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tuesday, april 20th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. and i m matt lauer. can you almost see the classified now, can t you? former apple employee seeks new job opportunity. that s a mess-up. that s not good. meanwhile, we ve got new clouds of ash from this volcano in iceland. it is great to look at. these pictures are stunning, but, boy, it is a headache for thousands of stranded travelers. that s right. that new activity comes just as limited flights to some spots in europe were taking off for the first time in five days. so where is that new cloud headed and how many additional flights will it disrupt? we ll have the latest in just a moment. also ahead, goldman sachs has now hired president obama s former white house counsel for its defense against government allegations of fraud. some legal experts believe the case is weak and suggest the president is actually just using it to bolster his push for financial reform on wall street. we ll get into that in just a couple of minutes. plus, mom hair. what is it? do you have it? and if so, what can you do about it? we ll explain all of that. but let s begin on this tuesday morning with the latest on that volcano in iceland and the problems it s causing. nbc s chris jansing gets us started from iceland. chris, good morning to you. reporter: good morning to you, matt. what s happening here isn t just changing day to day, it s changing hour to hour. and scientists are working virtually around the clock to analyze all the day todta that have been bringing in. yesterday a lot of the ash spewed over the countryside and what happened was extraordinarily high winds whipped it up, formed a new cloud, and that s what s moving toward great britain right now. suffice it to say, what we have here is an extremely volatile situation. it is showing its unpredictable and menacing power once again. the volcano shooting huge chunks of magma into the air like rockets, giant fireballs the size of an suv. the plume grew and got increasingly dark monday indicating that the volcano is strengthening and the intensity of ash increasing. a new ash cloud formed and started moving south and east toward great britain, just as airlines had hoped to increase the number of flights. it s very difficult to predict when the eruptions are going to stop. reporter: teams of volume n volcanologists continuing to test sites, but this is an inaccurate science. is it going to spew again? we don t know. we don t know. reporter: it is unnerving on the ground as well as in the sky is. as unpredictable as this volcano has been, some days spewing ash, some days none, it is contaminating everything with this volcanic debris. walls of ash again blanketed the countryside, blinding conditions, shut roads, turned normally pristine waterfalls dirty brown, and worried residents like chris, whose grandfather escaped a huge eruption nearly a century ago. she worries this would be more to come in this volcano-dense country. it s flooded. yes. i think that s what will happen again. reporter: while she and the traveling world wait, volume n volcanologists warn more eruptions can be possible. i hope it will stop next week or something. reporter: we node eed to givu a little perspective. the plume right now is only half the size it was on saturday but with the new cloud forming obviously with the potential to cause a lot of problems. i talked to a volcanologist a short time ago. he said we hope the worst is over but there is still the potential for more big explosions inside that volcano. chris jansing in iceland for us this morning, chris, thank you very much. here s meredith. the question now is where is that cloud headed. al is upstairs with more. good morning. here s the problem. the jet stream, the band of air 20,000 to 30,000 feet above the surface. today still coming across iceland. the core of the jet, strongest winds, are right over iceland and coming down across ew cloud, limited flights into and out of europe have now resumed, including a handful here at the airport in frankfurt, germany. but airports remain shut down in london. nbc s dawna friesen is at heathrow airport with more. dawna, good morning. reporter: good morning, meredith. there was so much hope late yesterday that the ash would clear, that many of europe s airports would reopen. as you say, some have, but some have not, like heathrow. and as this second cloud of ash approaches, it was announced this morning that all of london s airports may remain closed for a sixth day. as europe began to emerge from the first volcanic cloud, limited air traffic resumed giving hope to millions of travelers stranded around the world. these passengers boarded a flight from frankfurt to o new york. i am so happy to be getting out of here. yes, i am. reporter: it s hoped 55% to 65% of flights over europe will go ahead today. ach airports in paris opened for a few flights this morning but the relief of the prospect of getting home was for some tempered with anxiety. i am a little afraid that i m hopeful that the plane will take off and that it won t meet with any volcanic ash. reporter: there are confusing messages about how safe the skies are, how much volcanic ash is too much to allow planes to fly and some have questioned whether the restrictions are an overreaction. european authorities are adamant, they are not. a handful of flights left asian air hubs today for europe. spain has volunteered to be an emergency hub for overseas travelers trying to get home, organizing extra buses, trains and ferries to handle an expected rush of passengers. and a british navy ship has arrived in spain to give soldiers a lift home. they were stranded after finishing their tour of duty in afghanistan. two other navy ships are on their way to pick up marooned tourists. for families like the harmans, stuck in paris last night en route home to st. louis, their european vacation has doubled in price because of the delays. they made it to london overnight. you have to find a silver lining or you just sit down and cry. reporter: an adventure, yes, but one they wish would come to an end. i m not happy about it. i d rather be home, making up on my school. reporter: they re not alone. a 24-hour crisis line has been set up. we re able to provide under emergency situations small loans to individual or families if it becomes a serious enough where they re out of funds. reporter: and with no one sure exactly when the skies will clear, costs continue to mount. and what happens next depends on this second cloud of ash and where exactly it s headed. it s being closely monitored. in the meantime, airline schedules are constantly changing and the best advice to travelers is to check with your airline before you head to the airport. meredith? that s for sure. dawna friesen, thank you very much. let s get a check of the rest of the top stories this morning from ann at the news desk. good morning, everybody. this morning, another high-ranking al qaeda in iraq leader was killed in a joint u.s.-iraqi operation. this development comes a day after iraq s prime minister announced key al qaeda figured abu omaral baghdadi andal massry were killed in a weekend raid. the u.s. calling their deaths a potentially devastating blow to al qaeda. the unclassified defense department was sent to congress and released on monday. dorothy height died this morning. the leading woman who helped martin luther king jr. and others during the civil rights movement and an icon to all african-american women. she won the presidential medal of freedom in 1994. dorothy height was 98 years old. toyota is recalling thousands of 2010 lexus gx-460s to fix software and the electronics stability control systems. consumer reports issued a safety warning about the car last week. prob s pesident obama s preg a tough fight for democrats this november. he spoke last night at a california fund-raiser for senator barbara boxer. at one event he was heckled by protesters calling for the repeal of the don t ask, don t tell policy for gays in the military. the president says he s already asked congress to repeal it. police are looking for a motive this morning following a deadly shooting outside a knoxville, tennessee hospital. they say a gunman took a taxi to the hospital on monday, paid the driver to wait, then opened fire killing a woman and wounding two others before taking his own life. officials do not think the gunman knew the victims. a new study finds that one-third of u.s. teenagers with cell phones send more than 100 text messages a day. the study by the pew internet and american life project says that texting is now the main way that teens communicate, even more so than phone calls or talking face to face. so parents, take note if you want to talk to your kids. 7:11. let s go back to meredith, matt and al. how many texts do you send a good morning. chilly start to this tuesday morning. temperatures around the region in the 40s. now 48 in washington. farther west only in the 30s. there may be scattered frost in the shenendoah region. we should be warming into the 60s. we ll have clouds thickening and cloudy tonight, near 50 tomorrow morning. cloudy wednesday and cooler, low 60s. could get a few passing showers and light rain tomorrow. sun is back about mild again thursday and frid that s your latest weather. matt? al, thanks very much. goldman sachs will announce its earnings today even as it steps up its defense against the government s fraud lawsuit. in fact, the wall street titan has now hired president obama s former white house council greg craig as an advisor. nbc s lisa myers has the latest on the story. lisa, good morning. reporter: good morning, matt. some within goldman sachs and on wall street claim that the firm is being scapegoated and that the timing of the charges is political. that may be why the firm has turned to a skilled washington operator like greg craig. goldman sachs is mobilizing a vigorous counterattack with this e-mail to clients and a re-assuring voice mail for employees. ceo lloyd blankfein said the media generating by the charges is certainly uncomfortable but given the anger directed at financial services, not completely surprising. some wall street observers called the case weak and time to help president obama pass a financial reform bill. i believe that this is politically motivated. there is a raging debate in washington right now concerning wall street and i think that that s what motivated this action being commenced. reporter: a google search of the term s.e.c. and goldman sac sachs yield a paid advertisement for barack obama.com. yet the white house and s.e.c. denies politics are involved. the s.e.c. is, by law, an independent agency. reporter: goldman is accused of knowingly defrauding investors by working with a prominent hedge fund to put together an investment designed to fail. among what experts see as damaging evidence, e-mails from the young goldman employee charged in the scheme. he wrote, the whole building is about to collapse anytime now. the e-mails show that the goldman trader believed that these investments were going to explode. reporter: the hedge fund involved paulson and company is owned by billionaire john paulson who was not accused of wrongdoing. john paulson himself made $3.7 billion in 2007 by cashing in on the subprime collapse. and the next year paid $41 million for this beach estate in the hamptons. goldman sachs also emerged from the financial melt down with huge earnings, recently moving into this $2.1 billion headquarters with a 54,000 square foot gym. clearly the s.e.c. is trying to send a message here. it s been heavily criticized for sleeping through the financial meltdown, missing madoff and going too easy on banks of america. now by going after the most powerful firm on wall street been it s signaling a more aggressive efforts to hold firms accountable. lisa myers in washington this morning, lisa, thank you very much. goldman sachs let me introduce erin burnett and simon johnson who are here to talk about this story. goldman sachs just announced earnings this morning, $5.59 a share, significantly better than analysts had predicted. it certainly is and continued proof we re seeing recovery. citigroup, jpmorgan, all of them coming out, trading, doing well. a lot of these companies are trouncing expectations. i ve read a lot about this lawsuit over the last couple of days, simon, as i know a lot of us have. either goldman sachs got caught rigging the system, or they re being targeted for doing something that may sound unpopular but is something that banks do all the time. where do you weigh in on this? i think all the banks are rigging the system, matt. doing it in an illegal way or doing it just in a way that doesn t sound right to the people on main street? well, doing it in a way that isn t right. but from a legal perspective, can you nail them on it? did you need new rules, new laws, are can we nail them under the existing laws. it sounds like simon s taking did they take advantage of a loophole or something not written into the law. where s the strength of the s.e.c. s case in your opinion? it s interesting. these securities are so complicated. part of it is i think you re right, there was a lot of rigging of the system that went on. it wasn t just goldman, it was everybody else. the s.e.c. by taking on the big kahuna in the room, the bank that still has a reputation of being goldman sachs, this bank is a preeminent bank, they show in that that they think they have a strong case. it is a real question though, did goldman have an obligation to disclose information to one side of a trade. it all comes down to that. they say they did it right. the s.e.c. says they did it wrong. it s a he said/she said which means someone s going to have an e-mail that proves it one way or the other. earlier in your career you did work for goldman. i was a very junior banker there, yeah. getting more junior by the moment. exactly. let me read you something from the new york times, s.e.c. may face hurd until proving fraud. several experts on securities law say fraud cases thon one which focuses on context rather than content are generally more difficult to win because it can be hard to persuade a jury that the missing information might have led buyers to walk away. is this where this is going to fall? this is going to be a very tough case, legally and politically, matt. this bank is so big and so powerful, they have incredible clout in washington as you know. they treat their customers badly every day and get away with it because the customers somehow still think, oh, my goodness, we must do business. remember, they re too big to fail. on top of all this, they can say if you push the system too hard, you won t get an economic recovery. that s an incredible and dangerous hole the massive banks have. is it too much of a conspiracy theory to suggest part of this prosecution on the part of the s.e.c. is an attempt to bolster its reputation after a pretty dismal few years? i think that s a fair point. when you think about the timing of how the s.e.c. did this, goldman had no advance warning. usually when the s.e.c. is going to file a fraud case which is a significant charge, a high hurdle, they would give a little bit of warning. they didn t do that in this case and it came on the same day that someone came out with a report about the s.e.c. 151-page report saying, guess what? that ponzi scheme with allan stanford, you completely dropped the ball, s.e.c. that report came out the same day they charged goldman sachs. even if the s.e.c. loses they make their point which is we need financial reform, we need to break up the big banks, they ve become way too powerful. if goldman ends up winning big and gloating about it, that s a big victory. the s.e.simon and erin, than very much. appreciate it from you both. get more of erin s advice on street signs weekdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on cnbc. 19 after the hour. here s meredith. new details are emerging in the shocking murder of a principal in washington, d.c. could he have known his killer? nbc s norah o donnell has the very latest. reporter: good morning, meredith. nbc news has learned that police are now looking very closely at brian betts computer and cell phone records trying to figure out who murdered this star middle school principal. returning to shaw middle school for the first time since their beloved principal was killed, students are still coping with the loss of their hero. mr. betts was something like a father to me. reporter: he was known nationwide for turning around this troubled school. and at the very spot where he greeted his students every morning, now a memorial, a chilling reminder of the school s huge loss. personally, he was my own mentor, my second year, and he hired me and he led me through my first couple years. can t imagine the school without him. reporter: as betts friends and colleagues greefd, investigators are now zeroing in on a killer. from the beginning investigators have had a feeling that this was not a case of random act. reporter: why is that? because the front door was unlocked. there was no sign of forced entry. and there was no ransack in the house. do you believe betts new the killer? that s a strong possibility. reporter: neighbors are on edge since the house has a horrific history. another double homicide eight years ago. but that murderer remains behind bars. you know, i don t know whether it s cursed or not. we do believe there is no relation to that event. reporter: betts nissan xtera suv was found in southeast washington, a neighborhood known as a hotspot for crime. it didn t look like there was anything messed up on it. reporter: police say the car was not vandalized and don t believe it was taken on a joyride. we have a report that a man saw two subjects leaving the vehicle as it was parked friday afternoon, somewhere between noon and 3:00 p.m. reporter: now police are slowly piecing together this murder mystery. they put together a time line. they say the 42-year-old betts was last alive at 11:30 p.m. last wednesday night. then something terrible happened and he didn t show up here for work the next morning. meredith? norah o donnell, thank you. just ahead, the florida teen set on fire allegedly by a group of classmates, mike brewer jr. speaks out for the first time in an exclusive live interview. but first, this is today on nbc. 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what that can mean for your identity and for your marriage. also, we all know that flying is not cheap. a lot of airlines charge fees for food and blankets and checked bags. but recently spirit airlines announced that it would start charging up to $45 for carry-on bags in the overhead compartments. that got a lot of people very angry. well, tomorrow on today, the ceo of spirit airlines will explain that decision and we ll also talk to new york senator chuck shumer who has been very vocal about that kind of power. we ll begin this half-hour with the florida teenager who was burned by a group of florida ca classmates. we ll speak exclusively to mike brewer jr. and his family in a moment, but first here s kerry sanders. reporter: if you didn t know, you might never suspect. 15-year-old michael brewer was severely burned over 60% of his body. but outward appearances can be deceiving. doctors say the florida teenager still faces years of pain and medical attention. his life altered in an instant last october when he was surrounded by school classmates at an apartment complex off campus, doused in alcohol, and then lit on fire. authorities say it all came down to a disagreement over money owed for a video game. he s got scars that are as big as two and three-inch that protrude from his body that is scar tissue. you rub them down and you feel his elbows and his arms and his legs, it s awful. michael has undergone months of physical therapy in this room. sometimes excruciatingly painful. but he s also out in the public and smiling. as a guest at a recent miami heat game. and at a bake sale to help pay his medical bills where he personally thanked those who cared enough to help. i just want to say hi and thank you for all your prayers. reporter: the three teenagers accused of attempted murder and michael s burning are charged as adults. as for michael, those closest to him say he s looking forward, not back. he s not so fearful anymore that people will actually talk to him. reporter: a week ago michael reached out to josie ratley. like michael, both victims of teen violences with very serious consequences. for today, kerry sanders, nbc news, miami. we are joined exclusively by michael brewer jr., along with his parents valerie and michael and his grandparents rene and norvin. good morning to you all. it is such a thrill, michael, to have you with us this morning. you have been through so much in the past six months. foreskin grafts you told me this morning. daily intensive physical therapy. how are you doing? how do you feel? i feel great. any pain at all? no. not even when you have to move your body or stretch? just one side of me. one side? i understand that you ve actually gone back to some of your sports activity? yes. what are you doing? skateboard, basketball, baseball. riding bikes. you re not afraid of falling or no. i fall, i just get right back up, try again. mom, your heart must be like it s tough sometimes. i know when michael was attacked back in october, you came on the show and we spoke to you remote from the hospital and you said at the time, doctors weren t sure if he would survive. but you felt differently. you just knew your son was going to make it because you said he had a lot of determination. absolutely. and courage. yes. lot of courage, lot of determination and incredible will to live. there was so much pain that you had to endure though, michael. where did that determination come from looking back? i have no idea. none at all. no. just every day, just a great will to live? yeah. dad, when you see your son now, knowing what he s gone through, what goes through your mind? just happy that he s still here and i knew he was going to get through it, pull through it the way he did. but we thank god that he s still with me. i m happy. i know when you moved back home, mike, when you got out of the hospital this summer, you didn t go back to your old house because you were scared. you moved in with your grandma and grandfather in a different town. finally tomorrow you are starting school again. are you excited about that? what are you feeling going back to school? i m excited. can t wait. why is that? i kind of miss school. you do. yeah. what do you miss about it? friends and stuff. so it will be a whole new set of friends. yeah. when you start up again. i m sure as a mom, it s wonderful to see your son going back to school. on the other hand, you won t be there to protect him again. and that s got to be a bit of a scary feeling. it is. very apprehensive. i know i have to cut the cord again? i ve been very protective of him, not letting him get very far from me. i m just fearful. but i know he s a strong young man. he s determined and i know the school will protect him and he needs to get back out into the world and start experiencing real life again. i know, mike, you wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you. i understand your hospital room was covered, letters from all over the world. right? yeah. i think that s the most thing that kept me alive, was all these prayers and believing in me. and rooting for you, pushing you to get better. rene, you have been very proactive in terms of guesting out there and talking to kids about violence in the schools and school bullying. what is the message you are trying to get across and why did you decide to do that? well, i think whenever anything like this happens to a family, you ve got to taking it positive from it. if you don t, it means it was for nothing. i don t think that i don t think that mikey s suffering for all those months should be for nothing. and i think that we need to become better leaders, the grown-ups, the adults. i think that we are all in our own domain, our own leaders, and i think we have to stand up, be more respectful of each other and set a much better example for our children. you set a wonderful example, mike jr., when you see to see your friend josie in the hospital who was attacked, allegedly over a text message. was she aware that you were there and what did you say to her and her family? i hope she gets better and i hope i see her again. get stronger like i did every day. get stronger every day. yeah. if she doesn t stop believing in herself, she can do it. do you ever think about how strange it is, two kids from the same school. can you make sense of it? yeah, i can. yeah. this school is terrible. i don t know why i even went to the school. well, you re in a new school now and a safe place. want to end with you, norvin, when you look at your grandson now, is he a different kid having gone through it? yeah. in what way? i think he s a little more ca careful, if that can be possible. he sticks a little closer to home. lets you know if he s going someplace. easier to keep track of. i think they re going to be keeping track of you pretty tightly, for sure. mike jr., thank you so much. the entire brewer family, thank you for making the trip here to new york. be careful on the skateboard. makes me nervous, too. now let s get a check of the weather good morning. it s sunny and chilly on this tuesday morning. i m tom kierein. looking off to the west, sky watcher camera showing high clouds moving in from the west. we have temperatures there down into the 30s in a few locations. shenandoah valley, scattered frost there this morning. near 40s in the nearby suburbs near washington. we should climb into the 60s with increasing clouds. cloudy tomorrow and cooler with occasional chance of light rain. and some folks who are trying to get to paris but you couldn t make it. huh? they slowed us down. having a good time in new york? very good. there you go. let s go back inside to meredith. up next, is it becoming acceptable to walk away from your mortgage even if you can afford it? we ll debate that right after this. 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reporter: experion says 18% of those who have defalled on their mortgages in the past year did it for strategic reasons and not because they re broke. it s called a strategic default, balking away from a home and enduring foreclosure out of frustration with a bad investment. you re probably looking at 8 to 12 years before you ever regain the equity. reporter: now there s even a service called you walk away, and for a $900 fee, it guides homeowners through foreclosure. one bit of advice don t feel guilty. people have this misperception that people who walk away are doing something unethical. and to me, they re making a good ethical decision because they re taking care of themselves and their family and it s a business decision. reporter: but of course, for most homeowners facing foreclosure, it is less a business decision than an inevitability. elaine cheney says she and her husband were running out of money. they had a variable rate mortgage on their southern california condo that rose along with the homeowner s fees. they found they could no longer make their payments. we have excellent credit. we always pay our bills and on time. reporter: did you feel guilty about it? definitely. reporter: as the epidemic of foreclosures continues, the mortgage bankers association urges people not to walk away if they don t have to. what does that do to other properties and the value of your neighborhood? the consequences are dire. reporter: and yet the association itself walked away from its headquarters building, arranging a short sale when it went underwater on its mortgage. while owning one s own home is still a large part of the american dream, many people who have walk away from their mortgages and are now renting say they found a certain peace of mind. the scheor s say their strategic default left them feeling a lot better. relieved and paying less for month for a larger home, which just confirms that this house is just not worth what we re paying. reporter: a feeling now shared by many in this country. for today, george lewis, nbc news, los angeles. jean chatzky is today s financial editor. jean, good morning to you. let s do the moral and ethical thing first, people who say you made a deal, you have a commitment, you have a mortgage. it hurts your neighbors. that s an understandable argument but i think when you look at the business case, it is just as understandable to walk away from a bank to lent you more than you could afford on a property that was not as valuable as both of you thought. so if you can get past the moral and ethical side of this, what are the criteria? how do you know if you re a good candidate for walking away from your mortgage? the tipping point is usually when the value of the home drops to 75% or less of what you owe on that mortgage. if the value of the home is $300,000 and you owe $400,000, that s when people tend to walk. so if you have fallen below that 75% value criteria point, one of the questions you have to ask yourself next? how long will it take the mortgage market in my town to come back? in new york it is about 14 years. in detroit it s about 20. that s a very, very long time to wait. also, what s it going to do to my credit score? what is it going to do to your score? generally it will take your credit score down by 100 to 125 points. but this is a strategy default. what people do is take the extra money and they pay it down on their other debts. that brings their credit score back up. but they ve also got moving and rental costs. don t think this is a free trade. no, no, this is not a free trade. you have to realize people who are doing this made a down payment, however small. they ve been making their mortgage payments until this point. this is not a win-win for anybody. real quickly, there s a new program designed to get to these people before they have to make this decision? the lenders are actually hooking up with intermediaries who may come to some homeowners and say, look, if you stay in your house or if you satisfy the terms of this mortgage, we ll give you $50,000, $100,000, whatever the number happens to be. it may make staying more attractive. incentive to hang in there. jean chatzky, thanks as always. 7:49. up next, the secret prototype of apple s next iphone apparently found in a bar. prototype of apple s next iphone apparently found in a bar. details right after this. hase. so we earned a ski trip twice as fast. we get double miles every time we use our card. 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[ female announcer ] lash stiletto original and voluptuous the #1 lengthening mascaras. maybe she s born with it. maybe it s maybelline good morning to you. i m joe krebs. our top story this morning, a sad day in d.c. the passing of a civil rights icon. dr. dorothy height died early this morning just before 4:00 am at harvard university hospital. she was 98 years old. known as the godmother of the women s movement, height served as an advocate and educator for more than 75 years. in the 1950s and 60s, she was instrumental in helping dr. martin luther king jr. orchestrate the civil rights movement. indeed, she was on the platform with him in 1963 when he delivered his i have have a dream speech. among her many contributions to society and to washington is that she was the president emerita of the national council of negro women and also honored with a congressional gold medal in 2004 through an act of congress and president iial freedom medal. right now, we ll take a break and come back and look at our good morning. sunny and chilly on this tuesday morning. afternoon highs should climb into the 60s. with increasing clouds, looks like rain tomorrow, light rain. highs in the 60s. warming up again thursday and friday. how is the traffic, jerry? 270 southbound, earlier problems, including this accident near interstate 370. looks like everybody just moved over to the left shoulder. joe? stay tuned for much more on the legacy of dr. dorothy height. 8:00 now on this tuesday morning, april 20th, 2010. we have drawn quite a crowd on a bright and sunny morning here in rockefeller plaza. i m meredith vieira, along with matt lauer and al roker. for a lot of women, stylish hair is the first thing that suffers. this morning we ll have a lively debate on mom hair and how to tell if you have it, and if you have it, what you should do about it. mom hair would be less than stylish hair? maybe, pulled back in a ponytail. you may cut it short. we re also looking for different ways to save money. clothing is very expensive. if you can make the clothes you have last longer, that would be a good way to save money. have you ever tried artificial sweetener on a stain? have you ever tried to use shampoo for ring around the collar? i have not! we ll give you great tips to make your clothes last longer. two for the price of one. not one, but both american idol contestants who were voted off last week. we ll ask them a question that i guess is on a lot of folks minds what up with ryan seacrest s unusual behavior on the show? i love ryan. love the seacrest. he s a complete freak, but i love him. love him. first let s get a check of the top stories from ann curry. thanks, good morning, everybody. in the news, today yet more volcanic ash is hampering efforts to reopen airspace over europe and great britain. air traffic was just resuming on a limited basis after five days of parcalysis. while up to 60% of flights may go today, officials had hoped for more. millions of people have been grounded since the travel chaos began and the aviation industry says it s already lost $1 billion. iran voices new enthusiasm today for a nuclear fuel swap proposed by the u.n. to curb day ran s ability to make a knnucle bomb. on monday, an unclassified pentagon report says iran may be able within five years to build a missile that could reach the u.s. police are searching for a motive in a deadly shooting at a hospital in knoxville, tennessee on monday. investigators say that the gunman took a taxi to the hospital, then shot three women at least one fatally before taking his own life. a florida judge has removed himself from the casey anthony murder case. defense attorneys had filed a motion claiming the judge stan strikland revealed a bias against anthony in recent comments to a blogger. anthony has pleaded not guilty in the murder of her 2-year-old daughter caylee. a benchmark today for supreme court justice john paul stevens. he a is celebrating his 90th birthday, only the second justice to reach that age while on the court. justice stevens announced he will retire this summer. now here s brian williams with what s coming up tonight on nbc nightly news. hey, ann. coming up tonight on nightly news, here s a first goats. entire herds of them, grazing at, of all places, google headquarters. it s somebody s idea of being green. we ll explain tonight on nightly news. ann, back to you. that does need some explaining. 8:03. i have had my favorite comment of the year. okay? i said to this lady, i walked by, said aren t you cold? she says, no, i m menopausal. i know you re sweating like crazy. i know, honey! i feel your pain. i know. that s sharing. i mean we re like family now. mr. roker has a check of the weather. all right. tmi! and this is just a i love this. what s your name? timothy. timothy, where you from? jacksonville. how old are you, good morning. a spring chill in the air on this tuesday morning. we have temperatures in the 40s around the region to low 50s. now at 52 in washington. it will climb into the 60s today with increasing clouds, after some morning sun. then cloudy tonight, near 50 tomorrow morning. cloudy tomorrow and cooler, highs low 60s. drying out wednesday night. thursday and friday, sun returns and a bit milder, into the upper 60s again in the afternoon. where you guys from? st. louis, missouri. matt ahh! al, thank you very much. when we come back, what is mom hair? what do you do about it if you have it? what does it say about you? 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i m married, i have two kids. men are very passionth about having long, flowing locks. i haven t entirely dismissed the idea, but for now we re sticking with this. we re joined by momlogic.com contributor, and a mom of two. on the surface, it seems like it is a frivolous conversation but it isn t. no. because moms are busy but we re also women so we want to look good. the decision is how can we do that and still have something easy that gives us time for ourselves. what happens to women when they have a child that makes them another thing, first i think it is the biggest life change a woman goes through. it is a time of big identity change. it is also a time to divert sexual energy for a while and put it toward nesting energy. very natural. is the change of hair sort of a statement that you re no longer sexually interested? well? it s not really that, it is just that you start finding that you don t have time for yourself. then it is not about what you think your partner wants, your husband wants what works for you. how are you going to survive through it. you may feel less attractive, but you say this is for me. i went to natural hair for seven years. tell us your story. this is yo i said i m going to do something easy, i m going natural. there is a lot of pressure to perm your hair, curl your hair. i said i m going to work out and do what s best for me. a lot of people afterwards came up to you and said it was a brave thing to do. did you feel braev? i think as an african-american woman, going natural is. but yeah. my girls, you know what they said after i cut my hair off? you always said you were going to do this. wendy, what s your story? always had long, blonde hair. i worked in television news. then i had a baby and before i knew it i had a short, dark haircut. in my case it was partly sending a message to the world, hey, i m not just this babe news chick anymore, i m a mom, i m a serious woman. but i think in my case there was a little undiagnosed postpartum depression. hair is a big way to advertise to the world what s going on internally with us. second time around, kept the lo long blonde hair with a little zoloft. i think the bottom line is you have to do what works for you. whether you do your hair or don t do your hair, it indicates how you feel. pay attention so you can be not only the best mom with the best hair, but the best individual. in my case,dy it because my hair was such a mess. i thought if i cut my hair, i ll look cute. it don t work and i ended up grewing inmy hair back. light now right now in our c there is real pressure to and hot mom. this is a time where women shouldn t worry too much about being a victoria s secret super model. you re a postpartum mom. you should be sitting under a tree breast feeding. do you think your spouse should give you the okay? he should certainly weigh in and you should listen but it is up to you as a mom. we have to do what works for us as moms and stop feeling guilty about it and stop feeling like we have to just kind of pay attention to what everybody else says. keep in mind, he s going to have time in your long marriage with him where he s not sexually into it or his sexual energy is diverted in some way because of work or stress or middle age or late age. so you re going to mon nogam is about people working together in different stages. thank you both so much. up next, how to use artificial sweetening to make your clothes last longer. that and other tricks of the trade right after this. which makes it pretty clear whose standing out front. a consumers digest best buy two years running. chevy malibu. compare it to anyone and may the best car win. during the spring event, qualified lessees can get a low mileage lease on this new malibu ls for around $199 a month. call for details. see your local chevy dealer. because right now it s rollback time at walmart. which means thousands of rollbacks all over the store. it s another way to master your budget. and another great day for the savers. save money. live better. walmart. and another great day for the savers. 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a heloise house call just for you. first, a checklist of what every home must have. like liquid washing detergent. have liquid. use it as a prespotter. ammonia. if you have laundry that s very oily, ammonia is a grease cutter. use it with no detergent. reporter: a microfiber cloth. you can use this as a clothes brush. gets the lint off. and for spotting. artificial sweetener? we re going to change this. you re at a restaurant and you get splattered with oil or salad dressing. anything that s oily. this is a very, very fine powder. pat it in and let it sit. it will start to absorb the oil. heloise had a conference with teresa s boys. laundry 101. reporter: teaching them how to sort. another tip takee drier when they re slightly damp. reporter: hand pressing an air drying can also take out wrinkles. doing this, you don t have iron. that s more time to do housework. wow. whose bedspread this? this is mine. what are those little bleach spots there? that s a mistake. that s a mistake. heloise is here with help. use a felt tip marker that s as close as possible to the color where it is bleached out. it s close. i think so. it is great on jeans, too. reporter: last stop, the laundry room where shirts and ring around the collar were a concern for her husband. ring around the collar. ring around the collar. those dirty rings. reporter: heloise advice? after you take your shower, put rubbing alcohol on a facial tissue and rub across the back of your next and that will take all of that off. for people who perspire a lot, you can put antipercent antiperspirant. reporter: now that they re no longer clothing clueless, teresa won t be taken to the cleaners anymore. so we ve all been taking notes here in the studio. this is the shirt in question. this is the one that had the oily stains on it and heloise used the artificial sweetener. i totally love this trick! it came out completely with olive oil on there. now there is nothing there. if you re in a restaurant, there s always artificial sweetener available. you might have to do it a few times but it lifted. she did put it in the laundry after that and it did work. how did you feel about the shampooing, the ring around the collar. keep shampoo because it cuts down grease. or put the alcohol around your next and prevent it from the beginning. i love these tips. they re pennies! as we mentioned before, these are all good things because clothing is expensive. shoes are particularly expensive. you have a good tip for making boots last a little longer. heloise says roll up a newspaper, put it in and it will keep the shape. also sprinkle baking soda, that will absorb the smells and odors. i learned from a shoemaker, he said don t put it near a heat source. the next season it feels tight? that s because it s been near the heater and it shrinks. roll the newspaper up, stuff it down in there so it holds the shape. then when your shirts in particular come back from the dry cleaner, most of them come covered in that plastic sheet. heloise says, no the garments need to breathe. only leave six to eight inches on the top if you want to prevent dust from accumulating. but you don t want the chemicals, you don t want that smelling up your closet. air it out. only a little bit. cut it. i think these are great tips from heloise. janice, thank you very much. we ll have much more ahead, but first here s meredith. thank you, matt. more on that volcano erupting in iceland and a question how do you pronounce its name? the daily show s jon stewart had some fun with that last night. you know what i realized? volcano that s destroying our ability to travel through your by plane? i don t even know your name. this ef-yard-cool-glacier. eya, flaya glacier does. sounds like a beelt recoatle going backwards. like you took an alphabet, threw it up in the air and let the letters land where they would. volcano? i think i ll call you kevin. does anybody know the volcano s name? the name of the glacier is eyjafjallajoekul. boom! roker! that s how you get to the today show, baby. bravo! that was my first shot. then i never did it again. you only got it once, but that s all that matters. we had to move you. when you look at that name, on a piece of paper, it is just you stop. you just stop. but that s a typical name in iceland. how can you learn that language? i don t know. want to try it again? i like katla better. can you say it again? no. we don t know if it was right actually. you sounded convincing. it was close. it was close. i think i got a syllable or two off. jon stewart is never wrong. there you go. thank you. see if can pronounce this iv ivanka stops by after your local news and weather. 8:26 is your time now. another chilly start of the morning. things are heating up. i m eun yang. in the news this morning, the passing of a civil rights icon. dr. dorothy height died before 4:00 am at the howard university hospital. she was 98 years old. she served aas an advocate and educator. in the 1950s and 60s, she was instrumental in helping dr. martin luther king jr. organize the civil rights movement. among her many contributions, president emerita of the national council of negro women. we ll take a break and have your weather and traffic when you come back. stay with us. here s to the believers. the risk-takers. the visionaries. the entrepreneurs. who put it all on the line to build and run their own businesses. at at&t, we know something about that. our company started out in a small lab, with not much more than a dream. and today, we know it s small businesses that can create the jobs america needs. that s why at&t is investing billions to upgrade and build out our wired and wireless networks. making them faster, smarter, and more secure. connecting small businesses to markets across the country, and around the world. we invest now, because we know it will pay off. with new jobs, new growth, from a new generation, putting their belief in the future on the line. now is the time for investment and innovation. the future is waiting. and the future has always the future is waiting. and the future has always been our business. at&t. is good morning. sunny and chilly. cloudy tomorrow, cooler. chance of a little light rain. sun returns warmer, thursday and friday. jerry? accident earlier on out of the travel portion of the 8:30 now on a tuesday morning, the 20th day of april, 2010. right now we ve got some happy people on the plaza, and some of them are saying hi to the latest finalists voted off of american idol. katie stevens and andrew garcia were victims of the dreaded double-elimination. i hate when that happens. i know. we ll catch up with them a little later on. by the way, one winner of american idol and the runner-up will be part of our summer concert series in the next couple of months. something to look forward to. find a complete list of our summer concert act on our website at todayshow.com. out on the plaza, i m matt lauer, along with meredith vieira, ann curry and al roker. what s coming up? legendary composer steven sondheim wrote the lyrics to some of broadway s classics. we ll hear from him. ivanka trump is also here. she is a very successful business person in her own right. of course she had a great leg up thanks to a very famous family. she s here to share some of the lessons she has learned along the way. joy bauer asks about soybeans really as good for you as people are saying and can you drink too much flavored water. i think the answer to that is probably yes. joy will get to the bottom of that. the key is flavored. exactly. now we want to say hello to andrea huff. she s the latest contest aant fm nbc s biggest loser. you started with 298 pounds. what are you at? i m 206. that s fantastic. much smaller. at the last weigh-in, you had lost three pounds, but the other contestants lost nothing, and yet you were voted off. why did that happen? sam s a great guy. super great encourager. and from a game standpoint, to keep the person who has hardly any weight to lose is a wise decision. great relationships with everyone in the house, but from a game point, it was a good decision to send me home. but it wasn t all bad this week because you did win a car. yeah. i thought we re going to run, we re going to do what we had to do but i felt i kept pulling the keys off, trying a million keys. finally the pink balloon was the winner and i got a car. meantime, when you left home, you walked the dog. now you can run with the dog. what s that like to have that experience? it feels so good. not only to be able to take your dog to take your dog out and go running. there s something satisfactory about it. it is kind of like taking your kids for a walk. there s something good about taking a dog out for a jog. you actually want to be a personal trainer. i do! talk about a transformation. wow! yeah. i love i ve always loved helping people. to be able to pass it on, that s what it s all about. if you can t pass it on, then you probably shouldn t have started in the first place. frankly, i think you have more credibility. people understand it is possible to do it. you think have you a chance at that $100,000 at-home prize? i think i do. i think a lot of people have the chance but i m going to fight as hard as i can from it. i hope i see everyone from the stage and say thanks for the money. nice to have you here. good luck. thank you. you can see biggest loser couples tonight 8:00, 7:00 central right here on nbc. for today, we ve got good morning. it s been a chilly spring morning on this april 20th right now. it s at 52 in washington and near 50 in prince george s county. montgomery and fairfax county in the 40s now. we ll see it climb into the 60s around the region with increasing clouds. cloudy tonight near 50 tomorrow morning. occasional light rain is likely tomorrow. cooler, highs low 60s. looks like we ll get the sun back thursday and friday. should be mild again during the afternoons, temperatures climbing into the upper 60s. and don t forget, you can check your weather any time of the day or night, weather channel on cable, weather.com online. this young lady is double digits. caitlin, happy birthday! very pretty headpiece there. speaking of pretty, up next, ivanka trump playing to win in business and in life. but fi we re back now at 8:37 with ivanka trump. she s one of the judges on her father s reality show the celebrityaprentice, and has her own line of jewelry. her new book, the trump card, playing to win in work and life. you in the book address what might be the easy criticism of you, that how can she write about success when she s the daughter of a billionaire, of course she s going to succeed. you come right out and say it is impossible to measure how much of an advantage that gave pea. i ll also acknowledge the fact that of course it gave me tremendous advantage in terms of access. but it was really up to me to capitalize on it. there are plenty of champs of children of privileged people who never accomplish anything. that s right. and you make it very clear that although you were from privilege, nothing was or most things were not handed to you on a silver platter. what were you forced to do at home? anything that any parent, grandparent would want to give to your children was never withheld from me, in terms of education, in terms of travel, in terms of things that would have a residual value and allow me to develop as a human being. but things that were purely superficial, the clothing, the allowance that was overly abundant, as many of my friends experienced, those were things that my parents were very diligent and very prudent about. making sure that it was reasonable and it was within the realm of what a 14, 15-year-old should have access to. as a young business woman, talk to me about opportunity and access. did your parents simply say, we ll introduce you to everybody we can to give you the best possibility of succeeding? or did they say, go out and carve your own path? one of the things i talk about quite a bit in the book and the importance of meeting people and networking. because i believe and i look at all the great deals my father s done over the course of his career. many of them originated through relationships and through a relationship that was stronger with him than one of his competitors that was looking at the same opportunity. i note some of the people who were my mentors, roger ales, tory bunrch. you said oftentimes the children of the very wealthy do not do all that well. i would imagine some just simply rebel, say i ll go counter to everything i was brought up with, and other simply have self-doubts, am i as good as my father or as my mother. why do you think you didn t fall into that trap? i think some of it is just i m a naturally competitive and driven person. i think some of it was surroundings. i was brought up in. the household i grew up in. my parents are nothing if not driven and motivated to succeed. so i think it was a little bit nature, a little bit nurture. but you do see a lot of very intelligent people who were given the same platform that i was given, access to the finest schools, just culture, surroundings, network, ability to meet great people and to benefit from their knowledge. and yet they do nothing as if they re almost paralyzed by a fear of not living up to their potential. and it lingers over them and it can either motivate you if you harness that and allow it to push you forward, or it can be a great hindrance to your development. your dad has had some very famous successes. but he s had some times when you didn t do so well. did he share the experience of that with you and what did you learn from the failures? i think for him, reflecting on those moments that were the greatest challenge for him in his business career and in his personal life and the ability to absorb that, to learn and move forward with that knowledge has made him a much better business person. in a time and in a climate where you see so many people within real estate repeating the same mistakes that they made in the early 90s. we re very fortunate as an organization because in 2004, my father said we re not buying anything else. the market no longer makes sense to me. and he learned that as a result of what he experienced in the early 90s and he didn t want to go back there. you re in your mid to later 20s right now. right? what would you say to the 21 year-olds or 22 year-olds who is coming out of college in a very difficult and uncertain economy? what is the best way they can distinguish themselves in this tough job market to get noticed? it used to be just about showing up. now you have to look at every interview with a level of professionalism that people just weren t used to before. they d show up without doing their homework. i know, because i was a young employee at a non-trump company. you re also an employer. i m also an employer of many young people. what s the biggest mistake people make when they come to you? what don t they do right? they don t know what they want. people are casting their net far too wide in this xlimt because they are looking for any opportunity. so they come into my office and don t tell me why their skill set or their interest fit the job position i m looking for. they re going everywhere, trying every field and they re looking for whoever nibbles as opposed to really honing in and say this is what i m good at, this is why i fit the position and this is what i aspire to do. i think that s an area that young people could very much improve. plus, just knowing the basics about the company, watching the apprentice isn t enough to know what we do at the trump organization given the amount of diversity with obviously the jewelry and the real estate and the entertainment. really understanding who you are meeting and what you bring to that organization. it seems like the sky is the limit for you. hopefully. good luck to you. thank you so much. congratulations on the book in paper book. come back and see us. matt, thank you. say hi to your family. will do. my father s watching. donald, hi. the book is called the trump card. up next, broadway legend stephen sondheim. but first, this is today on nbc. we re back at 8:46. for nearly 60 years, stephen sondheim has written some of broadway s most memorable music. now in sondheim on sondheim, it commemorates his career. nbc s anne thompson recently sat down with the legendary composer. reporter: stephen sondheim is the toast of broadway this spring. they are renaming the henry miller theater the seechb sotep sondheim theater. do you feel a little bit like tom sawyer watching watching my own funeral? absolutely. absolutely. it is gratifying, of course. reporter: a new show, sondheim on sondheim opens this week on broadway, starring stage veterans barbara cook. tom wolpatt and vanessa williams. reporter: the show features songs from throughout sondheim s career as well as interviews with the composer, what he calls a movie on stage. i think it is just personal enough, people say, my gosh, you re so personal out in public. i didn t find that very hard to do. reporter: in the show, sondheim pays tribute to his mentor, oscar hammer stein who rescued the teenager from an unhappy life with his divorced mother. he was a great man. he had a view of the world that just sounds like what he said himself, cock-eyed optimism. but it was deeply felt. reporter: it was hammerstein who convinced sondheim, then just 25, to take a job writing the lyrics for what would become a classic, west side story. today looking back on some of what he wrote then, it makes him cringe. i mean i did, two kids from the street are singing today is just the world with an address, i am thinking there s a writer there someplace. that s just a writer saying that with a capital w. reporter: he re-invented musical theater with words and melodies unlike anything broadway had heard before. he s won more than a dozen tonys, a pulitzer prize. isn t it bliss don t you approve reporter: but only one song became a popular hit. the one song i ve written that could be called a warhorse. it s been sung so many times, i m sure there are people who go around saying if i hear that song one more time, i m going to kill myself. reporter: what is it that has made that i have no idea. reporter: judy collins first recorded it. then frank sinatra. almost 1,000 recordings of the song now exist. catherine zeta-jones sings it in the current broadway revival. what is very clear and evident in sondheim s work is that you can take all the glitz and glamour away and it is predominantly just a great piece of writing and a great scoring. reporter: the magic he creates onstage does not come from magic off stage. that s the romantic idea, you sit in your benthouse overlooking new york at your piano. it s like any craft. it is just a lot of hard work, a lot of planning and a lot of time. reporter: the result? moments that can take your breath away. you can always tell the steven sondheim stanza. if he s written the music, you know in the first two bars. reporter: at 80, sondheim says he is working on two potential new shows, unconcerned about posterity. if nobody remembers me after the day i die, that s fine. as long as while i m here people are listening to what i do. that s what counts. i like to tell stories that make people laugh, cry and have a good time. reporter: in the words of the composer himself, stisn t it bliss. for today, anne thompson, nbc news. up next, the two two weeks ago the american idol judges used the only save of the season, if you know what that meant. last week two contestants had to be eliminated, katie stevens and andrew garcia. good morning. good morning. double elimination. i just hate the whole name of that. did you guys see it coming? did you expect it? i mean i had done great the night before, but for some reason that whole day i thought i was going home. i just had this feeling. then when tim got saved, i kind of nodded my head. i didn t expect anything. i was just like, this show s crazy so i don t know if i m going to stay or go. i was just like i was there, i was grateful for whatever happened. you know who s really bummed out about you not being there anymore? who. lee, your bromance there on the show. are you guys going to work together you think in the future? yes, for sure. you think you ll collaborate? yeah. we talked about it. you ll be back on the road together anyhow. yeah. was it one of those things where you say bye to them, like, okay, i ll see you in a couple of weeks. you got to figure out between going to your senior prom or going on the american idol live tour. what are you going to do? decisions, decisions. no, i m obviously going on tour. but my school wouldn t want it anyother way. they would rather me be going on tour and following my dreams. maybe you could ask someone to go on tour with you as a prom date. big mike wanted to be my prom date when i was getting all these prom offers, he s like, no, no, no, you re not going with anybody, you re going with me. so i asked him when we were there, mike, if i can t go to my prom, can you guys have like an idol prom tour ? there you go. you guys will do your own albu albums. right? i know the judges on idol sometimes tell you what music you really should perform. are you going to listen to them? well, i got told rock, country, pop and mariachi. so i have a decision to make. no. but ultimately i d like to put out a pop, r&b pop background, kelly clarkson type album. my style is acoustic. but i ll have full production on an album. whatever i do on an album you can just do it stripped downfy want, just play acoustic. my style is i don t really have a style. it is just like a pop/r&b. style is you. people were talking about ryan seacrest who we love. i have a bromance with ryan. but he was a little odd last week. he looked tired. he works a lot. he does. that happens to you sometimes because you work hard. you are you re going to get married, i understand? you popping the question. yeah. right now i m planning on it. a little busy right now so i m never too busy. good luck, guys. you seem happy. i m really happy. congratulations. thanks, guys. 8:56 we will have much more on her passing and her legacy good morning. i m tom kierein in storm center 4. we have lots of sunshine this morning. still rather chilly. temperatures in the low 50s now. we ll hit the 60s later on this afternoon and have increasing clouds. cloudy tonight. bottoming out near 50 tomorrow morning. wednesday should be cloudy and cooler with a chance of showers. jerry? we are late clearing out. 66 out of manassas had things clogged up. accident is clear but it will be a while before things improve. still very heavy and slow south of german town on to the split. eun? recapping our top story this we re back now with more of today on a tuesday morning, 20th of april, 2010. temperature s supposed to hit somewhere close to 70 degrees today. love that. the chance to say hi to the nice folks outside. thank them for stopping by. i m matt lauer, along with al roker and natalie morales. up next, the latest on that icelandic volcano that s stranded flights all over the world. some flights are flying again in europe, but in the uk planes are grounded by a second cloud of volcanic ash. we ll get details on that in a couple of minutes. this story just keeps going and going. also ahead, joy s diet s.o.s. with all sorts of product claims and advertisements, joy bauer is here to answer your question, this morning she ll take on what water does to you, does it have to be carbonated, not carbonated, and the truth about calcium supplements. plus coping with chronic pain. 43 million americans suffer with pain. it is the dismal reality from stiff legs to bad backs. whether you choose to tough it out or go from specialist to specialist, we ll give you suggestions that could provide much-needed relief. but first let s get a check of the top stories from ann standing by at news desk. good morning, everybody. in the news, volcanic ash from iceland is causing more travel chaos in europe. even as some flights are resuming. nbc s dawna friesen joins us now from london s heathrow airport with more on this story. dawna, good morning. reporter: good morning, ann. there was so much hope yesterday that the ash was clearing, a that europe s airports could reopen. some have today but not heathrow. with this second cloud of ash already approaching again this morning, airports in glasgow and belfast which had opened are now closed. it looks like most of london s airports will remain closed for a sixth day. as europe began to emerge from the first volcanic cloud, limited air traffic resumed giving hope to millions of travelers stranded around the world. these folks boarded a flight from frankfurt. i am so happy to get out of here. reporter: airports in paris re-opened for a few flights this morning but the relief at the prospecs f specspect of getting tempered with a little anxiety. i m a little afraid. i m hopeful that the plane will take off and that it won t meet with any volcanic ash. reporter: there are confusing messages about how safe the skies are, how much volcanic ash is too much to allow planes to fly. some have questioned whether the restrictions are an overreaction. european authorities are adamant they are not. a handful of flights left asian air hubs today for europe. spain has volunteered to be an emergency hub for overseas travelers trying to get home. organizing extra buses, trains and ferries to handle an expected rush of passengers. a british navy ship has arrived in spain to give soldiers a lift home. they were stranded after finishing their tour of duty in afghanistan. two other navy ships are on their way to pick up marooned tourists. for families like the harmans, stuck in paris last night en route home to st. louis, their european vacation has doubled in price because of the delays. they made it to london overnight. you have to find a silver lining or you just sit down and cry. reporter: an adventure, yes, but one they wish would come to an end. i m nat happy. i d rather be back making up on my school. reporter: the embassy in london has set up a 24-hour crisis line and is prepared to help. we re able to provide under emergency situations small loans to individual or families if it becomes a serious event where they re out of funds. reporter: with no one sure when the skies will completely clear, the costs continue to mount. what happens next really depends on the second cloud of ash, how far south it moves. it is being closely monitored. airlines schedules are changing all the time so the best advice to travelers is really to check with your airline before you head to the airports. ann? dawna freeze thn morniniesen thanks. the space shuttle discovery returns to earth this morning after a 15-day mission at international space station. this morning a high-ranking al qaeda leader was killed on monday. iraq s prime minister announced two other key figures died in a weekend raid, a development the u.s. calls a potentially devastating blow to al qaeda in iraq. toyota is recalling thousands of 2010 electric lexu. that s the vehicle consumer reports issued a safety warning about last week. the white house says president obama will deliver the eulogy at a memorial service on sunday for those 29 miners who died this month in west virginia. dorothy height, a key 1960s civil rights activist, died this morning. she was the matriarch of the civil rights movement working alongside reverend martin luther king jr. and others. speaking with nbc news, she answered a question about her message for young people. people are struggling for jobs and freedom. we re going to have to make the laws work. and when that day comes? and when that day comes, we ll be able to say as dr. king said, we re free at last. dorothy height was 98 years old. it is now 9:05. now let s get good morning. we have some wispy high clouds and a blue sky on this tuesday morning. live picture from our sky watcher camera showing the view looking off to the west from upper northwest washington. temperatures right now are climbing into the 50s. it s now 56 in washington. highs today should climb to near 70 this afternoon with increasing clouds. tomorrow, cloudy and cooler. highs low 60. could get a few passing light showers tomorrow. then on thursday, sunshine returns. highs again near 70. near 70 on friday and partly cloudy. . now joy s diet s.o.s. from the pros and cons of carbonated water, today nutritionist joy bauer is here with the answers to your questions. first, we have a question from kristin, coming to us on skin from michigan. what s your question for joy? i ve become a big fan of the carbonated water drinks that are on the maeshtrket. they re often naturally fruit flavored but they don t contain any sugar or artificial sweeteners. it s great to help me cut back on my soft drink intake. i m just wondering, are there any health risks associated with drinking too much carbonated water? there are no negative effects from the naturally flavored zero calorie celseltzera. there are no artificial sweeteners and no added sugar. people think because there is a higher acidity level they re bad for your teeth and bones. the truth is when you add carbonation it does slightly bump the acidity level up but not to the extent that it hurts your teeth or your bones. you need to know that they are way, way lower in acidity than the diet sodas or regular sodas because those sodas have added acids, things like phosphoric acid and sit tricitric acid. they don t have added salt. the only reason to avoid these carbonated beverages is if you have a lot of gas. sometimes you belch or you toot or you trap a lot of gas pockets within your body which can be excruciating. then lay off. but carbonated beverages in general can sometimes exacerbate reflux, that burning sensation in your esophagus. in that case, lay off it. but otherwise, enjoy them. it is a super beverage. we hope that helps. now let s get a call in from ann in newton, massachusetts. ann, good morning. what s your question? hi, anne. hi. i love et mdamame and i use it lot in recipes like stir fries. does it count as a veggie or a protein? it actually counts as both. because it literally contains both. it is a vegetable and it is a protein. edamame for shurs that don t know what it is, edamame are soybeans. it is one of the healthiest foods on the planet. it has a balance of high-quality carbohydrates, plus fiber. it s got protein, it has this omega-3 fat. and a slew of vitamins and minerals. you can count it as the main protein portion of your meal whether you put it in soups or stews or in stir fries, or you can count it as a side vegetable. the thing to know if you count is as a side vaegetable, it is starchier and has more calories than sugar snap peas or broccoli or cauliflower. so pull back on the other side starch meal like pasta. you can either get it in the pods or out of the pods. boils up in about four minutes. the best part for parents is that kids love it. in fact, i bake them sometimes. it makes them crunchy. yeah, can you buy them roasted as well. when you boil them up, it almost has a lima bean like consistency. but very delicious. nutritionally you can treat them like starchy beans. now an e-mail from jean in simi valley, california. i like milk and cheese but it doesn t like me. i m lactose intolerant so getting in four daily servings of dairy is a challenge especially since i don t like lactaid and soy milks. will daily calcium supplements suffice? definitely. if you can t get enough calcium from dietary sources, supplements with a terrific substitute. the thing that you need to know is you want to take about 1,000 milligrams if that s where you re getting all of your calcium from. you have to split up the dosage to the bestabsorbability. take 500 milligrams with or after lunch, then a second hint of 500 milligrams with or after dinner, because when you have it with or after a meal you get a better absorption rate as well. an important thing to know when you are buying a calcium suppleme supplement, make sure it come o couples with vitamin d. vitamin d allows calcium to do its job. are there other things instead of taking supplements, are there other foods that are more calcium-rich that you can add to this? definitely. never give up on the food sources. you can always look lactaid milk or soy milk. there s also calcium fortified almond milk and rice milk. some of the cheeses like cheddar cheese and swiss cheese are very low lactose and you can enjoy them as well. beans, starchy beans, edamame has a nice amount of calcium. some of the greens, kol yacolli greens. for the greens you really want the colliard greens, kale and almon almonds. i read something somewhere that says it is better for you to soak your almonds, things like that in water before you eat them? what s that about? nothing. you don t really need to do that. you can eat almonds in their natural state, soak them, lightly soeft them. however you enjoy them. the calcium is there. it is not a huge hit. you re going to get a much bigger hit from the calcium fortified almond milk and rice milk and of course the dairy sources. we ll go out to the crowd right now. we ve got a question from camile from maine. what s your question? can you suggest foods that would help boost metabolism? sadly, not really. the bottom line with boosting your metabolism is that you want to eat throughout the day every four to five hours. you definitely want to include protein with each of your meals because protein can slightly rev your metabolism. the best thing i can tell you is, strength training. lightweight training two to three times a week. if you build up your muscles, you re going to boost your metabolism 24/7. there you go. thank you. joy practices what she preaches. look at those guns. wow! man! i m afraid of you. as you should be, al. joy bauer, thank you so much. next, is your pain medication actually hurting you? 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or it goes sort of they think that they can treat it on their own and do the over-the-counter thing. yes. but the new thinking is that chronic pain is a disease, not a symptom. you really need a comprehensive program that may include medication, lifestyle changes, natural therapies, and you want to consider your goal. because eliminating your pain may not be possible, but you should get enough relief so you can do the things you love. that is realistic. there is no magic bullet necessarily or no cure-all. there isn t. you ll have to try different things to see what works. it may take time but you will get better. talk about the mistakes a lot of people are making when it comes to dealing with the chronic pain, the first being, as i mentioned, they feel that they can just tough it out. many think just give it a little bit of time, this, too, shall pass. when do you really need to go to the doctor? it is okay to wait for four weeks. but after that, you should see your doctor if you re still in pain. most injuries will resolve themselves after about a month. the longer you wait, the more havoc you re wreaking on your body and mind because your muscles weaken, your joints stiffen and the most surprising thing is that your brain literally shrinkses under the stress of chronic pain. you ll be less likely to be able to cope. so don t wait longer than four weeks. mistakes number two then, once you are going to the doctor, a lot of people decide to go see lots of doctors, doctor hopping. why is that not a good idea? when you really are in the market of finding that person who is going to be just right for you. if you see different specialists, you may get different tests, get conflicting diagnoses and it may be hard to sort out yourself, so you want one doctor to follow you through the process and help you put it in perspective. for most of us, that s our primary care doctor. even if that person is not trained in pain specifically, they should take your pain seriously, give you a comprehensive program where you re trying different things, and the most important thing is see him frequently enough so they re really evaluating that s working, stick with that, that s not working, let s try something else. you will probably have to tweak the routine to find what works for you. exercise is a great way to keep the body healthy but a lot of people when they re suffering from chronic pain, it is probably the last thing they re thinking of doing. you say that s a big mistake. it is a mistake. you don t want to become sedentary because exercise heals pain on every level. it strengthens the muscles, oils the joints, it fights imfla m s inflammation that comes with gout and rheumatoid arthritis and it raises endorphins. the instinct is to sit still but you want to pursue low-impact exercise that keeps you moving, keeps you functional. that can be a ten-minute walk, swimming, aquatica aerobics. people think surgery will be the cure-all. not the case. it sounds like a quick fis but the evidence on the effectiveness of surgery is mixed. also watch for risk of infection, nerve damage. that can actually worsen pain. the advice is exhaust non-invasive remedies. medicine, natural remedies, alternative therapies. that s the other thing you say to explore. yes. people try them on their own but bring them to your doctor, fold them into your routine. there are well studied remedies li acupuncture, omega-3 fatty acids. courtney smith, thank you so much. we ll be back with more of today right after this. kids are hungry after school. that s why i always have totino s pizza rolls. big pizza taste. in a bite size roll. kids can t resist their delicious pizza flavor. totino s pizza rolls. the pizza way to snack. can you believe how fast kids grow these days? 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take a live look at the inner loop of the beltway, still struggling to recover, spring street due to earlier problems. still looking at heavy traffic between university boulevard over to georgia avenue. the lanes are open. eun? jerry, thank you. on news 4, recapping our top story, the death of civil rights icon dr. dorothy height. stay tune ed having a child with diabetes, i m nervous about her going away, but i know that she wants to be able to do things on her own. 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no, it s moral. and that s the critic s corner for today. you go your way and i ll go mine. sounds like fun. coming up next, cocktails to ring in spring. fun ideas for drinks from this morning on today s home, spring entertaining. warmer weather s on the way. it is time to host a gathering of friends to toast in the season with some refreshing cocktails. we have lifestyle expert colin cowie with fun ways to spruce up and spice up our next get-together. we have some able helpers here. 100 cocktails from around the world but let s start in england. why not? they have something called the skins cup. it looks like a salad in a cup. early 19th century. a gin-based drink. very refreshing. made with cucumber segments. you get to make this in a pitcher in advance. if you want it more peppery, top it off with a little bit of ginger beer. so it is mostly rum and sprite and gin-based drink. gin-based. here we go. very refreshing. i like this on sunday just before lunch. and somewhere it is sunday right about now. or monday through friday. it s really refreshing. you re absolutely right. a little bubble to it. exactly. but that s not all you brought. we re going to go to brazil. these are my people. this is the drink of your people. you ve been teaching me. i have had a few of these. let s start by muddling. limes, some ginger you re making a different variation with the ginger. ginger, coconut and lime. first thing you want to do, muddle all these flavors in here. you make one, too. okay. get going! the muddling allows it to all break the cells down so the juices all come out. add to that two tablespoons of agave. and i love this coconut water. it s kind of like nature s gatorade. there s more potassium in here than a bunch of bananas. i drink it daily. depending how strong you like them i actually like mine a little stronger. go for it. it s 6:00 somewhere, darling. what is this again you just poured in? kashotka. it is wonderful. it is like the new tequila. it will jump-start any party. great thing, the garnish is in the drink. thank you. take the muddler out. the good thing is to get a really good shake so it gets nice and cold. it s a party! there we go. i found these fun green glasses. the great thing about the ginger drink, the garnish comes with the drink. ooh, that s really good. so good. we ve got a nice little display here. if you find that you are entertaining larger group of people, put this beer and rose buffet together. i found this ice cooler at fun gate. we have an interesting variety of different beers. i like to garnish beer with different types of garnish. sometimes i like to take the corona and either put a sliver of ginger right into there and drink it right out of the model this even looks cool. doesn t it? if you like it spicy, take a jalapeno chili. the longer you leave it in there, the more chili it becomes. and this of course with the orange segment. of course, my favorite rose. right here we have this. come to our house and organize our parties. all this booze, i m surprising kathie lee didn t show up. they re right behind us. hello, this is our new ocean spray 100% fruit & veggie juice with no added sugar. just one glass equals two servings of fruits and vegetables. with tasty flavors like cranberry, strawberry, banana, it s like a farm stand in every bottle. the fruits you love mixed with the veggies you need. just, you know. demonstrating how we, uh, mix the fruits and the vegetables. ocean spray. grower owned since 1930. 9:56 is your time now. live look at reagan national airport on this tuesday morning. sunny out there. will things warm up? tom will have your forecast after the news. good morning, i m eun yang. sad news to bring you. civil rights icon dorothy height has died. she passed away early this morning at howard university hospital. she was 98. dr. height served as an advocate and educator for more than 75 years. in the 1950s and 60s, she was instrumental in helping dr. martin luther king jr. orchestrate the civil rights movement. among her many contributions to society and to washington, she is president emerita of the national council of negro women. now meteorologist tom kierein is in the storm center. looks like a nice day, tom. indeed, eun. temperatu temperatures are warming up to around 60, we ll hit near 70 mid afternoon with lots of sunshine. cloud also close in late afternoon and overnight tonight. tomorrow, cloudy and cooler. highs low 60s. occasional light showers are possible throughout the day, but ending by sunset. wednesday night, clearing out and warming up with sun back thursday and friday. how is the traffic, jerry? take a live look at the inner loop of the beltway. just won t let go. delays up toward i-66 and route 7. maryland, looking much better. outer loop as you travel from new hampshire avenue points west moving and clearing up very nicely. eun? thank you, jerry. today on news 4, the death of civil rights icon dr. dorothy height. stay tuned througho from nbc news, this is today with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hey, everybody. yes, you thought we would never get here, but we have. it s booze day, april 20th, 2010. yes, it is. we have green drinks here. these are here for a reason. because these are good for the environment. yes, they are. they are great for the environment. they are. we re glad you re with us on this fine booze day. yes, we had a big day yesterday. we ll get into why there are bottles of vodka in front of us. because usually there aren t. sometimes you go to events that you enjoy. last night i went to one i love. there s a group called groove with me. it s for kids in east harlem. they re finding out when you learn to dance, you build up self confidence and that kind of stuff. also excellent exercise. the graduation rate in some of the schools in their area is about 40%, 50% according to the people there. the graduation of rate of the kids in this program is 100%. they have goals. they feel good about themselves. it was a great, great, great event. and you were honored, miss hoda. you left that out. what have you done? i don t know. i can t dance, that s for sure. she said i need to say something about this wonderful organization. she thought she was supposed to give you a speech. they said, no, you re being honored. i thought i was emceeing, but i wasn t. it was terrific. we were at a big luncheon. you went to the red carpet, the matrix award. women in communications. it s a big event. this looks like a happy family picture, but we know what it was. yes, he was not happy. jeff was not happy. he didn t want to pose for that picture. he just said cut me out of the picture. he was being cruel to us. but oprah was on stage, gayle, and katie couric, and sheryl crow, mariska hargita, the barefoot contessa, and it was good to see how they made it to the spot. they all worked hard. nothing was handed to anybody. they had the common theme, they did what they loved, and they figured out a way to get paid for it. my daddy was a genius. there was that book from oprah. she actually spoke about it. let s listen. every day she s getting herself more and more worked up about all my new daddies that are now showing up. new daddies saying, hello, daughter, call me, i need a new roof. well, this too shall pass. she was talking about gayle and how gayle is worried about it. can you imagine how many people have just come out of the wood work? of course. claiming this and claiming that. after a while you feel like a human atm machine. that s a personal thing. if she wants to know i think she says she knows who her biological father is. and it would seem that kitty kelley knows but she doesn t. a little audacious. we have to clear up something. my favorite thing, trish mcevoy, i went to saks, they said they didn t have it, and the word was it was being discontinued. they said it s not being continued, but we have a couple stashed away. the trish mcevoy people called and said, hello, it s not been discontinued. or the people wanting it, you ve got them back in service. it s a great scent. that happens it tv shows. the networks give up on it, and sometimes people speak up. can we discuss the vowed today? it s green week. we take it seriously. earth day is thursday, the 40th anniversary. these are called tree-tinis, and there this is the acai spir spirit. it s the rain fors, right? it s supposed to have all kinds of antioxidants. that s why, it s no health reasons. you want to try it? not my thing, as you guys know, but i ll take one for the team. no, no, no, no. anyhoo. colin cowie was nice enough from the last show it s an arnold palmer, i don t play golf, but who cares. cheers. boy she wanted that for each bottle of the true vodka sold they would plant a tree on south america. i thought it was india. jonathan, you were wrong? it s boy degradable labels. and organic ingredients. very earthy. and 70,000 trees have been planted, that s a lot of vodka. $1 goes back, right? yes. may i move them here? let s leave them they re, just not in my face. there s a story out there about there s a new iphone out. apple guard their secrets so close to the vest. there s a new updated iphone, okay? i don t have the last one. it s a prototype. anyway, it s this thing that everyone is curious about. apparently, and we don t know if this is true, somebody left the prototype in a bar in redwood city, california, and somebody else found it. yeah. and that somebody apparently sold it to somebody, and it wound up on all these gizmo web sites. there it is. the secret the question is, is it a publicity stunt or truly a forgetful employee or some guy who just works there and was trying to impress a babe. and pulled out the prototype. yeah, yeah, babe, let me show it to you. if it s not a publicity stunt, that guy is dying. you know how they are. they couldn t get the ipad it s an incredibly competitive world. what else could they do to the iphone? it does every single thing you can think of. apps, gps, you can count your calories. it doesn t do everything, and librarians would know. oh, gosh. we re sorry we have to report on some studies. a survey of 5,000 librarians found that 1 in 5 have had sex between the stacks. will manly, and i love his name, did the survey in 1992, but bosses refused to print the results and fired him. first of all, do you believe 1 in 5 of whatever your profession is? come on. i thought you were supposed to be quiet in libraries. well waa! is no place safe? i mean, is no place safe? no, no place is safe. i cannot believe that of librarians. doesn t your mother work at the library of congress? i knew that was coming. sammi. sammi. i d like her why doesn t she do our survey of everybody at the library of congress. that s true. we ll put her to work. let s go over to miss sara. a whole new meaning to book club. we re doing a mother s day contest, so if you feel we want you to go to klgandhoda.com, and tell us how your mother figure makes magic in your life i m sorry. i m still laughing about the library. back to you guys. go on our website. coming up next, actress melissa joan hart, she talks about love lost and what i wore. right after this. you take just once a month. it s simponi™, and taken with methotrexate, it helps relieve the pain, stiffness, and swelling of ra with one dose a month. visit 4simponi.com to see if you qualify for a full year of cost support. simponi™ can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious and sometimes fatal events can occur, such as infections, cancer in children and adults, heart failure, nervous system disorders, liver or blood problems, and allergic reactions. before starting simponi™, your doctor should test you for tb and assess your risk of infections, including fungal infections and hepatitis b. ask your doctor if you ve been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. tell your doctor if you re prone to infections, or develop symptoms such as fever, fatigue, cough, or sores. you should not start simponi™ if you have an infection. 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( snickering, laughing ) morning sir. beautiful day, isn t it? we take the time for our cheese to mature. before we bake it into every delicious cracker. because at cheez-it, real cheese matters. what s wrong with me? big picture, you re obsessive compulsive, but the immediate problem requires a seasoned chiropractor. it must be that stupid dating spell. that s melissa joan hart, charming us as sabrina the teenage witch. that s so long ago, i m like a little girl. she s all grown up, and taking her magic to the stage for love, loss and what i wore. very funny, very moving, we loved it, and you re in this rotatic cast. since april 1st, i ll do another week and a new cast is coming in for may. it s such a great show. shirley wright plays jinji, judy gold, great comedienne, and just a great cast. such fun every night. you enjoy the whole live element. i do. there s something it s such an athennic form of acting. you go from sequins, you get to take your bow, and you go home. you also have your lines in front of you in case you need them. it s a storyteller s play, it is so quick. you really made news, i think it was 2009 with your weight loss story on people. that was one of those until you saw the two pictures near each other, you didn t realize the dramatic weight loss. i know, they put the one on the cover right after i had my second baby. how did you lose the weight? just diet and exercise, you know, i gave myself a good six weeks two weeks of getting my diet in shape before i even started exercising, then started working with a trainer. i love doing classes. i don t like going to the gym. once my body started working right, it just kept going. but people were quite cruel in the blogs and after having babies and stuff, i think people didn t know what to do with me. i went from being a teenager to a mom, and of course me being heavier and my body changing, people are like, who is she? then they thought i was in my 50s, and i was getting cast of a mom of four on sitcoms, nobody knew what to do with me. how did you escape the trappings, of being a teenager in the spotlight, and we see so many falling off the ledge, but you managed to hang in there. i think you forget about a lot of the ones that maybe are having the boring lives, the good, solid, normal lives. or happy lives. exactly. exactly. but to the public it s just not a train wreck, so it s not as interesting. you have candace cam ran, sara geller, jennifer love hewitt, they re so talented, have longevity. they re getting their sleep. they re having families, and maybe they have husbands that are working. that s the difference. you always have to have a life to go home to or you ll end up being lonely in the clubs. and i think people also forget sometimes hollywood is an artists community, and people there are a little eccentric, a little off, and the alcohol and drugs maybe add to that. if either of your boys wanted to go into show business, what would you say? they would definitely have to graduate high school and they could do whatever they wanted. i would encourage it in certain ways, but i wouldn t force them to do is. how old are they? 2 and 4. you re here for another reason. i have a bunch of constitution going on. my girlfriend, salay moon frey, and we re on isle of gain, and i ve got a new show airing in august. fun. on abc family. it will be airing in august, so very close, called melissa & joey. easy title. perfect. somewhere along it is line you have. and i m on twitter all the time. mellijhart. we can answer your problems. the question is, can this marriage be saved? if you have heartburn more than one day a week, try prilosec otc. it shuts down many acid-producing stomach pumps for twenty-four hours of heartburn protection with just one pill a day. for frequent heartburn, try prilosec otc. 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[ female announcer ] these cookies aren t magic, but they make magic happen. that s because glad has partnered with cookies for kids cancer. it s small bake sales like these that help raise big money for pediatric cancer research. together, we can make a difference. one container at a time. because with glad, the care that goes in is the care that comes out. music plays [ sneezing ] [ male announcer ] what are you gonna miss when you have an allergy attack? benadryl® is more effective than claritin® at relieving your worst symptoms runny nose, sneezing, and watery eyes and works when you need it most. benadryl®. you can t pause life. back on this booze day, with today s countdown to memorial day and the inevitable task of finding a perfect pair of shorts. sure. there are times when a little more coverage is called for. our glamour girl is here with help, suzie schwartz is the editor at large of glamour. i used to hate shorts, but now that i know what leases good on different bodies, i love them. you have four different body types. we do. first of our petite girl. her name is libby. come on out, libby. here s the trick. when you have short legislation, you want to make them look longer. short shorts make short legs look longer. those are by zana di. every pair of shorts we have are $40. you have to be under 20. you have to have really great legs or self tanners. you can t wear spanx under those. that s a great top that everybody is wearing. and this bag is by fossil. it s my weekend bag. i have it in three colors. and look at the topsiders. it is an editor s favorite, $90. she should go to nantucket. she s one of our interns. all right. next we have a woman who has a bit of fuller hips. her name is lakeisha. right. the trick with lakeisha, is when you have fuller thighs, is you want to wear a short that s wider on the sides, because it makes your thighs look slimmer. and you don t want them gripping skin. i like to add a bright purple top, that s by at j.c. penney s. the shoes, have you ever gone to the victoria s secret catalog? they have the best shoes. yes, really cute. and i try to match the skin tone, because it makes your legs look longer. i do like the heel with a pair of shorts. ann taylor loft, it s so cute. it seems like it got upgraded. they have a new creative director there. who s our next model? our next model is sade. we saw her hanging out, and i love these, these are by newport news. when you re curvy, go for a bit of a longer legs. if you have cellulite, this is what you want to wear. bright red is fresh. she could wear this to work, $30 blazer from old navy. old navy is fantastic. one of the places we can both go and find stuff we love. and i love the fringed bag, and the shoes are again colin stuart. i like where the blazer hit, too. if it s too shot, it won t work. and long blazers are in, too. what do you need me for? i was thinking, gosh the shorter the blazer do we have another model? we do. the last model is teresa. she wanted to wear heels, but we wouldn t let her. those are by the gap. what s great is they are ant anti-muffin top short. and they re high enough to cover up your stomach, but not so high they look outdated. we like pairing it with a long cardigan. where did that come from? those are the only two things, and those are vintage, but you can get something like that at aldo. i love the hat. everybody is wearing hats, it makes you look fresh. and if you re having hair issues, nothing better. thank you, ladies. you all look adorable. and. i just wore a pair of shorts and a sexy top, instead of showing cleavage with a beaded top with high heels, and it looked like. you went to a dress skimpy party? i was invited, and i had a great time. come on. hear the call of the wild. we ll be back with that. look at that. some very wonderful animals, right after this. hershey s chocolate goodness that brings people together. hershey s makes it a s more. you make it special. pure hershey s. 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[ female announcer ] used mops can grow bacteria. swiffer wetjet starts with a clean pad every time. and its antibacterial cleaner kills bacteria mops can spread around. swiffer gives cleaning a whole new meaning. lovely lady time for today s kitchen, and we re getting saucy with the family. say hello to marianne, john, anthony, elena from the framed eatery fresco by scotto. you wanted to do veggies today. the veggies are so seesy to make action and they re low in calories, vitamin b, what could be better? the only thing that may have a few calories is the stuffing, which is bread crumbs and some grated cheese, parsley those. capers. capers. thank you very much. a little more green, oregano. and salt and pepper. mix it all, but the key to this is that you use bread crumbs in the stuffing. so it gives it moisture. holds it together. and holds it together. then a little butter but you could use pam and cut down on of course you can. cook it for 30 minutes, 350, and walked be better. are we going to try them? how could we not? and then stuffed tomatoes. hold on, let us bite this. now i can go? beefsteak tomatoes. i ve cuff off the top, cleaned the insides out, i now have ricotta, parmesan, lots of cheese. mozzarella. pecorino. get in there. nice, nice, nice. now we stuff the tomatoes. put a little olive oil on the top, put it in the oven. just like that. how long do you cook that for? that s a trick question. so next week you get a good-looking guy, younger than me to give you the answer. tell us the story. 20 minutes. 20 minutes, you bake it, it looks like this, and basically you can tell when the tomato starts to shrink, it should be served as room temperature. that s amore. a little parsley, and basically that s it. fantastic. kind of hard to eat that. baby eggplant, baby zucchini, anything you can stuff. you want to gut the zucchini or eggplant. i love it when you talk like that. we have in the cuisinart, a little goat cheese. i need some bread crumbs thank you very much. olive oil take the sun-dried tomatoes. i love that. a little oregano, a little parsley, and egg to bind it all. what you ll find is after that s done, some salt and pepper, what we ve got is this mixture here. i kept the pine nuts on the side, because i like them whole. we have the zucchini or the egg plants, and then we re going to stuff it. simple as that. we re going to a little olive oil. oh, cut it out. you don t have to use the put butter in the pan. we re going to go to elena. elena. the only way we do vegetarian is with sausage with your stuffing the vidalia onions with some stuffing. we re going to add some parmesan cheese to our mixture, rosemary, parsley, and it s called vidalia, because it was first born in vidalia, georgia. so mix this up. we re going to stuff this onion and bake it, 350 about 40 minutes until nice and tender. that s what it looks like. oh, my god. did you try that? it s a great substitute for pasta or potatoes. i m on the eggplant. anthony, come here. you know, if you couldn t i ve got a big one here. we love it when the scottos come. do you feel the vegetables today? and if you re visiting new york, go, it s a magnificent meet at fresco. get in here. i will as soon as i finish my eggplant. we ll be back with more of today. that is killer. get in there. oh, my god. we hated leaving the kitchen. it was so good. it was so delicious. time for miss sara. you need to get a bite while you still can. that s the first stop. we re talking about the library conversation, about the librarians. mark wrote in that explains the crowds in the how-to section. kelly wrote gosh, that makes me think of the librarians and which ones. ew. and heather was like, i did not need to know. that s what we do around here. we have to let the public understand certain things. tomorrow brandi and her brother ray jay. and lynda carter herself. have a great day. remember it s booze day, so you know. yeah. 100% fruit & veggie juice with no added sugar. just one glass equals two servings of fruits and vegetables. it s the fruit you love mixed with the veggies you need. this this is how we mix it. my daughter obsessed with fashion. she never met a label she didn t love. then, my best friend took me to t.j.maxx. i thought it was knock offs, but i came home with all the brands we both love. t.j.maxx has buyers that deal directly with designers. so i save big! two diehard fashionistas are now proud maxxinistas! t.j.maxx. let us make a maxxinista out of you!