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We have these four dolls in front of us. I guarantee you, the young men who are represented here are not happy with the grammy nom from last night. They got snubbed. Willie has a couple of kids who are teen fans of these. Could you, and this is a test, could you name each one of these individuals by their doll . Im laughing because the answer is yes. I want to be clear, we have not prepared for this. I know this is my daughters favorite zain. This is liam, your lead singer guy. Positive . Yep. 100 . Thats niles, the irish guy. Is that correct . I dont think so. Thats harry. Hes dating taylor. And this is luis who doesnt get a lot of attention, but i believe deserves more. Well take them down. By the way, 29. 95. These are a good deal and they sing. Youve been with the today show for about a month. So far you had a storied career. You went from a news guy to having a little laughing and scratching with the rest of us. Laughing and scratching. Would you like to see how your month looked . Do i have a choice . No. Weird, weird moment just occurred. Youre going public . I was in the vestibule. Willie came down the stairs, said, hey, matt, how are you and patted me on the tush. Come in here tight. Willie, take your time. Hey, hey give you a head start there. Oh you know what . You took that off. Thank you. I love it. I did tend a little bar. [ speaking french ] i ran out of my french. Hes fluent in french . Hes fluent. He and i were in the same town in france at the same time in college. Are you kidding . Youve got parallel parking, popping the bottle, popping matt on the rear end. Take notice. Coming out hot. Same thing happened to my career. Dont worry. There is a new study out that talks about the differences between men and women. They say that men have a much easier time when youre at the mall and you park your car. You go in and shop, come out, tracking it down. They say women have less, i dont know, spatial direction . Really . I would think the opposite. I think women are more organized. My wife, anyway. I have to do a device. If we are on level 5 section f, i have to park under the sign with an f on it. That way i know exactly where it is. My friend dennis was number five in high school and add an f to it. Im not the quickest. What about you . I dont remember where i parked anything. You know what i realize . I remember less and less about everything. I was in a show and someone sat next to me and he said hi, and you know when youre just, you know, please, something. I couldnt remember anything about this guy. I felt like i just met him for the first time and i had talked with him and interviewed him twice on our show. Thats terrible. But you are on tv every day for an hour and interview a lot of people. In fairness. And, and and the drinking. This is a bourbon with a splash of ginger el. Do you hit the remote and hope it hits your car . By the way, i want to say i had a major accomplishment. Yesterday morning i decided im quitting sleep for a while. This is what i did yesterday. I took a bag of chocolate chip cookies and threw them in the garbage. Did you really . That was a big moment for you. I hate myself. Im so gross. What . Ive been eating sweets like they are going out of style. You look like a million bucks. What are you talking about . I want to see how well i do. What is the over under . Three days, four days . Monday, kathie lee and i are having a cookie. Five days. Grammy nominations came out and it was an interesting group. It was eclectic. Bieber got snubbed and one direction got snubbed. They did have interesting groups that were in there. Probably most bieber fans never heard of. Frank ocean, black keys, fun, jayz, mumford and son. Kanye. They all got six nominations. And fun with the dot at the end. I like fun. Do you have a favorite in that zbloup i like fun. I liked taylor swift and l. L. Cool jay. They were hosting the Nomination Party and the show. Lets take a listen. Were even. Nashville some day ill be big enough that you cant hate me and all youre ever going to be is mean not the best beat box i ever heard. All respect to taylor, but not the best beat box. Speaking of music that maybe isnt terrific . Are we going there . John travolta and Olivia Newton john. This is interesting. Tease this up. What is this . John travolta and Olivia Newton john put together a christmas album. For one of the songs they created a video. A lot of people are talking about it. Lets do the little dance we do the hug and the swirl. There is a lot of running. How is that for that is their dancing. Lets listen a little. And the kids are in it. No, no. Have they recaptured the magic of grease . I dont think so. We have an image in our head of grease. Its corny but such fun. This is corny, too. Not as much fun. Somebody said to fix your brain from having seen that you need to watch grease again and erase what you saw there and let the old grease sink in. Youre going to like my song, i think. I dont remember because i picked it earlier in the week. Its a great one. I included a little carly ray because she was nominated for her song call me maybe. This is called good times. Good times just happy. Youre sitting around in a funk, crank this up. Its going to be all right they love it. They cant hear it. I have pandora and i watch the videos on vh1. I just turn on the songs i love. No one gets more excited about music than hoda kotb in the best possible way. Lets go over to sara. Youre talking to the kids from one direction today. Im the desire of every tween out there. I got to sit with the boys. And every 37yearold man. And hoda. Weve got good news. If youre looking for the perfect gift for christmas, we are going to give away ten 360, 4g xbox. Well take ten lucky winners at random. All you have to do is go sign up. You have a chance to win. Awesome. Can we give a big thank you to our wonderful graphics people. Youre like a wheres waldo back there. Your gigantic head is popping up. I photo bombed you guys. Coming up, you guys, well see how these two lucky ladies look after their ambush makeover. Our very own sara haines with a oneonone interview with one direction. Get down, sara haines. [ male announcer ] alkaseltzer plus presents the cold truth. I have a cold, and i took nyquil, but im still stubbed up. [ male announcer ] truth is, nyquil doesnt unstuff your nose. What . [ male announcer ] it doesnt have a decongestant. No way. [ male announcer ] sorry. Alkaseltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms plus has a fast acting decongestant to relieve your stuffy nose. [ sighs ] thanks [ male announcer ] youre welcome. Thats the cold truth [ male announcer ] alkaseltzer plus. Oh what a relief it is [ male announcer ] to learn more about the cold truth and save 1 visit alkaseltzer on facebook. We are back on this thirsty thursday with our plaza ambush makeovers. We plucked two lucky ladies and surprised them with our brandnew look. Here is our resident makeover team, today contributor and stylist to the stars, louis licari. And of course the great jill martin. Hello. How were the pickings . They are Getting Better every week. Closer to the holidays, the tree is up. A ton of people to pick from. As you can see, they are very excited. Anne keenan looks especially excited, 41 years old from richmond, virginia. She said shes had the same look for as long as she can remember and is thrilled for the opportunity to get a brandnew style. Lets listen to her story. Youre so excited. I saw you hitting your father. Over and over because he didnt want to come with me this morning. I told him maybe i would get picked for a makeover. So you wanted it. Tell me exactly what you want. You told me youre in a rut. Yeah. Ive had the same haircut for a while. Ive tried to do something different, but i never know just what i want to do. But i know i want something different. I know your husband is watching live. Hello. Any message . Just wait till i get home. Oh, anne, anne, anne. Anne is here with a whole brude here. Her parents, her aunt and her kids. Keep the blind folds on till i give you the green light. Here is anne keenan before lets see the new you. Whoa take off your blindfolds. Whoa. Thats different. Turn around. You look hot. Spin around here. Oh, my god. You look gorgeous. Wow. Oh, my god. Spin right here. Look at that camera. The hair. The whole thing. When i saw anne i saw a beautiful woman. She just, i saw all this personality that wasnt coming through her look. We popped out the personality with this brighter hair color. This great haircut. And the pop of makeup. Guys, what do you think . Whos got the microphone . Ive got the microphone. Thats not the anne i used to know. Beautiful. That dress is perfect. It looks a little like leather, but its silk with an overlay. Its a comfortable dress by maggie london. She has a party on saturday. We always no matter your figure everyone wear spanx. It makes any dress wear nicer. What do you think . Im amazed. I love it. Big round of applause for anne. Next up from cordova, alaska, 35 years old. Her daily beauty routine consists of watching her hair. Thats it. She is so excited she said to get this new look. Lets hear her story. We had to bully you into this, but now youre ready . Yes. Im so ready. Tell me why you want this makeover now . Well, ive been working for how many years i think its time for me to makeover transformation. First you said no cut, no color. Now what . Its about time. Its been like two years i havent had my hair cut and my hair colored. Change is coming and your hubby is excited. All right. Thank you so much. And bjornes husband is here. Lets take one last look at the before. Lets bring her out. Lets see it. Oh, wow looking good. What did you do here . Lets take the blindfold off. Wow. Beautiful. Youve got your own camera. Looking good. Spin right around here. Take a look. You look beautiful. Do you need a kleenex . What we did, we saw a beautiful girl who didnt bother with her looks. So again, we shaped the hair around her face. I wanted to give her a little color. Because of her skin color and the dark hair color. I kept the color to the ends of her hair so it would still flatter her skin tone. Kept the makeup soft. She went from coming from a small town in alaska to the middle of the center of new york city. Love it. Seven degrees in alaska. I did the best i could with what we had. Gorgeous Leather Jacket youll need to layer up. Anne, come on out. Big round of applause. [ applause ] that makes you beautiful. Que . Anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating . Yeah. One Phillips Colon Health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. Approved [ Phillips Lady ] live the regular life. Phillips. Pop sensation one direction knows how to live and be successful while theyre young. Their latest album take me home has been topping the charts. This week they had a soldout performance at Madison Square garden. Sara haines is the envy of every tween and willie. She got a one on one with one direction. You can imagine my excitement when i got a chance to sit down with the british boys, niles, liam, harry and zain. They gave me the scoop on love, life and living it up. It was the biggest today show crowd to date. With fans sleeping on the streets for days for a chance to catch a glimpse and sing along with their favorite british boy band. Lets go crazy till we see the sun last time we saw you guys you were on our plaza and you had the biggest crowd ever, i think it was 15,000 people. How does that feel . I know you performed in groups like that before. When we were on the lower stage you couldnt see that far. When you went up the stairs, there were so many people. You could see people for ages. It was cold, rainy, and the fans still came out. They slept there. Exactly. One of those things where youre quite nervous about doing the show so youre focused on doing well and doing a good performance. Actually you come away and think the amount of people in new york city, now thats mad. The boys have been working hard at breaking records. Their sophomore album is number one in 32 countries. The moment they knew they really hit it big is during the 2012 london olympics. When they announced that the olympics were going to be in london 2012 we were just starting high school. From going there to performing at the closing ceremony alongside when we are looking at the line of the queen, the who, some of these guys that are legends in music, the spice girls making their first appearance back. Anything when youre meeting up with these people . Oh, yeah. Youve got to play it cool. One of my moments was when i met jayz. That was so mad. Walking up to jayz being like, how do you do . You thought you were so cool when you said howdy do . It was really weird. Ive never seen him like that before. When they arent singing their own music, theres no shortage of songs they enjoy belting out. What is the goto karaoke song . Dont stop believing. Fly me to the moon. Good one. Im a believer. Girls, you may want to take notes on what these guys look forward to in a lady. I look for someone who is cute. Someone you can have a laugh with. Someone that shares the same interests as me. I would like to be able to take someone to football. I like girls that dont take life too seriously and just go with it and not worry. Sense of humor. If they can laugh at themselves. Despite their recordbreaking success, boys will be boys. Do you guys play pranks on each other . We stick together when it comes to pranks. Someone gets their trousers pulled down. Are you raising your hand . Hes gotten it on many occasion. We did play one prank. We wanted to put a sandwich in our managers bag. We still dont know today if he found it. When not pulling pranks, they are prepping for their world tour which kicks off in the spring. Despite all their success, the fab five remain grounded and grateful. Its amazing and at the same time we feel like we have so much left to do. Sara is a lucky girl. Thank you, sara. The best toys for the holidays coming up. Wine for under 12. 2 here comes santa claus back on this thirsty thursday with todays holiday gift guide. Have you checked your list who is naughty and nice . What are the musthave toys for good little elves this season . Lori is the copublisher of the toyinsider. Com. You always bring us such goodies when you come. You know whats cool today . Everything you see here is going to be donated to a charity called kids in distress situations for families affected by hurricane sandy. And all of these companies are sending more toys. There will be about a thousand they can spread out to these areas. We are going to start with this. Ill tell you where you can find these toys, too. This year we saw the launch of lego friends. Its a Construction Line with girls in mind. This comes with mia and catherine, the horses. 416 pieces for girls to put together. You can find this as toys r us, walmart and target. Did you say the price . I didnt. This is 49. This is the Monster High High School by mattel. Where our favorite teenage monsters hang out. Lockers shaped like caskets. I love the message this sends to girls. Its all about positive tweens esteem. And that we are all perfectly imperfect. This is going to be at kmart. 4 and up. This is kmart. Walmart and target. One direction. The hottest boy band there is. Heartthrob for tweens, teens and moms. And women. We have our head phones. They are all glammed up. And we have the boom box. Its an am fm radio and cd player. And we have our singing dolls by hasbro. You can find them at toys r us or target. Can you believe willie can name every one of those one direction dolls . What is the general feeling about a man wearing these, a grown man with children . Jogging around central park . No . Are they a little small . Its just that they are small or otherwise they are good. Movies inspire great toys. This is the new command bat phone. Thats very cool. Love that. Batman and catwoman drove this. You can get this at toys r us. Are you having a good time down there . You put these on. I have a set for you, too. These are really great. Wrecking ralph is a character in a video game. Doesnt want to be the bad guy any more. But we are going to wreck it like ralph. Shake those hands. They make noise. They are at toys r us and walmart. And topping kids list this year, tablets. We saw the introduction of the leap pad last year. This is for younger kids. It is great. It is a touch screen. Kids can hold it and it has so much great contents, educational music and videos. Everything they want. Would you let your 5yearold use this . If its educational stuff. This is fun and education. Amazon, walmart and target. For kids older and the entire family, we have the curio 7. This is a real android device. 4. 0. For me, i can put anything on here, but i can also put profiles up here, up to eight. I can determine what sites my kids go to, what apps they go to and how long they stay on and control all of that right here. You will find this at best buy, toys r us and target. Com. This is old school. The next level with that cardboard box. This is the Discovery Kids color and play steam engine. Its recycled cardboard, eco friendly. Youll find this at kohls instore only. You guys are doing a great job. Thanks for everything. Coming up, well get that 12 bottle of wine. First, these messages. Gecko clearing throat thank you, mr. Speaker, uh, members of congress. In celebration of over 75 years of our Government Employees insurance company, or geico. As most of you know members it. Congress. I propose savings for everyone im talking hundreds here. And furthermore. Newscaster breaking news. The gecko is demanding free pudding. And Political Parties that are actual parties . With cake and presents ah, that was good. Too bad nobody could hear me. You dont have to spend a lot of money for a good bottle of wine. All it takes is about 12 bucks. Our friend blind tasted 121 wines from all around the country and compiled lists of the best. You do some spitting. 120 wines, even if you drink them all youll be on the phone so you spit. The really good ones, you dont spit. What is the difference between 12 and 20 . Does it matter . Eight bucks. Thank you very much. Great to have you here. Coming up next. No, go ahead. Some of it is production costs, some is how much the land costand some is brand identity. You can pay more, same way you pay more for armani than levis. This is a french wine called picpoul from the south of france. Southern french wines are an extraordinary value. 9, 10, 11. This translates as lip stinger. I like that. There are great names. There is a portuguese grape called dog strangler. Which we dont serve very often. A good wine, you need for the holidays you need a good cocktail party, everybody is going to like it wine. Cant go wrong with this. Cheers. Kris pinot grigio. Its zesty, juicy. Its got some peachiness to it. Are you a white wine kind of guy . I drink whisky mostly. I havent done a 120 bottle whisky tasting yet. Its a good time. This is dashwood Sauvignon Blanc from new zealand. It tastes like grapefruit. When its the dead of winter, you need something summery to lift your spirits. You always think when youre in the wine store, should i spend 10 or 40. Were in a golden age for affordable wine. The quality of inexpensive wines is really high. This is evodia from spain. 9. 99 a bottle, a big, robust fullflavored red wine. One of the secret tricks of the wine business, if you look on the back of the bottle it says eric solomon selections. One thing is there are importers who act as curators. They only bring in things they love. Importers are always on the back of the bottle. Without knowing the wine, you know its going to be a good wine. That is a little insider. You didnt love that . No, i did. If youre not an expert, there is a 9. 99, how do you know its that one and not sort of a cheap wine . Partly by tasting a lot. If you go to a good store find a store where people pay attention, they listen to what you say and like and theyre not going to try to sell you something thats bad because they want your business. Trust those guys. Pascual toso, argentine malbec. That is 10. 99 a bottle. Holiday buying. You know youre going to pour wine for a lot of people. Buy by the case. Most stores give you 10 you need to buy lots and lots of wine. 10 , 15 is standard. We bought the other day in new york, 20 discount on the case. We paid 7. 99 for it. Beautiful, southern italian, lots of flavor. The motto of the show, buy wine in bulk. Thats how they operate. What goes better with fine wine than fine music . A Live Performance by marina and the diamonds. Right after this. Hi there. A look at least the next couple of days starting with today. We have a few people with a chance of light snow showers in the dakotas and southwest minnesota. Of course, still tracking some of these showers off towards the east. Well get some of that through central pennsylvania. May have a little potential for freezing rain. Some pocket where is the rain freezes on contact. So you may have to scrape some of that off your car. As far as temperatures are concerned, big divide across the country. Southeast still mild. Same story in texas. North dakota, dealing with some of the cooler air thats coming in behind this frontal boundary. So as this sweeps south, much cooler air in police. Northeast on saturday, still some showers and northern new england, possible light snow showers. Dakotas, back in through montana, northwest wyoming, better chances for snow. As far as saturday is concerned, notice again the milder air in the east, cold towards the northern plains. Theres a look at it into sunday with snow showers. Northwestern great lakes and well track that system off towards the east in through monday and tuesday with chances of showers along the frontal boundary, pushing across the appalachian. Tuesday, a coastal event from new york southward. Some of those showers get hung up in florida and another chance of snow into the mountains of montana. A good stretch of the lower 48 coming in fairly quiet. Down through the southeast, not so much Southeast Georgia there. We are on the warmer side of things with a chance for showers. Wake up with al 5 30 a. M. Weekdays. [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. This season, discover aleve. All day pain relief with just two pills. Back in 2009, marina and the diamonds released her debut album the family jewels. It won her an mtv europe music award. The welsh singer released her sophomore album that went straight to number one. Welcome. Youve got songs that make you want to get up off the couch and dance like the one youre going to perform for us. Youve been clumped up with great artists, lawrence and the machine, katy perry. How does that make you feel as a newcomer, at least on the stage . Generally annoyed. Really . Yeah. Why . Its astounding how much ive been compared to other artists and completely different artists. Sometimes its a compliment. I think its getting to a point where youre your own girl. I hope i am. Which of those are you a fan of . I love florence. I love katy, i went on tour with her. Yeah. I love anyone who is great. What are you going to perform for us . Its called how to be a heartbreaker. Marina and the diamonds, take it away. Rule number one is that you gotta have fun but baby when youre done you gotta be the first to run rule number two just dont get attached to somebody you could lose so let me tell you this is how to be a heartbreaker boys they like a little danger well get him falling for a stranger a player singing i love you how to be a heartbreaker boys they like the look of danger well get him falling for a stranger a player singing i love you at least i think i do woo woo woo woo woo cause i love you rule number three wear your heart on your cheek but never on your sleeve unless you want to taste defeat rule number four gotta be looking pure kiss him goodbye at the door and leave him wanting more and more this is how to be a heartbreaker boys they like a little danger well get him falling for a stranger a player singing i love you how to be a heartbreaker boys they like the look of danger well get him falling for a stranger a player singing i love you at least i think i do woo woo woo woo woo woo woo cause i love you girls we do whatever it will take cause girls dont want we dont want our hearts to break in two so its better to be fake cant risk losing love again babe this is how to be a heartbreaker boys they like a little danger well get him falling for a stranger a player singing i love you how to be a heartbreaker boys they like the look of danger well get him falling for stranger a player singing i love you at least i think i do [ applause ] marina and the diamonds. Congratulations. Thats a lot of fun. Well be back with more of today on nbc. How it feels to chew 5 gum. [ beads rattling ] [ bass thudding ] [ beads rattling ] spearmint that tingles as you chew. Stimulate your senses. 5 gum. Now in micro pack. I have a cold. I took dayquil, but i still have a runny nose. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesnt work on runny noses. What . [ male announcer ] it doesnt have an antihistamine. Really . [ male announcer ] really. Alkaseltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a fast acting antihistamine to relieve your runny nose. [ sighs ] thank you [ male announcer ] youre welcome. Thats the cold truth [ male announcer ] alkaseltzer plus. Oh what a relief it is [ male announcer ] cant find theraflu . Try alkaseltzer plus for fast, liquid, cold, and flu relief. Kay jewelers has been contributing cuddly gifts to our toy drive 13 straight years now. The Vice President of kay is here with two of his friends from st. Judes childrens hospital. 12yearold Ethan Scott Smith and 8yearold ellen taylor. Hi, guys. How are you doing, david . Great. Youve been here 13 years in a row. Youre part of this family. Why do you think its important each year to contribute . Every year our contributions, we donate 2,000 of our plush bears, luke and logan. Every year the distribution list across the country gets bigger and bigger. Its important to keep that continuity and amazing how many kids are looking forward to it. Where does the relationship with st. Jude come from . Weve been Corporate Partners coming up to our 14th year. Weve raised over 35 million thanks to the help of our customers. They buy our plush bears and every peppy goes to st. Judes. Youre from kentucky and youre from mississippi. What do you think of the bear you have, do you like . Such cute kids. Ethan, what do you want to be when you grow up . I want to be a scientist. Scientist, what kind . Any particular kind of scientist youre interested . Help find cures for cancer. Ellen, how about you, hon . Id like to be a nurse. Youre doing great work, david. We appreciate it. Thanks for coming in and joining us. Our toy drive runs until december 21st. You can donate in person or go online. Willie, willie, thank you for filling in. Youre always such fun. Enjoyed the little bourbon . It was tasty