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pink slip today thursday, april 7th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m meredith vieira. and i m matt lauer. i think we have a live shot of the white house. they re trying to aprovide the nifrt government shutdown in nearly 15 years. and while the president is optimistic, he eels always warning of the harm that failure will mean for the americans and economic recovery. we re live in washington with the very latest straight ahead. also ahead, a first measure of justice for jaycee dugard. she s the california woman that was kidnapped at the age of 11 and then held captive for 189 years. now there s word that dugard s alleged abductor could plead guilty. that could spare her from having to testify in court about what she endured. plus, a new chapter for the couple involved in a heartbreaking fertility mix jum. carolyn savage was implanted with another person s embryo. the savages are with us this morning with some very special news to share, but we re going to begin with the efforts in washington to avert a government shutdown. kelly only has the latest. kelly, good morning. reporter: and good morning to you, meredith. the white house meeting went on for about 90 minutes. then staffers kept going. this morning sources say they did take a break, but no breakthroughs. they ll be back at the bargaining table again today. a night shift for more budget negotiations at the white house very late wednesday. good evening, everybody. reporter: a progress report from the president who made the stakes more personal. a government shutdown has real consequences for real people. reporter: minutes later standing together, speaker john boehner and majority leader har are read. i have confidence but we re not there. i think we ve made some progress. reporter: a crisis point. don t shut this government down. you re not going to shut it down on my watch! reporter: both parties battling over how deep the federal government should go to keep the government open after friday. taking pot shots at everything the republicans propose while rooting, rooting for a shutdown. reporter: in an exclusive interview with nbc news before the white house meeting, majority leader reid said republicans refuse to compromise. reporter: if there were a shutdown, are you responsible? at least in part? we have said, okay, what s your number, we ll go halfway. that wasn t good enough. what s your number, we ll go all the way. how can we be blamed when we have given them everything they want and they won t take yes for an answer. they won t take yes for an answer. reporter: reid s answer is blame the tea party. visible and vocal. we will prevail is! reporter: the tale parter supporters and electors put 65 policy changes on the table known as riders. many deep cuts to social programs and the health care law. republicans have no interest in shutting down the government. shutting down the government, i think, is irresponsible, and i think it will end up costs the american taxpayers more money than we re already spending. reporter: but reid says tea party pressure gives speaker boehner less room. reporter: doesn t that make it harder? there are people of good will in that republican caucus and in the house of representatives who want to do the right thing. they re being held back by this loud group screaming from the right. reporter: is the john boehner you see in private different than the speaker we see publicly? i ve watched john boehner. i have to be careful. i don t want to say too many nice things about him. it might hurt him with the tea party. i have great respect for him. he s got a very difficult job. reporter: and today bane eers next move is to have the house of representatives vote on a one-week extension. the president says he doesn t want to see it happen. senate democrats say they don t want to see it either. but boehner and republicans say that s at least one way to prevent a shutdown. matt. kelly o donnell at the capitol this morning. let s bring in savannah guthrie. good morning to you. we ve got john boehner saying there s progress but no deal. harry reid saying he s expressing confidence. the president is expressing confidence. how hopeful is the white house? reporter: it s very touch and go. make no mistake about it. this is not one of those faux government shutdown threats. this very well could happen. one positive sign is some of that public recrimination and sparring isn t happening the way it was happening 24 hours ago, the same people who were grousing on the phone yesterday won t do so today. that suggests people are working toward a deal. the number crunchers were here well past midnight. there are really just a fill billion apart, which in the context of a $3.5 trillion budget it s not that much. it s also what the republicans feel strongly about, the defunding of the planned parenthood. ultimately the deal could break down over those kind of issues. so if the government is shut down, there ll be political price to pay. we re hearing a lot of guessing games are about where that blame will go. where does the white house calculate in that regard? reporter: i think it s clear the president doesn t want a shutdown. i think the leaders don t want a shutdown for the simple reason nobody knows who the american people would ultimately blame. back in the 90s the republicans got the blame. our own nbc wall street journal poll shows that the blame kind of gets spread around equally. i ll say one thing. the president knows that if the government is shut down and there s some kind of problem with the recovery, that it affects the economic recovery. he will get blamed for that, and that s one reason the white house is working very hard to avoid this outcome. thanks very much. it s seven after the hour. here s meredith. now o for the race to the white house in 2012. if new nbc wall street journal report shows one. romney is tied in second. mitt romney leads. among the republicans who consider themselves tea party supporters, trump is the number one choice. on wednesday we sat down with him for an scluive interview and i began by asking trump about his potential run. well, this is very serious. i admit i always take things seriously, but i ve never taken it seriously like this. this is a very serious time in my life. i hate what s happening to the country. i wish i didn t have to do it. i wish this country was running so great, and i wish obama was the greatest president since abraham lincoln and i wish this was the greatest place in the world. what we re doing is unbelievable. if you look at what s going on, where our jobs are disappearing to foreign countries, and oil, you re going to be paying $7, $8 a gallon very soon. do you blame it all on barack obama? i blame a lot of it. it s been a terrible presidency. look at libya. we don t want to remove gadhafi but we re going to fight and now this. nobody knows what ooh happens. it looks like gadhafi is going to beat the united states. would you as president get more aggressive? is. i m only interested in libya if we keep the oil. i don t know who the rebels are. they make the rebels like it s some romantic beautiful novel. i hear they re al qaeda, i hair they re iran-backed and iran-influenced. gadhafi s going to go around saying he won the war against this country. when you ask me what i do, i m only interested in libya if we get the oil. all right. so everybody wonders what the obama doctrine is. he doesn t have a doctrine. he doesn t have a doctrine. what s your doctrine? what would your doctrine be? with what? with respect to what? foreign affairs. foreign affairs is we take care of ourselves first. we don t build schools in afghanistan. we go to afghanistan, we build a road, we build a school. two days later they blow up the road, they blow up the school and we start rebuilding. in the meantime we can t build skls in alabama, new york, alabama, texas, we re spending trillions and trillions of dollars. my thing and my doctrine would be build, building build. positive news poll for you that shows you surging to second place among potential gop candidates for 2012. why do you think that you re connecting with voters? i think that i connect with people because i happen to be smart, i happen to have a lot of common sense, i happen to know what i m doing, i built a great company, and, by the way, if i run, i look so forward to filing a declaration because it s a great company. i built a great company and i ll make that decision sometime prior to june. what are you waiting for? i hate to say it. i have the number one show on nbc. is that the correct statement? the celebrity apprentice is doing great. what s it sounds conservatitrivial. you re not allowed to have a show on and be a candidate. it s a great show and it s got phenomenal ratings, and until that show is over i can t declare, otherwise nbc would have to take the show off the air and that would be very unfair. recently you spent a lot of time talking about president obama s birth certificate or lack thereof. you re convinced he doesn t have one. no, he doesn t have one. i ve had very smart people say, donald, stay on the china issue, saudi arabia issue, stay on india taking our jobs and mexico, nafta, get off the birth certificate issue. why don t you? because you know what? three weeks before he started i thought he was born in the country and now i have a much bigger doubt. his grandmother in kenya says he was born in kenya and witnessed the birth, okay? he doesn t have a birth certificate or he hasn t shone it. he has what s called certificate of live birth. that s something that s easy to get. consider the equivalent. it s not the equivalent. in the state of hawaii they say they have seen this document, he was born in the uned states, that s good enough for them. a birth certificate is not even close. a certificate of live birth is not even signed by anybody. i saw his. i read it very carefully. it doesn t have a serial number, doesn t have a signature. there s not even a signature. do you think he was lying? come on, just answer. meredith, he spent $2 million in legal fees trying on to get away from this issue, and if he weren t issue, why would j he just solve it? i wish he would because if he doesn t, it s one of the greatest scams in the history of politics and in the history, period. you are not allowed to be a president if you re not born in this country. right now i have real doubts. i have people that have been studying it and they cannot believe what they re finding. you have people down there i mean searching in hawaii? absolutely. they can t believe what they re finding. i d like him to show his birth certificate. can i be honest with you? i hope he can. if he can t, if he can t, if he wasn t born in this country, and i m not saying it s a real possibility. but it s much greater than two or three weeks ago, then he s pulled one of the greatest cons in the history of politics and beyond. do you consider yourself a tea partier? i think so. yeah? i m very proud of some of the ideas they put forth. the big ideas, they want to stop this ridiculous, absolutely killer of spending that s going on. what s going on in this country, the way we re spending money like drunken sailors, we are absolutely i m telling you, we re going to destroy our own freedom. they can t stop it even with the possibility of shutting down the government. excuse me it s not shutting down the government. it s cutting costs. the kind of money you re talking about is pea nuts. and i think the tea party has done an amazing service for this country. people, even very liberal democrats are starting to thing for the first time, well, maybe we can t keep giving everything away. i think they performed a great service. so if there were a partial shutdown of the government come friday, that would be okay with you. i hear democrats are going to be blamed, the republicans are going to be blamed. i actually think the president is going to be blamed. if there is a shutdown, but as you know it s a partial shutdown. if there s a shutdown, i think it would leave a tremendous mark on the president of the united states. he s the one who has to get people together. i ve made hundreds and hundreds of deals and tractionnsactions. how can you expect a man he never did a deal. how would you do it now? now, you re in the oval office now. i would get everybody together. i would have a budget. they ve gotten together. well, that s because they don t have the right leader. you don t have the right leader. this is the president of the united states has to get this done, and i think he probably will. now, i don t say he. but i think he and the group probably will get it done, but it s pretty sad because the whole world is looking at us and laughing at us. you ve criticized obama quite a bit in this interview and in the past. what do you think he has done well? get elected. i think he did a great job when he ran for office. that s it? well, i think obama care is a total disaster. i think the thing that he did best, best of all is get elected. he got elected. he ran an unbelievable campaign. i want him to do well. if i had my choice of having obama do great as a president and do a really great job for this country and not running as opposed to running, i d prefer that he did a great job. i love this country. but this country is going to hell. i would run a great, great country. this country will be great again. it is not great right now. we have huge deficits, huge unemployment, huge problem, and we re not respected. we re not respected in the world. the world laughs at us. they won t be laughing if i m president. he s certainly not a shrinking violet. how much tape did you have because there s more. but wait, there s more. and that s coming up later, right? there s a little bit more, yeah. he s you know, i think he is serious. now, he s got a couple of months to think about this, ponder this a little more, but i think he s taking it very seriously. and he s serious about having people down in hawaii right now. that s what he claims. he claims there are people there that are investigating it, and it will be interesting to see what they come up with. i used the word detective. he didn t discount the word so i would assume that s who they are. what we would love to see is donald come back and show the evidence. exactly right. i wonder if he s going to declare for president. he said he was going to do it on our broadcast. he told us yesterday. let us go to the other top story os testify morning. t tamara hall is in. gadhafi is appealing to president obama to stop air strikes over libya. he expressed support for him. this morning on the ground rebels report friendly fire from nato. nbc stephanie gosk is there with the latest. stephanie, good morning. reporter: good morning. this is an example of just how confusing it is on the ground in libya and how difficult it is going to be to bomb the forces from the air. they say they hit one of the units on the side of the road. they took out a number of tanks as well as a bus containing a number of fighters. six and seven ambulances raced by. this is only going to make the fight even more difficult for the rebel fighters. the u.s. military tells nbc news that gadhafi is already repositioning to move east in the coming days and that these forces are absolutely no match for his well trained, well equipped, and experienced mi edy sa. a second american has been confirmeded dead after the devastating tsunami in japan. this as works at the crippled fukushima facility are injecting nitrogen into the reactor. meanwhile japanese police say they re pushing to recover and identify thousands in spite of the nuclear radiation in the area. the federal aviation administration is taking steps to fire yet another air traffic controller who was found to be asleep on the job. they say the knoxville, tennessee, controller willfully napped on the job for five hours. they ve been under review since a similar incident on march 23rd at reagan national airport in washington, d.c. a lifelong friend of possible has been arrested in an undercover sting operation in soliciting a prostitute. he s often seen at the president s side on his return trips to his home state, hawaii. mandy at the new york stock exchange. good morning. good morning. a lot of action out of europe today. portugal has decided to seek a financial bailout. this could be taken a positive. another country is finally seeking help. this all comes as the european central bank is trying to tackle inflation. at this stage the markets are pricing in one u.s. rate hike by only next year. that means high borrowing costs to you and me. back to you, tamron. an unlikely childhood dream come true for a 5-year-old. he became a youtube sensation when his uncle posted a video when he was crying when he was told he was too small to be the governor of new jersey. what is making you so sad. because everyone is telling me i m too small to to be the governor of new jersey. everyone s wrong. chris christie made jesse the honorary governor and taught him an important less on about politics. did we talk about property earth taxes? of course you did. what did i tell you. don t raise them. if you do raise them, what s going to happen. i m not going to be governor for that long. super cute. back to matt, meredith, and al. did you notice his brother? he didn t seem interested at all. he s like what s going on. his brother is a lieutenant governor. he wants to be a meteorologist. he no longer wants to be a governor. he wants to be a rock star now. so take that. too bald to be a weather man. let s show you what s happening for today.s show you what is hag for today. a double barrel low pressure system in the west bringing a lot of rain where they don t need it. especially, risk of strong storms could be hail as well, and we move on into tonight, anywhere from one to half inch of rain spreading from omaha into columbus. here is what is happening in your neck of the woods. good morning, clouds over the district and east of washington continuing to travel east. we will have a clearing sky this morning and a bit of sunshine, and up in the 30s, and closer to washington low to mid-40s. later we should make it to the mid-and upper 60s, and clouds returning this afternoon and overnight tonight. looks like rain tomorrow from the morning all the way into the evening, and maybe a lingering shower on saturday morning. that s your latest weather. thank you very much. pleading guilty. what the man accused of kidnapping jaycee dugard and holding her captive 18 years may be about to do to help his alleged victim and his own wife. we ll have details on that. first this is today on nbc. just ahead, controversial concern, host glenn beck leaving his tv show. why? 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[ male announcer ] ask your veterinarian i wear what i love, because expression means everything. too hot to trot some say i m one-of-a-kind. i say i m so chico s. you know rheumatoid arthritis means pain. but you may not know it can also mean destruction. not just of your joints, but of the things you love to do. and the longer you live with the aching, swelling, and stiffness, the closer you may be to having your favorite things. taken away from you. but you can take action today. go to ra.com for your free joint profile so you can better talk to your rheumatologist about protecting your joints. good morning. sunshine breaking out. we re in the 40s. later today in the 60s. we will have clouds returning. looks like a wet and chilly day on friday. maybe a lingering shower on saturday morning. otherwise weekend looks dry. sunday in the mid-70s. keep up with the weather anytime with weather channel on cable. there were two separate accidents, one in the hov lanes and one in the regular lanes. both accidents cleared from traffic, but we are jammed all the way up to the capital beltway. back to you. from their birth to their first words, how can you chronicle every one of your child s mild stones with a morni. the 7th of april, 2011. the clouds have rolled in here in new york city. the temperatures aren t so bad. they re expected to get up into the 50s over the weekend. maybe even 60, which is nice. these are people who have gathered out at rockefeller plaza. meanwhile inside studio 1a i m matt lauer alongside meredith vieira. glenn beck drops kind of a bombshell. he told his viewers on wednesday his fox news show is going off the air. we re going to hear from him coming up. also an update on a story we ve talked about many times in the past. the couple involved in that tragic embryo mix-up will join us with some very big news to share. they re smiling. so you know it s good news. we know prince william is spoken for but there s a long list of royals still on the market and a few of them live right here in the u.s. we re going to show you where to find your potential prince-in-waiting. let s begin this half hour with a serious story. new details on the jaycee dugard case. the man accused of holding her captive for nearly two decades is expected to plead guilty to most of the charges he faces. nbc s miguel almaguer is in placer, california, with details on that. miguel, good morning to you. reporter: good morning. if he does plead guilty to those charges, he ll spend the rest of his life in prison. phillip and nancy door rideau are back in cord. the charges stem from the 1991 kidnapping on jaycee dugard. she was snatching at a but stop not far from her home when jaycee was just 11 years old. philip gur redoe is yet to enter a plea but his wife says he will plead guilty to all charges. a move expected to keep his wife from a life in prison and spare dugard from testifying. the district attorney is expecting a plea i assume because he s guilty. also i expect he doesn t want jaycee to go through the trials and tribulations of a trial. reporter: it was in this back yard compound that phillip garrido held jaycee captive, keeping her and locking her in a maze of sheds for most of her life. prosecutors say garrido raped dugard and fathered two daughters with her when she was just a teenager. a convicted sex offender, parole officers visited garrido s house 60 times during jaycee s kidnapping, yet officials failed to investigate the back younld compound despite a gps ankle bracelet showing he spent much of his time there. last year the state of california paid dugard $20 million in a settlement admitting it failed to adequately monitor garrido. according to court documents in 2004, jaycee wrote in her journal about being held captive, quote, it feels like i m sinking. this is supposed to be my life to do with what i like, but once again, he has taken it away. as for the case against nancy garrido, phillip s wife, so far she s pled not guilty to the crimes. her lawyer says she should be punished less severely than her husband. she s not a, quote, aider and abetter in the sex crimes, not in the same building, not being your principal, she s willing to bleed to what she did. reporter: experts familiar with the case say an expected guilty plea by phillip garrido would help his wife s legal battle. neither the public defender or district attorney would comment on a possible plea deal. as for jaycee dugard, those close to her say she is prepared to testify if necessary. matt? in placerville, california, my apologies to the people of that town. we ve got beth crass from trutv. good morning. nice to see you. this is coming from his wife s attorney. how closely are they working. how much inform rgs they sharing. you know, i was in court in every february when he was determined to be competent to stand trial. they t attorneys do talk. i saw nancy and phil in court that day. it was thoonl day negotiations could really begin. he was found incompetent. you can t go to trial or take a plea until you re competent. the attorneys do talk. i would not be surprised if that happens today and he pleads guilty. can you explain why his pleading guilt would spare. there s some evidence that phil garrido had control over nancy. it might mitigate giving her the same type of sentence. according to her attorney, she was offered 40 years at one point and now the offer is up to about 180 years. he says why take a plea for that. we ll go to trial. he ll take 30 though. it s almost unimaginable that if this were to go to trial, that phillip garrido could not be found guilty. i can only imagine that this young lady stands up and says that s the man that held me captive for 18 years. do prosecutors also to prevent her from taking the stand? perhaps. but she has reportedly said she s willing to testify. it will save the state a lot of money for something that may seem to be a futile exercise, even though they have an absolute right to go to trial. they ve confessed to the crime, there s so much evidence, the state has admitted that in a $20 million settlement and they were wrong in not ferreting out that problem. because they visited the property 06 times and didn t look in the backyard. if he pleads guilty and doesn t go to trial, is there a domino effect. does nancy get that? if she goes to trial, we would have to put the young lady on the stand anyway. absolutely. her attorney says, look, she ll take 30 years. she wants to hope that someday she might be free. they offered, he says, 40 years, but we don t know. it s her right whether or not to take a plea or go to trial. i don t know. it depends on the proos cuter. put yourself in the position of the defense attorney in this case, knowing the overwhelming evidence against these two. what would be your course of action? plead. absolutely. try to find the best deal possible. it has to be with nancy garrido s permission. let s get a check of the weather now from al roker. today s weather is good morning. we have twice the fun here. we have twins. what is your name? taylor, and jasmine. you talk together, too. that s nice. let s check your weather and see what is going on. we have wet weather going on along the coast, and snow in the mountains and rainfall amounts not too bad. the snow will be the big deal in the sierra and also in the inner mountain, and we re talking anywhere from 6 to 12 inches of rain. big island of hawaii, flood watches and warnings for all hawaii, and we could talk 6 to 8 inches of snow above 6,000 feet in the mountains in the big island of hawaii. they will look at flooding, and it s not all well there in paradise. here is what is happening in your neck of the woods. we have increasing sunshine this morning, and temperatures around the region. we have dipped in the upper 30s a few spots west, and we will climb in the 60s and clouds returning and then tomorrow a wet and chilly day with occasional showers likely from the morning into the evening. maybe a lingering shower on saturday morning. and sunday, warm don t forget you can check your weather any time of the day or not. check the weather at weather.com online. coming up next, a surprise announcement from controversial tv host glenn beck. why he s leaving his fox news talk show right after this. who says credit card rewards can t be simple? 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anyway, i m here with these two. coming up in the next half hour, they were at the center of an embryo mix-up. and this morning they re here to share big news when we catch up with them. that s exciting. we look forward to that. also the actress anne hathaway, sometimes said to have an animated personality. now she s animated for sure. lending her voice to the new movie rio. talk to her about her upcoming role as catwoman. she was great at the academy awards. later on. more of your exclusive interview with donald trump. why the reality star thinks he s presidential material. first we re going to get the top stories from tamron hall. a day of hard bargaining ahead for leaders of congress trying to prevent a government shutdown this weekend. they expressed confidence that a last-minute compromise on spending cuts can be reached clearing the way for a budget deal. nato is investigating claims where libya says they were hit by air strikes today forcing them to retreat. meantime u.s. officials are dismissing a letter from moammar gadhafi asking possible to call off what gadhafi calls an unjust war. police in japan intensify their search today for earthquake and tsunami victims in the evacuation zone around that damaged nuclear power plant. the areas had been largely off limits until wednesday when workers slowed the radiation leak from the plant. french forces used a helicopter to rescue the ambassador where there has been heavy fighting. unites nations secretary-general ban ki-moon is in washington today to discuss global issues with secretary of state hillary clinton after meeting with key members of congress. twigger is on its way to a $20 million tax break from san francisco. city officials gave preliminary approval to that deal which requires twitter to stay and expand in san francisco instead of moving to the suburbs. a final vote is expected next week. and a perjury trial of baseball s all time great barry bonds may go to trial. bonds is accused of lying when he told a grand jury that he never knowingly took the illegal steroids. the new attraction at the zoo was rejected by her mom shortly after she was born there. but don t worry. a team of 50 staff members an volunteers are now hand-raising her. a little sleepy there. it is now 8:03. now back to al with a check of with a check of the weather. good morning. we have some people from ottoville, ohio. it s for cancer. that s nice. how many here? like, 50. all the way down, and ottoville, ohio. show all of those ottoville folks. very nice. let s show you what is going on. our pick city of the day, wilmington, north carolina, channel 6, looking good there today. afternoon temperatures chilly here in the northeast, and we have 30s and 40s and 80s and 90s down through texas. and we will be sizzling. we have more rain along the california coast. mountain snows in the west. a slight risk of storms in the mid plains, and plenty of sunshine through the gulf coast, but showers through the dakotas where they could be sandbagging in fargo. they let a lot of kids out of school to help sandbag. you got out, because you are here. i could sandbag, but it s my director, so it s a different thing. here is what is happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. we have had sunshine in and out and we will have a front slowly drifting down and giving us cloudiness later today, and right now we re in the 40s in most of the reen and then later today in the 60s, and rain likely by dawn tomorrow and during the day friday and into friday night, and then drying out saturday afternoon, and then mid-70s on sunday. and then even near 80 on monday could get storms late in the and we stand corrected. nbc standing for nebraska bowling chicks. yeah. i always knew that, al. thank you very much. when we come back, some big news from that couple involveded in the extraordinary embryo mix-up. we ll talk to them right after this. ttd# 1-800-345-2550 ttd# 1-800-345-2550 ttd# 1-800-345-2550 ttd# 1-800-345-2550 and talk to chuck about ttd# 1-80045-2550 rolling over that old 401k. 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[ grunts ] not from my perspective! like many chefs today, i feel the best approach to food is to keep it whole for better nutrition. and that s what they do with great grains cereal. see the seam on the wheat grain? same as on the flake. because great grains steams and bakes the actual whole grain. now check out the other guy s flake. hello, no seam. because it s more processed. now, which do you suppose has better nutrition for you? mmm. great grains. the whole whole grain cereal. update, a story that we ve been following since 2009. after a clerical error at a fertility clinic carolyn and john savage received devastating news. they decided to see the pregnancy through to fulfill another couple s dream, a decision of taking their own hopes of growing their family on an unbelievable journey. carolyn and sean are here to share news with us but first their story. it began as a dream for two college sweethearts. we knew that we would start a family right away because we wanted kids and lot os of them. a plan they quickly put in motion. as they celebrated their one-year anniversary, the savages welcomed their first born, andrew. first time, no problem. first time, no problem. i carried him full termnd and we thought we were in the clear. they weren t. because of her medical history, growing a family proved difficult. their second son ryan was born premature. after miscarriages their daughter carolyn arrived in vitro vertization. a family full of love, but a promise still to fulfill. sean and i had discussed before we underwent our very first ivf that we would give every embryo we created a chance at life. if february 2009 they did just that. carolyn returned to the same clinic to have some of the remaining embryos implanted. ten days later, a devastating phone call. carolyn was pregnant but with another s child. they transferred the wrong embryos. it was a stunning, stunning moment. what s going through your mind at that point. there s a baby growing in me. it s somebody else s. what are we going to do. the answer to that difficult question came remarkably easy. we knew that we had somebody s very, very wanted child. i just couldn t see doing taking that away from another mother. i just there s no way. despite the risks to carolyn s health and that this would be her last chance to carry a pregnancy, they moved forward with the pregnancy and move aid head. they found a surrogate through jennifer. we were very, very happy. that september carolyn gave birth to a baby boy named logan. they left the hospital empty-handed but hopeful about their impending bundle. a week later, another crushing call. jennifer miscarried. i m kind of looking up at the heavens going seriously. have we not done enough? in february carolyn and saeb talked on today about their journey. despite all their pain, they count their blessings but continue to keep faith in their dreams. we re not giving up. so as we look forward, we certainly welcome more children, if that was something we re leaving our options open. carolyn and sean savage are with us along with their surrogate jn fehr. good morning to all of you. hi, meredith. good morning. before we get to the news, you ve been three so much as the piece has portrayed eight days after logan was born and you gave him to his parent, jennifer who was carrying your child as a surrogate miscarrieded but you decided you were not going to stop, you were going to keep trying. you actually harvested more embryos. why, sean? why did you want to keep going? we re not ones that give up, and that s for sure. we always wanted to expand our family, and we always kept hope. yeah. i think it was just i think we were looking for that moment when i think all families have to decide when they re done. it s a personal decision. we just didn t have it yet. so we thought we d try again. and you tried several times. you pretty much had given up, right? i had. i had. we tried three times in 2010. and by the third time i was like forget it. it s not worth it. you didn t want them to retrieve any more eggs. these two were very encouraging. we had already paid and planned for that third retrieval, and so i thought, okay. they were both like just do it, just do it. they switched our protocol, and voila. we hit the jackpot. and i want you to break the news to the audience. you really did. we hit it out of the ballpark. we re expecting twins. twins. this upcoming summer. wow. what was your reaction. so you must have told them, right? yes. very exciting, which we kind of had an idea that it possibly was. yeah. she said everything was really different this time. so she gave us a call right before christmas. it was the best christmas present ever. so we kind of just we were excited, then you hold it in, and then the worry starts. right around the beginning of january we found out it was twins, and that moment was, oh, my goodness. it s the best news. how are you feeling? i m feeling good, a little bit tired but that s to be expected. the baby s due to be delivered sometime in august at this point. do we know boy, girl? is. not yet. are you going to find out yet. oh, we re done with surprises. we want to know as soon as we hear. what role do you want jennifer to play in the babies lives, do you know? you know, jennifer we re so lucky to have her in our lives, and i can t imagine after these babies come to us, she ll always be a very, very special part of our lives, and i want them to know her and not just because you brought them into the world but because she s such an amazing person. and i think for children, as many people who can be terrific role models for them and for as many people who love them the more people o that love kids the better. why did you stick with this family, jennifer? they deserve it. i can t think of any people who deserve this. i met a lot of people and they have really touched my heart. you ve touched a lot of people s heart. i have to ask you before you go. little logan, have you seen him recently or do you hope to see him? we re hoping sometime in spring. we know he s doing well. our love for him will always be there and any opportunity we have to be part of his life, we will. just faith, hope, and love, that s where we re at right now. i m looking at your eyes filled with tears. where are they coming in? it s just excitement. for what jennifer is doing for us. i mean how thankful we are for this gift. it s unbelievable. you come back and bring the babies. oh, yes. we ve got little t-shirts and diapers and the whole thing. awesome. thank you so much. thank you. thank you. appreciate it. up next, actress anne hathaway on the oscars and catwoman. all of that right after this. i do a lot of different kinds of exercise, but basically, i m a runner. last year. 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has this worked well? it was different than i thought it would be. what were you expecting? i don t know that i was expecting anything in particular, but we didn t none of the actors worked together, so it was it was weird to be in this vacuum, you know. you re in a recording studio by yourself making noises, saying the lines, and you are told everything s fitting together beautifully. getting to see the finished product was a real gift because i had no idea what everybody else s process was. did they say go back, go back, do this line or that didn t work? are there a lot of rerecords? yeah. the whole process i signed on to was about three years. it was a long time. there is. there were a lot of changes. tell me about jewel. what kind of macaw is she? very feisty, independent, free-spirited. she s a lot of fun. she doesn t mind telling it like it is, which is very fun to play. in the movie she meets another rare blue macaw. this is blue and this is the male. the male. this is the last of their species. let s take a look at their meeting, their first encounter. wait, wait, wait, wait. did you think we were actually going to kiss? we just met. oh, my. i think they a little hem. i know how my feathers look but i m not that kind of bird. okay, i had nothing to do with it. it s an animated movie. do they get together? spoiler alert. come on, matt. the character of blue thinks they re there to save their species. she doesn t know why she s in this encluesier so when he makes a move on her it catches her off guard. leaving some mystery in the movie. trying to. did you watch the oscars this year? no. i missed it. i was spackling the ceiling. have they already happened? it s done. missed it. maybe next year. in terms of experience, what did you love, what didn t you just love? the experience was so big. just the bigness of it was so overwhelming. i just felt so much joy to get to be a part of, you know, movie history in that way. so that was that was really great. the critics come out the day after and they want to label it, and i thought the critics were particularly tough. what did you think? you know, i think they i mean they were tough. they said we were the worst show ever, so that s i think that qualifies as tough. but what i ve found is when you when i think about the oscars now, i think about it in several different experiences. there was the critical reaction, which was awful. them there was but there are the people who have been coming up to me since then who say, i thought it was fantastic. i had great time. i watched with my whole family. we were entertained the whole time. i m very grateful to those people. i m glad they felt that way. then there s my memory of it. whether it was great, it stumping, who knows. i got to walk out on the kodak and see those people and i ll be able to always have that and tell my grandkids about that hopefully. i think the most impressive room in entertainment and the toughest. that is tough. i think it s incredibly brave for anyone to take that job on because it is really probably the hardest hosting job that there is. having hosted very few things, i m sure you re right. but you know i ve got to say, the room is not that tough. the room is warm and they were so inclusive and i think also because we were actor, they gave us a little extra in the room because we were one of theirs up there, but the critics were definitely tough. would you do it again? why not. i don t know. maybe. perhaps. perhaps no. the movie is rio. this is a new 4 news break. a look at the headlines. lawmakers are working around the clock to prevent a government shutdown. if there is a shutdown d.c. agencies would be included and trash throughout the city would not be collected and parking tickets will not be issued an 1 14,000 city employees would be furloughed. the deadline to reach a deal is 12:01 a.m. saturday. we will look i am a sneeze whisperer. i am an allergy analyst. bermuda grass. ragweed. willow. i am a dander decoder. chihuahua. i am a target pharmacist. ask me about allergy relief. good morning. in the 40s around the metro area, in the 60s. cloudiness in and out, and then rain tomorrow. had an earlier car fire, and it s now cleared but route 50 is jammed because of it. thank you, jerry. from birth to the first words, how can you 8:30 now on a thursday morning. it s the 7th day of april, 2011. just a chance to say hi to the people outside our plaza again on a morning that s starting out cloudy. it could clear off a little bit. then we re expecting temperatures to climb a little bit, which is always nice, just in time for the weekend. outside the plaza, i m matt lauer along with meredith vieira, al roker, and tamron hall. anne is off today. coming up, first of all, these are two very groovy coats you re wearing. we re in the traditional drab coats and you guys are dolled up. busting out. coming up we re going to have more of your exclusive interview with donald trurp. he is wondering whether the voters will take him seriously. his thoughts on that just ahead. he s doing very well as he points out. of course another stalwart of nbc mr. bill cosby. we know when it comes to certain topics like educating our kids, he is very, very serious. what is he doing? i guess we should have put a wireless mike on mr. crosby. we should get that worked out before the interview gets started. he s no longer with us now unfortunately. something s cooking yes. something is cooking, and it s on the menu. we will get a taste and get the recipe. maybe i will make it this weekend for you guys. are you inviting us over? maybe. we ll see how it works out. let s get a check of the weather from mr. roker. for today the weekend, i should say, a risk of strong storms southeast into the ohio river valley. and mississippi river valley has strong storms as well. sunday we are looking at a strong risk of storms in the ohio river valley back down into the mid-mississippi river valley. shower in the northeast. mild in the mid-atlantic states. going to be hot from the gulf coast into texas. that s what is going on around the country and here is what happening in your neck of the woods. partly sunny now and 40s around the d.c. metro area later today we should climb into the 60s. and then rain likely tomorrow and chilly with highs only in the low 50s. rain off and on from the morning all the way to the evening, and maybe a lingering shower for saturday. and then highs, 60 on saturday afternoon, and then on monday, up near 80, could get afternoon and evening thunderstorms. don t forget you can get your weather any time day or night. weather channel on weather.com. like looking in a mere. when we come back, a man known in part for saying you re fired. more of meredith s exclusive interview with donald trump. first this is today on nbc. back now at 8:35 with more of our exclusive interview with donald trump. during our conversation we talked about his possible run for presidency, and i asked him if he thinks americans would take him seriously as a candidate. my father would never believe that i turned out to be a big television star. there are people who look and say, you know, they d say, the guy, he has a reality show. i mean not a reality show. is this the keep of person that s presidential? no, not a reality show. a huge successful reality show. still a reality show. they look at donald trump and they think well, they don t think george washington for example. they think this is the guy who has a reality show who says you re fired every week, gets in a cat fight with rosie o donnell. that she started and i finished. pompous. by the way, she started and i finished. and she wished she didn t start it, believe me. what makes you presidential? i made a tremendous success. i put hundreds of thousands of people to work. i have built a great company, which if and when i file, you will see my numbers are phenomenal. great cash, great company. people wonder about your numbers idea. they re going to see. if i fire one of the reasons i like to file, i wouldn t mind showing people. great company, tremendous cash, very little debt, very big values, tremendous values. i ve built a great company. does that translate into building a great country? i think so. look. i am different than a lot of people. one of the things i do is i love this country. i hate what s happening to this country. this country is in serious, serious trouble with a whipping post for nations all over the world. is your goal to the president? well, i would rather not be in a position where i wish i had i wish we had you, myself, everybody, somebody who was great. we don t. we don t have somebody that s great. and i don t think he ever will be great. and by the way, when he was first elected, i said i hope he s going to be the greatest president we ve ever had. i know this. i will be better than anybody. i will do the best job. if i decide to run, i will do the best job. i will be best for this country. and you may say, oh, gee, that doesn t sound like george washington. well, guess what? before george washington ran, he didn t sound like george washington either. i will be and do a great job if i run and if i win. and up next, what he s doing to inspire kids. maybe he has something to say about donald trump. first this is today on nbc. if he can get the mike on. we re going to sav [ male announcer ] beatrice earned her masters in education at a university with 20 years of experience combining classroom and online teaching. and a 15 to 1 student to faculty ratio. to make learning more. personal. today, she runs a thriving tutoring company that offers kids the same individualized attention she had. my name is beatrice hair, i teach hundreds of kids one on one, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] learn more about the college of education at phoenix.edu. this morning on education nation today, motivating a community. connecticut has one of the widest achievement gaps between lower income urban students and their weltier counterparts in the suburbs. actor comedian and education advocate bill cosby is working to change that. . we re going to talk to him in a first but first what he s doing to help fix the disparity in one nation. hey, this is all i ve got? this is bill cosby s second visit since last fall to new haven, connecticut. the neighborhood has been challenged by crippling violence, low employment, and high dropout rates. if you re situated in, around, near a lower economic neighborhood and you re a university, you re a part of the problem. you can t be insular and have these people come from all over the world and just ignore what s going on outside. he s parted with with southern connecticut university and the community to take action apz. we have to be in tube of what s going on on the street. you have to go into the eye of the storm. you can t wait for it to come to you. on his first visit, a march through the neighborhood calling for the community to come together for their children s success. it s there for you, but it won t come to you. his second time, he brought a parade. hello. hello. marching for safer streets, more tutors, and mentors, an more involvement from parents. when you know that your parents are going to stay on you, you behavie differently. you do your work. at lincoln bassett elementary school, a rally to celebrate success, where test scores are on the rise, putting these students one step closer to those in wealthier suburban schools taushld state. education is important because it s a key to what you re going to be in life. here kids are learning that they control their future. i can see. i can see. success. success. bill cosby is with us now along with stanley battle, the president of southern connecticut state university. good morning to you both. good morning. good morning. that word success, how do you measure it? the absence of failure. that simply. and you enjoy success. you enjoy it. you feel good. you do things, and then people say you worked hard and what you ve done is correct. how do you measure it in those communities, dr. battle? how do you know you ve been successful? first of all you have to go in and be consistent with what you ve delivering. go into the eye of the storm as you put it. over time. it s not going to happen overnight. the consistency, the effort, the work will take care of itself. that s where the expertise comes from. it s not about dumping a lot of problem on the money, is it, bill? boom. no. universities, students also, his school, other schools, they want to give. they learn how to give, how to serve. and so what we do is we ask for safe passage and we got it, we received it. safe passage to walk through, let people know we re knocking on their doors. we will be there for them. many times they ll say, oh, yeah, sure. we proved, we came back. we re going to come back again, and we re going to do things together so people can appreciate themselves and appreciate their children. you talk about going back, dr. battle. you have worked with dr. cosby here with north carolina, at nt, greensborough. what impact does he have. celebrity, honesty, cute. i didn t say that. it s obvious. and consistency. when someone says i didn t think anyone cared when he shopped up the first time, that was devastating but also a compliment. and the consistency. for someone of his stature to take the time to hug and to hold and to support is quite unique. it s our job to deliver the blow. you have been criticized in the past, bill, about being especially hard on the african-american community. do you think you hold them to a different standard? well, first of all, the criticism might come from some people who don t want to do any better. the krit kich criticism coule from people making money off people who aren t doing well. you have to consider the source. yeah. stanley and i, we come into those neighborhoods, and those people i m looking into their eyes, and i see people who want someone to come in and work with them. do you think that president obama has been a good education president? i do. it s a very difficult job. it s highly uneven. it s not consistent. everyone is not the same. clearly not what president obama but across the board with other presidents as well, it s not a cookie-cutter mentality. and no one can imply that. certainly he hasn t done that. so it s consistency is something that we re looking for across our country. the urban experience is very, very unique and very uneven. i want to help this united states of america, the people. i want to help whoever the president may be. but i like him very, very much. i love his wife. i love his children. i love his mother-in-law. i think they have a dog. i love the dog. they have a dog. for sure they have a dog. got to love the dog. but this tis the united states, and we re going to get better. i think people forget where we were about three or four years ago. we had people who lost their life savings. those people became lower, lower economic people. well, we re about to have another election in a year and donald trump was just on the show. oh, please with donald trump. take him home with you. kwhie do you say that? because he s full of it. based on what. based on what i just heard. somebody kept saying are you going to run, are you going to run. he jumped. you run or you shut up. he said he can t announce yet. please, anybody can announce. i ve seen what was it, the smothers brothers had a guy on the tv show. he said he was going to run. you can run. start running now. the only thing he s running is his mouth. well, on that note, bill cosby, we ll see if he runs. i don t care. but if he runs, you re going to take it seriously. no, i don t. not him. not him. listen. people have run for president for any reason, you know. other than come on. open your mouth. run. challenge somebody. so put it simply, you like him a lot. all right. nice to see you, bill cosby. anything but running for president and talking about what somebody did. this is the third year of a catastrophe. catastrophic eight years we ve had and people don t want to look back and see the damage that was done. this is what we have to clean up. and what you re doing now in your communities is repairing the damage of kids who have not had the kind of education. and it helps families. it helps taxpayers. because if these kids begin to get help and love, then they re going to understand, earn a living, they ll become taxpayers also. it will lower our taxes. and that s a good thing. and add to social security. there you go. stanley battle as well. thank you. up next we re going to switch gears and head into the kitchen and get a taste of new orleans. first this is today on nbc. what do we have here? 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[ male announcer ] scotts naturescapes advanced mulch. this morning on today s kitchen hot chef, we re talking shrimp core rio. who better to make it, john besh. i thought anne hathaway was doing it. sorry, bud. she s out of here. it s you and me. congratulations you have a new show. yeah. it s john besh s new orleans. it s all about the food i ve grown up with. it s been incredibly fun to create this cooking show, being an ambassador for new orleans show. it s saying, look, this is the style we cook in. the only indigenous serving cuisine left in america. you re going to make a traditional new orleans dish, shrimp creole. is there only one way to make this or can you put your spin on it? put your passion into whatever it is you re doing. this happens to be a dish that this is the first recipe i ever cooked. as a kid? as a cook. at 11 years old i mastered this recipe. if i can do it, anybody can do it. that makes it easy. this is a lighter version. new orleans is a kind of place where people come together. a clash of cultures. the melting pot happens to be the gumbo pot or the shrimp creole. you re going to use lemongra lemongrass. it s chopped up, it can be cursely chopped up. a little bit of salt, pepper. do you leave the tails on in. leave them off. they look prettier with them on but it s easier if you pop them off. you saute them in a little bit of olive oil in here. i stress the lighter factor because, you know, getting older, getting these gray hairs, i can t eat like i used to. so i don t want this big buttery heavy sauce. i want something light, really fragrant. it s something kids really dig. you have four boys. you re talking about 6, 8, 10, 15. you have your hands full. this is one of my go-to things i can make. so far we ve done son onion, celery, peppers. what s new orleans food without a little bit of garlic. and this is just going to saute down for a while. all i want to do is just let that stu. we can add in some crushed tomatoes. fresh tomatoes, use them. this time of year, who s got them. they don t exist. as my wife says, put a lid on it. is there any danger those shrimp are going to cook and cook and cook. are they going to get tough? at this point we re going to turn it down low, low, low. watch right here. nice and slow. and they ve cooked. and they re going to be tender as can be. they really you can t overcook one of these beautiful gold shrimp. right. how do you figure out, a, cooking time, and, b, portion size. in other words, how many shrimp do you plan for each adult you plan on feeding? it really depends on kind of i normally say shrimp like this, you know, these are huge shrimp, four, five shrimp apiece. per person? that s really just enough. it depends on your family. i d like to say roughly, rule of thumb, five, six sh rump. what were you tearing up here? ba basil? why don t you tear it up. you like to rough it up. this is country pristine. is shrimp creole alway served with rice? you can serve it with rice, you can serve it with pasta. in new orleans, of course, it s all about smelling. what smells so nice? hoping the great smells and aromas we can eat with our hands. that s fine, thank you. how are we all doing? fine. i thought i would bring a little big easy to the big apple. i could hang out here all day. this one s for meredith. here we go, tamron. thank you. this is my lighter healthier version of shrimp creole. matt, you get the extra portion. and congratulations, again, on the new cooking show. yeah. coming in this morning. it airs on public television station. very hot. it s hot. temperature hot? yes, temperature hot. it s temperature hot. good morning. it s 8:56 right now. hour headlines, police are dealing with an outbreak of violence in the district overnight, four shootings and two stabbings over the city, and ten victims and four are dead. so far no word on any arrests. many key players are scheduled to testify before the d.c. council today. d.c. council today. there are allegations that 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. temperatures now in the 40s to near 50 degrees. later today we should hit the 60s with clouds in and out, and then rain likely tomorrow all the way into the evening and maybe a shower on saturday morning and then sun back on saturday with sun back on sunday. new york avenue, there was a fire and all traffic stopped for a while. we are looking at a substantial backup coming in from maryland and that 95 still heavy and slow. the lanes are open. all earlier accidents cleared. lanes open to the 14th street bridge. from birth to their first words, how you can chronicle every one of your child s we re back now with more today on a thursday morning. it s the 7th of april, 2011. those april showers have been flirting with the area actually over the last 48 hours. it s been kind of a nasty week. they seem to have stopped right now. we re seeing people outside. let s pause and let them wave. all right. we re done. inside i m inside the studio with al roker and tamron hall. straight ahead, new details on the jaycee dugard case. the man accused of holding her captive for almost two decades expected to plead today. we ll get an update on that case. also coming up how hormones can impact your mood and body. hormonal imbalances from pub better to menopause. dr. nancy snyder is here with hormones and what it s all about. also men suffer from hormonal imbalances. it s not just the ladies. what s that supposed to mean? do i look fat in those jeans and questions that you ask. also ahead, navigating the tumultuous real estate market, from finding an inexpensive home when you re getting ready to rere as well as getting in on the government incentives. today barbara corcoran is here with the 411. later on, prince william may be march iing down the aisle, b there s still enough european princes left. for those of you looking, we re going to show you where. first you ve got a check of our top news stories. yes, i m going to try to get myself together. house and senate leaders left the white house meeting last night without reaching a budget deal to prevent a partial government shutdown this weekend. however, president obama says progress had been made. moammar gadhafi is appealing to president obama to stop the air strike over libya in a rambling three-page letter. and this morning libyans say they were hit by air strikes, forcing them to retreat. a second american has been confirmed dead after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in japan, this as workers at the krimmed fudge she mae facility are injecting nitrogen into the reactor to prevent a hydrogen explosion. a guilty plea is expected today from man who allegedly kidnapped jaycee dugard and held her captive for nearly two decades. nbc s miguel is there in placerville, california. reporter: phillip and nancy garrido are due back in court to face 18 counts of false imprisn tment, rape and child pornography. jaycee dugard was snatched at a bus stop not far from her home when jaycee was just 11 years old. phillip garrido has yet to enter a plea in his nearly two-year-old case but his wife s attorney says phillip garrido will plead guilty to all charges, a move expected to keep his wife from a life in prison and spare dugard from testifying. the district attorney is expecting a plea then i assume because he s guilty and because he doesn t want jaycee to go through the trials and trib lags of this trial. reporter: it was in this background that he allegedly held her captive. prosecutors say garrido raped dugard and fathered two daughters with her when she was was just a teenager. a convicted sex offender, parole officers visited garrido at his house 60 times during jaycee s kidnapping, although officials failed to inspect the background compound despite the gps ankle bracelet showing he spent much of his time there. last year the state of california pald jaycee dugard $20 million in a settlement admitting they failed to adequately monitor garrido. according to court documents in 2004, jaycee wrote in her journal about being held captive, quote, it feels like i m sinking. this is supposed to be my life to do with what i like, but once again, he has taken it away. as for the case against nancy garrido, phillip s wife, so far she s pled not guilty to the crimes. her lawyer says she should be punished less severely than her husband. she s not a, quote, aider and abetter in the sex crimes, not being in the same building does not mean you re a principipapri. she s willing to plead to what she did. reporter: experts familiar with the case say an expected guilty plea by phillip garrido would help his wife s legal batter. reporter: neither the public defender or prosecutor would discuss a possible plea deal. those close to jaycee dugard say she is prepared to testify. fox s talk show host glenn beck says he will end his show later this year. beck has suffered from a ratings plunge and an advertising boycott. if you ve gobts to say it, you might say it with flowers. she was shocked when a thief rang up $24 on her stolen credit card with a note saying thanks for your money. in case you were wondering the thief used the stolen credit card to send the bouquet. great guy or woman. you always assume it s the guy. that s kind of a guy thing to do. i m sorry. forgive me. i like guys but i m making a generalization. sorry. that was a little gutsy. i was going to use guy, righ? well, that s a guy thing to send flowers. is that a little gutsy. i would use another word. yeah, and let s get a check of the weather before you do use that word. yeah, let s see what is happening for you for today. we weather is make its way through the pacific north wegs and the coast of california. we have a few showers moving off the northeast coast. we have a risk of strong storms later today in the mid mississippi river valley. and then more rain in the dakotas, and we are talking about flood stages. wet weather along the california coast, and the morning sprinkles will move out of the northeast later today. that s what is going on drifti the country, and here is what is happening in your neck of the woods. and that s your latest weather. tamron? all right. al, thank you. on today s daily doze, surviving ups and downs. all men and women fluctuate with hormones. these powerful chemicals not only affect you but the people around you. i m trying to catch my breath. it s hormonal. nbc s chief medical director, dr. nancy snyderman. that s it. it s hormones as work. nonetheless we often refer to our home moans out of whack. what does that mean? our bodies are cascaded with hormones. there s thepy tu tear glanld that goes to your thyroid gland that goes to your other glanlds, the pancreas, your kidneys, even the testicles and ovaries. they keep us in these biorhythms and when one is out of sync, you know, we sometimes feel this. but these are normal hormones that all human beings possess. what functions are controlled by our hormones? our most basic is our metabolism. it s stoked because i ran. our growth and development. mood swings. even if your thyroid is out of balance, you hear women talk about being fatigued or being hyperactive, a change in your skin. and women particularly when they re in the reproductive years will talk about estrogen and progesterone being an important part of not only reproduction but later when they go through perry menopausal systems. so it is real, it is science, and it s not something in our head. it s real and it s cool science. let s talk about some of the questions people have. we have an e-mail from katy on long island. she writes, is it true that men can go through menopause too? i swear my husband sometimes has more mood swings than i do. yeah. we used to not give much credence to this but now there s a thought that there is this male menopause idea. that is, men when they go through their 40s and 50s have a decrease in testosterone. they ll talk about a loss of sex drive. is this a normal aging process? just sort of what happens to you? why is it still a question. or should it be something that s being treated. but no doubt, men will talk about mood swings and they ll talk about loss of sex drive and energy. and it probably has to do with a mid-life change in hormones. so i m asking why is it still a question? it s not so much it s a question about whether it happens. it s a question about whether it s normal. we tend to want to treat everything in life. is this a sort of natural phenomena and you embrace it or do you want to fix it. how do we control our hormones? you mean every day? are supplements a part of it? for most of us we re lucky enough to be born with a normal biorhythm. thepy tu tair glanld talks with everything else. particularly after child birth and around perimenopause. for women, if you notice a change in your skin or hair or hot flashes or cold when everybody else is hot or you have phenomenal fatigue, ask to see about having your thyroid hormonal levels checked. simple blood test and simple replacement. for more complicated levels, yes, there are usually replacements. let s get to brenda. she joins us. good morning. what s your question? 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what we have here is green garlic. this is really, really fragrant. these are really, really sweet fresh peas. ooh. first of the year. those are good. we re just going to add them to this garlic. what are you sauteing the garlic in? in garlic. it s important to get all the sweet and spicy flavor out of the garlic before having the peas so we have this nice flavor base. later we ll add a little bit of water. it s a neutral flavor. it doesn t require a stock. you want the flavor of the peas and the garlic. and they re brightening up as they cook. and they re brightening up as they cook. if you don t have fresh peas or you i don t have kids around to shell your peas for you, you can use frozen peas. they taste good. hi, kidds, daddy s gone fun for you. shell the peas and later you can wax daddy s car. over here you add peas and to them we add nice seasonal lettuces. this is some butter crunch. right in the pot. right in there. this is the time of year where we re almost inundated with lettuce and people start to run out of ideas for salad and are sick of salad. this is a great idea on a cold day where we can get something warming but also all about spring. you cook it down? wilt it a little bit. how do you serve it? add some water you. can serve it under a piece of grilled fish, a nice light lunch dish, add more butter. and it kind of makes its own sauce. while this is cooking down, let s head back here. you ve got a great dessert back here. okay. berries are now coming in season. yes. so you ve got a great bread pudding. this is a great bread pudding. this is a berry pudding. it has a little bit of bread in it. this is great really concentrated, really easy delicious way to serve that. how do you prep the berries? they ve been cooked very briefly with a little bit of salt and a little bit of sugar and a little bit of lemmon. what do you do with these? dump them in. into the sieve. yes. that s what s going to bind our dessert. i m going to add a little more salt and a little more pep sneer and while andrea does that, i m pushing what are you doing? i m pushing these don t be too rough. don t mush the berries. come on. and suddenly it took a turn. come back after i was set up. anyway, you put it in, make it cold, and then it s something like come back and join us. it s just a show. wow. you re trying to have dessert first back here? exactly. hey, it s our show. we can eat it in whatever order we want. andrea, thank you so much. boy, it looks fantastic. come on back. beautiful start to this day. 54 degrees, the current temperature here in washington. good morning, everybody. 9:56 is the time. many key players in a hiring controversy will testify before the d.c. council this morning. the committee is looking into allegations that gray engaged in nepotism, and kroenism. and then the impact of what the government shutdown could have on the economy, and workfor workforce. tom is here now to tell us what kind of day we can expect? a welcome warm up after a chilly start. and we will have quite a bit of cloudiness in and out and then tomorrow, chilly rain likely from the morning all the way into the evening. maybe a lingering shower saturday morning, and then sunday, sun back, and in the mid-70s. we could hit 80 on monday and then storms late in the day. now, how is the late-morning traffic, jerry? wrapping up the inbound side of i-95 after this morning s rough rush hour. construction crews set up the work zone. it s the left lane taken away. the american legion bridge, a little activity on the inner loop shoulder, but moving along without delays. ideas on how tornbc-universn captions paid for by nbc-universal television hey, everybody. thanks so much for being with us today. it s a dreary day here in new york city. it s april 7th. you know what that means? nobody knew but me what this day was. kathie lee said do you know what today is? i said, no, i don t know. and you said it s our third anniversary. we started our show together those aren t even real balloons. that is so cheap. let s take a look back at our first show. all righty. guess what? it is time for the new edition to the today show, miss kathie lee gifford. i told them. you did? come on and raise your glass give me a big one. love you. thank you, hoda woman. come back tomorrow. gloria gaynor will be with us. my hair is pretty much the same, but boy, have you changed. wow! look at the difference. hoda, my gosh. you re like such a sexy woman now. what, the turtleneck wasn t grabbing you? i can t believe it s been three years since that. we started on the plaza. don t miss the plaza. we got booted off. the noise level was so high. there were lawyers in 30 rock trying to take depositions and do things. that s not possible while our show is on. happy anniversary, sweetheart. it s been great, great three years so far. and more to come. yes. we re under contract. anyway, if you don t like being in new york right now and many of us have really, really pretty much had it, the tripadvisor.com just came out with their best beaches in america and best beaches in the world. i tweeted my heater ticked back on again. a lot of people are going through the same cold snap where it s still cold and rainy and icky. the top five beaches in the u.s. are, sanibel island in florida. which is beautiful. gorgeous beach. everything is very small. they just preserved it. number four is miami. panama city, looks like sugar, right around pensacola and destine. gorgeous. gulf breach. number two beach is cape may, new jersey. victorian homes, but they are specifically talking about the beach. the number one beach in the entire united states of america is myrtle beach, south carolina. that surprised me. i thought the nation s best beach would probably be in hawaii or california. you know? they said hawaii, a couple of beaches were in the top ten but not number one. i don t think i ve ever been to myrtle beach. everybody loves it. it s a lot of fun and lovely. the number one beach in the entire world of s never been to this either. in turks and caicos. turks is gorgeous. the sand is like powdered sugar. the water is crystal clear. you can walk up to your waist and see your feet. my friend goes to parrot cay. what if you and i were left wild in turks and caicos what would happen? what are you talking about? i don t know. i read in the paper and said, guys, we have to talk about this woman. usually i am not for multiple cosmetic surgeries. i think they represent a greater desperation than something else going on in the head, you know. this woman is unbelievable. she s 55 years old. cindy jackson. she has spent over i can t believe she hasn t spent more. they say over $100,000 and two decades on 52 rounds of plastic surgery. look at this. this is how she began. this is her in the beginning. let s go down here. that s the next decade and the next decade. this is what she looks like now. kind of. she looks amazing. she looks like another person. that is what she wanted to do. she is a very bright woman. she is in the mensa society for geniuses. she had cheek implants, who doesn t? chin reduction, two nose jobs, five face lifts. reshaping of her jaw, liposuction, chemical peel, skin-blasting treatments. here is one thing i thought was weird. she got those fat injections in her hands so her hands look younger. now she s gone too far. she didn t love her dad and she looked like her dad. she didn t want to look like him any more. this is the other thing. she was an art student. she said by studying art, she realized it was leonardo da vinci who establish bad beauty is. she said, i m not stupid. i can see that i don t look like leonardo da vinci s concept of beauty. i don t think she started out to do 50 of them. it s a lot. 52 is a lot. what do you all think? knowing you would end up looking like she does now at 55 my favorite quote of hers, did you do it for a man? no, i don t need a man. the only man i need is the one who is going to do my next surgery. i want to have her on the show, dansville. we re working on it. tammy says they are working on it. this dating site is called what s your price.com? you re either the generous one or attractive one. if you re the generous one you find the attractive one and put your price in for the date with the person. you re paying for your date. this is supposed to be nonsexual. this is for a first date. unless you re a total tramp and you don t care. exactly. you know who you are. it s $200. this is nasty this website. they pay the fee but then they also pick up the dinner. they pay for the date and pay the girl. what if there is no sexual quid pro quo what is your problem with it? you re basically it s like prostituting. why? i m paying devil s advocate. no. i give my time to everybody. you shouldn t have to pay for someone s time, should you? i m just asking the questions. what do you think? i can barely keep up with the stuff going on in this world today. you know way think about it. it s sad. it s another commentary of where we are as a culture. but if no sexual, it s not a crime, of course. it s not a crime. if you re making a living going out on first dates with a bunch of people. isn t that what escorts do? that s a good point. i need a date for this business thing. you thought it through. all right, i want to say hi to four wonderful people visiting us in the studio 1-a today. stacey, amy, julie and sue. they ve been on with us at a charity event. why did you waste your money? they are from ohio and also michigan and new york. ladies, we are glad you re here. great to have you all here. is it okay to name your child after food? in okay magazine who did that? gwynneth paltrow named her daughter apple. jamie oliver named his daughter honey. be careful, no one wants to be known as enchilada. a vote for baby chardonnay can t be far behind. you had a baby chardonnay. i did. i had chardonnay and chablis and my dog regis, his middle name was champagne. frank s middle name was newton. it still is. when he was growing up, in fact, cody, we named him cody newton gifford. i loved it. frank has english ancestory, it sounds nice. all his life he was teased as figure newton. i said, so what? you were bigger than them and faster. what do you care? i love it. are you ready? we ve run out of time. i saw you trying to eat up the time. i need champagne. this is a song. if you have a friend always complaining about it s cold out, it s terrible, the one who is always negative nellie. this is a song called what if it all goes right. before we play it, this was played at the olympics in china over and over, okay? it just, the first part is what if everything goes wrong and second part, what if everything goes right? such a good song. so far i like it. it s actually music. what if that road you re taking s a dead end what if love leaves you all jaded and broken what if it all goes wrong but what if it all goes right what if it all works out what if the stars line up the last goes down what if it changes your whole life what if it all goes right i love when you hit the high notes. she mouths them. i never sing. melissa lawson. puts you in a good mood. i take no umbrage with that one. really good. we have a great show today. today is everyone has a story. a wonderful, wonderful family. first, he s been making people laugh for decades. sinbad is letting you into his life with a new reality series. we ll talk with him. mystery unravels, we ll talk with mary higgins clark and carol higgins clark. of cereal change your life? 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[ male announcer ] and common tissue made it burn even more. puffs plus lotion is more soothing than common tissue, and it delivers twice the moisturizers to your nose versus the next leading lotion tissue. a nose in need deserves puffs plus lotion indeed. when you prefer a lotion-free tissue, try puffs ultra soft & strong. the difference between my pale dry skin and glowing moisturized skin? jergens natural glow daily moisturizer. it gives you natural looking color, guaranteed. jergens is the difference between landing and making an arrival. jergens. the beautiful difference. today we meetd our newest everyone has a story contest winners. we ll meet everyone in a minute but take a listen to laurie s letter. our little boy was diagnosed with stage four lymphoma two months before his third birthday. jack started complaining his arm hurt. after a trip to the pediatrician we were sent for a scan of his shoulder which showed a large mass. after a week of multiple scans and tests, we were pulled into a small room and told our little boy had cancer. he had a massive tumor in his chess and the cancer spread to 5% of his bone marrow and to every bone in his body. we were in total shock. i love you, mom. i love you, too. we had just had our second baby boy braden and we were told he was born with a large hole in his heart. we suddenly became parents of two very sick little boys and we had to make them better. lags year has pretty much been a blur. baby braden has done well and his hole is starting to close. he is starting to walk and he is the happiest baby boy. jack has been through six rounds of chemo, tumor resection from his chest, stem cell strans plant, 20 sessions of radiation and is currently in his fourth round of immunotherapy. none of this includes his countless scans, tests, doctor appointments, fevers, sickness among many other things. jack has gone through this treatment like a true superhero. he is full of so much spunk and such a love for life. we call him our little firework. he constantly tells us this is the best day of his life even when we were at our worse. he doesn t complain and always reminds us everything is going to be okay. as of today, jack has clear scans. we are so very thankful, but we know he has a very long road ahead of him. we always tried to stay positive and remain hopeful for what our future holds. we have watched jack take on this beast and he is wing. laurie is here with zac and their two beautiful sons. so good to have you guys here. how is everyone doing? we heard the scans are clear. made us feel good. really well. as for as braden, his hole has shrank a lot. hello. jerry lewis. hello lady. he is doing well. we go in for echos every six months. as for jack, he has had all clear scans and he s ending treatment right now. in may, he will get his tubes out as long as those scans are clear. that s been feeding him. it s underneath his shirt. he would show you. all the chemo, all the medication, all the blood draws come out of there. we see you. when those tubes come out, what is the first thing you want to do? what do you want to do? go in the water. in the water. i bet you do. it s perfect timing for summer coming, isn t it? i know. it must have been such a shock just to hear the news. dad, what did you think when you heard the news about your boys? i didn t even know what to think. we were horrified. we didn t know what to authentic. what got you through it? a lot of couples would have either it s difficult. some couple gets closer and some break up. we had a lot of support with our family and a lot of friends. a lot of people we don t even know. it seems people come together when you re i at your lowest to bring you back up. you have to keep a positive attitude. if you don t, your mind goes crazy. you want to do that, too? you want to get down too? you know what, we have david friedman and i have written a song for you guys inspired by your beautiful, beautiful letter us to. in a minute we ll come back and two of broadway s brightest stars, they are a married couple, marin massey and jason danielly are going to sing a song called love survives. are you ready for that? yes, i am. you ve been there. you pick out a makeup thinking it s your shade. until you actually try it out. now, i have a makeup that always gets it right. smart shade makeup instantly adjusts to match perfectly to your skin. almay smart shade makeup. only from almay. only for me. how are you getting to a happier place? running there? dancing there? how about eating soup to get there? campbell s soups fill you with good nutrition, farm-grown ingredients, and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbell s. it s amazing what soup can do. 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[ male announcer ] make your neighbors wish they were you. upgrade to fios, america s most advanced fiber-optic network, for just $99.99 a month for a year. call now and we ll add a special bonus: $100 back. get the ultimate hd experience, plus access to the fastest internet in the u.s., with no term contract required. start saving now. upgrade to fios tv, internet and phone for just $99.99 a month and get $100 back. call 1.866.569.fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities that s 1.866.569.3467. at 800-974-6006 tty/v. fios. a network ahead. we are back with everyone has a story. now it s time for you to hear the song written for you from your letter. please welcome broadway veterans. marin mazy and jason danlley. the song is called love survives. how did we get here it all seems like a blur now nothing is the way it should have been we once could touch tomorrow now nothing is for sure and none of us will ever be the same again but one thing is certain one thing is very clear we are here to make each day the best day of our lives for as long as we re together we can face forever for we believe with all of our hearts love survives and so we hold on we re family hand in hand determined to see the future through by looking to each other to help us understand all we need to know now and all we need to do cause one thing is certain one thing is very clear we are here to make each day the best day of our lives for as long as we re together we can face forever for we believe with all of our hearts love survives love survives all the heartache love survives all the pain cause the choices our hearts make can take the greatest wrong and make it right again for one thing is certain one thing is very clear we are here to make each day the best day of our lives for as long as we re together we can face forever for we believe with all of our hearts love survives and joy survives faith provides and hope arrives love survives love survives yes! beautiful, you guys. we ll be back. we are back with everyone has a story honoring a special family. they were terrific. you guys were amazing. love, love, love. this is that time in the program where we get to give something away. we remember you said you wanted to get wet, right? in may when your tubes come out. we decided we are going to send you to wet and wild in phoenix, a water park. you get four vip passes for life. all the water rides, one for jack and one for braden. but that s not all. tell the fine folks what else. swimming gear, a lot. target has made so much of this available. you re going to have a pool in your backyard, too. is that exciting? yeah. all right. jason s got a concert tonight. where can people see you? metropolitan room here in new york city. my band the frontier heroes will be there 9:30. you were here 6:30 practicing and rehearsing. we ll be together at the cafe carlyle may 10th through the 21st. we ll have to see you. classy room. dave, what are you working on? i m with the band for disney. just got a new loreal commercial. he is doing the music for it. david friedman has a new book. tomorrow night a concert called hear our song in norwalk a town hall. lucy arnez is in it. come down. hoda, what are you doing? nothing. not doing one thing. did you enjoy your song? did you like it? did we cap pure it. that s what we hope to do. if you re wondering who this lovely lady is here, they are sisters. today she is a great babysitter. god bless you all. thank you so much. uma thurman tomorrow. captions by vitac www.vitac.com