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the father of the bride, the former president you should assume if he makes it down the aisle in one piece it s a major accomplishment. the inside scoop today, it s a major accomplishment. the inside scoop today, monday, july 19, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. i m ann curry in for meredith this morning. a lot of people were hoping this new cap would temporarily stop the flow of oil into the gulf, but overnight there are signs it may have created a new leak or seep elsewhere in the well. obviously of great concern to people. the government and bp seem to be at odds. bp wants to keep the cap closed at least for now. but in a sternly worded letter sent overnight the man in charge of the government s response is demanding a detailed plan for re-opening the cap if that becomes necessary. we re going to get the latest on this story coming up in a couple of minutes. also, matt, kyron horman s stepmother has moved out of the home. the impact of her move and what impact it may have on the police investigation. you may be enjoying coffee this morning, but should the kids be doing the same thing? coffee drinks are all the rage among young adults, even children. is it leading to new health problems? we ll talk about that later in the program. let s begin with the seep found near bp s crippled well and what it could mean for the disaster in the gulf. nbc s chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson is in venice, louisiana. anne, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, matt. it has been a long night for bp engineers and government scientists as they have been monitoring that seep that is some distance from the wellhead. and they have also been looking at possible methane over the wellhead. and after meetings and after promises of extensive monitoring, thad allen gave bp the go ahead to continue the test for another 24 hours. overnight, word came of the seep and possible methane found near the busted oil well, potential signs of a leak. for four straight days the cap has been doing what once seemed impossible, holding back the flow of crude that s polluted much of the gulf coast for three months. earlier, on sunday, bp s doug suttles suggested the cap could remain on until the relief well is finished. we are hopeful that in the encouraging signs continue we ll be able to continue the integrity tests all the way to the point where we can get the well killed. reporter: the government isn t sure. the pressure level is at 6,792 pounds per square inch, above the danger zone but far from ideal and bubbles have been seen in two locations. bp says they are not uncommon but are doing tests to see what the source is. national incident commander admiral thad allen is pleased no oil is going into the gulf but says the government needs to understand the lower-than-expected pressure readings. sunday he wrote, it is important that all decisions are driven by the science. ultimately, we must ensure no irreversible damage is done which could cause uncontrolled leakage from numerous points on the seafloor. in gulf shores, alabama, water carried more oil to the beaches. where there should be tourists, there are cleanup workers. darryl finley who runs a bed & breakfast. try to get this cleaned up so we can at least have a decent living here. people can come back and enjoy the gulf coast. reporter: now, among the monitoring that s going on out at the leak site, there are rovs with cameras, sonar, temperature tests at the blowout preventer. so far the tests show that the water is about 40 degrees and that is good news. if it was any warmer that would indicate that oil was coming out. matt? all right. anne thompson in venice, louisiana. thanks for your report. we appreciate it. five minutes after the hour. here s ann. matt, thanks. hillary clinton is in pakistan trying to shore up support for u.s. efforts in the region. andrea mitchell is traveling with her. reporter: good morning, ann. hillary clinton is trying to push the pakistanis to go after insurgents killing u.s. troops in afghanistan. that means overcoming years of distrust between the u.s. and pakistan. today, she came bearing economic aid, water and electricity projects desperately needed here. still, public opinion toward the u.s. remains negative, even hostile. so we know that there is some questioning, even suspicion about what the united states is doing today. i can only respond by saying that very clearly we have a commitment that is much broader and deeper than it has ever been. reporter: one achievement, she witnessed the signing of a long delayed sign and trade agreement between pakistan and afghanistan, decades in the making. she acknowledged frustration with pakistan s efforts against al qaeda. again, saying that elements in pakistan s government know where osama bin laden is and could get him if they wanted to. in an interview with nbc news do you still believe that? i do. there is a bit of a debate going on within certain elements of the pakistani government. our argument is very simple. look, you ve got to take on every nongovernmental armed force inside your country, because even though you think they won t bother you today, there is no guarantee. it s like keeping a poisonous snake in your backyard. reporter: in a decades old terror case, pan am 103, clinton said the government has told her there is no evidence bp pushed the decision to release abdelbaset al-megrahi. it may be that there is nothing to be done about it which is deeply frustrating. reporter: while she juggles, war, diplomacy and terror a world away, in less than two weeks, chelsea s wedding. you handle a lot of state secrets and classified information. there is no more closely guarded secret than well, the locale has leaked, but the guest list, the arrangements. what has gone into keeping this so private? my lips are sealed, andrea. i am under very strict orders not to talk about it. and i think for the right reason. it s chelsea s wedding. it is a family wedding. the people coming are her friends, as it should be. reporter: before she can get back to being mother of the bride, clinton has to go to afghanistan and south korea, all in a day s work for a busy secretary of state. ann? thank you so much. we ll hear more about the up coming wedding coming up. for now, it is 7:08. here s matt. thank you very much. has the u.s. intelligence community become too bloated since 9/11? the washington post is out with what it calls the most comprehensive study of the system since the terror attacks. pete williams has the details on this. pete, good morning. reporter: matt, good morning to you. the newspaper says the u.s. intelligence apparatus has become so big that nobody knows anymore how much it costs, how many people work for it or how effective it is. the post says much of the growth comes from an explosion in hiring private contractors to do sensitive government work. since the 9/11 attacks of 2001, the post reports, the intelligence community has been growing so fast in the washington, d.c. area that 33 building complexes for top secret work have gone up or are under construction, totaling 17 million square feet. it is really exciting to come and spend time in this fine facility and to meet the men and women who work at the national counterterrorism center. reporter: the 9/11 attacks sent the nation scrambling to find new ways to gather information on the emerging threat. now the post says more than 1,200 separate organizations and over 1,900 government contractors work on top secret terrorism, security and intelligence programs. they re scattered around the country at more than 10,000 locations. no question, say intelligence experts, the system has produced good results, but is a work in progress. there are parts of the intelligence community that do an extremely good job in dealing with the terrorism threat. but there are other parts since 9/11 that are still trying to figure out their role. reporter: the post says the system is bogged down with overlaps. example, 26 separate agencies analyze intelligence churning out more than 50,000 classified reports a year. the post says it found more than 50 separate federal organizations and military commands looking at terror financing, working in 15 cities. much of that growth in the intelligence community, the newspaper says, has come from private contractors. the former director of national intelligence, dennis blair, said a year ago at his confirmation hearing that the trend worried him. you have to get it right. you have to keep the government functions by people who get their paychecks every two weeks from the government and i will get into that issue. reporter: the man nominated to replace blair, general james clapper, has his hearing tomorrow. he ll be sure to be asked about the questions raised in this, matt. pete, thank you very much. diana priest, a pulitzer-prize winning journalist in the post writes the story. good morning to you. good morning, matt. pete talked about 1200 government organizations, 1931 contractors spread across 10,000 locations. we are talking about the stuff of national security, top secret information. how can we keep it secret if so many people in so many locations have access to it? well, frankly, they have a system for giving security clearance to people in the system. the 1,900 contractors are really large companies. so we re talking about close to 250,000 contractor who have top secret clearances. the reason we looked at top secret level is when we started to look at the secret level which is below that, it was simply too large to count. so we needed to go one step further. really, what we set out to do is to create a database which you can see online yourself and play around with and look at the redundancies and how big this has gotten. what we came up two years later with was really, i call an alternative geography of the united states where the capitol is not washington, d.c. it s somewhere else. based on the concentration of both government organizations and private contractors. remember after 9/11, everyone was talking about the fact that we had the intelligence but we weren t talking to each other, we weren t coordinating. when you look at the organizations spread out, even looking into financing, analyzing intelligence, is it possible that all these different groups can communicate with each other? well, that s the crux of the matter. there has been some advance a lot of advance in intelligence sharing among different agencies. but at the same time, the system has grown so large that many managers of it don t even know what all is out there. as a consequence cannot share throughout the community because they don t have a sense of how large that s become. one of the surprising things to me and bill arken who put together this database is how little the government itself knows how big it s grown because it is broken down into its different departments. there is a lot of interest in what we were doing and we got a lot of help from people inside the department of defense and other intelligence agencies who are curious about our findings. yeah, you raised some eyebrows. i know you spoke to robert gates, the secretary of defense. his opinion was and i m not sure he got to look at all the information yet, but his opinion seemed to be that it is not too big. he didn t actually say that. he said it s manageable, but it s based on ad hoc relationships, personal relationships. he said it does need to be examined and he s going to do that. he said it needs to be trimmed, that he knows there is waste. on counterterrorism he said, that s so important we need to do it with a scalpel, not an ax. he s committed, he told me, to undertake a review of all the programs. same with cia director leon pinetta who said we can t afford this anymore. he started creating a five-year plan. it s because of the deficit. it s also because they know this has become so large that there are some inefficiencies. couple quick things. what did you learn after the ft. hood accideincident, after the christmas day attempted bombing? what did we learn about weaknesses in the system? more is not always better. bigger is not always better. with ft. hood you had the main army counterintelligence organization which is about 15 miles up the road from walter reed where the alleged ft. hood shooter resided. they were doing something different. they weren t looking within their own ranks. they had chosen to go out and look at what fbi agents and other organizations have looked at which is the presence of terrorist organizations within the united states and not do the job they were meant to do which is to look in the army ranks. it s more difficult. as a result, they had no clue. they had never heard his name. they had no clue when he started talking in strange ways about islam that he even existed. i just want to get in one more thing. the president s choice for director of national intelligence goes through confirmation hearings in the senate this week. if you could sit down and ask mr. clapper one important question, what would you want to ask him? we actually did and he responded on the record. that is, do you believe that you know the most sensitive programs within the department of defense and the intelligence community? he said there is only one entity in the universe that would know all that and that s god. diana priest of the washington post. unbelievable report. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. now a check on the top stories from natalie morales at the news desk. good morning. tragedy in india where two trains collided killing more than 60 people and injuring more than 100. it happened when a speeding train hit another that was stopped at a station. the force of the crash threw the roof of one train onto the tracks above. officials haven t ruled out sabotage. a wildfire destroyed at least three homes and threatens more year yakima. it s burned more than 10,000 acres. officials in kentucky think they have accounted for everyone after weekend flash flooding that killed two people, washed away homes and knocked out power to thousands. a state of emergency was declared in the their. take a look at these dramatic scenes from southern china where weekend storms left more than 20 people home. the storms forced more than half a million people to evacuate. overseas markets are mostly lower after friday s big 261-point drop in the dow. erin burnett is at the stock exchange. we have optimism at the start and one of the lead stories is about boeing, america s biggest exporter. they are going to get a big plane deal. the world s biggest air show is under way in england. boeing sold 30 of the 777 jets to emirates airlines. the deal could be worth more than $9 million and they expect additional deals over the next few days. more planes means the economic recovery is still on the road to recovery. we ll take it as good news on a monday. thank you. nelson mandela celebrated his 92nd birthday sunday. the former south african president spending the day with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren in johannesburg. sunday was marked as mandela day around the world. and sunday s first victory at the british open. when he received the trophy he said people have to learn to pronounce his last name. you said west-hysen. i have heard we have a few rainshowers out there this morning and there is a chance we could run into those at one point in the day. it is going to be warm and humid id and that s your latest weather. matt? al, thanks very much. coming up, the very latest on kyr kyron horman li still to come, did you know your favorite party dips could make you sick? also we heard from secretary of state hillary clinton talking about her daughter chelsea s upcoming wedding that s two weeks away. we ll find out more about that. first a check of your local news and weather. ever seen anything like it? me neither. it s new beneful incredibites. uh-huh! it s just the way you like it made with wholesome grains, real beef, even carrots and peas. you love the smaller-size, easy-to-chew kibbles, and i love the carbohydrates for energy and protein for muscles. whoa! wait for me! ha-ha. you only think you re getting spoiled. 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wait until you hear what she wants for him in terms of a career. and you have heard of the five-second rule when you drop food on the floor? it s in my house. my kids use it. i did it. i dropped a muffin and i ate it. but there is evidence that the practice could make you sick. we ll explain and talk about ways to keep your family safe from foodborne illness. and chelsea clinton ties the knot at the end of the month. coming up, we ll hear more from her mom on what is a big day in that family. first we begin with serious news. more than a month and a half after the disappearance of 7-year-old kyron horman his stepmother has moved out of the family home. we have the latest on the story. good morning. reporter: good morning. kyron s father came to court to have his estranged wife terri thrown out of the home. but before the hearing, she agreed to go. a car loaded with boxes left the horman home as terri agreed to leave. for months she s been holed up in the house, cut off by family who blame her for her stepson kyron s disappearance. in court, her estranged husband asked a judge to evict terri so he could move back in with their 20-month-old daughter. at the final hour, terri agreed to move out. they finally came to a reasonable resolution. the issue was closed. reporter: this weekend, terri was spotted at her parents house outside portland as cane moved back in. he moved out three weeks ago, according to court documents, after investigators told him terri tried to hire a landscaper to kill him. she has always had that behavior of constant lying, just deceiving, manipulating. reporter: desiree young, kyron s mother has publically blamed terri for kyron s disappearance but quote, based upon briefings, i firmly believe that someone else is involved. terri s lawyers have said she s the victim of a witchhunt. though detectives haven t named suspects in kyron s disappearance, legal experts say terri remains a focus. they are waiting for her to trip, to stumble and to fall. and they are also waiting for someone else, if there is another person who knows something to finally come out of hiding and speak up. reporter: missing for more than six weeks, it s not just kyron s parents who refuse to give up hope. an entire community still believes the 7-year-old will come home alive. a wall of hope continues to grow, even as time continues to pass. we wanted to make sure everybody knows that we have been coming up here regularly to pick things up and make sure they get to kyron for when he comes home. reporter: gifts to kyron taken to a home where his stepmother is no longer welcome. terri horman was not present at a hearing last week but is expected on thursday for a hearing on a violation to a restraining order. ann? miguel, thank you very much. clint van zant is a former criminal profiler. good morning. good morning, ann. we should mention once again that terri horman has not been named a person of interest, not been charged with a crime, yet you think her move out of the family home this weekend is significant. now, why is that? i think it s significant for law enforcement. there are some positives and negative. the negative is as the set-up piece suggested, she s moved about 160 miles away. that makes it harder for local investigators working the case to continue to conduct any type of surveillance or anything else they want to do to her. so it stretches it. the other side, ann, is that it continues to put pressure, whether she s been named a suspect or a person of interest. the court of public opinion has already convicted her. notwithstanding that, law enforcement keeps an open mind, but on somebody like this who allegedly has told stories, lies, tried to hire hitmen, engaged in extramarital affairs while this was going on, if any of these allegations are actually true, i think what law enforcement wants to do is keep the pressure on her. ann, just like in the oil spill, we re looking for some type of crack, some type of fissure, but in this case it s in her story which may suggest to law enforcement what happened to this little boy. cane horman is making the suggestion that there is a possible third party involved. what do you make of this? what are the chances that this might be true? i think to hold onto the hope that this little boy s alive you have to hold onto the idea that there is a third party, that there is some individual that we don t know that s out there somewhere that has secreted kyron, that s holding him, waiting for whoever the prime kidnapper was to say, okay, bring him forward, the story is over with now. if we don t allow for that, there is very little hope that this little boy could be alive. for investigators, they now have to go back at least six or seven months, at least to the time when she allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill her husband and then go through her cell phone and her computer, anybody she had contact with. if there is this mysterious second person that could have been involved with her, who is he or she? where are they? how do we find them? you talk about the cell phone messages. there are reports about text messages with a neighbor named michael cook. these are apparently intimate messages. what are investigators doing behind the scenes? how do you expect them to be treating him based on this new information? well, they are trying to get anything they can out of him. realize that if, in fact, a story of seven months ago of her trying to hire a hitman is true, i think law enforcement has to say, was this part two? was he going to be some type of a hitman, associate or was this just personal? was this just terri horman was lonesome, needed somebody to be with and this was the way she was going to do it. where does he fit into this puzzle? are there other people like him that haven t been identified yet in this fractured family, missing boy situation. still a lot of questions. it s been six weeks since his disappearance. thank you very much. thanks, ann. now a check of the weather from al. thank you very much, ann. we ve got farm babes in the city. where are you from? goose lake. where is that near? iowa. north of the quad cities. all right. very nice. we have a birthday over here. lindsay. that s lindsay right there. let s check your weather see what s going on. we have the heat to talk about. it is toasty out there. let s go to the maps to show you the heat. boston, six degrees above normal. same for new york city. denver, nine degrees above normal. even vegas hotter than usual at 111. bet on that. we re talking 97 in reno. 93 in new york city. look at the 90s and 100s. much of the country well above normal. the only exceptions the nor there are a few rainshowers out there right now, but as we head to the day, but the jets will wait will go to 40%. the chance for rain and that s your latest weather. don t forget you can get your weather any time of the day or night. go to the weather channel on cable or the all new, improved weather.com online. matt? thank you very much. now to the latest on the arrest of the so-called barefoot bandit. after two years on the run, 19-year-old colton harris moore will be returning to his home state of washington. good morning. reporter: matt, good morning to you. this is a secret process when federal inmates are transferred, but u.s. marshalls say moore could be moved back to washington state as early as this week. there is one thing certain. when the barefoot bandit, accused of stealing at least five planes he won t be the pilot but a passenger, in chains. the so-called barefoot bandit has been paraded through the bahamas in shackles and marched into u.s. federal court. when colton harris moore is back in seattle, his lawyer may ask that he be allowed out on bond. it is not inconceivable that i may try to get him released on electronic home monitoring or something like that. reporter: it seems unlikely since he started his life on the lam by escaping a halfway house more than two years ago. he s accused of dozens of burglaries and thefts in nine states. if that s proven it entitles him to a harsher sentence. i don t believe the justice system works like costco with a discount. reporter: he got a rude awakening friday. sitting in federal court, side by side with an accused carjacker and kidnapper. harris-moore didn t say a word. the attorney for his mother tells nbc news she s elated her son will be coming home safe despite a rocky history between them. she asked the system for help. she asked the school system, the legal system for help for colt consistently from a very young age and didn t get very much. reporter: harris-moore s former partner in crime is back behind bars charged with felony assault in washington state after knocking over an 85-year-old shopper last month while allegedly trying to shoplift five packages of cheese. earlier this year in a jailhouse interview he tosaid he taught harris-moore how to break into homes and steal. my dream, which he shared with me, was having so much money that we could just bathe in it. reporter: harris-moore is celebrated by more than 90,000 fans on facebook. a new page demands the barefoot bandit be convicted. the lawyer for his mother says she understands he could spend time behind bars but she hopes he ll get a college education and one day make a living as a pilot. that s ironic. thank you. we appreciate that. up next, the five-second rule debunked. important information on food safety. later on, lots of speculation about chelsea clinton s wedding. where will it be? 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we ll talk to some corporate hiring managers. you may be surprised. in my case it was just the opposite. oh, no. talent always wins. talent wins in the end. on that note we have a lot to get to. let s go inside. natalie is in while ann is out. good morning. the cap that s bottled up the leak in the gulf of mexico since thursday has raised new concerns. tests indicate some type of seepage overnight. this morning the government gave bp permission to keep the cap in place for another day with increased monitoring. the fear is that pressure under the cap could cause additional well damage beneath the seabed. bp says it has spent almost $4 billion dealing with the spill and its aftermath. president obama is calling on republican lawmakers to support an extension of jobless benefits when the senate takes up the issue this week. benefits for 2.5 million people ran out at the end of may. republican leaders say they will only support the extension if it is paid for with spending cuts. officials are not ruling out sabotage as the cause of this morning s train collision in india. more than 60 people were killed and more than 100 injured when an express train crashed into a passenger train waiting at a station. a train derailment two months ago was blamed on sabotage. at least two deaths blamed on flooding in kentucky where the government declared a state of emergency. rain-swollen creeks, washed away cars and left thousands of people without electricity or runninging water. high winds swept across western michigan damaging houses and downing trees and power lines. there were no reports of any serious injuries. the national special olympics games are off to a strong start with the lighting of the flame of hope at last night s opening ceremony in lincoln, nebraska. these are the first games since the death of the special olympics founder eunice shriver. we wish them the best of luck. it s 8:04. now back outside. nice and warm out here. is that your definition? i like it. bring it on. mr. roker has a check of the weather. where are you guys from? minnesota. texas. texas? oh, you re from minnesota. you re from texas. all right. and they have brightly colored shirts. let s check your weather. our pick city today, saginaw, michigan. nbc 25, partly sunny, warm, 83 degrees. as we look at the week ahead, the southern half of the country going to be warmer than usually. below normal temperatures in the plains. in the midweek, that heat continues with showers in the northern plains. the latter part of the week, we ve got hot weather in the east, hot weather in the high plains and the pacific northwest. this lady has a wake up with al shirt from the weather channel. celebratin we are off to a fairly quiet start. just a few rainshowers out there. as we go into the morning and afternoon, 40% chance for more thunderstorms. you re celebrating your 54th anniversary. what are your names? jim and jean wilson. that s the only words you have gotten in. that s right. matt? 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near but impossible. this is as close to a royal wedding as america is going to see. reporter: chelsea, now 30 is marrying marc mezvinsky whose parents were both democratic members of congress. the bride and groom first met as teens but didn t become a couple until several years ago. the vows are set for the last day in july. word leaked this month that it will be held in a beautiful, secluded, versailles-style mansion two hours north of new york city. it s located in reinbeck and it is beautiful. there are 30 acres surrounding it. it overlooks the hudson river. reporter: there is plenty of curiosity about the guest lists with reports it could include a-listers from hollywood to washington. we have heard steven spielberg, ted turner, barbra streisand. president obama was invited. his press secretary said that he won t attend. who knows? reporter: secretary clinton spoke to andrea mitchell. your message to all the people out there waiting for an invitation a-listers, b-listers? we love you all, but this is her wedding. reporter: chelsea, the clinton s only child, has come a long way from the teenager who grew up in the white house. today, she has an elegant poise and style and an impressive career as a hedge fund manager to match. a bride who knows who she is and what she wants on her big day. my daughter has really taken hold of it. she knows what she wants and how she wants to have it come off. the former president, your husband, performed a wedding ceremony. should we assume he won t be officiating? you should assume that if he makes it down the aisle in one piece, it s a major accomplishment. he is you know, he s going to be so emotional, as am i. but we re both looking forward to it and very happy about it. so a lot of you may be wondering, what about the dress? sources say chelsea will wear a custom-designed dress made by oscar de la renta. she ll make a beautiful bride. thanks, natalie. cheryl, good morning. you have had fun. you wrote about the wedding so cloaked in secrecy where the mother of the bride holds down national diplomacy details are harder to ferret out than the afghanistan strategy. what did the invitation say? how do people know where to go? the invitations are save the date with just the date and no information about where it will be held. people were told to get yourself within new york city driving distance. we ll give you the details with a week to go. so we don t know if it is at this estate we saw in the piece, but the chances are pretty good because the chances are pretty good. first of all, it is within driving distance of new york. it s a lovely place, secluded on 50 acres, owned by clinton donors, kathleen hammond and her husband who is a real estate developer. it s easy to get to. people could conceivably get to new york and then drive 90 miles to this lovely estate. meantime, the secretary of state who is very busy in pakistan has referred to herself as the m.o.t.b., the mother of the bride. she s been more hands-on than people might expect. she s been absolutely hands- hands-on. she s been viewing flower arrangements, tastings, dress selections. she s obviously excited as is her husband, the former president. they are both close to their only child. yes. you have done reporting about this. how close are they? very close. when bill clinton was president he put off an overseas trip to stay home and study with chelsea for her exams. they are obviously a tight family. we know chelsea could have held them together when they had rocky times in their marriage. this is a happy ending for all of them. jenna bush interviewed him and he said, i hope i can keep it together as i walk down the aisle. this is an emotional moment for him. meantime, you think she ll wear an up-do. do i. did you see her hair? she s obviously growing it out. as soon as i saw that i thought, oh, mere come here comes the up and who is on the guest list? the guest list is small by clinton standards, about 400 people which is big for you and me but intimate for people who know kings, presidents and hollywood stars. to make the cut you have to be a friend of chelsea and marc. all the big-time donors, we love you, but it s chelsea s wedding. so the reports that oprah and barbra streisand are on the list we know matt lauer isn t. we know some very close friends, people like harry th thomason and his wife. president obama who is hillary clinton s boss is on the list. but the white house says he won t go. that makes sense. he travels with a big press entourage and they are trying to keep it secret. you cover families and you have a deeper understanding about our fascination with the presidential children. what explains why we are so interested? well, we don t have royalty in this country. i think we are particularly fascinated with chelsea because she was a gawky teenager, grew into a lovely young woman. everyone remembers the picture of her walking to the helicopter with her parents holding the hand of each after the president confessed to infidelity. people wondered, how is this kid going to turn out and she s obviously turned out really well. it s a nice ending. it s like we all want to cheer for her. right. thank you very much. no problem. coming up next, kids and coffee. it s a growing habit, but is it a healthy one? we ll get into that right after this. male announcer ] fact. when pain keeps you up, nothing is proven to help you fall asleep faster than advil pm liqui-gels. rushing real liquid relief to ease you to sleep fast. for nighttime pain, make advil pm your #1 choice. over a thousand people a day are switching to chevy. they like that vehicles like the 2010 malibu, traverse and silverado half-ton have each been named a consumers digest best buy. they like that chevy backs the quality with a one-hundred-thousand mile powertrain warranty. they re not just trading in, they re trading up. qualified lessees now get a low mileage lease on this malibu ls for around one ninety-nine a 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kids and teenagers are making a larger part of that than ever before. according to the national coffee association teens and young adults are the fastest growing groups of coffee drinkers. busy schedules may be to blame. kids are so overscheduled. they have extracurriculars and homework. they re looking for ways to stay awake. coffee s natural taste may not be a natural draw but throw in sugar, ice, chocolate syrup and whipped cream and it s no wonder. the compromise, say parents, keep it a treat, not a habit. i m okay with once a week. every once in a while, twice a week. it s okay. it s social, after school. once in a blue moon. it s definitely a special treat. it s the kind of treat you get once a week. you just don t know when you re going to get it. oh, keep them guessing. here to help us sort through the caffeine, coffee and calories is dr. nancy snyderman. hi, matt. once in a blue moon? i don t know how old she is? looks like 10 years old. pint-sized. the caffeine alone won t hurt you unless it revs you up, gives you insomnia, makes you nervous and kids, like adults because they are smaller, concentrates the caffeine more. if we stop drinking we get a caffeine withdrawal headache. kids may present with headaches. if they are drinking it on a regular basis assume they are. there are no u.s., federal guidelines in terms of caffeine consumption for young people. that s right. just looking at us, not so much coffee consumption. it s the mocha flavor they re not drinking black coffee. no. they re drinking a mocha concoction and herein lies the danger. in an obesity-troubled society already you can easily have a 400 or 600-calorie drink. if it tastes good, is sweet and is filled with fat you may be better with a chocolate shake that gives you more calcium. there are a lot of empty calories in this. let s go through some tips here. i walk by coffee shops all the time and it s a social gathering for young people. it s a social gathering. it tastes good and it s where the cool kids want to go. if you re in control well, if the kids are doing it without you knowing, don t do it on a regular basis basis. make it like an ice cream treat. once or twice a week. don t make it an after dinner treat. if you re worried about teenagers with sleep disruption it increases the chance of insomnia. you have to be a healthy role model. you can t say, you can t drink all the coffee. it s not good for you, if you have four cups every day. that s right. coffee fuels the brain. there is no doubt about it. it makes us focus better. kids in high school and college discover it because they are pulling all-nighters. caffeine works well. it s all the stuff these kids are rolling around in. encourage healthier options. look, you re better with fruit juice. soda is the number one place our kids get calories. use it as a treat. i m serious. you are better off having a chocolate shake and getting the calcium. these are treat drinks. not to say you can t have them, but they are treats. listen, when your kids become teenagers like mine you realize they are drinking caffeine all the time before school, after school, in the evening. my kids don t like the taste, but they like it because they see us drinking it and think they are not supposed to have it which makes it worse. you bet. thank you. you bet, matt. here s ann and al. on the topic of young people, american students now rank get this 25th in math and 21st in science when compared to students from 30 other industrialized countries. today we are announcing an nbc news special event to spotlight improving education. we re calling it education nation. it will take place the last week of september and feature a week-long series of special coverage across our nbc platforms. we ll kick it off with a two-day summit here in rockefeller plaza. we ll transform it into learning plaza filled with interactive classrooms of the future. you don t have to wait for september. if you want more details go to todayshow.com. cool idea. meanwhile, just ahead, the beauty bias. a new survey says that it pays to be more attractive at work. you are more likely to get a job than not. obviously that s not the number one, it s things like talent. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. let s get a final check of the morning commute with sarah caldwell. some problems out there. southbound 95, in the area of eastern avenue, accident off to the side. there are delays because of it. you can see the yellow approaching white marsh boulevard. 23 miles per hour through the stretch. hillen road and harford road, watch for and expend their. i spell that long. i apologize. still a slow righted here. if you are traveling in finksburg, deer park road is shut down. they are doing police activity it there. 18 minutes to the outer loop west side stretch. nine minutes on the inner loop from 795 towards j.f.x. and thus give you a live view in a couple of spots. traffic, a slowdown in the area of baltimore national pike. tony has a check on the forecast. so far things have been fairly quiet. there is heavy rain in cecil county from the harford county line into cecil county. that will stick around for the next 45 minutes or so. i think there is another chance that we will see some more thunderstorms to develop later this morning and afternoon. that is our forecast, a mixture of sunshine and clouds. warm and humid otherwise. high temperatures between 88 and 83 degrees. all the way to the end of the week, a mixture of sunshine and clouds. maybe a couple scattered showers and thunderstorms to the weekend. we will have another update at 8:55. we are back now. it s 8:30 on a monday morning, the 19th day of july, 2010. our hazy skies are turning darker. looks like it could rain at any minute on these nice people in rockefeller plaza. a quick shower. exactly. i m matt lauer along with ann curry, al roker and natalie morales. coming up, we ll ask the question do people with good looks have an advantage in the workplace? there is a new study that talks about corporate hiring managers seem to admit that it pays to be good-looking. we ll get to how that might affect how we apply for jobs. so many people are trying to get jobs. what they might be able to do to help themselves. all right. and ahead, five smart ways to save lots of money including something called gratification management. we ll tell you how you could save hundreds of dollars a month. stay tuned for this one. plus, a really interesting story coming up. the daddy brain. studies have shown that not just women but men experience some hormone changes during their wife s pregnancy and that we have emotional responses as well. that s terrific. we re emotional people, too. that s right. we re going to talk about that. okay. we have a lot to get into. can we bring in number two ranked golfer in the world right now phil mickelson? [ cheers and applause ] he s here to talk about the exxon mobil academy. how are you all? nice to meet you. first of all, nobody gets a bigger gold star for commuting from a long distance than you. you were just in scotland yesterday. you flew overnight. i played st. andrews and the place was just fabulous. even though i didn t play well it didn t dampen the experience of playing at the home of golf, st. andrews. it was a great experience with oosthuizen winning. you finished tied for 48th. how did you like playing in the wind? it was challenging. i enjoyed it because the course was made to be played like that. you have a good game, too. not in that wind i don t. i remember your 300-yard drive over the trees. he s making it up. we had a good time. meantime, about your golf game, you won the masters this year. it must have meant so much to you. your wife amy was there undergoing treatment for breast cancer. ann, that was a special week for us. it was a difficult year so to share that joy together, have her and our kids there was a highlight of the year for me and for us. i can t wait to see them tonight. but that week at the masters was something we ll cherish forever. one of the reasons you re here is to talk about the mickelson teaching academy. you re here to talk about the program. absolutely. the academy is a one-week all expense paid professional development program for teachers grades 3 through 5. in that program, they have a complete experience where they learn the skills to take back into the classroom where they can energize students. nicole has curriculum to inspire kids in the 3rd through 5th grade. we re trying to get kids interested in math and science so we don t continue to lose ground on a global basis on some of the medicinal, engineering and scientific breakthroughs. nicole is getting teachers equipped with what they need to inspire 3rd through 5th graders in the math and sciences. that s where we have to start. good for you. a wonderful cause. good to see you, as always. continued good play. nicole, what a thrill. thank you very much. thank you so much. ladies and gentlemen, phil mickelson in from scotland. [ applause ] mr. roker? how about a check of the there are a few rainshowers out there right now, but as we head to the day, but the jets will wait will go to 40%. the chance for rain don t forget. you can check your weathather d or night at the new improved weather.com. it s going to pour here. coming up, the beauty bias that helps some people get better jobs. we ll talk about that, but first this is today on nbc. he inherited a $1.7 billion budget deficit. then an economic crisis. but martin o malley went to work. cutting $5 billion in waste and government spending, while also making opportunities for middle class families a priority. freezing college tuition four years in a row, record investments in our schools, and tax credits for small businesses to create jobs. while other states are still struggling, martin o malley is making the tough choices. to move maryland forward. . back now at 8:37. here s a question. do good looks give some people an advantage at work? this morning newsweek is out with a compelling story that tries to get to the bottom of the beauty bias. we all know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but could it help you land a job? miranda hires me. she knows what i look like. beauty bias is the idea that when someone makes the decision to hire you, they re not just looking at your resumé but at you and how you look. reporter: we have heard before attractive people have a leg up. that s the first impression when people look at you and the way you are groomed. reporter: a new survey including hiring managers says we still pay a lot of attention to attraction. 72% admit that being physically attractive is beneficial to a woman looking for work. with the unemployment rate at 9.5% the competition to get a job these days is tough. if you re a manager, is it fair to look at somebody and say, are they polished, professional, do they look put together and like they care about their appearance? yes, of course. on the other hand, if you re looking at every applicant that looks through the door saying do you look like gisele, it won t be a good staff. that s not an intelligent way to make hiring decisions. reporter: if looks get you in the door, how far can they take you? i think there is favoritism but i don t think it has anything to do with your ability. you have to have the education. if you haven t got that you may as well hang it up. reporter: in the end, good looks alone won t get the job done. i think a manager at work wants to know that you care enough about your appearance to be able to project professionalism ton jon the job. they don t want you thinking about your highlights when you should be thinking about the bottom line. jessica bennett wrote the article and we have the editorial director for latina magazine. good morning. hi. you conducted the survey online. 202 corporate managers? right. we surveyed 1,000 people of the general public on the phone. the statistics we are finding, 72% is for men and women? > mm-hmm. so it affects men as well as women? women face it more. there is pressure to look a certain way. it also affects men for sure. what s your reaction to the numbers? it s not surprising. this was written about in the beauty myth 20 years ago. at the time it caused a stir. since then the problem has only become worse. we are much more obsessed with looks than ever before. is it raw beauty in men or women or is it how well put together we are? it s a combination. we want to make sure we distinguish between wearing a clean shirt to an interview and being physically attractive. one of the most surprising numbers was among women. hiring managers said 61% said that wearing revealing clothing would help a woman at work. would help a woman? maybe not if she was being hired by a woman. perhaps. there is definitely the girl-on-girl competition but at the same time women may also not want that kind of thing there is a pressure women get with each other that they want a professional environment. sure. it s a double-edged sword. last month we saw a latina woman suing citibank here in new york for allegedly hiring her for being too hot. there is a bit of a double-edged sword. i cut you off. i m sorry. 46% of hiring managers said that you can also be punished for being too good-looking, particularly if you re a woman. so the net impact because a lot of women are looking for jobs. obviously we have to spend more attention on our looks than we may have thought before. what s your best advice to men and women on this score? go ahead. i think we all need to look put together. you don t want to go into a job interview looking like you re not ready. at the same time, experience does matter. we surveyed hiring managers and asked them to rate 1 to 9 the most important traits. experience was first, confidence second and then looks. what was interesting was looks were above education which was surprising. employees are clearly feeling the pressure. cosmetic surgery has quadrupled. this is the average ordinary american. clearly the message is clear. you have to pay attention to what you look like. that s sobering and a little bit unnerving. don t you find it unnerving that people are feeling they can t be who they are? look at the way the media savages women in the spotlight. look how they talk about the appearance of sonia sotomayor, elena kagan, hillary clinton. women see what what happens to them. they take it to an extreme. thank you so much this morning. thank you. that s not the last we ll hear about that. coming up next, new ways to save money including something called gratification management. we ll explain. first, this is today on nbc. and this morning on today s money, new ways to feel good and save at the same time. the majority of american consumers now think that saving money is more fun than spending it and being more resourceful makes people feel smarter. jean chatzky, good morning. good to see you. you, too. it s the opposite of the age of excess some of us lived through a couple decades ago. right. and this time we actually think it s going to stick. 93% of people said they re not going back to their old ways of spending. it s not just a reaction to the recession and times being hard, they are going to make this a lifestyle. right. after the great depression, the good behavior, the good savings habits lasted about 40 years. if this can stick around this is good for us individually. the study says 84% of consumers have become more precise in what they buy. it pointed to five different behaviors making consumers feel good. the first is gratification management. what is that? that is the ability to delay gratification a little bit and feel good about it. we brought in merchandise from ta talbot s. after 12 weeks it goes on sale and then it goes on sale again. if you want the sweater badly, teach yourself to wait a little bit. it was $89. now it s $25. you can save a lot of money this way. you can. the next behavior is private label experimentation. what are we talking about here? three-quarters of the population surveyed are now buying private label brands like kirkland olive oil and they are doing it again. in many cases they find it makes them feel smarter to spend less money and they don t see such a difference in taste. what savings are we talking about? this is $11.99. this is $17. here it s $2 savings, here a dollar and here a dollar as well. it depends on the item. i buy this olive oil. i would stick to my sugar wafers. i grew up with those. it actually boosts self-esteem when people practice this? four out of five times it boosts self-esteem. when it doesn t is when you are in the supermarket with the kid and he wants to know why he can t have the real froot loops and it s because you re feeling poor. more people are cooking from scratch. we mean they are avoiding the very expensive pre-prepared foods. 20% of the population doing this. you can, again, save a lot of money without a lot of effort. this is my mother s old recipe for spaghetti and clams. costs $7 to make it. if you went to a restaurant and got one portion it s $9.50. let s move on. using loyalty cards more often. i don t know why people wouldn t use them all the time, but there is a resurgence. there are more members of the family taking more satisfaction in using the loyalty cards. we have seen women using them for a while. look at the receipt and you see, oh, i saved $15, $18. point it out to a family member and you feel smart. finally, this is called extreme couponing. not just couponing. extreme couponing. what is it? it means you re going on the web to sites like couponmom.com and learning how to double coupon, triple coupon and download them to your iphone so you can show the device to the person at checkout. saving money, what kind of money are we saving here? i have seen people go we have had a lady. she spends 30 cents. for a week s worth of groceries, but it s extreme, extreme couponing. right. do it a little bit, save $30. call it a day. thank you very much. sure. good to see you. up next, jenna wolf hits the road with a group of motorcycle mamas. first, this is today on nbc. i do the cooking, the shopping, shuttling the kids around. i pay the bills, and i want to know i m getting the best bang for my buck. use your giant card and earn one gas rewards point for every dollar you spend. every 100 points means another 10 cents off per gallon at shell. and this week, buy any three of these grilling favorites and earn an extra 300 points on top of what you re already earning. i rely on the card, both for groceries and for the gas rewards program. it saves me a lot of money, and that works for me. check this week s circular and earn gas rewards, only with your giant card. ok. what if i just had a small slice? i was good today, i deserve it! or, i could have a medium slice and some celery sticks and they would cancel each other out, right? or.ok. i could have one large slice and jog in place as i eat it or.ok. how about one large slice while jogging in place followed by eight celery. mmm raspberry cheesecake. i have been thinking about this all day. wow, and you ve lost weight! oh yeah, you re welcome. thank you! [ female announcer ] yoplait light. with 30 delicious flavors all around 100 calories each. yoplait. it is so good. motorcycle girl july is national women s motorcycle month. one in ten motorcycle owners is a woman and the number is growing all the time. we sent out today s jenna w l wolf. i have to admit i was nervous hopping on the back of a motorcycle for the first time. but as i quickly learned, it s more about the journey than the destination. remember those iconic motorcycle scenes with elvis keep in touch! reporter: hopper, the fonz? men enjoying their rides. today they are not the only ones tooling down the road. women are getting a leg up riding high on their own. 20 million riders out there. almost 6 million are women. reporter: why is that? why are so many women gravitating toward a motorcycle? more women are seeing women on bikes. they see them and think, oh, if she can do it, so can i. honestly, jenna, there are no barriers to women getting into motorcycling. reporter: not just one group of women. all women wives, moms, even grandmothers. i have a 2-year-old and 7-year-old grandkids. reporter: how many of you guys are working in professional jobs now? it s the best way to start your day. you go to work and you re asleep in your car. you are not asleep on your bike. reporter: how could you sleep in your eyes are always on the road, constantly aware of the world around you. it s part of what draws these women to the bike itself. for someone who s never been on a bike before, tell me about the feeling when you take off and let the rest of the world go? you re so in the moment. there is no future. there s no past. there s only that moment. i come home so relaxed. this is happy hour! it s a natural way to feel better. reporter: these women aren t just joyriders. they know their way around a bike. if i point to places on the bike, you will know what they are? what is this? gas can. this? this coil thing? shocks. reporter: i m shocked that you know as much as you do. i think a lot of people drive cars and don t know anything. you know so much about the bike. do you notice anything else about the group of us? we re all women. reporter: we are all women. as a proud member of the club i had to see what all the fuss was about. i m nervous. i have done a lot of things. i have never been on a motorcycle before. shall we do this? let s do it. reporter: all right! where else would i begin than california s stunning pacific coast highway? wow. that was great. when you re out there, you are very aware of everything around you, but at the same time it s i don t know. i don t have words. it s exhilarating. you re like in a zone. reporter: a zone many of these women can t live without. oh, boy. motorcycling to me is like my therapy. you re not thinking about what you re doing at work. it s a great way to refresh after a hard day at work or a hard week in the office. it s a rush of everything. it s a rush of adrenaline. it makes me really happy. i love the freedom, the thrill, just the complete sense of relaxation. i m as free as a bird now i do that. put easy rider in your ear. go fast. it s a loosy-goosy thing and there is a lot of work that goes into it. you have to be so aware of everything around you, of a puble, a pothole. you re really focusing the whole time. and you have to keep your mouth shut. it didn t work out for me so well. it wasn t a good fit. did you get the bug? no pun intended. would you like to ride more? i would, but it s such a focused sport and i eat tacos and put on mascara while driving. the harley or the newer type of bike. why not? coming up, more after the local news. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning a. i am mindy basara. a 43-year-old essex woman was killed over the weekend in a motorcycle crash. baltimore to police say that she was riding with her husband when he reportedly lost control and slid in the path of an suv. she was pronounced dead at the scene. the husband was taken to a nearby hospital and his condition is unknown. back in a minute with a check on now let s look at the forecast with tony pann. it will be another war and humid day with a mixture of clouds and sunshine. 40% chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms. upper 80s and low 90s. every little change in the next couple of days. warm and humid conditions, a chance for a shower and thunderstorm each day, with temperatures in the low 90s. we will have another update at 9:25.