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eastern seaboard are going in and checking on seniors because they re versus acceptable to this. good idea. out on the plaza i m matt lauer along with ann curry, natalie morales, al roker and our newest addition. stephanie gosk. not really a new addition but our new legal correspondent. welcome to you. wonderful to be here. thank you so much. so excited. believe me, there s a lot of pda going on here. coming up i hope you re ready for this because we re going to have a piece about your rise. are you ready? there ll be tears but only because of the hair. oh, gosh. that was more recent. there s scary stuff coming. what else do we have coming up? i think that s what you re going to tell us. this is savannah s first time as an official anchor. pressure growing fill him. now democrats are asking him to step down. there s a flu explicit photo floating around the internet and there s word floating around that his wife is pregnant. on today s health, did you know that allergies are the fifth leading chronic disease in this country among all ages, all ages. this year has been one of the worst in recent years but there are some things you can do to help alleviate that. we re going to tell you what to do to avoid the common triggers. a lot of people need the relief. let s get relief by going inside to the cool studio. natalie s standing by with a look at all of the headlines. welcome to savannah. good morning to everyone. we re starting with the latest. luke russert is in washington with the latest. good morning. reporter: good morning. a new twist in the anthony weiner saga. we learn that his wife huma is pregnant. many members of his own party encouraging him to resign. seen for the first time since the scandal broke, anthony weiner s wife huma abedin arrived in abu dhabi amid another late revelation late wednesday. they have confirmed knowledge that abedin and weiner are expecting their first child. democrats are calling for weiner to resign. lying is unforgivable. lying in public is unforgivable and he should resign. the right thing to do is for anthony weiner to resign. reporter: there s even more pressure on weiner, a picture of a man naked below the waist is making its round on the internet. a blogger told matt he had the naked picture but said he would not release it. i can t foresee a circumstance in which i would release that. i don t think i want to put his family through that type of thing. reporter: breitbart says the picture was leaked after he showed it to a radio host after the interview not knowing they had a camera. i chose not to put it out there for public consumption. i still stand by that, and i m upset that it s out there. reporter: late wednesday ween eers office issued a new statement says, quote, as representative weiner said on monday when he took responsibility for his actions, he has sent explicit photos. with the full support of his wife, he is working on writing these wrongs with his family and colleagues. among those he has turned to is former president bill clinton who presided at their wedding and referred to huma as his second daughter. the clintons are not thrilled with this. this is very huftful to huma an din w din a family member. reporter: i spoke to a weiner aide recently. he told me, quote r, resignatio is not where the congressman s head is at. luke russert on capitol hill. thanks, luke. relief should arrive for the eastern half of the country sweltering through the record-high heat and humidity. officials say at least five deaths may be related to the heat. schools are closed for a second straight day in philadelphia where the temperature on wednesday hit a record 97 degrees. with the massive wildfires in eastern florida, officials say someone intentionally set fires forcing an evacuation. towns of springerville and eager are empty as crews battle flames night and day. meanwhile new mexico and texas could face blackouts as the fires hit power lines. the obama administration has intensified a covert operation. yemen is in turmoil. the government clinging to power and the battle wounded president recovering from injuries in saudi arabia. and if at first you don t succeed, try and try again. well, police in knoxville are looking for a very persistent would-be robber. a security camera caught a man trying to throw a paving brick through the door of a convenience store. he tries over and over and over again. he even tried the knob. but after the stand-off with the door, he s eventually just gave up and walks away. oh, well, not to happen there. it s six minutes past the hour. back to al with a check of your weather. aye-yi-yi. duh, here we go. we like to show them now and again. america s stupidest criminals. look at that. oh, well. at least he got a good workout. let s see what s going on with your weather. we ve got this heat wave. 100 is expected in trenton, 101 in newark. that will break a record. providence, 98. baltimore, 99. heat warnings from charlottesville to virginia. we re going to see a change as the high pressure starts to shrink. the jet stream will allow it to dip down a bit and that will start to bring cooling temperatures friday, saturday, on into sunday. you ll see the 90s start to shrink down to the south. they ll be confined down there. hundreds in the southwest. but at least the temperatures will get more back to normal in the northeast, but it is going to be another hot and steamy day today. temperatures will make it into the mid-to-upper-90 s. there will be a chance for a few thunderstorms this evening. and that s your latest weather. thanks so much. of course, this is a special day for us in our illustrious third hour. we want to extend a very warm welcome to savannah guthrie. she s going to be part of our family. we re so glad you left the confines of washington, d.c., and we want to introduce the smart and talented savannah guthrie. a look at her career until now. she s already a familiar face at nbc. we get a preview. this is a vote destined for failure. reporter: for savannah guthrie it happened in tucson, arizona. savannah was the youngest of three, baby girl. we had a joke in the family. savannah wanted somebody, we d better get it for her. determined, funny, and at times miss cheffous, she was a bit of a late bleerm. after graduating from the university of arizona, savannah got her first big break. at first the kids tried to put the fire out themselves. my first real experience came in columbia, missouri. i worked for a local affiliate there. it happened as many people were sitting down to a fourth of july barbecue. reporter: at just 22 years old she was covering everything from politics to crime to weather. those early days are rather embarrassing. when i watch those tapes now i just cringe because i m trying to sound so grown up. reporter: destined for bigger things, savannah ended up in tucson anchoring the weekend news. live from tv 4 where the news comes first, savannah gu three. here in tucson a 3-year-old boy is alive tonight. felt like i started to get what this business is all about. it s a sad evening around here. as you may know, this is savannah s last night on the air. i decided to quit goonld to law school. i graduated, took the bar and practiced law for a short time before realizing that deep down inside i was still harboring these ambitions to go back to tv. savannah guthrie joins us now. from justice to journalist she returned to air as a legal expert for courttv eventually landing what she called a dream job, covering the white house for nbc news. white house correspondent savannah guthrie has details for us this evening. chuck todd is the shorter of the two. she s kind of a shark inside. there is this lawyer in her who loves to cross-examinen. savannah. savannah. savannah guthrie. is it possible that voters are con clugd you re still not getting it? reporter: savannah s passion for politics made her a perfect fit for the daily rundown, an nbc show she co-hosted with chuck todd. so many people have called me samantha on the air that i actually started answering to it. samantha guthrie at the white house for us tonight. they constantly make the argument, samantha. samantha, it makes it much more difficult. next friday, contessa. it s a made-up name. she claims it s not. but who s named savannah in her 30s. it s like it was created in tv land. reporter: they became known as chuvannah. a big point of contention, who is taller. the one question i get is how tall are you anyway. so the answer is i m tall. she heightens. i wear high heels. she s shorter than i am but has a problem with that. it does kind of put me over 6 feet. she s not this 6 1 person that she pretends to be. savannah a self-described music lover recently quoted one of her favorite artists as a commencement at a graduation. i believe it was a philosopher, kati perry, you re a firework. come on, let your colors burst. the only two people that i know know all the words to kati perry s firework, savannah guthrie and my 7-year-old daut sneer boom, boom, boom, brighter than the moon, moon, moon. i never dreamed that i would be part of the today show family. i m still kind of pinching myself. so baby be a firework, let your colors burst. what are the words to california girl. don t get me started. teenage dream, another hit. i knew i loved the girl from the very first segment that we did today. you were a correspondent for courttv. you were doing legal analysis. and she and i happened to be wearing almost the exact same thing. pink and white, pep tolls by moll. or cotton candy i like to think. at the end of the segment i said i like your outfit. kudos to your mom throwing you under the bus. i know. woe thought she was going to say, we always knew. my mother s a truth teller, what can i tell you. you re going to be fun, let your colors show and burst, boom, boom, boom. why don t you quote from wayne, everybody have fun tonight, everybody wayne chung tonight. it s so 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most of us know the really obvious triggers like you don t go jogging outside when the pollen count is through the roof, but there are more subtle triggers that we might not think about that can make a big difference. one of the things you say people are doing wrong when it comes to treating your allergies is they re waiting too long to take medications. when should you start taking medications and how long should you be on medication? i recommend they start taking medications two weeks before their symptoms kick in. other people start to experience symptoms in may, june, july, and those are people sensitive to grasses. so it depends on what you re sensitive to. it s better to take them earlier. most are antihistamines and they work befrts to treat the onset of symptoms rather than treating the symptoms after the fact. a lot of people take their medications at night and you say they should be taking their medication throughout the day at all times? that s right. it s better to take it surprisingly before bed because allergies are worse first thing in the morning. i recommend taking an antihistamine, the drowsy formula. it won t say drowsy on the box. regular. you take that before you get to sleep and use a nondrowsy formula during the day. that way you have a constant in your blood stream and you never get triggers. one of the things i heard is working out in a swimming pool can trigger your allergies. how is that? it s bothersome to your skin and eyes. we love swimming as a workout but it s important know that and be able to prevent it. you might wear a mask or goggles when you swim, and also try to swim in an outdoor pool. the chlorine being outdoors helps the gas to diffuse, so the chlorine is not as concentrated as in an indoor pool. the other thing you say is a lot of people we shower in the morning or at night, but you say you want to shower if you have allergies at certain points during the day. ironicry you want to shower as much as possible. pollen can work its way into the skin and you re constantly irritated and you re bringing it inside of your home. you should also change your shows when you walk in or take off your shoes so you re not inadvertently spreading pollen around the house. speaking of clothes you say people are not washing their clothes in water that s hoot enough to kill the pollen which i thought was interesting. there was an interesting study that showed cotton sheets if you wash them at 140 degrees fahrenheit, they kill all the dust mites. but if you wash them only in warm water, you re only killing 6.5% of the dust mites. it s hard to know how hot the setting is. generally the hottest setting on your machine is good or a sanitized setting is good as well. thanks so much for bringing us a list of some of the triggers to avoid. still to come, can you guess what side of this room, take a look, costs nearly five times the other side? 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i really couldn t. sabrina host of the hgtv show has pulled together designs to get your deck or patio ready for a summer get-together. sabrina, good morning. good moving. i had to scrutinize which was the expensive and which was the budget. which is a good sign. before we get into the specifics, what should you consider when designing an outdoor space. you want to have different conversation areas so not everyone is stuck in the same place in your backyard. we chart with a chat set. yes. what is special about this chat set and where do you start seeing the differences in price? it really is the quality of pieces. this is a high-end chair. it has a tighter weave and reinforced with an aluminum frame. both are weatherproof, made for outdoors. absolutely, but this might last a little bit longer. pillows are another area where you can show your personality and get some color into it. yes. this one is an expensive pillow. about $500. it s hand-embroidered and has a lot of details whereas the low end piller has embroidery but done by machine, not by hand. i hear that these garden stools are all the rage. they are. you can multi facet it, sit on it or use it as a table. you can add a punch of color to any space. this was about $200 where the low end was about $60. it s about trying to find the best bargains. for the higher end ones, i m thinking they would be more delicate but you re saying you can sit on them. absolutely. the reason they re expensive is because they re hand-glazed. lanterns are quite a hit this time of year. would you sit it on the table or hang it or how would you use it? set it on the table, hang it or set it on the floor. i love that you can put candles in there and they never blow out because the wind never blows. the other lantern is about $40. where do you find these? you can find them at home stores, even a big box store or the closeout home shops are great, especially the off season. what do we have over here? this is an outdoor bar area. you can set this up outside. i love it. you have different bar stools with the different pillows. then we have a sieving tray, very expensive. this is imported from italy as well as the glasses that you can tell have a little bit of texture with the bubbles. these were really expensive. but these, only $2. and i have to say from far away they look the exact same. this has a little bit more texture. but for outdoors, it doesn t matter. i would only splurge on these if you could bring them indoors. otherwise you could go cheap were melamine. where do you find these if you re spending a lot on a garden chair like this? what are you spending? i think you should spend it on the furniture because it s more durable. you want to make sure it s a reputable manufacturer. but when it comes to accessories, you can be patient and find the best deals. but there s a difference of $3,000 3,800 for this half and $800 for this half. honestly when you walk up in terms of the feel, you can t tell the difference. le this whole setup, the high end, over $3,800. and that, $800. the pillows alone, $500. before we let you go, what are the things worth splurging on? definitely what you re going to keep for a long time, the furniture. don t spend a lot of the pillows because you change them out. coming up, mayor michael bloomberg s daughter georgina bloomberg has a new book for kids who love horses. also ahead argyle and polka dots. perfectly mismatched style, how to wear it right after this. it s the best job in the world. my students are amazing. but to be there for them, you ve gotta feel your best. kids can tell. that s why i love eating activia every day. so delicious activia help me feel good inside which helps me be my best. positive, cheerful and on top of things. help regulate your digestive system. love how you feel or your money back. activia but sometimes i wonder. what s left behind? 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[ female announcer ] now, select cards come postage paid. georgina bloomberg is the 28-year-old daughter of new york mayor michael bloomberg. georgina is an accomplished equestrian and she weaves her experience into her first novel. it s aimed at young adults who are good at sports and aspire. it s good to see you. thanks for having me. you look like a person who has got it all. you ve got a great career, you re a show jumper. did you always want to be an author. actually this was something that was very much a surprise to me. i never thought of myself as a good writer. all through school, writing was never anything i loved to do or thought i was good at but this is the first time i ve been able to write about horses and show circuits and something i loved getting to know. in fact, they say write what you know. did that help? absolutely. this is a book i would want to read, enjoy writing. i think you have to write about something you know very well. tell us about this. the book seems to have some aspects based loosely at least on your life. the main character is the younger daughter of a big real estate tycoon in new york city and is not overly impressed with his daughter s choice in career. so are we drawing from life here? i think, you know, on the surface there are obviously a lot of similarities with me and that character. there are a lot of situations in her life similar to mine but there s also a lot people don t know that are similar to me in every character but i think, that you know, there have been a lot of comparisons to her father and to her relationship but the truth is my father has been very supportive and i think he really doesn t you know, he s not in the horse show world, not in the horse show circuit. he wants me to be successful and be happy and he s been supportive of all my choices. you know, people who get to know me know there are parts of each character that are very similar to me that are maybe more hidden. like this character, i would assume for you it s a double-edged sword having something like mayor mike bloomberg as your dad and a lot of people say, well, she can afford the best horses and of course she s going to win and this comes easily to you and that s not exactly the case. right. like i said, there have been a lot of great opportunities and a lot of positives but also some negatives. there s pressure to succeed and be able to succeed on your own, and it s something i ve always struggled with and tried to make the most of. you re aiming this book at the young adult market which really in the last few years has exploded. how do you find that voice that appeals to that young adult? you know, that was something that i kind of had to go back and read some young adult novels and really kind of get to understand what kids that age are looking for. and, you know, that was a bit of a struggle. at 28 years old it was a struggle to write something i would want to read at my age. the book is not only near and dear to your heart because of the topic and subject but some of the proceeds are going to something that s near oonld dear to you. absolutely. it s going to the equestrian foundation. it s for people who get hurt. you had a bad fall recently and it really injured your back. yeah. you re going to have to go in and have surgery. yeah. actually it s somewhat unrelated to the fall. i m going have to go in for a surgery, take a little time off my career and it s going to be a good opportunity to concentrate on other things, come out with a second book. what other plans do you have for the future? recovering from the surgery, getting into rehab, coming back and doing more in this career. create a fashion line is something i would love to do at this point, riding clothes and normal clothes. but i look forward to doing a couple of other projects as well. you re a real slacker. thanks for being here. thank you. thanks so much. coming up next, how to pull off the hottest trend of the season. mismatched fashions. see the world in hd with breathtaking clarity and incredible comfort. introducing purevision2 contact lenses from bausch and lomb. made with innovative hd optics for amazing detail. they re the only lenses with comfortmoist, so they stay comfortable hour after hour after hour. for crystal-clear vision, even in low light. visit purevision2.com for a free trial pair and see your world in hd. purevision2 from bausch and lomb. this morning on today today sstyle, perfectly mismatched. do you find yourself standing in front of your closet every morning searching for something that actually matches? boy, do we have great news for you. this morning s topic is mismatches. bobbie thomas with tips on how it s done. it sounds almost too good to be true. can you walk out the door in almost anything out there? absolutely. we have icons out there like la lady gaga. but it s fun. i ve got fun examples. i decided to throw on you ve got a little pattern-on-pattern look. yeah. throw on a belt and it s a quirky twist. let s show some of the looks. first we ve got our feminine look. let s bring out our model melanie. this is sort of the floral-on-floral trend. people are always asking me what do you wear with a floral skirt. i went to a discounted department store to find mismatched pieces. you can play around the scale. notice that the top s a little smaller in pattern, it s kind of picking up some of the same colors with bigger bold on the bottom. those are some of the tricks. you find some tricks. stick with the color scheme. that will help you. there s a part of the nowener the bottom skirt that we use to pick up in the smaller flowers on the top. that can be a great tool. don t worry about doing something that breaks the rules. i love her green nails on top of it. the next mismatched look is the bold look and this is really about sort of the global look? global, inspired and intensed. one of my favorite designers is rachael roy. she s doing the work for you. she s put the patterns in one dress. what you re getting is a designer s take on how to mix the patterns without you worrying about it. this is a fantastic dress that you can pear some fun blue shoes with. it a mixed media. mixed motif. natalie, you re a fashion girl. i ve been hanging around you. you have the designers doing it for you. thank you so much, julie. next is the mismatched quirky look. by quirky, you ve got a little retro. i would never thing to put these looks together. this is what i love. sometimes you can go into a store and a mannequin can inspire you. you might even see items in a room that are masterfully woven together. this is a great look. it s kind of fun because i stuck with sort of one vibe and then added a colorful solid cardigan to a kind of bring the look together with a neutral shoe. the stripes tie it all together. what i love are the printed shorts. those are from anthropology. so many great shorts this summer. i really love it. you light great, julie. thanks so much. finally the graphic mismatched ensemble. and for this we ve got a mother/daughter set showing all this off. mother and daughter, really? she went to high school with hoda, right? they re friends. le so they were willing to help me out with this bold graphic look. what s great is even if you want to add a scarf belt on camera, you see that s enough. you don t have to go head to toe. it s great accessory. on mclean you see head to toe. i like black and white with a pop of primary like blue or red. that looks great. ladies, you look fantastic. let s bring all our models out one last time. i love that all these looks are affordable. come on, savannah. samantha. congratulations, bobbi. congratulations. oh, bonnie, you re such a sweetheart. bobby brown. it s official. coming up, we ve got kathie lee and hoda to continue. after your local news and weather. live, local, latebreaking. this is a wbal-tv 11 news update. it is warm and humid this morning and it will be hot and humid this afternoon and evening. some of these storms may actually make it over the mountains by the end of the day. we may see an isolated storms late in the day. high temperatures up near 100. 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