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a psychiatric evaluation after he allegedly trashes a new york city hotel room in a alcohol fueled rage. his young daughters just across the hall, we ll hear from denise richards today, october 27, the hall, we ll hear from denise richards today, october 27, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. and i m meredith viera. and believe it or not, weather bomb is an accepted term. hundreds of flights were canceled. tornadoes were spotted from north carolina to wisconsin. also bullying has been in the news a lot recently, often because of the tragic consequences it can bring, now a new survey of teens, the largest yet is revealing just how bad things have become. we re going to talk about this results of that survey and get some results from parents. and jetblue flight attendant steven slater will speak out. was it premeditated and was he have any regrets? he ll share his side of the story coming up. but we begin with that massive storm that s pounded a large section of the country with strong winds, rain and tornadoes. reporter: two injured just up the road as this powerful tornado came through yesterday. this, one of more than 200 severe weather reports associated with this unusual system that brought with it low pressure readings equivalent to a category 3 hurricane. the powerful storm blew through the midwest early tuesday, at least two dozen tornadoes reportedly touched down. this is what s left behind here in illinois, south of chicago. the barn blew down and that was it. he came flowing at me through the glass door and sprayed into the foyer about five or six feet. reporter: a tree branch nearly crushed this car. in indianapolis, severe damage to homes and businesses. warnings went out just moments before a tornado hit wanataw, indiana. this surveillance video showed the roof of a storage building off in seconds. 90 miles an hour winds came barreling through. high winds also blew this barn off its foundation in racine county, wisconsin. for travelers, more bad news, hundreds of flights were canceled and those who were able to fly into chicago describe harrowing landings. i thought i was going to die, i tell you that much. no, seriously. i did, really. reporter: and thousands across the great lakes region will be dealing with more high winds today, power crews are expecting more outages. here s the system, the lowest pressure ever recorded in minnesota at 95.2 millibars and when you talk about low pressure you talk about pressure dropping rapidly, this tight pressure gradient created all the winds. this system slowly moves to the east. we have high wind warnings, wind watches, wind advisories from bismarck to detroit and that s where we re going to see airport delays, plus, as a cold front associated with this system pushes into warm air, we have got the risk of strong storms from tuscaloosa, all the way to new york city city. we have tornado watches stretching from birmingham, alabama to norfolk, virginia and atlanta included in this area as well, so we ll watch strong storms, rainfall amount generally one to two inches, but some areas may pick up three to four inches before this is all over. we ll get your local forecast in just a couple of minutes. but first, the countdown to the midterm election, just six days to go and candidates are facing off for the first time. reporter: everywhere we go, voters tell us they re tired of all of the negative ads. and campaigns are walking a fine line, getting in their best opponent s attack and trying to appear optimistic before tuesday. in some of the biggest races, they re not there yet. all three candidates, not the republican party, including the republican, marco rubio, a tea party favorite. i think the republican party is to blame for much of what s happened in washington. reporter: with abc s david gregory moderating, another hit from charlie crist who fled the gop to run as an independent. i think everybody on the planet understands the republican party has gone hard right. reporter: taking thunder from democrat chris meek. the kind of ideology that marco rubio is talking about and charlie crist was talking about up until a few weeks ago is what got us to this place. reporter: a volunteer for republican rand paul has apologized for stepping on the head of a protester, from the liberal group moveon.org, paul s campaign called it incredibly unfortunate. it s very important that people be held responsible for this sort of behavior. reporter: in california s race for governor jerry brown, a lifetime of politics. reporter: could there be a fragile truth in air wars? republican meg whitman and democrat jerry brown were ask to go positive. would either of you or both of you be willing to make a pledge that you would end the negativity? reporter: neither brown nor whitman jumped at the suggestion. if she takes her negative ads off, i will take mine off no question. i will take off any ads that could even be remotely construed as a personal attack, but i don t think we can take down the ads that talk about where governor brown stands on the issues, it s just not the right thing to do. reporter: and in california today there s some other important news, michelle obama and joe biden will be campaigning for senator barbara boxer. but republican carly fiorina spent the night in the hospital, her campaign says she s doing pretty well and they hope she can be back on the trail by the end of the week. kelly o donnell in washington. nevada s home to one of the most high stakes races, senate majority leader harry reid is in a dead heat with sharon angle. and in the final stretch both are taking very different approaches to getting out the vote. lee cowan is in las vegas. reporter: most republicans say nothing would be sweeter than the oust the senate majority leader and that s why the races here in nevada are being so closely watched because it is the anger of the incumbency and the anger of the tea party. very few people in indiana are on the fence about just what to do. what does that mean for the average person? you re quoting him out of context. out of context? it was when he was running in his campaign. reporter: in henderson, nevada, the only thing that s hotter than their coffee is a plateful of verbal politics. it isn t regulation, it isn t taxed. reporter: frank and bill are long time friends but breakfast these days creates challenges, and no wonder, the political chasm here has become a real nail biter. the question about this election is whether the republicans manage to find the one person in this state who could actually lose to harry reid. reporter: after a string of controversial statements, angle has become a lightning rod. check out this outburst from joy behar this week. but reed hasn t been faring much better, like this characterization of him on saturday night live. just pretend to support the president to get something for this state. it s very devious. reporter: angle is playing it safe, the rallies are invite only affairs where she avoids the local media like the plague. in contrast, harry reid has never met a camera he didn t like, he s out every single day making a very public but some would say desperate push. but the one thing they both have in common is the voracity of their severe ads. angle portrays reid as the liberal of all liberals, responsible for nevada s disastrous economy. reid portrays angle as the conservative of all conservatives, arguing her positions on things like social security are so extreme, he s called her flat out dangerous. early voting is already underway here and all indications say the race remains as tight as ever. a few more friendly days of staying just shy of a food fight. we can sit down and disagree, but when we leave, we always leave with a smile and we re still friends. so meredith, it s the washington insider versus is tea party outsider with two views of government that are about as different as they can be. david gregory is the moderator of meet the press, good morning to you, david. reporter: good morning. right now sharon angle has a slight lead over harry reid, is this going to come down to jobs and the economy? reporter: the environment clearly favors anybody but harry reid, he s washington, he s the insider. but you see what happened in new york, harry reid is trying to attack her in a more personal way, carrying out attacks on everything that she says is more controversial. that s the way he prevails. you re in florida where you moderateded the senate debate last night. marco rubio has a substantial lead over chris meek, did he say anything in the debate last night that will put him clearly over the top. i think he played it safe mostly, i think he s basically coasting now, really focusing on turnout, staying very discipl e disciplined on his message. in a state like florida he does continue to talk about social security in a way that s going to rock the boat. he s talking about putting the raising of the retirement age on the table as a way to deal with florida s financial problems in the future. this could be very interesting, because marco rubio if he becomes senate opens up a conversation with the white house and democrats and republicans that they could cut benefits by raising the retirement age. are you surprifrom conservat rubio, it s a more conservative run party when it comes to taxes and spending, the question is whether they re going to get more specific and frankly marco rubio was not very specific about how they re going to cut spending. david, you mentioned meek is going very negative against rubee in the last couple of days. do away with negative ads, brown said yes he would, whitman does not agree with that, what does that say to you about the negativity in that campaign and campaigns across the country? if you look at the poll, former governor jerry brown has poll numbers higher than anybody else. if you re meg whitman, it s a political matter, you ve got to try to drive up his unfavorable rating if you ve got a shot. she s got to get disaffected democrats to consider voting for her as a republican, that s what she feels she has to do. it is amazing, in campaigns, at of voters say i hate the tone, i hate the negativity of the campai campaigns. let s get a check of the rest of the morning s top stories. good morning, everybody. also in the news this morning, hundreds of people are still missing this morning in indonesia where a 10-foot tsunami triggered by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake on sunday. more than 270 people have been killed, bad weather slowed the emergency response until today when planes and helicopters finally arrived bringing food and medicine. at the same time, a volcano in indonesia has erupted killing at least 30 people. both of these two events are in what s called the pacific ring of fire and officials are on high alert. the outbreak of cholera in haiti has now killed more than 300 people, thousands are sick and protesters in st. marc officials are investigating a gas leak. overseas markets are mostly lower this morning, but melissa lee is at the new york stock exchange and investors are looking ahead to a big lead at the fed next week. how big will it be? investors have been anticipating between $500 billion but today the wall street journal is reporting the fed will only announce several hundred billion dollars of bond purchases. today we re seeing an unraveling of the trade that happened. we re seeing dollar weakness as well. and the giant and the texas rangers are getting ready for game one of the world series tonight. san francisco has home field advantage because of a national league victory in this summer s all-star game. apparently we re being told to expect more coffins than usual at the games as we re now looking at the leadup to halloween. mr. roker, you ve got a lot to talk about with this weather good morning. we are off to a wet start. the severe weather threat has diminished, but the rain will stick around at least through drive time. drive time. hit and miss showers and and that raes s your latest weather. the so-called hiccup girl has been charged with murder. now both her attorney and the victim s family are speaking out. nbc s mark potter has details. mark, good morning to you. reporter: and good morning to you, matt. with the grand jury scheduled to hear this case tomorrow, the defense is starting to position itself, this as the victim s family is mourning its loss. in a radio interview, jennifer mee s attorney says she is cooperating with police and is distraught over the incident in which 22-year-old shannon griffin was killed in an armied robbery. i spent a great deal of time with her at the jail and i can tell you that she was indeed very, very upset, remorseful and this is not something that she takes lightly. reporter: police say mee lured the victim to a house, where he was then robbed at gunpoint by two men. during a scuffle he was shot multiple times and died. police say they do not believe mee was involved in the shooting, but because of her alleged involvement in the robbery, under florida law, she is charged with first-degree murder. mee gained national attention three years ago when she suffered uncontrollable hiccups and appeared on today. her attorney says she may actually have been suffering for tour rhett s syndrome and other problems. i can say the hiccups in jennifer s case are actually the symptoms of a much more serious neurological disorder and we re going to be fully investigating that and see how that does relate to the case. and just smiles from ear to ear. reporter: meanwhile the victim s family is in mourning. shannon griffin lived with his family and worked hard at walmart, kept to himself and was never in trouble. never arrested for anything, not even a traffic ticket, my man, 22 years old. reporter: bowlen says give fun was at this computer when he met jennifer mee on this social net working site. he was thrilled he had found a girl to date and he was going to meet her. the next thing we know, it s 4:00 in the morning when we get a call saying shannon griffin is dead. reporter: and bowlen says he hopes this incident will make parents have more control of their children. he also hopes that people remember the victim. mark potter in st. petersburg this morning. coming up, charlie sheen taken for a psychiatric evaluation after he allegedly trashed a new york city hotel room in a drunken rage. his two daughters right across the hall. we ll have details on that, but first this is today on nbc. just ahead, troubling results from the largest survey to date on teens and bullying. and also the former jetblue flight attendant who made a dramatic exit down the emergency slide of a plane tells his story after your local news and weather. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am stan stovall. time for a check on the morning commute with sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. we are dealing with wet roads and problems all over the region. southbound 95 is a heavy spot from the beltway all the way towards a 32. we have an accident approaching 175. that is off to the shoulder, but those delays remain. ritchie highway at route 10, an accident location to avoid their. . the traffic on the west side. look at southbound 795. that is at a crawl away towards the beltway. topside is that a crawl as well. charles street is shut down at northern parkway to funeral services through the day. 795 ellicott klees mill, traffic is just a mess. 75 cockeysville, traffic is just a mess. rain is now headed in the western suburbs. steady-to-moderate rain a roundabout way. brown the beltway. showers and thunderstorms to start the day. hit and miss showers and storms this afternoon. i debitor expected in the mid- 70 s. high temperature expected in the mid-70 s. the mid-70 s. bac taxes are too high, and maryland families are struggling. and then there s politician andy harris proposing a 23% sales tax on nearly everything we buy. it cuts taxes for millionaires by over $200,000 a year and raises taxes on the middle class. andy harris even promised big oil companies he d make taxpayers pay for spills like the bp disaster. andy harris on our side? not a chance. the democratic congressional campaign committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. today, it s nearly double. and nearly a quarter of a million marylanders are looking for work. in addition, we face a national health care plan that will hurt small business and cost us jobs. so we have to ask, are you better off today than you were four years ago? we re heading in the wrong direction. we need strong leadership. say no to things we can t afford. fix our health care plan. and refuse to raise taxes. martin o malley can t do it. i will. 7:30 now on this wednesday morning, october 27, 2010. kind of a messy morning here in the northeast. meanwhile inside, studio 1a, i m meredith viera alongside matt lauer. charlie sheen has been released from the hospital after he allegedly went into a drunken rage and trashed his hotel room right here in new york city. his spokesperson has a different explanation saying che ing shee adverse reaction to some medications. in a new survey, 50% of teens admit to bullying a classmate, almost as many admit being the victim of a bully. remember steven slater who became a folk hero a few months back when he pulled an emergency chute, was he drunk? is he going to work as a flight attendant again? we ll get to that ahead. and that drunken rage that landed charlie sheen in the hospital for a psychological evaluation. reporter: police say it was a pretty ugly scene on the 18th floor at the plaza. they say charlie sheen was out of control, on a rampage, drunk, yelling, throwing furniture around the room, breaking tvs, breaking mirrors. there was a naked young woman in the room with him who got so scared by his tirade, she locked herself in the bathroom and called for help. when he arrived in new york city, charlie sheen looked happy and relaxed. here on a family trip with his ex-wife denise richards and their two young daughters, hitting all the spots together. the mary poppins musical, the american girl store and to cap it all off, a stay at the fameded plaza hotel. denise and their two little girls slept inside this up lent suite while authorities say just across the hall in another room, sheen was drunk, naked and out of control with a naked woman believed to be a prostitute. tmz s website reportedly shows the inside of sheen s trashed hotel room. he basically went crazy in the room, there were curtains pulled down, furniture overturned, chandelier ed es da, almost $20,000 in damages. he was taken to a local hospital, he was later released. denise richards spoke about it tuesday on the lifestyle show ls new york. i want to keep what happened last night private. how are your kids doing? they re great, they don t know what happened, thank god our girls are young enough, they re 5 and 6 and i do my best to protect them from certain things. he and i, still good, no matter what. for charlie sheen, there s a lot at stake here, reportedly making $2 million an episode and he s still on probation for an incident with his current wife, brooke mueller. my husband had me with with a knife and i feared for my life and he threatened me. reporter: he was charged with felony assault and threatened with rehab. he came to new york and some say he let his addiction get the best of him. if charlie continues on the path he is and continues to work instead of take time off and focus on treatment, he will likely die. reporter: very strong words from dr. drew, he said he s worried about charlie sheen. no one pressed any charges and sheen was never arrested by police. his publicist has released a statement saying what we re able to determine is that charlie had an adverse allergic reaction to some medication and was taken to the hospital. we should mention that charlie sheen is already back in los angeles and getting right back to work. on friday he s shooting a movie and is back on the set of his hit tv show. dan abrams is nbc s chief legal analyst, and we have the author of weekend at bellevue. good morning. it s reported that charlie sheen is found in this room, he s trashed his hotel room. he s naked or partially naked, there s an unidentified woman in the room, they believe she s a member of an escort service. i guess he was given a choice to go to the hospital. it sounds like he s getting special treatment. i m not sure if that s the case. you re allowed to be naked, you re allowed to be drunk, you re allowed to be with a woman in your hotel room. the question is what you need then is the hotel or this woman saying here s what he did that we believe is criminal and we re ready to testify about it. because without that, you simply don t have a case. you could have a civil action, meaning you better pay us back for what you did in the hotel room, but without that, it would be tough to get any sort of conviction. and right now no one is pressing any charges at all? as of right now, that could change. but as of now, it doesn t seem that they r just because the police haven t formally moved forward doesn t mean that couldn t happen in the future. he s on probation for a situation with his wife in november. part of his probation is no alcohol. when he was found he was thought to be under the influence of alcohol, does that violate his probation? authorities have made it very clear that they re not going to investigate what is in effect a probation violation. their position is we don t have resources in new york to find out what exactly did he violate and the exact language of his probation is alcohol in excess. and if he was drunk that would certainly be alcohol in excess. let me tell you about this statement released by his representative saying that charlie sheen suffered from an adverse reaction from prescription medication. what kind of medication would cause someone to go on a rampage like that. i have to say alcohol alone can have someone go off like that. alcohol with cocaine, alcohol with amphetamines, speed, or prescription stimulants, like adderal or ritalin. he seemed pretty agitated, and from what i heard also paranoid, he thought his cell phone and his wallet had been stolen. that s the kind of behavior you can see with alcohol and stimulants or alcohol and cocaine. denise richard denise do needs to try rehab again? i think he needs long-term behavioral changes. he s tried the abstinence based therapy more than once and he s still going out and using again. dr. drew said he believes he actor needs to get treatment and stop working or he will likely die. we have seen a lot of celebrities die of drug overdoses. if he is mixing alcohol and cocaine, it s especially risky for strokes and heart attacks. but the problem is other people are at risk. there are other people who could be at risk besides himself. he needs a wakeup call, however you view it, it seems that the legal avenue may not have provided the wakeup call that he needs and with the sort of continuing problems that he s having, it doesn t seem that there s been a fundamental change in behavior. whatever he was on or not on, the bottom line is something happened in that hotel room that led him to start throwing things around, for the police to be called et cetera. the most important point here is his treatment towards women. and it doesn t seem that his job is going to be providing him with a wakeup call. $1.8 million an episode. he s bad boy charlie and people like that, people are attracted to that. we re going to have a live interview with charlie sheen s ex-wife denise richards coming up in our fourth hour. and we have got everything going on, thunderstorms in the east, high winds in the west, and we have got snow to talk about through colorado. there you go. we re talking central colorado and just north of denver, we re talking anywhere from three to six inches of snow, they re going to be looking at a lot of snow today blizzard warnings from the dakotas into minnesota today. afternoon temperatures, we expect to see those temperatures only in the 30s and 40s, and 20s into the plains states, we have got 50s in the pacific northwest, 80s and 90s in texas. afternoon showers and thunderstorms through northern california, with some strong winds, got a little monkey here. who s this? this is cooper from denver. the heavy, steady rain should move out towards the tail end of drive time, but there will still be hit and miss showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and at a crazy weather day today, check out the weather channel or weather.com. steven slater speaks out about his dramatic escape from a jetblue flight. i don t tolerate dorkiness very well. yet my 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would you have not shown up for work that day or would you have just not done certain things that day? it was definitely time to go and i shouldn t have allowed myself to get to a point where i had become so frustrated. you were on that plane and according to your first version of the story, there was an obnoxious passenger, she was putting something in the overhead compartment, it fell on your head and you got on the loud speaker and grabbed a beer and out you went. there were a number of different versions. it started in pittsburgh, the injury happened on the ground in pittsburgh during the boarding process. and it s one of those perfect storms, the airline industry that has created this monster, where we re charging you to check your bags and all of a sudden we re not going to police what s coming on board the airplane. so the initial insult if you will happens in pittsburgh. so did it happen on that plane? it happened on board. did it happen with a bag coming down from the overhead compartment and a rude passenger? it all started in pittsburgh and the decision that i made which was probably not the best one at the time. i should have said, time out, i m going to have somebody take a look at this and i ll be back. federal investigators have gone through the passengers, they have talked to everybody, no one says they remember this, they don t remember that passenger doing this, they don t remember the altercation in the aisle way of that plane. it was not nearly as spectacular as it s been made out to be. it was not a huge event or i would have left right then and there. those who disagree with you say the gash happened before you ever got on that plane, they say you had been drinking before you ever got on that plane. were you drunk before you boarded that plane? i was not drunk. had you been drinking? i had been out, i had been out the night before, i was sleep deprived, it was a rough night and it was probably not the best professional appearance. were you abrasive to passengers on that plane before that passenger in your opinion was rude to you? no, unfortunately, this whole thing started during the boarding process and that set a very bad tone. i want to ask you about your state of mind going in, you said you had been thinking about something like this for 20 years. so was it premeditated? was this action were you just simply waiting for the opportunity to do this? let me clarify this, because that was something that was taktake grossly out of context. it was said have you ever thought about for 20 years we have practiced this move. i have thought about what it would be like if we ever had to do so. it turned into steven slater premeditated this for 20 years. you didn t go in that day saying today my day, this is when it s all going to come down. i would have called you all first and said there s going to be something going on at jfk get yourselves down there? i know you ve been through a lot in your personal life. your dad passed away of lou gehrig s disease. you ve been helping to care for your mom who s quite ill. you are hiv positive. how would you describe your emotional state at that time of your career back in august? i will say that i was stressed out and i was burned out, and something had to give, it didn t necessarily need to give the way it did, but it certainly needed to give. you ve got to undergo counseling and substance abuse treatment for a year. and you ve got to pay restitution to jetblue in of $10,000. are you someone who considers yourself to be clinically depressed? no. so you re going along with the kounszing just because i m going along with the counseling because it s a wonderful opportunity to handle some of these life stress issues we have just discussed. it give mess a vehicle to turn some things around. are you an alcoholic. i am a recovering alcoholic, yes. daily battle. one day at a time. you have said that you would like to fly again. i would like to return to what it was not what it is. and i have come to a place of acceptance that what was is no longer available today. and i have come to terms with that. i had a fantastic, fantastic time. i embraced being a flight attendant, i loved being a flight attendant, unfortunatel today s industry is not where i need to be. for those who said good for you, atta boy, i m frustrated too. did they rally around the right cause or did they rally around perhaps a not quite true version of the events? it s been challenging in that what we have seen has been very much a media created 3-dimensional story. there s a lot of symbolism in it. i m thankful that people did get a laugh. i didn t obviously do this for comic relief. but i think it was a moment for people to pause and take a breath and say, you know what? i get this. former flight attendant steven slater. coming up five simple ways to boost your brain s health. do not attempt at home. always wear your seat belt. and please drive responsibly. 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he s not really on my side. with this tough economy, we really need a governor on our side. 8:00 on a wednesday morning. a dreary morning here in the northeast, it s been raining for a while. seems to have stopped for the moment. it s the 27th day of october, 71 degrees. out on the plaza, i m matt lauer along with meredith viera. a subject we have been talking about a lot, bullying. the largest survey of high school students has revealed some startling facts. about 50% say they have teased or in some way bullied someone in the past year, nearly half have been victims of bullying. david ozmond is the nephew of donnie and marie osmond speaks out about his battle with multiple sclerosis. talk about a lot of bravery and courage. the question now is will the most decorated olympian add to his collection? apollo ono, no regrets. let s go inside, ann s standing by at the news desk with all the headlines. we are seeing you guys, good morning once again this morning. officials say that more than 270 people were killed and several hundred are still missing. airplanes landing with food and relief supplies landed on the island overwhelmed by the disaster. at the same time a volcano erupted in indonesia and is blamed for at least 30 deaths. experts say the volcano is calmer today, but they remain on the highest alert levels. a huge storm system with damaging winds is heading east today after ravaging part of the midwest and the south. at least two dozen tornadoes were reported on tuesday including one in indiana that was reported by a security camera. rooftops and trees were no match for the storm and about 200,000 customers lost electricity. snow is still falling this morning in the mountains of colorado, a storm on tuesday dumped more than a foot of snow stalling traffic and disrupting air travel. the cholera outbreak in haiti fearing that it would bring more of the disease to their area. the outbreak has claimed more than 300 lives and has sickened 3,000 people so far. and with less than a week to go until the midterm elections, president obama again focuses on young voters today with the tapings today with a segment on the daily show with jon stewart. and charlie crist defended his last-minute decision to leave the republican party saying it had turned too much to the right. and california republican candidate carly fiorina spent the night in the hospital. she was treated for an infection related to her breast cancer surgery last year. those are some of the top stories at three minutes past the hour. let s go back outside with meredith and matt. the rain has stopped for a while, but i think it s going to start again, let s ask al. we re going to see off and on showers throughout the day. you picked a great day to skip school. where are you guys from. buffalo. you guys are together? you re sisters? yes. remember, mom and dad said it was okay to skip school so you can play that card later. let s check your weather, lacrosse, wisconsin where they got strong storms yesterday, high wind warnings with gusts of up to 60-mile-per-hour. 46 degrees for a high today. you can see that powerful low spinning up in canada bringing in cold air and snow in the plains states, the dakotas and northern minnesota. strong winds and rain in the pacific northwest. we have also got a risk of strong storms from southern new jersey all the way down to alabama. sunny skies from northern texas and oklahoma on into the southwest. that s wh we are off to a what started this one state could give yourself as much extra time as you can. scattered showers and thunderstorms late in the day. and that s your latest weather. coming up, just how bad has bullying become at high schools? we re going to show you the results of a troubling new survey of teens right after this. home of one of the coldest, longest nights on the planet. and asked frequent heartburn sufferers, like carl, to put prilosec otc s 24 hour heartburn protection to the test for two weeks. the results? 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reporter: this family, a mainstay in showbiz for 50 years could not believe ms was striking them a second time. david s dad, allen, one of the original osmond brothers has had the disease 23 years. yes, i still have m.s., but it didn t have me. and i think that has been a real strong point that i have tried to pass on to david. reporter: david s own immune system was attacking his nerves, his ability to move. he was scared, but realized his survival required a positive attitude. i have to keep going. i have to be able to now provide for my fiance who i proposed to in that state and by some crazy reason she said yes, despite the fact that people who cared about her said are you sure you want to marry a cripple? she said yes, in sickness and in health. how could it be that you wanted me reporter: just before he married, david turned to a powerful steroid. and i ve been walking since my wedding day. reporter: amazingly, david continues to improve without it. david believes he is now in remission, but knows his disease could flare up again and he still feels residual pain in his legs. i have that constant crushing pain all the time, every second of every day. right now. reporter: but david remain the ultimate optimist, he says his life is much better with a switch to all natural food and supplements. it seems crazy, but it is one of the greatest things that s ever happened to me because i feel like it s given me this fresh perspective on life. reporter: david says his wife valerie, their little girl and his famous family gives him the strength he needs to live with m.s. i value my life so much more. having it, very quickly music was taken away from me. and now to be able to pick up a guitar, i have so much i want to say, so much to rejoice about. david osmond s story has really inspired a lot of people. you can find out more about david and m.s. on our website todayshow.com. i want to switch gears right now and say hello to edward burns, 50 years after making it big with the indy film the brothers m brothers mcmullen is going back to his roots. you made this for $25,000? that s meredith s bar bill at the club. don t go there. yeah, we wanted to go back and see if we could re-create the mcmullen model, given how much fun we had making that film, but also the extent of working with at the time all these unknown young actors, there was an enthusiasm on set that i hadn t been able to recapture. so we set up a challenge. we shot the film in ten days, $25,000, all unknown actors, they did their own hair, their own makeup, they wore their own clothes. just for good measure, we went back to my parents house and shot a few scenes there. there s something about their youthful exuberance that really works. you re in the film, you play uncle terry, but you play a pivotal role in his life? he made a deal with his fiance if by the time they got married, he didn t get a raise, he would return to new york and take a job that her father has set up. he comes into my bar, i hear that he s giving up his job that he loves, and i have set up a few do i continue with my dreams or i do give up my dreams for a job that pays the bills? and is that why you call this film one of your most personal? yes, a few years ago, my agent said i should look at a with that, would come a substantial paycheck. and i almost said yes to the job. but then the other day, i realized i love my smaller personal, you know, character driven films, why give up that dream if you will for the paycheck. from that experience inspires the writing of the screen play. this is a movie that you have chosen to distribute in a more unconventional way. it s called the pioneer now. what we have seen with independent films, in the last couple of years, at of distribution companies have close down. i don t live anywhere how can we distribute our films directly to the audience that stills loves them. we re going i-tunes, tonight when people see this interview, they can click on the remote on demand film. we ll be back after your local news. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. but morning. i am sarah caldwell but what a mess out there. we are dealing with wet roads, and as a result, lots of accidents. on the inner loop of the beltway, northbound 295, right on that ramp, dealing with a crash with heavy delays down to pretend it here, accident involving a tractor-trailer on southbound 95 on the capital beltway marci drive, fire department activity to avoid. still taking a while before it filters out. a 13 miles per hour from southbound 95 and mountain road down to the beltway. not much better on the north side of belclaire. we are still dealing with the rain, although in the far western suburbs it has tapered off. a little bit of good news and it the folks of frederick county and carroll county. off and on showers and thunderstorms will stay and the forecast this afternoon. breezy and mild otherwise. th [ ehrlich ] four years ago unemployment in maryland was under four percent. today, it s nearly double. and nearly a quarter of a million marylanders are looking for work. in addition, we face a national health care plan that will hurt small business and cost us jobs. so we have to ask, are you better off today than you were four years ago? we re heading in the wrong direction. we need strong leadership. say no to things we can t afford. fix our health care plan. and refuse to raise taxes. martin o malley can t do it. i will. 8:30 now on this wednesday morning, the 27th of october, 2010. a stormy morning here in the northeast, but we have got some party folks hanging out in rockefeller plaza, as i make my way over this wet pavement here. just ahead in this half hour, one of our favorite athletes, apollo anton ono is here. it s kind of traditional, on the half hour. it s not 8:30ish. anywhere in the general vicinity of 8:30. i was talking to this gentleman about one of the reasons he wrote the book, you have seen him, they see the image, they know i m talking about apollo. he really wants to inspire people, and that s part of the reason why he wrote the book. that takes the place of what i was going to say. she s late and then she steals your lines. that s an inspiration. what does al have coming up in this half hour? you want to do mine? also ahead, that rampage that actor charlie sheen went on in that hotel that led to his psychological evaluation. we ll have an interview with denise richards in our fourth hour. it s also time to buy pumpkins and carve pumpkins and make things with pumpkins. and pumpkins are used for jack-o-lanterns and costumes. we want you to come on friday and dress up in your best costume and join us as we celebrate this friday on today. that will be fun. it s a secret, you can t tell anybody. nope, nope, nope. but you can tell us the weather. nope, that s a secret too. let s show you what s going on, we will show you for today, saturday we have got snows in the pacific northwest. the eastern thirds of the country we have the pacific looking good. sunny and warm through the south, showers and warm the heavy, steady rain should move out towards the tail end of drive time, but there will still be hit and miss showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and and if you want to keep track of your weather all day long, you can always check on your weather channel on cable or weather.com online. meanwhile the world series begins tonight with the texas r taking on the new york giants. hall of famer pitcher fergie jenkins is here. does it make you guys think about when you were playing? i got close a couple of times. but it would have been nice to have that in your living room. for me too. 84 and 89, the earthquake world series. that would have been great, but unfortunately, we fell short. here we go again, and what s interesting this year, the first four games being dedicated to a different charitable initiative. and being a ballplayer and a cancer survivor, you you can t stand up some $30 million already. its great to see major league baseball continue with this. you lost your mom to cancer, so this must have a real personal connection for you as well? the first game being dedicated to cancer research, my mother died very young at the age of 52. on the spot, who do you think wins tonight. the giants. the rangers have got some pretty good younging men going. i m shocked because you both predicted those outcomes. thank you. coming up, the olympic great apollo anton ono opens up about coming up, the olympic great apollo anton ono opens up about living with zero regrets. public safety is a governor s most important job. that s why governor martin o malley has instituted new dna and fingerprinting technology that s reducing violent crime. new, stronger domestic violence and abuse legislation. and o malley passed new laws to better track and convict sexual predators, with even longer prison sentences. as a father of four, i know there s always more that we must do to protect our children and make maryland an even safer place to raise our families. back at 8:37 with the most decorated u.s. olympian of all time. apollo ono has a record setting career medals to eight. apollo, good morning to you. let s start with the title, zero regrets is that your motto? the title of the book, the reason why i chose it, it s not saying that i have zero regrets in my life, it s more about the pursuit of trying to reach zero regrets. as seemingly impossible as it may be, it s about carrying a struggle forward every single day, no matter how life plays out for you, if you get knocked down, get back up, there s no guarantees in life, but in order for us to push on every single day, we have to give like we have no regrets. and vancouver is a very good example for that. a very good example. in preparation for vancouver, i had to change my mind and my body and be a totally different person. i had to take it to basically an entirely new level. that s the way that i had to do it. what did you do exactly? what did you have to change? everything from my diet to the way i was training, to my sleep patterns, i had to train my body to be somebody different. i lost 25 pounds from my first olympic games until these past games when i was 140, but i was much, much stronger. it was a battle of will and triumph and people saying no, you can t do them. and believing in your heart that anything is in possible. so no matter what happens, you ll have no regrets in the sense that you trieded your best? my life has been four years of training dedicated to a race that lasts 40 seconds. it s kind of insane in a sense. and i had to take that mentality and say how can i make sure that i m going to satisfied with my career, win, lose or draw. there s no guarantees that i m going to win for my country and stand on the podium. what is truly important to me. and what did you determine? it s not about always the medal chase. obviously that s a goal of mine, i m a die-hard competitor. but the goal along the way is what i truly enjoy. when we reach our destination, when we reach back among our memories, it s that journey of time when i was training, it s at the lowest times of my career, how did i overcome that and coming out on top and overcoming them and the opportunities to become a better person than you were yesterday. the first line from chapter one is i know almost nothing about my mother. and you go on to find out her name, at least. geri lee. the book goes much beyond my training. obviously my relationship with my father. but also about the fact they didn t have a mom in my life. and how it shaped me as a person. how did it shape you as a person? as i grow older, i have a growing curiosity about my other half and my dad did a wonderful job raising me and i wouldn t change it for the world. but there s a growing curiosity about my mother half. but in a household, like many american households, we were a single parent household, and our bond was strengthened because he was the only one i had in my life and vice versa. the in fact that i didn t have a mom my relationship with my dad is that much stronger. you were crazy as an adolescent. you were hanging out with a very bad crowd. i was hanging out with definitely the wrong crowd. and if it wasn t for my father and my sport, i probably would have turned out to be a statistic. i would be dead, i would be in jail, i wouldn t have gone on the right path. but luckily, i had a great dad in my life. that s what inspires me to give back to those kids in middle school. we created this program called the ask, listen, learn program. and i go around to different middle schools and i talk to them about being inspired, about never giving up. it doesn t matter how you start, it s about how you finish. a lot of times in life, we don t know the type of cards we re going to be dealt. but we have to play with the hands we re dealt. and i have to teach these kids about staying positive, staying active and doing the right things in life. not everyone had a yuki ono like i did in my life. that s the whole motive of the book is to get people inspired and live with passion. because life is too short to just go through the motions. apollo ono, thank you very much. up next, pumpkin desserts, much. up next, pumpkin desserts, but first th women are charged 40% more for the same health insurance as men. domestic violence is treated as a pre-existing condition in eight states. women are abused by their husbands and then by their insurance companies. and last year they tried to end our coverage for mammograms and other preventive services. well i m proud to say i got the law changed. i m barbara mikulski. i approve this message so you ll know that being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition. taxes are too high, and maryland families are struggling. and then there s politician andy harris proposing a 23% sales tax on nearly everything we buy. it cuts taxes for millionaires by over $200,000 a year and raises taxes on the middle class. andy harris even promised big oil companies he d make taxpayers pay for spills like the bp disaster. andy harris on our side? not a chance. the democratic congressional campaign committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. today celebrates halloween is brought to you by snickers. snickers celebrates halloween. this morning tasty pumpkin desserts and we re not just talking about pie. the author of united cakes of america, recipes celebrating every state. i always like to make things from scratch. i like to make sure that i m in control of all of the ingredients and that way i know what s going on. so what are the ingredients? a little butter and sugar and graham crackers that are crushed up nice and finely. and ginger and cloves. we re going to put this in the pan. it s got a little moisture to it. we re going to get it in there and use a flat bottom and use it nice and even all on the bottom. and the thing i notice a i don ting like to do that because you have to wrap it with foil, it takes a lot of time. and it s just not something that s necessary at my bakery. you say it s really important to use a high quality cream cheese? not a store brand? i tried to use butter and cream cheese and it s just not quite enough for what we want. we want to make sure that we use high quality ingredients and get the flavor and the texture. and i don t want to mix with a lot of speed, i don t want to go too fast, otherwise i ll bring in too much air. so we do it nice and slow. i ll put my eggs in there. then put the pumpkin in there. fresh pumpkin or canned? i use canned. i put it on a drain and get some of that water out of the pumpkin so i can add density to the cheese cake. more rum and a little bit of vanilla in there. we ll put it into the pumpkin. it takes time to make this. it is a bit of an afternoon project. what are the spices? spices, we have some cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, cloves and alspice. make sure they get blended in nice and well. this is heavy cream? this goes in last, and this is one of the things that after the pumpkin is all in there, i want a nice, rich texture to the cake. that s what it looks like when you get it all together. this is our batter. we have prebaked the crust and we ll pour it in slowly and once that s in here, okay, once all that gets in, you re going to put that in a bigger pan fill it with water. water helps to insulate things. we want to make sure that a nice water bath and put this all into the oven. how long do you cook it at what temperature? like 90 minutes, like around 300, 325, depending on your oven. and then you prop the door open and let it cool gradually. for about an hour with it in the oven. go for it. nice, hu? you need the flavor, you need all the spices. that is definitely good. gordon brown, thank you. bob ehrlich pretends to be for the working guy. but he s not on our side. i thought i knew bob ehrlich, but then i found out. he raised property taxes on every maryland family. and business. he increased college tuition. by 40%. 40%. and i thought i knew bob ehrlich. he was against raising the minimum wage. made $2.5 million. working for a lobbying firm. $2.5 million? he s not really on my side. with this tough economy, we really need a governor on our side. can a beer be considered gourmet? breweries are considered more popular than ever. and willie geist had the job of investigating the growing team. i took one for the team here. i notice the whole cast shows up when it s time to taste beer. breweries are pushing the boundaries of what can actually be used to make beer. i visited an extreme brewer for a look at his latest concoctions. you ll find a brave new world of american beer. although still a relative blip on the radar next to the big names, sales of more exotic craft beers are booming. consumers really appreciate the fact that the beer is local. reporter: today there are more than 1,600 craft brewery across the country. sam is one of the leaders of this beer inlightenment. in 1995, he started dog fish bread. i raised a little over $20,000. my orthodontist, a dude i broke stone walls for, my dad put in a little money. reporter: now sam operates one of the fastest growing breweries in america. we are fearless in putting what are relatively exotic ingredients in our beers. reporter: ingredients like let lemon grass, maple syrup, making him somewhat of a mad scientist experimenting with flavors until he hits it. i met sam at dog fish headquarters in milton, delaware. at dog fish, we have done a good job of not being synonymous with one thing. reporter: it all starts here in the lab, where sam and his team are concocting the latest ale, a beer based on a 9,000-year-old chinese recipe. this is the oldest beer in the history of civilization. this is what we think was used instead of hops 9,000 years ago. that s sweet, isn t it? reporter: our next stop, the brew house and an opportunity to make my first batch of beer. you are making dog fish beer. i ll buy you lunch for helping me. i think i ll have myself a beer reporter: i just made beer. you just made beer. reporter: well not quite. it takes four weeks on average from the day it s brewed to the day it s packaged. reporter: all this hard work was making me thirsty. for our official beer tasting, sam took me to his corporate conference room, a tree house where dog fish actually holds it s meetings. so we re having a treoe o tree meeting. and with that, the beer began to flow. this is our best selling beer, the 60 minute ipa. this is the bitterest beer that we have. reporter: you don t taste beer the way you taste wine, you don t take a little sip and spit it out like they do at the wineries. we take enough pride the our beverage to actually ingest it. reporter: before long i was an old pro. that s the beer, that s the live. reporter: sam s a great character, we should point out the discovery channel has been following him for a new series called brew masters. let s start tasting, what s up first? here s one of the beers that was featured in the package. it s really kind of cool and herbal with lots of complexity. and when we talk about pairings, this is one that i wouldn t pair with anything, to tell you the truth. because it s really kind of malt forward and herbal by itself. so i would just taste it by itself. and this is a 9,000-year-old recipe. the oldest fermented drink recipe known to man. this is brewed by a brewery in upstate new york. it s a farmhouse ale, it is golden, it s got a nice, white, fluffy head. so does matt. give me five years. it s got some coreande. it s better with cheese than any beer and any wine that i could possibly think of. absolutely incredible with food. this is an old recipe up by north coast, this is imperial south. north coast, this is imperial south. this goes taxes are too high, and maryland families are struggling. and then there s politician andy harris proposing a 23% sales tax on nearly everything we buy. it cuts taxes for millionaires by over $200,000 a year and raises taxes on the middle class. andy harris even promised big oil companies he d make taxpayers pay for spills like the bp disaster. andy harris on our side? not a chance. the democratic congressional campaign committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. 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. as we head through the rest of the morning and into the afternoon, we will see off and on showers and thunderstorms in the forecast. there will be breaks and the precipitation, but it will be breezy and mild otherwise. high temperatures in the mid- 70 s. could be some rain early in the morning on thursday, then it will clear up in the afternoon. breezy and cooler on friday. most of halloween weekend will be fine. be fine. there could public safety is a governor s most important job. that s why governor martin o malley has instituted new dna and fingerprinting technology that s reducing violent crime. new, stronger domestic violence and abuse legislation. and o malley passed new laws to better track and convict sexual predators, with even longer prison sentences.