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we ll tell you where the storm is headed tod, saturday january th, 201 ptions paid for by nbc-universal tevision good morning, everybody. nice to have you here. welcome to toda on a saturday morning i mester holt. and i m amy robach. yesterday i think weere bracing r a lot of snow. there wasn t that much. today there might be more. aot of plows on thetreet of new york go figure. to mak up for the lack of them the lastime around. but there s another band of winter coming to the noheast. this is startin out to be a really, really tough winter. that time of year, right? also the new job nuers. unployment did drop to its lowest rate since maof 2009. 9.4%. but job creation was lower than experts predicted. and more americans apparently stopped looking for wo. fed chairn ben bernanke said fray at this rate it could takeour or five more yrs for a fu recovery. cong up we re going to look at what the numbersean and where the jobs are being created. and then a desperate search under way for a missing teen in baltimore. what happed to felia simone barnes. she s a 16-year-old honor studt who sappeared nearly two weeks ago while visiting relatives for the holidays. now policeear she s been abducted. we ll get the latest from police, and the girl s mother ju ahead. also ahead, new developments in the case of theo-called milkshake murder. you ght remember the story of nancy kissel, convicted of murdering r husband after knocng him out with milkshake laced with sedaves. the story inspired books and a made for tv movie. last year her conviction s overrned. the new trial will sta next week. coming up we ll get the latest in this strange drama. and later on, i know lester thinks he s got the ves, but u ve got competition. wait until you see this grp. they re one of the nba s hotte dance teams. but if you notice ything different there. well we re going to introduce you to the senr citizens, 65-plus burning up the court withheir hip-hop dancing, n less looking good. but first the latest job numbers. unemploynt dropped from 9.8 to 9.4% for the month of december but while employers reported more than 100,000 jobs created at s less than predicted and slower than needed for the economy to ful recover. nbc s vin tibbles has re. reporter: it s e biggest onmonth drop in unemployment since april 1998. on the sface, good news. but where are the jobs? thunemployment numbers reveal 14.5 million americans remain out of work. 6.4 million of them for more than six months. we re now 18 months into the recovery and everybody s waiting for when will ttumber happen? when will we see a big job creation number to suggest that job creation engineas turned on? reporter: dember s job creation simpldid not materialize at the predicted pace. so the falling unemployment rate indicates many people have simply stopped looking. the president anowledged the listless recovery while visiting a small window manufacturing plant in landover,ryland. still got a whole bunch of folks who are out there looking. ill struggling. we ve got a big hole that we re digging ourselves out of. repter: for some that hole deeper than others. among african-americans the unemployment rate is 18%. d for hispanic it is 13%. but in bloomington, minnesota, finally, after a year and a halfchrissy clocker is working agai initially when i fst got unemployed iwas tragic. reporter: after waitressing pa-time, the 25-year-old engineer found her dream job working on filtration syste for donaldson company. donaldson laid off 2800 workers in therecession, and its ceo says an uptick in orders now ans he s hiring. we re expecting our sales to be backo our record lels e-recession and we canxpect our employment to be pretty close,s well repter: accounting firm mcladry says it s looking to fill 1100 new jobs i the coming year. we see more confidence in our clients and their growth pns whichives us conference. reporter: still john challenger said the recession hit so hard it will take many busisses time to have confidence in any positive numbers. coming out of deep recession, nobody really believes that recory is for real. at we re really out of the woods. reporte for today, kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicag and jning us now to break down the numbers is tri regan, co-anchor of cnbc s the call. good morning. if you just lked at the headne here you d say this is great, great news. sure, 9.8% down to 9.4%. but when you look beyond that headne what you actually find is number one, many more jobs were expected to have been cread. they only created about 103,000. it s just not enough to really sustain this economy, to really grow this economy. the other big headline here, it s a fact that 9.4%, that reduction in the overall unemployment rate, is really a result of a reduction in the numb of people participating in the labor force. in other words, a lot of peoe said, i m giving up. i can t find work. it not howany people are really sitting home without jobs. it does to a certain extent. but what it tells you as well is just a lotf people dropped out of the labor forc so that s one of theeasons you re seeing this reductn. when those peopleome back into the labor forc when they feel like a can get a job, you re probably going to see the unemployment rattick back up. what did the seonal employment picture doo this number? not a whole lot here. i mean, you would have hoped that seasal employment, pecially within the retail sector, would have meant more on the job front. but, again, only 103,0 jobs created in december. we had the ceo of macy s on cnbc recentlyand he was sing that they re not hiring. now that s important, because macy s accounts for one in every five jobs within the retail sector. sof they re not hiring, that gives you some sense of reil s lack of performce right now. let s take a more optimistic stance here. what are are hiring? what arehe fields that are looking good? well, technology is certainly one ofthem. health care is another area educion. these are three sectorshere you are finding some growth. but you know, kee in mind, back in 2000 you had technology that was just booming andhat really helped to fuel the economy and then, of course, you had the real estate industry and construction aer that. and when you look around today, there s no real career sector that s about to really break out. yes, these three secrs are doing well butt s not like there s a huge boom on the horizon. whh, to one extent is probably healthy. you don t want another real estate i just want to run through forbes.com came up with the list ofest and worst cies because these nbers don t always apply around the country, washington, d.c., boston, austi among the best. then las vegas, riverside, calirnia, miami among the worst. what drives these various markets? when u look at las vegas, when you look at miami, when you look a parts of lifornia, one of the reasons those areas are really suffering is because of the real estate crisis. i an, let s face it when you look at foreclures, florida, vegas, these are are that have been very, very hard hit. on the other hand, areas like austin, whington, d.c. and bost are doing really well. now washington, d.c., of urse, has all those federal employees. as long as the government continues to end, washington, d. probably is gng to do well. boston, you ve got a big tech center there. lot of education the. we were just talng about technology andducation being big areas of growth. an austin, similar sry there. technology is big and you have the university there in austin which is helng employnt. trish rega good to have you on. thanks very much and now here s amy. lester, tha you. president obama said frida that accelerating job growths his mission. and nohe has a new economic team at his side and a new congress to work with. re with the political side of things is mark halperin, senio politicalnalyst for msnbc, and so time magazine. mark, good morning. hey, amy. the unemployment number elections have been won and lost over this number. are we going t see now this new focus of ts new congress specifally be about the jobs and theconomy? there so question. look, the present, all presidents, you say, deal with unemployment. it s a huge indicator. this president has now tied the unemployment number like nhing else. gdp, all sorts of other economic numbers ar going to be out there but h has to find a way to create jobs. the opportunity he has now is republicans,ecause they control the hoe, they ve got to be involved in governing, too. they ve got to ho, the president hato hope, the country has hope, that even though they re at odds,hey re polical foes, they ve got t find a way to work to theo create jobs. there s nother prioritnow that tters. a new congress and also some new staff changes for president obama. many people are calling this a move to the center. he s brought in gene speing o held the position during the clinton administration. one of obams top economic advise and bill daley as his new chief of staff. what is this refocusing going to mean for the oma administration? i think it s less about centrist than about people who can get things done. experienced people. yes they worked in the clinton administrationut if you look at democrats, before clion the last democratic predent was jimmy carter. so you ve got to lookor where you can find people of your o party to serve in these jobs. bill daley is a guy who wants to get things done, will work with republics but also will work with liberal democrats. the key for the psident and these w people is people of accomplishment, people he s comftable with, and again to gethe economy moving you need peopleho know what they re doing. i think he s brought in some pretty good people. and yes this perceived move to the center has drawn some criticism from those liberal democrat does he need those liberal democrats to get things done at this point he does. he nds to go back and i think he s thinking as he conjures up e state of the union to first principles of what he s abou he wants to beeading a movement that s not about jus the left. he wants the left included he wants a movement o the whole country. that s whatot him elected. that s what people saw in him. i think he needs to go back to that. i don t think is a question of is he gng to the center, is he alienating the left. it san he knit together the country? the businesscommunity, political leaders in washington, people around the country in a way at said, therere challenges, how are we going to meet them? i think that s what he srying to do right now. quickly this week, republicans are going to try and tackle health care reform o at leastepealing whathey call, want to get it right, the job-killing health bill. it s expected to pass in e house, notn the senate. so what are republicans ting to accomplish here? they re trying to lep to their promise to say they re going to try to repeal this. i think the big question i not this focus. what do they do the rest of the ar? since it won t be repealed, the president would never sign a repeal and it won t be overriddenwhat do they want to do the rest of the year? do they want to keep fighting abouhealth care or create jobs? the president s g to put them in a box so they don t keep working on health care andry to help him and the count do what needs toe done. forget the politicians, we need more jobs. mark halperin,hanks so ch. we appreciate it. now here s lester. amy, thanks. two mississippi sisters, oe sentenced to life in prison for med robbery, are free women this morng. but they were relead under one unusual condition. one sister must donate a kidney to the oer. nbc s th trang jns us live outse the family s home in pensacola, florida. good morng. gladys and jamie scott arrived here atheir mother s house in the early morning hours and enjoyetheir first night s rest as free women after a whirlwind 24 hours for thesisters. after 16 years behind prison walls we re free! wee free! gladys and jamie scott rode away as free wome one their fir stops i m feeling good. reporte gloria s kitchen. the restaurant and its patrons, longtime supporters ofhe sisters, whom they say were unstly punished i love macaroni! i love it. 16 years! free atlast. free at last! reporter: sentenced to life prison for their role in the 1993 armed robbery tha yielded only a handful of cash, the sisters were release on the condition that gladys donate a kidney to jamie who is suffering from kidney failure. i was going to give it to her anyway. don t nobody have to release me. if they would have lete giv her, i wou have gave it to her without a sdow of a ubt. i love my sister. reporter: the scotts agreed to sit down with us on the conditio we ask nouestions about the crime. after all these years, what does freedom feel le? we just blessed. and it s fls so good to be able t walk outside and feel fresh air. like a breath that i have been waiting for so long to take. that was holding inside, and without those gates it s just like a relief. reporte from mississippi they drove to pensacola, orida, back to loved ones, anxiety waiting for their return. for the first time in 16 years, it will be a life without ba. and there s a lot ahead for the sists. they say life on probation, and there s alsohe question of will the sisters be a mch for kidney donion and how they ll pay for it? they ll face all of that ee women and also wh their families. lester? than true okay in pensacola for us thanks. time for the other top headlines and we head over to jeff rossen who is at e news desk. good morning to you. glad you could dig out thi morning. only a few inches. weegin with another elosive device sent another government official. a package addressed to homela curity secretary jet napolitano ignited friday afternoon at a washington, d.c. poal facility. no one was injured. authorities say thepackage is similar to two others sent to maryland s governor and transportationecretary just the day before. unclear who s responsible for th, butolice say there re notes colaining about the state s terrorism fip line. all packagesre n at the fbi lab. in california, a mother of three has been arrested on chars she had sex with a 13-year-old boy. police say rachel ann hicks befriended the boy while playing xbox online. she allegedly told the boy she s 23 and flew to see him at his homin maryland over the thanksgiving holiday. investigators say ey re trying identify a second possie victim. another underage boy. thismorning, several homes in california y be in danger, after a landslide. on friday a neighborhood i san clemente gave way, tending trees and shrubs from back yards right downhe hill, as you can see in this video. so far, four homes have been evacuad. engineers are checkin to see the stability of the hillde to see if more homeowners need to leave the ar. > at least 35 people have died, mo than 30,000 have bn displaced after weeks of heavy floodi in brazil. the flooding was so massive some people actually had to swim out of their a a good saturday rning. i m news 4 meteorologist chuck bell. snowflakeslying across the ea. enough to whiten the ground and some areas off to the west o downwn washington. the winter weath advisory is for montgomery prince george s until 1:00, but some snow flying now across parts of norther virginia. temperatures in the upper 20s to 30 band ofnow showers moving into the washington area and has left that s a look at your natial weekend forecast. bill, thank you. and now to the investigation surrounding the dth of john wheeler. a former moog official and o of the founds of the vietnam war memori, his body was found in a ndfill nearly a week ago, and now newurveillance video of him the night before his death has only deeped this mystery. reporter: in the days leading up to his apparent murder, jn wheeler was see in several plays around lmington, apairing consed and dishevelled. surveillance video shows him walking into a parking garage last wednesday night, wearing no overcoat, despite thecold, and carrying one of his shoes. his car was not even parked there. garage employees thoughte was homeless. h had a suit on, but the suit lked like he had i on forwo or three days. i can see le dust marks througut, you know, maybe on his pants. reporter: a security guard says wheeler claimed someone stole hibriefcase, andffered a rambling explanation for what he was doing. he said that his brother dropped him off. he said two days ago, to vis his mother. reporter: but a family member says h brother died three years ago. an hour earlr, witnesses say he went into a drugstorend asd for a ride. but left when the pharmacist offered to call a cab. he was seen again the next day, thursday, in downtown wilmington, wearing a change of clothes, a wandering briefly into a government office lice say he was last se at 8:45hursday evening leaving a downtown comrcial building. wiin eight hours after that, they say, he was parently murdered. his body placed in a tsh receptacle in newark. it was discovered last friday morning a will tingeton landfill. instigators believe he was killed somewhere in newark, but a police spokesman says they still don t know exactly where. we have not located a crime scene at this time. reporter: they hav yet to reveal howe was killed, saying only that lab tests have not been completed. those tests could reveal whether a medical problem, or some oer cause,as behind john wheeles erraticehavior in his final hours. for today, pete williams, n ne, washington. on friday, police released a new statement fromwhler s family thaing the public for their condolences andsking for privacy. and we ll be back. but first, this is today on nbc. eck the tag. ma in france. wow. the price tag. double wow. up to 60% off. find what makes you happy at a price that makes you homegoodhappy. now to a growing problem in the south. bands of wild pigs invading neighborhoods everywhere. you ve heard of bringing hom the bacon. well, weary residents are now finding out the hard way what ppens when the bacon comes to you. here s nbc s kerryanders. reporter: they can be endearing. comical. a ttament! reporter: but when the real thing shows up in your backyard it turns out tre is reason to whine out the swine. this is not a cute little aold pig? no. no, is is not a pig. this is big, srt of a rhino. reporter: rhino? i mean, they re huge. reporter: they are huge. some weigh more than300 pounds. th re smart. and they re most dtructive at night. rooting for tir favorite dinner, acorns. and me morning i take karp of the yard but i don t think i can take care of that. reporr: perfectly micured wns completely ruined. last night we hadome in our yard and i saw o that i thought wow, that s another hogzil, it s huge. hogzilla? it grunted. sounded gressive. reporter: so aggressive she had but one solution. put up a giant fee. so is this gog to work? i hope so. co me $7,000. reporter: what is the damage? neighbor ryan greengartner. this is their snout just picking into the ground an looking for worms, mushrooms, acorns. reporter: h says he s thankful the federal government is now involved. these night mission shots wer taken from the scopef a rifle. the usda solutn thin the herd. either shoot them or trap them. down t door goes, and they re in. reporter: but often the pigs outsmart the trappers. i h one chase me right in the backyard aund here and i had to shoot him. he wasoming at me head-in. ort fro florida to texas, and across 35 other states, wild hogs. brought do theouth decades ago so rich families like the vanderbis could hunt them. are now officially a nuisance. with an estimated 2 million of them rming the southeast. it s aot of pork. reporter: but the problem with the pigs here is a lot like the problemsith deer up rth. and when will thatroblem eventually go away? when pigs fly, of course. for today, kerry sanders, n news, in cypress, flora. pigsnd hogzilla. that what itwas. i saw a subway rat almost as big as one of those pitgs. we have our own issues. wil michael jackson s doctor be putn trial for the pop star s death? that ijust ahead. plus what happened to this honor student? coming up we ll talk to r mom out the desperatsearch that s under way. 7:26 on thi saturday, january 8th. m aarongilchrist. one n is dead and his son seriously injured after an accident. this happened about 10:00 last night near 301 in buo. state police say a cartopped in one of the rit-hand lan for an unknown rean and was hit by another xcar. the 50-year-old driver of the second car died and his o10-year-old son was taken to thhospital with srier injuries. a couple traffic alerts for you this mornin first, drivers are urg to avoid route 50 near the fairfax coun parkway. that work scheduled to wrap up tomorrow night at 11:00. a headsp for d.c. drivers, as well. construction workers started repairin the northeast. you ll find lanes nrow between floridavenue and penntreet ar the railroad tracks. this work should be finished by 4:00 this afternoon. take a look at chuck s weather forecast when we come back. we hope you stay witus. ib go saturday morning, onc again. i m chuck bell. a winter weather advisory. no advisories officially across nortrn virginia but snowflakes flyinghis morning. temperaturesn the upper 20s to ne 30. here s a look at theand of light to moderate snow showers and come down hard for 10 to 15 minute or so. temperatures will stay in the 30s all day today and windynd cold tomorrow. back to you. thank u, chuck. another uate for you of local news and weather in about 25 minutes. for now, backo and we re backn this turday morning, january 8t 2011. our thanks to everyone who s come out on the plaza to spend part of their mning with us. it s chilly out there. we re going to hea outside. e re going to head outside to say hi i just a bit. see what s missing behd them? the tree is gone. christmas is over. i know, fee a little naked out there. it does. hopefully w can show upith those smiling faces. back inside studio 1a, i m amy robach alg with lester holt. and coming up he on today, where is felicia simone barnes? felicias a 16-year-old honor student from north carolina. sh traveled to baltimo to spend a n yearoliday with her half-sister when she simply vanished. the fbi and baltimore police are baffled. they re doing everything they can to find her. she turned 17, by the way, later this month. cong up we ll talk with felicia s mom live about how she is dealingith her daughter s disappearae andhat s being done to find her. plus it s been called the milkshake murder. nancykissel, the american banker s wife living in hon kong was sentenced to life in prison for allegedlyacing her husband s milkshakeith sedatives and killi him. ng kong s highest court ruled there should be a new trial and that trial bins next week. coming up we ll take a look at the case and what life has been like for kissel. andhen die-hard fans probably knew is already, but today would have been elvis presl presley s 76th birthday. now a new photo exhibit is out displaying intimate phos of the kg before he became a rock n roll legend. we ll take a look a some of themtill ahead. but first weegin this half hour with dr. conrad murray dr. murray who has spent the week at a preliminary hearing to determine wheer he should be tried on an ill voluntary manslaughter charge i the death of michael jackso nbc s george lewis h the latest. reporter:n june of 2009, rehearsing for his his is it world tour, jackson w having trouble sleeping and turned to his personal physician for help. thsinger wound up dead. that physician, dr. conrad murrayhas pleaded not guilty to involuntar manslaughter charges. dr. murray adms giving jackson a powerful anesthic, propofol, to iuce sleep, but contds it wasn t a lethal dose. on friday, acoroner s vestigator told the court she found a dozen bottles of the drug in jackson home. in earlier testony, jackson s bodyguard, the parameds who transported him to ucla hospital and emergency roomhysicians all said mury never mentioned administering propol. dr. murray s failure to be candid with other medical personnel i strongly sgestive of both conduct that below the standard o care, and consciouess of guilt. reporter: prosecutors contend murray was distracted, leaving hi patient to make 11 phone calls the day jackson died. a former girlfriend says she was the phone with murray, but just before noon murray broke off the conversation. precutors contend this was about the time jackson went into cardiac arst. some 20 minutesefore 911 was called. jackson s family members have been inourt for every day of the hearg. what is hurting them so terribly is th evidence of the delay in calling 911. it sevastating tothem. rorter: and although it hurts hearing the details of michael s deh, their attorney says the feel they have a duty to be there. the preliminary hearing continues ononday with the prosecution about halfway through its list of witnesses. murr s lawye haven t said whether they plan to put on any witnesses of theirwn. for toy, george lewis, nbc news, los angeles. we want to get anotherheck of the wther now. for that we ll head outside and say hello again t bill karins in the plaza. bi? good morning, lester. 23 good satday morning. i m news 4 meteorologist cck bell. cloudy sky and light snow owers passing through the area. temperatures in the uer 20s to near 30 degrees. live doppler. a bandf light to moderate snow right through theeart of ntral montgomer county through fairfax and down towards dale city all gettingnn the snowflakes right now. one to two inches of snow a possibility toda temperatures staying in the 30s today. windy and nny and cold tomorrow. of course, there s a lot of active wther out there this weekend. if you want your hour by hour forecast you can always get that at weather.com. all right, bill, anks. still to come, eas rider. aide of the late actor dennis hoer you ve got to s to believe. 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do youave any leads? do you have any concrete evidence at this point? amy, we have we re at square one, to be frank. we havenearly 100 law enforcement personnel, wheth it s the baltimore polic department, the fbi, national center for missing and exploit ploited children, the maryland state police. we re at full throttle. we ve thrown every single law enforcement and technological resource athis case trying to find felicia, ting to reite her safely with her family. we jt don t have any solid leads. we re at acrossroads rig now investigating two scenarios. one is thatomebody did something terrle to felicia in baltimore. and the other is that she was abducted, psibly taken out of the baltimore regi, and even out of the state of maryland. we heard from felicia s mom in the piece, janice, and we ll hear from her in just a mome. but she said there are about 20 or so youngen coming in and out of that apartment. can you give us a sense of what that comex was like, and if you have a true understanding of who was actually there and who may have been the last person to see felicia? we do. i would describe it as aollege rm setting. felicia s half-sisters younger. she had a lot offriends. they came in and out. there were about 20 people we interviewed. we whittle that last down to 12 and we re reinterviewing. we re making sure thatpeople s stories are consistent, and ld. detectives a poking those and trying to make sure we have as solid a te line as we can. at this point we really don t have any leads. all right, janice. i know that every mother out there is feeli for you at this point. it s unimaginable what you re going through. can u tell us when theast time you spoke with your daughter, and what her statef mind was like what information didhe give you when you smoke with her? i called her on christmas die to tell herhat i was lonely and i had missed all of them becaus they were all gone for the holiday. and i said, you are not going away nextyear, and s laughed and she said, mommy, i miss yo too. janice, we ve been describing your dauger. she s an hor student. she was on track to graduate fromigh school early. what else canou tell us about her an her relationship with her half-sister. were you cfortable with her being ere? actual, i encouraged her to find the bond side of her family two years ago, because i dn t want her to be like so many other people wondering what is her other half of h family like. i wanted hero be balanced. i didn t want her to be imbalanced just knowing my side of the family. i wanted her to know her other side of the family, as well. before she had visited approximately four times. and each time before i sent her, i spoke with her half-sister dina, andrilled her, and let her know that the type of lifestyle that she is not allowed. she assured me, she told me she was atudent in school, plus working full time, and that encouraged me a lot to allow her to go up the. that s the type of influence that wanted her around. when i got there thursday night, however, after the missing, that s when i found o a whole lot of activits had been going on in and out of that apartment, and i felt totly deceived by her half-siste and had i known aboutll of that, she would not have visited up to baltimore. jice, i want to ge the opportunity quickly, we often do this. i know that police right now are at a loss for where your daught might be, if she s with somebody, ifsomebody s holding her. is there anything you d like to tell your daughter or the person persons who may have her at this pnt? i would like to l her know wlefr she comes home that she s gointo be nurred with lots of love, and i m going to care for her until i bring her back to the state of mind that i sent her. however long that takes, and for whoever haher. i condition only express over and over again, god i going to get you worse than theaw enforcement is goingo get you. janice sallis, i knowhis is a toughtime. anthony, thanks so much, as well, for being wh us. we appreciate you time this morning. thank you. and we re back after these messages. 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well, hopper was collector for decades, literally. prolific. think most people don t know that about him. he had four chilen. they alrea have some of their own art that they ve slegted from the estate. but there was literally hundreds and hundreds of pieces. more tn any one person cld manage other than hopper, i suppose. so i just seemed approprte to send it t auion, a really share the pceeds with the children. and this is very common in an estate miion. before we get tohe art pieces i want to look at a pce of memorabilia associated with theovie that put him on the map, easy rider. this is a script. and he w the director. this is not hopper s script. this is the script from the script supervisor. what s great about it is, it s got ls of tations, continuity photraphs. there s a grt one here. so for memorabilia llectors, this is such great piece because it s a work product. very much theilm process and the ct that hopper kep this, for all the art he has, h didn t keep a l of memorabilia at the d, the fact that he hung onto this, has meaning for him. let sook atome of t artwork. this is andy warhol m tse-tung. there s something especially interesting about this. this is really my favorite piece in the sale. this is a very familiar image to a lot of people. it was a warhol. warhol and hopper were great friends starting in the 60s. in the 1970 one late night hopper got spooked, thought ther was an intruder in the house, pulled out a gun and fired off two shots. andhose holes are in this. in the light o day we fnd that he saw mao and what s great is he showed it to warhol who thought this was absoluly brilant. warhol circled the fire shots. labeled thisne warningsh, labeled this one bullet hole. it s itten right here. warning shot and bullet hole. heoved it. it now a collaboration. but it s got a great sty. i want to step dow here, look at another piece of art. this i helmet newtonook this ot. this is a great photograph. this was shot out in venus, and yoknow what swonderful aut this is, and i ve worked with this colction now for over six months. weold the first part in noveer. ere are many faces of hopper. and so th is sort of very different kind of depiction of him. you see himn the suit. he s looking verthoughtful. you ll see the next image a very fferent side of him. i actuallyove this. it s just a beautiful shot. and they were quite close. and this is dedicated to him, whh for a collector is a really special thing. it s a great shot. let s contrast t this andy ibovitz shot. more on the dark side. it s a little bit moodier. christopher walken with him? they were working on a film together te romance. what s greats it is ahot at the infamous, legend chateau marmt hotel in l.a. which gives it a whole other veneer. s a little dark. but these are kind of dark portraits of hollywood. and lastly, he was awarded a star on the hollywoodalk of tame he was. shortly before his deh. and this is actuly probably one of his last public appearances. what s great is, again, ts sale is veryuch about the art. thart collection. but obviously, you know, he made su an imprintn our culture that to have aiece that really represents the culmination o his film career, you know, starting with easy der but numerous movies since, it s just a great piece to have in the collection. any estimate what all this will go for? neighbor about a million dollars. what s great is, about 300 lots. thers things for $200 if you re a film poster collector up to about $30,000r $40,000 for a warhol. so there s really hopefully something for everyone in t sale. all right. kath thanks for being here. thank you so mu. we re back in a moment. the next, you start one eling bit off.l fine. the mont you feel run down or achy, nip flu-like symptoms in the bud, with oscillococcinum. get oscillo and feel li yourself again. osciococcinum, nip it in the bud. 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plotting to bomb a military recruiting station in maryland has pleaded notguilty. federal authorits arrested 21-year-old antonio martinez last month during an undercover sting. they say an age. gave him a phy bomb but thegents plotted t bomb plot idea inis head. if found guilty, martinez faces up to life in pris. chuck bell has your story forecast u 7:58 right no let s check in with meteorologist chuck bell. our friends in ashburn say they have two inches already. some spots picked up an inch already. the advisories foruburban maryland towards the mason dixon line. but, nonethele, everybody is starting t see light snow out there this morning. th winter weather visory goes until 1:00 this afternoon and there is snow coming dow now. band of light to moderatenow showers from balmore county to central and eastern montgomery county into downtn washington, as well. here s aook from our city camera view. lots of snow showers coming down this point in time, just enough to get the ground white at this point in me. is band of snow showers shod be out of here boy about lunchtime day. temperatures upp 20s to 30s right now. quick little burst of snow this morning and then just cloudy for this afternoon and clearing tonight and windy and cold a sunny for tomorrow. kimber? thank you, chuck. more news and weath and sports comin up in 25 minute and for now we return you to new yorknd today show. good morning, welcome back to today on a saturday morning. januar8th, 2011. nice crowd joining us here on a chilly, chilly morning. there s not much wind here and there s no snow. we ll take that. outside studio 1a m lester holt. wow, yourlass is half fu. it s 23 degree it s really chilly. the it sreezing. coming up in this next half hour, we re talking about the weather, it s all part of the wint weather that swept the eastcoast. causing delays, travel delays i new york city. we just got a dusting on friday. but it not over yet. forecasts show a new storm brewing that could bring snow and ice to pts of the country. we re talking about the south, as well. re going to tell you what people should be brang for the worst just ahead. now i mold. really, really cold. also we re going to chang gears and talk about newdevelopments in the so-call milkshake murder. happened back i 2003. it inspired books and a made for tv movie. nancy kiss admitted s killed her wealthy banker husband and was sentenced to life in prison. prosecutors said she knocked him out with adrug-laced milkshake before mdering him. last year a court overturned her conviction. nexteek her new trial begins. could she go ee? we re going to get some more inght into this coming up. all rit. and on a lighter note, happy rthday elvis. elvis woul have turned 76 years old today. that s kind of hard to believe. coming up we reoing to take a look of portrts of hims a young man courtesy of very candid photos taken before he changed the face of music. i think somebody back there sa me too. somebody else s birthday? you re 40. you and elvis, happy birthday. all right fore all that we want to ge more on the wild weather that has gripped the country so far thisseason. we get t latest from the gathering storm from nbc s michelle franzen. reporter: here we go. again. it may be a new yearbut you wouldn t show it outde. the weather looks very much like 20. the second snowsto in ls than twoeeks moved into the northeast friday, blanketing ads, and causing airport dela. it ces as many are still recovering from the deadly post-chrisas blizzard that dumped two feet of snow up and do the east coast, including new york city. where man residential streets went unplowed for days. i realize there were proble with the city s snow cleaning effortsast week. we want to asse all new yorkers thate are doing everything in our power to make sure we don t experience thos kinds of problems again. reporter: in the end, the big appl received just a dusting th mostly melted by the ti it hit the streets. but allround the country, extreme weather has been playing out. from heavyain and mudslides on the westcoast, to major snow in the midwest, and freezing mperatures all t way to florida. and more is in store this weekend, as atlanta and parts of the sout brace for ather rare round of winter. several inches of snow in the south is a he deal. anthen you add on some sleet anfreezing rain soome ice, we could be talki about a potentially very dangerous situation. repter: old man winter, gettina jump on the new year. for today, michell franzen, nbc news, new york. all right. so everyone wantso know where this storm is headed. lot of students and aot of people who don t even own the already started canceling schools on monday in the deep south becau they don t have the all right, erybody will be stening closely. bi, thank you. all right, jeff rossen is standing by inde. he s got anotherheck of the morning s headlines. good rning to you. and good morning once again at home. we begin with a dro in the unemployme rate. last month, it felt to 9.. that s the lest level in 19 months. but analysts say part of that declines because peopl just stped looking for work. the economy also added more than 100,000 jobs in december. but experts say that falls short of what they expected. celebrations in pensacola, florida, tod by the family of two sisters relead from prison after 16 years. but it comes with oneig condition. nbc s thanh truong liv in pensacola, florida, for us this morning. good mning to you. hi there, jeff. theisters finally reunit with their family here in the early rning hours. thisfter walking out of prison 24 hrs ago. one of their first stops, aft getting ou was gloria s kitchen where gladys and jamie scott were greeted as heroes. the restaurant and its patrons are longtime supporters of the sters, who say they were unfairly punished for their role in a 1993 armed robby. the condition at they get released was that one of the sisters donate her kidney to her sick sister. after so many years in prison, the sisters say the simpl ings in life seem so amazing. i just feelike that, you know, we just blessed. and it feelso good toe able to walk outside and feel fresh air, see cars, see trees. after being locked up for 16 years, we takeothing for granted. nothg. i can wait to go home and take out e trash. as for the kidney donation, it s unclear when it s goingo take place. and whether the sisters are even a match for a kidney donation. nbc s thanhruong in florida. today elvis presley would have turned 76. to celebra at graceland today is one of his biggestfans, chilean miner pena. he helped to kp morale up for the trapped miners by doi elvis sing alongs. pena says going to greland is a dream come true. that s the news. now back to lest. jeff, thanks very and a good saturday morni. he s the view from our city cara looking out towards naonal airport. now shrouded in snowflakes out there. the ground n quite wet at national airport yet, but that isn t going to take too much longer now. temperatures inhe upper0s to near the 30 degree mark. here s a look at it on doppler radar. a band of snow showers extending from northern maryland down towards fredericksburg, as well. temperatur in the 30s today hey, amy, they re chopping up the christmas tree behind us. we ve got the chnsaw going out the in the background. unfortunately, it s gone. back to you, amy. all right, bill, thank yo now to a new chapter in t so-called milkake murder. nancy kissel was sentenced to fe in prison for killing her wealthy banker hills at their ng kong apartmenback in 2005. her story inspid true crime books and a made for tv movie, and starting next week, a new trial could give her a shot at freedom. here s nbc s adrn wong. reporter: hong kong a glamorous international city with a sey underbelly. it s not unusual for hong kong for expatate wives to rder their husband. eporter: but that s not allegedly happened in 23 in this luxury apartment complex overlooking hong kong, where in a storage room police fou the body of american eatriate robert kissel, an investment bankerith merrill lynch, wrapped in carpet. his wife nancy, a michigan native, was acced of drugging him wi a milkshake spiked with sedatives and blueoning him to death with a heavy ornament. the mother of three was charged with mder in a case that quickly became dubbed the milkshake murder. garnering worldwe attention and inspiringbooks, and a made for tv movie. wt have youdone? ie made us money. reporter: during the trial, details aboutheir marriage erged, including accusations by nancy that her husband of 14 years had been abusinger. and only a year into the preedings tragedy struck the family again, when robert s brother andrew was fou dead th multiple stab wounds in his greenwich, connecticut me. s murder is stilunsolved. nancy kissel was convictedy a jury s years ago and sentenced to life. but last year the court of final appeals, hong kong s highe court, ruled that there should be a new trial. mrs. kisse killed mr. kissel, the court wrote, in a unimous decision that cited legal errors at the original trial. that much is not in dispute. but was the killing certainly murder or might have it been in self-dense? hong kong journalist fncis moriarity has been followi the caseince the beginning. the question comes back, can she get a fair trial inong kong? reporte but the new trial, which is due to begin nex wednesday an will last 50 days, also raises anotr question. wt does nancy kissel really think? what does sheave to say? will we even see her at trial? sheook the standn the first trial. will she take it in the trial? reporter: making this not just a potential murder, but a mystery, as well. for today, adriawong, nbc news, hong kong. a joining us now for more insight is paul callen criminal defense attorney and former new york city homicide prosecutor. paul, good morng. good morning. it s not in dispute whether not nancy kisselilled her husband. she admitted so, even in her first trial. the defense putn a self-defense defse. is that likely what we ll see again this time around? we definitely see that thisime around. you know, this is such a fascinating case. ey thereas substantial evidence that she drugged her husband, andhen killed him by striking him repeatedly with a blunt instrument. trial, she surised everyone by saying, yes, i drugged him, because he was a brutal cocaine addicted person, and he attacked me with a baseball bat, and i defeed myself with this object. and that s how the trial went back and forth, bac and forth. she was eventually convicted, of course, and sentenc to life in prison. now, paul, you weren t directly involved with this case but you do have an interesting connection. you had conversatio with a private investigator that her husband robert hired, bause he feared for his life, correct? cayou tell us about wt this investigator found? well, it s very interesting. robert kissel, who was killed in thiscase, a goldman sachs financial trader, had a relationship with a guy named frank sh, a former new york city detective, one of a top investigators in new york and kissel called shea up and said, yoknow something, i thinky wife is trying to poison me. frank nt over to hong kong, and he was going to have tted a decante of scotch because he thought there might be drugs in it and he reatedly warned kiss that he thought kissel was, in fact, being poisoned shea also had surveillance done and found out tt mrs. kissel was having an affair. so there was motive for the killing. all rit. and so robert told the investigator that he feared for his life, a y that ironically was part of the testimony that led to the conviction being, at least, thrown out athis point, corrt? yes. i think lot of people will have a hard time with this. t there s a rule called the hearsay rule. and in this case, the deceased robert kissel says to frank shea, i think she s trying to kill me. i think she s trying to poison me. he also ys this to anoth person. that was introducedn evidenc before the jury. the high court in honkong said that s hearsa you can t cross-examine the deceased person. we don t think it s reliable evidence, the judge shod not have admitted it into evence. the jury nev should have known that robert kissel feared his wife was going to kill him. so they reversed the cviction based, at lea in part, on that mistake. andpaul, quickly, do you think we ll hear from nancy in this trial? oh, i think we definitely ll. and i think the prosecutor will come at her, maybe even in a stronger way on retrial because they now kno exactly what the defense is going to be. paul callen, thanks so much, appreciate it. niceo be with you, amy. still to come, igine being able to remember eve detail of every day of your life. actress marilu henneran do just that. we re going to find out about her amazing ability right after these messages. made with 100%atural whe-grain oats and loaded with real fruit. crisp, fresh red and greeapples, sweet 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[ woman ] it s mright to breathe right. isn t it your ght, too? if you re like mostf us, you might he trouble membering what you did last week, never mind what you were doing on some rdom day decades ago. well that s not the case for actres marilu henner, who, thanks to a very unique medical conditio can remember every momentf her life, like it was yestday. i lie about having this great, steady guy. fans may remember actress marilu henner best aslaine on the hit tv sitcom taxi. but marilhenner remembers in a different y. memory works hoar doesn tically and then vertically. keep going deep, deeper deeper. reporter: she can recall almost everything in great detail. i w racking my bras to try to remember the first time we met. do you remember? i don t rememb. t was friday, february t 13th, of 1998. rorter: henner is one of x people diagnosed wit a rare condition called superior autobiographical memory. their brains are almost like encyclopedias of their entire lives and they can look up any page, any moment, that they want to or someone asks them about some detail. reporter: it s s rare doctors don t yet fully understand how it wos. researchers hope that studying the conditi could benefit those with empaired memory. it really is like selected scenes on a dvd. anit linesp left to right, kind of in a chronologal order and it s like, t year will come in, but some days will come in more vividly than others. reporr: for many, forgetting is important. but for henner, it s all about remeering. is this a blessing bacally, or a there times whenou wish you could, because the emotions a not every ones a pleasant one. i know. t as an actress you look for those things. so i never thought it waseird to sor of feel ts way. she s writing a book to share her experiences. it may well be rich with detail. and i just fee like if ian help people, because i know what goes on in my brain, now maybe i can help people access theirs. i wonder to what extent you can train yourself to at least be somewhat she was hoping that maybe she could teacher. she was trying to tea meredith how to rember her last meeting. it wasn t reallyhelping. i can t remember what i did yesterday. i can t remembe what i did in the last section! right. so i m gd at least some peopl have that memory i wouldn t want to live with that person, though. they d bring up everything, right? that s true. i d be in the doghouse all the time. still ahead, the man who uld be king. se thentimate photos of elvis presley taken before s fame. you may find i hard to believe t the king of rock n roll, elvis presley, would have turned 76 years old today. a new photo exhibit is showing a young elvis,efore he became the king. here s nbc s ron mott. i met elvis on march 17th of 1956 in a dressing room. reporter: he w 26 at the time. he had just returned from warn korea and was trying to become a photographer,craping tether rent moneyhen he was given an assignment. he said iant you to photogph elvis presley and then there was that 1 seconds of silence, and i said, elviwho? at that time, he hadn t had a gold record yet. he was basically a well-known region sing, and i was a photographer who was in business now r one year as a freelancer. eporter: over t days, he shot what are now some o the mosticonic images of the man who would be king. it s said that no oer photographer was ever given this type of access, and it left an intimate and unvarnished age of presley. now the photos are on exhibit at the natial portrait gallery in washington, d.c. where amy henderson is the curator. there s that energy that these photographs cvey about elvis that is remaable. and i think audiences pked that up. they walk through kind of smiling. reporter: f elvis, these pictures were about trust. he permitted closeness. he nevernce said, hey, al, what are you doing? heelt that one of these days he s going to beme famous. and if you don t have a photographer follong yo and showing what you do,ow will e people in the fute ever know wha you did? you have t record this as memories for the future. going to a party repter: in a 2002 harris poll 84% of americans said elvis presley has touched their lives in some way. half a century since he first struck it big in these photos, elvis still hits that soulful american chord like only the king could do, ron mott, nbc news. timeless. still tocome, on today, the controversy tween the hit mtv realy show teen mom. plus the nba dance team that s only gottenetter with age. but first thesmessages. 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(annouer) ogresso. you goa taste this soup. good saturday morning, i m news 4 meteorologist chuck bell. winter weather advisories go until 1:00 thisfternoon for prince george s andontgomery coun and points east and north of those locations. new aisories across much of northern virginia, but that doest mean you missed out on the snow. one towo inches of snow from culpepper eastbound and southern parts of washington and dale city and fredericksbu seeing snflakes and showe this morning. temperatures just below the freezing mark so everything that is falling will stick to the dwrou ground. one to two inches in most spots. sunshine and cold again tomorrow. kimberly? tnk you, chuck. coming up at 9:00, a live inteiew with d.c. s new police and we re back on this saturday morning, janua 8th, 2011. rockefeller christmas tree is no longern the plaza. another holiday season has come and gone, but wter is still with us. back insidetudio 1a, i m amy robach. alg with lesterholt. d there are a few bra souls out there braving those very coldemperatures outside. ill to come in this half hour of today, teen moms. a lot of people wat the mtv reality show. if you ve never sn it, the show follows young girls, 16 and 17 years old, having and raising babies. it s caused some controversy. and rtainly sparked a good deal of discussion. coming up we ll take a look at the show and the struggles these young girls are trying to deal with. and a i mentioned, baby, it s cold tside. for many, cold weather mea that dry, flaky skin. bu with the right choices, your skin can actually survive t season and thrive. coming up, the remedies you need to know before stepping out into the cold. then, take a loo at some love ladies. they re calle the netsasational dancers. and they wow the crowd during halfme of the new jersey nets nba basketball games. coming up wll meet these dancing women. i think i might pull a muscle with some of those moves. but first let s get a checkf th good saturdaymorning. m news 4 meteorologischuck bell. we have a fresh coating of light snow to deal with. temperatures in e upper 20s to near 30 degrees. what snow we havon the radar he is sticking to the ground. centl portions of prince george s county and you folks in chars county, maryland. one to two inches posble and cloudy, cold, bezy today. sunny and cold an well, tay is couch potato day. two football games on nbc. we re starting off first going all the way out to the wt coast, the nfc northwest, wild card saturday. world champions, new orleans sain, going in to play the seattle seahawks. this is an outdoor game. there wl be some shower teeratures around 40 degrees. then the ge later on night, we re talking peytomanning, new york jets trying to they were kind of super bowl favorites. now they re the derdog. it s going to be pyed outdoors. the game is the focus. all right, bill, thank you. from domtic violence to custody battles, mtv has found ratings gold with its reality show teen mom. the series, at times controversial, i an unprecedented look at the harsh realities of being a young parent. quit talking about this reporter: from th ups and downs of youngove. okay. reporter: to the consequences of teenagers having sex. i would have never lost my virginity to someby i thought would treat me like this. reporter: this is teen m, mtv s hit rlity series. i am at the edge. repter: and it s making teen mothers like amb portwood both famous and infamous. certainly there is exploitation that occurring. niece ung ladies, i m sure, leave the show, their lives no better for it. reporter: teen mom is a spinoff of mtv s 16 and pregnant which follows the stories of highchool girls struggling with havin a baby. first the air force and now the prom. this pregnancy is getting in the way of everything. reporter:ome critics have called the shows educational and realistic. but others s they may be sending the wrong message. unfortunately, any time you portray an individual in the media or on television, it does glamorize it to a certain degree. reporter: manof the young hersave become celebrities, appearing on magazine covers. and at a recent court hearing on assault charges, portwood reportedly told the judge her salary for the show is$280,000. mtv dlined to say exactly how much the teen mothers are earning. but, in a stateme said, we can ll you that the number being reported in the mia is completely inaccurat what is accurate is that these young mothers and their kids have become pop culture phenomenons. stacy kaiser is psychotherapist who has word th teen mothers and is the author of how to be agrown-up and lola is a freelance enrtainment journalist and pop culture expert. good mning. good morning. lola, let s talk about ts pop culture phenomenon. teen mom was secd in mtv s ratings history. i guess just behind jersey shore. number one in itsime slot on tuesdays. what is it abouthis show that you think resonates so much with the viewing audien? well, i think it s a complete backlash to the shows like the hills. they re suosed to be reality shows. this is uber reality. people wanto see the grit. they wt to see the harsh realities of what it s like to actually be aeen mom. historically teen mothers have been marginalized by society. these rls are really putting a face on what it s like to be a teen mother and i think peopl are rivetedy the realities of their fe. harsh realities. but some critics say this also glamorizes teen pregnancy. i disagree. i ink the show is an unvarnished warts and all look at what it s like to be a teen ther. i think it s a great cautionary tale. that said think there s a whole celebrity cottage industry th s been built around this show right now. and stacy y re a therapist whs worked with teen moms. you find that the show is an accurate representatn of what it sruly like to be a teenage mother? i really do think it s an accuraterepresentation. what we re seeg is the struggles and relationships, the feeling that these girls are not going to be able to grow up as girls anymore. they have to be women. and that they re accounted with their extended families that s wt we see with teen parents in real life and that s what we re seeing on the show. one of the stars that has come out of this show, amber portwo, her behaviorn the show, however, at times was unbelievable. and that aspect was ofoncern to you at first. it really was a concern for me. because i was afraid that tt pect was going to be glamorized and that she wasn t going to be having consequences for it. so much as muc as i m sorry that a teenage girl is going through assault arges, and having her child taken away, i ink it paints a portrait of what really happens in real li. lola, what about this? so mh attention put on these young women now, like i said, number one in their time slot. are you concerned at all about what happens when the cameras go away? i am coerned. and i m concerned that they ll actually start to make even more bad choices to keep e spotlight on them. will they have more children? will they go out and commit more crimes or do things of that natu just because they think any headlines are better than no headlines at all. bad behavior is rewarded almost in this culture. across the board. it s allbout train wreck television. and teen mom 2 bins this week. you have two teenage daugers. would you let them watch that show? you know, it s not something i would advise people to say, assign your children to watch as educational tv. my girls watch it but i wch it with them if your kids are watching it you want to tal to them about it to make sure you re ansring questions and teaching them corrtly. stacy, did youant to say one other thin i would encourage pavtzs to watch it with their ildren. it s a great way to start the conversaon about teen sexuality, teen parenthood and all those thin. it s a littleifficult for pants to broach that conversation. this is a great way to g into it. lola, acy, thanks so much. up next, surviving the cold daysf winter. ty fine [ women ] pop-tarts happy sunshine time! 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[ sneezes ] [ ughs ] [ female announcer go to klnex.com for moreun ways to share kleenex tissues. softness worth sharing. thi morning on today winter skinsurvival. for many cold weather means dry, flaking skin. with the right beaut remedie and smart food cices your skin can survive the season still silky and smooth this morning weut togethe a channel of experts who can help you keep yourody hydrated both inside and ou first up why is it hder to keep skin smooth this time of year? hereith details on why it s different during the winter months is dr. susan taylor. good morning. obviously tside we know the humidity levels drop. what s happening inside? the same thing is happening inside. often our home heating systems, as well as the heang system at the office is very drying. it s producing dry air. so we lose moisture from our skin into the air. so what s the physiologil thing? what is happening that cses skin to srt fleshing and you get that ashy look? there s sething called transepidermal water loss that s loss of water through the skin. and what hpens is the ski cells become curd up, and that gives the fky appearance. we know thatumidity plays a big thing. at things are we doing aut it? theirst thing you want to do is put more humidity in the air. so a simple remedy is to purchase a humidifier. put it in the room that you spenmost of your time in if you don t want to goo the expense of buying a humidifier, plants are a quick and easy way of adding moisture to the air. so when we wer the plants, the wateriffuses through the ste to the leafs and into the envinment. they say plants around the office a also good because they look so great. and even more inexpensive is to put cups or ps of water throughout the room. you may ve, when you were a kid, you mom or grandmom would put them on a radiator. so it evaporates, again, putting moisture in the air and then our skin is less likely to lose its moisture into the air. what kind of moisturing productshould we ve? a couple things we want to do. we want to trap the moiste into our skin and ovide a barrier. don t forget about the lips and there are a myriad of products we have her that are going to provide a nice seal to hold that moisture i the me for our skin. we have different moisturizers, some called ycerine, tdraw water into the skin. and then, occlusive agents to le it in. don t forget when you wash, when you take you shower, you want to use a mild soap or cleanser. you don t want to strip the oils from your skin. that could drying. absolutely. thanks very much. nice to ve you here. now here s amy. all right, lester, thank you. unfortunately so of us are already suffering from cracked skin, chapped lips and friz hair. that s a gd look. here with some healing beauty redies is angeliqu from allure magazine. good morning. let s start with our skin products. we need to actually change what have probably been using in the summer and the fall tohese more creamased products. exactly. you know, there s a real lack of moisture in the air during the winter. so one of t best things you can do is switch yourleanser from gel-based cansers to crea cleansers. and this one frodove is the dove body wash it s a crm/oil hybrid. it s going to be really moisturizingor you in the sohow are. and then your face is exposed to the elements every single day, it s getng dry. it might even be little red and irritated. so a cream cleanser from clinique, 100% fragrance free. s not going to be irritating. one of the best tips i can ge today isto, when you get out of the shower, don towel off right away. you wanto grab a real rich moisturizer, this one from johnson s also cream oil coination. rub it on your skin, even when the water is still on it to help trap in thatoisture. cocoa butter just sounds good this time of year. let s move on to our lips. i have a chipstick addiction. so i have lik30 tubes of these scattered throughout my car, my purs let s talk about what you nd to do to kee your lips looking supple. you want to moisturi, but ve important to remember is an spf. all three of these havespf. we have areat option from aveeno. th is an editor s pick at allure. the fresh sugar treatment. we love it. smells great. and an all-natural lip balm from bert s bees. you have the spf 15. we went from dry skin to chapped lips to frizzy hair and static electricity. you have both those issues, dress and static. at you want t do is add in a leave-in conditioner to your hair. this isecause glossing creams, great tip to do,oat your damp hair with it, make a bun. u can wait a few hours or sleep on it overnigh and when you take it out your hair is going to be soft, smooth, moisturized and it will help ep the static at bay. we love all of tho tips. thanks so much. and no back to lester. amy, thanks. finally, part of your skin s fate dependsn what you eat and drink. and here wit the right nutritional picks is registered dietary kry glassman with women s health. good morning. gd morning. we think about the moisturizers, we don t think about foods keping our skin snooth. exactly. but you are what you eat from the inside to the outside. if we re unhealthy on t inside, we re going to be and look unhealthy on t outside. you ve brought some tips for us, and some food starting off with healthy fats. important. exactly. the healthy fats. in particular the omega-3s. those essential fatty ids. meaning we can t make them on our own. we he to get them from foods li salmon and fortified eggs and olive oil and walnuts. what theyo is they lock i and protect our cells. so they keep the moisture in. they also prevent the breakdown of collagen. we all know about collagen. that major suctural component ofur skin. and finally, they reduce inflammation, which causes wrinkles. the are good year-round. oh, of course. the avocados? particularly ithe winter to keep our skin moist. avocadosnd certain nuts? exactly. and avocados can be appli topically and help moisturize your skin th way. why is vitamin so important? b vitamins are critical all year long but eecially in the nter because they help prevent dry, fky in. biocontinue found in swiss chard and milk and the yokes of es is so important because it helps create new skin cells. to create new ones we need biotin. you also find b vitamins in whe grains like quin. also you find it even in shrooms. in any chent times chinese women used to eat mushrooms for smooth complexion. we also hea of antioxidants? absolutely. they help protect us from fe radicals which we arrive from sun and pollution. they fight the free radicals that gable up collagen and free radicals iour skin. vitamin c hel increase collagen production. kerry, thas very much. up next theadies who rock the house, the netsationalancers. but first, this istoday on nbc. 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