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and fireworks as we celebrate independence day. today is sunday, july 4th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television i feel like marching in the studio. welcome, i m lester holt. and i m jenna wolfe. i know you re coming back to do nightly later but would you stop by and watch the fireworks? that s a big deal to get in there and fight the crowds. why don t you give people who are not from new york city what crowds mean in new york? it s a big deal. the key is to get on a rooftop to see them. i don t have a rooftop to see them. i might be watching them on tv. which is not a bad place to watch them. be mindful, there are a lot of people defending this country every day. vice president joe biden and his wife paid a visit to the troops there. he s going to meet with iraqi leaders and also take part in a ceremony to naturalize more than 100 troops that will become u.s. citizens today. more on that in just a bit. meanwhile, on the other war front, a new man is in charge, general petraeus who assumed charge of the coalition forces today. he delivered a stern message saying, we are in this to win. we ll have a live report from kabul just ahead. and back here at home, the story is the heat. from the southwest to the northeast, record temperatures in the 90s today, even pushing near 100. it s going to be a toasty day to cook out and watch the fireworks later. we ll tell you how hot it s going to get coming up. first, let s begin with the 4th of july overseas. in iraq, that s where joe biden and his wife jill made a surprise holiday visit to the troops. nbc correspondent and dree yeah mitchell is traveling with the president. good morning. reporter: good morning. he s celebrating the 4th with the troops here in baghdad, a great way to celebrate independence day and at a naturalize ceremony where 100 troops are backing u.s. citizens today. he will try to push them towards creating a permanent government. it s been four months since the election and they still have a caretaker government. the vice president says that he s optimistic that they will be able to turn the over to the iraqi troops. this date is very special to them also because of their son bo. on the war front of afghanistan, coalition troops are under the charge of general petraeus. he made a stern message saying, we are in this to win. richard is in kabul. good morning to you. reporter: good morning. general petraeus took command of all nato and american troops in this country and said after years of war ofafghanistan is aa critical moment. he said they are trying to relax as much as they can on bases. there are pickup football games and barbecues but it is not a day off and patrols are still going out as usual. lester? richard, is he going to reexamine the rules of engagement given the number of civilian casualties? reporter: yes. general petraeus addressed that issue once again today. he did not say that he would exactly change the rules of engagement which have been so unpopular among troops here in an effort to avoid civilian casualties. the rules that allow them to fire on taliban have been tightened significantly but he said he would examine those rules and give the soldiers whatever they need to defend themselves. richard, thank you. back here at home, comments about the war in afghanistan continue by michael steele. and now, not for the first time, fellow republicans are putting pressure on him to step down. mike is at the white house with more. mike, good morning. reporter: good morning. the chairman of the national committee is in trouble again. the comments have gone viral on the internet. this time, it s not just democrats that are angry. once again, michael steele is on the defensive. caught on tape attacking president obama s afghan policy, he suggested the war there is unwinnable. has he not understood that, you know, that s the one thing you don t do is engage in the war in afghanistan. reporter: it s angered party leaders and he now stands accused of undermining the troops. this was a war of obamas choosing. this is not this is not something that the the united states has to engage in. reporter: but it was president bush, in the wake of 9/11, who began what is now the longest war in u.s. history. we did not ask for this mission, but we will fulfill it. reporter: leading conservatives are calling for steele to resign. liz cheney writes, it s time for him to step down. and a blogger says, he has lost all moral authority to lead the gop. steele calls the war a necessary one, the stakes are too high to accept anything less than that in afghanistan. 18 months ago steele became the first african-american gop chairman. since then, controversy. he was defiant after being criticized for writing a book. get a life. reporter: but funds expensed at a west hollywood sex club, many donors were upset and heads rolled. steele is not likely to step down on his own. that s considered a long shot. we re four months from an election. reporter: but unless he goes, many see the steele scandals as a gift for democrats. continue to use it in fundraising letters and commercials and use him as a punching bag. reporter: from now until november, republicans are hoping for an end to the controversy. reporter: michael steele spent part of his day calling republican strategists, members of congress, party members trying to shore up support, trying to head off more calls calling for him to resign. mike, thanks. once again, here is lester. now to the gulf where bp says that it could including the 76-day-old oil leak by the end of the day if everything goes well. good morning. reporter: lester, good morning to you. to better fight this oil, they are bringing in an extra 400 skimmer ships. but the toughest challenge lately has been the weather. from high above there s little activity. high seas suspended all burning operations. if not the daily blow, then it s the weather that adds to the difficulty. reporter: at the spill sooit, testing is being done on a converted super tanker, dubbed the a-whale. we re looking at any and all possible alternate technologies. we ll fly over the a-whale, a super tanker. this is a trial and error operation. but we will assess the effectiveness of that. reporter: hurricane alex delayed the operations. combined with all three systems operating at their peak rate, we ll move between 50 and 53,000 gallons of barrels a day. reporter: the ruptured well spewing between 53,000 to 63,000 barrels of oil a day could be ahead of the estimate. the company is making progress but he s sticking with the original timetable. if we move that time line too far to the left, closer in, there will be an expectation that, well, you said it would be done by then. reporter: by tomorrow they should have an idea if the a-whale will will effective. in the meantime, the coast guard is keeping their eye on a nontropical weather system. in louisiana, thank you. and let s take a first check of the morning s other headlines. for that, let s throw it down to nora o donnell. we begin with joran van der sloot. he s sued his first lawyer who authorities said led to his first confession. he s since recanted that confession. he s also the sole suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway in aruba. 220 people were killed after a tanker trunk overturned and exploded in a massive fireball. half of those killed were women and children watching the world cup. dozens of people descended to illegally collect the leaking oil. a tour boat heading out on a whale watch ran aground and immediately started to take on water. 174 people were quickly evacuated. no one was seriously injured. operators say the boat collided with the rocky ledge. the coast guard is now investigating. a pair of solar energy companies are getting $2 billion to build plants. president obama says about 2,000 jobs will be created. the companies will build plants in colorado and indiana and the money comes from the economic stimulus act. now to world cup fever as germany and spain head to the finals. germany pounced argentina and spain scored there one and only goal. germany and spain join uruguay and battle it out this week for soccer glory. good stuff. and, finally, a perfect story for july 4th. word from the library of congress of a fascinating find in the declaration of independence. high-tech imaging has revealed that in the portion of the document discussing the colony grievances, thomas jefferson originally used the phrase subjects to describe his fellow americans. but then he carefully crossed it out and replaced it with the more american word citizens. pretty cool stuff. back to you in the studio. happy 4th. to you, too. i had no idea they had white good morning. i m meteorologist kim mayor tucci keeping an eye on the skies for you. we do get warmer. no clouds and no rain in the weather forecast. this morning we re waking up with temps in the upper 60s. plan ahead for lots of sunshine. by lunch hour, we ll be around 89. 93 at 3:00. 92 at 6:00. for the fireworks, clear and 83 degrees over the mall. now back to new york city. showers and storms along the gulf coast as well. have a great inat the pdependen. now back to you. thank you. serena williams takes her fourth wimbeldon title. at was p. stop it. hello? you spotted a million dollar accounting error that no one else noticed. that was pretty sweet. but you did have eight layers of sweet crunchy back up. what can i say? you re the man. or you know, the little dude. that s me. 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i m doing great, how bout you? right here on 119th street. if we could fix this block, then we could fix the next block, then we could fix the next block. we promised parents, if your child stays with us, i guarantee you that child is going to graduate from college. failure is simply not an option. the sixty.the seventy. the eighty. the ninety-seven blocks which ends up being 10,000 children. we start with children from birth, and stay with those children until they graduate. if you really want to have an impact that is large, you will get there going one step at a time. there is no act that is too small to make a difference. no matter what you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, volunteer or donate at membersproject.com. 7:28. let s check in with kim for a look at the weekend weather forecast. kim, not too humid tonight? not too humid, kimberly. this morning is another jam of a morning for july. we have had temperatures in the suburbs in the 50s. downtown we are climbing into the 70s. we re at 68 right now. 68 up in hagerstown. frederick, 95. we ll aim for 93. fireworks on the mall tonight. 9:00. the temperature, 83. it will be clear and no rain. in fact, today will be one of six in a row where we don t expect any rain. kimberly, today will be day number one of seven in a row with highs in the 90s. so stay cool. thank you, kim. have a safe and happy fourth of july, everyone. we re going to see you for news at 8:00 this morning. wimbledon takes over at 9:00. now we re going to send you back to the today show. in the meantime, have a wonderful fourth of july with this perfect weather. and we re back on this sunday morning, july 4th, 2010. it s a patriot particular crowd joining us on this holiday morning. we re going to head outside to them in just a bit. but back inside studio 1-a, i m jenna wolfe. still to come, it s been one month since kyron horman disappeared from school. and kyron horman s father retained a restraining order from his wife, kyron s stepmother. we ll get the latest coming up. and the truth about safe deposit boxes. some people store jewelry and documents in them. but do they really offer the protection that most people think? what you should and should not keep in your safe deposit box. one of the country s most time honored 4th of july traditions. finding out how many hot dogs one human can stuff into their face in ten minutes. the famous hot dog eating contest. it takes place later today and coming up, we ll meet some of the people that will try to keep it all down and become the new champion of gluteny. i respect what they do, but the fact that they eat 68, but is it a little disturbing to watch? yes. it s difficult. there s a science and then we ll have a couple of contestants on to explain it. as long as there s a science, it s all okay. we re going to switch gears and move to kyron horman. today marks the one-month mark since he disappeared. the sheriff s department still believes that kyron is alive. reporter: missing for a month, neither kyron horman s family or investigators have given up hope. there is no indication whatsoever for us to believe other than the fact that that kyron is still alive. reporter: the 7-year-old was last seen at school by terri horman who said that she left him on campus. even with the help of local, state, and federal agents, there was just no sign of kyron. but as days turned to weeks, there was growing speculation about terri horman s story. we i am more terri to cooperate with investigators to bring kyron home. reporter: she s not the only family member to turn on the spep mother. kyron s father has left the family home and filed a restraining order against terri. once an insider in the family circle, she s now an outcast. but investigators say she s cooperating. there has been no indication through our detectives or through our investigators that she has been uncooperative. reporter: never named a suspect, she s also never made a comment. before she hired a criminal defense attorney, she was given two polygraph tests. her father telling people magazine there was a 50/50 chance that she would be arrested. but amid all of the speculation, they want to keep the focus of this case on their son. we are working we are working with investigators daily to bring kyron home. we are extremely confident in how the investigation is going. reporter: this weekend, as many families enjoy the 4th of july together, the horman family says their nightmare will continue until their 7-year-old comes home. nbc news, portland. here with more insight is pat brown, criminal profiler. good morning. good morning, jenna. let s mention this again. kyron s stepmother terri has not been named a suspect but she s allegedly lied to investigators and now cell phone records say she was not where she said she was when he disappeared. i think they ve got to look for real physical evidence. that s where the problem lies. if we look at other cases, for example, many wives go missing and many say we know that husband did something to her. the fact is, they don t have a body or any physical evidence in the home or car, blood evidence to say some kind of crime went down. it gets very difficult to actually make the arrest. so they would rather wait and see if they can come up with something to link the person physically to the crime. it s been a month now since kyron disappeared but both police and his parents contain that he s still alive. how likely is that? i think that what the sheriff is saying is that there s no evidence that he s not alive so therefore we re looking at it that he s alive. the chance that he was sold into a sex slavery ring unless a predator does have him. it s possible that terri horman has nothing to do with this and a predator got ahold of him and has him at his home some place. . kyron s father filed from divorce from terri earlier this week, only a month after kyron disappeared. this is significant to you. wh why? this is a huge. you don t see a family dissin great after a month. sometimes after there s been years and no justice and no killer has been found, the stress on the marriage can happen. but why would he want to break up his home so kyron doesn t have the home there when kyron gets there? why would he want to take the home away from his little girl? in order to do that, it only tells me that he really believes that terri horman is involved in this particular case and that s why he wants to get the heck out of there. terri horman hired a prominent defense attorney. is she hiding something or is this to protect herself? if i were in her shoes, i d hire an attorney, too. the family has fled, no one is standing by me. i would think, my god, no matter what, they are trying to say i did it. so i can t say that that mean as lot to me. i think it s a smart move whether she s guilty or innocent. pat brown, thank you for your insight. and now for a check of the weather, here is the weather channel scott williams. independence day speaking of air quality, we have a code orange air alert. clear skies. not a bad start. lots of 50s outside. urbana, maryland, 60. dewpoint, 54. 59, menassis. 95 in fredericksburg. 92 in winchester. enjoy the sunshine. lather up the spf. al. and also don t forget that you can get your weather 24 hours a day online at weather.com. jenna? all right, scott. thanks. the truth about safe deposit boxes. that s right after these messages. for constipation relief. nothing works better than miralax. it s the one. the one recommended by more doctors. only miralax is clinically proven to relieve constipation with no harsh side effects. miralax is the only one. restore your body s natural rhythm with miralax. blend it. sprinkle it. sweet! 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[ male announcer ] have a heart to heart with your doctor about your risk. and about lipitor. this morning, the truth about safe deposit boxes. your valuables should be 100% safe, right? not necessarily. there are a couple things you should know. cnbc sharon epperson joins us. good morning. great to be here. it s not fool-proof, right? it s not fool-proof. a lot of people put their money in deposit boxes thinking that it s going to be protected by theft and fire and protected by the federal government and that s not necessarily true. give me the dos and don ts, things that you should and shouldn t. well, the things thaw want to put in the deposit box are original documents that you re going to want to have in there. your valuables, birth certificates, property deeds, car titles, those kinds of things. and the things you d want to keep out, obviously? cash. things to get too quickly. you definitely don t want to have cash in there. you also don t want to have things that might be very important that you re going to need in the case of an emergency, like a will, power of attorney, a medical directive. the point is, in general, the safe deposit box is something to keep around the house what are some of the risks? a fire, the heat from that, gold jewelry in there could melt. if it s theft, a bank employee, perhaps you ll get the liability from the bank to cover t but if it s stolen because you left identifying information next to your key, someone came into your house and stole things from your home and safe deposit box, you have to go through the same recourse that you would if of course, i m the only one that knows what is in the box. that s a problem in and of itself. the fdic insurance doesn t count, right? it does not. it doesn t cover what s in your safe deposit box. you want to have the insurance company know what is in there as well. and your homeowner s policy may cover you. you may need a personal rider as well. what happens if the bank fails, the bang goes out bank gf business? within the first business day you may have access but there may be a change in policy as to what they charge for fees. you want to contact the bank directly to find out about your safe deposit box. set up automatic payments for those fees so you don t forget to pay it. check the contents of your box every year and make sure you tell someone that you have it. if you have an heir that is eventually going to get the box, let them know where it is at. what kinds of things can we do to protect those things? have an inventory of things in the box, take a picture, and keep it not in the box where you know where other things are. seal your belongings. what if there s water damage? that can happen more frequently than a fire. put things in ziploc bags, seal them up. back some of the stuff up online. a lot of things very valuable to folks these days are their passwords and user names. that s something that you can o do. thank you for joining us. my pleasure. and now here is jenna. this morning on today s travel, vacations with a patriotic twist on this independence day weekend. senior editor of travel zoo joins us to discuss the five top patriotic destinations. good morning, gabe. good morning. i guess these could be summer destinations as well? they are. let s start with new york city. as far as new york city, you ve got the fireworks and then some. why is new york a patriotic destination? of course, this is the cradle of the ethnic diversity that make this is country so great. tonight out of six barges stretched across the hudson river, of course, festivals and parades throughout the city all day long. nathan s hot dog eating contest. and really sort of the city is abuzz on a day that kicks off the summer travel season. hotel rates come down in earnest. and u.s. history is boston? the birth place of the american revolution. you can wacht walk the freedom trail. of course, on the 4th of july, it s all about harbor fest, a great fireworks show, friendly events. and, again, a dose of history that is very much tangible even today. you have to mention when discussing these kinds of weekends, our nation s capital, washington, d.c. indeed. more crowded on a weekend like this. absolutely. it s, again, really where you get to see your tax dollars at work. many of the great things to do in d.c. are free, from the monuments to the landmarks, people visiting capitol hill for a concert this evening. of course, tours of the white house and many of the landmarks that remind us that history is alive and well throughout the east coast and certainly in the district of columbia. san dieantonio you say is a d place to be? this is where the alamo is and texans took on mexican soldiers lead by general santa ana, davie crockett. you re surrounded by five missions and multiple theme parks that make it a very nice destination. the river park is beautiful. wherever you see the temperatures go up, the hotel prices go down. san antonio is a perfect example of that. and the last city we re going to talk about is the windy city, and that s chicago. good place to snb. this is, of course, an industry of expansion. the willis tower is still there, the former sears tower. all american comes alive, concerts on the beach there on lake michigan, the navy pier and millennium park. it s a shame you don t know more about these different cities and what they have to offer. you are a wealth of information. thank you so much for joining us. and we are back right after this. nt jefferson. kraft homestyle mac and cheese? 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[ female announcer ] used mops can grow bacteria. swiffer wetjet starts with a clean pad every time. and its antibacterial cleaner kills bacteria mops can spread around. swiffer gives cleaning a whole new meaning. lovely lady as we celebrate the gift of freedom, thousands of people will become naturalized citizens today. ceremony also happen all across the country. the home of president thomas jefferson, leslie bowman, the president of the foundation, gave me an inside look at month cello. reporter: it was america s first celebrity mansion, monticello. come on in, jenna. wow. i feel so presidential. it s the most important i ve felt all day, just so you know. reporter: but the more of the house i saw, the less important i actually felt. i see ben franklin over here. yep. reporter: there s probably john adams and i bet you know this guy. reporter: george washington. just like my family room with pictures of all of my friends. reporter: by the time thomas jefferson arrived here in 1809, his place in history had already been sealed. he was the author of declaration of the independence. but monticello was hardly a retirement home. he grew hundreds of fruits and vegetables from seeds that he collected from around the world. in his office, he wrote some 19,000 letters, two of each. that machine right there recorded his letters for him as he wrote. you can see there s two pens. that s why we have all of the copies. reporter: it would have been easier with a laptop or something. he knew the spotlight of history would shine on him and adams and washington and all of them. reporter: by the time you get to jefferson s bedroom, you get a sense of what drove him. he died on this day? yes. 50 years from the day that he signed the declaration of independence. reporter: one of the world s greatest coincidences. so it s not hard to see why 4th of july is an important tradition here. today the estate will hold a naturalize zags ceremony. among them, 24-year-old man whose dream is to become a u.s. astronaut. why do you feel it s so important to work for an organization like nasa? he s an engineer by training but needs to become a citizen. what will it mean for you to become naturalized? reporter: my future is in america so it seems natural. reporter: like the founding father who built his home at monticello, he s confident that he will make history. like really confident. will you give me a tour or something if i come by? i would love to. reporter: security clearance, maybe? you would probably have top send some sort of information and you d have to apply and then your approval would come back. reporter: i was kidding but if i wasn t kidding, that s quite the red carpet that you laid out for me. exactly. he then would have been today what we consider a supreme overachiever. he was like you. he did the morning show and then came back and did like nightly news. thomas jefferson was all over the place. that s how much of an overacheefr that he really was. up next, another july 4th tradition, the hot dog eating champion. we ll preview some of the competition. they are ready right after this. welcomerewards from hotels.com. see when i accumulate 10 nights, i get one free. and.they let me choose where to use them. the loyalty program he signed us up for has all these restrictions, blackout dates, a crazy point system. and we couldn t stay here. so what am i getting for free? my undying love? 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[music, talking, laughing] what makes hershey s s mores special? hershey s chocolate goodness that brings people together. pure hershey s. for nearly a century it s been a 4th of july tradition, the hot dog eating contest. they ve been doing it for 95 years and it takes place in just a few hours. this morning, we have three people who will be stuffing themselves silly. eric, ben, and julia. thank you so much for being here. nice to have you, eric. you re a subway conduct for, a rapper, clearly a big eater because you re competing in this. it s game day. how do you prepare? basically i just had a protein shake this morning and i m hungry and focused and trying to get my mind focused. you ll eat nothing in between in. oh, no. ben, you re a nutritionist and a body builder and this is what you do. explain that to me. it seems a little ironic. it s a great selling point for my clientele, doing tie tear nutrition and training. a lot of people don t realize it s not what you do acutely but it s more chronically. if you consume high caloric as opposed to 68 hot dogs at once? right. it s people who like are chronic alcoholics, it will cause more damage to your liver than if you were to drink a bunch at one time, in lieu of alcohol poisoning or whatever. and you re little. how do you prepare? actually, it doesn t matter your size. so you don t have much fat in your stomach so you stretch more and especially for women, we can carry a baby so we can carry hot dogs. exactly. if you can carry a baby you can carry a hot dog. good luck to all of you. we ll be back. doors opening. metro suddenly yanks 100 rail cars out of service. the major safety problem that has engineers working around the clock. that was just the rehearsal. capital celebration. d.c. gets ready for the country s birthday bash. what you need to know before you head out to celebrate today. good morning, everyone. welcome to news 4 today. a little patriotic music. i know. i don t want to stop that