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the inside scoop today, wearing? the inside scoop today, wednesday, july 28th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. i m meredith vieira. rescue crews are combing through the wreckage outside of islamabad but fear all 152 people on board that plane are dead. the airbus lost control with the control tower minutes before landing. it went down overnight in a mountainous region. bad weather is believed to be the cause. we ll have the latest in a live report coming up. also, all couples argue, but we are going to talk to someone who says there is a right way to fight and a wrong way. knowing the difference might save your marriage. my way is the right way. yours is the wrong way. there are no winners, no. and i guess you could call them the diva and the diplomat. aretha franklin is used to performing. last night she got some help from some might say an unexpected source, condoleezza rice. natalie is in at the news desk for ann who is on assignment. good morning. this morning a search for survivors after a jet liner crashed in pakistan. more than 150 people were aboard the flight from karachi. it went down outside islamabad. what can you tell us? reporter: good morning. heavy monsoon rain, thick cloud, a difficult approach. minutes before landing the pilot lost contact with the control tower. it isn t clear what happened next until the crash. the airbus slammed into a hillside minutes from the airport. an eyewitness said it was as if the plane lost balance and then went down about 9:30 a.m. local time in a remote area with no access by road. rescuers followed the smoke to the wreckage and dug with their bare hands, sometimes forced back by fire and smoke. 152 people were on board the flight from karachi to islamabad. all hospitals in the area are on emergency alert, but officials say there were no survivors. big tragedy. reporter: shock in the arrival hall. one side the weather was much too bad to fly in and the pilot s representative said the plane appeared to have strayed off course due to weather. the plane was an airbus 321, one of the world s most popular planes, belonging to private air as line airblue. the plane was introduced 22 years ago. the black box hasn t yet been recovered. there is no talk of terrorism or anything suspicious, just bad luck and terrible weather. thank you so much, martin. two wildfires spread quickly overnight in southern california and destroyed three dozen homes. at least 30 homes for lost. a second fire is burning. and a sad note to tell you about one of our recent guests on the today show. we learned jim coal pale passed this week. his agent said jim died in his sleep of natural causes. he was interviewed about his book after a grizzly attack. my mission is to educate people about bears so they understand the bears are not out there stalking us and they are peace-loving animals. they are the most fascinating, interesting animals i have ever known. jim, of course, will be missed by everyone touched by his spirit and love of nature and his beautiful photography. it is now 7:05. back to good morning. it is mostly cloudy now around the region. we are in the 70s. it has turned more humid. going to be a hot and humid day up to the low 90s. tomorrow, might get a morning shower. we have a greater chance of some afternoon storms. before that into the mid-90s. some storms tomorrow could produce some damaging wind and lower humidity moves in tomorrow night and into friday and saturday should be cooler with highs in the 80s. as we get into sunday, there s a chance of some scattered storms sunday afternoon. that s your latest weather. meredith? al, thank you. now to the news that dozens of names are included in documen documents leaked to an online whistleblower. jim miklaszewski has the latest. reporter: the white house is aggressively trying to control the political fallout while the pent dwagon is assessing any potential damage to security. they are in a desperate search for the leakers themselves. in his first public response to the wikileaks controversy, president obama worried it could put american troops at risk but said there is nothing in the leaks to change his afghan war strategy. the fact is these documents don t reveal any issues that haven t already informed our public debate on afghanistan. reporter: on capitol hill, marine corps general james madus couldn t contain his thoughts. it is appalling to release this information. the yeas, 308. reporter: the house finally passed a bill to pay for the bill after democrats in both houses stalled the votes for months. all of us, however, are concerned that after nearly nine years of war, more than 1,000 american casualties and billions of u.s. taxpayer dollars the taliban appear to be as strong as they have been. reporter: the pentagon has launched a full blown investigation to try to find the source of the leak. a senior pentagon official says a prime suspect is 22-year-old army private first class bradley manning. he s already suspected of leaking this gun camera video of a helicopter attack on civilians in baghdad to wikileaks. he s charged with downloading 150,000 secret cables. but pentagon officials tell nbc news that thousands of military d.o.d. civilians and even private contractors have the same kind of security clearance and access to secret files as manning. any one of them with a personal agenda or grudge could easily become wikileaks next source. over half the american people are now against the afghan war. the number is bound to grow as a result of this gusher of leaks. reporter: if manning knows anything about these latest leaks, military officials say he isn t talking. as for those reports this morning that those documents contain the names of dozens of afghan civilians who provided intelligence to the u.s. military, pentagon officials say this is the fear they have had all along. if the names are revealed those people could become targets for the taliban. meredith? thank you very much. julian assange is the founder of wikileaks. good morning to you. good morning. since releasing the leaked reports you said, our primary concern with people being potentially harmed had to do with afghan informants and that is why we held back some 15,000 reports for a detailed review. this morning the london times said they have found the names of dozens of afghans credited with providing detailed information to u.s. intelligence. what is your reaction to that? we re still reviewing that report by the times to see if it s credible. we spent quite a bit of effort on pulling out 15 threat reports that may have mentioned that for a detailed review. they will not be published until they are reviewed. this report by the times, i really can t comment on it too much. i have seen the allegation. we take these things seriously and we are reviewing it. is the 90,000-plus documents, only 2,000 have been reviewed by you in depth. how do you know what you put out there? well, the reports themselves have particular classifications which are placed on them by the u.s. military. now, it is possible that some of those classifications were misapplied internally. so that could be a cause of something slipping in there. it really is too early to say yet. we have seen these things in media reports that are not particularly credible. reading the times article it is hard to get a hook onto what they re talking about. but we have our people involved, looking at the documents. we ll come to a conclusion soon after that what is going on. but looking at the broader picture, there are 2,200 escalation of force reports in this material. the deaths of some 20,000 people documented, and, of course, every week another 100 or so people are killed in afghanistan and that number is increasing. we shouldn t let these rumors about whether there are additional names in there or not which may or may not be serious eclipses the bigger problem. you said there is a mood to end the war in afghanistan. you hope this information will shift political will. if in the process you have jeopardizes the lives of afghan informants, if somebody is executed because their name is out there, would you consider that your form of collateral damage? yes. that would be true in our case. if we had, in fact, made that mistake then of course that would be something we would take very seriously. this has to be sobering for you. your number one concern, you said, is to protect these people. you could have put dozens or maybe many more than that in harm s way. well, once again, we are checking to see whether this is, in fact, credible. it is probably unlikely. we have taken care to, in fact, hold back a 15,000 for review that it could have this type of material in it. if there are names there and they are at risk, this would be because of a misclassification by the u.s. military itself. would you consider never releasing the other 15,000 documents given what s going on now? we reserve the other 15,000 for a detailed review. we have designed a computer system especially for that review at a low level because we believe there was a small risk that some of them would have names within them. that review is progressing. all right. julian assange, thank you very much. thank you. it s 7:13. here s matt. thank you. with an economy on edge many states are facing difficult choice. new jersey s governor is facing waves for fixing his state s budget problems. good to have you here. good morning, matt. so much for flying under the radar. you have been in the seat for six months and you re making headlines. they are saying, the nation s most interesting governor, governor wrecking ball, a human bu bulldozer and my favorite, he may look like chris farley, but in terms of policy he s as sexy as christie brinkley. we re treating the people of new jersey as adults. we are in awful shape and we need to get it together. that includes taking on head on what are normally some sacred cows unions, teachers, cops. any regrets about the cuts? are you worried that a year or two from now the cuts may come back to haunt the people of new jersey? my regret is we didn t deal with it sooner. all the cuts are tough. in a perfect world i wouldn t want to do them. i m in a state where i have an $11 billion defendant on a $20 billion budget. you took on the teachers union. you said to teachers, you may have to take a pay freeze for a year, pay for your own health benefits. you got into a heated exchange at a town hall meeting. take a look. from my education and my experience. well, you know what, you don t have to do it. [ cheers and applause ] the simple fact of the matter is teachers do it because they love it. the simple fact is this teachers do it because they love it. well, that s good. that s why i do it. teachers go into it knowing what the pay scale is. it s basically, you knew the deal, take it or leave it. these are teachers and that s a tough group to take on. any fear of fallout? i don t think you can lead out of fear. the teachers union in new jersey demanded 4% and 5% increases in the 0% inflation world. they pay nothing to the teachers for family health benefits from the day they are hired to the day they die. the people being ravaged from the recession are being asked to shelter people from the recession. the politically correct approach doesn t work anymore. we have to talk about the problems and solve them. are you reacting to what has happened inside the republican party long known as the party of fiscal responsibility? it took on a slightly different reputation over the last dozen or so years. did the party lose sight of core responsibilities? i think it did. the reason i became a republican at 18 and voted for reagan in 1980 is he articulated the ideas of lower spending, smaller government, common sense regulation, lower taxes. i feel we have lost our way. we have to get back to those core things and that s what people in new jersey, at least, want to hear. president obama is coming to your state later on. i know you re going to greet him. he s here, in part, to push for legislation that would help small businesses. do you agree with the legislation? are you in favor of it? i m in favor of trying to lower taxes and lower regulation so they can create jobs. we need more private sector jobs and the economies are producing. based on what you have seen in the legislation, will you support that? you do agree on some of the things he s done for the economy. i agree on things like education, renewable energy and those things. i have been vocal in my support. i think he has to get back to the core principles as well. that s what he ll hear today. you made headlines for another reason. you re smiling already. you took on the jersey shore not the geographic location but the television show. you said that the show is negative for new jersey. i get the whole governor wrecking ball, but staki taking snooki and the situation? they re new yorkers. they parachute people from new york to the jersey shore and say that this is new jersey. it s not. if you want to come to the jersey shore, let s go. i will show you the real jersey shore. people say they are good for the economy in the towns along the jersey shore and they have increased tourism. you need money. we ll find other ways. we ll take the situation and snookie out back. now you re dumping them on me? there s only so much a man can take. governor, it s good to have you here. thanks, matt. good to be here. thank you very much. 19 minutes after the hour. here s meredith. matt, thank you. a new proposal is ruffling feathers in san francisco. a proposed ban on sale of most pets within city limits. natalie has details. cities like west hollywood, california, have had similar bans with dogs and cats but the new law would include all creatures great and small and the idea has the fur flying. reporter: it s a bow-wow brouhaha in the city by the bay. san francisco officials are considering a measure that would take the pets out of pet stores within city limits. if passed, store owners say the law would take a serious bite out of profits and consumer choice. how much is that doggy in the window there are lots of dogs and cats at rescues. there are more than enough. reporter: the idea to ban pet sales started with philip gary, who is also a backyard beekeeper on his own time. he says the original goal was to discourage so-called puppy mills, large factory-style breeding operations that he says raise dogs in cruel and unhealthy conditions and end up in pet stores. but animal lovers in this famously pet-centric town said, why stop with cats and dogs? what about hamsters, birds and chinchillas which also end up in shelters and are eventually euthanized. it s animal welfare. reporter: pet store owners like rick french say the city should keep its paws off. san francisco has a law that says you cannot walk an elephant down market street without a leash. if this passes i won t be able to buy a pet in a pet shop. reporter: french agrees puppy mills are a problem but says putting a leash on pet stores won t solve it. man has had pets for thousands of years. all the stores i know of in san francisco are very responsible. if they are not responsible that s where they should be focusing their efforts. reporter: in a city where dog owners refer to themselves as guardians, any proposal about animals will raise hackles. advocates on both sides are certain to continue fighting like cats and dogs. of course before it can become a law a final proposal has to get through the city s animal control and welfare commission and a vote by the board of supervisors. meredith? thank you very much. still to come, who is that under the floppy hat? chelsea clinton heading into the store of a well known designer. who will she be wearing? all the details, but first, this is today on nbc. still to come, police investigating the disappearance of 7-year-old kyron horman in oregon say they are making significant progress but why are they doubling the reward? fancy feast appetizers. simple high quality ingredients like wild alaskan salmon, white meat chicken, or seabass and shrimp in a delicate broth, prepared without by-products or fillers. fancy feast appetizers. celebrate the moment. as a juicy flame-grilled cheeseburger on a delicious bun. and when you get it all at walmart s guaranteed unbeatable prices it somehow tastes even better. save money. live better. walmart. it somehow tastes even better. have you tried honey bunches of oats yet? every spoonful is a little different. mmm. they got three kinds of flakes. this is delicious. it s the perfect combination of sweet and crispy. i love it. this is so good. this is great. the magic s in the mix. this is a news 4 newsbreak. good morning to you at 7:26 on this monday, the 28th day of july. i m joe krebs. crews continue to work around the clock to restore power to tens of thousand of people still in the dark after sunday s storms. more than 42,000 customers with no electricity this morning. the majority of those. 31,000, are in montgomery county. the company says it could be several more days before everyone s power is back on. they re hoping to have the majority restored by tomorrow. we ll take a break now and come back and look at our weather an good morning. here s your four-day forecast. temperatures now in the 70s. high today low 90s. it s going to be humid. a little sun breaking out. tomorrow, partly sunny, hot and humid. could get a snow shower the morning. a greater chance of showers and storms in the afternoon. how is the traffic? 395, delays begin just inside the beltway through the interchanges en route to the 14th street bridge. no accidents reported. prince georges county, pretty good. fender bender quickly moved to the corner. thanks very much. wake up with news 4 today every weekday. get all your news, weather and traffic starting at 4:30 a.m. traffic starting at 4:30 a.m. we hope you ll join us then. traffic starting at 4:30 a.m. we hope you ll join us then. not that long ago, many families were priced out of an overheated housing market. but the times have changed. get the facts at remax.com. it s a great place to see all the listings in thousands of cities and towns. with lots of houses to chose from and down-to-earth prices the dream of owning a home seems more attainable than ever. find out what an experienced re/max agent can do for you. nobody sells more real estate than re/max. visit remax.com today. 7:30 now on wednesday morning, the 28th of july, 2010. a large image of the crowd gathered outside our window on the world. coming up, the plaza will go country as carrie underwood will be here for a live concert. should be a lot of fun. meredith vieira alongside matt lauer. coming up a whooping cough epidemic. at least six infants have died in california. experts fear it could be the worse outbreak in 50 years. with the new school year approaching there is rising concern because many parents never had their kid vaccinated. what can you do to keep your family safe just ahead. also, her wedding is three days away and a hint for the designer she ll be wearing. and tomorrow on today ann has an exclusive interview with joe biden as he welcomes troops home from iraq. we re going to get his take on the war there and in afghanistan, especially in light of the leaked military documents. that s ann s exclusive interview with vice president joe biden tomorrow only on today. let s us begin with what investigators call significant progress in the search for 7-year-old kyron horman. miguel, good morning. reporter: matt, good morning. investigators have been tight-lipped in the nearly two months since kyron disappeared. tuesday, the press statement was limited and brief, but it did come with emotional words from kyron s mother. we are still very hopeful that with additional tips each day and their diligent actions that is what will lead them to kyron. reporter: an emotional desiree young, kyron s mother, joined investigators tuesday as they announced that the reward fund for the missing 7-year-old last seen at school in june, has been doubled to $50,000. we love you, kyron. never give up hope. we are all coming to get you to bring you home. reporter: meanwhile, kyron s family has stepped up their media campaign, pointing the finger at kyron s stepmother, terri horman, the last person to see kyron before he disappeared. kyron s mother believes terri was involved and that he s now being hidden. in an interview with people magazine kyron s parents say he s been stashed away and from what they know about terri, she planned the abduction and is executing a plan. young tells the newspaper that on the morning kyron disappeared she had an unusually brief e-mail exchange with terri indicating something was wrong. she was very short and to the point which is unusual for her. a one-sentence e-mail. she e-mailed me three, four times that day which is kind of strange. reporter: making a rare public statement, the sheriff s department offered little insight into their investigation and took no questions. detectives wouldn t discuss the grand jury investigation or details about recent searches at three homes belonging to friends of terri. we cannot comment on specific searches but we can tell you searches occur when necessary. we have resources in place to address any large or small scale search effort effort that may develop. reporter: investigators said tuesday they are making significant progress, but they have yet to name any suspects. in fact, police say they haven t spoken to terri horman since she hired her attorney weeks ago. he labels the speculation around terri a witch hunt. we believe kyron s disappearance involves criminal behavior because his parents have been deprived of their son for 53 days. reporter: bruce mccain worked in the sheriff s department for years. he says it s what investigators didn t say tuesday that worries him. when kyron was mentioned about finding him or bringing him, for the first time ever, there was no mention of him beag live. i think that s significant. reporter: this morning kyron s family say they believe the investigation remains on track. they are confident they will see their little boy again. investigators say they will give the case as much resources as they possibly can. matt? miguel, thank you very much. clint van zandt is a former fbi profiler. good morning. hi, matt. let me start with the gentleman who used to work for the sheriff s department saying that it s significant that no one who is part of the investigation refers to the fact that he is alive. does that strike you? it does. i think it gets harder and harder to hold out hope. the one hope has to be that if, as the media and the family suggests terri horman has anything to do with the disappearance, she would have to have someone out there working with her who is loyal to her and who law enforcement has not been able to identify in eight weeks. if we take terri out of the equation, that means some unknown predator has the boy and there is nothing to show that to this point. on the one hand the investigators come before the public and say, look, we are making significant progress. on the other hand they have doubled the reward money that would suggest they are going to the public saying, we need your help, we need leads. is that a contradiction? no. i think both is going on. number one, i think the reward was doubled because some private citizen wrote a check and said, i m here to help, so i will double the reward. law enforcement is not going to turn that down. when we see the sheriff s offices and fbi researched the area around the school, they are redoing all of their leads again. that suggests that they are somewhat challenged. they have had over 3,000 leads, but so far nothing has led to the recovery of the 7-year-old boy. the idea that terri horman had some premeditated plan which was put forward by kyron s biological parents, some kidnap plot, you have to ask yourself for what purpose money, revenge? what? it seems like if this is true it may have been for revenge. some suggested through the media that her husband, kyron s biological father, may have been having some type of affair that caused her seven months ago to allegedly hire a hit man. when that fell through we have to say if this is true and if she was willing to punish him to kill him, would she look for another way to hurt him which could be through his son? we have to say with no concrete evidence against her we can t assume the worst. correct? yeah. the only thing worse than losing a child is being accused of having something to do with it. even though terri horman has been convicted in the court of public opinion, we have not seen a shred of evidenct s led to arrest or good morning. we ve had the humidity return overnight on this wednesday morning. now in the 70s from the blue ridge to the beaches. right now 77 in washington. highs today with some sun coming back should make it into the low 90s. it s going to be a steamy day. overnight tonight remaining humid in the 80s through the evening. low to mid-70s tomorrow morning. during the day thursday, hot and humid. a slight chance of a morning shower but a likelihood of afternoon storms, some of which could produce damage winds to be followed by lower humidity and and the allen family reunion. all right. what a group. i like you, young man. you remind me of yourself, except you re much better looking. let s go to matt. thank you very much. up next, which designer was chelsea clinton going to visit when she was spotted in new york on tuesday? 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[ ernie ] we make our cookies the way only keebler elves can: with a little something extra. so every bite can be uncommonly good. back now with the comeback of whooping cough. the worst outbreak in 50 years. nearly 1500 confirmed cases and at least six infants have die. dr. nancy snyderman joins us. hey, meredith. i think we are seeing a tipping point in unvaccinated children. the hot pockets are in families where, frankly, parents have decided not to vaccinate their children. in morin county near san francisco there are more cases than anywhere else. six infants have lost their lives who, frankly, should not have died. you say the vaccines have become victims of their own success. what do you mean? you and i remember what it was like in the 50s and 60s when we were lined up for the polio vaccine. the idea was if you get a vaccination you will not get ill and will not die. we had mass inoculations. people forget what it was like to see people with these communicable diseases. i worry if we undervaccinate children and you see whooping cough coming back, this is the canary in the coal mines. last year we saw children dying of measles. these infectious and deadly diseases shouldn t even be talked about. the whooping cough season is just beginning. it is. august and september we may see more. how do people protect themselves at this point? i have been an unabashed advocate for vaccinations. they are safe. they work. a lot of people are opting out saying, it s against my religion. for most people that s not true. make sure your children are vaccinated. the whooping cough vaccine is given at 2, 4, 6 months. if you are an adult and around a child under the age of 1, get vaccinated. if you are a woman of child-bearing years, get vaccinated. pull out the card your pediatrician gives you. there is a vaccination schedule you can get. these vaccines are meant to protect your children and you. if you think you can opt out, remember that when you go to the grocery store and walk by someone with cancer, m.s. or any other compromised immune system you put that person in harm s way, too. there is a time when the community as a whole s needs are more important than the individual s. right now individuals are trumping the general populous and i find it offensive and amoral. what do you see for symptoms? starts as a crummy cold but then you get this whooping cough. it may start as stuffy knownose sniffles. one to two weeks later children are fighting to breathe. when they die they suffocate themselves because they struggle for breath. i have seen several cases as a young pediatrician. it is a horrendous disease. any time we talk about something that can be prevented we have to go back to basics. this is a time. make sure your children are safe. is it likely this will spread to other states? i have no doubt that it s going to. it peaked in california. last year in minnesota and in philadelphia we know children died of measles. this winter as whooping cough upticks, measles continues to be undervaccinated. we ll see pockets of communicable infections that a few decades ago we thought, frankly, we had eradicated from the united states. these illnesses should not be seen in the united states with the vaccinations we have at hand. thank you very much. you bet, meredith. up next, days before her wedding, chelsea clinton dons a floppy hat to sneak into a famous designer s showroom. for those of us who have lactose intolerance, let s raise a glass to cookies just out of the oven. to the morning bowl of cereal. and to lactaid® milk. easy to digest and with all the calcium and vitamin d of regular milk. 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it is jammed with a traffic jam at tech road. those of you headed toward white oak ford four corners. fire and rescue crews are on the scene. 29 southbound is jammed. let s head over and see how we re doing. the beltway crawling. springfield toward i-66. right now here, all lanes are open. thanks very much. ahead on news 4 midday, books, supplies and clothes. we ll tell you how to get your children mentally prepared for back to school. that we re back at 8:00 now on a wednesday morning. it s the 28th day of july, 2010. kind of a nice morning here, although it s heating up a little bit. you re looking at a beautiful view from 70 floors above us. that is top of the rock here at rockefeller center, looking out over the river. i think in the background there you can even see lady liberty. now you re looking at ground level, lenny and his friends on the plaza. i m matt lauer along with meredith vieira and al roker. coming up, we ll talk about something that affects all three of us. what? more people in the workforce are getting older and that means they have a boss who is younger than them. i do. that can be fine, but it can present problems especially if the younger boss has a different way to communicate, more tech savvy. coming up, how to make the relationship work for you as opposed to working against you. okay. plus, all couples fight, right? you have seen the two of them. it s not what you fight about that matters. it s how you fight. coming up, advice on the right way to argue with your spouse or significant other. it s when the fight starts about one thing and goes to something that happened a month and a half ago. you reach into the vault and pull out a golden oldie. you do? no, other people. and is dr. condoleezza rice, the former secretary of state embarking on a new career? we caught her tickling the ivories accompanying the queen of soul. we have the story coming up. lots to get to. let s go inside. ann is on assignment. she ll have an exclusive interview with joe biden tomorrow. natalie has the headlines. hi. good morning, everyone. officials in pakistan say no one survived an airliner crash in the hills surrounding pakistan s capital. the plane was flying from karachi to islamabad when it crashed and burned in a rainstorm. 152 passengers were on the plane. two americans are reportedly among the victims. firefighters are slowly getting a grip on a wildfire near the mojave desert, but the fire threatens 150 homes. governor schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency. todnbc s anne thompson is i venice, louisiana. good morning, anne. reporter: good morning. on the 100th day of the catastrophe, families who made their livings off the waters are still out of work. the oil is still washes ashore and the cleanup is still slow, hot and tedious work. there is fresh oil on the sandbar west of south pass near the mouth of the mississippi river, a new onslaught stirred up by the winds of one-time tropical storm bonnie. it s more of a liquid form. before it was more solid tar balls and now it s like a patty. reporter: the oil is elusive, playing hide and seek in the gulf currents and it is breaking up, making it harder to spot from the air and more time consumer to clean on the sand. though no new oil has spewed from the troubled well for some 12 days, mike frenett says there is plenty still in the gulf. it just doesn t disappear. it s down below. the currents are working it. depending on the wave action it will pop up. i don t know how long it will do that, but it s going to be quite some time. reporter: the economic pain of the spill is evident in a long line of families waiting for free boxes of food and personal care items from feed the children. no matter what they do, it will never get back to what it was before. that life there it s completely gone. reporter: meanwhile, work continues out at the source of the spill and bp says it hopes to intercept that troubled well in two weeks. natalie? thank you, anne. amazingly there were no serious injuries after this spectacular crash during a weekend truck race in brazil. rescue crews had to remove one driver from his rig, but the other driver was able to walk away just fine. as you can see there. it is 8:04. let s go back to meredith and matt. hey, guys. just taking one last picture. sorry. good morning here. we ve got the humidity back. the temperatures are in the 70s. we ll reach the upper 80s and low 90s a few locations this afternoon as the sun breaks back out. and it will stay humid today and tonight and into thursday. tomorrow morning a small chance of a shower but a greater chance during the afternoon of perhaps some passing thunderstorms as a front sweeps through. unfortunately, we could get some strong storms tomorrow with damaging winds. then on friday, lower humidity and cooler weather moving in. that will be in place on saturday. i think i m seeing double. where are you from? up state new york. what are your names? rebecca. whitney. do you ever get yourselves confused? no. matt? coming up, answers to the questions that often times you re too embarrassed to ask your doctor. also ahead, a right way and a wrong way. what s the best way to argue with your significant other? we ll talk about that after these messages. have you tried honey bunches of oats with real strawberries? wow. it s seriously strawberry. they re everywhere. it s in the bunches, on the flakes, even real strawberries in the mix. can i have some more? honey bunches of oats with real strawberries. it s delicious. nobody does it quite like us. finally, frizz is finished. avon invents advance techniques lotus shield treatment. just a little instantly smoothes. hair is in control for 3 days. call 800-for-avon to find a representative. for constipation relief. nothing works better than miralax. it s the one. the one recommended by more doctors. only miralax is clinically proven to relieve constipation with no harsh side effects. miralax is the only one. restore your body s natural rhythm with miralax. swipe your card please. excuse me.? 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whoever s got the floor is the one speaking. if you don t have the floor, you re the listener. that s your job. reporter: scott stanley is the co-author of a new study from the center for marital and family studies and the book fighting for your marriage . it s not rocket science. it s just showing the speaker that you are tuned into them right now. reporter: and reverse the roles so both partners have their moment to be heard. findings from stanley s research confirm that couples who handle conflict poorly are set up for marital failure and the ability to maintain positive communication from the earliest years in marriage plays a big part in who remains happy and who ends up in divorce court. nobody s walking down the aisle thinking, i hope this person handles conflict well with me. i hope we can fight just right. that s not what people are looking for. people want lasting love. reporter: is the idea to not get angry with your spouse? differences of opinion, desires, that s inevitable. you can handle it either well, with respect, listening, concern, or you can handle it poorly and that tells an important part of the story of your marriage. you don t always have to win. you don t have to always be right. it s been a healthy part of who we have become together so next time you feel a fight coming on, try to give the speaker-listener technique a try. it may be the best thing that s ever happened to your marriage. thank you very much. here with pointers on fighting the good fight we have dr. gail saltz and the author of the book decoding love. this confirms that if you don t fight right it could cost you your marriage. why aren t people listening? it s hard to change behavior. anger is a powerful emotion. when it comes to a powerful emotion it s harder to change behavior. i see it in therapy about all kinds of things but particularly when you re talking about having a fight. you feel righteous. you want what you want. it s hard to calm down and think of the steps to do this. you spent a lot of time studying research and talking to experts. let s talk about the dos and don ts of arguing. first, do be specific. don t resort to low blows. explain that. relationships depend on a deep reservoir of affection. every time you make hurtful comments it drain that is a little bit. over time once you wear that away it undermines a relationship. being specific gives people something to respond to. healthier than saying, you re a slob, you re sole lay somedazy. if you say, i need you to pick up more around the house, that s something to work with. don t say you, say i instead. if i say i feel this about the way it s going on, you will be les did i have. arg less defensive. it s all about communication that drives the direction of the relationship. how good you are going to feel about each other, how intimate you are going to be able to be versus the distance that occurs. let s talk about the speaker-listener technique. you re going to demonstrate it for us. take us through it. so, the important thing is you want to sit at the same level with the person, looking in their eyes as opposed to, you know, being distant with distant body language. if you can hold hands, we ll try to do that. you will feel more loving. i m going to say, you know, i notice that i keep turning the thermostat up and you keep turning it down. that s uncomfortable for me because i end up feeling like i m freezing all the time. i hear you. you re saying it s hard to have the house at a temperature that i put it at and you would be more comfortable with it warmer. i appreciate that you heard what i was saying this is so not what happens in real life. it s so funny. first of all, i wouldn t touch him. because you re angry. and i m freezing and he s keeping the house cold. this is part of the problem. they found this actually can be effective, but when they train couples in it, it s so unnatural that almost all couples resume the old forms of fighting after a couple of months. if you practice this when not in the middle of a fight would that help? this is a model. this is a goal. but you re going to have to practice. go home today and pick something that s not really going on. it s a mock fight. you re going to say, let s pretend it s about the temperature. let s look eye to eye, touch, rehearse so that when we are really mad we already have this in place. let s make up a cheat sheet. what does that mean? we re going to remember what to do. maybe in the heat of the moment we can say, i m so mad. get the cheat sheet. we re going to be eye to eye. at first it feels stilted and weird, but at the end you will feel like you had a communication as opposed to i really want to strangle you. at the end, let s hug. you may not be able to because you may still be angry, but if you can touch in any way. if you can t touch because you re just like you have had it, you can say, i love you. remember, i love you. we don t agree. let s reengage tomorrow, but say something positive. all right. or swat each other and get all right, gail, andrew. thank you very much. up next, how to make working for a much younger boss work for both of you right after this. 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. and this one i m taking to the house. the ice cream man is here! breyers all natural grasshopper pie. walmart s the only place you can get it. they love it when i take my work home with me. 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we are going to work until we drop. when i get a younger boss, inside i m a little bit embarrassed. what does this mean about me? number two, i m skeptical because you look 12 and i can t believe you re going to run this the department. number three, maybe i m resentful. you passed me by. why am i not the boss of you? those feelings get in the way. isn t it true that older workers assume younger bosses and workers assume they are slower on the uptake, they aren t savvy with technology. those may bester ro ty stereoty niece the older worker s mind. a lot of times the younger person thinks, oh, this older person will be a load. we think younger managers often times view older workers like managing my boss and they have those negative perceptions about whether or not they are technologically savvy. it may be insecurity on both parties. do you want to manage your mother? basically that s what comes up. let me read you comments. we asked viewers, in this situation, e-mail situations. karen in missouri says i m older than my supervisor s mother. it s just so extremely difficult to sit through the yearly reviews of my performance and listen to the things i could be doing to build my career. i can t tell her that i have already built it. now i m just trying to hang on until i retire. now if i can t keep up with the latest software programs and work massive amounts of overtime at the drop of a hat, i m not keeping up, i m not valuable. this is a very common perception. it s a common perception but she can make this work for her. number one, you re a politician in a performance review. if the boss asks a formulaic question, let s talk about your career, i turn that into, let me talk about how i have been a value to the company this year. let me show you what i have accomplished and then let s talk about what software you feel i need to learn. you know, older people need to be walked through software. younger people dive in and experiment. help your boss understand the best way for you to learn it. this is a situation. they have to learn to work together. this kind of attitude and perps is not going to cut it. absolutely. you have to establish what are the ground rules to start out with? what are the goals i m trying to achieve for the year? if part of that requires some training, that s a conversation that should be happening. you shouldn t close your mind off. you should be open to the possibility. here s one. he s cocky and not respectful of older employees with more years of experience in the company. he dares to advise on behavior and thinking as if we had never done what he s in charge of, as if we had no experience at all. the older employees are very frustrated, do not respect him either because he s not humble or willing to learn. i think that s difficult as well. in terms of the mindset of an older individual who s coming in, who s looking at all the experience that they bring. i think it is important for both sides to understand what they bring to the table in terms of generational differences, but also skills and abilities in the workplace. i said a second ago, judith, perhaps the younger employee being cocky, in this person s eyes, is experiencing insecurities of his own thinking i don t have as much experience as these older people. i have to be more assertive and aggressive. maybe it s coming across wrong. in a younger boss that is not a very experienced manager, it s a problem for anybody. here s what an older person can say. i m here. i like my job. if there is a good idea coming my way i m going to take it from whoever offers it. thank you very much. appreciate it. we re back after these messages from your local news. taking a live look outside. two big changes today. it s overcast and more humid. good morning. it s 8:26. i m kimberly suiters. in the news for today, it s unclear when steven strasbourg will pitch again. he was scratched from his start last night with shoulder tightness. the team says doctors performed tests and found no damage to his shoulder, just some inflammation. the crowd of 40,000 was not pleased with the announcement. those who stayed still got to watch the nats win the game, 3-0. your weather and traffic are coming up next. stay with us. almost 8:30. clouds still cover the metro area. sun breaking out elsewhere. a little sun breaking out throughout the region. how sthe traffic, jerry? following breaking news. downtown along the mall. a serious crash happened minutes ago. live pictures, 17 d and constitution. police on the scene. fire department has yet to arrive. constitution jammed back to 23rd. still deal with the overturned car southbound route 29 as you make the trip out of white oak headed down to tech road. extra travel time definitely needed there. ahead on news 4 midday you, buy the books, the supplies, the clothes. how to get your c 8:30 on wednesday morning, july 28, 2010. rockefeller plaza packed on a bright, beautiful morning in the northeast. we are hoping for more of the same on friday when country music s golden girl carrie underwood makes our summer concert stage her temporary home. speaking of music and all things wonderful, al caught up with an unlikely duo. kind of an odd couple of music. dr. condoleezza rice, the former secretary of state, accompanying the queen of soul, aretha franklin last night in philadelphia for a one-night only, rare concert. wow. we ll show you how that turned out. was that for charity? raising money for music for good morning. it has turned more humid overnight. low cloud over the metro area. elsewhere, sunshine breaking out west of washington. and we will have that sun break out elsewhere as well as the day progresses. right now 78 in washington. highs into the low 90s this afternoon. it s going to be a steamy, hot afternoon. and then tomorrow, hot and humid again. might have a morning shower, but a likelihood of afternoon and early evening thunderstorms. some of which could produce damaging winds. after that, lower humidity and cooler. don t forget you can check your weather any time of the day on weather.com or how about willard.com? no, let s go to willard now. hello, uncle willy. lots of frosting on the cake. happy birthday from smuckers, how sweet it is. ruth butsch in peoria, illinois. lives independently and had breast cancer at 26. she survived to 100. god bless and happy birthday. henry leininger of olivet, missouri. his secret to longevity is never marrying and has smoked a pipe since 20. never stopped. raisa ell, 100 years old, from pasadena, california. worked at a veterans hospital for years. loves rocky road ice cream. who doesn t? and margaret delawter from catonesville, maryland. 100 years old, served as a nurse during many wars and adopted a daughter in her 60s. how about that? joe guggino of tampa, florida. 100 years old. nicknamed old joe and play it is clarinet for a community program. finally, sweet lillian payne, from greenville, south carolina. 101, retired teacher and attends beautiful basketball games. that s all. now back to new york. all right, willard. thank you very much. when we come back, some answers to your most embarrassing medical questions. we ll get to those. this morning on today s health, answers to all the questions you re too embarrassed to ask your doctor. today we tackle common health taboos from the new book what the yuck. good morning. good morning. funny title, but the book is serious. you re trying to demystify topics people are embarrassed to talk about. we all have questions about our bodies that we re shy to talk about. we may not feel comfortable talking to fleriends so where d we get the information? sometimes we go to the internet which is rampant with misinformation. i thought we d put it in a book to read in the privacy of your home and hopefully talk to your doctor. no question should be off limits to your doctor. correct. let s look at questions. first is from chapter three, the girls, it s all about breasts. i have one breast that s way bigger than the other. is that weird? if you look at humans, we have a lot of asymmetries. often one eye is bigger than the other. same the true for the breasts. they may point in different directions. if you have had it your whole life it s nothing to worry about. if it s something that suddenly appears? that is cause for concern. if all of the sudden one breast is bigger, more firm or the skin is thicker, more coarse, speak to your doctor. could be something serious. a lot of people have questioned about sex. you have a whole chapter on it. we had to modify this question, but the gist is why do i get a headache after sex? the headache i thought it was before. that s the excuse, but the headache after sex is real for some people. they get what s called an exercise-induced headache when they do any strenuous activity and hopefully sex is a little bit strenuous. the other thing that s going on is you tend to tense the muscles in your neck, scalp when having sex. that can bring on a tension headache. is there a way to avoid this? if it s happening often you can take an ibuprofen, but discuss it. it could be a sign of heart problems. okay. another topic people are hesitant to talk about with doctors is drinking. sure. people don t want to discuss it. but people wonder, why do i get drunk faster on champagne than other drinks? it has the same alcohol content champagne compared to a shot of liquor or a glass of wine. the gas, the republicans caububo be introduced into the bloodstream quicker. they ferment champagne twice which causes more chemicals that cause hangovers. you will get drunk more quickly, have a worse hangover. you have a whole chapter on pregnancy because a lot happens in that period and afterwards. this question, a common one, why do your feet grow after having a baby? this is a lovely thing people don t tell you. you deliver the baby and none of your shoes fit. what happens is when you re pregnant your body produces relaxin that relaxes the joints and ligaments in the pelvis. it also affects the joints of the foot. so your foot will expand a little bit. because you re carrying extra weight, your arches fall increasing foot size. i m 7.5 feet when i started and now size 10. is that normal? they don t go back. on average women grow half a size to a full size with each pregnancy. you have a chapter in the book about men. common question, is it true laptops can make a guy infertile? a lot of people wonder about this. it s true that increasing the temperature in that area can kill sperm. if you re trying to have a baby, avoid anything that increases heat. whether it s wearing boxers, avoiding hot tubs and laptops it can be hot with a laptop on your lap and you re squeezing your legs together. so put it on the table. or put a book between you and the laptop. yeah. finally, diet. everybody has questions. this one says, is it true i will live longer if i eat every other day? there are crazy diets. a few studies in rats or worms shows this may increase life span. it has been shown in one study in humans which was not the greatest study. the bottom line is it s not sustainable to do this and the benefits respect proven. i would advise against it. and days without eating you get dehydrated. not a great way to live. the book is what the yuck. up next, mark bittman with no-cook meals to beat the summer heat. imagine if it were this easy to spot the good guys. you know, the guys who always do a super job. well, it is. just go to the verizon® yellow pages. and look for a business with the superguarantee® shield. you ll get the job done right, or we ll step in and help to make it right. so, protect yourself with the superguarantee® from supermedia. on its way the new verizon® yellow pages with larger, easier to read print. we re back at 8:44. this morning on how to cook everything today, no-cook summer dishes. stove-free, heat-free meals perfect for the dog days of summer. mark bittman is author of how to cook everything. welcome. hi, matt. we had martha stewart on yesterday doing no-bake desserts. you re flipping things to talk no-cook meals. why do you like them? well, for the simple reason i can t think of how many nights i have been in the kitchen where i thought, what can i do without cooking? i remember my mother pulling leftovers out of the refrigerator saying we re having tuna fish or whatever. this is an upgrade. these recipes are less time consumi consuming. they re fast and cool. they are cool dishes that won t heat up the kitchen, won t heat up your body. first up, crab-stuffed avocado halves. you used pre-cooked crab? when you buy fresh crab in the store it s cooked whether t it s lump or claw. half an avocado, lime juice you re putting in cilantro as well? yes. why do you like that with the lime? this is a little bit asian, this dish. these all have citrus which is summery, cool, chilly. you could do this obviously with vinegar, parsley and french seasonings instead. some people would let the herbs soak in. how long do you prepare it? i do it and eat it. i want the herbs fresh. a little bit of salt, pepper. there s nothing to this. the simplest way is to serve it on a bed of lettuce, but you like the avocado? we ll get to the lettuce. don t jump the gun. sorry. et tu? jumping on me. that s a five-minute dish. yeah. or less. even less. now we have melon soup with prosciutto. what kind of melon? you could use mango if you want, too. cantaloupe. that purees beautifully. can you use one that s under or overripe? i would rather have overripe. underripe changes the flavor? it won t be sweet and you may have trouble pureeing it. you could use apple juice, white wine, a mixture, water for that matter. the flavor s in the melon. but apple juice is nice. i have a feeling meredith will opt for the white wine version. there we go. you get the idea. i don t like this blender. makes me kcrazy. first you attack me and now the blender. step in the right direction. now i m being mean to inanimate objects. here we have a little bit of ham. salty against the sweet? yeah. shrimp would be nice. grated lime zest and i forgot to put in the blender more lime juice. so that would go in with the cantaloupe. you forgot an ingredient in your own recipe? it s not too late. you would chill this? yeah. real quickly, we have 30 seconds left. shrimp in lettuce. right. take the hard stem out. buy precooked shrimp. mango. did you buy precooked rice or cheat and cook something? this is leftover rice from the chinese restaurant. and bean sprouts. you have lemon juice here. did you forget that as well? that s my dipping sauce. you just roll it up. a little lemon, soy sauce or maybe fish sauce if you feel exotic. perfect for a hot day. quick and easy, no cooking. we ll get you a new blender. up next, what some would consider an unlikely musical pair. i will catch us up with aretha franklin and dr. condoleezza rice. al, you have met a lot of wonderful, fascinating people and just recently got the chance to meet two at once. absolutely. there are a lot of duos in musical history, simon and garfunkel and now, franklin and rice? not as strange as you think. reporter: we all know aretha franklin as a solo. but now she s got a new partner who may not have ridden on the freeway of love but did ride on airforce 1. condoleezza rice plays piano with a symphony? excuse me? come on. you re kidding. reporter: she doesn t just play chopsticks. former secretary of state condoleezza rice is a trained classical pianist who s even played for the queen of england. and for one special night, dr. rice accompanied the queen of soul. we met at a white house dinner several years ago. she said, you play the piano, i know that. she said, we should do something together. my first thought was, yeah, right, we ll just jam, aretha, sure. reporter: ms. franklin, a staunch democrat who performed at president obama s inauguration and condoleezza rice agreed to put politics aside. of thee i sing reporter: they say politics makes strange bedfellows, but music brings them together obviously. well, it s purely from the artistic point of view to raise money. reporter: the special concert at the mann center in philadelphia is raising money for arts education programs for inner city kids. well, in music, there isn t any such thing as politics, right? it s a universal language. this is just about the kids. we are denying generations of kids the wonderful music education that i had. reporter: what does it mean for our youth in this country? i find it appalling when people call music, art, dance extracurricular. i believe it is an essential part of a curriculum in developing a well-rounded human being. reporter: rice studied to be a concert pianist until her sophomore year in college when something struck a chord with her. i realized there were people who were a whole lot better than i was. i decided i was probably going to end up teaching 13-year-olds to murder beethoven or playing at a piano bar. so i decided to find another path. reporter: what s more nerve-wracking, standing in front of the u.n. or being in front of a piano with aretha franklin next to you and a full house packed, waiting to hear you? thanks for putting it like that. i ll think about it the rest of the day now. reporter: that s what we re here for. just trying to help. reporter: for aretha, it s a wonder she s had time to practice with her budding comedy career. can i put the a.c. up? i m dying. it s on. can t you feel it? can you feel that? we had a good day. i didn t particularly like giving him the slap, you know. but he said, oh, it s all right. he said, i m a professional. i said, okay. i just want to be sure that you are a professional before i do that. reporter: the only slaps heard tuesday night were the clapping of hands. good night. i love you. thank you so much. there have been great duos in the past. s sonny and cher. o h, al roker. and you said you didn t slap people. she s publishing her memoir, extraordinary, ordinary people. you asked for that with aretha. the interesting thing i asked her is would she consider doing it again. she said, for the kids because they love the idea of raising money for the kids for inner city schools and programs. they d consider it again. interesting. it s always the first thing that goes when they make cuts in school programs. music, art. and they are great together. they re a great team. you could join them as a singer. or i could be the one who pushes out the piano. that would be perfect. glass of water, ms. franklin? just ahead, we re going from that nice story back to the ick factor and the best way to deal with bed bugs. they re everywhe this is a news 4 news break. a little overcast. a lot humid today. good morning, everyone. it s 8:56. i m kimberly suiters. we re following breaking news on 17th and constitution avenue. by the national mall. a traffic accident is causing major backups. let s check in with jerry edwards for the very latest. a serious crash really jamming things up downtown. 17th street right at the intersection of constitution avenue. northwest. right along the mall. police have closed down 17th street as well as constitution avenue. constitution avenue eastbound is backed up right at 23rd. westbound a mess as well. so avoid that area if you can. drop down and independence avenue should work as an alternate. things are improving in an accident involving a motorcycle. massachusetts avenue and little falls parkway right down the road, police are putting the wraps on that. your weather is coming up next. stay with us. at midmorning, mostly cloudy over the metro area. a little sun breaking out elsewhere. should break out throughout the entire region as we get into the afternoon with highs climbing to 90. humid and hot again tomorrow. perhaps some afternoon strong storms. kimberly? ahead on news 4 midday. you buy the books, the supplies, the clothes. today, we ll tell you how to we are back now with more of today on a wednesday morning. it s the 28th day of july 2010. it s a pretty morning although according to al it s going to get more humid as the day goes on and we are looking at possible rain overnight. rain, thunderstorms and things cool off and clear out. just in time for the summer concert with carrie underwood. that s good news. i m matt lauer along with al roker and tamaryn hall helping us out. it s time for money 9-1-1. we have more answers to your pressing financial questions including what to do when huge medical costs are trying to push you to the brink. also when to get back into the real estate game after bankruptcy. we re going to tell you everything you need to know. you know the saying you say to your kids good night, sleep tight, don t threat bed bugs bite. well, it s not just for kids anymore. we are talking about infestations ticked up 500% in recent years with 1 in 4 hotel rooms infested, according to a recent survey. yum. so what should you do to avoid having them and what do you do if you get them? we ll have advice in a little bit. seeing the video makes me itch. between the head lice yesterday and this ew. news you can use. good times. speaking of news, chelsea clinton, a big buzz around her upcoming nuptials. what will she wear? who is on the invite list? chelsea apparently dropped a huge clue yesterday. tuesday she was photographed. believe it or not, that s chelsea clinton. not a woman with a lampshade. that s the former first daughter arriving at a famous designer s showroom. her mother was there as well. and then bumped into a wall. right there. that is a clue. we ll talk about what designer she may wear and the buzz around the glamorous affair. pretty cool. let s go inside. ann is on assignment. natalie has a look at the headlines. good morning. reporte . good morning to you. more than 30 homes destroyed near california s mojave desert. the fire is threatening 150 homes. governor schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency. the u.s. embassy confirms that two americans were among those killed when a jet liner crashed near pakistan s capital. it was raining heavily when the flight from karachi went down and burned. there were 152 people aboard. officials say there were no survivors. the head of the website wikileaks that released secret documents on the afghanistan war said he has thousands of other records he did not post because it contained the names of u.s. service members overseas. the justice department is helping the pentagon with its investigation of the leak. a federal judge could rule today on the legality of arizona s new immigration law which is supposed to take effect tomorrow. the controversial law requires police making routine stops to check a person s immigration status if they suspect the person is in the country illegally. an unusual way to celebrate a soccer goal in iceland. what else do they like to do in iceland? they like to fish. so the team reeled in a big one and, of course, posed for a picture with their catch. you should have seen the one that got away though. that s a good one. it is now three minutes past the hour. let s get another check on the weather from al. they took it a little far when good morning. a little sun breaking out at midmorning around the region. and temperatures are climbing into the upper 70s to around 80. and it has turned more humid overnight, and it is going to stay humid today, tonight and tomorrow. highs today up around 90 or so with the increasing sunshine. and then partly cloudy tonight. we ll be in the 70s tomorrow morning. low and mid-90s tomorrow. might have a morning shower but a likelihood of afternoon storms as the front moves through. isolated storms could produce wind damage tomorrow. lower humidity and cooler friday and saturday. 9-1-1 now today s money 9-1-1 where we try to help with your financial problems. we have jean chatzky, author of money 9-1-1 dylan rhadigan from msnbc and carmen, personal finance expert. we re going to the phones now. we have celesta from ohio. good morning. caller: good morning. what s your question? caller: my husband works at a small college. he s been a reference several times for students trying to secure financial aid. however, i think he has inadvertently co-signed a loan for one of the students. i know he genuinely didn t understand because when we got paperwork in the mail he turned some strange shades of gray and i said, what have you done? he said, i was a reference like i was before. i said, oh, no, no. this is a co-sign. you are equally obligated. wow. caller: we have tried to ask the family maybe to help the student secure her own loan. it s been a year. she s missed payments. now you re on the hook. we get the calls. what can they do? unfortunately they are on the hook. to get off the hook in a cosigning situation that student has to make 24 on-time payments in a row. caller: i know. what can they do? you have to sit down with the student, bring her parents in, other representatives from the university. you need a pow-wow. there was a paper trail that was supposed to go back and forth. you may actually want to get legal advice. you may want to bring in the authorities if you think this young woman knew what she was doing and your husband didn t. i mean, it sounds like he s a nice guy who made a mistake. he s wonderful and she s a nice gal. can i just say something she may not be a nice gal. she needs to understand what she is doing to your husband s financial life. he did her a huge how call her and let her know how serious this is. for everybody else, this is why we do not cosign. we re going to get your information. we want you to check back in and see where this goes. we can get you a contact at sallie may and try to work this out. we ll get somebody on tap with you. good luck. we have an e-mail question from janet in florida. she writes, my husband and i are both in our 60s and retired. we had a business that failed. both business and personal bankruptcy declared. losing our home and money saved. we are now renting a condo. my question is, should we continue renting for life or should we try to get a mortgage for a place of our own? we have an income of $4,000 per month. what do they do? the hardest thing for people to do when you come through a transition of any kind like this and one thing i want to say is to have a business fail is an incredibly american thing to have happen. one reason we are the country we are is because people do attempt to solve problems, form businesses and they do fail. sometimes you find yourself in this situation and you say, i used to be here and now i m here. you shouldn t try to race to get back to where you were, get back in the house, back into the car. be patient. pay your rent. relax. live your life. it s impossible for me or anyone else to answer the question, but at some point you will have the opportunity by virtue of the passage of time and the payment of debt meaning your ongoing post bankruptcy debt that you will have access once again to lending. but you shouldn t feel that clutching need. it could be tougher. credit s not there long. people who have come through bankruptcy often get offered credit in 12 months, 24 months. the question you have to ask yourself is, can i handle it? clearly i couldn t handle it last time. also, they are in their mid 60s. you have to ask when you should have paid off your mortgage if you want to take on another one. it may not make sense to take on a 30-year mortgage. also we have rebecca from washington state on the phone. caller: good morning. what s your question? caller: i am a 45-year-old woman. i was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and had a lumpectomy. i will undergo radiation and systemic treatments. i m dealing with the fear of cancer and the anxiety of the financial impact. the out of pocket costs will exceed our savings which i don t want to entirely drain. we fear high interest rates or being sent to collections. you advise never to touch your ira. would it be better to put the bill on our 9.9% interest visa or apply for a loan? medical expenses account for most of the bankruptcies in this country. a lot. i had to deal with this in my family with my mother and two of my four sisters. don t stress about this. this should be the least of your stresses. concentrate on your health and getting better. there is a lot of help out there. two things you do not do. one, do not touch your retirement savings. those are safe, even in bankruptcy. two, never charge medical debt on a credit card. then you owe the credit card company. you cannot negotiate. keep the bill with the hospital. a secret is there is no retail price with medical debt. you have medicare gets charged one rate by hospitals and doctors, then people with insurance get charged a middle rate and those without insurance get the highest rate. go to health carebluebook.com and see negotiated rates in your area as to what people are paying their doctors. negotiate the bills down, way down as far as you can. work out a real sensible monthly payment plan. if you get tired, especially with treatment and you can t deal with this, find a low fee medical billing advocate at billadvocates.com. we hope your health comes back, rebecca. thank you very much. best of luck. now let s go outside to jeff in the plaza. he s got a question. jeff? ca call. what could be investment strategies proactive with the green movement that would help my wife and i meet our financial goals? that s a really good question. actually, there are a few ways to go about this. if you want to experiment in green investing you may want to look at companies, stocks that have greened their corporate practices. it doesn t mean you have to go out and find a designated green mutual fund or an energy company although you can do that. you might look at companies like mcdonald s or nike, for example, or starbucks that have taken a look at what they do corporately and have said, we are good citizens in this world. the only thing i would add to that when you think about green from an investment standpoint is it is not just about, oh, are we using something that s not a fossil fuel. is it wind, solar? our big problem when you look at the world is we are the most inefficient group of people i have ever seen. we don t use the most oil of everybody else. we just burn the most oil out of anybody in the world. there are a lot of companies poised to exploit the fact that for instance our power generation facilities, 30% efficiency. 70% of our fuels burned goes off into the sky. efficient technology is the greenest thing that can be done for this country. guys, thank you very much. jean, dylan and carmen, thank you very much. you can catch the big dog on msnbc. coming up, adding color to perk up your home and mood. speaking of homes, how to deal with unwelcome guests bed bugs. right after these messages. i m hungry. what s for dinner? 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here with hitips, missy hendrickson. you have been quoted as saying we are on the verge i m itching. sorry about that. on the verge of a pandemic. why the huge increase in the numbers. most professionals say increased international travel is the number one cause for the problem in america. we re the carriers? unfortunately. bed bugs are hitchhikers. they are seeking to be where people are. wherever we find mass concentrations of people we ll find bed bugs. the national pest management association polled professionals and found 95% had dealt with them in the past year. ten years ago it was 25%. it sounds, too, like the professionals are finding them impossible to beat. is that true? not impossible. that s the good news. they certainly are one of the most difficult pests to treat. more than cockroaches, mice termites, ants. anything we think is hard to control. do we need to quarantine ourselves before walking into our homes? absolutely not. it s important to recognize that bed bugs are here, on the rise and it s a pandemic proportion. but hiding ourselves won t do any good. the most important thing is to be educated so we can be vigilant in protecting ourselves. they are even in stores like victoria s secret, abercrombie & fitch. inspect merchandise before you try it on. look at the seams, the garments, unusual stains that may be the signs of little mini blood droplets on the cloths. look for bed bugs or certainly any egg sacks as well. when you re in the dressing room, keep cloths off the floor or the soft goods and keep them hanging up. certainly with the hand bag as well. when returning home take a look at the bag the garments are returning home with you in. lastly, i would recommend that any consumer takes the new cloths, put them in the wash. bed bugs can t with stand temperatures greater than 113 degrees fahrenheit. a good washing or dry cleaning for delicate merchandise should take care of the problem. hotels, motels. strip the beds, look under the sheets, what else? a lot of bed bugs are picked up traveling. do a thorough inspection of the room before you check in. leave your suitcase in the bathroom and look around the beds. pull back the sheets, pull back the mattress covers, look for certainly any bugs. look around the seams and look for telltale signs of blood that we have mentioned. bed bugs feed on human blood. blood droplets could be a sign. take a travel flashlight. look behind the head board and pull up the dust ruffle to look underneath. they are nocturnal and aren t always visible to the eye. they re not. often times we can see adults if we look carefully. the babies, not as easy to spot. okay. not everybody will have a reaction though, right? right. not everyone does have a reaction. certainly when you re in your own home environment you can look at your bed, you can look around your room for some of the things we have mentioned. another telltale sign that you may have cause for concern is you will see little welts. they re very itchy and often are in a line, a straight line up and down the area that s been bitten. boy, you are a lovely person, but the subject matter is creeping me out. missy hendrickson, thank you very much for being here. important to be well educated on this. coming up, we re going to brighten your mood by brightening your home. why you shouldn t be afraid to add a pop of color. and later, chelsea clinton is spotted in a famous wedding designer s showroom. we have the latest scoop on the blessed nuptials coming up. first, these messages. you take just once a month. it s simponi™, and taken with methotrexate, it helps relieve the pain, stiffness, and swelling of ra with one dose a month. visit 4simponi.com to see if you qualify for a full year of cost support. simponi™ can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious and sometimes fatal events can occur, such as infections, cancer in children and adults, heart failure, nervous system disorders, liver or blood problems, and allergic reactions. before starting simponi™, your doctor should test you for tb and assess your risk of infections, including fungal infections and hepatitis b. ask your doctor if you ve been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. tell your doctor if you re prone to infections, or develop symptoms such as fever, fatigue, cough, or sores. you should not start simponi™ if you have an infection. 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[ ernie ] we make our cookies the way only keebler elves can: with a little something extra. so every bite can be uncommonly good. still to come, getting over your fear of using bold colors to add a little life to your home. and old fashioned desserts that are making a comeback. first your local news and weather. but to eat on the run and to eat whatever happens to be around. heavy greasy food that s hard on my diet and my digestive system. so i eat activia light every day. activia light, with bifidus regularis, helps regulate your digestive system in two weeks. mmmm. activia light is not light on taste! and with only 70 calories activia light helps make it easier to watch my weight. it helps me feel good and look good too! activia pass a breadstick to your favorite uncle. ohhhh!!! ohhhh!!! we had a ball. announcer: try our new parmesan polenta crusted dishes. with chicken breasts. or steak medallions. both with our 4 cheese ravioli in creamy alfredo. at olive garden. this is a news 4 news break. we re back in the soup again today. this morning it s 81 degrees outside. good morning. it s 9:26 on this wednesday, july 28th, 2010. i m kimberly suiters. nats fans are holding their breath that prized pitcher steven strasburg isn t seriously hurt. he was to start last night s game but was scratched from the lineup just minutes before the start. the nats say his shoulder was tight and they didn t want to take any chances on their prized pitcher. the general manager says this does not appear to be a serious injury. weather and traffic are coming up next. good morning. temperatures now around 80 degrees. it s rather humid. the sunshine now break out around the metro area. it s going to be a partly sunny, hot and humid day. highs into the low 90s. then tomorrow, hot and humid again. might have a morning shower. a likelihood of afternoon storms. some of them could produce damaging winds. how is the traffic, jerry? some good news to report. the accident at 17th and con has been cleared. let s go to virginia. because it had been blocked for so long we re jammed eastbound 66 to the roslyn tunnel over the roosevelt bridge on to constitution avenue. tough morning. ahead on news 4 midday you buy the books, the supplies, the clothes. today we ll tell you how to get your children mentally prepared for back to school. that s this morning with barbara harrison at 11:00. oh, i told you so i told you someday you d come crawling back and asking me to take you in the judges on american idol knew she d be a huge success. carrie underwood went on to win and now she s a five-time grammy winner. she ll be here for a live concert friday morning on today. the blockbuster concert series rolls on. a week from friday, train and then friday, 13th, keysha. meanwhile, this half hour, do not be afraid of the color. ooh, don t be afraid. we are not, no. we love it. you scared me a little bit. many people get nervous when it comes to adding bright hues to the home, but a splash of color like a colorful painting or a bright chair can perk up the interior and also your mood. we have advice on how to do it right. very good. also in today s kitchen, from emergency chocolate cake i m having a chocolate cake emergency. what was that? bed bugs? i was getting over it. we have old-fashioned desserts that were popular in lean economic times making a comebachblgt good morning here. just past 9:30. our temperatures are around 80 degrees. it s turned more humid overnight. it s going to stay humid today as highs reach the 90s. partly sunny. maybe a morning shower tomorrow. likelihood of afternoon storms which could produce damaging winds as it sweeps through. lower humidity on saturday. highs both days in the 80s. sunday, a chance of a few passing thunderstorms. and that s your latest weather. coming up next, add a splash of life to your home with color right after this. twice as fast.. getaway we get double miles every time we use our card. no matter what we re buying. and since double miles add up quick. romans! get em! 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you re in a good mood this morning. diving bell! i m going to get through the segment somehow. water, mayonnaise. sugar, some stuff. mayonnaise. and mayonnaise. you can never get enough mayonnaise in the chocolate cake. that s it. dump and stir into the pan. 35 minutes, 350 degrees. what do you ice it with? it s butter, brown sugar, cook it in a sauce pan. a little bit of milk and confectioner s sugar. the next is the lazy daisy cake. people come for coffee or dinner. it s a one layer cake, a hot milk cake. the milk is hot when you put it in. it gives you a tender crumb. what s interesting is the topping. melted butter, brown sugar, evaporated milk and a cup and a half of coconut. that s where you lose me. i m not a fan but that s okay. you didn t tell me. i could have done something with mayonnaise for you. how about some miracle whip? you re a modern guy. i am. do you like chocolate? i don t eat that either. put this on top. into the broiler you broil this snm ye? yeah. this is the ultimate lost dessert. evan drew bakery s chocolate blackout. they never published the recipe. it is interesting cake. three layers. the fourth layer is a crumble toppi topping. then it has chocolate pudding as filling and icing. you have to make sure it cools or you ll have problems. if you don t you will have a mess. look at that. put it on the sides and you have, i think, the world s best chocolate cake and the recipe is back. you have to slice this up. mark, come on. mark s from brooklyn. he knows about this. come on in, mark. try this. okay. are we going to get a rating here or what? yep. that s it. we found it. you got it. unbelievable. this is amazing. do you know what would be great? ham and mayo in between the two of those. fantastic. everything goes better with mayo. al roker. recipes are on the website. much more ahead. first, this is today on nbc. i just want to eat the coconut. okay. has america found its next justin bieber? judging from last night s performances on america s got talent it looks that way. an 11-year-old rapper was called a cheeky little chap and impressed judges with his original rap. he faced off during a live show including this person, incredible street performer haspop. he left his family to pursue his american dream. he s a genius. howie mandel s favorite, belly dancing. they re not eating chocolate cake. put the cake down. tonight, mike posner performs cooler than me and more during the live results show at cooler than me and more during the live results show at 9:00/8:00 central time on nbc. captions by vitac www.vitac.com you know, the guys who always do a super job. well, it is. just go to the verizon® yellow pages. and look for a business with the superguarantee® shield. you ll get the job done right, or we ll step in and help to make it right. so, protect yourself with the superguarantee® from supermedia. on its way the new verizon® yellow pages with larger, easier to read print. this is a news 4 news break. warm and humid today. more on your weather forecast in just a moment. good morning. it s 9:56 on this wednesday, july 28th, 2010. in the news for today, about 10,000 people have seen their light comes back on in the past two hours. pepco now has about 32,000 customers without power. about 25,000 of those are in montgomery county, including ten facilities owned by montgomery county schools. that means some summer classes and activities are canceled again today. for the complete list head to the montgomery county schools website. let s check in with tom for the weather. the humidity has returned. it will be with us the rest of the day tonight and into tomorrow. highs into the low 90s with some sunshine and a few clouds in and out. tomorrow, might have an isolated shower in the morning. there s a small chance of that but a likelihood of afternoon storms. before the storms arrive, it should make it into the mid-90s. and some isolated storms could produce wind damage tomorrow afternoon. after those storms exit, we will have lower humidity move in for friday and saturday with cooler temperatures. highs in the 80s both days. how is the traffic, jerry snangets live look downtown along the mall. 17th and constitution. earlier accident gone. in the backup there was another wreck. minor in nature at 19th and constitution avenue. let s check out the capital beltway. running slow from before river loop to and before the american legion bridge. all travel learns open. ahead on news 4 midday you buy the books, the supplies, the clothes. today we ll tell you how to get your children mentally prepared to go back to s hey, everybody, it is wines-day, the 28th of july, we re so delighted that you re with us today. yes, we are delighted that you re with us today. we re going back to the theater again. we took a little break, but we re going back for the second time to see a little night music because bernadette peters and elaine stritch are in it. they sing send in the clowns. i have the worst tan lines, i m just noticing. we ve been telling you that, hoda. what are we going to do with the jersey shore mania? they re everywhere. they rang the bell for the new york stock exchange yesterday. as if our economy doesn t have enough trouble. look at them. watch what happens to the stock market. let s see if they have these guys are everywhere. they re doing this. it looks like they cleaned up their act to go there. you know snooki is in the middle. and where s the situation? he s in the white jacket. that s pauly. the governor of new jersey came on to talk about the economy. here s how the jersey shore just happened to come up during the discussion, let s listen. some people are saying they re good for the economy in the towns along the jersey shore, that they ve increased tourism. you re a guy who needs money in your state. we ll find other ways to increase tourism. we ll take snooki and the situation and give them back. i ll do something else, you know. all of a sudden you re dumping them on me? they re yours to begin with, matt. i have enough problems here. i love that. most of the cast members are from new york. they re not from jersey. no. so sees saying, they re you re problem. i love that governor christie. he says what he thinks. he says if i m voted out next time, so be with it. i did what i had to do. yes, indeed. hoda woman. we have a daily feature. yes, we do. every day, there s another mel moment. hoda, we re just going to lead to it. we re going to roll it. hmm. and now, a moment with mel. [ bleep ]. me up. you have [ bleep ] ed me up. you [ bleep ] ed me up. i did nothing but help you. but you [ bleep ] [ bleep ] on me like a low-life [ bleep ] . which is now what i am convinced you are. [ bleep ] i am angry at you, you are a [ bleep ] waste of time. and that, was a moment with mel. you can t make up this stuff. apparently, there are 30 of them, so get used to many moments with mel. everything we have it talk about today is unbelievable. well wait, there is a place where mel would feel at home. somebody sent me this. there is actually a city in austria, near salzberg. that we suggest mel move to. and this is it. we had to put the stars in. but actually, there is a word that is spelled the same way as the bleep word, and that s the name of the town. but we had to put the stars in, because we can t have the word on tv. the crazy thing is that all the street signs are, all the tourists come there and they steal them and they take them back to wherever they are in the world. because it s the mmm-ing post office and the mmm-ing city hall. [ bleep ] [ bleep ] and i hear it s a beautiful, beautiful city and i think we should do a remote from there. yes, we re live in [ bleep ]. there s a city in illinois where the folks are deciding whether or not rolling your eyes could be considered illegal. it s like a disorderly violation. it s unbelievable. eye-rolling. and the sigh that always comes after that. the eye-rolling and the sigh. this was started when somebody at the public meetings did the roll of the eyes and maybe they re talking about, about making it illegal. to roll one s eyes. they said it was an act in such unreasonable manner to alarm or disturb another or to invoke a breach of the peace. now we re going to legislate against human reactions? there might be a reason for legislating eye-rolling. there might be. take a look at what happens on our program a lot. we re going to be doing all right, guilty. i could not live in elmhurst, illinois. but i think this is ridiculous. first of all, those forums are there so people can express their feelings. it s actually incredibly silly. there s no way that could pass. i bet that wouldn t happen in [ bleep ]. austria. there was a big, i guess merger, you could say if a diplomat and a diva. condi rice and aretha franklin, were brought together for a concert. all for a good cause. it was in philly. and a lot of people don t know that condoleezza rice is a concert pianist. and aretha franklin is the queen of soul. so condi called her up and said, let s do a charity event. let s listen, shall we? oh, lift me thee i sing you can t really see condi too much. she s tucked away. she looks beautiful. we can always find the common denominator, our common ground is the, and they found it for a good cause. i think that s lovely, you and i should get along a little bit better. that is terrific. we get along. we get along mostly. mostly, we do. so there s a little, there s a hot item out there that you might want to purchase. a couple of things. the first one is let s talk about this first. this is astonishing. this may look like a normal cup of coffee, but it isn t. this cup of coffee costs $300 a pound. that s like $30 a cup. this cup costs 30, i m going to put cream in mine. the deal is the beans are special and here s why they re special. what happens is, animals, cats and monkeys, eat the beans, then when it goes through their system, it comes out on the other end, apparently all that stomach fermentation, or whatever, something happens to the bean and makes the coffee smooth. so these $300 beans, i need more cream, because god knows i can t drink it like that. anyway there s not enough in the world to get me to try it. you re not going to try it? they say it s good. there is a tea that s called smooth move. i can t believe you re drinking that. oh, it s good. it s really good. it s smooth. i m, i m sharing with geri, trying to make up with jerry from yesterday. let me pour for you, you re going to need a lot. can you believe there s a coffee that s $30 a cup? out of my budget. take one sip, it will be $3. see what you think. nice, huh? smooth? see? yes. thanks, jerry. he just made $100, he can buy three cups of coffee on his own, now. the next cool thing we have is betty white is a dpphenomeno on so many levels. she s now got a clothing line. what s your name? emily. and what s your name, michaela. and you re an intern, too, gene? yes. what do you think of the betty white hoodies, are they nice? yes. i like yours, gene, it s white heat. you could go for a woman like her, don t you think? full of life, sexy as all get out. i think so. they have a little place you can put your ear phones in, right? your ear buds? oh, cute. your ipod, too? it s at home. he s probably got kathie lee cds on his ipod. those are available it benefits the morris animal foundation, because she s a huge, huge animal rights activist. let s go over to sarah. as you remember the other day, we had a picture from one of our producers, i won t name names, hoda, but the initials are joanne lemarka. and we asked people po send in some annoying fashion faux pas. and we have a picture here from lisa in michigan. and now we have the one sent in from lisa in michigan, who was at dinner with her teenage daughter. and this is was the view, i think we re pulling it up? we don t have it, just kidding, we ll show that another time. it s coming up next actress america ferreira up next. 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[ female announcer ] kellogg s fiber plus bars. you couldn t wish for more. emmy-winning actress, america ferrera is best known as the star of the tv comedy, ing you will i betty. but these days, ms. america has been working on a project she takes seriously, called the dry land. the story takes a look at what happens to a soldier when he returns home from the war in iraq. my god! don t you ever leave me again. i won t, i promise. america, welcome. thank you. i wish we were talking about a happier subject today. but i just watched it and it s a very tough subject. we always think of it as such a wonderful thing when they come home. but we don t realize that sometimes the worst problems can be beginning just then. exactly, it s the second war that they fight when they come home and have to reintegrate. it s not every soldier s experience. thank god. we say over and over again. but it s with increasing numbers. and as we were just talking about earlier, the rate of soldiers taking their own lives is, is staggering. really tell us the statistic. we don t know why some music is going on here. it s from the clip. but tell us this statistic. so we get it right. the statistic is that in the last year there are more soldiers who have returned home and taken their own lives that have died in both the iraq and afghanistan wars combined. wow. that s unbelievable. what drew you to this topic, america? why? truly, it was the writer-director ryan williams was very passionate and drawn to this subject. and we met working on a short film that he was doing over five years ago. and he was talking to me then about this subject. and he spent a couple years researching the topic. and interviewing soldiers and their families and just getting an idea of what the experience was. and he kind of emerged from those couple of years of research with this story. and what was really enticing about it to me to sign on as an executive producer, was i really appreciated his vision of kind of taking away the political conversation. and having the human conversation. and it s not about politics at all in the end. it s not about politics, it s not about a conversation about why are we there and should we be there. that s not the conversation we re having. the conversation we re having is these men and women are coming home, and how are we going to do it differently this time, welcoming them and honoring their sacrifices. and dealing with the changes. yeah. were you in iraq on a uso tour. i was, yeah. tell us what that was like. that was i feel like i m still processing what the feeling was like. i feel i can best describe it, when we were back, we went in early june. and on the july 4th weekend, i really feel like it was the first time in my life that i truly had a sense of gratitude and a fraction of the understanding of what their sacrifice is. and i felt really privileged to have that perspective. and i was really excited to get to play the wife in this movie. because my research for the role involved a lot of talking to women whose husbands came home with ptsd. and hearing their stories and experiences that varied from you know, kind of best-case scenarios to worst-case scenarios. and the experience of the families is something that goes so unnoticed. the wives and the mothers and the fathers and the best friends and the children. and so talking to them and getting to talk to a lot of families. and, you know, we screened this film over the fourth of july weekend. we were at fort carson and we screened this film on base for over 400 soldiers and their spouses. i bet they so appreciated it, because you really do capture the devastation of a family. i wish we had more time it talk about this. the good thus is that out of this terrible experience, she got the husband. she s engaged do this adorable. fellow who wrote and directed the film. we re so happy for you. thank you. we re going to come out and we re going to play who knew? 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cereals they already love, like lucky charms and cinnamon toast crunch. give your kids more of what they need to be their best. grow up strong. with big g kid cereals. if you like to shop and love to get a good deal, have we got news for you. your favorite retailer knows how to trick you into spending more money. but once you re aware of the system, you ll learn to shop like no one else. elizabeth mayhue is the vice president and chief of woman s day and is here to tell us about the games that retailers play. you see the signs that say back-to-school or are they just roping you in? to some degree, there is. a lot of times, sales, you get in there and you can t find where the sale is. it s a employ to get you into the store, often. that s what this story is about. retailers do everything from how they build to think about it, in these hot days, keeping their doors open, blasting air conditioning, so you get in and that s their point. how they build it, how they paint it everything is about getting you in and keeping you there. this is smart. often when you go into a store, there happens to be a carpet, you don t even realize it, leading you like the fidelity line or the yellow brick road. the point is, you want to be aware of these things, you want to step off the carpet and get what you need. a lot of it is being aware of what you need to buy. getting into the store and being efficient about it and not getting waylaid by some of the things you see. carpet is one of the things they do to create your path. you should just walk anywhere you want. you should be very judicious and purposeful about where you re going in the store. what do colors have to do with anything? colors are very if you look at younger stores? they re bright colors. geared towards younger people. much brighter colors. older people tend towards soothing colors. a lot of fast food restaurants are yellow and orange and red. those are very arresting colors because they want you to eat quickly and get out. oh, lovely. this is more of the psychology of how these things affect you. you also say that you should keep your interacting with salespeople to a minimum. because they can convince you, they re like that looks so good on you. and before you know it, you re getting something that you don t love because they told you it looked good. duly much smarter to shop with a friend. you go together rather than relying on a salesperson. and beware of authority. when you see somebody behind the cosmetics county in a lab coat, you re psychologically clicking that this is an authority figure, a doctor and it s a salesperson. dressed like a doctor like i m not a doctor, but i play one at work kind of thing. now the grocery store, it s interesting how it s laid out in the grocery store. you don t think about it when you re there, right. miclk, eggs, are way at the back of the store, are way at the back of the storeth and take the small esht cart, possible. bigger carts, you tend to want to fill it up and you re like, i need this, i need that. and one little trick is if you only need milk, take enough money only to buy milk. don t end up getting in there and getting waylaid for all the other things. three, four, a certain price. you probably only need one jar of co-mato sauce at $2, you probably don t need three. and they put stuff at the counter that you might pick up. while you re waiting, if i m in a long line, i always buy stuff along the way. you re the perfect kind of person. the only thing i want you to buy at the walk-out is a magazine. your magazine. but it is true that they put candy there, if you re standing with your kids, they re going to want the candy or they re going to want the little stuffed animal. all of those things are very strategic. you have to be very aware. you just give the kid what they want just do get out. pretty. or think about consistency. you open a credit card to go to a store and they send you all of those discounts, it s to get you in. it s smart to be aware. to watch, we re all watching our pennies now. these are tricks to be aware of. thank you. still to come, bobbie thomas is here to help us celebrate some fun products this summer. you ll do great. 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[ joey ] this was a lifelong dream, really, for me and our family. this is a news 4 news break. three days after the storm that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people, neighborhoods still look like this one with wires on the road. coming up on news 4 midday, we ll have the latest on when everyone will have electricity restored. good morning. i m aaron gilchrist. also coming up, getting children ready to head back to school can be stressful for kid and parents. we ll take a look at easy ways to ease back into and we re back on this wednesday, with more of today. it s time to play who knew? we re testing your knowledge on celebrities who drifted out of the spotlight. as always, kathie lee is across the street at the msnbc.com digital cafe, ready to hand out $100 to those who get the questions right. and to those who don t, they get that beautiful cd. rob shuter, columnist for popeater.com is here to help us play. let s head across the street. despite a successful tv show peewee herman has been out of the spotlight for many years. what are his plans? well, i m going to have to go with c, starring on broadway. and you would be right! [ cheers and applause ] wow, a total get it. what is he doing? peewee has recreated the playhouse on stage, it was meant to tour america. however, the reviews have been so terrific that they re bringing it to broadway in october. the steven sondheim theater, it s a hoot. you re kidding me. back across to kathie. she s from lexington, kentucky. excuse me, this guy is getting quite the view here. in addition to his action-packed acting career, mr. t also provided a voice to a character on which animated film? a. [ buzzer ] stop it. everything has a story the answer is cloudy with meatballs. what mr. t. said is he loves animated movie, he didn t have to get into hair and makeup. cameo in the a-team movie. a did he? he did not. they couldn t agree on a financial deal. and the more important reason, i was told, is if they had original mr. t on the big screen, it might distract you from the new guy. back across to kathie. this gentleman is from california. mark hamil played luke skywalker in the star wars saga. what is he doing now? i think he s doing talent management. you re wrong but, you re going to love this. i m sure he will. actually, he s writing comic books? he s terribly successful. what he said is he knows the geek audience very well because of his days on star wars. so he knows the crowd, he knows what they want. he s done about three or four. and they re so good, he s in talks to make a couple of them into a movie. is this sci-fi stuff? yes, a genre he knows. back across to kathie lee. this gentleman is from california. the fonda family is known throughout hollywood for their acting. what fonda has taken a break from films since 200 2? peter. my sister said that. [ buzzer ] your sister is wrong. and henry died a long time ago. he took a longer break than anyone. okay, honey, here you go. you re going to love this. the correct answer people are having trouble it s bridget. it is bridget. bridget retired from acting in 2002. she had a little car accident, she s fine, after that she met the love of her life, became a mommy. now she s at home with her baby. she s still reading scripts, but hasn t found the right one yet. okay, great. back across to kath. family from ontario, canada. true or false, karate black belt and tv actor chuck norris now runs a martial arts-themed dating service. false? buy one cup of coffee. did you hear? he wasn t quite sure. we tried to trick them a little bit here. does have a martial arts studio. he teaches martial arts. it s not a dating service. however, if you find love on the mats, good for you. he s also writing christian books. he s got several christian books out that are terribly successful but martial arts is his thing. back across to kathie lee. a lovely young lady from chicago. jalil white, best known as urkel on family matsers most recently appeared on which of the following shows? c, the office ? [ buzzer ] wrong. this one i did a couple of years ago, you re going to love this. that s me in my bedroom. you re going to love this. everyone is missing these. these are hard questions. the correct answer is psych. yes. is working on a web series called fake it until you make it. where he plays, he s written it, produces it, he s in it. and he plays a child actor who is now an image consultant. it s terribly funny. does he play his nerdy character? he does, what else could he be? it s time for kathie lee to kol back home. rob, thank you so much for being on. up next, our good friend bobbie thomas is with us, she s got some summer goodies you ll want. but this is warm, fresh-bad strawberry toaster strudel. 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how are you, looking very sexy but i m so excited to share what is going to be on this monitor. topshop.com has makeup and they ve utilized this company, taz, which has developed the software where you can literally try makeup on online without having to go and try it on or wash it off. and literally, there s so much you can do. it s amazing. you can change that s cool. you can change your concealer, your lip gloss. if i go to my eyes now but you can even change you can change the intensity. if you pick you can that was beautiful. you can change the intensity. to go lighter. i love that. and it s very realistic. you can play around with their makeup. i want to see skin glow. it s just like a radiance. you can see it. what s great, if i go to the top, i went to taz no! sorry, sorry. now, watch. i wanted to show what you would look like i wanted to show what you would look like with brown hair like me. oh, my gosh. so you decided to go brunette and clear that up, you can see you can change that hair color. and i can kill you for showing the picture. i have one more. i would think there would be some equal timing in this. if you ever thought you wanted to look like klg i look like a guy in drag. that s ru paul. that s not pretty at all. hold on. now, this i love. look at the dress bobbie s wearing, guys. i always get asked about little things i m wearing in the studio. but i find dresses that are too short sometimes. how many times do you find a tunic and you wish it was longer to wear as a dress. this is a dress from urban outfitters. i wore my mom s going to kill me. it s a slip by far west. i am obsessed because they have these extra-long hemlines, every woman should own this black one. what s great is that you can literally extend the length of a dress in your wardrobe that might have shrunk. they re under like $48 for the half-slip. the full slip is up to $80, but it s great. fantastic. next, beyonce, we all love beyonce, she s a goddess. she has this video why don t you love me. and i was interested, women everywhere swooning over her robin s egg blue nail polish. chanel, who is always on top of trends, i called up and they said, you have to send this bottle right back. it s been selling out everywhere. so even though you may have a hard time finding this chanel. you may be able to find it opi. and pastels in general are a really fun pop. they re pushing baby pink aside. i love the nude. i love the nude. that s like the hot new color. tough to get. the chanel is but they have the new colors that celebrities are wearing and it s called paradoxal. it s kathie lee, but a little deeper. she s ahead of the trend. and i don t know if you can see my earring here, this may show you better, this is an ear cuff from litter. there s a whole new trend in body armor. which i love. i know it sounds a little medievel. look how great this body harness look on a shirt. she has a shoulder chain on, it s an alternative way of adding adornment. we ve seen statement necklaces making such a statement. they sell this one. what is that? this is, this is this is alexander mcqueen, may he rest in piece, he was one of my favorite designers. he was ahead. it s a knuckle ring, even if you don t want to do a body harness or an ear cuff this would be good in bars. look, $7, this ring, it s here from wet seal. and there s all of these really great rings from singer 22. i wanted to show that you can try a statement ring that s more like this kind of cool this one bends. it would have to. it looks a little gaga. you can go with it. thank you, bobbie. you always have new stuff. coming up next, we have a murder-mystery, it s the read of the summer, we hear. we ll meet the author right after this. oh, love me oh oh oh just love me oh oh oh just hold me oh oh oh just kiss me oh oh oh just want me l-o-v-e love, love, love, love l-o-v-e love, love, love, love but even in your 30s bones begin to change calcium and vitamin d help keep your bones strong. yoplait has calcium and vitamin d in every cup. keep your bones strong, with yoplait. takes care of 33 loads. tide stain release only handles 11. and clorox 2 gets rid of tough stains right before your eyes. clorox 2. find it next to the clorox bleach. and this one i m taking to the house. the ice cream man is here! breyers all natural grasshopper pie. walmart s the only place you can get it. they love it when i take my work home with me. [ shaniya ] daddy i want more ice cream. introducing total plus omega-3 honey almond flax cereal. all the nutrition of total, plus 10% daily value omega-3 ala, and a delicious honey almond crunch. new total plus omega-3. in her new novel, hand of fate new york times bestselling author, elise weil explores the complex world of a new york crime-fighting trio. made up of a prosecutor, a fbi agent and a television reporter. the story, a provocative, outspoken and conservative radio host who is murdered and the team must investigate a list of suspects that seem to outnumber his millions of listeners. based on some of your real experiences. 102, i ve been all around. no, no, no. you were a federal prosecutor. yes, my dad was an fbi agent. third-generation federal prosecutor. worked with female fbi agents and now i m a tv reporter and did seven long years of radio with bill o reilly as his co-host. and he has said that he s the guy that s murdered. it s always about bill. and everything is about bill. you never heard me because i got about three words in. you left it so long. i kept doing my email and he said, lis, i m paying you. and i said, i m a lawyer, i double-bill. when he heard about the book, was he glad that he might be the one portrayed? well i sort of tried to catch him in a a good moment, which took a few weeks. and i said, i have this book idea, it s my second book and i d like to kill off a controversial radio talk show host in the first suspicious person that s going to be this beautiful, much-smarter, younger co-host. and i said, this is how they re going to kill him and he paused for a second and he said, no, don t kill me that way. kill me this way. and i ended up using his suggestion. yes. but they re so funny. there s so many letters in the back of the book where people are saying, no, it s really me. i m really the one that you killed. mark levin writes in. it could be anybody. there are a lot of radio talk show hosts out there. and they have their enemies. boy, do they have their enemies. is this a beach read? what sort of a read is it? it s an absolute beach read. it s a girl book, absolutely. and because i have been all of those characters, you re going to get a real behind-the-scenes. you ll see what it s look like to be in a radio studio, a television studio. a grand jury room. you won t feel dumbed-down to. that s why i want to write it. i get to the end of my day, i m on tv, i don t want to watch a lot more tv. i want to take the 15 minutes, and feel like i got something smart, but fun. there wasn t that much out there about strong women who are supporting each other. no back-biting, they re together and trying to do the right thing as women. i wanted to do that. who are the other two, the women? there s a federal prosecutor. are they based on other people or just from your own experience? just from my own experience. and i do change names to protect the guilty. i have a little present for both of you. we like those. we never know who this book could be modelled after. oh, my gosh. look at this, that s funny. very, very funny. kathie lee and hoda. i like that! thank you, lis. and everyone wants something free, so you can get my first book face of betrayal if you go to my website, liswiehlbooks.com. you can download it for free. that s great. download it free for a week. aw, thank you. giving presents to everybody. good to see you. thanks and congratulations on the book. we ll be back with more of today on nbc. all right, miss sarah, what s up? we have these pictures, the annoying fashion faux pas, the first one we is is from sarah in michigan. the third indecent exposure where the pants drop. you can be banned from the mall. oh. what are the penalties? the first offense is a warning. as the pants drop lower. the second offense, asked to leave the mall for the day and the third is you can be banned from the mall. and the second picture is a room with a view. this is lisa from michigan. she was at dinner with her teenaged daughter and that was the view. that s not pretty. at a five-star restaurant, no doubt. keep the pictures coming, we re having fun. klg & hoeta.com. coming up, how to get your life back. and we have animals. and flo rida will perform. here it is. see you tomorrow. low, low, low come on captions by vitac www.vitac.com