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stand in california. and coffee bar? starbucks begins testing a new menu item, alcohol. could beer and wine be becoming to a franchise near you today, could beer and wine be becoming to a franchise near you today, tuesday, october 19, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, everyone. welcome to today on this tuesday morning. good morning. everybody. and as you mentioned, it s been a wild campaign season so far and with just 14 days to go before elections, this thing gets more interesting every day. coming up, the latest from the campaign trail, including that 2012 comment by sarah palin. there s a big battle being fought in kentucky where this ad from democrat jack conway is causing a huge uproar. did it cross the line? does it unfairly question rand paul s religious beliefs. it angered paul so much he refused to shake conway s hand after the debate. we ll talk to jack conway about that just ahead. a firefighter working the scene of a deadly crash allegedly used his cell phone to record graphic video of the victim. and the video ended up being sent to the victim s own parents. they re furious, not only at what they saw, but at what they heard. coming up an exclusive look inside a new lab where mother nature s fury is re-created to find out what works and what doesn t. well, we begin on a tuesday morning with the election now just 14 days away. nbc s kelley o donnell has the latest on this. we re hearing from a lot of candidates and interest groups now that the choices for voters are really pretty clear. we re also hearing that from louder voices. the tea party expraeess is on t road and. the tea party americans, you re winning. you re winning. reporter: a rousing sendoff from sarah palin in reno. the group s tea party express is on a 15-day cross country tour. to drive democrats out of washington. and mr. obama and your czars, you re next because now we can see 2012 from our house. reporter: the president was repeatedly brought up in west virginia s senate debate where the democrats steered clear. i respectfully disagree with president obama, he s dead wrong on cap and trade. governor joe manchin is in a tough race against wealthy republican business owner john racy. i hate to inform my opponent, but mr. obama may not be on the ballot. reporter: it s pretty hard to tell that manchin is the democrat. president obama or president bush? i m an american. reporter: from health care reform i would like to repeal every part of it because it is pure, unadulterated oeshlism. not like manchin and obama, they enjoy people working for $7.25. i believe in them, i fought for them. reporter: the ballot in new york s governor s race is crowded with senate candidates. standing out, democratic andrew cuomo. but a much anticipated face-off sizzles between the tea party backed carl paladino. my critics want to say i m angry. no, i m passionate about saving new york. reporter: with so many candidates, there really wasn t a chance for cuomo and paladino to have the exchange you might have expected. whomever wins actually takes office right after the november elections. matt? kelly o donnell in washington for us. kentucky s senate race has become one of the nation s most volatile contests and now republican rand paul says he may opt out of the next debate because he s justify set about an attack ad that jack, you should be ashamed of yourself. you should apologize. have you no decency? i will not shake hands with someone who attacks my religion and attacks my christian beliefs. these are something very personal to me. word paul walked offstage without shaking conway s hand. mr. conway is with us, you should note we invited conway to join us and he refused. it clearly ignighted the pagtss of mr. paul. do you stand by it? i m not questioning his faith, i m questioning his actions, matt. the president of baylor university banned a group that ron paul joined. he banned them because they were making none of christianity and christ. and our question is why did he join a group that was known for mocking people of faith. and when is it appropriate to tie up a woman and ask her to bow down in front of a false idol. much of this comes from an article that you wrote on gq. what you do not include in your ad is that there was other information in those articles, for example, this group that you say made fun of christianity and was banned from the university, it says this idea of calling the bible a hoax actually came from a is t satirical writing. in an interview, she said she thought of it as friendly hazing, a joke among friends and she went along willingly, did you misrepresent the facts to score political points? i m not misrepresenting anything, we re not going by the first version of her story. she said the whole thing seemed sadistic, and the whole thing seemed weird and she ended her friendship with rand paul after that. i don t think it s appropriate to ever tie up a woman and ask her to kneel in front of a false god. this is an important area of semantics. do you think mr. paul is a man of faith? i am not questioning his faith, matt. that s not what i m asking you, do you think he s a man of faith? listen, i take what he says, that, listen, he s a christian and i take him as that. i am not questioning that, i am questioning his actions. i don t think it s ever appropriate regardless of age to mock people of faith. i don t think it s appropriate to ever tie a woman up and ask her to kneel down in front of a false idol. and this is coming from dr. paul s college days when he wrote about there s no need for any anti-discrimination laws. some other democrats don t necessarily see eye to eye on this. i think the ad campaign close to the line. the me are you public says this is the ugliest, most ill liberal ad of the year. i think that people that have criticisms need to look at the whole situation. rand paul has been ask whether this occurred an he s never denied it and the fact remains that he joined a group that mocks people of faith. in his college days, he wrote quite a bit for a newspaper and in addition he has taken on the campaign trail. he s questioned the civil rights act. mr. conway, you re in a state that s got like the rest of the country 10% unemployment, people are living in desperate economic times. is this, do you think, what they want to talk about so close to an election and does this noer shadow what kind of a senator you might be in washington and you re going to be a guy that goes there and continues the political divide or are you someone who can reach across the political aisle to make changes for people in this country? i think have a reputation for working across the aisle. i have worked with republicans to get a bill on cyber bullying passed. people need to work for lesser wages and they just need a little tough love, i actually have a jobs plan that will create about 11,000 jobs in kentucky. rand paul is on the record saying he wants a $2,000 deductible for medicare. and that s why i m happy that he put me up as one of their social security protectors so there are others in this campaign that we re highlightsing as well. we ll get a check of the rest of the morning s top stories from tam mon ral. good morning, everyone. a deadly attack on parolment this morning in russia an attack by insurgents. one insurgent set off a bomb at the gates of parliament. one of two iowa farms that recall half a million eggs this summer. a new study finds that flight delays are more annoying than we thought. the study funded by the faa says flight delays cost passengers more than 16 billi$16 billion i and lost time and the cost the airlines is about half that much. bank of america says it plans to resume foreclosing on 20,000 homes. overseas markets are mostly higher, trish reagan is at the new york stock exchange. so more attention on earnings? a lot of focus on earnings today you have got coca-cola to talk about, goldman-sachs. so definitely a lot going on. apple and ibm came out yesterday after the bell, didn t have very good news as far as investors were concerned because they didn t see the kind of growth that they wanted. specifically, for example, with apple, when it came to the number of ipads that they were selling. keep an eye on those. trish, thank you, and today it s game three of the national league championship between the rangers and the phillies. the rangers beat the yankees 8-0. helped by cliff lee who struck out 13. the rangers lead that series two games to one. and it was a bad day for a man in chesapeake bina who drop cell phone in the toilet. when he reached in to get it, his arm got stuck all the way up to the shoulder. no word on if the cell phone works or if he cares. it is now 7:13, back to mat, and good morning, everyone. after the next hour or two, the rain will taper off. improving conditions this afternoon. and that s your latest weather. the world s biggest insurance companies are opening a giant lab today where they can re-crea re-create tom, sounds pretty cool. pretty cool place. al should be here, we re in a six-story test chamber here, and behind me, two three bedroom homes that are built to be modeled exactly as homes in the southeast. from hurricanes to tornadoes, floods to wildfires, natural disasters cost some $26 billion in property damage last year alone. and took an even greater human toll. now after years of crash testing cars to force automakers to improve safety, the biggest insurance companies in the world are taking aim at the construction industry. with a massive new lab built to re-create mother nature s fury, starting with wind and rain. watch the home on the left, a replica of a home built to code in bloomington, illinois. it collapses in 100-mile-per-hour winds. while the home on the right remains standing. the same floor plan, but re-enforced. one key difference, the front door on the right opens out. the front door on the left, opens in. once that door blew in, the house was pressurized and basically started to explode and then collapsed backwards and became really just a pile of debris. no longer somebody s home. reporter: but was it a fluke? to find out, they built another home then prepared to turn on the massive wall of wind. 105 fans, each one pumping out 300 horsepower, with a combined output of 1 40 miles an hour that s the equivalent of a category 3 storm. this time the house starts coming apart in 95-mile-per-hour winds. a lot of siding, we lost soffit officials, we lost siding from around the edge. the siding on this house just literally ripped free. it s really not rated for high winds and for a modest additional cost you could go to a product that is rating for high winds. for just $3,000 more, the re-enforced house school still, with stronger nails, better deck, better shingles and siding. and a frochbnt door that opens not in. if a business remains in operation, everybody wins. that s the goal here to take what they have learned here and turn it into hopefully better construction and suggestions for construction companies across the country for homes and businesses. here is the roof that blew off that first overwhelm, eventually they are going to be testing hail and even wildfires, and we ll be back for that too, we hope. i think they probably will invite you back, tom costello. we have ask the people to turn those fans on right now while you re there. you know who s here? jim cantore is here. so if he s around, there s got to be a disaster lurking. get out of the way, tom. that s spectacular and they have been building homes to code for hurricanes down along the southeastern atlantic coast, so this is really long overdue. you think we would have thought about this earlier. the door going out rather than going in. you see that all the time in a hurricane and tornadoes. now to the place millions of people go every day for a cappuccino or a coffee. it s something starbucks is thinking about and they re testing out the concept at their flagship store in seattle. kristen welker is there, cheers. reporter: this is definitely not your typical starbucks because right above the coffee selection, you have wine and beer. it s a new mix for a company that s nearly 40 years old. i love coffee i love tea . reporter: america s love for coffee has propelled seattle s starbucks into one of the country s most influential chains. but now the place where many of us get our morning pick me up is brewing something new. that s right, wine and beer now on tap at the same place that s become synonymous with the barista coffee club. more than 70% of its business comes before 2:00 p.m. starbucks is opening it s evening business will give the company a bite of the after work market. cheers? cheers. definitely not what you would expect at starbucks. i look at it as a community gathering place, you may want wic wine at night and i may want a latte. it s carefully designed to give customers the feeling of a neighborhood bistro. if you look at how well a trend starbucks is in terms of coffee. i think it might take a while for people to realize it s a great place to go after work. reporter: over the years the brand has expanded it s merchandise and movies, but more recently starbucks has gotten back to basics to perfect our art of espresso. so how well will the hard core coffee crowd make this the beer business? only time and taste will tell? it s really nice to have the best of both worlds, have your friends choose what they may and have a conversation. coffee and tea, that s it. i don t want to sit down in a coffee shop and drink a glass of wine. i just don t. now the company is also increasing its commitment to sustainability, so a lot of the furniture here is actually made from recycled goods. don t expect to see this concept, this entire concept to play out at a starbucks near you, they re going to see how it plays out here first and decide whether or not to expand. you can t actually buy beer or wine here until 4:00 p.m. so we are quite happy to have a hot cup of coffee for right now. thank you very much. we appreciate. think about it, it hits all the notes, it s got chocolate, coffee and wine. my favorite foods. just ahead, should nadya suleman s fertility doctor lose his medical license for repeatedly implanting her with multiple embryos? we ll see but first this is today on nbc. coming up a firefighter allegedly records a disturbing video of a deadly car crash and it ends up in the hands of the victim s outraged parents. that s after your local news and weather. [ male announcer ] every day thousands of people are switching from tylenol® to advil. to learn more and get your special offer, go to takeadvil.com. take action. take advil®. live, loc, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am stan stovall. time for a check on the morning commute. sarah caldwell, traffic pulse 11, standing by still dealing with rain out there. accident around the area. we still have one clearing southbound 795 past franklin boulevard. route 32 and 4 pfefferkorn road in west friendship, a crash. the late on southbound 95 as you approached 32. west side delays on southbound 795. continued closures in cockeysville due to fire activity. biggest delays on the north and west side. 27 on the west side. here is what the west side books like. the pace of things towards edmondson. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. we still another couple of hours to go dealing with the rain. showers along the i-95 corridor and on the beltway and 83 and i- 70. northwest suburbs, this will be the trend as we head to the morning. conditions will improve as we head into the afternoon. i temperature of 163. still few showers on wednesday and thursday. back at 7:55 with another live update. 7:30 now on a tuesday morning, the 19th of october, 2010. check out all the folks gathered out on our plaza. the rain seems to have stopped for the time being. should get nicer as the day goes on. we ll get outside and say hi to those people in a couple of minutes. meantime, i m matt lauer alongside ann curry while meredith takes some time off. and next in this half hour, a really disturbing story. a firefighter at the scene of a deadly accident allegedly used his cell phone to record graphic video of the victim. that was shared around the firehouse and that video eventually ended up in the hands of the victim s own parents. also ahead, how would you like to hear this on your answering machine? just ahead, today investigates debt collectors, like it or not, they do have a job to do, but in this tough economy, are some now crossing the line? some even going way over the line. we re going to have more on that coming up. plus did octomom nadya suleman inject ms. suleman with more than 12 embryos at a time? we re going to find out if that doctor should be stripped of his medical license. and in georgia, a firefighter is accused of taking and sharing cell phone video at a deadly car crash. we re going to talk to the victim s parents in just a moment. but first, here s our report from nbc s ron moss. reporter: the spot where dana died is today a peaceful memorial, across the road from a field of flowers in her favorite color. when her parents say what has shattered them even more than losing their daughter was getting a cell phone video of her body taken just moments after the suv she was driving crossed the median, flipped multiple times and slammed into several trees. the video, too graphic to show was allegedly shot by a firefighter on the scene and later shared around the station house and eventually sent to the parents. this person has no compassion. to have taken a video like that of our daughter. reporter: two voices can be heard describing body parts. oh, my god. i can see them going to her and seeing if she was still breathing. they were worried about what was on the console and i was just very upset and hurt that somebody could do this and disrespect my daughter in this way. reporter: county officials declined to go on camera, but the fire chief tells nbc news he s still trying to gather all the facts and that shooting video like this is not condoned and is not normal procedure. reporter: pictures of a california teen who died in car crash were put on the internet. for today, ron mott, nbc news. good morning to both of you. good morning. jeff, how did you first hear about this video? an ex-brother-in-law who i hadn t seen in quite some time who had received that video from someone that he knew. once he received the video and the person told him, you know, this is the accident of the young lady on the highway, he knew immediately then that it was probably my daughter. he then contacted me and said, look, i ve got a video here and i m so ashamed, but i have to tell you, it s of your daughter and of course i had to know so he sent the video to me. and i viewed the video and you know, without a doubt, it was our daughter dana and it was just too terrible to put into words really. lucretia, what was worse, seeing the video or also hearing what was being said as the video was being recorded? i don t know which one is worse. seeing the video of my daughter, it hurts because i didn t want to see her that way. but hearing them with no urgeyuy to see if she was okay really upset us. jeff, you said that there was a casual tone with regard to your daughter? if you listen to the video, it sounds like a casual conversation. they re discussing parts of the accident, but you could you just don t hear them say let s get in there and see if she s okay, let s reach in and check for a pulse, let s get this thing open and get her out of here. it was just more of a conversation of what the scene described. and it would be my contention that these guys when they come on the scene, they really need to be focused on the victim and who s hurt and not, you know, commenting on things that are happening at the time. and it just sounded like to me that these guys were just having a conversation, just like you and i are having right now and there was just no urgency there to even check her to see if she was still alive. so that s very upsetting and that disturbs us very much. the spaulding county fire department has apologized but it s been more than a month since you heard about the video and the sheriff s department investigator says they re not sure if there are any laws broken. if there are no laws broken by what has happened to your family, do you want a law written so that this cannot happen again? oh, absolutely. it is so easy for this to happen to anybody. any responder on any scene at any time who s allowed to have his cell phone could take these videos. i think they should not even be allowed to have cell phones when they re out on these calls. they have their radios, they can communicate with each other, what reason would they have to have an actual cell phone? i would love to see a law passed or something enacted through legislation that they re not allowed to do this. if they re not given the opportunity, then we don t have to worry about it ever happening again. the impact on your family has been pretty extensive. lucretia, i understand that you have had trouble sleeping ever since you have seen this video. how are you and your family coping with this added trauma? through god and the strength of each other. it s hard closing your eyes because when you close your eyes, that s what you see, is dana laying in her car and not being cared for the way she deserved. so we re just getting through it with each other. all right. the worst part is this lack of compassion that you are feeling and i hope that you begin to feel the compassion of everyone listening now to your story. jeff and lucretia, thank you very much and we wish you all the best. thank you. appreciate it. and we re going to make a hard turn now and get a check of the weather from al. and as we take a look down to the tropics, the western caribbean, we have got an area of disturbed weather, a 30% chance of a tropical cyclone which would be richard if it became a storm but it looks like it s not going to affect the u.s. and that s good news. 40 and 50s in new england through the great lakes, 50s and 60s back into the pacific northwest. some warm weather, a little touch of 90s down in southern texas. we have got wet weather, morning showers in the mid-atlantic cities, that will clear off pr as we head through the day today, the conditions will improve improve and the rainshowers will taper off. high temperatures and that s your latest weather, don t forget you can track your weather all day long on weather.com. consumer horror stories, why are debt collectors targeting people for money that in some cases they don t even owe. today investigates right after this. but there s one that s so clever, it makes your skin look better even after you take it off. neutrogena healthy skin liquid makeup. 98% of women saw improvement in their skin s natural texture, tone, or clarity. does your makeup do that? 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[ male announcer ] .seem less than graceful. back now at 7:42 and this morning today investigates debt collection, it is a multibillion dollar industry. in this struggling economy, debt collectors have become far too aggressive. good morning, the federal trade commission says complaints of abuses by debt collectors has jumps as the economy has deteriorat deteriorated. and we re hearing horror stories not just of debt collectors, but companies that buy old unpaid debts and try to collect. a landscaper did a lousy job on a backyard project and wouldn t come back to fix it. before long they heard from a debt collector claiming they owed almost $15,000, much more than the project was even supposed to cost. we didn t know the debt collector any money. reporter: the calls became increasingly aggressive. get a hold of me to stop this 1099 form from going to the irs. reporter: even threatening to follow the couple. additionally, nick, there will be a couple of investigators shadowing you and melody for a couple of days. i was pretty scared to find out how far they were really going to go. i felt threatened and i felt more importantly that my family was being threatened. reporter: the whitlocks fought back suing the debt collecting agency. complaints about debt collectors has jumped from 91,000 in 2007 to 120,000 last year. more collectors are engaging in more aggressive tactics to get consumers to pay debts, in some cases getting consumer who is don t owe the debt to pay it anyway. reporter: the most common complaint, harassment, including abusive, obscene and threatening phone calls. give me a call back within 24 hours so that i can issue that warrant for your arrest. this call full of racial slurs occurred two months ago in california. you [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. of course there are a few bad actors out there but that doesn t speak for the vast majority of debt collectors. it s increasingly different to even talk to consumers. he says collectors reach only about 1% of consumers called on a daily basis. i do believe there is an increase in evasion on the part of consumers not wanting to deal with their bad debt. whathe debt buyer tries to collect. one study found that here in new york city more than a billion dollars in judgments. she tried to buy lunch with her debit card and to her embarrassment it was rejected. she called her bank and learned that a debt buyer was suing her and that a judge had frozen all her money. i was completely panicked, i don t have any other credit cards, so that meant not being able to buy food. did you owe them money? i had never shopped at that store. i didn t know what they were talking about. the debt buyer insists it had warned her about the debt in it s lawsuit against her with papers served at this address. have you ever lived at this address? no. has any member of your family ever lived here? ricardo fought back, but many consumers don t get such a happy ending. debt buyers have flooded the courts with lawsuits. peter berry says his client, a single mom in minneapolis was arrested at work, taken to jail and held for two hours. after a debt buyer got a judgment against her for a debt a court later ruled she did not owe. it s actually debt buyers don t care whether or not the consumer really owes the debt. debt buyers are interested in collecting the debt. a spokesman for the industry disputes that. the majority of our industry wants to work with the consumer. do you acknowledge that folks in your industry have harassed people even after they have proven they don t owe the debt? i don t think that is happening with the majority. of course that happens occasionally with the people that we don t have to have in our industry. reporter: the ftc recently concluded that the the federal government says debt buyers are sometimes going to court, getting judgments against people based on flimsy or even inaccurate information. i mean is that fair? in large part, i don t think that is what s happening. we re going to work with the court systems to make sure that we re getting them the information they need. reporter: all sides agree on one thing, if you get contacted by a debt collector, the worst thing you can do is ignore it. contact the collector, get documentation of what it is you allegedly owe. if you don t owe it, dispute it. if you do owe it, make some arrangement to start paying at least a little something. lisa myers, some horror stories. coming up from getting out of debt to racking up debt. we re going to get some gift ideas courtesy of neiman marcus. but first these messages. if you live for performance, upgrade to castrol edge advanced synthetic oil. with eight times better wear protection than mobil 1. castrol edge. it s more than just oil. it s liquid engineering. and the life you want to live. with rheumatoid arthritis, there s the life you live. fortunately there s enbrel, the #1 most doctor-prescribed biologic medicine for ra. enbrel can help relieve pain, stiffness, fatigue, and stop joint damage. because enbrel suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal, events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, and other cancers, and nervous system and blood disorders have occurred. before starting enbrel, your doctor should test you for tuberculosis. ask your doctor if you live or have lived in an area where certain fungal infections are common. don t start enbrel if you have an infection like the flu. tell your doctor if you re prone to infections, have cuts or sores, have had hepatitis b, have been treated for heart failure, or if, while on enbrel, you experience persistent fever, bruising, bleeding, or paleness. ask your rheumatologist if enbrel is right for you. and help bridge the gap between the life you live. and the life you want to live. 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[ male announcer ] introducing toyota care featuring a complimentary maintenance plan with roadside assistance for every new toyota. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am stan stovall. time for another check on the morning commute. here is sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. very early this morning with rain coming down the area. accident on the inner loop, south side of the beltway. it was taking up a couple of lines but now it is off to the left shoulder. still some delays in the area. accident at reisterstown road. watch for closures that remain in effect on york road cockeysville. fire department activity. delays around the area of 95, north and west side. baltimore st. angelton street, we have an accident coming in. 32 minutes is your drive time on the outer loop northeast side. 28 minutes on the outer loop west side. 14-minute ride on the inner loop towards the j.f.x. from 795. here s a quick look outside. inner loop traffic, back in just a bit prior to that. to under 95, easing up. southbound delays approaching 795. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. i think it will improve. we have light rain showers on the radar, though. this little patch of rain is going to be moving through over the next hour, hour and a half. things shooting through as we head into the afternoon. rainshowers this morning and becoming mostly cloudy later on. seven-day forecast, a chance for a few showers on wednesday and thursday. it should clear up as we head into the weekend. be sure to check the bottom of your screen for updated news and traffic information. back in 25 minutes with another live update. you 8:00 now on a tuesday morning, it s the 19th day of october 2010. and check it out. santa claus is coming to town. hello santa. it s only the 19th of october, you might say why is st. nick here so early? he is checking out some of the things in the macy s catalog. we re going to show you some good ways to spend a little cash. a lot of cash in some cases. i m matt lauer, along with ann curry, while meredith takes some time off and mr. roker joins us as well. also this morning, we ll be talking about the octomom, nadya suleman, she s talking about implanting six employees, but now the doctor who took care of her is accused of using 12 embryos and he s actually facing a possibility of losing his medical license. and then a little bit later on, just in time for the holiday, guess what? airline prices are going up? what a shock. guess what? we are going to tell you it s not too late and how to find some great airline deals out there. okay, lots to get to. let s go inside, tamron hall is filling in at the news desk. just two weeks now until voters cast ballots in midterm elections that could loosen the democrats grip on congress. former alaska governor sarah palin launched her 19-state tea party express today in nevada where she s trying to unseat senate majority leader harry reid. richard blumenthal is locked in a tight race with former wrestle executive linda mcmahon. stephanie gosk is in paris. good morning. reporter: good morning, tamron. well since the french government announced a two-year increase in the retirement age from 60 to 62, there s been six national protests and strikes in this country. today is expected to be the biggest, millions of people are expected to turn out. the biggest protest will be here in central paris. clashes between students and police have been the most violent. they re nowhere near requirement age and most don t even work, but they worry their future is at risk. the police blockaded the school and provoked us, this student says. in the last week a backlash over a proposed two-year increase in the retirement age from 60 to 62 triggered demonstrations and strikes that threaten to strangle the french economy. the government has lost all credibility, this french worker says, the anger over the modest age increase may come as a surprise to many americans who already work harder and retire at a later age. by law in france, the workweek is only 35 hours long. one poll estimates that 70% of the population here supports the strike. nikolai sarkozy and his government say the changes are tough but necessary and they won t back down. the protest was expected to take place on wednesday, but th u.s. postal officials are offering a $25,000 reward to help solve a deadly post office shooting monday in western tennessee. police say two female workers were killed and investigators are looking for a pair of gunmen. now here s brian williams with a look at what s coming up on nbc nightly news. we ll look at a common drug therapy used by millions of women, doctors now believe this medication is more dangerous than they once thought. we ll have some crucial new facts for you, along with the rest of the day s news tonight on nightly news . tamron, now back to you. it s now 8:04 now back to matt and ann. no cook needed. we got some young farmers here, generation organic, what s the deal here? you were here yesterday too. we re a group of young agriculture farmers. let s check your weather and see what s shaking. pick city today, houston, texas, sunshine and warm, 86 degrees, the jet stream takes a dip over the northeast, that brings the cool air in, sunny and warm down to the south, mild out west with dry weather, but a little bit of a kink in the pacific northwest by thursday. that brings some rain there. kinky weather there in the pacific northwest, showers in the east, then that upper low over the southwest, that s going to continue to bring showers through that region, as we head through the morning, the conditions will improve and the rainshowers will begin to taper off. but the time we get into the afternoon, mostly cloudy skies. afternoon, mostly cloudy skies. and that s your latest weather. coming up, did nadya suleman s fertility doctor ignore the rules and deliberately implant her with 12 embryos at once? we re going to have new details on that story coming up right after this. there s nothing for 25. but they will let me give you the same seat for a big miles upcharge. how s that sound? 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[ female announcer ] the best treat is the one you get at home. rice krispies® childhood is calling. back now at 8:09, a hearing is now underway to decide if the doctor who implanted nadya suleman with 14 embryos should lose his medical license. reporter: the fertility doctor walked into a los angeles medical hearing where a deputy attorney general called it negligence and argued he should be stripped of his medical license. the charges stem from care he gave at least three mashlts including octomom nadya suleman. he implanted her with eight embryos which led to eight babies in 2009. many medical experts, doctors say such a high embryonic transfer crossed the ethical line. for somebody to receive 12 embryos would be considered quite unusual. we really have not seen that before. reporter: sul maeman who was mother of six before her final embryonic transfer as haulz defended her daughter. reporter: suleman claims she was only implanted six embryos, something officials have disputed during the hearing. meanwhile the doctor also failed to refer suleman to a medical health expert throughout her long 11-year history with him as her fertility doctor. suleman is struggling to pay her rent, faces eviction, even had a yard sale to raise desperately needed cash. so to people who have criticized not just you, but criticized your ivf doctor. he did nothing wrong. reporter: he didn t answer any questions outside of the hearing on monday, but his attorney did say he follows all medical guidelines and shows great care for all of his patients. he has practiced with the stan dofrd of care he posed a threat to the public, welfare, safety and protection. the hearing could take two weeks, but when it s over, it could cost the doctor his medical license. dr. nancy snyderman is nbc s chief medical correspondent. it sounds like they were raised even before the court that there were 12 embryos, allegedly. the standard of care is really one or two, maybe three embryos, depending on the age of a mother. never six, never 12. when a comes in and says i want twins, that s a red flag, because most women say i really want have to have a baby. tests need to be done to make sure the woman is stable enough, but very important, it is not the first case that this doctor has come under the spotlight for. so when you hear about repeat behavior, that is below the standard of care, that s a huge red flag, the uterus is only so big, it s not a condominium, it s only meant for one or two fetuses, because what you want to see at the end is a healthy mom and healthy babies. you re talking about judgment, and not all doctors have good judgment. but there are no regulations that say you can only implant so many. should there be regulations? have we reached the point now that technology has outrun judgment? technology will always run ahead because we ll sort of always chase the technology. there are laws in europe that require only two embryos be implanted. physicians have been very poor in places themselves. this man was kicked out of one of the academic societies and it s going to be very interesting to see if california is going to sort of stick to the guidelines that it says doctors should follow and take away his license. the only way you can punish doctors who have been flying under the guidelines and have been flying under the radar is to punish them where it hurts. you deny them the right to practice medicine. what about the idea that when a patient comes in and wants to be pregnant multiple times, whether it is is it a different guideline? or should there be a regulation that you say this patient should have a mental evaluation? no matter who comes in, you want to make sure that she understands what she s doing, that she s mentally stable, depression, anxiety, all those things can be a normal part of life. but is that required? it s not required but it is done at the great medical centers and at the great programs. but if a woman comes in already having six babies, unemployed, a history of depression, and then asks for a specific number of babies, that is a red flag that is so huge i don t understand why it wasn t paid attention to. this is the kind of thing that this medical examination that we re talking about, could that be one of the factors in causing a doctor like in this case to lose his medical license? the california board of medical examiners, they have held my california license for a long time. drug history, how you prescribe, patients complaints against you. do you fit the ethical guidelines of the subspecialty you re in? i think all eyes right now are on california and it going to be very interesting to see if they have the gumption that a lot of people are saying this could be a hallmark case of what not to do. they can do the right thing and set the record straight. dr. nancy snyderman, thank you as always for your great perspective. and next we re going to check out the hottest it tefls of neiman marcus christmas book. that s coming up right after this. 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[ male announcer ] if you can t afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. hey little m&m s! wow! great costumes. what are you guys like four or five? forty-six. alright, yeah ok. here you go. you don t understand, slick. we re here for the party. whoo! yeah, that s cute! [ laughing ] put your hand down. it is not even halloween yet, but it s already beginning to look a lot like christmas here on rockefeller plaza, that s because neiman marcus is out with their book of fantasy gifts, their christmas book of fantasy gifts. and by the way, it s the 50th anniversary of the famous his and hers gifts. ginger, good to see you. thank you. what is the greatest fantasy gift you have ever come up with, and what was the biggest bomb? the big e bomb might have been the cowboy boots that had golf spikes on them. 50th anniversary of the his and hers gifts. we have a beautiful bracelet with charms on it. there s a his version of that too? no, the his how much is that? $248,000. oh, my gosh. it s a fantasy, jeff. this woman says i m liking this. that would be great. and for the musicians in the family, you have something else here. the ukulele has come back in popularity, so we said let s have the ukulele that made george harrison s ukulele. he said i want to make a ukulele out of a gourd. they took a gourd, hollowed it out. so this comes from the same gourd? yes, you don t believe that. how long does it take you to make one of those. it just depends, getting older, but they use gourds, so it s been used for a long time. and george harrison really got me into ukuleles. so i made guilty tars for 35 year years for different people. it s a very, very trendy instrument, they re beautiful. thank you very much. now if you play the ukulele poorly, like i would, you want too banish yourself to this next gift. had to bring a model. this is $250,000. i love the romantic idea of living on a houseboat. this has translucent walls, a 7-foot ceiling. it like a modern loft. it does, it looks like a new york apartment. it s got a couple of engines, so you can move it around, it doesn t have to sit in one place. it has special engines so you can move it around. if you want to move around and not spend this kind of money, you want to we certainly do. this is a bicycle that s been made in new york since the late 1800st. and there s a couple of back seat drivers. this is $3,500. every holiday has to have a ginger bread house. i said what have you always wanted to do and you have never done? a playhouse made out of ginger bread. you can have a gum ball if you like. if i can get one off. how long ago was this made? it s edible or you can shellac it and use it as a decoration next year. what was the price again? $15,000. shall we introduce a new gentleman here? gerald barnes. happy holidays to you. everybody loves the limited edition car. this is the new chevrolet convertible, new triple layer paint job, this can do 0 to 60 in under five. how quickly do you believe the supply is going to go? there s 100 and the supply will go in a snap. do you have a price on this? no. $75,000. that s beautiful. you get to drive this home. i wish. i wish. it s nice, thank you very much. by the way, the iphone app that you got from neiman marcus, this is pretty cool. this features a new gift every single day and it features a whole host of features from our website. so you shake it, and it comes up with a variety tiff of gifts. you just shake it again and again and you keep get another surprise gift. nice to have you here. we have ginger over here with a few more things. i have got something, these are some ornaments and i m harkening back to the chinese gifts. $48 and $5 from the sale benefits big brothers and big sisters. now if you need a snack, chocolate covered potato chips. are these edible? they have not been shellacked, you can get a set of three if you like. let s talk about those cowboy boots with the golf spikes. no, these are good. they re good zbchlt we have got sparkled eye pass, covers, i lost my son so i wished i could have found something dazzling, luggage tags, all sorts of things. and one more item. how about ugs for your ears. you need these on these brisk mornings coming up, $75 including the corrado. we have got much more coming up this morning and we ll tell you all about it. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. let s get a final check on the morning commute. good morning, everyone. not too pretty out there. several problems to get to. benfield boulevard, the latest accident. heavy delays on both 95 of the northeast corner of the beltway. west side is not too much better for it route 30 at 140, we accident there. we have one in the city at towson in york road. miles per hour on average for that stretch eight miles per hour on average through that stretch. here is white marsh, where we are jammed packed towards the beltway. good morning, everyone. conditions will improve over the next couple of hours. rainshowers are to bring off now. this trend will continue as we go through the late morning and afternoon. rainshowers coming to an end. hide your 63. we will have another update at 8:55. bob ehrlich says he wants to fix maryland. but he increased state spending by record amounts. ehrlich raised $3 billion in taxes and fees. including property taxes. and a 40% increase in college tuition. and now he s made over $1 billion in new promises. with no plans to pay for them. except for cutting education. cuts that will lay off teachers and increase class sizes. that s not a budget. and bob ehrlich s not the kind of leader. we can trust. 8:30 now on a tuesday morning, 19th day of october, 2010. it looks a little chilly out here on the plaza. a nip in the air, but it doesn t matter. we have got people gathered on our little window to the world. and we re happy to be out here with them. i m matt lauer along with ann curry. tamron hall and mr. al roker. what have we got coming up in this half hour. one thing, as al was saying earlier, it s going up to, especially in time for the holidays, so if you plan to fly home for the holidays, we have got to get a move on. and we ha . and your good buddy jane tod a great story about a man who s useding his skills and a few horses to really change lives. plus i m sure you have had this happen, open a bottle of wine only to have it go bad. i know what you re talking about. that s the problem. exactly. so what do you do? we have an expert for those of us who do have a little bit left in the bottle. before we go any further, let s see the latest contestant to have the scales tip against them on biggest loser. burgundy, let s start with you, your starting weight, i don t know why i feel bad saying this, but it s sort of okay in this kind of a segment. 231 pounds, you re not that now. tell me what you re down to? i m 23 pounds away from my goal weight. 23 pounds. and how did you do that. how did i decide? what worked for you? running, moving, i get up at 5:00 every morning, i do a two-hour run, i come home, i get my kids ready for school, i go out again for two more hours and at night i just walk with my family and i have a morning walking group in my community that i started so i m getting everybody active and moving. you just have to do it. if i can get up at 5:00, you can get up at 5:00. i can hear you re doing the math in your head. you stuck it out at 271 pounds, do you want to share what you re at now? i have 32 pounds to go. oh, man, come on. you look terrific. why is it okay to mention your starting weight but not your current weight? is that for competitive reasons? we want everyone to tune to the finale. what works for you? i m addicted to my spin bike, i love it. i was a spin instructor, i was a spin instructor before i got on the show. i spin, spin, spin. i m injured right now so i m swimming a lot. and i m just constantly, constantly moving. you both look great. thank you so much. all right, mr. roker. let check your weather and see what s happening. we re going to show you what s happeni ining today, wet weathe down around southern california. and then for tomorrow, rain moves into the southwest, i got that right. morning showers along the mid-atlantic states and some showers in the mid great lakes region. that s right, don t forget, biggest loser airs tonight at 8:00, 7:00 central right here on nbc. we re allowed to give the time. that s wh as we head through the day today, the conditions will improve improve and the rainshowers will taper off. high temperatures and don t forget, you can check your weather any time of the day or night on the weather channel or on weather.com online. we have got jane pauley and she s here to talk about a man who s changing lives one well at a time. but first this is today on nbc. we re back now at 8:37 with our special your life calling today. aarp has produced and sponsored a series for us. for 44 years, ken wood has made his living drilling wells. but then he found his life calling. once again, it s drilling wells. you see the kids hauling the water up and down the roads coming from these places. and they would fill their jugs. you would not let your hands touch the water. i would say these people and tears coming out of your eyes. and just driving down the road, it s devastating. reporter: but every year in ghana, thousands die from drinking contaminated water. who knew all those years you re drilling wells here in maryland that you had the power to save lives? it s just an opportunity, a gift that god gave me, so i m very pleased. reporter: ken wood was a farm boy from maryland who built up a well drilling business. okay, this is the place right here. reporter: he wasn t looking for his calling four years ago. he was just looking to sell a used rig. a small church wanted to take it to ghana and ask ken to go along as an advisor. he s been back on his own 15 times. most of us don t ever have a chance. i know, and it s wonderful. reporter: your skill and expertise meant life changing water. ken and a small team of workers have drilled 460 wells at last count. and each one changes the life of a village. but you ll never guess where his funding comes from. what do horses have to do with it? they help support what we re doing. reporter: ken owns a small stable of horses. harness racing used to be hiss passion. today it supports his mission. he provides money for the project? he s been a good contributor. we have had five horses make over $100,000. that s not my money. it does not happen. i m just passing the money on. reporter: what the horses win is poured back into ghana, where ken wood is revered. what is your name? chief living water. if you re a king, you don t have to drink river water and get sick anymore. he s saving lives. i want him to live 150 years to finish the work that he s doing. reporter: at 66, ken has suffered two major heart attacks, but he keeps going. i ve got lots of people praying for me. reporter: and he s got his wife s blessing to spend up to three months a year in africa. so this is your life s work? it s getting to be, yeah. ive you have a friend who is sick all the time, if you can lick your fingers and do something for that person, you would do it. reporter: let me add my voice to the people who pray that you live a long life. well, thank you. ken has an ambitious plan to start drilling wells in tanzania as well as ghana. but here s a reality check, the horses don t always win and the economy has been bad for business. but to keep drilling wells in africa, ken has taken on considerable personal debt. though he thinks that things will turn around and his horses will pull through. using a live web chat on using the skills you already have. that will be on aarp.com/jane. you don t have to do something different, you just sometimes have to turn things around and look at what you re doing differently. how much a teacher is not in the classroom, but is still teaching because the context has changed. no, i love that story for that reason. that, you know, you don t have to do an extreme makeover. and he wasn t going out looking for it, it fell in his lap. life tapped him on the shoulder and spun him around. up next where you need to look now before it s too late to find holiday travel deals, but first this is today on nbc. woman 1 sync: i knew what bob ehrlich did as governor. man 1 sync: raised my property taxes 60 percent. woman 2 sync: let utilities hike our rates 72 percent. woman 1 sync: but i didn t know what he s done since he got fired as governor. man 2: ehrlich s raked in millions. man 3: he worked for a wall street bank that took 10 billion dollars from the bailout. woman 3: 10 billion of our money. woman 4: our money. woman 5 sync: and he worked for another bank that collapsed. man 4: costing tax payers 17 million. anncr: tell bob ehrlich big banks don t need help. middle class marylanders do. bob ehrlich is desperate, and he ll say anything to get elected. negative attacks the media have repeatedly called dishonest and total malarkey. and why can t we trust bob ehrlich? because he raised taxes and fees by $3 billion then denied it. because he says he s for us, but made $2.5 million at a special interest lobbying firm. and ehrlich says he ll cut education again if elected governor. bob ehrlich a career politician we really can t trust. this morning on today s travel, the best bet for the holiday travel season, airfares are expected to be as much as 18% higher than last year. how can you find affordable ways to get home for the holidays? the director for travel and leisure magazine is joining us now. good morning. so this big, steep, increase in airfa airfares, how is that going to be playing out compared to last year? a kind of sobering statistic last year on orbits.com, you would get a $380 fare, if you book that this year, $496 that s over a $100 increase, that s substantial. the whole idea is to book early so you don t have does this mean that we should take the risk and book later? it s nom a gambler, and it s not necessarily smart because you do want to go see that family. bock early, but book smart. orbits is a great idea to book because they have a flight assurance policy, that means if you book and then someone else after you books and gets a better deal, you re not left out in the cold, they actually send you a refund. but it has to be the same itinerary exactly. what s your advice? the first thing is to be flexible and also be smart about when you re booking. if you re going to be traveling, the normal rule of thumb is wednesday and tuesdays are the best day to get lower rates. the day of the holiday, so thursday of thanksgiving is actually my favorite day to travel t airports are quieter, you re going to get nicer service because everybody s in the holiday spirit and you re going to get better prices. if you want to go to a website to check out what the best fares are, bing.com has a gragraphic you can see over the 30-day period what the fares were. you also say fare compare.com. they offer an overview of the surcharges that are being charged. there are some additional w al that the airlines are going to charge you. there s so many fees and different airlines have different levels of charges. these are built in so you can have as much as $30 tacked on to a fare because it s the holidays. you say it s hard to do this when you ve got family to you ve got to be flexible about where you re traveling to. it s important to think about going to secondary airports, the ones that are close to where, not exactly where you want to end up, you may get better rates there. if you have a very specific route that you want exactly that particular flight. they will give you an alert when that price goes down. an alert on your phone? it will send it to your e-mail. which is great. and airfare watch dog is another one. but if you re just interested in deals from your home city, they ll send you alerts on the deals. sit better to go day or night when you re searching. it feels like it s ficked depending on when you want to look for a fare. fares are continually going in and out of the system. but i find the best is after midnight, that all those people who held those tickets go back into the system. you have to stay up late, but it s kind of worth it to get the better deal. right after midnight when the expiration runs out. 12:03, i think they say. a lot of this is bad news, but you re giving us a way to deal with that bad news, but you re saying they re resulting in some good news. we re seeing an average increase, but we re also seeing a bunch of destinations where the fares have gone down. while there is a little bit of bad news, it is the holidays so you re going to be with your family at the end of it, this is a matter of doing it smartly on the way. we can do it smartly because we have gotten your advice. coming up next, tricks to get your wine to last longer once you ve uncorked the bottle. but first, this is today on nbc. we re back now, 8:51, with some wines that are perfect for the cool, fall weather and how to make them last longer. gary, welcome back, great to see you. before we taste wine, you re going to talk about actually, if you want to taste wine and you want to get all the aroma and the flavor, you re a fan of the camping wine. and the funny thing, most people don t think about white wine being decanted. the high end stuff, people don t think about the low end wine. so white wine benefit from the air and so does the $10 wines. how long would you decant a bottle of wine whether it s white or red before you actually drink it? if it s a berry or white a red, at least an hour. and speaking of white wine, you like reesling. i think it s amazing. it s got high accent, it goes great with a variety of foods. that s not sweet at all. it has a lot of flavor. this is bone dry. bone dry. you can pucker it up. it s got a great kind of like green apple thing going on and it goes tremendous with a variety of foods, especially fish. real hot, what do you like best? real hot is under value right now. a lot of people like cabernet and bordeaux. now tell me why you re drinking it quite like that. swishing it a little bit? that s kind of how i roll. more importantly, it allows all the flavors to hit my pallet. and when it comes to fall menus, why do you like this so well? if you want to go casual, some burgers, it s a great casual wine, under $20, very high end red. we re talking about some good drinking wine. what we did here, here it is by itself out of the bottle. and right here to the left, it s been decanted for three hours. so what i want you to do, i want you to taste this. which is really good, by the way. how good is it, by the way? and now i want you to taste this after three hours of dewanting. decanting. it s just smoother. and that s it. and deeper. let me try it again. most people don t like the b bitter. decanting opens it up and it warms the fruit and it s definitely dramatically smoother. and it can be longer actually. so a lot of people open a bottle of wine, whether it s white or red, and you only drink act portion of it and you say it s going to go bad. if you ve got a half bottle at home, pour it in there. less exposure. how long will it last? three days or so on a red wine. the less air in a bottle. air is the enemy once you have already opened it. but this thing, check this out. this i think is incredible. a couple of little pumps and pop. this is under $20 as a gadget. incredible. does that extend it beyond two or three days? this could get up to five to six days, absolutely. wine in a box. everybody thinks the box wine, the really cheap ingredients, $21, but in the leader, the tetro back is really catching on. great to have you here. we re going to have much more on a tuesday morning after your local news. bob ehrlich is desperate, and he ll say anything to get elected. negative attacks the media have repeatedly called dishonest and total malarkey. and why can t we trust bob ehrlich? because he raised taxes and fees by $3 billion then denied it. because he says he s for us, but made $2.5 million at a special interest lobbying firm. and ehrlich says he ll cut education again if elected governor. bob ehrlich a career politician we really can t trust. live, local, latebreaking. this is a wbal-tv 11 news update. good morning. i m tony pann. as we had to the morning, conditions will improve. rainshowers will be ending. it will be a little bit on the cool side. high temperatures expected in the low 60s. seven-day forecast, still expecting a few rainshowers on wednesday and thursday. high temperatures in the low-to- mid-60 s. upper 50s and 60s. we look forward to a decent weekend. weekend. thanks for joining us bob ehrlich says he wants to fix maryland. but he increased state spending by record amounts. ehrlich raised $3 billion in taxes and fees. including property taxes. and a 40% increase in college tuition. and now he s made over $1 billion in new promises. with no plans to pay for them. except for cutting education. cuts that will lay off teachers and increase class sizes. that s not a budget. and bob ehrlich s not the kind of leader. we can trust. i like a party as much as the next gal but, come on. $60,000 for one dinner held by the department of justice. $66 per person just for bagels at one of the nasa s shindigs.