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attacked by a great white shark. i saw inside its mouth. horrifying. she survived thanks to a man who grabb the shark by the ta tail. we ll tell you all about it tail. we ll tell you all about it today, november 4, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m matt lauer. nobody was injured during the emergency landing of the jet, but when you see pictures like this of the damaged engine on the jet you realize this was a very serious situation. the plane was an a-380 and qantas hasow suspended all flights involving the superjumbo. ahead we ll hear from one of the passengers on the flight. also, a powerful tropical storm, tomas, is expected to cause more problems on haiti which was devastated by the earthquake in january. the latest on that developing story coming up. and new developments tied to charlie sheen s rampage at a hotel. he s now hired a sober coa to live with him. a qantas jet forced to make an emergency landing after suffering engine failure. jim maceda has the latest. good morning to you. reporter: good morning. since its launch, the airbus a-380 is billed as the biggest, greenest, fastest commercial airline. as of today, the hundreds of passengersn board the flight it became a lot less safe. it was the nightmare air travelers hate to even imagine. minutes after qantas flight 2f32 had taken off, a loud bang and sparks and smoke coming from one of the four rolls-royce engines and pieces of the engine cases falling from the sky and landing on a small industry neegs town where, amazinglamazingly, no on hurt. the pilots shut down the engine and flew all 459 people safely back to singapore. the man sitting over t wing next to engine two took this if a photo. he twittered that he thought he saw engine parts ripped through the wing. you think you see it from the outside and then you re a part of it somehow. a bang and another dip. what kind of bang? you know, a bang. reporter: officials say there was no explosion but have grounded the fleet until investigation. we will suspendervices until we are certain tt safety requements have been met. reporter: qantas, one of the safest airlines admits it s never experienced anything as serious as this before. qantas ss it will put all the passengers in singapore overnight and fly them to sney tomorrow. but it s difficult to imagine how any of the people on that flight can sit back and enjoy it. absolutely. thank you very much. the former chairman of the national transportation board is with us now by phone. good morning to you, mark. reporte caller: good morning, meredith. what do you believe may have happened here? caller: there are too many things to investigate the cause of the accident. they will tear down the engine, look at the parts they can recover and get a good idea of what happened. qanta said there was no explosion but when you hear from the passengers and eyewitnesses they said it seemed there was a blast. caller: it was an uncontained failure, which means parts broke in the airplane potentially and then ripped ay part of the external casing. when that ppens, you have some serious problems. mark, how rare are these problems? caller: they are extremely rare. when they happen they can cause severe damage. with the casing gone and parts ying all over it could penetre the cabin, the wing. again, what would cause that, mark? caller: a number of things. a fatigued blade, an actual disk failure. there are lots of parts that are moving in very high temperatur. if one of those break, they could begin to break as you see like a domino effect. the a-380 airbus, qantas grounded all of them. does that suggest there was a problem with the other jets? caller: not at all. it s just a wise, prudent cision so you know what you ve got. they don t know what they don t know. you certainly don t want to be flying in aircraft where there could be some kindf issue that could continue to cause things like this i. doubt it will happen. these things are rare. we are still reminding ourlves that we are ian era of incredibly safe aviation. we are talking about 2 billion people flying every year more than 2.5 billion air miles. they do it without incident. once again, redundancies are built in and that s w you saw a safe nding. at no point were the passengers in any real danger? caller: after the parts flew and at that point,othing had penetrated the cabin, you needed to get rid of all of your fuel. you needed to shut down tt engine and then, of course, the pilots are trained to do these kinds of things extremely well. you saw that the plane landed uneventful. all right. thank you ve much. caller: my pleasure. it s 7:06. now here s matt. to politics and the the midterm elections. president obama is ting responsibility for the devastating defeats suffered by democrats. will tuesday s results lead to a change in the way he leads the country? chuck todd is our white house correspondent and political director. good morning to you. reporter: good morning, matt. the president let it all hang out. he was clearly drained from making all those campaign condolence cls to the democrats that lost on tuesday. he even put himself on the couch a bit as h talked publically about what is a frayed relationship with the american public. it fee bad. reporter: reflecting on the democrats big loss at the polls. i m not recommending every president take a shellackin like i did. reporter: president obama turned introspective. this is something i think every president needs to go through because the responsibilities of this office are so enormous and in the rush of activity, sometimes we lose track othe ways that we connectedith folks that got us here in the first place. reporter: asked repeatedly what went wrong for mocrats, mr. obama accepted some responsibility. it underscores, forme, that i ve got to do a better job, just like everybody else in washington do. reporter: but it was a far different barack obama than the one swept into office two years ago with what he felt was a loud mandate from the american people. because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to america. [ cheers and applause ] reporter: the one who got huffy with former rival john mccain when mccain questioned the health care bill. let me make this point, john, because we are not camigning anymore. the election s over. reporter: throughout the campaign, mr. obama promised repeatedly he would change the way washington works. we have to change washington now. reporter: but wednesday, a more chastened president obama admitted he had fallen short. we were in such a hurry to get things done that we didn t change how things got done. reporter: and suggested he was in good company. a couple of great communicator ronald reagan and bill clinton were standing at this podium two years into their presidency gettinvery similar questions. you can take it from me, washington ain t seen nothing yet. the president is relevant here, especially an activist president and the fact that i am willing to work with the republicans. the question is are they willing to work with me. reporter: unlike bill clinton the president feels he s relevant and frankly speaker designate john boehner said it well. right after the president gets back from india and asia in the next ten days, he plans on having speaker to be boehner and senate minority leader mitch mcdonnell and the democratic leaders over to the white house to begin their new relationship, matt. chuck, thanks so much. david gregory is moderator of meet the press . good morning to you. good morning, matt. this was a big defeat. i m curious. when you watched the press conference yesterday, were you surprised by the president s tone? i mean, he seemed emotionally defeated. i was really struck by the extent to which the president seemed to be struggling with all of this and openly strgling with the fact that he doesn t feel able to connect with the american people. can youmagine two years ago the history and the emotion with which he came into office that now he feels he struggles to avoid being removed from the american people. this is very difficult for any politician and certainly for president. i think he showed humility yesterday but supporters may ask, where was the fight? he is still in control here. he s got the veto pen. yet yesterday he seemed quite chasted. he took responsibility for the loss, david, but savannah guthrie asked the president and said he did not say that his agenda wasesponsible for the loss. was that a smart course of action, in your opinion? i think this is a question that savannah asked that s going to hang over the president and his team. do they get it? the american people spoke with a resounding sentiment which was they want less government, not more. president ama, out of necessity, responded to a financial crisis with unprecedented government intervention into the economy. he has defended that but he has not really ten accountability for what the judgment was from the american people as a result. what he said yesterday was the american people don t feel the results. but there was almost a sense of irritation that the public may be so impatientor instant gratification. remember what he said to jon stewart that i would still campaign saying ye we can, but and the but is things aren t going to change overnight. he said impatience with the desire for quick results seems to be weighing on him. just real quick, how does the president pick himself up, dust himself up and get back at it? i think he s got to have a narrow area to decide where to compromise with republicans. there s got to be some give and also some shove. the president will decide where to call republicans out on where they will make tough choices and tough votes. that s where he s going to get his groove back. david, anks, as always. thanks, matt. 1 minutes after the hour. here s meredith. thank you. congressional republicans aren t wasting time as they prepare to take control of th house. kelly o donnell is on capitol hill with that part of the story. kelly, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, meredith. republicans are gearing up. today they are going to tell us more about the transition team they are appointing to help organize all the political and practical aspects of taking over power and john boehner is already carrying himself like a speaker-in-waiting. government under new management. in the weeks ahead, expect to hear a lot of this. what we need to do is listen to the american people. they want a government that listens to them. ready to listen to the american people. reporter: power, they claim, can deliver on big promises. creating jobs, cutting spending and reforming the w congress does its business. reporter: a tall order for boehner who arrived in congress 20 years ago from ohio with blue collar roots, one of 12 kids growing up. i put myself through school, working every rotten job there was. reporter: getting teary is not unusual for boehner but now it will be more noticed. they will talk about my background, my family. reporter: he may be personally revealing but expect a dose of caution on the job. his first few days he ll take the doctor s credo, above all, do n harm. reporter: trying to investigate the wte house that comes with taking control. i m talking about rock solid oversight of the executive branch which is a constitutional responsibility of thecongress. reporter: the future of the present speaker of the house, nancy pelosi is unclear. she says prayer, family and fellow democrats will help her decide what to do. does he want to be the most important democrat in a house controlled by republicans? the minority in the house isn t a fun place to be. reporter: the future is getting clearer for oer politicians. democrat michael bennet held off a tea party challenger. i m not going back to washington to play politics. i m going back to fight for more jobs, better jobs. reporter: in washington state s closed senate race democratic incumbent patty murray and dino rossi are still waiting to see who won. both see a path to victory. why is it taking so long? they do their voting by mail in all but one county. hundreds of thousands of ballots are yet to be counted. meredith? thank you very much. it is 7:15. now here s matt. let s go to alaska. lisa rkowski appears to be only the second person t win a write-in campaign for the senate. kristen welker sat down with her. good morning to you. reporter: good morning to you. the last time someone won a senate seat through a write-in candidacy it was when strom thurmond did it. lisa said she s not willing to declare victory yet but likes her chances. we recognize that we are not yet complete wh making history. but we are poised and it feels good. reporter: republican lisa murkowski may have pulled it off, winning back her seat without the support of her party. i work with people that maybe they haven t been too generous or welcoming in my write-in effort. but i still need to work with them. reporter: she was stunned this summer when she lost the gop primary to tea party candate joe miller who had the backing of the state s former governor, sarah palin. palin gave her endorsement of miller and tt didn t get miller wheree wanted to be. reporter: after losing the primary to miller, murkowski decided to run as a write-in candidate. voters actually had to write her name on the ballot and to teach people to spell her name, she had to get creative. these wrist bands made history for us. reporter: but the odds were stacked and palin made things tougher. i find it shameful that this same person let s call her the candidate for the entitlement party. reporter: you commented in a debate that you would not support her for president. do you stand by that statement? yes. reporter: why? i m looking for somebody that has a breadth of experience not only in government but just truly more of a worldly approach. i don t think sarah palin has that. reporter: for now, murkow sk is focused on the ballot count. we have a top-notch legal team. reporter: and she s remembering those wh stoold by her including the late ted stevens who died in a plane crash. i think ted stevens helped to get me where i am today. ted stevens was a friend and a mentor. i was blessed to have served with him in the senate for six years. reporter: it was the blessing of the stevens family she aired a commercial she taped with stevens before he died. i think ted is looking down and smiling proudly at alaskans. reporter: murkowi said if she wins she will caucus with republicans. they are hoping to start counting ballots last week. we reached out to joe miller but never heard back fro his representative. kristen, thank you very much. now a check of the rest of the top stories. ann curry back at the news desk. good morng. thanks. good morning, everybody. we begin with a developing story in haiti. tropical storm tomas is strengthening and could hit the western tip of haiti early tomorrow morning. the island nation could get up to ten inches of rain which could be devastating given that nearly one a a half million people are living under tents in the wake of january s earthquake. the federal reserve is taking on a bold plan to pump $600 billion into the banking system trying to jolt the economy with lower interest rates. cnbc melissa francis at the new york stock exchange has more. this sounds aggressive. what are the risks? the risk isefinitely inflation. that s the risk when you pump money into the economy. that s why ben bernanke is out saying deflation is the rk and that makes sense. look how the market is reacting. the dollar is sinking around the world at a ten-month low against the ro. oil rallied up $6. gold rallied. asian markets are rallying with the nikkei up and the dow closed up yesterday, just 26 point bus the highest level in two years. ann, back to you. thank youery much. two brothers are being question by police inrance suspected of plotting a terrorist attack. france is at its highest terror alert level. greece meantime is halting all ai shipments for the next 48 hour trying to prevent the delivery or more mail bombs targeting european leaders in atns. 14 actual or suspected bombs have been found, one targeting french president nicolas sarkozy. and nasa postponed the launch of discovery until tomorrow because of bad weather. nasa has until sunday toaunch it or it will have to wait until december. it is 7:20. let s go back to matt, meredith and al. thank you very much, ann. how is the weather looking for tomorrow? the rain should move out, but they will worry about high winds tomorrow. they maye in trouble for the good morning. we ve had about two thirds of an inch of rain since this began. pockets of light to moderate rain will be with us here from time to time throughout the rest of the day, and it is chilly. just to the upper 40s and near 50. we ll stay steady near 50 throughout the rest of the day. passing showers likely not only today but into tonight and perhaps through midday friday. a smallerhance tomorrow. and blustery and chilly as we get into the weekend and dry out saturday and sunday. and just ahead, we are going to be taking a look at tomas in greater detail just ahead, a 19-yr-old girl attacked by a great white shark. a fellow swimmer made the decision to save her life. first, this is today on nbc. just ahead, charlie sheen hires a live-in sober coa to get back on the wagon. etails after your local news. anyone with high cholesterol may be at increased risk of heart attack. diet and exercise weren t enough for me. i stopped kidding myself. i ve been eating healthier, exercising more. and now i m also taking lipitor. if you vbeen kidding yourself out high cholesterol.stop. along with diet, lipitor has been shown to lower bad cholesterol 39% to 60%. lipitor is fda approved to reduce the risk heart attack and stroke in patien who he heart disease or risk factors for heart disease. 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. it is wet and illy. we ve got rain falling throughout the entire region. it will continue off and on throughout the rest of the day. steady, moderate light rain from time to time. maybe a lingering showers. dry and chilly for the weekend. jerry, how s the traffic? o tom, tough morning out there. we re looking at delays most of the way from triangle to the 14th street bridge. alodge the way a series of accidents have been cleared. so look out for that. let s head over to maryland. no picnic there either. 270. that begins in clarkburg and doesn tent until you re back to the roadway. thank you very much. this afternoon on nbc 4, a special ellen, an interview with porsche de rossi. she shares i don t thini ever expected to have this big of a family. we go through a lot. if i can stock up on the things my family needs at a really great price, i ll do it, i ll find the space. we know saving mon is important. the gigantic stock-up sale at giant is going on now. take advantage of our biggest sale of the season with thousands of weekly specials, real deal savings, and more the great thing is, stocking up saves me money. my name is elena velasco, and that works for me. there s never been a better time to stock up only at giant. something else from the book. 9/11 redeoff the top of my headed duty and my job. i can never forget what happened to america today. i would pour my heart and soul into protecting this country. it took two wars. yeah. thousands of american lives, billions of dollars. you could say it took guantanamo and abu ghrab a government eav eavesdropping and waterboarding. did it take too much? we dn t have an attack. 3,000 people died on september 11th and i vowed i would do my duty to protect the american people. they didn t hit us again. time dulls memory. i understand that. but it didn t dull my memory. i was charged with procting america and those decisions i made were necessary. 7:30 now on a thursday morning, the 4th of november, 2010. that, of course, former president george w. bush opening in his first interview since leaving the white house. i m matt lauer alongside meredith vieira. there is a lot more on that inrview coming up monday night as we have a speal primetime interview. 8:00/7:00 cenal time here on nbc. he ll join us as well? that s right. wednesday, november 10, president bush joins us live in studio. we ll get to continue our conversation. we are looking forward to it. just ahead in this half hour, the latest on actor charlie sheen. earlier this week he filed for divoe from his wife. on the heels of the alleged alcohol-fuelled meltdown he s hired a sober coach to live with him. how about this question - are you an impulse shopr? americans spend about $463 a year on impulse buys, everything from clothing to toys, junk food. how can you curb your urge to splurge around spend the money on things you really want or really need? we ll have helpful hints on that. later , beverly hills 90210 star shannen doherty is out with a new book about her image. we ll have a live interview. and a young woman attacked by a great white shark lives to tell about it. today, amy robach has details. reporter: good morning. 19-year-old elyse franckom is still in shock. she was leading a group of divers when the great white came at her. great ite sharks are known for size and strength, one of the most frightening creatures under water. to get attked by a shark, a lot of people don t me it, don t survive. i m just lucky to be the person that did. reporter: 19-year-old elyse franckom makes her livin leading dive tours off the coast of perth, australia. this was no ordiny day at the office. elyse was leading 33 divers on a swim with dolphins when the unthinkable happened i was kind of pulled aside and then it happened again. i looked and i saw a gray figure in front of me. i got justo the surface and that s when i felt it on my legs. i just kind of jolted. reporter: the massive shark clamped ontoer leg. took me inside its mouth. horrifying. reporter: one of the swimmers saw it happen. evor burns grabbed the shark until it released its grip. i had to get it off her. i grabbed it by the tail and he on for a quick ride. reporr: elyse was rushed to shore where a helicopter was waiting. she remained conscious the entire time. on wednesy, elyse was reunited with t man who saved her life. he s my hero. i wouldn t be here without him. i don consider myself a hero. i ve just done what i was brought up to do. mom and dad told me to look after people. there was no way i was letting ele be taken by that thing. one leg. reporter: elyse has 200 stitches across the two bite marks. she said she s feeling better already, posting this on facebook what doesn t kill you only makes you stronger. researchers at the university of florida investigating the attack say it was a great white, 10 to 11 feet long. any time we enter the sea, we e taking a certain amount of risk. of course when we are on a dolphin tour we take an added risk because those are preferred food items of large sharks such as white sharks. reporter: elyse said she will go back to work and get back in the water. she can even bng the shark tooth doctors took out of her body. i sure didn t wake up on saturday expecting to be attacked by a shark. is has just made me realize, do it. you don t know how long you ve got. reporter: it s remarkable. doctors expect elyse to make a full recovery. she said she knew she would come into contact with a shark. she just didn t expect it to happen so soon. meredith? she s very lucky. amy, thank you so much. boy, i don t know if i would go back in the water. those wounds e terrible. and the guy was able to have enough you know, with e shark. that s a good friend. let s check in with good rning. chilly and wet on this thursday morning. i m meteorologist tom kierein. around the region now we ve had waves of light to moderate rain. areas of green where it s raining a little bit harder. we ll see this off and on for the rest of the day. it s cerinly chilly. right now mid and upper 40s to near 50 degrees. a bit milder around the eastern shore. later today, temperatus around our region and points west only to the 40s and 50s with occasional hours. and that s your latest weather. matt? thank you very much. now new developments with actor charlie sheen. he filed for divorce and is taking a big step tied to his alged drunken rampage. jeff rossen has details. good morng. reporter: good morning. a lot of people in hollywood are worried including charlie sheen s friends. he admits he s an addict and needs help. he s hire add sober coach, basicalla full-time counselor to keep him away from drugs and alcohol. the coach has moved into sheen s house. good morning, charlie. reporter: new video of charlie sheen, cigarette in hand. happy to go back to work today? reporter: this week the highest id actor on tv is back on theet of two and a half men. the good news is you are a perfectly healthy 50-year-old man. i m only 40! tell that to your liver. reporter: but it s not back to normal. sheen has a shadow. a new sober coach who follows him everywhere, even to work. his mission keep sheen ay from drugs, alcohol and trouble. initially the sober coach will want to test him regularly, probably daily, maybe multiple times a day. the coach needs to act as a barrier. sometimes a physical barrier between a client and a bag of dope or a client and a bottle of booze. reporter: help sheen could have used last week in new york. seen in these tmz photos partying with a porn star. that s christina walsh, known on her videos as capri anderson. she and sheen were inside the room at the plaza hotel where he went on a drunken, naked rampage. why did you lock yourself in the bathroom? reporter: tmz caught up with walsh wednesday for the fir time since the incident. the public wants to know what happened that night. reporter: she wouldn t say a word. now reazing how deep his addiction is, sources close to sheen say his new sober coach has even moved in with him. for a man who s battled addiction and anger for years, experts say a coach may not be enough. things with crlie are dire. he has a seriousddiction and needs help. charlie need it is full spectrum of addiction treatment. reporter: if charlie sheen is to win the battle, he llo it alone. this week he fil for divorce from his third wife brooke mueller. according to court papers, sheen will pay her over $750,000 plus more than $1.2 million to buy her out of the house they shared. sheen and mueller will share custody the twin boys and he ll pay her $55,000 a month in child support. on top of the child support he s already paying his second wife, denise richards. charlie sheen s bad boy persona endeared him to many. the fact that he hired a sober coach and filed for divorce in the same week is a clear indicator that he wants to refocus his life. reporter: sheen s pending divorce may not be the only issue. thporn star in the hotel room said she plans to sue claiming she feared for her life. we haven t heard the last of this? 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tom, it s tough enough. along i-270 plenty of delays. heed down toward the capital beltway. 95, 395, no relief in sight. a ton of accidents all of which are off the road at the moment. on nbc 4, a special 8:00 now on this thursday morning, november 4th2010, a rainy day in new york. but if these folks can take it, so can w out on the plaza i m meredith vieira. coming up, a childhood tradition coming to an end? the city of san francisco is one step closer to banning froe toy giveaways with certain children s meals. a lot of people say it could be a good idea. others say not so good. we ll talk about it and have healthier meal options available. also, shannen doherty rose to fame earning a reputation as a bad girl along the way. she s now opening up a new memoir about her image. w she fed int it and the impact it s had on her career. we ll talk about that s. later on with kids after school activities it can be hard to get the family together for a meal. laurie david is making it a priority and launches is quest to make the family dinner very important. okay. first a check of the top stories from ann curry at the news desk. hey, guys, come on inside. qantas is grounding the entire fleet of airbus a-380 jetliners, the largest passenger plane in the world because of an emergency landing this morning. take a look at the super jumbo jet after landing in singapore. passengers said they heard a loud bang and parts of the plane tore away. officials say a mid-air engine failure is to blame and that none of the 459 passengers and crew was injured. president obama said he s willing to find more common ground with republicans after what he calls a shellacking in mid-term elections. on wednesday he said he s willing to negotiate on spending, taxes and greenhouse gas emissions. however, he said americans do not want to refight the battle over health care reform which is the top priority for republicans who won control of the hoe. forecasters are warning that a tropical orm is now approaching haiti and gaining strength. and the u.n. is expressing concerns that the storm will likelyorsen the cholera outbreak which has sickened thousands and killed hundreds. more than a million haitians are still living outdoors and the storm is expected to hit haiti s western tip this morning. indonesia s most volatile volcano, mount merapis erupting again. the death toll is now 44 over  the last nine days. more than 75,000 people have fled their homes. investigators have linked five shootings in northern virginia to a single weapon. the most recent shooting took place tuesday at a coast guard recruitment center. over the last three weeks a gunman has been targeting u.s. milita facilities including the pentagon and the u.s. marine corps museum. no one has been injured. after discovering a drug smuggling tunnel connecting san diego and tijuana, mexico, police arrested two people and seized 25 tons of marijuana. they are now searching for more suspects on both sides of the boar border. the majority was confiscated on the u.s. side, enough to make it the second largest seizure ever. now back outside to matt, meredith and al. it saining out here. i was good morning. we ve had rain falling since late last nit. we ve had er 0.6 throughout the region. it continues to rain throughout west virginia, maryland, the district of columbia, comg from the southwest heading northeast, and we ll ha it th us, periods of rain throughout the rest of the day and remaining chilly too. right now in the 40s to near 50 degrees throughout most of t region. and it will stay here throughout the rest of e day with passing showers and overnight, too, with more rain. tomorrow, small chance of a shower. chilly and that sour latest weather. where s mr. lauer? 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you know, you cop to it. you say that your reputation was questionable. i think it s the responsibility. for me it was not only the fear of abandonment of losing your parents growing up as a child and losing my two best friends because i m that close with my parents, but then it s the responsibility and all this tention and this press and you re having to supposedly watch every move that you make. it think it s just natural to sort of fall down even more and sadly you re falng down in front of millions and millions of people. you have the press that s magnifying it, making it ten times worse than it was. did you feel at the time that they were going after you? i did. not that i didn t ask for it? ask for it a little bit. i think i did. if you re having problems you should probably become a shut-in and go to therapy and figure it out. but at the same time i m really happy that i lived my life the way that i did. because it s all of those mistakes and everything that i learned growing up as i did that put me where i am now. at 27 you had a dui. yeah. you said that was your turning point. it s the most humiliating, embarrassing, disgraceful moment of my life. it s shameful to get a dui. it s shameful tout other people at risk and yourself at risk and horrible to embarrass your family that way. it was a tragic experience and one that i am very, very grateful for. because it was that moment that a gd friend of mine, an attorney looked at me and said, what are you doing? this isn t you. when a you going to realize that you deserve success and stop running away and stop being self-destructive. it hit me at that moment in my life. it really resonated. it s when i got on my path to becoming a badass. you say that word we have come full circle. you say it as if it s a good thing. it is. it is the oth b-word. the other one isn tgood. i think my definition of badass my grandmother is a perfect example. does she know that? definitely. she aits it. she s a strong, confident woman who can go out there and do it on her own. my grandfather passed away and, you kn what, my grandmother is still out there. she goes to the bank. she handles everything. she handles the house and she s got it all under control, but she does it with charm, with this beautiful southern charm and a smile on her face and she doesn t have to yello be heard. she s compassionate. she has integrity. that, to me, is a badass. when you see young actresses making poor decisions, foolish mistakes, some that you made in the past, what do you want to say to them? i want to say more to everybody else rather than to them. i kind of want to say to everybody else, stop. stop with the so much focus on them. give them a break. let them figure this out on their own. i think the more attention you bring to it, it almost mak things worse, even for them. so at some point everybody deserves a certain amount of privacy to fall down. all right. shannen doherty, thank you so much. thank you. always nice to see you. thank you. the book is called badass. up next, the push to get free toys out of unhealthy kids meals. but first, these messages. lt lost. until the combination of three good probiotics in phillips colon health defended against the bad gas, diarrhea and constition. .and? it helped balance her colon. oh, now that s the best part. i love your work. 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i think the board deserves a toy. i don t think it goes far enough. when you market something specifically for kids, a product, every other time you have to prove that it s safe. no so for food. right now you have sit-down chains that are worse. they are selling 1800 calorie meals to kids, pasta dishes. 1400 calorie mac & cheese. what about the idea of rewarding the kid for choosing the meal with thetoy? the issue of having a toy. want a toy, go to a toy store. this has to do with food and what kids are eating. this is a step in the right rection. this kind of change is hard. for years we have had a connection of you go to a place, get food and a toy. you don t do it at home with the kids. you want to nudge parents and kids in the right direction to make the right choices. you re not banning the toy, just saying make it healthier. maybe you buy a meal th s bafor the kid, the kid gets a pencil. a good meal, they get a puppy. give them incentive. and the restaurant industry is behindhe curve. the general public wants healthier alternatives. sometimes you have to poke the restaurants with a stick. it boils down to parenting. parents still have the choice. get your child whatever you want. to have a healthier choice is educational. people may look at the meals and compared to a giant combo meal they look smaller. no kid needs 800 calories for a meal. parents don t often realize what s on the menu. we have popular children s menus here from popular fast food restaurants. start me off with mcdonald s. this is a mighty kids meal with 840 calories. it is a double cheeseburger and frs with some reduced fat chocolate lk. the problem is it has two-thirds of the day s worth of saturated fat in it. 37 grams. it has 37 grams ofat, 14 1/2 grams of saturated fat. so mega mind is an unusually structive mind and these are destructive calories. and the healthier alternative? fou chicken mcnuggets, apple dippers and fat-free milk. isn t it true that even this meal wouldn t fit the criteria for the ban on toys? at the moment it wouldn t. it is supposed to have a fruit and vegetable in it. but there is going to be wiggle room. it s a way to start. when you look you say what s the most important thing. the child gets fruit and milk instead of something that s going to be a bad combination. and you still get chicken fingers. burger king. this grows up to eat this and grow up to be a whopper. this is double cheeseburger, fries and juice. get the hamburger, apple fries and milk. what do you think? milk should be the drink of choice. milk is not a better choice than soda. it s fine. giv me the one-liner for wendy s? a sea of beige. nothing green there. nothing green. tt s got 27 grams of fat. a lot of sodium. 690 calories and the alternative? a hamburger and orange slices. not a vanilla fatty, i mean frosty. david will be in the catskills all weekend long. we ll be right back. 8:26. i m aaron gilchrist. thanks for joining us. a man is arrested after police find guns and ammunition inside s truck along the national mall. the bomb squ was called in, but no explosives were found. we ll have a lk at a wet thursday. it s chilly. light to moderate rains since late last night. more on the way. it will be with us from time to time throughout the rest of the day. temperatures holding steady in the upper 40s to near 50 now. that s going to be the story all the way in to tonight. small chancef rain tomorrow. jerry, how s the traffic. we re trying to recover. germantown on down with the lanes open. even a bit of delay head northbound with the exit ra at route 28. and inbound 66 still suffering from earlier issues, but the good news is lanes are open. coming up today on nbc 4, a special ellen. she on tonight s new jay, he has brian wilson and anne hathaway. then jimmy gets a house ll from dr. phil. thursday morning, the 4th of november, 2010. not a nice one here in new york city. it s been raining outside. cold outside and breezy as well. we have nice people out there. we were going to say hi, but she didn t want to go out there. i m matt lauer along with meredith vieira, anne curry and joel mche. between school activities it s hard to get everyone around the dinner table together. here s why you should make it a priority and why it is easier to pull off than you think. and a program that uses scuba diving and the freedom of being underwater to help and heal people. if you want to save on t grocery bill but don t have the time or patience for coupon clipping we ll show you six scisso-free way to trim the bill and shoplifting isn t one of them. joel mchale is here from community congratulations, by the way. picked up a couple more a chilly rain continues on this thursday morning. i m tom kierein, continuing to look at the radar. we continue to have these rains. in the light greens it s more moderate. it s coming out of the southwest, heading northeast. this is going to be the story for the rest of the day. temperatures will hold steady in the per 40s to near 50 where we are now. later tonight should taper off to some occasional drizzle, maybe a passing show. small chance of a shower trough midday friday. breezy and chilly > check your weather any time of the day or night on weather channel on cable or weather.com online. let s head to uncle willy. happy birthday from smuckers. anybody got a peanut butter & jelly sandwich? happy birthdayo marie burns of ridge, new york. credits her longevity to eating whatever she wants when she wants and lots of chocolate. 100-year-old irene martin directed a senior talent competition at 96. we want to see her on dancin with the stars. and from atlanta, georgia, aaron kline escaped in nazis in the 30s. oped up a general store and still runs it. that s inedible. that s what america is all about. janet garfield, sherman oaks, california. 100,lays bridge but refuses to challenge amateurs. she doesn t want to make them feel insecure. me neither. arthur huggins of nanuet, new york. one of the first african-american buiing inspectors in new york city. how about that? that was a while back. idessa martin of englewood, new jersey. loves gardening and is a fact keeper up with current events. that s all from your nation s capital. thank you very much,willard. still ahead the add-on fees worth paying for on the next flight. are they? we ll tell you but first, this is today on nb back now with one of the republicans who could be a prime contender in the race for the white house in 2012. texas governor rick perry was elected to a third term on tuesday and has a new book fed up, our fight to save america from washington. good morning to you. good morning. tuesday was a good day for the republicans. was it an embrace of the republican agenda, a repudiation of the obama administration or as marco rubio put it, a chance to get it right? certainly a multitude of things. the wo is in front of us now. the american people sa, listen, we are spending too much money on things we don t want. go back, get it right and i think that s what you are going to see as a result. the republicans in congress and republicans all across the country from the standpoint of quit spending money we don t have on things we don t want. you said washington has too much power, that power has to be returned to the states. now that republicans are in power when it comes to t house, do you think they will relinquish it or become intoxicated by it? ty better get back to the principles of the constitution. the book is about giving americans freedom back. washington has consolidated it. the supreme court has confirmed it in direct conflict with the constitution from my perspective. americans sent the message of, listen, we have too much government and it s costing too much. that was the message tuesday night. that was one of the messages that the tea party put forward. you were one of the first to support it. you spoke in 2009 at a rally. obviously they re-energized the party, but there are people within the party who say they may force the republicans too far right. are you concerned about it come 2012? uh think republicans need to listen to the people. the people were clear on tuesday night. we got more government that we can pay for. pare it back, we want our freedoms back. i think fed up s a good primer about the constitution, the relationship with the state. states ought to be the laboratories of innovation. the book comes out right after th mid-term elections. where have you seen this before? george w. bush announced his book after annncing he was running for president. barack obama did the same thing. are you next? do you plan to run in 2012? if there is a better signal of not running for psidency of the united states it is this book. running for the presidency, you won t take on issues with the power that i do. you don t see any scenario where the party may say, we need you in 2012 and you would accept? i don t see that scenario at al but if they did? at all. you re saying, no. i m not running for the presiden of the united states. today, tomorrow or whin the next two years. being the governor of the state of texas. i think governors, whether democrat or republican, should be pushing back from washington, d.c. and say,listen, leave us alone. we know how to best run our states. the government that s closest to the people is the best government. i know you were disappointed with george w. bush once he became president because you said he was no longer a true fiscal conservative. that what the republican party needs? george w. bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom. i had criticism of the congress during that entire period of time. i wish the president had vetoed some bills, but the fact is we ve got to get back to our principle base belief that fiscal conservativism ishat people want. that s what the elections were about. everyone talks about cutting spending. you re not in washington and you don t have to pass the bills. you re in a good position to say, what would you cut specifically? i think you start with earmarks. that s a great place to cut. it s constitutional from the standpoint of not having a debate. you prioritize what s important, separate the wants from the needs and fund the priorities and reduce spending. washington can do this. it takes courageous men and women to say, we are not going to fund these. just fight for conservative values and fiscal conservativ m conservativism. thank you very much, rick perry. congratulations, again. you re welcome. the book again is called f up. coming up, resurrecting the family dinner. first, this is today on nbc. whe d you learn to do that so well. where d you learn to do that so well. the newadillac srx. the cadillac of crossovers. cadillac. the new standard of the world. 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[ cheers and applause ] [ male announcer ] achievement gets points for livingife. earn pnc points for your credit and debit card purchases. find out more atnc.com/getpoints. pnc. for the achiever in us all. this morning on today s family we are talking about the family dinner. how many times a week does your family sit down for a meal with no cell phones, no tv. just time together and a good meal? laurie david is an environmental activist and academy award winning producer and author of the new book the family dinner: great ways to connect with your ks one meal at a time . great to be here. how do you go from environmental activism to the family dinner table? the family environment. the truth is every issue i care about crosses the dinner plate including raising healthy kids, having a green kitchen. it all makes sense. it s very important for families to get together. this shod be a ritual, a tradition. yes. is this based on something you experienced in childhood or what you are ting to do with your kids? both. my childhood dinners weren t so great. we sat down every night but it was always about who was going to leave the table crying first. i didn t want to repeat that. you have teenaged daughters? two teenaged daughters. i have been doing this for over a decade. i insist on the ritual of family dinner and my children are now teenagers and they are still at the table. we re talking, laughing and i m so gteful i did it. you recognize that parents have struggles just putting food on the table, but you want parents to look at it as not just meal. this is anmportant opportunity to talk about things with your kids. how free form is it or do you have a structure? this is a gift every day gives us. with everything tearing apart family life including the screens and technology, we have to grab the rituals, things our rents and grandparents knew worked. this is how you civilize children. parents were or well whelmed. dinner doesn t have to be three courses and a pie in the oven. it can besandwiches. the key is sitting dn and talking. some families say, we are going to play roses and thorns. talk about the best thing that haened and the worst. highs and lows some pple talk about politics, have a word of the day. do you like structure or liket to be spontaneous? i think people need help having conversation. people say, we ate dinner every night but nobody talked. sometimes talking can be as challenging as preparing the food. you have this center piece here and you put things in the centerpiece to spur conversation. this is a great idea with little kids. it s called the treasure bowl. put it in the center of the table and all week long the kids pull things out, thing thas find outside, things that are special to them and put them in the bowl err night. at the end of the week you go around the table and they pull out what s special to them and they say why. it s like show and tell at the table. you like that kids help with the preparation of the meal. you have to come up with meal ideashey can help assemble. the book is filled with great ideas. i m excited. first of all, if you can buy one thing for the table, get a lazy susan. it makes every meal more fun. you will have an abuser who spins it too much. and you can put the kid on this and they can talk to everyone it makes every meal more fun. this is a participation meal where everybody gets involved i preparing the dish at the table. that gets everybody loosened up and having fun and they can personalize the meal. this is thai chicken wraps. take your lettuce leaf and put the toppings on it. make it the way you like it. if kids are involved in making it they will eat more. if you don t have time to do a full dinner every night, you encourage people to try snack time. if you can t do ritual incident, do lunch. do tea time before bedtime. have that be a rial. you d it every night your kid wills love it. we went to college together, folks. we did. ohio university. nice to see you again. nice to see you. the book is he family dinner. up next, eels on wheels. first this is today on nbc. make your christmas story unforgettable! use your shop your way rewards card at kmart toy. .for the chance to win 1 of 30 trips to universal orlando resort. .and step into the magic and excitement. .of the wizarding world of harry potter! there s smart, and there s kmart smart. abt what you give up, and not what you get? like electricity r gadget power at your seat. room to stretch your legs, and your wingspan. food when you re hungry, and taking off your shoes only if you feel like it. these aren t luxuries, they re basics. get them back, on acela. [ male announcer ] acela s turning 10. celebrate with up to 10,000 trak guest rewards points. details at amtrak.com. if you have ever been scuba do i having you know the experience is unlike anything else. for some of us it can help change lives. jenna wolfe has details. people with paralyzing injuries can enjoy soccer and skiing. now there is also scuba diving. it is called adaptive diving but there is something extra special about this experience. it s the often mysterious, magical wonderland below the water s surface. for divers it s about the sights and sounds. but for josh schuele he s all about the sensation. you have complete freedom. reporter: freedom from wheels. taking in his surroundings with his mind and now with his body as well. you don t think about your injury when you re in the water? no. reporter: for the first time ever, josh is diving in the open water. it s been a tough ride for the former high school football star, ever since an accident on the field eight years ago left him paralyzed. i was terrified. reporter: as his parents watched, josh went in for a tackle, slamming his head against another player. he knew itantly something terrible had happened. wn it happened it felt like slow motion. i couldn t even move my own arms. reporter: josh was paralyzed from the waistdown. since then, getting around is a daily challenge. but after joining the adaptive diving group called eels on wheels last year, josh is gaining new perspective. it s n hard to see why. out here on the group s trip to a diving resort in the caribbean. reporter:ow do you feel? loose. reporter: many here are former athletes, so explorin freely under the sea is what you may call a game-changer. the water is a great equalizer. it takes gravity away from these guys. reporter: chad dietrich is a practicing anesthesiologist and is used to helping and healing. reporter: what s unique about sku cuba diving. you can put the chair away. reporter: what you do need i training. before ocean diving, chad works with new divers of all ages in a small indoor swimming pool. scuba diving has been around for many years. jacques cousteau is considered the father of modern scuba and adaptive or handicapped diving has been around for some time as well. i was injured in an accident. reporter: jim founded the association in 1981. we began with a handful of guys. now we have disabled divers, thousands of them in over 45 untrie reporter: tod, scuba is considered an effective rehabilitation tool for physical and psychological benets. ouhere with the empty wheelchairs miles away, it s not hard to see why. don t let a wheelchair stop you. reporter: and the good news is around the country there are dozens of not for profit adaptive diving groups. you saw the last shot with the wheels. you re not allowed to bring your chair the boat. once the kids leave the dock they don t want to think about the wheelchairs or what is holding them back. it s all about being free, out in the open water and it s emotional as well as physical rehabilitation. thank you, jenna. good to see you. stillahead, six ways to slash the grocery bill without coupons. after your local news and a check of the local weather forecast. 8:56 right now. i m aaron gilchrist. in the news prince georges police looking for a driver who hit d kille a man on branch avenue this morning. it happened on barnabas road. right now there s no vehicle information. if you have any information, you re asked to call the police. democrat gerry connolly holds a slight lead over republican keith fimian but they re still counting the votes. that could be days. even then it could be close enough for fimian t ask for a recount. temperatures out there right now in the 50s. we ll see a high of about 52. jerry. we re still looking at delays. trying to get the rush are hour wound down. 6 f stil load up. westbound looks good if that s any help. one more stop, 270 remains very, very slow. germantown on down, the travel lanes are open. coming up today on nbc 4, a special ellen. shenterviews porsche we re back now with more of today on a thursday morning. it s the 4th of november, 2010. it s not been nice all morning long. the crowd getting smaller. we are losing them to exposure out there. it s chilly, rainingnd windy. thanks to these folks for sticking around. i m matt lauer along with al roker and amy robach. coming up, qantas is grounding the fleet of airbus a-380s after one of the jets made an emergency landing. it iseported that parts of the plane fe in midair near one of the ennes. we ll get the latest on the investigatioas to what went wrong in just a couple of minutes. scary. coming up this half hour, if you get sticker shock at the supermarket we have six ways to cut your grocery bill every week. that can add up. the average spends about $6,000 a year at the supermarket. and we are talking about charlie sheen, the highest paid actor on television. he s filed for divorce, confirmed he s wrestling addiction and has fired a 24 hour a dayober coach. we ll get the latest on that. before that, let s get to the top headlines of the day. ann? good morning, everybody. in the news, a mid-flight scare for more than 450 people aboard a qantas air flight bound for sydney. the super jumbo jet was forced to make an emergency landing after one engine failed and parts of the plane started tearing ay. jim maceda is in london with the details on the story. good morning. reporter: good morning, ann. well, since its launch in 2007 the airbus a-380 super jumbo jet has been billed as the biggest, greenest, safest commercial airlin. today for hundrs of frightened passengers on board it became a lot less safe. it was the nightmare air travelers hate to even imagine. minutes after qantas flight 2f32 had tan off, a loud bang and sparks and smoke coming from one of the four rolls-royce engines and pieces of the engine casing, some as bias a door, falling from the sky and landing on a small indonesian town where, amazingly, no one was hurt. the pilots shut down the engine and flew all 459 people safely back to singapore. we have a problem with the engine. we have dealt with the proble all 459 people on board landed safely in singapore. the man sitting over the wing next to engine two took this photo of the damaged wings. he twittered that he thought he saw engine parts ripped through the wing. it s a hollywood movie type moment where you think you re watching it from the outside but then you re a part of it somehow. a bang and another dip. what kind of bang? you know, a bang. reporter: officials say there was no explosion but have grounded the fleet until further investigation. we will suspend services until we are completely confident that qantas safety requements have been met. reporter: qantas, one of the safest airlis admits it s never experienced anything as serious as this before. qantas says it will put up all the passengers in singapore overnight and fly them to sydney tomorrow. but it s difficult to imagine how any of the people on that flight can sit back and enjoy that flight or any flight. jim, thanks. in the wake of the republican success in tuesdas mid-term elections which presidentbama called a shellacking for democrats, the president said he s willing to negotiate on extending bush-era tax cuts, energy and education but has resisted making anything but minor changes to health care form saying americans don t want another two-year battle on the project. ben bernanke says inflation is a risk in the plan to pump $600 billion into government bonds but hopes it will jump start the economy, drive interest rates lower than they are already and create jobs. tropical storm tomas is threatening to hit haiti as a hurricane early friday. the gornment is warning more than one million people living in tent camps since january s devastating earthquake to secure shelters or evacuate. scientists in germany are developing a new micro chip for blind patients that can restore partial sight. doctors say they hope the technology wil one day help the elderly regain lost vision. two philadelphia dentists are fighting the post halloween cavity rush one pound of candy at a time. they plan to buy back loot from kidsnd send what they collect to troops in afghanian where troops would presumably eat the candy slower than children. it s five minutes past the hour. now to matt, amy and al. that s an around here, you can expect more rain throughout the day. more light to even moderate rain showers, all of this coming out from the south. gulf of mexico moisture with two low pressure systems, one that s just down to the sought of us and another bigger low coming up from the south later. behind it, cold. today, hoe, tempatures holding steady in the low 50s. it will rn breezy and then windy later today and through tomorrow. a few lingering showers left tomorrow. probab 0.1. windy for saturday. still cloudy. and that s your latest weather. ann? announcer: today s money is brought to you by bank of ame america. this morning, six painless ways to cut your grocery bill. if you can t find time to clip coupons you can save lots of money by learning to be a smarter shopper. we have todd marx, senior editor from consumer reports magazine, joining us this morning. good morning, ann. the average family of four spends about $6,000 a year on groceries, that s about $115 a week. you say if we are smart we can save a lot of money. yeah. supermarket shopping isn t rocket science but shopping behavior is based on assumptions. if those are wrong, you can end up spending way over budget. so that s what it comes down to. there are a lot of tricks one can eloy to save money. one of the assumptions is that at the end of the aisle, the things right before the checkout, that those things will be on sale. you call them eye end caps. end caps, the fancy displays at the front or back of every aisle. stuff is piled high and theoretically sold cheap. they are very powerful selling tools. they outsell everything in the store. people assume the im is on sale. most of the time it is, but many timest is not. sales can go up by a thi just by putting it there because people believe it is on sale. it is also a destination for merchandise which may be near the end of the shelf life. be careful of that. yes. we have bn taught to compare unit prices but it s hard to figure. what s your best advice? unit price is the holy grl of saving money. thanks to the barode stickers under every shelf where each item is. that way you can tell if a 12-ounce bottle of ketchup is cheaper or more expensive than the 32-ounce bottle. people assume the smaller size always costs me than the bigger size. economies of scale. the reality is that one in four instances, the smaller size is cheaper because it s being promoted. ifou look at the cost per ounce, quart, pound, per 100 eets, that gives you the true price rather than the gross price of the product itse. we often get things in the mail and sometimes throw them out, but we have been hanging onto them more lately because they give us what we think are sale items, what we ca get for cheaper. you say you ve got to be careful about the flys. a lot of times people assume it is on sale because it was mentioned in the flyer. everyone assumes it so much that the sale of any item in there can go up by as much as 500% with the mention of the product. again, it may only have been mentioned because the manufacture paid an ad placement fee to get the product mentioned. you ve got to know your prices. seems we are going too fast, no reading the fine print and these signs that you can buy five boxes of cake for $5. oh, yeah. you say you don t have to buy all five and you get the discount? absolutely. the devil is in the details. it s the fine print. tlas psychological study done that showshen people see a number and it s planted in your brain, ten cans of soup for $1, they automatically tend to buy ten because they have the connection. in reality, there are very few products put on the shelves that mandate you buy the entire ten to get the diount. you can get a discount on one. you don t have to overstock shelves by buyin ten. we all buy bread, bakery goods as much as we can because kids like sandwiches and we usually go to the brands we like. you say to consider buying from the store s bakery. more stores have bakeries. you don t get to find out what s in the bread. so the benefit is you get a cheaper not oy that. many more stores are being health-conscious. that means they are providing a lot of artisan breads. the handmade products that are high in quality and they can save you 40 to 350% off the pre off the packaged national brand. people don t think about it, b we found a six-pack of rolls from pepperid farm or other companies that cost 40% more. smart thinking, fresh, right out of the oven. can t beat that. our assumption is the quality ll be better because we have a name brand but you re saying the quality has gone up so much in the bakeries. and a lot of them don t have preservatives so you are not stuck with what s in the packaged product to keep it fresh. another thing that we don t usually take the time to do is check receipts. how often have we bn overcharged? about 6% of the time. that number has stayed fairly constant in the supermarket arena for years that consumer reports has been surveying shoppers. but here s the thing about that. if you re overcharged, if you don t look at the receipt carefully you have a tendency to get screwed out of money. here s why. most supermarkets have a policy and that polic says if we overcharge you, if the scanner is programmed wrong, you will get not only a refund but we ll give you the item for free. the onus is on the consumero act first. you ve got to bring it up to customer service. i have done it a thousand times and i always get the item for free. so you re notust saying making sure they didn t charge you for something you didn t have. right. you re saying make sure you know enough about what the price should have been so even thoug it says the number that the scanner number could itself be wrong and that s the important thing. 6 of the time the prices are wrong. if you don t know the prices you stand to be overcharged. if not, what s the worst thing? you go home and didn t get overchged. if they make a mistake, they have to pay for it. i bet you save a lot of money on groceries. they don t like me in t stores. thanks for joing us. my pleasure. more of today s money on our website at todayshow.com. coming up, what you need to know about flu vaccines this year. up next, what fees to pay or not before you fly home for the holidays. that s coming up after this. t. it s pretty cool. 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[ female announcer ] hallmark recordable storybooks. this christmas, make it wonderful at your hallmark gold crown store. now to new developments with actor charlie sheen. he s now filed for divorce from his estranged wife and is taking another step following his alleged drunken rpage at a new york hotel. jeff rossen has details. reporter: there s talk of martin sheen getting involved and now charlieheen admits he needs help and is an addict. in fact, he s hired a sober coach, a full-time counselor, to keep him away from drugs and alcohol. the coach has even moved into sheen s house. good morning, charlie. reporter: new video of charlie sheen, cigarette in hand. happy to go back to work today? reporter: this week the highest paid actor on tv is back on the set of two and a half men. the good news is you are a n. fectly healthy 50-year-old i m only 40! tell that to your liver. reporter: but it s not back to normal. sheen has a shadow. a new sober coach who follows him everywhere, even to work. his mission keep sheen away from drugs, alcohol and trouble. initially the sober coach will want to test him regularly, probably daily, maybe multiple times a day. the coach needs to a as a barrier. sometimes a phical barrier between a client and a bag of dope or a client and a bottle of booze. reporter: help sheen could have used last week in new york. seen in these tmz photos partying with a porn star. that s christina walsh, known on her videos as capri anderson. soon, police forces say, she and sheen were inside the ro at the plaza hotel where he went on a drunken, naked rampage. why did you lock yourself in the bathroom? reporter: tmz caught up with walsh wednesday for the first time since the incident. the public wants to know what happened that night. reporter: she wouldn t say a word about that night or charlie sheen. now realizing how ep his diction is, sources close to sheen say his new sober coach has even moved in with him. for a man who s battled addiction and anger foyears, experts say a coach may not be enough. things with charlie are dire. he has a serious addiction and needs a lot of help. charlie needs the full spectrum of addiction treatment. reporter: if charlie sheen is to win the battle, he ll do it alone. this week he filed for divorce from his third wife brooke mueller. according to court papers, sheen will pay her over $750,000 plus more than $1.2 million to buy r out of the house they shared. sheen and mueller will share custody of the twiboys and he ll pay her $55,000 a month in child support. on top of the child support he s already paying his second wife, denise richards. crlie sheen s bad boy persona endeared him to many. the fact that he hired a sober coach and filed for divorce in the same week is a clear indicator that he wantto refocus his life. reporter: sheen s pending divorce may not be the only legal issue right now. the porn star in the hotel room said she plans to sue charlie sheen claiming she feared for her life. i think the reason he s able to continue on like thiss because he keeps getting work. people say he showed up to set on time this week and everything has been fine so far. we have much more coming up including what you need to know about the flu vaccine this year. that s right after this. ugh, my sinuses. the congestion. it s your fault. naturally, blame the mucus. well, i can t breathe. did you try blowing your nose? of course. 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[ female announcer ] yoplait, it is so good. this morning on today s family, the flu season. it is that time of year when the virus is passed around schools, day cares and the office. that means it s time for you and your family to get the flu shot. dr. tanya altm from the american academy of pediatrics is here to fill us in on the flu vaccine facts. good morning. good morning. every year the facts are differt and there are different reasons to gethem and who should get the shot. i will start with the first question. this year, who should get the flu vaccine? everyone 6 months of age and older should get the vaccine. that s what i recommend to my patients and my own two boys have received it since they were 6 months old. ifou have an infant, protect them by protecting everyone in the house. parents and grandparents roll up your slooe or take a sniff to protect your family. my famil got the shot last friday. you know, it s tough getting a needle and sometimes your arm is sore, but there i the mist as well. what s the difference between the two? what do you suggest? the flu shot is an inactivad flu. the spray is a great option if you don t like needles and are a healthy peon age 2 to 49. it s a weakened vaccine and there is no needle involved. some people cannot get the flu mist. ifou re pregnant, have a chronic medical condition or have a history of asthma or wheezing, get the shot, not the mist. and every year the vaccine is updated. this year is different because it includes h1n1 as well. exactly. every year when they make the flu sack vietnam they make it to protect against the top three strains. this year it includes n1. only one vaccine is needed. this is a big one. we talk about it every year. there are a lot of myths about the flu vaccine and probably the biggest one is peoplesay, well, i got sick or i got the flu right after i had the vaccine. is that possible? contrary to possible belief you cannot catch the flu from the vaccine. the flu shot is a killed virus vaccine. other than a sore arm side effects are rare. with the nasal spray it is so weakened that you can t catch the flu or gate serious symptoms. some people compln of mild congestion and rarely childre will get a fever. in my office we have given over 3,000 doses of the flu vaccine and we have not seen serious side effts or received parent calls complaining of side effects or flu symptoms after thevaccine. that speaks loudly. for kids if they are under a certain age often they have to have two doses of the vaccine. why isthat? for children underge 9 they need two doses at least four weeks apart for full protection. how do you know if your child needs full doses. if it is their fst year getting the vaccine they need two doses. if they didn t get the h1n1 last year or haven t received two in a past season they should get two this year. what about pregnant or breastfeeding women. any concerns? if you re pregnant or breastfeeding g the flu vaccine. pregnant women have a higher chance of becoming seriously ill if they catch the u. if you re pregnant ask or a flu shot and if you re breastfeeding or pregnant this year you can get the nasal spy. you mentioned the flu vaccine tries to protect everyone from the three most likely strains, but we know there are hundreds of strains of flu out there. if you happen to get one of the nonprotected strains what should youook for? what are symptoms of the flu a what can you do once you get it? every year i take care of children to catch the flu. they look so sick with glassy eyes, aches a pains, no energy, high fever, cough, sore throat. don t forget the flu causes thousands of deaths every year. what i find hard as a pediatrician is not only taking care of children who are so sick with complications from the flu or nuis that it could have been prevented. coming up, all tngs cookie. first this is today on nbc. 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[ female announcer ] choose. brew. enjo keurig. this morning on today s kitchen, hot chef. the hottest cookies and being creative in the kitchen. the editors have put together a sweet selection of the best cookie recipes through the year called the gourmet cookie ok. sarah moulton even worked in the test kitchens for a couple of years. i did briefly and thenn the dining room. what have we learned from history? we kept the language the same as it was written but we have notes t update the recipe. you can see how the language and style changed and what people were eating. this is from the 40s. they have no brandy in them. they are british cookies and decided they didn t need the brandy. this is a recurring theme. when you re trying to be fancy you ape the cookies. this is during world war ii so there was rationing. we did use a little sugar but they wouldn t have. and these? these are like a madeleine with rum-soaked raisins. very elegant. there is a trend here. there sot alcohol in everything. these are cottage cheese cookies. we were trying new tastes and you see ingredients like cottage cheese in cookies which is like ricotta and there is pine nuts and pineappl ere is alcohol in this. wow. this is an article written by a mystery writer. it s an interesting cookie from ireland with oats on the tside. so healthy. it s got oats! these are great bars from atlanta. we are starting to cover the 70s through 90s america. these are the best pecan pie in a bar. you love these. this is my favorite from a store called the bakery in l.a. and what was interesting is, a, people started really eating chocole but not designer. this isnsweetened chocolate, chocolate chips, ingredients from the supermarket. best chocolate cookie you will ever eat. and the? polish apricot cookies. i m beating cream cheese and butter. o there is no sugar in the dough? . it s four ingredients. those two, flour and salt. this is a ltle trick, al, when ying to add dry ingredients to a mixer, put them in foil to get them in sier. you get the idea. chl the dough, divide it into four pieces. we have one here. i see two different kinds of aprico apricots. this is turkish and this is california. tell me what you think. i m going to fill one down here. what do you think? which one is this? this is the california. it s a little blander. do you think so? i think it s more acidic. this is sweeter. the turkish. this is more acidic which is why we picked it for the recipe. you wan the california apiary cat. we have hone orange marmalade, apricots, raisin and cinnamon. it s simmered together and pued. roll out the dough between sheets of wax paper, put the filling on there i should let you do it. you re a cook. i will try. go ahead and we shape them like this. take the two edges, brush the with egg wash and fold them over. it s like a cookie wonton. they did it nicely like this to go like that. then these are baked at 375 for 17 to 20. i found it took less time. it depends on the oven. sure. so use the glue. there you go. just like th. these are tasty. there are 69 cookies in there and a lot of history. talking about what s going on in the issue, it s fun. fantastic. here they are. not too sweet. what year are these from? 2000. i don t remember exactly what year. the cream cheese makes tm very tender. ann, do you want to try a chocolate won? shenows ann. and the california apricots. what s coming up? hoda and kathie lee have kendra wilkinson and more after this. a wet morning here in the nation s capital. rain is still coming down out. there we ll check on the weather shtly. good morning. 9:56s the time. i m barbara harrison. in the news this hour prince george s police are looking for a driver who hit and killed man along branch road. at this point there s no vehicle description. anyone who has any information at all should call the police. an arizona man is i custody after police found guns and ammunition inside his truck parked along the national mall. parts of the mall d surrounding streets were closed for hours. a bomb squad was called in, but no explosives were found. let s see how long the rain is going to last. we have veronica johnson with us this morning. good morning. good morning, barbara. we could still have a few mor lingering showers. we ve got light showers falling. anywhere where we ve got the light green, that s where we have moderate rain falling. temperature, upper 40s to around 50 degrees. we ll hit a high today of . tomorrow, sunshine. steve? we still can t she the delays. it s still very slow. south of here it s starting to impre a little bit but it s stl not up to speed. over in springfield we can see that volume northbound 95 heading toward us. tlas ctinue all the way up 395 to the 14th street bring are. barbara? thank you, steve. coming up today on nbc 4, a special ellen. she interviews from nbc news, this is today with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, live from studio a in rockefeller plaza. hello, everybody, it s thursday, nvember 4th. i m delighted to report, hoda, that for the third straight week in a row, you were on the new york times best seller list. what is happening now? good for you. on sale now. yes! andbrowse about the bookstore on the main drag. i m doing a little book signing on saturday. tell people whattime. 11:00 to 1:00 on satury if you happen to be there. it s a cute bookstore. well, i want you very much to get a good night s sleep at some point before that happens. so what? bring it in, boys. oh, you did not bring a bed. hoda s got a bra new blow-up mattress. that s just terrible! and pillows! and pillows. okay. now you re all set. i do need a comforter. that s perfect. this is like a great day. i cant tell you. i m going to complain for 20 seconds and then i m going to stop complaining. my phone didn t get hked up, and parts of the bed aren there. they didn t build it, they didn t show. and now they re coming on tuesday. i was on the phone for 45 minutes before the show, and then holding to get my phone reconnected, another 45. thas the thing, you think about how your life is ebbing at anyway at this point, and then think about the hours you waste you can t get a phone number and then they won t let you keep your old one. and when they gave me a new one, they said someone forgot to do the paperwork, it ll take nother week to ten days. so people are trying to call to say we re bringing your bed, there s no phone look at what we took care for you. thank you, thank you for the pillow with your face on. that ll get a lot of use, i m sure. everybody wants to sleep with that pillow. how exting is it with you the book s doing well and people are loving it. what are people saying to you? they want to know aout you. it s been fun. it s been a lot of fun. i didn t know what it was going to be like. you get a lot of one-on-one with people. people bring you cookies. and they tell you what they think. yesterday i was at the harmony club, and it was a nice group of women. and it was a fun group and we sold some books. one woman looked at her and said, i m getting it on kindle, it s cheaper on kindle. i knew she wasn t. and i m fine with that. i saw because you coun t be with us, i saw such a good show yesterday. sonny and i went to see a life in the theater. it s a play. i guess it s like 30 years ago or something. but i think it stands up just beautifully to te. becse it s about an old-timer patrick stewart who plays, you know, a man who has been in the theatre all his career. and it s starting to fall apart a little bit near the end. and the young wpper snapper t.r. knight, he s trying to teach the wayof the theater. i howled. it s very funny. and i don t think you have to be in the theater to enjoy this at all. it s two very fine actors doing greawork. i m going to be back on the train next wednesday. well, t.r. knight will be with us o friday. well, then, you re going to haveto carry that segment because i didn t see the play. car carry you on my back like i always do. charlie sheen has made a big move. charlie sheen has decided to hire something called a sober coach. it s a sober coach. so i gue the coach now lives in the house and wates what he s doing 24/ 7. yeah, especially into bathrooms, because that s where a lot of this stuff takes place. i know. i read page six. you do read page six. so i wonder if that s going to work. what do you think? by hiring a coach, i guess you re saying i have a problem, right? he admitted it. and admitted what was plain to everybody else that he does have a problem and that s the first step towards, you know, healing if healing s possible for him. and we hope it is. yes, we do. if you guys have had this issue, a neigor walks their dog and the dog does its business on your lawn. and the neighbor just walks away. keeps walking. keeps walking like nothing happened. well, one guy got frustrated because somebody was bagging up their doggie s business and throwing it into his bushes. he got sick of it. so he set up a camera, videotaped it, and realized it was his neighor who was toss and just went to the bush every day and just threw it in there. like what s the problem? our doggie poo? yes, you can t do that. really? that s a no. fish can do it, but no dog stuff goes in there. i think the stuff is, the guy was upset. but they ended up filing a citation against the neighbor. so he got in trouble. and then the neighbor on the the receiving end of the stuff end up posting that video on youtube. hich you think was going a little too far, right? do you? why would you post the the video of the guy? it s terrible he did that. but a lot of peopl do have that issue with people who either mow their lawn or rake their leaves and somehow it ends up on your lawn. they keep crossing over. and they don t re. no, they don t, hoda. you be thoughtful of that now that you ve moved into your new apartnt. because you ve not neighbors, you know, that are going to know all of your business. what are you talking about? they can hear things? you can hear a little. really? not much, but you ll hear a little. you ll see when you move in. we should explain. hoda has been living in an apartment for a long, long time and regaled you with the stories about the problems she s had at the aforementioned apartment. i have been staying in the city an awful lot because it s quite a commute back and forth. and sometimes it s twice or three times a day at sometimes. and so we broke down and got a little one-bedroom apartment. but it s in the same building as mine. as hoda and david friedman s. everyone has a story and it s about to get more interesting. yes, it is. i ll be over to borrow a cup of sugar. okay. and i think i ll answer the door. i don t know. all right. so here s something that s kind of raunchy. this is should we do th backpack stories? let s it. so there was this young boy. how old is he? he s 9. he s 9. we want to show you. this is theackpack he wore to school. okay? he s 9. is that kendra? he went took this to elemtary school. his parents complained, they said don use that backpack anymore. he s been using it two years. why was it going on for two years? anyway, the d got upset his kid couldn t carry that backpack in and fought it. so the kid gets to go in with the backpack, he has to take the books out when he gets into the school, leave it with the principal, and pick it up when he goes home. i think the problem is the father lting him carry that backpack to school. yeah. teachers andchools and principals get a lot of flak. what they have to put up with because parents are not doing their jobs in the homes and they ship off every day their badly-behaved children and expect, you ow, the teachers to teach them what they re not being taught themselves. right. all right. it s time for your play list. let s hear it. if you like michael franty, and you do. he sings say hey. this one is call shake it. let listen. get ready. you have a marrita in your hand. there feel it. ready, go. just the way you are just the way you are shake it, shake it, shake it like a tamborine o you like it? no. i hate it. think about a margarita on the beach. stop talking. a little, little extra waist around action. here we go. here we go. get ready for the chorus. here we go. shake it, shake it, shake it you know they like it. they re going to lo it on facebook. no. all rig. shake it. get on the treadmill and do that. i m telling you,ou ll sweat, you ll be happy. and to dohat on everyone has a story day when we labor labor over every word. and you can shake it, she it, shake it. like a tamberine. is it okay to take your dog on a plane? you say as long as they don t act like an animal. totally fine. and hoda says it s fine until they start dending your aisle seat and wimpering for wine. that s funny. let s go to sarah. hi, sarah. next week we re having some fun. we were telling you about the fan of the week yesterday. but we also have on wednesdays, the what the what phtos. the photos that make you say, huh? and we have one to show you. therwas a woman that was sitting in her stroller a woman who stopped and said this photo made me say what the what? oh, in the kid s stroller. keep them coming, if it makes you say what? we ll probably say huh too? i said what, when my son showed up from california with three months worth of laundry. he shipped it on the plane to home for his laundry to be done. no, he did not. yes, he did. but i m so glad to see him. and he s getting bigger. yes, he s like 200 pounds w. yeah, yeah, yeah. all right. coming up today. what a difference a year makes for reality tv star kendra wilkinson. she s over there talking it over with joel. stop flirting. nothing good can come from that. righthere, baby. 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playboy s asking me to pose. they re reaching out to me and asking me to pose. that s exactly what frank did when i told him the same thing. kendra, welcome back. thank you so much for having me again. so they askedou to pose for pyboy, and what are we going to do? well, i haven t decided yet. but i m leaning more on no. and you know, i involv hank in my decision, and i also involved fans. my fans are so important to me. and in that first episode, you ll see my fans and see what they have toay about it. what s the general feing about it? it was let me tell you, that was probably the hardest that is probably the hardest decision of my life. and i don t want to be, you know, older and regret not doing it. but i m at that part i m at that i m 25, i still young, i m still hot. and i want you guys are very beautiful. oh, yeah. 25. but it s like, you know, i want to be that hot mom in the public eye. but i m like do i need to do playboy agai to be hot in the public eye? d he hurt your feelings? there was a shock jock talking about how you were he called you a big fat ring housewife, a la mrs. brady, very unkind. did it hurt your feelings when he did that? you know, it didn t because i i m open because there s a lot of people inthis world that have their own opinions about me. and i can t stop that. i can t change that. it s ike, that s m cow, and we definitely don t see eye to eye. so i kind of hung up on him. so that s his opinion. and i can t change it. did it motivate you to want to ge in better she? it did. it made me like i want made me want to get back into shape and prove him wrong. not just him, but everybody that cticizes me. well, you put yourself out there, you know. in the reality series. so nobody s surprised then when people have opions. i can t change it. i don t really care. what bothers me so, men have absolutely no idea what pregnancy does to a woman s body. and for them to be so glib, you know. and, you know, they don t look so great either when they show up for their 20-year reunion. and just a couple weeks ago, my body just started kicking back into gear, you know. now that t baby s about almost 12 months. he s, you know, he s crawling around. look at you. so there s tremendous double standard that still exists. what s the story? we talked about how you were quote unquote a single mom for a while. what s the story behind the single mom issue? well, you know, i m not saying single as i m, you know but hank is in minnesota now playing football, i m in l.a. trying to find a home for us. and it is it feels. i m doing kind of everything myself. you re still very much married. oh, oh, my gosh. i love my married life. we re not sepated. i think that was some of the question, right? they were unclear. so how do you keep your married life alive when you are on on different coasts just about? we definitely take advantage of the, you know, the whole skype, texting. that new ipod face time. we have all that. and it s actually a blessing in disguise. you know, we get a chance to like know each other all over again and communicate. at s how we first started in our relationship is communicating on tv or on the phone. it would be harder for him, though, because he s not with you and the baby. i know. he s sad right now. but i m going to go ansurprise him one day and show up. i plan to spend the whole month of december there with him. the baby s first birthday is december 11th. cool. well, happy birthday to the baby. and kendra, good luck with your shw. thank you very much. don t do it. all right. the new season of kendra premieres sunday night at 10:00 p.m. on e!. up next, back with the soup host. self-proclaimed comedian joel mchale after these messages. h p. crackers turned into tasty, crunchy sticks! pringles cracker stix. so delicious. your mouth will be strangely attracted to them. evething pops with pringles cracker stix. with not having enoughood. that s why ve teamed up with feeding america and hamburger helper®. when you buy hamburger helper® you can help feeding america deliver a meal to a localood bank. visit this websi to see how you can help. deliver a meal to a localood bank. colorstay ultimate™ liquid lipstick. i don t kiss and tell. has a built-in topcoat that keepsour lips peect past midnight. with a single application in 20 comfortable shades. these lips are sealed. revlon colorstay ultimate™ liquid lipstick. so fisher-price created the stride-to-ride dino. he ll help her little feet take those big first steps. and when she s ready, shl love scooting around. only from fisher-price. play. laugh. grow. funny thing about vegetables. they fill you up without filling you out. yes! juice gives you three of your five ily servings of vegetables. that s what i m talking about! v8. what s your number? 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while we have a sif, let s watch one of these clips. yeah, that s great. on the fourth hour of the today show, hoda and kathie lee had a conversation about marital aids, but they kept it tasteful because this is a family show. there s a new survey out from adam and eve productions and it talks about adult careful. toys. i wouldn t know one if it slapped me in the face. okay. tn hoda hit her across the face with a clothes iro and kathie said, that s a s toy? d she said, yeah, that s a sex toy and hit her again, and again and again. the fourth hour of t today show is sponsod by gin. what is this? oh, my gosh. this is good stuff. another clip, as well. you re liking this? no, i didn t joel, why do you continue to mock our show? have you seen your show? no, w make a point not to watch it after wards. this is lightweight stuff what i m doing here. did you see the shot of you at the super bowl dancing after you stayed up all night dancing? you were wearing the drew brees and the beads. how did you get the beads? you don t even remember it. you have no recall. yeah. see, this is what i m talking about. you re an emmy-winning dateline reporter. you be careful. was an emmy-winning dateline reporter. this segment is over. let s do one re clip. yeah, lighten up. let s go emmy winner. the fourth hour of the today show featured what else? hoda d kathie lee drinking. what s in here? vodka? what is it? lime time syrup, apple bitt bitter. that s what it says. so you just read whatever s on the prompter. that s pathetic. we love jl mchale. yeah, thanks for promoting community. we re about to talk to you about that show. is thashow still on? so we ve got a few more episodes going of that. why was that picked up? i don t need to tell you. why? i don t know. they, you know, you guys, you do the biggest ratings on the network. so you don t really need us, b they took pity. this has actually gotten a lot of traction with people. they get a kick out of it. what can we expect? tonight,e ve got hillary duff. playing a mean girl. weren t you mean to her sister haylie? she slapped me, and it was over. don t people understand this is all in fun,ur drinking is not real, and his making fun o it is not real either. no, i ve never seen hoda dancing around a barbecue in the back of the truck. why do you keep bringing that up? it was memorable. they kept cutting back to you. all the best in that show. what s it lled? community. that s a great show. every day, you get so hooked on the fresh feeling, you ll want to pass it on to a friend. over half a million have shared the freshness already so just go to getfreshwithafriend.com. tell a friend about fresh, and you ll both get a fresh reward. that now comes with the cottonelle easy reach hanr so it s always right where you need it. so go on, see why everyone s getting fresh with a friend! so it s always right where you need it. to stay fit, you might also want to try lifting one of these. a unique sea salt added to over 40 campbell s condensed soups. it helps us reduce sodium, but not flavor. so do a few lifts. campbell s.® it s amazing what soup can do.™ the chill of peppermint. the rich dark ocolate. york peppermint pattie. get the sensation. between now and the new year the average american puts on nearly ten pounds. help to reverse that trend. we ll give you good examples of cardio and strength training. thanksgiving is three weeks away. we ll help you entertain the holidawith stle. brout to you by listerine ero, zero alcohol, less intense. surprisedwe never heard that on your ipod. we are back with more of a special series we re calling body talk. we ve tackled body odor, gas, and breath. and now on to none other, we re talking about dandruff. dandruff is a yeast. it sounds really scary. it s a normaleast. it s found on all over our bodies. when it overproduces, then you can see it. dandruff is is caused by weather changes, hormonal changes, product build-up, and stress. you can actually physically see it on your clothing. they feel unclean. there s this whole stigma attached to it. it s not. it s just one of those things, it s a little bit of yeast and flakings from the thescalp. dandruff affects many women. she tried everything she could think of. however, women are re bothered by it. so in terms of prescriptions written, many more are here in the united states for women than men. you have a serious problem when your scalp is itching and it s interfering with your lifestyle. dr. amy wexler is a rmatologist and the author of mind-beauty connectn. good morning, everybody. all right. so we re talking about the different causes of dandruff. i didn t realize there was all of those causes. stress causes it, as well? well, stress can make everything worse. you can also havesoriasis in your scalp. why do they wear black outfits? good question. when should you go to a doctor? when is it an issue that you ink, i shoul use some of those shampoos? i think it s okay to try head and shoulders for about tree weeks. can it take that long to work? you can use it every day, every other day, but we have a lot of prescription options available. jen, you re going to talk about ways to minimize it, not really cures, right? not cures, but simple solutions that will help you out. and they don t feel so medicinal all the time. we ve got like the neutrogina gel, or put some lem on your scalp. lemon too? lemon is a cure for everything. and then nice blondhair. it s lemon for bad breath lemon every day. is that drying it out? it purifies. with se of these oil treatments, which i love oil treatments for your scalp. they re great for your hair. something with an avocado oil. this one is a greek import. great f your skin and hair, moisturizing, going to help with the cell turnover a little bit. we ve got eucalyptus in this one over here. these are not going to be a cure you get in the doctor s office, but it s a quick fix. these, if you do get the dreaded white flakes and- i agree, everyone with dandruff has to wear black. i don t know why, but they do it. these are teeny little touch-ups. little squares that you can kind of just for lint, deodorant stains, it s not going to rub it down. have you ever seen a case that was so bad that you couldn t help it with medicines and things? no, totally treatable. sometimes we have to use oral medicines, but always a way to treat it. it s not just dry flaking. it s not a dry flaking, the it can still be oily and you can have dandruff? i didn t know, i thought dandruff was dried off skin cells. i m surprised to find out it could be oily. there s treatments for both. what sort of treatments do you offer in your office? there s prescription shampoos. there are prescription foams that you can put on the scalp and it doesn t mess up your hairtreats the yeast. and then there s the yeast inection pill that helps and topical steroids. what about head and shoulders, the regular stuff it works about half the time. that s what you re saying, it takes about three weeks. and if they don t work, you should go to the doctor. some people give up and say there s nothing for me. thanks, ladies. thank you. up next, the story of the greatest gift a sister could give. we re going to et the latest winners of everyone has a story right after this. rise and shine! 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[ female announcer ] olay regeneris and we re back with anna and her sister shanna. those two little boys exited stage left a little while ago. with kathie. and now it s time for you to hear this song that wasritten just for you by david friedman and myself. please welcome broadway star, christiane noll. and theong is called the power of love. when i first heard the news at i couldn t have a child i thought that i would lose my mind, i could not be reconciled to a life with no first steps, no children for laughter filled with joy tondless christmas mornings without a little girl or boy still i couldn see a way to have a child to call my own though i dreamed day after day to know that it s aove i ve never known but a power was in play, a force i couldn t hear or see it was love that brought a miracle for someone near and dear to me the power of love the power of love is there any power that s greater tn love power that brings us everything that we can dream of the power, power of le so i was shown the waythrough the darkness and the fear now i know day after day that lo will always be right here in my heart and in my home, with a child i hold so dear i can feel the power deep within like a beacon burning bright and clear it s the power of love the power of love is there any power that s greater than love it s a love that brings us everything that we can dream of the power, power of love and the power is in everything we think and say and do it can conquer the impossible because our dream comes tru the power the power now love has brought me everything that i ve dreamed of i was sanctified and satisfied and gratified through the blessed boundlessower of love wow. beautiful, christina. beautiful, beautiful. come on over. join us on the sofa. we ll be back with more of today on nbc. 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[ female announcer ] now let s say every joe in america uses it. looks like everyone likes saving money. ah, the potential of putting people first. thanks joe. know more. get better. get a smarter health plan. aetna.com. and we are back with everyone as the story honoring a special woman. christiane noll just performed the power of love. thank youery much. and we ve been joined by david, the father of the year. yay! we can see you. what did you guys think of your song? oh, beautiful. almost unreal. it was just wonderful. thank you. that was beautiful. and christiane, you ve got something coming up, don t you? yes, i ll be singing at carnegie hall. 19th of november? 19th of november. we like to give a little something away. yes, we do. this is our favorite part. we know you two rarely get to see each other. so we decided the trump hotel and towers has donated a stay for you two with some spa treatments. just the two of you, massages, the whole thing. look at your robes and all the goodies in here. complementary dinner and breakfast and a night s stay. we hope you enjoy a little r & r, which i m sure you both need. dad is going to have to babysit. what s new? the kids seem so adorable. they re great. they re amazing. everday is they re learning something new. they re at a wonderful age. they re starting to talk and they re so much fun. little miracles. love out. thanks for sharing your stories. thanks, everybody, david. that s it for us today. but more hilarity will ensue tomorrow. have an awesome thursday, everybody.