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she s been arrested for murder. we ll have the details today, monday, october 25, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. and in for meredith, i m ann curry. the video of the twister was dramatic. it was probably the last item that caught attention. we re talking about jennifer mee, a young lady we met several times on the show i think back in 2007, she suffered through five straight weeks of hiccupping. now she has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder. the latest on that story coming in a little while. and new details on a rare and deadly shark attack that closed three beaches in california over the weekend. a 19-year-old was killed by what experts believe was a great white shark, estimated to be up to 18 feet long. this morning we ll be speaking to the parents and the brother of a promising college junior. prince william and kate middleton step out for a night on the town at a friend s wedding, as talk heats up about their own wedding. let s start with those tornadoes just south of dallas, texas. jay gray is in rice, texas. reporter: obviously no classes here at rice middle school after a tornado ripped through this area yesterday afternoon. take a look at the metal support beams, they used to be a covered walkway, they are pointing towards the ground now. if you push through that and look at the brick wall, there was a teacher inside at the time. she rushed to a closet. she was not injured. you can see the storm actually skipping across interstate 45 yesterday afternoon. very dramatic video of the debris field here, ripping across that highway. it actually toppled an 18 wheeler on to another vehicle. the driver of that vehicle was taken to the hospital. but when you see the intensity, especially in this video, it s hard to imagine that no one was seriously injured in these storms. still a lot of work to do cleaning up in this area of north texas, that will begin with first light. matt? nbc s jay gray. thank you very much for your report. it s three minutes after the hour. here is ann. now to decision 2010. candidates are entering their last full week of campaigning, just eight days to goss until the midterm elections. and one of the tightest senate race is in alaska where lisa murkowski is trying to hold on to her seat by running as a write in. last night the candidates faced off in a nasty debate. lee cowan is in anchorage with more on this. hey, lee, good morning. reporter: this was the candidate s first televised debate and from the sound of it you would think that they were from different parties, but they have in fact both republicans and for the moment anyway, they re running neck and neck. the round table discussion, they looked intimate, but it was knuckle to knuckle with senator lisa murkowski taking it to both her opponents in one breath. scott is not ready to lead, joe is not fit to lead. i have been leading this state. le s not ready to lead or fit to lead. i have been leading this state reporter: after losing the gop primary to tea party favorite joe miller, murkowski launched her write in bid and has been gaining in the polls. miller on the other hand has suffered in the wake of allegation that is he misused computers for political purposes, admitting publicly in sunday s debate that he violated ethics policies. it is true during a lunch hour i got on the xirt and participated in a private poll. i made a mistake. a court ordered his personnel records be released. he quickly turned the tables on murkowski, questioning her financial disclosures. would you be willing to subject yourself to the same level of scrutiny that your campaign has subjected to me? we filed a financial disclosure that laid out everything, everything that i have. reporter: even on the issues, it got nasty, on immigration, murkowski criticized a sig jegs miller made at a town hall that east german any successfully controlled its borders. we should not be looking to east germany as a model for our security. reporter: miller shot back with a history lesson. last i checked, east germany was no longer a nation. reporter: through it all, democrats like mcadams tried to stay above the fray. i support don t ask, don t tell. every single time there s been a demographic that s been allowed to fully integrate in the united states military, it s been done with great success. reporter: but much like the campaign he was largely overshadowed by a feud between a write-in incumbent and a tea party favorite. now this is not the end of it, the candidates have three more debates, one tonight, one tomorrow night and one on wednesday night that makes four debates over the last four days. less than a week before election day. lee cowan out in anchorage. thank you so much. chuck todd is nbc s political director and our white house correspondent. how fluid is that race in alaska? reporter: it is fluid, but a lot are glad that lisa murkowski s bid is going so well because judging by how miller s performed on the trail, there would have been a big fear that democrats might be able to steal this race, keep it more competitive. lisa murkowski is guarantees lit stay in republican hands. mcadams hasn t been able to take advantage of this two-way split yesterday. taking alaska out of the question, a lot of times at this stage of the campaign, we look for the october surprise, something in the news or something in the campaign that turns the race on its ear. the fact that people are saying it s all about jobs and the economy, do you think that it s unlikely that we re going to see some october surprises? reporter: not at this point, in individual races, we have seen some surprises, what happened in california with meg whitman and her nanny, and the maid issue. the kentucky senate race and the controversy over this ad, the aqua buddha ad, that probably turned that race in the direction of the republicans. but overall you re just seeing it individually in a couple of races. the biggest news, matt, is that there isn t race. the landscape that everybody foresaw a couple months ago, being a republican landscape, still here today. when you see former president bill clinton with the longest serving member of congress john dengel, you know it s trouble for the democrats. chuck todd in washington, as always, thank you very much. let s bring in rachel maddow. let s talk about money now, not what the candidates themselves are directly spending, but money that s going to be into the 527 organizations where they really don t have to disclose where the funding is coming from, how big an impact are they going to have in this election cycle? it is new to this election cycle. we re so used to complaining about money and politics and how transparent everything s if an individual wants to donate infinitely to a candidate, instead of that $2,400 ceiling, that person could declare themselves a pac and donate with no limit at all. the owner of the chicago cubs has given $600,000 to sharron angle. that kind of thing wasn t happening before. president obama s out there crying foul here, saying show me the money, and michael steele on meet the press on sunday said, wait a minute, are you alleging there s a crime taking place here, that election laws are being broken? if so, show me your evidence. i think michael steal made some news on meet the press. that was brought forward, it was called the disclose act after the supreme court made this all legal. now to have the chairman of the republican party say he supports that disclose act that his party blocked, it sounds like republicans don t know exactly where they stand on the issue of disclosing. we ve got a lot of attention being paid to the tea party right now. it s clear when this election is over, there are going to be some tea parity candidates sworn into the senate. you can have joe miller, you can have sharron angle. how will they behave as senators. what are we expecting from them? the thing i think is surprising about the tea party candidates, without a national leader in the republican party, post mccain, post bush, without somebody who s the figure head of the party, the tea party is the figure head of the party. every republican in essence ends up having to talk to or about the tea party. those candidates, the thing that has surprised me so much is how much they re into social issues, cultural war issues of the early 90s, going back to hard line positions on abortion, on gay rights, hard line positions on the second amendment, in sharron angle s case, threatening language in terms of the second amendment, that s what s been surprising i think. you have got a new documentary on msnbc tonight about the murder of a doctor who provided abortions. dr. george tiller was really vilified by the anti-abortion movement because he provided abortions late in pregnancy. it was in wichita, kansas. he was murdered by an anti-abortion extremist last year and the documentary looks at how the murder happened, what we know about why it happened and i think it s important that it s airing right now because there are five senate candidates with positions on abortions that haven t been seen before, they want it criminalized you re asking is this an isolated thing or part of the campaign? hi level candidates are adopting the position, what do we need to know about the far edge of the anti-abortion movement. the assassination of george tiller premiers tonight on msnbc tonight. we have natalee filling in for ann over at the news desk. we begin with the growing crisis in haiti where a deadly disease has killed hundreds of people and it is spreading. nbc news chief medical editor nancy snyderman is in haiti this morning. good morning. reporter: good morning, natalee. i m in a small town of st. marks. this is considered the rural area of the countryside, the epicenter of the cholera epidemic. ten months later it is exactly what is concerning public health officials because they don t want the disease to spread from the countryside to port-au-prince. for now the epidemic is concentrated in the rural areas of haiti. the hospitals there are inundated with the ill lying on floors, dehydrated children hooked up to ivs and too weak to move. cholera is caused by ingesting contaminated water or food. it causes severe vomiting and diarrhea. cholera hasn t been seen in haiti for 50 years, but now that it s here, officials are concerned that people in the you put poor sanitation conditions, a lot of people in one place, it s an absolute recipe for disaster. with an estimated 1.3 million people still living in tent camps across the country and hundreds of thousands concentrated here, preventing an outbreak like this has been a race against time. i m standing outside saint nicholas hospital where just in the time we ve been here this morning five babies have been brought here. the assumption will be cholera until proven otherwise. the goal now is to get the children rehydrated, to get antibiotics for those who have been brought here and to contain this to keep it from spreading to the rest of haiti. back to you. how much more can those poor people take. opening statements get under way in the trial of an illegal immigrant accused of killing chandra levy nine years ago. gas prices are up again to $2.82 for regular. now back over to matt, ann and al. mr. roker, beautiful weekend here. that s right and that same system is moving to the east causing problems for the southeast as we go to the radar and show you we already have severe storms, possibility of expected today from pensacola up to atlanta, and you can see those strong storms pushing across, we re looking at rainfall amounts anywhere from one to three inches of rain, we have got another severe area of thunderstorms later today up from st. louis to madison, wisconsin. plor showers and thunderstorms there anywhere from one to two tin chs and the possibility of isolated tornadoes, hail and we are seeing a calmer peculiar in the weather this merng around san jose. still clouds and misty skies. the forecast through lunchtime with a slight chance of a few showers. around the north bay and the coast, more moisture comes in off the ocean. later on today, winds pick up and should help dry out. a fairly cool day. the trend through this week was dry and game one. the next chance of showers rolling in late on thursday morning. now the story of the so-called hiccup girl. the 19-year-old who could not stop hiccupping for five weeks back in 2007 is under arrest for murder. nbc s mark potter is in miami with destals. good morning. reporter: good morning, ann. police in st. petersburg, florida, say 19-year-old jennifer ann mee and two young males were involved in an armed robbery in which another young man was shot and killed. during the incident saturday night, police say mee lured the victim, 22-year-old shannon vickers to the home. there was a struggle during the robbery, the man was shot multiple times and was killed. mee and the two other men with charged with first degree felony murder. three years ago mee became known as the hiccup girl after developing an uncontrollable case of hiccups, she gained national notoriety and appeared on the today show. when i get hiccups, sometimes it hurts. it hurts a lot. there has been points where i ll sit down and cry. right now it hurts so bad, you can probably tell that. reporter: five weeks later mee says she was cured from the condition after trying a number of remedies. now she s under arrest and all three suspects have admitted involvement. nbc s mark potter. certainly something would not have predicted to have happen. it s 7:16. once again, here is matt. now the untimely death of a member of the u.s. national swim team who died over the weekend during an open water race in the united arab emirates. amy robach has the details on that. 26-year-old fran kripp nefrnlths never crossed the finish line at that event. 26-year-old fran krippen was competing in the open water competition near dubai on saturday when fellow swimmers noticed he did not cross the finish line. divers found his body near the last buoy. they were sad because one of theirs had gone missing. reporter: crippen from philadelphia came from a family of prominent swimmers and in august had won silver at the pan pacific championship. during this week s competition, he reportedly told his coach he didn t feel well. race organizers say crippn overexerted himself. officials say the temperature of the water was at least 84 degrees and two additional swimmers, two americans and one brazilian were taken to the hospital. when you re talking about a race like that when the air is so close to 100 degrees and the water temperature is in that mid to upper 80s standpoint, it s just an accident waiting for happen. reporter: the former university of virginia athlete was well liked in the swimming world. his sister said there was nothing he enjoyed more. he was a silly boy through and through. and he liked the rough and tumble sports and he made it a point to be happy during everything he did or he would have done it. reporter: in a video on his personal website he talked about his position for the sport and his disappointment in not qualifying for the beijing olympics. it s hard to describe the feeling in your heart when you know you can go better. reporter: this morning his facebook page is filled with postings from fans, heartfelt remembrances of a young man whose race ended too soon. a medical report and autopsy is now complete, but race officials have not made those results public yet. and by the way, there are currently no rules in place to limit how warm the water can be to hold a race. they ll have to rethink that, no question about it, amy. thank you very much. it is now 19 after the hour, once again, here s ann. all right, matt, thanks, on a much different note, it looks like actor mel gibson s comeback is on hold after his planned return to the big screen and the his appearance on the sequel the hangover was actioned. many of you likely saw this story, the hang over is the story of several friends who travel to las vegas for a bachelor party only to wake up the next morning not remembering anything. now it s mel gibson that wishes that hollywood would forget his own recent past. tracey, it s bill. bill, where the hell are you guys? we lost doug. reporter: it was the top grossing r-rated comedy of all time. am i missing a tooth? reporter: the 2009 blockbuster, the hangover. followed four friends to a las vegas bachelor party only to wake up the next morning with no memory and no groom. what is this? oh, my god. that is my tooth! why do you have that? reporter: and now coming soon to a theater near you, the sequel the hangover 2 but what won t be coming soon, a planned featured cameo by actor mel gibson. gibson s career has been challenged by a media storm most recently stemming from his nasty split from his ex-girlfriend and mother of his 1-year-old daughter, and the subsequent leak of threatening and irate phone messages he allegedly left her. you want the number of my therapist? don t you ever speak to him! reporter: and now the announcement that gibson has been dropped from the film. director todd phillips issued this statement. i thought mel would have been great in the movie, but this decision ultimately did not have the full support of my cast and crew. among the actors reportedly upset, zack galafanakis who said this on death ray podcast. i m in a deep protest right now with a movie i m working on, up in arms about something, very frustrated. reporter: what may be even more frustrating for gibson, the original hang over movie featured a cameo by mike tyson. a convicted rapist. i think it s very, very hurtful to his career, if all that has not happened before wasn t hurtful, this is the worst thing yet. if i were mel gibson right now, a chill would be running down by spine. we reached out to mel gibson who did not respond with a comment. zack has no say in who is hired or fired for any roles in the film, nor was he consulted on this matter. by the way, liam neeson will be replacing mel gibson on the hangover 2. new details on a deadly shark attack in california, a promising college student killed by a suggested great white shark. we ll talk to his family. but first this is today on nb do i look like someone who s at risk for heart disease? well guess what, i am. heart disease took my dad s life, but it doesn t have to take mine because 80% of cardiac events in women may be prevented if we make the right choices. eighty percent. you may not know you re at risk, but one woman dies every minute from this largely preventable disease. help bring a voice to this silent killer. speak up to save lives at goredforwomen.org as an unhappy choice between a longtime politician with no plan for the future and a billionaire with 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t afford another four years of crippling cuts to public schools. class sizes are too big, and all the standardized testing just isn t working. so classroom teachers looked closely at the plans of both candidates for governor. and we re supporting jerry brown. brown s plan focuses on a well-rounded education. with history, science, and the arts as well as english and math. schools where teachers and parents work together. and that s why we urge you to vote for jerry brown, a leader we can trust to make our public schools a priority again. the first lady expected to be in the biarea today. michelle obama will be in san francisco for a local democratic candidate. she will be joined by nancy pelosi at the fairmont. it s expected to start at 3:30 and wrap up at 8:00 tonight. two teens accused of setting fire to a school could enter a plea. 16-year-old lazarus and 17-year-old clifford are accused of starting a fire in july. it caused $10 million in damage. more local news in a half hour. state budget cuts are crippling my classroom, so i can t believe the sacramento politicians cut a backroom deal that will give our state s wealthiest corporations a new billion dollar tax give-away, a new handout that can only mean larger class sizes and even more teacher layoffs. but passing prop 24 can change all that. prop 24 repeals the unfair corporate give-away and puts our priorities first. vote yes on prop 24, because it s time to give our schools a break, not the big corporations. 7:30 on a monday morning, it s the 25th of october, 2010. a little bit of a warmer start to the week here in midtown manhattan, we like that, so do the people out on our plaza. by the way, listening to music right now, taylor swift. and if they stick around, they ll see taylor swift performing live in concert out on the plaza tomorrow morning here on today. it should be a good show. she has a new album coming out. inside studio 1a, i m matt lauer alongside ann curry. meredith will be back tomorrow. coming up this hour, keeping tabs on your kids. it s become a lot easier to know what your kids are up to because there are some high-tech devices and software programs now that can tell you exactly where your children are, who they re talking to, but if you use them, is it a good parenting or bad parenting idea. wherever they go, speculation seems to follow, talk of a royal wedding between prince william and kate middleton heating up again as they attend a friend s wedding. we begin this half hour with a deadly shark attack that closed a string of california beaches over the weekend. we re going to talk to the family of a 19-year-old boy in just a moment. kristen welker has the story. kristen, good morning. reporter: good morning to you, ann. as the sign behind me indicates, this beach is closed and has been since this attack. loved ones are mourning a young man who was so full of life and poised to have a very bright future. he was an awesome guy. reporter: in lucas ransom s 19 years, he touched a lot of lives, family and friends who are now devastated. there s so much more life he could have lived out. so many more people he could have blessed. reporter: a junior at the university of california santa barbara was attacked and killed by a shark at surf beach, a public area of van den berg air force base, 130 miles northwest of los angeles, everyone here stunned. it makes you think that you could die at any time doing anything, especially something that you love. ransom was an avid water sportsman. he and a friend paddled out for what looked like some good waves when the shark hit. the friend was surfing, the victim was boogie boarding. he saw his friend go under water for a brief moment, came up, something was wrong, noticed that he had been attacked by a shark. reporter: the blue water instantly turned red, ransom s friend told the press. he instantly tried to pull his friend to shore, but it was too late. this was probably a great white shark. reporter: ransom s boogie board bears the signs of a bite of a large animal, more than 14 to 18 feet long. experts say white sharks are often found in the cold waters off california. and they feed on small seals and sea lions. the great whites can come close to shore if their natural prey items are near shore. reporter: still shark attacks are rare. prior to this, there have only been 30 unprovoked attacks in california over the last decade, three fatal. he was just a genuine good person to be around. reporter: three years ago, jech and ransom were lifeguards together at a community pool. that summer at age 16, ransom was honored for helping to save a 5-year-old s life. he was a hero that day, he administered rescue breathing and saved the young buy s life. reporter: the man who made a big impact in the short time he lived. two other area beaches were also closed, all three are expected to reopen today pending final approval from beach officials, surfers already saying they will go back in these waters. kristen welker this morning. kristen, thank you. we re joined now by chris ransom s parents and brother. good morning to all of you. please accept our condolences this morning. good morning. thank you. thank you. we understand that lucas was an avid swimmer, he was a polo player, he was also an avid body border. matthew, had he ever expressioned any kind of fear about being in the water? no, no. he really loved living life to the fullest and he just wanted to have fun and he was safe about most things and he loved life. travis, i know that you body boarded with your brother. how would you describe why he liked it so much? i think every surfer, it s hard to put it into words what you feel out there, but you re just you re out with the ocean and it s like nothing else matters when you re riding waves. it s just an amazing feeling. to put into words wouldn t do it justice. but it s just a great feeling to be out there and i know he shared it and i know he felt it when he was out there before the event happened and i know he really enjoyed what he was doing out there. candace, on the day of this, as travis called it an event, you were, however, concerned about his surfing plans that day. why? well, he had called me, he was so excited, heavy he was saying that, mama, there s ten-foot waves and i thought, well, you know, this wasn t the first time he had gone in big waves, but i was concerned for his safety and the other part was is that he was in an area that he had never been in before and i was concerned that being in an area that he hadn t been familiar with, that he hadn t been in the undertoe and other things. i told him i didn t want him to break his neck like his father had recently in a car accident. he said, mom, i ll be fine. he goes, i ll give you a call when i get out. i understand that he even joked the night before, matthew, with his friend matthew garcia, about sharks. they were just sort of making a joke about it, is that right? is that what you heard? yeah, something like that. did you hear that? yeah, i heard that that they were joking about it and you know, every surfer kind of has that in the back of their head and it s in the very far back, you go out there to enjoy life and celebrate, and you don t really think about it. i know they joked about it. but it s something you really joke about, it never really hits home until something like this happens. that may have been why his girlfriend who was up there had prompted him to say please don t go up there because of the sharks, and them talking about it the night before may have prompted them to think about it. there s been like 100 attacks since the 1920s, but the main reason you wanted to speak out this morning so soon after the loss of your son is because you want to say what a great kid he was. he was studying to be a pharmacist at uc santa barbara. he had been studying chemical engineering, he had a lot of hopes and dreams ahead of him. what do you want to say about your boy this morning? he was one of a kind, he was. he was an incredible young man and his personality was bigger than life, but i really feel blessed that he was a gift from god for me and he was the kind of person that had such a radiance about him that his eyes, he just sparkled and his smile would melt your heart. he just was the kind of person who cared about everybody and what i really wanted to share is that i m saddened that he s not going to be able to see he had two dreams and one of the dreams that was that he graduate next year in chemistry from uc santa barbara, and the other was that he always wanted to make a difference in other people s lives. and we re hoping that we can set up a scholarship for him for students there that are in the field of chemistry or chemical engineering that come from underprivileged areas so that they will have that opportunity to be able to see their dream, the dream that lucas had. he really loved the school and what he was doing. wow. we hope we can help that happen. he and his brothers both, travis and he has a stepbrother, josh ransom, they re pretty much the reason why i m here, the first half of my life, it wasn t i had a hard time. and then we got married and we had unbelievable kids, and i wondered if they were mine at times because they didn t grow up the way i did. and they helped me to just to do better in life. you know, you ve got kids like that, you ve got to do good for them. well, obviously you too are going to be doing good in lucas s name and the love for him and for your family touches us all this morning. in that way you have made a difference. candace, matt and travis ransom, our best to you. thank you for speaking to us this morning. thank you, ann. let s get a check of the weather. we ll change subjects and talk about the weather with al. and as we take a look and show you as far as our forecast is concerned, we have got snow to talk about in the rockie where a big storm working its way through that region, the upper elevations will be seeing the heavier snow anywhere from six to 12 inches of snow between grand junction and denver. salt lake city looking at snow in the outside and the upper elevations. strong storms in the northeast, also southeast, strong winds and damaging hail. that s what s going on around here s a view much san francisco. a variety of clouds and low level clouds out there and a slight chance of a shower too for first half of the day. we have more moisture off the ocean. once that gets out of here, we are looking at a drier forecast ahead as we go towards tuesday and wednesday. today plan on a cool day and 50s on the coast. low to mid 60s inland and the seven-day forecast keeping an eye on the world series. wednesday looks fine and thursday plan on dusting off the umbrellas. weather. coming up next, high-tech peace of mind. the new gadgets and web silts that let you track your children s every move. are these ideas a good idea? coming up next. 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[ male announcer ] in the event of a collision, the smartest thing you could do is cut the fuel supply, unlock the doors, and turn on the hazard lights. or better yet, get a car that automatically does it for you. we re back at 7:43. this morning on parenting today, your child s safety. letting go is hard for parents, but these days it s easier with the help of high tech devices. kevin tibbles is in chicago to explain this. good morning to you. good morning. technology can be very liberating for our kids. the good news is parents can now use the same technology to help keep them safe. it s a rite of passage for thousands of american kids riding the school bus. but each year, some 5,000 children do get lost. for about 45 minutes, we were in a panic looking for the child. last year in illinois a little boy was on the right bus, but got off at the wrong time. so the school district decided to start keeping tabs electronically. each color tells me a different bus. they use the z-pass. every student gets a reader pass that they swipe each time they get onboard. you go right by the z-pass and it beeps and it tells your parents if you re on or off the bus. rr. reporter: still parents have reservations. i didn t want a different person, big brother looking in on where my kids were. reporter: but the system only tracks the location of the busses. a card like this will tell you when and where your child gets on and off the school bus, but it won t track their every movement. if you want to track your kids, specifically new drivers, all track usa s gps device allows parents to monitor where their child drives. also, it sends alerts if they go too fast or an unapproved roads. for atlanta s ben and laura sillens, it relieves some of the anxiety. i was really apprehensive at first. we love her and we really just care about her safety. do you have a problem? no, no problem. reporter: but daughter allie feels they had more than safety on their minds. i think it was more to keep tabs on me. which is good because i m a good kid, like i hadn t done anything at all before i had my license. reporter: car crashes remain the number one killer of teenagers, and new drivers are 20 times more likely to have an accident. still for allie, it did take a little getting used to. i guess i watch my speed more often, especially on highways. reporter: but sometimes a parent wants to know more for safety s sake like who their child is talking to or texting. our kids are communicating with people right inside our home and talking to strangers. he started getting creepy around the time i was 15. reporter: brittany s mother isn t taking chances, she knew screens her daughter s cell phone activity using software called my mobile watch dog. i only check it when i feel like there s probably a change in either behavior or attitude. reporter: despite brittany s close call, she resisted. parents set up a call list, any call, text or images is reported to their phone. she actually communicates more because she knows we can see that. reporter: is this keeping children safe or strangling them with an electronic leash? we are leveling the playing field so the parents have a way to do what they need to do as a parent. reporter: parents minding their children like never before, whether their children like it or not. you know, matt, once upon a time, back in the day as my kids would say, mom and dad would be aware of every call that came into the house because there was one phone and they answered it. and us kids never complained about an invasion of privacy until we got grilled about that call after he hung it up. you re dating yourself, kevin, a little bit. we all are. including you. i was going to say i m right in there as well. kevin tibbles, kevin, thanks, sir. up next, prince william and kate middleton walk down the aisle, okay, at a friend s wedding. aisle, okay, at a friend s wedding. we ll have the details. aisle, okay, at a friend s wedding. we ll have the details. i don t tolerate dorkiness very well. yet my parents still cart me around in a car that says hi. we re the geek family. this highlander is more like it. nice interior. it s even got the optional bluetooth streaming audio. very classy, mrs. j. just because you re a parent doesn t mean you have to be lame. 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[ indistinct shouting ] what s in your wallet? good morning. 7:56 and we want to check in with mike for the morning commute. we had an earlier accident at the 92 interchange and it s slow across the westbound direction. it s moving nicely at the toll plaza, you will bog down a bit at the mist at the high-rise. 101 slows as you might expect. 880 along the other side of the water. creeping up slower towards the maze as well and starting to bog down and some of that might be due to haze sticking around. still be careful out there. patchy fog and a few spots, higher up and strong upper level winds racing across the sierra. most of the moisture to the east and a few showers along the ocean and maybe the hilltops. that s about it. later on this afternoon, slow clearing and highs in the low to mid 60s and 50 oz the coast between now and wednesday. we will wake up to patchy fog and thursday plan on more rain in the bay area. more news after the break. quote and compare in about 8 minutes. now, that s progressive. call or click today. giants have not wasted time preparing for the series. hundreds of fans lineup to welcome back from philadelphia over the weekend. they beat the phillies saturday. game 1 and two of the world series will be played at san francisco s at&t park wednesday and thursday. ed the cheapest seat is about $440, $50 more than friday morning. reserve tickets are $556. bleacher seats are at least $610. the today show returns in less than a minute. you know it s bad when the press asks if you d take a lie detector test. meg whitman didn t tell the truth about not voting or about how long she lived in california. she got caught in insider deals at goldman sachs. she changed her story about physically abusing an employee. she campaigned as tough as nails on immigration knowing her housekeeper of 9 years was undocumented. her tv ads have been condemned as false and misleading. and even her hometown newspaper said meg whitman has demonstrated a loose relationship with the truth oh, whatid what did i tell you?! 88 miles per hour! hello, mcfly! it s now 8:00 on a monday morning. it s also the 25th day of october, 2010. kind of a beautiful day here in midtown manhattan. temperature, 54 degrees. and we re showing you this footage right now because it s been 25 years since back to the future. and tomorrow morning here on today, we are getting the cast back together for a reunion. michael j. fox, leah thompson, christopher lloyd and more, they will all be here tomorrow morning on today. the second one was in 2015 and they had flying cars. we re five years away and we don t have flying cars. out on the plaza with ann curry, and mr. roker joins us as well. what do we have coming up? coming up, we have a really interesting stories. it shows that while in 1990, 28% of the babies were born to a single mother, today that number has risen to more than 40%, an all-time high. so why is this? why are so many women choosing to become single moms? and what are the challenges they face? we ll be talking about that, coming up. well, for moms and dads, if they want to try to feed their family right, but their families don t want to eat healthily, we ve got some ways to get some healthy choices in there without them knowing it. sneaky. pull one over on them. busy half hour ahead. let s go inside. natalie s standing by at the news desk while ann s out here with us. natalie, good morning again. good morning, everyone. health officials in haiti are struggling to keep a cholera outbreak from racing through the crowded capital. the disease spread through infected water and food has killed at least 250 people in haiti and infected 3,000, mostly in rural areas. but five cholera cases have now turned up in port-au-prince, where more than 1 million people have been living in tent camps since an earthquake in january. the weekend release of secret u.s. military documents by wikileaks is raising questions about the treatment of civilian prisoners by nato forces in iraq. jim miklaszewski has the details. mik, good morning. good morning, natalie. there are new cries for investigations today based on the grim details revealed in this leak, massive leak of u.s. military secrets. while the u.s. is also looking at filing possible espionage charges against wikileaks officials. but so far, it s all a war of words. fighting fire with fire, joint chiefs chairman admiral mike mullen took to the internet with a tweet of his own. mullen writes another irresponsible posting of stolen classified documents by wikileaks puts lives at risks and gives adversaries valuable information. much of the initial fallout was aimed at british forces. many documents allege that british troops tortured detainees and recklessly killed iraqi civilians, prompts calls for an immediate investigation from the top. anything that suggests that, you know, basic rules of war and conflict and of engagement have been broken or that torture has in any way been condoned are extremely serious and need to be looked at. reporter: the documents also reveal a much higher number of iraqi civilians killed in the war and widespread abuse of prisoners by iraqi forces. but perhaps more troubling in the long run, the secret files show iran s meddling in the war and iraqi politics was greater than first thought and growing. as if to prove the point, iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki was in tehran last week, looking for iran s help in forming a new government in baghdad. what this means is that iran is far better positioned to pursue its interests and support its objectives inside iraq than it ever was one saddam hussein was still in power. the u.s. military has a young army private in custody, suspected of providing this information to wikileaks, but their bigger problem is fixing this monumental lapse in security that allowed this leak to take place in the first place, natalie. jim miklaszewski at the pentagon. thanks so much, jim. you bet. forecasters say there s a risk of severe weather from alabama to south carolina today, one day after a tornado s fury was caught on tape as it damaged homes and a school in north texas near dallas. officials say at least four people were injured, but none seriously. a warm welcome for snow in colorado s ski country. a weekend storm dumped 8 inches of snow, enough for ski resorts to start opening two weeks later than last year. it s 8:05. let s go back outside to matt and ann. natalie, thank you so much. al s out here somewhere. a nice day out here on the plaza. you bet. where you guys from? chattanooga. and who s this? this is will, he s from nashville. all right, will, i like it. he s like, whatever you say, pa pal. nice to see you, will. today, our pick city, jacksonville, florida. afternoon storms of 86 degrees. as we show you the week ahead, we ve got the risk of strong storms on the east coast. above normal temperatures out west, below-normal temperatures and mountain snows. by the midweek, below normal with some afternoon showers in the northwest. snow in the northern plains, wet weather and warm temperatures up and down the eastern seaboard the latter part of the week, the showers hang around the southeast. above-normal temperatures the midsection of the country. wet and chilly you re seeing the golden gate bridge, a little bit of hazy sunshine but still clouds filling into the north. you can see on the satellite and radar view still dropping in the north bay. but most of the moisture is heading off to the east as we transition out of the soggy and windy weekend. one that is going to be drier at least for mid week. highs today 60s. sunshine later on and afternoon 50s on the coast. a cool start to the week but drier than the weather we had yesterday. should stay dry for wednesday. next chance of showers rolls in on thursday. got some friends doing the zumba thing, for susan b. komen. coming up next, a college student who survived a 40-foot plunge off a mountain. we ll meet her coming up right after this. 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natalie, thanks very much. brenna fish is here with us here, along with her mom, diana. good morning to both of you. good morning. how are you feeling? i m feeling really good now. you look amazing. you look none the worse for wear and tear. makeup did a lot, covered up my whole scar and i m like, let s cover this up. first of all, isn t it always incredible that god never lets you remember the actual fall. because i think that would be too painful, probably. i really want to remember. why? i think the doctors were saying that it will come back to me in dreams when i m ready to handle it. but i just kind of want to know what the heck i was doing that kind of got me into trouble. yeah. you really did take a fall. they had to rebuild your eye socket. all restructured and my that x-ray of your skull was extraordinary. the damage that was actually done by a rock or something. yeah. i mean i m still i still have like a brain injury. so i m still recovering from that. but mom, you re in switzerland when you get the call. how does a mom handle that? you re so far away. and they say i think you ended up on the phone talking to a brain surgeon. right. as they re taking her into surgery. right, i had no idea i was going to talk to somebody. i was actually thinking i would be talking to somebody about a broken leg. and they tell me well, just a minute and they patch me through to a brain surgeon. and can i have permission to open her head from this side to that side. they re going to do a cranioplasty. i was terrified. you re a parent, you can understand what it feels like to have your child that far away and just to feel out of control. and i didn t even know what happened. i didn t know what happened. when you finally got to her side it was a relief. it was such a relief. just to be with her. also she recognized me. she knew who i was. and she was like, mommy, what are you here for. you had a chance recently i think to meet eric and fiona, the hikers who actually found you and helped save you. what was that meeting like? i really wanted to meet them. i didn t know i would get a chance to. but it was something i really wanted to do. because for one, i wanted to thank them. but i also wanted to know more about like what sort of state i was in when they found me. and they said i was like talking to them and even making jokes. and that i just it s extraordinary you were even conscious. i know. and they asked, i was wondering if i had been calling out or something. and they said one thing i said was, no one could hear me. so well, despite the injury and in the midst of recovery, i like the fact that when you were being videotaped walking in that rehappen session and your dad said, you re doing great, brenna. you re like dad, don t bother me now. and every single day he would take a picture of me. and i did not one day you ll look back at those pictures and be happy you have them. i am so happy. i mean and he would even videotape some of my early hospital. we can wish you a continued speedy recovery. brenna. thank you very much. diana, nice to meet you. thank you. keep an eye on her. i will. coming up next, why more women are now choosing to be single mothers. we ll talk about that right after this. 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latest trend in baby mama drama. i just woke up one day and i felt like every baby in the street s staring at me. i don t need a man to have a baby. reporter: single women are embarking on motherhood all by themselves. but for many women, that story isn t fiction. the clock was ticking and the boyfriends weren t clicking. reporter: 47-year-old annmarie has two young sons. they have the same father, but none of them, not even annmarie knows who he is. seven years ago, she decided she didn t need a partner to become a mom and got pregnant through artificial insemination. i knew i wanted to have children and there was no serious relationship and i finally said now is the time. reporter: that time is coming for more and more women, including several high profile moms like cheryl crowe and meg ryan. americans overall are less likely to be married so it s perhaps not surprising that marriage and parenthood have become in some ways uncoupled from each other. reporter: in 1990, 28% of all babies were born to a single mother. today that number has risen to 41%, that s an all-time high. jane founded the national support group single mothers by choice 30 years ago, she says though the issue isn t knew, these days more women seem ready to take the plunge. they re not willing to marry just anyone in order to have a child. it s possible financially and in terms of women s feelings about themselves. don t you worry about a thing mama reporter: still, many of these single moms say it s not that they didn t want a dad for their kids, they just never found the right one. i would have loved to have found a good partner, had a good, strong marriage and then had children. that was plan a. this is a very solid plan b, i m very happy with it. reporter: women taking an unexpected path, turning life s cards into a winning hand. lisa is a clinical psychologist and a life coach for shape magazine. a lot of these women tend to be in their 30s, 40s, 50s, college educated eand why do you think there is this trend? they re not going to settle for a man when they want to have a baby. their window to adopt is somewhat smaller than it is to get married. so they re thinking i ll have the baby now and eventually i ll find a partner that will be perfect to sort of finish up this family. and sometimes they have a baby through artificial insemination, 145% increase since 1980 and other times they have these babies by adopting them. some 13,000 children have been adopted every year and that s by unmarried women. and in some ways, these children would never have been adopted had it not been for this choice. it s not that they had a choice to go somewhere different, some different type of family, it was either being adopted or not being adopted. especially when you re talking about domestic and international domestic options that they v sometimes with the international children, they re really in a bad place, so getting adopted is a wonderful thing. that said, there is a stigma with the idea of being a single mother because that sort of belies the reality that children do need fathers. and that parenting is very, very hard on your own. a lot of these women will look for male alternatives and they also make sure they have a good support system. because they re a little bit older and have thought about the process and really, really wanted this baby, they have made sure that there are people in the community that are the male alternatives and support system. what is your best advice then, 41% of babies born today are born to unmarried mothers, what is your best advise for these mothers in terms of how to make sure that they re . i m not sure we understand the impact fully. we don t want the children to suffer. i m telling moms, consider all the alternatives, don t think you have to be childless or you have to be married in order to have a child. have the child if you have that opportunity, adopt a child if you have that opportunity, if you re secure financially, if you have that support system and then later on if you find that significant other that should be with you, maybe you ll have that perfect family. that s for the mother, but what about the for the child. as long as there are men in the vicinity, as long as there are uncles and grandfathers and teachers and coaches and men around that can be good role models. keep looking for that opportunity. some good advice to help women that are going through this. do you think the trend is going to continue. absolutely. it s going to go higher than 41%. uh-huh. coming up next, we ll be talking about healthy foods that your family will actually injen. a good way to sneak in the vitamins. good morning once again. it s 8:26 checking your monday morning commute with mike. it s slow further south than last time. the accident cleared at 92. the southbound side jamming up and slow down to the fremont funnel where they funnel over together at mitc michigan boule. an issue in the hill still. woodside we have a tree down across power lines ats 883 and 45. as folks head out they are proing seeing damage caused from yesterday s storm, which the good news, most of it is off to the east. e a slight chance of an isolated shower but not exactly a warm day. 50s on the coast. tomorrow and wednesday things look dry. by thursday we ll see a chance of more showers dropping in and of off and on rain as we approach halloween weekend. the time is 8:27. more news after the break. david harmer wrote an education plan titled abolish the public schools. he even called our schools insidious and socialism. as families struggle to raise their kids, to provide a good education, harmer bragged, we can design a plan to dismantle them. david harmer is just too radical. we need jerry mcnerney. protecting local schools from devastating cuts. he s a moderate, endorsed by the stockton record, the independent, and our local teachers. i m jerry mcnerney, and i approved this message. a patient in a napa state hospital is behind bars charged with killing a long time hospital employee. the state hospital is on the napa vallejo highway. sheriff s deputies say donna gross was found dead in a hospital courtyard. investigators arrested a 37-year-old man and say he has an extensive criminal background and he was committed to the hospital in 1993 after he was declared insane. more local news in a minute. right now the today show. 8:30 now on a monday morning, it s the 25th day of october, 2010. always nice to have a huge crowd to start the week. we don t have that today, it s a big crowd, and these people hang out 24 hours from now, they ll be treated to a great fall concert out on the plaza. that s tomorrow morning on the plaza, taylor swift, live. meanwhile out on the plaza, i m matt lauer along with ann curry, while meredith is taking time off, along with al roker and natalee morales as well. who does not like michael king. he s had a long and storied career, kind of two careers in one. he s written a book about his life and times and his career and he s got some great stories to tell. michael caine will join us in our studio to talk about it all in just a few minutes. also this morning, we ll be talking about there is no shortage of healthy foods at the supermarket, but which foods are healthy and whi. pricing your home for sale, barbara corcoran will be here with your most pressing answers to your questions about real estate. and a segment i can t wait for is 31 caret diamonds. there it is. a blue diamond, it is so incredibly rare, we re all going to get a chance to look at it, maybe even touch it. do you know what it s worth. way more than anyone can imagine. that s not going to be it, i can tell you that, let s get a check of the weather, mr. roker. let s see what s happening as far as the week is concerned for today. we have got more wet weather and windy weather and know weather in the pacific northwest. risk of strong storms in the southeast, risk of storms in the northern plains. from the plains all the way to the gulf some strong storms. sunny and warm through the southwest. warm conditions in the southeast, showers in the morning from the here s a look at the bay bridge. we ve got hazy skies and still mostly cloudy around a lot of the bay area. we do have clouds dropping in from the north bay. underneath the radar scan most of the action is to the east where we ve had snow around. we should see some clearing but not exactly a warm day. northwest winds will help to clear out our skies late in the day today between now and wednesday. look for game one of the world series but thursday stay tuned. more rain due in for the second half of the week. check your weather any time on weather.com or on cable the weather channel. joy bauer is going to show us her favorite grocery store picks. great work everybody! now freshly remodeled, your target has never been better. back now at 8:35, supermarkets are filled with healthy products, but which ones are actually the best. nutritionist joy bauer here with some taste tested family approved picks. who tested these picks? i tested these with adults, with kids and they re all universally liked. everybody loves to have a waffle, but you re saying that families approve of multigrain waffles which is a good thing. i picked van s eight whole grain waffles. two waffles are 180 calories and six grams of fiber. takes a couple of minutes in the toaster oven and if you want to up that nutrition even more, you can top it with some natural nut butter, a little bit of jam or yogurt or eat it straight up with a little maple syrup. cascadian farm cinnamon nut crunch. this is a good suggestion for gets off the sugar. is this for kids who won t eat oatmeal? i actually think it s for parents who would like to have chocolate in the morning. this is an interesting combination of semisweet dark chocolate chips, it also has brown flaxseed it in and whole grain oats. it s got three grams of fiber per package. is it satisfying? it is. you can microwave it at home or tote it to work and a couple of minutes in the microwave. these crackers by the way are the skinniest crackers in town. they re under four calories. they re light, they re crispy, they re 100% whole grain. no transfat? crackers are loaded with transfat unless you re careful. these are 100% healthy. it s 34 degrees whole grain crisp bread and i topped it with one of the new flavors. they from blue cheese and sun dried tomato. and with the laughing cow light cheese, it s only 35 calories and one gram of saturated fat. which is a fraction of saturated fat that you find in full fat cheese so it s great for people trying to lower their cholesterol. this is a bag of chips. mediterranean snack food company, they have baked lentil chips. but the best part, ann, is they re gluten free and because they re made with lentil and beans, it s got protein and fiber. it s a power snack. aall taste like regular potato chips, but they have got a lot of flavor. and you can dip it in hummus or salsa as well. light ragu. 50 calories per calf cup. there s no added corn syrup or sweetener or sugar which a lot of commercial brands do do. and it s also smooth so if your kids don t like pieces or chunks in their pasta? is this a wheat pasta? of course it is. if you start teaching them early on to have that new pasta as well. it s delicious. and they also have macaroni noodles. you can have fun with the shapes. what about these sausages? they re chicken sausage. i picked al fresco chicken sausages, they re gluten free, they have no nitrates or additives. and they have in a variety of flavors. my taste testers preferred the spicy what i like about these are, they re fully cooked. so it only takes a couple of minutes on the skillet to heat them up or 30 to 60 seconds in the microwave, and tada! you have a sausage with less fat and less calories than traditional. joy bauer doing the should being for us. thank you so much, joy. coming up next, we ve got oscar-winning actor, michael caine in the house. but first, this is today on nbc. do i look like someone who s at risk for heart disease? well guess what, i am. heart disease took my dad s life, but it doesn t have to take mine because 80% of cardiac events in women may be prevented if we make the right choices. eighty percent. you may not know you re at risk, but one woman dies every minute from this largely preventable disease. help bring a voice to this silent killer. speak up to save lives at goredforwomen.org state budget cuts are crippling my classroom, so i can t believe the sacramento politicians cut a backroom deal that will give our state s wealthiest corporations a new billion dollar tax give-away, a new handout that can only mean larger class sizes and even more teacher layoffs. but passing prop 24 can change all that. prop 24 repeals the unfair corporate give-away and puts our priorities first. vote yes on prop 24, because it s time to give our schools a break, not the big corporations. who said in life there are no second acts? it s not true. just ask michael caine. my name is alfie! alfie. caine received his very first award nomination for his role in alfie. then he almost walked away from movies altogether. luckily, though, for us, he did not. and now he writes about his remarkable life and career in the new book the elephant to hollywood. michael caine, nice to have you back. good morning. nice to see you, good morning. you wrote a memoir like 20 years ago. yeah, i wrote a memoir because i thought it was over for me. you know, i ve been a movie star for a long time, about 30 years. and i got a script one day and i read it and i sent it back to the producer and i said, the part s too small. and he sent it back and he said, i didn t want you to read the lover, read the father. and i thought, oh, my good, i m not a movie star anymore, because you have to be the romantic lead to be a movie star. otherwise it s over. but you didn t walk away. and you started to realize that there was great value in some of those roles. oh, yeah. what happened was, i was sort of bumming around miami in a rather nice way, you know, and i was quite happy. i thought my career was over, literally. and i had a friend, jack mickelsomycha nicholson, who was down there, and he talked me into to doing a picture together. and for the next 20 years, i ve had this incredible, wonderful life when i thought it was over. it s a true second act. it s a second act. it doesn t apply to movie stars and actors, but it could apply to anybody. you thought it was over, but it s not. it s not. it could be better. the way you write this book is almost like you re sitting down over coffee with the reader. and you tell it very much in anecdotal form. yes, we do. the stories aren t long, day don t last for 50 pages at a time. these are just kind of littlemore ellittle mo morsels you come up with. when i started to write, i said to my editor, i haven t written book, so what do i do? she said, write exactly the way you would tell the story at dinner or talking to someone, like telling a joke or something. so that s the way i write. people have to remember, you ve been doing this for a while, and you write about some of your swinging bachelor days, the 60s. and i love the line, if you can remember the 60s you weren t there. and you were there! there s no question about it. unfortunately, i remembered them. what s your most striking memory from that period in your life? the most striking memory for me was, i knew a load of unknown actors, unknown musicians, unknown painters, unknown everybody, including myself, every single one of them became famous, even my flat mate, who was tarranerence stamp. even he became famous, but the scary thing was i was the last one to become famous. there are some poignant stories in the book and there s one that s been picked up by the press a little bit, it s about your dad, and when your dad was ill. yeah. and you write about saying to the doctor, is there something you can do to help him leave the planet, because he wouldn t want to live like this. and the doctor said to you? he said no. and then he said to me, come back at midnight. and i came back at midnight, and my dad died shortly after. and i said, did you do this? did the doctor? he said, no, it s just a coincidence, he said. do you think he did? i always wondered. i mean, he said come back at midnight, you know. but i don t believe in, you know, that sort of thing. i was just very upset because my dad was in such agony and i knew he only had 24 hours to live, and i said, why don t you shorten it a bit, but he wouldn t do it. you also write about some of the movies you ve made and your favorite movie roles, you love the man who would be king. why? i was working with chris plummer and someone who was going to be a great friend, john houston, my favorite director of all time. and i was playing a part he originally wanted humphrey bogart to play and he s my favorite actor of all time. i was thrilled to see a more recent movie made your list of favorite films because i loved it so much, dirty rotten scoundrels. oh, yeah, if a producer gives you a script and you say, where are we going, and he says, we re going in the south of france in the summer and we ve got you a villa with your two best friends, i almost didn t bother to read the script. is this a trick question? yeah. and finally you say, you don t retire from hollywood, hollywood retires you. that s right. but you don t think that s on the horizon? you re as busy as ever right now. right, i have a beard, and i m going to do a movie called mysterious island 2. i wasn t in 1, and i didn t see 1, but i m doing 2. i m playing a grandfather i m a real grandfather now after two years ago, and i m playing a grandfather for the first time, and i m in a 3-d movie for the first time. and that s me and my grandson. what s your grandson s name? taylor. we were picking potatoes in the garden. he s adorable. i have three grandchildren, two are identical twins. that s my daughter and her husband. that s my life here now. that s my family. that s the most important thing in the world to me. and i appreciate that. do me a favor, do all of us a favor, don t retire. i m not going to. i m not going to. nice to see you, michael, as always. the book is, the elephant to hollywood. up next, what does a 31 carat diamond look like? [ male announcer ] unions have spent over 20 million dollars against meg whitman. millions in cash for brown. and the teacher s union just spent millions more attacking meg. jerry brown again? he sure comes with strings attached. against meg whitman. millions in cash for brown. and the teacher s union just spent millions more attacking meg. jerry brown again? he sure comes with strings attached. this morning on today s men story with bob dodson, whose childhood survivor skills may some day help skur cancer. let me see if i can. think losing your keys is a big deal? mario has misplaced his nobel prize. you keep them under your hat? reporter: well, fame is not the most important thing on mario s mind. his wife lori has some bigger news. he got the nobel prize and then two years later, i wassing theed with cancer. ironically, mario won his nobel for giving science a blueprint to control the spread of that dreaded disease. this is a model essentially for cancer. reporter: now his quest to find a cure is personal. sometimes you have to be forced to do something. i mean you re put into a situation and then you have to make do. i think that s not a bad lesson in life. reporter: a lesson mario learned early. he was the son of a single mom, a poet who thought she could defeat the nazis with her pen. during world war ii, lucy ramburg was snatched from their home in the italian alps and sent to a concentration camp, mario ended up on the street, wandering from village to village how would a 4-year-old survive on the street during a war? shelter is no problem, because there s a lot of bombed out houses, but the real problem is food. you have to see who s guarding the food, then see what their patterns are, and that develops a lot of patience. how did oliver twist become albert einstein? well, i wish. that would be terrific. reporter: at war s end, he was sick and starving. you know, i m sure they have stayed, i would be in jail somewhere or else i would be dead. reporter: but mario s mother found him in a hospital. she had searched nearly a year for her lost son. frankly, i didn t recognize her, she had aged enormously. reporter: but she too had survived. lucy bought him new clothes. we went to rome, had my first bath in six years. reporter: mario and his mom ended up in a quaker commune in philadelphia, he was nine years old, couldn t speak english and had never been to school. an ordeal like that could scar a child for life. but one of his teachers gave him some paint and let him communicate with a mural. the first of many who found a way to help him dream. giving a child an opportunity to have dreams and then to be able to go after those dreams and that s what the united states gave him. reporter: he would pay back america s kindness. he became a grad student working with dr. james watson, one of the scientists who discovered dna. now watson believes that watson s break through studies may help cure cancer in the next decade. it s one of the key points that enableded us, we couldn t really have the courage to find a cure for cancer if it hadn t been for that. reporter: he may have already help save lori s life. i just had some blood tests and the results were good. she s still in the process of recovery, but everything looks terrific. it intrigues me whether you think he succeeded despite his ordeal or because of it? i think that he has succeeded because of it. i think it s definitely part of him. it s part of who he is. reporter: like many immigrants, he thought america s streets would be paved with gold. and what i saw was actually more than that, and that was opportunity. reporter: opportunity despite his ordeal, to save a lot of lives. more today, bob dodson, nbc news with an american story in salt lake city, utah. and a wonderful american too. all right, switching gears here, if diamonds are a girl s best friend, this one certainly takes the cake. it s a 36 caret diamond. and it s going to be on display at the museum of natural history here in new york. henry, good morning, so nice to have you. this is quite the rock here as we take a look. it s absolutely just perfect. we want to know the history of this. it s a very special stone, it was discovered in the late 1600st, sold to the king of spain, ginobiven to his daughte when she married, when it passed from the german family. after the war, all sorts of things happened, it was stolen, found in an auction, found again in 1968 and we bought it two years ago at auction and here we are. and you re now auctioning it off? we bought it at an auction. the price then was $25 million. and we have exhibited the st r two months. thank you, we re back after this. david harmer wrote an education plan titled abolish the public schools. he even called our schools insidious and socialism. as families struggle to raise their kids, to provide a good education, harmer bragged, we can design a plan to dismantle them. david harmer is just too radical. we need jerry mcnerney. protecting local schools from devastating cuts. he s a moderate, endorsed by the stockton record, the independent, and our local teachers. i m jerry mcnerney, and i approved this message. it good morning, everybody, the time is 8:56. i m brent cannon. i want to check in on the problem on the bay bridge. folks were getting a free fri ride. they put an end to that. 880 will be jammed up. this is past the coliseum, relatively smooth downtown but heading to the toll plaza, they shut down a lane because it was not charging folks accurately. put cash in your pocket through this route. 24, the calecott tunnel is slow. and southbound 680 very slow through the walnut interchange into danville. more news after this. caltrans will take another stab at putting the new part the bay bridge in place. when it s done, the tower will reach ten stories over the bridge. they postponed the job last week, said a maintenance issue had to be taken care of before they can proceed. another update in a half hour and the today show returns in about a minute. we ll see you in a little bit. this year california set a gridlock record costing us billions in interest and reducing our credit rating to junk. that s why nbc bay area urges you to vote yes on prop 25 to fix our broken budget process. calls for a simple majority to pass the state budget. a system 47 states already use. if legislators don t pass the budget on time, they don t get paid and tax hikes would still need a two-thirds vote. then there s prop 26. it s actually company protection, making it harder to raise fees for pollution and damage to public health. the bp coast tragedy proves virmtsal accountability is crucial. vote no on 26. it s toxic. to join the debate go to nbc editorials.com. about now it s monday morning, the 25th day of october, 2010. it could be 78 degrees today in the big apple. there s some even in their t-shirtsecause the weather is supposed to be so nice. matt and al are making their way to california for a very important thing with maria shriver. we ll be talking about that girl who couldn t stop hiccupping? we spoke to her so many times a few years ago here on today, but now she s been arrested on charges related to a murder in florida. so we re going to be talking about that. i know you re pretty surprised about that? she made national headlines for her medical condition. and buyer beware. we re going to show you how thieves could be stealing your money this upcoming holiday season and how to protect yourself from five common holiday scams. and later in today s rel estate, we re answering some of your questions about refinancing and how to price your home to sell. barbara corcoran is here with all those answers. people are really confused about this housing market and what to do. and you and i are in coats, even though it s kind of warm today, on that topic of coats, what you should be looking for when you re shopping for a winter coat. and we re going to try to find the right coat for your shape and your bank account. nice. and also coming up, we have got the new natalee morales. good morning, everyone. severe weather is possible today in the southeast from the same system that brought reports of at least three tornadoes sunday in texas including this one in the south of dallas there. in rice, texas, several homes and a school were damaged. there s a worsening crisis in haiti where cholera has spread to the capital of port-au-prince. it has already killed 250 people elsewhere in haiti. until now cholera has not been seen in haiti for 50 years. president obama will campaign in rhode island and attend a fundraising denver. republican national committee chairman michael steele says voters are tired of the way democrats are running the federal government and will likely give republicans control of the house and possibly the senate as well. 19-year-old jennifer mee is under arrest for first-degree murder. according to police mee and two others were involved in an armed robbery in which the victim was shot and killed. she is the teenager who had hiccups for five straight weeks back in 2007 and came to be known after being seen here on the today show as hiccup girl. gas prices are up again, according to the lundberg survey, they re up 5 cents a gallon in the last two weeks. indonesia s most active volcano is spewing so much smoke and ash, it could erupt at any time. paranormal activity 2 was number one at the box office over the weekend, taking in more than $41 million according to early estimates. jackass 3-d was second and red was third. there was a big surprise over the weekend for two georgia homeowners when they saw something moving under the cover of their backyard swimming pool. when they pulled the cover back, they found a neighbor s buffalo hanging out near the shallow end of the pool who had been on the loose for two weeks. that s a surprise, all right. it s now four minutes past the hour, let s go back outside to ann and tamron. al made sure we got a chance to look at what the weather is, and here s al now. let s check out your weather and show you what s happening for today. we re looking at strong storms in the southeast, including atlanta. more rain and snow in the rockies, we have got some afternoon thunderstorms as well. working their way through the upper mississippi river valley. that s what s going we ve got hazy sunshine across the bay. i can show you on the satellite we still have clouds crossing over the central bay but most of the moisture is headed off to the east. may see a shower over the north bay hilltops but things will dry out. not a warm day, we re talking highs mostly mid-60s inland and 50s on the coast. things should be dry approaching wednesday evening but rain will probably start to come back into the picture on thursday. . and that s your latest weather u natalee? al, on today s consumer, shopping scams. the official holiday season doesn t j doesn t get underway for a couple of weeks, but they re perfecting their strategies now. thinking about the holiday shopping season, is it safer still to go to the stores or is it better shopping online. you think you would be is safer shopping at the stores, but there are risks to both. online it s really getting bad. last year complaints to the internet crime complaint center were up 22%. so you really have to beware, a lot of the crimes we re seeing are mutating and changing, they re getting more clever. one of the things we re hearing more of is smishing. phishing is like a variation. a bank or some other official sending you a letter and they say give us your information. they send you a text message and tell you to call the 1-800-number, you call the 800 number and you get into a voice response system and they sound very official. and they clear out your account. how can you protect yourself? if you get an e-mail or a text message or get on one of these voice response systems, don t call the number that they give you, call the number on your bank statement or on the back of your credit card. so that way you can always protect yourself. you can talk to your bank as well before you engage in this activity. find out if they need the information. if not, you know it was a scam. sometimes when you go in to buy a gift, you choose to buy a gift card and you say the over the counter strip gift cards, thieves can actually steal the information on those cards and then use them to shop? how are they doing that? you know how you go into the supermarket, you re in a rush, you re going to a party, you re picking up a gift card. you grab a card and go. thieves go with a scanner and read the card and when you buy it, they go and spend the money before you do. last year we did a survey and one quarter of americans still hadn t spent their gift cards after a full year. so that gives them lots of time to use it. buy the gift cards behind a customer service desk, inspect them to see if there s been any tampering done. if you give a gift card, give them a receipt. that s right, so if they have any problem they can get the money back. i have done reports on this one, the skimmers at the atm machines. that s happening more and more. we re sticking our cards into the atm. you want to be observant, be aware, a lot of times what they ll do is put card readers inside the slot that you put your card in. they ll also have a hidden camera so they can take pictures of your pin number while you re plugging it in. and they have got all the information they need to clean out your account. and they buy those fake magnetic cards and they make their own? that s right. it s really bad right now, it s happening a lot. what you want to do is be observant. is there anything sticking out of the card slot? you also want to avoid nonbank atms which are at risk. will your bank eventually give you that money back? most likely, yes. but after a thorough investigation, it will take some time, right? yeah. another things that people may not be aware of is credit card charges, usually in small amounts. why are they small amounts? why don t they take just one lump sum. they are betting that you re not going to pay attention. maybe you scan your credit card statement every single month, you see a small charge, maybe under $10, it has a corporate sounding name next to it, an 800 number, maybe you even call the 800 number, you might get a message saying please leave a message, we ll call you back. but these charges tend to happen over and over and over again. and you might not catch on until if you see a charge you don t recognize, even if has some generic name next to it that sounds legit, make sure you call your credit card kane. scams with membership programs, what kind of programs are we talking about? and how are consumers getting ripped off? if you have ever shopped online, odds are you have come across one of these scams. you get a message, ann ad that says save $10 on your next order, and you re very tempted, you click on it, and before you know it, you re automatically into some program and you re getting charged every month. what you really got to do, if you see a message like this while you re checking out, read the fine print and definitely, again, look at your credit card and see what kind of charges are coming up on them. great information. lisa free man, thank you very much. if you re buying, selling or refinancing, barbara corcoran is answering your real estate questions coming up. how to find that perfect winter coat, how to get the right look for your figure and what s hot for fall. but first these messages. put i. oh wow, it s going to be great. i think i m going to cry. 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barbara, it s been three weeks, that doesn t seem like a long time. what s going on here? three weeks is a very long time for jane. but because mostly she s only had one buyer. it takes today 18 usually showings to get every single bid. sear so if you re not having 18 showings, you re not going to get any bids. the important thing is that jane lists her house properly. the best way to go about it is to ask her broker for the last 12 sales, i don t mean listings, i mean sales. and see if her home is a competitor in the list. also many, many sellers today also include incentives like closing costs included, free maintenance for a year, some incentive and it s smart to include that in the very front of a listing rather than wait until you re in negotiations. some people use them as a bargaining tool. what happens is when it s a bargaining tool at the end, the buyer has the advantage. what you want at the front end is to draw the buyers in. jane, best of luck to you. good morning, what s your question. caller: i m looking to invest some money in real estate. i would like to buy a property in an up and coming neighborhood, and wait until time is right to sell it for a property. are there any areas left in new york, the new york metropolitan area that are good locations for real estate investing and is it really a good time to invest in real estate given the market? that s the magic question. carmen, you are one brave soul to even be thinking about doing it now but let me commend you for that. because no one can really figure out where the bottom of the market is, but everyone agrees we re least near the bottom. and that s as good as you can do when you re an invest. every single market that was up and coming before the bubble burst will be up and coming again and it will recover like gangbusters. you better be sure that you re get ready to get in there and hold on for five years if you re going to be a real investor. but please don t hesitate, get out shopping. up and coming, but the question is when will these areas about up and coming again. the minute people start marching into the market, the coverage in the new york city area is always at fast speeds and then what was up and coming is immediately up and coming again. carmen, thank you, we have an e-mail from a viewer. my husband and i have a condo in florida. the condo today is worth about $150,000, we have a mortgage balance of 234,000 which is is interest only, our primary residere residence has plenty of equity and as a lower rate. the truth of the matter is you should leave your primary residence alone, it s like borrowing from pete tore pay paul. why create one big mess when you have one mess that s segregated in florida. the best thing to do if you have a 5.75% rate, you can refinance that one. keep the florida resident separate from your main residence. in state college, pennsylvania, she s joining us via skype. what s your question? we recently sold our house and took a financial hit. we re now looking for a new home and wonder what options we have to put 5% or 10% down and have closing costs. that s a good option. you have to have 7% down to buy anything in today s market. the days of 5% down are over. you need 3% for closing costs. this is what i would suggest. an fha loan you need 7% down, 1% or 2% for closing costs, and in today s market, ask for these closi closing costs from the homeowner. you re still going to have to come up with 7%. thank you. good luck. and finally we have got another e-mail from wilmington, delaware. what do you think is going to happen with the market? how soon do you think it will take things to get back on top. i was laid off from my banking job this year and have gone into the banking business. i have always work ed in bankin my whole life. the big difference is commission basis, you ve got to be comfortable working on a commission basis, don t worry whether you re going to make money in this market. because brokers make money as long as there s activity, good markets, bad markets, they still get their commission, the real question is are you comfortable with working on commission. the old boy network is shot, nothing s really working, so you couldn t have picked a bad time. but make sure you feel comfortable on a commission basis. i know a lot of women who went into the real estate market as a way to supplement before the bust and thought it is a good way to balance raising the kids and making some money. it s a misnomer, even in the best of markets, getting into the marketplace as a part-time person never works, people never make money on that basis, it s a full-time career, you ve got to get in with both feet. and if you u have real estate questions for barbara, you can head for todayshow.com. some of the most popular sweet treats from the pages of the new york times. and we have a howling halloween party for y with costumes for your four legged friends. 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[ female announcer ] new aveeno nourish plus shine. we re making a purple plum tort. it was actually tested 1,400 recipes to put it all in there. good to have you here. in the end you have a book that s 932 pages? yes, it will take you a while to cook. and this purple plum tort, this is the most requested recipe in the archives? that s right. it s so simple, it s four steps. yes, you have the sugar and butter inside? yes, and they re creamy and we re going to add eggs. and flour and salt. does it matter what order you put this in? no, that s the beauty of it. you can kind of just toss this together. it s so easy. most of the ingredients you have at home, except for maybe the plums. the plums are what makes it special. so does it matter what type of plum you use? i have only used i like the oval italian plums. but you can use any plum you want. you can do it by hand, you can do it in a mixer. for how long. just until it comes together and until it starts looking smooth like that. and this is supereasy. you just put the plums, skin side up. my favorite thing. and it just kind of brightens the flavor. and then you bake it. all right. stick it in the oven. and this is your and this is your plum tort. you want too try it. and these are made here? the popovers are as you can see just kind of fluffy. it s just like york shire pudding. i ll let ann help you with this. sure. looks like you ve got two cups in there? two cups of milk. and then butter, melted butter. how much? the whole thing. and then flour and salt and then whisk. if you can serve, you can make both of these. you can stir it, you can do this? it s awesome. this is a recipe from 1966, by the way. recipes go back 150 years. what s great about the new york times is they covered every major trend, every major chef and all of those recipes. a lot of history there. you need a special kind of pan for this? this is a popover pan. you don t have to use a popover pan. if you have one, you can put it out. it s probably been collecting dust. and you can also use a muffin pan. they re going to pop over on top. that s why they re called popovers. that is one big popover. yeah, exactly. how do you serve these. you can just eat them as is. eat them kind of like you would you can also serve them with roast beef. so they re not york shire pudding because you re not cooking them in bacon or beef. but they are a very similar recipe. it s the same batter. it s called the essential new york times cookbook. i m going to have a bite of this. and still to come, we ll be talking to shaun white in this broadcast, the two-time olympic gold medalist. we ll let you know more coming up on nbc. david harmer wrote an education plan titled abolish the public schools. he even called our schools insidious and socialism. as families struggle to raise their kids, to provide a good education, harmer bragged, we can design a plan to dismantle them. david harmer is just too radical. we need jerry mcnerney. protecting local schools from devastating cuts. he s a moderate, endorsed by the stockton record, the independent, and our local teachers. i m jerry mcnerney, and i approved this message. this year mexico commemorates boat the buy centennial and the declaration of independence. rockefeller plaz is holding revealing mexico week with the best starting today and john mack has some photos on display. john, good to have you here. it was a ten-year long journey, but some important people and some regular faces around mexico. in this book we have portr t portraits of people around mexico. it s a huge mix of mexican people. the whole spectrum. what did you learn in your journey over ten years? mexico has had a bad rap in the last couple of years. we re trying to bring mexico into the fold for all the right seasons. it s not in international attention for the right reasons. we have a week of exhibits here in rockefeller center. autograph signing, a soccer star at 6:00 tomorrow, a book signing here at the bookstore on wednesday. if you go actually to revealing mexico.com, you can actually buy this book and see the updated news and events for the week of celebrations. 100% of the net proceeds of this book goes go to foundation in mexico. that s sort of our offering to mexico. and for the writers who ben stein is a german writer. in that time visiting all 31 states in mexico, what impressed you most? i think what impressed me most was everyone who i spoke to, everybody in the book, all the taxi drivers, the bus drivers, everybody, they wanted more for their country. we hope this will give them more. thanks so much. john mack again, revealing mexico. hoda and kathy lee coming up next. two holiday y costuourmeor your pooches, all that and more right after these messages and your local news. tuesday on today, a back to the future reunion. michael j. fox and his co-stars together again, live on today, only on nbc. insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for different results. i ve built businesses. i ve built a business. met the payroll. met a payroll. i enter this office beholden to no one except you. i will owe my office to no one but you. i don t owe anyone anything. i don t owe anyone anything. what s the worst that can happen? what s the worst thing that can happen? good morning, it s 9:56. we have a check on the commute with mike. problem on the bay bridge? there s been a problem at the metering rights the toll plaza. the fast track wasn t charged for folks coming off of 880 so they closed the lane. it s still slow off the carcenas bridge. it s still slow coming out of 24 and heading towards highway 13. we mentioned the 880 overcrossing but 880 itself not looking bad past the coliseum. south side showing clearing up now. but not so bad. rob, how does it look? sunnier there? sunnier there. the forecast through mid week looks just fine. we ll be clearing out a little bit of sunshine through the next few afternoons. wednesday we have a forecast there. world series game one for the special studio audience today. it looks great. back to the studio audience, laura. as giants fever builds so does the price of admission. cheapest available is $440, that s 50 more than we checked friday morning. if you want bleacher seats, you re going to have to pay at least $610 and lower seats $650. club seat tickets for $1,156. probably the best seat will be with lucille. brent has been replaced by lucille. we re going to have a great series with the giants taking on a little team called texas. we ll be supporting all the way. right here, high five. we ll have another local news update, probable little not as good as this bone in a half hou. monday nice, nice way to start o ut.ut from nbc news, this is today with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hey, everybody. welcome to fun day, october 25th. we hope you had a wonderful, wonderful weekend. it is a nice day here. it was a gorgeous weekend here. it still feels warm. it was in the 60s and almost tipping into 70. look at people without their jackets on, some people just enjoying. they came to see their hoda woman, sign some books. you were in some chicago. i went to chicago, right, to the prevention magazine event, which was terrific. met a lot of people and signed a lot of books and came back here and then went to sam s club in edis edison, new jersey. the biggest carts are not at sam s club. they re at ikea. okay, i went to ikea. i know you guys have been there. this was a new adventure for me. i did not understand that everything is in a box. so if you want a bed, you take your big cart to the place and you climb up on top of the thing and pull your bed down in a box. how can small people do this? they have people are helping each other. there are guys i was so shocked how huge. it is acres and acres long. and everyone has these carts. and don t they also sell swedish meatballs because it is scandinavia. yes. pizza at the end. and you you earned it by then. you buy everything because you re like, my god, wooden spoons for $2. you don t need anything but everything is a nickel. that s the psychology of it. didn t you say i didn t need a cheese platter, but i got it. there was a lamp for $5. they love people like you. i got it. it is like a globe and you put a bulb in it and you re going to be seeing my apartment very soon. your weekend was quite the adventure. we had a great weekend. we have very, very dear friends who live up in the amherst area there and it is so gorgeous this time of year. everything is peak. your foliage is in peak why do you keep bringing that up? another person called it foliage too. but the foliage was gorgeous, it was peak. i ve told you before about my friends, mike and lisa kitrich. michael was the originator an founder of yankee candle. he was the genius who thought i think i ll put scents in candles and make them different colors and sell them to my mother s friends. he sold it for many, many dollars and battled cancer three times, said i m going to marry the woman that has been with me through all, we re going to have a family and see the world. what he was not planning on thank you, because he took us all over the world, he took us and our kids have grown up together, they ended up having two more baby girls, but their son, mike s son is 20. he got the dna of his father. and started a brand-new candle company called kringle candle company in massachusetts. and there i was, and that s me with mick, we call him mick, little michael. i love places like this where it is here s the thing. there is frank. the thing we love about it is i love the pumpkin smell. but an orange can tle lo lcandl hideous in my kitchen. their idea this time around was genius, make everything white, everything white, you can take the little the labels come right off, this one is called spiced apple. they burn forever. they re absolutely gorgeous. this town had been hurting, that one is spiced apple. everything is re-useable, recyclab recyclable. this one is lemon zest, unbelievable. and then this one this is one i brought for you. look, smell the pumpkin spice. i put this on in my kitchen yesterday and it smells absolutely glorious. i want this one. you can have that one. thank you. i love that. that is awesome. they re all affordable. go to kringlecandle.com. i love people like this that not are just dreamers, but doers. second time around, he says we re drinking a very expensive bottle of wine but licking labels. he s back to licking labels and starting it all again. god bless him. that s your favorite thing. that was my favorite thing for today, yes. let me tell you real quick what my favorite thing is. if you ever got into the shower and you want to take off your makeup and put lotion on you and all the other stuff and don t want a bunch of different jars and bottles to do it, hello, davins. this stuff is terrific. it is a cream that you put on your face in the shower, it remove your makeup, you put it on your body, and it moisturizes your body. you rinse it off afterwards, everything is rinsed off. you can put it in the ends of your hair the three things. you rinse it, all three. can you gargle? davins. it is all organic, very cool, about $20 to $40 depending what you get. you have to rinse it off now. it smells nice. yeah, it is very no kringle candle but nice. it is nice. should we go to sara? i love that, hoda, my mascara gets stuck on my face and you have to i feel like you re washing, taking a shower at the sink again after the shower. my favorite thing is so high tech. it is cereal, kashi heart to heart. my friend sam is trying to lose weight and i told her about this, she said if it tastes healthy, i m not doing it. now it is my guilty pleasure. i eat it dry, i put banana on it in the morning. the best. it is kashi, right? kashi. great stuff. it has a little sweetness to it so you know what else we have that is sweet, friday we didn t get to it, friday is try day and we didn t get to try it. look at this cake. it is a cake and a pie. an apple pie. it is called a pumple cake. only for large and very, very hungry parties or that one friend of yours that has a problem. it should serve 40 people. i ll have a bite. try, that s the whole point. this whole slice, on our plates, 1800 calories. joy bauer would have a cow. mm. coconut in it. you know, when you don t eat sweets anymore, i could lick it. it is available at the flying monkey in philadelphia. i bet he fly after eating this. 1800. that s, like, a day and a half worth s of food. that is delicious. i want more. poor mel gibson. what do you think about this? i don t know. mel gibson was supposed to be in hangover 2, going to play a cameo as a tattoo artist, going to be his comeback. remember when tom cruise did top fever and played the crazy guy and everyone started looking at him differently because he was able to tropic thunderthunder . now mel was supposed to and there was flack from members of the cast, but no one specifically said he s been replaced by liam neeson. and he and liam share the same press agent. i didn t know that. i m sorry, i don t know his name exactly but here is a quote from the director. i thought mel would have been great in the movie, but i realized film making is a collaborative effort and this decision ultimately did not have the full support of my entire cast and crew. our question is, when have you paid penance, when is it enough, when can you come back, when do you get a second chance? you go through the list of people who have, how shall we say, fallen out of favor, okay. alec baldwin, you know. he had a rant with his daughter. i kept thinking, the thing that makes mel s different is you heard his words. and you heard what he was saying to his wife girlfriend. his girlfriend. we haven t had him in his own words say he s sorry or have any repentance at all. alec apologized and seems to be in great terms with his daughter. i hated myself the entire time. you can t help it. no. how about the hole where he didn t have his tooth. mike tyson was very funny. remember, mike tyson was in prison for rape. but that was in 92. maybe people forget after a lot of years. i doubt the woman he raped forgets it. that s the way it is. no, i m sorry, some things we seem to be able to forgive and other things i think it is over. i think people forget over time who i think you forget what someone was accused of. i think people are like that. do you remember what martha went to martha stewart went to prison for? some securities fraud stuff. insider trading, that sort of thing, now back with her show, the whole hallmark channel. tiger woods, that s not over. that s in the paper today. but he s playing golf and doing very, very well. it takes time. i think ultimately at the end people do forget and i think they accept people. i think people like to see a comeback, even when someone has been through something really horrible. they like to see second and third acts. do you think mel should be given another chance? i think over time we ll see him again. he can t imagine we wouldn t. what do you think? i hope so. i think everybody should have a second chance or third chance if they truly learned something from what happened. if you don t believe in redemption, what s the point of living? every one of us needs it. we re all going to fall. especially you, hoda. stop it. let s talk about brett favre. first of all, all i saw was the front page of the post and it says not mine. i was like, i wonder what they re talking about. so brett favre apparently admits that he called this sports reporter, but he says he never sent her any photos down there. how could you tell anyway? unless there was defining characteristics. you know what i m saying? it takes a left turn or something, you know, it s obvious. oh! how would you know otherwise? it could have been photoshopped. all those things. a right turn, i don t know. bob is with us. he ll tell us. he s done a lot of that over the years. there has been a big baby boom in hollywood. i m so excited and happy for celine dion and her twins. she s been public with her desire to have more children and they had a lot of trouble having their son, so very happy. they were about a month early. they were. the twins. and matt damon, he and his wife we saw him recently at the event in greenwich. that s the event, i think, that we were at, in dwrgreenwich. she was lovely. you know what i remember that day, that evening, we were at an event for jim bell s wife anjelike in greenwich, kentucky. remember his wife went into the restroom with us and he was standing outside the ladies room, to make sure she was okay, waiting for her. is she still in there, he said. is she all right? is she still there? that s who you want. it wasn t movie star talk. i can t wait to see the pictures too of the cute little babies. we need good news around here. also in the paper, there was a new york issue a story. a cabbie was driving a woman and her child in the back and the child got sick. and it happens. threw up in the cab. projectile. and the woman felt terrible, she got to her apartment, called her husband, said, look, we re sorry, we re going to clean up the whole cab. the husband was waiting when they got there, ready to clean up, ready to do. the cab driver said, no, give me $120 because i have to get this professionally cleaned because no one will want to get into my collaboraab because it wreak. he called 911. why 911 ? why not the better business bureau. he wanted to lodge a complaint against her. she offered to pay. if you get into a new york city cab and you know someone was in there before you and it wasn t a good scene, it is bad, you have to get out immediately. i m sure he ll lose a lot of fares but stuff happens. life happens. i m sure the mother and the son well, the son he probably but the parents, they handled it beautifully. what else are you going to do? some kids are fabulous at it. i mean, just they re unbelievable you cannot imagine how far it can go and how much damage it can coudo. some kids are incredibly talented. sounds like this kid was. you got into a cab the other day and it was like that. yes. try going to atlantic city and walking into your dressing room and it wreaks of that. if a child does it, it is okay. if a drunk adult does it, i m out. a sick adult is not drink. let s check in with sara. do we have to? we were asking about mel gibson and when penance has arrived. heather wrote, when the past repeats itself so often, it is hard to do. and then sue says it is too soon for mel. yeah. we re getting a lot of the battle is still on. it is an ongoing court battle. too fresh. thanks, everybody. guess who s with us? rob with the celebrity buzz. how d you do that? do what? it tastes too good to be fiber. you made it taste like chocolate. it has 35% of your daily value of fiber. do it again. turn it into something tasty. this guy s doing magic. there s chocolate chips in here now. how d you do that? 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they had been engaged for a short period, only six months they have been engaged. they have known each other longer. they got married in india, just close family and friends, only about 60 people. and the big secret of this wedding is that everybody had to give up their cameras, cell phones. that happens a lot now. they have sold the pictures for a million dollars to hello magazine. the uk publication that normally does deals with american ones, so don t be worried about this, we ll see the pictures in america, but not until their published in britain. that s interesting. if you know some of the background, katy comes from a pentecostal family, her father is a minister. so who officiated at the wedding? it was an indian minister that did it, a hindu minister is what i found out. i heard it was a hindu wedding but a christian minister who married them. i don t believe that s so but we can check. check please, rob. she did wear a sari, a traditional dress. there was elephants at the wedding. did any celebs end up going? nobody, nobody. you would think with their show business lives that somebody would be a best friend out of all that. the one that was rumored to go is rihanna. this is lovely. this was not a showbiz wedding. this is family and friends at a luxury big resort, a couple of elephants and tigers and bears, oh my. we touched on mel gibson and the hangover 2. what are you hearing? this is shocking that mel thought he got this gig, he was really excited to ma ed td to m comeback. this was going to be his tom cruise moment like in tropic thunder, a small part where the movie wouldn t be a success or failure because of his name. if you make a comeback, it is smart to do it without any risk of failing. was it just too early? it was early and it was the cast. the cast really got together here and this is amazing, this never happens, the cast got together and said, we just don t want him to be part of this. plus, i think everybody knew his attention to him was going to take over the entire movie. that could be. only in the scene for, like, less than two minutes. liam neeson taped the scene yesterday, did it in half a day. it shows you how short the scene was. mel s participation was becoming too much of a distraction, so we don t know if it was moral reasons, don t know if it was attention, but he s gone. do you think the jodie foster film he made called beaver, which is brilliant and will it ever be released as a result? i don t know. they don t have a release date for it. it is hard. with mel s name above a title, are the audience going to go? tell us about the babies. we talked about the twins. pictures there. this is a great story too. celine dion had her baby boys, early, but very healthy. both five pounds, eight, thank goodness. nobody worry. they had the best attention. mommy s healthy, the twins are healthy, everything is very, very good there. and matt damon had another little girl. four now. can you imagine? his wife had a daughter from another relationship. four girls. very private. so matt has never staged those baby pictures. if you think about the other girls, we have never seen matt on the cover of a magazine with the babies and announcing them to the world. i m being told it won t happen with this baby. you re not going to see this baby for a long time. the paparazzi is vying for it, though. celine is planning to do the sit down with the twins. i hear it may be people magazine and she has a show in vegas coming up in a couple of months. she ll be a size zero by next week. what about lindsay? what is the latest on lindsay lohan? lindsay is back in rehab. the only other option was prison. she ll go back to rehab. however, lindsay cannot afford to stay at the betty ford clinic. it is not cheap. $50,000 for 90 days. lindsay doesn t have it. even with all the films she was all the money is gone. the lifestyle she was living is very costly. it is. and a long time she s been living it without making any movies. and a lot of and a lot of people were their salaries were paid by her as well. even her mother, you know, family got paid by her. a lot of people are lindsay s payroll. the money is not there anymore. now they re trying to figure out how does she stay in betty ford? and unfortunately and this is a repulsive tale, but a true one, she s looking for a sponsor now to maybe pay for her to stay at rehab and when she comes out, she will endorse products. what a world! rob, good to see you. until next time. still to come, we reup aledi up a double mctwist. the hottest snowboarder in the world, shaun white is here. first these messages. o.um.thank you. excuse me. this is yours. thank you! with chase freedom you can get a total of 5% cash back. excuse me, sir.what a pretty blue card. oh! give him the money. what? 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[ boxer ] i m barbara boxer and i approve this message. carly fiorina. just too extreme for california. our kids can t afford another four years of crippling cuts to public schools. class sizes are too big, and all the standardized testing just isn t working. so classroom teachers looked closely at the plans of both candidates for governor. and we re supporting jerry brown. brown s plan focuses on a well-rounded education. with history, science, and the arts as well as english and math. schools where teachers and parents work together. and that s why we urge you to vote for jerry brown, a leader we can trust to make our public schools a priority again. abolish the public schools. he even called our schools insidious and socialism. as families struggle to raise their kids, to provide a good education, harmer bragged, we can design a plan to dismantle them. david harmer is just too radical. we need jerry mcnerney. protecting local schools from devastating cuts. he s a moderate, endorsed by the stockton record, the independent, and our local teachers. i m jerry mcnerney, and i approved this message. n the 49ers have a road game in london. they lost to the panthers yesterday and after the game moved to london. alex smith is hurt and no one knows if he can play on sunday. they will face the denver broncos. san francisco led most of the game until they kicked the final field goal in the last minute. the raiders will be at home thinking of how they with build on the record setting win in denver. they scored two touchdowns eight seconds apart. darren mcfadden had the best game scoring four touchdowns to tie a team record for most in a game. they also scored in points beating the broncos, 69-14. the raiders record 4-0. thanks so much for joining us this morning. today show joins us next. i ll see you bright and early tomorrow morning starting at 6:00 a.m. welcome back to today on this fun day. when he was just 7 years ole, shaun white entered his first amateur snowboarding competition. and won. that same year he was offered a sponsorship deal and six years later at the ripe old age of 13 he turned pro. unbelievable. the rest, as they say, is history. shaun is now a two-time gold medal snowboarding olympic champion. we love that. and the 24-year-old super athlete is taking on his next endeavor, video games. welcome. not retiring. no way. not yet. we need to know what kind of product is in that hair because it is melting and behaving. all sorts of action going on in there. something special in there? a lot of water. a lot of water. then i put my head out the car window on the way here so it looks good. you ve been busy, though. we remember you from the olympics. but you ve competed recently, haven t you, shaun? i was in las vegas. i skateboard in the summertime as heavily as i snowboard in the winter. i don t know if a lot of people know that. i won a competition in las vegas about a week ago. yeah. are the guys that you have to compete against just like so sick of you? you know, i mean, i know they love you as a person, but it is like tiger woods when he was winning every single competition. yeah. it is probably one of those things where, you know, i think it is frustrating but i think they love me for being there. made the sport so international. it is exciting. a lot of people do change. we have seen people who have become very, very successful at something and then you meet them a year or so later and they don t seem like the same person. but we were commenting, you seem like you re exactly the same guy. how do you keep everything in check? even better because the hair is longer. i don t know. for me, i have my family that keeps me basically on the ground and i just figured if i was going to become some other guy, it would have happened already. i m not really affected by all these things. and it is great, though, i now have just opportunities to really go out and do whatever i like. we re doing an event in china in december, december 4th, and i ve never been to china before, i m excited. the oakley show and what an amazing thing to go over and be supported by the government to have this big event. and they love video games over there. they do. let s check yours out, shall we? he s got this cool video game, you sort of designed this deal? yeah, well, i worked with uba soft, a company out of montreal. and, it is a skateboarding game. we made two snowboarding games that were best-sellers and now it is off to skating. we have sara and john doing it. what is the point? what am i trying to do here? the point is to right now, in this event, it is to beat your friend down to the bottom while getting the most points. you get the most points by doing tricks like these guys are doing. should we try? want to try? i m going to try. i m going to be so bad at this. you re going to be great. you re going to be great. you take sara s. john. what do you do? push that. hold this one. shaun, get involved, get involved. okay. so this one decides where you go with the toggle here. i m going straight. i want to go around. you re still good. okay. no, no, no! i m going. you want to flick the controller. what is this thing doing? there you go. there you go. yeah, baby. i won! player 2. player 2. john, we won. next time. it happens. i know. i don t know. i don t know how to click on the computer so this is the best i ve ever done. you guys did great. so how can people get this, shaun? any retailer, target is basically where i do all my stuff so okay. you mean target. yes, yes. we wish you the best of luck with everything. i know you ve got what s next for you now? gosh, i m kind of turn around. all over the place. like i said, the event in china and then when do you leave for that? home for the holidays after that? 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he sure comes with strings attached. jerry brown again? state budget cuts are crippling my classroom, so i can t believe the sacramento politicians cut a backroom deal that will give our state s wealthiest corporations a new billion dollar tax give-away, a new handout that can only mean larger class sizes and even more teacher layoffs. but passing prop 24 can change all that. prop 24 repeals the unfair corporate give-away and puts our priorities first. vote yes on prop 24, because it s time to give our schools a break, not the big corporations. against meg whitman. millions in cash for brown. and the teacher s union just spent millions more attacking meg. jerry brown again? he sure comes with strings attached. if you were the child of a widowed or divorced parents, at some point you may be happy it see your mom or dad back on the dating scene. when it comes to sharing, there is a point where it is just tmi, too much information. we asked readers to share their stories and cyndi levy is the editor in chief at glamour and gale saltz is a today contributor. we re so the color scheme. so too much information is the real issue when it comes to dating, right? i think it is. all daughters, we heard, found that they want their moms to be happy, they want their dads to be happy, but when your mom starts telling you, you know, exactly what s happening on her dates and details come out that you really don t even necessarily want to hear about your friends, let alone the people that raised you, radio t the reaction is la, la, la. kids grow up thinking their parents don t do that stuff anyway. when they do it with somebody else, it is disgusting. it shatters two things that make this a difficult topic. one is the feeling as a child no matter how old you get that your parents will always be together and always love each other and that s an intense fantasy that people hang on to through divorce and through death. why? is that for our own sense of safety. identity and safety and being loved and everything right with the world so that when your parent, even if the other one dies, starts to have feelings for someone else, it can be very painful. it is a painful reminder that that other person is not there. what is the right way to do it? if your kid let s say your mom is dating, you want to know some things because you want her to feel comfortable saying, hey, i met someone, what is the right way to play it? daughters told us they want to know their moms are happy and happy to know basic biographical data about the men their mom might be dating but don t want to hear intimate details or anything that will make them worry about their mom. you re still the daig. you don t want to have to take on the mother role and start worrying, why isn t my mom home yet at 2:00 in the morning. say your mom has met somebody and they re enjoying little dinners out and walks in the park and stuff. all of a sudden he wants to take her to vegas for the weekend. what do you do? you remember you can t have a role reversal. they re still your parent. you can have an adult-adult relationship but you can t become their parent. your temptation is going to be, you know may not go to las vegas and such, but really that s a role reversal. you can say things if you re concerned, like, gee, you know, do you really feel you know him well enough or, you know, and explore a little bit. at the end of the day, it is not up to you, even as an adult child. what do you think sometimes there are people looking for women who have some money. what if you think this guy might be after that? i think you can encourage your mother to take certain precautions. you can make sure her money is clearly under her name and encourage her to share that data with you, but, you know, you really do have to resist the tendency to be her parent. don t you find it is almost incredible, you can be with some 80-year-old people and all of a sudden they re teenagers again when it starts to happen. they forget all the wisdom they gained over 80 years. i m get in the back seat of the mom! that s part of the enjoyable part, right? it does take you back. you feel youthful and it is exciting and it is fun to be, like, in new love. so you want your parent to have that, but you don t want to get caught up in that where you start treating them like they re 2. your mother needs to learn to talk to her friends about that, not to talk to you. no sexual, no sexual talk. some adults are anxious for you two to leave because they have got their costumes on. and they want to show off. they re ready for howloween. howloween. david harmer wrote an education plan titled abolish the public schools. he even called our schools insidious and socialism. as families struggle to raise their kids, to provide a good education, harmer bragged, we can design a plan to dismantle them. david harmer is just too radical. we need jerry mcnerney. protecting local schools from devastating cuts. he s a moderate, endorsed by the stockton record, the independent, and our local teachers. i m jerry mcnerney, and i approved this message. i m jerry mcnerney, and i approved this message. this flu season, what would you pick for your flu vaccine? 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a pugle with his owner sarah. this costume is perfect for any dog because it is essentially a sweatshirt. you re wearing a pumpkin. if you don t want a hood, it is okay. take it down. that s $49. it is $29. it is a sweatshirt. it is good to go, simple for any dog. easy. oh, my gosh. i don t know if this large dog will make it. we have been trying to keep him together. thanks, guys. thank you, both. next is achilles. it is a husky, achilles i don t know if he ll make it. he s dressed up as a we had to show up with a costume to do cocktails nor segment. achilles is a bar. how did you make that? it is foam core from a craft store and hot glue anything you want on top. go crazy with the party supplies, plastic champagne cups, umbrellas, napkins and we tied it around achilles. he also has bar snacks that are dog treats, very important. let s give him one because he s cute. here you go, baby. you always have to tip your waiter. at the end, we have the black lab dress eed up as a jail bird and kennedy is here. this is harley as a jail bird, this is a store bought costume as well, it is $25, get it at target. if the dog was not harley loves the hat. if the dog doesn t like the hat, you still have the look going. you can shed accouterment if you get a little none of them that s hysteric hysterical. let s bring them all out. all righty then. coming up tomorrow, we have got a big, big hosw, a football season feast with jamie and bobby dean, the dean boys. judith light, love her. have a great fun day, everybody. 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