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captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a friday morning. a special edition of our show, a split edition, from new orleans and new york. i m matt lauer in the lower ninth ward here in new orleans. al roker, by the way, has also made his way to the crescent city. we ll join him over in the french quarter in just a little while. and i m ann curry in new york, matt. as we mark the fifth anniversary of hurricane katrina, there is trouble looming in the atlantic as you just mentioned, matt. hurricane danielle became a major category 4 storm overnight. while it s not expected to make landfall in the u.s., there are two other systems including earl to keep an eye on. al will be joining us with the latest on that straight ahead. matt, back to you. a lot of people nervously watching that, ann. thank you very much. i am here in the lower ninth ward in new orleans. you heard so much about this neighborhood, this area, in the days during hurricane katrina and then immediately following. by far this was the hardest hit part of new orleans. when those levees breached and broke, a tidal wave of water knocked many homes right off their foundations. the city as a whole was inundated with water, 80% of it under one foot and 22 feet of water. don t forget this area took a second hit just a couple of weeks later when hurricane rita rolled through the region. in all, about 1,800 people died in a several-state area as a result of both of those storms. and while there have been some valiant efforts to rebuild this city, a lot of work remains. this, i think, is a startling statistic. here in the ninth ward, the lower ninth ward, there used to be a population of about 18,000. that was pre-katrina. today the population here is 1,800. and while the city has come a long way, other key areas are still lagging behind. convention business, a big thing around here, is behind pre-katrina numbers. only about half as many conventions booked right now as were booked in the year before katrina. in a moment we ll talk to two of the central figures, people we got to know very well during hurricane katrina, the former mayor of new orleans, ray nagin, and the man who headed up the federal response to this disaster as head of fema, michael brown. we ll find out if five years later when they look back, they would have done anything differently, ann. we re looking forward to your reporting there. and back here on a much lighter note, we have a huge crowd for katy perry. fans are packing the plaza, camped out overnight. that line was up several blocks. we re going to get to that in our 8:30 half hour. let s begin with those storms that are lurking in the atlantic including danielle which became the first major hurricane of the season overnight and al is keeping a close watch on those storms. he s in the new orleans frieenc quarter with more on this. hey, al, good morning. good morning to you, ann. danielle a category 4 storm. let s take a look at the latest on what danielle is doing. as we said category 4 storm. we have a triple threat here. we ve got danielle, then behind it tropical storm earl, a wave coming off the african coast that could become fiona and then another wave hyped that, you can t see on the satellite. first danielle, southeast of bermuda. 135-mile-per-hour winds, a category 4 storm and the path of the storm is going to bring it thankfully to the east of bermuda because this is a powerful, powerful storm. now we also have earl to worry about. tropical storm earl. right now the minimal tropical storm, 1,400 miles east of the northern leeward islands. its winds at 45 miles per hour. the path of this storm a little more problematic as we keep an eye on that. it stays fairly westward. it takes a while before it makes a northwesterly turn some time early wednesday morning and does it affect the east coast? we ll see. the possibility of fiona south-southeast of the cape verde islands. just coming off the coast of africa there another wave. so it s now we re coming into the heart and the meat of the hurricane season. ann? al, thank you so much. and now to some other breaking news this morning. that incredible new video from inside the mine in chile where 33 workers could be stuck until christmas. we ve got today national correspondent natalie morales joining us here with details. hey, natalie, good morning. good morning. for the first time we re getting a remarkable look at the conditions these miners could face for the next four months and despite everything they appear in incredibly good spirits. these are the new and surprisingly clear images from a dark and cut off world more than half a mile below the earth s surface. chanting in solidarity the 33 trapped miners record messages for their loved ones on a camera sent down from above. i am here, mother, he says. i am okay, my friends, says another. battling extreme heat, trapped underground, the miners appear shirtless but they still smile and wave with gusto. they give a tour of their tight corridors for the whole world to see. it s a rare glimpse at what life is like for the men trapped 22 days in a 600-square-foot chamber. some gather around this table to play dominos, a welcome distraction from the waiting that may last until their expected christmas rescue still four months away. up at the surface loved ones gather at what is being called camp hope where they ve sent messages and snacks down this small tube just four inches in diameter and that tube will act as a life line for the miners. health officials say each miner has already lost an average of 20 pounds but the 33 miners must stay fit to survive and when they climb through a 22-inch-wide shaft now being built for their rescue. in the meantime, it s messages like these that will give loved ones waiting above a burst of new hope. a hope that resonates down below as the miners sing chile s national anthem. officials say the miners seemed calm when they were told that rescue may still be four months away. in the meantime, authorities are consulting with everyone from psychologists to nasa scientists on how to keep their spirits up. we know that movies and a small entertainment center may be on its way underground. ann, by the way, the temperature down there is reportedly about 84 degrees, some very, very tough conditions. that s right. it s amazing that tape was made actually after they d heard it would be some time before they were going to be taken out of there, so it s remarkable their spirits. thank you very much. sure. let s get a check on the other top stories. carl quintanilla is in for me at the news desk. good morning, ann. good morning, everybody. investors are closely watching ben bernanke for any signs of how the federal reserve chief plans to boost the economy and consumer confidence. this after the dow dropped below 10,000 thursday for the first time in seven weeks. cnbc s amanda drewrey is at the new york stock exchange. good morning. reporter: you said there was only one name in town today and that s ben bernanke speaking on both policy in jackson hole, wyoming, at a time the market is looking shaky. number one, how bad the fed thinks it s going to be. looking at wall street really happeninging on bernanke s every word. amanda drury at the new york stock exchange, thanks. thoer recall from toyota. the automaker is recalling 1.3 million corolla sedans because the engines may stall. the recall covers model years 2005 to 2008 sold in the u.s. and canada. 200,000 pontiac vibes are being recalled for the same problem. fda officials have now positively linked two iowa farms to the recall of more than half a billion eggs. on thursday tests confirm strains of salmonella in the feed at the farms, but it s unclear how that feed became contaminated. and former president jimmy carter is on his way back to the u.s. from north korea after securing the release and pardon this morning of jailed american aijalon gomes, the 31-year-old teacher had been sentenced to eight years in prison for crossing the border there illegally. it is now 7:09. back to ann. all right, carl, thank you so much. now let s go back to new orleans where al has another check of the rest of the forecast. hey, al, good morning. you good morning. we have sunshine now in a mostly clear sky. live view from sky watcher camera showing clouds over washington now 40 minutes past sunrise. temperatures are cool. 67 in washington. just near 60 in the nearby suburbs. 50s farther west and north. 70 near the bay. highs today low 80s, sun. sunny and warmer tomorrow, low humidity. sunday, monday, low humidity, highs near 90. and that s your latest weather. matt? al, thank you very much. it was five years ago that this neighborhood and this city were brought to their knees by hurricane katrina as that storm roared ashore. and the historic city of new orleans took a body blow. this is just an unbelievable scene. thousands who didn t evacuate were forced to take shelter at the superdome and the convention center. there was not enough help. frustration and anger overflowed, and the catastrophic breach of the levees caused the worst damage, devastating the ninth ward. an estimated 1,800 people in louisiana and mississippi died in the aftermath of katrina. hundreds of thousands more were displaced for months or years. five years later some residents are still living in trailers. ray nagin was the mayor of new orleans during hurricane katrina. michael brown was the federal government s point man as the head of fema. gentlemen, good morning. nice to see you both. good morning. the first time you ve seen each other in quite a while. five years. if i ask you both quickly, when you hear the name katrina, ray, what is the most searing image? what s the most lasting memory that you have? there s a couple of things but the deception of katrina is one thing i ll never forget. superdome, convention center, just the general struggle of everything we had to go through to get people out. michael? as the urban search and rescue teams were going through during their searches, they were giving me live feedbacks and i got a live feedback from a nursing home that had victims, deceased elderly on the floor in their diapers, deceased on the floor of this nursing home. it was youawful. this was a slow motion storm that strengthened over the weekend. we knew it was coming. you knew it was coming. when this storm approached landfall here in louisiana, did you think you were ready it at the city level, and did you think you were ready at the federal level? well, we thought we had done a pretty good job of evacuation. normally we get about 60% to 70% of our citizens out. this time we had at least 80% to 85% out. that was our initial estimate. it wasn t until i got a call from max late saturday night at the hurricane center. that we really knew this storm was heading for us. that s when i decided to order a mandatory evacuation, the first one ever, to get as many other people out as possible. michael, did you think the federal government was worried? no. in fact, i was worried about it. you may have seen me during the briefings in which i was concerned about the superdome. i was concerned about the evacuation. i was concerned about all of those things plus the placement of fema and dhs, i was afraid there had been a severing of the relationship. did you voice those concerns to mayor nagin and those at the state level? at that point it s too late. we re in the middle of the crisis at that point. would you have liked to have heard those concerns earlier? well, yes, but, you know, mr. brown, i think, was in the state at that time. we were hunkered down in new orleans trying to get ready for the storm. you talk about the evacuation, mayor nagin, you ordered. 20 hours before the storm hit, let s get everybody out of here. what we learned there were so many people who simply didn t have a place to go and didn t have the means to get out. well, keep in mind our evacuation process had a shelter of last resort, the superdome. we opened that up. we went into the communities to get people out, as many as possible. but the storm hadn t hit new orleans like that in about 40 years. so our culture is one of stay and ride it out. many people decided to stay in their homes. one of the things so frustrating, michael, we seem to be hearing two different stories or hearing one story and seeing another. representatives of the federal government were telling us this is going fairly well, this is going as planned. we re happy with this. i hate to bring it up, right up to that heck of a job, devastation and despair, no food and no water. why was there this disconnect? i think there was a disconnect because of the mentality in washington that says you put the best face on everything. i think politicians and government leaders need to understand the american public wants accurate information. so when you were saying some of the things you were saying to the immediamedia here and acros country, did you know it was inaccurate? not that it was inaccurate. it was factually correct in what we were telling people about what was going on, but we never put it in context about we re doing all of these things, but it s not enough or it s not working. and i think it s a huge failure of government to fail, to trust the american people with the actual facts of what s happening. i think, ray, one of the things that was uncovered by hurricane katrina as the waters came in and then moved away was this devastating poverty that a lot of people in this country either didn t know existed or didn t want to know existed. did that strike you? i think just the latter. most people know that there s poverty in america and it s concentrated in urban cities. that s what we deal with in new orleans on a regular basis. and, as a matter of fact, most of the people who stayed and didn t leave is because they either wouldn t leave or couldn t leave is because of the poverty issue. most important question i can ask both of you, what lessons were learned, are you convinced that enough has been said about katrina and it has been dissected enough and analyzed enough, the response to it, that if another katrina-like event were to strike new orleans or some other city, that the response would be more efficient and handled differently? i m not convinced. maybe mr. brown is convinced. i don t see any major changes that we have done as a country. the fema has new people but it still operates pretty much the same. we have updated all of our evacuation processes. that s a horrible phrase. i am very concerned. the bp situation taught me something that we re not quite ready. the haiti situation, which is international, also said a lot about us. quickly, michael? people find this shocking but i agree with the mayor. the studies have not truly been addressed and i think the second thing is the american population hasn t realized what their responsibility is in the midst of a crisis. a major look, we have a levee problem in california. do you think the new levees will hold if we have another major storm here? it. we spent $14 billion so i hope so. it looks better but it s been tested once with gustav. we ll see in the future. i appreciate you getting back together and looking back with us and hopefully looking forward. ray nagin and michael brown. back to new york now and ann. matt, thanks. radio and fox news host glenn beck is promising a massive rally in washington this weekend to, quote, restore honor in america. he plans to do it at the same spot and on the anniversary of martin luther king s i have a dream speech and that is stirring some controversy. nbc s tom costello is at the lincoln memorial this morning with more on this. tom, good morning. reporter: ann, good morning to you. glenn beck says dr. king is the hero of his, and for that reason he will not stand on the same step that dr. king stood on in 1963. he plans to stand a few steps below that. that said, he is defiant in his right to be here. what s happened on this very spot 47 years ago tomorrow was among the most pivotal moments in american history. i have a dream today. reporter: but conservative host glenn beck also has a dream. we will mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. reporter: beck is hoping his rally this weekend will rival last year s anti-tax rally that attracted tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, many of them tea party activists. increasingly beck has been evoking the civil rights movement and says this weekend is about restoring honor in america. he also insists he did not realize it was the anniversary of the march on washington but, he says, that shouldn t matter. i m sorry. african-americans don t own martin luther king. it s a human idea just like white people dent own george washington or abraham lincoln. reporter: beck s comments about race have sometimes been inflammatory. this president has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-se deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture. i don t know what it is. do you love your freedom? reporter: and joining beck this weekend will be former governor sarah palin, who last week defended talk show host laura schlessinger s repeated use of the n word saying it wasn t being used in a racist mann manner. i ll say it again, [ bleep ]. reporter: beck insists this is a nonpolitical gathering, one person says this could carry risk for republicans. the republican party needs conservatives, needs the tea party activists but the republican party does not want to be defined by tea partiers or glenn beck. reporter: reverend al sharp ton will be in d.c. saturday leading a march to mark the mlk anniversary but promises to avoid confrontation. to go and confront him is to make it about him. that was, in my opinion and the opinion of many that are participating with us that day, would mock the memory of dr. king. reporter: so why this weekend? beck says maybe it was meant to be. i believe in divine providence. it was not my intention it to select 8-28 because of the martin luther king tie. also, beck says he believes this is about reclaiming civil rights. importantly, he says, they will not allow any campaign signs here at all. that may be rather tough to enforce given the scope and the size of this place. the trouble is, of course, last year there were a lot of signs that had rather racist overtones. the concern is that might be repeated this time. by the way, many beck followers are being urged to avoid african-american areas and conflict. ann, back to you. we ll see what will happen. accused russian spy anna chapman has resurfaced and has a risque f photo shoot. 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[ male announcer ] have a heart to heart with your doctor about your risk. and about lipitor. good morning. 7:26 on this friday, 27th of august, 2010. i m joe krebs. in the news4 today, moments ago crews reopens falls road in potomac. it was shut down after an ambulance. a driver swerved to avoid a car on the wrong side of the road, lost control, crashed into an embankment. four emergency workers in the ambulance at the time. no patients, though. they are expected to be okay. the other driver did not stop. we ll tick a break and and come back and look at weather and traffic. stay with us. good morning. fresh and cool friday. temperatures 50s and 60s, climbing into the low 80s, low humidity, lots of sunshine. sunny and warmer over the weekend. low humidity, saturday, sunday, monday. how s the traffic? inner loop jammed up leading the toll road for the american legion. earlier disabled gone. accident activity 610 jammed from triangle to get past the issue. beltway, northbound drivers with headlights 395 at the posted speed limit. redskins return to the field taking on the jets. catch the action here on nbc 4 at 7:00 and stay tun i kissed a girl and i liked it the taste of the dhery chapstick we re back at 7:30 on the 27th day of august, 2010. looks like a pretty nice day in new york. that s good news. out on the plaza gathering for a katie py perry concert in the 8 half hour, about an hour from right now. a pretty morning brewing here in new orleans, too, as we bring you a special split edition of today on this friday morning. from new york and new orleans. i m matt lauer in the lower ninth ward here in the city and, as i mentioned earlier, ann is back in new york. this city has come an awfully long way in the last five years. we talked about that at the top of the show. there is a lot of work to be done. evidence of that in the lower ninth ward. take a look behind. that is a dilapidated, abandoned building. the familiar x on the side of the building. no one is allowed to live in that building. an empty foundation here. a home simply swept away by the floodwaters. 4,000 homes were destroyed here during the hurricane and the flooding that followed and yet, just yards away, you can see signs of progress. a new home built there. this home over here that looks somewhat unusual, that s one of those make it right homes, an organization that brad pitt is so closely associated with. there are plans to build about 150 of those here in the lower ninth ward. ann curry, as i mentioned, back in new york. you ve come down here to new orleans and highlighted this project on a number of occasions. it s very cool, matt. they actually position the houses so that they require less electricity because they face the sun and they dramatically lowered the electricity bills for the people who live there which makes a huge difference. they re very eco-friendly, matt. yeah, a lot of plans to build more. as i said, 150. right now about 14 families living in these kinds of homes. 19 others under construction and a little bit further to go. also, matt, the remarkable work under way at the bottom of the north atlantic is happening, trying to unlock some much of the mysteries of the titanic disaster. a mission is under way to create the first complete picture of the wreckage. coming up, the latest on this from nbc s kerry sanders who is lucky enough to be live aboard the vessel carrying out that delicate mission. plus, also, you might remember anna chapman. she is that accused russian spy busted here in the u.s. and sent back to moscow. we ll, she s not keeping such a low profile, posing for a new provocative photo shoot. we ll get into that a little bit later on this morning. first, back to new orleans and matt for his reporting from there. matt? ann, thank you very much. and i m joined by nbc s lester holt. he was one of the first people here in this region following hurricane katrina. he joins me this morning five years later to look back. lester, good morning. matt, good morning. i spent time in mississippi and here in the immediate aftermath. so much devastation. so many lives altered. we came back to remember how it all played out and talked to some of the people we met along the way to see if life has gotten back to normal. it was a big storm, but it was a little voice that reminded us it didn t have to be this bad. we just need some help out here. it is so pitiful. at 9, charles evans, along with thousands of others trapped at the new orleans convention center by floodwaters, gave voice to the man made disaster bo born of katrina. katrina seemed like a scary movie i with would never want to watch again. the opening scene is the day before katrina hits. the storm has increased. mayor ray nagin orders a mandatory evacuation of new orleans. this is a threat that we ve never faced before. most left but many wouldn t or couldn t. the superdome, they were told, was a shelter of last resort. early monday katrina strikes a heavy blow to the louisiana coast as a category 4 storm, but the eye just misses new orleans. the big easy is hurting but still standing. by now katrina is making its final landfall in mississippi. a storm surge more than 20 feet high wipes buildings from their foundations to biloxi. i delivered that report the morning after the storm from right about here, not only the storm surge rearranged buildings and swept across the entire port area, there were tractor-trailers overturned, even ocean barges here right at the foot of downtown gulfport. one of the levees has broken and given way. back in new orleans things were about to get a whole lot worse. reports of breaches in the levee system. cut off, residents retreat to rooftops to escape the waters, begging for help. today many are still unaccounted for. right over here in 2008 they found a young boy s body. in here? mm-hmm. right over here. three years after katrina? yeah, with his backpack on his back. in the end, there was no safe refuge, not even the superdome. get us out of here. we want to get out of here. we really need help. some wondered if new orleans itself was dying. it didn t and today signs of recovery abound. but leave it to that little boy from the convention center, now 14, to tell you how he sees it. i just wish that things would kind of be back to normal and new orleans is not back to normal. a lot of people may think that it is but it s not. somewhere around 1,800 people were lost as a result of katrina, much of the discussion will be this weekend, can it happen again? in 2008 gustav blew through here and the city virtually emptied out. evacuations went much more orderly. lester, appreciate your reporting. let me turn now to the current mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu. good to see you. welcome. you ve been mayor for 100 days or so. 117 days. i m sorry, 117. in your opinion, from your perspective, how far in the rear-view mirror have the people of new orleans managed katrina? we had a major turning point where people really wanted to stop looking backwards and look forward. i said some time ago we re not really thinking about rebuilding the city. we re thinking about building the city we want to become. and i think there s been a significant turning point just in the recent future. i think a lot of people look at katrina and say what positive could come out of it but there are some positive things that could come out of it and that is this city you can now have a chance to re-create, it s a city that s more environmentally friendly. it s greener. some of the housing here is greener. what are you most proud of? first of all, i m most proud of the citizen involvement, people stood up at one time. the overarching message when you look at the good and the bad, we re still here. we re still standing, we re unbroken unbound through katrina and rita and gustav, the national recession, the bp oil spill. i think the resilience of the people is really the message of the day. but there are some major challenges ahead. you have a huge budget shortfall, you have a police department here that was decimated by hurricane katrina, a major crime problem in the city. and health care is limited here. if you could reach out and the power to solve one problem immediately, what would you sol snf is. two of them, education and health care. we ve had great success the last couple of months in both of those. we re re-creating the education system here. yesterday we got to 87 primary care clinics actually leading the nation. those are two really bright spots. however, the city of new orleans is really the canary in the coal mine. things happening on the streets of new orleans are the same challenges at every major american city. we have a long way to go. the people in the city are ready to get it done. after katrina and the federal, state, and local response after the oil spill and what people thought was a slow and inefficient response, can the people of new orleans ever trust again? can they trust their local and state and federal officials to protect them in a time of crisis? well, the one thing i don t want people to forget is that for four days in the early part of the 21st century we had anarchy on the streets, the government completely failed. and unless you remember that and drive a stake through it, it may happen again. you don t ever want that to happen again. i think we re much, much better. as lester said a minute ago, the evacuation from gustav was really great. a lot of lessons learned. you can t put your guard down. the bp oil spill and what that has brought to us was another unexpected. ike and gustav we thought would be a water event. we had a breakdown of the energy grid again. i think the message to the rest of the country not only here but all over we have to respond better to catastrophic events because we haven t learned that lesson yet. in office 117 days, the current mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu. thank you so much for joining us. i appreciate it very much. let s go just a couple miles from here to the french quarter and al for a check of the weather. hey, thanks a lot, matt. hurricane katrina s floodwaters damaged and impacted the local good morning, here, we ve got sunshine, clouds coming through friday morningen 67 in washington. near 60 in the suburbs. rural areas west and north, 50s. south and east in the 60s near the bay and the atlantic beaches near 70. highs today climbing into the low 80s. we ll have lots of sunshine tomorrow, sunny, warm, low humidity. and on sunday, monday, up around 90, both days with low humidity. looks like it will stay dry through next week. and that s your latest weather. ann? all right, al. thanks so much. anna chapman, the woman at the center of the most intriguing spy scandal since the cold war, has resurfaced in a racy new video and photo shoot. nbc s martin fletcher has details now. reporter: angelina jolie my name is evelyn. you are a schaap shan spy. reporter: and there s the real thing. fem if a tal anna chapman is back in the news. reporter: cold war turned hot. the accused russian spy anna chapman deported from america is all over the news in russia after pictures appeared of a magazine photo shoot. it s chapman s first time in public since last month s spy swap of ten russian spies in america of russians accused of trading secrets with the west. in the past there have been russian spies who have had this public limelight pushed upon them and have come back into political careers. reporter: but she was thrown a curveball. after she posted photo shoot images on facebook, the magazine is reportedly suing her for leaking them. she quickly cut the photos from her page and warned nobody has the right to print, publish, or sell them. it isn t clear what official reaction is to chapman s photo shoot. when the ten spies returned to moscow, they were treated as heroes. putin drinking and singing songs with them. they are quite proud of her. there s a lot of patriotism here and she was doing her job for her kcountry. reporter: in america the russians became known as the spies next door. anna chapman quickly emerged as a pretty face of modern espionage. at first she denied being a russian spy but then they always do. i m not a russian spy. i m innocent. somebody is setting me up. reporter: now chapman appears to have set herself up for a possible court case for an alleged copyright breach releasing sexy photos. for today, martin fletcher, nbc news, london. and coming up next, the titanic like you ve never seen it before. we ll take you live to the north atlantic where sicientists are trying to do something that s never been done before. n t breathe right. i couldn t sleep right. next day it took forever to get going. night after night, i sat up. sprayed up. took a shower. or took a pill. then i tried drug-free breathe right. and instantly, i breathed better! i slept better. i felt.better. thank you, breathe right! 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thanks very much, tom. skins return to the field taking on the jets about catch the action here on nbc 4 at 7:00. stay tuned for our post game report. california girls, we re undeppable 8:00 on a friday morning, the 27th day of august, 2010. take a look, we have a huge number of people gathered. the summer concert coming up with katy perry. she will be sing iing some of h biggest hits in just a couple of minutes. i m sure they re happy about that. meanwhile, we have a split edition of our show on this friday morning. i m matt lauer along with al roker here in the historic french quarter of new orleans. ann is back in new york. ann, good morning to you. nice to see you. great to see you. reporting has been great so far, matt and al. we re surrounded by all of these katy perry fans. and this morning in this half hour we re talking a lot about how to say no to your kids when they re suffering from tantrums. back to you, matt. all right, ann. we have come here to the frieen quarter you were here all during the show. i remember coming down in the couple of days after hurricane katrina and being struck by how little damage there was to this part of the city. it s the oldest part of the city, built on the highest ground. at least five feet above sea level, most of the city is below sea level so that s why the french quarter really stayed away from all of that flooding. so we re going to be taking a look at some of the area s signature sights and sounds and tastes as well. plus, former first lady laura bush is going to be joining us. she has been working very hard to help the people of new orleans. we ll be talking to her about the effort she has been doing in a live interview. somebody else who spent a lot of time in new orleans the past several years actually calls it her adopted hometown, is oscar winner sandra bullock. we re going to be talking to her about her efforts to help the people here in new orleans, what she s doing and how she s doing. that s coming up in a special interview that will air on the tod today show tuesday morning. again, sandra bullock tuesday morning right here on tod today but this morning here in the french quarter i m joined by the governor of louisiana, bobby jindal. governor, nice to see you. thank you for coming down here. i m reminded that although we re here and we re looking back at hurricane katrina five years ago, the people of the gulf are still going through another devastating event and that is the bp oil spill. can you give me an update? i know the oil is still washing ashore. what s an update on the cleanup? certainly, it is good news for us that they tapped the well. the relief well should be done some time after labor day. this is a marathon. we ve always said it s not done when they cap the well. it is only done when all the oil is out of the water, when they restore our wetlands, our way of life. they say there could be as much as a million barrels they can t account for out in the gulf. tens of millions of gallons threatening our coast. in our last half hour al spoke to a local chef and a local fisherman and they re say ing the harvest coming from the waters around here, the seafood, is fine. i know you agree with that assessment but a lot of people across the kcountry want to kno what s being done to test that seafood on a daily or weekly basis? we ve done thousands of tests, chemical and other tests. not one test has come back positive for any kind of concern. who is footing the bill for that testing? well, at this point the fda says we re doing all that. we ve asked bp for three months now we ve asked them to pay for a multiyear plan, 400 tests every month. what we told them is, look, do it for five years and if you don t have oil, if you get back to the prespill, you can stop. if you still have oil, if you still have concerns, renew it up to 20 years in three-year increments. this would be the most tested seafood in the entire world. most of the seafood in this country isn t tested. you said you ve been asking for months what s the response and the progress on that. we still haven t gotten a response and here is the bad thing. we re talking about a $2 billion industry, a billion dollars in recreational. thousands of people who make their living doing this. people have been doing this for generations. it would be cheaper for bp to do this now. we have a narrow window of time not only to get this testing done because we need to reassure people s confidence in the seafood. you have a whole supply chain here. you have marinas. they will go out of business. my message to bp is let our people go back to work. don t continue to pay them unemployment checks. they would much rather be back to work than getting a bp check. bobby jindal, governor, nice to see you. thanks for joining us here in the french quarter. let s go back to new york right now. carl quintanilla is filling in at the news desk. he has a look at all the headlines of the morning. good morning to you, matt. good morning, everyone. with the nation s economic reko recovery slowing, all eyes are on ben bernanke today delivering a major speech in wyoming. wall street is looking for any signs from the federal reserve chief about what else can or will be done to help turn the economy around. we re seeing the first images this morning of the 33 chilean miners who have been trapped for three weeks half a mile underground. a camera dropped into the mine shows the men in remarkably good spirits playing games, even singing chile s national anthem. some much of the men recorded messages to the families who are waiting for their rescue which could take three or four months. the united nations says a million more people have been displaced by the floods in pakistan in the past two days, more than 8 million are in need of emergency assistance across the country. on thursday police had to step in to keep thousands of flood victims from looting food and supplies. federal prosecutors will retry rod blagojevich in january. among the charges the former illinois governor is accused of scheming to sell or trade president obama s old senate seat. and 15 people were injured thursday when a jetblue airplane was forced to make a hard landing in sacramento after its tires caught fire. it is now 8:05. now back to al in new orleans. good morning. here we are going to have a wonderful weather pattern into the weekend. right now the sky over washington, we ve got a few clouds coming through. temperatures around the region in the 60s. here close to washington, near the bay, points south and east and west and north, only in the 50s to near 60. we should warm into the low 80s around the region later today. lots of sun, high clouds coming in. saturday, sunday, monday, sunny, low humidity, warmer weather. morning lows cool. latest weath weather. coming up we re going to check in with harry connick jr. find out what he s doing later on back in new york a live summer concert from katy perry. 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david and eva aren t afraid to say no to their two children zoe and shawn. my children know when i say no i mean it and i follow through it. no means no. reporter: it s a word they ve instilled at a very early age. my son, shawn, is 2 1/2 right now. i think he was 18 months old, we would give him quick time-outs if he did something wrong, we would say no. reporter: but in supermarkets, airports and even restaurants, children sometimes seem to be calling the shots. i understand that your child and i have to co-exist in a city but perhaps you could take him somewhere more appropriate for a happy meal so i could have a happier one. reporter: we ve all seen or heard it before. a child acting out and sometimes a parent doing nothing to stop them. when i m in a restaurant and a kid is freaking out, i m just thinking, like, that s so annoying. everybody would like to blame the child but i really think it s the parent. reporter: blame aside, laying down the law isn t always easy and saying no to young kids can lead to tantrums and tears especially in public. but experts say good behavior should be enforced before you ever leave the house. practice makes perfect. if you want your child to behave well in a restaurant, teach them how to behave while you re at the dinner table. reporter: teaching your children to be well behaved requires a good dose of consistency. it wasn t hard at all. reporter: back on the playground they say playing the bad guy is never easy but never underestimate the power of a bag of tricks. so i try to pack for my kids snacks, make sure i have a drink, make sure i have some toys and try to divert whatever they re upset about. in your heart if the answer is no, you have to say no and follow through with it. reporter: and if you still feel bad about saying no, just remember experts say kids actually do want rules and boundaries even if they act like they don t. ann? amy robach, thanks so much. a pediatrician and contributor to babycenter.com, good morning. good morning. so let me take the side of the parent who doesn t like to say no for just a moment for arg argument s sake. i think a lot of parents are saying, i don t want to damage my child s self-esteem. i don t want to make my child feel limited by nos. a lot say, yes, yes, you can have that candy, after dinner. so no becomes a hard word. what do you say to that? it does. i m a parent myself. i want my children to be happy. but you can t be afraid of your children. it s your role to parent them, to guide them, to help them make good decisions and in doing that sometimes you have to say no. in fact, what really helps, i think, is to realize that experts like you say what amy was talking about at the end is so important. not only do children need boundaries, they need the comfort of boundaries. in other words, it actually is good for them to know that the world has limits, that it s not okay for them to lose it. that s right. that s exactly right. and it actually applies to every age so young children feel safe and secure if they have expectations for what s going to happen. that helps them in their every day lives. older children, let s say children who drive, the studies show that the more you talk to your children about safe driving, wearing your seat belt, not playing the radio too loud, those are kids who get in fewer accidents so even though they may roll their eyes at you when you talk to them it s sinking in and it s actually benefiting them. so you re saying especially with older kids we really need to be okay? yes. you need to instill those good values and let them know what you expect of them and what you want from them in return. we want to be loved by our children and embraced but it s more important to be a parent that a friend? it is. you re not your child s friend. you re your child s parent. you re your child s teacher, an authority figure. like you send your children off to school. europe the authority figure in the home and you need to make sure that your child understands that. on that note you ve heard it, laying down the law. thanks so much for joining us. some good advice. and coming up next. we re going to head back to new orleans where matt will talk to former first lady laura bush. let s take a look at the stats. mini has more than double the fiber and whole grain. making him a great contender in this bout. against mid-morning hunger. honey nut cheerios is coming in a little short. you ve got more whole grain in your little finger! let s get ready for breakfaaaaaaaaaast! 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a month. reporter: for your house? yes. reporter: and you say to yourself? wow. great. reporter: habitat volunteers here are still helping folks recover. sometimes it just seems like yesterday. it s hard to believe five years has passed. reporter: katrina left single mom stephanie jordan and her two children among mississippi s new homeless. i know without habitat i wouldn t be where i am today. reporter: the statistics perhaps best tell the story. llion 2x4s, 1,054,025 gallons of paint. in the down economy, habitat for humanity has become the largest home builder for the south. the fifth anniversary gives us an opportunity to pause for a second and celebrate the fact that more than 2,000 families are now in new homes. five-year anniversary, awesome. aweso awesome. reporter: because? because we re together. reporter: owning a home, a value best known to those who lost everything. for today, kerry sanders, nbc news, mississippi. former first lady laura bush and her husband, the former president, joined us for a habitat for humanity build here in this area in the days following hurricane katrina, and mrs. bush has come back on many occasions since then. laura bush, good morning. good morning, matt. it s something like 20 trips to this region in the last five years. obviously some of those trips came during your responsibilities as first lady, but you ve continued to come. why the connection? that s right. i just have a really strong feeling about the gulf coast and i m from a gulf coast state, as you know. new orleans is certainly a place we came, that i came with my parents on vacation. i wanted to keep coming. i came to mardi gras this year. right. which was really fun. i ve never been i ve been to mardi gras before. george and i brought our girls here one year when they were about 9. but this time i went to the mardi gras ball and that was a lot of fun. you ve continued to work with libraries. we talked about that a lot of times on our program. you feel they are so important to communities and schools. can can you just explain to people why you think when communities have been devastated and schools devastated getting a library back up and running is such a vital step? well, it s really important and for all of these schools all the way across the gulf coast, they lost everything. and children lost their own personal books if they really even had any to start with. so it s very important for schools to have good libraries that both support their student body and support the curriculum that they teach and i have a foundation that i already had before katrina that gives money to school libraries across the united states. and so after the hurricane we raised more money and we ve given over $5.5 million and 126 grants, big grants, $50,000 to $150,000, to schools as they rebuilt so they can restock their whole library. there s no easy way to ask this question, i was just going to ask you, is it ever painful for you to come back to this region because in the aftermath of hurricane katrina it seems so much of the blame for what happened or didn t happen here was laid at the feet of your husband? no, not really. i feel very close to the people on the gulf coast and always have. and i know what the circumstances were. and of course the president takes the blame in any situation as we can see now with the new president. but i also knew what george really thought and how he felt about the gulf coast. we gave unprecedented support of the united states congress passed large bills. i think $180 billion that george signed and has come to the gulf coast. and what we ve seen is really so inspirational. the people here, the school people, are the ones that i ve been with the most, and they came back when they were in fema trailers or living with relatives and did everything they could to rebuild their schools so kids could come back. i know the people of the region are thankful for the work you and your foundation are doing here. thanks for joining us this good morning. it s 8:26 right now. i m aaron gilchrist. following breaking news out of virginia. three people are dead after a crash on interstate 95 south in stach fo stafford county. a live picture over the scene. two vehicles were involved in the crash and three people in one of the vehicles were killed. let s check in with ashley. unfortunately, this is impacting traffic in a big way. solid delays, as you leave quantico towards 610, and delays will continue to stack up. chopper 4 live over the scene. as you can see, single file to the right about l. get you by but they have temporarily blocked all lanes of traffic while they maneuvered things around. definitely a date day to stick with route 1. that s a wide open and great alternative to 95 at this point. back to you. we ll check on the forecast after this. good morning. temperatures in the 60s. sunshine, highs today low 80s, low humidity and sunny and warmer through the weekend. aaron? thank you, tom. news, of course, redskin time tonight. coverage starting at 7:00, redskins versus the jets california girls we re undeniable 8:30 now on a friday morning, the 27th day of august, 2010. we have a split edition of our program this morning. al and i are down in the french quarter. wow. they are packed in cheek to jowl for katy perry. this is incredible. a hit song of the summer. no question about it. carl quintanilla and ann curry are up there somewhere in the midst of that crowd. we are. good morning again. good morning again to you, matt and al. guess what, katy perry loves her fans so much she actually sent over blankets and pillows last night because you know people here were camped out. they are all the way down 48th street, around fifth avenue. she also collaborated a profile they made a mosaic filled with all the profile pictures of her fans on facebook and twitter. some amazing piece of art. it looks like her, i know. matt and al, it s also about the music down in new orleans. well, the music here is actually fantastic. this city is known for its music. we re actually joined by some people from the musicians village here in new orleans. this is a great spot that was started by harry connick jr. and is designed to keep the heritage and history of new orleans alive. we re going to check in with harry connick jr. and mr. aaron neville in just a couple of minutes. and a couple of people may not realize but louisiana is becoming the hollywood of the south. in just a little while we ll show you why so many movie and television productions are taking place, making this the third largest production center for film and television in this country. and this money is much needed in the area. they ve done a lot to attract the films. you have a forecast to give us as well. let s show you your weather for the weekend. things not looking too bad good morning. here we ve got bright sunshine in washington. a live view from our sky watcher camera over looking northwest, downtown in the distance and in virginia, there s cloudiness. temperatures around the region in the 60s. and we will climb into the low 80s later today with lots of sunshine, low humidity. low humidity in place. sunny, saturday sunday, monday. warmer weather, high reaching upper 80s to near 90. into next week, dry, afternoon highs low 90s. and that s your latest weather. don t forget you can check your weather any time of the day or night. weather channel on cable or weather.com online. ann? al, by the way, we have a surprise here outside studio 1-a. as you know alex is retiring from the today show, 26 years here, 35 years at nbc news. his daughters have surprised him, amanda and allison. what do you want to say to your dad? he s been here almost 35 years. we wanted to thank him for all his hard work. we ve had a privileged life. you re saying he s going to hate that you re here? thanks for being here. meantime, i m going to walk over here and tell you that this is a huge crowd waiting for katy perry, live in concert in just a few moments and also a concert from new orleans with harry connick jr. and why the big easy is now the hollywood of the south. welcome back to new orleans and the french quarter. there has always been a thriving cultural scene here. and five years after this area was battered by hurricane katrina people here have battled back. that s right. in fact this area now has taken on a new name. they re calling it hollywood south. it s long been recognized as a state with strong cultural ties, but today louisiana is on the fast track to becoming a filmmaker s mecca, taking its place as the country s third largest producer of both tv shows and films. our creative culture is our greatest natural resource and so now we re taking the move to make it our business. for every dollar spent in the state producing, we will actually give you 30 cents back. for moviemakers that could be the difference for getting a movie made. if you can go some place where you re going to get 30% or more of the budget returned to you? new orleans sits at the center of the state s industry boom with 27 projects already shot this year. we ve seen everything from episodic television. this is the mississippi gulf coast, a natural disaster, a hurricane pure and simple. i think by and large people began to understand what an incredible pr tool it is for the city. the expendables was largely filmed in new orleans. so was the highly anticipated the green lantern starring ryan reynolds. the economics brought us here, and i have to say looking back at it i can t imagine that we would have shot this movie any place else. new orleans ability to stand in for other cities is also a draw. they do a great job of filling in for main street usa. the business district fills in very often for any dense urban areas. arguably one of the most famous new orleans neighborhoods is this one, the french quarter. it s here that productions can take advantage of european inspired architecture and atmosphere. but on the other side of town, homes in the garden district play a leading role as well. we don t have mountains and we don t have a california coast. we have just about every other kind of structure. this is the house we chose for the curious case of benjamin but the ton. new orleans is also the backdrop for films dealing with katrina s aftermath. spike lee s if god is willing and the creek don t rise is a follow-up to a 2006 emmy award winn winner. your tone is these aren t victims but they re heroes. heroes. people have backbone down there and the same thing we were saying at the end of the levees we re saying at the end of this one, it s not over. are you going to keep come back? if i do, i hope it s not because something else happens because the people down there, they don t deserve it. grammy award winning actor, musician and new orleans native, harry connick jr., joins us now. harry, good to see you. al, matt, good to see you. is it a surprise that movie and television production companies have discovered this area, discovered the state of louisiana? i don t think so at all. i think it s so culturally rich. the architecture is so great. the people are hard working, nice people. i think it was just a matter of time before it started to become popular as a place to shoot movies. put your musician s hat on. a pet project of yours, you and brandon marsalles. right. it s something we thought of five years ago right after hurricane katrina. we were trying to figure out a way to entice musicians to come back to new orleans because prior to the storms, traditionally music was sort of hanging in the balance and certainly after the storm there was so much dispersion of musicians all over the country that we wanted to do something to bring them back so we partnered with habitat for humanity, builds about 80 residences down there. now the center for music is under construction which is a multimillion-dollar community center and very exciting for us. a new cd called music redeems you re featured on the cd. tell us about that project. we played at the kennedy center and anytime all of them get together starting with the father and the son, it s a big event. certainly in the jazz world it s like a legendary thing. to be invited, for me, because i was a dear friend of the marsalises, it was a great night of my life. an incredible experience and the proceeds will go to the center. it s nice. harry connick jr. you spent a lot of time here after hurricane katrina for us and for you and for the people here, it s nice to have you back. thanks, matt. al. we re going to have much more ahead on a friday morning including we ve got katy perry up in new york getting ready for a summer concert out on the plaza. 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but nothing comes close to the golden coast once you party with us you ll be falling in love california girls we re unforgettable daisy dukes bikinis on top sun-kissed skin so hot will melt your popsicle california girls we re undeniable fine, fresh, fierce we got it on lock west coast represent now put your hands up come on sex on the beach we get sand if our stilletos we freak and in my jeans so play the songs on the stereo you could travel the world but nothing comes close to the golden coast once you party with us you ll be falling in love california girls we re unforgettable daisy dukes bikinis on top sun-kissed skin so hot will melt your popsicle california girls we re undeniable fine, fresh, fierce we got it on lock west coast represent now put your hands up come on, help me out whoa, oh, whoa one more time whoa, oh, whoa c california california girls california california girls california girls we re unforgettable daisy dukes bikinis on top sun-kissed skin so hot we ll melt your popsicles california girls we re undeniable fine, fresh, fierce we got it on lock west coast represent now put your hands up california california girls california california girls enter tape entertainment weekly named katy perry the best summer girl. her new album teenage dream was released and has two hit songs. kat katy perry, congratulations and good morning. thank you. good morning. candy land this morning?we re a lot of sugar. i wanted to bring something sweet because it s so early in the morning and lots of people are really cranky early in the morning, so i figured if i gave them a good dose of sugar. there s nothing like a spoonful to make everybody feel better. i think that s really working. you have made a lot of efforts to make this new album come out in a big way. in fact, it smells like cotton candy. were you like smelling to make sure it s just the rye aroma? i had this idea to have the actual booklet of the cd scented, which is something i ve never heard of anyone else doing, and especially since the pe picture was me on a cotton candy cloud. logistically they said it would take this, this, and this. we have a whole behind-the-scenes documentary clip i m going to share with everybody in a couple of days on how it happened so watch out on my twitter, everyone. everybody knows about your engagement to russell brand and people know him that s my man. a wild guy but really a sweetheart. he said this recently about you, why he s marrying you. quote, i love her. she s a spiritual, powerful person, and she distracts me, which actually makes a lot of sense. he also asked you to marry him in a very romantic way, didn t he. yes, he is very romantic and no one else can compare to him besides maybe matt lauer. ah. okay, we re going to make sure where is matt lauer? he s in new orleans. he knew i would be here today and he left me. let me i m going to make sure he gets that message. i also don t want to step on the time you have for your song because it s a good one. ladies and gentlemen, once again, katy perry. thanks, katie. you think i m pretty without any makeup on you think i m funny i was all right kind of healthy you brought me alive now every february you be my valentine valentine let s go all the way tonight no regrets we can dance until we die you and i will be forever you make me feel teenage dream the way you turn me on i can t sleep never look back don t ever look back my heart stops when you look at me just one time baby you believe this is real take a chance don t ever look back don t ever look back i finally found you let s go all the way tonight no regrets we can dance until we die you and i we ll be us forever you make me feel unforgettable teenage dreams the way you turn me on i can t sleep because you re away don t ever look back don t ever look back come on my heart stops when you look at me just one look and i believe this is real so take a chance don t ever look back don t ever look back keep your heart racing in my skin-tight jeans be your teenage dream tonight put your hands on me in my skin-tight jeans be your teenage dream tonight tonight, tonight, tonight come on you make me feel unbelievable teenage dream the way you turn me on i can t sleep don t ever look back don t ever look back my heart stops when you look at me just one, baby this is real so take a chance don t ever look back don t ever look back get your heart racing in my skin-tight jeans be your teenage dream tonight put your hands on me in my skin-tight dreams be your teenage dream tonight tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight katy perry making a lot of people happy here. good morning. it s 8:56 now on this friday morning. i m aaron gilchrist. following breaking news out of virginia this morning. three people are dead after a crash on i-95 south in stafford county. pictures from chopper 4 this morning. two vehicles were involved and three people in one of the vehicles were killed. for more on how this is affecting track, let s go to ashley linder for the latest. we are starting off with the accident activity. still getting by single file to the right. a lot of cleanup that will happen with the accident. as far as delays, it s going to stack up leaving dale city headed towards this issue. elsewhere, along 95 northbound up towards 395, running problem-free. a new accident between ashland and kings dough palestinian s . a tractor know the species, know the stain. lanolin-free coat, i know it s an alpaca. walks in here, looks says hey look, it s a llama! cleaning the stain like he would a llama stain. time he s wasting. call 1-800-steemer good morning. bright sunshine, cool temperatures starting off this friday morning. a live view from the sky watcher camera toward virginia in the distance. right now we re in the 60s but we ought to make it into the low 80s midafternoon, sun, low humidity. warmer for the weekend. thank you. tonight the redskins return. they re taking on the new york jets. i kissed a girl and i liked it i hope my boyfriend don t mind it it felt so wrong it felt so right don t mean i m in love tonight i kissed a girl and i liked it liked it new york! i ll see you next time. thank you, katy perry. that s one of the hottest performers around performing her huge breakthrough hit i kissed a girl. we ll have the entire song later on this morning. as you can see right now she is signing autographs. a lot of fans have been out here since last night. it s really great to see her concerts here. i love her outfit, too. she is so good to her fans. she took care of them last night. sent them pillows and blankets, as you said, for the ones that camped out. a really great concert. that s right. anyway, meantime matt and al are actually in new orleans and they ve been reporting all morning about the fifth anniversary of hurricane katrina. i understand you re checking out a new mode of transportation this morning. well, it s not so new to us but it is a big deal down here. this is the segue courtesy of segue tours and they give some fan t fantastic tours of the area including new orleans. we re going to take you on a tour on the segue in a little bit. i m not going on that tour. the people of the gulf region have been enough without me wreaking havoc on the segway. you notice both natalie and ann, it s started to pour here in new orleans. that s okay. we ve had a good time this morning. you ve done a great job. thank you, guys. and i know they ll be doing a little new orleans cooking coming up as well. also from here we re going to get a real estate reality check, show you what you can get for $200,000 and under. some real bargains out there. a look at some really hot properties coming up in just a second. also we ll be talking about the joys of having an only child so that s coming up in our broadcast. first a check of the news. let s go inside, get a check of the latest headlines from carl quintanilla. good morning again. good morning. and good morning, everybody. some new gdp numbers show the economy grew at a much greater pace between july and june than people thought. watching ben bernanke on reviving the economy. the 33 trapped miners are shown to be a little thinner but in good spirits. they may not be rescued until christmas. the cia has been making secret payments to members of afghanistan s government. a senior u.s. official said it s been going on for quite some time. the washington post reports crucial information from hadmid karz karzai s inner circle. a recall of corollas and mat matrixes because the engine may stall. vibes are also being recalled. a young musician moved an audience to tears by playing the piano with his toes. on a talent show in china. he learned to play with his feet after both of his arms were amputated as a child. it it is now three minutes past the hour. back to al in new orleans. all right, thanks a lot, carl. and, of course, we re joined by one of new orleans favorite sons, mr. aaron neville. good to see you. five-time grammy-award winner, new orleans native. you have a new album out called i know i ve been changed available in october. se celebrating your five decades in music. has it been that long? hard to believe. you started when you were 3. i m a mere lad of 45 now. 50 years behind you. what do you decide what to put on an album? record companies and producers help me. and you ll be going on tour going on tour in september. five years since katrina. i know you ve got you ve got issues that have kept you from being here for a good portion of the time. my asthma kind of was coming back for a while. i have a place in covington. the album is i know i ve been changed. we l good morning. here we have a beautiful, sunny day under way. temperatures around the region in the 60s, low 70 s later we should climb into low 80s. lots of sun and low humidity. a wonderful weather pattern into the weekend for outdoor activity. highs on saturday intoñr the upr 80s. lots of sun. should make it to near 90 sunday and monday. again, low humidity, lots of sun. into next week, the dry pattern continues, and afternoon highs near 90. and that s your latest weather. natalie? al, thank you. in today s real estate homes you can buy for $200,000 and under. that s what the typical house costs these days and our real estate expert, today contributor barbara corcoran has some beauties to show you this morning. good morning. under $200,000, one of our lowest price points and we have some really cool finds. let s take a look in alabama. this is a four-bedroom home, priced at $189,900. you would think you wouldn t get much but take a look at this house on the eastern shore of mobile bay, about 20 minutes from mobile. their favorite saying in the town is newcomers soon become our good friends and i think that s true. start right there with the kitchen. a creole-style home which means it has a big front porch, perfect for sipping, and a big backyard with an inground pool you ll see in a minute. great kitchen. huge. it s like a house in and of itself. it has the separate dining area. i think a few of the items there in that room ought to be taken away like the blue bottles, distracting. it s a huge window that overlooks the gorgeous backyard. in the backyard it has a totally finished patio, fully planted. the master bedroom upstairs. i m jumping around. looking good, though. a master bedroom with the ceiling fan. the backyard, that s a big selling point. that s a private pool no one can see in. no one can see out. what s wrong with that house? it s under $200,000. and in that heat down south you ll need to jump in the pool. next to kansas city, kansas. not that far from kansas city, missouri. $195,000. and this house is totally different. you re going to look at it and say, wow, what s with this house? what s with this house is it s totally modern. see those big pams panels there? they catch the winter heat and block out the summer heat. the fuel cost to run this house is only 10% of its neighbors so it s very cheap to live here. you basically have no cost. everything is generated by the sun. you have to like a modern home. everything about this home is modern. you have to say it was designed by a great architect and it s beautiful modern not chopped up, not chunky. all the rooms flow. all the finishes are modern in keeping with the style of the home. it s a matter of whether you re going to pay for the extra bells and whistles. there s a beautiful staircase. everything about this home i like if you like a modern home. you do get your money back a little bit. you get more than your money back. most people aren t willing to pay that extra because they just don t get it. let s go to mississippi and you have a beautiful three-bedroom home priced at $194,9 $194,900. you ve got it. this is a fast growing community, the town adding 40 acres of parks, biking trails and hiking paths and this home is only a few blocks from the local elementary school which is a really good school. this is in mint condition. i think it s perfect for a starter home for a family. beautiful columns, shutters, wood floors throughout. the kitsch ep and appliances have been updated. you saw that charming dining room but also very spacious. there s a bar in the corner, the extra family room. extra family room. extra space to live here. there s a beautiful kitchen. i think in perfect keeping with the style. that s the unoccupied dining room. you never see that anymore but, boy, who couldn t picture moving their furniture in. look at that view. you re right on the lake so the lake is your backyard. nothing is wrong with this house for $194,000. spectacular. now let s take a look at a three bedroom home in tennessee priced at $206,000. and i think the biggest selling point here, barbara, is there s no income tax there in cordova? not at all. tennessee, the whole state, has no income tax. all you pay are county taxes which is minimal. this is different from the houses we ve seen before. you have to appreciate that it s in a gated section of the country club and it s sitting, again, right on a lake. we ll see the lake in just a minute. the style of this house is very different. these lake homes are often very dark. this one is not although a couple of the rooms really need lighting. when you have a lake house you have to have more lights within the house to make it show better, to lighten it in light colored walls which they do a great job in here. there s a big great room with copper ceilings, hardwood floors, the kitchen moldings. look at that. that backyard is beautiful. there s your lake. that s priceless that view the there. barbara corcoran, thanks for sharing some great properties with us. my pleasure. up next from condoleezza rice to carol burnett, there are a lot of famous only children. the joys and challenges of raising just one. katy perry still outside with her fans. she takes good care of all of them and will be back on 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good. and, darla, seven years ago before the surgery, was there an alternative option for the gi s girls? really it didn t appear so. i mean, of course there s a lot of testing to be done and to make sure that it was going to be the best thing for the girls, but the way they were conjoined it did seem there wasn t really an option. and, jeff, when you talk about the 24-hour surgery and the recovery, how was that for them? they were so little at the time. well, the recovery was pretty good. mckenzie within six weeks was home. and macy had to stay a little bit longer, about a month or so longer for her to heal up. but now they re normal, very active young girls, they do just about everything, right, darla? they re very independent. they have chores. they take care of animals at home and they re pretty normal 7-year-old girls. you all moved out to a big farm, i understand, in iowa in 2003. so they have how many dogs and horses and cats? is it ten horses? yes. yeah? three dogs and four cats. you have a farm then all right. six kids total because you re raising the girls along with your three sons, too. it s a pretty full house. it is a full house. and your situation, they re foster children you adopted as babies and looking at what a wonderful addition they ve been to your family. yeah. they were our foster kids for about 18 months and then we had the opportunity to adopt them so of course we jumped on that opportunity. we wanted them all along. and, girls, i see you love that candy necklace, right? yes. and katy perry. i know you re a big katy perry fan, right? how was that? hold it like that. did you like the katy perry concert? yeah. i did. what s your favorite katy perry song? the last song. california gurls. that was the first song. and so you like to ride horses, madeline. i know you like to ride horses. are you showing your sisters? yeah. what else do you like to do, macy and mckenzie? i like to i just learned how to ride a horse so i ride most of the time. started wanting to ride. she s been afraid but we just told her if you want to ride, try. we have a horse that s gentle and she this past weekend rode quite a bit, actually. what about you, macy, what do you like to do? i like to do the same thing. the same thing, ride horses? and sing and dance and color. and they re going to the second grade soon? we already are. you already started? what s your favorite subject? p.e. p.e.? good for you. you re little athletes. oh, yeah. they love p.e. you like art. this is such a tremendous blessing. you wanted to say something to the doctors who helped with this and to all the people who have been responsible in helping bring them into your life. there have been so many. children s hospital los angeles was just wonderful. the doctors, the team, it was an enormous team. it was huge. i don t even know the number but it was a lot of people and the way they coordinated and just the way they took care of us and the family and the girls. we just really appreciate that. and then all of our family as well, our sons, who good big brothers. they re really gracious and patient. there s a lot of sacrifice and giving up time. there s a lot of people, too many to thank. they know who they are. you re an inspiration to parents. you re truly heroes. these girls have a wonderful example. girls, we loved having you here this morning. we have one more katy perry song just for you, okay? 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we let this fry. we have fish stock and all the fish cooks into that. we re looking at fresh seafood here from the gulf. that s everybody s big concern. we re trying to change that image and let people know it is safe. there s nothing wrong with this seafood. it s gorgeous seafood. it s beautiful. it really is. this is the catfish court bouillon finished. this is boudin and smoked country pork, gumbo down here. very nice. and i am a big fan of the pralens. you ve improved on the pralines. tell us how you did that. what we ve done is put our house smoked bacon in there. we mixed it in there. donald, let s try this out. what do you think? that s the world s greatest praline. it has bacon. everything goes better with bacon. donald link, thank you so very much. thank you. herbsaint and cochan right there. we want to thank the folks at the museum who have been housing us. we ve had a fantastic time. still one more song with katy perry. coming up, josh turner co-hosts with hoda wrapping up her country week. she was still out there signing autographs until the last minute. katy perry just went downstairs. 45 minutes. unbelievable. one more song from the incredible katy perry. we re going to do something a little bit different. it s a remix, okay? one of the first songs i ever played here on the today show. called i kissed a girl. this was never the way i planned not my intention i got so brave drink in hand lost my discretion it s not what i m used to just want to try you on i m curious curious for you baby you caught my attention i kissed a girl and i liked it the taste of her cherry chapstick i kissed a girl just to try it i hope my boyfriend don t mind it it felt so wrong it felt so right don t mean i m in love tonight i kissed a i kissed a girl and i liked it i liked it come on no, i don t even know your name it doesn t matter you re my experimental game just human nature it s not what good girls do not how they should behave my head gets so confused hard to obey i kissed a girl and i liked it the taste of her cherry chapstick i kissed a girl just to try it i hope my boyfriend doend mind it it felt so wrong it felt so right don t mean i m in love tonight i kissed a girl and i liked it i liked it us girls we are so magical soft skin, red lips, so kissable hard to resist so touchable too good to deny it it ain t no big deal it s innocent i kissed a girl and i liked it the taste of cherry chapstick i kissed a girl just to try it hope my boyfriend don t mind it it felt so wrong it felt so right don t mean i m in love tonight i kissed a girl and i liked it i liked it thank you so much, new york city! welcome back. 9:56 on this friday morning. and blue skies, as far as the eye can see. the capital in the distance. we ll take a look at your forecast in a second. in headlines, three people and dead after a crash on i-95 south in stafford county. pictures from chopper 4 this morning. two vehicles were involved and three people in one of the vehicles were killed. for more on how this is affecting traffic, let s check in with steve. right now that accident activity looks like it s blocking one lane right now. so that means two lanes getting by, southbound 95 after the exit for 610, garrisonville road in stafford, after exit 143. right now the backup begins on 95 near dunnfries. route 1 is the better option heading southbound but that s building. a lot of people getting that idea. two lanes now getting by the incident, southbound 95 after exit for garrisonville road. tom? great weather for outdoor activities today, tomorrow, through the weekend and into next week. we ll have sunshine each day. highs today into the low 80s. tomorrow, upper 80s. sunday and monday near 90 degrees with low humidity each day. morning lows in the 60s. aaron? thank you, tom. tonight, the red skins return. taking on the new york jets. you can catch the action at 7:00 on nbc 4. stay tuned for the postgame report. versal television from nbc news, in the today with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hey, everybody. this is friday. that means dry day here august 27th, 2010 and welcome to josh turner. it s been country week all week. kathie has been off. if you don t know josh turner, he is an up and coming country sensation. that s fair to say. you re very distinctive. i ve been called worse. have you? the first thing you notice about josh is his voice. yes. what? that s normally what gives me away out in public. people ask do you get recognized, and i say only when i open my mouth. he s called the barry white of country music because your voice is so low. at 13 did this voice come booming out? no, i sounded more like mickey mouse at 13. it was a gradual process. i had vocal problems and had to learn how to take care of it properly and then i learned how to take care of it. how old are you, by the way? 32. as you know, friday is the ambush makeover day, and we looked back into the archives of your life josh turner, and found he s a makeover here. that s josh before. that s the before. that s definitely the before. let s see the after. oh, i m sorry. hello. hello. my wife likes that picture. your wife s name is jennifer is sagt the the news desk. you don t want to be on. when you re five months progress, you don t like to be in front of anybody. you have two children and another on the way. a boy or girl? you re the first to know. give it. this is the third boy. three boys. congratulations. thank you. what are the names, your other two boys. hampton is the oldest and coley is the two-year-old. i can t believe you re five months pregnant. you re very kind. this is a gorgeous picture of the family. congratulations. you ll see jennifer again later because she s a member of the bands. before jennifer leaves i am a present for you speaking of before and after. can we show a little pikcture o hoda here. don t do it. that s dr. j. wait a second. this picture is the bane of my existence. one time i gave it. look at the after. the before is frightening. it is terrifying. take it away. what you know they say about paybacks. i know. what song will you play at end of the show? all over me. this is number 9 on the charts right now. were you surprised that that song just is doing so well? no, but this was kind of a different song. like, when we had why don t we just dance out, before it hit the charts, the minute i played in live people were out of their seats, dancing, taking pictures. all over me was the subtle single that took a while for people to get used to it. now that it s in the top 10 people are loving it. great summertime song. i know you re new to hosting a show. this is your first time doing it in. yeah. i m up and coming, remember? we had trisha yearwood on yesterday, and by the way when we asked her who her favorite new country star is, she said you. i paid her to say that. she had advice for you. just listen. i ll just tell you, josh, to relax, no pressure. there s just millions of people watching you, and i did a fabulous job. so no pressure there. watch hoda, because she s a diva. that was rude. okay? she s a guest on my show, right? yeah. i thought it was very disrespectful. that s what i thought, too. how long have you been singing, by the way? i started singing when i was about 3 years old. really? a little boy? are you comfortable on stage? do you get nervous? i always get nervous. do you? all right. let me get some we have a couple of facebook questions. everybody wants to know about the deep voice. that s one of the big things. when this voice when did you actually you had some vocal problems. when did this voice come to stick? it was probably early 20s, late teens, early 20s, somewhere around there. they want to know who inspired you to be the artist you are? i always call him my mount rushmore of country music. it was randy travis, john cash and hank williams five guys inspired me fto be myself and b unique. do you listen to other music other than country music? uh-huh. i like the contemporary r&b. like what? i m good friends with anthony hamilton, which last time i was on here we sang a song we did together. big fan of his. all that kind of stuff. i just love that soul stuff regardless of what genre it is. your drink of choice because we asked every country artist what your drink of choice is. yours is sweet tea. i m impressed it s here. here s to you. cheers. i m so glad to have you with us today. have a sip. how was that? that s good. for new york city, that s pretty good. that s pretty good. do you enjoy coming to new york, by the way, josh? oh, yeah. there s not a lot of dirt around. but it s all right. yeah. at in t at this time we bring on miss bobbie thomas. it s called bobbie s buzz and she ll tell you what we should have. we have a guest today. it s all about cool stuff for kids this week, and if you turn around, show them your jacket with your hood? show everybody. he s like, no. can you turn around to show everyone? you can see he s got this jacket on. turn around this way. oh, there. these are call would bags and they convert from cool plush pillows into jackets for kids. really fun for preschoolers or kindergart kindergarten. he has cool shoes on, too. he s got these cool things called new laces on them holding a sneaker. they re segments that come into silly colors. they make all different designs. for the girls like me f-you have a boo-boo you can pick up some boo-boo bling. come on. let me see those. have you seen those? they cover band-aids and they re reuseable. i love it. bobb bobbie thomas is the best. bye, guys. thank you. give me five. give him five? stwhaethat s what we liked. josh promised a little tune before we got started. g you going to play a little something? yeah. come on up. come on up. you re not going to play? you re just going to sing? we re going to. all right. we have one more guitar. hold on. it s coming. walk it right the way in, all the way in. thank you, honey. thank you. this is b.t. by the way. all right. do your thing. baby why don t we just turn that tv off 315 channels have nothing but bad news on well it might be me but the way i see it the whole wide world has gone crazy oh baby why don t we just dance dpoown the haul maybe straigh up the stars bouncing off the wall floating on air hoda why don t we just dance oh hoda why don t we just dance in new york city drinking sweet tea baby home of the today show . perfect. whoo! new york city is never going to be the same. thank you. perfect. any more questions for josh. after he wrote his hoda song, we have a fan question from megan. what is your main hobby besides singing? my main hobby besides singing other than sleeping? probably i don t know. just being outside, fishing, hunting, walking my dogs. playing horseshoes. it looks like you have a lot of fun in your videos. bha did you have the best time on? for me probably firecracker because we had to have fire trucks on stand by and ambulances and that kind of stuff. that s a good sign of having a good time. that song by the way, firecracker is something about it makes you want to get moving. i was inspired to write that song in the shower. were you really? there s another story there. jennifer is here to talk with us right after this. good morning! 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[ male announcer ] wanchai ferry. restaurant quality chinese in your grocer s freezer. love is not about control. it s about chemistry. what are you going food? write up one of your famous lists. qualifications for the man i ll marry noshgs exceptions. yes, you re a genius. i was joking. i m not. i m going to make a list. that s the scene from the new hallmark movie the wish list about an overly organized, high-strung woman who makes a list. and jennifer espisito plays sarah fisher. life and love doesn t as always go as planned. love the concept of this. i don t know a woman who hasn t thought of or made a list of i wish my guy were tall and the athletic and smart and all that. you hear about all these vision boards and all that stuff, you have to put out what you want. so you see it every day, and i actually did make a list. you did? i did, i did. not as crazy as her. what was on your list, what kinds of things? funny is a huge, huge quality for me, and then, of course, gorgeous and all these different humble. but, no, i did make a list, and i actually met someone that was this was a long time ago that was pretty close to the list. the cool thing about this movie you make your list of the guy you want, and you meet someone who seems to fit the criteria but what s the funny thing? it doesn t work on a list, does it? it s more about something else. you re dating someone and it s really great on paper, and then you just don t feel it. so i think that that s what happened with her. you meet the guy who is perfect on paper, and how does that romance go in the movie? you know, it s everything that she said she wanted. she s a very, very organized person. and she feels like this is going to be this is going to be the way i m going to meet him, and then totally gets sidetracked by someone else. another guy. another guy. whether i wn i was reading t knew a girl in college who literally had like she knew how big the guy s biceps were going to be, how much inches, what color eyes, hair. what happened to her? is she married? is she in jail? she god a rude awakening, i think. maybe it s best if you let your heart just take over and not so much think about it too much, you know? so you re doing this project. what else do you have in the works, jennifer? i have been working diligently. i was diagnosed with celiac disease last year. we don t have a long enough segment. i m trying to write a book about it, and i developed a food line because it s very passionate to me. it has to do with gluten. 1 out of 133 people have this disease and don t know it. i was sick a lot through my life, and i was never diagnosed properly. it leads to many cancers, it leads to dementia and infertility in women. the list goes on and on. i can t even talk enough about it. people need to be checked properly. i don t have celiac disease, but i have a high sensitivity to gluten. the thing i notice is the enriched flour, i think, is what i have the worst time with. it will give me a headache. a headache and body aches and pain. glu gluten is in everything. that s good for people to know. we wish you good luck with the movie called the wish list on saturday night on the hallmark channel. are you planning to start an emmy pool? the big emmys are happening this weekend. get your cheat sheets ready after this. a meal is the dessert. but sometimes after a busy day and a heavy greasy dinner. my system needs some tlc. now there s something new. introducing activia dessert. rich, silky, smooth yogurt with desserty flavors like strawberry cheesecake, blueberry cheesecake, and peach cobbler. and because it s activia, it helps regulate my digestive system. mmm, works for me. new activia dessert. activia why does it say box tops for education on your soup? oh, it s a program that raises money for schools. that s great, but this is a can. yes it is. you can t have a box top on a can. yes we can. but a can isn t a box. we know. i don t think you do. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. and you have that moment of. oh, yeah! well. this. is mine. sprinkled with cinnamon, sparkling with taste. cinnamon toast crunch. enjoy the cinnsation. it is one of the biggest nights in television. this sunday night is the 62nd annual primetime emmy awards. it shows actors and actresses will be the big wins. jessica has the preview. hello, and congratulations in advance on the baby on the way. thank you. jimmy fallon, i ve seen the promos all over the place. how do you think he ll do? i think he s so much fun, and i think he will be bring inew excitement. it s his first time. love what he s doing with twitter. he s having twitters text in intros for some of the presenters. john hamm is presenting, and a twitter follower can write in, here s how he could be introduced. is he using these tweets? yes, he is. are you writing in? i might have to. we ll go through categories. outstanding drama series. there s mad men, trueblood, good wife. a bunch of other ones. what do you think will take? i think mad men will take it, but i think it was true blood s year. it was creepy and dark and sexy and wonderful, but mad men has the momentum. what about outstanding comedy series? glee is on the list, modern family, 30 rock, the office. what s your pick? i think this year the story of comedy series is new shows. it s modern family versus glee. i don t think it will be glee. i think modern family will win. do you like them, josh? all of them. they re great shows. i like that. lead actor in a drama. we ve got the list up there. brian kranstone from breaking bad and matthew fox on lost. i think bryan cranston. he s a chemistry teacher turned drug dealer. i really wish matthew fox would win. this is the last chance to honor him. he was so great this last season. the finale he did such outstanding work. do you think they might for nostalgia. i think there s a decent chance. now we have outstanding lead actress in a drama. you like there s a lot of great actresses there. you like jewel anna margulies. i love the show and it s nominated for best drama. i don t think it will win there. she s so good in that, and she s just fabulous. she s a home run. glenn close is up. they have a lot of terrific. january jones on mad men had a very strong year last year. she wouldn t be a complete shoeshg. the comedy, what do we have in comedy sneer. outstanding lead actor in a comedy. i think steve carrell from the office. he s never won for playing michael scott. to me, that s just a tragedy. of course, this year he announced this coming year will be his last. i really think he deserves it. i love that show. the office is hilarious. lastly, outstanding lead actress in a comedy. a lot of people are saying amy poehler in parks and recreation. i think it s between her and edie falco from nurse jackie. i think tiny faye has won a bunch of time, and it s time to pass the torch. good. good luck with everything. thank you. she kicks when i say a winner. okay. october you re due. thanks, honey. you can catch the primetime emmy awards live this sunday on nbc. still to come is ambush makeover friday. the results are on the way. i get to sing again. who knows. did you know go-gurt is specially made to freeze and thaw by lunch time? so kids can have their favorite yogurt in their lunch box go-gurt. freeze it. thaw it. eat it up. that s why i got them pillsbury toaster strudel. warm flaky pastry with delicious sweet filling my kids will love. plus i get two boxtops for their school. toaster strudel. the one kids want to eat. rally plan, coming up on news4 midday, how the nation s capital is preparing for two major rallies this weekend on the mall. we ll have everything you need to know. good morning, i m aaron gilchrist. coming up, mornings will remain you of fall and afternoon sun of summer. tom kiernan has your complete weekend forecast. that s when you join us for news4 midday at 11:00 a.m. we re back with more of today on this friday. it s time for the plaza ambush makeovers. two lovely women are made more beautiful by our experts. they re stylist to the star and today contributor louis lacarri and kathie lee is not here. today contributor and author jill martin. hey, how was it on the plaza today? great day, great day. the weather is beautiful. everyone is excited about believe it or not fall, which is right around the corner. oh, my gosh. summer is over. let s talk to our first lucky lady. her name is mary, 51 years old. she s been married for 14 years and they have one daughter. she s been too afraid to change her hair in the past because it s unruly, but today she s ready for a new look. let s listen to her story. mary basically stalked the show. you wrote and called and came down. why do you want this so badly? well, it s pretty obvious i have a lot of hair, and i m also a leukemia survivor and training for a marathon. i could use an easier do to get up in the morning and also i m a substitute teacher so i have to be ready to get out the door. i m so excited to get this done. we re so happy we can get this to you. i can t wait to get a relaxer in this hair. are you excited for your wife? she deserves it. she s a wonderful woman and the love of my life. i hope she gets everything she s hoping for. you ready to go? yes, i am, definitely. we re going to call mary out in a second. here is peter and emily with their blindfolds on. keep them there until i tell you take them off, all right? here is mary before. let s see the new you. come on out. hold on right here. perfect. you guys ready peter and emily? take off your blindfolds and check out mom. whoa. mary, are you ready to see yourself? don t be scared. ready? turn around right here. oh, my gosh. is it really me? you look absolutely gorgeous! thank you. louis, the hair is insane. mary was born with too much of a good thing. she has the most beautiful hair in the world, but it s too thick. jennifer lawrence gave her this great haircut, which immediately brought down the bulk, brightened the haircut and painted a few highlights around the face. we gave her the silicon treatment on her face to eliminate any fine lines that might appear you don t even have yet. peter, what do you think? wonderful. it s jaw-dropping. what about you, emily? you lie? it s just so amazing. i can t believe it. it s so different. they love it. jill, the outfit kicks. i m sorry. i know. can you believe we re back in boots? everyone should invest in a great pair of boots. this is nine west, and the dress is calvin kline. look at the crazy earrings. h and m, 4.95. go stand over there. go ahead with number two. let s meet our second woman here, second lady. rita quinn, 49 years old from hampton, virginia. she s been married to her husband ted for almost 25 years, and they have two children together. she needed to color her hair so badly her sisters brought along a box of hair dye on this vacation. here with two sisters katherine and barbara. let s listen to her story. all right, we actually couldn t miss them. look at these signs. thanks for putting so much effort in. it was our ploy. it worked. tell me why you want this for your sister? my sister is an inspiration to everyone. she works hard and raised two beautiful children, one handicapped and she deserves this. she s so patient and beautiful inside and out, and we love her so much. you re ready to cry. i think you re ready for three hours of pampering, right? i could use it. i love that. so now we have katherine and barbara here. are you ready to call rita out. let s do it. this is the before picture. all right, rita, come on, let s see the new you. stop right there. they re going to freak. take off your blindfolds ladies, katherine and barbara. you look beautiful. do you want to see it? yes, yes. go right here. right here, right here. whoo! i love it! you guys are amazing. thank you. louis, the hair, the hair, the hair. it s just great. jennifer lawrence again, a great haircut. she had fine hair. this is more appropriate for her texture. this kept her hair brown and added a few highlights, and you look you look so great. it s incredible. that outfit is hot. is this a hot outfit? it s beautiful. all the basics for fall. ivory pants, a great basic in your wardrobe from talbots and the blazer. can you believe it? awesome. we re walking all over new york. we re going all over the place he today. come on in. we ll have the two ambushes together. yes, great job. coming up next, back-to-school gadgets right after this. i can t believe this whole thing. what just happened? 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[ ernie ] we make our cookies the way only keebler elves can: with a little something extra. so every bite can be uncommonly good. summer camp is behind us, and it s time to head back to school. to help your children we have special gadgets you might want to add to your shops list. steve greenburg is the author of gadget nation. here s the book. we re starting off with things for young kids. this is brand new, called alal alphie. he talks to you and tells you to pick letters and whatnot. he loves letters, letters. you get the idea. so he s all about that. kids are so into their parents computers, so there s a kiddy version of these. it s little girl oriented. so much dek stuff is usually boy oriented. this is barbie stuff. it s blackberryish. what does it do? it s all learning stuff. if you turn it on, it walks you through the alphabet and quiz you with questions. can you imagine the kids already on blackberries when they re so little. it s a little scary. you can t send a text message to in. you can text to barbie, believe it or not. this is important for kids. a lot parents are worried about someone snatching their kid, so how can we help prevent na? this is isafe. they created an alarm. if the child is in a dangerous situation. we should brief our viewers. it s loud. stand by. here we go. very loud, very loud. but in a serious situation that would square anybody. the idea is the child pulls the rip cord. the bad guy will run away. th this is about $66$60. we re looking for eco-friendly things. this is from world of green and these are tree-free pen sells and it sed made of wood from recycled paper. this is from papermate. this is corn plastic, so you can put it the dirt and it will decompose in a few months. this gadget may be the most fascinating of all, because i don t understand how it works. this is amazing. tell exactly how it works. it s the echo smart pen. when you re in a class taking down notes, while you re writing those notes it records the lecture. when you go back and touch your noi notes like i ll do right now, it plays back what you heard when you wrote that note. why didn t they have it when i was in college? i wouldn t be here right now. i d be doing much better if they had this this college. these are voice clips, typical in my book. you record a message, and then it plays it back. if i say, for instance, history notes, then i go back and play it. it s like a digital post-it note. it clips onto your paper. you don t want to write it down this is invented for secretaries. this is from world of green also, and this is a self-filtering water bottle. you can put any water in it, and it takes over 99% of the pollutants. if you were camping or at a lake. or taking your lunch and don t like the water. this is a pretty cool pen, this is a usb watch from think geek. when you pop this up, you plug it into your computer, and it has memory of 2, 4, or 8 gigs. convenient. it has memory built into it. it s neat. this is good for people who like to put pen to paper but like the computer as well. this is the entourage edge. one side is a touch jean notebook and the other side is an e reader you can write on. you can have access to a million books through google, and over here you can write down notes and whatnot on it. we have about 30 seconds, and i know we want to do this one. this happens all the time. this is the unitron this happened to me just yesterday. your kids can be sloppy. you can wash if and use it again. are you serious? nau so much. coming up next, our guy josh is going to play for us. i can t wait. that s right after this. choose a toothbrh.e with so many to choose from it sard see the difference. but this ithe way his dentist chooses a toothbru. fact is, more dentists bsh with an oral-b toothbrush than any other bru. if you could see whatheir dentists see, yod ach for an oral-b toothbrush too. oral-b. hey, little dude. dinner s my middle name. how bout some hamburger helper? oh, my, but your mouth is gonna love it. and your wallet s gonna be pretty happy, too. now this is the deal of the day. hamburger helper.one pound, one pan, one tasty meal. but this is warm, fresh-baked strawberry toaster strudel. [ music ] see the difference? pillsbury toaster strudel, the one kids want to eat. the toyota concert series on today brought to you by toyota. country sensation josh turner has been my fabulous co-host all day. thank you, darling, but you did not come alone. he brought along his band and they re here to perform their latest single off the fourth album called did the haywire. you have your band with you. introduce me to some of them, josh. ooefr here on my left is jordan lawson playing fiddle and back here on drums is t.j. wilder 3iii and my beautiful wie jennif jennifer. you drove all night and you have a gig tonight, is that right? we were in pennsylvania last night soshgs we night, so we re going to massachusetts today. you re packing the houses and you re an up and comers for a lot of folks that know you. what are you playing today? i m playing my new single all over me. all right. josh turner, take it away. well the weatherman says it s going to be a hot one heard it on the radio load up the boat get your girl if you got one nice little breeze going to blow oh baby i m on my way to come and get you meet me at the end of your drive grab your shades and your string bikini and your coppertone 45 bring on the sunshine bring on the good time girl let me look at you jump in the front seat kick up your bare feet honey let your hair down, too i know a spot down on the river underneath the sycamore tree save all yuriorkour kisses up pour it all over me all over me we can build us a fire whether we run out of daytime lady like up your face lay on the blanket and listen to the river and get carried away i can say i will kiss your sweet lips ain t going to want it to end when the morning comes we ll roll on out do it all over again bring on the sunshine bring on the good time girl let me look at you jump in the front seat kick up your bare feet honey let your hair down too i know a spot down on the river underneath the sycamore tree save all your spz kisses up and pour it all over me bring on the sunshine bring on the good times girl just look at you jump in the front seat kick up your bare feet and let your hair down too i know a spot down on the river underneath the sick more tree save all youriorkiour kisses save up your sweet love and power pour it all over me come on come on come on poet pour it all all over me now, that s a song. great job you guys. excellent job. we ll be back with more of today on nbc. a big thank you to josh. you were terrific and rounded out the week so nicely. thank you. i appreciate you having me on, and you re a great tv sxhoes you ve been a great host to me and my wife and my guys. i brought you something from nashville, tennessee from the famous loveless cafe. i heard you had a sweet tooth. these are for you. preserves and goo goo clusters in here and pancake mix and all that stuff. thank you so much, josh. have a great weekend, everybody. we ll see you monday. bye-bye. be very careful of the goof ball. i don t know what i m supposed to be doing. who is better than you? where did you get this? i was drunk. i ve officially been in kathie lee s pants. you re so good-looking. yesterday we had blake shelton. who? oh, no. what? i failed. this is an epic fail. this is tequila. hirm with martina mcbride right now. i ve always wanted to do this. we have some booze for you, which is not a bad thing. you re not drinking. you were a home run. thank you for doing this. cheers to you. my name is hoda. ho is sally sue and bobby sue. i shot a man in reno just to watch him die. hey hohoda. yeah, baby. come on. that s good. i like this show. do you get a little sloppy at end? no, no. wait a second. that s the other person. seriously. hoda, why don t we just dance. oh hoda why don t we just dance oh hoda why don t we just dance captions by vitac www.vitac.com