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live picture of washington as we start off on a wednesday morning. good morning, everyone, i m matt lauer. and i m meredith viera. resounding victory for republicans on tuesday night. the gop needed to pick up 39 seats to regain control of the house. as of right now, they gained 59 and that number is expected to rise as more results filter in. so here s how things stack up in the house this morning, 242 republicans, 3 democrats. and while democrats did hang on to power in the senate republicans made a big dent in their majority there picking up six seats, bringing the totals there to 46 republicans and 49 democrats. meanwhile out in alaska, incumbent lis murkowski who was running as a write in candidate appears to be in the lead but because she is a write in candidate, the results there could not be known for days, weeks, we don t know when that result is going to be final. and sarah palin backed republican senator joe miller in that race, so how did the rest of the candidates that she supported fare and how will that affect a possible presidential run by palin? david gregory, moderator of meet the press who has been following the events all night long and i mean all night long. what a ght, and what a story. plain and simple, the american electorate has lurched back to the right. at the polls, a split decision, powered by the tea party, the republicans stormed back to power in the house, firing speaker nancy pelosi, but in the senate, democrats held the majority as the gop are still several short of a takeover of president obama now, it is time for a reset. i have spent my whole life chasing the american dream. reporter: an emotional high for ohio republan john boehner, the man likely to replace nancy pelosi as speaker of the house. he held back tears addressing supporrs after a triumphant ght for republicans. i have been witnessing a repudiation of washington, a repudiation ofig government and a repudiation of piticians who refused to listen to the american people. reporter: but the democratic liter in teet leader in the sen- the bell that justang isn t the end of the fight, it s the start of the next rod. reporter: still the conservative insurgency made its mark. there s a tea party tidal wave. tea party candidate rand paul won in kentucky after a particularly bruising fight. and marcoubio in florida. exit polls reveals that the energized tea party voters turned out in droves. the impact of the tea party was larger than many predicted. what do they want? 85% want to limit government, just 12% think it should do more. the president and his advisors andis colleagues and supporters can jump on board that train. skb reporter: many viewed the election of the palin effect wasn t all positive. we were victorious bause the delawareolitical system will never be the same. reporter: her backing of novice conservative christine o donnell over a more established republican handed the delaware senate seat to the democrat, chris coons. still unknown, the result in palin s home state of alaska where theenate race is too close to call, thanks to a strong showing by write in candidate lisa murkowski. what is so important is to make sure that every single alasn voter is heard and we re going to make sure that that process is attended to. reporter: besides reid, democrats can point to some otheimportant senate victories. in west virginia governor joe manchin triumphed over a conservative replican rival to fill that seat and bbara boxer held on to her seat in california. those wins preserve democratic rule in the senate, after russ feingold was sent home. and another high profile loss in illinois, the republican mark kirk captured the seat previously held by president obama. we have gone through a period whe we said governors should be doing more. the american public is drawing back saying i don t know how much government should do. a huge driver last night, the almighty independent voter, that voting bloc swinging back to the republican party by a marn of 55 to 40. a huge wave here powerful enough to take down some veteran members of the democratic party. john sprout, the budget committee chrman has seen waves before but survived them. ike skelton. senate majority leader harry reid is with us now from las vegas, senator reid good morning to you and congratulations. thank you very much. your race w a real nail biter, there were some polls in nevada that had you down by four points heading into this election. how did you survive when so many incumben lost their seats as david just pointed out? i don t think it s a question of survival, i had 41,000 votes and in nevada that s a large number. it was a race that we thought was winnable, we worked very hard and we had a good operation. but i thi the message to america today is that we have got to start working together, we have g to stop the name calling, we have got to recognize that the only way we can have pgress is by working together. we have got to do that. it was a struggle for you to pass health care and financeal reform when you h 60 seats in the seat. so you could be facing two more ars of gridlock. i hope not. i have not talked to mitch mcconnell today yet. i haven t been to bed actually. i will talk to mitc we have a good relationship, we have a different senate than we had before. but i think it s time we started working together. that s what progress is a about. not from the far left, not from the far rig. we have to work together to build a consensus and move this country along. what do you make of the influence of the tea party, not just on your race, but nationally on races? well, i think you guys are going to have to work that. in nevada it dn t have much effect. we ll have to see what happens. i think that the main stream of the republican party wil sweep them up and i think there s some ideas that came from the people s concern about government and we ll all take a look at that and try to move toward a way that can allow us to work together. but there are a lot of tea party candidates that are heading to washington including rand paul, we re about to hear from him. he disagrees with just about everything you sta for. what would you like to say to him this morning? and can you work with him. oh, sure, i can. i have no problem with him at all. i listened to his speech last night. he has some set ideas but we all do. but no matter how strong you feel as an individual, we have to work together as a unit. the senate is a unique instrument. the government is one that people have tried to model over the years and it s hard to do. and the senate has worked so well for so long, it will continue to do that no matr what senator elect paul says or any of the others. senate majority lder harry reid. republican rand paul defeated jack conway in kentucky s senate race. congratulations senator paul. you rode a wave of anger and energy to washington so we know you can win an election with anger, can you govern in washington with anner? i think people are june happy with the fact that we have to balance our individual personal budgets, b the government doesn t have to balance theirs. the democrats have proven themselves untrustworthy on this account. there needs to be a rule that you have t balance the budget by law. if you poll that question with republicans, democrats and independents, you ll find the vast majority are for a balanced budget amendment. i was just talking to senate majority leader harry reid and he must have said work together seven or eight times. there were some out there who said are you detecting a very different tone from the senate majority leader? well, the interesting thing is people complain a lot about gridlock, but wnever you analyze government, state governme or feral government, it seems like the most fiscally conservative government is always divided government, debat the healthy and we shouldn t see its unhealthy that we discuss the nation s problems and try to resolve them. when you have no debate and you don t include republicans in your legislation at all. that s when the country gets upset. and i think a lot of this discontent is about the democrats ramming through legislation that republicans had nothing to do with. let me talk to you about the tea party and the republican party in general moving forward. is this a marriage of convenience? will the honeymoon soon end or are you folks soul mates? well, i think the interesting thing is i tell people that the teparty is equal parts chastisement to both parties over not doing enough about the deficit. we re concerned about passing that on to our kids and granids. we re concerned that the bills are so long that they don t read them. we re concern that they re mark and stick stuff on the bills that are not related to the bills. we re concerned that regulators are writing laws not approved by government. so it s really about reforming government, it s not about one piece of legislation, it s that the government is broken and not really responsive to the people and not really responsive to the constitution. i appreciate you gettingp this morning, congratutions. virginia congressman eric cantor easily won his sixth term last night. coressman good morning to you and congratulations. let me start with something that rand paul s campaign manager said, he said if republican leaders think they re gng to suck us in and it will be business as usual they are wrong. how are you going to deal with that attitude? in last night s election, the american people spoke loudly and clearly, they said we want a federal government to start listening to us. right now we have an unployment situation that s unceptable to all people. what they re saying is let s stop what s going on in washington, let s focus on priority one and that s bs. they re always saying that. how are you going to deal with that kind of attitude that i just described to you? the people are tired of a government that s not delivering results and as senator elect rand paul just said, they re tired of a government that continues to grow with reckless abando with no apparent ability to accept the consequences of its actions. so what we re going to do is join forces hopefully and be able to produce results to get people back to work, to cut government spending and to focus on the fact that we i america like to see opportunity, we admire those who are successful and we have got to end this war on success and people are willing to step up andake responsibility. i think all of us in it together can get this country back on track. it is 7:13, more with matt. chuck todd is nbc s political director. he had a late night as well. good to see you. put it in perspective, the republicans are going to pick up somewhere around 60 seats house. yes. compare that to recent midterm elections. this is the largest since world war ii, not since right after social security passed. did we see a repudiation of the democrats. it tells you in a phrase that bill clinton said after he lost in 1994, the era of big government is over again and that ends up being the big headline againast night. the republicans past to victory in the house. is there any surprise to you right there? the surprise is harry reid. you can t help but look at what happened in the senate last night. this was a huge republican night. the only reason there s a split decision is because of the tea party. right now if it wasn t for the tea party, if you look at colorado which we haven t called yet and nevada and delaware if you put those in the republican column, they would be at nine. and washington state would be the tenth senate se. what about the governor s race in florida, when we will know about that. there s a dispute about how many ballots are left. the democrats believe there s a lot more to be counted and if so, they re in palm beach county. one of the bright spots for republicans overall, the only reason scott is struggling here is that the republicans had a huge night. and there s 2012 consequences for predent obama. you had a big night too. appreciate you being here this morning. the election results can be seen in large part as a referendum on president obama s first two years in office. and that has some peopl looking ahead to 2012. republicans haven t even finished their victory lap yet and they re already eyeing t other end of pennsylvania avenue locked in their plans to recover the white house. republicans basking in the glow of victory are nowreaming of an even bigger prize, the republicans known for picking their heir apparent are now entering unfamiliar territory, with the tea party activists. who s term is it to win the nomination? but this time there s a real vacuum. in 2012, the republican primies may look more like the ncaa basketball tournament. first the establishment bracket, including former massachusetts governor mitt romney who ran in 2008. tim pawlenty, the former governor of minnesota. mississippi governor halle barbour. south dakota senator john thune and chris christie. and former florida governor jeb bush. analysts say one of these candidates may be best equipped to take on president obama. pawlenty, barbour, mitch daniels, those are three that i m going to be watching ve, very carefully. and there s the grass roots bracket former arkansas governor mike huckabee ran before and could again. along with perennial hopeful former house saker newt gingrich. but they may all be eclipsed by sarah palin who admits she is considering a run. if there s nobody else to do it, then of course i would believe that we should do this. reporter: the key question when it comes to picking the nominee, will the tea party have i think the tea party will be involved in choosingur nominee. but i don t think it will be anything like monolithic. and will barack obama face a charger within his own party? it s on to the next fight. it s on to the next battle. it s on to 2012. eporter: the other outside possibility, a third party candidate. if sarah palin divides the republicans, don t rule out a run by new york city mayor mike bloomberg, and he could pay his way. president obama will go a long ways to retool his own message and that begins with his post election news conference later tod today. i would have to say it s a huge republican victory, with an asterisk and the asterisk is the senate. and i say this because all of a sudden if i m speaker designate johnboehner, i m feeling great and i don t have to worry about a republican senate. i can sa hey, the democratic senate and the democratic president are holding everything up. i did what i could. let s pick up on what you said and talk about these independents, we learned something about them, they are a fickle group and they don t have a lot of patience and just as they didn t have patience with the democrats over these last few years and got rid of them, what are ty going to be expecting from rublicans over these next two years? this group can move again in the nextwo years. i think the big messag here is that americans don t want government to play the role that it s been playing. it wants it to play a smaller role. and to your point, the independent voters are going to render that judgment and quickly. they want to see less government, less spending, that s the focus now, cutting government spending, at s what you re going to hear republicans talk about every day, every week. but if you have a docratic controlled house and a republican controlled senate. when you were interviewing rand paul, they have support for gridlock. they want less government and that means they don t want action from congress. i think the obama coalition has disappeared in two years. the young people, the indendents the minorities, they were not there for him. how is he going to get them back? he has to retool the message. i m not certain that it s possible to put it together that quickly without either fighting with congress or working with congress. i m not sure how he reaches outs and figures out the strategy. futons for everybody. andrea david and chuck, thank you so much. nbc will bring you president obama s post election press conference. we have got by mid afternoon. and then as we get into tomorrow, we ll have rain likely coming through the region. it looks like that rain may linger into friday morning and then on turday it should be blustery and chilly, ghs into the 40s. as we get into the weekend, and is that s your latest weather. meredith? 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[ male announcer ] the vanilla caramel latte from maxwell house international cé. the 60 calorie y to stop your world. good morning. it s 7:26 on this wednesday, november 3, 2010. i m joe krebs. in the news 4 today, one of the closest races in the nation is right here in virginia. jerry conley is barely holding off keith fimian by about 500 votes but there is a problem with some of the voting machines and there are stil votes to be counted. right now the race is too close to call. we ll take a break and come back and lookat our weather a good morning. frosty cold west of washington on this wednesday morning. mostly cloudy later today with highs into the mid-50s and rain likely onthursday. maybe some showers thursday night into friday morning. then drying out after that into the weekend but remaining chilly. jerry, how s our traffic. up in rocille authorities are on the scene of an accident. southbound on veersville road. the adway s shut down. a stop over to the interstates, we are loaded up along 66 moment most of the way fair oaks on in. the good news is it s just volume. we ll have coverage of decision to 10. much more live on nbcwashington.com. 7:30 now on this wednesday morning, november3, 2010. a power shift is coming to washington. republicans have taken control of the house and closed the gap in the senate. just ahead, much more on the results of the midterm elections and including what they mean for the future of sarah palin. she thr her support behind a number of candidates including some women she dubbeded her mama grizzlies. how will last night s results impact her potential run for president in 2012? we re going to get into that straight ahead. plus we re going to tak a turn and talk to ricky martin. he became one of the world s biggest pop stars and now he is openly gay and the proud father of twin boys. we re going to talk to him about his lif and that decision to come out and much more. but let s begin with sarah palin s role in the midterm elections and where she goes from here. first here s nbc s norah o doell. good morning to you. reporter: sarah palin called these midtermsn earthquake, she had predicted a mom awakening. but exitolling shows it was a gender gap, white men not women that fueled this republican wave. as for palin s mama grizzlies only ten roared to victory. sarah palin promised big change. look out washington because there s a whole stampede of pink elephants crossing the line stampeding through on november 2, 2010. campaigning hardor conservave women she calls mama grizzlies. it seems like there s kind of a mom awakening in the last year and a half. reporter: one of those mama grizzlies nikki haley become the state s first female governor. now we can see 2012 from our house. two other palin endorsed women also won governor s races, marry fallen in oklahoma and suzanna martinez in new mexico. in senate contests, sarah palin s record was mixed. kelly ayotte won, but. the republican party will never be the same. o donnell was virtually own known until she was catapulted out of obscurity by sarah palin in delaware. a move tt put palin at lagger head with the establishment republicans like karl rove. i look forward to karl rove and oths looking at what cnn is reporting and other networks are reporting that exit polling is showing that me castle even would have lost to chris coons. reporter: still while many o palin s mama grizzlies have become national stars, election experts say 2010 was no year of the woman. that really obscured the fact that the overwhelming number of voters are men. this year will will be a net decrease in the number of women in congress and that will be the first decline in congress. a lot of democratic women lost seats in congress and moswomen in congress are democrats. south carolina gernor elect nikki halle is with us good morning. you werene of the first candidates that sarah palin endorsed, do you think you could ve won an election without her endorsement? we saw that we were coming from fourth place to about second place but certainly when she came into getting involved in south carolina, it got more people to just pay attention to the message. so we were very grateful. she has gotten the country to realize the power of their voice and she certainly did that in south carolina. we were grateful, we spread our message. the other two wen who won governor s races were also endorsed by sarah palin, you were are her mama grizzlies. will you endorse her if she shld decide to run for president in 2012? i think the responsibilities to the citizens of south carolina is look at the environment and i look at the sle of candidates who are running and io running. what do you think about the tea party and its influence ading forward in the republican party. i love t tea party, the tea party is not a party at all, it s republicans democrats and independents who said they have had ough. it was going back to the what the role of government should be, which is government to secure the rights of the people. it was never intended to be all things to all people i a certainly a proud product of the tea party. we saw a time where both parties had gotten arrogant. we had seen excessive spending. you re also t first woman elected governor of sou carolina and the first indian american governor elected in this country. i think when people look at this race they certainly see that it s historic. what anyone that s proud because of this election, i appreciate that and my family shares in that. but the pride is really going to happen in january when we do great things for south carolina. south carolina governor elect nikki haley and once again congratulations. margaret hooper is a conservativecommentator. good morning to both of you. let s branch out. christine o donnell, she lost, sharon angle lost, when you look at all of that and you balance it out, where does her influence stand at this point? i think her influence is deep and wide in the republican party. she got the tea party going and she in turn got the republican party going. even though she lost some big ones likehristine o donnell who if some republicans had won delaware they would be taking over the senate right now. her good friend nikki haley where there s a republican primary in 2012 is going to be residing over that state. palilinpalin s influence is very muchthere. how much do endorsements really matter? remember whenhe kennedys came out and endorsed barack obama over hillary clinton early on, there s a question of how much does eorsement really matter? does it move the party too far to the right? that s going to be determined in ngress. the story now is going to be whether the republican leadership, whether mitch mcconnell in the senate or john boehner in the house can take the energy of the tea party. we don t know the answer to that question. it s going to depend on the personalities and e policy that is pursuever the next few months. there s an influx of candidates coming in ande has a very good plan to incorporate everyone. it was a big wakeup call. there are some mixed results. rand paul, marco bio, fabulous candidates did very very well. let s see what happens when all those tea party candidates get together. they haven t all met together. they re going to get together in washington for the first time. is sarah palin the defacto leader of th republican party? she s the defacto it s going to be interesting ifhey get one in congress. 650 organizations plus all over the country doesn t have one leader. so sarah palin certainly i agree with you, she makes a lot of headlines, a lot of people turn to her, but she is not the leader. you have a lot of discussion among established republicans who say they are worried about sarah lin running in 2012. they think it will be very bad for their party. how do they balance the influence that she has wh their concern for what she might do to the party? they want the energy that she represents. but in the national poll, in general election races, she s a disaster. but they also have other candidates they re pursuing. one reason you re hearing all the anonymous comments about sarah palin is they have other horses they re riding. the republican establishment cannot take a candidate. the republican party are going to pick their candidates not the establishment. now let s get a check of the weather from al. all right, thanks a lot, meredith, we have got some friends here from st. de. nice to see you guys. cold this morning. western northern suburbs and rural areas st and north of washington, we ve got another morning with widespread frost and freezing tperatures. closer to washington, though, they re degrees as well as south and east where it s in the upper 40s. high today in the low mid-50s with thickening clouds. after midnight could get rain moving in. looks like a wet day on thursday. might get some lingering showers thursday night into friday morning and drying out and we got somebody who s in double digits now. what was it really like to be living la vida loco. ricky martin will be here with a louvre interview. 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[ male announcer ] the vanilla caramel latte from maxwell house international café. the 60 calorie way to stop your world. from maxwell house international café. hi. chili s tonight? do i know you? yeah. your mother s brother went to summer camp with my uncle s friend s accountant. we re practilly family. jason? who? my mom s brother s accountant. yeah. that guy is a maniac. okay. i love jason. isn t he a riot? chili s $20 dinner for two. all you need is somebody to go with. share one appetizer, oose two entrees. now with crispy ied shmp. just $20 for two at chili s. let s take a live look outside. sunny skies in the nation s capital. 7:56 is the time on this wednday. good morning. i m joe krebs. marylanders re-elected o maey. o malley won with 56% of the vote. voters in montgomery county have rejected the proposal to y for ambulance use. 56% said no. 46% in favor of the fees. we ll come back and look at our weather and traffic. stay with us. where d you learn to that so well. where d you learn to do that so well. the new cadillac srx. the cadillac of crossovers. cadillac. the new standard of the world. there is one you can. septic system breakdowns affect 1.2 million homes each year. septic backups can cost about six thousand dollars in expense, and couness hos of repair. rid-x. help save yourself from disaster. another cold morning. good morning. i m meteorologist tom kierein. temperatures at or below freezing. south and east it s generally up and middle s. elsewhere we ll have increasing clouds and highs reaching the mid-50s. tomorrow rain likely. jerry, how s the traffic? yesterday was very quiet. today, not so much. we are loaded up now. 270 accident-free but germantown on down, crawling all the way. one more stop on the beltway, inner loop, speaking of crawling. i-95 to i-56 travel lanes are open through the work zone. stay with us throughout the morning. we ll have continuing coverage of decision 2010 and all the 8:00 now on a wednesday morning, november 3, 2010. this is what it looked like back on june 11, 1999. one of our biggest concerts ev. i remember saying at the time, i have just seen the beatles. it was crazy. he was absolutely a sensation, putting on a great show out on our plaza. and he looks the same,that s prty amazing as well. a lot has happened in his life. no question. i m matt lauer, along with meredith viera and al rer inside studio 1a. that s fun to look back at that video. none of us will ever forget those backup dance he had. we thought we were living on the edge of what was acceptable there. i m focusing on him. now he has a new memoir about his rise to fame, his choice to reveal his sexuality and the father of his twin boys. please and thank you, you would think they would be the two easiest words you can say, and you hear them less andless. why is it so important to bring them back into our daily conversation? don t forget about our today viral video challee. we want you to create your own today show themed viral video. a you have to do is pick one and use it to create a fun, creative make us say wow. ma we re now playing a winning video right here on today, for all the details and rules log on to today show come. todayshow.com. for now let s get the latest on last night s election results. a new divided government in washington. kelly o donnell is on capitol hill for us. kelly, good morning to you. reporter: well, republicans do pick up that gavel in the new year, but they begin to show off their new power today with a news conference this moing. and while this waa historic victory not seen a decades, voters don t want to see them gloating. this is not a time for celebration, it s a time to rol up our sleeves and go to work. reporter: but republicans could hardly contain their excitement. and the next speaker of the house, ohio s john boehner i spent my whole life reporter: who s known for getting teary could not contain his emotions. chasing the american dream. reporter: the president called with congratulations and boehner called for more chan. we hope president obama will now respect the will of the peoplechangeourse and to commit to making changes that they are demanding. reporter: bruised democrats do have one big reason to celebrate today. the senate s top democrat, harry reid survived his own bitter race. theell that just rang isn t the endf the fight, it s the start of the next round. reporter: democrats needed to hold west virginia and did. popular governor joe manch overcame the state s dislike for president obama. the tea party class of 2010, claimed victory fas in kentucky with rachnd paul. there s a tea party tidal wave and we re sendi a message. reporter: ron johnson won over russ feingold. two of the most talked about women of the teaarty fell short. i want you to see that i m still smiling. repter: sharon angle lost to harry reid in nevada and in delaware, christine o donnell s run is over. one result hit home for the president, illinois. mr. obama s former senate seat goes republican, with mark kirk. and in florida, tea party backed marco rubio cautions that republican victory does not necessarily mean voters approve. and we make a grave mistake if we believe that tonight these resus are somehow an embrace of the republin party. what they are is a second chance. reporter: and republicans behind the scenes are trying to be minul of what rubio talked about. not looking like they re overreaching right away, so a lot of transitioning happening behind the scenes. current speaker nancy pelosi did not appear on camera, but put out a statement talking about the coureous ydecisions democrats made while in power. president oma will talk about the election results at a news conference later today an nbc news will bring it to you ve at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. that should be interesting. let s get a check of the morning s other top stories, ann s on assignme, natalee is over at the news desk. it was nearly nine out of ten americans telling nbc news in exit polling that the economy was their main concern this election. all eyes are on the feral reserve today and it s plan to revive the economy. the focus really is on the fed here who s wrapping up a two-day meeting today. we re expected to hear more about another bond buying program meant to boost the economy and get money flowing. already we have seen stocks rallyi rallying. we also saw oil break through $80 overnight. voters in california rejected a controversial measure known as proposition 19 that would have legalized marijuana for recreational use. al qaeda in iraq is meanwhile iraqi police now say at least 91 people were kild in more than a dozen attacks in baghdad tuesy. hundreds were wounded. security is being stepped up at all the embassiesn athens today because of a strg of mail bombs targeting at least eight embassies in germany, italy and france. domestic greek terrorists are suspected. and nasa needs to launch discovery by monday otherwise it will have to wait until december. it is 8:07 right now, you re up to da. let s go to al roker now with a check of the weather. thank you very much good morning. here, the fifth morning in a row with sureezing tempetures generally west and north of washington. right now still near the freezing mark. and scattered frost there. near 40 in washington and near the bay. and elsewhere south and eastf washington it s generallyabove freezing. later today we should make it above 50. tonight rain likely moving in after midnight. likes like a wet thursday. could get a few more showers thursday night into friday and that s your latest weather. still to come, ricky martin on his rise to fame, on coming out and on fatherhood. wel talk to him in our studio right after this. for 25,000 miles? 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and then in 1994, you performed on the today show, you wowed them at the grammys. was that period of your life, where you were taking on every opportunity that was afforded to you, you never said no to anything. so many interviews and people began asking you about your sexuality and you kept avoiding the question. why were you so coy about ings? i ll have to say if i knew it was going to be this easy i would have done it ten years o, because it really feels amazing just to be in front of a mirror and talk to yourself and say i love you. i just wish it upon everybody. and why back then couldn t yo do that? i wish i knew. maybe because of my culture, maybe because of the fear of not being accepted. i think it s something that a lot of people go through and it s really sad that people go through life not being able to accept themselves. some at the age of 17 are able to do it. some in their 30s. some in their 60s. some never get to do it so. it s really sad. was the reason that you were taking every opptunity you had essentially because you were running away from yourself in a way? maybe. it s a combination of things. i always wanted the crossover. i always wanted to be accepted by the whole world and definitely the united states was very important. but at the same time, i was working but i was really, really tired. it was 15 yearsf being on stage nonstop, but then again, i was receiving phone calls. and the same thing with sting. and to be on the today show. it was things that i really need to just say yes. but at the same time, it s like, stop. i needed to think about a lot of things. nd you did stop. i did. you did stop when you made the decision to go to india and explore your spirituality. it was a very beautiful moment when i allowed myself to really think and feel. everything was pretty automatic back in the day. butor me to go to india with my backpack and go into temples and talk to people about different things and different phosophies allowed me to take a moment and say, you know what? you re a great man. there s nothing wrong with you. and it felt amazing. and wasn t that the moment thatou fell in love with a man and you came out to your parents. what was their reaction? my mom ask me, are you in love? and i said, yes, i am in love. are you in love with a man? i said yes, mom, i m in love with a man. how did she know right away? stand up and give me a hug, that was her reaction. i m a very lucky man. e s a mom, she knows. you don t he to tell her, she can see in your eyes what you re going through, what you re struggling with. same thing with my dad. i have a really cool father, he tells me i just want you to be happy. i just want you to stand up and be oud, be proud of yourself, be proud of your family. just go out there and share the love. and this year you made it official with your fans, you announced on your website in may, you say i am proud to say that i m a homosexual man, i am very bssed to be why am. how did you feel when you wrote that. i started crying like a baby, to be honest. but it felt amazing. i wrote this book because of my children. when i was holding my children for the first te, i said mateo and valeino. i said i need to be honest, otherwise it would be like teaching them how to lie. that s what this book is about. this book is for music fans, it s for people who are struggling with it s about parenting, it s a very complete book. what kind of father do you strive to be? it s very difficult. i think it s sometng you take a day at a time and for my kids to live a very transparent life and for them not to get to know the meaning of judgment. when they getld enough to ask who their mom is, what do you say to them? i ll say, hi, nice to meet you. i guess, every family is different, i will tell them you are here because i wanted you to bad in my life that with the he of god, everything aligned for you to be part of my life. and i will them no families are the same. some families consist of a mom, two moms, two dads and you re part of a modern family and you have to be very happy and pro about that. whe are you now musically? what are we going to see from you musically? hopefully in january or february, i release my next album. i can t wait to go on the road. my kids already have their passports. they re coming with me. and obviously before i let you go, people want to know if you re in a relationship now, and i understand that you are? i am in a relationship, i feel complete. i am it s just going to get bett. ricky martin, such a pleasure to have you here. we miss you very much. the book is named me ricky martin . here, take the card. you goo the shops. i ll meet you at the gate. thanks. please remove all metal objects out of your pockets. with chase freedom you can get a total of 5% cash back. fun money from freedom. that s 5% cash ba in quarterly categories and an unlimited 1% cash back everywhere else. and this too. does your card do this? 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still delays heading into downtown. a bit of a delayed rh hour. over on 270 southbound, two reports of accidents. one in montgomery village, one south ofhady grove road. be careful. stawith us throughout the morning. we lhave continuing coverage of decision 2010nd a we have all of the results on nbcwashington.com. 8:30 now on this wednesd morning, november 3, 2010. we he a bunch of fresh faces here in rockefeller plaza, waving hello. we are meredith viera and matt lauer and al roker. i would say that this group is a very polite group. not only on television, but also please and thank you, the norm here, but in a lot of cases, people are simply forgetting to say those simple words, we re going to find out why they re so important in o dailey lives. faced with a le and death choice, cut off your arm or die. now it s a movie stars james franco and there s already oscar buzz abo this. we re goingo talk to him. we re going to have one of his favorite recipes. even more shocked to hear some of the family stories. we got rain in the pacific northwest, some snow showers in new england, and the good morning. another frosty cold morning. we have some high clouds streaming in ahead of a rain system that will be in here tomorrow. still subfreezing temperatures. west, southwest and rthwest of washington. south and southeast generally above freezing. and later today it should make it into the low 50s. cloudy afternoon, cloudy tonight. could get rain after midnight. might have a lingering shower thursday night into friday morning. dry into the weekend. and don t forget you can check your weather any time of the day or night on to the weather channel on cable or on the internet weatherom. we re back now at 8:35, this morning is civility dead, please and thank you, just when you thought common courtesy was dead, there maye a little bit of help out there. thanks a lot, dad. thanks, beaver. reporter: there used to be a me when simply being polite was a way of life. oh, boy. thanks, ma. repter: common courtesy was st that, common. but as art imitates life, you would think times have changed. shut up, lloyd, i ll be fine. reporter: it seems decorum is ad. a etiquette and protocol consultant for decades, she says go manners. we re all perceived to be very, very busy and people s perception is that it takes more time to be polite than it does to just rush through something and be impolite. reporter: in today s fast paced high stress world it seems that so many people forget the simple things. are we really too busy, too important or just too inconsiderate to say please a thank you? to find out, we headed to this los angeles coffee shop. after two hours and 27 stomers, not a single person, not one failed to say thank you. a few said please, but they were all thankful. i just want to acknowledge what they d for me, i don t want to walk around entitled. i was raised to say please and thank you. reporter: etiquette experts will tell you good manners do come from mom and dad and they re re-enforced by society. but what happened here doesn t happen everywhere. being a barista can be a thankless job. but not on this day. . so how do you make please and thank you even more common in everyday life? reverend sherry houser and rabbi matthew greer are here to get us back to the basics. my parents drilled this into me and it was not a good thing if i forgot please and thank you. but that was an exception. in our everyday lives we see people forgetting it all the time. are parents getting more lacks? i caught a confirmation plasz is other day and i broht the subject up and say they not only has that gone to the wayside and their parents are saying i love you less than they used to. and the kids are picking up on this. things have become so perfectly serviced, so perfectly timed, we become entitled instead of appreciative. the words are used by some people to just get what they want. but they re really a window on your personality, aren t they? absolutely. and they represent different values, the reason why they re not extraneous words is that please and thank you say somethg about what they value in the world. if i m a person that says please, i m acknowledging that not everything in the world belongs to me. the same with thankyou, we re affirming that what we have and who we are comes through our relationship with other people. so it s an airmation of connection and relationship and a carer of important values. and even though they re little words, it s part of the drip, drip, drip of the loss of civility in general. gratitude, i think proportionately and directly relates to humility which i think is a lost value in society. the opposite i arrogance, entitlement is civility. if you re full of incivility and full of ganger, the prophets no longer prove size, the sage is no longer wise and the teacher can no longer teac so where can people turn to find a little civility? if you can t buy it at the store, is it found in spirituality and religion where else would you suggest people turn? i think one place you can find it is in spirituality. there s other places that we think it s important to take time to be very present in the moment. to be aware of other people. to affirm the humanity of other people. we know that words have incredible power to build up or tear down. it would be hard to imagine someone going out and reading beautiful poetry and walking out on the street and being rude to someone. those two things just don t go together. i think it s important when you re with your child, say, hi, this is mr. lauer, say hi and shake his hand. take out a piece of stationary, writing a letter, sealing it, stamping it and putting it in a mailbox. we re all not perfect, but between perfection and imperfection is gratitude. we hope to see you soon. up next, dr. james franco and oscar winning director danny boyle bring the incredible story of new look. new style. new sears. come see our brand new side. at sears. me andhe boys earn rards just for everyday banking. like getting money from the drive thru. and taking out cash at the bank. paying our bills online earns us rewards. now send. we even earn rewards just for swiping our debit cards. it s new checking with rewards at capital one banks all over the dc area. what s in your wallet? hiker aaron ralston spent five days pinned beneath boulder in 2003 when heade an agonizing decision to cut off his own arm. the movie is called 127 hours and stars james franco as the young climber. ahh james franco and danny boyle, good morning. i love watching your face, danny, because your mouth is wide open. you made the film. i used to watch him on the monitor and that was the whole idea, we wanted to live it through him. it is an amazing story. when i first heard about you in connection with it. it s a very claustrophobiic setting, it s one character and it involves an amputation, it doesn t sound like the kind of recipe for success, but what led you to it? there was this extraordinary story inside that survival story, where he is incredibly self-efficient perfect specimen of 27 and he s running away from people. and when he gets trapped there, he has to move back to them in his heart. thers a journey in his heart where he realizes these people, his mom, his girl his friends and family generally. his strength and his memory of them will somehow give him the courage to do what he has to do. really this movie is mostly about you, it s 90 minutes of you on camera, the whole time, your character. you talk to aaron, obviously to prepare for ts role. how was important was it for you to get to know him? it was important, especially the beginning. and actually the first time i met aaron, it was a pretty intense experience, not only because i was going to be playing his life, buthen aaron was trapped, he really made these videos. so he broug ose. he had a camera with him that plays a big part in these movies. he anned to just film the scenery, but once he was trapped, it became a way to leave what he thought were going to be his final messages. he doesn t show those to people other than his family and the people that are mentioned in the video. how does that affect you? as you can imagine, they were very intense, very moving. and because, the key thing is, when aaron made those messages, he didn t know that there s a happy ending at the end. and so, it was his pure behavior in a way. it was him in the middle of the most intense moments of his life, thinking that he was going to die and he had accepted it. but the other side of that was the way he delivered the messages were with such, you know, this kind of composure and dignity because he thought it was the last thing that his mother would ever see of him. and so a very moving kind of contrast between what he was thinking and how he s presenting himself. i want to talk about the amputation scene, danny, because you must havhad a lot of discussion. some people have scread in the movie, some people have feinted. but it s very accurate? we didn t want to go io horror nor to trivialize it. it s extraordinary that you experience it with james because what comes after is so much greater, that you re giving life back again, this rebirth. aaron calls it an ecstasy, a few forra, under the most impossible circumstances. he said he left that canyon a much fuller person. it took him 34 minutes to amputate his arm. how do you prepare for a scene like that. obviously i have never done anything like that. let s hope you never have to. i think the thing about this movie is, you know, most of us will never be in that situation and danny really has made a movie that is unlike most movies an experiences. people come out and say that wa a unique experience, so you really are on the run with the character and it enables, i think the audience to ask the questions. first what, when everything s chipped away, what was most essential in my life, what was most important. and for aaron it was his loved ones and the connection to his loved ones. he had lost the connection in some ways. that he had taken for granted and realized how important they were. and secondly? secondly that s what gave him the strength to do what he did. i think we all have something in us that would enable us to do that if we were in the same situation. as far as doing that scene, aaron walked us through every step of the way and we had a great, you knoa and we were able to shoot in such a way that we do those long takes and because the prosthetic was so good we could just kind of do it. and the real aaron is in the movie alongith his wife and his baby and i understand he very much liked the film? when we showed it to him, he was pouring tears down his face. i don t know what it s like to see someone else live through it, it s extraordinary really. congratulations on the oscar nomination, so great to have you here. we have learned that you c have no idea about this world you can just present your work as honestly as you can. it sounds like a strange movie, but it s for everyone, it s a main stream movie. it s a phenomenal movie. mes franco, you re brilliant. thank you. and it opens in theater this is friday. he s a fourth generation master baker from hoboken, new jersey, runs carlos s bakehop and his own reality show. good to see you. good to see you. how did this happen? you re a sensation. how did that happen from hobo n hoboken, new rsey. i always get ask the question, how did you become the cake bo? and most people think it s like hitting the lottery, but it s actually been years in the work and the making of hard work and just myork ethic and my drive. and it s what you go into. he came up with a cookbook, but it s not a cookbook, this issed by your family, buddy senior who died when you were 17 years old. he died when he was 17 years old and i actuall had to quit school and go into the family business and step into his shoes and he was such a great man. this is a book to inspire people to follow the american dream because my father truly lid the american dream and it s a dedication to him and his life achievements and mine also. i want to read something that you write in the book. i love this, i really do. you talk about the importance of a baker s hands. you say ask a second or third generation baker if he thinks he has his father s hands and he ll tell you there s no doubt. you go on to say i became obsessed with my hands, like many who were born into my trade, i honestly believe and this may sound arrogant or blasphemous or conced but it s true, i believe that my hands were touched by god. i truly believe that. i have had dreams about it and things like that and there s been so many life experiences and that shy i wanted to put them into the book about what i went through, but when i create something, you look at my hands, they re always perfectly clean and they re what makes me who i am. you have three kids and a fourth one on the way, do you look at them and say are these god touched hands? i have one sonho says daddy, my hands are not clean. do you know what s happened with chefs lately, buddy, they have exploded in popularity, they have become rock stars, not just to the older generation, but kids know the names of che now and they grow up saying i want toecome a chef. you know what it is? i mean it s reality with real people. people want to become real people and achieve goals and, you know, i want people to know that i m so happy that my show and the book and everything i do brgs family together and i m inspirg a new generation and the way i was inspired by my father, i m happy to say that i m inspiring people. are you at all worried that the bigger you get, a i don t mean physically, in terms of popularity and more tv shows and tours and you re an author that you get furth and further away from the basics of your craft? absutely not. obviously i am i don t feel like a celebrity, matt, i feel like a baker from n jersey because those are the seeds that my father planted and those are the seeds as i say in the book, at the time i thought he wa hard on me but he was actually making the good humble human being that i am and the man i am today and i ll ner forget that. en you were talking about family values, if i didn t say please or thank you, i got a backhand. a lot of us did. and you brought some of your good goodies. you like pleasing people don t you? yes. does it bother you if i do that? because i have been staring at floor the entire segment. people think it s a recipe book but it s one of those books where it s unexpected. i want people to read it and tell me buddy, your book inspired me, it reminded me of my family and things like that. i hope people go and read it. i put my heart into it. 8:56 is your time. 41 degrees. a beautiful look at the white house on this day after the election day. good morning to you. i m eun yang. results are still streaming in. it was a repeat of four years ago when he beat republican bob ehrlich. he wo with 56% of the vote. they have rejected a controversial proposal to pay for ambulance use. 54% saidno to 46% who favored the fees. weer going to take a quick break. your weather and traffic are up next. stay with us. where d you learn to do that so well. where you learn to do that so well. the new cadillac srx. the cadillac of crossovers. cadillac. the new standard of the world. another cold november morning. we ve got some sun through high clouds. temperatures around the region will be climbing to the low to mid-50s by early to mid afternoon. it will be cludy. we could get rain later tonight. showers likely tomorrow. jerry, how s the traffic? it looks likee re starting to wind down a bit. actually a little better than normal. inner loop is okay. in town, 395 across the 14th street bridge, no issues. eun? thank you, jerry. stay with us throughout the morning. morning. we ll have [ dad ] yeah! [ cheers and applause ] [ male announcer ] achievement gets points for living life. earn pnc points for your credit and debit card purchases. find out more at pnc.com/getpoints. pnc. for the achiever in us all. the first day of november 2010, it s sunny and cold here in the big apple. i mt lauer alongside natalee morales and aloker. the republicans gained ntrol of the congre control of the congress. we ll be revealing the six superfoods that will help you fight cancer. no surprise, but the research is new. and our 9/11 panel will tackle your financial emergencies including what you can do if you don think you qualify for those record low mortgage rates out there. we have got a lot to get to. you ve got the top stories. congress will have a new look come january with republicans winning control of the house. democrats did keep their hold on the senate but by a slimmer margin. john boehner leang his home in d.c. this morning is now in line to become the house speaker and aside from the shift in power, he got aongratulatory call from president obama. what we re going to do is join forces hopefully and be able to produce jobs and get people spending. we as americans like to see opportunity, we admire those who areuccessful and we got to end this war on success and people are willing to step up and take responsibility. i think all of us in it together can get this country back on track. meantime it wasn t all bad news, barbara boxer held on to her seat and democrats needed to hold on to west virginia and they did. governor joe manchin will become senator manchin come january. and nevada inform s harry reid survived a tough challenge by tea party republican sharon angle and will remain majority leader. reid extended a hand across the isle. . we have a different senate than we had before. i think it s time we started woing together, that s what project s all about. not from the far left, not from the far right, we have to work together to build a consensus and move this country along. and president obama will have a press conferee at 1:00 p.m. and we ll cover it live for you on nbc news. the florida teenager best known as the girl with the uncontrollable case of hiccups will findut friday whether she will be released on bail. jennifer ann mee was in court tuesday for the fir time since her arrest on murder charges st month. police say she lured a m into a house where he was then robbed and shot by two men. and hundreds of thousands of screaming fan are eected to celebrate the giants win over the texas ranger. a big congratulations again to them. it is three minutes past the hour, now you re up to date. thank you very much. t another cold morning. we ve had temperatures below freezing in much of the region west and northwest ofñixdçó washington. now it s beginning to get a little above freezing there, but faher west and north stillok at (vujht elsewhere we re in the 30s to l40. a cloudy afternoon. cloudy tonight. could get rainñi after midnight. rain showersçó likely into thursday t day an i into the night. dry and chilly for the wkend. today s money 911 is brought to you by charles schwab. the answers to your big financial questions and concerns. jean chatzky is today s financial editor and david bach and last but not least, we have got cnbc s personal finance correspondent sharon epperson. we re going to say hello to candy from kansas. good morning, candy. are you there, candy? candy? i think we have lost candy. so we re going to move over to skype now, let s try julie in granite bay, california. julie, are you there? i m here. your turn, julie, what s your question? my husband and i really want to take advantage of a low mortgage rate, but we have a jumbo loan and we do not meet the 75% loan to value. we have an interest only loan and it works for us because with my husband s job we move every three to five years. we have excellent credit and always pay our mortgage on time. if we refinance, we could save close to $1,200 per month. what do we do? he fact that you have an interest oy mortgage worries me. the problem that i have is that you re not paying down princil. i would tell you this, you shoulde adding principal payments to that mortgage every month. the problem is, you re exactly right, the banks do not want to refinance right now a jumbo mortgage unless you have 25% equity in your home and some banks are requiring 30%. your best possibility however to try to refinance is to go back to your current bank, who s your lender right now? caldwell banker. that s actually your broker, not your bank. i would go back to who s got your loan right now. caldwell banker is the broker helped you d your loan. here s what you need to know. if you move a lot, like you said you did. it takes a year to recover the cost of refinancing in most cases, even with these low interest ras, by the time you include the title. the appraiappraisal. if you re going to move in two to three years, i wouldn t even be worrying about refinancing. sk about a loan modification. there are bas when you go back to your original lender, and you ask them, can you just modify my loan, a you pay them several hundred dollars, and they actually reduce the interest rate tolevels and not every bank will do this. i just tried this personally. and they said, forget it. it didn t work for me, but it didork for our producer mark victor, so there you go. one out of three. julie, there you go, you should call mark victor instead of listening to these guys. he s a retiree. my husband and i got married in sepmber 2009, three months later unfortunately he lost his job, he s still unemployed. while my salary can cover the bills and other expenses, i m not currently in the position to assist with my husband s $8,000 debt with the irs. in the meanme, the interest is climbing on his debt. what are our options? this is a tough situation for this couple. what they need to realize, the irs is going to look at them, they re goingo look at both of their incomes and both of their tax obligations. so if they re going to get a refund, that refund is going to go towards this tax that is due. and if they owe tax they need to look and see if they can avoid ovpaying on taxes. the irs really wants to hp folks and it actually has a very good website. irs.gov, gon there and do an line payment agreement. you can do it in one lump sum 120 days or you can pay them in monthly installments. it s worth it because you re going to start paying it off faster and that means less interest and it s going to be able t lower your late fees, cut themn half by doing this as a monthly payment. the problem is you re going to say this is all gng to fall on me because he has no income. if yore trying to buy a house or a car, they re going to look at both of your credit and both of your lending and all of those things and your obligations so it s important to do this. unfortunatel she s going to bear the weight. we have got candy back on the phone from kansas. can you hear me now, candy? caller: yes i can. what is your question? caller: my question is, a few months ago i applied and qualified for a new credit card. however after i mailed the application i began to have second thoughts a didn t really want to cards. i recved the cards but never called in to activate the account. i do not wish to use them. i do need to contact the company to close the account or just burn the cards and never give them a second thought. unfortunately, candy, that card is already on your credit report. once you apply and you get approved, it s there, and that means you already took the small hit that you get when apping for credit. i would pull a credit report and pull a credit score as well. chances are doing nothing, unless this card is charging you an annual fee is going to be the best move because if you close this card your credit isoing to take a hit, i don t want to see you do that unless you think you re going to wild with that card and not be able to control yourself with the spending. actually she may improve o credit store by having more available credit if she doesn t use them and she just keeps the current balances that she has and keeps aery small balance on these and pays it off. i have done this and i actually did improve my score over time. it s a self-control issue, can you handle it? and the question is what did mark victor do. he got the card, he paid it off. here we go now, jeanette in tennessee, i am a 52-year-old single mom that is disabled, i receive a social security check, i have a roth ira that has $5,000 in my account. can i draw any money out of this account to buy a house as a first time home buyer? technically, yes, you can pull money out of yr ira account, up to $10,000 for a first-time home purchase without penalty. but they have s all you have in your ira, the last thing i want you to do is pull tha money out and use it to buy a home. she simply doesn t have enough money saved to buy a home. you need to save for the next year for a down payment. you need three to six months of mortgage payments before you en consider buying a house. thank you so much. still ahead, eat smart today, six cancer fighting superfoods, plus mother daughter fashions, affordable and coordinating with the lady in your family. but first, these messages. no more $2, $3 fees.800-0 tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no more paying to access your own money. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 it d be likevery atm in the world was your atm. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 the schwab bank high yield investor checking(tm) account. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 zero atm fees. tdd# 1-80045-2550 a eat interest rate. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no minimums. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 the biggest thing in checking since checks. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 open an accot at 1-800-4schwab or schwab.com. how d you do that? 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[ man ] today the wld looks mighty fine [ women ] pop-tarts happy sunshine time! [ man ] grab a pop-tart and you might just start to sing songs like a meadow lark stretch and yawn blow a kiss to mom cause pop-tarts mornings are the bomb so, rise and shiiiiine crescent bacon-cheddar pinwheels. just unroll the dough, add the ingredients, roll up, bake, and present. wow. these look so good. and so easy. for this recipe and more, visit pillsburycrescents.com. this morning on today s styles, hopes for the young and young at heart. a lifestyle editor for online retailer. good morning to you. thanks for having me. i love this idea of mothers and daughters really sort of stepping out in style together. and it s not being matchy, matchy, right? there s so many trends out there that moms and daughters can also share that are appropriate for both. what are some of the trends you are seeg? we re seeing amazing trends, today we have everything. i think it s really a classic look and you have some great price tags. this is mommy christy, with her daughter olive and christy is wearing a more classic look and this cape is from dara. it s a great scottish tweed a it s $129, but if there s one trend piece that you should invest in this season, it s a cape. and you want to layer under it. exactly. and they re great pieces so you just add more layers as it gets colder with the cape. and one thing you want to member when you re wearing a cape iskinny silhouette on the bottom. a skinny pant like christy is wearing or a skinny jean. olive, we sort of re-created the cape lookust by layering, here we have a great knit layer that goes right over her coat. layering is cute for kids, it s also pctical. you re too hot, take one off. cold, put one in. and it gives you this little red riding hood look. a beautiful mother-daughter duo. so are capes not really for everyone, if you tend to be a little bit shorter, a little bit rounder? you just stay a little slimmer on the bottom. capes are really flattering for most figures. good job, olive, you rocked it. next you hav the military look which i absolutely love and y . it s been announced for two seasons, but it s still marching strong and audra is wearing a double breasted wool army green coat. it s $129. i love the pockets too on that. i love the pockets and the belt detail. whatou want to look out for miliry, army green, khakis, nautical navys. and i think the rson why this trend has stayed around so long is because it s so versatile. and it s very neutral too, but i like how you brightened up the look with the scarf and the gloves. that s the great thing, and these coats really can take you anywhere. and lola has some great coats too. and lola is showing us how to do the military for children. it s the same great look, it s still the silhouette look. but it s softer, we have peter pan collars and a little puffed sleeve. and you know, throw it on with sometriped leggings and some fun earmuffs from target and she looks adorable. i love your boots there, those are gorgeous, foroth mom and daughter. beautiful, thank you, ladies. well done. okay, next is our faux fur trend worn by layla and luna her daughter. beautiful. and you know, this is it looks like the real thin that s faux, people. don t worry, it s faux. this is a real statement made from a coat. and this coat is also from dara, and what s great is that it s as warm as it is glamour. not often is a fashion trend fashionable and functional. but this is is. but what i love about this coat is it s really an instant outfit maker. it doesn t matter what you ve got on underneath it, you throw on this coat and you look instantly put together. so i think about dropping off kids for school, throw this on, i could have on yoga pants and still look chic. then we have luna who s showing us another big tnd in faux fur and that s the leopard print. leopard print is fun, it s also real classic, and people ask us all the time what do i wear with leopard print? and it s really prty neutral and you can wear it with anything. this coat is special enough to wear it for the holiday but it s fun enough to wear it on the weekends. i love the bright tights too. it s very kid friendly. it sure does. ladies you look gorgeous. okay, next is plaid and we have jen and charlotte, mom and daughter here, absolutely stunning. plaid never goes out of style. it s sti reigning as one of fashion s favorite fabrics and it s not going anywhere. and jen is wearing a single breasted coat, it s got a red, white and blue plaid and is from tommy hill ffiger. it s just fantastic on the weekends. and i love charlotte s look with her little cat boots too. charlotte s wearing a very classically tailored coat, it s from rothchild. the whole look is very maddening tome. it sort of feels very british proper, but when you mix it with the go go boots, it makes it an entirely different look all together. and this coat, charlotte s coat, it s really durable enough you can wear it every day, it will be a hand me down. and just paired i with some leopard faux fur earmuffs. and it does prove that plaid goes with everything. bring everybody back out with one last look. and there s the beautiful mothers and daughters. it s gre to have you here. coming up next nigella lawson is going to cook some comforfoods for us rht after this. why spend all your time in the kitchen, when you can actually party at your party? 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[ female announcer ] for when you want your favorite café to be your own kitchen. new stouffer s stuffed melts and soups like creamy tomato bisque served with a three cheese and ham stuffed melt. two café favorites now in one package. new from stouffer s. set yourace to island time. rich chocolate over creamy coconut. almond joy and mounds. enjoy more. this morning on today s kitchen, hot chef nigella lawson is here with fall comfort foods. recipes are the heart for the home good to see you. it smells so good in here. this is some onion anding some celery which isre pulverized. you want to make a noi. carry on. i ve got some canned chopped tomatoes. now a little bit of sugar, just because of the acidity. uh-huh. and some gorgeous thyme. oh, wonderful. and let it cook down to a good sauce. i open the can and i just swill some water around justo get every last bit of tomato. and this cooks and while this cooks, we go rolling, rolling, rolling. rollg, rolling rolling, get them meat ball rolls. the bit of onion and celery that went into thesauce, some ground or grated parmesan, there s some bred crumbs and one egg. my children love these. absolutely love these. and i am going nto just drop them in the pot? t thing about these meatballs, we re all used to having meatballs made with beef, these taste so light and so delicate, i thought my children would say why did you change the meat ball recipe? normally they hate change, but these are a hit. we re making a cous-cous. we know if you want to have supper with friends, it s comfort food. put it all in a pan. some cous-cous, which moroccoia pasta. actually it makeses a lovely vegetarian side dish if you use vegetable stock. and then it s cooked, what happens is, five minutes time, all the cous-cous will absorb the oth like this. and you just kind of fluff it with a fork? fluff it with a fork. i ll tell you later. and lemon juice and zest. some chopped scallion. that is so fragrant. isn t it rgeous? it gives you a little edge of spring in the fall. it just turns meatballs into a dinner party, i think. d also you ve got your salad and your starch in one. so you don t need to cook anything else. that s it. the meat ball up. meat ball up. which is kind of definitely a culinary version of man up. yes, you re right. and actually, probably more comforting in life. there you are. i ve taken all the cutlery. that s fantastic. mm. we have one split, warmed and buttered for you and ready to taken to your tent. i m going to have a meat ball. sorry about that. i m going in for the kill. what the heck, i m going to go too. and that s how not to teach your children not to eat with their fingers. nigella, thank you so much. thank you. still to come, we re going to test your knowledge of television s greatest families. but first, this is today on nbc. hey ove, i m gonna need a bank. any ideas? capital one bank. they re everywhere. yeah, you re right! 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[ male announcer ] capital one bank. the most branches and atms in the dc area. what s in your wallet? ove, go long! she cooked the cous-cous and butter the biscuit. how do you top that? we got a lot coming up, don t we? smoky robinson. we re talking about bad breath. ooooh. we re also doing something on famous tv families. we re going to go across the street. how many cosby kids were there originally? four. they added a fifth one in that third season. and her name was? kid number five. and then they had rudy. coming up after your local news and weather. chilly morning here in the nation s capital. some clouds out there too. we ll find out if a warm-up is under way. good morning. i m barbara harrison. after the election we have all of the results streaming in. one race that s still too close to call, democrat injury conley holding off keith fimn by only 500 votes right now. but the is a problem with the voting machines so votes are still being counted. malley defeated bob ehrlich with 56% of the vote. let s find out about the weathersome. another cold morning. we had scattered fog where the sky has been clear. north of washington it s sun but washington points south we ve got quite a bit of cloudiness. later in the day we should make it into the 50s. likely rain moving in after midnight, so a wet start to thursday with occasional showers through the day on thursday into thursday evening. highs only the mid-. might get a lingering shower friday. blustery and chilly into th weekend but dry saturday and sunday. and, ñijerry, how s the traffic? 95 northboundñiñrñi looksñi good. cleared out all the way to the beltway and beyond. creware set up 9 # 5 southbound as you head on down toward lorneton. crews are back working on the water main break. you may encounter a little bit ofñr a delay. barbara. thank you, jerry. stay with us thughout the day. we ll have captions paid for by nbc-universal television from nbc news this is today with kathie le gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. we have made through another election. we ve made it all the way to wines day on november 3rd. hope you had a great night last night. i was at a little bit of a party. you had a pity party. okay. moving is a hugh monday gus pain. the movers pack your stuff and then me it to your apartment. so i was waiting eagerly in my apartment for that. so i m waiting, and they say we can t get the couch out of th door, the movers. i said, really? did you try to wrigle it? we can t do it. we ll call you bk. took out a wall. two hours and a half of jamming it, and said we re going to cut the legs off. just cut it. i want it out. i want my security deposit back. she s giving it away the sofa that will not leave. mountain meantime i planned it so the cable person came and the geek squad who puts the tv up, they were all coming. you had like an army. then the truck was delayed, so here come the geek squad and cable and don t have anything to do. trying to get them to wait, whatever. trying to get them to wait? that s funny. like you re the only one in new york that wts your cable. the guy said i ll hook your cable up without your tv or anything. i ll get another box and plug it in. y charmed him. it s rebting and be ready in no time. i waited for three hours. the thing never rebooted, the geek squad came. on the phone with time warner cable is another big pain. they go, get on your knees, which i was, push the up volume and down volume and the info button insusimultaneously and i waiting and waiting. the sun was setting, and the geek skwquad was there and the cable. it was beautiful. at one point you said stop, everybody. look out the window. it was a beautiful sunset. i was there all day, and the sun was dropping and literally on my ipod was alicia keyes singing, new york the best song ever. the process to get your mail from your old apartment to your new one ain t as easy as they say. you don t ever open your ail. i know. there was a pink one. i was like, that s pink. that s never good. i opened it. it was from a collection agency for $3.97. you know what happens to your credit? for what? some lab thing from a long time. i said, there should be a common sense clause if it s under $5 they should not wreck your credit. i don t know if they did. it said your credit is bad now. i m suming. but 3.98. so i had to call on the phone, and i can t get my phon transferred. i called on the phone and paid it on american express for $3. it s too late. my credit is already in the tank. and lastly, because i filed my taxes late, i get a refund. now, where s it going, because it s not in my old box and it s not anywhere in my box. it should have been there already. the moving is not fun. did you sleep at all last night in yo beautiful new apartment? i didn t sleep, and you can t because nothing is happening. you can t find the blow-up mattress and the sheets. you can t find athing, because i don t have any stuff in there. wait a minute. blow-up mattress? the other one isn t there. i had to dig through the boxes. you know. i have an air mattress, but the other one hasn t arrived. nothing is there yet. where is the van wth all your stuf somewhere in the bronx? where is it? with your refund check. i m never moving again. i have to say, i love it. i love that place. i love the view. i love the whole thing. so eventually hopefully everything will work out. i get to start that whole thing on thursday and friday. hoda and i are moving in together. i don t know if don t believe any of those stories you read in tabloids, because we are literally movingn together. yes. guess who s back in town? your boy. my boy cody is here. i m disappointed. i was going to go tonight to see don t tell mama. she s the greatest sirng of the american song book. i can t go. there s tickets left. he s playing dvds ofall the performances she did. cody is home because cassie s play is the next three nights and he wants to e her play. that s love. those two kids care about each other. i can t believe he flew back. when they were little and they could be just fierce with each other, you know, just wrestling and everything. i would be concerned for cass because she s so little, and i said code kwi gifford that is ough. cass would look up from wherever she was, and she would say mommy, i like it. she s tough as nails. so they ve always been very grteful for that. sweet kids. anywho, you didn t know who was going on in the world? you didn t care who won or lost last night? i didare and when you don t have cable and pushing buttons simultaneously, it s hard to see. it s hard to get to the polls yesterday? i always vote. yesterday there were tiny windows where i can run to my old thing, but just then someone showed upith boxes. i got barricaded and i feel badly about that because i like to participate. i wentto vote, and as i was walking out, i started to cry. i just iust i teared up and i nt, we are so blessed to ive in this country where we can exercise that fundamental right to beheard. then you come home and you have a tv and turn it on and realize many people don t feel like their vote counted. i was curious how many people this is the midterm, and those usually are not huge turnout elections. they said this one is going to be. it s fascinated to hear president obama at 1:00 today. i want to hear the tone, too. absolutely. there s double-trouble in the world anybody, but if anybody mistakes you for me or me for you or you from them, those two. we want to hear from you. wemt to s we want to see pictures. her name is that looks like you. she does look kind of like you. she looks like kristen wiig. i love her on quarter kwu curb l enusiasm. here s one for you. she says she looks like both of us if we were morphed. that s ann marie from rhode island. so we were looking at your pictures. sends a current photo yourself. we have a special secret surprise that s going to happen. we ll figure it out. that s on november 9th at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. send it in. this is a weird thing. this is a barbie doll that looks harmless, but they have a new barbie out now. this is a little medallion or necklace, it s a video camera. you go on the back here and push play or whatever. that pink middle button. and it starts rolling. can you ee? that s not scaring people so much as to what you do afterwards. you can download it on the internets. it has parents concerned for safety. you don t know what your kid is videotaping. how do you stop it? wait a minute. stop it. what. roker! what did he say? i cannot say what roker just said. whack it on the table, he sa. oh, o oh. he said whack it on the table. we should say why all this wine is sitting here. there s a reason. it s called well wines that rock. they re dressed with some of the best album covers. it s 50 bucks, and it s a three-pack. they benefit leukemia a cancer. sarah, why am i exhausted just hearing about her move. hearing about the move and all these men behind the scenes. it s a lady show with major man energy back here. i don t want to hearit. i m from iowa. we have this really fun thing starting next month. we start with a fan of the wek g-to our website there s a fo to tell us when you watch the show and send in a picture, and when we pick at random, you get a big on-air shout-out. it s like the willard scott moment. fourth hour, except you don t have to be 100. it will be a lot of fun. get on there. it will be fun. sarah, how cute are you? adorable. all right. up next, we re talking about hall toesz, bad breath and how to avoid and how to know if you have it. apparently people who have it don t realize it. you re going to need a laugh after tt. jeff dunham is here. here s walter. you think i m grumpy, he s in a realrumpy mood. we ll talk with him right after. happening in hlth care called the humana walmart- preferred prescription plan. it s a medicare prescription drug plan that saves you an average of over $450 year, with nthly plan premiums less than $15 and copays as low as $2. with savings like these, you have more time to remember whait s really all about. enroll starting november 15. go to walmart.com for details. naturally corful vegetables are often a good source of vitams, fiber, or minerals. and who brings you more natural colors than campbell s condensed soups? mpbell s.® it s amazing what soup can do.™ get flawless skin, even in harsh, unflattering light. revlon photoady™ makeup. revlon s photoready™ fmula bends and reflects light to help diffuse every flaw. revlon photoready™ makeup. find your perfect light. women: no! announcer: it s the unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks lunch. only at olive rden. featuring four homemade soups. enjoy all you want for just $6.95. now.what about tomorrow? how about soup, salad, and breadsticks again? great idea! i love it! time for yet another edition of our special series body talk with cathee lee and hoda thanks goodness body odor and gas are behi us. this one left unchecked could take the breath right out of your social life. i know but that. i have rally bad breath in the morning. from blockbuster hits to everyday encounters, bad brth is an embarrassing odor that is all too common. 90% of the people between the ages of 18 and 44 say that people around them have bad breath. beware of the backward step. it s all related to the foods that we eat, how much saliva is in the mouth and also the bacteria thriving in our mouth. people take extra precautions to prevent it. i brush my teeth three tis a day, i floss, and i use mouthwash. i always carry a mint with me to be certain that i do not have bad breath. i go with the triedand true toothpaste. i try to stay away from the garlic. while there s no shortage of product on the market, bad breath can be a stinky situion. it s definitely at thtaboo tl someone they have bad breath. it s uncomfortable especially if you like the person. it can undo a lot of good things that you have going for yourself. most keep their breath in check with a qui self-test. sometimes i just put my hand up to my face and blow into it to see if anything comes back. smells like a new york hot dog. on the funk-o-meter, zero. mine s chocolate. r. anna cooper is a dentist and spokesperson for the ada. welcome. hello. we needed two you to help us solve this. ofte we don t know, why is that, doctor cooper? we don t know, and it s an offensive, embarrassing problem right under your nose, and most people have absolutely no idea. there are lots of things that you can do to self-test, but those unfortunately aren t that reliable. they re better than nothing. you can very, very easily become accustomed to your own body odor so you never know, but the people around you know. sarah, what kind of test do you think will help you? one we recommend is taking a piece of gauze and wiping it on the back of your tongue where bacteria tends to congregate. e have gauze near you wahere wanto try it. smell it? give it a whiff. it s not fool-proof. wh else can you do to self-test? that s the bst self-test. everybody carries gauze around, so that s good. what about just brushing your teeth? sometimes even that someone brushes their teeth they haven t killed the bad breath. what s wrong? you can see you dentist. your denst can give you an honest, confidential assessment of if you have bad breath and what the solutions are. sometimes the solutions are easy and sometimes they are not. do these work, the mints, the gum, the listerine. one great too is a tongue scraper, better than brushing your tongue. a metal is better than the plastic. you can go way back down there. it s the base of your tongue. you scrape your tongue. if you don t have one of those in a pinch, use a metal teaspoon. i have a gag reflex. cheen clean as a whistle. scrape it down even with a teaspoon to work. listerine seems heartier than the others. these are the listerine pocket packs. they dissolve in your mouth. god s way is good, lemon. secure for everything. a lot of these things are great to cosmetically fresh know your breath, but you have to be careful you re not just camouflaging the problem. sometimes it s due to infection, cavities. sometimes systemic diseases with nothing to do with your mouth. that s the key. the things we re talking about now, won t help you and might makehings worse. these are definitely quick fixes, these colgate whiffs. you can keep them in your purse. we needed that. one more out of the week, but we have another topic tomorrow, and it s dandruff. up next, who cas what his breath is like. his youtube video has 4 million hits. ncintroducing vanilla starbucks via flared instant coffee. 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get fios tv, internet and phone for just $99.99 a month plus over 110 premium movie channels free for 3 months. call 1.888.818.fios. that s 1.888.818.3467. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities that s 1.888.818.3467. at 8-974-66 tty/v. it s time to get more for your money. it s time for fios. we re back on this morning getting ready to play who knew? re talking about tv s family families. kathie lee is across the sfreet at the msnbc digital dot c comcafe. to those who don t answer correctly, they get fabulous cd. thelma adams is wi us here. how do you think the people will do? i think they re going to do great. everybody knows their sitcoms. let s check it out across the street. th lovely lady is from toronto. ready to play? let s look at the clip. i want to be a waitress. yeah, let me decorate. we re never gog to hear the end of it from these kids. you need a karaoke niht. i can work on new stand-up. the tanner family on full house lived in which city. san diego, n york, chicago, or san francisco? you can play with them. san francisco. yes. they lived in san francisco, thelma. but they shot in l.a. on the back lot. they alwa do that, don t they? you say mary-kate and/or ashley. after the first season, their mom said they may not have a normal childhood. i think i m pulling them off the show, and they offered more money and they stayed. now we kn where they are. bac to kath. from fairbanks, alaska originally. former gilmore girl lauren graham plays a mom on which nbc mily drama, brothers and sisters, parent hood, modern family, or 90210 ? parenthood. we ve got some winners. we do. on parenthood, . maury tierney wasupposed to play that role. she got cancer, but then the whole truth, she came back and has her own show and everybody is happy. it s good. lauren graham tends to play mothers, but she was raised by a single dad. i didn t know that. good info. back across to kath. we have the whole tennis team from the university of alabama in kutuscaloosa. check out the next clip. i know. tell me. certainly got the pants for it. i m calling the plumber. i m calling the tailor. all right. this character lives with his aunt andncle on the fresh prince of bel-air. where was his character borned and raced, brooklyn, west philadelphia, chicago or los angeles? west philadelphia. you spend a lot of times watching tv. i think kids that young know. people know their sitcoms. it was west philly becse that s where will smith was actually from. another fact. he md out to be a girlfriend on the show. didn t get the part. nia long got the part, but she got the man. she sure did. back across to kath. some folks visiting from w jersey. not too far away. no, you did the right thing. yifrs brother. you had to protect him. now if the fbi were looking for alex i m sure i would sorry, bad example. all right. which of the following actors played uncle ned family ties. which actor played him. tom hanks, brad pitt, george clooney or robert downey, jr. i have a feeling a cd is on your way. robert downey, jr. see. no, no, no. but you re going to you re going to sleep so well. yes, she will. all right so the correct answer there is tom hanks. tom hanks. i didn t know the answer, but he played uncle ned. he was in with the bosom buddies. big tv star. who else crossed over to movies, george clooney from e.r. and kwlee dicaprio from growing pains. he was on santa barbara, the soap. back across to kath. from abilene, texas. watch this clip. baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby what was the name of the family s youngest daughter on the cosby show. was it olivia, rudy, rory or vanessa? rudy. rudy it was. good, good audience. she played rudy, and now she s on house of payne. she has aegular role. and also oliva from raven simone. a lot of peop got their start there. thma, thanks so much. take a good look at his face. you know the song. smokyrobinson, the original american idol. then we bake with the cake boss. teasing and bleaching and hot tongs for curling driving to beaches and rolling and twirling makeovers and the attention they brin ese are a few of my favorite things [ female announcer ] unli some regular conditioners that just work on the surface, new dove intensive repair with fiber actives also helps reconstruct hair from the inside and leaves it beautiful on the tside. new dove intensive repair. keep on doing your favorite things and let dove take care of the damage. you may notice something a little different about eggland s best eggs. now, in addition to the tte and nutrition you and your family love, eggland s best will proudly be displaying its support for susan g. komen f the cure®, the world s largest breast cancer organizion, in its promise to end breast cancer forever. eggland s best. better taste. better nutrition. and a greater commitment to what matters. because part of beinthe best is doing good. depending on your generation, smoke where i rob boinson meaning will vary he may win you overon american idol and he may have mended a broken heart to shop around. you better shop around oh yeah you better shop around smoky hasn t stopped. over the years he s had 37 top 40 hits and numerous awards. now he has another cd, this one called now and then. i happened to see him about a month ago in stanford, connecticut. exactly. how do you know what songs to put on this cd,iven you have so many terrific classics? it must have been tough to choose. now and then is a compilaton of my current cd called time flies when you re having fun and six of the vintage songs tha recorded in concerts this year. i picked six of those songs to go on this special cd for cracker barrel. it can only be found at cracker barrel. they wanted a special cd all their own. it s six new songs andix of the older son eer songs. i love cracker barrel. di do, too. >great. i don t know if it s too much of it. i stuff myself every time i go there. what s your favorite of the oldies? come on. how about your baby? just pick one. i can t do that. just say something. there s n way i can do that, though. if i can tell you my favorites, i m a song lover. if i told you my favorite song, it would be a song i ha nothing to do with. i grew upearing music all life. we loved how a whole new generation learned about smokey rough american idol. you and josh stone did that. american idol is probably the greatest musical platform ty ve had in history, because even the people who do those auditions who don t make the show are seen by millions of people at once all over the world. it s areat platform. you were with jennifer hudson in another duet, right? didn t you sing with jennifer hudson? i sang with jennifer hudson at the white house. that was a great moment. we were snowed in. nobody could go anywhere anyway. so make the music. do a show, exactly. how many dates do you do a year? it varies, kathie. my agents call me a year in advance, and say we have so-and-so and it sounds good notice. i contractually have to show up. this ye i ve done 80 dates all over the world. is it golf that keeps you sane on the road? sometimes it keeps me sane. if i m plang good it keeps me sane. what s yur handicap? i don t know what it is right now. you won t tell us anything today. i injuredy left shoulder and could not do like this until january. i m just starting back in now. it s probably about 12 now. of the current stuff out there, smokey, what do you like? is there an artist where you say that person has potential and could be great? unlike most people would think, listen to everybody out there. they have great, young talent out there and a whole lot of them will be around for a long time. anyone special? i like maxwell and carrie underwood and jennifer hudson and mariah carey and alicia keyes. there s a lot of them out there that i really love, you know. they re making great music. people have given new music a negative vibe or connotation. it s not like that at all. a lot of people are making great music. we wish you luck. great to see you. you re both beautiful as usual. thank you. oh, smoke, come on. don t mind me. i m only serious. > coming up next, we go cooking on cupcakes with the boss of cakes, the cake boss, after this. woma our lunch break is just that, a break. so we take time to sit down for lunch at olive garde and we enjoy catching up as much as we enjoy the meal. announcer: it s the unlimited soup, salad, and breadstis lunch. only at olive garden. featuring four homemadsoups. enjoy all you want for just $6.95. new revlon just bitten. it s the fit two-in-one lipstain a balm. the lipstain gives me a light ush of color while the moisturizing balm softens my lips. have you ever been bitten? 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[ female announcer ] so knowing she can find in network doctors and pharmacies whenever or wherever she needs them directly from her mobile phone is important to wendy. where to next, wendy? know more. get better. get a smarter health plan, aetna.com. time for today s kitchen d we re getting saucy with bdy, the cake boss. he s a fourth generation master baker. that s right. i said master ber from hoboken. now that s funny from new jersey. he made a name for himself making cake. if you haven t heard of the cake boss, it s the name of his reality show on tlc. he has a new memoir and cookbook about his family. how aryou? i m excellent. how are you? how s everything going? the book is memoirish and recipes? i would say 75% memoir and 25% recipes. originally it was supposed to be more recis, but once we heard t storywe wanted to expa on it. that s so fascinating. what is the story? it s the story of the american dream. you sounded like the situation. he was here yesterday. it started with my father and a work ethic he instilled in me. no matter how many trials i had to overcome, i did because of that. whei was 17 my dad actually passed away, and i actually had to drop out of school to work in the family business. look at the success you are now. it was those seeds that he planted, and that s what s in the book and the essence of the book. we ll have a little contest. are you going to e re going to compete. against each other? you tell us what to do, and we ll compete. if we compete against each other, somebody is going down. okay. so what are we making? cupcakes? i ll show you how to do a cupce here. go ne and easy and take this here. it s on the twirly thing. i m making a sunflower. that s all right. that s beautiful. orable. that s genius. that took 13 seconds. you guys are going to do one ch, okay? okay. i don t like one that s not perfectly round. you re already looking what is this? start with the green and go around the base, okay? how do you turn it when your hands are on the thing? squeeze with one hand and sp with the other. don t make it come out the other end. nobody told me how to do it. look. i don t like it. you can do it. come on. do you want me to spin it for you? don t worry. i m trying to be fair. you ve never done that before. where s t yellow. skwooqueeze, squeeze. just like mine. are you making art chokes or flowers here? flowers. you know what the good thing about in is? they ll taste good. hey, hey, hey. they re hard to squeeze. mine is more like a daisy, though. oh, my god. okay. we have to go. here, let s pick the winner. pick the winner. come on. it s coming out the other end. you ve heard that before. here. there you go. look at hoda s? . buddy, i m not big your book now. thank you, buddy. first, this is today on nbc. 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