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good morning. out of work. unemployment takes another jump to its highest rate in nearly 30 years. when will thing get better? moments of joy. inside the emotional reunion as kidnap victim jcee dugard reconnects with her mother after 18 years. now what happens for jaycee and her young daughters? close encounter. are they getting a little too close? a new fight to keep flipary way from your food saturday a new fight to keep flipary way from your food saturday september 5, 2009. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. and i m amy robach. come on, you have to admit it, that cute guy swam up to your boat, begging you for food, you d throw something his way. if he bounced a basketball off his nose, probably would. it turns out giving into that temptation it causes a lot of problems. we ll tell what you wildlife officials are doing to keep dolphins away from people. the message like don t feed the bears in parks, very similar message for dolphins. we ll talk about the tapes casey anthony s attorney did not want the public to hear. they talk frankly about what she said and did not say about the daughter she is now accused of killing. we ll hear those tapes for ourselves coming up. then we ll talk about the signs of summer. if you spent any time at the beach, you ve seen them, those small planes that tow advertising banner. the real air show happens miles from the beach when some very brave pilots hoist those banners aloft. how they do it will take your breath away. we want to begin with the economy. unemployment at its highest rate in 26 years, 9.7% and expected to hit 10% in the next few months. that s the reality for many states where unemployment is well into the double digits. jobs are just one economic indicator and there are other signs, some of them more positive to tell you about. here with more on the numbers is rebecca jarvis. good morning. a lot of numbers. everyone is trying to find these signs of a recovery and yet we look at bad employment numbers and say, well, they re not as bad as they were last month. exactly. in terms of jobs lost. that s what a lot of economists are looking at. the signs is that things are getting less bad than they used to be. at this time we were careening off a cliff, market was going down, lehman brothers fell, merrill lynch fell this very month last year. there are some improvement. the trajectory, according to the white house, is going in the right direction. less jobs are being lost. one thing behind the unemployment number is that a lot of people have taken themselves out of the job search because things do look so bad. doesn t necessarily reflect reality. doesn t necessarily reflect reality. more people are putting themselves back into the job search which is why we see that unemployment number going up. that s what encapsulates people looking for employment. there are people doing part-time work instead of full-time work or people standing by and waiting for a better economy. no one is taking this 10% number, 10% unemployment number off the table. that leads to the question, even as we see other signs of perhaps a turn-around, which we ll talk in a moment, that unemployment employment may be the last thing to come back. employment may be the last thing to come back. lester, that is the fear. the idea of can we actually have a jobless recovery in this country. what s important to keep in mind is this country really runs on the consumer. two-thirds of what we are as a country is based off of consumer spending and when consumers are concerned about their jobs, they are much less inclined to spend, even though consumer sentiment looks like it s going up a little bit. let s talk about the consumer sentiment. retail sales, that s a mixed bag right now. back to school season. this should be a busy time for sales, not as busy as a lot of retailers expected. it s a great point. there are a lot of retailers that did exceed expectations this time around, half of them did. but the other half missed expectations. so there is some concern that, perhaps, the consumer isn t jumping back in. that s what we want to see. as an economy we want to see a consumer that s willing to spend at a rate that s accept aable to the consumer but also getting a little growth stimulated under the economy. we haven t seen that yet. what we will see going into this holiday season, lester, is that so much of things that took place last year at this time were so bad that the comparisons get easier. retailers on a relative basis this holiday are probably going to look a lot better than they did last holiday. maybe a little stability. let s talk about home prices. home prices are beginning to go up. we remember, home prices were the big thing the root of the problem, yeah. we are seeing home prices come back up a little bit, month over month in particular areas. what we want to see beyond home prices, beyond our 401(k)s going higher, we want to see jobs. that s the bottom line here. what worries a lot of folks here is a lot of what we ve been seeing is based on government intervention, cash for clunkers, a lot of care sales, what does that mean in the future. the home sales, the $8,000 tax incentive for new home buyers. is there a worry there may be bubble and reality will kick in? what we want to see is organic growth in consumer spending. it continues to come back to jobs. people without a job, are you going to go out and spend? it s very unlikely. if you have a job and you feel secure in it, you re much more likely to spend what you have. good to have you. thanks to much. now to the controversy over president obama s upcoming address to school children. why has the speech aimed at keeping kids in school become the latest front in the the culture wars? andrea mitchell has more. reporter: there is a long tradition of american presidents addressing the nation. on the radio, in sweaters. good evening. reporter: talking to school children. i was wondering, when do you think the first woman president will be in office? i don t know but i believe me, i m certainly not against it. reporter: even george h.w. bush. and i think i d be a better president. reporter: so why the fuss over barack obama? this is really just a creepy indoctrination of our children. into the cult of personality that is barack obama. and, you know, i don t like that. most parents don t like that. reporter: it s only the latest example of what the white house calls the silly season. town halls where speakers are shouted down. people really they really tried to scream me down. and everybody else. reporter: from charges of death panels not an american citizen. reporter: and accusations of racism. this president, i think, has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seeded hatred for white people or the white culture. reporter: it s led some to ask, where are the moderate voices? all these people that want to be national republican leaders, where are they going to come out and criticize this sort of insane talk? there s something in the psyche today out there that seems excited by the idea of total insurectioon. reporter: they say opposition is more organized from cable television, blogs, twitter. it s gone viral. are there are mechanisms for conservatives to reach other conservatives and keep them in a state of agitation. reporter: a partisan echo chamber making it much harder for any president to make his voice heard. for today, andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. and for more on all of this, we re joined by john harwood, cnbc chief washington correspondent. good morning. reporter: good morning. the fact there is such controversy, what does that tell us about our current political environment? reporter: well, a couple of things, amy. first of all, you always have political opponents of a president credit sid president criticizing whatever he does. usually ordinary people dismiss that stuff as just political junk. in this occasion you ve got a lot of people who are really agitated about it and i think partly that s the polarization of our politics continuing over time. and partly it s simply because barack obama is a different kind of president. first african-american, the international elements of his background. i ve got to tell you, amy, as somebody who s covered washington for a long time, this is one of the most ridiculous controversies i ve ever seen. as far as i can tell, the biggest danger to kids in this whole thing is that a lot of parents complaining aren t smart enough to raise them effectively enough. if you think a president coming into your kid s school saying work hard and stay in school is a danger to your kid, you ve got some problems. there will be another speech getting a lot of attention, the. saddress the president s address to congress on health care reform. who is his main audience? two people in the room. congress and american people. i think the audience in the room is more important than the brootder american public. he s now at a point where the house is on the brink of taking up legislation that achieves a lot of his goals. he has to try to hold those votes in the house with democratic caucus. on the senate side he has to move the finance committee, max baucus says he may come out with a bill, maybe today, the senate has been slower to move. he has to push democrats to hold them together, try to get one or two republicans. it looks like that effort is not going anywhere. in terms of compromise the public option has been a sticky sentiment. or the sticky option, if insurance companies failed to meet bench marks, is that enough to sea democrats and moderate republicans who oppose the option? i think it s possible. here s the situation. this is something favored by olympia snowe, the moderate republican from maine who would be a very critical player in this. you have the potential, if the president sells it effectively, that he can have moderate democrats say, i didn t vote for a government-run health plan because we re going to let the private insurance market have a chance to work. and liberals in the house, in particular, could say, we have a public option as a fallback if insurance competition doesn t work. but there is a big political challenge holding together both the left of his party and moderates to try to get this thing done. cnbc s john harwood. always a pleasure. thank you. you bet. now here s lester. labor day weekend is traditionally the last hoorah for summer and a last chance to get away for a trip. fewer americans are expected to hit the road. mark potter joins us. good morning. reporter: good morning to you. here in south florida labor day weekend often means boating and barbecue at the beach. elsewhere around the country, millions of americans will be hitting the road. this year many more will just stay home. although 39 million americans are expected to travel this labor day holiday, that s actually down more than 13% from this time last year. the american automobile association blames two things, the economy and the calendar. labor day falls late this year, when many schools are already in session. as school children enter their classrooms, more parents are unwilling to take a trip over the labor day holiday. reporter: most people who do travel this year will go by car. only 4% will fly this weekend. dr. tontarelli a coral gables veterinarian, is keeping his family home all together to save money in the weak economy. this year two daughters in college right now, so there aren t very big plans for this weekend at all. reporter: some families, including the palmers in california, are saving money by taking camping trips. it s something we can do, we can spend time with our family without investing a lot of time and money into it. reporter: the national park service says camping reservations are up 12% this year. just a lot of fun when you go camping, because you get to make s mores and have fun. reporter: it s bad news for restaurants and hotels, which are offering deals to attract visitors. for less than half the price on what you would spend on a regular meal in here, you re getting a full-course meal from appetizer to desserts. reporter: airlines are also facing deals as they potentially face the worst labor day weekend in decades. the travel economy is starting to improve at least slightly. lester? a beautiful scene behind you. thanks much. now here s amy. now to the latest on the massive wildfire burning just outside of los angeles. officially the largest fire ever to hit l.a. county. california governor arnold schwarzenegger is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of whoever set that fire. nbc s lee cowan has more. reporter: a brief pause, somber and quiet. the body of ted hall made one last pass by his command center as the fire raged on. it s less than 50% contained, still burning to the east and the west, having charred more than 230 square miles outside los angeles. a monster that investigators say was no accident. i believe any acts of arson in the wild or any act of arson in the wild is domestic terrorism. reporter: that news sent shivers not on only through those who lost home and private, but the firefighters haefamili too. i don t know how we re here other than to say it wasn t our time. reporter: captain sharon henry was with them that day, high on a hillside at a prison camp when a wall of flame shifted and they were overrun. this fire was angry, mean and he wanted anything and everything that was in its way. reporter: captain hall and specialist quonones ordered people into the vehicle as they sevened for an escape route. first thing i told the guys, i m going to make sure we get off this mountain together. reporter: but the two never came back. somewhere in the smoke and the flames, their truck ran off the road, tumbling some 800 feet. captain hall leaves behind a wife and two sons. specialist quonenes wife is pregnant with their very first child. my staff are just so tore up. you know, they re trying to understand what occurs. reporter: an understanding made even harder by the news that this fury was unleashed intentionally came only by sacrifice beyond measure. for today, lee cowan, nbc news, los angeles. 15 past the hour and time for more of this morning s headlin headlines. let s go to jeff rossen at the news desk. good morning, everyone. we begin with an arrest in the murders of eight people found dead in their georgia home last weekend. investigators now say new evidence led to the arrest of 2 2-year-old guy heinze, jr. he first called police in a frantic 911 call. i got home just now and everybody is dead. my daddy is dead. my uncle dead. how many people. six people. he was charged with first-degree murder. a 3-year-old boy, the only survivor, remains in critical condition. to the latest california kidnapping case of jaycee dugard. the man charged with abducting her 18 years ago reportedly made love songs about young girls. according to the contra costa times, phillip garrido gave the recordings to a business acquaintance who held onto those cds. coming up at 8:00 we ll hear from jaycee s aunt on the girl s reunion with her family. a federal appeals court ruled friday former attorney general john ashcroft can be sued by people wrongfully dough takened after 9/11. the case was brought by a u.s. citizen detained but never charged with a crime. the panel of three judges said the government s actions were, quote, repugnant to the constitution. the faa is investigating american airlines over structural repairs to its aging fleet of md-80 jets. the probe centers around 60 planes and repairs made to the rear bow kit. the wall street journal is reporting faa officials suspect one airplane was taken out of circulation before government inspectors could see it. the airline denies any wrongdoing. finally, best story of the morning, i think. the cutest and newest resident of a tokyo zoo. meet the world and snap at us with your teeth, the snow leopard cub was born two months ago and he s old enough to meet and groat the crowds. his mom will take care of him for the next year and a half, until he s old enough to go out on his own. that s the news. now back to lester and amy. in my culture we have a bar mitzvah, now you re a man. here, month and a half, you re a man. you have to watch the we ll broadcast. thanks very mumu that s your saturday forecast. lester? bill, thanks. this weekend as we start to say good-bye to summer it s also time to bid farewell to the sights and sounds of summer. anyone on the east and west coast is familiar with small planes towing advertising banners. nbc s peter alexander has more. reporter: they ve long been a celebrated sign of summer. not the sandy beaches or the crowded boardwalks but those flying billboards just a few hundred feet overhead. if i don t see them i say, yo, something s missing. just a way of life. reporter: in your face but rarely intrusive. this aerial advertisers try to capture the attention of an audience that s otherwise impossible to reach. every time i hear the plane i look up. i guess they re doing something right. yeah. reporter: eight miles in from the jersey shore this old mill tear airfield is home to high exposure. as veteran pilots explain, getting a 100 foot long, 50 pound banner off the ground is a surprisingly elaborate operation. it s like a real life video game. reporter: each banner is laid out, each one attached to a tow rope. right after takeoff we throw the hook off the window. i come in on a shallow drive, right in front of the poles, you pull up and like a pendulum swinging the hook down through the loop. reporter: it s a precise sport where fail you re isn t just a career-ender. you re diving at the ground at 80 miles an hour. it s an adrenaline rush. reporter: like threading a needle with a plane. the most exciting part and also the most dangerous. reporter: then the flight shifts gear. as soon as the banner comes off the ground it feels like you re floating around in molasses. reporter: still the freedom of flying keeps these pilots coming back. it s the best office in the world. reporter: even as summer wanes above the sand and surf, it s always a day at the beach. peter alexander, new york. still to come, when getting up close and personal with dolphins goes wrong. we re going to tell you about a new effort to keep people and dolphins a healthy distance apart and why that s so important. first today on nbc. they have alzheimer s and heart disease, diabetes and cancer. and they ve heard that biomedical research offers hope, that it could control, maybe even cure, their disease. senator barbara mikulski understands the importance of innovative biomedical research, for patients, their families, and our economy here in maryland. call senator mikulski today. tell her, thanks for protecting the promise of biomedical research and the maryland jobs it provides. it s not just the future, it s life. hi! mr. you ve got that certain something snction. you may not know it butting at the cover here. the cover of a magazine making music. we see lester as the off-air ba bassist. it was a nice article. they came around several months ago. it s a magazine dedicated to people like myself who love music and think we play it well but never made a living doing it. we have other jobs. do it on the side. you can be seen in clubs throughout manhattan. i do. this is before you. on the show, i did something with my friend cleave douglas. you did something with clint black. this is a recording session. i love that look. jefferson starship, baby. i ve been playing since junior high and i haven t made a penny that s why you find me here. the love of music. live, local, late-breaking this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning, i m kerry cavanaugh. the time is 7:26 time. a look at top stories. two incidents in the curtis bay area. a man walked into the engine 57 fire house saying he was stabbed around 10:00 friday night. nearby in the pendington a man was shot in the chest. both taken to the hospital. no word if the incidents are related. maryland state police continue their search for two inmates. johnson and chase escaped friday morning from the state prison near hagerstown. robbins for robbery. and chat for robbery in montgomery. look at these pictures. anne arundel police need your help to identify the man there. he used a shotgun to hold up a 7-eleven citgo convenience store. if you recognize the man or know where he is, call metro crime stoppers. remember, you can remain anonymous. good news for those who travel bel air road near the beltway. work crews say a water main bust has been fixed. this is what the area looked like. it caused all sorts of traffic problems, 200 homes, 18 businesses were without water. they were worried about the break and the damage left behind. probably once the water stops flowing it will probably collapse. it is sinking in the right places. they will have to come in, tear it out, regrade it, restone it, repave it. bel air is partially reopen as crews continue to work on the road there. stay with us, when we come back, weo we re going to be blessed with a gorgeous labor day weekend beginning today. 67 downtown, 63 in york, pennsylvania, 60 at b.w.i. marshall. sun is up. we will warm up to the warmest reading so far this week. high today in baltimore of 85 degrees. very few clouds around. it will be quite gorgeous. looks like on the beach, great day to be on the shore in ocean city. 85 as well. seven-day forecast. maybe a little sprinkle on monday. best shot of showers thursday and friday. sounds wonderful. thanks sandra. see you back f we are back on this saturday morning, the 5th of september, 2009. a big hello to the folks out on the plaza on this labor day weekend. thanks for joining us. inside studio 1-a i m amy robach along with lester holt. as president obama prepares for a make or break speech on health care, can he win over a key group in all of this. we re talking about baby boomers. there are many rebaby boomers approaching retirement age, how will health care reform affect them. can the president give these boomers what they re looking for? we ll goat that in a few minute. who wouldn t love to see a sig site like this out on the ocean, a friendly dole fin swimming up to your boat. we ll find out why authority are trying to stop these close encounters between dolphins and humans happening. it s a danger to the dolphin. we ll meet a dolphin, i think his name is beggar. i m serious. really? i m serious. and a bit later, it s been 18 years since jaycee dugard has seen her family. now she s obviously trying to reconnect with them. coming up, we ll hear about her emotional reunion. how she and her young daughters are doing from jaycee s aunt. it s a tough situation for the family, trying reconnect and trying to get through what she s lived through for the past 18 years. they have a criminal case coming forward. first the latest in the case against casey anthony, she s the florida woman accused of killing her daughter caylee. this week prosecutors released an audiotape that anthony s defense team fought hard to keep from the public. michele kaczynski has the story. reporter: tracy mclaughlin shuns the spotlight but as an employee of the not so shy bount hunter found herselfed ed iins anthony drama. she was casey anthony s body guard. this is what she tells us about the first inning. reporter: a situation she says continued. while casey talked and talked i m ready to cry because she would not shut up. it s like, okay, you re not saying anything. reporter: she said casey would not discuss her missing child. she didn t cry, nothing. it was a competition. she wanted the limelight. you couldn t it was said. you couldn t take it. you couldn t talk about anything else. it just had to be her. she loved being on tv. how do you know this? because she would say, oh, look. well, she would decide how to do her hair. it was a game. it was a game to her. she liked the attention. it was all about her. reporter: the body guard says the first time there was an indication when caylee wasn t alive, when tests showed decompetition in casey s car, everyone was upset but she claims not casey. she looks at the tv and she goes, a lot of people had access to that car. reporter: she describes casey as truly likeable though quout close friends. a young woman in the course of those nine days witnesses say suddenly changed her story from leaving her daughter at her babysitter s apartment to the babysitter taking caylee from her at a park. she ll tell a story and she has such a belief in herself. she has no grasp on reality. this is where her problem is. she has no grasp. or else she could have done such a better job. you know, cry for her daughter, do something. stick with one story. she just doesn t. she doesn t get it. reporter: casey s attorney wouldn t comment on these statements. he wanted them sealed from the public. while casey waits in jail going on a year now for trial, insisting she is innocent. for today, nbc news, thanks our forecast is log nice. high 85, expected. currently 67 downtown. 60 at the airport. there you see it, sunshine statewide throughout. if you like today, you wil also going to be looking at temperatures around 67 degrees. if you want your labor day forecast hour by hour, you can get that at weather.com. lester? bill, thanks very much. their voices are booming at town hall debates around the country but what do boomers and seniors wants from health care reform? we ll discuss that coming up. first, these messages. but nasonex relief may i say. bee-utiful! prescription nasonex is proven to help relieve indoor and outdoor nasal allergy symptoms like congestion, runny and itchy nose and sneezing. 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( laughter continues ) this morning on today s boomer nation, the battle over health care reform. as president obama tries to regain control over the health care reform debate, one group he s trying to win to his side is the nation s 80 million baby boomers. nbc has more on what boomers and seniors mean for the president s plan. reporter: at town hall meeting all summer long your government has lost the faith and trust of the american people. reporter: seniors are the most vocal opponents of democratic reform. as claims about what reform would mean to them, left the president on the defensive. rumor has it that if we get this new health care system in, that we won t get the health care, our doctors and all that we have now. that virtually older american citizens would just be put out to pasture. please tell me that isn t so. it isn t so. reporter: polls show seniors are more likely than any other group to have concerns about reform. they take it very much to heart because they interact a lot with the health care system and they want to make sure that their medicare works for them. do you trust washington with your life? reporter: opponents have targeted seniors with ads. and cutting $400 billion from medicare. reporter: trying to raise doubts among a group that votes in high numbers, giving them outside influence in the ongoing debate. now reform supporters are fighting back with ads of their own. special interest groups are trying to block progress on health care reform. reporter: others point out it is seniors, after all, who already enjoy a government-run health care option, medicare. the irony is about this this health care debate is how we cover the uninsured under the age of 65 in this country. reporter: in fact, baby boomers, not yet eligible for medicare, are more than likely of seniors to be supportive of reform. it s a group the president says he wants to help. the really tough population are folks from 50 positito 64. maybe they just got laid off, maybe they re self-employed. reporter: next wednesday the president will be standing before congress to make his case for health care reform. but his target audience will include the boomers and seniors, whose support he will need to be successful. for today, nbc news, the white house. for more on what boomers and seniors are concerned about when it comes to health care reform, we re joined by the florida state director for the aarp and andrew ruben, hoest of health care connect on sirius radio. good morning. good morning. the aarp has not endorsed any particular reform plan but generally supports the idea of changing the system. yet we see some of these angry town hall meetings where you see seniors specifically stand up and then there s a report in the usa today that the aarp has lost 60,000 members because of your stance, because of the aarp stance on health care reform. is there a sense of what older americans want to see happen here? let me say first and foremost that we value every one of our members. we want to hear their opinions. we ve been fighting for affordable health care coverage for our entire history, 50 years. it s part of our dna. that being said our member surveys and conversations with members we ve had across our country tell us that they are concerned about health care and they do want to see change. for folks between the ages of 50 and 64, they want to be sure they can afford the coverage they have or many need coverage. for older americans, they want to know prescription drug costs will go down and medicare will be there for them. andrew, you say the majority of people you talk to do want to see some kind of health care reform pass but how do you explain those passionate outbursts by older americans at town hall meetings we ve witnessed? you re right. you ve got it right on the head. everybody wants health care reform, democrats, republicans, older people, younger people. they want it. the outburst because there s lack of clarity on the bills out there. until there s clarity on what it means to cut costs within medicare, seniors on medicare are going to be very nervous. we have to start answering those questions. i think the president will start trying to do that this coming wednesday. in the context of this debate, your membership falls into two categories, those under 64 and 65 and older. those who have medicare, what are their biggest concerns? i was out this week talking to older floridians. first, there s a lot of confusion. seniors are confused, scared. they like medicare and they re happy with it. they to want make sure it will continue to be there. they re concerned about prescription drug costs. we hear a lot about that, especially in a state like florida. they to want make sure their premiums will stay in check. they re not going to increase too much. as far as the 50 to 64 crowd, and we heard in the piece, many are underinsured. those are legitimate worries. reporter: they re hugely legitimate worries. you know, on my radio show i get more calls from this age category of people who maybe lost their jobs or they can t get insurance, they couldn t get insurance and now they re at the age where they start getting sick. what they re looking for in these bills is am i going to have insurance and am i going to be able to afford it, is the government going to be able to afford it. once i have it, will will be enough doctors to take the plans so i can go see them. i think the answer is, if we do this slowly you ll start to see that. until there s clarity on what s in these bills and what gets enacted, you ll see a lot more confusion. from what i understand, we re obviously hearing from the president on wednesday night speaking to congress and to the american public about health care reform, they re looking for the americans, specifically the boomers, are looking for details. well, that s true. like i said, there s a lot of fear. that s understandable if you look at current economy and how that connects to folks health care. what people 50 to 64 need to know is that if they have koj now, they like it, they can keep it. for those that don t have coverage, they can get affordable coverage. for individuals that have medicare, they need to know that program will be there for them over the long haul, their drug costs will come down and they ll be able to afford their premium. thank you, both. we appreciate your time today. thank you. coming up next, what s being done to keep dolphins from getting a little too close to a bad thing. that would be us. right after these messages. my name s lisa. i m from fayetteville, north carolina, .and i smoked for 29 years. the one thing about smoking - is it dominates your life, and it dominated mine. and the sad thing about it is that you can always use an excuse if cigarettes don t kill me, oh well - something else will. but, you can t use that as an excuse. i honestly loved smoking, and i honestly didn t think i would ever quit. it was very interesting that you could smoke on the first week. chantix gave me that extra help that i needed to get through a tough time. 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(announcer) talk to your doctor to find out if prescription chantix is right for you. meeting a dolphin up close is a special experience. but when it happens in the wild this close encounter can actually be dangerous. kerry sanders reports on an ungoing problem for dolphins and humans. hi, how are you doing, buddy? how are you doing? reporter: dolphin encounters are so electric oh! reporter: so unique, when they happen and they re on camera, the once in a lifetime moments are proudly posted on youtube. oh, i want to take one home. reporter: now those home videos are increasingly criminal evidence as federal wildlife officers tempt to stop the illegal feeding of wild dolphins. in some cases, dolphins that have been fed before like to chase down commercial fishing boats in search of yet another handout. instead, they swim up on an ornery fisherman who sees him as competition. they take the chance to shoot at them. we actually had a pipe bomb case where somebody thought that was the best means to scare them off. reporter: on florida s gulf coast right there. reporter: biologist have studied five generations of dolphins at sarasota bay. he s gotten chips, sandwiches, pickles, sardines, beer. reporter: they call him begger. is he begging because he s hungry? he s begging because he s identified a source of food. not necessarily because he s hungry but he identified another source of food he s trying to take advantage of. reporter: on any given day he hears an engine s propels, swims up to the side and waits for a handout. he s really cute but we know not to field the wild dolphin. reporter: it can net a $12,000 fine, federal officials are trying to train humans. well, that s not quite the way we wanted that story to end but we think you get the point. $12,000 fine, first of all, would deter me. that is significant. that is significant. they re so cute and people have these they re domesticated, you can swim with the dolphins, but they are wild. you hear everybody say, i want to take them home. your initial reaction to give them food. we re sorry we didn t see the end of it. we ll take a break. there s a new website worth noting. it was launched less than a month ago called people of walmart. it s a collection of people of some odd people seen at walmart stores around the country. it s kind of mean-spirited. the site was started by three young guys who happened to see a couple of strange looking people at a walmart one day. they brainstormed this idea and a goat. they never thought it would catch on. one day this week alone, more than 3.5 million people checked out the pictures, just the different sites that one might find if at a walmart. it s elitist, mocking but drawing attention. people like to wash train wrecks, same mentality. the cat who used up one of his nine lives. we ll find out why he s lucky to be alive. the long road ahead for jaycee dugard as she re-unites with her family and re-enters normal life. first, these messages. it was the weight. i lost 26 pounds using alli. my friends were absolutely amazed. they had no idea that alli would work that well. if you stick to the guidelines that come with the starter pack, you ll do great. i actually don t mind getting on the scales now, i m happy. .that only lasts four to six hours? i discovered claritin has a new 12-hour. it works all day, so i can make it to the top. 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the open road. why travelers may have an easy time getting around this labor day weekend and why that s not necessarily a good thing. and eight lives and counting. a horrible picture with a happy ending. we ll hear brownie the count s incredible tale of sure vile with we meet him and the people that got him purring again today, saturday, september 5, 2009. welcome back to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m amy robach. that s a tough picture of the cat to look at with that looks like it hurts. the important thing here is that it missed, obviously, all the vital parts and was on the outside of the skull. it s a horrible picture. the more horrible thing is somebody did this to the cat. they think it s an intentional act of cruelty. he s fine and we ll meet him and the people that saved his life in a few minute. if you like traveling and staying fit, we have the thing for you. the latest tourism trend. running tours. coming up. you won t believe how much fun i actually had and you could have, too, running eight miles and learning all about a new city while on the go. i have another trend called laying in bed getting room service. anyway but yours is fun, too. you get a little exercise and a little information all together at the same time. it s the height of multitasking. i can t wait to see it. we have a lot to talk about. authorities continue to look for evidence in the kidnapping of jaycee dugard. friday they towed away a van from the yard where jaycee was apparently held for 18 years. in the meantime, yjaycee and he daughters remain in see collusion. nbc s chris has more. reporter: somewhere in a secret location in northern california, jaycee dugard and her two daughters are learning what it means to be part of a normal family. all three of them are very, very tight. very much together. reporter: in an interview with the orange county register, jaycee s aunt tina describes the family reunion as one of unbridled joy and a very long time in coming. after she was taken the first day, i kept thinking tomorrow, they ll find her tomorrow. and then it was, oh, for sure by the weekend. they ll find her. reporter: 18 years later disturbing details are emerging about the man charged with jaycee s kidnapping and rape. phillip garrido. he s been accused in three other cases. the rape of a 14-year-old in 1972, the attempted abduction of a woman in 1976 and that same night the rape of a 25-year-old. in a harrowing 16-page statement the victim says garrido told her he, quote, was taking me to a shed he had been fixing up, specifically for the purpose of abducting a girl. he told her it was a fantasy he had to live out. phillip garrido was sentenced to 50 years in prison for that rape but served only 11. this decision by the parole commission doesn t answer the key question, why was he released? and more questions. how in visits to garrido s house by parole officers for 18 years did no one find jaycee? even after he was back in prison for months on a parole violation. it appeared there was a false sen fence, looked like the property ended. reporter: police have this photo of him, resembling the suspect in the disappearance of michaela, blond hair, blue eyed. michaela is still missing. we know she s there. sometimes you re taken aback by the joy and it just bursts out. reporter: nbc news, los angeles. for more now on jaycee dugard s reunion with her family let s turn to greg hardesty with the orange county register who sat down with jaycee s aunt. good morning. good morning. you spent an hour with tina dugard, the aunt of jaycee. what struck you the most? what struck me the most was the joy and the overwhelming positive feelings the family s feeling right now, despite the horrific nature of what the family s going through. right. you would think there would be some sorrow, crying, emotion that would be negative but you said most was extraordinarily positive. extraordinarily positive. because the family is, again, focusing on reacquainting themselves with each other and getting to know each other for the first time. there are serious challenges ahead. she talked about that, of course. for now there you know, not that everything s all roses, but just happy to be together. exactly. we have a clip from your interview with tina where cease talking about her sister. let s take a listen. my sister has spontaneous moments of joy. we ll be talking and she ll suddenly burst into happy tears with a big smile on her face. do you know how much the family has talked about the ordeal that jaycee and her two daughters have gone through? have they had that conversation? the younger girls know what happened, or what has happened. i don t know a lot of the specifics of that. they know who their mother is. but di but did they originally think their mother was their sister? there was speculation the two younger daughters didn t even know their own mother. i asked tina that specifically. she declined to comment to but my understanding is, yes, they first initially believed she was their older sister. but now they know what really they know she s their mother. tina also praised jaycee for the exceptional job she did as a mother while she was in this tent tented area with really no access to the outside world. yet her two young daughters can read. they were actually able to navigate the internet. talk about what her aunt told you. well, her aunt emphasized that well, it s obvious to all of us, too, that these conditions were absolutely abysmal yet jaycee had the skills to parent these young girls. that s a testament, in my opinion, to the parenting skills of jaycee s mother, terry dugard, who largely raised her as a single mother working a couple of jobs. and that obviously carried on to jaycee s life as a young mother at 14. i mean, i can t it s hard to imagine. i understand there are some lighter moments during the five days that tina spent with her sister jaycee and the girls, especially with jaycee was able to meet her is. shana, 19. her little sister is actually 10 inches taller. jaycee s 5 1 1/2 , and she meets her little sister who s 5 11 and she joked about that. they ve had some lighter moment, they have tough moments ahead of them, but the healing process has begun with this family? oh, sure. oh, sure. just by meeting and reu..nreuni it s unimaginable the joy. just hanging out, so to speak, the healing starts. let s not fool ours, there s a lot of challenges ahead. greg hardesty, thank you for share parts of your interview with us. you re welcome. more of the headlines from jeff rossen at the news desk. good morning. today starts the long labor day weekend. it seems this year there isn t the usual holiday hustle and bustle. mark potter live in miami with more. good morning to you. reporter: good morning to you, jeff. here in south florida labor day weekend usually means boating and barbecue at the beach. nationwide, some 39 million americans will be traveling. that s down, though, 13% over this time last year. the aaa blames that on two thing, the economy and the calendar. this year labor day falls late. while many schools are now in session so parent are unwilling to travel knowing kids have to be back in school on tuesday. of those who are traveling, most will go by car. only 4% will go by air, even though airlines are offering deals along with hotels and restaurants. one bright spot, acordsing to aaa, though, is that travel this weekend is expected to surpass that of july 4th, suggesting perhaps the travel economy may be improving, at least slightly. nbc s mark potter in miami for us. thanks. eight family members killed inside their georgia home last weekend will be laid to rest today. investigators say new evidence has led them to the arrest of 22-year-old guy heinze jr., who first called police in a frantic 911 calls. seven victims were his victims. only survivor, a 3-year-old, is still in critical condition. investigators are trying to find who started the wildfire in california. governor arnold schwarzenegger has offered a $100,000 reward. two firefighters were killed on the job. 76 homes have been destroyed. to new unemployment numbers. the jobless rate is 9.7%, the highest in 26 years. there is a glimmer of hope. employers cut fewer jobs than expected. experts say it could hit 10% in the next few months. finally, there were two big birthday celebrations at the san diego zoo. you know we re showing it to you. the first for a baby gorilla, frank, who just turned 1. didn t seem interested in his cake, but his mom was. awkward moments. then a party for one of the chimpanzees. her name is molly. she had help from friend devo devouring her cake, her birthday sign, presents, all of it. poor molly. get new friend. back to lester and amy. i want to partyty an absolute gorgeous here. plus another beautiful day. 85 the forecast high in baltimore. heading over the bay bridge to the shores of ocean city with people enjoy the long weekend. 85 degrees today. clouds of yesterday moving out. seven-day forecast there. what we ll deal with throughout the rest of the weekend is pretty much nice conditions in the northern plains. what s your name? salia. who do you want to say hi to? fairfield middle school. fairfield middle school. excellent job. inside to amy. all right, bill. thanks much. still to come, an amazing survival story. who could do something like what you re about to see to a pet cat. brownie is on the mend. the investigation is under way. we ll tell you about it after these messages. watch what happens when severely damaged hair. is repaired with dove therapy conditioner. convincing, isn t it? and research proves dove even repairs. damage at the tips better than the leading pantene conditioner. the proof beautifully smooth hair. strengthened against damage from root to tip. next generation dove therapy conditioners. expertise for damaged hair. when i really liked to be outside, i did not like suffering from nasal allergy symptoms like congestion. but nasonex relief may i say. bee-utiful! prescription nasonex is proven to help relieve indoor and outdoor nasal allergy symptoms like congestion, runny and itchy nose and sneezing. 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arrow through his head. the owner saw him. he kind of took off but they thought maybe he was going off to the woods to die because it looked like kind of an unlikely recovery from that injury. yeah. i think the cat came back two days later i think we would like to think this was some kind of a horrible hunting accident but i know you suspect someone did this on purpose. what makes you think that? we do. the way the arrow kind of entered his head, it just seems very unlikely that that would happen accidentally. and then let me turn to the doctor, if i can. this cat is brought to your facility there and you see an arrow in its head. what is the first thing you re thinking of at this point. well, i m a little shocked to see the cat with an arrow in its head, but first thing looked at was to see if he was stable. and then addressed his wounds. we answtook some x-rays, removee arrow. it s a horrible picture. since we re seeing him live and doing fine this morning, nothing vital was hit. how precarious was this arrow? how close a call was this? within millimeters of going through his skull. there was actually no don t damage. just subcutaneous tissue was damaged. no skull damage whatsoever. did brownie show any signs of suffer organize pain? he was purring when he came in. he didn t show much signs of pain or discomfort. sara, what are you doing right now? what is being done by law enforcement to find whoever shot brownie? well, the humane association originally offered a $500 reward for information that would lead to the conviction of the persons responsible, but due to the public outcry of support, the reward is now $1500. we re looking for tips. we hoech you catch them. it s an amazing story and a horrifying story at the same time. thanks to both of you for what you ve done for our little friend. we appreciate you being on as well. if you have any information, call the monroe county shafb s department. there s the number on your screen. we ll take a break. first, this is today on nbc. if you re traveling and want to get a workout, a running tour combines sightseeing and excursion all. in one. i tried one out and i found out touring the town can literally get your blood pumping. there are duck tours, boat tours, double-decker boat tours, even horse and buggy tours. welcome to city running tours. that s right. stretch out those hamstrings and get ready to hit the pavement. it s the newest way to see the city, running tours. are people surprised when they hear about this tour, you have to run to see the city? nonrunners may look at them funny but runners absolutely love it. reporter: chiropractor started it-t four years ago after a friend asked him to take an out of town friend around the city. now he offers several tours, including one through brooklyn and lower manhattan. today i decided to go along for the run. so this is beautiful. this is reporter: what neighborhood is this called? brooklyn height. reporter: past elegant brownstones. a lot of this 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robbery with a deadly weapon. if you have information, contact maryland state police. a stabbing on pendington. a man stabbed, walked to the engine 57 fire house around 10:00 friday night. nearby a pennington and elm, a man shot in the chest. both taken to the hospital. no word on their condition or if they re related incidents. baltimore city police looking for someone that shot a man for gilmore and pressor. he was rushed to shock trauma and later dayed. since last thursday, three homicides in the same area of preston street. the owner of a painting business will spend time in a halfway house for hiring illegal immigrants and money laundering. he was sentenced to federal court. back in april. pleaded guilty to hires 24 workers that were either not u.s. citizens or not authorized to work in the u.s. a judge previously ordered him to forfeit five bank accounts, 7:00s and seven properties worth more than $1 million. when sure hope you re doing well this saturday morning. a start to a nice long holiday weekend. breakdown of temperatures, surging to 70 degrees. heading for a higher daytime high. in contrast with the mid 70 s. 63 in downtown. 71 in the shores of ocean city. here is your statewide tour for the start of the holiday weekend. 75 upper elevations of the mountains of western maryland. constant is plenty of sun. mostly sunny, 85 degrees. that does stir a little bit above the normal high of 81. nonetheless, not feeling too terrible. humidity not too bad. high uv index today as we wrap up the unofficial end of summer. labor day few clouds, cloud cover, dry through wednesday. next shot of showers thursday and friday. thanks for joining us. 11 news saturday morning continues in 25 minutes. we re back on a saturday morning, september 5, 2009 with a look at the crowd joining us for the last official weekend of summer unofficial, i guess. unofficial weekend of summer. we re celebrating labor day weekend. outside of the plaza, i m amy robach along with lester holt. we ll show you how to pack up and preserve your summer items. we still have some nice outdoor days. we re going to talk about storing stuff, especially stuff on the patio and terrace that have to be preked from the weather. the best way to do that. we have expert advice coming up. what s labor day weekend without a labor day feast. we ll show you great ideas for a delicious brunch. it s easy to make and a great way to kick off your holiday weekend. a lot of us will never forget what happened in january on the hudson river, that us airways flight that made the water landing. we caught up with some survivors of flight and what many are doing with what they regard as their second chance in life. their stories are inspiring. first, let s get a last check of the weather with nbc meteoror chicago lately. we ll continue that trend throughout the next couple of days. and where are you from? erie, pennsylvania. wheat your name? lacey jo. are you going to school soon? i already started. do you know who your teacher is you want to say hi to. say it. mrs. schroeder. i m sure she s thrilled. let s go back inside to lester. this morning on today s quick fixes packing up your summer stuff, it s time to think about way seasonal items like summer clothes and patio furniture. where can you store it and make sure it s fresh and ready for next year? john gooding from hgtv s design star is here this morning. nice to see you. we hate to see summer go bye-bye but we re getting to the point, the outdoor furniture in particular, we have to deal with that. people have all sorts of stuff outside. when it starts getting cooler f you keep it outside, they start rotting, discoloring. particularly the cushions. people put them in an outdoor box and they think that s good enough. what do you like to do? i like to get an actual piece of storage baggage that s specific to outdoor cushions. this really helps fab liricks l this and when you open it up, they re nice. and it s sized appropriately. you have something teak like this, what can you do from the snow and ice? teak ages well. if you tlooef alone, it will stay a beautiful gray. if you to want keep it this color, you want to wash it well at the end of the season. a little oil soap. right. maybe put some this is teak oil made specifically for teak. put down a newspaper, oil it down once completely dried and cover it and next year it will look exactly like this. a little preseason maintenance sin a bad idea. otherwise it will turn gray. storing clothe if the closet, bringing in the winter stuff. i ve seen these bags where you put the vacuum and sometimes they fall apart. are they getting better? wie seen all of these commercials. i feel like i m auditions for an infomercial. look at this, it s replaced by that. now you can get them with built-in they have hangers on them. right, the next level. one thing about these, sometimes the clothes don t smell great when you take them out. if you incorporate a dryer sheet inside, they smell great. they smell fresh when you open them next season. storage boxes? under the bed is a great place to store clothes, old bedding for the next season, but now these things come with the same vacuum idea. you can put a lot more clothes in here. when you close it up, you actually see what you ve got stored inside. it s a nice canvas bag. one of the big dangs of anything you store is moisture. how do you deal with that? moisture is a thing we all have to deal with. we have drying crystals you can keep in moist areas to keep it from discloer ioloring, mildew problems and things like that. they re a cool thing, when you plug it in, it dries itself out. these sorts of solutions are easy to find on things like container store where you go and look what you need, containers, or storagesolutions.com. let s talk about seasonal plates and dishes, things you had out for summer barbecues. you can put them in shelves but sometimes you don t have space. my kitchen is as big as this box. it s 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do you let it sit? ten, 15 minutes. i have some butter which we ll put on the griddle. now it s starting to smell like breakfast. that s a good smell canola will lubricate it, and the butter makes it taste good. it s a double-edged sword. i never knew that. i ll try not to make a mess. it s brunch, so you can make a mess. you can make a mess. if you re cooking, someone else has to clean. that s the way i operate. that s a good plan. and how long do you love these on the grid snl. a minute or so. get some color on them. while they re going, we re going to make something really wonderful with three ingredients. forget regular syrup. you have something much better. much better. local strawberries which are just beautifully amazing. and the sugar. sugar, of course. this is lemon time and cinnamon. that will cook for about 15 minutes. you just leave it alone, okay. here we have everything done. oh, beautiful. that s what it looks like. oh, wow. the strawberries just become this jelly like 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