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good morning. double trouble. the air traffic controller who let his young son talk to pilots at jfk allowed his 8-year-old daughter to do the very same thing the very next day. jetblue 57, contact new york departure. jetblue 57. thank you, good day. that s the next generation of air traffic controller going here. was the controller putting planes and lives at risk? failed fix? a new problem for toyota this morning. at least 15 owners in the u.s. claim their recalled vehicles are still speeding up uncontrollably, even after taking them in for repair. and ultimate frisbee. a diver in florida risks his own safety to help a shark out of a sticky situation. we have the tape today, thursday, march 4th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on thishursday morning. i m meredith vieira. and i m matt lauer. on wednesday, we heard the voice of what turned out to be an 8-year-old boy giving orders to or talking to pilots from the control tower at jfk airport here in new york. now we have audio tape of his 8-year-old sister during the exact same thing the following day. and on those tapes, once again, pilots did not seem to be all that concerned, but there is a lot of debate now over all this. this morning we re going to hear from a former ntsb chairman who is outraged and from a veteran pilot who feels that it was not really a safety risk. also ahead, convicted sex offender john gardner appeared in a san diego court on wednesday after being charged with the murder of 17-year-old chelsea king. the father of another missing girl, amber dubois, who disappeared more than a year ago, attended that hearing. he feels gardner could be connected to his daughter s case as well. he ll join us for a live interview, coming up. plus, more of our special series secret filth exposed! this morning, how dirty are rental cars? you re going to be shocked and disgusted by what our investigation uncovered. but we begin with more on the fallout over the controller who let not one, but two of his we re back on this thirst children direct one-way traffic day with more of today. at jfk. you know what we re thirsting nbc s tom costello covers for, more of guys tell all. aviation for us. tom, good morning. reporter: hi, meredith. the aviation world is really divided over ts one. kathie lee, please come into the this morning we know a little bit more about theontroller show. she doesn t care. i had to go downstairs and who is in hot water with the hear the rehearsal. it s going to be good. faa. he is glenn duffy, a veteran sorry, everybody. sick of them anyway. controller who spent time in the first one is on tape. both the jfk and newark towers. so let s take a listen. all righty. he was on the job and presumably very much in control, but we now how do you tell a guy you re know he let his son and then the dating that you do not like what next night, his daughter, relay they buy you? oh, okay. let s explore that. commands to pilots preparing to you ungrateful depart. febrry 17th, 4:17 p.m. you have to be careful with the rush is on at jfk airport in that, because you may put yourself in a position where you new york. never get anything but like gift and a child s voice comes across certificates from then on the radio. because we like gift certificates. jetblue 57, contact new york departure. i was going to say, i mean, if that s what you want then go right ahead. jetblue 57. there s an easy solution. thank you, good day. what? just tell him. that s the next generation of he didn t want to buy it anyway. if you just tell him, it s like, air traffic controller going here. reporter: it s the cool. easy for me. controller s 8-year-old if you re dating, i think you daughter, the same controller who the day before let his accept it graciously. if you re married, you can say 8-year-old son radio go with me. instructions to pilots. we can find something. jetblue 171, clear for right. it depends on how deep the takeoff. clear for takeoff, jetblue relationship is. 171. it s kind of rude. this is what you get, guys, when the kids are out of school. sometimes they buy what they wish i could bring my kid to like on you instead of what you work. reporter: all of it recorded like to wear. by liveatc.net. the stewardess outfit. 0-3 clear for takeoff. this is true. another question. 403 clear for takeoff. this is what is it? from the crowd. thank you very much and you have from sara. a great day. i m with stacey from texas. air mex 403, contact she has a question about men being stubborn. departure. imagine that. how odd. we can be stubborn, too. adios. contact departure, aeromexico why aren t anniversaries as 403. adios. contact departure. important to menace they are to adios amigos. reporter: it sounds fun and harmless, but this take your child to work day is no laughing us. oh, san verse anniversaries. matter to the faa. this, in my opinion, is just i ll tell you why. why do you keep reminding us of a lack of common sense and a this decision we made? total disregard for the safety of the people on the airplane. you can t just be happy we made the decision but every year you reporter: jfk handles 1,100 have to remind us that we made flights each day, 48 million the decision and we have to buy passengers each year. you something because we made at jfk, mixed feelings about the decision on top of that? women make it seem like just what happened, from a the wedding day has become all passenger i m a parent and i think about the woman. that s really irresponsible, all these anniversaries are coming back to it being all seriously. he could have caused a lot of about the woman. trouble. you guys give your wives reporter: and a 20-year-old veteran pilot. nothing happened to the planes that took off and i don t anniversary gifts? no. but does she give you guys see a problem with that at all. anniversary gifts? no. why? reporter: it was just last i don t believe in year that a new york air traffic manufactured holidays. that s not manufactured. controller at laguardia was it s your wedding day. no, i come home. being heralded as a hero. tower, stop your departures, the wedding day was a beautiful day. and it s over. we ve got an emergency it s done. returning. reporter: patrick harden andrew? let s move on. reacting to a us airways plane let s move on with our life. let s move on we ve got kids now. we ve got mortgages. landing on the water. let s mov on. get me the police department helicopter if you got one right don t try to go back to that day. now. reporter: now today a jfk andrew? being married to me is tough controller is in deep trouble enough. over what experts call a serious my wife has earned her special days. let him finish. i ll tell you what i do lapse in judgment. frankly, this is shocking to he s speaking for us. me. this is probably one of the most what i do do. egregious violations of the we know what you do do. federal aviation rules and regulations, let alone the sometimes i come home and i effect it will have on the flying public. reporter: well, as we said have something wonderful and i m like, here you go, baby. yesterday, both the controller and the supervisor on duty are for no reason? she s like what is this for? suspended, and effective i say because i love you. immediately, all unofficial no, that s because i m not tower visits are suspended as going to get you nothing for our well. meredith, back to you. all right, tom costello, anniversary. chuck, when is the last time thank you. you did it? we are joined now by nbc about three weeks ago. really? transportation safety analyst h. what did you bring her? and former ntsb chairman mark i m not going to tell you rose anchor and fred, a aviation all. it was huge. i went into who can for it. but guess what, things are good and law attorney. at home right now. things are good at home because good morning to you both. i came home let me tell you where i got the idea. people have questions. good morning. mark, we heard you call this oh, i m sorry. shocking and egregious, but it s okay. people have questions. clear the children were getting my cat came home, had the direction from their dad, who s bird in his mouth and dropped it the air traffic controller. is there any way you can defend what he did? i can t see any defense on m chest for no reason but it showed me that the bird loved whatsoever. to me, where does it stop? me. no, the cat did. the cat. is it okay, say, as a surgeon to the bird. our next question is an brg your child in to help you e-mail question. suture? would a lawyer bring their child in to help do the what is it? okay. e-mail question. i can t read it. cross-examination of a wiess? are guys intimidated by taller i just can t see any way, shape girls? hoda, you would know. or form where you bring your child in to do the serious work yes. the answer is yes. that s right. of what goes on in the cab of an air traffic control tower. many, many guys are. you know, fred, you re short guys really like tall listening to mark, watching him women. it s like they like i mean, to short guys, tall women is and shaking your head. you don t think it s a fair like a tree to climb and conquer. i mean, it s like i know tall comparison. no. first of all, i spent 30 years women these short guys, i flying through the air traffic can t get them to leave me control system in this country alone. guys right about i m 6 1 . and they are professionals. if a woman is 6 2 , it s like, what he did was a bone-head i m thinking too much. thing but not a safety risk? but 5 5 , he loves 6 2 . no, not a safety risk. because he was ultimately the he s right at chest level person in control. he didn t say to his son, hey, then. that might have something to do we ve got ten airplanes on taxi with i another one. way kilo, get them on the active this is on tape. launch and return them to departure and watch for noise is it possible to refresh the abatement because if a 747 and a desire to sleep with your partner after a long time? for him or for you? 737 hit, they re going to make a sounds like both. big boom. yeah, for both. he made all the decisions. it s akin to typing an e-mail can you reignite something and letting your kid hit the that s been dormant? send button. absolutely. there s another side of this andrew? absolutely, you can inject coin, too, and that s the uncertainty, surprise. pilots. they re the professionals. as a pilot, on the runway, you it doesn t just have to be in the bedroom, too. look, make sure it s clear. if you do something that s the controller cleared the airplanes on the runway and then surprising, active, outdoors, that can add to the excitement. you know what s coming next, like one day you re which is you re clear for takeoff and that s what the child said and told them to gardening, he just jumps out contact departure. now, that s where it gets a little dicey. naked, surprise. kissing. let me go back to mark. you heard what fred just said. if you take time recently, me and my wife decided we re going the pilots did not seem phased to kiss every day. when they heard these kids i find if you kiss a real kiss voices. what do you make of that? not just like a kiss on the well, they may not have seem phased while they were talng to the air traffic controller, neck, shoulder or whatever, but a real kis soulful. but they may well have been you know, real close. looking at each other trying to do you set a reminder on your figure out what was going on. we re talking about an blackberry? she doesn t know when it s coming. environment which is very serious. she might be washing dishes. both the cockpit and the cab of what is he s still mad from last the air traffic control tower. what about the other air traffic time. i got in trouble last time. controllers? i m behaving myself. what were they doing? we have to go. were they looking at the child? everyone has a story. it s coming up. were they trying to scratch please, please, please. their head? if you have questions for our you know, there is a pulse, there is a rhythm that goes on guy panel go to klgandhoda.com. in these towers and you do not sandy patti, beautiful, in any way, shape or form want to disrupt that. beautiful gift of love. fred, is there any tasty ba! circumstance under which children should be allowed in (child laughing) these towers in the first place? where is it? where is the bacon? i do. tv anchor: bacon popular, story at 11. i think you can create a yummy. crunchy. bacon. bacon. circumstance where they can be allowed and i disagree. it is a very serious business there, in that bag! what we do, flying airplanes and mom: who wants a beggin strip? me! i d get it myself but i don t have thumbs! doing air traffic control, but there s room for levity. yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. it s not a life-and-death it s beggin ! situation every second. hm.i love you! you re paying attention. i love bacon! it s staffed and run by human beggin strips! there s no time like beggin time! beings who know what they re doing. you saw what an air traffic toss em, fling em, zing em. controller did during the hudson have fun, with beggin canadian cuts. flight. he jumped into action. these guys are the consummate professionals. you made the point, it s (announcer) we all want to stay active. staffed by human beings. it is. we don t want anything. human beings make mistakes .to slow us down. and children more than adults. but a child wasn t in control but even in your 30s. here. that s the key point. .your bones can begin to change. the child was never, ever in overtime, you can begin to have bone loss. control. it s not like putting the child behind the wheel of an airplane calcium and vitamin d work together to help keep your bones strong. and saying fly. at that point, the child is in and yoplait gives you. .20% of your daily calcium. control. at all times during this .and is the only leading yogurt process, these pieces of metal, with vitamin d in every cup. these airplanes were being moved by air traffic control. and you say you ve allowed keep your bones strong every day. your own children in the plane .with yoplait. to talk to air traffic controllers. i have. my 8-year-old loves to fly and coming into new york, i ll tell you, on a friday night when the weather is bad, my children are not talking to air traffic ntrol, but on a saturday morning when it s real clear and it s not busy, they re giving my sons clearances i haven t been able to get in 30 years. mark, at this point, the air traffic controller and his supervisor have been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation. what do you think should happen to them, mark? well, i think right now the vestigation is going to continue, and depending upon what the ultimate examination of the evidence turns out to be, these people could lose their jobs. this is a serious business. it is not designed to be a childcare center. it is designed to take care of the business of flying and flying safely, and to bring your child in, to turn that microphone over, whether you are instructing him or not, is not the rules and regulations that enable us to fly a very safe air traffic control system. fred, ten seconds. he s not wrong about that and this was a dumb move and i wouldn t want to see it happen every day, but to fire this guy [ woman ] nine iron, it s almost tee-time. over something like this i think time to face the pollen that used to make me sneeze, would be a grave mistake. the guy s a seasoned controller. we need guys like that in the my eyes water. cab. but with new zyrtec® liquid gels, fred, thank you very much. mark rosenker as well, thank you i get allergy relief at liquid speed. that s the fast, powerful relief of zyrtec®, both. it is 7:09 and here s matt. meredith, thank you. now in a liquid gel. toyota back in the news over zyrtec® is the fastest 24-hour allergy medicine. new concerns that their fix is it works on my worst symptoms broken. at least 15 toyota drivers here in the u.s. have now filed so i m ready by the time we get to the first hole. complaints that repairs done to and that s good because the competition s steep today. their recalled vehicles, which had acceleration problems, did new zyrtec® liquid gels work fast, so i can love the air.™ not work. here s cnbc s phil lebeau. reporter: five days after stewart stoebl had the gas pedal repaired in his 2006 toyota camry, he says the car suddenly accelera accelerated, even as he hit the brakes. i was just two or three feet away from sliding down an embankment. i could have smacked into a stone wall or be hit broad-side. reporter: stoegle s not alone. the national highway traffic safety administration has received a limited number of complaints about toyota s unintentionally accelerating, even after the vehicles were repaired under two massive recalls. toyota has fixed more than a million models by shortening the gas pedal or putting shims behind the accelerator to keep it from sticking, solutions toyota executives defended during hearings on capitol hill. we have recently tested our solutions and are confident that with these repairs, toyota vehicle will remain among the safest on the road today. reporter: in reaction to the latest complaints, transportation secretary ray lahood said that if toyota drivers are still experiencing problems, they should bring their car to the dealer as soon as possible. we will not rest until every today, we meet our newest toyota is safe for the people everyone has a story contest that drive them. reporter: but some experts winner, lisa peterman, who wrote point out that given the giant us about a very special gift her carmaker s troubles, there could be heightened sensitivity among friend, matt, gave her. we ll meet everyone in a minute. toyota drivers. you run over a pebble in a please listen to lisa s letter she sent us. toyota, it makes a funny noise my name is lisa. and you think there s something i was born with polycystic wrong with your car. that effect is definitely happening right now. reporter: stogle, who is now kidney disease. it progressively takes away the driving a rental camry provided function of both kidneys. by the dealer, hopes to get h eventually we lead to total car back from the shop soon, hopefully for the last time. kidney failure. being aware of the problem, i my kidney failure came in the drive defensively. spring of 2008. i was told i would soon need reporter: for today, hil lebeau, cnbc, chicago. kidney dialysis or kidney and coming up on 12 after transplant. i took several medications every the hour. once again, here s meredith. day, physician visits and phone matt, thank you. now to washington, where calls became the normal. president obama says it is time to put the debate over health the future appeared meaningless. care reform to a up or down vote within weeks. nbc s savannah guthrie is at the white house with the very his name is matt. matt is a 15-year veteran of the latest. community police department. savannah, good morning to you. matt often puts his life at risk reporter: good morning, meredith. this is a risky gamble, but it every day he goes to work, never is not at all clear democrats in drawing attention to himself. the house have the votes to pass it now, but the president is i did not know that matt had been thinking of donating a basically doubling down on his health care strategy, telling kidney to me. matt had researched the process congress, get it done one way or the other. involved and understood the time and patience it would require to everything there is to say about health care has been said offer me this wonderful gift. matt gave up his days off work, and just about everybody has said it. his social time and time with reporter: appearing weary of the health care fight, looking his family. his days were filled with to close the book on a year-long physician appointments, blood process that has cost him dearly, the president made one work drawn and several other last appeal. tests through ultrasound and i believe the united states congress owes the american x-rays. matt never complained. finally, we were notified early people a final vote on health care reform. reporter: but the path to the january 2009, matt was a finish line is hardly assured. positive match and surgery was democrats have just one option, a two-step, high-stakes scheduled. on january 27th, 2009, matt gave strategy. first, the house must pass the bill that the senate passed on me a beautiful gift. christmas eve, then trust that it wasn t wrapped in pretty the senate will take the next step, passing a series of fixes. paper with a delicate bow placed without their supermajority, to just right on top. do that, senate democrats must as a matter of fact, i have rely on a special procedure never seen my gift, but i feel called reconciliation that requires only simple majority, it every day. my future is so much brighter, 51 votes. filled with joy and excitement. but republicans see that tactic as a declaration of war. matt gave me the gift of life. they re making a vigorous effort to try to jam this down the throats of the american thank you, matt. people who don t want it. reporter: the presint today love always, lisa. signaled his blessing for using hello to both of you. reconciliation to get health so great to have you guys care done. here. still unclear, whether house matt, did you know that lisa had speaker nancy pelosi can muscle written a letter to us? her members into supporting a i found out about it a few bill they don t like, going on weeks ago. this is all new to me. so, lisa, you didn t want him faith that the senate will fix it when so many house members to know that you wanted to give are facing re-election. him a very public shoutout. right. the president s message how come you wanted to do that for matt? wednesday, hunker down. well, i didn t know what to i do not know how this plays do for matt. it was hard to say thank you, politically, but i know it s even though he didn t want to be right. reporter: elsewhere on thanked. so, when i saw your story on the capitol hill, a side show over air, i thought a song would be embattled congressman charles rangel, admonished by the ethics the perfect thank you. and your husband was not a committee for taking match. right. so how did you feel when you discovered that? corporate-funded trips to the was it like oh, no, there s no caribbean and still under hope? right. investigation for tax we went through several months violations. of testing and when they called rangel finally decided to give and said he wasn t able to do up his chairmanship of the it, it was devastating. powerful house and ways matt, what made you decide to committee, remaining upbeat. it seems to me that i should raise your hand and say, let me not do anything that would do this? well, these people are my impede the success of other friends. when i found out brian couldn t democrats, they should be so be a donor for his wife, i just lucky as i am. haven t had a bad day yet, but felt compelled to get involved. it s been close. reporter: but rangel s letter i felt like god was working on to house speaker nancy pelosi my heart to do this. i consulted with my family, requested only a leave of absence and republicans scoffed started doing research about at the notion he could step down temporarily. either you re the chairman or you re not. what it took to be a donor and reporter: well, back to health care for a minute. the president plans to take this sales pitch on the road, things just lined up. traveling to philadelphia and and it worked. you also gave up every one of st. louis next week. your sick days. well, not every one. matt? all right, savannah guthrie i gave up several hours. at the white house. oh, come on, you re trying savannah, thank you very much. for perspective on this, we turn to make you a hero here. to nbs tom brokaw. over 300 hours of my own sick hey, tom, good morning. good morning, matt. time. that s a lot of sick time. let s stay with rangel for a but it was worth it. second. it was well worth it to see how this is not going to cut it, is it? she s doing now, it s been he s got ethics problems, been rewarding. admonished twice already. how has it changed your life? there are other incidents still under investigation in the ethics committee. unbelievable. they temporary leave of absence won t cut it. yeah. and i say people, when you go it surprises me that they re not pushing him a lot harder through these things, all of a than they are. this is the administration sudden, you see every detail of you mean the democrats? everything. the democrats. the trees lk brighter. this is an administration that came in promising to change the een given a life here that way business is done, i would not have had. i would have been sitting on transparency, get rid of corruption. you have a prima fascia case dialysis. which is no life. here, and even the people who it s such a hard thing. like him a lot, he s a likable right. i can see the snow when it falls guy, are saying got to get him and hear sounds brighter. out of there, because he s a how has your life changed, target for republicans to turn matt? the same way. i mean, you know, i feel like to and say that s what it s all about. he s a lightning rod. i m trying to take care of another lightning rod subject is myself more than i ever have the president says he ll go it alone with the democrats in the before. i really don t have any senate and the house, this restrictions because of the reconciliation idea. you only need 51 votes. surgery, other than a few things but it s not clear whether he like watch your sodium intake, has those votes. well, that s the big issue caffeine intake. for him. that s good for me. if he loses this one, this is it s made me stop and smell the roses, i guess, more too. not a failure in his presidency, because he still has three years you get together for dinner, to go. but if you take this i understand, once a week or so? controversial step and miss on yeah, we still do. it s a big, big setback in do you sit there and think, i ve got his kidney? his first year. yes, i do. he s been there just over a year every time i see him, i think now. republicans want to keep him that. mired down in this debate as it s right down here. long as possible. they know the public is very we ve got real, real joyful confused and anxious about cost. people who have health care gift to give everybody today and coverage say, you know, i m it s going to come in the form okay, and they re n looking at of miss sandi patty. gdp and what percentage they re we can t wait. when we come back. contributing to. they re just saying i just want the stuff you want your kids to reach for. to make sure i ve got health care. the people who don t have it are the stuff you want to reach for. in a much smaller number. they don t have the political now you can enjoy good choices even more. clout, for example, that the tea party now has. a number of people who are very people who spent $100 a week at leading national supermarkets. close to the president as on frequently purchased groceries. financial advisers are very could have saved $55 in one month. anxious about this next two-week period. they think he s got a get a by shopping at walmart instead. quick, clean bill that it s another pantry filled. concentrates primarily on and another great day for the savers. reducing cost. and got to get back to save money. live better. walmart. dealing with the economy and jobs. well, the big thing is, matt, come the fall, if the job and another great day for the savers. can you believe how st kids grow these days? and since 90% of bone strength is developed picture is significantly improved and health care has before adulthood. been passed, health care doesn t it s so important that they get enough calcium every day. kick in for a while, people will that s why there s new danonino. be responding much more to the job picture than they will be to danonino! the health care bill that was unlike leading kids yogurts, danonino has twice passed six months earlier. the calcium of milk, ounce per ounce, if we had sat here a year with vitamin d. ago and we probably did, you so it s power packed for healthy growth. know, about a month after and its rich creamy taste is. president obama was sworn in. right. and the democrats were riding yummy! high on this spirit of change. so they can start building strong bones today. could you have imagined that a for stronger bodies tomorrow. year later the president s new danonino from dannon. popularity numbers would be power packed to help kids grow. dwindling, the democratic party would be reeling and they d be justifiably nervous about the midterm elections? you ve heard me say this before. i ve been covering politics for a long, long time. my ufo theory, the unfortunate will occur. once they got bogged down in health care and the unemployment numbers stayed as high as they did, they didn t pivot in a way a lot of people, including some of their most enthusiastic supporters, thought they should have. and there is a continuing anxiety about not enough people in the administration who have run big things, who are tied son: hey mom! closely enough to successful businesses, not to the wife: what are you doing? what is that? businesses that have failed. what is this? so, they think they need to have a shake-up. guy: it s a special paste i invented to replace socks. tom brokaw. tom, good to have you here. we re dipping our feet in it. it s always good. wife: why? by the way, you re coming guy: because we can t find socks that shape to our feet. back. it s a brokaw twofer today. we re sick of it! we ll be back later. son: sick of it! we ll be back to talk about a wife: that s really stupid. new documentary, boomers! guy: that s the future. premiering tonight on cnbc. we ll talk about that later in the show. for now, let s talk about the announcer: hanes makes better-fitting socks other top stories. the whole family will love. natalie s at the news desk while guaranteed, or your money back. ann is on assignment. good morning to you. good morning, matt and tom. good morning, everyone. today, another powerful earthquake, this one in southern taiwan, a magnitude 6.4. it damaged buildings and triggered a fire at a factory. there were injuries. meantime, in chile, more aftershocks and more aid getting through. jose diaz belart of telemundo is in conspiratitucion. reporter: just a rumor of a tsunami warning yesterday had people running for the hills. mass panic ensued, mothers with children on their chests screaming run for the hills or we all die, even hours after it was clear it was a false warning, they were up there on those hills. and as you said, the tremors continue this mornin natalie? jose diaz-balart in constitucion, chile. thank you. a convicted sex offender is being held without bail this morning in san diego. john gardner was charged wednesday with murdering 17-year-old chelsea king. we re going to ve more on this case coming up. overseas markets today are mostly lower. cnbc s melissa lee is at the new york stock exchange. melissa, what are you watching there for us today? reporter: good morning, natalie. it s all about the economy [ male announcer ] they make little hearts happy. today. all eyes will be on the jobs market ahead of tomorrow s monthly employment report. .and big hearts happy too. and investors will be focused on retail sales. because as part of a heart healthy diet. now, economists already know that there is one big negative .those delicious oats in cheerios impact on both those things, and can help naturally lower cholesterol. that is the weather. the heavy snowfall that we saw [ cheerios spilling ] here in the northeast kept cheerios. people inside, kept them from how can something so little. shopping. all looking for work still. .help you do something so big. very important data for wall street. natalie. try new chocolate cheerios melissa lee at the new york with a touch of delicious stock exchange, thanks. and take a look at this. chocolate taste in every bite. some amazing video from florida, where a diver came to the aid of a nurse shark with a plastic ring around the color, looks like a frisbee there, while another diver caught the whole thing on tape. the driver grabbed the frisbee and was able to finally remove it from the shark s neck. that s just a little baby shark. still, i wouldn t want that job. 7:19 right now. back over to meredith, matt and al. and the more amazing video is when i threw that frisbee and that thing jumped out of the water and caught it. was wondering how it got there. thanks. thanks. kidding, kidding. you kid because you love. mr. roker, loving this weather. it s nice. i know. and things are quiet around much of the country today. however, if you re down in we are back with lisa florida and you re looking for peterson and matt cruz, the spring break weather, we ll talk friend who gave lisa her life about that in a little bit. back when he generously donated but right now, look at this, a big area of high pressure, his kidney. beneficial high. now it s time to hear the the jelt stream kind of hanging song david friedman and i wrote in there, the storms moving out. and the good news is, we ve got a little snow over the rockies and the northern tier states, sunshine from the great lakes down to the gulf coast down into for you. please welcome the acclaimed florida, where it s a little on award winner and my friend, the chillyhilly sandi patty, singing the gift of life. good morning, bright sunshine and a blue sky should lift your spirits and brighten your mood here on this thursday everyone knows how good it morning, live view from our sky feels when a package shows up at watcher camera looking toward the west and toward virginia. your door wrapped up in paper temperatur are chilly with a a ribbon on top and you wonder busterry northwest wind. who could it be for the northwest wind gusting 20 to well i have been given all 25 miles an hour. we ll have a few clouds in the kinds of gifts afternoon, lots of some of them big and some small but there was one gift i ve never seen that s your late yetst still that gift was the best of weather. meredith? al, thank you. just ahead, is the california man now charged with all the murder of 17-year-old chelsea king also responsible for last year disappearance of somebody gave me the gift of life and i m more grateful than i can say more than i could have hoped for a gift that i cherish each moment each day somebody gave me the gift of life and there s no better gift he could give my future looked dim but today thanks to him i can laugh i can love i can live yes now i can live the rest of my life cause somebody gave me his own i didn t ask but he freely gave the greatest love i ve ever been shown somebody gave me the gift of life and i m more grateful than i can say more than i could have hoped for a gift that i cherish each moment each day somebody gave me the gift of life and there s no better gift he could give my future looked dim but today thanks to him i can laugh i can love i can live thank you my friend for giving to me something the world will never see the awe-inspiring sanctifying present in which i live because you were willing to give the still ahead, the startling gift of life amount of germs we found in vehicles from six popular rental car companies. plus, the most decorated u.s. winter olympian ever stops by. we ll catch up with apolo ohno. with two scoops! of raisins harvested at the peak of sweetness, oh, wow! whoo! thank you. come on over, sandi. and golden flakes of bran with 28% of their daily fiber, we will be right back. come on over. nothing gets your family s day off to a 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(announcer) every smucker learns to wait for fruit to reach the peak of perfection to make extra delicious jam. 7:26 is your time now on this thursday march 4, 2010. in the news for today, metro is preparing richard sorrels. sorrels will serve for the next six to 12 months can you go back to the right? no, back here. how about over here? hmm. let s go back to the left. uh. waffling is back at dunkin donuts with the return of the waffle breakfast sandwich. two oven-toasted waffles with a hint of maple, complete with fluffy egg, a slice of melted cheese, and now with delicious sausage. so hurry in today because it s only around for a short time. america runs on dunkin . we re back with everyone try our oven-toasted waffle breakfast sandwich today, has a story, honoring a very only at dunkin donuts. special gentleman. sandi patty just performed the gift of life. oh, beautiful. along with david friedman, who henceforth will now be known as david wild. why? because he married his gind of 110 years, stacey wild and it s just easier. sexier. i told you, don t ask. anyway, what did you think? it was beautiful. it was awesome. that was very nice and, again, i m very flattered that this all happened, lisa. thank you. well, lisa wrote those lyrics good morning, temperatures for me because the letter was are in the low to mid 30s with a just gorgeous. thank you. we get to give you a little blustery wind, but with welcome something. little parting gift. sunshine, but will be warming u matt, we know you love into the mid 40s and perhaps a fishing. come on in, bring it on in. few clouds developing this afternoon. our friends at gander the winds will stay a bit gusty all the way into friday. mountain, national chain of tomorrow more sun and warming stores, hunting, fishing and into the weekend. how s the traffic, jerry. we re loaded up into the 14th camping, donated $1,000 gift card. you get 1,000 bucks of fishing street. gear. northbound 395 to south capitol all the equipment you need. now he s crying. street a bus jamming thingsup. sure, free stuff. that s all anybody cares about. lisa, we do have something inside the parkway, an accident for you. yes, we do. where is that? i think it s in here. we have a little something. tying things up. an anonymous gift from a coming up tonight on news4 at wonderful sponsor and he wants 5:00, the census scam. to remain anonymous, but you ll as the government tries to count understand when you open it up, okay? you ll enjoy. thank you all. us all, there are some questions sandi, we have to get you to real officials will never ask. how to tell if you re being broadway. you re unbelievable. david and i have a little show we might be talking to you he abou okay. well, let me pray about it. okay. tomorrow, lisa kudrow is in the house. and ambush makeovers. go out and have a fantastic day and do what they did. start smelling those roses and be appreciative of every gift god has given us. have an awesome day, everybody. god has given us. have an awesome day, everybody. i m going to cry again. captions by vitac www.vitac.com 7:30 now on a thursday morning, 4th day of march 2010. we ve got a sea of smiling faces out on the plaza lighting up what s starting off as, i don t know, a little bit of a gray day here, and a lot of the reason that they re smiling is that guy right there. that is apolo ohno, back in vancouver a couple of weeks ago he became the most decorated u.s. winter olympian in history. so, what are his plans now? could we see him in soichi in 2014? meredith will get him to commit to that live in just a couple of minutes. he is being cagey about that. all right. inside studio 1a, i m matt lauer along with meredith vieira. and also ahead, more of our special series people i love it secret filth exposed! why did you look at me that way when you said that? our topic is rental cars. we tested cars from six rental companies and our experts called the result shocking. that s just ahead. also, who could forget this heartbreaking image? nick schuyler floating along on top of a capsized boat. this happened last march following an accident that led to the death of three of his friends. coming up, he ll join us for his first live interview to talk about what was an extraordinarily harrowing experience and perhaps set the record straight about what happened. he s the only one who knows what happens. let s begin with new developments in the case of murdered teenager chelsea king. john gardner has been charged with his murder. and we ll talk to the father of another missing teen in the area who feels his daughter may also be a victim of gardner s. first, nbc s janet shamlian is in san diego with the latest. janet, good morning to you. reporter: meredith, good morning. you could barely move in the hallway outside the courtroom where the arraignment was held yesterday. the courtroom seats about 100, but twice as many classmates of chelsea king showed up, they say to look her accused killer in the eye. in shackles with his eyes focused on the floor, john gardner stood before a courtroom filled with chelsea king s family and friends and pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and attempted rape. chelsea s devastated mom and dad were there to face their daughter s alleged killer. the special allegation attached to the murder does make the defendant eligible for the death penalty. reporter: with angry residents holding signs outside the courthouse, the district attorney acknowledged the toll chelsea s death has taken. this has rocked san diego. it has rocked all of us. and as we move forward, we need to move forward and wrap our arms around this family. reporter: the community s simmering anger overflowed with spray-paint. vandals wrote on the garage of gardner s parents, chelsea s ood is on you. move out. they do have chelsea s blood on their hands, to allow this individual in this neighborhood, because that s the house, from what i hear, where it s happened before. reporter: the home is a short distance from the park where chelsea went missing last thursday. when she didn t return home from an after-school job, her father went looking, finding her car but not his daughter. over four days, thousands of volunteers combed the park s foliage-lined trails. the teen s body was found in a shallow grave tuesday. the second charge against gardner, assault with intent to commit rape, relates to a december attack in the same park, and likely means prosecutors will have a witness. the victim in that attk recognized gardner s picture after he was connected to chelsea s case. gardner is not charged in the disappearance of 14-year-old amber dubois, who vanished last year close to where gardner lived with his mother. the fact that that s in place in this case could help prosecutors, could be a major bargaining chip, causing this defendant, gardner to give information as to the whereabouts of amber dubois. he s a monster that we don t want a connection to. so, we re hoping that this extra exposure will help someone out there locate our daughter for us. reporter: for one family, still a glimmer of hope,hile another struggles with its grief. and it s grief beyond the king family. emotions are still very raw out here. people are both sad and angry, as that act of vandalism at the gardner house yesterday so clearly illustrates. meredi, back to you. janet shamlian, thank you very much. maurice dubois s daughter, amber, has been missing since february 13th of last year. mr. dubois, good morning to you and thank you for joining us, on what has to be an extremely emotional time in your life. yes. good morning, meredith. i know that you were at the hearing yesterday for john gardner. why did you feel the need to be there? and what was your reaction when you looked at him? what were you thinking? well, first of all, i d like to express our whole family s condolences out to the king family. and we really wanted to show our support for the entire king family and to be there for chelsea. we also don t know if there is any link between mr. gardner and amber, so, if there is, i want to be there for every moment of his trial. when you first realized that mr. gardner had been arrested in connection with what was then on sunday the disappearance of chelsea king, what was your immediate reaction? had you heard his name before? it didn t strike us right away, but we did do a list of sexual predators in the area of escondido, where amber went missing, at the time that amber went missing, and we did find his name on that list, so yeah, he was one of our initial targets as far as sexual predators in the area to be looked at, but as far as when we first heard it, it was sickening us, you know. yeah. it just brought it all right back to home. yeah. at the time that amber did go missing, do you know if the police followed up on that and actually talked to mr. gardner? they have escondido pd had informed us that they had one officer who s in charge of all of the 290s, or all of the sexual predators in the area, and it was that officer s responsibility to interview all of them. mr. dubois, do you believe that he could have something to do with the disappearance of your daughter? we re hoping not. we re really hoping not. seeing as what this monster is capable of, we don t want any connection to amber, but the eerie similarities of the cases, both girls were 5 5 , both were 130 pounds, both white, both beautiful girls. the locations between the two, less than 7 1/2 miles between the two incidences. so, yeah, in the back of our head, we are kind of concerned that there is a connection. i know that you ve said that you remain hopeful that you will find your daughter. you ve had the support of so many friends and family, many strangers who have looked day after day for her and followed any leads that are possible. what is a typical day like for you since your daughter disappeared? oh, it s a nightmare that you just want to end, you know? you think you thinkhat there s going to be a silver lining at the end of this, but every day just seems to drag on longer and longer. i know you remain hopeful, though, that you will find her. if she is out there, what would you like to say to her, to your daughter, amber? oh, yeah. we re constantly going to remain hopeful, and amber, if you can hear me, sweetheart, please keep in mind that your family loves you so much. stay strong, stay faithful and please believe that we are going to find you one day. we ll have you back home with us. maurice dubois, i can t thank you enough for joining us this morning. i know how difficult this is for you, but you want to keep that message out there in the hopes that anyone with any information will present it to the police. so, thank you again for being here. well, thank you very much, meredith. and again, if you have any information on the disappearance of amber dubois, who was 14 at the time of her disappearance, you can call an anonymous tipline. the number is 760-743-8477. again, that is 760-743-8477. or logon to the website bringamberhome.com. now let s switch gears and get a check of the weather from al. thanks a lot, meredith. and again, chilly contions down through florida. if you re vacationing, spring breaking down there right now, 29 in tallahassee. they ve got freeze warnings up to the north. 47 in ft. myers, 61 key west, miami only 49. temperatures only struggle to get into the 50s and mid-60s throughout much of florida today. rest of the country, we have temperatureseratures that are wp well, there is a feeling of spring in the air this morning with welcome sunshine pouring down on the monument, live picture from ourity camera, even though it s quite chilly in the 30s, with a blustery northwest wind, at least that sunshine should up lift your mood. winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour. occasionally a little bit higher than that overnight tonight and into tomorrow. we may have a few clouds don t forget if you want to keep track of your weather all day long, check out the weather channel on cable or weather.com online. al, thank you. up next, could your next rental car be as dirty as a public restroom? 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i never thought about it. cars should be very clean, especially with all the money you re paying for them. reporter: but are they? to find out, we broke out the rubber gloves. and drove our cars to a certified lab where a team of microbiologists swooped in, swabbing every surface from the steering wheel to the gear shift, radio knobs, climate controls, window switches, door handles, floor mats, navigation system, even the child safety seats we rented. each sample was bagged and tested for dangerous bacteria. the results that we saw were shocking. reporter: lab director peter kamique says he couldn t believe what we found, obvious filth like leftover food in the cup holders, sticky residue on the dash and in this minivan, vomit on the floor. that s not acceptable. there are no circumstances where a car should go out with this type of residue in it. reporter: even more alarming are the germs you can t see. while two cars tested clean, four of our six came back with sky-high counts of bacteria. dirtiest spots, the steering wheel, door handles, window switches and the gear shift. he says this bacteria is also a market for stomach and flu viruses. as a result, you could be exposing yourself and not realizing it. reporter: and it gets worse. our lab found this minivan and suv teeming with another germ, betahemalytic step cookus. we found it all over the child safety seats. the child can touch the surface and then put his or her hands in their mouth and then become sick. reporter: he says some of our cars were so contaminated, they had as much bacteria as a public restroom. ew, disgusting! reporter: you got that right. that sincerely grosses me out. it makes me not want to rent a car anymore. reporter: it s not just our study. it appears rental cars are dirtier these days. according to a new survey by jd power, customer satisfaction is at a three-year low. insiders tell us in this bad economy, companies are slashing costs by downsizing the cleaning staff, rushing cars back out for rent before they re sanitized. it s like a factory. they just want to get them in and get them out, and they ll take the complaints as they come. reporter: bob minnelli ran a rental car franchise for ten years and wrote a book about the secrets companies don t want you to know. when i return my rental car, i m assuming somebody from the company looks at it before it goes out again. is that happening? not all the time. sometimes they ll look in a window and they ll peek here and there and they ll see, it generally looks decent, so they can get it back on the line. a good cleaning, maybe three out of ten cars get that. reporter: so, 70% of them are going out dirty? in my opinion, that s what i ve seen, yes. reporter: while we found most cleaning operations were bustling, don t be fooled by a quick vacuum job. in our test, some of the cleanest looking cars were the most infested with germs. this is a potential health problem. this could make us ill. so, i think it s renter beware. reporter: the american rental car association would not comment on our findings but told us for the rental companies, cleanliness is a top priority. the experts say all you can basically do is use these handy wipes, wipe down the steering wheel, wipe down all the buttons, places that people mostly touch. and matt, if you see your car is dirty, don t be embarrassed to walk up to the counter and try to get a new one. they want to know about it. is there a law about this, anyone governing this sort of thing? 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i have. i have, but not because i m disappointed. just because that s the nature of my personality, you know? short track is a race that, or the 500 meters is a race that you have to be perfect in. and you know, for me, the number one goal was that i come to the games, i leave my heart and soul on the ice and i can walk away with my chin still held high with a smile. and i notice every single time when i got on the ice, before the race even arted, internally i was smiling, you know, because i had prepared the best i could. i had given every single thing that i could on the ice. and there s no greater satisfaction than knowing that you feel proud to be there representing your country and you raced your heart out. so, for me, being a sports athlete, and that being a part of my life was an amazing accomplishment. one of the most touching moments was after the 5000 relay when you went and hugged your every step of the way. he drove you from seattle to vancouver to train all the time. right, right. what did you two say to each other after that final race, that eighth medal? well, for me, i was very emotion emotional. my father there wasn t really many words shared. it was just the feeling, just kind of embracing each other, that you know, we ve come so far, and to be able to finish an olympic games with the eighth medal was amazing, and the first thing i wanted to do was to share that moment with him, you know, regardless of if there was cameras there. i just wanted to be there with my dad, because he sacrificed so much, as i have. and i feel like he has been there every step of the way for me and i ve been very blessed and lucky to have somebody like that in my life. there s a lot of people, a l of kids who maybe don t have someone like that. so i feel lucky and blessed to have such a great day. quickly, is eight enough or will we see you in soichi with your skates on? i don t know. it s hard to say. it s too early to tell. too early to tell. apolo ohno, thank you so much. you re the best. these portable cups of pre-cut, chilled fruit are ready-to-eat, so the only thing you need to peel is the lid. you ll never be disappointed with fruit that s unripe or spoiled every mouthful is just right, and bursting with flavor. enjoying a delicious fruit snack can be this easy. look for del monte fruit naturals chilling in your produce section now. brand power. helping you buy better. so that s why we have sensodyne iso-active whitening for those that are lookinfor it. it s in a canister. it s new. it s novel. it starts out as a gel. now this is where the fun begins. once you start to brush with it, it micro-foams. having those small micro-bubbles really allows it to get to those hard to reach areas. it s providing a cleaner experience. the benefits for sensodyne iso-active whitening, it s going to provide protection against sensitivity. and it s going to help restore teeth to their natural whiteness. if you re on medicare part d, you can get. your 90-dayrescription supply from a place. you already trust to keep you staying well. walgreens. you ll have the confidence of knowing your walgreens. pharmacist has personally checked your medications. and you ll be in control of how and when you pick them up. so you can relax and enjoy all your benefits. cheese! walgreens. there s a way to stay well. cheese! sticking to a plan matters, espeally when it comes to your finances. that s why chase cards come with blueprint. free and only for chase customers. with finish it, you can take your balance and decide your monthly payment. or how many months you wanto take to p it off. the faster you pay it off, the more you ll save. and the more progress you ll see every month on your plan. chase what matters i ha my blueprint. do you? 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the sunshine is certainly slowing things down, eastbound 66 pretty brutal making the trip in. up on the belt way, the left side of you have screen, the inner loop coming from rockville pike, connecticut avenue and georgia avenue, again, some really slow traffic. tonight on news4 at 5:00, we ll tell you how to know if you re being helpful 8:00 now on this thursday mornarch 4th, 2010. as we say hello to all the people who have joined us here in rockefeller plaza. if you ve had enough winter, don t worry, spring s going to be here before you know it. it actually feels like a little bit 36 degrees. springy. it doesn t feel so bad over here. i m meredith vieira along with matt lauer and al roker. get the names right this week. just ahead this is a story that made a lot of headlines one year ago this week. four friends, two of them nfl players, went out fishing off the coast of florida it was a trip that ended tragically. three of the four eventually died. nick schuyler, the only survivor, has now written about his harrowing ordeal, and nick s going to be here for his first live morning interview in just a couple of minutes. and a little bit later on, what s next for tiger woods? he s out of sex rehab. he s been spotted playing golf. but when will he compete again and is he back with his wife? we ll have the latest, coming up. plus, if you are married, it is inevitable, you argue with your spouse and you know those arguments can drag on and on and on. well, now there is help, america. jerry seinfeld has created a new show for nbc that actually declares a winner. he will tell us about the marriage ref and that is the ref, tom papa, sitting right next to jerry, and his return to nbc. you know, that s going to work. if somebody says one of you wins and one of you loses, that s it for the fight. it will never come up again. never, never. that s what they claim. stop it right there. all right, before we get to that, let us get a check of the news headlines. ann continues on assignment. natalie s at the news desk. good morning, matt, meredith and al. and good morning, everyone. strong aftershocks triggered a new round of panic wednesday in chile, where the death toll from saturday s earthquake has topped 800. fear of another deadly tsunami sent coastal residents running for the hills. meantime, chile s president urged people to stop hoarding supplies and promising that aid is getting through. a strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern taiwan today, causing power blackouts and minor injuries. the quake was also blamed for a fire at a textile plant. election violence in iraq today. police said bombs at polling stations and at a marketplace killed at least 17 people. early voting began today for sunday s nationwide elections. and tragedy aboard a mediterranean cruise ship wednesday. officials said a 26-foot wave slammed into the lewis majes majesty, killing passengers. six other people were hospitalized when it docked in barcelona. a coast guard helicopter that provided security at the olympics crashed on a utah mountain wednesday while flying to its home base of north carolina. three people were seriously injured. visibility was poor at the time of the crash. and now here s brian williams with a look at what s coming up tonight on nbc nightly news. brian? 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[ crowd cheering ] back at 8:08. leave it to jerry seinfeld, that wacky guy, to make marital disputes funny. wacky? wacky. in the marriage ref, real couples air their arguments on national television to a panel of celebrities. among tonight s panel, 30 rock s tina fey. if you just give them the schnookie, they shut up and do what you want. so, if you want him to pick up the kids or whatever, you wait for the moment immediately after schnookie. right. then you say, i love you, i need you to drive my cousins to the airport. this sounds very hot and sexy. in between picking up the kids and driving them to the airport. jerry seinfeld is here along with the show s host and actual marriage ref, tom papa. guys, good morning to you. hey, guys. good morning. good morning. i was asking you during the commercial, i said were you looking for a reason to get back into tv? you said no. so, what was the genesis of this? i think the genesis was tom and i have both been married ten years and tom is a stand-up comic, and we tour a lot together, and we talk about our wives and just laugh. and each guy s pain makes the other guy laugh. exactly. so, we figured out that, you know, whatever hell someone else is going through is entertainment for everyone else. but you really had a fight with your wife, jessica, right, that resulted in sure, yeah. a fight. it was one fight, that pivotal moment. that one fight that we had in ten years, yes. if i had a show for every fight i had, i d have my own network by the end. is anything off limits? in terms of, if these couples, when they air a dispute, any subjects you don t think are appropriate for prime time? yeah, if it s not fun. it s a comedy show. it really is the idea of the show is the funny conversations that you have with another couple when you go out to dinner about what a nightmare their respective marriag are, that s what we like to talk about. yeah. we don t want to get into really deep and in trouble. it s a celebration of marriage. you re staying in it, but you have these problems that just drive you completely crazy. right. but you are the ref. i am the ref. and so, at the end of the evening, after a lot of discussion and airing of this dispute, you get to make a decision. is your decision binding? i like to think so, but probably not. but i mean, if let s say it s a fight, one person in the couple wants to keep some old love letters right. and you decide no, they have to go or the photos have to go. right. do they have to burn them live on the air? no, no. no, they don t. we actually we had that one. yeah, we had that one, but we also had this issue with the dog. and the wife hates the dog and we made this call and yeah, his own dog. and the husband actually said, you know, i m not going to listen to this, but the wife said, yeah, but everyone now knows i m right. and i think in marriage, in a fight that you have all the time, just to have that little advantage, that all of america knows that you re right. but the fact that they know that all of america is watching, hopefully, right? i mean, don t you think that affects the way that they re going to fight? we don t care. that s their problem. yeah. no, it s kind of like,e really like the sports model of the show. yeah, yeah. which is you watch a call in baseball and the guy is clearly safe, the ump calls him out. everybody argues, but that s it. that s the call. it s over. it s over. and we get them we go to their homes way beforehand and record their fight. and we found like the greatest thing about married couples, they have had these fights their whole marriage. so, they don t care if cameras are the. they don t care if they re on the street or their family s around. they just go from 0 to 60 they sort of forget about the rest they forget about it. in a second, they are locked in their thunder dome. we ve got some panelists here who weigh in on these arguments, and just a couple of names jump out, jerry and tom. people like madonna, alec baldwin. now you recognize those names? we do. they re big names. when it comes to marriages, they ve had their share of issues. so, does that make them better panelists than someone else? yes. yeah, it does. the more you ve been through, the more you know. the worse, the better, that s our philosophy. give us a little perspective. yeah. people that have not you know, frankly, young people that haven t had this experience, ey really can t do it. you need a married person who says i ve been there, i ve done that, i know what that means. years of experience. yeah, it s good. ten years now, what are you and your wife fighting over now that might require the marriage ref? right this minute. she didn t like my tie this morning. i was just about to walk out. she said that s the tie you re wearing? i go, yes, because that s what s around my neck. and she goes, well, i think it s very dull. so, i changed it you did? and i thought, i could get into a thing about this because i happen to like it. it was a solid tie. she thought it was too quiet for a morning show. do you think he was right to change it, ref? i think he was absolutely right. and i think his wife was right as well. oh, man, what a chicken. diplomat at the same time. we should also mention one of our own is on your program. that s right. natalie morales. fabulous natalie morales. the greatest. just the facts, ma am. she s the greatest. her role is? she s the just the facts, man. because we have all these passionate discussions about these fights, but it s all opinion. so, sometimes to ground it, we need hard data and we go to our just the facts, ma am, natal morales. hard data. that s right, hard data. launching this show, the last time we did something like this was 1989, seinfeld. so, does it feel similar or not in any way. no? no. better, worse? just better because it s different in every single first of all, tom is the host. it s not a narrative, you know. we re not acting or reading scripts. everything about it is different. so, it feels all new and exciting. it s fun, and i ve been on it a couple times. i love being on the show. yeah, i ve noticed that. one of the great things is you have a never-ending supply of material. yes. we can find lots of things to fight about right in this studio. could we be possibly on as a television marriage? no. no? we don t rate? we ll see. we ll see. and for people who don t know tom papa, who may not know you yet, you re so great. everybody is going to fall in love with you for sure. oh, thank you very much. you re really wonderful. yeah, we were on the tonight show together. we were. after that, your career went wa way up. that s it. jerry seinfeld, thank you so much. thank you. tom papa, thank you. good luck. thanks. you can catch the marriage ref tonight at 10:00/9:00 central time on nbc, and natalie morales is on it, too. coming up, fresh flavor fast with the help of martha stewart. 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absolutely. you know, it s a little bittersweet, obviously, because i m the only one here telling it, but this is a way for me to kind of clear the rumors not just for myself, but for the other three guys in the family. we have a lot of ground to cover and i think we should go right to the moment of truth here. and you re on this fishing boat and the storm approaches and you decide you ve got to get back to shore, but you re anchored. correct. and the anchor gets stuck and a couple of options, one of them being cut the line and leave the anchor out there, but that s not the choice that was made, and i believe that a suggestion came from your best friend, will. and you decided to do what? correct. it was from will, who decided to move the anchor to the back of the boat, and we figured there was two things that would happen. either the rope would rip or, you know it would be freed. or it would be freed and that was not the case, obviously. you gun the engine correct. and what actually happened was the boat dipped down because it was still anchored and it began to take on water. right. and eventually overturned. immediately overturned. and now you re in the water, the four of you. by the way, we should mention it s not warm water. no. roughly a little over 60 degrees. and the weather is getting bad and you manage to get some life jackets, i understand? right. will dove underneath the boat and grabbed some jackets. but it s now four guys clinging to an overturned boat and the weather is getting worse and worse and worse. did you realize at that moment, nick, how dire the situation was? not exactly, you know, not really. you know, four guys, four football players thinking we re invincible. we thought we d be able to flip that boat over, but that was not the case. meanwhile, minutes turned into hours and hours turned into a day, and now it s night. you guys are frozen. i mean, 60 degrees doesn t sound cold, but being in 60-degree water for a long period of time, hypothermia absolutely. starts to set in, and it has a dramatic effect both physically and emotionally on the four of you. what was happening? people s motor functions were shutting down, particularly marquis and corey first it was very frustrating. there wasn t a whole lot to do, you know? we had to fight for one another, but it was definitely the worst thing to actually watch and go through, you know. it s agony, too. it s painful. you re getting numb and your joints are aching, and now, not only physically are you impaired, but in particular, marquis and corey started to have real serious emotional impacts from hypothermia. correct. what types of things were they doing? you know, things that they obviously couldn t control. a lot of slurring and swearing. they were kind of fighting. but once again, like you said, it was the hypothermia. i ve never seen them acting like that. i m not blaming them for it, but at some point, corey became threating physical. and was actually threatening to attack the rest of you. right. and you re trying to hang on to, i believe it was marquis, and corey is threatening to attack you. you have to make a decision. right. and you had to let go marquis. of marltsis. and what happened? at that point, we had only three jackets. will had just a throw cushion he was wearing, so, we had decided at that point, marquis had already passed, it had been some time and i was holding on to him. so, he was dead in the water and you were just clinging to him? at that point, i had positioned myself on top of the boat as i was rescued and i was kind of bear-hugging him, holding on to him for probably some time, little over a half hour, i would say. and corey continu to kind of wrestle, and once again, things he didn t know that he was even doing, and we had to make the decision on either letting him go or we re going to lose both of them. so, i had to let marquis go and we took his jacket. you watched him drift away. then over the next several hours, corey. corey was shortly after, unfortunately. what happened? same thing. motor functions were shutting down. you know, earlier, you know, roughly an hour before, he was very quiet. now the aggression from the hypothermia kind of set in, and unfortunately, he slipped away as well. so, at this point, then, it s just you and will. this is your best friend. right. for many years. you guys talked to each other, you said i love you. right. and at some point, he started to get physically sick. right. it was roughly 12 hours later. we fout all day, and obviously foaming at the mouth, and at some point, you had to watch him i had to watch him pass as well, correct. i mean, at this point, did you have any thought that you would get out of this alive or did you just assume you d be the last one to go under the water? you know, i never gave up hope, obviously, but watching three guys die in my arms, it obviously was in the front of my mind. so, you know, i knew at that point when i was by myself, obviously, i ll have to fend for myself, but you know, it was just a matter of time. i read in the book that you said the thought of your mom having to go to your funeral was something you simply couldn t bear. absolutely. and that s one of the things that kept you pushing on. mm-hmm. i just i couldn t imagine my mother i could see her sitting in front of a casket or not even that, you know, if i was never found, you know, breaking down, and that s what kept me going, really. you were rescued after, what, 46 hours? roughly 43 or so, right. still clinging to the overturned boat. and you know, nick, that over the last year there s been a lot of speculation. people say these guys had to be out there drinking, there had to be some kind of an argument. there have been also rumors and speculation that marquis and corey quit. they just quit and drown themselves. right. how do you respond to all that? since you re the only one who knows the story. you know, i ve heard it all, like you said. that s one of the reasons i did this book, once again, not for me, but for the guys and the families. it was a way to kind of put all the details in there and explain what had happened, but that is the last things that happened. you know, i wouldn t be here today without the three of them. so, i guess read t book, the best thing, and it will clear most of the rumors. you wanted to find a way to just remind yourself of this on a daily basis. you got a tattoo yes. didn t you? can we on my arm here. what s on that tattoo? can we get a shot over here? it s the three guys names, will s, marquis and corey s and i have an anchor at the bottom with a date attached to the rope. and it says in the hour of adversity be not without hope. i know that s the first thing you look at every morning when yowake up. absolutely. absolutely. nick schuyler, we re happy you re okay and are sharing this. thanks for having me. thank you very much. the book is called not without hope. our time right now is 8:26, 37 degrees out there, bright sunshine in the nation s capital. in the news4 day, d.c. now has access to federal aid to recovery from the blizzard of 2009 which dumped two feet of snow. president obama has made declarations for maryland and virginia. it s too early to know whether federal money will be available to help offset costs for back to the right? no, back here. how about over here? n let s go back to the left. waffling is back at dunkin donuts. for a short time only, enjoy the return of the delicious oven-toasted waffle breakfast sandwich. america runs on dunkin . good morning, we have got bright sunshine and a blustery northwest wind, mperatures in the 30s all around the region, now 37 in washington, highs today should reach the mid 40s and we ll have a few clouds developing this afternoon. we should have more sun on friday with highs in the mid 40s, but a warming trenld with diminished wind. should make it into the mid 50s sunday afternoon. we re loaded up and due to the bright sunshine, live pictures coming out of rosiland, backup begins pretty close to the rosiland tunnel aisle, one more stop, outer loop of the beltway, college park to silver spring and around landover, some low traffic as well. the census scam has begun. there are some questions real officials will never ask, some ways to know whether we re back now, 8:30 on a thursday morning. it s the fourth day of march 2010. rain and perhaps a few flurries expected today in the northeast, it says on the paper. however we re not thinking that. when i look at my handy dandy sky above my head, it looks bright blue. looks pretty nice. it s going to be a nice day. and warming up by the end of the week. that s right, temperatures in the 40s and 50s. we like the sound of that. meanwhile, on the plaza, i m matt lauer along with meredith vieira, al roker and natalie morales. coming up, if you re one of these people who always finds it hard, you re pressed for time to put a good, home-cooked meal on the table, we have help. mm-hmm. two words martha stewart! she s here with four fast recipes you can make in the time that it takes you to hit the drive-thru. that s right. and what s the best way to unclog your drain or maybe get more power out of your shower? hammer! oh, no, my friend drano. no, no, no, no, no. you ve got to stay tuned martha stewart? no! you ve got to stay tuned my friend, because two words. two words. lou manfredini. six syllables, two words, more power out of your shower! it s like a commercial. plus, tiger woods now reportedly back at home, out of rehab and back on the driving range. so, questions are, will he be returning to the pga tour soon and where does his marriage stand? we re going to bring you up to date on the latest that we know and talk about other issues. okay. but first, let s talk about the issue of the weather. yes. two words, martha stewart! oh. mostly sunny. al roker. let s check it out, see what s happening as far as today is concerned. we ve got a few flurries in new england, some snow showers in the appalachians. we re looking at sunshine in the pacific northwest, some snow showers in the rockies. then for tomorrow, cloudy skies along the eastern seaboard, sunshine but cool down through the southeast.utheast. a welcome blue sky with bright sunshine should lift your spirits today, we do have a blustery wind though. right now 37 in washington, mid 30s prince george s county, arlington, fairfax and montgomery county blustery winds as well. we might have a few clouds developing, highs in the mid 40s, mid 40s tomorrow with quite a bit of a actually, lou manfredini is only five syllables, but louis manfredini is six. now, let s go down to a man who s never met a syllable he doesn t like, uncle willie scott. how are you, sir? hey, i love that name. are you wearing pants today? uh huh. [ laughter ] but no suit pants. okay. my granddaughter, my granddaughter tye dyed my underwear, and it s really nice. one of these days we ll show them. happy birthday from smucker s. happy birthday to ira murray, miami, florida, is 105. miama, the folks used to say years ago. business partner of the late arthur murray and she taught roosevelt and rockefeller and the duke of windsor how to dance. how about that? martha murray had a great tv show, one of the first tv. anne goldfield, west hartford, connecticut, is 100 years old. avid golfer until her late 90s. and her secret to longevity is having a positive attitude. that is the truth. james smith, toms river, new jersey. really a pretty little town. retired ham operator. plays the organ in a band on the weekend. i ve always wanted to play the organ.seaton, oxnard, californi 101. lives independently, trims the bushes, sharp as a tack and does his own taxes. i ll tell you, that is a feat in itself. kathryn davis, jupiter island, florida. still swims, plays tennis or played until he she was 90. won many awards for his paintings. lenore berke, great actress name. beechwood, ohio. 102. attributes her longevity to having a shot of grand mariner before going to bet at nht. and that s it, that s all. now back to matt. has a shot of mineral water before he goes to bed. ah, willard, thank you. actually, the whole gang is still here. we want to mention something yes? you two traveling this weekend yes, we are. together? out to los angeles. yes, we are. you know why? i hope it s for the academy awards. it is for the academy awards. it is! oh, the academy awards are there? works out well. you re going to be out there and you ll come to us monday morning from los angeles? live from los angeles. with all the action. all the winners, all the losers, everything. we ve got it all. and you re going to act out scenes from each of the ten nominated best picture movies. yes, we are. that s right. and meredith is singing the five songs, the best nominees i am. fantastic. that s our 8:30 half hour right there. doing the show, i could easily act out the hurt locker, no problem. meredith and al live from los angeles monday morning on today with all the oscar action. we re going to be back on a martha on today is brought to you by macy s. the martha stewart collection is now available only at macy s and on macys.com. and this morning on martha on today, we re cooking. fast recipes for fresh and flavorful food. martha stewart is here with examples from the latest book from the folks at everyday food magazine. what would you call that, matt? that would be i would cl that fresh flavor fast. yeah. right? that s exactly right. all right. and it s easy, delicious recipes for any time. there you go. martha, how are you? i am great and it is a really, really nice book and i thk you should all get one. we did all get one exactly. it s on my desk right now. so, we re going to make things that are quick and yet great, wholesome, fresh food and economical. do you like figs? love figs. good. well, we made a little fig jam out of these figs and how hard is it to make the jam? oh, nothing. it s a little sugar and a little water and the figs. if you didn t want to make it, could you use store-bought fig jam also? yes, you can. okay. but it s very good just as a snack like this with the blue cheese, but in a sandwich it s even better. here we have a nice baguette sliced. here s some fig jam. right. okay. how much do i put on there? how much do you like? you know. and you re going to put prosciutto, cheese and arugula. so you re combining the many flavors. right, right. he likes fig jam. yeah, sure, there you go. okay, good. got a little peanut butter? let s go. sorry, i got that on your hands. got some fig jam on me, mm-hmm. see how pretty? yep, beautiful. and some arugula. cheese first or doesn t matter, no. what is this, oseogo cheese? yep. and that s done? yep. here, stick this in. and slice that up. i m cooking up asian chicken soup. this is so easy. it s a lot of ingredients. it is easy? it s only three cups of chicken stock, low sodium. okay. and tn into the stock you put beautiful sobun noodles. now, in vancouver did you eat a lot of japanese food and asian food? oh, my gosh. so, you put these into the stock. are you boiling or no? you ve got paper in there. that s the wrapper. then you put snow peas cut into one-inch pieces, red pepper. got it. and the chicken. okay, this is two chicken breasts, just slivers. and then let that cook until it takes about three or four minutes. for the chicken to cook? oh, yes. it s so fast, and boiling stock. and we have it over here pretty much done. and then you add to the bowl, once you put the stock this is already from here this smells good. put some scallions in and a little bit of lime juice. that really does add to the flavor. and taste. yum. thank you very much. very easy, very healthy and very nutritious. very healthy. okay. and that s a whole meal, really. if you want to make a big bowl. now, you re going to make this tonight. i m making this tonight. i really am. saute shrimp and a little olive oil. right. olive oil is really good for you. sure. it s one of those natural things that you should absolutely use instead of any other kind of oil, instead of butter, if you different kinds of fat. yep. it s really good. so, these go out of here. right. then you add a few more things to the pan. i should just do that. okay, there. that looks good. oh, don t you want to eat that whole pile of shrimp? i do. oh, boy. what do you think of the soup? it s good. so, now capers. capers. you re going to do this tonight? not all of those. just a little bit. a pinch, depending how hot you like your sauce. my kids like it spicy. then your garlic. then stir that up, a little salt and pepper and some canned tomatoes, just one big can of plum tomatoes. cook that up. that is a really good sauce. then you add the pasta. here s the sauce already. sauce and then boom, you put that in. yep, put that in. mix it up. you re so good in the kitchen. and then you are really good in the kitchen. he knows what he s doing. then over here. this is really delicious. do you like peanuts? i love peanuts. okay. and i love the peanut with the breadcrumbs together. so, you can chicken breast. gently break up the eggs. okay. then we have boneless, skinless chicken breasts. just washing the breast into the eggs, right? yep, just coating it. that s good. and then in here, three slices of bread made into crumbs and three-quarters of chopped peanuts. so you use regular bread. any stale bread, white bread. don t use like raisin bread. right. and do you season it on top of this, too? well, there s a little salt and pepper in there. okay. so you put that there. and you bake it, not fry it. bake it in the oven. so it looks like fried chicken. it s healthier, it s delicious. and this is what it looks like on the plate and you can taste, if you d like. how long did that take, martha, in the oven? it takes approximately, oh, about 20 minutes in the oven. very short time. delicious. what do you thin wonderful. so, all these recipes are in the new book and how many books do you have now, martha? oh, i think this is number 70. 70? 70. you have a lot. we do. wow. and they re all how-to books, you know, they re all really, really can you make a fri tejada really quick? how much time do we have? yeah, but it s a wonderful, wonderful book and i hope you all enjoy it. and easy is important for people, right? easy. eight ingredients per recipe, no more. healy. and it takes less than an hour to make a whole meal. this is the kind of food that all of us are looking for. good stuff, martha. as always, thank you. and just ahead, what you can do to find 78 million americans are considered baby boomers, and tonight on cnbc, tom brokaw presents a two-hour look at the generation that vowed to change the world. hey, tom, good morning. nice to see you. good morning, matt. i think when people say baby boomers, they think of one kind of classroom filled with the same kind of people. it is a wide range because it goes from 1946 to 1964, and the landscape is really uneven in terms of what they achieve, what they hope to achieve and how they thought they should achieve it. i want to talk to you on the other side of something, but i want to first show a clip from your documentary. and this concerns two women who really kind of exemplify the dramatic changes that baby boomers have gone through. let s take a look. did either of you in your teenage years, in your wildest dreams imagine that one day you would be sitting side by side with another woman, you d be the chairman, you d be the ceo of an s&p 100 company called xerox? never. never. i didn t even know what a ceo was. i didn t know what xerox was. i didn t know about corporations. reporter: in july 2009, eight years after anne mulcahy was named ceo of xerox, she passed the baton to ursula burns and stayed on as chairman. two women, different races, sharing the leadership of a fortune 500 company. when you came to xerox, it was still pretty much a good old boys network at that time. it was. i think they were unique in the sense that they started to recognize the inherent biases. but the guys that you worked with, they went off and played golf together on saturdays, probably. i didn t go with them. i was a black female engineer in a white, male engineering environment. they knew that when i did arrive that they needed to do something a little different to make me fit in. reporter: american business had to adapt to increasing numbers of women in the workplace. just 40 years ago, women made up a little over a third of all workers. now half the nation s employees are women. one of the things that i m reminded of all the time is that we stand on the shoulders of the people who came before us. it s work-a-day for us now. it s work-a-day. we see women running around and blacks running around, really. i m often grateful to that handful of women who, you know, one generation ahead of us who really have the scars to show stepping out there. reporter: the enhanced role of women in the workplace has affected every aspect of society, from education to family life. it was the boomers who established the working mother as a new institution. what do you say to a young woman who is 38 years old and in your company and is a rising star, somebody you re really counting on, and she comes to you and says, anne, ursula, i want to go home and have a baby, my clock is ticking? we say congratulations. right. and i m not joking on that one. we would. but we d say, you know, don t ever think those things are mutually exclusive. that s right. because if you choose, this is all doable. it s not easy, but doable. and you should never have to make a choice to eliminate kind of that kind of personal fulfillment because you re serious about your career. those days are gone. there are good examples of where baby boomers have come, but how much time in the special do you stop and look at we re not done, we re not throwing in the towel yet as a generation. right. what about looking forward to where we re going? bill clinton is on this documentary tonight at the very end, and he says we ve kind of got to get out of the way of the upcoming generation. they have aard time prying their fingers off the levers of power, and we ought to devote the last part of our life to service. he thinks that could be the unifying theme, left, right and in the middle, and i think there s something to that, probably. as a generation, are the boomers as interesting as the greatest generation? oh, yeah. i think that they re much different because they ve got so many dferent parts. greatest generation went through two great, searing, identifying experiences, the great depression and then world war ii, and they had more in common, i suppose, in terms of what they wanted to achieve and how they were going to achieve it. this one is all over the landscape, as i said the other night. this one has madonna as a baby boomer. so is rick warren. whoopi goldberg is a baby boomer. so is sarah palin. so, you have that wide range. tom brokaw, thanks. appreciate it. the two-hour documentary, tom brokaw reports oh, you guys, i ve been thinking about this. do you have an issue in your marriage that could use the marriage ref ? absolutely. what s yours? the toilet paper roll. when it s done, my husband never replaces it. ew. and we have the toilet paper rolls all the way in the basement, so he never goes down and replaces it. so, i boycotted replacing the toilet paper roll in our bathroom for a while, just to see did he finally replace it? no. so, what happened? it took me 48 hours later. i m like going down to my son s bathroom to use his bathroom. i m like, this is just so not worth it. yeah. wow. i ended up replacing it. what about you guys? you win on that one. ours revolves around that. it s costco. i like to go to costco and i like to buy the big packages of paper towels and toilet tissue. it doesn t go bad. it s like money in the bank. where are you going to put that stuff, though? we have a basement. it goes in the basement. but deborah s feeling is it takes up too much space. i did kind of the same thing, i said you know what, i m not buying anymore. and we ran out. except i had my own stash. there s an ongoing toilet paper theme. what do you mean? oh, my gosh! well, somebody get the times. us is the animals. we have two cats and a dog and i think they should be allowed to sleep on the bed, if they feel like it. no! richard is opposed, tireless. i m with richard. really? why? they re part of the family! yes. you ve got a cat. i don t know, hmm hmm, boop! boop? well, they use the kitty litter. no, i took away their toilet paper, so, not in our house. no. they re animals. they sleep on the floor. not on the bed! good thing richard isn t watching. that s the only good news here. yeah, nobody will tell him. anyway, up next, how to be happy you need a ref. at any age, believe it or not. but first, your local news and weather. and don t forget, the marriage ref tonight at 10:00, nbc. 9:00 central. our time right now is 8:56, let s take a live look out at ronald reagan international airport. sunshining out there this morning. metro is getting ready to name richard sorrels as its new transit authority. he will serve for the next six to 12 months while it s search for a permanent gm takes ace. cherry blossoms and officials will announce when the blossoms will reach their peak bloom this year. this annual cherry blossom festival will reach april 11. we re going to take a break now and come back and look at our weather an good morning, a blue sky with sunshine, that should brighten your mood today, afternoon highs climbing into the mid 40s, so it is going to be chilly and a blustery northwest wind to go along with it. but it is wonderful to have the sun back. we should have more sunshine tomorrow. a bit blustery over the weekend. saturday shoumd be sunny, and maybe a litt milder on sunday. up into the mid 50s with lots of sunshine. we may get some chilly rain on tuesday and should end tuesday night. live look even after this hour, we re back up along i-270 out of german town, no lane issues just vume and sunshine was the problem earlier this morning. joe? thanks, jerry, coming up tonight on news4 at 5:00, the census scam, as the government tries to count us all, there s a we are back now with more of today on this thursday morning, the 3rd of march 2010. pretty nice morning out there for the folks lining up outside rockefeller plaza still, waving to friends and family back home. we always appreciate them being here and hanging around for us here in the 9:00 hour. inside studio 1a, i m natalie morales along with al roker. coming up this half hour, what is next for tiger woods? you know, the golfer is reportedly said to be out of rehab now, back at home in florida. he was spotted hitting some golf balls over tekend. so, can his career and his personal life get back on track? we re going to get some insight into that, coming up. then later on, we re going to be talking about beating the blues. no matter who you are or what age you are, life will throw you curveballs. so, how do you deal with them? this morning we ll have great advice on eliminating stress and being happy at any age. that s right. plus, they re driven, they re busy and socially connected. they re the real housewives of new york city, and they re here with their dish on their third season, or the dish on their third season of catfights and drama, and there are actually two new cast members. we ll hear all about that coming up. first, you have a check of the news? in the headlines this morning, the national highway traffic safety administration is reviewing complaints from some toyota owners who say they still have problems with unintended acceleration even after their cars were recalled and repaired. toyota says it will also look into those complaints. today, another powerful earthquake, this one in southern taiwan. it was a magnitude 6.4. it damaged buildings and triggered a fire at a factory. there were some injuries. a strong aftershock jolted central chile on wednesday with a magnitude of 6.1. the death toll from saturday s massive earthquake, meanwhile, has topped 800. chile s president says it will take three or four years to rebuild. in iraq, bombings killed at least 17 people in baghdad. the attacks happened as security forces and others began casting ballots in advance of this weekend s key parliamentary elections. insurgents have repeatedly threatened to use violence to disrupt the election. today, a german court convicted four men in a foiled 2007 plot to attack u.s. targets there. they were sentenced to up to 12 years in prison. a convicted sex offender is being held without bail this morning in san diego. john gardner was charged wednesday with murdering 17-year-old chelsea king. her body was found on tuesday. president obama plans to hit the road to push for passage of health care reform. on wednesday, the president said the time for debating health care legislation is over. he wants an up or down vote in congress within the next few weeks. movie stars aren t the only ones sprucing up for sunday s academy awards ceremony. hollywood boulevard was also shut down wednesday so workers could truck in bleachers and unroll the famous red carpet that will greet the next crop of oscar winners, and al roker s going to be on that carpet there as well. that s right. meredith and i you and meredith. we ll be there bringing you everything you need to know about the oscars. you re traveling an awful lot, putting in those frequent flyer miles. that s right, we are. check of weather now. and you ll see for today, we ve got that pesky storm system in the northeast moving away. that s good news. windy conditions in the northeast. we ve also got snowy conditions through the plain states as another low pressure system moves through.rough. temperatures now climbing into the upper 30s and it s now 39 in washington, we have some sunshine back, but also a wind that s gusting around 20 miles an hour. we will see that wind occasionally throughout the day, overnight tonight and into tomorrow. we may have a few clouds developing this afternoon, tomorrow morning near 30, afternoon highs mid 40s. still a bit blustery friday. saturday should be bright and that s your latistest weather. natalie? al, thank you. now to the latest on tiger woods. people.com is reporting tiger is out of rehab and back home in florida. he s been spotted hitting golf balls in the area after spending a week in counseling with his wife, elin, in arizona. so, what i next for the golf great? jamie hayden is with people magazine and jeff gardere is a clinicalsychologist and today contributor. good morning, guys. good morning. good morning. out of rehab, reportedly. the press conference earlier this month, now he s out hitting golf balls. does it sound, j.d., like in what you re reporting, does it sound like he s tiger woods is back and on the upswing now? well, i think this is a long process. i think clearly, as you saw in that press conference, this is a man who is pretty tormented and trying to work through a lot of stuff. he is hitting golf balls, he is working through his relationship with his wife. who knows where that s going to lead, but they ve been in therapy together. you know, there are now reports that they are moving back in together. as far as we know, that s a real change in the way they ve been relating, if that is true. they certainly have been having a difficult time and have been barely speaking outside of their therapy, so. we have that picture of him there running outside near his florida home. how reunited, though, are they? i mean, they have two homes in the same area. are they living in the same house? well, we re hearing that, but that would be a real change. up until this point, they have had a pretty tense relationship and really haven t spoken a lot. since november, really. yeah. you know, they ve had some therapy sessions together. they ve obviously been doing stuff together to work through this, but when they are at home, they have been living pretty separate lives. and jeff, i mean, tiger reportedly went through that six weeks of rehab, as we know, at the pine grove treatment center in mississippi, known for treating sexual addiction, relationship addiction, other behavior problems. is six weeks, though, really enough to be cured of a sexual addiction? i think when you re talking about addiction, you never talk about cure, you talk about being in recovery. and this is something that you work with for the rest of your life. so, you have to go back to booster sessions, stay in therapy, attend 12-step programs. so, he is in recovery and doing better, but as far as a cure, again, with addictions, we just don t even use that kind of language. mm-hmm. and yo know, i think, j.d., when we talk about their relationship and where it s going from here, a lot of questions, because early on, we saw elin very much split and apart, overseas in europe, skiing, doing her thing. but now, with the reports that she may be reconciling and back, where do we see things going? is there a future there? well, listen, i mean, i think every relationship is complicated, and certainly this one is clearly very complicated and has been complicated by everything that s been, you know, said, and you know, that we know about tiger woods. so, i would expect that there will be many stages, as there would be in any relationship. they have children together, obviously. i think they both i think that they should put those children first. who knows what will happen to them ultimately. clearly, the therapy process that he talked about, he is committed to trying to make this family whole again. so, we ll have to see. what about rumblings that he may be getting back, you know, back to fitness, back to his game, you know, because jack nicklaus actually said yesterday that he believes that he s going to be back on the pga tour and that he s going to be back at the open in augusta, georgia, in april. well, i wouldn t be the masters tournament. surprised at all if that happens. certainly people we talk to say he had every intention of doing that. we ll have to see what happens. the security measures they re taking at the masters this year would seem to indicate that that would happen. it s obviously probably the best, most conducive place for him to get back into golf, and this is a guy who lives and breathes golf. he s the best golfer of all time, so i wouldn t be surprised. absolutely. i agree with j.d., and it s part of the recovery process. let s put him back in his element. it s not just about building back up emotionally, but physically, too. it s part of the holistic treatment, and i m sure that s probably been recommended by the treatment center that he was part of. if he goes back to winning, j.d., what do you perceive the public opinion will be on tiger woods? well, i think it will always be profoundly mixed. i mean, everybody appreciates what he has done as an athlete, but you know, will he come back to being the role model, spokesperson, you know, sort of sterling character that people thought he was? that s a longer process. but i think people understand that he is amazing at what he does, and i think most people having seen that press conference want him to succeed and put his life back together. the question is, is the public willing to forgive, too? well, that s a process. obviously, that s going to take time, just as recovery, as he was saying, takes time. and certainly, the public should forgive. this is a person who s shown us that he s not perfect. he s huma he makes mistakes. we all make mistakes. for the public to say we can t forgive him, it tells me that there may be something wrong with the public that they can t do something like that. all right. j.d. heyman and jeff gardere, thanks, guys, so much. thank you. coming up next, tips for finding happiness in your 30s, 40s and 50s. then later, the real housewives of new york city. they re going to give us a preview of everything from cat fights to the catwalks. but first, these messages. ht a 2010 toyota prius. i am buying a new toyota camry. brand-new 2010 toyota camry. 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sure, because at different ages, going through different stages of our life, we re dealing with different stresses and there are different ways you can combat it at every age. okay. so, let s start with the 30s. okay. what are the triggers that get us going and then what can you do to combat that? well, this is a time of intense stress because a lot of people are really gearing up in their careers, so they re working very hard. you know, women are often raising young children at this time or getting pregnant, and these can be very stressful times. so, it can be very overwhelming, but there are definitely some things you can do, and the first thing to look at is actually your diet. there are actually some foods that have some feel-good chemicals. tryptophan is one, that can boost serotonin in your brain and really raise your mood. turkey, chicken, salmon, about one portion every day would be a great way to elevate your mood. kind of like clean proteins. exactly. another foods you should avoid that trigger problems? well, sugar, because it can give you that rush, but soon afterwards you get a low sugar crash and that can depress your mood. then for pms, what are some of the things so, pms is one thing where a lot of women suffer it a lot during their 30s because that s when your hormone levels are really raging, and there are definitely things in your diet to avoid there. salty foods you should avoid. it can lead to a lot of bloating. exercise is also great for pms. what about some of the stresses of building a career and raising a family? so, we all are, you know, undergoing a lot of stress, men, women in their 30s. but one thing you really have to learn to do is say no. you know, you can t always please everyone. as women that s my default, no. oh, really? because for most women, their default is yes. we re trained to be sort of pleasing, and you have to choose what you re going to do. a good rule of thumb is if you re looking forward to it, say yes, but if you re dreading it, say no. and delegate. you re not the only person who can do everything. women, mothers especially, think i m the only one who can pick out my kid s dress. you know what, your husband can do it. it might not be the perfect dress, but it s a dress. as long as they re clothed, that s all that matters. exactly. and you say get a massage, too. this is great for pregnant women or women with young children. this is a time when you re not pampering yourself, but getting a massage. i don t mean spending $100 on it, but have your partner do it. it s a great way to reconnect, have some intimacy, which is also lost in the having a newborn kid phase. let s move into the 40s. what are some issues we ll be facing? well, in the 40s, again, you re dealing with a lot of problems with stress, and you know, your hormones are raging again. you want to really exercise, you know, at least 20 minutes, three times a week is very good for sleep. doing cardio. cardio exercise, exactly. it s good for sleep problems because that can also lead to depression as well. and when we hit our 40s, now a lot of women, and men, but women, too, are not only caring for their kids, who are now moving into their preteens, but they re caring for aging parents. right. so, we call this the sandwich generation because you re caring for your parents who may not be able to care for themselves, also dealing with children. it s very important at this time to take time for yourself, some alone time, even if it means getting up half an hour earlier, taking an extra long shower, going for a walk. it can really help you regroup and recenter yourself. when you re in your 40s and, you know, you ve got issues not only with your kids, you ve got your parents, but you also have your spouse. what are some of the issues you can deal with there? well, i think it s very important to focus on your relationship. it s very easy at this point, you re sort of getting in a rut, you do the same old routine. make a date night, do extra activities with your spousand prioritize them. because if y don t take care of that relationship, it s not going to just thrive on itself. right, okay. now we move into our 50s. and when it comes to the 50s, you know, you re kind of set in your ways, your career is where it should be. your kids are probably off and going. you would think this is probably the easy time. what are the stresses? well, just as you said, your kids are off. that s sort of the empty nest syndrome. for some people, that can lead to depression, actually. but you should really embrace that free time and do something new, a new hobby. there s nothing like helping other people that makes you feel good. so, maybe going for a charity or a cause, volunteering. that s a great way to decrease your stress and make you feel better. also when you reach your 50s, exercise is probably even more important than it was in your 40s. right. i mean, you really need to exercise more because your metabolism is slowing down by this point. so, now we re talking about 30 minutes every single day is a great way to keep fit and keep your mood up. what about hormone therapy, replace those hormones? sure. so, during menopause, which is happening usually during this decade, your falling estrogen levels can affect your mood, they can affect dryness in the pelvic area, your sexual pleasure. so hormone therapy is an option. there are some risks to it. you need to talk to your doctor about it. but you can also use topical hormone therapy to deal with some issues related to sex. and the good news is, in your 50s, especially for men and women, you may actually end up having a little more free time because the kids are up and running and doing their own thing. this is where you really focus on yourself. exactly. focus on yourself on exercising, getting sleep, traveling and really just enjoying yourself. and if you re like our director, about to hit 60, just give up. 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[ female announcer ] childhood is calling. there s a full serving of vegetables in every manwich. announcer: surprise. every manwich has a full serving of wholesome vegetables. manwich. meat your vegetables. well, if you can t get enough of the real housewives, you re in luck, because tonight there s a double dose of drama as the real housewives of orange county wraps up. we have three of the cast members. good morning to all of you ladies. good morning. natalie s a big fan of the show. i am. i love the housewives. who doesn t? most people do. they don t want to admit it. living vicariously through your guys, because you re nothing like we are really like. think of as normal housewives? well, i own a house, but i m not a wife, so ah. , how do you get on then? how does that work? bethenny frankel and jill zarin compared the upcoming season to opposite day. what do they mean by that? it s all new alliances, all new drama. this woman here is usually very quiet. i call her like a church mouse. she starts screaming like a rat at jill. wow! you ve seen nothing. the great thing about doing a show with the same group of women over three years is that everyone s facades fall away, everyone s true colors come out and you re just you really go for it because you get comfortable with each other. are you friends in real life? we re friendly acquaintances. friendly acquaintances. nice. we kind of know each other. you ve been to my house. there are two new housewives in the mix? there are. stephan sonia morgan and jennifer gilbert. sonia is so fun and jennifer is such an accomplished woman and raises the bar. so they re getting along okay with the rest of you? they come in at the end. watch what happens. you have to watch what happens. why don t you just get in a steel cage and see what happens? death match. that will be season four. what s interesting is we all live in new york and we re trying to navigate. we re mothers, we re working, all doing these similar things, but our lives are so diverse and the way we handle things is so unusual and different. so that s what mak the show so exciting, is the diversity. and kelly, a lot of people had mixed feelings about you the first season around. yeah. much worse this year are we going to love you or hate you more? i think the great thing about this season is that you see so much more of me and you see me having a great time, you see me with my kids, you see me working. so, you really get a stronger sense of who i am. last season, you know, they wanted me to be the villain, wanted me to be feisty and ferocious i thought i was always the villa villain. sorry, roberta! sorry. i understand now, i have to admit, i have not seen the show, but they say you ve got a new look? no, actually, i renewed myself. i renewed my relationships. like a license? no, no, no! something happened in my life. i renewed my businesses. i m on hsn now with my jewelry. i renewed the way i relate to everyone here. this is i m the only one that s talking to everybody right now. everybody s talking to everybody, ramona. are you kidding? bethenny and jill aren t talking to each other swrrks they re on tv this morning. they re talking. do you all make amends? pregnant, having a baby you ll have to watch the show. this season is so exciting. make amends? i cannot wait i wish i could do a marathon of all 14 episodes right now. i know. i can t wait to see what it is. i m like this. i can t wait. it s going to be great. we don t even know what we can t wait to see it because we can t remember all of the crazy things that went on and how it s all going to be put together. it s going to be so exciting. you know, the housewives of new jersey so popular, housewives of atlanta. how do you think housewives of new york stacks up? we use our verbal, you know, we re verbal. so you re not going to be flipping tables over. i ve not using my words right now. i was going to say. that was some good verbal skills right there. they get physical and abusive. it s new york. it s new york. third season of the real housewives of new york, that s all coming up tonight. on bravo. on bravo. 11:00, right? 11:00. but then 10:00. id gels, i get allergy relief at liquid speed. that s the fast, powerful relief of zyrtec®, now in a liquid gel. zyrtec® is the fastest 24-hour allergy medicine. it works on my worst symptoms so i m ready by the time we get to the first hole. and that s good because the competition s steep today. new zyrtec® liquid gels work fast, so i can love the air.™ the sparkly flakes. the honey-baked bunches! the magic s in the mix. my favorite part? eating it. honey bunches of oats. taste the joy we put in every spoonful. honey bunches of oats. [ female announcer ] discover black silk from folgers. with bold rich flavor that s exceptionally smooth. wake up to black silk. 9:26 is our time right now, beautiful blue skies out there, we have lots of sunshine. i m joe krebs and in the news4 today on this thursday the 4th day of march, chaos in the streets of college park. several maryland basketball fans may be facing charges after a riot bloke out after maryland s big win over duke last night. hundreds of fans poured out of the met throw is prepared to announce a new general manager, at least for the time being. he will be named the interim general manager for the next six months. he ll replace john kato who s resigning next month. we ll take a break and come back and look at our weather and r traffic. stay with us. good morning, we have sunshine, a blustery northwest wind and temperatures in the mid and you arer 30s, we should reach the mid and upper 40s, we may see a few clouds developing. we ll have a warming trend into the weekend. how s the traffic, jerry. a live look, still loaded on 270 past old georgetown road d and. coming up tonight on news4 at 5:00, the census scam, as the government tries to count us you know whenever you hear this song that we re talking about hollywood. the glitz, the glamour, the fashion. oscar fever is running rampant. the academy awards will be handed out on sunday, and we re going to fill you in on who wore what and all the style hits and misses from the red carpet monday on today. and of course, just the little things, who won what and who wore what. absolutely. and al s going to hollywood. that s right. meredith and i will be there for all the fun, catch up with the oscar winners as well. in fact, it looks like it could rain on oscars. oh, no! it was such a bummer during the golden globes. at least this time the folks from oscar are putting up a tent. that s right, they do cover it. meanwhile, coming up, do you have things around the house you keep putting off? lou manfredini is here with quick fixes from unclogging that drain to resealing your countertops to getting more power from your shower, and all in 15 minutes or less. i bet you he changes the toilet paper roll when it s done. i m sure he does. i m sure he does. and once you ve got those counters all done, we re going to put them to good use because the food network s daisy martinez is here with a delicious snack. it s my favorite. how does shrimp and bacon together sound? sounds good to me. hey, any time you put bacon together with anything. and having daisy martinez up there, it s got to be good. say emp natas again. empanattas. ooh, baby! for today, sunshine around the gulf, chilly down in florida. windy and a few ow showers left around new england, sunshine in the pacific northwest. tomorrow, clouds move into the good morning, we re being buffeted by a blustery northwest wind, the sky watcher camera bouncing around a bit and overlooking the university in the foreground in virginia in the distance. under this clear blue sky. but it is rather chilly with that wind. now 39 in washington. highs today should just reach the mid 40s and we may have a few clouds this afternoon and maybe a few tomorrow. but otherwise sunshine into the mid 40s and then and that s your latest weather. thank you, al. just say it one more time. empanadas. thank you. coming up next, empanadas and at-home fixes you can do for yourself in 15 minutes or less. mmmmmm. mmmmmm. mmmmmm. mmmmmm. wow! you have got to be kidding me. 80 calories? 80 calories! light & fit is so creamy and irresistibly delicious, it s hard to believe it has 80 calories versus 100 in the other leading brand. do you always eat like that? i love light & fit. light & fit. irresistible taste. fewer calories. now save money with our new super saver four packs. four cups at a great low price. as a va doctor, i have more time to spend with my patients. and that s the kind of attention our veterans deserve. 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[ male announcer ] for a free trial pair certificate, go to getacuvue.com. acuvue oasys for astigmatism. this morning on today s home, if you ve got 15 minutes, then you ve got enough time to fix up your house. from your shower to kitchen counter, today contributor lou manfredini will help you get it done in no time flat. he s also host of house smart. good to see you. our shower. sometimes you re not getting a lot of power. as they used to say on seinfeld, low flow. people are like, i had the same issue. first of all, the shower is the personal thing. some people like the banging against the wall when you re taking a shower, like it soft, water, but you get callusification on these heads. what causes that? it s just the quality of the water. hard water? here in new york you have great water, i m from chicago, it s a great source, but in a lot of the country, it s not great coming in. so, it mixes with the air, when you shut the water off, the water sits inside the head here and starts to create that calcify indication, which creates the holes. see that blue tape? what s that? you ll put that around the color to be able to loosen it. i ve loosened it, but when you put a pair of pliers or channel locks here, that way you re not going to damage the finish. okay. throw it in a bucket. that s vinegar and water. you can also use what s the mix? 50/50 mix. when you pull it out, you ll scrub that to try to pull off all the calcium on this head. let it soak in there and really get inside. th that alone should improve. if not, get a new head. moen makes one, kohler makes one. about $50 is all you should spend on a shower head, and it s as simple as loosening and tightening. you said earlier, also, if you like a lot of power, maybe a growe? that s a great one, too, absolutely. now, you are just raving about this. please pay attention. this is going to change your life. put that in coat because that s going to change your life. okay. thank you very much. this is the number one reason your drain is clogged, everybody, because you have hair in there. well, maybe not my drain. okay, maybe not you. hey, he s here all weekend. so, in the tub or vanity, underneath that top, all it is, where are you? this is a wire with a little piece of hook loop othe end. like a velcro. like a velcro. you re going to work it into the drain and work around, go around like this. you re going to grab hair inside the drain, now, we don t have any hair in this drain. no, we don t. and when we pull this out, you re going to be amazed and disgusted at the same time. at the same time! $5 for $5, change your life. right. amazed and disgusted. it s one of those things, why didn t i invent? because it gets all the hair out. it s terrific. now, our granite countertops. yes. now, this is a wonderful feature to have inside your home, but people do a nice job of cleaning them, keeping them clean. make sure you re using the right products for that. but it s very important, al, that these get sealed. in other words, the coating wears off after a while? it does, because remember, all granite, natural stone is a porous material. so you know, things can get inside there, grape juice, wine. if you do any cooking on there, you nee to make sure that once you clean it you re going to caulk any joints. this is a ge product, just so you know. i should mention that ge happens to be the parent company of nbc, for now. for now. so, these are caulk yeah. so, we give them a little prop. maybe the price will go up. anyway, if you take this caulk singles, it s like a juice box of caulk, and what happens is you pull this off and any places you have there, you squeeze it out. right. let that dry overnight. okay. then, a lot of different sealers on the market. you should only spend about $15 on sealer, as we learned. you spray this on. right. and all you do is you spray it and you let it soak in. that s it? that s it. now, what s going to happen is as you work along this, the edges of the countertop are going to dry first. once you see that start to begin, you re going to do another coat. okay. leave for a couple of hours. you ve just sealed your countertops. this should last 18 months. that s great. you won t be amazed and disgusted at the same time. you ll just be amazed. there you go. and you did it all in 15 minutes. in 15 minutes. lou manfredini, thank you so much. coming up, a new take on a latin american classic, empanadas in today s kitchen. fiber one i m looking for some fiber. this bar is an excellent source of fiber. there s no fiber in this. it tastes too good. they have 35% of your daily value. oh, samples. mmm. fiber one. cardboard no. delicious yes. love to see kids spirits shine. superstar and mom, martina mcbride and sunnyd shine on sunny taste. sunny spirit. sunny d. can you believe how fast kids grow these days? and since 90% of bone strength is developed before adulthood. it s so important that they get enough calcium every day. that s why there s new danonino. danonino! unlike leading kids yogurts, danonino has twice the calcium of milk, ounce per ounce, with vitamin d. so it s power packed for healthy growth. and its rich creamy taste is. yummy! so they can start building strong bones today. for stronger bodies tomorrow. new danonino from dannon. power packed to help kids grow. most know hasan yosef is the son of one of the founding members of hamas. in his shocking new memoir, son of hamas, yousef explains his stunning decision to become a spy and his transformation. the book has created an international sensation. he s here with us now. good morning. good morning. you re the son of sheikh hosan yousef. what were you raised to believe as a child? of course, i believed of the god of islam and islam as an ideology and jihad as a way to bring humanity justice. and today, i m totally fighting this belief and this ideology. that s right. you repudiated islam at the age of 18. you were arrested by israeli security forces on weapons charges. and while in prison, you write that you became disillusioned with hamas, and thus began this transformation process. what happened while you were there? what changed you? yeah. hamas was torturing hamas members, trying to figure out who s giving information to the israeli intelligence, and many victims were tortured and killed, and this opened many questions in my head, and the transformation process is long. that s why i had to write the son of hamas, but that was the beginning when i started to question. you say while you were in prison, you say you were invited to begin spying for the israeli intelligence organization shimbet. we can t validate that, but others have. why did you say yes, though? yeah, i said yes because i had a plan to infiltrate the shimbet. i wasn t trying to help them. i wasrying to attack them from inside. that was my goal. i end up friends with them and working together to stop killing after i became a christian. what is it you learned from them that changed you, though? about the israeli way and what was different in the conflict, in the way they handled it? everything that i learned about the shimbet and the israeli intelligence from the streets, from my society, was absolutely wrong. this is why my people are shocked and they cannot believe that. it s an organization, yes, they are responsible for killing people, assassinating some terrorists, but most of the time, their main goal is to stop killing and save people s lives. so, as you were a spy for shimbet, as you say, though, you continued at your father s side going to hamas meetings, even taking his notes. you were considered a protege of your father s, very highly trusted within hamas, but yet, you passed these notes along to shinbet. how were you able to get along how were you able to do this, first of all, and how conflicted were you, knowing that you re turning against your own father? i wasn t conflicted. first of all, i saved my father s li. and not only i worked with the shinbet to save israeli lives, we also saved many palestinian lives, many palestinian leaders lives. today they are in prison. they re supposed to be killed. and to me, i wasn t conflicted because i believed in what i was doing. if i had information or access to any type of information to pass this information to the shinbet or the israeli government to be able to stop killing children, women, lots of people who had nothing to . they were going to their works and the suicide bomber is supposed to take the bus and blow everything up. your father is in prison, meanwhile, and this week he disowned you. he, meanwhile, has said in a statement that you were blackmailed by israeli authorities and you had no access to hamas secrets, and hamas has said that your story is a lie. how do you respond to that? and tell me more about what is happening with your relationship with your father, your family. yeah. unfortunately, he disowned me and he had no other option. now i cannot talk to my mother, even, and i cannot talk to my sisters. this is how his god unskin his humanity. it s not my father s heart. i love him and i know that he loves me, but it s his god. now, about access to secrets of hamas, i wasn t a member of hamas, they re right. i agree with them and i didn t have access to their secrets because they didn t know how we got the information, and i m not going to give hamas a free gift how we spied on them, but i say that we went deep to the bones and we got most important information. i know about hamas more than its leaders know about the organization. why put yourself at risk, because putting this book out there has put you at great risk, your life at risk. why do this? my life is at risk all the time. and what i say, this is all this risk and sacrifice, losing my family, this is a small gift to the mothers of the victims of the palestinian/israeli conflict on both sides. all right. well, the book is certainly intriguing. it s called the son of hamas. this morning in today s kitchen, hot chef daisy martinez. she wants us to stuff it. we re making empanadas. daisy is the host of diva daisy on the food network and author of daisy morning, noon and night: bringing your family together with everyday latin dishes. daisy, good morning! good morning, al. thank you for having me back. always glad to have you here. every year your family travels to a different latin american country. where did you go this year? buenos aires. caramelized onions, blue cheese empanada. what can be bad? no problem with me. so, i slow cook these. this is a spanish blue cheese could you use other kind? you can use regular blue crumbs. i want you to try this recipe. so put this in here? go ahead. go in there. we re going toprinkle parsley and a little sherry vinegar. give that a mix. okay. watch the salt because of the blue cheese, you know? right. so, you ve got the sweet of the caramelized onion. pepper. and kind of the tangy of the blue cheese. the salty and the blue cheese, green for freshness, and over here i have some shrimp. want to take this over here? okay, i m taking this over here. meantime, i ll make the second filling. i have rock shrimp. are we coming up on the end of the rock shrimp season? so regular fresh or frozen? absolutely. absolutely. it has a little bit of you know me and my heat. right. i m going to add some blanched tomato that s been seeded and peeled. we ll add that in there for sweetness and scallions for a green punch and some crunch. we like that. right? and then i m going to give you a lesson in empanada making. what isn t better with bacon? everything s better with bacon. everything is better with bacon. so, we re going to go ahead more bacon is better with bacon. so, this is already cooked bacon. i rendered the bacon, made it nice and crisp [ laughter ] come over here. i ll give you a lesson. okay. these are these are already bought. these are premade discs that you can buy. if you re feeling adventurous, you can make your own empanada dough. that s always fine. so, you have your disc and we re going to wet down the edge, right? and to that you re going to add about a nice tablespoon of that filling. okay. i m going to add a tablespoon of this filling. okay. make sure i get e shrimp and bacon in there for al. right. and we re going to put it right in the center. in the center, okay. a little then we re going to fold it over. and just make the ends meet. just and i m going to show you two different ways to make your empanadas. you could do a simple my mom loves to do it like this, just take a fork uh huh, and crimp it? yeah. then i m going to do a little pleat over here. just folding and folding and folding and folding. i olympic your mlike your mo. then we re going to head over and i m going to fry a couple for you. what do you say to that? good idea. you re still going through lding and folding and i m done! i m ready to put it in the hot oil! okay. any time, daisy! tick-tock, baby. we re going to drop them into a bubbling, 375-400 oven. and you ve got a candy thermometer. yeah, because you don t want the oil to be too cold. then it sits and it soaks. you want nice, bubbly, crispy empanadas. you try. this is the shrimp, this is the blue cheese. tell me what you think. they do taste much better. i bake those for a healthier version. you can put the egg yolk on the top. you can brush the egg and bake it. people are afraid of fried. i think once in a while fried is okay. what do you think? and it s nice and flaky, caramelized onion. just like my grandmother used to make them. i love that. daisy martinez, thank you very much. you re welcome. coming up? hoda and kathie lee get the guyso tell all. our time right now is 9:56, look at the forecast coming up on this thursday, march 4, 2010. if you re planning on checking out the cherry ossoms, officials will let you know when the cherry blossoms will be in full bloom. the average peak bloom date is april 4, this year s festival will run from march 27 until april 11. now if you ll look at that forecast for today, here s tom kiron. welcome sunshine may coax those blossoms a little bit today. it is blustery and chilly but there is a feeling of spring out there on this thursday morning. a blustery northwest winds this afternoon, overnight tonight and into tomorrow. the winds diminishes over the weekend and should be a bit warmer too. we ll take a live look on the topside of the beltway, crews should be patching those potholes. if you are planning to travel the belt way south of town, outer loop is fine, but the inner loop at telegraph road, you may see some interrupt. there are some questions real officials would never ask, captions paid for by nbc-universal television hey, everybody. we re so glad you re with us. it s the 4th of march. and around here it s thirst day. how are you doing, honey? i m doing well. still on a major, major hi from yesterday. let s tell the folks what we saw. rhoda morgansterm is in this show it s called looped. she play this is big, big movie star in the golden days of hollywood, but she was a drug addict and a drunk. and had a mouth. and a promiscuous woman. she cursed like a sailor. she did. it is a three-person play. it is fantastic. thirst day. drinks are here. it s tea and miss hoda is a little under the weather. but it is thirst day, so bottom s up. you have to goee her. i didn t know what to expect. me either. if she doesn t get a tony nomination for this, there is no justice in the world. she is so good. they re all great in it. she entertains people from all ages. like when she got on that stage and started dropping the f bomb, i m sorry, but the place just broke out. she s playing a woman that talked like that. of course. and back then it was so outrageous that a woman talked like that. the woman was so completely free about everything in her life. there were so many messages in there, too, you know. a lot of heart in it as well. i think we have a picture of valerie harper. don t we? i think so, three of us and our friend, drew. there s miss hoda, valerie and, of course she looks good. she had just taken off all the telula. she said hang on. i ll be ready for a picture, takes a baby wipe, wipes it off and she s ready. an unbelievable pro and just one of the nicest people i ve ever met in this business. i love her. love her. go see looped. speaking of makeup and wiping it off. apparently losing your makeup bag is very popular. everybody hates it. one woman told me i d rather lose my wallet than my makeup bag. i can feel her. you put everything in there, jam it in there. your favorite things. your favorite, favorite. this is so funny. my assistant called and said a makeup bag came. i m like what? anyway, it s not mine, but a lady from blue devil makeup said no woman should be without her makeup so she sent a little bag of makeup. that is very sweet. you have yet to try the product? lots of items and god knows. are you going to be all right? yes. we have a very big day today, our man s panel and everyone has a story and incomparable sandy patti with us. i have yet to hear her sing. oh, my gosh, she s sold 1 million albums. she s won so many grammys and tonys that s in her future. i ve known her since she was 15 years old. you re kidding. she used to do jingles like the double mint. maybe she ll do the double mint for us. i dlike that. just amazing. we re going to catch up on some things happening around the world. yes. did you stay up and watch leno last night? i can t stay up that late. i hear he s doing really well. they had the cast of the jersey shore on and the kids of the jersey shore were playing a game like a game show. like are you smarter than a kindergartener? let s watch a little bit of this, please. let s go to ronnie. what are the 49th and 50th states in the union, the last two states. what are they? hawaii. what else? puerto rico. mexico. mexico? what did st. patrick drive out of ireland? sammy? i m italian, not irish. i have no idea. ronnie, what did st. patrick drive out of island. drive like drive or drive out of ireland? this is a homosapien bar, what would that mean? it s a gay bar. i suddenly feel so intelligent. i knew the answer to all three of those. and i watched a little bit more. there were so many that were they weren t putting on? no. they don t care? they don t care. they don t give a rip. they re big tv star. rich and famous and who care. hidden fill the in different places, you never stop to think about rental cars. you think that they go through a really thorough cleaning. not really. apparently not. well, what happened, jeff rossen has been doing some of this series. they got into a rental car, drove it away and took it to a lab and found the ickyist stuff on the steering wheel, gear shift, window thingy. doorknobs. and all kinds of gross things they found in there. apparently because the economy is so tough rightnow, they just can t afford some of the to clean it? to clean it thoroughly. take those clor objection things with you. they found strep, like strep on the things like strep throat from strep. they found vomit on the floor pads. okay. why did you say that? why did you say that? because i want people to be careful. especially little babies in their car seats can touch something and get strep. i guess you have to wipe everything down. as you said, when we did the one on the baby to yeah. somehow the kids with all the disgusting things that happen, they grow up and they end up okay at the end of the day, right? yep, yep. there s you know what i said, which i probably can t say right now. i know. i was trying to edit it. these divers saved a shark. when does that ever happen? john dickinson who is joy what s the model s name? model? janice dickinson s brother. no, it isn t and chip garber noticed a shark at the bottom of the ocean with a pink around its neck. pink ring that got tangled up. look, look. it was starving to death i think it s what they call a nurse shark. it s like a hula hoop thing. it was like a straight jacket. he was hungry, starving. he was going to die. he was going to die. that took a lot of courage. that shark could turn on those guys. venus demaillo could also turn on you. apparently this mother and daughter are extremely good at yes, look at that. that is a snowwoman. snowman. venus de maillo. they took umbrage. they did. police came and said you have to cover it up. they put on a sarong and it looks more riske like that than it did before. i think so, too. i m sorry, but what s going on with the police being called out for the snowman controversy? they said we re sorry, we think it s beautiful but let s keep some peace in the neighborhood. it s going to melt anyway. everyone is gointo be fine in a little bit. a woman in britain has a teenage girl, 15 years old, now 16, but her mother has had over 1 h00 cosmetic surgeries at abo $600,000 to $700,000 over the year the mom decided it would be good for her daughter to get botox, too. at 15. she s the youngest, we think. so the mother injects the daughter. because she s learned how to do it. this girl says it makes her feel better and she doesn t want to be all wrinkly when she s 23. it s ridiculous. that s the message that her mother is sending her, you re not beautiful the way you are. horrendous message. four our five things, that s about all you should do. i know. the real house wives of ncc, both she and her daughter go in to get nose jobs together. they are both beautiful. maybe one got a boob job, one got a nose job. whatever. they both went in. i thought they are so young. what is she doing? sending the wrong message. look how cute these girls are here. none of these girls have had any work at all. speaking of beautiful. you guys are interns, right? pages. what are your names? sarah jane and ariel. ladies, show your stuff. you can rent these. what is yours? by tracy reese. that would retail for what, a lot of mon sni. yes. it s rented for about $100. you can rent it for four to eight days. they send you two siz to make sure one is better than the other, you wrap it up, dry clean it or what? send it back. what if it s stained? you own it? like the rentcars? yeah. hopefully we don t do that. they re only 50. plus shipping. that s cute. who makes yours? how much does that cost to rent that? 50 bucks. come on up. i want to hear it again. what is yours? nicole miller. so if you have a prom or something. would you rent for 50 bucks? uh-huh. what s the downside, someone wore it before and it s they dry clean them, so that s so smart. it s called renttherunway.com. and slash today show to save your dress. so many things to back slash. you re so cute. thanks for giving the tours. your moms will be so proud to see you on tv is morning. let s go to sara with the other tiara. oh, it s okay or not okay. get there. in okay or not okay, the question was, is it okay to wear a tiara? and you said i said kathie lee says, no, only if you re 6 years old. otherwise, it s sionara tiara. hoda says no, unless the host of the pageant is saying congratulations, you re the new miss america. sara doesn t agree. you know i roll like this every day. how you roll. exactly. how are our friends at home? we re talking to people about the tiaras. linda says i wear mine all the time, to the market, pta meetings, sporting events, to the gym. there is no place that a tiara is okay. where does she live? she doesn t say. maybe that s better. her friends know exactly who she is. we talked about the rental cars. i m so sorry ahead of time. heather wrote she found a dirty diaper. ryan found dirty panties under the driver s seat in texas. don t rent in texas. just kidding. cindy, nail clippings in the cup holder. ew, ew, ew. who is doing that? i hate the sound. at least they clipped their nails. i hate the sound of click. i hate it, when someone is next to you. that was before you got in the car, that s fine. still gross. ew. coming up next, our guy panel gathers to spill about the strange places guys want a little love and all the things that bad boys like, our guys do, right after this. wow! you have got to be kidding me. 80 calories? 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beats me. not romantic at all, hot or anything like that. washing the dishes? see, she doesn t understand. at that point, she s very vulnerable. she s right there, back s to him. her hands are occupied. and so this is actually very sexy. and she s doing work, which is also sexy to guys. why is that sexy? i just love it when a woman does work. one of my memories from childhoo my mom was washing dishes, i saw my dad come up behind her and right. i was embrassed but it made me feel like oh, my mom and dad love each other. my son is 16 months old. when i hug on my wife, he just goes he loves it. do all men like the whole women washing the dishes? as a professional in the kitchen, there is something sexy about someone being over a kitchen sink. she s wide open. she s vulnerable. there s your answer, honey. i don t know if it s the one she wanted. chuck? we re very visual. for some men that s a good visual. it doesn t make a difference what it is. you have no idea the freaky situations in our head for no reason what it is the st inoc inoccuous thing in the world for you and becomes a porno scene for us. it s the way we think. how often do men think about sex? especially in their teens and 20s, it is several a minute. eight-track sexual tape. are you doing it right now? as often as we can. you can t help it. it s right there so it doesn t make a difference what it is. sometimes my wife steps out of the shower, the most inoccuous thing. she s just getting clean. in my mind, it s saying go look at her all clean. go dirty her up. e-mail from ann from cincinnati. when i was inaw school, my guy friends would wear their college of law sweatshirts on rare occasions. we could all go out to a local ba they had women hanging all over them. on a dare from the guys, the following week, we all had flight attendant training t-shirts made. we wore those to the same bar. we had to fight off the guys with a stick. it was ridiculous. so, explain the mystery. look, there s obviously a stigma that flight attendants give it up. the mile-high club. however, my brother went to the races in australia, horse races and met his now wife and when she asked him he owns a florist business. he said i m a pilot and it got him his first date with her. i remember the situation very clearly. he s like, what do i do now? i ve already done the pilot thing. he kept it going for two dates and ended up marrying the girl. what do you think for the situation? this is not surprising. a law student is very appealing for various reasons. most men, not all, are intimidated by women who are smarter, more educated and make more money. a woman in law school is very intimidating. especially you re at a bar. you re not looking for the smartest girl in the room when you re at a bar. what are you looking for there, rick? t girl who has on the flight attendant t-shirt and hopefully she s in a wet t-shirt contest. stop it. we re going to go across the street to sara. sorry, we re still reacting to curtis and the kitchen sink comment. i ve got sandy from louisiana, who has a question about men and priorities. how is it that men can remember who won the 1972 super bowl but they can t remember to take out the garbage? excellent question. miami dolphins. yeah, miami dolphins, undefeated, too. that s right. howard twilly, number 81. there you go. do you remember what you want to remember? i remember that, too be, that s scary. why would we want to remember horrible things like taking out the garbage? your mind naturally suppresses bad things, you know. super bowl, good. garbage, bad. what if she wants you to remember the garbage? what s a good way for her to remind you without being a nag? let s go back to the kitchen sink and wet t-shirt contest. no, if you say thing it is to us real nice, you know, in a nice way, we ll try to remember. come around? let us know how important it is to you, make an effort. you should work on a pavlovian response. if she does everything when he takes out the garbage to make it a positive thing, it might change the pattern. i like that pavlovian dog thing. sara has more people, we have more people on tape, skype, et cetera. and hillarity will ensue. free and only for chase customers. with finish it, you can take your balance and decide your monthly payment. or how many months you wanto take to p it off. the faster you pay it off, the more you ll save. and the more progress you ll see every month on your plan. chase what matters i have my blueprint. do you? 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