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we ll tell you how she got out and how police finally caught her, on today, october 21st, 2010. good morning, everyone. welcome to toy on a thursday morning. i m matt lauer. i m ann curry. good morning. president obama is in the midst of a four-day long campaign stay, the longest of the season. and his focus is out west, and it could be the best chance democrats have to retain control of the senate. his message is focusing on women vote. do they have the key who will win on election night? straight ahead. in this day and age, you would think people would be lining up to get any job. when it comes to being the police chief in mexico s most dangerous towns, no one wanted the position. guess who decided to take it? a 20-year-old college student and mother. find out why she agreed when no one else would, coming up. here s a question for you. do you watch glee? yeah. a lot of people do. one of the most popular, set to air in the family hour and at 7 cloak and is it too racy? a lot of people think it is too racy for teenagers. there are other videos that might indicate some of that you re describing. first, the top stories of the morning, natalie morales. welcome back. thank you. good morning to you all. good morning, everyone. we begin with new and chilling details about a terror plot last year, targeting dallas, a plot that ended with a jordanian man being sentenced this week to 24 years in ison. evidence in the case has now been released by prosecutors. reporter: his anti-american diatribe lasts nearly 6 1/2 minutes, a home video he hoped osama bin laden would see, at one point saying the date of the blessed strike, september 11, was a day of celebration for us. let us make another date become a celebration for us history will mark. a short time later, smadi drove to a dallas skyscraper in a truck he thought was loaded with 550 pounds of explosives. instead, the vehicle and fak bombs inside were decoys given to smadi by undercover federal agents who had been tracking him since he wrote anti-american postin on the internet. thank goodness he was found, thank goodness we were able to successfully investigate and put together evidence. reporter: an fbi agent was by smadi s side when the jordanian national tried to trigger the fake bombs in 2009. he refused earplugs because he said he wanted to hear the blast. his target, the 60 story fountain building in dallas was filled with thousands of people. the government called the 20-year-old ice cold, ready to commit mass murder. in cou this ek, smadi apologized for his actions. he ll now spend the next two decades in prison. nbc news, los angeles. tota is recalling 740,000 cars in the u.s. including lexus, afl lvalon and other mod to fix brake fluid problems. they have called tens of millions of cars world-wide nce last year. wall street keeps its focus on earnings. at the new york stock exchange, good morning to you, trish. good morning, natalie. all about earnings. investors are really hungr for good news on the earnings front. they did get a little after the closing bell from the tech sector, netflix and ebay recording stronger than expected results. keep an eye on technology today. the other thing to watch, the other companies that will have a bisway on the marke include caterpillar and mcdonalds. these companies not just on domestic sales, but international sales, they re a really good barometer of the overall international economy right now. thank you. we ll beatching you. game 5 in the champiohip series, giants up 3-1 after beating the phillies 6-5 and and 7-2 win by yankees and gam 6 in that series, tomorrow night. from the playoffs to poodles, you might call in a canine poodle parade in pennsylvania and some trick dogs put on a show wednesday for spectors in philadelphia. that is talent right there. there you go. 7:05 now. how do they hold on, do you think? those dogs are born with posable with rhythm. they re bor with rhythm. i m not sure i d call that rhythm. anyway oddly, you know, it wl be raining cats and dogs ah! we ll be stepping in poodles. do the weather. i couldn t re and some of those swers may move right along the maryland/pennsylvania border later this afternoon. elsewhere we ll have these clouds over us beginning break up by this afternoon with increasing sunshine. chilly with 50 degrees. highs, though, with the sun returning and a blustery northwest wind lat today. clear tonight. very chilly tomorrow. afternoon highs near 60 with sunshine on sunday. sunny saturday. a bit milder on sunday. could get rain fst part of that s your latest weather. al, thanks. now, the fall-out for the voice mail left by anita hill by the wife of justice thomas. she wants an apology for allegations made against her husband 19 years ago. with the story, good morning. reporter: good morning. surprising voice mail requesting an apology by anita hill opened a deep wound from her husband s confirmation hearing 19 years ago. anita hill did not want to revisit the feud with terrence thomas and his wife. i am on my way to teach my clas and i don t want any comment and i like everybody to get out of the street because i don t want anybody to get hurt. reporter: now a tea party activist, guini ginni thomas le voice mail. thomas says she meant it as an olive branch. hill and her allies call it inapproprie, saying sheill not apologize because she told the truth. it dredges up, you know, 19 years of what s happened and it s reay unfortunate that we have this bizarre behavior on the 19th anniversary of what was a tragic experience for professor hill. reporter: it was neay two decades ago. a supreme court confirmation hearing that would forever change the way america vws charges of sexl harassment. he would turn the conversation to discussion of sexual matters. it is a high-tech lynching for uppy blac. reporter: a searing experience for all involved, including virginia thomas as her husband wrote three years ago in his book, my grandfather s son. it hurt me to know they were being blared around the world and virginia shared that pain with me. reporter: since his confirmation, clarence thomas has been the least vocal of the justices. but his wife is outspoken and unusually partisan for a supreme court spouse. a high profile fund-raiser for the tea party movement and other conservative causes. washington is sick, it s corrupted. there s a bble over it. reporter: her sharp cricism of president obama and refusal to disclose heronors have gotten attention. 11 days ago on the front page of e new york times, that story appeared on the 19th anniversary of her husband s senate showdown with anita hill. that same morning, virginia thomas called hill s office. i don t know whether the story, you know, had anything to do with provoking her to call, but it s an interesting coindence. reporter: the controversy interrupted the secluded life hill now leads at brandies university. as far as we re concerned, the matter is moved past that. before learning virginia thom plas was a caller and not a prankster, the university called in the fbi. now, the fbi says there is nothing to investigate because no crime was committed. so we are left with a story about the deeply personal and long lasting effect after public humiliation, years after. that s right. andrea mitchell, thank you so much for explaining it all to us this morning. it is now 7:10. here s matt. with 12 days left until the mid-term elections, president obama is in the middlef his longest campaign swing yet. white house correspondent chuck dd has details on that. good morning. the president is out west trying to help democrats hang on to relinebly blue states with the house on the brink for democrats. the white house s hope for any sort of quote victory on election night is simply saving the sete. that begins and ends with senate seats out west. the president began his four day western campaign swing in portland, oregon, a state where democrats could be in trouble. nationally, if they win this election, the chair of the republican campaign committee promised to pursue the exact same agenda that they did before i took office. reporte this trip is the white house s attempt to build a western firewall, to protect the democratic majority in the senate. if t partsy can hold washington california and nevada, the republicans cannot win back senate control. as part of that strategy, the president plans toocus on women. toy, auing in new reports his policies helped women get through the recession. we know we have a lot of work to do but the economy is growing again. reporter: the white house denies publicly the focus on the economy is political. but with democratic senator patty from washington and barbara boxer from california, it s not hard to make the connection. according to the latest wall street journal poll, women are supporting democrats in greater numbers than men but women are not as enthusiastic. just 50% of women say they re more enthusiastic this year, while as62% of men say they are. the president was in pennsylvania tryg to fire up democrats and seems to have worked. both parties acknowledge pat toomey s lead over democratic joe sestak has nearly vanished. wednesday night, the two disagreed over government bailouts and social security. the most heated exchange was over federal funding for abortion. the extreme view is the view held by the tiny minority in congress in pennsylvania and american society that believes there should be no restrictions whatsoever, taxpayers should fund abortions as joe sestak advocates. i voted against taxpayers funding it and you know it, congressman. when you re being dishonest, joe, i will call you on it. may i have my time back? go ahead. i voted against it. joe is either seriously misremembering or simply being dishonest. in fact, both men are right and both men are wrg. joe sestak voted for the health care law that did not include federal funding for abortion but congressman stak did not vote for the so-called stupak amendment which was what was added to the health care law before the second time congressman sestak ted. at this point, matt, i turn it over to you to figure out from both candidates where they stand. thanks, pal, for that. i appreciate it. chuck todd in washington this morning. thank you very much. as chuck just mentioned, the senate race in pennsylvania, one ofhe tightest in the nation, both candidates. democratic congressman joe sestak and republican pat toomey are with us this morning. mr. sestak, we will begin with you, okay? great. thank you. will go past the funding on abortion issue and move to this race in general. it s seen as somewhatf bellwether on the eastern coast for what might happen to democrats across the country. a pollster in your state said this about the race. this is ideological trench warfare. is there no middle here. is that the way you see it? actually, not. you saw last evening when sarah palin, who has endorsed congressman toomey, someone congressman toomey has called a spectacular governor, someone who is ver extreme, in fact, dick armey said congressman toomey was the founder, father of the tea party movement. we have someone really extreme that belves forxample corporations should pay no taxes and that buying american, he says, is actually an unfortunate tendency. on the other hand, in the military, after 31 years, what we breed aren t liberals. we don t breed conservatives, we breed problem solvers. i had to go to washington the year the recession began and actually fix the mess congressman toomey has left behind by doubling our debt. you mentioned sarah palin a second ago. last night in the debate a number of occasions, you used the name christine o donnell in the same sentence with mr. toomey. you re trying to do some labeling re. christine o donnell is not runninin pennsylvania, mr. sestak, she s rung in delaware. why do you keep trying to draw her into this race? well,ecause when congressman toomey was a lobbyist for clubs for growth, a wall street founded firm, actually called club for shrinking by many, he went after with personal attack ads, mainstream republicans. if that senate continues to get people like a team toomey, o donnell, toomey, someone who is actually believes you should kick out of your own party mainstream republicans, how s he going to work with the rest of us. that extreme view that brokes no defense, we can t have in the senate that s already pretty broken. it s going to go into a deep freeze if conessman toomey were to get there where he actually wants to kick out mainstream republicans of his own party. you have a bit of a problem re. mr. toomey spent 10 years in congress and yet he has managed to retain, not been labeled as a washington insider. you spent three years in washington and peoplere calling you a washington insider. how di that happen? actually, not in pennsylvania, as you well know, from the president on down,hey tried to have me sit down in the primary when they endorsed the establishment in washington and harrisburg, also. they said, hey, sit down, don t run against senator specter. i m talking to you now, matt, because i bucked the party. i ll always be an independent, like i was in the military, i ll always side with pennsylvanians what s needed for them. these are tough problems from immigration to how do we have an energy policy to how do we compete with china. all congressman toomey seems to say, let s go back to the past which got us into this mess. let me move on, congressman sestakthank you for your time. i want to move to the republican candidate in this race, former congressman pat toomey. w about you. good morning. you had a six point race not lo ago, most polls say that evaporated and it s a dead heat. what ppened? actually, it s a close race. i need to check you on something. you said i served 10 years in congress, thas not true. i pledged to serve no more than three terms in the house and i served three terms and 11th the house. i should have said almost. i apologize on that you have a good deal of backing from the tea party. dick armey, one of the organizers in that has told the story. said when george w. bush backed arlen specter, aoderate republican over you, back in 2004, you being a fiscal conservative, that the tea party was born. are you happy with that description? well, i think, you know, dick armey is entitled to his opinion about that. here s what s really going on, right? the tea party movement is a group of ordinary americans very worried about this country s future. they see too much growth in government, too much spending, a staggering amot of debt and they re worried out the future of o country. i have been fighting against too much spending when i was in congress, i ve been worried about the level of debt, ve been supporting a free enterprise system aong time. i m very grateful to have the support of the tea party movement. when you have been critical of mr.estak for endorsing president obama s stimulus plan, $29 billion of that stimulus money went into pennsylvania and created jobs there. would you have turned that money down? i think that stimulus bill absolutely did not work at all. they told us the unemployment rate went go to 8%, it went to 10. joe sestak didn t just vote for that stimulus bill, voted about everything down the pike. he lies about my background because he can t defend this record voeting with nancy pesi, cap and trade, government health carend the only thing is they don t go far enough for him. joe is outside the mainstream of pennsylvania and why he has a problem here. you picked up an endorsement from the senate race from sarah palin, mr. sestak mentioned earlier, do you like that endoements. will that help you? i have eorsements all across the country and across pennsylvania and independents and democrats. joe sestak can t defend his own record so he want to run against somebody se. he s not going to be able to get away with that. you will win this race? yeah, we will win. thank you for your time. i appreciate it. 19 minutes after the hour. here s ann. thanks. it was a job south of the border no one else wanted, the police chief of a mexican border town where drug wars are raging. you d never guess who just stepped up to accept the position. here s nbc s mark potter. reporter: a twenty-year-old college student and mother might be the bravest woman in mexico these days or as some worry the moos fool hardy. in a violent region overrun by drug traffickers she has agreed to become the police chief of a tiny town. in a news conference, she said, i accepted because i lik the project. i want to cooperate. i want to live with my people, my family, my community. but the town mayor sitting by her side said it was a j no one else wanted. it is just down the road from warez juarez, mexico from el paso texas and considered the most dangerous city in the world because of all the murders there. 280 last year alone. most people by now have witnessed a killing and execution, body found in alley or ditch or street. i think they re traumatized. reporter: other villages nearby have become ghost towns, residents pushed out by traffickers. this woman says she is too young and inexperienced to be police chief but she says she won t be intimidated and wants her son to grow up in a safe town. she also says she won t fight drug trafficking, leaving that to other authorities and instead, will consecrated on crime prevention in a region whe crime is out of control. for today, mark potter, nbc news. just ahead,ew details on the sexual harassment scaal involving brett farve, how he s now met with nfl investigators and the woman who allegedly received suggestive texts and photos has lifeguaawyered up. sync: i did as ged my propertyt. woman 1 syi didn t owatrnor man 3: he worked for ak 10 billn doanother bamillion.apsed.axers7 h big s don t need help. middle class marylanders do. h big s don t need help. bob ehrlich s 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maryland state trooper is recovering this morning after being struck by a hit-and-run driver on the beltway in bethesda. the trooper stopped to help a driver o a passing incident when he was struck. the drive kept on going. no word on whether any charges haveeen filed thou. we ll take a break and come back and look at our weather forecast and traffic right after this. heh heh heh heh! [ gasp ] [ sigh ] hurry in to dunkin donuts for 50 munchkins or a dozen donuts and get a free trick or treat bag. good news. the earlier accident blocking the freeway has been clearedut 395 jammeded at its length. if you were planninging a trip along the capital beltway, very heavy as you leave brad dck road, but lanes are open. tom, back to you. thanks, ashley. we do have cloud cover that s beginning to break up a little bit this morning. we ought to climb into the mid topper 60s by mid afternoon with increasing sunshine. sunny and cool tomorrow. warmer for the weekend. sarday into sunday. joe? this afternoon on nbc 4, a scary good time on ellen. women are charged 40%more fh insurance as men. domestic vionce is treated as a pre-existing condition in eight states. women are abused by their husbands and then by their insurance companies. and last year they tried to end our coverage for mammograms and other preventive services. well i m proud to say i got the law chged. m barbara mikulski. i approve this message so you ll know that being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition. 7:30 on a thursday morning, the 21st of october, 2010. i see smiling faces on the reccrec - rocker fe plaza. inside studio 1a. matt lauer with ann curry, filling in for meredith this week. we re talking about open enrollment for health insunce. the cost has gone up significantly and many people discovering they re paying more in 2011. what can we do to low our costs? something people don t like to think about? there are statistics people spend more time planning a vacation or choosing a cell phone plan tn they do on health benefit options. not a good idea in this economy, matt. we ll talk about that also. a police officer in missouri in need of a new windshield aftehis vehicle was attacked by a chimpanzee. that will leave a mark. coming up, more on the rampage and how the chimp was eventuall captured. look at that. a pretty strong guy. you may love them but are shows le glee, too racy for children? what to do if your 6-year-old wants an ipad. advice on what s age appropriate and what s not. first, new details on the nfl s investigation of suggestive text messages he allegedly sent to aets employee. reporter: good morning. brett farve himself has officially met with investigators. we want to know what happened. d he in fact send her nude pictes and voice mails and invite her to his hotel room. she hires a lawyer as brett farve tries to focus on football. that s a league issue, i ll have to leave at that. reporter: at a team conference wednesday, brett farve stayed on message. once again, ed, you know, i refer that to them. i just know that my focus is on green bay. once again, that s a league issue. reporter: that is the ongoing nfl investigation into his alleged sexting scandal with this former maksim model who appeared in playboy, too. jenn sterger met farve in 2008 when she worked as sideline reporter for the new york jets. he was the quarterback. he got intested and started leavg her suggestive voice mails. i m going back to the hotel. just chill. i ll be in the buiing for a couple of hours. love to have you come over tonight. reporter: in addition to messages, she was reportedly sent tts with nude photos of a man s private parts and been paid for the material. they haven t been able to verify the authenticity of photo or voice mails. farve is a father of two and grandfather. his image is a league staple. until now, was pristine, with lucrative endorsement deals. sterger, who now hosts a cable sports show, w t comment but she just hired a lawyer. there are two possible reasons she hired a lawyer, number one, the nfl is investigating in a high profile investigation, it s nice to have a lawyer. number two is that she might be considering a lawsuit against brett farve or the jets for sexual hassment. reporter: sterger s manager says there hav been no discussions about a financial settlement and they re still deciding whether she will meet withhe nfl. farve already met with the league this week. with everything swirling, he still kept it light wednesday, joking about his age. i look old, gray and weary, but crows feet and all that stuff. the nfl is digging deeper information here. the website that first broke is story with the photos and voice mails now reports the same nfl investigator who interviewed brett farve this week just reached out to them, asking for the source of their materials, but, matt, that website, deadspin says they won t give that up. thanks. appreciate it. let s get a check of the weather from good morning. i m tom kierein. it is mostly cloudy now around the region and it s a chilly morning. we re just near 50 degrees. but by noontime it should hit the low 60s. mid afternoon, increasg sunshine. a blustery northwesternwind. we ll bottom out near 40 tomorrow. tomorrow s highs, upper 50s to near 60. milder weather moves in for the weekend. may hit low 70s on sunday. that s your latest weather. now back5tt to ann. now to a chimpanzee who got away from his owner and got away on tape. the chimp wreaked havoc, trying to get in one house and pounding on vehicles and even tangd with the cops. the 300 pound chimpanzee escaped from its owner and ran rampant through a kansas city neighborhood. suko, t chimpanzee is lovingly called sue by her owner. but on tuesday, sue scared her neighbors. the chimpanzee comes out of nowhere, and i m thinking, get to the house. reporter: sue also made a house call. really loud, we re like, what s going on, lookinghrough this window and the next thing he comes over here and tries to open up the door. he does and opens it up and starts doing this. i ran in and locked the door real quick. jumpe on the car, looked through the window and started punching the sunroof. he s a smart monkey, smiling and laughing and starts pointing at us and gets down and starts running and ran and jumped to tanya s car and opened up her door and she got out. reporter: tanya s car wasn t the only one damaged. after phing a tra can down the street, sue climbed ono a police car. the officer jumped inside for protection, and, pow, sue smashed in the windshield. the dashc ctured sue s rampage before giving up on the police car and running into a field. animal control fired a tranquilizer shot. psewas not hit but she ran for the trees. her owner was able to calm her down and get sue under control. sue s owner said he locked the chimpanzee in a semi tractor-trailer parked in a vacant lot and somehow sue escaped and he was cited because in kansas city, it sllegal to have a chimpanzee in city limits and soon sue will have a new home at the kansas city zoo, where she belongs. thanks. the rising cost of health insurance, why you could be shelling out a lot more for your health coverage next year. 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[ bleep ]. really dramatic-looking sky out there at this hour. 51degrees. we ve got a forecast coming up on this thursday, the 21st of october. good morning. i m joe krebs on news 4 this morning. jury selection could wind up for thman accused of killing washingtonian chandra levy. kwan decay is already serve time for two similar attacks. well, virginia is raising the speed limit on nearly 700 miles of highway. instead of 65 miles an hour, you ll be able go 70. it s all to ease congestion. it includes haymath, i-95 south of fredericksburg and i-81. the changes would be in effect by the end of this year. we ll take a break and come back and look at our weather anour 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. heh heh heh heh! [ gasp ] [ sigh ] hurry in to dunkin donuts for 50 munchkins or a dozen donuts and get a free trick or treat bag. good morning. it s a chilly morning. temperatures around the region are only near 50 degrees. the cloud cover breaking up now. we ll have increasing sunshine with a blustery northwest wind. near 60. how s the traffic, ashley? all earlier accidents now gone around the capital beltway. here s the pace. heavy leading to college park. silver springs still very heavy. germantown toward the beltw, lanes are open but very slow. this afternoon on nbc 4, a scary good time on ellen. we re back now. 8:00 on a thursday morning. the 21st day of october, 2010. kind of an overcast day in the northeast. we have a really big crowd of nice people gathered on our plaza, one man doing a pantomine thing, saying you re engaged. is that it? you re marrd? cool. talk to you in a second meanwhile, here they are, newlywed couple or newly engaged couple? newlyweds. neywed. there you go. i m matt lauer in with ann curry while meredith is taking time off. we ask these questions a the time, what is the approiate age for our children to do certain things? for example, what about watching the very popular show, glee, about high school. is it for high schoolers, children s younger than teenagers? what about shows like hannah montana, do they feature what about technology? what s the right age to use certain high-tech gadgets, we ll talk about that in this half hour. we will meet a woman who made a very bold decision and battling cancer and decided to have a head shaving party and didn t want her little girl to see her hair fall out while going through chemo. sheas very emotional but taking charge the only way she could. a lot of parts of cancer is going to the doctor, but hard to talk about the emotional changes and dr. nancy will speak on that. and every year, we throw a heck of a party around halloween. this year, no exceptions. if you re in the area, resup, join us on the plaza for our annual costume contest. that s coming up. there a blast from the past. oh, no. that s the first one. there s a problem with that. it lasts forever! happy halloween today. why the way, a little piece of business. the economy is in trouble, a lot of people are hurting. but remember we had the neiman marcus christmas book on. one of the big items was the 2011 chevy convertible, 111 made, $75,000 apiece. when they went on sale, all 100 sold how long? 180 seconds? three minutes. you got to be kidding me? 100 of them sold in 3 minutes. $75,000 a pop. oh, my gosh. somebody has some change. all right. let s get a check of the news, shalwe? we have natalie morales at the newsdesk. good morning. president obama campaigns in washington state and california today where democratic senators arin tight reelection races. the president is now focusing on women voters as democrats struggle to preserve their senate majority. in last night s senate debate, joe sestak and republican pat toomey portrayed each other as extreme and out of touch with voters. the fbi has released chilling evidence in the plot to blow up a dallas skyscraper. videotape reveals would be bomber smadi was more beloved to him than his own parents. smadi from jordan even took a photo of the office building he bombed that turned out to be an fbi decoy. he pleaded guilty and sentenced this week to 24 years in prison. wednesday marked six months since the deep water horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and triggered the worst offshore oil spill in history. it polluted the gulf of mexico. a judge raised bail monday for the missing mother of a girl calling her a flight risk, and saying she wrote a misleading letter. and they released a photo of her stepdaughter, last seen in public more than three weeks ago. a kidnapped worker was released and in good health by his captors. local leaders negotiated the release and no ransom was paid. a harvest of goo health as first lady,ichelle obama picks veggies from the white house garden. the big stars were the sweet potatoes, one of them weighing more than four pounds. that is a sweet potato. good morning. here we ve got the cloud covering breaking up. we ve got sunshine coming back. it s still rather chilly. right now, 54 at national airport. later today it ought to make it into the upper 60s. we ll have sunshine and a few clouds coming through. overnight tonight, clear and chilly. by dawn tomorrow, near 40. sunny on friday with a blustery wind. highs near 60. warming up ovethe weekend. we have a cutie rht here. what s his name? his name is jack. and you have one on the way. congratulations. oregon, the number one ranked team has a big game tonight, not to play favorites, but,o ducks. coming up, tking about singing and dancing that airs at 8:00. but is glee too rac for our children? coming up after this. 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[ndistinct shouting ] another day another dollar daylight comes [ dogsarking ] i m on my way another day another dollar working my whole lifaway another day anothedollar [ sniffs ] morning. you got in pretty late last night. dad, i m not sixteen anymore. ill, it was late. well. you re not gonna have to worry about that anymore. yeah, why s that? todd s a luc man. the best part of wakin up. that s what i told him when we talked last week. .is folgers in yourup man: everybody knows you should save for retirement, but wh happens when you re about to retire? woman: how do you go from saving to spending fidelity helped us geto this point, and now we re talking about what comes next. man: we worked together to create a plan to help our money last. woman: so we can havthe kind of retirement we want. w, you know how this works. just stay on the line. oh, yeah. fidelity investments. turn here. michelle. we re back now at 8:10 with parenting today. when is it okay for your child to watch certain television show, say for example the popular show, glee, it has dancing and airs 8:00 in the evening, so-called family hour but is it really a good show for everyone. t from weekly magazine and the psychologist and contributor to health guru.com, good morning to all of you. good morning. this show has a lot of buzz, glee, let s start there. 8:00 ur, singing dancing, high school students, is it a family show? glee, there s a misperception about it. it is a fily show but a family show for the middle to upper teenagers in the family and adults. it s a very sophisticated, very racy satire about life in high school. it s not high school musical. what is the target audience for the show. what do the producers think the target for the show is? i think upper teens, 17 really, 18-49 is who the want to reach. 18-30 who is they re speaking to. if you re the parent of a 12, 13-year-old out there andhey say all my friends are watching glee, jeff, this is one of those opportunities for good parenting, you have to sit down and watch the show and make an individual decision. as a matter of fact, the producers of glee have said that. they want the parents to sit down with their kids and explain some of the more adult situations and even the satire it seems a l of adults are not picking up. my family, i have a 7, 8-year-old, 17-year-old, and they all watch glee. no problem with the younger ones watching glee ? no. i sit dn and watch it wh them. of course, i have to have a shot of scotch to watch it. if a parent decides the show is not age appropriate for their child, that 12, 13-year-old, do they owe tir child and explanation as to why? they should talk to them about it but shouldn t make a big deal about it. the re you put it down, the more they re going to watch it. if you want like colombntraband. exactly interor substitute something else they can watch. glee is not a y7 show, like ike harley would fit into that group. how do you think parents would handle that situation. that s an interesting case. those shows on nickelodeon and disney channel have teen stars much older than a lot of their fans, when they re 17, , 19 years old, they will engage in professional or personal behavior outside the show. you have to explain to the kids. provocative behaviors and videos, as we ve seen with miley cyrus. we re finding her fan base, were the tweeners are now dropping out. shs graduating up but we want to stay with what we see on hannah montana. even my 4-year-old watches those shows and is interested in them. i m not quite sure why because the other kids are seeing it. he likes watching it. my kids pick up this sassy thing, sarcastic thing, not that that s the worst thing in the world, but not what a lot of parents want. computer magazine nominated the apple ipad as the children s toy of the year. you know what caught my attention on this. that thing conferences a lot of money for a children s toy. absolutely. i hr very few parents actually buying the device just to give their kids. it does happen. it s helped my sonow to read and identify colors. but it s up to the parent to control the content that s on the device. you can t just hand it over, you have to check the settings. even gooe hassettings. you have to make sure the content is appropriate for your child. i think you re making a great argument for apple to sell more of these things. technically, you don t want to hand your child your ipad. that s true. you have thin on your ipad that might not be appropriate. you don t want them to break out in song there are school districts around the country now getting these ipads and putting them for kids to be able to u and learn, kids with disabilies, adhd, focussing better. the problem is what you said, the cost, they don t have enough of them in each school to go around. we don t have a label on technology, like we have a label on movies and tv shows. and the parent has to be t label maker and they have to reinforce it. easy to hand over the pacifier and be like, here, hang out for a second. it s our responsibility to take it away after an hour. you can t let them play all day. it s our responsibility as a parent to play with them with thisthing. a lot of these programs require the servision of a parent to show the kidsow to use it and interact with one another. jeff, are you kidding? my kids see something like that, they know how to use it, like dna. they know right off the bat. i m the one who needs the lesson on the thing. thank you very much. coming up next, a brave woman s choice to take control after being diagnosed with east cancer. i will share her story right after this. i loved you, sweetness but you re not sweet you made my butt fat you drove me insane self-control down the drain we re over i m so done with that i found a new love a natural true love that comes from a little green leaf zero-calorie, guilt-free no artificiality my skinny jeans zipped in relief its name is truvia i had no idea no more sprinkling my coffee with grief [ announcer ] truvia. honestlyweet. 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[laughing] yee. that s why there s castrol gtx. with superior protection against harmful deposit build-up. n t let deposits hold your car back. get castrol gtx. it s more than just oil. it s liquid engineering. this mning on today s health, taking control. hair loss is one of the emotional challenges that often comes with breast cancer treatment. we recently met a wom who decided to beat her treatment to the punch by getting her head shaved. here s her own story in her own words. my name is meredith israel. i was 35 when i was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. when you are told you will go to chemotherapy, the first thing you think about is losing your hair. i decided i would shave my hair off on my own terms. i wanteto be in control because the cancer had won everything else so far. i decided to have a head shaving party with some survivors and my family. i will cut the ringlet off. we put out food, we talked. i don t know, the room just felt so surrounded with love. i had a good cry in my shower this morning, i didn t want to wash out the tham spoo. i just remember seeing the hair and ponytails. that was my hair! it was really tough day. i love my hair. hair makes you feel pretty. you have a great head shape. do i? yeah. i was washing it in the shower. within two weeks, it will be all gone. waing into a room where there was a mirror was just scary. it s horrible. my big guest thing about losing my hair was my daughter. i didn t want to scare her. i needed to still be her mommy. your partn will still look at you asou re beautiful. i have no regrets i did it this way. this is me. and meredith israel is joining us now along with dr. nancy snyderman. welcome to you both. just watching tha makes you relive all of this. before we get to that, how are you doing now? i m okay. i have a new tumor in my liver and i m on cho, two weeks on, one week off. but i live my day, it s normal, i get tired and otherwise, i m alive and i keep going. this head shaving party, you say you have no regrets about it. but watching you go through it, it clearly represented more than just to lose your hair. it seemed to represent something deeper. what is that? i wanted to do it. i have 3-year-old. i didn t want to scare her. emotionally, i did not want to have my hair shedding. i think for women, people don t realize how hard it is to lose their hair. so i just wanted to tell women we could do this and it s hair and it s a hard day, but i wanted to do it my way. i did not want to wake up. at this int, since my hair is currently shedding now, i, every morning wake up to the words, mommy and immediately feel my head to say, wn will i have to shave it again. toell women of all ages, you can do it. it grows back, as much as it makes you self confident, it doesn t identify who you are. not like it gives you a lot of strength, taking control, shows your own courage that you ve become this lawyer stawa standing up. i did. i have warrior on my tattoo. i did. i stood up to it. wasn t waiting a day to do it. the day i knew i was going on chemo, i shaved my head. watching you watch this piece was this ownership. you surrounded yourself with strong women who loved you and nurtured you. you decided you were going to define it. that s an extraordinary moment of strength. one of the things i noticed with people i know who have gone through cancer, specifically breast cancer, there s so many attention paid to doctors, so many kinds of doctors you have to deal with, not as much maybe attention paid to the emotiona the doctors you need to talk to or people you need to have around you for your own emotional support. is this the there s science behind this. decades of science,ooking at quality of life issues in women and m who have had breast cancer and gone and got treated, maybe not length of life issues but quality of life. and they say, i plan to be a survivor. that quality of life is important. and some say i want to be a survivor and others s i will shave my head and others have gone out and bought the most expensive silk scarfing and wrapped their head init. i have never worn one. and i bough a wig. and some people do decide to do it. i m not meant to be in the wig. i respect the women who do i and aren t comfortable enough to shave their head. i think each hospital handles it differently. i think i did it my way by hang my girls around me and my family and doing it. you found your cancer, i know, through self examination. your fight has really been, in many way, out of love for this 3-year-old daughter. it is. i want naomi to know what i did. i want women to do self ams, it s free and you re going to the doctor and say, i found a lump, can you check it, nothing wrong with doing it. you re brave. you get to own your own body. a ve look at the disdistrict. a beautiful morning shaping up. good morning. it s 8:26 on tis thursday, october 21, 2010. air foo swept through a house killing two children. 3-year-old cameron mckenzie and his cousin 4-year-old madison parker died from their injuries. their grandmother is fighting for her life. she remains in critical condition at washington medical center. the fire bre out in their living room west of westchester. the [ ehrlich ] four years ago unemployment in maryland was under four percent. today, it s nearly double. and nearly a quarter of a million marylanders are looking for work. in addition, wface a national health care plan that will hurt small business and cost us jobs. so we have task, are y better off today than you were four years ago? we re heading in the wrong direction. we need strong leadership. say no to things we can t afford. fix our health care plan. and refuseo raise taxes. martin o malley can t do it. i will. sunshine s back and there s a chill in the air. upper 40s toear 50. later today we should warm to the mid and upper 60s. few clouds coming through and a blustery northwest windater tomorrow. chilly over the weekend. ashley, how s the traic? goodness, gracious. we have big delays. fortunately all accidents cleared. here s the damage. springfield as you leave 395 toward the 14th street bridge and along 270 southbound. we re seeing improvements. still heavy out of germantown. elaine, back to you. thanks a lot, ashley. more news, weather, and traffic coming up in 2 new look. new style. new sears. come see our brand new side. at sears. 8:30, the 21st of october, 2010. the wind is making it feel colder than 52 degrees. there is a front coming. there is a front coming. it has definitely picked up. there is a wind blowing. out on the plaza, matt lauer with ann curry, while meredith takes time off, natalie morales, here after two weeks in chile. and mr. roker joining us as well. taylor swift, with music and she s coming tuesday, and will perform on our plaza tuesday morning right here on ste. that s a big show. where did the series go for the summer, my goodness keep ongoing, month aer month. dean kayman is the guy behind the segue and scores of other inventions. he lives on his own private island, they call it inventor island! we wil talk to dean. also coming up this morning, meeting remarkable children using photography to change the way people vw the neighborhood. you can see jenna bush hager caught up with them and has a story about them coming up. who s rea to ollie? i don t even know what that means. skateboarding legend, tony hawk is in the house. whoa! here we ve got sunshine breaking out. temperatures are still chilly. just in th 40s and low 50s. it s now 54 at national airport. should hit the 60s by later this afternoon. winds will increase out of the nohwest later today. overnight, clear, chilly. sunny friday but chilly. highs only in the 50s to near 60 but warming up over the weekend. saturday s high near 70. making it low to mid-70s with sun and increasing clouds. now to uncle willie. from washington d.c., my hometown, always a pleasure, this is very nice. take a look, if youwill. a disabled american veteran and this is their silver dollar. it goes to a good cae. i can have one, good tip for the holidays coming up. go u.s. mint.gov on your little machine, about $44. very nice. happy birthy from smuckers, how it is. we have birthdays you will love. this is dr. george boguslavsky, from durham, norrolina. and just sell wacelebrating a t year wedding anniversary. how about doak wright, anthony, florid 100 years old, remeled a house at 92. i would n more try that at 42. god bless him. anyway, marion hodgson, from annapolis, maryland down the road from us, one of the pretest towns and celebrated her 0.01 birthday with a male dancer at a party, where they were going crazy, jumping up and down and singingsongs. ralp gozio, from paterson, new jers, 100 years old, goes to college for astronomy courses and physics courses. how about that? never stop learning, you will live forever. and glen johnson, from ft. worth, texas. attributes longevity from daing. clarice mathis, from paducah, kentucky, 100 years old, started bowling at 97 and working locay, showing her bowling skills to the public. she teaches others to bowl. that s all from washington at this time. now, back to new york. all right. thank you so much. coming up next, the man who invented the segway, takes us to a mysterious 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 gopaid $2.5 million to represent casin anwall street banks. bob ehrlich 24 years of putting the special interests first. science and technology, entrepreneur, kamen is known for inventing the segway and will tk about how science can solve some of the biggest problems. good morning, matt. on the show, dean takes us on a sightseeing tour of some of the most cool inventions of science and technology always thinking of innovation for the future and the future of innovation. arriving at adventurer dean kamen s secret island is like visiting a different country. you are now an ndi diplom. congratulations. reporter: it has its own stone hinge and population of one. what s your favorite part of this island? all of it. reporter: okay. this isn t really another country but kamen s private island off connecticut does feel like ather world. for a man who lives to create, this is a life-sized lab. these days, it s buzzing with the sounds of energy production. reporter: this is not your average basement. this isn t a basement. this is a control setting. reporter: dumpling is one of the most energy eicient places in the world making all its own power with a wind turbine and solar panels. we make more energy than we can use. reporter: with is island and helicopter he pirates himself, the eccentric multmillionaire has been described as a mix of thomas edson and bruce wayne, modern day batman. chunk out invention after invention from his secret lair. he has been creating things a long time. before dropping out of college he invented an insulin pump, robotic wheelchair and robotic arm and the invented the segway. what kamen wants to create more than anything, more inventors like him. one of hiseste invention, first a non-profit career for science and technology, making it a sport and drawing kids and thousands of students from all over the world. these kids realize the most ultimate sport for kids to compete in is the muscle hanging between their ears, the only sport all kids can participate. reporter: a mansion and his private lighthouse. you can see, i have a lot so i have to give back a lot. reporter: always on the look-out for the next thing. reporter: kamen hopes this program and the next show will help science and technology pave the way for big inventions for tomorrow. thank you for that and dean kamen, congratulations. this first competion looks like fun, the super bowl of technology, meant to be fun and enticing but comes from a place in your heart where you re worried. i m very rried. unless this country maintains its leadnd innovation in the world, we will not remain a country with a high standard of living, a high quality of life, health care, education. we ve taken it for granted lately, but we have to create a generation of kids that are as passionate about innovation as football. with this new show and the first episode highlights something called microbots and nanobots, just the nameounds catchy. in layman s terms what are they? the first episode tomorrow night at 9:00, shows you what you can do with microannan no devices in the world of medicine. micro, a million. show a robot that goes into an e and does essentially surgery we could never do. and then we go 1,000 times smaller to t nano bots that float around in your bloodstream carrying chemotherapy directly to cells. these are out there now? in laboratory research right now a using them on animals. we watched the nanobots deliver chemotherapy to the cells without touching the rest of the body. you know if you can get something out first, you stand a chance to make fortune off of it. over your career, have you felt that incredible pressure and have you ever been scooped just as you were about to release sothing? you know, i don t think we ve ever been scooped because we typically work on stuff other people don t work on. our passion to get it out mostly is to see people with better lives. to me, making the fortune is the result of great innovation, not the cause. i m a parent of three kids. what advice, one small piece of advice would you give pents out there in terms of inspiring their kids to get more involved in this sort of thing? i would tell parents somehow in our cuure, we convinced kids they can all do it in sports and all get better. in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. i would tell all the parents, convince all your kids, particularly girls, science and technology and engineering and inventing, it s for everybody. it s critically important, accessible and fun, and as you said, you can make a fortune. dean kamen. we want to tell people, the dean of invention premiers tomorrow night on planet green. changing a city one photograph at a time. find o this wasn t a terrorist attack it was death by metro, death by mismanagement. i called for an immediate audit, the results were chilling. so i insisted metro actually follow national safety standards for the first me. the brass at metro wasn t happy, but frankly i don t care. i m not the senator for metro, i m the senator for maryland. i m barbara mikulski and i approve this message kamen. a group of children in philadelphia are using photogray to change the way people see their beloved neighborhood. we have contributing correspondent jenna bush hager with details on this. good morning. good morning. i was super impressed with the talent of these young photographers. it was their ability to find beauty in everyday objects that really amazed me. philadelphia has long been known as the city of brotherly lo love, a symbol of american freedom. a predominantly lato neighborhood, on its northside, presents a very different picture, rusted gates, rundown row houses and cracked sidewalks dominate. i will give you your camer today. reporter: this group of students, l under 12 are trying to change perceptions of their philadelphia, one photo at a ti. it s an area known as the badlands, streets in transition, once riddled with gangs, violence and a culture of drs. a decade old program called the good land is trying to change that. a non-profit and aer school and summer art program try to counter the negative stereotype of these streets. it s just a vision they see througthis camera hole. when they take pictures, it s their world, their time to show the community and evebody out in the community what their neighborhood is. reporter: students explore their streets, camera ready, taking pictures of everything from flors to unsightly litter,ooking f and finding good. reporter: why is it important to take pictures of the neighborhood because people will know how to be good to the world and see how it feels like to be here. reporter: others, like grader anthony molera look for the unusual, graffiti covered walls, he dreams of change. tell me what y have taken pictures of today? graffiti. reporter: why graffiti? i want to show how the violence is in philadelphia. i want to show how negative it is. reporter: you don t like the graffiti? yes. reporter: do you want to try to clean it up? i will try. reporter: you are going to? instructor grace believes her students see their home differently through the camera lens. reporter: in some ways, you think the kids can see the good of the neighborhood better than adults? yeah. eir perspective is so innocent and so pure. reporter: take this photo for example. most see a man hole cover. a 9-year-old named it a gray sun, or this one, most see a girl in a yellow tank. if you look closer, you will understand the title, running to water. these cldren prove beauty truly is in the eye o the beholder. gotit. my favorite picture was a bee sucking nectar. my favorite picture was a dog with a smiley face. reporter: and their efforts have paid off. leading to something most photographers can only dream of. a show at a gallery, where their visions are the main attraction. reporter: so this is it? yes. reporter: i can t wait to see! the pride in their art lights up their faces. that one is mine. reporter: that one is yours? capturing the wonder of their community, a life long lesson in seeing beyond the surface. raise your hand if you re going to study art in college. and are you definitely going to college? yes. yo not yet. you have to finish first grade first, right? they have a after school program partnering with the local school system so the kids are still snapping away and making change. beautiful. i hope this whole idea reads. thank you so much. thank you. a really beautiful story. coming , matt will go for a spin with guess who? skateboarding legend, tony hawk. first, thi is today tony hawk started riding a skateboard when he was 9 years old and parlayed his action into one ofhe most successful sports action careers of all time. now, writing a new book, how did i get here? the ascent of an unkely ceo. good morning. thank you. it s the best definition i can think of, of the american dream. you have become successful, wealthy andone it doing exactly what you think is fun andove to do. absolutely. that s not lost to me at all. i did it so long to no appreciation and no income as well, i just loved doing it. it didn t a matter me. you write this book and try to offer advice to others in simir situations. one of the things i felt in the bookyou feel it s crucial people stay crucial to themselves and their message. why is it so important? especially comin from a sport like skateboarding, to me, ionsider a lifestyle and art form, i want to be true to that and represent it well. people see me as the face of thatn some way, i want it to be exactly how it should be portrayed. when you transferred from the skateboard to ceo, did a lot of people not take you seriously? yes. marketing agencies, they don t want to be told what to do, they have their own pride in what they rdoing and i say that s not how we represent skateboarding, they say, i went to college for this. you have a savvy business mind. when you had a skateboard come out, your agent said, you take money up front, less risk involved. you defied it. said, no, i want a piece of the action. projected sales for that game were 500 to 700,000 units? yeah. how many did you sell? millions. million. through the series as well, it s really changed my life. it s been amazing. luckily, i was in a position to say, i don t need money up front right now. i want to go through. there are a lot of people struggling right now c the onomy is tough. if they have a credream, may ha to take on a risk to make it come true. how do you tell them to take risk? if you have something you love, you will do it regardless whether you make money or not. to minimize whatever your costs are and your living and just make it through, but stay true to what you love doing because you ll make it. it will be great. you made this little game behind us look pretty easy a second ago, a new version of the skateboard, tony hawk shred, is that right? we will see if it s really that easy. we have mr. roker on the one fake knee. ow, that hurts! . what s new about this game? a board-bad controllero it has every emotion. dosomething, you re in mid-air. yeah! that s going to leave a mark. it s really like getting a ysical experience of what you re doing on-screen and you emulate that on the board. this game is more geared towards big stunts, big levels, big tricks and things like that. we included snowboarding in this as well. al, scale of 1-10, is this easy if i can do it, that ought to tell you. and created a me character just for himself. that s right. look at all the hair i have. there you go. good luck with this game. most importantly, i think it s great you re passing along advice because you have really done what a lot of people dream of doing and you ve done it with great style and grace along the way. thank you very much. tony, good to have you here. al, nice job. thank you. the book is how did i get here, and tony hawk shred. back to your local weather. ho do your knees feel, al? pretty good. look out! oh! good morning. i m elaine reyes. it 8:56. in the news today, a maryland state trooper continues to recover this morning after being struck by a hit-and-run driver. it happened on the beltway in bethesda. the trooper was at the scene of a minor accident when a passing car hit him and kept going. police questioned the person and looked over a car that may have hit the trooper. no word if any charges were filed. weather and traffic are next. stay with us. bob ehrlich s 24 years in politics. in congress ehrlich vote with george bush 90% of the time, protecting the special interests. as governor, ehrlich cut education, increased colle tuition 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. bright sunshine now. temperatures are stillhilly though. just in the 50s. later today we should climb into the 60s and a few clouds coming through. we ll have the winds increasing out of the northwest gusting to around 20 miles an hour. blustery and chilly on friday. ashley, how s the traffic? we ve got aajor accident at 370. you can see it there in the distance. only the right lane and right should are getting by, and as far as delays are coerned, here s what you ve got as you make your way down toward th accident inching along until after 370. eileen, back to you. thanks a lot, ashley. this afternoon on nbc merriam we re back now with more of today on a thursda morning, the 21st of october, 2010. nice crowd gathered out on our plaza this morning on a chilly day. they don t seem to mind. out on the plaza with them, i m matt lauer, along with mr. al roker. and t approaching ann curry. somebody asked me the best shoe stores in new york city. i was giving advice. people have come from out of town i m sorry. if you want that information, we will put it on our website on todayshow.com. we all know money is tight and people are in difficult straits right now and for families, every penny counts, when you ends up paying fees like $2 o three bucks every time you use an atm or how about the $1.50, every time you call infmation on the phone, that can really make a difference. gene is coming up on how to avoid some needless fees. it s also flu season, a lot of people wonderingho should be getting shots. we have dr. nancy snyderman on vaccinations 101 and help us understand. did you know not only kids should be getting booster sho you need for travel adults. and adults and she has the lowdown on vaccination. later, we will talk about a 300 pound chimpanzee breaks free from her owner and terrorizes a neighborhood in kansas city, banging on doors and frightening everybody. we willhow you what happened and how it came to an end as the police car smashed a windshield. look, she s moving furnite, for goodness sake. let s go inside. natalie is at the newsdesk with the adlines. good morni to you. good morning. we have 12 days go before the mid-term elections, president obama focuses on women and the economy, as he campaigns today in washington state and california. two states where democratic candidates are in tight races. in oregon on wednesday, he claims his policies helpe women get through the recessn. meantime, more than 3 million americans have already cast early ballots and appears republicans have turned out more early voters than they did two years ago, ahough they still trail democrats in that area. the labor department says first time claims for unemployment tell 23,000 jobs last week, 452,000. it s the third decline in four weeks. toyota is recalling 743,000 cars in the u.s. including lexus, avalon and other models to fix brake, fluid problems and they recalled many since last year. and the start of the worst oil spill in u.s. history from bp, the u.s. filed a lawsuit against bp saying at spill inflicted ongoing unlawful harm on endangered wildlife in the gulf. another round of violent protests today in france, where the governme is vowing to pass a pension reform bill tonight or tomorrow. students have joined striking unions from raising the retirement age from 60 to 62. big bucks for a big ring. last night, a diamond ring made of a 10-karat clear diamond and 11 karat blue diamond sold for a record $6.2 million. that is a record. and flooding leaving thousands of people without power, odds are there could be more showers today. three minutes past the hour, another check of the weather from there is a chill in the air on this thursday morning. good morning. we ve got the bright sun and the blue sky, but still rather chilly. just in the low to mid-50s. it s now 55 at national airport. later today we should climb into the mid-60s by mid afternoon, perhaps briefly in the upper 60s. a northwesterly breeze will bring in some much cooler weather by later tomorrow and tomorrow morning. sunny tomorrow, highs only near 60. and then warmg up over the weekend with a southwesterly breeze. now, today s money and fees you shouldn t be paying, from annual fees to credit cards to charges on your cell phone, they can add up, the author of money 911. good to see you. nice to see you. we are talking about the difference between convenience versus savings. you re not losing that much inconvenience, if you know the small subtle tricks to pay to get yourself out of paying these fees to begin with. let s start with director assistance when you call 411 on your cell phone. nobody in my house can call 411. instead, we call 1-800-free 411 and listen to a short commercial and get directory assistance or go to google and google your town. and some of those prepaid plans started rolling directory assistance into one of your plans and if you re on one, you can call 411. if you go to an atm not in your bank s network, it can add up. you can end up paying $3 o airport or cruise ship or casino, it can be $5. it s ridiculous. instead, make sure you are with a bank or a credit union that has machines that are convenient where you work and where you live. if you can t do that, look nor a bank that actually refunds, rebates atm fees. a lot of banks are out there that do that. if you go to a website like bankright.com, you can fd one, bankrate.com. and we see banks have lost fees and trying to make it up another way. overdrafting. overdrafting is a huge way of getting funds. before they had a change in the law to say, no, i want this, to opt in, they were a big business. and now they re sending you something inhe mail to say, you need this quote-unquote protection, you don t need it, opt out. going to a register and saying it s denied because you don t have the money, it s really not all that embarrassing. i d rather be embarrassed than pay a $35 fe the dreaded annual fee. you can find cards that don t have that annual fee. you absolutely can. agai a lot of credit cards out there have rewards are the ones that tend to charge you an annual fee. if you don t really use the rewards, you can get a lower interest rate, low fee credit card, go to billfreeshrink.com and find the one for you. annual fee, if they will impose it are not typically as negotiable as interest rates but if they want to keep you as a customer and you poi out, i charge a ton and they don t want to lose your business, they will 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dr. nancy snyderman is here to answer your questions. good morning. we had a huge response last week and we have a lot more questions to get to. a couple e-mails, one sent by nicole from alabama. i recently took my 14-month-old daughter to get updated on vaccinations, one was the chicken-pox booster. why was this vaccine necessary? vaccines really start at two months. a lot of people think why do you start so early? a child s immune system can take it. amazinghings about vaccines, these are simple shots that prevent diseases that can kill you. what s so great about her question is that she s already thinking about boosters. when you and i were little, the idea was you got a shot, maybe it lasts forever. now,hey don t always last forever and some shots require boosters. polio, traveling around the world and tetanus and chicken-pox. we don t think of chicken-pox as the killer but it can cause serious disease and land you in the hospital. when we were children, we didn t have the chicken-pox vaccination, now, they do. it s important to get it and the booster later in life? if you get chickepox, you think you have immunity forever. right. not necessarily. knowing that there are new immunizations out there, knowing when to get them and the american academy of pediatrics has great websites for the schedule. i just want to assure parents again, while it sounds like it s a lot, there s a lot of good science around for safety, the fact it works, there is really a ration ail behind the schedule. does this meanf you get the booster, you will t get chicken pox? unlikely. if you g chicken-pox early like we did, the regular old infection, that virus stays in your body a long period of time and can be shingles later in life. it will be much mor painful and you re ahead of the game. now to questions from caroline in columbia, south carolina, she s joining us from skype this morning. what s your question for dr. nancy. my husband and i got the h1n1 vaccine in january. should we get this ason s vaccine now or wait until january 2011? get it now because it s out now. it s a really good questio about h1n1 because last year, we were scrambling with regular seasonal flu vaccine and h1n1. now, h1n1 will be wrapped up into this year s regular old vaccine. it s available. there is a lot of it. it s safe, especially for women of reproductive age,f you re pregnant or think you will get pregnant, get it. it s protection for you and your fetus. last year, we know pregnant women had higher incidence of tting hit with flu and higher death rates. get it now, caroline. they do have enough doses this time around. we planned well. lot of viewers writing into our today show facebook page. one of our questions from joyce, questions about adult vaccinations, as a child we were told they were good for a lifetime and now i m hearing they re only good for ten years, should we be getting vaccinated again as adults? 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[ man ] grab a pop-tart and you might just start to sing songs like a meadow lark stretch and yawn blow a kiss t mom cause pop-tarts mornings are the bomb so, rise and shiiiiine it was a little more than monkeying around in a missouri neighborhood when a chimpanzee went on a rampage. it was pounding on vicles and tangling with the cops. reporter: the 300ound chimpanzee escaped from its owner and ran rampant through a kansas city neighborhood. suko, the chimpanzee is lovingly called sue by her owner. but on tuesday, sue scared her neigors. the chimpanzee comes out of nowhere, and i m thinkin get to the house. reporter: sue also made a house call. really loud, we re like, what s going on, looking through this window and the next thing he comes over here and tries to open up the door. he ds and opens itp and starts doing this. i run downstairs and locked the door real quick. reporter: the chimpanzee even pounded on passing cars. jumped on the car, looked through the window and started punching the sunroof. he s a smart monkey, smiling and laughing and like pointing at us and gets down and starts running and ran and jumped to tanya s car and opened up her door and she got out. reporter: tanya s car wasn t the only one damaged. after pushing a trash can down the street, sue climbed on to a police car the officer jumped inside for protection, and, pow, sue smashed in the windshield. the dashcam captured sue s rampage before ging up on the police car and running into a field. animal control fired a tranquilizer shot. sue was not hit but she ran for the trees. her owner was able to calm her down and get sue under control. by the way, you re not allowed toave a champ in kansas city missouri, where this happened. the owner s violating laws there. the chimp will end up at the zoo. that s good. there will be a happy ending to all that. thank goodness. ill to come, the potato. [ ehrlich ] four years ago unemployment in maryland w underour percent. today, it s nearly double. d neay a qarter of a million marylanders are oking r work. in addition, we face a national health care plan that will hurt small business and cost us jobs. so we have to ask, are you better off today than you were four years ago? we re heading in the wrong direction. we need strong leadership. say no to things we can t afford. fix our health care plan. and refuse to raise taxes. martin o malley can t do it. i will. this morning in today s kitchen, perfect potato dishes. they re available year-round but at their peak now. and the 121st anniversary edition of the good houskeeping cookbook, 1275 recipes from america s favorite test kitchen. god see u. same to you. thanksor havg me. this is not the book? this is the first edition. we ve come a long ways, this is cool, one of the first ones that laid flat and each spread had a place to write your own notes. what are we going to make? accordion potatoes, which are really cool. we will slice through. iave chopsticks here and go nice, all theay down and it helps you go through and you go all the way through. we will stuff these with herbs. we roast them and stick them in the broiler, a little bit of milk and butter on top. really nice and yummy, perfect with a roast and stews. is there any particular type of potato you would use for this recipe? i use reads because you don t have tpeel them and look nice and finished when they re roasted. can you use a variety of different herbs? i like the hard herbs, like rosemary and thyme and brush it with a little bit of butter and use olive oil. we will have this tray full really. do pepper on here. and salt. throw that in the oven? put it in a low oven. we did interest a low oven cause it could accompany a roast. you do it in a low oven about an hour, and then you can broil it for a few minutes to get the top nice and crispy. it comes out looking like this? comes out looking something like this. and garnish with parsley and nice chives that goes nicely with potatoes. how do you eat these? do you play them like that? you kind of peel them down. okay. really simple. what s the next thing we re making? the next thing is sweet potato, my new england te on candied sweet potatoes, new england syrup and no fat. really simple. you can boil them ahead, slice them up, layer in the casserole, heat the mabel syrup, pop in the cranberriecranberriem in the oven and done. these are all five ingredients or less. okay. this looks very elegant. it does, doesn t it? a simple hors d oeuvre, my favorite red potatoes. we zapped these in the microwave, cut off the end so they will stand up. this has a little bit of olive oil drizzled and have some already grilling there. you grill them for a few minutes on each side, obviously in the summertime, u can do this outdoor ill as well. all we will do is do a little bit of sour cream. get you a hot one. i heard you were liking tater tots. it doesn t matter whether it relates to what we re talking about, if it s a funny line, we go with it. from a movie. put a little salmon. a little dill. is that smoked salmon? smoked salmon. these are really simple. great hors d oeuvres. they lk really elegant. i dropped that. that s a good one. that s it. wonderful. aryou kidding me? we re in. hmm. a simple potato and so good. the good houskeeping cookbook. good to see you. still to come this morning, mother-daughter country music duo, may o duo, naomi and winona judd are stopping by. pick. right now about 60 degrees. we re going to talk about the weather coming up in just a moment. it s thursday, october 21th 2010. there will be no trash or recycling in the district today. dpw workers have the day off so they can attend lry hutchins funeral. the dpw worker was shot and killed last week at the beginning of hisshift. senator jim graham will also hold a hearing addressing safety concerns at the dpw facility. now tom takes a look at the weather for us. good morning. the temperatures are just now beginning to get up into the upper 50s, near 60. we have the increasing autumn lor to go with this autumn chill. by m afternoon, should make it into the mid and upper 60s with the northwesterly breeze picking up a bit. chilly tonight under a clear sky. bottoming out near 40 tomorrow morning. sunny on friday with a high near 60 and a blustery wind. warming us up saturday by the afternoon. low 70s by sunday afternoon. steve hershorn, how s the traffic? getting a little b better no in germantown, traffic heading by us. southbound, the accident off 370 off the roadway, so is gradual improvement. over to springfield now. 395 southbound, we have travel in the right lane. hov lanes still heading northbound. barbara, back to you. his afternoon on nbc 4, a scary good time on ellen. she gets you rea captions paid for by nbc-universal television hey, everybody. it is thirst day, october 21st, just ten days until halloween, but it s a very big day around here. very big day, because guess what. what? uh-huh. hoda is a new york times best seller. yes, she is. isn t that nice? thank you for that. wow! publisher s clearinghouse. you guys are insane. this is the best party ever. yes. how about that, hoda? you have earned it. you deserve it. you wrote a great book and now people are oh, they re playing brickuse. i like this song. first of all, thank you. and sara let me get sara in on this. she s under dear friend, wonderful writer, big thank it is to jane. i can t believe people bought the book. it s a good book. that s just so nice. i just want to thank everybody for buying that book. i m still shocked. still buy it, because it s still available. yes, it is. thk you. she s going to coinue you re going everywhere still. i m going to atlantic city tonigh get your cns and get to atlantic city and chaching. and you ll be back in time to do andcohen s show at 11:30? it s 11:00, i think. the woman is a maniac. i missed you yesterday, because you re far too busy to go to theater with me anymore. i saw a brilliantplay, the pittman painters. heard a lot of buzz about it. i knew it was about painters but guys who work in the pit, the mines in england. but it s such a universal story of how art transforms lives. and whether it s theater or paintings or music. i believe we re made in the creator s image and when we are creating ourselves, there s something god-like about it. this is a beautiful painting painting. you cannot believe the art work at came out of them with just no training at all. i want to see that. sounds very cool. just beautiful. if you are sitting in front of a tv today, and you just happen to be you re on martha. i m attempting to do crafts. i m so bad with craft. she takes hombrage with anyone who doesn t know how to do crafts. we made a shawl. it will be on later today. all these reports are out that beyonce is pregnant. we saw her a couple of weeks ago when we saw her on our show. she certainly did not look pregnant then. look. i see no baby bump at all, none. take a look again. just so you know look at you, hoda. i was astonished. we didn t know she as coming. her mom went on ellen yesterday. her mom, tina, said the rumors of beyonce bng pregnant are untrue. sources say she and jay-z have been wanting a child and she is pregnant. i believe tina. i believe beyonce will do it her way, her entire life when she is pregnant and she is ready to tell the world, she will tell the world. she will. and she will be very classy about it. i agree. everybody is looking at everybody s stomach to see if they have the baby bump. you can t wear like a baggy shirt. i ve got to admit, i m guilty of it. when you and i covered the emmys recently, a couple of years ago, i thought that eva longoria-parker might be on because we see her in form-fitting thgs and she was wearing something a little flowy and stuff but there s a new video out of her, right, that shows that she s definitely not. she is in her 30s. yes, young. hello. and she s talking about this eminem she s kind of mocking eminem, i think, in this video. i belie she s about to host do we not have that video? we might have killed it. sorry. we ll bring it to you tomorrow because we forgot. jay-z has decided to take a young rocker or you singer under his wing. willow smith. this is will smith and jada pinkett s kid. crank it up. it s called whip my hair. hen you re doing nothing wrong i m just tryin to have fun so keep you body jumpin very talented. she s only, what, 9 years old? almost 10. almost 10 and this is her singing. people forget that will startedut as a rapper. i like his music. such a great family. i have to tell you, this is a fun video, i whip my hair back and forth, paint flying around. you whip your hair. i whip my hair back and foh there is a high school that is in ft. worth, texas, just outside of ft. worth, texas, and i guess they saw our show when there was a no makeup show. i don t know why, because they re in school, but they saw it. right. theyecided that they, too, would go no makeup. nearly 200 girl. and itthey thought a few peoe would jn in. it turns out every tuesday, no makeup. local authorities covered it. it s every tuesday? did you wear makeupn high school? you know what? mascara. i was allowed to wear mascara and a little lip gloss, but nowhere near like these hookers go to schoolnow. it s unbelievable. it is true, though. people wear the full deal in high school. i wore lip gloss, too, and a little blush. we found it frightening at first, felt very vulnerable and then we found it to be very empowering. empowering, to not wear make on the air. you forget. you actually forget until you pass a mirror and then you scream. or you have a guest that wears full maup. remember? yes, sophia from modern family. she says i was born i came out of the womb full makeup. full makeup. she s adorable. i decided it stime for my ihoda playlist. if your heart has been broken and you wonder what s ahead of you, this is the love song for you. it s called bless this broken road by rascal flatts. s a beautul love song. let s listen, shall we? mellow. i set out on a narrow way many years ago here we go. hoping i would find true love along the broken road but i got lost a time or two but my kept pushing through this is it. ready? here it is. every long lost dream i love this song. led me to where you are others who broke my heart they were like northern stars pointing me on my y here is the point know. here it is, the last one, and we re done. i love it. this much i know is true here we go. everybody together now that god blessed the broken road that led me straight to you here is what i love about this song. i hear this song every single morning coming out of my daughter s room. she plays it? ah, yeah. rascal flatts is amazing. northern stars leading you to him. i mightlay my recording of a song for you tomorrow called on my way to you. that is one of the great, glorious sgs you ve ever heard as well. is it as good as this one? yeah. okay, good. just checking. should we check in with miss sara? what have you got going? what have we got going? wait, we ve got to get to our choir. we are. we re going to do. we have to get to sara. i feel honored to work with both of you because weave two new york times best selling authors now. stop it. this is quite a crowd to be part of. now we all have to go write books. guys, geton it. sara, you need torite your book is what i said yesterday. and i said that to hoda a year ago and you said the same thing. > war zones and bad hair and amazing life moments. what would i write about? that s exactly whatou sad. maybe some day. because everyone i can assure you, it would be a small audience readng it. we are going to give away, in honor of this amazing best-selling book. author, we ll give out fi books on random on klgandhoda.m. the rase is congratulations hoda. we ll pick it a random. you may just win a signed copy of hoda s book. now we have to ask if we re go iing to our showdown. is it time? all righty. we ve been telling you guys about our big show choir showdown. we were a little nervous at the beginning. we put the call out. send us in your video. no one did. and the universe yawned. but then all of a sudden, they all came in at the end like many, many, many. lots to choose from. so, we ll take a listen to our four finalists. which group will get flown in to perform on our sw? you have to vote today. listen to these four choirs. what the heck. i like them. all ofthem. they re wonderful. we want to go through them one more time. here is the deal. you have to vote today! day. first buer headliners from kansas. second, dimensional harmony from boyton beach, high school in boyton beach, florida. third, ball state university singers. that s right, ball state university in muncie, indiana. finally, celebration show choir fromars hill bible school in florence, alabama. oh, gosh. i wish we could see them all. it s hard to vote. you ve got to do it. i guess how many people text their friends and neighbors to say get us to new york. go to klgandhoda.com. vote for the choir you like best before 8:00 am eastern time tomorrow, tomorrow. you can only vote once and we re going to announce thewinners live on our show tomorrow. yes, it s contractual. is it okay or not okay to work with an ex? kathie lee says, is it okay? yes. is it comfortable? no. hoda says it s okay if the breakup was amible, better if you have the senior position. erything is in quotes with hoeda. do you notice? you put them in air quotes. all righty then. abig show is coming up. yes, we do, best-selling author. oh, my gosh! we do, we do. they know a thing or two about having a hit record. the judds are here. love both of them. they re going back on the road. yes, i know. mmmmmm. mmmmmm. wow! you have got to be kidding me. 80 calories? light & fit has 80 calories versus 100 in the other leading brand. light & fit. irresistible taste. fewer calories. i love light & fit. trick or treat. trick or treat. weren t you guys just here? no. yes. no. 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(announcer) progresso. you gotta taste this soup. it s a girls night out honey there ain t no doubt m gonna dance every dance till the boys go home earning five grammys and selling more than, get this, hoda, 30 llion albums since they began performing together. whatever. they have a brand new single out this month. anyw naomi and wynonna are getting ready to kick off their first road tour in a decade. hello, ladies. did you ever swear at any point, this is it for us. every tour. just like cher, right? i ll never do another you re confined in a bus for six months. we decided to do this because we re healthier than we ve ever been, relationship wise. we have a life coach that we continue to talk about. we re the family in a process, aren t we, mom? yes. we don t interrupt. we have boundaries. we have separate buses. like a marriage. so this life coach has really helped you guys? he s a genius. a lot. really? if he can work with our family, he could do he should win like the nobel peace prize. but seriously, we ve worked how long, ten years? not listening and being so brilliant and alpha and when we do our music, i m the lead singer and she s the harmony. and yet when it came down to it, she s the boss, mom, and i m the daughter. but when w sing together, it s an equal thing. and the rest of it was tumultuous, trying to figure out where i end and where she beg begins. because when do you ever stop being a mother? never. never. never. you re one now, though, so you know. for all the moms out there, the biggest thing i ve learned from my life coach, come see us on tour, by the way. oh, yeah, we retouring. we re talking about relationships. we actually can fulfill and manifest all this. i m not reactive. as reactive. it s a process. it is. but it goes back to your mother and every we really don t have enough time for you guys. let s get to the we need a couch. breaking the cycle. my daughter and i s relationship was to do differently than mother and i did. how old is your daughter? 14 and i say gracy, the answer is no in a complete sentence and she says okay because she knows i mean she didn t take me seriously, but i learned a lot from her, what to do and whatn not to do. she didn t have the tools i have. we have more information today. we have new clothes, n attitude, new hair. always changing. i have bangs again. did you notice? the classi you got married to or divorced to. your classics? yeah. no, we re going to do we re going to do brickhouse, okay? i love brickhouse, by the way. i love that you do not. someone help me. wait. you actually have a new cd coming out, too, rigt? i have a new cd coming out in the spring with her, eight solo songs, four judd songs. this is at cracker barrel. love cracker barrel. one of the greatest corporations i ve ever worked with. ving back to soldiers who come back wounded. you ve lost a lot of weight. yeah. you look great. i lost my mind, then i lost weight. you guys have been through the wars. we ve been to hell and back. there s victory that started the day after thanksgiving in green bay, wisconsin. alot to be grateful for. when you re as thick as your family bring your mother to see my mother. it s about the music. the fans. with kids, you ll get this, new generation of judd heads are about to be born. 25-year fans will bring their kids. i love it. we love having you guys on. that s it? that s it. this is it. although you re so fun, it could go on forever. judd.com. kicks off right after thanksgiving. still to come, hoda? winter coats, after this. with all the equipment you use to stay fit, you might want to try lifting one of these. in recent years we ve added a unique natural sea salt to over 40 campbell s condensed soups. it helps us reduce sodium, but not flavor. so if you re ready to eat a little better, grab your oon and do a few lifts. campbell s.® it s amazing what soup can do.™ [ baby crying, teapot whistling ] everything s fine. 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joybauer has all the answers, as she always does. we have been talking about this subject. as we get older, it gets fstrating. you can eat a cracker, it feels like, in a day and stand on the scale and gain weight. is our metabolism slowing down everyear? there s a little bit of truth to that. metabolism is the rate at which your body burns calories. starting at the age of 20, every decade of life our metabolisms tend to decline about 1% to 2%. so, as you then we die. but as we get older, we are getting somewhat of a slowdown. but at the same time, think about it, we slow down. we re not runningafter kids. we re not doing so much sports or sitting in front of a computer, tv or something like that. and we emotionally eat as well. there s a lot of things going on but i think it s a misconception that all of our weight gain can be blamed on metabolism. because there s stuff we can do, right, especially after the age of postmenopausal. i don t know anye who is, personally, but for those ladies. definitely. one of those things that you can do is increase your lean muscle mass. as we age, part of the decline in metabolism is d to our muscle mass going south. it s called gravity. it happens. it s a normal aging process. so, if you let s say so i should lift weightsnd that will speed up my metabolism? it definitely will. but you need to do both aerobic activity that can be as simple as walking for 30 minutes every day. it doesn t even have to be continuous. do ten minutes in the morning, ten minutes in the afternoon, ten minutes in the evening. because that rns calories. but the bigger piece is the weight the strength training. 15 to 20 minutes two to three times a week is going to increa that lean body mass. it doesn t really have to be weights. it could be push-ups, planks, lunges, anything that uses your body s resirchs. you don t feel like you feel you re doing something but you don t feel windy and i always think i wonder if anything is happening when i do that. t s working. it s definitely working. you can do the cardio also with it. that s key. but the strength trainin when you increase that lean body mass, you know that lean muscle mass burns about three times the amount of calories that fat does. wow! it s a slight boost but we ll take anything we can get. joy, i have found that at a certain age i always did that stuff all along and it wasn t working anymore. needed to do more. righ and i needed to cut out more in my diet. you need to be tighter with your food. another interesting thing is that when we eat, we actually burn calories. you have to eat calories in order to burn calories. so, what i tell people to do is to make sure that you re fueling your body every four to five hours. you don t need to be picking every two to three hours. that is sort of counterproductive. ty always say this food helps to boost your metabolism. are there foods that do that? green tea gives you a very, very slightedge. it s so slight that if you put a packet of suga into the green tea, it s sort of going to undo the metabolism benefit. we do that every morning. it has so many other health benefits so i m glad you re drinking it. but all food, carbohyates, fat and protein will rev your metabolism but protein has a greater rev. as a woman who is trying to rev their metabolism, you want to make sure that there s protein with each and every meal. what s on the table? for breakfast, this is some scrambled egg whites with chopped tomatoes. the egg whites are pure protein. i m also only portioning one serving of starch with each of the meals because the other key thing is you have to be tight with your calories. for lunch, you see sength. that s the protein. and, again, one serving of brown rice and a whole lot of vegetables. and a snack over here, ounce of cheese, reduced fat. calorie controlled but protein again, metabolism revved and some fruit. 1,200 to 1,600 calories, eating every four to five hours and protein with every single meal. it s going to work. u know how you want to hold me down and put gum in my hair? 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[ clucks ] [ male announcer ] perdue. extra spections. extraordinary chicken. announcer: today s moms is brought to you by walmart. moms, head to your local walmart today to find ways save money, live better. we re back with today s moms to learn how to tame morning mania you probably started off the schoolear with th best intentions but just getting the kids up and out of the house is becoming a total nag fest. i lik that word. how to get parents and kids back on track, the founder of positive parenting solutions. and she actually really has some. a lot of people talk about it, but she shows up and actually givings you great advice. good to see you. good to see you. a lot of parents end up nagging their kids, especially in the morning. they re late. the bus is out there. i think most parents wake up, intending it for it to be a really good day but then it turns into this big nag fest, nagging and reminding their kids to do the things they already know they re supposed to do. get dressed. get dressed, eat, get your homework, lunch box. then they feel like another day that started off on a bad note for everybody. what should kids d without being reminded? what are th things they should do, for sure? by the time they re 4 or 5 years old, they should be able to get themselves up on their o. remember all theaily things they need for school and get out the door on time without reminders from mom and dad. you talk about the fact that we enle our children in some bad behaviors by your child is chronically late and you keep making it okay for them or your child forgets something at the house all the time an we re in the car and we what should we do in cases like that? there are a couple of strategies that we can use. the first one is implementing what s called a when/then routine. it requires that all the yucky stuff, things that you remind them to do everyday, that has to happen before the more fun parts of the routine, like breakfast or play time or tv time. it sounds like when you re dressed, your bed is made, your hair is combd, your backpack and lunch box is by the door, then come join us for breakfast. if they doddle, then the consequence is, they mght miss out onbreakfast or play time. you don t want to send your ds off to the school day without breakfast but you have to be consistent. they might be a little uncomfortable the first day but they re not going to starve to death. i promise you the next day, they ll be getting through the morning routine quickly to get it all done. some parents do charts that they make sure their kids follow along. is that a good idea? that s a great idea. that s setting them up for ccess. u this when/then routine, develop a chart with pictures or words so they can see what they have to do. put that on their bedroom door or wherever th ll see it as a visual reminder. how do you feel about the tv or computer in a bedroom? i don t really advisehat at all. number one, it s a distraction. makes them late half the time if they re on the computer. and then you re also not able to monitor it very easily when it s in their room. so that way, if you can kind of have all the yucky stuff done, all the things they have to do before you alow them to have any tv time. what aout when your kids get older? sometimes you end up nagging your kids long through junior high and high school not for lunch boes but other things. i text my nags now. don t forget, church, sunday morning. but for the school morning, a great way to hndle older kids is to implement what we call the no rescuepolicy, what you were talking about earlier. no rescue policy puts the child totally in charge of the morning routine. and their own destiny. that s right. we ll sit down with them and say you re really growing up and part of growing up is taking responsibility for yourself. now you re going to be in charge of the morning routine. it your job to set your alarm and if you n t set it or you sleep through it i m not going to wake you up. you re going to have to explain to the principal why you re late. if you forget your homework or your lunch box, that s going to be your problem. and that takes courage. it is. you also don t want them to think you re a bad mother because you re not helping. right. it is such a to that point, we kind of do worry about what teachers think. you can always bring them to the loop and let them know what you re doing. thanks so much. up next, the art of pumpkin carving. first this is today on nbc. [ ehrlich ] four years ago unemployment in maryland was under four percent. today, it s nearly doue. and nearly a quarter of a million marylanders are looking for work. in addition, we face a national health care plan that will hurt small business and costs jobs. so we have to ask, are you better off toay than you were four years ago? we re heading in the wrong direction. we need strong leadership. say no to things we can t afford. fix ourealth care plan. and refuse to raise taxes. martin o malley can t do it. i will. with halloween just ten days away, it s time for a lesson in pumpkin dor. carving up eyes, a nose and mouth isn t good enough for amy corman. e s brought along some friends, like jacqueline here. we wanted to think outside the box in terms of pumpkin carving. we brought some white and gray pumpkins. certainly a farmer s market or do it the affordable way. get orange pumpkins andpray paint them white after you do the carving. this is a scary skull pumpkin we have here today. jacqueline is doing a fine job. yes, she is. > she has been working so hard. the idea with kids is to keep the design simple but have high impact. it has ten incisions in it. the trick here is to use tweezers to pull out. you worry wiabout kids with sharp objects. this is great for kids 8 and older. all the kids we have today are 9. and a little blood on halloen, what the heck. thanks, honey. next is hannah. she is working on our stackable ghost pumpkin. have them fine pumpkins that can be placed one on top of the other for good balance. she is working on the face of the top pumpkin, the ddle pumpkin says boo and the last is solid, which we draped with a cheese cloth, very affordable. that s very cool. you don t want to light any candles in those. no. no. you could do led lights if you want. now you re talking. i like the dimension and little bit of add add height. look how michael is working. julie brown has an amazing idea she did with her son. we re all about using things you have around the hoe. two things. paint and glitter. that s all you need. michael has beenpainting away with his paint set to which we add some glitter to our painted pumpkins while the paint is wet and it just sticks. no glue required. sorry, michael. excuse me for interrupting. look at that. nice job. you can use several to dot down your dining room table and they re lovely. they re modern even. using things that you have already around the house. sophia is doing some creepy stuff downere, i think. what has she got going on? our creepy crawly caterpillar. they don t come this color. they look like tomatoes. exaly. except we re not going to eat them. she glues on a face and a mouth. add holes for pipe cleaner, dot them down your walk leading up to your house. these last two crafts didn t involve any carving or knives. for the little ones. even a 2-year-old who likes to paint and get messy can do it. every kid likeso paint and get messy. thank you very, very much. happy halloween, everybody. thank you, thank you, thank you. thank you. > tomorrow dean caine, superman. we ll see you tomorrow. have an awesome thursday, everybody. have an awesome thursday, everybody. we ll see you. captions by vitac www.vitac.com