Banter, and they are going to join our window seat coming up. Really. Did you just use the word billy bush and witty in the same sentence . I certainly used it. Do you object . No, no, i agree. Well take a tour of homes around the country. Wait until you see what you can get for under 300,000. Well show you around. All right. Then well have the hot headlines from the world of hollywood, including a free concert from katy perry and news from taylor swift perhaps. Well get into all of that. Lets go inside. Natalies got the headlines. Good morning again, matt and savannah. Good morning, everyone. The east coast is preparing for a monster storm that could devastate the region with flooding, Gale Force Wind and major power outages. Residents in new england are taking precaution buying generators and supplies such as extra water. Hurricane sandy battered the caribbean on thursday killing at least 21 people. Elev 11 of them in cuba. President obama and governor romney are vying for votes in crucial swing states with the president sitting for interviews with local tv stations and governor romney in ohio. The president has a narrow edge 5047 in the swing state of nevada. Police say a new york city nanny used a kitchen knife to kill two Young Children in her care before stabbing herself. The childrens mother had taken her 3yearold daughter to a swim lesson. Then came home to make the grim discovery. The nanny is hospitalized in critical condition. Police have not commented on a possible motive. More client names are expected to be released today in the socalled supprostitution r in maine. They are set to release more than 20 alleged johns who hired the zumba instructor for sex. She has pled not guilty in the case. Lava is now erupting from two different craters in hawaii. Lava could be soon seen from the observation deck. And leave it to the royals to know how to throw a party and prince williams sisterinlaw pippa didnt disappoint. She was the center of attention at a book barb for her new Party Planning book, celebrate. The halloweenthemed party was complete with kids, candy apples and fun finger foods. Despite being the most famous maid of honor to older sister kate last year, pippa said this event made her very nervous. Three minutes after the hour. Lets go back to al who is in florida once again. Hey there, al. Hey there, natalie, and yes, we are watching sandy as it makes its way here in palm beach, florida. You can see the seas are awfully angry. Rain moving in and out of the area and it will continue this way for the next 24 hours. Latest on sandy, 210 miles east northeast of miami, florida. 80mileperhour winds. Its moving northwest at ten miles per hour. Now heres what were looking for as far as watches and warnings. Were looking at Tropical Storm warnings from ocean reef, florida, all the way to flagler beach, and then weve got Tropical Storm watches all the way up into the carolinas. So thats going to continue for the next at least 24 hours. The path of the storm will make its way along the east coast, paralleling the coast, and then eventually by around tuesday night come inland somewhere up into the northeast. Thats the National Hurricane center plot. There are two other models we look at, the gfs, which is the american model and the european model. The european model differs from these other two in that it brings storm, Hurricane Sandy, onshore a day earlier and about 200 miles south of where the other two bring it in. So that would come into the delmarva peninsula causing problems there. If this system moves further to the north, it will mean big, big trouble, catastrophic events for the northeast, new york and new england. Well just have to continue to monitor it. Thats whats going on and thats your latest weather. Savannah . All right, al. Thank you. Time for todays take 3 where we give our take on the three stories that caught our attention and yours, though its usually four, and were joined by billy bush and kit hoover of access hollywood fame. Like a bunch of skittles. Very colorful. Ive insisted that other males be allowed. No matt lauer and i myself sent al roker to florida. And created a hurricane. I just love in the window seat. I watch yall and say we made it to the window seat. I remember looking outside. Security, let me in here. Lets going on our takes. Have you to give your opinion on this one. Take one, whats in a name . Youve been reporting jessica biel, now soon to be changing her last name and Justin Timberlake have wed, but now shes also taking her last name. She wants to be known as Jessica Timberlake and according to her my professional name will be the same but for life, yes, i think it sounds great. I think i really won the jackpot of names, Jessica Timberlake, a great ring to it, and the question is are you all traditionalists . Whats in a name . Do you take the name . You have a whole career. Profession. Shes keeping biel professionally but in personal life, Jessica Timberlake. I love the name. Im a traditional girl. Before i met my husband, i thought kit pitt had a great ring to it. Remember when youre in the seventh grade, writing it out, with hearts all around it. And life takes over and you get more practical sometimes so i keep my maiden name on air and my married name sullivan. Timberlake is a great name. It is a great name. If its that good. Schmuckler. Biel is not that bad. Schmuckler. A huge career on her last name, a whole profession of her own as well so she will definitely keep that professionly. A lot of us can certainly when youre in that position you do want to keep that and have your own thing, and then you go home and be mrs. Timberlake i think it is getting less common for women to take their husbands names. A lot of friends who are married and kept their maiden names and when you have kids what do you do . Do you give them the dads name or the hyphen thing. They take the dads name. The family name, the unit. This will get me in trouble with people, im sure. Not a hyphen guy. Out in l. A. , arent they like merging names, like husbands and wives. They combine them and create a new name. Well mix it up out there. Im glad jessica terrible la timberlake is doing this. Take a look at this worlds car commercial, only commercial aimed exclusively at women, this is going to be released. When is this called . The fitszis. Coming in pink, brown and white to mimic popular eye shadows. In all seriousness it has a special windshield, cuts 99 of all ultraviolet rays to help prevent wrinkles. Talk to me, baby and Plasma Cluster Technology in its ac system which improves skin quality. And some people are offended by this. I sound those features sound pretty good. Who is this for . This has to be the young 20 something. I think so. I just want the extra cup holders. I could care less about uv ray windshield. Why cant men have nice skin, too . I want to have nice skin. You have beautiful skin. If youre blowing out Plasma Cluster Technology. I want to see you pulling up in burbank with a matter kay pink car. Dont people get irritated when things are marketed to women whether its a laptop or whether its a car, that its always pink and always has the frilly little touches, but personally i like the frilly little touches. Women like a big watch, dont you . I like a big watch. To wear for us. I think we can all have the same thing. 1950s, dodge did the dodge la femme, a bad idea. The Car Technology vote it had the worst car ever. And in 2000 there was a washer and dryer in the back of a minivan. Come on. That offends me. Cant go anywhere without your appliances. Pink washer and dryer, then wed be okay with that. I think its the marketing. I used to have a honda crv. I think they designed it with women in mind because theres a great spot to put your purse. I hate putting the purse in the front seat and somebody gets in, excuse my purse and then youve got to throw it in the back. Why cant we have the murse, the man purse . You can. Where do you put mine . Stop dividing us, were all together. Whats in your murse . Dont get him started. My phone, computer. My hairspray. Got great hair. My hair centerpiece. All right. Here we go. How old is too old to go trickortreating . This is pretty obvious, right. Billy, youre to old. Just telling. You anything worse than the guy who shows up at the door and got just a mask and a giant bag and opens the candy. Hes 40. And smoking. Not too old if youre in costume. The big teenager that has like nothing on and the big bag. There are some towns apparently, bellville, indiana or yeah. Where they ban it . Where they are banning it. There is an age limit. Legal limit, eighth grade is the last year they can trickortreat. Did a poll on our website. I would agree 1113 46 . I see a lot of teenagers coming around. If an 18yearold kid comes around and gets an unbelievably cool costume he gets candy. Mailing it in, no. Eighth grade is too long . They cant put the ban in indiana, eighth grade, still into it. Did you guys trickortreat in high school with your pals and dress up . I was a little more destruct you have on that night. Liked toilet paper bombs. That was only if you got the bag of popcorn. Dont give the bag of popcorn or the apple or the toothbrush. There was a guy on our street who gave out pennies, which is nice, but even then. Inflation, quarters. You know it all comes around in the end because my kids want me to dress up, they want me to be in full costume, the whole deal, and if im in full costume im getting cannedy. What are you going to be this year . Are you going to reveal. Im going to build some depth. Are you dressing up for your show . Im going to be a pickle with my kids. Honey boo boo. Or i might be brookley spears and do green hair like a naughty schoolgirl outfit. Speaking of Halloween Costumes, lets take a look at googles top list. Kit. The top 12, Halloween Costumes for 2012. This is according to google. Number one is bane, batman villain. Very freaky. Do you know what he looks like . I do, i saw it. He has that mask and everything. There he is, right there. He has that i dont like that Hannibal Lecter thing. Hunger games. I guess, probably, every kid i know is going as gangnam style. Minecraft, my kids play that game. Theres psy. Minecraft is a game where youre constructing and building with blocks. I guess youre just a bunch of blocks. Is that a video game . Big bird, oscar the grouch. And binders of women. Look at Honey Boo Boo down there at number 11. Honey boo boo paid us a visit. She threw stuff at you. Hit me with pillo and had two dolls doing things. I think you should be sugar bear, my baby daddy. And theres the gogo juice. You guys speak fluent Honey Boo Boo. I just scared myself. Bring it. I slipped right in there very nice. Cleaned her up. She looks great. Sign me up. So good to have you here in our little window seat. Will you come back . Sure. Thank you guys. Its been fun. Love the bangs. They look good. Coming by, rockabye the vote. What the president ial race means for parents right after this. Wardrobe. Cute. Then new activia breakfast blend. A great way to help start the day. Mmm. Creamy lowfat yogurt with grains in yummy breakfast flavors, like apple cinnamon. Its hearty, with twice the protein of regular lowfat yogurt and helps regulate your digestive system. Our morning routines are important, arent they . New activia breakfast blend. Mom, pop it. Two inches apart, becky. Two inches. Tminus nine minutes. [ ding ] [ female announcer ] pillsbury cinnamon rolls. 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Lactaid® milk. The original 100 lactosefree milk. Bp has paid overthe people of bp twentythreeitment to the gulf. Billion dollars to help those affected and to cover cleanup costs. Today, the beaches and gulf are open, and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. And bps also committed to america. We support nearly 250,000 jobs and invest more here than anywhere else. Were working to fuel america for generations to come. Our commitment has never been stronger. Back now with parenting today. As patients we strive to make choices that will impact our children in a positive way, including the big president ial decision facing voters now in 11 days. Parenting magazine teamed up with nbcs kate snow for a revealing look at how politics plays a role in raising kids. And kates here along with sean beam, parentings executive editor. Good morning to you both. Good morning. Obviously such an important topic on so many levels, but you interviewed, sean, 1,100 parents, all of different races, religious, ethnicities, political viewpoints, so what was the criteria overall for choosing the sampling . Well, really the criteria was very broad. We wanted people in our demo with families, with kids, under the age of 12. Beyond that everyone was welcome to the party so to speak. We heard from a lot of different people and its really interesting, because especially when it comes to the election, you think about all the decisions parents have to make. Yeah. Private school and public school, alternate schedules, regular schedules, am i going to stay at home or work . By the time they get around to the decision of who they want to lead the free world, they are used to making tough decisions. Kate, you moderated a Panel Including ten people from the survey. What was your impression of what they were interested in, and what was most important to them . Jobs obviously came up a lot, but i was surprised how much education came up and how personal politics becomes when youre a parent and thats one of the key findings in the survey that they did is once youre a parent about half the respondents said that they had changed their political views or that they had strengthened or become more active politically, and i think when you have kids, this is what everybody said on the panel, you start to see things differently. You start to view life through the prism of your children and you want the best for them, and so, for example, two of the women had kids with special needs and they said all i think about is education and health care for my child with a special need. Are they going to be okay when im gone . And they kind of viewed all politics through that. Absolutely. Well, lets get to some of the results as well from the survey and the connection, again, between parenting and politics. Now, 48 , sean, of surveyed said they have become more politically motivated and 42 actually said they changed their viewpoint. Youre a father of two. What do you make of these findings . I think to kates point t. Changes everything, the lens you view politics through. You think about the election with parenthood. I think it changes everything, in my opinion. Another question that you posed to those surveyed, kate, is do parents make better president s, and majority actually believe that they do . Right. And it all goes back to that question of family values. As opposed to a Single Person, the group that we, the focus group of ten that we had. They would be okay with a single parent or Single Person as a president , too, but if you look back, you did the research. Was it 150 years ago that we had a single president. Most president s are married. You think about 150 years, you have to go back to find the first family that didnt have kids, and just shows you how important having kids are to softening the perception and the identity of a president ial candidate. First ladies really quick, thought this was really interesting. When asked who would be better prepared to be the first lady, a stayathome mom or working mom . 75 said it didnt matter. Yeah. Shows the mommy wars dont matter. We make more of the mommy wars than real women do. They all said i dont care whether ann romney worked outside the home. I dont care whether Michelle Obama worked outside the home. What they cared about is whether those women could relate to women in the real world. They did talk we had a vibrant discussion about whether they actually get our problems and understand, you know, the economic struggles that they were having. Exactly. Absolutely. You think about we were raised by a single or working mom, friends with a single or working mom. Were married to them, so at the end of the day we respect these people, and i dont think we really separate them out as being different or better than the other. They are part of the equation when it comes to picking who is going to be in office. Shawn beam, parentings ex executive editor and kate snow. Thanks to having you. Pop goes today. New and noteworthy bits from hollywood. That and more after this. 3d iphone app. This cl theyd be so happy if i could get both. Well, you could put them on layaway and pay a little at a time. Done, and done he shoots. He scores touchdown [ imitates crowd cheering ] strike [ male announcer ] shop now. Get the hottest toys on your list today, like furby and the itikes discover map. Then put it on layaway so you have more time to pay. Walmart. And less saturated fat . Its eb. Egglands best eggs. Better taste. Better nutrition. Better eggs. Its eb. Two. Three. My Credit Card Rewards are easy to remember. 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