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doesn t add up, but where is he? today saturday, april 17, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a saturday, i m lester holt. and i m amy robach. and those pictures are just incredible. and you can see, you can imagine why it s causing so much havoc in the air with that volcano and the ash everywhere. the numbers tell the story of how this is all falling out, the clouds and the volcano in iceland has forced the cancellation of 16,000 flights on friday, that s about 2/3 of the normal number that fly into europe each day, thousands of travelers have been affected. this morning the flight restrictions have been expanded even more, we re going to have the very latest and the science behind this volcano coming up. and we re going have the latest on this financial storm. rigging the game against invests. plus if you own a toyota, there is more important news this morning. yet another recall, this time it involves 600,000 sienna minivans and we ll also look into the consumer reports don t by recommendation. and a new biography out on the life of oprah winfrey. we ll tell you what it talk about past and present. let s get start on the latest on the eruption of that volcano and the cloud of ash that continues to cause so much disruption in europe and beyond. we begin with chris jansing in iceland. chris, good morning. reporter: good morning to you, lester, and activity at the volcano actually seems to be increasing, at least according to scientists at the university of iceland. if you look behind me, you can see just how big this ash plume has gotten. the good news is that the cloud cover has ended so scientists can look at the volcano from the air. they can look at how much of that glacier has melted, a crucial indication on how long the travel disruptions might last. by night fall friday, the volcano was again showing its power. it was an ominous dark plume filled with ash. this farmer has always lived comfortably inside it s shadow until now. it was an unbelievable sound, a really deep, roaring sound, it was just like a concord was crashing here. reporter: the volcano had erupted less than two miles away, the lava bursting through a 650-foot atlantic glacier and sending huge chunks of ice barrelling down the mountains. we have ice mixed in the area because if the ice cubes or icebergs are thick, they will hit the bridges, they will hit the phone lines and electricity lines and break them down. reporter: volcanologists are studying the causing the river to overthrow it s banks and now there are concerns an even bigger volcano is about to erupt. . that s a big one, this is extremely small. the last time it erupted, it triggered a reaction eight miles away. the enormous volcano sits on a vast ice cap that could cause floods the size of the amazon. for erickson who had to save his animals from drowning, that s now his biggest fear. cutler is still there, she s the big one, she s the monster. reporter: of course this one is what we re still worried about, so i asked the volcanologist what his best guest was about how long this might last and he said maybe ten days, but they re going to get a much later indication when they go up in the air today and we re going up in the air as well so we ll have a bird s-eye view that we ll have on nightly news tonight. and in london, tom aspell is at heathrow airport. tom, good morning. reporter: good morning lester. british aviation authorities have just announced that there will be a ban on flights in and out of britain until at least 1:00 sunday morning and all across europe airports have canceled flights and closed for operations, in scan navia, right down as far as italy. 16,000 flights in europe have been canceled out of a daily total of about 28,000 and 2/3 of airplanes grounded or turned away from european air space. in even in australia, the national carrier has canceled all flight into europe. it s causing travel chaos across the county innocent there, hotels and airports crowded. euro star alone is carrying 50,000 passengers a day between paris, brussels and london. we re even hearing of people taking taxis across countries. those ferries, completely full with passengers traveling on that route and even as far as asia, passengers backed up waiting to catch airlines. this could go on for even days. tom aspell, unusually quiet heathrow airport this morning. we re joined by tom wagner a volcano expert and nasa program scientist who studies the world s polar region. good morning. good morning. it s being reported that some of this ash, this plume has risen 5 mile into the atmosphere, and we re seeing all of the impact on air travel, but is that common for the ash to go so high and to spread so far and wide? it s pretty amazing. but the ash itself is little bits of rock. but that s just how powerful these eruptions are and you get a mix of gas and it keeps rising and floating. volcanologists were hoping they could fly above the average to get a look at it. how will this help them assess the situation? we have magma hitting the use and that s creating this big plume and causing flash flooding arrange it. they want to go and see how much ice is left and how much future interactions might be. there s other more sophisticated tests, they want to see the magna chamber and all of this gives us an idea of how long it will continue to erupt. for the next few days, should they even put the numbers up there? it s tough, i wouldn t second guess the people on the ground. a lot of these scientists have instruments around them like tilt meter. some people in the states say i think we might have a few volcanos around here, are there hot spots that scientists are actively watching and concerned about here in the states? nasa, the u.s. geologic survey, we have got satellites trained on different parts of the u.s. there are a lot of people spending their time monitoring what s going on. what could happen? in iceland there was this volcano in the 1700s, they think killed 20,000 people. not far from where this eruption is. watching this volcano eruption, i have also heard a lot of people saying what s happening with the weather, we have had all this severe weather, we have had lots of earthquakes, the extreme cold, the extreme snow, the extreme rain, is there something to be worried about? we re seeing the most powerful things on our planet, volcanos and earthquakes happen, but they happen all the time, there s no big spike right now, but what is happening is we re better instrumenting now, we have better lines of communication and also world population has groawn so more people live in the danger zones, on the coast and in the mountains. thank you for explaining all that, we appreciate it. now to the economy, the mortgage meltdown that helped bring on the great recession continues to reverberate, now the government has accused the wall street firm goldman sachss of defrauding efforts. we ll get the story from nbc s lisa myers. reporter: essentially gold man sacks is accused of helping rig the game against investors. in aifl complaint, the sec accused the firm and one of its vice presidents of knowingly defrauding investors. any time a storied firm like goldman-sachs which has one of the finest reputations on the government is charged with fraud by the u.s. government, it s an important, not just for that firm, but for the financial system. reporter: here s what the sec is charges, that gold man worked with a prom vent hedge fund to create a package of risky subprime mortgages that was designed to nail. the hedge fund paulson and company is owned by billionaire john paulson who s not related to former treasury secretary hank paulson. john paulson himself made an estimated $3.7 billion in 2007, largely by betting against the subprime market. he and his firm are not accused of wrong doing. here s what the sec claimed happened. goldman-sachs was pulling together a bucket of subprime mortgages to sell to investors. it allowed the hedge fund to pick the worst mortgages to go into the bucket which means the investment was likely to fail. gold man sacks then helped the hedge fund bet against the bucket. goldman-sachs then labeled the bucket a good investment and sold the supposedly good investments to others, telling them the hedge had already investigated. but gold man didn t tell investors that the hedge fund was picked by the gold an earned $15 million in fees. some say that charges as hopeful evidence of a new, more aggressive sec. the style of the sec has changed, they re harder, they re tougher and they re going to let all of the evidence hang out. reporter: goldman-sachs denied the charges saying they a are completely unfounded in law and fact. gold man says it also lost 90 million on the deal. one former prosecutor came to goldman s defense. i think at the end of the day goldman will be vindicated. reporter: could this lead to charges against other firms. you ll look at deals with similar profiles or any deal where disclosures were not properly made. this comes as welcome news to claims that wall street knowingly sold junk products which generated massive losses and helped trigger the recession. so just what does this mean for the average person? we have asked scott cohn of cnbc. i found myself shaking my head that the whole process of selling these bad toxic mortgages was not questionable, it s just the simple fa october that it was not disclosed? what you get at here is if these allegations are true, not only did we have a housing boom and all these bad mortgages that were chopped up and sold as securities, but then they were sold to other banks and when the housing boom busted then the whole system was affected. what we re saying here is that goldman knew these investments were bad. and investors lost a billion dollars, the investors, foreign banks, insurance companies, how did it trickle down to the rest of the us? first of all these big banks are invested in pension founds and we saw all of these banks that were failing in 2008, the big government bailouts, than that s what was going on is because these kinds of securities blew up. is this all signal that the government is getting a little tougher and is now taking names along the way. it does to an extent, the government has been embarrassed by all of this. one of the things that the sec did was to create a unit that is going to look at these kinds of structured investments. this is their first fruit that this is born, and there no doubt will be more. is anybody going to get tlou their money back either through a class-action suit or criminal charges? we ll see about criminal charges, we haven t heard about that yet but it certainly is a possibility if you read the complaint. whether it s pension funds, individuals, they now have something that they can look at, a road map as it were. scott cohn, thank you very much. let s head over to the news disk, lynn berry has this morning s other headlines. good morning to you, lester and good morning to all of you at home, we begin with a surprising guilty plea in the case of two san diego area murdered girls. chelsey king and 14-year-old amber dubois. the 41-year-old convicted sex offender entered a guilty plea. now to poland where ceremonies have begun for the late polish president, his wife and victims in last weekend s horrific plane crash in iceland. nbc s jim maceda is live with us in krakow, good morning to you, jim. reporter: good morning, lynne, one by one the names of all 96 victims of what the poles are calling the catastrophe were read out. hundreds of thousands not getting anywhere close to the ceremony in downtown warsaw, but they came out to pay their respects to the best and the brightest of poland who died in that horrific crash, that was a precursor of what s happening tomorrow in krakow. the funerals of the president and the first lady will take place here behind me. about 100 world figures have been scheduled to come. there s been cancellations because of that cloud of volcanic ash, president obama plans to come, but it s looking less and less likely. casey anthony s attorneys are asking that the judge in her murder case be disqualified the defense team filed a motion saying judge stan stickland has developed a relationship with a blogger reporting on the case. later today pope benedict heads to the island of malta a day after he celebrates his 83rd birthday at the vatican. it is the pope s overseas visit this year since the most recent child sex scandal involving the catholic church. and finally talk about a stunt gone wrong, this is remarkable. a brazilian airman was practicing for a flying competition in australia, when his plane lost power and then crashed into the river. fortunately rescue teams got to him quickly, they pulled him from the wreckage and he only suffered minor injuries. is and back to lester and bill. one of the many reasons i just keep feet right here on the ground. i m good. nbc meteorologist bill car rains is here with a check of our forecast. she s afraid of heights. the forecast is 50/50 once again, we have some nice weather out there, we have some areas that are struggling this morning, new england is one of them. look at the state of maine, that white on the map, that s snow that s falling in western and central maine this morning. we re going to see temperatures well below average. the other problem spot is in texas, flash flooding is going to be a problem, a lot of rain around lubbock, oklahoma city to dallas, it is going to be a soggy weekend for you, some places could pick up two inches of rain. good morning, it is partly cloudy this morning, and during the day we will have a mix of sun and clouds. that will stay fairly steady throughout the day, and that s your weekend forecast. amy? and just when you thought it couldn t get any worse for toyota, it did. late friday toyota announced a recall of 600,000 sienna minivans and earlier in the week it suspended sales of its lexus suv after consumer reports gave it it a don t buy safety risk. you have a applied safety risk to the 2010 lexus gs-460 suv. when we pushed the gs-460 in one of our handing tests, the rear end fell very far out. if this were to happen in real life, the tires could hit a curb or slide off the paymevement an could slide off the road. give us a sense of what your engineers do to these vehicles to come up with your findings? in this particular one a driver drove into a sweeping turn with some speed, quickly lets off the throttle to see how the vehicle reacts. this would be similar to a driver on a highway who s going into a turn or off the highway and suddenly finds an obstacle in its path. the toyota has had a pretty difficult couple of months, of course we all recall the criticism for its dragging its feet on some of its issues relating to some of its gas pedal recalls. we have actually been impressed with how aggressively toyota has been addressing this issue. in fact just yesterday we got notification that they had duplicated the problem on their own test track, they have verified it, it is a problem and they expect to have a solution pretty shortly. they have halted sales worldwide of the suv, they re now testing their entire suv lineup to make sure they don t have any other issues with stability control. do you think that there could be more models with the same problem? or is this specific to that particular mod. you never know, but we have tested well over 100 suvs in recent years and we haven t seen that problem with that test. it s designed to prevent a slide but it doesn t kick in soon enough to correct it. so the fix could just be a software upgrade on that system. thank you for joining us today. thank you. we re back, but first this is today on nbc. still to come on today a new twist in the case of amanda knox. and police in cancun continues to investigate a hoods that leaves a hollywood producer a prime suspect. good morning, i m sara caldwell. police in baltimore are investigating a double shooting that happened friday night in the 4800 block of kenshaw avenue. when police arrived at the zeen, they found two people shot. no word on their conditions this morning and no word on an arrest. police are investigating another shooting at 10:00 last night on spalding avenue. an adult male was found shot. no word on his condition. a frightening shot on the pennigton avenue drawbridge. a truck was propped up over the side of the bridge in curtis bay. police say the bridge is under construction and lane enclosures are in effect when the initial crash happened. they are not saying if that construction or lane enclosures played a role in the accident. a school bus was apparently side-swiped by an suv in halethorpe. no one was hurt. police are working to determine exactly what caused the crash. john collins has your wefment back. let s check your insta-weather plus forecast with john collins. john, how is it looking? this morning we have a mix of clouds and fog over baltimore. a little shower activity left on the lower delmarva peninsula. we are beginning to see breaks in the clouds here. let s look at the current conditions outside now. 56 degrees. that s the low so far this morning. 51% the humidity. the barometer, winds gusting to 19 from the west right now. a flow of cool air coming in as a cold front moves off. this is what the map will look like this evening. all the precipitation south or north of us and dry air coming in from the north will keep the weather nice, but it will keep the temperatures down a little bit. highs today in the range of the upper 50 s to low 60 s. in other words, temperatures won t move that much at all during the day today, and possibly even start falling off in the afternoon. west to northwest winds 15 to 20. gusting to 25. we ll call it partly cloudy skies. it will be a mix of clouds. sometimes we need more clouds than sunshine. sunset this evening is at 7:46. a little later each day. we have the seven-day forecast. overnight tonight we drop into the 30 s. 57 for tomorrow s high. 60 on monday. 61 on tuesday. the morning, the lows will be in the 30 s for the next couple mournings. thank you, john. thank you so much for joining us. we ll have another update in 25 minutes. and we re back on this saturday morning, the 17th day of april, 2010. it s been a wet, cool morning here in new york city, but we think everyone who has come out on to the plaza in spite of some of the weather, back inside studio 1a, i m amy robach along with lester holt. and coming up on today the natural infidelity. is it cheating to lie about the way you spend your money? well, to your spouse. experts say keeping secrets about money can be as devastating to your relationship as an affair. lying is lying no matter what you re lying about, right? plus amanda knox is back in the news, prosecutors in italy are saying that 25 years behind bars is not enough time and they want to put her away for life. the big question is can they do that? we re going to find out coming up. we keep trying to look at this through an american justice system, it s different there. author kitty kelly explores the woman behind the image of a new unauthorized biography. she ll be here to tell us what she found out about the queen of daytime after this. first to the erupting volcano in iceland, a blanket of ash is gripping iceland as a huge plume of ash continues to drift across europe. chris janszing is just a few miles from the volcano. chris, good morning. reporter: good morning, l lest lester, i hate to be the bearer of bad news, the vulcanologists are saying from the ground the activity of this volcano is actually increasing and i think behind me you can tell just how big that plume of ash is, the darker it is, the more concentrated the ash is in that particulate matter that causes so much trouble for planes. the good news is that the cloud layer has lifted so volcanologists will be table to get a look down into the volcano. they re going to be able to see just how much ice has melted which will give them an indication of how long this eruption and thus the travel disruptions may last. and now to mexico where police continue to investigate a homicide that leaves a successful hollywood producer as their prime suspect. good morning, miguel. reporter: amy, good morning, police remain a low-key presence here at the moon palace hotel as detectives quickly try to wrap up their investigation. for nearly two weeks, investigators have sealed off bruce and monica beresford-redm beresford-redman s hotel room, the crime scene, a folkl point for police because they say evidence pulled from this room can help solve her murder. but as detectives await lab results that are expected any day now, they have already named a prime suspect, a man who hasn t been seen in days. translator: i have not spoken to him? have you spoken to him? we have not. reporter: police say that bruce beresford s timeline the day his wife was killed simply doesn t add up. bruce told detectives that the night before her death she left the hotel and never returned. but that night hotel staff said they heard him arguing with monica hours later. that night the coroner s office believes she was murdered. shortly after monica s estimated time of death, hotel records show someone went in and out of the couple s room nearly a dozen time between midnight and 6:00 a.m. monica s nude body was found a few hundred feet away from the hotel room three days later dumped in the sewer. translator: i think the most important thing is to find whoever did this, find who victimized this person. reporter: a producer for cbs s hit show survivor bruce beresford-redman is playing out his own dram machlt as police try to find a motive for the murder, monica s family wants closure. translator: the family hasn t had any contact with the children, they re with their pattern grandparents and the investigation continues. reporter: a murder investigation that authorities say points to one man, a husband, a suspect, who hasn t been charged with a crime. reporter: the victim s family tells their attorney here in cancun that they ll travel here to mexico to meet with investigators to share information about the couple s troubled relationship. thank you. and with more insight on this murder mystery, we re joined by former fbi profiler and nbc analyst clint van zandt, clint, good morning. we know from the very start mexican officials ordered bruce redman to stay in mexico. but they don t really know where he is. should police have done more to keep tabs on him. well, there s a couple of issues here, number one t short answer is yes, they should have had a 24-hour surveillance and maybe they do, maybe they re just not telling us. second is his attorney is 200 miles away, so he could be just laying low, have been in contact with his attorney and just trying to avoid the media. and lastly, it doesn t take a passport as we all know to travel from mexico to the united states or south of mexico so if he made a decision to flee that jurisdiction, to flee that country, it appears there is little the government may have been able to do to stop him. we know police are waiting on more lab results to come back now that the husband has been named a suspect. what sort of physical evidence are they looking for at this point? well, i think they re looking for a certain evidence and they want to make sure other evidence is not there. let me talk about the second part of that. let s say hypothetically, they come up with unidentified male dna on the victim s body, that could strongly suggest some other assailant other than the husband, so i think the police are making sure they ve got their investigation, the interviews, all the physical evidence put together. they want all of their dots to be in line before they make an arrest. this is a high-profile case, it deals with cancun, one of the apparent few areas in mexico where tourists really travel freely and don t fear all of the crimes that are going on in that country. the mexican authorities have a lot riding on this to make sure it gets solved and make sure americans don t think that even in cancun they can fall victim to some unidentified predator. and clint, in terms of the details of this case, we nomex can authorities interviewed hotel employees this week and calls were made to the couple s hotel room at 9:00 in response to complaints of arguing. the husband had said earlier that his wife was in the room at the time, but we also know that he told police she had been out shopping and was missing at 10:00 a.m. they have two timelines, his and the investigators timelines. it appears there s a lot of discrepancies between the two. we always fall back on means, motive and opportunity. the one person who appears to have all three is the husband. and we have also learned that the hotel key card was scanned in and out of the couple s room 11 times that night. does that necessarily further implicatie the husband? it says somebody that had access to that key card realized that husband and wife usually get two key cards. you and i know they change those every time somebody comes in and out of the room, so unless somebody had a third card or stole cards from the two, it appears likely it may well have been bruce the husband going in and out of that room. the question is why, we know she died around midnight, her body was dumped in that sewer sometime afterwards. the challenge seems to be there s no security cameras in that immediate area, so law enforcement is going to have to go with evidence like the key card as well as whatever dna they develop from the body of the crime scene to try to put this whole case together. all right, clint van zandt, we appreciate your time. and we want to get another check of the weather now, let s head outside to nbc meteorologist bill karins. it s a little drizzly out on this plaza, the crowd is excited today. what is your hometown? ohio. what does your sign say? clark gable. let s talk a little bit about what s going on weather weisz, and we have talked so many about the weather in europe, and that s going to continue as we go throughout the next two or three days, you can see by the satellite all the storms are traveling all that ash from iceland toward norway, sweden and europe and that s going to continue throughout the good morning. temperature of 59 to 60 for the high. a mix of sun and clouds. breezey west to now if you have outdoor weekend plans and you want an hour by hour forecast, you can go to weather.com. the truth behind personal shoppers, they re not just for the elite anymore. and changes in the air, if you haven t made your summer travel plans, here s what you need to know. but first, these messages. to deal with the sadness, the loss of interest, the trouble concentrating, the lack of energy. if depression is taking so much out of you, ask your doctor about pristiq. 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a chance to interview the president and i asked him about you, and he says you are his number one advisor. that s what he s supposed to say. well done. i really wonder what that looks like. i talk to my husband about everything, we re each other s best friends, but he also has a slew of smart, intelligent advisors, who are up on every single issue and he also relies heavily on the people who have experience and expertise. but we share our ideas and thoughts, just as any married couple would, so it s not you know, it s not a mystery about how that works. speaking of the job, you have been at this first lady thing a little while. a little while, yes. do you feel like you have to avoid controversy, do you have to edit yourself, are there times when you re biting your tongue and you re want to speak out more? i try to be strategic, because i want to make sure that the things that i do further my husband s administration because i think he has a full plate. are you confining at all. i am the first lady of the united states of america, i have so much that i can do. there is nothing confining about this experience. you know, he gave a 17-minute answer at a town hall meeting the other day. can he get away with that at home? no. that was savannah guthrie interviewing the first lady. ash clouds in iceland force airports across northern europe to shut down, we will have the still to come on today, amanda knox, reports are out this morning that there is an appeal to put her away forever. prosecutors say her sentence wasn t tough enough. and we ll talk to kitty kelly about the unauthorized buy og any on the tell all-book on oprah. lunesta is different. it keys into receptors that support sleep, setting your sleep process in motion. lunesta helps you get the restful sleep you need. when taking lunesta, don t drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving or engaging in other activities while asleep without remembering it the next day have been 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another shooting happened around 10:00 last night in the 3200 block of spaleding spalding avenue. no word on his condition yet. things back to normal in south baltimore but not before a frightening sight on the pennigton avenue drawbridge. a truck ended up propped on the bridge. the bridge is under construction, and lane enclosures were effect when the initial crash happened. the humane society has upped the reward for anyone with information leading to the arrest of whoever injured a dog. officials say the person good morning. this is what the radar looked like in the last 20 minutes or so. clouds beginning to break up a little bit. the rain isn t the issue. colder air is filtering into the area. at 7:00 the airport reported 56 degrees with a west wind at 11, gusting to 19. and partly cloudy skies to mostly cloudy skies at this stage of the game. temperatures won t be changing all that much. we may go up a few degrees, but with this northwest flow of air coming in, that cooler drier air, it will be difficult to get much more warmer than 61 or 62. our temperature range will be in the 57 to 62 range and probably start falling off in the afternoon. we ll call it partly cloudy skies, north to west winds at 15 to 20. 37 tomorrow morning s low. partly cloudy sunny skies. thank you for being with us. another update in 25 minutes. italy prosecutors say amanda knox got off easy, prosecutors say they want to put her away for life. and oprah s world, what an unauthorized biography reveals by oprah winfrey. today, april 17, 2010. welcome back, everyone, to today i m lester holt. something in ice lands is affecting thousands of people around the world. it affects the u.s. and continental europe. and the news isn t getting better, scientists say the volcanic activity is actually increasing and is showing no signs of calming down. the ash plume is more than five miles high, but today scientists are hoping to get a look at the crater from inside the air. we re going to go to iceland coming up. amanda knox is back in the news. now italian prosecutors think that sentence wasn t tough enough. can they appeal and ask the court to impose a life sentence? plus we re going to tell you about a new and revealing look at oprah winfrey, it is a new and unauthorized book about oprah winfrey. and why do so many of us not tell the truth or the whole truth to their spouse about their money. we begin with nbc s chris jansing in iceland, chris, good morning. good morning to you, amy. well, for the first time since this volcano started erupting on monday, the cloud cover has done a couple of things. first you can see the spectacular shot of that volcanic plume behind me, but it also means that the scientists can go up, look down into the volcano and get a sense of exactly how much of that glacier has melted but the key indication of how long that eruption and the travel disroughations might last. the volcano was again showing its power, smuipewing an ominou dark plume, dense with ash. this farmer has always lived comfortably inside the shadow until now. first of all i was hit inside the bum when i heard this unbelievably deep, roaring sound, it was just like a concord was crashing here. the volcano had erupted less than two miles away, the lava bursting through a 16,015 foot glacier and sent water barreling down the mountain. if the icebergs are big, they will hit the bridges, they will hit the phone lines, they will hit electricity lines and break them down. volcanologists now studying a bigger volcano is about to erupt. and that s a big one. this that s a brig one, this is extremely small compared to pack cow. the last time it erupted, it triggered an eruption eight miles away. the enormous volcano sits on a vast ice cap that can cause floods the size of the the amazon. for erickson who had to save his animals from drowning, that s now his biggest fear. it s still there, and she s the big one. she s the monster. this one is tiny. and this is a volcanic island, more than 35 active volcanos in iceland and in the vicinity. so some of the top scientists, volcanologists in the world are keeping their eye here, but as early as march, they were saying that this volcano was due to erupt and now they re saying the same thing, that in fact it s overdue. all right, chris jansing, thanks so much. now here s lester. this huge cloud of ash has disrupted the lives of hundreds of thousands of travelers. we want to get the latest from tom aspell who joins us from london s heathrow airport. the british aviation authorities have announced that the air space here will be closed until 1:00 a.m. sunday morning. the french are following suit, they re closing all of the air space over northern france until monday morning. and it s the same across europe. the europeans say that on a normal day, they have about 28,000 flights to the u.s., now 16,000 of those flights have been canceled. even the trans-atlantic, 280 flights canceled over usually about 330 that come across from the united states. train stations, hotels, everything s crowded as people wait to see how long this is going to last. tom aspell, thanks for the report from heathrow airport this morning. let s head over to the news disk where lynn berry has the other headlines. good morning to all of you at home, we begin this morning in poland where they are preparing for the late president s state funeral tomorrow assist questions about how many world leaders will actually make it. nbc s jim maceda is live in krakow this morning. good morning to you, jim. good morning, lynn, one by one the names of all 96 victims of what the poles are calling the catastrophe were read out in that memorial service in downtown warsaw. thousands of mourners will not be able to get close but they same anyway. this is all a precursor to sunday s state funeral for president lech kaczynski and his wife. they will be buried in a crypt here behind me. at least 100 world leaders expected to come, now there s a growing number who are canceling because of that volcanic ash cloud, we re not sure whether president obama will be able to make it, so far nothing has changed. also in the news this morning, wall street giant goldman-sachs is denying federal fraud charges the sec has accused the investment banking firm of misrepresenting facts tied to subprime mortgages. the government alleges gold man didn t tell investors that the securities were crafted with input from a client who was betting on them to fail. investors lost more than a billion dollars. the first wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in connection with that deadly west virginia mine explosion. the suit accuses the mine s owner massey energy of negligence. federal investigators have found more than 60 safety violations at the country s other operations since the explosion which killed 29 miners, no comment from massey. nearly one in three americans did not return their census form by friday s deadline. if you didn t send yours in, sen says workers will start knocking on doors starting may 1. and finally, it s the golden rule at museums, please don t touch the art, but some museum owners have a little trouble with that because of a new exhibit featuring live, nude models. it turns out some of the models are getting groped. anyone who touches a performer will be kicked out a little ext extra blush for me this morning. nbc meteorologist former nude model bill karins here with a look at the weather. don t go google searching that. let s check what s going on with the weather this morning. the afternoon temperatures are trying to tell the story, we re very mild in most locations, the school spots are in central and northern locations, also very cool in texas and oklahoma. good morning, it is partly cloudy this morning, and during the day we will have a mix of sun and clouds. that will stay fairly steady throughout the day, and that s your saturday forecast, lester? bill, thanks. amanda knox is back in the news. the american student was convicted in the slaying of her american roommate. prosecutors in italy are saying that s not enough time. they reportedly want to put her away for life. joining me is nbc legal analyst dan abrams. we keep trying to look at the american justice system, big difference, one of the big differences is the prosecution. here effectively prosecutors get one bite at the apple. meaning if they lose the case or if there s a sentence they re not happy with, that s it. that becomes the bottom. but in italy, or some other countries t prosecutors actually have the opportunity to appeal the sentence, and here it seems pretty clear that this prosecutor wants a stiffer sentence. this is on the heels of amanda s team appealing her conviction, so does this bring everything on the table, does the system there allow all evidence to come back into play? that s right, it effectively becomes a second look at the evidence. meaning here an appeal just looks whether there were legal mistakes made by the judge below. for example, did the judge give an inaccurate jury selection. were there legal mistakes made? but in italy they can actually look at all the facts again, thereby generally helping the defendant, in that the defendant could get a new jury/judge looking at the evidence. but here the prosecutors also saying we want you to look at this and consider it the same. and some new evidence could come into play in march, there was a confession by a prison inmate, who would talk to a third defendant that amanda knox-zbloe this certainly could in as well, this isn t the first time someone has come forward with a prison confession information in connection with this case. he was in the same cell at the third defendant in this case and the third defendant made comments which could help amanda knox. now is that going to be relevant? possibly, but is that going to be the sort of smoking gun that changes everything? i would doubt it. it s not lost on everyone, the prosecutor who may be asking for this appeal maybe has run afoul on another case here and some have to wonder if this is the face saving maneuver. some would say does it matter that this prosecutor is currently have been legal problems? the answer is, as a legal matter it shouldn t, as a practical matter it might. meaning this is a case that s being viewed by the world. the italian justice system is on trial effectively in this case and is being skrcrutinized by t world. and as a result, this own prosecutor s legal problems can t be ignoreded. i think the result of the judge/jury to look at the case and say you could up the sentence. because of all the evidence and everything that s happened, i think it s very unlikely that a new judge and a jury is going to up the sentence, i think it s much more likely that they will reduce the sentence with that third sentence that was tried separately. and we re back after these messages. three s more than two. i m not even gonna answer that 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never in an r.v. it s the hundred year anniversary of the r.v. we ll tell you how much they have changed over the years. that s a house. that s not roughing it in any way. before we go to all of that, let s get a check of the weather from bill karins. that one has four flat screen tvs and one behind the dashboard. i m not sure how that works. we are watching outside today, we have some troublesome weather but one of the beautiful spots is going to be wisconsin today. let s talk about the forecast today, we re going to continue to talk about the rain in texas, flash floods a possibility. some good morning. temperature of 59 to 60 for the high. a mix of sun and clouds. breezey west to we talk about our wisconsin people, this is the french club here from wellsburg, west virginia. i just wand to hear you in french, i love saturday today [ speaking in french ] a lot of aclaude for the lady. it is one book guaranteed not to make oprah s book club, an unauthorized biography of oprah winfrey this week. the book is simply called oprah a biography. she s been called the writer with the poison pen. kitty kelly has made a year about dishing up the dirt on celebrities. other biographies are gossipy and often cast the celebrity in a negative light. she painted a portrait of a controlling first lady, in contrast to her public image as a loving and doting wife to president reagan. and her biography of the bush family was full of anecdotes. kitty kelly has never lost a libel lawsuit and has never had to retract a single word. the books often on the best seller list. in the literary world kety kelley is often not taken seriously. she digs up very, very juicy details that you would not hear otherwise. reporter: her latest book about oprah winfrey is already a best seller. it details the romantic relationship with john tesh and her close friendship with gail king and kitty kelley says she knows the identity of oprah s father but won t tell until oprah finds out herself. some in the media have refused to interview her about the book to stay on oprah s good side. some people didn t want to interview kitty kelley on their show because she is so powerful and they didn t want to cross her. joining us now is the author, kitty kelley, the author of oprah, a biography. what would you say is the headline as this book is now available? that there is more to oprah winfrey than the on camera persona, she s the most famous woman on television, she s not a movie star, she s not a rock star, she s not a politician, but she s influenced our culture more than anybody else. she s been in our living rooms for an hour a day, five days a week for 25 years. and speaking of her power, i m curious what you think about the fact that larry king turned you down for an interview, the view barbara walters said she would not interview or talk to you about this book. is that oprah it s influence and what do you think about it? yes, i think it is oprah s influence, it s a celebrity club that is sort of closing ranks and they re doing it, i think, because they feel the book might offend oprah or they might offend oprah. is the book offensive? i don t think so, no. i approached this book with a great deal of care and respect four years ago when i started and i ended the same way with a great deal of admiration, there are a lot of secrets in this book that haven t been told about oprah winfrey. but she didn t speak to you directly. no. but i compiled every interview she s given in the last 25 years and laid them out in such a way that i got a psychological glimpse of this woman that i wouldn t have gotten otherwise, unless you keep letters or write diaries or have these interviews, it s very, very hard to record a life. and some of oprah s family members spoke with you on the record, you said her father, her aunt. why do you think they chose to participate in this book that they knew would probably be upsetting to oprah? i really didn t present it as something that would be upsetting to oprah at all and i did not write this book to be upsetting to oprah. i really said i want to do a great book on oprah, there really isn t a full comp hence sif biography out there and vernon winfrey her father felt, i guess strongly because oprah had come down on him so hard about a book that he was trying to write about his own life. but she also has been very generous to her family members as well. oh, no question. she absolutely has. she s taken care of her mother, not her father, i mean she gives her father gifts, wonderful lavish gifts, but she doesn t support him, he still supports himself, he s 77 years old and is still working in this barbershop, but she s taken wonderful care of her mother and yet she is not close to her mother at all. what do you want people ultimately to take away by the oprah you show everyone in this book? that she is everything that they see on television but much, much more. she s multifaceted, she s very, very complicated. you could say people are going to be surprised, i think, because they see that warm and fuzzy image. it isn t always that way. well, it certainly has a lot to say from cover to cover. and i m sure people will enjoy reading it. kitty kelley, and we ll be right back, but first these messages. 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she had enough to deal with the kids and everything else, i felt that i was the one to deal with all of this. he worked a lot harder to make sure that everything was taken care of, but in the meantime, i didn t know all the ins and outs of everything and that would create a big rip in our relationship because i felt deceived. 29% of people have admitted to lying to their partner about money. financial cheating in the form of hidden stashes, concealed purchases and secret debt. financial infidelity is a little more tricky than infidelity, but it s so subtle you don t even know you re doing it. and 47% of couples don t discuss money at all before getting married. this is the reason we see the problems now, we hide things to avoid confrontation and conflict. conflicts that angela and al have fought through. i realize that you do need to talk, you do need to get it out in the open. the other way is just not wa working. when you feel very empty inside and very lonely and you re in a relationship, at that point you have to take a step back, evaluate the situation and realize that you need help. and joining us now is diana yoko author of a fool s guide to cash j. . dana let me start with you, what are couples lying about these days? are we talking small change or big, big money. money secrets that come at every price point. so we have got the $50 parking ticket that we pay in cash so that we leave no credit card paper trail, all the way to true story, a bride who didn t disclose her $60,000 in credit card debt until the honeymoon. whoops. th that s the part about couples not discussing money until they get married. i do and we have dragged a boat load of debt down the aisle. i raise any eyebrows, can we put this in the category of sexual infidelity, does it have as much of an impact on relationships? some people will say money is a bigger factor toward divorce than even infidelity. you re talking about none that that thing between you that is there to be honest about. you ve got almost a secret life about how you spend your money. so you re actually going out aside from your partner having your cake and eating it too. doing something that s meant to be shared and agreed upon. why is money such a source of stress? is it the merging of these two lives and the cash, is that really the friction point at the beginning. people have different ways of spending the money, what they believe is how they re supposed to spend the money. that statistic about people not talking about money before you get married is shock because you should be on the same page about what your financial goals are, because you re going to be fighting about anything from a cup of coffee to shoes. we have got to say that money just represents so many different things to people. talk about the red flags in relationships, the things you ve got to be on the lookout that your spouse is keeping money from you. the financial red flags is that you re not seeing account statements or say a spouse is always spending with cash, not a credit card, or you look at your credit report and see things that are unfamiliar. that s a big deal if someone s opened credit? this can have not only a source of emotional stress, but this can put you in legal issues, can t it? huge financial impacts, you go to buy your dream house and you can t qualify for a mortgage because your partner s credit is horrible. or joint accounts, they don t pay the bills on time, the lending industry doesn t care who it was that messed up. how do you come forward, how do you come clean about this in a constructive way that s good for the marriage. i think you should try to fix some of the messes you re in already so you can come to the table with some solutions, if you can t fix them, still come to the table with resolutions with some things you can do, putting yourself on a budget, talking about the strategy so it looks like you re committed to handling the situation, then put all of your bills outs and say let s talk about our finances, like full disclosure, i m sorry, i m going to change, here s what i m thinking about, here s what i m willing to do to fix this going forward and let s put all of it on the table so we know where we are. good to have you both here. tomorrow on coupleless keeping secrets, what you should tell your partner about past relationships, and up next on the the great american road trip has been a popular vacation for people all over the u.s. and the r.v. has been around for over 100 years. david woodworth is an r.v. historian. the r.v. has certainly come a long way since its inception. they certainly didn t have satellite tv. i have actually camped in both of these. obviously the early days, what would one expect from an r.v.? well, you know, basically it was just a home that you could stop wherever you wanted to be and be in a really comfort of your own home. and this is really comfortable. that doesn t look so comfortable. did you see the bedroom? right here you have your full bedroom area. hmm. this is a glorified pick-up truck, you know that, right. i have actually camped in this with my wife in yosemite and we have to turn over in unison, much nicer in the discovery. how did it change the way people vacation in this country? it allowed people wherever they were, go up on the lake and spend the weekend together with your family and really enjoy the great outdoors whether it was in 1910 or 2010. let s see the newer model. you ll like that a lot better. this is the opposite of roughing it, this is like having a luxury hotel room on wheels. this is really nice. go right in. don t mind if i do. yes, this looks wonderful, wow. it even has that brand-new smell. look at this refrigerator? this is a full size refrigerator, check this out. there s even food in it. albeit not much. this has all of the modern amenities, it has a washer and dryer back there. you ve got to be kidding me. but is this a vacation home or is there retired couples who would take this and live in it on the road? live in or vacation. it replaces the cabin at the lake or the cabin at the beach. it s your cabin how do you drive this thing, because this is over 40 feet long. is this for can any driver drive this? do you have to have a special license to drive this? anybody can drive it and it s very simple to drive. power steering, push a button, d means drive. is that a massage charge. you can recline and kick your feet back, go ahead. that s what i m talking about, a big screen tv. hey, dave, thanks. this is great, we ll take two. you want to know more, check out our website, go r.v. ing.com. we ll be right back, but first these messages. have you tried honey bunches of oats yet? every spoonful is a little different. mmm. they got three kinds of flakes. this is delicious. it s the perfect combination of sweet and crispy. i love it. this is so good. this is great. the magic s in the mix. you ve got things to do. we ve got the tools and hardware to get em done. and with new, lower prices all through the store. so you can do more fixing. replacing. fastening. and updating. for less. more saving. more doing. that s the power of the home depot. right now, get a ryobi 18volt starter kit, with drill and circular saw, for the incredible price of just $99. it can take so much out of you. i feel like i have to wind myself up just to get out of bed. then. well. i have to keep winding myself up to deal with the sadness, the loss of interest, the trouble concentrating, the lack of energy. if depression is taking so much out of you, ask your doctor about pristiq. 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