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his girlfriends today, tuesday, we ll hear from charlie and his girlfriends today, tuesday, march 1, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m matt lauer. people in 14 states are doing a lot of cleaning up after the deadly storms on monday. there were reports of tornadoes in indiana, kentucky and tennessee where one man was killed when he was pinned under a trailer. torrential rains triggered flooding in ohio, pennsylvania and tennessee. we ll have the latest in a live report and al s forecast just ahead. on a much different note she s one of america s most beloved tv moms. meredith baxter played elis elise keaton on family ties. she announced she was a lesbian on this show in 2009. now she has a memoir about coming to terms with that as well as her career. she ll be here in a live interview. and a new interview with charlie sheen and his so-called goddesses. what s it like to live with the actor? they will fill us in. let us begin with the bad wild weather that spawned tornados in the midwest and south. mike seidel is in tennessee this morning. he s got the latest this morning. mike, good morning to you. good morning, matt. it was the second tornado outbreak in less than a week. nine twisters touched down, five confirmed. one was an ef-2 which ripped through southern tennessee where i m standing and led to the first tornado fatality of the year. deadly tornadoes and a line of severe thunderstorms produced wind damage in 14 states monday. the storms also dumped heavy rain across the area. here in franklin county, tennessee, a grandfather was killed when he was pinned under a trailer. it sounded like a ton of gravel hit the side of my house. man, i thought the world had come to an end. to be honest with you, i did. reporter: at least five mobile homes were demolished here. in indiana, a tornado with at least 120 miles per hour winds took out two more homes. everything came down and everything was gone. reporter: another tornado destroyed three homes in kentucky s henry county early monday. greg williams and his wife survived by hiding under their bed. next thing i knew, it felt like we were outside. i started shaking. she said, are you cold? i said, yeah. i didn t want to tell her i was scared to death. reporter: farther north in pennsylvania and ohio heavy rain combined withal melting snow to cause flooding. we have been lucky so far. 20% fewer tornadoes than average so far this year because all the cold weather put a lid on thunderstorm formation. but we are expecting severe weather this week as we head into the peak of the tornado season which is march, april and may. thank you so much. al will talk about the storms and give us his forecast in a couple of minutes. for now it s four minutes after the hour. now to the fierce battle between anti-government rebels and pro-gadhafi fighters there. jim maceda is in tripoli for us. good morning. reporter: good morning, meredith. as colonel gadhafi likes to remind us libya isn t tunisia or egypt. both sides are armed to the teeth and digging in. this could be a bloodbath. the youtube video is grainy but captured history. rebels seen here tearing down a symbol of moammar gadhafi s rules, a monument to his green book of political teachings. le the message was unmistakable. [ speaking in a foreign language ] reporter: life is unbearable for us. it s time to get rid of gadhafi, said this rebel. but voices loyal to the leader are gearing up for battle. thousands of soldiers and militia men have sealed off tripoli, now gadhafi s only strong hold. opposition holds two key towns, rebelled attacks a hundred miles east of tripoli and in zawiya, 30 miles away where overnight a second attempt by gadhafi soldiers to overtake the town failed. gadhafi seemed unphased, often laughing in an interview he said he can t step down. in libya, all the power is with the people. they love me, all. they will die to protect me, my people. reporter: but not these rebels who now effectively control the eastern half of the country. increasingly the u.s. and nato seem more comfortable doing business with this man, mustafa al jaleel, now tasked with forming a government. he said he needs one favor from the west a no-fly zone. [ speaking in a foreign language ] reporter: we want an air space embargo to keep gadhafi from bringing in mercenaries from africa. we ll do the rest. ratcheting up pressure on gadhafi, secretary of state clinton said a no-fly zone is on the table. the people of libya made themselves clear. it is time for gadhafi to go. now without further violence or delay. reporter: gadhafi is not listening. civil war seems imminent and the exodus of thousands of refugees along libya s borders every day will likely only grow. still, it doesn t have to be bloody. libya experts say if several of gadhafi s inner circle decide tole bolt the game is over. so far, meredith, that hasn t happened. back to you. jim maceda, thank you very much. susan wright is the ambassador to the united nations. good morning, meredith. you have called gadhafi delusional and disconnected from reality. plain and simple, are we dealing with a madman? meredith, any time you have someone who laughs with american and international journalists while slaughtering his own people, they are not only delusional, one has to question their grip on reality. we have to assume we are dealing with somebody who is no longer if ever was fit to lead his nation and whose behavior is unpredictable and i ares rational. we have levelled sanctions against libya. if this man, as he said yesterday, has no intention of stepping down, what good are the sanctions? what can they accomplish? well, sanctions will take time to bite but for example the united states which on friday froze assets that gadhafi and his family hold in the united states. on monday we seized an unprecedented $30 billion of gadhafi-related assets at the same time he s telling international journalists that he has no assets abroad, that he s never been corrupt, has never stolen money from the people. we are going to squeeze him economically in conjunction with the rest of the economic community. we ll squeeze him militarily. sanctions included an arms embargo. the european union added to that yesterday. we are looking at every way to limit gadhafi s ability to rearm and supply himself with military and financial means. we have reduced his ability to continue to attack his people. we repositioned u.s. naval ships in the region. for what purpose? meredith, we are taking prudent steps to prepare for potential humanitarian contingencies. that includes, as was announced yesterday, the movement of naval assets in the mediterranean area so that if and when we and others are called upon to assist the libyan people and the humanitarian way we are able to do so quickly. this man, the face of the revolution, how much credibility does the government give him? well, at this stage we are in communication with leaders of civil society, all aspects of libyan life. we are not interested in any one individual. we are interested in the libyan people having the opportunity for freedom, for a new life, for economic opportunity, a government that represents the will of the libyan people. we are not going to be in the business of picking leaders or dictating how the transition ought to evolve. as we have throughout the region supportive of the people s aspirations. we are not directly dealing with him? we are not directly dealing with any individual leader of the opposition. we are in broad contact with a wide range and we are not anointing anybody a leadership position. we are simply interested in enabling the people of libya to form the sort of organizations, political parties, entities they feel are justified and warranted in the circumstances so they can create a new political. thank you for your time this morning. good to be with you. let us check on the top stories. we have ann standing by at the news desk. good morning to you. good morning to you this morning. we begin with protests in the middle east. this morning oman was hit with a fourth day of demonstrations. this time the military fired in the air and wounded a protester. saturday a protester was killed. they have offered to create 50,000 jobs but it has not quelled demonstrations there. another quake in new zealand this morning. the tremor was 16 miles southeast of christchurch. the final death toll could reach 240 people. the hope of finding survivors diminishes. for what might be the first time pirates seized a danish sailboat carrying children aged 12 to 16 and their parents. the ship sent a distress signal but officials only confirmed the hijacking. a suspected gun smuggling rin outside dallas after federal investigators traced the gun used in last week s killing of a u.s. agent in mexico to a texas suburb. wildfires scorched more than 13,000 acres in central florida forcing areas of major highways, i-95 and u.s. route 1 to shout down. a state of emergency was declared as residents were evacuated and camps and mobile homes were burned. a woman who operated a houston day care that burned down, killing four children, has fled to her home country of nigeria. the 22-year-old woman is suspected of leaving the women unattended when a stove top with oil caught fire. the united states wants to bring her back to face charges. trish regan has good news today. bring it on. i promised you, ann. here it is. the income of american workers grew by 1%, much more than expected in the month of february. good news there. also good news in that the markets ended the month up almost 3%. all the indices ended higher despite concerns about oil we have seen as of late. as for today, ben bernanke is going to be testifying on capitol hill. it s his sem annual testimony. a lot of critics will be watching to see what his response is to those who believe he s contributing to inflation by pumping lots of dollars into the u.s. economy. trish regan this morning, thanks for that. one of hollywood s biggest stars of the 40s and 50s, jane russell, died from respiratory illness. she starred in the outlaw. she was 89. at a demonstration over the weekend to encourage biking in brazil, a car plowed through a street packed with cyclists. it injured at least 16 people. the driver is in police custody and claiming self-defense. as dramatic as the video looks, no one was critically injured and everyone has been released from the hospital. let s go back to matt, meredith and al. i guess he was claiming there were people pounding on his car and he felt he was about to be attacked or something. it s bizarre. a mismatch there. absolutely. rough day around the country. it was. the good news is things are calming down. first of all, let s go out show you what s happening. you can see there s a big low pressure system coming on shore, a lot of pacific moisture. that s going to bring a lot of rain and mountain snows. as you ll see, we basically have some central california, an inch or so. heavier snow mt. shasta up into the northwest. in florida, a front is draping down just about into orlando, bringing showers and thunderstorms, rainfall amounts a quarter to half an inch of rain. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. sun s up in a mostly clear sky, but it is cold, much colder than yesterday. in fact, we re down near freezing throughout most of the region. right now 33 at reagan national, and later today only making it into the 40s. and we ve got a bit of a blustery wind this morning. that will settle down this afternoon, bright and sunny again tomorrow, into the mid-50s. maybe a few clouds midday, a front coming through. and then colder weather for thursday. friday, partly sunny, near 50. over the weekend, we may get some rain late saturday night and sunday. and that s your latest weather. matt? al, thank you very much. now to politics and the president s meeting with the nation s governors on monday. some in that room could run against him next year. chuck todd is nbc s chief white house correspondent. good morning to you. reporter: good morning, matt. in his first two years in office when the president was desperate for bipartisan support he could turn to some republican governors but a lot of the moderates are gone among the group. there is a new conservative force in the states that s turning into a political force. feel free to make yourselves at home. for those of you with a particular interest in the next election, i don t mean that literally. reporter: speaking to the nation s governors on monday, president obama opened with a joke underscoring the stakes going into the 2012 presidential campaign. early in the term he leaned on governors like charlie crist and arnold schwarzenegger but many of them are gone replaced by conservative warriors like wisconsin s scott walker who is locked in a stand-off with a key democratic constituent, state employee unions, over collective bargaining rights. the president said bashing unions is counterproductive. i don t think it does any good when public employees are denigrated orvil le villified o their rights are infringed on. reporter: his signature health care law faces legal challenges in 27 states. the president told governors starting in three years their states could opt out of portions of the law including the so-called individual mandate which requires people to purchase health insurance. to get that waiver a state must prove it meets specific standards on coverage and costs. initial republican reaction was somewhat positive. this offers flexibility which i think is a positive thing. but it doesn t change the overall objection to the bill. reporter: despite the new rules it doesn t mean health care will be less of a political wedge issue in 2012. from gop senators worried about being tea partied. it s good to work out their own problems rather than uh a one size fits all federal government stupid dumb ass program. reporter: to the presidential campaigns, mitt romney. in fact, i agree with mitt romney. he recently said he s proud of what he accomplished in health care in massachusetts and supports giving states the power to determine their own health care solutions. he s right. reporter: all of the energy inside the republican party is state-based these days. so much so, for the first time in over a hundred years, matt, not a single sitting u.s. senator here in washington is going to run for president. all right. chuck todd at the house. thank you very much. frank luntz is a republican pollster and author of win. welcome back. pleasure. let s talk about the health care issue chuck talked about. the president extending an olive branch to governors in states saying they can opt out of certain requirements of the health care law under certain conditions. if you are a fan of the president you say he s being presidential, unifying people. le if you are not a fan you say he s retreating out of weakness. how are they controlling the message? there is a phrase. let s get to work. one of the reasons why the president said that to the governors. the governors are appreciated and held accountable and responsible. i choose the terms specifically. you look and the approval ratings are down after the election. if you are using language that says i m going to get the job done, i get it. those three words i get it are powerful because it says i understand how you feel. let s stick on your subject of language and how important it is. the president waded further into the situation in wisconsin and told governors not to villify public workers. a poll shows 60% of americans oppose states efforts to weaken the collective bargaining rights for union workers. i know you were in madison, wisconsin, last week. what words are key out there. i have the scars to prove i. you used the phrase public workers. if you call them that a majority of americans respect them. call them government workers and americans don t. how about collective bargaining rights? 61%. if it is called the right of people to join or not to join a union the whole side flips. the whole reason why i wrote win is to focus on words that cause people to change their mind, their behavior, their attitudes. we are less than a year away from the iowa caucuses. in an unusual turn of events not one member of the gop has actually come out at this stage and said, i am running for president in 2012. different from three and a half, four years ago. why? based on the mood, how the public feels toward politicians, would you want to enter the fray? you want to push it off as far as you can. the american people are paying more attention to what s said and how it is said. any word, any slip-up causes damage. they want to push it into the future. you can do 95% of what you want to by not being a candidate. once you are a candidate you are held to a higher standard. there was a focus group recently surveying possible contenders. newt gingrich, sarah palin, mitt romney, mike huckabee. what resonated with them? gingrich walked in there in fourth and came out first for a reason. they can imagine what it would look like to see obama and gingrich in a debate a year from now. that s what they are looking for among republicans the best debater. you talk about words and phrases for 2011 to make messages effective including imagine, no excuses, uncompromising integrity, and the simple truth. why those words? they are the words the american people respond best to whether you are in a day to day situation. i ll give you one, matt. if you remember only one thing, when you go up for the next contract negotiation and give them the ratings and how well the show does, end it if, if you remember only one thing and whatever you say next, the people you re negotiating with you won t forget it. set the right context, the right communication, you can get a raise, get the job, get elected, create amazing things. that s what win is about. those words more effective than tiger blood and adonis dna. i could not elect charlie sheen, not that i would want to. frank luntz, good to have you here. a pleasure. just 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[ all ] what s in your wallet? tonight at 5:00, feeling tired or forget dupaul? you may think it s just stress from your job, but doctors say it could be a sign of a more serious problem. we break down the warning signs. plus, advice for people who are looking for work. the two questions to ask at the end of every interview. that s tonight on news 4 at 5:00. good morning. i m tom kierein. sunny today with highs reaching upper 40s. a bit milder tomorrow but cold again on thursday. increasing clouds friday. could get rain on sunday. did they expect it to be a normal interview? conventional, boring and whatever else? no, man. we re shaking the tree. we re shaking all the trees. 7:30 now on a tuesday morning. first day of march, 2011. that s charlie sheen speaking out in a new interview with jeff rossen about how people are reacting to what he had to say monday on the program. we ll hear more from mr. sheen in a moment. inside studio 1a i m matt lauer alongside meredith vieira. charlie had a surprising message to family members who have tried to tell him it s time to clean things up. we also talked to his two new live-in girlfriends. we ll hear from charlie and the so-called goddesses straight ahead. and meredith baxter opens up about coming to terms with being gay. and we are going to show you on a lighter note the historic work under way to save a baby dolphin found floating alongside her mother s body. the dolphin is getting help from another special orphan. details coming up. we want to begin with our new interview with charlie sheen. jeff rossen is in los angeles with details. jeff, what are we going to get this morning? reporter: oh, a lot more. charlie sheen called us and said, come back to the house. i have more to say. we went and got a glimpse into his life behind closed doors, including a rare interview with the new women in his life, women helping to raise his children every day. charlie calls them his goddesses. how long have we owned this? reporter: it s charlie sheen s version of domestic bliss at home with the new loves of his life. one, a self-described porn star he calls rach, the other a modelle he calls natty. we run errands, eat, play with the kids. we have fun. we watch movies. i watch a lot of two and a half me men . do you love his kids? are you kidding? i wish i was with them now. i didn t want to put them down. bob was like, they re calling you. he s saying bye! if you say dad s busy he says, okay, dada busy. he knows. he s fine with it. is this normal? aside from the days we sit around with the gold pom-pons and everything. don t run with that. i m joking. charlie said you can put him in his place. when he s wrong you put him in his place i don t let her answer. i don t generally have to. i respect charlie as a man and as head of the household and trust him completely. if there is something i think is a bad idea i might say, hey, babe, let s think about it this way and, you know, it works. the system works for us. reporter: the goddesses now live with charlie, almost always around at his los angeles mansion. it s a good day at the silver valley lodge reporter: his nickname for in-home rehab. we took him outside for a candid conversation about his history with women. what do these women do for you other women haven t? these women don tle jud judg lead with opinions, lead with their own needs all the time. they are honest to say, park your nonsense. help me solve this and we solve it. what i tell them is don t live in the middle. get away from your ego and emotions. therein lies the solution. reporter: are these women allowed to say, charlie, you re being a jerk. can they talk back? oh, yeah. those are the best jokes of the day. we have an open dialogue. reporter: do they put you in your place? everybody s vote has equal importance. when we are approaching crisis, i remind them, look, i m 22 years further down the road. trust me. most of the time well in the last few days, all the time my plan is the best. everybody will win and everybody s needs will be taken care of. reporter: including, he says, his young children. charlie s twin boys spend a lot of time at his house. there are nannies but charlie s angels play a role, too. reporter: are the goddesses with your kids? if i m not there, everybody helps out. i don t know. there s nothing broken here. reporter: some would say everything is broken. wait. i m still in pain. hang in there. reporter: his hit sit-com two and a half men has been shut down for the rest of the season based, according to cbs and warner brothers on sheen s statement, conduct and condition. your lawyers wrote a letter to warner brothers saying you want to be paid for eight episodes. of course. reporter: why? that s what i agreed to do. reporter: you want to move forward? god yeah. there is work to do, shows to be delivers. the clock is ticking. reporter: warner brothers agreed to pay the crew for four episodes. that s a start. i want eight. i will worry about the cast and myself last. reporter: you think because of the pressure you re applying they are getting paid? well, yeah. who else is applying pressure? jon cryer? no. just sitting around. reporter: warner brothers denies sheen s pressure had anything to do with paying the crew. sheen s publicist quit after years on the job saying he s unable to work effectively as his publicist. what happened? i don t know. maybe he felt he wasn t respected. again, i m just guessing. there is something epic about that that it got so gnarly that stan said, okay, i m out. that s how i roll. bye-bye. there s the door. same one you came in. reporter: in the first interview that aired monday, charlie promised he s clean now. look at me, duh. drug tests don t lie. reporter: when was the last time you did drugs? i don t know. i don t care. reporter: in the new interview he brought the proof. these are results of the drug test you just took. the word negative is printed like 18 trillion times. reporter: his family isn t convinced. in a rare interview his father martin spoke about it. he s an extraordinary man. if he had cancer, how would we treat him? the disease of addiction is a form of cancer. you have to have an equal measure of concern and love and lift them up. so that s what we do for him. reporter: has your father or brothers came to you and said, time to get back on track? i said, i m not ready. i m not interested in your rhetoric now. i appreciate your love and compassion if that s what you call it. but i m 45 years old. i m not interested in people treating me like a 12-year-old. reporter: even your own father? yeah. my own dad. come on captain bullard, greatest film ever made. he s entitled. but i have evolved beyond it. reporter: devolving some say into a dangerous spiral for our viewers who saw this monday morning. duh, winning. tiger blood. adonis dna. i m tired of pretending i m not a total rock star from mars. he s saying war lock, tiger s blood. what do you say when you see it? i m entertained as hell. i m laughing with my goddesses, with my friends. everyone s like, did they expect a normal, conventional, boring interview? no, man. we re shaking the tree. we re shaking all the trees. reporter: someone asked me is he delusional, crazy, a nars cyst, a nice guy, how would you describe yourself? i am grandiose because i live a grandiose life. i m tired of being aw shucks. that s not me. b.s., that is me. thanks for recognizing it. i support it. what s wrong with that? for years there were actors i thought were so arrogant. i look back and go, wow, they were just uber confident. they were just projecting the image they believed to be true. now i get it. reporter: what do you want to say to the fans? there are a lot of fans worried about you. don t be worried. celebrate this movement. i love and i m so grateful that you have supported me and the show for so long. i will not let you down. trust me. reporter: charlie sheen didn t hold back at all. as soon as the interview aired on today people started tweeting me. charlie seems manic, i m sad for his kids. wow, i couldn t sit there like you did. i d have to pop that ego of his. wow. i don t come from a place of ego. reporter: somebody said, what did charlie smell like? he sounds like he smokes a carton a day. whatever. reporter: does that hurt you? no. it s sad for them. get a job. charlie seems manic, i m sad for his kids. i m sad you have time to write about this and you may not ever have kids because you re obviously i don t want to get into it. one woman wrote, i agree with him. well, she s awake. the others [ snorg ] reporter: charlie says he s happy and feeling better than ever. that s nice. reporter: playing basketball with friends, working out and spending more time with the goddesses. our life is awesome. reporter: confident all the free time is temporary saying he ll return to the show soon as the star. do you support charlie and his master plan to go back to work? do you agree with everything he s done? completely. i m behind charlie 100% in whatever he would like to do. i told charlie i m on the bus. i don t care where the bus is going. that s how we live. what do you want to do today? done. let s do it. i keep pressing the truth. that will flush everybody into the light and we ll have a dialogue and fix it. it s going to be good. everybody s going to win. because they followed guess who s plan. mine. reporter: for the second straight day we called cbs for reaction. they had no comment. today would have been the first day back at work for the crew of two and a half men on the warner brothers lot just a couple of blocks from here. instead they are home waiti ini see what happens like charlie sheen. i spent a lot of time with him. no question he s not normal, but he likes it that way. the question is what s next. he assured me drugs and alcohol are out of his life for now and for good but addiction experts say it s not that easy to go cold turkey, matt and to stay in it. that s the challenge for charlie sheen. maybe not even he realizes how difficult it is to sustain going forward. i guess a lot of us will stay tuned. jeff, thank you very much. let s check on the morning announcer: today s weather is brought to you by coffee mate. the richest flavors yet. and good morning, everybody. where are you guys all from? south carolina! south carolina. manning, south carolina, all right. manning, south carolina. good looking group of kids here from south carolina. the rolling spring break. let s check your weather, see what s happening. hey, look at these temperatures for march. the outlook is in. above-normal temperatures gulf coast into the southwest, below normal out west and along the plains. precipitationwise, it s looking snowy and wet for the northwest, on into the plains, snowy for the central great lakes and the mid-mississippi river valley, drier than normal through the southwest, normal here in the east and the mid-plains. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. we ll take normal. we ve had certainly some wild swings here over the last several days. yesterday we were in the 70s, and now this morning, right down near freezing. only 33 at reagan national. we ve had that storm system move off to the east, and later today we ll be into the mid-40s by mid-afternoon. the winds will be diminishing, too, and we ll have lots of sunshine. clear tonight. we ll be down near freezing by dawn tomorrow. and then during the day on wednesday into the mid-50s for highs, then cold thursday. friday, increasing clouds, highs near 50. into the weekend, could get rain sunday. don t forget. you can check your weather any time day or night on the weather channel on cable or weather.com online. matt? up next, the young dolphin being nursed back to help with the help of a fellow orphan with a prosthetic tale. their remarkable story after this. 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you may think it s just stress from your job, but doctors say it could be a sign of a more serious problem. we break down the warning signs. plus, advice for people who are looking for work. the two questions to ask at the end of every interview. that s tonight on news 4 at 5:00. good morning. sunny, breezy and chilly now, but later today into the upper 40s with a diminished wind, lots of sunshine. tomorrow, mostly sunny, into the mid-50s, then colder on thur what you want to disclose is do you want me to say it or you? what s the appropriate etiquette here? i guess i would just say that i m a lesbian and it was a later in life recognition of that fact. 8:00 now on this tuesday morning, march 1, 2011. that was meredith baxter during her last appearance on today in 2009 revealing that she is gay. i m meredith vieira along with matt lauer and al roker. you will catch up with her this half hour. watching the tape there aren t many times on the show where you finish an interview with someone and their life changes. it didn t change personally for her. the way she was living didn t change but the public perception of her life changed after that moment. now she s written a memoir about her personal life, her career, successful career over four decades. we ll talk to meredith again in a couple of minutes. also coming up, a number feared by many women the number 40. it s a milestone birthday that comes with a lot of doubt. do you have the life you dreamed of? are you married? do you have kids? how do you face the future and aging. coming up, how to face your fear. plus, how to make better choices when you eat out. you can sometimes end up ordering a restaurant meal that s the equivalent of 14 orders of cheesy nachos. that sounds good. by the time you get to 14, i think you re in a coma. it s not so good. we ll talk eat this, not that. clear! let s go inside. ann curry is at the news desk with the headlines this morning. good morning. good morning once again. libyan leader moammar gadhafi may be digging in for his last stand with his forces sealing off the capitol of tripoli. rebel fighters controlled the eastern half of the country and fought off overnight assaults in two key cities. al he s refusing to step down a former justice minister is beginning to form an alternative government. at least two deaths are blameled on tornadoes that touched down in tennessee, indiana and seven other states. these were the first tornado fatalities of the year. storms caused flooding in ohio and other parts of the midwest. the house is expected to vote on a bill to keep the federal government running for two more weeks. cuts $4 million in spending. timothy geithner testifying on capitol hill asking for an overhaul of fannie mae and freddie mac within two years. the mortgage giants cost taxpayers $150 billion since 2008. china is trying to prevent small anti-government protests from spreading by cracking down on foreign journalists. journalists were told to cooperate with police and declared parts of beijing off limits. villagers in ukraine claim a red dust is causing headaches and nausea. health officials say the dust is harmless fallout from an aluminum refinery. they have ordered fire trucks to spray it with water. researchers at the university of pennsylvania reported results from a new study to find a cure for aids. using genetic engineering in six patients they developed blood cells they say are resistent to hiv. it turns out we need extra closet space even in outer space. astronauts aboard discovery are making their second space walk to install an extra storage room delivered over the weekend to the international space station. it is now three minutes past the hour. now to al with a check of the weather. and good morning. where are you guys from? florida! florida. arizona! in general. tampa. tampa. okay, we re honing in now. all right, good to see you. all right, let s check your weather, see what s happening. bluefield, west virginia, wvva-tv, sunny and cool, 52 degrees today. we ve got rain in the pacific northwest, some mountain snows. going to be windy along the california coast. plenty of sunshine through the southwest. we re looking at sunny skies here in the east as well. the good news is things have calmed down from yesterday. arctic air working its way into the plains. she s 40, wow. she s 40, al. do you like how i m advertising it? very nice. she ll be speaking to you later. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. we certainly got cold after yesterday s 70s, now down to the 30s throughout most of the region. 34 now at reagan national, and later today we should hit the 40s with lots of sun. we ve got a bit of a blustery wind now, windchills in the 20s, but wind will later today settle down. and then tomorrow, into the mid-50s. by early afternoon, front comes through, though, and brings in cold air for thursday. then we warm up a bit on friday, into the weekend. might get some rain saturday night and on sunday. and that s your latest weather. meredith? 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[ squawking ] we re back now with a look at the behind the scenes life of one of america s most beloved television moms. in a moment we ll talk to meredith baxter from the hit series family ties. under the cheerful facade at times was a woman struggling to hold on. reporter: as the down to earth actress on the long-running show family ties, meredith baxter was known for her sunny disposition and tv mom to the young michael j. fox. finding someone and having a true loving relationship is so rare. reporter: the daughter of show biz parents whitney blake and tom baxter, meredith appeared to have it all. she first became a household name in 1972 when she starred on the show bridget loves bernie where she met and married her second husband david. things weren t as appeared. she struggled with alcoholism, low self-esteem, breast cancer and physical and emotional abuse by her ex-husband. bernie has denied the allegations. after three previous relationships rumors appeared that she was gay and she announced on today that the rumors were true. i m a lesbian. it was a later in life recognition of the fact. it s been a wild journey and she says at the age of 63 she s finally come to terms. meredith baxter has written untied: a memoir of family, fame and floundering. welcome back. it all started here, it feels like. le well, it was announced here. what do you remember about that morning? you came. i remember it was nerve wracking. i think it was emotional. what do you remember about that interview? the intense feeling as i was leaving that i thought, i have just set myself on fire on national television. on fire or set myself free? well, freedom came later. i thought why should anyone have to do this. why should anyone have to make a big announcement about their personal life. let s remind people why you said you had to do it. we didn t force you. you were afraid that the story was going to come out, not of your own free will. right t. tabloids take a grain of truth and blow it up into something wildly fictitious. and not flattering usually. there aren t many times where i sit down across from someone and do an interview and i know that when we go to commercial their life will never be the same. that was one of those moments. how has your life changed? you know, it s been fabulous. what i experienced was a sense of emotional well-being that i had not known to long for. but the freedom of not hiding anything. my life had really been very open at home. but there was always that circumspect feeling of not wanting anyone to know. to not be too close to my partner nancy. to not have anyone talking about me. it made me feel hideous. so this is done. i walked out of here and, yes, i was afraid of what it was like politically for careerwise for myself, but it was like, everyone knows. i don t have any secrets anymore. was it a no-brainer to sit down and write a book about it or was that a decision that took time to come to? well, it took me a little time. i thought, i don t have anything to say really. if you googled me, the only thing i have done is to come out on national television. that s not true. but that s what s there. it dominates the google page. it does. it took me a while to understand, oh, i ve got something to write. it was in the process of writing that it crystallized and i said, oh, i have something to say. i have lessons i have learned. you are a mother of five. yes, i am. and the process, i remember thinking that morning and asking you about the process of discussing this with them and how they have reacted, has anything changed in your relationship? reacted to the book, do you mean? to your announcement. no. they re fine. i have great, loving children. what can i say? they are wonderful. you write in the book a good deal about your most important relationships in your life your mom, step-father. as i read this, i don t know, i started to get emotional. your mom wouldn t allow you to call her mom. she wanted you to call her by by whitney, her stage name. she didn t keep pictures of you around the house. there were none to keep. we had none. she never took pictures of you. that s a self-esteem bat rer for a child. how did you deal with it? it wasn t her intent but i didn t know it at the time. what came from my childhood which crystallized as i was writing the book was understanding that, you know, i had a deep sense of feeling in fact, i had no value, that i was unloved and unlovable. that was the belief system i developed which really became the engine that dictated everything. every job, every decision, every relationship. to explain to the viewers, the reason she didn t want you to call her mom and have pictures around is she thought it dated her, made her seem older. it made her seem older, not as attractive, not as available. it s the posture that actresses took on at the time. you rebelled as a teenager. i think you had a relationship with a 35-year-old man. i didn t have a relationship with him. i really can t say that here how that happened. it was a [ snaps fingers ] but not a relationship. it was a fling? no. it was an oops, how did that happen? it was something i had not expected to have happen. i think i was a surrogate for him to show my step-father/agent how angry he was. let s talk about your ex-husband david. on the outside and i remember watching that marriage and thinking it was pretty good. perfect. you guys looked very happy. yet you have said there was both emotional and physical abuse, something he s denied. what did you learn from that relationship? what did it teach you for better or worse? what i got out of it eventually was i had to change my thinking. because i had to look if i didn t want to be a victim and i have been committed to being a victim for a long time because it felt warm, comfortable and familiar. but it was a disastrous position to be in. i had to change my thinking. i had to look at what was my part. i had to look at what was in my thinking that told me it was okay to be in this relationship. how long were you married? 15 years. together two before that. and the question is if there was abuse, why stay in the marriage? that s what everyone would want to know. i didn t know i had a choice. i didn t know i could go. he didn t say that. it wasn t an accident that we were together. he s not going to pick someone on top of themselves, confident and aggressive. no. he needs you know, for him to be who he needed to be, had to be someone mousey, quiet and retiring. that s who i was. if i had been interviewing you at the time i probably would have asked you one of the weird television questions. how did you find comfort in your work and the cast mates of family ties. yet as i read the book i realized that wouldn t have been ridiculous because you did find comfort in the people you worked with and the relationships you developed on the show. you learn to compartmentalize. as soon as i got to the studio, my home life was just not happening. i never talked about it. no one knew anything. didn t socialize with the people on the show? how do you have a social life? i didn t have a social life. i did my work. i went home. i had all these kids. i wanted to be there with the kids. come to terms with everything now? has the book been a way for you to say, okay, that s now the past? it s all about the future. only except i have to be informed by the past all the time. i have to remember lessons learned. i have to say, am i telling myself a story about what s going on, making something up? because that s what i would do. i was so unself-examined as a child. in my relationship with my marriages it was always trying to keep my head above water. i had no sense of who i was. you know, i was trying to save my life on a daily basis. people have said, you had to have known you were gay. i was so unself-examined i could have been a republican, but, no, thank goodness, i m just gay. that s better, don t you think? still in a relationship with nancy? absolutely. nancy s the best. you seem like you are in a good place. thank you. thanks for coming to talk with us. the book is titled untied. up next, would you eat a tub and a half of cool whip for breakfast? 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she never felt she was dieting. the no diet diet. first, the wrong choice at denny s for breakfast. this is the heartland scram ber bl scrambler. 1100 calle ories with 300 milligrams of sodium and 63 grams of fat. this would be the equivalent of having six krispy kreme glazed doughnuts t. great thing about denny s is they came up with a new better for you menu option where you can put togethering more than 200 combos for under 550. this is a grand slam with fruit, bacon, protein-rich eggs and that s only 320 calories. and english muffin. you will save 840 calories. that s a quarter pound of body fat gone over breakfast. this is where i go starbucks. in fact i get the chai tea latte. it s delicious. the scone is great. the problem is it s a carb bomb. 700 calories in the morning, not nutritious. 58 grams of sugar. it s the sugar equivalent of over a tub of cool whip. geez. if you re at starbucks get the egg white feta cheese spinach wrap. pair it with a venti nonfat cappuccino. what are we saving? you are saving 310 calories. meredith, that means every 11 days you lose a pound. it doesn t even feel like dieting. that s a great meal. let s go to lunch and/or dinner. romano s macaroni grill. this is mom s spaghetti. petition for adoption. get out while you can still fit through the door. 1,240 calories, 60 grams of fat. more than a day s worth of saturated fat. this is the equivalent? 14 orders of cheesy nachos from taco bell. so get this instead. 550 calories. it s the pollo caprese. chicken, pasta, broccoli. this is a nutritiousle meal. and at red lobster, the seaside shrimp trio. this is bad. it s a half day s calories and it s just shrimp. eat this and hibernate. it s over 1,000 calories, 55 grams of fat. 13 grams of saturated fat and the sodium is like eating an entire box of ritz crackers. where is the sodium? in the alfredo sauce, the butter in the mashed potatoes. fried shrimp. it s everywhere. instead go to red lobster and order lobster. look how fantastic. you get the whole lobster, broccoli, a side salad, vinaigrette and it s 300 calories. by the way, the one ramekin of butter is 380 calories and 31 grams of fat. have cocktail sauce instead which is 40 calories. you will save 700, 800 calories there. all right. david zinczenko, thank you very much. we ll be right back after your local news. 8:26 is your time now. good morning. i m eun yang. today, maryland could take an important step toward becoming the sixth state to legalize gay marriage. the house judiciary committee is set to vote on the bill today. if it passes, it could come up for a final vote as early as thursday. the senate approved the bill last week. governor o malley said that he would sign it. we re going toe that a quick break now. your weather and traffic are next. henson, once you get through that big n toasty, we re going to go over sales figures, complete this merger, present to the board and do a number of other seemingly impossible tasks today. it s going to be a big one. sink your teeth into some egg, bacon and cheese and nod if you understand. good. you ve got spunk. a big day calls for the new big n toasty, with fried eggs, cherrywood-smoked bacon, and cheese, stacked high on thick texas toast. wrap your hands around one at dunkin . america runs on dunkin . grab a big breakfast with the new big n toasty sandwich from dunkin donuts. good morning. sunny, breezy and cold on this tuesday morning. right now just in the low and mid-30s, but it feels like 20s with that wind, which will diminish later today as highs reach upper 40s. lots of sunshine. mostly sunny tomorrow, into the mid-50s. then colder weather moves in on thursday. increasing clouds friday and saturday. could get rain on sunday. ashley linder, how s traffic? a new accident on 66 headed westbound as you make your approach toward sycamore. left lane is blocked. we have delays inching back. along 270 southbound, earlier accident at shady grove gone, so no longer a factor, but volume is as you make your way towards the beltway. eun, back to you. ashley, thank you. tonight at 5:00, advice for people looking for work. the two questions to ask at the end of every interview, tonight at 5:00. 8:30 now on a tuesday morning, the first day of march 2011. we ve got great weather for the people you re looking at right there and spring is less than three weeks away. that s right. after the winter we have been having and the winter many people in this country have been having that s good. a beautiful day in the northeast. i m matt lauer along with meredith vieira, ann curry and al roker. coming up this half hour, making the most of your later years. don t look at me like that. wow. you know what? what s he talking about? did you hear me? i heard yo years. okay. i m going to turn this into something serious because you re just getting mean. when you turn 40, 50 or 60, it s you re not even near 60. i m getting near 60. you get anxious and angry and you lash out. and you tend to wander. but you don t have to be that way. coming up, therapist sarah brokaw, who happens to be tom brokaw s daughter, along with everything else. she says the five core values you can use to make those years the best years of your life. she s a smart woman. we have to listen to her. yes, she is. also, speaking of being smart, remember how much you dreaded bri eed bringing home y report card? well, those days could be coming back, because just ahead, a new plan to hold parents more accountable for their children s education by giving parents report cards. all right. i like the sound of that. and we re going to be hearing from lindsay lohan as she speaks out for the first time since leaving rehab in january. and more of our new interview with actor charlie sheen and the two women who he calls the goddesses in his life. moving on. before we get to anything, let s bring in matt bomer, the star of usa s white collar. welcome back. neil kafourca mccaffrey, a f artist who works with the fbi. here s the deal, both my mother and sister are in love with this show. why does it have a wide appeal? two generations. i think with tv, it comes down to the writing, and we have smart, fun writers who create great stories for us to play and i have a lot of fun castmates. we have a lot of fun making the show together. that was humble. yeah. nothing to do with you. no, that s not why. you play a con man, obvio obviously, tim plays the fbi agent. you have a tight relationship, known as a bromance on and on. what is that about. he says yes to my crazy ideas and he says yes to my crazy ideas. a lot of yes saying there. that s key to bromance. that s how al and i ended up in synchronized swimming. we don t want to go there. that s true bromance. go a little too far. you ve been kidnapped by him. in fact, you get to impersonate your partner s character in an upcoming episode. yeah it was a chance for us to make fun of each other on screen because we got to imitate each other s physical attributes. the great thing is we have a few episodes left, a lot of mythology we ve been building for two years to come to a close. but anybody can tune in. you won t be lost. you re going to find your girlfriend s murderer, aren t you? that s what a tease is. speaking of tease, by the way, the costume i don t know who gets the award for that, but there s a whole rat pack nature to your look on this show. i m grooving on it. thank you very much. it s a tribute to the character and jeff wrote it, obviously, initially, and you know, it goes very much with his personality. but we have amazing costume designers who s done a lot with that. how cute is he? so cute, right? all right. the show is great thank you so much. we can remind people that they can see an episode tonight at 10:00/9:00 central time on our sister cable network usa. matt bomer, thanks. thank you so much for having me, guys. good morning. mr. roker, how about a check of the weather? let s take a look, starting with today. good news is things have calmed down. we have, though, strong storms in the pacific northwest with mountain snows, arctic air in the plains. sunshine through the southeast, sunny skies in the northeast, windy conditions. tomorrow, some flurries in northern new englan out west, again, another mess with more rain, high winds, mountain snows, mild through the southwest, gulf coast. cold but sunny through the great lakes. a little on the chilly side in the mid-atlantic states. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. we have a gusty wind out of the northwest, 20 to 25 miles an hour, making our skywatcher camera jump around a bit and it s showing that gorgeous royal blue sky, and we ll have lots of sun today, but it s cold now, still just in the low and mid-30s and feeling like the 20s, but the winds will diminish later today as we climb into the upper 40s and lots of sunshine. clearer tonight, bottoming out near 30 tomorrow morning. a bit warmer on wednesday, then cold on thursday. friday warming back to near 50 for a high. over the weekend, may get rain sunday. and don t forget you can get your forecast any time day or night on the weather channel on cable, weather.com online. now onto the biggest loser. let s say hi to the latest two to be voted off. good morning. good morning to you. the interesting thing is you both gained weight so your children could stay on the show. that s what being a parent is about. it is. it is. i m going to take care of my cubs. did your children appreciate it? i would believe so. yes, sure, of course they did. they got to stay a little longer and sometimes you ve got to do what you have to do. jesse, you look terrific. i feel you entered the ranch at 290? 293. look at you now. what are you at now? about 224. you started at 256 and you look amazing as well. what are you down to? 160. 94 pounds. are you still losing now that you re home? oh, yeah. do you have a shot at the in-home that s what we re working on. this is my competition. congratulations. you don t look too bad yourself, al. looking pretty fly, my friend. i know your kids appreciate the sacrifice. don t forget to catch the biggest loser tonight 8:00 eastern, 7:00 central here on nbc. up next, the best way to face the fears of turning 40. first this is today on nbc. 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[ male announcer ] these days, it s hard to find good customer service. thankfully, there s still one place that gets it right. back now at 8:39. this morning on today s woman turning 40. the aging process is inevitable and we all deal with it differently. sarah brokaw is daughter of nbc s tom brokaw and she went on a quest to see the key to aging. she describes her journey into the next decade. reporter: personally, i was at the point in my life, being the age of 37, where i recognized that i was slowly but surely aging. i didn tle feel like i had any idea as to what my 40s were going to look like. growing up in a family where my parents were not only married but they were blissfully wedded and then they had three daughters. we lived, i would say a pretty idyllic life. when i m in my 20s i will have a job, meet my man. in my 30s i will have three kids. when i hit 40 i will go on to the next step in my career path. it didn t happen that way. i was 38. it was our 20th high school reunion. everyone was married. mostly every person in my class had a child. i was not married nor was i a parent and i chose not to go. after that moment i was pretty mad at myself. i thought, that s not me. here i m not going because i felt ashamed for not going because i was too embarrassed that i wasn t married or had a kid. that was a moment of what do i do now, but i realized at that moment in order for me to proceed through life i had to reframe my thinking. i defined that moment rather than a moment of crisis as the sparkling moment. if i could say that i m completely enlightened and satisfied i m lying. i think what i m capable of doing now versus when i was 35 is recognizing that events are inevitable. things are going to happen that you can t control. what you can control is how you choose to respond to those events. sarah s new book isle called 42, making the next decade the best of your life. good morning. this is about turning uh-oh moments into ah-ha moments. absolutely. it s tricky because women are afraid of aging. very much so. i wouldn t say all women are, but a majority of women are. i would honestly think that it s women who hit their mid 30s. what is it about the numbers whether it s 40, 50, 60? that causes fear? yeah. in our 20s i think we are given a lot of attention. that s the time where we are most relevant. we are at our prime. in our 30s is when we get attention because most of us are supposed to be married. most of us are supposed to have children. we re supposed to hit a certain point on our career path. then i think what happens is when we hit like 35 to 40 we slowly but surely realize that we have become a little less relevant. that s what we think. that s because of how society has dictated what it s like to be relevant. how do you turn an uh-oh moment into an ah-ha moment. i call it a sparkling moment. okay then. it could be a moment of crisis and i think that s when our fortitude is tested. it s a moment when we can say, how am i going to face this? i m going to keep my hands over my eyes and remain fearful or remove my hands from my eyes and face life with confidence and curiosity. i think what we need to do in order to do that is to really think about the words that we use in order to do it properly. so for example, if i have a client in my practice or if i personally am going through something where i know it could be potentially anxiety-provoking, i have to think about i could either say i m so scared i can t do this or i can say, huh, i wonder what the outcome will be. if you think about the language right there it automatically reframes my thinking. so i try to encourage other women in my practice as well as outside of practice to do the same thing. you talk about five core values that come into play. what are they? grace, connectedness, accomplishment without the monetary or material factor, adventure and spirituality. those are what you should focus on in. absolutely. that s the word. should. take the word should out. i would say you choose to incorporate those values in your everyday life. when you can do that by listening to your own voice and no one else s voice you have fortitude. there are a lot of viewers interested in the aging process or struggling with it. first one from naomi. i was defined by my career in my 20s, my kids in my 30s. i still have a lot to offer. my kids need me less and less. how do i define the rest of my life. 40 is a launching pad, but where am i going? the opposite problem you had. she s got all that and she s struggling. exactly right. it s interesting because she says i was defined by my career in my 20s and i would say this is now her opportunity to get into the front seat. she s no longer in the back seat. she can define who she s. we are now given permission to take on the role when we hit 40. i would say naomi, look at the values. define those values in your own words and something will come. she s in control. no one else is in control. you have to be in control. next from denise in north carolina. she says, to me, 40 means i m no longer the young one in the bunch. i haven t done all the accomplished so i m disappointed in myself. i m curious what she feels she needs to accomplish. society makes us feel we need to accomplish things at a certain age. that s not true. is it important to keep a mental inventory of where you have been and where you are going? it depends. someone said to me if you compare yourself to others and what they have accomplished it s compare and despair. if you just focus on your life and listen to your own voice, then, of course, you will continue to be curious about what you can accomplish. okay. one more e-mail here. i have been dreading turning 40 since i turned 30. my god. it feels like it s the end of my youth. it s also a wake-up call to know half my life is over. now that i m turning 40 though no one has given me great words of wisdom. mostly i get the jokes and puns meant to be funny, but i m not taking them well at all. i hope others are taking it better than i am. i just dread it totally. once again it s the external factors, the external voices that many women are hearing. turn down the volume, listen to your voice. i also believe that with loss of youth we do lose youth but with the loss of youth there is the gain of insight. it is a gain of wisdom. that s what is most important. i also think you can say, everyone has hit this age. i m not the only person who ages. when you had the uh-oh moment how did you specifically turn it into a sparkling moment in your life? when you said, i m not married, i don t have kids. that s a wonderful question. i had to remove my hands from my eyes and take a look and say, one, no one cares whether i m married or have kids. that s just in my own head. i had to think about what i do have which is a wonderful support system that includes my family and my friends. i clearly have my sense of humor. i also have, i would believe, the smarts. i m in fantastic shape. i also have curiosity. if i can take those five factors, i m in wonderful shape. that s how i look at it. i think by using those five factors, including those five values that s what helped me create a sparkling moment out of an uh-oh moment. thank you so much. up next, the new push for teachers to give parents report cards. first this is today on nbc. we are back at 8:50. this morning on education nation today we are talking report cards for you. some florida parents could soon find out if they are making the grade under a lawmaker s new plan. here s rahema ellis. reporter: we all remember moments like this. how do you expect to get into college with grades like this? no problem. huh? see, i m not going to college. damn right. now imagine if the tables were turned. raise your hand if you think your parents should get a report card. [ cheers ] reporter: the vote is unanimous in this 3rd grade class at a school near tampa, but a quick survey of parents netted mixed reviews. i think we need to, as parents, be vigilant. i think a lot of people may not pass though. for some parents it could be a turn off. the way you approach it would be so important. would some parents feel intimidated? yes. reporter: while so much of the discussion about improving america s schools centers on teachers one lawmaker says it is critical to go beyond that. and she filed a bill to give florida parents grades. regardless of your economic level, your education, if you are involved with your studented and your child the child will be more successful. reporter: parents will be evaluated on whether the child completes homework, misses too much school, gets a good night s rest and if the parent answers communication from the teacher. the idea of grading parents is controversial. some say teachers already have enough to do. others call it government intrusion. 2nd grade teacher ginger summers supports the tool. any tool you can put in the teacher s tool box will bridge the communication gap between schools and parents. it is a tool that i want to have available to me. reporter: would you worry about getting a report card from the school? i guess so. yeah, i guess. reporter: laughable, yet some people are giving it serious thought. for today, rahema ellis, nbc news, plant city, florida. still ahead, answers to your most pressing diet questions. but first, this is today on nbc. 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[ all ] what s in your wallet? just ahead, we are going to hear from lindsay lohan for the first time since she left rehab in january. plus, more of the new conversation with charlie sheen and the so-called goddesses who live with him. that s all coming up, but first we have your local news and weather. nice tie. and i like this, too. 8:55 is your time now. good morning. i m eun yang. one woman is dead after an overnight accident inside the 3rd street tunnel. police tell us the woman crashed her car into the back of a department of public works truck. three dpw employees were also injured. and another escalator is out of service at the dupont circle metro station. it hasn t been working since last night when the motor started to give off smoke. we ll take a quick break now. your weather and traffic are next. but here s what we re working on for tonight at 5:00. tonight at 5:00, feeling tired or forgetful? you may think it s just stress from your job, but doctors say it could be a sign of a more serious problem. we break down the warning signs. plus, advice for people who are looking for work. the two questions to ask at the end of every interview. that s tonight on news 4 at 5:00. [ man ] i was deciding what to do with my citi thankyou points when it happened. [ glass breaks ] .again. [ child ] run! [ man ] first it was the mailbox, then my squirrel. and now, this. so i used my points to make a donation to get the park down the street built. when it finally opened, i also used my points for. car repair. [ male announcer ] use citi thankyou points for almost anything. and earn them fast with the new citi thankyou preferred card. what s your story? citi can help you write it. good morning. we have some cold breezes now but warming up later today, winds diminishing. sun tomorrow, highs mid-50s. colder thursday. how s traffic now, ashley? 66 headed westbound, so outbound drivers on the brakes out of broadland to get past an issue right at gleev, then sycamore. a left lane is blocked with that accident, inching along. eun, back to you. thanks, ashley. [ female announcer ] shopping with nutrition in mind shouldn t be hard work or cost more money. now there s simple nutrition, only at safeway. green tags throughout the store call out what matters most to you. there are 22 different nutritional benefits highlighted. and with our low prices, now safeway makes bringing home the right choices easier than ever. that s simple nutrition. that s ingredients for life. safeway. back now with more of today on a tuesday morning, the 1st of march 2011. cooler than it was in the city yesterday morning. but as you can see, bright sunshine compared to yesterday s rain. we ll take today. yep. not bad and spring is coming. we love that as well. inside studio 1a i m matt lauer along with al roker and natalie morales. we can t complain about the weather. boy, people in 14 states had it very tough on monday. powerful storms tore through those states. we had at least nine tornadoes, widespread flooding. we ll have the latest on the terrible weather coming up in a little while. okay. also ahead, more of the interview with charlie sheen. our jeff rossen was invited back to sheen s home where he was able to meet sheen s two live-in girlfriends whom sheen calls his goddesses. we ll hear what it s like to live with the actor and see the results of a recent drug test and what sheen has to say about people who think he s crazy, mentally unstable. the comments that have been received based on this interview over the course of the last 24 hours have run the gamut. yes. that s an under statement. another troubled star, lindsay lohan is facing possible jail time on charges she stole a necklace. she s now speaking about her battle with addiction for the first time since leaving rehab in january. we ll hear from her. plus, answers to your diet and nutrition questions from joy bauer. you want to eat organic but think you can t afford it. she ll sort out which items are worth the splurge and items to keep you in shape if you sit in front of a computer all day. that s a problem. now to ann at the news desk with the headlines. hi, guys. good morning, everybody. moammar gadhafi appeared to be appears to be digging in for his last stand. his forces sealed off the capitol of tripoli. rebel fighters control the eastern half of the country and fought off assaults on key cities overnight. the u.s. is moving closer to libya saying all options including the establishment of a no-fly zone are on the table to protect the people of libya from gadhafi. he refuses to step down but a former minister is already forming an alternative government. the nation of oman was hit with a fourth day of demonstrations this morning. the military fired in the air, wounding a protester. saturday, a protester was killed. the sultan s offer to create 50,000 jobs has not quelled demonstrations there. storms sweeping the country turned deadly. we have mike seidel in tennessee with the latest on the story. good morning. reporter: good morning, ann. this was the second tornado outbreak in less than a week. nine twisters yesterday, five confirmed. one was an ef-2 which ripped through southern tennessee and was responsible for the first tornado fatality of the year. deadly tornadoes and a line of severe thunderstorms produced wind damage in 14 states monday. the storms also dumped heavy rain across the area. here in franklin county, tennessee, a grandfather was killed when he was pinned under a trailer when the twister roared through. it sounded like a ton of gravel hit the side of my house. man, i thought the world had come to an end. to be honest with you, i did. reporter: at least five mobile homes were demolished here. in indiana, a tornado with at least 120 miles per hour winds took out ten more homes. came down stairs and everything was gone. reporter: another tornado destroyed three homes in kentucky s henry county early monday. greg williams and his wife survived by hiding under their bed. next thing i knew, it felt like we were outside. i started shaking. she said, are you cold? i said, yeah. i didn t want to tell her i was scared to death. reporter: farther north in pennsylvania and ohio heavy rain combined with melting snow to cause flooding. we have been lucky so far. 20% fewer tornadoes than average so far this weir because the cold weather put the cap on thunderstorms. we will see more severe weather this week as we head into the peak of the season for severe weather and twisters march, april and may. back to you. mike seidel in tennessee. the california couple charged with kidnapping 11-year-old jaycee duggard and holding her for 18 years supposedly confessed to prosecutors. monday the attorney for nancy garados said she and her husband confessed when they were reinterviewed last month. the woman that owned the day care that burned down killing four children has fled to nigeria. she s accused of leaving the children unattended when a stovetop caught fire. she s expected to be brought back to the u.s. to face charges. a car plowed through a street packed with cyclists injuring at least 16 people. the driver claims self-defense. as dramatic as it looks no one was critically injured and everyone has been released from the hospital. in 1991 a glacier in the italian alps revealed a 5,000-year-old man preserved almost perfectly in ice. using the latest research, two artists have given him a face. they call him otse and scientists believe he died around 3,300 b.c. at the age of 47. since his discovery he s given archaeologists a look at diet, tool use and the clothing style of the period. it is now six minutes past the hour. back to matt, natalie and al. not often you get to peer 5,000 years back very, very cool. freezer burn. [ laughter ] okey dokey! count to two one, two. now let s get a check of the weather from al. oh, you could hear it? you said that out loud. that was the seven-second delay there. thank you so much. let s see what s happening. we ve got this low pressure system coming in off the pacific. going to bring another period of storminess to the pacific northwest. heavy rain and mountain snows. mt. shasta may pick up about 12 inches of snow. we re talking about a half an inch to an inch of rain in northern california. and then we ve got a frontal system pushing through florida. that s going to be bringing heavy rain and showers and thunderstorms to orlando. some areas picking up as much as an inch of rain along the east coast of florida. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. here we have a beautiful satin blue sky. live view from the skywatcher camera. still bouncing around a bit and a blustery northwest wind. temperatures now in the mid-30s. 36 at reagan national, but it feels colder than that with that wind. that will diminish this afternoon, thankfully. highs reaching mid and upper 40s and lots of sunshine. clear tonight, by 30. by dawn on wednesday, climbing into the mid-50s middle of the day and turning colder wednesday afternoon and evening into thursday. friday, high near 50. over the weekend, might get rain sunday. and that s y and that s your latest weather. natalie? now to our new interview with charlie sheen who is stirring up more controversy and has a message for critics and fans. jeff rossen has the details. jeff, good morning. reporter: hi, natalie. good morning. charlie sheen called us up on monday and said come back to the house. i have more to say. we went and got a real glimpse into life behind closed doors, what we don t normally see, including a rare interview with the new women in his life two of them who are helping to raise his children. charlie calls them his goddesses. how long have we owned this? reporter: it s charlie sheen s version of domestic bliss at home with the new loves of his life. one, a self-described porn star he calls rach, the other a model he calls natty. we run errands, eat, play with the kids. we have fun. we watch movies. i watch a lot of two and a half men. do you love his kids? are you kidding? i wish i was with them now. bob was like, i didn t want to put them down. they re calling you. i don t want to put them down. can i come? he s like, bye. if you say dad s busy he says, okay, dada busy. he knows. he s fine with it. is this normal? pictures of the kids on the fridge. aside from the days we sit around with the gold palm fronds and everything. they will run with that. i m joking. charlie said you can put him in his place. when he s wrong you put him in his place i don t let her answer. i don t generally have to. i respect charlie as a man and as head of the household and trust him completely. if there is something i think is a bad idea i might say, hey, babe, let s think about it this way and, you know, it works. the system works for us. reporter: the goddesses now live with charlie, almost always around at his los angeles mansion. it s a good day at the silver valley lodge reporter: his nickname for in-home rehab. we took him outside for a candid conversation about his history with women. what do these women do for you other women haven t? you have chosen women before you have loved denise richards, brooke mueller. these women don t judge me, lead with opinions, lead with their own needs all the time. they are honest to say, park your nonsense. help me solve this and we solve it. what i tell them is don t live in the middle. get away from your ego and emotions. therein lies the solution. reporter: are these women allowed to say, charlie, you re being a jerk. can they talk back? oh, yeah. those are the best jokes of the day. we have an open dialogue. reporter: do they put you in your place? everybody s vote has equal importance. when we are approaching crisis, i remind them, look, i m 22 years further down the road. trust me. most of the time well in the last few days, all the time my plan is the best. just trust me on that and everybody will win and everybody s needs will be taken care of. reporter: including, he says, his young children. charlie s twin boys spend a lot of time at his house. there are nannies but charlie s angels play a role, too. reporter: do the goddesses help raise your kids? are they with your kids? if i m not there, everybody helps out. i don t know. there s nothing broken here. reporter: some would say everything is broken. wait. i m still in pain. hang in there. reporter: his hit sit-com two and a half men has been shut down for the rest of the season based, according to cbs and warner brothers on sheen s statements, conduct and condition. warner brothers has agreed to pay the crew for four episodes. it s a start. reporter: in our first interview that aired monday on today charlie promised he s clean now. look at me, duh. drug tests don t lie. reporter: when was the last time you did drugs? i don t know. i don t care. drug tests don t lie. the score board doesn t lie. reporter: in the new interview he brought the proof. these are results of the drug test you just took. the word negative is printed like 18 trillion times. reporter: a lot of people watched the interview and said, he s crazy. of course. reporter: he s saying warlock, tiger s blood. what do you say to yourself? i m entertained as hell. i m not saying it s not true, but i m laughing with goddesses. i m laughing with my friends. everybody s like, did they expect it to be like a normal interview, conventional, boring and whatever else? no, man. we re shaking the tree. we re shaking all the trees. reporter: what do you want to say to the fans? there are a lot of fans worried about you. don t be worried. celebrate this movement. i love and i m so grateful that you have supported me and the show for so long. i will not let you down. trust me. reporter: charlie says he s happy and feeling better than ever, playing basketball with friends, working out, and spending more time with the goddesses. our life is awesome. reporter: confident all the free time is temporary saying he ll return to the show soon as the star. i m just going to keep pressing the truth. and the truth is going to flush everybody into the light and we ll have a dialogue and fix it. it s going to be good and everybody s going to win because they followed guess who s plan? mine. reporter: he speaks his mind. we called cbs for reaction. they had no comment again. by the way, today would have been the first day back at work for the crew of two and a half men. instead, they are sitting home waiting, just like charlie sheen. i spent time with him over the past couple of days. probably eight hours total. no question about it, he s not normal, but he likes it that way. the question is what s next for him, natalie? he assured me that drugs and alcohol are out of his life for good but addiction experts say it s not that easy to go cold turkey and sustain it. obviously our best thoughts go out to him. that s the challenge for him now. i don t think he wants the best thoughts. as he said, he s cured, fine and good with it. reporter: he said he flipped something in his brain and it helped him. he has his own reality show. reporter: he s fascinating, no question. you have given us so much to talk about it, jeff. you rock star, you. still to come, another star who battled drug addiction, lindsay lohan comes clean about her personal and legal troubles in a new interview. but up next, answers to your nutrition questions on joy s diet s.o.s., after these messages. ring ring ring ring progresso. hi. we love your weight watchers endorsed soups but my husband looks the way he did 20 years ago. well that s great. you haven t seen him. my other can is ringing. progresso. hey can you tell my wife to relax and enjoy the view? 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he ll stop by studio 1a to fill us in on the new cd and dvd and all of his other plans tomorrow on today. what a multi talent. he can sing, act, be funny. nice guy. and he s a good, good guy. he works for new orleans and the heart and soul of the city. love him. meanwhile this half hour, lindsay lohan. we have seen her struggle with problems with the law and addictions unfold in front of the camera. now out of rehab she s speaking out about a brush with the law, the charges and whether she thinks her reputation is ruined. i can t get out of my mind the little girl from parent trap . such talent. le also ahead when we visit a new neighbor or someone grieving a lot of times with the economy we may not have the money we need to do it. but what about making something and using the healing power of food to make connections? that, people, is a chicken pot pie. that s one heck of a pie. that s what our parents used to do. what better gift really than pouring your love into what you make in the kitchen. no one makes things at home like they used to anymore. it s that somebody took the time. also speaking of comfort food from the perfect chicken pot pie we have an easy recipe for a spring lamb stew with asparagus from one of new york s premier chefs. sounds easy, too. one pot. right. and it s a great guy s name, too. i have known some great stu how s the weather, al? isn t that a region in the middle east, sudan? anyway, let s check your weather, see what s happening. for today we ve got rain in the pacific northwest, sunshine through the southwest, and we ve also got windy conditions in new england. then as we move on in to today, the good news is, really no horrible weather, although along the west coast, they re going to be having windy, rainy weather. we ve got mild conditions through the gulf coast into texas. some sunshine but chilly around the great lakes. we ve got a few flurries in the eastern great lakes, then plenty of sunshine. mild weather along the southeastern atlantic coast. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. a dramatic drop in temperatures since yesterday afternoon. we were in the 70s. now still in the 30s. we ve got that blustery northwest wind. even though it s in the mid-30s, it feels colder than that, but the wind will diminish this afternoon. we ll have lots of sun and a blue sky, highs upper 40s. cold tomorrow morning but milder tomorrow afternoon. quite a bit of sunshine. but then a northwest wind brings in more cold weather for thursday. a bit warmer on friday. over the weekend, increasing clouds saturday and then sunday looks like we could get some rain with highs in the 50s. that s your latest weather. we want to make sure you know about this. we have today s royal treatment. we are sending a lucky viewer and a guest to england all expenses paid during the week of the royal wedding. we have another entry. let s take a look. my name is christina my name is danina sisters are we born in the mother land living on u.s. ground please bring us back to see will and kate marry the winner gets two first class tickets on british airways to london during the wedding of kate middleton and prince william. so get out the camera and create a video that s no more than two minutes long telling us why london is calling you. and please be creative. for details head to the website, todayshow.com. are we going surfing? the music doesn t sound like london, but we ll get by. up next, troubled actress lindsay lohan opening up publically for the first time since leaving rehab right after this. 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of course. if you have wondered when you had the experience what you could do to comfort them, how about a delicious meal? elizabeth mayhew has great ideas on what to bring for every occasion. good morning. how are you? this isovely idea. it seems like something that happened a long time ago that s comforting to experience. absolutely. your ideas are what to do with a grieving friend, new comfo comfocom baby. food is a lifeline to people in these situations. we can start with somebody grieving. having just been through it, i absolutely know what it s like to need food. you have a lot of people around. you want it to be as easy as possible which is why we suggest bringing it in a dish. let them keep the dish whether you go to the grocery store and buy pyrex or use foil. we did a sausage and vegetable and white bean bake. it s very simple. one-dish meal. you don t need a knife. fork only food. go ahead, cook it. wrap it inle fo foil. we make it nice with a dish towel, nice serving pieces and then just put in how to reheat it. cook, cool and wrap it. that s a great idea. what you have done with this one involving sausage, vegetables and bread crumbs, you re creating a comfort food here. this is all comfort food. that can feed a large number of people coming by the house. someone recuperating after an illness you have something substantial. right. we did a roast beef with garlic and rosemary. again, a one-dish meal. you have the tomatoes and potatoes. this is a $35 roasting pan from kohl s. you can give it to them raw or cook it. this meal is full of protein and iron. it has enough flavor for someone regaining their appetite. you can wrap it up, put it with a spoon or serving piece. it s a sweet idea to put ribbon, an extra something. you would want to cook it though, right? if someone s receiving a lot of food you may not want a lot of food. this can easily feed a family of four. but there will be leftovers. don t forget there are people going through it but also caregivers around. this is enough to feed everybody. and the house would smell great. that s right. for a new parent you have chicken pot pie. again, a one-dish meal. carrots, peas and everything going on. you can speed it up by buying a store bought pie crust or puff pastry and rotisserie chicken. put the stuff inside, make it pretty. we love this. these are containers from vonni. put it in and zip it up. what new parent won t bring it again and again to bring brownies to school. you don t have to buy something. you can just wrap it in foil if you like. of course. i like the idea of giving them the pyrex or finding something not too expensive, even at the grocery store. the last thing you want is to worry about returning it. always include the reheat instructions. what are these? these are recycled containers from stationarystudio.com. if you re making cookies like these chocolate peanut butter cookies, a lot of times you do it for teachers. they are actually offering a special discount now to today viewers. who? stationery studio. they send you the kit. you can also use old bulk jars and things you have collected. absolutely. it s the idea of one-stop shopping. get it done in bulk to make it easier. new neighbor. what s better than a basket of blueberry muffins? i do this a lot. and you matched it with the fabric. it s also bringing a dish towel. it s about the packaging to say you spent time doing it. le you can go to googlemaps, print out your area and just annotate for them the best florist, best coffee. welcome them to the neighborhood. wow. why have i not heard of this before? somebody s given me a list before and i have given people a list. google maps. the idea to print it out and label it. the point is you re supposed to be taking care of people. what better way than through food? you re awesome. great ideas. thanks for inspiring us to do this and be kinder and more generous to people in need. much more coming up, including a meal you will want to share with other people. it s a home made lamb stew and it basically is a stew that s one one-pot cooking in today s this morning on today s kitchen step by step, a seasonal favorite spring lamb stew. a signature dish for alex guarnaschelli. her latest restaurant is the darby here in new york city. she s also a judge on chopped all stars on the food network. thanks for being here. thank you. i have a straddle to the season between winter and spring. is lamb a key ingredient winter to spring? i think so. it feels easter, passover. we have the element of comfort. i m browning the lamb. i take it out and take an absurd amount of garlic because that says spring to me. hi, how are you, welcome. this is a great dish for a first date. yeah. we just mix together onions and garlic. if you would help me sure. carrots and parsnips. the first vegetables that pop up. put everything together withal wild abandon. then just to give it the elements of seasoning, a little bay leaf for the savory touch and a touch of brown sugar because, face it, we re americans. everything s better with sugar. we want the springtime sweetness in there. and a little mustard. dijon. that adds a little bit of spice like spiking the punch at a party. always a good idea. yes. once it cooks for a few minutes add in a cup of vermouth. do i have to add i m sorry. we ll have cocktails later on the lido deck. so good. put it down and you canal smell the arema coming together. to me that really the mustard and the vermouth, ooh, that s a nice cook. it s a seduction dinner for spring. there you go. then pour in the stock and let it took right down. this was really just browning the meat, getting it ready. you get the wonderful browned flavor and that s in the pan already. then you put the meat back in and put in a few bones because they add the little it s inviting the smart person to the party to add that extra extra boneyness? yes. who knew? then you get this wonderful all stewed together. how long do you let it simmer down to get the stew to this point? i hate to say the chef code which is until it s ready. i would say an hour, hour and a half. then bring in the springtime with the mustard greens and peas. it adds a vibrant green touch to this dish. healthy, too. yeah. i like the idea of wilting greens into a dish. it looks like we have other victims coming to taste. victims she called you. i love it. lucky people. very lucky. we re doing something that s we have the asparagus addition, too. how do the greens work? i stir them in. this is a last-minute move you would make on chopped by the way. what is it? chopped is a food network competition of all time. it really is. you don t want to be chopped on chopped . my 12-year-old loves chopped . great show. we re having an all-star series starting sunday at 9:00 p.m. every sunday thereafter. we ll see serious drama and serious delicious eats. looks good. i made garlic toast with this and to go with it, something really fresh. i need you to dress this for me. hello, asparagus. pour it right over and just toss it in the bowl. hoda and kathie lee are next. we ll be right back after your local news. good morning, and welcome. 9:56 the time. i m barbara harrison. later today, maryland could take an important step toward becoming the sixth state to legalize gay marriage. the house judiciary committee is set to vote on the bill. if it passes, it could come up for a final vote as early as thursday. and another escalator out of service at the dupont circle metro station. it hasn t been working since last night when the motor started to give off smoke. no word on when it might be fixed. and it s cold out there today! temperature down, tom? yeah, really. we get into the 70s yesterday, now 30s this morning. and right now as we approach 10:00, it s climbing to around 40 and we ve got a beautiful blue sky, but the winds are still a bit blustery, so it feels colder than that. later today, we should make it into the upper 40s, lots of sun. winds will diminish. a bit milder to but cold on thursday. steve hirschorn, how s traffic? very slow, tom. accident southbound 95 at newington. only one lane was getting by. looks like another lane is getting by, but it s slammed from the beltway in springfield just to get to newington. germantown, accident eastbound 118, just east of 270, again, with only one lane getting by. barbara? okay, steve, thank you. news 4 34idday starts at 11:00 a.m. first, here s a look at what we re working on for later today. tonight at 5:00, feeling tired or forgetful? you may think it s just stress from your job, but doctors say it could be a sign of a more serious problem. we break down the warning signs. plus, advice for people who are looking for work. the two questions to ask at the end of every interview. that s tonight on news 4 at 5:00. from nbc news, this is today with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hey, everybody. we re saying good-bye to meredith who doesn t want to come over and see us. she s too important. she s too important. that s fine. meredith, it s booth day, tuesday, did you know that? march 1st. i can t join you. why? get over here. i ll just say hello to your fans. are you feeling better? because we were concerned about you. we were worried about you. your throat. are we really concerned about me? yes, we really were. i was, hoda, of course, wasn t. i just can t seem to lose the raspiness. you like that. it s kind of sexy. may i leave now? darn, she s cute. adorable. how cute is she? the best. it s national pancake day. yeah! she s heard about that. so the drill there is is that you can get free pancakes at ihop today. right. but they want you to give a little donation to charity when you do it. we re going to have a little face-off, you and me. you cheated. and we have it on tape. no. hoda, look at your feet! i have long legs. okay? they need room to spread out. anyway, we re going to redo that pancake toss. that s unbelievable! oh, please. over the line. you can t get so technical. who won? oh, himy gosh, hoda! everyone s attention to detail. how about attention to detail in charlie s life. we know who we re talking about. we re going to talk about this today because jeff rossen is the guy who ran the interview with charlie sheen. he sure did. he s going to talk to us later in the show. i m interested in his insight because he was with him for eight hours. yes, at his home. at his home. we saw what he looked like on camera. but as we both know, the cameras don t always tell the truth. lighting is a funny thing. i m just curious, it would be interesting to see what he was really like, what he really looked like. because when he did ask him, are you on drugs now? look at me. but he doesn t look good. i don t think he can even see himself clearly now. it would be curious how life sometimes is different. yeah. one of the things charlie sheen talked about in this brand-new interview with jeff is he talked about the women who live with them. there are two women who he calls the goddesses. what are they? one is a porn star, bree, and the other is just their girlfriend. i guess they re both sort of his girlfriends, but one of them looks awfully young. awfully young. without the makeup on and everything, i m thinking oh, my. let s listen to this. we run errands, we eat, we play with the kids. we think up fun plans. yeah. we watch movies. i watch a lot of two and a half men. do you love his kids? are you kidding? i wish i was there with them right now. i didn t want to put them down. they re calling you. i don t want to put them down. can i tell him? okay. he s, like, bye. if you say dad s busy, he goes, okay, dada s busy. he s fine with it. is this normal? aside from the day we sat there with the girl with pom-poms. they ll run with that. they ll run with that. i m joking. charlie told me you can put him in his place. when he s wrong, you put him in his place. do you? reporter: no, let her answer. i don t generally have to. i respect charlie as a man, and i respect him as a head of household and trust him completely. if there s something i think is a little bad as an idea, i might say hey, babe, you know, let s think about it this way and, you know, it works. the system works for us. reporter: what do these two women do for you that other women in your life haven t? you ve chosen women before that you have loved. brooke mueller. these women don t judge me. they don t judge me, they don t lead with an opinion, their own needs all the time. they re honest enough to say hey, park your nonsense. you re going to help me solve this and we solve it. i tell them, don t live in the middle. get away from your emotions, your ego, and therein lies the solution. reporter: are these women allowed to say to you, charlie, you re being a jerk? yes. do they talk back to you? those are the best jokes of the day. yes, we have an open dialogue. reporter: they put you in your place? everybody vote has equal importance. but when there s when we re approaching crisis, i remind them, look, i m 22 years further down the road. and trust me, most of the time well, in the last few days all the time my plan is going to be the best one in the world. so just trust me on that and everybody will win. everybody will win and everybody s needs will be taken care of. anyhoo. frank s 23 year es older than i am. he could still be wrong. you just respect the person. what do they talk about? i don t know. i can t believe that those 2-year-old twins are in the house. i just can you find it hard to believe that a mother would leave the children i don t care probably they have to legally because it s a custody situation. i guess. i wouldn t want i wouldn t want other people raising my children, you know. anyhoo. so here s something that really got under my skin. i know i m late on this train, but i m sorry. the bachelor last night. nobody told me brad womack, this guy, was such a say what you said in the dressing rm, hoda. i got to tell you, he got completely under my skin. this guy, brad womack, okay, he s down to two girls. this woman, the blonde, her fiance died several years ago. she now has a 5-year-old daughter. and watching him, like, talk about how much he cares and loves both of these all these different women is repulsive. it s a lot like charlie. but you know what it is? i bet for a lot of guys i bet a lot of guys do say the same thing to a lot of different women. they do. they say the same thing, the same lines. it grossed me out watching it on tv. i know why people watch it. i m praying that he doesn t i don t want him to pick the girl with the baby. because i think her name s emily. emily, with the baby. and her daughter s name is rickie. i don t want anybody to end up with him. i mean, they have these overnight sleepovers or whatever they re called, the secret room you go in at nighttime. i mean, it is i mean, i do want to see the end. see? hoda, that s the point. don t watch this stuff. no, i have to know. what goes in comes out. i ve never seen you i am in. as wound up as you were this morning. i m upset he s going to pick one of these two women. it s all contrived, hoda. he was on a few seasons ago. he said he wasn t ready to fall in love. now he s ready to fall in love. he s already in love. he s in love with himself. there s no room for anybody else. why didn t anyone tell me about this show? i had no idea what was going on. anyway, it was good. i was totally and completely in. we are going to the royal wedding. we got an invitation. we re not going to the wedding. we are actually going april 29th, we re going to be live from london on april 28th. yes. live from london. shocking. it s going to be an international incident, no question. it s interesting. they re selling all kinds of tchotchkes, you ll kinds of memorabilia. this ring, the replica of the one charles gave diana. the exact same one was given to kate by prince william. how much was this one? this one now sells for $50.28. at the ukgiftcompany.com. they make such great phony jewelry now, costume jewelry, it s actually very pretty. okay. we ve talked before about would you want the ring that has such negative connotation in one way. we sort of got through that. now apparently they re inviting people to their wedding. yeah. past loves, past boyfriends and girlfriends. oh, i think that s weird. i mean, the idea of having, like, my fiance or the guy i m going to marry, his ex-girlfriend at the wedding? yeah. i think i might say even if i wanted to, frank could have kiboshed that in a second. but what is the point? i think a lot of people remain great friends with people. if it was like your first love or your first and i don t know. maybe you had children together. i don t know. there s all kinds of different reasons. i think it s very evolved of them. so he s inviting an old girlfriend and she s inviting an old boyfriend? we don t know the details. we wanted to know what you think about that on facebook. you can also get no more way to katie. that premieres today. that was her color. and the other one that s really pretty over there, both available on beglowing.com for 14 bucks. now, hoda was not feeling well last night. so i, along with sunny, had to go forge on and go to the very first preview of a brand-new musical that i ve been hearing an awful lot about, priscilla queen of the desert. would you please, jerry. we have a gift for you. okay. we have manolo blahniks for you. they re not that big. princess style. thank you. jerry, show me some love. you look beautiful. the reason he has the boa on, it s sort of the theme of the show. it came from a movie. you can now get these they re $745 at the flagship store. oh, okay. a portion of the profits goes to bette midler s new york restoration project. she s one of the producers. all i can tell you is it s so outrageous drag queens. drag queens are people, too. look at you. they give amazing performances. the costumes won an oscar years ago in the movie. and it s the same people doing them there. i ve never felt so underdressed in my life with this group of people. it s not for everybody. it s not the kind of thing my mom would go to. it s not camelot. because of the subject matter, but it s brilliantly done. it goes from being quite vulgar one second to being very vulnerable the next second. and you care about these people and their road to discovery and love. it s mott music. say a prayer for you. and i will survive and i like the night life. and true colors. it opens march 20th. next, we re going to take you behind charlie sheen s closed doors to hear more about what goes on and the women he calls his goddesses. and we ll talk to the women of the fbi drama. that is one sexy guy. 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i don t know. i told him from the beginning, look, i m not going to ask you softball questions. i m going to ask you what people are thinking. i m not going to step all over you, i m not going to spin this around. i m just going to let you talk and give you your platform and let you say what you want to say. but i m never going to come down. i think we connected on that level. plus he has really good bagels in his house. that s good. he said he seems to have a real trust factor with some of his people in his inner circle, even though we heard that stan rosenfeld just left, his longtime pr guy. how did he react to that? how did he react to that? i think he and stan are close. they ve been together for years. this is, i think, a falling out. i think charlie has what he calls his master plan about how to get his career back on track. and some people close to him have a different master plan. and right now charlie wants to call the shots in his own life. and i think as a publicist, when you feel like you can t control your client and stan has every right to probably say, look, if you re not going to listen to me, then maybe we shouldn t be working together for now. i think they may come back together later. as far as his inner circle goes, it s very interesting when you re at the house, what really struck me i don t know how it is at your house, kathie lee s is probably people are coming in and out, there are men without shirts, i don t know what s going on there. but in most of our houses nice. let s just let that marinate for a moment. and good. people just walk in and out of his house. everyone from childhood friends. he has two assistants at least. he has a chef. people are walking in and out all day. it s a gated community. you can t just go in there. there are people who live there or who just walk in. i only met him a few days ago. i ve been talking and texting with him for a few months. he s so trusting. i m going to go upstairs and shower before the interview. everyone was gone. my producer and i were sitting in his living room for a half hour by ourselves. when the guy trusts you, he trusts you. one of the questions is this guy on drugs. i know that was one of the first questions out of the gate. let s listen to what he had to say about that. the first question america wants to know, are you clean right now? look at me. drug tests don t lie. when was the last time you did drugs? don t remember. don t care. drug tests don t lie. scoreboard doesn t lie. you say you ve cured yourself. yes. he looks terrible. does he not realize it? did he not seem like he was on anything, jeff? he actually seemed clean to me, believe it or not, just from talking to him off camera. he said people mistake my shaking. another reporter asked him about that yesterday. billy bush from access hollywood said you shake a lot. you seem manic. i think he s amped up sitting at home. he basically can t leave himself. there are live trucks and roertds parked everywhere. he feels like a hostage in there. the people closest to him say that work really is the regiment that he needs. when he doesn t have work and he s just sitting around obsessing about things like i guess the rest of us, it s a problem. and i think he just feels caged up. and that s what you re seeing. i have to say, he had a lot to say about warner brothers, too. let s listen to that, jeff. your lawyers wrote a letter to warner brothers. yes. saying you want to get paid for eight episodes. yeah, of course. yeah. why? because that s what i was slated for. that s what i agreed to do. you want to move forward? well, god, yeah. there s work to do. there s shows to be delivered. we re running out of time. the clock s ticking, you know? warner brothers has agreed to pay the crew of two and a half men for four episodes. good. it s a start. i won t sleep till they get eight. and then i m going to work on my cast and worry about myself last. you think because of the pressure you re applying, they re getting paid now? well, yeah. who else is applying pressure? jon cryer? angus? anybody? no one s doing anything. they re sitting at home waiting for something to happen. is he not aware that he s coming off like the only person in the world he thinks about is himself? yeah, i don t think he sees it that way. in charlie s mind he says, look, i have a master plan. everyone has to sit back and listen to me. it may seem selfish right now. it may seem whatever it may seem to you, but in the end he says everyone is going to win. these are his words because i m a winner. and when you re on board with a winner, everyone wins. he says follow my plan till the end. everyone will have their job back. he s confident. jeff, i think he s sensitive about what fans thought. i like what you did. you pulled out a twitter page and you had him read what people are saying. let s listen and we want to hear what you say on the other side. some people asked me today, is he delusional, crazy, just a narcissist, is he a nice guy? how would you describe yourself of those choices? i am grandiose because i live a grandiose life. and i m tired of being aww shucks. no, that s not me. that is me. thank you for recognizing it and i support it. what s wrong with that? for years there were actors that i thought were arrogant and so completely full of themselves. now i look back on some of that and i go, wow, they were just uber confident. they were just projecting an image that they believed to be true. now i get it. what do you want to say to the fans? there are a lot of fans out there who are worried about you. no, don t be worried. celebrate this movement. i love and i m so grateful that you have supported me and this show for so long. and i will not let you down, trust me. you ended up showing him some twitter responses, messages and stuff. tell us his reaction to that. yeah. i mean, it s actually awkward, right, when you re looking at somebody, especially charlie sheen, and you re saying, look, mary from ohio said you re a psycho. he handled it rather well. and this goes back to what i was saying before. he allows me to do that and sort of have that access because i let him answer. he said, look, this doesn t bother me. these people don t understand me. and he s able to just compartmentalize that. he says that people don t get him or a bore. and that the people who get him get him. and if you don t get him, tough. and he says that everybody s just jealous because he lives this great life that everybody wishes they had. jeff, great work, really. congratulations. thank you. still to come, more celebrity news when we bring you today s press. undeniably colorful, seriously smooth, and in excellent condition. those are your lips with new covergirl lip perfection. it doesn t just give you beautiful color now, it gives you more beautiful lips in 7 days. in a single stroke, rich color rocks your lips. in a single week, silk therapy moisturizers help smooth and soften them. how perfect! 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ever since her last album came out, it bombed, then the movie bombed. then there was the national anthem mistake, the super bowl. her marriage fell apart. the woman actually has been going through a hard time, both personally and professionally. she fell at the grammys. well, we talked a lot about charlie sheen this morning. i don t know, what s your take on what s going on? it seems to me that he s suffering from more than just drug abuse. i mean, either he s got some kind of mental illness or the drugs have done something to his mind. i mean, he s full of grandiosty. there there s a part of me that believes him, that he can cure himself and maybe he can take charge of his life. why do you think that? because he is so passionate about it and because his tests have been clean. we heard jeff rossen s interview. he said when he was at the house with him, he appeared i mean, this is long term. but, of course, i think he can believe himself, but that doesn t mean that he s not completely out of his mind. his goddesses. it is not out of the question that a big celebrity can turn his life around. we hope he does. but listen, he s got these goddesses, they re helping take care of his children. it really worries me. he s an swelliintelligent ma. he may have convinced himself. it doesn t mean it will work. it doesn t mean that he s not thinking like a normal human being. i mean, he s got tiger dna. he s let everybody down who s concerned about him, called them trolls, fools. everybody s wrong but him. that s because, i mean, i really think he s suffering from some kind of a complex. he thinks that he we said he s got the blood of adonis. he said, i m superior. that s hard to watch, i ve got to say. is anyone worried about his children? that s horrible, more than anything. lindsay lohan made an appearance. she popped back up. and i saw on extra i think she s doing an interview. then there was this jimmy kimmel thing where she was doing something called pilates. she didn t but a lot of the other stars about. jessica biel, jessica alba, sophia vergara. humpilates. it is such a good price. and the price is so low, it is a steal. so she pops out and says allegedly. do you think that the way that she s going about her reentry is a smart way to do it? well, not really, but i think she has done a smart thing. she s given an interview to extra in which she acknowledges that she s got a long way to go to make people trust her again, to make the business trust her and to be insurable. and i think that is very smart for her to be contrite finally. i think the first thing out of her mouth, too, in that interview is that she says i have to become insurable again. not that i have to get my life together, but the same thing with charlie. he s got to be insurable again. they re not going to start production again. it s too expensive. what about the fact they re talking about john stamos, somebody like that coming in to take over for him? apparently he was approached by les moonves. there s a report. and they re looking around. i mean, i actually think john stamos would be fantastic. but lindsay, there s also a new tape apparently, a surveillance tape, offer in the store where she s talking to the owner for 45 minutes wearing the necklace. i think that sheds a whole new light on the case. she d better go to trial and be acquitted because apparently that s the only way she s going to avoid jail. i can solve the whole thing. do it. i will go over to the set of the show, and i ll call it one and a half men and one po postmenopausal broad. done. we re done talking about it for a while. guys, thank you so much. thank you very much. coming up, we re going to fill you in on all things to look forward to after 40 and beyond. plus the pancake competition. look at hoda s feet! look at that! i have long legs. oh, my gosh. first these messages. this week, make pasta night more exciting for your family with a little help from the italian sausage experts: try. since 1945, this delicious italian sausage has been made with only the most premium cuts of pork and unique blends of quality herbs and spices you can actually see. and the taste? why not let the empty plates speak for themselves. make pasta night a weekly dinner your family looks forward to. choose johnsonville, america s favorite italian sausage. brand power. helping you buy better. if there s one thing we all have in common in every corner of the world, it is that we are all aging. one second at a time. exactly right. and for many women it s the number 40 that can send them over the edge. while 40 may not be the new 20, but there s a new book to help you make the best of the aging process. it s called fortytude. it s by sarah brokaw. she s the beloved daughter of tom. your mother married a beautiful person. look how cute they are, by the way. and still in love. uh-huh. so why is it that we get freaked out over numbers like this, 40, 50? right. i think that s an excellent question. i think that it has a lot to do with internal and external factors. i think that the internal factor for women who are hitting their mid-30s has a lot to do with fertility. that the ability to get pregnant at 28 versus 35, if you can imagine, is a lot higher than it is when you re 35. and the risks as well. and the risk is much higher. that s number one. i think number two, 35 is the age where we have our first mammogram. most likely we have all known someone who s been diagnosed with breast cancer. at that age. and i think that s just another reminder of our mortality. and when you think about being a life span of 70 years, that s mid life. sort of a midlife crisis. absolutely. there s also the external factors that occur. you know, a number of women, there s going to be the woman who develops a great career for herself. she reaches the corporate ladder, the top of the corporate ladder and realizes that the glass ceiling is that much thicker and she doesn t know how to get beyond that. she also looks at herself at 39 and 40 and thinks, i ve carved this great path for myself but i m not married. i don t have children. or you have a stay-at-home mom, who feels accomplished, being a mother, but once the kids leave the home, feels irrelevant. who are they? the one thing about this book, it gives you sort of concrete takeaways. a lot of books make you feel crummy and blah. there are five essential blocks i like to use as my guiding principles, grace, connectedness, accomplishment without the monetary, materialistic factor, adventure and spirituality. let s bring out beth goodman. absolutely. she s one of these women come on out, beth. now, beth is a breast cancer survivor. i am. we bonded earlier. we did a chest bump. don t even ask about it. she made me do it. you re unique in this book. what was it? tell us your input for this book? well, i was introduced by sarah or introduced to sarah by sisters network. and as the three-year conqueror of breast cancer, she was looking for someone to share their story about being a survivor. specifically an african-american. and i am one that has taken this journey and want to sprinkle it and share it with everyone. well, you don t see it as cancer like the way it s spelled, but you see it as can-cer. so many people think death when they hear cancer. and i chose to accept life in that it was predestined for me to be able to share with the world that it is not always a death sentence. and that you can live every day in some wonderful shade of pink. but don t you think you were a very strong person going into discovering that you had that diagnosis? yes. talk about i know. this is one of those. you ve got to read the book. you have to read the book. it will lift you up. exactly. and i m not here to tell people to buck up. i m here to say that there are ways in which you can approach life with fortitude. and to do that, you really need to incorporate these five values. but most importantly is defining those five values in your own words. the minute you hear someone else s voice other than your own, learn how to really redefine it. it s a terrific book. own my fortitude. sarah, good luck with the book. thanks so much. up next, hoda and i go head to head for the pancake toss. don t take your eyes off her feet. i don t cheat. we all love a little friendly competition around here, but sometimes it can get downright ugly. if anyone knows, it s hoda. take a look at this pancake toss from last year where hoda clearly crossed the line in more ways than one. look at her feet. look at this. hey, i have longer legs than you. i need room. then start further back. i was trying. hoda, you didn t for one minute look down at the line. i wasn t pay attention to the line, but let s play again. this year to avoid cheating, we have a special setup. bring it out, boys. this is going to be hoda, i told you. a little cheating. this will be the place you stand. no! we re going to see you try to do that toss from here. come on. because you re such a pro that we re going to put you in this. kathie lee i don t care. i ll still win. kathie, you step right over there. let s try this again. okay. go. i hate this pool. hoda, get back in your pool! okay. give me some more. not a one. get in there. i don t think you got one in. hey, hey! whoops. did someone count? that was at the buzzer. i only got two that i know of. you did step out of the pool. oh, i got three. hoda one, two, three, four, five. even though i was put back in the pool hoda may have taken it this year. thank you very, very much. harry connick jr. tomorrow. with fios, when you re watching the picture, it just jumps out at you. -it was like, wow! -bam! 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