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takes matt back to the place it all happened this tuesday, june 22nd, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. are you real? are you a hologram? i ve been away for a week. it s great to have you back. did you have a good time? i went to cape cod with the family. beautiful weather. good seafood. no complaints. we missed you. thank you, honey. i m glad to be back. a very busy news day beginning with the 10,000-acre wildfire raging near flagstaff, arizona. officials believe it was started by an abandoned campfire. we ll go live to the scene. and the arrest of joran van der sloot, the judge handling his case actually visited his prison cell on monday but van der sloot refused to talk to him. now his lawyer wants his client s detailed confession thrown out. is there any chance that s going to happen? we ll get the latest on that story in just a little while. and al set a lend a hand record in san francisco monday. today he s made his way to bozeman, montana and, guess what, al is promising that old record from monday will fall this morning. we re going to check in with him in a bit if he doesn t take off with those horses. al on the business end of a horse. also, our exclusive interview with jon metz that courageous man from connecticut. remember this story he actually tried to saw off his arm to save his own life. this morning he ll open up in great detail about the events that led up to what had to be an agonizing decision and he ll also talk about whether he made the right choice and what his life is like now. but let us begin on this tuesday morning with those wildfires raging out west. abc s kristen welker is in flagstaff, arizona. kristen, good morning. reporter: good morning, to you, matt. investigators believe this all started with a campfire. firefig firefighters have made progress overnight. so far they have contained 10% of this blaze but with heavy winds expected for a third day in a row their work is far from finished. winds continue to fan the schultz fire in flagstaff, arizona. the strong winds along with high temperatures and steep terrain have made it tough for firefighters to contain the blaze. crews have come from all over the region to help. it s just extreme behavior. small helicopters can t fly. and our heavy helicopters are actually having some issues right now staying up there as well. reporter: hundreds of residents have been ordered to leave their homes and more evacuations are expected because the fast-moving flames are still threatening neighborhoods. some even had to leave their pets behind. at a community meeting, evacuees acknowledged their uncertainty and fear. we were driving up from phoenix, we could see the smoke in the distance. as we got closer we could see flames and we could see the light because it was dark put out flames when embers ely landed in the bushes in her backyard. it just shot up so fast, it sounded like a train. i ve never heard anything quite like that. reporter: so far firefighters have been focused on protecting homes and lives while trying to get the upper hand on this massive blaze. at this point we have not lost a home because we have been spending so much time on protecting homes. that tends to reduce our ability to work on the perimeter of the fire a little bit. reporter: north of arizona in colorado springs a fire is burning along the royal gorge, a popular tourist area. nearby homes, businesses and campgrounds had to be evacuated. very scary because it s getting real close to the highway and it could jump the highway and it only has a matter of maybe ten miles to get to our house. reporter: now no homes have been lost but firefighters are urging people to be patient. they say it could be several days before they get back into their homes. matt? kristen, thanks very much. that s kristen welker in flagstaff, arizona, this morning. it s now five minutes after the hour. here s meredith. controlled burns are being used to destroy some of the oil still spewing into the sea on day 64 in the disaster in the gulf. kerry sanders has made his way to the middle of the gulf some 50 miles from shore for an upclose look at the operation. the sun rises here it is a g, stunning view. take a look. that is what used to be deepwater horizon. now it is the recovery effort. you re looking at that flame shooting out there. that is the natural gas that they re burning off that s coming up on the other side there is some other flame, a little hard to make out. that is the q-4,000, a vessel, a somewhat submersible, where they re capturing 15,000, 10,000 barrels of oil. they re forcing air in there and they re burning that oil. of course it s 60,000 barrels a day that is flowing so it s only a portion of the oil that is coming up. as you said, they re also using controlled burns. our voyage out here to get to this spot was really, thankfully, uneventful in somewhat choppy seas. just getting to the deepwater horizon is complicated. have a good trip. reporter: late monday we began our 11-hour voyage out to the crippled well on a 230-foot vessel named the skye falgott going out to the site and broadcast live to show people what s going on moment by moment. to do that it takes technology. on the back of the vessel is our satellite truck we call the blue mobile named after my friend the late nbc correspondent david bloom who used the truck to broadcast live from the iraq war. it now helps us go live today in the middle of the gulf of mexico. not far away the controlled burns have been an ongoing operation, trying to stop the oil here close to the source before it makes its way to shore. that ugly, thick, black, putrid smoke. it s all intentional and both the coast guard and bp executives say it s working. incredible. reporter: do we need to add some additional diesel? . reporter: if there is any good news in this disaster say the strike team leaders, it s that this oil, light, sweet crude, is combustible. that looks like ignition. reporter: the fuse to burn it off, a macgyver-like creation, two milk jugs taped together with floats and then ignited with a flare. the flare melts the jugs which spreads the diesel which flares up and then sparks the crude on fire. if it doesn t ignite the first time, it usually burns the second or third time unless that oil is what they call emulsified, oil mixed with water, making it nearly impossible to catch fire. this oil is being very stubborn. it s definitely burning some of the crude oil now but it s fighting the wind and the wave action to sustain that burning. reporter: the operation is so successful they ve added another strike team so they can now have three teams working. it s a daylight operation only. they have done 269 burns. some have lasted minutes, others 14 hours. oil burned so far, an estimated 10 million gallons. and so as the sun rises here over the gulf on day 64, you can see the vessels here. we count more than 27 vessels here in support of the operation right over there. that s the enterprise, the q-4,000 where they re burning it off, the relief wells are just a little bit to the side there. you can see the relief wells over there where they re drilling down. lls is slightly ahead of relief schedule. if everything goes as planned, those relief wells will actually be able to make that turn and by august meet the pipe and start injecting some heavy mud/concrete to try to shut this down. meredith? all right, kerry, thank you so much. kerry sanders reporting from the middle of the gulf. amazing to see him there. no question. a real bird s eye view of what s going on. natalie morales is filling in while ann is off. natalie, good morning to you. good morning, matt. welcome back, meredith. good morning, everyone. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan is apologizing for a magazine profile in which he criticizes the obama a administration and the white house has lots of questions about it. nbc s white house correspondent savannah guthrie joins us. savannah, what can you tell us reporter: good morning, s natalie. they re very much being heard in a very explosive way at the white house this morning. officials here are extremely angry about it. this is the profile called the runaway general. mcchrystal has been ordered by the president to appear in person in the situation room tomorrow. there was a regularly scheduled afghanistan/pakistan meeting. he would have joined by teleconference. now he is expected to be here. this article contains quotes from mcchrystal and also some of his senior advisers, his inner circle, very much criticizing the obama administration officials including the president himself. mcchrystal saying the first time ghanistan he thought the on president seemed intimidated, overwhelmed, unprepared. it s a five-page article with lots of quotes like that. administration officials are very angry about it. no word on what action, if any, they ll take against mcchrystal but mcchrystal has been on the phone calling a lot of washington officials apologizing and has written an official apology saying i extend my sincerest apology for this profile. it was a mistake reflecting poor judgment and should never have happened. . there s news about the budget director peter orszag? reporter: he is probably leaving this summer. w why? political and personal. most stay about 18 months. if he had stayed much longer he would have to get into the next budget cycle and be in for the savannah guthrie with a lot going on at the white house. thanks so much. reporter: sure. faisal shahzad is expected to face life in prison after pleading guilty from the attempted bomb attempt in times square. justice correspondent pete williams has more. good morning to you, pete. reporter: natalie, good morning. this guilty plea came as a surprise during what was to be a routine court appearance by faisal shahzad. he admitted driving his carloaded with explosives into times square on may 1st. three separate bombs, he said, all of which failed. he also told the judge he received five days of bomb training from taliban terrorists in pakistan. they gave him $16,000 to carry out his plan. in court he showed no remorse for trying to set off a deadly bomb at one of the nation s busiest tourist attractions and said he wanted to plead guilty. 100 times over he predicted terror plots like his would continue until the u.s. pulls out of afghanistan and stops drone attacks in pakistan. now this is not a plea agreement. ncessions for pleading guilty. faisal shahzad is 30. he ll be sentenced in october when a judge will probably order him to serve the rest of his life in prison. natalie? pete williams covering the story there from washington, thank you. american airlines says it has found a potentially serious safety problem on at least two of idz wide-body jets. the discovery of cracks near the engines have prompted the airline to reinspect almost its entire fleet of 676s. four people have been charged in connection with a student beating caught on tape. a teacher charged in the attack was fired. three other educators are accused of failing to report the april incident. and tens of thousands of lakers fans turned out monday to celebrate their team s second consecutive national championship and their 16th title overall. it is now 7:13. back over to meredith and matt. it seems they ll be celebrating for a long time. looks like fun ac good morning. it s mild and muggy on this tuesday morning. temperatures around the region are in the 70s. it s 77 at reagan national airport. near 70 in the suburbs and rural areas. highs low and mid-90s. late this afternoon in evening, a chance of passing thunderstorms. there s a slight risk of isolated storm producing damaging winds and hail. tomorrow, hazy, hot, humid, mid 90s. smaller chance of storms. greater chance on thursday. coming up in the next half hour, we ll be talking about the dangerous heat going on around the country. and now on the joran van der sloot case and his refusal to speak with a judge during a meeting inside a peruvian prison. nbc s michelle kosinski is in peru with the very latest. good morning, michelle. reporter: good morning, meredith. now that joran van der sloot s case is moving forward after his detailed confession to murder, he is taking a big step back wanting to recant his explanation of what happened that night asking for a sort of do-over, for police to interview him all over again. he made the long, dusty journey to castro castro prison. the judge, lawyers, to talk to joran van der sloot, but he would say not a word. he and his lawyer have a new game plan now, to have joran s confession thrown out and for him to be reinterviewed by police. in his words to a dutch newspaper i was tricked, was really scared during the interrogation, confused, just want it had to end. they kept telling me if you sign these papers, you ll be extradited to the netherlands. ill, during that confession in which joran in great detail described savagely beating, then suffocating student stephany flores, a confession he later repeated to a psychologist, he said i will tell the whole truth. i don t want to live with this guilt. at the end, he stated he turned himself in voluntarily and didn t want to change anything about what he said. at castro castro, amid the barren hills, joran has had only one visitor besides his attorney, a friend from holland who brought him several novels. his only personal items now in his private cell. one guard told us other inmates are already talking about killing him if they got the chance. officials gave us a high security tour of the lockup. surprisingly clean and quiet. in some parts they let us see, inmates grow roses. it s elegant here, jokes one. they make sculptures, delicate ceramics. here s one of bart simpson. walter ramos grew up in los angeles, now charged here with drug trafficking. he hasn t seen the much talked about joran who has no access to these public areas. they re worried about him so much. they shouldn t be, though. they shouldn t be. he s safe here. reporter: they only wanted us to see the nice side of castro castro prison, so here surrounded by flowers and plants and painted mint green is the outside of joran van der sloot s cellblock which he now shares with one other prisoner. guards kept shooing us away from anyone who wasn t hand-picked. the inmates smiled and chuckled that all is wonderful. joran, though, complains to the dutch newspaper he has had unwanted visitors in his cell at night rats. before his confession, he did call his mother and tell her the interrogation was very rude, that he was worried police were trying to railroad him into a confession. his attorney also says the lawyer who was appointed during that time was inadequate. now it s up to the judiciary to decide was he wronged during that step of the process? something police here from the beginning have flatly denied. meredith? michelle kosinski, thank you very much. dan abrams is our chief legal analyst. good morning to you. van der sloot meets with the peruvian judge yesterday, refuses to issue a formal statement. the judge has to decide whether he will stand trial. what will the judge be looking for? whether there s enough evidence to send him to trial and i think in any country in the world there would be enough evidence. put aside the confession to take joran van der sloot to trial. remember, we re focusing now on his alleged confession. in addition to the confession you have all that videotaped evidence. you have the fact that he the videotape that was within the hoe it tell, entering with stephany flores and leaving by himself? of course. and the fact they walked in together, they left the casino together, that she is then found dead in that hotel room and he then leaves alone. that s pretty strong evidence in and of itself to send the case to trial. two weeks ago joran van der sloot did confess to killing stephany flores and then on monday he retracted that confession in an interview with a judge newspaper. he says he made it under duress, was tricked by police. how will this impact the case? it reminds me of the natalee holloway situation where he would confess and then take it back. absolutely. very reminiscent. just to say you were scared isn t enough to try and retract a confession. there are a lot of people who are scared when they re being questioned. he s saying he was tricked. the police even in the united states let s not call it trickery but engage in tactics a lot to try to get someone to tell the truth. now joran van der sloot is saying i wasn t telling the truth and as a result you shouldn t trust what i said there. but it s always very hard to go back and retract a confession once you ve said it. you ve got to prove more than just that i was scared. so the onus is on him not on the police at this point. once he s made that statement, he s going to have to demonstrate to a court that that statement is invalid, in effect, either because he didn t have proper representation or because he s coerced, et cetera. let s talk about the representation because his lawyer claims the defense lawyer who was in the room with him was appointed by the state and that s problematic. does he have a point there? it s an argument to make. it s probably not going to win the day. i mean, for example, here we have public defenders who are paid for by the government. they re a september department, et cetera, but in this case they re saying this lawyer was effectively, quote, ineffective. being able to represent joran van der sloot always a tough argument to make anywhere you re making it. so what are the circumstances where this could be thrown out? look, if he was truly coerced, right, if he was threatened, if they said to him unless you sign this we re going to harm you, or if you don t sign this then blank, then it s really an unreliable statement. if this lawyer was totally ineffective, if the system had been corrupted, in effect, then it s possible you get it thrown out but a very tough argument for van der sloot. convinced he s going to stand trial? absolutely. or no trial at all in which case they just get rid of the case before the trial even happens. just ahead, matt s exclusive interview with jon metz, the connecticut man who attempted to cut off his own arm after getting it stuck in the basement furnace. exactly what happened, how he made his decision and just how much pain he endured. there s a movement afoot in this country. a student-led revolution. a rallying cry for change in an otherwise unchanged educational system. people like me have something to say. people like me demand to be heard. people like me think it s time higher education was held to a higher standard. because it s time all people with talent were recognized. it s time technology transformed the way universities teach. and tradition no longer stood in the way of getting an education. people like me want a choice. people like me want to make a difference. people like me demand a different kind of university. one that puts my talent first. one that learns how i learn. to challenge me. to support me. a mind. on campus. on my terms. it s time a university recognized people like me. people like me. people like me. just ahead, have you tried diet after diet without seeing results? 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her family speaks just ahead. let us begin with jon metz and his remarkable story of determination and courage. we talked to him exclusively on monday just two weeks after he lost his arm in that harrowing basement ordeal. you described these weeks as surreal. can you try and tell me where you are mentally and emotionally right now? well, i think i m in a pretty good spot. i ve come to grips with the reality of the situation. it was monday night, june 7th, when jon went down to his basement to do some routine maintenance on his boiler. he was wearing gym shorts with no pockets and didn t have a cell phone. it shouldn t have been more than a ten-minute job, and, as we know it turned into a three-day ordeal. yeah. jon was cleaning out the soot between the boiler s fins when he reached inside to retrieve a tool he had dropped. his left arm got stuck between his shoulder and elbow. it s like the spikes in the parking garages, you can go over them in one direction and you can t come out the other. that is a perfect analogy. that is a perfect analogy. and if i had maintained a cool head from the get-go, it s possible i could have gotten my arm out, but my knee-jerk reaction was yank, yank, yank. when you realized, wait a minute, i can t get my arm out of here, what s going through your mind? panic is it doesn t quite convey what was going through my mind. terror, i think, maybe would be a better word because i could see what was happening and the blood dripping down into the heating bleeding pretty badly? bleeding badly and i could feel the scuff mark and i could see almost instantly my arm starting to swell. living alone, his fiancee out of state in north carolina, his arm trapped and now badly injured inside his boiler, jon screamed for help. you did scream? oh, i screamed. for a combined 48 hours. top of your lungs, help, stuck in the basement? my first pleas for help were, i m stuck, somebody come in and come down and help me. when it became clear the arm was dying, that s when the pleas turned to, i m dying down here. somebody please help me. 12 hours into his ordeal infection started to set in and jon could smell his flesh rotting. as much as i didn t want to look at it, it is what i needed to see to move on to the next phase of the plan. did you have a sense that someone was out there trying to figure out what happened to jon metz? i did. i absolutely was confident that help would be coming. at that point, though, i kind of made an executive decision that this arm was dead. looking around the basement jon thought he could use his saw blades to cut off his arm and free himself. he spent six hours contemplating the decision. i didn t see how it could be possible to do that to oneself. and yet faced with what you describe as no good options it s exactly what you decided to do. can you just describe to me how you even begin something like that? it started with prayer. and thinking about, you know, the people that i d be leaving behind, thinking about my dog upstairs who, you know, had also at that point gone three days without water. i thought of my parents visiting the next week and how traumatic it would be for them, you know, to come into the house and find the scene. you made a tourniquet out of your shirt. so you tied that up just below your shoulder. yep. you didn t just start and finish. i mean, there were stops and starts here. yes. despite the fact your arm had gone numb there was a lot of pain involved with this. yes. i would say about 90% of the cut was surprisingly pain-free. the pain was in having to look at it and see it and see what you were doing or what i was doing to myself. it really wasn t until i got to kind of the underside of the arm where the nerves were really concentrated where the pain became so unbear be, i can t even describe the pain. i was so convinced that i was going to die, that i began actually and the blood splattered on the boiler trying to write a note to my family and my fiancee. jon drifted in and out of consciousness. he says he drank boiler water to try to stay alive. mentally it gave me a boost that here is water. it s enough to at least get by. after lapping some of that up i grabbed the blade and resumed cutting and got through the bone and got through most of the flesh and that s when i ran into a little bit of a problem. which was? which was the bundle of nerves. running under the underside of my arm. i tried cutting a little bit more, hit another nerve and, again, lightning bolt-like pain and that s when i just said, i can t do it. i can t finish this cut. for the next 18 hours, jon sat alone in his basement, his arm nearly severed. at any point it s hard to even ask you this question at any point did you consider using one of those blades for a more final purpose? i did. about halfway through this ordeal, you know, maybe that s the best way, you know, to get out of this terrible situation, and that s really when some of the more posh things in my life came to the forefront my family and friends. i guess i came to the conclusion that it would be selfish, that i had a lot to live for. after three days trapped in his basement, his friend stopped by the house and when jon didn t answer the door, he called 911. . i m at my friend s house. no one has heard from him in a couple of days. police and fire crews arrived at the house and using heavy tools freed jon s arm from the boiler. and before i knew it we were zooming down the interstate on the way to the hospital and i looked up and had one of the emts i wish i knew his name. i remember him looking down at me and saying, jon, it s going to be okay. we re bringing you to the hospital, and i just i will never forget that. he was like an angel, you know, kept looking down at me. it was really it was really awesome. when jon arrived in the emergency room, he was in what doctors call a death spiral, infection was setting in fast, he d lost half his body s volume ott ellner says jon s decision to try to cut off his own arm saved his life. did he make the right decision? was that the right course of action? without a doubt. the action jon took, be it courageous, saved his life. by actually cutting into the dead, nonviable tissue that prevented the spread of infection and enabled him to continue on. i m doing well, how are you? two weeks after his ordeal, metz says his incredible story even surprises him. did what you learned in the basement teach you a little bit about how you ll handle this adversity for the rest of your life? i don t know that i d ever really admit it or believe it but i did learn that i have more strength than i guess i would have thought. he s got a lot of strength. there s no question. that interview took place at st. francis hospital in hartford where metz is being treated. i thought it was so interesting he talked about getting the courage up was when he stopped thinking about his parents and his dog, took it away from himself and what it would do to them. the reason he was doing these chores, the list of things was because his parents were coming to visit and all he could think was them coming into the house and finding him there after that long a period of time. jon will take us back to the basement where he made that courageous decision and he ll explain what he was thinking each step of the way. good morning. humidity s increased overnight. temperatures are now climbing into the 70s. it s 77 in washington. so it s pleasant now, but later today, it will be uncomfortably hot and humid by early afternoon to mid afternoon the mid 90s. later, from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. we could get thunderstorms, some could produce damaging winds and hail. and more humid tomorrow and thursday, and still hot, a chance of afternoon storms. and that s your latest weather. mr. lauer? 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within three 0 five pounds, chip, chip, chip away. every time you chip away just three to five pounds, your blood pressure drops, your stress hormones drop, you start to feel better. everything from your feet up is a weight bearing joint. you take some of that weight off, your feet stop hurting, your knees stop hurting, but you have to think of it incrementally. your plan isn t sustainable, which is with a debbie found out, that diet being the four-letter word, it s about lifesty lifestyle. right. and i don t necessarily think that diet is such a dirty word. it all depends on how you define at keep you feeling satisfied and energized not cranky and deprived and should also be a launching pad for permanent lifestyle change. if you could think of diet as this is how i live my life, i have no problem. if you think of diet, i ve fixed myself and then it s over, i have an issue. i understand the allure of the quick fix fad plans. they set you up for failure. i tell clients for every restricted fad plan there is a ferocious binge right around the corner. it s not going to work. and the last reason you say, nancy, diets fail is because you can t forgive your slip-ups. so if you do make a slip-up, like i ate the piece of cake who cares? shake it off. who cares? start over. my sister just lost 50 pounds over this last year. she did it the old-fashioned way, she measured her food, knew what she put in her mouth and said i m not going to lose weight because i don t want to find it again, i m shedding it and it is bye-bye. you won t gain weight from a slice of cake or one rich dinner meal. shake it off. all right, dr. nancy snyderman, thank you so much and joy bauer, as always. to take our quiz text the word well to 46833. just ahead, are you a believer? three women who say they can contact the other side. need fo. all you want without any dyes or perfumes. all you expect from the number-one free clear detergent. that s because all free clear is the number-one recommended detergent by dermatologists and the number-one choice of moms. plus, like regular strength all, it has its own powerful stainlifters that fight tough dirt and stains. try all free clear. it s #1 for your sensitive skin. blend it. sprinkle it. sweet! 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nearly six months later no suspect has been named in the case. now her family fears the investigation has stagnated. we re going to talk to sladewski s mom, her sister and her boyfriend coming up. ws desk while ann is taking time off. natalie, good morning to you. good morning to you, matt and meredith. good morning, everyone. the top commander in afghanistan has been ordered to appear in person at tomorrow s white house monthly meeting on afghanistan and pakistan after criticizing the obama administration in a magazine profile. > an arizona wildfire has now ey spread to within a few hundred yards of some homes. on monday ground crews got help from firefighting helicopters but high winds grounded planes. a top bp executive said today his company has a legal and moral obligation to help the gulf coast recover from the oil disaster now in its 64th day. overseas markets are mostly lower this morning. erin burnett is at the new york stock exchange for us. reporter: there was a lot of optimism about china that has o additional things to watch today. one, the federal reserve begins its two day meeting on interest rates. the decision comes tomorrow. the fed has put in place new rules for banker compensation. in a review about 25 big american banks said a lot of changes had not been made, too much risk was still being taken and the rules affect nearly 8,000 banks but do not include caps on compensation. back to you. erin burnett at the new york stock exchange, thank you. britain s prince harry has followed in the stood steps of his mother princess diana who ince harry was in mozambique.gn on monday he safely detonated one of the devices. it is now 8:02. time for a check of the weather with al roker from bozeman, montana. announcer: today s weather is brought to you by children s advil. relief you can trust. all right. thanks a lot, natalie. we re not even revealing our charity just yet. we have so much we want to tell you exactly how this is going to work out. first of all, we have a $100,000 donation from an anonymous donor. this white board, in fact, donated from expo, one of our donors. that will allow the folks at this charity to build this barn. now i m going to introduce john castle, a trustee of the m.j. charitable trust. they promised to buy five acres of land for our charity if they could get the money to buy the barn so, john, what do you have for us? we have a check for $360,000. wow! which, by the way, tops is now our sting l largest donation in one day. that s $360,000 and now we have to bring in lee of the durham family. you own the land that s being bought and you re repeating that. so you re doing something else for us. we are. on behalf of my family, my brothers and i decided that we would love to donate an additional four acres of land. wow. that s amazing. and that brings us to a total right now of $560,000, and i should also add another $6,000 to that because there are anonymous you guys kicked in another $6,000. my mother just decided to kick in $6,000 and that will be covering all of the office supplies. $566,000. and we haven t even announced it yet. man. and $5 more good morning. at this hour, the temperatures are warming up. we ve got clouds coming through, but it s near 80 in washington and near the bay. and in the suburbs, as well, we re well into the 70s. near 70 in the shenandoah valley. out of the mountains in the 60s. showers coming into western maryland and western west virginia, advancing east, move into the metro later this afternoon and evening. before then, low to mid 90s. a small chance of isolated storm could produce damaging winds and hail 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. we have people passing the hat. do you have something for us? 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and when i said that, what i meant, i think it s obvious to anybody who has ever seen the show, was cutting off one s arm has to be the last, most desperate act that you can do. so what of all the hundreds of tools in this basement, there s got to be something that i can use. but you couldn t get to anything because you re stuck and there are some things that are tantalizingly close over there. it s been put away but i had my reciprocating saw on the table there, i had my drill a table saw here. there happened to be at the time a drill press right here and i had thoughts of everything from knocking this band saw over and somehow now this weighs 350 pounds so this clearly was not rational thought but that s the thought process i was going through. something down here has to be able to save me. and i tried a piece of cord, i tried swinging it it and grabbing a weight that was over there to see if i could drag it over and smash the cast iron. before all this, though, i m looking over here and see the window, this is the side of your house and i can see your neighbor s house is 20 yards, so you re screaming at the top of your lungs but because you re down here in concrete and brick, they couldn t hear a thing. and what s worse, the boiler, again, the outline is here, the end of it was here and about as tall as i am so from where i was squatting, i didn t have a direct line of sight to the window. because what i had thought of if i could only throw something through that window, i might be able then to project my voice but here is what really hurt me. you ll notice the bead of caulk running around so i had winterized this window and all of the sill and everything and so it really was an airtight, soundproof environment. and without getting too gory, i know this has all been cleaned up in here, but by the time this ordeal was over, this floor was covered in it blood. yeah. and even right now if you look over here as the water was spilling from the boiler, it started collecting over here. this is normal gray concrete or at least it was ten days ago. you can see it s orange, orange/red. that s from the staining and the water and blood seeping towards this drain. and these are the blades. those are three of the four or five blades that i used. still with blood on them. you can still see they re splattered with blood a little bit and i had a few others that i think i mentioned when we spoke earlier i had dropped during the process of cutting because the pain was so intense and down they fell into the heating box. again, out of my reach. i m thinking this place could be a haunted kind of place for you because of what happened but you can flip the coin, also, jon, and say this is the place where in desperate times you took the action that saved your yes, and that s the attitude i m trying to take. this has always been a therapeutic kind of place for me to come home after a long day of work and make i m working on a table over there right now. you can see the top of the table and to build something and so i m trying to get back to the point where it s still kind of a therapeutic place and i m not 100% there yet, but you ll get there. you ll get there. by the way, doctors are hoping to fit jon with a prosthetic arm by the end of the month. a fund has been set up to cover the cost of that. you can learn more about that on our website todayshow.com. up next, are police closer to solving the murder of an aspiring model, paula sladewski? 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meredith, it s been very frustrating because there s no new information. i know nothing more that i did then. police say they re still following leads and that s as much information they give us. they say there s nothing to impart. they say they re still following leads. that s the stock answer we get. why do you think police have been unable to get a break in the case in all this time? i m not really sure. i m sure that they want to find who did this and they want to solve this case. there could be information out there that they didn t obtain. it s really hard to to say without them giving us any information. you were hired by the family obviously to help look into this. what have you learned about the status of the investigation into paula s death? well, unfortunately, we have e-mailed and called the e investigation and he has not thus far spoken with us. but what would be the rationale for him not speaking to you. well, as a former prosecutor from new york, there can be reasons not to disclose certain sources or to jeopardize certain witnesses. by the same token it would be nice to have a response just in terms of generally speaking what they re following up hop. we actually have an investigator who has turned over witnesses to the police who believe they saw paula leave the club space that night, and we don t know whether those witnesses have been investigated or spoken to. we also don t know whether a rape kit was done, which would be very important information to have. we also don t know whether videos from outside club space and from the surrounding buildings have been obtained. if you take a look at the joran van der sloot case, of course, that can bring an investigation to a very swift conclusion. we don t know if there were videos taken would that tape even be available at this point? is it recorded over? do you know anything about things like that, how long is it sustainable? well, different commercial establishments have different policies with regard to how long they retain these things, 30 days, 90 days, some longer. we ve sent letters 0 out asking for the evidence to be preserved. we came on the case relatively recently and hope it s still available. kevin, you must be playing this over and over in your mind probably on a daily basis wondering what happened. it s a nightmare. it just doesn t end. i want answers. i want to know what happened at night. i want to know why this happened and just there s nothing. kathy, you lost your daughter in january. we ve talked so much about her death. tell us about her. she was my baby. good morning. it s 8:26 on this tuesday, june 22nd. today marks one year since the deadliest crash in metro s history. nine people died when two trains collide on the red line between fort totten and tacoma. this morning, metro mark the anniversary with a public memorial in fort totten park at 10:00 p.m. a wild scene in tacoma park, maryland. officers chased a stolen car until it crashed into the parking lot of the victory tower apartment building on carol avenue. there were two people in that car, one suspect injured and is in custody. the other ran and has not been caught. you re weather and traffic next. stay with us. good morning. your four-day forecast. highs in the low and mid 90s, scattered late afternoon and evening thunderstorms. small chance of an isolated storm producing damaging winds and hail. hot and humid thursday. an accident hanging traffic up 395 northbound in the hov lane as you head up towards duke street. some traffic getting by. expect delays in the hov lanes from the capital beltway. ahead on news4 midday, a doctor s in the house talking about the concern sunscree this week, be well, be healthy with thegrio.com. understand the challenges we face, overcoming them together. our lives, our world, our health online at thegrio.com. the 22nd day of june, 2010. temperatures in the low 70s right now. that is going to change dramatically. we re going into the upper 80s. the humidity is kicking up as well. it s going to be a bit of a steamy week here in new york city. but we thank these nice people for coming in. i m matt lauer along with meredith vieira and natalie morales. and we re going to check in with mr. roker who is lending a hand today, this time in bozeman, montana, doing his magic there. hey! and we re going to check in with al and his friends in just a couple of minutes. also ahead, are you a believer? we have three women in the n communicate with the dead. they re part of a documentary coming up about a town just about an hour south of buffalo, new york, where apparently a lot of mediums go and people go to see the mediums and we re going to find out more about what they do and how they do it. i am a believer. absolutely. yes, definitely. also coming up, just how much protein do you think you should eat? a lot. i guess it really depends on men, women, body weight and everythi everything. also, should you consider eating only raw foods? coming up a couple answers to those questions and more on our special series be well, be healthy. don t eat raw turkey. that would make cooking so much easier. i would be a great cook if it was all raw food. first, one of hollywood s hottest young actresses, miranda cosgrove, lending a voice to despicable me. miranda, good morning. how are you? you play first of all we all know you from icarly. you are the voice of an animated character. it s so much fun. it s totally different. i would go in my pajamas and then i found out a few days after i got in like that that they were filming me so i kind of tried to dress up a little and redeem myself. you have a villain and his goal is to steal the gold but he gets side tracked by three orphans. you play margo. tell me about her. it was really fun. i get to be bratty with steve carell and that was really fun and then i m also really protective of my two little sisters. what s it like watching it, because you ve seen the movie. i just got to see it. hearing your voice it s strange hearing my voice but it s fun doing animated stuff. you can go crazy to bring the character alive, so it was really fun. it s not all about animation these days for you. you re busy. you have things going in every direction. a new cd sparks fly. i worked on it for around two years and it s funny when i listen to it i have a song where i was 13 and now i m 17 so it s kind of like really going through my life. a major time of change in anybody s life. so there s a huge progression. you have to be amazed at how much you ve accomplished in a short period of time. thanks. a lot of talent. a lot of talent. the acting what s next? thank you. i don t know. i m going to go to college for sure. hopefully nyu. fantastic. thanks for having me. the movie despicable me from nbc universal hits theaters good morning. i m meteorologist tom kiernan. the humidity has increases overnight. you can see it here in the live view from our sky watcher camera. the air filled with summer haze on this tuesday morning. right now 81 at national airport. we re in the 70s elsewhere. we ll hit the low to mid 90s by later this afternoon. there is a chance of scattered storms developing this afternoon and this evening, between 4:00 and 8:00 p.m. a small risk an isolated storm could produce wind damage or hail. more storms possible tomorrow. and that s your latest weather. now let s check in with uncle willie right now. hey, uncle. can you believe it s hot and incredible and summer isn t even here yet. next week summertime is here. remember nat king cole. i love that song. happy birthday. summertime. we have carol hammann of bella vista, arkansas. a lot of tlc from her family and frien friends. how about that? lorraine sims upland, california. 100 years old today. enjoys watching religious television programs and keeps busine busy chatting on the telephone. and joseph froelich in bismarck, north dakota. happy birthday. catherine thomas, 100 years old, still drives every single week and has her hair done. known for being the best bridge player in the county. happy birthday to you. and we have anna chaimas of paramus, new jersey. right across the river. 100 years old today. served in the women s army corps. happy birthday. and ida, sweet ida wakeling of norwalk, connecticut. she s a retired nurse. and her secret for longevity is has never smoked. a good practice. and frank staluppi of palm beach, california hung up on california. lives independently. former electrician and goes to ihop every day and orders a waffle and they say, what does the sign say? ihop. hotcakes. back to new york where they always have hotcakes for breakfast. willard, thank you very much. i have a question for you. do you believe in ghosts? no! well, boo. up next, the mediums, three women who claim to be in touch with the other side. they think you re wrong, lady. you may not have heard of lily dale, new york, but each year 25,000 people flock there looking for answers from the community s 40 registered mediums. hbo s new documentary no one dies in lily dale goes behind the gates of this unique community. people come here since the 1800s and i think the main reason is to communicate with loved ones who have passed over. they re going to speak to me very quickly, pictures, symbols, colors, impressions. they re not dead. there is no death and there are no dead. that s an illusion. i feel like she s saying who would have thought i would be talking to you in the woods from the other side. they come to a new idea of life. that s why we do what we do. this is not a hocus pocus or telling fortune. it s a different form of healing. we ask that the messages michelle, gerta and ann are mediums featured in this documentary. ladies, good morning to all of you. nice to have you here. before i talk about you individually and what you do, why this town? why lily dale? why do so many of you gather the there? is it something about the location that enhances your abilities or is it just coincidence? no, no such thing as a it was a medium place way back in the 1800 dz for the early spiritual izs and they established a community there and it s been active ever since. and there s kind of a power in numbers i would imagine now. could we get a simple definition of what a medium is so we all understand the same things? how would you describe it? go ahead. well, a medium is one who is psychic but also is one who has the ability to communicate with the unseen world and many times the word psychic and medium are used synonymously but they are not. but communicating with the unseen world but are we doing tarot cards none of that? no palms, crystals, things like that. so how do you it s direct communication with loved ones from the other world, and some people have a gift and some have the gift of seeing and others just sense and know. i know a lot of you feel that we all have some level of this power. so what makes me different from you? well, i was born this way. as a spiritual medium. and as a medium we are conversing not only with loved ones that have crossed over that have a message for the family but i know particularly, ann and myself find also missing children or murder cases and it s not just about for me, i m diverse, i can smell, hear, taste and know and through the years it s been developed. i also had a near death experience at 18. i wish we had more time to talk about that. one of the things that comes across in the documentary, sometimes people will go to see a medium and their initial experience may not be perfect. and they perhaps are a little disillusioned and then they see someone else and have a better experience. so how much does chemistry play into this? in other words do you have to be able to connect with me to then connect to the people that i ve lost? well, yes. when i do the reading, i make a connection. i ask the spirit i always invite the loved ones and not so loved ones to connect. sometimes people come with a specific expectation and if it s not met immediately they just are not receiving. so just because they do not answer at the time doesn t mean we did not connect. a lot of times they will receive the message and it may be even a week later they were answering the message. will you ladies deliver negative messages? in other words, let s say i were to come to you and say, look, i don t understand why this person who died treated me so badly beforehand, would you say to me, you know what, matt, it s because the person didn t love you or you may have thought that person was is that a message a medium would deliver? no. why? that s not a message that i would deliver. i think spirits always work with love and a desire to bring upliftment and healing. if someone had an abusive partner that passed over, that partner immediately upon transition, they don t immediately become a better person but they have an insight and awareness of their wrong behavior and oftentimes they will apologize. how do you deal with skeptics? they re everywhere. i love them. why do you love them? i am a skeptic. you are? how can you be a medium and a skeptic? because the phenomena is so much so i sometimes don t believe it. well, for me it s different. i think there s a certain amount of skepticism that s healthy, let s face it. in our particular field i don t find that many authentic mediums. people travel all over the world to come and see us. i was a visiting medium. yeah, i think skepticism is needed. it s just like any profession. it s a fascinating subject. i also would like to add as a medium particularly lily dale a registered medium, this is part of our religion. we are the big difference between our religion and others, we are the only ones with the continuity of life. all religions of the world teach that there s a continuity of life and mediums and spiritualism are the only ones who give proof of that. right, by connecting. if i give you information that only makes sense to you, that is a truth you can only identify who i m describing, who i m speaking of. right. and this is our religion. this is our heart. so when anybody comes to me, i live all year round in lily dale. this is what i try to do, the healing, the closure. i ll have to end it there but i ll draw people to the premiere of no one dies in lily dale monday, july 5, on hbo. thank you so much. up next, al channels the spirit of giving on a record setting morning for lend a hand. back with more on day two of lend a hand today al is in bozeman, montana, for the moment we ve been waiting for, the big reveal. hey, al. hey, good morning, meredith. we have already given out $5 66,000 to our charity. we can announce our charity is a special place here in bozeman called eagle mount. it s a place that helps kids and adults who have special needs experience the equestrian world in ways they never thought possible. welcome to bozeman, montana. most know it for big sky country, majestic mountains. fewer know it for a little place called eagle mount, a place designed for people with special needs spread their wings. meet derek. he s 11 years old with a genetic brain disorder with limits his motor functions. good job, derek. but despite his disability, derek has beaten the odds by learning to ski and horseback ride. the first time derek came down that hill or even at the top of the hill getting ready to come down, i was just crying my eyes out and screaming and so excited. how is that going to be possible to go down a ski slope? to see him make these milestones we never thought would ever happen was just awesome. your world is really small. you feel there s not a whole lot out there to accommodate your child. then when you find a program like eagle mount, you feel like your world starts to be a little bigger, a little bigger as your child starts participating in all these different activities. and they also gain more confidence. they become stronger. my name is lucy. i m 16. and the first thing i m going to do is horseback riding. lucy has downs syndrome. thanks to eagle mount she spent years doing what she loves most along with her sister kate, an eagle mount volunteer. we do horseback riding together and then go up as a family skiing. i want to go again and again and again and again and again. it gives kids with disabilities a chance to belong, doing something i don t think i can do, i think back to the kids here and it s ten times harder for them to do it. together, lucy and derek have found a second home here in eagle mount, a place where they can be themselves and do anything they set their hearts and minds to. it s all about that ability to to be yourself. they don t have to be stereo typed, that label, that disability. walk on. it s not about that anymore. for us it s all about the ability. it s what you can do. a beautiful day and mary peterson is the director of eagle mount. are you ready? i think so, al. let s open them up, boys. markers and dry erase boards. $18,000 in frigidaire appliances. get a look at this. frigidaire appliances over there. we have over $30,000 in mileage from united airlines. from rosingal group, skis and boots, winter sports and more comes off the truck. over here, yes whoa. $10,000 in paint, sherwin williams top of the line. equestrian helmets for all the horseback riders. we have a huge 24-foot aluminum bleacher with wheelchair spots and handrail custom made by national recreation systems, mary. we have a custom portable wheelcha wheelchair, mounting wrap from ha handiwrap corporation. 60 sleeping bags. water bottles and food from our friends at sara lee, dyson vacuu vacuums. mary peterson, come on over here. i know you guys have had some rough times economically and things were really rough. what is this going to do for you guys? oh, al, you just made a lot of people s dreams come true. this is amazing. we have summer camp for kids with cancer that s starting tomorrow. i think some of these things are going to go right up to big sky country to be with the kids. this is amazing. there s such a need and this really is one of the most unique programs of its kind in the country. you know, it is, and it wouldn t work just anywhere. you have a whole community here and that s what it takes to make it work. one more thing, mary, here are the keys to a brand-new 2010 15-passenger chevrolet express van right there just for eagle mount from general motors foundation. wow. guys, back to you. we have more coming up from bozeman, montana. back to you guys. all right, al, thank you. what a deserving story. al, what are you going to do by friday? 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[ clucks ] [ male announcer ] perdue. extra inspections. extraordinary chicken. just ahead, much more from al in bozeman, montana, as he spreads the love and more than a million dollars worth of donations. plus, the coolest summer gadgets. 8:56 is your time now. 80 degrees. hazy skies out there. it s going to be a hot and humid day. tom will have the forecast after the news. good morning, i m eun yang. today marks one year since the deadliest crash in metro s history. nine people died when two trains collide on the red line between the ft. totten and tacoma stations. a memorial will be held next to the ft. totten station paper moment of silence across the system. at 6:30, family members will gather on the bridge near the site of the crash. a vijle will start at 7:00. we ll have your weather and traffic when we come back. hey, volley for serve. friendly competition runs on dunkin with our refreshing coolatta flavors. enjoy an icy boost today. america runs on dunkin . in high definition. .you see detail that you didn t even know was there! and i m standing like a little kid saying, wow! 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[ dennis ] you couldn t make me give up fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. good morning. the temperature is around 80. humidity up around today. a hot and humid afternoon, low to mid 90s for highs by midafternoon. later this after noon into the evening we could get thunderstorms. a storm could produce wind damage and hail. tomorrow, a smaller chance, hot, humid, mid 90s. greater chance of storms thursday, highs in the mid 90s. lower humidity moving in on try, cooler, partly cloudy, highs near 90. more of the same saturday. chance of more storms sunday and monday. how s the traffic now? the interloop of the capital beltway, heavy and show as you leave springfield toward 66. along the way there was an incident at route 50, those over to the shoulder. lanes are open but really stacked up. 270 a late rush hour from below clarks burke through germantown en route to points south. coming up on news4 did midst day, the doctor is in, talking about new concern we re back now with more of today on a tuesday morning, the 22nd day of june, 2010. a pleasant morning here in the northeast. it s going to heat up later on. you know what, that s okay. we have a niccrowd of people. as always, we thank them for stopping by. out on the plaza i m matt lauer along with tamron hall filling in while ann is taking a little time off and while natalie is in at the news desk. good to see you. a beautiful day. it is nice. mr. roker is in a beautiful place, bozeman, montana. have you been there? no, i haven t. looks like he s having a good time and i love the hat. do you know who is having a good time? the people around al. he pulled that truck up, opened the door and unloaded about $1.2 million worth of great items for the folks at eagle rock. al, that was a fun moment and it just keeps getting better. that s right. we have donations we ve never had before, high technology as far as bringing some special kind of power needs. we have all sorts of things coming up. we still have a lot to go here from bozeman, montana, for eagle mount, which is a terrific charity. back to you. i apologize. i think i said eagle rock. i should have said eagle mount. ming up.you ve got some stuff interesting diet questions. people try the raw food diet. you assume it s good for you but is that a great assumption not to mention i don t want to eat anything raw but nonetheless they ll take a look at the raw food diet and plant fat versus animal fat. i didn t know that plants were fatty but apparently that can be the case. we ll take a look at that as well and i have a fun fact question for you. drinking a beer on the porch, are you more likely or less l e likely to attract mosquitos? you know, i forgot the question. i m still sticking with the drinking the beer on the porch t you because you re too young. will it attract mosquitos? it does apparently. the more you drink, the more mosquitos you ll attract? you ll be swarmed all over. we re going to take a look at pretty cool items from a cordless mosquito mister to a pool alarm to keep the kids safe. all of these new gamgts to help your summer. there s lou right there. a lot to get to. natalie has a check of all the headlines. hi, natalie. good morning, matt and natalie. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan has now apologized to vice president biden, defense secretary gates, and others for criticizing them in a rolling stone magazine profile n. a briefing general mcchrystal said responsibility for the article was his alone and he urged them not to be distracted from their mission. mcchrystal has been summoned to appear in person at tomorrow s monthly white house meeting on afghanistan and pakistan to explain his comments. a top member of president obama s economic team is leaving his post next month. budget director peter orszag is the first to resign. the move was expected. a played a role in the health care reform plan. officials plan to fly over a massive arizona wildfire today to get a better eidea of the fire s boundaries and where it is heading next. by last night the fire had burned 10,000 acres north of flagstaff and was only 10% day 64 the gulf oil disaster, the head of transocean criticized the government s six-month ban on deep water drilling in the area. meantime, the chief of staff of bp which operated the rig said today his company has a legal and moral obligation to help the gulf coast recover. pakistani-american who tried to set off a car bomb in times square last night pled guilty monday to ten federal terrorism and weapons charges. faisal shahzad faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced. american airlines says it has found a potentially serious safety problem object at least two of its wide body jets. cracks have prompted it to inspect most of its entire fleet of 767s. and in china they call it the robot olympics. 19 international teams are going head-to-head in robot running, boxing, and dancing. some of the moves truly amazing. some not quite so much there. it is now four minutes past the hour. back outside to matt and ta good morning. the humanity s increased overnight. at this hour, with temperatures around 80, the sky is just filled with il luminous summer haze. live view from sky watcher camera. 82 in washington. it s going to continue to climb another 10, 12 degrees or so, into the low no mid 90s by midafternoon. after that thunderstorms developing. scattered around the region, moving west to east. between 4:00 and 8:00 p.m. an isolated storm would produce and that s your latest weather. more from bozeman, montana, and eagle mount later. natalie? announcer: today s be well, be healthy is brought to you by cheerios. 100% natural whole grain oats, one single gram of sugar per serving. sos, someone please help me this morning on be well, be healthy part of our diet sos, your diet dilemmas. how much protein should you be getting every day and the benefits of a raw food diet. joy bauer, a registered dietician. as always some great questions. corinne is with us from skype. what s your question? how much protein do we need a day? great question. so here is the simple calculation. you want to take your weight in pounds and half it. and that s the number that you need in terms of grams. so, for example, let s say a woman weighs 140 pounds, half of that is 70. she needs about 70 grams of protein per day. now pregnant women and serious athletes need a little bit more, but for the rest of the population, that s a really good ballpark number. and there s no problem getting that much. when you think about a palm-sized piece of chicken or fish or even lean red meat gives you between 20 and 25 grams and most people eat we re probably getting a lot more than that. double that for lunch and dinner. there are so many great vegetarian sources but half your weight in pounds. i hope that helps. no difference between men and women then? it s a total weight calculation? right. men are larger so normally they ll need more than women. again, athletes and pregnant women need more as well. okay. thank you to corinne. a call from lori out of kalamazoo, michigan. caller: i know all fats have the same amount of calories. i was wondering do we steel need to remain under the same total fat intake in grams recommended by cardiologists as long as we account for all the calories? okay. that s a very interesting question and the answer is going to vary depending upon what part we tackle. so when it comes to weight loss, your weight does not discriminate between the bad fat and the good fat because all fat, whether it comes from red meat or from heart healthy fats found in nuts and seeds, one gram equals nine calories. so if you excessively eat fat from any of those sources, you re going to pack on the pounds. on the other hand, the type of fat matters tremendously when it comes to health. because we know the bad fat, the saturated fat in dairy and the meat and poultry skin is going to jack up your cholesterol levels. that s the ldl. 4 l for lousy. on the other hand, the plant-based sources, the olive oil, avocado, nuts and seeds, these things help to enhance your overall health. so how much you should be eating. health organizations say between 20% and 30% of your overall calories should be coming from fat but i say as long as you minimize the bad fat and you account for the calories and your weight s in check, it really doesn t matter if you slightly fall below that or above that. just focus on the good stuff. and the lean meats and the lean poultry, all of that to have more of the good stuff. again, that s protein so back to our first question. okay. thank you to lori. finally, an e-mail from claudia out of medford, new jersey. i ve been practicing bikram yoga, the hot yoga for six months, and it was recommended i start a raw food diet. currently i have a well balanced diet but would like to increase the quality of my health. is there a true benefit to eating only raw food? hot yoga can do a lot to your body. and kudos for being so passionate about her health and wellness. but i don t think there s enough scientific scientific data to support the effort someone who have to put into following a raw food diet. they follow a vegan diet for the most part, a strict vegetarian diet. they believe when you cook these plant-based foods you re destroying the nutrition and losing the plant endimes that help to you digest and absorb the food. while it s true that some nutrients are lost when you cook food especially overcooked like witt minimum c and b, lycopene becomes more available when you cook them. so what i would say is go out of your way to increase your produce. i mean, the more the better, but it s absolutely fine to have some cooked, to have some raw, and just really vary it around. and a well-balanced diet, sounds like she has all of that going. she s already healthy so that s fabulous. as you said, kudos to her. that yoga is hard core. it s hard core. you need to replenish a lot of water after that, too. it s great, though. joy bauer, thanks. head to todayshow.com and submit your questions for joy. if you want to take our quiz text the word well to 46833. turning beach casual into evening chic with the hottest cover-up. but up next, keeping your family safe this summer with new backyard gadgets. sharing art is the highest calling for me. but without my health i wouldn t be able to do anything. 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you probably know pell try from the mets for his record. the mets where the mayor michael bloomberg s office, a teammate in the community to foster the spirit of volunteerism. and here of the new york city service and bill brown from city. thank you all. so, mike, you re a busy man. and if you can find time to volunteer, there s no excuse for anybody else. that s right. that s very important for the mets organization and all the teammates. we have to take advantage of it. you re planting trees in harlem, brooklyn tomorrow, volunteering at an animal shelter. so, again, so important. as i understand it s been an ongoing relationship. that s true. being a good corporate citizen, finding a great partner in the mets organization and the communities we serve here in new york has been fantastic. and reading an article, more people are volunteering across the country and you ve seen those folks come out. we see them all the time. the mayor created ny service to provide a lot of opportunities for new yorkers to give back and to make it easy. we see an interest in every area we seek to help volunteerism. especially with kids, right? a lot of work with kids. but a lot with health as well. we have a lot of health initiatives, education congratulations. thank you all and keep up the great work not only on the field but off the field as well. coming up, olympic champion misty may traenor, beach volleyball, less than stunning moments in her life. she s here to share them in a new book with us. day one of the activia 14-day challenge. my digestive problems are irregularity. so i m really excited to see if this really works. my husband tried this last night. he loved it. he said it s the best yogurt i ve ever brought home, so.mmm. have just started to notice a slight difference in my digestion. help regulate your digestive system. take the activia challenge. it works or it s free. whoa! do you know what our favorite part of shooting hoops is? 3.2.1. overtime! we re the kids in america oh, oh, oh 9:26 is your time now. 82 degrees. hot and steamy outside. more of your forecast after the news. good morning, everyone. i m eun yang. in the news4 today, it marks the one-year anniversary of the deadliest crash in metro s history. nine people died between ft. totten and tacoma. metro marks the anniversary with a public memorial in ft. totten at 10:00 a.m. metro is holding a moment of silence at 10:30, live here on news4. we ll take a quick break and have weather and at this hour we have humanity in xlplace. temperatures are continuing to climb. we ll hit the 90s. a likelihood of scattered storms late this afternoon and into the evening. a small risk an isolated storm could produce damage. problems in georgetown, wisconsin avenue westbound sorry, m street west of wisconsin, steel plate in the roadway. and there s water coming out from underneath it. right now, the left half of the roadway, m street, westbound, near the key bridge is blocks off. as a result, we re looking at delays out of rossland. the doctor is in, talking about new concerns that sunscreens may be causing cancer. it s killi it s killing th? no it s not. they re all all right. i promise you. see. look at this guy. he s still sleeping. a porch swing. i know what i m doing this weekend. this movie is very cute. i saw it. adam sandler in grown-ups. he and his co-stars are all going to stop by tomorrow on today. very cute. makes you want to see it. it s good family reunion type movie. i m natalie morales along with tamron hall. al, as you know, on day two of his goodwill trip in bozeman, montana. that eagle mount charity, they ve done just such amazing things there. what else do you have coming up? they really do. we have some amazing donations including one from our own nbc family. we ll show you that in just a little bit. looking forward to that. what a beautiful day behind them as well. the kids enjoying it. thank you, al. the perfect cover-up to take you from the beach to evening. we ll show you the hottest trends that you can put on over your swimsuit and then wear perhaps for a bonfire at night. looking good. a woman who is is usually not so covered up when she s on the beach, olympic beach volleyball player misty may traenor. she has written a book and is here to share her story. auditions for america s got talent continue in orlando and portland tonight and judges pierce morgan, sharon osborne and howie mandel continue their search for a million-dollar talent out there. the acts include a knife thrower s questionable aim and a band of soulful singers. that s right here on nbc. good morning. we ve got a hazy sunshine here on this tuesday morning, the 22nd day of june. live view from sky watcher. sky filled with humidity now. it s 82 in washington. climbing into the 80s around the region. highs by 90s mid afternoon. thunderstorms will be developing, moving from west to east, through the region. and there s a small risk an isolated storm could produce damage between 4:00 and 8:00 that tom brokaw raises nice horses. back to you guys. what a gorgeous horse and so generous. gorgeous. up next, the hottest cover-ups to take you from the beach to the evening barbecue. . my doctor told me i should ve been doing more for my high cholesterol. you should ve listened. you re right. now i m eating healthier and i trust my heart to lipitor. 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[ female announcer ] when the more options you have,ght, the more likely you are to stay on track. that s why there are 9 delicious kinds of special k® cereal. because every girl could use a little variety. special k®, now in 9 delicious flavors. hi, jay bush and duke here to introduce new bush s black bean fiesta..whoa. you can t tell everyone about new black bean fiesta. but it s perfectly cooked black beans, in a zesty south of the border chipotle sauce with red and green peppers, onion, and crisp corn. a bold new taste. i know. but i want people to think i m a great cook. so hide. delicious! can i have your recipe? your secret is safe with me. hello. new bush s black bean fiesta. and try new texas ranchero, along with our other grillin beans flavors. in the sport of women s beach volleyball misty may traenor is one of the bright stars. she won gold at the last two summer olympic games in athens and in beijing. these two ladies are the only american women ever to win olympic gold in this sport. now misty is opening up about her life off the beach in their new book misty: digging deep in volleyball and life. athens, of course, six years ago, two years since beijing, you ve had a lot of time to relive those moments over and over again. what stands out to you? the last ball. everybody asks me about what s the most memorable thing both in beijing and athens and sharing that moment with kari because we sacrificed so much together. when we started as a team we made it happen. and any of the gold mean more to you? you get that a lot. a gold is a gold. definitely the first one just because we were so young and nervous and we were up against a good brazilian team but the second just doing back-to-back, knowing we ve done it before. we ve accomplished so much in such a short time. i mean, they re both amazing feats. as i was reading through some of the book, you literally grew up on the sand, russell beach, santa monica pier inc californi. tell me about some of your memories, childhood and just being there as your mom, barbara, and your father, butch, were volleyball players as well. yeah, my mom came from a tennis family. so i got to dabble in all these sports, tennis. i played soccer and did volleyball. there s no better playground than the beach. i grew up right there at santa monica pier, watched it get knocked down during storms, watched it get rebuilt, just watched the whole santa monica transform and had many people watch me out there and karch karai was out there so a lot of the great players played at the beach. i was a rug rat just roaming around, boogie boarding and just living care free. and learning your craft very well. and you do dig deep in this book as well and you talk about some less than happy moments in your life. you talk about your parents dealing with alcoholism and, in fact, reached out to your are that you were writing was about all of this and he said whatever i did, i own it. how is your relationship with your dad now? they were recovering alcoholics, as far as i understand, when you were 15 years old. correct. my dad stopped drinking first and my mom had to battle it but she got sober and they were sober my dad still doesn t drink and before my mom died she had been sober for over i mean it was about 15 years. so it was i mean, it takes away a little bit of your childhood, but i think every family has a story to tell and these are the ups and downs that i hope people will read my book and say, oh, my gosh, she went through the same thing and this is how her family got through it or as a kid, oh, this is what she did to overcome it. did it make you a tougher competitor? does the beach volleyball really help you go through that period in your life? i think plays sports, volleyball, soccer took my mind off of what was happening at home. you come home and, you know, when people drink, they can become different people. but once they get healthy, our family is loving, caring, great support system. a great relationship all around. yeah. kari walsh had another baby. now a 1-year-old and a 1-month old the twins. sundance and joseph exactly. congratulations. and i hope i look that happy. i hope that s coming up in your future as well as more volleyball. i know you re playing with nicole, your new partner. we wish you a lot of luck and are we going to see you in london? you ll have to ask me in 2012. i m happy that i m just back on the court and i try to go tournament to tournament, year to year. i just want to stay healthy. all right. we hope you do especially after that ankle thing that the achilles heel in dancing with the stars. yes. anyway, you ve got a lot to read in this book. misty: digging deep in volleyball and life. great to have you here. up next, we ll go back to al in bozeman, montana, for a little bit of the local flavor there. announcer: today s kitchen is brought to you by busch s black bean fiesta and texas ranchero. wild game from montana. chef tyler hill is the owner and chef of the bistro here in montana. montana where the deer and the antelope play. chef tyler, you re making and the lope for us today. antelope, my favorite in the world. why? it s tender, it s juicy, it s delicious and the fact it s grass fed makes it healthy for us. you can order this online. you can get maybe not the wild antelope but go online and find all kinds of wild game. how do we start this out? root vegetables. we have some beets. and parsnips. we mash them and do all sorts of things. marinade, water and honey. you can put a little oil in there. we have some sweet chili sauce, balsamic and some soy, salt, pepper and garlic. okay now you re going to toss them for me. i m going to just dump them in and you re going to do a nice light coat on them and then what we re going to do is put those in a hot oven, about 450 degrees and then stir them quite often and add a little water so they don t dry out. and they caramelize. they are sweeter and then this is the finished product. how do we prep the and ttelo? it s the same thing. i put a lot of oil on them and then a little salt and pepper. we have a super hot pan here. it s been on for a while. t them in there, you can use your hands, there you go, and they re going to smoke. oh, baby. okay. and this is going to cook for about two minutes and you mrip them a lot. this is like indoor barbecuing. you need a good fan obviously and then you re going to kind of because that pan s hot. i think i ll turn it off. you keep flipping. you keep flipping and then you re just going to put a little olive oil now if you really want that smoky flavor, put a little bacon grease on there. pork fat rules. i didn t come up with that. we ve heard that before. you cook that up. you cook that up, take it out n and finish the product here with some local mushrooms that i picked yesterday morning. are these blueberries no, huck l berries. so we re going to flip that again. you re going to come on over here and i will serve you up, sir. you can serve yourself up. oh, baby. i m going to try a little bit of that. that looks awfully good. have you had antelope before? i ve never had antelope before. i think it s the best meat on earth. if there s a better meat, i haven t had it. chef tyler, that is good. thank you, sir. that s it for us from bozeman, montana. we ve had a great time with our friends from eagle mount and, of course, we want to get ready for our next trip. dave is going to drive me on the penske truck. of course we want to thank all of our sponsors and our donors who provided promotional consideration furnished by the following companies. dave, got to get going. let s go. we ll see you guys tomorrow from des moines, iowa. take care, everybody. back to you in the studio. hit it, dave. we ll see you guys. another record 9:56 is your time. 85 degrees already. we re in for a hot and humid day. tom will have the forecast after the news. i m eun yang. it is tuesday june 22nd, 2010. metro is preparing to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the deadliest crash in its history. two trains collided on the red line between ft. totten and tacoma. metro is marking the anniversary with a public memorial and tacoma park at 10:00 a.m. holding a moment of silence at 10:30. we ll be carrying it live here on news4. turning to the forecast, meteorologist tom kiernan says it sçó going to be swafr swampy there. we ll hit the mid 90s by early to midafternoon. storms out of the mountains into the shenandoah valley. between 4:00 and 8:00 p.m. slight risk of storm could produce wind damage. tomorrow, hot and humid. hot and humid thursday with greater chance of storms. things beginning to wind down. inbound 66 on the curve to the capital beltway. a quarter mile of heavy traffic. one more stop, top side of the bellway a car has broken down. it s cleared. a delay fromçó new hampshire avenue to georgia but it s beginning to improve. thank you. you can watch the moment of silence in memory of those killed last year in metro s accide duct system as the lungs of the house. expulsion of air. dust and dirt that helping the house to breathe. say i m a doctor. not a doctor either. suction. call 1-800-steemer from nbc news, this is today with kathie lee gifford and today da kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hey, everybody, so nice to see you today. it is the second day of summer. booze day. glad you re with us. in honor of booze day, we have a special contraption. if only we had known about this before father s day. it s this machine. you want to tell me about it? the deal is if you have a bottle of wine and it s not cold and you want it cold quickly, this machine will make your bottle of wine ice cold in three minutes. lovely. so that was two cups? you put in ice. and then water. dump that in. okay. then you put your bottle in there. and we re going to see if it works. we re going to check it in three minutes. okay. it s room temperature right now. close it. you press whether you want wine and you want start. go. okay. so now it is oh, yeah, baby. spinning. is it closed all the way? check it. it s closed far now. i don t trust it. i like that. that noise through the whole thing? yes. this is going to be a great chat. anyhoo it can chill bottles or cans in a matter of minutes. we re going to check it at 10:04. okay. there s this new article that came out in usa today. it talks about how young couples are staying in relationships for a long time before getting married. ten years. like a decade. ten years, right. does that mean when you get married your marriage ends up being better or what? we re not necessarily talking about living together, right? just dating. what s the longest you ve ever dated anybody? ten. ten years. how d that work out? that didn t work out so well. that s our point. we hear stories from people all the time, they date forever, get married and get divorced six months later. i think by then you really do know the person. is it the piece of paper? is it the expectation? i don t know. there s another thing we re going to talk about today. maybe it s that you re not treating your spouse like a dog. there s actually science behind this. this happened to me this very morning. we have three dogs at our house. we ve got the little one, bambino, he s doubled his weight. disappointed. bambino s the kind of dog that when he sees you, you re the only person that exists in the world. tail goes. you could feel awful about yourself. this dog makes you feel like you set the stars, the moon and the sky. the time is i spend more time loving on them, kissing them, giving them treats, and frank s sitting there going what about me? that s the thing. there s this marriage advice that says you should treat your partner that way. in other words, you walk in the door, you ve had a hard day, you go to the dog. that s what you do normally. your husband s there. okay, the dog pees on the rug or chews up your hairbrush. you re upset momentarily. but when your husband does something stupid when he pees on the rug i hate when frank does that. that is actually really good. that s louie as a puppy behind him. that s hysterical. let s check the wine. it s wine-checking time. let s see if it works. thank god. it s so loud. jer pop that cork. thanks, jerry. so while jerry s popping that cork i don t need another dog at my house. i need jerry. thank you, jerry. it really was room temperature. was it? okay, let s see. let s see if it really worked. just a smidge. for her. thank you. water the plant. love you, jerry. there you go. let s see. cooler. if we had let it keep going it probably would have been much colder. just put it in a closet somewhere because it s pretty loud. thank you, jerry. there is a cool new website, okay? it s called okay cupid. you will either love this dating website or despise it. depending on how you look. they single out the better looking people. and the way they determine that is by how many clicks that person has on the website. and the descriptions other people have of them. yes. and they reveal the good-looking potential mates to them. so all the cute people get to be matched together. and the un and the ones who around as attractive get lumped together. that s sort of like life. it s not fair and it s not nice, but i don t think it is life because sometimes you see those mismatched couples because it s the confidence thing. you know? i know. i know. but somebody said that the beautiful woman is a woman who s cross-eyed but walks like she isn t, something like that. confidence. confidence. it s all about confidence. nobody s got more confidence than you, hoda. you had? does this woman swing it around here or what? are you are you talking about? the way you walk. you follow you up and down the stairs 20 times a day. you swing it, sister. guys, am i right? yes. i love it here. this is, like, the best place ever. all right. so we talked about how did that come up? we talked about the runaway bride. remember her, jennifer wilbanks. she was the one, remember, she was going to get married. you ll never forget that photo. and she said she got kidnapped. but in reality, she was just fleeing from her marriage. sexually assaulted. she claimed all those things. oh, my gosh. that s not confidence. that s not confidence. the good news is is that now she s found her man. well, she s dating. they re dating. no, she s gooing all over him. he s a twice divorced landscaper, greg hudson, 38 years old. friendship and most of all unconditional love. they love each other like dogs, which is the way you ve got to do it. why do you keep saying that? because that was the other part of the thing. you ve got to have that kind of love for your mate as you do for your pet. unconditional. i went to a play last night called family dinner. yeah. it was written by michelle will willems. it s interesting. it s about a family that sits around a table. they go through regular life and then it fast forwards to 40 years later in the second family in the second act. same actors playing the people? different actors play different roles, but i thought it was terrific. they asked the kids a question. it s a great dinnertime question to ask your kids, what was the most memorable thing that happened to you today? it s a nice way for kids to tell and it s specific. and it s not like what did you do today? the kids go, i don t know. here s the problem today, in the 40-year span it probably showed the biggest difference is in the way we sit as a family around the table. people order in, they have different schedules. people are checking their ipods. it drives me crazy when the kids are doing that. the tv grown-ups do it. the tv should not be on, right? the ipod, that s just rude. and then checking messages the whole time. it s a different generation. we re going to talk about that later in the show today, too. but i do think that whole context of texting or getting a phone call when you re talking to someone is rude. it s like jerry seinfeld, it s the equivalent of you talking and i go like this. but you ve got to be careful what you teach your children. the minute you do it yourself, merciless. uh-huh. because we always ate around 5:00 or 6:00 when the kids were growing up. excuse my voice, everybody. and i would say no phone calls. shut it down. we re going to have dinner. but often i would get a call from the west coast because my agent was out on the west coast. you took the call? if there was something really, really important, i would. and i d get ripped for it. rightfully so. if you like the movie grease, you re going to love this, okay? grease is back. and this movie is different because now they are adding another element to the movie. it s a sing-along. it s almost like karaoke. you can get involved in the movie. you can sing while the movie s going on. and the words are on the screen with the ball bouncing. i have no problem with that. i think grease is fantastic. i love it, love it, love it. i just think that the message that it sent out was, you could be a good girl, but if you want to get the guy you want, you ve got to be a slut and put on black leather and everyone will be dancing and you ll be a slut. okay, adam is across the street. look at him. we made him do the do today. because we re going to have some folks over there, boys and girls playing hold on, adam. we re almost with you. that s okay. rev it up, baby. i just don t think anyone is more excited about this sing-along than the people here at the digital cafe. okay. kathie and hoda, i think you know the song summer nights pretty well. we pretty much have our own pink ladies and t-birds here. we ve been practicing all morning. are you guys ready for them? yeah, we re ready. are you guys ready? yes. all right, let s roll the tape you guys. summer lovin had me a blast summer lovin happened so fast i met a girl crazy for me i met a boy cute as can be summer fling don t mean a thing but uh-oh those summer nights how great was that? you guys were awesome. this is going to be so great, adam, because this is one of the highest grossing musicals of all time. it made nearly $400 million at the box office. this is a genius concept. it s a great idea. great idea. come on. right? yep. just the ending. we want to thank adam. sara s going to come back tomorrow. and so we ve missed sara but we re glad we had you, adam. thanks. it s been fun. sara s been on vacation. thanks, adam. my pleasure. you know what? it s twilight mania going on. eclipse comes out this week. people are already camping out for you. the fans are out, and we have one of the actresses from the movie with us. she s adorable. look at her. she s here with us. we re going to talk with her right after this. i was! well, you could enjoy the taste of decadent dark chocolate, the crunch of almonds, plus 35% of your daily fiber. plus antioxidants in a kellogg s fiber plus bar. mmmm. right then. two more wishes? 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[ moment of silence ] thank you. please be seated. and now i am very pleased to introduce one of metro s own, an employee who is the material support specialist, miss roxy carter. live to christ gordon, at the screen of the remembrance today. what can you tell us what s going on right now? reporter: well, now we re going to hear from family members, as they dedicate this memorial ceremony in the memory of those whose lives were lost on june 22, 2009. you re listening to family members. this is the first family member to share their thoughts, their memories, their recollections. reporter: some will be allowed to sing songs. some will make speeches. some hadn t even been asked when they got here today. they are honoring mary dood little, anna fernandez, dennis hawkens, levon and nicky king, ann worely, came ron williams and the driver of the train, janis mcmillan. in recognition of those whose lives were changed. many people who were injured in the crash, all of the families who have suffered. this is with deep appreciation of those who came to their aid in the time of greatest need. let s listen. i was the one with all of the glory you were the one with all the strength only your face without a name i never once heard you complain did you ever know that you re my hero and everything i d like to be i can fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wing it might ever be to go unnoticed but i have got it all right here in my heart i want you to know i know the truth because i would be nothing without you oh, did you ever know that you re my hero reporter: as we re hearing statements and songs from family members, they are honoring today the victims of the train crash on june 22, 2009. one of the reverends here said, it corresponds to the longest day the year, and this has been the longest year in all of our lives. jim graham, the emcee of the ceremony, who served as metro board chairman at the time of the crash said, we cannot take back that day, but we can pay homage to those who have lost their lives and also to the first responders and also to all of 0 the families. that s what s happening here. back to you now in the studio. thank you. very emotional ceremony, as we listen to the family members singing remembrance, the wind beneath my wings. as they observe the one-year anniversary, the worst disaster for metro in the history of the system. in just a few minute at 10:30, metro will invite all of its employees, customers and general public throughout the region to observe the same moment of silence in remembrance and in respect for the nine people who died on that day and for the dozens injured and, of course, first responders who came to the scene on that fateful day. coverage continues of the memorial service online right now. head to nbcwashington.com to continue watching. tune in for a full report ahead on news4 midday. we hope you ll plan to join us for that. not doing your children any good. right. if you really love your children, you have to discipline them. that s absolutely right. these kids are being enabled. and so they re going to be feeding off of their father until they re 50 years old. and that s not good. there s guilt involved, isn t there, stacy? and there s also that whole thing if you came from nothing yourself, you want to give your children what you never had. everything. but maybe you re the person you are because you never had it. i actually think it does come from a good place a lot of times. we hate to see our kids suffer and we want to do well for them. but if you don t teach your kids or adult kids in this case to be successful and competent, they never will be. this next one is about a 16-year-old daughter who believes that just because i don t live at home with her anymore means she can get whatever she wants which is money. i constantly hear, but dad, you re never home, so you owe me. what can i say or do to make her believe that i m not a personal atm. with divorce it s huge. that s what ends up happening. parents feel bad, they indulge them, give them things. again, you re setting a pattern. this father has sent a pattern. he set the message if my daughter gives me a hard time, i will give her money. so you have to stop. you have to stop giving her money and things because it s her birthday. and what i always tell parents is tell your kids the new rules. sit down and say here s the deal. i m going to give you money. i m going to give you things on your birthday for the holidays. and when i feel, you know, sort of overwhelmed to do it. i m not going to just do it because you re complaining. i was at a book signing a couple weeks ago. and 100 kids. i think i ve told this story. 100 children. 1 out of the 100 said thank you. why are we not teaching children to say please, thank you and you re welcome? right. you know, kids are on their best behavior when they re not at home. so the fact that those kids were doing that, it worries me. parents are so look, we re distracted. we re dealing with our own financial problems. we ve got a bunch of kids. we ve got our own stressors. we re not spending enough time actually parenting and it s really important that we do that. they wait too long. by the time the child is 6, they re already in patterns, airport th aren t they? that s true but it s never too late. you can sit down and say the rules are changing here. please and thank you or you will not get. and it begins with everything. let s go across the street to adam. i m here with kristen from richmond, virginia. she has a question about independence. yes, i have a preteen and i m wondering what s the best way to teach him that independence is a privilege and not a right? because all the other kids get to do it and blah, blah, bl blah. exactly. being a preteen or teenager is designed to be seeking independence. that s what we all do. that s why we dress differently and listen to different music than our parents. it s about creating a pathway. i always parallel it to driving on the road. as parents we re supposed to make roadways for our rules and they can t go on the grass. so you want to say to your child or cross the double line. exactly. you say the rules are these. and if you follow them, you get more independence. if you don t, i take it away. why are parents surprised when their teenagers start going crazy and stuff when they ve given them no limitations whatsoever up until then? why do they assume they re going to turn out to be great kids? because in a way, we hope that we re doing the best we can and they re going to turn out okay. but you know what i always say? i say we re not raising chdren. we re raising adults. and if kids don t learn to conform, they re going to be in trouble when they grow up. because our parents were so strict with us, some of us are being not as strict to say, you know what? i need to loosen up a little. and these kids end up running a little bit too wild. i think that that s really happened nowadays. i think we all want to give to our kids what we didn t have. and we ve just gone too far. we need to pull back in and find a place that works. okay. great advice. you are terrific. you are on fire. you scare me in a good way. that s what i do to my kids. i scare them. still to come, what are we doing? we re going to team up. there s this guy, you ve heard of him, bert the conqueror. first, our travel guide g is here to help keep your valuables safe for all the summer traveling you re going to be doing right after this. did you have a good breakfast? 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[cheering] unlike leading kids yogurts, danonino has twice the amount of calcium of milk, ounce per ounce, and it contains vitamin d. bravo! danonino. power packed to helps kids grow. yes i m a traveling man time for today s travel, gadgets that will keep you safe. bert kreischer, hello, g. how are you? how are you? we want to be prepared if we re traveling and there s bad guys out there trying to grab our stuff. and naughty girls and monkeys, too. that s a whole another story. we ll get into that. yes, we will. what do we have? this is called the trace me. it s a bag tracker. it has a bar code on the back. you register it on a website and then put it on your bag when it goes into the baggage handling. they scan it. the really good thing, it s an extra level of tracking because a lot of times when you put your bags in, if they lose it, you have to go track it down. they give you some number, some website. it s a real pain. yes. a real pain. let s pretend you get off your delta flight, your bag s not there let s not just pick on delta. these people will tell you physically where your bag is? they ll actually track it. the good thing, they ll call you and track you down. how much does that cost? that s a great investment. two for $40. so if you have something you really care about. of course, it might be picked clean by the time you find it. secret belt? that s right. this is called the cash safe. it looks like an ordinary casual nylon belt except the really nice thing about it is that the hole inside of it is one big pocket so you can stuff some cash in there. rings. stuff like that. what kind of money is this? euros. those are euros. not worth as much as they used to be. all right. sometimes you have to worry about people slashing your purse strap when you re carrying it and running but this is a good way to prevent that. absolutely right. this is called the sling safe. it has wire in the strap so it s really hard to cut. it also has mesh in here so they can t slash it and grab into it. and then all of the clasps are kind of hidden away. so that it s really hard to get in there and fiddle with. but does it come in designer colors? absolutely. all right. so if you don t have a safe, you can sort of make your own in your hotel room, maybe, or something? these are diversion safes. and they look like ordinary products. you can hide a few things in the bottom. what if somebody comes in and they re hungry? the neat thing, this one actually is pretty realistic. you open it up. oh. yeah, but they re going to go, hey. hey. that s pretty cool, though. yeah. i often get nervous when i m going online and i punch my credit card number in. i do it all the time to buy things, but i do worry a little bit. yeah. and especially if you re traveling a lot of times you re using a public computer like an internet cafe or business center in a hotel. there are actually sometimes malicious programs on those computers which capture your keystrokes. so when you re typing numbers in, they can capture them. this helps with that. just swipe your credit card. it s like you re at the store. you re at the gap. a little usb port and you are good to go. very safe. i like that. so this is a lock for your backpack. and, you know, nothing that you do will make you 100% thief proof. you just want to make yourself a harder target for them. this is just a lock, weighs next to nothing. costs a couple of dollars. you just put it on to your backpack. and then you can clip it to or your purse and then you can clip it to the chair of a leg or stuff like that. so somebody so they just can t run off with it. that s right. this is clever, this thing little. that s right. this is called the garment hideaway. it looks like an ordinary woman s top. except inside it has all kinds of pouchs. now, that s smart. unless somebody wants to steal your clothes. you know, i m trying to think things through. ipods and stuff. just hang it in your closet. hiding in plain sight. please tell the monkey story. tell monkey. that s right. so at virtual tourist, we have 1 million members and we teld fans about experiences. my favorite is called monkey business. it gives new meaning to the word naughty monkeys. the monkeys are extremely cheeky. they steal stuff. if you want your stuff back like a camera or backpack or whatever,miraculously, the trainer shows up to get your stuff back. so it s really not the naughty monkey. the monkey s in on it. thank you. coming up next, our own adventure set for bert the conqueror right after this. and we love rollbacks. the new game that everybody is talking about is here. super mario galaxy 2. this kid s a natural! mario s got all these new powers.new tricks. it s rated e for everyone. even yoshi s back! 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[ female announcer ] kellogg s fiber plus bars. you couldn t wish for more. roller coasters, water parks and bungee jumping are considered american pastimes, but there are plenty of other local channel ledges that thrill seekers pursue. whether it s walking across the greasy pole in massachusetts or bungee jumping in las vegas, bert kreischer showcases what locals do for fun. in the new travel channel show, it s called bert the conqueror. is that you? are you nuts? no, i had a big attack before doing that. is that the thing you re most afraid of? no. no. this is? yes. no, i did mud drags in san antonio. that s drag racing in mud that go 0 to 60 in 30 seconds in shin-deep mud. they said read your measurements. for what? a flame retardant suit. anytime they ask for mine, i say not interested. i m not doing it. what is the catfish grabbling thing? this is a southern tradition. it is throwing your arm up to your shoulder in a murky hole in hopes that a 50-pound catfish will bite your hand and you can wrestle it to the surface. they are nasty. that is no joke. anything with the word redneck front of it is thrills to the tenth degree. why are you yelling, bert? i m a loud guy, sorry. i m also fat. so i should let you know that, too. but you ve got a heck of a personality, honey. thanks. so we re going to do our own little contest in the studio. all right. so here s the deal. it s me, kathie lee versus you. this is our little challenge, mr. conqueror. so we re going to do a puzzle, play a little thing and play a little the nbc bell tone. okay. i get it. i get it. okay. are you ready? i ve got two kids. i m good at puzzles. on your mark, get set, go. oh, man. they re magnets. darn. where s this one go? this would be in the middle. this is going to take forever. here it is. here it is. right here. what are you doing? can i get some help from somebody here? hello. i know, but this is with this. here s the nbc. is that the top or the bottom? does it have to be why are we doing it like this? where s the rest of the c ? where s the rest of the c ? you don t need it. here it is. i found the c. oh, man. i need a clear black one right here. peacock. peacock. it s like this. wait a minute. you dropped it. woman. the top of it. this one. i am so beating you guys right now. stop it. i am so beating you guys right now. where does this one go? hoda! like this. bam. that s mine. i m on to the next one. no. what do you mean, no? no, you re not done. there, that s good. that s good. this is steve carell of the office. this is brian williams, nightly news, he looks younger. this guy looks like basic cable. this guy is i don t know him. oh, man. switch them around. bam, bam, here we go. on two. is that right? is that right? no. brian williams? brian williams, i told you, brian williams and tom brokaw. no, it s i think we got it. no, no, no, let me hear it. nope. that had a double ring on it. doo doo doo that s it. stop it. two, seven, five. two, seven, five. no, no, no. seven, six two, seven, four. 800-588 that was it. that s it. one. one, six, four. one, six, four. that is not that. it s lower down. bert, thank you. god, i m sweating. that was an intense interview. you re no fun at all. i think you won, bert. you can catch his show on the travel channel on wednesdays. we ll be back with more of today. know the species, know the stain. lanolin-free coat, i know it s an alpaca. walks in here, looks says hey look, it s a llama! cleaning the stain like he would a llama stain. time he s wasting. call 1-800-steemer the first time that i saw a sporting event on fios, in high definition. .you see detail that you didn t even know was there! and i m standing like a little kid saying, wow! 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