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good morning. ang angryfire. more than 105,000 acres now burning out of control in southern california. five people trapped in a canyon after they refused to evacuate. the flames too intense for a rescue. al is live from the front lines with the latest. he s a monster, that s how phillip garrido s ex-wife describes him. we ll hear from her and the woman he kidnapped and raped more than 30 years ago. and a duggar doozy. all 20 members of the country s biggest families gathering together right now. they have an exclusive anounment today tuesday, september 1, they have an exclusive anounment today tuesday, september 1, 2009. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m carl quintanilla in for matt. that los angeles wildfire has more than doubled in size in the past 24 hours alone. that so-called station fire has grown to more than 105,000 acres. that s the equivalent of 164 square miles. at least 74 homes and buildings have been destroyed. more than 12,000 others are still threatened. they say it could be more than a week before they get a real handle on the blaze and that s just one of the at ast eleht wildfires burning igght now. take a look at thisemarkable picture taken by a nasa satellite. you can actually see the plumes of thick smoke and scorched earth that surround los angeles right now. let s get right to al roker who has made his way to los angeles this morning. good morning to you. good morning, meredith and carl. it s been seven days since this one fire started. of course, you mentioned eight others burning around the state. and, unfortunately, firefighters say it s going to be a while before they even have an idea that they ve got the upper hand on these fires. overnight the los angeles county fire spread so fast and grew so large, firefighters couldn t focus on containment. their priority, saving lives. this is a very difficult fire fight. this is a very angry fire. reporter: in fact, fire officials predict they won t have control over this fire for another two weeks. we cannot predict where it s going. reporter: the plumes of smoke over los angeles so thick, aircraft dropping water fly in blind, unable to see the flames they re trying to extinguish. thousands of residents have been forced to evacuate. 12,000 homes on the fire li. governor schwarzenegger toured one of the fire zones on monday, lending an ear and a shoulder to residents hit hard. we ve lost everything. the good news amongst the bad news is that you re okay. reporter: those who might not be okay, the people ignoring firefighter warnings to ee swak the way. five residents refused to leave. authities say they haven t been able to reach them because of the intense flames and now are angry that the crews have to risk their own lives in the rescue effort. obviously, it s frustrating, no question about that. but more imrtantly, we need to have these resources in areas that are needed, the fire, the protection of the property. reporter: as this family can tell you while the fire didn t spare their home, evacuating saves their lives. it s tough. we built tradition. we ve got to keep the traditions and not worry about the stuff. reporter: two firefighters on sunday were not so lucky. ted hall and arne quinones were killed when their car crashed trying to secure the perimeter of a campsite. sunday, crews tried to save mt. wilson, the home to 20 television transmission towers and mt. wilson observatory. another concern, the upcoming labor day weekend and the possibility of campers ignoring warnings. we are literally begging the public to please honor these closures. reporter: and the weather doesn t plan on helping firefighters for the foreseeable future. that is not in the forecast that that i see for the next four to five days at this point. reporter: and this bitter sweet note, around any quinones is due to give birth to their first child in a couple weeks. a very sad note on top of that. now we go to miguel who s about five miles northeast of us. he s in a neighborhood that found out it has been destroyed. and now they are trying to pick up the pieces as families return. what s the scene there like? reporter: well, al, as you mentioned, 53 structures have officially been destroyed but that number is likely going to be much higher. this neighborhood we re in big tejunga is completely wiped out. the scene is repeated block after block up and down this community. we were here yesterday when the driscoll family came back to their home. they did not find much. they were searching true their family, looking for family heirlooms they could recover. complete devastation is the scene they describe. they were here with their 5-year-old child. they said they were struggling to come with grips as to what happened. this scene will repeat as sun comes up and firefighters are able to get a picture of how large the devastation is. 53 structures have been destroyed. we know that count will be much higher in the days to come. al? reporter: all right, thank you very much, miguel. and now back to you, meredith. al thank you very much. captain mark savage with the los angeles fire department is at the command post. captain savage, good morning to you. good morning. captain, yesterday we heard that this fire, station fire, had doubled in size. now we re hearing there is some indication that the spread of the fire is slowing. so what is the status of the fire right now, as you know it? well, the monster has been the entire week. we need a break from the weather and we might get that. we ve been red flagged warning since the start of this fire, low humidities, high temperatures. we hope to get a break from the weather. that s the only benefit we could have at this time. we reghrinow everything we in have at this fire from the air ane thound.e and if we can get a break from the weather, that would be the benefit to maybe turn the corner. however, the extremely dry fuel andug rged terrainr weon factor w we won t get a benefit from. onees fort official said, quote, it s all coming together in the next few days. i see progress. what does he mean when he says progress? well, the progress is we re still doing we re trying attempting to get a perimeter around this fire. you know, he was being optimistic. i hope we can all be optimistic. it s certainly a challenging fire and we certainly know we have a lot ahead of us. we only have 5% containment. right now this fire is doing what it wants to do, when it wants to do it. you sound far less optimistic than he does. what is your greatest concern? this will spread to more populated areas? well, the answer for us is a great resource, one of the best tourist attractions in southern california as far as forests goes. it s a great resource and we want to contain it within minimum limits in the forest. we re doing everything we possibly can. we just the greatest concern is we re not going to draw a line in the sand to stop it. so we re just having a difficulty identifying where we re going to be able to stop this thing. captain, let s talk about those five people who were ordered to evacuate and chose not to. now they are trapped. and looking to be rescued. we understand the flames are so intense, firefighters can t get in there. so what is their status? what does it do to you all when you have a situation like that in terms of your own resources and ability to get this fire under control in other areas? if you re going in and rescuing people who didn t evacuate. well, we believe they re safe there now. there was some high intense moments in yesterday s fire fight when the fire did move through there. we believe they re safe now. however, they were in a mandatory evacuated area. we need people to comply with evacuation orders because it puts an impact on resources. we now have to go into a possible rescue mode when we wouldn t have to do that if the people would have complied with the evacuation order. so it changes it can change immediately. life protection is our number one priority. and we want to certainly get people out of there so we don t have to turn resources we re using in other areas to do a rescue when that rescue shouldn t even have to take place in the first place if these people are cooperating with fire officials and getting out in the first place. we re talking two more weeks before this fire is under control. captain, thank you for your time this morning. you re welcome. and a programming note. brian williams will be reporting from the front lines of the los angeles wildfires tonight on nbc nightly news. it is 7:09 and here s carl. thanks. now to the california couple accused of abducting that 11-year-old school girl and keeping her captive for 18 years. investigators have unearthed a potential piece of evidence. george lewis has the latest on that. good morning. reporter: good morning to you, carl. yeah, police have been searching for any evidence that mig tie phillip garrido, the man accused of masterpind, the abduction, to a series of local unsolved murders. the latest piece of evidence, significance unknown, a fragment of bone. monday evening ka dogs sniffed the home of phillip garrido and the property next door as police announced the discovery of the bone fragment of that adjoining property. we re taking that bone back for further examination. we don t know if it s human or animal. reporter: as police broadened their investigation, they re trying to find out whether phillip garrido was tied to a string of unsolved murders. they re also looking at whether he had anything to do with other kidnappings. in 1988 9-year-old michaela was pulled off a street into a car just like jaycee dugard. they bear an uncanny resemblance to each other. for you police are talking to michaela s parents. we have an inspector investigating michaela s case before this came up. he has been investigating possible connections between michaela s case and jaycee s case. reporter: phillip garrido and his wife have pleaded not guilty to charges of abducting, raping and imprisoning jaycee, but garrido s first wife calls him a violent man. he s a monster. reporter: inspecting on inside edition she says he beat her at times. had she tried to get away in. he grabbed me, threw me in the car. reporter: in 1977, four years into the marriage, garrido was convicted of raping another woman, katherine callaway hall, who was on larry king live monday night. i try not to let it ruin my life but it s always there under the surface. reporter: she says garrido took her to a storage unit in reno, draped with carpets inside. it was like a maze. and in the back part of the mini warehouse where he had me, he had it set up t keep someone for a while. reporter: sort of like the sheds behind his house where jaycee dugard lived with the two children she allegedly had by him. now, garrido s ex-wife in her tv interview said when another man flirted with her, garrido took out a safety pin, gouged her in her face and threatened to put out her eyes. we ll take a closer look at the relationship between phillip garrido and his wife nancy, including why and if she was a willing participant in the disturbing crimes they are accused of committing. right now let s get a check of the morning s top stories. ann off today so natalie morales is on duty at the news desk. good morning. good morning, everyone. extremely dangerous hricane jimena is moving closer to baja, california, peninsula. with winds 150 miles an hour it is expected to start pounding the southern part of the peninsula late tonight. it s started kicking up high waves in the area. many tourists are rushing to get out. today president obama gets briefed on swine flune preparedness and government response plans. since may swine flu has killed 500 americans. the federal government has reached a deal to pay $9.5 million to acquire land in shanksville, pennsylvania for a flight 93 national memorial can be built. it is expected to be completed by the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. former illinois governor g blagojevich claims rahm emanuel wanted his seat. a spokesperson is declining comment on what blagojevich wrote in his book. new numbers should show how much cash for clunkers helped wall street. wall street will be paying close attention. erin burnett is at the new york stock exchange. what else are you watching? we ll have a little pressure on stocks today but the numbers will be on the auto numbers. thanks to cash for clunkers, it s going to be a pretty solid august in terms of those auto sales. now, the sales rate we re looking at is about 12.9 million for the entire year. now, that s a far cry from where we were at the boone north of 17 million. what s most important above the number ford, gm and chrysler need for a profit. with all of the taxpayer money in those companies, it s something all americans should be rooting for. thank you. one of bernie madoff s home is going on the market as part of his effort to pay back frauded investors. federal officials think the house could bring upwards of $8 million. madoff was sentenced in june to 150 years in prison. 7:14 right now. you re up to date. looks like it has a nice view. back over to meredith and carl. right on the water. nicer than the views in prison. obviously. back out to southern california where al has more on today s weather forecast. hey, al. hey, good morning, erwe. we were hoping hurricane jimena gh ovt miidpreieel rf. let s show you what s going on with that category 4 storm, a dangerous category 4 storm with 150-mile-an-hour wind, 180 miles south of cabo san lucas. path of the storm brings it on shore in the next couple of days. we were hoping some of that rain would make its way toward us. however, it s heading more to the east, taking a little turn and moving into the southwest. w bthatlilring much of the heavy rain there. then back into the ntlaatla. we re watching a tropical system that may be coming a deprsion. a broad area of low pressure. it would become tropical storm ericaerica if it that s your latest weather. al, thank you. a special election has now been set for january in massachusetts to fill ted kennedy s u.s. senate seat. this as state lawmakers agree to hold a hearing on whether the governor should be allowed to name an interim replacement. chuck todd, nbc s political director and chief white house correspondent has more from capitol hill. good morning. reporter: good morning. she has the last name, the political savviness and even support from key u.s. senators but ted kennedy s widower vickie denies to want to run. showing support for my husband. reporter: for weeks and even months vickie kennedy has denied any interest in succeeding her late husband in the u.s. senate and yet those denials haven t stopped the speculation. it started sunday as two senators close personally to ted kennedy began talking up vickie. i think vickie ought to be considered. she s a very brilliant lawyer, a solid individual. she certainly she certainly made a difference in ted s life, let me tell you. whenever vickie wants to do it, i m in her corner. she knows that. and she s stressed to me her own reluctance to do that but she could change her mind. if she did, i m for it. reporter: senator dodd has been in constant consultation with vickie kennedy during the health care debate. she served as a conduit to her husband. it s not uncommon for widowers to succeed their husbands in congress. there are four right now. the latest was jean carnahan, she replaced her husband mel after he died in a plane crash. for vickie kennedy, the door appears shut right now. duval patricked as much right now. mrs. kennedy is not interested in the position. reporter: someone close to vickie was shermanesque with me. she said, even if asked by the governor to do this she won t even reluctantly accept. if this law gets changed, that s still a big if, there will be pressure because there are some democrats on capitol hill who believe she would bring the best continuity to what democrats need in the fall when it comes to health care. for now, though, the only kennedy that appears to be interested is joe, robert kennedy s oldest son. chuck todd, thank you very much. it is 7:18. once again, here s carl. thanks. to what could be major problem for the criminal case into michael jackson s death. jeff rosin is in los angeles this morning. good morning to you. hi, carl. good morning to you. law enforcement sources now tell nbc news prosecutors are worried about what they call sloppy police work. key evidence may have been tainted, key interviews may have been skipped. the da s office is deeply concerned a botched investigation could severely damage their case. reporter: just two days after michael jackson s death, relatives were allowed inside his rented mansion. that s micha mom s katherine pulling in and his sister. they even brought in moving trucks to haul out possessions. the lapd didn t secure the house as a crime scene. all belongings were out in the open. prosecutors fear that has compromised the investigation. robin zachs is a former l.a. prosecutor. she says tainted evidence is a familiar problem in l.a. think o.j. simpson. whenever you have a crime scene open to family members or strange people coming through, it jeopardized evidence there and if you can tie the defendant to the crime. that s a problem. reporter: that s not the om problem here. three of jackson s employees now claim homicide detectives were in no rush to interview them. one is jackson s body guard who is inside the mansion when he died and called 911. he s not breathing. he s not breathing. we re trying to pump him but he s not he s not reporter: that s him, his lawyer tells nbc news he was anxious to tell police what happened but it took more than o months to schedule a meeting. i think that it is sloppy owing anything having to do with michael jackson will be high profile and highly scrutinized. reporter: now that jackson s death has been ruled homicide, criminal charges could be filed against his personal physician, dr. conrad murray. i told the truth. and i have faith theruth will prevail. reporter: he s the focus of the manslaughter investigation. police say he admitted to giving jackson propofol the morning he died. propofol has been declared the cause of jackson s death. his lawyer s position is going to be dr. murray innocent. even if he made a mistake with some treatment, it s certainly not criminal. reporter: criminal cases against doctors are so difficult, police rely pursue them. there are about 940,000 doctors in the u.s. between 1889 and 2006 only 335 were prosecuted. harlan braun represents one doctor who treated michael jacks jackson. if he used the criminal system to discipline doctors, a lot of doctors will say, i don t even want to get near this prescription problem. i will not give patient the right amount of drugs because i m afraid of getting prosecuted. reporter: we should mention dr. murray lawyer maintains his client did nothing wrong and says the police theory is just that, a theory. as for reports of tainted evidence at the jackson house, we contacted the lapd several times, carl, but they wouldn t comment. jeff rosin in los angeles. thanks for that. still ahead, the duggar family, mom, dad, 18 kids, a daughter-in-law and a grandchild on the way. all standing by to break some big ne. first, ts is day on c. nb garrido and why did she and her sband hold jaycee dugard for 18 years. is. good plork the time right now is 17266:26. it hpd on hm milton trite. to wry can be made. another tax amesty program kicks off right now. any tax program that they owe particulars off right now between thousand and october 30th it s designed for the state that needs money. we will be back with traffic a weathe is. good morning. a clear and chilly start to this first day of september. 40s north and highs in the mid-70s with lots of sun and low humidity. how is the traffic now? a report of a fire i-9567. report of an accident near montgomery village. crews are reported there. be careful out there. barbara? the head coach sits down for life, football, and a change in 7:30 on this tuesday morning, september 1st, believe it or not, 2009 as we check out the scene at the duggar house this morning. mom and dad, 18 kids and the daughter-in-law who is expecting. in a moment, they are going to break some big news right here on today. meanwhile, inside studio 1a i m meredith vieira alongside carl quintanilla in for matt. something tells me it s not what s for dinner tonight. no, i think it s bigger than that. also ahead, much more on that shocking kidnapping ordeal in california. a lot of the attention is focused on phillip garrido, the man accused of holding jaycee dugard captive for 1 years. but his wife nancy, also charged in the case, and police say it would have been impossible for things to go on for so long without her help. more on the role she allegedly played coming up. what could have bn a family tragedy, a beloved pet falls down an abandoned well in his owner s yard. that s when some local heroes jumped into action to save kujo. we ll meet that lucky dog and the man who saved him just ahead. despite his name, is a lover, not a fighter. you ve already been over to say hello. i got kissed by kujo. i got kissed by the dog and i loved it. let s begin with nancy garrido s alleged role in that 18-year kidnapping case in california. amy robach has the latest on that. good morning. just like her husband phillip, nancy is facing a slew of charges and life in prison. detectives say she might well hold the key as to unraveling what happened during jaycee lee dugard s captivity. 55-year-old nancy garrido has been called plain, modest as well as a robot under the control of her husband phillip. she s also been called a monster for her alleged role in the kidnapping of 11-year-old jaycee lee dugard. whatever her reason, whatever her rationale, she was still there all these years, almost two decades, and never once tried to help this little girl escape. reporter: nancy and phillip garrido met and married at a prison in leavenworth, kansas. she was there visiting her uncle. phillip was serving time for a series of sex crimes. they feel inconsequential, like nothing, so they seek out a man in prison, a combination of he s powerful, he s a big deal, he s exerted control over someone. reporter: one person who had limited contact with nancy garrido in the past few years said she appeared normal, at least on the surface. nancy s a very a really very normal person. they i have never seen anything abnormal about nancy. phillip, i see some strange stuff. reporter: in a high row file kidnapping case in 2002 a woman was also accused of participating in the crime. wanda barzai and husband brian david mitchell was accused of abducting and holding captive elizabeth smart. they have yet to takes trial. in austria this girl was held in a dugon and sexually abused, bearing seven children while her mother rosemary lived upstairs. the mother claims she knew nothing of her daughter s imprisonment. in the coming weeks prosecutors will be looking into nancy garrido s background as to her role in this disturbing case. is this a woman who was so fragile, perhaps because of previous trauma herself, that she easily became psychotic, you know, in the face of the psychotic husband? reporter: fiphillip garrido father says he thinks she hatched this plot together. nancy faces 29 charges. carl, back to you. amy robach, thanks for that. geral dou aa geraldo rivera is the author of a new book. nancy faces a lot of the same charges that phillip does. sdefdeservedly so. how would you assess her role? she s a jailhouse groupie. she met garrido in leavenworth her uncle she was visiting. she was a jehovah witness. perhaps she was doing missionary work. she fell in love with the guy, married him behind bars at leavenworth. now that relationship wouldn t happen, just like he wouldn t be released under current law. when i talked to carl probyn, the stepfather, he told me she was the one and he identified her spot on, who grabbed the child, who grabbed jaycee, the 11-year-old and stuffed her into that gray ford. do you see a lot of other parallels with wives or mates of those who are accused? i m reminded of the 80s whose husband joel steinberg who murdered their 6-year-old. her defense was, i was already so beaten mentally and physically that i was scared to do anything. and the women s movement, i note for the record, really defended her at the time. i compare her more to patty hearst. i think she was brainwashed in a way she became controlled by garrido so that she would abandon whatever her morals were and became a part and parcel with her sick husband. i believe they were a criminal couple who did this totally equally in many ways. she deserves the same punishment. back in 93 you conducted the first national television interview with carl probyn and jaycee s mother terry. did you have suspicions about him in the early days? yes. listen, it s almost always someone known to the child. stranger abductions are so rare. he was the stepfather, unusual in his physical and personality, his demeanor, kind of that surfer boy haircut. i ve become friendly with carl over the years you know, since. and i really believed that he is one of the great heroes in this. he has been so measured. he has been so thorough, so constant, so consistent. now so loving to jaycee, so willing to allow terry, the mother, he and terry are split, not dirced. but it was the stress of the kidnapping that did it. but it is an incredible story of how these people now rally. i was going to say, how have they been able to celebrate given the disappearance so long ago broke up their marriage? they have not physically been together since the reunion. they share a 19-year-old. shana was only 2 when jaycee went missing. that child has been raised in an extremely unusual circumstance. the father has been kind of the guard out of her, not letting her out of his sight. they had to deal with all the attention on jaycee, shana the younger child was being neglected and voiced some concern about that. now they have a lot of healing to do, and not to mention the fact you have two children by the monster, apparently. you make the point in your book that the country is on the cusp of a lot of change mostly because of the growing ranks of hispanics. i make the remark in the book that barack obama wouldn t be president today except for the huge surge of latino voters. they were so turned off by the slanderous nature of debate that they abandoned the republican party, flocked to democrat by a 2 to 1 margin and gave barack obama the white house. now we hope there will be some comprehensive reform. more importantly, this book is a celebration of a community that has come of age. it s you know, the image of the latino as a wet back on the river or climbing the wall because some of these crazy cable shows but the reality is that doctors, lawyers, as you know better than most, teachers, professionals, supreme court judges now, we celebrate a community coming of age, 46 million strong, contributing $1.3 trillion a year to the u.s. economy. this is a celebration. it s not about the stereotype. it s about the achievement. always good to see you. thanks for coming in. thank you. let s get a check of the weather from al reporting from the scene of those wildfires in los angeles. al? reporter: thanks, carl. and firefighters actually lined up along this road. they re actually sleeping in cots because there aren t enough rvs and trailers back here in this makeshift camp to house them all. that s how big this fire . 3700 firefighters working these lines. les.s take a look and show you what s going on. asar as your weather is concerned for today, what we re expecting to see is some wet weather in the southet. we re looking at some heavy showers and thunderstorms firing up, especially later today throughout parts of florida and georgia. rainfall amounts, some areas picking up 3 to 5 inches of rain. the rest of the country we ll be looking at some clouds and showers in the pacific northwest. beautiful weather in the northeast. on into the great lakes. high pressure dominates. low humidity, temperature in the mid-70s. going to be perfect. we are looking good morning. around washington, clear, fresh, and chilly. a live picture from our camera bouncing in the early morning sunlight. temperatures in the low 50s, fair tax and points north, highs today should reach the mid-70s with lots of sun laet your latest weather. for the latest going on out here in southern california and across the country, you can check out weather channel on cable or weather.com 24/7. up next, the duggars. necessi they have 18 ds, their first grandchild on the way and big news to share. they ll do that live right after this. t back now. it s 7:43 with a big announce wa announcement from a big family. michelle and jim bob duggar, 18 kids. oh, yeah, that s a daughter-in-law and the family s first grandchild on the way next month. they are all with us now exclusively. guys, good morning to all of you. good morning. so, michelle, i know you have important news want to share with the world. i m going to go out on a limb and i m going to guess you re getting a puppy. am i right? well, not exactly. but we are thrilled to announce that we found out that we are expecting our 19th child. oh, my gosh. who would have thunk it, michelle? how far along are you? congratulations, first off. thank you. thank you. we are almost three months along. how are you feeling? i m feeling sick and tired, which is a good way to be feeling about right now. i always tell myself that s a good way to be because that means good things are happening. jim bob you re looking at your wife. i can t tell if that s a look of love or shock. what is your reaction? you re going to be a grandfather in a month and have your own baby next year that will be younger than your grandchild. yes. we are so excited about this new arrival. and also our grand baby coming. and first, michelle was a baby of seven and her mom was still having her and and my miami sister and mother were having babies at the same time so i have nieces and nephews older than me. it was a great time because i really have close relationships with my nieces and nephews. your daughter-in-law anna is there. anna, i know you re going to have your baby next month, in october. october 18th is the due date. how are you feeling? i m feeling good. i m feeling really pregnant, really big. and does this having this big family surround you give you a family of confidence that you can do this? yeah, it s neat. it s exciting. i definitely have great role models. it s neat to watch mrs. duggar love her children. josh, how are you preparing? you ve only got a month to go before you ll be holding your own baby in your arms? well, it s very exciting. i think it s children are a blessing, a gift. if you raise them right they will be. my parents have definitely shown that. i hope with our children we ll train them and raise them to love god and to love others. you have a lot of catching up to do, josh and anna. i have to ask you, last time you were here you were trying to decide on a name for the baby. you know you re going to have a little girl. you know it s going to start with an m . yes, meredith. i would be very happy. i m just putting it out there. i know you ve got a name. what s the name? mackenzie renee. mackenzie, we have a cousin named mackenzie. renee is after anna s middle name, renee. we re very excited. you know what, though, in a family, anna is number five of eight and i m number one of 19 now. sohere is hope for meredith still in our future. don t be disheartened. as long as hope stays alive, i m a happy woman. congratulations on the babies, the two babies. best of luck to all of you. thank you for sharing this important news with us this morning, michelle and jim bob. thank you. good to talk to you. josh and anna, good luck with that delivery. for more on the duggars, watch 18 kids and counting tonight on ltc. the dog who fell into a well and his rescuer. back at 7:50 with one very lucky dog. last friday kujo fell some 30 feet into an abandoned well under his owner s deck. a frantic call to 911 was placed. after four hours of hard work, rescuers were able to pull a scared and wet kujo to safety. kujo is with us to safety, along with his owner daniel ellis and the man who rescued him, jerry lambert. talk to us about what happened, daniel. it was raining and he apparently went under a porch of some kind to escape the rain, right? yeah. my fee yaniance left at 12:00 to work. i come home at 1:00. i couldn t see him but hear him. i could hear him whining. looked for him. i went out on the deck and i could hear him. later he didn t come out. i looked under there and there was a hole. i got a jumpsuit, crawled up under ere with a flashlight, down in the well. he had fallen down in the well 30 feet. travis, you were called to rescue the dog, assigned to go down the well to get him. when you saw the dog did you have real concerns you would be able to save him? i didn t have any concerns. we had been trained to do a l of this stuff. just the dog was a piece of that puzzle. were you worried the dog s name was kujo and he wasn t very happy? you didn t have an animal harness. had you to do this with rope? no, we didn t have one. we tried the harness in the beginning. it didn t work. it was too tight down there. were you scared going in? i was nervous. he s a big guy. he is a big guy. 140 pounds of wet dog. that well was filling with water because it had been raining and such. you did get him out. what was his reaction when he got out of the hole? look at the picture. he was happy. he was happy. happy to see a friendly face, you know. this is my guy, m buddy. we re so glad he s doing well. a few little injuries but on the mend. yeah. he s still here. all right. the water was daniel, travis, thank you so much. thank you, kujo. he looks great. sure does. can i thank one more person? thank you, bill. thank you, bill. it s a beautiful morning here in the nation s capital. it s a chilly temperature out there. 60 degrees in the nation s capital. good morning. the time right now is 7:55. in the news at this hour, investigators are trying to find outt h couple couple t bnn a in a canoe in the pond i when for some reason it had overturned. the governor will be in alexandria for combatting the swine flu. they will be at tucker elementary school. they are urging people to stay home from school if good morning. a live view showing a pierciing sun. temperatures climbing into the mid-70s with lots of sunshine and little warmer tomorrow. partly cloudy with upper 70s. right now, the weekend looks nice, morning lows in the 60s anig h hn ihshe t he60 60s. by nday, more o of the same. how is the morning traffic? very slow trying to get to spri springfield. right at the 95 interchange. significant delays there. a broken done vehicle at the 95 outer loop. busy morning. barbara? thanks, jerry. the university of maryland head coach sits down about a change in diet. a lesson on the 8:00 on this tuesday morning. the 1st day of september, 2009. labor day may not be until next monday but it sure feels like fall here in the big apple. look at those beautiful kids. nice to see you guys. outside on the plaza, i m meredith vieira along with carl quintalla in for matt lauer. nice having you here. great. greg having you here. coming up, roughly 1 in 5 americans have admitted abusing prescription drugs, from michael jackson, heath ledger and now a notable deejay. we re shining a light on that problem. we ll talk to an expert about what to watch out for. we also talk a lot about health care in this country. how about getting health care at a retail outlet? it s a growing trend. dr. nancy will be here to weigh the pros and cons of seeing a doctor while you pick up a gallon of milk and some shampoo. au of the da vinci listen up code is set to launch a new book. matt was given special access to pivotal moments in that story and he s been traveling to some locations. starting a week from today we ll give you a clue a day to see if you can figure out where matt lauer is. don t worry, we won t worry anything for you. we re not going to reveal the answers until the day after the book is released. is that because we don t know the answer? well, matt knows. we don t. we should mention on the 15th when the lost symbol comes out, matt will have an exclusive interview with dan himself. let s get a check of top stories with natalie morales at the news desk. good morning again. firefighters in southern california say it could take as long as two weeks to get control of a raging wildfire burning near los angeles. the station fire has now grown to more than 100,000 acres, destroyed at least 74 homes and buildings and threatening more than 12,000 others. earlier on today, captain mark savage called the fire a monster. we re throwing everything we have at this fire from the air and the ground. if we can get a break from the weather, that would be a benefit to make turn a corner. however, the extremely dry fuel and rugged terrain is a factor we won t be able to get a benefit from. five people who did not evacuate are trapped in the canyon area, hoping to be rescued. a programming note for you. brian williams will be reporting from the front lines of the los angeles wildfires tonight on nbc nicely news. police investigating phillip garrido, the california man accused of holding a girl hostage for 18 years say they have found a bone fragment at the property ned to garrido s. officials are running tests to determine if the bone is human or animal. garrido s first wife spoke out on inside edition saying garrido used to beat her when she would try to get away. in afghanistan a u.s. seice member died from his wound after an attack. it comes on the heels of dead deadliest month, 4 americans killed in august. a disturbing new study find 1 in 10 binge drinkers drove the last time they drank heavily. the cdc which did the study says binge drinking is the main factor behind 11,000 motor vehicle fatalities a year. an unexpected visitor for residents in a new britain, connecticut, neighborhood. take a look at this. this large black bear roaming past houses and next to a group of frightened school children waiting for a bus. animal control was called in. luckily the bear eventually wandered off back into the woods. that s a good thing. back where he belongs. it s 8:03. let s go back outside to meredith and carl. thank you, natalie. we ll get a check of the weather from al reporting from the scene of the horrible fires in california. al, good morning to you once again. thanks a lot, guys. almost 3700 firefighter working these fires. we re at the hansen dam where they have a command center. firefighters are just waking up now. this group will go and replace the firefighter coming off the lines up in the hills above us. so it s a busy this is almost a makeshift city that has sprung up here. they re getting ready to have breakfast and getting ready to go out there. let s take a look, show you the forecast for los angeles today. the good news is, winds not so bad. the winds are relatively light. we re going to get a little bit of break from the temperatures. temperatures will be only up into the upper 80s to low 90s. especially as we get into tomorrow, winds will be variable, 5 miles an hour today. then as we move into this afternoon, the winds come out of the southwest about 10 to 20 miles an hour with relative humidity at 30%. and that humidity level rises as we head on int wednesday. so that s good news. with lighter winds and cooler temperature, that will give them a little break. latest on jimena, 155 miles south of cabo san lucas. 155-mile-an-hour winds, a strong category 4 moving north-northwest at 12. the system comes on shore sometime on wednesday and makes its way into the southwest in parts of the united states. there had been some hope that some of thatw good morning. kies and we start off with temperatures in the 7 0s. 61 in washington. the earliest since early june. low humidity and more the same tomorrow with a little bit warmer after a cool start in the morning. then on thursday, partly cloudy with highs in the upper 70s. a passing showers and highs in the mid-70 that s your latest weather. carl? al, thanks. when we come back, an artist who dabbles not in paints but in balloons. he s got a few surprises up his sleeves. unext, the warning flags s, raised about legal prescrcripon drug abuse following some high-profile deaths. we ll get into that. we start with a fresh 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it s more and more an ep dickidick epidemic. they re getting it not just from their doctors, they re buying it on the streets, from their parents medicine cabinet and it s a big problem. when you start mixing these drugs and combining them, that s when something dangerous or deadly can happen. what are the combinations people need to be on the lookout for? what are the drug combinations most likely to result in something disastrous? absolutely. it s a problem with people are taking medicines from multiple sources. this is really because people aren t going to one doctor to get their medicines anymore, there s no one overseeing what they re doing, not one doctor making sure there s not drug interaction and one pharmacist making sure there s not a problem because people are getting their medicines from the internet. what are the combinations there s no oversight. what are the combinations people need to be concerned about? right. well, the major combination that s dangerous is mixing alcohol with prescription drugs. that s really the biggest problem. and then mixing drugs from the same class. if you have multiple, say, downers, multiple sedatives, painkillers, anti-anxiety medicine, sleeping medicine, mixing those is a real problem because a lot decrease respiratory drive. they make it less likely you ll take big, deep breaths and you basically suffocate. does it make a difference to use a generic brand verse a brand name in a drug? there s a lot of variability with generic medicines. what s good about a brand medicine is you know you re getting the same thing month after month. with generic there s multiple companies, multiple producers so there s variability month to month when you switch. there s also less oversight really with the government in terms of what you re getting with generic. what about people who say i m taking over-the-counter medication so this isn t my problem. well, there is some overthe cou over-the-counter medicines that react badly with prescription drugs. decongestants don t mix well with blood presse meds and some anti-depressants. thank you very much. i guess a word of caution to people, if you re going to take these drugs, check with your doctors to make sure the medications do line up properly. thank you again. thanks. coming up, what must jaycee a heramily going through? we ll talk to sean hornbeck abducted and found alive four years later. oh, guys, i can see it! they re setting it up right now! is it true? 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yes. reporter: eden stewart loves digging in. learning about the plants, what they do and how they can affect us. i also like the harvesting because at home we get to cook them and make them. reporter: toby adams runs the organized chaos. how hard is it to keep their attention in. that s surprisingly not that difficult. we have a two-acre site with discoveries around every single corner. so the garden takes care of that. reporter: yielding buried treasures like potatoes and tall grns in the breakfast bowl garden. this is an opportunity to share with children the plants they find floating in their cereal bowl. reporter: we have corn? sweet corn here. reporter: this is? barley. reporter: barley. and this in the middle we have rice. reporter: rain or shine in teams of two the older kids work 4 by 12 foot plots. the youngest called sprouts start with the basics of gardening. this summer eden and capri prepared soil, planted seeds, fertilized, watered and waited to see the results of their work. what is it you ve eaten out of this garden? well, i love carrots. reporter: not exactly typical kid fare. the program believes if kids grow it, they ll eat it. do vegetables taste better because you grow them yourselves? yeah. well, i think because they re more fresh than the ones you buy in the supermarket. at a factory you don t know if they sprayed some random chemical on it. here i know i did this to it and it s going to stay like that. that s good, right? reporter: each lesson comes with an opportunity to prepare and taste vegetables in new ways. there s even an iron chef competition. and the secret ingredient today are tomatoes. reporter: they chop, grate, saute and savor what they ve grown. spring beans. reporter: farmer s market day te sell their wares to each other. they take home produce can and recipes to share with their family. there are some freshness can t help. i strongly have a distaste for squash or zucchini. i m alsoen the biggest fan of eggplant. reporter: victoria credits the program for making her a better eater. she s now back as a volunteer to share what she learned. everything doesn t come in a prepackaged container. it comes from somewhere. and it can come from their own hands, from sowing the seeds to harvesting. reporter: after all the vegetables have been eaten and the plants withered away, life lesson remains, teamwork and appreciation of nature and most of all, a sense of accomplishment. celebrated by capri s mom at the dinner table. every time i bring home a lot of greenery and stuff, she makes up a big salad and called it a capri salad. reporter: yielding an appreciation for a healthy life and nature s bounty. nbc news, the bronx. a great lesson for those kids. can you imagine a nation of tiny barefoot con tessas running around? do you have a garden? no. i can barely order food at a fast food restaurant. we have one and i actually bond with the vegetles. there you go. let s check in with our good friend willard scott. and the days whittled down to a precious few, september. can you believe it, september 1st. here we are. happy birthday. and time flies. sreheic a ne are b a nicebuddy. bu y. take a look, iu f yoll,wi please, a,, edn smith, 110. retired librarian for 35 veves reminiscing abouyet s re niscing about being a s librarian. beautiful people. oth dhuc sey gdoo th.ings good . mejacollier, like the old mazigagane, dallas, texas, 100, world war ii vet, keeps busy repairing television ts.se yo ,kny don tse need muchon reiring. abw tv setsunevreli.bele ermbldunhebelievable. reme t we have maidmaidee seward, bloomington, indiana, 109. learning ongevity isrn leaing e coe irisho into int nniaant oth.isirscm ott irish. george stone, englewood, kerontdo, 100 years old, worked il h u was sade. rydes a wnt y thave ehy s sy and that s why heookst so go .d alberta addison, washington, d.c., 100 years old. fpelu soralci services prog med er of the localme tpt .ch. good oldba t.ptpt teresa pasaeson,paonsa, annapolis, maryland, just down the road, just charming. 104 years old. sold her first oil painting at 95. isn t that something? grandma moses of annapolis. that s all. now back to the most exciting team in all of television in york nk yhaeryo. thank you very much. 8:26 is the time right now. 61 degrees and beautiful sunshine and a lovely day out there. good morning. i m joe crebs. breaking news. the police is on the scene of a serious pedestrian accident just about half an hour ago m one victim was a teenager and the other vehicle involved was a teenager. we ll stay in touch as the news comes into the newsroom. the drtax amnesty program kicks in on october 30th. it s designed to encourage people to pay back taxes when the money is desperately needed. good morning. it s unusually cool. temperatures will climb into the mid-70s with lots of sun and low humidity. jerry, how is the traffic? it s the outer loop, and the turnpike, medical emergency in the middle lane. after that, the overturned lane at the interchange. route 50 still causing problems and police are wrapping it up. joe? tonight on news 4 at 5:00, the maryland football coach has life with a changing 8:30 now on this tuesday morning, september 1, 2009. last unofficial week of summer. we have a great crowd on their last days of summer vacation right here in the big apple. coming up, check out this guy. he is a balloon artist. it s amazing what this guy can do with a balloon or two. he ll show us in a bit. apparently, he has a surprise for us as well. we re not sure what that is. what is that? i don t know. sort of reich the moulike the m crocodile? i don t know. we ll head to the kitchen and get a twist on italian style. do you like linguini? oh, do i. on a more serious note, we ll have more on the california woman reunited with her loved ones after 18 years of being kidnapped. so what are jaycee lee dugard and her family now experiencing? we re going to talk with a family who lived through their own traumatic experience. you may recall the case of shawn hornbeck, found alive after being kidnapped and found alive after more than four years. we ll talk to them coming up. we ll head out to california where al is covering the wildfires. good morning once again. good morning, meredith. we are here at the hansen dam control center where the firefighters are regrouping. some are coming in off the lines, some are going out. almost 3700 firefighters working these eight fires in southern california. the station fire being the biggest of them all, over 105,000 acres having burned already. let s take a look, show you what s going on as far as today s weather is concerned. good news is, we re looking at plenty of sunshine, beautiful weather, low humidity, lots of sunny skies. comfortable temperatures from the great lakes on to the northeast. record lows this morning. showers in the pacific northwest, smokey conditions, obviously southern california into neva. for tomorrow, we ve got plenty of sunshine again. mild weather in the northeast. right back into the great lakes. heavy rain along the southeastern atlantic coast. the smoke conditions continue in the southwest into southern california. and a lot of hot weather working its way i here a spectacular blue sky with brilliant sun on this first of september. it s only 61 degrees in washington and tperatures in the suburbs in the upper 50s now and it s going to continue to climb in the mid-70s with lots of sunshine and low humidities. afternoon highs in the upper 70s. don t forget, any time of the day or night you need weather information, go to weather channel on cable or weather.com online. thank you very much. up next, medical advice at the mall? dr. nancy explores the growing trend of retail health centers. first this is today. today s health is brought togargarnier skin renew. tired of the puffy eyes? roll them away. this morning on how not to get sick, health care at a retail store. nbc s chief medical editor nancy snyderman is here. good morning to you. good morning, carl. this has to do with these retail clinics you see popping up all over the country. there are now 1,000 retail health clinics all over the united states. the question s are they bringing added value or adding to an already complicated system? reporter: imagine being able to pick up a gallon of milk, fill a prescription and get a flu shot in one place? you don t have to imagine anymore. this is reality. health clinics are opening their doors while you shop. all you need to do is sign your name and your birthday. reporter: meg milligan is one of 46 million uninsured americans. by happenstance, she found a retail clinic and headed off a potentially serious illness. i was shopping in cvs one day, the medi clinic was offering free screenings. so i went into the hypertension screening and they were able to diagnose me as hypertense and reef me to a clinic. reporter: cvs is one of the many mini clinics popping up. in the last nine years they have logged over 3.4 million visits. in general, patients come because they often have a wait in their physician s office. they don t have the convenience. it costs more. for simple things, they want to be in and out. reporter: the average wait in an emergency room is about four hours. it can take weeks to get an appointment at a doctor s office. but retail clinics promise a short wait and don t require appointments. i just found out it was much easier than going to my pediatrician and waiting in line and, you know, sitting there. you could sit sometimes for an hour before they see you. reporter: but this system is not without its critics. the american medical association warns these clinics should be closely monitored and should not take the place of primary care doctors. the problem for regular care is that simple symptoms don t always mean one has simple diseases. so something like a high fever could be just a strep throat, but it could be meningitis, could be pneumonia. reporter: most clinics stick to minor or acute illnesses, some are starting to broaden their scope to physicals and diabetes and cholesterol screenings. walmart s clinic in orlando, florida s run by doctors and equipped to x-ray broken bones and handle other emergency care. i can go in, get my medical needs taken care of for my children or myself and continue to go shopping, pick up some things i need for the house and it s a one-stop shop. it s terrific. reporter: terrific for advocates who want better health care access and most likely a model for the future. it is very much a model for the future. i should point out cvs has a partnership with general electric to administer health care benefits and ge owns nbc. fill disclosure is out, carl. that s right. nancy, let s bring in jeffrey cluger, a senior editor at time magazine. he covered this in a recent issue. good morning to you. good morning. do these clinics work? they do work. we have a piece up on time.com just today that reports on a study in the internal the anals of internal medicine based on a rand survey that clinics 1,000 clinics throughout the state of minnesota and elsewhere looking into howell they treated three the quality of care? the quality of care. it was very competitive compared to doctor s offices, urgent care clinics and emergency rooms. how about price? it s stunning. if you walk into the clinic, see the doctor, be evaluated or see the nurse practitioner and get treated it s about $110, like 160-some for a doctor s office, well over $500, maybe $550, $575 for an emergency room. so that pricing really makes a difference. now, i was saying to jeff before we started, as a practicing physician 15 years ago i found this quite painful. it s taking away your business. not only that but i really believed the quality of care wasn t as good. people would be passing out antibiotics for colds. frankly, there is, i think, a slippery slope here. come in, see me. by the way, here s the pharmacy. don t forget to get your band-aids out the door. there s an issue. however, the study in minnesota was pretty good. quality of care was the same. money was good. jeffrey, you point out that given all the problems we have with health care in this country, it would be nice if we could turn health care into an impulse purchase, right, the way you buyum at the cash register. that s right. i hope people pick up time magazine at the cash register and if you could pick up a blood pressure test or cholesterol test while you re in the clinic, that way you catch these things early. as we know, prevention is everything. i think what jeff says is very important. pick up your blood pressure and your cholesterol tests. do those things proceed actively. don t go in sick. my concern is, people use these as sick clinics and not as wellness clinics. that s how they re designed. dr. nancy snyderman, jeffy, thank you. thank you both. it s a fabulous article. turning balloons into breathtaking art. first, this is today on nbc. rn 99 red balloons now to artists who deal in unexpected medium, balloons. good morning, meredith. i know what you re think bhpg i say balloon art you re picturing creepy clowns and interesting looking animals. you would be amazed what balloon artists, who take their job very seriously, can do with a little latex and a lot of imagination. reporter: sin city. flashy neon, beautiful people and a lot of hot air. welcome to balloon camp, vegas-style. every summer 400 of the most talented balloon artists in the world converge upon las vegas. the general public, unfortunately, thinks of la boo balloons as a helium balloon on a string. reporter: how long did it take you the whole car only about 25 hours. reporter: how did you learn how to do something like this? i mean i was in prison. no, i m joking. reporter: no, i see a lot of those prison movies where those guys sit around after weight lifting and make balloon animals all day. do you have a favorite balloon from a movie in. you ll see balloons a lot. there s a movie out there called wedding crashers . whatever, make me a bicycle, clown. reporter: make me a bicycle, clown. yeah. some of the new by twisters get that line and they say, ha, ha, i can t do that. the old ones say, sure, what color? reporter: oh, oh. relax. it s called pop art for a reason. reporter: what s the first thing i need to do, the first step? the first step is to find something that inspires you. that s what art s about. you re the inspiration you bring feeling to my life you re the inspiration reporter: can i see? matt lauer. i mean, i look at this and i think, matt lauer. or richard nixon, but mainly matt lauer. it s your thing do what you want to do reporter: but if you think this is all fun and games, think again. special seminars are held, notes are taken, moves memorized, something new for beginners and experts alike. but mainly beginners. okay. just want to make sure. reporter: the owners of party creations in connecticut aastounded of the classes we go to and you say, wow, that s such a simple basic thing but we never thought to do it. reporter: what happens at balloon camp definitely does not stay at balloon camp. and the three-day intensive course culminates with a little balloon. you think this is going to get on me? absolutely. that mannequin is set up right for you perfectly. take a look in the back. twirl her around. eporter: really? i don t want to pop her. designer debbie stevens has created the perfect dress. now i have to learn how to walk a runway in three minutes or less. and at this point, whatever i know, i know. all the way from new york nbc today show, miss jenna wolfe. reporter: that was crazy. adrenaline. i think next stop is like new york city fashion week. yeah, right. ask me if i sat down? just ask me. there is no sitting down at that fashion show. it sounds interesting. you ve had balloons before. larry is the wonderful creator that made that awesome matt lauer/richard nixon face for us. and wanted to have some more fun. we have twins! oh, look at that, carl. and meredith. oh, you made me a blonde. i like that. and pigtails, like on the weekend. i m not a real blond. that s very nice. interestingly enough, it doesn t take you a long time to do this. no. it took longer to design it than the actual creation of it. it was about ten minutes for each of these. what got you involved in this? i started as a street magician in new york. around central park, used to do magic show, the balloons were a way to draw attention to the crowd. some of these you don t even have to inflate. this is a it s balloons with wire inside holding the petals open. there are a lot of different materials and techniques used. most of what i do is just twisted. these are twisted and tied together. you could add glue and wire to get the effects. give these guys an idea of how serious everyone takes this. it s not like you go tre and everyone s drinking in vegas, blowing up balloons. they re very serious about it. i ve been on both sides, attending classes and teaching classes. people take notes, pictures, they go try things as soon as class is over and they don t want to forget. people remember so much, later as a teacher irget called from people that have attended. is there something you re planning now, something you d love to create you haven t done now? al, al would be fun. i m also working on a series of masterpieces. i ve been recreating some famous masterpieces. i ve done the mona lisa, i m working on botachelli s venus. wow. how did you take off that dress? we don t want to talk about that. i m not afraid. bring it. can i have my face? thank you very much. there you go. that s jenna in her little outfit. i still have that. that s beautiful. thank you very much. larry, thank you very much. up next we ll step into the kitchen to put a new spin on an old world favorite. first this is today on nbc. today s kitchen is brought to you by maytag, built strong to last long.> this morning on today s kitchen back to basics, linguini and clam with david burke, who has put his own spin on an old world favorite. nice to see you. how are you doing? good, good. we re going to make something very simple. this is clam sauce. clams are abundant now. they aren t expensive. this can be done with mussels as well. linguini with clams? yes. you added something specl? this is boiled instead of sauteed. it s almost like making a broth and we ll add the pasta. you started with peppers and grilled them. we roast peppers or you can use pimento. we ll start with chicken stock or clam juice. the pot is heated up a little bit. whoa. facial. and a little white wine. you can use straight stock. then we basically, everything it s a one-pot you put your onion, your peppers. peppers, red and yellow. why did you roast the peppers in. for a little more sweetness. okay. tomatoes. and peppers in linguini with clams is not traditional, right? usually a clam sauce is very simple, gar lack, shallot and parsley. parsley goes in. how much? that s plenty. garlic. this gets boiled? boiled with the clams. this takes about three minutes. that s it. we ll move over to here. we re doing the pasta. we re doing linguini but this is three minutes later. lemon zest and parsley, which you add. but we ve also then prepared the linguini prior to this, right? it s boiling behind us. we ll finish this with a little butter. optional. olive oil is traditional but butter helps thicken it up. this all all the traditional ingredient. we ll put the lid back on. at this stage you could use it as a soup or cook the pasta in there. are the clams ready those clams we can eat right for you. pasta s cooking. all right. how do you make sure the pasta doesn t get too soft? pasta should hit the water before the clams. it takes about the same time. so this pasta s a little precooked. a little el dente. the same sauce can be used with grilled sword fish, use use other vegetables from the garden. you put the pasta in the sauce? yeah. the pasta goes right into the sauce. very simple. this is already cooked. this takes six, seven minute. this is cooked. now, this gets mixed together. oh, yum. this is simple. a little juice all over me. we ve got a facial. exactly. total preparation time for the dish overall? once you do the chopping, you ve got about 15, 20 minutes. nice. everybody loves this dish, too. throw it on the plate there. then you throw some clams in. try to get some juice. what are you doing? you re standing there. i m getting ready to eat. i didn t realize clams were inexpensive. mussels are even less expensive. you always need toast. this is pesto, pureed basil. this is fisherman with sea weed. thank you. how t shop discount and still look like a million the team right now is 8:55. good morning. we re following news right now out ofunty.coun. a girl a girl was e ha baar r tweldtothhat we re told that the ast serious, though. the driver involved stayed often the scene of the accident much we have a news crew on the scene and we ll bring you the news as soon as we get it. the state s preparation will be talked about for the swine flu. the state health officials will be joined at the elementary school. experts agree that it will come back strong this fall. we ll take a break and come back good morning. temperatures in the low 70s and low humidity. a few clouds around on saturday and sunday. dry for the weekend. how is the traffic, jerry? particularly on 270, two separate incidents including a motorcycle accident. we re jammed in clarksville at this hour. we haven t seen at this hour. 395 is heavy. joe? jerry, thanks very much. the head coach has lunch with lindsey and talks about lunch, football, we re back now with more of today on this tuesday morning, 1st day of september, 2009. a beautiful day outside here in the big apple. we have a great crowd hanging around with us, hanging onto summer, really. it doesn t even feel like summer out there. it feels more like fall. matt and ann are off today. al reporting from the horrible wildfires burning around los angeles. one fire has scorched more than 164 square miles, claimed two lives, destroyed dozens of homes and threatens thousands of more homes, including critical cell phone and tv transmissions. al will bring us the latest. we ll get the latest in the discovery of the kidnapping of jaycee dugard who was abducted when she was 11 years old, held for 18 years. now she s been reunited with her family, we ll talk whitot he mr family who knows what that transition is like all too well. their son was keheld for more tn four years. we ll talk to the family of shawn hornbeck what-b what jaycee and her family are going through. how to raise a healthy baby. surprising facts about kids and obesity. we ll tell you what you can look out for in the early months of your baby s life and get guidance about what you need to know to keep your baby healthy. first, natalie, since ann is off, a check of headlines. in the news this morning, firefighters say a change in the weather is what they need to get the upper hand on those california wildfires. nbc s miguel is in one hard hit los angeles area. i know there are big losses there. reporter: yeah, natalie. official number we have, good morning, is 53 homes have been destroyed. we know that number will be much larger in this one neighborhood nbc news has counted at least 35 homes. we know it will take firefighters some time when the sun comes up to get a firm grip on that number. meanwhile, 12,000 homes stand in the path of the fire or are threatened by the fire. 6,000 people evacuated. this fire has consumed more than 100,000 acres. it continues to burn in multiple directions. firefighters only have it 5% contained, which means 95% of this blaze is out of control. it will be a very tense morning and a very busy day for firefighters over the next week. miguel in los angeles, thank you for the update. a programming note as well. brian williams will be reporting from the front lines of the los angeles wildfires tonight on nbc nightly news. the federal government will pay $9.5 million to buy the pennsylvania field in shanksville where united flight 93 crashed on september 11th after passengers fought with hijackers. they hope to have a memorial built in time for the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. a special election is set for january to fill ted kennedy s senate seat. president obama gets an update today on washington s swine flu preparations. the heads of homeland security and health and human services are among those expected to brief him at the white house. police in greenfield, indiana, thought it was a drunk driver they were tailing during a 15-mile chase that reached 80 miles an hour. but get this? the driver was actually a 9-year-old boy who took his dad s car so he could stay out past his bedtime. the incident was reminiscent of that 7-year-old who swiped his dad s wheels last month to avoid going to church. kids, don t try this at home, okay? i m surprised they can actually reach the gas pedal and brakes. they must be tall must be not a stick shift either. or using something. it is now four minute past the hour. let s get another check of the fire and weather from al in los angeles. good morning again, al. good morning, guys. and the sun is just starting to come up. we re here at the hansen dam fire control center and firefighters are coming back off the line. we ve seen lines of trucks coming in and other trucks going out. we ve got almost 3,700 firefighters working on these fires. some of them getting breakfast, getting showers, getting ready to hit those lines again. let s take a look, show you weight going what s going on. in los angeles, we re looking at temperatures not quite as hot as they ve been. upper 60s to mid-70s this morning with a 50% to 60% humidity. lower in the mountains. variable winds, 5 to 10 miles an hour. later today those winds shift out of the southwest, 30% humidity, again low in the mountains. temperature mid to upper 90s. tomorrow, cooler temperature. that s the good news. temperatures will b in the 70s. humidity levels higher. again, we have to say lower in the mountains and variable light winds. as we take a look at the latest on jimena, 150 miles south of cabo san lucas. 150-mile-an-hour winds. dangerous hurricane coming into cab ka bow and the baja, california, peninsula. we ve been hoping some moisture from jimena would make its way into southern california but it looks like it will be heading  after a very cool start with a very bright sun, we re starting to warm up with low 60s in montgomery and in arlington county. upper 60s near the bay now. still very cool and arounded it seminole valley, highs near 70s. blue sky and low humidity. it feels like september and a very chilly start. laets your latest weather. natalie? al, thank you. now to that california couple accused of abducting an 11-year-old school girl and keeping her captive for 18 years. investigators have now unefforted what could be a potential piece of evidence. nbc george lewis is in antioch, california, with the very latest. george, good morning. reporter: good morning, natalie. police are looking for any evidence that might tie phillip garrido, the man accused of masterminding the abduction to a string ofocal unsolved murders. one piece of evidence, a fragment of bone. monday evening dogs trained to sniff for human remains returned to the home of phillip garrido and the property next door as police announced the discovery of the bone fragment at that adjoining property. we re taking that bone back for further examination. we don t know if it s human or animal. reporter: as police broadened their investigation, they re trying to find out whether phillip garrido was tied to a string of unsolved murders. they re also looking at whether he had anything to do with other kidnappings. in 1988 9-year-old michaela was pulled off a street into a car in broad daylight, just like jaycee dugard. the two girls bear an uncanny resemblance to each other. now police are talking to michaela s parents. we have an inspector who has been actually investigating michaela s case even before this came up. and he has been investigating possible connections between michaela s case and jaycee s case. reporter: phillip garrido and his wife have pleaded not guilty to charges of abducting, raping and imprisoning jay s ining jay garrido s first wife calls him a violent man. appearing on inside edition she says he beat her at times and when she tried to get away he pulled up in front of me, he grabbed me, threw me. me in the car. reporter: in 1977, four years into the marriage, garrido was convicted of raping another woman, katherine calway hall, who was on larry king live monday night. it s just there under the surface. reporter: she says he took her to a storage unit in reno, draped with carpets inside. it was like a maze. and in the back part of the mini warehouse where he had me, he had it set up to keep someone for a while. reporter: sort of like the warren of sheds behind garrido s house where jaycee dugard lived with the two children she allegedly had by him. garrido s ex-wife in her tv interview claimed when another man flirted with her once, garrido pulled out a safety pin, gouged her in the face and threatened to put out her eyes. natalie? unbelievable. george lewis in antioch, california, thank you, george. so how does a person live anything close to a normal life after being held captive by a kidnapper? pam and craig akers know all too well. their son shawn hornbeck was abducted at age 11 and was found 4 1/2 years later living with his kidnapper. good morning. good morning. he we wonder what this young lady, now 29 years old, held captive for 18 years, must be going through emotionally as she s reunited with her family. your son, shawn, was also kidnapped at the age of 11, held for four years. can you describe early on emotionally what it was like, that reunion and some of the emotions that you had to sort out with him early on? actually, it was very difficult. shawn had a lot of guilt for, you know, not trying to get away, for he thought we were going to be angry at him. he thought he was going to be damaged goods, that we weren t going to love him anymore, that we were going to blame him. we just had to reassure him that everything he did we felt he did right because he was still alive and brought back to us. we had to tell him that he we didn t blame him. no reason to feel guilt. none of this was your fault. hi to deal with a lot of anger also because all of my nightmares that i had had, the 4 1/2 years he was gone, you know, i found out wasrue and actually even worse. that s just hard to deal with. how did you know what to say, craig? because i can t imane that any parent has that kind of preparation, what to say and what not to say. ah, that s the most difficult part. initially you pretty much walk around on egg shells afraid to say something because you re afraid you re going to say something wrong that s going to bring back a memory or trigger something. you just have to be very slow, very deliberate. in this case, the mental health professionals are going to be key in getting this family back on the right track. you just have to let the victims know that you love them unconditionally with no strings. that they didn t do anything wrong. none of this is their fault. that s really the most important thing you can do. that constant reassurance, that unconditional love. did shawn early on talk much about his captor, michael devlin? did he talk about what he went through or did it take some time before he was able to come forth with some of the facts and some of the abuse that he underwent? pam? it actually did at first, within the first couple of weeks, shawn told us a few things. only because he said he knew we had to have had thousands of questions and had to have been wondering what was going on. so he did share a few things with us that he thought he could. but then after that it took a while in therapy for us to really get into details to where he was able to share some of the more horrible things that had gone on. and one of those horrible things, of course, is the years of sexual abuse. i can t imagine as a pent what how heart broken you must have been hearing those details. and knowing that jaycee also the father of her two children is her kidnapper, can a child overcome that kind of abuse? absolutely. there s no doubt in my mind. shawn is a prime example. he s an 18-year-old high school senior this year, fantastic grade point average. he s going to graduate ahead of his classmates. he is working a part-time job, dating girls, hanging out with his friends. he s just like any other 18-year-old kid in the midwest. you would never know that he d been through the experience he has if you didn t know personally what he had been through. it s great to hear he s had such a great road to recovery. over the years, though, i know one of the questions you didn t ask him and it s something a lot of people, i think, want to know, is why he didn t try to run. and you say you ve avoided asking him that question. pam, why is that? really because, you know, you have to stop and think, these victims are 11-year-old, children when they re taking. in shawn and jaycee s case they re 11. very early on we learn the person that takes them gets very good control over these children. it s just fear. one reason why i don t ask him because he s pretty well explained it to us. within the first 30 days he had to beg for his life. not only his life, our life also. we learned that numerous time he was told f you don t do what i say or if you try to escape or try to contact your family, not only will i kill you, i ll kill your family also. you ve mentioned how important the health care professionals, the psychologists will be to helping jaycee and her two young girls who, as i understand, they they have no idea what s going on. they believe they ve heard their father is in prison and they don t understand that he was their mother s kidnapper. so there s a lot of explaining to do there. but you say that shawn has been able to make a complete recovery. does he have nightmares still of the years he spent in captivity? does it come back at certain points in his life? very, very infrequently. i ve talked about shawn about whether or not it ever comes up, ever gives him any problems. he s told me that on rare occasions he ll sometimes have a dream about something that happened during that time. but for the most part, he has been able to put it behind him and make it a part of his past and not let it influence his future and not let it stop his progress in moving forward. we re very fortunate that he s been able to get his head around it and be able to handle it in such a mature way. you are very fortunate. do you have any last words of advice for the family and friends and the neighbors who are surrounding themselves around jaycee dugard right now? i would say, be patient with them. love them unconditional. you know, constantly reassure her and her children that none of this was their fault up. still love them. they re not damaged good. and then just over time, things can get better and they could get somewhat of a normal life. we have to remember all the questions we have aren t really the important thing in this situation. us getting answers to our questions aren t important. what s important is getting these victims the help they need to reunit them with their families and make them whole again. well, pam and craig akers, it s so great to speak with you. we re so grateful that shawn is doing well. thank you very much for sharing your perspective with us today. thank you. thank you, natalie. still to come this morning, up next, signs of childhood obesity starting much earlier than you might think. we ll tell you what every parents needs to know. later, the secrets to finding the best deals at discnt stores. first, these messages. or sit on her bed and talk about her day. but she s ready. thanks to walmart s unbeatable prices, i was able to get her everything she needed. as well as what she wanted. letting go? 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i personally love jcpenney because it has designer-inspired pieces mixed with classic. h&m, victoria secret has great looks. we have four models that will show us different looks, head to toe discount looks but one will be wearing one splurge item. i have to ge guess what they are. first trend is the color purple. it s everywhere. we have our model sharon showing us the styles here. she looks gorgeous. now, let s see. i m checking her out. i m trying to figure out the expensive item here. i m guessing it s probably the shoes, jackie. no, it s not the shoes. not the shoes? good guess. accessory. scarf? no. belt? no, i m going to tellyou. the expensive item is actually the jeans she s wearing. these are designer jeans. now, you can wear any jeans. we have this whole look head to toe look available from h&m. let me tell you why it works, why you can shop this discount. it s a purple cardigan, you can wear it open, belted, which is a huge trend. it s only $30. the scarf is $15. a great shop when shopping discount stick to more solid shades. you can go for are a solid shade then you can t guess the price. you can always tell the print a little bit with the quality. sometimes. this one you can put the cardigan over it, it s a head to toe look. that big fringe bag is only $25. that s a great find. wow. great. goes to show you, you fooled me. oh, good. you look great. thanyou. our next trend, the ankle boots. they are all the range. they are back with style. and here we have stephanie wearing this great look. come on out, stephanie. let s see. expensive item here would be i m guessing her wedding ring. well, you know i m going to take the easy way out here. we were just talking about that. i don t know. i m going to get hosed on this. all right. you guessed it right. well, apart from the ring, the hosiery. the hosiery is the most expensive item she is wearing. really? comparatively speaking. yes. we found this whole look at jcpenney. it s a great look, the great fitting tweed skirt with the high-waisted tweed skirt, the white shirt, classic look at jcpenney. the ankle boots are also from jcpenney but the hose are the expensive thing. the rest are really great price. that wedding ring, i m sure, is the real thing. she didn t get that at jcpenney. she could have. they have fine jewelry. stephanie, thank you so much. next trend is biker chic. it is everywhere. we have melanie showing us the look here. isn t she gorgeous? beautiful, beautiful melanie. let s see. i m looking down. i m guessing the shoes here. they look like valentino s. wouldn t that be nice? they re $20. they re total knock-offs. ts is from forever 21. fabulous biker faux leather jack et. that jacket is only $35. that s a graeat price. the sequin top underneath is $13. that s a great price. sequin is still in, right? still in. you can match it with leather, looks great. the splurge item on this look is the clutch. you add an expensive clutch, you can dress up the whole outfit. you re way too tough on me. it just shows you it s easy to shop discount. thank you, melanie. our last trend is taking a look at beautiful carla. this is lace. this is our lace trend. looks gorgeous. i love the blouse. i m guessing the blouse is the expensive, big ticket item here. sadly, you re wrong again. the shoes? it is the shoes. that was my next guess. the shoes are the big ticket item in this look. look how stunning. she found this at victoria s secret. they do such amazing clothes. great clothes. also replenish every couple of weeks. it s worth checking out online. the pants are great fitting. the pant are fabulous fit pants. the shirt is a great designer piece inspired shirt with the lace on it. super trendy look but a great price. $58 for the shirt and the pants are $78. beautiful. you all look fabulous. you totally fooled me. i m a good discount shopper but apparently i don t know my high-end from my low-end. girls, come back out. you look great. jackie stafford, great examples. thank you.do anding up next, tey to raisionfident and urageous g girls right after this. to help make classrooms sunnier places! we re helping kids. we re helping teachers. 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it s great to be nice. but how nice should you be? if you re too knight nice you re not sharing your true feelings. you re holding them back. giving up your needs in relationships. you re trying to be perfect all the time. you re a people-pleaser. and also not taking healthy risks. the best leaps in our development are taken when we re willing to fail. so if you re trying to be good all the time, you re not going to be able to take those risks. it s interesting. i don t feel like you see a lot of boys, perhaps, with this same problem. the girls really feel like they have to somehow please others, do the right thing. not make waves. absolutely. make sure everybody s happy with them. how does that affect girls in terms of their success compared to boys even? girls, if they don t take risks, they really can t try different things and they can t find out what their real passions are. rachel you distinguish between being a good girl and an authentic girl. an authentic girl know how she s acting and can react to that. she can say, it s not always going to be the movie you want to see. i sometimes want to choose the movie i want to see. a good girl will have a sense of humor about her mistakes. she s not going to see a mistake as a cat class mick event but will be able to laugh it off and try again. how difficult is this for a mother who was raised to be a good girl? i have two daughters. i ll admit i was raised to be a good girl. you think, gosh, i don t want to necessarily make those same rules for my daughters as well. the problem is, mothers want to be perfect, too. they re raised to try to be everything to everyone and they re givi those messages to their daughter. subconsciously they re modeling themselves after you. absolutely. what do you do differently? what are sop tips you have? first of all, failures and mistakes are an important thing to express and experience. absolutely. it s how you react to your daughter s mistakes that tell her everything. you have to convey that mistakes aren t okay they re actually necessary because as rachel says, that s how we learn. particularly about ourselves. you say you have to balance feedback and criticism. a lot of parents today think in order to raise their daughter s self-esteem they tell them they re great in everything. that s not true. girls know that s inauthentic feedback. they need to know what they re weak in as well as strong in because for sure they re future employers will do that some day. you a set limits. what limit? it s okay to saying no. it s okay to say to your daughter, i m not willing to do that right now because then we re modeling for them how to take care of their own needs in relationships. here s a big one. conflict is okay. i mean, i was definitely akon flikt-avoider, probably still am. sometimes you have to take it on. conflict is inevitable, inavoidable, and if you use your mother-daughter relationship to teach your daughter you can deal with conflict head-on, resolve them. those are skills she ll use all of her life, professionally and personally. what are girls noticing and realizing, i ve been walked on for long enough. i ve been a good girl. i want to make a change, be authentic. is there a point in women s eyes where they re making this realization? i think a lot of women when they hit age 40 wake up and say, i don t care what people think as much as anymore. the question is, how can we help girls feel that way now. i think moms have a huge example to set, not just by doing things to their children by helping them in particular ways but what you do for your daughter. so be the mom who takes the yoga class and says, i can t drive carpool. demonstrate you re someone who is an individual, who has her own needs. that s the best lesson you can give to your daughter. then you can retrain your brain at40? even before that. that sounds very positive. rachel simmons, thank you both, we appreciate it. thank you. we re back in a moment. we ve got a couple of special guests. thanks. hoda and kathie lee in a few second. jenny mccarthy. we love her. a smackdown over > yeah. i m betting on you. we ll be watching for sure. all right. all that and more after your local news and weather. good morning. it s 9:55. breaking news outf prince georges county. teenagers are i after a car plowed into a the 300 block of bringly road a gir was cross the street when a car hit her. police say the car also slammed into a minute vee van. it was moving towards a group of younger children but a group of younger children hit the and authorities say the girl has very serious injuries. we ll bring the latest stories midday this morning. another tax amnesty program kicks off in maryland today. allowing people to pay back taxes with half the interest rate. allowing them to pay with half the back taxes. at a time when they need money. in just a fewrs minutes, we ll learn more about the swine flu. tim gains talking about preparations now that the school is back in session. experts predict that the disease will come back strong this fall. let s go back to storm sin ter 4 to get a forerecastst. n e foc tainlylyeeng le o ought tim this first of september. right now under the blue sky, temperatures are hitting the 60s. afternoon highs in the 60s. that s ten degrees longer than yesterday. low humidity and cool tomorrow morning with clear night tonight. low 50s starting off on wednesday. highs in the upper 70s and again on thursday, partly cloudy with highs in the mid-07 he t over the weekend, sunday and monday, highs near 08s. how is the traffic? it s going to be a slow day with folks along 270. traffic is slow all the way down with outer loop road. heads up for that. north on 395, moving along very nicely, heading for downtown, out bound 395 heading down 14th street bridge. thanks. tonight at 5:00. the head coach has lunch with lindsey. life with football and a change captions paid for by nbc-universal television hello, everybody. it s tuesy. it s september 1st. you know what that means around the corner, hoda? what, what? september 2nd? so obvious. by the way, it s chilly in new york. it s gorgeous. my trees are already changing and dropping and blowing away. are you ready for that already? shouldn t it happen to my trees? it s called restore for an instant hot flash aid. anything that is falling apart, sprathat on you, feel better. watch this. something for everything. instant hot flash aid. that s what they say. it s hormone free. i feel great. it s working. you have a drink, hoda. it s too early. we already have the wine here, people. it s only here because later in the show we re going to discuss beer and wine. cheers. cheers to you. to tuesday. any excuse. is today tuesday? it is september 1st. i m not drinking? that s good. i thought the end of the world was already coming but now it s definitely here. confirmed how? confirmed in this way, you can now hatch your own celebrity children. hatch? hatch. you can go to a sperm bank, which you ve been able to do for a long time anyway. but now you can, you can go to would-be donors that are lookalikes. the chance to search for perspective donors based on which famouses face the sperm donor looks like. they have a david beckham lookalike sperm. he is going to be a serial killer, but he is going to be cute. that is a terrible thing. aren t there sperm banks that say i want someone with a high intellect and i want someone with this and someone with that. then marry someone like that. some people aren t doing that. but why? technology is going too much faster than ethics. you know. we ll have a whole world full of beautiful people that are jerks. you should be able to pick a smart person s sperm but not a gorgeous person s sperm. would you go to a sperm bank? why did you turn this around? i have children, you might have heard. you were just saying it is bad a to do a good-looking person, but good to do a smart person. here s why i have an emotional problem with it. one time the tabloid said cassie was sperm spun. i had neverheard of a thing. it turns out male sperm weighs more than female sperm. we don t have sperm. what i m saying we have eggs, they have sperm. i know that. well you said female sperm. so i may have made a little faux pas. golly. go on. anyway, what happens it separates out and then you can take the female or the male egg and have that fertilized by that sperm. i don t know what you re talking about. it makes me crazy. the point is they alleged she had been because i so desperately wanted a female child. it turns out that you can do that. there is that technique. now, you can do that and make sure it comes out looking like angelina jolie with the lips. what happened to having a child and loving it. unconditional love. all they screen for is hiv in those sperm banks. you could have a criminal. you could have a problem with brain issues. i think you should think things through and not just look at the surface of things. but maybe they should be more open of whose sperm you re getting that way you have an idea of what s going on. i think it s also very concerning about the medical history of certain people. you should know those things going in. having a little fun. here s a little fun. this is nasty. just get ready. the daily news in the paper today they had a survey where aol did a survey and they were asking people to admit to their bad habits. okay. admit to them. this is online, i think they may be more honest online than if someone asked them straight up. maybe. 22% of people rewear dirty underwear. again, they wear it again. i do know who you are. in fact, you re doing it right now. you re sitting there watching and drinking your coffee and you think nobody knows. we know. we know, we re on to you. 13% rewear clothes three times before rewashing. 9% of women do not change their bra for a couple of weeks. weeks. hopefully they live in cold climates. i don t have that many bras. i only have like three or four. how many do you have? i have many. you need a bra for all different occasions. 71% of people admit to picking their nose. does it count if you use a kleenex? i don t think it counts. 14% leave dirty dishes in the sink for two days or more. that s, that s okay. yeah. 8% hoda s apartment. i don t use dishes. she doesn t know she has a kitchen. 8% of people never ever, ever clean their ears. you know why maybe that is we have been so terrified afwhouboe q-tip thing. maybe the ear is a natural way of flushing itself out. it doesn t. one to five people shower or bathe every other day. they don t bathe or shower every single day. i don t think i know people like this. i hope not. i think i would have known. you know. but sometimes in other countries people don t bathe all the time and they don t get why we re always so in the tub and scrubbing up. but i prefer it that way. all right, should we bring up the drinking. regular drinkers. by the way, jerry, can i have what i usually drink in the morning, the green tea. you leave me here with nothing but chardonnay. no options. i want to do the healthy thing, thank you. what i normally have every morning. there s a study that says that green tea, jerry. those who average one or two drinks a day are more likely to exercise. i think that may be because of the guilt. i have to go to the gym and work it off. i think that s an interesting survey. do you agree with it? i sure get on that pilates machine every day. here is the green tea. what is that? fox glove. you know the stuff i drink. you re just giving saturday night live too much material to share. look who s here! it s cold in here. hi, ladies. look at you cover girl. yore on weight watchers girl. i am normal, i would call it. for l.a. 5 6 , 125 pounds. i m 5 9 , 145 pounds. good for you. i m just here. and she s just her. no, people are funny about saying their weight, though. you should be proud. that s a good weight. it is? it is a very, very healthy weight. she hits the gym every morning. we want to see pictures of you and jim carrey on the beach every single day. you re always on the beach and in a bikini and he wears a bikini. it s an eyeful. how is life? it s good. heyour son is doing well. doing great. just started second grade. started watching jim s movies. save some stuff to talk to us about, darling. we need to talk to sarah hanks because she gets when we don t talk to her. we re talking to everyone about their dirty little secrets. by used my dog s toothbrush a dog s mouth is cleaner than a human being s. that s one thing you don t use ever. what is your dirty little secret? do you have one? d we ll sit down with her next. little secrets. we re back with a very special lady, cover girl two times this month. jenny mccarthy has used her celebrity to give back. jenny dedicated a lut her time to raise autism awareness after her 7-year-old son was diagnosed. ms. mccarthy has set out to help 12 million children in this country who go hungry every year. welcome. it really is. you know, i have been a weight watchers lifer now for about six years. you gained 60 pounds with your son. i was over 200 pounds when i livered evan. on you it looked good. my head was this big. i don t think so. when weight watchers said we re doing our lose for good campaign, which they did it last year, in six weeks the members lost, are you ready for this 6 million pounds. when you bring in there you are. that s at a food drive. how does it work? you lose two pounds and you bring in two pounds of food. you give back. you give back and weight watchers last year donated $1 million. i wasn a fan of weight watchers. the points. you re never hungry if you do it properly. portion control. because i m from chicago i still want to eat it taught me to cut things in hf or save my pizza for later. how long did it take you to lose all that weight? six months to get to what i called my goal weight which was a reasonable weight for myself. it took me one full year to button them up. scales are all different, but your jeans never lie. it s true. can you button it up? if you look at that. it took me one year. that s the way i think diets should take if you have to lose 60 pounds. when we do the joy fit on our show, it is always a year and a half to two years because they re doing it properly. we live in such an instant society. they want to take a pill for it and not put inçzíñ the work. did you exercise? i did not during that time. i wanted to be with my baby. evan is so cute. beautiful boy. my used to bring hito meetings with me.rsea y years doing great. he s watching jim s movies for the first time. looked at jim duringdiernn and said, jim, you are hilarious. that is so sweet. that is one of the funniest movies ever. dumb & dumber . mostly guys say that because i don t think it s one of the funniest. which one do you think? liar liar. what is he working on this day? he has christmas carol coming out and he ll start that press tour and then another movie coming out in february. awfully nice if you would send him over here every now and then. he doesn t like to do the new york trips so much. he hates my guts. he doesn t hate your guts. he does. he loves hoda and hates me. he doesn t hate anybody. how long have you guys been together now? four years. no plans to marry. no. and i love that. to me so much sexier than sleeping with my boyfriend than my husband. why don t you shave your legs? we were asking you about your gross habits. i do shave them, just didn t today. actually, that s not true. sometimes i don t when i don t feel like it. do you hav any other gross habits? i bite my nails. not badly. you don t think so? no, they could be much worse. they could be down to the nubs. i do clean out my ears and i bathe. you re a plucker. i pluck. especially after 50. you might as well set aside half of your time to pluck. 35. i m talking about myself. by the time you get to my age, set aside half of your time. it s george. george foreman doesn t want you eating up his time. you can eat up anything you want. oh, yeah. she s heard that before. jenny mccarthy. thank you, guys. good luck with everything. this is a great cause. it is. great cause. we re coming back with prize fighter george foreman and he ll ell us how to be a kn entrepreneur. so many covers, so little time. so little time. please stop covering george up. this is my george foreman family size grill no, it isn t. it cooks pancakes. it is my bacon oven no, no, no. it s actually my wafflemaker. my goodness. sold more than 100 million of those lean machines are sold worldwide. add that to a line of environmentally safe cleaning products and a line of done believable. and even a health shake george has cooked up and you can understand why he s a knockout entrepreneur which is the title of his latest book. we re so happy that you re here. i m thrilled. you never age. how are george and georgeina. it will all work in the end. i love you decided to write this book and i love that you decided to do it now. there is sort of this need out there. every time we interview someone they talk about people need guidance. so much fear. and two times in my life i piked up small things that were worthless like, first, a boxer s license, smaller than a credit card. made $100 million with it. next thing, people pss by this little griddle and pick one of those up and made another $100 million. let s tell the truth about that one. you have to have a wife who paid attention. you didn t see much promise in it. too fragile and didn t look like anything and there wasn t any money involved. no money up front. most celebrities wouldn t do that. your wife said, let s try it. all the grease falls out and all the burgers are good. i tried it and she said, you re right. do the deal. i hope you gave her a raise. she took the whole thing. good for her. smart woman. some people might read your book and say,ou re george foreman, that s why you re able to be successful with this grill. if mary smith were trying to make something like that work, maybe she wouldn t have the chance. i am what s left of the mary smith. you think about marshall, texas, my mom took me back to the house that i was born in. shotgun house and shoot it in the front door and straight out the back. no bathrooms or nothing. something good will happen to me and i ll work for it and i found a boxing licence and i wanted to take it home to show the boys, i m a street fighter. i uld feed my family with this thing. faith along the way has been a huge part. you don t pray you don t have anything. how come people are afraid to pray? that has been the key to my success. even when i get in the ring, second time around being knocked down i think, lord, help me this time. all backed up in the corner this time. you ve done more than just pray. you have become part of the religious world, george. i have been a minister for almost 33 years. i run a church saturdays and sundays. sunday schoolteacher and i mop the floor and the whole deal. are people s needs the same thing. have people s desires and needs changed over all these years? are they more afraid than ever? people are pretty mch the same. you re frightened, but someone has to calm them down. especially from the bible and a good book and even the book i just wrote the knockout entrepreneur encourages you to do it. how do you encourage people, george, who are feeling sort of down and out. how? first of all, you participate, it doesn t hurt, especially when you need business and have a wealthy friend. and all of us who get a chance to get on top must never forget there s always a helping hand. and sometimes all people need is a couple thousand dollars and i have a new be a mentor. be there for them. but a lot of people in today s world feel entitled that the world owes them something. what do you say to someone who shows up and says, where s mine? the worst thing other than a person that will not share, is someone who is expecting you to share. you can t have a worser person than that. but i wouldn t have made it this far without someone stepping in, but you don t ask, you find. that s a good point. you start working and they ll say, hey, i ll find you. george, we wish you the best of luck. we love you to pieces. you re such a sweet man. the book is called knockout entreprene entrepreneur. one of america s favorite storyteller is here sharing something for your kids. . coming up today at midday, we ll bring you breaking news. two students wake up to find a male intruder in their.room alsoa man trying to unload his mom and dad on craigslistrou ma news he s getting. we hope you ll be with us. then. we are back withúxwoman who will not stop talking. today s hot summer reads is her brand-new book and it s fantastic. adrianna brought you the big stone gap and it has been on the shelves for a while and she has something for the young adults in the house viola in al life. i love you. i love you more. required reading for the summer. it seems like read moby dick instead of this. you know how serious i am about great reading for our kids. 11 to 15ish, i just gave it to 15 year olds outside, it s a beautiful story and about a girl from brooklyn who has to go to boarding school in south bend, indiana, where i went to college. i write about places i ve physically been. you can write off that trip to south bend, indiana. okay, i m going to be just like regis and take that right off my taxes. now this she moves out there and you find out what happens to this kid. she s a filmmaker and always had a camera. your kids probably have these flip cameras and they make movies all the time. this is about a girl who finds her artistic voice. you know, that s the fastest growing area in books is young adult stuff. it sure is. im so glad kids are reading again. it s so important. if you can crank these out, i feel like you were just here talking about the valentine book. i worked on this for a year and a half. i mean i m way in advance of when i come and see you which seems like it is every other week now. soon we ll do cooking segments together. hair and lips coming up. now, is your main character modeled after somebody you know? no, she came to me. but the name viola will throw people i m related to off because it s my grandmother s name. when i had my daughter, she s now going to the second grade can you believe that? she s deliciouses she s 7. you know what this means now, she s going into second grade so three weeks from now i can t help her with her math homework. i didn t make it to the third grade. and then a bus lft at 75 miles i cannot figure out the homework. and i m embarrassed. i can t do the homework. i know. it is really embarrassing. that s why i ended up writing this. i love those cozy reads. you remember 15 by beverly cleary. no because i was 85. the luckiest girl. oh, nancy drew, too. i love that. how about i know you read the american patriot series. i read little women. that s how old i am. it is a classic. you ll never go wrong. i read it five times. i loved it, too. then the movie with peter and katharine hepburn. i can t get enough little women. 1lj this will be made into a movie. you know what will happen with this one. i think it will be a series because, and i say this to the moms out there. like a disney or nickelodeon series? something like this. these characters are delicious. she lives with three room mates one is a latina and one is from chicago a rainbow group. chicago and latina and really interesting characters and the grandmother, too young to play her listen to me. go. she is my favorite character. she keeps changing her name, she s an actress and shows up at christmas with a 40-year-old boyfriend and she pretends she s 52 and she s actually 63. that s not that far away. i want the part. are you kidding, that s like next week in dog years. you re in. but she s so dramatic and fabulous. i get to use all that playwriting stuff and the story is really about a girl that comes into her own being on her own and it s clean. clean! and your passion is she does have a kid, but it s beautiful. it s romantic. it s romantic, which is what s missing. all this. have a little conversation. thank you. she needs to be on our panel some time. we should. i ll be on the panel. we love adrianatrigiana. a nice shade of hot lipst k lipstick. look at the camera. give it a smooch. good girl. ed w inhy rs i, right after this. we re back with today s beauty and the shade of lipstick that has endured the years. crimson is making a come back. we decided to take a look at its history and some of the famous faces who sealed their celebrities with a red hot kiss. lipstick. matches the car. crimson lips ha been seducing men for centuries. from sexy star lips to cartoon creations. the power is in the red. and it s not a recent trend. we know that red lipstick has been around for over5,000 years because they found the original pallet in a tomb and the egyptians used to crush up ants and beetles and put it on their lips. in 1912 when women were marching for rights in new york city elizabeth arden gave them that red badge of courage. reporter: revlon introduced the first lipstick in a tube in the 1970s and since then red lips have defined icons. red lipstick was about debbie harry. in 1986 madonna put it on the map. who is that girl? what is that lipstick? they went out and bought it. reporter: today s stars like gwen stefani and scar let johanson wear it. all types of women can rock the red. red lips do what a pair of high heels or a pair of expensive jewelry does. it can give you more confidence. you don t need an it bag as much if you can put on your it lipstick. lipstick expertoppy king. i love her name, poppy king. everybody say it at home. lessons of a lipstick queen. hey, poppy. it s lovely to meet you. people of every age, 20s, 30s, 40s, 60s and 70s can wear red. i m not bias. men of every age. so, let s start with the 20s. okay. show off. how should a girl in the 20s wear red? my top tip for somebody in their 20s is to wear something shimmery so that stops the look from being way too serious. if you re 20s, you don t need to be too serious. it s a time that you can shimmer and sparkal and do all that good stuff and just have fun with it. so, wear it also with a very natural face but look at something a little more shimmery. let s move on to the 30s. i can t wait till we get to the 80s. and this is red head. red heads have trouble with red lipstick because you don t want something that will compete with your hair, you want something that will complement it. you need to look for a muddy undertone. brownish. it looks muddy. it doesn t sound very nice, but you re looking for something brownish. should you worry about what you re wearing. you re wearing a purple with red and you like that look. red is down there, too. and on the shoes. don t forget the shoes. and toenail polish. of course. my top tip is not so much what you re wearing, i think it is to pair back the rest of your makeup and you find when you pair back the rest of your makeup your lips stand out. you can wear any color with it. when you have a full face of makeup you have to start worry about what you re wearing. let s move down. so, this is karen and karen has got on a beautiful, sheer wine color. so, what i say about the 40s is, you know, you re like a fin wine at this point. you re getting better and better with age. i think you re a fine wine in your 40s and you want to look for sort of wine red, and sheer, really easy to wear. you want to avoid the shimmer at this point. darker skin, you think does it matter if you re fair or darker when you re in your 40s? the general rule is the deeper your skin tone the more you want to go to a pinkier red. the pale, the more of an orange red but at the end of the day, it is about what you feel good in. called feminism, people. go to 50s. honestly, i still want to see this gal s driver s license because i m not sure here. with marla what i wanted to show, for women in their 50s. most of us have been taught if you wear a deep lift, you have to wear a full face makeup. if you re going to wear a deep lip, you have to balance it out with a lot of makeup. i want to show you can wear a deep lip in your 50s with very minimal makeup and it looks totally chic. let s go to the 60s. and, finally the bravest woman here. debbie, who what i wanted to show is with that silver hair, red lipstick is absolutely beautiful. again, minimal makeup. a really clear, bright red. not too much, but nice and creamy. you look gorgeous, by the way. poppy has the best-selling lipstick right now at barney s right now. it s flying off the shelves. thank you so much. thank you. up next, what do we have? we re going to be drinking wine. od hoda drod me toto da nk. it s kind of sad to say, but excuse us. we wrap up the unofficial end of summer. they re already celebrating over here. if you plan on going out with a bang and a barbecue, invite these people over. we have your drink list. look at them over there, they re all having a party. we re on the air. excuse me, the show isn t over yet. they don t care, ray, where do we begin, my darling? webegin with beer because it s summer and it s still summer. it s freezing in here. three more weeks of summer and not too late to have a good summer beer. this is skinny dip from the guys that make fat tire. because it s low in calories. how many? 110. it s like it s got a ton of flavor and it s actually an ale. what s the difference between a ale and a lager. ales are a little sweeter and crispier. this doesn t even look like a beer. i wouldn t bring you a beer that wasn t a beer. not that kind of guy. he s used to men that are like that, though. they say they bring something. anyway, it s not good. go ahead, ray. this is hoegaarden. it is spiced with a little coriander and shat sounds terrible, ray, but i m sure it s delicious. fantastic summer beer. ginger it tastes like. a beautiful beer and i like it. this is chardonnay. i m not bringing never bring me a reeceling. this is chardonnay which is a big trend right now. unoaked. what does that mean? no oaked barrels which means less of that buttery, toasty taste. which i get a headache from. clean, crisp but really pretty. beautiful color. about 13 bucks a bottle. a good deal. and that, to me $13 a bottle. that s delicious. you could drink that? yeah. excellent. then my transitional wine from the summer to the winter. you could drink this now with sausages on the barbecue or you could end up with six more bottles. not your traditional glass either. this is from argentina. say that four times. kind of spicy and it s a lot of black berries and richness and, again, not expensive, 12 bucks. i like that. like a chianti. i love ray. i do love that glass. is it just for reds you do that. you can get a little one for whites and a big one for reds. finally, dessert, because you have to have dessert. this is a very light sparkling wine. oh, this is nice. 15 bucks a bottle. this is what weer had, was it christine s birthday. oh, yeah. they served this it is delicious. light in alcohol, 6% alcohol. ray, you know we love you. how much, ray? lots. that s very nice. you like that? i do. one thing you can do with this, take fresh peaches and nectarines and peel them and put it in an hour in the fridge. ray, thank you so much. we appreciate it. wait a minute, got to get the kiss. there s ray. we ll be back with more of today on nbc. we re back with sarah and we have been partying today. sarah. what are folks at home saying? hopefully the wine loosened you up because everyone wants to know what your dirty little secret is. dirty little secret? i don t know. and don t just give us i don t clean up all the time. oh, come on. i shower every day, i wash my clothes. i mean y don t, all right. if you have hair like mine, you can only wash your hair every three days. oh, that s not bad. or four days. you re sick. i don t always floss. oh, that s nothing. that s the most ridiculous thing i ever heard. i m ashamed, i don t do it every day. you didn t do it this morning. i didn t do it this morning. one for me. don t get used to it. what s yours? i m glad to know i m in good company with jenny mccarthy. i don t shave my legs all the time unless i m useing a skirt or something. it s not easy to do. i take a bath in the evening and shower in the morning. you take a bath at night and a shower in the morning. yes, but i don t always floss. i m not perfect. tomorrow, more animals. by the way, how is your training going? all right, if one more person asks me about this triathlon. i have not been able to do much and natalie is driving my nuts. why aren t you swimming or running. here is the idea. her right arm is really looking good. you re training, baby. i can t wait! oh, my gosh. what is the name of the group? shine down. great song. listen to this. have an awesome day, everybody.