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2009. it is nice group of people gathered in studio 1a s plaza in rockefeller plaza. chilly there in the northeast. seems like we went from summer right to winter, bypassing fall. but don t worry about that when you re where i am right now. i m in los angeles this morning. i m matt lauer. ann and al are holding down the fort wow. in new york city. thanks for rubbing it in. it s all about you. but you know what, it really isn t all i mean, it s only in the mid-70s here. it s not all hot and sunny here, so meantime, you re in l.a. because i guess natalie s on assignment. anyway, i thought natalie s on assignment, okay. and you re in l.a. because you ve got another reason, a big night tonight. big night tonight. i am going to stop by and see our good buddy jay leno for his show in prime time tonight, sit down for an interview with him, and then take the green car challenge that we just showed you on the program a couple minutes ago. ann and al, i think you guys with both be good at this, better than i would be, because i m a little nervous behind the wheel. i think you guys would put the pedal to the floor. i would really like to give that track a try. looks like a lot of fun. well, good luck, matt. it sounds fun. you ll do great on leno tonight, so it will be fun. thank you. it will be fun. what do you have coming up? actually, we have an international custody case about an american father who was jailed in japan after taking his children from his ex-wife. we ll be talking to his new wife who is home in tennessee waiting for her husband s return now that he s been released from jail. all right. then, also ahead, we ve got the tragic, final days of supermodel anna nicole smith. a compelling court hearing is uncovering what really happened in her last hours and whether anybody should face trial in connection with her death. coming up, larry birkhead, the father of smith s 3-year-old daughter, dannielynn, speaks out about the case and how the little girl is doing today. then a little bit later, did your mother ever tell you that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? yeah. well, listen to mom, because coming up, why some simple home repairs you can do yourself can save you thousands of dollars down the road. all right, but first, you ve got a check of the morning s top stories. i do, and there are some stories. in fact, there s some violence this morning. a wave of terror in pakistan this morning, where taliban militants have launched at least five attacks now. in the northwestern city of peshawar there were two car bombings. one struck near a school. the other targeted a police station. in pakistan s second largest city of lahore, gunmen raided police and commando facilities. and at least 39 people have been killed today in all of this violence. president obama is asking congress to provide one-time payments of $250 to 57 million seniors and others who receive social security payments. that s because of negative inflation that there will be no cost-of-living increase next year for the first time since 1975. the president will be in new orleans today to take a look at recovery efforts there four years after hurricane katrina. the president is holding a town hall meeting and is visiting a school in the hardest hit 9th ward, where thousands of buildings are still abandoned. the man accused of the sexual assault and murder of an 8-year-old girl 19 years ago is in a texas jail this morning. dennis earl bradford arrived in houston last night after waving ex-additi extradition from arkansas. police say he was arrested on dna tuesday after the 8-year-old girl, now a young woman, refused to give up search for her rapist. today, japanese police release an american father jailed in an international custody dispute. christopher savoie was arrested last month, accused of snatching his two children from his japanese ex-wife. prosecutors now have not dropped the case but have decided that savoie does not pose a flight risk. we ll have more on this coming up in a few moments. and california s worst october storm has rained itself out. the break came too late for one family, who had a mudslide rise up to the basketball rim and nearly buried a car. rainwater build-up caused the roof of an electronics store to collapse, but no one was hurt. it is now four minutes past the top of the hour. now let s get the weather with al. thanks, ann. you have save katie, be the match. what is this about? my name is katie meacham, and we re here because the leukemia and lymphoma society is having the light the night walk to raise awareness for blood cancers, and i have a blood cancer. i was diagnosed with lymphoma a year and a half ago, and two weeks ago, i found out that it has returned and i now need a blood stem cell donor, and out of the 14 million people worldwide, not one is a perfect match for me. so, i am here to ask your viewers to please go to join.marrow.org/4katie. if you re not a match for me, you could be for thousands of others who also need this life-saving procedure. hopefully not only would help you, but also thousands of other people. there are thousands of other people, also, and mary s here as well for be the match. thanks as well. and it s great things that you re doing. thank you. best of luck. we hope everybody goes and checks the website. yes, please do. let s check your weather and see what s going on. we ll show you a storm system working its way in. precipitation coming out of the ohio valley is going to combine with low pressure along the carolina coast, and that s going to make a nor easter early tonight. wet snow back through pennsylvania, a lot of rain along the coast, strong, northeasterly winds. winds of over 40 to 45-mile-per-hour wind gusts. the heaviest rain will be offshore, but we re looking at a lot of snow through friday morning throughout central pennsylvania. some areas picking up up to eight inches of snow from bradford down to state college and as far east as scranton, pennsylvania. of course, that s where the office on nbc at 9:00 will be on tonight. yeah, you like that show, right? who doesn t like that show? we are off to a rainy and a chilly start this thursday. temperatures in the 40 s right now. we will stay in the 40 s all day today. who s this cutie? this is illa. oh, we ve got a runny nose there, but she s happy. it s so cold. so cold. now let s go back in to ann, whose nose is not running. thanks a lot, al. now to the overnight release of an american father who had been held for more than two weeks in a japanese jail. christopher savoie was arrested there last month, accused of snatching his two children from his japanese ex-wife after she failed to return home from a trip to her native country of japan. well, savoie s current wife, amy, is now joining us. amy, good morning. good morning. i know that this has been a very emotional roller coaster for you, and certainly, for christopher as well. when you heard the news that overnight he had been released from jail, what was your reaction? oh, i was thrilled, of course. i was very thrilled to hear that he had been released. you ve been able to speak to him on the phone? has he been able to talk to you about his treatment? there were concerns early on about how he was being treated in jail? yes. we weren t able to speak for very long. he s still in the midst of a lot of paperwork and he was he s with his attorneys right now, in fact, i believe, and they have a lot of work to do still. is it your sense that he s been traumatized at all by this experience, that he s emotional about it, or does it seem as though he s doing fine? no, he s been traumatized. mm-hmm. and what do you think is causing all that trauma? well, it s very difficult to talk about. it s very difficult. it s very emotional. it s very multifaceted. his children are basically dead to him now, and that is just it s horrible, and i don t know how a parent goes forward from that, that kind of devastation. our lives have been completely dismantled by this tragedy, and isaac and rebecca are now somewhere in japan with no access to their father who loves them dearly. no more hugs from their father. no more phone calls. no more playing the guitar with their father. no more playing baseball with their father. and i can t imjin that any 8-year-old and 6-year-old would actually choose to live a life without one parent if they were able to make such a choice. amy, a spokesperson at the hearing about christopher s release said the japanese government will try to find a joint solution to the custody and parenting issues. are you saying that you have you and your husband don t have faith that there will be something worked out with the japanese government and with the rules there that will allow christopher to parent his children? well, i know a number of countries have asked japan for years to sign the hague treaty with regards to its stance on parental child abduction, in which they ve stated for years that parental abduction is not considered to be a crime in japan, and i think it s going to take a long time for them to overcome the thinking that they ve had since the 1940s, in which one parent has custody of the child. so, this is definitely going to be a marathon, and there are so many, so many grieving families who have contacted me, and they want to unify and try to see how we can make effect some change. and there is a meeting in d.c. about this next week. meantime, what are christopher s plans now? will he stay in japan and try to see his children, wait for this to be resolved, or will he be able to come home? well, my understanding is one of the conditions of his release was that he did return to the united states. so, he will be coming home, and he needs to return to work. he needs to return to law school. we re both law students. we need to continue this fight, you know, from here, and just try to effect some positive change, if we can. we ll work as hard as we can. well, i can hear, amy, the heartbreak in your voice, and certainly, it s probably been really mirrored by what christopher must be feeling now. but i think we can also hear you re very determined. yes. well, isaac and rebecca love their father, and there are many children out there who don t know, they aren t able to feel the love of the parent who is left behind, and it s a tragedy. and we always had empathy for those families because we always worried that this was going to happen to us, and now the empathy s been fully realized, fully realized. it s devastating. well, amy savoie, thank you for speaking to us, and thank you. we look forward to finding out how this will all end up, and our best wishes to you. thank you. coming up next, an exclusive interview with larry birkhead. he s the father of anna nicole s 3-year-old daughter. and he s got a lot to say. and coming up later, fix now, save later. the simple home repairs that can save you a lot of money in the long run. but first, these messages. ideas are limitless. becat that s why, everyday at ge, thousands of scientists and researchers at our global research centers and throughout the company are redefining what s possible by creating the advanced technologies that create jobs. the american renewal is happening right now. of pillsbury cinnamon rolls bring everyone to the table in their sunday best destroy them with lysol neutra air. it eliminates odor-causing bacteria in the air. and kills 99.9 percent of bacteria at the source. oust air sanitizer is not approved to kill bacteria at the source. enjoy nothing but freshness. with lysol neutra air the ultimate odor eliminator. and try lysol neutra air freshmatic for clean, fresh air automatically. well, are you going to pick it or not? 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(announcer) for five generations, with a name like smucker s, it has to be good. it s been almost three years since anna nicole smith died in a hotel room from a prescription drug overdose. well, the question now, can her doctors and her companion, howard k. stern, stand trial for giving her drugs over the years? nbc s michelle kosinski is in los angeles, where a high-profile hearing gets under way again today. michelle, good morning. reporter: good morning, al. we had these doctors accused of overprescribing. howard k. stern may be the only person ever charged here as an enabler. what their defense wants to show is that anna nicole smith had a legitimate need for these drugs, a very high tolerance, and that they were only trying to help her. howard, are you 100% not guilty? reporter: it is a grim reunion. anna nicole smith s doctors and howard k. stern. he looks thin. his attorney says he lives with his parents, has not been able to move on since anna s death. in court, he listens attentively to the details of her last days, that she was so sick from flu and a raging infection, she couldn t sit up, had been drinking pedialyte from a baby bottle. her hotel called a doctor, but according to testimony, stern canceled him, not wanting publicity. instead, her psychiatrist, dr. khristine eroshevich, treated her. the circumstances under which the treatment was given was not necessarily ideal, but there was no one else to help, and dr. eroshevich did the best she could. reporter: she was the one who prescribed the unusual sleep medication of which a toxicologist found a lethal amount in anna s body. but he agreed, her infection could have affected her reaction. she suffered from seizures and she had medical problems, so reporter: that is what the defense wants to emphasize, also that anna suffered from chronic pain, in her back, they say, from her breast implants, and a brain abnormality that caused seizures. they say those around her were trying to help, especially after her son died. and stern s attorney says anna lost her will to live. was there never a time that he said, man, she s taking a lot of drugs? he wasn t in the position of telling the doctor, aren t you wrong in what you re doing? the doctor was explaining why the regiment of prescribed drugs was being done. reporter: but many of anna s prescriptions were in stern s name. her bodyguard said stern would crush valium and inject her. at the same time, though, he said anna would beg for drugs, including the one that precipitated her death and would take gulps straight from the bottle. cous does howard feel like he was an enabler in this situation? it wasn t a choice of being an enabler or not being an enabler. you either did what he thought was best for anna or you left her. he wasn t going to leave her. reporter: the judge at one point said, look, whose fault is it, really? if you keep wanting more and more pills and then finally take too many of them? but prosecutors say she was prescribed huge amounts, some while she was pregnant. they equated that to giving a loaded gun to someone who is suicidal, and saying, be careful, don t pull the trigger. al? thanks very much. early this morning, matt spoke with larry birkhead, the father of anna nicole smith s daughter, who is now 3 years old. he started by asking, based on being around anna nicole, her doctors and howard k. stern at the time before her death, what kind of light can he shed at the hearing? well, i think what i could testify to is the time line before she died and what was going on in people s heads and what they were, you know, the interactions and things like that. and i guess the coming and going of different people around her and trying to establish a timeline. you were aware that she was taking an awful lot of prescription drugs. and i m just curious and you did live there. you lived with her for 2 1/2 years. was there nothing you could do to stop it? well, i mean, there were several times and attempts that i made and conversations. and the thick is, and what s so odd about the situation is, when you said something to anna, it was always, she referenced you back to the bottles with the doctor s name on it. so, then you found some comfort that, basically, that a doctor s prescribing this and there was someone who s supposed to have the right mind of being in charge of this, and that s kind of where d did you ever talk to the doctors and howard k. stern about this, and say, wait a second, folks, i don t know where these drugs are coming from, but there are too many of them? well, i had conversations with anna and howard, and beyond that, i don t want to go into what i might testify. but there was definitely conversations which actually led to part of the reason why anna and i split up eventually, was because of some of the tension surrounding some of the medications, you know, during the pregnancy. if we look at a list of some of the drugs that were found in her system and in her home after her death, i mean, it s an extensive list. were there legitimate illnesses for which she was being treated that would require some of these drugs? that s the thing that most people, you don t understand. you hear anna nicole and drugs and things like that, and you know, she always said these are prescription drugs and these are, you know there was a large amount, but she had these legitimate reasons. she had swelling of her hands. she had seizures. she had pains from previous breast surgeries. she had where she couldn t sleep at night, you know, tension and stress. so, there was a combination of things that these medicines were actually given for. it s been a long time since we ve had a chance to talk, and dannielynn was 7 months old at the time of anna nicole s death. she is now 3 years old. 3 years old. so, the question a lot of people wonder, how s she doing? she s doing great. you know, she s healthy, she s happy. she s doing all the things that kids do and just having a great time, and you know, all this craziness and i m proud to say she s none the wiser and well, what does she know about her mom? what have you told her? she s very aware of her mom. she can point to her mom in pictures, see her mom in television and point her out, and i m always, you know, in bedtime stories, i kind of implement stories that are appropriate for her not just about her mom, but we have to remember, also, daniel, anna s son that died. and it s a lot i have to tell her down the road, but nothing i can really tell her today. i hear she s got quite the personality. she started, according to you, really to look like anna nicole in the last year or so and loves to pose for pictures. we re looking at some of the pictures right now. is there still an ongoing custody issue here? virgie arthur, anna nicole s mom, had wanted custody of danniely dannielynn. is that still open? there s an open case in the bahamas that s been laying dormant that hasn t been dismissed, for whatever reason. but at this point, you know, virgie s not in dannielynn s life and hasn t seen her. and howard k. stern, one of the men who s going through this hearing now to decide if he had some wrongdoing or some role in anna nicole s death, he at one point claimed he was the father of dannielynn, which i m sure makes it an interesting relationship between the two of you. does he have any contact with danniely dannielynn? he does, and actually, believe it or not, he s actually become friendly, and we worked together on anna s estate, and at one time, her funeral and all the particulars, you know, and going, and we decided, i guess, once the paternity issue was resolved and, you know, we moved forward with that, that it was we were trying to do what was best for dannielynn and moving forward for her and not the squabbles that were going on. so, was it strange for you to watch this hearing unfold and be a part of it perhaps later today? it s a little strange, because when you have a daughter and you re trying to show her different things and you re trying to move on yourself as a father and as a family, to kind of hear these things over and over, and you know, so, that could be difficult. larry birkhead with matt earlier this morning. and we ll be back with some moves you should make now so you can save money on your home later. amelia and abbey have big imaginations and the loving family grand dollhouse has plenty of room. i m the mommy. to let them roam free. we re the twins. 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you can do this yourself. a pro will cost you a couple hundred dollars. but if you don t fix this now, you could end up paveling $750 for new gutters. wow. or as much as $5,000 to repair water damage to your house. and it s especially important now, because if those gutters are clogged and you get that freeze, all of a sudden, you ve got an ice damming along the gutter. exactly. it backs up into your home and that a mess. that s a huge problem in the wintertime. so definitely do the maintenance now. it s going to go a long way. let s move on now to the peeling paint in windows. this is a wooden window. if the paint is peeled and blistered like this, that means the water s going to get right in and rot out that woodwork, especially on the sill, which is flat and the water can pond there. sure. for the fix, very simple, just scrape sand and repaint any window. a wooden window with a worn-out finish. one precaution, if your home was built before 1978, make sure you are protecting yourself from lead paint dust. and if you re only working on the sill, this flat part here, you can just open up the window and do that from right inside the house. how much are we talking to repair? if you do this yourself, you might pay up to $30 a window, but if you don t fix this now, you could end up paying $200 for a pro to come in and restore that wood window or if you have to replace it? up to $400 for a replacement or eaven more. and that s a big payoff you don t want to make. that s per window. this is one i noticed the other day although not this bad cracked caulk. although looking at this, i don t think the cracked caulk is the only problem. there are a lot of issues, but the real problem is that this lets the water get behind the tub and tile. that will cause water damage and possibly mold growth. it could get bad enough that this tile wall could collapse. so, what do you want to do? it s very simple. recaulk your tub. it s something you can do in an hour with a $6 tube of caulk from the hardware store. scrape out the old stuff, clean the area and apply the new. if you don t do it? it s a $6 tube of caulk, remember. but if you don t do in now, you could end up paying $2,500 to repair a section of the thailti if you have mold back there, it could be $6,000 to fix it. so that s a small investment and potentially a huge payoff. moving to the wood finished floors. see here the protectant is scraped away. water is the enemy of your house, no matter where it comes into the material. so either water is going to warp the wood or the wood will dry out and get cracked and splintered. so, what you want to do, instead of letting it sit like this is you re going to do what s called a screen and poly job. this is where you take off just the very top layer of the finish, not all the way down to the bare wood, and apply a new layer of sealant. this is nice and shiny, no chipping. how much would this cost to do? you can rent a tool. you could end up paying $5 a square foot for a full refinishing. so, let s say your house is 1,000 square feet. that s $5,000 that you don t want to spend finishing your wood floors. absolutely. then finally, overhanging tree limbs. yes. this is basically a disaster waiting to happen. not only could these limbs fall onto the roof and go right through, squirrels love to climb down those tree limbs and get right inside your attic, and believe me, you do not want them living up there. they can cut off wires, ducts, all sorts of things. so, get the trees trimmed back. if they re small enough, you can do it yourself. a pro will charge you about $95 an hour. but if you don t do it? if you don t do it, you could pay up to $300 or more to get rid of any critters in the attic or $1,250 is the cost of an average roof repair from damage from a tree. so remember, what you want to do is fix problems when they re small before they get out of hand and cost you big bucks. deborah, thank you very much. great advice. nice to see you. still ahead, have kid, will travel. the best strollers on the road. true professionals, always ready when they hear the call. guys, pancakes! 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(alistair) trust resolve power. forget stains. any parent will tell you a good stroller is a must, but what s the best stroller to get for your way of life? we ve got carly rooney from t thebump.com with the mom-approved list. good morning. good morning, ann. you need a stroller, basically, that lasts three years. yes. and i basically looked at what other moms were using. what are the considerations to think about? as you were saying, number one is your lifestyle. a mom who wants uses it for marathon training versus a mom who goes to the mall have two needs. same for a subway versus a city street mom. you have different needs, wheel size, et cetera. we have a large stroller, which is great if you re a suburban mom, because it s a big thing. it s a comfy stroller, the graco quatro tour. and this is great because it accommodates your child from birth with a car seat built in. but this, once you re done with your car seat, this becomes a stroller for your kid up to 50 pounds. so really up until they go to school. so moms like this. also they have places for their drinks, there s a place for your drinks. easy cup holder, a great, huge basket, so it s great when you re going to shop. that s right, storage for other items. okay, this is one i ve never seen before, but you re saying a lot of moms like this one because of its ease. that s right. this is the orbit. it s new on the market. an orbit. it s about $900, but it s worth it. this is about $269, the one we were just looking at. so it s really affordable. now, this is pricey, but it has features that make it really so. it s awesome to navigate. it s very light weight, which you wouldn t expect from how it looks, but this is the feature bump moms like most. it rotates. so if you re at a restaurant, you can pull the baby up to the side. great. fore facing, rear facing. and this comes out. it s also a car seat and there s an attachment in the car so you can swivel them forward or backward as well. and does this fold up easily? easily, it s light weight, great storing, wheels. so moms love that. this is a lightweight stroller great for the city. a lot of mothers in the city use this. mclaren is an extremely well loved brand for strollers. they basically invented the umbrella stroller. and what s great about this one is it s so easy to fold up. you basically my heels you basically fold it up like this, one click. it s got a shoulder strap and only weighs 11 pounds. so if you want to go on the subway, it s called the quest, and it s a great everyday stroller that s very sturdy. and once again, it s useful for from 3 months up to 55 pounds, so up until you take your kid to school. now, this is an odd thing, but you say this is actually folded up. this is folded up. it s called the quinnie. okay, i ve got a baby in my hand, a bag of grocery in the other, all i have to do is this. boom! the gas spring technology. nice. and it opens up for you. once again, fat wheels. and this adjusts to four different positions. this is not a travel system. you don t use this as a car seat. you can get an attachment or a bassinet, but this is a full-featured thing. and you can fold it down and they can go to sleep. yes, they can lie down. you can use this since birth. this is in the $400 range. but again, you don t have the carry-out. so when your baby is falling asleep and you have to move the baby to the car, you ll have the same problem as with the m maclaren. this is for the jogger mom. this is the jogging stroller. it s got the big wheels like bicycle wheels, goes on any terrain, fixed front wheel stable. super stable. and it is affordable. it s only over $200, and it s got great brakes. here, foot brake, hand brake, and one of the reasons moms love it most is it s got an mp3 player built in. oh, oh! so, here we go so you just bring your earplugs baby can go right through the cracks that s right, so you can have ear plugs on when you re jogging with the baby, and that s very cool. i love it. and you can run pretty fast with this. you can run really fast with it, and it s got great brakes. now, you ve got two babies? quickly. this is the city mini. it s a baby jogger. it s got two harnesses, easy to use, reclines all the way. so you can have big kids and little kids in the same one, and it fits through a standard-size doorway. great. and this is $399. carley roney, thank you for making it less overwhelming for us. you can find more at thebump.com s strollers list at todayshow.com. don t tell miss piggy we re cooking po food suppliers bring them to your table. he applies this philosophy in our brand new restaurant called la farm in westport, connecti t connecticut. chef, good to see you. good to see you. how s the restaurant going? good. we re about seven days old. and they said it wouldn t last. anyway, what are you making here? so, we re going to do one of my favorite things in the world, which is a porkby. yeah. and what s really important, if you re not familiar, you can see a pork belly is really just bacon. i was going to say, looks like bacon. without the cure, without the smoke. all we re going to do is capping this fresh pork belly. so, i started already and we ll go through. the idea here is you ve got all this fat on top. so we want to score this fat and allow it to get surface area so it can crust up. and what we re going to do is take a quick cure. we re going to do about three parts of salt, one part of sugar and then we ll throw some herb in and mix it around and take it through. so it s kind of like a rub. exactly. and we re looking to just seal the juices within the pork. and this is seasoning. we re going to throw it onto a roasting pan and that s going to go in the oven? we ll sit it for an hour to six hours and throw it into a high oven, 425, 450, about a half hour and then lower the heat really low for a few hours. you re teaming up with my favorite, butternut squash acorn squash. well, that s another favorite of mine. acorn squash. so another simple preparation. beauty of acorn squash, why i chose it today was it has its own guidelines. so, if you never cut squash before look at that, little ridges. all you re going to do is follow the lines of the squash and we re going to throw this in a bowl, have a little bit more over here. then again, we re sticking with fall spices, so right here we have some cinnamon, cayenne, and allspice. throw in some brown sugar. throw some brown sugar in here. little olive oil? a little olive oil if you want to throw it in. don t be shy. we ll throw a couple knobs of butter here. then really quick, i m going to throw a pinch of each one. of each spice. we ll toss it around real quick. doesn t have to be perfect. it s going into the oven to roast. this is about 450 degrees. it depends on your offensiven. so when it s already done, we come back here you want to let it caramelize. we pull out the pork belly. this is the pork belly. tell me it s not gorgeous. there s only a couple things and this is one of them. we take the pork belly and slice it. i like to bring it to 360 degrees internal temperature. you can see it s a little pink from the salt. all we re going to do is take a piece of pork belly here and slice it for you and bring it over here and start a plate. we ve got one over here. what kind of greens? baby arugula. one of my favorites. where s the ladies? any time now. come on. fine, fine. we were having sorry. we didn t know. hi, how are you? how are you? all right. delicious. look at that. i love this stuff. well done. fantastic. fabulous. what is this you can watch it on the web. we have vivica fox coming up, mario lopez, our man panel, all things, all guy. interesting. hot. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. baltimore s first h1n1 s one flu vaccination clinic is open from now until 8:00 tonight, or until supplies last, at baltimore polytechnic institute. it is open to young, healthy residents from ages two to 24. the county location is open tomorrow. back in a minute with almost a little touch of winter out there today. a cold rain will be with us on and off through the afternoon. high temperatures only in the upper 40 s. same story all the way through the weekend. thank you for joining us. we will see you back here for 11 news at noon. when it comes to italian sauce, some people prefer this jar. but more people prefer this sauce. winner of the blind taste test. the sweet and savory taste of prego. it s in there. announcer: it s live with regis & kelly. today, actor, author and host of extra, mario lopez. and from the legendary comedy troop monmon, john cleese, eric