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and the long road to recovery, lindsay lohan spotted out and about as she undergoes rehab at the betty ford clinic. will she get clean in time? her mother, dina opens up, will she get clean in time? her mother, dina opens up, today, november 8, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. weath weather welcome to today on a monday morning. we begin with applause, for two of my new heroes, meredith and al completing the new york city marathon yesterday, way to go. way to go, you guys. how was it? it was fun, it was tough, especially about mile 15 over that queen borough bridge. congratulations, that s a major accomplishment. did you win the medal? no, i did not. we re going to have much more on meredith and al s huge accomplishment. meanwhile coming up, he s one of the most controversial presidents ever. since leaving office, he has kept a very low profile, now he s stepping back into the game speaking exclusive to us. the prime time special airs tonight, but you ll hear him speak out about his argument with dick cheney. if your little boy wanted to dress up like a little girl, would it be okay with you? we re going to speak to a mom whose son wore girl s costume for halloween. plus some easy fixes that can make you a lot of money when you go about trying to sell your house. a developing story, overnight, president obama wrapping up his tour through india today. reporter: good morning. this is the longest visit to a single foreign country since the president took office, signaling india s importance. and after those midterm elections where unemployment was the key issue the president and first lady got the official welcome, a ceremonial arrival at the grand presidential palace at new delhi. the president met with the prime minister, trying to pry open its markets to more american goods. the president went out of his way to emphasize deals between the u.s. and india are creating american jobs. i want to be able to say to the american people, when they ask me why are you spending time with india when they re taking our jobs? i m going to say, well, they just created 50,000 jobs. reporter: the president s trip has been part public relations. the obamas has toured some of india s historic sites. the first lady doing a bit of shopping this morning at india s national craft museum. on sunday, the trip s enduring image, the first lady and after some prodding, the president doing a dance with some indian students. but the political woes followed him. an indian student ask him about the election. and in an interview on 60 minutes taped before he left said that those who say he s lot his mojo may have a point. we were so focused and so busy on getting stuff done that we stopped paying attention to the fact that leadership isn t just legislation. reporter: from here the president heads to indonesia where he spent several years of his childhood. it s a trip he s canceled twice before and there s an erupted volcano now that administration officials are watching closely. for now they say the president s travel plans are intact. it is 7:05 and now here s matt. now to our interview with president george w. bush, his first since leaving office, he talked extensively about his presidency as he gets set to release his new memoir, decision points tomorrow. i think president bush you re going to get a lot of attention for a story you put in the book about the last portion of your presidency when you had a decision to make concerning scooter libby. he had been convicted for obstruction of justice. you thought long and hard about it. i did. scooter is a loyal american who worked for vice president cheney who got caught up in this valerie plame case and was indicted and convicted. and i chose to commute his sentence, i felt he had paid enough of a personality. critics immediately said if you re loyal to bush, you don t have to go to prison. so it didn t come without a price? that s right. and yet vice president cheney wanted more? he did. he wanted me to pardon him. and this was a decision that a real life decision for the presidency, really. i chose to let the jury verdict stand after some serious deliberation. and the vice president was angry. you went to him and you told him, you said he was furious and he said, i can t believe you re going to leave a soldier on the battlefield? yeah, he did. has your relationship recovered? it has. i am pleased to report it has. you re friends today? he gave a very gray shous speech on his way out of town. i m pleaseded to report we are. i was a little concerned at one time. it was a hard decision to make. but that s what you do when you re president, you make hard decisions. the president also took me to the church where he married his wife laura and he talked about the most important decision of his life, his decision to quit drinking years ago. in the book you say faith is a walk, it s a journey toward greater understanding, you said you can t prove that god exists, but that shouldn t be the standard of belief because you can t prove that god doesn t exist. what was it in your own life that made you take a deeper look at your own faith? i didn t like the person i was. i was drinking a lot. my parents did me a big favor, they planted the seed of faith. but i would go to church so i wouldn t irritate my mother. president bush says his faith helped him quit drinking cold turkey just after his 40th birthday. the book starts out with laura saying can you tell me a day that you haven t had a drink? and when you drink you say yeah, i can. i had a beer before turn, bourbons, i wasn t a knee walking drunk. you were a habit tall drinker as opposed to a drunk? in either case, alcohol becomes central to your life and i finally woke up and realized that i did not want to live a life where alcohol is central. if i had not quit drinking i wouldn t be sitting here as a former president. i talk about a few incidents where my quick town caused me to be stupid. you can catch the entire interview with president bush tonight, it s a one-hour primary time special decision points, it airs right here at 8:00, 7:00 central. he will be live in our studio on wednesday morning. if you want to submit a question, you can go to todayshow.com. or you can give it too ouus on facebook or twitter. good morning, everybody. also in the news, qantas engineers have found oil leaks in the rolls royce engines on three different planes in its grounded a-380 fleet. the river at the heart of haiti s water born cholera out break is threatening to overflow its banks today, the contaminated river could seep through the crowded tent camps where 1 million haitians have been living since january s earthquake. a transformer explosion triggered a fire at indian point just north of new york city. and a radioactive water leak has closed vermont s only nuclear power plant until the reactor can cool. and msnbc says keith olbermann can return to his anchor chair after being sug suspended for donating to three political candidates. president obama is working to encourage overseas trade in india, ahead of the g-20 summit of economic powers this week. we have got erin burnett at the stock exchange. it was a big rally around the world last night. the market a little hung over this morning. the reason for the rally which was about 3% of the dow, was ben bernanke s decision to flood the american system with $600 billion. he says that will provide more of a benefit to americans than the costs that come with the policy that include rising prices for food and oil which this morning is nearly $97 a barrel. prices are taking off for air travelers this season. tickets are up 60% according to farecompare can.com. it is now 7:11. let s now go back to matt and our marathoners, our favorite marathoners, meredith and al. it is going to be a breezy day here at home. the winds make just 25 or 30 miles per hour. of lac, it will be fairly quiet. high temperatures are round 58.t that s your latest weather. it remains a major mystery in utah, what happened to susan cox powell. the wife and mother vanished and her husband josh is considered a person of interest in the case. after a long silence, now he is speak out. reporter: josh powell who says his wife disappeared while he was off camping with their two young sons now tells the salt lake tribune that he believes his wife is alive but mentally unstable and that her psychological problems caused her to leave the family behind. susan s family tells the newspaper, he s just looking for someone to blame. even powell s sister, jennifer graves who s estranged from him has a problem with what he s saying. i think that it s quite ludicrous the fact that they have pinned it on susan is silly. reporter: josh powell said of susan s family, quote, they want her to be perfect, a saint with no fallibility, but susan was not saint. he says she s very sexually motivated ant she s very financially motivated. it s hard to hear them slander her this way, these things are completely untrue. so why 11 months after she disappears are they suddenly trying to make her look like some horrible person? reporter: in the interview, josh powell spent a lot of time talking about susan s parents, complaining that they were directing a hate campaign against him on facebook and other social media, someone needs to take the velvet gloves off and treat the cox everything they say is making them look worse and this is more information that the police can act on. reporter: josh powell and his father steve declined to appear on camera, but he sent us an e-mail characterizing them as rumors and lies. this the one-year anniversary of susan cox disappearance is now less than a month away. george lewis, nbc news, los angeles. meredith, thank you, any time a president travels overseas his personal safety is always a concern. but in india, it s not just people president obama s security team is worried about. ian williams is in new delhi to tell us about that. reporter: security is always a big issue on these white house trips. but here in deli, authorities are grab in delhi they call it the monkey minutes. tens of thousands of them have invaded the city. security forces have been on prime mate alert. the main monkey invasion route lies in forests close to his hotel. we ll keep them away from the president, vowed this policeman. monkey catchers have been working flat out for a bounty of $15 a catch. they lure them into a rooftop cage, rounding them up to be released outside the city. it s a big problem, they bite the children so they can t go to school, he told me. so far it s been a pretty good morning s work, the monkeys have become a real irritant in this area, but they have been accused of far worse. a deputy mayor of delhi felt that his death while fending off monkeys on his balcony, while they broke into the defense ministry, destroys thousands of documents. we re destroying langures, it s a lanky aggressive animal which scares away those causing problems. anybody caught feeding monkeys will be fined. though more drastic action, killing them off for instance, isn t really an option, since the monkey is revered by the hindu religion. the monkey guard represents strength. animal rights groups say the problem isn t the monkeys, it s man who have enroached on their habitat. police determined this visit by the world s most powerful man isn t upstage by a bunch of monkeys. until now the presidential schedule has been uninterrupted by any monkey business. thank you very much. coming up how lindsay lohan is faring in court-ordered rehab. her mother just visited her, rehab. her mother just visited her, we ll have a live interview with bge s instant discounts got our homeowner to switch to energy star® cfl bulbs. 3-way cfls really click with my style. learn to speak the language of energy efficiency at bgesmartenergy.com. new york city was pulsing with energy this weekend. somewhere in that crowd, two runners, one named meredith viera, the other al roker. they both completed the whole 26.2 miles. we could not be more proud. thank you. we re at the start. after months of preparation, of training, we are ready, we are determined, we can do this. i can t even do that. yes! the 41st ing new york city marathon. the largest marathon in the world. how are you? let s see how far we have come there were moments that were hard, but melissa got me through them and that last sprint was the best. i m so proud. one, two, three, go team! congratulations. congratulations to you. man, you were great, you ran that thing like a pro. so did you. it s dark now, but, hey. it doesn t matter, we finished. thank you. thank you, al. nice, what do you get for the people who just finished the marathon? yeah, baby. rob small from new york city s exhale spa. does that feel good? darn good. and you were saying especially around the ankles? my ankles are really sore. and champagne. thank you. and you also get some roses. but wait, there s more. should we tell them now that we took the subway? all kidding aside, you guys worked so hard getting to that day. we have heard all the stories that you guys did it and completed it. we thank lee our trainer. we re back after your local news. 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yes, she s grown up considerably. do you think she s capable of going through rehab no matter how long it lasts and coming out a changed person able to handle her surroundings? absolutely. what gives you that confidence? age, you know, living life and growing up. reporter: but just a month later, lindsay lohan failed another drug test, reportedly for cocaine. the judge got stern, telling the actress, you re an addict, i hope you realize that. then he extended her rehab to january 3, 2011. this thing we call treatment or rehab is just part of the beginning of the process, getting them enrolled and intensively involved in what they have to do. reporter: former patients include chevy chase, kelsey grammer, david hasselhoff, ozzie osborne. a typical day includes 6:00 a.m. meetings, 10:00 a.m. exercise, and at 9:00 p.m. free time. the first order of business, learning how to live their life in a structured way. reporter: lohan indicated to the judge she can t afford the $50,000 bill for drug therapy, yet she was recently spotted performing retail thoer therapy at a nearby store. i think she probably just wanted to insert a little bit of glamour back into her life. remember, this is a girl who went shopping every day and was dropping $10,000 here and there. so this is a big change for her. reporter: some of lohan s financial problems certainly center around her handbag company. some reports say it s not doing that well, with lindsay out of the mix for so long, but others say she s still heavily involved from inside rehab via e-mail. lindsay lohan will spend christmas and new year s at betty ford. lindsay lohan s mother dina recently visited her, she s here with an exclusive live interview, dina, nice to have you back. how is she doing? it was life changing, the betty ford center is just an amazing place and i spent two weeks there in family sessions and you re not necessarily with the person who s in the facility, you spend time with families of addiction. so you don t spend time actually with lindsay seeing what she s going through, you re more preparing yourself? they re more the co-dependency, they re happyihe the families deal be the problem. when you visited with lindsay, what is her state of mind? happy, relaxed. she s just a different person. she s been in a couple of facilities, but this one to me has really changed her. and they get into your saipsyc psyche and with lindsay being so public, and twitter, i messed up. when the judge said she needed to go here, he said to her in no uncertain terms, you re an addict. you and i have talked about this several times in the past. does lindsay fully get that? yes. and this teaches you that you are and she s young and i thank god that he didn t incarceration her because that wouldn t have helped her and being so young, admitting that can only help her sobriety in the future. last time you were here, we went back and forth on some issues a little bit and i m going to let you answer, i m not going to put words in your mouth, but it appeared to me that you were either defending her or maybe even in denial yourself about her situation. so are you also comfortable with the concept that your daughter is an addict? yes. when i first came here initially, that was for lindsay to admit. i put her in rehab when she was 19. as a mother, it wasn t for me to come to tell the world, i mean how many viewers do you have, about her problems? that was for her to do. i wasn t in denial by far, but i think it was for her to come to her own evolution. me as a mother, we protect. i have three other children, and it s not for me to say, even if my child was 5, i wouldn t say oh, she did something in preschool. you protect as a parent. so now i m happy and relieved myself come on your show and also our attorneys are like, you can t say this, this, this or this. now you can be open and honest saying this this is a problem for lindsay and you said age would make her able to move on from this and recover, and she s not that much older than she was then and she had some trouble after she got out of rehab. do you think this time will be different? addiction is difficult. i don t have a crystal ball. i pray hard and i hope she will be able she wants to start her own facility and help other children. she s so public, that i think we can only be positive and look to the future to help other families. i remember last time she got out early, there was a certain amount of time she was going to spend there, there were complications, she ended up getting out early. any chance she might get out early this time? do you oppose that? do you want her to spend the entirety of this time, i think it s january 3 in betty ford? and would you be happy to see her stay longer? absolutely. and lindsay wants to stay, she s learning the trigger points and why she turns to something that, you know, drugs or addiction and it s a lifelong journey. and i really feel that this facility, betty ford has helped me personally dealing with addiction. i have other family members and my ex was put in rehab in 1994. i feel that it s her journey and she s got to its up to her. let me ask you to put a couple of things in perspective, we saw the video of her out of rehab over the weekend doing a little shopping. in the past when we had seen her doing that during rehab, the idea was she had skipped rehab and was out of rehab. she spent 30 days in the facility and now she s in a home. they let you, you know, it s like a safety net, they let you out to live your life. you re going to go back, lindsay is going to go back to film, that s what she wants to do. the pressure and the press, it s trigger points, it s people places and things you have to be careful. you can t keep her in a bubble? exactly. there s an online report of a detailed accounting of a reunion, an emotional reunion between lindsay and her father, your ex-husband michael. i don t read the gossips so i don t know what s fact or fiction. but whatever the facility wishes for her, it s all about lindsay and her healing. do you think it would be good for her to have a better relationship with her father? absolutely. my parents were married 50 years so i don t understand i ve been a single mom for 15 years, so i have sole custody of my childr children. i m here for lindsay, whatever will make lindsay heal and make her better, that can only help. thank you for being here today. 40 minutes after the hour, let s get a check of the weather now from al. got some of my fellow marathoners out here, matt. and this young lady has been every year, she comes here, what is your name, ma am. joy johnson. and she s 83 years young and this is her 23 new york city marathon. wow. fantastic. and all these other marathoners. yeah. all right. let s check your weather and see what s going on and we ll show you, hey, it is warm in the midsection, from bismarck down to el paso, anywhere from nine to almost 25 degrees above normal, but the northeast and out west, below normal temperatures, only 69 in l.a. 46 in reno, boston 45, same in new york city, record highs over the plains, wet weather in the pacific northwest, and snow showers working their way through the western plains, sunny skies through the gulf coast, all the way up to the great lakes. probably some airport delays from new york city on into boston. we will see plenty of sunshine today, and the winds are going to pick up this afternoon. they may be 30 don t forget you can check your weather any time of the day or night, go to the weather channel on cable or weather.com online. you can make big money if you re trying to sell or just a lot happier if you re staying put. lot happier if you re staying put. and some one look. . and he knew. .you were the one. get adopted by a pet and save a life at the petsmart charities national adoption event this friday through sunday. petsmart. we love to see healthy, happy pets. 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he said yes. it created a stir online with her blog about boo s halloween outfit and the negative reaction she received from other moms. she briwrites if you think that allowing my son to be a female character for halloween is somehow going to make him gay, then you re an idiot. i am not worried that your son will grow up to an actual ninja. i don t want my children to feel that they always have to give in to what the world expects of them. reporter: and experts say regardless of the behavior at 5 years old, it s way too early to determine a child s future sexual orientation. every child has tendencies and feelings and inclinations, so if that s what s leading him to dress this way, okay, but i would be hesitant to say that that s going to be his declared sexuality. no matter what he turns into as a grown up, if he s left-handed, right-handed, any of this, these things don t matter to me, because he is my son. reporter: people magazine recently featured a seattle mom who wrote a book about my princess boy. dyson was almost 2 years old when he started having kind of a unique eye for everything beautiful. reporter: his parents goal now to increase awareness and understanding for little boys who like pretty things. i just want him to be happy and healthy and if this is the form he chooses to express himself, that s fine. and meredith, that blog post has set the internet on fire, generating 3 million hits and getting tens of thousands of responses. sarah s here along with sheryl who s son enjoys dressing in typical girl fashions, their story is featured in the most recent issue of people magazine. good morning to all of you. good morning. if i could start with you, your son boo decides he wants to go as daphne as halloween, is this the first time that he expressed interest in dressing up as a little girl? yes, last year he thought he wanted to be daphne but changed his mind. and this year he said i think i want to be daphne. we have costumes, capes and after halloween, they re a little bit burned out on dressing up. your blog has generated a lot of positive response. even boo was the one who said, mom, i m not sure i want to go in. so he thought he might get teased, you didn t? i really didn t. i really thought it was halloween, that you get to dress up and be what you are not. it s a fun holiday. no child said a word to him that day in any sort of negative capacity. it was the parents? it was. just a few. most of them were 100% supportive, the teachers, the staff at the preschool loved it. they thought he was just adorable. and when those parents criticized you, what did you say to them? i just played it off. i didn t want to cause a big scene, i didn t want to make a mistake in front of my son by reacting in a negative way. and then after, you realized it was something you needed to blog on? it weighed on me heavily. your son dyson started dressing up when he was 2 he s now 5 years old. the first time you picked him up from preschool and you went out and bought some things he could dress up. your initial reaction, were you concerned about this? absolutely. this has been a process for me and a journey for our family and it s an everyday thing and i commend people like sarah who are bringing up the exposure to this because really it s the discussion is what s going to make this more acceptable. we have children who are expressing themselves differently and we need to get to a place of acceptance. what was your concern specifically? i was concerned about the image. i was concerned that i was raised in a family and just through books and knowledge and everything else, that traditional boys wore traditional boy clothing and so dyson really sort of put me on alert and helped me get through this process a little bit more of accepting him for who he really is. you actually spoke to your doctor and to a psychologist about the whole issue of gender identification and what could be going on there. the only issue i heard was that there s gender confusion, we went to the doctors and psychiatrists and psychologists and we actually went down that path, and the verdict is you have a happy and healthy little boy who just likes to dress up. i started working with teachers and parents have started using the book after school. the book is called my princess boy. there are others who criticize you and say by allowing him to continue to dress up and by writing a book like this, you re actually going to put him in a situation where we will be bullied later in life. one person said if he wants to dress up as a little girl, let him do it in the privacy of his own home, letting him dress up in public is just not right. we went through some of the redirection, i had some not proud mom moments, when he said i m a princess, i said boys aren t princesses. and he said, i m a princess boy, he coined the term and he s driving this agenda, for who he is. i think as parents, our job is to love and support our children and if they are happy and healthy, and they are expressing themselves, we have to get to a place of accepting differences. you said to me in the commercial break, you said this is really a teachable moment. i think it s very important to understand that it s always difficult to be different and when children are different, it makes everyone anxious, it makes parents anxious, it makes the other kids anxious and yet not everyone is typical. and the most important piece here is that kids need to be supported. there s some kind of fluidity inside. when kids actually refuse to stop wearing male clothing and say no, no, no i m only wearing girl clothing or i m only wearing male clothing, that may be a simpymptom of something mo significant. that s the big role that parents have to play. when does it go beyond play and it s something else that needs to be addressed and it goes on during the older years? i m not playing anymore. i won t wear boy clothing, i m only wearing girl clothing because i m only a girl, i m not a boy, that s a more significant thing than saying, sure, i m playing princess today and i m playing cowboy tomorrow or i m not playing anything tomorrow, i m just going to wear some regular clothes. and parents should think about that might mean something in that doesn t change the fact that we still would tell parents to be very supportive and loving, because the last thing we want is someone to not like themselves, not like their bodies. it doesn t make any difference what the clothes are, it s what they feel about themselves underneath. and up next, instant upgrade for your home that can really raise your asking price. radiating pain everywhere. and i wondered what it was. i found out that connected to our muscles are nerves that send messages through the body. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia, thought to be the result of overactive nerves that cause chronic, widespread pain. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i learned lyrica can provide significant relief from fibromyalgia pain. and less pain means i can do more with the ones i love. 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not only that, they are the eyes of the house, much like putting eyeliner on a beautiful eye, it makes that window pop, it s the cheapest improvement you can make to make that house have a little more dignity. replace your mailbox, if it s old and banged up and put a fresh coat of paint on the front door as well. first impressions again. let s go to the kitchen, that s one of the most important selling points for any home. look at the cabinets, you re not suggesting that you replace them, but at least fix them. you could take the front doors off at a third of the cost of replacing them and you ll get your money back. and a back splash made out of stone, back splash is very important. there s one that needs a back splash, it s a little bit of space where you can make a big improvement. should you change out major appliances. only if you have enough money to do one, you could change out our refrigerator. why is the refrigerator so important? because it takes up the most visual space when you walk into the kitchen. people think if there s a nice shiny refrigerator, people think the rest of the kitchen is nicer too. a gallon of paint is the best home improvement that you can get. why is it so important to upgrade your lighting fixtures, why do people that come into your home spend so much time looking at lighting fixtures? 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never. a couple of unruly diva anchors on that show. obviously a lot of poetic license. as i mentioned before, russell crowe, the academy award winner is back. he s got a new movie, a real thriller, a cat and mouse type movie. although there are no cats and mice in it e we . natalie cole is coming by and we have also we re going to be talking be her about everything that s been going on in her life. lindsay vaughn is here, she s opening up about her latest honor, she s glamour magazine s woman of the year. and no time for the weather. let s check it out and see what s happening as far as today, we are looking for the week ahead, rain and snow in the northeast, out west, above normal temperatures in the midsection of the country. above normal temperatures from the great lakes to the gulf. a chilly mess in the west and the latter part of the week, we have got above normal temperatures in the great lakes and rain in the great lakes and mountain snows in the pacific northwest. we will see plenty of sunshine today, and the winds are going to pick up this afternoon. they may be 30 and that s your latest weather. don t forget, you can get your weather any time of the day or night, go to watch on cable or weather.com online. we like to give you a look behind the scenes here at the today show. hollywood has made a movie about it. it chronicles the fictional morning show and the people who work there. what better place than our control room to catch up with rachel mcadams. good morning good to see you. diva, unruly hosts, where did you come one that? it wasn t my idea. are you taking credit for that? no, i have much sympathy for the executive producer s role. but there are maybe some divas. just maybe. tell me about that, the executive producer of this show, what drives her? well, becky, this is her first shot at a big morning show, she came from a little show in new jersey, she got fired and this is her one chance to make it work. and she s doing the show with the lowest ratings. but that means there s always someplace to go, right? she s got somewhere to climb to. you play opposite diane keaton, and harrison ford, tell me a little bit about that. they re so fun in this movie. harrison is such a funny guy, and she s so often the hero that you don t get to see that side of him. he s so funny, he s so dry, everything that comes out of his mouth is hilarious. you did your research, you actually spent some time hanging around here at the today show. was there anything that you actually learned while here that you used in the movie. well, yeah, a lot of stuff. we wound up using a lot of stuff. i learned that the real show is, no offense, matt, it s back here. it s craziness back here. and last time i was here he put me in the chair which was terrifying and made me wear that headset. and then i got kind of comfortable with it and then he took it away. he was like you re going to run the show. and then i didn t get to. but it s great. it s really cool. i have some respect for what goes on back here. it s a tough job. because you re a movie veteran, i don t know if you have met joe michaels who s our director back there. quiet as a mouse. if we were casting a movie and you look at joe, what actor would play joe? would it be russell crowe or danny devito? what s next for you? what s next? i just finished doing a woody allen movie in paris which was great and i m currently shooting in oklahoma. so heading back there this afternoon. we re happy to have you. you re in it. i m in it. you made the movie. in it actually? or in the background. we talk about you. does that qualify for a payment of any kind? the check s in the mail. great to have you back. we re going to have much more ahead on a monday morning, russell crowe is upstairs. but first, this is today on nbc. oh wow, look at that. calm down donkey. it s vacation time! ohhhhh, who says ogres can t surf? nice moves fiona. ha, ha, ha, i love 3d. wooo hooooo! 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[ female announcer ] join the dreamworks experience for the ultimate vacation, only on royal caribbean. academy award winner russell crowe gives his all in every single important. his latest movie the next three days is no exception. he plays a family man whose live changes. come on, smile. hold on. you touch me again, i m going to arrest you. stay where you are. this is my house. russell crowe, welcome back. good morning. good morning, matt. everybody tries to sum up a movie in a sentence or a phrase or a message and it s not easy with this one, but suffice it to say that if you don t like your reality, go about changing your reality? to a degree, yeah. i mean the conundrum that was put before me was would you like to play a character who would do anything for his wife, you know. but in order to save his wife at a certain point, he has to turn into somebody that his wife is no longer love. and the guy that is an unlikely savior, he s a professor at a community college and all of a sudden thrust into the role of trying to plan a prison break. it s not exactly what s on the resume for a professor. but he does it he goes about it the way that he knows. he gets on to his computer and he begins to research and he goi googles breaking out of prison. it s a cat and mouse thing, it s a real thriller. but i m curious when you re shooting this, you re shooting it in such small sequences. 380 scenes, the script. so do you ever get a sense when you re making a movie as to how it s going to play out for the movie audience. you do, you have your hopes and dreams about that sort of stuff and quite often those are exceeded. but you never really know. even though you ve done a spread over 50 days and you re doing tiny little scenes and seven or eight makeup changes in a day because of the story, there s a possibility it won t gel. what s fascinating is you mentioned tiny bits of scenes. in this movie in particular, there are some little moments, and when i say little moments, they could be four seconds long or five seconds long that later in the movie you come back and say that was a lot more significant than five seconds. what i like about this film myself is that you just don t really know the things that he s doing and you don t really follow, why is he doing that? and then later on he plays a card and you say he really did prepare himself. do you have one that you re most proud of? you mentioned cinderella man. both movies i have made with ron howard, a beautiful mind and cinderella man, i m hoping ron gives me another call. it s a good collaboration. i don t know why, but knowing you a little bit, i was surprised you re on twitter. i don t know why. i just heard that and i thought, really? russell crowe the kind of guy who tweets every day? at the moment, i m basically dead, my wife is promoting a record so i take the boys in school in the morning and i pick them up in the afternoon. and then there s the bedtime and the stories and i m not finding there s any length of time for me to get involved in anything creative, running a football ga team and all the other things that i have gotten involved with over the years, i m on the computer a lot. from a cutting edge communications perspective, that s what first interested me, this is the next step in how we talk to each other. your recent tweet was you were in new york and you were giving up smoking and coffee at the same time? do you realize there was a time when someone like me wouldn t sit across from you when you re giving up cigarettes and coffee? do you get a little cranky? i did, i got very cranky for a long time. there was some sort of chemical change going on in any body and i couldn t concentrate. it took me a couple of months at least to focus. the coffee was easy. nicotine is not so easy. but, yeah, i mean i just i got caught smoking a cigarette by my oldest boy charlie, and i managed to do it until he was 6 years old without him actually seeing him smoke. even though he would get into my car and say daddy stink. stick with it. this movie s great the next three days. 8:43, the next three days opens november 19. and up next, the unforgettable natalie cole, but first, this is today on nbc. i m losing energy. i need a home performance with energy star audit to find out why! this sensor will show why my living room gets too hot and too cold! hm. need some heating and cooling system work. and insulation will help stop the drafts. get up to $2,450 dollars in rebates and keep saving with home performance with energy star. get started at bgesmartenergy.com. ahhh, now i m comfortable- and energy efficient! natalie cole, a nine-time grammy award winner, singer, songwriter and producer. now in her new memoir, she writes about surviving his death, drug addiction, and her recent health struggles. it s called love brought me back, a journey of loss and gain. you look wonderful. thank you. how do you feel. i feel wonderful. i am so blessed, i really, really am. i don t know if you remember the last time that i was here, i was pretty sick. nobody realized and the next day i went into kidney failure. let s go back to the beginning of your book, you write i am amazed that i m alive, given the crazy way that i live my life i should not be here. back in 1975, you were on top of your game, 25 years old, winning a grammy. and yet you re running up to harlem to buy heroin. yeah. it s amazing that other worse things didn t happen. but because of that, i think i was probably addicted to heroin for maybe two to three years. and that ended up that virus stayed in my body for many, many years. that was the beginning of the hep c when i was diagnosed back in 2008. how bad was your condition? i had no idea. i was a workout crazed person for the last ten years, probably, i had no symptoms. but your doctor want you to i was getting ready to have elective surgery and you have to take your blood tests and everything. and he called me. i was in the studio, recording the still unforgettable cd. he said there s some things that i m concerned about. i want you to go see a liver guy. and he said you have hel c. i said what s the treatment for th that? and he said chemo. what would happen if i didn t do it? it s been 25 years. he said well, eventually you ll just start getting really, really sick. and it wasn t a very pleasant diagnosis, so that was in february. in may i actually started the treatment and then took a trip to japan and that was you were very, very ill at that point. and you did come on this show and then the next day you found out you had kidney failure. at that time you were dealing with something else, your wonderful older sister cookie was going through she managed to keep it from us for quite a while and her husband. and the next thing i knew, i was sitting next to her when she was in a coma and i get the call about the kidney. and that was outrageous, because a woman who was my nurse for a day at the hospital in los angeles saw me on larry king several weeks later talking about my kidney and saying, oh, i wish we could do something for her, she was with her niece who then passed away several weeks later and i got her kidney because of this woman. but in that moment when you got the call, you were with your sister and you were torn, do i leave or do i not? i wouldn t wish that on anybody. and everybody was so it was such an emotional several hours while we were in the hospital that the only person i could call was my business manager at 4:00 in the morning saying they just called me, they said they had a kidney for me, what should i do? i m here with cookie, and he said, you know she would want you to have it, go for it. so i kissed her good bye. did you suffer from any survivors guilty? absolutely. and they didn t tell me that she passed, she passed several hours after i went into the hospital and they didn t tell me until after the transplant and i was i still have a lot of it. i really do. i miss her so terribly, you know, i try to keep from asking why, why, why? because that s not good to ask why, why. because it makes you crazy. but obviously god had his reasons. and this book is in part about the love between two sisters? yes. and two older sisters. jessica and patty. jessica is the young she had a stroke, wept into labor, she did deliver her little boy lucas. as a matter of fact we did the larry king show together and they re such a wonderful family and they have all become organ donors which is pretty special. so wonderful to see you like this as opposed to last time. amen. natalie cole, love brought me back . lindsay vaughn, one of glamour s women of the year. but first this is today on nbc. the kincaids live here. across the street, the padillas. ben and his family live here, too. ben s a re/max agent, and he s a big part of this community. there are lots of reasons why re/max agents average more sales than other agents. experience, certainly. but maybe it s also because they care about the markets they serve and the neighbors who rely on them. nobody sells more real estate than re/max. visit remax.com today. this morning on today s woman, glamorous women of the year. for the 20th year glamour magazine is the editor-in-chief of glamour and also today s women s lifestyle contributor. lindsay vaughn is one of this year s nominees. congratulations to you both. tell us about some of the other women that are involved in this as well? we have afternoon incredible group of winners, entertainers like fergie, julia roberts, to incredible women you have never heard of like a woman named dr. hala abdi who with her daughter has opened the largest refugee camp in somalia. what is the common thread. these women, they re not the kind of women who sit around wringing their hands over the world s problems, they go out and do something about it. they do so much more than they actually have to. fergie has got an incredible career as a recording artist and she s also very, very involved in children s projects. cher is cher. lindsay, you have had a couple of honors in your life. you ve done pretty well for yourself, but when a magazine comes to you and says you re one of the outstanding women of the year, tell us about that. i just couldn t believe it. something like this doesn t really happen to a skier like me. i m completely thrilled and there s so many amazing women that are a part of this magazine and a part of this honor, woman of the year, honestly, i m completely honored. just bring us up to date a little bit. you were here i think last in april. you re heading out in the next couple of days, you ee re raci again? i m out tomorrow to finland, so i ll go to the glamour awards tonight and it will be really fun. congratulations to you and all the other honorees. we ll see you soon. thank you. and when we come back, we re going to have a lot more including your local news and weather. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. authorities in harford county are searching for suspects in an armed robbery in bel air. the harford county sheriff s office says that two armed and entered a shopping center just before closing saturday night during the robbery, a father and 13-year-old son approached the front door and were ushered inside at gunpoint the suspects made off with several gaming systems and video now let s look at the forecast with tony pann. plenty of sunshine, but it will turn rather breezy as we head into the afternoon. a gust between 25 and 30 miles per hour. high temperatures in the upper 50s. it will go cooler because of the wind. 58 before 5:00. breezy and cold day tomorrow. low 60s on wednesday. by the end of the week, it will warm up nicely. maybe some rain on saturday night to sunday. we will have another weather update at 9:25.