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breaking news. iran tests more missiles overnight, including one capable of reaching israel. as tensions mount over the discovery of that secret nuclear site, and this morning, officials say there may be more secret facilities. why now? a lawyer for filmmaker roman polanski calls his client s arrest 32 years after he pled guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl indefensible. but will polanski fight extradition? and nbc news exclusive. just days before the international olympic committee chooses a host city for the 2016 games, we have exclusive information about a big final push to bring those games to chicago today, monday, push to bring those games to chicago today, monday, september 28th, 2009. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. i m meredith vieira. we ll get to that major news tied to the windy city s olympic bid in just a moment. as pressure builds for iran to come clean on its nuclear ambitions, that country s defiance once again on full display. overnight iran s powerful revolutionary guard fired at least three missiles, including one missile said to have the longest range in that country s arsenal. it is now the third round of missile tests since president obama announced on friday the discovery of that once-secret nuclear site. and it all comes just days before a rare face-to-face meeting between iran and u.s. officials. we ll have the latest on what s becoming an increasingly tense situation in a couple of minutes. also ahead, important information for parents of teenaged drivers. two new studies are out this morning that highlight what adults need to do to keep those young drivers safe. one step researchers say, don t buy your teen his or her own car. we ll have more on that coming up. also ahead, is it a medical miracle or something else? a couple in arkansas is expecting two babies. that is not unusual. but here s what is. she believes the children were conceived weeks apart. her doctor may agree. she ll join us along with her husband to talk about that a little later in the program. strange. but let us begin with those new missile tests in iran. nbc s chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is in washington with more on this story. andrea, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, matt. iran is defiant today, test firing three more missiles, including at least one with a range long enough to reach israel and u.s. bases in the gulf. this follows a missile test sunday, all this in advance of this week s diplomatic showdown with the u.s. and european allies in geneva. thumbing its nose at the u.s. and europe, iran test-fired medium-range missiles. when mahmoud ahmadinejad s nuclear negotiator shows up in geneva thursday, diplomats representing the u.s., britain, france and germany will demand rapid u.n. inspections to begin within weeks. the president has worked hard to bring iran s traditional supporter, russia, on-board. the russians have come out with a strong statement saying that the burden has now shifted. it has shifted to iran. reporter: even china, another ally of iran s, may endorse the allied position. why the united front? the president says, because the evidence that iran is cheating is now clear. what has changed is that the international community i think has spoken. it is now up to iran to respond. reporter: the suspect plant is tunnelled into a mountain on a military base 100 miles southwest of iran s holy city. iran says it is for peaceful nuclear energy. allied intelligence says that s impossible. it is far too small to produce anything but fuel for nuclear weapons. what if iran refuses to negotiate? the pentagon has told congress military strikes alone would not eliminate iran s nuclear clet. only slow it down. the facility are in several different places. some are hardened, underground, in tunnels. you d have to have a ground operation as well as a military operation, and that s very difficult to do. reporter: instead, the u.s. is proposing tough economic sanctions. by the end of the year. hoping to cut off the money iran needs to finance its nuclear operations. their economic problems are difficult enough that i think severe sanctions would have the potential of bringing them to change their policies. i think you ask me how long do i think we have? i would say, somewhere between one to three years. reporter: intelligence experts believe that iran may have other secret underground facilities that have yet to be disclosed. one reason the u.s. and allies want to get u.n. inspectors into that country right away. andrea, thanks very much. andrea mitchell in washington. it s now 7:05. now to the nbc news exclusive involving chicago s hopes of landing the 2016 olympic games. nbc s savannah guthrie is at the white house. savannah, good morning. what can you tell us? reporter: good morning, meredith. senior aides tell me the president will make a personal trip to copenhagen to make that personal pitch for chicago to get the 2016 games. international olympic committee is meeting on friday to make the final decision between four finalist cities. originally the president didn t think he was going to be able to go georgia. he was concern the health care debate would be if full swing. but he has now decided to make this trip. aides tell me it was a game-time decision and his decision alone. the first lady is still planning to attend. she ll leave a little bit earlier, be in place wednesday to lobby ioc officials. president will depart thursday evening, fly all night, be there in time to make a pitch, be part of chicago s presentation friday morning, then back in time for dinner. this is said to be really close particularly between chicago and rio de janeiro. aides hope the president going there will really make the difference. this is a first for the u.s. president. chicago and copenhagen officials both being notified this morning, meredith. you would think they d have already made their decision. this last-minute lobbying. i know. you think that would have come weeks and months ago. and what happens if the president fleiies to koeppecop and they choose rio. i almost feel like somebody s tipped him off. go ahead. i had to count to three for a second. now to the latest on the surprising arrest over the weekend of famed and some would say notorious director roman polanski. will the 76-year-old finally return to the u.s. to face sentencing for a 1977 sex crime involving a 13-year-old girl? nbc s dawna friesen is in zurich, switzerland, where polanski was arrested. good morning, dawna. reporter: good morning, matt. polanski came here to receive a lifetime achievement award at the zurich film festival. instead he was taken into custody as soon as he landed, arrested on a 32-year-old warrant for having sex with an underaged girl. for years he s lived as one of the film world s most celebrated fugitives. roman polanski, now 76 has directed movie classics from chinatown, to rosemary s baby, but a dark episode in his own past has long plagued him. never dreamt of finding myself on the other side of the law. reporter: in 1977, polanski pleaded guilty to having sex with a minor. his victim was just 13. it took place at jack nicholson s l.a. home while the actor was away. plansky was said to be photographing the girl for a modeling shoot. she, long ago, went public about the ordeal. it was so traumatic starting that night when my mom called the police and the police come over and they take you to the hospital, then they take you to the police station. reporter: polanski spent 42 days in prison undergoing psychiatric tests but fled the u.s. before being sentenced. for more than three decades he s lived in france where is he a citizen and has never returned to the u.s., even when his film the pianist won an oscar in 2002. now 30 years later the law has caught up to him. until you re ultimately sentenced by a court of law, there is no justice. reporter: but many question, why now? this is for me a shock and i m ashamed of the swiss. i think most people in the movie business are stunned and puzzled. reporter: the french culture minister says he was dumbfounded by polanski s arrest and worries a new ordeal is being inflicted on him, polanski lost his mother in auchwitz and he was married to susan tate. some think polanski has to face the music. time doesn t make the crime go away. if you do the crime, you should do the time. reporter: his victim though doesn t want to see him put in jail, she s forgiven him. polanski now faces possible extradition to the united states. this morning, polanski s french lawyer said not only that he plans to fight the arrest but also any extradition proceedings. for now, polanski remains in custody here in zurich. we re told it s possible under swiss law he could apply for bail if he agrees to stay here in switzerland. we re also told it is extremely rare for anyone to be granted that under these circumstances. matt? dawna, thank you very much. dan abrams is nbc s chief legal analyst. roman polanski has been in switzerland on numerous occasions in the past. he s skied there. reports are he even had a house there. why is he arrested now? i think it is because they had the will and the opportunity. they had the opportunity in the past though. well, it is a combination of the two. they also had to have the will to do it. i think it became clear that the u.s. officials said here s the flight that he s coming in on. we know he s going to be there. we have renewed this effort to execute this warrant. we now are asking you again to do this. what s behind that renewed effort then if you re correct on the part of the l.a. district attorney? is this politics or something else? is he get being pressure from the family? what? almost all decisions made by prosecutors are discretionary ones, meaning the prosecutor here clearly made a decision where they said, we ve decided we re not giving up on this case. this is a valid warrant. he left the country before he was sentenced. we want to finish this case. remember, this is also become active again as of late. he tried to get this thrown out last year. a judge said, tho, that s being appealed. begs the question, why would roman polanski accept this honor from the zurich film festival if it s tipped his hand. because he s been there many times before. he was saying to himself, i ve been to switzerland before, i ve been staying there for long periods of time, i haven t had a problem in the past. why would i have a problem now? what happens if he s returned to the united states? they would then start where they left off, which is to effectively have that sentencing. there are all sorts of interesting legal questions as to do you apply all of the rules that were in place back then? because remember, the sentencing is much tougher now than it was back then. real quickly, samantha giimer, the then-13-year-old, now in her mid-40s, just wants to drop it and move on with her life. does that have any impact? a little. the original prosecutor said there was misconduct. the victim says she wants this to go away. that all works in polanski s favor but that doesn t change the fact that he still fled. interesting legal questions to come. dan abrams, as always, thanks very much. now, meredith. let s head over to the news desk where ann curry has the latest headlines. good morning. also in the news this morning, the government of the philippines has declared a state of calamity following the nation s worst flooding there in more than 40 years. more than 140 people have been killed and the toll is expected to rise. u.s. troops are helping in the relief effort. german chancellor angela mer kael won a second term in sunday s election, a key u.s. ally and president obama has called to congratulate her. overseas markets are mostly down this morning following dropping sharply in asia. cnbc s melissa francis is at new york stock exchange. also dropping overseas, the dollar. that s right. we ve seen a lot of this lately. the dollar, oil and gold all falling at the same time. it is unusual because normally the dollar and commodities move in opposite directions. it is definitely something to watch. but meanwhile, take a look at stocks so far this week, this month, this quarter. we ve seen the dow rise 47% since its low back in march. the third quarter coming to an end. it s on track to be the best third quarter for the dow since 1939. a big jobs number out on friday. watch that as well. ann, back to you. melissa francis, thank you. on a very sad note, award-winning new york times columnist william sapphire died sunday of pancreatic cancer. the author of more than a dozen books, articles on language, and speech writer for former president nixon, william sapphire was 79 years old. police in southern california are still baffled by the disappearance of mitrice richardson who disappeared after being released from a l.a. county sheriff s office. search teams with rescue dogs and on horseback combed the rugged terrain near malibu. we are searching about a 60 to 80-square-mile area and we re searching basically from the malibu sheriff s station onward to malibu itself. reporter: that malibu sheriff s station is the last place richardson was seen and where her parents are laying the blame for her disappearance. it was nothing protecting her when they allowed her to walk out that door based on policy and procedure. reporter: richardson was arrested after she reportedly refused to pay an $89 bill at this exclusive malibu restaurant. management says she looked soaper but also described her behavior as unusual. police found a small amount of marijuana in her car and took her into custody. she was booked, then released at about 1:30 a.m. after making a few phone calls, the 24-year-old, who her mother says was atrade of the dark and lacked street savvy, left the station with no car, no purse, or even a cell phone. the sheriff s department says it could not force her to stay. meanwhile, mitrice richardson s parents hold out hope through their frustration. it is hard to put into words what i feel as a mother. i can tell you with absolute certainty, it feels like i have stepped into a might nar. if you have any information about mitrice richardson, call 1-877-lapd-24-7. more than 180 sky divers from 31 countries set a woman s formation sky diving world record over the weekend in the skies over california. they were raising money for breast cancer research and cancer survivors were among those who participated. beautiful. 7:15. back to matt, meredith and al. nice, huh? very nice. ann, thanks very much. how was your weekend? it was pretty transitional day for us. a high of about 77 degrees, 20% chance of an isolated thunderstorm. the cold front will give us a distinct chill as we head into tonight. up to 70 tomorrow. that s your latest weather. you tired from carrying all of hollywood on your back, once again? your movie? cloudy with a chance of meatballs. $60 million, we re hearing? is there what s your cut on that in. zero. we can t expect a free lunch today? oh, sure you can! i ll see you as mickey d s. i ll just wipe the floor with bruce willis. very good stuff. now to the swine flu and the rapidly increasing number of patients showing flu-like symptoms. so many in fact that unusual steps are now being taken in hospitals across the country. nbc s janet schamlian is outside of a children s hospital in memphis, tennessee to explain. janet, good morning to you. reporter: meredith, good morning. unusual indeed. this is something we re not used to seeing outside a hospital. emergency triage tents staffed with doctors and nurses. they re set up here in the parking lot of the children s medical center because inside the emergency room is often at capacity. overflowing with young patients. a surge of sick kid. pull up by one of these white spaces that says flu screen parking. go in the entrance to the tent there. reporter: so many arriving here with flu symptoms, they ve opened a new emergency room outside the hospital, inside a large tent. he just hasn t been herself all day. she s had a really high fever that tylenol is not seeming to get rid of. i d rather be safe than sorry. reporter: 14,000 kids in just two months, double what a normal flu season brings. has she been saying that her throat hurts? yeah. reporter: for this hospital, and others across the country, it is a prescription for overload. well, physically we just don t have the space to handle that, plus we needed the pace to take care of the more sicker patients. reporter: families like the trotters, so worried they drove an hour to get their 12-year-old son check out. he s had a headache, dizzy, and coughing and sore throat and all that. he s in the feeling real good at all. reporter: only the most serious cases are admitted. about 100 kids so far. mike the was sent home with doctor s orders to take it easy and take a few days off of school. what was your level of concern? how worried were you? me? i started balling because it s so many kids that was in the school that have been sick. i don t know. reporter: the hospital doesn t know how long this will continue, how bad it will get. but for most coming through here, doctors and nurses are offering families something stronger than medication peace of mind. two children have died at this hospital this month from the h is n 1 virus. but for the thousands of kids who have come through here since august 1st, it is important to note that only 100 have been sick enough to admit to the hospital. meredith, back to you. janet schamlian, thank you very much. it is 7:19. once again, here s matt. now to a $529 million taxpayer loan to help finance the cars of tomorrow. the recipient a small car company backed by former vice president al gore. nbc s miguel almaguer has details. reporter: it s gone from concept car to near reality, thanks in part to a half billion dollars in federal money. the department of energy has green-lighted a $529 million loan for fisker automotive, impressed by this plug-in hybrid car, it s also impressed al gore, the former vice president who not only preordered his own, he invested in the company. al gore s involvement is completely irrelevant to this loan. the intent of the fiskar loan is to give them the opportunity to design a new vehicle in pontiac, michigan and manufacture a new vehicle here in the united states. reporter: but at an estimated $90,000, critics say these exotic cars aren t affordable. it is not for the average american. reporter: and they argue companies like fiskar and tesla motors whose electric car costs over $100,000 don t need additional money. they have plenty of money and the product they re going to create is something that s going to be for very wealthy people. reporter: green cars have drawn super sized endorsements. california governor arnold schwarzenegger is a fan of the tesla. this car, let me tell you something, is a very sexy looking car. reporter: but the department of energy says these expensive versions are just the beginning. in order to loans under it the $25 billion program approved by congress, the plug-in hybrids must be moderately priced and built in the u.s. developed overseas now, the karma will soon be required to roll off american assembly lines. for today, miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles. just ahead on a monday morning, the final witness has taken the stand at the murder trial of american college student amanda knox. so how is knox feeling as that lengthy trial winds down? her father will speak out in a just ahead, new research to recommends you don t buy your teen that car he or she wants. the woman who claims she got pregnant twice in two weeks. after your local news. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i m stan stovall. lawmakers are cracking down on careless driving throughout the state. 51 speed cameras are being placed around baltimore city, at the intersection of walther and all glenmore avenue near glenmore elementary and middle school. the law allowing the cameras goes into effect this thursday. anyone caught speeding receive a $40 ticket. for the first 30 days, all the warnings will be issued. only warnings will be issued. problems on the west side. at baltimore national pike, the delay you are seeing is on the inner loop. we have two left lanes closed with an accident there. sun glare is a factor as well. you will find heavy delays on the inner loop and also on the outer loop. these delays stretch back to 795. we will keep you posted on that. also have an accident at howard and chase, involving a light rail. we are also told there are 30- minute delays as a result on light rail. in terms of other problem spots, route 24, 924, we have traffic lights effective there. defective there. the sunshine is up, it is a nice morning. 58 downtown, a 54 ed b.w.i. marshall. 57 in easton this morning. heading for a high of 74 to 78. the slight chance of a thunderstorm. cooler tomorrow. be sure to check the bottom of your screen for updated news and traffic information. our next live update coming your way at 7:55. ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, please do not panic. sounds like we re just going to glide right on in. at about 700 miles per hour. back now at 7:30 on this monday morning, the 28th day of september, 2009. that is megan fox on the season premier of saturday night live playing a flight attendant who keeps her cool to a fault in the face of trouble. i m meredith vieira inside matt lauer. i watched, you didn t. it s hard for me to stay up that late, even on a saturday night. can you do that. yeah, i can stay up late, matt! i can stay up until 1:00! wow! but you re always cranky the next day. what did you think? it was well, that was okay. but the skit with the new member of the cast? they have several new members. she dropped the f bomb. her face went she realized right away. that s why they call it saturday night live. see, if you could stay up, see what you d see? i can t. i m like my 3-year-old. coming up, both the prosecution and defense ha wrapped up their cases at the murder trial of american college student amanda knox. the verdict could be just weeks away. her father is in it lay. we wi italy. i m sure if you have a teenager, he or she has asked for his or her own car. we have a very serious reason why can you tell them no this morning. coming up. and what some are calling a rare double pregnancy. we ll meet a woman who was already carrying one child, then apparently stress apparently got pregnant with a second child just weeks later. her incredible story coming up. we ll begin with the latest developments at the murder trial of amanda knox. nbc s keith mailer is in italy. good morning. reporter: the prosecution defense teams wrapped up their case over the weekend but there s been so much contradictory evidence delivered by the forensic scientist, they re talking about bringing a crime scene investigator back to the stand. the murder trial has already dragged on for nine months. 22-year-old amanda knox from seattle, along with her former boyfriend, are being tried for the murder and sexual assault of knox s roommate, an exchange student from england. some 40 hearings have been held in the fortress-like courtroom. the prosecution has attempted to paint knox as a wild child, high on drugs when she stabbed her roommate in the throat after she refused to take part in a sex game. knox took to the stand earlier in the proceedings to proclaim her innocence, speaking in fluent italian, she testified that she and her boyfriend were at his apartment watching a video at the time of the murder. more than 80 witnesses have been called to the stand. the last two for the defense took parting shots at what they called sloppy police work. a forensic scientist explained that the victim s dna on the knife allegedly used in the killing contained just one cell and questioned the validity of the science used to obtain it. one of amanda s attorneys says the validity of the fran second science has been contradicted. not unusual, says an american-trained lawyer. in fact, many times cases boil down to a battle of the experts. it seems to me that this is what s happening in this particular case because of the lack of direct evidence, eyewitnesss, or the proverbial smoking gun. reporter: there has been so much conflicting testimony from forensic experts, that the defense is expected to call for an independent forensic scientist to review all the evidence. the prosecutor says enough evidence has already been presented to convict knox and her former boyfriend. another man has already been convicted of the crime in a separate trial and is serving a 30-year prison sentence. the trial continues to dominate the italian media with knox the center of attention. the angelic-looking american accused of committing a brutal murder. the prosecutor has said he s okay in fact with some sort of judicial review on the part of a forensic scientist, but it will all be up to the judge. he s postponed closing arguments for a week to allow the defense to bring a petition for a special investigator. if that petition is granted, meredith, the trial could go on for two more months. all right, keith miller thank you very much. the trial is expected to resume on october 9th with the court taking up procedural matters before closing arguments begin. amanda knox s father kurt knox is also in perugia and he joins us now. good morning. when you hear that the trial could drag on for months to come and that both sides could consider bringing in independent experts because the forensics have been so contradictory, is that frustrating to you or do you understand why it might be necessary? first of all, i think that the defense has put up a very good argument against all of the charges that have been brought up. but, if it takes an additional two months to get the right answer the first time here, then it s something that we ll have to live through in order to bring amanda home. you think in the end it would work to your daughter s benefit actually if these experts were brought in? i think it would continue to show that the prosecution s case is extremely weak and that amanda is completely innocent of these charges and if that s the choice that has to be made, then i m in favor of it. you said that you re satisfied with the job the defense has done. do you believe that they have proven to the jury that your daughter could not be involved in this crime? well, first of all, i would like to believe that you re innocent until proven guilty, but i believe that the defense has done a phenomenal job in showing the fact that what they have as evidence against her really does not exist and she had no part of this crime. what is the earliest, curt, that you understand this trial could come to an end, that there could be some decision? it really depends on this october 9th and 10th set of hearings. but if they allow the special investigators to come in, it could last potentially two months. then you go through closing arguments. that could put us very close to christmas and potentially the new year. amanda has been in prison since november of 2007. how is she doing? well, she s trying to stay positive. she s obviously seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and hoping that it will be here soon. she s anxious to hear the decision and that she s innocent and that she can come home with us. when is the last time that you had the opportunity to talk with her, see her? well, i actually got to see her after saturday s hearing and it was just for a couple of minutes and got to hug her and tell her i love her. then i ll be visiting her again tomorrow actually. curt, i have to say, you ve been incredibly strong through all this. you seem to have gotten stronger as the months have gone by. talk to me about that. well, part of it has to do with the fact that everything up to the beginning of the defense was all character assassination essentially. i think when the defense has begun its case and shown how off base the prosecution is in this particular trial, it gives me hope that will get the right answer and that she s innocent and that we will get to bring her home. have you prepared yourself for the possibility that you might not get the answer that you hoped for? you know, it s in the back of our minds but based on how the defense has presented their side of the case, i m believing that the judge will come to the correct conclusion which she is innocent and had no part in this. curt knox, as always, thank you so much for your time. thank you for having me. nono heading for a high of 77 degrees. partly cloudy skies, breezy style westerly winds at 15 to 20 miles per hour. cold front is pushing through and will cellist down into the upper 60s. it s kathy s birthday! happy birthday, kathy. if you want your weather any time of the day or night, go to the weather channel on cable or go to weather.com online. meredith? thank you, al. still to come near-death experiences. why some doctors say they not only exist, they could one day help save your life. but up next, what could be the key to keeping teen drivers safe? what every parent needs to hear right after this. now to important information aimed at teen drivers at their parents. nbc s lisa myers is in bethesda, maryland with details on this. lisa, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, matt. car accidents remain the number one killer of teenagers in this country. the new studies out today have two important messages. that parents can have a tremendous influence over their teenager s driving, and that they should think twice before giving the kid his own car. like most teens, 17-year-old jenny beaner loves blasting music and chatting with friends. but when she gets in her car that all stops. i focus on driving safely. reporter: and her parents are the reason why. in this house, driving privileges come with strict rules. no making any phone calls. no taking any phone calls. no texting. no using the radio. no more than one other person in the car and normally she would have to ask even that. reporter: now a new study finds this kind of parenting is the key to keeping teens safe on the road. this study is great news for america s parents. it absolutely says what you do does matter. reporter: dr. kenneth ginsburg is an adolescent specialist in philadelphia. in his study of nearly 6,000 teen drivers, he found teens with supportive parents who set clear rules about driving were half as likely to be in a crash, compared to those whose parents were less involved. they also were twice as likely to wear seatbelts. 70% less likely to drink and drive, and 30% less likely to use cell phones while driving. ginsburg says teens actually crave boundaries, but how parents present the rules is critical. parents need to make it really clear to the young person that this is not about control, this is about safety. they need to honor teenager s need for independence. reporter: but independence does not mean teens should have their own cars. in fact, ginsburg says that may encourage risky behavior. his study found that when teens were given their own cars, their risk of a crash doubled compared to teens who had to share a car with family. we think that the safety benefit comes because adolescents are going to have to say to their parents, hey, mom or dad, can i have the keys? this creates the opportunity for conversationed and creates the opportunity for the monitoring we know saves lives. reporter: jenny s parents require check-ins before and after she takes the car. a rule experts recommend for all teens during their first year of driving. but steve and francis know communication is a two-way street. last month when jenny toll them she became distracted and nearly crashed her car, they listened more than preached. first of all, they didn t get mad as i thought they would. my response when she was upset about this close call was to comfort her, to tell her this happens to everybody. so let s talk about what could be done next time. reporter: jenny s dad uses another effective strategy. scheduling regular driving dates so he can monitor her skills. for now, the radio stays off. but jenny hopes not for long. i m a good driver and if i continue to be safe, then rewards will come. we re hoping by taking this approach that when she s off on her own, much of this stuff will be internalized. she ll be a very safe driver even when she s not checking in with mom and dad every day. reporter: experts also have some advice on how to help your teen deal with peer pressure to break the rules. they say to tell your teen to blame you, to say their strict parents will take away the car forever if they do anything wrong. it gives them an out, helps them save face with friend and keeps them safe, matt. lisa, jenny s dealing with a lot of rules. is there one experts say is the most important of what her parents are implementing? experts say that there are a few absolutes for any parent. no speeding, no texting or using the cell phone while driving. if you re tired or you ve been drinking, don t drive. call me, i ll come pick you up. and importantly, they say do these in a supportive way. tell your kid i love you, i want you to be independent, but i want to keep you safe. good advice. lisa, thank you very much for that. we appreciate it. still ahead one woman carrying two babies. guess what? her doctor doesn t think that they are twins. we ll talk to her and her husband. but first, these messages. s. now to an overwhelming response to shine a light, an online contest by nbc universal and american express to find one of the country s most inspirational small business stories. the field is now down to three finalists. here with more, hosts of msnbc s your business. how tough is it narrowing this down? it was incredibly hard. i could probably list five businesses that i care about. we had to take it from thousands and get it down one. this company is so neat. this company is bringing phone service and internet service to thousands of people who never had access they have mothers who teach them the importance of child and nutrition. they re also involved with school giving treats. it was a great story for great businesses. two from new york, one from mexico. get to the website. todayshow.com and vote. you have until october 16th to vote. thanks, folks. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am stan stovall. a new driver safety initiative goes into effect this week. beginning thursday october 1, if you are texting while driving, it will cost you $500. it does not include reading text while driving. texting while driving a motor vehicle is considered a dangerous distraction. let us get a check on the morning commute with sarah caldwell. said an update on the accident on i-70. heavy delays on the inner loop in at 95 on the south side. about 26 miles per hour is your average speed of there. howard inches, accident involving a light rail. there are 30-minute delays on light rail. we have an accident reported and problems on emmorton road at harford county. 80 minutes it 16 minutes on out of the west side. a 12-minute ride on the outer loop northeast side. lingering volume on the inner loop towards the earlier accident scene. if you re going to be heading out i-95 south from white marsh down to 895, pretty substantial delays there. a little book will out there. 50s across the board, 54 at the airport. pretty warm. the 77 degrees. normal for this time of year. sledder chance for a thunderstorm. cold front is on the move. this would give us a chill in the air. our next live update at 8:25. so let s sing a song of cheer again happy days are here again notes she sings, she dances, she acts, she directs. that is the extraordinary barbra streisand, about to release her first studio album since 2005. take a look at all the smiling faces in our crowd listening to that one of a kind sound. and guess what? meredith got to sit down with babbs get out! the release date of her new album. that s not even the coolest thing. gout to go to a real intimate private concert. where she performed for her fans. that s where she started back in 1961. she actually auditioned at vanguard. she s be there she did not get the gig. love is the answer is the name of her new album. she performed in front of her fans who won a lottery to get in there. later we talked about her album. it is an album of jazz greats and also about her notorious stage fright. it took a lot for her to do that. she doesn t do very many live performances. we ll hear that tomorrow morning? tomorrow morning on today. that s very cool stuff. is it a medical miracle or is it something else? an arkansas woman pregnant with two babies. you know what? she s not so sure and her doctor s not so sure that these are twins. these could be babies conceived two weeks apart. we ll talk to the woman and her husband, as you can see right there, in an interview in just a couple of minutes. she looks great. do you guys believe in near-death experiences? i do. absolutely. every morning. why do you have to? why? why? well, we re going to talk to a doctor who s actually studying them to find out if they can be used to save lives. we ll have much more on that just ahead. first, let s gin side. ann has a look at all the headlines. good morning. good morning, everybody. in the news this morning, just days before iran is set to hold talks with the u.s. and its allies, new defiance this morning. overnight iran test fired at least two missiles, including one that s capable of reaching israel. in geneva later this week the u.s. is set to demand that iran allow inspections at its newly revealed nuclear site within weeks. intelligence experts believe iran may have other secret underground nuclear facilities. the death toll is expected to rise in the philippines this morning after a weekend storm that dumped more than a month s worth of rain in about 12 hours and at least 140 people have been killed. senior aides tell nbc news president obama will travel to copenhagen this week to make a personal push for his hometown of chicago to get the 2016 olympic games. international olympic committee is set to make a decision on friday. this morning, some 50,000 people turned out for a mass with pope benedict who is on his first papal visit to the czech republic. new damaging evidence could be revealed today against two people who are accused of trying to extort millions of dollars from actor john travolta. nbc s michelle kosinski is in the bahamas this morning with more on this story. michelle, good morning. reporter: good morning. john travolta will have to return to testify in this case of a former senator and paramedic accused of trying to sell him a medical document to keep it private. now a judge has admitted into evidence a secretly taped conversation allegedly showing an attempted deal going down. it has not been easy for john travolta and his wife kelly preston to relive the day their son jett died of a seizure at their vacation home here. now they have to deal with the alleged crime that happened next. former bahamian senator and a paramedic are accused of offering to sell travolta a routine medical waiver he signed which it turned out was irrelevant to his son s care for the price of $25 million. people.com claims to have seen a secretly taped conversation involving them and travolta s attorney in which supposedly the paramedic finally agrees to $15 million. people quotes him as saying i can t do installments, i want to get this behind me. i don t want to see you anymore. i m thinking how do i know if irgo to the states one day the feds don t pick me up. both of the accused say they re innocent. this is another black eye for the place with the pink courthouse and not long after the anna nicole smith case when photos emerged showing the bahamian immigration minister hugging anna nicole in bed. now the island supreme court awaits more evidence to see if that videotape really is a smoking gun and to hear once more from travolta himself. we re starting to see some defense strategy but no comment yet on that videotape and it hasn t yet been played in open court. ann? michelle kosinski this morning, thanks, michelle. a 40-ton hump-back whale is now swimming freely after getting tangled in a shark net off the coast of australia on sunday. it took rescuers three hours to free it. but take a look. it is now 8:05. let s get a check of the weather from al. thanks, ann. got a good looking group of kids here. where you from? connecticut. nice to see you. very nice. let s check your weather, see what s going on. we are going to see partly sunny skies today. temperatures in the upper 70 s. slight chance for an isolated thunderstorm. a cold front is pushing through. we will be left with a breezy that s your latest weather. al, thank you. up next a rare medical marvel. an arkansas woman apparently pregnant with two babies who are not twins. they ll talk with that woman and her husband right after this. under the same sun. and now for the first time, in new sun crystals ® . the only 100% natural sweetener made with pure cane sugar and stevia. finally, all the sweetness of nature and just 5 calories a packet. nature gave us the recipe; we just gave it a name. new sun crystals ® all natural sweetener. two natural wonders. one sweet taste™. ocean spray craisins, sweetened dried cranberries, are sweet. we ll take that as a yes. craisins the sweetest way to eat a cranberry. campbell s tomato soup. we ve added a unique sea salt. it helps us use less salt than before without changing our famous flavor. that means it s healthy. along with over 65 others and more to come. campbell s. in a long line of amazing performance machines. this is the new e-coupe. this is mercedes-benz. this is the new e-coupe. cer: no surprises. no shocks. dulcolax stool softener provides stimulant-free constipation relief that s gradual and comfortable, like nature intended. dulcolax stool softener. feeling free to be. singers: feelin free. do you want to see what a real airline is like? 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she said, 11 weeks and one day and 8 weeks and 4 days. that s what nef s measured and they ve continuously been 2 1/2 weeks apart. reporter: ultrasound pictures tell the tale. julia s 28 weeks pregnant with a daughter and 25 weeks pregnant with a son. how? the arkansas woman may have conceived a second baby while already pregnant with the first. an extremely rare condition known as superfetation. that s just an amazement. it is something that you still don t believe. it s like it s so rare. reporter: the couple has chosen not to have amnio sen tee tis which would confirm the medical miracle. the most likely explanation is this is a normal twin pregnancy with a significant discrepancy in the sizes of the two fetuses because they re developing at different rates. reporter: is there any thought in your mind that or any belief that one of the babies is just developing slower than the other? at this point, no. there was always that possibility early on. i have hope and faith and always believed that they were both perfectly healthy and without a shadow of a doubt we believe it s superfetation and that there is no just slower development for the younger child. reporter: babies due in two different years, one in december 2009, the second in january 2010. any benefit to having them both in december? i think it will be good on the taxes. reporter: expecting the best in what could be a rare double pregnancy. for today, janet schamlian, nbc news, portsmouth, arkansas. julia and todd grovenburg are with us now. good morning to both of you. julia, start with you. kind of go back to the basics here. you and todd had had some trouble conceiving. had tried for a long time. tried some different ways. were you not on fertility drugs at the time you became pregnant? no, i was not. which would have raised the likelihood of multiples. so when you go for this ultrasound two months after you find out you re pregnant and you see two babies, and yet they are developing differently or at different stages or could be could have been conceived at different times, when was your initial row action? i gagged, was very, very shocking. very shocking for there to be two. but then for there to be appear to be at that point in time two different ages, the very first ultrasound, it was surreal. todd, had you ever even heard of that as a possibility? no, never. so this came as a huge shock to you as well. oh, yeah. yeah. we were both shocked. yeah. he laughed a lot. i did laugh. men usually do that when we re shocked. there are a lot of medical experts who are cynical about this, skeptical about this, who think, no, these are twins, they are developing at a different rate, and some even go a little further, i have to say this. they think that this whole discussion of these babies conceived at separate times is because you like the attention. how do you respond to that? that s just for us, it s ridiculous. we waited over five months to let this story air. even with our local media until we got confirmation that the suspicion was real and that it was a possibility and not just something in our head, but that it was a possibility. now that it s they ve said it is a possibility, that s when we decided to tell our story. because we go ahead. i understand there is a blood test that can be performed after the babies are born that will also clear this up. do you intend on getting that blood test? that s what we were told. yes. definitely if the test is available to be done after they arrive, that is definitely something that we would definitely do. definitely. most importantly, we are hoping for two healthy babies, that i think is probably the bottom line in this story. absolutely. exactly, yes. right now to date they have been cleared and are perfectly healthy. that s the best news. julia and todd, thanks very much. congratulations. congratulations. thanks so much. dr. nancy snyderman here, our chief medical editor. what do you think? i don t know. superfetation, this idea that you can get pregnant, that you don t have these huge hormonal shifts yet and you get a boom, second egg and sperm hitting up. i can t even figure out how low the numbers are. what most doctors are saying is more likely that one twin really is so much more dominant than the other that they look like they re just different gestational age but twin age really sort of twin a robbing most of the nutrients. if this is conception at two different times does it increase risk of the pregnancy? the question will be when the bigger baby comes to term what do you do. i would suspect doctors will say, let s talk about a s cesarian. if women are out there thinking, wait a minute, i m pregnant, can i get pregnant again? no, you can generally have sex with wild abandon, the chances of getting pregnant even early on, infinitesimally small. the headline, is that dr. nancy recommends sex with wild abandon. only during a pregnancy. thanks very much. that s how you get pregnant. up next, unlocking the mystery of an out of body experience. fascinating new research and how it could one day save your life. but first, these messages. that sound? do yor they re popping! - really?! listen. - ( laughs ) ahhhhh. mmm. where d the sound go? even when they ve stopped popping, is it in your tummy? they haven t stopped working. now, every box of kellogg s® rice krispies® cereal. has antioxidants and nutrients. that help support your child s immune system. 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an international research project is studying the near-death phenomenon trying to learn about saving lives from people who have literally come back from the dead. 20 years ago, don piper died on this texas bridge, the victim of a speeding 18-wheeler. i was killed instantly. i mean i was immediately struck, crushed by the roof of the car collapsing, steering wheel impaling me on the chest and dashboard collapsing on both of my legs. reporter: paramedics worked franticly and yet fond no sign of life. his body was covered with a tarp. an hour and a half later, the unbelievable. suddenly without any warning, there under the tarp in the dark i started moving and i was back. reporter: he talked about in t in his best seller 90 minutes from heaven. for some, stories like don piper s suggest life goes on after the body has died. i think it happens. i think patients see things. reporter: karen tucker sees it happen with patients in the cardiac care unit where she works. and later on, they said, i remember you trying to shock me and i remember trying to say to you guys, i m awake, i m awake, don t shock me, i m awake, even though their heart was not beating. reporter: two hospitals have joined the international project to study the phenomenon. the challenge is to prove that memories of death are more than what some guess is the brain shutting down at the end of life. the method is simple workers install small shelves above patient beds. a picture that can t be seen from floor level is placed on the shelf. the theory, some patients report floating above their body at death. if a patient that is pronounced dead, but later revived, can remember that image, it could be evidence that out-of-body stories may be fact, and not an artificial memory. in indianapolis, dr. mark farber enrolled his cardiac unit in the study. his team uses a special monitor that measures the amount of oxygen in the brain during cardiac arrest on each patient in the research. we may find out, for instance, that some of the people don t survive could be because the way we re resuscitating them is not as effective in terms of cerebral oxygenation compared to the people who do survive. reporter: that alone, he says, is reason enough to scientifically try to explain the stories of those like don piper who say they ve died and lived to tell about it. if we can show that people actually are aware of what s going on, can see things that we can t explain how they could possibly see them, i think it opens up a whole new enterprise in further investigation. to me, that s what science is all about. the doctor of the founder of the awareness during resuscitation study from cornell medical center is here, dr. parnell, good morning. this is fascinating. people believe for years when you get that flat line, that means death but death is really a biological process. that s right. most people out there think of death as being a moment, you re either dead or you re alive. the reason is simple. because although we ve always been fascinated by death, in the old days when we tried to revive the dead, we weren t very successful. we tried to tickle the throat, whip people. that was 100 years ago. now because of resuscitation science we are able to restart the heart after someone has died. we ve found eslengsly there is no moment of death. death begins when your heart stops and goes on through a period of time as you have a lack of blood flow to your brain, your brain cells change a little bit and you begin to die. this study involving cardiac patients is two-fold. trying to determine if these folks do have near-death experiences, and, b, what the implications are in terms of the way you resiresuscitate patient we ve set up the world s largest study looking at what happens between the mind and brain during cardiac arrest when people die. we ve recognized worry s not just dealing with brain cells, but with human beings. people who have died consistently at least 10% to 20% who are then brought back to life will tell us they are consciousness present, that their mind and consciousness was working and a portion of them will say they re able to see doctors and nurses working on them as if they re looking from above. you want to determine if that s a trick the brain plays on them or something that s really happening. how does oxygen in the brain play into this? as you saw from the clip from indianapolis, one thing we want it do is find out if these claims are actually real or just an illusion. most of us believe these are probably just a trick of the mind but we don t understand the mind. it could be they re really seeing these things. the reason we use oxygen, simply we know from all our studies when people have died their brain goes into a flat line state. consciousness shouldn t be present. this is why this is a paradox. but it could also be in that one individual or few individual cases maybe somehow we did something amazing to get blood into them. so we are setting up these machines in different hospitals. i ll show you how it works. only a few seconds. so very quickly. reporte . we attach this to the patient when they have cardiac arrest and get revived. we want to find out if we managed to get better oxygen into that person. that may indicate why they re having consciousnessss live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. the three men accused of brutally beating an elderly black fisherman will appear in court later today. calvin lockner, emanuel miller, and at exactly what some are scheduled for an arraignment this morning. they have been charged with assault, attempted carjacking, robbery, and hate crimes. the trio faces a possible 85 years in prison. let s check on the morning commute with sarah caldwell. stop on a busy ride. we have an accident on westbound i-70, watch for delays developing there. we want to let you know that there are still 30-minute delays because of the accident. assault i-95 at the beltway, and accident and delays. about 95 at the beltway, and accident and delays. live view of traffic heading out on the white marsh area, those delays are dissipating. you are going to back down on the beltway down to the 895 split. live view of liberty, things are running much smoother than before. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. partly cloudy today. we are still in the basically upper 50s are rounded the area. as far as the forecast, heading for a high in the upper 70 s. cool front will be sweeping through here and i will give us a slight chance for an isolated thunderstorm. 15 to 20 miles per hour in the southwest. mid-to-upper-sixties for wednesday and thursday. thank you for joining us. we will have another update at 8:55. no good unless he needs you back now at 8:30 on this monday morning, september 28th, 2009. that of course, one of our favorites around the today show, harry connick jr. out with a new album of standards. just ahead, he ll play a tune for us live. but right now, harry, i believe is out on the plaza, meeting all the fine folks who are starting their week here in rockefeller plaza. this is harry s 25th album. we ll catch up with him in just a moment. not right now. also ahead, we re going to talk about the ten things that your child s teacher will not tell you, but that you need to know to have a successful school year. okay. also, if you are concerned about varicose voieins a lotf people are we ve got dr. nancy snyderman that woman works so hard to help us stay healthy. she sure does. then later, how to talk to your spouse about hot-button issues that could derail a relationship. how to get on the same page and have a stronger relationship. let s bring in actor in abc s new medical drama trauma, the show is intense, pleasant morning out there. we will see partly cloudy skies to mostly sunny skies today. the upper 70 s, the forecast high. windsock of lustily at 10 to 15 miles per hour that s your latest weather. for more weather information, you can always go to the weather channel any time day or night or weather.com online. you got calendars in front of you? 2010 winter olympic games, 137 days from today. one of the athletes who will undoubtedly be making a lot of headlines at those games, skier lindsey bond. she s won the women s all-around alpine title two years in a row. that is the first time an american woman good morning. nice to see you. 137 days away. mentally trainingwise where are you right now? i m right in the end stages of the preparation period. the world cup tour starts in about three weeks. it is not far off. then obviously the olympics are in february. i ll have a couple months to go but it s creeping up fast. expectations are building that you are a clear front runner in all five alpine events. are you feeling that pressure? a little bit. it s been a little bit intense with all the media and stuff going on. but i m just trying to stay focused on my own goal, try to win an olympic medal. i ve never won an olympic medal. look at this, lindsey on a stick. how does that feel? you get one of these, lindsey. it s creeping me out a little bit. really. as you try to focus in on this, you try to not let all this kind of stuff ruffle you. how do you do that? i mean what is it? is it connecting with the wish, the love, for this possibility? you know, things like this, how the vail community has supported me, it actually gives me a lot of confidence to know people are behind me. even if i don t succeed at the olympics, i think i ll still have support and just have to take it one day at a time, do the best that you can. we will be rooting you on. we ll be there watching you, lindsey vonn. you might make me nervous. we ll bring our little faces. lindsey, thank you so much. thank you. still ahead a live performance from harry connick today s american story with bob dotson focuses on three people looking for love, work and a connection to the past. they found it all thanks to a little ferry. . reporter: sometimes the river of life sweeps away our dreams. he wants to fly airplanes but was set adrift when the airlines stopped hiring. he found a job piloting something unique. the last state-run ferry in america powered by a pole. it stitches across the james river south of scottsdale, virginia. this is how we first muscled across the country when water blocked our way, stringing barges to cables, and then cranking them into the current. the water will hit the side of the ferry, acting as a sail propelling it in the opposite direction. reporter: just as life sometimes does. why do you still do this after eight years? look around you. i mean it s the best office in the world. reporter: with the kind of view that makes us all homesick for places we have never been. the hatton ferry has hit a rough spot. virginia s department of transportation is abandoning this bit of our history. it only costs $21,000 to save the ferry. well, when we re looking at a $3.5 billion budget shortfall we have to find any bit of money we can. that s ridiculous. reporter: history is more precious to frank. nearing 90, he has more of it. this is my grandfather. reporter: he owned the ferry when frank was a boy. there were thousands across the country back then. now it s the only one there. is there anything more important than that? reporter: before the ferry floated into that yellowing scrapbook of history, county officials found enough money to keep it afloat until october 1st, vowed it would be a one-time bailout because they didn t want to run it either. local historical society couldn t afford the liability insurance so the fate of this little ferry depends on folks who cherish the things that connect us. tom freeman and stephanie kellogg want to get married on that romantic relic. from our old life to our new life. on the little ferry. reporter: even though tom, who just lost his job. his tailor understands. that s ashley. at his second job. are you a polka dot person? reporter: stephanie, a nurse, decided to tie the knot anyway. she chose the wedding cupcakes and set the date. in this world racing full-tilt toward tomorrow, they counted on the hatton ferry being there. just as it has been since the 1870s. why is the past important to you? because that s what has made this future. it s in my heart. reporter: a bright day in a tight time. but, they are hopeful that dreams they spin will not be swept away. what could go wrong at that wedding on a ferry that s held by a cable in the middle of the river? well, if the cable snapped, i suppose we could end up in richmond for our honeymoon. reporter: that s where tom starts a new engineering job after the wedding. so, two things to celebrate this day. hope, and one more. sir, you may kiss the bride. reporter: stephanie became the ferry s godmother. she asked their friends not to give wedding gifts but to donate to this tiny bit of what we once were. there is now enough to keep the hatton ferry afloat for a few more months. for today, bob dotson, nbc news with american story on the james river. up next, harry connick jr. performs live in studio 1a. but first, this is today on nbc. announcer: the toyota concert series on today, brought to i by toyota. toyota. moving forward. back at 8:46 with one of our favorite performers, master of song, harry connick jr. he told me to say that. his new album your songs features his unique take on some iconic standards. the very shy and retiring, harry. good morning to you. good morning to you. i can t believe you said that. because you asked me to. master of song. you travel nice and light. yes, this is my little personal traveling band. they go everywhere i tell them to. i was with the folks from sony over the weekend. they said they had been pushing you to do an album like this for years. you hadn t wanted to do an album of standards. what changed? i ve done a lot of records. you have. i got together with clive davis and we picked some really great songs. songs like just the way you are by billy joel. and i love her by the beatles. i just wanted to have a good time in the studio and just sing. that s basically what we did. we made a cd of songs everybody knows and present them in a very accessible way. what s different about the way you present them? normally i would do like more a jazz stuff with them. but this time i said let me just put them out there. let me just sing them straight. my dad sometimes says, how come you take these left turns with your arrangements all the time? this time i m not, i m just going to sing them straight because they re great, great songs on their own. you and your wife, jill, have you had a song that s always been your standard? we like the song more. and we like that brazilian music. that s some romantic stuff. you are surrounded by women actually between your wife, your three gorgeous daughters who are there. has it hit you yet they re like reaching teenage age? it s freaking me out a little bit 37 it s freaking me out. but the great thing is that i love my wife and we do our best to raise our kids like i would think most parents try to do and we re proud of them. we have three beautiful healthy daughters and we feel very blessed about that. what are you going to sing for sfus. i don t feel like singing. actually, i do, harry. can i have the mike? i can take this for you. it s fine. you got it? can you count the band off for me? how do i do that? all you do is say one, two, three, four. what are you going to sing? i m going to sing all the way. this is all the way. one, two, three, four. that was perfect. that was like better than i do. when somebody loves you it s no good unless he loves you all the way happy to be near you when you need someone to cheer you all the way taller than the tallest tree is though that s how it s got to feel deeper than the deep blue sea is that s how deep it goes if it s real when somebody needs you it s no good unless he needs you all the way through the good or lean years and for all the in-between years come what may who knows where the road will lead us only a fool would say but if you let me love you it s for sure i m gonna love you all the way all the way that s jerry weldon. when somebody needs you it s no good unless he needs you all the way even through the lean years and for all the in-between years come what may who knows where the road will lead us only a fool would say but if you let me love you it s for sure i m gonna love you all the way all the way the new album is called your songs. harry connick jr., thank you so much. we ll be right back. this is today on nbc. harry s just announced he s taking i m matt lauer. i can so do this. this is so my gig! it s the new today family. the best part is he comes with on orchestra. that s right. that s right. whatever you need. thanks so much. wonderful. aren t they fantastic? they are fantastic. they deserve a raise. be back in a moment. still to come what s coming up? how to talk to your spouse about those hot-button issues. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. baltimore county prosecutors will seek a 20-year sentence for a man who drove a stolen pickup truck and two of baltimore and the home, telling into a baltimore county home, killing the woman inside. prosecutors say that he stole a pickup truck from a home in sparks and broke into dozens of other vehicles and blacked out behind the wheel. that is what he crashed into the home on york road. back i let s look at the forecast with sandra shaw. we will see a high of about 77 degrees. a little above the normal 74. greasy, winds sought lustily at 15 to 20 miles per hour. breezy, winds southwesterly at 15 to 20 miles per hour. a cooling trend for the rest of the week. 70 tamara and breezy. 67 on wednesday. thank you for joining us. we will another update at 9:25.