involved in aiding, abetting and sheltering osama bin laden. >> gretchen: at the same time, you have the prime minister of pakistan who sort of firing his own shots back at the united states. he's saying, look, we have helped you capture 100 terror insists within pakistan in the last ten years, members of al-qaeda, including khalid shaikh mohammed, and he's also saying, look, if you try and come down and do another one of these attacks, that we'll shoot at you. so the number two or supposed number one, go hide in pakistan because it looks like they are not going to be helping the united states. is that because they're embarrassed because we pulled off this raid without telling them, or is that because they knew about osama bin laden being there? >> steve: the good thing is the president of the united states made it clear if we've got intelligence that says somebody is hiding right there, we're going to go get them even if it is pakistan. >> brian: michael hayden was on with us 45 minutes ago and said this about where we're at with pakistan and michael hayden is former c.i.a. guy, retired four star general -- where we are with pakistan in relations and what's up for grabs. >> this is the time for the pakinstanis to prove their good faith with regard to who knew what, when, what did they do. giving us access to the people, the adults that were captured at the compound, giving us access to the material at the compound that we were unable to take away ourselves just because of the volume. these are things that shouldn't be hard and if the pakinstani slow rolls us on this, unfortunately, we have to dr. pessimistic lessons. >> brian: we probably have a lot of stuff on the intel we took from bin laden's house that might reveal exactly who knew and who didn't know and we're not playing our cards yet. something else i know you care about, breaking news from tennessee. forecasters say the mighty mississippi river could crest much sooner than once thought. sometime today, our own chief meteorologist rick reichmuth was there riding in a boat. here he is from downtown memphis. >> they were thinking it would crest tuesday, wednesday. they're thinking tonight, it's at 47 1/2 now. you can get an idea of this river, absolutely expansive right now. this is a road normally. you can see the streetlights, people would be driving across here. you move down to this other side, we haven't seen this other angle. it says riverfront. it should be riverfront, not the river. this is all parkland right out here that has been encompassed by the river. yesterday we went and took a look at some of the neighborhoods that have been affected. we're in the city, but you go a couple miles north and there is all these communities and a lot of these communities being flooded and they're gone. the houses and the trailers that are there won't be able to be recuperated because this water isn't going to go away quickly. this water will sit here for a very long time. you start to see interesting things. this guy, you just showed up here. do you own a dally, you're fishing off of this bridge on to what should be a street? >> riverside drive, the main drag along the river. i figure, you know, it could be some fish here. give it a whirl and have one for the story book. >> you've been in memphis your entire life. ever seen anything like this? >> never. in 73, which is in the top five for high water, it crossed riverside drive, but it was a lot lower then. so this is unbelievable. >> everybody in this city saying they can't believe it. fortunately, no fatalities here. keep in mind, this is memphis, the water moves downstream. we'll see this same story over and over again, alt communities down to the -- all the communities down to the south. >> gretchen: rick live in tennessee, thanks very much for the update. >> steve: i wonder if he catches something, that guy, from the deli, if it will wind up being a blue plate special. >> brian: unless it's a gold fish. meanwhile. >> gretchen: casey anthony's murder trial gets underway today and we know the location of jury selection. it will be held in pinales county in the tampa area. once a jury is chosen, they will be moved to orlando for the trial. she's accused of killing her two-year-old daughter in 2008. she could face the death penalty if convicted. now you see her, now you don't. a hasidic paper in new york ran the white house situation room photo from the bin laden raid, but there is only one or two problems actually. it removed hillary clinton and the other woman standing in the back of the room. the jerusalem post speculates the paper didn't want to show women in authority position. those are your headlines. >> steve: straight ahead, it might have led straight to osama bin laden, but the white house has no plans to reinstate waterboarding. will our victory in the war on terror be short lived? 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former u.s. attorney general joins us. when you took over for the bush administration, what did you have at your fingertips, or what did the administration have to investigate a high value? >> what we had was a program of interrogation techniques that could have included water boarding, could have included enhanced interrogation techniques, but there was no need to do that after 2003. we stopped. there were additional statutes passed in 05 and 06 that congress claims were more restrictive, but we didn't feel a need to evaluate it at that point because the techniques that congress was challenging, most notably water boarding, had stopped. but the fact is that the option remained open and all of the techniques were classified. >> brian: so now they have decided, president obama, to pull fill a campaign promise and stop all that and say go by the army manual. >> he did that right after he took office. >> brian: how limited are we now then judging by the difference in policies and practices? >> we are limited to a point that i think is ridiculous. the army field manual is a manual that can be used by the most raw recruit, a 19-year-old kid, if the proper limitations are four feet out, the manual is two feet out. it's available on the web. it's used as a training manual by al-qaeda. we've given away everything that we did. >> brian: they know exactly what to tell their operatives to do if caught. >> correct. >> brian: you played your hand. >> not only that, but we disclosed the memos that described in detail what the enhanced interrogation techniques were like, so they know about that, too. >> brian: i saw the daily news editorial, i imagine there are others that say, one thing we can do for sure, can we stop investigating the c.i.a. interrogators that are doing what they had the right to do? what do you say? >> absolutely. those investigations were conducted by -- there were investigations by career prosecutors who drew the conclusion in five or six cases that nothing further was warranted. they did detailed memos. the new administration decided without reading those memos, without reading them, to reopen those investigations. that's an outrage. >> brian: from what you know and what i wouldn't be able to know how valuable were the enhanced interrogation practices to the success of the war on terror and getting bin laden? >> at the time they were used, they were enormously valuable. khalid shaikh mohammed who had a trove of information, cracked like a dam and when that dam broke, he disclosed enormous amounts of information that stopped ongoing projects they had and disclosed a lot of valuable information, including some information that was part of the trail that led eventually to bin laden. >> brian: we have not done that since. we've not got a high value since or have access to a guy like that. and if we have any luck at all, we will get a whole bunch real soon, so we got to make a quick decision. we got to have you back. >> we got to put in place a program that's classified that they don't know. >> brian: and we don't know about! >> correct. this is not a subject for public discussion. >> brian: right. thank you so much. coming up, who gets the multi million dollar bounty on bin laden's head? there is a plan proposed that doesn't include the navy seals. is that fair? we report, you decide. and she's as tough as they come. so how do you think the tiger mom celebrated her mother's day? 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>> gretchen: thank you. she's been named to time magazine's top 100 list of 2011. she attended the white house correspondent's dinner where she talked parenting with the original mama grizzly, sarah palin. so how did the tiger mom celebrate mother's day? amy chiou joins me this morning. good morning to you. >> good morning. thanks for having me back. >> gretchen: so you're back in the news again. i know you never expected your book to become what it did become. now you've been at the white house correspondent's dinner. what was it like to meet sarah palin? what did you talk about? >> it was fun. it was actually just a ten second interaction. but we ran back into each other and she is so fun. she basically said at the same time, we said, grizzly mom, tiger mom. we laughed. that was it. she's really nice. >> gretchen: a lot of people would wonder what you did on mother's day yesterday. they might think that you made your kids practice their instruments about 17 hours a day. but what did you do? >> in fact, we spent a really nice quiet day at home. my two daughters, my husband and my two dogs, rolling around, watching movies. it's been a firestorm. it was nice to do kind of nothing. but i will say on the tough mom front, i told my younger daughter that instead of a mother's day card, i would be so happy if she started her history term paper early instead of waiting 'til the last second, which she loves to do. she did that. we're all really happy. >> gretchen: how dare you have discipline in your family? so many new parenting books are being compared now to your book, sort of as the anti-tiger mom book. i interviewed an author a couple weeks ago and his book was said "self issue reasons to have more kids." he said have as many kids as you want to and let them raise themselves. >> right now parents are making parenting into this unpleasant chore. it's only natural that right now people are nervous to have more kids because they are not making it very fun. >> gretchen: how would you respond to him? >> gretchen, i think it's a really good idea to stop thinking in terms of black and white when it comes to parenting. you don't need to say, either raise your kids in a loving way or give them structure. you can have both. or let your kids have lots of fun, or hold them to high standards. my kids, they know when they come home from school that they've got to get their homework done first, they have to do certain chores. not that we don't argue about it. they have to call their grandmother. and after that, there is plenty of time -- we took our dogs to a swimming hole. we watch movies and go on hikes. there is plenty of time for fun. i think this kind of all or nothing attitude is not really very helpful in parenting. >> gretchen: yeah. that's a great point. i think most dedicated parents try to do a combination of all of those things. >> i like big families. >> gretchen: you came from one. we both came from families with big big families. this big is being touted as giving the children more western freedom in china. >> this is so interesting. i mean, all the things that are provocative about my book in china is nothing there. they have the opposite problem. they go from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. studying. they post grades publicly. they've never heard of these western style play dates or sleepovers. so interestingly, china is actually trying to learn from the west. they know that there is too much wrote memorization and pressure, it's stifling and they want to be more creative and more dynamic over there. so a lot of americans hearing this kind of are taking a complacent attitude, like, look, everybody wants to be like us. i think the better thing to do, really the more american thing and the more vibrant thing to do is to say, look, we want to improve, too. we should build on what we do well. we have the best universities in the world. we are good at having our kids be strong and independent. but let's look honestly at some of our weaknesses. we didn't test well internationally in math, reading and science. and i think one of the things that the asian nations do well, 90% of it i don't really like, but they're really good at instilling focus and self discipline in kids when they're very young. i think this could help our kids, if we could give them more structure when they're little -- my daughter when she went to high school, she was actually less stressed because she knew how to sit down for an hour and a half and get the job done. >> gretchen: good points. amy chiou, talking about her mother's day that involved a little relaxation. always good to talk to you. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> gretchen: coming up, this air force officer might lose his home because he was deployed in afghanistan. but is the government turning a blind eye? 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are you feeling confident? >> they're checked twice a day. we have two briefings a day where the corp comes in. we have 20,000 sandbags reserved to go plug in the holes if we have any breaches. but thus far things are holding. >> how many people do you have in shelters right now? >> roughly 400 people in shelter s. we have four shelters open. we have roughly ten shelters in reserve. so if we need to open them up, then we're prepared for that. law enforcement has done a remarkable job of getting the alerts out to the citizens where we do see particular neighborhoods in trouble. people have been very responsive. we're providing good security in those areas where we do evacuate. >> thank you very much. you have a long task ahead. it's not over. the water is going to stay high for a very long time. few weeks before it goes back and then the clean-up begins. that's going to be another big part of the process. back to you. >> steve: all right. rick, thank you very much. let's talk about the rewards for justice program that was started by the department of state. initially it was $25 million for somebody, a tipster, to give up information leading to the capture of osama bin laden. the seals won't qualify. and because it's been a mosaic of information, no single person is going to wind up getting that money. so what should they do with it? >> congressman anthony wiener, along with other congressmen suggested it should go to the 9-11 families, which sounds like a great idea. other people are saying, what about giving some of that to the military since they are the ones who have been waging this war on our behalf? could get dicey as you try and decide how to give it up. another person said just how about since it was all taxpayer money, just putting it back in the coffers? >> brian: we got an e-mail from somebody called p.o., the money should go to the families of those military who died keeping us safe from terrorists. another e-mail from kansas. >> steve: my vote is give it to seal team 6. let's talk to donald trump. he joins us every monday at this time. good morning to you, donald. >> good morning. >> steve: what do you think they should do with the money? >> i think they're all good ideas. the obvious one is reduce the budget. but they all sound like good ideas. >> brian: what did you think of the president on "60 minutes" yesterday? >> he did good. he's riding high, he did well. i thought he did a good job. >> brian: made the right decision? >> made the right decision, yes. >> gretchen: let's talk about what you would do as president moving forward with pakistan. how would you handle them? >> we spent billions of dollars a year with pakistan and obviously they knew. in fact, i was on bill o'reilly and kneel cavuto and i was saying, he's in pakistan. interestingly, he's in pakistan and what are we giving all this money for? turned out he was in pakistan. but a lot of people felt that. they obviously knew he was there and pakistan is a real problem because they have nuclear weapons. i would say something that i haven't heard, i would say we don't give them any money unless they get rid of their nuclear weapons. >> gretchen: interesting. >> steve: what do you think -- later today, the prime minister of pakistan will say if the united states tries another raid like they did last week, we are going to defend ourselves? >> it's very much like china. these are not friends of ours. these are people that are totally in for themselves and probably pretty bad people and some enemies. they are not friends of ours and we're going to probably have to deal with them a lot differently than we thought. these are not our friends. >> steve: when you say we'll have to deal with them differently, what do you mean? >> look, we're going to have to go get the terrorists and we'll have to do what's necessary and we certainly, because there are plenty of other terrorists in pakistan, we all know that, we certainly shouldn't be giving them $3.2 billion a year. >> gretchen: but here is the thing. they claim on the other side of the coin, that they've helped capture 100 members of al-qaeda, including khalid shaikh mohammed. so i know that you tell it like it is, but is there any diplomacy in how we have to relate to pakistan. so we land there so we can go to afghanistan. >> i've also heard that every time, in many cases where we had somebody that we wanted to get, when we informed them and when we went in to get that terrorist, they weren't there. so somebody gave them some clues. so this is not a good situation in pakistan. they have nuclear weapons. we're giving them $3.2 billion a year and they do not love us. >> brian: now that the president has had this huge international success and a great day for our country, while crediting president bush and the run up to that, do you believe now that he's going to coast to reelection? >> well, it certainly helped him. there is no question about it. it certainly helped and whether you give bush credit or him credit, it certainly helped. there is no doubt about it. but ultimately, it's going to be about the economy. if the economy is good in a year and a half from now, it's going to be very, very tough. if the economy is not good, i think it's very easy for a republican to get in. >> gretchen: what does that mean for you, donald? >> i'm making my decision over the next short period of time and you'll be hearing about it. >> brian: how do you handle all the attacks you've been getting from the washington correspondent's dinner to different so-called pundits making -- targeting you? >> sort of interesting, i was invited to the washington correspondent's dinner and the entire evening was knocking me. i didn't know, was i insulted or complimented, because his speech was about me. the comedians' speech was about me. and i said, what am i doing here? this is sort of ridiculous. but the truth is, there were plenty of people that came up and said, that's a great compliment. it was a comedy dinner. he was reasonable and fair and frankly, you know, i was getting into the lion's den. i had no idea the entire evening would be about donald trump. >> steve: it's a comedy thing. let's talk about this, van jones' political group called color of change, apparently they're targeting your program "celebrity apprentice." they launched a twitter persuade and persuade star jones and lil john to denounce you for race baiting. >> that's sort of interesting because star jones was fired last night and the show has gotten tremendous ratings and getting tremendous ratings. it's the top show on nbc. and i don't know too much about van jones. i think he was the person who was recently thrown out of government. isn't that correct? >> he was the green czar. >> he was thrown out of government and now criticizing me. that's sort of interesting. but i really don't care too much about a van jones. i don't know anything about him. we've been great and i will say, star did a good job and lil john has done an absolutely fantastic job on the show. >> gretchen: the reason this is different, donald, i think, is because at the white house correspondent's dinner, those are jokes and you went with the levity of it. but this accusation is racism and i know that you face that before, but it seems to me to be quite more serious than just a few jokes at the correspondent's dinner. >> you know, if it comes to racism and racists, i am the least racist person there is. and i think most people that know me would tell you that. i am the least racist. i've had great relationships. in fact, randle pinkett won on, as you know, the apprentice a little while ago, a couple years ago and he's been outstanding in every way. i am the least racist person. but this is a guy trying to get some publicity for himself by attacking donald trump and that's okay because a lot of people do that. >> steve: that group has said it was connected to the fact that you wanted to see the president's birth certificate and we have it. now that's put to rest. but also a popular web site, groupon pulled some ads from "celebrity apprentice" web site after some lefty blog think progress complained about you. >> you know, it's one of the hottest shows on television for advertising and probably the easiest sale nbc has for getting advertisers. so if somebody wants to pull an ad ad, i guarantee you, they have 30 others that want to replace it. >> brian: with all the criticism coming your direction, does this make you want to run less or more? >> i don't think of it that way. i have said and every time i speak, i say, i have always been told that a very successful person cannot run for high office. and i sort of see it because i get -- i always got great press. lately i've just been hammered. anything i do, if i go on your show, if a word is slightly out of order, it's like hammer time. okay? and so it's really amazing, but it has no impact on me whatsoever. that has absolutely no impact. it's sort of interesting, when you do many, many deals, you get criticized. obama did one deal and it was a deal to buy a house in chicago and he hardly got criticized. so it really is very tough for a person that's successful that does a lot in life to run for political office. but it has no impact on me. >> steve: you are very successful and you've done a lot and it's great you would join us every monday morning. >> i love joining you. great show. >> steve: we'll see you next monday. >> thank you very much. >> gretchen: coming up next, the air force officer who could lose his home to foreclosure because he was fighting the war in afghanistan! why isn't our government stepping in to help? 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[ men laugh ] [ male announcer ] hurry, join for free today. weight watchers online for men. finally, losing weight clicks. it's got a calculator. thanks, dad. this is the neighborhood. you get elm street and you get main street. thank you. and that just the first quarter. so you want a slide in your office ? or monkey bars, either one. more small businesses choose verizon wireless than any other wireless carrier. where's susie ? is she expecting you ? because they know the small business with the best technology rules. hey, dad, think i could drive? i'll tell you what -- when we stop to fill it up. ♪ ♪ [ son ] you realize, it's gotta run out sometime. ♪ pure... and also delicious. like nature valley. granola bars made with crunchy oats and pure honey. nature valley -- 100% natural. 100% delicious. >> gretchen: welcome back. a couple headlines on a monday. incredible video shows the aftermath of a commuter train crash in hoboken, new jersey. 34 people suffered mostly minor injuries. police say a mechanical failure is to blame. and this hat got the ride of its life, stuck in the engine of a moving car for 25 miles. the driver noticed after hearing purring sounds from under the hood. the cat has been nicknamed axle. and is recovering from some minor burns. but otherwise should be okay. steve? >> steve: thanks. u.s. soldiers endure many hardships, but our next guest never imagined his greatest hardship would come from back home. air force lieutenant colonel john borne found out he was no longer eligible for homeowner's federal assistance insuring he could keep his house. he was under water on the mortgage and now he's facing foreclosure. the reason why? he was in afghanistan. he joins us live from tucson this morning. good morning to you, lieutenant colonel. >> good morning, steve. how are you? >> steve: fine, thank you very much. so there you are serving your nation overseas while at the same time you were about to be under water on your mortgage. you're going to lose your house because of why? >> well, the bottom line is that my military move was delayed due to a seven month deployment to afghanistan. the program end date was moved up by two years and there was no inclusion for deployed service members to utilize the benefits that they had when they left this country to go fight in afghanistan or iraq, and did not have when they came back home. >> steve: explain that to me. you had the benefit for this homeowner's assistance program when you were in the united states about to be deployed. you went over, served you're time, came back and it was gone? >> i was qualified for the program and i needed to get my orders to move my family and myself before a 30 september, 2010 cutoff date. that date was moved up while i was in afghanistan by two years. the big problem with that is that there was no inclusion for deployed service members who were by policy, unable to get their orders by that date. so myself and other service members come home to a loss of a benefit. >> steve: sure. now, i understand when you came back and you discovered that the benefit was no longer available to you, you talked to the army and they said, you're right. that's not right. we got to make it good for you, or right by you. but then the army changed its mind. why? >> well, what happened was that i worked through the field process. i saw this train wreck coming. so i worked through the appeal process, which i began last august and i sent my appeal and it goes through army corps of engineer channels, to the deputy assistant secretary of the army. they all agreed with me that you can not penalize a person for being deployed in the military. and so what happened was it went from their offices up to the policy administrators at office of secretary of defense where it took them nearly five months to give me a one-page denial letter. >> steve: you just mentioned the office of the secretary of defense. we did reach out to them for a statement regarding you and this is what they said. they're still waiting for a -- apparently after careful review and evaluation of the documentation provided by lieutenant borne and the u.s. army corps of engineer, i deny the appeal. oh, man. are you going to lose your house? >> no. i mean, i don't know what we're going to do at this point. probably -- i've been in contact with other military service members that are in similar situations. many of them are living away from their families. their families are staying in the home while they are currently working at other military installations. so they come home from deployment and now they're not even with their families during their time back at home. it's just tragic. it could be very easily resolved by implementing a policy amendment that includes service members and includes a waiver that allows the service members to utilize that benefit they had when they left when they get back to the united states. >> steve: let's hope somebody from the pentagon is watching and they can do something to fix it because you're not the only guy impacted by this. >> no, i'm not. i talk with different people every day. if anyone else, any other service members lost a benefit due to deployment, they can contact me at deny by deployment at gmail.com. >> steve: seems like the perfect e-mail for you. we thank you very much for your service and thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. i appreciate the time. >> steve: you bet. next on the rundown, the one conversation you should have with your child today. it could mean the difference between life and death. let's check this with bill hemmer for a preview of what happens in ten minutes. >> how are you? on a monday, small college library, that's what u.s. intel picked out of bin laden's lair. we break it down. quietly the republican field surveys the landscape for 2012. the head of the hnc tackles that and the mighty miss cannot crest soon enough. we'll take you live in that flood zone. we'll watch that in ten minutes. >> brian: parents, don't go anywhere. there is a conversation you need to have with your child and need to have it today. it could save their life. >> gretchen: the author of the good, the bad and the different, how to talk with children about values, michael is here. good morning. >> how are you? >> gretchen: we should mention that your lovely daughter works for sean hannity here at the fox news channel. >> i found out about that. >> gretchen: it's good to have you on. you have written this book about teaching morals and values to our kids and we wanted to do some real life experiences where you could help parents this morning. so what about these life and death conversations that children have specifically with driving drunk, letting their friends drive drunk? >> that's a good example. one of my favorite examples. there are a lot of points i try to make, but i wrote about actually happened at my home. a guest of mine at a party wanted to leave, was intoxicated. i had to make a choice. what do i do? i take that issue and present it to children. how do i teach that to children? i raise the question, what kind of person do you want to be? if your friend gets angry at you, what kind of person is getting angry at you? a person who is willing to hurt himself, herself, innocent people. and when you can present issues like that to children, they understand the consequences. they understand the values. >> steve: ultimately, if you're a kid and your driver friend is drunk, you don't get in the car with them? >> that is exactly right. but it's not a matter of saying, don't get in the car. it's a matter of helping these children get stronger. how do you develop their sense of compassion? how do you develop moral strength? how do you develop the moral will to stand up? the friend was yelling and cursing at me. it was not a pleasant situation. but i had to make a decision. and i made a decision. the person was not going to drive. >> gretchen: especially in this society where many people say our young people have this sense of entitlement. it's even more difficult to teach those types of morals and values. you're going to give us another great example right after the break and this one has to do with kids. more "fox & friends" two minutes away. >> gretchen: we are back with michael. who is going to share one more example. >> there are a lot of lessons in this. true story, happened in the denver area. a little boy, third or fourth grade, found what seemed to be a pistol in the playground. kids were after him. let's see if it works. let's take it. let's sell it. the little boy said no, i've got to turn it in. >> brian: what happened with that boy, we'll find out in the after the show show. you're a perfect cliff hanger. >> gretchen: see you tomorrow.

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good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a sunday. i'm lester holt. >> i'm jenna wolf. i have to tell you, i am really freaked out about bedbugs. they wanted to scare me, i am scared. >> a lot of people are and they're turning to dogs like this one we have in the studio this morning that are trained to sniff out bedbugs. we're told if they get a hit they will sit down. >> don't sit. stand. keep standing. >> we're hoping this dog stays on his feet. >> i hope that dog never sits down. >> we have a lot of question for the handler of the dog. the dog won't be answering. >> may answer, never know. >> we are going to taub about the massive egg recall as eggs continue to be pulled off the shelves officials still trying to pinpoint the actual source of contamination and figure out how so many tainted eggs, more than a half billion now, made it into the food supply. we'll get the very latest just ahead. meanwhile, president obama continued his ten-day vacation in martha's vineyard getting in golf and family time. but some big challenges await him when he returns including the official end of combat in iraq. and the start of the so-called operation new dawn, more on that and the political landscape just ahead. later we have an inspiring story of sheer determination and will. it's about three american veterans from three different wars, each lost one or both of their legs on the battlefield but last saturday they banded together to overcome enormous odds battling rough terrain and altitude to climb one of the world's highest peaks, mount kilimanjaro. we're going to meet them, all of them, coming up and find out why they did it. after hearing their story you may think twice before saying the words "i can't." just when you thought the saga of rod blagojevich couldn't get any more bizarre here we go. before continuing his media blitz on "the daily show" tomorrow night you'll never believe where the former illinois governor showed up yesterday. even more strange, why he was there. we'll have more on that coming up. first more on the egg recall. nbc's michele franzen has the latest. good morning. >> good morning, lester. consumers in 22 states are being advised to toss out or return their eggs because of salmonella. while no one has died, more than a thousand have become ill. this as questions loom over why the contamination wasn't caught by safeguards. at patty's restaurant in california, orders for eggs keep coming, despite the massive recall. >> i'm thinking about basically scrambled eggs. >> reporter: the centerpiece of the all-american breakfast and key ingredient in countless recipes is at the center of a salmonella scare. >> it's in the back of my mind, but it hasn't affected me. i eat them sunny side. i figure they're reasonably well cooked. >> reporter: the egg recall involves two big farms both out of iowa the nation's top producing state. hillandale farms recalled 170 million eggs on top of 380 million eggs recalled by wright county eggs. the tainted eggs date back to april and were distributed to 22 states. >> this is the large outbreak, and as one of the largest outbreaks of this particular type of bacteria, salmonella, that we've seen in recent years. >> reporter: the fda says lab tests show strain of bacteria is the same at both locations, but investigators are still trying to pinpoint the source of contamination. dirty cages or tainted feeds are possibility. nationwide, more than 1,000 people have been sickened. so far no one has died. and to ensure safety, the fda says make sure you cook your eggs completely. >> consumers should cook the eggs to a very firm consistency, such that the yolk and the whites are very firm. another way of saying that, is no runry in scrambled eggs, no runny yolk. >> reporter: but many are asking is there more the government could be doing to prevent food born illness? in july the fda did approve new rules requiring egg producers to take more responsibility to reduce that risk. mandating an increase in salmonella testing and cleanliness policies, measures some health experts say could have helped prevent the outbreak that began in may. but consumer advocates say the measures will only work if farms are monitored. >> we need the government to do a good job and enforce them. >> reporter: consumer groups say until the fda has mandatory recall powers, the risk for another outbreak will continue to grow. yesterday the trade organization representing many of the nation's egg farmers and producers, including both farms involved in the outbreak, say the companies are, quote, going to extremes to make sure every egg is tracked down and working to meet those new fda egg safety rules. lester? >> michele, thank you. joining us now with more is chris walldrip director of food policy institute at the consumer federation of america. thanks for coming on. >> good morning. thank you. >> we keep hearing if we have the suspect eggs we should toss them out or return them. let me ask you this, can you cook out the salmonella? if you cook them properly can they be safe to eat? >> if eggs are cooked properly f you cook egg dishes to 160 degrees that will kill salmonella. be very careful about cross-contamination. if you have cracked eggs or drop some egg on the counter, you need to clean that up right away. >> in general, what is your advice? if you know you have the recalled eggs, would you rather we just toss them? >> i think it's best to be safe. throw away the eggs or take them back to the store. you really don't want to run the risk of consuming contaminated eggs. >> this is a big recall a big scare. not the first time we've heard salmonella linked to eggs. should we always treat eggs as if they might be contaminated? >> you should. that's the best way to approach it, treat them if they're contaminated, make sure you're doing everything safely, cooking them thoroughly and you should be okay. >> are other eggs not sold under the recalled brand names safe? >> correct. you need to go to the fda website and match your eggs in your refrigerator with the eggs part of this recall. any eggs outside of that recall they are not contaminated. >> we keep hearing more than 1,000 people have been sickened by this. what are the symptoms of salmonella? how dangerous can it be? >> well, salmonella symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain. usually occurs about 12 to 72 hours after you've consumed condition tam nated -- contaminated food. the risk is great for children the elderly and those with compromised immune symptoms. >> who is responsible, the fda or usda in terms of who is responsible for the safety of food like eggs is this. >> for these shelf eggs it's the fda. the companies are really the ultimate responsibility. they're the ones that have to make sure they're producing safe eggs in the first place. >> are we getting timely information? this dates back to april and here we are in august. are we getting timely information about the safety of our food? >> part of the problem is the government is needing to monitor when these illnesses come in and the illnesses usually are reported in a delayed way. in some respects you're trying to play catch-up and understand really when the illnesses started. but at this point we know there's an outbreak. consumers should be careful and not be consuming these kind of eggs. >> chris walldrip, thanks for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. here's jenna. >> lester thanks. now to politics. the president and first family are rounding out the first full weekend on martha's vineyard today and when the president returns to washington in exactly one week, he'll have a host of issues to attend to. chief among them, the end of "operation iraqi freedom" and the beginning of operation new dawn. here to talk about all this and more is david gregory, moderator of "meet the press." good morning. >> good morning. >> all right. so let's start in iraq. the last u.s. combat troops pulled out last week and we didn't hear much from the white house in terms of response at that point. as we quickly approach this official august 31st transition date, do we expect to hear more from the president? and what he sees as far as the road moving forward? >> i think he'll be cautious. look, this is the fulfillment of his campaign promise to end the war in iraq, to withdrawal our combat forces out of iraq, to go into a new phase. there are still a lot of problems in the country. general petraeus, who we talked to on the program last week, said the final chapter of the iraq story has not yet been written that's because the politics are not sorted out. there is not a stable, functioning government there as of yet. there is still a lot of potential problems and we're going to have 50,000 u.s. troops there, who are still going to be in harm's way, if security is not stabilized in that country. >> what about afghanistan? any word on when the president may talk about his strategy there? >> well, i think that's ongoing. remember it's not until later in the year that troops will be up to full strength at 100,000 as a result of the surge in afghanistan, so that is still a security footprint that's taking shape as -- at the same time the u.s. is trying to deal with the very troubled politics there with the central government that so many afghans don't trust. >> let's switch gears for a second. when the president does return from vacation he's going to be gearing up for peace talks between palestine and israel. put this in perspective for us. realistically, how much can get accomplished here? >> there is not a lot of optimi optimism. it's always good to be talking rather than not talking. bear in mind that the prospect of direct talks only gets the u.s. back to where the parties were two years ago when they were actually dealing with one another. you still have in effect a civil war within the palestinian authority between the west bank and gaza where hamas in is control of gaza, the palestinian authority in charge of the west bank, and even prime minister netanyahu has a more fractured coalition. it's going to be difficult to see how he can deliver on some of the promises. what you notice out of this is that the u.s. is approaching this gingerly. they want to be there to bridge any disagreements and perhaps to drive some agreements between the two, but they're trying to stand back a little bit and not apply too much pressure, particularly on the israelis. >> david, on friday, vice president joe biden was talking at the dnc summer meetings giving them a little pep talk if you will. democrats feeling a little loss of momentum. on the flip side the republicans are having some financial problems. they raised just $5 million last month, half of what the democrats raised. who's got more of the uphill battle in the next couple months leading up to the mid-term elections? >> money is important. and there's no question about it in terms of the ability to spend, the ability to have paid advertisements on television as you get down the stretch, so democrats are heartened by that. but, of course, they're dealing with the very difficult reality of an anti-incumbent sentiment and this economy which is the biggest overhang and, you know, the -- what foreshadows a very difficult fall. the expectations are for the house to be difficult to hold and the senate to be more likely to be held by democrats but i think even with a money advantage they know this is going to be a difficult fall campaign. >> david gregory, thanks for your time this morning. >> thanks, jenna. >> let's get a check of the other top stories of the morning and say good morning to peter alexander at the news desk. >> good morning to you, good morning to you at home. swedish authorities who have withdrawn an arrest warrant for the controversial wikileaks website. prosecutors say a rape charge against julien assang lacks substance but the 39-year-old remains under suspicion of a lesser molestation charge. assange's dismissed the allegations on twitter and instead he expected dirty tricks, to use his language. wikileaks has been under fire for releasing classified documents about the afghan war and recently announced the release of another batch soon. now to pakistan, where more flooding is threatening new parts of that country. officials began evacuating around 150,000 people across the south saturday, as riding waters -- rises waters continue to overwhelm villages and farmland. with food and relief supplies being air dropped, the flooding now affects one-fifth of pakistan. the united nations says it has raised 70% of its $460 million goal for emergency aid. gunmen invaded a luxury hotel in rio de janeiro brazil. police say ten heavily armed drug gang members in a fire fight with authorities and then holed themselves up at the beachside intercontal hotel. the gunmen took 30 people hostage for three hours before surrendering. police say one woman was killed. fortunately no hostages were hurt. and the search continues for vincent van gogh painting worth $50 million stolen from a museum in cairo. on saturday, egypt's cultural minister said the poppy flowers painting was recovered. he even said there were arrests. he admits that initial report was wrong and the painting is still missing. police in dallas are searching for a knife wielding robber, the surveillance video that shows the robber knocking a woman to the ground at a gas station earlier this month. police say the woman used her purse to avoid being stabbed. authorities say the robber's getaway car was stolen in a carjacking one day earlier. the former illinois governor rod blagojevich hung out with superheroes saturday. blagojevich showed up a at the comic-con convention? chicago. there he is meeting and greeting, batman and superman. heros he says inspire him to fight his own legal battles. the former governor also made a little bit of money on the side, charging 80 bucks for photos and 50 bucks for autographs. finally another big honor for america's favorite golden girl, betty white won her fifth emmy saturday night for that unforgettable hosting gig on "snl" this year. the 88-year-old won the statute during the creative arts portion of the emmy awards that was not broadcast. but late night host jimmy fallon will host the 62ndmmy awards right here next sunday on nbc. that is the news. back over to lester, jenna and janice. rod blagojevich so inspired by the superheroes he charged 80 bucks a feto. >> commissioner gordon on the -- >> janice huff here with a check of the weather. >> good morning. rather soggy in the northeast this morning. we've had quite a bit of rain here and there and today looks like it's going to continue, maybe even some severe weather in parts of the northeast today and new england. along that front there, will be some hot air and thunderstorms across the southeast back into texas. 105 degrees in dallas. lots of hot air across the central portion of the all right. well, good morning to you. happy sunday. some 50s and some clouds out there. not quite as widespread as yesterday. we are going to wake up to the cloud cover. but it's going to clear a lot earlier today, and highs as a result coming back up plenty of 80s back on the map. yesterday we barely reached the 70s. and this is just the beginning. tomorrow, finally getting some summer sunshine and some heat around the bay area. those of you who have been waiting for the 90s, monday, tuesday and still warm into wednesday. here's lester. >> janice, thanks. up next, dlee disabled veterans from three different wars climb to one of the highest peaks, mount kilimanjaro. their inspiring story next. first, these messages. 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[ male announcer ] these medicines make you choose. pepcid® complete doesn't. it's fast acting and long lasting. pepcid® complete works now and works later. good morning, everyone. time is 6:26. it's sunday morning. hope you had a good weekend. let's take a look at yourg h your weather forecast for today. getting warmer. >> yeah, you get it. and tomorrow we're going to feel it. today, mostly 70s, waking up to 50s. cloud cover and haze. we get rid of it earlier and as a result those numbers coming back up. not a whole lot of wind right now. in the trivalley area, we'll get the wind in an hour or so. we have the cold air dipping over us. here's the jet stream. one giving showers and thunderstorms in the sierra last night. the second one comes through today and gives a bit of a sea breeze this morning. take a look at that. the off shore wind comes and the heat is on. 70s. haven't had those in some time. bayside communities in the 80s. inland valleys in the 90s. wednesday, still fairly warm. not until next weekend and into next weekend we start to cool off. 68 in san francisco today, close to 80, san jose. there's your seven-day forecas., a new city hall in richmond zeros in on students who cuts class goes into effect this fall. kids playing hooky will earn a trip to a community center for counseling that has a juvenile hall for their parents. the municipal code will beef up the city's efforts to stop more than 100 students who play hooky every day. it's about getting kids help for the issue that leads them to play hooky. chronic abusers will be fined. a 22-year-old man is behind bars this morning after allegedly trying run over a police officer. several people called 911 around 9:30 yesterday morning about seeing a driver on mission boulevard. police say they chased him about two miles, and that's when he ran and stole an suv and he ended up crashing and running away on foot. officers say they stopped him by shooting him in the shoulder. police arrested 22-year-old brooib brian knee of redwood city for violation of probation. a santa collar acorrections officer will be arrested. he was arrested last year while on duty at the correctional facility. his niece, now 21 years old, told police she was being molested when she was just 9 years old. he was convicted earlier this year, and he faces up to 30 years in prison. macoming up, clothing optional. the it's moving, but you might be surprised where it's headed. right now, back to the "today" show. we're back on this sunday morning, august 22nd, 2010. nice crowd joining us. little bit of a wet summer morning, but it's nice. the city quiets down when it rains here. it's nice to have out on the plaza. i'm jenna wolfe alongside lester holt. i hate to this is what we're talking about, but bedbugs, bedbugs, bedbugs. >> talking to a lot of people in new york for a while with the outbreak but it's gone nationwide, seen it in theaters even the empire state building has been visited by the critters. creatures. some people are resorting to dogs, special dogs trained to sniff out bedbugs. we've got one of them in our studio this morning and we're going to find out what they're capable of doing and get some other tips on trying to sniff these things out. >> we were joking earlier when the dog sniffs out a bedbug, the dog sits down to let the owner know. we were terrified this thing was going to sit down in the three hours since the dog has been here. we're going to keep that thing standing up. >> i would think they would bark. it's very much like bomb and drug dogs. hopefully we'll find none of the three here. >> also ahead, the latest craze, the detox cleansing, supposed to flush out your system. we have names like master cleanse or izo, blueprint. celebrities have used them. someone you know has probably tried them. i know i have. do they work and are they healthy? we'll have answers coming up. >> we're going to look at young people in their 20s and what's the definition of adulthood? there is a lot written about 20-somethings and how their development may be different than their parents. they tend to come home more, more jobs, delaying relationships. we're going to find out what may be behind all this coming you. >> you have a couple 20-somethings. >> i have a couple 20-somethings. one went away from college to work in the day world. >> do you consider them adults yet? >> they'll always be my babies. >> aw. >> yeah, yeah. >> let's take another look at the weather with janice huff. hey, janice. >> it's a murky morning here on the plaza, but we've got lots of happy fans. from utica, right? formerly of new york city. >> yes. >> hi. from mexico city. >> right. >> oh, bienvenidos. wonderful, welcome. hi, everybody. where are you guys from? >> wisconsin. where are you from? >> maryland. >> you're so happy to be here, right? okay. let's check on the weather and see what's going on. of course you can see what's happening here. it's rainy, it's cloudy and the same thing across most of the northeast and new england today. temperatures in the 70s and 80s and a very muggy 75 in boston and right around 80 here in new york city. tomorrow, more showers in the northeast and then we have more hot weather across the northern and central plains. that's what's going on around the nation. the heat. we haven't talked about it in quite some time. we have it, but not until tomorrow. it will start to warm today after we get rid of the clouds. we're sitting in the 50s, a couple 40s into the north end of the bay, san rah fell, 78 in san jose, and 68, san francisco. yeah, it's starting to warm up. here's your seven-day forecast, you get a feel for what's happening, especially tomorrow and tuesday. the warm spots back into the 90s. and tonight it's football. "sunday night football" here on nbc. it's a big game because brett favre is back. the minnesota vikings against the san francisco 49ers at candlestick park in san francisco. always a cool spot to play football. temperatures in the 60s are under partly cloudy skies. and that's a look at weather. now back to lester. >> janice, thanks. now to a story that may just get you out of bed this morning. once limited to cruise ships, cheap motels and college dorms, it seems that bedbugs have now taken their show on the road from coast to coast, people have been feeling their painful bites. as nbc's tom costello reports, pest control experts say they have never seen anything quite like it. >> reporter: that old adage about not letting the bedbugs bite is taking on a whole new meaning this summer. >> that one is crawling. it's alive. >> reporter: from movie theaters in new york to a fire station in connecticut, business high rises and welt-covered college students in the midwest. >> it was bad. it was all swollen up like welts, like i had hives. >> reporter: a population explosion in our beds, pillows, carpeting, clothing and leaving their droppings behind. in philadelphia, robin boyd has the bites and scars from a year of being eaten alive. >> i was bitten everywhere. >> reporter: she now believes the bedbugs came from secondhand furniture though the store denies it. >> it got so bad i was eating on the patio instead of eating inside. >> reporter: pest control companies say they've never seen anything like it. >> there's a live one right there. >> reporter: by some estimates a 500% increase in the bedbug population. >> they're sturdy bugs, tough bugs. they're insidious. they hide in the smallest places. >> reporter: that's the problem. bedbugs are the size of apple seeds. hiding in our bed sheets, our bedspreads and mattress folds just waiting to come out at night and feed on us while we're asleep. bedbugs need people, where we go, they go. >> those bedbugs are hitch hikers. they travel with us on our person in our belongings and our suitcases. >> reporter: with international travel, bedbugs have gone global. in the u.s., 95% of pest control companies reported bedbug infestations in the past year. 98% in canada, 92% in europe. and few things reproduce like a bloodthirsty bedbug. >> in january i put about 30 bedbugs in this jar and we estimate that there are probably 2,000 in there now. >> reporter: the good news, there's no evidence that bedbugs carry any diseases and you might keep them out by using a sealed mattress cover. but getting rid of them isn't easy. steaming, vacuuming, baking, freezing and snuffing them out can get expensive. the advice from the experts -- >> when they get to the point where they're in that furniture like that, throw it away. just get new furniture. get rid of it. >> reporter: this summer, plenty of people would love to do just that. for "today," tom costello, nbc news, washington. >> clearly humans are fighting a losing battle against these little pests. who better to turn to for help than man's best friend. joining us is steve rosic from action termite and pest control and one of the specially trained bedbug sniffing dogs rex. good morning. good to have you here. >> good morning. >> i guess the first question is -- how's business? >> booming. >> really? >> booming, yes. outrageous numbers in the last five years. before that we really didn't have a problem. then it came to be that it was slowly coming, slowly coming. and then all of a sudden it was just pushed, pushed forward. everything, everybody's got them now. the hotels, restaurants. >> is this the kind of thing we can actually combat or are we just going to be fighting this now that they are here for a long time? >> we're going to be fighting them until they come out with the right pesticides. the pesticides on the markets don't kill the egg stage of the bug. >> they kill the bug itself. >> exactly. >> explain the way you work with rex. someone wakes up with bites, think they have bedbugs, you come in with rex. show me what you do. you can work back here if you want. >> come here, buddy. what's this? first usually you take him around the room and let him get used to the area. >> let me get out of the way so the camera can shoot. >> then what we would do is wed add come through, park it. good boy. ready to work. come here. come on. seek, seek. good boy. >> he's smelling out, smelling for bedbugs? >> yeah. he would just go all day, that's for sure. >> somewhere i got the impression it was only beagles that do it. he's a collie/lab mix. right? >> yes, from what we know. >> can any dog be trained to do this? >> any dog has the sense to do it some are better than others because of their work ethics. usually the dogs eating your couch and tearing the shoes apart they train to do this because it's just extra energy they have. >> how reliable is he? >> 98% accurate. >> how do you know when he's found something? >> when he found something, he would sit and then i would say "show me" and he would show me with his nose in the direction of where he's smelling the scent from. >> generally it's not going to be all over the room. it's going to be in the bed? >> pretty much. >> when you're not sleeping they have to go somewhere. like one spot? >> it's not one spot usually. >> they like dark, warm areas. >> small crevices. they like to feel stuff on the front and on the back of them. so they push themselves into small crevices around the bed area, couches are very common areas. it's not specifically the bed. it can be anywhere, but it's going to be places that you're resting for a long period of time. >> are you getting people who just because they're just freaked out by all this, people like me, people who are calling saying can you bring the dog by? >> yes. most definitely. >> even before they know there are bedbugs? >> before anything. a lot of places are doing preventative sweeps on a regular basis as well. >> steve, thanks for coming in. can i pet rex? >> can i borrow rex? >> most definitely. >> give us a call, we'll come out for you. >> absolutely. >> really good information. up next, the truth about detoxes and cleanses right after these messages. ♪ [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription. this is diane. diane, who has diabetes and a daughter who could use a little perspective. diane, who worked with her walgreens pharmacist to keep her blood-sugar numbers in check with a few changes to her diet. ♪ diane, who's showing her daughter the world's a bit bigger than 8th grade. expertise -- find it everywhere there's a walgreens. expertise -- ♪ your favorites, in pieces. time to face the pollen that used to make me sneeze... my eyes water. but now zyrtec®, the fastest 24-hour allergy relief, comes in a new liquid gel. new zyrtec® liquid gels work fast, so i can love the air®. where? 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weren't we made to detoxify ourselves? >> exactly. drinking a lot of water. our bodies are meant to naturally detoxify themselves with our liver, g.i. tract, our kidneys. we're meant to detoxify naturally every day. the popular cleanses are made up of mostly fruit and vegetable juices and raw fruits. some of them have adequate calori calories, some don't. >> we're going to get to all these briefly in a second. i want to ask you, they claim to rejuvenate you and make you look better and your skin and feel better. is there a downside to cleansing? >> the big downside to cleansing is, that it can throw off our metabolism. what happens is, many of these cleanses don't have enough calories and a lot of them also don't have adequate nutrients. they're missing certain nutrients. we increase our cravings, we eat too little calories. i'm sure you know people who have overindulged and done a cleanse and overindulged again. what you end up doing is yo-yo diet and alter your metabolism and don't set yourself up for success in a healthier lifestyle. >> you do that and forget about it and go back to the way you were. >> exactly. >> a bunch of cleanses we want to talk about. the first one is a popular one, a lot of people have heard it, the master cleanse. the master cleanse is the water, lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper. i can't phantom doing more than a day. >> 15 minutes i would be done with this. this to me is a fast. you're only getting about 600 calories. you're not getting protein, not getting fiber, not getting any healthy fat. >> you're going to lose the weight and that's why a lot of people do this to lose it fast but getting nothing from it. >> they do it for a quick fix weight loss. not the way to go. this is a perfect example of a cleanse that can alter your metabolism and set you up to yo-yo diet. >> next up the izo cleanse. only 900 calories a day for the most part. you say that is not enough. >> it is not enough calories for most people out there. it does include the fruit juices and green and nut milk and different herbal teas. the biggest problem with this one for most people there are 12 juices here. it's a lot of volume of fluid to get in. so if you can't get all that in every day you're not getting the 900 callries. >> let's move on to the blueprint cleanse. tried this one once. for someone that likes to eat food and feel what it's like to chew this is tough. you are getting a lot of fruits and vegetables. >> a lot of fruits and vegetables, 1,000 to 1200 calories. what is in these juices is good nutrients for you. it's that mouth feel. they have a juice for dinner where you will get some food. just doing the juices can set you up for cravings. for other people it can be a great jump start if you have a plan of attack for a healthier lifestyle. >> without that plan people do this and think it's going to change. it's a short-term, quick fix. >> you have the organic avenue cleanse. tell me about this one. it looks healthy from the food in front of it. >> similar to blueprint you have the green juices and fruit juices and nut milk. you a lot of raw food. this is about 2,000 calories. >> great. >> similar again, blueprint does have the raw food at dinner. there are cleanses that have the juices and raw food. i want to make the point we don't necessarily need juices or raw fruits to cleanse. if we just drink a lot of water, get our fruits and vegetables, reduce the amount of chemicals in our diets, exercise, our liver, our kidneys, they will take care of most of them. >> we should briefly mention these aren't diets. these are detoxes and cleanses and a lot of people, right, they cling to these because they look at them as diets when they're detoxes and cleanses. >> exactly. they're meant to detoxify you. even the environment, toxins, medications our body takes in toxins and our bodies are meant to detoxify themselves. not a quick fix weight loss. if you do them for that reason set yourself up for something after. >> always great information. and now here's lester. >> jenna, thanks sociologists traditionally define the transition to adulthood as marked by five milestones, completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying and having a child. in 1960 almost 70% of men and women had done so by the time they were 30. by the year 2000 that number dr atkins, psychologist. good morning to both of you. thank you for coming on. you wrote this article that picked up a lot of buzz. what was the finding? how does the group of 20s now differ than their parents? >> as you said, they're going through the transitions to adulthood later than previous generations did. they're marrying later, they're settling into a career later, and they're worrying their parents, i think, more than we did when we were growing you. >> but is it clear what's going on, what's behind this? >> it looks like, this what is was so exciting when i found this research, it looks like there's a new develop mental stage that's being created. it's something that jeff barnett at clark university is calling emerging adulthood. that there's really something different that they need to do to figure out what the next stage of their life is going to be before they become true adults. >> and dale, developmentally there's been research i know as to how we define the development of adults and at what point are you truly. is the definition truly changing? >> it is changing and, you know, i think what we need to pay attention to is that age doesn't really define maturity and certainly doesn't define adulthood as we thought it did. what we're seeing is that these young people are a bit more ambivalent about their place in the world as they are also aware of the possibilities that are available to them and they're excited about them. at the same time they're a bit hessent about what they might be able to do and how they might be able to do it. they don't necessarily feel so secure within themselves at this time in their 20s as we might have thought they would have felt. >> right. >> mind you, not too many of us have felt that secure in our 20s. >> we should note a lot of these research predates the economic collapse. you can't simply tie this to the fact that there aren't a lot of great jobs out there. >> i think that the recession exacerbates things but this has been going on for a long time. >> are there cultural expectations that are changing? >> they are changing too. i don't think people expect to get married in their early 20s anymore. they don't expect to settle into a career until they have finished their schooling. we need kids to go through more school because a college education doesn't guarantee a great career these days. >> and as far as the recession is concerned, there aren't as many jobs as there weren't and you're competing with a more global economy and global graduates, but whereas parents might have been available to help their children financially, whether that was a good idea or not a good idea, they're not necessarily having the funds that they thought they had at one time or did have. so the kids are getting much more -- they have to be more reliant on their own financial skills and so many of them are in incredible debt when they're coming out of college that they have to now learn how to pay attention to their financial lives. >> but to be back in our 20s again. robin and dale, thank you for coming on. whether it's 80, 90, 100 degrees outside, there's a wine for that. the best wines to beat the heat. first these messages. what's that? 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i'm lester holt. >> i'm jenna wolf. i have to tell you, i am really freaked out about bedbugs. they wanted to scare me, i am scared. >> a lot of people are and they're turning to dogs like this one we have in the studio this morning that are trained to sniff out bedbugs. we're told if they get a hit they will sit down. >> don't sit. stand. keep standing. >> we're hoping this dog stays on his feet. >> i hope that dog never sits down. >> we have a lot of question for the handler of the dog. the dog won't be answering. >> may answer, never know. >> we are going to taub about the massive egg recall as eggs continue to be pulled off the shelves officials still trying to pinpoint the actual source of contamination and figure out how so many tainted eggs, more than a half billion now, made it into the food supply. we'll get the very latest just ahead. meanwhile, president obama continued his ten-day vacation in martha's vineyard getting in golf and family time. but some big challenges await him when he returns including the official end of combat in iraq. and the start of the so-called operation new dawn, more on that and the political landscape just ahead. later we have an inspiring story of sheer determination and will. it's about three american veterans from three different wars, each lost one or both of their legs on the battlefield but last saturday they banded together to overcome enormous odds battling rough terrain and altitude to climb one of the world's highest peaks, mount kilimanjaro. we're going to meet them, all of them, coming up and find out why they did it. after hearing their story you may think twice before saying the words "i can't." just when you thought the saga of rod blagojevich couldn't get any more bizarre here we go. before continuing his media blitz on "the daily show" tomorrow night you'll never believe where the former illinois governor showed up yesterday. even more strange, why he was there. we'll have more on that coming up. first more on the egg recall. nbc's michele franzen has the latest. good morning. >> good morning, lester. consumers in 22 states are being advised to toss out or return their eggs because of salmonella. while no one has died, more than a thousand have become ill. this as questions loom over why the contamination wasn't caught by safeguards. at patty's restaurant in california, orders for eggs keep coming, despite the massive recall. >> i'm thinking about basically scrambled eggs. >> reporter: the centerpiece of the all-american breakfast and key ingredient in countless recipes is at the center of a salmonella scare. >> it's in the back of my mind, but it hasn't affected me. i eat them sunny side. i figure they're reasonably well cooked. >> reporter: the egg recall involves two big farms both out of iowa the nation's top producing state. hillandale farms recalled 170 miion eggs on top of 380 million eggs recalled by wright county eggs. the tainted eggs date back to april and were distributed to 22 states. >> this is the large outbreak, and as one of the largest outbreaks of this particular type of bacteria, salmonella, that we've seen in recent years. >> reporter: the fda says lab tests show strain of bacteria is the same at both locations, but investigators are still trying to pinpoint the source of contamination. dirty cages or tainted feeds are possibility. nationwide, more than 1,000 people have been sickened. so far no one has died. and to ensure safety, the fda says make sure you cook your eggs completely. >> consumers should cook the eggs to a very firm consistency, such that the yolk and the whites are very firm. another way of saying that, is no runry in scrambled eggs, no runny yolk. >> reporter: but many are asking is there more the government could be doing to prevent food born illness? in july the fda did approve new rules requiring egg producers to take more responsibility to reduce that risk. mandating an increase in salmonella testing and cleanliness policies, measures some health experts say could have helped prevent the outbreak that began in may. but consumer advocates say the measures will only work if farms are monitored. >> we need the government to do a good job and enforce them. >> reporter: consumer groups say until the fda has mandatory recall powers, the risk for another outbreak will continue to grow. yesterday the trade organization representing many of the nation's egg farmers and producers, including both farms involved in the outbreak, say the companies are, quote, going to extremes to make sure every egg is tracked down and working to meet those new fda egg safety rules. lester? >> michele, thank you. joining us now with more is chris walldrip director of food policy institute at the consumer federation of america. thanks for coming on. >> good morning. thank you. >> we keep hearing if we have the suspect eggs we should toss them out or return them. let me ask you this, can you cook out the salmonella? if you cook them properly can they be safe to eat? >> if eggs are cooked properly f you cook egg dishes to 160 degrees that will kill salmonella. be very careful about cross-contamination. if you have cracked eggs or drop some egg on the counter, you need to clean that up right away. >> in general, what is your advice? if you know you have the recalled eggs, would you rather we just toss them? >> i think it's best to be safe. throw away the eggs or take them back to the store. you really don't want to run the risk of consuming contaminated eggs. >> this is a big recall a big scare. not the first time we've heard salmonella linked to eggs. should we always treat eggs as if they might be contaminated? >> you should. that's the best way to approach it, treat them if they're contaminated, make sure you're doing everything safely, cooking them thoroughly and you should be okay. >> are other eggs not sold under the recalled brand names safe? >> correct. you need to go to the fda website and match your eggs in your refrigerator with the eggs part of this recall. any eggs outside of that recall they are not contaminated. >> we keep hearing more than 1,000 people have been sickened by this. what are the symptoms of salmonella? how dangerous can it be? >> well, salmonella symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain. usually occurs about 12 to 72 hours after you've consumed condition tam nated -- contaminated food. the risk is great for children the elderly and those with compromised immune symptoms. >> who is responsible, the fda or usda in terms of who is responsible for the safety of food like eggs is this. >> for these shelf eggs it's the fda. the companies are really the ultimate responsibility. they're the ones that have to make sure they're producing safe eggs in the first place. >> are we getting timely information? this dates back to april and here we are in august. are we getting timely information about the safety of our food? >> part of the problem is the government is needing to monitor when these illnesses come in and the illnesses usually are reported in a delayed way. in some respects you're trying to play catch-up and understand really when the illnesses started. but at this point we know there's an outbreak. consumers should be careful and not be consuming these kind of eggs. >> chris walldrip, thanks for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. here's jenna. >> lester thanks. now to politics. the president and first family are rounding out the first full weekend on martha's vineyard today and when the president returns to washington in exactly one week, he'll have a host of issues to attend to. chief among them, the end of "operation iraqi freedom" and the beginning of operation new dawn. here to talk about all this and more is david gregory, moderator of "meet the press." good morning. >> good morning. >> all right. so let's start in iraq. the last u.s. combat troops pulled out last week and we didn't hear much from the white house in terms of response at that point. as we quickly approach this official august 31st transition date, do we expect to hear more from the president? and what he sees as far as the road moving forward? >> i think he'll be cautious. look, this is the fulfillment of his campaign promise to end the war in iraq, to withdrawal our combat forces out of iraq, to go into a new phase. there are still a lot of problems in the country. general petraeus, who we talked to on the program last week, said the final chapter of the iraq story has not yet been written that's because the politics are not sorted out. there is not a stable, functioning government there as of yet. there is still a lot of potential problems and we're going to have 50,000 u.s. troops there, who are still going to be in harm's way, if security is not stabilized in that country. >> what about afghanistan? any word on when the president may talk about his strategy there? >> well, i think that's ongoing. remember it's not until later in the year that troops will be up to full strength at 100,000 as a result of the surge in afghanistan, so that is still a security footprint that's taking shape as -- at the same time the u.s. is trying to deal with the very troubled politics there with the central government that so many afghans don't trust. >> let's switch gears for a second. when the president does return from vacation he's going to be gearing up for peace talks between palestine and israel. put this in perspective for us. realistically, how much can get accomplished here? >> there is not a lot of optimi optimism. it's always good to be talking rather than not talking. bear in mind that the prospect of direct talks only gets the u.s. back to where the parties were two years ago when they were actually dealing with one another. you still have in effect a civil war within the palestinian authority between the west bank and gaza where hamas in is control of gaza, the palestinian authority in charge of the west bank, and even prime minister netanyahu has a more fractured coalition. it's going to be difficult to see how he can deliver on some of the promises. what you notice out of this is that the u.s. is approaching this gingerly. they want to be there to bridge any disagreements and perhaps to drive some agreements between the two, but they're trying to stand back a little bit and not apply too much pressure, particularly on the israelis. >> david, on friday, vice president joe biden was talking at the dnc summer meetings giving them a little pep talk if you will. democrats feeling a little loss of momentum. on the flip side the republicans are having some financial problems. they raised just $5 million last month, half of what the democrats raised. who's got more of the uphill battle in the next couple months leading up to the mid-term elections? >> money is important. and there's no question about it in terms of the ability to spend, the ability to have paid advertisements on television as you get down the stretch, so democrats are heartened by that. but, of course, they're dealing with the very difficult reality of an anti-incumbent sentiment and this economy which is the biggest overhang and, you know, the -- what foreshadows a very difficult fall. the expectations are for the house to be difficult to hold and the senate to be more likely to be held by democrats but i think even with a money advantage they know this is going to be a difficult fall campaign. >> david gregory, thanks for your time this morning. >> thanks, jenna. >> let's get a check of the other top stories of the morning and say good morning to peter alexander at the news desk. >> good morning to you, good morning to you at home. swedish authorities who have withdrawn an arrest warrant for the controversial wikileaks website. prosecutors say a rape charge against julien assang lacks substance but the 39-year-old remains under suspicion of a lesser molestation charge. assange's dismissed the allegations on twitter and instead he expected dirty tricks, to use his language. wikileaks has been under fire for releasing classified documents about the afghan war and recently announced the release of another batch soon. now to pakistan, where more flooding is threatening new parts of that country. officials began evacuating around 150,000 people across the south saturday, as riding waters -- rises waters continue to overwhelm villages and farmland. with food and relief supplies being air dropped, the flooding now affects one-fifth of pakistan. the united nations says it has raised 70% of its $460 million goal for emergency aid. gunmen invaded a luxury hotel in rio de janeiro brazil. police say ten heavily armed drug gang members in a fire fight with authorities and then holed themselves up at the beachside intercontal hotel. the gunmen took 30 people hostage for three hours before surrendering. police say one woman was killed. fortunately no hostages were hurt. and the search continues for vincent van gogh painting worth $50 million stolen from a museum in cairo. on saturday, egypt's cultural minister said the poppy flowers painting was recovered. he even said there were arrests. he admits that initial report was wrong and the painting is still missing. police in dallas are searching for a knife wielding robber, the surveillance video that shows the robber knocking a woman to the ground at a gas station earlier this month. police say the woman used her purse to avoid being stabbed. authorities say the robber's getaway car was stolen in a carjacking one day earlier. the former illinois governor rod blagojevich hung out with superheroes saturday. blagojevich showed up a at the comic-con convention? chicago. there he is meeting and greeting, batman and superman. heros he says inspire him to fight his own legal battles. the former governor also made a little bit of money on the side, charging 80 bucks for photos and 50 bucks for autographs. finally another big honor for america's favorite golden girl, betty white won her fifth emmy saturday night for that unforgettable hosting gig on "snl" this year. the 88-year-old won the statute during the creative arts portion of the emmy awards that was not broadcast. but late night host jimmy fallon will host the 62nd emmy awards right here next sunday on nbc. that is the news. back over to lester, jenna and janice. rod blagojevich so inspired by the superheroes he charged 80 bucks a feto. >> commissioner gordon on the -- >> janice huff h good sunday morning. i'm meteorologist chuck bell. here's a look at doppler. a couple light rain showers coming through as well. a few rumbling of thunder out into far western maryland. that line of showers and thunderstorms is dropping southbound. a little break in the action from mid to late morning before another chance rons in this afternoon. temperatures briefly up in the low and mid-80s. clouds linger through monday and tuesday as well. here's lester. >> janice, thanks. up next, dlee disabled veterans from three different wars climb to one of the highest peaks, mount kilimanjaro. their inspiring story next. first, these messages. 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"sunday night football" here on nbc. it's a big game because brett favre is back. the minnesota vikings against the san francisco 49ers at candlestick park in san francisco. always a cool spot to play football. temperatures in the 60s are under partly cloudy skies. and that's a look at weather. back to lester. >> janice, thanks. to a story that may just get you out of bed this morning. once limited to cruise ships, cheap motels and college dorms, seems that bedbugs have now taken their show on the road from coast to coast, people have been feeling their painful bites. as nbc's tom costello reports, pest control expert says they've never seen anything quite like it. >> reporter: that adage about not letting the bedbugs bite is taking on a whole new meaning this summer. >> that one is crawling. it's alive. >> reporter: from movie theaters in new york to a fire station in connecticut, business high rises and welt covered college students in the midwest. >> it was bad. it was all swollen up like welts, like i had hives. >> reporter: a population explosion in our beds, pillows, carpeting, clothing and leaving their droppings behind. in philadelphia, robin boyd has the bites and scars from a year of being eaten alive. >> i was bitten everywhere. >> reporter: she now believes the bedbugs came from secondhand furniture though the store denies it. >> it got so bad i was eating on the patio instead of eating inside. >> reporter: pest control companies say they've never seen anything like it. >> there's a live one right there. >> reporter: by some estimates a 500% increase in the bedbug population. >> they're sturdy bugs, tough bugs, insidious, hide in the smallest places. >> reporter: that's the problem. bedbugs are the size of apple seeds. hiding in our bed sheets, our bedspreads and mattress folds waiting to come out at night and feed on us while we're asleep. bedbugs need people, where we go, they go. >> those bedbugs are hitch hikers. they travel with us on our person in our belongings and our suitcases. >> reporter: with international travel, bedbugs have gone global. in the u.s., 95% of pest control companies reported bedbug infestations in the past year. 98% in canada, 92% in europe. and few things reproduce like a blood thirsty bedbug. >> in january i put about 30 bedbugs in this jar and we estimate that there are probably 2,000 in there now. >> reporter: the good news, there's no evidence that bedbugs carry any diseases and you might keep them out by using a sealed mattress cover. but getting rid of them isn't easy. steaming, vacuuming, baking, freezing and snuffing them out can get expensive. the advice from the experts. >> when they get to the point where they're in that furniture like that, throw it away. just get new furniture. get rid of it. >> reporter: plenty of people would love to do just that. for "today," tom costello, nbc news, washington. >> clearly humans are fighting a losing battle against these little pests. who better to turn to help than man's best friend. joining us is steve rosic from action termite and pest control and one of the specially trained bedbug sniffing dogs rex. good morning. >> good morning. >> how is business? >> booming. >> really? >> booming, yes. outrageous numbers in the last five years. before that we really didn't have a problem. then it came to be that it was slowly coming, slowly coming. and then all of a sudden it was just pushed, pushed forward. everything, everybody's got them now. the hotels, restaurants. >> is this the kind of thing we can actually combat or are we just going to be fighting this now that they're here for long time? >> we're going to be fighting them until they come out with the right pesticides. the pesticides on the markets don't kill the egg stage of the bug. >> they kill the bug itself. >> exactly. >> explain the way you work with rex. someone wakes up with bites, think they have bedbugs, you come in with rex, you can work back here if you want. >> come here, buddy. first usually you take him around the room and let him get used to the area. >> get out of the way so the camera can shoot. >> then what we would do is wed add come through, park it. good boy. ready to work. come here. come on. seek, seek. good boy. >> he's smelling out, smelling for bedbugs. >> yeah. he would just go all day, that's for sure. >> somewhere i got the impression it was only beingles that do it. he's a collie/lab mix. any dog trained to do this? >> any dog has the sense to do it some are better than others because of their work ethics. usually the dogs eating your couch and tearing the shoes apart they train to do this because it's just extra energy they have. >> how reliable is he? >> 98% accurate. >> how do you know when he's found something? >> when he found something, he would sit and then i would say show me and he would show me in the -- with his nose in the direction of where he's smelling the scent from. >> generally as not going to be all over the room. it's going to be in the bed? >> pretty much. >> when you're not sleeping they have to go somewhere. like one spot? >> it's not one spot usually. >> they like dark, warm areas. >> small crevices. they like to feel stuff on the front and on the back of them. so they push themselves into small crevices around the bed area, couches are very common areas. it's not specifically the bed. it can be anywhere, but it's going to be places that you're resting for a long period of time. >> are you getting people who just because they're just freaked out by all this, people like me, people who are calling saying can you bring the dog by? >> yes. >> before they know there are bedbugs? >> before anything. a lot of places are doing preventative sweeps on a regular basis as well. >> steve, thanks for coming in. can i pet rex? >> most definitely. >> give us a call, we'll come out for you. >> absolutely. >> really good information. up next, the truth about detoxes and cleanses right after these messages. ♪ [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription. this is diane. diane, who has diabetes and a daughter who could use a little perspective. diane, who worked with her walgreens pharmacist to keep her blood-sugar numbers in check with a few changes to her diet. ♪ diane, who's showing her daughter the world's a bit bigger than 8th grade. expertise -- find it everywhere there's a walgreens. expertise -- ♪ your favorites, in pieces. time to face the pollen that used to make me sneeze... my eyes water. but now zyrtec®, the fastest 24-hour allergy relief, comes in a new liquid gel. new zyrtec® liquid gels work fast, so i can love the air®. where? 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weren't we made to detoxify ourselves? >> exactly. drinking a lot of water. our bodies are meant to naturally detoxify themselves with our liver, g.i. tract, our kidneys. we're meant to detoxify naturally every day. the popular cleanses are made up of mostly fruit and vegetable juices and raw fruits. some of them have adequate calori calories, some don't. >> we're going to get to all these briefly in a second. i want to ask you, they claim to rejuvenate you and make you look better and your skin and feel better. is there a downside to cleansing? >> the big downside to cleansing is, that it can throw off our metabolism. what happens is, many of these cleanses don't have enough calories and a lot of them also don't have adequate nutrients. they're missing certain nutrients. we increase our cravings, we eat too little calories. i'm sure you know people who have overindulged and done a cleanse and overindulged again. what you end up doing is yo-yo diet and alter your metabolism and don't set yourself up for success in a healthier lifestyle. >> you do that and forget about it and go back to the way you were. >> exactly. >> a bunch of cleanses we want to talk about. the first one is a popular one, a lot of people have heard it, the master cleanse. the master cleanse is the water, lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper. i can't phantom doing more than a day. >> 15 minutes i would be done with this. this to me is a fast. you're only getting about 600 calories. you're not getting protein, not getting fiber, not getting any healthy fat. >> you're going to lose the weight and that's why a lot of people do this to lose it fast but getting nothing from it. >> they do it for a quick fix weight loss. not the way to go. this is a perfect example of a cleanse that can alter your metabolism and set you up to yo-yo diet. >> next up the izo cleanse. only 900 calories a day for the most part. you say that is not enough. >> it is not enough calories for most people out there. it does include the fruit juices and green and nut milk and different herbal teas. the biggest problem with this one for most people there are 12 juices here. it's a lot of volume of fluid to get in. so if you can't get all that in every day you're not getting the 900 callries. >> let's move on to the blueprint cleanse. tried this one once. for someone that likes to eat food and feel what it's like to chew this is tough. you are getting a lot of fruits and vegetables. >> a lot of fruits and vegetables, 1,000 to 1200 calories. what is in these juices is good nutrients for you. it's that mouth feel. they have a juice for dinner where you will get some food. just doing the juices can set you up for cravings. for other people it can be a great jump start if you have a plan of attack for a healthier lifestyle. >> without that plan people do this and think it's going to change. it's a short-term, quick fix. >> you have the organic avenue cleanse. tell me about this one. it looks healthy from the food in front of it. >> similar to blueprint you have the green juices and fruit juices and nut milk. you a lot of raw food. this is about 2,000 calories. >> great. >> similar again, blueprint does have the raw food at dinner. there are cleanses that have the juices and raw food. i want to make the point we don't necessarily need juices or raw fruits to cleanse. if we just drink a lot of water, get our fruits and vegetables, reduce the amount of chemicals in our diets, exercise, our liver, our kidneys, they will take care of most of them. >> we should briefly mention these aren't diets. these are detoxes and cleanses and a lot of people, right, they cling to these because they look at them as diets when they're detoxes and cleanses. >> exactly. they're meant to detoxify you. even the environment, toxins, medications our body takes in toxins and our bodies are meant to detoxify themselves. not a quick fix weight loss. if you do them for that reason set yourself up for something after. >> always great information. and now here's lester. >> jenna, thanks sociologists traditionally define the transition to adulthood as marked by five milestones, completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying and having a child. in 1960 almost 70% of men and women had done so by the time they were 30. by the year 2000 that number dropped to fewer than half. why? here to discuss this changing generation is robin henning, contributor writer for "the new york times" magazine and dale atkins, psychologist. good morning to both of you. thank you for coming on. you wrote this article that picked up a lot of buzz. what was the finding? how does the group of 20s now differ than their parents? >> as you said, they're going through the transitions to adulthood later than previous generations did. they're marrying later, they're settling into a career later, and they're worrying their parents, i think, more than we did when we were growing you. >> but is it clear what's going on, what's behind this? >> it looks like, this what is was so exciting when i found this research, it looks like there's a new develop mental stage that's being created. it's something that jeff barnett at clark university is calling emerging adulthood. that there's really something different that they need to do to figure out what the next stage of their life is going to be before they become true adults. >> and dale, developmentally there's been research i know as to how we define the development of adults and at what point are you truly. is the definition truly changing? >> it is changing and, you know, i think what we need to pay attention to is that age doesn't really define maturity and certainly doesn't define adulthood as we thought it did. what we're seeing is that these young people are a bit more ambivalent about their place in the world as they are also aware of the possibilities that are available to them and they're excited about them. at the same time they're a bit hessent about what they might be able to do and how they might be able to do it. they don't necessarily feel so secure within themselves at this time in their 20s as we might have thought they would have felt. >> right. >> mind you, not too many of us have felt that secure in our 20s. >> we should note a lot of these research predates the economic collapse. you can't simply tie this to the fact that there aren't a lot of great jobs out there. >> i think that the recession exacerbates things but this has been going on for a long time. >> are there cultural expectations that are changing? >> they are changing too. i don't think people expect to get married in their early 20s anymore. they don't expect to settle into a career until they have finished their schooling. we need kids to go through more school because a college education doesn't guarantee a great career these days. >> and as far as the recession is concerned, there aren't as many jobs as there weren't and you're competing with a more global economy and global graduates, but whereas parents might have been available to help their children financially, whether that was a good idea or not a good idea, they're not necessarily having the funds that they thought they had at one time or did have. so the kids are getting much more -- they have to be more reliant on their own financial skills and so many of them are in incredible debt when they're coming out of college that they have to now learn how to pay attention to their financial lives. >> but to be back in our 20s again. robin and dale, thank you for coming on. whether it's 80, 90, 100 degrees outside, there's a wine for that. the best wines to beat the heat. first these messages. what's that? 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[ male announcer ] get back to school and back to savings on everything on your list at staples. that was easy. when you think about pairing wines you think about pairing them with food, that there's actually a new way to do that and pairing them with the weather. >> as temperatures change so does the kind of wine you should drink to beat the heat. here to explain, anthony, arthur of "food and wine" magazine's wine guide 2010. good morning. >> good morning. >> we're matching wines not again to food, but to the temperature. >> to the temperature. >> it's hot outside. i notice by the way i don't see any reds here. >> not at all. we want white wine, crisp, refreshing, the perception would be lower in alcohol if we're drinking from chardonnay down to a beautiful pinot. we'll see how they get lighter in feeling and sensation. >> let's do this based on temperature. let's start off with 70 to 80 degrees, nice summer day, what would you recommend? >> like today with the sun. st. francis chardonnay from california. looking at the complexity of wines, this is one of the biggest wines, the biggest white wine grapes. apricot, beautiful pear. luscious style of chardonnay you can taste. i love this wine in particular. >> okay. >> it's terrific and like i said, it can handle nice heats. as it gets hotter that wine tastes heavier. >> moving on, 80, 90 degrees outside. >> we go to austria. a beautiful wine that tastes actually crisp, very crisp pear, apple. the glass is gorgeous. we love this wine. you're a big fan. this is a nice alternative to reeseling. >> let's move on to -- >> ten more degrees. 90 degrees. >> now it's getting hot. >> hot new. we're looking for lemonade with a kick. something citric, beautiful acid. can't get any better than that. think about lemonade, all the things with the citrus, beautiful crisp, mouth watering lusciousne lusciousness. >> i feel like we're doing shots. hanging out. this what is it's like, lester and i hung out. >> i could do shots with you. >> now in the mojave desert. >> it can't get hotter. >> we want to drink wine when it's this hot? >> this is the ultimate wine, the lowest alcohol white wine from portugal. it's everpheasant when you pour it. taste it. it's absolutely crisp and delicious. >> that's refreshing, right? >> very nice. >> very nice. >> and then -- >> now it's ridiculously hot. global warming is all over our face. we don't want to exist anymore outsite and this doesn't look like wine. >> it is not wine. it's beer. you are insane -- you would be insane to drink wine at 110 degrees. today in texas i think it's going up to 105 or so, i would stick to beer if i were you. >> stella. >> my favorite beer. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> come drinking with us some time. >> just start at the end of the table, you can drink with us. >> thank you so much. >> we'll be back after these messages. swipe your card please. excuse me...? this belongs to you... o...um...thank you. excuse me... this is yours... thank you! you're welcome. with chase freedom you can get a total of 5% cash back in your pocket. fun money from freedom. this is yours! thank you! what? that's 5% cash back in quarterly bonus categories all year long. does your card do this? sign up for this quarter's bonus today. chase what matters. go to chase.com/freedom. would you like that to hurt now, or later? uh, what? sir, do you want heartburn pain now or later? [ male announcer ] these medicines make you choose. pepcid® complete doesn't. it's fast acting and long lasting. pepcid® complete works now and works later. . let's go back down to washington and ask david gregory what's coming up on "meet the press"? >> good morning, lester. this morning decision 2010, our interview with mitch mcconnell and former house majority leader and jennifer granholm debate the tea party on national politics, coming up this morning on "meet the press." >> we'll see you shortly. >> that's going to do it for us. peter alexander, janice huff, you think -- lester do you think it's funny w followed up the cleanse segment with the drink as much wine as you can in three minutes or less. >> this is another segment, called binge drinking. >> that's a cleanse that i like. we should do it again in case we didn't get a good feel the first time. >> on the right, move on down. >> coming up next weekend, it's been five years since katrina struck the gulf coast. i'll show you what's changed and talk to some of the people we met there along the way. i'll see you back tonight for "nbc nightly news" thanks for watching, everybody. so long. oh, no. steven strasburg hurts his arm. just how serious is his injury? you may have been busted for speeding at some point but you probably never went through an ordeal this man says he went through after he got pulled over. as if mondays aren't bad enough. tomorrow morning's commute could be even more miserable if you take the 14th street bridge. we'll explain why. good morning and welcome to news 4 today. i'm kimberly suiters. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. it is sunday, august 22nd, 2010. news is just ahead. first, a quick check of the forecast. meteorologist chuck bell is here with that. >> rain turned off will allow temperatures to bump up a couple more degrees. it really is very thick outside this morning.

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good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a sunday. i'm lester holt. >> i'm jenna wolf. i have to tell you, i am really freaked out about bedbugs. they wanted to scare me, i am scared. >> a lot of people are and they're turning to dogs like this one we have in the studio this morning that are trained to sniff out bedbugs. we're told if they get a hit they will sit down. >> don't sit. stand. keep standing. >> we're hoping this dog stays on his feet. >> i hope that dog never sits down. >> we have a lot of question for the handler of the dog. the dog won't be answering. >> may answer, never know. >> we are going to taub about the massive egg recall as eggs continue to be pulled off the shelves officials still trying to pinpoint the actual source of contamination and figure out how so many tainted eggs, more than a half billion now, made it into the food supply. we'll get the very latest just ahead. meanwhile, president obama continued his ten-day vacation in martha's vineyard getting in golf and family time. but some big challenges await him when he returns including the official end of combat in iraq. and the start of the so-called operation new dawn, more on that and the political landscape just ahead. later we have an inspiring story of sheer determination and will. it's about three american veterans from three different wars, each lost one or both of their legs on the battlefield but last saturday they banded together to overcome enormous odds battling rough terrain and altitude to climb one of the world's highest peaks, mount kilimanjaro. we're going to meet them, all of them, coming up and find out why they did it. after hearing their story you may think twice before saying the words "i can't." just when you thought the saga of rod blagojevich couldn't get any more bizarre here we go. before continuing his media blitz on "the daily show" tomorrow night you'll never believe where the former illinois governor showed up yesterday. even more strange, why he was there. we'll have more on that coming up. first more on the egg recall. nbc's michele franzen has the latest. good morning. >> good morning, lester. consumers in 22 states are being advised to toss out or return their eggs because of salmonella. while no one has died, more than a thousand have become ill. this as questions loom over why the contamination wasn't caught by safeguards. at patty's restaurant in california, orders for eggs keep coming, despite the massive recall. >> i'm thinking about basically scrambled eggs. >> reporter: the centerpiece of the all-american breakfast and key ingredient in countless recipes is at the center of a salmonella scare. >> it's in the back of my mind, but it hasn't affected me. i eat them sunny side. i figure they're reasonably well cooked. >> reporter: the egg recall involves two big farms both out of iowa the nation's top producing state. hillandale farms recalled 170 million eggs on top of 380 million eggs recalled by wright county eggs. the tainted eggs date back to april and were distributed to 22 states. >> this is the large outbreak, and as one of the largest outbreaks of this particular type of bacteria, salmonella, that we've seen in recent years. >> reporter: the fda says lab tests show strain of bacteria is the same at both locations, but investigators are still trying to pinpoint the source of contamination. dirty cages or tainted feeds are possibility. nationwide, more than 1,000 people have been sickened. so far no one has died. and to ensure safety, the fda says make sure you cook your eggs completely. >> consumers should cook the eggs to a very firm consistency, such that the yolk and the whites are very firm. another way of saying that, is no runry in scrambled eggs, no runny yolk. >> reporter: but many are asking is there more the government could be doing to prevent food born illness? in july the fda did approve new rules requiring egg producers to take more responsibility to reduce that risk. mandating an increase in salmonella testing and cleanliness policies, measures some health experts say could have helped prevent the outbreak that began in may. but consumer advocates say the measures will only work if farms are monitored. >> we need the government to do a good job and enforce them. >> reporter: consumer groups say until the fda has mandatory recall powers, the risk for another outbreak will continue to grow. yesterday the trade organization representing many of the nation's egg farmers and producers, including both farms involved in the outbreak, say the companies are, quote, going to extremes to make sure every egg is tracked down and working to meet those new fda egg safety rules. lester? >> michele, thank you. joining us now with more is chris walldrip director of food policy institute at the consumer federation of america. thanks for coming on. >> good morning. thank you. >> we keep hearing if we have the suspect eggs we should toss them out or return them. let me ask you this, can you cook out the salmonella? if you cook them properly can they be safe to eat? >> if eggs are cooked properly f you cook egg dishes to 160 degrees that will kill salmonella. be very careful about cross-contamination. if you have cracked eggs or drop some egg on the counter, you need to clean that up right away. >> in general, what is your advice? if you know you have the recalled eggs, would you rather we just toss them? >> i think it's best to be safe. throw away the eggs or take them back to the store. you really don't want to run the risk of consuming contaminated eggs. >> this is a big recall a big scare. not the first time we've heard salmonella linked to eggs. should we always treat eggs as if they might be contaminated? >> you should. that's the best way to approach it, treat them if they're contaminated, make sure you're doing everything safely, cooking them thoroughly and you should be okay. >> are other eggs not sold under the recalled brand names safe? >> correct. you need to go to the fda website and match your eggs in your refrigerator with the eggs part of this recall. any eggs outside of that recall they are not contaminated. >> we keep hearing more than 1,000 people have been sickened by this. what are the symptoms of salmonella? how dangerous can it be? >> well, salmonella symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain. usually occurs about 12 to 72 hours after you've consumed condition tam nated -- contaminated food. the risk is great for children the elderly and those with compromised immune symptoms. >> who is responsible, the fda or usda in terms of who is responsible for the safety of food like eggs is this. >> for these shelf eggs it's the fda. the companies are really the ultimate responsibility. they're the ones that have to make sure they're producing safe eggs in the first place. >> are we getting timely information? this dates back to april and here we are in august. are we getting timely information about the safety of our food? >> part of the problem is the government is needing to monitor when these illnesses come in and the illnesses usually are reported in a delayed way. in some respects you're trying to play catch-up and understand really when the illnesses started. but at this point we know there's an outbreak. consumers should be careful and not be consuming these kind of eggs. >> chris walldrip, thanks for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. here's jenna. >> lester thanks. now to politics. the president and first family are rounding out the first full weekend on martha's vineyard today and when the president returns to washington in exactly one week, he'll have a host of issues to attend to. chief among them, the end of "operation iraqi freedom" and the beginning of operation new dawn. here to talk about all this and more is david gregory, moderator of "meet the press." good morning. >> good morning. >> all right. so let's start in iraq. the last u.s. combat troops pulled out last week and we didn't hear much from the white house in terms of response at that point. as we quickly approach this official august 31st transition date, do we expect to hear more from the president? and what he sees as far as the road moving forward? >> i think he'll be cautious. look, this is the fulfillment of his campaign promise to end the war in iraq, to withdrawal our combat forces out of iraq, to go into a new phase. there are still a lot of problems in the country. general petraeus, who we talked to on the program last week, said the final chapter of the iraq story has not yet been written that's because the politics are not sorted out. there is not a stable, functioning government there as of yet. there is still a lot of potential problems and we're going to have 50,000 u.s. troops there, who are still going to be in harm's way, if security is not stabilized in that country. >> what about afghanistan? any word on when the president may talk about his strategy there? >> well, i think that's ongoing. remember it's not until later in the year that troops will be up to full strength at 100,000 as a result of the surge in afghanistan, so that is still a security footprint that's taking shape as -- at the same time the u.s. is trying to deal with the very troubled politics there with the central government that so many afghans don't trust. >> let's switch gears for a second. when the president does return from vacation he's going to be gearing up for peace talks between palestine and israel. put this in perspective for us. realistically, how much can get accomplished here? >> there is not a lot of optimi optimism. it's always good to be talking rather than not talking. bear in mind that the prospect of direct talks only gets the u.s. back to where the parties were two years ago when they were actually dealing with one another. you still have in effect a civil war within the palestinian authority between the west bank and gaza where hamas in is control of gaza, the palestinian authority in charge of the west bank, and even prime minister netanyahu has a more fractured coalition. it's going to be difficult to see how he can deliver on some of the promises. what you notice out of this is that the u.s. is approaching this gingerly. they want to be there to bridge any disagreements and perhaps to drive some agreements between the two, but they're trying to stand back a little bit and not apply too much pressure, particularly on the israelis. >> david, on friday, vice president joe biden was talking at the dnc summer meetings giving them a little pep talk if you will. democrats feeling a little loss of momentum. on the flip side the republicans are having some financial problems. they raised just $5 million last month, half of what the democrats raised. who's got more of the uphill battle in the next couple months leading up to the mid-term elections? >> money is important. and there's no question about it in terms of the ability to spend, the ability to have paid advertisements on television as you get down the stretch, so democrats are heartened by that. but, of course, they're dealing with the very difficult reality of an anti-incumbent sentiment and this economy which is the biggest overhang and, you know, the -- what foreshadows a very difficult fall. the expectations are for the house to be difficult to hold and the senate to be more likely to be held by democrats but i think even with a money advantage they know this is going to be a difficult fall campaign. >> david gregory, thanks for your time this morning. >> thanks, jenna. >> let's get a check of the other top stories of the morning and say good morning to peter alexander at the news desk. >> good morning to you, good morning to you at home. swedish authorities who have withdrawn an arrest warrant for the controversial wikileaks website. prosecutors say a rape charge against julien assang lacks substance but the 39-year-old remains under suspicion of a lesser molestation charge. assange's dismissed the allegations on twitter and instead he expected dirty tricks, to use his language. wikileaks has been under fire for releasing classified documents about the afghan war and recently announced the release of another batch soon. now to pakistan, where more flooding is threatening new parts of that country. officials began evacuating around 150,000 people across the south saturday, as riding waters -- rises waters continue to overwhelm villages and farmland. with food and relief supplies being air dropped, the flooding now affects one-fifth of pakistan. the united nations says it has raised 70% of its $460 million goal for emergency aid. gunmen invaded a luxury hotel in rio de janeiro brazil. police say ten heavily armed drug gang members in a fire fight with authorities and then holed themselves up at the beachside intercontal hotel. the gunmen took 30 people hostage for three hours before surrendering. police say one woman was killed. fortunately no hostages were hurt. and the search continues for vincent van gogh painting worth $50 million stolen from a museum in cairo. on saturday, egypt's cultural minister said the poppy flowers painting was recovered. he even said there were arrests. he admits that initial report was wrong and the painting is still missing. police in dallas are searching for a knife wielding robber, the surveillance video that shows the robber knocking a woman to the ground at a gas station earlier this month. police say the woman used her purse to avoid being stabbed. authorities say the robber's getaway car was stolen in a carjacking one day earlier. the former illinois governor rod blagojevich hung out with superheroes saturday. blagojevich showed up a at the comic-con convention? chicago. there he is meeting and greeting, batman and superman. heros he says inspire him to fight his own legal battles. the former governor also made a little bit of money on the side, charging 80 bucks for photos and 50 bucks for autographs. finally another big honor for america's favorite golden girl, betty white won her fifth emmy saturday night for that unforgettable hosting gig on "snl" this year. the 88-year-old won the statute during the creative arts portion of the emmy awards that was not broadcast. but late night host jimmy fallon will host the 62nd emmy awards right here next sunday on nbc. that is the news. back over to lester, jenna and janice. rod blagojevich so inspired by the superheroes he charged 80 bucks a feto. >> commissioner gordon on the -- >> janice huff here with a check of the weather. >> good morning. rather soggy in the northeast this morning. we've had quite a bit of rain here and there and today looks like it's going to continue, maybe even some severe weather in parts of the northeast today and new england. along that front there, will be some hot air and thunderstorms across the southeast back into texas. 105 degrees in dallas. lots of hot air across the central portion of the country. that's what's going on around the e >> good morning, everyone. i'm tony pann. we have light rain showers drifting around. that will be the case delu the morning. there could be a few thunderstorms popping up this afternoon. high temperatures will be in the low to mid 80's, and here's lester. >> janice, thanks. up next, dlee disabled veterans from three different wars climb to one of the highest peaks, mount kilimanjaro. their inspiring story next. first, these messages. 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"11 news sunday morning" continues in 25 minutes. we're back on this sunday morning, august 22nd, 2010. nice crowd joining us. little bit of a wet summer morning, but it's nice. the city quiets down when it rains here. it's nice to have out on the plaza. jenna wolfe alongside lester holt. this what is we're looking forward to talking about, but bedbugs, bedbugs, bedbugs. >> talking to a lot of people in new york for a while with the outbreak but it's gone nationwide, seen it in theaters even the empire state building has been visited by the creatures. some people are resorting to dogs, special dogs trained to sniff out bedbugs. we've got one of them in our studio this morning and we're going to find out what they're capable of doing and get some other tips on trying to sniff these things out. >> we were joking earlier when the dog sniffs out a bedbug, the dog sits down to let the owner know. we were terrified this thing was going to sit down in the three hours since the dog has been here. >> i would think they would bark. that's the whole deal. like bomb and drug dogs. hopefully find none of the three here. >> also ahead, the latest craze, the detox cleansing, supposed to flush out your system. we have things like master cleanse or izo, or blueprint. celebrities have used them. someone you know has probably tried or who as well. do they work and are they healthy. >> we're going to have answers coming up. >> we're going to look at young people in their 20s and what's the definition of adulthood? a lot written later about 20-somethings and how their development may be different than their parents. they tend to come home more, more jobs, delaying relationships. we're going to find out what may be behind all this coming you. >> you have a couple 20-somethings. >> i have a couple 20-somethings. one went away from college to work in the day world. >> do you consider them adults yet? >> they'll always be my babies. >> awe. >> let's take another look at the weather with janice huff. hey. >> it's a murky morning here on the plaza, but we've got lots of happy fans. from utica, right? formerly of new york city. >> yes. >> hi. from mexico city. >> right. >> thank you. wonderful. welcome. hi, everybody. where are you guys from? >> wisconsin. where are you from? >> maryland. >> you're so happy to be here, right. okay. let's check on the weather and see what's going on. of course you can see what's happening here. it's rainy, it's cloudy and the same thing across most of the northeast and new england today. temperatures in the 70s and 80s and a very muggy 75 in boston and right around 80 here in new york city. tomorrow, more showers in the northeast and then we have more hot weather across the northern and central plains. that's what's going on around the nation. >> good morning, everyone. i'm tony pann. we have light rain showers drifting around. that will be the case delu the morning. there could be a few thunderstorms popping up this afternoon. high temperatures will be in the low to mid 80's, and and tonight it's football. "sunday night football" here on nbc. it's a big game because brett favre is back. the minnesota vikings against the san francisco 49ers at candlestick park in san francisco. always a cool spot to play football. temperatures in the 60s are under partly cloudy skies. and that's a look at weather. back to lester. >> janice, thanks. to a story that may just get you out of bed this morning. once limited to cruise ships, cheap motels and college dorms, seems that bedbugs have now taken their show on the road from coast to coast, people have been feeling their painful bites. as nbc's tom costello reports, pest control expert says they've never seen anything quite like it. >> reporter: that adage about not letting the bedbugs bite is taking on a whole new meaning this summer. >> that one is crawling. it's alive. >> reporter: from movie theaters in new york to a fire station in connecticut, business high rises and welt covered college students in the midwest. >> it was bad. it was all swollen up like welts, like i had hives. >> reporter: a population explosion in our beds, pillows, carpeting, clothing and leaving their droppings behind. in philadelphia, robin boyd has the bites and scars from a year of being eaten alive. >> i was bitten everywhere. >> reporter: she now believes the bedbugs came from secondhand furniture though the store denies it. >> it got so bad i was eating on the patio instead of eating inside. >> reporter: pest control companies say they've never seen anything like it. >> there's a live one right there. >> reporter: by some estimates a 500% increase in the bedbug population. >> they're sturdy bugs, tough bugs, insidious, hide in the smallest places. >> reporter: that's the problem. bedbugs are the size of apple seeds. hiding in our bed sheets, our bedspreads and mattress folds waiting to come out at night and feed on us while we're asleep. bedbugs need people, where we go, they go. >> those bedbugs are hitch hikers. they travel with us on our person in our belongings and our suitcases. >> reporter: with international travel, bedbugs have gone global. in the u.s., 95% of pest control companies reported bedbug infestations in the past year. 98% in canada, 92% in europe. and few things reproduce like a blood thirsty bedbug. >> in january i put about 30 bedbugs in this jar and we estimate that there are probably 2,000 in there now. >> reporter: the good news, there's no evidence that bedbugs carry any diseases and you might keep them out by using a sealed mattress cover. but getting rid of them isn't easy. steaming, vacuuming, baking, freezing and snuffing them out can get expensive. the advice from the experts. >> when they get to the point where they're in that furniture like that, throw it away. just get new furniture. get rid of it. >> reporter: plenty of people would love to do just that. for "today," tom costello, nbc news, washington. >> clearly humans are fighting a losing battle against these little pests. who better to turn to help than man's best friend. joining us is steve rosic from action termite and pest control and one of the specially trained bedbug sniffing dogs rex. good morning. >> good morning. >> how is business? >> booming. >> really? >> booming, yes. outrageous numbers in the last five years. before that we really didn't have a problem. then it came to be that it was slowly coming, slowly coming. and then all of a sudden it was just pushed, pushed forward. everything, everybody's got them now. the hotels, restaurants. >> is this the kind of thing we can actually combat or are we just going to be fighting this now that they're here for long time? >> we're going to be fighting them until they come out with the right pesticides. the pesticides on the markets don't kill the egg stage of the bug. >> they kill the bug itself. >> exactly. >> explain the way you work with rex. someone wakes up with bites, think they have bedbugs, you come in with rex, you can work back here if you want. >> come here, buddy. first usually you take him around the room and let him get used to the area. >> get out of the way so the camera can shoot. >> then what we would do is wed add come through, park it. good boy. ready to work. come here. come on. seek, seek. good boy. >> he's smelling out, smelling for bedbugs. >> yeah. he would just go all day, that's for sure. >> somewhere i got the impression it was only beingles that do it. he's a collie/lab mix. any dog trained to do this? >> any dog has the sense to do it some are better than others because of their work ethics. usually the dogs eating your couch and tearing the shoes apart they train to do this because it's just extra energy they have. >> how reliable is he? >> 98% accurate. >> how do you know when he's found something? >> when he found something, he would sit and then i would say show me and he would show me in the -- with his nose in the direction of where he's smelling the scent from. >> generally as not going to be all over the room. it's going to be in the bed? >> pretty much. >> when you're not sleeping they have to go somewhere. like one spot? >> it's not one spot usually. >> they like dark, warm areas. >> small crevices. they like to feel stuff on the front and on the back of them. so they push themselves into small crevices around the bed area, couches are very common areas. it's not specifically the bed. it can be anywhere, but it's going to be places that you're resting for a long period of time. >> are you getting people who just because they're just freaked out by all this, people like me, people who are calling saying can you bring the dog by? >> yes. >> before they know there are bedbugs? >> before anything. a lot of places are doing preventative sweeps on a regular basis as well. >> steve, thanks for coming in. can i pet rex? >> most definitely. >> give us a call, we'll come out for you. >> absolutely. >> really good information. up next, the truth about detoxes and cleanses right after these messages. ♪ [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription. this is diane. diane, who has diabetes and a daughter who could use a little perspective. diane, who worked with her walgreens pharmacist to keep her blood-sugar numbers in check with a few changes to her diet. ♪ diane, who's showing her daughter the world's a bit bigger than 8th grade. expertise -- find it everywhere there's a walgreens. expertise -- ♪ your favorites, in pieces. time to face the pollen that used to make me sneeze... my eyes water. but now zyrtec®, the fastest 24-hour allergy relief, comes in a new liquid gel. new zyrtec® liquid gels work fast, so i can love the air®. where? 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weren't we made to detoxify ourselves? >> exactly. drinking a lot of water. our bodies are meant to naturally detoxify themselves with our liver, g.i. tract, our kidneys. we're meant to detoxify naturally every day. the popular cleanses are made up of mostly fruit and vegetable juices and raw fruits. some of them have adequate calori calories, some don't. >> we're going to get to all these briefly in a second. i want to ask you, they claim to rejuvenate you and make you look better and your skin and feel better. is there a downside to cleansing? >> the big downside to cleansing is, that it can throw off our metabolism. what happens is, many of these cleanses don't have enough calories and a lot of them also don't have adequate nutrients. they're missing certain nutrients. we increase our cravings, we eat too little calories. i'm sure you know people who have overindulged and done a cleanse and overindulged again. what you end up doing is yo-yo diet and alter your metabolism and don't set yourself up for success in a healthier lifestyle. >> you do that and forget about it and go back to the way you were. >> exactly. >> a bunch of cleanses we want to talk about. the first one is a popular one, a lot of people have heard it, the master cleanse. the master cleanse is the water, lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper. i can't phantom doing more than a day. >> 15 minutes i would be done with this. this to me is a fast. you're only getting about 600 calories. you're not getting protein, not getting fiber, not getting any healthy fat. >> you're going to lose the weight and that's why a lot of people do this to lose it fast but getting nothing from it. >> they do it for a quick fix weight loss. not the way to go. this is a perfect example of a cleanse that can alter your metabolism and set you up to yo-yo diet. >> next up the izo cleanse. only 900 calories a day for the most part. you say that is not enough. >> it i not enough calories for most people out there. it does include the fruit juices and green and nut milk and different herbal teas. the biggest problem with this one for most people there are 12 juices here. it's a lot of volume of fluid to get in. so if you can't get all that in every day you're not getting the 900 callries. >> let's move on to the blueprint cleanse. tried this one once. for someone that likes to eat food and feel what it's like to chew this is tough. you are getting a lot of fruits and vegetables. >> a lot of fruits and vegetables, 1,000 to 1200 calories. what is in these juices is good nutrients for you. it's that mouth feel. they have a juice for dinner where you will get some food. just doing the juices can set you up for cravings. for other people it can be a great jump start if you have a plan of attack for a healthier lifestyle. >> without that plan people do this and think it's going to change. it's a short-term, quick fix. >> you have the organic avenue cleanse. tell me about this one. it looks healthy from the food in front of it. >> similar to blueprint you have the green juices and fruit juices and nut milk. you a lot of raw food. this is about 2,000 calories. >> great. >> similar again, blueprint does have the raw food at dinner. there are cleanses that have the juices and raw food. i want to make the point we don't necessarily need juices or raw fruits to cleanse. if we just drink a lot of water, get our fruits and vegetables, reduce the amount of chemicals in our diets, exercise, our liver, our kidneys, they will take care of most of them. >> we should briefly mention these aren't diets. these are detoxes and cleanses and a lot of people, right, they cling to these because they look at them as diets when they're detoxes and cleanses. >> exactly. they're meant to detoxify you. even the environment, toxins, medications our body takes in toxins and our bodies are meant to detoxify themselves. not a quick fix weight loss. if you do them for that reason set yourself up for something after. >> always great information. and now here's lester. >> jenna, thanks sociologists traditionally define the transition to adulthood as marked by five milestones, completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying and having a child. in 1960 almost 70% of men and women had done so by the time they were 30. by the year 2000 that number dropped to fewer than half. why? here to discuss this changing generation is robin henning, contributor writer for "the new york times" magazine and dale atkins, psychologist. good morning to both of you. thank you for coming on. you wrote this article that picked up a lot of buzz. what was the finding? how does the group of 20s now differ than their parents? >> as you said, they're going through the transitions to adulthood later than previous generations did. they're marrying later, they're settling into a career later, and they're worrying their parents, i think, more than we did when we were growing you. >> but is it clear what's going on, what's behind this? >> it looks like, this what is was so exciting when i found this research, it looks like there's a new develop mental stage that's being created. it's something that jeff barnett at clark university is calling emerging adulthood. that there's really something different that they need to do to figure out what the next stage of their life is going to be before they become true adults. >> and dale, developmentally there's been research i know as to how we define the development of adults and at what point are you truly. is the definition truly changing? >> it is changing and, you know, i think what we need to pay attention to is that age doesn't really define maturity and certainly doesn't define adulthood as we thought it did. what we're seeing is that these young people are a bit more ambivalent about their place in the world as they are also aware of the possibilities that are available to them and they're excited about them. at the same time they're a bit hessent about what they might be able to do and how they might be able to do it. they don't necessarily feel so secure within themselves at this time in their 20s as we might have thought they would have felt. >> right. >> mind you, not too many of us have felt that secure in our 20s. >> we should note a lot of these research predates the economic collapse. you can't simply tie this to the fact that there aren't a lot of great jobs out there. >> i think that the recession exacerbates things but this has been going on for a long time. >> are there cultural expectations that are changing? >> they are changing too. i don't think people expect to get married in their early 20s anymore. they don't expect to settle into a career until they have finished their schooling. we need kids to go through more school because a college education doesn't guarantee a great career these days. >> and as far as the recession is concerned, there aren't as many jobs as there weren't and you're competing with a more global economy and global graduates, but whereas parents might have been available to help their children financially, whether that was a good idea or not a good idea, they're not necessarily having the funds that they thought they had at one time or did have. so the kids are getting much more -- they have to be more reliant on their own financial skills and so many of them are in incredible debt when they're coming out of college that they have to now learn how to pay attention to their financial lives. >> but to be back in our 20s again. robin and dale, thank you for coming on. whether it's 80, 90, 100 degrees outside, there's a wine for that. the best wines to beat the heat. first these messages. what's that? 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