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and good morning. welcome to today on a tuesday morning. i m matt lauer. and i m ann curry in for meredith vieira. congress is asking a lot of questions about those two iowa farms that were involved in that salmonella outbreak and the recall of more than half a billion eggs. and one man is tied to both farms. absolutely. his name is jack decoster, labelled a habitual violator. this goes as far back as the 1990s. so why do his companies not face more rigorous inspections given the history of violations? we ll have the latest on that story coming up in just a couple of minutes. also ahead, new details of last february s deadly killer whale attack at seaworld in orlando. did the theme park put animal trainers at risk, and did their practices contribute to the tragic death of the 40-year-old trainer there? coming up, what a federal investigation has uncovered. plus, is this the secret to losing weight a new study has found that drinking just two glasses of water before a meal can help you shed some pounds. we ll have more on that a little later. you actually have to drink them not just sit them on the counter like we did here. but let us begin with the latest on that big recall of a half a billion eggs linked to a salmonella outbreak and the congressional investigation that s now under way. nbc s tom costello is following all of this. tom, good morning to you. reporter: hi, matt. good morning. the centers for disease control says it hasn t seen any big increase in numbers of people who have become ill with salmonella. that may be due to a lag in reporting or it could mean the worst is over. investigators still have more questions than answers. fda investigators at those two farms in iowa say they still haven t found the source of salmonella that has forced the recall of more than half a billion eggs. but the top poultry veterinary says the prime suspects have to be mice. if they infest a hen house, their droppings can quickly infect the chicken feed. if a chicken consumes the feed with the mouse fecal pellets, the chicken becomes infected and subsequently the chicken will transmit this bacteria in its own droppings to other birds. reporter: from there, the infected help can transmit salmonella directly to her eggs and from the hen house the eggs go to grocery stores and restaurants like the baker street restaurant in wisconsin where nearly two dozen were sickened with salmonella. an attorney representing one of the victims suing the farm. just the scope of the outbreak, the scope of the illness that has gone over three months, really shows that they weren t doing the minimum things that, in my view, you need to do to prevent salmonella from entering the egg supply. reporter: now the fda says investigators are still tracing bad eggs back to the farm through a confusing web of suppliers and distributors in 22 states if not more. i think it s possible the recall may grow because the network for distribution of eggs in this country is pretty complicated. reporter: one sure way to eliminate salmonella is through pasturization, an hour-long bath in which eggs are heated but not cooked. we re able to pass enough heat through the shell of the egg to kill any bacteria or viruses inside and yet not change the flavor and perfe performance characteristics of the egg. reporter: while some customers insist pasturization does affect the taste of an egg, they say business has taken off. back to the two farms involved in the investigation. the fda says there s evidence they were not following proper egg safety procedures before the salmonella outbreak. any concerns raised verbally during the fda s on-farm visit were immediately addressed or are in the process of being addressed. matt, back to you. tom costello, thank you very much. as we mentioned jack decoster is one of the people at the center of this investigation. he is the sixth largest egg producer in the country. he owns one of the farms involved in the recall. he supplies chickens and feed to the other. labelled a habitual violator by iowa s department of natural resources he pled guilty to knowingly hiring illegal immigrants back in 2003. and just two months ago, decoster soster s company paid $130,000 fine for animal cruelty. robert rice served as secretary of labor under president c on t recall titled corporate rotten eggs. he s the author of the upcoming book aftershock. mr. secretary, good to see you. good morning. good morning, matt. the two most important questions are how did it happen, how can we prevent it from happening again? when you heard jack decoster, this guy was connected possibly to this and may be at the center of the investigation, this is a name you know, what was your reaction? well, my memory bank switched on about 13 years ago when i was secretary of labor. i came across jack decoster. at that time he had a big commercial egg business in maine and we discovered what can only be described as kind of an agricultural sweatshop. he was treating his workers like animals. he had them in trailers infested with rats. he had them picking up with their hands manure and dead chickens. i don t want to go through all the details at this beautiful hour of the morning. this guy, i suppose you could describe him as a bad egg. and so connect the dots for me, secretary reich, how do we get from the labor violations 13 years ago to possibly those sending up a red flag and even maybe foreshadowing what we re seeing today? in my experience, matt, when you have a ceo of a company by the way, this is not a cottage industry. this is a gigantic agri business. when you have one violating laws, labor laws, then it is likely they are also cutting corners on other laws, environmental laws, food and safety laws and other this is exactly what the pattern has been with jack decoster s farms. these farms and other farms related to jack decoster s work have this is a serial violator. this is a guy who has a mile long list of violations. you know, some states have a three strikes you re out kind of penalty system for actual individuals. well, this company, if there were three strikes you re out, he would not be in business. let s put jack decoster to the side for a second, mr. reich. are there too many cooks in the kitchen? you have the fda looking into part of this. you have the usda. you have local agriculture agencies in the states involved. do we have a situation here where they re not communicating enough and they re not sharing information and that s why these things fall through the cracks? certainly, matt, that s part of it. there s no national database in which regulators can say this particular business violated environmental laws or labor laws at the state level, the federal level. there ought to be that. here we have also a kind of chicken and egg problem if you permit me to say it. the agriculture department is in charge of inspecting chickens and you have the fda in charge ofnspecting eggs and it s very easy for these things to fall between the cracks. you need that kind of overall and comprehensive regulatory regime. a lot of businesses these days tell me they don t want regulations. well, after something like this and after the bp oil spill and after the energy disaster, that mine disaster, you can list a number of businesses and terrible incidents that have happened because we haven t had the right kind of regulation and they haven t been enforced well. former labor secretary robert reich, thanks for your time this morning. i appreciate it. it is now eight minutes after the hour. here is ann. matt, thanks. now to politics. voters are heading to the polls in five states today headlined by primaries in florida and arizona that pit the political establishment against washington outsiders. kelly o donnell is in phoenix with details on this. kelly, good morning. reporter: good morning, ann. that s right. from phoenix to florida to fair banks voters are deciding some of the most talked about races this year. they include well-known incumbents and some very interesting outsiders including john mccain. we ll start right here. he has spent more than $20 million in campaign cash and some of that was left over from his presidential run in 2008. senator john mccain says he has something to prove. thank you very much. reporter: going for his fifth term in this anti-incumbent year. i appreciate your support. i ask for your vote. reporter: means fighter off a challenger requires fighting against barack obama once again. i m running against his policies and what he and his administration have done to this country, but at the same time i m running for arizona. i m running for jobs. i m running for keeping people in their homes. really be honored to have your support in the primary. reporter: opponent j.d. hayworth accuses mccain of supporting a.mnesty for illegal immigrants. this is really true. reporter: mccain exposed his 2007 tv show where hayworth was a pitch man on how to get free government money, hardly the tea party conservatism he talks about today. even if they have some concerns about me and even shock ing for me to feel that my personality may rub people the wrong way, the fact is they know i will vote against amnesty. reporter: turning to flo florida s crowded senate race, democrats are caught in a class struggle. i m a true candidate for the middle class. reporter: kendrick meek has moved from long shot to leader in the poll up against jeff gree greene. the winning florida democrat will be in a three-man race in november against tea party conservative marco rubio and charlie chryst. there s a cold snap in alaska s republican senate primary. hi, senator. how are you? i m not working for the party. i m working for alaska. reporter: and sarah palin is working against murkowski writing alaskans can trust joe to not shed his conservative antlers in d.c. and some history there. palin defeated senator lisa murkowski s father when palin became governor. there s been a long rivalry there. palin, of course, was here in the spring trying to help out her former running mate john mccain at a time he was very vulnerable as one of the incumbents being target this had year. a lot has changed. today mccain is the front-runner with a double digit lead. ann? kel lly o donnell this morning, thanks. chuck todd is nbc s political director and the chief white house correspondent for nbc news. chuck, good morning. reporter: good morning, ann. we heard from kelly john mccain is ahead by double digits but he had to spend something like $20 million while his opponent spent just about $3 million. so what does that tell us about what s going on in arizona, chuck? reporter: look, john mccain had to do this the old-fashioned way in politics, winning ugly. the $20 million was necessary. he had about 35% to 40% of the republican conservative electorate down there that wasn t crazy about him, was upset about him on immigration, taxes, a number of issues. and so mccain had to disqualify j.d. hayworth. here is what we found out, ann, as upset as voters are these days about washington politicians, infomercial hucksters are even worse and that s what mccain did. he completely disqualified j.d. hayworth. the big question, ann, a lot of people in washington have, which john mccain comes back to washington? is it this new consistent conservative and a consistent thorn in the side of president obama or is it the guy from the early part of this decade who was unpredictable and he didn t know which side of the aisle he would come down on in a different issue? let s move on to florida. why should the whole country be paying attention to what s happening there? reporter: this democratic senate primary is kind of nuts, it s kind of this. a kendrick meek win by the miami congressman means the democratic establishment cannot flee the democratic nominee there. they can t go over to charlie chryst. florida held up the country on who was going to be president in 2000. because we don t know which way he is going to vote, if he s going to be with the democrats or the republicans, on election night if he wins, and there s no guarantee he s going to win this is going to be a nutty three-way race maybe the best since claude pepper lost because his sister was a thespian. but what we won t know is whether who is going to control the senate. he could hold that up for weeks. on the question of who is going to control the senate and actually washington, are incumbents as weak as we thought they were going to be, chuck, and what is what you re looking at in terms of these races telling us about the true party of the tea party? reporter: here s what we know. incumbents are not getting defeated in these primaries at a clip that a lot of people expected. there s been a few high-profile exceptions. the big exception is this. democrats are in deep, deep trouble. the tea party has provided a boost to the republican party. they are as excited about voting as the republicans have been since 1994. democrats have about six weeks to push this around because if they don t, they are heading for an historical defeat in november. loss that is could not just include control of the house but also the senate with or without this what happens with charlie chryst in florida. it is that bad right now for democrats, ann. on that note we have to leave it. chuck todd, always a pleasure. thanks. reporter: you ve got it. let us get a check of the rest of the top stories. ann is here. that means carl quintanilla is over at the news desk. good morning, everybody. a new milestone this morning in iraq. today the military says the number of u.s. troops in iraq has dropped to below 50,000 for the first time since 2003, the start of the war. president obama wanted troop levels below 50,000 by the end of the month. pakistan s president says it will take his country three years or more to recover from the devastating flooding. he also says the flooding will have a major and lasting economic impact. crews in childee dropped a communication system deep underground to 33 miners who have been trapped for almost three weeks. family members gathered outside the mine were able to hear their voices. rescuers passed food and other supplies down to them. it s expected to take months to get them out. in north carolina laurean was sentenced to life without parole for killing lance corporal maria lauterbach. new facilities open to allow it to mass produce assault boats. the announcement came one day after the unveiling of a new drone that iran is calling the ambassador of death. tehran bureau chief ali aruzi, why are they coming now? reporter: they want to show their military might to the west despite four rounds of sanctions but more importantly by invading all this military hardware at a time when talk is heightened, they want to send a message it cannot only defend itself but wreak havoc in the region and beyond. iran has always said if attacked it would shut down the strait of hormez in the gulf, 40% of the oil shipments. ali arouzi, thanks for that. 14 people were killed when their plane crashed in nepal. the plane had been heading to the area around mt. everest. a close call for people onboard a plane that crashed in the bahamas monday. they were able to stand on the wings until a rescue boat arrived. a federal judge has t temporarily blocked the obama administration from expanding embryonic stem cell research saying federal law forbids the use of taxpayer dollars to destroy a human embryo. a frightening crash caught on tape. look at this. the ohio teen was critically injured monday when his car sped down a highway, hit a ditch, then went airborne and broke apart. the dramatic crash caught on a police dashboard camera. and miss mexico, 22-year-old jimena navarrete is the new miss universe crowned in las vegas with our own natalie morales hosting. it is now 7:17. congratulations to her. now back to matt, ann and al. beautiful. probably going to make her way to the plaza in the ne cloudy, cool on tuesday morning. i m meteorologist tom kiernan. scatters springings and drizzle around northern virginia and maryland and right through the central blue ridge into right near charlottesville getting heavier showers this morning. right now we are in the 60s around the region. is it 69 in washington. highs today only in the mid-70s. perhaps sprinkles, drizzle from time to time a patting show or thunder shower into the evening. and that s your latest weather. now to los angeles and the unveiling of the most expensive public school ever built in this country. with a price tag of more than half a billion dollars, it s grand and luxurious and it s being blasted by critics. nbc s lee cowan has more. lee, good morning to you. reporter: by any measure the students attending this school named after robert kennedy are going to be pretty lucky. no expense was spared and that s good for the students, but it has become, as you say, a pr nightmare. how, critics say, can a state justify building the most expensive school ever built while at the same time cutting back on teachers and cutting back on programs? student auditorium at the new robert f. kennedy community school complex looks like a fancy nightclub. the l.a. school district modeled it after the coconut grove, a famous art deco hot spot frequented by the likes of sammy davis jr. if you think that s high end for a school auditorium, take a look at the teachers lounge. pretty ritzy retro. they are just some of the highlights of the soon-to-be open school spread across 23 manicured acres in downtown los angeles. the poorest children in this school system, the most congested area in this school system, the most diverse in this school system are going to have one of the most beautiful learning environments. reporter: there are six learning centers for kids k-12, enough room for some 4,000 students to learn in educational luxury. it is the most costly school in the united states. reporter: how costly? the final price tag came in at $578 million. do the math and that s equal to about $135,000 per student next year. when ground was broken in 2006, it was a different economic time and the site was historic. coconut grove nightclub was part of the old ambassador hotel, the site of robert kennedy s tragic assassination in 1968. in deciding how best to memorialize him, many thought a state-of-the-art school on the site would fit the bill. now that california is laying off thousands of teachers and cutting academic programs to fill a $600 million budget gap, some say opening a taj mahal style education complex hardly seems appropriate. when taxpayers see we re spending half a billion dollars to build one school, they re not going to open their wallets again to invest in teachers, to invest in textbooks and invest in kids. that s what we need. reporter: but school officials say that half a billion dollars didn t come from the state s beleaguered education budget. it came from a voter approved bond measure instead. you could not use any of this money other than for building that particular building. it cannot be used for anything else. reporter: nationwide there are dozens of other schools, matt, that surpass the $100 million mark. none quite this much. they were putting the finishing touches on this place. they hope to have it ready for the beginning of the school year next month. lee cowan, the point he makes is so important, when they started this project it was a much different economic time. no question. and it certainly feels a little awkward. right. investing in poor children and the education of poor children is the really only way to lift this country out. but that said, maybe we don t need the taj mahal references. and we need teachers. where does tiger woods go from here now that he s officially divorced? who gets custody of his two children? details on that. coming up, why this could be the secret to losing weight. good morning to you. 7:26 on tuesday, 24th day of august. i m joe krebs. the d.c. mayoral primaries a few weeks away but residents in ward 5 have voiced their opinion. a straw poll took place in northeast last night. this morning the gray campaign tweeted out the unofficial results 818 votes for gray, 108 for fenty. gray also won a straw poll held in ward 4 earlier this month. the primary is on september 14th. we ll take a break now and come back and look at weather and traffic right after this. stay with. good morning. fo four-day forecast. drizzle, a passing shower later this afternoon. a small shower thursday and friday. 395, an earlier zentsz of duke street cleared the beltway. outer loop of the beltway north of town activity on the left shoulder. university, the boulevard packed up. the president is in the stud 7:30 now on a tuesday morning, the 24th day of august, 2010. it feels like fall even though it s late summer. temperature is in the mid-60s. we have some on again, off again showers. people out on the plaza. inside studio 1-a i m matt lauer alongside ann curry filling in for meredith. new details on february s deadly killer whale attack at seaworld orlando. did that theme park knowingly expose its animal train eers to drowning habits? we ll get the latest on that story in a couple of minutes. also ahead, matt, if you re trying to lose weight, before you sit down to your next meal, scientists are saying you may want to drink at least two glasses of water beforehand. what exactly might that have to do with actual ly cutting pound? we have dr. nancy snyderman here with the results of an interesting new study, matt. later on, why the age of when people officially become a grown-up is now changing. we ll explain that. i hope that s good news. let s begin this half hour with tiger woods and elin nordegren, the couple officially divorced on monday, nine months after the golfer s infamous car crash that exposed a series of affairs. nbc s peter alexander now joins us with the latest on this story. peter, good morning. reporter: ann, good morning to you. i think it s safe to say this was a shock to nobody. pet tiger woods and his ex-wife in a court hearing that lasted no longer than ten minutes. reportedly not saying a word to each other. theirs seemed like a fairy tale marriage pupg waited on countless 18 greens. tiger and elin s romance was officially extinguished in a florida courthouse with elin reportedly accompanied by a handful of lawyers, one of them her identical twin sister, the former couple released a joint statement saying we are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future. in these newly filed divorce documents the marriage between tiger, whose legal name is eldrick woods, and elin, is described as irretrievably broken. the judge restored elin s maiden name, elin nordegren, and they agreed to share parenting of their two children, 3-year-old sam and 18-month-old charlie with both mom and dad also completing parenting classes. tiger spoke about his children last month. i have two beautiful kids and i try to be the best dad i can possibly be, and that s the most important thing of all. reporter: the terms of the divorce may never be known but some reports estimate elin s jaw dropping payout could be anywhere from $100 million to $500 million. it s a win-win for both of them. he gets what he wants, satisfactory custody arrangement with the children and most importantly confidentiality agreement. she became a wealthy wm. reporter: it s been nearly nine months since the golf icon s once carefully crafted image was shattered by that mysterious car crash outside his mansion. a flood of tabloid headlines and awkward admissions of numerous extramarital affairs. i am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior i engaged in. reporter: while tiger has returned to golf, elin, a former model from sweden, has been spotted throughout the orlando area running errands, dining out, and taking her children to preschool as well as reportedly enrolling in psychology classes at nearby rollins college. elin was the quiet wife, always on the sidelines. but in this divorce she was actually able to take the kids to sweden when she wants which tiger did not want. reporter: elin recently bought a sprawling estate near sto stockholm. they reached an agreement during the fourth of july weekend. misses the par putt there. reporter: the same time that a rattled tiger posted one of his worst finishies winding up tied for 46th place. tiger is not making a thing. tiger would be this impenetrable golfer, now there are cracks in the armor. he s not the same guy. i don t think he can put that back out there. reporter: these days tiger s golf game is stranded in the rough. and you wouldn t know it by watching him lately but tiger is still ranked the number one golfer. he ll be back in new jersey. his first competing as a single man in six years. ann? peter alexander, thanks. wendy murphy is an attorney specializes in women s rights and mike lineup upica is a sportswriter and author of the book hero. just how badly is tiger woods playing? oh, compared to the way he finished last year, he didn t even win a major last year. he was still playing at an extreme ly high level. now he s playing like a skrup. and he s become a head case in a mental game. this divorce was hanging out over his head, finding out the custody agreement he was going to get, building this mansion in florida that he knows he s never going to live in and it s just infected every single part of his game. and now that this divorce is final, what are the chances that he could actually come back? oh, i think anybody who writes him off is doing so at their own peril. he s too talented and too good. the question is, the guy we ve been watching hit it all over the lot, who can t make the putts he made for a year, can he put, and please pardon the expression, put humpty dumpty back together again? to me it s the single most compelling story right now in all of sports. moving on to the divorce, wendy, let me ask you this, what does shared custody mean in this kind of case given we understand elin can actually take the kids to sweden? yeah. good question because really all it means, ann, is that as a matter of law, they both have the same rights to the children but clearly they have to have a primary residence and that s absolutely going to be with elin wherever she would have wanted to be. now the law typically says you cannot take the children really far away from their father. they should be close by so that he can have reasonable visitation. we now know she is planning to raise them some of the time in sweden. i guarantee you this, tiger, if he agreed to that, only did so for a price. and this is really going to be a very tough time for the children. but turning back to tiger, how much does his legacy matter to him? you ve watched him all these years. how much time does he have to fix what s now been broken? most guys don t play great after the age of 40. it s a level that he played at. he has about five years. but is he obsessed with his legacy? roger clemens may be willing to go to jail rather than admit to steroids because it affects his hall of fame chances so, yes, he s obsessed with his legacy. he s obsessed with passing jack nicklaus. a guy who knows him pretty well said to me that he never would have said this last year, nobody would have, but that jack s record of 18 majors has never looked safer because you don t know whether that thing that he has on top of talent, that confidence that he has, can ever come back. you watch him now, ann, and you can t get your mind around what you thought of him before he started playing bumper cars last thanksgiving night. mike lupica, thank you. wendy murphy, thank you for your perspective this morning. and now a check of the weather from al. ann, thank you very much. we have, wow, how is the weather up there? great. good morning. cloudy and cool on this tuesday morning. i m meteorologist tom kiernan. right now wry dar shradar showi scattered sprinkle and drizzle. showers around the central blue ridge, charlottesville north to rappahannock county. drizzle this morning. perhaps a passing show or thunder shower. highs in the 70s. tomorrow, thursday, sunshine back, highs around 80. a small chance of a shower, both of those days. and that s your latest weather. matt? thank you very much. new details this morning in february s ted ldeadly killer w attack. osha has completed its investigation and it s coming down hard on that theme park. msnbc s tamron hall has the details. tamron, good morning. reporter: good morning, matt. the federal job safety uncovered three violation that is contributed to the death of one of seaworld s animal trainers. they ve now slapped the park with $75,000 in fines. it was a routine demonstration in february that turned into a terrifying final moment for 40-year-old dawn brancheu. in front of fellow trainers and seaworld visitors, brancheu was pulled into the water by tilikum, the killer whale grabbed on to the trainer s ponytail. i turned around and i saw tilikum the whale in the pool. all i did see were her sandals and the water floating. reporter: in a statement monday, osha blamed seaworld for brancheu s death calling it willful which means it was committed with painful indifference to or intentional disregard for employee safety. according to the osha investigation tilikum had known aggressive tendencies and was involved with other whales in a deadly accident with a trainer in british columbia in 1991. osha says seaworld train eers h extensive history of unexpected and potentially dangerous incidents involving killer whales at its various facilities and failed to make meaningful changes to safety procedures for its trainers. the former head of animal training at seaworld. i helped develop some of the protocols. i think osha is overstepping their bounds. it s an area that they have no expertise in. reporter: osha said seaworld should minimize human animal interaction if there is no safe way to predict animal behavior under all conditions. i don t think it s fair to the animals. these animals are used to relationships that have taken years to build with these trainers and now to say all of a sudden, boom, they cannot go near the animal i think is ludicrous. reporter: seaworld plans to contest and release add statement saying the findings are unsupported by any evidence or precedent and reflect a fundamental lack of understanding of the safety requirements. legal experts say the fine, $75,000, is more than a slap on the wrist for seaworld, part of an $8 billion industry. $75,000? someone died here. other organizations can deal with the cause of death, the effects of that. all osha is assigned to do is deal with employee safety. and they re saying, in effect, you, seaworld, are guilty. reporter: trainers are no longer allowed in the water handling all killer whales, awaiting the decision of new safety measures under internal review by an independent panel. as for tilikum, the killer whale, he remains at seaworld and is actually still being used for breeding. matt? tamron hall, thanks so much. we appreciate that. up next, why scientists say you might want to drink some water before your next meal if you re struggling to lose weight. a few years ago i got a wake up call. a heart attack at 57. that was a rough time. my doctor told me i should ve been doing more for my high cholesterol. you should ve listened. you re right. now i m eating healthier and i trust my heart to lipitor. 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[ male announcer ] if you cannot afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. 7:56 is our time right now. 67 degrees. low-hanging clouds over the capital. rain around the region as well. we ll get the forecast from tom kiernan coming up. good morning i m joe krebs. police look for the man who assaulted an elderly woman inside her room at a senior center. the 86-year-old was asleep in her bed early saturday when someone climbed through the window and attacked her. two months ago another woman was assaulted right across the street. this is happening in germantown. police are not saying whether the two cases are related. we ll take a break now. we ll look atl look at weather a [ female announcer ] lunch at red lobster. it s laughs over a coastal soup and grilled shrimp salad. catching up over wood-grilled shrimp and chicken. and with lunches starting at just $6.99. it s an hour you wouldn t trade for anything. low clouds, cool, temperatures in the 60s and the northeast breeze. clouds producing drizzle. areas of light blue, scattered drizzle around the metro area. where you see greens it s coming down harder around charlottes ril and the shenandoah valley, scattered light showers. today a passing shower, drizzle, thunder this afternoon. highs in the 70s. and then tomorrow we may make it to around 80 or so. but still mostly cloudy. and slight chance of a shower. jerry, how s the traffic now? take a look. the beltway along interstate 56, heavy. all right. thanks very much. news4 midday, pepco s president is in our studio. what he says about the frequent outages and when customers can realistically expect to see real improvements in power service. that s coming up this morning on news4 midday at 11:00. now, back to the today show. i kissed a girl and i liked it 8:00 now on a tuesday morning. it s the 24th day of august, 2010. a little wet out here. it s just overcast right now but cool temperatures with the wind blowing. nice people out on the plaza. we re hoping they get a little better weather on friday when we have pop superstar katy perry taking over our plaza as part of our summer concert series. she is a lot of fun. oh, yes, she is. she is a bundle of fun, so come on down if you want a great show, great music and some great e entertainment. she might bring her fiance. he has been here a few times. he s fun. a fun couple. a ball of fun. yes. out on the plaza, i m matt lauer along with ann curry while meredith is taking time off. we re joined by mr. roker as well. and coming up in this half hour we ll talk about bed bugs. not the actual getting of the bed bugs but the stigma, the side effects of bed bugs. in fact, the question is now that it is epidemic, bed bugs in some part of our country, ethically, what should we do? should we tell people when we have them? al is being very careful. we re going to get into the psychological impact. are you concerned? i am a little bit. and so lenny are you all right? are you okay? got more than he bargained for this morning. also ahead we hear a lot about women and body image. what about men and their image of their body. we ll meet a guy who wrote i m with fatty. it details his struggle with body image and his quest to lose 50 pounds in 50 weeks. fascinating. he calls himself fat. in the book. okay 0. also channelling tom newell, marilyn monroe movie seven year itch. also, 20-somethings, for those of us who have 20-year-olds get out! enough already. you re driving us nuts. why is it taking these 20-somethings so long to grow up? we ll take a look at that. okay. i ve got one. we have a lot to get to. let s go inside. carl quintanilla is manning the news desk this morning with all the headlines. hey, carl. good morning, matt. good morning, everybody. key primary races today in arizona, florida and alaska. arizona senator john mccain spent $20 million in a primary battle against tea party-backed radio host j.d. hayworth. in alaska, it s personal. lisa murkowski whose father was defeated by sarah palin for governor faces attorney joe miller. and in florida s primary real estate billionaire jeff greene is challenging washington backed democrat kendrick meek. p primaries are being held in oklahoma and vermont. a former marine in north carolina is behind bars for life. on monday cesar laurean was convicted of killing a pregnant marine colleague lance corporal maria lauterbach in 2007. rescuers are sending foot and oxygen to 33 chilean miners discovered alive sunday after 17 days underground. they could still take months to free them. the men say they ve stretched their supply by letting each eat two teaspoons of tuna every two days. the police force admitted it bungled monday s hostage siege that left eight dead. the 12-hour standoff ended when a s.w.a.t. team stormed a tour bus and killed the gunman. a fired police officer who wanted his job back. overseas markets mostly lower this morning. cnbc s melissa lee is at the new york stock exchange. what should investors be watching today? carl, stocks hit a one-month low. home sales in focus. home sales have been on decline since april and the tax credit expired even though mortgage rates sit at historic lows. weaker than expected data and renewed concerns about the economic recovery. housing, of course, as you know, carl, a linchpin to the recovery. housing has led the u.s. out of recession seven of the last eight times. melissa lee at the stock exchange, thanks for that. congress is now investigating the nationwide egg recall asking two iowa farms when they first discovered salmonella contamination and when they notified federal inspectors. federal health officials say they have not seen any large increase in the number of people becoming ill suggesting the three-month outbreak may have peaked. it is now 8:04. want to get another check of the weather from al. thanks so much, carl. we have a nice group where good morning. it s cloudy and cool on this tuesday morning. i m meteorology tom kiernan. right now temperatures in the 60s. we have scattered drizzle and areas of rain around the blue ridge and scattered drizzle elsewhere. and we ll have that off and on throughout the day. maybe thunder and light thing this afternoon. highs in the 70s. and then tomorrow cloudy in the morning, 60s but during afternoon, sun should break out, around 80. small chance of shower. small chance of shower on thursday, otherwise partly cloudy. dry for friday into the weekend. and that s your latest weather. mr. lauer? 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i think it s just the frustration and the difficulty in addressing the situation. i have a lot of people, for example, i treat for hoarding and so forth. some of these people as well as just an ordinary individual to basically throw out their possessions if not abandon their apartment entirely. it is an upheaval. it s often said you re only as sick as the secrets you keep. let s talk about how to be open about this stuff. we heard the woman in this piece saying you really can t tell anybody. the truth is trying to figure out the rules of the road, what can you do? what should you do? what s your feeling? my feeling is it s important to be open and honest and to be a good citizen. i think you should say, my apartment was infested with bed bugs. i ve had an exterminator. take your clothes to a dry cleaner. it s important to say i want you to know that i ve had bed bugs and we re fighting this. and i think you can t go wrong by being open and honest and informing people. we heard earlier that people don t invite you over for play dates, don t want to hang out with your kids. there s a cost. there s a balance. clearly you have to kind of get your house in order first. i think that s obvious if you re going to have guests over or visit other people. having said that, i think that, you know, paranoia and stigma has never been helpful in any situation whether it s bed bugs, swine flu or anything else and basically if it keeps you from reaching out for help that you need, that s really very damaging. and so, for example, you can also worry about people worry about picking them up at work and restaurants as you just talked about. so should you go to your bosses? should you go to your colleagues and mention that you have bed bugs? that s a very interesting question. i think that it s important for the corporate environment or the work environment to say, you know what, this has been a problem. i want you to be aware of it. and then they can be on the lookout for signs of an infestation in the office. so i think honesty is, indeed, the best policy. all right. so with that we ve talked about that part of it but in terms of the practical part of it, the reason you weren t did not bring bed bugs home is you did the smart thing to keep your bag away from the bed. i travel quite extensively. i never put my luggage on the bed. i always put it on a luggage rack. i pull it out from the wall and i think those maneuvers made a big difference and people should be aware of that. this too shall pass. absolutely. we ve seen public hysteria about other kinds of epidemics. eventually it passes and stigma should not be a motivating should not be your motivation. you should get the job done. thank you so much. thank you. both of you for helping us through our psychological issues because it s scary. up next, the fatty project. one self-confessed food junkie s quest to lose 50 pounds in 50 weeks. depression is a serious medical condition it 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. if depression is taking so much out of you, ask your doctor about pristiq. 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it was born of a serious health issue. my wife did something that most men wouldn t love, which is she recorded me snoring one night, and i asked her how long it went on for and her answer was promptly forever. we went to the doctor. it turned out i had sleep apnea. though the book is really funny, i hope, and tells my story in a funny way, it s really born of something serious. you re candid in the book. you talk about the going to the sleep clinic. you talk about a colonic, about a seemingly endless binge. did you hold anything back when writing about this or was the whole idea you had to be completely honest? it was a brilliant thing to be able to write for a year, be paid to write about my health, food, my thoughts on my weight and food. i think the one contract i made with myself is to be honest and candid and not hold anything back. i think also when you write, the funny comes from the pain and so as long as you re honest about that. i m with fatty. even at your heaviest you were not all that fat. tell my mother. but in your own mind s eye, you were fat? well, i think so. it was interesting as the book has come out and started to get reviews, you see more and more people have that same issue with their body image regardless of what they look like. maybe not someone who has been wearing the same size for the last 20 years. if they re big or little, they have the same issue with their body image. i remember when i was a kid and feeling the same way even though looking back on those photos i was a gorgeous, young kid, as you can imagine. clearly. it s clear to the eye. we have done so many segments on women and body image, so is there do men deal with body image in the same general way or do you think there are distinct differences between the two sexes deal with it? i think there are differences but i think a lot of that comes from our cultural identities. men don t write about this stuff, don t talk about this stuff. it s not very macho on the today show or write a book about the fact you don t like to take your shirt off at the beach. what if you re helping other people? i hope so and i hope being honest about it and writing about it gives other people perhaps a little bit more clearance on their own life. one of the things that struck me, you write a lot about shame, which you say has been a part of your life for a long time and you mention your ability to tolerate shame increased proportionally with your belt size. can you explain that? shame is something funny. again, no one hands you shame. it s really something you grow in your own backyard and i think that as you get heavier you find a way to rationalize, how i look is not going to change. i love food so much that i would go and eat regardless of the fact that i didn t feel very good about the way that i looked but i would do things like go to the outskirts of town, go to a thai joint, maybe outside of the city where someone wasn t going to bump into me. you have two daughters, sasha and roni. i love the name. body image is going to be something they have to deal with. quickly, are you going to sit down and talk to them about it? i not only sit down and talk to them but help them cook their way out of it. obe obesity is hitting our kids. that s where the epicenter of this is. and so my goal is to help them cook their way through this, teach them to cook, happy and comfortable in the kitchen like i am and give them a fighting shot in the next 20 years. the book is i m with fatty. definitely cooler today. 68 degrees at 8:26. good morning. i m kimberly suiters. it s august 24, 2010. in virginia, it s the first day for kids in spotsylvania rappahannock to go back to school. anne arundel kids are going back as well. d.c. mayor fenty, chancellor michelle reed and u.s. sect of education will join dozens of kids walking to morey elementary in northeast promoting a healthy lifestyle. weather and traffic ne good morning. cloud q.y and cool. we re in the 60s. drizzles around the metro area. heavier showers in charlottesville later today thunder showers. drying out tomorrow. at this hour, take a look along 66. heavy and slow, but moving along at a good pace from manassas. loaded up trying to get to canal road. the problem, tree down in the roadway, canal between reservoir road and fox hall road. extra travel time needed. coming up on news4 midday, pepco president is in our studio. what he says about the frequent outages and wh we re back now 8:30 on a tuesday morning, the 24th day of august, 2010. a little dreary here in the northeast, but you know what, we have the nicest group of people out here on the plaza. thanks to them for stopping by. and a pretty nice group assembled on the plaza on our end as well. i m matt lauer along with ann curry while meredith is taking some time off and al roker. we re joined by carl quintanilla. used to be kids would go to school, high school, maybe college, and go off and start a family. boom, you re a grown-up. that s right, boom. these days it s actually taking longer for young people to decide to start their careers, to get married, do all that adult stuff. why is that happening and is that a problem? what do we do about it? we ll be talk iing to experts about that. also from kalamata to sicilian, tooking. i love olives. and we love giada even more. my head is blowing up. all of that in the same segment. fantastic. as a reminder you still have time to vote for your favorite couple, the couple you want to see get married on today throws a wedding. you may need an umbrella later today. good morning, i m meteorologist tom kiernan. drizzle around the metro area. elsewhere through the central blue ridge, shenandoah valley, showers. heavy showers around charlottes ve now. later today, i passing show, thunder this afternoon. otherwise, low clouds and drizzle. highs in the 70s. tomorrow, sun back notiin the afternoon. small chance of a shower. small chance of shower thursday. and that s your latest weather. now let s head on down to washington, d.c., and say hello to big willie scott. you know, september, i can t believe it. back to school. we do our thing, thanksgiving, christmas, hanukkah. happy birthday, how sweet. sadie is a friend of nancy, my beloved secretary i love with all my heart, forest hills, new york. happy birthday. lives independently and can balance her own checkbook. hallelujah. we have adele berry, dania, florida. joseph madar of new haven, connecticut. 105. still drives and repairs cars for his friends. sharp as a tack. ann conley of westlake, ohio, 100 years old today. retired nurse and follows the stock market like a hawk making plenty of money, i hope. the reverend dermott swicegood. 100 years old. honored with the palmetto award and played golf i guess he still plays. at 96 he won the award. gene denenburg, owings mills, maryland, 102. secret to longevity is line dancing. and we have lorene winkleby, out of los at ltos, california. god bless. have a nice week. willard, thank you very much. when we come back, why it s now taking 20-somethings so much longer to grow up than it used to. i think we re talking emotionally. back now at 8:37. this morning on today s family when do you become a grown-up? according to the new york times 40% of people in their 20s will move back home with their parents at least once and people are settling into adulthood seven to ten years later than they did 50 years ago. we have jesse arnett, the author of emerging adulthood. also joining us janet taylor. thank you for joining us. good morning to both of you. good morning. so if, in fact, this generation, these generations recently are becoming adults later than the generations before, why is that? there are a variety of reasons. the economy has changed for one thing from a mainly manufacturing economy to more on information and technology and services economy. that takes longer to prepare for. another reason is that now premarital sex and co-habitation are accepted. there s not the urgency when premarital sex was taboo. so if you re a young person at home not leaving the nest and they are 25 years old and hasn t done that, should we be concerned? i think we have to look at other factors. part of this emerging adulthood is this process of finding out about themselves in terms of identity, looking at maybe what disappointments are. on the other hand, having a sense of possibilities and optimism so the point is really how can can we make sure that our young adults are more adaptable and stay engaged and motivated to make changes for their lives? one of the things you pointed out earlier that our brains their brains are really not developed until they re 25 years old. well, they continue to develop so that whole evidence once your child is a teenager, their brain development is over, from impulse control, decision making, really rulating emotions, that can continue until they re 25. so an extended adolescence at the same time we expect them to make adult decisions. so you re saying really that biologically this makes sense, that that prior generation didn t have a choice about when they sort of took on the responsibilities of an adult. today s generation might have that choice and if they do have that choice, what s wrong with it? yeah, what s wrong with it? they generally make very good use of it. they do a lot of interesting things in their 20s, things like the peace corps, try an interesting place to live or travel. they move to a different part of the country or the world to do something interesting for a while that they can only do while they don t have adult responsibilities. so what is it we as parents should be doing or we should add in not doing since we have parents are often accused of maybe doing too much for this generation of kids? what should our role be, the rules of our roles as parents? i would think to be patient and to not expect that they re going to move into a settled adulthood in their very early 20s or maybe even their mid-20s. and i would disagree because i think part of it is the emerging adults are ambivalent but parents have to push more and prod and so you think that parenting is over, you know, 18. you still have to make demands and say, listen, i expect you to do this, to pay rent, or make these decisions. pushing them into understanding that growing up means taking on responsibilities. on the other hand it sounds like what you re saying is encouraging them to use this time wisely. encouraging them and also realize that you just don t have that much power once they re in emerging adulthood. they re living in your house, eating your food, not paying rent necessarily and you have no control. that s really the problem. and they know it. parents are used to having control because they have a lot of control over their children in adolescence. it s hard to get used to the fact they re emerging adults. they can give advice but emerging adults are not necessarily going to listen. when should we become concerned? we re talking about them, this idea there s emerging adulthood we haven t factored in. being a child, being a teenager, and all of a sudden become an adult. there s an emerging place. at what point do we worry if a child is lackadaisical at home, struggling, really not looking at anything in terms of a future? then we do have an issue. you have to worry if there s not a plan. if your emerging adult is not heading in any direction at all. if they re trying something at least, if they have to fail and have to try again, they re doing fine. it may take them most of their 20s to find what they really want to do. if they don t have a plan, they seem depressed and defeated, then it s time to worry. lack of motivation, expectation. okay, all right. there you go. you laid it out for us. dr. janet taylor and jeffrey arnett, thank you. and up next, all things olives with italian chef giada de laurentiis. announcer: today s cooking school is brought to you by country crock spreads with that rich, creamy, delicious taste that your family has always known and loved. i love olives this morning in today s cooking school we re making everything with olives from appetizers to sauces, flavoring with black or green olives can give them a great kick. chef giada de laurentiis has a great kick and she s a today contributor. giada, good morning. nice to see you. how are you? very well, thank you. raised your hand. like olives? love olives. this is a great segment. either you love olives or you really don t like olives. i m so glad you all enjoy them. before we get to cooking with them, you have a great display. what s going to happen, i m going to hand this off to al and then i m going to start eating. give me the basic difference between the olives on the set. olives run from green to purplish black and they can be picked or harvested at any time. we ll started with pitted stuffed olives. here we have the kalamatas and the little ones. is it true the green olives tend to pack more punch, have a stronger flavor than the black? they have more acidity but the sicilian olives that are really green and quite crisp, like an apple, can be buttery. people serve them as an appetizer. you re going to make stuffed fried olives. i ve never heard of this. this is fantastic. this is really fun. a little bit of gorgonzola cheese. if you can mix those together and then why don t one of you do this. i m better at the tasting part. here, matt, do you want to dump and i ll talk you through it? all of it? there we go. you mix this all together very easy to do. the little more complicated part is to put it in a little piping bag. but you kind of need it because with a spoon it s hard to get it in there. unless you have really big olives. pitted olives for this and they re green olives. there you go. look how he does that. it s not that hard. let me give you a harder task. you can fill these then. it s not that hard so i can do it? that s great. appreciate that. dip them in flour first, a light bread crumb coating. flour first and then the egg. and then into the bread crumb and then into the hot oil. 350 and they only fry up for about 30 to 45 seconds. that s it? move them around? you can move them around for sure. nice job. thank you. and after they re fried, this is what they look like. it happens really fast. you serve them warm or at room temperature? either. that s the great thing about these olives. usually you have to do them way in advance but with these you can make them and they can kind of sick. they won t get soggy? yes. a healthier version, however, is to make something called a tapenade which is to die for. what do you think about that? amazing. you weren t supposed to eat one. why not? how can you talk and still chew? tapenade i m a pro, an expert. moving on. you have some chick peas. you add them in there and add kalamata olives. or if you don t pit them you re in trouble. parsley. parsley. come on, you get in here. are you going to talk like that and do this? some lemon zest. parsley! rosemary. and then some honey. that s going to take a while. we only have a few more minutes in the segment. here, we re going to do that. then, will it work or won t it? it will. olive oil, start adding it. a quarter cup. you know doesn t really mix up so well. i want to add that. it kind of brings it together and then we can add a little bit of salt, about a quarter teaspoon and it turns out like this. and then you can serve it in an endive leave, on bread, whatever you want. actually this is really great on fish, chicken ooh. and it can sit in the fridge and you can add it it. i think it s better as it sits there. would you guys like some? speaking of things that get better with age, how long do olives last in your refrigerat r refrigerator? one month. that s it? and something else that gets better with age, and this is delicate here matt. i need this what are you doing? number 40. your birthday? happy birthday. 40. i did just turn 40. that s fantastic. you re beautiful. 40 and fabulous. i m definitely getting a hug. won t say no to that. come back next year when you turn 41. olives! we don t have enough olives. who says you can t play with your food. nice to have you here. up next well done. the 84-year-old freshman. [ 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. back now at 8:52 with today s fountain of youth. most people think retirement means relaxes after years of hard work. one world war ii veteran who sees it differently. this is my class. reporter: in most places 84-year-old jack swatnik is considered a senior. i m doing a poem. i am, too. reporter: at lane university in florida, he s just a sophomore. it s a different world than when i went to school. reporter: an army veteran, he earned a purple heart during world war ii but in the years that followed, he never earned a college degree. i felt not inadequate. that s not the right word. i felt like something was missing. reporter: so after retiring from a successful career as a entrepreneur, he s now working towards a psychology degree next to students young enough to be his grandchildren and professors who could call him dad. the first time i walked into class they thought i was the professor. reporter: jack may be a minority on this campus but he s a minority in his own age group. only a tiny percentage of people over 65 ever go back to school. i think he s just saying that, you know, i m older but i m active and i have a good mind and i have a good body and i want to make use of that. reporter: there is a learning curve especially in technology. so that s the point. reporter: sometimes jack shows his age to his benefit. history is my best subject because what we re learning is what i ve lived through, so i have a distinct advantage. reporter: whether in the classroom or on the basketball court with some of the team s players, jack is proof that acting your age isn t always necessary. time! i am having the best time of my life. reporter: and that life is going to be busy. jack says after he gets his bachelor s degree one, two, three. reporter: this unlikely student will start shooting for his masters. for today, nbc news, boca raton, florida. aging is underrated. it s just a number. he reminds me of your dad. that s a great compliment. thank you so much. go, jack. we re rooting for you. so much to get to including your information about tiger woods. that s right. where he goes from here now that his marriage is officially over. plus, the foods that can keep your mind sharp. i hope they involve olives. it s cooler and cloudier outside than yesterday. tom s forecast straight ahead. good morning, august 25, 2010. i m kimberly suiters. breaking traffic news. let s take a live look outside now. do we have that traffic information for you? indeed. just getting information about a big problem on mark ral and amtrak that apparently at this hour that due to amtrak s system wide power failure all penn line service is currently suspended. on mark rail, also affecting amtrak. the other problem, over the traffic camera, canal road is closed now. ka h canal road closed to traffic. a tree down on a road on top of a car on canal road. this is as close as i can get you now. canal road is closed below chain bridge. a tree down on top of a car. your weather is next. good morning, i m tom kiernan. the four-day forecast. scattered drizzle around this morning and a psing shower. perhaps a p i want to hold your hand we are back with more of today on a tuesday morning, the 24th of august, 2010. a great crowd of people. they ve been standing around for hours this morning. many of them just to meet tamron hall who took the red eye in from las vegas last night after judging the miss universe pageant. i have like the album. how are you feeling? i feel good. miss universe was an amazing experience. natalie was flawless hosting the show. she had more changes than she reminded me of diana ross. but bret michaels, i had a bet with a friend he would wear a bandanna. i bet he wouldn t. he was great as well. he only had one bandanna. that s right. he should have coordinated with natalie. matt lauer along with ann curry, tamron hall and al roker. if you had to say one beatles song was the best of all time what would you say? yesterday. norwegian wood. what about you? i want to hold your hand. aw. no, seriously. a long way to go for that. anyway, we re going to talk more about that. that s right. rolling stone magazine it s written down. i so messed it up. rolling stone magazine will count down the top of all time and the one they put as number one, i m told, might surprise all of us. also ahead, tiger woods is back to being a single man. it is official. his divorce with elin nordegren. she has now changed her name even. got some details on what s being reported, the arrangement, who gets the children. also how much money and what kind of financial settlement was behind this divorce. a lot coming out about it. very sad but it is what it is. later on, one more family getaway. what can we do? well, from the bahamas to washington, d.c., great, affordable trips you can book just in time for labor day. oh, okay. lots to get to. let s go inside, carl quintanilla is standing by at the news desk. good morning, matt. good morning, everybody. in iraq a new milestone. today the military says the number of u.s. troops in iraq has dropped to below 50,000 for the first time since 2003 at the start of the war. president obama wanted troop levels below 50,000 by the end of the month. voters head to the polls today in five states. among the closely watched primaries arizona where senator john mccain figures the challenge from former congressman and radio talk show host j.d. hayworth. candidates in florida, oklahoma, alaska, and vermont. pakistan s president says it will take at least three years for his country to recover from that massive flooding that began a month ago. the united nations estimates the crisis has affected 17 million people and today one pakistani official warpned that a half million are still in danger from rising floodwaters in the southern part of that country. crews in chile monday dropped a communications system deep underground to 33 miners who have been trapped for almost three weeks. family members gathered outside the mine. they were able to hear their voices. pplies down to them. and other it s expected to take months to get them out. a federal judge has temporarily blocked the obama administration from expanding embryonic stem cell research saying federal law forbids the use of taxpayer dollars to destroy a human embryo. seaworld orlando says it will contest three federal safety citations stemming from the february death of a trainer who was dragged under water by a killer whale. and a close call for six people onboard a plane that crashed in the bahamas monday. they were able to stand on the wings until a rescue boat arrived. it is four minutes past the hour. now another check of the weather from al. thank you, mr. quintanilla and you ladies, where are you from? i m from jamaica. came in number two at miss good morning. i m tom kiernan. cloudy and cool on this tuesday morning. we have some scattered sprinkles and drizzle. where you see areas of blue around the met trro area. around charlottesville, heavier showers. later today we might get a passing show, perhaps drizzle. maybe thunder and lightning this afternoon. highs in the 70s. tomorrow, sun back by the afternoon. small chance of shower. small chance of shower again thursday. all right. that s your latest weather. now back inside why don t you say hi, tamron. hi. tamron. oh, hi, tamron. how are you doing? i m good, thank you. thanks again, al. nine months after he crashed his suv outside his home which expose add series of alleged affairs, tiger woods and elin nordegren officially divorced on monday. nbc s peter alexander has the latest. good morning. reporter: this was a shock to nobody. tiger woods and his now ex-wife, elin nordegren, were married six years ago in an exotic weeklong wedding celebration. but this all ended in a court hearing that lasted no more than ten minutes monday with both exes present so reportedly not saying a single word to one another. theirs seemed like a fairy tale marriage punctuated on countless 18 greens by a victory hug, but tiger and elin woods romance was officially extinguished monday in a florida courthouse with elin reportedly accompanied by a handful of lawyers, one of them her identical twin sister. the former couple released a joint statement saying we are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future. in these newly filed divorce documents, the marriage between tiger, whose legal name is eldrick woods, and elin, is described as broken. the judge restored elin s maiden name. elin nordegren. and they agreed to share parenting of their two children, 3-year-old sam and 18-month-old charlie with both mom and dad also completing parenting classes. tiger spoke about his children last month. i have two beautiful kids and i will try to be the best dad i can possibly be and that s the most important thing of all. reporter: the terms of the divorce may never be known but some reports estimate elin s jaw dropping payout could be from $100 million to $500 million. it s a win-win for both of them. he gets what he wants, a satisfactory custody arrangement with the children, and most possibly a confidentiality agreement. and she became a very wealthy woman. reporter: it s been nearly nine months since the golf icon s once carefully crafted image was shattered by that mysterious car crash outside his exclusive florida mansion and then a flood of salacious headlines, awkward admissions of numerous extramarital affairs. i am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior i engaged in. reporter: while tiger has returned to golf, elin, a former model from sweden, has been spotted throughout the orlando area running errands, dining out, and taking her children to preschool as well as reportedly enrolling in psychology classes at nearby rollins college. elin was always the quiet wife, always on the sidelines. in this divorce she was able to drive some of the terms. she will be able to take the kids to sweden when she wants. reporter: elin bought a sprawling $2 million sprawling waterfront estate in stockholm. tiger and elin reached their settlement agreement during the fourth of july weekend. misses the par putt there. reporter: the same time that a rattled tiger posted one of his worst finishes all year at the at&t nationals winding up tied for 46th place. tiger is not making a thing. reporter: tiger woods used to be just this impenetrable golfer. he was unbeatable, invulnerable. now there are cracks in the armor. he s not the same guy and i don t think he can put that back out there. reporter: these days tiger s golf game, like his personal life, is stranded in the rough. and you wouldn t know it by watching him lately but tiger is still ranked as the world s top golfer. he will be back in action again this week in a tournament in new jersey. his first tournament as a single man in six years. tamron? peter, thank you. dr. gayle saltz and dr. murphy, thank you. let me start off with you. all of us here that in the documents, the court documents point out irretrievably broken, how the couple cries their marriage. is there anything standard when you have terms like irretrievably broken? they have no dispute really that they re not going to stay together. it s legalese. what s standard here is that, roughly speaking, they have equal rights to the children and what s unclear is whether they got an equal breakdown of the marital assets. we don t know what that number is. this was a privately negotiated divorce settlement. so they don t have to abide all the standards. they don t have to make it look a certain way as long as they agree and the judge says it s fair enough, that s good enough. when you mention they agree, does that go back to a prenuptial agreement, something they agreed upon prior to these allegations of infidelity and even admissions on tiger woods part? good question because they did have a prenup and that gets considered to some extent alongside the guidelines of the law. but the prenup reportedly had a clause that said, you know, if there were adulterous behaviors on either side, at least to some extent the prenup goes out the window. now we don t again, we don t know the details of what that provided but you can bet because of his behavior she probably was able to argue that, for example, if the prenup said upon divorce she gets $20 million, i suspect she was able to say, oh, but that clause about adulterous behavior now entitles me to quite a bit more and i m sure she did get quite a bit more. that would make sense. let s bring gail into the conversation. they are sharing custody of the children. talking to you, gail, is it difficult for a woman to see a man as a good father when he s been such a horrible husband? probably she greatly questions, appropriately, his moral compass and whether he can be a good father. but the fact is that for children, it s best to have both parents remain very involved, very loving, and that this not be an abandonment for them. and obviously this is about starting over for them. it s intriguing elin wanted to take back her maiden name. what does that signify? i think that she probably has regrets about, you know, having gotten married in the first place. i will say that the settlement probably helps with those regrets that she s leaving with some very large chunk of money. financial stability. but the hurt of betrayal is probably hugely significant and i think that for both of them going forward, that s the piece that she s not going to need to work on, feeling betrayed and not be badmouthing him, which is so hard in light of what happened, but because the kids still need him to be a good dad for them. he needs to not abandon them by letting them go to sweden or somewhere he s not involved but keep him involved in the picture. thank you both. i greatly appreciate it. up next, affordable last-minute getaways for labor day for the whole family. and the nine foods that will keep your mind sharp as you age. garden all the time. so sure i already knew the salad and breadsticks were endless. but the other night even the pasta was endless. whoa, whoa, wait. so i get to choose any sauce and pasta then just keep trying them in different combinations? 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these are songs everybody knows. i ve been watching you arguing during the break and it s hard to put formal criteria. we just got a bunch of editors and writers together and fought out which were the songs that held up the best, that had had the biggest impact, that were the most influential. with the beatles you get to 100, there s more to keep going and arguing about. we were negotiating this list down to the last page. we don t have the time to do all 100 but we ll do the top five. in my life some say was the first real song of substance for them. john lennon considered in my leaf a real breakthrough song for his writing, the first time he really wrote about his own life not just the kind of love song pop song. what was the collaboration between lennon and mccartney on this? there s been some dispute on who wrote what. this is a song they generally agree but this is one where paul says john says that he wrote sort of a big, long, sprawling poem remembering all these things and paul says he sort of helped john shape that into this song with this melody. john says, really i did that. paul helped with the harmony. number four is the most covered song in history and that s yesterday. yesterday is a song paul mccartney woke up with, went over to the piano and started playing the melody. he was convinced it must have been somebody else s song and he was then sort of embarrassed that it was this quiet ballad. it wasn t really a rock n roll song but after they went and recorded it with a string quartet, more than 2,500 different versions of this song recorded. is it true he had place holder lyrics, scrambled eggs? it was the title for a long time of this song. scrambled eggs, lady, how i love your legs. i think that was the start. once they got it together there s never been a song like this. number three an intensely personal song for lennon which is strawberry fields forever. he wrote about himself and his own life. strawberry fields was an orphanage near where he grew up in liverpool and this is john looking back on his youth and his own complicated feelings. his parents abandoned him. he lived with an aunt and he would climb the walls of this orphanage and play in the gardens, right? his father left and wept off to sea and his mother handed him off to her sister. so his youth was a complicated thing he drew on again and again and his song strawberry fields forever is a culmination of that kind of writing for him. as we get to number two and then number one, we really are getting to the sweet spot of how they came to america. when you look at number two, it s the song that introduced them to the entire country. absolutely. i want to hold your hand. they had a couple of hits in england but there had never been a band that came from europe and conquered america. it sounded crazy in 1964. i want to hold your hand started leaking over onto american radio stations and people started going nuts, this was the song that just broke beatle mania wide open. this song is when they realized how powerful their own songwriting powers were, right? and this is when john and paul were really writing side-by-side, nose to nose, this chord or that chord and such a thrill of hearing those guitars at the top of the song. great clip. number one, a drum roll if we have it, a day in the life which i don t think a lot of people were expect iing. a little surprising choice that wasn t a hit. it wasn t a single but it was the climactic moment, the last song on sergeant pepper s lonely hearts band. really the absolute peak of their peak album and a perfect collaboration. john wrote the verse, paul wrote the bridge. incredible vocal from john and showing the ways they experimented with recording and just advanced everything that would happen. it wasn t a hit right away. there were no singles from sergeant pepper. this wasn t a song that was important to that audience at the time. over time as the beatles history has unfolded it s become really the classic representation of everything they did. come back tomorrow, we can do the other 95. al, thank you so much. rolling stones hits newsstands on friday. up next, a bride prepares for her fifth trip down the aisle in a wild wedding mystery. swipe your card please. excuse me.? 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is that how you come out with the storyline? my own mama is 95 and has been married multiple times and she does like to gamble with the seminals but she s not like the mama in the book. amazing. and what made you decide to venture in this direction? i know you have history in journalism but why this direction? my husband, kerry sanderson, and i did meet on a story. we were both journalists. i got tired after 20 years of journalism always showing up on the worst day of somebody s life. i just thought i want to do something fun. i want to entertain people and i hope that s what i m doing. i m having a ball with it. fans compliment you by saying they could eat the books up. they read them. they re fun. can you visualize a movie or a tv series? oh, yes, i would love that to happen. we re trying to think who would be a perfect mama. i know, that would be a great casting. do you watch any of these i did some research, yes. i went to tackyweddings.com. mama s wedding, as much as she likes to think it s very elegant, it is way over the top. five pounds of ruffles on the scarlet o hara dresses. that s the theme. the gone with the wind theme. this is a great summer read, something you can just get into and eat it right up. congratulations. thank you very much. thank you for being here. to read an excerpt head to todayshow.com. up next power foods to help keep your mind sharp. 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 this morning on eat smart today feeding your braj as you age. health experts are finding certain foods when you eat them and spices can help you fend off alzheimer s disease and dementia. cooking life magazine has a list of foods to keep you smart. a cooking light contributor will help us figure this out. tanya zuckerbrot, good to see you. sp spinach, popeye s favorite food, besides giving you muscles can help your brain. it does. let s talk a little bit about alzheimer s. 5.3 million people in this country suffer from alzheimer s and it s the seventh leading cause of death in this country. so it s not just we talk about foods helping you live longer. it s quality of life. to help you live better. so spinach, let s talk about spinach. spinach is high in vitamins which helps to fight off alzheimer s. in fact, half a cup of spinach contains five times the amount of vitamin k we eat in a day. people who eat three serves of dark, leafy greens, are 40% less likely to suffer from alzheimer s. so you can saute it, steam it, have it instead of lettuce in a salad. and sauteing it, if you saute it in olive oil, that will help to absorb the fat soluble vitamins which are in spinach. next one, fatty fish like salmon. fish is brain food that contains omega 3 fatty akids and dha. something else that is of interest for people with alzheimer s, studies show that those people who are the most deficient in vitamin d have a 40% increased chance of getting alzheimer s. now salmon is nature s number one source for vitamin b. better than milk. you need 400 of vitamin b a d day. three ounces of salmon will provide you with 311. you can get practically 80% in three ounces of salmon. you mentioned earlier olive oil. this is like not only does this make your food taste good but it helps you. at cooking light we use it in our recipes because of good flavor but there s a substance that actually disables the proteins that surround and impairs with them transmitting messages. olive oil has been shown to prevent cognitive decline. coffee. we keep hearing different things. it s good for you. it s not. you re saying in this study at least when it comes to your brain coffee is good. for those of us who cannot start our morning without a cup of joe, the study is going to thrill you. it s actually saying drink more coffee. 400 subjects showed that people in their 40s and 50s who consumed three to five cups of coffee a day during their 40s and 50s had a 65% decreased risk of getting alzheimer s. does it matter whether it s decaf or caffeinated? caffeinated coffee. you may be jittery but things are working up there. chocolate? i personally was thrilled to see chocolate on the list. we all know that chocolate has heart health benefits like chocolate has been shown to increase brain power. dark chocolate. hi, how are you. the equivalent of two hershey kisses. not a lot. spices help to disable the proteins that interfere with the neurons communicating or to block them. curry which con continues cumin. we don t have her here. and the fruits. apples contain an antioxidant. make sure you eat it with the skin. thank you so much. coming up, hoda s special guest host martina mcbride. good morning. i m kimberly suiters. it s 9:56 right now. we begin with breaking news. human remains have been found in leesburg. a live look from chopper 4. remains found in a wooded area yesterday afternoon. several agencies are working to identify the body right now. an autopsy will be conducted today. we re following a developing story on the roads. right to jerry edwards. at this hour, authorities have a stretch of canal road closed to traffic near reservoir road. the issue, a tree came down on top of a car. now we re told brought down power lines. authorities are redirecting traffic. but is it snarled everywhich way. top side of the capital beltway, accident, outer loop, rockville pike, possibly involving an overturned car. jammed from the outer loop from college park. police are headed over there. a cloudy sky, breezy east wind. and a few scattered areas of drizzle where you see the light blue, montgomery, howard county, near baltimore. heavy downpours southwest of charlottesville, causing flooding there. and later today, perhaps a passing shower, maybe sprinkle or drizzle. perhaps an afternoon thunder shower. highs in the 70s. tomorrow we should get sunshine back maybe a few peaks of sun today. tomorrow a greater chance. small chance of shower tomorrow. dry, friday into the weekend. coming up on news4 midday, pepco s president will be in our studio. what he says about the frequent outages and when customers can realistically expect to see improvements this morning at today with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. our special country co-host this week is the one and only martina mcbride. welcome. how are you? good. kathie lee is on vacation this week, so yesterday we had blake shelton. who? exactly. he trash talked you a little bit when you were gone. you know each other, don t you? how did you meet? we met he opened some shows for me last summer, and we got to hang out a little bit. he s fun, as you know. he s a mess. he is a mess. we re going to play a little something he said, advice for you, but first we ll play this song everyone knows. it s called this one s for the girls. look at this video. look at your hair back in the day. oh, yeah. we had so much fun making that video and just dancing, and my daughters are in it jumping on the bed. they re little. there they are. three daughters. this song became an an they can. you sang this on the late day on the today show for katie couric. we re going to talk about your kids in a second. it s only fair we play what mr. blake shelton had to say. it s only fair. let s take a listen. these people are crazy, and you should know that they think it s cool that you drink gallons of tequila a week. you should bring that with you. could she drink you under the table? martina may be the one person in country music that drinks more than i do. and that s saying something. we decided to bring you something. we know that your drink of choice is tequila, and we had to have a little applause. cheers to you on the first day to make the show a little earlier. we want to apologize to the guests at the end of the show. how was that? delicious? delicious. how old are your girls now? 15, 12, 5. they ve started school. here s a family picture, the group shot. look at their model pose. hands on the hips. you have first day of school pics. that s me and delaney. we have a couple of pictures. tell us about this little girl. this is ava and her first day of school. she s five and started kindergarten this year. she s very happy. she doesn t want to be pictured with the other two daughters. no. it was kind of a chaotic morning. we all usually take a picture. we have a big oak tree in the front yard. she refused to be part of the picture. this is delaniary and emma on the first day of school. she was running and screaming, so i had to take a picture of her separately. she likes to be left alone. they have school uniforms on. does that make life easier in the morning when you get your kids out the door? so much easier. there s no fighting or choices. put the uniform on. it makes it easier for them, too. it takes that whole thinking about what they re going to wear out of the picture. you seem to have it figured out, because a lot of people whether it comes to tell me if i m wrong because i met your husband who is a little crazy upstairs. a little bit. you seem to balance family and your career. i know a lot of artists and singers and actors struggle with that. it s hard. i m kind of these take it as it comes people, deal with it. it s really difficult, especially as they get older in school. we travel on the road. they don t want to come anymore. they want to stay home and be with their friends. you know, when you re 15 your idea of a perfect weekend isn t on a tour bus with your parents. what if your kids said i want to go into this business? would you say yes? i would totally support it. i would like them to do it when they re older, finish school. obviously, it can be a great life, and they see what goes into it, the realistic picture, all the fun stuff and clglamour and a lot of hard work. i would totally support them. behind you there s a crazy crowd of people waving, and i can t help but remember yesterday when blake shelton was here and he looked out the window and sure enough it was crickets. there was nobody standing outside, and you seem to drum up a crowd. well, you know. what can i say. blake actually tweeted today, and he said that now nbc stands for no blake channel, okay? he s out, and we re definitely over him. so you got we re over him. he s done. this is interesting. you have a song coming out, and we had t.i. recently and he mentioned it as well. you, t.i., and kid rock triple teamed for a song. how did that come together? kid rock asked me to be part of it. we ve known each other for a few years now, and i said of course. we sang together a couple of years ago last year we sang at the music festival in national. we did picture on stage. he said after that show i m going to write you a song we can do together. he was true to his word and did. i m thrilled to be part of it. how did t.i. get involved in it? that was kid rock s genius. he s really good at bringing people together and pairing people up. i think it s going to be i ve heard it, and i really love it. martina is so incredibly down to earth. everything is real. her husband was in the dressing room this morning, funny. your makeup team and people with you are so down to earth, and i love the fact you have driven the same honda since 1992, right? is it a clunker? what s the story? it s a great car. i love this car and everybody says get rid of the car. why do you hang onto this car? they don t make parts for if anymore. the transmission went out and this guy is trying to find a transmission to put in it. i love it. it drives so great. you re a real girl. you re doing something to help out it s for cheerios for heart health. tell us about that. i teamed up with cheerios to promote having a healthy heart, healthy lifestyle, which is very important, obviously. heart disease is the number one killer of women in america. so we team up to get out that message of take care of your heart, and we had a contest and there was a winner who i get to meet tomorrow and her name is beverly. she weighed over 220 pounds and she lost over 100 pounds by running so she could be there for her kids and continue to be there for them. i get to meet with her tomorrow and hang out, go to the country music hall of fame and tour that and go to the studio and listen to music. i m excited about that. that s awesome. that s very, very cool. they re still giving away prizes at cheerios.com/love and hell how you take care of your heart and win cool prizes. the cool thing is you like 80s rock. i did. living on a prayer. that s not me. it s bon jovi. you sing is better is what your husband said. do you sing this at concerts or for fun? for encore song for the last year we play most of our hits in the show. for the encore we rock out and have fun and pull out 80s rock. everybody in the audience can relate to that. we all grew up at the same time listening to that music. don t stop believing is another one. hit me with your best shot is another one we do. i want to sing so bad. i love music. drown me out, and i ll do it. if you drown me out. i have a recurring let s do this before we start singing. don t you love this show? i knew you would. i love this show. i do have recurring dreams madonna is supposed to perform on stage and needs a few more minutes and someone says to get out there. everyone is screaming so loudly, they don t know i can t sing, and then she jumps out there and i had my moment. you can come do that at my shows. really? will you drown me out? if you promise to drown me out, i ll do it. the crowd will go crazy. let us go to sarah. some fans have questions for you. i have heard you sing, and you do not have she sings every morning. we ve heard her. she does not hold back upstairs, and you do not sound badly. i ve heard it. amber wrote, martina, what is the greatest sacrifice you ve had to make for your career? this is a weird question, because having three kids is i only tour during the school year on the weekends. we ve turned down opportunities to go overseas and to do this and that because i want to be there for their school programs or whatever. even though i don t consider it a sacrifice, because i love my kids and wouldn t have it any other way, if it was just all me, me, me i could just go do tons of different things. are they showing a lot of love on facebook? hi, it s martina mcbride. does anyone remember blake shelton at all? blake who? exactly. coming up next we have the hot stars of white collar right after this. a better place?ool field trips to the zoo! more basketballs. soccer balls. and a museum! 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[ female announcer ] splenda®. america s favorite no calorie sweetener. white collar is about the unlikely partnership of an con artist and fbi agent. kneel calvary helps the fbi in exchange for eventual freedom and tim decay plays peter burk the fbi agent that caught him and is using his expertise to capture our white collar criminals. hello matt and tim. talk about a hit show. this thing came out of the gate and was on fire. why do you think it was such a hot show? matt. i like how you think. i think there s it s fun and the character dynamics are really specific. it can be attributed to the writing. i think so, too. they tell the stories that people respond to. it s fun to see, because you want to be the criminal but yet you understand the relationship. it s fun to see the two of them play off of each other. you two seem to like each other a lot. we call that bramance. yes, we do. that word has been used, is this real, this chemistry happening? yeah, it is. i think it started from right out of the gates. we ve been having a good time together. ever since the first time we read together. ever since tim got his honorary doctorate. i got to do the commencement speech at my undergraduate school, and they now call me doctor on the set. congratulations. so if we can reintroduce the show and call and say doctor the good doctor. who was cast first? he was. you had to make sure there was chemistry between the two of you? i did. i sent him flowers and that helped. he bromanced me a little bit. we met in the waiting room before. i was a big fan of his work from don t you love me, carnival de. we started to read, and within about ten seconds i realized this is mine to lose, i think. i sort of innaturely understood his sense of humor and enjoyed it. you got something in common with martina. what s that? you sing. my family sings. okay. you see, tell it. in texas i m actually here with martina mcbride right now. you ve arrived, buddy. you sing duets? when he sings, i join in. i think you sell yourself short. when it comes to singing we should call a quartet. some barber shop quartet would be something. harmony is not my forte. go ahead and play a song. don t stop believing hold on to that feeling street lights people oh oh oh oh he went for the high note. martina is the judge. in the morning i went there. you had some cool like are you going to sing journey, you have to rock it out a little bit. you have to command it. have you done karaoke. you re asking if she s done karaoke? we wish you such great luck with the show. it s a home run. big shout-out to bonnie hammer in the house, too, who we adore. catch white collar on usa tonight. coming up next from dirty accounta accountant, actor christopher gorman is with us. back right after this. this one thing i ll eat, any time of day pancakes! from dawn til sunset, i ll never walk away blueberry pancakes are so good [ male announcer ] bisquick. pancake lovers unite. when allergies make them itch, don t wait for your pills to kick in. choose alaway, from the eye health experts at bausch & lomb. it works in minutes and up to 12 hours. bausch & lomb alaway. because it s not just your allergies, it s your eyes. so i couldn t always do what i wanted to do. but five minutes ago, i took symbicort, and symbicort is already helping significantly improve my lung function. so, today, i ve noticed a significant difference in my breathing. and i m doing more of what i want to do. so we re clear it doesn t replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. my doctor said symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be taken more than twice a day. symbicort may increase your risk of lung infections, osteoporosis, and some eye problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. my copd often meant i had to wait to do what i wanted to do. now i take symbicort, and it s significantly improves my lung function, starting within five minutes. symbicort has made a significant difference in my breathing. now more of my want-tos are can-dos. as your doctor about symbicort today. i got my first prescription free. call or go online to learn more. 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yeah. this guy was just talking. he has three children just like you. two boys and a girl. 9, 6 and 19 months. martina was explaining how she juggled her life. why is there tape on everyone s mouth? it s for the no hate campaign. it s a casual tuesday night at the household, right? we thought let s take a family portrait and put duct tape over their kids mouth. what parent doesn t want to do that somedays? martina fauktalked about juggling. i have an amazing wife. that s how i do it. you have to have an incredible partner to pull it off, and she s the best. do your kids dig what you re doing? no. my kids want me to quit my show because they can t watch it and want me to be on wipe out. what do you think the magic is of this show? it s captured people s imagine snags. it s a humanistic look of what it s like to work for the cia. it s complicated to juggle your work and home life whether your work life is lying to everyone you know. it comes from the producer of the bourne identity field and our lead piper is our lead in the show. that s the biggest selling pointd. what do you do when you re not working on your show? do you do anything when you want to totally relax and chill out? i don t remember what that was like. i think that was before somewhere between like bringing kid number one home from the hospital and kid number two is the last time i had free time. i like to read. i spend a lot of time at the gym lately. go to the movies, watching the today show. what do you think about what martina is doing here today? ingts inkr think it s incred. are you digging on country music at all? is that for you? i like country music, yeah, i do. i like the dixie chicks. do they count? brooks & dunn. how about that? anybody else at all? anybody, anybody? no. oh, no! what? i failed. this is an epic fail. we love martina. we know you do. i love martina. we wish you good luck with the show covert affairs. it airs tonight at 10:00/9:00 central on usa. the best back-to-school snacks. i like quizzes. you might beat me on this. also our chef will treat us in the kitchen today after your local news. did you know go-gurt is specially made to freeze and thaw by lunch time? 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hoda. more. no. it has less. it has 175 calories, so cookies and milk what kind of cookies? not the giant bakery cookies. minor detail. so that was one me, 11-0. no we re to fruit. of these three they all have fiber, a medium banana or apple or kcup of blackberries, which has the most fiber? the apple. noch. i m going for the berries. the berries are right. that s a third of your fiber. these have fiber, too. these were warm-ups. we have tougher questions. everyone loves yogurt. we have plain yogurt, low fat yogurt and mixed in fruit on the bottom kind of yue gort. if you xhooz the low fat plain yogurt, how much sugar do you save, 3, 5, or 7 teaspoons? martina. 7. you are right. 7 teaspoons, so it s like chugging this cup of sugar. are you serious? naethat s a lot of sugar. stick with the low fat plain. you can add frozen fruit and fresh fruit. don t buy it all mushed in. here we are crunchy favorites. which one of these three does not have 100 calories? the pop chips, the pretzel nuggets or popcorn? i got this one. i got it. i could read her mind. i m going for the pretzels. you re right, hoda. the pretzels have ten calories in each nugget. the popcorn has to be popped without a lot of oil and stuff. whether itn it s popped it h lots of air in it. air incorporated will give you fewer calories. the kettle corn ketel one, whatever. you re going to get me in big trouble. we re going to talk about salt. which one of these three has the most salt? is it pop chips, pretzels or the popcorn. i m going for pop chips. nope. martina gets a chance. i ll say the pretzels. you re right. 470 milligrams. it s almost 25% of what you need in a day. so not a really great choice. lindsay, what s the score? 3-2. who has 3? 2-2. it s 2-2. everyone is cheating. we only have four things. we ve had five. it is 3-2. now we re getting to some protein, always a good snack. here s something to figure out. of all of these things, which has the most protein in the serving? half a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole kwhewheat, a fat cheese stick and soy nuts or 22 almonds, which has the most? i m going for the soy nuts. you re right. wow. that s right. 12 i would have said the almonds. a lot of people think that, but there s 12 grams of proteins. the almonds have 6. these are good sources, but if you want to bulk up, go for the soy nuts. this is the final question. are you ready? can i have my hand on the buzzer? that s fine. this is it. sometimes or sweet tooth needs a little candy, so look at these five piece of red licorice, do they have 50, 100 or 150 calories? 100. martina. 50, 100 or 150 calories in five. gosh. this is for the tie. i think you go for the high. 150. 150 is right. a close game. so close. what s the prize? the prize is some recipe books for snacking. look at that. you get a present. you want to point something out. hidden drinks. madeline, thank you so much. coming up next is the back-to-school fashion is happening downstairs for elementary school kids right after this. 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yes. next we do layering. here s mia. super cool. he s going into fourth grade? he s going into fourth grade. the greatest thing about layering is it s the biggest trend for kids this season, but moms love it because it s so practical. add or subtract a layer depending on the weather. we layered him up. we started with a long-sleeved shirt and a graphic tee and this great fluorescent windbreaker. it s fluorescent, which is another huge trend. wind resistant and rain resistant and it rolling up into a little clever fanny pack. a fedora. is that in? this is evan s own hat, and kid vs so much style these days. i didn t look like this. loving that hat. this is smart and affordable. totally affordable. the skinny jean and the sneakers that are now classics. really fun tip for mom, switch out the laces. take last year s sneaker, make it new again. thank you, honey. thank you so much. let s bring out luca. with the jeggings. jean plus legging equals jegging. you throw a rock, you hit a jegging. they re everywhere now. look at the shoes. here s our floral combat boots from h & m. it brings together this rock look. she has a fun 80s tee with a roaring jaguar on it. can you she sing don t stop believing ? 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she loves prawn. put two through. slide it through this one. slide one first. what in does is see how easily i flip this? if you have one on there, put two through. it stabilizes a prawn and makes it easier. simple as that. you can literally throw it on there. hold on. you make a vinaigrette. lots of a great herbs. add this olive i have here, a little bit of lemon juice and a little zest. do you have one at your house? yes, do. are you getting that facial? yes, i am. she s a real deal. do you cook on the road? i try to, yes. a little bit of olive oil. you can find in vinaigrette online. you can puree it or make it chunky. adds a great amount of flavor a little bit of salt and pepper. this will go on the prawns once i get it done. turn it down a drop. it s done. they re going to curl up. i always overcook shrimp. it s better to go about two-thirds of the way and pull off and carry over and put vinaigrette on top and call did a day. this is my favorite in melon whether it s when it s in season. why do you soak them? so they don t burn. you want to watch it, otherwise they burn through. should i put another one in there, too. you have two right there and stack them. you have a little nice appetizer. i did the salsa verde vineg vinaigret vinaigrette. pour nose on top and pour it on top when everyone gets there. take it and put it on top of the prawns. let s go to the back, and we can try these. meet you in the back. i have booze for you. we don t drink we don t do that. we try not to. you can try a tapa. i want to incorporated caba. it s a spainish sparkling wine. i took strawberries and here s one martini glass for you. that s beautiful. i took strawberries with a little bit of alcohol and took them, macerated the strawberries? the longer it sits the better it is. pour this bad boy over the top. this is like heaven. lemon sorbet inside there and a little cabo on top tf of it. that s so smamprt. ryan, thank you honey. you can eat it or cheer it or drink it. what do you want to do? what s your mom s name? pat. hi, pat. we ll be back with more of today on nbc. it is that time of the program where we go to miss sarah haines. a lot of drinking and eating on this program. how do you stay looking so young, martina? do you have a special skin regime? first of all, thank you very much. i try to take care of my skin, drink a lot of water, simple things like that and use good products. drink anything else? you know that. what else? diana wants to know how old were you when you first performed in front of a large audience? i was 7 years old and approximate performed in front of people at a 4-h convention. i started singing when i was four in front of people. you get comfortable with it, i guess. i love that. lynn wants to know was there a ever a song you wished you had recorded? yeah. lots of them. one that comes to mind immediately is it matters to me by faith. i ve always loved that song. you were terrific. so much better than blake. tomorrow we have john rich on the show filling in for kathie lee. martina, you are a home run. thank you again. cheers to you. good luck with everything. cheers to you. good luck with everything. see you tomorrow, everybody. captions by vitac www.vitac.com