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we have more answers to your pressing financial questions including what to do when huge medical costs are trying to push you to the brink. also when to get back into the real estate game after bankruptcy. we re going to tell you everything you need to know. you know the saying you say to your kids good night, sleep tight, don t threat bed bugs bite. well, it s not just for kids anymore. we are talking about infestations ticked up 500% in recent years with 1 in 4 hotel rooms infested, according to a recent survey. yum. so what should you do to avoid having them and what do you do if you get them? we ll have advice in a little bit. seeing the video makes me itch. between the head lice yesterday and this ew. news you can use. good times. speaking of news, chelsea clinton, a big buzz around her upcoming nuptials. what will she wear? who is on the invite list? chelsea apparently dropped a huge clue yesterday. tuesday she was photographed. believe it or not, that s chelsea clinton. not a woman with a lampshade. that s the former first daughter arriving at a famous designer s showroom. her mother was there as well. and then bumped into a wall. right there. that is a clue. we ll talk about what designer she may wear and the buzz around the glamorous affair. pretty cool. let s go inside. ann is on assignment. natalie has a look at the headlines. good morning. reporte . good morning to you. more than 30 homes destroyed near california s mojave desert. the fire is threatening 150 homes. governor schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency. the u.s. embassy confirms that two americans were among those killed when a jet liner crashed near pakistan s capital. it was raining heavily when the flight from karachi went down and burned. there were 152 people aboard. officials say there were no survivors. the head of the website wikileaks that released secret documents on the afghanistan war said he has thousands of other records he did not post because it contained the names of u.s. service members overseas. the justice department is helping the pentagon with its investigation of the leak. a federal judge could rule today on the legality of arizona s new immigration law which is supposed to take effect tomorrow. the controversial law requires police making routine stops to check a person s immigration status if they suspect the person is in the country illegally. an unusual way to celebrate a soccer goal in iceland. what else do they like to do in iceland? they like to fish. so the team reeled in a big one and, of course, posed for a picture with their catch. you should have seen the one that got away though. that s a good one. it is now three minutes past the hour. let s get another check on the weather from al. they took it a little far when they stuffed and mounted him. ooh. thanks, natalie. all right. let s show you what s happening as far as your weather is concerned today. we have showers and thunderstorms coming across the great lakes. that s going to work into the northeast tonight into tomorrow. we have sunshine along the pacific northwest coast. warmer than usual temperatures. warmer in the pacific northwest than in southern california. showers on the gulf coast of it is going to be a warm and humid day to day, and there is a 30% chance of a shower or thunderstorm. the best chance of this afternoon 9-1-1 now today s money 9-1-1 where we try to help with your financial problems. we have jean chatzky, author of money 9-1-1 dylan rhadigan from msnbc and carmen, personal finance expert. we re going to the phones now. we have celesta from ohio. good morning. caller: good morning. what s your question? caller: my husband works at a small college. he s been a reference several times for students trying to secure financial aid. however, i think he has inadvertently co-signed a loan for one of the students. i know he genuinely didn t understand because when we got paperwork in the mail he turned some strange shades of gray and i said, what have you done? he said, i was a reference like i was before. i said, oh, no, no. this is a co-sign. you are equally obligated. wow. caller: we have tried to ask the family maybe to help the student secure her own loan. it s been a year. she s missed payments. now you re on the hook. we get the calls. what can they do? unfortunately they are on the hook. to get off the hook in a cosigning situation that student has to make 24 on-time payments in a row. caller: i know. what can they do? you have to sit down with the student, bring her parents in, other representatives from the university. you need a pow-wow. there was a paper trail that was supposed to go back and forth. you may actually want to get legal advice. you may want to bring in the authorities if you think this young woman knew what she was doing and your husband didn t. i mean, it sounds like he s a nice guy who made a mistake. he s wonderful and she s a nice gal. can i just say something she may not be a nice gal. she needs to understand what she is doing to your husband s financial life. he did her a huge how call her and let her know how serious this is. for everybody else, this is why we do not cosign. we re going to get your information. we want you to check back in and see where this goes. we can get you a contact at sallie may and try to work this out. we ll get somebody on tap with you. good luck. we have an e-mail question from janet in florida. she writes, my husband and i are both in our 60s and retired. we had a business that failed. both business and personal bankruptcy declared. losing our home and money saved. we are now renting a condo. my question is, should we continue renting for life or should we try to get a mortgage for a place of our own? we have an income of $4,000 per month. what do they do? the hardest thing for people to do when you come through a transition of any kind like this and one thing i want to say is to have a business fail is an incredibly american thing to have happen. one reason we are the country we are is because people do attempt to solve problems, form businesses and they do fail. sometimes you find yourself in this situation and you say, i used to be here and now i m here. you shouldn t try to race to get back to where you were, get back in the house, back into the car. be patient. pay your rent. relax. live your life. it s impossible for me or anyone else to answer the question, but at some point you will have the opportunity by virtue of the passage of time and the payment of debt meaning your ongoing post bankruptcy debt that you will have access once again to lending. but you shouldn t feel that clutching need. it could be tougher. credit s not there long. people who have come through bankruptcy often get offered credit in 12 months, 24 months. the question you have to ask yourself is, can i handle it? clearly i couldn t handle it last time. also, they are in their mid 60s. you have to ask when you should have paid off your mortgage if you want to take on another one. it may not make sense to take on a 30-year mortgage. also we have rebecca from washington state on the phone. caller: good morning. what s your question? caller: i am a 45-year-old woman. i was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and had a lumpectomy. i will undergo radiation and systemic treatments. i m dealing with the fear of cancer and the anxiety of the financial impact. the out of pocket costs will exceed our savings which i don t want to entirely drain. we fear high interest rates or being sent to collections. you advise never to touch your ira. would it be better to put the bill on our 9.9% interest visa or apply for a loan? medical expenses account for most of the bankruptcies in this country. a lot. i had to deal with this in my family with my mother and two of my four sisters. don t stress about this. this should be the least of your stresses. concentrate on your health and getting better. there is a lot of help out there. two things you do not do. one, do not touch your retirement savings. those are safe, even in bankruptcy. two, never charge medical debt on a credit card. then you owe the credit card company. you cannot negotiate. keep the bill with the hospital. a secret is there is no retail price with medical debt. you have medicare gets charged one rate by hospitals and doctors, then people with insurance get charged a middle rate and those without insurance get the highest rate. go to health carebluebook.com and see negotiated rates in your area as to what people are paying their doctors. negotiate the bills down, way down as far as you can. work out a real sensible monthly payment plan. if you get tired, especially with treatment and you can t deal with this, find a low fee medical billing advocate at billadvocates.com. we hope your health comes back, rebecca. thank you very much. best of luck. now let s go outside to jeff in the plaza. he s got a question. jeff? ca call. what could be investment strategies proactive with the green movement that would help my wife and i meet our financial goals? that s a really good question. actually, there are a few ways to go about this. if you want to experiment in green investing you may want to look at companies, stocks that have greened their corporate practices. it doesn t mean you have to go out and find a designated green mutual fund or an energy company although you can do that. you might look at companies like mcdonald s or nike, for example, or starbucks that have taken a look at what they do corporately and have said, we are good citizens in this world. the only thing i would add to that when you think about green from an investment standpoint is it is not just about, oh, are we using something that s not a fossil fuel. is it wind, solar? our big problem when you look at the world is we are the most inefficient group of people i have ever seen. we don t use the most oil of everybody else. we just burn the most oil out of anybody in the world. there are a lot of companies poised to exploit the fact that for instance our power generation facilities, 30% efficiency. 70% of our fuels burned goes off into the sky. efficient technology is the greenest thing that can be done for this country. guys, thank you very much. jean, dylan and carmen, thank you very much. you can catch the big dog on msnbc. coming up, adding color to perk up your home and mood. speaking of homes, how to deal with unwelcome guests bed bugs. right after these messages. i m hungry. what s for dinner? 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here with hitips, missy hendrickson. you have been quoted as saying we are on the verge i m itching. sorry about that. on the verge of a pandemic. why the huge increase in the numbers. most professionals say increased international travel is the number one cause for the problem in america. we re the carriers? unfortunately. bed bugs are hitchhikers. they are seeking to be where people are. wherever we find mass concentrations of people we ll find bed bugs. the national pest management association polled professionals and found 95% had dealt with them in the past year. ten years ago it was 25%. it sounds, too, like the professionals are finding them impossible to beat. is that true? not impossible. that s the good news. they certainly are one of the most difficult pests to treat. more than cockroaches, mice termites, ants. anything we think is hard to control. do we need to quarantine ourselves before walking into our homes? absolutely not. it s important to recognize that bed bugs are here, on the rise and it s a pandemic proportion. but hiding ourselves won t do any good. the most important thing is to be educated so we can be vigilant in protecting ourselves. they are even in stores like victoria s secret, abercrombie & fitch. inspect merchandise before you try it on. look at the seams, the garments, unusual stains that may be the signs of little mini blood droplets on the cloths. look for bed bugs or certainly any egg sacks as well. when you re in the dressing room, keep cloths off the floor or the soft goods and keep them hanging up. certainly with the hand bag as well. when returning home take a look at the bag the garments are returning home with you in. lastly, i would recommend that any consumer takes the new cloths, put them in the wash. bed bugs can t with stand temperatures greater than 113 degrees fahrenheit. a good washing or dry cleaning for delicate merchandise should take care of the problem. hotels, motels. strip the beds, look under the sheets, what else? a lot of bed bugs are picked up traveling. do a thorough inspection of the room before you check in. leave your suitcase in the bathroom and look around the beds. pull back the sheets, pull back the mattress covers, look for certainly any bugs. look around the seams and look for telltale signs of blood that we have mentioned. bed bugs feed on human blood. blood droplets could be a sign. take a travel flashlight. look behind the head board and pull up the dust ruffle to look underneath. they are nocturnal and aren t always visible to the eye. they re not. often times we can see adults if we look carefully. the babies, not as easy to spot. okay. not everybody will have a reaction though, right? right. not everyone does have a reaction. certainly when you re in your own home environment you can look at your bed, you can look around your room for some of the things we have mentioned. another telltale sign that you may have cause for concern is you will see little welts. they re very itchy and often are in a line, a straight line up and down the area that s been bitten. boy, you are a lovely person, but the subject matter is creeping me out. missy hendrickson, thank you very much for being here. important to be well educated on this. coming up, we re going to brighten your mood by brightening your home. why you shouldn t be afraid to add a pop of color. and later, chelsea clinton is spotted in a famous wedding designer s showroom. we have the latest scoop on the blessed nuptials coming up. first, these messages. you take just once a month. it s simponi™, and taken with methotrexate, it helps relieve the pain, stiffness, and swelling of ra with one dose a month. visit 4simponi.com to see if you qualify for a full year of cost support. simponi™ can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious and sometimes fatal events can occur, such as infections, cancer in children and adults, heart failure, nervous system disorders, liver or blood problems, and allergic reactions. before starting simponi™, your doctor should test you for tb and assess your risk of infections, including fungal infections and hepatitis b. ask your doctor if you ve been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. tell your doctor if you re prone to infections, or develop symptoms such as fever, fatigue, cough, or sores. you should not start simponi™ if you have an infection. 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bed bugs? i was getting over it. we have old-fashioned desserts that were popular in lean economic times making a comebachblgt we ll sh come ba. we ll show you three of the recipes. edinger s chocolate cake with pudding. maybe they will serve it at chelsea s wedding on saturday in upstate new york. the speculation is mounting. that s right. who was lucky enough to get an invite and what will she be wearing? we got a hint on tuesday when photos from women s wear daily magazine of chelsea sneaking that s chelsea clinton, they say, under the big hat. nobody noticed her. that s great. boy, the hat worked. it s crazy. why didn t she wear a diving bell? this is chelsea. she was going as we mock her before her wedding. she was going into vera wang s showroom on tuesday. her mother, of course, secretary of state. poor girl. everybody descending on her. lose the hat. walk in. we won t see the dress. the secret service and your mom are going in. bite the bullet and go in. apparently the speculation is she ll wear vera wang. she s been spotted at oscar de la renta several times. will she wear one dress for the ceremony and another for the reception? she ll be a beautiful bride. that s a lot of work. a girl has to look good. and have lots of dresses. for a wedding? you re supposed to only do it once and have it be amazing. two dresses for the same ceremony? hold that vow. i have to change. it s like diana ross hosting the grammys. i have to put my straw hat on. chelsea, do your ching. thing. you go, girl. we have watched her grow up. you want her to be beautiful. and you want to celebrate. i want to know what bill s wearing. bill lost weight. he looks terrific. he lost weight per chelsea s request or is so nervous he can t eat. and the mother of the bride to be, i think it will be a great, glamorous event. not that we ll see it. we ll see pictures. we wish them the best. what s going on with the weather? looking good. it s going to be a spectacular wedding weekend. for today we have the risk of strong storms later and a risk of storms back through idaho. wet weather through the southwest and down around the gulf coast. for tomorrow, hit or miss showers and it is going to be warmer and more humid than yesterday. in the humidity we will see a few thunderstorms pop up. we will put a 30% chance on it. and that s your latest weather. coming up next, add a splash of life to your home with color right after this. twice as fast.. getaway we get double miles every time we use our card. no matter what we re buying. and since double miles add up quick. romans! get em! 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[ dog panting ] [ dog sniffs ] [ cat meows ] [ cat meows ] [ male announcer ] cats everywhere are using fresh step with carbon because it doesn t just mask odors, it eliminates them. so don t be surprised if your cat needs help finding her litter box. fresh step, the only clay litter with carbon. it s paw-activated, to eliminate odors. so it s almost like not having a litter box. this morning in today s kitchen, what s old is new again. we have the host of america s test kitchen here to tell us how to make three old-fashioned treasures making a comeback. just in time. treasures? they are to be eaten, not put in a museum. absolutely not. what are we making? going back in time to the depression, 1930s, 1940s. these are cakes that came from that time. ingredients are hard to find butter, et cetera. the first is chocolate based on mayonnaise. mayonnaise? they are lost recipes we worked on. these are all in the pantry. start with cocoa, flour, a cup of mayonnaise. this was invented by the wife of a helmann s distributor. what a shock. she tried 18 other things first. hey, what about mayonnaise? you re in a good mood this morning. diving bell! i m going to get through the segment somehow. water, mayonnaise. sugar, some stuff. mayonnaise. and mayonnaise. you can never get enough mayonnaise in the chocolate cake. that s it. dump and stir into the pan. 35 minutes, 350 degrees. what do you ice it with? it s butter, brown sugar, cook it in a sauce pan. a little bit of milk and confectioner s sugar. the next is the lazy daisy cake. people come for coffee or dinner. it s a one layer cake, a hot milk cake. the milk is hot when you put it in. it gives you a tender crumb. what s interesting is the topping. melted butter, brown sugar, evaporated milk and a cup and a half of coconut. that s where you lose me. i m not a fan but that s okay. you didn t tell me. i could have done something with mayonnaise for you. how about some miracle whip? you re a modern guy. i am. do you like chocolate? i don t eat that either. put this on top. into the broiler you broil this snm ye? yeah. this is the ultimate lost dessert. evan drew bakery s chocolate blackout. they never published the recipe. it is interesting cake. three layers. the fourth layer is a crumble toppi topping. then it has chocolate pudding as filling and icing. you have to make sure it cools or you ll have problems. if you don t you will have a mess. look at that. put it on the sides and you have, i think, the world s best chocolate cake and the recipe is back. you have to slice this up. mark, come on. mark s from brooklyn. he knows about this. come on in, mark. try this. okay. are we going to get a rating here or what? yep. that s it. we found it. you got it. unbelievable. this is amazing. do you know what would be great? ham and mayo in between the two of those. fantastic. everything goes better with mayo. al roker. recipes are on the website. much more ahead. first, this is today on nbc. i just want to eat the coconut. okay. has america found its next justin bieber? judging from last night s performances on america s got talent it looks that way. an 11-year-old rapper was called a cheeky little chap and impressed judges with his original rap. he faced off during a live show including this person, incredible street performer haspop. he left his family to pursue his american dream. he s a genius. howie mandel s favorite, belly dancing. they re not eating chocolate cake. put the cake down. tonight, mike posner performs cooler than me and more during the live results show at cooler than me and more during the live results show at 9:00/8:00 central time on nbc. captions by vitac www.vitac.com live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. four juveniles remain in custody after they are alleged to have robbed light rail riders. the suspects ranged in age from 14 to 17 and face a number of charges, including armed it looks like things will be smooth sailing. in the afternoon hours, a 30% chance of a shower or thunderstorm. more humid than yesterday. high-temperature around 92. scattered storms likely on thursday. looks nice at the beginning of the weekend. we will see you back here for 11 news at noon.