Did you have a fitting . Im very, very excited about my costume. Really . Im thrilled about my costume. Really . Yes. Better than the skipper from Gilligans Island . Yeah. The prop is almost as good as the costume. What a buildup. Im sold. Im thrilled. I cant remember it either. Speaking of halloween, weve got great ideas for the little ones if you want to put their best face forward with some face painting, well tell you how to do it. Its easy, inexpensive, and you can complete the perfect costume and do not have to be an artist, although, that looks pretty good. Oh, look. Way to go, kiddo. I like it. And speaking of colors, i know fifty shades of grey is in probably all of our homes, but in fact, it should be. When were talking gray, were talking about the color in your home. Its versatile, its classic, and its elegant whether your home is traditional or modern. We are going to give you some fabulous decorating ideas from our fifty shades of grey. No, thats not what it is. Shes waving me off on that. Little different than the book. Lets go inside, natalies got a check of the headlines. Good morning, everyone. Former republican secretary of state colin powell has endorsed president obama for a second term. Powell had also endorsed obama back in 2008. On monday, meanwhile, former president bill clinton will Campaign Together with president obama in three swing states, florida, ohio and virginia. President obamas already hitting those states today. Romney is also in ohio today and the republican super pac, meanwhile, has released a new ad that features Clint Eastwood who warns that america could not survive a second obama term. Hurricane sandys blamed for at least three deaths in the caribbean. Sandy made landfall today in southern cuba with heavy rain and winds topping 110 miles per hour. It lashed parts of haiti and jamaica on wednesday. An arrest in the death of jessica ridgeway. 17yearold Austin Reed Sigg appears in court today in connection with the girls death. Ridgeway disappeared earlier this month while walking to her elementary school. Her body was found five days later. Officials say sigg will also face charges in the attempted kidnapping of a 22yearold jogger back in may. A michigan man whose wifes death last month was tied to the National Meningitis outbreak says he is now hospitalized for the same illness. 65yearold george carey said he began having severe headaches last friday but is feeling better after three days of treatment. Carey and his wife lillian were both treated for back and neck pain at a clinic that used contaminated steroids made by a massachusetts pharmacy. That drug has been blamed for the outbreak. A new report is out this morning about just how much caffeine is packed into energy drinks. Tom costello has the latest. Good morning. Natalie, good morning to you. These drinks are very popular because of the jolt people get, especially when theyre trying to stay awake, but caffeine, as you know, is a stimulant. And because these are considered dietary supplements, they dont fall under fda regulation. Reporter the headlines this week have been full of warnings about the caffeine levels in those high energy drinks. Popular with high school and college kids. Now Consumer Reports is out this morning with its own investigation into the real caffeine levels in the drinks and those drinks that dont specify caffeine levels. Consumer reports tested 27 products and found that five of the cans that list caffeine actually have levels at least 20 higher than what their labels indicated. And 11 of the products dont specify their caffeine levels at all. Since theyre considered a dietary supplement, theyre not required to. Its important for people to understand what theyre buying and drinking. And if that information is not even available on the product, thats the problem. Among those drinks that dont list caffeine levels, monster. We first reported on monster last march and the death of 14yearold anise who died of cardiac arrest. The official cause of death, cardiac arrhythmia due to caffeine toxicity. She had consumed two monster drinks in less than 24 hours, roughly 480 milligrams of caffeine, five times whats recommended for teens. Her mother is now suing monster. Shes the last thing i think about at night. I visit the cemetery every day. Anise did suffer from a common heart defect and monster insists its products are safe telling nbc news it does not believe that its products are in any way responsible for anises death and unaware of any fatality anywhere that has been caused by its products. But the fda this week confirmed anise is one of five deaths that could be linked to Drinking Monster Energy drinks. Monster points out the biggest drink contains 240 milligrams of caffeine, less than many popular coffee drinks. Still, the chief of cardiology at Georgetown University hospital says caffeine overdose is a real problem. Between the caffeine, the sugar, its affects on blood pressure, potential adverse effects, i think its really difficult to justify a case for children, young adults to be using these substances right now. E. R. S across the country have reported a dramatic surge in caffeine overdoses in recent years. Now, some lawmakers want to give the fda the authority to regulate high Caffeine Energy drinks as much as it sets caffeine levels in soft drinks. Is it too much to ask the Dietary Supplement Companies to go to the fda and at least register their product before they put them on the shelves across america . The American Beverage Association tells nbc news it has adopted voluntary policies on energy drink labels and marketing to children. Some do offer warnings, some dont offer warnings. Natalie . All right, tom costello, thanks so much. And if youre thinking of moving in with your significant other, you may have more to worry about than whether or not he leaves the toilet seat up. According to a study from multivitamins, living together caused women to gain weight. About 33 of women said they ended up eating more after moving in with their partner. But the real twist, men in the same situation ended up losing weight. Mostly by switching to foods their female counterparts preferred. Its all that salad we like. Seven minutes after the hour right now, back over to al with another check of your weather. I like it. All right. Lets see what weve got for you. Again, this is the latest on sandy. 420 miles southeast of miami, florida, 105mileperhour winds, heres the watches and warnings we have at this hour. You can already see those feeder bands coming into southern florida. Right now, weve got hurricane warnings up for cuba and much of the bahamas, weve got Tropical Storm warnings from key largo up to daytona beach, in the north, Tropical Storm watches, you see that rain moving in. The path of the storm right now. The National Hurricane center path brings it up and through the bahamas later today on into friday. And then makes a turn to the right and hugging the coast, but not quite right along the coast. Now, heres where things get very interesting. When you look at two main computer models, we look at the american model, the gfs and the european model. The american models in yellow, the blue model is the european. And as the weekend progresses, you can see the blue model stays closer to the coast and then late sunday, early monday hooks a left and comes into the delmarva peninsula. What that means is that the northeast, much of the northeast, the megaopolis is on the northeastern quadrant, thats the strongest quadrant of the storm. We will continue to track this, continue to monitor it, you can get the latest on Weather Channel and weather. Com. Good morning. The winds have shifted to the east. Clouds will break up this afternoon and it will still be relatively mild, high near 72. Now to todays take three where the three of us take on the three topics that are getting a lot of buzz and caught our attention. And in the hot seat with us this morning jenna wolfe is here. Are you ready . Its going to be take four today. 3. 5. Lets not get ahead of ourselves. Okay. Take one. A great question for the ages, can men and women be friends . And when we pose this question, i personally like to go to all wisdom, Billy Crystal in when harry met sally. No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. Youre saying a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive . No, you pretty much want to nail them too. What if they dont want to have sex with you . Doesnt matter because the sex thing is already out there, the friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story. Guess were not going to be friends then. Guess not. Science has caught up to when harry met sally. They looked at 88 pairs of opposite sex friends and asked about romantic feelings. Men were more attracted to the female counterpart and believed the attraction was mutual, but women were less attracted to the male friends and assumed men felt the same. Of course we were. Of course. Dont ever assume. I dont know how i feel about this. I think men and women can be friends. We all have great male friends. You have great women friends. Right. And the sex part doesnt get in the way. But if you do think theyre attractive, Billy Crystal says its out there. Yeah, the sex thing it doesnt mean you act on it. Heres the deal. The deal is as guys, and i think im speaking for a fair number that were always thinking about sex, but that doesnt mean that doesnt mean were going to act on it. We think al and i have had this we go back three weeks now with all this tension. And the truth is, were barely friends. Thats right. I cant stand her. I cant even look at him. You put me in the middle here. I cant stand him. Where do we come down on it . I have to say, i think i disagree with Billy Crystal. I disagree with the Scientific American research. I think men and women can be friends. I do, though, think that in the back of your mind, admit it somewhere in there i just said that. So there you go. All right. Lets move to take two. Parents posting facebook as punishment. This photo is going viral. And were trying to find the parents to confirm their story. Anyway, two parents took away their daughters phone because she got fresh. She got fresh. So to punish her, they reportedly uploaded embarrassing photos of themselves to her Facebook Page. Getting fresh themselves. Thats right. One trying to look like curley howard, the other, im not sure. I dont know. You guys have kids. Is that crossing the line to get on their Facebook Pages . Absolutely. Absolutely. Because for a teenager, especially, facebook is your identity as a kid of that age. And i think this is the idea of, you know, when parents you want to set the right example. You want to be a model to your kids. And if they were trying to invoke the punishment you were being fresh with us and they were being fresh on her Facebook Page i think were missing the Bigger Picture here. My parents my mom barely knows how to put on her iphone, much less post a picture. Id be like you guys posted pictures. I dont care what they are, that is fantastic. You should be the parent, though. You dont want to i dont think you want to shame your kid. There are other ways to do it. Took away her phone, thats enough, i think. Take the phone away for a week. Its true. They have i have no credentials to speak. I think you shouldnt try to humiliate your children, but you should try to teach them a lesson. At least theyre not shooting the laptop yeah, exactly. I think that was a little extreme. Okay. This little video is going to be our take three. The cardinals, the team got so close to the championship finals, the trophy, but didnt quite get there. For this 4yearold little cardinals fan it was absolutely devastating. As his dad tries to console him. Take a look. Daddy, its too long. A year is too long. It will be over. Its okay. Why, daddy . We had a good year. But daddy, i really, really not lose. They were really close. I wish they had subtitles, though. You get the idea. So cute. Its going to be a whole other year until baseball season. Hes like, i cant wait that long. Have you ever been that crushed . When they ended golden girls. I was that way the whole time. He gets it from his dad, though, the dads into the season, he gets into the season. Hes taking it hard. You cant imagine a kid getting that upset about the hockey season. I thought it was sweet. It was very sweet. Heres our bonus take. This is the bonus one. I love this. The worst password list. Hard to remember all the millions of passwords so we use easy to remember data. Splash data has released the worst passwords for 2012. Password takes the top spot. Hold on, two and three, number two is 123456, and number two is 12345678. Its like the luggage combination. Other notable newcomers. Welcome, jesus, ninja, mustang, and password1. What is qwerty. The keyboard. Who do these people think theyre fooling . I know. Natalie. Apparently. It worked. It was brilliant, a great password. Im going to change your password right now. Do you have Strong Passwords . I think so. What is it . Write this down. Could you write down your Social Security number . 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So gray when it comes to women, their hair color, they freak out, but in this case in the home, its the most elegant new trend, right . It really is the hot color. And i truly believe its the right color for right now. We are exposed to so much. Think about it, your style can change as quickly as your facebook update. So you really need a color that goes with everything and that is gray. And for all those naysayers who say its dull, blah, i say you are wrong. And i had a friend who put it well, they said gray is the color of light. It is true when you think about light and you think about its many dimensions, thats what gray is and goes with so many things. And allows for a perfect accent color to throw any color on top. This is the easiest way to transform a room. Right. This all started with my own exploration. I recently did a house and painted it seven different shades of gray. And here are five of the grays i used. I wrote about it in the Washington Post called seven shades of gray, i havent read the book. Youve read it. I havent. Anyway, these are the grays and these are Benjamin Moore colors. But you can see the gray can go from green to blue to a much deeper, darker tone. And obviously youre going to pick tones that work best for the feel of your room. Like in my husbands office, i used a dark gray thats gray flannel, very masculine. But in my bathroom, i wanted something a little bit lighter and more blue and clean gray almost a swedish gray, which is why i went with coventry gray. I always recommend testing colors, you can go to any paint store, get boards like this, buy a sample paint color, test them, put them in your room because grays will change with light. I think we have pictures of the home you were describing. We do. Lets talk about also some of the other ways that you can use gray if, for example, you dont want to commit to a whole wall or room looking gray. Well, what im here to demonstrate here today is it really is a trend. And you see it on everything. This chest, its so pretty, based on a 1930s design from bungalow five, its in a gray lacquer. Again, this also alleviates when you have too many brown in a room, a lot of times in the decorating world we say add white or pops of color. The lamp is from ballard design, a subtle, easy way of adding it. And over here in our living room area. Another way is through fabric. What i find very interesting is this is the color it only comes in a few colors and it comes in mostly grays. So obviously this trend is across the board. You can mix it with any color and thats whats great about gray. Think about gray flannel pants, you can put it with any color sweater. So here i have pillows. Pink and green, and this chair its 230 from home goods. Wow. What an incredible purchase. And here is gray in an a cut. Lets move over to the dining room table. Because heres an elegant way you can see, as well, to serve up a table full of gray. You dont have to do white plates, but here we have plates from kate spade in this wonderful gray. Glasses which are from ikea. This isnt like a lot of money you have to spend. The table cloth is actually from mia and finn as are the napkins. Even if you think christmas, you can add in