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one week after the end of her frightening abduction at the hands of a complete stranger? she is here along with their family and they ll tell us, today, tuesday, july 13, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. i missed you. i missed you, too. nice to see you. several days apart. this morning 85 days in this agonizing ordeal there could finally be some light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to this disaster in the gulf. that s right. that new sealing cap was mounted on to the busted pipe late last night offering new pope that bp will be able to capture all of the oil that is gushing out as early as today. we re going to get the late nest a live report straight ahead. also ahead the 19-year-old barefoot bandit is set to make his first court appearance after being abducted. what colton harris-moore was up to just hours before he was arrested by police. plus, a scary thought for millions of americans. a new report out this morning suggests that half of all baby boomers in this country will run out of money while they are living out their retirement years. and the news is not much better for the younger gen x-ers and what you can do to secure your future ahead. new hope riding on that new and tighter cap that s now in place on that busted oil pipe in the gulf. nbc s chief environmental om venice, louisiana.s morning she has the latest. anne, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, matt. this could be a pivotal day in the history of this oil spill. for the first time in 85 days, oil could temporarily stop flowing into the gulf. as bp conducts a test to determine the condition of the well and how much more work has to be done in order to shut it down for good. robotic arms attach the second part of the sealing cap and ready it for testing that should begin today. slowly the valves on the new cap will be closed. as that happens, engineers will monitor the pressure at which the oil flows to determine the condition of the well. if we see high pressure, it s actually means that the flow in the oil is fully contained in the exist iing well. if we see low pressures, then that would indicate that potentially oil is escaping out of the casing at some point. reporter: and that means more problems. bp says the tests should take 6 to 48 hours. sir sir, we re going to ask you to sit down, please. reporter: in new orleans the emotions of 84 days of disaster erupted at the first public hearing of the oil spill presidential commission. we feel the government is looking out for their own interests, not for the people, not for the planet. reporter: the man in charge of the $20 billion claim fund promises to make the process simpler. but ken feinberg says filers will still have to provide documentation for what they say they ve lost. i cannot simply cut checks without backup to demonstrate they re entitled to get paid that amount. reporter: along the gulf coast, nerves are raw where the oil is and where it isn t. even communities hundreds of miles from tar balls and patties with beaches untouched by oil are feeling the economic pain as tourists shun the region. panama city first lady michelle obama urged americans looking for a way to help to vacation in those areas. truly one of the best ways fellow americans can help is to come on down here and spend some money. reporter: it s an area that needs economic support, but most of all, it needs that oil to stop flowing. matt? anne thompson in louisiana for us this morning. anne, thank you very much. it s now four minutes after the hour. here s meredith. matt, thank you. mao to washington where the balance of power will be up for grabs in the midterm elections. the republicans have a real shot at winning back control of congress? political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd is at the white house. good morning, chuck. reporter: good morning, meredith. republicans really do have a good shot at this which is why the white house and democrats are pushing hard to get a handful of items done in the next few weeks including financial reform, trying to get elena kagan onto the supreme court and extending unemployment bep fits because, right now, the campaign for control of congress is dominating the washington landscape. the election count certificate what the election counter is. reporter: the white house is expecting a very tough summer of political warfare after admitting publicly for the first time that democratic control in the house hangs in the balance. i think there s no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause republicans to gain control. reporter: to do that republicans will need to win 39 house seats, the senate is a taller order. they need ten seats. analysts say both houses could change control. democrats could lose the house if the election were held today with exactly the circumstances that exist today. things would have to get so somewhat worse for them to lose the majority of the senate. reporter: part of the challenge for democrats, firing up their own sometimes disspirited base. the smat majority leader in his own tough re-election fight in nevada wants the president to show more passion. he s a person who doesn t like confrontation. he s a peacemaker. and sometimes i think you have to be a little more forceful and sometimes i don t think he is. reporter: others on the left say the president s problems with his own base go far beyond that. i think obama and his team made a mistake when it came to the white house in demobilizing a base that was ready to work for bolder reforms in favor of an inside the beltway strategy. reporter: meanwhile, republicans like sarah palin are seeing the rise in the party s chances this november as a chance to rebrand themselves for a presidential bid in 2012. here is a highly produced palin ad to help women running this year but seems to be more about the former alaska governor. you don t want to mess with the mama grizzlies. reporter: what s interesting about that palin video, there wasn t a single mention of a woman candidate running in 2010. it was all pictures of sarah palin which tells you that this was as much aut 2012 presidential politics and very quickly, matt, yesterday in iowa, newt gingrich said he is more serious about running for president than he ever has been before. and because he said it in iowa, we ll take him a little more seriously this time, matt. chuck todd, thank you very much. laura ingraham is a conservative radio talk show host and contributor to fox news. she also has a new book out today called the obama diaries. congratulations on that. you re making an appearance. thumbs up for you. even though you didn t wear the lady gaga glasses last week, very disappointed. only because i wasn t here. let me ask you about midterm elections. you heard in chuck s piece a lot of people are talking about the possibility republicans could regain control of the house and the senate, likelihood of it happening is what? i should say this is actually breaking news today. barack obama in his diaries actually predicts gaining seats in both the house and the senate, the bravado is quite something. you write them as fictional entries, the diary. what do you mean if i cficti? fiction? if republicans do gain control of the house and make substantial gains in the senate, will it be a general dissatisfaction voters are showing with democrats in congress or the administration or would you point to a specific tipping point? well, who is in charge? we were promised home and change. we were promised turning the page. a transparent white house. these are regular people but they have a new vision for america. a vision is unfolding and it s not working out so well. that s not political. that s not ideological. that s factual. i think people are seeing that jobs are not the focus. we re doing a lot of fun partying at the white house, which is also cataloged in the obama diaries. a lot of partying. a beautiful family, wonderful image. but the image for the country is not a comedy, matt. if you look at the front page of the washington post there s a poll and it kind of tells two stories. one, six in ten americans do not have faith in president obama. almost seven in ten americans don t have faith in democrats in congress. but what s the but? it says slightly more than seven in ten americans don t have faith in republicans in congress. what s the message here? there s a lot of cynicism out there. i think that s a little to say it s a disaster and no one trusts anyone. i don t think that s true. what people are seeing, the nation is in debt. we have a lack of focus on things like the gulf coast. i know the first lady dropped by the gulf coast. that was a beautiful image. she went to an ice cream shot. i thought dessert was not a right. she had a chocolate hurricane yesterday. that was a nice image. we re losing part of the country, matt. we re losing the gulf coast day by day by day. i hope the cap works. we ll see if it does. it s been a failure in leadership. that s why the polls are where they are. if i put you in charge oh, gosh. the campaigns of all the republicans running in the midterm elections, what s your bumper sticker? is it we re not democrats or is it something more? it might be focus on american families, american jobs, period. america. we don t need someone apologizing for america. we don t need someone saying, well, american exceptionalism but greek exceptionalism. we need to reignite a love affair with america. that s what i write about in the obama diary. sarah palin, is she right now what rudy giuliani was four years ago, that all other republicans will have to go around to get the nomination in 2012? i think sarah palin is extremely smart. i think the fact that chuck todd led with one of his reports today about sarah palin shows me that she is incredibly smart mover and shaker in politics. will she be the nominee? she doesn t seem like she s going down that road to me. i could be wrong. i think she s a pours to be reckoned with. the obama diaries, fictional is it fictional to say remember last year, last jup, when brian williams was in the back seat? now that was funny, the burger run with obama. i loved brian williams at that moment. the dog, that was comedy. the obama diaries that s revealing. three or four months before elections, what do you want people to take away from this? is it a fun romp? the book is revealing arrogance, incompetence, horror, and, matt, barack obama and joe biden, you didn t know this, they re two of the funniest people on the face of the planet. you ask michelle obama s mother, this woman is one of the best the funniest, common sense. she wants the daughters to eat junk food when they want to eat it, okay? laura, it s nice to see you. it s 11 minutes after the hour. let s get a check of the rest of the morning s stories. ann is standing by at the news desk. all right, thanks a lot, matt. good morning, everybody. in the news this morning investigators in uganda say they have found unexploded suicide vests in the city which suggests more attacks were planned there. people were gathering to watch the final game of the world cup on sunday, 76 people have died. andrea mitchell is standing by following the story. she has more now. andrea, good morning. reporter: good morning, ann. as that death toll rises overnight, the discovery of the suicide pack and responsibility by a somali group linked to al qaeda does create a wider threat of attacks against other u.s. allies in the region. it took only seconds for a night of soccer and celebration to turn into one of blood and horror. there was had explosion and the next thing i knew i was on the ground with a whole bunch of rubble. reporter: attacks as soccer fans gathered in a sports bar and a rugby club in the final seconds of the world cup. now claiming responsibility for its first attack outside soma a somalia s borders al shabaab, a religion linked to caal qaeda tt has terrorized somalia and now threatens to target other african countries. all u.s. allies. if they do not pull their american-backed peacekeepers out of somalia. a spokesman warned we will target them everywhere if uganda does not withdraw from our land. the bombs killed one american, nate hezz, dedicated to save children from becoming child soldiers. totally selfless in everything he did. he was a solid example for all of us. reporter: he was 25 years old, attended the university of delaware. ugandans called him the strong one. it is my life. it s all i do. reporter: friends back home say he dreamed of having his own children. he wanted a family so bad. just wanted to fall in love. reporter: and in a terrible twist of fate his younger brother, kyle, was flying to be with his family in the crisis. the plane crashed. the pilot was killed. fortunately kyle henn survived. ann? andrea mitchell this morning, thank you. in haiti on monday a summer storm ripped through a camp where people were left homeless six months ago, sending tents down on quake survivors. fidel castro made a rare appearance on cuban television. the 83-year-old says tensions between the u.s. and both north korea and iran could ultimately trigger a global nuclear war. hearings begin to decide if the diabetes drug avandia should stay on the market. studies have been raising questions about potential ties to heart attacks. and the nba commissioner has fined cleveland cavaliers owner dan gilbert $100,000 for, quote, inappropriate comments about lebron james. last week gilbert called james decision to leave the cavaliers and move to miami narcissistic and cowardly and also shameful and selfish. it is now 7:15. i m sure that fine is going to calm the controversy. good tuesday morning to you i m news4 meetologist chuck bell. plenty of cloud but was showers are gone for now. temperatures in the low to mid 70s and a ton of humidity in the air. break in the action here. overnight showers and storming moving over portions of delaware, southern new englajer away from us. rain in kentucky tennessee promises more rain chances nor us after lunchtime. today s highs in 80s. after that 90s. and that s your latest weather. meredith? is thank you. there are new developments tied to the disappearance of kyron horman. the 7-year-old s father is accusing his wife, the last person known to have seen kyron before he vanished, of having an affair. miguel almaguera is in portland. good morning to you. reporter: meredith, good morning. the new revelations come from court documents filed by kyron horman s father. in them he alemmings that his estranged wife began sending elicit sexual text messages to a man who lives in their neighborhood. his name is michael cooke. kaine and terri live right up the street from me. reporter: michael cooke went to high school in the seattle area with kaine horman, kyron s father, and the two men ended up living in the same neighborhood where kyron went missing in portland. two weeks ago television crews interviewed cooke when he organized a neighborhood vigil for kyron. i would hope that if people had personal energy to invest, they would put it towards helping to find this missing boy. as opposed to speculating whether the family did or didn t have something to do with it. reporter: but according to new court documents, five days after that vigil, cooke and terri horman, kyron s stepmom, began a sexual relationship which included sexting one another, sending, quote, hundreds of text messages as well as several photographs of terri in various stages of undress and graphic sexual activity. if terri horman is your girl next door, you live in a pretty creepy neighborhood. reporter: terri horman is the last known person to see kyron alive, dropping him off at a school science fair. in a restraining order filed two weeks ago, kaine says terri tried to hire a landscape contractor to murder him. in the new court document, kaine claims investigators say it terri s sexual overtures to mr. cook resemble those made to the man she previously attempted to hire to murder kaine. i ve worked a lot of cases. i ve arrested a lot of people in my career and, truly, this case is one of the strangest cases i ve ever seen. reporter: two weeks ago kaine took their 20-month-old daughter to an undisclosed location and filed for divorce. in the new court filing kaine says investigators told him cook looked up his new address and even did a google map search on his cell phone. the final straw for kaine horman came last week when a clerk in a local gym said terri was looking to abduct her daughter kiara, but the gym daycare center while kaine was working out. the twists and turns in this, i mean, you can t make this up if you wanted to. reporter: amid all of these allegations, kaine horman is worried not only about his son s fate but also his daughter s future. i do fear for their safety as long as it terri is around. reporter: terri horman s attorney says she won t fight the restraining order keeping her away from her daughter, and we should note that despite all of these allegations terri horman has never even been named a person of interest in this case. meredith? miguel almaguera, thank you very much. it is 7:19 and once again here s matt. meredith, thank you. the 19-year-old known as the barefoot bandit is expected to make his first court appearance today in the bahamas. the new video surfaces that shows what he was doing with his final hours of freedom before being captured. nbc s peter alexander is in nassau with the latest on this. peter, good morning. reporter: matt, good morning to you. police say colton harris-moore is eloquent and he s intelligent, but he could not outwit authorities here. we traveled by plane, van, and boat to the exclusive harbor island where police say the barefoot bandit tried to make one final escape. and this morning we have exclusive new video of his efforts to get away. this is colton harris-moore s final night on the run, police say. caught by surveillance video cameras in the bahamas just hours before his arrest. the tape shows the 19 ye-year-o fugitive allegedly casing out boats to steal late saturday night, armed, and true to his nickname, barefoot. harris-moore is seen running past william and his wife. three hours later the teenager returned stealing their 32-foot fishing boat. they ran right by us but i department know who it was. it was a young, tall kid with a blue backpack. reporter: harris moore s international odyssey ended. told the police to stop him at any cost. the cost to the boat is about $300,000. reporter: the end came when harris-moore was allegedly spotted floating into the darkness on sport s boat. police piled into a private boat owned by juror dap sackett and took off searching for harris-moore, finally pulling up 50 feet behind the teen who had eluded authorities for two years. vanishing from a halfway house in washington state. yelling i m not going back to jail, i m going to kill myself, holding a weapon to his head as he was say iing this. it was like he had no fear at that point. reporter: hackett says he fired a warning shot into the air. authorities fired more than a dozen times shutting down the engine on the barefoot bandit s boat. once the bullets started, he was a completely different person and dropped to the bottom of the boat, was scared. when we tuned him on the boat he was in a fetal position. reporter: the boat s captain took us back to the exact spot they say harris-moore emptied his knapsack throwing his personal belongings into the harbor s shallow waters. laptop, gun, backpack and a couple of waterproof cases. reporter: and one certificate, what was it? boy scout of america. reporter: one day after he was arrested, his hand and feet in shackles, harris-moore was interviewed for hours. he ll face trial in the bahamas for illegal weapons possession and other charges before he s extradited to the u.s. he has committed offenses, cripple maloffenses, in the commonwealth of the bahamas. our laws are very clear and so certainly we will be giving promise to those issues. reporter: the first conviction came when he was just 12, is accused of more than 100 crimes in eight states. a catch me if you can type spree where harris-moore allegedly snatched food, cars, and at least five planes. he says he taught himself to fly. including this one that police say harris-moore stole in indiana july 4th, crash landing it 1,000 miles away here in the bahamas. the young outlaw for the pacific northwest was finally caught in this tropical paradise. everybody knew he was on the island. everybody was looking out for him and it was almost as if he was bound to be caught right here in harbor island. reporter: the bandit who became infamous for his brazen antics and bare feet also left behind one unlikely piece of evidence on the boat shoes. and that barefoot bandit who has access to phone calls has not spoken to his own mom, matt, who released a statement saying i miss him terribly. peter alexander in the bahamas for us this morning. peter, thanks very much. just ahead, things go from bad to worse for mel gibson. a new audio tape surfaces in which he allegedly admits to hitting his ex-girl prend. but first, this is today on nbc. good morning. 7:26 on tuesday, 13th day of july. i m joe krebs. in the news4 today, around 8:00, last night, someone made a discovfully lorton, virginia, human remains left near route 1 and furnace road. police will not know for sure whether they are a person s remains until examined. it s unclear how long they ve been there on the roadside. we re going to take a break and come back and look at our weather and traffic. stay with us. 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[ bleep ] you deserved it. you re going to answer one day, boy. reporter: oksana grigorieva has told police gibson punched her in the face knocking out two of her teeth, claims the actor has denied. gibson is also staying mum about the tapes. if the tape is what it appears to be, it s devastating evidence against mel gibson on multiple fronts. first of all with respect to domestic violence it s essentially a confession, child custody, you can forget about that, even the possibility of them charging him with threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend. reporter: and as far as his public image goes, industry experts say the situation couldn t get much worse. short of murder or incest, mel gibson s in about as much trouble as a celebrity can get into. it s almost two decades long history of hatred, of homophobia, racism, miss mysogony. reporter: police have requested copies of the recording from radar on line and from oksana. at this point no charges have been filed. meredi meredith? thank you very much. dr. nancy snyderman is our chief medical editor and a former district attorney and county judge and the host of the judge. good morning to you. that tape is so disturbing to list listen to. immediate reaction, both of you, when you first heard it? i had a reaction to both sides. or behavior on either side buthe she was passing/aggressive and baiting him, knowing what buttons to push. he had this it deep, almost setting him up in a way? well, she knew how to engage the rage. she was very quiet, soft voice, pushed him, pushed him in a very passive/aggressive way. he? he has this rage that comes from the deepest center of the brain. when you are very angry and you think i m so mad i want to throw this glass, you think in your had, oh, what are the consequences? the glass will break, i ll cut myself, i ll hurt someone else. this is an anger without a check and balance. it is what allows us to slay the animal, to outrun the animal in the serengeti but has no checks and balances. that s where you can hurt someone. you re shaking your head. i was stunned, i was shocked because everybody wants to love mel gibson. he s played such great affable characte characters. at the end of the day, i listen to this tape and i say this man is an angry, hateful batterer. he beats women. he says you deserve it. he says even if i hit you, well, when you were holding the child, you deserved it. this is a guy who at the end of the day will be a criminal. is he a sick man, though? do you get any sense this man he has had a history of alcohol abuse. this is mental illness. you can describe it any way whether it s uncontrolled rage or alcoholism induced. any psychiatrist would sit down and look at inflammation, infection, tumor, drug use and with the known alcoholism, we don t know this was an alcohol fueled rant the other day or whether this is alcohol damage to the brain or whether it s compounding it doesn t sound like an alcohol fueled rant. when he did the anti-semitic thing with the cop, he slurred his words. these words were clear, they were definite, and they were it doesn t mean alcohol didn t damage his brain previously. how might this play into the domestic violence investigation? as far as i m concerned you have a willing witness, a media outcry to friends, evidence of injury, and evidence of admission coming out of the mouth of the accused. what better evidence is there than the defendant corroborating what he s done and saying, and you deserved it. any jury will be outraged. but are the tapes admissible? in some states if you are being recorded and you don t know it, those tapes are not allowed. you hit the nail on the head. california is a two-party state. there are exceptions. was he in a place where there was an expectation of privacy? remember, this isn t just a tape recording, it s a phone call because he says to her, stay on the phone. that tells me that you get into ere s got to be some .aping of expectation of privacy on his part. some people projected there s a sense of entitlement or he feels he s been the victim, the world is sort of against him. that paranoia that s me against everyone else can be a root of this and it could also be a by-product of a brain that s gone haywire. he s also said apparently she was trying to extort money from him, that these tapes were made with a threat you don t give me money, i m going to release them. does that absolve him of the liability? even in the tiger woods case, we know the confidentiality comes when the lawyers negotiate. were his lawyers negotiating on the co-habitation agreement? absolutely. they had one. was that thrown in as, look, we ll throw this in if you give us money? if it s the lawyers, it s not extortion. you do not have the right to strike someone, to threaten them, to put them in harm s way. as a doctor and lawyer what do you think his next step should be. immediate psychiatric help. immediate psychiatric help. find the best criminal defense attorney you can find and get your defense together because it is solid. the d.a. doesn t have an excuse to not go forward with this evidence. he s so unglued. he needs help immediately and i mean in the next couple of good tuesday morning. i m news4 meteorologist chuck bell. off to a cloud c. and humid start on tuesday. temperatures in the low to mid 70s but a bundant humidity outside. brace yourself. overnight storms rolling away from us but we are under the gun for more thunderstorms this afternoon, some could reach severe limits. temperatures in the mid to high 80s today. back into the 90s for the rest of the week. have a good day. and we have a lot of california girls here. it says so on their faces. my gosh. you ought to have a doctor look at that because it s a little bit of a rash there. all right. let s go back to meredith. al, thank you very much. and still ahead, a softball clash of the titans. brian williams and nightly news against the today show. we re going to tell you how things turned out. but up next, the new report that finds half of all baby boomers will run out of money in retirement. how to keep that from happening to you. one tribe, y all one tribe, y all one tribe, y all we are one people let s catch amnesia [ male announcer ] this summer, every time you choose pepsi, you support the pepsi refresh project. so choose pepsi. every pepsi refreshes the world. one, one, one people finally, frizz is finished. refreshes the world. avon invents advance techniques lotus shield treatment. just a little instantly smoothes. hair is in control for 3 days. call 800-for-avon to find a representative. to get more of the fiber you need every day, try fiberchoice. with the natural fiber found in fruits and vegetables and 33% more fiber per serving than benefiber. go to fiberchoice.com to get savings and rewards. last year, she started a pastry business from her small apartment. the problem is she doesn t have a car. for months erica s been saving to buy a new toyota corolla. the corolla, it s reliable, which i love. 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[ indistinct shouting ] what s in your wallet? 7:56 is the time. 73 degrees. clouds overhead. we ll get the forecast from chuck bell coming up i m joe krebs. metro s not expecting issues at metro station today after an escalator outage forced one of the entrances to be closed. smoke started to pour out of one of the escalators when it overheated forcing all of the escalators to be shut down, causing long walks. a major development in louden county another step closer to becoming a reality. board of supervisors approved the kincora village project. the development would be built between route 28 and route 7, include a new minor league baseball park. condos, apartments and even a performing arts center would be part of the proposed kincora village. we ll take a break and look at traffic and weather. stay with us. good tuesday morning. sunshine coming clue cloudy sky will lead to afternoon showers and thunderstorms. highs stay in the 80s today. more sunshine and fewer storms today put temperatures back into the 90s. jerry? chuck, police are reporting an accident 270 southbound in the local lanes here near route 28. you can see how slow they are. heads up for that. good news inbound 66 looking better problems along the way out of fair oaks have cleared. ahead on news4 midday a dermatologist in the studio to talk abo 8:00 now on this tuesday morning, july 13th, 2010. not the best of weather days here in new york. scattered showers expected lout the day but things are it s starting to rain as i speak. the crowd seems happy despite all that. i m meredith vieira alongside matt lauer and al roker. new details in the abduction of alisa maier who was found alive after she was snatched from her own front yard by a complete stranger last monday. she is back with her family. we ll talk with them in an exclusive live interview just ahead. a happy ending. also ahead, how much do you eat? you see these things, the daily recommended number of calories that each of us should consume, but your metabolism is different than mine. our levels of activity might be different. how do you determine how much you should be consuming? we ll talk about that with david and madeline. how many of you are big fans of roy rogers? yes. the king of the cowboys. well, you know, of course, his beloved horse trigger who appeared in his tv show and all 188 of his movies. well, now trigger and other pieces are roy rogers personal collection are going on the auction block. we re going to give you a private tour, a sneak peek. that s really trigger. that is trigger-trigger. that s right. are you kidding? yes. that s right. and roy rogers jr., dusty, will be giving us a tour. what do they think that horse is going to go for? i don t know. a lot. and there s a car in there, a bonneville. pretty cool. we ll take a look at that, too. do you want a horse for your living room? no, not a stuffed horse, but not a live horse either. let s go inside. ann is standing by at the news desk with a check of all the headlines. all right. okay, guys. thanks so much. good morning once again, everybody. today bp is testing a new containment cap placed last night over the ruptured oil well in the gulf. the tighter fitting cap is supposed to stop more of the oil from flowing. bp says the well should be ready in august. police in uganda say they arrested four. bombings on sunday night could have been even worse. at least 76 people including one american were killed when the bombs exploded where people had gathered to watch the world cup final. a somalian group is claiming responsibility. president omar al bashir is being charged with genocide, the deaths of hundreds of people in darfur. bashir had already been charged of war crimes and crimes against humanity. prosecutors in the u.s. say they are disappointed but not deterred by switzerland s refusal monday to extradite fugitive filmmaker roman polanski. we get details from stephanie gosk. reporter: an award winning director and hollywood heavyweight, roman polanski has been a wanted man for more than 30 years. officials in los angeles and washington say they are shocked by switzerland s decision to set him free. a 13-year-old girl was drugged and raped by an adult. reporter: polanski fled the u.s. in 1978 to avoid sentencing for unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl. five other charges were dropped in a plea deal including rape by use of drugs. i was flabbergasted actually that the swiss officials made the decision that they were not going to participate in extradition. reporter: family and other supporters maintain the director s arrest last september in zurich was a miscarriage of justice. bernard levy, a close friend, spoke with polanski. of course for mr. polanski and his family because of these ten months of his life stolen. the director is not entirely free. a district attorney says his office will try to extradite polanski again. stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. overseas markets are mostly higher this morning. we have cnbc s trish regan at the new york stock exchange with more on this. trish, there s a lot of attention this week on earnings. reporter: there absolutely is. good morning, ann. earnings is now into full swing. we ve got it kicked off after the closing bell with alcoa, the aluminum company, and csx, the railroad company. both had fairly good news for the economy. alcoa, the aluminum company, is actually seeing more demand for its products. so that s a bullish sign. csx is actually hauling 63% more freight than it did a year ago, so another good sign. let s hope it keeps up. trish regan this morning, thanks. and consumer reports says it will not recommend apple s new iphone 4 because of reception problems caused by the phone s antenna design. users have been complaining good tuesday morning. i m news4 meteorologist chuck bell. plenty of cloud cover and humidity outside. first thing on a tuesday morning. temperatures are in the low to mid-70s now, across the area. but if you break the sunshine, getting through, it will warm things up quickly. rains are gone. waiting on more chances for showers and thunderstorms to come in after lunchtime today. don t stray too far from your umbrella. 80% chance of rain today, storms strong to severe. and, my golly, this is a good looking family. where are you from? 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i want them to catch him because i know that if they don t, he s going to do it again and i don t want anybody to go through what we went through. reporter: that night police used surveil and video to identify a suspect, paul s. smith, a convicted sex offender who sodomized a 10-year-old boy in 1995. when police arrived at his missouri farm, smith was spray painting his black car a different color. then he shot and killed himself. i think i can sum it up in two words. it s over. reporter: on thursday, three days after this nightmare began, the happy homecoming. sporting her boyish haircut, alisa snapped right back into toddler mode, within minutes running around and riding her bike in the very spot where she was abducted. what was that reunion like? it was great. i mean, if we could do back flips, we d be doing them. reporter: now a new scary twist. police say the accused kidnapper may have also murdered a man, a nearby auto shop owner just two days before grabbing alisa. investigators still don t know why. but watching alisa so full of life, so happy. for now her parents have all the answers they need. we don t know for sure what alisa went through in those 24 hours that she was missing, but the fact is she s alive and police say without the public s help putting pressure on the kidnapper, meredith, who knows how this would have ended. it s nice to have her here on the sofa and she is atoshl. she s very adorable. jeff, thank you so much. alisa maier is here with her parents, david maier. david, when you think back to just a week ago, a week ago you didn t know where your daughter was. no, we didn t. she d been taken from your home the night before. you had no idea whether she was alive or not. no. how would you describe what your family has gone through. it s been a roller coaster. when they picked her up, we had no idea, no description, just a vague description of who took her in the car. so it was blake who ran into the house and told you. he ran in the house and said alisa got in a black car. kimberly went to the neighbor s house to see if she was over there and when she come back, she said she wasn t there, i immediately dialed 911. this was just minutes. and then from then on by the time the police got there, there were police going down the street, too, looking for this black car. and as the hours ticked by oh, man, we just didn t know. i can t explain how i felt. when did you get the word that alisa was okay? how did you get the word? well, we were staying at a friend s house because we didn t want to go back home. this was tuesday night? tuesday evening. they told us about 10:30, the fbi and chief hughes, the louisiana police department, came and showed me a picture and she was laying in a hospital bed. they came in and as we walked outside wanted to show me something. i was expecting the worst. when he showed me the picture of her in the hospital bed, had had arms like had smiling, i was just let s go. let s go to the hospital and get her. you drove to st. louis that night. they transported us. to st. louis. i understand you did a somersault when you got the word that she was okay, literally. i had tried to do a back flip, but i m getting i too old. the worst case scenario was possible because you deal with criminals. without a doubt. i dealt with a lot of really bad people. yeah. beyond imagination what can happen. beyond imagination. what was it like, david, when you final ly reunited, you and kim, with your daughter? just overjoyed. the first thing she asked, where s blake. did you know that, blake, the first thing she wanted to know was where you were? you must be a cool big brother. he s a hero. he is a hero because he could describe the person to some degree and the car. pretty much spot on, too. from what i understand, therapist have is talked to alisa and see no indication of any severe trauma or any abuse when she was with this man. hats she shared anything with you at this point? bits and pieces but nothing of significance. and you ve made a decision not to force thattish snu. we re not going to force anything. it will come out in time, in a manner of speaking. i don t know if we ll ever know. i doubt if we ever will. is there a message here for paren parents? yes, there is. i think, as you can see, this is a very happy ending and you always have hope and for all the people, the parents that have missing children, there is some kind of hope and just keep the word out and let the media do their job and the law enforcement be allowed to do their job. and i would really like to thank all the law officials that was involved in this whole case nationwide, local, and all the media, especially the media because they did a good job of getting the word out. we re glad she s home safe and sound. and the community. the community really pulled together, a lot of support. without them, we probably would have never made it through this. alisa, we re glad you re home. she just cares about her bear, she s a 4-year-old girl. ! ] [ ding! ] [ chirp! ] [ stomp! stomp! stomp! stomp! ] [ beep! crank! ] [ pop! pop! pop! ] [ ding! ] [ ding! ] [ clank! fizz! clink! ] it s. time! 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(announcer) it s more than just that great peanut taste, choosing jif is a simple way to show someone how much you care. i love you mom. i love you too. choosey moms, choose jif. just eat it this morning on eat smart today are you eating too much? 60% of people questioned have no idea how many calories they should be eating every day. today s diet and nutrition editor and the author of the real you diet and david is editor in chief of men s health and the author of eat this not that and now drink this not that series. i hear all the time, 2,500, 2,800 calories a day, that s what i should be consuming but that s not a one size fits all thing. we may not have the same metabolism or the same level of activity. right. a lot of how many calories you need, and for men it will range 2,000 to 3,000, women 1,500 to 2,500, it depend upon your age and level of activity and most of us are a lot less active than we think. even we think we re eating the right things, david, chances are we re eating too much of the right things. we re eating way too much food because it ises everywhere. it s in subway stations. it s in office supply stores. you go to staples, you leave with staples and a snickers. it s everywhere. we re just eating too much. let s talk about typical meals here. give me a couple of examples. these are two different breakfasts, one much better than the other. someone may grab a whole grain bagel and reduced fat cream cheese and small latte. that s 600 calories. but you can have all of this in an egg white omelet, lean canadian bacon for half the calories. you think you re doing yourself a favor. it s a big difference, 300 calories a day over the course of a year means 30 pounds. snacks. i think a lot of people fall down on the snack department. we re fueling all day because even you have healthy food, it still has a lot of calories. a cup of grapes, a bunch of whole grain crackers or a cheese stick, are all going to be about 100 calories each but we pair them together so it s a 300 calorie snack instead of 100 calorie snack and even healthy things like nuts, a small handful, 100 calories. this is 100 calories right here? that s 100 calories. it s a small handful. i eat one of these big bags. that s 200. and this is 600. you pick this up in an airport, a gas station, anywhere, thinking it s one bag so it s one serving. the same thing with these other fun, desert type things. you can have them but keep an eye on the amounts. downsize. if you don t want to buy 100 calorie serves then make them yourself and little bits of candy. this is a single serve bag and this is a bigger single serve bag. the tips for people, you re probably not as active as you think. unless you are pushing lawn mowers or building chimneys, you are probably not getting enough ex exercise in your daily activity. also, think before you drink and drink before you eat. yes. if you think you re hungry, have a glass of water because a lot of times the thirst that we are dehydrated and we need to do that and we drink way too many calories today. all 8:26 is your time. 74 gr 74 degrees more storms on the way. i m eun yang. tuesday july 13, 2010. around 8:00 last night someone made a disturbing discovery in loudoun, virginia. remains left near route 1 and furnace road. police will not sure if they re a person s remains until examined and it s unclear how long they ve been there on the roadside. we ll take a break. weather and traffic when we come good morning, everybody. temperatures are in the 70s right now. we re going to be climbing into the mid to upper 80s for a brief time today with a break or two of sunshine this morning. that s going to lead to more chances for rain showers and some thunderstorms this afternoon. some of them could reach severe limits. we ll keep you posted. on the interer loop of the beltway, above brad dock, an accident tying up the left side of the roadway. delays in springfield. authorities check the report of a vehicle fire between clarksburg and germantown. we we ll keep you updated. news4 midday a dermatologist in the studio to talk about the causes and treatments of baldness. imagine if it were this easy to spot the good guys. you know, the guys who always do a super job. well, it is. just go to the verizon® yellow pages. and look for a business with the superguarantee® shield. you ll get the job done right, or we ll step in and help to make it right. so, protect yourself with the superguarantee® from supermedia. on its way the new verizon® yellow pages with larger, easier to read print. we re back now 8:30 on a tuesday morning, it s the 13th day of july, 2010. a couple of rain drops falling here in midtown manhattan. but, look, it has not stopped a great crowd from gathering here on our plaza outside our window on the world. we re thankful to them for stopping by. out on the plaza, i m matt lauer along with ann and meredith who are apparently running for office of some kind going door-to-door. thank you for coming out. we appreciate it. it s good to have you here. by the way, you know what s happening next door christie s auction house. a big auction, all stuff pertaining to roy rogers and that man right there, al roker. al, this is really cool stuff. it is. right here trigger, dubbed the smartest horse in the movies, appeared in all 188 of roy rogers movies and the tv show. and his dog bullet also there are two of the center pieces of this magnificent 1,000-item auction that will start tomorrow. we ll have a preview of it and get an interview with dusty rogers, roy rogers jr., is going to give us a tour of this m magnificent collection. we meet a man who can thank the real estate crisis for his rediscovery, his real passion. our good friend jane pauley is here to share it. hi, jane. we love it when jane is here. she s always so great. also coming up, by the way, cooking school is in session for all of us. we re going to learn from one of the best chefs on the planet. we re talk iing about eric who will show us how to make a gourmet salmon dinner. good morning, eric. cool. before we do that can we say hi to the star of usa network s white collar matt boehmer. you play on the show a former con man. meredith was a former con woman not cooperating with nbc. wow. i see the parallel. maybe you can be my adviser. i d be very good at it. the show has been a combination of lethal weapon and catch me if you can. is that fair? that s fair enough. it s a budding show about a con artist who gets his prison sentence shortened to help solve of white collar crime. there s a procedural element but also a lot of fun kashg it ter development. if you missed the first season, the second season you can jump right in. the writing has gotten even stronger. at the end of season one your girl prend, kate, in the show, i imagine that s going to play on your character this season going forward. yeah, he s a proactive guy, though, so he s not going to mope around about it. his moral dilemma is whether to do what he thinks is right or what the fbi thinks is right and avenge her death. but playing a guy like that, it sounds like a complicated character and in that way it must be such an enticing character to do. he operates in sort of a moral gray area. another similarity. stop it. we have to talk after this. i think character flaws shadow your aspects are the most fun to play. i enjoy that. congratulations. the season kicks off tonight on usa. 9:00 p.m. matt bomer, it s nice to have you. good to see you. good luck to you good tuesday morning. i m news4 meteorologist chuck bell. a very steamy start out there this morning. temperatures are in the middle 70s now. 75 in buoy and rockville, 74 chantilly, fairfax. 73 manassas. no rain around the area for now. that will change later on this afternoon. we ll get a couple of breaks of sunshine that will get the atmosphere worked up, and that means thunderstorms likely this we ll have more coming up from christie s and the roy rogers auction later on. matt? all right, al. thank you very much. when we come back, making beautiful music after nearly going under in the mortgage mess. jane pauley shares one man s [ male announcer ] progress. progress for new york city cab drivers, like ossman ali is being able to carry people, who aren t carrying cash. meaning more convenience for passengers, and more business for cab drivers. all thanks to the ease and freedom of visa digital currency. now that s progress. visa. currency of progress. this is your life we are back at 8:37 with your life calling today. today contributor jane pauley has been working with aarp which has produced and sponsored a new series of reports for us. and this morning she is here with one man s story that will be music to your ears. good morning, jane. thank you, meredith. robert rudolph is one of the lu lucky few who always knew what he wanted to do and is doing it. but we begin his life calling story in the middle when he s doing what other people wanted him to do. fine dining, a luxury car, big house, and expensive clothes. that was robert rudolph s life. how did you get so good at spending money? i don t know that i ve ever figured that out. but four years ago when the real estate bubble burst, he was suddenly a mortgage broker deep in debt. the irony is that when you got into business, you got in big trouble. this is true. in his family, business stood for financial security. we had a business. we had a hotel. we had a restaurant. my dad had offered to send me to business school to then take over the family business. well, that wasn t anything that i wanted to do. his dream was to be a church musician. he put himself through school, getting a degree in music, then seminary. i went on to get my master s in music. but, feeling the pull of the family calling, he drifted into business, riding high in the mortgage industry until the crash brought him low. on one specific day in august, 2006, yet one more mortgage that was should have been the income for the second half of the year fell through. i decided i was going to do church music if i was going to be poor and not have any money. i was going to do what i always wanted to do. so he packed his stuff and qu quit. the thing that gave me the freedom is that actually in the middle of this my dad started emed like i didn t have to st justify this anymore. and you could be your own man. dads can have a heavy influence, even as old as i am. it was still there. while taking care of his terminally ill father, he started looking for the job he had always wanted. hallelujah today robert rudolph is music director at springfield, virginia, messiah methodist church. the community of contagious joy as they like to call it. one, two, ready, go. under his leadership the music program has doubled in size. 400 people and 14 choirs. there s sort of a marketing aspect to what you do. you are absolutely right. and this organ is soon to be replaced by a custom built organ from europe. robert helped raise the money to buy it. well, that is the business side of me. meanwhile, his own spending ways have had to change. gosh. his entire apartment is smaller than the master bedroom in his former 5,000-square-foot house. it strikes me that you got it right the first time. i did get it right the first time. i am really just content. okay. here is the reality check. despite all much of his degrees and his skills, robert didn t have any credentials. he d never had a full-time church job. and after 100 resumes, he only got six responses. took a job in a small country ch church at first. his second job search went a whole lot better, nine resumes, six interviews and four offers. and, by the way, i ll be talking more about this later today during my web chat at noon eastern time. to take part head to aarp.org/jane. things worked out well for him. he had to build up his resume much like a young person coming out of college. there sometimes have to be bridges to the future. he had to give up a year, move away, before he could come back home and be near family to get that credential. young kids coming out of college with their degrees and not finding, you know, the exact job they wanted, the same thing. you ve got to find a way to make a bridge, if you will. i didn t know until i read the note that your mom was a church organist so this must have been like going home in a way for you, brought back memories. i ve been i ve seen church organs many, many times. not to play however. i noticed robert was wearing shoes. my mother played barefoot. she did? the only person that knew in church on sunday that mom was barefoot. you never learned to play? it s hard. no. maybe you can do a bridge to that. next life. jane pauley, thank you so much. up next, how you could own items from the personal collection of legendary cowboy how fios takes your hd higher. to a 100% fiber optic picture. to more hd channels than cable. it s also the ultimate on-demand hd movie experience with the movie poster gallery. and the ability to search your hd titles by content or actor, not just title. by changing that old cable technology, your hd tv can finally reach its lofty potential. it s time for fios. visit verizon.com/fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. progress is saving tax payers millions of dollars, with the help of visa digital currency. which lets troy reiners, manager of nebraska s child support payment center, put money into pre-paid visa accounts for just a penny. instead of mailing out checks for 59 cents each. now that s progress. visa. currency of progress. happy trails to you we are back at 8:45 with a taste of the wild west right here in manhattan. starting tomorrow christie s is auctions off items once owned by the king of the cowboys and the queen of the west, roy rogers and dale evans. al is just down the block at the auction house with a preview. al? joining me is roy rogers jr., dusty. good to see you. god bless you. good to see you, sir. over 1,000 items. this is in your family s museum and how come you let it it go? we re not really letting it go. we re passing history on to other people. mom and dad kept it for 42 years. dad said when it gets to the point it s causing you kids a problem, just move it out. so that s what we re doing. mom and dad left us a lot of legacies, the museum, and there are things where music was an x in their books and we re still able to continue that music in branson but these things have to go out in the public. let s take a look at some of this. a shooting gallery. we had it made in england and shipped over here. i designed it because i thought i had to have all the elements with gabby and pat, dad s other sidekick for years, and the fellow behind the bars and the one in the window are the bad guys. you have to have the bad guys. of course. it s a very active gun little gun play. everybody wants to play guns. as far as we take a look up here, besides trigger and buttermilk and bullet being the centerpiece of this exhibit and this auction, this bonneville, the guy who did all it all the outfits for mom and dad, all the rhinestones. tell me about this car. this is unbelievable. it s a 63 bonneville pontiac and completely done with all leather interior. there s like 20 different guns on here, over 300 silver dollars and every handle or knob or door handle is a gun. there are famous names signed the back. elvis presley and john wayne and jim davis, governor jim davis, and mom and dad signed it. a lot of great names. what s fascinating, your dad drove around in this. he used to hunt in it. i used to see him with bobcats on the hood. a cowboy is known for his boots. absolutely. this was his very first pair. you have to have your baby shoes bronzed. dad was no different. he had to have his first boots bronzed. he worked on all his boots himself. his first job was in cincinnati. he knew how to build boots from the ground up. that is fascinating. as we head on into here, one of the things that your folks were known for, their costumes. they had some amazing costumes. and i think of that had to do with coming to madison square garden because the kids couldn t see them in the middle of the arena so they started putting rhinestones on things and made them pop out in the middle of the arena. we would see them out in public. when they were home, what would they wear? dad was in a pair of jeans and an old striped shirt and sneakers. that was dad at home. tell me about your mom. mom, she had her hands full with nine children. they adopted four and had one foster child and then they had the children between the two of them and how they survived nine children and she was the greatest christian lady you d ever want to meet. tell me about this piece? a very special piece to my mom, a charm bracelet that was given to to mom in 1952 when they surprised dad with that show. it has a completely chronicle of his life. mom was in texas and then it chronicles their life in charms and it s made right here in new york. it s beautiful. and of course the music collection here of instruments guitars. your dad had a beautiful voice. absolutely. he started back in 1934 and of course they went on and just dad was signed his first contract in 38 and went on to become king of the cowboys. it s a piece of americana. we don t have the cowboys to idolize. not the same heroes we had. al, thank you, sir. thank you so much. people who want more information go to our website todayshow.com to find out about the roy rogers and dale evans collection that s being auctioned off at christie s. matt? al, thank you ve red wine sauce and mushrooms. sound impossible? the chef and owner of a restaurant here in new york and guest host on bravo s top chef. good morning to you. good morning. how are you? great, thank you. you promised us this is really a simple recipe. yes, it s very simple actually. so let s get started. we have some salmon and filo dough. keep it so it doesn t get dry. and you can get this anywhere? anywhere in supermarkets. and then i m going to apply some butter on the sheets of filo dough to make sure it gets not only nice flavor but some moisture to it so we are going you cover that whole thing? yes, make sure everywhere like that. got it. and then we have the beautiful steak, salmom steak. and what i m doing, i m using the filo dough. the salmon has salt and pepper on both sides. it goes here. i m going to wrap it exactly like that. oh, all right. it s simple. just all the way around? all the way around. so it s going to become very crunchy when it it cooks. i have red wine and shallots. you saute while i put the salmon in. you want to add some butter. how much butter? this much? yes, that much. maybe a tiny bit more. that s a lot of butter, isn t it, eric? now it s a little bit but we don t have to eat all the sauce. and then the salmon is going to take some color and crunch. so how long do you cook that? well, you have to look at it and see. you see the nice color on that side? so i know like i m going to flip the fish. like that. okay. and we are going to bring the fish into the oven. see, your sauce is ready. it s a masterpiece. so we are going to do i bring this with me or leave it? you can leave it there. we re putting the pish in the oven. all right. how long? and the fish stay about three or four minutes in the oven. at what temp? 400 degrees. okay. and then you see it comes out like that. and i m going to slice it. now how do you slice this? you need a bread knife and you re going to hear the noise. you see, it s crunchy so you have the crunch and you need a good knife or a bread knife. so that salmon is medium rare or closer to rare? you can do it to medium rare or how you like it. i like the salmon rare because the more you cook it the less it gets dried out. and then i just have to plate it so i m going to use the salmon like that. it s so pretty. and we are going to put it like this. here they come, the hordes. bonjour. what did you call us? the hordes. you heard me. so we are going to arrange it like had a. this is really easy. it s very easy. are you suggesting you can do it, meredith? i think i might. i might be making you lunch. another piece like this. and then it doesn t watt to stay. that s all right. like salmon dominoes. and then we just put the sauce you made which is burning, oh, my gosh. thank you. so the sauce goes around like that. you see it. if you like the sauce you can put more. and quickly we re running out of time. you have a mushroom a mushroom casserole. mushrooms with garlic and shallots. 8:55 is our time. 74 degrees. cloud c. skies overhead, more rain on the way. chuck will the forecast after the news. good morning, i m eun yang. in the news4 today, a major development in loudoun another step closer to becoming a reality. the board superers approve the kincora project built between route 28 and route 7, include a new minor league ballpark. condos, apartments and a performiperfor performing art center would be part of kincora village. we ll have have your weather and traffic when w good morning, everybody. temperatures are in the mid to high 70s already, plenty of humidity out there for you this morning. 77 in washington. 77 in annapolis. almost 80 in st. mary s county. the early, early, morning showers are gone but we ll have another round of showers with thunderstorms around by late on this afternoon. temperatures will be in the 80s today. but after that, back into the 90s. jerry? we ll head over and looks like an accident on the outer loop of new hampshire avenue just cleared. slow college park around hopefully it will get better with more time. one more stop, loaded up but lanes open 395 to and across the 14th street bridge. ahead on news4 midday. a we re back with more of today on a tuesday morning, the 13th of july, 2010. drizzle in the air here in new york city. it doesn t seem to ruin any sightseeing plans and certainly hasn t stopped these people from hanging out on our plaza. we like that. we thank them very much. we re going to have a fun day in the big apple. i m matt lauer along with al roker and natalie morales. coming up in this half hour, more disturbing revelations in the case of this missing 7-year-old kyron horman out in oregon. now, according to court documents, the mother, the stepmother of kyron horman, began exchanging hundreds of sexually explicit text messages with a man in the neighborhood days after kyron disappeared. we re going to find out more about that story. it just keeps taking more unusual turns. absolutely. speaking of more unusual turns, it appears to just be getting worse and worse for director and actor mel gibson. another audio tape has been released allegedly, again, a phone recording between gibson and his estranged girlfriend who are in a bitter custody battle over their daughter and the tape sounds even more violent. he makes threats. even more threatening than even in the first tape. we ll have a live report coming up on the latest on that. be a then also managing your weight in joy s diet s.o.s. whether you re looking to drop a few pounds or gain a few. there are people who actually need to gain some weight. joy bauer will give some healthy advice on satisfying food choices to help you reach those goals. and if you re still thinking about your summer vacation, we know the airlines have raised their prices for the most part. so a lot of places, hotels, are compensating by offering great packages to get you going on a fun vacation. from the beaches of hawaii to the coast of italy, we ll tell you all about the deals this summer and where to find them. that looks amazing. send me there. that looks really good. ann he is standing by at the news desk with all the headlines. ann? good morning once again, everybody. in the news bp is beginning to test a new oil containment cap on that leaking oil well. the cap installed last night is supposed to have a tighter seal so that less oil will flow into the relief wells that are supposed to fix the problem are finally finished. officials from uganda believe sunday s terror bombings that killed 76 people could have been even more deadly. investigators have found some unexploded suicide vests similar to the ones used in the attacks on soccer fans watching sunday s world cup final. an american aid worker was among the dead and at least four suspects have now been arrested. six months after haiti s devastating earthquake a sorm on monday ravaged the main earthquake relocation camp and about 1,000 tents collapsed. there were, however, no reports of any serious injuries. a rare appearance last night by cuba s fidel castro. the 83-year-old castro said tensions between the u.s. and both north korea and iran could ultimately trigger a global nuclear war. and there are some new revelations today in the case of kyron horman, the 7-year-old oregon boy who has been missing now for more than five weeks. nbc s miguel almaguera has more from portland, oregon. miguel, good morning. reporter: ann, good morning. the new revelations come from court documents filed by kyron horman s father. in them he alleges his estranged wife sent elicit sexual text messages to a man who lives in their neighborhood, a man whose name is michael cook. kaine and terri live right up the street from me. reporter: michael cook went to high school in the seattle area with kaine horman, kyron s father, and the two men ended up living in the same neighborhood where kyron went missing in portland. two weeks ago television crews interviewed cook when he organized a neighborhood vigil for kyron. i would hope if people had personal energy to invest, they would put it toward helping to find this missing boy as opposed to speculating whether the family did or didn t have something to do with it. reporter: but according to new court documents, five days after that vigil, cook and terri horman, kyron s stepmom, began a sexual relationship which included sexting one another sending, quote, hundreds of text messages as well as several photographs of terri in various stages of undress and traffic sexual activity. it terri horman is the last known person to see kyron alive, dropping him off at a school si science fair. in a restraining order filed two weeks ago, kaine says it terri tried to hire a landscaping contractor to murder him. in new court documents kaine says investigators say terri s sexual overtures to mr. cook resemble those made to the man she previously attempted to hire to murder kaine. i ve worked a lot of cases. i ve arrested a lot of people in my career and truly this case is one of the strangest cases i have ever seen. reporter: two weeks ago kaine took their 20-month-old daughter kiara to an undisclosed location and filed for divorce. in the new court filing kaine says investigators told him cook looked up his new address and even did a google map search on his cell phone. the final straw for kaine horman came last week when a clerk in a local gym said terri was looking to abduct her daughter, kiara, from the gym daycare center while kaine was working out. kaine horman is worried not only about his son s fate but also his daughter s future. i do fear for their safety as long as terri is around. reporter: terri horman s attorney says she won t fight the restraining order keeping her away from her 20-month-old daughter and we should point out, ann, that terri horman has never been named a suspect or even a person of interest in this case. all right, miguel almaguera, this morning. thanks for reporting on this story. and finally to australia. police say a man ejected from a pub for being drunk, broke into a zoo and climbed onto the back of a 16-foot crocodile overnight. he was bitten on the leg and he was hospitalized. police say they re just surprised the man survived. a lot of surprises there. it is six minut good tuesday morning. right here in the washington area, temperatures are in the mid to high 70s already. headed for highs in the mid to high 80s by later this afternoon. regional doppler, overnight showers are gone but there are more showers and thunderstorms developing in eastern kentucky and western west virginia. those are coming our way for late this afternoon and through the evening hours this evening. temperatures will get into the mid to high 80s for a brief time today before the thunderstorms get going. 80% chance you re going to need your umbrella today. 90s the rest of the week. and that s your latest weather. natalie? ann? that s okay, i ll take it. now to another recording released monday reportedly of oscar winning actor mel gibson lashing out and threatening the life of his estranged girl friend. we have nbc s kristen welker with more on the story. what can you tell us? good morning. reporter: good morning to you, ann. this is the second such tape that has been released and this one is much more violent in tone than the first. if it s authentic, it could be a real blow to the actor both professionally and legally. i ll put you in a [ bleep ] rose garden, you [ bleep ]. you understand that? because i m capable of it. you understand that? get a [ bleep ] restraining order. reporter: it s another obscenity laced rant by a person who sounds a lot like award winning actor and director mel gibson, the celebrity gossip site radaronline.com released it monday saying it is gibson lashing out at the mother of his youngest child, ex-girlfriend oksana grigorieva. the two are in a bitter custody battle. i will make your [ bleep ] life miserable, all right? you need medication. you need a [ bleep ] bat to the side of the head. how about that? you need a [ bleep ] doctor. you need a [ bleep ] brain transplant. reporter: the man reported to be gibson is so filled with uncontrollable rage during the eight-minute recording, he pauses only to catch his breath. you [ bleep ] selfish [ bleep ]. don t you dare hang up on me. i can t listen to this anymore. reporter: friday radaronline.com release add similar recording allegedly of mel gibson verbally berating oksana. this second tape is far more violent in nature and the actor even seems to admit to hitting his ex. what kind of man is that? hitting a woman when she s holding a child in her hands? breaking her teeth twice in the face. what kind of man is that? oh, you re all angry now. you [ bleep ] deserved it. you re going to answer one day, boy, you re going to answer. reporter: oksana grigorieva has reportedly told police gibson punched her in the face knocking out would of her teeth, claims the actor has denied. gibson is also staying mum about the tapes. if the tape is what it appears to be, it s devastating evidence against mel gibson on multiple fronts. first of all, with respect to domestic violence, it s essentially a confession. child custody, he can forget about that. even the possibility of them charging him with threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend. reporter: and as far as his public image goes, industry experts say the situation couldn t get much worse. short of murder or inses, mel gibson s in about as much trouble as a celebrity can get into. it s almost two decades long history of hatred of homophobia, racism, misogyny. you hang up, i m coming over there. i ll call police. you weak [ bleep ]. you call the cops. reporter: at this point no charges have been filed. ann? all right, kristen welker, thanks so much. and coming up next online diet supplements to school bought foods, we ll answer your weight loss questions. and later, still can t decide where to go this summer? we have some affordable vacatio deals. the word is affordable. s and i got our families together at olive garden the other night. c mon pass a breadstick to your favorite uncle. ohhhh!!! ohhhh!!! we had a ball. announcer: try olive garden s two new parmesan polenta crusted dishes. sauteed chicken breasts topped with a golden parmesan crust. or try our tender steak medallions. both with mezzaluna ravioli filled with four italian cheeses in our creamy alfredo. plus unlimited salad and breadsticks. you know, these kids are growing up a lot like we did. yeah, around family. announcer: olive garden. when you re here, you re family. that detects movement, releasing a burst of fresh scent so your home always feels welcoming. try the full i-motion range. air wick. release the freshness of nature. this morning on joy s diet s.o.s., dealing with your diet dilemmas to gaining weight the healthy way or foods that may or may not burn belly fat. nutritionist joy bauer has the answers. good morning, joy. good morning. let s get to them. we have lots of people who have questions for you. linda elliott from carlsbad, california, via skype. i know your question regards elliott there. yes, good morning. good morning. my husband elliott eats over 3,000 calories a day and has been unintentionally losing weight over the last year. he has discussed the weight loss with his dk tore and has been given a clean bill of health. can you recommend nutritious foods that will help him gain weight? we eat meals together and i love to cook, but unlike my husband, i have to keep my calories low to keep my weight in check. so is there a way to add calories to his meals but keep my meals lower in calories. this is actually a pretty common issue, and it sounds like, elliott, you re a healthy guy, and you just have a super speedy metabolism and, by the way, a lot of people watching are probably very envious but i realize it s just as difficult for some people to gain weight as it is for other people to lose weight. i mean, the good news is that you can take one meal and manipulate it so we increase the calories for elliott and nice and low for linda. the first thing i m going to tell you when it comes to drinking liquids, linda, you re going to stick with water. i always say water, water, calorie free. elliott, i don t want you to waste precious belly space on something that s not offering calories. so for you, 100% fruit juice and take advantage of some of the supplemental beverages that are on the market, ensure plus, boost plus, even carnation instant breakfast. they re all terrific. when it comes to breakfast, for elliott, a generous portion of cereal and pile on nuts and seeds and dried fruit. for linda, one portion, and if you want a topping, stick with fresh fruit. whole eggs for your omelets, elliott. reduced fat cheese and grill them up in canola oil straight from the bottle. linda, use a mister and use one whole egg whipped with two to three egg whites. for lunch, elliott, pile on your sandwich, avocado, cheese, and you could enjoy it with some baked chips. linda, you keep yours nice and clean and simple and instead of the baked chips, some crunchy vegetables like baby carrots or sugar snap s. for salads, loads of full fat vinaigrette because it s healthy fat for elliott. linda, use a low-cal vinaigrette. for elliott s salads you can pile on things like raisins, crou it ons, reduced fat cheese again, the nuts, the seeds. when it comes to side starch with dinner, two, three serving for elliott and, linda, i m so sorry, but you want to stick with just one serving like most of the people watching probably. and then for snacks things like guacamole and baked chips and trail mix are awesome choices for elliott because they re healthy but they re calorie dense. and then for linda, your nonstarchy vegetables, fresh fruit. and you can have some of the things i mentioned for elliott as well. you want to keep a lid on the portions. you see you can manipulate the same type of foods but up the calories for your husband and keep them relatively low for you and you both reach your goals. but you re talking, again, all about like very healthy choices that add just a little bit more bulk. that s exact ly right. not ice cream and shakes. and cookies. then you zap your energy and it s really bad for your body. that s not the kind of weight you want to gain. so good luck, guys. yeah. all right. we wish we had that problem. okay. next we have connie in spear fish, south dakota, on the phone with us. she s on the phone with us. what s your question for joy this morning? caller: good morning, joy. often when i m on the internet i m teased by ads and pop-ups promising that, quote, secret food that burns belly fat or how to cut down three pounds off your belly using this one weird old tip. joy, can you shed some light on what she is secrets might be if they really exist at all? i ve seen those ads. i ve clicked on them. often it s like, what is this about? it s acai. i wish i had better news for you. there are no secret foods that can magically blast away fat on one part of your body. that s because genetically we re predisposed to lay down fat in certain areas. that s the bad news. the good news is that when you take in fewer calories and you exercise, you create a calorie deficit, you will burn fat all over your body and your problem area, if it s your belly, may not be the first or the second place that you lose weight but eventually it is coming off. so keep watching what you re eating. get out there and move as much as you can. do a lot of physical activity. and also work the muscles underneath. you know, crunches or other exercises like planks because when that fat comes off your belly, those abs are going to shine through. you want the tone. and it will come off. don t give up. don t waste your money on those ads. thanks, connie. finally a viewer e-mail from phyllis of bogota, new jersey. are those rotisserie chickens you buy at grocery and club stores healthy? there seems to be an awful lot of fat and grease on the chicken. i ve wondered that, too. there s a lot more going on in that container. they re incredibly healthy. they re whole roasted chickens and as long as you remove the skin, which is almost pure fat and most of it is artery clogging fat, they re absolutely fine. so don t get dismayed by the gunning on the bottom. use that chicken for tacos, toss it into pasta, make sandwiches, or eat it plane with a bunch of vegetables. it s a simple, healthy dinner option. and makes like three or four different meals. and they re reasonable. joy bauer, thank you so much and thanks to the viewers and people who have called in, phoned in, e-mailed. thank you. coming up next, don t sweat your summer look. we have some makeup tips to help you come up bronzed beach beauty and then later sink your teeth into this twilight vam tire. 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? 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[ ernie ] we make our cookies the way only keebler elves can: with a little something extra. so every bite can be uncommonly good. beautiful girls all over the world beauty with all those backyard barbecues and beach parties, it may be hard to put your freshest face forward in the sun. never fear, makeup expert bobbi brown is here. don t sweat it. and we re joined also by a model. good morning to you. both of you. here is the thing a lot of us with the temperatures are rising hot, you have a simple tip, just don t use a lot. don t use a lot. if you have really good skin, don t use foundation. a little concealer. she wept wept from the beach to the party. so what you do is you watch your face and what i did is applied a tinted bronzer. this is a sheer gel bronzer and it s a really good option because she has it all over her face. is it oily? no. it s aamazing. it looks really dark. it s dark but it s sheer. aha. this gives a nice, healthy glow. there s a little glow in your hand, that s right. your skip is good, skip y. foundation. we re not going to talk about people who don t have good skin? no, but you can use a little bit to cover up, and you can even use it over foundation. ah. so you may want to put the whole foundation on but where you fleed it. women don t know this. when you re tan, your foundation doesn t sit as well as when you re not. that s really important. here is the thing, you say always thought that creased.er. cream that dries. cream to powder, there is this is just an eye shadow that you put on and i know i m holding a brush but i m using my fingers. it s just easier. but this does not crease, you re saying? it will dry in a second. and because? powder will flake and this is just a way that if you re sweating and you rub your eyes, it won t come off. powder will sometimes come off. that has a little sparkle to it. i hope it reads on tv. i m putting a little bit extra on. it s not about eyeliner. she has a waterproof, smudge proof mascara. you like to put a little bit of blush. this is really fun for a f party. it s kind of pinky with gold highlights. you re doing the cheekbones. yeah, i m doing the cheekbones and the trick is to kind of blend it around so you don t look like a stripe on the face. and it s pretty. this you could put it s a little pinky. you don t put it all over your face. i love this. i think she looks so fresh. it is really pretty. and then when you want color, so she s pretty neutral. go for a brighter lip gloss but sheer. i m not saying put on a matte, very, very pink lipstick. what you have is an easy, sheer kind of light look but, you know, a lot of people are talking about this being a season and really even a time where people are wearing a lot of color and you say don t put a lot of intense color on your face. there are other ways to do it. for your nails. you ve got that orange on your nails. or you could wear blue. oh, my.t on my toes. thank you for that. we re looking at some other options here. and what other options? the blue are for toes not the fingers. a lot of people get too much sun and they might get sun burned so i want to say avoid anything with red around your eyes because that s going to make you look worse. and go for more bronze, brown colors. that s a good tip. and also don t forget your spf. spf is really important. you can make your own tinted moisturize moisturizer. that s an interesting idea. and then it goes on, you have to make sure it blends well. if it s the right color you don t have to worry about blending. don t wear makeup on the beach. i love that you make makeup so easy. you look beautiful. and thanks a lot, bobbi. up next, a taste of thailand at home. this morning in today s kitchen thai food made simple. it s thai food made simple. host of the travel channel s new series, samantha brown s asia. she learned how to make pad thai. so good to see you. nice to see you, too. you re not necessarily known as a cook. no. you learned how to do some of this while taping the show. abc luptly. i got to travel all throughout asia. as a westerner, asia can be very at pad thai you make the sauce first or the noodles? i make the sauce first. that s how i was taught to do it on the streets of bangkok, al, don t you know. a few ingredients, tamron concentrate, which is fruit from a tree, and pish sauce. this is not to be confused with tamron hall. no, that would be hard to make a sauce out of. you want to find these online or at a good asian grocer. the most difficult part is assembling the ingredients. once you ve got them it s as easy as one, two, three. tamron, fish sauce, and brown sugar. this is why everyone loves it. once they simmer, you have pad thai sauce. now the noodles. walk this way. i thought you d like that. i have about a few tablespoons of vegetable oil cooking. i m going to throw in some garlic. cool that until it s fragrant. pretty quick. the wok fries things fast. these are pad thai noodles. these are cooked. all right. now we re cooking pad thai, like being on the streets of bangkok. these are noodles you soak in cold water for 60 minutes. very easy. and now you re going to help me here. just pour in that beautiful pad thai sauce. look at that. isn t that gorgeous? all right. how many times a week do you eat pat thai? we have pad thai on thursday. don t you love it, though? i love it. it s easy. it s everyone s favorite dish and a great meal to make for friends. my friends love it. a pad thai buffet. in and an i m going to ask you to turn it up a bit so they really sizzle. that was nice. this is what i learned on the streets of bangkok. usually you scramble the eggs and incorporate them into the noodles. here you just koom them, put the noodles on top. travel tip in thailand is the s best food is from street carts. i know americans feel street cart plus foreign country equals hospital visit. this is the freshest you can get. this is going to be $2 a plate. i m only going to charge you $5,00$5. what a deal. all these ingredients you can cook in the wok but i ve customized it so if you have guests they can create their own. i m going to throw in shrimp. shrimp or pork? i like them both. so we can have a little me melange of meats here. bean sprouts. we have chives. we ve got where is our chili pepper because it wouldn t be thai food without a tiny bit of spice. and then peanuts. so we ve got this. what s so great about pad thai, it s sweet, spicy, sour and salty. so it s just like the country itself. it is just fantastic. we toss that all together. we have pad thai. samantha brown, come on in, the recipe the mango salad? the recipe is on our website. samantha brown s asia is monday nights 8:00 p.m. on the travel channel. thank you so much. no alcohol. and we have more local news and weather. 9:56 is your time now. 76 degrees. cloudy and humid out there. we ll get more storms today. chuck will have answers after the news. good morning, i m eun yang. investigators are looking into a disturbing discovery in lorton, actually the d.c. council is expected to vote to allow a city-run nonprofit to operate the united medical center in southeast. the city seized legal control of the hospital s assets friday afr the facility failed to make payments on its debts. the united medical center is the only full-service hospital in the district east of the anna costa river. relief after the rain but it s humid and muggy as ever. but it s not going to be 9 pop humid outside, as you make plans to get outside, enjoy the late morning hours. temperatures holding in the mid to high 70s now. a few 80s showing up in places like naval air station, st. mary s county and salisbury maryland. sprinkles on the eastern shore. no rain in the immediate washington area but showers and possibly strong thunderstorms in the forecast for today. today s highs in the 80s with the rest of the week 90s. let s head over, check the capital beltway. outer loop at gw parkway, arc test, squeezing the left side of the roadway. let s go over to maryland. delays beginning river reed across the american legion bridge news4 midday, a dermatologist in the studio to talk about the causes and treatments of baldness. from nbc news, this is today with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. hi, everybody, it is tuesday, july 13th, and willie geist made it through one show and decided to stick around and come back for another. i came back. i m a little disappointed because this is coca-cola today. we had the champagne yesterday. it was my understanding it was going to be a daily thing. we want you to enjoy every other day. how do you enjoy this show sober? we are going to start off with sad news today. george steinbrenner has passed away. and a lot of people know him, obviously, from the yankees. and those who aren t big baseball fans know him from seinfeld. i think he s one of those guys who you just he just celebrated his 80th birthday. he died this morning in tampa according to those reports. and they were saying he suffered a massive heart attack. yeah, he had a heart attack. he d been in failing health over the last few years. i grew up a yankee fan. so he s been a part of my life since i was born. he bought the team in 1973 for something like $9 million. it s now worth billions upon billions of dollars. and he was controversial at times. he would go through managers like you and i go through shoes. he d fire one one week and hire them back a couple of weeks later. at the end of the day, he won a lot of world series and will be a beloved part of that yankee family. we re going to hear a lot about him and his life throughout the course of the day. okay. the mel gibson story keeps getting worse. today on the front page of the papers. look at the picture they use of mel gibson there. they re calling it mad mel. another tape is being released, which if you heard yesterday s tape, it sounds like a phone conversation between his, i guess you could call her former girlfriend by now. and the mother of his child, by the way. right. so again, it hasn t been independently confirmed this is his voice, but radaronline says they ve confirmed it. it is an eight-minute thing that is so horrifying, but i think we do have a snippet. let s take a listen. i will make your [ bleep ] life miserable. all right? you need medication. you need a [ bleep ] to the side of the head. how about that? you need a [ bleep ] doctor. you need a [ bleep ] brain transplant. i ll put you in a [ bleep ] rose garden you [ bleep ]. you understand that? because i m capable of it. you understand that? get a [ bleep ] restraining order. that s an explicit death threat. i ll put you in the rose garden. you listen to the tapes yesterday with the racism, we thought it couldn t get worse. and then comes this. and then there s the talk about he allegedly hit her and knocked her teeth out and all that stuff. and there s another chunk of the tape that seems to refer directly to that allegation. i think we have that one too. let s listen. you [ bleep ] selfish [ bleep ]. don t you dare hang up on me. i can t listen to this anymore. what kind of man is that? hitting a woman when she s holding a child in her hands? breaking her teeth twice in the face? what kind of man is that? oh, you re all angry now. you know what? you know what? you [ bleep ] deserved it. you re going to answer. boy, one day you re going to answer. that s interesting, because the reason she says she s began to record these conversations is because of that incident where she claims she was punched in the face while holding their child and chipped a couple of her teeth and began recording these calls. i m so blown away listening to it. not just that, but the whole tone and the breathing. and you wonder if there s something else going on there. what s happening? he sounds, frankly, like a maniac. the way he s talking, the way he s breathing. you and i were talking about this. i was trying to put myself a year out from this and think is there any way mel gibson can recover from this? if you go through some of the other ones. you had chris brown who didn t just threaten, he actually beat up rihanna. he s come back, got an album out, on michael jackson tribute shows. is this different? i think this is different. i think when you listen it s one thing if i weren t to have a transcript of all of these phone conversations and read them, i d feel one thing. the fact that you can actually hear his voice and listen to the breathing and it sticks with you. it s a different thing. you try and remember who did what to whom, but when you hear his voice, that was kind of a game-changer, for me. it s amazing. it s downright evil. and the reason it s so shocking, it s so out of sync with the public image of mel gibson. he s supposed to be the most charming guy in hollywood and all of these great inspirational movies. and he was married for 30 years to another woman. did she see a window inside that mel? there s one person i d like to hear from i d like to hear from obviously his ex-girlfriend. i would love, love, love to hear from his former wife. that s the whole story. don t you think? the entire complete story? yeah. interesting that he s been totally silent through this. if he heard these tapes and he would ve immediately come out this is not me. this is outrageous. we re going to file a lawsuit. not so much as a word. and she sounds weirdly calm. like it almost sounds like the audio sounds so different, doesn t it? you hear and she s like, i don t know. he s ranting and she s extremely calm. sounds like she s in a tracking booth as if she s been performing a little bit. but she knows she s being recorded. i think she s setting up that contrast. incredible. there s more on the lindsay lohan front too. this is weird. this song came out. it s a brand new song that was, i guess, recorded a while ago. and it s actually lindsay singing. and if you listen or you know, check out the words. it s sort of telling, wouldn t you say? i think so. i think we have a clip of it. hit by a train, falling from a building, heartbreak from you would be like drinking deadly poison i m, oh, i m too young to die i don t want to die crashing my car, coming flying through the windshield falling in love with you i m heading to get me killed i m too young to die if that is her, that is absolutely bizarre. yeah. and it s one of those things where she s building this narrative, this shakespearean narrative of her life. maybe she ll end up dying in the end. it s not something you should be playing into. it s weird. and i wonder if she s talking about falling in love. i wonder if the whole point is about falling in live. i don t give her credit for a metaphor. i m not sure she s capable of the metaphor. all right. so are you a housewives fan? i watch it periodically, particularly new jersey because it s my home state and makes me so proud. you would love last night. last night was one of those nights, i guess, on the jersey housewives. one of them, i can t remember, theresa, flips the table, everyone s screaming, yelling. it s all chaos. and all of these clips of these women. what are they doing? that s how we do it in jersey. that s how we resolve things. we flip tables and i think they had little o her and theresa are having a confrontation about whether teresa s house is in foreclosure. i live in a $5 million home now. no, it s not! do not yell! i read your court records! i read your court records, danielle! you beat somebody with a knife. send her away from me. get her away from me. don t hold me. don t [ bleep ] hold me. oh, my god what was that last line? coke that s what she said. sometimes your hair is going to get pulled and it breaks away nicely and spares you some pain. what happened was the daughter of one of the other girls we can only show a certain we only show 20 seconds because of here we go again legal issues. but later on, one of the kids of one of the housewives tries to pull the extensions off of the other. i think that s a nice touch. and as i said, i m from the garden state, so now we ve got the sopranos, jersey shore, and the real housewives of new jersey. can you believe the jersey shore just keeps building, by the way? i have to confess i watched last season. and? it was one of those guilty pleasures. we were talking about this before. you can protest it publicly. oh, it s ridiculous. then you re watching the marathon. and you ve lost your whole weekend. you know what was on yesterday which i love? the closer with kyra sedgwick. it s one of the best shows. she s so good. she s always like sneaking chocolate and solving crimes. you can relate? yes, i m into that part of it. so people were saying because we re seeing so much confrontation on reality tv, people are fighting and women are confronting each other and screaming that it s making us all want to confront more. i believe that to some degree. you kind of emulate, especially young people what you see on tv. let me ask you a question. you re in a fight with a friend yes? do i pull out their extensions? are you a confronter? or do you let it die on the vine? i m kind of a let die on the vine. i m not into the whole dramatic thing. not going to flip the table. will you tell if it s a good friend or your wife or somebody if there s something that s really oh, yeah. my wife absolutely, and a good friend, sure. and if it s somebody not worth opening that can of worms, i won t. i find confrontation incredibly uncomfortable. don t you hate if you have to tell someone at work like there s an issue or something like that? that s why you have an agent, hoda. that s what she does. have all the bad conversations. i kind of feel sorry for this guy in the paper. i don t know if we should or not. it seems like he s into it, though. it s a thing that says marry my boy. a woman from new york wants to marry off her son so she started a website. look at him. he doesn t look happy. she spent her whole life trying to set up her 31-year-old son, even tried to set him up with the woman who upholsters the sofas. that didn t work out. if you re trying to set him up anyway, why not use the technology available to you? if you re doing it anyway and he doesn t mind, let s cast a broad net. we want to follow-up. we want to find out if this guy, jerry brin oh, that s the mom, colby gets married off. let s go to sara. we re talking about mel gibson and whether or not he s gone too far this time. dawn says this will only fuel new offers. and laurie says he needs help. she doesn t think it s over, but it will hurt his career. some people are talking about if it s a chemical if there s a lot of chemistry, chemical stuff going on. it sounds like it to me. if you listen to the heavy breathing. on your worst day, would you say that stuff? never. i was thinking that too. that s what they said about his last arrest. well, he s drunk. that s not an excuse. we have an actor who wants to suck your blood. mine? just yours. we re going to talk with twilight s star. it slips. oh, bingo, falls in. mom was mad. mom should have used glad forceflex with the stretchable drawstring that grips the can and stays in place. plus, it has the stretchable strength of forceflex. that s all today for glad tv. 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we trained for about six weeks, and it was pretty intense fight training and going to the gym every day. but it was fun. do you keep amping up? i know when you guys walk the streets, it s insane. because you have come to the plaza and watched the fans react to you. how is it being you now walking around the cities? i m still me. yeah? yeah. but more people want more pictures and autographs. but i m always happy to stop for them. the fans have been so wonderful. and i appreciate every single one of them. i m curious, you have three daughters. i have a little girl who hates watching me on tv. i think it s the content. she doesn t like my show. she s 3. see my 3-year-old, when she saw twilight for the first time, she thought i was skyping her. she was talking to the tv. and she was like, why is daddy not talking back to me? when i got on the phone, she was mad at me. you are kidding. it s confusing. tv s confusing. but what do they think when they see that guy on the screen? i think it kind of ruins it for them a little bit. because the mysterious is kind of broken because i m in the movie. my daughter, like i got this great leather jacket that said twilight on it and gave it to my 13-year-old and i was like, you re not going to wear this, are you? she s like, no. i can t go to school and be like my dad s in twilight. in addition to the film, you re a busy guy. you ve got another film you re working on that you have written. i wrote a movie called lucies. and we started filming that in two days in rhode island. what s that about? it s about a pickpocket in new york. and he kind of lives a fast, loose lifestyle until he finds out that he got a girl pregnant on a one-night stand. and his whole life comes to a screeching halt and he has to grow up quick and take responsibility for something. you ve got that and also nurse jackie. yeah. i m very excited about that. edie got a nomination, as well. can you imagine that that was one of those shows that was quiet and all of a sudden it s very, very buzzy. i ve always been a fan of the writing on that show and i was hoping that it would be recognized for something. the writers work so hard. they re behind the monitors, they re in the editing room. they do it all. i like you re married to jeannie garth, and i love that you wrote one of those hallmark movies and it was supposed to be for you and she ended up in it. i wrote a movie and my wife ended up shooting it. and my wife said you re not right for it. i wrote this for me. wow. but i couldn t do it anyway because i was so busy with the twilight press. you know you re busy when you can t even be in your own movie. so my wife ended up starring in it. we want to wish you the best of luck with twilight, with everything you re working on. say hi to your daughters. good morning. i love you guys. see, there you go. why isn t daddy skyping back? 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[ ernie ] we make our cookies the way only keebler elves can: with a little something extra. so every bite can be uncommonly good. if you re tuned into us from home and taking care of your kids today, there is a greater chance than ever that you are a father. yeah. the number of stay-at-home dads increases every year and it s a shift that can be both rewarding and challenging for today s modern family. take a look. my name is lance. my name is jessica. and i am a stay-at-home dad. and i m a working mom. i m a corporate actuary. i was a teacher and i enjoy being with kids. the way the economics works, it definite made more sense for me. jake is almost 2. an average day for me is my son s up around 7:30 in the morning. having lance at homemade the transition back to work so much easier. i decided to found and start the nyc dad s group, which really enabled me to get together with a similar group of caring and involved dads. there are situations where jake will hurt himself or he s inconsolable and he will ask r for, you know, dad instead of mom. and sometimes, you know, it hurts a little bit. but at the same time, i m happy it s lance and not a nanny. people joke about the role of being an at-home dad. they say mr. mom or daddy day care. and i think the term modern man is more appropriate or an at home dad or just an involved father. i don t get jealous. yes, sometimes i d rather be at the central park zoo than at my desk, but at the same time, i know they re spending quality time together. i think the father really needs to be confident in that role. he has to embrace it. i would love him to stay at home until, you know, jake gets to kindergarten age. i think in playgrounds around the u.s., you re going to see a lot more dads hanging out in the middle of the day. come on, buddy. what s going to be fun, we re going to discuss this further. we re going to have an expert and a dad they re going to talk to us about the changing roles, which i m interested in. this is an interesting one because there s a little stigma among men. what are you doing at home? we re going to ask some of them. we will. we ll be back after the break. g? i m your genie. you re wishing for a deliciously, nutritious fiber cereal. i am. well, you don t want that one. new kellogg s fiber plus cereal®. the delicious taste of berries, plus yogurty clusters, plus 40% of your daily fiber. plus wait for it. antioxidants! so, two more wishes. mmmm. maybe later, then. [ female announcer ] new kellogg s fiber plus cereal®. positively delicious. and only two things can get me out of the water. pruned toes. and totino s. we re the kids in america love to see kids spirits shine. superstar and mom, martina mcbride and sunnyd shine on sunny taste. sunny spirit. sunny d. but even in your 30s bones begin to change calcium and vitamin d help keep your bones strong. yoplait has calcium and vitamin d in every cup. keep your bones strong, with yoplait. a second day of frustration for metro riders. the escalators not working. coming up on news4 midday, angering pressed by customers. gorl, i m eun yang. also coming up, hair loss more common in women than you think. we ll look at causes and treatments. news4 midday begins in a few minutes at 11:00 a.m. we ll see you then. we re back on this tuesday with more of today and mr. willie geist who is taking off some time from that show he does at the crack of dawn. i m sure we ve gotten you up to at least nine or ten viewers. we were at seven yesterday thanks to the power of this show, i have double digits. before the break, we took a look at the family that makes the whole stay-at-home dad movement work. and we re joined by two pros who know firsthand the ups and downs of that situation. stacy kaiser, an author of how to be a grown-up, and jeremy smith. this is one of those tricky subjects. this is one of those things there is typically a stigma, i think, attached with the dads who stay home. is that right, stacy? there absolutely is a stigma. even though there are more and more dads staying home mostly because of the economy. most of us aren t used to that. what we find there is judgment. and the biggest thing, these men feel sometimes they can be emasculated. they don t want to feel like they re less than because they re not out in the workforce. jeremy, you did this for a year. tell us about your experiences as a stay-at-home dad. well, i think the stigma has disappeared. we re seeing this growing population. when you re a father and taking care of your son every day and out on the playgrounds, you re not alone. there are other dads there and you can talk to them. and those dads are starting to form communities. guys like lance. they re forming stay-at-home dad groups and becoming more visible in the community. and that creates an option for men, especially men who have lost their jobs and are looking for an identity in some way to get meaning into their lives. one of the things that was pointed out in the piece is that sometimes the moms it sounds like, feel jealous which makes sense because when the child s in crisis, the child now runs to the dad. and that can cause a rift in a marriage, can t it? any time you bring children into the mix, you have stress. and when people are uncomfortable in a relationship, it really adds stress. so what i call it is mommy guilt. the moms out working, even part-time. if they re going to daddy instead, it s not just that pang of oh, they re not coming to me. it s i m not good enough. they don t love me enough. well, the mom is the one filling out the insurance forms at the hospital while the dad is comforting the child who is sick or hurt. how did you deal with that stuff? right. well, my son my wife is still number one in my son s eyes. and i think that women, mothers often times are much closer to their children. and to me, that s actually an argument in favor of stay-at-home fatherhood. because if you have a situation where both parents are taking care of the child and the mother does have a closer relationship, fathers staying home and this is a very good argument for paternity leave is a great way to develop skills and competencies and relationships with the child on their own terms. let s look at the other side of this for the working mom who is not at home. how about getting along with the other moms who are interacting with teachers and other moms. is that tough for the working mom? i am a working mom. and that s really challenging. because you want to be a part of your kid s school. you want to be a part of what they re doing. you don t want to be baking cookies at 9:00 at night because you re at work all day. what i encourage moms to do is try to get the morning off sometimes. try and become the soccer coach on the weekends or the baseball coach so you re getting that quality time with your kids even though you re missing it somewhere else. what do you do in the awkward situations? everyone s out and they say, hey, buddy, what do you do? and you say oh, i stay home. what happens after that answer? well, i was just discussing this with a group of dads last night. and, you know, a lot of guys say, wow, that s great. i know that s hard work, i wish i could do that. some guys say, that s great, i could never do that. and some guys just walk away. hmm, that s fascinating. how does that make you feel, though, when those things happen? you know, the average stay-at-home dad is very realistic and tough about this. and they understand very clearly that there s going to be disapproval. and you just suck it up. you don t let that define your life. stacy, do you know how this affects the kids having the dad as the primary care giver as they grow up through their youngest years? the advantage side is they do develop a closer bond with their father because they re spending more time with him and they re learning things they might not have learned from their mom because different parents bring different things to the table. the downside is, sometimes they are made fun of. kids who are really sensitive pick up on that sort of weird look when their dad is the only male in the room at the class party. it s a tough one. interesting, yeah. it does sound like that stigma s starting to crack a little bit. thank you very much. coming up next, something willie has been complaining about since he got here. uh-oh, how to keep my feet he won t show us his feet. i need to cool these things off. and we ll do it right after this. 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[ barks ] that s why purina fit & trim is specially formulated. with high-quality protein, including delicious real chicken, to help him maintain lean muscle and a healthy weight, so he can make the most of every day. long live your buddy. long live your dog. purina fit & trim. all right. in the summertime, your feet can take a beating. yeah, between flip-flops and strappy sandals, they sweat, they swell, at least that s what i m told. yeah, we have a board cert y certificertif certified surgeon. great advice for summertime because we re wanting to make sure we take good care of our feet. in the summertime, this is the time we expose our feet and we re wearing strappy sandals and you want your feet to look good and feel good. you end up with all kinds of problems. willie s got those. we re going to encourage willie to take his shoes off later. not good for ratings. these are home remedies. this is made with brown sugar, lemon juice, and oil. it s an ex cuticles are a problem for men and women. no question. you can use olive oil and put it on every day and it moisturizes the nail because unfortunately during the summertime our nails get dry and there s a tendency for them to grow ingrown. and you put a little olive oil on. and if you don t have time for that, you can use these products, these are cuticle oils. just do it every day. what about regular hand cream? does that work? you could use regular hand cream, sure. so far we have a great cooking segment. if you want to make your nails shiny no question about it. all winter long we put the dark nail polishes on, the nails oxidize, they become brown, discolored. you can use a little hydrogen peroxide. take a few drops of this, put it in the sodium bicarb and make it into a little bit of a paste and apply it on to the nail and then you brush it. and what that does is brightens the nail. now, if your nail is very, very dark. yeah. you might have a nail fungus. that is a problem. what s the biggest complaint women have about feet? in the summertime, what s the biggest problem? i think it s cramming our feet into heels, don t you? i ve got a solution for that. we re going to move to that solution. the other deal too, when you re in flip-flops all day, my feet kill me. you think flats are the best alternative, it s not the case. this is an insert we make in the summertime that you can place underneath your arch. that s the claw, what is that? why did you bring in the claw? a lot of people complain of heel problems, wearing those flat, strappy sandals, and ballet slippers. so you stick it on the bottom of your yes, you with put it on the bottom of the foot or the sandal. you find that at a drugstore? they re very inexpensive, made by dr. scholl s. you don t have to get the winterized orthodices. you want to use corn starch every day, use deodorant. and if you have blisters that develop, you can use some of these blister products. dr. scholl s has, and you can rub it on. it s a little silicon in it. and that s terrific. okay. this is for swelling. you know when it s humid. yes, exhausted. this is terrific. this contours, it s frozen peas, you can use it afterwards. you want to take the frozen peas and put it around your ankle. and what it does is really diminishes swelling. you can put it on for 15 minutes and get into your sandals. is this like after a long day? after a long day. i m a sport. i m a sport. i don t think you ll do it. actually audibly hear remote controls turning off. do you want to try it, hoda? yeah, i ll try it. put it on the ankle? yes, around the ankle as opposed to the top of the foot. but he needs to take his shoe off. take your shoe off and sock. willie was a star football player back in the day. what school did you go to? vanderbilt. i didn t play there, but let s keep going. huge star. he claims he has these jock feet he doesn t want to show. the whole resume. were you president of the university? yes, keep it going. were you? i already feel the swelling down by the way. you won t take off your shoe? fair enough. you see this is definitely the time of year people don t like to expose their feet. let s see how bad it is. unveiling. oh, you have good feet except for that toenail. put the bag on the foot. on the foot. oh, that feels good. we have a problem there. it s deep. i told you, why are you surprised by this? i was telling you when james t taylor was in concert, i didn t want to look at his feet did i ruin our thing? james taylor has beautiful feet, by the way. coming up next, finally, we re going to have some food. summer salads after this. see the difference? 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rosemary, thyme, garlic, and shred the stems out. leftover olive oil. so we have a little vinegar. is that balsamic? balsamic. that s the best. a little bit of sherry vinegar. everything is in season. we re not forcing any issues. beautiful arugula. so you ve got onions. herbs, garlic, shallots. okay. we have a little bit of honey, mustard, put that together if you want to mix that. is that a dijon mustard? dijon mustard. some coarse chopped blackberries. berries in a summer salad? yes. toss our croutons in the garlic. is this the dressing? are we done with it? yes, just a little bit better than that. james sorry. are you tossing? what can i do here? you do that while i toss it. and this is white beans, some basal, red onion, cucumber, fresh corn from down there, alabama cotton row, they love the corn. so we use it all the time. james, if you re not a fan, you can plug in whatever greens you like, right? we re using water crest in this one and arugula in the other one. how is it? looks perfect. tomatoes we re going to use too. so look, probably 15 or 20 different varieties we grow down on a farm by a restaurant. and you can see i labeled them all so you could remember that. i put a cheat sheet over there. you can name one if you want. we ll name one there s one with an r and an h. what s that? a red is that the standard one? if i don t have a farm. if you walk into the grocery store there is no way to identify them unless you re an expert at it. but taste one if you want. pick one you try one there. i ll try. and every flavor is different. the profiles on all the tomatoes are different. a lot of people don t like to use them as you mentioned before they look funny. this doesn t look appetizing as a tomato. but green tomatoes are ripe. so we ll toss this. we ll move back to the other counter. some strawberries in there. so what s great about this recipe there s a lot going on. yeah. what s great about this recipe is that if you don t have a certain item, forget it. we put white beans and all the stuff that s in season. the season moves on, do something different. mm-hmm. if you re not a strawberry fan like you mentioned, don t worry about it. beautiful mix, the croutons are in there, the water crests in front of you, hoda, is another. if you want to drizzle a little bit of dressing. what else have you added to this salad? this is the local bacon we braised in a little bit of sherry vinegar. it has whole wheat croutons, that s a local goat cheese. put a little on there? sure, if you like that. is this more of the same dressing? mine was better than that. it looks about the same. you can see that. the whole idea behind these two are they re very friendly for the season, very easy to mix. you even made the vinaigrette, but what you want to do is put the great blackberries beautiful presentation. since we made this one. i m invested in this salad. let s have a bite. but the idea, it s heirloom tomatoes. that s what we focus on. when they start to go out a season james, thank you so much. good luck with everything in huntsville. we ll be back with more of today on nbc. imagine if it were this easy to spot the good guys. you know, the guys who always do a super job. well, it is. just go to the verizon® yellow pages. and look for a business with the superguarantee® shield. you ll get the job done right, or we ll step in and help to make it right. so, protect yourself with the superguarantee® from supermedia. on its way the new verizon® yellow pages with larger, easier to read print. i want to know what they re saying about willie s feet on facebook. tammy wrote in, i want to say to mr. willie, your feet are not that bad, i ve seen worse. maryann wants to know, where do you get your pedicures? 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