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osama bin laden is dead and risk inflaming anti-u.s. sentiment in the muslim world. people who have seen the images describe them as gruesome. is it something the american public needs to see? we ll get into that and talk to new york city s mayor a day before president obama s planned visit to ground zero in manhattan. also on tuesday the white house moved to clear up some details surrounding the raid. initially, u.s. officials said bin laden was armed with an automatic rifle and fired on the navy s.e.a.l.s. now they say he resisted but never had a weapon. and we have insight on what life was like inside bin laden s compound. how did they get supplies? how much interaction did people who lived there have with neighbors? and what about the 23 kids found with bin laden? where are they now? we are live in abbottabad with the latest. let us begin with the debate over whether to release a photo of bin laden s body. savannah guthrie has the latest. good morning. reporter: i m told a decision on whether to release the photo is expected today. meanwhile, as you mentioned the administration changed its story on key details of how this went down. monday saying bin laden was part of a firefight, now saying he was unarmed. as for his wife initially the administration said she was used as a human shield and died in the firefight. we now know she survived. the president, moments after receiving a private standing ovation from his cabinet, sidestepping a question about the mission that took out osama bin laden. what do you say thank you very much, guys. reporter: there are new details revealing that bin laden was unarmed when a commando shot him on the third floor of the secret compound but officials insist he resisted capture and taking him prisoner wasn t an option. there were many people armed in the region. there was a firefight. reporter: bin laden s young wife in the room with him rushed one of the special forces and was shot in the leg. bin laden himself was shot once above his left eye and twice in the chest. the vote is 97-0. reporter: as the u.s. senate passed a resolution honoring the s.e.a.l.s who pulled off the daring mission the administration was debating whether to release a photograph of bin laden s body to prove he was killed. sources who have seen the images describe them as gruesome. the terrorist leader s face recognizable but bloody. a substantial wound above his eye, blood and brain tissue visible. brian williams with leon panetta. the government has been talking about how to do this. i don t think there was any question that ultimately a photograph would be presented to the public. obviously i have seen those photographs. we have analyzed them. there is no question that it s bin laden. reporter: the final call on whether to release a photo rests with the president and the white house is weighing the desire to provide conclusive evidence with worries about inflaming the muslim world. on capitol hill, opinions were divided. what i have heard of the pictures they are not ghoulish, offensive and won t scare people. i personally think it s morbid. i won t be yelling to make the photo public. reporter: well, as for the discrepancies, the administration says in a rush to get information out they were going on incomplete information. not all of the commandos had been interviewed. authorities insist whether or not bin laden was unarmed doesn t change the legality of the kill given the context inside a dark house, a firefight, shots fired. the commandos were fired upon almost from the moment they hit the building. authorities say it was a legal kill. one other note, matt. the president invited george w. bush and former president bill clinton with him tomorrow but george w. bush is unable to attend and clinton is unlikely to attend because of scheduling. back to you. savannah, thank you very much. michael blumberg is the mayor of new york city. nice to see you. should the photo be released? up to the federal government. it s tricky because you can inflame people and others want to see it. except you are the mayor of the city that took the hardest hit on 9/11. do you think it would cause more problems for the people of new york in particular if the photo is released? we ll deal with the security issues. the most secure place in the world is the world trade center site. we have ramped up security which we do when there is an event that may inflame people. this is not an easy call for the president. there is no one right answer. no matter what, half the people won t be happy. the most important thing is osama bin laden is no longer there and terrorism is still a threat. when you saw the celebrations in the streets at ground zero and other places around the country, there was not only a reason for joy. there were mixed emotions, especially among the family members of the victims of 9/11 here in new york city. what do you think it meant for this city in particular to have him killed? i got a call from homeland security secretary janet napolitano around 10:15 at night. my first thought was 3,000 people died at ground zero at the world trade center site and in washington and pennsylvania. our freedoms were threatened. we spent an enormous amount of money on security that we could spend on helping people caused by one man, caused by a lot of people. what a terrible chain of events. the definition of a nanosecond could be described as the amount of time between a lot of people hearing the news of bin laden s death and the time when they first started to think, what about al qaeda avenging his death and what will we see in terms of violence? what was the first thing you did as mayor and the police commissioner did when you heard the news? we kept the police officers that were on duty, we kept their shift going so we had more boots on the ground right away. we tried to get more information. but the bottom line is the threat is from lots of terrorists. obama understands that. al qaeda is a network, not a direct command organization, from what i understand. there are people that don t like the fact that you and i can pray where and how we want to pray, don t like we can say what we want to say, don t like that we are in control of our own destiny. that s going away. the danger is let s get on with this. we don t want to do what we did in 1993 which was forget the lesson or i hope what s not happened since september 11th. in fact, the world trade center memorial yesterday where i was looking down on it is designed partly for a place for the families to grieve but most importantly for us to keep telling our children and grandchildren, your freedoms will be threatened. the president got a standing ovation at the white house. he said, this moment as brought us together, and he called on members of congress to, quote, harvest that unity. is this a moment of unity that will be forgot and we ll get back to the political divide? we have such a short attention span . if you don t remember history, you re destined to repeat it. we are destined to let our guard down unless we work very hard. we have to build a strong democracy so people around the world know we are the model. we have done a good job at that. i m looking forward to the future. if you go to the world trade center site, enormous amount of reducti construction. that s a symbol that america with stood the strongest attack on its shores and came out stronger than ever. you will be with the president tomorrow at ground zero. for a short time you will have his ear. what do you want to convey to the president? we still have the same battles, mr. president. you have to make sure we invest in education, in defense and we have a budget that we can afford, that we lead and we work together and we protect every other group s rights. if we want our freedoms, we have to protect other people s freedoms. mr. mayor, good to have you here. thank you, matt. here s meredith. thank you very much. we are learning more this morning about what life was like for people inside bin laden s compound. tazeen ahmad is in abbottabad, pakistan for us. good morning. reporter: good morning. there are reports that the pakistani government arrested the alleged builder of the compound. the area has been sealed off and media are barred from going near the compound. we went down yesterday and today we have rare footage to show you. the compound from the inside on video obtained by cnn. a rare glimpse into the daily life of residents. osama bin laden lived here for six years with his extended family nine women and 23 children. locals described this as a luxurious mansion but in the video it s clear that it is not luxurious by western standards. the destruction from the raid and the aftermath of the u.s. operation in evidence. this was a side building within the compound. the living quarters for many. there was no phone or internet connection. a compound of an area still under development, surrounded by empty plots and half-built houses. there is no indication that behind these high walls was one of the world s most notorious fugitives living in a town home to pakistan s active and retired army generals. this is all restricted area by army. reporter: some jers on the streets in vehicles and at checkpoints. then there is the elite military academy, some call it pakistan s west point. a stone s throw from the compound where osama bin laden was living. the house stands out here not just because it is the biggest but because of 12-foot walls and barbed wire at the top. today, more details are emerging. this was home to two buffalos, a cow and 150 hens. a shopkeeper said two brothers would do the grocery shopping. they bought sigs, milk and biscuits and had a taste for pepsi. they bought huge cartons of milk, more than the average family. there are conflicting reports about the cars they drove. some say they went to the supermarket in large suvs. others say it was a jeep and a van. this woman said she would go to the home to give the children polio drops but wasn t allowed in. the children were brought to the door. a couple who lived opposite say the women next door never came to visit, nor were they invited, as is the norm in this neighborhood. this was a family with something to hide. since yesterday, meredith, i have learned that the kids whose balls would end up in the compound while they were playing in the area realized they were onto a good thing. so when the balls would end up there, someone would give them cash and send them on their way. the kids realized they were onto a really good thing so they would do it deliberately. child s play at the home of the most wanted man. i understand there were 23 women and nine women in the compound. what happened to them? reporter: we know u.s. officials said there are 23 children and nine women taken into custody and handed over to pakistani authorities. security services are saying they took six of the kids aged between 2 and 12. they took them into custody and took them to a military hospital here in abbottabad. then they were at a military hospital elsewhere. meredith? thank you very much. it s 7:13. matt? bin laden s death makes his heir apparent the most wanted man in the world. we turn to richard engel in libya this morning. good morning. reporter: good morning, matt. bin laden s death is a blow to al qaeda, but experts say the group under new leadership remains dangerous and very capable. osama bin laden s death has likely elevated his second in command to lead al qaeda, an egyptian who has a longer history of violence than bin laden. he s just as dedicated to attacking the united states. 59 years old, he was raised in a middle class cairo suburb. he trained to be a surgeon but was more interested in radical islam. by 1982 zawahiri was arrested in connection with the assassination of sadat. he was tortured in prison and reportedly snapped. he was never linked directly to the crime and was released in 1984 but was hardened and wanted revenge for torture. no turning back, he led a group called egyptian islamic jihad. over time his ambitions grew. in 1998 he made an alliance with bin laden. bin laden had money. zawahiri, experience. they helped each other and al qaeda to expand attacks beyond the middle east including to the united states. this author interviewed bin laden three times including after 9/11. he said al qaeda is still dangerous. yes, bin laden is dead but the allies are not dead. the world is still a very unsafe place. reporter: zawahiri had a more operational and tactical role than bin laden. like bin laden, the united states has been tracking him and tried tole kill him at least six times. but bin laden s successor has disadvantages. he was always second in command and never had bin laden s international recognition. the egyptian is arrogant and lack it is charisma of the soft-spoken, sometimes poetic bin laden. but he s experienced and motivated to keep al qaeda alive. perhaps because of his medical background, zawahiri has long expressed a key interest in chemical and biological weapons. richard engel, thank you very much. now a check of the top stories with natalie at the news desk. good morning. good morning. native american leaders are criticizing the use of code name geronimo for osama bin laden s killing. many see him as a hero, an apache leader who fought the u.s. in the late 1800s. thursday the senate indian affairs committee will convene on the topic. an explosion killed 16 people in baghdad. meantime the obama administration is urged to keep troops in iraq even after the end of the year when the soldiers are scheduled to be withdrawn. the mississippi river is expected to reach the highest levels in a century in parts of tennessee, mississippi and louisiana over the next several days. in missouri, a 93-year-old woman had to be rescued as water surged around her car tuesday. after a hotly contested demolition at a missouri levee spared caro, there are more plans to divert floodwaters around other towns. another republican contender for president in 2012 may soon hit the campaign trail. rick santorum is forming an exploratory committee before the debate tomorrow in south carolina. it was the first no-hitter of the 2011 baseball season. it came from an unexpected source getting lots of help from the defense. it was the game of a lifetime for francisco lyriano of the minnesota twins. the 1-0 win over the whoit sox was his first career no-hitter and his first complete professional game in his ten-year career. he said he was running out of gas but his teammates gave him the victory in the end. a lot of great plays during that game. natalie, thanks. sure. mr. roker, how are you? hello to you, good morning. it looks like the rain will stick around all boy through early this afternoon. be prepared for that. it will be breezy and chilly it will be breezy and chilly otherwise with that s your latest weather. meredith? al, thank you very much. what do you do after throwing the wedding of the century? prince william and princess catherine are back home because the prince had to get back to work. michelle kosinski has more. good morning. reporter: hi, meredith. that s right. they re back. not on some tropical island. this is the rugged, windy welsh coastline. you would think if anyone needs a honeymoon away from it all it would be these two. but it may have been worries over terrorism that delayed the trip. it was kind of a big deal, wasn t it? the whole world watching and all. after the public pomp, nothing but secrecy for william and kate. where did they chopper off to for two days of peace? nobody s telling. and why the exhausted future king is already back saving lives in the air force? duty calls, the papers say. his pilot pals welcomed him back after decorating the base with all the cheesy will and kate paraphernalia we could find. we have royal tea bags, towels, mugs, as much as we can buy we get and display for him. reporter: likely in a few weeks the prince and princess bride will be jetting off to a super secluded island in the sechelles, the same place they made a pact years ago to be together forever. reportedly a small but luxurious $6,000 a night resort with pure white sand, private butler and chef. andle while the royal couple stays out of sight, the world continues to feast its eyes on her royal hotness. pippa middleton. over the weekend yahoo searches were higher for her than kate. but she s apparently taken by a former cricket player turned banker. pippa and her boyfriend alex lowden may have been keep their relationship under wraps because they didn t want to upstage the attention from prince william and kate. now there s a good sister. reporter: although many love to imagine that royal sparks were flying between pip and prince harry, he seems to be on again with african born heiressc she managed to pull off the same sort of effortlessish look, even for the wedding. who knows? maybe two more kind of royal weddings. royal weddings light, are just around the bend. the palace will not comment on why the delay or when and where they will go on honeymoon but the british tabloids say they will leave them alone once they do. meredith? maybe we will, too. michelle kosinski, thank you very much. just ahead, michael jackson s mother opens up about the doctor charged in connection with her son s death, what she misses most about michael and how his kids are doing. they always say, well, daddy did it like this, daddy this, daddy that. it brings a smile to my face because i know they are not forgetting him. our exclusive interview with katherine jackson. first this is today on nbc. 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imagine not being able to recognize faces, even your own children s faces. we meet a woman who suffers from a rare condition that makes everyday life difficult. even picking up the kids from schoolle is a challenge for her. first let s begin with our interview with katherine jackson. we spoke to her tuesday and began with conrad murray, the doctor charged with michael s death. i asked why she felt it was important to be in court every day during his preliminary hearing. i just felt i had to be there. i was with him every day when his last trial was. i just wouldn t feel right if i wasn t there. was it difficult for you to be in the courtroom with someone who s accused of in some ways being responsible for your son s death? yes, it is very difficult. very difficult to listen to him lying and tiff cult looking at him knowing he was there to see after my son and he died under his care. i thought he was very negligent. that makes me feel bad. i can t stand to look at him. you have done your homework and you know the evidence that will be presented against dr. murray in court. do you feel the prosecution has a strong case? i do. the punishment, if dr. murray is convicted, this is involuntary manslaughter, after all. i believe the maximum sentence is four years in prison. how does that sit with you? not good at all. i think if someone s under a doctor s care, especially a doctor and they die with him  seeing over him, i think that four years is not enough for anyone losing their life under someone else. i think they should pay just like they have taken the life away from my son. i think he should pay for it. in the last several years you have become the principal guardian of prince, paris and blanket. are they curious in following the trial or are they off doing things children their ages would typically do? they are off doing the things children should do. i don t talk about it with them. i don t want them they re young. i want them to be happy. that would make them sad. can you give me an update? there is so much curiosity and interest in prince, paris and blanket. prince is 14, paris is 12 and blanket is 9. how are they doing? they re doing fine. blanket is waiting for his teacher right now. he s home-schooled. and the other two have gone to school. they go to private school. what is prince like? i mean, at 14 years old, that s sometimes a turbulent age. it really is. it s the age they start i hate to say, but it s the age they start watching little girls, got girlfriends or something like that. but it s just puppy love. then paris is fine and the baby is still playing. he s doing just fine. all of them are. you said in an interview not long ago with the associated press that there are a lot of lies about your son out there and misconceptions. if you could set some of them straight now what would you like to tell people? well, the first thing i would like to tell them is as far as michael being a child molester, that s the biggest lie that was ever told. i guess nobody seemed to know that his first accuser, after michael died there was an article that he came and confessed that michael never touched him. it was a big lie and his father just wanted to be rich. he said, i m sorry i didn t get to tell him before he died. yet, mrs. jackson, there was a settlement made, a payment made by your son to the accuser. if there was no guilt why was the payment made? well, his lawyers told him that he should just pay the money because michael was out on tour at that time. they thought that just paying the money and shut the people up would be the right thing to do. but michael was upset and i was, too. as soon as i heard it i called him and said, why did you do that? it makes you look guilty. he said, the lawyers told me to do it. i didn t want to do it either, mother. i wanted to fight it because it wasn t the truth. what do you miss most about michael, mrs. jackson? you know, i can t say what i miss most. i just miss him, period. i just miss him for not being here. i miss his voice. i miss his singing. sometimes when we were around he d start to sing and i wanted to ask him sometimes to sing a song again because i just loved his voice. you know, no parent is supposed to lose a child. that s not the way it s supposed to go. yet it seems to me, mrs. jackson, that you have found some strength and solace in taking care of his children. would that be a fair statement? yes, it would. and having the children around helps me a lot. and a lot of times they always say, well, daddy used to do it like this, daddy this, daddy that. it brings a smile to my face because i know they are not forgetting him. you have taken on another challenge, mrs. jackson. that s more of a new business venture that you re involved in. can you share it with me a little bit? yes. i have a flower collection. i met the person that s doing it with me through a friend. i love flowers and he told me that his family has been in the flower business for many years and i thought that was a very good idea and a very good thing for us to do together. and here i am with the flower collection. i love flowers anyway. i have them all around my yard, my house, everywhere. so many people this week are going to be thinking about mother s day, a time where we have a chance to honor the roles that our mothers have played in our lives. when you think of your role as a mother and the nine children, what are you most proud of? well, what gives me the most pride is i have never had i raised my children up to be good, law-abiding citizens. i have never had problems with them. they are raising their children the same way. i have a very large family now. i m just proud that they are all not giving me any problems and they are law-abiding citizens. that brings joy to my life. i don t have any worries about that. we re proud of the fact that you have spent time with us and we wish you the best. katherine jackson, thank you very much. thank you. a lot of strength. but there is a lot of pain that s in her heart over the loss of her son. i think anger about what is, in her opinion, some of the stories that have been told that are not correct. absolutely. she wants to speak out which i found very interesting, too. by the way, we should wish her a happy birthday today. happy birthday. she turns 81. happy birthday, mrs. jackson. for more of the interview head to today.com. to learn more about mrs. jackson s new business venture you can do it at sendherflowers.com. i think those were her flowers behind her. quite beautiful. now a check of the weather from al. announcer: today s weather is brought to you by massage envy. happier gifts mean happier moms with massage envy gift cards. we have friends here from fargo, north dakota. we like the tie dye. two days in a row we have them here. a lot of flooding in the midwest. let s go to indiana. we have folks through central and southern indiana, rivers flowing over the banks causing problems. doesn t look like we ll get relief any time soon. as we look as far as temperatures are concerned for today, checking out the maps. we ll show you we are expecting to see the maps any time now. there it is. the map for today. heavy rainmaking its way up into northern new england where we have flood watches in effect. plenty of sunshine in the pacific northwest. foggy through alabama, birmingham looking at fog tomorrow. we have rainmaking it too the upper mississippi river valley. showers moving into the pacific northwest and heat through the southwest into southern and central california. the running of the roses, that s right. as we get ready for the kentucky derby, we are looking at a 50% chance of showers, thundershowers and afternoon highs of 70 to 74 degrees. nice job on that. good morning. it looks like the rent will stick through through the drive time. we might get a peak of some sunshine later today. breezy and chilly. that s your latest weather. matt? 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[ laughter ] i think i look exactly the same. i don t. your skin tone is a lot lighter on there than it is now. makeup s different. no glasses there. you have been wearing glasses all day. mm-hmm. reporter: for someone who was close to death, tara looks at the condition as an inconvenience. she doesn t let it get in the way of life. i don t know my kids but i get to pick them up every day from school and they hold my hand and they re excited and they wrap their arms around me and tell me thank you. what more do i need? without thinking about it i changed glasses, just different colors. she turned around at me, startled, not recognizing me though i had spent eight hours with her. every cue matters. what do they see when they look at someone s face? they see what they see. the minute you turn away they have to start all over again. she would remember black dress, cream trim, glasses. if you came back to her without glasses, you re brand new. she s amazing in the way she compensates. she picked out matt, but not from his face. if you look at the picture she picked matt out through a process of elimination. look at the little bit of red at the lower part. she watches today and recognized that as the banner that little bit. that barrier that separates matt from a crowd. then she said, o they re outside. that s what the today show does. i think that s matt lauer. she could not recognize his face. it was only the external cues which is why she couldn t recognize the president of the united states because he was playing basketball. no cure? there is no cure. the little place in the brain, no cure. university of iowa has the biggest data on this. they follow these patients for a long time. what she has now she has for life. thank you so much. really interesting. still to come, shania twain opens up about her difficult past and brand new life. first, these messages. twizzlers. the twist you can t resist. there s another way to minimize litter box odor: purina tidy cats. our premium litters now work harder to help neutralize odors in multiple cat homes. purina tidy cats. keep your home smelling like home. the monster was furious. roar!!! it s for laughing. 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what happens if your children get a glimpse of it? and on a much different note shania twain has written a candid memoir about her difficult childhood and her rise to the top of the music world, divorce and finding love again. we ll talk to her about that coming up. and that story is quite something. she s the first to admit her husband had an affair with her best friend. they divorced and she married the ex-best friend s ex-husband. so she s found love in her life again. she looks terrific. it s a fantastic book. let s go inside to natalie at the news desk. ann is on assignment. good morning. good morning. the obama administration has modified its original account of the military operation that killed al qaeda leader osama bin laden. officials now say bin laden was unarmed when he was shot by a navy s.e.a.l. after saying monday he took part in the firefight. they say bin laden s wife was wounded when she rushed an american soldier and not killed while serving as a human shield. president bush declined an invitation to join president obama for a commemoration at ground zero in new york. he said he prefers to remain out of the spotlight. nato says air strikes in libya are keeping pressure on the gadhafi regime as people gather in rome for tomorrow s meeting on how to break the stalemate. however gadhafi s forces resumed shelling of the port of misrata today. a hamas leader today said his group wants to establish an independent state on gaza strip with jerusalem as the capitol and no jewish settlers. he spoke in egypt today. it s not clear how the u.s. will respond to the unity deal. the coproducer under investigation coal producer under investigation for the accident that killed 29 minors has been cited for more problems at mines. the problems could have led to explosion or fire. the coast guard is searching for a cruise ship passenger reported missing on tuesday. officials say it is possible the 65-year-old woman went overboard from the celebrity millennium sailing from mexico to san diego. michelle obama s campaign to fight childhood obesity has a signature song and dance now. with a little help from beyonce, the let s move campaign has a new video featuring a high energy dance performed at schools across the country. as you see on tuesday. the first lady was no wall flower. she showed off good moves of her own at a washington, d.c. school. very nice. she can move all right. it s 8:04. let s go back out to matt and meredith. great effort. absolutely. let s get a check of the weather. we know what it s like here. this dancele cou could repla electric slide. we have nasty weather here. our pick city of the day happens to be birmingham, alabama. wvtm. they are having a fantastic effort to help raise money for tornado victims. go to today.com and we ll link you to their website. they are having a 24-hour telethon to help all the victims there. now let s show you what s happening in the northeast. we have heavy rain. the rain is part of a front stretching all the way into georgia. we have sunshine in the pacific northwest. clouds will move back in later today. the heat continues through the southern parts of california. 93 in l.a. today. morning rain gives way to sunshine in the midatlantic states. showers in the northern plains. sunny skies along the great lakes. good morning. it looks like the rain will stick around till the early afternoon hours. we might get a peak of some sunshine. breezy and chilly. and that s your latest weather, matt? 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[ female announcer ] lactaid®. the original lactose-free milk. back now with a pregnant woman s bravery in the face of unspeakable tragedy. amber carter survived a shooting rampage that claimed the lives of her husband and her 2-year-old son by making a courageous choice. we ll talk to her in a moment. first janet shamlian has the story. reporter: this is the rural louisiana home where amber carter lost what was most precious to her. in a horrific murder-suicide that made national headlines, her husband dennis and their 2-year-old son mason. on a scale of 1 to 10 this was the worst i have seen. reporter: dennis carter, senior, separate and aparted from his wife had been threatening to kill her. he stormed the home where amber and her family lived with donna and made good on the promise. and then in the next second he fired the gun again and shot her in the head. reporter: you saw it? we saw that. reporter: then carter came after his own son. amber had mason in her arms and they were next. i m thinking, this is it. he s going to kill us. reporter: dennis fired round after round into her and mason, his own grandson, when amber, six months pregnant, summed up all her courage in a move to save her children, leaping from a second-story window. that is the window that i had to jump from. reporter: her father-in-law fired a shot into amber s back as she laid on the ground where, tragically, mason died in her arms. carter killed himself an hour later when stopped by police. when it was over amber lost her mother-in-law, husband and 2-year-old son but there was one life that could be saved that of her unborn child. doctors performed an emergency c-section and little baby girl aubrey is fine. amber, however, is partly paralyzed and must depend on her mom for much of aubrey s care. a year and a half later, amber is still struggling? oh, yes. not just physical hardship but the emotional hardship. reporter: like memories amber cannot era as her little boy closed his eyes for the last time. i was the first one to hold him when he came into the world and he died in my arms. so that brought me some comfort after everything. reporter: amidst a mother s heart break and loss, a beautiful new life. can you say bye-bye? bye! reporter: for today, janet shamlian, nbc news, springfield, louisiana. amber carter is here along with her 20-month-old daughter aubrey. baby? yeah! hi. i m looking at two miracles given what you went through. thank you. 78 days in the hospital, ten operations, months of rehabilitation. how are you doing now physically and emotionally? that s something that my mother and i joke about. people ask us, well, how are you doing? we used to say, just fine. honestly, we re not at all. physically it s extremely difficult. emotionally, it s sometimes unbearable. financially, it s brought us so much grief. but we have aubrey and she s doing well. you know, that makes us happy. is it aubrey that keeps you going know you have a little girl you have to take care of? right. i m her only parent left. why did you decide to speak out? what is it that you came here to say today? it can t be easy? no, not at all. it took almost two years just to be able to talk about it comfortably. we want to make sure that everyone realizes the severity of what happened, the loss that we encountered and that we deal with every day. and the fact that it was a domestic violence situation. my mother-in-law was a wonderful person. she did everything that she was supposed to do. she did it by the book. she had three restraining orders against her estranged husband, correct? he violated them. one order that he violated three times. do you feel that the law in some way let you down? i do. not the police force. the police officers at home did a wonderful job. they did everything they could. every time we called them out they came. they did everything they could to protect us. uh-oh! uh-oh. the judicial system does not protect wives in domestic violence situations. and the restraining orders aren t worth the paper that they are written on. it s just a legality to take that you are trying to protect yourself. but they had a conflict where he threatened her life and he was only charged with aggravated assault. then eventually he came back, had the gun and he killed three people. then he took his own life. do you look back on that day and wonder if there is something that might have prevented this or something any of you could have done? 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[ kim ] you can have it all. we are back at 8:21. this morning, how to talk to your kids about the death of osama bin laden. dr. gail saltz is a psychiatrist and today contributor. robin silverman is a child development specialist. good morning to you. good morning. what age is too young to even broach this subject? i think under 6, the subject is going to be broached, if at all, in a very elementary bad guy had to punish him kind of way. i think a lot of the themes that this story is about are really for the 8 10, 12 years old. exactly. do you sit down with your kids and say, i want to talk to you about something or wait for them to start asking questions? take your cues from your child. if your child is relaying behavior that s abnormal. they are eating a lot more or less, sleeping a lot more or less, acting out or being quiet something may be wrong. for 8, 9 and above they will hear about it. at least they will hear about it in school. it s become a part of history. it s reasonable if they are not saying anything to you to say, have you heard about this? what are you thinking? you both say to avoid oversharing. look at your kids, figure out where they are in terms of maturity and stick to the facts. absolutely. we are a culture of oversharing. they are going to see more than you probably want them to anyway. but you don t want it to come from you. ask them what they know and what questions they have as opposed to downloading all the information. some typical questions from viewers. i talked to my girls. they are 8, 10, 12. they asked why he was killed and why they didn t just put him in jail where all bad people go. how do you answer that? that s a tough question. we are taught that they should go away. we need to help them see that while this guy was alive, people were frightened about what he could do next, no matter where he was. so the people in charge of the safety of our country made a decision that he couldn t be alive. this plays on that but takes it to the next step, gail. your children are going to see and have already seen people in the streets celebrating about the death of someone. that s a contradictory image for them. very disturbing for them. why are people partying, being happy that anybody was killed? i think it s important to talk about this. you saw a lot of people who, in the impulse of the moment, reacted in a way that later on they may not be happy about. there was the question of what is the difference between justice here and revenge? these are the kinds this is a conversation really about moral development that you are going to help your child with. do they feel right about people partying, smiling and looking happy? does it look different enough from recent pictures of what went on in egypt and so on? i think it s fine for you to say, i don t think they should be celebrating, if you don t. or i think they were celebrating because of their patriotism. it seems we will or soon will not see a photo of the body of osama bin laden. your children could be exposed to the photo and they will have questions. wait for them to come to you. limit media exposure as much as you can. keep routines similar and be available to your children as much as possible for their concerns and questions. always when you are having discussions try to emphasize things like open-mindedness andle tolerance. to say this man looks a certain way doesn t mean every person that looks that way is a bad person. thank you very much. we re back after your local news and weather. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara road. let s check on the morning commute with sarah caldwell. still busy out there. the rain impacting your ride it. we have several police activity on the outer loop just past harford road. heavy delays on the west side. the 13 miles per hour on the outer loop on the j.f.x. approaching edmondson. a couple of accidents to get to. lyons mill road, owings mills, and one coming in at joppa at 152. pasadena, this has been a problem all morning. downed pole and wires after an air accident. after an earlier accident. let s give you a quick live look outside. on the west side, barely moving. just a mess on the entire stretch from right around the j.f.x. let s switch to a live view of traffic. not to bet on the northeast side of par-4. harford. tony has a check on the forecast. the rain is going to stick around for awhile. solid area of rain all the way to the mountains. for four or five hours this will be with us and will taper off early in the afternoon. it will be breezy and chilly, with high temperatures only in the upper 50 s and low 60 s. sunshine comes back tomorrow. thank you for joining us. we will have another update at 8:55. let s see you fly now! 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it s only the food. wow. that took an ugly turn. not for me it didn t. ugly weather though. what s going on up there? the weather s ugly today. she s going in there with a pistol and a whip. you won t be the first. it just gets worse. let s show you what s happening as far as your afternoon temperatures. 50s and 40s in the northeast. lots of heavy rain and 90s into southern california. 80s through texas. afternoon highs and then for today, we are looking at heavy rain in new england where we ve got flash flood advisories in effect. windy in northern california. sunny skies through the gulf coast. we do look at a lot of fog through alabama. good morning. it looks like the rent will stick through through the drive time. we might get a peak of some sunshine later today. breezy and chilly. don t forget. you can check your weather any time day or night on the weather channel on cable, weather.com online. let s check in on the birthdays and uncle willy. hey. do you know why they call florida the sunshine state? you smart devil. you re right. the sun always shines. come and see us. what a wonderful year we have had down here. we have birthday buddies today. you can t beat that. one of my favorite towns is orono, maine. that s where viola giffin lives. enjoys playing bingo and using the money for lobster rolls at her favorite restaurant. james padjett from elizabeth, indiana, is 100 years old. he can quote the bible chapter by chapter. and helen hanaphy from winston-salem, north carolina. home of the arabian cookies. you should have one. and mowed her own grass into her 80s and loves to have a glass of beer. and we have cap torkelson of huxley, iowa. at 89 he was the oldest bowler in the league and he was dynamite. giovanna colarossi of stoneham, massachusetts. 103 years old. enjoys fabulous winters here in naples, florida. this is vera burns from moon township, pennsylvania. 100 years old. gets her hair done every week. i do, too. i mail mine out now. from houston, texas, helen evans is 100. a published writer. and ruth and art leas from hays, kansas, have been married 75 years. they met as college students many years ago. they have been sweethearts ever since. that s all from florida at this time. all right, willard. thank you very much. when we come back, shania twain will join us. she ll open up about a public divorce and walking away from fame at what seemed the peak of her career. first, this is today on nbc. we are back. shania twain rose to fame in the 90s with her hit album come on over. it s the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre. after selling more than 75 million albums worldwide she took a break to raise her son but the break was cut short when the end of her marriage grabbed headlines. she writes about it in her new book from in moment on. shania twain, good morning. good morning. when i saw the book i thought, this is a private lady. i have never read a lot where you opened up about yourself. you do in this book and you call it an emotional cleansing for you. why the change of heart? i would say it s a periodic change of heart in a sense. it s a phase i m going through. it s a period of my life where i need to focus on that. i wouldn t say i will be an open book for the rest of my life and career. but it s something i feel i need to face head on at the moment. why do you say that? because i am genuinely a very private person. they are too closed and up to now probably more closed than what was good for me. and i also feel that a lot of that was just a bit of fear and anxiety and maybe worried about what people would think all the time, get criticized for it and now i m at a point where i feel sharing and giving testimony to things i have experienced in life will do more good for others than it would do keeping it to myself. it also forces me a little bit out of my comfort zone which is necessary for part of the healing. do one thing scary every day. your life became public fodder in the tabloids and you write about it in the last 50 pages. it s about what happened to your marriage and you re up-front. you talk about your best friend maryanne who had an affair with your husband. that led to divorce and you write something i think a lot of women will relate to. if i can read this to you. my friend was now a back-stabber. my husband was her new love interest. they were talking about my intolerance of grief. but like any death it would take time. you know, when that story hit the tabloids it was already out. so that was embarrassing for me. i thought, wow. i have been thrown into the public eye with something i m very uncomfortable with. but i think it s time that i maybe just face things that are uncomfortable head on and get them over with. that makes it easier to move on on many levels. since it was already wide open i thought, you know, i think it s time to address things, get it over with and sort of come clean in certain ways. how did you pick up the pieces? you described it as a death. it really was in many ways. very slowly. i started writing the autobiography. first of all, i started writing and obsessing about the break-up of my marriage. i couldn t get past it. when grief carries on too long into your second year, for example, you have to start looking a little bit at getting help. it s hard for me to reach out to others. i have to learn how to do it better. but i did turn to books and learning and doing research about grief and the death of love and life and those things. i started to realize that i was obsessing and i was stuck. so i thought, okay, writing is something i do naturally as a form of expression. but i need to start writing about something else and force myself into another subject. why not start at the beginning of my life and write from there. it put what i was obsessing about, the end of my marriage, into perspective as a portion of my life and not something that represented my entire life. so it was good to spread it out and put it into perspective in writing. there was a happy ending. ironically enough you fell in love with your ex-best friend s ex-husband and your now happily married which is a big plus. i think people find so many things they never knew. you had a difficult childhood in rural canada. your family was poor. you lived in homes with no heat, very little food and your mom was abused by your stepdad. sometimes she d have bruises and you applied the makeup to cover them. what did that experience do to a little girl? it makes you feel very insecure. it was an unstable environment off and on. that s the thing. you never knew what to expect next. it would go through a good phase and a bad phase. i think it keeps you on your toes and worried more than anything about what s around the next corner. do you ever think back and unfortunately we re running out of time. it was 400 pages, lots of information. how did you go from that to become the superstar that you are? that s why i had to write a book. i felt i needed to unravel this life of so many extremes. how did it all get packed into one 45-year-old life? you haven t figured it out? well, i had to walk through it to figure it out really. are we going to hear you sing again? i hope so. you will. you will hear me sing again. absolutely, i will sing again. i love to sing. i have to get a grip on that because throughout my whole life all of these anxieties, fears and uncertainties have affected the muscles around my larynx. but to make a long story short it s interrupted my vocal power and expression. so i m getting a grip on that through the whole process. in fact, writing the book has been helpful. the television series has been helpful as well. walking through it all as well. the self-therapy, throwing myself into, you know, healing and self-motivation. get your voice back in every way. thank you very much for joining us. the book is from this moment on. shania will be back to talk to kathie lee and hoda later this morning. up next, model, mother and activist christy turlington-burns. first, this is today on nbc. christy turlington burns is an author, mother, model and now a director. her first no mother no cry follows women as they give birth and face complications that can follow. janet s labor isn t progressing and the threat of death for baby and mother is palpable. with no money to pay for food or transport, the nurses ask us to help. we arrange for a van to take janet to the nearest hospital an hour away. christy, good morning. welcome back. what happened with janet? well, we got janet to the hospital, paid for her transport by van. she delivered her baby there, but it was a frightening thing. she was pregnant with her thirdle child. she d been in labor for two days. when we found her she had no means to get to a hospital. she was at a clinic that couldn t handle it. had you not been there it could have turned out differently. what spurred this in you? about seven and a half years ago when i was delivering my first child i had a perfect pregnancy, a perfect experience perfect birth experience, but an hour or so later things got complicated. i started to hemorrhage. i was completely thrown because i didn t expect a problem to happen after the baby was in my arms. it was terrifying. so i needed to find out more. i started to do research. and complications are a very common thing that occur. you were lucky. you were in a place where it could be handled. some of the statistics here shocked me. we think offal childbirth as a wonderful miracle. every 90 seconds a woman in the world dies as a result of giving birth or attempting to give birth. did that shock you? absolutely. i learned post partum hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the world and hundreds of thousands of women were dying every year, a thousand a day. 90% of the deaths are preventable. that s where i needed to get involved. for people watching in this country saying, well, we have great health care for the most part. this doesn t happen as often here. how about this? among 164 industrialized countries, we rank 31st. you fear it might be worse than that. yeah. the u.n. reports are worse. when i made the film we were ranked 41st. but we are at 50 now. it s shocking what s happening here, too. you started a nonprofit called every mother counts to end maternal death. do you intend to stay on the subject? is this a film that will create films to come? there were so many movies in this movie when i was editing it. i m committed to the cause. i will be with it for quite some time. i don t know when i will make another film. it takes so much effort. but i m committed to the cause. have you gotten the directing bug? i think so. might you do features one day as opposed to this type of movie? i don t think features. there are so many women s issue stories that i m interested in and need to be told. this is important and powerful. nice to see you. thank you. thank you. it s 8:50. no woman no cry debuts saturday on oprah s own channel. announcer: today s cooking school is brought to you by i can t believe it s not butter! butter taste with 75% less saturated fat than butter. this morning, four ways to cook fresh asparagus whether you like it steamed, grilled, stir-fried or roasted, mark bittman has a recipe for you. he s the author of how to cook everything. mark, good morning. good morning, meredith. we re in for a sprint here. we are. i m steaming, right? right. that s the simplest thing. give it to me then. start with skinny asparagus so you don t have to peel them. stand them up in the pot. boil it. turn it on, put the cover on. while we are doing that, we brown butter? of course you can just use butter and olive oil, but if you brown the butter a little bit, i would make it a tiny bit darker than this, it gets a nutty flavor. it s a nice little drizzle it all over okay. why did you use thin asparagus? for steaming it s nice because you don t need to peel. it s quick and we can move right along. now we ll grill and you use thicker. this is a simple recipe that leads know the most important question. why does this make your urine smell so strong? it s in the notes here. we are using thick asparagus marinated with lemon. why? why? mr. matt lauer giving us a sample later on. anyway, these are really thick. i like to peel thick asparagus. and then grill them. we are making here if you like olive oil. lemon peel, lemon juice. brush it on. minute and a half. right. chicken and asparagus stir fry. you have cooked the chicken already? cooked the chicken, asparagus, shitake. does it matter what mushroom? use whatever you want. these are nice. any more weird questions, matt? no, no. add a little water to help it cook faster. instead of it taking 30 seconds it takes 8. then some oyster sauce. does it have oysters in it? good ones do. and the good stuff. the bacon and asparagus. drizzle it with a little olive oil. sprinkle a little bacon. easy enough. this is roasted? high heat like 400, 450 for 15 or 20 minutes. little time shift. don t worry about it. do we have a towel? yeah. don t burn yourself. don t burn me. there will be no burning. oh, wow. and a little grating of partnership sha parmesan if we like. and we have time to spare. what s the answer to that question, mark? i have wondered. 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. the third baltimore city police officer charged with kidnapping two 15-year-olds two dozen men has been acquitted he was excited in 2009 was acquitted. he is exonerated of all charges. two of his fellow officers were convicted on charges of misconduct. city attorney fred bernstein was let s look at the forecast with tony pann. certainly a wet start. at the rain will taper off early this afternoon. i hope we will get a peak of sunshine it today. right now the temperatures are in the upper 40 s and low 50s. maybe the low 60s if we can get enough sunshine to break through the clouds. sunshine tomorrow, but nice. slight chance for a rain shower on friday and saturday and sunday. another weather update at 9:25.