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her supporters, today, the moving message she has sent her supporters, today, tuesday, december 7, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television i it. maureen also got positive marks for her microwave. looks nice, no problems here. and her cutting board. the cutting board, when they and welcome to today on get cut up, you can t clean this tuesday morning. i m meredith viera. and i m matt lauer. them. these are in great shape, but we start this morning with the they can be washed and news that the international man sanitized. the sponge has all kinds of hunt for julian assange is over. holes in them. you can t wash these holes out, the arrest is tied to an investigation in sweden where it breeds bacteria. we recommend a brush. assange is accused of rape and and maureen received mixed two counts of sexual molestation. results when it came to storing also ahead here at home, her utensils and plate ware. most of the nation is in a deep freeze, temperatures ranging from single digits in the store these with the handles dakotas to the low 20s in the deep south. all the same way so when you even below freezing in parts of grab one, you re not touching florida this morning. this as the first major another one that touches food. lake-effect snowstorm of the and the plates should be in a season plackblankets some towns separate cabinet. two feet of snow. so food should be food and plus she is one of the plates should be plates. biggest stars on the planet, after a thorough matt s one-on-one interview with investigation, the results are in. i didn t see any public angelina jolie. let s get to the arrest of health hazards, so you would pass inspection. wikileaks founder julian assange. oh, good. thank you very much. so what can you do to make reporter: good morning to you. julian assange voluntarily sure your kitchen passes turned himself into british police this morning. he now has to appear in a inspection we have good british court, and that is housekeeping s editor. expected to happen at some point later today. whether you re cooking or assange s lawyer says a decision will be made whether assange cleaning, everything has to be will be extradited to sweden for disinfected. a tablespoon of bleach, a gallon questioning on allegations of of water, let it sit for five sex crimes, allegations he has minutes and then wipe it down with a sponge. repeatedly denied. and you re done. assange is accused of sex crimes by two women in sweden. let s move on to counter tops this document obtained by nbc and handles. news says the sex in august was with people touching everything. the handles, the lever on the consensual but later became no consensual after assange was no longer wearing protection. faucet. the easy way is to get a disinfecting cleaner. the latest released marketed by you need to make sure it s epa approved. the government, not for internet under the directions, look and see how long it says that the surface needs to stay wet, distributi distribution. including factories pipelines because what actually kills the and out terminals. germs is evaporation. for some cleaners, it stays wet so vital that if they were destroyed it would immediately affect the public health, economic security and/or national and homeland security in the united states. for only 10 seconds. what about sponge versus brush. as well as the so- a lot of people don t like using a brush. what you need to do is disinfect it. six tablespoons of bleach in a we have a serious criminal investigation that s underway and we re looking at all of the things we can do to try to stem gallon of water, do it every the flow of this information. week or so. are you talk about plastic or reporter: nbc news has learned jihadists with links to glass. we found in our testing that al qaeda have begun an online discussion about how to use this glass slips a lot. latest leaked cable to their what s great about plastic is that you can put it in your advantage. they write, we want to exploit this document. dishwasher on the sanitizing ike before his arrest today, assange cycle. you can buy those packs where threatened to release a secret one is for poultry, one is cache of unreleased documents. for especially if you use wooden cutting boards, raw meat, bleach one of the files is reportedly is your friend and you want to named insurance, locked by a 256 sanitize it first with dish digit password. washing liquid and then soak it it s still unclear whether any of those files have been released. this is in no way any in the bleach sluolution and th wash it again. relation to the swedish arrest if there are crevasses in warra warrant. your wooden cooking board, you want to sand them down? really plastic is the best the schedule of information from the bank of cables will option and it s the least hassle continue. reporter: assange is being and it s the least work. there s a lot of technology to help us in the kitchen and prevent germs from spreading. isolated both any electronically. this is from lysol and this the site servers have been shut down in the u.s. and france, but hundreds of mirror sites set up by wikileaks supporters have dispenses soap, you never have popped up on the web. to touch it. we re also getting our first and there s faucets. official reaction from u.s. officials. defense secretary robert gates this is slick. all you do is it senses your was just asked about the arrest in eastern afghanistan. he said, quote, i haven t heard motion and then opens it. if you re in front of it for that, but it sounds like good news to me. more than three seconds, then it assange has not been formally knows that you re doing a big charged with anything. that s important to note. job and it stays open. in today s hearing, a magistrate will set bail for him, it s if you re scraping plates, it understands that. expected to be upwards of thank you as always. $150,000. assange has been soliciting support from his donors. peter, as always, thank you very much. it s now 5 after the hour, here meredith. now to washington where president obama and republicans have reached a tentative deal that will extent the bush era tax cuts to all income levels. savannah guthrie has details and also the fallout. reporter: this is the classic compromise meaning nobody is entirely happy. the white house does have a deal with republicans, but the question today is can they sell it to democrats on capitol hill? announcing the framework of a deal, the president said his choice came down to compromise or watch taxes go up for all americans. i know there s some people in my own party and in the other live, local, latebreaking. party who would rather prolong this is wbal-tv 11 news today in this battle, even if we can t baltimore. reach a compromise. good morning. i am mindy basara. i m not willing to let working families across this country let s get a final check on the morning commute with kim dacey become collateral damage for and traffic pulse 11. the fire on charles street is political warfare here in washington. reporter: the deal extends the bush era tax rates for every still snarling traffic. charles street is closed between taxpayer, including top earners, center and eager street gr. handing a loss to the president on an issue he made a also, baltimore streets still centerpiece of his 2008 closed from the fire yesterday. campaign. i want to roll back the bush additional closures on holiday, tax cuts on the very wealthiest fayette street, right about that americans. reporter: the white house won area. eastern ave at joplin street, a an extension of unemployment benefits for 13 months and the crash at east 25th and loch two sides agreed to a one-year raven road. payroll tax cut of 2%, about lexington, windsor mill, $800 in savings for a worker accident forest park ave. making $40,000 a year, also part the events highway, a crash there. another one to watch for itat of the tax cuts for businesses, college students and working families. severn road. topside of the beltway, looks like delays might be easing the estate tax will be the same their. you might tap the bricks on the as before, 35% for inheritances inner loop. over $5 million. switching over to a light of the the president now must convince northwest corner at greenspring his own party to go along with ave, the out of it is jammed up. the deal. delays on the outer loop west side. the initial concession was cool that is the latest on traffic at best. some lawmakers wanted the pulse 11. president to call the no snow showers out there republicans bluff, hold out for a better deal, even if it meant just yet. it is windy and cold. the temperatures are in the postponing any action until upper 20s. it feels much colder than that. january. the president signaled that was not an option. winds are gusting over 20 miles as sympathetic as i am to those who prefer a fight over per hour. 19 at the airport, a 14 at compromise, as much as the parkton. political wisdom may dictate forecast for today, windy and fighting over solving problems, it would be the wrong thing to cold. a chance of snow showers and do. flurries. it will feel like it is in the while vice president biden teens and 20s most of the day. we will lose the wind on will attend a weekly meeting wednesday and thursday. today. the president may work the high temperatures and the lower phones as necessary. end of the 40 s both days. senior aides acknowledge here that the hardest sell right now we will have another update is in the house of representatives. at 8:55. so what does it all mean for you and wall street? we re going to bring in cnbc s erin burnett. she is at the new york stock exchange this morning. what is the reaction to this agreement? christmas came early, our santa claus rally. they weren t saying whether they were going to get it this year or early next year, so we have a big rally. oil at a more than two-year high. copper a record. so across the board gains. so overall, good reception on wall street. it still has a price tag, it will add $900 billion to the national debt. can we afford this? the answer is no. the budget is 43,000 pages and we have to make cuts to get out of this problem. if these tax cuts succeed getting more people working over the next two years, we will be able to afford a tax doucut the. if we didn t give people over $250,000 a break here, we pay $60 billion a year. we give universal health care for free. so the numbers are very big. we can t afford it over the long-term, but if this works over two years, it may have been worth it. but we re still digging ourselves into a deeper hole. we are borrowing money to do this, there is no question. the question is will it trickle down, will it work in creating jobs? and wall street at least for now is buying into it. erin burnett, thank you very much. on to the weather, almost every corner of the nation is waking up to an arctic blast this morning. bitter cold temperatures from coast to coast. the weather channel s mike seidel is in northeast pennsylvania with more on this. mike, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, matt, it has now snowed in syracuse 73 hours nonstop. that s right. yesterday a record setting december in syracuse is a little over a foot. let me take you back and show you what it looked like here in 8:30 now on a tuesday northwest pennsylvania. morning, it s the seventh day of erie, pennsylvania, snow and december, 2010. blowing snow. our crowd is in a giving mood nearby edinburgh has 35 inches and who can blame them. on the ground. unlike last week, the main thoroughfare, interstate 90 was wide open between buffalo, erie she s going to be back a little later on singing for us, live in and cleveland. it s not the snow that s getting to us, it s the cold air, the our studio. jet stream continuing to show that arctic dip all the way down to the gulf coast in florida. and if you can get down here in the next couple of days, you can it s cold this morning in the sunshine state, but it may be even a bit colder tomorrow still donate toys up until morning as temperatures hit the december 22, for more freezing point of a low down to near 40 in miami, and, matt, how information, go to our website todayshow.com. about this? out on the plaza, i m matt 26 year this morning, right now it s also 26 in tallahassee, florida. lauer along with meredith viera, back to you. al roker and natalie morales. mike seidel in pennsylvania this morning. coming up the barefoot mike, stay warm, thank you. and now here s meredith. as mike mentioned, the contessa is going to share her bitter cold has folks shivering as far south as florida. secrets for a very simple delicious meal from the appetize tore the dessert. kerry sanders is in florida. that s the barefoot contessa. reporter: it s cold and still getting colder as the sun comes and one of our all-time up. in the last hour, it s dropped about a degree, we re at 33 favorite folks jane pauley is here and she s got a sweet story degrees, i m standing here at about how chocolate gave one one of the strawberry farms and woman s life new purpose. they re very concerned that the and a little bit later on, temperature might tonight to drop, even as the sun comes up. kathie lee and hoda are going to that s why they have turned on catch up with two musical power the sprinklers here in the last houses, that young lady there, taylor swift, who just happened hour, the idea is to coat the strawberries in water, and if it to have been been crowned drops below 32 degrees, it will couny music s entertainer of create a blanket of ice over the the year. strawberries so if the let s say hi to mark and temperature continues to drop even more, it won t go below 32 brendan, the latest contestants degrees. this is not a one-night event, voted off the biggest loser. we do a lot of these segments they re already looking forward and i have to say that if i pass to tonight where it could be even colder. for folks who come to florida on either one of you guys walking vacation, the forecast is you down the street, there s no way may have to wait until the in the world i can say these weekend to enjoy what florida is guys are 421 and 362 pounds known for, warm weather in winter. respectively. you guys look incredible. you really do. when is all this going to 461 421, you started, what do end? that s the question for al who s upstairs checking it out. you weigh now? you have to wait until next the answer lies in the jet week. stream, you can see it dips down almost to miami, 22 in what s your ideal weight? i m getting there, i m very nashville, 13 in indianapolis. close. how about you, brendan? these are current temperatures. i m not going to say either, afternoon highs, only 21 in i m pretty close to my goal indianapolis, 50 in tallahassee. weight. i feel unbelievable. temperature departures almost 20 what is the difference in the degrees below normal in tallahassee. we look for a change coming by body weights? i have rediscovered myself. thursday. the jet stream still to the and you guys made to it the south, but we have got final. and you almost made to it the moderating air coming in thanks final four. are you disappointed that you to high pressure. by thursday, a high of 35 didn t quite get there or are you happy with what you have degrees in new york city. been able to go through? we ll have the forecast coming i was bummed for a couple of up. our elf on the shelf continues days, i m sure you were bummed to hang out here, matt? keep an eye on him. for a little bit too, but you we re going to get the rest of dust yourself off and stand right back up. what s one piece of advice, al s forecast in a moment. especially during the holidays. but now some sad news, elizabeth edwards cancer fight what s the one piece of advice has taken a turn for the worse. you would give people to help them stay on track? doctors have told her that we just walked all the time, further treatments would be we would get up in the morning unproductive. she is resting at her home with and walk ten miles, you might not be able to work out, but everybody can go for a walk. her children and her estranged husband. keep moving. as long as you keep in motion, reporter: elizabeth edwards you ll be fine. a body in motion stays in has waged a courageous battle against cancer. motion. mark and brad, thanks so i m elizabeth edwards. much, congratulations, good luck reporter: on monday, and happy holidays. catch the biggest loser 61-year-old elizabeth edwards announced she was suspending tonight at a special time. treatment for her cancer after doctors told her it had spread to her liver. 9:00, 8:00 central time on nbc. in a statement, she said the days of our lives for all of us are numbered, we know that, but see the girl right there in i have found that in the simple the blue hat? you re freezing. act of living with hope, and in you re shaking. we have our hand warmers. the daily effort to have a she s shaking, al, she came positive impact in the world, the days i do have are made all here not knowing the more meaningful. it s not my fault. we have to blame somebody. no, you don t. she s got her children, her sisters and john is coming and things are blustery and coal going. to start tuesday morning. my husband, my love and your when chills and the teens right next vice president, john now. edwards. wendy and chilly this afternoon. wendy and chilly this afternoon. their lifelong dreams both personal and public were touched by heart ache and scandal. in 1996, their teenaged son wade was killed in a car accident and in 2004, edwards began a six-year battle with breast cancer. cancer is not a straight line, it s up and down. reporter: in 2007, she stood with john saying her cancer had i will take responsibility for telling you that the weather returned. we re always going to look for the silver lining, it is who channel on cable or weather.com online is where you need to go we are as people. and we ll continue to do it. to get your weather. when we come back, our good reporter: then tabloid whispers about john s affair friend jane pauley tells us the story of a woman who changed her became full blown headlines putting the couple s 30-year life with chocolate, but first, this is today on nbc. marriage in turmoil. this is a lot worse than i had ever expected. reporter: last year, after finding that john had fathered a child out of wedlock, she made the decision to separate from john. we had been married for 33 years, been with him longer than that and every time something monumental has happened in my life and particularly the bad things, i have had him to lean on and that was no longer going to be the case. and so i was going to be on my own in a way that i hadn t ever really been, and that was pretty terrifying, particularly faced with a disease, young children and a fairly uncertain future. reporter: she continued speaking out for health care, even opening a small business. welcome to the red window. reporter: a furniture shop she showed off in september talking about her new relationship with john. it s really hard to use a word like forgiveness. but we found a new way of interacting with one another that is healthy and healthy for the kids and easy for us which is great. reporter: now she is gathered at home with her friends and family, including her children. i have had the opportunity, you know, to have these great children, i have had wonderful friends, i have had experiences that, you know, they couldn t be replaced and opportunities to talk about things that matter to me. reporter: a family friend told the associated press that while elizabeth edwards is indeed gravely ill, she is in no pain and in good spirits. matt? ron mott in chapel hill, north carolina. a correspondent who s covered elizabeth edwards extensively, sondra, good to see you. talking to members of her family and friends, what do they tell you? she found out last week and is at peace with where she is right now. she has a house full of relatives which is how she always wanted it and they re telling stories, looking through old photos and having as many back now at 8:37, the series laughs as tears. one of the things we don t often say about elizabeth, she s your life calling today. a beautiful writer and this message to her supporters is a jane pauley has been working good indication of that. yes, and she wrote it a with widowed with three kids, couple of days ago and the family decided that once rumors antoinette had to re she started to bubble up that she had been hospitalized, that she was gravely ill, they decided let s put something out there, loved it, even the 75-hour and she wrote something a couple days ago and they posted it for workweeks. but at 53, her life was calling again. a doctor delivered the message. her on facebook. her relationship with john edwards has been tumultuous at some people thrive on hard best, but she said something to me, she said it s important to work. antoinette little was just a her to keep shedding a positive can-do kind of person. until your doctor said you can t do this anymore. light on john for the children he goes out and talks to my because they were going to need him. she has struggled with her family and tells my family, if feelings and the wounds that run she doesn t quit, she s going to very deep. for the children, she s put on a die. chest pains and dizzy spells brave face and kept that were symptoms of a serious heart relationship intact. he s at the house this week, condition. but you loved your job? helping with the children, helping get takeout for the and i still miss it. family that s visiting and he s it wasn t just a paycheck she very much a part of that family. missed. it s a feeling of how are the kids doing? accomplishment. it s like do i have a purpose? the answer to antoinette s you know, you can only guess that it s very difficult. purpose was antoinette s but remember that elizabeth had been preparing them for this. chocolates. joe, her husband of 20 years had she, years ago started writing a been nudging her towards dying letter she called it so culinary school. she would have the advice to we were walking around, and pass on and always be there with he said, let s just go in and a mother s wisdom, even when she look around. joe, that was on purpose. couldn t be there physically. so as much as two little children can be prepared, she has done a mother s work in you dope, you can t tell me preparing them. that. i m just finding this out. sondra, thank you so much for joining us this morning and our it was no coincidence because thoughts and prayers we want to say are with elizabeth edwards he knew you were not happy. this morning. let s get a check of the yeah. she signed up that day. morning s stop stories. oh, my god, they were so young. i was the oldest one in class, defense secretary robert of course. by how many hearses? gates is in afghanistan to ten, 20? 30. assess the progress of a nearly easily 30. one course led to another decades long conflict. he will determine the feasibility of starting troop until she could call herself a withdrawal in july of 2011. the u.s. supreme court will chef. decide whether or not walmart starting a business is easier will face the largest class said than done. i thought i could be like action employment lawsuit in history. martha stewart and the board of 1.5 million current and former female employees are suing the health says you can t use your home kitchen. retail giant for gender discrimination, saying they were phillipsburg, new jersey, a paid less and promoted less town like antoinette trying to often than men. walmart is challenging the reinvent herself. massive case. plans to turn the five islands along the seaboarder by historic and charming, i with north korea into military mean it needed a lot of work. oh, yes, more money. for tress. the kitchen renovation alone cost $35,000. the death toll from cholera in haiti has now officially you re doing really well. passed 2,000. a lot of people can t do this. and nearly 100,000 have been she can make 300 truffles a sickened by the water borne day. illness. this actually is work. cholera has gripped the earthquake ravaged country since antoinette s chocolates, a november. a daily dose of aspirin cuts handmade high end confection. she has both the store and a the risk of some cancers by up to 20%. website. how many employees do you but doctors warn that aspirin have? just me. antoinette s chocolates. can cause bleeding and other problems. one of these things is not like the other. but after years of running a law firm, there s not much she those are actually as you take a can t do. look here, chinese scientists on a day-to-day basis, you re dressed like pandas, they want the accountant? yes. to keep the bear s human contact you re your in house legal. to a minimum so the cubs born in yes. you do your it, your computer work. yes. you re a web designer. captivity can be released into the wild. the jets took bush of tone yes. what else. make the chocolate. but after three years, she s just breaking even. i don t think you re in it worst pummelings of the scene. the patriots took the game 45-3. for the money. a lot of bruised and battered i m in it for the smiles. jets fans around here this morning. i don t have 60 attorneys, it s we go back out to matt, meredith just different. and al. it s almost like a zen feeling, working with chocolate. all right, natalie, thanks very much. warm, silky, soothing, it s it is cold. therapeutic. i think the jets showed up and the proof is not in the tasting. wearing a uniform looking like a at 62, antoinette is not only panda. yeah, it s cold and it s going happy, but healthier. to stay cold and our friends in the pacific northwest, you re not out of the woods either, we chocolate, romantic, said duck have got a big storm coming onshore, that s bringing rain along the coast and it s bringing snow inland, so we re going to be talking about one to ti three inches of rain in the seductive, delicious and maybe a pacific northwest. lifesaver. snowfall three to six i after three years, antoinette is finally in the black, but just breaking even. it is windy and cold in that s the reality check. she has yet to write herself a baltimore. the wind chills are in the paycheck. which is par for the course when starting a new business. teens. we will make it to the upper join 30 s this afternoon. it will feel cooler than that join in the spirit of the holidays, i brought you a box of antoinette s handmade, not by me, chocolates. it s interesting to me compared to other people that you profiled, she didn t choose and that s your latest reinvention, it was forced upon her. and she s very happy, as you weather. and a man facing charges of see, and still the law firm, she ll admit quite freely, i murdering his wife while on still miss it. so not everyone is looking for their ho their bliss or their dream. she had to make this happen. well, i m for one very glad that she did. i am too. jane pauley, thank you very much. up next, easy holiday recipes. 1yu69d just ahead, angelina jolie opens up. and sarah palin goes camping with kate gosselin. how did that go? 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why is that? rowling road, security i think they re a little more boulevard. another accident in ellicott elegant. and this goes right in the pan. city. northern parkway at reisterstown and then you put the chicken on road, a crash to watch for there. top, it goes into the oven. moving to the east, baltimore 400 degrees for 30 to 40 eastern ave, crashed there. minutes. it depends on how thick the chicken breasts are. and if it s not brown, stick pulaski highway, watch out there. it under the broiler for a few we will give you a live look minutes? happy holidays. outside of the west side at liberty road. things are moving pretty well. you might see a bit of a delay. and lots of lemon so it cooks perring parkway here on the northeast side, things look good. all together. and right into the oven. it is a windy and cold start your ftc version of the cooking show. for us this tuesday. other than that, no weather problems expected. current temperatures are in the upper 20s. sauteed onions and chicken n chills thare in the stock. upper end of the teens. you give it a good stir for about ten minutes. a chance for snow showers or flurries. temperatures will make it to the upper 30 s, but it will feel and then you put in toasted colder. we will lose the went on pine nuts, it gives it a little wednesday and thursday. more flavor and a little color. a more significant storm comes you ve got string beans and on it to close the week and on sauteed shallots. sunday. check the bottom of your this is looks great. screen for updated news and this is cranberry and apples. traffic information. we will have another live update and orange juice and some at 7:55. brown sugar and this batter is just like making eggs. so the hard part is not getting it all. how about if i help? sure. and you put it in the oven and it bakes like that. beautiful. but you have to have a gorgeous table setting. and what s it called? it s a raspberry royal. happy holidays. so much none. meredith, nice to have you here on your last day. a live performance from natasha benning. it is 7:30 now on this seventh day of december, 2010. it is cold out there, one of the coldest mornings of the year so far. i m matt lauer, alongside meredith viera. a revealing look at the life of a prostitute on the las vegas strip from a former escort who has dedicated her life to saving women caught up in this industry. she s going to share her story just ahead. and oscar winner angelina jolie, we re going to talk about her children and what she is most thankful for. why did sarah palin take natasha bedingfield is ready kate gosselin and her eight kids to reveal herself. camping? the american who served time meaning behind the title, please? it s about just being yourself. we re all going through life and in australia for manslaughter in his wife s honeymoon death has there s a hectic time, i think, just arrived back in alabama to face some new charges. life in general. and i feel like just sometimes jeff rossen was on the flight. you need to come down to basics and here we are. reporter: we arrived here in birmingham, alabama just a i m in pop music, but my music matter of hours ago overnight. has never been about the tuning. it was a pretty short flight we but that s in a nutshell what took from atlanta here to it s about. two years since your wedding? birmingham. we took a commercial flight and life s going good for you and a lot of people on the plane. matt? so good. i m loving it. they took him off the plane, put i m so excited because my album him in a police car and brought is out today and it feels like a him here to the jefferson county release to me because i ve been keeping my music in the studio jail. the crime itself happened around the world in australia, but and not revealing to it anybody else. prosecutors have charged him with murder here in his hometown saying this is where he hatched the plot to kill his new wife. sitting in coach in the last row of the plane, gabe watson winged i ll be all right across the country overnight, handcuffed inside his jacket, sitting next to two officers. do you still claim this was an accident, what happened in australia? nbc news was on board the flight, bound for alabama where prosecutors say watson married tina thomas and planned her murder. in fact just 11 days after their wedding, tina was dead. on the flight, watson was emotionless and d unresponsive. fill me up waiting for him in alabama, tina s family. the one thing that we have but i ll just dream held on to is that we owe tina to see that justice is done and gabe watson needs to face the evidence before a jury for that to happen. reporter: it was 2003, the couple was on their dream honeymoon, a scuba diving adventure in australia s great barrier reef. and i don t need a but deep under the sea, tina s life was about to end. another diver snapped this microphone to say what i ve been chilling photo showing tina thinking my hearth is like a loud motionless on the ocean floor, speaker 100 feet down. gabe watson told police he tried that s always on to save his wife, but couldn t. take what you want she was looking up, had both of her arms out, stretched up, like looking at me, with her feel my pain arms out. reporter: but police concluded this was no accident. i m only one voice they say gabe gripped tina in a when it all boils down at the bear hug and turned off her air supply and that killed her. watson was convicted of manslaughter in australia and served an 18-month sentence. prosecutors there couldn t prove murder, only that watson, a end of the day certified rescue diver failed to help as his wife died. it s what you do reporter: why didn t you try to save your wife? which brings us to this moment, make it everything alabama prosecutors have taken sometimes all it takes is one an unusual bold stance saying the crime 9,000 mile as away voice fill me up. started here at home. we think the prosecution of gabe watson in the united states is ridiculous. reporter: with gabe watson back on u.s. soil, his lawyer is fighting back, calling alabama s prosecution grandstanding. there s an absolute lack of evidence that show gabe watson had anything to gain from his young wife s murder and further that he did anything to kidnap fill me up her or to trick her to go on her honeymoon. hook me up reporter: but for tee tina s family, australia agreed to send watson back here to the u.s. on one condition, that prosecutors here in alabama wouldn t try for the death penalty against him. australia is against the death penalty. american officials agreed and this morning gabe watson if convicted faces life in prison here. troy king is alabama s attorney general and he joins us now exclusively, attorney general king, good morning to you. good morning, matt. he s back in birmingham, alabama now, how quick do you think a trial might begin in this case? as quickly as can be. we are anxious to get this case to trial. tina s family is anxious to see agai. we are back after your local justice done. news and a check of the weather. i m sure gabe watson is anxious to put this behind him. will there be a bond or bail hearing? is it possible he would be released before trial? anybody who s followed this case knows, none of the rules have been followed to this case, but i expect alabama judges to follow it and i expect him to stay in prison. you re charging gabe watson with two counts of capital murder, plotting to kill his wife tina for financial gain. you intend to show that gabe watson killed his wife tena to collect on a life insurance policy. but gabe wasn t the beneficiary on any insurance policy. he didn t know that, matt, that s the problem. he thought he was the beneficiary. we believe we can prove it or we wouldn t have charged him with it. can you make a case proving that someone believed they were a beneficiary when the paper work shows they were not? sure. there will be testimony to that effect. so absolutely we can. we prove intent all the time. the second count of capital murder is that he abducted his wife to accomplish the murder. how do you go about proving that. there s case law in alabama, matt, that says if i picked you up in birmingham and told you we were going to go to huntsville on a shopping trip, but i intended to kill you in huntsville all the time, we can charge you in birmingham for a kidnap. it is not sounding like an open and shut case, let me tell you that. mr. watson s attorney who we saw in that piece said trying to prove that gabe watson abducted tina is a ridiculous theory because you would have to prove that gabe, quote, tricked tina into falling in love with him, into marrying him and traveling halfway across the world and going scuba diving. that s what defense attorneys get paid to say. the fact of the matter is if this was easy, australia would have done it. if they didn t feel in australia that they had sufficient evidence to press forward with a murder charge, what new evidence can you bring to the table that makes you sure you can get that conviction? matt, we don t know whether the prosecutors could have gotten a murder conviction or not. we know that the law enforcement believed it. we know that the people who testified at the inquest believed it. we know that the prosecutors then betrayed everybody in the process. so we don t know what the prosecutors could have proved in australia and that s precisely the point. it s more of a function of your term ending. this happened seven years ago, you are not going to be attorney general after january, a guy named luther strange is going to be that attorney general. have you spoken to mr. strange? does he plan to go forward with this prosecution? in alabama, justice doesn t have a shelf life. you don t get to run out the clock on a politician s term and get away with murder. we believe that gabe watson committed a crime, a grand jury in alabama believes me committed a crime. we indicted him and we plan to convict him. have you talk with luther strange about it? we have talked about many cases. i inherited cases from my predecessor and we pursued them because that s what my oath of office required. i can t see him betraying the oath of office. thanks for your time. 7:38, let s get a check of the weather from al. today s weather is brought to you by the u.s. postal service. and good morning, as we look at those temperatures across the country, it is brutally cold from the great lakes all the way down into florida and as far away as the plains, with teens and 20s there. on the rest of the country, we have got another storm coming up into the pacific northwest bringing rain and mountain snows, lake-effect snows will continue from erie, pennsylvania to watertown, new york, anywhere from a half a foot to a foot of snow. in the southeast, things are blustery and coal to start tuesday morning. when chills and the teens right now. wendy and chilly this afternoon. wendy and chilly this afternoon. you can keep track of your weather all day long, the weather channel on cable and weather.com online. a former escort reveals the life of a las vegas prostitute. we ll talk to her right after this. uh, a little help. oh! you know shipping is a lot easier with priority mail flat rate boxes. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. plus, you can print and pay for postage online. and i can pick them up for free with package pickup. perfect! cause i m gonna need a lot of those. wow! i knew i should have brought my sleigh. priority mail flat rate shipping starts at $4.90 only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship. and 2 minutes to christmas? 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i m freezing to the bone. it wasn t that bad. i don t think kate liked it too well. she was without cable. and there s a woman with a gun. it will probably get good ratings. i think that sarah palin is a great fan of kate plus 8. and angelina jolie, we talk to her about her new movie, her marriage and her kids. have you tried honey bunches of oats with real strawberries? wow. it s seriously strawberry. they re everywhere. it s in the bunches, on the flakes, even real strawberries in the mix. can i have some more? honey bunches of oats with real strawberries. it s delicious. nobody does it quite like us. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am lisa robinson. let s check the morning commute with kim dacey. good morning, everyone. in mount vernon, a bad situation with fire activity charles street is closed down and parts around that area are closed as well. in baltimore street, still closed between south and gay street. parts of fayette street and frederick the street closed in that area as well. coaches in effect for much of the day. accident in ellicott city and montgomery road. eastern ave and 54th street, another crash to watch for. pulaski highway, one to watch for there. 37 miles per hour there. topside the beltway, a bit of a delight from harford down to charles. outer loop is backing down from greenspring ave. you ll see delays from the outer loop west side. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. it is dry out there. we don t have snow showers said. it is windy and cold. the actual temperature is not that bad. we are in the 20 s, but you factor in the wind s going 15 to 20 mi. per hour and it produces when shells going into the teens. in westminster, 19 at the airport. windy and cold, a mixture of sunshine and clouds. high temperatures and the upper 30 s. we will see back in 25 minutes. 8:00 now on this tuesday morning, december 7, 2010. we have a happy crowd gathered at the rockefeller plaza with the christmas tree in the background. we ha i m meredith viera along with matt lauer and al roker. yesterday we talked about bathrooms, this morning it s all about kitchens. could yours pass a restaurant inspection? 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there were a few times i couldn t stop laughing and i screwed up the tapes for hours on end. it was important we didn t take ourselves too seriously. because i was playing such a lady and he was playing a math teacher, so that in itself was funny. i m elise. i m frank. that s a terrible name. maybe we can find you another. sometimes when we re about to do an interview, they give us this information and some of it you know is just put in there by publicists to make things interesting, but there s some things that catch your attention. the idea that you took manners classes to play this role? there wasn t someone you could call and say come over and give me a class. there was a way of studying certain things, reading about certain things, learning about dance class but it all added up to the same thing which is she needs to speak more elegantly, she needs to sit more poised. doesn t that come naturally for you? i m not completely clumsy or gross, but i m not there s something about this type of woman that didn t come naturally to me that she s extremely she takes her time with everything. i m an american, i get i do ten things before breakfast. you re in venice, one of the most beautiful cities in the world and yet your house is there. it s not as if you can just go with the kids and the family and say let s do venice. you had boat loads of paparazzi following you. how does that impact the exsneere experience? it sounds like we were trapped, but we were having sunday breakfast at our favorite place and we were sneaking out in decoy boats. that stakes a village and a lot of prep? it takes a lot of prep, but we do maneuver through all that stuff. at this stage have you fig yu youred out why? you must sit around your house with curlers in your hair and say what is it that they find about me that s so fascinating? i don t find myself that interesting in that way. i would like to think i have become a better woman as i have gotten older and i have a full life. but i do the same thing every day my natural life. i wear the same thing. i don t go out. but i feel like it happens to everybody. it s just a weird time right now where there s just so much of all of that for everybody and people are either it s just a new world. is it a phase? do you think we ll get over it? can you gut the jeannie back in the bottled until are you looking down at a time when it s not going to be important for you to be in front of the camera and behind the camera might be a nice little hidden place for you? i must prefer being behind the camera. i love it. what personality traits do you need to be a good director. i hope i know. i hoe i am a good one. what do you think are your strengths and weaknesses? i had a crew, we were part of a family and i think that comes from i genuinely respect i respect people and i m curious about what they do and i want to give them the power to do what they do best without getting in their way. during the holidays, we generally stop and think what we are thankful for. when you look at the life that you have created for yourself, and the life you and brad have created together, what are you thankful for? that we have our health and that we have this time together that we get to explore and laugh and learn and have that warm love that is, you know, what makes life worth living. they re young now, but they re going to get to an age, they re going to be 30 one day, they re going to be asked that question, what was your childhood like? what would you like their answer to be? 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