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Winners in the big d, als moved our Treasure Hunt to atlanta. Hes got more clues and another chance to win today, wednesday, june 4th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Gangs all here. Carsons in als seat because als back on the road for this Treasure Hunt. Al, otherwise known as the candy man giving out treasures across the land. Well check in with him in a moment. As well as some pretty Severe Weather hitting the mid section of the country. Well talk to him in a moment. Absolutely. They saw what happened yesterday on the Treasure Hunt. They are ready to win the magic envelope. Thats right. A chance to come see us on the today show plaza and a friday concert. Are you guys ready . Are you ready . Were going to get the first clue coming up at 7 30 to give an atlantan a chance to new york. Back to you guys. I wish al would get a little more into this assignment. Thats the only thing. All right, al, thank you very much. Lets get to todays top story, our first look at what appears to be Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahls handover to the u. S. Military. While here at home controversy still rages over the deal that led to his release. Nbcs chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel is at the Landstuhl Medical Center in germany. Richard, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. It is not often that you get to see video like this. A tense, but controlled meeting of two enemies on the battlefield. In the new video purportedly from the taliban, the militants wait in a field in eastern afghanistan on saturday. They have Sergeant Bowe bergdahl. He looks thin and nervous. There are more armed men on a baron hill nearby for backup. American special forces arrive around 6 30 p. M. One helicopter comes in to land. Both sides have reportedly agreed to approach each other with just three men per side. They briefly touch hands. The americans wave as they back away. They want no misunderstandings. Bergdahl is frisked, loaded, and theyre up. A minute on the ground. Smooth, no violence. Back home, controversy and pent up anger over bergdahls disappearance continue with fellow soldiers and their families accusing him of walking off his base in afghanistan five years ago. Sandra andrewss son darren was killed in an attack allegedly during the manhunt for bergdahl. Hes getting the royal treatment. And our kids came home, the ones of us who lost our sons, they came home in the baggage part of an airplane and were rolled out in a box with a flag. Reporter now the u. S. Army is looking into his capture and the deaths of six soldiers allegedly killed in the search. It could eventually lead to charges, ranging from simple misconduct to desertion. We dont know bergdahls motivation or mindset, but we know he was not abducted, he was not abandoned by his platoon in combat. Thats part of the problem. Reporter another part is now on capitol hill, where the backlash over the release of five taliban detainees in exchange for bergdahl has exploded, with republicans and democrats both accusing the white house of breaking the law. I strongly believe that we should have been consulted, that the law should have been followed, and i very much regret that that was not the case. Reporter those five taliban leaders are now settling into exile in qatar. They are staying at a modest villa by qatar standards. They are waiting to be reunited with their families and some u. S. Lawmakers worry they will not be as controlled as the white house and qatar officials claim. And one more thing about that video. You saw the taliban militants were carrying a white flag. And this shows how coordinated this exchange was. U. S. Forces had asked the taliban to initially shine a green light to indicate that they were the correct forces that had bergdahl. The taliban militants said they didnt have a green light, can we wave a flag instead. And the americans accepted. Richard engel, thank you so much. Lets go to nbcs Jim Miklaszewski at the pentagon. This video is extraordinary to look at, mik. What more can you tell us about the circumstances of this exchange, it looks so smooth when you watch the video but could have been so dangerous. Well, it was complicated. The First Impression im hearing from people in the pentagon is that he actually looks in pretty remarkable physical condition. No idea how he is psychologically. But physically, they think he looks pretty good. Second of all, we saw in that video that they frisked the special Operations Forces frisked bergdahl not once, but twice. And were told that it was out of fear that the taliban might have planted a suicide bomb on that american soldier. Meantime, mik, as you well know, theres so much fallout about the circumstances of bergdahls departure from the army. So many former soldiers, platoon mates speaking out against him. They had signed these nondisclosure agreements, which apparently they now feel they are released from. How are the pentagon brass really reacting to this and the soldiers coming out and in some ways disparaging him . Quite frankly, they understand the rage and concern. And theres concern at the highest levels of the pentagon also, that if bergdahl voluntarily walked off the base as everybody reports, if he attempted to associate himself with the Afghan People or there are some reports he may have even tried to get in touch with the taliban. Thats a very serious charge. And theres nothing more serious in the military than abandoning your post in a war zone. Jim miklaszewski at the pentagon, thank you very much. As richard mentioned, the prisoner swap controversy is not going away for the president and the obama administration. Nbcs chief White House Correspondent chuck todd is traveling with the president in warsaw. Chuck, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. Did the white house truly think this was just going to be a celebratory moment, the release of Sergeant Bergdahl . Did they not see any of this backlash coming . Were they caught flatfooted . Reporter they were caught flatfooted. Every aide ive talked to said they expected there to be controversy involving the decision to release five members of the taliban from gitmo, and the fact that this would then escalate that debate, which has been simmering for a good five years, which is what to do with those detainees, how do you release them, where do you release them. They did not expect this backlash on bergdahl himself. Ive had a few aides describe it to me as we didnt know that they were going to swift boat bergdahl. And thats a reference to that political fight back in 2004 over john kerrys military service that was so controversial in that campaign. So theres some fighting words there. How could they not have seen it coming when there was an investigation a while back, perhaps incomplete, but it concluded that bergdahl most likely walked away from his unit. There was that Rolling Stone article a couple years ago that included some emails he sent to his parents saying he was ashamed to be an american and had lost faith in the military. I dont understand how they couldnt have thought this was going to happen. Reporter because there were so many republicans on capitol hill that were urging the Defense Department to do whatever it took to get Sergeant Bergdahl. You had opeds in memorial day by republican senators including one in new hampshire. John mccain three or four months ago saying he actually would be open to an idea of some sort of exchange to free Sergeant Bergdahl. The initial euphoria in that first 12 hours. The surrounding the president with the parents of Sergeant Bergdahl. They really assumed thered be a rally around the flag moment, not just for the country, but on capitol hill. Obviously they had no idea that there would be no member of Sergeant Bergdahls unit that would go public and praise him or support him. So yes, they were caught off guard. Chuck todd traveling with the president in poland. Thank you very much. Another big story here at home, a Severe Weather outbreak damaging homes across the midwest. We find nbcs dylan dreyer in blair, nebraska this morning. Dylan, good morning. Good morning, savannah. It is 65 degrees here in blair, nebraska, and there is still ice tucked into this corner here. The remnants of softballsized hail that fell from yesterdays storms. That hail caused extreme damage to windows and buildings and cars all across this area. In omaha, they ended up with 5. 3 inches of rain yesterday, an alltime record high for june 3rd. Between the torrential downpours and massive wind gusts up to 100 Miles Per Hour, it was a wild day of weather in the nations heartland. Hail the size of golf balls. And devastating winds clocked at 80 Miles Per Hour causing major damage in yuling, nebraska, shredding the siding on homes and shattering windows. It sure was noisy when it was hitting my house. I recorded sirens sounding at about 4 00 p. M. Within minutes, all hail broke loose. The tornado sirens went off and we had to go into shelter and we were down there for a good hour. Omahas airport closed due to flash floods, reporting more than an inch of rainfall in just eight minutes, a rate of more than eight inches per hour. That much rain falling so fast flooded streets, stranding drivers. Emergency crews in lifeboats rescued families trapped in flooded homes. The high winds snapped trees and tossed grain silos. This truck driver was happy to get out of his flipped semi alive. I was afraid this window was going to break. For Stacy Sullivan visiting from oklahoma, this is one business trip she wont soon forget. Took my briefcase, covered my head and rolled up in a ball. The hail did horrendous, terrible damage to the vehicle, knocked out the entire back glass, shattered the front windshield. It was horrifying. Now luckily, stacys car was a rental and she actually bought the insurance. Im sure there will be a lot of insurance claims across this area today. Now, there are some strong storms right now moving through illinois and indiana. We are looking at a much lesser threat of storms today than yesterday. Thats good news. Well check in with al on the weather as well in just a moment. Meantime, there is a new development in the nearly threemonthold search for Malaysian Air flight 370. Overnight, scientists released an audio recording of what they say could be that plane hitting the water in the indian ocean. Nbcs tom costello has been following this investigation the very beginning. Tom, good morning. Hi, matt. These are microphones used to listen for Nuclear Tests or passing whales. The Scientists Say they only heard something suspicious when they went back and checked the recordings after flight 370 disappeared. Then they had to speed up the audio clip before they heard anything. The question this morning, is this recording the sound of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 slamming into the water . Scientists from Curtin University in australia and ctbto of vienna say their microphones picked up a lowfrequency noise in the indian ocean on march 8th. The same day flight 370 disappeared with 239 people onboard. But the sound is thought to have originated off the southern tip of india, 3,000 miles from the current search zone and in an area the size of texas. Underwater acoustics, you never really know what youre listening to in many cases. So this is another example of that. We havent given up on it. But its not at all clear the noise is from flight 370. That part of the indian ocean is a heavily traveled shipping zone with lots of marine life and seismic activity. The truth is, they could be detecting a lot of things. Theres lots of noise in the ocean. There are whales. Theres earthquakes. Theres volcanic eruptions. There are a lot of submarine volcanic eruptions. Search commanders say theyre not moving assets, instead continuing to focus west of australia in the area identified by the planes satellite pings along a southern arc. So far, though, the underwater search has turned up nothing. I think at some point, the airplane may be found, but it could be an effort like the titanic, where it could be years, not months. The australian professor we just heard from said this morning he thinks theres only a 10 chance that the noise he heard is, in fact, the plane. But that still needs to be checked. Keep in mind, the current search zone off the coast of australia is the size of west virginia. The area where the sound came from is the size of texas. Guys, back to you. Tom costello, thanks very much. Theyre going to have more on this. We are. Go to our Facebook Page and weigh in. Do you think well ever know what happened to flight 370 . Well have some results here quickly. Carson, thank you very much. Natalie is here with some primary results from states across the country. They are still counting the votes across the country this morning after tuesday nights primary elections, especially mississippi, where a sixterm senator is in serious danger of losing his seat. Senator Thad Corcoran and his Tea Party Challenger Chris Mcdaniel appear headed to a runoff, with nearly 98 of the votes in, mcdaniel held less than a 1 lead. But if neither candidate has 50 of the vote when the full vote is in, then corcoran and mcdaniel will face off again in three weeks. Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and there is heavy security in central beijing. As tanked rolled in on june 4th, 1989, chinese troops opened fire on student protesters, more than a million demonstrators had gathered in central beijing in the leadup to the incident. Video of a lone protester standing in front of a line of moving tanks became one of the 20th centurys most powerful symbols. The death toll is widely believed to be in the hundreds. This morning were hearing from Donald Sterling for the First Time Since his team was sold. In an exclusive interview with knbc in los angeles, sterling said he is ready to move on. I feel fabulous. I feel very good. Everything is just the way it should be, really. It may have worked out differently, but its good. Its all good. Meantime, a new york man has been charged in the assault of sterlings onetime girlfriend v. Stiviano. She was allegedly punched in the face outside a hotel in new york over the weekend. It was stivianos recordings of Donald Sterlings racist remarks that led to his lifetime ban from the nba. And an update now on a story we told you about tuesday on today. Hall of fame quarterback dan marino says he inadvertently became a plaintiff in a concussion lawsuit against the nfl and is withdrawing immediately. In a statement, marino said he authorized a claim to be filed just in case he needed future medical coverage in case he suffered from the effects of head trauma. He said he did not realize, however, that he would be automatically listed as a plaintiff in the case. Marino said he doesnt suffer any effects from head injuries. A High School Principal in california probably couldnt wait to go home from work tuesday after being the target of a senior prank. Take a look. Got to love that. The principal arrived at work to find a mariachi band in his office. This was only the beginning, however, because you see then the band followed him all around the school, hallway to hallway, classroom to classroom, for more than an hour. He was a good sport about the whole thing. But might be reconsidering that trip to matzatlan. I love that theyre singing. Dont get us started with the spanish singing. Some salsa. Here we go. Lets check in with al. Hes down in atlanta. Al, good morning. Good morning, guys. Were going to get to our Treasure Hunt in just a bit, but first, we want to give you the weather. We do have more Severe Weather to talk about. In fact, weve got a severe thunderstorm watch now in effect for parts of missouri and on into illinois, until 11 00 a. M. Central daylight time. This system riding along, and you can see it holds together right into the northeast by early tomorrow morning and on up into new england. We call this a derecho, a long line of storms. For today, weve got that risk of strong storms from springfield into lexington into indianapolis. Tonight it moves a little further to the south. Were continuing to watch that. More showers, more thunderstorms, risk of Severe Weather, and it goes on into tomorrow. The risk of the strongest activity is going to be along the southeastern Atlantic Coast from raleigh, all the way down into central georgia. And in fact, were looking at heavy rain with this as well. Rainfall amounts approaching upwards of 3 inches of rain as you get into the central Mississippi River valley. Thats whats going on. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Kitchen could study you, what would it learn . What improvements would it make . At ge, youve inspired us to reimagine the kitchen. With innovations like the first dishwasher featuring 102 spray jets. The kitchen is now thinking more like you. And. Stop. No . Nothing . [ male announcer ] ge. Reimagining home. 7 19 good wednesday morning to you. Overcast start in San Francisco. We have some low clouds in San Francisco and south bay as well. I can tell you san jose is going to see that sunshine earlier than what we are expecting at the coast. Temperatures are going to be warm for today. 91 degrees in the try valley. We are going to keep climbing. Park, why . Todays treasure. Coming up in a little more than 15 minutes, the clue that they have been waiting for to get a trip to new york and our friday concert, guys. Are you ready . Yeah all right, al, thank you very much. Well be back with you in a couple of minutes. A little earlier, we asked the question, do you think well ever know what happened to Malaysian Air flight 370. Youve been monitoring the response. Were going to go right ahead into the orange room. Tom costello filed that report. That low frequency noise that they found under the indian ocean by that network of hydrophones that are there. Could it be part of the ongoing puzzle for flight 370 . Maybe not. We asked you on facebook. You can see the takeaway here is just how overwhelming many of you feel like were never going to know what happened to this flight. 85 of you saying no. Comments coming in here. One from michelle. I think something may be found many, many years by now and it will be completely by accident. Guys, back to you. All right, carson, thank you very much. Coming up, do your kids know about slenderman . Do you . Its the online horror story and it allegedly inspired two young girls to stab their own friend. This morning, its creators respond to this terrible story. Plus, should a tree trimmer hired by the post office face federal charges for accidentally injuring a group of baby herons . Well hear from both sides. But first, on a wednesday morning, this is today on nbc. Sleeping or worlds longest blink . The shot of john kerry that has people wondering. Plus, jonah hills emotional apology on the tonight show for what he said to a member of the paparazzi. And al reveals the first clue in todays Treasure Hunt in atlanta. Stand by, atlanta, for that. First, your local news and weather. It just wouldnt go away. 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The brother of an 18yearold woman who was shot to death overnight says his sister had a knife when she was shot. The shooting happened outside the familys apartment complex after someone called 911 for a family disturbance. The circumstances around the altercation that led up to the shooting are unclear. But the deputy feared for his life. Families may have to look for a new place to live this morning. It happened early this morning after a fire at apartment complex. Neighbors cannot go back home and leave for now. They were treated at the scene and did not have to go to the hospital. Firefighters say an appliance was left on and it caught fire. Want to check the forecast now. Good morning to you. Taking a live look at a clear sky over the area. Want to get over the midsection of your workweek. It is going to be hot but nice at the coast. 83 degrees along the peninsula. You will have 70 degree comfortable conditions and then that heat kcontinues to crank versus the 70s in San Francisco. Well have the 7 day forecast here is mike and your drive. We have the traffic flowing westbound. Well look at the south bay northbound 101 a crash. Again, lighter volume we see your typical pattern. 101 and 280. Crash at 17 heads to the shoulder as well. 880 earlier crash reported at the toll plaza. Crash west 80 and remember, you need potential delays in the city check backous. See you in a half an hour. [ barks ] whoo mmm oh, yeah [ whistling ] [ male announcer ] discover your new orleans. Start exploring at followyournola. Com. [ woman ] and i love new orleans 7 30 now on this wednesday morning. It is the fourth day of june, 200 2014. A reminder, weve got a special concert for you tomorrow morning featuring musics reigning hit maker, pharell williams. So grab your hats and get ready. Meantime, to start this halfhour, lets take a look at whats making headlines. The taliban releasing this video overnight showing the dramatic handoff of Bowe Bergdahl. U. S. Special forces landing and quickly patting down the Army Sergeant before putting him in a helicopter and flying away. Line of powerful storms after slamming parts of the midwest. Large hail and high winds damaged dozens of homes in nebraska. Overnight, researchers in australia released an audio recording of a strange sound captured underwater around the time of the Malaysian Air flight 370 disappearance. It was picked up by listening devices in the indian ocean. Scientists say while it could be related to flight 370, the chances are slim. And weve asked about that in the orange room as well. Let us begin this halfhour with the latest on a disturbing crime in wisconsin. Its really got parents talking nation wild. Two young girls are accused of trying to murder their best friend. Police say they did it out of allegiance to a character from an online horror story. Kate snow is here with more on it. Reporter good morning, savannah. Police in waukesha, wisconsin, say this case should be a wakeup call for all parents. These two girls had apparently become obsessed with slenderman, the subject of horror stories, youtube videos and games. His creators want everyone to know this morning hes a fictional character, but these two girls told authorities, according to police, they thought he was very real. They are only 12 years old, so nbc news will not name them or show their faces, but these girls are being prosecuted as adults, charged with attempted homicide. She said she was stabbed multiple times. Reporter on tuesday, authorities released a 911 call from the bicyclist who found the victim, another 12yearold girl, who had just crawled out of the woods. Her clothing has got blood on it. Reporter police say several months ago, the suspects started plotting to kill their friend after a Birthday Party sleepover. According to police, one girl carried a knife in her waistb d waistband. They presented to play hide and seek with their friend and then tackled her. One suspect held the victim down while the other suspect stabbed her 19 times in the arms, legs, and torso. Reporter the victim remains in stable condition at a local hospital, lucky to be alive. The stabbings missed an artery just by one millimeter. The family of the accused have no comment so far, but police say this is the reason the girls hatched their plan. Youtube is full of videos of a haunting killer with a blank white face, slenderman, hes called. Some stories and videos claim hes real. Which according to police is what the 12yearold suspects believed. In the criminal complaint, police say the girls described wanting to kill their friend to prove themselves to slenderman. Then theyd join him at his hideout in northern wisconsin. Keeping our children safe is more challenging now than in years past. The internet has changed the way we live. The online site where stories about slenderman appear posted a message saying they hope the victim makes a speedy recovery. This incident shows what happens when the line of fiction and reality ceases to exist, the message continued. Theres no question that fantasy and reality can blur in a 24 7 media world. And all of us have a role to play. Parents, the industry, educators, young people themselves. Reporter Police Say One of the girls told investigators she regretted what she had done to her friend. The bad part of me wanted her to die. The good part of me wanted her to live. According to police, the other girl said to a detective, it was weird that i didnt feel remorse. This has so many parents talking to their kids in many parts of the country. I have to tell you, i had a talk with my sown son last night thinking he knew nothing about slenderman. He knew all about him. Hes 11. I actually called some of his friends so that i could understand what this was. It goes to show you that we parents are sometimes behind our kids when it cops to the internet. Ill be searching the history in my sons computer. Its a game online . Its a game. Its videos. And its stories. But the issue i think is according to police, these girls thought it was real, so thats the conversation theyre urging parents to have, to explain to your kids whats real and whats not. Oh, my gosh. Kate snow, thank you very much. Lets take a turn now, check in with mr. Roker. Hes down in atlanta. Hi, al. Hey, guys. Good morning. Were talking about a lot of heat now, getting itself together second day in a row down through the southwest. This is what we call kind of a ring of fire, big area of high pressure, and it is the jet stream is way up to the north, so we get this return flow, and it is baking. Look at these temperatures. Weve got 110 in yuma. Parts of Northern California into the mid 90s. Hundreds as you get into the southwest. And as we move to the east, look at this. Parts of texas well into the 100s. 90s as you get into the midwest. Temperatures anywhere from ten to 20 degrees above normal. And even the southeast, temperatures are going to get into the upper 80s and on into the low 90s. We do have a risk of strong storms along that warm front into the midwest. Again, thats going to be making its way slowly to the east. The west coast is going to be spectacular toda 7 35. Good morning to you. Taking a live look here. San francisco socked in with fog. Meanwhile sunny skies everywhere else except for the bay. 83 degrees in the north bay. The clouds will burn off quickly. San francisco will be sunny and you will hit the 70s as a result. 81 for the peninsula and 83 right here in the south bay. As we get into the weekend temperatures will climb. And thats your latest weather. And now to the reason we are here in atlanta. Its day two of todays Treasure Hunt. And weve got all these folks from atlanta here. We are getting ready to give a clue that will give you a chance at two tickets, airfare to new york city, an overnight stay, an a shot at any one of our friday concerts. Okay, show of hands. How many people here plan to take off and get the clue . All right, they are ready. Here we go. Lets get ready. Hold that for me, shawn, thank you. Here is the clue. For this clue, we will tear a page from atlantas book. Its been called a dump but the dam will burst when you look for the gifted sign. For this clue, we will tear a page from atlantas book. Its been called a dump, but the dam will burst when you look for the gifted sign. Okay. They are off, ladies and gentlemen. Running too fast. Do you have any idea . They are running. Get ready to go. Some of them are really big fans. Back to you. Clearly as people run off to find that treasure, they ran right over our communication. I thought our satellite truck driver decided to go look for that treasure, because its a good one. Al, well check in with you in a little while. Meanwhile, actor jonah hill is finding himself in the middle of a pretty big controversy after directing a homosexual slur at a member of the paparazzi. Last night he went on the tonight show starring jimmy fallon and delivered an emotional apology. The word i chose was grotesque. You know, no one deserves to say or hear words like that. And, you know, ive been a supporter of the Lbgt Community my entire life, and i completely let the members of that community and everybody else down when i used a word like that this weekend. And my hearts broken. And i genuinely am deeply sorry to anyone whos ever been affected by that term in their life. And im sorry and i dont deserve or expect your forgiveness, but what i ask is that at home, if youre watching this and youre a young person especially, if someone says something that hurts you or angers you, use me as an example of what not to do. And dont respond with hatred or anger. Because youre just adding more ugliness to the world. And again, im so sorry. I appreciate you actually being sincere and saying that. Yeah, yeah, i know im usually funny and stuff, but this wasnt funny. It was stupid. I deserve the [ bleep ] im going to get for it, you know . No, its good that you came out and [ laughter ] came out and what a moment. It didnt seem like the audience was expecting that whatsoever. In the very beginning, what you dont see is theyre laughing. Thats the way to do it. He could open up a clinic on how celebrities should apologize. Very heartfelt and quick. Get right out there and take responsibility. Say how you feel. Talk to the people at home. Have it be earnest. 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Record time. Man, hes fast. All right, cool, al, well check in with you in a couple of minutes. Now to a really interesting story out of Northern California. It centers around five injured baby birds, a tree trimmer, and some feel this person is being bullied by the government. Nbcs joe fryer has the story. Reporter outside of an oakland post office, the sound of the black crown night heron fills the air from above while Something Else covers the ground down below. So to keep bird droppings off the mail trucks, the Postal Service hired ernesto to trim the trees over the parking lot. This is where it happened . This is one of the trees we trimmed. Reporter he says at some point during the pruning process, five baby herons fell from their nest and were injured. Someone called police and now he faces the possibility of federal charges. He says his family even received threats of false reports some birds were killed. I made a mistake, i faced the consequences, but i think its way too far to go for that. Reporter at International Bird rescue, veterinarian rebecca doer says most birds are hurt by humans. Tree trimming during inappropriate seasons is a big reason we get animals. Johansson she is caring for the five birds injured in oakland. How are the herons doing . Theyre doing great. Reporter the herons got a visitor. The tree trimmer stopped by to see how they were doing and paid 2,500 to help with their recovery. Still, the u. S. Fish Wildlife Service isrecommending he face misdemeanor charges. That upsets california congressman darrell issa. Holding ernesto responsible to take care of the damage by sawing down the limbs, that would make sense. But doing a criminal referral is simply using their power to the extreme and thats bureaucratic bullying. Reporter but groups like the Audubon Society say it is a federal crime. I dont think its bureaucratic bullying at all. I think its very important that the laws that are on the books be enforced. Reporter both sides feel the post office should also be accountable. The Postal Service spokesman calls the incident unfortunate. But polito says he wont blame anyone else. If you dont learn from your mistakes in life, youre not learning anything. Reporter the injured birds will soon be released as the humans debate what constitutes justice. For today, joe fryer, nbc news, oakland. Were kind of shaking our heads here. The guy made a mistake. Hes owned it. He tried to help and contribute to the care of the birds. Criminal charges seem a little out of line. Yeah, a little bit of a head scratcher on that one. Love to hear what you think about it. Send your comments to the orange room. Coming up on trending, have you ever dozed off at work. The video of secretary of state john kerry that has us asking, is he sleeping, or is it a really long blink . And next, want to feel old. 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Sunshine coming your way. We will see sunshine to start. Lets keep your temperatures at 70 versus the low 90s. The peninsula at 81 degrees as we get into the next three days we get into this prolonged stretch coming up right now here is your drive with mike. The sun is coming into the lens. Let me show you on the map. That is 280 northbound on the middle of your screen. Look it ajammed out of north 285 and north 280 blocking three of your four lanes heading up south. We dont have an expectation for when they opened the big problem. 880 an earlier crash had cleared. There is a back up there. It has cleared back to you. More news in a half hour. P the world of fashion is split in two. You can either have highend or lowprice. Or you can go to t. J. Maxx and you can have it all for up to 50 off Department Store prices. T. J. Maxx. Its 8 00 on today, and coming up, big changes coming to some of americas favorite fastfood places. Well talk to bobby flay about what that means for you. Plus, from reporter to royalty. Meet the former commoner now set to become queen. And hollywood royalty stops by studio 1a. Laura dern is here to talk about one of the most anticipated movies of the summer, the fault in our stars, today, wednesday, june 4th, 2014. Were the andersons from michigan, celebrating our birthdays at the today show. Drove 20 hours from minnesota to be in the today show. Hi, grandma in florida from the little apple to the big apple, good morning, manhattan, kansas. Good morning, iowa aloha, hawaii good morning, alabama roll tide were back now. 8 00 on a wednesday morning. Weve got a huge crowd gathered in Rockefeller Plaza. The weirdest thing just happened to me. I walked up to say hi to this young lady. I reached out to shake her hand. She handed me her cell phone. Get a selfie. I think she wants me to take a picture. A picture with carson, i think. Look what i got. I got a camera. Grab a pocketbook. Egg and cheese sandwich . No. Okay. Big news again. More breaking news. Yes. Al is down in atlanta with the Treasure Hunt winner. Al, take it away. Weve got our second Treasure Hunt winner in atlanta on this party bus. Weve got kevin howell, who just really knocked it out of the park. Kevin, congratulations. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Come on over here. You were there whoo you werent in this crowd, were you . No. Where were you . I was at the midtown station and luckily the bus was about 15 minutes late. You were at the marta station . At the marta station at midtown. As soon as the clue came out, i knew exactly where to go and i was Walking Around the Margaret Mitchell house looking for this thing. I know, because we saw you come there you got there like licketty split and then you went away. I went around to the front because i was looking for the sign, actually. I went back around. I actually asked some people in the garden next door and they was like, its the Margaret Mitchell house. So i was like, okay, the magic sign. And i looked behind and this was taped to it. And you found it. You found it. Are you excited . Im very excited. Wow. How many of you thought you had a shot . There you are. You look at the monitor, you can see yourself. And there you are. Thats amazing. Wow. Have you looked at the concerts we have . I want to go see tim mcgraw. All right. You and a friend will come and go see tim mcgraw. What do you do . I work at a grocery store, actually. Today was my day off and i saw you yesterday before i went to work, and it all happened. Glad you had the day off. Way to go. Congratulations to kevin howell. Thank you. Coming up in the next halfhour, were going to tell you the next city were coming to, and in fact, were extending todays Treasure Hunt. It was supposed to end thursday, were taking it all the way to friday, guys thats great. We look forward the meeting him when he comes up here. Yeah, very exciting. Meantime, you guys know this. Asking tough questions is a big part of the job here at today. This morning were going to turn the tables and give you a chance to ask savannah whatever you want. Its true. Im going to go on facebook at 11 30 eastern, take over the today show Facebook Page, and you can ask anything. Log on what are you naming your baby will be the number one question. I said you can ask. I didnt say i would give you an answer. But ill do my best. 11 30 this morning. Lets go inside. Natalies got a check of the headlines. We have some new dramatic video showing the moment that Sergeant Bowe bergdahl was handed over by the taliban to u. S. Forces in eastern afghanistan. Nbcs chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel is in germany at Landstuhl Medical Center where bergdahl is undergoing treatment. Richard, good morning. Reporter good morning, natalie. This taliban video purports to show a very tense exchange. Around 8 30 p. M. Saturday, eastern afghanistan, taliban militants are waiting. They have bergdahl in the back of a vehicle. Then u. S. Helicopters arrive. Two helicopters, one of the helicopters lands. Then it was prearranged that three people from each side, three u. S. Special Operations Forces, two taliban militants, plus bergdahl approach each other. There is a very brief exchange. Then the americans wave as they move away from this encounter. They frisk bergdahl, put him in a helicopter, take him away. The entire exchange on the ground takes about one minute. You see the militants are carrying a white flag. The americans had actually requested that the taliban have something to satisfy themselves. The americans initially suggested that they flash a green light. The taliban militants said they didnt have a light, so they carried a flag. Natalie . Richard engel in landstuhl, germany, thank you. President obama announced plans to spend up to 1 billion boosting the u. S. Military presence in europe during a visit to polands capital. The president said the u. S. Planned to send more military troops and equipment and to rotate additional troops into the region. Polands Prime Minister thanked the president for the speedy and Effective Response to ukraines crisis. Investigators looking into the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 have a new possible clue. Underwater microphones picked up a noise in the indian ocean on march 8th, the same day flight 370 vanished. The sound is thought to have come from off the southern tip of india, 3,000 miles away from the area currently being searched. Scientists are still analyzing the noise, but they say it could have come from a whale or a small earthquake and not necessarily the plane. And new royal wheels this morning for queen elizabeth. She rode to the opening of parliament in a new carriage made of old artifacts that includes pieces of henry viis warship, and even fragments from sir isaac newtons historic apple tree. Its called the Diamond Jubilee state coach, but has been referred to as a living time capsule. Its pretty remarkable. 8 06. Lets get another check of the weather with al in atlanta. All right, thanks so much, natalie. By the way, kevins got to come up with another concert because tim mcgraw actually already happened. I was so excited i forgot that tim already put on a terrific concert. Lets show you whats going on weatherwise for today. Again, weve got this severe storm activity making its way in through the midsection of the country. As you look, indianapolis, youre just getting into it now. Heavy showers, thunderstorms all day today. Temperatures get into the mid 70s. This surgery weve got a risk of strong storms stretching today from st. Louis all the way into central ohio and down into paduca, kentucky. Later on tonight, with the possibility of tornados, hail, damaging winds. We have got the risk of strong storms stretching from missouri all the way into west virginia, and they continue on into tomorrow into the midatl 8 07. Good morning to you. Overcast conditions to start the day in San Francisco. Meanwhile, were completely sunny at this point in san jose. Slowing a little bit here as well. Were going to check on that drive with mike in just a few moments. But for today, temperatures will be notice apply warmer, 5 to 10 degrees warmer than yesterday. 83 for the south bay. 70 today in San Francisco and the north bay is at 84 degrees. Weve got some changes coming your way. Its going to heat up even more, so as we get into the weekend, low 90s in the south bay by saturday. And coming up, guys, at 8 30, were going to announce our third city, tell you where todays Treasure Hunt will take place tomorrow. Cool. We look forward to that. Meanwhile, coming up on trending, 90 minutes, two hours . Not even close. 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Time for whats trending today. Take a look at this video were about to show you. Secretary of state john kerry is traveling with the president overseas. There was a News Conference yesterday in poland. Take a look at the video. Apparently perhaps he was tired. You know, long flight over there. There he is. Someone captured this. The reporter actually tweeted it and said he was nodding off during the News Conference. And, of course, john kerry said no, that is just a really long blink. A lot of people are asking the question, okay, hes a good sport about it, but was it sleep or not . Yes sleep, no sleep, you can weigh in on our today. Com survey. Ive got to tell you, i feel great today. I got six hours of blink last night. Wow. This has us bring u the hall of fame of really long blinks from politicians. Remember joe biden in 2011. Dick cheney in 2007 during a briefing by president bush. Bill clinton, 2008. This was at church. And john mccain during the state of the union in 2007. Any excuse to show those great old images, why not. Were all guilty of a long blink. How about this one . Now to respected New York Times columnist, a respected New York Times columnist who had a bad trip. Not talking about a flight here. Pulitzer prize winner maureen dowd recently visited colorado to cover that states legalized pot scene, as carson calls it. It seems things didnt go very well. She sampled a bit of a marijuana candy bar and she didnt feel anything, so she ate more. Thats where her problems began. Dowd says, i felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where i lay curled up in a ha louis thattory state for the next eight hours. She goes on, as my par now deepened, i became convinced that i had died and no one was telling me. It turns out that dowd ingested 16 times the recommended dosage of that candy bar. What are you looking at me for . What are you talking about . Once in college and never happened again. Start making deals with god, the whole thing. Glad shes okay. Does that mean the candy bar, youre only supposed to take one little bite . Heres the thing. Just wait for it. Dont rush it . Thats what ive read. Not that were advising anybody try that. Heres a question if you are flying. How early should you get to the airport . What do you guys normally do . Freak out and get there really early. Halfhour. Halfhour . I get there 45 minutes. This is what my family and i do when we travel. Take a look. Oh, yeah. Classic. The scene from home alone 2. Usually it is the mad dash to the airport. Heres what a math professor is saying. Hes saying forget everything youve heard. Forget what they tell you. He says you should cut it close, very close. In fact, jordan allenburg puts it this way. If youve never missed a flight, he says youre not doing it right. What . I agree with him. He says every hour you waste in an airport lounge is an hour you could have spent relaxing at home or perhaps on vacation. And over the course of a lifetime, all those hours add up. So how close should you cut it . Anybody . He says it depends on just how much you value your time. If you miss your flight, thats even more hours youre wasting. If you miss one out of every 20 flights, i think its just Bryant Gumbel and i used to travel to get golf. He would want to get there two and a half hours early for a domestic flight. Its crazy. Ill board last. Oh no, i like to get there early, have my coffee, have some magazines, call my mom. Dutyfree shopping. Thats when you catch up on all the trash magazines. Yeah. Cut it close. Thats whats trending today. Coming up, from commoner to the queen, the newest royal in the globall all right. Back now with a big announcement from the panera bread company. The chain of about 1,800 bakery cafes is now making the switch to what it calls clean and simple. Nbcs katy tur has more. Whats it about . Reporter panera is joining a growing movement, companies trying to stay competitive by saying goodbye to processed food and hello to healthier options. Adios potassium lactate. So long ascorbic acid. Out with the additives and in with, quote, clean and simple. Panera is revamping its menu. We are today announcing a commitment to remove all artificial sweeteners, artificial preservatives, artificial flavorings and colors from our food. Reporter the chain is the latest in a round of restaurants to lure healthconscience consumers with more seemingly healthy food. In 2009, starbucks announced it would remove all artificial flavors, dyes and sweeteners from its products. Chipotle recently committed to getting rid of all gmo or genetically modified ingredients. And just this april, subway took out a controversial compound in its bread. The consumer is demanding better ingredients. And because these companies are realizing that if they dont change their ingredients, the consumer is going to take their money and spend it elsewhere. Reporter the push for Natural Ingredients has been gaining momentum in recent years, especially among millennials who experts say are more concerned about artificial additives. Every fast food chain needs to make that change to be healthier. I want, you know, to it eat something quick that i know is going to be good for my body. Reporter panera, which is facing slowing sales growth, says the changes will be in effect by the end of 2016. And despite the push to eliminate artificial sweeteners, panera will still sell fountain sodas which contain high fructose corn syrup. It doesnt mean everything will be healthy. An apple will always be better than a chocolate chip cookie, no matter what goes in it, unfortunately. Back to you. Lets bring in bobby flay, owner of gatto here in new york. This is called clean eating. How is that different from allnatural . Well, i just think its i think somebody at panera is actually paying attention. When you look at what independent restaurants like trendy, independent restaurants in big cities are doing, were doing like three years ago, they started the farm to table, organic. People want to eat better. They want to think theyre eating food thats better for them and good for them. So you think theyre doing this because there is value in it for the customer, and its good for their health. You dont think this is a marketing gimmick because sales are slumping. I didnt say that. I think this is all part of the food revolution in this country. We want better, we want tastier. We want better for you. Now, the real question is, whether or not as a country we can eat a little bit less. We really like to eat a lot. Yeah, restaurants and restaurant chains can do whatever they want to do. The fact of the matter is, it still relies on the consumer to make the right choices. All our choice. We can decide how much were going to eat and when were going to eat it. But i applaud panera for doing this. I think because they are a big part of the marketplace, theyre going to hopefully force other companies in their ilk to do the same. And hopefully well all eat better. I agree. Hopefully we can do that. Youre going to be back in our next half hour, youre doing a breakfast for us. Absolutely. Look forward to that. Thank you very much. Lets go over to savannah. Matt, thank you. This weeks surprise announcement that King Juan Carlos of spain will abdicate in favor of his son is putting the spotlight on his daughterinlaw. The former journalist now set to become the first commoner to be queen in spanish history. Keyer simmons is in london with more on her. Good morning. Reporter hey, savannah, good morning. Women are changing the way we see royalty. Kate has shaken things up in england and now spains queen and her huskiband king after he dad stepped aside. Who is the woman who could be called kates competition . Glamorous, stylish and smart. The soontobe queen of spain was once a tv news anchor. She won awards for her journalism. Then one day on assignment, she met her prince. For real. The crown prince of spain. Becoming princess in 2004. The couple a Star Attraction at european royal gatherings. At 41, she manages to be a mom and a style icon. And for a royal, a fashion risktaker. Check out the leather pants and red heels. Her past has caused a stir too. There are some skeletons in her closet. She got married at 31, and has a previous marriage, actually. So she will be the first divorced queen of spain. Reporter given her looks criticized, she assistant style enough some say, and reportedly had plastic surgery. But most love her and her husband, perhaps because she is from a middle class family. Not unlike another princess. Comparisons were inevitable. Here is kate and is she in a red dress, gray dress and dressed down. You can see she loves her glossy dark hair. Very groomed, very similar tastes in fashion. Reporter and they both have a common touch, often wearing chain store fashion, leaving a generation of modern royals. Now the princess could be queen within two weeks once Spains Parliament agrees, which means she is leaving kate way behind because there is no sign Britains Queen is going to abdicate. I dont know whether kate will be in the palace somewhere frustrated for having to wait to be queen or relieved. Oh, i think shell be able to handle it. I have a feeling this is not the last time well hear her name. Moan time, carson is in the orange room celebrating the anniversary of Bruce Springsteens classic album born in the usa turning 30 . 30 years ago today this iconic album came out. Technically bruces seventh but the album that really catapulted him into mega stardom. We went into the video vault, matt found this. One of my favorite moments. Putting on the seatbelt, and taking the wheel. Thats a good one there. And also found this in your office, matt. This is cool right here. Ohio hope you dont mind, im going to take this home. He signed it to you. Happy 50th. So that was 15 years ago . Put that up on ebay pretty soon. 30 million copies sold worldwide, seven top ten u. S. Singles. We asked our anchors, favorite album of alltime. Matt, hotel california. What a great record. Savannah, zeppelin 4. Stevie wonder. Natalie joshua, u 2. I went with Michael Jackson thriller. Somewhere between 65 and 110 million. Great choices, guys. And congratulations to the boss if hes watching, 30 years of born in the usa. By the way, you can take those five albums right there and have a lot of fun. That would be okay. Coming up, get ready to do some bargain shopping. Steals and deals are here for Summer Travel. But first, on a wednesday morning, a check of your local news and weather. Travels. But first, on a wednesday morning, a check of your local news and weather. A very good morning to you. Its 8 26 now. Im laura garciacannon. This morning, muni says most of its 600 vehicles back on the streets in San Francisco. The mta says all trains and bus routes are back to normal, but cable cars are still down. It comes after hundreds of workers called in sick over the past two days, causing some major transit delays. Operators are protesting a proposed labor contract. It is against the law for them to strike, so a sickout is their form of protest. Well, mike is here today to keep tabs on all that traffic. Were looking at the golden gate bridge, which has a good flow of traffic into and out of San Francisco. As we look at the map, it is the city itself with potential for muni delays. With only twothirds of those drivers reporting for work, we have less trains and buses to take those folks around the city. So plan for those delays. Meanwhile, the rest of your bay showing a pretty typical pattern for the commute, slowing starts for oakland. The east shore freeway recovers after an earlier crash, and upper sigh around anning way and another at willow. Here the south bay really suffers, the new crash, north 280 at magdalena, just the slow lanes blocked now, but the backup on 280 out of san jose all the way through cupertino. That is a slow drive for that stretch, laura. Back to you. Thank you very much, mike. Thank you for joining us. Another local news update coming up in about a half an hour. Have a great one. Its 8 30 on wednesday morning. The 4th of june 2014. We have a happy crowd on Rockefeller Plaza this morning. I guarantee 24 hours from now folks will be even happier when one of the hottest names in music, Pharrell Williams takes to our stage. It makes you happy just saying his name, doesnt he . Theres a lot of happy parodies there. A coach on the voice. Thats cool. Theres more. Friday if were all around here were going to get sarah berellis, the Grammy Nominated singer and songwriter right here on the plaza. Tomorrow is pharrell. Today well go one on one with robert deniro. His man was an extremely talented artist back in the 40s, 50s, 60s in this country. He says he never got his dues. Take a look. In one reference of you he says something to the effect of you saved his life once and youre helping him again. Did you understand thats the way he felt about you at the time . Well, as i say, he was a very loving father so its not surprising that he would. Did you grow closer during those times . You can be close to people and not always see them. He gets very emotional talking about it. He has preserved his fathers studio downtown exactly the way it was when he left that studio. Its an amazing, amazing place. You can see that tomorrow in an interview with robert deniro. True love for his father. Also, just ahead, were going to get you started on a summer of travel with our special steals and deals including 400 luggage for just, get this, 75. Good deal. Thats a steal. Plus, the much anticipated movie the fault in our stars. Well get to atlanta and get a check of our weather from mr. Roker. Hey, al. We have more storms to talk about for today. Wet weather making its way throughout the southeast into the midatlantic states. We have a risk of strong storms into the central plains. Gorgeous along the west coast. Tomorrow the severe risk makes its way along the southeastern Atlantic Coast. More showers and thunderstorms also back to the mid mississippi valley. The heat gets turned up out west as well with thats right, al. Someones turning on the heat today. And were going to crank it up even more so, getting into the coming days. But right now, we still have a little bit of low cloud cover. This extends all the way across the inner bay. And as a result of those low clouds limiting your sunshine early, everywhere except for the south bay and extreme east bay, your temperatures will not be able to soar for today. But they will as we get into the weekend. Today, 70 degrees in San Francisco versus 91 out in the trivalley. 84 for us in the south bay and 70 degrees straight up in San Francisco. A little drizzle out there at the immediate coast. Thats your latest weather. Todays Treasure Hunt tour moves on. Tomorrow we will be at the inner harbor of baltimore. Thats right, ladies and gentlemen. A beautiful inner harbor. As you take a look live right now, we will be there tomorrow to continue todays Treasure Hunt which is extended an extra day into friday so well have that city as well tomorrow coming up. But looking forward to it. A lot of good fun. People looking for these envelopes, guys, for our great today concert. Back to you. Al, thank you so much. 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Oh, my god, its so beautiful. Nice. Youre just saying. Youre saying that youre totally fine with a teenage daughter running free with an older with an older boy . Its totally fine with you . Yeah, thats pretty much exactly what im saying. Laura dern plays hazels mom. Good to see you. Great to see you. You said something funny to our producer. It was the most normal grown up role youve ever had. Very much so. I think one mom who wasnt very skilled at the job, this is the first mother ive gotten to play so i had an amazing time working on this. The book and also the movie which i think is very true to the book pulls off this half truth. Its incredibly heart wrenching but at the same time uplifting. Feel good feel bad movie of the summer. Its all due to john green. Were all just so grateful for his book and i think everyone, everyone whos read it wants the film to pay tribute to his words. We were all fiercely protective as every fan is. He and a half have i gates that so beautifully in the book. By the way, why do they call it a young adult novel . Everyone i know has read it. Everyone i know has read it. Every age wants to see the film. I really think its a film for families to go together, a date movie. I mean, its a group of my girlfriends cant wait to go see it because theyre so in love with the book. Anyone hads loved and anyone whos experienced loss, which is what we all walk through. Its done with such irreverence and gratitude. In the movie you play her mom. I thought you had for lack of a better word mother daughter chemistry. You really seemed to click. We love each other. This whole cast, we love each other so much. We have dinner every night. Weve become such a family. Shea and i are very, very close, felt really connected. I thought it worked particularly well because john so beautifully captured a mother Daughter Relationship thats a very modern, progressive relationship. Theyre friends, and they have Mutual Respect and admiration for each other. It was really cool to get that play that kind of relationship. I was teasing shea about her voluntary homelessness. Youre one of her crash pads, right . Its full on. Shes there as much as she wants to be. My children love her so much. Theyre like family now. You mentioned its really interesting look at modern parenting. Youre a mom. You have a 12yearold and a 9yearold. Yeah. What kind of parent do you think you are . Is this something that feels natural to you . Obviously not the circumstances that they find themselves in in the movie. Well, i learned greatly from it. You know, i think thats what amazing is this unique voice that, you know, the narration comes from is a girl who is has obviously been really given room for her own voice and her family. So to try to honor that is a big deal to me. Laura, its great to see you. By the way, remember the last time you were here and you had to stand outside. I want to say were trying to improve. Our booking is getting a little more sophisticated. This time you actually invited me in. Thank you for coming back. I have to say happy birthday to bruce dern, my dad. Happy birthday. Thank you very much. The fault in our stars opens friday. Yeah. Do you like your eggs scrambled, fried or 8 45 and were making breakfast with bobby. Bobby flay that is. His latest new york city restaurant is called gatto. Its great. This morning hes making eggs three different ways. Good morning. Good to see you. Good morning. Homeowner weekend. Youre making breakfast. Whats your goto. Scrambled eggs. Do you like your scrambled or soft . Soft. Do you put water in the egg or milk or Something Else . I dont. I start with just the eggs themselves. Make sure you whip them really well. You want the eggs and whites you dont want sort of streaks of white going through your eggs. Thats the conventional wisdom. Oil, not butter . Oil and butter. Olive oil is better than butter apparently. I like the combination. I like the flavor of olive oil in the eggs. No water in there . You dont like to get those bubbles and lighten them up . No, i feel if you put water in the eggs, youre going to water them down. Thats my feeling. Matt, one of the things i like to do is not salt the egg until the very end. It keeps it creamy. Scrambled eggs need a little bit of salt. A little pepper to sart. You see how quickly the eggs the eggs cook the fastest thing in the world. Two minutes. Basically im done. Im going to put a little creme fresh in here. Why that . Creaminess, texture. Then a little bit of goat cheese. I love that. Honestly, you can actually serve this for dinner, you know, eggs for dinner. We do a lot of that at the restaurant downtown now. Theres eggs all over the menu for Dinner Service and people love it. Im going to put this on toews and some pesto and peppers. There you go. Scrambled eggs flay bobby style. Fried eggs, cut and dried. Those things have been cooking. Theyre ready to go. What do you do to make them different . Do you want to crack an egg with me . Sure. Very quickly i can tell youve been around an egg pan. I cook breakfast. I like breakfast. Even so you know, we use nonstick pance with eggs. Do not be a hero when youre cooking eggs. A little bit of salt and pepper on top of the eggs. Again, they go really quickly. What i like to do is put a cover on top of them so they get this basted sort of look to them. They cook just a little bit on top. You want to make sure theyre nice and runny in the middle. One of the things you do to make this dish different is serve them on top of hash browns. Hash brown potatoes, paprika, parmigiano. Poached eggs are difficult. A little bit of vinegar. Why . Because it actually helps the egg coagulate. Thats my big vocabulary word for the day. Good. We want the egg the whites and the yolks to kind of become one. The white that you surround the yolk and you get a perfect poached egg. Water boiling before you put the egg in. Simmering. A little bit of vinegar, white wine vinegar. Heres a tip. Heres what we do in the restaurant. Like lets say its brunch, cooking a lot of eggs benedict, need a lot of poached eggs. What happens is we break the eggs a lot. We dont want to break them in the water. We actually put it in a rah amekin and you submerge that. Exactly. A classic poached egg, you take your spoon and you swirl it around. You get a beautiful poached egg. How long does a beautiful poached egg need to cook . If youan get it out of the water whole very runny on the inside. On a salad. This is a classic french bistro salad. White chicory, white dressing, put it on top. I have almonds and bacon. Very savory. Could be lunch, dinner, fantastic for brunch. Filleted eggs three waste from bobby. Appreciate it. You can get bobbys recipes on our site todd. Com. We have a performance from bullets over broadway. First this is today. Announcer the toyota Concert Series on today brought to you by toyota. The tony awards this weekend, bullets over broadway set in the 1920s. Its a comedy that shows a young writer who needs capital. We have the play wright and his girlfriend ellen. Good morning to both of you. Nice to see you. Good morning. The early days bringing this show together. Sitting at a table reading lines in front of woody allen . Yeah. It was nerve racking. He was a shy man and we were silent in front of him. There was lots of silences. That first day woody allen, the first day i met you, we were reading the lines. After we read through the scene the first time woody gave me a compliment and then, zach, you touched my leg and you go, woody allen just gave you a lovely compliment and all i was thinking is zach just touched my leg. There you go. I never heard that story. Take it away, guys. Id like to hear more about that. Ive fallen in love with helen sinclair. I want to be honest, this is one of those things that happened im not surprised. Shes extraordinary. So are you. It is me that is so mixed up. I have a confession to make. I know, you knew all along. Youre too damn decent to confront me. No, ive been seeing sheldon flender. Flender, my friend flender. Weve been having an affair. With sheldon flender, hes a communist . Yes. Worse, hes been a vegetarian. Hes been in love with me a long time. You . I found a new baby. I found a new boy. That sweet talking baby that fills me with joy his new way of loving is all that i say its made me say sweetest kiss somehow tells me i bow, i dont mean maybe i found a new baby, new baby, thats all sheldon splendor. Everybody looks at me, happiness is what they see it is awfully nice to be on solid ground oh, he is charming, i confess, more than you, but i digress tell me, darling, can you guess just what i have found youve found a new baby ive found awe in baby and new boy thats filled you with joy he makes me smile a new baby thats right, i found a new baby. Dont ask me why why . You found a new baby so, baby, why cant i you found a new baby you found a new baby you found a new baby so say byebye to me were threw you found a new baby on you, you found a new baby boo hoo, you found a new baby so say byebye to me i found a new baby i just had a ball i found a new baby i found a new baby new baby, thats all thats all take that bullets over broadway at the saint james theater. Congratulations. Thank you. Back after your local news and good morning, everyone. 8 56. Im scott mcgrew. Decision 2014, the race for secretary of state has come down to two candidates, alex padilla and Pete Peterson deadlocked at 30 each. In third, disgraced state senator, leland yee. Yee received 10 of the vote, despite dropping out of the race after he was arrested on bribery and corruption charges. Lets get a check of your weather this morning with christina. Hey, good morning to you, scott. Good morning to you at home. Still fogged in in San Francisco. Thats keeping your temperatures down for now, but were going to see that heat really come on strong later on this afternoon, right around 91 degrees. As a result, out in the trivalley for today, youll get a taste of the 70s in San Francisco. We are headed towards the 80s by the weekend. From nbc news, this is todays take with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist, and tamron hall, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Its june 4th, 2014. Goodlooking crowd outside on our plaza this morning. Im willie geist along with natalie morales, tamron hall. Al down in atlanta this morning, spreading joy and plane tickets once again today. Al, were going to check in with you in just a few minutes. Boy, hes putting smiles on faces across the United States of america. All over. Hes really enjoying it in hotlanta. Or as you call it the atl. Atown. Dont do that again. Atown . Atown. Say hi to everybody there. Well check in with you. Tamron just vetoed my atown. Al, well see you in a couple minutes. Lets talk about this story. Theres a twist and a turn every day. Some new video out released by the taliban showing the moment Sergeant Bowe bergdahl was handed over to American Special forces. This happened on saturday. The video shows the militants as they wait in a field in eastern afghanistan. They have bergdahl. There are more armed men on a hill nearby for backup. American special forces then arrive, were told, around 6 30 p. M. Local time. As you see here, a helicopter comes in for a landing. Both sides reportedly had agreed to approach each other with just three men per side. They briefly touch hands. Then the americans wave as they back away. Bergdahl is frisked, checked for weapons and explosives, then loaded and it takes off. U. S. Forces asked the taliban initially to shine a green light to indicate that they were the correct forces, that theyd come to the right place. Those forces didnt have the green light, so they asked can we wave a flag instead. You see in the video, they did have one. It was a white flag. Five senior members of the taliban released in exchange for Sergeant Bergdahl are believed to be staying at a villa in dohas west bay area. They are in qatar now. Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl expected to be discharged from a hospital in germany by the end of this week. And if you look at the video released overnight, some say bergdahl now, this is purely playing off video, we dont know. But part of the argument for him getting out early was he was in dire medical condition. We dont know what his medical condition is, but some are saying perhaps hes not. We dont know. He looks thin. He looks thin. But in good condition. We dont know the mental part of it. So president obama said he had to overstep congress because of the medical condition. Heres what Dianne Feinstein, democratic senator, the head of the Senate Intelligence committee, someone who should know everything in theory, had to say yesterday about the handover. It comes with some surprise and dismay that the transfers went ahead with no consultation, totally not following the law. So thats Dianne Feinstein speaking yesterday. Backlash growing, bipartisan backlash now. A democrat, of course. Theres a lot of anger of why were they not given 30 days of notice. Theyll be meeting with obama to talk more about the release of bergdahl and why they werent informed within the appropriate time. And the white house has issued an apology to senator feinstein as well. But our own Jim Miklaszewski and Richard Engel have been doing amazing reporting on this, and you do have this current of politics meeting the military. General barry mccaffery, well have to see. Chuck todd said the white house knew there would be some controversy, but they were expecting more national euphoria, welcoming home a hero. The white house sent out susan rice on a sunday show, said Sergeant Bergdahl served with honor and distinction before the facts of this story came out. Theres still a big hole in the middle of the story. I think the question is, as he gets home and i think the chairman of the joint chiefs, hes signaling that its not going to be the, you know, Yellow Ribbon Welcome Home Party that everybody expected. That there is going to be an investigation into whether or not he deserted. And if need be, he may be held accountable for that. The mayor of hailey, idaho, issued a statement yesterday, i believe, saying theyre planning to have this welcome home for Sergeant Bergdahl, but at the end of the statement, the mayor said, if these accounts turn out to be true, then this should be sorted out in the United States courts. There was also a report that people have started to make cancellations and cancel plans, taking out their frustration on hailey, idaho. Theyve received angry messages. Thats sad. It is very sad. Its very silly. But they are feeling the brunt of this. Those folks in hailey who have supported the bergdahls and continued to as this is sorted out. I think what the white house has said and what supporters of the president are saying is weve got one of our guys home. That was the first step. And now there will be an investigation and well learn exactly what happened. But at what price is the larger question. Another investigation thats happening, and i actually told our team this is a horrific story. I stayed up last night. I got in late. I started reading details on this story. I did not go to sleep. This is one of the most haunting and i do a crime show. This is one of the most haunting stories i think ive ever heard. Two 12yearold girls have been charged with attempted homicide after stabbing another 12yearold girl, this happened near milwaukee on saturday. But were just getting in a lot of new details. So the victim, a classmate, remains in stable condition at a hospital. Doctors say that she was within a millimeter of losing her life, that the girls allegedly stabbed her so close to an artery, she could have died. Police say the two girls had an allegiance to this fictitious character known as slenderman. I had never heard of this. Neither had i. Until the story. Its an online horror story character that is hugely popular. Youtube is full of slenderman videos. Some stories claim hes real, and according to police, thats what these 12yearold suspects believe. Police say they started plotting, 12yearolds, allegedly plotting to kill their friend several months ago to prove themselves to this fictitious character slenderman. Then they join him in the woods somewhere. Its horrific. Its unimaginable. According to police, they pretended to play hide and seek with their friend. They tackled her. Heres what police said in a press conference about it. One suspect held the victim down while the other suspect stabbed her 19 times in the arms, legs, and torso. Keeping our children safe is more challenging now than in years past. The internet has changed the way we live. It certainly has. Police say one of the girls said she regretted what she had done to her friend. The bad part of me wanted her to die, the good part of me wanted her to live. But picking up on what police said at that conference, and just the overall safety and precautions you have to take with the internet. We were talking about the fact of fantasy versus reality. And you watch a movie, kids know now listen, you know that rambo doesnt take out everyone, or the horror film. Chuckie is not real. You go on the internet. Catfish, for example, adults get talked into believing that theyre talking to someone theyre not. Kids with imagination get pulled into these fantasy scenarios. I said, im a little leery of saying, warning to parents. Because not all 12yearold children will be facing these kind of allegations. We know that. But it is a reminder of the things that are unknown. Here we are pretty hip. Youre parents. And none of us had heard of this character. Kate snow, she came home from doing the story and asked her 11yearold, you know about this whole slender man thing . He told her the website, and she was just horrified. I have a 10yearold. So now ive got go home and have those same conversations. Im concerned. You hear Something Like this, apparently its this cultish thing that a lot of kids know about. Its slender man this week. Its going to be another character in a month. So its an overall conversation that has to be ongoing. Even with text messaging. My 13yearold niece got a strange text recently and we were like, what is it . She had applied for some little music streaming thing and her number ended up on some website. What strikes you is the Crystal Clear reality these girls have. We know where he lives. He wants us to do this in service of him and well go to the woods to please him. It came to life in their minds. It was real. Another crazy story to tell you about, and im sure this has happened to you and maybe not to this degree, but have you ever accidentally called somebody, you realize much later, though, you may have left an unexpected message and perhaps you didnt hang up properly . Well, a teacher in ohio left a message that she now regrets. The Kindergarten Teacher had phoned a 7yearold students mother. After the conversation with the mom, though, she didnt hang up properly and she began to badmouth the child. And heres what the message said. He has no common sense. He was seven in may and hes the biggest baby in my room. She probably still wipes his butt. Thats a tough one. The teacher has since apologized. But heres how the boys mom reacted. The first thing i wanted to do was get my child out of that school. I was very angry. The school who got an excellence report and put on a great facade, because i was thinking it was a great school. The only reason shed be apologizing is because she got caught. Well, she told us that she pulled her son out of the school the same day of that incident. In august, hes going to be starting at another school, local charter. We reached out to the elyria city schools, they said theres no excuse for what occurred and the comment this teacher made. The teacher regrets what she said and is apologetic. She shouldnt have said this, only. Does anyone doubt the teachers in their private moments get together and say, that kid is a pain in the butt. Oh yeah. Of course they do. Unfortunately, she got caught. The whole thing about having to pull the kid out of school, i dont know that you needed to go to that extreme. I think maybe put them in another classroom or have another teacher teach that child. Did she really say anything that vicious about the kid . If she had said some kind of slur. Maybe he is a big baby. And maybe the mom should have met with the teacher. Youre going to be called out next. I dont care, because my mother is a teacher and there were many parents who would come in and take their childs side rather than meeting the teacher halfway. I know your children are perfect, probably not to their teacher. No. Its a private conversation. It all went for bad. But maybe they can come to some compromise. Maybe he does need a little toughening up. The problem is it ended up on voicemail. I think part of it too is they said theyd had some problems in the past. This may have been the end of a long story for them. Maybe they can Work Together for the good of the little boy. Can we end on a happy note . Some babies we want to talk about. Some gratuitous adorable animals. Zoo miami has welcomed three baby animals. Heres the newborn whicefaced saki monkey. Oh, thats adorable. It you dont sound like you believe it. Heres the females black female rhinoceros. Is that adorable . Whats the next one . You say it, willie. Theres a newborn somali wild ass. What did you say . Somali wild ass. Is that a nightclub in new york . The hottest nightclub. Willie could not wait for that line all morning. Apparently theyre endange d endangered, though, so were glad that the wild ass was born. I know a lot of wild asses. When you get home and your two kids are doing this, what are you going to do . See . Were hurting america. Lets get a check of the weather from al. Hes down in america. Hey, guys, how you doing . Lets check it out. Show you whats happening for today. We do have a risk of strong storms that are going to be really plaguing parts of the midwest. You can see already on the radar, this system has traveled over 700 miles to the east, and it is not breaking down. So we are looking at a risk of strong storms today from st. Louis on into columbus, ohio. It extends to the east later tonight. Isolated tornados, possible damaging winds and hail. You can see tonight we do look for more strong storms, making their way through the midwest into the upper ohio river valley, and then for thursday, more strong storms in the southeast from clear skies, beautiful blue over sunol. Good to moderate air quality for today. Your temperatures right now are already in the upper 50s to low 60s across the board. Were headed the toward a warmer day by 5 to 10 degrees. That means 90s on the map for the warmer cities across the bay and that looks like the trivalley today. 83, meanwhile for the south bay, and 84 in the north bay today. Youll hit the 70s in San Francisco, but less clouds to keep you cool for today. Warming persists for tomorrow, and then we crank that heat up substantially, getting into the weekend. And thats your latest weather. Guys . All right, al, thanks. Well talk to you in a little bit. Coming up next, which is the worst month to schedule a surgery . Well tell you when we how do they pack so much juiciness into these starburst minis . They built a factory in miniminneapolis. Theyre experts at shrinking regular starburst. Everythings mini there. Wait, what . [ beeping, whirring ] [ female announcer ] starburst minis. Unexplainably juicy. And here. But what about here . [ female announcer ] neutrogena® visibly even daily moisturizer with a clinically proven soy complex. It diminishes the look of dark spots in 4 short weeks. 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Every little step counts but it has to come from the heart and a day like this as just a reminder of why we do what we do. People really do care, and people really do help you and give back. Oh it feels good, its a real good, its a great experience. Im looking forward to seeing the kids. This isnt just one thing that we do this is constant. My team is out somewhere in the Community Every month. We had a food pantry distribution today so every child took home 22 pounds of food. Its just an outstanding day. To know that these students wont go to bed hungry is just awesome. We all have to go to the doctor, but with copays, medical tests and prescriptions, the expenses can be overwhelming. Today were revealing secrets from a doctor that can save you time and money. Dr. Natalie azar is an assistant professor of medicine and rheumatology at nyu langone medical center. Thanks for having me. Of course. Lets launch in with the best time of day to make an appointment. I would assume the morning. Is that true . Absolutely. That assumption is completely correct. It is common sense that the first couple of appointments of the day are probably your best bet, that the doctor hasnt already fallen behind. Three most common reasons the doctor is going to get behind, we do have real emergencies. Something that i call the unexpected complicated visit. At the end of the visit, the patient suddenly says, by the way, ive been having chest pain. That doesnt wait until the next appointment. You have to address that. And patients run late themselves, right . So if a patient is running ten to 15 minutes late, it bumps everybody else back. Another time that might make sense for people is maybe in the evening, it definitely is more convenient to work around a patients schedule. But doctors who see patients all day long are going to be exhausted by the end of the day. Youre just not going to get that same energy and attention unless they set aside evening hours. Thats a good one. How about this one. Try to avoid elective surgery during the month of july because doctors are daydreaming about the beach while theyre carving you up, right . No, no. So this is hysterical. This is something called the july effect. I first learned about it maybe ten years ago and i was personally offended. But what happens is this. The academic or training year begins july 1st. So we dont follow a calendar year. So every july 1st, everyones being promoted, moving up, moving up. Interns become residenresidents. Residents move up in their training. The intern on july 1st is a freshly minted medical School Graduate whos probably been backpacking across europe for six weeks. So they actually have done studies that have looked into whether or not medical errors increase in july. Some studies have suggested that the odds of statistically dying are highest in Teaching Hospitals in july. Really . Yes, because of medication errors. Some other studies have refuted that and suggested that people are more on their toes, and especially a shoutout to nurses because theyre really on top of us in the beginning, helping the interns learn new computer systems, etc. So i personally if you have the luxury of choosing, i would maybe not do an elective procedure the first week or two of july. Let everyone get a little bit under their belts a little bit. Lets talk about referrals. A lot of people forget to get them before you go. You say have that ready. Absolutely. Most offices dont have the capacity or are not able to hold the billing until they received a referral from primary care. This has to do with when you see a specialist. Its just the way the billing has to go in within a certain number of hours or days. If youre seeing a specialist, please make sure if you need a referral from your primary care doctor, have it there at the time of the visit so you dont have to pay out of pocket and struggle with your Insurance Company to get your reimbursement. Good information. Thank you. Knocking out july. No more surgery. Coming up next, ive got all the news you need befo im on expert on softball. And tea parties. Ill have more awkward conversations than im equipped for, because im raising two girls on my own. Ill worry about the economy more than a few times before theyre grown. But its for them, so ive found a way. Who matters most to you says the most about you. At massmutual were owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. Ready to plan for your future . Well help you get there. [ding] the outdoors misses you. Get back out there with off deep woods. The long lasting mosquito protection frees you to reunite with the great outdoors. Off deep woods. Keeps bugs off. Sc johnson. 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According to the New York Times, a threemonth internal investigation is expected to name executives within gm saying they are responsible for the delayed recall of millions of vehicles with faulty ignition switches. That report may be made public as early as this week. A new study finds that calcium supplements are safe for your heart. Earlier studies had raised concerns that calcium may be linked to an increased risk of heart attack or stroke, but in a study over 25 years, supplements were found to be associated with a lower risk of heart disease. A new report shows commuters around the world spend an average of eight full days a year stuck in traffic. In its Fourth Annual traffic index, tomtom found the most congested u. S. Cities last year were los angeles, San Francisco, honolulu, seattle, san jose, and new york. It says common shortcuts actually add about 50 to your travel time. Thursdays commute is also generally the worst. Now heres a story i think everyone here at today can relate to. Secretary of state john kerry in the front row of a News Conference in warsaw, poland, with president obama and polands president , when he appeared to take a brief nap. About eight seconds long. Appeared to take a brief nap. About eight seconds long. Kerry later insisted it was jouh, whats going on . laughs its this new paint. Valspar reserve. Nothing stays on the wall not anything not any of these things, jon right. Valspar reserve. Super stainresistant and scrubbable. And this color still perfect yeah, looks great, val. How much coffee have you had . 3 cups. Mmhmm. 4. Introducing valspar reserve paint primer with hydrochroma technology. Now the colors you love stay the colors you love. Exclusively at lowes. Is that your favorite . I dont know. I also like strawberry, boysenberry, red raspberry, blackberry, sweet orange marmalade, apple, pineapple, concord grape, apricot, peach, blueberry. [ male announcer ] tim and Richard Smucker grew up knowing that with so many delicious varieties, its tough to choose just one favorite. Apricot pineapple. [ male announcer ] for five generations, with a name like smuckers, it has to be good. Good wednesday morning to you. Its 9 26. Im laura garciacannon. The brotherf an 18yearold woman who was shot to death overnight by san mateo sheriffs deputy said his sister had a knife when she was shot. That shooting happened after someone called 911 for a family disturbance. The brother says the girl has special needs and may have been off her medication. The circumstances around the altercation that led to the shooting are unclear, but a sheriffs spokesperson says the deputy feared for his life. 11 people now have to look for new places to live this morning after flames ripped through a condo in east san jose. This happened early this morning at a fourunit complex close to blossom hill. Crews were able to contain the fire to one unit, but utilities to the other three had to be disconnected so neighbors can go home, at least for now. Two people suffered minor smoke inhalation. They were treated at the scene, did not have to go to the hospital. Fire crews believe the woman who lives in that burn unit accidentally left some sort of appliance on and it caught fire. 11 people are now getting help from the red cross. Were going to have a look at weather and traffic right after this break. Welcome back. 9 28 now. Temperatures are definitely going to be warmer out there for today. And were going to get into the thick of it as we head into this weekend. Temperatures in the triple digits by saturday and sunday, but only for the warmest spots across the bay area. Well see the mid80s for today, even warmer as we head throughout tomorrow. And then by this weekend, like i said, were going to peek at that century mark out in the trivalley, but that translates to 70s at the coast. Well have your full forecast today and some minions at 11 00. First, though, heres mike inouye. Christina joined by her minions, i believe. Stay tuned for that. The south bay, well, these are traffic minions, traveling very slowly northbound 101 through san jose. Look at the south bay map, where we have northbound 101 with the arrow coming towards the camera. Slow all the way past the airport and in towards palo alto 280 also jammed, the latest crash as you come out of san jose and towards cupertino has moved to the shoulder. The earlier crash at magdalena caused all this backup. Thats a very tough drive for the south bay, but the rest of the bay, a little bit better. Muni reduced driver, so reduced schedule there and delays, laura. Back to you. Thank you very much. Thank you for joining us as well. Another local news update for you in half an hour. Have a great wednesday. Welcome to today on this wednesday morning, june 4th, 2014. Im willie along with natalie and tamron. Al is down in atlanta. Well check in with him in just a few minutes. It seems like Americans Still a little Old Fashioned when it comes to wedding etiquette. A new harris poll found many traditions Still Holding true. 84 of those responding agree with the idea of a brides father giving her away. I like that. Sure. 71 agree with the bride and the groom spending the night apart before their wedding day. 70 think a groom should ask a brides father or parents for permission before popping the question. If at all possible. If you can. But 53 think the brides family should still pay for the wedding. So its kind of like a 50 50 split on who should pay for the wedding. I think a lot more couples are chipping in because they realize its become much more expensive to do weddings. The average is still like 25,000 or Something Like that. Is it really . Thats what i read once. Scares me. Parts of the country like here are much higher. Lets get a check of the weather from al in atlanta. Hey, al. Hey, guys. Here in Centennial Park getting ready to decamp for baltimore as we continue our todays Treasure Hunt tour. Lets show you what weve got going on for today. We are looking at a risk of strong storms making their way through the mississippi and ohio river valleys. Also back through the central plains. Gorgeous day up and down the west coast. But temperatures, 110 in phoenix. Tomorrow were looking at wet weather up and down the i95 corridor. Including baltimore. Were going to be in the inner harbor there. And the heat bubbles back up from texas into ce 9 31. Good wednesday morning. Im meteorologist christina loren. It is already clear in sunol. And its going to be hot out there as a result. Up to 90 degrees later on today. Right now, in the upper 50s to low 60s. But you can probably go sans jacket at this point. Were only going to reach 70 in San Francisco, but 83 degrees, a warm day shaping up for us here in the south bay. 91 out in the trivalley with warmer weather just around the corner. And thats your latest weather. Guys, this has been so popular, we have extended it a day. It was supposed to end tomorrow. Were extending it into friday. So todays Treasure Hunt, boom. Its big. Its exploding. Baltimore tomorrow, right, al . Im sorry, say again . Youre going to be in baltimore tomorrow then . Were in the inner harbor in baltimore. And so well have the clue tomorrow morning. Lrall right, well see you tomorrow, al. Boom. He sounds excited about it. From january to june, weve watched as the pounds have melted away for three of our today viewers. Kelly, tamara, and ralph. Our six months to a six pack crew have worked hard to slim down and get healthy. But the time has finally come to reveal how great they look. I cant believe its been six months already. Today nutritionist joy bauer and jeff have been coaching them all along the way. Good morning, guys. Good morning. Lets get to these incredible transformations. They look unbelievable. Kelly, 46 years old, mom from new jersey. Take a look at where her journey started in january. This is what she looked like then. And her transformation over the last six months as we share all these pictures. Shes just melting away in front of your very eyes. Go, kelly. All right, kelly. Its been six months of wearing a sports bra and spanx. So they got all glammed up. Come on out. [ applause ] glamorous looking great. Kelly stunning. Congratulations. You look amazing. All right, joy. Kelly has dropped 45 pounds. Shes trimmed 12 inches off of that tiny waist and she went from a size 12 to a slimming size 6. And for the first time in forever, she just bought herself a pair of short shorts. Thats incredible. Were going to talk more in just a little bit. Now we move to tamara. She turned 40 just before she decided it was time to lose the pounds. Heres tamara before the challenge. Now lets look at her time lapse. As natalie said, the pounds melting away. I love that her hair stayed consistent, though. Now lets look at tamara now. Come on out [ applause ] lady in red looking great. So tamrons dropped 32 pounds. She trimmed eight and a half inches off of her waist. And she went from a size 14 to a slimming size 8. Wow. You look fantastic. All right, now lets move to my man ralph, who has not been seen with a shirt on in the last six months. Heres ralph, 64yearold paramedic from hampton bays. Here is his transformation. He just got ripped up, theres no other way to put it. Looking good. Now lets bring ralph out. See if he can bust through that wall. Yeah good sir. [ applause ] look at you. Look at the strut on my man ralph. You look amazing, brother. Ralph, he dropped 32 pounds. He trimmed ten inches off of his waist and he dropped six pant sizes. Incredible. Wow. You look amazing, but ive become fond of you without a shirt on. Just to be honest. Im glad i have a shirt on. He also dramatically lowered his cholesterol and his blood pressure, which were big issues. No longer on medications. Its a winwin. Its not just about the six pack. Its about health as well. Kelly, let me start with you. When you started this journey, i think you described yourself as very shy. Now we see you in a totally different light. Youve been begging joy to get on the scale, which most people would say get off the thing, right . Its a great feeling. We did it the right way. It was slow and steady, but you feel great physically. I feel great emotionally. Mentally. Its been a wonderful experience. I couldnt be happier. So inspiring. Tamara, you just mentioned 40 before the challenge. What motivated you most during this . I think it was having so much support. That was really it shocked me how many people at my church, my family were really gunning for me to, you know, to lose the weight and to look good. And there were a lot of our viewers rooting for you all the way and you all pulled it off. Ralph, what are the guys in the balance saying when they see this jacked up man . [ laughter ] they become secret followers. They want to know how they can do it. Its great. And i do it with my students as well. Theyre following. I actually incorporate this now in part of my power point presentations on healthy living. So whats the secret then . What can you pass on to people watching . Dont give up. Just dont give up. And moderation. And i understand things at home with the wife have gotten very exciting as well . Easy, natalie. Natalie can you believe her . A man in uniform. Youre making me blush. The wife likes the new ralph. Lets just put it that way. Well, you all look amazing. Congratulations. Welldone. Great job. Anybody can do this. 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Good morning. Lets launch into this big announcement from apple. What does it really mean . For me and for family viewers at home watching this, heres the big thing for me. You will be able to now take a picture on one device and that picture will be available on all of your apple devices. So thats pretty cool. So even if you shoot a video or picture, even if you edit it, it will show up on all your other devices. Number two, family sharing feature. This is really cool because if i buy a movie, buy an app, or buy a song, now it can be made available to all of my family members, up to six family members. Thats good, the beats thing, i got that, because its a family share. Thats a really good thing. You couldnt do that before. If you went on vacation with the wrong ipad that didnt have all the content, youre like ive got to download this stuff or buy it all over again. That makes sense. Digitally asking permission. I dont know about you guys, but our kids want to always download apps so they have to ask us. So now the kids can have their own account thats connected to your credit card and digitally ask for permission. Thats scary. That is a little scary. How about this, health care app. I love these things. I like the fact that apple is trying to take a lead. We have a couple bands that im wearing. Tamron was talking about the bands that she wears quite often. What were seeing is a mobile explosion. Being able to track everything from our steps, calories, heart rate. So what apple wants to do is put it into one Central Location where you can get all of that information, share it with your personal trainer, share it with your doctor. So they see it as an exploding area. But its chaotic, too mh clutter so. If people can manage it better in one location, youll see all of your Health Information in one spot. Thats pretty cool. Now lets talk about all these software updates. Talk about chaotic. You open your fun, and its update, update, update. How do we know what we need and whats extra . I think it boils down to two things. There are things like minor upgrades and major upgrades. The minor upgrades are when youre moving from 8. 0 to 8. 1, maybe a security fix. You want to do those. When were going from, say, 7 to 8, thats a major upgrade. Thats what apple announced this fall, you can upgrade your phone to ios 8. Thats a major upgrade. You may not want to be the first person to do that. You may just want to take a little bit of patience, maybe some kinks that will show up, they can get those fixed. As for the gadgets themselves, you never quite know when you really should buy the new one or whether theyre just trying to push you to buy their new product, whether its an iphone or smart phone of any kind. So you kind of do a personal tech assessment. You ask yourself a few questions. Its three things really. The first one is what do you primarily use the device for. So in the apple situation, we have two devices here. With the new operating system, if you take a lot of photos and videos, its going to really be great for you to upgrade, to go from the old ios 7 to the new one of 8. When you take one shot, it will show up on all your devices. So that makes sense. The next question is whats frustrating you or a big challenge in your life that you need fixed that maybe tech can do for you. If you drop your phone a lot, the old samsung s4 wasnt really dropping or its not waterproof. The new s5 is waterproof and you can drop it. It is . Im impressed. Sorry if i scared you. Quickly, tvs ive been watching the advertising for the new curve tv. When do we upgrade our tvs . When it dies, people. Thats it. Dont fall into the marketing hype. Dont fall into this curve crazy stuff. When it dies. Save yourself thousands. Save your money. Save the pressure. Tell your neighbors mario said until it dies. There it is. The word of Mario Armstrong. 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Say it with me everything. One more time, everything and with that in mind. Whats in your wallet . Plan on entertaining outdoors this summer or just want to add some curb appeal to your home, you may want to give your yard a facelift with some flowers. Ahmed is here to help you i pick the right ones around your home. Good morning. If im not particularly a green thumb, what should i be looking for . I thought you were a green thumb. I am. Im speaking on behalf of the people. So what the other people need to know. Exactly. When you go to the nursery, all of these beautiful plants are there and youre just like, oh, my god, its beautiful. But you have to pay attention, is it an annual . Is it a perennial . Annual is basically a disposable plant. Its temporary. Going to live its entire life from seed through growth and flower and die all in a year. You also have to know what light conditions you have. Absolutely. You need to know your exposure. Do you have full sun . Is it shade . Partial shade . Because all of these plants have these wonderful little tags on them that will teach you everything you need to know about the plant. But youve got to read it. So lets start with some annuals and the petunia. Why do you like the petunia . Its one of the most popular flowers sold in the country. It is an annual, but you get this wonderful flush of colors. Theyve got new hybrids that they keep coming out with, so you get more blooms and less leaf. Everybody buys it for the flower. Its a shortlived plant. Good for the summertime. If you have shade, do not plant the petunia. It will not look good. In that case, you want to go to the shady new guinean. Petun petunias, you cant get them in orange. These are mostly pinks and pastels and reds. But if you want every color of the rainbow, go with a dahlia. Dahlias grow as either perennial or annual. This variety happens to be grown as an annual. And they last a little bit longer, right . The funny thing about annuals, if you get them in the right spot and they get all the right conditions, make sure the soil is good, the moisture is right, they can last a very long time. They can last over a year. Okay. And youll be surprised. But theyre really disposable plants. Begonias. Begonias are a perennial that we sell as an annual and a perennial. If you get this plant right, it will live year after year after year. You can grow new ones from cuttings. When it comes to a begonia, i can stick that in soil and it will grow. Just put it in moist soil, it will grow. Its a succulent. Thats what succulents do. Hydrangeas. These are so gorgeous and they do really well. But do hydrangeas want full sun or some protection and have some shade . They want some protection. They want protection from the deer. The deer are going to eat them like caesar salad. A little protection, though, right . A little bit of protection. The best thing you can do to protect your plants is give them moisture. We use sunscreen. They use water. So youve got to make sure that you keep your hydrangeas nice and moist. Otherwise it aint going to work out so well. This is a little bit of sunburn with that leaf. You can always tell sunburn because it doesnt really have a pattern. Its just like the top of the plant where the sun was. What about the coleus. You guys grow it as an annual. In california, we can grow them year round. Coleus can be grown as a house plant. So when it gets cold outside when the weather starts to shift, you can transplant that plant, bring it indoors and it will do just fine. Its from the tropics. How about these beautiful rose bushs . When do you put these in . Roses are a bulletproof plant. Even if you almost kill your rose, they dont come back from the dead because that would be like reincarnation. Thats a little deep. But mine almost do. Ive cut it down to nothing. You can cut them down and they come back. Its a really vibrant plant. The shrub roses really dont require any pruning or seasonal work. You can mix them all in a pot together. Ahmed, thank you so much. My pleasure. Good luck. Back in a moment. This is today on nbc. Kathie lee and hoda are here and ready for action. We are. With a show thats super hot. Can you be more specific . Laura dern is here. We have genevieve, shes going to well, good morning, everyone. 9 56. Im scott mcgrew. To decision 2014, san joses next mayor will either be councilman liccardo or santa clara supervisor dave cortese. The two will square off in a Runoff Election in november. Santa clara county sheriff laurie smith will serve another term. Early this morning, the unofficial results were released. Smith received 60 of the votes compared to kevin jensens 40 . San franciscos controversial measure b appears to have passed. 59 of voters have voted yes on the measure. That would require voter approval for any future construction project on the waterfront, which exceeds a certain height. The measure immediately delays the construction of highrise hotels and condo towers along the bay, along with three Construction Projects already planned for the waterfront. Lets get a check of your weather with christina. Hey, thanks taking a live look at a clear sky over sunol. We lose that cloud cover. Our temperatures tend to soar. And that is the case for today. Look at the difference. Out in the extreme east bay versus what were expecting in San Francisco, low 90s in the east bay. 70s, meanwhile, at the coast with plenty of low clouds to kick off the day. Theyll be burning off, though, by around 12 30. Temperatures are going to be warm for today, even warmer as we get into the end of the week, and the upcoming weekend. We will see the 90s in san jose and triple digits for parts of the bay area. Lets check your drive with mike inouye. Christina, a very slow drive, center of your screen coming towards you at north 280 at the 880 interchange. A very slow drive. And look at the south bay. This has opinion the worst of the entire bay area, and made worse because of the crash in los altos hills. Earlier, a couple of crashes in the backup. A new crash here north 280 at win chester boulevard. This is 101 slowing and heres the new crash right there. The rest of your south bay continues to recover and the rest of your bay looking very pleasant, scott. Back to you. Mike, thanks. Another local news update for you coming up in half an hour. From nbc news, this is today with kathie lee give ford and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Hello, everybody. Guess whatt is . What is it . Hodas favorite day. Wines day wednesday. June 4th. Also known as apology wednesday. Yes we were just talking about this yesterday. Everybody seems to be saying something and then having to apologize for the something they said. Certain individuals or certain groups. The pc police were calling them. And after we got off the air, what happened . Another person had to apologize. Jonah hill, he was he says he was walking, you know, down the street, doing his stuff, shopping. The paparazzi were hounding him and yelling things at him. Apparently because of what he was wearing, too. He was wearing flowered shorts. They were making girly comments about his shorts. Goading him, it sounds like. Theyll get a picture of you looking beautiful, hoda, and maybe get 100 for it. Picture of you snarling or video of you snarling and then saying a homophobic or racial slur, jackpot. Well, what happened was he fired back with he describes it as a homophobic slur. He felt terrible afterwards. You can tell. We talked about apologies. Some of its how people apologize. This is what jonah hill said to jimmy fallon last night. The word i chose was grotesque. You know, no one deserves to say or hear words like that. And you know, ive been a supporter of the lbgtq community my entire life. I completely let the members of that community and everybody else down when i used a word like that this weekend. And my hearts broken, and i genuinely am deeply sorry to anyone whos ever been affected by that term in their life. And im sorry. And i dont deserve or expect your forgiveness, but but what i ask is that at home, if youre watching this and youre a young person especially, if someone says something that hurts you or angers you, use me as an example of what not to do. And dont respond with hatred or anger. Because youre just adding more ugliness to the world. Again, i just im so sorry. I appreciate you actually being sincere and saying that. Yeah, yeah. I know im usually funny and stuff, but this wasnt funny. It was stupid. Boy, dont you just love him all the more now . You do. He sincerely regrets. You know it, everybody has their own fuse. Some people have a short fuse. Some people have a really, really, really long one. Sometimes theyre the most explosive because it takes so long to get there, but when they do, its been building up. Like you, hoda. You know what im saying. Road rage hoda. But everybody is different. Im sure the minute he said it, it was like, oh, my gosh. But they do goad. They goad you. They push you and push you. We asked you yesterday on facebook, what do you think of celebrity apologies . Overall, 38 of you said, yes, that celebs should apologize for their comments. 62 said, no, an apology is not necessary. Theyre human. You make mistakes. I mean, and i think, you know, part of it is how you apologize. The way jonah hill apologized, my god. That could not have been more sincere. Or else hes an even better actor than we thought. He was really great. I think the question is how people apologize. People do this in real life. Forget about celebs and being goaded and all that. In real life when someone hurts your feelings or breaks your heart, sometimes they say, you know, im sorry if i hurt you. Thats a crummy apology. Sandy taylor said, saying youre sorry doesnt really mean anything. Actions speak louder than words. Another said this, apologies that use the word if, if i hurt your feelings, et cetera, theres no reason for if in a sincere apology. And karen said this. Im sick of society demanding apologies from everybody famous. Celebrities are human. Stop judging. I think its interesting. What about the n word . Many, many more people would say yes, you have to apologize for that. Yeah, definitely. Okay. Okay. True tori was on last night. It was the finale. Heres the big revelation. Dean and tori are still together. Okay. All season toris been looking for some grand gesture from dean. Apparently he revealed a gift last night especially for her. Lets take a look. Dean, you have something for tori, yes . Yes, i do. Oh, god. Lets see. Oh, my god. Tell us what that is. Those are the wedding vows that tori wrote to me. She has hers on her left side that i wrote for her. Oh, my god. Do you like it . Its beautiful. Tori, read what it says. I will forever bring you sal las when you are downhearted. I will wipe your tears with my tiny hands. I will comfort you with my body and embrace you with my wings. I love you, my beautiful boy, for all of eternity. Im uncomfortable. Me too. Really uncomfortable. Its all too personal, too private for me. I wish them the best, but i could never watch that on a daily basis. Well, its over. Thats the good news. He also has another tattoo thats sort of, i guess, down there. Right above the netherworld that says tori with an apostrophe s. Heres the thing. Tori wanted to ask dean if he had cheated more than once. She decided not to ask because she didnt want to know. That became a discussion point. If your spouse, significant other cheated, would you want to know details . How many, where were they, what happened . Or are you like me, when you go, okay, lets not do that anymore and then you want it over with . So everyone is different. She didnt want to ask that question. We still dont know. Hopefully if he did with many, they were illiterate and couldnt read. That would be po what is that . I dont like tattoos in general. You know i dont. I think its a generational thing. Frank has one. His brother what is it . Yes, yes, yes. When he was 14 years old, his older brother got him drunk and took him to 14 . Yes, this was back in the 1800s. They took him to a Tattoo Parlor in california, and he had giff done. He didnt even know it until he sobered up. But now if you look at it, it goes thats what happens. I think you should because pretty soon hes going to be an older man at some point. Toris is going to go and its not pretty. I love it, but its little and cute. Thats the story. So just in case you were wondering, as soon as this show ended this seems a little contrived to me. Another show is starting. Tori starring in a new show on abc family. Its called mystery girl. Shes the star and executive producer. It begins june 25th and reunited her with jenny garth. Its a little bit of a tee up. Now were reacquainted with tori. Oh, my god, wait. Seems a little contrived. But you know what . We like tori. We do wish her and her family the best. We certainly do. Heres Something Else cheaters say. I didnt mean someones a cheater, but heres something they say. Can bad inlaws hurt a marriage . Some cheaters are saying the reason they cheated on their spouse is because their inlaws were driving them insane. So it drove them to cheat. I think theyll find any excuse, right . The dating survey done by victoria milan, which is not to be confused with ashley madison. There are so many now. Dating site for cheaters. Hey, they need help with it apparently. Oh, so the survey came from the cheater website . Yes, another one. Lets go on to the next subject. I told you in the meeting we shouldnt have done it. Lets go on. Okay. You guys remember what she looked like in the 90s . She did nothing compares to you. This may look familiar. So this was sinead. The song is very iconic. Now a lot has changed. Now lets see the new cover. Wow. I thought it was katy perry when i first saw it. I did too. The cover of her album. The new album is called im not bossy, im the boss. And shes 47. Good for her. Speaking of musicians, mariah carey decided to go to the park with her kids. Dressed like cinderella, apparently. This is what kathie and i do when we go to the park. We wear a ball gown with a mermaid bottom. Shes with her kids. Some are saying because she was on the subway in another ball gown, is she just trying to get attention for her new cd . Which we had heard from different sources was not doing as well as her cds often do. We have some her new album is expected to debut at number three. It sounds good. I would kill for that. Its actually her lowest sales debut for a nonholiday album since 2001. But it would be her 17th topten album. Great staying power. Her fans adore her. We want her to be happy as well. We want everyone to be happy. Someone hoda wasnt want to be is miranda lambert. No, i like her. By the way, she looks great. Shes on the cover of Rolling Stone. She has lost 25 pounds. She keeps saying, why is everyone making such a big deal about it . She looks awesome. She was on cbs sunday morning and talked about her life. She says, ive been pregnant for 2 1 2 years. And been divorced four times. Just got to keep it in there was a line oh, they said, 100 million divorce. Bla so that hits newsstands friday. Her plane had to make an emergency landing. She was landing in west virginia. There was an were the flight. It landed safely. She knows how to have fun. Its been a big week for firemen around here. Shes in a hazmat suit taking pictures. Now, guys, this is a genius idea. If youre looking for clothes n online and you see the model they show you and you can do the 360 but shes a size two. You think, how would i look in that dress . They have a website that changes that. You can see the exact outfit in your size. Its so smart. A dress can look adorable on someone whos a size two. Then when you get it, you go, oh, thats not good for me. Its genius. I dont know why they havent thought of it before. So they hired different models, so you get to choose your model. Whats the website . I dont know. Sizable, okay. I didnt realize oh, my gosh. Sunday is fathers day. This sunday . Yes. Next sunday. Oh, thank goodness. Next sunday. Today is the 4th . I dont know. Anyway we want to know why you love your dad. So film yourself or your child finishing this sentence, please. I love my dad because thats going to be great. Well show it on our Facebook Page. We may show it, maybe not, on the air next week. We probably will. Make it adorable and well show it. If you dont have a video, put a picture up. Well try to do those too. So you go on a date. Should you call him or wait until he calls you . We have the new dating commandments to live by. Im going to disagree with every one of them. And from the fault in our stars, golden globe winning actress laura dern is here. [ male announcer ] type 2 diabetes affects millions of us. And for many, its a struggle to keep your a1c down. So imagine what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar . Imagine. Loving your numbers. Introducing oncedaily invokana®. Its the first of a new kind of prescription medicine thats used along with diet and exercise to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. Invokana® is a oncedaily pill that works around the clock to help lower a1c. Heres how. 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Lauras new film the fault in our stars is already creating a lot of buzz. She plays the mother of a young girl battling cancer. Her best moments are when she gets to see her daughter simply being a teenager. Take a look. Oh, my god. Were flying. Oh, my god. Were flying. Look at the cars. Theyre like you two are so adorable. Were just friends. Well, she is. Im not. Oh, its so good to see you. Were excited about this movie. Movies come and go, but this one were even excited about. Well, the trailers gotten so many clicks. Were you surprised at the wave of attention already . You know, i learned quickly working on the film this great love and almost phenomenon surrounding john green and his work. Once you read the book, you fall in love as well. And you want to be this fierce protector of it. And i think we felt like all the fans do, to just pray the movie does justice to his incredible work. He said the other day here with us that hes very, very happy. I guess he was onset. He said it was very strange, unhollywood like and they listened to him. Someone said, what was it like crying so much on the movie . I said, really, john green was crying more than all of us. He just seems like the nicest guy in the world. And he was such a champion of everyone. He made you feel so safe to be taking on his characters. Wow. Now, when you see the clips for this, it seems like its going to be heartbreaking and youre worried about going or for young people to go. What do you think . You know, my 9yearold daughter saw it. She was on the set and has gotten to know everyone very well. More importantly than that, 20 years ago when the statistic wasnt one out of three people have cancer, i might have considered it differently. But my kids have friends with cancer. And Everybody Knows about this story. Were all trying to find a way to have the conversation, which is how do we live each day with joy . How do we find gratitude as there also is crisis and loss as part of our story . Its so uplifting to me and joyful and irreverent and real. Yeah. You know, its just incredible how john has woven all of that together. How about the depth of Shailene Woodley . Shes like a real grownup. Shes a freak. People are like, are you very maternal towards her . No, shes like my mom, guiding me through my day. And hes just adorable. Theyre just incredible, everybody. Your daughter saw the film. Did they want to go into this business . You know, theyre very musical. The older one is actually a boy. He is a musician, a skateboarder. Theyre both very artistic. I dont know. In our family, you know, their dads a musician with musician parents. Im an actor with actor parents. I keep saying, i wish somebody did Something Else for a living. Its genetic. Its also what theyre comfortable with, what they understand, what they know. Both of my kids doing the same thing. Oh, we havent gotten to play the game. We can do it quick. Its called between two derns. Were going to say a line from a movie. Tell us yours or your dads. Happy birthday, bruce. The whole worlds wild at heart and weird on top. Wild at heart, my movie. Wheres my teeth . My dad all right. Mr. Hammond, i think were back in business. Jurassic park, my dad youre the best. Huge, huge, huge. The fault in our stars opens friday. Everybody see it. A delicious game of who knew as we walk down memory lane. And refresh your palette with home tips right after this. So i get invited to quite a few family gatherings. Heck, i saved judith here a fortune with discounts like safe driver, multicar, paperless. You make a mighty fine missus, mlady. Im not saying marks thrifty. Lets just say, i saved him 519, and it certainly didnt go toward that ring. Am i right . [ laughs ] [ dance music playing ] so visit progressive. Com today. I call this one the robox. What would it learn . What improvements would it make . 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Talk to your son or daughter about opportunities in the army. Talk to your son or daughter perfectly bitesized drops of rich and creamy chocolate happiness. When the chocolate is hersheys, life is delicious. All right. Get ready to indulge in a sweet game of who knew. Heres the question to chew over. What is the bestselling pez dispenser of all time . Is it peter pez, superman, santa claus, or the easter bunny . Dont say it now. Just think about it. Were going to have that answer after we head across the street in just a few minutes. Also, the dos and donts of modern dating. Plus, the best attractions for the summer. Some arent going to cost you a thing, huh . Did you want me to take over what you were supposed to say . And genevieve is here. All of that after your local news. I dont get to say anything on this show. Look at what i put together. Cheddar and honey nut chex mix. Get outta here i made this belt with traditional, bold, and Peanut Butter chocolate chex mix. You guys are cute ive got trail mix, peanut lovers, chipotle cheddar, dark chocolate, hot n spicy. Turtle, cookies n cream, italian herb parmesan, sour cream n onion, and brownie supreme chex mix. And it rotates. 20 flavors, lots of pieces. Chex mix pick your mix. Now try popped in white cheddar and sweet and salty. With new febreze allergen reducer. [ man ] wanna see some allergens . [ together ] eww what is that thing . They could be all around you right now. [ gasps ] how would you deal with them . Um. Ninjas. [ male announcer ] no need for ninjas. Reduce up to 95 of inanimate allergens becoming airborne from fabrics with new, dermatologist tested febreze allergen reducer. Get fresher air and breathe happy. Febreze allergen reduc. Er. Well, good morning, everyone. 10 26. Im scott mcgrew. We now know more about san franciscan Ryan Chamberlain is accused of doing. Court documents say that federal officers found a me thissenger filled with the makings of a bomb. He was arrested following three days on the run. San Jose City Council will try again next week to try to make a decision about new regulations for medical marijuana clubs. The Council Voted yesterday, but were deadlocked. The regulations would cut down the number of pot clubs and require them to be a certain distance away from schools and day care facilities. Well check our weather and traffic coming up after the break. Welcome back now. Weve got a good day shaping up. Not too hot just yet. That heat will crank up over the course of the weekend. And today will be noticeably warmer, 5 to 10 degrees above yesterdays highs. Thats 91 out in the extreme east bay, 70 degrees, meanwhile, for San Francisco. 84 degrees in the north bay with more changes coming your way as we get into that weekend. We could see the triple digits as we head through saturday and sunday. Well see the low 90s here in the south bay. Place to be this weekend, right by the beach. 75 degrees on saturday in San Francisco. Well tell you whats happened across the bay area and we have minions today at 11 00. Stick around. Right now, heres mike and your drive. Christina, specifically, will have minions. I have cars. Traffic minions, across the bay bridge. We still had a little backup over on the oakland side. We look at your maps, we see a smoother slow. A slow drive northbound 280 at 880. Lets look at the maps and sort this out. Getting into San Francisco, just the backup at the toll plaza, and overall an lighter flow of traffic north at the dumbarton bridge. South, we have slowing through the south bay with your northbound routes. 280 coming up towards the win chester offramp where theres a crash. Scott, back to you. More of your local news coming up in the big newscast. Were back with more of today on this wines day wednesday. Were ready to play our weekly trivia game we call who knew. Since june is National Candy month, were about to show our affection for confections with a little candy trivia. Okay. Kathie is across the street at the sweet shop at the nbc experience store. Shes ready to hand out 100 to those who get the answer right. To those who dont, poor things, they get a kathie lee cd. Here to help me is dylan lauren. Owner of dylans candy bar. Big spot. Can you just show your bracelet . Remember dots . Thats a real bracelet. Thats genius. Thanks. So before the break, we asked this question. What is the bestselling pez dispense of all of a time . Is it peter pez, superman, santa cause, or the easter bunny . Whats the verdict . The answer is santa claus. It is . It is. Most pez dispenser started with no characters. It was more for adults. Toy characters came around in the 1950s. And it got hot. Yeah, and santa claus wins. All right, kath. Over to you. Look at this darling lady. Shes from manhattan, kansas, right . What is the top jelly belly bane flavor in america . Very cherry, watermelon, blueberry, or bubble gum . Very cherry . Very cherry most popular, huh . Yeah, very cherry is the most popular, but what came in second and then replaced it for a while was buttered popcorn. Actually, some of our more popular ones are earwax flavored jelly belly beans and throwup flavor. Its A Harry Potter flavor. Genius. Boogers, i heard that was big too. All right then. Youre also going to win some candy. Youre from georgia, right . Yes. Which of the following candy bars is oldest . Snickers, baby ruth, mil milky or hersheys . Hersheys . It was actually given to soldiers during the war for energy. It was considered a food group. Like one of mine. All right. Back across to kath. What active ingredient creates the pop sensation in pop rocks . Fos to beic acid, Carbon Dioxide gas, citric acid or baking powder . Lets go with phosphoric acid. This is going on my ipod. So what is the secret ingredie ingredient . Its Carbon Dioxide. When the sugar is heated, its mixed with that. That causes bubbles. Then when you put it on your tongue, the sugar melts and it pops. Its a great sensation. I didnt know they had these flavors. Cotton candy and bubble game. Theyre so good. By the way, mikey did not die of pop rocks exploding. By the way, i used to think that when i was a kid. Everyone thinks that, but no. Good to know. Back across. From lexington, kentucky. What was the first individually wrapped penny candy sold in the u. S. . Jol ri rancher, hersheys kisses. Tootsie rolls. I cant believe how smart everyone is on the candy. Tootsie roll was the one. It started in 1896, first penny candy. Actually, the name was from the founders daughters nickname. He was an austrian guy. That was the tootsie roll. We have time for one more because were having so much fun. All right. From ohio. Finish the lyric to this 1982 bowwowwow hit. Snot g got everything that i desire sets the summer sun on fire i want candy. Said it with such excitement. You got candy. You want it, you get it. Thats what we deliver. Great song. It was on the top ten billboard charts for seven years. Dylan, thank you so much for coming to see us. Good luck with your store. Thanks. All right. And the color you should avoid wearing on a date. Well have that. Plus, the right way to add color to every room in your home with paint expert genevieve coming up right after this. Is how delicious it can be. Hersheys smores, the unmistakable taste that reminds us that life is delicious. Worst morning ever. [ angelic music plays ] toaster strudel best morning ever [ hans ] warm, flaky, gooey. Toaster strudel todays home is brought to you by valspar reserve. Time to take you into todays home. If youre looking to add life into your favorite rooms, a new coat of paint usually does the trick. Instantly. But whats tricky is choosing the right color. Here with some tips to help you pick the perfect palate is designer and valspar paint color expert genevieve gorter. How do you know what to pick . Usually a basic white or egg shell. Or beige. Its super overwhelming. So knowing what colors are trending, whats coming in tex ti tiles is really helpful. We have a lot of these charcoals and offblacks coming in. Beige is pushed to the side. Then we have the pastels coming back. You guys are wearing all of it right now. We did that on purpose. Our toes cringe a little when we hear pastel. Were like, oh, miami vice, 1985. If we do it more subtly and not pastel on top of pastel, it can be flattering. Lets look at a couple before and afters. We have a dining room. Sometimes youre not sure whether to go with a plain shade of white or Something Else. This is the before. This is very, very bright white. Very harsh. Im always one for color. Bring it in when you can. Pull back when you cant. So lets go to the after. Wow. Warm. This is a dining room. Dining rooms needs controversy and stimulation for conversation. This does that. Is it like a cranberry . It has a softer cranberry. Thats so flattering. Yes, it is. Lets do a bedroom before and after. This is the bedroom. I mean, clean, nice, white. White can be very sharp. The yellow just gives this some warmth and energy and some joy. Color can do that in, you know, not much money and a couple hours. Such a powerful tool. And a ceiling. What a beautiful ceiling. But its so overlooked. We tend to not bring color into this area. What do you do . Bring a shade 50 lighter on the ceiling. If you have color on the ceilings, this is a great solution and really simple way to bring in more color. Fun. Lets talk durability. Lets go. You have kids and walls. Your kids are older now. But they still write on the walls. My adult friends sometimes do this too and its a great night. So this is all about durability. Stain resistant, fantastic. Valspar reserve is a fantastic onecoat paint that really stands up to your life. No base coat . Just one coat . One coat. This is sick. Who wants to spray . Who wants to wipe . All right. I will. Thats a marker. Its already coming off. Whats in that spray can . Its already coming off. I dont even have to do anything. Do your job. This is a beautiful paint to use in hightraffic areas. What is that . Whats in there . Just a household allpurpose cleaner. What i really like about this is when you traditionally clean a painted wall, what happens . The finish comes off. You have that one dull area. This stuff doesnt do that. We have a couple seconds left. You took items from our homes. This is yours. This is mine. Kathies is the book on the end. So this is all about color matching. So often we go to Home Improvement stores with a sweater, a painting, something that we want to match. Its always kind of right. But not totally right. When you bring it home, its kind of wrong. Okay. Lets go to our station. This is a beautiful colormatching system we brought in with valspar. Weve just showed you exactly how it matches. Are we painting . This is right on. One coat. Youll paint that board and it will be exactly like what im standing next to. It doesnt take five coats. It doesnt take six coats. Thats a very thick coat there. It is . Yes. I dont know anything about painting. I love to paint. I see that. You have your own little process. I do because im sort of what am i . Ocd . Yes, shes ocd. Thats what i call it. It is a zen practice. Its very soothing. I have to say. And it immediately changes everything. So exciting. You can paint in the morning and sleep in it at night. This is the gray from the painting you chose, kathie. My friend ann nielsen wrote this gorgeous book angels in our midst. Beautiful. Dont miss great places to head to this summer. And the rules to live by if youre single and ready to mingle, if you know what i mean. New dating rules. I bet im going to disagree with all of them. Jouh, whats going on . laughs its this new paint. Valspar reserve. Nothing stays on the wall not anything not any of these things, jon right. Valspar reserve. Super stainresistant and scrubbable. And this color still perfect yeah, looks great, val. How much coffee have you had . 3 cups. Mmhmm. 4. Introducing valspar reserve paint primer with hydrochroma technology. Now the colors you love stay the colors you love. Exclusively at lowes. The winged drama k . With lasting drama gel liner from maybelline new york. Superconcentrated pigments in an oilfree gel. So easy. Intense color that lasts up to 24 hours. Lasting drama, on trend at eye studio now. Maybe its maybelline. In all its naked glory; thats too hot for tv, stripped of chocolate, with nothing but salty roasted peanuts on soft sweet caramel. A payday bar will get you through your day. Expose yourself to payday. Just when you think youve figured out this whole dating thing, guess what . It changes. It sure does. Should you call, text, leave a message . Its confusing. All the dating questions we obsess over. So relationship expert sidney is here. Shes come up with her list of commandments. Hes going to put us to the test. Were ready. Ready . Yes, lets go. Question number one, should single women go to a bar with other single women . Do you agree or disagree . Yes, agree . She said yes. It took her longer. Wrong. Disagree. If youre looking for a job, do you take all your friends who are looking for a job on a Job Interview . If youre single, why would you walk into a bar with because youre embarrassed. You go with married friends . Go with somebody whos married or in a healthy relationship. If im there and youre single, i go like, this oh, youre single . Ive got a friend over here. Get over here. Kathie, joe. Youre married. I know shes beautiful. Girlfriends can do that for you as well. They dont, hoda. Theyre competitive. Number two, should single women go out alone . Do you agree or disagree . To the movies. You mean to a bar . Just say no. Say it. Hoda wins. Yes, he who travels alone travels far. I agree. Watch this. But its hard to do. Today were all about, oh, i dont want to be alone. Im going to text and pretend im popular. Disagree. Walk in alone. It says im comfortable in my own skin. Its sexy. Youre more approachable. I walk in alone and smile. Okay. Should women who are dating have sex on the first date . Oh, please. Agree or disagree . Please. No, no. But i agree. If you dont like the man. If you dont wait, youre right. Women have needs too. Some women, to get into the dating field, need somebody. Guess what . They have is in their system. Its not just men who want it. If you like the man, you wait at least three to six months or six to eight dates. Thats a tricky one. Im going to give you points for that one too. Youre going to get them anyway. Should single women fake it just a little bit . Fake it until you make it. Fake it, what, sexually . Sexually, nonsexually. Yes, no. Kathie wins this one. You get nothing when you fake it. Hes going to find your drivers license and find out you faked your age. Hes going to find out youre really a big mouth. She fakes everything. No, im talking about little things. Like he says a joke thats mildly funny. Thats gotten you in trouble before, hoda. No, no. Thats being nice. Im allergic to lobster. I misunderstood that question. Next one. If youre single, should you avoid wearing black . Agree or disagree . You can wear anything you want. Hoda, youre wrong. Tell us why. Ive been married for 28 years. You take a survey. Men, if youre going to a funeral or a blacktie event, yes. But its summertime. You didnt say that. Shes adding. We have time for our tie breaker. Its 22. Should you let the man take the lead . Agree or disagree . Ding, ding, ding both of them win. Men love the mystery. But i like him to. But what if youre a control freak like you are . Thats faking it. No, its not faking it. You have a glass of wine and calm down before you go out. Or you learn how to lean back. A man likes to be a man. What did i win . Im going to tell you what you won. One, two, three. Tada hersheys kisses. Straight from dylans store. Thank you. We love you so much. Take the kids to a fun attraction without spending 1. Were going to show you the land of the free. First, this is today on nbc. You want to teach your kids to share, but make sure they understand that what they share in a text or email might not be as private as they think. And never to give out their passwords or private information the more you know. Its time for todays travel. With the school year wrapping up, youre probably already thinking about where to take the kids this summer. Parents magazine has some great suggestion, and theyre all absolutely free. What . Yes, hoda. The executive editor is here with us. Hey, girl. How are you . Im good. Thanks for having me. So the Nations Capital is a hot spot for freebies. It is. It is a mecca of freeness. If youre broke this summer, go to washington, d. C. The smithsonian alone has 19 free museums within it. I didnt realize that. Isnt that incredible . Its fantastic. What a deal. Lets move on down, shall we, to north carolina. North carolina and raleigh has the Natural Science museum. Its great for kids that are 3 and up. They have a butterfly conservatory. So the butterflies can come and land on you, which is cool. They have a dinosaur exhibit and lots of wonderful interactive exhibits as well. And no admission fee. None of these activities its just amazing. I know. You always think theres a catch. Theyre taxpayer funded . Some of them are, of course. Im sure there are local donations and organizations. Lets head to michigan. In the summertime, its unbelievable. Whats going on there . So university of michigan and the ann arbor campus, theres the museum of archaeology. This is better for kids of school age, so 5 and up. There are two human mummies you can see there. Some animal mummies. Kind of disgusting but also fabulous for young children. And where in michigan . Ann arbor . Ann arbor, uhhuh. Rnl lets take us to st. Louis. St. Louis zoo is one of the few enormous zoos in the country that is also free. Thats amazing. The trick for this one is you have to arrive within the first hour of the day for the whole family to get in for free. But its a pretty good deal. It sure is. Get up and go, yeah. And theres 20 live insect exhibits there, including a live beehive that the children can interact with. What do you mean interact . Dont go if youre allergic to bees. And california. So california and los angeles. The Science Center is 400,000 square feet of science. Where is that, in l. A. . Its in l. A. Where is it though . Ive never been myself. They have a marine tank where kids can touch and feel marine animals. Slimy things. They have a simulated earthquake machine. So the kids can feel can i tell you something . I did one of those. Its wild. So are real earthquakes. Not so much fun. And there are many, many more places. All 50 states. Tomorrow we have kris jenner, a performance by pharrell. And makeoveras usual. Have an awesome wednesday. Be back here tomorrow. Tomorrow is thirsty thursday. You know how you get. The answer to treating your dogs fleas and ticks is staring you right in the face. Nexgard, from the makers of frontline® plus. Its the only soft, beefflavored chew that kills both fleas and ticks. Vets recommend it. And dogs, well, theyre begging for it. Nexgard is for dogs only. And hasnt been evaluated for use in pregnant, breeding or lactating dogs. Reported side effects include vomiting, dry flaky skin, diarrhea, lethargy and lack of appetite. Use with caution in dogs with a history of seizures. Recommended by vets. Loved by dogs. From the makers of frontline plus. We want answers, you know. We want to know what happened. Why didnt they use a taser . Theres many questions there, and we just want justice, basically. A family demanding answers this morning after an 18yearold woman is shot and killed by a sheriffs deputy. Good morning and thanks for joining us. Im kris sanchez. And im peggy bunker. This happened in Half Moon Bay outside of the moon Ridge Apartments after someone called 911 for a family disturbance. The womans brother says his sister has a knife. Today in the bays Christie Smith joining us now from Half Moon Bay with the details. Good morning, christie. Reporter good morning to you