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good morning. majority rules. senate democrats manage to muster enough votes to bring health care reform to the floor but the big battle is still ahead. left behind. a frantic father can only watch helplessly as a closing train door separates him from his little boy. this morning, we re going to meet them and the good samaritan who came to the rescue. a today exclusive. record breaking. we all remember that first audition. i dreamed a dream in time gone by now susan boyle releases her first cd to record breaking sales making her an international sensation all over again. today, sunday, november 22nd, 2009. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a sunday. i m lester holt. i m jenna wolfe. i don t have children but you do. i can only imagine i was terrified watching that video of the father let going of his little boy. even if you don t have children, if you were a little kid at some point the idea that the door would close, a little boy on one side and father inside. imagine what s going on in his mind. there were good folks on the other end. a woman who made sure that reunion happened. that was tough to watch. we ll talk to them coming up. we ll chat with them and see what they were thinking there. talk about separation anxiety. one of the astronauts orbiting 220 miles above earth at the international space station just became a daddy. randy took his first space walk on saturday found out his wife gave birth to a baby girl. they re not taking the subway yet. that s good. all in all a pretty exciting day for dad. we ll hear from him in just a few minutes. that s a great story. it s that time of year again. people getting ready to hit the road for thanksgiving. aaa predicts 33 million people will hit the highways for thanksgiving. if the mere thought of the holidays is stressing you out, we ll get help for you coming up this morning. some tips for coping with all of that family togetherness that you can actually relax and have some fun. at some point people are just going to stay home because the travel i know people do it. i m over the travel. sometimes you get over the river and through the woods. go the week after thanksgiving. over the refiver the next we. j. how much would you pay for an i iconic piece of michael jackson? you can buy a couple houses for what they actual i go got for his glove. houses aren t selling as well as that glove apparently. it s not a bad price. we ll begin with the test vote in the senate on health care reform. mike viqueira is live for us at the white house this morning with the latest. good morning to you. reporter: good morning, jenna. let the debate begin after suspenseful moments up to the last two democrats holdouts took the floor and announced that they would vote for it. it was close. they needed never vote. 60 democrats. all 58 democrats and two independents who vote with them. 49 republicans voted against them. one republican was absent. let s have a look at what s actually in this bill. it does include a public option. that public option, however, would allow states to opt out. this will cover 31 million uninsured americans and put another way 94% of americans will have health insurance coverage if this bill passes paid for with new taxes. a lot of this might change. this debate will last well into the holidays. i understand these provisions in the senate bill are likely to change though, right? reporter: absolutely. the two senators who were the last holdouts went to the floor and announcing their support to allow this debate to go forward they say the public option has to come out if they re going to vote for this bill in the end. they re joined by joe lieberman in that stance. it appears that they can t get 60 votes for the public option and if it is going to pass the senate, it s going to have to be taken out somewhere along the line in this process. all right. mike viqueira, thank you. and now here s lester. david gregory is moderator of meet the press. good to see you. good morning, lester. walk us through what happens here. a couple weeks ago the house passed its own version. last night the senate takes a procedural vote. we ll talk about it and debate. how do we get from there to perhaps a final bill to be voted on? there s a lot of senate democrats who don t see that path very clearly right now even though there s been some conventional wisdom that this is reaching its conclusion in a positive way. the issue here and mike just alluded to it, what s the future of the public option? liberals in the senate want to see it in there. they want a robust plan. you heard whether it is blanche lincoln or mary landrieu or joe lieberman, you have to water that down without watering it down too much. the president has to exert leadership. there s a possibility for some kind of backup plan on a public option, which would mean there wouldn t be one but it could be triggered down the line if there s not enough competition in the system. that s where a lot of negotiation will be. focus on two democratic senators but now that we re in the debate when we get to the final bill, could it be more than two potential defections among democrats? absolutely. you have landrieu and joe lieberman as an independent but caucuses with democrats as you know. you have ben nelson. there are those who could raise these difficult issues over cost ultimately, over taxes, and again over the public option. let s talk about abortion. that certainly figured in the house version. some democrats that held their nose and agreed to restrictions on abortion to get it through the house. is that going to rear its head here again? it could. absolutely. i have talked to senate democrats who say that they looked at that experience in the house and said that catholic bishops heavily involved in lobbying on that issue will come to the senate side and let voices be heard and it could be another big wedge issue in terms of how they deal with that. it s also going to have an impact for more conservative members of the senate. republicans voted in line in their opposition to allowing this to go to debate. how are they going to position now their argument that this is going to be bad for business and that the cost is inflated? what s their next move? you see senator mcconnell talking about this being understated and massive expansion of government and bad for business and ultimately it will be a real drain on the deficit which is already huge and overall debt for the country. you will hear those arguments continue. they ll try to chip away here. they know there are potential gettable votes on the democrat side but democrats hope there s an opportunity to pick off a republican like olympia snowe if they can get the bill right. thanks, david. let s get more of today s headlines from tamron hall. we begin with a murder trial of american exchange student amanda knox accused of killing her british roommate. michelle is live in italy with more. good morning. reporter: good morning. for the last two years amanda knox has sat in jail. now, prosecutors are asking that she spend the rest of her life there with nine months solitary confinement. they played a computer generated reenactment of what they hank happened putting amanda at the center of it even though she says she was not there. she claim she was the one who attacked meredith kercher and the one who stabbed her in the throat. they say out of hatred for her. they also played graphic crime scene and autopsy photos. amanda turned her body away and would not look. she did ask to give a statement to the court saying that meredith was her friend and that what prosecutors are alleging is pure fantasy and not the truth. we expect a verdict in about two weeks. all right. michelle kosinski, thank you very much. dramatic video from turkey where intense mudslides caused a home to collapse into a pile of rubble. the family evacuated just minutes before this happened. look at that. heavy rains and major flooding to blame for this in that region. news from space this morning. shuttle astronaut randy breznick is a new father this morning. it s 11:04 last night, abigale joined the nasa family. mama and baby are doing very well. on behalf of planet earth ground team, please accept our heartfelt congratulations. what a sweet moment. they were awakened to the song butterfly kisses. breznik completed his first space walk. the glove michael jackson wore 26 years ago now sold for $320,000. add in commission and taxes and the final price tag a whopping $420,000 for a glove that s not even real diamonds. jackson s first wore the glove at the motown where he debuted the moon good morning. the sun is out this morning and it s really nice. a little chilly. humidity up but that will be dropping later on. and the barometer is high as well. we will see lots of sun today, maybe a few scattered clouds late, and in the now here s lester. thank you. singer susan boyle first grabbed worldwide attention when she dreamed a dream on stage on britain s got talent. now another of her dreams is about to come true. stephanie is live from london this morning with more. reporter: good morning, lester. you know, it used to be that music artists would come out with a debut album that would similarary bit, slowly catch on and if lucky, become a hit. reality tv talent contests have changed all of that. tomorrow some say susan boyle s debut album could skyrocket to number one. she walked on stage the unlikelyiest of talent show contestants or so it seemed. okay. what s the dream? i am trying to be a professional singer. reporter: what followed was reality tv gold. i dream a dream in time gone by reporter: the single self-described lonely woman from a small town in scotland became an instant worldwide sensation. her first album i dreamed a dream set for release tomorrow is already breaking records. amazon.com received more preorders for the debut than any other release in the website s history. the album covers other artists songs including cry me a river. i was going through a bad patch then. i would like to think that music is therapy. reporter: at a record store in london, the cds have arrived. the success story behind her is curiosity of the whole thing. everyone wants to hear more. there are artists that come through tv but massive audiences engage with them and have an immediate impact. it s how they achieve longivity in her career. reporter: when she lost britain s got talent she went to a clinic suffering with exhausti exhaustion. ready to get on with it. reporter: the confidence perhaps of some whose life-long dream out of nowhere suddenly came true. music critics haven t been entirely kind. at this point what the critics think of susan boyle s talent hardly seems to matter. thank you very much. bits i heard sounded good. i m not too afraid to admit it but every time i hear her sing, i haven t felt this way. i melt. everyone in the studio is after all this time. i felt that way when you dressed up for halloween like susan boyle. don t go there. i was all excited. i m on board. look at that face. only a mother could love. look at that. all right. the real susan boyle is going to perform live here on the plaza tomorrow morning on today. so don t miss it. a lot of expectations. we ll be there. still ahead, the father and son separated when a train door closed. we ll hear about the scary moment and happy reunion thanks to a stranger in a today exclusive. in healthcare advancements cancer detection medical records, health for more people. means never forgetting is everything. is happening. right now. i m here to find out why over a million people have come home to custom roasted maxwell house. really great flavor. i love the taste. hmmm. hmmm. smooth. rich. fabulous. is it hmmm? 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that point in time. very hard. i m sure even hard to talk about now. now aiden is on the platform. the train starts pulling away. what are you doing inside that train as you start seeing him fade away there. well, at that point i m trying to push the emergency intercom button to get ahold of the operator. i push it several times with no answer. and that s when panic really set in at that point. you re standing on the platform. all of a sudden you re going through your normal morning routine and this 3-year-old boy ends up in front of you and you see his father pull away on the train. you must have been panicked as well. what were you thinking? i was confused. i didn t understand why the doors closed so quickly and why they gotten separated and then as the train started to pull away i called to aaron saying i would stay with him so he knew that we would be there and he would know where to find us. i understand that you were talking to aiden this whole time and was he scared? can you describe the way he was when the train pulled away? yeah. at first when the doors first closed he was confused and didn t really understand why he had gotten separated and was calling to aaron and then as the train pulled away, aiden just lost it. he just started crying very hard. he was extremely upset understandably. thank goodness you were there. you got off at the next stop and took the downtown one immediately. when you got back, what was everyone s reaction when you realized he was still in that same spot you left him? well, i was obviously relieved and then at that point very overwhelmed. happy to see my son. just basically overwhelmed with emotion and very grateful. grateful that he was okay. lucky that everyone was there. i understand this is a train you take every morning to bring little aiden to preschool. now we ll travel in pacts on and off the trains, correct? that s true. he said he would never push a button again. fantastic. aaron and aiden, we re glad you are back together. thank you for everything you did. it s a great story that ended well. thank you. we ll be right back after these messages. to the world. those words changed my life and inspired my open hearts collection at kay jewelers. as the number one jewelry store in america, kay was the perfect choice to help me turn my mom s inspiration into something beautiful and eternal. you were right, mom. keep your heart open, and love will always find its way in. senators mikulski and cardin have been leaders, fighting to make health care more affordable and to make sure seniors have access to the medicines their doctor prescribes. now maryland senators can improve medicare and help close the donut hole without raising premiums on seniors by as much as 20%, which some proposals would do. call today ask senators mikulski and cardin to support the senate health care reform bill. because we can improve medicare without making seniors pay more. still to come on today, pairing the perfect wine with 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dive teams were able to recover the woman s body. she has not been identified. family and friends gathered to pay final respects to specialist cliff coffman. he was killed in afghanistan last week. he was a graduate of gillman high school. he enlisted last year and was assigned to the 321st military intelligence. a program you note to pass along. congressman dutch rupers berger is our guest today. he is going to join us at 9:00 for our sunday q and a segment. if you have a question, send it in. en mail your questions to us. stay with us. when we come back, a check of when we come back, a check of your weather - ( music playing ) - now s the time to invest. in lumber. in rubber. in bellies. and precious metals. it s time to put everything you have into your 10k. your 5k. and even your 1k. and, of course, you can never go wrong with futures. kaiser permanente. thrive. isn t that a nice shot. plenty of sunshine. a little haze in the atmosphere and a patch or two of fog. and deceptively chilly. it looks nice but it s a little chilly out there. downtown 47 but only 37 at the airport. high pressure gave us great weather yesterday and it will do the same today, but it s moving further east and by evening it will be centered over new england and pulling out of the picture, allowing the storm to the south to pull into the picture first bringing clouds and then rain. but that won t be during the day today. today we have a nice forecast. sunny skies for the most part. again, we ll start picking up a few clouds toward the end of the day. high temperatures in the the mid 50s. temperatures normal for this time of year. the lady ravens are teaming up with the maryland food bank. and you can help. there s concern minority contractors may mizz out on the slots gold mine. we ll take a look at why. plus our legal expert weighs in. all when we continue in 25 minutes. we re back on this sunday morning, november 22nd, 2009. the year is just streaming on by. four days before thanksgiving already. we re happy these great folks have decided to spend part of their morning with us on the plaza. i m jenna wolfe along with lester holt. still to come, it is an end of an era for reality tv, isn t it? final episode of jon & kate plus 8 airs tomorrow. we re going to take one last look at the show as it comes to an end at least for now. sort of a train wreck, wasn t it? that s one way of putting it. also coming up, an education in outlet shopping. there is enough to learn if you plan to shop at an outlet for your holiday gifts. we have trips, tricks and shopping strategies. we ll talk about coping with holiday stress as much as we try to glamorize the holidays and how great they are. stress comes with it. supposed to be fun but isn t always. coming up, answers to your most stressing holiday dilemmas. we ll put you on the spot. are you going to get me something this year? for christmas, yes. not for thanksgiving. we don t do thanksgiving gifts. i ll bring you leftover stuffing. that s all i need. another check of the the sun is out this morning, beautiful. a little chilly. humidity is up. barometer is up. giving us good weather today for the game today for those who will be attending the game or doing some cooking outside in the parking lot. scattered clouds and temperatures in the 50s. thanks so much for that. we ll check your football forecast for you now because we have football night in america. sunday night football. look at the temperatures expected at soldier field. mostly cloudy skies. temperatures in the 40s for the bears and the eagles tonight in chicago. hi, crowd back there. now we ll go to lester. janice, thanks very much. tomorrow the reality show jon & kate plus 8 will air its final episode bringing to an end a spectacular but stormy run that brought national attention to the marriage, the children and a very public breakup. here s nbc s rehema ellis. reporter: young twins and sextuplets. when jon & kate plus 8 debuted in april 2007, it soon became a cable hit. viewers tuned in to watch a devoted couple live with the thrills and challenges of raising so many children but recently there have been more jeers than cheers. a blizzard of tabloid headlines about the marriage meltdown, lawsuits and liaisons intensifies the curiosity. when the couple made their split official on the air, the episode drew a record 10 million plus viewers but since then ratings have tanked by 80%. this past september the learning channel announced a revamped series tight edtled kate plus but that plan fizzled when jon made it clear he no longer wanted the kids on tv. now the reality is this show is over. the series finale airs tomorrow night. we spied on this family with tv cameras that had been together for eight years and suddenly we watched it fall apart. reporter: in the final episode kate offers this it s very it s sad. it s cut short. it s too soon. and it s been a great run. reporter: there may be more of kate to come. the learning channel says it hopes to launch a show next spring about kate s new reality. rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. let s go back inside to jenna. lester, thanks. this morning on today s consumer, if you re looking to stretch a dollar this holiday season, you may want to consider hitting the outlets. janice lieberman took a trip to an outlet center and is here to tell us what she learned. according to an aol reader s digest poll, 70% of americans will spend less than they did last year. how to make the dollar stretch? here s one answer. reporter: it s a mantra many of us chant when sales seem too good to pass up. parked down to 55 marked down to $9.99 that s a deal. reporter: hunting for bargains for women at the outlet mall. deer widows weekend is when women are left home alone and we ll shop. reporter: can you relate? how do you hunt down the best bargains? we asked kathryn, the budget fashionista to give me one-on-one on outlet shopping. first lesson, know your real estate. you have to stay focused. often in stores and outlets like this, you find deals hidden in the corners. here you have a 50% off rack. you can find great deals. reporter: don t get carried away. most of what you find at the outlets cannot be found at regular priced retailers. some of that merchandise over 60% of outlet merchandise is made specifically for the outlet stores. reporter: experts say made for outlet clothes tend to use less expensive fabric and skip a few bells and whistles like lining or extra row of stitching. how can you tell? does the label look the same as what you would find in the main store? is it glued on? does the logo look different. reporter: at ann taylor two small dots are the giveaway. who cares if you love it and the price is fair, it can be a great find. this coat is $115. this is a really great deal for basically a full length black coat in november. reporter: wear comfy shoes. the best strategy is to focus on brands you love. that s a beautiful sweater. it s warm and thick. reporter: at saxs fifth avenue, designer goodies that didn t sell in retail stores. i can t tell you specific names but i can promise you won t be disappointed. reporter: i have an inside secret you don t know. saxs on fifth told me that the second week of september and last week of march big finds come in. you didn t hear it from me. reporter: that s next year. for now, let s celebrate the holidays. santa, you know what i hope for? a ton of money so i don t have to worry about bargain shopping. good luck. reporter: to all of us. you can get a good deal at the outlets but you have to shop savvy. head for clearance racks in the corners. check garment over for quality. and look at the map to head straight for the brands you know and like and fit you well and that s going to save you a lot of time and blisters. here s something else i didn t know. there are coupons they offer at these outlet malls. go online ahead of time. we found tons of coupons if you have a aaa membership they ll give it to you for free. sometimes a nominal price. it s worth asking and going online and doing homework first. more effort but you save in the end. excellent information. thank you so much. up next, tips for fighting off holiday stress. that s all right after these messages. let s find out what people think of maxwell house s flavor lock lid. hear that? seals it tight. smells like fresh ground. fresh fresh fresh fre that s our favorite part. .fresh! 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we have high expectations because we think of childhood memories and they are very perfect and lovely so we feel like it should be this painting of relationships and there s competitive aspect of feeling martha stewart like. everyone should be perfect. it should be done well. it s a reflection of who i am and how well everything comes out. there s almost a depression component of those folks who can t go home for holidays. thanksgiving is a family time. suddenly you have to work or you can t afford a trip. what do you advise to those folks? travel is expensive. people can t. you have to remember the holiday is about relationships and it doesn t have to be your mom or dad or your sibling. could be relationships with people around you. i would advise those people to be with somebody and to reach out to a friend and say i can t go home this year what are you doing? and gather people together. it can be a nice new relationship. i like what the one guy said. people stress over things they can t control which brings me to the whole travel thing. it has its own level of stress. traffic or the flight gets canceled or the fog rolls in. was that good advice he offered? travel can be the most stressful part of the holiday. yes. i would say you want to plan your travel so that it is away from holiday either come early or leave later or think about ways that you re not going to be so enraged by the time you get there that it will all spillover into the holiday. why do family gatherings go sour? they re people you lovely. they re family. you get together and the woman said a moment ago the saturday breakdown. exactly. this is the reason. when families come together, they tend to regress. they regress into their original roles of remember when we were kids and we fought like this and we competed like this and parents tend to treat their adult children like children so we regress into old roles and they don t work anymore. you have to be aware of that and try to operate at the new level that you currently exist in. then there s the want to be a fly on the wall for dinner table conversation because there s always one person that brings up the taboo subject and then things go downhill. what things should be avoided in those conversations? secretive or sensitive things. this is not the time to say you re 30, why aren t you dating? come out. high competition topics. things that pit people against each other. if your kids are both applying to college from different families, don t talk about that. highly charged political issues. if you know someone is against abortion maybe don t talk about abortion issues there. those kinds of things. the weather is always nice. you can always talk about the weather. there are many things you can talk about. you think about it. it s a time of togetherness. work out disagreements beforehand or afterwards and not at the holiday. this is a good conversation to have to get people s minds wrapped around this. always good to have you on. thanks very much. here s jenna. if you re hosting thanksgiving dinner this year you have questions about how to prep your turkey and keep the family happy. here to answer the questions is andrew nolton. good morning. so we re going to jump right in. we have pressing questions. most people think the turkey is the biggest question but really it s stuffing. to stuff or not to stuff, that, my friend, is the question. did you call it stuffing or dressing? stuffing. dressing would be oil and vinegar on my turkey. who wants that. i called it dressing. i m from the south. we stuffed our dressing. it s very confusing. so to stuff or not to stuff. personally, i don t like it. i like to do dressing in the casserole so you get crunchy bits on top and there are two other reasons you shouldn t stuff your turkey. i know america is going to send me letters and you letter about this. no one sends me letters. go on . it slows down cooking of the turkey and you don t want it in there that long because longer it s in there, the drier it gets. what do you put in? carrots, celery,onne onions. raw egg has to cook to 165 degrees fahrenheit and by the time that s cooked, your turkey is toast. we have an anti-sam nilla thing going. what s the best way to get justiest turkey? that s to brine. you marinate your turkey in salt water and salt equals flavor. overnight for 12 hours in a cooler you can do it in a cooler or in your fridge, you marinate it and then you cook as usual. you can also do a dry cure just rub it in salt and put it in the fridge overnight. same thing. the one thing to keep in mind is it can be salty. your gravy. in my experience brining creates the greatest turkey. one day i have to learn to cook to know what you re talking about. the part of the meal the thing that s often overlooked when we think about thanksgiving is dessert. what would you advise for a good, safe dessert? it s hard enough to get the turkey and the mashed potatoes and stuffing, dressing in my case, on the table. don t sweat dessert. most of us of full by the time we get dessert and other half only wants pie. this is the time to use canned pumpkin. there s nothing wrong with it. buy a store bought crust. there s bakeries to get pies. delegate. i won t ask you but ask somebody to bring the dessert for you. we re running out of time. the best way to keep thanksgiving stress free? planning. it s about planning ahead. make a check list. most of the cooking happens the day before. if you wait until the last minute, it ain t going to happen. i m planning for 2013 already. by then maybe i could learn how to not so much. thanks for being with us. always good advice. just ahead, wines to help you celebrate thanksgiving without breaking your bank. first, these messages. but, fortunately. it s not a candle. it s an entirely new way to freshen the air, with scented shades you can change on a lighted wooden base. nice! the new febreze flameless luminary. big on style, not on price. now available with new limited-edition holiday shades. eighty pages bursting with overg a thousand big on style, not on price. of the newest, hottest toys.your kids want! plus over five-thousand dollars in savings you gotta have! we ve got the perfect gifts to make your ultimate wish-list!!! toys r us.where kids are a big deal!™ what makes a hershey s bar with almonds pure? 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this is for snacks or leftover turkey sandwiches. this is dry from the south of france. it s not too sweet. it s from the south of france. that s very nice. it s crisp. it s light. a berry character with cranberry sauce and turkey sandwich it would be super. football. some of us will watch football. and you need if you re going to drink wine with football, you need a powerful wine. you ll have snacks. this is ultimate chili cheese frito wine. it s rich and powerful and makes you feel like a fullback when you drink it. yeah. that s a heavy wine. i can see that with nachos. it s a big, substantial wine. for everyone out shopping on black friday and needs after you have been shoved and pushed and all that, you need a crisp refreshing white wine to calm you down. this is from california. very light. it s a different color. a bit oak but not a huge amount. nice, crisp wine. it really is good to sip and enjoy. this is all great. thanks. my breath will smell great at church later on. i can explain. i was working. we ll be back after these messages. we never get the time to tell people stuff. say what you need to say say what you need to say ( holding last note ) we couldn t have made it through this last year without you, mom. this year, appreciation may be the best gift of all. a hallmark card. it s the biggest little thing you can do. because we believe in the strength of american businesses. ge capital understands what small businesses need to grow and create jobs. today, over 300,000 businesses rely on ge capital for the critical financing they need to help get our economy back on track. the american renewal is happening. right now. now time for a check of what s coming up on meet the press this morning. we turn it over to moderator david gregory. major victory on a health care reform vote and what to do with the struggling economy. senator dick durbin, kay bailey hutchison and joe lieberman and with us u.s. ambassador nancy brinker and dr. nancy snyderman all this morning on meet the press. we look forward to that. our thanks to tamron hall and janice huff for being with us. next weekend on today, we ll