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well, six feet of snow, stuck. can t move. luckily he had a phone with him. he was rescued. we ll hear the story in his own words coming up. also ahead on joy s diet s.o.s., answers to your questions about diet and nutrition. for example, if you are over 60 trying to lose weight how much should you exercise and also questions about artificial sweeteners in organic foods. common questions people have. also you have heard about the new mini series supposed to air on the history channel but the cable outlet backed out when members of the kennedy family said it wasn t historically accurate. it found a new home on reelz. we ll take a look at the controversy behind it. some people say this is the best work katie holmes has done. it s surrounded by controversy. controversy for something like this is a good thing. people will be drawn to that. absolutely. also ahead, elizabeth taylor s life and legacy. she was hollywood royalty with oscar winning performances and on off-screen life just as dramatic as the famous roles. we ll get the latest celebrity stories from people magazine including details on kate and will. you can t get enough of that. i can t. ann curry is at the news desk with the headlines. i am. thanks, matt. good morning, everybody. in the news, major world leaders meet in london to discuss the future of libya. some 40 foreign ministers from arab and western states are coming to the table to push for moammar gadhafi s exit. last night president obama addressed the nation to defend the u.s. military s involvement in the conflict. the president said u.s. intervention was necessary to prevent a massacre of civilians. extremely toxic plutonium is seeping from the quake-crippled nuclear power plant in japan and into the soil. officials are expanding the evacuation zone around the complex. three of the six reactors are believed to have had partial meltdowns since the march 11 earthquake and tsunami. this morning, tens of thousands of syrians are showing support for their embattled president after dozens were killed in crackdowns on anti-government protests. the president is expected to address them in the next 24 hours, his concessions include a lifting of the 20-plus year state of emergency. the ruling military council says hosni mubarak and his family aren t allowed to leave their country. the u.s. supreme court will hear arguments against walmart today to decide if the case can proceed as a class action lawsuit involving 500,000 women who claim they favored men for higher pay and workplace advancement. dozens of elizabeth taylor s love letters will be auctioned off this spring. the notes reveal a 17-year-old taylor in 1949 writing to her then fiance william pauley, jr. there is a love letter taylor is keeping a mystery. she was buried with the last letter richard burton wrote to her days before his own death in 1984. she kept it by her bedside for nearly 30 years and never revealed the contents. a california snowboarder s helmet camera captured an ordeal that was his most frightening and his most embarrassing, he says. james drummond was buried upside down in six feet of snow at the base of a tree. he struggled for 20 minutes and reached his cell phone just as his wife called. i m stuck in a tree well. give them my phone number. are you serious? i m going to die if they don t find me. are you serious? call them! give them my where are you? give them my number! drummond was rescued after half an hour. i heard somebody say i found him . we got him! it s four minutes past the hour. now back outside to matt and tamron. i love that story. his wife called. are you serious? this is no time for questioning me, honey. let s get a check on the weather. maria la rosa has the forecast. good morning. what brings you to new york? um, choir. welcome. enjoy it. they have great lungs. they know how to scream. much of the country well below average. take a look at the highs. 30s and 40s as you head from new york to montana. 70s and 80s in the south. strong thunderstorms along with the warm air in texas, louisiana, mississippi and alabama today and maybe flurries on the northern end of the system. then you have rain and mountain snow affecting the northwest. looks like today is going to turn out to be a nice day. warmer than yesterday, but still below average. high temperature in the lower end of the fifties. ann, back to you. maria, thank you. this morning on joy s diet s.o.s., answers to your daily diet dilemma. joy bauer is here with tips on everything from your baby s first solid foods to what s important to know about organic foods if you are a diabetic. hey, ann. the first question is from gina in seattle, washington, via skype. good morning. good morning. your baby is adorable. thank you. i m a first-time mother introducing solid foods into my baby s diet. most pediatricians recommend rice cereal as a fist forst foo i heard it s like giving them white bread. what s the best game plan for solid foods? should i start with rice cereal, introduce it later or skip it? there is no hard rule in terms of what s the best option. you can start with vegetables, fruit or rice cereal. many pediatricians recommend starting with rice cereal first because it s iron-fortified and your baby s brain needs iron to develop. typically by four, five months babies iron stores are starting to become depleted. speak with your pediatrician. if they recommend rice cereal, look for a whole grain brown rice cereal. a lot of companies are distributing them to most supermarkets. please, if you can t find the whole grain version and you can only find a plain refined white rice cereal, don t worry about it for a minute. the main mission of the cereal is to slowly introduce solids to your beautiful baby and give him or her the iron fortification. soon enough you re introducing vegetables, fruits and a host of healthful ingredients. thank you very much for your question. your baby is adorable. adorable. cindy is on the phone from florida. hey, what s your question. good morning. i m 63 years old and i have just started walking about 45 minutes to an hour daily. sit necessary to keep my heart rate at a certain number while walking in order to lose weight? congratulations on all that exercise. that s an impressive amount. keep it going. no, you don t have to maintain or target a specific heart rate in order to lose weight. we have a lot of smart, advanced science behind heart rate but when it comes to exercise, as long as you are moving and as often as you can at whatever speed you want you re burning calories. those will eventually equate to pounds lost. push yourself when you can but don t get caught up on the heart rate. just keep walking. thank you very much for your question, cindy. good luck. we have a viewer e-mail from diane in rhode island. she writes, i have type 2 diabetes and i notice a lot of organic and natural foods have evaporated cane juice in them. is this just another name for raw sugar? is it okay to have? evaporated cane sugar or cane juice is another form of sugar. just like plain old white sugar. it has the same amount of calories and will elevate your blood sugar like white sugar. a lot of people think it s healthier because it s slightly less processed. it s really not the case. for diane or anyone with diabetes, you have to watch all of your sugar intake including e evaporated cane juice. i m glad she asked fm thank you so much for your answers to the questions this morning. thank you, ann. coming up next, the people everyone are talking about from elizabeth taylor to william and kate. we ll get the inside scoop from people magazine. later, how to look your best when looking for a job. that s coming up after this. introducing purina one beyond a new food for your cat or dog. introducing purina one beyond introducing honey bunches of oats, raisin medley. there s nothing like it! the only cereal with 1, 2, 3 kinds of raisins and crunchy multigrain flakes. you gotta try new honey bunches of oats raisin medley. 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what was the perspective? it took 17 pages and a book on the way. you know, it s interesting. to use a term the diamond lover, she had a multi faceted life. she was really a humanitarian, a wife several times over, a mother, a legend in so many ways. so we took care to make sure we emphasized all of the different elements of her life. i love that you say wife receive ti several times over. that s a kind way to put it. she loved men and you check of todd. richard burton was a great love of her life but she felt she had two and mike todd was the other one. their romance was cut short. he died in a plane accident. she loved him completely and entirely. she really felt she had two great loves in her life burton and todd. you have a touching story from debbie reynolds. after years forgave elizabeth taylor for stealing her husband. that s what happened. what she made clear in the essay she gave to people is she doesn t feel taylor stole her husband. her husband chose to leave. in the end the two women found common ground when they came together and agreed they were both better off without him. talk about girl power. let s transition to charlie sheen. he s still in the news. apparently sent out a message to his ex-wife denise richards. is he still on the hot topic list? he demands attention, so it s impossible to look away. but it s starting to get iffy with what s going on with him. what did he say about denise? well, there was the usual charlie vocabulary. so there s warlock venom and madness involved there. but he seems very angry calling her now a kidnapper, a dognapper, apparently there is anger there involving his children and perhaps a dog. it s not completely clear what s set him off this time. what about the ticket sales? he has a tour starting. initial reports were that it sold out in 20 minutes and we are hearing that may not be the case. there were report that is the detroit shows sold out in 18 minutes. it s not clear if everyone understands what sold out means because tickets are still available on ticketmaster for the detroit shows. if a ticket is still available the show can t be sold out. that s not even taking into consideration secondary ticket sales which is when people bought tickets to sell on stubhub and other sites. that market is flooded with tickets. is he close to the jump the shark moment where it s no longer coolle to talk about him? this goes away if he delivers a show that knocks people out. the skeptics will be silenced. and prince harry threw his brother a stag party. everyone hoping for a raucus detail to come out. snoop dogg was supposed to perform. no. it was held at a private country estate. what happened on the estate stayed on the estate. no one is talking. how is it possible? he was limited to 20 very close friends of the prince s. they are life long friends who learned over the years to keep their mouths shut. it wasn t like they went to vegas. there was only so much they could get up to. not like the hangover . no, no. everyone has all their teeth. and kate s bachelorette party? there was a report that it s already happened. they did a phenomenal job of keeping that quiet as well. do you think it s possible? certainly. she s under intense scrutiny and knows it. she is not looking to do anything to draw unwanted headlines. she will very much play by the rules and keep it very dignified. we are a little bit more than 30 days away. do we know what the next month will be like for them? they are crossing the t s and dotting the i s. time now for final preparations. menus have been selected, flowers finalized. these are the final days to go over the last details. and the honeymoon, i read and heard perhaps australia he dropped several hints, prince william has, about wanting to return to australia, perhaps as soon as the honeymoon. they were not there that long ago. it might be soon for them to return, but it would be a fantastic honeymoon. and are you planning a special edition? do you expect it to sell like maybe diana s? obviously this is something that me rirrits a lot of specia attention in the magazine. we ll give it very full coverage. estimates have over 1 billion people watching the wedding. we ll be a part of that. the commemorative edition for people magazine. a pleasure to talk to you. coming up, the backstage drama about the new mini series about the kennedys. right after this. our snack machine. you should try something new. activia parfait crunch! crunchy granola you mix right in to creamy and delicious activia yogurt. mmm! crunchy! and creamy! watch your toes! new activia parfait crunch. if you want to feed them right, wear them out, or clean them up, you can save up to 25% on thousands of items during the petsmart everything spring sale. like $10 off new k9 advantix ii and advantage ii flea and tick six packs! at petsmart. just got more powerful. introducing precise pain relieving heat patch. it blocks pain signals for deep relief precisely where you need it most. precise. only from the makers of tylenol. 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you can t be here. you re in the forbidden part of the house. so are you. the voice of the rabbit is actually the voice of the very funny russell brand. also sometimes known as mr. katy perry. he s playing e.b., short for easter bunny, in the new movie called hop. he has another iconic role coming up remaking arthur. the trailers look hilarious. we ll talk to him about it tomorrow on today and all of this is by way of saying that our senior producer mark victor is celebrating a milestone victory. don t worry. we won t give it away. he looks good for any age. he does. he s our cute little bunny rabbit here. we love mark. he s a terrific guy. we wish him a happy birthday. i m getting him a t-shirt that says cute little bunny rabbit for our birthday, mark. i m trying to make the relationship. probably better that i didn t make that relationship to him and russell brand. coming up, the off-screen drama about the new kennedy mini-series. it was executive produced by a conservative republican who was the cocreator of the history channel. now it is set to air on the smaller reelz channel. i m trying to think of who is in it. katie holmes, greg kinear. very interesting to get the low down on that. and the talk every parent dreads having with children. when a beloved pet dies. the loss can have a big impact on the little ones in your home. we ll give you help and how you help them, even when this is key when you re struggling with sadness yourself. it s putting on a tough face for your child. it can be defining. it s the first time they may have experienced the loss of something they love. we ll talk about that. then on a happier note, putting women on the path of success. if you have been unemployed for a long time, how can you confidently dress for a job interview? we have tips on how to look and dress your best for a job interview. when the paycheck rolls in you can manage your money. first, a check of the morning forecast from maria la rosa in for al this morning. nice to have you here. nice being here. good morning. rough weather across the south. you have showers there. a little bit of snow on the northern fringe eventually by this afternoon we could see severe weatherer from eastern texas all the way into the panhandle of florida. cool continues across the great lakes in the northeast. sunshine in the southwest. more showers and mountain snow in the northwest as winds off to a chilly start this tuesday. it is going to turn out to be a nice day. a few showerclouds expected. ladies? thank you so much. cam lot or not? the controversy around the kennedy mini-series right after this. when you ve had one too many days feeling sad or anxious. aches and pains, fatigue. when it becomes hard to ignore that you need help. that s the day you do something. depression hurts. cymbalta can help with many symptoms of depression. tell your doctor right away if your depression worsens, you have unusual changes in behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not approved for children under 18. people taking maois or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. taking it with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin, or blood thinners may increase bleeding risk. severe liver problems, some fatal, were reported. signs include abdominal pain and yellowing of the skin or eyes. talk with your doctor about your medicines, including those for migraine, or if you have high fever, confusion and stiff muscles, to address a possible life-threatening condition. tell your doctor about alcohol use, liver disease, and before you reduce or stop taking cymbalta. dizziness or fainting may occur upon standing. side effects include nausea, dry mouth, and constipation. is today your day? 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i think we were all surprised because we didn t see it coming. in terms of one channel to the other, i don t know how much weight i put on it. reporter: ultimately reelz bought it for $7 million. our viewership has doubled from the time we made our announcement. reporter: a controversial mini-series that s become almost as captivating as the iconic family it portrays. for today, kristenle welker, nbc news, los angeles. up next, a tough conversation. how to talk to your kids about the death of a family pet. that s right after this. 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dress for success is an important that empowers women and helps them feel good about themselves to get back to work. that s my mission. mine is the financial literacy program launched a couple of years ago. i was so excited they got involved. once you get the job, to have the financialle knowledge to manage your money the right way, that multiplies the success rate of really achieving and not just having the job but managing money the right way and knowing how to do it is such a powerfulle thing. that from two women who are in the working world and have gone through it all. cynthia, you have a job at a legal staffing agency. is that right? that s correct. how has this idea of other women thinking about how to make you better prepared, how has that affected you? well, dress for success helped me in many ways. they gave me the skills i needed to succeed in the world. when i got my job they helped me transition into the work force. so they also programmed the professional women s group which helped me transition into the work force. soon i will be taking the financial literacy program which will help me manage my finances. right. dress for success isn t just a suit. people think it s about a suit. it s so much more. you have to do the work. but then the question is how to do the transitioning. you are a makeup mayen and visual maven. so you create we have to create kind of an image of success, right? it s self-confidence. if you feel good about yourself walking in the door for an interview, you will hold yourself better. you will look better and be able to make a good first impression. you look wonderful, cynthia. thank you. what would be the way. for an interview, makeup needs to be neutral, not the boldest color of the season. a beautiful blush and a very nude lip. you don t want to walk in with a bright red lipstick. though you look good. you wouldn t for a first interview. i wouldn t. it s about looking appropriate to put your best self-forward. carmen, what would you like to see in terms of the financial independence? especially if you have been out of a job, the first impulse is to reward yourself, right? i m a fan of that. be careful. first, do you want to buy a bag? go out to dinner with your partner or friend? set a limit. a good rule of thumb is one day s pay. in that way you feel like you rewarded yourself but you have a limit and you haven t put yourself in the hole. be careful when you go to bank. a lot of jobs offer direct deposit. you can get free or no-fee checking with a direct deposit. make sure it matches your banking behavior and make sure you set up a savings account, automated savings once you start working to build back up that emergency fund. when they hand you your benefit information, the w-4 and 401-k, be smart about taking time. i mean hours. i want you to take a couple of hours with the paperwork to make the right decisions. if you are confused and need help, go to the benefits department. they have people there to help you. i wish i had gotten this advice when i started out. so many of us start working and just put one foot in front of the other. these are almost rules. they kind of tell you what to wear, tell you how to use your money. how has that been how have you put it into your own mind? how has it affected you? i think it will help me to grow professionally and personally. the tips about makeup and also the finance, money will help me, especially every day when you go to work you want to look professional. that will help me, of course, get into my goal into the accounting field. of course the money, we want of course to get a job that we can manage the finances. very good point. women helping women. you have helped us this morning, cynthia, by being here today. thank you. we re back with more after this. you want to get a great looking lawn like this, but trying to grow grass from seed in tough areas like deep shade, along the driveway, and where the kids play can be a little intimidating. until now, with scotts ez seed. it s so revolutionary, it s guaranteed to grow grass. anywhere. that s because ez seed is a high performance mix of scotts best grass seed, starter fertilizer and a super absorbent growing material that absorbs water and expands to surround and protect the seeds, so you can grow thick, beautiful grass in even the toughest areas. the scotts ez seed mix even lightens in color to tell you when it s time to water. it s so fool-proof you ll get a thick, green scotts lawn even if you ve never been successful with other seed before. the revolutionary scotts ez seed, you re guaranteed to be able to grow grass anywhere. go online to get a coupon for $5 off the purchase of scotts ez seed. live, local, latebreaking. this is a wbal-tv 11 news update. today is going to turn out to be a pretty nice day. chilly start this morning, but we will make it into the low 50s. touch below average for this time of year but better than yesterday. next couple of days it is going to be chilly. 40s all the way through the beginning of the weekend, and a chance for rain or snow