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when she rode to the nation s capitol on the back of a harley. is she going to enter the presidential race? something we could all use this summer, five ways to save money from your air conditioning bill to bank fees to your vacation plans. also if you re feeling a little overwhelmed maybe when it comes to marriage, kids, job, the list goes on and on. well, stop. coming up, we ve got seven tips to help cut down the stress in your life. i ll just take one. okay. i ll take one big one. and a lot of people are throwing parties today and get togethers. jill martin is here with fun things that can add spice to your get together. how cool is that thing? that looks like a lot of fun. i wish i brought my swimsuit. it s hard when you can t buy kid toys anymore. you could use that. that would be a stress buster. anyway, amy robach is waiting patiently at the news desk. good morning, lester and natalie. good morning, everyone. the politics of war and peace and the strength of the american spirit dominate the news this memorial day. kristen welker is live with more. good morning. reporter: good morning, amy. on this memorial day, president obama is focused on the military. first stop today is a breakfast for families who lost loved ones in iraq and afghanistan. this after an emotional visit to joplin, missouri. hello, everybody. reporter: president obama got a if i ever hand look at the devastation in tornado ravaged joplin on sunday, comforting residents and sending a strong message. this is just not your tragedy. this is a national tragedy. and that means there will be a national response. reporter: but back in d.c., his one time political rival sparked fresh speculation about whether she ll run for president. how are you? reporter: sarah palin alongside thousands of vietnam veterans for the rolling thunder ride. kicking off an east coast bus tour from the nation s capitol to new hampshire. you know, this is our first stop. we re very, very thankful to have such an event. reporter: and she posted on her website whether you re riding the open road or the frozen tundra, you re celebrating a free spirit. what could be more american than that? palin s schedule remains a secret with possible stops today in gettysburg and philadelphia, pennsylvania. palin is keeping her own 2012 plans close to the vest. while some say they doubt she ll dive in. i don t see sarah palin getting into the race at all. i don t think there s a place for her. reporter: her 2008 running mate insists the former alaska governor could beat president obama if she runs. of course she k she can. now whether she will or not, whether she will even run or not, i don t know. deficit reduction talks led by vice president joe biden continue this week as members of both parties try to hammer out a deal on raising the debt ceiling and performing entitlements. paul ryan s plan to transform medicare for americans under age 55 remains a political flash point. the president says medicare needs to be on the table. it is on the table. you would concede it s got to look a lot different than the ryan plan? no. it s on the table. chuck schumer fired back. we are calling on senator mcconnell not to cling to the ryan plan as he s doing which ends medicare as we know it but to take it off the table. reporter: also today, president obama is expected to nominate general martin dempsey as chairman to the joint chiefs of staff. this is a part of the revamping his national security team. amy? kristen welker, thank you. nato officials say gadhafi s rule is in the final stages and the alliance might consider sending a small force into libya once he leaves power. nato powers are ratcheting up their intervention in li libya to try to break a deadlock that has seen gadhafi hold on to power despite weeks of air strikes. u.s. troops in afghanistan are remembering their fallen comrades on this memorial day. they held ceremonies to honor the more than 1400 servicemen and women killed in combat curing the nearly decade old war. and the top u.s. generals in afghanistan are apologizing for a weekend air strike that killed at least nine civilians. four colossal water spouts swirled off the coast of sidney, awe strama today amid dramatic thunderstorms. locals say think haven t seen anything like this in more than 50 years. the natural phenomenon came as rain lashed the coast causing flash flooding and another amazing sight, waterfalls moving in the reverse direction. back here at home, southern michigan is cleaning up after severe storms and possibly a tornado sunday afternoon. it cut a path of destruction through battle creek knocking out power to tens of thousands of customers and toppling trees and homes and cars. rapper sean king ston known for beautiful girls was still hospitalized this morning after an accident sunday off miami. kingston crashed his water scooter into a bridge. his female passenger was also injured. hollywood is on course to break the memorial day box office record set four years ago. the top performer so far this weekend, the hangover ii with an $86 million open. kung fu panda 2 and then pirates of caribbean slipped to third place selling $39 million worth of tickets. it is six minutes past the hour. let s go back outside to lester and natalie. amy, thanks so much. i haven t seen hangover 2 yet. i think today. it s very wrong and offensive but funny. wrong and offensive. got you. that s why it s made $86 million. we want to wish sean kingston a speedy recovery. nice young man. we wish him all the best. absolutely. we ll get another check of the weather right now. for that, we re going to say hi to scott williams. good morning, natalie and lester and ladies and gentlemen. they have arrived after over 30 hours of driving from austin, texas. your here in new york city. tell us your name. mike. nina. lisa. melissa. welcome. glad you made it safely to new york city. let s get a check of your memorial day weather here. we re talking about hot and humid conditions for the southeast. temperatures in the 90s. air quality alerts in new jersey as well as air quality advisories. so watching out for some problems there. 92 degrees in d.c. 90 in washington, d.c. we re looking at, yeah, temperatures well above average for the deep south. so just do what you can to stay out of the heat for long periods of time. strong and severe storms through the upper midwest. we could find damaging winds and some large hail. showers for the pacific northwest with clouds and temperatures only in the 60s. it s going to be breezy in the lone star state and dry todand the high temperatures are going to make it into the low 90s. the heat index will be in the upper 90s. parley-to-mostly-sunny skies. as well. and a lot of folks are playing in the pools definite lit weather is going to be hot enough in the southeast. temperatures in the 90s. so stay cool out there on this memorial day. that s a look at your weather. natalie, back to you. scott, thank you. on today s money, five ways to save money. so how do you stretch a dollar for the most fun in the sun? we have a senior writer from money magazine joining us. time of year, we do spend a lot of money, unfortunately. what are ways we can save? there are a lot of added costs that can sneak in this season. what are the costs you may see? it s peak travel season. airfares are up, hotel costs are up. it s also, as we know, gas prices are up, too. so how do you save on that? airfares, the best way to save money is travel midweek. can you save 5% to 25% doing. that of course, not everybody wants to travel midweek when you re on vacation. so another good way is look for discount coupon codes which can you find on airfairwatch.com. and if you pay in advanvancadva you save 10% to 15%. just a quick thing on gas prices. we re all paying more for gas. up to $4 a gallon. so a good way to save is really not drive as aggressively. if you don t speed and you keep your car well maintained, you can save a lot of money. good points to start us off. now eating out is something that we like to do during this time of year as well. you say another thing to look for is coupons for restaurants and not just the restaurants chains, right? oh, that s right. you know, restaurants, especially upscale restaurants started offering more coupons with the recession a couple years ago. they re paying higher food prices. they re really trying to pass the costs on to diners. use coupons. a couple great sites, coupons.com and groupon.com. right. in your city near you. that works out well for you as well. also kids like to be out and about, summer camps as well. you know the cost of summer camp can cost quite a bit for a lot of parents. i know some people sending their kids away to sleep away camp and it s couple thousand dollars. that s right. it s very expensive what do you? you have to do something with your kids in the summer. the way to knock down summer camp is apply for the childcare tax credit. the irs gives you a break on 25% on the camp. also look for less pricey camp. the ymca has those, boy scouts and girl scouts and can you find them in your area by looking at the american camping association website. and your towns may also have activities or summer camps that are even free. i know my town is doing that as well. that s right. talk to your local childcare counsellor, local town hall to find reasonable camps close to home. all right. electric bills also go up this time of year. people cranking up the ac. you say this is a good time for you to upgrade your air conditioning. a lot of people think that may be expensive doing that. it is worth the cost? if you upgrade to a more energy efficient cooling system, you ll save money on the electricity and the air conditioning you need. this is a place you can get a tax credit. $300 tax credit for having an energy efficient system go. to energystar.gov and see if what you re going to buy meets the standards. what does it cost to replace an old system with a new one? well, it could be up to $1,000. hefty. yeah. but anywhere from $500 to $1,000 fl you ll save money over time, too. hoping it survives. that s right. last, you say consider switching banks before july. why is that? i think a lot of folks last year with the new credit card regulations went into effect, they were less lucrative for banks. so you re starting to see more atm fees, low maintenance fees, minimum balance fees. how do you get around that? july this summer you ll see new relations making debt cards less profitable for banks as well. so you re going to see more of the fees coming at you. one great way to get around that is to shop around for a new bank. a great place toi find a bank that doesn t have a fee are the online savings banks. if you still need a checking, can you get a free checking account from charles schwab and also fidelity. also, look at a credit union. they re always a good deal. can you final a more reasonable credit union at findacredituniton.com. do your research though. that s right. thank you so much. saving us a couple bucks this summer. coming up next, the secrets to a stress free family, believe it or not, it can be done. plus, you need some last-minute ideas to spice up your memorial day fun? 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[ male announcer ] get up to $6 in savings on zyrtec® products at zyrtectv.com. our house is a very, very fine house this smorng, stress free living. juggling the kids, house and careers is taxing. this month s health magazine is filled with ideas that can help you build a stronger, happier and healthier family. the magazine s contributing medical editor joins us. dr. raj, good morning. hi. i love the first idea about trying to take destress your life. i m feeling it could be stressful. i have a family that s quite large. you re saying make meal times fun. sit down together, that s one thing. but when sitting down together, it should be fun. exactly. i was reading the intro, stress free family sounds like an oxymoron. you know, it can be fun. we do know that eating together as a family can really help decrease depression rates in children, decrease eating disorders, boost achievement. so it is really important. how to make it fun? mix it up a little bit. there is backwards day. you actually have breakfast foods at dinner and vice versa. do something different and fun. you really do want to get yourself together as a family and make it something that kids actually look forward to. it s a memory when you grow up. i remember when we sat down and ate together. that s true. the next toip stress free family living is having an adds venture. yeah. we have found in research that doing new things, having new experiences increases the feel good chemicals in our brain. so do something new with your family. take a trip. it doesn t have to be expensive. go somewhere different. the other thing that really boosts positive feelings is helping people. this is a lesson you want to teach your children early. so whether it s volunteering at a soup kitchen or shelter or gathering old things together and donating to a shelter, you want to really teach your kids early that it s very important to incorporate this into their daily lives. the next one is perhaps something that maybe a lot of parents wouldn t think about, you say texting. right. so we all think parents and texting is the vain of their existence. put that down. yeah, if you can t beat them, join them. but really texting is a way can you actually stay connected with your kids. you know, often in the teenage years they don t want to hear all the mushy stuff luke i love you and all these things. you can text to them. they know you re thinking about them. it s a way to stay connected during the day. all right. also, finances can be a big cause of stress for families, especially now when we ve gone through so much so many troubled times. you say you have the trick. it s the three ds? money is one of the biggest causes of problems in marriage, disclose, discuss and decide. the first one is the most important. you need to be honest about financial things. you don t want to be making big purchases without consulting your partner. you also want to be hohn best what your financial goals are as a family. you need to get together and discuss that. and then you want to look at the behaviors that you re both doing as a family even your kids, teach them good behaviors early. getting them financially sound early on will help them later on. you mention the marriage. obviously the marriage is a big part of the family and can contribute to stress f you re not finding time together away from the kids that, can be a huge problem. you say it s important to stay connected with your partner to avoid stress. absolutely. and you know, especially when kids come in. it s very difficult to find time. not just doing the dinner and movie which is the traditional thing but again, something new, a new experience with your partner can bring back those, you know, first love feelings that you thought were gone forever. can you actually get it back. all right. and you also say it s important to remember the romance. maybe it s not so great and not connecting at that point. so you say reduces the stress to really concentrate on the romance part. concentrate on romance. there is a mathematical formula keep in mind, fooive to one. so for every one negative interaction with your partner, whether it s a complaint or fight, you want five positive things. usually it s the reverse. unfortunately in many households is. let s try to get on the positive side. thankful. kissing each other hello and good buy. these are things that can make you more positive and more positive feelings for each other. you also say you need to do some things for yourself. it may involve blowing off steam. what are your suggestions? you know, you might feel like you re complaining when you talk about your problems. it s actually important to get it out there. whether it s talking to a good friend or even a therapist, take the time to discuss what s brothering you. it will make you feel better and 30 minutes a day, do something just for you, whether it s reading a book, taking a hot bath. you need to focus on yourself. otherwise, no one is going to get taken care of. if mom ain t happy, nobody is happy? that s the motto in my house. thank you so much dr. raj. coming up, the pickup professionals behind a new dating class for the romantically challenged. plus, a spicy treat you can serve on your memorial day. i ve had asthma for 11 years. .but my symptoms kept coming back. .kept coming back. then i found out advair helps prevent symptoms from happening in the first place. advair is for asthma that s not well controlled on a long-term asthma medicine, such as an inhaled corticosteroid. advair will not replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. advair contains salmeterol which increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in children and adolescents. advair is not for people whose asthma is well controlled with a long-term asthma control medicine like an inhaled corticosteroid. once your asthma is well controlled your doctor will decide if you can stop advair without loss of control and prescribe a different asthma control medicine, such as an inhaled corticosteroid. do not take advair more than prescribed. see your doctor if your asthma does not improve or gets worse. is advair right for you? 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he s shalging us to the spicy sliders. who can handle the spice better here? there are peppers in there. jalapenos. i like it spicy. i think you have this one. we ll have to taste them. i think they brought milk. they say mill is being better than water to cut the fire. lots to get to this half hour. scott williams has the memorial day forecast for us. good morning, lester. good morning, everybody. on this memorial day we re honoring our servicemen and women. good morning. tell us your name and where you re from. sergeant wilson from pennsylvania. all right. thanks for your service. michelle mccray from virginia. houston, texas. michigan. dan yil wilton from florida. corporal walker from washington, sir. thank you so much for your service today. take a look at your forecast across the countriment we re tracking the heat. 90 degrees in new york city. rain moving out. 92 in washington, d.c. we re looking at low 90s in the southeast as well. heat advisories in effect for the northeast as well as some air quality concerns for new jersey. strong and severe storms moving through the midwest. isolated tornadoes not out of the question. fargo and twin cities later on today. that s a look at it is going to be a hot and steamy holiday. temperatures will soar into the 90s and make it up to about 93. it will feel like the upper 90s. have a great and safe memorial day. lester? 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( men vocalizing ) there s a place called hidden valley where kids not only eat their vegetables, they can t get enough. hidden valley ranch makes vegetables delectable. this morning on jill s fun finds, last-minute memorial party ideas. how can you make your celebration extra special? jill martin is with us. good morning. good morning. lots of great ideas. every good party has to have good beverages, right? and good weather. i m so happy, at least in new york it s getting nicer. now becan talk about beverages. these are from pottery barn. this is simple watt we are oranges and lemons. so cheers. cheers. great. to a great day. okay. and then for the kids you have the pop makers. these are just not pop makers. look at how great they are. they have all different shapes. you can put molds that they come with. heart and stars. and then they make them seven minutes it takes to make. they re so good. someone on the crew took a bite. these are great, $49.95. it keeps them busy for a little while. i love the designs. snow cones. target is a great place to hit if you want to keep your kids busy again today. snow cones and ice cream makers. and then you just buy any sort of filling you want on top to make the colors. so you put the ice in and it crushes it for you. it shaves it. you get little balls which is fun. and great for any party. very easy. okay. now for the grillers out there, you have this this is something can you use all summer long. this i really love. you put this into whatever meet. it is a little thermometer. it works up to 150 feet away. you program it to say i m making a hamburger. when it s ready, it alerts you. the temperature right now is 160 degrees. where i want it to be. it will tell when you to come back. you don t have to slave over the grill. they re perfectly cooked and healthy. i love that. okay. and then another grilling gadget. if you re one of those people who struggles when you make a patty, to make the perfectly round patty. right. you can adjust it to make a little patty or a big patty. and then you can merge them together. you want to put cheese in the middle and make a double hamburg hamburger, you can make that. i m salivating. now extra seating is always a problem, especially by the pool side or whatever. really feel this. it is really sturdy. it is really sturdy. $67 from crate and barrel. aren t they really good? yeah, if you don t fall over. like i almost did. you re so little. they re really sturdy. they come in all colors which i love. and then look at this for the grass. for the wine drinkers or at the beach. this is a great gift for kathie lee. stick it in the sand or grass. and this is under $25. very neat. and what about for the people that like to photograph every moment? i love giving away something when someone comes to your home. this is a camera, $99 available at target. this is great. isn t this great. the new polaroid. fantastic. just don t take them to the these are waterproof cameras also available at target starting at $99. i just wanted to put it in water to prove it. and now for the kids, this is the splurge item. before we get to the kids. this is a shower. it is a solar shower. so this is 199. you know when people say can i run in and shower and you don t want everyone in your house shourg? this is great. you keep it outside and the sun hopefully today will heat it. and then look at all these kids. these kids are having a lot of fun. $399 from toys r us. how great is this? it inflates in two minutes. really? does it come with the thing the pum snp. it come with everything. it does not come with the kids. look at how much fun they re having. they ve been here all morning. touch the water. go ahead. you told me you want to get in and do the close from there. i really didn t want to. they re really having fun. thank you so much. look at the water here too. that is fun. my kids would love. that jill martin, thank you as always. coming up next, the new dating school for romantically challenged man in your life. plus, spicy sliders from the man behind the man versus food nation series. when we say spicy, we really mean spicy. you ll need this water to cool your mouth off. till all the books are read. man: and all the pens are put down. woman: and everything there is to learn is learned. . woman: and all the plots are wrapped up. man: till that day. boy: by hook or by crook. girl: by book or by nook. woman: i will read. . 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dating coaches. dating coaches. i d rather be a dating coach than a pickup artist any day. reporter: for the past two years, these two have run professional pickup. you have to trick anybody into liking you. reporter: a company that claims it s not about teaching cheap one liners but about instilling confidence. it doesn t matter what you say, what matters is how you say it. reporter: so what kind of guys take your class? well, we get lawyers. we get doctors. we get the mark zuckerburgs of the wall. mike and josh who say nearly all of his friends are married. so josh took a two-day work shop called how to be awesome. basically if, you re an awesome person, people want to be around you. reporter: and learn the pickup rules which include number one, no lying. and number two, no negativity. nobody wants debbie downer to be around you. how did you come up with the techniques? failing. a lot of failing. reporter: on this night class was held at the mad hatter with the bar filling up, the guys were brushing up on techniques. three attempts here in this room and get those out of the way. then go outside, you ll be warmed up. we re dancing in a club, apparently. hey, what s up? how are you? i m josh. that would freak me out. at the bar, josh had a very successful night talking to nine women. what kind of girl are you? a nice girl. josh left the bar alone but feeling pretty satisfied. it s all about how you carry yourself. it was another student steve would really hit it off. befriending a woman and her group of friends. she is totally my type. steve said without the coaching, there s no way he would have approached her. i would have just kind of, you know, stood in my corner and waited until i had a context to talk to someone whereas i created my own context this time. reporter: so far james and earnest coached over 60 men. most take a four-week class that cost $900. how do you judge the success rate of your peoples? they never call us again. reporter: nora o donnell, nbc news, washington. all right. coming up next, spicy sliders to kick up your memorial day barbecue. this morning on today s memorial day kitchen, sliders, not any sliders, spicy sliders. we have the host of the travel channel s man versus food nation. great to have you. so glad to you have here. i m told this is going to light my fire. you know you know what? it is going to have a lot of flavor. you can actually change the spice level. so i know you re a fan of the spicy, you re not a fan of the spicy. not so much. i aim to please. all right. all right. so basically it s a hamburger. we have ground beef. we want to change it up a little bit. we re going to use sausage. we he hot italian sausage and sweet italian sausage. cut the casings open. and then we have our hot elements. we have sweet garlicky sauce. and then we have jalapeno and we have habenaro. it is infinitely hotter. if you don t have them at home, cayenne, chili powder. oh, yeah this is going to be good. my eyes are watering already. it s going to be tasty. and actually, you can do me a salad. we re going to make a glaze ahead of time. we have catchup here, honey and some of that sauce. add them and mix them altogether, that will be awesome. you and i will be making hamburgers, lester. we re going to throw it down. actually, you know what? you have a suit on. i ll do it. i don t want you to burn your hands. okay. because you will. if you re doing this at home it will burn your skin? you can. so what i m going to do is i have what about your tongue? that s the least of your worries. so we have jalapeno and habenero and mix it all together like this or use a spoon. excellent job about it way on the glaze. you re hired. salt and pepper? no, you re good as is. so mix these together. we have these mixes done. and now actually you may want to glove up. this is fun. all right. glove up. it s like an operation. so we have roasted red peppers. there is no heat in here at all. put a little roasted peppers. so why don t you take one of these patties right here. that s perfect. and then yeah, put this in your hand. that s a cheese? put some of the red pepper in. there dump that in there. i ll do a little pinch between your cheek and gum right there. throw the little cheese in there. and then pat this one on top here. oh, i see. and then we re going to exactly. a hamburger within a hamburger. beautiful. see, one hand. so we have some already working on the grill down here. all right. so we have some of these working. bring that glaze. okay. what were you going to do? he was going high five me. no, you don t want to do that. thank you very much. it can burn you that bad. so what we re going to do is just baste these. you can flip them. we re going to keep doing it until it actually makes a sweet coating here. i want you to play with us as well. so excited. so you let these go for a little while. make sure the cheese inside gets melted. i ll flip a couple for you. what kind of cheese is that? we don t have those done yet. let s go down here where they re done. all right. you want to make these not quite so spicy but you want a little kick, what can do you? all right. obviously, eliminate any of the peppers or you can use just the sweet. so, for example, down here, we just have the sweet sausage, the roasted peppers, no heat at all. or you can just use the hot mixture and skip the jalapeno? is there anything you are leaving out? no. i think it s about having that balance between heat and flavor. sometime when it is too much flame here you go. you like it spicy, right? amy is spicy. i prefer a little less spicy. i my, i amy, i ll join you. is it spicy? okay. that is spicy. happy memorial day to all of you. thank you, cheers. cheers. who s crying? this is really good. i m good. it s getting a little hot. i m okay though. i dipped my eggs in hot sauce this morning. i m prepared. when you cook it, you have the flavor the cheese is very nice. yum. adam, thank you so much as always. great job. and coming up, we re going to live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. it is going to be a hot and steamy memorial day. low-to-mid-90s this afternoon. heat index in the upper 90s to around 100. little changed tomorrow. after that, a front will come through with scattered thunderstorms during the middle thunderstorms during the middle of the week. ok. what if i just had a small slice? i was good today, i deserve it! or, i could have a medium slice and some celery sticks and they would cancel each other out, right? or.ok. i could have one large slice and jog in place as i eat it or.ok. how about one large slice while jogging in place followed by eight celery. mmm raspberry cheesecake. i have been thinking about this all day. wow, and you ve lost weight! oh yeah, you re welcome. thank you! 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