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and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. and i m ann curry in for meredith. the celebration going on in chi chile because it s an incredible discovery, all 33 workers trapped in a collapsed mine more than two weeks alive and well. it s pretty dramatic stuff. rescuers use add drill to bore down to where they believed the miners were trapped. when they pulled the drill back up on sunday there were notes attached to it. one read, we are all fine in shelter. they then looked inside to capture this miner smiling into the lens. you can see at the bottom of the screen. that s the good news. here s the bad news. it could take up to four months to drill another hole big enough to bring those men to the surface. the latest straight ahead. it s incredible stuff. also ahead, was work place bullying to blame for a university of havevirginia maga editor who took his own life? his family believes the suicide was the result of repeated harassment allegedly at the hands of his boss. we ll have more on that story coming up. plus this morning, the remarkable recovery of an american snowboarder, kevin pierce. he suffered a severe brain injury during training weeks before the winter olympics in vancouver. even his own doctors are calling it a miracle this morning kevin pierce will be joining us for a live interview. we want to begin with this miracle in chile. 33 workers found alive more than two weeks after a cave-in at a small gold and copper mine. carl quintanilla has more on this. carl, good morning. reporter: good morning, matt. for 16 days rescue teams made seven attempts to find out if those miners had made it to the emergency shelter. and on sunday, 17 days after the initial accident, the eighth try proved a success. the signs of life came from a world far below. sparking a huge celebration sunday as family and friends learned 33 trapped miners were indeed alive. it was the news that this nation had dreamed of after so many had given up hope. a drill finally broke through solid rock allowing rescue teams to send a probe more than 2,000 feet below the earth with hopes of reaching the missing men. stuck underground for 17 days, the trapped miners attached two notes to the drill. when rescuers tugged it to the surface, there was a message for the world. with great delight chile s president, sebastien pinera, waved the hopeful words in the air. all 33 of us are fine in the shelter. one miner wrote of their living conditions explaining how they dug a channel to reach underground water and used vehicles for light. loved ones celebrated the news with big hugs and warm hearts. they were even able to see the miners after a video camera was sent down the probe shaft as well. it s a system that will allow the delivery of food, water, and oxygen to the miners as long as they re trapped. and rescue teams say that could be a while. experts warned it may take another four months to dig a hole large enough to actually free all 33 miners. some time around december, setting the stage for what could be a true christmas miracle. and, again, those miners are trapped in a copper and gold mine. experts say health risks are small as long as they keep receiving enough food, water, and objectixygen. matt? carl quintanilla with great news this morning. carl, thanks very much. it s four minutes after the hour. here s ann. closer to home the fda is struggling to find a source for the salmonella outbreak that has led now to the recall of half a billion eggs. in a moment we ll talk to the commissioner of the fda but first tom costello is in washington with the latest on the recall and the investigation. tom, good morning. reporter: ann, good morning to you. it s hard to know how many people have been sickened by bad eggs since may but the cdc does say it has seen more than 1,300 more cases than normal. so far no reports of any deaths. mommy! reporter: 16 had been month-old eva jones is a nonstop bundle of energy, now recovered after her parents rushed her to an e.r. in waterloo, iowa, this month dehydrated and sick. an extreme bout of diarrhea and she started going to the bathroom approximately every 15 minutes to half hour. reporter: after eight days in the hospital, the diagnosis was salmonella poisoning, probably from eggs. over the past three months hundreds, maybe thousands of people are thought to have been sickened after eating contaminated eggs. now more than half a billion have been pulled off the market in 22 states. the contaminated eggs were shipped from mid-may to mid-august but a voluntary recall wasn t announced until this month. more evidence says a former fda executive that the nation s food safety net has a big hole in it. in the united states we tend to chase the foodborne disease after it occurs and try to find the problem. instead of putting in place preventive control to keep the contamination from occurring in the first place. reporter: the farms in iowa were supplied with chickens and feed by the sixth biggest egg producer in the country with a troubled past. dacosta was labelled for multiple the water pollution and waste violations. fined for federal health and safety violation for labor department described as sweatshop conditions in maine. they paid $1.3 million to settle allegations of sexual assault and intimidation in 2002. then in 2003 he pled guilty to knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and just two months ago the company paid $100,000 fine for animal cruelty documented in undercover video. gasps for air as she slowly dies. reporter: phillip is a reporter for the des moines register . he was the poster child for what would be wrong with this large scale industrial scale agriculture. at the same time he was an embarrassment to conventional big agriculture because he was constantly in the headlines. reporter: we ve asked the company for comment. it declined. the senate is now sitting on legislation that would give the fda much more authority and manpower both which really lacked right now after salmonella outbreaks including peanut butter, spinach, and processed foods. tom costello in washington, thanks very much. dr. margaret hamburg of the food and drug administration, good morning to you. good morning. these numbers are alarming. half a billion with a b, half a billion eggs being recalled. given the size and the scope of the recall right now do you at the fda feel as if you have your arms around this problem right now? well, it is the largest egg recall that we ve had in recent history. we re continuing to investigate aggressively to determine the exact source of the contamination as we move forward with the recall. we may see some addition al recalls over the next couple days, even weeks, as we better understand the network of distribution of these eggs contaminated. i do want to say that consumers should look on the website foodsafety foodsafety.gov to learn more about the recall and to look specifically at whether eggs that they may have purchased fit into the recall and should be thrown out. absolutely. let me put some graphics up right now, dr. hamburg. they should be looking for the plant number and we re showing them right here, what that looks like, and we also on our website will put up the specific numbers they have to be looking for. as we look at this, let me ask you, some friends of mine over the weekend said people started getting sick in may. why did it take so long for this recall? we re in august now, the end of august. well, there is you have to start an investigation. first you see the rise in the number of cases of salmonella above the normal background. then you start to identify the cases and do the investigation of where they might have been exposed. this salmonella is the most common kind so it makes it a little bit harder to track down the source. the centers for disease control are our federal partners in food safety have been working very hard with us on this outbreak investigation. we ve tried to move swiftly to identify the source and take the action necessary to protect the consumer. the situation has raised some other questions. i spoke to president obama back in february of 2009 shortly after he took office. it was the time of the big peanut butter recall. right. and i asked him at the time if he thought the fda was doing its job. he said, quote, i think the fda has not been able to catch some of these things as quickly as i expect them to catch them and so we re going to be doing a complete review of fda operations. here we are a year and a half later. we have another massive recall. are you in a situation as tom costello suggested in his piece where you re limited in resources and manpower and funding so that you can only react after something goes wrong, that you can t be proactive and get out there and prevent things from going wrong? well, we very much want to shift the paradigm to a preventive approach. food safety has been a priority of this administration and certainly the fda has been working aggressively to move in this direction. we are hoping that the food safety legislation that was mentioned will be passed by congress. double the resources, double the funding? we need additional resources. we need additional authority. we need greater ability to trace back products to their source so that we can identify how the contamination occurred and what products are at risk. we need better abilities and authorities to put in place these preventive controls and hold companies accountable and we need to be able to more routinely review records and work with companies to make sure that the food supply is safe. the food safety legislation adds an additional potential new authority or set of authorities that have to do with imported food. this is a domestic outbreak. more and more food is coming from overseas and we need to aggressively address the safety issues there. dr. hamburg, i appreciate your time this morning. good luck. thank you t. and let s get a check of the morning s other top stories. hey, carl. good morning, everybody. officials in pakistan are fighting to protect more cities from rising floodwaters. relief agencies are using boats to get aid to the millions of people who need it. recent floods have left more than 60 million people homeless and officials warn cholera and other diseases pose a real threat. flooding has forced the evacuation of more than a quarter million people in northern china. the flooding there is the worst in a decade. some people have had to be lifted to safety by helicopter. a hostage drama this morning in the philippines where a former police officer held more than a dozen tourists on a bus in manila. he later released several hostages. he is demanding his job back. both sides took to the street in the controversy over that proposed mosque near ground zero. opponents chanted no mosque, no way. and demanded the mosque be moved further away from the site of the 9/11 attacks in new york. they criticized what they say is racist fear. the coast guard searching for a small plane that disappeared in alaska in bad weather. onboard a pilot and three workers from the national park service. and a helicopter pilot is banged up but safe after a crash sunday in san diego bay. the pilot reported mechanical problems just after he took off. close call. it is now 7:12. back to matt, ann and stephanie. al is off this morning. stephanie abrams is here for us to look at the forecast after a rainy end of the weekend here in the northeast. we are going to talk about that in a minute. first tropical storm daniell good morning. we have quite a bit of cloudiness around on this monday morning. off to work and school, though no travel problems weather wise. it s a mild morning. we re in the low to mid-70s around washington. highs today climbing into the low 80s. and there is a greater chance of a passing shower later this afternoon and overnight tonight and a likelihood on tuesday, maybe some thunder tomorrow as well, and cooler than wednesday and thursday, both days, a smaller chance of a passing shower with highs in the low and mid-80s. weekend looking dry now. ann, over to you. all right, stephanie, thanks. is the pentagon targeting the leader of wikileaks for posting documents online? that s what he s claiming after being named in a rape case. martin fletcher is in london this morning. he joins us now. martin, good morning. reporter: ann, good morning. julian was charged with the rape and molestation in two separate cases. in sweden where he thought he was safe. the swedish tabloid broke the story saturday that two women had complained to police who issued an arrest warrant. one claimed she had been attacked in a hotel. but police didn t find him. he quickly replied via twitter saying the charges were without basis and deeply disturbing. then hours later sweden dropped the rape charge. the prosecutor said there s no longer reason to believe assange committed rape. that s not enough for being arrested. reporter: talking to al jazeera television it s clearly a smear campaign. reporter: after releasing 75,000 military files on his website wikileaks assange is getting ready to release another 15,000 within a month. the pentagon wants to stem the flow of leaks about its afghanistan campaign. u.s. officials call assange s papers one of the biggest security breaches in u.s. history. the taliban will be poring over every word of the report to see what they can find out about the way we operate against them. reporter: assange says wikileaks is halfway through examining the 15,000 documents to eliminate people being harmed. he said he will release the papers come what may. today assange s lawyers want to meet with swedish officials hoping they ll drop the molestation charges. he says releasing the secret files is his duty. ann? nbc s martin fletcher this morning, thanks. it is now 7:16. now to politics and a bitter senate primary race in florida. one of the candidates is a self-made billionaire whose private life is getting about as much attention as his political views. nbc s norah o donnell is in miami with more on this. norah, good morning to you. reporter: hey, good morning, matt. this race is a key contest that could determine which party controls the u.s. senate. but for now this democratic primary is one of the nastiest in florida s history for closure, unemployment, huge issues here in florida and yet there s a lot of talk about one candidate s relationship with mike tyson, lindsay lohan, and how he made his billion-dollar fortune. jeff green is not your average politician. that s donald trump s house. he s a self-made billionaire who boast as lavish lifestyle. his opponent a florida native and son of one of the most prominent african-american leaders. i m the true candidate for the middle class. reporter: greene says when he came to palm beach, they had nothing. i was a bus boy first and then i became a waiter in the main dining room. reporter: and what did you learn? i ve learned in my life how far you can go. i can go from working here, i had to go through this back door only to get into the hotel. reporter: greene owns this $24 million mansion. millionaire or billionaire? who know what is they call it. reporter: his 154-foot yacht and spent his own money to try to win a u.s. senate seat. i can have all the money in the world. with everybody unemployed, you know, i think americans don t realize we re in a downward spiral and we have to re-invent this country. reporter: meek bet the housing market would collapse. you make a decision. you want to make money and you re playing a game on wall street, play that game. but you don t play that game and then turn around and go to the very state that you put your money against and made you a billionaire and say that i want to be your united states senator and i m going to represent you. not a single person lost a penny because of the investments i made. reporter: greene is trailing in the polls to meek. it s not policy. it s his personal life that s made the front pages. boxer mike tyson was greene s best man. this new year s he was photographed with lindsay lohan in the caribbean playground. i don t believe that he has the spirit to represent people. kendrick meek does not want to talk about his record and why he wants to keep talking about the sideshow issue of who i knew and didn t know. reporter: that doesn t say anything about your character, the company you keep? if i let someone sleep on our boat two nights, that s not what s important. the people of florida are suffering. reporter: now the winner of this democratic primary is going to face a unique challenge. a three-way race against a former state house speaker and then the governor of florida, charlie chryst, who is running as an independent. norah o donnell in miami, appreciate that. still ahead, a shocking death rocks the university of virginia campus. did a top magazine editor take his own life because he was b l bullied by his boss. the latest on that and much more ahead. ever since she came to the today show we ve been trying to knock a little yankee sense into her because she s a red sox fan. it hasn t worked. look where she turns up over the weekend. this was fenway park. meredith asked to throw out the first pitch. i want you to see this. here we go. is that more of a shot put type thing? you know what, she got it to the catcher. barely. and it s for a good cause, raising money for cancer research. meredith is home for the next couple of weeks icing down that arm. hold on a second. come on up here where your brothers sit. 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395 northbound, the 14th street bridge, one to the left, two to the right. on the bridge span, three through lanes headed for downtown. just be careful. 270 southbound, not bad. no significant backups at this hour. joe? jerry, thanks. another local news update in 25 minutes. and with school in session, we re here for you bright and 7:30 now on a monday morning, the 23rd of august, 2010. hi to all the nice guys and gals underneath umbrellas. we ve had some downpours this morning. out there handing out some warm drinks. no. we will in just a little while. inside the studio, i m matt lauer along with ann curry filling in for meredith. and coming up, a very serious story. details in a brutal bear attack. a worker mauled to death in an animal sanctuary when an 8-year-old bear he cared for turned on him. could the tragedy have been prevented? just ahead the 911 call placed during that attack. and also ahead, is work place bullying to blame for a suicide death of a magazine editor at the university of virginia? an investigation is now under way looking into that question. we ll get the latest on that, matt. we re looking forward to another interview later on. snowboarder kevin pierce will sit down for a live interview and talk to us about his recovery from the traumatic brain injury he sustained while training for the olympic winter games in vancouver. he looks like he s doing really well. looking forward to saying hi to him. first, let s begin with the latest on the capture of those two fugitives involved in the escape from an arizona prison. they dubbed themselves a modern day bonnie and clyde. george lewis has more on this. george, good morning. reporter: good morning, ann. john mccloskey and welch did label themselves a modern day bonnie and clyde. they surrendered although authorities say it easily could have gone the other way. it was early saturday when john mccluskey was brought here, being housed in separate cells. it was obvious they won t be getting out on bail anytime soon. that s $1 million apiece. on july 30th mccluskey and two other inmates escaped from this medium security prison. they suspect welch of helping them by throwing a pair of wire cutters over the fence. the other two men were caught. mccluskey and welch eluded the dragnet. finally the pair was captured at a campground in eastern arizona near the new mexico border. after a park ranger spotted the couple s gray nissan sentra parked in a strange position, partially hidden in the trees. the ranger, who doesn t want his identi identity revealed for fair of prepriceals, alerted police. they quickly rolled in and grabbed mccluskey. sergeant webb hogel of the apatchee county sheriff s department collared the fugitive. he made the statement that he wished he had, you know, killed the forest service employee when he had the chance. reporter: police say they have evidence linking mccluskey and welch to the murder of an oklahoma couple whose bodies were found inside their burned out travel trailer in new mexico. during the arrest as police went after welch, as she threw the gun down mccluskey made a possibly incriminating statement. when the sergeant on scene says donsays don t mess with th could be the murder weapon. he said, no, the murder weapon is over in the tent. those murders.utterances that reporter: now authorities in new mexico are eager to get their hands on mccluskey and welch to face potential murder charges. chillingly mccluskey told deputies if he could have gotten to that gun in the tent he would have shot it out with them. ann? george lewis this morning, thanks. chef web hogel responsible for bringing in the two fugitives, good morning and congratulations. thank you very much. good morning to you. very dramatic capture and as i understand it you arrived at the site and had to actually wait for an hour before all of your team arrived. once everybody was there, how exactly did this go down without a shoot-out as the two said they were going to plan if there s an attempt to capture them? my feeling that they were meant to be captured at the time. it was by luck we rolled in hard and fast and we caught them in the right spot at the right time. you literally had to take down john mccluskey, is that right? yes, ma am. and i guess the question is sort of how were you able to capture them alive without any one of your deputies being injured? i think we put together a good plan, had other agency cooperation, our drug task force team, members of my s.w.a.t. team and forest service personnel. when she reached for the gun, what did you do? at that point i just put down john mccluskey, myself and two other operators were coming around. she reached back and pulled out a gun. she did it in a manner and i could tell there was a little bit of hesitation by her trying to make the decision whether to shoot it out or put it down. thank goodness she put it down. the two afterwards were fairly chatty, as i understand. did they admit to killing this couple in arizona and there was a gun in the tent? the couple in new mexico, yes, they did. in new mexico, that s right. yes. they had said the murder weapon that they had used was in the tent. they also indicated that if he could have gotten to his gun he would have shot it out with us. it s amazing you were able to do this as safely as you did. as i understand it you re in commander of this task force for one week. are you hoping for a quieter second week, sheriff? yeah. it would be nice to have a quieter second week. well, we wish you that and i think you certainly deserve it. sheriff webb hoyle. thank you. a check of the weather from stephanie abrams in for al. hey, ann, this is not good morning. a mild start to this monday morning, off to work and school. temperatures around the region are in the low and mid-70s, around the metro area. 60s across parts of southern maryland and through central virginia in the central shenandoah valley. and we have some clouds coming through the region. we ll have a possibility of a passing shower this afternoon. highs reaching the low 80s. and then a likelihood of passing showers later tonight and off and on on tuesday could get some thunder tomorrow. smaller chance wednesday, thursday. and to find out if it s umbrella weather where you live, go to weather.com 24 hours a day. matt, over to you. a worker mauled to death by a bear. amy robach has the story. good morning. reporter: this man cared for bears but it was his favorite black bear, an 8 ye-year-old, w turned on him in a savage attack and now many are asking could this tragedy have been prevented? the horror of what happened to brent at this exotic animal sanctuary has his friends and family in total shock. it s pretty much like a bad dream. reporter: the 24-year-old young man was brutally mauled thursday evening by a 350-pound black bear named iroqois. he panicked and i panicked. reporter: the owner immediately called 911. bites on his body. i think he has a collapsed lung. that s my fear. sir, is he breathing right now? no! you just told me he was. now he s not. reporter: he was rushed to a medical center and died. the exact details of the attack are too traumatic to account. what started as friendly play suddenly became very violent. probably the hardest thing i ve ever been through in my life. reporter: brent cadro loved the bears and tigers at the sanctuary, all rescued or retired from the entertainment industry. pretty much had an animal in his life all his life. reporter: the owner has come under fire for running bear wrestling acts. and he s faced troubles with the u.s. department for publicly exhibiting animals without the proper license. it s tragic and it could have been prevented. reporter: mizzola staps by his record. i can say we ve had a perfect safety record. reporter: bear attacks are rare but certainly not unheard of. a mother grizzly went on a murderous rampage in montana. i couldn t believe the strength of this animal and i could just feel everything crushing. reporter: while her cubs watched she attacked three campers mauling one to death. now another community mourns for a young life lost gone way too soon. i loved brent and i miss him more than anything in the whole world. it s what we wanted to do. reporter: and at the wishes of kanda s family, the black bear has been euthanized. they are working to determine if any criminal charges may be filed in the case. matt? 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it was a toxic environment for kevin. reporter: waldo jakewith is the web editor. ted s treatment of kevin in the last two weeks of his life was just egregious and it just ate kevin up. reporter: then on the morning of july 30th, he sent kevin this e-mail criticizing his work again. kevin morrissey received this from his boss at 9:47 a.m. by 11:30, less than two hours later, he had come here to this tower near campus. kevin called 911 to report a shooting. that s when he pulled out a gun, pulled the trigger, and killed himself. it s just like, i can t take it anymore. it s just the last straw. reporter: while he battled with clinic depression, kevin blamed his boss for driving him over the edge. i can t bear things anymore, he wrote. in his apartment working with a self-absorbed, how to handle narcissistic personalities on the job. they say the most disturbing was the latest phone bill obtained by nbc news showing kevin made 17 calls to university offices in the week leading up to his death. and what did they do for him? nothing. he said a lot of really great things but no action ever resulted. reporter: university officials confirm they set up meetings. in an emrail to the staff genoway defended himself and blamed kevin. his work suffered and his demeanor to my mind was often unacceptable for the work place. i cannot accept the final blame he laid on me. he declined to speak with us on camera but his lawyer did. you ve heard the accusation. was your client a work place bully? he was not a work place bully. reporter: does ted take any responsibility for this? when kevin morrissey committed suicide it was a combination of unhappiness at work and his own long-standing clinical depression. reporter: but for kevin s family if genoway wasn t the cause he was, in their words, the final straw. with ongoing daily assaults and you re already depressed, how tough is that? reporter: the university of virginia admits no wrongdoing here but they have launched a full internal investigation into kevin s death. the work place environment of a magazine and allegations, matt, they did not act fast enough when kevin reached out for help. jeff, thank you very much. nicole williams is a career and work place expert. a nicole, good morning to you. good morning, matt. the university needs to conduct an investigation. i m going to let that happen. i m not going to jump to any conclusions. what does jump out at me, though, is the number of phone calls that were made by kevin to university officials in the days and weeks leading up to this. yes. and what s so funny, matt, bullying is random. there s no question about it. because it s not illegal it s not considered harassment unless the individual being bullied is under protected status and the person who is actually doing the bullying is not part of that protective status group. this goes on. people complain repeatedly and officials do not respond. if there are repeated complaints, clearly it s a he said/she said situation or in this case he said/he said, but does the university need to at least separate these two while they re conducting a further investigation? yes, you d think so. yes, matt. absolutely. the way this is dealt with and of course we re going to learn more as time goes on, sounds as if this was a very tragic case that was not handled well. it is true there s bullying going on without question. i think there is this is a great opportunity for us to reflect on why is bullying so rampant. what defines work place bullying? you can be a tough boss without being a bully. it s repeated, matt, and it s all about undermining someone. it is about and this is the problem with bullying. sometimes it s very covert, very passive/aggressive, gossiping about people, not letting them into important meetings. it s treating them meanly and poorly but, you re right, it s tough. what s the difference between a tough boss. he also had a history of clinical depression and that may have influenced the way officials viewed this. absolutely. they may have thought this was something more in line with his depression and less in line with what was going on in the work place. absolutely. we don t know. it s so chicken and egg, matt. inevitably you re bullied at work, you re going to be depressed. at what point is the bullying sp responsible for the depression and unfortunate suicide? this is a really interesting case and definitely is going to bring light to work place healthy work place out and about and certainly this is going to definitely bring interest to this topic. nicole williams, thanks. 7:49. up next, can kids tell the difference in designer duds and clothing from a discount retailer? we ll put a group of teens to the test. equals chili s $20 dinner for two. share one of five appetizers, like our famous texas cheese fries. then choose two freshly prepared entrees from 14 chili s favorites, like our chicken crispers with new sweet & smoky sauce, our new slow-smoked honey chipotle baby back ribs, or grilled all-white meat chicken fajitas served over a bed of sizzling peppers and onions. grab a friend and get one appetizer plus two entrees with chili s $20 dinner for two. swipe your card please. excuse me.? this belongs to you. o.um.thank you. excuse me. this is yours. thank you! you re welcome. with chase freedom you can get a total of 5% cash back in your pocket. fun money from freedom. this is yours! thank you! what? 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looks like we have just very minimal delays on the 14th street bridge this morning. that is very good news. one more stop, top side of the capital beltway, on again, off again delays from new hampshire avenue to georgia avenue. another local news update in 25 minutes. and with school in 8:00 now on a monday morning, the 23rd day of august, 2010. a wet and wild day here in the northeast. we ve had rain and thunderstorms over the last 24 hours. we have a nice group of people gathered under umbrellas, tolerating our fantastic weather. i m matt lauer along with ann curry who is filling in while meredith is taking time off. one of the things about being here is that every single one of you is going to be on television. we ll pan the crowd today. coming up we ll talk about the remarkable story of kevin pierce, the american snowboarder who suffered a traumatic brain injury just a few weeks before the vancouver olympic winter games. doctors say that his survival and recovery are nothing short of a miracle. we ve been following this story and we re thrilled to say kevin pierce is live in our studio. we re going to talk to him in just a couple of minutes. he s a very sweet guy. also coming up, a lot of people are shopping for their kids back to school wear. would your kids let you shop at a discount retailer? 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all eyes on activity that may make investors more bullish. hewlett-packard entered into a bidding war with dell, dat at that storage company. meantime in other news those new credit card rules that went into effect yesterday may have actually helped fuel a rise in your credit card rate levels we have not seen for nine years because the new laurie strikts card issuers of raising rates that have risen preemptively. sponsors say that consumers are protected by the new legislation, carl. thank you very much, melissa lee at the nyse. fountains of fun. mexico city this weekend where 2,400 people broke a world record for setting off the most me mentos and soda geysers at the same time. gives new meaning for refresh mak maker. anyway, it is 8:04. now back to matt and ann. carl, thanks very much. good morning. a pleasant start, back to work and school this monday morning. i m meteorologist tom kierein right now. temperatures are in the 70s around the metro area and throughout much of the region. highs in the low and mid-80s today. and we do have a chance for a passing shower this afternoon. then a greater chance tonight. a likelihood on tuesday. could get some thunder tomorrow as well. cloudy and highs in the mid- and upper 70s. then on wednesday, into the low 80s. mostly cloudy, a smaller chance of a shower. small chance of a shower on thursday. i keep finding people without umbrellas, matt. all right, stephanie, thank you so much. i m going to turn this so you can see them behind me. coming up next, we will talk about the remarkable recovery of the american snowboarder who nearly died in a training accident this week before the vancouver olympics. we ll talk to him. in 2008 i quit venture capital to follow my passion for food. i saw a gap in the market for a fresh culinary brand and launched behindtheburner.com. we create and broadcast content and then distribute it across tv, the web and via mobile. i even use the web to get paid. with acceptpay from american express open, we now invoice advertisers and receive payments digitally. and i get paid on average three weeks faster. booming is never looking for a check in the mail. because it s already in my email. i couldn t sleep right. next day it took forever to get going. night after night, i sat up. sprayed up. took a shower. or took a pill. then i tried drug-free breathe right. and instantly, i breathed better! i slept better. i felt.better. thank you, breathe right! 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kevin s older brother, david, is his biggest fan, and a champion in his own right winning multiple medals it at the special olympics. i look over to my left and see dave and he has this huge pile of medals and he s already been to the special olympics and he s already done that. reporter: after kevin s accident the brothers became an inspiration to one another. i think kevin has learned a lot about patience from david because everything takes longer and the challenges have been immense from him. reporter: today all efforts remain on kevin s recovery. his eyesight has been affected by the accident and he now wears special glasses to compensate but he vows he will recover and return to the days when the pierce boys would practice their tricks for hours in the backyard even some day hopefully strapping on his beloved board and heading back up the mountain. for today, kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicago. kevin pierce is here along with his mom. grit to see you. normally i would start with you. i m going to talk to your mom first. good idea. a few months ago this would not have seemed possible to be sitting here in this studio. we are so grateful that kevin has worked so hard to get better and i really believe it s his own inner determination and he had it before when he was working so hard to get to the olympics and then when this happened to him he just hung on to that strength and here he is today. the brain is an amazing thing when you stop and think about it, not only because of physically what you have been able to do in terms of recovery but because of the fact you don t remember a thing about the accident. i think it s a very good thing, i don t remember them cutting into my head twice and i don t remember anything for a month and a half. it s amazing that i don t remember a month and a half in my life and i m sitting here in such great shape. i remember tom brokaw talked to you, went and visited you, and you spent so many years training to get to those olympic games and the irony of you watched those games in a rehabilitation hospital. what was that like for you? yeah, that was a pretty interesting time just because of how bad a shape i was in and watching the olympics and knowing that i could have been there and that was my dream and i worked so hard to get there and it was really the only thing at that point when i was snowboarding that really mattered to me. the fact i was in such bad shape when that was going on. it was very hard for me and one of the hardest things ever to watch on tv. balance balance has been an issue and eyesight. you were still having trouble with your eyesight. where does that stand? i still have trouble with my e eyesight. your eyes are actually a muscle so we do a lot of eye exercise to try to get them better and stuff like that. along with my vision and balance, my reaction time is also a bit slow now so i need to work on that to try to get my license back. so you can drive again. a major hurdle. there s the physical side of this and then there is the emotional side that we ve come to know. i don t know i m sure that a lot of families would have pulled together the way your family did. your other three sons all sacrificed and chipped in and got together for kevin. what did you learn about your family based on this? i think it really reinforced for me how important family can be, how powerful the love of family is. and i think pulling together for us was something that wasn t hard because we would just do that. it could happen to anybody. something happened to me i feel like everybody in the family would be there for me in the same way. i think it was just striking how powerful and how much of a difference it really makes. and, kevin, what did it mean to your recovery? how much was the emotional side of things? how much did it play a role in the actual recovery? i think it played the biggest role ever, the amount of stuff they did and having everybody there. they were there by my side the entire time and it was a long time. seven months? going on almost eight months now. they ve been with me the whole time. it s beyond amazing having them. the food in the hospital wasn t the best. they brought me food every day. home cooking is nice. we love that. that was just so special and everything they did for me was just beyond belief, how amazing they have been. everybody wants to know are you going to board again and to what level? mom is smiling. i imagine mom gets a say in this. are you going to get back on the snowboard? yes. i m very lucky and excited that i am able to get back on a snowboard just because of the shape i was in seven months ago and you saw from that photo that i was practically dead and the fact that i am going to be able to do that. mom, how are you going to feel about that? the doctors have given you the what if if something like that were to happen again. he can t do it again. i ve had anxiety before. i guess i ll have probably some anxiety again. but i feel like it s kevin s life and he needs to make his own choices and we re here to support him. i think we know what that choice is going to be. keep in touch, all right? do you have something format senate. oh, yeah. and there s an amazing amount of support. by the way, wear helmets. to the young people, wear helmets. or else i d be dead. thank you so much. good luck. 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i like to shop at hollister. it can be pricey but it s so cute. i like to shop at 21. they have great dresses. i would shop there and a store that has a lot of stuff for cheap prices. i love to shop at bloomingda bloomingdale s. it s fun because you can get everything there. you can get good stuff for not that much. all four say they love to get a good bargain, they have never shopped for clothes at discount mega stores like walmart or kmart. only one had ever checked out fashions at target. do you check out labels? the look is good and it s worth it. we conducted an unscientific experiment to see if the savvy teen shoppers could figure out where the fashions came from. we told them they would be part of a back-to-school fashion show and could choose any items from these racks of clothes to model. all right, ladies, hit the racks. what they didn t know was the entire wardrobe came from kmart, target and walmart and cost under $30 apiece with the labels removed, the girls had to rely on their own sense of style. finally, after careful selection and trying on several different o outfits, the models were ready for show time. beautiful girls all over the world i could be chasing what do you girls think of these outfits? they re great. fabulous. anybody have any idea what store they came from? no. i d say the bottoms maybe from gap. any idea how much each piece costs? maybe the dress cost $50. what do you think? i think the top came from h&m because i have one similar to it. would you buy these clothes? yes. they re really nice. i would. then it was time for the big reveal. all right. so guess what, these came from kmart, walmart, and target. olivia was wearing a walmart and target top for $10 each and kmart jeans for $20. a total of $40. helen was wearing a target dress. her total outfit $22. nicole had on a walmart hoodie, leggings, and tank for $12 each for a total of $36. and a walmart top for $10, a target tank for $8, and leggings for $7. her total outfit $25. are you surprised? yeah, i am. they re really nice clothes. i really like them. i m so surprised. i couldn t believe it. yeah, but they re really nice. and what about the prices? prices are amazing. i was definitely shocked. i did not honestly expect walmart or kmart wow. i m still shocked. gotcha. how do you make the most of your back-to-school bucks? get the idea of the look and then check out some of the discounters to see if you can find similar clothing that may be inspired by the big designers. as we found out, you, your kids, and your wallets will be very happy, ann. so how did you get so stumped? i don t understand. would you guys tell your friends where you bought these clothes? would you try to not reveal that, broadcast it? helen? it would be my little secret. they might reveal if asked. this is not the only thing you would suggest. if you buy something for your child, cut the label out, but what else? go look for the promotional code for the big retailers. a lot offer coupons. there s a lot of back-to-school specials out there. go now when it s on sale and buy for next year if you find anything. there are different ways to save. go to the big department stores. see what s in. they have fabulous sales. sign up for their e-mails. they ll tell you 20% to 30% off the next hour. go online. you really have to be shop smart, savvy shopper. savvy shopper, maybe going into one of these stores with dark glasses. so funny. were you really shocked? i was honestly very shocked. i did not expect it to come from walmart. you look good. i m glad you like the clothes. that s a good way for parents to save money. parents were very happy when we revealed to them, by the way. thanks for taking off the first day of school to be here this morning. you re welcome. we re going to meet today s wedding finalists. taking a live look outside, it s 75 degrees out there. a dry morning, but rain in the forecast this week. good morning. it s 8:26 right now. i m kimberly suiters. in the news today, tens of thousands of children around our area are getting ready for the first day of school. it is the first day for students in d.c. as well as prince george s, frederick, and anne arundel counties in maryland. in prince george s county, there are two new schools including barack obama elementary in upper marlboro and an all-male charter school. last year in prince george s county students did not have a schedule on first day because of computer problems. school officials say all of those issues have been fixed this year. your weather and traffic are coming up next. stay with us. good morning. at this hour, it s partly cloudy. temperatures around the region in the 70s. highs today in the low and mid-80s and the chance of an afternoon shower. greater chance tonight, likely tomorrow. how s the traffic? for the most part, doing okay. one notable exception, an accident southbound 29, south of white oak before four corners. police are on the scene dealing with that. at the wilson bridge, both the inner loop and outer loop moving right along, looking good. kimberly? another local news update in 25 minutes. and with school in session, we re here for you bright and 8:30 on a monday morning, the 23rd of august, 2010. let s not sugar-coat it. it s nasty here in the northeast and will be for the better part of the day. but on the bright side nice people gathered outside on our plaza. they have their umbrellas. i m matt lauer along with ann curry. meredith is taking some time off. because ann is here, kacarl quintanilla now i m confused. nice enough to fill in over at the news desk and he joins us. coming up, martha stewart. you came on the right day. martha is here to help you organize your kitchen, yours, too. she will help us make a kitchen not only stylish but functional as well. she has some great kitchen tips and she ll be sharing those in just a couple of minutes. and speaking of martha stewart, we think about her and weddings sometimes. it s that time of the year again. time to choose this year s wedding couple. we ve narrowed it down to four finalis finalists. this morning you ll meet those finalists and we ll tell you how you can choose the winner. plus, how often do you spend rning in bed while your rtner s dead when their head hits the pillow. what they re calling sleep envy. yeah. something we know a lot about. i fall right asleep. i do. boom. right until the alarm wakes up. boom. envy. a lot to get to. let s get a check of the weather. al is off today. stephanie abrams is filling in. no jacket. no raincoat. this is a pleasant monday morning. good morning. i m meteorologist tom kierein. now in the 70s. highs today should be and mid-8. now 75 in washington, but there is a chance for a passing shower late this afternoon and overnight tonight. and then a likelihood during the day on tuesday of occasional passing showers and perhaps some thunder. highs in the 70s. and then wednesday, a bit milder, but still mostly cloudy and a smaller chance of a shower. also, a small chance of a shower thursday. otherwise, partly cloudy. and for your back-to-school forecast, weather.com 24 hours a day. we want to find out who is celebrating today. i will hand it over to willard in d.c. hey, willard. i don t think they re still in business but it is time to go back to school. ring the bell. do your thing. i think half the kids love it. they re bored. happy birthday, how sweet it is. swimming, camping, scratching. irma robinson is 102. loves playing with her cat and enjoys playing cards with her friends. happy birthday. nice name. shirley myers. fourth time she s tried to get on the show, played the piano in church until she was 102. they hauled the piano away and she was still going. we have regina st. germain, 102. loves cooking. says her secret ingredient is lots of butter. me, too. butter and oleo for 50 years. we have fred ignacio out of california, 101. lives independently and still drives to the grocery store. we wish him well. that s terrific. ruth bettman known as dear. hey, dear, come here, please. she was a flapper back in the 20s. so was i. and finally we have jonathan robinson of huntsville, florida, 100 years old today. became a broadway singer at 21. opened his own theater and that is been helping young artists perform. that s it. that s all. back to new york. willard, thank you so much. up next, martha stewart shows us how to do everything we need to create a kitchen that works. this morning on martha on today some top kitchen tips. secrets for creating a kitchen that s not only beautiful but functional as well. all these tips right off the pages of martha stewart living. good morning. nice to see you. and 50 tips. you could have done 500 tips. i probably could have but we he h edited it down to what i think people should at least start with, 50. these are basic and some are so you love dish towels, not the big monster ones. you like little ones and you can t have enough of them. you can use the little bar cloths good for wiping counters and they re easily washed and laundered and i keep these damp whenever i m working so i wipe the counter with this not paper towels. you fill an entire drawer. not just one. it s such a useful way and i know when i start cooking a meal, i have all the towels i need. all easily washable. this is a good hint. when you want your cutting board this can be acrylic or wood. some heavy chopping, put a damp dish cloth underneath. try to move that. or you can use one of these nonstick surfaces. can you clean that? oh, sure. just wash it in soapy water. knifes, people put them in the blocks. i like the drawer because i don t want the knifes out. i just don t want them i put them in a drawer and i can just grab the knife i want. these actually work very, very well and they do keep your knifes from getting dull. but don t just throw your knifes in a drawer haphazardly. you reach in, you can cut yourself easily. and when you cut yourself, you should have a first aid kit. you have a whole drawer dedicated to that. this is so easy. everything is totally reachable. i have one for my pets, because i have a lot of pets, and one for humans. this has everything i need if i want an aspirin or a nail clipper or a q-tip. what s the pink? benadryl. allergy. and then throat lozenge, anything is all accessible and i love having drawers. all in containers. how many cats do snuff. i have five. each has his or her own dish. these nonstick trays where did you find these? i m not allowed to say. i m sorry. these are cool. you put a big water bottle in one and food dish on the other and these are great. my cats really are picky. they want their open bowl. and they know which bowl is theirs? of course. they read? oh, yes. okay. now for washing dishes, another nice hint if you have a hard thing. it won t break. i don t want to break my glasses. you can also put a tub in the sink, a soft, plastic tub, so the glass can soak there and it won t break. okay. and decanting your dish liquid or hand lotion into decorative containers is a very good thing. and you don t have big labels everywhere. it s nice. whose stuff is that? i m kidding you. it s the time of year for fresh vegetables and produce. a lot of people put that in the refrigerator. you don t like the included cluttered look so you organize it. it shouldn t go in the refrigerator and it s so nice with the farm tomatoes to put them 0 out on a platter. i keep my fruit out, too. peaches taste so much better or apples, room temperature. eggs, too. we re having a big problem with eggs so everybody better be careful where their eggs come from. organically grown you can keep out for a few days. that s not a problem? oh, no, no, no. they re fresh. and so this looks nice, too, on your counter. it does. a festive feeling of the spring or summer. all year i do this. all year i keep it out. this cart is an ingenious idea, something you can t live without. and i have two of these in my kitchen and people love them because you can keep all your salts and peppers in dishes like this. do you cover those? no, no, no. don t worry about dust? i would hate to think of dust in martha s house. you don t worry about dust? no. and i keep all my tools, my hand tools accessible in crocks like this, and my spatulas, my whisks, wooden spoons like this so i grab what i need. and not just for me, many, many people do this. the 50 tips show you how to organize your kitchen just to make it more useful. very functional and also pretty. out of the pages of martha stewart living. up next, our couples competing for a chance to be mayrried liv on our plaza. [ male announcer ] new inventory. new equipment. new trucks. new hires. new space. new markets. achievement seizes new opportunity. go to pnc.com/businessloans to see how we can help your cash flow situation. pnc. for the achiever in us all. announcer: today s wedding is brought to you by chevy. every model is backed by a 100,000-mile five-year power train limited warranty. back now at 8:45 with our special series today s wedding: modern love. this morning we ll reveal our finalists competing for the opportunity to get married live on our show. hundreds of videos and applications, we ve narrowed it down to four couples. here are their stories. what i want you ve got that might be hard to handle we met at college training in 1989, just graduated high school, introduced to each other. i thought he was cute. i just remember seeing her and i was sold. we department actually start dating until our junior year of college. it was at that time we became serious. you make my dreams come true we did have a breakup for about eight to ten months. he did move back to long island and it was at that time that i realized i couldn t be without him. ready, babe? ready. let s go. we re excited to wake up with each other every day. we want our lives together. every day is something new and interesting. magic, magic, magic it s something that you feel. there s something missing when you re not with me. when we re together people like to be around us. you re the one. thanks. not a guess. i know. you re doing great, babe. keep up the good work. whenever we go some place, it s a comfort that you get knowing that your best friend is next to you. good morning, today show. i thought i would skype you so you could see how my fiancee and i communicate on a daily basis. hi, i m melissa. i m in the united states air force. we met in 2007 and i proposed to her when i returned from iraq in 2008. we were at a choir performance our senior year of high school. i was new to the school. i was very shy in high school. she was the prettiest girl in the room. i had to get to know her. after several long months of begging and pleading she finally agreed to go out on a date. i see her as the most wonderful girl in the world. she ll still sit down and have a nice day on skype with me. is it hot there today? no, not as bad. oh, my gosh, you look so pretty. thank you. he would send me flowers from afghanistan and do all these special things for me. to make me still feel special. have a good night, sweetheart. miss you. he comes home from afghanistan in september. i m getting married, icing on the cake. i love her with all my heart and she deserves the very best. i would love to surprise her with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. i m marcus allen. we actually met at a cvs. now i don t want to plan a wedding and he doesn t want to plan a wedding, so we need you to mrplan our wedding and the honeymoon. i went into cvs looking for directions and i call him my traveling superman because he comes out, i know where that is. i gave her a business card and said, you have to let me ta take you to lunch. she said, no, you call me. i invited him at church. you know what, we should go to lunch. about six months into it i knew that this would be the person i would want to marry. big old boy. every once in a while he ll look up, you don t want to date me. one of the quirky things i love is her laugh. her laugh is infectious. i think one of the big advantages that makes us work well as a couple is that i m her number one fan and i think she is my number one fan. you see, you don t know? i know she s my number one fan. we make each other happy and we just can t lose let me know take a chance if you have no place to go we re trying to achieve the goal of our lives, have the wedding of our dreams. today show, we are your next couple. we ve been together now for nearly four years. i came to mississippi on a scholarship. we both had to take anatomy class and were study partners. i would call him my best friend. she tried to teach me yoga. doesn t work. i tried to teach her soccer. doesn t work. i always thought i d marry a catholic boy. i got the catholic part but not italian. it s been a huge blessing i got to meet him and the fact he s from another country, we learn so much and gain perspective. he always has a different way of looking at things. i have been to ireland twice. she fits in with my family like a glove. she s definitely the one. we have our eyes on the prize. love, love got to have something to keep us together love, love that s enough for me am i glad i don t have to make the choice. they are four terrific couples. we have zero to do with this. it s up to our viewers. they re such nice people. do they have any idea marriage wise, letting our viewers do all the selections. they do pretty well, our viewers. we have a good track record. vote for your favorite couple. head to our website todayshow.com. you can also text your choice to 622639. that is one for lauren and greg, two for melissa and jeremy, three for shakira and marcus or four for genevieve and david. you have until 1:00 p.m. eastern time tomorrow to cast your vote. you can vote on your facebook page. the biggest social network in the world. a lot of these were posted on facebook. to follow the wedding process you have to click like us. you have to like us. hopefully that s not too hard for you. your comments and votes and we ll reveal the winning couple live on wednesday. and then we start right off with the selections. it goes crazy. it s a very fast process this year. rings, cake, all of it. orientation at school, the drugstore, and that one couple, the one kid who thought he never had a chance. he kept trying and trying. that s that kid from afghanistan. you don t have a chance. we ll find out more about it. we re back in a moment. 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. just ahead, sleep envy. the problems that arise when one spouse has such an easy time falling asleep. the other tosses and turns. and your child s health. first your local news and weather. clear skies and 78 degrees right now. good morning. it s 8:56 on this monday, august 23rd, 2010. i m kimberly suiters. in the news for today, tens of thousands of children are dreaming about their past summers right now in school. it s back to school for students in d.c., as well as prince george s, frederick, and anne arundel counties in maryland. police want to remind drivers to be extra cautious with so many buses on the roads and many students walking to school this morning. expect to see more metro transit police on the rails as kids head back to school. two large fights involving young people in the past month have brought more attention to youth on the rail system. transit officials have going to schools to talk to students about their behavior on trains and in stations. your weather and traffic are coming up next. stay with us. 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thanks, jerry. another local news update in 25 minutes. with school in we are back with more of today on a rainy monday morning, the 23rd day of august, 2010. almost the end of this month. expect it to be kind of wet throughout much of the day here in the big apple, the first part of the week. we re glad these people decided to brave the bad weather and stopped by to see us this morning. we thank you very much. matt lauer along with ann curry. hi, hasarah. totally different view today. welcome. nice to have you here. what the government is doing about the massive egg recall that has sickened hundreds if not thousands of people. more than half a billion eggs pulled off store shelves for fear of salmonella contamination dating back to may. why did it take so long to notify the public? we re going to hear from the fda and have the latest on the recall in a couple of minutes. something a lot of people can relate to and that is something called sleep envy, when you re tossing and turning all night and your partner is snoozing away next to you without a care in the world. well, according to some experts, women suffer from insomnia more than men. so why does it happen and actually do women deliberately sabotage their partner s sleep? sabotage in what way? is like every 20 minutes my mom wakes my dad up. really? why? are you awake? are you awake? now i am. and speaking of partners, we ll explore the stories of men and women who thought they were happily married until the day they uncovered a shocking sec t secret. a wall street husband who was actually a bank robber to a man who used his marriage to spy for the cuban government. you ll be shocked how their double lives were kept secret. that keeps interest in a marriage. mystery. come on. that s in the 10:00 hour. but first let s get a check of the top morning s stories from carl quintanilla who is over at the news desk while ann is here. carl, good morning to you. good morning, everyone. that nationwide recall of more than a half billion eggs could get even bigger in the coming days and weeks. nbc s tom costello is in washington this morning. tom, good morning. reporter: carl, bigger because they re trying to go back and figure out who has already been sickened and tie that to salmonella cases that they have seen. so far no reports of any deaths. 16-month-old eva jones is a nonstop bundle of energy. now recovered after her parents rushed her to an e.r. in waterloo, iowa, this month dehydrated and sick. after eight days in the hospital, the diagnosis was salomon salmonella poisoning, probably from eggs. over the past three months hundreds, maybe thousands of people, are thought to have been sickened after eating contaminated eggs. now more than half a billion have been pulled off the market in 22 states. the contaminated eggs were shipped from mid-may to mid-august but a voluntary recall wasn t announced until this month. you have to start an investigation. first you see the rise in the number of cases of salmonella above the normal background. then you start to identify the clusters of cases and do the investigation of where they might have been exposed. reporter: the egg farms in iowa at the center of this recall were owned or supplied with chickens and feed by jack decoster, the sixth biggest egg producer in the country with a troubled past. he was labelled a habitual violator for water pollution and waste violations, fined for federal health violations for sweatshop conditions in maine. his company paid $1.3 million to 11 female employees to settle allegations of sexual assault and intimidation in 2002. then in fwe decoster pled guilty to knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and just two months ago the company paid $130,000 fine for animal cruelty documented in undercover video. gasps for air as she slowly dies. reporter: phillip is a reporter for the des moines register. what would be wrong with this large scale industrial scale agriculture. at the same time he was an embarrassment to conventional big agriculture because he was constantly in the headlines. reporter: we asked de coster s company for comment t. declined. the fda would have much more authority and manpower, both of which it lacks right now, that coming after salmonella outbreaks in peanut butter, spinach and processed foods. tom costello in washington. a dramatic end to a hostage standoff in manila. a former police officer who opened fire while holding chinese tourists on a bus was found dead. a s.w.a.t. team was seen leading the hostages to safety. and an amazing survival story. trapped underground for 17 days, 33 miners in chile are alive. on sunday a narrow drill broke through into an emergency chamber, the trapped miners tied notes to the end of the drill saying all 33 of us are fine in the shelter. later a video camera showed the faces of some of the miners. getting them out is not going to be easy. it could take months. in the meantime they ll be able to get food, water and air through the drill hole. and the expendables held the top spot at the box office this weekend taking in more than $16 million. the twilight spoof vampires suck was sikd. eat, pray, love was third. it is now five minutes past the hour. back to matt, ann and a great way to say suck on television. we ve had this discussion. movies have funny names. even the commercial isn t it the patch that says quitting yeah. so isn t it redundant? what? vampires no. okay. we ve now said it three times. i think i might be out. no, we re keeping you. let s go to the weather channel and stephanie a delightful monday under way. it s partly cloudy, lower humidity in place. good morning. a live view from our sky watcher camera. there is virginia in the distance, and northwest washington in the foreground. right now, 75 at national airport. and it s in the mid-70s throughout most of the region. highs today in the low to mid-80s. there s a chance of a passing shower this afternoon and overnight tonight, a likelihood on tuesday, maybe with some thunder and should be cooler, and there s a smaller chance again wednesday and thursday. carl, over to you. stephanie, thanks. we ve all been there, tossing be a turning in the wee hours of the morning only to find your partner sound asleep night after night. apparently the sleeplessness happens more often to women than men and watching your man nod off the moment his head hits the pillow unleashes a sleeping beast. sleep, it just isn t like it used to be. these days shut eye is just as tough to come by, hard to come by, evasive and often unattainable. the only thing worse than tossing and turning when your partner is blissfully catching his zs. i don t know, inside it just bothers me or somehow there s something in my brain that i want him to wake up so that i m not alone, also. her reaction is not uncommon. in fact, it s part of a new phenomenon referred to as sleep envy. you re laying in bed, you ve had a hard day and you turn around and your partner is snuggled up into the blankets snoring away, content, and you lay there thinking, i just want to get to sleep. it can be amazingly frustrating. a spokesperson for silent night a bed manufacturer in england. they conduct add survey that found sleeping men have their tossing women turning green with envy. 40% of women actually suffer with sleep envy and one in four actually confessed to waking up their partners. i shuffle around in bed, sometimes i m being a little more obvious than little rael nudging or poking. i just wake up angry. then i roll over and go back to sleep. that, for me, is more frustrating. one in ten. i guess i have tried pinching before. i have to admit to that. sleeping beauty becomes the sleeping beast. i think in the morning it all kind of goes away. i definitely remember it. david rapport is director of nyu sleep disorder center and robi ludwig is a psychotherapist and contributor for care.com. good morning to you both. good morning. there s the sense men have an easier time falling asleep than women. is there truth to that? there s certainly truth women have more trouble and there are certain men who have normally the ability to fall asleep and some who have disorders particularly trouble breathing which makes them sleep. that s not true of all men. women sometimes actually sleep deeper than men, is that true? they have more depth of sleep which is thought of as deep sleep. the significance is not necessarily that they have deeper sleep in the general sense but they have different sleep. how do you know when you re just having some trouble sleeping due to minor stress and when you have a medical problem? in general from a medical point of view we define insomnia as a chronic problem or acute problem. short term we all know what it s like to have one or two or three bad nights but when you have trouble falling asleep when you want to every night or most nights for longer than three months we call that chronic insomnia and that s a problem you need to deal with. robi, i talked to my wife about this last night. she said the answer is obvious, women have more on their minds, they run the household. and this is especially true for single moms and moms with young kids. there s just so much to take care of. it can put you on mental overload and what we know is worrying can sometimes really make it difficult to fall asleep. so when you look at your partner and he s fast asleep and you re worrying about all the things you need to take care of, it can create a lot of resentment. how do you get over the envy component of all of this? i think dr. david gave great advice in terms of us understanding and psycho education. if you understand that men are just more inclined or some men are more inclined to fall asleep easier, then knowing that will help you understand your partner isn t lazy or trying to avoid you or isn t an unsupportive partner, it s just biology. in terms of getting to sleep, you have a few tips we ll talk abo about. first, establish a regular routine, going to bed at a standard time. exactly. sleep is a habit. and you have to develop habits. if you go to bed at the same time and get up at the same time in the morning, you are more likely to set your body s internal clock. if you try to work late, you know, sometimes and then go to sleep it s like jet lag. it doesn t work. avoiding alcohol and caffeine seems like a no-brainer? caffeine is a no-brainer late at night. then in our society we do a lot of caffeine. alcohol is less well known. it seems to help people go to sleep but disrupts the sleep afterward and we recommend that those people who have trouble with sleep avoid taking alcohol as a sleeping aid. you mentioned two other things, relaxation techniques if you need them and using the bed only for sleep and sex, not staying in bed to read for long periods of time. the first one, anxiety is a very big part of sleeplessness. insomnia, you wake up, you start worrying about sleep but you start worrying about all those things you didn t do during the day. that s not going to help. put your worry off to some other time if you possibly can. learn to relax and clear your mind of things that keep you up. bed is for sleeping. and don t be a one-man band. make sure to have your health in place so you don t have to overload and worry too much. you don t have to do everything. give him one little pinch? i think so. i m a woman and i m a little biased. thanks so much. thank you. still to come this morning, a parent s guide to common health myths for kids. up next, who did i marry? a shocking look at the secret double lives of some spouses. depression is a serious medical condition that can take so much out of you. i feel like i have to wind myself up just to get out of bed. then.well, i have to keep winding myself up to deal with the sadness, the loss of interest, the trouble concentrating, the lack of energy. 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would you say you had a happy marriage? i definitely think we did have a happy marriage. we had two kids and just living our lives. definitely at the end of our marriage is when things got really mad that i didn t know he was out. this is shocking. did you have any sense that maybe he wasn t robbing banks, which is pretty extreme, but any sense something was different or wrong? different aspects were wrong because he was taking care of himself. his hiding changed. he was very angry all the time. steven, what happened to you? i used to say, what happened to my husband? it really used to drive me crazy thinking for months and months how he was getting worse and worse, and he just wasn t happy. this is not the guy who i married. this is somebody that really changed. doctor, can you decipher what she describes? you begin to think maybe just depression. how can people in other situations avoid this idea of being duped? that could so easily be a contributor. it could be easily misinterpreted and could be anyone. you really do have to take time to get to know that person. you ve got to really focus on some warning signs. some of those warning signs are not so obvious. the questions on the front end like what? tell me about your family. pay attention to how you treat your family members or your friends. and pay attention to changes in behavior because he changed his hygiene, the way he interacted with the family. those can be signs that you re depressed but can be signs of something else. people can be deceptive for a long time because remember on the front end they re giving you their representative. a representative can show up for a really long time, sometimes years, and then shift and they haven t shared all the information with you. often what people say, your confidence, people you trust n. many cases we can t see it when we re subjective. somebody else can see what s going on. and then pay attention to what we call the spidey senses. if you have ideas about things changing in your relationship, don t deny them. don t focus on other things just because you don t want to know the answer. you really have to be a good investigator and sometimes trust just isn t enough. you have to pay attention to what other people are saying. the biggest thing you mentioned was the shift. how do you tell the difference if the fine line is a different side of the fence, the person who is quirky and doesn t have a huge social circle and you mentioned getting to know these people. how do you distinguish between someone who is an odd duck and someone who is out leading a double life? go back to the beginning and give yourself time. most people will reveal their true selves over time. eventually whoever they are organically is going to come out. if it s just three days, now we re engaged and six months we re married, that s not enough time to get to know who people are organically. this is something that to me was so hard for me because it used to drive me crazy. i used to cry all the time, what happened to this mab i mayn i m and you did get divorced? i did. how did your kids handle that? my kids are doing good. they go to counseling still, which i think is really something that has helped them. and it s helped me. so the kids are doing good. they really are. how do you recover from this? the counseling is really, really important. you have to remember, don t beat yourself up. many people can get duped and oftentimes we lay blame and shame on ourselves for things that were not so obvious in the beginning. give yourself some time to grow through the experience. take the information that you learned and then use it so you don t make the next mistake by not looking at the signs going into another relationship and get counseling for your children. that s part of the equation, too. they have to grieve the loss as well. thank you both for being here today. who did i marry premieres this wednesday night on investigations discovery. still ahead, a worldwide search is on for a priceless van gogh painting stolen are for the second time from cairo. hebrew national hot dogs are made with butcher quality cuts of 100 percent pure kosher beef. people say they re so good maybe it s time they were called something new. they are the royalty of hot dogs, i call them queen elizabeefs! hebrew national. the better than a hot dog hot dog. as the towel used to dry them. so why use the same hand towel over and over instead of a clean, fresh one every time? 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good. are you ready to cook? oh, yay. come on. they told me about you in the kitchen and your wonderful cooking skills. i ve never been in here before. how about your own kitchen at home? i ve never been in there either. use it for storage. do you have a kitchen? yes. that s a good start. we re going to be doing some roasts today. only two of us at home and the reason people don t like to go to these places and save money is, what am i going to do with that big old hunk of meat. i was wondering the same thing. brown the meat to intensify the flavor. why grape seed rather than olive oil? olive oil you don t want to cure at high heat because of the smoke point. i love the way you move back. i m worried about my outfit. i promise you, it doesn t hurt. okay. the olive oil you don t want it to smoke. it loses its wolf healthy properties. still a lot of great, healthy properties but this might be a dumb question but can you get grape seed anywhere? yes, you can. you can buy it at any supermarket orca know la has a great smoke point. you want to saute your onions and garlic. you don t want to overcook them. they are kind of clear and i use the same pan that i use for the actual roast and then hand me some wine. don t worry, it s not going to splash you. how much? it won t splash you if you add it to oil. whoa. you said smoking wasn t a part of this. the wine, if you won t drink it don t cook with it. correct. add that back in there with the vegetabl vegetables, potatoes, carrots and we added salt. just add a little bit of white pepper. cover it up, cook it for two hours and you re done and you will have an amazing, amazing roast. that looks delicious. this is dinner the first night. what else can we do? we go from here to now i have a lot of meat left. we ll have you cut it into tiny pieces. onions, garlic again, and you cook it up. tomatoes. puree, thyme and rosemary. i have a 4-year-old son. i use paprika but this calls for chili powder. i like it spicy. you warned me about that. i want some of that meat you re cutting. if you go like this, you re going to take a finger with you. always turnl your fingers in. you make a casserole with fingers, it s going to be a very expensive chili. add the sauce and salt. cover it up. can i just say what? now the help comes. what are you afraid of? i m not good with cooking. come on. get in there. just get in there. ann knows how to do it. oh, you can do it. come on. i want you to do it. you can scoop. this is our third meal. we have our roast and our chili and we can make salad. make tacos. take one wonderful meal and turn it into several to last throughout the week. save time and money. so glad you agreed to move in with me. all right. coming up next, country crooner blake shelton will be co-hosting with hoda. good morning. it s 9:56 on this monday, august 23rd, 2010. in the news for today, tens of thousands of children may be dreaming about the end of their summer vacations, ended today. back to school for students in d.c., prince george s, frederick, and anne arundel counties in maryland. police are reminding drivers to be extra cautious with buses, back on the roads and many students walking to and from school. expect to see a greater police presence on the rails as students head back to school. two large fights involving young people in the past month have brought more attention to youth on the rail system. transit officials will also be going to schools to talk to students about better behavior on trains and in stations. 9:57 right now. time to check in with tom. tom, it s warming up quickly. in the 70s, but very pleasant with lower humidity and a beautiful blue sky. as we go forward, don t see a 90-degree temperature in the foreseeable future. a chance of a shower this afternoon. a greater chance tonight. a likely to do tomorrow maybe with some thunder and cooler. then on wednesday and thursday, a smaller chance. how s the traffic now, jerry? 395 northbound, looking pretty good with the new lane configurations, the 14th street bridge, one to the left, two of right. once again, midspan, an additional lane. light volume of traffic looks pretty good. one more stop, over to maryland along i-270. getting reports of a car fire. in the local lanes down around rockville. fire department has sent over there right now. keep you updated. with school in session, we are here for you bright and ea duct system as the lungs of the house. expulsion of air. dust and dirt that helping the house to breathe. say i m a doctor. not a doctor either. suction. call 1-800-steemer from nbc news, this is today with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. that is a song, and it s montan monday, august, 23rd. blake shelton is filling in for kathie lee. i was calling you famous. of course, after this. i can t go into regular airports after this. he has a bunch of great songs, one is hillbilly born. you re born on that song. let s hear a little. here we go. here we go. yeah i got a friend in new york city he s never heard of conway twitty don t know nothing about grits and greens i don t. now you know what he sings. i m a little nervous because i tweeted you were going to be on with me. do you know what people said? what. they kept saying i hope you have a five-second delay, be very careful of the goof ball. goof ball? that s what they re saying. they say he s such eye candy. eye candy? you re eye candy. anyway. oh, no. gosh. so, tell us about you, mr. newly engaged to miranda lambert. to miranda, which is awesome. is it? yeah. we re not getting married until sometime next year probably, so she has plenty of time to back out. she s not backing out. i love the pictures of you guys. very cute. she also tweeted this morning, which i thought was sweet. this is what she tweeted last night, your fiancee said northethis morning. she wrote, tune in and watch the train wreck! that s what she said about you. tell us about you. what s the story here? look at me. i m looking. i don t know what the hell i m supposed to be doing. i m tuning my guitar, and next thing i know, we re live. i brought my gummy bears up here. are those your favorite things? yes. what is your favorite thing? salt. why. salt is i mean it just is? you use it for everything, don t you? i enjoy it. do you put it on your margarita? i do drink a margarita. with salt. you put it on fries, on chips. you put it in corona, you sweat it. it s your favorite thing? well, it s a big deal. and i see we have your favorite drinks. we want you to feel at home. we brought you a bacardi and coke. rum and coke. this is the greatest show ever. stop talking. interview somebody. all right. how is that? is that nice? yeah. do you see how we roll over here? you tweeted this morning, too. we have it. we have to show it to you. this is what he tweeted. i m not kidding. [ bleep ] son of [ bleep ] just getting elm all out of my system. you were worried this would come out on the air. i m drinking on national television first thing in the morning. i m not going to get this job. i know that. i m doing my best not to cuss or have any wardrobe malfunctions and crap like that on national television. i m in people s living rooms right now, and i shouldn t be. all right. okay. did you have a nice weekend, by the way? i did. we played in alabama, and then we played in ohio, dayton, ohio, which was fun. people love you there. they do? did they tell you you were coming? people love you right here. you do? aren t you sweet. we have a lot of eye candy tweets about you, too. a lot of eye candy tweets. a lot of people don t have very good taste. stop. so this weekend, by the way, i went out of town this weekend and hit a beach with a couple of friends. i want to show a couple of quick pics and give a shout out to grays bay. this is a postcard. this one i took. me and a group of friends went. yeah. we were there and it was a complete and total blast. really? it s a beautiful beach. you all look wasted in that picture right there. we probably were. that s what we do. your girl betty white won an emmy. i m a fan of all the golden girls, but for some reason she over the years everybody loves her. why do you think that is? she s so innocent, but then she s not. she s not. she can be nasty, can t she? without meaning to be. it makes you think she s not meaning to be. i can t believe you really do love the golden girls. why? i have a little trivia question. i don t know. that is the ultimate sarcasm. the golden girls. who is the oldest actress the gold giren girls? bet white. name all the characters first and last names. the characters. it would be dorothy, blanch i don t know the last names. sophia and rose. all right. complete the lyrics to the theme song. thank you for being a friend travel down the road and back again your heart is true you re a pal and a confidante too high. that sounded crap. are you going to interview me? in a minute. you brought your guitar for a reason. you don t have to read anything on the teleprompter. what are you going to play? you want me to play a song? awesome. i have it in my lap and i think it s in ftune and everything. this is a song on my new record that i wanted you to hear, especially after i saw those pictures of you at the beach. go. my oh my you re so good-looking hold yourself together like a pair of book ends you re going to make me cry. i m going to cry, too. i ve not tasted all your cooking who are you when i m not looking you pour a little something on the rocks slide down the hallway in juryour socks when you undress do you leave a path then sink to your nose in a bubble bath my oh my you re so good-looking hold yourself together like a pair of book ends is this a new song? i m downloading it right now. uh-huh. i ve not tasted all your cooking who are you when i m not look g looking i love it. perfect. what s the name of the song? who are you when i m not looking. you have two new songs that hit number one in the last year. you re hot, baby. we re going to check in with sarah. we re not. we brought a crazy fan off the plaza that would like to ask a question. blake, i was going to ask the same question, but paula has this question. please say yes. do you have any brothers. no, sir. during that question i stared at hoda s legs. coming up, he will public our hero. that s right after this. you ll . 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i m sorry. the coroner believes that your husband was kicked to death. premieres tonight on lifetime it tells stotter a man mysteriously murdered trying to quell a house party on new year s eve. way to bring the show down. that s really funny stuff. greg grundberg is playing one of the title roles in na flick. i play a detective who is like five different detectives. it s a true story. a new year s party got out of control, and the husband from across the street walked across and before he knew it he was kicked in the head four times and decides and the community bonded together and said, parents included, said we re not going to talk about this. the kids are going to be quiet and don t rat anybody out. for over a year this woman katie was frustrated and very frustrated and kim raver plays that so beautifully. i love her. she s great. he was in heroes, and heroes got canceled. i do. it was a bummer. we loved it. awesome! we loved, loved. number one album, canceled actor. get it into perspective. no, we re kidding. i know this project is a big deal. you have other stuff coming as well. that s what i want to hear about. you re excited? yes. i wrote and produced and starred in a movie called group sex. you re getting married, okay? i can watch movies, can t i? certain pay channels. it s a romantic comedy set in the world of a sex dsexaholic g. it s out there and it will be on show time and all those things. you have a lot happening. look at his hair. remember what you asked about his hair. i was hoping he didn t use a flat iron. is that a cowlick? a cow does lick it in the morning to get it like that. it s adorable. i m going to sing you a song later. we took a prom picture together, and i tweeted it out this morning. you two have a lot in common. tweeting this morning, a lot of tweeting this morning. what was the tweet you did to kathie lee? about the one that officially had been in her pants, it s a picture of me with my hand in her pants hanging in her dressing room. they have something in common. this one is a singer, and you were in a band. my band is called banned from tv and it s all for charity. all your stuff is for charity, right? all of it. hugh laurie on keyboard and lester holt plays with us on two songs. there we are. david foster produced this. this is for the house soundtrack. we did two songs. thank god he was there, because i ll tell you he can turn lemons into lemonade. i sing one song and belt through it. we cover tunes. it s familiar faces all for charity. we ve raised $3 million over the last five years. is everything going well for you? working on a new show on nbc called love bites with becky nut fon and i have yowza is a free app to download it to your cell phone. what it does is it finds there s our prom picture, by the way. it finds all the deals from stores all around you. i don t know if you can get a shot of that. you can actually scan the bar code that s your thing? i created it, sxi partnerand partnered with a guy who is a genius. it s millions of stores and you have coupons with you all the time. frank, thank you. good luck with everything. bond of silence premieres tonight at 9:00/8:00 central on lifetime. do technology and romance mix? 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(announcer) general mills makes getting whole grain an easy choice. just look for the white check. from facebook to fantasia to texting and tweeting, is today s technology helping our hurting your relationship? who is better than you? here to explore this issue is veteran matchmaker p.j. osgood and psychotherapist and current founder of goodinbed.com. the basic question is do you think that social media is helping relationships or generally harming them? they re harming. technology is here to stay, but it s definitely making imoeshlly distant. you can sound out a text message of i m thinking to you to a slew of people. it s cutting out the courtship women want. but guys don t care about. this is basically my answer. i think technology is definitely here to stay, and i think when near a relationship, you need to be an open book in your relationship and that includes an open facebook. i know like for my wife and i, we share passwords and facebook pages. everything is completely transparent and there s a high degree of trust there. you have to go with the technology flow. what if, let your wife was facebook-friending her ex-boyfriend she was in love with many, many years ago and they were communicating and it was kind of cool. you knew, but it seemed flirty. would that be offensive to you? it was offensive if she was hiding it or if i didn t know about it. if we re in a trusting relationship, and sigh it, i m cool with it. it s all about the knowledge and honesty. what about you? do you text and tweet and facebook? well, we text way more than we talk on the phone, yeah. why? because with texting it s like you don t have to go through the hang on a minute, you know. you say what you need to say, and whether you see each other you do what you need to do, you know what i m saying? uh-huh. more time for the doing? a little more time for the doing? sorry she brought up the whole ex-boyfriend stuff. it s easy. there s something a woman wants to feel like you wanted to talk to me. 90% of communication is your tone. you don t get the tone. often i think in facebook or just in e-mails or text, was i being abrupt. isn t there a lot lost in translation? i think light is lost in translation. i defriended my wife for a little while, because i think this is too much information. i don t need to know you re having your third lattes of the day. we need unpredictability and mystery in our relationship. do you think all this stuff, does it take away time. when your wife or boyfriend is texting other people, they re not busy with you. it gets addictive. you re sitting at dinner and texting. it s saying someone is more important. i like being with us right now, but this other phone call might be more important. you re facebooking more than your facetiming. what do you do in tweeting when you re with miranda? she s always watching some stupid show like say yes to the dress that i could give a crap about. i want to get on twitter. you re going to tell the world that s what she s doing right now? i know that the times i m on there it s because i m sitting there, you know, in misery watching one of these shows. people make the mistake of sharing too much of their relationship information with the world via twitter or facebook. you almost feel safe for some weird reason how you put everything out there. you feel safe, even though it s it s a false sense of intimacy. which is fine with most guys. you see what i m working with today? i appreciate that. i hope you re not giving dating advice. all kinds of advice. thanks so much. still ahead from jennifer aniston disappointment to the box office to lindsay lohan s get out of rehab party, we ll have the buzz on that. how about this one? plus today s style says good-bye to summer sxhel land hello to f. can you believe fall is here already? we ll talk to you after your local news and weather. ighting,. mnh-mnh. oh gosh! woo! it s this drab one-tone hair color, ick. yeah. let s szush it up. 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she s had a couple of of less than successful movie, and we still love jen. we love her and you guys love her, too. yeah. did you see the movie. would you see this movie? i didn t know she had a new movie out. i watch friends reruns. we want jen to be rachel. that s the problem. we loved ray clel, and it didn t do well. hopefully the next one she s filming now will do better. the housewives of new jersey is a hot ticket. they had a reunion show that turned into supposedly a very explosive scene, right? it went nuts. this is going to be the best reunion you have ever seen on the housewives. tonight is the finale, and then next monday is the first episode of the reunion. they taped it in atlantic city and put it in two parts and we ll see the fireworks. i spoke to andy co-han, who said you laugh and cry. this is his quote directly. it may be the best reunion we have ever done. i was shocked with what happened. there were fights, tears and hugs. it said hoda will dig it. i m sure i will. do you get into those shows? no, but i love reunion shows. you do? who s the boss and growing pains, all of those. jesse james, he sandra bullock s ex-husband they re not officially divorced yet, but they re in the process. he s already found a new girlfriend, kate von dee. she has a lot of at that time to say. he was with her last weekend in vegas, and i hear this week she s going to meet the kids which some people say is a little premature. what is the tattoo thing? i don t get it. you ve got one? i feel stupid. why did you get this? i was drunk. was it painful? yes, it was. it bled a lot. you re not supposed to be drinking when you get a tattoo, so i lied and lost a lot of blood. so lindsay lohan, a lot of people have been she left prison after a short stay and went to rehab for what is a short stay it seems like? the rumors are that she will be released this week. some people are upset about that. however, they re going to get upset whether they hear that her friends are planning a celebration party for her. are you kidding me? getting out of rehab. are you serious? i m afraid it s true. clubs in l.a. have been contacted about whether or not they would like to put on this celebration party, and i m afraid many of the clubs would love t. the publicity will be huge. expect her to get out of rehab this week and maybe you can get into that. what do you think will happen to her? she broke it on the today show with matt lauer. she s coming back to new york, dina and lindsay are moving back here, and lindsay is looking at doing make a broadway play. she s going to get out of that scene of hollywood for a little bit, which i think is a good idea. do you think she ll wind up on her feet at the end of the day? i think it s a really, really tough question. she has to be really careful of her behavior. i d love to say yes, however if these fools are planning a party to celebrate her coming out, probably not. spencer pratt and heidi mont montag. montag? i thought it was montag. i swear. i thought it was. it s heidi montag. she needs to change that. there s a sex tape the couple made and it s being pitched around. we don t know if it s real or not. spencer says it is and wants $5 million for it. sources tell me that he has maybe not that much to be bragging about in this tape. who would care to see them in a sex tape? can we see her picture again? it s a very good question, although sex tapes have been released on people that you would say you would never want to say, and they do really well. i m not sure he ll get $5 million for it, however this tape is going to be sold and i m afraid we ll see a lot more of heidi. what do you think of the number ones going on right here, two number one singles. hot ticket in country. come on now. it s close, it s close. all right. rob, thanks so much. coming up next, exciting new looks for the fall. you re going to love this. i love fashion, omg. lol. how would i make school a better place? field trips to the zoo! more basketballs. soccer balls. and a museum! 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[ female announcer ] introducing granola thins. new from nature valley. delicious granola squares lightly toasted for a delicate crispy crunch. layered with creamy peanut butter or rich dark chocolate flavor. an irresistible, melt-in-your-mouth taste. and nature approves. new nature valley granola thins. nature at its most delicious. this morning on today s style, fall fashion trends. it s hard to believe, but the unofficial last day of summer whatever in the hell that means, labor day, is just two weeks away which means fall is in the air. so we have start saying good-bye to those summer flowy dresses and hello to jackets and scarfs. welcome to the party. thank you. it s a party this morning. what do you think of this one? a little bit of a crash. i got to be honest. they re saying that on twitter, too. hot, sexy. anybody can be drunk. we have some of five hot fall trends, right? exactly. we should get these? is that the deal? you should get one of each of these in my opinion. first is the cape. tell us about it. today in new yortoday in ne raining and you think cape, it s the trench cape. we paired it with a black cashmere sweater and a lady bag and a blag ballet flat from ann taylor. our model is super petite. it works well on her and a really tall girl. what do you think? looks like the flasher a little bit. okay. next up we have the lady-like look. this is the lady girl. this dress is tucker for target. and it s 59.99, which is an amazing price. target is collaborating with tons of the designers over the past few years and hitting it out of the park. this is one of them. we paired it with a bejewelled necklace from aldo. you have the lady bag and black tights and black pumps. since mad men have been out have wore that sexy outfit. do you like it? i like that a lot. why do you like it? do you want to gel me killed? oh, the outfit? oh, i m sorry. i m sorry. next we know this is hot. this is the animal print. that is a hot ticket. animal print is everywhere. women find it challenging to wear it. pair it with similar thing. this coat is from talbot s and $279. it will be in my fall wardrobe. we fapaired it with a gold necklace and a ballet flat. i like they re relatively affordable. what s your consensus? you only wear one animal, because that way less animals lose their lives? no, it s faux. i like it a lot. i m going to have this one in my collection. thank you, hon. next we have the duffle coat. every season there s one coat that stands out in the crowd. this season it s the duffle coat. it s adorabldorable. we compared it with char cool gray pants from the gap and little ballet flats from banana republic and a satchel. it s a throw back. that looks like something miranda would wear in the wintertime. i m so glad. especially after i ve been flirting with all the models. i think she has something very similar to that. thank you. all right. so lastly we have the equestrian look. this was the number one vote. the favorite? with the magazine crowd. you think the fall and cozy country weekends. we have a cardigan from tommy hilfiger and paired it with a little faux fur scarf and a cordoroy legs from vince and equestrian boot and one big nice watch, this watch from guess. one statement piece. bring all the models all. did you a great job, and sam first time on the show did a great job, didn t she? thank you for having me. i love you. coming up next, we cook it up italian style with donatella upstairs in the kitchen after this. taco seasoning? ¿por que no probamos esto? [ male announcer ] old el paso. a special blend of seasoning for especially delicious tacos. feed your fiesta. as in strawberries, ] new blackberries,oothies from mccafé are real fruit, a special blend of seasoning for especially delicious tacos. blueberries, and bananas, which makes them really delicious. that s what we re made of. our family-owned company makes daisy. with 100% natural farm-fresh cream. no artificial ingredients. no preservatives. and no added hormones. daisy, do-do a dollop 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. we re back in today s kitchen and getting saucy. donatella is the author of donatella cooks, simple food made glum russ and she s opening a brand-new restaurant called donatella. i m opening a few weeks in chelsea on eighth avenue. here? here in new york. i m out of near about 30 minutes. i ll come back and eat, though. you better come back. you like pizza? i do. all right. we re making steak pizzaila. dune how to pan sear your steak? it s nice and juicy. make sure it s on high heat, and you remove it from the heat. how long do you sear it? three minutes on each side. you don t want to mess with it. you want a nice crust to form. you mind getting your hands dirty? your hands are clean, right? can i get through the airport after having done that. what s going on? oh, my gosh. this is fun. you crush the tomatoes. leave them in there? too many chefs are in the kitchen. it s like play-doh playstation. look that t look at that. you sear garlic and oregano. you let it cook for 15 minutes like this, and then you added steak back in. it can t be this simple. it is this simple. you don t want it to overcook, and make sure you put it in the juices. you can t let that go. boys and girls, that s it. is that the final process? that s the or regular goe, garlic, salt, pepper. give it a bite. give it a bite. i ve been dream being this. she can t eat today. behave. how is it? incredibly delicious. good. come around back. come on country boy. we have to cook more. why do you do this? we re making mac and cheese. do you like it? mine is not orange. it s not artificial. my trick is to fold in egg whites at the last minute to make them nice and flufffluffy. i put it in ramakans. notice it on top. these are ramakans. i m also opening my first bar, d bar. since we re in manhattan look how excited you re getting? i m making a classic manhattan cocktail, which is a glass of i ice. we re going to have bourbon, martini and rossi, sweet vermouth and a dash of bitters. you stir. with a three-foot spoon. and then you pour. would you like a cherry? yes, please. you guys are drinking it and not letting me finish the cocktail. there you go. donatella. cheers, cheers, cheers. i love you. i love all this. she s making drinks and cooking. what s not to love? your restaurant opening in chelsea in new york city coming up soon? donatella and d bar. we ll be back with more of today on nbc. duct system as the lungs of the house. expulsion of air. dust and dirt that helping the house to breathe. say i m a doctor. not a doctor either. suction. call 1-800-steemer it s time to check in with miss sarah haynes. blake has made himself at home. dawn has a fan question. what is your embarrassing moment on stage? on stage. you seem to have a lot off stage. does this count? i did the splits one time on accident. it was like this right here, clearly the fans are clamoring, but it was a wet stage. i went to jump from one side to the other like somebody that would do that was in shape. i did the splits. terrible. yeah, it was terrible. do you think kathie lee is going to be upset on what she did today? i think kathie lee has lost her job after my appearance on this show. we have proof that he was in her dressing room. there s a picture of it. that s where i said i ve officially been in kathie lee s pants. from the dressing room. what else, sarah. sherry wants to know what would you be doing if you hadn t pursued a career in singsinging? i d probably still be roofing houses. i roofed houses a little bit. yeah? okay. what else? julie wants to know how did you propose to miranda? got her really drunk, and we were at i live in oklahoma out in the middle of nowhere. i took her out in the woods and threatened to not bring her back. that worked? we ve had so much work. thank you for coming by. you re so sweet. you re the greatest. tomorrow martina mcbride will be with you. have you heard of her? huh-uh. all right. thanks again, blake. all right. thanks again, blake. have a good night. captions by vitac www.vitac.com