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for the most expensive producon ever. tuesday, december 21st 2010. captns paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a tuesday morning. i m ma lauer. a good morning, i m tamron hall, meredithas the day off. just abo allections of california havbeen aected by e rain, it began falng last fray with barely letup. lien to los angeles, 5.2 inches, 5.8 inches in santa monica and the storm is expected to intensify today and perhaps tomorrow. wee going to hav the latest a live reportoming up in just couple of minutes. a terrifying attack. man pulled from h kayak and attacked by a massive crocodile. two m watch it happen and they spe out in a live interview. one man is generatg quite a bit of contrersy, not because they were ftured in the new york city times. we re gog to share some of the angry comments the artics generating. but pleasant start let s sty morning with the record rains in california rorter: nonsto that s how many have described the rai he. has been hammering this are since thursday and for those ridents who live up he in the hills, sandbags and plywood is all they have to keep t mud back a many are bracing fomore wd, wet weather. rerdain, 12 inches in parts of southn california, it s already been called the storm of the decade, but with another five to ten inches on the way, forecasters say the worst is y to come. tside los angeles in the foothills, hes are fortified, thousands of sandbags, t first line of defense. the teat i massive mud slides. in 2009, getation in this area burned in this state s largest wildfire. we live in a neiborhood that was taggedramed padise alley when it was built in 19. now sort of paradise lost is an epic part of their lives. reporter: the highway patrol says rain a facto in hundreds of accidents, at least two people have been killed. viually the entire state of california is affected by wild weather. monday in kern county, tusands were aed to evacuateo high ground. is gotteno the point where we can t get any and out anymore. reporte across the wt in colorado, wind gustsopped 80 mis an hour. and in the rockies whiteout conditions. reporter: back in cafornia, a 40-yea snowfal record was shtered in mammoth, ten feet of snown jt four days. but in e l.a. foothills the rry is mud. were expecting rain all day, heavier rain this evening and more rain onwednesday. matt, many are wondering how much more these hillses can take. ts is a big question, how much longer will i rain o west and what s in sto here in the west. the weather channel s stephanie abrams h it all for us. advisorie are still posted all the way down into southn california and the stream of moture is going to continue t pump in the rain and ao the know. let mehow you how much rain we are going to s here over the next couple of days in southern california. yes, we cou see another five to seven incs of rain down by san diego. a piece of thi system is actually going to break off, travel across theountry and en pentially brings snowstorm here saturday night into monday throughout the northeast. it s still a little far out to tell whether it will tck a little closer t land, or if it will go farther out to sea. she s talking about a possiblehite christmas there. it s good to have you was. don t be obvious. white chstmas. i was going to say, tamron, come on. good moing, matt, tamro and good morning, everyby. theentagon is denying a report that the u.s. wants a bigg mility role in pakistan. the u.s currently relies on unmannedrone aircraft. today s new york times report that u.s. military officials believ u.s. special forces are needed. nbc s kelley o donnell is on capitol hill for us this moing. reporter: good morning. the presidt s got a lot riding onthis he been making phone calls, so has the secrery of state. the penton say it s vital to national security, butnly a couple of repubcans are public saying they will ratif the new s.t.a.r.t.reaty. republican leaders say there are some problems with this sayin constraints on u.s. missile defense anwill they really be able to know at russia has in the s.t.a.r.t. democrats say there s been enough debate and it cld happen today,he critical test vote. exchan students and other amerans trying toly home fr europe for t holidays are stilleing dayed today by the weather. ix yea ago, pan am flight 106 was blown up over locrbie scotland, killing 266 people. nbc news invtigative corresndent s andvance copy. eporter: the scottish governme released megrahi on compassionate grods becse he s believed to have terminal cancer and six months to li. today he s rortedly still aliv and living in auxury village in libya. threatening to c off bp s $90 billion oil dl with libya. the british spy master repeatedly lobbied the british government for megrahi lease. e scotts were trying to g a $4illion loan. and finally the pgnosis that megrah had terminal cancer was wrong. the purse used by frida scho boardember to swat a gunman last weeks being auctned bycharity. is morng the bidding has toed$11,000. a stunt double fell 3 feet duri a previ and was taken to the hospital a precaution. the $65 million ow s opening has been post tech techl and that cloud cover will eventually advance farlter to theorth and we ll get increasing clou here as the day progresses with highs in the 30s and asmall chance o an afternoon flry an a high near 40 tomorw. highs on thursday with sunshine. could get accumulating snow late friday night a on christmas day to christmas nht. tamron, oveto you. stephanie, thank you. the man who self published a controversial book has n been arrest on oncenity charges. kerry sande has the latest. eporte this is a how to book forpedophiles. whene first told you about it about a month ago. had reached into the top 100 on amazon.com there was anuproar o the internet. amazon no longe sells theook and noweputies say the author in a few hours heill be booked into theolk county jail. florida deputieslew to pueb, colora to arrest the man w wrote a how toook for deputies for $50 and then sending it to flora by il. the bo s title, the pedophile s guide love and pleasure. he created this book specifically to teach people how to sexuay molest and rape children. reporter: sheriff grady judge says h targetedrieves using florida s tough anti- obscenity laws, while publishers said they couldn t do anything because it was protected by free spch. thereay be nothinghathe other 49tates can do but that something thetate of florida can do and th s to make sure that we prosecute phillip grieves for his manifeo. griev says he s not apologet apogetic. he defended not only his right to publish. toell you the truth, i don t think that it s alwaysad for the chil reporter: but also what he believes is acceptable behavior. first of all wanted to provide some guidelines for pedophileso that they could avoid harming the victims. rorter: legal experts say e difficulty in this case is what is otecte free speech for example a book that shows you howo make a bomb is legal. the question is then does grieves guide for pedophis go one step furtr? inur system one can advocate a lawless, even a despicable philosophy. the key questn beces whether it crosses the line and instead becomes a detailed instruction manual on how to mmitorrible cres. what s wrong with society thathinks we have gotten to the pointhat we can t arrest chd predators and child pornographie for writing a manifeo of h to rape a child. reporter: if the ahor of nvicted of these obscenity charges, it s a third-degree felony, he could fac up to five years in prison. it is 7:13, once mean here s tt. we re learning more about how bernie madoff reacted behind bars after learning of his son s suide. jeffossen has details on all this reporter: bere madoff s secretary di pretty wellver the years, prosecutors say too well,aking off with $14 llion. they claim she hiding the money and if she doesn t tell them whe it is. e coulgo to jail today. with bernie madoff behind bars, prosecutors have honed i on his secretary, including money she pocket. she also owns this manon on ng island, valued at $2 million. unti recently, according to investigators this secretary drove a bentley and two meedes. she knows whe the bones are buried, she could becoma major prosecution witness in this se. reporter: her lyer tells nbc news they re willing to disclose her accounts as lon as prosecutors don t freeze them. but still in court later today, thjudge could oer her to jail. psecutors know that when somebody s locked up, they re more willing to cooperate than when they re out and about driving aroundnentleys in south florida. reporter: prosetors have also considered criminal charges against bnie madoff s sons, andrew and mark. it was jt last week that mar commted suicide inside his luxury manhattan apartment. now new details on how bernie madoff tookhe news behind rs. the new york post spoke with a former mate in the same prison o says a voice over the intercomrack kled,inmate madoff rort to the chapel, where he was told mado was crying and he s very distraught. over the next few days, bere madoff didt come out of his cell n even to eat. he fls totally isolad from the family, especlly the fact that his wife ruthasot visited him. anonce their son killed mself he blamedernie for his death. reporter: bernie s only remaing son mains the target of lawsuitand investigation. but he tells the wall street journa he s focused on movg on. arew has tried to kp busy, he s done things like meet with hisiano teacher, a longtime friend of his, jt trying to keep some normalcy just like heid after his father s arrest. reporter:ndrew doff still lives inn apartment here in new york city. t he can t spend more than $500 at a time without documenting it. sources say feral prosecutors still don have enough evence to charge him with anything. c s jeff rossen, thank you very much. with winterfficiay beginng later today, it high season for vacions in the ribbea but be warned, the region high rate ofrime is spilling over in the tourist areas on many islands. mielle kosinski is in miami. reporter: you jus tnk paradise, right? butould you believe that as a region, the caribbeanas the ghest murder raten the world. and it ss somhing to the pele who brought this to our attention work in th tourism industry they want people to go down there, but they feelt has reachea level that tourists should knoabout it. reporter: the lure is all t obous. but many now who race here to soak up the sun are coming face face with aarker side. high rat of crime throughou the caribbean islands. in juary, 29-year-d america was murdered while attending a dding. same island where an elderly british coue was shot to dea in their beds in st.thomas. 14-year-old tourist killedy gang gun fire. alof this just this year. murdered o antigua on their honeymoon. thers a deft initecrease. reporter: a u.n put together aeport tellingow crime is this collection of tiny islands tops t world. assaults well above the world average, in the bahamas rape is at a disturbing leve that s whe this young woman called julie was pushed into a taxi whehe was 17 while on vacation with her paren three ars ago. i tried to get away and he came aer me. reporte driven instead to a secluded squallid apartment and raped. this fellow been robbed more than once. reporter: heecentl started his own cri reporting syem. people call him take a record of what happento them. aot of people are putng their houses on the market and leaving e island. reporter: becse of crime. because of crime. reporter: the have en efforts to officials would not talk to us, would not turn calls or-mails until a pr firm for the islands got involved. we have to tell you that it s reporter: as wonderful as this island is for most, crime habeen hanging around here like dark and ominous cloud. one big reason experts cite is drug trafcking. we also hear a lot of frustration about h hardt is to get informaon o of there, how few cas are prosecuted. we know nobody wants to scare anybody. the las year, more than million peopleisited the caribbean and it seems the vast majority o crime affects the people who live there. t many feel tt tourists should be warned when they leave their crue shipecause their guard is down. there was a school sht in the sky, a tal eclipse of e moon. it was the first te thatn eclipse occurred on the winter solstice. let s go back tolementy school. what exaly is a lunar ellipse? our effort h a shadow i space taughts. there so occasion to take notice of th until something that lit b the moon enting it. d i live on the basketball or t grapefruit? i don t kw exactly. we he gothe sun and we have got the earth lit up. in the daytime, they re not seeing the eclipse. here s the moon, orbiting around the eah. slowly it enters earth s shadow and darkens. and differing from a solar eclipse? a sar eclipse, okay i ve got toe prepared. people want know what a tsunami is. a solar eclipse, t moon moves in front of e sun. turningaytime into night. and thiis a very high intense moment a it only lasts a few nutes. this thing what i just shod here took three hours. you tweeted about it yesterday and you said it s the longest, slowest mos boring of celestial spectacles. what i just showed he, that ole then too three hours. so i watched it last nights and it took on a nice,eep amr color. it dn t g red this time, it got gde a, dk ambecolor last night. i watched maybe the first half of it and then i went to sleep. s the winter sole tis, the sun iss close as itets to the earth. how far w the sun from the earth lt nit? thisad nothing to do with the solstice. we will closest to the sun on jaary 1, and it will be91 million miles close to the sun. 3 million miles close than we are in july. that s a different show. coming up some fallout over new york time decision t lebrate newlyweds who found true le with other people. but first is is today nbc. still ahead, the srch for a las vegas show gl who s been missing r more than a ek. good morning. i m meorologist tom kierein. right now wedo he a mostl clear sky at dawn on this tusday morning. righ now temperatures around theegion are i the 20s to near 30 derees, and it wll climb later today to th mid and upper 30s. we have some high clouds that re moving i and it wll begin to move across our region ahe day progresses. looks like a mostly cloudy afternoon. highseaching theid and upper 0s. and then on wednesday sthould be partlsunny, afternoon highs near 40. thursday, sund, could get accumulating sn into christmas day. now let s chk on traffic this morning. and we ll beoing tha traveli from t outer lo of the beltway, you can see here that pac does pick up after georgia aong i- northbou we do have delays up toward the beltway but no major accidents right now. joe, back to u. thank you very much. tonight he sits wn for a lunch with lindsay where he talks about his loveof newspaper a about his loveof newspaper a his relat e moment you feel run down or achy nip fllike symptoms in the bud, with osciococcim. get osllo and feel like yourself again. osciococcinum, nip it in the bud. 7:30ow on this tsday morng, the 21st of dember, 2010. fourays left to go until christmas. a lot of pple out here on the plaza, thank y for stopping by. tamron hall is filling in while medith i o today. he mysterious dippearance of a showirl missing for two weeks. we re going to talk to her sister coming up. also ahead a kayaking trip of lifime comes to a sudde and deay end when massive crocodile pulled the guide rig out of his boat. coming up two men who were there speak out in an exclusive live interview. alsohe newlyweds whore facing a bacash online after opening up in an article abo their relationship. the ason, when they first met, they were remarkably candid about falling in love while they were marriedo oth people. we re going to he more on that story and tell you a little bit about the reaction ty re tting in jt a littlewhile. let s begin thisalf hour for that missing woman in las vegas. we ll lk to thatwoman s sister in ament. but kristen welker is in las vegas with the latest. reporr: good morning to you. tamron. debby flores is one of the dancers in theuxor hotel o the strip. she was rehearsing for one of the biggest shows of her career when all of a sudn she vanished. forebbie flores, dcing isn t just a career, it s a way of fe. born in pueo rico and raid in baltimore,ebbie earned college degrees in business a law before leaving the east coas to psue a dance career in las vegas. this is her li, she loves dancing and she left her carr to follow her dream and what she loves to do. reporter: for her latest gi debbie was performing in e ray burr ling show. debbie left a 6:00 p.m. and headed home. accordinto her sister, she told her roommate she was going to visit her exirlfriend jason gi griffin. debbie s sister say griffith confirmed that debbie showedp at hisouse tt night and had a short conversation with him at his doorstep, then td h she was going home. since then, none had seen or heard from the 31-year-old dancer. she was very dedicated t her work and she wouldn t just n show up to her show, a rearsal and not s anythin to anybody she would never do that. repter: t day after debbie disappeared, her car was abdoned a vacant lotn a las vegas mobile home park several mimes away from her condo near the strip. i m prepad for the worst because it s definitely out of her character. reporte nbc news has lened that griffith will face a judg in a las vegas courtom this morning. in the arrest report, debbie says gffith kicked her and pulled her car to keep her from using her iphone. debbie also td the offic that she was pregnant with griffith s child. debbie s frids say they were aware of her troubled relatiship with griffith. he broke debbie s heart. reporter: meanwhile debbie s families are trying to get the word out abo her disappearance, passing out fliers on the las vegas strip. griffith s arraignment is scheduled to begin here a the criminal justice center inust a few hours. we want to stress this hearing has nhing to do with bbie s sappeance. he has not been named as a suspect in this case. nbc news spoke briefly with griffith. he dlined comment. mron? krist welker, thankou. good morng, celeste,hank you for joiningus. obviously ourhought are your sister. i imagine you re ee re replayi experiences with her over the last few days. our lt conversation was on friday, decembe 12th. i sorry, decembe10th. a shealled to speak to my son about christmas. and thawas two days before shwent missing. yo have said that you re nfident she s okay, b also it s n herersonality to just up and disappear and not conct you or yr mother, evener friends. no. e would never act like this. she was always in ctact with somebodyt all times, specifically my mother. and your mother received a xt message fro debbie a uple of days or so earlier i the month before she disappeared and theext message, she said in case there s ever an emergency with me, contact boo grif griffith. have you been able to discern anythi from that text? no. i m disregarng the text beuse it could mean anything. there s more to that text. and it justoesn t make any sense. it could mean that that a contact number because we don t live out he. it could mean anything s i m just disregarng it. i m lettinghe police and the authories handle that. blue is her boyfriend. again not related to her disappearance, he is cooperang with police. do you believe he s telling them everythi that happened the day she wentois home? i hope that he is. and it s her ex-boyfriend that i hope thahe is cooperating. ain, you know, the autrities are doing a great job handling this casright now. they re just following leads, maki sure they have taken things sloy and handling it the way it suld be. w saw debbie sriends gaered out trying to get the inrmation out regarding her disappearance. she sods like an amazing person, gave up her carrn business and followed her dre in vegas as a performer. what is yo hope at this point? obviously it s to get your sister back, but what do you want her or anyone else to hear athis point? you kn, she a loving, wonderful rson. everybody has a brother or sister, a loved one. if you have any inrmatio any whereabouts, if you saw her that day, tt night in her car, in the parking lot, at a stoplight, any littl detail to please coact the authorities and let us knowanything, any clues to that could lead to possible finding r. ur thoughts are with y and your family and we hope debbie mes he safely. good morning we have morning sunsne now and general in the 20s throhout the region. it 30 in washington and by the bay. elsewre in the d to upper 20s. we have increasing cloud coming in from the we and those wil begin to cover northrn virginia and mch of myland as the day progresses. and by later this afternoon we should be in the upper 30s. smalchance of a flurry. mosy clou tonight. 40or tomorrow afternoon. upper 30s for thusday afternoon. me accumating sn possible friday night and chrimas day. we have quite a spi crowd today. you guys really love each other, right? of course, absoluly. up xt, a well known outdoors man was pulled o of his kayak by a crocodi. re backow at 7:42 with a tgic end to a kayaking expediti in the congo. a tour guide w tragically killedy a crocodile. all of the men on thisrip were experienced kaker who is kn the dangers they faced when ey set out on a two-month voyage it was supposedo be the adventure a letime wh danger never far behind. ben stoke an chris were part of twmonth journey inside the heart ofhe congo. the two men trusted their abilities, but both americans had great confidence in their southfrican team mber herik coetzee. in 2007 coetzee was but this journey w not without peril. nagating white waters and preditors who live and feein those rivers. t this area has the highest con ten gas of hipp s and crocs on rth. n ear november as the the ki kayaked tloor there ae three-tone hip coes. despite the clear and present daer, there was one basic rule, nobodypac. but ithe end, coetzee would have no panic or eve relakt. e menere paddling the river when the ccodile snatched c, ee from his kayak. there s thousands of pounds of pssure per square inch in his ja reporter: two weeks before he died, coetzee wrote h fal blog heaid this is the nature of the beast,risk. repter: this eedition sponsod by eddie bauer was trying to highlighthe clean water csis in central africa d was supposed torap up this week. coetzee s body was never found and there wl be a memorial in early januar gentlemen, goomornin to both of y and our condolences on the loss of your friend and your guide. good morning. thanks. just take me back, obviously you all knewhe rks and hendri h talked about this and heard this on the videotapes, this part of theadio has the highest ccentration of crociles and hippos anywhere on the planet. so what kind oprecautions were you le to take? matt actuay that blog post or that podcast was in referenc to a section of the nile river. this section of the river was wholly unknown to t outside world. we really didn t know what to expect in terms of wildlife. sure, we anticipated that there might be some crocs and hippos in the river. t that particular blogas talking about the nile river whicdoes in fact he the hightoncentration of ocs in the world. i underand you were paddling in this close proxity which is the practice? you know, whave done it for pretty much the ole river, up until that day. and by all accounts, we thought that it was of course the best way to go and and the reason f that being thatou appear a t large the thought behind that is that grouping the kayaks that close together, you appr not one eight-foot long kaya but a grouping at appears as a larger org anymore. when this happened athe end of a white watersection, hendri said don t panic, you reall didn t have timeo think or panic, mean this crocodile came out of nowhere? it cam from behind and we didn t see anything until it was too late and it basically grabbed him and turned him uide down. we re looki at some natiol geographic footag but it turne him upside do and took him under water and that s the last you saw hi did he have chance to say ything, ask for help, anything like that? matt, the two ofs had fferentexpeences. chs was close enoug to him where they were actually marking their paddle stres so they wouldn t hit tir paddles. chris saw therocodile maybe a split second before it had hendri. my first recognition w hearing hendri say, oh, my god. i turned and i caught sight of it for maybe another split second befe the crocodi flipped hendri over. did you go back into this section, this area, i mean you re bringing attenon to the problems with clean water throhout the world, rely. would you go back and do something like this again? well i think at this point we wld pbably sy off t lakuga riverut of respect for hendri. i ow we re certainly interested in going back to the african ntinue innocen tt, the bring awareness to the water cris. we thank you for sharing your story with us is morning. thanks ma. we ll bright back aft these messages. jufd just ahead, fallout from a coue who fell in love while love with oth people. we have 28 degrees outsid beauiful bright sshine though here at the natio s capitol. cold outthere. good morning. i m joe krebs on this tuesdy, the 21st december. we reold that officers began randomly began selecng commuters at 7:30 this moing. they first swabbed the bags oking for. similar searches are already in ace in boston. > the school fired acc coach of the year ralph. he lead the terps to a wiing record over theyear maryland is rgeting former headcoach mike leech ashe new head coach. we ll takebreak now and come ck and look at our weaer and traffic. stay with us. go morning. the potomac river fron solid. it has been aold december. another cold december morning, jt in the 20s. ll have a funny start. incresing clouds today, hh in the 30s. remaining cold to the end of the week. hley, how s raffic. . good moing. on the outer loop of the capit beltway we have it. oard toward connecticut below speed. as ravel along 395 you a on the break two and across the th. back to u. tonight on news 4 at 5:00, he s sitting down for lunch with ldsay wre he talks abt his 8:00 now. are back on a tuesday morning. 21st day of december, 2010. a lot of people gathered on our plaza is morning. saa claus taking a break in his last minut prep to shake hands on the plaza. d matt lauerlong with tamron haho s in while meredith is taking a little time off this morning. and we have got a nice cwd of people here. a lot of themrom texas. coming up in this half hour, newlyweds announce thr marriages in thnewspaper all the time. commo place,ut would you do iif you met one another while each of y were still marrd. this couple decided t tell t world abou their le and it has sparked quite a controversy. people are judging, peoplere giving their opinions. we ll talk aut their decision to go public with their le despit the pain for others. we have got jack black in our stud this morning. he s got a brand-new movie out called gulliver s travel and we re going to give mr. blk a chance to explain for the very first time how in e world heut meredith ouof that movie. right, put him on the spot. i don t think i have seen redith more prd about any work she s done than the work she did as a liputi. and how to prepare easy aubleift audiblgifts. good morning t you, matt, good morning everybody. today government- united nations monitors to independent eir nuclear proam. richardson is on a diplomatic missn to t region and h says he wants north kea to st back from t brink of confroation. oyota is being fined for failing to announce recalls quickly engh. the japanese automer has recalled morthan 11 million vehicles in the last year at least2,00 people have been evacuatedn california as torrtial rn and gusti winds pelt that state. tens of thousds of homes were without power. downtown los angeles has receeded more than a third of its annual precipition. a wet summer in australia wherfloods as far as the eye casee left peoe stranded d needing rescue by helicopter. as we head over to wall street, melis lee is over at the stock exchange. tis the season for the holiy bonus and these bank bonuses he been the target of blic anger since theinancial crisis. relators may now force the way - half or more o pay in stock or deferred compension that is not cash. the thinkg here is that that would curb the excessi risk taking that ntributed to t financial crisis. a u.s. national guar helicopter with six people on board is reportedlyrashed near puerto rico. itas en route to a drug raid when it disappeared in bad weather on monday. the0 rock star was diagnosed with diabetein 1996. morgan is said to be doing we, expects to get back to work ter the holida, although he may miss one or two epodes. 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[ male announc ] prent uncomfortable gas moments with gas-x prention. just one befe meals helps prevent gas before it starts. from gas-x, thgas-xperts. > back now at 8:09 and with the newlywed couplere in new yo who talks about the start ofheir relationship to t new york times edding section. at s nothing new, but this couple opened up about meeting while they were married and how they got divord to be together. they look le the picture of wedded bliss, carol ann and jn celebrating their new life tother. so what better time to get a love letter than now. she s a tv news rerter, he s an adveising executive. but now their maiage is causing a storm of controrsy. this past weekend, tir wedding was feared in th new york times vales section. in the paper the bride and groom said they fell in love whi they were both marri to someone else. they tolthe new york times that fir the two coues became friends aft meeting at eir children s school, but soon they weren love and deded to leave their spouse she told the times, i wl always feel terribly about the pain i cause my ex-husba. he told the paper, iid a terrible thing as honorably as i could. my take as a psychologist on it is that they still feel extremely guil that they left their partners behind, that ey met while four of tm were friends and in some ways this is their confsional. reporter: t aicle created a an online firestorm. one rear cald the couple tawdry, saand tasteless. another reader said wha kind of rson putting their own pleasure above the emotional health of their own children? and they found like two of the most selsh egotist kl people on the planet another one said life is aut enjoying life wh someone you truly love, sometimes it s msy as in this case. it s a similar sry of broken vows for singer shaniya twain. twoears ago her marage made helines when herusband left her. he was having a affair with twains best friend. now another twist, u.s. weekly magane is rorting twain is engaged to the exusband of her ex-best friend. first you have your best friend stealing your exusband and then you have that best friend hooking one your ex-husband. shani is celrating a new love with questionses wheth they should be celebrating their new love on the pages of the new york times. we aed carol annriddl, i think i we had an indation afrwards of the nerve it struck, we obviously would not have sred our life iany way publicly. let s turn to psychotherapist robb ludwig. his one has ally, your mother she had a lot to say about this. she felthey were acting in an adolescents way. when you re in a marriagend you look aroun and you say, you know what? i think i want something little bit better. ople have a strong reaction to that because we like tohink of the vows of marriage as really meang something. this couple argues that they weren unhappy marriagesnd they fell in love. the wom in this says that i didn t believe in soul mates until i laid eyes on him. ye. the queion is if falling in love wit seone else enoh to ave yo marriage and leave your childre and thr all ution to the wind. they say yes. butlso it s likealling in st, because ocourse we don t kn the oer side of the story. but a lot of people got the sense, hey, did you even work on yourarriage at all? because afteall, listen, if you re married for a long time and you have kids, it not always fun and it s n always se. the question is how do you handle is? they say yes, say no, workut your marriage, figure out by all means necessary whether or not you can salva your marriage and reir it. even if they we unppy. just because they had an unhappy ye, doest mean they re going to hav an unppy lifetime. ne viewer wrotet is a time of our lives when spouse a children takes a backeat to selfish, sel centered love. why does this hit aerve in a world where hf the marriages end in dirce. they seem to be bragging, we found real love, we found happins, whaabout you? and i think people are looking and saying, he how do you really fd happiness in a relationship we don t have one answer. i thinkt raises issues for a lot of peoplen terms of their own relationships. carol ann ridel says w are prouof how we handled the tuation. there was nothing in thetory we were ashamed of. denial is noonly a river i egypt. you think they ren denial they re trying to prove ey reoing to be ay. inju will have to be repaired from allhe trauma they caused. hink that 50% of marriages en in divorce, but there are also 50% of marriages that they stay married and so thoseeople are saying, stickt out, work onour marriage and take care of yr responsibilies. when women givep on the emotional componenof a marriage, that s usually when it crumbles. so anye who goingo be self-reflectivis goi to be struck by this story and i think n also evaluate whether they re in the rigind of marriage. all uons are imperfect, if you re hearing this story durg a certain time in your relationshipt will strike a cord, because the feeli is there s always someone better ou there theoretically, what are you going to do about ? isn t that the purpose of the institution of marria? trade up, i don t want this, so tomorrow i ll find someone new? it s really to stick it out and workn the issues. the s a feeling that the new york times also betrayed us because they usuallyrite about stories, love stories that are innocent and worthy of pnting and allf a sudden it looks likehey re going to the dar side of rerting. or at least the messy side. at s what someone called thi the messy sid of love. we could talk about this al da thank you th ver much. up next jack black on his giannew role. we ll catch up with him right after this. 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and i want her to know, wherer she is, meredith, i will make it up to you. iing weddings or bat mitzvahs. does she get paidor that role? i think there s probably no payments in tms of residuaresid. you have couple of kids, 2 and 4? the don t really know that i m a moe star they thi i m a clown. but, yeah we ll show them my movies when the time mes. since you have young boys, does it influence the roles you wanto do in the future? it does. i like to do family films more often now becse of it. i nt them to be able toee m movies before they re 20 years old. i didome yo gabba gabba. so they can see eir dadoing fun stuff. what are you doing at christs? i will probably he a delicious feastith theamily. i m just going t he a sile meal, but y have a delicious feast. what are your new year s resolutions? i m going tdrop aouple l.b.s. jack black, gullir s travels opens christmas day. > your local news and weather, but ahead a look at se more iniring images o2010. an here is a live look tside as you re getting up and at em, mayb waking upon this chiy tuesdaymorning. good morni. it is 8:26. i m lindsay czarniak. metro has a new bag policy. actually we re going to go to other story. .c. police showing sueillan video o a gunman who tried to hold up a store when he killed the ower. george patel wald out of the store inhe back when he was kied dur a robbery kied dur a robbery a the nextyou start one eling bit off.l fine. the moment you feel runown or achy, nip fllike symptoms in the bud, with oscillococnum. get oscillo and feel like yourself again. oscillococcinum, nip it ithe bud. goodmorning. it s nny and cold. later todayeaching hgh and mid to upper 30s. tomorrow, sheetly sunny, near 40. ould get accumuting snow late fridainto christmas day. how s traffic? 66eaded eastbou prior to the beltway we re deang with an accident. it s causing delays back toward theairfax area but we have a couple of delays getting by. lindsay,ack to you. thanks, ashley. tonig at 5:00, foer washington post columnt 8:30 now on a tuesday morning. we tald a second ago to jack black. our 17 annual toy drive is coming to anen theast day of our t dre, if you want to find out how you can donate, go to our website, dayshow.c todahow.com. he s acting like santa, don know if he knows he s an elf. i m matt lauer,long with mron hall and carl quintanilla. ifou don t want to brave e mallat this time of year. make the gifts. make the gifts youant to give to other people. we re gng to join h in the kitchen to find out aboutome of her ideas. we r reconnecting with t 45 dogs who fnd loving homes, courtesy of the today sh. plusou know h hard it is to keep a diet ding th weekend. ll sw you what to bring to party and some low calorie eggnog. we have got a lot to get to, let s get a check of the w have a good chance of a white chrimas here. rightow we are dry. we ve got sunshine, temperatures in the 20s to near 30 degree and there s some clouds in virginia,est virginia. those should moving into the metro area we get in the afternoon hours. it s a small chance of a flurry. sll chance of ashower tomorrow. highs per 30s. we culdet perhaps some snow late friday night aer a sunny day, maybround mounty, off and on into satday. we and it s time to nd out who celebrates birthdays. it s christmas time and holiday times, beginning to loo like it. what a classic. happy birthdaromsmucker s. emily weil, from cincinnati, ohio go chili in that town. 111 ars old. an w hav helen carr of jacksonville, flora. 101, enjoys spending all of h time with her cat holly. we hav albert mill, of whiting, new jersey. 100 years old, a retired principal and he s called the prince albert. howbout that? ande have clara wortmann, from canton, georgia. and irene hudson, 100, worked at aenior citizen s community post office for many years. and we have bt o neill from daona beach, florida. he lives independently and still drives and does laundry. how about that? emily ridgway, acted in several great plays in her area. a great actress and they all love her. happy birthday. that s it, that s all, from washington at this time. we have spent way too much out there. we have stes and deals onome terrific items. bufirst this is oday on nbc. this morng on education naon today, the subject of a w documentary preering tonight on nbc. scott cohn i here with a preview. where have you heard thi story before? easy money offered t peopleho can t rlly afford to borrow it, bing sething whose price islready soaring. this tim it s t a house and it s not a mortgage, it a college educationnd a student an. and ineasingly, tho loans are going d. like most people w have gone to clege, nick a emily of round lakeheights, illinois thought thewere ming a wise choice. we tught it would be worth the investment. when we graduated we wld g jobshat would be worthy of this debt. reporter:t the me of this terview, both were unemployed wi three young children and student loans totaling more than $250,0. what does it foal like? it fls like there no way out. like it will just be tre forever. we re not going on vacation. we re not fixing the hoe, we re not eporter: nick emily rried ung, and then srted a family. but theyere determinedo continue their education. it was like, can we afford this? n we afford for me t stayn scol? we can t affor not to. reporter: eventually nickot his mba and emilyot her bachelor s degrees. there s subsidid and unsubsidized. ow they re loong at a payment of $17,067 a month for th next six years. we ll have to pay $275,000 in interest. reporter: with o of the worst student loandefaults have doubled in the lt 10 years. kyle mccarthy has a master s degree, $72,000 in student loans andith a $14 an houob at a okstore, no way to pay them back i have tried to work out anything for them, you know, i can pay this amount ofmoney, i cagive you $50 a moh. and it was, no you need to pay the full amount w. reporter: thetudent loan fault rate now rivals that of edit cards and homeortgages and with the costf college education, rising as muc as three tes theate of infli inflion, students e borrowing more and more. americans no owe more on their stent loans than they do on theicredit cards. but aey differee between student loand credit cards, student loans generally cannot befinanced or wiped outn bankruptcy. this deb will literally stay with you your entire life and in some cases beyond. america s student debt is more than $870 billion, on pace to hit$1 trillion in 2012. weannot afford not to go to school and it backfires. that she kind of cculus everybody mas, ts is the key to success, and yethey re borrowing without jobs out ther ou can catch the premie the price of admission, amica s college debt crisis. that s tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern time o cnbc. > coming up next, we ll go into the kitchen. bufirst, this istoday on nbc. today s holiday kitchen is brought t you by hershey kisses. delightfully delicious, one of a kindkiss. back a 8:, and on today s holay kitchen, gifts you can really sink your teeth into. we hav some edible ideas and sang you ve got nnections, santa claus is with us as well. good to see you, sta. santa itaking a cooki class. anyou he a great idea if you don have time to go out and buy a gift. or i y just want something that warms your heart, you can go to the kitchen. i thinkhat home cooked edible gifts are the best. and apparently this is santa s favorites because you need carbs to make it throu the night? just li any athlete. we have got some red onion and garlic we re going to grab some tuna. that s nice. we ll add some tuna a then we ll d some colorl vegetablesike totoes. artichokes? i le the color. and tn some parsley go for it there you go. now asaute all of that for a couple of minutes and add the campanelle. santa, this is the final preparion. . this is the san taste. we probably should have- yes, you brg it, you put the lid on justike this. wi aittle bow and you give them the little di. so i buy a new dish. make the pastand i bring i over to the hou and so ey re getting od and a dish. that beaiful pound cakeoo makes a lovely dish. santa, are you doi all right? i juswanted to finish this. we have got se carmel and you melt it down, and then santa is going to drizzle this in year. a does that give it a marb effect? it s a peanut bter carmel cake. so what you do iso in ther with a little bit of carmel. don t be shy, santa. swl it into the dough just like tt. this is really fun for kidso ma. in fact my daughter loves is. and then you top it withhe remainin dough. so you split the dough in half. and a ltleore drizzle? ou can smell the peanut butter. it smells amazing. and very festive. and when youring it to your guests, i just put a littl topping arounit and i hand them the whole thing. t s really, really nice. i ll te this now, i got a t of famils that would really love this. i le to even drizzle the top, you can bring some carmel if you want d finish it off th a little mo carmel. this is great for holiday lunch,r with coffee. the last idea is this, tt you buy a cookbook, whatever cookbookou want. you b your favorite cookbook and then youake something t of it. these happen to be my favorite, lemon and almonds, dipped in white chocolate. santa, you wan to help me out? and then there s som white chocolate chips and tn i take this a i d them in there. in th meantime, you want to take a bite ofthat good stuff? for it. and this isndorable gift. and this would be great for the workplace. you can buy any cookbook and take out a rece. thank you so much, thank you santa for your help as well. tnk you so much. up nt, this is our bow to wow dogs and their new loving parents. back now with yr special seriesrom bo to wow where we clean up shelter dogs fin them loving homes and we teach them how to bark wily. our amal advocate j rapaport is here with us as well. it s another year and another perft rerd. not only didvery one of our dogs get adopted. but as you see, it the owners who feethey got the gift of a lifetime. 2010 was anothertellar year foall of our canines we featured and thanks in part to the segment, adoption animal care and control in new york city was up 17% during a very difficult year whher large or small, young or old,njured or spry ch of ouroggies endedp in the most loving homes all over th untry. if you re looking for aan dad to be a trapy dog, he uld be a perfect dog. and that s what wally is doing, paying the good will forward and acting as a trapy dog in georgia. our playful lab puppy,he s certainly livg the life of leisure, enjoying an ocean view fr his own raft, with his new ster a new best friend by his side. andemember this hot do who had a pin in her hip after tting t by a car, she s now a california girl, healthy, hay and cozy a home with her newonderful owners how about 6-year-old tumn, who was a victim of the cession. she s really cute. at home wh a new brother in pennsyania. even our favorite dog wkers walked away with one of r rescues. i may take her home self. andlympic gold medalist steve holcomb who tookome bailey givg herr the life of a chamon in californ. it s been a wonderful year and now just in time f the holidays, it s a wonderful life. for all of our shelter dogs. a here are many of ourow to wow famils and their dogs. good morning everybody, happy holidays, nice to seeyou. lationships going well? everybody s happy? we haveteve over here, our goldedalist from vancour, the four-man bsled. and bailey, how has that transition been? fantastic, she s an incredible dog and i thi she s a littl morelever than ever expected. she s been a lot of n. this is the fir tim i have seen her since early septembe how s her lifen colorado? t s interesting. when i first brought her into denver, i got her out othe cage and i think it s the first timehe has ever seen a squirrel. e didn t knowhat to do, she was jt frozen looking at me like at s happening? she s prett happy out there, there s all sorts o room to run around. christine, you vgot by the way, you useto take care of dogs befor thewere adopt, you fostered dogs which is lovely that you would do that. and you have adopted ckson? yes. tl me how jackson s doing. jackson is amazing. get stopped a the time. you could have ended up with satcheover here. we ll talk about that in a second. kim, you actually adopt seth andrenamed seth charlie. how s charlie doing? he has a little ste fright today. but s great. he s usnot used toeing around other dogs? e of our stage maners, his wife lisa is down here and they adopted satchel. you had just lost your dog. and so satchel came into you li at a good time. he does a gre trick, you actually put the newspaper i satches mouth? satchel as got a thing. by the way, satchel did this grea thing recently. mark td us that he s walking satchel so he missed the gias footll clash the oer day. so wou you do it again. h, yes. and steve what would you tl other people who are watching the bow to wowsegment? these are dogthat have be through some hardships themselves and they re getti a second opportunity. and christine, all you have to do is be able to open upour heart as you have done so many timesn the st. forget whatt does f the dog, what it does for you. absolutely. all e other dogs i fostered went to e most amazing homes. he s the one that got m heart and have never regretted it. it s good to see all of these partnerships working so well. happy holidays, everybody, and thank yofor taking part in bow to wow, weppreciate it. wel be right bac after these meages a your local news and weather. have you had enough of the coldyet? if you have to get outand about, we ve got you covered on this chilly tuesday morng. good morning. it s 8:56 i m lindsay czarniak. metro hasstarted conducted ranm searche of bags. thfirstne happened 7:0 this morning at the college park metro stion. commuters were selected at random. a at the my s at tyson corner cenr, you can stopfor the next 3 1/2 strait. the story is one of many staying open 24 hes a day. th willot close until 6:00 friday night that s christmas eve weather and traffi od morning, this cold patte continues. could get accumulating snow friday night into chrtmas day ashley, hos traffic. outer loop after georgia the accident has been cleared from the right shoulder, b as you can see, dame done heavy back to cllege park back to you. coming at 5:00, i ll si down with micha to talk about his new endeavor. we reack now on a tuesday moing, dember 21, 2010. can you hear in the bkground the sound of tap daing? check out under e banner over here. out on the plaza, i m matt lauer,oday we have got natalie and al both off. nice to have y here ladies. always good to be here aund christmas time. id you see the lunar ecalista last night? a t of people stayed up late, otrs woke up early to see the first lunaeclipso take place on the winter lstice in 500 years or so. that waa good year. we goingo show you it to you, there ilooks beautiful ther we re going to show i to you in case you missed it. also, you know tt owning is better than reing. once you get married your credit mergesith you spouse. is that a good thing or a bad thing? anothe installment of a popular series. jill s steals and deals. we re going to take a look at thgs discounted to 88% off. if that s possible. jewelry, that grea poho, electrons, a lot of that great stuff i for our today sw ewers. we reoing to sw you all those thgs coming up and later some tips o enjoying youelf while keeping on your diet. obvislythere s so many mpting foods. since i have been here today alone, i have had pou cake and pasta. we re goi to give you tips on how to stay at ast kind of marginally on your diet through the holiy. carl, take it away. good morning, matt, good morning, everybody. na is denying rorts that the u.n. i pushing to expand ground operions into pakistan folling a new york times reports. the time has cited unnam sour sources. they mosy reli on unmanned drones to targ milants in th country. the twcountries pledged to shar mility intelligence, cooperate on nuclear energy and develop their o supersonic stealth fighter jet. meantime the senate s moving towarda vote this we on the nuclea arms trea. 67 votes are need for ratification. at least 2,000 people he been evacuated in california as torrentialain and gusting winds lt that city. ns of thousands of hes are thout por. since friday alone, downtown los angeles has received morthan a ird of its annual pripitation. d in the colorado mountns, higher altitude areas could have eight feet of snow by thsday. in nebraska temperatures have plummeted, freezing t rivers solid. and whi it may look piuresque, it s causing a headache f locals, t ice tually acting ke a dam. exchange students and other americans trying to fly he from europe for the holidays a still being delayed today by wintry weatherhat has grounded flights and ev. failing to recall millions of dgerously defective hicles quickly enough. the fine total $32.4 million for two separate violations. the japanese automaker has recalled more th 11 million vehicles in the last year. > a horrifying sce monday in taan where police say a man involved in aomestic dispute dre his car inta school zone. bystanrs lifted the car to ee one student who wasinned beneath it. none of the injuries we life thatenin the writer of a how to guide for pedophiles has been extradited to lorado. phillip graves sol the boo through amaz.com. althoughhe online bk seller has now pulle that title from its site. hers argue that graves arrest violates his right to free speech. > another misp last night for the pblem plagu spider-m turn off the dark. a stt double fell 80 feet during a preview and was tak to the hospital as precaution. the $65 million show has delayed byast injuriesnd technical glitches. andoday ithe daestay of our lis. it was the first time amateur tronomers look to the sky to say good night mn as it disappeared into the earts adow. it s five minutesfter the gd morning, around the metro area wehave enty of sunshine. temperates aretill below freezing in most locations. rightow reagan national is at 33. lateroday making it intohe upper 30s. and we ll havencreasing cluds. a small chance of flurries in the afternoon. partly snny with a high near 40. we could get accumulating sn late friday night and on christmas day into saturday this morning on today s money, financial mhusters as we wait for the economy to get better, our lives continueo getore and more complated finciall when it comes tooney mhs the trh can hel a personal finance expert and author of the al costf living. carmen, good morning to you. goomorning, carl. why is the diffence between myth and reality gten so difficul to tell? becausee have learned a lot esciallyver the past five years or so. we hav seen how markets fluctuate and how where we put ouroney changes whenhings happen with these markets and we have to p a lot of attention, our financial lives are getting so, so complated we have to separate myth fromfa. we re going to py a game, we rgoing to roll out a myth and talk about wther it is in fact true we ll start with the first question, and that is it s good not have a credit card until you re in your 20s. notf you want to be an independent adt. and not if you re t parent of someone in the 20s. the s 25-year-olds with full-time jobs who cannot get a credit car they said until you 21 years of age, you c t have a credit card on your own. you need to absolutely get some form of crit. if you are 18 and up, csign on a card with yourarents with a low, low limit. thiss forhe parents to protect their good credit have a low lit card so when you e 21, when youant to live on your own, all through your 20 you re anndepennt adult and you can g your own credit. and youon t want to be in your 30s and have your parents co-sign. build up creditow by co-sning aow lim card. theext question is when you get married, your cdit merges which is i think very inresting because not all of us have the se credit with the person we re marrying. no, wn you get maied, your credit reports a scores don t merge, unless yoapply for a loan together. t you n do that if you re cohabitating and you not married and you apply for a rtgage togeth. then your cdit is merged. they take you hh score and hi low score and they avege it out. if youave great credit and yo partner doesn t, protect that cdit, because it s very, very valuable because suld you have to apply for somethingike a mortgage, your good credit will bouie up bot of you you have to protect your credit because your great creditill help you when youave to apply for a loa together. the housing market woes are nothing new, buthen it comes to payingour mortge, some people are confused. the statement is don t pay off your mortgage early. what s wrong with prepaying your mogage, y want to get rid of that mortgage here s what we find out. when you buy a home, this is like buying to a maet. like the stock market, the valuation gs up a down. it s not like a loan you tak out for your car example. you bece part of a market. this market doesn t perform as well as the stock market. so if you put your money into the mket long-term, thetock market performs bter over time than your home. but this is not exactly just a financial decion. it s a personal one as wl. you haveo have security and stability, just know that yore going to lose out on somemoney, so be wise aut it. all dt is ba is that ue? bsolutely not. debt is neither bad nor goo s just a tool. and the mor you realize it s a tool, you can maket a tool th works for youn a good way. mortgage to buy a home, even credit car if you re building a busiss. i u re wise aut it and you use debt as aool as opposed to saying it s bad or good, then u re smart about it and it s not going to be bad for you. money would make m happier. is it that sy? so my people think, listen if i had moremoy, all my prlems would go away. th s not the case. ere s a great study recently out of princeton who found that if you make aouseho income of abo $75,0 on a day-to-day basis, after that amot of ney, u re no more happy. but if you have lesshan that amount of money, day to day thin willet you down. ifou have a little bit of extra money to enjoy yourself, her things weigh in muchore on your hapness than money. thank you. coming up somchic dec radeck someeep discounts for limid time just for toy show viewers after these messages. electronic san song electronic santa song in a more delicious world, there would be more smoothness, more creamess, more rich just-for-me-ness, more hershey s bliss-lness. hershey s bliss. it s not just chocote. it s bliss. pankes! from dawn til nset, ll never walk away blueberry pancakes are so good [ ale anuncer ] bisquick. pancake lovers une. come on. isn t it time an auto insurer gave it you straight? 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[ chuckles i lovehis part. yeah. me,oo. lucy gasps ] [ fale announcer ] this year, hallmark has all new ways to say i > thisorning on joy s di s.o.s., answs to your dai diet dileas. joy bauer today s utritionist and t author of joy bauer slim down worut. she ha solutio for you and your kids and your holiday guests. you know it s in the back of everyone s mind, i really wt to eat something goodnd healy, but i m tempted by all of t delectable thgs out there. rhon in los angeles, califoia, jos us via spe this morning. i wasust wondeng if you could recommend a dish or two that would looppealing to bring to a holiday party but would also be a healthy -to choice for me and everyone who s in to healthy optio these days. for the petize i would tell you to bng a large platter of vegetables a som sort of healthy but delicio dip. i lik to take a can of white beans and i litelly purr ray itith roasted garlic and pper. you can easily trim hundred of caloriesust by using the low fat or the fat free counterpts, or forget the mayo and in tms of the entree, i say go for a turkelasagna. pick a favorite recip and instead of using se reduced fatd chee and if you really want to go the extra le, try to sneak in some chped vegetables into the manara sauce. christine is on the phone in grove, tes. caller: my kids are o of schoolor the holidays, so i would like to find se healthy drinks they can drink during t day when they re home. if my kid don t enjoy water or milk and i don wt to give them any drinks with artifial sweeteners, what areour suggestions for an interesting, healthy beverage opon. you can te 100% pure fruit juice and yocan cut it 50/50 th naturally flared setser. you create a soda type feel. ifou take cranberry juice and cut i with seltzer,ou get cranberry soda. you can take that same 100% fruit juice and you can pourt into an ice cube tray and freeze it andazz it upith a gss of water with a few fruy ice cubes. as tho ice cubes start to melt, you add a shot of flavor. d lastly, you canake lightly sweetened iced tea. i think this ishe perfect compromise. brew up some interestingea like wild berry or cherry berry or orange. and for every two-quarte pitcher that you make, you can add a thirdup of eithe sar or honey. that s goingo translate t about two teaoons ofugar per gls of litly sweeten iced t tea. ifouan slighy pull that sugarown as you introduce ts to them, bonus, but i think it s a great coromise. good luck with the ki. we have got a viewer e-mail, and she says joy do you have a good recipe for a lower corie eggnog. is there sh a thing, she writes? this is such an animal. an the first thing i tel people is that you can pretty much tak any home made recipe for eggnog and itead of ung heavy cream, you can either use fat free halfnd half or you can bu the cans ofevaporated, fat free or skimmed milk. you re going to trim over 200 caloes per cup. and a personal recip that i love tt peoe should try at home. i take five cups of ser cold 1% low f milk and i mix it with a package of the insnt sugar free vanilla putting mix, one taespoon of vania. d then you put it in reigerator and l it start to solidify a little bit, it s going to thicken up. and then when you pour it into asses,ou canut a little bit ofround nutmeg you can imagine trational eggnog is 400alorie a cup, my rsion, 135 calories. and it s really delicious. for people that don t like that eggy taste,t s perfect. every room in your home right after this [ male announcer ] theve been testedbuilt and driven like no other. and now they reeing offered like no other. come to the winteevent and get an exceptional offer onthe mercedes-benz of your dreams. it s our way of shing a ttle holiday spirit. and stay connected th three years of mbrace service complimentary crayons a play-doh the latest dvd s lip oss, gift cards, candy, shampoo anything for me? oh, stocking stuffers from walgreens you ll be gl you ce get hershey s kisses chocolates in great big candy cane [ female announr ] don t forget to stuff those stocngs. and no one mak it easier than walgreens, with huge selection and extended holiday hours. most stores open ll midght. 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[ female aouncer ] start with betty, and get to the oh what fu part a whole lot faster. betty crocker sugar cookie mix. see what you can mak at btycrocrcookies.com. get great last minute fts th wednesday through fray at sears! sa fifty to sixt percent off coats, sweaters, fleece and sleepwear for the family. .get thitwenty-two ch rca lcd/dvd combo for two twentyine, ninety-nine. plus, this craftsn mechics tool set is just eighty-nine ninety-ne. ars. this morning on today s countdown to ristmas, deck the halls from yr living room. chic ideas with ierior designer elaine griffin. good morning to you. good morning. it not too late. it s not t late. and i have some fun, easy and elegant ideas for the who house. those are t key words, elegant and whole hous let s stt with outside. theoutse, which everybody knows people tend to go overboard sometimes, but there s aay to do this tastefully? outdo tngs that leave the vegas behind and focus on elegan so we are more like red carnations, big statement enies and if you have a sun room,ou also want to decorate that, if youave a sun porc if you have a great room, you want lots of little pine tes. decorate your sun porch too. move it inside. one of the best ways to do this is t start wit the very room you walk into. whenyou re in your yer, you never wt to forget that. normally people think i m just ing to decorate the living om and i m notoing to decorate the foyer. let s stt with the foyer and put presents itead of the living room, let s put the presents in e foyer. another b thing is work wh the colors that you hav instead of the red and the green. we have presents that are wrapped in brown, grn, whatever goes th you. and sometng at s super easy too. decorate with great mirrors, decorate them with festive ornaments. that s s easy to do. everyone h is, use spring use ribbon, it s per easy. finally you want greenery. greenery ion sale right now. you want greenery, shrubs, greenery is available right now. use the color of t room to your advantage. befe we were all about the dnd the een, but now we re about taking the colors you have and working wit at. this is living room that s green and llow. those arthe colors of the tree, we want to add a metallic to be festive. and this is reay all about red. if it we all about yellow, we would be using the yellow to y don t have to have one big tr, but a mini tree. smaller trees a eier to put up and easier to take down january 1, or if you re like my mom, february 3. and final tip, don t fget to match the style of your decorang to the style of your room. sof you re modern and strelined,ike this room here, y want to have modern and streamlined decorations too. as you said, you can go yond the reds andhe greens andou cano tallic. what does this mean? i can show you in ourining room picture. this ishere the sugar plum fair lives. it s bright, it s bouncy and lo at that chandelier. dot forget the decorate the chandeer. hang the ornents from the andelier. exactly. nothing is easier tn a ton of pine cones on your tree, o your center tabl spray paint them gold and silver. u want to haveifferent sizes. and if you re livingn the soh, magnolia leaves. very easy. o room people might not automatically think of to decorate is the bedroom. ou want to know tha is christmas from the ment you open your eyes to the moment you close ur eyes. you do this foryourself, basilly? of course. peoplere going to come in and se it so you re going to joan it on your n. we have a wreath in the wind, a small tabl elaine griffin, those are tips you don hearoo much. up next, what to do en guests just drop by. this is today on nbc. the moment youeel run down or achy nip flu-like symptoms get oscillo and feel like yourself again. oscillococcinum, nip itn the d. get oscillo and feel like yourself again. this morning on today s holiday kitchen. havi the kitchen stocked wit a few key ingredients can save thday when holiday guests pop in. let s g cooking. good to see you. good morning. after you get over the shock ofeople just showi up bore y get the shock of people showing up, you have to have your ptry stocked. always have some good fresh stuff arnd. keep it around, youan make crab cakes, you c make soup, salmon. chestnuts, you can find them roasng onhe streets of new york, in miami, not so much,ut we can buy them, we can roast them ourselves but you can acally buy them eroast and they keep frozen forever. sqsh, again, versatile, amazingly versatile. you can make soups, you can take ews. just wuc. i washinkineggs and bread. i m startin my pasta. i have aittle t of garlic. a little bit of red crushed chili. and some white wine. if don t have any white wine, don t worry. but ifyou re driing bottle thw some in ere. so we re going to l that redu down. if you come over re, it looks just like that. and we re pret much done, all we haveo do is mixhe rest of the ingredients. i have some sour cream. a little bit of butter, because really want thisotick to e noodles. a touch of lemon zt. but you can edo all of this so you can have this sitting ready. d then i have parsley, chives and sil. a lot of good, fresherbs in there. season it just a little bit. and then i he the pasta, which you can buy the way preck your pasta d have it toppeded in oiif you want in your frigeror. and then just heat it up in the sauce. oh, wow. and tn you mix allhis together. and look how wonrful this is. you have the crab a the fresh herbs and the creme fresh and sour creamnd butter pullit all together. and when we put i into the bowlwe can mix it even more. d all this crab is gng to be sitting on top of it. so we re going to bring this over here and t generally serve pasttoo much with eese. it s a very italian thing. all right, back to the squash pumpkin squash. butter nutquash. which we have here. we havet all cut . in this bowl i hav a little bit of brown sugar and ove oil. i already know this is going to be tasty. put the squash in, a little bit of salt ansome fsh thyme. swish it aroun and then throw it on to a baking sheet, jt like so. 400-degree oven, 20o 25 minute i have beautiful arula. could eat it myself, but i m willing to sha. tt gives it a nice flavor and xture. on topf that i mutting pumpkin juice. lely, michelle, thank you so muc coming up, bernadette peters, but first yo local news. it is a chillyorning out the on tis tuesday rning a we take a look at the white hous gd morning, evryone. it is 9:26. i m lindsay czarniak. the d.c. council will ve on a plan to bui a new hotel. theddition would be on euclid and champlain streets. neighbors argu the cityublts have the money. and the macy s at tysons rner cter is open nonstop until christmas. the store is one of several aroundhe countrytaying open 24 hours a day. doors open at 7:00 this morning. they will not cse until friday night. hat is christmas eve. how about that? hey, this morning we had some sunshine but the clouds will be on the ineases we getnto the afternoon. right no radar picking up a little bandfight sno in west virginia. that i advancing off tohe south andeast. oterwise we ll just have some clouds backater this afternoon. right now temperatures are climbing into the low 0s. we ll hit the mid an upper 30s later today andaybe accumulating snow late friday into saturday. ho s the traffic? we re turni it up. we ve had several accidents in the 9:00 hour. get bagging to eed. lindsay, back to you. tonight at 5:00, i ll sit down wth longtime washington po column nift to talk about po column nift to talk about hi captions pa for by nbc-universal television let s just lsten t that or just a moment. crank it. cnk it. you know how i li to crank it. i used to wsh m whole life i could sing like barbra streisand. now i just wish i could sing like y used to. i can t four of tse notes anyme. here s the magiof music. this particular son which one? from now on our troubles will e miles away okay, this song, if u go to our website, klgandhoda.com. there s a right-hand comn. it says kathie le s tunes. yo click on itnd it takes you because we re so techie, totunes where youcan buy it. we re selling finally, someone s going toe buying your music. hat s a first for me after a 44-year career inmusic. thisong is up today. thn tomoow we ll get two. not because thepublic clamoring jt because somebody thought of it. > everybody, welcome, it is tuesday, booze-day, december 21st. just a mter o hours. this is the winter solstice and old man winter arrives, arrives. if you were up late or early depending whoou are, this was this on in a lifetim or many lifeme s event, lunar eclie. total luna eclipse and i, like an idot, g up to see it. it lasted for three hours. it was crystal clear and gorgeou but by the time i got up to see it, it had clouded over d i didn t get to see it. look, you can see it right now. he s the thing about these things. this lunar eclie is i think ce in 500-plus years but you know the other eclipses that they have,he rular eclips? yes. whn the earth hits the sun every time we do a story we reike this is once in a lifime deal everyone go outside. i feel like i ve done th story frank says it is the second one he sseen. i feel like i ve done a bunch of the stories abouthe eclipses. i think we just leteople ink they only happenevery nownd thn. well that s good beuse we have candy cane martin tody. yes, we do. it is a vodka and peppermint schnapps combination with a cay cane garnish. it looks like water. you know i dot eat sweets so i just put that aside. hereyou go. cheers. happy wint. w. woo. so there s been aot of buz in nw york city over a broadway show that s not yet officially opened. postponed severalimes now. it is called spider-man. ou understand a lot of people want to see that, behey know of all the stuff. bono d the edge have written the store. julianne moore is directed it. the problemis it s being riddled with real physical accidents. thectors are getng hurt. just last night, tis actor fell. the crd like completely reamed and youon t know ifit is part of the play or it s a real thing. when all theseeople are fing around you a above you, who knows if it is part of the action. youon t know. this seven minutes beforthe end of the show. they stopped the whole performance and this guy sustained only minor injuries. was taken to the spita i just spoke with thegeneral manager of that show. ande literally called five minutes ago and said that the young man has mininjuries. more injuries. they re all very, very gteful for it. t first of all, it is so highly anticiped this musical. it s julie taymor who did lion king. ground-breing theater. the expectations are so high. but so is the host of . rightow it is $65 million t produce this. there have been three oer accidents and they just keep happening. we ll swhat happens. thedelayed the openi. this is the four me. we sh everybody wel whether you re in the show or underneath t. you know? stuff s falling on the people. what we talked about yesterday has caused qite the ommoti. we told you yesterday that in the n york mes there was with a vows section where people get married. caol ann riddell, her second marriage as was her husbd. t difference bween this marriage is that eachf them admitted basally that they were in marriages that wer t right, they found ech oer and they eed up getting married d they sort of told the whole tale in the middle of the new yortimes newspaper about she sa that she was ging tough pain and why godoing this her. she endedp leavg her husband and he left his wife. they th expressedemorse for the pain that th caused but they feel like it is either pain now or or much more pain later or that was one of the quotes. rit? ey both spoke out. today. yh. carol ann riddell told rbes.com we did this because we ju wanted one hone account for how this happened for our sakeand for r kids sakes. we reproud of our family and thway we handled this situation this past year and there s nothing in the story we are ashamed of. she surprised the backlash. she says this is sort of surprisingto me. i think people are fcusing on the negative, not the posive. i think when you are cryn love, no maer how you got there, you tnk everyonis sharing in you glory. that s the lens you see everything through. ey re surprised saying why would anyone think this ibad, re so happy. t you see what s in the bodies that are liered behind them. one person says find i m paraphrasing ironic tat the title is vows. basically, you know, the vows that you just made are t ones tht you didn t honor originally. so iean - listen. pele make mistakes in life. have youertaiy no, w all certainly all made our mistakes. but it comes down to especially hen there are children involved, you just and there are spouses ex-spouses that ve to read thi you know what it reminds meof? remember whenovernor sanford of south carolina went onand on and on, boo hooed abut this woman he was i love with in argentina and his beautiful fe has to hear tha this is his soulmate. yet they don t even realize the dage they re continuing to do. i think honesty is overrad sometimes. you sure do. you don t use it much. stop ! but seously, like why does everyone hve to say everything? hey don t have to. we lve ts a world where everybody els free to and compelled to because of all the ocial networking and dia and everything. i tink it is okay t either omit the truth or just not say anything if you know iis going to really hu somebody. whengovernor sanford stood u and boo-hooed about his new soulmate while his wife had to listen, yodidn t have t say that. you have said wee gone ourwn separate well, he w crying for himself, not the people he had hurt. like he hadn t learned anything yet. ere s time but other people ay i wonder what it wi b like for their tird marriage. we hope they have a hap marriage b i don t know, unless you learn something, learn lesson from it, you re bound to make the same mistake again. this is an interesting story. today it was annnced shania twain is engaged. this has a crazy twist. shania twain a her husband, mutt lange oneof the most successful music producers. they were married for 14 years. then muttlang ran off with her besfrien there togeer. shaniands up now getting engaged to her ex-best frnd s husba. who, i m sorry, he s ku cuter n mutt. he s totally sexy. he s gorges. he s cute. ion t know if he s aweet guy. we wish mutt and shania and everybod all t happiness in thworld. you justcan t even keep tck of this stuff. she s going to write a heckf a song about it, i thin that came off unki. i m sorr i think the new one very cute. > i thnk he is adorable. good news for betty white. what hasn t she won? she s gog to be aked to pse for playbo now. she been named entertainer of the year by the aociated press. come , let sgive it up for betty. she won so many awds this year. she wan a s.a.g lifetime acevement award. her seventh emmy. sevth! emmy. l right? she s in that show ot in cleveland. and the sckers commeral is one of the best commercials of the year. and hosting snl. i think it was that snickers commercial that reminded wasn t that the catalyst? there s something about betty. i d lo to see abe als host . he would be good too. wh did s turn the otr day? 89? and she was in every single ski that night a snl. and it was late at night and she as got blez her. just one ick thing. two quick things. right,right. if you love to get in bed and be cozy. sometis you put on your pajamas and they re cold and you get in the sheets d they re freezi, we have the solution - it is called the p.j. warming sack. you pl it in, put yourp.j.s in and5 minutes later you take them out. feel tm, there so toasty! > this is wha i need to get christine fo christmas. because she s always, always cold. can you believe? is that all that sn there? just one? there s a top and a bottom. it i just like hot out of the dryer. i love i $30. paja rmer.com. our fendst rapid lash who i told you guys all along how what an belieble product this is. retails for $50 but today rapid lash sent us a rapid lash eath and we re going to randomly pick 15 people that go to facebook and wri lash me, baby. at else are giving away? we re also continuing our tivo sweepstakes. we re going to give away five tivos atndom. klgandhoda.com. wee givg away five premier boxes and a year subscriptio k lchlt gchlt alg and hoda.com. > why good temper tantrum can be beneficial to your health and oth stress busters later there almost no awar without her name on it. bernadette peters is in the house. first these messages if deep breaths, yoga classe and venting to your friends aren t helping you de-stress, you aren t alone. studies show those supposedly true xiety busters are just bust. preventionmagazine uncered what really helps and what doesn t. the maazine s executive director is here to tell us all about it. you re going bust me myths, huh? sure am. ou got two little skeics here. here we go. yesteay s wich had dom and today smart strate. yesterday s wisdoms to express your onions. we live in a tell-all culture. everybody is on facebook. we talk about the bagel we had for lunch, ery last feeling that we had. exhausting. b sometes it s better just to dal with your grief,f you re pset, have some tears, of course, it is normal. but rely return to ur every day life. research bac it up. but shouldn t wehoose very carefuy the people we are that vulnerablewith? that s the problem. we re putting everything out the for everybody andost o the time that i read the stuf it s like, who cares? ge a life. inow exactly what you mean. and it is important to share th frnds and your confidants. but the ar very few of them. right. it is question of being specific d careful. you say nevsootheourself with food ithe old way of oing it. but now you re saying actually chocote may note such a bad thing. this is such gd newsfor all of us especially me. but here the deal it snot milk chocolate. it actually the dark chocolate. you can t an ounce day and it actually lowers your stss hoone. it is very good at this time of year. again though, it is matte of volume. the amoun right. you can t be eang a mr. goodbar 24 hours a day. well you c, but you re going to reap what you sew. if you re in an argument with your husband, everyone said don go to bed mad and youre saying th new strategys just go tobed. just get some rest. listen. if you re fighting, itis 3:00 a.m., you re going to s things you dn t mean. athat point were your brain cues what we ca a fit or flight response. it is not going to go anywhere good. the eling is make a truce, s we re mott going to talk about is until tomorw morning but the next d, do in facttalk about it. ell that s different. that s t that s very diffent tn at i thght she meant. ut you re still steamed. ifyou re really upset, y know u re not sleepng anyway. getome rest, i toss and turn when i have something like that on my nd. you punch your pillow m don t. ey fall right aeep. how is that possible? right to sleep within two secon. that makes you even madder! because they re fine. they knowthey ll get it in the morning but they don t care. you re up here turning on the tv. it is making me mad thinkinging about it. m sorry. the old days they shld say we should always try to control our temper. now you guys are saying just l it rip sometimes. sometes it s absolutely appropriate. the brainlikes it when you display a little bit of anger because it gives you some control over the situation. a little bit of anger. yeah. i don t thin that you shou be chronically hystericallyelli at everybody. we vell seen lots of people like that ithe news but enoughbout t jersey shore. back to our lives. the feelin is if somebody cuts yooff in traffic, somebody says to you at work that you think is insulting or inappropriate, it iskay to say i don t like . if you re driving i traffic an meone cuts you off, i di this whole series onstress. i sid wha if you scream and pound t steering wel and whatever andou get it ut. those gu were thef the mind set, you re sti all amped up. setimes it is a release. but it is not doing thether person any harm, it does y the harm. sometimes you roll down your wind and you say godbless you. that so darms people. you kill them with ndness sometimes. that s the st destressing thg in t whole world. you see what mealing with? lastly real quick, don t try to get any stress fromour family, turn to yur pet. thers something wonderful about cuddling up withour little dog. research has shown tat they are actually better helping your stess levels go down and you can solve problems faster whe you re doing somethi in t presence of your imal rather thanour spouse or friend. unless it is your anim that just made you cry becae he just pooped on your carpet. i m just trying to have you think thin through. there s even re in preventi prevention magazine. have a lovely destressed holiday. god bless you. she hates my guts. jst a little. i meantyou. the most awful gts ever. what not to wrap up this weekend. > bernadette s ming up. we re back with our new series sara on the streets. basical we sd sara out o to the strts. this week in the spirit of giving we sent miss sara out to get the sco on the gifts you sh you had never received. yep, it wouldn t be the holiday season if didn t tk about the gifts that make ople grumpy like the grih. i askedolksn our nbcstore about the wor gifts they ve ever received. pair of socks or sometng like that. probably socks. one yea i got a ce phone case without a cellhone in it. socks. what s up with the socks trend? who gave you those socks? my grandmother pajamas that are just too young for you. are they theme? thme. ishis fm grand? we love the socks an pajamas. i got a lite statue kind o like christmas wasn t santa bu it was like a chrtmassy, holida kindof wintry thing. whe is that lite statue now we regifted it. my husband ge me a butter di from our christmas ater got married. my mom tri to get me some really sexy lingerie for christmas in front of my children, in front of my everybody. maybe she was shopping off your bridal registry. hello! people at firs werelike i don t hve anything. well they were likehis one time i got this statue. so i was like, and so you did getomethi. what about yo sara? i get sometim weir stuff, i kind of like,huh? t not bad. donna and joe just gavee wonderful pink socks. i wa very happy. yes, we love ursocks. a lot. still to come, inventns from the minds of babes that u ll want under your tree. > santa s in the house checking ot if bnadette peters and giada de laurentis have been naughty or nice. . metro lice began randomly inscting packages for the first time tay. coming up on news 4 midday, how they re reacting. good moning. mberly sters. we re coming with the start of winter. ostbite, how at i it and how quicy we re back with moref today nd some wondful kid inventions. ttle play dough here, los tre, you never know what ke spark your child s next brilliant idea. guessho is with us? ada is he with us and we have here sey. and at the very end, zachar hi, zachay. how ae you? a.j. i with us. how e you? you re the c of telebrands corporatio we sell all that as seen onv stuff that you see in all th retail stores all over the country. finding thse kid inveors must have been fun. this was a fantastic iea that we camep with to we see inventors all the time. this is he first tim we reached outfor kid inventors. it w absolutely a delig. these kids are so bright, they came upith great ideas. hopefully one will be the next big thing. start with itafa. sw us what youhave in your hand. these are green paws. they are madeut of yard wte and recyclable materials they re shoesfor your dogs? yes. what do you mean yard waste? on t go into detail. just stuff you d find in your own yard? it is d bark andree leaves. ohokay. why did you decide to make the d shoe? he has three dogs that ma a mess evy timehey came into the house and he invented these so they won t be a ess. what s your dog s name? rocky. he sot one on. so these aren t being produced yet. they re t but wehad ls of kids inventors come from different sools around the area, the tri-state area. these are thr of th inentions that we liked the most. this one i liked becse fit of all, pet category, pple love their pets. people are humanizing thr pets more than er before this aoolves the common problem your dog runs in a tracks mud through the whe house. before they go out, put the boots on, before they come in, take the boots of your house ays clean. aseyas what we call the swing-it shoe. the swing heel is a high-heeled shoe that tur int flats when y swing it down. so that you can dce you are so smart! wow! what made you think of that ide well, a busy woman and basical our mothers were inspiration ofthis because they often get tired in their hees. they almost like sneakers on the bottom. in new york city where wome commute, sometis they wear sneakers, they chge in high heels i the office. just wear tis when they commute, get to the office pop up their heels. i hope you guys have good lawyers to get these patent. thanks, kids. we ll step all the way down to the gripp soap. we re zachary. you have something called grippy soap. thi is a bar of soap that noal soap does. oh. so it is almost like the way rub it all over. it s got texture so you can grab it. it isust like a deodorant. id you think of that because you were just losing the soap in the shower? inour hand, body lotion it kind of a pain. do at. is one hand action, solves all your problems. soer? do it. we h to wait for zach. we have these last two for you. thank yo very much! you guys areosweet. what s goi to happen with these kids inventions? me on down here d t leave us over her telebrands is currtly evaluatg thes ideas. we may take a lenserom one of themr more. they re alleally goo ideas and we ll tryto market them. te market it, if they re successful they ll bevailable at a may wror retailnear you. snts that fantastic? congratulatio. your parents must be so proud oyou gus. have a great holiday. kay, from a ttle light music to dayti tv, bernadet peters takes a walkver from oadway it ha with us for a littlwhile ght after this. isn tt rich aren t we a pair me here at lt on the ground you in mid-air that is soeautiful. that s the tony, golden globe an grammy-winning bernadette peters don t talkver it! > its see good. it is from little night music, a great show. you relooking at the performance the new york times called an indible moment in the history of eater. doesn t get much better th th, miss bernadette. what was it like readg th kind of review? ually don t read them but i didsneak that one. it s great. then you go bk work and that s ally what it s abou you know, it s really about havg that what a gift this whole show has been. iloved it! loved it from the eginning. it is an experienc every night i get to do. you ve loved working with your co-star. you want tell us about aine? oh, elaine. laine is just brillian and she s a master. elaine stritch is just a master. you work with some masters throughtheyears. are you ever in awe othether pson s talent? oh, my god, yes. well, it s just magical. i mean wh at happens, it s just where does it come from. it s true. youknow? but i just lo to learn. i just watch and learn a hopefully i can aorb some of it and well, you won a couplef tos. you ve been in so ma shows. th one clearly i unique. there s something special and different about it. what is it in your eye that makes it unie? i didn t realize how appealing it i to an audience, this show. becau i wa t that familiar with t show. but you brought the humor about ich, people don t think of this as a funny show, but this is veryhumus. it s ve funny and the audiences when they wait for m outside, iidn t realize how funny this show was. it is a very funny boo it is a woerful story that the audience really gets involved with. hugh wheeler wrote the boo then you have this music that s totally incredible, and also witty. and e voices, weave the most wonderful taleed cast. singin that song send in the clowns, it s beenung by so many people. wasthere anythi that was even remotely intimidating aout taking on that song? you know, i jtidn t think abut t. i just said let the scene sort of tell mehat the song s aut. and it really comes out of the scene and it just made so much sense once y do t scene. it is the first tehe song has ev made comple and total sense to me. i went now i getit, stephen sondim. because away from e actual story, what are yo talkg about. but in the confines of th story he righwrit for the charter and for the story. if you just let it tell you what it s supposed to tell you she soing to be coming to theennedyenter to do follies. our friend eric schafer is going to direct through. that wou probably come to broadway after a big run a kennedy center. we, we ll see. would be vely. we ll see what happens. when you re not doing that, you havethis hildren s book which is second one. stella. there is something so engaging about this chracter in thi book, about thisdog who wnts to be a pig prends to be one that kid must just eat u it is doing ry, very well. i love the storyecau it s really tching you not to judge peop from the outside a to learn to accept and love l that you are. and she s a little pit bull who doesn t think yone likes her sohe pretendso be a pig. i think pit bulls haveotten some b theyhave. these do are trained and pit bulls start out just precus. they were the family dog at the turn of the century. they were the nany dog and hen keller had a pit bull. and petey in our gangad a pit bull. it is the vanity dog of th tough guys right now andt is really a sha because th re reallylovely,arm dogs. y also learned how wte your firstongs afterall these years in the theater, she s beco a songwrer. but you knw, kathie le, i can on write i write i planes and that s it. i write the song and the story in the plane o in the car cominhome from th plane. you need to travel more. air travel. so the next one s going to be about mycat. but i haven t take a flight yet. bernadette, good luck. thank y for coming by. go see it until january 9th. it s been extded january th. coming up next, giada trats santa to some of her home cooking he ll never be the same. he won to home to mart. the next, you start one eling bit ofl fine. the moment you feel run down or achy, nip fllike symptoms the bud, with oscillococcinum. t oscillo and feel like yourself again. oscillococcinum, nip it in the bud. announcer: today s holiday kitchen is brought to you by pillsbur crescents. war and flaky rolls in minutes. time f today s holiday kitcn. we re getting a little saucy with giada today ntributor giada delaureiis that is. and santa. first of all, santa was just saying that t chair is not big enough r us. it has thing to do with the sizeof you girls. we needed more width. hey come on, we l cook for santa because he got a big big night ahead he needs is favorite ings. you have a sweet toot right, santa? of course ido. startwith cookies over her out. they re all baked off an ready forou guys i ne one of hese. any frosng. i m gng to do green camel. of course you are. hat s what wise men rode in on, hod werehey green? maybe snta would like to t whatever you guys decote. what do youhink, santa? yes? you up for it? look, nice, hoda! ou just thr that together. as she sakes her booty on over there. nody walks like da. nobody swings it the way that woman does. he likes it. he les mine. be carel of kathie lee s. santa, do you want something savory ow? i figure sta can t just have something savory. that wou be ce. that s really uniq and pretty. of course it is. that she wa i roll. okay. there you go, sata. tell mehich o you like beer. now wre making something savory. since santa los alesnd so dohe reindeers corct? reindeer love apples. we are making aham gruye first. one. grn mustard down first. then a little chees little grere. i love that. miss cheese so much. eese, a little apple. apple that s sautes in a little butter and thyme and a little bit of ham. yh, baby. santa, b tha way. thateans you need more cheese beuse i s got to stick. put it right in the panini. look a that one. do you have to spray i with anying? it is non-sck. put it down there for about fve minutes. this is wh it looks lie. o my gh. do we have to give that to santa? why does he get it? what s he done? he just sitting over ther you canave one. you want it try one okay santa, this i for ur sustenance. want to keep that over here? santa loves that. th s his favorite. yes. he lovs, loves, loes that one. it is le a very fancy ruben thout the saueraut. lastbut not lest snce i gss i c t do a segment with yoguys without drink > sant can trink and drive so that s f us. oh, but he does. little did you know, he do. thereindeer know exactl where they re going. reindeers are in charge. s. what are you making? ging-apple martini. ginger to keep him warm i don t think santa needs this. what do you think? sorry santa. ho-ho-ho! wait, cheers! happy holidays! whatever! whateve happy holiys. love you, giada. we l be back with more of today on c if we surviv mom ] my son only wanted one toy thisear. i want a rosan 40. [ mo] the one no one could get. toy stores are reporting long lines and empty shelves. a robosan 40. [ mom ] and i meano one so i didost of my holiday shopping on citi ecials. wi the money i saved, i bid online -and got exactly what he wanted. -a bosan 4000! [ television ] troducg the new robosan 5000. [ mom ] at least for now. 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