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steps down as the head of the international monetary fund overnight as more women come forward with more startling stories with the man known as the great seducer. and hold the phone on millions of largest data carriers. phantom charges that could impact 20 million customers today, thursday, may 19, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m meredith vieira. and i m matt lauer. we re learning a little more about arnold schwarzenegger, his mistress and the relationship they had with the family. her name is milna buy ana. her and maria s son were born five days apart. what led the former governor to reveal the secret he kept hidden in plain sight for 13 years? we ll have the latest straight ahead. also straight ahead, the final message from osama bin laden recorded just days before his death recorded by al qaeda overnight. he called on muslims for an islamic revolution. and a story with parents and kids in college you ll want to see. you ll hear from two students who say they were sexually assaulted. they say when they reported the crim crim crimes, the stories were swept under the road. peter alexander is out in santa monica this morning. peter, good morning to you. reporter: matt, good morning to you. arnold schwarzenegger has not said one word publicly when this scandal broke. we did get a quick glimpse of him. this is where he s been working on his return to hollywood as an action hero, but now a media storm is swirling around both schwarzenegger and his family for another role he had kept secret for more than 13 years. this is mildred buyaena. baena worked as a housekeeper for the naples couple and shared good times with them and their children at the mansion. two sources close to schwarzenegger and shriver confirm that buy ana, the maid has share add secret with schwarzenegger since 1997, that the former california governor is the father of her 13-year-old son. when she became pregnant in 1997 friends and family reportedly assumed her husband was the father. the baby was born just five days after schwarzenegger and shriver s youngest child was born. although nbc news is not showing images of the boy, as he grew older speculation grew. we re still trying to figure out how he was able to conceal this child and his relationship to this child for 13 years. reporter: when shriver and schwarzenegger first announced their separation last week, it was the times that broke the story. as reporters worked their stories they discovered the secret at the heart of the couple s friction and confronted schwarzenegger. my feeling is he s not been forthcoming unless he s been forced to brink it. reporter: it raises more questions about the identity of her child s father. in the documents she indicates she had no minor children with her husband. when baena retired she moved with her son to o bakersfield, where some neighbors were already aware of the possible connection to her former employer. the boy and also the realtor had told us she had worked for arnold schwarzenegger. reporter: now she s gone from the quiet life to the glare of the national spotlight. the woman worked in the house for 20 years and reported to maria. i mean she directly worked under arnold but reported to maria. reporter: since released, schwarzenegger has been ducking paparazzi and denying requests for interviews. meanwhile shriver has hired a divorce attorney laura wasser. the only public appearance she has made was tuesday at the final taping of one of oprah s talk shows scheduled to air next week. shriver seemingly took a jab at schwarzenegger when she told oprah you show love, support, wisdom, and most of all, the truth. and we are hearing again from one of their children. that s katherine schwarzenegger, the 21-year-old oldest daughter of the couple who retweet add message. it says, matt, everything happens for a reason. the hard part is finding out what that reason is. matt? peter alexander out in california this morning. peter, thank you very much. robin, who you saw in peter s piece, is one of the writers for the los angeles times who broke this story. robin, good morning. good morning to you. was this the result of just a random tip, or is this a result of the reporting that you guys did after the story of maria and arnold s separation got out? well, actually it s part and parcel of the same story. we received a tip. my colleague, a long-time veteran political reporter got the tip that the couple had separated and we began working that tip, and we were able to confirm it and the couple released their statement confirming it. and then we understood that there was something more to the story, and we began investigating that and using, i have to say, good old-fashioned shoe leather reporting. we were able to confirm that there was, in fact, a child with the former household staff member, and we brought the information to schwarzenegger, and he confirmed it to us. i think we should talk about the way in which these two dealt with each other. you look at some of photos we ve already shown there, dancing at one party, they re posing in front of a christmas tree at another. what have you learned about the relationship they had publicly at least? you know what? that is something that we actually do not know much about. it s obviously somebody who works in your home in that kind of intimate setting for 20 years is going to have a history with the family, and certainly a photo graphic history, although we ve chosen not to publish any photographs or chosen not to identify the woman or the child. i think it s things we ll be learning about as the time goes on, but at the moment, i think it s a lot of speculation and anonymous sources being quoted by publications right now. do you have any fwlfgs this was a long-term long-starnding intimate relationship or was this a short relationship that slim resulted in a pregnancy? we don t know that. we don t have the answer to that. clearly it was a long-standing relationship only by virtue of the fact that this was a long-time housekeeper who told us when we knocked on her door that she had retired after 20 years and had left on good terms. and do you have any indication that that perhaps is not a complete story, that there was some event that ruptured this relationship and forced her out of that house, or was this simply a to-year mark that she decided to retire on? well, you know, she says that that is the case, and the schwarzeneggers say that is the case, at least in their public pronouncement so far. it s hard to know. i mean there s so much speculation around it. these are things we will be learned, i think, in the coming weeks as the store is pursued. i want to take you back to 2003 to los angeles times. did some extensive reportings on situations involving schwarzenegger and women. it was called a political hatchet job. i think you lost subscribers. in some ways, eight years later, do you and folks at the paper feel vindicated? you know, it s funny that you would ask that. i think vindication is the wrong word. we don t feel vindicated. we don t feel not vindicated. we feel at the time we published the allegations in 2003 they were important, they were verified. many of the women stepped forward and allowed us to use their names. there was no question to us that he was a serial sexual groper at the least, and the in fact the timing was so close to the election was simply to the fact of an alleged cycle. vindication is not what we re in it for because we always believed at the time they were true stories and we happened to deal with some fallout. robin abcarian. robin, thank you for your time. i appreciate it. thank you. here s meredith. now on the latest of the case of dominique strauss-kahn. overnight he resigned as chief of the international monetary fund and we re learning more about complaints made against him by other women. nbc s michelle kosinski is in paris with more details. good morning, michelle. reporter: good morning, meredith. today we see for the first time the police mug shot of the man who was poised to possibly be the next president of france and who was the head of the imf. early this morning dominique strauss can tendered his resignation writing he does so with infinite sadness and the denies with the greatest possible firmness all the allegations against him. today in new york his lawyers will again try to have him released on a million dollars cash bail. they re hoping for house arrest, electronic monitoring, even though they won t know until tomorrow whether he s indicted. here in france there is something of a deluge. multiple women coming forward to talk about their own alleged unpleasant experiences with strauss-ka strauss-kahn. the american public s first knowledge of dominique strauss-kahn, one of the most powerful men in the world, was here at his worst. but in france his reputation as a great seducer was hardly a secret. he s always been known as a womanizer, but mostly through rumors, not verified stories. reporter: this young journalist made this stunning public claim four years ago that strauss-kahn in002 first insisted on holding her hand. then she claims he attacked her. she said we fought on the floor. it was not just a few slaps. i kicked him. he tried to undo my bra and my jeans. i said rape to him and he didn t seemed frightened at all. she said he attacked her like a chimpanzee in heat. strauss-kahn denied the charges. another said strauss can had aggressively repeatedly offered her interviews in exchange for sex which she declined. a socialist politician claims he groepd her. strauss-kahn admitted to a one-night affair three years ago with a subordinate who zriemed him as coercing her and having a problem and the allegations continue including reports that a hotel maid in mexico had claimed he assaulted her. a lot of women are talking to each other, you know, in the political circles, in the media circles saying they were witness of they had encounters with him where they could sense he was an aggressive womanizer. reporter: but in a city where flirtation is almost a part of the scenery as long as it s not illegal, then it s his private life. reporter: so often it s brushed aside. it s good for the woman. it s good for them to speak on the sexual hair asment. reporter: an online journalist asked why they didn t talk about his private life, that this ought to be a lesson. the french are opening a conversation about what is private and public. he has become the symbol of france and perhaps what even is wrong with france. reporter: there s not a great feeling here to see that there might have been signs that there could have been a real problem there but people either didn t take it seriously or were afraid to do so. and now france asking that question that seems we in the u.s. have asked way too many times recently, that for such a brilliant successful man if it happened the way his accuser says it did, how could he have risked everything for that? meredith? thank you very much. it is 7:14, and wurns again here is matt. u.s. intelligence officials are poring over what was likely osama bin laden s final message to the world. it was released by al qaeda overnight. nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in cairo with details. richard, good morning. reporter: good morning, matt. it was an audio recording released by al qaeda s official media wing and it appears to be fairly recent and may have been made even as the cia was watching bin laden s compound. it could be the last message osama bin laden made before he was killed by u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s. in the audiotape presumably recorded in pakistan, bin laden hails this year s revolts that toppled regimes in egypt and threatened million dollarset east leaders from libya to yemen. we watched this historical event and share in your delight. congratulations on your victories that was apparently osama bin laden s. osama bin laden may have been trying to jump on the bandwagon of the popular revolutions and make himself more relevant. al qaeda had no part in the arab revolt which had been largely secular. in the audiotape bin laden encourages muslims to transform their street protests into an islamic revolution. there was a great rare and historic opportunity to raise the muslim world and be lip rated from enslavement to the wishes of rulers and manmade law in the western domination, he said. take advantage of it and destroy the idols and statues and establish justice and faith but the arab leaders are showing little interest. the audiotape was broadcast on al jazeera, but only 20 minutes into its programming. the news wasn t followed by analysts or guests. for most people in the middle east, bin laden missed the revolutions, which made his strategy and message of political change through terrorism increasingly irrelevant. most people in this part of the world, matt, slim don t want bin laden to be associated in any way with the ongoing revolutions. matt? richard engel in cairo. thank you very much. now let s get a look at the rest of the top stories from ann curry. good morning. good morning. we begin with a rare ray of hope in flooding crisis along the banks of the mississippi river. the army corps of engineers says it s unlikely the waters will go over a levee that has been safeguarding tens of thousands of acres of farmland near vicksburg, mississippi, but there s no reprieve for those who have been flooded already. a close call just after vice president joe biden s plame landed on monday in chicago s o hare airport is now under investigation. two passenger planes came within 300 feet of colliding in mid air above the runway. the supervisor stepped in with just seconds to spare to prevent a collision. wounded congresswoman gabrielle giffords is recovering today after surgery. meantime shooting suspect jared loughner s college has been ordered to release some 200 e-mails released about him in the lead-up to his suspension. federal investigators are searching for the cause of a fiery plane crash last night in southern california. officials say that a civilian tanker plane crashed after takeoff and burst into flames. all three crew members survived, houvgs with minor injuries. the mothers of two u.s. hikers detained in iran began a hunger strike today. shane bauer and josh ba tall were arrested in 2009 while hiking along the iranian border with iraq and their trial has been delayed indefinitely. finally you can lead a horse to a train station but you can t make him ride. caught on a surveillance camera in wales, a mand and his horse tried to board a rail. they bought two tickets and stood on the platform and waited for the train. the conductor, can you believe it, turned the horse away leading the pair to hoof it on their own. it is now 18 past the hour. matt, meredith, and al the horse is like, what, i ve got to here at home, we are starting out with a little bit of fog and the sunshine in other neighborhoods. scattered showers and thunderstorms possible later this morning and and that s your latest weather. thank you. it s been more than a year since the worst mining disaster in more than 40 years killed miners in west virginia. today the investigator is set to release his report on what happen and why. nbc s tom costello is in beckley, west virginia. good morning to you. reporter: good morning. this is one of three investigations. the other two are criminal. this report to me is described as a scathing indictment of the company s negligence and the failure of the feds and authorities to act in time. the tragedy from april 5th, 2010, still echos through west virginia coal country. 29 husbands, fathers, brothers, so sons, and uncles died that day. tommy davis lost his son, a brother, and a any few. why? why did it happen? somebody tell me. why am i not coming home and seeing my son on the couch? reporter: federal investigators believe a buildup of highly explosive coal dust and poorly maintained equipment triggered the blast that could suggest company negligence, but msha energy says naturally occurring methane gas was the likely cause. in the months leading up to the explosion, they had racked up several safety violations. in your view was this a safe mine? no, no, i can t say it was a safe mine. several miners have told investigators that i have had to tip off managers when several inspectors arrived aboveground. the miner s offices come on the ground and tell all the sections they had to inspect on the property. reporter: hughie stover has plead innocent. after 300 innocent, the governor is set to release his report on the explosion. he s already said the evidence doesn t support the company s explanation. meanwhile amid multiple criminal and civil investigations, massey energy s ceo don blankenship retired last december. his pay was over $20 million in a retirement package while they ve offered $20 million to each of the families. this should not have happened. reporter: the upper big branch mine remains closed. it will stay that way. meanwhile massey energy has been acquired by another company. meredith? all right. tom costello. thank you very much. and coming up, what is next for the boy arnold schwarzenegger fathered with his household maid. we ll have much more on the fallout and scan zal. first this is today on nbc. the courthouse with the details. plus are 20 million iphone and e-mailers being systematically overcharged each month? 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[ male announcer ] ge technologies help doctors detect cancer early so they can save more lives. bringing better health to more people. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am stan stovall. time for a check on the morning commute with kim dacey. good morning. things pick up quite a bit on the roads. report of a disabled vehicle on southbound 95 just passed 895. pair of accidents on a bad j.f.x., one at eight street and other on northern parkway chase st and other on northern parkway. anne arundel county, pasadena area, fort smallwood road, crashed to watch for there. in severn, pioneer. this is the west side of the beltway at old court road. backing out all the way down to edmondson ave. southbound, you can see on the right side of your screen, those delays are going to stretch from white marsh down to 895. so far so good. we have a little bit of fog out there, sunshine and other areas. dry morning commute, but that will change this afternoon. 59 and the westminster bridge at 60 degrees and jarrettsville. still a chance for showers and thunderstorms. best chance will be this afternoon. some storms later on today could be strong to severe. still a little active tomorrow. scattered showers and storms on friday. over the weekend, we expect on preakness saturday will take it into the mid 70 s. on sunday, close to 80. next chance for rain will hold off until the middle of next week. much better over the weekend. check the bottom of your screen for updated news and traffic information. back at 7:55 with another live update. i never wear the same thing twice. not together, anyway. i m in t.j.maxx every week. i used to think it was old school, but it s not. i get this season s designer clothes that i absolutely need. and i still get to eat. fashion direct from designers. savings direct to you. that s right. i m a maxxinista. t.j.maxx. let us make a maxxinista out of you. 7:30 now on a thursday morning. it s the 19th of may, 2011. around 60 degrees out on the plaza right now. the wet weather, seems like it s coming to an end, although we have reports that we could see showers over the next day or so in nyc. thanks to these people for stopping by. inside the studio i m matt lauer alongside meredith sierra. what was the so-called private matter that led a judge to abruptly adjourn the proceedings on wednesday? we ll be live with details on that. plus, if you own an iphone or ipad, you may want to take a closer look at your bill. you could be getting overcharged on your data plan, even in the middle of the night even if you aren t using your devices. we ll explain coming up. we ll put the double standards when it comes to gray hair. does it make older men and women look more distinguished? what s your opinion? i think women look great in gray hair and men don t necessarily look more distinguished. great answer. good. we begin this half hour with more on the schwarzenegger scandal and the son he fathered with their maid. miguel is in los angeles. good morning to you. meredith, good morning. arnold schwarzenegger has acknowledged his infidelity and that he fathered a son only in a written statement. they used to be california s first family, arnold schwarzenegger, maria shriver, and their four children. but this week another woman and another child entered the picture. she s mildred baena, housekeeper for schwarzenegger and shriver for 20 years. the boy is the former governor s secret son, now 13 years old. who a parent is affects a child s identity. le so if this child for the first time is finding out who his father is, it s really going to change how he experiences himself. reporter: tmz has obtained pictures with schwarzenegger and baena. supposedly he s supported both she and her son from the start. the former governor lives with shriverer and their children in this mansion. baena and her son lived in this much more modest $268,000 home some 100 miles away. the city of bakersfield is in brentwood. it be very common for this child to look over to his half siblings and say why did they get to live in a house with their father? why did they get to live this particular kind of lifestyle? reporter: outside the bakersfield home, plenty of media, but no sign of former governor s son or the boy s mother. neighbors here say they ve seen the teenager but never schwarzenegger. the boy, he is he seems very well liked. he s very, very polite. hasta la vista, baby. reporter: he s a business tycoon. his net worth estimated at more than $200 million. by all accounts they lead a l e lavish lifestyle but you won t find his name on the boy s birth certificate. it s unclear how much he financially supports them. i think the support order will provide for the child at a level that will be consistent with the children of maria shriver and of arnold schwarzenegger. reporter: as governor arnold schwarzenegger often spoke of family values, but for now he shared very little about the son he secretly faerd. schwarzenegger s son with baena is 13 years old, and according to his birth certificate, he was born five days after the son of maria shriver and schwarzenegger s son christopher. it s unclear what kind of relationship the children have with one another. meredith? thank you very much. lynn goldman is a family and law attorney. good morning to both ow you. lynn, if i could start with you, in schwarzenegger s public statement, he referred to the birth of his son with his housekeeper as an event. when i heard that, i thought that s a very cold way to put what happened in his life as an event. but from a purely legal point of view, what is his responsibility when it comes to this? the interesting thing is every case is fact-specific. it depends on the facts. she did not list him as the father. under california law, if you re going to challenge paternity, you ve got to do it within two years. and the child was born to an intact marriage. but as the facts are now known, apparently her husband left her right after the child was born, so is that an intact marriage or not? and whether north he s ever going to assert paternity because the child had a father, a father that she was married to. but is this boy entitled to any of arnold s estate simply because he s his biological son? no. that would be a state question but probably not. children are not automatically entitlet l tled to the estate. could he cut that off if he wanted to? let me tell you what i know. i don t know, but i think. i m sure there was some kind of a contract that he signed with the mother a which prevent heard from coming forward all these years while he was running for governor. so there s probably something in there that requires certain moneys to be paid. whether or not she could ever get a separate child support order, i don t thing so, but i bet you there s a contract and i bet he s living up to it. we ve been talking about the financial and legal issues here, but let s talk about the emotional issues for this boy who was 13, going on 14 years of age. we don t know what he knows at this point. he may be being sheltered. he may not be. obviously he s going to be c confused. what is the emotional impact going to be on him? i think these are very important issues that we have to o talk about because this boy is probably going to be confused. i m almost 100% sure that no one has prepared him for this day, and being thrown out into the world as the son of someone like arnold schwarzenegger is a big deal. it has a big impact. this child probably has a life that s contained and safe, and he s well liked, and he s polite, as they say, and now all of a sudden he s got a spotlight on him. there s going to be a lot of feelings, a lot of anger, a lot of disappointment, and a lot of confusion for him. eventually they re going reveal his face. how do you help this boy prevent the kind of scarring that you re referring to? i think the most important thing is the parents are on the same page, that the mother is aware of what the impacts are going to be on her son and get him to be able to talk to somebody and be able to see what role he s going to play in the life of arnold and his current family and how to integrate, if there s going to be an integration. these siblings now have a step brother. how they go forward is going to be very important. if arnold were to request custody from the mother, does he have a leg to stand on? under the law as i read it, i don t think so. the man who s the father is on the birth certificate. by the way, i don t know why this woman has a facebook page with the boy s face on it because as the doctor correctly points out, you don t want to do it. and she s done it. so i don t think he s going to go for custody and i don t think there s going to be an integration with the family. what about the other four kids, maria s children? it s certainly a sad story. thank you so much. charles sophy, thank you. now let s get a check of the weather. good morning. thank you so much, meredith. good to see you. you came all the way to escape the great floochld is everything good back home? the water is pretty high. we hope everybody survives and all their belongings are safe. we do too. let s check your weather. afternoon highs today getting up in the 90s in southern texas, 0 80s through the gulf coast. we show you we do have a risk of strong storms, texas all the way up into nebraska. sunshine up and down the east coast. high advisories along california. rain hanging we should get through the morning commute dry, but this afternoon, we will see scattered showers and thunderstorms. in between, a little bit of don t forget you can check your weather any time of the day or night. go to the weather channel on cable, weather.com online. matt? thank you very much. there s been an ongoing surprise in the case of the kati anthony murder triechl kerry sanders is in clearwater, florida. kerry, why did they put a stop to everything? reporter: good morning, matt. it is a mystery. they re saying nothing. jose baez issued a statement after the abrupt endings, he said, this is strictly a private matter and he s trying to put an end to the speculation that a plea deal is in the works. on day nine of jury trial selection, 25-year-old casey anthony, accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter caylee anthony sat at the defense table without her attorney jose baez. the judge cryptically then asked another lawyer on the team a question. mr. mason, have you had an opportunity to discuss the matter with ms. anthony? i have, your honor. okay. anything you need to add? no. okay. this court will be in recess until 8:30 tomorrow morning. reporter: defense attorney would not reveal what that secret matter is. any comment at all, cheney, what it is? reporter: tone jose baez released a statement. today s adjustment was due to a private matter. please stop the speculation. former attorney kaufman. the door remains open. reporter: it s taken some unusual modern-day twists. do not, and i repeat, do not use any type of electronic devices, including tweeting, texting, blogging, or any other means at all. reporter: while no jurors faces are shown on camera and their names are protected in open court who are you? ms. 1312. reporter: they know the names of the potential jurors and their online lives that most thought would remain quiet are not. did you ever tweet cops in florida are idiots and completely useful? yes, i did. this is on your facebook page? yeah. reporter: lawyers have near instant access to questions. like one man said he had never been arrested before until the defense produced a mug shot. is this a photograph of you, sir? is that a crime? when someone goes to your facebook page or your twitter account or at myspace or googles you online, they re going to find what they think is all about you, and the more they know about you, the better it s going to be to help them determine how you might rule in their case. reporter: we ll know more about this delay later this morning. meantime they re under pressure to get this jury selected. they have 11 jurors. they need 12 plus alternates, although the judge says he ll take less than the eight he initially want. the pressure? they have to have it wrapped up by saturday because the courtroom they re using hereby will not be available next week. if they don t have enough jurors they ll have to move to another city to continue picking jurors. thank you very much. coming up next, a consumer warning for ipad and iphone users. are you being hit with phantom charges. what millions of customers need to know right after this. r. not a big fan of hoops. that s why i have the bankamericard cash rewards credit card. we get 1% cash back on every purchase. there s no limit to the amount of cash back i can earn. and the rewards yes. won t expire. bankamericard cash rewards. 1% cash back. no hoops to jump through. nice and simple. just the way i like it. 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it s a real burden, but it also weighs very heavily on children. we re going to take a look at children of hoarders later on. first here s a check of the top stories. ann is standing by at the news desk. overnight in news al qaeda released what may be the last message from osama bin laden reportedly recorded weeks before his death. in the audio message bin laden praised the recent uprisings in the middle east and north africa. the jailed head of the international monetary fund. d house keeper who had a secret child with former governor arnold schwarzenegger has now been identified as mildred baena, and according to the birth serkt she gave birth days after schwarzenegger had another child. for more on oil prices today, we re now going to turn to cnbc s melissa francis at the new york stock exchange. good morning. good morning, ann. oil is sitting at $100 a barrel. also a report from the government showing a shrink in supply. that s not helping. we re watching crude oil. also a big dot kaum ipo dealing like the old dot-com days. back to you. a rare baby monkey made his debut on wednesday. francisco is the first black lion tamron monkey born outside of brazil in eight years. there are only one in one,000 monkeys living in the wild. take a close look at that mug. adorable. all right. let s now turn to al at 8:03 with a check of the weather. a little party pocket monkey. cute. it s oncology month? it is. we re honoring all the oncology nurses ta take care of the patients around the world. absolutely. you guys have done wonderful work. let s check it out and show you what s happening. our pick city, hartford, connecticut, nbc connecticut. we re looking at showers, temperatures in upper 60s. we ve about got rain moving into upper new england today. we ve got strong storms making their way into the pacific northwest, lots of clouds, plenty of sunshine through the gulf coast. we ve got a risk of strong storms making their way from oklahoma up into nebraska and rain moving into new england. we are off to a fairly good start. a little bit of fog, and that should be burning of. this afternoon, scattered who s this cutie? arthur. i love your movie, bud. coming up next, are colleges turning a blind eye to sexual assaults? two women who say they were victimized not once but twice will share their stories right after this. 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i was very intimidated. this was about them. and when it continued to be about me for the next nine hours, i was angry. i was so mad because that s not the way it was supposed to be. reporter: through their attorney clark and teague said the school did a full and complete investigation. they say this was a consensual hook-up, that maggie was a groupie who made bad decisions. the day after their hearing, wake forest found the players not guilty. i felt like this school did it on purpose because that was app way that they got their money. reporter: from the basketball program. mm-hmm. reporter: in fact, victims rights groups say schools across the country may be putting their finances and image before student safety. colleges are trying to silence these victims because it looks bad for the college. reporter: the administration is trying to protect itself image. yeah. the victims are being revictimized by the school. reporter: margo jonda says her case in indiana was especially egregious. she said she was raped by a fellow student duane frye in 2006. he followed her into a dorm room after a night of drinking and margo says raped her as she passed out. this guy was a predator, violent predator. reporter: and she said the university knew it. just months before frye was charged with a felony for beating another student unconscious and on his facebook page he posted this sexual activity calorie guide. removing her clothes with her consent, 12 calories. without her consent, 2,187 calories. but at his rape hearing, margo says frye was allowed to smear her, saying she drank too much and slept around. the entire tone of the hearing was blame the victim. reporter: and the school allowed it. the school allowed it. they condoned it. they didn t do anything to stop it. reporter: the school found him guilty of sexual assault. the consequences, suspension. he would be back on the campus with margo. what duh this say about the university s stand on rape? they don t have any interest in protecting their students so the only thing i can think is to protect their image. reporter: margo says only after she complained did indiana toughen the punishment to a one-year suspension. colleges need help, that s pretty clear. reporter: she says blame the victim bullying is flat out illegal and her agency won t tolerate it. your agency has the power to punish schools who violate the law by withholding federal funding from them. how many times has your agency done that? to my knowledge the agency has never withheld or conditioned or terminated federal funds. reporter: critics say the colleges keep doing it because they don t fear any government repercussions or consequences. how do you respond to that? we will do everything to ensure vigorous enforcement of the enforcement of laws and that institutions comply with them. reporter: wake forest wouldn t go into specific details about the cases citing privacy. but in margo s case a federal review found they acted promptly and appropriately. they told us our campus police force is absolutely diligent in investigating sexual assault cases but we must treat both parties fairly. in maggie s case, we treat e every student with integrity and compassion and our personnel adhere to well-established policies that ablue equally to both the victim. what they did was wrong. i have not forgotten about it and i will never forget about it and these other girls that it s happened to should never forget about it either. the d.a. declined to prosecute citing lack of physical evidence and witnesses. both maggie and margo have since dropped auto of their schools terrified they d run into these boys on campus again. yeah, the federal government talk as good game but doesn t seem to do much about it if they break the law. the government admit this is a big problem and they actually just last month vice president joe biden announced new guidelines for the schools that are going to toughen things up where before they would wait for a victim to have to come four. now they re going to be proactive and send investigators at the mere whiff. and send cops to the school. up next, who really looks better with gray hair, men or women? 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it us. i think what s interesting is a guy who s done thousands of focus groups number of the women had gray hair and the men, sometime as what you say in a focus group is what you say is politically correct and smart, but when we look at real life unfortunately there is this double standard. where does it come from? this double standard has existed for thousands and thousands of years. it s rooted in the original role that men and women played in light. looks were important. they died before they even saw gray hair. not that long ago, a hundred years aechlgt men, on the other hand, were about protecting their clan, being strong and powerful. gray hair enhanced that role. they were seen as more senior leaders. but then info media, advertising, not to pick on you, we perpetuate it. what s interesting years ago i launch add magazine aimed at women over 40. the ads were women over 40 with gray hair. women rejected it. they wanted to see the idealized younger women. it was the women who perpetuate it more than men. was it surprising the pictures, a the fact that a lot of people in the focus group preferred the women and the men with gray hair? yeah. like donnie s saying, i think there s a great eagerness for authenticity about aging with grace and women. i think many women, 78 million baby boomers exist today. we really do want to see gray as beautiful. but i do think we re going have to have the media, on-screen models who demonstrate there is a way to disconnect the old associations. i don t know if women want to see grays. there s not woman i don t know that when they describe coloring their hair, that s like putting makeup on. there s not teen remote taboo. it s almost a given. okay. but what if white was a color you chose? what if just like now, younger women are coloring their hair as part of their regular repertoire, what if we add to that palette. white is great but we it s unfortunate. it s not going to change. let me jump in. double standard number two, should men get their hair professionally colored. 43% said it s smart, why risk making a mistake by doing it yourself. 56% say it s a little vain. a guy shouldn t be spending as much time in a salon as a woman. it is a double standard. i think it places pressure on men too. vanity for men is not seen as masculine. it s not a man s role to care so much about his looks. it makes him look a little insecure. i think that gap is narrowing. i think more men are being seen at salons and getting manicures and pedicures. they do not talk about it. i know some men who color their hair. they never talk about it. we re going to end it right there live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. here is kim dacey and traffic pulse 11. things are starting to clear up a little bit. a few incidents to talk about. patterson ave and while would avenue, gwynn oak, reported a - report of the crash of a philadelphia court. moravia road and pulaski highway. howard county, disabled vehicle 29 northbound and 40. we are seeing delays amount the area. outer loop west side, 25 minutes from 705 down 95. inner loop on the northwest corner, 17 minutes. eight minutes i-95 southbound between up harbor tunnel and the beltway on the south side. you can see out of it is very slow there all the way from reisterstown road to edmondson ave. 95 in the white marsh area, delays are getting better. you could see a bit of a delay from the white marsh area and head towards the beltway to eight and 95. john has a check of the forecast. first we take a look at the radar. hd doppler showing west of the city, baltimore beltway at howard county, parts of carroll county, a few sprinkles. switching to the wider view, the storm is still spinning around. here is a satellite-rate accommodation. satellite-radar, nation. the forecast for today continues with the chance for rainshowers west of the day. maybe flooding. 70-75. possibly some thunderstorms. we will have another update at 8:55. 8:30 now on a thursday morning. it s the 19th day of may, 2011, as we say hi to the people joining us here in rockefeller plaza as the day includes weatherwise at least for now. a sprinkle here and there, but it s not as bad as yesterday. matt lauer on the plaza along with meredith vieira, al roker, and ann curry. we re going to talk about the right of passage and teenagers, prom. it s a fun night that can also come with danger and temptation, especially when it comes to drinching. so how do you keep your teen from making a bad choice? coming up, a conversation every parent has to have with their children. plus, we ll also be talking about you know we ve been talking a lot about hoarding, a strange and mysterious world. how does it affect the families, specifically the children? we re going be hearing from some children of hoarders coming up and how it really affects them. you can imagine it s got a great impact. on a lighter note, next friday we kick off the concert series. that s right. with one of the biggest stars out there. rihanna. if you re planning to come to the plaza, bring your biggest and best rihanna song. ten will win tickets to her live concert courtesy of livenation. that s rihanna live on the plaza next friday, may 27th. that s going to be fun. that is going to be fun. this is going to be fun as well. let s say hi to oscar winner marla matalin and also john. good morning to everyone. the finalists. this has been a very long haul. has it been worth it, john? it has been worth it. we ve raised a record amount of money for our charitiecharities. i m playing for children s research hospital and that s what made it worth it because it was a crazy, crazy run, i can tell you that. and i played for the starkey foundation. that s the whole point of being on the show. it s charity. now, it came down to the final show where meatloaf and little john were the other two. why do you think you two were selected? we re the great. we re the best. i m going to win. wow. she s tough. she is tough. marla, she s tough. we love you. you re both tough. who went in with the most preconceived notion? gary busey, of course. knew he was going to be a tornado. it was a lot of fun to get to know him. there was so many things to sidetrack him but i think marlee and i for sure stayed focused. that s why we stayed till the end. we went there with this purpose. we played the charities as hard as we could. we didn t know who the cast with and then we thought, yes, no, oop. it was i focused on me and i focused on the charity and we did as best as we could. it s also a great exposure for everybody who s a part of it. absolutely. who s going to win? you say you? i m winning. she s going to help me win. uh-oh. we don t that anymore. she s very tough, but we re going to compete very hard, i can promise you that. you can see the results of that live season finale, sunday night, 9:00 p.m. eastern time. may we should get through the morning commute dry, but this afternoon, we will see scattered showers and thunderstorms. in between, a little bit of don t forget, you can check the weather channel any time of the day or night. go to the weather channel on cable or weather.com on time. let s head down to d.c. and say a big hello to willard scott. they even got a strawberry patch. smuckers. happy birthday to our friends at smucker s. take a look if you will. we have the lovely paul shipp, salina, kansas. 100 years old. married to his wife for 75 years. how about that. and pauline love, topi ta, kansas, 100 years, lived independently. loves to read. attributes her health to a daily glass of sherry. helen schlafke, 100 years old, lives independently, enjoys taking care of her sisters who are in their 90s. love that. how about that. lovely lillian. lillian wolf from catonsville, maryland, 101, enjoys knitting and listening to classical music and exercises on her life. william, sweet william mayberry, 105, loves his biscuits and half. loves to play checkers and has a garden that he takes care of himself. and don t forget victor. victor kubicek, owatonna, minnesota, 102 years old, likes to talk about stories of farming back in the good old days. happy birthday, too, to deak hamilton, from falmouth, maine, 100 years old, loves to play the banjo. that s all. back to new york. how to make sure your children have a happy and safe experience at their prom. first this is today on nbc. we re back now at 8:39 with today s countdown of the prom. it s much more than dresses and tuxedos. it s time when things can and sometimes turn dangerous. nbc s lilia luciano. good morning. good morning to you, matt. it is a right of passage for so many teens, but before getting too excited about dates and dresses there are things parents need to be aware of before the big prom night. it s a night to remember, a night of limos and gowns. dance-offs, and sometimes heartbreak. my date s a flute-toting band dork. reporter: prom night, a night of big hopes and dreams. but it s also a night where things go wrong. studies show 70% of juniors and seniors expect their friends will drink and often drive. i m so sorry. and i hope they find it in their heart some day to forgive me. reporter: jonathan caruso never thought he d be standing in a court asking for forgiveness. he drank ten beers after leaving a school-sponsored party and struck a mother and daughter walking their dog. 60-year-old carolyn died on the scene. her 43-year-old daughter charlotte survived with injuries. she meant the world to me and was a big part of my life and you have taken that away. reporter: caruso s family and friends were convinced he s not the type to drink and drive. he s one of the sweetest kids and doesn t deserve it. reporter: experts say that s exactly where the problem arises. too many are pressured to drink and drive, especially on a night like prom. one out of five binge drinks but what s scarey is only 1 out of 100 parents things their kids binge drink. reporter: what problems do you see? is there an increase in prom-related crashes? without a doubt. we see a huge spike in it because students are going out to celebrate. it s great. it should be the best night of their lives, not the last night of their lives. reporter: it was the last night of his life after riding in the passenger seat of his best friend s car following a post-prom party. unfortunately his friend had been drinking. zephyr is serving up to four years in prison for vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence. today he s speaking out in campaigns in an effort to reach high school students before it s too late. you never think it will happen to you, but trust me, it can. reporter: high schools around the country are also taking action. in miami beach, seniors are shown a dramatic car crash before prom. it make use think about it. reporter: a dose of reality is just what experts hope students will remember. we need to equip our teens with things they can use in real life situations so they can get out of it and get themselves home safely. that s the most important thing. reporter: and here in hollywood hills high, students signed a promise on prom night last weekend not to drink and drive and parents were mailed flyers with tips to help talk to their teens in advance, and, matt, everyone made it home safely. that s good news. thanks very much. so how can you help your teens celebrate a night they ll never forget and keep it safe? ann is chief ed ter of seventeen. . they asked kids, did they think that drinking and driving was a problem on prom night. 1,100 or so said no, drinking s not a problem. 379 said yes. those numbers alone worry me. there s good news and bad news in that. the good news is most teens, most just want to have fun on prom. it s a night to cut loose and to celebrate, you know, have a final bonding night with their friends. but that one in three, right, is a problem drinker. it s a problem for everyone. and then results are disastrous. we talk about this as being a right of passage and i think that puts too much pressure on the night. the kids thing this must be the night we do things we will remember for the rest of our lives and oftentimes that leads to reckless behavior. exactly. with your teen if you hear them saying it s got be the best night, craziest night, perfect night, that s when you have to sit them down and talk about expectations. do you think schools are doing enough? what more should they be doing? schools have had to get really creative. they ve parked car wrecks in front of the schools, posts signs about drinking and driving. i love the one school who did a lockdown. it was locked down from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. no drinking, no driving. they made it fun. if it happened on a private location, that can get out of hand. a lot of schools and communities are trying to throw after-parties so they can keep an eye on kids. do you like that idea? i like that idea. afterparts are trouble. they re the type that bad things happen. let s talk about parents. a lot of parents say i don t want my kids drinking and driving. i m going to hire aly moe. you think that s great solution but what you could bedoing is giving the kids a party on wheels. you have the recession to thank with what s happening with afterproms. it s all about doing it yourself. rather than hiring aly moe we had great stories of dad who put on a chauffeur s cap and put soda and candy in the back. the problem is when your parents drive you, immediately the kid is worried as he or she will be seen as uncool. starting to lev ing ting to designated driver. the temptations that will be out there after you graduate, go to college, the military, whatever. this is the time to start learning, designated driver, drink in moderation if you do. know limits and danger. a couple of red flags, the child comes to you and says this is going to be going late and i m going to stay late. parents should be aware. bring the kids back to your place and make it you are fun and the cool dad rather than feeling like a chaperone. mom and dad, i want a place to go after the prom, can i get a hotel room? no, end of conversation. tips you have, don t underestimate you and as a parent have on your own teen age sneer exactly. make sure your parents see your face very serious before you leave, i care about you, be responsible. talk to them as adults, not teenagers. absolutely. they are adults. a lot of kids are adults. they re turning 18. they need to hear safety, responsibility. consequences. consequences. they need to hear big words that have to do with grown ups. thank you very much. important information for parent this time of year especially. still ahead, what life is like for the child of a hoarder. first this is today on nbc. oh wow, look at that. 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[ female announcer ] join the dreamworks experience for the ultimate vacation, only on royal caribbean. back now at 8:48 with today s american story with bob dotson. the boy twho traveled to meet the one man who truly understands his dream. reporter: in some people we see a mirror. evan light wants to be the best athlete in the land. nick ackerman did too. neither cares they have no feet. what are your limits? i really think i don t have any. reporter: same with nick. growing up he tried all sorts of sports, even football on artificial legs. a guy hit me, i broke my leg and i had a spare set at home, dan ran home, grabbed it, and i played the second half. reporter: because him mom cindy allowed him to take risks. i didn t want to stop him from doing things. i went to the teacher, everybody i could, saying, let him get hurt. reporter: she figured bumps and tag would be fine. i would play with jigi reporter: at 18 months he contracted a deadly form of meningitis that put him in a coma. by the time we got to the hospital, his skin was just black. reporter: doctors had to amputate his legs below the knee to save him. evan lost his feet in a traffic accident that also took his mom. the light family wanted a little boy after three girls, so they adopted him from an orphanage in india, brought him home to india na. what do you tell other kids about when you ve lost your leg. mostly a shark bite. reporter: randy, his dad, drove him to iowa. i picked evan from the other side of the world frrks calcutta, india, and put him in our home in south bend. davenport, iowa, is not that far. if i had opportunity to have my legs, i wouldn t take it. i like where i m at. reporter: even though he s not living the life he dreamed. working outdoors seemed a logical choice for the kid who grew up in the country. he hoped to work as a park ranger. now he spends most every day indoors designing artificial limbs. getting some ware, aren t they? reporter: the kind that can prop up a little boy s big dreams. does that feel better? yeah. reporter: he craft add pair of customized wrestling shoes. he had a pair of foam pads that he wrapped under tends of his legs. reporter: not good enough for a national tournament. evan s first. get loochlts shake it out. nick lost a lot, just like evan. i wrestled for a long time but i still wasn t any good. reporter: until one day he was. in 2001 the simpson college senior wrestled his way to the ncaa championships. he fought a fell whoa had not been beaten in 63 matches. no one without legs had ever one until then. nick not only won, he was chosen the outstanding college player in the country. you did well, okay? reporter: evan s tiemt will come to surrender a dream when his life is as it is and not what it could be. you ve got the heart of a lion. reporter: bob dotson, nbc news with an american story in cedar falls, iowa. those are two of the coolest guys i e ve ever seen. what you can do to lower your property taxes. first this is today on nbc. jie can t get over those stories. great, great story of inspiration. taking adversity, sharing that strength with somebody else. what s better than that? someone said he could have his legs back he didn t want them. he s doing great. and he s cute. still ahead, could you live in a house that looked like this? we ll talk to two children of hoarders after your local news. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. a judge tosses out the case against an anne arundel county contractor accused of scamming homeowners. prosecutors say he stamped people for unfixed home improvements. back in a minute with a check on now let s take a look at the forecast with john collins. cloudy skies, a bit of a fog, temperatures in the 60 s. not as much rain with this as there has been in the past few mornings. as long as it is nearby, we still love the chance for rain they re still is a chance for rain. there may be a few breaks, a little sunshine. chance for showers and thunderstorms. variable winds at 10-15. we will have another weather update at 9:25.