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back now with more of today. i m telling you. on this friday morning, march 12th, 2010. some light showers in the big apple today, but that doesn t seem to be bothering folks gathered on the plaza kicking off their weekend with us. it will if they stick around. al s going to tell us a bit later, it s going to become more than light. anyway, we appreciate all the folks being there, you at home as well. inside studio 1a, i m lester holt in for matt along with al roker and natalie morales. coming up, more on the untimely death of corey haim, the child actor. we will have preliminary results of the autopsy and hear from friends and family. we ll also look at the epidemic of drug abuse among celebrities in hollywood. also, remember the case of the man who called himself clark rockefeller? it s been called the longest running con in fbi history. he claimed to be part of the wealthy family and lived in elite circles, marrying and starting a family, but he was really a man who was from germany, christian gerhart streiter, living a series of lies. now his dramatic story is being told in a made for tv movie starring will & grace s aaron mccormick. are you sweeting? i think he s trying to take a picture. okay, there we go. he s rebooting. there you go. whatever it is, it s not working for him right now. that technology! plus, stretching your buck in the real estate market. we ve crossed the country to find the best homes for sale at the most reasonable prices. so, if you re looking to make a move, we re going to show you some open houses from about $200,000 to $500,000, courtesy of the fabulous barbara corcoran. first, ann is off this morning and natalie has the headlines. in the news, there is a threat of severe weather, as we ve been talking about all morning, including tornadoes over a wide area today from indiana to florida. on thursday there were at least four reports of tornadoes in central florida. they damaged homes and downed power lines. there were no reports of serious injuries. and there were also record rains this morning in parts of florida. a man raised in new jersey is now under arrest in yemen, suspected of being a member of al qaeda. sharif mobley is also accused of killing a guard while attempting to flee a hospital where he was being treated for wounds suffered in a shoot-out. chile has reached a settlement in toxic dust health cases involving thousands of ground zero rescue and recovery workers. a judge and the workers themselves have to approve the deal. two bombings today in pakistan killed at least 45 people in the city of lahore. about 100 more were wounded. the blast targeted army vehicles. senate majority leader harry reid s wife was seriously injured thursday when a tractor-trailer truck hit her vehicle in virginia. landra reid suffered a broken neck, back and nose, and their 49-year-old daughter was also injured. the government of chile today estimated damage from last month s earthquake to be $30 billion or more. on thursday, strong aftershocks triggered a fresh wave of panic across chile. there were no new fatalities reported. the death toll from that powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake two weeks ago now stands at nearly 500 with 500,000 homes damaged. and hall of fame football player, broadcaster and actor merlin olsen died thursday after battling cancer. colleagues called him larger than life, a great athlete and an even better man. merlin olsen was 69. he s certainly being remembered very well today. it is now four minutes past the hour. we re up to date. what a great guy. you know, he was a football player, some few him as a football player. everything. tv. actor. little house on the prairie. father murphy. great legacy. and nbc sports as well. he was a great broadcaster. all right, let s check the weather, see what s going on. and unfortunately, a real mess throughout the eastern half of the country. we ve got three areas of severe weather right now. possibility of tornadoes down in central and southern florida, the southeast and on into the mid and upper ohio river valley. you re taking a look. we re live right now,tanooga do. heavy thunderstorms. some of these may have hail and strong winds embedded inside of them. we also have flood watches in effect from georgia all the way up to new england, and the radar, you can see the heavy rain down in florida, the southeast, the mid-ohio river valley. another slug of moisture coming into the southeast and the northeast. rainfall amounts up to three to five inches in florida, up to six inches of rain along the delmarva peninsula and back through the ohio river valley. and then by sunday morning here in the northeast, anywhere from three to eight inches of rain. saturated soil, rapid snowmelt going to mean flooding, plus coastal winds, coastal gail winds, beach erosion and big store complex will be moving across the area all weekend long. our temperatures will be a in the low and that s your latest weather. now to new details in the sudden death of 38-year-old actor corey haim. today west coast contributor maria menounos spent thursday at haim s apartment and has some exclusive information. maria, good morning. reporter: good morning, al. i spent the day at corey haim s home speaking with his friends and his family. his mother, judy, told me that the coroner s office called her with preliminary results, saying that haim had an enlarged heart and that his lungs were filled with water. i also spoke with haim s father, bernie, who flew in from canada to help support his ex-wife, along with some of haim s closest friends who shared intimate memories of the former child star. this is a jacket reporter: longtime friend and fellow actor scott schwartz invited me into haim s bedroom where he and the family were organizing his belongings. anything from his films? um, yes. american sunset. reporter: oh, this is the movie he just shot. yes. reporter: schwartz says he s auctioning haim s possessions on ebay to help the family pay for funeral costs, a difficult reality for the star of 1980s teen films like the lost boys and license to drive. after his teen idol days ended, haim battled addiction and struggled with the transition into mature acting roles. but according to his close friends, haim finally seemed to be turning his life around. he looked in the best shape i ve ever seen him, and he was so positive and so happy, and i was so proud of him. he was about to direct his first film. did not see it coming at all. reporter: noah berlow, his girlfriend silva, and her sister sylvia were among haim s closest friends over his last few years. he s very strong-willed, and we saw that will come to light, and that transition was remarkable. it doesn t come from someone who gives up. reporter: while a final cause of death hasn t been determined, investigators say they found four bottles of prescription pills in the apartment where haim died, including valium, the painkiller vicodin, and an antipsychotic drug. corey was on prescribed medication and he was recovering with prescriptions, and it s definitely a difficult thing for anyone to say that he had a drug problem. he had a doctor problem. reporter: since haim s death, there s been an outpouring of praise from the entertainment industry, but ex-girlfriend nicole eggert says that it s a shame the former child star didn t get that support when he needed it most. but if he could have seen this when he was here and known like how much people really did enjoy him and love him, maybe this would have made a difference in his life. reporter: you know, al, i had a long conversation with corey s dad, who told me he and his son were very close, they spoke twice a day, and that corey would frequently call him or say you re my coach, daddy. and when i asked him how he was holding up, he said a piece of him is now gone. al? maria menounos, thank you so much. courtney hazlett is the celebrity correspondent for msnbc.com. good morning. good morning, al. there is something kind of sad, besides this tragic, untimely death. less than 24 hours after he s dead, people are going through this is clothes to put them on ebay? that was definitely a shocking revelation that maria menounos unkouferd right there. i think it s more difficult to mourn this properly and to give the fact that this is a struggle with addiction, whether or not that was the exact cause of his death, this is a serious struggle with addiction. and in hollywood, this at play here, when you hear all of a sudden, oh, we re now putting his jacket on ebay. how would you describe corey haim, and this longtime addiction to drugs? it obviously has been a big problem. obviously been a big problem. he s been very outspoken about it, so in some respects, this should come as zero surprise to nobody. he said i will be an addict for life, i will always be an addict. so, this shouldn t come as a huge surprise, but i think because he was off the radar, because he wasn t successful throughout his entire career, he peaked in the 80s and that was about it, that was a it. is that a problem for these child actors, their careers peaked in their teens or early 20s and now they re dealing with the fact of dealing with reality. right, i think the struggle is, unlike most people who have careers ups and downs we all have it when you re a child celebrity, you go from everybody catering your every whim, putting you on planes, dressing you, making sure you have what you want to eat when you want it, to not having your calls returned. but i take issue with the comments corey feldman said, hollywood needs to take better care of his celebrities. why do you think that? because i don t think it s hollywood s job. i don t think it s any industry s job to take care throughout their life. right. i think that s the parent s job to take care of a child celebrity. but back in the 30s, there was legislation enacted, at least to financially make sure that these kids, these young kids were protected. sure. should there be something that, at least help some sort of counseling that goes into effect when these kids are working and they re at the peak of their powers? because parents may not be i think it s past the point of that. i agree completely. i think we re past the point of having new legislation, especially that legislation you re referring to was enacted for financial purposes only for scripted programming. now what you see so many kids on is also this unscripted program, reality, which as we know is not real reality. i think it s past time to make sure that our kids who are getting this treatment are protected. 2008. heath ledger s death, accidental overdose, that really kind of woke people up to this prescription pill abuse and a link to celebrities. prescription pill abuse is the worst unkept secret, whatever you want to call it, in hollywood. because it s socially acceptable to pull out a prescription pill bottle and take something. sure. right? a lot more acceptable than doing, clearly, illegal drugs in public. so, i think like you heard before, he was helping his addiction through these prescription pills. they re still dangerous. it s not safe. charlie sheen, a guy who s grown up in hollywood, grown up around all this, he s managed to keep a successful career while battling fairly publicly his addiction. sure. teflon charlie has done a fantastic job of this. i think part of the reason he s able to stay successful, he s the highest paid actor on television right now. nobody s going to step in and do some massive intervention, say you need to step aside, charlie, when he s the highest paid actor on television. quickly, michael jackson, who really brought into light the idea, there are a lot of doctors out there who just say yes to celebrities when they should be saying no. it s not only michael jackson s doctor, i would argue it was probably corey haim s doctors as well. it s a lot easier to phone something in than to sit down with this person who s under more pressures than we can probably ever wrap our brain around and say what s really going on here. courtney hazlett, thanks for the insight. thanks, al. coming up next, aaron mccormick leads a double life. well, not him, but his character does. in the real-life tale of the man who called himself clark rockefeller. we ll talk to him about it and his other friend as well later on. but later, from oregon to new hampshire, what you can get from about $200,000 in today s real estate market. first, these messages. can you believe how fast kids grow these days? 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almost makes no difference to me one way or the other. well, now a movie based on that bizarre story is being brought to television. it stars eric mccormick and sherry stringfield as his wife. i thought you understood. i thought you supported pro bono work for the third world. i just want us to live within our means. well, if i can t enjoy a decent glass of wine. where i m from, you don t bounce checks. it s embarrassing. can we just sell one of these paintings? no. eric mccormick joins us now. good morning! eric mccormick may not be my name. slash clark rockefeller slash from what i ve heard lately, i don t know. i never look back. i only ever look forward. and those memory gaps don t bother you? you d have to talk to my lawyer. i don t, i don t remember. i don t remember. what was it like for you to play him? because i mean, so many affectations, so many, you know, things about him that, i mean, you go back in his history. i mean, as i studied up for that interview, which i understand you watched several times. i did. as much for you as for him. thank you. i appreciate it. no, but he your interview with him was the only sort of piece that one could as an actor sort of study the mannerisms. yeah. the great thing about the story is it unfolded the way the movie unfolds, almost backwards, that in those six days that he was on the lam, your show was day after day revealing a little bit more and the fbi was discovering a little bit more piecing together his trail. he was not only a rockefeller. he made up these other personas on the road to rockefeller, but in fact, he was this german kid who came over here and slept on people s couches and lost his german accent by watching gilligan s island and creating this idea of what american aristocracy is, and the result was a sound, a voice that was a little odd, his mannerisms were odd. but he was loved. he had a lot of friends. he was very convincing. very. i mean, he fooled everyone. from the art dealers on to, you know, the people who saw his artwork thought they were all real. and thought it was very telling to his own wife! when he was busted, a lot of these people said, oh, no, no, no, clark s a great guy! right. he truly had friends. he was truly charming. the fbi called it the longest con they had ever seen, but i was saying, you know, con men usually have an end game where they disappear with everyone s money. he didn t. he wanted to be buried clark rockefeller. this was a full on persona that he was going to carry to his death, which i found fascinating. and you say playing him, essentially, you re an actor who s playing an actor. right. who s acting out a whole role for himself. i mean, do you believe that he himself was truly so delusional or thought that he could get away with all this? i think, you know, when you re playing i hate to compare it to hamlet, but when you re playing hamlet, at some point, hamlet pretending to be crazy usually becomes crazy. right. and in this case, i think he showed up with this developed persona in the early 90s in new york, but at some point, i think he truly looked in the mirror and saw clark rockefeller. convinced himself. yeah. that s why, when i did that interview, i thought i think this guy really thinks he is clark rockefeller. and the only crack in that armor was the birth of his child. i think he truly loved her, and i think that s got to be hard when you ve created a complete facade and then a real thing real, exactly. comes out of you, your life for your wife. and he adored her. who adored her, clark rockefeller or christian? and i think that must have been the thing that drove him to act so out of character. and we talk about the affectations, the language, and that s something you delve into in the lifetime movie. you do have to how is it as an actor i mean, usually you re training, you re trying to get an accent down, but in this case, you re doing a nonaccent with an accent. right. well, like i say, your interview is what i had to go on in because he said he had no accent in the mannered, considered way he spoke, which was elusive. he answered almost none of your questions, really. he just, he dodged them. but it was that s nice to have that to hang your hat on, you know? well, i appreciate that. by the way, you ve got a lot of projects. i mean, you have a reoccurring role on the new adventures of old christine, and what else are you working on? we wrapped that the other day, the season finale of that in new york. good. and then this summer, for those of you who loved seeing vancouver and the vancouver olympics yes! my favorite city. i lived parttime you guys were up there. do you have a fun time? i could pick up and move there tomorrow, if it weren t for this little show we do. house there, live there part-time. we re doing a play there. a great play, wonderful. eric mccormick, always great to have you, and a great role for you. thank you. saturday night. saturday night, you can catch who s clark rockefeller? on lifetime. still to come, it s a surprise for some lucky ladies on our plaza this morning. they got an ambush makeover! we re going to show you the results. .kept coming back. .or that i could help prevent them in the first place. the problem was that my controller medicine. .was treating only 1 main cause of asthma symptoms. but there are 2. airway constriction. and inflammation. unlike most controllers, advair treats both main causes. advair treats both main causes. and that helps prevent symptoms in the first place. 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[ female announcer ] childhood is calling. coming up, you don t even have to leave your sofa. we re going to do all the work for you. we ll show you the best houses on the market from $200,000 to $500,000. plus, the hottest spring fashions. blueberry pancakes are so good [ male announcer ] bisquick. pancake lovers unite. blueberry pancakes are so good can you believe how fast kids grow these days? and since 90% of bone strength is developed before adulthood. it s so important that they get enough calcium every day. that s why there s new danonino. danonino! unlike leading kids yogurts, danonino has twice the calcium of milk, ounce per ounce, with vitamin d. so it s power packed for healthy growth. and its rich creamy taste is. yummy! so they can start building strong bones today. for stronger bodies tomorrow. new danonino from dannon. power packed to help kids grow. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. it will be a case of deja vu at the voting booth for residents of anne arundel county as they decide whether or not to allow slot parlors in their backyard. the board of elections certified addition of more than 19,000 names opposed to bringing slots in the county, enough to put the issue back on the november ballot. gov. martin o malley seemed frustrated by the delay. i suppose what it means is that there will be yet a second referendum on top of the referendum we have already had and on top of the other delays in implementing slots. the development group granted a license to build the slots parlor and is suing the county elections board, alleging fraud in the petition-gathering process the general assembly is looking to take a text messaging ban one step further. the house unanimously approved a proposal that would ban drivers from reading text messages behind the wheel to violators would face a $500 fine. it moves on to the senate for consideration. now let s look at the forecast with john collins. there is rain moving through the area, and a lot of moisture is being pumped into the region. the storm itself goes back into the midwest, with a lot of time to get here. periods of rain, and the fed forecast is heavy at times. winds averaging 10 to 15, and some of the guests will be stronger. saturday looks like a carbon copy of today did sunday and monday, the rate becomes a bit more scattered. maybe if you sunbreaks. is in the mid-to-upper-forties. thank you for joining us. another update at 9:55. you know, the ys who always do a super job. well, it is. just go to the verizon® yellow pages. and look for a business with the superguarantee shield. you ll get the job done right, or we lltep in and help to make it right. so, protect yourself with business backed by the superguarantee® from supermedia. look for your verizon® yellow pages being delivered now. i m up so early, even the weirdos aren t up, you know in they ve gone to bed. they say, what s the point of being strange? there s nobody out here to see it. that s the answer to the question we get a lot around here, how early do you go to work? from the cast to the producers to the crew, it s early for everyone. next week on today you ll get the answer to all your burning questions like what do we do when we hang out together on our days off or off-air time or what meredith would do if she weren t in front of the camera. that s ask away today all next week. meanwhile, coming up this half hour, a real estate reality check. it s still a rocky housing market out there, so if you re scared to jump in because you re worried about not getting a good deal, we have great properties to fit any budget from the pacific northwest to new england. and we are stepping into spring from prints, polka dots and florals to african-inspired. we have the hottest fashions to flatter any figure. before that, you happen to notice these two book-ending, lester holt and amy robach, here to tell us what s coming up this weekend. by the way, we sleep in. probably don t get up until 5:00, 5:45? we re slackers. anyway, a heartbreaking story that s all too common. it s the lengths families have to go to care for loved ones who need long-term care. also, a wildlife photographer so determined to capture the perfect images of lions and baab yooms, he submerge aid himself in an af2)n6 watering hole for three months. we ll look at his survival and breathtaking pictures and probably breath-holding pictures. animals don t just drink at the watering hole. we all remember the seinfeld episodes of the mansier and the b rnk oro. well, there is a men s version of spanx. this weekend, the unveiling of the spanx for men, or manx, right? we ve got before and after photos you definitely won t want to miss. i m sitting here, i am not sure what a spanx is, like a girl it sucks you in. oh, come on, lester. it s hosiery. you ve got one underneath that. my mama am if i m lying my mama s home crying. i ve never heard of this. yeah! boom! can you say that again three times fast? no, i can t, i absolutely can t. that was great. plus, we want to remind you to warm up that video camera. last year we crowned a special dog best in show. well, this year we re looking for today s top dog. whatever makes your dog special, a scale or heroic act or whatever makes your dog outstanding, we want to know. logon to todayshow.com and get all the information about today s top dog and all that cute little hula dance. hula hoop. he s the top dog. all right, you ve got a check of the weather for us. absolutely. let s see what s happening for your weekend. saturday, the northeast is going to be a mess into the ohio river valley. west coast looks pretty bad. midsection of the country from the plains down to texas looks pretty nice. cool to the north, but nice and warm through texas. the warm weather continues on sunday, sunday! with warm conditions down through texas, heavy rain, though, in new england. more rain in the pacific northwest. sunny and cool in the southwest. mild conditions from big storm complex across the area will take all weekend. we have reined in our forecast. temperatures will only be in the and that s your latest weather. thank you, al. coming up next, a real estate open house from the northwest to new england. come on, hold it together. hold it together. the best deals, right after this. sweet! 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oh, a keeping room actually is any small room adjacent to the kitchen that has a fireplace. and in the days of old, they used to use it to keep the babies warm near the only heat source in the house, but today it s more often a tv room. you saw a shot of it there. very cool. let s go to albuquerque, new mexico. this is interesting, a modern pueblo at $389,900. a three-bedroom home. and you have to remember that albuquerque has something that very few places have, 300 days of sunshine a year. and this house that you can see off to the left is actually right on the foot of a cotton olive tree whole forest, so it s very bare around it, but if you could just get ten feet to the left there, you could see you go into a forest of your own. private in every way. there s really no neighbor on either side of you. this house is very modern. when you look at the inside, you feel like no one is living there, and the truth is, no one is living there. so it gives you a very stark feeling. is that a good thing? well, it s good they have at least some furniture in here because they had to move out to relocate, but it s bad because they just didn t go far enough. i don t think it looks cozy, so it needs a shot of color here or there, but there s lots of space here. granite countertop. there s a beautiful well, look, there s an advantage of an empty house. at least you can picture all your stuff on that shelf. use your imagination, right? but the community here that s the community pool, not part of this actual house itself, but it s within a few short blocks. very modern. that s not to everybody s taste. not to everybody s taste, but in this part of the country, it looks great like that. all righty. now let s head to a suburb of portland. this is tualatin, oregon. a five-bedroom house priced at $399,900. and it s a town that everyone who lives in just loves it. it s got a small town atmosphere, it has an annual crawfish festival that they fish out from that tualatin river that the town sits on, the face of it. there s a shot of the living room. it s not all that grand, but the proportions of all these rooms are really, really nice. i just think it feels like it s kid-friendly in every way. you can just picture a bunch of kids running around and you wouldn t be upset about it. so, it s all about the family. the ceiling heights are nine feet throughout the house. that s a good family kitchen. actually, quite beautifully designed. beautiful cherry wood cabinets there, stained light. and that s a little dining area, open doors that go back into that back deck area. the fully fenced backyard, which you ll see after we have a peek, i guess, at the master bedroom here, is very lovely in that it s great for children, again. and you can kind of get a feel for the neighborhood. you re close to the houses, but that s a great shot, because you kind of get to see what the neighborhood would look like. a real neighborhood. it looks perfect for small kids. you got it, and a friendly neighborhood to boot. all right, let s head to the capital of new york state, albany, new york. although a lot of crazy stuff going on in albany at the state capitol. this is a nice victorian town home priced at $499,900. when you look at this town home, you can pinch your eyes closed and think you re looking at a townhouse in brooklyn. the difference is this sells for $475,000. in brooklyn, it would sell for probably $2 million. and what you can t see from this shot so clearly, but if you peek out of that window, is it s situated on a beautiful park which is boston s equivalent of central park. so, think of this as fifth avenue, a townhouse on our fifth avenue. look at the ceilings! look at the ceilings and the detail. it s got all victorian detail, the original tin ceilings in tact. look at those windows, the bay windows, the bends in the room. this is a luxurious home, basically, is what it is fabulous kitchen. at $475,000. a great kitchen. it s got a garden apartment. could you rent this thing out and maybe make cash to help with the mortgage? easily. that garden apartment for this market is worth about $600 a month. picture taking that tenant s rent and putting it toward your mortgage. what a nice feeling that would be. you d love your tenant in no time at all. that s right. now we re going to stay in the new england area, show you a big-ticket item, exeter, new hampshire, $515,000, four bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths. and this house shows you more than anything else what a difference mature trees make to a property. that s beautiful. without the trees it would be a pretty house, with the trees it feels like a mansion. there s the living room with a stairway that goes up to the upper landing. see those windows? they re all original windows, in perfect condition. you could eat off the floor in this house. there is nothing to be done to this house. you move in with your toothbrush and call it a day. everything about the house is spacious. it s got the cathedral ceilings, a beautiful wood-burning fireplace we saw just a moment ago. there s the small extra kitchen area that is just a little dining area. and look, that s a great shot of the backyard, and it s beautifully professionally landscaped and worth all the money, i m telling you. it s got a private suite above the garage. does that add to the value of this house? of course it does. you know, you could dump your teenagers that you can t stand anymore, put them there, the in-laws, whoever you want. but that s a beautiful place if you just want to use it as a man s den of some kind. all right. barbara corcoran, have a great weekend. my pleasure, al. good to see you again. if you have any questions for barbara, head to our website, todayshow.com, post them and we ll try to answer them for you. next, welcoming in spring with eye-catching prints. a little encouragement changes everything. molly es muy muy intelligente. and right now, hallmark s got a whole new way to do it. new gifts and cards to cheer on kids of all ages. come in and pick up a free card today. nine to choose from. only at your hallmark gold crown store. a rich and airy treat. because after you ve washed the bills. and paid all the dishes. it s finally me o clock. enjoy it with mousse temptations. three decadent flavors. 60 calories. it s me o clock. time for jell-o. you d savor exquisite specials and a fine chianti. but rome is like 4,200 miles away. that s why there s bertolli chicken florentine for two in a luscious white-wine sauce. bertolli. italy is served. a whole new life for your hair. aveeno nourish plus. active naturals wheat formulas. proven to target and help repair damage in just three washes. for stronger, shinier. hair with life. aveeno nourish plus. why do women like you halove activia light? 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yes, good-bye winter and solids and grays and blacks. we are going to see tons of prints. i mean, everyone from mark course to michael jacobs, floral and tribal. it s a lot of color and really fun and everything we re showing you is under $75. and you re mixing up prints, too. yes. this dress is gorgeous. from macy s, it s my moroccan inspired print. it s so fun. let s go tribal, the first look we re talking about. absolutely. one of the things you saw on the runways. here s a look for a lot less, modeled by ariel for us. this is our african influence. it s the tribal pattern, and this is from metropark. it s $64. i love when it s an all-in-one piece and it s so affordable. it s cute. tribal tends to be more casual, and what i love is when it s done in this dress. it looks polished and professional. you could wear this look to work. a little jacket over it or cardigan, too. absolutely. when you re doing this trend, think about it pairing it with accessories that have wooden and beading. these shoes from endless.com, $55, and it really ties the whole look together. it s great. and it just gives a great sort of ethnic vibe to it. stick to those themes. yeah. thank you so much, ariel. okay, next is our floral look, and the flower power is back. absolutely. and we ve got alanna showing this off. in full bloom this spring. casual. what we re seeing is the oversized floral, which is so beautiful. and this top is from zara. it s about $39. and what s great is it s a long tunic that you can wear long over your jeggings, as we call them, or you can belt it. this is a way to mix your prints. and you just want to make sure when you re mixing prints that they re in the same color scheme. it makes it more modern doing that, too. it definitely makes it more modern. and of course, the shoes completely tie this look together. it looks great. echoes the floral. the chains around the ankles from baker s, $59. it s just a beautiful, fresh look. you know, a whole dress can sometimes look garden party. right. if you stick to just a top, it just looks fresh. and have something to kind of anchor it down, which is the jeggings or the jean leggings that we re seeing here. absolutely. and the long top is good over leggings. great. alanna, thank you so much. you look great. okay, next is polka dots, those these aren t the little itsy bitsy teeny-weeny little polka dots we re talking about here. bye-bye the itty-bitty, hello the oversized. this was all over marc jacobs. a lot of women tend not to want to wear head-to-toe oversized polka dots. an accessory. absolutely. it s a great way to throw it on. mix it with a striped skirt. it s a great way to mix the prints. if you re going to mix, make sure the skirt is a slimmer line as opposed to the thicker striped skirts we re seeing. this is armani exchange, $66, and it makes you look super skinny. if you can mix the patterns, and what about if they re different colors? you want to say with the same color scheme. if you re going to mix it, it s already going to be somewhat busy, so you want to match the colors together. a denim jacket, huge thing for the spring. white denim, right? white denim. jcpenneys, $44, and it throws any look together. karen, you look gorgeous. thank you so much. wonderful. next, bring out danielle, who s got an abstract look. this is sort of fashion imitating art. yes, art comes to life. the water colors. beautiful. the skirt is from h&m, it s $29, and it just gives such a lovely, feminine look for spring. it says spring all over it, really. yes. absolutely beautiful. and you know, when you re wearing that much color in a skirt, try and think of pairing it with something that s a little bit more neutral, you know, this cardigan. it s very fresh. it has a little bow on the side. it s very lady-like and it s just a beautiful look. throw in some great accessories with bebe. and zara shoes, right? absolutely. i love that heel. they look so comfy, too. think about neutrals when you re wearing the bright colors. you look beautiful there, thank you, danielle. finally, our last model, and this is bold. we re talking about the bold prints here. yeah, bold, graphic prints. great top, $49 from express. here we have melissa. and this is just a great, classy look. you can wear this to the office. always get a great handbag to tie your look together. gypsy collection, $65, and it really throws the look together. looks like a chanel. when you re wearing a graphic print that s bold, pair it with something neutral. khaki is huge for this spring, and it just really creates a great vibe. yes. if you re going to make an investment, i imagine a khaki skirt or khaki pants, something that kind of anchors your looks, whatever you bgo with on the to. rachel zalis. ladies, come on out one more time. you look wonderful. thank you so much. thank you. happy spring to all of us! i can t wait. only have to get through this weekend. we re back in a moment. coming up, it s a friday, and that means it s ambush makeover day on our plaza, and we ve got some women who got some great new looks. and i am so jealous. coming up in the fourth hour i know! miranda cosgrove, star of i carly. my son loves her. i guess she s got a new cd out. that s right. she s really talented. and we ve got the best consumer products of the year. what you should have in every home. but first? your local news and your weather. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. baltimore county police are investigating a deadly car fire in the town of arcadia. police were called to the scene of the fire at the 4600 block of black rock road at 1:30 this morning. when they arrive, they found a body inside the burning car. no word on the identity of the victim or how the car caught fire. big storm took zero weeks to get here. ahead of the storm, and nice weather. it will take the elite part of the early part of next week to move all of this through the area. it will be breezy later on. winds averaging 10 to 15, with stronger gusts. 51 to defeat 51 to 55 the height. see you back here for 11 news at noon. it s important to be prepared for dinner. that s why i ve prepared my perdue perfect portions fresh chicken breasts. they re individually wrapped, so you can cook what you need and store what you don t. 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