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we have learned that president obama plans to visit ground zero on tuesday to pay tribute to lives lost there and use it as a way to mark this success fful mission to kill osama bin laden. the president and aids saw it unfold live from the situation room. an extremely tense atmosphere. one insider said those 40 minutesle felt like days. it was nothing but cheers last night where the president received a standing ovation. ahead, new details on the mission and the possible release of photos and video of a dead bin laden. plus, the white house is getting credit for the operation, but did the controversial enhanced interrogation techniques such as water boarding used by the bush administrational yield key information that eventually led to bin laden? we ll ask president bush s secretary of state condoleezza rice about that. we begin on this tuesday morning with dramatic details on the mission. nbc s bent gone correspondent jim miklaszewski has the latest on all this. good morning. reporter: good morning, matt. we are getting incredible insight into the last-minute planning and presidential decision-making behind the attack. and president obama s top priorities protect u.s. forces but take out osama bin laden. the white house released photos of the nail-biting tension as the president and his national security team watch live video of the u.s. military attack on bin laden s compound. the minutes passed like days. the president was very concerned about the security of our personnel. reporter: 40 minutes into the operation, it was over and osama bin laden was dead. for a successful killer captured, the code word was geronimo but on the ground they transmitted, for god and country, geronimo, geronimo. bin laden s code name was jackpot. osama bin laden would not surrender and his security agents had been told to kill him if it looked like they were about to lose him to a u.s. snatch operation. reporter: the white house ruled out one option to drop 2,000-pound bombs on the compound because it would obliterate dna that could prove bin laden was killed. the president settled on two special ops teams of navy s.e.a.l.s and a back-up if something went wrong. if a chopper went down, another would take its place. they cornered bin laden on the third floor of the residence. one commando recognized bin laden and put two bullets into his head. this is what we call a clean hit and a solid piece of work, both from an intelligence and speciale operations standpoint. reporter: bin laden s body was taken to given a proper burial at sea. there are details about how the u.s. tracked him to abbottabad in a compound eight times the size of anything nearby but the pakistani forces missed it. it is said khalidshake mohamed interrogation techniques like water boarding. it took seven years but the cia identified a courier and tracked him to the compound where bin laden was killed. the navy s.e.a.l.s gathered up thousands of secret documents on computers and hard drives. a task force was formed. hundreds of analysts will wade through the material, trying to unlock the deep secrets of al qaeda. meredith? jim miklaszewski, thank you very much. john brennan is the president s top counter terrorism adviser. good morning to you. good morning, meredith. you were in the situation room on sunday as the raid went down. you described it as the minutes passing like days. can you tell me about the moment you realized the raid had been a success? well, i think we were increasingly hopeful as the operation was going on that we were able to get the person we were after, but we were not confident that the mission was a success until all of our brave soldiers were able to come out and bring the body out. so one of the things the president was most concerned about was ensuring the safety and security of the u.s. personnel that were involved in this mission. the united states has not released pictures or video of his dead body or the burial at sea. does the administration plan to release that? if so, when? and what is the hesitation at this point? we have been releasing a lot of information to the public. we are trying to make sure we are confident in the information. we want to be sure it s in the right condition. so what we are doing is now considering whether or not additional information such as photos, videos or whatever else. this needs to be done thoughtfully. we are trying to ensure the information we put out is clear and as accurate as possible. are you concerned it would incite terrorists or people opposed to the united states if you release the picture? we are trying to anticipate the reaction to news of osama bin laden s death. we are taking security measures, adopting prudent acts we think are appropriate in this case. so the additional release of information or any type of t foet graphic evidence is something we have to take into account in terms of what reaction might be to it. we are doing it in a carefulle manner. yesterday you said it was inconceivable that he could have been there without support. how are we going to get to the truth? we are within 48 hours of the raid taking place. there is an investigation by pakistani authorities now. i believele th i believe they want to get to the bottom of this. there is clearly a support network that provided him assistance and helped if ale sill tate contact between bin laden and operatives. whether or not there were individuals inside the pakistani governments are unknown. we re working closely with them to help in the investigation. do you totally trust pakistan when it comes to aiding the u.s. in this war on terrorism? i ll point out that there will be more terrorists killed, captured and brought to justice in pakistan than any other country. yes, there are differences of view. yes, there are times we want to be more aggressive. we take into account their considerations, but pakistan is a strong counter terrorism partner. we need to make sure we maintain the pressure on al qaeda and otherle militant organizations resident inside pakistan. we won t rest until al qaeda is destroyed and so are the other groups. critical information that led to bin laden s compound came from interviews with multiple sources includinging khali khalid sheik mohamed captured in 2003. how important was the information he delivered to the use and was any of it as a reresult of water boarding? the information acquired that led to our knowledge about the compound came from multiple sources. sometimes individuals provided information willingly and sometimes unwittingly. the analysts who have been tracking bin laden s whereabouts painstakingly put those pieces of the puzzle together. there was no one critical bit of information provided by eitherer a detainee or somebody else. what happened is there was a mosaic appearing over time and by diligent work and very strong work we pieced it together and it brought us to abbottabad. yesterday you described the killing of bin laden as essentially cutting off the head of the snake. what happens to the snake at this point? we ll continue to pummel the rest of al qaeda. they have taken severe body blows over the last year. we believe we have damaged the organization to the greatest capability and made it more difficult for it to operate inside pakistan and beyond. we are going to try to take advantage of the opportunity we have now with the death of al qaeda s leader, bin laden, to ensure that we are able to destroy the organization. we are determined to do so and we believe we can. finally, the president said we are safer because of bin laden s death. do you believe it or worry that in the short term at least we are at more risk of being harmed by terrorists? every day, we make our country safer by security measures we put in place and things we do overseas. every day we degrade al qaeda s capabilities. i would say each day we are safer. that doesn t mean we should rest. we need to maintain vigilance and determination to continue to destroy al qaeda. we need to maintain our vigilance here in the homeland. but t it s going in a good direction. we are confident we can build upon this success and we ll have more. we appreciate your time. thank you very much. thank you, meredith. now here s matt. bin laden s death rekindled the debate over enhanced interrogation technique. did controversial questions of terror suspects that have been criticized by human rights groups provide useful intelligence? did what happened here, the compound where u.s. forces cornered and killed osama bin laden, actually start here in prison where detainees who were subjected to the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques like water boarding gave up information that eventually led to bin laden. the debate started up all over again. i would assume that the enhanced interrogation program that we put in place produced some of the results that led to bin laden s ultimate capture. but did it? u.s. officials say one of the key clues that led to bin laden was the threat of information about an al qaeda courier. that may have come from the mastermind of the september 11 attacks or from the so-called 20th hijacker mohamed al katani. there was a nickname during enhanced interrogation techniques. no bones about it. in the 2002 to 2004 range. authorities acknowledge both mohamed and al katani were subjected to enhanced interrogation, a policy authorized by former president george bush. when i talked to president bush last year he had no apologies. we used this technique on three people. we captured a lot of people, used it on three. we gained valuable information to protect the country and it was the right thing to do as far as i m concerned. was it the harsh interrogation that led to critical information? the identify and whereabouts of the courier came to light years later after the enhanced interrogation had stopped. it took them about four years to figure out who that nickname mightle really be. critics say there is no way to know if enhanced interrogation methods led to the crucial piece of intelligence. to reduce it to the idea that one piece of fact here or there came from enhanced interrogation techniques and their use is misleading the american public. administration officials say it was multiple sources of intelligence and years of patient work that led to bin laden. those who believe enhanced interrogation techniques were successful will be out there publically advocating for why they worked and why we should continue to use them. others say, they may have worked on this one occasion but you can t say they always work. condoleezza rice was president bush s national security adviser on 9/11 and served later as secretary of state. nice to see you. good morning. let s start with the enhanced interrogation techniques. some former officials are connecting the dots between those techniques and the information that led to the killing of osama bin laden. do you feel the dots can be connected? what you see is the united states over many years and two presidencies pieced together the information of how to get to osama bin laden. obviously information gleaned in the effort by our intelligence people contributed to this. but this is a bigger picture. it s a picture of intelligence and military working together in a way that allowed the joint special operations command to do what they did. our intelligence people were able, over a significant period of time, to bring together all of the threads and it is a tremendous victory for our intelligence people, our military. and really for the two presidencies. i remember president bush saying, we will not tire, we will not falter, we will not fail. that was on behalf of the united states and president obama and his team are to be congratulated on bringing this chapter to an end. let me ask you about where he was found. it wasn t in the mountains or a primitive cave. it was an up scale neighborhood about 35 miles from the capitol of pakistan close to a prestigious military academy in a walled compound that by its very size and design should have called attention to it. in your mind, do you think some of the people we call partners in the war on terrorism in pakistan actually knew he was there? i have to say i was surprised to learn where he was found. i think the general sense is he was probably in the tribal areas between afghanistan and pakistan. obviously there are tough questions here. i just heard john brennan say the pakistanis are looking into this. they should lauchblg an investigation because they, too, have been victims at the hands of al qaeda. they are our counter terrorism partners. they need to be does it draw they have to investigate this. does it draw conclusions that either somebody in a position of power knew oral intelligence-gathering in their own country is embarrassingly labbing? lacking? let s take a hard look at what happened. i m certain the administration along with the pakistanis wants to understand why osama bin laden could be so close to islamabad, really in plain sight. that s not good for us or pakistan. did you trust the question meredith just asked mr. brennan? when you were secretary of state and nationalle security adviser, did you trust the pakistanis? the fact that we told them nothing of the mission until it was over, not even of our intelligence that suggested bin laden was at this location indicates to me that we don t trust them. a mission of this kind has to operate in absolute secrecy. i m not surprised foreign governments weren t brought into the circle about this. obviously pakistan is a counter terrorism partner. everyone knows pakistan had trouble with extremism within some of the military and intelligence forces. president mousharef launched a kind of reform, even purgele of some of the institutions. it is no secret there were sympathizers within those institutions. it s always a delicate matter with pakistan as to how much information really is warranted and how much information will be protected. but i take the president at his word. i take secretary clinton at her word that the pakistanis were important in cooperating on this mission. former secretary of state condoleezza rice. always nice to see you. thank you very much for your time. nice to see you, too, matt. here s meredith. nbc s reporter is near abbottabad near the compound where osama bin laden was killed. what did you see? reporter: good morning, meredith. we haven t been able to go much further with this camera but we have been filming all morning. the house is about 500 yards down this dirt track in an area still being developed. there are a number of plots still empty and also some houses half filled. this house was finished. what stands out apart from the house that it sle huge is that you can t see it. there are huge walls, ver high walls, 12, 14 feet high. on top of the walls are barbed fences. i could see the top of the house. it s about three stories high, but i couldn t see damage done to the house. along the walls of the house, they are not painted. there was an advert for a girl s school. that struck me as strange. and locals say when children in the area play football or play with balls and the balls went over the wall usually in the area people would just throw them back. in this house, somebody would come out, an unnamed person and give them money instead of returning the ball. that s strange. are they saying anything about the death of osama bin laden on the street this morning? you know, if you walk around this city, this town today, everybody is going about their business. women are shopping, men on their bicycles, kids going to school. but there is curiosity about the media. people are surprised. they didn t know much about who was living in the house. across pakistan there is a level of disbelief about this entire operation. huge skepticism, cynicism, a typical pakistani mind set with bin laden, that it didn t happen. they need to see more evidence, meredith. thank you very much, tazeen ahmed. now a check of the headlines with ann curry at the news desk. good morning. some 130,000 acres of rich missouri farm land are being intentionally flooded after army engineers detonated a distressed levee. missouri farmers fought the decision but the judge ruled the levee breech would save lives. the cockpit recorder was found nearly two years after a plane crashed in the ocean killing 228 people on board. the flight data reporter was recovered on sunday. together the two pieces of equipment may explain the cause of the crash. honda is expanding the recall of cars, suvs and minivans because of concerns about driver side air bags. the recall is now 833,000 o vehicles. faulty air bags have been installed on some vehicles when they were repaired after crashes. find more information about this at today.com. and we are getting stunning images from hawaii where residence tents spotted at least two rare water spouts off the shores of honolulu. the storm caused thunderstorms, funnel clouds and flooding. parts of oahu lost power but no injuries were reported. and a personal celebration for a washington state teacher who vowed on september 11, 2001, that he would not shave until osama bin laden was found. he kept the promise and over the next decade his beard grew 15 inches. he said he heard the news, burst into tears, dropped everything and grabbed his shaving cream. looks like a different guy. i bet he got a big kiss from his wife. now back to meredith, matt and al. he started to look like osama bin laden with the beard. i m not sure that was the desired effect. there is ale whole flock of birds that are homeless today. so far, we just have a little bit of haze out there to start the day. it should try it late in the afternoon. late this evening, we could see and that s your latest weather. matt? just ahead, s.e.a.l. team 6. a look at the work of the elite force thatle ultimately took down osama bin laden. fist on a tuesday morning, this is today on nbc. blueberry waffle with maple sausage. can t get better. unless we were kicking it on the couch in pjs, watching our soaps. it doesn t get better than the new blueberry waffle with maple sausage sandwich. try one today. still ahead the former miss usa who claimed she was groebed by an airport screener. her story in a live interview. and prince william heads back to work days after his wedding. the latest on the royal couple after your local news and weather. the peak of perfection to make extra delicious jam. is this a jowl? 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[ ding ] 7:30 now on a tuesday morning. it s the 3rd of may, 2011. let s say hi for a second to the nice people outside our studio on this tuesday morning. moderate temperatures today in the new york area. it s a nice spring day. we ll get outside there in a few minutes. meanwhile, inside studio 1a i m matt lauer alongside meredith vieira. just ahead, much more on the killing of osama bin laden. the operation was carried out by the navy s s.e.a.l. team 6, among the most elite teams in the world. we ll take you inside their intense training and speak to two men who were involved in special forces missions coming up. and one of the most well known victims of the 9/11 attacks was barbara olsson. she was on the plane that crashed into the pentagon. coming up, what bin laden s death means to him personally and professionally. first on the s.e.a.l. mission to get osama bin laden. george, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, matt. you can see behind me the s.e.a.l. training compound. the people inside here politely declined our requests for interviews today, but as the s.e.a.l.s are fond of saying, we are the quiet professionals. their missions are shrouded in secrecy. their names and faces unknown to the public. but the reputation of the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s as the best of america s elite warriors has never been higher. the operation that resulted in the death of osama bin laden is only the latest, most noteworthy chapter in the story of a legendary fighting force. itle all starts here with the high intensity training course designed to push candidates to their limit. in scenarios that test mental toughness, physical fitness and extreme courage. whether on land, in the air or under water,le sel s.e.a.l.s demonstrate ability to stay focused under fire. whether it s a scenario change-up delivered as a platoon exercises, those things make you more capable and likely to survive the unforeseen over s s seas. reporter: in this exercise s.e.a.l.s are taught to react quickly in a dark environment. as the hoods are pulled off their heads they have seconds to assess the situation and respond accordingly. s.e.a.l. teams carried out missions in afghanistan since shortly after 9/11. in 2009 pulled off the spectacular rescue of american merchant captain richard phillips who was taken hostage by somali pirates. back in coronado at a bar owned by a former s.e.a.l., a special feeling of bride and gratitude at the news of bin laden s death. you can count on the navy s.e.a.l.s and special forces to do the hard jobs. it s thankless. you can t exactly name who they were. but pretty sure they are proud of what they did. reporter: the s.e.a.l.s don t expect parades or medals. in fact, not even their families know details of what they dole while deployed over seas. there are times they say, well, i can t talk about that. we don t know half the stuff. but what they can share, they do when they get home. reporter: rear admiral ed winters, in charge of the s.e.a.l.s, sent out this e-mail. today, we should all be proud. that handful of courageous men of strong will and character have changed the course of history. the fight is not over. because the s.e.a.l.s operate in secret, the identities of t people in the bin laden operation may never be known, may never be recognized publically for heroism. wherever the fight leads now rest assured that the s.e.a.l.s and other members of the special forces community will be there on the front lines. matt? george lewis, thank you very much. we have the author of the heart and the fist, the making of a navy s.e.a.l. michael sheehan started in the army special forces. good morning. good morning. the level of anxiety once they find out who the target is, the navy s.e.a.l. team 6 get into the choppers. what was the level of anxiety likely aboard the choppers? the word is when they heard osama bin laden was the target there was a huge cheer that went up. the guys were excited for the mission. they had been practicing for months going through every possible contingency. adrenaline was high. excited, but these are professionals ready for the operation. you talk about every possible con ten g contingency. i was glad they had the backup, two choppers coming in. how do they go through all the things that can go wrong. these s.e.a.l.s are the elite of the elite. some of the best commandos in the world. they practice time an again. they run different scenarios where things go wrong and they practice adjusting. they can never know for certain what will happen on the target but they know the objective was to kill bin laden, grab intelligence and get out. 40 minutes on the ground. that s how long it took to get in and out. you re operating in a sovereign nation. could be hostile. you are expecting to meet resistance inside the compound. how important is speed? speed is critical. three key principles for them in planning the operation. number one is speed. two is surprise and three, violence of action. overwhelmingly force. make sure the enemy doesn t know you re coming, hit fast and hard. this is shock and awe. yes. when i first heard about the operation, helicopters are noisy. yes. you have to assume osama bin laden is expecting to be attacked and that there are ways out of the compound like tunnels. is it safe to assume there were other people on the ground, our people on the ground that were helping to secure the compound even as the s.e.a.l.sere flying in? helicopters are not only noisy but dangerous. they fall out of the sky. there are crashes. president carter saw it in tehran in 1980. we crashed a helicopter and an aircraft. mogadishu, a blackhawk goes down in 1993. disaster ensues. i imagine there were people on the ground for somebody trying to escape, having to exfiltrate people out, a crash. i would think probably operatives on the ground. perhaps still on the ground. for those slower to get out than the s.e.a.l.s who were in and out in 40 minutes. exactly. trust. clearly we didn t trust the pakistanis. we didn t share one piece of information about thinking he was there. does it speak for itself? it does. there are answers that need to be made in the days ahead. they are a flawed partner for us. two questions. mike, i get this mental image of the unsung heroes here. that there were people for years at computers, filing names into a program, locations, dates, cold cup of coffee and a steal donut. like the cops who go after cold cases. the cia, everyone likes beating up on them when things go bad. this went well. the unsung heroes are people in pakistan trying to find a person in the basement of an office trying to piece together the dots. they are normally forgotten. i hope we remember to recognize them. they were as crucial as the brave fighters that went through the door. we may never know the names of the members of s.e.a.l. team 6 that carried this out. but within the organization, within the navy s.e.a.l.s, how will they be regarded in the years to come? where does it fall in the history of accomplishments of the navy s.e.a.l.s? they will be honored and revered. for a lot of men who undertook the mission, it was not just a courageous action on a particular day. many of these men had been fighting this battle for nine and a half years. they made sacrifices, their families made sacrifices. they lost comrades. others came off wounded and disabled. for them it wasn t just about hitting a target. it was about justice. the guy that fired the shot that killed bin laden? a hero in my mind and i think for all americans. thank you both. i appreciate you being here. now a check of the weather from al roker. announcer: today s weather is brought to you by jared, five times the selection of ordinary jewelry stores. good morning, everybody. let s all go back to the 60s with these sweatshirts. wow. where are you from? oregon. that s right. well, it s very granola there. ann s from oregon. i think she needs one of the tie dyed shirts. let s check your weather. groovy. look how hot it is in phoenix today. 93. yuma, 95. chilly conditions around the great lakes. mild in the southeast midatlantic. 50s and 60s in the northeast. 50s throughout the great lakes and the upper mississippi river valley. we have a little bit of haze start the day. it should stay dry until the middle of the afternoon. after that, scattered after that, scattered thunderstorms should don t forget. you can check your weather day or night. weather channel on cable. weather.com online. nice lumberjack shirts. matt? 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a great sense of release and relief. a malignancy in the world has been removed, a malignancy that had no principles, no morals and whose only aim was to hurt, maim and kill innocent people, school buses, people attending church, people get an airplanes. it had to happen that this malignancy would be removed. it is a great relief that it finally happened. it must churn up memories of 9/11 and your wife calling you from flight 77 right before it crashed into the pentagon. when you think about the final moments you shared in that conversation, what stays with you the most? well, the shock. i had first been relieved when the call came in to the justice department that my late wife was on the phone because i knew then that planes had been hijacked and were being crashed into the world trade center. i had known her flight had taken off that morning. i was worried that one of those airplanes may have been her flight. when i heard her voice i was enormously relieved that she was alive, well and on an airplane in the air still. then, of course, my heart sank when she told me her plane had been hijacked. that s a feeling that i can never really fully describe. we had a brief conversation. the phone was interrupted. we had another conversation. she asked for help. she asked, what can i do? what can ile te tell the pilot? we had a brief conversation, but it will remain for all of my life a poignant memory. september 11 was your 61st birthday. she left a note on your pillow you didn t find until that evening when you made it home. you coped by diving into work, including advocating for changes in the intelligence-gathering system in this country. you felt it was broken. what kinds of changes did you feel you helped make in the system? i was doing what i could to help with the administration in the department of justice to encourage congress to change the laws that were obsolete. we did not have the tools to collect information. we had ability to deal with money laund rers or drug dealers but we didn t have the ability to deal with terrorists. the laws that were enacted with respect to electronic surveillance and the like were obsolete. they were created in the days when there were land lines, not cell phones. there was not that kind of communication. so all of these laws had to be brought up to date or we could never fight an international terrorist organization like al qaeda. it was essential that laws be changed. the changes that were made in the law are reflected in what happened on sunday. the great efforts to gather intelligence, the meticulous gather of information and the careful following of the information ultimately, as i understand it, led to the killing of bin laden. ted, we have a woman coming on in a few minutes who feels she was groped by members of the t.s.a. she believes our civil rights are being chiselled away. that was a concern when you were trying to change the laws. do you feel we have lost of some of our civil rights in the effort to stay safe? it s unfortunate that, indeed, when a terrorist threat like this can take the lives of thousands of people and bring down the largest buildings in new york and attack the pentagon itself and threaten the congress, the capitol of the united states and/or the white house, we have to take measures to protect ourselves, but we have to be extraordinarily sensitive to civil liberties. compromises have to be made, but i think our national intelligence agencies and our national security and our homeland security people are sensitive to this. of course, mistakes get made. things occur that make us uncomfortable and that we do not like. and i think that there is a constant effort to improve and refine the system so that we minimize the amount of intrusion on civil liberties. remember, that the greatest civil liberty is the right to live and the right to get on airplanes and the right to ride school buses on the way to school. we have to protect that civil liberty as well as other civil liberties that we have. compromises have to be made. i think our government, individuals working on this are doing everything they can to protect civil liberties at the same time protecting our lives. thank you very much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. thank you. we re back after this. you have a child with adhd. you re getting calls from his teacher he s impulsive in class. and his inattention makes focusing on homework tough. i know how it is because my son has adhd too. i didn t know all i could do to help manage his adhd. our doctor suggested a treatment plan with non-stimulant intuniv. 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i m meredith with matt and al. there is a reason we are listening to that song. there certainly is. at 63 years old, stevenel ta ty has been through it all. i caught up with him recently. we had a candid conversation about all the ups and downs and he even took me inside his rock & roll closet. i didn t try anything on though. really? no. nothing? wait until you see what he has. i bet he did. anyway, she was crowned miss usa but now she s getting a lot of attention for a video she posted online after she claims a recent security pass through the airport was like being molested. we ll talk about what happened in a live interview. on a lighter note we are so excited. for six decades this man entertained us in television, in the movies, on broadway, singing and dancing, so many iconic films and memories. ladies and gentlemen, dick van dyke in studio. we catch up with the man, the myth, the legend. i love this guy. a lot of people really excited. ann! she said, oh! dick van dyke! did you know there are lyrics to the dick van dyke show ? we ll see if mr. van dyke will sing them for us later on. let s go to ann for a check ott the news desk. we have president obama will visit ground zero in new york on thursday to mark the death of osama bin laden and meet with the families of 9/11 victims. the white house released photographs of the president and top aides watching a life video feed of the operation that killed bin laden on sunday. last night the president received a standing ovation at a dinner for bipartisan congressional leaders. the tornadoes that killed more than 340 people in the southeast last week has been noted as the largest one day outbreak of twisters on record. 226 tornadoes struck the region eclipsing the record of 148 set in 1974. nasa delayed the final launch of the space shuttle endeavour for at least a week saying more time is needed to replace the bad fuse box. wounded arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords whose astronaut husband heads the mission, plans to return to florida for the launch. sony said it s detected a second security breach last month. hackers may have stolen personal information from more than 100 million user accounts. the breach could put users at risk of identity theft for years to come. mandy drury, good morning. good morning. we are watching to see whether or not stocks will continue yesterday s soft start to may after the initial boost from bin laden s death faded. we are watching april sales of cars and trucks. they are expected to rise 20% which is usually a good indicator of consumer spending. this time however it s partly due to customers rushing to buy the models they want before shortages of japanese cars kicks in due to the earthquake which caused production cuts of both cars and parts. back to you. thanks, mandy. and a florida sheriff s deputy answered a call about an animal causing a nuisance only to discover a 7 0 al fwa tor. the patrol car won the tug of war. no one was hurt but the car was damaged. is there insurance for that? 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[ cheers and applause ] at the age of 63, rocker steven tyler is white hot right now. having taken his talents and way with words to one of america s hottest television shows. he s become a media darling with his kooky style and tylerisms. well [ bleep ] a duck and see what happens. what? for the last 30 years as the lead singer of aerosmith, a band which churned out platinum records every year since the 70s, all the news fit to print about tyler was barely suitable to print at all. reporter: the sweet emotion he was feeling was from an addiction to drugs. and as recently as two years ago he almost lost everything. how did you end up on one of the most popular shows on television? the week before, i went to betty ford in december of 09 i was so angry with it all, i got a new manager. i said to him get me a job. i don t care what it is. i m going in. get me american idol. to move forward we first have to look back. it s hard to believe someone called the demon of screaming honed his hard rock musicality in new hampshire where he met his band meats. tyler says dream on came to him like a piece of divine inspiration 37 years ago. think of the lyrics of that song. that s a guy looking back over the vast terrain of his life. here you are a 26-year-old kid. it seems like it couldn t come from you. tell me about that song. i wrote that song and i m sitting up at the barn and i m like you know, i m loving that melodic stuff. it s growing through me. i don t know where it came from. every time that i look in the mirror all these lines on my face getting clearer here s the best part. the past is gone in my life like dusk to dawn isn t that the way everybody got this was just that melody which told my mouth, touched something in my brain that made my mouth sing that. every time i look in the mirror. do you have a lighter i can hold up? come on. i want more! more is what you get in the memoir. i will start with the title. does the noise in my head bother you. what s the noise? your head? it goes like this. sit a spell it will take about an hour i ll tell you a little story about me and matt lauer we ll leave it about that. is that there constantly? pretty much. yeah. some may know aerosmith published a metrodome wmoir in . in the last 14 years he s gone through divorce, had potentially career-ending throat surgery, revealed he has hepatitis c, been to rehab after rehab and had a bitter feud with bandmates who came close to replacing him after he fell off a concert stage two years ago high on prescription drugs. writing a book about lsd and this is not the drug. no, no. lds is lead singer disorder. jimmy page wrote that. you had it. i think we all do as lead singers. we front the band. so therefore why don t they listen to us? we know everything. big ego? of course. tough to work with? yeah. made trouble when you could have made peace? yeah. when you look back now was it all just natural, part of the job? you re damn right. if feuding with the band was part of the job, tyler could have won employee of the year for his stormy relationship with joe perry. the two once dubbed the toxic twins. is it fair to say you have spent as much time fighting over your time together as loving each other? well, see, he plays guitar in such a way where i m addicted to it. there is no one like him. he s my own keith. my own clapton. he s there. he s aerosmith. he plays the licks and i go, whoa, wait! [ scatting ] love in an elevator it just works. do that again! so it s magic. what, am i going to fight it? oh, yeah. the guy in the skin tight pants is also a grandfather, although the road to paving a relationship with his two eldest daughters, actress liv and model mia has not been easy. you write about how drugs robbed you of spirituality and compassion only to realize you lost liv and mia as well. i cried when they for gave me for past behaviors but i will be working on it for the rest of my life. that s what drugs did. it took my children away, my life away, my band away. took my marriages away. i was on my knees. don t want to close my eyes tyler has been sober for a year and a half. even he says he s lucky to be alive. in the book you say you re 63 and it took you to the age of 60 to realize you didn t know anything, and that s okay. that s the best part of not knowing something. when you realize it s okay, that s when you reap the rewards. reporter: and the rewards have come. american idol s ratings are holding strong. aerosmith record sales are seeing a surge and there are plans for a new album and a new tour. of course all of those things need a wardrobe change many, many changes. my new favorites. look. they zip all the way down. i put this on the leg just because i can. because you re steven tyler. and i get to stand next to j. lo every night. i m beat. she s street and the dog s in heat or whatever. tylerism. no quincoincidence his upcoming single is called it feels so good. i m sober again and life s good. cut! you can find more of the interview with steven tyler and read an excerpt from the memoir on our website on today.com. just ahead, another legend, dick van dyke on his lucky life in and out of live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. here is sarah caldwell. heavy delays on the west side. this stretches all the way down to reisterstown road due to an accident approaching baltimore national pike. we are also attracting a a couple more on westbound route 32 at crain highway. in pasadena, mountain road and lake shore road, on on eastbound 190 bridge road, watch for a crash coming into us there. show you what the pace looks like. not too good on the outer loop. over to a live view of traffic in the white marsh area. good news to report, moving well once you get towards the beltway, tapping the brakes. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. in a little bit of high, thin cloud cover. there was fog and haze. most of that is burned off. we will make it into the low eighties later on this afternoon. average high temperature is 70. a mixture of sunshine and clouds by the middle of the afternoon. then a chance for the thunderstorms and some of those could be strong or severe. wednesday, much cooler. we will top of about 20 degrees. dry on thursday and friday. next chance for rain on saturday. we will have another update at 8:55. we re back now. 8:30 on a tuesday morning, the 3rd day of may, 2011. it s a stunning morning in midtown manhattan. al is promising these night people that later today they could see temperatures in the 70s. low 70s. and patches of sun. you re toying with us. i am, but it will be nice. matt lauer out here with meredith vieira, al roker and ann curry. coming up, another livinging legend. dick van dyke has been a fixture in hollywood for six decades. now the song and dance man is opening up about his life and career. we ll catch up with him ahead. who has not had a crush on that man? really. dick van dyke, you guys! oh, my gosh. also we re talking about the awesome things in your life. like having dick van dyke here. watching your kids, putting on warm underwear right out of the dryer. that s in the book. that s a nice thing. i m going to continue with the author of the bookle telling us how to celebrate the little moments. boxers right out of the freezer. coldle in there, al. let s get up to the kitchen and not a moment too soon. guy fieri will be there. food lover, chef, minute to win it host. he s putting his spin on surf & turf. yum. we introduced you to american idol judge steven tyler and now we can say hello to one of his favorite contestants saved earlier in the year by the judges. casey abrams was voted off. good to have you. as you were voted off randy jackson said, he doesn t think there s ever been an idol contestant with more talent than you. that was nice. it was awesome, especially coming from one of if i favorite bass players. and you got to sneak a kiss with j-lo. in front of 20 million people. your reaction when you staved off elimination was unforgettable. what was going through your head this time? i m so happy to have made it past that point. i felt sick when they put me back on, kind of guilty. really? yeah. if people had a bad week they would be voted off. after that, i started doing more music and more performances. i felt better about it. i was happy to be there. i felt i could get a couple good performances out before i got voted out again. the beard is a hot topic. the beard? it s not that interesting. even style steven tyler mentioned it. i like to think it s just laziness. you don t have to shave every day and if you shave it gets itchy. so i grow it out. i live in the mountains. i m a mountain man. are you with hailey or not? not in a relationship. we re musically we re musical counterparts. great to have you here. good luck. i want to do it, too. congratulations. mr. roker, how about a check of the weather? for all the mountain men and women out there, the forecast for today, we have a risk of strong storms appalachians into parts of interior pennsylvania. clouds in the pacific northwest. lots of rain working through the lower ohio river valley. thankfully it dries up but the heavy rain into new england. hot through the southwest. gulf coast looking nice as well. we have a little bit of haze start the day. it should stay dry until the middle of the afternoon. after that, scattered after that, scattered thunderstorms should any time you need that weather go to weather channel on cable or weather.com online. meredith? i m going inside. you know who s in there? dick van dyke. 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. dick van dyke has been making people laugh for six decades, singing and dancing his way through the hollywood ranks. now he s chronicled his life in dick van dyke: my lucky life in and out of show business. we ll talk to him in a moment. first, more on the actor who s done it all. he s a self-described song and dance man. reporter: he s sashayed his life into the hearts of americans. reporter: dick van dyke appeared on broadway and the silver screen. reporter: but it was a role on the small screen in the dick van dyke show that made him a star. the chemistry between him and co-star, long-time friend mary tyler moore was electric but after only five seasons the show was cancelled. although van dyke continued to work, his career was revived at the age of 67 with the prime time drama diagnosis murder. if you re not in my office in five minutes i ll kill you. reporter: with a tony, a grammy and four emmys, he s hit the trifecta but he s not stopping now. dick van dyke continues to work, doing what he loves. reporter: entertaining. dick van dyke, welcome back. great to see you. welcome back to morning television. a lot of people don t remember you anchored the cbs morning show. right. i was 29, right off the turnip truck. didn t know what i was doing. my news man was walter krot cronkite. that s not a bad resumé. did you like it? no. i never got the hang of it. you re a master of it. i fwgrew up on the dick van dyke show. i loved it. why do you think it connected with viewers? carl ryaner. he knew how to write relationships and comedy and that made it. he s a genius. it was the chemistry also with you and mary tyler moore. i mean, mary tyler moore on the other part of the show. i wanted to be invited over for dinner. i wanted to know you more as a couple. there was great chemistry. people thought we were married in real life. i d show up with my wife and people would go, hm. carl reiner tells a story where he challenged you one time to sneeze, cough, belch, hiccup, yawn and pass gas all while trying to stifle the giggles. can you try six of the seven for us this morning? i can t do it now. if i pass gas i can make a mistake. and clear a room. there were lyrics to the theme song. maury amsterdam wrote them. do you remember them? yeah. so you think that you ve got trouble well, trouble can get lost why not hold your head up high and stop crying start try don t forget to keep your fingers crossed the joy of living is loving and giving ale smile is just a frown upside down sole smile and the frown will defrost and don t forget to keep your fingers crossed [ applause ] we weren t rolling. can you do it again one more time? after hearing steven tyler s story i have to go back and punch up my book. [ laughter ] he lived a life, didn t he? well, okay, as long as you helped me make the segue, you were open and honest about your own problems with drink. yeah. you were not the trash a hotel room kind of no. i never broke anything. what kind of drinker were you? i thought i was a funny one. most people do, don t they? yes. i was very, very shy. during my 20s i never drank at all. i was a tee totaler but in my 30s if i had a martini i lost my inhibitions. i found out it became five or six in the evening and i realized i had a problem. was there an incident that made you get help? no. i just got up to go to morning and i had a very bad hangover. i never drank at work, but i didn t want to work with a hangover either. so i sought help. rehab was just beginning back then. i kind of went public with it. there was a stigma. they thought only skid row bums and people with no willpower. i was a normal middle class guy and i thought i should let it out that it can happen to anybody. i have three kids, 10 is the oldest. if they are watching now they re not saying, hey, the guy from the dick van dyke show is on. they think you re burt from mary poppins. that was the most fun. i did the old banker, too. and i had to pay him. had to make a contribution to his arts school. but the numbers, the music and the dancing. it was never work. you re such a good song and dance man. seriously, we saw such talent in you in that role and others. did you ever doubt your abilities? i didn t know i had them, as i explained in the book. i thought i would be a television announcer. that was my ambition. singing and dancing came later. i didn t know how. i didn t do it. i auditioned for bye-bye birdie and sang an old ray bolger song and did a bit of a soft shoe. he walked up and said, you have the part. i said, i can t dance. he said, we ll teach you what you need to know. and i discovered dancing on that show. it was like flying. i have been hoofing ever since. i have a feeling the talent was there all along. something was going on. what a pleasure to have you here. thank you. the book is dick van dyke: my lucky life in and out of show business. up next, a man who wants to prove the best things in life are free. first, this is today on nbc. [ applause ] have you ever experienced a sense of pride when you picked the fastest moving line at the grocery store? or how about the feeling when you click through the channels and come across your favorite mov movie? the best selling author of the book of awesome has a follow-up edition the book of even more awesome. kneel pasricha, thanks to you. this came along in a hard time of your life. absolutely, meredith. i was in a marriage headed in the wrong direction. my friend was battling a major illness. i needed a way to focus on the positive. so i came home from work and started writing down little universal pleasures that made mel smile like getting called up to the dinner buffet first at a wedding, wearing warm underwear just out of the dryer. i love that. how did it go from notes you left to yourself to these books? i started writing this at 1,000 awesome things.com. it was one of thousands of blogs that start up every day. nobody read it but my mom, but the traffic doubled when she forwarded it to my dad. it fwru grew to hundreds, thous millions of hits. i won the best blog in the world award. got to accept a webby award for best blogs and there were publishers waiting to turn it into the book of awesome. it s been a best seller all year. today the book of even more awesome comes out. what do you think appeals to people? it obviously strikes a chord. i just think the news is heavy right now. mm-hmm. it s heavy whether there are wars over seas, rising gas prices, troubled economy. a lot of us have our own personal problems. so there is something gratifying about saying, you know, life s pretty good. there are so many free simple things like the smell of a bakery, popping bubble wrap or hitting a string of green lights on the way to work. or finally getting that piece of popcorn out of your teeth. little things add up to a realization that things aren t bad. the weddings, healthy babies screeching in delivery rooms and father-daughter dances add up. between that we have tiny little moments, free little joys that add up to minutes and days in our lives. we have certain people in our audience, viewers what they think is awesome. holding your first grandchild. coming home after a business trip. singing in the car by yourself. or seeing someone else singing in the car. even better. being told you re cancer-free. wow. getting the job you wanted really after being laid off. yeah. and the perfect photo which is an awesome thing to happen. it s amazing. those things remind me. the response to 1,000 awesome things was surreal. 30 million people stopped by. i m lucky because pastors e-mail me saying that preach using the book of awesome and teachers say, i use it in the classroom. we have a wall of awesome where every kid writes down their own awesome thing. we want to be happy. there are a lot of awesome things in life to focus on. thanks for bringing these to us. thanks for having us on the show. i appreciate it. the book is called the book of even more awesome. up next, an awesome meal from guy fieri. first, this is today on nbc. announcer: today s kitchen is brought to you by maxwell house coffee. good to the last drop. this morning on today s kitchen step by step, guy fieri hosts minute to win it and has two food network shows and he s a best selling author. his first book of recipes is called food, cooking it, living it, loving it. did i say the name correctly? you brought it all in. there. and the name of the wook book was invented by my son. he said, it s your food. point blank. next topic, dad. you say the recipes are off the hook. why do you like them so much? it s a combination. recipes i did as a kid. recipes i do at my restaurants in the california wide country, recipes from guy s big bite on food network. we have 150-plus recipes, stories that back them up and this is the right time of year to do it. this is a peppered tri-tip. you can t get it on the east coast. what is it? it s a fantastic piece of meat. this is the flank steak. tri-tip is marbled with great meat. the meat dissolves, becomes incredible. see the nice yellow feet inside the meat. that cooks out like a skirt steak. this is tone with pepper, salt, olive oil. now what happens over here is i have onions going. we ll make a balsamic reduction. it s a little bit of red wine. i did that last night. the red wine? some garlic. that s every night. and brown sugar. a little balsamic vin fwar and this just reduces while you re making the steak. how long? 20 to 30 minutes depending how much you put in and what temperature. don t burn it with the sugar in it. you have a glaze that reduces down. almost candies up and it s thin when it s hot. when it s cool it gets thick. drizzle that over the top. looks great. sefb it with fried spinach. let s go to one of my other favorites. [ coughing ] that pepper on the grill gets you. it does. we have a sangria reduction. we have grilled shrimp from earlier, peppers, garlic and onion. we get in here with sherry, a little bit of apple juice. a little bit of orange juice. wine. red wine. a common theme of this one. exactly. i cook with a t lot of different alcohols in the book. i do a bloody mary flank steak, mo swrrks mojito chicken. wow. we have honey here, corn starch. i like this. i get the triple threat. little bit of corn starch mixed in. a touch of garlic and let it reduce. you can make it indoors. you can make it ahead of time. then we ll take this nicele little compote here. you can lay this on top. what s this? peppers, apples, an i don t knows, garlic and the sangria glaze. thank you very much. we re back after your local news. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. baltimore city police say they have completed their investigation into the friendly fire shooting and that the life of a civilian. homicide detectives had been looking into the bands that led to the shooting of a plainclothes officer and a nightclub patron. the department says it will not comment until attorney greg blueberry waffle with maple sausage. can t get better. unless we were kicking it on the couch in pjs, watching our soaps. it doesn t get better than the new blueberry waffle with maple sausage sandwich. try one today. now let s look at the forecast with tony pann. most of the day is going to be fine. by the time we get into the late afternoon and evening hours, scattered thunderstorms will develop. some will be strong to severe. it will be warm. high temperatures in the low 80s. average high is 70. still a chance for rain showers. it should be dry on thursday and friday. we will have another weather update at 9:25.