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you should assume if he makes it down the aisle in one piece it s a major accomplishment. the inside scoop today, it s a major accomplishment. the inside scoop today, monday, july 19, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. i m ann curry in for meredith this morning. a lot of people were hoping this new cap would temporarily stop the flow of oil into the gulf, but overnight there are signs it may have created a new leak or seep elsewhere in the well. obviously of great concern to people. the government and bp seem to be at odds. bp wants to keep the cap closed at least for now. but in a sternly worded letter sent overnight the man in charge of the government s response is demanding a detailed plan for re-opening the cap if that becomes necessary. we re going to get the latest on this story coming up in a couple of minutes. also, matt, kyron horman s stepmother has moved out of the home. the impact of her move and what impact it may have on the police investigation. you may be enjoying coffee this morning, but should the kids be doing the same thing? coffee drinks are all the rage among young adults, even children. is it leading to new health problems? we ll talk about that later in the program. let s begin with the seep found near bp s crippled well and what it could mean for the disaster in the gulf. nbc s chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson is in venice, louisiana. anne, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, matt. it has been a long night for bp engineers and government scientists as they have been monitoring that seep that is some distance from the wellhead. and they have also been looking at possible methane over the wellhead. and after meetings and after promises of extensive monitoring, thad allen gave bp the go ahead to continue the test for another 24 hours. overnight, word came of the seep and possible methane found near the busted oil well, potential signs of a leak. for four straight days the cap has been doing what once seemed impossible, holding back the flow of crude that s polluted much of the gulf coast for three months. earlier, on sunday, bp s doug suttles suggested the cap could remain on until the relief well is finished. we are hopeful that in the encouraging signs continue we ll be able to continue the integrity tests all the way to the point where we can get the well killed. reporter: the government isn t sure. the pressure level is at 6,792 pounds per square inch, above the danger zone but far from ideal and bubbles have been seen in two locations. bp says they are not uncommon but are doing tests to see what the source is. national incident commander admiral thad allen is pleased no oil is going into the gulf but says the government needs to understand the lower-than-expected pressure readings. sunday he wrote, it is important that all decisions are driven by the science. ultimately, we must ensure no irreversible damage is done which could cause uncontrolled leakage from numerous points on the seafloor. in gulf shores, alabama, water carried more oil to the beaches. where there should be tourists, there are cleanup workers. darryl finley who runs a bed & breakfast. try to get this cleaned up so we can at least have a decent living here. people can come back and enjoy the gulf coast. reporter: now, among the monitoring that s going on out at the leak site, there are rovs with cameras, sonar, temperature tests at the blowout preventer. so far the tests show that the water is about 40 degrees and that is good news. if it was any warmer that would indicate that oil was coming out. matt? all right. anne thompson in venice, louisiana. thanks for your report. we appreciate it. five minutes after the hour. here s ann. matt, thanks. hillary clinton is in pakistan trying to shore up support for u.s. efforts in the region. andrea mitchell is traveling with her. reporter: good morning, ann. hillary clinton is trying to push the pakistanis to go after insurgents killing u.s. troops in afghanistan. that means overcoming years of distrust between the u.s. and pakistan. today, she came bearing economic aid, water and electricity projects desperately needed here. still, public opinion toward the u.s. remains negative, even hostile. so we know that there is some questioning, even suspicion about what the united states is doing today. i can only respond by saying that very clearly we have a commitment that is much broader and deeper than it has ever been. reporter: one achievement, she witnessed the signing of a long delayed sign and trade agreement between pakistan and afghanistan, decades in the making. she acknowledged frustration with pakistan s efforts against al qaeda. again, saying that elements in pakistan s government know where osama bin laden is and could get him if they wanted to. in an interview with nbc news do you still believe that? i do. there is a bit of a debate going on within certain elements of the pakistani government. our argument is very simple. look, you ve got to take on every nongovernmental armed force inside your country, because even though you think they won t bother you today, there is no guarantee. it s like keeping a poisonous snake in your backyard. reporter: in a decades old terror case, pan am 103, clinton said the government has told her there is no evidence bp pushed the decision to release abdelbaset al-megrahi. it may be that there is nothing to be done about it which is deeply frustrating. reporter: while she juggles, war, diplomacy and terror a world away, in less than two weeks, chelsea s wedding. you handle a lot of state secrets and classified information. there is no more closely guarded secret than well, the locale has leaked, but the guest list, the arrangements. what has gone into keeping this so private? my lips are sealed, andrea. i am under very strict orders not to talk about it. and i think for the right reason. it s chelsea s wedding. it is a family wedding. the people coming are her friends, as it should be. reporter: before she can get back to being mother of the bride, clinton has to go to afghanistan and south korea, all in a day s work for a busy secretary of state. ann? thank you so much. we ll hear more about the up coming wedding coming up. for now, it is 7:08. here s matt. thank you very much. has the u.s. intelligence community become too bloated since 9/11? the washington post is out with what it calls the most comprehensive study of the system since the terror attacks. pete williams has the details on this. pete, good morning. reporter: matt, good morning to you. the newspaper says the u.s. intelligence apparatus has become so big that nobody knows anymore how much it costs, how many people work for it or how effective it is. the post says much of the growth comes from an explosion in hiring private contractors to do sensitive government work. since the 9/11 attacks of 2001, the post reports, the intelligence community has been growing so fast in the washington, d.c. area that 33 building complexes for top secret work have gone up or are under construction, totaling 17 million square feet. it is really exciting to come and spend time in this fine facility and to meet the men and women who work at the national counterterrorism center. reporter: the 9/11 attacks sent the nation scrambling to find new ways to gather information on the emerging threat. now the post says more than 1,200 separate organizations and over 1,900 government contractors work on top secret terrorism, security and intelligence programs. they re scattered around the country at more than 10,000 locations. no question, say intelligence experts, the system has produced good results, but is a work in progress. there are parts of the intelligence community that do an extremely good job in dealing with the terrorism threat. but there are other parts since 9/11 that are still trying to figure out their role. reporter: the post says the system is bogged down with overlaps. example, 26 separate agencies analyze intelligence churning out more than 50,000 classified reports a year. the post says it found more than 50 separate federal organizations and military commands looking at terror financing, working in 15 cities. much of that growth in the intelligence community, the newspaper says, has come from private contractors. the former director of national intelligence, dennis blair, said a year ago at his confirmation hearing that the trend worried him. you have to get it right. you have to keep the government functions by people who get their paychecks every two weeks from the government and i will get into that issue. reporter: the man nominated to replace blair, general james clapper, has his hearing tomorrow. he ll be sure to be asked about the questions raised in this, matt. pete, thank you very much. diana priest, a pulitzer-prize winning journalist in the post writes the story. good morning to you. good morning, matt. pete talked about 1200 government organizations, 1931 contractors spread across 10,000 locations. we are talking about the stuff of national security, top secret information. how can we keep it secret if so many people in so many locations have access to it? well, frankly, they have a system for giving security clearance to people in the system. the 1,900 contractors are really large companies. so we re talking about close to 250,000 contractor who have top secret clearances. the reason we looked at top secret level is when we started to look at the secret level which is below that, it was simply too large to count. so we needed to go one step further. really, what we set out to do is to create a database which you can see online yourself and play around with and look at the redundancies and how big this has gotten. what we came up two years later with was really, i call an alternative geography of the united states where the capitol is not washington, d.c. it s somewhere else. based on the concentration of both government organizations and private contractors. remember after 9/11, everyone was talking about the fact that we had the intelligence but we weren t talking to each other, we weren t coordinating. when you look at the organizations spread out, even looking into financing, analyzing intelligence, is it possible that all these different groups can communicate with each other? well, that s the crux of the matter. there has been some advance a lot of advance in intelligence sharing among different agencies. but at the same time, the system has grown so large that many managers of it don t even know what all is out there. as a consequence cannot share throughout the community because they don t have a sense of how large that s become. one of the surprising things to me and bill arken who put together this database is how little the government itself knows how big it s grown because it is broken down into its different departments. there is a lot of interest in what we were doing and we got a lot of help from people inside the department of defense and other intelligence agencies who are curious about our findings. yeah, you raised some eyebrows. i know you spoke to robert gates, the secretary of defense. his opinion was and i m not sure he got to look at all the information yet, but his opinion seemed to be that it is not too big. he didn t actually say that. he said it s manageable, but it s based on ad hoc relationships, personal relationships. he said it does need to be examined and he s going to do that. he said it needs to be trimmed, that he knows there is waste. on counterterrorism he said, that s so important we need to do it with a scalpel, not an ax. he s committed, he told me, to undertake a review of all the programs. same with cia director leon pinetta who said we can t afford this anymore. he started creating a five-year plan. it s because of the deficit. it s also because they know this has become so large that there are some inefficiencies. couple quick things. what did you learn after the ft. hood accideincident, after the christmas day attempted bombing? what did we learn about weaknesses in the system? more is not always better. bigger is not always better. with ft. hood you had the main army counterintelligence organization which is about 15 miles up the road from walter reed where the alleged ft. hood shooter resided. they were doing something different. they weren t looking within their own ranks. they had chosen to go out and look at what fbi agents and other organizations have looked at which is the presence of terrorist organizations within the united states and not do the job they were meant to do which is to look in the army ranks. it s more difficult. as a result, they had no clue. they had never heard his name. they had no clue when he started talking in strange ways about islam that he even existed. i just want to get in one more thing. the president s choice for director of national intelligence goes through confirmation hearings in the senate this week. if you could sit down and ask mr. clapper one important question, what would you want to ask him? we actually did and he responded on the record. that is, do you believe that you know the most sensitive programs within the department of defense and the intelligence community? he said there is only one entity in the universe that would know all that and that s god. diana priest of the washington post. unbelievable report. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. now a check on the top stories from natalie morales at the news desk. good morning. tragedy in india where two trains collided killing more than 60 people and injuring more than 100. it happened when a speeding train hit another that was stopped at a station. the force of the crash threw the roof of one train onto the tracks above. officials haven t ruled out sabotage. a wildfire destroyed at least three homes and threatens more year yakima. it s burned more than 10,000 acres. officials in kentucky think they have accounted for everyone after weekend flash flooding that killed two people, washed away homes and knocked out power to thousands. a state of emergency was declared in the their. take a look at these dramatic scenes from southern china where weekend storms left more than 20 people home. the storms forced more than half a million people to evacuate. overseas markets are mostly lower after friday s big 261-point drop in the dow. erin burnett is at the stock exchange. we have optimism at the start and one of the lead stories is about boeing, america s biggest exporter. they are going to get a big plane deal. the world s biggest air show is under way in england. boeing sold 30 of the 777 jets to emirates airlines. the deal could be worth more than $9 million and they expect additional deals over the next few days. more planes means the economic recovery is still on the road to recovery. we ll take it as good news on a monday. thank you. nelson mandela celebrated his 92nd birthday sunday. the former south african president spending the day with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren in johannesburg. sunday was marked as mandela day around the world. and sunday s first victory at the british open. when he received the trophy he said people have to learn to pronounce his last name. you said west-hysen. i have heard woost . they call him shrek. good for him. mr. roker, how was your weekend? good morning. it is mostly cloudy around the the radar, getting some showers in western maryland, allegheny county, into the highlands of west virginia, they re drifting off to the east. temperatures are in the 70s all around the region. 78 in washington. highs today into the low 90s. could get passing showers this morning, but a greater chance this afternoon some passing thunderstorms. and tomorrow could get some afternoon storms. partly cloudy, hot and humid. remaining humid through the end of the week. a smaller chance of storms wednesday and thursday. and that s your latest weather. matt? al, thanks very much. coming up, the very latest on li still to come, did you know your favorite party dips could make you sick? also we heard from secretary of state hillary clinton talking about her daughter chelsea s upcoming wedding that s two weeks away. we ll find out more about that. first a check of your local news and weather. ever seen anything like it? me neither. it s new beneful incredibites. uh-huh! it s just the way you like it made with wholesome grains, real beef, even carrots and peas. you love the smaller-size, easy-to-chew kibbles, and i love the carbohydrates for energy and protein for muscles. whoa! wait for me! ha-ha. you only think you re getting spoiled. 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a live look along 395 northbound at the 14th street bridge with the new lane configuration, delays no worse than normal. and along i-270, delays begin right at the split. focus on headed down to the spur, but the travel lanes are available. kimberly? thanks, jerry. news 4 today starts at 4:30 a.m. we hope you ll join us then. now back to the today show. the heat is on the heat is on 7:30 on a monday morning, july 19th, 2010. the heat is on here in new york city. we are in the midst of a heat wave another heat wave, i should say. we have had several this summer. temperatures well into the 90s as we take a look at midtown manhattan from top of the rock. just above us here. kind of hazy, hot and humid. the kind of weather ann curry loves. matt lauer alongside ann filling in for meredith this morning. just ahead, what does the barefoot bandit s mother see in her son s future? wait until you hear what she wants for him in terms of a career. and you have heard of the five-second rule when you drop food on the floor? it s in my house. my kids use it. i did it. i dropped a muffin and i ate it. but there is evidence that the practice could make you sick. we ll explain and talk about ways to keep your family safe from foodborne illness. and chelsea clinton ties the knot at the end of the month. coming up, we ll hear more from her mom on what is a big day in that family. first we begin with serious news. more than a month and a half after the disappearance of 7-year-old kyron horman his stepmother has moved out of the family home. we have the latest on the story. good morning. reporter: good morning. kyron s father came to court to have his estranged wife terri thrown out of the home. but before the hearing, she agreed to go. a car loaded with boxes left the horman home as terri agreed to leave. for months she s been holed up in the house, cut off by family who blame her for her stepson kyron s disappearance. in court, her estranged husband asked a judge to evict terri so he could move back in with their 20-month-old daughter. at the final hour, terri agreed to move out. they finally came to a reasonable resolution. the issue was closed. reporter: this weekend, terri was spotted at her parents house outside portland as cane moved back in. he moved out three weeks ago, according to court documents, after investigators told him terri tried to hire a landscaper to kill him. she has always had that behavior of constant lying, just deceiving, manipulating. reporter: desiree young, kyron s mother has publically blamed terri for kyron s disappearance but quote, based upon briefings, i firmly believe that someone else is involved. terri s lawyers have said she s the victim of a witchhunt. though detectives haven t named suspects in kyron s disappearance, legal experts say terri remains a focus. they are waiting for her to trip, to stumble and to fall. and they are also waiting for someone else, if there is another person who knows something to finally come out of hiding and speak up. reporter: missing for more than six weeks, it s not just kyron s parents who refuse to give up hope. an entire community still believes the 7-year-old will come home alive. a wall of hope continues to grow, even as time continues to pass. we wanted to make sure everybody knows that we have been coming up here regularly to pick things up and make sure they get to kyron for when he comes home. reporter: gifts to kyron taken to a home where his stepmother is no longer welcome. terri horman was not present at a hearing last week but is expected on thursday for a hearing on a violation to a restraining order. ann? miguel, thank you very much. clint van zant is a former criminal profiler. good morning. good morning, ann. we should mention once again that terri horman has not been named a person of interest, not been charged with a crime, yet you think her move out of the family home this weekend is significant. now, why is that? i think it s significant for law enforcement. there are some positives and negative. the negative is as the set-up piece suggested, she s moved about 160 miles away. that makes it harder for local investigators working the case to continue to conduct any type of surveillance or anything else they want to do to her. so it stretches it. the other side, ann, is that it continues to put pressure, whether she s been named a suspect or a person of interest. the court of public opinion has already convicted her. notwithstanding that, law enforcement keeps an open mind, but on somebody like this who allegedly has told stories, lies, tried to hire hitmen, engaged in extramarital affairs while this was going on, if any of these allegations are actually true, i think what law enforcement wants to do is keep the pressure on her. ann, just like in the oil spill, we re looking for some type of crack, some type of fissure, but in this case it s in her story which may suggest to law enforcement what happened to this little boy. cane horman is making the suggestion that there is a possible third party involved. what do you make of this? what are the chances that this might be true? i think to hold onto the hope that this little boy s alive you have to hold onto the idea that there is a third party, that there is some individual that we don t know that s out there somewhere that has secreted kyron, that s holding him, waiting for whoever the prime kidnapper was to say, okay, bring him forward, the story is over with now. if we don t allow for that, there is very little hope that this little boy could be alive. for investigators, they now have to go back at least six or seven months, at least to the time when she allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill her husband and then go through her cell phone and her computer, anybody she had contact with. if there is this mysterious second person that could have been involved with her, who is he or she? where are they? how do we find them? you talk about the cell phone messages. there are reports about text messages with a neighbor named michael cook. these are apparently intimate messages. what are investigators doing behind the scenes? how do you expect them to be treating him based on this new information? well, they are trying to get anything they can out of him. realize that if, in fact, a story of seven months ago of her trying to hire a hitman is true, i think law enforcement has to say, was this part two? was he going to be some type of a hitman, associate or was this just personal? was this just terri horman was lonesome, needed somebody to be with and this was the way she was going to do it. where does he fit into this puzzle? are there other people like him that haven t been identified yet in this fractured family, missing boy situation. still a lot of questions. it s been six weeks since his good morning. at this hour, it is mostly cloudy, warm, and humid around the washington metro area. and temperatures here are in the 70s. we ll have highs today climbing into the low 90s and there s a small chance of a passing afternoon thunderstorm. around the metro area, though, and east, a little bit greater chance, a 50% chance of storms this afternoon into early this evening. years on the run, 19-year-old colton harris moore will be returning to his home state of washington. good morning. reporter: matt, good morning to you. this is a secret process when federal inmates are transferred, but u.s. marshalls say moore could be moved back to washington state as early as this week. there is one thing certain. when the barefoot bandit, accused of stealing at least five planes he won t be the pilot but a passenger, in chains. the so-called barefoot bandit has been paraded through the bahamas in shackles and marched into u.s. federal court. when colton harris moore is back in seattle, his lawyer may ask that he be allowed out on bond. it is not inconceivable that i may try to get him released on electronic home monitoring or something like that. reporter: it seems unlikely since he started his life on the lam by escaping a halfway house more than two years ago. he s accused of dozens of burglaries and thefts in nine states. if that s proven it entitles him to a harsher sentence. i don t believe the justice system works like costco with a discount. reporter: he got a rude awakening friday. sitting in federal court, side by side with an accused carjacker and kidnapper. harris-moore didn t say a word. the attorney for his mother tells nbc news she s elated her son will be coming home safe despite a rocky history between them. she asked the system for help. she asked the school system, the legal system for help for colt consistently from a very young age and didn t get very much. reporter: harris-moore s former partner in crime is back behind bars charged with felony assault in washington state after knocking over an 85-year-old shopper last month while allegedly trying to shoplift five packages of cheese. earlier this year in a jailhouse interview he tosaid he taught harris-moore how to break into homes and steal. my dream, which he shared with me, was having so much money that we could just bathe in it. reporter: harris-moore is celebrated by more than 90,000 fans on facebook. a new page demands the barefoot bandit be convicted. the lawyer for his mother says she understands he could spend time behind bars but she hopes he ll get a college education and one day make a living as a pilot. that s ironic. thank you. we appreciate that. up next, the five-second rule debunked. important information on food safety. later on, lots of speculation about chelsea clinton s wedding. where will it be? 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tom, slow and relatively steady along 395 northbound. delays will begin just above shirlington above the new rely reconfigured 14th street bridge. and we ll head out over along i-270, volume only, just sporadic slowdowns headed down the i-270 spur to the outer loop headed toward virginia. eun? thank you. wake up extra early every day. news 4 today begins at 4:30 8:00 now on a monday morning, the 19th day of july, 2010. it s a little hazy here in new york city. warm temperatures, high humidity and a huge crowd for a monday mo morning. lots of screaming, lots of waving. thanks for being here. out on the plaza, i m matt lauer along with ann curry while meredith s off. she ll be back tomorrow. mr. roker is here as well. lots of talk about the up coming nuptials between chelsea clinton and her husband-to-be. this husband is taking place in about two weeks. when the daughter or son of a president gets married, it s as close to a royal wedding as you can have in this country. hillary clinton will talk to andrea mitchell about what we can expect from the wedding in a few minutes. that s right. she s the m.o.t.b., the mother of the bride. also, people sipping coffee out there and there are concerns about how much coffee children are drinking. that s not good. there are concerns about whether it s good for them, how much they should be having, if any at all. especially the ice-based drinks. it s the rage. you look in the coffee shops, they are 12, 13 years old, maybe having two or three a day. lots of sugar. also the caffeine. and fat. when it comes to landing that j.o.b., is there a little beauty bias? we ll talk to some corporate hiring managers. you may be surprised. in my case it was just the opposite. oh, no. talent always wins. talent wins in the end. on that note we have a lot to get to. let s go inside. natalie is in while ann is out. good morning. the cap that s bottled up the leak in the gulf of mexico since thursday has raised new concerns. tests indicate some type of seepage overnight. this morning the government gave bp permission to keep the cap in place for another day with increased monitoring. the fear is that pressure under the cap could cause additional well damage beneath the seabed. bp says it has spent almost $4 billion dealing with the spill and its aftermath. president obama is calling on republican lawmakers to support an extension of jobless benefits when the senate takes up the issue this week. benefits for 2.5 million people ran out at the end of may. republican leaders say they will only support the extension if it is paid for with spending cuts. officials are not ruling out sabotage as the cause of this morning s train collision in india. more than 60 people were killed and more than 100 injured when an express train crashed into a passenger train waiting at a station. a train derailment two months ago was blamed on sabotage. at least two deaths blamed on flooding in kentucky where the government declared a state of emergency. rain-swollen creeks, washed away cars and left thousands of people without electricity or runninging water. high winds swept across western michigan damaging houses and downing trees and power lines. there were no reports of any serious injuries. the national special olympics games are off to a strong start with the lighting of the flame of hope at last night s opening ceremony in lincoln, nebraska. these are the first games since the death of the special olympics founder eunice shriver. we wish them good morning. here we ve got a cloudy sky. it is warm and humid. temperatures around the region are in the 70s. radar showing some isolated showers. allegheny county, the panhandle of west virginia, drifting to the east. out ahead of that, we ll stay in the 70s here for the next couple of hours and hit the 80s by late this morning and the low 90s during the afternoon. might have a little sun breaking out. small chance of a shower this morning. a greater chance of some afternoon thunderstorms. some afternoon storms are possible tomorrow and remaining humid through the end of the week. you re celebrating your 54th anniversary. what are your names? jim and jean wilson. that s the only words you have gotten in. that s right. matt? 54 years. good for them. when we come back, who will attend, what will she wear? all the buzz surrounding chelsea clinton s up coming wedding. we ll talk about it after these messages. they used to spend hours on the couch, watching t.v., playing video games. and with all you hear about childhood obesity, i was concerned. now i take a more active role in their health like insisting on lots of play time and making sure they eat right. like when i make burgers i use lean jennie-o ground turkey. i m proud i got them off the couch. well, sort of. anncr: be well. with all the great tasting ways to eat lighter. only from jennie-o. and my car was worn out, so we got the 97 camry. when i was 16, i got the camry, and i drove it for nine years. then when i turned 16, i was passed down the camry. i was like, yes! 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reporter: secretary clinton spoke to andrea mitchell. your message to all the people out there waiting for an invitation a-listers, b-listers? we love you all, but this is her wedding. reporter: chelsea, the clinton s only child, has come a long way from the teenager who grew up in the white house. today, she has an elegant poise and style and an impressive career as a hedge fund manager to match. a bride who knows who she is and what she wants on her big day. my daughter has really taken hold of it. she knows what she wants and how she wants to have it come off. the former president, your husband, performed a wedding ceremony. should we assume he won t be officiating? you should assume that if he makes it down the aisle in one piece, it s a major accomplishment. he is you know, he s going to be so emotional, as am i. but we re both looking forward to it and very happy about it. so a lot of you may be wondering, what about the dress? sources say chelsea will wear a custom-designed dress made by oscar de la renta. she ll make a beautiful bride. thanks, natalie. cheryl, good morning. you have had fun. you wrote about the wedding so cloaked in secrecy where the mother of the bride holds down national diplomacy details are harder to ferret out than the afghanistan strategy. what did the invitation say? how do people know where to go? the invitations are save the date with just the date and no information about where it will be held. people were told to get yourself within new york city driving distance. we ll give you the details with a week to go. so we don t know if it is at this estate we saw in the piece, but the chances are pretty good because the chances are pretty good. first of all, it is within driving distance of new york. it s a lovely place, secluded on 50 acres, owned by clinton donors, kathleen hammond and her husband who is a real estate developer. it s easy to get to. people could conceivably get to new york and then drive 90 miles to this lovely estate. meantime, the secretary of state who is very busy in pakistan has referred to herself as the m.o.t.b., the mother of the bride. she s been more hands-on than people might expect. she s been absolutely hands- hands-on. she s been viewing flower arrangements, tastings, dress selections. she s obviously excited as is her husband, the former president. they are both close to their only child. yes. you have done reporting about this. how close are they? very close. when bill clinton was president he put off an overseas trip to stay home and study with chelsea for her exams. they are obviously a tight family. we know chelsea could have held them together when they had rocky times in their marriage. this is a happy ending for all of them. jenna bush interviewed him and he said, i hope i can keep it together as i walk down the aisle. this is an emotional moment for him. meantime, you think she ll wear an up-do. do i. did you see her hair? she s obviously growing it out. as soon as i saw that i thought, oh, mere come here comes the up and who is on the guest list? the guest list is small by clinton standards, about 400 people which is big for you and me but intimate for people who know kings, presidents and hollywood stars. to make the cut you have to be a friend of chelsea and marc. all the big-time donors, we love you, but it s chelsea s wedding. so the reports that oprah and barbra streisand are on the list we know matt lauer isn t. we know some very close friends, people like harry th thomason and his wife. president obama who is hillary clinton s boss is on the list. but the white house says he won t go. that makes sense. he travels with a big press entourage and they are trying to keep it secret. you cover families and you have a deeper understanding about our fascination with the presidential children. what explains why we are so interested? well, we don t have royalty in this country. i think we are particularly fascinated with chelsea because she was a gawky teenager, grew into a lovely young woman. everyone remembers the picture of her walking to the helicopter with her parents holding the hand of each after the president confessed to infidelity. people wondered, how is this kid going to turn out and she s obviously turned out really well. it s a nice ending. it s like we all want to cheer for her. right. thank you very much. no problem. coming up next, kids and coffee. it s a growing habit, but is it a healthy one? we ll get into that right after this. male announcer ] fact. when pain keeps you up, nothing is proven to help you fall asleep faster than advil pm liqui-gels. rushing real liquid relief to ease you to sleep fast. for nighttime pain, make advil pm your #1 choice. over a thousand people a day are switching to chevy. they like that vehicles like the 2010 malibu, traverse and silverado half-ton have each been named a consumers digest best buy. they like that chevy backs the quality with a one-hundred-thousand mile powertrain warranty. they re not just trading in, they re trading up. qualified lessees now get a low mileage lease on this malibu ls for around one ninety-nine a month. call for details. the switch begins at chevydealer.com. blue shirt: great. well, with every laptop, you get a geek so. take your pick. mom: look at all these fabulous geeks! there are so many! look at this one! it helps you video chat with mom! son: bingo! mom: look at this one. you can video chat with me, honey. son: mom, go get the car. mom: he s in such a hurry to learn. vo: buy any laptop and get geek squad support for six months. online. on the phone, or in-store. caramel frappuccino this morning on eat smart today, kids and coffee. walk by any coffee shop and you can t help but notice their newest consumers are kids, teens and young adults. one in three young adults is now a regular coffee drinker. is it a good habit to start so young? americans consume roughly 400 million cups of coffee every day. the growing number of those consumers are pint-sized. i like frappuccinos. i like cappuccino. iced decaf coffee. the u.s. coffee market is a $34 billion industry. we are seeing kids and teenagers are making a larger part of that than ever before. according to the national coffee association teens and young adults are the fastest growing groups of coffee drinkers. busy schedules may be to blame. kids are so overscheduled. they have extracurriculars and homework. they re looking for ways to stay awake. coffee s natural taste may not be a natural draw but throw in sugar, ice, chocolate syrup and whipped cream and it s no wonder. the compromise, say parents, keep it a treat, not a habit. i m okay with once a week. every once in a while, twice a week. it s okay. it s social, after school. once in a blue moon. it s definitely a special treat. it s the kind of treat you get once a week. you just don t know when you re going to get it. oh, keep them guessing. here to help us sort through the caffeine, coffee and calories is dr. nancy snyderman. hi, matt. once in a blue moon? i don t know how old she is? looks like 10 years old. pint-sized. the caffeine alone won t hurt you unless it revs you up, gives you insomnia, makes you nervous and kids, like adults because they are smaller, concentrates the caffeine more. if we stop drinking we get a caffeine withdrawal headache. kids may present with headaches. if they are drinking it on a regular basis assume they are. there are no u.s., federal guidelines in terms of caffeine consumption for young people. that s right. just looking at us, not so much coffee consumption. it s the mocha flavor they re not drinking black coffee. no. they re drinking a mocha concoction and herein lies the danger. in an obesity-troubled society already you can easily have a 400 or 600-calorie drink. if it tastes good, is sweet and is filled with fat you may be better with a chocolate shake that gives you more calcium. there are a lot of empty calories in this. let s go through some tips here. i walk by coffee shops all the time and it s a social gathering for young people. it s a social gathering. it tastes good and it s where the cool kids want to go. if you re in control well, if the kids are doing it without you knowing, don t do it on a regular basis basis. make it like an ice cream treat. once or twice a week. don t make it an after dinner treat. if you re worried about teenagers with sleep disruption it increases the chance of insomnia. you have to be a healthy role model. you can t say, you can t drink all the coffee. it s not good for you, if you have four cups every day. that s right. coffee fuels the brain. there is no doubt about it. it makes us focus better. kids in high school and college discover it because they are pulling all-nighters. caffeine works well. it s all the stuff these kids are rolling around in. encourage healthier options. look, you re better with fruit juice. soda is the number one place our kids get calories. use it as a treat. i m serious. you are better off having a chocolate shake and getting the calcium. these are treat drinks. not to say you can t have them, but they are treats. listen, when your kids become teenagers like mine you realize they are drinking caffeine all the time before school, after school, in the evening. my kids don t like the taste, but they like it because they see us drinking it and think they are not supposed to have it which makes it worse. you bet. thank you. you bet, matt. here s ann and al. on the topic of young people, american students now rank get this 25th in math and 21st in science when compared to students from 30 other industrialized countries. today we are announcing an nbc news special event to spotlight improving education. we re calling it education nation. it will take place the last week of september and feature a week-long series of special coverage across our nbc platforms. we ll kick it off with a two-day summit here in rockefeller plaza. we ll transform it into learning plaza filled with interactive classrooms of the future. you don t have to wait for september. if you want more details go to todayshow.com. cool idea. meanwhile, just ahead, the beauty bias. a new survey says that it pays to be more attractive at work. you are more likely to get a job than not. obviously that s not the number one, it s things like talent. 8:26 is your time. hazy skies after strong storms last night. good morning, i m eun yang. it s monday, july 19th, 2010. this morning, a gaithersburg teenager is behind bars for murder after a shooting at the lake forest transit center behind lake forest mall in gaithersburg friday night. police arrested 19-year-old travis wright yesterday afternoon. they say he shot and killed 23-year-old marlin tennin. today is a time for renewal and remembrance at arlington national cemetery. every year, hundreds of workers volunteer their time and services to beautify arlington national cemetery. green industries will spend the day mulching, pruning, planting, and aerating the soil. weather and traffic up next. good morning. i m meteorologist tom kierein. there s a live view from our 1ñ showing the jefferson memorial and it is surrounded by that haze. that thick humidity hangs in the air on this monday morning and will be with us here through the rest of the week and we ll have high temperatures once again this afternoon exceeding 90 degrees. at this hour, we ve got quite a bit of cloudiness around and the radar is showing a few showers out in western maryland, around allegheny county, washington county. highs today reaching the low 90s. could get some passing afternoon thunderstorms. perhaps a morning shower, but a greater chance of some afternoon storms. jerry, how s the traffic? let s take a look here along 395 to the 14th street bridge. at this hour, tom, traffic is slowing, beginning just above the pentagon along the bridge span. again, new lane configuration, but fortunately, looks like everybody s cooperating and good news there. we ll keep you updated. eun? thank you, jerry. wake up with us extra early every day. news 4 today begins at 4:30 a.m. with all your news, weather, traffic. we are back now. it s 8:30 on a monday morning, the 19th day of july, 2010. our hazy skies are turning darker. looks like it could rain at any minute on these nice people in rockefeller plaza. a quick shower. exactly. i m matt lauer along with ann curry, al roker and natalie morales. coming up, we ll ask the question do people with good looks have an advantage in the workplace? there is a new study that talks about corporate hiring managers seem to admit that it pays to be good-looking. we ll get to how that might affect how we apply for jobs. so many people are trying to get jobs. what they might be able to do to help themselves. all right. and ahead, five smart ways to save lots of money including something called gratification management. we ll tell you how you could save hundreds of dollars a month. stay tuned for this one. plus, a really interesting story coming up. the daddy brain. studies have shown that not just women but men experience some hormone changes during their wife s pregnancy and that we have emotional responses as well. that s terrific. we re emotional people, too. that s right. we re going to talk about that. okay. we have a lot to get into. can we bring in number two ranked golfer in the world right now phil mickelson? [ cheers and applause ] he s here to talk about the exxon mobil academy. how are you all? nice to meet you. first of all, nobody gets a bigger gold star for commuting from a long distance than you. you were just in scotland yesterday. you flew overnight. i played st. andrews and the place was just fabulous. even though i didn t play well it didn t dampen the experience of playing at the home of golf, st. andrews. it was a great experience with oosthuizen winning. you finished tied for 48th. how did you like playing in the wind? it was challenging. i enjoyed it because the course was made to be played like that. you have a good game, too. not in that wind i don t. i remember your 300-yard drive over the trees. he s making it up. we had a good time. meantime, about your golf game, you won the masters this year. it must have meant so much to you. your wife good morning. it is mostly cloudy on this monday morning. warm and humid. temperatures around the region are in the upper 70s now and the radar showing a few showers. those little blobs of blue. some light showers now, morgan and jefferson counties, west virginia into washington county. frederick county in maryland. and we have another shower there coming into the extra part of the panhandle of west virginia. drifting off to the east. right now, 79 in washington. highs today, low 90s. could get some showers this morning and afternoon storms today. don t forget. you can check your weathather d or night at the new improved weather.com. it s going to pour here. coming up, the beauty bias that helps some people get better jobs. we ll talk about that, but first this is today on nbc. rk? this morning newsweek is out with a compelling story that tries to get to the bottom of the beauty bias. we all know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but could it help you land a job? miranda hires me. she knows what i look like. beauty bias is the idea that when someone makes the decision to hire you, they re not just looking at your resumé but at you and how you look. reporter: we have heard before attractive people have a leg up. that s the first impression when people look at you and the way you are groomed. reporter: a new survey including hiring managers says we still pay a lot of attention to attraction. 72% admit that being physically attractive is beneficial to a woman looking for work. with the unemployment rate at 9.5% the competition to get a job these days is tough. if you re a manager, is it fair to look at somebody and say, are they polished, professional, do they look put together and like they care about their appearance? yes, of course. on the other hand, if you re looking at every applicant that looks through the door saying do you look like gisele, it won t be a good staff. that s not an intelligent way to make hiring decisions. reporter: if looks get you in the door, how far can they take you? i think there is favoritism but i don t think it has anything to do with your ability. you have to have the education. if you haven t got that you may as well hang it up. reporter: in the end, good looks alone won t get the job done. i think a manager at work wants to know that you care enough about your appearance to be able to project professionalism ton jon the job. they don t want you thinking about your highlights when you should be thinking about the bottom line. jessica bennett wrote the article and we have the editorial director for latina magazine. good morning. hi. you conducted the survey online. 202 corporate managers? right. we surveyed 1,000 people of the general public on the phone. the statistics we are finding, 72% is for men and women? > mm-hmm. so it affects men as well as women? women face it more. there is pressure to look a certain way. it also affects men for sure. what s your reaction to the numbers? it s not surprising. this was written about in the beauty myth 20 years ago. at the time it caused a stir. since then the problem has only become worse. we are much more obsessed with looks than ever before. is it raw beauty in men or women or is it how well put together we are? it s a combination. we want to make sure we distinguish between wearing a clean shirt to an interview and being physically attractive. one of the most surprising numbers was among women. hiring managers said 61% said that wearing revealing clothing would help a woman at work. would help a woman? maybe not if she was being hired by a woman. perhaps. there is definitely the girl-on-girl competition but at the same time women may also not want that kind of thing there is a pressure women get with each other that they want a professional environment. sure. it s a double-edged sword. last month we saw a latina woman suing citibank here in new york for allegedly hiring her for being too hot. there is a bit of a double-edged sword. i cut you off. i m sorry. 46% of hiring managers said that you can also be punished for being too good-looking, particularly if you re a woman. so the net impact because a lot of women are looking for jobs. obviously we have to spend more attention on our looks than we may have thought before. what s your best advice to men and women on this score? go ahead. i think we all need to look put together. you don t want to go into a job interview looking like you re not ready. at the same time, experience does matter. we surveyed hiring managers and asked them to rate 1 to 9 the most important traits. experience was first, confidence second and then looks. what was interesting was looks were above education which was surprising. employees are clearly feeling the pressure. cosmetic surgery has quadrupled. this is the average ordinary american. clearly the message is clear. you have to pay attention to what you look like. that s sobering and a little bit unnerving. don t you find it unnerving that people are feeling they can t be who they are? look at the way the media savages women in the spotlight. look how they talk about the appearance of sonia sotomayor, elena kagan, hillary clinton. women see what what happens to them. they take it to an extreme. thank you so much this morning. thank you. that s not the last we ll hear about that. coming up next, new ways to save money including something called gratification management. we ll explain. first, this is today on nbc. 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that is the ability to delay gratification a little bit and feel good about it. we brought in merchandise from ta talbot s. after 12 weeks it goes on sale and then it goes on sale again. if you want the sweater badly, teach yourself to wait a little bit. it was $89. now it s $25. you can save a lot of money this way. you can. the next behavior is private label experimentation. what are we talking about here? three-quarters of the population surveyed are now buying private label brands like kirkland olive oil and they are doing it again. in many cases they find it makes them feel smarter to spend less money and they don t see such a difference in taste. what savings are we talking about? this is $11.99. this is $17. here it s $2 savings, here a dollar and here a dollar as well. it depends on the item. i buy this olive oil. i would stick to my sugar wafers. i grew up with those. it actually boosts self-esteem when people practice this? four out of five times it boosts self-esteem. when it doesn t is when you are in the supermarket with the kid and he wants to know why he can t have the real froot loops and it s because you re feeling poor. more people are cooking from scratch. we mean they are avoiding the very expensive pre-prepared foods. 20% of the population doing this. you can, again, save a lot of money without a lot of effort. this is my mother s old recipe for spaghetti and clams. costs $7 to make it. if you went to a restaurant and got one portion it s $9.50. let s move on. using loyalty cards more often. i don t know why people wouldn t use them all the time, but there is a resurgence. there are more members of the family taking more satisfaction in using the loyalty cards. we have seen women using them for a while. look at the receipt and you see, oh, i saved $15, $18. point it out to a family member and you feel smart. finally, this is called extreme couponing. not just couponing. extreme couponing. what is it? it means you re going on the web to sites like couponmom.com and learning how to double coupon, triple coupon and download them to your iphone so you can show the device to the person at checkout. saving money, what kind of money are we saving here? i have seen people go we have had a lady. she spends 30 cents. for a week s worth of groceries, but it s extreme, extreme couponing. right. do it a little bit, save $30. call it a day. thank you very much. sure. good to see you. up next, jenna wolf hits the motorcycle girl july is national women s motorcycle month. one in ten motorcycle owners wo growing all the time. we sent out today s jenna w l wolf. i have to admit i was nervous hopping on the back of a motorcycle for the first time. but as i quickly learned, it s more about the journey than the destination. remember those iconic motorcycle scenes with elvis keep in touch! reporter: hopper, the fonz? men enjoying their rides. today they are not the only ones tooling down the road. women are getting a leg up riding high on their own. 20 million riders out there. almost 6 million are women. reporter: why is that? why are so many women gravitating toward a motorcycle? more women are seeing women on bikes. they see them and think, oh, if she can do it, so can i. honestly, jenna, there are no barriers to women getting into motorcycling. reporter: not just one group of women. all women wives, moms, even grandmothers. i have a 2-year-old and 7-year-old grandkids. reporter: how many of you guys are working in professional jobs now? it s the best way to start your day. you go to work and you re asleep in your car. you are not asleep on your bike. reporter: how could you sleep in your eyes are always on the road, constantly aware of the world around you. it s part of what draws these women to the bike itself. for someone who s never been on a bike before, tell me about the feeling when you take off and let the rest of the world go? you re so in the moment. there is no future. there s no past. there s only that moment. i come home so relaxed. this is happy hour! it s a natural way to feel better. reporter: these women aren t just joyriders. they know their way around a bike. if i point to places on the bike, you will know what they are? what is this? gas can. this? this coil thing? shocks. reporter: i m shocked that you know as much as you do. i think a lot of people drive cars and don t know anything. you know so much about the bike. do you notice anything else about the group of us? we re all women. reporter: we are all women. as a proud member of the club i had to see what all the fuss was about. i m nervous. i have done a lot of things. i have never been on a motorcycle before. shall we do this? let s do it. reporter: all right! where else would i begin than california s stunning pacific coast highway? wow. that was great. when you re out there, you are very aware of everything around you, but at the same time it s i don t know. i don t have words. it s exhilarating. you re like in a zone. reporter: a zone many of these women can t live without. oh, boy. motorcycling to me is like my therapy. you re not thinking about what you re doing at work. it s a great way to refresh after a hard day at work or a hard week in the office. it s a rush of everything. it s a rush of adrenaline. it makes me really happy. i love the freedom, the thrill, just the complete sense of relaxation. i m as free as a bird now i do that. put easy rider in your ear. go fast. it s a loosy-goosy thing and there is a lot of work that goes into it. you have to be so aware of everything around you, of a puble, a pothole. you re really focusing the whole time. and you have to keep your mouth shut. it didn t work out for me so well. it wasn t a good fit. did you get the bug? no pun intended. would you like to ride more? i would, but it s such a focused sport and i eat tacos and put on mascara while driving. the harley or the newer type of bike. why not? coming up, more after the local news. 8:56 is your time now. 80 degrees. a steamy day out there. tom will have your forecast right after the news. good morning, everyone. i m eun yang. it is monday, july 19th, 2010. in the news for today, a heads up if you take the 14th street bridge into the district. your commute may be a bit trickier this morning. the center lane of the northbound span of the bridge will be closed as part of phase three of the 14th street bridge project. this could cause major headaches for drivers that take 395 or the gw parkway to get into the district. time now for a check of the forecast. tom kierein joins us. we had strong storms last night. they re long gone, but the humidity is still in place. radar shows one thundershower rolling out of the central panhandle of west virginia heading into the central shenandoah valley. ahead of that, temperatures in the 70s to 80 degrees. highs in the low 90s and a chance of a morning shower and a greater chance of afternoon thunderstorms. how s the traffic, jerry? take a live look at the 14th street bridge. it is running slowly headed north from the pentagon. there are four lanes available as you get on the bridge, but heads up as the middle lane is now blocked off. let s head over quickly, inbound 66 jammed. had a broken down vehicle right at the exit for the beltway. eun? wake up with us extra early every day. news 4 toda [ male announcer ] progress. 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. visa. with my grandparents up at their farm, and that s where i learned all about vegetables when they re ready to be picked and the best time and season to eat them. nothing beats the taste of fruits and vegetables in the summer. that s why at giant, you ll find farm-stand quality fruits and vegetables this week, enjoy northwest cherries, $1.88 a pound, and dole salad blends, 2 for $5. if something s in season, i know my store is going to have it, and that works for me. celebrate summer, every time you shop with your giant card. back now with more of today on a monday morning. it s the 19th day of july, 2010. it was going to rain a few minutes ago. now it s a bright blue sky with some clouds moving through. we ll be looking at good storms moving in from the west. oh, really? how about the north? the lauers from canada. from calgary, canada. are you staying at my house? say yes to that. actually from canada it s lower . coming up in this half hour, why did she do it? we all heard the audio tapes featuring allegedly mel gibson in an obscenity-laced tirade. heapes a real, the question is why were they recorded in the first place and why were they leaked to the media? we ll talk about it coming up. and do men have pregnancy hormones? when annette was pregnant did you gain weight? i did. my husband did. a little bit. he didn t gain it all in the tummy, but he did. that s right. when your partner gets pregnant your guy could have cravings, mood swings, put on weight. we ll hear the science behind the daddy brain. he has experience with that. also, coming up, we ll talk about not my shoes but high heels. basically are they dangerous for you? are you risking your health? we ll find out that it s probably not good. we all know that. but apparently it s worse than we think. your calf muscles actually sli shrink from wearing high heels. you have to compensate. but they are pretty. let us go inside to natalie for a check of the headlines. good morning. good morning, matt, ann and al. the federal government is allowing bp to keep the containment cap closed for another day after seepage was discovered near the well spewing into the gulf of mexico. the seepage is raising concerns that the cap may have to be re-opened to prevent the environmental disaster from becoming even worse and harder to fix. bp is promising to watch closely for any signs of new leaks breaking through the sea floor. officials are not ruling out sabotage in a deadly train crash in eastern india today. at least 61 people are dead and 125 injured after a speeding express train plowed into a stationary passenger train, a crash so powerful it sent to roof of one car flying into an overpass. sabotage was blamed for a derailment that killed people two months ago. fire officials are trying to control a wildfire that destroyed three homes and threatens more near yakima. officials in kentucky believe they have accounted for everyone following weekend flash flooding that killed at least two people, washed away homes and knocked out power to thousands in pike county. weekend storms left more than 20 people dead in southern china, flooding their swept away homes and forced more than half a million people to evacuate. inception took over the top spot at the box office over the weekend, taking in more than $60 million. despicable me was second and the sorcerer s apprentice wound up in third. let s go back outside to matt and ann. a good weekend to take in a movie. it was so hot. yeah. get in the air conditioned theater, natalie. thank you very much. we have al on the plaza saying hi to people with the plaza. hey. i m actually further away all the way in front of 30 rockefeller plaza. we are standing in front of this year s addition of house beautiful s kitchen of the year. this year is bravo s flipping out star jeff lewis. we have been watching this thing go up over the last week and a half. yeah. we did it quick. what was the impetus for this? when house beautiful came to me, i wanted to do something different from what was done last year. last year s kitchen was very traditional. i wanted something for contemporary. let s take a look. absolutely. this kitchen is inspired by my california roots, also by certain european designs i have been drawn to. very clean lines. absolutely. this is caesar stone countertops, carved limestone here. this is stone? it s actually carved limestone. and the cabinets? it s actually really nice rich finish. this is craftmaid. it s cherry wood. oh, they lift up. we wanted to do something different. and there is a cooking segment. i don t normally keep this much food in the house. because i emotionally eat. i just have alcohol. very nice. i sustain almost exclusively on alcohol. we have water, too. yeah. for people who want to do something like this but don t have this budget what can they do? i know jen-air and kitchenaid have low price lines for people who are economically sensitive. craftmaid has great lines as well. the fixtures are by koehler. these are calvin klein home accessories. we have design within reach interior furniture, restoration hardware on the 1,000-square-foot deck. it seems like the message here is less is more. absolutely. that s my mantra. this is clutter to me, to be honest with you. i don t really cook. you don t really need a kitchen. i don t, no. in fact, i should use it as a closet. i entertain a lot in the kitchen. it doesn t matter how nice the living room which, by the way, we have a beautiful living room. everyone ends up in the kitchen. i serve drinks and heavy hors d ouvres and we head to the restaurants because i m not a big cook. let s check the weather. we have severe weather to talk about, especially in the east. we have a threat of severe weather in the east for the afternoon. also from rochester, minnesota, to st. louis, back through the high plains, basically for large hail. showers and thunderstorms are already firing up. we re looking in the plains from good morning. at this hour, the radar is showing some rain and thunder just to the east of charlottesville, as well as farther to the west, just now crossing out of west virginia into the central shenandoah valley. elsewhere, clouds, temperatures around 80 degrees and a humid day under way. sweltering humidity through the rest of the week. chance of afternoon storms today and again tomorrow and wednesday settling down by the end of the hey, nat, there is a really cool sink here that you do your chopping, throw the stuff in, hit this button, water comes down, throws it down to the gar damage disposal and away it goes. wow. i want that kitchen. that is cool. man. i love this. i love that feature. i m moving in. thank you, al. mel gibson is back in the news today. this photo obtained by radaronline is getting a lot of attention. it shows gibson s ex-girlfriend oksana grigorieva after he allegedly broke her teeth. some are questioning whether the photo is authentic. courtney haselet is here with the scoop. good morning. good morning. a lot of questions about this including statements made by her dentist at the time who said it appeared the photos circulating online had been doctored which now he apparently regrets that he said that. what s the story? if there is anyone here who knows if they are authentic it would be her dentist. curious about that. he said the nose and facial features didn t match up. curious that he would say that. oksana s rep is saying, no, they are the real thing. this is evidence that s being submitted as part of the police investigation into the domestic violence dispute. at the end of the day, everybody who s following the story needs to keep in mind that there is a business for radaronline and other outlets as well. with this story which is so owned by radaronline now with the audio tapes that dribbled auto over the course of almost two weeks, with this photo now, radar owns the stor it s up to everyone else to find the expert to refute the story in some way. it s very interesting. so tmzs of the world are now finding experts. right. in the end the photos, whether doctored or not, could they be used in pressing charges against mel gibson? it is possible. is it the sort of thing to land him in jail? probably not, say most legal experts. what it cou is tarnish his reputation to the point where he s not bankable in hollywood. that s what hollywood cares about most here. it s not necessarily what your rap sheet looks like. we have proven that people like robert downey, jr., can have a huge comeback. it comes back to whether you are a bankable star. for gibson, that question is on the bubble. you confirmed with some of his reps that while his world was imploding around him he was here in new york city shooting the beaver the movie directed by jodie foster. that s going on in the busiest city in the world. while the tapes were going out, while charges were being filed he s in new york city doing reshoots for the movie. the studio, summit entertainment, hasn t put a release date on that. the question is will the film see the light of day? edge of darkness was gibson s last film and it made only $43 million. that s not a lot of money for a star of his caliber. if this hurts him, studios will look at whether it s worth spending the money to put his project out there. jodie foster is mum on the whole thing. she s not saying a word. you got confirmation, there was a rumor that he might be fleeing down under. not going back to australia? not going back to australia. he moved there when he was 12. we get to keep him in the united states. he s staying put at least for the time being according to his publicist. good reporting as always. check her out on the scoop on msnbc.com. coming up, they may be a do from a style perspective but there are don ts on high heels. and insight into the daddy brain. what he s going through when you re pregnant. can t wait to hear all of this after these messages. okay hunny, have a great day. look in your bag, made you something. 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all kinds of things. from being really excited to being really scared to what the heck have i gotten myself into? reporter: researchers say that some of those feelings may actually be hormones changing in the expecting father. some of the other hormone symptoms we hear are crankiness. are you getting more upset than usual? i was cranky this morning. i didn t say that to her, but i was cranky. reporter: smart man. don t say anything. keep it bottled up. that s my advice to you. fathers-to-be are responding to the natural air borne chemicals of pregnancy that emanate from the woman s skin, priming him for paternal behavior. guys make more prolactin which makes milk in females. we don t know what it does in the dad brain. and his testosterone goes down 33%. reporter: it s hard with the baby and the bottle, the squirm and the turn and the arms in the arm holes. that s the worst part for me so far. getting the arms in the arm holes. there s more. women may not be the only ones packing on pounds during those nine months. here s one that surprised me. weight gain. have you picked up weight along with your wife during the pregnancy? i think to mine and my wife s chagrin, yes. reporter: you look like you re falling apart. i m a mess. reporter: some fathers go through a nesting period. dorian seemed to be at the height of the stage. i m impressed with your level of commitment so far. lots of dads get anxious, get nervous. sounds like you re diving in. you have painted the nursery. you re doing it all. yeah. i went online with the nursery, picked out the theme. i did it. i m hands-on because i want him to look at me as a great dad. hormones and the instinct of the male brain get going. dads want the nursery equipment, want everything ready for the baby. reporter: next step embrace the woman within. so bottom line, are you now more in touch with your female side than you were a few months ago? i think my female side and i are going to be really, really good friends over the next number of years. reporter: you re going to need it. we should point out that dorian had his son chauncey harlem brown born a few weeks ago. congratulations. if we lived in westchester well, that s in rockland county. let s bring in dr. nancy snyderman. hi, al. good morning. there is science here? it goes back for centuries. it comes back to the point that these pheremones, these primal chemicals are what attract us to each other. when a woman is pregnant and a man is committed to her, the testosterone levels drop. the nesting hormone, prolactin goes up, and it s to keep the man at home so he won t stray. after the birth things reverse so men start thinking about procreating again. it s mother nature s plan. i started getting into things i didn t care about before like the color of the nursery and stuff like this. i learned about separating science from anxiety. oh, my gosh i m responsible for this human being for the rest of my life. it was interesting looking at the symptoms, the nesting getting the furniture built, painting the nursery. you want to create a safe place for someone. there are symptoms. i noticed my breasts got bigger. breasts, tummy. put on weight, nausea. all the fake pregnancy symptoms you see in women, men can sometimes get. it s not unusual for a guy to put on 15, 20 pounds. in the medical literature there is a man described as having a belly that goes along with the size of a seven-month fetus. we know men can t physiologically get pregnant, but, yes, some men take the hormone thing to extremes. centuries ago this was considered normal biochemistry. in the 1900s in the united states it s been given a psychiatric moniker. i think for some guys it s the cohabitation 15 to 20 pounds and the anxiety and codependency. what s interesting in the research, al, is they say it continues for a while after the baby is born for a few months. i felt that where you feel a deeper connection to your wife. to me, she became even more impressive than she was already. you feel like you want to be there for the family. what s your takeaway for other fathers to be? my takeaway would be simply it s okay to be anxious. it turns out there is science. okay to put on 20 pounds. which i didn t lose after. which contradicts what you said that it goes away. no, no. she said the guys go away. i can t get the last ten pounds off. anxiety is part of it. it s totally unexpected. nobody s ready for kids. the gift here is that a woman doesn t go through pregnancy alone. it solidifies a relationship. once you have the baby you don t know how much you can love something until a child comes into the world. it alters everything. it s how you feel knowing your heart is beating outside your body for the first time. that s right. great stuff. thank you very much. are you going to stick around for the next half hour? i m taking a nap. secrets of super savers. how to save up to 60% of your paycheck and have a happy retirement. plus, would you rather be in style or in pain? yes, they are cool shoes, ladies and gentlemen. high heels may be high fashion, but how much damage are they doing to your body? 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[ female announcer ] lactaid®. the original lactose-free milk. 9:26 is your time now. 80 degrees. more of the same hot and humid weather. tom will have your forecast after the news. good morning, i m eun yang. it s monday, july 19th, 2007. don t be surprised if parking in the district is a bit confusing this morning. the city is trying new high-tech methods of paying for parking today. the new systems are in effect in parts of the district including friendship heights. ddot says the programs will be in place for about three months. turning to the forecast, tom is here with more hot weather. the humidity still with us too. with us for the rest of the week. typical mid-summer heat and humidity. highs reaching low 90s later today and a chance of a passing shower this morning, just off to our southwest. and a greater chance around the whole region this afternoon, with passing thunderstorms. could get some more again tomorrow. a smaller chance on wednesday remaining humid thursday and friday and into the weekend each day highs into the 90s. how s the traffic now? take a live look. not as bad as it could be. everybody rolling slowly, but we haven t had, as far as i could tell, any accidents to impede the additional flow. let s head over and check the top side of the beltway, slowing new hampshire avenue to georgia avenue with lanes open. eun? wake up with us extra early every day, news 4 today starts at 4:30 a.m. storyteller: hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle the cow jumped over the moon. then quickly fell back to earth, landing on the roof of a dutch colonial. luckily, geico recently helped the residents with homeowners insurance. they were able to get the roof repaired like new. they later sold the cow, because they had all become lactose intolerant. call geico and see how much you could save on homeowners insurance. if you re working in midtown and you feel more sensitive it s because i m playing live on the plaza. yes, of course. the sensitive grammy winner john mayer. he made it big in 2001. hit the top of the charts and has never looked back. he has a great sense of humor. fun guy. he ll rock the plaza friday on today. meanwhile, coming up in this half hour we ll try to be sensitive to saving a few bucks. everybody wants to do it and there are people in this world who save 20% to 60% of their income. they have secrets of how they sock away the paycheck every week. what can they teach us? we could all learn a thing or two from them. yep. and coming up, they look good but how much are the high heels hurting your feet? we ll tell you what you need to know. you don t have to totally trade in sexy shoes for sensible ones. they just look painful. they do. they actually are insane. depends on the heel. it s ridiculous. hopefully this segment will teach us how to compensate. do you know who looks great in heels and walks great in them is matt. also, not spending hours slaving over a hot stove. we ll get three great recipe pastas. it s easy to have them in the fridge for several dinners to come. let s check on the weather before that. let s show you what s happening for the week ahead. early in the week, hot weather throughout the southern two-thirds of the country. showers and thunderstorms across the northeast into the ohio river lley. midweek the heat continues. showers and thunderstorms in the southwest. also in the upper plains. the latter part of the week the heat continues in the east. also through the western plains into the pacific northwest. showers in the southwest. the unrelenting heat and humidity continues here. typical midsummer weather, though, for washington. and temperatures right now with the humidity are in the 70s to near 80. radar showing some showers with a little bit of thunder now coming out of the highlands of west virginia, about to enter the central shenandoah valley. another thundershower that s drifting just northeast of charlottesville. temperatures are near 80 around the region. now 82 in washington. highs into the low 90s today. partly sunny and a likelihood of passing afternoon thunderstorms. and that s your latest weather. thanks, al. coming up next, the secrets of super savers. why they have more in the bank than you do and what we can all learn from them after this. so it s a special place, for me. win i m so comfortable in my jeans. i love the progress. it makes me love myself that much more. i win. and you can too. 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[ female announcer ] maxwell house gives you a rich, full-flavored cup of coffee, so you can be good to the last drop. this morning on today s money, the secrets of the super savers. they put away 20% to 60% of their earnings. how do they do it? the answers may help us all save more and live better. we have money magazine s donna rizato. she interviewed dozens of supersavers and wrote about them. good to see you. you, too, annment. you basically compiled all the information and really it comes down to smart choices. that s right. a lot of people feel like the great recession changed people s money habits. we want to know if people are really saving more. we all know we should be but are people doing it? after interviewing dozens of people i found they are using smart strategies. they are not people living a deprived life. they are taking vacations, living a good life but are smart about saving money. you found similarities in what they were saying. among them, they set goals. that s right. sounds like a simple thing to do. set a goal and you are more likely to achieve it. the power of setting a goal is making it concrete. put a label on the goal and you are likely to achieve it. i interviewed financial researchers and they found if they put a child s name on the college tuition fund they doubled savings. put concrete labels on it and you will save more. don t have too many goals, but having several goals with specific names will help you reach them. wait before you buy. there must be a lot of waiting involved to set aside 60% of your income. delayed gratification is not the american way. we are spenders more than savers. i found a lot of our supersavers really were very they learned to curb impulse spending. one couple had a rule where they the husband and wife do not spend more than $30 without checking with each other first. that would stop things. that would slow things down. another simple thing anybody can do is use cash or a debit card than a credit card when buying something. when you pay immediately and you re not racking up interest costs. makes sense with a dress or outfit but what about everyday costs, the things you have to buy? i m not a fan of cutting auto the latte or not taking a vacation, but with the supersavers they were smart about how they spent money on everyday items. a lot of tools you can use. billshrink.com is one. if you have a cell phone or cable package it helps you figure out the best package for you. coupons.com. you can have coupons zapped directly to your store loyalty card. who wants to carry around coupons? you mention something that s hard to do and that s to live on just one salary. say you bring home money. choose one salary to live on and the other one, put it away. right. how can you do that? if you re lucky enough to live in a two-income household it s a good thing to practice for a while. most people i talked to who did it would bank one salary while they had the other one coming in to see if they could do it. most found they could easily do it. if you don t have two salaries, you could do some moonlighting and freelance on the side. one woman had a nice six-figure salary but liked to do writing and event planning. she would go to guru.com and find ways to earn money doing things she loved and she banked the savings. it s really about making part of your job saving money. you talk about keeping track of spending which makes sense. making saving automatic. this is about being purposeful about it. that s right. we re all human beings. it s not easy to save. but there are ways to make it simpler to do it. automate your savings. it overcomes our natural tendency to procrastinate. if you have money automatically taken out of the paycheck for your 401-k or bank account for savings you re more likely to save it because it won t hit your wallet. if you save it before it hits your wallet, you will never miss it. working on this article you started to save more money based on the tips? i thought i was a good saver but there is so much more i can do to save. one final tip that s terrific is just to pick one big ticket item in your life whether the house or car and live a little bit below your means. it samazing. if you take one or two big items that you can save a lot of money on you don t have to watch the small stuff as much. i learned a lot myself. donna s sharing the wealth with the rest of us. thank you very much. thank you. up next, the dos and don ts of high heels when it comes to style. wind myself up just to get out of bed. then.well, i have to keep winding myself up to deal with the sadness, the loss of interest, the trouble concentrating, the lack of energy. 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[ female announcer ] at safeway, that s our promise. that s ingredients for life. this morning in today s kitchen our hot chef is making pasta three different ways. the chef of scarpetta of new york and miami and faustino in new york. where is it? cooper square. i haven t been there yet. we re cooking in house beautiful s kitchen of the year. this thing is gorgeous on rockefeller center. got a skieylight. we can see the rain coming down. it s great. we re doing pasta three ways. we are starting with a simple pasta, especially this time of year. we have beautiful tomatoes that i have chopped up. the heirloom tomatoes are coming up now. they re fantastic. and we have buffalo mozzarella. this is simple. tear it up, a little bit of sea salt, extra virgin olive oil and a touch of salt. then i have this pasta cooking. very hot pasta. right. inside this cold salad, if you will, and just toss it together. that s it? that s it. that s the whole thing? that s one of them. so pour it right in that bowl. that s one down. one down. and then i have another pasta here which i sauteed onions and sausage. what s wrong with that? nothing wrong with that. i will add the penne i cooked. that s already cooked. could you precook it and keep it in the fridge? i don t often do that, but if i do, what i would do is cook it, lay it on a sheet tray just before it s cooked instead of rinsing it under water. that way all the starch is in there. so you can thicken it up. exactly. i have beautiful tomatoes. i have some beautiful spinach. we re just tossing that all together. i have another penne that i did as well which is that looks fantastic. over there with escarole, roasted mushrooms and toasted garlic. goat cheese as well. a bunch of good flavors. parsley. parsley. we re good to go. little crushed pepper? throw a little pepper in there. we ll grate some parmesan cheese over top of it. nothing wrong with that. there we go. this is a simple dish. they re all simple dishes. that s the thing. you know, simplicity for me is the ultimate elegance. you just push it together and boom. that s it. same thing. look at that. didn t take long. i m impressed. even i can do it. what s the big mistake people make when making pasta? a lot of times people overcook it. the cooking time is on the box. you can t mess it up. the other thing people do is they don t put all the flavor in it that they can. it s nice and simple. beautiful, straightforward, stuff. thank you very much, scott. we appreciate it. good luck. i will try to get down there. coming up on the next hour of today, we have the latest buzz on culture news and a makeover for your cruisewear. kathie lee is back, hoda is back. it s a big hour still ahead. don t go away. your local news and weather is coming up. 9:56 is your time now. 81 degrees. thick humidity out there in the nation s capital. tom will have your forecast after the news. i m eun yang. it is monday, july 19th, 2010. in the news today, parking in the district may be about to get a whole lot more confusing. the city is trying out new high-tech methods for paying for parking starting today. the new systems are in effect in parts of the district including friendship avenue and friendship heights. the pilot programs will be in place for about three months. tom s here with our forecast. no break from the heat anytime soon. it will be with us all week long, along with the humidity. and radar showing some showers now coming into culpepper county out of the west, arrange county, drifting off to the east. off to the west, another batch of showers coming out of the mountains into the central shenandoah valley. temperatures out ahead of that are climbing into the low 80s, 82 in washington. highs today, low 90s and the likelihood of passing afternoon thunderstorms that could dissipate by early this evening. with the new lane configuration, slow from army navy dry. that s the who s of it. and it looks like everyone s been cooperating with other commuters. very good news. 270, northbound and southbound, lanes are open. southbound germantown to the capital beltway, all cleared out for the morning commute. wake up with us extra early every day. news 4 today starts at 4:30 a.m. we hope you ll join us then for all your news, wea know the species, know the stain. lanolin-free coat, i know it s an alpaca. walks in here, looks says hey look, it s a llama! cleaning the stain like he would a llama stain. time he s wasting. call 1-800-steemer captions paid for by nbc-universal television from nbc news, this is today with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. it s monday and fun day around here. we re so delighted you re with us again. and delighted you re back from your week off. how was it? we had a great time. cass and i went out to california forl about five days, visitsed with dear friends out there, and also she had some meetings and her career is killing me. but it was fun. i love l.a. lots of good friends. i always go to angela s temple downtown. they re doing unbelievable work with people, the gang members, the prostitutes, the aids patients. it s incredibly stimulating and inspirational to go there. check it out. it s fun. the music must be crazy. it s unbelievable. speaking of that, came back, and it was wednesday. i look in the paper, and it s sting is at the metropolitan opera. i go he s with rob mathis, my guy. we get tickets and have dinner there s rob conducting with sting was here. he wasn t conducting that particular night, but he was he had like 100-piece or contest ra. he did all the music from the album from this cd that he produced for sting with sting of all his old hits but done for a symphony. i was so proud of him. he has this unbelievable thing. he seems to be ahead of all the curves, because he not only did this one, right? he s about to produce matthew morrison from glee this summer. the hottest ticket in the wormd. when wonderful things happen to wonderful people as opposed to all the people you and i talk about every day for a living, you know what i m saying. i hear you. you were going to go with me and didn t feel well night. i was. who is the sexiest person on the planet? sting. let s not bring up sting again. do you remember? oh, yes. we re not bringing that up again. but he is definitely first of all, the man takes su such unbelievable care of him. 80 is the new 60. mel not mel gibson. but sting is going to be 060, ad he s the new 30. he does all that yoga. that is hard to do. and tantric sex. what? is that true? i don t know. he hasn t told me, but that s what they say. i had a fun weekend well my little hanna in town. there is her and my mom when we were enjoying turkish food known as water. she loved it. we all hung out. one of the funnest things we did was we went to central park, and we throuew that s my brother and his wife. he s a tall one. we had a picnic, and all you need for a picnic is a red blanket and goldfish. the little cracker kind? the cracker kind. that s all. we stayed in the park for hours. she stood in the stand box sxan said, i could stay here forever. she s a great age. she s only asked me two things. put your arm out and a yellow car stops. that s fascinating. and my trash chute. it s the favorite thing. i don t care if there s one little piece of napkin, she s like, can we go to the trash chute. we spent most of our time going back and forth. what a life you have. i m with sting and you re with a trash chute. i love it. i wasn t with sting. that s wishful thinking. what happened when you were away? it gets uglier with mel gibson. i m so sick about it, because i like mel. i like him. i hate what we re learning. it seems like nobody there were a few people defending him, whoopi gold sberg defending him, but you haven t seen anybody come out given the tapes and what people hear it s indefensible. nobody wants to condone his behavior. i hope he gets help. when you think that he at one time was the sexiest man of alive in people and hollywood s fair-haired guy. he could absolutely no wrong. seems like he had a really solid love life, married life, and 7 kids. now he gave it all up for this woman, and they had a child. we don t know if it s lucia but a beautiful baby is in the middle of it. now there s this controversy about is this an authentic picture of her. you ve seen one tape, a second tape, a third tape sxa fourth. now a picture comes out from radaronline because it s a cross the front. her teeth she says he knocked out knocked a veneer off and cracked her tooth, and there is the other website, tmz, they re saying they re not sure if it s authentic. you don t know looking at that it looks terrible clearly, but you re not 100% sure until you hear the story. listening to the tapes that s the trouble. that s the trouble. his voice is saying those things. then it s a person who needs enormous help, enormous help. i always feel the worst for the kids involved, and i thought it was classy of his ex-wife to say what she said about him. that in all of her years he was a very fine father. i think she of all people is the only one we should believe. she would know. she might be trying to protect her children. who knows. the cast from jersey shore not. you ve never seen it? you love the situation? i do not love the situation. i do not love any of it. go ahead. there are many who do. the jersey shore has shot season two, and according to the kids at jersey shore they wanted to begin shooting season 3. educational background they said we re not shooting season 3 until we get paid. they re saying it s the season 2b. they want to shoot more footage. they ve made it a huge hit, but you still have to live up to your contract. they make 10 grand an episode. which with many people out of work today, they would be thrilled to have it. unfortunately, you have to act like that to get that kind of money. they make more for public appearances than the actual show i m sure. every time they show up it s a media frenzy. i don t want to be the i guess i do. it s more rewarding bad behavior. that s what we do now. that s what you got to do. that s why they want us for a little reality series. so we can be reward ford our blaifrd. we say no, doggone it. is that what we say? i thought we were taking the meeting. everyone has a writing style. we all have a style of how we interview, and while you were while i was gone, the lovely willie geist who sent me a nice thank you night, we ve discovered a trend, hoda. there s a trend with you. what? go to the videotape as they say. let s get it on oh yeah let s get it on yeah yeah yeah the lean knife and the touch. this will go on for a long time. yes. come on. that is ridiculous. i hate wearing the same dress. a green dress again. what do you say for yourself? i m tactile. i can t help it. you had a good time with your willie, so to speak? you re sick. favorite things. while you were out you keep claiming you don t like reality shows, you hear kathie lee say it. i don t know if this is true, because we may have videotaped proof that you not only like reality shows, sometimes you re also in attendance. you remember the jersey shore where all the chairs were flying real housewives is what i meant, real housewives of new jersey where stuff was flying. somebody apd to be in the audience. let s just watch. my favorite reaction came from this kathie lee gifford look-alike at party. watch. get away from me! i m getting my lawyer. i want to see it again. look at you. that could be me. is it? no, no, no. go to favorite things. i ve been a i always say i m the one na discovered spanx and then i cut them off and they made a gazillion dollars. a friend sent me something. i m no longer a spanx girl. they re called shape solutions hug mes wick away. i m not crazy about the packaging. i thought what is this? this is a lingerie bag to clean them in. let me show you go, hoda. first of all, they re so much more comfortable. they don t give you the little the little muffin thing, and they re just they re lighter. they are more comfortable and less expensive. really? how can we get these? i have no idea how to get them. destiny.net. they still dot net. i didn t know people did that. any go all the way up. they have different sizes and things like this. so those are for you. nau. what is your favorite? people ask about this ring i wear a lot, so i thought i would mention this. it s a breast cancer awareness thing that we made up and sell in the nbc bookstore. it says forward on it because during my time in my journal i could write the word forward at bottom of painful entries so you remember to look ahead. they sell these for $5, $2 goes to komen association. a lot goes to shipping and handles and making it. go to klgandhoda.com or if it s complicated to find there go to nbcuniversalstore.com. you can get it for five bucks. good for you. i ll wear it today. my favorite thing is you love kettle corn. this is the orville head barber. they re 100 calories. it s sweet and salty, and you can eat the whole bag. let s have jerry pop some up for us. thanks, jerry. we ll test it out. thank you, sar ra. up next, guess who is coming to dinner in a new comedy this month? 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[ female announcer ] at safeway, that s our promise. that s ingredients for life. we re back with today s buzz, and we re enjoying this popcorn. the whole thing is 100 calories and it s fantastic. and it s sugary. we have the latest on everybody. we have mel gibb stone and the whole deal. here to give us the 411 is our favorite andy cohen host of watch what happens. he has the lowdown on everything. i don t believe this popcorn is 100 calories. it s all sugary. talk about lindsay. she got robert shapiro from o.j. what i love is he s the first person from lindsay s camp who stepped up and said she has a problem. it s a disease. it s called addiction. she needs to get it treated. he knows what he s talking about. his own son died of an overdose. exactly. she s at a facility he started as a result of that, and she reports tomorrow for jail. i m hoping that we won t be hearing from her for a little while. and her father s reaction surprised me. he said he doesn t like the fact they re not going after an appeal of this sentence. doesn t he realize this is going to save her life? he s an idiot. can i say jackass on the today s show? no. we saw the pictures on tmz. there are report that is her dentist is saying that they were doctored, that the damage is not that bad. look, there are also allegations that she maybe tried to blackmail mel gibson for $10 million to keep the tapes a secret. they re not boy scouts or girl scouts, either one of nem, but we would like to know the truth. we sure would. it seems like every day a new tape comes out or a picture and nothing from him. we re hearing more from him this week. radar online has 30 minutes total of tapes and radar online crashed last friday as a result of all this madness. how is tmz taking this? they re usually at the forefront. they ve been dinked out of this a little bit. what about chelsea clinton. she s getting married. they say it s not where they say she s getting married. apparently 400 people were invited, and they were told it is within driving distance of new york city on july 31st. a lot of reports that it s actually at an estate in ryan beck, new york. oprah, barbara strees sand and the spielbergs got invitations. president obama can t attend apparently. and the idea is that you have to somehow have a personal connection to chelsea and mark. you know, he s jewish, she s not. so i m so curious as to what this ceremony is going to be, what the rabbi is going to do, what s happening? i know they have a very, very dear friends with a beautiful home there in the hamptons. i won t say a name, but it s lizzy. as you said, in driving distance from new york to lizzy s house. that could be. you see the popcorn is choking me. you need a drink. we have to talk for a second about kathie lee and real housewives thing. that jersey deal was crazy, wasn t it? tonight is the fallout from that at 10:00. this is kathie lee. that s a kathie lee look-alike. it s my old manicures. the french thing. you don t do a french manicure? the not for years now, darling. whether did you give it up? about two years ago. in this sex episode what happens? tonight danielle is dealing with double agent kim g. working both sides of the mans to and daniel, and daniel decides whether to file suit. let s talk about lawsuits. this is big. lawsuits, it s big. big business. danielle is live with me at 11:00 on watch what happens. . is she singing? no, but what about the song? her song s hot. it wasn t bad. she s not a bad singer. she s not. christina aguilera album she s so talented, and her new album only sold 200,000 copies. this is a huge disappointment to rca records. what works for kathie lee doesn t work for christina. you know, she was gone for four years, and during that she was having a kid and getting married. during that time lady gaga and rei rihanna have popped and it s anybody s guess what happened can happen these days. whitney houston last year, disappointinged record sales. a lot of people are having problems with tours. it was a surprise christina had to cancel. have fun tonight. snuggle up tonight. andy cohen s got the 411. watch what happens live tonight at 11:00. how to handle the moments that get you hot under the collar. you know. we re going to make some swordfish. i love this sing. here s that song. we re cooking up fish after this. mars is down.and. um, it s only 10am. who hasn t had their jimmy dean breakfast this morning? 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[ male announcer ] if you cannot afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. as the summer heatwave continues to burn up so many across the country, awkward situations may be melting the patience of some people. philip writes the associate cues column for the new york times and harriet cole etiquette expert and president of harriet cole media. i m sorry, miss president. hello. are you going to help us? i had one earlier this morning. i thought i would get a joke out of bruce greenwood, and i ended up insulting him. i didn t mean to. if you get a script that says, dinner for schmucks i would think what happened to my career. i thought it was funny. i definitely did not. here s a question from one of our viewers. it s happening again. a friend from college is getting married and we aren t bffs or anything but i m going to the wedding. a few weeks ago she asked if i would be her wedding coordinator on the day of the event. i agreed at the time because i didn t feel like a way to get out of it. i feel like free labor. am i overreacting? bridezilla is out of hand. here s the thing on this one. she said yes. she s stuck now. you kantd go back. here s the thing. next time someone asks you to donate a kidney or take care of their cat for a few months, say let me think about it and get back for you. i would say it s not too late to say no, but saying no is this. you need a professional to do this. a friend who does not do that could mess up your wedding, make sure you dot all the is and the ts. it is too late if the wedding is on saturday. it s not too late to say i think i m in over my head and don t think i can execute this for you. bring one in for a day. i guess. once you say yes you don t have to say no. just get help, too. question number two. my husband and i recently move sbud a two-bedroom apartment. one of my friends who is widely known as frug gal says she doesn t believe in air-conditioning, but when the heatwave hit, she asked if is she could sleep in our apartment which has ac and is much cooler than hers. i want to help her out, but shouldn t she find a more practical solution? the heat is bringing out the crazies. it s so, so hot that if it s an emergency. if there s an emergency out there and someone asks for help for a night, you might say yes. in this case i want to make sure that point goes across. but in this case i just bought one of these things. they re called portable air-conditioners. you put the hose out the window. it costs between $400 and $500 in savings and she can put it her own bedroom. i m here for you in an emergency, but come o-a heatwave is not an emergency. ft air-conditioning is out how about fans or large blocks of ice in the living room to keep it chilly. here s another one. last year i had a brief relationship with a male friend. it ended on partly rosy terms and now his identical twin has come to town and we re hanging out. i think we re move inning a romantic direction and we haven t discussed my relationship with his brother. do i have to tell him or do you think snenz. it s going to come back and bite you in the butt. first of all, if there s anything more than a momentary fling, really, identical twin brother? do you think he might find out? come on. this is an all my children scenario. you re crazy. you can t know wh other people are going to talk about, and you can t control their behavior. you can always be a straightforward dude, so you go, guess what? last summer i had a brief fling your brother. i wish i d met him first. it might freak him out, or he might go thanks for telling me. i m thinking something is wrong with that. that says something about the woman. why are you picking number one and number one a. she likes a certain type obviously. a little bit too exact, come on. there s family reunions, because she s like catnip. it s crazy. thank you both very, very much. coming up next we head to today s kitchen to a cool and healthy great summer meal after this. thank you! phew! 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a couple hours. it s like having margaritas you want that for the swordfish. that s an option, too. so you have salt, water and what? it s really simple. it s salt in here, sugar. we use brown sugar. light brown. light brown sugar. it adds more flavor. a little bit of black peppercorn just to dissolve. celery and onion. we pour it on top of the ice. that s part of the equation there. here is our swordfish already out of the brine. just battle of it on the grill. can you put it on the outdoor grill? outdoor is great. it goes with the season. olive oils. absolutely. a little cracked pepper. swordfish loves pepper. we have them cooking here. do the same on the other side when you turn it. absolutely. season it now and flip it on the other side. it cooks pretty quickly, right? it does cook quickly. that s the point of the brine. how do you like it in the middle? it should be cooked all the way through. swordfish should be cooked all the way through. that s the brine holding it in the moisture. was it mercury they were concerned about for a while. mercury is not a huge problem with swordfish at auchlt no one wants to eat 20 pounds of swordfish a week, so everything in moderation. for the most part four ounces of swordfish is not a big deal. how do you like to serve it? we re keeping it very light on a nice melon salad. it s a celebration of the season. it s very, very simple. with this we take and add a little bit of proscuttio. a little bit on the top and drizzle it there. what s down here in this area? right. i m just curious. this looks like your regular iced tea to me. not exactly. oh, thank you. it is fun day. it s a bit of the boston take on the long island tea. it has a beautiful flavor to it. cheers, cheers. it s the only reason i came back to work. back on vacation. oh, try that. good. good, good. should we try this? yes, absolutely. that s cooked all the way through. the edge is fine. not all the way through. we can t do it. don t be afraid. do not fear. here we go. give that to k.o. i m watching you. you have eyes on me. you like a sense of together like that. thank you, thank you. do you want a little bite? yes, of course. tiffany, thank you. terrific job. thank you very much. we ll be back with more of today. appreciate the easy days, are what keep me coming back for more. and the customer says, on the carpet. i m thinking, what? 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