This weekend . It just sounds fun. The greenwich polo event. Its in a beautiful part of greenwich. Ive got friends over there. I was like, im going to get out and do something. And then what happened . I was excited. I know. Nothing. The answer is nothing. Yeah. But thank you for asking. Guess who else is here. Who . Cindi lauper. Breaking the mold not once but twice. Not only is she a cover girl for aarp, shes a country girl now with a new album of Country Music. You know whats cool about that album, too . Shes singing with so many stars. A lot of people are going country. Have you noticed . Steven tyler. Its great music. Beautiful music. And now its time to say goodbye to bed head. Dos for boys and girls to complete their look. I like bed head. Im having a resurgence here. By the way, were on a roll with curly hair. Its going to stop soon. All right. A lot of people are traveling. We were just saying a lot of people are going to hit the road. According to trip adviser, more people are planning trips this year than last year and more than half of those are planning to drive instead of fly. Because of cost of fuel, you think . Yeah. Do you like a road trip . Sure. Short road trip. 15 minutes. Drive to the gateway. Short road trip to the airport for a flight. But everyone on the road, be careful. It is triday friday. This is unique. A popular candy. Swedish fish. With oreo cookies and created swedish fish oreo cookies. Theyre only on the shelves for a couple of weeks. I love swedish fish. When im in the airport and i want a snack, i will go in and out of the hudson news if they dont have it. I have to find it. But i dont know how it will be with chocolate. We decided you can buy these in kroger. Great store. Or amazon. Com online. By the way, amazon food pantry, its wild. Its just so crazy. No ones ever going to leave their house again. Here comes my milk and eggs. And your stuff. And here comes your stuff. So we were going to taste this and we will. I will at least. But first we actually enlisted experts from the plaza. Welcome sylvia and savannah. Whats your name . Cecilicecilia. You guys are candy and cookie experts. Je. And you love oreos. Yes. Who has one in their hands already . All right. Take a bite on three. Okay ready . Dont bite it early. One dont think about it two, three. Do it. Okay. Now, who wants to talk first . Theyve probably been taught not to talk with their mouth full. Does not taste good. Okay. Raise your hand if you agree that it does not taste good. You like it . Its okay. Its not really good but its kind of like candy and then oreo. Its like why do you have an oreo with candy. Okay. So so far it doesnt look good. What did you think, hoda . I thought it wasnt my favorite oreo. I like an oreo. Something you can always count on here. Bye, children. Thank you for your help. You want some milk to wash that down, ladies . Okay. Okay, thank you. You can take it with you. Did you see her blue eyes . Beautiful. All three were beautiful kids. You know what i love about every one of the kids . They were totally honest. By the way, the kids say the darnedest things, they always do tell you. They dont feel pressured to say its delicious. Nice talking to you. Thank you, ladies. So darling. All right. Theres a new hair thing, its a trend. Its going to be coming around. Lets pretend. You know how people like a little pink or blue in their hair, some people like to be more subtle. So this is called hidden rainbow hair. You dont have to dye the outside of your hair. You dye whats underneath. You can choose what you want and reveal bits and pieces. Its called underhighlights. Underlights. And that means you can go to work and be a professional and go crazy. Im like to see im walking in normally. Let me see it. Donna came to the house. And then bam bam. I like that. And it gives you a little flavor. These are you can dye your hair. But these are clipin extensions. I didnt want to go that route. You can see it like that. Theyre cute. Laura did them. Would you do it . You know, ive always had these fantasies of dyeing my hair light lavender or a bleach blond that are trending. The guys are losing it. This is a good solution. Its really sad. The minute you said i have a fantasy. She said i have a fantasy and they all died. I mean, whatever. Theyre all sick. I think thats my cue. But theyre really cool. Cute. Oh, you guys kill us. You know what its time for . Friday funny. All righty. What is it . Hoda, did you hear about the cell phones that got married . No. Im not surprised. The wedding wasnt anything special but the reception was marvelous. What did they give the guy who invented the door knocker in. What . Is a no bell prize. Want to hear a joke about paper . Yes. Never mind its tearable. Oh, tearable. I want to thank the children for those jokes. Is that it . Yes. All right. 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In it she talks about staying true to herself, aging gracefully. Were going to talk to her in a moment about that. But first a look back at her legendary career. Girls they want to have fun cindi lauper has made her mark on the music scene. Thats all they really want her high energy, unique style. And that remarkable voice. I will be waiting she first caught our attention in 1983 after releasing her solo album shoes shes so unusual scoring her top 100. And making Rolling Stones greatest albums of all time. True colors she went on to win a grammy for best new artist in 1985. Dont be afraid and later transitioned to acting and nabbed an emmy for guest starring in mad about you. She added tony award winner to her resume for best original score for pinky boots. You just cant hide from the love now with 11 studio albums to her name and more than 50 million in record sales, she is still rocking and rolling to a new sound. Here i go going down down down giving old country classics a spin for her new album called detour. As i go deeper in the funnel of love deeper, deeper, deeper. Love it. Welcome back. Hi. I am going to i came here in the beginning and now im halfway through. Going on this southwest tour. Country music, did you always love Country Music . No. Its just that time in country was kind of the beginning of rock and roll. Thats what ive been singing all my life. And i wanted to work with seymour stein. I finally got to work with seymour stein. That was a bucket list thing . Yeah. And i think you have to be able to finally, you know its really a fun show. The way it mixed together. You know, i was worried. The only thing is when i first started, i would play, like because this album goes through pretty easily and its pleasant and its got emmy lou on it, vince gill. My gosh. Its got Willie Nelson and Allison Krauss and jewel. Actually jewel. I texted jewel, i still have the text. I said is this jewel . This is cyndi, big fan. She probably died. Got your number from allison. Do you still yodel . If not chalk this up to another crazy thing. I swear to god. She yodels on it with you . Yeah. They told me i could learn how to yodel in three lessons like peter gabriel. I tried but im not him. And hes no cindi lauper. You are you. Hes great in his own. But i want somebody whos been yodelling. I can a little bit but not like how i wanted it. So she came and yodelling. She really can yodel. By the way, this is a terrific album. We were just leafing through a magazine that happened to have been given to us and whos on the cover of aarp . Our girl cyndi. Looking hot. And all the pages did you ever think youd be on the cover of aarp . No. But what i wanted was to project life. And livelihood and, you know, if you keep yourself first of all, im a singer so singers have to be athletes. So i try to do things, you know, i wanted it to be colorful. And of course the guy who owns aarp loves motorcycles. So he had his scooter. Thats a sexy pose. We got to go, but just briefly your sons going to be opening for you now. Did you ever think that would happen . He used to come on stage with me when he was little. And he now has a song. You can hear him. Hes going to open for you . Hes not opening the whole show. Hes coming on with the deejay. Hes going to do one or two things. Its going to be fun. We love you by the way. Thats in vegas. Vegas, baby. Come on. Right . And arizona and phoenix. We love. Go to her website for all of the information. Good to see you guys. We love you. I hope you had a good summer. We did. Thank you. Now to another talented singer and song writer. Ingrid michaelson. You love her . And her romance with a tv star. She has a hot romance with a tv star . Yeah. Guy from nashville. Come on. Come on. First kid you ready . 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Sold. But i get to pick your movie. Can i pick the genre . Yes, but it has to be a comedy. A little cash back on the side. With the blue cash everyday card from american express, you get cash back on purchases with no annual fee. Throw. Its more than cash back. Its backed by the service and security of american express. Ingrid michaelson, she just burst onto the mainstream music scene two years ago with her hit girls chase boys. That song spent 20 weeks on the billboard top 100. But she has not rested on her laurels. Not one bit. She is gearing up for her hell no tour this fall. Shes out with her seventh studio album. This ones called it doesnt have to make sense. So true. I love your title. Thank you, thank you. By the way, hell no is such a great anthem song. Thank you. How do these songs come to you . We were writing in nashville, two writers and i, and that was the first lyric that came out. It was just hell no. What are we saying it to . I think a breakup pretty much makes sense with the words. So we built the whole song around that. Thats how song writing goes for me. It reveals itself, doesnt it . Exactly. And theres also a lot of depth in this cd. A lot of heart ache, i think is fair to say. Yeah. I lost my mom. I went through a divorce. I had a lot to mourn. And i was trying to figure out how to do that. And when i realized that when i try to stop making sense of everything, i was able to breathe, i was able to have joy. And so i just tried to stop defining everything and controlling everything. Because im very controlling. And it ended up being the best decision i could make. Thats why i named the record that. If you lost someone and listen to these songs you will nod your head, because you will probably feel what you were going through at the time. Youre going to perform for us a little later and there is a performance thats going along with your song that youre going to do for us. Yes. Describe the genesis of the performance were going to see. Well, i was watching the tonys and i saw spring awakening and they had these amazing actors that were deaf. There were people singing and acting and then there were these amazing people i thought it was dancing at first. I realized it was asl, american sign language, they were signing. Which is like a dance. It is. I thought how visually amazing that is. And maybe i can do something with my music, something different. And i thought lets do it with hell no. I got Michael Arden the director on board. There it is. So it took us like six hours. And we got into a studio and look at that. And so a few of them came to do it with me today for you guys. So excited. Awesome. And we did cindi lauper was like can we see ingrid. She heard us talking about your boyfriend and she was wondering who he is. She was like youre with the broadway guy . A lot of people may know him from the show nashville. There we are. Unedited. Okay. Real life. You guys are so supportive of one another in terms of your careers and lives. Hes got a new series coming up this fall, right . Time after time. Shes going to sing for us. Theyre going to sign for us. Thatll be great. And give your heads a head start in the morning with effortless hair styles for back to school. All this after your local news. His after your local news. Tag, youre it. Tag youre it. Tag, youre it. Yes new gogurt writeon tubes. This back to school, say it with gogurt. Which onethe one in white. Introducing new all powercore pacs. Just one pac delivers an astonishing clean. And keeps clothes up to 3 shades whiter. Give us your worst, well give it our all. For over 100 years like kraft has,natural cheese you learn a lot about how people cook. I wish i had like four different mexican cheeses but in one super melty cheese. It does exist you still have two cheese wishes left. Good morning. Im vai sikahema. Its just about 10 30. Lets get right to your neighborhood forecast with meteorologist bill henley. Hey, bill . Hey, vai. Were tracking hermine, and about to get an update within the next 30 minutes. Weakening is expected. 60mileanhour winds will likely see the storm weaken a bit more, but theres still a tremendous amount of rain and its stretching into the carolinas. This storm will move through the carolinas over the next couple of days, but this weekend, it will stall offshore and thats going to produce some gusty winds, rip currents, and some rough seas. And the potential for some heavy rainfall, as we go into the weekend. But today couldnt be nicer. Low 70s right now. The humiditys low, a nice breeze blowing. Lots of sunshine and low 80s this afternoon. Out at the shore, a good day to tie everything down as we head into the winds this weekend. Thank you, bill. Looks nice throughout and looks nice on the roads. Lets check in with jessica boyington. Were looking at 95, we have skipped store a lot of that volume for our normal morning rush. A lot of people getting a head start for the holiday weekend. And north and southbound drive time from cottman avenue to the vine, eight minutes. Thank you, jessica. This just in. A Wildwood Block Party and Music Festival is cancelled. The party was supposed to be on sunday, but because of Tropical Storm hermine, the city is cancelling the event now. And in atlantic city, organizers of the beach Concert Series say they have contingency plans in place for performances this weekend. If you live at the shore or are heading down the shore for the holiday weekend, today is the day to prepare. Bring in the porch furniture, your trash cans, anything loose that could get blown out and blown away. Also be prepared to lose power this weekend. Im vai sikahema. Well have a full hour of news coming up at the top of the hour. Now back to the today show. Have a great day. Its tryday friday. Many kids will be starting just after labor day if they havent already. And nothing polishes off that like a trendy new hair style. Here is celebrity hair stylist sally herschberger. Im looking at your two hair styles. The curls are in. I just said to her youve got to zhuszh it out. The day is young. All right. So a lot of people have their kids going to school, they dont have time to do their hair. Kind of great dos. So these are really cool looks for school. Im going to show you. Heres the before picture. Lets look at her before shot. Beautiful. Beautiful girl. What do you think looks better for school . Well, i think a high ponytail is the rage. I love it. You can drop your notebook. Lets see. With a bandanna. Oh, with a banda that. This is like super cool. Selena gomez and all the girls are wearing it because you told me they were. You know. Uhhuh, right . And its so easy. And out of your