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thank you, katy perry. that s one of the hottest performers around performing her huge breakthrough hit i kissed a girl. we ll have the entire song later on this morning. as you can see right now she is signing autographs. a lot of fans have been out here since last night. it s really great to see her concerts here. i love her outfit, too. she is so good to her fans. she took care of them last night. sent them pillows and blankets, as you said, for the ones that camped out. a really great concert. that s right. anyway, meantime matt and al are actually in new orleans and they ve been reporting all morning about the fifth anniversary of hurricane katrina. i understand you re checking out a new mode of transportation this morning. well, it s not so new to us but it is a big deal down here. this is the segue courtesy of segue tours and they give some fan t fantastic tours of the area including new orleans. we re going to take you on a tour on the segue in a little bit. i m not going on that tour. the people of the gulf region have been enough without me wreaking havoc on the segway. you notice both natalie and ann, it s started to pour here in new orleans. that s okay. we ve had a good time this morning. you ve done a great job. thank you, guys. and i know they ll be doing a little new orleans cooking coming up as well. also from here we re going to get a real estate reality check, show you what you can get for $200,000 and under. some real bargains out there. a look at some really hot properties coming up in just a second. also we ll be talking about the joys of having an only child so that s coming up in our broadcast. first a check of the news. let s go inside, get a check of the latest headlines from carl quintanilla. good morning again. good morning. and good morning, everybody. some new gdp numbers show the economy grew at a much greater pace between july and june than people thought. watching ben bernanke on reviving the economy. the 33 trapped miners are shown to be a little thinner but in good spirits. they may not be rescued until christmas. the cia has been making secret payments to members of afghanistan s government. a senior u.s. official said it s been going on for quite some time. the washington post reports crucial information from hadmid karz karzai s inner circle. a recall of corollas and mat matrixes because the engine may stall. vibes are also being recalled. a young musician moved an audience to tears by playing the piano with his toes. on a talent show in china. he learned to play with his feet after both of his arms were amputated as a child. it it is now three minutes past the hour. back to al in new orleans. all right, thanks a lot, carl. and, of course, we re joined by one of new orleans favorite sons, mr. aaron neville. good to see you. five-time grammy-award winner, new orleans native. you have a new album out called i know i ve been changed available in october. se celebrating your five decades in music. has it been that long? hard to believe. you started when you were 3. i m a mere lad of 45 now. 50 years behind you. what do you decide what to put on an album? record companies and producers help me. and you ll be going on tour going on tour in september. five years since katrina. i know you ve got you ve got issues that have kept you from being here for a good portion of the time. my asthma kind of was coming back for a while. i have a place in covington. the album is i know i ve been changed. we look forward to it. good to see you. thank you, sir. good to see you. let s quickly check your weather and see what s going on. we have a whole bunch of storms out in the atlantic to talk about. triple threat. we have danielle, earl, and then possibly fiona to talk about. danielle the big one. category 4 storm. it s going to be moving away from bermuda. that s good news. that gets out of here. then we also have to worry about tropical storm earl. this one barely a storm with 45-mile-per-hour winds. the movement on this system will stay to the west for a long period of time so it s maybe probl problematic for parts of, say, san juan, puerto rico, and then makes its way towards the southeast. we don t know what s going to happen. and then we have this strong tropical wave which could become fiona in the next 48 hours coming across the cape verde islands. we continue to watch it and see another area coming off of africa that may be the fourth system before it s all over. beautiful morning. lots of sunshine. nearest rain down in carolinas. for us, plenty of sunshine. we will be in the 80 s for and that s your latest weather. natalie? al, thank you. in today s real estate homes you can buy for $200,000 and under. that s what the typical house costs these days and our real estate expert, today contributor barbara corcoran has some beauties to show you this morning. good morning. under $200,000, one of our lowest price points and we have some really cool finds. let s take a look in alabama. this is a four-bedroom home, priced at $189,900. you would think you wouldn t get much but take a look at this house on the eastern shore of mobile bay, about 20 minutes from mobile. their favorite saying in the town is newcomers soon become our good friends and i think that s true. start right there with the kitchen. a creole-style home which means it has a big front porch, perfect for sipping, and a big backyard with an inground pool you ll see in a minute. great kitchen. huge. it s like a house in and of itself. it has the separate dining area. i think a few of the items there in that room ought to be taken away like the blue bottles, distracting. it s a huge window that overlooks the gorgeous backyard. in the backyard it has a totally finished patio, fully planted. the master bedroom upstairs. i m jumping around. looking good, though. a master bedroom with the ceiling fan. the backyard, that s a big selling point. that s a private pool no one can see in. no one can see out. what s wrong with that house? it s under $200,000. and in that heat down south you ll need to jump in the pool. next to kansas city, kansas. not that far from kansas city, missouri. $195,000. and this house is totally different. you re going to look at it and say, wow, what s with this house? what s with this house is it s totally modern. see those big pams panels there? they catch the winter heat and block out the summer heat. the fuel cost to run this house is only 10% of its neighbors so it s very cheap to live here. you basically have no cost. everything is generated by the sun. you have to like a modern home. everything about this home is modern. you have to say it was designed by a great architect and it s beautiful modern not chopped up, not chunky. all the rooms flow. all the finishes are modern in keeping with the style of the home. it s a matter of whether you re going to pay for the extra bells and whistles. there s a beautiful staircase. everything about this home i like if you like a modern home. you do get your money back a little bit. you get more than your money back. most people aren t willing to pay that extra because they just don t get it. let s go to mississippi and you have a beautiful three-bedroom home priced at $194,9 $194,900. you ve got it. this is a fast growing community, the town adding 40 acres of parks, biking trails and hiking paths and this home is only a few blocks from the local elementary school which is a really good school. this is in mint condition. i think it s perfect for a starter home for a family. beautiful columns, shutters, wood floors throughout. the kitsch ep and appliances have been updated. you saw that charming dining room but also very spacious. there s a bar in the corner, the extra family room. extra family room. extra space to live here. there s a beautiful kitchen. i think in perfect keeping with the style. that s the unoccupied dining room. you never see that anymore but, boy, who couldn t picture moving their furniture in. look at that view. you re right on the lake so the lake is your backyard. nothing is wrong with this house for $194,000. spectacular. now let s take a look at a three bedroom home in tennessee priced at $206,000. and i think the biggest selling point here, barbara, is there s no income tax there in cordova? not at all. tennessee, the whole state, has no income tax. all you pay are county taxes which is minimal. this is different from the houses we ve seen before. you have to appreciate that it s in a gated section of the country club and it s sitting, again, right on a lake. we ll see the lake in just a minute. the style of this house is very different. these lake homes are often very dark. this one is not although a couple of the rooms really need lighting. when you have a lake house you have to have more lights within the house to make it show better, to lighten it in light colored walls which they do a great job in here. there s a big great room with copper ceilings, hardwood floors, the kitchen moldings. look at that. that backyard is beautiful. there s your lake. that s priceless that view the there. barbara corcoran, thanks for sharing some great properties with us. my pleasure. up next from condoleezza rice to carol burnett, there are a lot of famous only children. the joys and challenges of raising just one. katy perry still outside with her fans. she takes good care of all of them and will be back on the plaza to sing another song for us. s expanding rapidly, and my car was worn out, so we got the 97 camry. when i was 16, i got the camry, and i drove it for nine years. then when i turned 16, i was passed down the camry. i was like, yes! 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good. and, darla, seven years ago before the surgery, was there an alternative option for the gi s girls? really it didn t appear so. i mean, of course there s a lot of testing to be done and to make sure that it was going to be the best thing for the girls, but the way they were conjoined it did seem there wasn t really an option. and, jeff, when you talk about the 24-hour surgery and the recovery, how was that for them? they were so little at the time. well, the recovery was pretty good. mckenzie within six weeks was home. and macy had to stay a little bit longer, about a month or so longer for her to heal up. but now they re normal, very active young girls, they do just about everything, right, darla? they re very independent. they have chores. they take care of animals at home and they re pretty normal 7-year-old girls. you all moved out to a big farm, i understand, in iowa in 2003. so they have how many dogs and horses and cats? is it ten horses? yes. yeah? three dogs and four cats. you have a farm then all right. six kids total because you re raising the girls along with your three sons, too. it s a pretty full house. it is a full house. and your situation, they re foster children you adopted as babies and looking at what a wonderful addition they ve been to your family. yeah. they were our foster kids for about 18 months and then we had the opportunity to adopt them so of course we jumped on that opportunity. we wanted them all along. and, girls, i see you love that candy necklace, right? yes. and katy perry. i know you re a big katy perry fan, right? how was that? hold it like that. did you like the katy perry concert? yeah. i did. what s your favorite katy perry song? the last song. california gurls. that was the first song. and so you like to ride horses, madeline. i know you like to ride horses. are you showing your sisters? yeah. what else do you like to do, macy and mckenzie? i like to i just learned how to ride a horse so i ride most of the time. started wanting to ride. she s been afraid but we just told her if you want to ride, try. we have a horse that s gentle and she this past weekend rode quite a bit, actually. what about you, macy, what do you like to do? i like to do the same thing. the same thing, ride horses? and sing and dance and color. and they re going to the second grade soon? we already are. you already started? what s your favorite subject? p.e. p.e.? good for you. you re little athletes. oh, yeah. they love p.e. you like art. this is such a tremendous blessing. you wanted to say something to the doctors who helped with this and to all the people who have been responsible in helping bring them into your life. there have been so many. children s hospital los angeles was just wonderful. the doctors, the team, it was an enormous team. it was huge. i don t even know the number but it was a lot of people and the way they coordinated and just the way they took care of us and the family and the girls. we just really appreciate that. and then all of our family as well, our sons, who good big brothers. they re really gracious and patient. there s a lot of sacrifice and giving up time. there s a lot of people, too many to thank. they know who they are. you re an inspiration to parents. you re truly heroes. these girls have a wonderful example. girls, we loved having you here this morning. we have one more katy perry song just for you, okay? 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[ female announcer ] splenda®. america s favorite no calorie sweetener. but the love i have for strawberry shortcake, red velvet cake and key lime pie, mmm, it threw a curve at my curves. so i threw it right back. with yoplait light strawberry shortcake, red velvet cake and key lime pie. 30 indulgent delicious flavors that satisfy my love for tasty treats. around 100 calories. zero fat. now i love my curves in all the right places. yoplait. it is so good. announcer: welcome back to new orleans post hurricane katrina. new orleans struggled trying to get its feet back especially the restaurant industry. chef donald s restaurant was one of the first to reopen after the storm followed just six months later by the prestigious james beard award. thank you for being with us. how are you? 300 more restaurants today than pre-katrina. why do you think? i think one of the best things that came out of the hurricane was the renewed energy about the city, and i think everybody learned how important the city was and the culture and the food. i think people are eating out more. i think people are coming to new orleans more and i think that s what spurred a renaissance in dining. this is something from the part of the state i came from, more of the cajun country, the west side of the state. it s basically a pan fried catfish and then we have a sauce that s a take on the french boullion. i didn t realize there s a german contingent. absolutely. it s not a very well known thing about the culture here. a lot of people think of sausage but it s more of a german. we fry this up? we let this fry. we have fish stock and all the fish cooks into that. we re looking at fresh seafood here from the gulf. that s everybody s big concern. we re trying to change that image and let people know it is safe. there s nothing wrong with this seafood. it s gorgeous seafood. it s beautiful. it really is. this is the catfish court bouillon finished. this is boudin and smoked country pork, gumbo down here. very nice. and i am a big fan of the pralens. you ve improved on the pralines. tell us how you did that. what we ve done is put our house smoked bacon in there. we mixed it in there. donald, let s try this out. what do you think? that s the world s greatest praline. it has bacon. everything goes better with bacon. donald link, thank you so very much. thank you. herbsaint and cochan right there. we want to thank the folks at the museum who have been housing us. we ve had a fantastic time. still one more song with katy perry. coming up, josh turner co-hosts with hoda wrapping up her country week. she was still out there signing autographs until the last minute. katy perry just went downstairs. 45 minutes. unbelievable. one more song from the incredible katy perry. we re going to do something a little bit different. it s a remix, okay? one of the first songs i ever played here on the today show. called i kissed a girl. this was never the way i planned not my intention i got so brave drink in hand lost my discretion it s not what i m used to just want to try you on i m curious curious for you baby you caught my attention i kissed a girl and i liked it the taste of her cherry chapstick i kissed a girl just to try it i hope my boyfriend don t mind it it felt so wrong it felt so right don t mean i m in love tonight i kissed a i kissed a girl and i liked it i liked it come on no, i don t even know your name it doesn t matter you re my experimental game just human nature it s not what good girls do not how they should behave my head gets so confused hard to obey i kissed a girl and i liked it the taste of her cherry chapstick i kissed a girl just to try it i hope my boyfriend doend mind it it felt so wrong it felt so right don t mean i m in love tonight i kissed a girl and i liked it i liked it us girls we are so magical soft skin, red lips, so kissable hard to resist so touchable too good to deny it it ain t no big deal it s innocent i kissed a girl and i liked it the taste of cherry chapstick i kissed a girl just to try it hope my boyfriend don t mind it it felt so wrong it felt so right don t mean i m in love tonight i kissed a girl and i liked it i liked it thank you so much, new york city! live, local, latebreaking. this is a wbal-tv 11 news update. a great start today. plenty of sunshine, high pressure out temperatures today will be a little bit on the cool side of normal. high is only 79-84. plenty of sunshine. over the weekend