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gregory, savannah guthrie, natalie morales. coming up in this hour, talking about we ve got to get you updated on the casey anthony case. last night officials in florida pushed baforward her release da. also, we ve got experts to talk about hot topics. lawyer-prosecutor, star jones, donny deutsch, and dr. nancy snyderman. we ll take on the hot topics of the day. also going to be talking about real estate this morning. we ll do a house tour, show you how far your money will go around the country. what you can get for $300,000 or less in cities all over the country. so good advice. > before we get to all of that, let s get to the top stories of the day. good morning, once again. good morning, everyone. the june jobs report is out this morning as hiring the hiring ground to a near halt last month. employers added only 18,000 jobs, the fewest added in nine months. the unemployment rate rose to 9.2%. an emotional day for nasa as the shuttle atlantis was poised this morning for the final mission of the entire 30-year space shuttle program. the shuttle fueled up while nasa kept an eye on cloudy weather that threatened to delay today s ladies and gentlemen. on thursday nasa reported a lightning strike within one-third of a mile of the launchpad. as you heard, cassie anthony will be a free woman by next sunday, july 17th. as the murder case against her is now closed. nbc s kerry sanders joins us once again from outside the jail in orlando. kerry, good morning. reporter: well good morning. she woke up here alone in a cell again, but she won t be here much longer. as you said, she ll be out in nine days. she was convicted on four counts of lying to a law enforcement officer and so the judge sentenced her to the maximum on each of those counts, one year for each one. but she s been in jail here for almost three years and she gets credit for time served, as well as good behavior credit which means she will be getting out initially, they thought she d get out in about five days but late last night they recalculated. she will now walk free in nine days. kerry sanders in orlando, florida, thanks, kerry. a deadly shooting spree, car chase and hostage standoff ended last night with more bloodshed in michigan. police in grand rapids say this 34-year-old went on a shooting rampage that killed seven people, including his own daughter and another unidentified child. after a high-speed chase and a five-hour hostage stand-off, he fatally shot himself. the three hess staostages were unharmed. a stolen picasso was all boxed up and ready to ship in a fedex box. they ve arrested a new jersey man, accused him of flying cross-country, walking into an art gallery on tuesday and leaving with head of a woman. take a look at this. a very tall baby at the vienna zoo. this giraffe is making a big impression at 130 pounds and nearly six feet tall. she is a cutie. four minutes past the hour. let s go outside once again, check in with maria who s in for al for a check of your weekend forecast. good morning, natalie. along with all the blake shelton fans, we have some birthday girls here. happy sweet 16. i hear your mom is maybe a bigger fan? i don t think so. no? i don t want to start anything. i think blake will love you both equally. that s the good news. we take a look at the satellite radar picture, we do have some showers and thunderstorms rolling through the ohio valley. heavy rain continues to be a threat across florida as well. the thunderstorm season through the rockies as well. that could lead to some strong thunderstorms later on today as a cold front sweeps through. still sizzling hot across the southern plains, temperatures ell over 100 degrees today. we are off to a fairly quiet start after the storms last night. rainshowers and thunderstorms come back late into the aftern savannah, back to you. maria, thank you. this morning, we re kicking off a brand-new series today s professionals. we put together a panel of power players, experts in their field, to tackle the most important headline, studies and people making the news. star jones is a lawyer and former talk show host. donny deutsch is the chairman of advertising giant deutsche incorporated. and dr. nancy snyderman is nbc s chief medical editor. good morning to all of you. i m not quite sure what my profession is, an esteemed lawyer and physician. we re about to find out. let s start with the casey anthony case. she s just been sentenced and is about to get out of jail. donny, i will start with you. you are familiar with someone shaping someone s public profile, issues of branding. can she recover? two letters. o.j. she will get her interview, she ll get her book and that s it. how much can she get? for a book or interview but donny people with no network will touch her she is o.j. we already saw a foreign company offer her something, then revoke it because the outcry was so much. she s not out of danger. there are people who so hate her. i would think that there is a real concern for her public safety. nancy, how does she adjust going from three years in prison and there was notoriety all along the way but do you think she even has any conception of the attention that will be on her? i don t think so. this is a classic sociopath. she lies, makes up fake people. she lies where she works, everything out of her mouth the sociopathy she s thinking about what color her hair is next. she s not really thinking about getting a job. donny s disgusted. but people want to watch it. listen. there is a pretty little baby girl. we got video of her. with the grandma, granddad. we got an attractive young 25-year-old. we also know if this was a black person, we wouldn t be covering the story. oh! did you just throw it out there! you re a former prosecutor. and i happen to be black. i actually think that we re not as concerned about missing children of color as we are concerned with the cute little young white child. did this result shake your faith in the jury system? i learned a lot from you guys this week talking about evidence. i think the jury s wrong. i think this mother is implicated in some way. but i learned more about the judicial system and nuances this week. i think the media s so powerful. we re so used to the csis of the world where people are trained with a red ribbon bow around things. when they don t get it, they can t convict. i think the smarter the jury, they re more than willing to convict. another topic. charlie sheen has decided to let comedy central roast him on the night that two and a half men premiers with ashton kutcher. i saw it in the new york pos post . i saw the picture, i flipped the page. yawn. go away. there s a bunch of kids in my neighborhood and they always say, you re doing too much. charlie, you re doing too much. he was on brand in everything he did, he was a rogue. if two and a half men premiers, which it will, and does a huge number, immediately people are going to go charlie sheen is irrelevant until a half-hour later, he will do a huge number. there s room for two and a half men. there s room for charlie sheen. the world is fascinated by him. as long as he doesn t continue these stupid rants. what does it say about us? he s a train wreck. obvious mental issues. he s a train wreck. unless you address the underlying mental health issues and the medication issues that have been insinuated, the train wreck continues. there s a fascination between charlie sheen and jersey shore. people are acting out primally. though what he does is disgusting. this is the guy, the kid that never grows up, there s drugs, rock n roll. just so people know i didn t see any goddesses there. have you a beyond a reasonable doubt standard of goddessness. okay? speaking of goddesses, we ll move on to another topic. eating out. this isn t exactly a shocker but it is apparently the more you eat out, according to usda, the more likely you are to be fat. why do you have to say that? i ve lost all this weight. you got to do a fat girl kind of story. here s the thing. do you think people recognize how much eating out apparently one-third of our calories come from going to restaurants. people don t cook anymore. people are detached from their kitchens. i don t care how many times martha stewart is on this show, people go, oh, that looks good, then they go home and order out. one of the problems i always have, everything that s wrong with us we have a blame for. we re overweight, it is the media s fault, it is because we eat out. either you can control yourself or you can t. look, this is your real house. no, you re right. the reason kids are fat is because or the reason we re fat is because the reason we re fat is we don t want to give anything up which means eat less and work out. butky make a point? if you have money you can go to a healthy grocery store and buy fresh fruits and vegetables. if you don t have a lot of money, you re going for the dollar menu at fast food. our plates over the decades have gotten bigger and bigger and we feel like we re not getting our money s worth. star, have you triumphed. you have kept a significant amount of weight off. yeah. as he moves my fat arm donny. how to talk to women, donny. seriously. no, seriously. i went from 307 pounds at my height to having lost 160 pounds and kept it off for it will be eight years now in august. but the real reason that i was able to do it, obviously started with gastric bypass. that was about 80 pounds but the rest of it is called pushing away from the table and getting up from the couch. i had no choice. and some things dr. nancy, it s true about restaurants. there s a secertain amount of mystery what s going on you want to see how your food is prepared? you want the shock of your life? see how much olive oil is being thrown into that pan. at the end of the day, fat is fat. but interestingly, the fancier the restaurant, the more handled your food is. the places where the very wealthy go and you see all those perfect little garnishes, i d love to know how many hands have touched those plates. is that the germ thing we re getting into there? if we clean up obesity and diabetes, we ve solved all the health care. parents can control their kids. i m so tired of parents relinquishing control to mcdonald s. we ve got to move on. i think we ve lost the war. on that depressing note, the faa has announced some new rules having been seven instances of air traffic controllers falling asleep during these overnight shifts since april. the faa has now said, well, to resolve this we ll let them read or listen to the radio to help them stay awake. can you say lawsuit is coming any time? but this is interesting. because i think the problem is, if you re out in some little place in billings, montana is probably too big a town and you re on the graveyard shift all by yourself, of course you re going to nod off. that may not be an issue unless you re on a plane flying to l.a. and suddenly you have problems and have to land. so a buddy system or having a radio on is fine. but, human beings are not meant to be up all night. unless they re on a different shift. wait a minute, don t we have factories that work all night? obviously if somebody is working at night, they re sleeping in the day. do you have a problem with a passenger on principle if they were allowed to take a quick cat nap? obviously someone else would be watching the captain. my grandfather worked a graveyard shift for my entire childhood. he did either 8:00 to 4:00, 4:00 to midnight, or midnight to 8:00 a.m. the next day. when he was not working, he was sleeping. when you go on those long-haul flights we ve all seen, there is a seat for the pilot or sleeping area. pilots do take breaks, power naps do make a difference. we re almost out of time butky not not mention this. a british study found men and women packing for a week-long trip, men said they took three pair of underwear, women said they took ten. that s exactly right. donny, speak for the men. this is crazy. i m man, i take ten. i m sorry, here s my rule. any time i take a shower, new underwear s going on. i have yet to meet the man i ve roomed with guys in college. i don t believe that stuff. i just if you re pippa, you go commando. i think we all agree star jo jones, donny deutsch, dr. nancy, good to see to you. that was professional? 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[ female announcer ] find them in the cracker aisle. this morning on today s money, quick fixes to bump up your credit score. whether it is an extra five points or 50, every little bit really helps especially if you re shopping around for lower interest rates, even a better job sometimes. credit coach jean kelly is author of the 90 day credit challenge. and we also have the author of psyche yourself rich. before you even talk about your credit score, it is important for you to know what your credit score is. you got to find your credit report. so where do you go about finding that information? you should go to the most popular source which is fico. go to myfico.com. it is about $20. it is not free despite a lot of claims out there that you can get a free credit score, a lot of those are just bait-and-switch. they get you on but you also have to buy something or sign up for a service to get the score. it is worth it to pay the $20. jean, once you do get your credit report, you say it is really important to look through it all and see if there are any errors. right. what should you be looking for? look to see if your name is correct. your address. your phone number. late payments. balances on your credit cards. you want to highlight everything that s wrong and then dispute it directly with the credit bureau. each of the credit bureaus. absolutely. they do not share information so you have to go directly to each one. expo experi experian, equifax and transunion. someone who made two late payments on his car loan was able to fix that. how much did that change his score in the end? he had a 671 fico score. had he a deal with the creditor that put the error on the credit report. he got a letter. they corrected it. he sent that to the credit bureau. when he had his credit repulled he was 5720. big difference. that s a huge difference when it comes to those interest payments or things, this can make a big difference. so meantime, couple ways that you can lower your credit or you can lower the score is by first paying or increase your scores by paying your bills on time which so important. payment history is about 35% of your fico score. missing a payment can lower your score by as much as 100 points. so make sure that we re talking about current bills. your current mortgage, your car payments, your credit cards. not the old delinquent past-due accounts which the damage has already been done. you want to really pay attention to the bills that are coming in currently and really automate those payments so you don t forget. how quickly will you really see a difference in your credit score rating just by making sure that you re making all those payments on time? well, it can be as quickly as 30 days because the credit bureaus update their information about every 30 days or 45 days, whatever the billing cycle is. so the faster you pay down your debt, the faster you ll see your score increase. you say to lower the balance on your credit card, this doesn t necessarily mean that you have to pay off your credit cards entirely. it means you can actually use something that you call debt utilization. debt utilization we use this term a lot when talking about credit scores is a big ingredient when it comes to valuing your credit score. it is about 30% of your credit score. it is equal to how much debt you are carrying month to month, all your credit cards, over the limit on all of your credit cards. we have an example here just to simplify. let s say you have a credit card with a $10,000 limit and you re carrying a balance of $5,000 on that card. your 50% utilized, that s too high. you want to get to a point where you have 10% utilization or maybe $1,000 on that card. the people in the country with the highest credit scores have a utilization ratio of 7%. then i m going to do this really quickly because we re running out of time. you also say use cards that you haven t used in a while. jean, why is that important even a lot of us think, you re racking up some debt there. but you say it is not the point is not to rack up the debt. it is not to rack up the debt. you want to have activity, healthy credit. so you can use that card you haven t used for a while and pay a utility bill. whatever. we re not saying get more debt. but just use this in a healthy way an you ll see that your score will jump by using accounts that you used in a while. significantly? well, every point matters. as we discussed, lower your balances, pay your bills on time, all of these things if you do it, you can jump 50 points over the summer. you got to show that you re responsible whether it comes to your credit. the only way to do that is by having a little bit of credit. right. thanks so much, as always. next, kids an cursing. what is a parent to do? oy vey. we ve got some help right after this. every day, thousands of people are choosing advil. cer ] here s one story. my name is lacey calvert and i train professional athletes with yoga. i know how my body should feel. if i have any soreness, i m not going to be able to do my job. but once i take advil, i m able to finish my day and finish out strong. then when i do try other things, i always find myself going back to advil. it really works! 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