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here on nbc. i m matt lauer along with al roker here in a steamy new orleans. we ve got ann and natalie back in new york city. ladies, good morning. good morning. i think we re both a little jealous, between the beignets, and the i won t say the cheerleaders but certainly all the great music. you look like you re having a lot of fun. it is a blast. as you can see, they ve broken into the chant of who dat, who dat. we re going to have much more ahead coming up in this half hour. plus we re in a party mood, and you want to talk about tailgating. this is the tailgate city. we re going to do a little tailgating with our good buddy john. he s going to show us how to tailgate new orleans style with a little jambalaya, a little shrimp. and pickled okra. also we re going to take a look at the superdome. you remember what happened five years ago, about 30,000 people flocked there to take refuge during hurricane katrina. doesn t last long. the storm tore big sections of the roof apart. conditions there got terrible. but that building is now one of the symbols of triumph over tragedy in this city. we re going to take a look at its recent history coming up. all right. sounds good, guys. meantime coming up in a little bit, i shared my baby-sitting experiences this morning. meredith talked about her her memory going down memory lane talked about tapping and matt talked about delivering the newspaper when he when he was a young person. now, it s your turn to show us about your first job. that s right. i worked at a pet store, as you can see, where i got to brush up on my skills doing everything from playing with the guinea pigs, loading a lot of the shelves. all i can say, i m still standing. i was exhausted. looks like really back-breaking work. but it s important to help your animals. that s right. you ve got the headlines for us? i do. we ve got a developing story now. we re getting word now of a traffic accident this morning involving three-time super bowl champ tom brady. the new england patriots quarterback was involved in a serious two-car accident today in boston according to our affiliate there. rescuers had to extricate his body him, rather, from the wreck. but according to a team spokesman it appears that brady was not injured in this accident. fire crews face another tough day fighting that raging wildfire in the foothills near boulder, colorado. at least 135 homes have now been destroyed, and the fire is only about 10% contained. what s left of tropical storm hermine is now moving into the plains, after dumpg heavy rain in central texas on wednesday. flash floods killed two women who were trapped in their cars, and forced more than 100 high-water rescues. the storm also triggered several tornadoes. this morning a large explosion rocked a market in russia s north caucasus killing as many as 15 people and wounding more than 100. a car bomb is suspected in the area. mostly orthodox christians have been targeted with violence from radical islamic insurgencies. the imam behind a proposed islamic community center and mosque near ground zero in new york city told cnn last night that if he had known in advance the facility would create such tensions he would have gone elsewhere. despite appeals from washington, the vatican, the pastor of a small church in florida is still planning to burn copies of the koran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11. u.s. embassies around the world have been ordered to assess their security ahead of saturday s planned weekend burning. and another side of olympic hockey champ and nhl star sidney crosby. he took batting practice before a pittsburgh pirates baseball game on wednesday and slammed one into the right field seats. good for him. maybe it s another home. it is now four minutes past. back to you, matt, and al in new orleans. not so good news about tom brady but looks like he s okay. no, that s right. we ll keep our fingers crossed, ann. thanks very much. let s show you a little bit of what s going on out there. remnants of hermine continue to cause problems for the midwest. yesterday, over the last 24 hours, some areas picking up almost 16 inches of rain. and as you look right now on the radar, you can see that rain is moving from oklahoma into parts of arkansas, and missouri. we have flash flood watches and flash flood warnings from little rock, from arkansas, into kansas, missouri, and illinois. the reason being we re looking at another three to five inches of rain. locally some areas in southern illinois, into missouri, could pick up seven inches of rain before it s all over. we are off to a nice, cool start this morning. the temperatures will be about 15 degrees cooler than and that s your latest weather. ann? this morning on today s first jobs pet store cleanup. natalie s always the first to jump at every animal segment and it turns out her passion actually started in childhood. that is true from puppies to parrots i ve always had a special band bond, i think, with animals and it goes back to a summer job i had working at a pet store. i recently took a trip down memory lane and visited a local petco which proved a little more challenging than i remembered. this is your tool of the trade. oh, great. no gloves? no gloves. lovely. one of my first jobs prior to leaving for college was working at a pet store because i wanted to be a veterinarian and i really kind of wanted to make sure that it was my passion going off to school. give me goosebumps. i had this grandiose idea of, you know, all creatures great and small. that was the life that i wanted. i pictured myself on a ranch or a farm with lots of animals all around me. my love for animals really started with my own family pet. as a military child who grew up everywhere, my dog was my constant friend that was always with me. and translated to loving all animals, and having sort of a natural bond with them. i almost feltic lie could understand them. wrangling the guinea pigs. there s a trick to this trade. got him. victory! i loved my job at the pet store. it was great. a very small pet store in dover, delaware, at a little mall. and it was lots of puppies and kittens. call me the pet charmer. you want to come play? you want to come play? and it was wonderful. but there were also lots of snakes. lots of reptiles. and lots of other things that needed to be fed. this is like an episode of fear factor right here. i hope you guys have an appetite, because i sure don t. oh, it s disgusting. oh, we have nature segments all the time, but, you know, you notice you never catch me with a snake. i think once for the fourth hour they were doing something like put the snake on hoda, not on me. i couldn t handle that. i m afraid of this thing. oh. the first stop, i think the most important thing is learning great work ethic. it s not about saving money or getting paid and all of that. now doing my first job i think i was making $4 an hour clean being up dog poo. this is not very it s adoption day. you interested in a great dane? no. what a really took away from that, it was really hard work and it was emotional work. you get involved with these pets and you know, i loved the job, because i felt like i was in some way improving their lives a little bit. now to the real test. everybody has to start doing the job where you re cleaning out the cages, or where you re distributing papers or walking dogs. i mean whatever your first job is, i think there are some great lessons to be learned, and that is humility. so what do you think? how did i do? huh? i think i deserve a treat. if it s good enough for you. whoa. wait! if you look at the ingredients. they re fantastic. they actually taste when we were kids, because they were colored and we thought it was fun. really? you wanted to be a veterinarian. that was the whole reason you were having such a fun time. we had a great time doing that. it was fun. great. absolutely. al, what do we have coming up with you tomorrow? i ve got my first job was as a a grocery store worker. i kind of did all kinds of odd jobs around a grocery store in my neighborhood. you can tell. like dancing. that s not the same store. they tore it down. i m sure you were great behind the counter, al. look at you. you ve got moves there. a different kind of dog, right? hot dogs. instead of okay. all right. all right. well listen, you know what? we look forward to that, al. thank you so much. that was fun, natalie. that was great. coming up, the rebirth of the superdome five years after hurricane katrina, and matt and al do a little tailgating new orleans style. 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who dat! john what are we making? great tailgating new orleans style. saltia foods. you ve got to have it. we ve got some pickled shrimp. what does in that? shrimp. you ve got shrimp. and then you have all sorts of green beans, okra, you name it, it goes in there from crab oil, go ahead and pour that what is this? that s just a mixture of a little bit of sugar, some water and some rice vinegar. how long does it take we re going to pickle this for about four to six hours so it s perfect because you can like pack it up, throw it into the ice chest and then make your way to the game with it. or you can leave it in there for like a week in the fridge, and it s so incredible. jambalaya. i ve been eating off camera. good protein. and all right. and then you can t have a tailgate, anything, without some jambalaya. to do that just a little bit of bacon, some onion, celery. the trinity. the trinity. and then some bell pepper. there you go. what we want to do is really just want to cook that over like high heat until it s nice and brown, and voila. there s the color. andouille, all of that? all the sausage. all the onions and everything, really just cook down. they re nice and brown. that s going to give a great depth of flavor. so if you could do the honors. pour the rice in. that s louisiana jasmine rice. you can add some chicken stock. okay. oh, yeah, baby. a little bit of your tomato. lord have mercy! hmm. how long does that cook down? we want to let that come to a boil and in about 30 minutes. whoa! here it is. thank you. brother. beautiful. so no hot dogs, no hamburgers here you ve got to do something a little more louisiana. you definitely have to. and what s more louisiana than a little creole tomato, bloody mary. this is what i m talking about. as you can tell, the saints fans are out in force. you feel the energy of the saints. the whole place is jumping. this is the difference between a good morning and a great morning. and we have to oh. taste this. did you see how fast he pulled that away from you? we have chili glazed chicken wings, unbelievable. and then we have some braised short ribs. i just took a piece of this. this is unbelievable. stacked up with some onion rings. so incredibly good. our executive producer jim bell, it s unbelievable. send all this back to new york with you. believe me delta airlines is going to smell some of this in a few hours. thanks so much. thank you so much. more from new orleans. but first these messages. have you tried honey bunches of oats with real strawberries? 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so you going to see a lot of that tomorrow, too, i m sure. all right. well, you d have to wait and see. okay. meanwhile, coming up from here we re going to meet a young man armed with a camera, truly an inspiration, and he actually bunks with young americans across the country from an nfl cheerleader to a teenager with autism, and he s able to get a realistic snap shot of their lives like you ve never seen it before. and it s a new show on mtv. so, it s really interesting. okay. plus, did you know that the latest trends in jewelry and accessories are at your local hardware store? that s right. bolts and washers. if you ve got them, you don t have to spend a lot of money to stay stylish. this morning bobbie thomas is going to show us how to make some of this julie yourself. she calls it hope hardware. we re going to get to the lowdown on that. we also want to tell you that tomorrow on today the grammy winning country music duo sugarland is going to be here live on the plaza for a concert. so come out. just when we thought the concert series was over it s never over. our producers come up with something else. and so we re so excited. it s not the summer concert series anymore. first, al, you got another check of the weather for us. i do, guys. but first i want to tell you about something special. last week, students here at the fancy c. williams elementary school in new orleans had some very exciting visitors, saints coach sean payton, saints cornerback, along with cheerleaders, mascot, special visit to the school district, part of louisiana recovery school district. they surprised the kids with a $10,000 check from the nfl to improve the phys ed facility. all this looking pretty good. a lot of the students all decked out in black and gold to show their team spirit. let s check your weather, she what s going on as far as your weekend ahead is concerned. and for saturday, we ve got a beautiful day in the southwest, with a lot of heat, mild conditions in new england. we do have wet weather, remnants of hermine in the great lakes all the way down to the gulf coast. then sunday, more rain along the eastern seaboard. the western two thirds of the country looking pretty good. showers through the gulf coast and some rain in the pacific northwest. nice, cool start this thursday. 15 degrees cooler than yesterday. it will feel like autumn, w of course we re here in new orleans because we ve got the nfl kickoff tonight. right here on nbc. that s right. it s the saints taking on the vikings. brett favre will have retired three times before the game. he ll come out in his wheelchair. we ll see it all. outdoor weather warm and humid, middle 80s, because, of course, it s an indoor stadium. good times tonight on nbc. back to you guys. all right, al, thank you so much. it s going to be a lot of fun there. and coming up next, speaking of football, how the quarterback gets it done. we re going to show you the science behind the perfect pass. right after this. activia is better than ever! hey, you guys. want to try activia s great new taste? 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my mother s having chest pains. do you know your address? no. reporter: seeing chad work on these everyday tasks really put things in perspective for me. andrew jenks, good morning. good morning. how you doing? i m doing great. just a little clip of the time you got to spend with chad. he has autism. what did you learn from that experience. you know, i learned how much how smart he was and how funny he was. i think, you know, i went into the project thinking that i d be living with an autistic kid. and i left thinking i just moved in with chad, who was really fun, he had a great personality. and i learned that i had to adapt to his world and not necessarily just make him do what i did. so like we went to new york city, and he was extremely sensitive to the sounds, and he said you know, jenks, you just have to let me be. you just have to let me be who i am. what a great takeaway. what a great lesson and an opportunity that you ve been given as a young filmmaker, only 24 years old. what do you hope to translate to the viewer with this? i think you can see really young people from all walks of life who are doing just extraordinary things, like we followed an animal rescuer who was saving horses. we followed a homeless girl who was living on the streets of san francisco. there s just so many young people out there who are doing incredible things with their lives. and we have the chance to really capture that and showcase it on mtv. talking about that experience, living with a homeless girl, heavy d., or danielle. she s, as you mentioned, homeless in san francisco. you say that was one of the most challenging experiences. because, i mean, you really get to step away from the situation when you re done after a week with them, right? yeah, you know, that one was hard because i was on the streets with her for eight days there, and you know when i was walking away and i was dirty and smelly and, you know, i couldn t help but think, gosh, you know, i m going to go get on a plane and be back in my apartment and she s still going to be homeless, and you know, she really lives that life. i m only there for eight days. so you know, it s important for me to stay in touch with these people. i m not trying to change their lives but i want to make sure they understand i care for them. there s a connection there. i gave her a cell phone. you talk to her? i talked to her last night actually at midnight. she was still awake. so she staid good luck to me. she texted me and we stay in touch. great. and i know that all of this started with a film project that you did at the time with featuring your grandfather. when i was 19, my grandfather was going through a rough period where he was in a nursing home, and you know, i love my grandfather so much, and i decided to move in to a nursing home myself for five weeks. and see what it was really like to experience life with 300 senior citizens and see what they re really thinking about, and that was just another opportunity to really destigmatize and humanize that generation that i think a lot of people have stereotypes about but don t necessarily know what s going on within the confines of assisted living. i know you ve got some other really interesting people. you followed nfl football player, cheerleader or nfl cheerleader and a football player. you also had a poker player, with, as i understand, kind of a very interesting perspective. good takeaway there, too. you know, i think when you think about a poker player you think about, you know, playboy lifestyle, you re in vegas, you re in new york. he texts me one day and he s like we re going to london tomorrow, and then as he opened up he got to really understand him better and he was prone to anxiety. he was prone to depression. he had a lot of issues that he was really dealing with. you know. and so i think that s the kind of case in point with every subject we move in with is that we go in with a certain idea or a certain perspective and after eight days it s like, holy cow, i had no idea that this was really what was going on. yeah. wow. well it s really remarkable. and you know, good luck with it. thank you. because you have a real opportunity to hopefully educate a lot of young people and open a lot of people s eyes. that s the thing, you know, we think that it s entertaining and it s also substantive. we feel like we have both and we really can showcase that to a lot of young people. well, you are a young man to be doing it. glat la congratulations to you. thank you very much. the world of jenks premieres monday night on mtv. coming up next, making your own trendy jewelry for under $10, with stuff that you may have laying around the house. everyone knows a fee is a tax. you raised some taxes during that period, particularly the property tax as well as a lot of fee increases. as you know, there s a big difference between fees and taxes. but.they re the same. it s aax. it s a tax. it s a tax. it s a tax. there s a big difference between fees and taxes. fees and taxes are one in the same. if it comes out of my pocket, it s a tax. now he says it isn t true. we didn t raise taxes. what? still doing the same thing, paying out more money. typical politician. definitely. this morning on bobbie s style buzz do it yourself accessories, apparently the latest jewelry trends to be found at your local hardware store. today s crafty style editor bobbie thomas is here to show us how it s done. hey, bobbie, good morning. hello. we re talking about heavy metal here and nuts and bolts first. before we get to that, why do you think this is a trend? i think for years we used jewelry to dress up our outfits. now jewelry is helping to dress the modern woman down. i definitely think it s an affordable, accessible way to reinvent your look. i will prove it to you because it costs pennies. you ve got these necklaces and earrings and our cameron said if he gave this wife one of these she would think he was nuts. i know, you know, charging big bucks. guys and brothers, a beautiful design team that make amazing jewelry all inspired by hardware. you can do it yourself. i made the necklaces with about $2 and two minutes of my time and about $4, for the big necklaces and two minutes of my time. just slide them on. you can even sleep them onto earrings. it takes seconds and it s pennies again. you can find this in probably the junk drawer of your house. very edgy. champs and connectors. this is sort of that bold color necklace you ve seen on the runway. this is a flexible faucet connector. i m going to earn points with the guys. this actually can help with this ribbon tied around the edges, it s instantly a collar necklace. believe it or not you don t have to do anything. these are hose clamps. you can tie these on to be bangles. but these can also be rings. a lot of the guys here said they went and got some of these last week. if the sink was leaking i could come in handy. i know. but they have a coolness to them. i could see teenagers especially liking these. again, very inexpensive. now we have wires and chains. last week you saw this necklace i wore. i was in love with it. and i was inspired to really see what i could do with chains. literally, again, about probably $4 to make some of these, you know, i guess avant-garde jewelry. i would like to wear this as a bracelet itself. it s so sweet. this is one of my favorite ideas. you can buy it on a roll or a pack. it s about $10 for ten feet. you can make a lot of this. you slip a ribbon through the chain and you can get a double wrap bracelet. and this can actually be worn as a headband, as a belt. and this costs a dollar and took about five minutes. so this is a great way to make it, especially as people are trying to save money. i know you re doing the diy for that part. i also love diy. i think you should be proud of something you made. i saw a pair of shoes, and i got inspired to make this for just 50 cents. lastly we ve got hooks and clips. yes, you can use what they call a snap clip. a double-ended snap clip. i really sound like i know my hardware stuff and make any kind of belt. you slip your fabric through and you can create a color belt you need in seconds. how many times have you said, i need that? melanie is wearing one made out of a pulley and rope. always trying to save us money and inspire us. thank you so much. thank you. and coming up we ve got hoda and kathie lee. they re going to catch up with rock n roll legend jerry lee lewis. but first, lucky them, first lewis. but first, lucky them, first your local news. my commute home to the eastern shore every night only takes an hour but that s more time than congress spends reading massive spending bills, it s crazy. that s why i wrote a law that requires 72 hours to read every bill. i read the big bills and i said no. no to the $3 trillion budget, no to the bank bailout, and no to the health care bill. at home you would never pay a bill without reading it neither should congress. i m frank kratovil and i approve this message because i m proud to be ranked one of the most independent members of congress. live, local, latebreaking. this is a wbal-tv 11 news update. yesterday we were in the 90 s. a cold front went through, and now we have more of them-like temperatures and the forecast today. a little on the breezy side, with a mix of sunshine and clouds. clouds will thicken up on saturday