Broken her silence about ending her marriage to ben. The fashion you didnt see last night. Bobbie thomas is here and i love when she does this with her red carpet redos. Always has great ideas. If you know somebody who has been sick with the flu and people have been dropping like flies, well tell you why it seems to be so bad this year plus what to worry about. And allergy season. We have a big day. Weve never done this before. In honor of leap day. You guys asked us before why are our talks so short, why cant we have more. We have commercials. We cant. We have to throw to commercial breaks to make money. Possible pay some bills. But not today. At least not in the first 20 minutes. Folks in our kitchen are taking that. They are from American Express. Hey. My card was burning over the weekend. I have to order some more outdoor furniture. Kahching. No wonder you guys have big smiles on your faces. They have bought the three minute commercial break so we get to continue to talk live on air. You know how we have our chat . Its going to be longer and then usually theres a commercial. And then we have to go. Well say hell be right back. Youll watch it in the commercial break. Watch them move our tables, spill our drinks, do what we do as we prepare. No potty break for hoda. So we get more out of life meaning hoda and i. We love buzz feed. They are so funny. They listed some of the ways we can get more out of the life. Here they are. Including these things. Embracing the best meal of the day. Wine. Summoning tissues to the gods. Nope jerry is not there. Usually they come down. Doesnt always work. And not waiting until night fall to dance and get grooving. I like that. Looking up to the gods for thank you. Timing in show business is a new thing here. Thank you, my barreling. Special cocktails for leap year. This was invented by the savoy hotel for leap year. They claim this cocktail is responsible for more proposals than any other drink. Taste it. It clears the sinuses big time. You should drink the whole thing because youre not feeling well. Clear those sinuses up, baby. Its kind of good. If you were watching the oscars last night by the way, i just saw a report that said the oscar ratings if you were wondering the early reports were way down. Last year was a bad year and this year they said preliminary number showed lower than last year. If im any indication of the type of people that were watching i turned it off after chris rock. I didnt like the opening at all. I thought it was too much. Basically because the older i get, just everybody is angry. You know, i miss Billy Crystal so much or ellen degeneres, somebody who made it happy. I know they had to address the subject and did it in a fair minded way for sure. I thought he was funny. I thought he was funny and he managed to address all the different stuff that i thought was fair. He talked about how, you know, there werent any black actors or actresses nominated but also talked about why there are separate categories for women and men. I thought and he was lot of fun. But lets take a look at the monolog. Im here at the academy awards. Otherwise known as the white peoples choice awards. You realize if they nominated northwests i wouldnt even g gge get nominated host, i wouldnt get nominated. You need to have black categories. You already do it with men and women. Think about it. Theres no real reason for there to be a man and a woman category in acting. Come on. Theres no reason. Its not track and field. You dont have to separate them. Robert deniro has never said i better slow this acting down so meryl streep can catch up. Even the concept of having black coordination then have asian categories too and every minority. You know what its got to be the best performances. People vote personally what they thought was the best performance. I think the argument too is just give more opportunity sos there can be more performances so you can choose, so people will have its fair. Theres been so much change in this business. Its going the right way. It may take longer than some people want. But ultimately i want the best person to win. The best performance to win. Everyone would agree with that. I dont think so. I do. I think they want the best performance. I feel a lot of times they were saying a lot of people dont have many opportunities to act in films because it doesnt fit this particular character so they dont have as many opportunities and when you dont have as many chances you dont have as much, chance to win. I dont know, hoda. I disagree on that. Ive seen so much change. All for the better. Lets move on to shall we say oscar fashion. It was big. Yes. Okay. So these are some of the dresses. Did you notice a trend . I saw a lot of bright colors. All for spring. You loved this one right here. I thought she was, talk about a breath of fresh air. She looked beautiful. Alicia vikander. Age appropriate. Shes young, fresh, brilliant. I just thought you know she wasnt trying to being a sex pot. She looked like she was a celebration. I like naomi watts. Shes a beautiful girl. I thought she looked great. Some people look great in everything. Shes one of them. She definitely did. And olivia munn. It was so elegant. Looks like ralph lauren or calvin cline. Chrissy teigening looked hot. How about her husband. She was a little mermaid. Couldnt walk in it. Look how sweet. These are some out fits people are debating over. Carrie washington and heidi klum were on the not so hot list according to many. Carrie i love most all the time. This one not. It tooked too much she was going out as a warrior, you know. You didnt want to cuddle with it. I dont know what she was think, heidi. Maybe she a lot of fun at her prom in the 60s and just walking down memory lane. Bobbie will do that thing. Most beautiful women. Jimmy kimmel. Hes had this long running feud with actor matt damon. It is real . I think so. Hes made fun of him last night ben affleck was invited. And he had a surprise for jimmy. Lets take a look. Please welcome ben affleck. What is going on here . Thanks. What you got a monkey under there or something . Whats going on here . Its moving. Why are you touching me. Im not touching you. Tha is not a guest segment. This is not a guest appearance. This is amazing. Very cute. Whats the feud about . We dont know. Okay. Right now this is when we normally go commercial break. But you know what . Thanks to American Express you guys are getting three more minutes of us. Well start the three minute clock because were not going to break yet. So count us down. We got three minutes. The new season of the voice kicked off and we were ing tonight. Kicks off tonight. We were in the makeup room with carson today and we asked him some very important questions about the coaches. So take a look. Who curses the most . Without theres an easy answer here. That is adam levine. He curses like a sailor. Who would you want to go on vacation with . Or have you i have not vacationed with any of our hoda and i have. I would go with theriot. Hes so zen. Everyone is so chatty kathy. Who is on their phone the most . Thats a good question. Who is on their phone the most. Always looking down. I would have to say blake. Really . Very into himself. He googles himself all the time. Hold on. This goes back to this whole thing. Thats happening. Hes constantly googling himself. Look what they are saying about me now. What . That was fun. All right. If you cant get enough of that and who can theres more of that video on facebook. The voice, the baseline auditions start tonight at 8 00, 7 00 central right here on nbc. We have a new affiliate that has come in to our family. Big news. Wrla. Affiliate in north carolina. They are a juggernaut. This is one youve been telling me. Monica is a friend of mine and works at this station. This station dominates all news in that region. So now what are we doing on it . I dont know. Were part of them now. A big, big thank you and welcome. Glad you guys are watching us for the first time. Were so excited. What a day for them to be tuning in. What the heck is this train wreck . What is a train wreck. Youve been in quite a few magazines. I dont know why. You were in one in du jur and then christianity today. Look who sheer with a nice picture and testimony, kathie lee gifford. Again. Cant get enough. We need to switch the set. This is what we do at commercials. This is what happens. Well stand up. Do what you do. What these guys do is they save the wine, sal. You want mine . Take mine too. They take these down. And now they are going to reset for thank you. These are our new cards. Okay. Thank you. We just try to get out of the way. Hardestworking guys in the world. We love you guys. Almost time for tim stack. But they have to set up the scene. Watch how fast they do it. Go. Jerry, go. Sal. This is good. This is what we do. Exactly. I dont dance. Not on camera in front of millions people. 15 seconds. 15 seconds, everybody. Stand by for buzz. Hello amex people. And boom. So our friend and Entertainment WeeklySenior Writer tim sack is here with the juicy gossip. Thats pretty amazing. Good job. So youre here with all the juicy gossip. Lets get started with oscar moments. Some people were confused when at the oscars a girl named stacy dash from. Well, stacey dash is a personality, if you will. But shes a commentator on fox news. But shes an actress but famously infamously came out and said black History Month didnt need to be in existence, nor b. E. T. Because she thought that creates segregation. Chris rock brought her out as a joke this is the new ambassador of outreach for diverse attempt she came out and said i cant wait to help everyone. Did it fall flat . Yeah. I think it was odd because shes a very polarizing figure. Because, obviously, what she speaks of is cray cray. Not everybody thinks shes cray cray. Well im going to i still think shes cray cray. Okay. But i do love clueless. I thought people didnt understand i dont think people understood the joke. He was mistaking a joke and it did fall flat. Lets talk about leo decaprio. Who was gazing at him . Kate winslet. She was gazing at him. I was gazing at him too in my house. He won finally. He was nominated for an oscar before, its been a 20 years wait for him. And he got up, i think everyone there was a standing ovation. It was just like, everyone loves him. And but kate winslet was very adoringly looking at him. Thats his titanic costar and great friend. There she is. Thats her husband but shes focused on leo. What did everyone think about sly stallone not getting i was bummed. I thought creed was incredible. But i think, mark rilands is a very acclaimed actor. Hes mostly known for stage work. But brilliant. Its a bummer because sly was overlooked years ago for rocky e. He was overlooked again. So was Steven Spielberg and tom hanks for the same movie. Thats what i mean, sometimes its not your year. I think it was a bad title bridge of spies that seems like a rickety bridge. I loved it. Lets talk razzies. What was the worst of year . Theyre the hawards that honr the worst for the year. 50 shades of grey was a big winner loser. They nabbed five wins, including a tie for fantastic four for worst movie of the year. Dakota johnson won worst actress. Worst screen play, but its it made so much money. Theres more coming . Theyre shooting next two right now. Did 50 shades the music get nominated yes, exactly. It wasnt their year. The weekend did get and so did eddie redmayne. He won a razzy. He said its only 8 00 in the morning and i won an award. Jennifer garner was in vanity fair she spilled. She is promoting a movie miracles from heaven. She showed up looking hot which is the best revenge. I like that. Soups hot. I like to abbreviate things. Anyways she revealed she said a lot of reports have said that ben had an affair with the nanny e. She said they had separated months before. She said hes still the love of her life. They had three kids together and you cant go through that without loving each other. She doesnt regret marrying him. She said, you know, she was very honest but she said he also its complicated. Like when the hes like the sun, when the sun shines on you, its warm and wonderful. When the sun goes away its very cold. He said it can be cold who he doesnt shine on you. He casts a big shadow and that could be bad or good. What kind of shadow . I dont know. Emotional highs and lows. Heres the good news oh. Because were exhausted because we went 20 minutes straight. So look what we have here. Do you feel sexually exploited at this very moment . A little bit. A little bit. Oh, were well were exhausted. Why does that gay not get anything . What do you think thank you, sir. God bless you. I have nothing for you. Clearly. Thank you. Hes going to stick around to play some leap day trivia. Whats your name by the way . Daniel. Daniel. Daniel. Daniels going to stay through the commercial break. You dont go anywhere either because you might miss an important phone call. You might be our fan of the week. But probably not. Where is daniel . Oh, good, just checking. Thanks. Announcer hashtag more today is sponsored by the blue card from American Express. It gives you more than cash back, its backed by the service and security of membership. Mmmm mmmmm mmmm, mmm, mmm mmmm, mmm mmm, mmm mmmm, mmmm mmmm, yoplait hwhy use traditional aerosols. That are . New air wick room mist with life scents is a multilayered fragrance, just like scents in real life. Finally, a truetolife fragrance, for your lively home. Air wick. Home is in the air. 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Increasing cloud cover and by tuesday night well see scattered showers in the north bay and a better chance of rain between Late Wednesday night and thursday. Lets get an update on the morning commute from mike. We still have low clouds hanging out so this is over at the bay bridge toll plaza where we can just make out east shore freeway now. We can also make out there are four lanes over here on the approach. Look at your map. We have recovery. Typical patterns here. Slowing through berkeley. Good recovery after that caldecott tunnel. North bay no more problems but fog on the golden gate bridge. Slowing southbound through fr fremont for 680. Crash in Mountain View not presenting much of a problem. Slowing northbound 101 right up toward shoreline which sees nice congestion there because of the comm