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beautiful weather along the eastern seaboard. that s what going on around the country, here is what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning, well, we ve got a lot of low clouds cover over local bridges and in the north bay. but it s not going to hang around all day long. in fact, we ll get a break in most cities about 11:30, maybe even noon. it s going to clear in san francisco making for mostly sunny day. 74 degrees later on. 77 in santa cruz, 88 degrees in los gatos. a little on the warm side inland today, couple of 90s on the temperature map. this is the warmest day of the week. start to drop off tomorrow and cool down friday through the weekend. hope have you a great day. . latest on this story. sarah, good morning to you. reporter: faced a judge in louisville on tuesday. new court documents reveal frightening details of the alleged plot and the clues that led police to make an arrest. . powerful new technology plastic explosives. madeleine telephoned for help. it took ten hours for bomb experts to remove the device and determine it was a sophisticated fake. ( good morning to you. it s 7:26 right now. i m laura garcia-cannon. a teenager stabbing victim is suing a mcdonald s restaurant for failing to protect him. he was stabbed several times in the restaurant parking lot after a music in the park concert june 9th. he said the restaurant should have better security and staffing when large crowds gather nearby in downtown shaez. his lawyer says he wants the restaurant owners to pay for medical expenses and emotional damage. in light of the recent murder of a -year-old boy oakland is visiting the possibility of a curfew for minors. police think the murder of carlos nav ark was gang related. some city leaders suggest it may have been prevented with a curfew. they want to see a citywide curfew in plays as well as an injunction in east and west oakland. opponents argue it will lead to profiling. other large cities already have curfews. let s take a look at the forecast with christina loren. good morning, laura. we have a comfortable day if you re waking up with us on the peninsula, san francisco in particular, a lot of sunshine slated for you. it will start to break through the next several hours. a lot of fog to get through on the local bridges, golden gate socked in. high pressure warming us up to 74 in san francisco, 82 in redwood city, 77 in santa cruz, great beach day, a little on the toasty side inland. you ll probably turn on the ac. drop off this weekend, turn it on sunday night. check the drive with mike inouye. commute turned on. antioch as well as baypoint, look at that slowing, highway 4 from overpass over to 242, 680, walnut creek. a little earlier than we expect. heyward, san mateo bridge dumbarton bridge, watch for that flow of traffic as well as that golden gate bridge, christina talked about it socked in. it is slow drive, watch north bay santa rosa down to san francisco. back to you. thank you very much. for the latest traffic and updates check out bre nbc aaya a morning news. expect another update for you in half an hour. . . as we go wes and north, take a look, bismarck, they had a lot of rain in the last 24 hours. more than four to five inches causing a lot of street flooding. big problems throughout that area. now let s turn to the tropics and show you out in the pacific we ve got tropical storm fernanda, right now 150 miles east southeast of points south hawaii moving west at 70 miles an hour. shouldn t be a big problem for hawaii, mostly a lot of rain for the southern parts of the island but for the most part not a big problem. the heat is a big problem for texas, 106 laredo, houston, 106. 80 days of 100 degree weather in wichita falls. oklahoma city, temperatures well above 100 as well. 60s and 70s in the pacific northwest, 70s and 80s in the northeast. 80s, a beautiful day around there. that s what going on around the country, here is what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning to you. we re getting a nice treat in the city of san jose, taking a live look here. you can see the guadalupe parkway moving along nicely under a clearing sky. can you see a little blue now. good sign. we re going to see that sunshine all the way through, completely clear sky in san jose and east bay as we head through the next couple of hours. by 10:00 a.m., completely clear conditions. you re going to have to wait until noon in the city of san francisco, 74, mostly sunny later on today. we keep on dropping off as we head to the weekend. 79 on sunday. you can track your weather all day long, weather channel and cable or click on weather.com online. matt. all right, al. thank you so much. coming up the message that your bad habits are sending to friends and co-workers. i guess most importantly how to break those bad habits. but up next,hechou ting story of a police officer s final act of generosity minutes before he was killed in the line of duty right after this. isn t it? . ou . .$a=k good morning, everybody. the time now is 7:56. i m jon kelley. this morning a vallejo special ed teacher accused of raping a developmentally disabled teenager and getting her pregnant. 56-year-old jerry johnson accused of attacking the 18-year-old girl during school hours at the elementary school where he taught. authorities in solano county say the victim has a mental capacity of a 7-year-old. johnson is still in jail and is pleading not guilty to the rape charges. well, copper thieves in san francisco have target add school four times over the past week. the examiner reports thieves stole copper pipes from the construction site from the campus of the alice fong yu alternative school. san francisco police say they are putting more patrols and plain clothed officers in the area. more light polls in danville, crews working near the country club and contada circle. cones and no parking signs will mark where the work is happening. pg&e says it won t have to cut off gas or trillion services during their work. time now for a quick check on the weather. we ll check in with christina loren. good morning to you, jon. good morning at home. setting future cast in motion. we have some fog out there. it shows you by 10:00 a.m. the fog will only be hugging the coast. going to get completely clear skies in places like livermore and down through the south bay by 10:00 a.m. not too much longer, a couple of hours the sun will come through warming you to 88 in livermore. a little on the warm side later on. close to 90 in most cities inland today. if you want to get those outdoor plans done, try to do it early. perfect weather at the coast, 74, drop off starting tomorrow and cooldown kicks into high gear friday through the weekend. let s check your drive right now, back to school, busier out there, mike. surface streets. watch those surface streets. so much drama on the freeways but we are seeing that build 85, 101, 87, all the in the northbound direction throughout san jose and the rest of the south bay, slowing in both directions through palo alto. san mateo 101 both direction as as well as 92 westbound commute directions speeds around 50, 55. no major drama there but it is slowing a bit. as you head across the water, slowing through antioch and pittsburgh. slowing through there walnut creek toll plaza metering lights on. for updates check out nbc bay area morning news on facebook. another update in one-half hour. . good morning to you. well, we have a really nice picture taking shape here over sunol. you can see the clouds taking part. the fog rolling back out to sea. good news. we re going to see a lot of sunshine for the first part of the day, even early on in places like oakland. 75 degrees with all of the sun coming in. 74 in san francisco and 77 degrees today in santa cruz. as we head throughout the remainder of the week, into th weekend, temperatures fall from 87 inland, 75 at the coast. back to the 60s and 70s next week. 12k34r and that s your latest weather. al, thank you so much. coming up next, a quick fix or a last resort? 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good. reporter: four years after gastric bypass she weighs 150 pounds less. one of a growing number of teens choosing so-called bariatric surgery for weight loss. some as young as 14. the bottom line is when these patients reach 300 pounds and they re adolescent and they have full bone maturity they really act like adults. reporter: the increase in surgeries come as childhood obesity reaches epidemic proportions. according to the center for disease control, 12.5 million kids ages 2 to 19 are now considered obese. almost triple the number from 19 eight. the doctors say that weight loss surgery is no magic bullet at any age and should only be used as a last resort. warning, some teens could face a lifetime of complications. it s not a quick fix. and even long term, many of these children need to maintain themselves on vitamins and nutritional supplements because of the surgery. so it s a big deal. reporter: at child health care of atlanta, teens have to go through a month-long program, including psychological counseling before even being considered for surgery. this isn t to make you pretty for the prom. the children that we see are going to die young if we don t do something. reporter: for evonia it was that life and death decision that she just finally gave her a life. i think that i took the interest of my life and it came out to be a blessing in disgu e disguise. and, you know, i m here and i m happy, i m enjoying life to the fullest. reporter: now lighter in so many ways. for today, kristen dahlgren, nbc news, atlanta. had gastric band surgery two years ago at the age of 16-piece doctor is the medical director at new york university s weight management program. good to see you both. good morning. good morning. doctor, i think people are going to watch this and they probably watched her story there and have mixed emotions. on the one hand, great that she s getting health yes, and losing weight, great that she s got some of the emotional baggage lifted. on the other hand, they re probably saying she s too young to take this kind of a step. are they both right? i think to some degree the kids that go through the surgery have tried many things, as she had and as matthew can tell you that he has had. i think the impact of carrying over 100 pounds on your frame, societal biased that comes with that and just sort of the trapped feeling that people have and kids also have really kind of go forward and then make it so that this is not something that they like, it s not cosmetic procedure. it s actually quite necessary. you had this two years ago. and i would imagine you had tried a lot of other things first. how did you come to the decision? well, kind of spent a lot of my life overweight. after a long time of trying different kinds of diets, things like weight watchers and things like that which just wasn t for me i heard about the whole lap band procedure and stuff because my mother. she told me about it. she went to a whole seminar about it and we were educated. did you ask all the right questions? did someone counsel you on the risks? of course. we were given huge packets full of information, telling us what the risks were, the fact that it s not the kind of quick fix thing, it s a tool to help you lose weight. and you actually you were given a lot of information before you even started to consider it. when we re talking about a 16 - or 17-year-old, doctor, are there any physical risks that are different than operating on an adult? and then what about emotional? the one, we always make sure the kids are fully grown. one part of that is assessing bone maturity. generally we check, but 13-year-old girls will be fully mature if they re considered morbidly obese and 15-year-old boys. but having said that we do assess that. and just at nyu we do have a program that is a research protocol for the adolescents. it s not just done as regular surgery in terms of the you came in to have any kind of surgery and we put it through your insurance. this is under a strict protocol. it s done with counseling, as well. i want to mention that operating on people under the age of 21, you just told me still makes up only about 1% of your overall practice. so it s not happening all that often. true. and in terms of it, you have to give matthew advice to some other teenager out there who may have struggled the way you struggled and may be now considering a procedure like this, what would you say? i think first of all you have to be very educated on what you re doing. you have to understand that this isn t something that, no, i promised in three months i have to look good, surgery and drop away fast. i ve been losing weight for two years now and lost 150 pounds and i m still going. it s a process. people need to understand that the most important thing is to know that it s okay to mess up and it s okay to kind of have setbacks as long as you keep going. if you get the surgery done and you feel like you aren t losing weight fast enough there are things you can do to help you out. essentially with the team be hind you, nutritionists and doctors. seems to be working for you. that s most important. matthew, it s great to have you here. doctor, thank you so much. and up next, from being late to smacking your gum, w s bayutu habits say about you. that s right after this. 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i think part of it is people are not managing their time well and not recognizing they should respect others as much as they want to be respected. lots of self awareness. it can really impact relationships. it can ruin it. so if someone runs late all the time, say, when do you want to meet? what restaurant do you like? don t be shy about saying, remember, this is your plan so don t keep me hanging. let s move on to a couple of habits. people that bite their nails. i confess. crack their knuckles, i confess. twirl their hair. harriet, what do you think this is demonstrating? insecurity. i think when people do those things, fires st of all, they dt realize they re doing it. developed over time when they were unsure about something. you can stop it. i actually teach a lesson on stopping it. every time you realize you re doing it, take a breath instead. pause and empower yourself. do you advocate telling somebody you re doing this? absolutely but not saying stop it because the guy is still nervous. that s not going to go to the underlying thing. identify can help. say, you know what, i do the same thing when i m nervous. do you know what helps me? just saith sitting back and tak breath. virginia says, my mother smacks her gum while talking to others, especially when she s on the cell phone. what do you do address that? if it s your mother, i think it s the kindest thing in the world to say, mom, stop. just so you know you re doing this, i hear that gum really loudly. okay. a lot of times people will not chew the gum when they re in public but they don t realize what s happening on the phone. why do people slurp their food? i didn t know it was possible to slurp rice. my pet peeve, people who slurp their food and loudly lick their fingers. it s rude and obnoxious. it s an important thing to assess your relationship. can i tell harriet, yes? i know her well. can i tell you? i m just meeting you today, probably wouldn t. teach your children how to eat. if you teach them, later they will do it the right way. thank you so much. and now here s matt. savannah, thank you. let s head down to washington, d.c. say hi to mr. willard scott. hey, willard. ah, a little ice cream, a little strawberry jam. put that on top of that ice cream, make a little short cake. summertime and living is easy. happy birthday from smuckers. take a look, our birthday buddies are here. this is alfred strong. hazard, kentucky, 100 years old. proud world war ii veteran. still drives and enjoys gardening and loves to feed the birdies and squirrels. i like to do that. i don t do much for people but i do that for birds. bertha, beautiful bertha evans. battle creek, michigan. 10 44. loves to travel, especially to foreign places and loves her family very much. let s switch the jam jars and look at emilie krause, fairview park, ohio. 104. loves to garden and takes care of her 200 rosebushes in her backyard. reads her bible every day. people who garden live forever. and if you will watch this, please. we have from willard, wisconsin, we have carl gerold. 100 years old today. lives independently and loves to fish. enjoys going out to the happy hour. happy, happy, happy hour. and molla rosen from fairfield, connecticut. she s 103 years old today. former miss connecticut. 1926. and still looks fantastic. she loves to cook. happy birthday to you. and we have a happy birthday wish to margaret. i like that name. margaret palmer. west palm beach, florida. 102. enjoying gardening and playing all kinds of card games. amazing people so active. now, back to no, new york. all right, willard, thank you very much. when we come back, will we make you a believer? al catches up r itafte lyoatesurhet onkees r teneyour latest news. ws good morning, everyone. the time now is 8:26. i m jon kelley. it s a question that s been looming over the city of santa clara for months now. how will the city build a new 49ers stadium if they kill relocal redevelopment city. they will opt in to the state s optional redevelopment agency plan. that means the city will pay the state a cut of its redevelopment funding to keep the agency afloat. santa clara will pay the state a little more than $11 million this year and a little less than $3 million each year the time the time now is 8:26. we ll have weather and traffic right after this. good morning to you. it s 8:28. taking a live look at san jose, what is left of the cloud cover. it s broken apart for the most part. clear skies taking shape over the south and east bay. still foggy in san francisco. that will likely be the case until 11:00, maybe even noon today. you re going to get clear skies in oakland over the course of the next hour. 75 degrees in oak town today. 88 in livermore. we cool off starting tomorrow and that cool down kicks into high gear this weekend. let s check your drive with mike. orvkay. we re focusing on the toll plaza. reports of a minor accident blocking a lane or two in that slowdown. they will have to move the car over to the shoulder. a look at the map in the vicinity, slow heading up to oakland, 880, and south towards the san mateo bridge. south of 92 we have an accident on 880 as you head through fremont and union city. back to you. mike, if you want traffic and news updates, check out nbc bay area morning news on facebook. i ll be back in about half an hour with more local news. we re back, 8:30 on a wednesday morning, 17th day of august, 2011. picture perfect start to the day. picture perfect crowd gathered here on rockefeller plaza. i m matt lauer along with savannah guthrie in while ann is on assignment. natalie morales and al roker, as well. coming up, i have to look forward to something like this in a long time. al joins the monkeyday monkees. you had the monkees. they hit the road, 45th anniversary tour. unfortunately it was cut short. did i have anything do to do with it? well, we ll let you know. i got a chance to talk with the monkees and even performed with them on stage. they were never the same after that. when you did the a wetambour like that do you have to have your mouth open? also coming up, inspirational story we brought you last week. 61-year-old diana nyad was forced to end her second bid to swim from cuba to the florida keys. she s here to tell us what happened and if she has any plans to try just one more time. third try, diana, maybe? we ll see. we ll talk to her in a little bit. and we ve also got great makeovers to show you some really cute puppies and older dogs, too. we ll get to that. a lot to get to. first, mr. roker, how about a check of the weather sdm. let s see what s happen if you re taking a train to clarksville, plenty of sun vine. beautiful weather up and down the eastern seaboard. showers starting to move in the upper mississippi river valley. tomorrow morning from the northern mississippi river valley into the central mississippi, strong storms. heat continues out west and pacific northwest. the heat continues in texas on into the good morning to you. well, our skies are clearing rapidly. you can see that here from our live picture of sunol as we head throughout the morning, over the course of the next couple of hours, mostly between now and 11:00 a.m., we re going to lose all of that cloud cover in the city. 74 degrees as a result. 82 up in santa rosa and 77 degrees. great beach day if you can make it down to santa cruz. 83 by friday. temperatures start to plummet back to the 70s this weekend. really comfortable weather for outdoor activities. hope you have a great day. don t forget, you can check your weather any time of the day or night on weather channel on channel weather.com. coming up next, al takes the stage with the monkees. but first, this is today on nbc. sure, pulling the mold, mildew, and grime from out of the porous caverns of grout takes the right tools, but it also takes a gentle, caring touch. before you can deep clean, you learn to get a feel for its trouble spots. and hey, if you can t listen to grout, you can t truly know its wants.its needs.its dreams. call 1-800-steemer. with totino s pizza rolls. big pizza taste in a bite size roll that my kids can t resist. plus i get two box tops for their school. totino s pizza rolls. the pizza way to snack. and safeway s 10% back to schools program, now there are two ways to earn cash for your kids school. from august tenth through september thirteenth look for products marked with the yellow bus and earn even more by signing up for e-box tops at 2ways2earn.com. when the monkees debuted in the 1950s they were touted as america s answer to the beatles. they kicked off a 45th anniversary tour. and our own al got to spend some time with them. al? i sure did, matt. i hopped on the atlantic train to clarksville and caught up with the band in bakers field, california, fortunately my timing was impeccable. while they came and then they went. 56 episodes. show was incountries around the world. sold millions of records. why are we doing it again? because we had the best song together. reporter: 45 years after the monkees exploded on both the music and television scenes, three of the original band members, micky, david, and peter, now in their 60s, recently reunited for a multi-city tour. are there any monkeys fans here tonight? reporter: they made it through 47 dates and 37 u.s. cities, abruptly canceling the tour. citing internal business affairs. fortunately i caught up with them before the wheels came off the tour bus. does it seem like it s been 45 years since you guys got started doing this? yeah. yes. are you surprised at all at the fervor, the excitement the people have had for this tour? we haven t even talked about it, no publicity, press agent. no. the songs stand up over and over, from year to year to year. a has a lot to do with it. four mondakees. why isn t mike touring with you? mike didn t like to tour. he hardly liked to come to the set when we were filming. but, you know, very talented man. he s always been invited. i want to say that, make that clear. he s always welcome and always been invited. reporter: the monkees, america s original boy band was assembled in los angeles in 1966 for the tv series of the same name. at the time of the group s formation the producers saw the monkees as america s answer to the beatles. although the tv show only lasted for two years, the group sold more than 50 million records. 66- 67, you guys exploded, what was it like? you guys were david and the beatles at that point? i don t think we were bigger than the beatles. everyone claims that. fans got it. actually it was john lennon that said they re the marx brothers. that s true. that s much closer than a comparison to the beatles. you were saying that you get things tossed at you now a little differently than before. well, you know, that s a joke in a sense that they used to throw, you know, little briefs and things like that and now they re throwing depends. that s a joke. he used to be a heartthrob. and now i m a coronary. join us tonight. you re a monkee. you need a wool hat. they need a fourth monkee. i m going? very special guest. ladies and gentlemen, a big hand, from the today show, mr. al roker! all right. the hair we all wish we had. no pets were killed in the making of that shirt? no, there is not one natural fiber on my body right now. well, there could be if you play your cards right. hit it. take the last train to clarksville and i ll meet you at the station reporter: and just like that, my childhood dreams became a reality. because i made your reservation and i ll be waiting at the station oh no no no no mr. al roker! let s do another one. let s rock on. monkee arounder doing any singing will bring everybody down thank you, al roker! good night! more than amazing that i could still into my jeans, was that these guys are 70 years old, played almost three hours without a break. we wish they could have made it through the end of the tour with just six weeks to go. come on. you broke them up. oh, wow. the best part about that is that footage of us in spandex. it will never be seen again. this is what we ll now see every time their name is mentioned. we have a version of i m a believer coming up in the 9:00 hour. really? yeah. remarkably good. you really were. i m just shaking a tambourine. come on, you had the dance moves down. perfect. you had the hair. most importantly. i see a tour next year for you. al, thank you very much. still ahead, money 911, but first, this is 911 in particular. this is today on nbc. -dad, why are you getting that? -that s my cereal. is there a prize in there? oh, there s a prize, all right. is it a robot? no. is it a jet plane? nope. is it a dinosaur?] [ male announcer ] inside every box of heart healthy cheerios are those great tasting little o s made from carefully selected oats that c help lower cholesterol. stickers? uh-uh. a superhero? kinda. [ male announcer ] and we think that s the best prize of all. back at 8:43. diana nyad first captivated in world in 1978 when she attempted the swim of a lifetime. the 103-mile journey from havana to key west. but she had to quit when wind and bad weather pushed her off course. last week at the age of 61 diana tackled the shark-infested waters for a second time. and 29 hours into that swim, the weather, once again, forced her to abandon her dream. diana, good morning. great to see you here. natalie, my pleasure. a little over a week ago today that you set off on that journey from cuba. and what happened in the course of those 29 hours, because if conditions at the time were perfe perfect. starting it off, like glass. i said to my best friend, bonnie, as i went, i said, you know, this is my time. we have done it right and now look, there s like angels at the waters for us. it got choppy. that wasn t it. the right shoulder, that wasn t it. but some 17 hours into it, i started with an extreme asthma attack. never happened to me in my life before. i don t know if it was painkiller i took, jellyfish things, marathoners say you never know what the day is going to bring you. and in a million years i imagined being eaten by a shark, i did. i was ready for that. no way. i managed a hurricane sweeping through. but i never imagined this. it was 11 hours of asthma. and when i met you over a week ago before you took off for your swim you said you would have to be in a state of complete unconsciousness before getting out of the water. yeah. when you had to make that decision, 29 hours into this swim, what was that moment like for you? you know, it was such a shame, natalie, because i was so ready. i wasn t even sore after almost 30 hours of swimming, no soreness. i was in shape for this thing. wow. ready to do it with a team, 50 people, all of their expertise. the shark people, nutrition people. but the asthma, have you ever had asthma? i haven t. i know it s you can t function. it s 11 hours, i just gasping and wheezing. it just took everything. you re doing extreme activity. yes. the exertion, yeah. i know the feeling of swimming on top of the water and gliding across. and at least i had that until the 17th hour. it was magical. you mentioned your team. you had a team of 22 incredible people there rooting for you throughout the way. yeah. responsible for your nutrition, managing, keeping the sharks at bay. yeah. how disappointed were you to come out of the water and not be able to see it happen? i have to admit, you know, in some ways in all of those thousands of people who respond and say it s just the effort and it was herculean, my team and i can look back at the whole two years, including the swim itself. we were high on life. it was an adventure. it was worth doing. no regrets. how else can we look back at anything we do in our lives? if you can look at it that way, you re okay. will you try it again? you know, it s like asking your best friend who just goes through a horrible divorce, you know, and loses custody of the kids. hey, are you going to get married again? right. it s a tough time to ask because it s a huge thing to put to the. all i can say is as a human being, i feel very proud of what we did, what we accomplished. i stand tall and i feel inspired to live my life like this. as an athlete, and that s good. disappointment is crushing. that s really, you said you were inspired. and you inspired so many. and isn t that really, diana, a journey, it s not so much the destination? primarily. primarily. i think this is the way i want to live life. it s not look back with regrets and i can look at this swim and say, you know, we went to the max for it. and i went to the max for it. nobody can nobody can feel the we didn t put every ounce of what we had into it. and that s a good feeling. you keep keeping on, keep inspiring us. diana nyad, thank you so much. we loved your story. coming up next, a makeover. but first, this is today on nbc. narrator: today is brought to you by new pet armor plus the the same flee and pet protection as frontline and half the cost. back now from bow to wow, where we take shelter dogs, give them a makeover and give them a new home. 100% success record so far. today s animal advocate is here. you will be happy to know that last month our adorable three-legged maltese, while we had the most requests for her, even more than the yellow lab puppy that you love so much, isn t that wonderful? she got a wonderful home, they all do. we re proud of that. today we have four more great gals. we re calling today s segment is girl power pooches. the dog days of summer are coming to an end, but sadly the cages are still filled to capacity at animal care and control of new york city. beautiful breeds including little zoe. a 1-year-old beagle mix. every month i always say if there s one that gets to me, this little zoe is such an angel. she s so sweet and very scared and timid because of what happened to her. exactly. she came to us because her family fell on hard times and they re actually having to go into a shelter themselves. now she s here and they re hope that we can find her a good home and get her a new start in life. from the subdued to the spunky. that s an understatement. meet this jumping jessie. 11 months old. she s going to need a little training yet. she s very energetic and loves to play. actually she doesn t want to sit in your lap. she wants to be out playing with a ball or running around being explorato exploratory. she came in as a stray. she s in very good condition. reporter: on to our golden gal, roxie mae. a siberian husky mix. she s not camera shy. she s in really great condition. beautiful coat. yeah. she was a stray. hi there, sweetheart. and she doesn t seem to be too afraid. no. just enough energy. she s confident. she s very relaxed. just very curious. reporter: and finally, our la one, a little less fur, say hi to zelda. zelda 5-year-old shitzou mix. came in as a stray. beautiful markings. beautiful. sweet. these dogs obviously so popular. great with other dogs, children, wonderful family pets, right? you can see that she s sitting really well in our lap. she loves to take little walks. reporter: four more fabulous dogs waiting for a place to call home. all right. richard is with animal protection here in new york city. and so we have a lot of young dogs, all girls. all girls. on the young side. on the young side. we have a couple of puppies less than a year old but this is a great time of year to adopt. we have a great success rate. there are so many other dog, hundreds and thousands of dogs that need good homes. a long road. let s get to our first pooch. this is zoe. let s show her picture at the shelter before we do the big reveal. she s a beagle. zoe, come on out. natalie s got her. show us your stuff. zoe s a little shy. she s a little more comfortable. come on, sweetie. she s a little timid in walking around. her family left her but they fell on hard times and had to give her up. yes. best suited in a home without other animals because she is a little timid and needs a lot of love. love and patience. bring her along slowly and she ll acclimate. we know beagles like to howl. she s howled a little bit before. okay, natalie. thank you so much. she is adorable. okay. all right. let s go on to jessie. let s show what jessie looked like at the shelter before we gave her an extreme makeover. she s a puppy. oh, my gosh. she has a ton of energy. she s 11 months old. you have to have lots of toys. from one toy to another. when we groomed her up you can see how black and shiny her coat is. she s a really, really good condition. everyone loves puppies but what do you need to know to be prepared for if you get a puppy like this? a lot of vitamins. and make sure that you can give them a lot of exercise because she really she s being mellow right now. she has a ton of energy. she has to be occupied. thank you for showing us jessie. next pooch is roxie mae. here s her before picture. i love her name. she was a stray but she might have had some training? she had some training. she has a fox look. when she walk on a leash, we ll have to work on that a little bit, she pulls like she s a sled dog, like she s pull you down the street. she knows her commands but she does have energy and you re going to run with her and play with her a lot. beautiful coat. she s gorgeous. thank you. okay, mark. thank you. bye. and finally we have zelda. zelda needed a hair cut. look at her now. you can actually see her eyes now. she s very playful. small dog, 5-year-old dog. playful. just go up in your lap and hang out with you. she just loves the attention. she s a shitzou mix and has been with the foster family. what do we learn ability her? that she gets along with other dogs. she s really, really loving. i have to tell you, she is the most loveable, affectionate dog. let s bring all our dogs out one more time. take another look. show them. we have to remember, 100%. keep it going. go to your local shelter. the most wonderful dogs you can get. we re having a party down here. she s coming alive now. thank you so much. we ll be back a little bit more on today on nbc. a very good morning, everyone. it s now 8:56. i m jon kelley. this morning, a wildfire still burning out of control near lake tahoe. we have cell phone video coming to us from douglas county, nevada, southeast of heavenly valley. so far, flames have ripped through a thousand acres since yesterday afternoon and fire crews say the blaze is not showing any signs of down . down. christina loren will be next with weather after this break. do something for it. show it some love. chevron with techron. care for your car. good morning to you. clear skies over the east bay and south bay right now. still socked in with fog over the golden gate bridge. traffic seems to be moving okay even with all of the that fog. 56 in san francisco and you can see where the yellows and oranges are shaping up. 61 degrees right now in san jose. on your way to the upper 80s in most cities across the bay area today. our temperatures are going to climb into the upper 80s and then start to cool down as we head into the weekend. seven-day outlook in just moments. stay tuned for that. back to you, jon kelley. thank you, christina. for the latest traffic and news updates, go to nbc bay area morning news on facebook. the today show is next. we are back now with more of today on a wednesday morning, 17th of august, 2011. these people have stuck around for a long time just to check out savannah guthrie as we spend time with them in the morning. look at that little cute baby there. i m matt lauer along with savannah guthrie and al roker. how would you like it if you go to the doctor and the doctor says, okay, here s what i want you to do. i want you to have more sex and drink more wine. i feel like i m no, no, nothing. what would you say? apparently that could be some of the recommendations you get if you re battling heart disease. other things like flossing, getting enough sleep, getting enough exercise. we re going to fill you in on the seven things you can do to reduce your risk of heart disease. that s the deal i m not getting a second opinion. i tell you that. also ahead, money 911 team is here. this week we are answering all your questions via twitter. help you sort out your financial emergency, especially with all the ups and downs in the market lately. wondering how much you should be putting away for your child s jjy also advice if you re paying for a divorce or buying real estate as an investment. we actually have an idea to make a little bit of money. how about cleaning out your closet? jill martin is here to tell us why whether it s a vintage first or bridesmaid s dress or old jewelry. you can make it a big seller and make some fast cash and clean if out your closet. yesterday, bill told us we need to get rid of 75% of our closet. make sure it s your closet. we cleaned out 75% of your closet, let s go inside. natalie morales has a check of the headlines. good morning again. today president obama is wrapping up his three-state bus tour of the midwest where he s holding two town meetings in western illinois.g0ìáhp &hc& administration official says the president will give what s described as a major address on jobs and the deficit next month. meantime, the newest republican in the race, texas governor rick perry is facing criticism from both sides after suggesting that ben bernanke s policies border on treason. britain is saying there are doubts about the testimony in phone hacking scandal. lawmakers say a letter from a news of the world reporter claims that phone hacking was evasive. they told parliament they had been unaware of phone hacking at one of their british papers. today an australian teenager who spent ten hours with a fake bomb strapped around her neck said she s relieved to know a suspect has been arrested. paul peters is being held in kentucky. if he is sent back to australia he s expected to face charges of kidnapping and extortion. and this morning 18-year-old madeleine pulver is wondering why she was targeted. four of the nation s largest tobacco companies sued the government on tuesday over new cigarette warning labels required in two years. they say the labels which include pictures of diseased lungs and smokers unfairly urges adults to avoid a legal product and will cost millions of dollars to produce. and new sign of recovery and hope in joplin, missouri, three months after the single deadliest tornado the u.s. has seen there in more than 60 years. st. john s mercy officials have now announced plans to build a new hospital to replace the one that was destroyed in the may tornado and it is expected to open in 2014. the price tag for the hospital and additional facilities almost a billion dollars. today s schools in joplin also reopened for the first time since the tornado hit. and the border collie named petey has become an internet sensation with his volleyball skills. returning the ball, an amazing 32 times. petey s got the talent paws down, if only he could spike it. i bet he could do that, too. let s get a check of the weather from al. cute pup too. thanks, natalie. let s check it out and show you what s happening for your weather today. we do have strong storms possible today in the upper plains. otherwise, looking at monsoonal moisture. heat continues in texas. houston will see the 17th day in a row of 100 plus readings. gorgeous in the pacific northwest. temperatures in the upper 70s and low 80s. sunny throughout new england. expecting showers and thunderstorms. down through central and good morning to you. another live look at sunol shows you what is taking place over the golden gate bridge. socked in with fog and that goes for the city of san francisco. as we head through the next couple of hours, you re going to lose those clouds. temperatures in the upper 80s and low 890s in a couple of spots. 86 in san jose and we continue the cool down as we head into the weekend. 70s return by sunday. time now for today s money 911. we answer some of your most pressing financial questions. today jean chatzky is here, author of money 911 . we have a personal finance expert and author of real cost of living and president of consumer education at smartcredit.com. hey, guys. good morning. doing something different today. all the questions are coming off of twitter. so let s get started right now. our first one comes from jendca. jennifer smith hicks. she wants to know, what is the best type of savings plan to start for a 7-year-old that will grow and be accessible in approximately ten years? sounds like she wants money for college. right. right. so we want to put that money in a 529 college savings plan. the trick is pick the best plan for you. go to a website savingforcollege.com. and look for your state plan because then you may be able to get a tax deduction or some other perk for putting the money there. that s a good way to go. next up, wife of a dairy man. from california. they have a farm in california. want to know, having two kids, ages 5 and 7. 7ó how much should i plan on saving on a monthly basis for their college education? i want to say depends, are first and then plan for school. we have a saying we use a lot, you don t have to save for it all. that s almost impossible for almost everybody. here s what you do. save up for a third of it, borrow a third of your college education, and look for scholarships and grants for a third. you re planning on a much smaller amount than the full tuition, room and board bill. you have a 5 and 7-year-old. 529 is fantastic. transferrable between siblings. let s say the 7-year-old decideses i don t want to finish school. the money can be used for the younger sibling. there s also work. work is always good. work. we did it, work. absolutely. same here. all right. next, let s move now, any suggestions for student loans in this economy? how to save/spend/pay off debt? what a beautiful dovetail. in addition to save, how about choosing a school that doesn t necessarily require so much tuition? look, students loans, you re limited to a pretty popular choices. the federal and the private. federal, you re going to get a better interest rate. private, you re not. i m going to go off the reservation and suggest something alternative. exhaust all your options for financial aid, grants, and scholarships. remember, right now, we are in more student loan debt, in the united states than credit card debt. $800 billion. exhaust all of those three options before you take out loans. the tweets have to be 140 characters or less. you guys are staying close to that. we re working on it. kelly decker, to pay necessary attorney fees in a divorce is it better to put it on a credit card or cash in a 401(k)? i don t like either of these answers. bad, bad choice. but here s what i want you to do first. talk to your lawyer, because if your spouse is without the money, your ex, soon to be ex-spouse, is actually fork over the money for the legal fees and then maybe you can do neither one of these. the other thing is to do is look at the interest rate on the credit card and compare it to the penalties and taxes you will have to pay on the 401(k). whichever one is lower, it will probably be the credit card. next one coming for you, carmen. i m a recent college grad. a small loan to pay back. what should i be investing in to save for the future. you re in great shape. i want you to know, don t just save for the future. what are you saving for exactly? that s going to determine how you save. down payment for a house or if you re going to want to rent to get your own place, short-term, keep it in cash. longer term, retirement, make sure you have a roth ira. also, you can sock money away there and after five minutes, pull out your principal, say, for a down payment on a home. have goals for where your money is going to go and build those goals appropriately. just because it s cheap, doesn t mean it s a good lt investment. would you buy real estate at 3% to 4% interest? lt is probably long-term investment. insider. here you go. home prices are down. interest rates are way down the seems like a great time to buy a house, right? maybe not necessarily. because think about this. if you bow row $100,000 at 4%, you re still in $100,000 of debt. we don t know what property values are going to be in the next 12 to 24 months. buy a house because you want a house. buy a house because it s in a good school district. don t buy a house because of a 4% interest rate. if you re going to live there for five years. and stay put. jean, how do you get your finances organized with a baby on the way. this is from emily. pregnancy is a great time to plan. what you need to do, quick things. know where your money is going. if you know where it s going then you can make the changes to save 10% which you absolutely need to do year in and year out. and figure out what those big baby items coming your way happen to be. if you re thinking of staying home after the baby comes and we couldn t really tell that, use pregnancy as a road test. bank one income and live on the other during that nine months. real quickly. 30 seconds left. is it better to file bankruptcy or default and stop paying credit card bills all together? drowning in debt. don t default. they can sue you and garnish your wages. go to nfcc.org, talk to a non-profit credit counselor and get this all in shape. see if you re a good accandidat for bankruptcy. all right. there you go. we knocked them all out. thank you so much. still to come, from hitting the gym to hitting the sack. what you need to be doing every day to keep your heart healthy. and later on, turning your rags into riches. jill martin helps you clear out the clutter and make some hard cash to boot. after these messages. o boot. after these messages. gne. afwow! the best in the world. .some chocolates swiss! ah.the best in the world. oikos greek yogurt from dannon. really? wait until you try it. so creamy thick and fresh tasting dannon oikos berry flavors beat chobani 2:1 in a national taste test. mmmm. this may be the best in the world. oikos greek yogurt possibly the best yogurt in the world. 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[ female announcer ] there are theories that color holds power over us. well, those theories. are now fact. connect to the truest, richest paint we ve ever created. color at its most electric. valspar hi-def advanced color system. connect to the power in color. valspar. rated number one among national paint brands. if you re like most women your closet is probably crammed pull full of jeans, dresses and handbags that you haven t used in months but you can t bring yourself to toss it. would it help you if we told you you could make money off of some of those old clothes? jill martin is going to help us. she s out with her second book i have nothing to wear. good morning. good morning. we had a huge number of viewers who responded yesterday because you told them to get rid of 75% of their clothing, clean out their closets. this is follow up because you can make money doing that. we all say we stand in front of our closets and say i have nothing to wear. this are secrets in this book to start. start with a closet cleanse. 75%? i m going to have nothing left. but hen you go in your closet and you take those first ten items, for example, you realize you don t wear most of what s in your closet. it s always your favorites, from the top of the pile items. here s what i m saying. start your closet cleanse and make two piles with the 75%. one is a donation pile, which is so nice because you can give to other people. the other pile you re going to make money on. i m going to show you six ways how to do it. let s start off with denim to dollars. how many of us have, you know, a couple dozen pair of jeans that we never wear, right? how many pairs do you own? now i only own three because i ve done the closet cleanse. we all said this around the office. people save jeans from college that don t fit and that are a mess and have 15 to 20 pairs. i m saying going down to your two to three pairs. i m wearing one of my favorite now. i love those. go on ebay and then they have this thing called, light pair. these six pairs of jeans that were on ebay that went for $60. do they have to be the same size? it s better because you re appealing to a person that need this many pair of jeans or they have a family that sort of needs that many pair. you go to the lot and then you sell them this tl. so you have less cluter in your closet and $60 in your closet. not a bad deal. it winds up being fun because you get into it and it s free. see how much your clothes go for. next, selling your shoes. now, ladies, admit it, a lot of us have way too many shoes, as well. we like to just keep buying more and more. you ve got to get rid of some and you can make money. post them again on-sites like ebay because these went for $50. nine west shoes were more money for that but we all go into the stores, buy shoes and say they will be more comfortable once i wear them. that is never the case. sort through your closet. they don t have to be new. they can be barely used or worn a few times like these. they can go from anywhere between $20 and $100 for most shoes from department stores. a really good pair of designer shoes are going to go for more than that. in the book you have a story about your louis vuittons that you never wore. if you don t wear them, they don t belong in your closet so consign them. from shoes to purses we buy the it bag of the moment and then forget it until the next bag replaces it. so many people invest in that one designer brand and that one item that they have to have. and then never wear it. we get tired of it. right. i consign a lot of things. what happens is they take it s not necessarily what the retail price was, it s what is current and what s in. so they ll sell bags that were originally maybe $150 or $125 and then you get 50% in most places of what they sell it for. they can be used. they can be used. then in places around the country that don t have stores like h and m and forever 21. if you have those and bring them in that s what people want. it s all about what people want. you have to be creative. but you can make money that way. important to know consignment shops are higher end consignment shops, right? yes. and one where s you can bring that forever 21. it s what other people want. okay. next over here, cash for gold. now, you hear a lot about people now taking their gold jewelry and trying to sell it and get some money for it. so i think the question is, it has you have to know what you re doing here. you don t want to walk out feeling like you were taken for a ride. well, gold is so high right now. gold is so high. this is what my family did. my mom and i took old jewelry tangled up. for this whole lot right here, just this ring and two tangled. earrings. we went to three places. $270 to $280 for this grouping. okay? this is a single earring. we can t find the other one so what are we going to do with it. they give you the stones back. you have to do research. this single gold bracelet, $599, $627. gold. but we all have that one piece from when we were younger. this lot which is a charm, another single earring, $387 to $433. you see there s nothing this is all by itself. you ve got it in your drawer with nowhere to go. that s a great perfect. great option. great way to make money and a lot of money. jacket jackpot. okay. we all have many jackets. i mean, that closet is jam pa packed with yours, your kids. you go on craigslist free. you join. free to post. you go into your city. and then you put up your jackets. and jackets, these are three jackets like these going between $40 and $100. you can also group them together. go into your city so everybody has the same environment. take pictures and put the description up. but if you re not wearing them, again, they don t belong in your closet. okay. and speaking of things that don t belong in our closet, how many of you have bridesmaids dresses that you re never going to wear again or sometimes you actually have a wedding gown. no offense to all of my college friends but i have so many or had so many bridesmaids dresses. i do, now i don t. they will take your bridesmaids dresses. send them in. they put them online and then people will bid for them. and then wedding dresses. i know a lot of people save their wedding dresses. it s so sentimental. i don t want to get involved there. but they stay in boxes. and then nobody ever wears them again. why not let somebody else have memories from them. so i do now i don t. you can put your wedding dress up as well and make money. a lot of dresses retail for $225 you can get almost $100 for. that s great. you never you never wear bridesmaids dresses again unless you really revamp it. i see a lot of closet cleaning in my future today. everyone is running home. i know. the things to do today. again, it s called i have nothing to wear. if you need help clearing the clutter, submit your photos and questions and jill may actually come and help you out. yes, she will. coming up, the seven things you should be doing all the time to keep your heart healthy. later, hey, hey, it s the monkees. al hits the stage with the icons on their reunion tour. we ll have more up righting up right after these messages. f . but we don t make stuff. we make ovens. dual fuel double ovens. and they bake so evenly, so perfectly, that now, delicious is something you can depend on. we only make things for one room. the best room. your kitchen. we re devoted to it, delighted by it, and you can feel it in everything we make. nobody knows the kitchen like kitchenaid. good choice. launch me fellas. 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i have some garlic and olive oil cooking. i m going to add some butter. very good. some red pepper. a little parsley. very good. a little lemon juice. i m going to let it cook for about a minute. lemon juice. juice. juice. we have cooked the pasta already. al dente. throw it in. and a little of the pasta water. let it cook for a minute. pasta water thickens it up a little bit? right. we re then going to add the calamari that my mom has cooked. and this is how it looks. amore. let s do some of this. this is local. this is an envelope for a package. let s do a little fennel, carrots, leeks, olive oil, a little garlic. then we re just going to add a little bit of butter. just a tad bit. just a little flavor. we re going to cook that off for about a minute. crunchy. then we re going to start that envelope we talked about. okay. you can help me. please. do a little monkees song? a little pepper. pepper. all right. olive oil. uh-huh. and we re going to make that package now. fennel, thyme, parsley. hold on. let me get my package real quick. we re going to make that foil. hold on. hold on. okay. hot. be careful. it s delicious. that s amore! we did it. very good. now we have the sweet stuff. this is peach cobbler. what better way to use the freshest fruits of the season. start with some peaches, butter, sugar. canned peach snes? no, fresh stuff. cornstarch. lemon juice. you can do this either way, on the stove or actually put this in your baking dish and bake it in the oven, all these ingredients. skip this whole step. exactly. this way you have one less pot to clean. we mix it all around. it s going to thicken. okay. and then we put it in our pan. looks good. and then we put our lovely topping which has sugar, flour, butter, almonds. and we bake this cinnamon. we bake this i was just asking. we bake this in the oven at 425. the nice thing is you can time this recipe for when your guests are ready to eat it and then it smells wonderful. it s just sitting there. we have to have ice cream with it, right? yes, we have it. we have it. beautiful. top it with some nice cinnamon ice cream. thank you so much. thank you. we re ready to eat. very good morning, everybody. it s 9:56. i m jon kelley. this morning we re learning a woman who robbed a san francisco bank may have carried out at least two other bank robberies in the city. here s surveillance video of her in action. take a close look. the most recent robbery happened around 2:30 on monday on irving street. the woman went into the bank, pointed the gun at the teller, demanded money, and the woman also matched the description of a robbery in a san francisco fire credit union branch on buckingham way near stone s town gallery twice in july. anybody with information on this robbery or any of the other two, please ask to call police. let s go over to weather. christina loren is here with you it. good morning, to you, jon. this satellite shows you where we are. still up in the north bay, pushing back towards the city of san francisco, out back to sea, that s good news. the future cast shows you at 11:00 a.m., it will be clearing up. 74 degrees today. on the warm side on the inland areas. 90 in gilroy and 88 in concord f you re sick of this heat, today is the last day. we start to cool off as early as tomorrow. it kicks in as we head through the weekend and temps fall back into the 70s. a lot of traffic this morning, mike. especially for 101. in the south bay, late on this wednesday commute, we still see all of this traffic jammed up past 880. causing some backup as some folks don t want to get off the freeway. the earlier accident, though, on highway 87 clear from north guadalupe parkway. it s moving smoothly for 880 as well as 101. as well as for that 12:30 game for the a s a slower drive eastbound away from the bridge on the east shore freeway. an earlier accident has cleared. the fast track lanes are moving better. the metering lights are on. thanks, mike. for the latest news and updates, check out nbc bay area morning news on facebook. another update one half hour from now. stick around for the today show. fluoride to strengthen teeth. ohol-free and has stronger teeth and dry mouth relief. captions paid for by nbc-universal television from nbc news this is today with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hello, everybody. it s wines day wednesday, august 17th. hope you re ving a great day. i have to say a little birthday shoutout, not just yours and mine, but andy medina who lives at our house and the gentleman who brings me all of those jokes, the friday funnies, he s 85 today. it never ended. we went to lunch after, me, you, frank, christine and taem. we twont milos, and oh, i forgot my $2 bill. there was a nice guy who gave you and frankie a $2 bill. he was a sweet, sweet man who apparently has money to burn. when you look at the $2 bill, don t you feel like it s not real? like monopoly. it doesn t look real. by the way, our facebook page is full of love. thank you. i mean, so many great there we were. look at you two. know. the thing is everybody makes a big fuss and everybody is so sweet and you appreciate it so much, but at the same time it s, like, come on. yeah. yeah. yeah. at the end of the day i felt bad about that and i was pooh-poohing it, as long as you have a breath you have purpose and be grateful for every year god gives you. especially frank. we said it this morning on the deck. we re alive, we re healthy. blood is flowing through the veins. i agree. i agree. we have a controversy to talk about. abercrombie & fitch is having a situation. really. here s the deal. the situation has been wearing from jersey shore has been wearing their clothes and abercrombie & fitch said they don t want him to wear their clothes anymore. they say they will pay him. make a substantial. substantial. for him and his posse to please stop wearing their brand on the air. okay? they wear the sweat pants. but they said it s tarnishing their image. we are deeply concerned with the association with our brand could cause significant damage to our image. we understand the show is for entertainment purposes, but this is the funny part of it to me, with the aspirational nature of our brand and may be distressing to many of our fans. and they urge the other cast members to do the same. i want to get paid to not do something. have you ever walked by a abercrombie & fitch store and you re with a young child and you ask them to close their eyes because their ads are all like this. yes! yes! their image did is going to be ruined by the jersey shore. that s all the jersey shore people do. they re in sync. tanning and laundering. this is the place where they have the push-up bikinis for girls that are 7. we protest it too much, but we also think it s very funny and probably very smart. what i didn t show you yesterday. yeah. you know there s an issue when you get two separate birthday cards from two separate friends and it s the exact same card. this is a guy named bill whitehead. can you get a close-up. can you read it, hoda. excuse me, you dropped something. yes, it s the running theme. see what she dropped? that s it. dropped almost everything and have a happy birthday. i thought it was funny. you can t win them all. there s a sad story in the reality tv world. if you guys are fans of the house wives of beverly hills you know taylor armstrong s husband was found dead. he was found hanging in their house and the cops came after and there was a 911 call. if you re a fan of the show you sort of know, you would have watched their dynamic. if you don t know the show which was dissolving pretty quickly. it was dissolving on air. let s watch a little clip of how she describes her relationship. we re working on things. we re knee-deep into so much psycho therapy that i m sick of myself. my husband is in therapy and that s weak? i don t know. that hurt my feelings really bad. i don t blame you. that wasn t nice and i don t care, because i m trying to keep my family together. he committed suicide and they had just she had just filed they d just filed for divorce. she had just filed for divorce last month. it s hard to get people to explain what they think may be ng. his attorney was on the air earlier today and somehow said that there was a reality tv component to his apparent suicide. i mean, basically saying he was trying to pump so much money into their house to keep up this image that it was stressful, this tv image. it s just hard to know what the truth is because they call it reality television. we talked about this an awful lot, but so much of it is set-up situations. i can t say which are and which aren t. so obviously the man was deeply troubled if he indeed committed suicide. they have not found a suicide and that doesn t mean one doesn t exist. an autopsy will be done tomorrow. it s tragic all around. they have a 5-year-old little girl. i don t like seeing the kids in these shows anyway, when they re that age especially before they have a chance to have a childhood. it s big news on the front page in new york. it s the most successful of the franchise, right? yeah. this is something hoda s done a lot, and i know you have, too. let s pretend here comes that person who gets on your last nerve and you can see them approaching and you don t know what to do because you re trapped and here they come. so i m coming up to you. exactly. and then i gingerly reach for my cell phone. hello? nobody s on the line, but it s something to do to distract me from incoming. do you do things like that just to get away? faking a cell phone call. one in eight people do this. one in eight people are liars and cheaters. okay. someone s approaching you and you know it s going to be a long conversation and trouble. yeah. what do you do to get out of it? i just tell the truth. i m rung because i always am. what s up? and you let them than you re stuck for time and you can leave because i m always stuck for time. you know that. you always are. i m never saying i m going home to take a nap. that doesn t happen. i m on a plane and i m sitting next to a chatter box and i m thinking to myself, oh, my gosh, the whole flight this, guy will be talking nonstop so i reach for the airplane headphones and i plug them into the arm thing and i put them in and there s no music because the plane hasn t started, but i m pretending like this so the guy starts looking for his headph e headphones and i look over and he reaches around and he plugs his in and nothing s working and he s doing the volume. now you re getting nervous. and i m still pretending. well, he calls the flight attendant and she says the system is not turned on yet, and i am so busted that i don t know what to do that i keep i m, like, mine s on. i was so red handed. do you have an inner rhythm, hodi, you dance to your own drummer, baby. am the worst at getting bust busted. why? i couldn t take it. you can t be impolite and you re stuck for hours and hours next to him. anyway on. did he ever say a word to you? i kept them plugged in and i hardly went to the bathroom. i guess i better just sit here. i felt bad for my lie. you feel like you re very happily in a dynamic, exciting relationship. it wasn t that way in the beginning. you didn t have a great first date. well, he thought he we did. i didn t think so, but it got progressively better. new survey, well, these things happen. one in five men compared to half as many women say for them it was love at first sight. when do you know it s the right guy? how many dates did it take to know it was the right person for you? it took for sure, for sure, four months to know for sure. they say men know in three dates. men are so visual. it s all about the on. the chemistry. yeah. yeah. yeah. women say they knew in six dates if he was the right one for them. that seems quick. what about for you and frank? we were friends for four years before we went on a date. four years to really know. look at you, two. and your bra strap, the three of you. i think you have to go through a cycle of a year. you like the four seasons rule, and i think it s smart, hoda, because you think things through sometimes. you go through four seasons with somebody to see them in the ups and downs in life with the ebb and flow. you have a job and lose a job and see them on the worst and best day. think you judge everything in the first six dates you re doomed. it s all physical about that. and then you have the hot thing happening that hodi still has. i like it! would you be happy if this happens? in canada, colleen lippord thought she was going to her friend s engagement party. not only did he propose to her on the spot. that moment was also their wedding day. watch this thing. will you marry me? right now? [ bleep ]. is she happy? i don t know. look, if someone proposed to me and everybody was i who wants that, really? it looks joyous there. apparently colleen s happy. he had asked her all along for, like a year. what kind of a dress would you want? what s the shoes you would want? and they re in the wedding party? what music would you want? who is doing that? i don t know one single guy who would ever be able to plan a wedding with the shoes and the bridesmaids dresses. what do you think? i know a few who could. let s just hope it lasts, okay? we wish them a lot of happiness because after 25 years everything drops and you start dragging it around on the street. you better love what s inside of her. you better like somebody. you better like them because you ll be dragging it along for a long time. here s the question. would you would you wednesday, there s joanne. if you were walking and someone was behind you and your tag was sticking out would you want someone to tell you, hey, by the way, your tag s sticking out on the back. i would so appreciate that. i have done that so many times for people. joanne took this picture of someone walking down the street. that s rude to take her picture and show it on national television. to walk up to someone and say your tag. that is so nice. i met brooke shields and she said i m sorry, but your label s showing on your back. she was 15 years old. what about spinach in your teeth. i don t care. what if it says your size. it depends on the day and the article of clothing. one time, i have to be honest. one time there was a woman in los angeles, and i did not care for her. you know what i mean? she was not my favorite person and we were in the ladies room together and that was back when everyone wore pantyhose and we were both in the stall and it was a black tie event and she was finished in the stall and walked out and her entire skirt was tucked in her pantyhose and on. what happened? and there was also toilet paper. we re standing there getting the hands washed and i m thinking did you tell her? i so wanted to let her go out, and i didn t. i said oh, by the way, you you ve got oh, my gosh, isn t that awful? your such a nice person. there is a place in hell for people that do that. indeed. coming up, working moms versus stay-at-home moms. which do you think is better for your kids? we ll have some discussion about it coming up. ah . ye that s a tricky one. we ll find out after this. f. they agreed. 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[ male announcer ] eggo nutri-grain waffles. you know it s made with 8 grams of whole grain and is a good source of fiber. all they know is it tastes great. eggo nutri-grain waffles. simply delicious. almost every mother knows the stress of should i stay or should i go back to work? there s no reason to feel guilty. not quite sure about this. stacy auis author of how toe a grown up. true stories of kids, career and the conflicts of modern motherhood. she s a stay-at-home mom. the moms who go to work feel guilty because they re not with their kids and some of the moms who stay at home feel like they should be doing else. it s an interesting stud pep i wasn t surprised by it. with the economy as it is now, families are stressed when both parents aren t work, most families are anyway, what i m finding is across the board, it doesn t matter, if the parents are suffering, the kids suffer. if both of you working makes your family happier then you guys are better off. then you should do it. doesn t something have to give at some point? if both parents are working, who s there with the children? i would say something definitely does have to give and that was certainly my situation. the logistical planning alone was enough to make me crazier than i already was. think it s important to than every stay at home mother is really a working mother. good point. that is the hardest work in the whole world raising children and keeping a home. every day for my kids is go to work with your mom day. isn t that what feminism all about? isn t that what it was supposed to be about was choice? and then when a woman makes a choice we condemn her for it. that seems wrong. some women don t want to work, have to work. some of them want to stay home and be there with their children and i think that s a beautiful choice to make. what s wrong with that choice? i don t think there s anything wrong with the choice. i think you have to do what s right for you and the family. they re pining to go back to work and they have the guilt that you guys were talking about and so i encourage people ton that this study is actually correct. it is okay to work, that if your kids are with other caregivers they actually learn more social skills and their cognitive abilities can be increased and they can learn to be more responsible and independent. some moms may leave for work they feel so guilty that the child doesn t understand that part of life is home and mommy doesn t want to leave, she wants to stay, she wants to stay and the child automatically thinks that working is not a great thing. it s something that they wouldn t want to do later. i think my kids definitely know that work, whatever kind of work you do, whether it s paid or unpaid is important work. being an active member in the community, for instance or a soccer coach. sure. is important work, but that being said i think stay-at-home moms and working moms have a lot to work from one another. what about when kids get older and sometimes they need more parenting and sometimes when kids are teenagers their parents think they re fine and that s when they need you more. that s 100% correct. i think the kids need us all of the time and definitely teenagers need to be watched. i have two teenagers and even though i m a working mom, i make sure that my relationship with them is good. z we have good, open communication. and quality of time and not the quantity. will say this, as a working mother it s taught me that quality time is important, and a lot of moms that are stay at home and i don t know if this happens to you, they feel like they re not taking the moments and taking the special time because they re with them so often. that s definitely true. for each person. i think for me that s why i started writing a little bit that i did. i might have to do it after midnight some days, but whatever works. carve out some time. a way to make some money while being at home through the internet and all there are lots of things that you have access to instead of just sitting there crying the blues like, i wish i could work. you could work. encourage women, whether you re work or not to look into other resources. so if you re working and you need to have health care activities with your kids, go and talk to other people and figure out a good way to do that. if you re an at home mom and want to make a few dollars, talk to people and research. do something that will make you feel satisfied in your area. don t feel guilty about the choice that you make. if you do feel guilty make a change. it s never too late. thanks, ladies! up next! the photos that make you say what the what? right after this. you could use a vacation. .from cleaning. 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[ male announcer ] get five dollars in money-saving coupons at v8juice.com. we re back with our favorite segment called what the what. sarah s here and she went through the photos you submitted and she came up with the ones that made her stop and say what? what fun it always is. let s get right to it. our first photo from andrea westbrook from new london, connecticut. not sure i want this coffee. it turns you off of the whole experience. not in the mood at all. unfortunate on many levels. our next photo is sent in by kathy in portland, oregon. would you buy pizza from this place? oh! we were just talking about that. don t waste anything you have. there all you have to do is put another letter up there. that s the part that bothers you? that is. it is. lazy! next up, michael lee from the heart of new york city sent thus photo. really? open 25 hour snoops where did they find that last hour? that s productive right there impeach. take a look at this photo from colby in georgia. you would have to be super quick to pick up this pizza. 10 seconds. all right. kathy schaeffer from mooreville, north carolina, sent thus photo. maybe worms are the new sweet and low. thank you, sarah. we veha l aotor me coming up. we ll play who knew. coming up. we can t wait. the new mascara with a conditioning formula that helps strengthen and plump lashes up to 200%. instantly. for maximum volume. and a killer look. new revlon growluscious plumping mascara. look around, it s happening oh, yeah imagine that imagine sunshine always shining igine that [ chanting ] do it! 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[ female announcer ] whitening without the wait. 3d white two hour express whitestrips.from crest. life opens up when you do. and try 3d white toothpaste and rinse. a very good morning, everybody. the time now is 10:26. i m jon kelley. the bay area largest city could be selling a golf course. a plan to sell the rancho d del pueblo golf course is a drain on the city s budget but others will fight to save that golf course. campos says the plan to sell and build housing on the land will only increase con gegs and pollution. now the mavericks of jeff clark and his ex-wife katherine will be on hand tonight as the san mateo harbor district decides who will get the permit for the annual event. in a statement earlier this week, actually earlier this month, clark and his ex-wife said they are working on a plan that brings both sides together. no doubt, they will unveil that plan tonight at that meeting. coming up after this,ckll ow welcome back. let s show what you is left of that low cloud cover. set this in motion. you can see that it s pushing out to sea the marine layer. the sun is coming through. your bridges are still a little bit foggy. but that sunshine will warm you up into the mid-70s. nice weather at the coast. upper 80s and low 90s. temperatures stop to drop off and back to the 70s. mike? christina, starting to see relief for 101 which caused the ripple effect. northbound 101, all lanes continue to be clear over the next half hour. the rest of the freeway moves better and it s slow as you pass by the airport. slow through hayward, southbound, 880 approaching the san mateo bridge. bottom of your screen, you can see a tow truck ready to go. but no incidents are reported. i ve been watching this carefully for the last five minutes and nothing has popped up on chp. golden gate bridge, the fog is hanging out north of the gold again gate bridge. the clearing is in san francisco itself. still watch marin county. jon? mike, thank you. check out nbc bay area morning news on facebook. if you feel like getting up early, join us tomorrow at 4:30. we re back on this wines day wednesday with our weekly who knew trivia game and since it s women day. kathie lee is at the nbc experience store. she has $100 for those who answer it right and for those who don t, kathie lee s cd. always great to have you on the show. thank you for having me. let s go across the street to kathie. finish the liric to this landmark song of the feminist movement. oh! take care tcb. tcb was a very popular phrase in the 06s. so popular that elvis had it painted on the side of his jet. the song was originally written by otis redding and it was a song about a man who was coming home from work and wanting respect from his wife. aretha changed the word and didn t say she actually demanded respect from the man, and it became a very popular song of the women s woman. tcb is take care of business. take care of business. which two famous women are tied for hollywood s best paid actresses in 2010 at $30 million each. julia roberts and angelina jolie, jennifer aniston and reese witherspoon and katherine heigl and sarah jessica parker. i will have to say d. wow! awesome! how exciting! you wanted that money really badly, didn t you? he did. angelina jolie and sarah jessica parker. surprising. angelina jolie is not only she s really an international star. a lot of her movies tend to do better once they hit the international market and sarah jessica parker rings up the dollars because she s a producer and an actress. off of the today show and she s made money off of the movies and on top of that she makes moves. as the carrie parker character, she is a style icon. lovely lady from atlanta. the only female album to go 20 times platinum, dolly pardon, a madon madonna, shania twain or lady gaga. i ll ask a friend. no, you can t. you have to give me an answer. i m going say b. you should have asked a friend. she hit it with madonna. the correct answer is surprising and i m so happy for her. shania twain. she s in the graces of michael jackson and billy joel. not that many people have reached that and it s for her album 1997 come on over. that was a great album. lovely lady from florida. which barbara streisand movie is the following clip from? take a look. you think beautiful girls will be that way forever? any minute now they re going to be out! finished! and then it will be my turn! one of my favorite moves of all time. was it the way we were, funny girl, the mirror has two faces or hello dolly. b, funny girl. you think that might be generational, but it s one everybody knows. that was her first movie and won best actress. she is the only actress, only person really, the artist, to win the grammy, the emmy, the tony. you name it, she s won it. she s the only female director to be honored by the kennedy center. she s really, you know? renaissance woman. lovely girl from new jersey. honey, which of the following olympic medalists is the most decorated female u.s. athlete. dara torres, shannon miller, jenny thompson or misty may treanor and kelly walsh? i m going to go with d. you just lost it for her back there. you should be ashamed! the correct answer is jenny thompson, a swimmer. jenny thompson is the most decorated o liflympian and has recently been surpassed by michael phelps. she has three silver and one bronze for swimming. all right, coming up next when money and success come between friends. we ll talk about that rontrs contversy d kathie lee will come back from across the street right after this. 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[ woman announcing ] new beneful healthy fiesta. another healthful, flavorful beneful. we were skipping stones and letting go over the river and down the road she was waiting up around the bend smile at me and then you take my hand [ female announcer ] nature valley granola bars, where delicious ingredients like toasted oats, with rich dark chocolate, sweet golden honey, or creamy peanut butter come together in the most perfect combinations. i was thinking that i hope this never ends yeah, i was just thinking i hope this will never end money and success, who doesn t want it? but unfortunately in many cases it can cause friction between good friends. so what do you do when you and your best friend find each other on opposite ends of the financial spectrum or you get a promotion as your girlfriend gets laid off? that s a tough one. here are answers from contributor harriet coal and feature editor who is here every week. good to see you. this one can be really touchy. everyone s got a situation like this right now. there are the abcs, let s pretend there s a discrepancy in the amount of money you re making. what are some basics? there are a few areas that are particularly touchy. choosing restaurants. let s start there. unless you invite. the splitting of the dough. it s tricky. you have to talk about it. today, lack of funds is almost chic. everyone is having trouble. it s very common. it s very common, and you can t make assumptions about what everybody has today. shouldn t the richer friend just pay for dinner? it s very basic. sometimes, but richer is questionable. what does that mean? if it s no burden at all to you. if it s no burden you pay sometimes. the relationship dynamics change if you are always the person to pay and then it creates some discomfort. i would rather you find common ground. you don t have to spend a lot of money to have a lot of fun. funds and fun are two different things. you may not be able to take a friend out for dinner, but have them over for a movie night. if your friend has lost a job and then absolutely you call them and you treat them and you remember because right now when people are losing work, they are often out of work for a year, year and a half. so a good friend remembers over time to call and check in and do something special. just because you helped one time it s all over. there s still a need. if you can do it do it and by the way, accept it graciously. say thank you and move on. how about the people who are always bragging? you know those people who are always bragging about a vacation home or where they re going? and the big raise the husband got. and they don t realize that the person on the other end can t take a vacation. it s 2011. the economy is where it is and everyone needs to get their sensitivity chip in order. listen, it could be you next week. it absolutely could. and anyone s circumstances could change in an instant. the other thing to think about is you never know what the balance sheet looks like and they don t know what loans or debt they have. you have no idea. you could also say, it really makes me uncomfortable when you are constantly talking about these things. people don t usually say that, but when you do, the light bulb goes off. a lot of times people don t realize but if you did get a promotion and you did want to share with your friend. think a promotion is okay to say, but not a bonus. it equals money. if you got a promotion i could say i just wanted to share this with you and you don t talk about the money. when they ve been out of work for a year. i really think you ve got to be really careful about where you have that news and there are people you can share it with and then people who want to do it on the dl. you do tell your best friend because your best friend will feel worse learning from somebody else. my best friend got a promotion and you didn t tell me? we could talk about this for a long time. thanks, ladies. thank you so much. good to see you both. and you re so awesome. up next, ice cream, yogurt, sorbet and fruit pops. which is best when you re watching your weight? we ll do that again? yes, we are. plus some fun ideas to help your college student spice up his brand new dorm room. say it isn t so! oh, yes. call your mother. first these messages. good grief mom, you gonna clean that thing or wrestle it? well, it s not going to clean itself. want me to get dad? no thank you. viva s all i need. look at that! still in one piece. yeah, so s the towel. 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[ female announcer ] choose the bundle that fits your life. at&t. you may be screaming for ice cream, but your diet isn t deleted from your plan. to enjoy a frozen treat here and then, here is adlynn bernstrong. hi, madeleine. this sour game today. we like to have different varieties in the summertime so we ll test your knowledge. dippin dots. these are ice cream pellets. does this one cup serving have more or less than 350 calories? kathyie lee? more. it has more. it has 400. so even though it looks like teeny pebbles. and 20 grams of fat. a third here s something that you may be more familiar. we have vanilla ice cream and vanilla low-fat frozen yogurt. how much fat would you save with the yogurt per serving? is it 10 grams of fat, 20 or 30. gosh, they re so loud. i ll say 20 because that s the last thing i heard you say. that s wrong. 10, 20 or 30. i would say 30. i would say you re right. 30 grams of fat. i am going start playing. i wasn t even in yet. we have sherbet and granita. what? sherbet and granita. it s sherbet. thank you. sorbet? no, sherbet. anyway, one of them is different and has an extra ingredient. which one would that be? the one with the the weird thing. no, is it sherbet, sorbet or granita. i ve never heard of it before. she said gran ada. that s wrong. sniefs going say sherbet. one of them has milk in it. wait! one has milk? yes. it s sherbet. you both have it wrong. my answer is sherbet. your answer is sherbet and you would be right. you re on your own, baby. i think you get it. yes, do i. all right. here is a hot fudge sundae. how far would you have to walk to burn off the calories here. three miles, six miles or nine miles. the last one. did you get it? kathie? six miles. 900 calories. we have a fudge sickle and a cre creamcicle. if you re a kid the chocolatey one. okay? does this have more calorie, the same calories or less calories than the cream the creamcicle. think about it. oh! i ll do it for you and you can answer. wait a second. oh, it works. i m going say the same. they are the same. 70 calories. because? just because they have chocolate doesn t mean they have more. these are the same. a lot of people can t tolerate dairy. here we have something called arctic zero. this is a whey protein-based product. does this have 150, 250 or 350 calories? 350. no, no, no! first one is 150. that s correct. and the last here, wait! hold on! hold on! kathie lee. you have an ice cream maker. this is nice to put on your counter. why is everybody clapping? to read more about ice cream check out her blog on ivillage.com. to make him feel like he s home with his mommy! but first this, is today on nbc. yeah, i m married. does it matter? you d do that for me? really? yeah, i d like that. who are you talking to? uh, it s jake from state farm. sounds like a really good deal. jake from state farm at three in the morning. who is this? it s jake from state farm. what are you wearing, jake from state farm? 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[ male announcer ] another reason more people stay with state farm. get to a better state. it s just about time to head back to school today and we re doing that with dorm room decor. kelly morris is here to make you feel right at home when you go away. nice to have you with us. can t believe how many kids are off to college. it s already happened. and they re heavily into picking out their products in their room. this is the first time they get a chance to do their own thing. really. the wallpaper is an interesting touch. you can t paint in the dorm room so you can find these decals on etsy.com and this one is $75, but you can find them and they re less expensive and you can also get custom. you can get custom colors. they do not damage the wall. so they look like this. they come like this, big, long sticker thing here. and then you peel it. you need two people just so you know. it s pretty intense. this is genius. a way to hang your necklaces and jewelry. let s talk about that really quick. the container store for $9. these are actually kitchen supply hangers. they re for your kitchen utensils. this is crate & barrel. you can hang your ties. are you allowed to hang on the wall? command makes a really great product to hang that. okay. so now that we totally messed up the room. that was always a problem when you were a kid. this is a great do it yourself. find the directions on kelsey on the help.com. check this out. it s benjamin moore paint and we picked our favorite color of jade garden and citron on the inside and it rolls. say you want to have a party in the dorm room next door, just roll it to the dorm room next door. tell us about the bed and how to call your mother. just in case cody s watching. the last thing my son would ever have on his bed. i know. they also have one that says go to the gym. dormified.com has great products. it s a great way for kids to add personality to their bedding. west elm did the bed. so all of that bedding is inexpensive from $19 to $100 for a full set. that is cheap. right? i love the citron going that way. this is smart. you have to put something on the walls. why not okay. you can t always afford a lot of stuff. so this is a mix of plates from $2 to $24, and we ve hung them with these command stickers that are actually a picture frame hanger, so they just stick and remove from the wall. i love this idea of a picnic basket which then is there when you need utensils. that s smart. perfect storage space and guess what? if you have a hot date, you have it ready to go. i love this headboard. the headboard is really great. this is another do it yourself so it s really easy. once you get some plywood and then you get two-inch foam. don t use the camera so two-inch foam, some fabric and you tuft it. turn it over here, and flip it and you ll stable it around the back. this is double duty. it keeps noise from the other room and it gives you a place for your head. thank you very much! guess who s here? andy and nd when to let your kids to do the things that worry you. bye. captions by vitac www.vitac.com