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thank you, guys. it s wednesday. we have money 911. we re answering a lot of great questions. our panel sharon epperson, jean chatzky and dylan ratigan, declaring bankruptcy for your business or your personal finances to the best retirement accounts if your company doesn t offer a 401(k). our gang of three here to answer the questions. all right. we talk about it a lot on the show, the obesity epidemic and now a cdc report that really is alarming. you ll see the statistics. up to 72 million americans are now categorized as obese. that s a rise of 2.5 million people from a couple of years ago. so are you considered obese? we ll give you a breakdown. you may be shocked. and then speaking of i was shocked, it s off again. bristol palin. you were shocked? i thought it was love. actually al made fun of me because i really thought it was a romeo/juliet. turns out it s a bust. apparently levi johnston offended bristol palin. she s called the whole thing off. we have details on exactly what went wrong and she s reportedly back home with her mom. this may be it. also, just when you thought you knew everything about chelsea clinton s wedding there are new details. there s more? there s more, ladies and gentlemen. we have more scoop on that wedding. more scoop than you can fill your tummy with. good to know. let s go inside. carl quintanilla is filling in for ann. good morning. good morning, matt. good morning, everybody. what bp is calling the gulf of mexico milestone, the company says the broken well appears to have reached a static condition after heavy mud was pumped into the well. it s the first indication the so-called static kill may be working. the new assessment found that about 75% of the oil has either been captured, burned off, evaporated or broken down in the gulf. in manchester, connecticut, shock and disbelief after an employee shot and killed eight people at a beer distributing company before killing himself. one survivor said the shooter was as cold as ice when he opened fire. at least 15 people are dead in a car bombing in iraq. the blast outside of baghdad wounded at least 60 others. today a legal challenge expected to be filed following a controversial vote by a new york city panel that cleared the way tuesday for a mosque to be built near ground zero. opponents say the mosque would disrespect the memory of those killed on 9/11. the pentagon says it s sending six helicopters from afghanistan to help ferry relief supplies or refugees in flood ravaged pakistan. pakistan publicly resists any u.s. military presence inside the country. but it is accepting humanitarian help with the death toll over 1,500 and whole villages under surging floodwaters. there s been another horrible attack on kindergarten students in china where a man with a knife killed three children and a teacher. about 20 other people were wounded. a big wildfire in central oregon has burned more than 2,600 acres. some nearby homes were evacuated. that fire is about 20% contained. some new baby pictures from the philadelphia zoo where one newborn, a 2-week-old jury after is standing head and shoulders above the rest. it s the first giraffe to be born at the zoo in years. by the way, it s a girl. good news for all the boy giraffes at the zoo. carl, do you know what s worse than a giraffe with a sore throat? centipede with sore feet. i want the last ten seconds of my life back. money back guarantee. we re looking at this heat wave continuing from indianapolis down to new orleans, houston, columbia, south carolina. we re talking about dangerous heat, heat warnings, heat advisories, upper level high. we have a cold front and we also have the jet stream way to the north but the cold front dips down as does the jet stream so that brings relief. temperatures will feel like 111 in st. louis. 109 in tulsa. 103 in cincinnati but by friday that front drops down and we get a little relief down to 87 in cincinnati. 91 in st. louis. little rock will feel a little cooler with the temperature of 97. we will see some scattered showers and thunderstorms off and on as we head to the day today. it will be a muggy day. high temperatures and the low 90s. somebody call 911 this morning on today s money 911 advice for your financials. jean chatzky, the author of money 911, dylan ratigan the host of the dylan ratigan show on msnbc, and sharon epperson, cnbc s financial correspondent. we have tamron hall outside fielding questions and infecting the crowd. so good morning, everybody. are you all ready? ready to go. we have melissa standing by on the phone in utah. good morning, melissa. what s your question? caller: well, my husband and i are 2 1/2 years into owning our own business and we ve been unable to break even. our loan company is coming back to us telling us we have to sell or liquidate and if that happens we re not going to be able to get the full amount owed. so i m wondering if we re still going to be responsible for that remaining amount and we would then have to declare bankruptcy. if we declare bankruptcy with a business, is that going to affect our home? my husband still has a full-time job and we are able to cover all of our home expenses. jean? melissa, how did you set the business up? what is the structure? is it a corporation, an llc? it s an scorp. in that case it depends on the type of bankruptcy you file whether or not it actually affects your personal belongings the time to talk to a bankruptcy lawyer is right now before you go any further and you may want to go back to talk to the sba as well because they have counselings on staff who can walk people through this. the unfortunate thing about starting a business, and we applaud people who start businesses that s what drives this economy absolutely. a certain percentage of them, a large percentage of them fail within the first couple of years. but you should be able to protect what s yours to keep that home as long as you file the right kind of bankruptcy. and congratulations on making an attempt. i d be interested at some point to hear the problems you re trying to solve. i think it s important when a business fails to then share what you ve learned in the process of trying to cultivate that business with other people who may also be trying to solve that problem. because there are so many business that is are fail and the one thing you want to be able to do when you re looking at that bankrupt attorney is talk to several people, not just someone who is going to try to take your money and try to solve this problem really quickly. go through a couple of people to make sure you get the right advice. we have an e-mail now sent in by kendra. she asked, i m a 23-year-old and i just earned my registered nurse license. i don t have a 401(k) plan through my present employer. what are the best types of plans i can enroll in to save for retirement and how much money should i be putting in each month? jean, why don t you start with this? the important thing for kendra is to just do something, right, because she has the opportunity through a roth i.r.a., through a traditional i.r.a. to put some money aside. you want to do it on an automatic basis so that every month the reason 401(k)s work, people don t understand this but the reason they work you take the money out of the paycheck before you have the opportunity to spend it. and automating can be done with regular savings as well. no one wants to really go into a money market account now. they think they re not going to make a lot of money. if you re not building up liquid savings to have pay yourself. pay yourself first. and start with 5% or 10%. the only thing i would add to that is make sure you are incredibly diversified as you can. that doesn t mean a bunch of different stocks. that means owning things that are not stocks. owning things that are things, owning commodities, having exposure, also protection from the possibility that interest rates could go up, that there are a variety of different things that could happen but mog more important than the diversity and also at your age make sure you re making decisions not just about your savings but about your career that are giving you more options. don t think so much about does this job pay me more or does this job pay me more at 23. whatever job it is at 23 it doesn t pay that well. you learn the most and get the most opportunities down the line. ellen from framingham, massachusetts. good morning, ellen. what s your question? caller: my mother has just sold her house after 52 years and is moving into an assisted living. my question is, where is the best place for her to invest or save the money from the sale of the house? the assisted living is very expensive and she ll need the funds to live off of. some of the money can go into a bank account but the rates are so low to survive on. what are your suggestions for a woman in her 80s? sharon? you don t want to put all your money into a bank account. that is the right idea. i d say first start with having that money in some type of liquid account, a money market account, a high-yielding savings account, at least three to six months worth of covering those expenses. you don t want to invest that money you re going to need for those expenses. the next chunk of money i would put into cds. ladder your cds. what do i mean by that? buy a bunch of cds, different maturities, and will have different interest rates. two-year cd will have a better interest rate than a three-month cd but have a ladder of them and then you can spread out the interest rates and keep your cash flow going. also short-term bond fund is a good thing to have to make sure you have a little bit more interest that you re going to be able to get. short-term bond fund is a good way to go but watch the expenses. watch the expense ratio. keep it low. we wish you well with your mom, too. now let s head outside. tamron hall has a question from the crowd. sharon is in new york celebrating her 25th anniversary with her nice husband over there. how many years? 25. 25. all right. and what s your question? i would like to know will home rates remain stable for people seeking to refinance? i m going to look into my crystal ball for you you do that. home loan rates right now are unbelievable. if you have the opportunity to refinance, you should do it and you don t worry about if they re going to go lower because eventually they re going to go higher. so if you have the opportunity to grab this cash, grab this once-in-a-lifetime literally opportunity you don t think it s ever going to be this low. in your life it s going to be a process. i m going to wait until it goes down. by the time you actually refinance and close and do all that, it could be several months down the road so keep in mind if you can do it right now, try to do it. make sure it s the right thing for you to do and make sure you can afford to do it. the last thing i ll say, remember, we have and are still living through a housing crisis in this country. housing is at the wrong price still because money was invented to pump into the housing market and it creates distorted prices. the government is trying to ease the adjustment out of that by deliberately keeping those rates as low as they can. so the one thing i will say to you is for as long as the government feels they can keep rates low because they think it s helping to keep them in their jobs and this economy functional, they will keep those rates low. there will be a point, though, at which rates will have to come up in order to attract capital back into our country. it s a great time. it s a great time to refinance. thanks so much. you can watch the dylan ratigan show almost got through the whole segment without screwing up his name weekdays at msnbc 4:00 p.m. eastern. don t forget he has questions for our experts. go to todayshow.com. up next, the rise of obesity in america. are you considered obese? 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that the numbers it continue to increase. 2.5 million americans more than the last time we looked at this are now obese. and that s a trend that has continued. it looked like it was beginning to abate but it is not abating. and the problem with obesity is that it costs a lot to treat people who are obese. it costs us health care dollars to treat obesity. and speaking to these results, though, i mean, they may not even be an accurate true picture because this is done by a phone survey of some 400,000 americans, as i understand. so people aren t necessarily as reliable when it comes to defining whether or not they re obese or not, is that right? that s right. we know these phone surveys are an underestimate of the fum of people who are actually obese. in general, it s about 7% to 10% more who are obese because people say that they re taller and they weigh less but the important point is that we re getting heavier. all of the trends that have an impact on weight are going in the wrong direction and that is up. why is that increase happening? what is the reasoning behind that? there are a number of factors. it s not just that we re eating too much and we re not exercising enough, although that s clearly a part of the pictu picture. but there are many subtle things that are going on that affect metabolism. for example, we no longer have to control the temperature of our bodies. we have air conditioning and heating systems to do it. there are medicines that cause people to gain weight. and there are many other factors. they re all compounding on the problem which has made us a very obese population. you take a look at that map, though, i think what really is most striking is that nine states where over 30% of the adults are obese, i mean, you see it s all for the most part the midwest, south of the country. what does this indicate to you? that s also known as the stroke belt. where people are very likely to have heart attacks and strokes. so we know that obesity is a leading cause of heart attack and stroke. we know that the tendency to people in that area, the way they eat, they don t mind in some cases being overweight, culturally it isn t bad to be a big person. again, all of the factors are going in the wrong direction and that s added to our body s tendency to allow weight to go up. anyone who has ever tried to lose weight will let you know it s a one-way trip. your body lets you go up very easily. it doesn t want to let you go back down again. and you talked about how this is having a tremendous impact already on our very overstretched health care system. we talk about people who are obese, they re paying over $1,400 more a year for health care. so what is the impact on the nation at large? this is obviously having a tremendous impact on health care costs. and a good way to reduce health care costs would be to reduce obesity. for example, if we could get people to lose just 12 pounds, just 12 pounds, you would reduce the risk of developing diabetes by 60%. not just for a year or two years but for more than ten years. i m sure people who are frustrated with trying to lose weight, it really is an uphill battle half the time. it is an uphill battle but it can be done. even small amounts of weight loss are a success. so people often achieve 10, 15-pound weight loss but they give up because they think it s not enough. it s not what they ve seen people lose in a tv show. but it s worth doing. any weight loss is valuable weight loss. and it s going to be good for your body. that much better. thank you so much for being here. appreciate it. coming up next, the bristol palin bombshell. why she called off her engagement. also, exclusive new details inside chelsea clinton s wedding. then the best high-tech gadgets for your back-to-school kids. activia is better than ever! hey, you guys. want to try activia s great new taste? 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that s what bristol says, he wants to be famous. i thought it was love. really? i don t care. you can tweet me, facebook me, i don t care. i thought it was love. you were being positive. i thought he saw the light all that glitters isn t gold. apparently he s full of it. some will never change. on a nice note the clinton wedding we re learning a bit more. apparently there was a great tango dance. it was very sexy and sultry for the first dance between chelsea and marc mezvinsky. also a great picture from the clinton wedding as well with the mothers, the three generations. mrs. clinton s mother, is it dorothy? actually helped with the wedding. thank you! phew! 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[ female announcer ] lactaid®. the original lactose-free milk. this morning on today s tech back-to-school gadgets from elementary school to high school, even college, high-tech mommy is here with cool tools for your kids so that they can rule at school. good morning. good to see you. thank you for having me. you have some great things. i want to get to the list. you started out with elementary school. the elementary kids are learning how to tell time. this teaches them. it s called the tell me clock. my favorite part is that it turns green when it s okay to go into mommy and daddy s room. the 10-year-old comes in at 5:00 a.m. no more. it turns green. that means go. and what age group? i know it s elementary. the 2-year-old in my house likes it, too. this is a board that you write on with addition, subtraction and push the button and it erases so you want to get the repetitive motion of learning, writing upside-down is hard. with this you don t have to do paper. it has a travel case and is lightweight. and $350 laptop. it s the asis net pal and these are partnered they partnered with disin the not only for the exterior but all of the software as well so you don t need to worry about safety features. it has its own browser, all kid friendly, and make sure your children are doing appropriate things with their computer. that is great. and when it s lunch time, there s even a gadget to help out with that. a high-tech designed lunch box called the good bin. you use about $190 worth of plastic bags throughout a year especially in my house with four kids. really? forget about it. you have the good bin. you can wash it and design it. it s a great design lunch box. if it s too big, you said, no, it should fit into a back pack and be fine. you have to get kids up somehow. this is an alien alarm clock. if you want the alarm to stop, you have to shoot it. so that would get you out of bed and for a ram shung shus boy that would knock you out. you talk to it. now are we moving up into a higher grade level? this isn t elementary anymore, right? now we re middle school, high school. you talk to your alarm clock now, what time you want it to get up and stop talking. you go stop and then it snoozes. these are net book. this is the hot category on ebay right now. people are wanting cool designed, low priced, that is what you get. these are under three pounds. this is the athena. they come with these cool bags and it s a net book. three pounds and it has cool style. what is the price on this? this is about $600. you can find them starting at about $400 depending on what you want. this is high school/middle school age group there? exactly. and now i assume we re moving up to the college level. yes. if you want to see your kids my 4-year-old is far from college but i want to see his face every day, right? and if he wants me to pay his phone bill, then we re going to get something called face time on the iphone 4 which means i can actually see his face when i m talk iing to him. i can see in his eyes. when your 4-year-old gets to college there will be much cooler things. the face time is what it s all about. hit one button and i can look into his eyes. al roker made the point when we were kids in college our parents couldn t see us. does this put a little too much technology in the relationship? i want to see the eyes. this is called the he cecho gps personal locator so kids don t get lost on campus. you hold down the button, number one so they don t get lost on campus? as you re leaving your room, your dorm room, hold down number one. it remembers that location. you go off to class. where is my dorm room, it points you. you re scaring me. i don t know if i want to send my kid to college if he can t find his way back to a dorm room. what if he s in a new city. we re staying at home. if you can t make it to the dorm room, you re staying home. this is an alarm clock with wi-fi and different apps on it. you can touch the screen to get weather, netflix. it gets kids out of bed. this is awesome. and you said you could even get netflix on it. if your roommate is doing something questionable you don t want to pay attention to, start watching netflix. and then the max book pro. and you can get a free ipod touch with your pro, for about $1,000. foldable bikes f. you re going to school in a city, you don t want to leave your bike out, this is it collapses to the small size. pretty cool. you don t need to leave it out. everything is great except for the gps thing. the kid getting lost concerns me. thank you very much. up next, adding some raging cajun kick to your next dinner party. this morning spicing up tonight s dinner with some cajun flavor. the restaurant out of chicago, one of carl s favorites, he has three great marinades for steak, chicken and fish. i m one of those people i any they ever far enough in evaporates to make the marinade, but you can actually do a marinade and just let it sit for 15 minutes. 15 minutes to get a little extra flavor which really, really works. here with the flank steak, we like to heat the oil on this one. and then i want to you help me out. okay. and cajun is very easy. we have some rosemary, thyme and chillies. dump it into the oil? it s already hot. why do you heat the oil? then it activates the no, she put the roasted garlic in. it activates the herbs and kind of wakes them up. it s really nice. then we mix that around a little bit and then we would let this cool, okay, and when it s cool, then we would just take it, marinade the meat. i like to keep some separate and when we re serving just drizzle a little bit over that. rosemary, jalapenos and thyme. a little bit of creole seasoning or cajun seasoning and we can finish with that. before i cook that the bam. exactly. originated the bam. whenever we do chicken thighs, some olive oil, lemon juice, kind of make the marinade. we have a bigger one with this, i like to marinade it and then i like to save some more and then after i grill it, dip it right back in there. throw some onions in there, also some oregano and parsley, salt and pepper. and how long do you let it then sit with the chicken thighs? can you let it sit too long? it starts cooking. i like anywhere from an hour to like half like six hours is perfect. and the garlic goes in there, too. can you do it without the garlic or is that a must have? listen, i always say, your kitchen, your rules. hey, jimmy. the difference here is you have the lemon juice. and then we take a little bit over here. we would soak this. once we pull them right off the grill, dip them right back in the marinade again. the same with the fish? we do white wine and olive oil, basil, oregano and parsley. just kind of mix that up. a pinch. perfect. and put the herbs in there. did you it on tuna. we re out of time. jimmy, good to have you here. come on back. thanks so much. up next, actress marsha is stopping by. live, local, latebreaking. this is a wbal-tv 11 news update. good morning. i am tony pann. scattered showers and thunderstorms is still possible into the afternoon. it will not be steady rain. it will be hit and miss pretty good idea to take an umbrella. high-temperature near 92. will keep the theme on thursday. 95, with thunderstorms in the trapped in the trance of their shopping routine, some people don t notice the difference between meat. and mystery, when they enter. the frozen zone. is it real chicken? 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