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and coffee bar? starbucks begins testing a new menu item, alcohol. could beer and wine be becoming to a franchise near you today, could beer and wine be becoming to a franchise near you today, tuesday, october 19, 201 captions paid for by nbc-universal levision and good morning, everyone. welcome to today on this tuesday morning. good morning. everybody. and as you mentioned, it s been a wild campaign season so far and with just 14 days to go before elections, this thing ge more interesting every day. comg up, the latest from the campaign trail, including that 2012 comment by sarah palin. there s a big battle being fought in kentucky where this ad from democrat jack conway is causing a he uproar. did it cross the line? does it unfairly question rand paul s religious beliefs. it angered paul so much he refused to shake conway s hand after the debate. we ll talk to jack conway about that just ahead. a firefiger working the scene of a deadly crash allegedly used his cell phone to record graphic video of the victim. and the video ended up being sent to the victim s own parents. they re furious, not only at what they saw, but at what they heard. coming up an exclusive look side a new lab where mother nature s fury is re-created to find out what works and what doesn t. well, we begin on a tuesday morning with the election now just 14 days away. nbc s kelley o donnell has the latest on this. we re hring from a lot of candidat and interest groups now that the choices for voters are really pretty clear. we re also hearing that from louder voices. the tea party expraeess is on t road a. the tea par americans, you re winning. you re winning. reporter: a rousing sendoff from sarah palin in reno. the group s t party express is on a 15-day cross country tour. to drive democrats out of washington. and mr. obama and your czars, you re next because now we can see 2012 from our house. reporter: the president was repeatedly brought up in west virginia s senate debate where the democrats steered clear. i respectfully disree with president obama, he s dead wrong on cap and trade. governor joe manchin is in a tough race against wealthy republican business owner john racy. i hate to inform my opponent, but mr. obama may not be on the ballot. reporter: it s pretty hard to tell that manchin is the democrat. president obama or present bush? i m an american. rorter: from health care reform i would like to repeal every part of it because it is pure, unadulterated oeshlism. not like manchin and obama, they enjoy people working for $7.25. i believe in them, i fought for them. reporter: the ballot in new york s governor s race is crowded with senate candidates. standing out, democratic andrew cuomo. but a much aicipated face-off sizzles between the tea party backed carl paladino. my critics want to say i m angry. no, i m passionate about saving new york. repter: with so many candides, there really wasn t a chance for cuomo and paladino to have the exchange you might have expected. whomever wins actually takes office right after the november elections. matt? kelly donnell in washington for us. kentucky s senate race has become one of the nation s most volatile contests and now republican rand paul says he may opt out of the next debate because he s justify set about an attack ad that jack, you shoul be ashamed of yourself. you should apologize. have you no decency? i willot shake hands with someone who attacks my religion and attacks my christian beliefs. these are something very personal to me. word paul walked offstage without shaking conway s hand. mr. conway is with us, you should note we invited conway to join us and he refused. it clearly ignighted the pagtss of mr. paul. do you stand by it? i m not questioning his faith, i m questioning his actions, matt. the president of baylor university banned a group that ronaul joined. he banned them because they were making none of christianity and chst. and our question is why did he join a group that was known for mocking people of faith. and when is it appropriate to tie up a woman and ask her to bow down in front of a false idol. much of this comes from an article that you wrote on gq. what you d not include in your is that there was other information in those articles, for example, this group that you say made fun of christianity and was banned from the university, it says this idea of calling the bible a hoax actually came from a is t satirical writing. in an interview, she said she thought of it as friendly hazing, a joke among friends and she went along willingly, did you misrepresent the facts to score political points? i m not misrepresenting anything, we re not going by the first version of her story. she said the whole thing seemed sadistic, and the whole thing seemed weird and she ended her friendship with rand paul after that. i don t think it s appropriate to ever tie up a woman and ask her to kneel in front of a false god. this is an important area of semantics. do you think mr. paul is a man of faith? i am not questioning his faith, matt. that s not what i m asking you, do you think he s a man of faith? listen, i take what he says, that, listen,he s a christian and i take him as that. i am not questioning that, i am questioning his actions. i don t think it s ever appropriate regardless of age to mock people of faith. i don t think it s approprte to ever tie a woman up and ask her to kneel down in front of a false idol. d this is coming from dr. paul s college days when he wrote about there s no need for any anti-discrimination laws. some other democrats don t necessarily e eye to eye on this. i think the ad campaign close to the line. the me are you public say this is the ugliest, most ill liberal ad of the year. i think that people that have criticisms need to look at the whole situation. rand paul has been ask whether this occurred an he s never denied it and the fact remains that he joined a group that mocks people of faith. in his college days, he wrote quite a bit fo a newspaper and in addition he has taken on the campaign trail. he s questioned the civil rights act. mr. conway, you re in a state that s got like the rest of the country 10% unemploynt, people are living in desperate economic times. is this, do you think, what they want to talk about so close to an election and does thi noer shadow what kind of aenator you might be in washington and you re going to be a guy that goes there and continues the political divide or are you someone who can reach across the political aisle to make changes for people in this country? i think have a reputation for working across the aisle. i have worked with republicans to get a bill on cyber bullying passed. people need to wk for lesser wages and they just need a little tough love, i actually have a jobs plan that will create about 11,000 jobs in kentucky. rand paul is on the record saying he wants a $2,000 deductible for medicare. and that s why i m happy that he put me up as one of their social security protectors so there are others in this campaign th we re highlightsing as well. we ll get a check of the rest of the morning s top sries from tam mon ral. good morning, everyone. a deadly attack on parolment this morning in russia an attack by insurgents. one insurgent set off a bomb at the gates of parliament. one of two iowa farms that recall half a million eggs this summer. a new study finds that flight delays are more annoying than we thought. the study funded by the faa says flight delays cost passengers more than 16 billi$16 billion i and lost time and the cost the airlines is about half tha much. bank of america says it plans to resume foreclosing on 20,000 homes. overseas markets are mostly higher, trish reagan is at the new york stock exchange. so more attention on earnings a lot of focus on earnings today you have got coca-cola to talk about, goldman-sachs. so definitely a lot going on. apple and ibm came out yesterday after the bell, didn t have very good news as far as investors were concerned because they didn t see the kind of growth that they wanted. specifically, foexample, with apple, when it came to the number of ipads that they were selling. keep an eye on those. trish, thank you, and today it s game three of the national league championship between the rangers and the phillies. the rangers beat the yankees 8-0. helped by cliff lee who struck out 13. the rangers lead that series two games to one. and it was a bad day for a man in chesapeake bina who drop cell phone in the toilet. when he reached in to get it, his arm got stuck all the way up to the shoulder. no word on if the cell phone workor if he cares. it is now 7:13, back to mat, and al. if you had dropped a cell phone into the toilet, what would you have done? here we ve had some passing showers mainly to the west and north of washington over the last few hours and right now a few lingering spri ining sprink montgomery county. we another ought to get sunshine back with high into the 6 0s. tomorrow morning midday showers and through the afternoon still cool. partly cloudy, thursday. could get a shower late sunday. and that s your latest weather. the world s biggest insurance companies are opening a gian lab today where they can re-crea re-create tom, sounds prey cool. pretty cool place. al should be here, we re in a six-story test chamber here, and behind me, two three bedroom homes that are built to be modeled exactly as homes in the southeast. fromurricanes to tornadoes, floods to wildfires, natural disasters cost some $26 billion in property damage last year alone. and took an even great human toll. now after years of crash testing cars to force automakers to impre safety, the biggest insurance companies in th world are taking aim at the construction industry. with a massive new lab built to re-create mother nature s fury, starting with wind and rain. watch the home on the left, a replica of a he built to code in bloomington, illinois. it collapses in 100-mile-per-hour winds. while the home on the right remains stanng. the same floor plan,ut re-enforced. one key difference, the front door on the right opens out. the front door on the left, opens in. once that door blew in, the house was pressured and basically started to explode and then collapsed backwards and became really just a pile of debris. no longer somebody s home. reporter: but was it a fluke? to find out, they built another home then prepared to turn on the massive wa of wind. 105 fans, each one pumping out 300 horsepower, with a combined output of 1 40 miles an hour that s the equivalent of a category 3 storm. this time the house starts coming apart in 95-mile-per-hour winds. a lot of siding, we lost soffit officials, we lost siding from around the edge. the siding on this house just literally ripped free. it s really not rated for high winds and for a modest ditional cost you could go to a product that is ratin for high winds. for just $3,000 more, t re-enforced house school still, with stronger nails, better deck, better shingles and siding. and a frochbnt door that opens not in. if a business remains in operation, everybody wins. that s theoal here to take what they have learned here and turn it into hopefully better construction and suggestions for construction companies across the country for homes and businesses. here is the roof that blew off that first overwhelm, eventually they are going to be testing hail and even wildfires, and we ll be back for that too, we hope. i think they probably will invite you back, tomcostello. we have ask the people to turn those fans on right now while you re there. you know who s here? jim cantoris he. so if he s around, there s got to be a disaster lurking. get out of the way, tom. that s spectacular and they have been building homes to code for hurricanes down along the southeastern atlantic coast, so this is really long overdue. you think we would have thought about this earlier. the door going out rather than going in. you see that all the time in a hurricane and tornadoes. now to the place millions of people go every day for a cappuccino or a coffee. it s something starbucks is thinking about and they re testing out the concept at their flagship store in setle. kristen welker ishere, cheers. reporter: this is definitely not your typical starbucks because right above the coffee selection, you have wine and beer. it s a new mix for a company that s nearly 40 years old. i lov coffee i love tea . reporter: america s love for coffee has propelled seattle s starbucks into one of the country s most influential chains. but now the place where many of us get our morning pick me up is brewing something new. that s right, wine and beer now on tap at the same place that s become synonymous with the barista coffee club. more than 70% of its business comes before 2:00 p.m. starbucks is opening it s evening business will give the company a bite of the after work market. cheers? cheers. definitely not what you would expect at starcks. i look at it as a community gathering place, you may want wic wine at night and i may want a latte. it s carefully designed to give customers the feeling of a neighborhood bistro. if you look at how wl a trend starbucks is in terms of coffee. i think it might take a while for people to rlize it s a great place to go after work. reporter: over the years the brand has expanded it s merchandise and movies, but more recently starbks has gotten back to basics to perfect our art of espresso. so how well will the hard core coffee crowd make this the beer business? only time and taste will ll? it s really nice to have the best of both worlds, have your iends choose what they may and have a conversation. coffee and tea, that s it. i don t want to sit down in a coffee shop and drink a glass of wine. i just don t. now the company is also increasing its commitment to sustainability, so a lot of the furniture here is actually made from recycled goods. don t expect to see this concept, this entire concept to play out a a starbucks near you, they re going to see how it plays out here first and decide whether or not to expand. you can t actually buy beer or wine here until 4:00 p.m. so we are quite happy to have a hot cup of coffee for right now. thank y very much. we appreciate. think about it, it hits all the notes, it s got chocolate, coffee and wine. my favorite foods. just ahead, should nadya suleman s fertility doctor lose his medical license for repeatedly implanting her with multiple embryos? we ll see but first this is bob ehrlich s 24 years in politic in congress ehrlich voted with george bush 90% of the time, protecting the special interests. as governor, ehrlich cut education, increased college tuition by 40%, and vetoed an increase in the minum wage. and afr losing his election, bob ehrlich joined a lobbying firm and got paid $2.5 million to represent casinos and wall street banks. bob ehrlich 24 years of putting the special interests first. coming up a firefighter allegedly records a disturbing video of a deadly car crash and it ends up in the hands of the victim s outraged parents. that s after your local news and weather. 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[ gasp ] [ sigh ] hurry in to dunkin donuts for 50 munchkins or a dozen donuts and get a free trick or treat bag. 7:30 now on a tuesday morning, the 19th of october, 2010. check out all the folks gathered out on our plaza. the rain seems to have stopped for the time being. should get nicer as the day goes on. we ll get outside and say hi to those people in a couple of minutes. meantime, i m matt lauer alongside ann curry while meredith takes some time off. and next in this half hour, a really disturbing story. a firefighter at the scene of a deadly accident allegedly used his cell phone to recor graphic video of the victim. that was shared around the firehouse and that video eventually ended up in the hands of the victim s own parents. also ahead, how would you like to hear this on your answering machine? just ahead, today investigates debt collectors, like it or not, they do have a job to do, but in this tough economy, are some now crossing the line? some even going way over the line. we re going to have more on that coming up. plus did octomom nadya suleman inject ms. suleman with more tha12 embryos at a time? we re going to find out if that doctor should be sipped of his medical license. and in georgia, a firefighter is accused of taking and sharing cell phone video at aeadly car ash. we re going to talk to the ctim s parents in just a moment. but first, here s our report from nbc s ron moss. reporter: the spot where dana died is today a peaceful memorial, across the road from a field of flowers in her favorite color. when her paren say what has shattered them even more than losing their daughter was getting a cell phone video of her body taken just moments after the suv she was driving crossed the median, flipped multiple times and slammed into several trees. the video, too graphic to show was allegedly shot by a firefighter on the scene and later shared around the station house and eventually sent to the parents. this person has no compassion. to have taken a video like that of our daughter. reporter: two voices can be heard describing body parts. oh, my god. i can see them going to her and seeing if she was still breathing. they were worried about what was on the console and i was just very upset and hurt that somebody could do this and disrespect my daughter in this way. reporter: county officials declined to go on camera, but the re chief tells nbc news he s sti trying to gather all the facts and that shooting video like this is not condoned and is not normal procedure. reporter: pictures of a california teen who died in car crash were put on the internet. for today, ron mott, nbc news good morning to both of you. ood morning. jeff, how did you first hear about this video? an ex-brother-in-law who i hadn t seen in quite some time who had received that video from someone that he ew. once he received the video and the person told him, you know, this is the accident of the young lady on the highway, he knew immediately then that it was probably my daughter. he then contacted mend sa, look, i ve got a video here and i m so ashamed, but i have to tell you, it s of your daughter and of course i had to know so he sent the video to me. and i viewed the video and you know, without a doubt, it was our dauter dana and it was just too terrible to put into words really. lucretia, what was worse, seeing the video or also hearing what was being said as the video was being recorded? i don t know which one is worse. seeing the video of my daughter, it hurts because i didn t want to see her that way. but hearing them with no urgeyuy to see if she was okay really upset us. jeff, you said that there was a casual tone with regard to your daughter? if you listen to the video, it sounds like a casual conversation. they re discussing parts of the accident, but you could you just don t hear them say let s get in there and see if she s okay, let s reach in and check for a pulse, let s get this thing open and get her out of here. it was just more of a conversation of what the scene described. and it would be my contention that these guys when they come on the scene, they really need to be focused on the victim and who hurt and not, you know, commenting on things that are happening at the time. and it just sounded like to me that these guys were just having a conversation, just like you and i are having right now and there was just no urgency there to even check her to see if she was still alive. so that s vy upsetting and that disturbs us very much. the spaulng county fire department has apologize but it s been more than a month since you heard about the video and the sheriff s department investigator says they re not sure if there are any laws broken. if there are no laws broken by what has happened to your family, do you want a law written so thathis cannot happen again? oh, absolutely. it is so easy for this to happen to anybody. any responder on any scene at any time who s allowed to have his cell phone could take these videos. i think they should not even be allowed to have cell phones when they re out on these calls. they have their radios, they can communicate with each other, what reason would they have to have an actual cell phone? i would love to see a law passed or somethingnacted through legislation that they re not allowed to do this. if they re not given the opportunity, then we don t have to worry about it ever happening again. the impact on your family has been pretty extensive. lucretia, i understand that you have had trouble sleeping ever since you have seen this video. how are you and your family coping with this added trauma? throughod and the strength of each other. it s hard closing your eyes because when you close your eyes, that s what you see, is dana laying in her car and not being cared for the way she deserved. so we re just getting through it with each other. all right. e worst part is this lack of compassion that youre feeling and i hope that you begin to feel the compassion of everyone listening now to your story. jeff and lucretia, thank you very much and we wish you all the best. good morning. it s cloudy and chilly on this tuesday morning, and temperatures around the region are hovering right around 50 degrees. radar is showing a few passing showers north of washington and frederick counties. later today we ll get sunshine breaking up. temperatures breaking into the mid-60 by mid afternoon. tomorrow more morning and mudday showers. still cool tomorrow. sunday, friday, chilly but saturday we might get showers late sunday. and that s your latest weather, don t forget you can track your weather all day long on weather.com. consumer horror stories, why are debt collectors targeting people for money that in some cases they don t even owe. today investigates right after this. but there s one that s so clever, it makes your skin look better even after you take it off. neutrogena healthy skiliquid makeup. 98% of women saw improvement in their skin s natural texture, tone, or clarity. does your makeup do that? 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[ male announcer ] .seem less than graceful. back now at 7:42 and this morning today investigates debt collection, it is a multibillion dollar industry. inhis struggling economy, debt collectors have become far too aggressive. good morning, the federal trade commission says complaints of abuses by debt collectors has jumps as the economy has deteriorat deteriorated and we re hearing horror stories not just of debt llectors, but companies that buy old unpaid debts and try to collect. a landscaper did a lousy job on a backyard project and wouldn t come back to fix it. before long they heard from a debt collector claiming they owed almost $15,000, much more than the project was even supposed to cost. we didn t know the debt collector any money. reporr: the calls became increasingly aggressive. et a hold of me to stop this 1099 form from going to the irs. reporter: even threatening to follow the couple. additionally, nick, there will be a couple of investigators shadowing you and melody for a couple of days. i was pretty scared to find out how far they were really going to go. i felt threatened and i felt more importantly that my family was being threatened. reporter: the whitlocks fought back suing the debt collecting agency. complaints about debt collectors ha jumped from 91,000 in 2007 to 120,000 last year. more collectors are engaging in more aggressive tactics to get consumers to pay debts, in some cases getting consumer who is don t owe the debto pay it anyway. reporter: the most common complaint, harassment, including abusive, obscene and threatening phone calls. give me a call back within 24 hours so that i can issue that warrant for your arrest. this call full of racial slurs occurred two months ago in california. you [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. of course there are a few bad actors out there but that doesn t speak for the vast majority of debt collectors. it s increasingly different to even talk to consumers. he says collectors reach only abt 1% of consumers called on a daily bas. i do believe there is an increase in evasion on the part ofonsumers not wanting to deal with their bad debt. whathe debt buyer tries to collect. one study found that here in new york city more than a billion dollars in judgments. she tried to buy lunch with her debit card a to her embarrassment it was rejected. she called her bank and learned that a debt buyer was suing her and that a judge had frozen all her money. i was completely panicked, i don t have any other credit cards, so that meant not being able to buy food. did you owe them money? i had never shopped at that store. i didn t know what they were talking about. the debt buyer insists it had warned her about the debt in it s lawsuit against her with papers served at this address. haveou ever lived at this addrs? no. has any member of your family ever lived here? ricardo fought back, but many consumers don t get such a happy ending. debt buyers have flooded the courts with lawsuits. peter berry says his client, a single mom in minneapolis was arrested at work, taken to jail and held for two hours. ter a debt buyer got a judgment against her for a debt a court later ruled she did not owe. it s actually deb buyers don t care whether or not the consumer really owes the debt. debt buyers are interested in collecting the debt. a spokesman for the industry disputes that. the majority of our industry wants to work with the consumer. do you acknowledge that folks in your industry have harassed people even after they have proven they don t owe the debt? i don t think that is happening with the majority. of course that happens occasionally with the people that we don t have to have in our industry. repter: the ftc recently concluded that the the federal government says debt buyers are sometimes going t court, getting judents against people based on flimsy or even inaccurate information. i mean is that fair? in large part, i don t think that is what s happening. we re going to work with the court systems to make sure that we re getting them the information they need. reporter: all sides agree on one thing, if you get contacted by a debt collector, the worst thing you can do is ignore it. contact the colltor, get documentation of what iis you allegedly owe. if you don t owe it, dispute it. if you do owe it, make some arrangement to start paying at least a little something. isa myers, some horror stories. coming up from getting out of debt to racking up debt. we re going to get some gift ideas courtesy of neiman marcus. but first these messages. if you live for performance, upgrade to castrol edge advanced synthetic oil. with eight times better wear protection than mobil 1. castrol edge. it s more than just oil. it s liquid engineering. and the life you want to live. with rheumatoid arthritis, there s the life you live. fortunately there s enbrel, the #1 most doctor-prescribed biologic medicine for ra. enbrel can help relieve pain, stiffness, fatigue, and stop joint damage. because enbrel suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability toight iections. serious, sometimes fatal, events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, and other cancer and nervs system and blood disorders have occurred. before starting enbrel, your doctor ould test you for tuberculosis. ask your doctor if you le or have lived in an area where certain fungal infections are common. don t start enbrel if you have an infection like the flu. tell your doctor if you re prone to infections, have cuts or sores, have had hepatitis b, have been treated for heart failure, or if, while on enbrel, you experience persistent fever, bruising, bleeding, or paleness. ask your rheumatologist if enbrel is right for you. and help bridge the gap between the life you live. and the life you want to live. 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[ gasp ] [ sigh ] hurry in to dunkin donuts for 50 munchkins or a dozen donuts and get a free trick or treatag. cloudy and cool on this tuesday morning. radar showing a few sprinkles moving off to teeth. later today, sunshine reaching out. highs reaching the 60s. more of the same tomorrow. jim, how s thetraffic? just after the third street tunnel, it s been moved beyond the tunnel entrance. we ve got big delays heading into the city. it looks like the accident is now gone. maryland, the accident is now gone. 27 0rks wet pavement jammed up trying to get to the beltway. joe, back to you. this afternoon on nbc 4 daytime karaoke with ellen. tune i new look. new style. new sears. come see our brand new side. at sears. you 8:00 now on a tuesday morning, it s the 19th day of october 2010. and check it out. santa claus is coming to town. hello santa. it s only the 19th of october, you mightay why is st.ick here so early? he is checking out some of the things in the macy s catalog. we re going to show you some good ways to spend a little cash. a lot of cash in some cases. i m matt lauer, along with anncurry, while meredith takes some time off and mr. roker joins us as well. also this morning, we ll be talking about the octomom, nadya suleman, she s talking about implanting six employees, but now the doctor who took care of her is accused of using 12 embryos and he s actually facing a possibility of losing his medical license. and the a little bit later on, justn time for the holiday, guess what? airline prices are going up? what a shock. ess what? we are going to tell you it s not too late a how to find some great airline deals out there. okay, lots to get to. les go inside, tamron hall is filling in at the news desk. just two weeks now until voters cast ballots in midterm elections that could loosen the democrats grip on congress. former alaska governor sarah palin launched her 19-state tea party express today in nevada where she s trying to unseat senate majority leader harry reid. richard blunthal is locked in a tight race with former wrestle executive linda mcmahon. stephanie gosk is in paris. good morning. reporter: good morning, tamron. well since the french government announced a two-year increase in the retirement age from 60 to , there s been six national protests and strikes in this country. today is expected to the biggest, millions ofeople are expected to turn out. the biggest protest will be here in central paris. clashes between students and police have been the mos violent. they re nowhere near requirement age and most don even work, but they wry their future is at risk. the police blockaded the school and provoked us, this student says. in the last week a backlash over a proposed twyear increase in the retirement age from 60 to 62 triggered demonstrations and strikes that threaten to strangle the french economy. the government hasost all credibility, this french worker says, the anger over the modest age increase may come as a surprise to many americans who already work hder and retire at a later age. by law in france, the workweek is only 35 hours long. one poll estimates that 70% of the population here supports the strike. nikolai sarkozy and his gornment say the changes are tough but necessary and they won t back down. the protest was expected to take place on dnesday, but th u.s. postal officials are offering a $25,000 reward to help solve a deadly post office shooting monday in western tennessee. police say two female workers were killed and investigators are looking for a pair of gunmen. now here s brian williams with a look at what s coming up on nbc nightly news. we ll look at a common drug therapy used by millions of women, doctors now believe this medication is more dangerous than they once thout. we ll have some crucial new facts for you, along with the rest of the day s news tonight on nightly news . tamron, w back to you. this morning we ve had some passing showers just west and north of washington, but the rest of the area stayed dry, and we still have a cloudy sky, and it s rather cool. right now temperatures climbs a little bit higher. we re in the low to the mid-50s. it will peak into theow to mid-60s by this afternoon as we get the sunshine back. tomorrow we could get midday passing showers, reaching t low 60s by late afternoon. we ll have the sunshine coming back. on thursday, and that s your latest weather. comg up, did nadya suleman s fertility doctor ignore the rules and deliberately implant her with 12 embryos at once? we re going to have new details on that story coming up right after this. there s nothing for 25. but they will let me give you the se seat for a big miles upcharge. how s that sound for that many miles we ll be stuck taking a staycation. 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[ female announcer ] the best treat is the one you get at home. rice krispies® childhood is calling. back now at 8:09, a hearing is now underway to decide if the doctor who implanted nadya suleman with 14 embryos should lose his medical license. reporter: the fertility doctor walked into a los angeles medical hearing where a deputy attorney general called it negligence and argued he should be stripped of his medical license. the charges stem from caree gave at least three mashlts including octomom nadya suleman. he implaed her with eight embryos which led to eight babies in 2009. many medical experts, doctors say such a high embryonic transfer crossed the ethical line. f somebody to receive 12 embryos would be considered quite unusual. we really have not seen that before. reporter: sul maeman who was mother o six before her final embryonic transfer as hau defended her daughter. reporter: suleman claims she was only implanted six embryos, something officials have disputed during the hearing. meanwhile the doctor also failed to refer suleman to a medical health expert throughout her long 11-year history with him as her fertility doctor. suleman is struggling to pay her rent, faces eviction, even had a yard sale to raise desperately needed cash. so to people who have criticized not just you, but criticized your ivf doctor. he did nothing wrong. reporter: heidn t answer any questions outside of the hearing on moay, but his attorney did say he follows all medical guidelines and shows great care for all of s patients. he has practiced with the stan dofrd of care he posed a threat to the public, welfare, safety and protection. the hearing could take two weeks, but when it s over, it could cost the doctor his medical license. dr. nancy snyderman is nbc s chief medical correspondent. it sounds like they were raised even before theourt that there were 12 embryos, allegedly. the standard of care is really one or two, maybe three embryos, depending on the age of a mother. never six, never 12. when a comes in and says i want twins, that s a red flag, because mostomen say i really want have toave a baby. tests need to be done to make sure the woman is stable enough, but very important, it is not the first ce that this doctor has come und the spotlight for. so when you hear about repeat behavior, that is below the standard of care, that s a huge red flag, the uterus is only so big, it s not a condominium, it s only meant for one or two fetuses, because what you want to see at the end is a healthy mom and healthy babies. you re talking about judgment, and not all doctors have good judgment. but there are no regulations th say you can only implant so many. should there be regulations? have we reached the point now that technology has outrun judgment? technology will always run ahead because we ll sort of always chase the technology. there are laws in europe that require only two embryose implanted. physicians have been very poor in places themselves. this man was kicked out of one of t academic societies and it s going to be very interesting to see if california is going to sort of stick to the guidelines that it says doctors should flow and take away his license. the only way you can punish doctors who have been flying under the guidelines and have been flying under the radar is to pish them where it hurts. you deny them the right to practice medicine. what about the idea that when a patient comes in and wants to be pregnant multiple times, whether it is is it a different guideline? should there be a regulation that you say this patient should have a mental evaluation? no matter who comes in, you want to make sur that she understands what she s doing, that she s mentally stable, depression, anxiety, all those things can be a normal part of life. but is that required? it s not required but it is done at the great medical centers and at the great programs. but if a woman comesn already having six babies, unemployed, a history of depression, and then asks for a specific number of babies, tt is a red flag that is so huge i don t understand why it wasn t paid attention to. this is the kind of thing that this medical examination that we re talking about, could that be one of the factors in causing a doctor like in this case to lose h medical license? the california board of medical examiners, they have held my california license for a long time. drug history, how you prescribe, patients complaints against you. do you fit the ethical guidelines of the subspecialty you re in? i think all eyes right now are on cifornia and it going to be very interesting to see if they have the gumption that a lot of people are saying this could be a hallmark case of what not to do. they can do the right thing and set the record straight. dr. nancy snyderman, thank you as always for your great perspective. and next we re goingo check out the hottest it fls of neiman marcus christmas book. that s coming up right after this. animals calling ] [ pop ] [ man ] well, we get along yeah, we really do - and there s nothing wrong - [ bird squawks ] with what i feel for you i could hang arnd till the leaves are brown and the summer s gone [ announcer ] when you re noworried about potential dangers, the world can be a far less threatening place. take the scary out olife with tvelers insurance. and see the world in a different light. i d get this tightness in my ches so i went back to my doctor again. we chose syicort to help control my asthma symptoms all day and night. 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[ laughing ] put your hand down. it is not even halloween yet, but it s already beginning to look a lot like christmas here on rockefeller plaza, that because neiman marcus is out with their book of fantasy gifts, their christmas book of fantasy gifts. and by the way, it s the 50th anniversary of the famous his and hers gifts. ginger, good to see you. thank you. what is the greatest fantasy gift you have ever come up with, and what was the biggest bomb? theig e bomb might have en the cowboy boots that had golf spikes on them. 50th anniversary of the his and hers gifts. we have a beautiful bracelet with charms on it. there s a his version of that too? no, the his how much is that? $248,000. oh, my gosh. it s a fantasy, jeff. this woman says i m liking this. that would bgreat. and for the musicians in the family, you have something else here. the ukulele has come back in popularity, so we said let s have the ukulele that made georgeharrison s ukulele. he said i want to make a ukulele out of a gourd. they took a gourd, hollowed it out. so this comes from the same gourd? yes, you don t believe that. how long does it take you to make one of those. it just depends, getting older, but they use gourds, so it s been used for a long time. and george harrison really got me into ukuleles. so i made guilty tars for 35 year years for different people. it s a very, very trend instrument, they re beautiful. thank u very much. now if you play the ukulele orly, like iwould, you want to banish yourself to this next gift. had to bring a model. this is $250,000. i love the romantic idea of living on a houseboat. this has translucent walls, a 7-foot ceiling. it like a modern loft. it does it looks like a new york apartment. it s got a couple of engines, so you can move it around, it doesn t have to sit in one place. it has special engines so you can move it arou. if you want to move around and not spend this kind of money, you want to we certainly do. this is a bicycle that s been made in new york since the late 1800st. and there s a couple of back seat drivers. this is $3,0. every holiday has to have a ginger bread house. i said what have you always wanted to do and you have never done? a playhouse made out of ginger ead. you cahave a gum ball if you like. if i can get one off. how long ago was this made? it s edible or you can shellac it and use it as a decoration next year. what was the price again? $15,000. shall w introduce a new gentleman here? gerald barnes. appy holidays to you. everybody loves the limited edition car. this is the new chevrolet convertible, new triple layer paint job, this can do to 60 in under five. how quickly do you believe the supply is going to go? there s 100 and the supply will go in a snap. do you have a price on this? no. $75,000. that s beautiful. you get to drive this home. i wish. i wish. it s nice, thank you very much. by the way, the iphoneapp that you got from nein marcus, this is pretty cool. this features a new gift every single day and it features a whole host of features from our website. so you shake it, and it comes up with a variety tiff of gifts. you just shake it again and again and you keep get another surprise gt. nice to have you here. we have ginger over here with a few more things. i have got somethin these are some ornaments and i m harkening back to the cnese gifts. $48 and $5 from the sale benefits big brothers and big sisters. now if you need a snack, chocolate covered potato chips. are the edible? they have not been shellacked, you can get a set of three if you like. l s talk about those cowboy boots with the golf spikes. no, these are good. they re good zbchlt we have got sparkled eye pass, covers, i lost my son so i wished i could have found something dazzling, luggage tags, all sos of things. and oneore item. how about ugs for your ears. you need these on these brisk mornings coming up, $75 including the corrado. we have got much more coming up this morning and we ll tell you all about it. a little bit cloudy outside. 52 degrees outside. good morning. it s 8:26. i m kimberly suiters. in the news today, the hunt is on for a killer. a man was gunned down in the 4300 block of georgia west. right noñi they go morning. cloudy and cool now. radar showing little activity crossing the bay and heading far to the east. and temperatures often the region are cool. right now just in the low 50s throughout much of the region. and ler today with some sun breaking out, we should makeñix into the mid-60s. then on thursday, partly cloudy, just a small chance of a sher. should be sunny on friday. morning lows near 40. afternoon highs near 60. jim, how s the traffic? delays. major delays coming in from south dakota avenue. the belt kwai s going toçó be jammed up tryingciçñ get to college park. this is roe 29 heading south twrd the beltway. very slow trafficñi here. likewise out of 270 out of hyattstown. kimberly back, tock you. thankou, jim. comin? 7a this afternoon on nb 4, day time karaoke with 8:30 now on a tuesday morning, 19th day of october, 2010. it looks a little chilly out here on the plaza. a nip in the air, but it doesn t matter. we have got people gathered on our little window to the world. and we re happy to be out here with them. i m matt lauer along with ann curry. tamron hall and mr. al roker. what have we got coming up in this half hour. one thing, as al was saying earlier, it s going up to, especially in time for the holidays, so if you plan to fly home for the holidays we have got to get a move on. and we ha . and your good buddy jane tod a great story about a man who s useding his skills and a few horses to continued cloudy,nd it s rather cool around the region. the radar has been showing light rain off to the east. right now it s near 50 degrees throughout most of the region. so quite a few start, but sunshine returning later today, we ought to make it into the low to mid-60s. tomorrow could get another passing shower. partly sunny after that and cool. thursday, partly cloudy, small chance of a shower. sunny and cool friday th a high near 60. might get a shower late sunday into monday. and don t forget, you can check yr weather any time of the day or night on the weather channel or on weather.com online. we have got jane pauley and she s here to talk about a man who s changing lives one well at a time. but first this is today on nbc. [ ma announcer ] martin o malley sworn in. inherits a billionollar surplus, lownemploent. o lley signs the biggest tax hike in maryland history. raids chesapeake bay fund to cover spending. gives raises to top aides. business climate ranks 45th worst in the nation. now 200,000 jobs lost. o malley covers up jobs report that proved maryland s economy stalled. if re-elected, o malley will raise taxes again. whether he does, is up to you. we re back now at 8:37 with our special your life calling today. aarp has produced and sponsored a series for us. for 44 years, ken wood has made his living drilling wells. but then he found his life calling. once again, it s drilling wells. you see the kids hauling the water up and down the roads coming from these places. and they wld fill their jugs. you would not let your hands touch the water. i would say these people and tears coming out of yr eyes. and just driving down the road, it s devastating. reporter: but every year in ghana, thousands die from drinking contaminated water. who knew all those years you re drilling wells here in maryland that you had the power to save lives? it s just an opportunity, a gift that god gave me, so i m very pleased. reporter: ken wood was a farm boy from maryland who built up a well drillg business. okay, this is the place right here. reporter: he wasn t looking for his calling four years ago. he was just looking to sell a used rig. amall church wanted to take it to ghana and ask ken to go along as an advisor. he s been back on his own 15 times. most of us don t ever have a chance. i know, and it s wonderful. reporter: your skill and expertise meant life changing water. ken and a small team of workers have drilled460 wells at last count. and each one changes the life of a village. but you ll never guess where his funding comes from. what do horses have to do with it? they help support what we re doing. reporter: ken owns a small stab of horses. harness racing used to be hiss passion. today it supports his mission. he provides money for the project? he s been a good contributor. we have had five horses make over $100,000. that s not my money. it does not happen. i m just passing the money on. reporter: what the horses win is poured back into ghana, where ken wood is revered. what is your name? chief living water. if you re a king, you don t have to drink river water and get sick anymore. he s saving lives. i want him to live 150 years to fini the work thate s doing. reporter: at 66, ken has suffered two major heart attacks, but he keeps going. ie got lots of people praying for me. reporter: and he s got his wife s blessing to spend up to three months a year in africa. so this is your life s work? it s getting to be, yeah. ive you have a friend who is sick all the time, if you can lick your fingers and do sothing for that person, you would do it. reporter: let me add my voice to the people who pray that you live a long life. well, thank you. ken has an ambitious plan to start drilling wells in tanzania as well as ghana. but here s a reality check, the horses don t always win and the economy has been bad for business. but to keep drilling wells in africa, ken has taken on considerable personal debt. though he thinks that things will turn around and his horses will pull throh. using a live web chat on using the skills you already have. that will be on aarp.com/jane. you don t have to do something different, you just sometimes have to turn things around and look at what you re doing differently. how much a teacher is not i the classroom, but is still teaching becausehe context has changed. no, i love that story for that reason. that, you know, you don t have to do an extreme makeover. and he wasn t going out looking for it, it fell in his lap. life tapped him on the shoulder and spunim around. up next where you need to look now before it s too late to find holiday travel deals, but look now before it s too late to find holiday travel deals, but first this is today on nbc. bob ehrlich s 24 years in politics. in congress ehrlich voted with george bush 90% of the time, protecting the special interests. as gernor, ehrlich cut education, increased college tuition by 40%, and vetoed an increase in the minimum wage. and after losing his election, bob ehrlich joined a lobbying firm and got paid $2.5 million to represent casinos and wall street banks. bob ehrlich 24 years of putting the special interests first. about wh you give up, and not what you get? like electricity for gadget power at your seat. room to stretch your legs, and your wingspan. food when you re hungry, and taking off your shoes only if you feel like it. these aren t luxuries, th re basics. get them back, on acela. 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it s nom a gambler, and it s not necessarily smart because you do want to go see that family. bock early, but book smart. orbits is a great idea to book because they have a flight assurance policy, that means if you book and then someone else after you books and gets a betterdeal, you re not left out in the cold, they actually send you a refund. but it has to be the same itinerary exactly. what s your advice? the first thing is to be flexible and also be smart about when you re booking. if you re going to be traveling, the normal rule of thumb is wednesday anduesdays are the best day to get lower rates. the day of the holiday, so thursday of thanksgiving is actually my favorite day to travel t airports are quieter, you re going to get nicer service because everybody s in the holiday spirit and you re going to get better prices. if you want to go to a website to check out what the best fares are, bing.com has a gragraphic you can see over the 30-day period what the fares were. you also say fare compare.com. the offer an overview of the surcharges that are being charged. there are some additional w al that the airlines are going to charge you. there s so many fees and different airlines have different levels of charges. these are built in so you can have as much as $30 tacked on to a fare because it s the holidays. you say it s hard to do this when you ve got family to you ve got tbe flexible about where you re traveling to. it s important to think about going to secondary airports, the ones that are close to where, not exactly where you want to end up, you may get better rates there. if you have a very specific route that you want exactly that particular flight. they will give you an alert when that price goes do. an alert on your phone? t will send it to your e-mail. which is great. and airfare watch dog is another one. but if you re just interested in deals from your home city, they ll send you alerts on the deals. sit better to go day or night when you re searching. it feels like it s ficked depending on when you want to look for a fare. fares are continually going in and out of the system. but i find the best is after midnight, that all those people who held those tickets go back into the system. you have to stay up late, but it s kind of worth it to get the better deal. right after midnight when the expirationuns out. 12:03, i think they say. a lot of this is bad news, but you re giving us a way to deal with that bad news, but you re saying they re resulting in some good news. we re seeing an average increase, but we re also seeg a bunch of destinations where the fares have gone down. while there is a little bit of bad news, it is the holidays so you re going to be withour family at the end of it, this is a matterf doing it smartly on the way. we can do it smartly because we have gotten your advice. > coming up next, tricks to get your wine to last longer once you ve uncorked the bottle. but first, this is today on nbc. we re back now, 8:51, with some wines that are perfect for the cool, fall weather and how to make them last longer. gary, welcome back, great to see you. before weaste wine, you re going to talk about actually, if you want to taste wine and you want to get all the aroma and the flavor, you re a fan of the camping wine. and the funny thing, most people don t think about white wine being decanted. e high end stuff, people don t think about the low end wine. so white we benefit from the air and so does the $10 wines. how long would you decant a bottle of wine whether it s white or red before you actually drink it? if it s a berry or white a red, at least an hour. and speaking of white wine, you like reesling. i think it s amazing. it s got high accent, it goes great with a variety of foods. that s not sweet all. it has a lot of flavor. this is bone dry. bone dry. you capucker it up. it s got a great kind of like green apple thing going on and it goes tremendous wi a variety of foods, especially fish. real hot, what do you like best? real hot is under value right now. a lot of people like cabernet and bordeaux. now tell me why you re drinking it quite like that. swishing it a little bit? that s kind of how i roll. more importantly, it allows all the flavors to hit my pallet. and when it comes to fall menus, why do you like this so well? if you want to go casual, some burgers, it s a great casual wine under $20, very high end red. we re talking about some good drinking wine. what we did here, here it is by itself out of the bottle. and right here to the left, it s been decanted for three hours. so what i want you to do, i nt you to taste this. which is really good, by the way. how good is it, by the way? and now i want you to taste this after three hours of dewanting. decanting. it s just smoother. and that s it. and deeper. let me try it again. most people don t like th b bitter. decanting opens it up and it warms the fruit and it s definitely dramatically smoother. and it can be longer actually. so a lot of people on a bottle of wine, whether it s white orred, and you only drink act portion of it and you say it s going to go bad. if you ve got a half bottle at home, pour it in there. less exposure. how lonwill it last? three days or so on a red wine. the less air in a bottle. air is the enemy once you have already opened it. but this thing, check this out. this i think is incredible. a couple of little pumps and pop. this is under $20 as a gadget. incredible. does that extend it beyond two or three days? this could get up to five to six days, absolutely. wine in a box. everybody thinks the box wine, the really cheap ingredients, $21, but in the leader, the tetro back is really catching on. great to have you here. we re going to have much more on a tuesday morning after your local news. 8:56. a little bit rainy out there snarlg traffic. we ll talk about that in a minute. dpoo mo good morning everyone. a new poll shows democrat martin o malley still leading as governor for maryland. it s tight race. o malley has the support of 47%. bob ehrlich letting 42%. your weather and traffic are coming up next. stay with us. from the styles you want. .to the foods you crave. even your favorite toothpaste. now, the things you love at target. are even better. save 5% off today and everyday. when you shop with your target credit or debit redcards. are you redcard ready? 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[ engine revs ] the best or nothing. that is what drives us. . good morning, cloudy and cool. later today, sunshine breaking out. afternoon highs climbing into the mid-06s. we ll repeat this tomorrow. thursday, part cloudy, sma chance of a shower. sunny on thursday, hi of 60. should be dry mostly forhe weekend. jim, ñihow s the traffic? we re looking at an accident on 395 southbound tt could be tying up things near the interchange. crystal city, all the southbound lanes are blocked. very heavy traffic getting from college parkçó to silver spring and 270 is going to be slow headingñi toward the lane divid. kimberly, back to you. coming up this afternoon on nc 4, daytime karaoke on ellen, tune in today at 3:00 on nbc 4. we ll see you here - - - - - - - back now on tuesdaoctober 19. lot of people gathered in our plaza before they head out to new york and do a little shopping and sightseeing and taking it all in. out on the plaza, i m matt lauer, along with ann curry and al roker. we re going to be talking about diet troubles again. joy bauer is here with our diet s.o.s. and she s got ideas on how to prepareealthy meals in advance if you re too busy to shop for food or to cook. not such a bad idea to indulge your sweet tooth. do you think your closest relationship might be with your blackberry? the bottom line is sometimes when i m on that blackberry all the time, i have to stop myself. if you re like me, we re talking about how you can boost your mental health and your health overall by makingure you stay connected to the people you love. we re going to show you how to connect with your family and have a longer, happier life. ood morning, everyone. canada s midterm elections now has just two more weeks to persuade voters. democrat andrew cuomo ss he understands voter anxiety in the economy. both the republican and the democratic candidates criticize the obama health care overall. a deadly attack this morning in russia s volatile chechnya region. one of two iowa farms that recalled half a billion eggs this summer in a salmonella outbreak is being allowed to start selling eggs again. but the fda is telling the other producer bright county eggs it may be shut down if it does not eliminate salmonella contaminatn. a courtroom outbust in hillsboro, oregon. he flipped over a table while the victim testified against him. he was convicted and faces sentencing at a later date. the penalty phase is underway in that gruesome home invasion case in connecticut. nbc s jeff rossen has more. repter: dr. petit, how are you holding up? doing the best i can. reporter: for doctor william petit, the man who lost everything, it all comes down to this. just taking it day by day. reporter: life or death for steven hayes, a petty burglar turned cold bloed killer, he was convicted just two weeks ago for breaking into the petit home and lling his wife and two kids. the jury will now decide life imprisonment or death by lee than iection. the defense lawyer tries to humanize his client. the judge told jurors with a man s life in their hands, their decisions grave and awesome. connecticut is not known for executing inmates. no, it s not a gung ho execution state. the last one happened five yearst ago and it only happened because the defenda waved all objections and volunteered to die. prior to that, the last case was in the early 1960s. william petit shows up every day for a front row seat. i think you probably would all do the same thing for your families if your family was destroyed by evil. reporter: the hearing continues this morning and the jury could have the case in th next two weeks, making the ultimate life-or-death decision. jeff rossen, nbc news, new haven, connecticut. a new study finds that flight days aren t just annoying. a study funded by the faa says flight delays cost passengers more tn $16 billion in 2007 in lost time. the cost to airlines about half that much. and have arrest special delivery for que elizabeth, she met with the president of chile who gave her a rock from e mine whe it s still cloudy d around the reechlgts 50 degrees. a few sprinkles on the easternx shore now. that s continuing heado(t toñi the east. as the afternoon progresses wex have to get some sun back. highs reaching mid-60s. tomorrow, maybe a morning or midday shower and afternoon shower breaking outxd during th day. thursday, a small cnce of a çó sprinkle. should be sunny, friday. much cooler, highs near 60. a bit milder. might get rain late sunday. and that s yo latest weather. al, thank you very much. this morning on joy s diet s.o.s., answers t your daily diet dilemmas. today s contributor joy bauer is sharing tips on how to maintain a healthy dietven if you re battling a busy schedule and annsatiable sweet tooth. let s get to our first question that comes from shelly in hoboken, new jersey. shelly, at s your question? good morning, ladies, very often, i suffer from what you just said, being busy and my work schedule, i don t always ve time or energy to prepare my meals. joy, can you give me healthy options for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks that i can buy already prepared from the grocery store? just to make sure that i don t get carted away to nuition jail, do want to say that thers many healthy recipes, something as easy as putting together a turkey sandwich on whole grain bread. but i get it, i totally get it. and there are things that you can buy. first for breakfast, you can pick up a frozen burrito, as long as it s under 300 calories. also keep whole grain frozen waffles in your freezer. top it with a thin smear of natural peanut butr and you re set. you can also take aacket of the instant oatmeal and you can eat that with yogurt. so breakfast is covered and it s supereasy. in terms of lunch and dinner, take advantage of the low sodium things that are out there. every brand, because low in sodium is hot so you can get it from progresso and campbel and health valley. so anything that s hearty, even the chili that s going to come in mild and spicy. so the prepared frozen entrees, anything that s under 500 calories and under 600 milligrams of soed yucdium will. lean cuisine and healthy choice, but a few of those are slightly under the radar to be on the lookout for, organic bistro and don t forget veggie burgers, keep those in the freezer. pop tm between a whole wheat bun and you re set. and pour some light vinaigrette on it and you have some a big meal. good luck. shelly, thank you. next question is from dira, she s on the phone from rockville, maryland. what is your question? caller: good morning. i needed a vice on how to stop overeating sweet, im not erweight, and i exercise regularly, but i love sweets. that s the only thing that kee me from eating healthy. kudos for you for caring about your weight. wehowed that you can be really skinny on the inside but still be fat on the inside, be it inflammation, high cholesterol. good news is you don t have to gi up on the sweets. i would say follow 90-10 food strategy. ifou go out of your way to just so you don t open up a pan doora s box. i think that knowing that you have it to look forward to will probably help keep you on a straight and narrow and eat healfully during the day. are you talking cookies? or can we have a slice of cake. i don t think portion is an issue here. because you don t have to worry about your weight. just keep i somewhat appropriate and keep it near the end of the day. joy bauer, great information. still to come, would you like a little merlot? beer and wine could be coming to a starbucks near you. 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thank you. coming up on the nate berkus show, he reveals simple changes show, he reveals simple changes you can make in each room of of bob ehrlich s 24 years in politics. in congress ehrlich voted with george bush 90% of the time, protecting the special interests. as governor, ehrlich cut education, increased college tuition by 40%, and vetoed an increase in the minimum wage. and after losing his election, bob ehrlich joined a lobbying firm and got paid $2.5 million to represent casinos and wall street banks. bob ehrlich 24 years of putting the special interests first. that of course is susan boyl the singing sensation from across the pond, she s going to be part of a star studded week of concerts. we are putting on thanksgiving week live on the plaza. also kanye west and the kings of leon. so if you re planning to come to the big apple for t thanksgiving holidays, be sure you stop by. it is going to be one heck of a week. i am excited. meanwhil coming up in this half hour, why facebook can actually be good for you. it seems that our lives are getting busier and busier and s easy to lose track of friends and family and really stay emotionally and physically connected and experts say that can be bad for your long-term well-being. this morning we have five simple things you can do to stay connected and potentially live a happier and healthier life and facebook can bone of them. you re smiling because there s a lot of background noise going on in our studio and that may be relating to one of our upcoming segments. but you need to share a beer or a glass of wine at your st starbuc starbucks. i guess you have to make a noise. it s not the clapper. as you can see in the mirror. we can see you killing him, brian. good morning. we had a weak wave of low pressure coming through until thlast couple of hours. that s nowñr pulling east. it did give us a few light showyrñ they re heading off to the eastern shore. we ll get sun breaking out and throughout the region by this afteoon it should become partly cloudy, highs reaching the low mid 60s. by dawn tomorrow we may get another round of showers moving through, this time to our south and may likely end midday tomo live healthier and happier staying connected. we ll tell you high right after this. it in powerful nuients that help cleanse and purify yr body. cranberries are the ninja fruit. wh-wh-whoa! ocean spray tastes good, good for you. like the cranberry, the pomegranate is a superfruit, prized since ancient times. he would know. 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[ male announcer ] fiber one chewy bars. when was the last time you joined a team sport or even hugged your friend? ourverybody busy lives it s easy to lose touch with your friends and family. we have the editor-in-chief of women s day magazine. so the bottom line is that a lot of us are not able to spend as much time, mainly as our mothers and grandmothers did fe to face with people, with our neighbors and our friends. and a lot of us are really talking with you c blackberrys and on our phones and on facebook. this was the main question that i wanted to tackle so i really dove into this issue and research shows that touch and human contact of course is still important, it s a primal need that we have toonnect with one another, not to mention the fact that it s the main way we discover who we are, is in relation to others. but the busy days, our travel, our living disconnected from our families, there s no question that facebook, any kind of social media does fill a void. and what we found with readers was they wanted to connect with their grandchildren, with their children w their lost friends. so it really has fled a void and it is good for your health. and we found some other surprising ways that being connected is good for you. but one of the things you talk about is book clubs and how there s a 50% lower risk of death in those who live more isolated lives? some of the things that people were thinking about is comparing this idea of face to face versus always talking in this way. is there any information about whether one or the other is better for your heart? long-term study has not we don t have enough data right now to say whether or notlectronic media is rlly going to affect us in a negative way. but based on our readers and our research, it s filling that void, it s getting people to be connected in a way they never could. they re happy to see the pictures of their families, they re happy to see the little video of the soccer game. something like a book club doesn t bring in a study that s quite interesting and basically what the sdy came out and said was that people with weak social connections are more at risk than people who don t exercise, who are obese or who eve smoke, that s how good connection is, and something like a book club or anything where you get together and have that interaction of course is important. you don t have to know everybody in the club, you could just know one person and each one of those people, a friend n bring a friend who brings a friend and all of a sudden you have a lot of people. also exercising in groups is a great thing to do. maybe you just invite people on your bloc even a team sport, encouraging our kids to get involved in a tm sport. that s as important as adults. you learn socialization, it will make your work harder, research shows again we saw a study from swen tha said that people who are more fit have more muscle tone. so joining a team sport is t bottom line. you also found that texting is found to boost serotonin. there is something to be said for happiness being passed on. you have have you a friend who s sharing something happen with you, research shows that that impactsour hapness level, too. it s kind of like the giving back or pay it forward kind of model. it does seem that you re communicating more, even with face time, when you ve got your phone or your blackberry, you re communicating with a lot of people all over the world. the problem is you have to manage in our daily lives. obviously you re not going to xt while driving, but if you have a quiet moment and you have a pleasant thought you want to share with a friend, you he 60 characters to do it. it s areat way to do it. sometimes we get texts that say take it as a virtual hug. but you also found that giving or getting a hug can be so important for your own health? 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[ male announcer ] this halloween, snickers satises. something s brewing at starbucks and it s not just coffee. at one of the it s locations in seattle, you can also order beer and wine along with your latte. reporter: this is definitel not your typical starbucks because just above the coffee selection you have wine and beer. it s a newix for a company that s nearly 40 years old. i love coffee i love tea repter: cappuccinos, frappuccinos, expressos and just plane coffee. america s love for this stuff has made starbucks one of the country s most influential chains, but now they re brewing somethinnew. that s right, wine and beer now on tap at the same place that s become synonymous with the coffee lture. for most folks, starbucks is a morning habit. more than 70% of its business comes before 2:00 p.m. starbucks is hoping an evening of beer and wine will give the company a bite of the after work market. definitely not what you would expect from starbucks. i look at it as a community gathering place, and youay want a glass of wine at night and i may want a latte. it s just an extension of the offerings we offer when people get together. reporter: it s carefully designed to give customers a feeling of a neighborhood bistro. if you look at how well a trend starbucks is in terms of cost, i think it may take people a while to realize that starbucks is a great place to go after work. reporter: recently starbucks has tried to get back to basics, even shutting down every store fo a few hours in 2008. how well will is hardcore coffee house it s good to have the best of both words, have your cldren news what they may. coffee and tea, that s it. i don t want to sit down in a coffee shop and dnk a glass of wine, i just don t. reporter: the company is also increasing it s commitment to sustainabili sustainability, so aot of the furniture here is made from recycled goods. don t expect this beer-wine concept to be played out at a starbucks near you. you can t actually buy alcohol here in the 4:00 in the afternoon, so right w it is coffee all around. all right, kristen welker, thanks so much. up next, the best halloween gadgets. but first this is today on nbc. [ male announcer ] martin o malley sworn in. inherits a billion-dollar surplus, low unemployment. o malley signs t biggest tax hike in maryla history. raids chesapeake bay fund to cover spending. ves raes to top aide business climate ranks 45th worst in the nation. now 200,000 jobs lost. o malley covers up jobs report that proved maryland s economy stalled. if re-elected, o malley will raise taxes again. whether he does, is up to you. today celebrates halloween is brought to you by snickers, this halloween, snickers satisfies. this morning on today celebrates halloween, high-tech gadgets gives your children nning around in the dark all hopped up on sugar, we have got the latest gadgets to keep them safe. good morning kathy, great to see you. you ve got some pretty awesome stuff here. you have got decorations that will impress any neighbor? remote control ghoulish decorations, i love this for any party. not only do the decorations have smoke, but now the bubble maker also h smoke, so when the bubbles pop, they re filled with smok these are awesome, i can t believe how much time and money people spend on decorating for halloween. and this mirror also has something you re scaring me. but this pops up with something crazy too. but we saw that in the queue. from decorations to keeping your kids safe and keeping track of them on hallowee wherever they r you put this locate you watch on them, then you can set up a force field in your neighborhood, if they go outside of that, it will send you a text message or an e-mail and you can go online and see exactly where they r. this is awfully cute. this is the mommy i m here, you put it on their tennis shoe and if they go more than 40 feet ahead of you, then an alarm will sound and show you where they r. and if you want to have a little bit of tunes. this speaker sped like a ghost and these are really light weight and they re just kind of fun for any costume that wants music, because they ve got candy wrappers as the housing. this is an evil tron. you can put it anywhere in your hoe, you hide nit a plant, and it makes these really evil sounds. people are walking around your house going what i that? i like to play practic jokes. and what s halloween without candy? candy is fantastic. you can actually upload a picture of your child and put it on candy. this is actually my son s face, you can do it on m&ms or you can do it on print candies. you can customize kaepds. and you can still get this before halloween? you can get them all year round. blood on the brains and then you eat them and if you re easting them, they love it. what does this taste like? it tastes like candy. that s awesome. i forgot to warn you, you need a little bite on the brain. and the shooting gallery, this is awesome. okay, what s this? you can actually bring the fun of a shooting gallery to your house. the gun ends upeing a lot of fun even without the gallery. really cool. you just shoot it like you would do in any gallery shooting situation. and the next thing that s pretty cool, halloweenou think about black cats. don t think about going out and getting a cat jt because it s halloween. black cats do keep evil spirits away. you can pull-up all of the cats that your town has for adoption. these two are on there. and they re from animal care control in new york and ty need homes. nice. you re beautiful. they have been here for like two hours, and they re calm kitties, so they need homes, guys. so you can go on and fillut the ap. and these are cats from all around the country? all around the country, there s 100,000 of them. so on your website, i m going to tell you where to get these. and would you like some brains? thank you very much. littleit. 65 degrees. we ll check the weather for you coming up. good morning. it is 9:57 on this tuesday, october 19, 2010. i m barbara harrison. an investigation near the pentagon is having a major effect on interstate 395. let sxd get more from steve. 395 northbound, they have just opened the ramp. here we are at washington boulevard. this was closed just momená agoí]4 u$ey have nowllowedx#u)ao ntinue only 395 north carolincarolin carolina northbound. you will encounter delays 39 # 5 uthbound. another remainder all lanes are open all the way down to çó springfield. you can use both directions of 395. barbara,ack to you. let s checkç(jrá here s tom. we ve had a little bit of rain passing through the region. right now the rain has prett much gone. cloud cover beginning to break up a littleit of sunshine breaking out. the morning rain just about over for the region and we ll have some sunshine breaking out for the rest of the day. afternoon highs should make it into the low to mid 60s. tomorrow morning, near 50 and cloudy and might have a passing shower through midday tomorrow. and partly cloudy thursday. small chance of a shower. sunny friday and saturday and cool. barbara? thank you, tom. coming up later on [ malannouncer ] need a better way to save for the things you want? meet pnc virtual wallet. it comes with a wish list, that helps you set aside money for the stuff tt really matters. just put ththings you want on your wh list. and contribute money when you feel like it. then, watch as you get closer to getting what you want. wish list is built to make saving a whole lotore fun. experience all the ways virtual wallet can help you save at pncvirtualwallet.com. pnc. for the achiever in us all. from nbc news, this is today with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. okay, everybody. hello, it is october 19th. it is not just booze day today, no, no, no. it is just boo-s day for halloween. halloween. and we, in honor of that, we have halloween and wine pairings. before we get to this, we should point out this morning wasn t like our typical morning. typically you and i are both in the makeup room around the same time, chatting, doing hair and makeup, you were held up big time, almost didn t make the show at all. i know. we were wondering. it was no big deal. it happens to most people every day. and all the years of commuting from connecticut, you hear about these tractorrailers that are overturned and traffic is comptely stopped. not even one lane open. that was us today. and it happened rht before we got it mu have beenithin a minute before because we were right at the exit. nothing weirder than listening on the radio and th re talking about you and you re sitting there with the tractor trailer. how long? one hour without moving. you couldn t even turn around and leave. you re stuck there. do you get frustrated in those situations? no, i m very zen. i m sure you are. what do you do? listen to music? i was still reading the newspapers and still reading the notes for the show, but i actually did not panic. that s the nice tng about leaving lots of what frank called lombardi time. vince lombardi, famous coach, that opens up this thursday ght, great, great broadway show. that s one of those boadway shows that you can take your husband, boyfriend, significant other to. and the beauty of that show is one of my favorite les ise were sitting, you, me and frank and the guy who was playing vince lombardi who is from the wonder ars . dan laura. he said i want you to be my next frank gifford. and frank was sitting next to us. that s one of the times you re going, oh my god, that s you. so anyway, lots of time and we made it and the ladies, we re very blessed in that sense. most people who have to sit in a line andait and be late don t have somebody waiting for them with to take care of us. do their hair and makeup, throw your spanx on you and this morning, because of that, they thought i had a rough morning. as if that wasn t enough, we decided to stack the table with even more. not that i drank it, but this is my job. okay. here we go. this is a jo this is interesting. they re taing about pairing, i don t know why, but candy with alcohol. wine not? wine not? so they say the good pairing is the candy corn with the chardonnay. right. go for it, hoda woman. okay. you do the sweet and this isn t that sweet, it? i don t know. weird? that s not go together. try this. this is a what is this? a margarita. lime daiquiri. lime daiquiri, of course it is, jonathan. and kittles. what are you doing? cutting back. no, that s good. yeah? that s good. i ll do the skittle with the thing. why are we doing that? the food network says it is a nice pairing. yes, the food network and they know. another weird pairing is we have a lovely intern here. what is your favorite name? kirstie. this is a trendy new thing that they there is a new trend in socks apparently. kirstie is wearing them. they re leather socks. they are leather. i don t know you re not supposed wear them that way. we re showing you two different although lady gaga would. but they re ather. here s my question. they cost how much to begin with? well $500? over $200. over $200. yes. the big sock is $288. they re pricey to begin with and then you cannot wash them. so you have to send them to the dry cleaners every time, right? that s going to add up. i guess it is a trendy catwalk kind of thing. right, off the runway. you re young and hip and beautiful. would you wear them? i cannot afford them. i m in college, so i would wear them if i had money to just don t you have a daddy who loves you very much. he does love me very mu but i don t think he loves me that much. thank you, honey. thank you very much. i guess socks are a new trend and they also have these other soks that, how muchre they? over $500. leggings. they re mohair. anyway, we don t have those on set but they re prizy. i don t know who is spending thatind o money on socks. donald trump. can you see donald in leggings? no. he s going to scotland. i want to see m in a kilt. i can picture that. yea i can picture real men in kilts. not with the little hat thing. no. nothing touches the lid. what is happening, hoda woman? starbucks is test driving something, you guys. we re used to having coffee at starbucks. starbucks is going to experiment with wine and beer. they re trying it out in a seattle locaton because i think what happens after 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 in the afternoon people don t go to starbucks because they alread had their coffee and they re done. they want to see if they can get another crowd after 2:00 and they re trying, test driving, again, wine and beer, dra beer and wine at their at one of their stores in seattle to see if it works. it started in seattle and it is all over the world, on every single corner now. i wonder if that would work. i think it would work. cas and i,ost afternoons, we like to go running down to old greenwich, a darling place there called the beach house and w have an iced tea at the bar and then run back. it is two miles back, two miles each way. and often i ve been seeing a trend now that there are people sitting at the bar wh their computers in front of them having a glass of wine. oh. so around 4:00 in the afternoon. probably make more money too. the problem is gtting a liquor license is not easy in a lot of these different establishments. that would be the other question if people could do it, if starbucks could get liquor licenses all over. hard to believe starbucks is even fallingon tough times. i know. but they need it. i remember they were doing something that said if you brought, like, a coupon back, you could g a cup of cofe, like a zoidiscounted cup of cof in the afternoon. that s the greatest. that s the greatest. we do that a lot. you re so happy. we do. it is easier to apologize to strangers than if i had hurt your feelings or if vice versa? yeah, i it doesn t surprise me. we have more trouble, they say, apologizing to our spouse, our mother, our best friends, than we do to mary smith who we bump into on the street or we do something like that. i wonder why do you think that is? why do you think it is easier to apologize to a franker than it is to frank? wen you think about it, aren t we much nicer to most people than we are to the people who are the most important in our lives? yeah, we re polite. they say that women apologe so much more than men that was an earlier study they did. i always find myself doing that, oh, i m sorry, i tell the cab driver, i didn t man for you to go this way, even though he went the wrong way but i m apologizing, i don t know if i told you a different attitude they say, hey, whoa, buddy, what are you doing? i find myself doing that a lot with people because you don t want them to feel bad, you know, for what they re doing. do you do that? whatakes we, as women, like that? i don t know. we want we care more. we want to keep the peace. we just d t look, if it is going to make him feel terrible, i ll say, look, i don t know if you heard me, i m sorry, but i wanted to go to the west side, not the east side. andthen i feel then i feel like he doesn t feel like he made a mistake, i feel like i apologized and everybody is happy. have you noticed with your new found stardom that she is an author, by the way, and her book is available. and it is doing very well. have you found that people feel like they have the right or to come up and pretty much say anything they want to you because i was in costco yesterday. see? and a lady goes, take off that coat. take it off. i go, okay. usually i do what people ask me to do. i take off. she goes, tu around. i m spinning around. she s like, you look so much bigger than i thought. look at her. no. that s what she said. and for some reason i sa thanks. like, why? i didn t know what to do. i was jacked up. i was upset. but people will do and say anything. wait a minute, she was saying you look bigger in person or on tv? i think she meant on tv. i was too confused by the whole thing. i think she meant i look bigger on tv. did she buy a book? no, she was not one of the book buyers. and she had a big old cart, see you later. bye, put my coat back on, i feel comfortable. my favorite one was that time i told you this story, we were down in the keys, where we go often, and there is this place down there called alabama jacks, i ve taken you to i love it. it is a it is like a harley-davidson dive place. it is s much fun. yes. and it is on a can there and all the bikers come in but it is fun. it is just a fun, fun place. i love mike and his mom theresa who own it. phyllis, excuse me, phllis. been there forever, been through every hurricane, looks the same before a hurricane and the same afterwards, you know? but ty have a band there, a fabulous band, were they there the time i took you? they weren t, but you were telling me about them. and they have cloggers, the women put on big dresses and they clog, you know? you know what clogging is where they wear the shoes and and one day we were there, and one lady clogged over to me, and it is a verb, she clogged right over and she goes, she was missing a few teeth, not that there is anything wrong with that, but she was, i remember it because she went she looked at me and she said you re a hell of a lot fatter on tv and she clogged right back. i said, thank you. is that what you say? what el do you say? nothing. nothing. you don t say anything. if you re bored tonight, and if you live in new york, go to the book review in huntington at 7:00. who is going to be there? i don t know if anyone will. you re going to be there. yes, i ll be there. is that sa? first of all, wasn t to make a correction, the leather socks don t need to be dry cleaned. they can be washed with a wet cloth. who is going to do that? just in case. not my style, just in case. and then people will be there tonight, hoda. mercedes wrote in, congrats, hoda, your book is kicking. go hoda, go hoda, go hoda, get your book, go hoda, hi kath, th s wh it says. what did she say? hi kath. all about said to hohoda. from twisted sister to broadway, dee snider is in the rock of ages . he s an absolute pussycat. we ll be right back. happy sunshine time! 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the guys were famous for their working man anthems like we re not gonna take it and i wanna rock, ow dee snider is headed o the great white way. he s actually there, hoda. he s already landed. and it is never going to be the same, right? absolute not. he s in this very cool great broadway show called rock of ages covering a lot of the 80s hits and a couple ofours too. and there for 11 weeks, huh? 11 weeks. you re a broadway thespian star now. if you told me i would have been tre 30 yearsago, i would have punched you. you re going tbe at broadway, no, i won t. i m at broadway, i ve been up and running for a couple of weeks now. not just 80s stuff, it is 70s and 80s, classic rock and heavy metal. you have reo speed wagon, styx, reigner, journey, and glam 80s metal bands, quiet riot, twisted sister, bon jovi, tons of great music. look atou doing choreography and everything. they made me with the mustache. the great thin with the show is there say lot of audience participation. they served drinks in the aisles, people are encouraged to sing. you ll love it. you don t even need to get up. this is green tea. you can sit there in the seat and just drink. do fights ever break out? i don t want to say it is not a violent show. it is the biggest party on broadway and sometimes people take advantage of the access to alcohol and on the weekends, they sometimes need a bouncer or two to make sure people aren t too disruptive and ask them to leave. you re a bona fide true star of the time, but meeting dee was, for me, like when i met alice cooper years ago, completely different. i don t want to ruin yur career, but so different from the image. you don t drink, never did drugs, didn t do any of the things people did back in the day. same woman for 34 years. and you love her. yeah, i m crazy about her. she was the one that put you through your whole act together, did your makeup, your outfits. hair, makeup, costumes. she s the 5 3 petite woman behind the monster, always, like, helping things come together. but being in this show is the is equivalent of being with a tyrannosaurus on the set of jurassic par there were people playing people from the 80s, he was actually there. these people were not even born then. it is crazy. but it is it is you ve done broadway, so you know. much higher broadway, high brow stuff, steven sondheim, you know what i m saying? you realize there is value to this music. it is a grueling schedule, though, this broadway thing. eight shows a week, six days a week, double matinees on the weekends. so it is like friday s show how is your voice holding out? not so good. but it is it is going pretty well. what difference does it make, you re singing the kind of stuff that you re just tearing me apart. i love it. you do what you do and i think it is great. here is the tough thing. if you were singing opera, it would be a problem. all the actors on the stage are broadway actors and they re real, traditional broadway singers from the diaphragm. i have to try to teach them to sing rock, they re having such trouble because rock is letting air out of a balloon at the top. that s what i m talking about, that comes naturally to you. very natural. and now you have how many children? four kids. and a grandkid. and a granddaughter. that s disturbing on many levels. why is that? twisted sister is a grandfather. you know yeah, i m a twisted grandfather. so many kids got,ou know i know. learned all kinds of stuff from watching you. i ve been watching you guys. you re twisted sisters too. you f right in. we love you, dee. we re going to come see you. you re there through through octer 23rd. okay. great to see you, dee. coming up next, is it true you attract what s within you? 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of course. egos, narcissism reigns supreme. is it hard to wrestle the milliaire guys down. they think theknow everything and you re, you re supposed to give them advice. i think you know a little about that. yes, it is true. this season it is about the women. it is a homage to the women. the millionairesses take over new york city and show us what it is like to find true love in this town. remember the hamptons, they would come to the hamptons to find love. she tried out for the show but dn t make the cut. we have judith reagan. one of my book editors. she s completely different dating than in the business community. like a marshmallow. you re engaged, i remember, at one point, you re not anymore. single now. i m back in the market. back in the trenches. let take some questions. ere is question one from someone. if you haven t had a serious relationship in a few years, does that make you more or less desirable? and she wants to kno where are all the single guys? it makes you more desirable because you re most likely going to be cleaned up. you don t have the baggage and left over debris and you don t have a negative resonance, if you go out with so many people, you go, like, there is nobody out there, i m so negative. cynicism. you have more optimism. men are everywhere. i was at e grocery store are men you want everywhere? 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[ wink! ] [ wink! ] it s beginning to look a lot like christmas santa baby. hurry down the chimney tonight okay, tory birch knows how to do it, huh? thank you, santa. bye-bye, santa. thank you, girls. ho, ho, hoda. we re book on this booze d with more of today. and we thought it was time we started thinking about christmas. we thought it was time to get stuff ready for underneath our trees. never too early, right? here with the neiman marcus catalog, the christmas catalog, which is everybody dream, dream christmas gifts. came in on on of the fantasy gifts, a great cycle with the tory birch detailing. we have got some more affordable things for you. that s $4500, right? it is. it s, it is, it is. ginger reader, tell us what we have here. ornaments, fifth annivsary of his and her gifts. $48, $5 from each ornament goes to big brothers, big sisters. a great organization. raises money f them. i like some of the choices. s that king tut? of course. we did sharpie puppies one year. d is that the tin man. he s a robot of some kind or another. all right. these look delicious to me. the are chocolate covered crisps. chocolate covered potato chips, salt and sweet. i can t. i live through you, hoda. dark chocolate too is really good. $19 a can, get set of thr for $55. it is an unusual gift and delicious, i think. salty sweet. i like that combo. i do too. delicious. good, enjoy. we have, you know, glitzy ipad covers, phone covers, and luggage tags. smug fun. i lost my phone in a cab last night and you ow you re digging through the handbag, can t find them, i think a little color would help. did you find your phone? i did. the taxi driver brought it back to me. see, that happens in new york. ugg boots are afavorite among so many people. these are great. earmuffs, assorted diffent colors, they re so cozy. to match. they re great. they feel wonderful. love that. how much? $75. i love them. i know. they should come out with these for your ipods so you can also look you never have to listen to anybody else ever again. look at these adorable little desserts. these are a set of four cheesecakes, $112, but they re made like packages, they can be a centerpiece for your christmas meal, or a party and then eat them and they re delicious if you want to try. can t eat sweets? what a shame. this is layered, several different flavors layered in there, but it is just great. okay. . never had better cheesecake. oh, no oh, no. so good. okay, this, i love these. this is from texas, but the horseshoe and the it is a set of three for $95. one says congratulations, one says good luck, one says thank you. it is a nice little thing for somebody who needs a little boost or a thank you or a congratulations. always need a great manicure kit. yes. and real indulgence, $150. that s a great gift. i think so too. yeah. this is a custom made pallet, which i like. it is. you can put it together and you have it engraved. i think there is one for each of you here. so thank you very much. those are very nice. and you can t go wrong with popcorn. it is great f. $48, three different lavors. and then a tin of neiman marcus chocolate chip cookies, $24, that s good. and back to celebrating our 50th anniversary of the his and her gifts, a great book from the past, you know, history of them where people found them that sort of thing. and always a little platterfor your christmas goodies, $35. something for everybody. ginger, thank you. you always think you have to get something really high end, but we have shown here there is something for everybody. there is. thank you so much. up next, something lots of women would like for christmas, a new coif courtesy of louis licari. 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[ female announcer ] make halloween the most fun night of the year. walmart has this candy for an average of 20% less than oth stores. save money. live bette walmart. walmart has this candy for an average of 20% less than oth stores. funny how nature just knows how to make things that are good for you. new v8 v-fusn + tea. e combined serving of vegetables and fruit with the goodness of green tea and powerful antioxidants. refreshingly good. all right, we love this segment. time for today s beauty and three fabulous fall hair makeovers. today an ivillage contributor louis licari is not only the stylist to the stars, he s a miraclemaker, baby, to so many women who trust their tresses to him, including the three you re about to meet, including me on many occasions. me too. the whole gifford clan. thank you. louis, again, so people need to transition from the summertime to the fall, right? because certainly you know the days are already shorter and just like you change your summer clothes, your fall wardrobe, you have to change your hair as well. really pretty in the summer, often looks just like, a little bit bleached out. bleached out, just inappropriate for the fall. come on. you can say it. trampy. you can say it. trampy can be fun. really, louis. 32-year-old carrie, let s listen to her story. hi, i m carrie, i ve been blond for as long as i can remember. i was dark a long time ago, it was not the rig color for me, i m in the mood for some chae. i want to go into the new season with a fresh color and i need lou expertise. please help. all right, so carrie needed a little work, right? aittle work. we did a big transformation on carrie. let s look at her before picture again and carrie is about to step out from behind this picture. all right, let s see the new you. step on out, carrie. oh, yeah. oh, i love that. dramatic. love that. we went from summer casual to autumn chic. i like it. carrie was hiding behind blond hair and hair extensions. in the before picture, look how thin it was at the bottom. it just looks see-through. inste dana cut her hair with a super chic bob. when you make your hair darker like i did here, makeure the nuances still show throughso it doesn t look opaque. it can t be monochromatic. this is dark enough that some of your highlights stillop through. and notice what it does to her eye color. all of a sudden, blue eyes pop. didn t even notice before. didn t even notice that before. let s go on to our next one. do you love? love kristen is 33 years old fromew york. let s listen to her story. i m kristen, i m a college professor. i stan in front of college udents for three hours a day with this hair. how do i expe them to listen to what i m talking about if this is what they have to look at. louis, you have to help me out. she needs you. the pressure is on. okay, so what were her issues? she started without nice blond hair in the beginning of the summer but the sun bleached it out, it went it a soft natural blond to a frosted blond on a young girl. so cute. how prty. all the beforeslook pretty. come on out. let s step around, kristen, and see how you look now. hey. i love that. that is so, so flattering. you look great. this is the perfect autumn color. what i did is i just took her hair color and warmed it up. so it is a warmer base color and a warm honey, golden caramel color. now this haircut is a great bob, but she updated her look with a sexy pixy. what is sexy is the texture, t layer. so cute. she can get ready in minutes. out of the shower. i love it. you got to love. i le it. over the zbloon ymoon. yes, my students are going to love it too. soft earth tones. 21-year-oldamie is our next lucky lady. she is from staten island, new york. let s look at her story. here s the deal with me. my hair has been every single color possible. it has been red, it s been pink, it s been platinum blond, black, everything. i work in radio. obviously no one really sees me, however i m at industry pty and people are looking at my hair like what is this girl inking in her mind? what i need from you, louis, is to help me get this hair under control. i like this. what is this girl thinking in her mind? she s so cute. staten island. this is before the picture. she needed some work, right? yeah, oky. you see her hair is very heavy, overwhelming. she put in white surfer she put in suer stripes. let s see what she s thinking in her minnow. come on out, jamie.jamie, we lo the first thing is we gave her long layers throughout, which got rid of the flatness and immediately gave her the bounce back to h hair. the biggest tip is the white frosted highlights are a no-go. that s a beauty 911. get rid of it. so what i did is i made it this liht golden brown, added slight shadow at the roots. they get brighter on the ends. she looks beautiful. this front layer, she c wear it as a soft side bang like she has now or she can wear it behind her had ear and even in a ponytail. jamie, whado you think? i absolutely think it is amazing. i look so sophisticated. hello. you guys, thank you. louis, great job. thank you. we l see you on friday for ambush makeovers . can t wait. homemade costume ideas for the tiny trick-or-treaters after this. 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. hey. dinner. 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[ male announcer ] we take the time for our cheese to mature before we bake it into every decious cracker. because at cheeit, real cheese matters. i do2 more inspections than the government requires. and my fresh, all-natural chickens are never given any hormones or steroids. .and no candy, glady [ clucks ] [ male announcer ] perdue. extra inspections. extraordinary chicken. if you re short on time, mey or worse, ideas, we have help to get your little one all suited up for halloween. ivillage editor is here with some ideas. they re so sweet. we re going to bring out sofia and mike. they re mom tested, they re going to work for you. look at this. rapunzel and d is holding her up. all less than $15 to create. sofia, sit up, you can see her peeking out. we made a yellow wig out of yarn. this say piece of cardboard we painted up to look like a castle and dad carries her on his shoulders around town. your daughter andusband look adorable. yes. next up, we have emmitt with little baby ellen dressed as the every mom has aicture of their baby on their iphone. this is a costume come to life. it is a costume an transportation in one. if you have cardboard and black paint, this costume is free. all you need to do is look at how cute is mitt. a little bit of duct tape as the border and then attach it better than we did, just for this. not every kid is like emmitt and kicks the crud out of stuff. t is very cute. bye, emmi. a bathtub coming up, hoda. so cute. angelina. angelina and he mom, we love this costume this is another costume and transportation in one. so cute. mom gets to be comfortable. mom gets to be comfortable. your daughter gets to ri around in the neighborhood, can run out to the hou to trick-or-treat, run back in. if you live in a cold climate, she can actually pull a blanket on under there. sure. this is just the wagon you have around your house that you pull your how did you make that? that s cute. that s a cane from a party store, a cup and some wrapping and, again, if you have any questions about how to make these costumes, go to ivillage.com and we have a step by step. that s adorabldorable. thanks, guys. now we have our breakfast trio, christina, john and alex, a doughnut, egg and bacon. not the healthiest breakfast but a cute one. this one came from our ivillage community. i think the bacon thing came from lady gaga, when she dressed like meat. yourid wants to be lady gaga, this is your answer to that, right? this is all three costumes made the same way, all two pieces of cardboard that we sandwiched tether and wesed fabric to connect one to the other. we just duct taped it. the egg center is a hole we cut out, we put felt in back of it, but you can use the yellow t-shirt, scrapbook paper. very clever. the doughnut is this is all stuff you have around your house. if you want more infoe on these ideas, go to our website, we have it on there, klgandhoda.com. and also on ivilge.com, a great britain gra great website. up next, hoda and i head into the kitchen for a little competition. but first this i today on nbc. he may be a glutton for punishment on the food network. but now hecombines his etiquette into the new book glutton for pleasure . there is a fine line between pleasure and punishment. i like to walk that line. your mom had something to do with this. tell us. she gave birth to you. she gave birth to me, there you go. she thought these kind of things matter. this etiquette i talk about in my book is the kind of etiquette your mother never taght you, the way to enjoy dinner parties, not invite your boss or future mother-in-law, ways to set up your kitchen so when you walk in, you re cooking right away. most peopleave taken out their cutting boards and knives and utensils, my dinner is done. okay. now, onions are a problem anyway becau people i tear up like crazy with onions. do you? they can make you cry. when i entered the his summer i tried to break or establish six guinness world records for my show glutton for punishment, i broke a record for 30 years, the fastest way to peel a pound of onions. how quickly did you do it? that would give it away. it is ging to air. it is still airing, okay. how did you do? did you use cold water or anything? no. we tested all sorts of different strategies for tearing. bread in the mouth is the best one, unless you want to wear a snorkel. what other records did you attempt to break? largest bowl of salsa, most single granz of riins rice. look at the salsa. oh, my gosh. what is this one? single eggs cracked in an hour with one hand, most onions peeled, most pizzas made in an hour. okay. this is exciting. what did you do this summer? what do you do torelax? we did it with liquid. we re going to have a little competition since you re very competitive. it is us two versus you, right? that s right. what are we goingto do? we have two onions, you re splitting that. why do we have two knives and you have one cleaver. we want your cleaver. okay, go on. we re gng to peel. peel clean. an onion. okay. just peel, not chop. we don t have all day. then eight single grains of rice with a pair of chopsticks and back here, crack the egg with one hand. ready. what is it? go. nice, you re good. okay. go, kathie. go. wait! g over here! i need a little help. do you eat it? it nicely. go back and crack the egg. go, go. wait, you re using two hands. that s cheating. oh! sorry, sorry. what happened? wait, wait, wait. sorry. she s still peeling her onion. i wanted it to look nice. anyway, you re amazing. what s wrg? what is the difference? what? i like ours. now we ll see who can make the ftest omelet. thank you so much. we really appreciate it. come back tomoow, w re going have one of the stars from entourage on with us. he s a very naughty boy. yes, he is. and and yy cohen has the 411. all the buzz. sorry for the mess. this is so bad.